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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-01-30
Order Of Publicati,n.

STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA.
AT Rules held in the Clerks Office of the
Circuit Court Of Mason Comfy, on Monday
the 7th day of January, 1907, The following
order was entered:
J. M. HeDsley. Administrator of the estat..
OF Andrew J. Hall. deceased, Plain in.
Joseph Louden. Gene QuIIlen, WiIIinIn
QuiIien, Clara Knight, Tobias Knight,
Matte Roy. George Roy, Robert Hall
William f'all. Charles Hall, Grace HIi
and Everett Hail, the last wa of VITO
years. Hugo Juhiiag, Jr- and Charles " {.
JuhltnR, pa~t"ers doing business under
the hrm name OF ii Juhling's sons. De-
PENDANTS,
Tine object Of the sbove entitled suit is to
settle the accounts of the said plaintiff.
Administrator of the eStat- of Anurew J
Hall. deceas q; 10 have au accounting show
cedeut, their amounts and pripriti-S; thai
the amount and value of the personal ana
real estate of the sal dec de Mt be sscertain-
ed; that the real estate, Of which the said
Andrew ]. Hall, died seized nd possessed
be sold, If there be not sufficient personal
property in the hands of said plaintiff with
which 10 pay the debts of said decAdsnr,
and the proceeds arising theryfrom be- pa
ties or The said decedent; and to have all
other accounts and orders which are proper
and made In this cause. And it appearing
by atfilavit dledin this cause that the de-
PENDANTS Mrs. Joseph Louden and Joseph
LOuden are non-reSidentS OF this state IL is
ordered that they do appear here within one
month after the date OF the first publication
hereof aid do what is necessary to p Otect
thsiffnter-stS-
y AeoPy-Teste:
someEyille SomPrviIle, soils. for Plaintiff.
Jan. 9-3w.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-01-30
Who Got th. aahua

Read over this little story and see
if You can tell who got the baby:
Once upon time when all living
animals could talk together and un-
derstand each other an ugly old
crocodile stole tiny baby and was
about to make a dinner of it, but
the poor, frantic mother begged so
piteously for her child that the
crocodile said:
"Tell me one truth and you shall
have your baby again"
"You will not give him back to
me-" she replied.
"Then by our agreement 1 keep
him." said the crocodile, Hfor if you
have told the truth 1 am not going
to give him back, and if it is lie I
have also won"
But the mother said, eff 1 told
you the truth you are bound by your
promise, and if it is not the truth
it will not be lie until you have
given me my child"
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-01-30
ALona Leaaed Deer

A huge, finely mounted antlered
head hung just above the sideboard
in the dining room. This trophy of
some huntsman's skill was fastened
so firmly to the wall that the glis-
tening neck seemed to be coming
right out through the plaster. Rob-
ert, who was seeing this decoration
for the first time, eyed it with live
ly curiosity and very evident un-
easiness. 1t looked almost too life
like for comfort.
Finally the boy, asking to be ex-
cused, slipped from his chair, tip
toed into the next room and then,
flushing with embarrassment, re-
turned to his place at the table.
whats the trouble, Robert ?''
asked his host.
q wanted to see" explained can
did Robert sheepishly, eff that an
imal's legs were really as long as
that or if he were standing on some
thing in another room"
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-01-30
Mr. stoekton,s chieken,.

When Frank Stockton started out
with his Rudder Grange experiences
he undertook to keep chickens.
One old motherly Plymouth Rock
brought out brood late in the fall,
and Stockton gave her a good deal
of his attention. He named each of
the chicks after some literary friend,
among the rest Mary Mapes Dodge.
Mrs. Dodge was visiting the farm
some time later, and, happening to
think of her namesake, she said:
"By the way, Frank, how does lit
tie Mary Mapes Dodge get along?"
'HThe funny thing about little
Mary Mapes Dodge" said he, sis
that she turns out to be Thomas Bal
ley Aldrich. ."-Eyerybody's.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-01-30
"Pioue-n;a,,.n

The Oxford English Dictionary
determines authoritatively the his
tory of the word picnic" so far as
English is concerned. Toward the
close of the eighteenth century the
French used the word pique-nique
(of obscure derivation) for social
entertainment to which each guest
contributed share. Early in the
next century the English appeared
to discover that this form of So
cial cooperation was well adapted
for excursions and open air repasts,
so that about the middle of the
century the word was dissociated
from suppers and private theatri-
Gals, and so long as an entertain
ment was in the open air it was a
picnic, whether its materials were
Jointly contributed or not.-Lon-
don Sketch.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-01-30
THE MOUND BUILDERS.
Their Burial Customs Prevailed Until
the Whites Came.

Mound builders of the Mississippi
valley in the manner of burial of
their dead were In close touch with
those of the valley of the Ohio and
had something in common with
them, embracing the ideals display
ed in the ancestor worship of the
oriental as well as antedating the
custom of setting a granite shaft as
a mark of respect over the graves of
our departed at the present time.
Formerly mound builders were
supposed to have become an extinct
race, occupying the territory in
which these numerous burial
mounds are found prior to its occu-
pancy by the North American In
dians, but in the light of more re-
cent and more thorough investiga-
ton, writes Richard Hermann in
Records of the Past" it has been
shown that burial of the dead in
mounds has been practieed by the
Muskawakies of the Foxes, who oc-
cupied the territory up to and in
Guiding some of the time when the
first white people settled in the up
per Mississippi valley.
The former erroneous supposition
came about principally through the
t1ncommunicativeness of the Indian.
When questioned concerning the
mounds and their contents he would
invariably act the stole, for accord
ing to. his ideas of ancestor worship
the subject was held sacred and was
not to be touched upon, nor were
any of the belongings which had
been buried with him ever in any
panner to be used again by any liv-
ing man. For this reason when
shown flint arrow or spear heads
they would profess ignorance and
insist that they were there before
the arrival of the Indian.
The conical mounds, Mr.. Her
mann states, are generally individ-
ual or family burying mounds. The
earth, sand or other material is car
ried there by members of the tribe
or the nearest of kin and filed
around the body. Apparently the
farther the earth, sand or material
of which the mound is being built is
brought or the more lf4orious the
work of carrying it to the place of
interment the higher the respect
paid to the dead And in this re-
spect they do not differ materially
from white people. We would dis
dain to erect over a grave in the
middle west shaft made from the
limestone of the local Galena for
nation, but instead get a granite
shaft shipped from Vermont or
elsewhere, equally as great dis
tance and at as great an expense.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-01-30
Tn. Ns,x Candy airl.

"The way We escape the centin-
gency of having all our goods eaten
by our salespeople," says the man
ager of large candy shop. els to
place no restriction on them what
ever. Indeed, when we find a new
girl has an unusually large sweet
tooth we are apt to tell her or let
her know in some way that she Is at
liberty to help herself. She takes
advantage of this license for a pc
riod of time, ranging from two days
to a week, but she generally gets
enough in shorter period than the
latter and thenceforth lets the can
dy severely alone. Sometimes, in
deed, the odor of the fresh candy de-
stroys all appetite for it much a.
the smell of cooking food eliminates
the cook as hearty eater. A little
Whit of it sharpens the palate, but
a full inhalation of the supercharEed
atmosphere is equivalent to a fun
meal."-Philadelphia Record.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-01-30
When You Speak.

Bishop Brooks of Boston occa-
sionally used to surprise those not
intimately acquainted with him by
sitting silently while conversation
was going on around him briSkly.
The bishop explained his rather un-
wonted taciturnity by relating that
on one occasion while seated in q
railroad train opposite an intelligent
looking man the latter seemed about
to say something. 81 beg your par
don," said the bishop, "were you
about to make a remark 2" mo"
was the reply. "oh, 1 thought you
looked as if you were going 10 cay
something to me-" answered the
bishop apologetically. eyes, I am
said to be very deceptive that way.
[ used to say things and make re-
marks as soon as 1 thought them. 1
have often thought I had something
to say and discovered after I had
said it that l ought to have kept ST
lent" And the bishop would con-
clude his story by saying, 81 have
found myself in the same position
more than once, SO I do not speak
until l am reasonably sure that I
have something to say"
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-01-30
Couldn't Wait q Minute.

A Pittsburg man who suddenly
acquired riches was desirous of pur-
chasing fast horse. He went to a
dealer, who sold him an animal and
guaranteed that he could trot a mile
in $50 He took his purchase home
and the next day drove down to the
track to try him. Much to his dis
gust, the best the horse could do
was a mile in $40. He returned to
the dealer in rage and said:
You told me this horse could
trot mile in 2:10. He can't 90 a
mile better than 3:1O."
The dealer looked at him min
ute and sad:
"Well, What of that? Are you in
such a ter. .ble hurry you can't wait
a minute ?"-Exchange.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-01-30
Amateur ESSAYS.

Apropos of extravagant education
there is no more utter waste, wheth-
er in board schools or those of
higher class, than essay writing by
children. A poultry paper quotes a
little boys effort on that subject.
"Geece is nasty animal, for they
will jump up your back and beat
you with their feathers" writes this
budding literary genius, and "the
turkese is a large kind of hem"
This may be an extreme instance,
but 1t furnishes the text for an es-
say on 'Egeece" of quite another
kind.-London Sketch.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-01-30
She Missed Him.

A poor woman who kept small
shop in a northern village and who
was troubled with a husband who
could scarcely be considered cred
it to the family one day found her
self widow through the sudden
demise of her spouse. A LADY who
frequently made small purchases at
the shop called to see her and to
offer her sympathy, though well
knowing that the mans death must
in certain sense come as a relief,
as the wife had often suffered from
his-violence. She was not, however.
quite prepared for the stoical way
in which the wife took her bereaye-
ment.
Said the lady:
81 am sure, Mrs. G., you must
miss your husband"
"Well, mum, it do seem queer to
go into the shop and find something
in the till. London Tit-Bits.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-01-30
Value of Lean Bacon.

Lean bacon has unique value
in the dietary. 1t furnishes, ac-
eording to a report of the United
States department of agriculture, as
much digestible muscle forming
food as other meats and nearly
twice as much fat, making the to-
tai nutrients and available energy
derived from bacon much larger
than from other meats. Bacon fat
is easily digested, and when COM
bined with other foods it appears
to exert a favorable mechanical ac-
ton upon digestion. Over 90 per
cent of the fat of bacon is digested
and absorbed by the body, and lean
bacon, at the same and even a high
er price pound, is a cheaper food
than other meats. A fact made
clear is that the fat increases the
digestibility of other foods. For in
stance, fat meat baked with beans
makes the beans more digestible
than without the fat.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-01-30
CRAB CLAWS.
A Seville Tidbit, Eaten More For Fun
Than For Sustenanee.

- ScNfao Fidbtt, Eaten More For Fun
Than For Sustenanee.
Visitors in Seville see women car
rying baskets full of crabs claws,
says writer in the Paris Temps.
The claws are cooked and people
nibble at them more for fun than
for sustenance, just as the Russians
nibble sunfiower seeds But what
is this crustacean? What becomes
of the rest of him, especially if he
is a crhwfish, of his tail?
As q matter of fact the crawfsh
has no part in the business. The
carrasquenas, as the claws are call
ed, are taken from a salt water
crab, the Gelasimus tangeri, which
lives along the shores of Morocco,
Spain and Portugal. Each little
crab, with his one little wife, has
little cave for home, and, adopt
ing the Arab estimate of the other
sex, he usually keeps his wife shut
up inside the cave, meanwhile stay
ing the threshold himself and
making a brave show with his big
claws.
When the tide runs out the crab
fishers prowl along the beach look
ing for cra6Sholes. Either the crab
is stalking up and down seeking
what he may devour, and thus
showing whether he has fine claws,
or he is still at home, and the size
of his doorway indicates the size of
the householder. In the one case
the fisherman cuts off his retreat by
blocking his front door with mud.
In the other case he digs him out.
Anyway, he depriyes him of his
pinchers and sets him at liberty
to grow some more.
Right here appears the happiest
feature of the whole affair, for the
pinchers are not torn away from the
crab at all. Instead he presents
them to the fisherman-perhaps
even with his compliments. 1t is a
fact easily demonstrable that the
crab can detach his claw by a mus
cular effort, thus making no hemor-
rhage, but leaving the stump in
such condition that new claw is
soon grown. The fishermen simply
take Mr.. Crab by the hand, where
upon he lets go, leaves the claw
with them and runs off home with
out it. And as the claw is no longer
of any use to him or to ANYBODY
else in the water and as it is salable
and edible, the fisherman naturally
takes it home and sells it.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-01-30
POKE BERRIES.
The plight of the Partridge That Hal
s Been Eating Them.

Been Eating Them.
One night a little after dusk as
we were about to go into the house
our younger brother saw something
dark moving behind the dog kennel.
The older boy reached in as far as
he could, and with the help of his
father, who stood at the other end
of the kennel, he drew out futter-
ing female partridge that acted so
queerly we could not make out
what was the matter, for she did
not seem to be hurt. There were
no blood stains on her feathers, no
marks anywhere, but she could nei-
ther walk nor fly, and, what was the
strangest of all, she did not appear
frightened, and every one, 1 think,
knows that nothing living is shier
than a partridge. We marveled at
the sight as she sat quietly in the
older boys hand, breathing very
fast, but showing absolutely no fear.
Suddenly our younger boy ex-
claimed: "Oh, I know what aiIs herl
She's drunkl She's been eating
poke berriesw Sure enough. We
had all read about partridges get
ting drunk on poke berries, but had
forgotten it.
We took her into the house, and
she sat on the table while we ate
our supper. How indescribably fun
ny she looked sitting there by my
pfNte, allowing me to stroke her
smpoth, brown mottled back, per-
miJting-the wild woods thing-fa-
.cIliarities from each one of usi
Poor, helpless, drunken little dame!
Her bill would partly open and shut,
and if we put her up on her feet she
would sway and totter, with half
closed eyes and dropping tail and
wings. How we laughed, and how
we regretted that we had no camera
and so were unable to take her pic
turel What chance for Mr.. Jobi
Not another such chance would any
one be likely to have in lifetimeI
As l held her up against my face
and felt the soft, faint little puffs
of breath from her bill against my
cheek, she seemed the very spirit Of
quintessence of all that is woodsy-
shy, remote and inaccessible-and
yet there she was, right in my hands
-dozily, dizzily, dauntlessly drunk!
B. A. Hitchcock in Outing Maga-
zine.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-01-30
Tho Lobster an Idiot.

The best naturalists remain tim
orous enough and hesitate to dog
matize. Take the case of the lob
ster. Poke him here, he does this );
poke him there, he does that; poke
thousand of him in the same way,
and they do the same things. Shall
we therefore conclude that the lob
ster lacks mentality, that he's a
mere machine and that he doesn't
even know he's lobster? By no
means. All we can affirm with sci
entific justice is that apparently
and only apparently-he's an idiot.
The way to know for sure-is to be
a lobster!-Boston Transcript.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-01-30
A GOOD SHEEP DOG.
What He Has to Learn and the Work
He Has to Do.


What herd dog has first to learn
is to know every one of goo or 800
sheep, and to know them both by
sight and smell This he does thor
oughly. When Watterson was run
ming sheep on the plains he had a
young collie not yet put to the herd,
but kept about the pumping plant.
As the sheep came in by hundreds
to the troughs the dog grew so to
know them that when they had
picked up a stray from another
band he discovered it from afar off
and, darting as a hornet, nipping
and yelping, parted it out from the
band. AT that time no mere man
would have pretended. without the
aid of the brand. to recognize any
of the thousands that bore ii.
How long recollection STAYS by
the dog is not certain, but at least
twelvemonth, as was proved to
Filon Girafd after he bad lost a
third of his band when the Santa
Anna came roaring up by Lone
Pine with a cloud of saffron colored
dust on its wings. After the shear
ing of. next year, passing close to
another band, Filon's dogs set them
selves unbidden to routing out of
it and rounding with their own
nearly twenty head, which the herd
er, being on honest man, freely ad-
mitted he had picked up on the
mesa following after Filon the
spring before.
Quick to know the willful and un-
biddable members of flock, the
wise collie is not sparing of bites
and, following after a stubborn
stray, will often throw it and stand
guard until help arrives or the
sheep shows better mind. But
the herder who has a dog trained
at the difficult work of herding
range sheep through the chutes and
runways into boats and cars for
transportation is the fortunate fell
low.
There was Pete's dog, Bourda-
loue, that at the Stockton landing,
with no assistance, put 500 wild
sheep from the highlands on the
boat in eight minutes by running
along the backs of the flock until
he had picked out the stubborn or
stupid leaders that caused the sheep
to jam in the runway and by sharp
bites set them forward, himself
treading the backs of the racing
flock like the premiere equestrienne
of the circus, which all the men of
the shipping cheered to see.-Mary
Austin in Harper's Magazine.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-01-30
Tho History of tn. Kite.

The invention of the kite is usu-
ally attributed to the Chinese. The
first man on actual record as having
used the kite is Archytas (about 400
b. c.. For what purpose he en-
ployed it 1 have been unable to as
certain, but it is not probable that
he accomplished anything of scien-
tific Importance, and it was not un-
til 1749, when DIR. Alexander Will
son and Mr.. Thomas Melville in
Scotland used it for taking the tenn
perature of the upper air, that the
kite showed possibilities of becom-
ing a useful and scientific appara-
tus. Franklin's well known expert
ment of obtaining atmospheric cleo
tricity by means of kite again
drew attention to it. It is, how
ever, within the last decade that
the kite has gained nearly all of its
Importance, and this is due to its
development by men who have stud
led it and the forces acting upon it
in scientific way. Among others
may be named Marvin, Langley,
Hargrave and Eddy. BY their la
bors a hitherto useless toy has be-
come an important scientific appa-
ratus.-Exchange.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-01-30
Stones In oueer Plaees.

A round stone is found in the
joints of certain kinds of bamboo.
This is called 'Ftabasheer" and is
supposed to be deposited from the
siliceous juices of the cane. Anoth-
er curiosity of this sort is the "co-
coanut stone," found in the en-
dosperm of the cocoanut in Java
and other East Indian islands. 1t is
pure carbonate of lime, and the
form of the stone is sometimes
round, sometimes pear shaped,
while the appearance is that of a
white pearl without much luster.
Some of these stones are as large
as cherries and as hard as feldspar
or opal. They are very rarely found
and are regarded as precious stones
by the orientals and as charms
against disease or evil spirits by the
natives. Stones of this kind are
also found in the pomegranate and
in other East Indian fruits. Apa-
tite has also been discovered in teak
wood.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-01-30
Scared HI. Speech Back.

A remarkable case of the recov-
cry of speech and hearing is report
ed in the London Lancet from the
canton of Ticino, in Switzerland.
An Italian, aged forty-one years,
who five years ago became deaf
mute in consequence of a serious
disease, was startled by the sudden
appearance of a runaway horse. As
he jumped aside to avoid the animal
he uttered loud scream and after
it had gone by found that he was
able to talk and hear.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-01-30
Artistic sensitiveness.

"Why are you SO resentful to-
ward that writer?"
Because" answered Mr.. Storm
ington Barnes, che once said there
we're moments when my work did
not realize the highest possible
standard of excellence"
"Well?"
"My dear sir, I welcome criticism,
but cannot endure such ignorant
abuse. Washington Star.
Knew How Il Would Be.
The simplicity of children is
sometimes hard to fathom. In the
following case, for instance, report
ed by an exchange was the boys in
nocence real OF affected? He had
brought home his monthly school
which made a poor showing.
"This is very unsatisfactory" said
his father as he looked it over. 'T
am not at all pleased with it"
81 knew you wouldn't be-" an
cred the little boy. "I told the
acher SO, but she said she couldn't
change il"