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ILLNESS OF LORD KELVIN.

London Dec. 12-Grave anxiety is felt here IN
regard TO the condition Of Lord Kelvin the IA
,oous scientist He has been i'll for some time,
and to-day his condition was reported to be less
hopeful
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THE WEATHER REPORT.

Official Record and Forecast-Washington Dec IL
The southwestern disturbance has advanced to Eastern
,exas sonevyhat diminished strength and second
st.rba,ca is moving Washington and Ore
90, Pressure IS high Ohio Valley and the cen
~ nlateau region respectively The weather has cleared
a. er Freland and along lakes, and fair cold
weather has prevailed except in Texas Louisi-
,a oklahoma Kansas. Nebraska and in the northern
10 oas states where fallen. The ten1pera
east or the MISSISSIPPI
and considerably in the missouri Vaiey and the
in indicated Friday the South Atlantic and
80 S,iS states the lower Mississippi Valley, tennessee
-, .ba (1hio Valley. rain is PROBABLE saturday
take middle Atlantic states ana p~s
winds along the New England
will he west. middle Atlantic coast iFesh
coast fresh east 10 southeast
west Gulf coast fresh north
sos,fheast and en- the upper lakes fresh southeast
Steamers departing Friday for European ports VIII nave
fair weather TO the Grhfc baiihs
..t sps continued cold to-day: Saturday Increasing
cioudness with rain in extrerns southefn por-
-, .rssb west winds. diminishing and becoming east
eastern Nevv fair and continued cold To-Day
,-5 SNOW or rain southern portion fair In north
- diTnluishing northwest winds -, A..
Jersey Delaware, Eastern Pennsy
- .s he District Columbia increasing coudiness
d,Tt aia saturday snow rain light variable winds
@ yvssfern Pennsylvania and Western New York
Saturday rain; ngnt variable "lnoS'
becoming east
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1906. 1907

,itns, ,en,nerature yesterday. "a degrees; lowest
.e 70 average correspor 1ing date last year sa
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TO its last resting place in tn. ancient Abbey
=. o. benis It is to the male and Austrian line
- ROMAN and not to the Rohan-Chabots that
oeiongeo' too the Chevalier de Rohan who was
e ioVeF OF Nine de Montespan, and Cardinal
41HCe Louis Of Rohan, Landgrave of Alsace who,
Ambassador at the court Of Empress Maria The
iesa' was recalled at her request on account of
i' aiia!res de ceur, and afterward did incalcu-
idole injury to her daughter Queen Marie An
solhette' by his disgraceful diamond necklace
Scdnoa 10 which she an altogether inno-
cent party. At least sixteen Rohans and Rohan-
CHapots lost their heads on the scafold in the
great French Revolution. The present Due de
Eohan Is president OF the ultra-aristocratic and
eusiVe Union Club in Paris, and his wife,
great helreSs of the house of de Vertcillac, IS
celebrated for the number of conversions TO the
Roman Catholic Church for which she IS re-
sponsble.
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extra charge.
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QUEEN VICTORIA ON wOMAN'S RIGHTS.
Queen Victoria is well known always to have en-
lefIeined pronounced views against the wonan's
rights movement. How strong they were was not
generally known until the publication the other
day OF the following letter Of hers in which she
actually goes to the length of advocating whipping
Tor those Of her sex who have identified themselves
with the agitation. This characteristic and alto
gether remarkable letter is as follows
The Queen is most anxious to enlist every one
who can speak write to join in checking this mad
wicked folly OF -womens rights with ell its at
tendant horrors. on which her poor, feeble IS
bent forgetting every of womanly feeling
and propriety. Lady - II abstain from mention
ing the OF the dame. who has taken very
active part in promoting the womens rights doc
trinel ought 10 get good whipping. 1t is a sub
ject that makes the Queen so angry that she can
not contain herself
MARQUISE DE FONTENOY.
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DE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Tuesday, December 10 10
1907 residence OF the brides father, NO ss5
Fifth New York. Irma Regina stern to Baron
Leo de Graffenried, OF Thun, Switzerland
Notices OF marriages and deaths must be indorsed
with full name and address.
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DEFENDS Mr.. CURRIERS' POSITION.

President American Musical Copyright League
New York, Dec. u. 1901
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-07-31
Enluuut nosturs IPIraIss Ils IngrsdlulIs.

We refer to that boon to weak, nervous.
suffering women known as DR.. Pierce'S
FaJorIte Prescription.
Dr.. John Fyfe one OF the Editorial STAFF
Of TIE ECLECTIC MEDICAL REVIEW says
Of Unicorn root (Heloillds Dtotcd) which
Is one Of the chief Ingredients Of the GFs-
vorite Prescription
"A remedy which Invariably acts as Q utter
Inc inYigor1tor 80 makes for normal ac-
tiVity of the entire reproductive system"
he continues Hln HelonlaS We have medic1-
nient which more fully answers the above
acquainted. In the treatment OF diseases DO
culiar 70 women 1t is seldom that case 10
seen which does not present some indication
says: sThe following arc among the leading
Indications for HelOniGs Unicorn root. Pain
or aching In the back. with leucorrh9ai
atonlc weak conditions of the reproductive
organs Of women. mental depression and ir-
rltability. associated with chronic diseases OF
the reproductive organs OF women. constant
sensation Of heat In the region OF the kid
neys; menorrhagta (hoodlng1. due to q weak
eued condition Of the reproductive system;
nmenoTrhp1 compressed or absent monthly
periodsE arising from or accompanying an
and anemic tthln bloody habit; dragging
sensations In the extreme lower part OF the
abdomen"
II more or less Of the above symptoms
are present, no invalid woman can do
Prescription, ono Of the leading ingredi-
snts Of which is Unicorn root, or HelonIas,
and the medical properties of which 1t
most faithfully represents.
OF Golden Seal root, another prominent
Ingredient OF I. Favorite Prescription"
Prof. Finley EllIngwood, NJ. D., OF Ben
nett Medical College, Chicago, says:
at Is an Important remedy IN disorders Of
and general enfeeblement. 1t Is useful.p
Prof. John NJ. Scudder, n. D., late of
Cincinnati, says of Golden Seal root:
sin relation 70 its general effects on the
system. there ts no medicine In use about Irhieh
there o such general undnimitv Of opinion. It
Is uDfuersdlly regarded as the tonic useful In
all debilitated states"
Prof. Bartholow, NJ. D., of Jefferson
Medical College, says Of Golden Seal:
WYalusble in uterine hemorrhage. menor-
rhagia (hooding) and congestlve dysmenor-
Th9a painful menstruationln
DR. Pierce's Favorite Prescription faith
fully represents all the above named in
gradients and cures the diseases for which
they are recommended
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-07-31
THE FAMILY BIBLE.
lie Old Time Record of Births, Mar.
riases and Deaths.

lie Old Time Record of Births, Mar.
riases and Deaths.
"The family Bible, with its genea-
logical record, served useful pur-
pose in its day." said the librarian,
"and l don't see that, with all our
boasted advance in civilization, we
have developed anything quite to
take its place. Of course nowadays
cities and towns pride themselves
on the accuracy of their vital statis-
tics, and we have whole libraries of
genealogical works-dry enough
most of them are too. But the in
diyidual family record, such as was
kept few generations ago, is very
decidedly missing, and it's a pity
that such is the case.
'For one thing, the list of births,
marriages and deaths that were kept
in the ponderous volume of Holy
Writ operated to keep the members
of the family close to one another.
1t was, in q way, a central point,
valuable for sentimental reasons as
well as for reasons more distinctly
utilitarian. AS scribe succeeded
scribe the family continually was
emphasized, and the entries were
significant of the growth of a clan
nish feeling, which is too little in
evidence at the present time. There
are not, l venture to say, very many
people in this year of grace who
know anything or care anything
about their relatives further remov-
ed than the degree of first cousin
ship, and even first cousins are fire.
4uently out of mind.
"Of course our tendencies are re-
sponsible largely for this state of
affairs, but 1 often wish that we had
reminders of our kin, such as were
furnished by the family Bibles of
past days, with their direct personal
testimony, amounting to messages
from parents to children. When
ever 1 see one of these pages filled
with careful entries-entries made
in joy and in sorrow, in the conf
1ence of pride of life or by the trem-
bling fingers of old age-it seems to
me that we have lost something in
our hurried existence that is to be
regretted, We can go to the city or
town clerk or perhaps to the public
library for information as to our
ancestry of our relatives, but this is
a rather cold and formal method of
procedure. Certainly we do not
find in official records and in books
the handwriting of our forbears." "
New York Press.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-07-31
soas l1tssouri names,

The people have given singular ano
amusing nGmSs to many nelghborhoods
In Missouri, says the Kansas City Star.
In Caldwell county are Zion, Lickfork
and Polo. Echo Dell, Gabtown and
Dawson City are In Worth county. In
NodRway county are Toad Hollow,
Sunrise and Postum Walk, and In
Henry county is Coal. Pigeon Greek
and Centennial are in Atchispn county;
River Dots, Splawn Ridge and Civil
Bend in Daviess county; Sleepy Hollow
and Ivy Hill In Sullivan county, and
Esrom Echoes In Butler county. These
are Just few names picked at random
from the country correspondence OF the
county scar press. Sometimes q pretty
or suggestive name is given q neighbor-
hood, but generally the aim OF the
chrIstener seems to have been to confer
the harshest or most amusing appelIa.
ton hs could think Of.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-07-31
THE UTILITY OF
STATE TAX LEVY


Experts on taxation think It Is q
good thing to reduce the state tax
levy without entirely removing 1t. 1t
Is case of ne quid minis.
Men not experts who have reflected
on this question longest agree with
the experts. They who clamor for en-
tire abolition of the general state tax
and entire support OF government by
special taxes are either beginners,
politicians who exploit popular idea
without regard to the public interest,
or agents of privileged classes who
wish to defeat any tax legislation
by darkening counsel.
The conclusion OF rational theory is
approved by experience. States are
always approaching dispensation OF
the whole general tax without ever
reaching 1t. New York raises almost
It's whole revenue from excise and
special taxes, but fraction Of . min
remains Minnesota has got the stats.
revenue levy down to mill, but can
not get 1t lower. The constitutional
leyies for schools and chaDtties re-
main besides, and there is small hope
Of dispensing with these. Probably
we shall always have state tax.
This is not wholly due to increase
of appropriations for public expendi-
lures. 1t is due in part to distrust of
the theory of exeiul.ve special taxes
by professional experts and practical
administrations alike? The state levy
is steadying and balancing infiu-
ence, protection against loss Of rev.
enue In bad times and extrayaganes
In good times.
Excise and other special taxes can
not be adjusted to the needs Of rev.
enue either way without legislative
action. II they yield too much, profit
gacy is encouraged. II they yield too
little, the public needs are not salts
fed. They fuctuate enormously with
expansion and contraction Of business.
The levy for the general tax can be
adjusted to needs every year by an
administrative act. 1t can be reduced
when the revenue from special taxes
Increases and raised when it falls of.
preventing either poverty or excess in
the state treasury.
The view of those who understand
the subject best is that special taxes
should be SO fixed as to supply the
bulk of revenues. perhaps local as
we'll as state, but never an excess,
and that the margin of fuetuation
should be filled out by varying state
tax levy, minute when the special rev.
enues are at maximum. but never
disappearing entirely.-The Mfnne-
apolis Tribune.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-07-31

Though it is diNeuIt to say wkogo tho
decorative value Of pottery and e
china began TO be appreciated. thoFO
Is little doubt that 1t originated in the
east. Ancient Chinese drawings stilI
In existence show that the process e
nanufacture has varied but little In the
course Of the years and that many con
trivanees claimed a. modern European
inventions have been kn6Wn for con-
turtles In thO east.
In Chinese omeial annals, which aFO
said to be perfectly authentic, the In
vention Of porcelain is dated at about
200 yearB beforo the Christian en-.
although Father Entreeollos, resid-
ing In China at the commencement Of
the seventeenth century, dates It leng
before this, and tells us tn q most inter
eSting manner Of the great porcelain
works of King Te Ching ono oG the
most ancient and celebrated Of the Chi
peso factories. BE sayh that IN his
time there were no fewer than 1900
ovens at work, which gave to the town
at night the appearance Of one vast fun
mace with innumerablo ehimnsTh
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-07-31
FAvoRs AN AMENDMENT.


C. w. Gilgen Of the Youngstown
Chamber of Commerce, IN an address
before the Tax Commission of Ohio,
said:
1 think from the expression of our
committee that we favor q constitutional
amendment that will permit the classi-
hcation Of property. 1t Is said that cor
porations have no soul and no nervous
system, and that they can stand almost
any shock the legislature puts upon
them. Now these corporations are taxed,
In addition to the regular tax, the Willis
tax. Some Of US believe that is double
taxation: but we feel in youngstown as
long as the plan is followed Of plunder-
ing the corporations that such recon-
mendstions should be made that will rs.
suit In sending back part Of the plum
der. We would like to have sent back
20 the county from which It came, &
Ghare Of this tax
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-07-31
/: THE HISTORY OF TAXATION

Some one who can find and tell the
truth without twisting 1t for the pur-
pose of theory or any other purpose,
ought TO write History of Taxation.
The book would be the story OF the
worst folly and crime in the politics Of
the world since the beginning of CIV
ilization. 1t would be sort Of lit
erary and economic nightmare, but it
is badly needed at Jefferson City, at
every other state capital and at Wash.
ington.
1t would show, among other things,
that we still have forms of taxation
based on the amiable theory that a
man ought to pay a tax on his head
every year after some one has cap
tured him and consented not to cut 1t
of at once, providing 1t should always
be used for the purpose Of earning
taxes. 1t would show also that we
have principles Of taxing earnings and
property In general, based on the the.
ory that both the Garner and his prop
erty have been at some time in the
past captured" and allowed to con-
tinue to exist only for the purpose Of
paying taxes, or in the ancient form
still in familiar use, tribute TO
Caesar" AS for Caesar" when he
captured possible taxpayers who re-
sisted too long or refused to consent
to become perpetual taxpayers. he
himself said that he "animadverted"
on them. This means he gave them
his special attention When the his.
tory of taxation is written 1t will show
that this special attention" resulted
In selling some as slaves and killing
the rest.
With this antique theory of taxation
working out through the Middle Ages
and down into modern times, common
sense and common justice have reach.
ed one plain principle Of rational tax.
alton at last.
1t is that all taxation ia a necessary
evil when necessary. and that as little
as possible of necessary taxation
should be imposed on activity, on pro
duotion. on business, on trade, on dis
tribution. on productive earnings; on
the ability and disposition to do what
ought to be done.-st. Louis Post Dis.
patch.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-07-31
FLINT AND FRICTION.
Methods by Which Primitive Man Pro
cured His Fire.

SdIGA
Doubtless the production of fire
by sparks from the flint was follow
ed by the discovery that friction
would produce a flame. In regions
where suitable stone was not easily
found the inventive aborigine de-
vised the whirling stick, or fire drill.
Tia was a. stick of hard wood with
its lower end set in a hole in a
block of very soft, dry wood.
The stick was held upright be,
tween the hands and whirled by
rubbing the palms first one way and
then the other. A moderate down
ward pressure was exerted, and as
the hands worked down on the stick
they were occasionally shifted to a
higher hold.
An improvement on the hand
whirled drill was the application of
a bow for rotating it. The first
man to make bow drill is entitled
to fame as the first inventor of a
machine, for he combined several
working pieces in one apparatus for
accomplishing desired end.
This father of inventors must
have conceived the idea that if he
should make turn of his bow
string around a stick and fix the
two ends of the stick in holes he
could rotate the stick much more
easily and rapidly than was possible
with the hands, producing great
friction and heat much quicker and
with much less exertion. We can
imagine we see him-a great,
brawny, hairy man, with a bit of a
goatskin for clothes-sitting cross
legged at the mouth of his cave and
rigging up the first operative ma
chine that was to produce fire.
He must have procured large
piece of soft and dry dead wood and
followed a spot for the lower end
of the stick. Then putting this un-
der slanting rock he must have
wedged another block of soft wood
above the stick.
Having fixed them solidly in place
by piling stones around them, he
would then take turn of his bow
string around the stick and draw
it back and forth rapidly, securing a
blaze in a short time.
With what triumph he must have
viewed his work when the first jet
Of flame burst from the smoking,
eharred mass that he had coaxed
into fiery existenceI 1t is easy to
picture him calling his family OF
followers about him to see his first
machine, perhaps half consumed in
the fire it had made, and explaining
its operations with eathusiasm.-
Circle Magazine,
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-07-31

The need of lead pencil caused q
lady who rode In q street car the othoz
day no small embarrassment.
She sat running over her HhoppinB
list when suddenly she thought of
something to add to It She looked in
her pocketbook and. ransacked all itG
divisions. cardcaBe and all. but no pen
ell did she nnd. Modeatly she hesi.
tated about asking her neighbors, but
With quick resolve she finally leaned
toward gentleman seated by her and.
holding up her list, said loud enough
Tor those in adjacents seats to hear,
"Excuse me, Hlr, may l borrow your
uecktie a momentr
The gentleman's establishment was
expressed in his silent facial contor,
lions until the lady Redeemed deeply.
my necktie, MADAME he replied
With arched eyebrows.
"pidn't say 'pencilr" she asked
And then everybody, grinning behind
newspapers. knew what the lady add
ID to her list.-Exchangs.