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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-10-23
seotel CLAIM to Fuiton,s Honor.

Scotland viii not accept the claim
TINT Fulton was the originator of
the steamboat. From an article in
the Railway Magazine about steam
vessel named the Charlotte Dundas,
which Symington, a Scotsman, con-
structed in 1901 for the Forth and
Clyde canals, We extract the follow
ing passage:
"After a successful trial in 1879
with Steam scat which attained
a speed of six miles an hour Syming-
ton, the inventor of the steamboat,
at the request of Lord Dundas, con-
structed steamer in 1901 to be
used as tug on the canal. This
vessel was named the Charlotte
Dundas and was tried in March,
1902, when it towed with ease two
loaded barges, each of seventy tons
burden, but the canal board object
ed to its use on the ground that the
undulation of the water from the
paddle wheel action would have the
effect of washing away the banks OF
the canal"
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TRUSTEES SALE
Of Valuable Pe1ssral Prop
trtY.

By virtue of a certain deed of trust
execute ed by Geo e. Fadeley. 10 the
undersigned Trustee. hearing date
the Goth dev of August. 1905, and
recor6e ed in the office nj the Clerk of
the County Court, of Mason County,
West Virginia. in Trust Deed Book
No. 90. pages 500 &c, to secure the
payment of certain debt, evidenced
by certain promissory note made
and executed by the said George E.
Fadelav. payable to the order of
Fred H Leonard, which note is paw
able in one year after date and said
note is fully described in the said
deed of trust. and the said note hav-
ing become due and payable and de-
fault having been made in the pay
ment thereof, according to to the ten
or and effect thereof, and having
been requested by the assignee of the
said Fred II l. onard, and the hold
er of the said note to sell the said per-
sonal property conveyed in the said
deed of trust, l will on the
23d day of November, 1907,
at 10 O'Clock a. m, sell at public auc-
ton, at the front dor of the Court
House OF Mason county, to the high
est bidder, the personal property
conveyed to me by the said deed of
trust and described as follows:
One Traction engine, 10 horse pow
er Nichols and Shepard make.
Terms of Sale-Cash.
T E. BRADBURY. Trustee.
Someryille & Someryille, Soils.
Oct. 234w.
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REDMOND

Grover Long. of Beale, paid Hen
derson a brief visit Sunday after.
noon.
Mrs Geo Milford who has been
dangerously sick for the past few
days, we are glad to announce is
very much improved.
Look No. IL school commenced
Monday under the management OF
Miss Lucy Bslderson. She is Ca
pable of instructing her pupils to
the very best advantage.
The four children of Mr.. ard
Mrs Wort Cline are recovering from
very bad case of whooping cough
Mrs Eliza Birohfeld, who has
been indisposed for the past few
days is better at this writing.
Miss Amy Milford and brother
Wade were visiting relatives al
North Point Pleasant Saturday.
Rev. Pastore preached at Hen
derson Brick church Saturday and
Sunday.
Eph Sheline's peddling wagon
is doing prosperous business in
this community. He is acooma.
dation gentleman and is welcomed
by every one.
Quite number of young people
of this vicinity attended singing
at Three Mile Friday night under
the instruction of w. H. Vaught.
Plain View school is progressing
nicely under the successful man
agement of Prof Alonzo Kelly, of
Henderson.
Miss Matte Spencer, who has
been keeping house for her broth,
er, has gone to boarding with N P
Hope.
Rev O F Hager will move his
family to Maiden where be will
preach the coming year on that
circuit.
Rev Pullin, our pastor on the
Henderson charge, will preach at
Henderson NJ E Church Sunday
night, Dot. q Let every one at
ted the service. Weeping Willow.
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Golden October.

Charm of Month in the Air
and Affects all Classes of People
The charm of the golden month
of October is in the air The last
few days and nights have been
almost perfect. The Ohio and
Kanswha valleys at this particular
season possesses attractions scarce.
ly to be matched elsewhere, and as
a result not only We who are aoous.
toned 10 the climate, but visiting
strangers as well, are in perpetual
state of delight. To be sure the
mornings are oool-often frosty
but the afternoons are filled With
delight, while the nights, partiou-
larly when the moon is at aboutits
present rotundity, are a source of
pleasure
OF all the days of the month
Halloween is the best known and
the most generally observed. l
is full of charms and spells, for on
that night. the witches and fairies
hold wild reyeI without, while the
young people join in all manner OF
fun within. In his poem of Hal
loween" Burns describes all the su-
perstitions that were praOtioed in
his day.
But the charm of the present
month of October is not in it's holt
days or superstition, but in its
golden days, such rs yesterday.
The country has an added charm
not uulY iy Ie4son of the chang
ing hues of the foliage for those
WHO dwell in cities, but as well for
the tiller of the soil. The harvest
has been garnered and gathered,
1t is a time for rest, for reoupera-
ton and for these long and swift
ly coming winter EVENING", when
denizons of city and country alike
look forward to at least measure
of relief from the toll of the sum.
mer. Enjoy the present while it
lasts, for presently there will come
snow, cold and all unplessautue IS.
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The Man Who Loves a
Baby.
The man who loves a baby,
He is the man for me.

The man who loves baby,
He is the man for me;
His heart is warm with sunshine,
His face is good to see.
When weight of woe Expresses,
And everything goes wrong,
The man who loves a baby
Still sings hopeful song.
When weary with the struggle,
He plods along his way,
Though sorrow is about him,
His heart is always gay.
lie falters not nor weakens,
But finds new courage when
He thinks about the baby,
And goes to work again.
The man wholovesa baby
Tlllus sIFeugIh Win winch 10
cope
With all Of life's misfortunes-
He never gives up hope.
lie bears a cheerful message,
lie knows no word like fail;
The man who loves a baby
Is the man you can't assail.
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4 9vlinsie.

Richard Mansfield once hired a
private secretary, but was compelled
to discharge him because he could
not spell and was otherwise rather
lame in the matter of education.
When the young man had received
the notice of his dismissal he went
to the actor and asked for an ex-
PLANTATION.
"The fact is" he was told, "your
education is too meager for the re-
quirements of the position"
Greatly offended, the ex-secretary
exclaimed, "Why, sir, my parents
spent $4,000 on my educationp
"Then, my dear boy" said the ac-
tor, ~ would advise them to insti-
tute proceedings for the recovery of
the money. They were swindled."
Boston Transcript.
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Cover During Sleep.

The object of warm covering dur
ing sleep is simply this: Nature
takes the time when one is living
down to give the heart a rest, and
that organ consequently makes ten
strokes less minute than when one
is in an upright posture Multiply
ing that by sixty minutes gives GOO
strokes. Therefore in eight hours
spent in lying down the heart is
saved nearly 5000 strokes, and as
the heart pumps six ounces of blood
with each stroke it lifts 10000
ounces less of blood in a night of
eight hours spent in bed than when
one is in an upright position. As
the blood flows SO much more slow
ly through the veins while one is ly-
ing down extra coverings must then
supply the warmth usually furnish
ed by circulation.
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GLENWooD

Farmers are we'll plsased with
the weather while sowing wheat
and rye.
Misses Nora Biz r ard Addie
Hannah and Mr.. Henry Wise
were the pleasant guests of Miss
Maude E Meadows. Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs j "a White and
sons Wesley ard Laurence were
visiting & q Johnson. NJ W. and
A M Meadows and families recent.
Iy.
Mrs Frank Hannah and scn
Lyle, were the guest of her uncle,
A Meadows and family, Thursday
and Friday.
Mrs Geo Young, who has been
seriously i'll, is reported better.
81 E johnson, of Moundsville,
is visiting relatives and friends
this week
Harry Fowler, of Grown City,
WAS the guest of his uncle, 7. j
Hannah last week
S M Wallace, of Crown City, de.
l,vered three fine sermons at
Christian Valley. Saturday and
Sunday.
Join Keister WAS business
visitor in your city Saturday
Several Of our citizens are going
to have telephones put in their
houses in a short time. Hurrah
for them. for the telephones and
the R. F D are the fuest and the
best.
Miss Lulu Wallace is very i'll
with typhoid fevor.
Geo Mccoy is home en- visit
from Huntington. B uebeIl.
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Liahtnina and Thunder.

Lightning is kindled in the thun-
derstorm by raising tracks of ma
terial substance scattered along its
path into state of sparkling in
candescence. The ordinary cleo
trio spark and the lightning are in
this respect the same. The sound
known as thunder is caused by
the electric outburst of the cloud.
The flash and the sound originate
simultaneously, but the flash travels
to the eye in an instant, while the
sound is transmitted to the ear so
sluggishly that it is some few sec
onds behind time. New York
American.
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SUCCESSFUL LITTLE MEN.
An Ambassador Who Was Only Six.
teen Inches In Height.

teen Inches In Height.
Don't be ashamed of being small
of stature. The finest brains are
often found in the heads of little
men. Alexander, Napoleon, Uladis-
laus, Cubitalis, the pygmy king of
Poland; Characus, the wisest coun-
selor that was about Saladin, the
great conqueror of the east; Ma
RUS, Maximus, Marcus Tillius and,
to drop down to this day and gen
sration, Alexander H. Stephens,
Stephen A. Douglas, Jay Gould,
Samuel Spencer and a host of 9th
ers, all were small men. Yet, as
they say in the Bowery, they got
there.
Alypius of Alexander, most ex-
cellent logician and philosopher,
was only one foot and five inches
in height. Augustus Caesar exhib
tied in his plays one Lucius, a young
man born of honest parents, who
was only twenty-three inches high
and weighed seventeen pounds. Yet
he had a strong tenor voice and
could sing like nightingale. In
the time of Theodosius there was a
pygmy in Egypt SO small of body
that he resembIed a partridge. Yet
he exercised al the functions of
man and could sing merrily. He
lived to be twenty-five. Julia, niece
of Emperor Augustus, had a dwarf
ish fellow of the name of Canopas,
to whom she was much devoted.
He was twenty-eight inches high.
Andromeda, a freed maid of Julia,
was of the same height.
Just about 100 years ago in Wurt-
temberg at the nuptials of the Duke
of Bavaria a great pie was set upon
the table. On being opened out
stepped a dwarf, armed cap-a-pie,
girt with a sword and having a spear
in his hand. He walked around
the table in a swashbuckler style,
sword drawn, and caused the great
est amusement and interest.
There was a little fellow in Italy
who was carried around in a par
rot's cage and exhibited for money,
says the New York Press. He was
only thirteen inches high. A French
man of Limesin, with a formal
beard, was also shown in a cage for
money. He was about fifteen inches
high. AT the end of the cage was
a little hutch, into which he retired.
When the house was full he stepped
forth and played tune on an in
strument.
Going away back without sitting
down, jeffrey Hudson was the Won
der of his age. His father was a
butcher, stout and of good height,
and his mother was large woman
AT the age of eight he was sixteen
inches in height. The Duchess of
Buckingham adopted him. She
clothed him always in satin. AT a
royal feast he was served in cold
pie, walking forth in complete ar
NOR Being presented to Queen
Henrietta Maria. he afforded much
amusement. The king had a gigan-
tic porter, William Evans. In a
masked ball at court Evans hauled
out of one pocket a long loaf of
bread and out of the other little
Jeffrey. This dwarf was employed
on a delicate mission to France as
ambassador On his way home he
swas captured BY a Flemish pirate.
His captivity is the subject of a
poem by Sir William Davenport, en-
titled "JeiTrcdos." He lived to be
sixty years of are.
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ELWEL

IA w II
There will be- service at Bruce
Chapel Saturday night aud Sun.
day
j w Archer VS. business visi
tor at G4Iiip lis Friday,
Miss E bel Moore, of Hunting.
ton, wac Wis ting Ter parents Sun
day.
Morgan Long wac a business
visitor at your city Friday.
Jtspsr and VIM Buckley. who
have boon employed at Washing.
ton Q Il, Ohio. for some time
have returned
Miss Rilla Wallace has returned
from a few days visit at Hunting
ton.
Mrs Ed johnson was visiting
her brother John Blain and fami.
ly, at Fay, Sunday.
Tavener VanM, ter spent few
days last week with his uncle, J
NJ II Beale. of your city.
Grab Greek school is progress
ing nicely under the management
of Russell Snyder, of Ravenswood
Frank Henry wears bright
smile-it's boy.
Mrs Morgan Long who has BET n
sick for some time, is improving
slowly,
Joseph Bechtle, who was n iss
ing for some time and was located
at Illinois, was visiting his mothe,
several days ago, returned to Ma
zon, Illinois, last Wednesday,
where he has employment.
John Doss is building black
smith shop on Ell Johnson's farm
Miss MolIie Worth, of Hunting.
ton, was visiting her parents here
Sunday
Mrs Alem Meadows and daught.
er, M4ude, of GIenwood, were visi-
ting Mrs RI Beohtle, Saturday
and Sunday,
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Slack Business Caused
Shut Down.

Wheeling W, Va, Dot. 22.-
Tonight the entire plant at Bell.
sire, Ohio, opposite Wheeling. of
the Carnegie Steel Company, shut
down for an indefinite period,
throwing eight hundred men out of
employment. Slack business is
said to be the cause.
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APPLE GROVE

Rush Hughes was visiting Miss
Rrlla Mayes, Sunday.
E. L. Withers and wife we're the
guests of John Lsnier and family
Sunday
Miss Efie Stewart was visiting
Maud and and Willie Wallis, Sun.
day.
Miss Bette Moodespsugh is vie.
iting her brother George. at Pliny
Miss Letta Lenier was whiting
Miss RllIa Mayes, Sunday.
Charlie hilbert and wife and
Martha Price were visiting Sarah
Long, Sunday,
Sherman Moodespaugh and fam
lily were visiting at John Lanier's
Sunday.
heY. Meadows preached at Mt
Carmel, Sunday.
Misses Lena and Fac Burris are
visiting their grandma Nlbert
Monday.
Charlie Burris and family, Of
Ben Lomand. were visiting Alon
Burris, Sunday
Mesdsmes Hiram Wallis, Nor.
gan Hogsett and Charlie Price
were visiting Mrs. A. j. Price. one
day last week.
Eliza MoCsrty was visiting Miss
Gusta Crew, Sunday.
Boys, get your bells ready, fol-
there will be wedding soon.
Suooess to the dear old Registe,
lie the wish of Happy HooIigan,
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The Abssntminded Professor

Among seven distinguished men
who were to speak at the opening
exercises of new school was pro-
fessor well known for his lapses OF
memory, but his speech was clear
that night, and as he seated himself
his loving wife felt that he had full
ly earned the burst of applause that
followed, and she clapped her little
hands enthusiastically. Then her
cheeks crimsoned.
did you see anything amusing
about the close of my address, my
DEAR" asked the professor as they
started for home. at seemed as if
l heard sounds suggestive of merri-
ment about me-"
"Well, dear" said she, "of all the
people who applauded your address
you clapped the loudest and long
est ="
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Not His Affinity.

The lank, long haired young man
looked dreamily at the charming
girl on whom he was endeavoring to
make a favorable impression.
"Did you ever long for death? p
he asked i; a low and moving tone
Whose" inquired the charming
bit practical young person.
Youths Companion.
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Made Another Worlds
Record.

Gen. Watts, the great three
year-old horse belonging to Gen.
G. c. Watts, of Charleston, on
Friday at Lexington, Ky, made
another worlds record for a three
year old by trotting a mile in
FOG 3-4, beating the record made
by Kentucky TODD. This gives
West Virginia the record of the
world.
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eeardr ln hrIIish NaNY.

Orders to British naval volunteers:
Those men wearing boards will haze
them clipped torpedo fashion Tor
pado" is short, stubby yandyke and
is the official beard of the British
navy. 1t is semi-ofIicially stated that
the flowing beard is hopelessly out
of fashion, and is usually worn by peo-
pie who have reached that stage of
life when they have ceased to crease
their trousers"
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-10-23

There are signs of coming f.
nsncial squall. 1t is reported that
5000 workmen have been laid off
at the Pullman works near Chioa-
go; 1900 have been discharged at
the big car works in Baltimore;the
Westinghouse Company in Pitts-
burg has reduced its force by sew
eral thousand. These straws chow
that the wind is blowing in a diff
ferent direction.
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A San Antonio promoter has
yentured the prediction that ton
years hence, there will be FIVE
thousand milIiouaires in Texas
In that case, the rest of the popu.
lation will probably be headed fol
the poor house.
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A small republic has been found
in q desoIste region of Russia in
which it is a crime to dun debtor,
says the Buffalo Express. And
yet there are those who allude to
it as darkest Russia"
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If You Had a million.

What would you do if you were {
millioAaire?"
Like other millionaires. I'd hav,
a palace in Washington or New
York"
Then what?"
I'D shut it up and so to Europe.
Washington Star.
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Evolution in socistN.

q suppose" said the old.time friend,
that your folks no longer feel the
anxiety about social matters that they
once experienced"
Yes. they do" answered Mr.. Cum
rox, mother an the girls are now as
busy keepin' other women out OF so
ciety as they once were gettin' in
themselves. Washington Star.
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A Massachusetts minister has
forsaken his pulpit in order that
he Imsy devote his entire time to
golf. Mr. Rockefeller will hardly
know whether to reprove or con
graduate him.
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Belle az one.n vlntnri.

A treasured relic at Penhurst place,
in Kent. Is a stool. covered with faded
blue velvet and edged with silver cord.
Queen Victoria knelt upon It to re-
ceive the sacrament at her coronation,
hence its great interest as a relic.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-10-23

Away up in Kennebeo county in
the State of Maine, we are told
that 1900 persons have revolted
against the Beef Trust, and will
abstain from eating meat ten days
Nearly two years ago We were as
sured that tie Beef Combin had
disbanded by order eff the court
and our strenuous Republican Ad.
ministration. Is the Beef Trust a
good trust" that it is still allowed
to plumber ecple, or is RepubIi-
can trust busting fat failureP
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-10-23

An Antwerp steamer has landed
in New York, with a cargo of I,
100000 Teddy bears Somebody
is going to get this country into 8
real war yet.
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And now a Missouri muok-raker
says that George Washington went
to the races and frequently bet Oh
the wrong horse. That's getting
the father of his country" down
on q level with some more of US
who have done the same thing.
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HICKORY CHAPEL

Mr.. Raymond Brown, of Point
Pleasant. was the guest of Mics
Bessie Schools, Sunday.
Charlie Glover, who has been
ill for some time, we are glad to
announce is much improved.
Mrs. Shields, from over Kama
wha, was visiting her sister, Mrs.
Will Glover one day last week.
Mrs F D johnson and children
were visiting her mother, Mrs j
L Hellems, Sunday.
Mrs W NJ Milford, who has
been ill for some time, is no better
at this writing.
Lilly of the Valley.
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During the past two or three
months Uncle Sam has whipped
the Jsps more times than Madame
Patti has left the stage during the
last ten years
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Uncle Joe Cannon is 70 years
old. The other day he proved that
he is no "has been" by kicking the
football rs feet at GaIesburg, Ill.
He deserves and no doubt will get
all the football enthusiasts votes
for President if he is candidate