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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-07-10
THE ARKANSAS HOG.
1t Can outrun a Greyhound and WhIR
a Wolf or q Bear.

It Can outrun a Greyhound and WhIR
a Wolf or Bear.
An esteemed contemporary gave
space to the following communication
from a subscriber on "The American
hog"
Arkansas has a greater variety %
hogs and less pork and lard than any
state in the Union. An average hog In
Arkansas weighs about fourteen
pounds dressed with its head on and
about six pounds and half with In
head of. 1t can outrun greyhound.
jump rail fence, climb like a parrot
and live on grass roots and rabbit
tracks. 1t hasn't much tail or bristles
but plenty Of gall. 1t will lick 4 wole
or bear in fair fight It is called
razorback because 1t Is shaped like n
sunhsh. In hunting raEorback 10
Is always shot at sideways, for there
is not ghost OF a show 70 hit 10
otherwise. any more than to shoot at
split shlngle. 1t can drink milk out
of quart Jar on account Of its long,
thin head. This type OF razorback In
known as the stone hog because ita
head is SO heavy and its nose % long
that 1t balances up behind The ownGH
of this type Of hogs usually ties q stons
to its tail to keep 1t from overbaiane-
Ing and breaking Its neck while run
ming. II the stone is too heavy, Il Will
pull the skin over Its eyes, and it viii
go blind" e
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-07-10
They Stand Alone.

Standing out In bold relief, all atons
and as conspicuous example of open,
frank aud honest dealing with the sick
and afflicted, are DR.. PIerce's Favorite
Prescription for weak, oyer-worked, de-
bilitated, nervous, rundown" pain
racked women, and DR.. Pierce's Golden
Medical, Discovery, the famous remedy
pepsis, torpid liver, or blilousness, all
catarrhal affections whether Of the
stomach, bowels, kidneys, bladder, nasal
passages, throat, bronchls, or other mu-
cous passages, also as an effective remedy
for all diseases arising from thin, watery
or impure blood, as scrofulous and skin
affections.
Each bottle of the above medicines
esty In the full iist Of ingredients COM
posing it-prtnted Nl plain English.
This frank and open publicity places
these medicines IN q class all by them
selves, aGHl Is the best guaranty Of their
merits. They cannot be elassed as patent
nor secret medicines for they are neither
being Of kfl0tc1I composition.
DR.. Pierce feels that he can afford to
take the afflicted into his full confidence
and lay all the ingredients of his medi-
cines freely before them because these
Ingredients are such as are endorsed and
most strongly praised by scores Of the
most eminent medical writers as cures
for the diseases for which these mcdl-
cines are recommended. Therefore, the
afflicted do not have to rely alone upon
DR.. Pierce's Recommendation as to the
curative value Of his medicines for Ger.
tain easily recognized diseases.
glance at the printed formula on
each bottle will show that no alcohol and
no harmful or habit-formiDg drugs enter
into Dr. Pierce's medicines, they being
wholly compounded of glycerlc extracts
OF the roots OF native, American forest
plants. These are best and safest for
the cure of most lingering, chronic dis
eases. DR.. R. v. Pierce can be consulted
FREE, by addressing him at Buffalo,
N. T., and all communications are re-
garded IS sacredly confidential.
It is as easy TO be well as ill-and
much more comfortable. Constipation is
the cause Of many forms of illness DR..
PiercO'I Pleasant Pellets cure constipa-
tlon. They are tiny. sugar-coated gram
ples. One little "Pellet " is q gentle lexa-
tive, two mild cathartlc. All dealers In
medicines sell them
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-07-10
a.Ii.v.n childr.n H,v. r,,...

One Boston matron who has theories
of child culture undreamed of by early
New England says 1t is a great mis-
take to dress children on uniform lines,
but that they should be consulted as to
what they wish to wear and to exercise
their own taste in dress. The Boston
woman adds: "The thoughtful child Of
today appreciates what is good form in
dress and other things, and when lit
tie girl gets to be half a dozen SUM
mers or so her preferences should be
taken into consideration. 1t is a mis-
take for reproping elders to frown
upon any little fancy which does not
coincide with their own IDEAS" She
further remarks that, given an idea.
many OF these geniuses OF the nursoey
go ahead and improve upon 1t with n
clevernesS that would put many dress.
makers to the blush.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-07-10
To Clean Rrenrsu.

1t is not good plan to clean bronzes,
Is the polish is very easily spoiled. but
Il necessary nothing is better than
cleaning them with water and ammo
ala, using a stiff brush like nailbrush.
Dry carefully after rinsiRg thoroughly.
they should be carefully busted every
lay with soft cloth and a feather
Drush, and little sweet oil may be
rubbed on occasionally. To remove
stains from bronze make the article
Fery hot by dipping 1t in boiling water.
Then rub 1t with piece Of flannel dip
,ed in suds made from yellow soap,
'ubbing clean with soft linen cloths.
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The Names Of Tea.

We talk glibly about Pekoe, Bohea,
etc. but few people have any idea of
what these names signify. "Pekoe"
In the dialect OF Canton means white
hair" for the tea which bears this
name is made from the youngest
leaves, so young that the white down
Is still on them. "Soochong" In the
same dialect is a quite unpoetIc name.
1t merely signifies small kind"
"Flourishlng spring" is the meaning
pf "Hyson." "Kongo" signifies "la-
bor." Much trouble and toll are ex-
pended in Its preparation at Annoy, and
these are commemorated in its name.
'Bohea" is called after a range of hills.
Portland (ore) Journal.
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swltzerIand . Mod.rn RabeI.

Switzerland, with Its mixture %
races and tongues. Is a sort OF mod0En
Babel. fact which causes much trou-
BILE In particular to the military au-
thorlties. At Wallenstadt the other
day at the recruiting station there was
guard composed Of five men. The
chief was lieutenant who spoke Ger
man only, the second n sergeant whe
spoke Italian only, the third cor
poral who could speak French and
Spanish, the fourth private who could
speak French and German, and the
fifth private who could speak French
and Italian. When the lieutenant had
to transmit an order to the sergeant
he had TO get the last named man
to interpret for him. When he want
ed to communicate with the corporal
he had TO reQulsltlon the fourth man,
and so on. great delay and confusion
being thus occasioned.-London News.
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ABUSE OF INDOORS.
We Rely Too Much on the Protection
Of Our Houses.

We Rely Too Much on the Protection
Of Our Houses.
Houses were made for shelter, not
for confinement; for freedom, not re-
straint They were Intended to enlarge
our sphere of activities, not to dimin-
fish them.
They foster the family and make
progress possible, but we should not
abuse their protection. we have crawl.
ed away into their still and comforta-
bic recesses, slept in their dry. clean
chambersF toasted ourselves over their
sheltered fires, read by their unliicker.
ing lights and eaten from their bounti.
full boards 50 long that we are grown
pale, timld, peevish and thankless
withal.
We have kept ourselves away from
the wind and the sun and the lashing
rain, from the feel of the earth under
foot and the sense of the leaves and
stars overhead until we no longer know
the keen and simple joys of being
alive. We have set up barriers against
the inclemency of nature and covered
before her severe austerlty until now
we have forgotten how Indispensable
is all her kindly nurture, how tonic her
rugged ways, how full of solace her
assuaging calm.
Houses were only made to live In
when 1t is too cold or too hot or too
wet to live out of doors. Any other time
out of doors is best To sleep out of
doors for a month is better than q trip
TO Europe. : Bliss Carman In Crafts
man.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-07-10
SEA MONSTERS.
Some Unfamiliar Ocean Giants Os
Hideous Aspect.

Hideous Aspect.
OF all the big game of the deep
sea that have been taken by man
the cuttlefsh are the most diabolical
in shape and general appearance,
says the Metropolitan Magazine. |
have handled and measured one that
was thirty-eight feet in length, a
weird, spiderlike creature with two
antennaelike arms thirty feet in
length. Specimens of these animals.
have been caught seventy feet in
length, the captors fighting them
with an ak, cutting the arms which
seized and held the boat.
Off the coasts of California and
Alaska there is deep sea ally of
this ANIMAL big, spiderlike octo-
pus that haunts the deep banks,
,preying upon the fishes most es-
teemed by fishermen. 1t is found
off the Farralones ON rocky bottom
and at times the fishermen haul in
their lines, thinking they have foul
ed a stone or rock, SO heavy is the
weight. But when the surface is
reached long, livid arms shoot above
the water, seize the boat, and the
men are forced to fight with knives
and hatchets the weird, uncanny
game that has radial spread of thir-
ty feet, its eight sucker lined arms
being fifteen feet in length and pos
sessed of extraordinary power. A
specimen taken off the island of San
Clemente had a spread of about
twenty feet and gave the boatmen a
hard battle to sever its flying arms.
Nothing more diabolical can be
conceived than this spiderlike giant
of the deep sea, living among the
rocks 600 to 1000 feet below the
surface. An individual of moderate
size, which L kept alive, displayed
the greatest pugnacity. The mo-
ment 1 approached it would literally
hurl itself at my arm, winding its
long tentacles about it in a manner
suggestive of what large individual
might do. Indeed DR.. A. S. Pack
ard, professor of zoology at Brown
university, says: can Indian wo-
man at Victoria, Vancouver Island,
in 1877 was seized and drowned by
an octopus, probably of this species,
while bathing on the shore. Smaller
specimens on coral reefs sometimes
seize collectors or natives and, fas-
tening to them with their relentless
suckered arms, tire and frighten to
death the hapless victim"
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-07-10
Facts About Building Stone.

Almost everybody knows the rule of
the masons that stone used in build
ing should be so placed that 1t will lie
as 1t lay in its natural bed when quar-.
ried. But Francis W. Hoyt in the En-
glneerlng News says that this familiar
rule is not always to be depended upon
and needs In many cases to be supple
mented with other precautions. There
ere three planes of fracture known to
quarrymen. The rift is the direction
in which the stone splits most easily,
the grain that which is next easiest,
the head that which offers the greatest
resistance. In a paving block the two
sides represent the rift fracture, the
top and bottom the grain and the ends
the head. But in quarry the natural
bed is sometimes considerably inclined
to the plane of the rift; hence the I'm
perfection Of the ordinary rule for plac-
ing the stone In building.
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Thu slmpl. B.drosn,.

A simple bedroom is most desirable
and the most comfortable. Large cles-
cts are great conveaiease. Under
one of the windows a box can be built
in which shirt waists may be kept and
also serve as seat. Mirrors may be
set into the wall, framed to match the
woodwork. If the walls are in good
condition it is better to have them
painted delicate tint, though it gives
a room a cold appearance. Nothing,
however, is as sanitary or economical.
II the walls are painted, the hangings
and furniture coverings should be fig
ured. II Powered or figured paper is
used, then the material for draperies
and coverings should be plain. In
some bedrooms both wall paper and
hangings are of the same design. The
floors, of course, should be Of hard
wood or be painted. 1t Is possible then
by removing the rugs and wIping up
the floor with damp cleth occasional
ly to keep the room free from dust
The rag rugs now so popular are de-
sIrable for bedrooms, for they can be
washed without much trouble.-NeH
York Post
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NEW YEARS in THE ORIENT
The Crossings and the Presents &c
China and japan.

AnS NAlS1AQtS1 aHa AiNO EFGSNnN1
China and Japan.
The most wonderful ceremonies con-
nected with the new year occur In Chi
ma and Japan. A Chinese city presents
busy and attractive spectacle on
New Years day. The streets are
thronged with people dressed in gala
attire. The mandarins are known by
the red, blue. white and gilt balls on
their caps. Gentlemen OF rank and
wealth are carried in palanquins. When
friends meet they greet each other
with "Kung-hiI Kung-hlw which
means, 81 respectfully wish you JOY"
But instead of shaking hands in the
American fashion each grasps his own
hands, lifts them as high as his chin
and with a sweeping motion throws
them down as low as possible. bend
ing the body at the same time. This
is the mode of salutation among the
Chinese. At the dawn of New Years
day the visits of congratulation begin,
and New Years gifts. are sent TO par
ticular friends. always accompanied by
visiting ticket of red paper, on which
are written the name of the donor and
list Of the presents sent. These con-
sist nsuaHF OF silks. fine tea. sweet
meats s4sments of personal wear,
tsRs aaa Iivenirs of various kinds,
In Japan tie custom is to send letters
on rice paper to those in distant places,
conveying the formal expression of the
New Years greetings. Presents of
cooked rice. roasted peas, oranges and
figs are offered to every one.-Leslie's
Weekly.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-07-10
Art of PLEASING.

A woman cannot charm because
she wants to. A man is not agree
able because he sets out to be. The
proper effect must, like repartee, be
spontaneous and unprecedented,
1t must be radiated naturally, like
light and love. Books there are
that pretend to tell how it is done.
They do SO quite as completely as
grasshoppers teach entomology. The
ability to charm, to be agreeable, to
entertain perfectly and to be per-
fectly entertaining is an art appre-
hensible only through influences
generally prenatal, but always pro-
longed. The mere technique is SO
volatile that it must be inhaled.
Like the Mayfair intonation, little
by little, it must be absorbed, says
Edgar saltus in the Delineator.
Kings and thugs may abash the
amateur in the art of teasing, but
the artist is at home with them.
He puts himself in harmony with
them. In the ability to do that is
the whole secret of the art of pleas
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-07-10
Yslstn.

st. Augustine, Fla, founded by the
SpanlardS| IN 1854, is generally said to
be the eldest European settlement
within the present limits of the United
States, but some twenty or thirty
years earlier Coronado, the Spanish
conqueror and explorer, leading an ex-
pedition from the City OF Mexico north
ward. had founded some sort of a
Spanish colony at the ancient Indian
village of Ysleta, In Ell Paso county.
Tex. In the southwest it is therefore
claimed that Ysleta is the oldest Euro
Pean settleRent in the United States
st. Louis Republic.
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ssuarins the Circle.

One of the problems that are as
old as the science of mathematics
is that of squaring the circle. By
squaring the circle is meant the
problem of finding the sides of
square exactly equal in area to a
circle of given diameter. To do this
either by elementary geometry or by
expressing it automatically in COM
measurable numbers has been found
to be an impossibility. In other
words, the ratio between the dame
ter and the circumference of cir
Gle cannot be exactly found even
though in the division the decimal
be carried out to 10000 figures. The
above being the exact facts in the
case, we will say that the problem of
squaring the circle is one that has
long been given up by the mathema-
ticians as insoluble.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-07-10
K1TcHEN M1rrEN HonpER.

scalding my hand in the rising steam.
So made what l call the "mitten
holder" Take piece of canton fan
mel sixteen inches long and eight inches
wide, fold in halves lengthwise and
pad well with flannel. Before closing
the side seam cut slit the width of a
hand two inches up from and parallel
to the bottom seam on the side not
padded "a b. Bind with tape. Then
finish the edges, not forgetting brass
ring hanger (C. When in use this will
be found ample protection to the back
of the hand as well as palm. 1t laun-
ders easily and altogether has proved
a great convenience. The same scheme
might be used with two sheets OF as
bestus paper quilted into the cloth.
The covering for this holder should
be removable for laundering, - Good
Housekeeping.
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Two of n Kind.

The Rev. Mr.. Robertson was called
upon to attend to two workers who
had received fatal injuries in riot.
The reverend gentleman was most
anxious that the men should con-
fess who had been their accom-
plices, One Of them died without
utterIng word on the subject, As
the other lay at the point of death
he beckoned Mr.. Robertson, who
hastened to his side in the full ex-
pectation that he was about to learn
the fateful tidings. This belief was
strengthened by the Est words of
the sufferer. "Can you keep a Sc
cret?" he gasped.
81 can," was the eager response
of the clergyman,
$50 can l." said the dying man
and Immediately afterward he calm-
ly passed away.-Westminster Re,
view.
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NOTICE.

To Whom 1t May Concern:
The undersigned will on the 9Th day
of August, 1907. or as soon thereafter
as it can be heard, apply to the Coun-
ell of the Town of Hartford, in Ma
son county, w. Va, at its regular
place of meeting in said town, for the
right and franchise of building, con-
ducting and operating in said town, a
telephone system and business. Also
the undersigned will ON the 5th day
of August, 1907, or as soon thereafter
as it can be heard. apply to the
Council of the Town OF Mason in said
Mason county, West Virginia, at its
regular place of meeting in said town,
tor the riyht and franchise of build
ing. constructing and operating in
said town a telephone system and
business.
This June 2sth, 1907.
WATERLOO TRLRPHoER Co.
BY c. II. Mccoy, Gen Manager.
July 4w
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ROOM FURNISHINGS.
They Should Be Simple, Durable,
Sanitary and Artistic.

sanitary ana ArGStlcs
Do not act on the suppOsition that
everything old is beautiful. "Your
grandfather's taste may have been
worse than yours" observes an ex-
pert. Do not buy many things. Do
not make museum of your house.
The furnishings should be adapted to
the use to which the family wishes to
put them. The life for which the white
and gold chair was designed is elab-
orately and dlstantly formal. Conyen-
tionallty and ceremony rather than
cozy comfort are suggested by the
white and gold room. The use OF the
room and the purpose Of the article
should be kept in mind in the selection
of furniture.
Furnishings should be simple, dura-
BILE. sanitary and artistic Color is one
Of the most important elements In the
selection of furnishings. Do we real
ize that the indefnable difference be-
tween the restful room and the inhar-
monious room Is largely matter OF
coler? A room requires Its color to be
IN unison II it is to soothe and rest.
Frequently the hogseholaer may re
call Morris words, "HaEe nothing IA
your homes that you do not, know 70
be useful or believe to be beautiful"
And those from Henderson: "0ns must
surround oneself with wholesomeness
and beauty. This parallellsm between
conciseness and nature makes this in
sistence upon convenience Of arrange
ment and respect for form and color
more than a mere matter of taste. 1t
makes It matter Of moral obligation.
A mans surroundings are not acci-
dental. They are part of himself and
must likewise be chastened and puri-
fed. An ugly room. badly lighted,
poorly ventilated, inadequately heated,
must be regarded as morally repre-
hensible, whether provided for oneself
or for somebody else. 1t is the projec-
ton of an evil thought and, entering
into consciousness. lowers the level of
human llfe."-Boston Traveller.
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Here is a glimpse of Shelley offered
by Andrew Lang: 1T seems almost In
credible. but IT is true, that I once
knew a man who was at Eton with
Shelley, who left in 1910. This was
Mr.. Hammond. a senior fellow Of MSF-
ton college when 1 was an inquirinR
junior. About 1870 he told me all that
1 could extract from him about the
poet. Shelley was not clever boy; he
never was sent up for good which
means, conceive, that he never did
a remarkable exercise in Latin verse.
Mr.. Hammond added that Shelley had
a habit when he was walking alone Of
suddenly breaking into a sprint Gt q
hundred yards pace. That was all"
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ANCIENT FINANCE.
Trading In the Days Before Money
Was In Circulation.


Assyria, with her immense hosts and
her spacious and magnificent cities,
had no money; Egypt-opulent. popu-
lous and abundant Egypt-had no mon-
ey; ancient Persia, before the age OF
the first Darius, had no money; the
early Hebrews, and even during the
most prosperous period of the age of
Solomon and down to the time of Ju-
das Maccabaeus. were without money;
Etrurla from first to last was without
money; Rome was without money to
the time of Servlus Tullius. and the
Greeks of the heroic nges were equally
destitute OF money. Among all those
nations gold and silver. when used in
barter. We're weighed out by the scales,
as when Abraham purchased the cave
of MacpeIah ''he weighed to Ephron
the silver which he had named in the
audience of the sons of Heth."
Anclently there was no money in
Arabia. or the riches of the patriarch
Job would hot have been estimated
by his camels. oxen and she asses.
India. Persia, Assyrla, Judaea, Egypt,
Greece. Etrurla. Rome, the nations of
Asia Minor. including Tyre and Its de
pendencles, all arrived at civilization
and comfort without the current use
of cash and carried on their extensive
mercantile and manufacturing transac-
tions merely by bartering commodities
In kind, bullion being reckoned among
those commodities. These nations were
populouS almost beyond credlbility and
transported their produce, manufac-
lures and other merchandise in ships
of Tyre and Tarshish from ophir and
the utmost Indian isle (CeyloD to Gaul
and the "tin islands" of Scilly or Yigo.
New York Press.