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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-10-23

Mrs r Harris and daughters viii
resume their Wednesday afternoons at
home, at the Oakland
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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-08-28
THE WRITER'S.

Max Beerbohm. wit. critic, novelist
and caricaturlst, has just started on
his first trip TO Italy with a commits
nion to write his Impressions.
Sir Theodore Martin, author OF the
"Bon Gaultier" ballads, is ninety years
old. but enjoys remarkably vigorous
health and takes daily rambles near
Lis beautiful home on the outskirts OF
Llangollen, Wales
Bliss Perry, who has 3ust issued g
life of walt Whitman" spent the
summer in Belgium and is now In
Italy. He expects to return to this
country in January to begin his work
as professor OF English literature AZ
Harvard university, which he viii car
~ ON at the same time with his edl-
torship Of the Atlantic.
An English critic having said that
Henry James -gropes his way THROUGH
the English language like blind man
tapping with a stick" the London
Globe rejoins that he might do worse,
that his methods at least are better
than those of some other noveIists who
dance through the language as i they
were doing cakewalk."
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-08-28
Art Of pIea.lna

A woman cannot charm because
Ihe wants to. A man is not agree
able because he sets cut 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-
Ionged. The mere technique is Sc
volatile that it must be inhaled.
Like the Mayfair information, 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
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DANES AND DAUGHTERS.

Lolita, the once favorlte actress, %
raid to be one of the biggest taxpayers
among the women of Boston.
Miss Carrie l.. Baker is secretary Of
the Kalamazoo Commercial club, On
organization whose chief object Is to
promote the interests OF that city.
Nine. Camille Du Cast, the eelebrat.
ed French traveller, is tall and power
fully built but with a womanly face
always Wfsathed In smiles. When oc-
casion demands she wears bifurcated
garments.
Mrs. Arthur IT. BalIentlne. the only
daughter of the late Hon. Thomas B.
Reed, has gone into politics in the e6-
treme west and. as editor Of the Vel
low Ribbon. purposes to lend her aid
to the cause of woman's suffrage.
Jane Adams. head resident, Hull
House, Chicago. has been described al
''the only saint America has ever pro
duced" That is the description given
by John Burns. the famous English
labor leader. One has only to look into
her sweet, serious face to feel the i'm.
preston OF its truth.
Mrs. Agnes Lewis Of England is tho
only woman who has received the de-
gree of D. D.. which has been confer
red upon her in recognition of her Ia
bors In deciphering some ancient man.
uscripts of the Bible which were dis
covered in a monastery on Mount 81
nal. She Is Presbyterian and is the
most famous woman Btsle scholar in
the world.
Mrs. Roosevelt announces that her
daughter. Ethel, will not make her
debut uatil sAe Il twenty, while Mrs.
0ssrEs j. Gs6A says that her daugh-
ter, Mas3szts. new eighteen. must wait
year, and Miss Gladys Vanderbilt
and Miss Dorothy Whitney. both care
fully brought up heiresses. waited un-
til their nineteenth year before they
entered society.
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Elizabs.h,a virtus..

A noble woman Elizabeth was not,
The miracle of virtues and charms
depicted by courtiers and poets, il
it did exist at all, existed entirely
in their exuberant imagination. She
could be indecently coarse and in.
tolerably mean. She could Lie with
unblushing effrontery. Her vanity
was inordinate. But voracious as
she was of flattery, it never misled
her. She could appreciate in 9TH
ers the virtues she herself lacked,
Behind the screen of capriciousnesa
an intellect was ever at work, as
cool and calculating as her grand.
fathers, as hard and resolute as her
fathers --'England Under the Tu.
dors'
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ORIGIN OF TRADES UNIONS.
Dsurnsymsn Bakers Struck In New
York &c EARLY as 1741.

Dsurneymsn Bakers Struck In New
York ss Early as 174i.
The exact date of the origin Of
Trades unions in America is un-
known. 1t is believed, says the re-
port of the Massachusetts, bureau Of
statistics of labor, that there we're
no labor unions in the colonies, al
though a strike of iourneymen
bakers is said to have occurred in
New York in 1741. Whatever Of
associated effort there was among
workmen at this early period was
of temporary nature, having a
single purpose in view, and when
this was accomplished whatever
compact existed was then dissolved.
1t was then the custom to call a
general meeting" whenever a mat
ter of trade Importance presented
itself. Such calls were generally
signed by one or two pien of recog-
nized influence in the trade, and the
meetings were, as a rule, held in
private homes. They were organized
by the election of officers, state
ment was made of the purpose in
calling the trade together, and after
discussion resolutions were adopt
ed embodying the views of those
present on the question presented.
When the meeting had decided what
the attitude of the trade was to be
all those present, if willing to do 80,
signed an agreement to stand by
one another during the difficulty.
Many if not all of the sthihas N
colonial times were undertaken
with no more of an organization
than this.
The first real understanding, so
far as compositors were concerned,
is said to have been in 1776, when
the jOurneymen printers made de-
mand for an increase Of wages,
which was refused by their employ
ers, with the result that strike was
called. This proved successful, and
the association ended. Again, in
1856, an effort was made to reduce
wages to $3.50 1-3 a week, and the
trade was again called together and
a statement issued declaring that
the signers would not work for less
than Sc a week.
The great period of growth for
labor unions was in the latter part
of the sixties of the last century,
owing to the organization of great
corporations and to the opening up
of the whole country to the work
of freemen. Local unions were
everywhere formed, vigorous labor
journals appeared, labor parties
we're organized, in some places rep
resentatives of labor were elected
to Office, and many of the largest
and strongest national unions now
existing were established.
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Th..s Hu.tlIna Americans.

At a recent gathering in Balti-
more two men from different sec
tions Of the country were discussing
the capabilities of nervous, restless
Americans" for being most slow and
deliberate. The Marylander claimed
the palm for slowness for the in
habitants of the Eastern Shore of
his state.
at is a saying hereabouts," said
he, chat if oysters had been Gre
ated with legs the people of the
Eastern Shore would all have starv-
ed to death"
'gThe folks around Mount Monad-
mock have a saying that beats
yours" remarked a Vermont man.
"Of one man up there it used to be
observed that if you were to give
Hiram Higgins forty yards start
stock still would catch himp-Har-
per's Weekly.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-08-28
i GAME Of PENUCHLE.
Now One Husband Acts When no
playa With His wife.

sPenuchle is a peculiar game
observed the married woman.
stWhen a woman wins, it's because
she Is lucky, but when man wins
it's due to his good judgment and
nerve in holding his cards for big
melds. ] play the game two or
three nights every week with my
husband for an opponent, and the
Nay he frowns when things are not
coming his way is enough to make
one smile. But ! do not dare smile.
/ do not even dare resent it when
he says things about dumb luck
when / lay down kings for an eighty
meld or when he sneeringiy suggests
that ! should be a Spectator if /
quietly spread out four aces on the
table. If l win the first game, he
demands that l shuttle the cards de-
Gently during the next game, or if
he does the shutting he takes two
minutes to do it and declares that
the cards are going to be mixed up,
all right, this game. If on his own
deal he gets a hand that doesn't look
good, he murlnurs something about
the luck being all on one side and
looks at me as if / were a criminal
if l meld the first dix and pick up
the king or ace of trumps.
Suddenly his demeanor changes,
and l know he is getting some good
cards. Then he lays down the $50
meld and tells me what nerve he
had in holding for 1t, as he had no
trumps in the deal and was halfway
through the hand before he had
anything. l smile and make the
same meld on the next play. Then
he becomes angry again and is Vi
cious in his denunciation of my
luck.
"There is limit to my endur-
ance, so l remark that he should
have known by his own hand that
the other cards were very likely out
against him and suggest that had
he led trumps it would have been ell
off with me. He has no answer to
that, but he frowns dismally and
picks up his next card with the air
of a martyr. And SO it goes. If he
loses three games in succession, he
gets up from the table without q
word, puts on his coat and goes out
without saying where he is going or
when he will return. From the way
he slams the door after him l gath
er the impression that he is angry
and is going to the corner to see q
Corrigan is still doing business.
Then l wonder if it would not be
the wise course for me to deliberate
ly lose the games and keep him good
natured. But somehow 1 can't de
it. / love to beat him" New
York Press.
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SOME ODD ADS.

A Gold Coast paper announcing the
death of society woman, asserts that
''she was buried next day with the am
ateur brass band"
-Four good looking sons In the fam
ily." This Is the last sentence OF an
advertisement for a girl for a dairy
farm which appears In New Zealand
newspaper.
To the announcement IN a Paris 60.
Enlistment that I'VE speak English
and Man spricht Deutsch" the enter
prisIng shopkeeper has added ~. 8.
spoken here"
An Australian settler who wanted q
wife to share his hard lot In the viii.
dernesa inserted this Abbreviated adj
yertlSement In a Sydney newgpaper:
Settler, alb. go start poult. farm, wd.
mar. girl past 81. fond outdoor simple
lie; not afraid 2 or 3 years rough n.
sake make conf. love home. VIZ. Ia.
Single q !. o. Sydney"
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-08-28

We rever repent of citing to
ntt!e," was one of the ten rules o.
life of Thomas Jefferson, preside
If the United States, and the rule
applies to every one without exoep
ion during this hot weather. be
cause it lie hard for food, even ir
small quantities. to be digested
when the blood is at high tempera.
ture At this season we should est
spsringly and properly We should
also help the stomach as much a.
possible by the use If little Ko
dol. For Indigestion and Dy.pep.
4ia, which will rest the stomach b,
digesting the food itself. Sold BY
4li Druggists.
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Where tho Bird Felt Safe.

A city gentleman was invited
down to the country for ga day with
the birds" Whatever his powers in
finance, his shooting was not re-
markable for its accuracy, to the
great disgust of the man in attend
ance, whose tip was generally regu-
lated by the size of the bag. Dear
me-" at last exclaimed the sports
man, 'but the birds seem exception
ally strong on the wing this yearp
''Not all of 'em, sir" came the re-
mark. "You've shot at the same
bird about dozen times. 'Es a-fol-
lerin' you about, sir"
Following me about2 NonsenseI
Why should q bird do that?"
"Well, sir" came the reply, 81
dunno, Pm sure, unless 'e's 'angin'
round you for safety" London
Taller.
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Probable Ennnnh.

'gThe feelings of woman are far
deeper and finer than those of
man" cried the lady orator in a
fiery tone. Eve are told by those
who style themselves the stronger
sex that We are much inferior. Is
that SOP"
A loud chorus of f'Nop from the
ladies greeted this question, and the
orator went on:
81 say that woman feels where
man thinks"-
'1s that the reason your husband
is bald" inquired one of the few
male members of the audience.
1t was lucky for him that he got
two seconds Start in the race for
the door.-Liverpool Mercury.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-08-28
The MALAY flshor,.

Crew of Malay fishing vessels in
the Indian ocean are thus described
by traveller: "Some of the Malays
have not bad features, but others
again are awful looking villains.
Every one has his creese, OF a sort
of chopper, at his side, and with
bright red lips and black teeth,
caused by chewing the betel nut,
looks anything but inviting or fas-
cinating. The crew live principally
on rice and the fish they catch.
They carry a lot of cocoanuts and
cocoanut oil, and apparently for a
luxury sort of sweetmeat made of
coarse treacle and rice mixed to-
gether and firmly pressed into BAN
boos."
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-08-28
Mem Past sixtY tn Danger.

More than half of mankind eve
20 years IF Agt suffer from kidne.
and bladder dis rders. usuaily en-
.argement Of prostate glands. Thh
is both painful and dangerous anc
FoleS's Kidney Cure should be ia
ken 1t the first sign of Danger, as i
oorreots irregularities and has our.
ed many old men of this disease
Mr. Rodney Burnet', R,.okport. M,
writes: Il suffered with enlarged
prostate gland aud kidney troubl,
for years and after taking two bot
ties of Foley's Kidney Cure l fee
better than | have for 20 years, al
though l am now 81 years old
For sale by Ill Druggistp.
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John Riha. a prominent dealer
of Vining, Ia. says: II have been
selling DeWitt's Kidney and BIad-
der Pills for about year aud they
g;ve letter satisfaction than any
pill 1 ever sold. There are dozen
people here who have used them
and they give perfect satisfaoti' n
in every case l have used th, m
myself with fine results" Sold | y
all Druggists
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A Constellation. r.nnnt.

Wanted, cockroaches in large
numbers" is unknown as an adver-
tisement in American papers, but
it is said to be not unfamiliar In
England. Its mysterious meaning
was made evident in an advertise
ment in Wimbledon paper:
Wanted, 10000 cockroaches by
a tenant who agreed to leave his
present residence in the same condi.
ton as it was when he took it."
The tenant was stickler for the
literal fulfillment of his contract.
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rhe reh.eeen..vs emrz.

One of the most peculiar things
In the whole history of signs is the
tact that while all other shopkeep-
ers were patronizing the embryo
painters the tobacconist always call
ed upon the woodcarver on the con-
inent as well as in England. AS
long ago as Elizabeth's reign the
wooden image of the black boy was
Ehe favorite sign of the tobacco
dealers. Later the customary sign
was the highlander or a figure Of
Sir Walter Raleigh. In Holland,
Cor some strange reason, the tobsc-
conist adopted the dairymaid as
their sign, with the motto, t@Conso-
lation for sucklings." The Indian,
naturally enough, has always been
the predominant sign in this coun-
try, although once In awhile re-
version to type crops out with the
ancient black boy
The Sweet Girls Way.
After a girl has worked for 81,
months to get a young man. Iyinl
awake nights to think up new schemes
pe fascination, It IS amazing to witness
the GOODNESS with which she can lool
up into his eyes after he has finally
proposed and murmur tenderly, "Yol
bypnotistr -Some-vilIe Journal
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-08-28
III. si6..rest FIattsry.

\ New England hostess quite re-
emily entertained the wife of q
japanese statesman who had been
pending few days on the Atlantic
-oust. She gave out of consideaa-
zion for The guest Of honor "a Jap.
4nese tca"-a case Of carrying
Goals TO Newcastle" which included
ita own fitting reward. When it
came time TO say au reyoir the little
lady Of the Fovery Kingdom was
very polite and quite unconsciously
crushing,
81 am delighted" she declared,
'pt the similarity Of Japanese and
Americss waYs Of eatertaiSina"
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-08-28
A Verbal Puzzle.

Lieutenant colonel is probably
the worst verbal puzzle that con-
fronts the child" says a writer.
sour pronunciation is a heritage
from the sixteenth century spelling
'coronel,' which represented the
Spanish form, wherein the change
of p to r was linguistically nat
ural, though popular etymology
wrongly connected the word with
Corona a crown. 1t is really from
the italian colonial column, the
'compagnia colonella' having been
the first company of an infantry
regiment, the little column which
the colonel led. In the seven
tcenth century colonel had three
syllables, as in Millions line captain
or colonel, or knight in arms but
in Johnson's time the common pro-
uunciation was 'col'nel.'"
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-08-28
TEN YEARs IN BED.

"For ten years l was confined to
my bed with disease of my kid
neys." writes R A Gray. j P. OF
Oikville, Iud. 1T vas SO severe
that could not move part of the
time. l consulted the very beet
medical skill available. but could
pet no relief until Foley's Kidney
Cure was recommended o me Ii
has been Godsend to me Fol-
sale by all Druggists.
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Those who have stomach trouble
no matter how slight, should give
every possible help to the digestive
organs, so that the food may be d.
Rested with the least efforts Thil
may be done by taking something
that contains natural digestive pro-
perties-somethiDg like Kodol,
For Indigestion aud Dyspepsia,
Kodol is u preparation of vegetabl
aoids and contains the very San. 6
jnices found in healthy stomach
It digests what you eat, Sold by
all Druggists.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-08-28
Criminal Investigation.

The prisoner has made the most
ample confession. At the scene Of
the tragedy the details of the crime
are being gone into.
Judge-Show US how the thing
was done.
Prisoner (smiling}-With pleas
ure, your worship. Lie down on that
bed and close your eyes as If you
were asleep. Let the sum Of 10000
francs be placed in that desk. Give
me a knife and let US two be left
alone together.
You should have seen the face Of
the examining magistrate. - Paris
Journal.
Japanese poU13 contain scarcely
moro Sa-erial than the average mag.
azine article, but a single story may
consist Of mere than 100 volumes.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-08-28

Don't accept cough cure that
you may be told is just as good af
good as Kennedy's Laxative Cough
Syrup, because it isn't just as good
there ia quite difference. Ken.
nedy's Laxative Cough Syrup actf
gently upon the bowels and clear'
the whole system of Dough and
colds. 1t promptly relieves iuf4n.
nation of the throat and allays If.
ritstion. Sold by all Druggists
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-08-28
shoeIno the cee,e For MarI.t,

The wilma province of Lithuania
Is probably the only part of the
world in which geese are shod. This
district is famous for geese, which
are driven on foot to distant mar
kets. To prevent the birds from
getting footsore on the journey
they are made in the late autumn to
practice the goose STEP" first in
tar and then through fine sand. The
geese are thus provided with per-
fectly fitting pairs of boots, in which
they can comfortably perform the
900 mile march to the goose fair at
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-08-28
sEAMeasFERs.
sons Unfamiliar ocean Giants Of
HideOus Aspect.

ftioeOda aspect
OF all the big game of the deep
sea that have been taken by man
The cuttleiish 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.
OF the coasts of California and
Alaska there is a deep sea ally of
this animal big, spiderlike octo-
pus that laants the deep banks,
preying upon the fishes most es-
teamed by fishermen. 1t is found
off the Farralones @: rocky bottom,
and at times the t-aermen 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, ivid 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 a 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 of 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 500 to 1000 feet below the
surface. An individual of moderate
size, which / kept alive, displayed
the greatest pugnacity. The mo-
ment 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: Dan 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
geize collectors or natives and, fas-
tening to them with their relentless
suekered arms, tire and brighten to
death the hapless victim"
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-08-28
Hay Fe. er and summ r Colds

Hay Fe. er and Sunm Colds
Victims of hay fever, will exper
ieuce great benefit by taking Fol
ey's Honey aud Tar, as it stops diff.
ioult breathing ediateIy and
heals inf ,med air passage, sno
even if it shoul1 fail to cure you il
will give instant relief" The gen
uine is in a yellow package, Fol
sale by all Druggists.
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Brotherhood of the Sea

DR.. hansen is fond of sailors. He
says that there is brotherhood of the
sea which stamps sailors and singles
them out from all other callings. He
has found more thoughtful earnestness
among sailors and better spirit than
among members of any other profes,
sion. Sailors, he believes, bear all
their hardships and suherings with
calmness and fortitude.