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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-03-04
Pointed Paragraphs.

Bah weather is responsible for
q lot of bad humor.
Heaven helps those who help
others to help ..themselves.
The best way to stop Q wag-
ing tongue to stop your sara.
Speaking OF beautifers, what'a
the matter with soap and waterf
It's hard for one woman to for
give another for having doneher
a favor.
Lots of men would beworae
than they are if they knew how
to go about it.
Money may furnish q home la
the suburbs, but it can't always
hire 3 girl,
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-03-04
Never Foraake a Friend.

Whatever happens, neverforsake
a friend. When enemies gather,
when sickness falls upon the heart.
when the world is dark and cheer
lass. is the time to try true friend
chip. They who turn from the
scenes of distress betray their by
poorisy and prove that interest
only msves them Ii you have a
friend who loves you, who has
studied your interest and happi-
ness, be snre to retain him in adj
versity. Let him feel that HE love
was not thrown away. Real fidel-
ity may be rare. but it exists in the
heart. They only deny it's worth
and power who never loved a
friend or labored to make a friend
happy.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-03-04

During one of the daily colloquics
that occurred between the two Senator
Spooner said:
'Vrhe last cartoon l saw of the sen
ator from South Carolina represented
him as down In the straw and being
Kicked by the Democratic donkey"
"rhe Inst one I saw" said Tillman'
represented me as riding the donkey,
with the Republican elephant tied to Its
tall"
"What's before the senate anyway,
Mr.. Presidentf" demanded senator
during lull one day.
'T am before the senate" SenatO1
TiIlman dsellred without a smile:
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-03-04
Lamp Explodes.

Mrs. John Gisbiok was fatally
burned and her husband and b
boarder were seriously burned
while twenty other boarders fed to
the street in their night clothes
Monday morning when an oil lamp
in the home of Giehiok, at Pitts
burg, Pa, exploded, setting fire to
the house
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-03-04
Let tt 90 at That.

The heavy villain of the barn
storming aggregation stalked into
the Workshop of the village editor.
"What did you mean by referring
to me as a 'misfit' in your write-up
of the performance last night"
he roared.
II meant" answered the local
molder of opinion, Chat you were
entirely too great for the company
you are with"
And the heavy villain, being a
stranger to the ways of the village
editors, believed him. = Chicago
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-03-04
HOLD OUT.

The Hampshire Review recalls
that in 1895 there was q sign over
che entrance to a coal mine in the
Second district, reading: "Killed
| lby the Wilson Bill" 1t charges
that there are now scores of coal
mines in that district, which are
dead, but there are no signs or
epitaphs to record their history.
under the Dingiey bill or to name
the malady which exterminated
them 90 suddenly. The Review
suggests that appropriate epitaphs
be forthcoming which viii be as
truthful in the light of history, as
the 1896 epitaph was pnt in mall
icious appeal to prejudice and
time-serving. The politician wae
ipgenions in the year 1896 and
money and power combined to
impress ppon thepeople that the
panic then in full ewing, was
chargeable to the Wilson bill. 1t
is hard on those came politicians
to find themselves now in a worse
panic and we gladly offer the Re.
view the following as an appro-
pirate epitaph for the "dead" coal
mines:
God sent good crops and tons of gold,
To scare the wolf away;
He bade me come to life again,
And live to work my way.
In luxury turned from him
And thanked the Dingley god;
Now, 1 am back whore was found
Beneath the self-same sod.
When God shall smile, with crops and
gold
And give me life again
I'll magnify His holy name
Instead of thanking men.
A thing that heals In ninety-six
But kills in nineteen seven,
Is potent lotion politics
Not recognized IN Heaven,
Another has been offered by a
friend who is handy at funerals, as
follows:
"Not dead, but struck in the.
solar plexus by af rmer Harvard
lightweight champion"
The Review insists that, "Kill-
ed by the fear of Bryan's elect.
ion" would be appropriate. Yes,
or "Talked to death by man"
would impress many mothere-in-
law with the evidence of a sincere.
desire to do them tardy justice
The following is handed in late:I
u sickened under the Mckinley
bill; was pronounced dead under
the Wilson bill; revived for a
time, but sank lower than ever,
under the Dingley bill and when
the Hepburn bill and Roosevelt.
struck me at ithe same time, i
succumbed." We insist that the
press come to the relief of the,
owner of that coal mine and help.
him to pay proper respect to its
remains by proposing appropri-
ate epi-"Tafts."
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Those who subsoribed.

We the undersigned committee
to colleot funds for the purpose of
ouying new bell for Yauger
Chapel. in Cooper district, wish to
return thanks Of the oon
gregation of that ohuroh to the fol
lowing persons who so willingly
gave the amount opposite their
name for the above purpose:
CHAs BYERs.
MRS LYDIA SAYRE,
Mrs. GERTIE GRENLEE,
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-03-04

domestic affeotione. will in the
course of years have .eecomplished d
more, with less wear of mind and
body. than one who has been alI
the time on the stretoh, seeking tc
ostoh the nearest way to wealth or
any other object of personal or
public good.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-03-04
JUG MONUMENT.
Missouri Man Drank Quart of
Whisky Daily 20 Years.

James w. Turner, a hermit
farmer living six miles from Col
umbia, Mo-, who had frequently
declared he wanted a monument
built of whisky jugs, died last
Friday night.
On his farm lie an abandoned
corn crib which is almost filled
with empty whisky jugs, which
Turner is said to have empted
himself during twenty years and
which he saved for his monu-
ment.
1t is averred he drank not less
than quart of whisky a day for
twenty years. He was As years
old and owned well-stocked
farm of 480 acres, on which he
lived the life of q hermit. His
only companion was a dog.
The st. Louis Globe-Democrat
thinks "less taxes will suit the
people of Japan better than more
war" And no doubt the people
of Japan will be glad to know
that the people of the United
States feel the same way about it.
What record of two suicides,
two accidental deaths, one muir
der, and snow storm, all within
twenty-tour hours washington is
getting into the metropolis class
very rapidly.
A New York Justice has de-
clared that bad cooking drives
many men to drink, and we can
now expect to hear every man
with jag knocking his wife's
cooking.
Send in Jonr orders for printed
envelopes aud letter heads.
The merchant, the farmer and
the workingman all know that
the Dawson tax law. has increas-
ed their tax receipt.
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The Fathers' DutY.

We estimate mothers import.
anoe in her family as high as any
one oar; and yet we do not believe
sue monopI zes all the qualities
needed in the great work of train
ing up human beings. Her famil.
arity with her children plaoes her
in some reepeots. at a disadvantage
for the exercise of wholesome au.
thority The Wise father will n II
indeed take the reins of the family
government from his wife; but he
will make his children feel and
know that her gentle sway is cue
tanned by a firm and steady hand {;
that behind their mothers tender
heart stands cool judgment and
y will stronger even than their own
and that they oannot impose upon
the one or resist the other. But
if he would be truly the father of
his family, be must not be etran
gor to them. 1t will answer no
purpose for him to come in onoe
in awhile to meet some emerg ENJOY,
and awe down rebellion by hard
authority. He must be the
companion, the friend of his ohil-
dren. Strong. natural love must
be the: basis of all beneficial disoi.
pline. But this is also, we had al
most said, equally necessary for the
father himself, Nothing keeps the
heart 80 fresh end young. sGves il
from bitterness and oorrosion
through the oHres and conflicts
and disappointments of life, ae the
daily enjoyments of happy home
A man of business. or a SCHOLAR
who thus allows himself time for
relaxation, and for the play of the
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-03-04
ITEMS OF lNTEREST

In Prussia only 6,497 of l0o,-
600 attempts at suicide were sue
cesstnl.
During laat year the railroads
completed 5000 miles of block
signal.
Cabbages in Cuba grow to such
size that single head weighs 20
pounds.
The average yield of wheat in
India is officially stated to be III
bushels per acre.
New York paid last year $21,- :
100000 in interest and will pay
this year $24,00O, 900, about the
same as the federal government,
The State of Washington teads
ia lumber produotion. From
Bellinghani the shipments by
cargo lots alone announced last
year to 1b0, ,269 ,02s feet.
Holland butter is being import
edinto Chile and sold at 45 cents
United States gold a pound, while
the Chilean product is sold for go
cents a pound.
Roumania is the most illiterate
country in Europe. The last CEN
sus shows that in a population of
about 6,00O,OOO nearly 4.0o0,000
neither write nor read.
According to the Seattle Post
Iutelligencer, the Bellingham
(Wash) mills have "cut lumber
enough to make twelye-inch
board walk around the world"
There is pet cat in the family
of Thos. Bnrberry, of Hopkins
Corner, Mich, that will never
play with the Dnby without first
biting off the sharp point OF it's
claws.
Ex-senator Stewart, of Nevada
while walking down street in
Washington City, was offered.
$50 week to play Santa Claus
in shop window. He declined.
saying he was "glad an old man
like me ia worth $50 a week.
Mrs. Carrie Kneisel, of Cam
den, N. j., blacked both ofHar-
vey Spencer'e eyes, scratched his
face, cut his upper lip, gashed his
forehead, tore out a section ofhls
whiskers, and put one arm in q
cling, for robbing herof IL cents.
David Louis Bounce, 81 years
old, married at Des Moines, Iowa,
Delilah Broyles, SO years old,
whose hair is white and who is
the mother of nine children and
the grandmother of twelve. The
bride is three years younger than
her second husbands mother.
George s. Nixon, Senator from
Nevada, has ranch of $4,000
acres in Wyoming under fence
and a farm OF 5000 acres in Ne
vada. His mines in Tonopah,
Goldfeld, Columbia, Diamond
field, Manhattan and Fairview
yield gret wealth
Babies nearly alike were born
almost at the same time to Mrs.
VIM. Ii. Lent and Mrs, j. +.
Cross, of Port Jarvis, N. Y, and
the nurses g1t them so mixed
that the fathers offered to toss a
coin to decide ownerhip. A Aphys-
iclan, however, identified the
Cross by a mole, and the situa-
ton was relieved.
DR.. Mark Baldwin, of the
Johns Hopkins University, Bal
timore, explains dreams by say
ing they are caused by images
which have been impressed upon
detached portions of the brain
and which are brought into act
ion by rush of blood to the
head or through the absence of
the usual amount of blood.
Mrs. Thomas p. Gore, wife OF
the blind Senator from Oklaho-
ma, accompanies her husband to
each session of the Senate, and
watches every gesture of the man
to whose election she contributed
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-03-04
S. .erIing Advice.

To great extent the oelibaoy of
our young men owing to the way
in which girls are brought up.
Through mistaken kindness, moth
srs often themselves do what they
ought to make their daughters do.
Let men teach housekeeping on a
fixed methodioal plan, and then
learn them hietory; French and
music all the better 1t is natural
md right that mother should
like to STE her daughter we'll edu-
GATED and even highly acoomIlish.
cd; and it is mistake that good
and careful education should unfit
girl for the homely dutits of
cooking, dusting and general b ouee-
work. On the contrary, those du.
ties would be better performed If
mothers would at the came time
that they seek talented instruotors
for their daughters. impalt to them
some of their own culinary talent ;
there would be more good wives
aod good marriages, Little girls
should be taught, as early as pos
al Ole, to pc form simple household
duties neatly; and as they grow
older, let them become gradually
aoqainted with the theory of house-
keeping in suoh a menner that,
when they are married, they will
be able to adapt themselves to
their circumstances, and be useful
as pleasing companions to their
huubands.
Gratitude for meroies, patienoe
under trials, oongenial society and
the hope of heaven, will bring us
all the happiness that life oan bear.
Absolutely, there is nothing be-
yond this but but the life eternal
Accept this view. and waste no
moro time end labor in seeking for
happiness where it ia not.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-03-04

According to the market roe
ports, "money is easy" but the
men who have it are not.
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The shops of the Baltimore &
Ohio railroad at Grafton are still
closed and there are no indica-
tions when they will open again:
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More Prosperity and Full Dinner
Pals.

Notice has been given by the
management of the Minden minee,
says the Fay yette journal. that du.
ring the temporary suspension of
operations at the mines at that
place no rent will be charged EN-.
ployes who are occupying com.
pany houses. Similrr action has
been taken by several other COM
panies who are not running full
time.
The barbarous custom of using
oonviots in treadmiIIs is still prso.
tioed in some English prisons, de-
olares Popular Mechanics. and an
interesting picture shows the oon
viots at this trying task. The
speed is sbout 30 steps minute.
and if man misses step oross
bar strikes the calves of his legs.
AIlthe attaches of the State SEN
ate have been voted an increased
allowance by tho august members
of that body. This is what might
be termed eoonomiziug on the up.
ward scale.
A breeder of grayhounds says
they are the swiftest moving thing
on earth. They oan start 80 yards
behind rabbit and catoh him in
the next 80.
One of the latest ore producing
devices placed before the public is
an electrical instrument, which ao-
oording to it's inventor, says the
Popular mechanics. will locate free
metals at almost any depth, m p
out the course and width of the
vein and ascertain its exact posi-
tion below the surface.
There were during January oom.
meroial failures aggreg4ting $27,
O99,514, while for the same month
last year the smount was $13,628
1875. This evidence of Rebublicau
prosperity" would Indicate that
although the tariff protects the
trusts. it does not help genera
Ibuslness,
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Committee


6ird Stone, 81 90
Washington Ysuger, 400
james Edwards, l 90
Sarah Ma,slall, 100
Rev ID Fl Prun'y, / OOl
Charles Muegrsve, 1 90 !,
,Grov4r Piereon, j 90 !,
Geo Dang erty, LOO
y p Il b Smith, 90
Homer Smith, LOO
Lightburn Gill, 75l
u r. Mcknight. 30 ,
Homer Smith, 80
Charley Wheeler, 80
James M ash, 6O
Willard Greenlee, 90
Samuel Person, M a56O i
Harry, Erfenoa, SO
j Friedman & 90, 30
Earl Carson, 5Of
o w Alexander, 6Ol
Elmer Maddox, 80
w e Brown, 5O
Ansel Roe, 90 >
CeoiI Edwards, 90
Frank Elwards, so 1
E h Bnrdett 90 i
DR. b f Sommer, 30
.Gritf Thomas. 30 !
Paris EdWArds, 80
Earl Byers, 30
j E Burdett 30
William Montgomery, 3Ol
Matte j Rice, 25
Israel Dunlap, 20
james Morgan, 20
John Winebrunner, 70
DaoyI nouia 26
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Will give yon the best goeds &c
the lowest prices. and :. a.pelRsot sc.
New goods now In. 90 Tippott.
The Tailor,
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-03-04

here Saturday, yisiting friends.
Mr.. Thos. MiddIeooff, of Pitts-
burg, was here Saturday for few
hours, to see his sisters, Mrs. III
Gibson and Miss Anna MiddIeooff
Mr.. P. 1 Hale. of Parkersburg
was here a few days last week.
Mrs. E e Franklin, here visit.
ing her parents, Mr. and Mrs
David Price, has returned to hel
home at Wheeling
Misses Grace, FEMME and Carrie
Sterrett, from up Kanawha, were
the guess of Mr. and Mrs. Ben
Franklin, Jr last Friday.
Mr.. l.. O. Riddle returned Fri
day from business trip to Co.
lumbus
Mr.. w Edwardp, of Rolline, was
welcome caller at this offioe
while in town Saturday, on busi-
mass.
SMrs. e. B. Sisler left yesterday
for Cleveland. Ohio, to buy the
spring millinery stock for the e,
b SisIer & 90 store.
Miss Grace Sterrett, who has
been visiting relatives for the past
two years at Boulder, Colorado, re.
turned last week to her home up
the Kanswha.
Mr.. j. a. Bush has moved his
family from Wyoma to Messrs
II EVERYBOD
N Will Always be -Four
~ That is Good for our I
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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-03-04

Send in Jonr orders for printed
envelopes aud letter heads.
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Property has been purchased
and a handsome parsonage will
be built for the pastor of the Bap-
tist church of Grafton.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-03-04

The merchant, the farmer and
the workingman all know that
the Dawson tax law has increaB-
ed their tax receipt.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-03-04
Without An Enemy.

Heaven help the man who inn
agines he can dodge enemies by
trying to please everybody. If
such an individual ever succeed
ed, we should be glad of it--not
that one should BEGGING through
the world traing to find beams to
knock and thump his heud
against. disputing every mans
opinion, lighting and elbowing
and crowding all who differ from
him. That, again, is another ex-
treme. Other people have their
opinions-so have you; don't fall
into the error of supposing they
they will respect you moro for
turning your coat every way TO
match the colors of theirs.
Wear your own color in spite
ofwind or weather. 1t costs the
vacillating and irresolnte ton
times the trouble to shuttle and
twist than it does honest, manly
independence to stand its ground.
Polishing the corridor floor at
Matteawsn. Harry Thaw gets his
first notion of what it means to
have a useful trate. 1t may help.
Property has been purchased
and handsome parponage will
be built for the pastor ofthe Bap-
list church of Grafton.
According to the market rec
ports, "money is easy" but the
men who have it are not.
The shops of the Baltimore &
Ohio railroad at Grafton are still
closed and there are no indica-
tions when they will open again:
Will give you the best gosds aE
the lowest prices. and aspeHfsot sc.
New goods now In. 90 Tippott.
The Tailor,
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-03-04

@NACN Nt|'-N-
}. How long do you think it will
people to the farm acre as Illinois
years. ten at the very outside.
ave to pay just as much for land in
! Illinois or Iowa.
] the Southwest now - when you
for you to get big one? "A few
on just as the man who owns GAO
day - as substantial, well-to-do,
fly.
@ 70 zee s' sRs sss,s%e:1 % =. % ~sry sy Et.Is se:t:
Z literature about tho Southwest to
books about Missouri, KansRs.
If photographs and reliable inform.
ian thinking of settling In ono of
send you absolutely FREQ any of
we no lands for sale and are only
ic settlers for tho fertile unoccupied
en- every help possi sible is freely given.
d n better location.
N, Pass. Traffic Mgr.
frisco Lines and G11Y-S51->f
stern Illinois r. r. SSbs19V
.eet Station, Chicago #
Building, St. Louis.
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Polishing the corridor floor at
Matteawen. Harry Thaw gets his
first notion of what it means to
have a useful ira %. 1t may help.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-03-04

A breeder of grayhounds says
they are the swiftest moving thing
on earth. They oan start 80 yards
behind rabbit and oatoh him in
the next so.
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Il
and which are brought into act
ion by rush of blood to the
head or through the absence of
the usual amount of blood.
Mrs. Thomas p. Gore, wife OF
the blind Senator from Oklaho-
ma, accompanies her husband to
each session of the Senate, and
watches every gesture of the man
to whose election she contributed
more than anyone else. The SEN
ator himself calls her "his eyes
and right hand" and says she
knows more about parliamentary
law and politics than any other
woman in the coontry.
Fanny j. Crosby, the blind
hymn writer, who is now in her
eighty eighth year, is still in vig-
orous health, and the other day
wrote a poem at the dedication of
q rescue home of her own town,
Springfield, Mass. The title of
the hymn she wrote was CANCEL
Voices Give the Lay" and it
will, no doubt, he set to music
and numbered among her other
hymns, OF which she has written
over 5000, in the song books.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-12
CHOLERA
INFANTUM
Is Not to be Feared

The mother who has the foresight
TO keep a bottle or two of Wakefeld's
Blackberry Balsam in the house ready
for sudden attacks Of Cholera lnfan-
tum or Diarrhoea has no real fear Of
these diseases.
The thousands Of babies (as we'll as
adults) who die each year from sum
mer bowel troubles could be saved IL
this excellent remedy were kept in
the house where it could be reached
when the trouble first appears.
Wakeield's Blackberry Balsam has
been used in hundreds Of thousands
of cases in both babies and adults in
the past so years with nothing but
most favorable results. II Is positive
and quick in its action yet 1t is harm
less and does not constipate the bow
els. 1t simply checks the trouble and puta
the stomach and bowels back In theip
natural state. A full size bottle costs
but 35c at any drug store and may
be worth thousands of dollars to you
within the next "a hours by saving the
life of a baby II some other member
of your family. Can you afford to let
another day go by without a bottle or
two Of this remedy on hand?
Read this letter: