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The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-07
EnKnnement AnnouncesI. A

Mrs. Lena Wolf announces the en- gagsment of her daughter. Irena c. to pr. Ben J. Nasits of New Orleans, the wedding to take place some time in the early winter. Miss Wolf is . charm ing and popular young woman of this city and pr. Nasits is a prominent dentist of New orleans.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-07

When You want Something Good to smoke, Drink or Read You Don't want to overlook the One Best Bet
 Orpheum Fount-CiSar stand.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-07

Miss Alice Allison spent yesterday here with friends while en route to her home in Carlowwille after visit to relatives in Birmingham.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-07

Mir. and Mrs T.. J. Rowell and fam fly returned home last night from Per dido Bay where they have been for the past two months.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-07
row aanemopoIIn County"

'.Demopolis County" was under dis cussion yesterday. the old proposition of a new county being made from parts of Marengo, Hale. Perry, Sumter and Dallas.
 If "Demopolis" is created 1t will towns. among them being Demopolis. the logical county seat. Mckinley. paton, Faunsdale, Loneville, walthall, and Browns.
 Edward regrann of Faunsdaie. Chair man of the campaign committee for d new county is working hard in Its in- terests.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-07

Eugene Davidson, formerly of this city, but now residing In Hattiesburg, Miss. Is here on a short visit to friends.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-07

Miss Virginia Smith. who Is spending the summer In Birmingham. is At home for a short stay.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-07
seIn,a T,roonn Tcxpected

Capt. c. c. Phillips. Troop c, Ala barna National Guard, has returned to duty in Birmingham having been home on sick list. It Is believed Selma troops will come here in q day or so, as soon as the volunteer regiment ar- rives at the mines.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-07
TWELVE IN ONE HAUL,

Hot Bread and Rolls every afternoon. Randy Kitchen.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-07
Flre at sIrs. IIar,rara.. ITnne

Orlginatlng, if is supposed. from a defective due, fire at about 12 o'clock. noon, yesterday burned a small hole John Hayward 430 South Lawrence Street. The flames were easily extin. guished by Babcocks The alarm wac answered by the Madison Avenue and Scott Street stations.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-07

Fresh Cakes and candies daily at the k<andy Kitchen.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-07

Mrs. J. IT. Montgomery has gone to Montgomery, where she will visit rela- lives and friends. Later she will so to Mobile and will be absent from Birm-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-07

George Bland. a negro preacher. was chased two miles through the outskirts of west Selma this morning by Con- stable Suttles. before being caught.
 A warrant was sworn out against Bland by a former wife, charging him with maltreating his daughter.
 In a letter to her father, Frances Bland, IS years old. begs her father not to desert her in her coming trouble. Biaud will be sent to the grand jury for trial.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-07

Miss Lila 41annon will leave in a few days for Pass Christian where she will spend some time.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-07
Many Dogs KsIIed.

This was execution day for dogs picked up loose in the street. or not being properly tagged. A dozen bright eyed. shaggy coated. lurny-tailed, night wAtchmen yelped their death cry as a rife in the hands of a policeman sent 6 ball crashing into the poor, uncared- for beasts brain.
 Deserted and uncared for by the mas ters they had loved and guarded loy- ally. the dogs. the animal that has for saken all to silently worship mankind, were put to death.
 It was rather hard on the officer when he went to the cage to have a big silky haired setter come bounding forward to greet him; to have to kick the poor brute back and sent a bullet into him.
 Rather than pay the trivial dog tax many citizens allowed dogs they had raised from puppyhood to be shot to death, to save a dollar and quarter.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-07

Mrs. A. St c. Tennilie has returned from { visit of two months to Los An- geles. accompanied by her daughter. Mrs. Arthur W. McCord of that city.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-07

Mrs. Lula Glaze who has been in Pike Road on account of the illness of Mir. Tandy Finn has returned home
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-07
CRossLAND- HAS, nEsI0NnD.

Freah Cakes and Candies daily at yh, Randy Kitchen.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-07
wnrIr nn Pontnfiice

work on the new postoffiee IS going steadily on. The big frames for the second story windows were put up to- day and some of the stone work.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-07
nnnahaII Nnxf VKeelL

BasebalI Next Week. 4 baseball game is scheduled for next week between the team at the Junction and the boys of Unfontown.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-07

Miss Lula walker of Eufaula spent yestsrday in Montgomery, the guest of Mrs. win T. sheehan.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-07

At the beautiful euchre party at which Mfr. and Mrs. c. A. Beauehamp entertained on wednesday evening at their home on Perry Street for their guest, Miss Virginia BuBby of Sails. bury. N. C.. the ladies prize. hand Mfs6 Lucfie wilkinson, and the mems prize a silver knife was awarded to Mir. P. V. Stires. The score was kept on cards hand painted in yellow daffo- dIis by Mrs Frank Peabody and Mrs. c. B. Teasley.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-09-23
Wanted Her FIsh.

He had an air of benevolence and
prosperity and was very nicely
dressed, and, moreover, he had taken
first class ticket. But he was an
old gentleman, and he had taken
longer to reach the station than he
expected. The train was on the
move, so he jumped into the nearest
carriage, a third.
Down he sat beside a little girl,
and presently he observed that she
was glancing unoomfortably at him
and looking uneasy, and it dawned
upon him that he was sitting on her
newspaper.
"Hcre," he said, pulling the pa
per from under him and handing it
to her. I'm sorry"
The little girl did not look quite
satisfied, but she said nothing till,
half an hour later, the train drew
up at her station.
please, sir" she then inquired
meekly, "may I have my fried fish?
1t came out of the paper, and you
are sitting on it."-London Mail.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-09-23
II served a Purpose.

At the top of the stairway IN the
Grigson dwelling there was a board
that emitted loud creak whenever
anybody stepped on it. Mr.. Orig
son was always intending to 'rhayc
the thing fixed" but never did it,
and by common consent the mem
bers of the family usually stepped
over it, particularly when the head
of the family had gone to bed.
One night, very late, just as Mr..
Grigson was dropping off to sleep,
somebody stepped on that board,
and it gave forth its customary loud
protest.
"Thero you go againl" he angrily
called out. "ThaPs you this time,
JohnI Pretty time ofinight for you
to be getting to bed"
John, the eldest son, made no re-
spouse, but instead there was rush
and jump down the stairs that
brought the whole household into
the hall just in time to hear the
front door slam. A hurried inyes-
tigation disclosed a bag of valuables
which a frightened burglar had
left.
The board still squeaks.-Youth's
COMPANION.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-09-23

This is what Hon Jake Moore.
State Warden of Georgia, says of
Kodol For Dyspepsia: II O Do.
Witt & %, Chicago, lll-DeaT
Sirs-I have entered more than
twenty yenrs from indigestion.
About eighteen months ago l had
grown so much worse that L could
not digeet crust of corn bread
and could not retain anything on
my etomaoh. 1 lost % lbs,; in fact
[ made up my mind that | could
not live but. a short time, when a
friend of mine recommended Ko.
dol. l consented to try it to please
him and l was better in one day
l now weigh more then | ever did
in my life and AIN in better health
than for many years. Kodol did 1t
| keep bottle constantly, and
write this hoping that humanity
will be benefited You're very
truly. Jake o Moore, Atlanta, Aug
10, 1904" Sold by all druggists.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-09-23
SooOd Enough" Habit.

There is a habit, very easily con-
tracted, which every one in business
or otherwise should avoid. 1t is the
good enough" habit.
If you are building house and
Use some faulty timber just because
1T looks quite right on the surface,
what can you expect2 Why, that ul-
timatoly the weak point will give
way and disaster may occur. So
the cautious builder makes sure of
using good material.
SO it is with every phase of life.
Don't be content because thing is
"good enough" Remember the time
proved saying that "what is worth
doing is worth doing we'll"
In these days of competition the
thing or the man who Is good
enough" Is of no use. The best is
none too good for modern business
men and business houses.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-09-23
SHOE BUCKLES.
Picturesque and Costly Craze 81 tho
Eighteenth Century.

Picturesque and Costly Craze 81 the
Eighteenth Century.
Once on a time your shoe was
nothing without the buckle. In
deed, it was case of the "tail wag-
ging the dog" for the buckle was
the attraction and the shoe but the
accompaniment. Be it observed
that at first, however, it was not
the size, but the costliness of the
buckle, which was conspicuous:
Thus among royalties. people Of
high rank and those who were the
glass of fashion and tho mold of
form at court wore diamonds.
Needless TO say that then, as now,
those who desired to initiate them
wore paste buckles, happy perhaps
in that self complacency which i'm
agines nobody else shrewd enough
to estimate possibilities.
In 1920 a leader of fashion would
wear full flowing curled wig
reaching in ringlcts halfway down
the back and arms, a laced coat cut
straight, with buttons put on in
every possible place thereby, by
the way, affording a remarkable
similarity to the "Pcarlies" OF the
popular and up to date costermon-
ger-and square toed black shoes,
with an enormous flap on the in
step, high heels and on the flap q
small but brilliant buckle. Next
to the buckle of brilliants came
that of gold. Rich landowners
and equally rich merchants, men
whose reputation for being warm"
or, in tho then recent Alsatian
fashionable slang, "rhinocerial," a
quito obsolete synonym for mon
eyed = was universal, wore gold
buckles larger than the diamond
ones, but still small in proportion
to the flaps.
Your thriving shopkeepers wore
buckles of silver and your opulent
farmers those of shining steel, and
the poorer classes had buckles OF
brass or iron, but of some material
every one wore buckles on the
shoes. Indeed, SO wide reaching
was the depreciation in buckle
makers work when, at the epoch
of the French revolution, people in
general followed "Roland the
Just's" example and took to shoe
ribbons that the buckle makers &c
tually, in their desperation, petit
toned George III. and parliament
that shoe ribbons should be forbid
den under penalties, clnmoring for
a renewal of the sumptuary laws
of Plantagenet and Tudor, with an
apparent inability to read the signs
OF the time. A spasmodic attempt
was made by the princes and their
encourage to benefit the buckle
makers by wearing buckles as os-
tentatiously as possible, but rib
bons, decidedly far more unpictdr-
esquc, though much more practical,
carried the day.-St. James Ga
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-09-23
Striking an Average.

The children were not allowed in
the kitchen, but nobody had ever
forbidden their shifting outside the
door to catch the delicious odors
which could be obtained by close
application of small nose to q
crack.
"Why, Ethel" said Mrs. Har-
wood, who discovered them in the
entry outside the kitchen door one
Sunday morning, "why are you
twitching Tommy and elapping
him?"
"Causo he isn't playing fair,
mother" said Ethel. dies had five
smells and I've only had four, and
it's my turn"
~ am, too, playing fair" asserted
Tommy, his uttcrance smothered as
he again applied his nose to the
crack. "Ive got an awful cold, and
I can't smell half as much as she
camp
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-09-23
When Woman Arrives.

The emancipation of woman hav-
ing at length worked out to logic
al and symmetrical finish, the bride
and her best woman waited at the
altar, while the groom came up the
aisle on the arm Of his mother, who
gave him away.
The groomsmcn wore crepe de
chine and carried groom roses.
Three clergywomen assisted at
the ceremony.
The groom's father sat in tho
family pew. He was dressed in wine
colorcd silk, with ropes of pearls.
The streets in the vicinity of the
church were packed with mob of
onlookers, mostly men and children,
prompted thither by curiosity
Puck.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-09-23
Tho Clock Plant.

There is plant, a native of
Borneo, which is known as the
o'clock plant" The name is derived
from the action of the SUMS rays on
the leaves, which are three in num-
ber-a large one extending for
ward, with two small ones at the
base pointing sideways. These,
coming in contact with the rays of
the sun, oscillate like the pendulum
of a clock, the larger leaf moving
upward and downward, going its
full length every forty-tive min
utes, the smaller leaves moving to-
ward the larger, completing the
distance forward and backward
every forty-fyo minutes, thus re-
sembling the hour and minute
hands of clock.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-09-23
MaeauIay tho wiz.

During the time when Lord Dis
raeli was startling sober Englishmen
by his cccentricities of dress Lord
Macaulay, that was to be, was cleo
trifying his dull witted constituents
by his witty sallies and repartee.
Having been defeated in 1847, he
ran again for parliament in 1852.
For a change he was the popular
candidate.
One day while standing on the
hastings side by side with his oppo-
nent he was violently struck by a
dead cat. The man who threw it
Immediately apologized, saying he
had meant the cat for his opponent.
Tndeedl" said Macaulay. "Then
I wish you had meant it for mo end
struck. him" : 4,
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-09-23
sho Knew.

"A Washington man, while visiting
a friends place in Virginia, became
much interested in his experiments
in fruit culture.
One day the visitor was making
the rounds of the place, being in
charge of the friends young daugh-
ter of ten, who acted as guide.
"This tree seems to be loaded
with apples" observed the Washing
tonian, indicating particularly fine
specimen.
dyes, sir" assented the little girl
"father says this is good year for
~ am glad to hear that" said the
visitor. care all your trees as full
Of apples as this oneP"
mo, cir" explained the girl,
only the apple ees."-Harper's
Weekly.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-09-23
Polnts d,AnaIeterre Lace.

Louis XIV, by the advice of his
minister, Colbert, encouraged lace
making in Franco. The Venetians,
who had hitherto monopolized the
art, issued DEGREES forbidding their
craftsmen to leave the republic un-
der heavy penalties, but in spite Of
this the points do Franco" soon
equaled the "points dc Venise."
The origin of tho name points
d'Angleterrc" is curious. In 1862
the English parliament forbade the
import of foreign lace, but flax
grown in England was not fine
enough for the best lace; for which
there was a great demand at the
court of Charles H., SO the mer-
chants "bought up the choicest laces
of the Brussels market, struggled
them over to England and sold them
under the name of points d'Angle-
terre.'"
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-09-23
A FAMOUS PLATE.
Tho First Engraving Was Printed OF
aLaundress' Bundle.

Tho First Engraving Was Printed oTs
aLaundress' Bundle.
Two groups of tourists were
standing in the Pitt palace before
the large plate of pure silver upon
which Finiguerra, the great master
Of early engraving, had depicted his
lovely madonna and Child" in a
trellised arbor covered with roses.
An Italian lady was telling her
friends in an undertone the charm
ing anecdote of Finiguerra and the
laundrcss.
The artist, it seems, in mastering
the new and difficult art of engray-
ing upon metal had acquired sin
guIarly keen eye and delicate touch,
md he also possessed number of
very fine and sharp instruments,
which he used in his work.
Being kindly man, he sometimes
placed both his sure hand and his
line tools at the service of his
friends and neighbors in performing
for them some of the simpler oper-
atoms of surgery until he acquired
quite reputation for his skill in
doctoring their hurts.
One day a poor laundress who had
been washing clothes, in wringing
out garment in which needle had
been carelessly left, ran it deeply
into her hand. Worse yet, it broke
off in the wound, and a part remain
ed imbeddcd in the flesh. She was
in much pain, and on her way back
from the stream where she had
been washing she stopped at the
house of the artist and was admit
ted.
Entering his studio, she hastily
set down her wet and heavy bundle
and held out the injured hand, beg
cling his assistance. Nniguerra left
his work to help her and after long
and delicate manipulation extracted
the broken needle. The woman
thanked him and turned to go, lift
| ing her bundle from its resting
place.
Then no saw that she had SGT it
upon one of his engraYings. Like
al others at that time, it was plato
IF engraved metal, complete in it
self and regarded as q single and
sufficient picture, exactly as If 1t
had been painting.
But as the damp bundle was rails
ed the quick eye of Nniguerra saw
that it had received an impression
from the engraved picture beneath,
and his quick mind seized at once
the suggestion Of the possibility of
indefinite reproduction from sin
gle original. SO that from the kind
nees of great artist to q poor wash
9rwoman sprang the discovery which
has placed the beautiful products of
The cngraver's art within the reach
Of all of us today.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-09-23
The Knockout Blow.
Julyl '@.4m

Tho blow which knocked out Corbett
was q revelation to the prlze fighters.
From the earliest days of tho ring tho
Knockout blow was aimed for the jaw,
tho temple or tho jugular vein. Stomach
punches were thrown in to worry and
weary tho fighter, but II q scientific man
had told one Of tho old fighters that the
most vulnerable spot was the region OF
the stomach, he'd have laughed at him
for an ignoramus. DR.. Pierce is bringing
hope to tho public parallel facts that
thd sl5mack IS tho most vulnerable organ
out OF &he prfSe ring as well as In 1t. We
protect bur .hSa6s, throats, feet and lungs,
but thekA1thSo6\ge are utterly indiffer-
ent 10, until dlseASA finds the solar plexus
and knocks us out. Make your stomach
eound and strong by tie use OF Doctor
Plerce's Golden Medical Discovery, qpd
you pfoiect YQurselt In Your most Yulner-:
sHIe spot.. "Golden Medical Discovery
cures weak stomach," Indigestion, or
dyspepsia, torpid liver, bad, thin and i'm
pure blood and other diseases OF the or
gans OF digestion and nutrition.
Tho WGoldon Medical Discovery has a
specific curative effect upon all mucous
surfaces and hence cures catarrh, no
matter where located or what stage II
may have reached. In Nasal Catarrh II,
is we'll to cleanse tho passages with DR..
Sage's Gatarrh Remedy fluid while using
the UDiscovery us a constitutional REM
edy. Why tho UGolden Medical Dlscov-
cry" cures catarrhal diseases, as of tho
stomach, bowels, bladder and other pelvic
organs will DO plain to You II You Will
read booklet of extracts from tho writ
ings OF eminent medical authorities, en-
dorsing its ingredients and explaining
their curative properties. 1t is mailed
AI1rncc II " pinrnn
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-09-23
Inkhorn Terms.

Among other lessons this should
first be learned-that wo never af-
feet any strange inkhorn terms, but
to speak as is commonly received,
neither seeking to BIO overtime nor
yet living overcareless, using our
speech as most men do and ordering
our wits as the fewest have done.
Some seek SO far for outlandish
English that they forget altogether
their mothers tongue. And l dare
swear this-if some Of their moth
ers were alive they were not able to
tell what they say, and yet these fine
English clerks will say that they
speak in their mother tongue If
man should charge them with coun-
tcrfeiting the kings Englisll.-Wl-
sons System of Rhetoric, 1859"
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-09-23
When Pa, cornsred Nan,en.

DR.. Nansen, the arctic explorer,
cnme across an Irishman on ono oc-
chsion who declared that he had
travelled farther north than any
body.
"What nonsmscp exclaimed the
doctor, getting angry. "Why, sir,
do you know 1 calculate to have
travelled as far as any human being
can possibly got"
But still the Irishman persisted
and went on to say:
"Now, listen to this. How do you
know that ye've travelled as far as
any human being can got2"
'Becausc," replied the doctor, II
came to huge wall Of Ice that no
one could cot around"
"What did we do then2"
"Well, 1 conversed with my staff
of men ON the subject"
"Ah, begorraW exclaimed Pat.
"Oi heard yo. Oh was on thu other
eoide o. the WALL"
And he walked away in triumph.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-09-23
CRAFTY TON BYRAEs.
How He Kept an unseen Eye on a
Newspaper Reporter.

Newspaper Reporter.
When Thomas Byrnes was the
celebrated police inspector of tho
New York detective force he occu-
pied a queer suit of rooms in one
corner of the old marble police
headquarters in Mulberry street. 1t
was always place of mystery. The
inspector sat at fat table at one
end of the room. 1t was frequently
covered with papers. On the walls,
in glass cases, were odds and ends
Of criminology-b of rope that
had hanged notorious murderers,
black caps, revolyers that had fig
ured in infamous cases and other
depressing objects.
One day the inspector left a new
reporter at his table and went into
another room. He was gone half
an hour. When he came back the
reporter said:
fTnspector, did you have me
watched while you were gomez"
"No. Why%
"There are some pretty interest
ing papers on your desk, aren't
thero%
Nothing of any great value.
Why do you ask%
"What was to prevent my read
ing some of those letters and get
ting mighty good story for my
paper?" asked the reporter.
1.-TWO reasons" answered the in
spector. 'In the first place, / never
leave scrap Of paper on my desk
that the whole world is not well
como to read; secondly, you could
not have touched sheet without
my knowing it. Look at that pen
holder" pointing to a cheap affair
laid caretessly across a bundle OF
papers. 'Notice the direction in
which it points. One end points at
that doorknob and the'other at that
black cap. Now, you never would
have noticed that, but / did before
leaving the room, and If you had
touched single paper YOU would
have displaced that Penholder, and
| would have known it."