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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-02-19
SundrTes.


Yes. at last we can safely say that
spring Is here. For several months
now those who walk in slippery placeH
must of necessity tread upon tho clio.
quent banana-peel.
There arc thirteen letters In "E
PluribuB Unum." That ID. theTe will
be II the proofrender doesn't allow the
machine operator TO leave ono out
Thirteen isn't an unlucky number in
this instance except for the man who
monkeys with the sentiment thereby
expressed.
"If dogs are forced to drink liquor
several times" says an exchange
they become very fond OF 1t and cry
persistently for It," Certainly; you
don't expect dog to know more than
a man, do you?
Charming little hats have q way oi
costing an alarming big bunch 0i
money.
Matches and matchmaking arc dan
gerous things with which to play.
Women, poverty and ambition are
the three leading things that cause
dishonesty among men. Few mon
are really dishonest without incen'
tive. or course. tho stronger q man
II the less apt he is to fall from any
ono of these causes.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-02-19
Look Out For It.

Every man who has paid the
least attention to the we'll known
signs cannot help but believetha'
this was going to be hard old
winter,
Farmer girls have quit climb
ing apple trees at least two weeks
earlier than usual.
County sohoolmams have pro-
vided themselves with carloads
ofblue beech gads.
The oxen are standing PIP to
chew their cuds.
The old spotted COW is switch
ing her tail long after fly time.
The crows are lining their
nests with wool and putting on
shingled roofs.
The barrel of new cider down
in the cellar rolls over on it's back
four nights in the week and
makes lonely sound like a
young man signing for his lost
love.
The country eourting began
much earlier than usual, and
Reuben comes at seven and hangs
on until midnight.
The evaporated apples cured
by the farmers wife don't swell
around as in former occasions.
The horse. fly lost his teeth and
ambition more than six weeks
ahead of time.
The family AK, when touched
by the tongue in the morning,
gives out a clinging sensation.
The old red bull, who usually
paws and bellows around right
up to the first of December, quit
about the middle of September
this year and got ready for the
coming billiards..
Get in your coal, pay up your
debts and be prepared to be froz-
en- up to the neck. JOE KERR.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-02-19
BLUE, POINT No. 1870
NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.

The posto tfioe department has
issued nu order requiring that
newspapers shall pay extra postage
Tor papers sent to subsoribers who
are iu arrears for subscription.
This means the enforcement of the
rnl, of the psy.in. advsnoo eystem
Under this ruling subscriptions
mlst be tir,continued ut the expi-
ration Of time paid for. If at the
ex nirstiun of the tim. printed after
your add your subscription has
not been renewed, wo will be oom-
pelled 10 drop your name from the
mating list. The orders of the
o s. fiji department. must be
0Seyed
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-02-19
NEVER FoRsAKE a FRIEND

Whatever happens, never forsake
a friend, When enemies gather,
when siokness falls upon the heart,
when the world is dark and cheer.
less, is the time to try true friend
ship. They who turn from the
scenes of distress betray their by.
poorisy and prove that interest
only moves them. If you have h
friend who loves you, who ha-
studied your interest and happi
ness, be cure to retain him in nd
versity. Let him feel that his low.
was not thrown away, Real tideI
ity may be rare, but it exists il
the heart. Tney only deny ite
worth and power who never loved
a friend or labored to make friend
happy.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-02-19
MARRIED

Miss Julia Ryan, one of Cere-
dos most popular school teachers.
was quietly married last week to
Mr.. Smith Rickard, the agent at
Graham Station, this county.
The ceremony was solemnized at
Huntington after which the hap
py young couple left for few
days sojourn with friends at Ma
son City. Mrs. Rickard will con-
tinue to teach at Cerede until the
present term of school is closed.
Congratulations are pouring in
on all sides. May their journey
together be peaceful, happy
one.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-02-19
The Cheerful Man.

What boon he is in every.
body's life2 Like bright sunrise
and gentle south wind, coming
together on winter morning, he
is to all who GROSS his path. He
brushes cheerily along. knocking
grief and disappointment out of
his path, and leaving it fringed
with fl 3were. Suoh man is worth
great deal to the world; more
than all his money, his wisdom or
his ambitious eohemes People
feel eort of pleasure just seeing
him coming down the street, and
when they meet him there is not h
cloud in sight. Suoh men are =
blessing to town. They make
one feel that the town is growing,
is getting more beautiful, more
than place just to eat and sleep
and make n living in. Sometimes
one doesn't meet suoh men, and
thvn he feels that the town is de.
generating, that things are going
wrong, and that the evil spirit is
trying to put little malice in his
heart, and he goes home and meets
his wife's smile with feeling OF
suspicion.
A cheerful men doesn't realize
the amount of good he is doing in
the world; but it is his nature and
he cannot help it. Heaven hae
picked him out as ono of it's an
gels, and he is faithful to his mis-
sion. Every day some fellow has
been made happy by his pleasant
smile and his genial good morn
ing" To be cheerful may not be
80 great duty as to be honest or
unselfsh, but it certainly widens
the radiance of these virtues.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-02-19
atiI Wondering.

Worn out by long series of ap-
palling French exercises, wherein
the blunders were as the sands of
the sea, a hapless high school mis-
tress declared her intention of writ
ing to Florcnce's mother.
Florence looked her teacher in
the face. "NGa will be awfully an
gry," quoth she.
81 ain afraid she will, but it is my
duty to write to her, Florence"
81 don't know" said Florence
doubtfully. "N'ou see, mother al
ways does my French for me-"
The teacher is wondering wheth-
er she will write.-London Express
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-02-19

ma Malay fishers.

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, or 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 lot of cocoanuts and
cocoanut oil, and apparently for a
luxury sort of sweetmeat made OF
a coarse treacle and rice mixed to-
gether and firmly pressed into bam-
A-@.N .
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-02-19
BRAIN LEAKS.

Solomon WAS a wise man until
he got go much money it made
him foolish.
The world will pause longer to
laugh with you than it will to gym
pathize with you.
Wealweys have our doubts about
The veraoitY of those who cay they
do not like onions.
We cheerfully confess to be just
ld-fashioned enough to like to sit
in front of fireplace.
Speaking of glad eurprises, did
you ever find quarter in the
pocket of pair of discarded trou-
sers2
Culinary skill limited to fudge
and chocolate cake is not calou.
lated to make housekeeping pleas
ant.
The lawyer osn appeal his mis-
takes to the supreme court; the
doctor has to wait much longer.
The proudest moment in young
mans tife is when the barber sage,
"Your beard is getting tough"
When we get rioh the first thing
we will do will be to buy a bushel
of collar buttons ball of shoe
strings and an extra pair # sus-
penders.
The man who waits until he gets
home to open his pay envelope
generally begins work Monday
morning feeling we'll and happy.
When we read that man and
wife have lived together for twenty
or thirty years without quarrel
we wonder what the recording an
gel esid about it,
When we appreciate virtue. the
saw that Virtue is it's own reward"
will mean something worth while.
If virtue is it's own reward, let US
try to make it a reward worth
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-02-19
Odd Fellows Art Rusi-
ness Directory.
nIKINs EDITION soUvHNIh

EIK1Ns EDITION SOUVENIR:
odd Fellows and Friends of the Or
der are Interested in This Beau
tiful Book, Which Has Just
Been Issued.
This work OF art, the publica-
ton of which was encouraged by
many of our leading business
men, through their generous ad-
vertising, and which all friends
of the order should see, has just
been published and deposited in
the Odd Fellows lodge room, the
High school building, and The
Spencer Hotel writing room, o.
this city, where all who 80 desire
may see the fine engravings and
photographs, which embellishes
its pages
The plates from which the i'll
ustrations are printed are all new
and clear cut.
Many of them take up whole
page, and as the volume isquarto
size, the pictures are very large.
1t contains a large and superbly
executed view of the odd Fell
lows Home, for the support and
maintenance ofaged and INDECENT
Odd Fellows, and the widows and
orphans of the deceased members
who are in needy circumstances.
The work also contains a brief
historical account of the Home.
Besides this. it contains an ac-
count of Odd Fellowship. What
it is. Everybody read that.
It also contains lecture on the
-Four Degrees of the 1. o. o. f.,
also GLOW Odd Fellowship
Works." the beautiful lesson of
our Rebekah Degree by Mrs.
Lewis b. Hall, short history of
the Grand Lodge encampment
and Rebekah's. Also "In Mem
oriam of our deceased Brothers,"
"Patriarches Militant Wake Up"
and short sketches of many
Grand Officers, and many other
good things, which you probably
have not read or seen before.
You will also find a magnifi-
cent photograph of Thomas
Wildley, father of Odd Fellows.
Also large size pictures of Grand
Officers, Staff Officers. Rebekah
Assembly, Grand Master Photo
graphs, Grand Secretary, O.S.
MeKenney, John A Book, and a
splendid likeness of Mr.. Robert
Kiger, of this city, who is Past
Grand Master, Past Grad Repres-
entative, PastI2epresentative to
Grand Encampment, and many
other members throughout the
State whose soul is in the work
for the Home of the Odd Fellows
of the State.
The value of this splendid
work has been considerably en-
HANGED by the large display adj
vertisements contributed to It's
pages by some of the most reli-
able and enteprising business
men of our state, who by this
means, have testified their friend
ship and interest in the Home of
Odd Fellows for widows and or
phans in the State of West Vir-
ginia.
Do not fail to see this!beautiful
book and see what Odd Fellow
ship is. You will find it, as
stated above. The public is in
vited to call at one of the places
and inspect the book. 1t is well
worth your time.
One-half of the proceeds arr
rived from the publication of this
handsome book goes to the Odd
Fellows Home and the other half
goes to the gentleman who got it
up and published it.
IrAD11pD
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-02-19

The best soldiers that are now
in the United States army and
navy come from West Virginia.
The best specimens of manhoc d
are recruited from West Virginia
SO stated recruiting officer to a
Wheeling reporter.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-02-19
Too Late.

Too late! These are but two
simple little words, and yet they
often come like wall of despair
from lips white with untold an
guish, land heart burdened with
bitterest sorrow, disappointment
and vain regret. Surely they find
a sad echo in almost every heart,
for no person can look back
through life, be it ever so short,
without finding many errors aud
mistakes which, ''alas, it is "too
late" to recall. Those hasty, un-
kind words, spoken in moment
of anger to the dearest friend
you had on earth; ahl you would
give years of your own life could
they be RECALLED. But you know
that cannot be, for the SHOWS of
many winters have already whit
ened the mound in the church.
yard that hides your lost darling
from your weeping, anguished
eyes. So you must go to the end
of life, bearing the remorse and
grief those words have cost you.
"Every heart knoweth its own
bitterness" so every heart must
bear it's share of sorrow and re-
gret for acts and words that it is
all "too late" now to recall. And
there are many different chords
in the human heart, that thrill to
sad echo of the words "too late"
Something pure and holy, like
a dream of heaven, at last may
have crossed the pathway, made
dark and shadowed by long years
of suffering and doubt-it may
be sweet hope full of promise
for the future, q word, a look, or
even n tone, at which you trem-
BILE and sigh as you murmur,
"Ah, if it had been sooner!" but
alasI it ls now "too late" Then
the weary head droops lower, the
tears fall faster, as you crush back
the bitterness in your heart, try
ing hard to murmur, in all sim
cerity and truth, "Thy will be
DONE"
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-02-19

Peter s. Kricle, of Lancaster,
Pa, found in the stomach of q
steer slaughtered for beef an open
faced gold watch, all parts of
which were intact except the
hands.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-02-19

Our own defects We Garry behind
our baoks; thaes why other people
sac them.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-02-19

A highwayman robbed a man
in st. Louis of $24, but handed
back all except $12, saying, ST
want only enough to pay my
rent"
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-02-19

There's lots of beauty in tn,
world, but the man who travels il
the alley can't expect to see it
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-02-19
PIo Had Nails In Him.

From q western paper VIC learn that
"Bin Wilson is suffering with very
painful hand and arm, caused by run
ming q rusty nall in the back OF his
hand white catching a pig last Non
day. The arm is badly swollen and
the case is quite serious. but it 10 do
ing quito nicely now" Must have
baen a pig-iron pig.
The separator must be kept clean
by washing thoroughly each tlme aft
er using. The slightest taint of foul
ness Will affect all the milk and cream
that passes through It.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-02-19

The man who says that he works
like dog generally speaks the
truth. just watch a dog work
come time.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-02-19

If the new theory about the eff
feot of the electric light on the
hair is true, the baldheaded row
may lose popularity.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-02-19

Some women are as setin their
ways as an old hen.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-02-19

Ouida. the famous novelist,died
at her home near Florence, Italy.
She was seventy-nine years of
age and wrote forty-one novels
the most famous of which was
published in 1867 and called
"Under Two Flags"
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-02-19

No matter how hard man works
or how much he makes, he will
never know what real living is un.
til he has helped others.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-02-19

Horses at present prices are money
makers for the farmers who raise
them. Why not raise fGw2 be par
ticular about the sire you use. Go far
to get the services of good one.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-02-19

The farmer and his family who
cultivate desire for all that is
beautiful and comfortable are do
ing much to dispel worry and
trouble. And it is worry and
trouble that kills. Flowers, lawns,
pictures, books, magazines, easy
chairs, hammocks-these all fa-
vor longevity and make you hap
pier while you do live and cause
your children to be contented
with farm life-the most inde-
pendent and happy life on earth.
The cry of the unemployed
daily grows more distressed in
Pittsburg. There are 10000 men
idle, and the spectre ofthe dread
ed soup.house again makes it's
appearance. The first soup
house was opened by the Salva-
ton Army, and unless there ia
some radical and prompt change
for the better more places of this
kind will be in demand before
many days have elapsed.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-02-19

Charity is one OF the greatest
advertising mediums.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-02-19

What tires out most men is the
leisure hours of thinking how hard
they have to work.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-02-19
Two Kinds of Girls.

There are two kinds of girls in
this and every other community.
One is the kind that appears best
abroad, the girls that are good
for parties, rides, visits, balls and
cards, and whose chief delight is
In such things. The other is the
kind that appears best at home,
the girls that are useful and
cheerful in the dining-room, a
sick room, and all the precincts
of home. They differ widely in
character. One is often tor
ment at home, the other a bless.
ing. One is moth, consuming
everything about her, the other
is a sunbeam, inspiring light and
gladness around her pathway.
The right education will modify
both little, and thus unite the
good qualities of both in one.
"Joe" Sheats, a farm hand liv-
ing near Masitique, Mich, con-
sumed three pounds of sauer-
kraut, two pounds of potatoes, 8
cups of tea, two glasses of beer,
six cops of water, pound and a
half of steak and three dozen
fried eggs in comparatively
abort time.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-02-19

Every one wants to succeed, but
few want 70 pay the price.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-02-19

A sneak thief stole from two
miners in Los Angeles suit case
which he thought contained gold
dust. A rattlesnake was inside.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-02-19

New York BARRIERS are going to
declare a boycott on the man who
shaves himself, They refuse to out
the self-shaver's hair.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-02-19
REQUESTS FOR ASSISTANCE
ARE NUMEROUS.

The postoffice authorities of any
oity are not without their troubles
and in P int Pleasant some oi
them believe they have troubles
that exceed those of any place else
If they should supply people wit
the persons receiving their mail in
the oity it would entail a large ex
penditure, annually, for prepara
tion and printing of the same.
For assisting sweethearts in 10
oatiag their reoreant lovers, aiding
wives in restoring husbands, broth
ers. sisters, the postoffioe people
are called upon In many oases
they are able, with some little in
convenience, to render informa.
tion that will prove valuable to the
searoheys for the missing ones. but
In majority of instanoes they
have never heard the names OF
those inquired for, much lees
showing anything of their where
sbouts. These inquiries are made
with almost the same regularity
aud in most Gases with much less
concern by the inquisitor than in
the purchase of stamps,
Anyway. poetal officials are not
permitted to tell all they oan about
people They oan at all times
give information to the postal in.
speotors and in many GASES to ait
in the capture of criminals.
One of the bad features of the
young man sowing wild oats ii
that he is apt to consume old rye
at the same time,
New York BARRIERS are going to
declare boycott on the man who
shaves himself, They refuse to out
the self-shaver's hair.
No matter how hard man works
or how much he makes, he will
never know what real living is un.
til he has helped others.
There's lots of beauty in the
world, but the man who travels in
the alley can't expect to see it
The man who says that he works
like dog generally speaks the
truth. Just watch dog work
come time.
If the new theory about the eff
feot of the electric light on the
hair is true, the baldheaded row
may lose popularity.
What tires out most men is the
leisure hours of thinking how hard
they have to work.
He who can find no charity j
another's fault proves his own vir.
> tue vanity or virtueless,
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-02-19

There's hardly anything gets
on mans nerves like being told
by his wife of the nice things he
used to say to her before they
we're married.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-02-19

It's worth while to emile.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-02-19

All men aare born good, but
few stay good.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-02-19

Mrs. Alice Butler, of Des
Moines, who owed s. +. Moore,
of G Coushocton, Ohio, $1,000, can
celed the debt by marrying him.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-02-19

The worst thing about failure
is the kind of ofsympathy thatg
with it.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-02-19

People are so naturally optim-
istic they think they are happy
when they merely aren't in pain.
Red hair would blaze as fierce
ly by any other name.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-02-19

One of the bad features of the
young man sowing wild oats ii
that he is apt to consume old rye
at the same time,
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-02-19

The brooder that is handled right
is all right, TO be sure. but there
never was brooder invented which
could beat ia old hen for motherli'
ness and IL. =. In rearing the little
chicks.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-02-19

He who can find no charity I
another's fault proves his own vir-
tue vanity or virtueless.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-21
MoNRoVIA ITEMS

MONROVIA, Nov. 20.-Saturday aft
ernoon an interesting program will be
given at the club house. under the
auspices of the Saturday Afternoon
club. "The Spirit of THANKSGIVING
will constitute the general theme for
the meeting, on which subject the club
will be addressed by Mrs Judson
Smith. The program, in charge of
Mrs. John H. Bartle, will be supple
mented by several musical numbers
and speaking by girls attired in the
Puritan costume of the seventeenth
century.
The occasion will be identical with
Star day, and the little tin stars will
be sold for the benefit of Dana Bart
let's Bethlehem institute. Mrs. Brad
ley, deaconess of the institute, VIII
speak regarding the splendid work ac-
complished, the effect on the institute
of the recent panic, and will illus
trate the lines upon which this philan-
thropic work will be continued.
Rev. G. A. Kent, accompanied by the
Misses Marshall, Whitcomb, Davenport
and Gardner, is attending the meet
ing of the Pasadena district of the
Epworth league at Pomona.
The marriage OF William H. Schu-
maker of Bardsdale and Miss Marie ]
Nelson is announced to take place al
the home of the brides sister, Mrs
John II. Nelson, on Failing Leaf ave-
nue..