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Evening star., 1909-06-06
Pulpit Points.

DUBERT J. BCKDETTE is even moro
N popular and successful as clergy.
man than he used TO be as humorist
A young divine of Los Angeles, praisinl
Mr. Burdette. said the other day:
"Humor is spontaneous with him. !
remember how one day l asked him for
advice on preaching. and he ratified gayly
off:
Never be goody-goody. Never say.
for instance II was reading last evening
in dear Hebrew"
".keep your pictures accurate. I once
heard an old minister picture Noah as
sitting out in front of the ark reading
his Bible
BE simple in the pulpit. as we'll as
friendly out of il. or the old ladies will
describe you as invisible on week days
and incomprehensible on Sunday"
Evening star., 1909-06-06

novel dra wing the characters from some
of those who are buried from the sight
of the rest OF the world. but who are in
tegral parts of the world of the searcher
for ancient patent rights and obscure me-
chanical drawings.
The attorneys room is a musty. dusty
old place that has hardly changed par
ticle since it was built ever so many years
ago Proba bly, the only change that has
occurred is the substitution Of a steel
shelf where wooden shelf rotted for
years and years. or the changing of a
sign on the wall, or the introduction of
a modern office table that jars terribly
Evening star., 1909-06-06

long narrow effects. with none of the
rounder beauties of architecture that pre-
vail in these days. It's floor is a checker
board of blue and white stone. the white
squares wearing away faster than the
blue, and the ceiling-but there is none
it's glass skylight.
Some one placed a marble bust of Ma
poleon Bonaparte in one end of the room
a long. long time ago. 1t is the one piece
of decoration that the room owns with a
British patent lists Napoleon gazes
mournfuly down toward the section of
the room where pretty girls come to take
dictatlon from hard-Working lawyers
Napoleon has looked down that narrow
room for a great many years. Now and
then he was busted off in the old days,
and at every busting he surprised his
friends by showing them how white he
used to be- because some one in the pat
ent office has introduced patent air
cleaner. which cleans we'll, but which
takes away so much dust that the place
hardly knows itself. Napoleon is in the
section known as the scientific section"
walled from the common herd by a wire
screen. They call it scientific because
it contains a great number of scientific
works in every tongue. and because it has
a claim on the scientifically inclined by
virtue of torn and faded chart illustra-
tive of the metric system, which hangs
crazily above pile of dust-covered maga-
zines In one OF tHe 1liCHeS III IHt wall.
That poor chart has to bear the entire
reputation of the scientific appearance of
the place, and has done so with grim for
titude almost since the metric system be-
came known, 1t seems.
In the scientific section there is
nondescAAt collection Of searchers after
all sorts of knowledge at all times of
the day. young man who finds time
to see the humor of things between his
delving after musty files told a Star re-
porter that the attorneys themselves are
great practical jokers. especially on dull
days.
Nearly every one of the "old boys"
who ventures into the room has some
sort of a time before he gets out. II
he is a searcher he has a pin placed
where he will sit on it, or if he is a
tracer his tracing paper will be stolen
and his pencils broken to bits In the
spring the first man to appear with
straw hat has it promptly knocked off
his head and walked on.
The room, which is separated from the
scientific room,'' is for preliminary re-
searches, and is presided over by B. F.
Snyder, who has been on the job for
thirty-two years. and who knows every
thing that has gone on there for that
time The scientific room" is presided
over by Ernest Szemelenyi. translator.
musician and raconteur, and whose name
is not pronounced the way 1t is spelled
Szemelenyi is Of Hungarian extraction,
Evening star., 1909-06-06
Wants Million a Year
for Labor Exchanges
Special Correspondence OF The Star.


LONDON. May c6. 1909.
- RDINARILY there is little hu-
man interest in government
bills. but the measure intro
duced by Winston Churchill in
the British house of commons
last week is ore that is worth the atten-
ton of every one in America who takes
any notice of labor problems. There is
little likelihood that such a surprising
step in the direction of paternal legisla
tion viii be approved by the house of
lords the first time of asking. but the
fact that the measure is backed by the
liberal party gives it International signi
ficance
What Winston Churchill proposes TO do
is to create machinery which Will bring
the idle man and the vacant job into
touch. and TO associate with this ma
Chinery a scheme of state insurance by
which the man will be assured of sup
port during his idleness.
The bill provides for the establishment
of a national system of labor exchanges
with a clearing house in London. There
will be ten divisional clearing houses in
ten divisions of the country, between
twenty and thirty first class exchanges,
IN charge of government officers, in
towns of over 10000 population. and
about forty-five second class exchanges
in towns of $4,000 population and over.
Laborers Contribute.
These exchanges are the basis of the
whole scheme, but associated with them
and dependent on them there will be
remarkable system of state insurance
against unemployment. which at first
will apply only to list of selected trades,
those chosen being the callings in which
seasonal unemployment is most frequent.
1t is proposed that employers and work
men shall both be compelled to con-
tribute to the insurance fund and that
the state shall supplement their contribu-
ton. Mr.. -hurchll estimates that a to-
tai payment of 10 or Il cents a week per
man will be required, and he proposes
that the contribution of masters. men
and the state shall be varied in proper
ton to the wages received by the work
Evening star., 1909-06-06

DICkENS
would have loved
to take a chair by
one of the tables of
the attorneys room
in the patent office
and sit there until
he was simply sat-
urated with the at
mosphere of the
place. He would
have been able to
construct a whole
Evening star., 1909-06-06

Mr. Churchill estimates that the cost
of the exchange scheme during the years
when buildings are being erected will
be about 81 10000 a year and that after
ward II will cost about SSJOOOO a year to
run. If it does as much as is expected
of it in the way of decreasing unemploy-
ment it will be cheap at the price.
Evening star., 1909-06-06
By Irwin S. Cobb.


give it to fair
Pittsburg at last"
said the Hotel
Clerk.
Wot's S Pittsburg
been doin' now ?"
asked the House
Detective of the st.
Reckless.
"Pittsburg," said
Evening star., 1909-06-06

men, The weekly payments to work
men are to be something less than the
out-of-work benefits of the best trade
unions. The trades selected for the be-
ginning of the insurance scheme are
house building. works construction en-
gineering, machine and tool making, ship
and boat building, vehicle making and
sawmill work, and, of course. all the gen
eral laborers associated with each of
these divisions of trade.
The general aborer is the greatest suf-
ferer from unemployment. and Mr..
Churchill expects that besides providing
him against starvation by the insurance
scheme he will be able to reduce greatly
the who'e mass of unemployment by
means of the labor exchanges English
economists are agreed that unemployment
is largely the fault of the employers,
those in each trade being interested in
keeping a reserve of unemployed labor
for busy times. Each trade, therefore.
has its own reserve pool and as labor
is not mobile the men simply have TO
wait in duh times for trade to improve.
Mr.. Churchill points out, for instance,
that such trades gas making are busy
in winter. when thu building trades are
practically at a StandStill. and he sees no
reason why the same reserve of labor.
properly organized, should not do for
both
Evening star., 1909-06-06

NDD Characters Abound
~ in Room Where 100000
Drawings Are Kept-crank
Inventors Search Through
Files for Whole Days
Other Searchers Find Rec
ords Which Mean a Fortune
to Them-Patent Attorneys
Throng Place Each Day in.
Week.
Evening star., 1909-06-06

down flap three inches deep. He could
wear a collar at least five sizes smaller
without choking. His white necktie was
tied SO carelessly that the knot part of
it hung two or three inches south Of the
collar button"
Evening star., 1909-06-06
Have Reserve Pools.

Even in the same trade there are many
reserve pools which are jealousy
guarded by the employers. In the port of
London, for instance, there are a score
Of pools of dock labor and il often
happens that the employers on one por-
ton of the river are crying aloud for
men. While there are hundreds idle at
another dock, who either do not know of
the demand mile or two away, or if
they do. are afraid to leave the dock
where they usually work for fear they
will he struck off the waiting list. The
exchange, of course, would remedy this
evil.
In the same way the exchange will
bring the men into touch with vacant
jobs in other parts of the country. At
present if a man cannot find work in
his own town he starts tramping the
country aimlessly in search of employ
ment He does not know where men are
needed, and he often passes by lie town
where jobs are to be had for the asking.
The exchange will be able with the aid
of the telephone and telegraph to direct
him where to go. and he can travel quick
ly by train at much less cost of time and
money than he now spends on the road.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-12-22
A FREE DIARY AND WALL CALENDAR
FOR OUR READERS.

We take pleasure in announcing
that any of our readers can secure a
pocket diary for 1910 by sending 4
one cent stamps to D. Swift & Co.,
Patent Lawyers, Washington, D. C.
The diary is bound in beautiful
stiff red cover. contains 90 pages,
gives the amount of corn, wheat. oats,
tobacco and Gotten produced in each
State, go pages of other valuable IN
formation, such as business laws,
patent laws, business forms and pop
ulation ofall states and cities: Worth
twenty-five cents.
For 8 one-cent stamps, We will
also. send fine wall calendar Iox IL
inches. Send Z One-cent stamps for
the diary and calendar, worth fully
10 cents.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-12-22
'MANY CHRISTMAS Packages Held up.

senders of Christmas packages
should be very careful to see that
they have sufficient postage on the
packages to defray sending them.
Under the rules of the postoffce de-
partment all packages at the local
postOaiee are opened and examined
before they are sent to their deetina-
ton. In many of the packages there
is writing and in Others the second
wrapper is sealed. These packages
are thus made FIRST class but in many
instances there is only enough post
age on them for second class. As a
result these packages are held up
until the persons they are addressed
to are noti6edand the necessary post
age is forwarded to send them. This
takes some time and as a result many
of the packages are not received un-
til after the holidays.
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MRS. J. v. BRYAN.

Departed this life on Monday
morning, December go, 1909, Mrs.
Elizabeth Bryan, wife of our fellow
townsman, Mr.. ]. W. Bryan, aged
so years. 4 days. Mrs. Bryan had
been in poor health for several years.
She was a woman of many good
qualities, 4 faithful and devoted wife
and the bereaved husband has the
sympathy of many friends. The
funeral was held this, Wednesday
morning, service conducted by Rev.
o. NJ. Pullin, of Trinity Church, in
terment in Lone 0el Cemetery.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-12-22
A NOVEL ENTERTAINMENT.

Mr.. Robert P. Liter entertained a
few of his friends at the Mason Co.
Fair Grounds, Friday, with an old
fashioned clay bake, Mr.. E. B.
Thomas acting as head chef. Those
present were Col. PERI /. Hale Of
Belpre, Ohio, (Mr. Liter's partncr,)
as guest of honor, DR.. Ed. Neil
fresh, Chas. E. Jones, c. Russell
Mcculloch and E. B. Thomas. AT
5 P. NJ. dinner was announced and
the guests sat down to a regular
camp dinner and to say they enjoyed
it is putting it mild, when seven
men ate six of Mr.. Liter's standard
bred'' game chickens and drank six
quarts of coffee, and numerous other
light refreshments. Coffee was made
by Mr.. Early Eads and no French
drip coffee / ever drank was better.
The departing guests were unani-
nous in their decision that Mr.. Ii
ter entertains as only Kentuckyian
know how. Old Timer.
Epworth League program to be
rendered at the NJ. E. Church,
South, Dec. GO, e:so p m.
Leader-Adelaide Goodwin.
Hymn-1o7.
Topic-The Coming of the Re
deemer.
Scripture lesson-Matt. II, le.
Mem. XXIv-17 Jer. XXIII 5.
Prayer.
Responsive Reading-xIx.
Hymn-6sI.
Reading on Topic, Ada Good
win, 9, Minnie Leftwich.
SOlo-Miss Bertha Steinbach.
Christmas Texts-Lora Foglesong,
George COmstock, Price Miller, Liz
zie Miller.
Hymn-6SS.
Characterization.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-12-22
The RIVER.
INTERESTING NOTEBY OUR SPECIAL
REPORTER.

The Otto Marmet, which has been
on the Cincinnati Marine Ways since
last August, has been completed and
IS one of the handsOmest as well as
the largest in the Kanawha river.
She made her first trip up wednes-
day night and got her tow of coal
and, left for Cincinnati, Saturday,
with the following boats, each with
a big tow of coal: R. P. Gillian,
]. T. Hatfield, D. 7. Lane, Doug
lass Hall, Lucie Marmet, Florence
Marmet, Sallie Marmet, ]. B. Lewis
Geo. Mathewson and E. R. Andrews.
The big steamer Helen N. Gould,
of the White Collar Line, running
between Madison, Ind, and Louis
vile, KY, is here to 90 on the Ka-
nawha Docks as soon as the Key
stone State is completed.
Walter Needham has purchased
the Nellie, of Chicago, to tow his
show boat, the Cotton Blossom. The
Cotton Blossom was formerly owned
by Capt. Eisenbarth, and was known
as Eisenbarth-Henderson. Captain
Needham will use his tOw-boat, the
VIII H. Needham, formerly the
Mountain State, which he used for
towing his show-boat last season, to
tow coal out of the Kanawha river
to Cincinnati.
The following big Pittsbarg tow
boats, viz: Fallie, Valiant and Sam
uel Clarke, came into Kanawha har-
Dor, Sunday, out of the heavy ice in
the Ohio, and have laid up and sent
their crews home.
The big packets Greenwood and
Tacoma are laid up in the Kanawha
on account of the ice.
Capt. Jake Heb, mate on the tow
boat Val P. Collins, spent Sunday
with his family. The Collins is hav-
ing new boilers put on at Middleport.
Mr.. j. C. Parker, of Long Bot
tom, employed on the Kanawha
Docks, will move his family to this
place.
Mr.. chas. Henry Holloway, the
well and fayOrably known purser of
the Greenwood, was clerk of the
BOstona in her palmy days in the
Pomeroy and Cincinnati trade. The
Bostona is said to have made over
$4,000 clear in one season.-Water-
ways Journal.
The ferrybOat Ann Bailey, at this
place, charges loc. each way for
passengers across the Ohio.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-12-22

The following accounts are before
me for settlement:
L. c. Someryille, Trustee for
James Somerville.
Josephine a. Wallis, Administra-
trix of the estate of Vim. H. Wallis,
deceased.
L. c. Somerville, Administrator of
Marguret SomeryilIe, deceased.
f. J. Someryille, Executor of Jno.
Troeger, deceased. E. ]. Somer-
vile, Trustee, under the viii of Jno.
Troeger, deceased, and Carrie Som
erville, guardian of Eulah Somer-
vile. GEO. SoMERvILLE.
Commissioners of Accounts for Ma
son County, W. Va, dec. 1877.
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DIED.

Mrs. James H. Holloway, widow
of James H. HOllo~ay, deceased,
died at her home in this city, Sun
day, December 10, 1909, aged SO
years and 9 months. Mrs. Holloway,
although having passed the allotted
four score years, was in good health
up to two years ago, and was beloved
by all who knew her. She hadbeen
quite i'll for several months, and all
that kind and loving friends could do
to smooth her last days was done, but
death had set its seal and she quietly
fell asleep. She was buried Tuesday
in Lone Oak cemetery, Rev. J. H.
Gibbons, of Ashland, Ky, conduct
ing the funeral service.
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EIDUCIARY SETTLEMENT.

The account of John W. English
administrator of Ambrose Yeager, de-
ceased, is before me for final settle
ment.
Given under my hand this the 18th
day of December, 1909:
JOHN E. BELLER,
Commissioner of Accounts for Mason
County, W Va. dec. l5-et.
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The little daughter of Mr.. and Mrs
VIII Folden. who has been very Ill
with pneumonia fever, Is improving.
Miss Bertha steinbach returned
Sunday after spending several days
in PaFkersburg, the guest of Rev.
and Mrs. R. P. Bell.
Miss Anna Lewis spent Saturday
with her parents, at Mason City.
Mrs. NJ. c. Byers and SON. ofst.
Louis, are spending several weeks
with her parents, Mr.. John Mccul-
Ioch and family.
Mrs. n. Lswhead was called to
RayenswoOd on account of the illness
of her mother.
Miss Reba Beale was Hunting
ton visitor, Monday and Tuesday.
Mrs. Samantha Baum, who has
been quite Ill, Is some better.
Mr.. Edwin Neale returned to
Huntington Sunday, after spending
several days with DR.. W. P. Neale
and family.
Mrs. J. NJ. westfall, of Charleston,
arrived Tuesday to spend Christmas
with Geo. cOmstock and family.
Mr.. George Simpson, ofParkers-
burg, spent couple of days here.
visiting friends
Mr.. Joe Carlisle has returned to
his home at Henderson, after several
months work on the locks at Salt
Petre, KY,
Mrs. VIII Kenny, who has been
quite sufferer with rheumatism and
eFysipelas, is some better.
Mrs. E. Barlow Jones and son, left
Monday evening for visit to relE-
tiyes at Harrisonburg, Va.
Mrs. L. V. Guthrie and daughter,
Elizabeth, were the guest of Judge
and Mrs. j. W. English, last week.
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. Bert Shift
let, of ParkeIsburg, daughter, De-
cember l6.
Mr.. Will steenbersen, Asst En-
gineer Hooking Valley R. R., spent
Sunday with his family, this city.
Mr.. Alex. Kelso is home from sew
eral weeks stay at Hot Springs,
much improved in health.
Mi. Gertrude Kisar is home from
college to spend the holidays.
Mr.. Thos. Eearns, an old citizen
of this county, now residing in In
diana, is visiting relatives in the
county.
Miss Anna MiddleeofF is quite i'll
at the home of her sister, Mrs. Har-
vey Gibson, This city.
Mr.. Fred Eisar, attending law
school at Morgantown, is here for
the holidays.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-12-22

ANY LADY can easily make from
$500 to $500 per week working
for me quietly in her own home 10
cality. This is a bonafde ofFer-one
which will pay you to investigate,
even if you can only spare two hours
per day. No investment required.
Turn your spare time into money.
Write me at once for particulars.
Address MARY B. TAYLOR, Box
80, Woman's Building, Joliet Illinois.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-12-22
NOTICE.

Misses Edith Tippett and Cert
rude Howard will not have their sale
this week nor next; but will cheer
fully take orders for cakes, candy,
salids, bread, sc. Call phone II
and leave orders.
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Sealshipt Oysters


are the Standard or Oyster v alue
Your dealer cannot buy an oyster as
good as Sealshipt for any less money.
If you buy at less than Sealshipt
prices, the quality is lacking.
Don't be imposed upon. T'in-can
oysters are Not SeaIshipt Oysters.
Some people have been misled into
thinking oysters put up in tin cans
are Sealshipt oysters. Such is not
the case. Sealshipt oysters are never
shipped or sold that way.
We want our customers to know
the truth.
Tin cans are filed at the coast by
shippers who are not bound by a
contract of any kind to fill the cans
with solid, unwatered oysters. These
dealers are under no restrictions. Re
sponsibie to nobody. In the major
ity Of cases, watered oysters are used.
Often a liberal supply ofwater is adj
ded by the jobber after they reach
him. Sealshipt Oysters are sold by
US exclusively, because they are hon
est oysters. Alright containers are
packed solid with oysters AT THE
SEASlDE-and SEALED. Ice is
kept packed around these containers
during the entire journey, but no ice
or water ever touches the oysters.
There is no railroad ice liquor"
nothing but solid oysters.
Our customers say Sealshipt Oys-
tiers TASTE the same and ARE the
same as oysters eaten at the shore.
Try them yourself and be convinced.
MRS. ELLA M. MEEs,
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-12-22

We wish to call the attention of
our readers to the advertisement of
Tippett's Furniture Store, which APP
pears in this issue.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-12-22
MARRIAGE LICENSES.

Monroe Thicker and Erna Legg.
Gilbert Bumgarner and Elizabeth
Arnold.
Clifford L. ohlinger and Eva L.
Borham.
b.. Priddy and Mrs. F. P. Lang
leg.
Arch Austin and Edna Barker.
V. Baker and Miss NJ. B. Culver.
Homer v. DrummOnd and May
Curry.
Elmer Haning and Dora WEIGH.
Walter Kersey and Gertrude Can
trell.
Ernest Roush and Mary L. Rick
ard.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-12-22

Every farmer and business man in
Mason county should have his printed
stationery. Get it at The Register
Office.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-12-22

There will be preaching at the NJ.
f. Church, South, Sunday, / l a. M,
{ 80 p. m. Also Sunday School 10
a. M, League $50 p. m. All are
very cordially invited to attend these
meetings.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-12-22
COVNTY NEWS.

We want good, live correspond
emit in every district and town in the
county. Stamps and stationery VIII
be furnished and a copy of the Reg
lister sent free to all correspondents.
Call at this Office or write to the
manager.
Towels for Xmas presents stamped
and plain. at Mrs. L. J. williamson
If YOU want to stand well in the
community always give your street
car seat to a woman.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-12-22

FOR RENT:-6r room house. mod
ern convenience's above high water.
Inquire of W. E. Allen.
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The new docks arrived saturda,
from Pittsburg.