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The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-09-08
A THRILLING Snort.

The few Sport<men who visit the
Massachusetts coast in the summer
for big fishing become acquainted
only with the sea bass and the
shark, while the swordfsh, remain
ing always in the open sea, is left
to the tender mercies of the men
who fish not for sport. but for q
livelihood. Yet if the lover of ex-
citing sport should care to master
the use of the harpoon and resort
to the open sea for his diversion
he would discover in the swordfsh
fit subject for his most ambitious
efforts and become acquainted with
the swiftest swimmer, the hardest
fighter and. withal, one of the most
interesting Of the denizens of the
ocean. = Frederick Booth in st.
Nicholas.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-09-08
Japanese WAY Of SMOKING.

The japanese have a curious
manner of smoking. The pipes have
very small metal bowls with bamboo
stems and metal mouthpieces and
hold only enough tobacco for three
of four whiffs. They use a light
colored tobacco. which is cut ex-
tremely fine. They take a Whit of
smoke and inhale it, letting it pass
out through the nostrils. They
ra,ely smoke more than one pipeful
at a time. II they do smoke a sec
ord they drop the little bulb of
ashes out of their pipe. which they
refill GnG lighaa It with the ashes
taken from the bowl.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-09-08
Poor Littls Girl.

Little Helen, who is a great talk
er and aged Just three, was annoy
ing her father one day by her al
most endless chatter. He was en-
deavoring to finish some important
writing, so said; run away, dear.
Daddy is very busy
Helen toddled off and after the
space of about FIVE minutes return
ed and, standing beside her fathers
chair, laid an appealing fat hand on
his arm and, looking up into his
face with most grieved air, said:
SDaddy, Is very lonely. l tan't
ind any one to leave myself wiz
9elineator.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-09-08
Set In H.r wavs,

Sweet Mary Jane sat fourteen
days and wouldn't i9ign to rise, al
though her folks tried every way
to make her realize that it was
quite unIadylike to sit all day and
night and never change her atti-
tude or rouse her appetite. They
eoaxed and leased and threatened
her, and still she would not stand,
and when they tried to raise her up
she bit them on the hand. They
didn't want to do her harm or call
m the police, and vet they sorrowed
at the thought of Mary James dis
ease. But Mary Jane knew what
vas best. She wiser was than men.
She sat until she'd had her set, for
Mary was hen.-St, Louis Repub-
be.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-09-08
In DefauI. Of a Stone Breaker.

The new boarder shyly took his
seat at Mrs. Skimpin's table.
''May ! ask, SIR" said the old
boarder, ''what your occupation is 2"
MY occupation 2" repeated the
new conner. ~oh, I'm a sculptor"
"iou carve marble, do you?"
pursued the veteran.
81 do"
"Then," concluded the other, 81
see you will be valuable acquisi-
lion to this happy house. Do you
mind coming up to this end of the
table a moment and carving the
fowl?"
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-09-08
Low Form, Of L;f,.

The readiness with which low
forms OF life accommodate them
selves to altered environment
shows that they are capable of be-
ing trained or educated to a GER
tam extent. Stahl has shown that
a certain plasmodium fees when
sprinkled with salt. but if the salt
be added TO the medium gradually
The organism accommodates itself
20 the new medium. Purposeful
notion is manifested by plants as
well as by animals and by both uni
eellular and multicelluIar. Ex-
change.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-09-08
Your Canary.

Don't forget to give your canary
the best of water and seed every
day. See that he has a good fish
bone. Clean his cage every day.
Keep him out of the hot sun and
the glare of night lights and yet
let him have sunshine. Talk to
him-talk to him with a kind voice.
Let him cut of the cage occasion
ally. We give crumbs of bread
soaked in milk, lettuce, chickweed,
a little piece of egg. sometimes a
little fruit. a nut and lots of good
things and let him eat or reject, as
he pleases. Remember he is a pris-
oner in confinement, dependent on
YOU every day for health and life,
and constantly strive to make him
happy. a little ten cent looking
glass will aid greatly to his happi.
ness. Take care that neither sun
nor other light reflected shall daz-
zle him.-Exchange.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-09-08
Joe MiIIer,s Intention.

''But can't see," said the friend
to old Joe Miller after the latter
mad shown him the manuscript Of
MS 'tJest Book" "why you ever
took the time to collect all these
old Jokes"
81 didn't mean to do so much of
it." explained Joe confdentially.
At first I started out to arrange
the scenario of musical comedy.
but learned that the time was not
;cI ripe for such a production"
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-09-08
Tho Early Mothsr.in.law.

a Louisville man who loves to
browse in the public library said
that he was reading Plutarch the
other day and came upon an inter
esting thing.
q had always imagined" he said,
that the mother-in-law joke, like
others which have their main habi-
tat now in vaudeville and the funny
papers, was a purely modern crea-
ton. I was disillusioned on that
score, however.
"Plutarch relates the story of a
young man who threw a stone at a
stray dog. and hit his mother-in-
law.
"Not so bad was his comment"
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-09-08
Planting Xina.

Remember when you plant vine
that you are planting for time, and
make a good provision for its
growth Don't dig a hole Just large
enough for the plant and thrust it
in, leaving it to Sink or swim, sur
viye or perish" as best it may.
Rather do you give it a fair show
for its life. Choose a place in good
sunlight. Dig a hole two feet deep
and foot and a half square. Cart
away the earth and fill the hole
with well rotted compost, putting
good garden soil on top in which to
set the plant. You have thus sup
Piled it with something to grow on,
and the plant will reward you ac-
cordingly.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-09-08
FULL PARTICULARS.
Deafness Is Outlines an Embarrass-
rlent, a Ehud Will Aver.

SIX. MSuS - @Hao WIZ CNoIs
The young minister temporarily
officiating at Hankins Falls for the
summer met Ehnd [ fingwell as he
was walking to church on Sunday
morning.
THow do, sTr. Leffngwell?" he
cried cheerfully. "Going to chui5sz4S.
this beautiful morning
sHay:" asked Ehud, who was
pretty hard of hearing. 1Hay?"
SAre-you-co ming-to -
church, roared the minister.
sNuh," Ehud responded. 'tLook-
m fer my caoS'. She must "a got
out Of the barn las night. I'm
hooked the hasp, / cal'late, an Jest
strayed"-
eCome to-church,n the
minister shoulcd cordially, sand
after preaching III tell the congre-
CATION, and they'll help you. You'll
getyour COW mrch quicker"
Blocks. I'll go ye,' said Ehud
heartily, and he fell into step with
the young minister. At the church
door he was overcome by modestv
and, declaring that he didn't have
his Sunday 30 to mcetin' clothes
on, insisted upon sitting In one of
the most distant pews.
BE didn't hear the sermon at all,
but he could tell when it was over
by seeing the young minister fold
up his manuscript and put it away.
This done, the Young man began to
make announcements. Ehud raised
his right hand in great leathery
scoop behind his ear, but still he
heard nothing.
"Siy dear friends" said the min
1ster, ct affords me great pleasure
to tell you that on Tuesday evening
next at the hour of G o'clock there
viii be celebrated at the home of
the brides parents the wedding of
Mr.. Edward Stoutenboro, one of
our most esteemed and promising
young men, and that charming, es-
Unable young Iady-as beautiful
as she is good-Miss Mehitable
Dodsworth."
As the minister ceased everybody
was astonished to see Ehud LET
fngwell arise in his pew.
"An' We might add, parson," he
shouted, "that her eyes amt mates,
an she's lec,le mite lame in the
off hind leg.'-Ilarper's Weekly.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-09-08
WiIIina. but Weak.

Commercial travellers find most
of the natural curiosities along the
lines OF travel. This is a story told
by one after trip through south
ern Canada. Being impatient to
get out Of a sleepy little town, l
aScertained the time of the outgo-
ing train and hurried down to the
station. After awhile an object
slowly emerged from the distance
and skunk up alongside. l boarded
the solitary coach, and after a
tedious wait the engine began to
gasp feebly, the old coach creaked
a little, but the train did not move.
l was about to get out to see what
was the matter when the forward
door of the coach was suddenly
flung open and head popped in.
Hey, YOU said the engineer, leer-
ing at me. climb off till l Git a
start, will w"
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-09-08
ma PEAEoWL.
A Hardy Bird That Lives In the Open
An the Year Round.


All the Year Round.
Peafovls we're undoubtedly the
first birds used BY man for orna-
mental purposes, and TO this day
there IS nothing more gorgeous in
nature than a flock Of full plumaged
specimens strutting about the lawn
Of an estate. The beautiful COM
mon peafowl is too well known to
need describing, although it is prob
ably the handsomest Of the family.
The black winged differs from the
common In having a much darker
neck and blaekish wings. The fe-
male is almost white or spIashed in
color.
The Java or green species is not
ed for beautiful metallic coloring,
the sexes being plumaged alike. Al
though this bird is lacking the long
train of the former mentioned va
rieties, it is considered by many to
be the most beautiful bird in the
world.
The white peafowl is an exquisite
bird; when spreading is lace:ike
tram it resembles huge fantail
pigeon and forms a pleasing con-
trast with the colored birds. II
looks especially charming on vel
kept lawn.
Few people realize what a hardy
, bird the peafowl is. Ny flock is
never housed summer or winter,
even with the temperature below
zero and snow and ice on the
ground. The peafowls will roost
on tree or on the ridge board of
the poultry house or Stable. If
confined in houses they soon con-
tract disease and die. The adult
birds should be fed once a day only.
about an hour before sunset, on
four parts wheat and one part each
of cracked corn, barley, buckwheat
and broken rice.
In the spring of the year the
hen will wander off in search of a
nesting place. When a suitable spot
is found she will deposit six or
seven eggs and Immediately settle
down to incubation. When the
chicks are Matched they should be
left to the care of the peahen en-
tirely, with the exception that lit
tie chick food should be given them
about three times a day. Many
fanciers have made the fatal mis-
take of placing the peafowl eggs
under domestic fowls to hatch and
rear, but as chickens only brood
their young for few weeks and
peafowls for about six or eight
months the youngsters soon perish
when left to take care of them
selves in the early fall. In other
words, it is almost impossible to
rear pea chicks with hens or brood
ers.-Country Life In America.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-09-08
Tho Alligator and tho Boots.

Here is a story of disappointed
alligator:
"The fisherman was fast asleep on
the river bank when the alligator
crawled up and tried to swallow
him, but only succeeded in swallow
ing his boots, in which were so
many snakes that the gator turned
from the river and took to the
woods, where in a vain effort to
climb tree he was shot by a nature
faker and sold to a college museum
"a a hitherto urheard Of specimen
81 the sau-ian fau;y."-Atlanta
Constitution.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-09-08
Egg Outlets.

Boil six eggs hard and make a
white sauce as follows: Melt one
tablespoonful Of butter and stir two
tablespoonfuls of flour in the melt
sd butter, then pour one pint of
mix and stir while cooking, and
sock until It thickcns. Then chop
che eggs as fine as peas. Pour the
White sauce over them, add few
.racker crumbs and salt and pep
per. Then mold in the shape of an
cgg and roll in cracker crumbs and
r in butter.-Na,ional Food Mag
Ezine.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-09-08
De oLD pIRATEs.
They Were cowards. Pnferers ans
Traitors 70 One Another.

lHSy HgE4 S0"AF0St FlIoCeF8 ana
Traitors to One Another.
The average pirate does not de-
serve his romantic reputation. even
for ferocity. Pirates were brutes
unquestionably and, Ike Captain
Kidd when on the coast Of Alalabar,
would exercise pretty severity
in order to extort confessions from
prisoners whom they suspected Of
hiding goods. But the universal ap-
plication of the maxim that dead
men tell no tales and the dispatch
Of oil prisoners 'by the plank" were
not practices Of theirs. 1t was only
at the end and when the last pirates.
the broken men Of the NapoIeonic
wars. were fighting their last fight
on the south coast Of Cuba that des-
peration made them utterly merci-
less. And when We say fight the
word mus, be understood with a
difference. The pirates we're out
'on the plund"ring account and
they rarely made serious fight.
Indeed. the essential cowarllice OF
mankind is nowhere more visible
than among these oppressors OF un-
armed trBders and black villagers,
Men who must have known that
surrender would infaIlibly take
them straight to the gallows laid
down their arms TO any decently APP
pointed force without blow. Every
man hoped that he would save his
neck. whatever happened to the
others. At the worst they put of
the evil hour.
Two of Avery's crew who we're
condemned to death pctitioned that
if they must be hanged they might
Mt least be sent "to suffer in India.
They may have hoped for escape on
BIC way, BIZ: even L they were I'M
.D!e to gee OF it was better to be
sent to die some months hence in
India than to 90 to Execution dock
tomorrow. They chung to their
miserable lives to the last moment.
Stevenson'< pirates : towards. pill
ferers. traitors TO one another-in
''The Master of Ballantrae' are the
real men as they were. The pirates
of Treasure Island" are boys book
pirates. They are excellent of their
kind. and Stevenson produced them
with pleasure. but nobody knew bet
ter than ne that they were but fan
toches. A parent who found his
boy becoming too fond of pirate
stories might do worse than put the
right volumes of state trials into
his hands, and. if he could only OBJ
tain copy. then also the broadside
which contains "a full and true
Discovery Of all the Robberies. Py-
racies and other notorious actions
Of that famous English PIRATE Capt.
James Kelly, who was executed on
Friday, 18th of July, 1900" The
discovery purports to be a confes-
sion by the captain and shows
abundant signs of being, in fact,
taken down from his mouth BY
copyist who heard him i'll and re-
ports him with grotesque misspell-
ings. = David Hannay in Black
woods Magazine.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-09-08
MEASURING a TREE.
Different Ways In Which Two Boys
Accomplished the Task.

Saa'S' 10y : - ssAstsAAf NV S9yo
Accomplished the Task.
FfNesr the end of the season our
boy announced the height Of our
tall maple tree to be thirty-three
feet.
why, how do you know? was
the general question.
Measured it.,
"TIow9:
Footruie and yardstiek.'
"fYou didn't climb that stall
tree? his mother asked anxiously.
"No'm. / found the length of
the shadow and measured that
@tBut the length of the shadow
changes
"EYes'm. But twice a day the
shadows are Just as long as the
things Themselves. I've been try
ing all summer. / drove a stick
into the ground, and when its
shadow was Just as long as the
stick ! knew that the shadow of
the tree would be Just as long as
the tree, and that's thirty-three
feet"
The above paragraph appeared
in one of the daily papers which
come to our office. The item was
headed "a Clever Bow" Now, we
do not know who this advertised
boy was, but we knew quite as clev-
er a boy, one who could have got
the approximate height of the tree
without waiting for the sun to
shine at a particular angle or to
shine at all, for that matter. The
way boy No. went about the same
problem was this: He got a stick
and planted it in the ground and
then cut it off Just at The level of
his eyes. Their he went out and
took look at the tree and made a
rough estimate of the trees height
in his mind, and, judging the same
distance along the ground from the
tree trunk. he planted his stick in
the ground. Then he lay down on
his back with his feet against the
standing stick and looked at the
top of the tree over the stick.
If he found the top of the stick
and tree did not agree he tried a
new position and kept at it until he
could Just see the treetop over the
end Of the upright stick. Then all
he had to do was to measure along
the ground to where his eve had
been when living down. and that
gave him the height of the tree.
The point about this method is
that the boy and stick made a
right angled triangle with boy for
base, stick for perpendicular, both
of the same length, and the line
of sight the hypotenuse or long
line of the triangle. When he got
into the position which enabled him
to just see the treetop over the top
of the stick he again had a right
angled triangle with tree as per-
pendicular, his eyes distance away
from the ,runk, the base, and the
line of sight the hypotenuse. He
could measure the base line along
the ground and knew it must equal
the vertical height, and he could do
this without reference to the sun.
1t was an ingenious application of
the well known properties of
right angled triangle.-Railway and
Locomotive Engineer.
The Winslow mail., 1909-02-13
CarIyle's Curious Study.

Thomas Carlyle, the noted English
philosopher and historian had curl
Gus study. 1t comprised the entire
third floor of his narrow brick house
at Chelsea, a London suburb. The
walls of the study were of double
thickness, to prevent street noises
from annoying the master while at
his work, and a skylight afforded the
light Just how fresh air was fur
nished the room was not apparent to
the visitor There is nothing about
the room to suggest comfort only a
close, thickwalled, skylighted long
apartment where the great dyspeptic
worked and worked ceaselessly and
from where he hurried to the kitchen,
In the basement of the house, as soon
as his days labor was done. In the
kitchen he received his most intimate
friends, and there they smoked their
pipes together.
The Winslow mail., 1909-02-13
STRENGTH NOT MATTER CT SEX.
Average Woman May be as Powerful
Physically as Man.

Can the average woman be as strong
physically as the average man?
Mile. Sandwinas, the acrobat, tour
ing vaudeville with the Sandwinas an
swerS:
Yes. The fact that almost every
Eody believes the physical possibilities
of the average woman are extremely
limited is the cause of the average
woman being a weakling From girl
hood women are told that the opposite
sex is the lawful possessor of the
strong right arm, and the average
woman takes this universal testimony
without questioning it,
Mile. Sandwinas tells mothers that
they should encourage their daughters
to be 'tomboys,' and that while some
boys games may be a bit too rough
for the girls, yet most of the boys
games should be adopted by girls to
replace the so-called girls games.
She asserts she has taken personal
interest in the careers of women who
were ''tomboys" when girls and says
they have always proven successful in
whatever they attempted, result she
considers due to the confidence ac
companying a superb physique.
The Winslow mail., 1909-02-13
Dantzic and Nuremberg.

In preserving the spirit Of the
renaissance. the city has done for
north Germany what Nuremberg has
done for south Germany. Nuremberg
built its houses with greater pic
turesqueness and variety; Dantzic.
with greater durability, with more
unity Of style and grouping, and later;
and it has kept out modern discords
more successfully. The townsman or
dered his dwelling in the same lordly
spirit with which he ordered his
clothes. Brick would do for his church,
but stone was not too good for his
house. And these rich facades are al
most as surprising in this stoneless
country as facades of silver.-From
Robert Haven Schauffier's Romantic
Germany; Dantzic," in Century.
The Winslow mail., 1909-02-13

so Jim appointed Aleck a commit
zee of one to go down and fix slip
~not over the head of Mrs. McGrady's
goat, so as to pull the goat up; and
Aleck, he said he wouldn't 60 So
i'm he assembled a court-martial. and
hey decided that Aleck should be
compelled to walk the plank for dis
obedience of the head pirates orders.
md then they run out a board over
Re edge of the boat, and began to
hove Aleck along it, but he kicked,
nd bit, and scratched; and, while
hey were a-fghting, Aleck fell over
)oard. Sam Snyder grabbed for him
: he went under, and pulled out
ourle Of handfuls of Alexis hair, hut
sunk, and he'd "a drowned if Jim
hadn't tossed the rope to him.
so they pulled Aleck aboard; and
leck, as soon as he came to, he made
desh at Jim, and somehow, | dunno
ow it was, all the pirates got into a
orimn15e, and, as | was trying to
III Aleck away, somebody hit me in
e nose; and then a couple of men
me along, and the pirates ran away,
I but me and Aleck, who they had
} carry home on a board. Isn't that
D, Aleck?"
flcck groaned a groan of assent
n then Bills mother hustled him off
bed. The Jone-es are thinking
bout su ng the Dixons for assault
I'd battery uron Aleck committed by
&C Tiratical jim
The Winslow mail., 1909-02-13
Publication Office: Mail Building,
TIGERS FOND OF HUMAN FLESH
Many Natives cf India Yearly Made
Prey of Jungle Monarch.

About 1000 men were eaten by
tigers in India between 1890 and 1904.
A large proportion of these unfor-
tunates perished during periods of
famine, when the beasts are made
bold by hunger and are driven to the
plains in search of water. The deaths
caused by tigers in India constitute
81 per cent. of the whole number due
to wild beasts. All tigers are not man
eaters, but when a tiger has once
tasted mans flesh he will not be con-
tent until he has had more of it.
Where fiocks and herds abound, how
ever, man is rarely victim of the
tiger An old man-eater is usually very
clever and tricky and can avoid the
most skillful hunters. 1t is affirmed
that single tiger in southern India
has killed 200 men, and that one in the
Himalayas has killed more 300.
The Winslow mail., 1909-02-13
question or ~reveoencr.

Recently dispute was raised as to
whether certain lawyer or a certain
doctor was to have precedence at a
function at which both were to play
prominent parts. 1t was impolitic to
allow either of these two men to be
offended. While the discussion was
under way as to which was to be
seated next the speaker, an old poll
tician in the room, said the discussion
was one which he thought he could
settle by giving them the words of the
great Diogenes who had said upon an
ancient occasion: Let the thief go
before; let the executioner follow aft
er." The politician said he thought
that mean the lawyer should have
first place and the doctor come next.