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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-09-27

BLANKET DEPARTMENTS. In Both Stores
COmfortabes with novelty Swiss tops finished
with plain silk border, cotton filling. 325
White California Wool Blankets. Full size
$50 per pair
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Bound to Be Ready.

The family were to leave town on
the 2 o'clock train. so the mother
said, as she was hurrying along the
preparations:
"Now, children, get ready to go
before luncheon. Don't leave any
thing to be done at the very last
minute"
And the children said they would
not. Luncheon ended, they hurried
into their wraps and started. In the
hail the mother said:
Edward, you didn't brush your
teeth"
Eyes, ma'am, 1 did"
"But you couldn't" she said.
You didn't have time. Why, you
Just this minute got up from the Ia
be-"
81 know that" said Edward, 'Hbut
we were in such a hurry that /
brushed 'em before / ate."-New
York Globe.
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History Of the Battle Of Point
Pleasant.
Pleasant.
The ONLY EXHAUSTIVE HISTORY Of TIE GREAT EVER WRITTEN
BY VIRGIL A. LEWIS.

Compiled from original sources
used in PREPARATION contemporary basis of every
Thwok result investigation extending over
thirty Among the many subjects treated are the foowing
l. The Virginia Frontier in 1875
g The Indian Nations of the Ohio Wilderness.
s. County Organization Ridge at that time
& Lord Dunmore's Warts causes
s. Preliminary campaign under Major Mcdonald
g. Lord Dunmore's plans campaign.
q His organization of the Northern Division the Army.
s. It's westward march under the command of his Lordhip
g. Mastering Of the Southern Division at Camp Union.
10 Organization County Regiment the Bote
tourt County Regiment; and the Fincastle Battalion.
IL Westward march Division Gen. Lewis from
Camp Union Camp Point Pleasant the Great Kama
wha.
The Battle Pleasant Event of Lord Dunmores
War-accOunts written by participants therein.
49, The killed and wounded in battle.
List of the pensios rolls of Virginia
Is. The viginian Army in the Ohio Wilderness
To- The preliminary Camp Charlotte agreed upon
IT, The supplemental treaty Pburg next year. which confirm
ed and ratified the of the treaty Camp Charlotte
49, Influence of the Battle Point Pleasant subsequent
tory of country
Payment Virginia other expenses of Lord
DunmOre's War. Entire cost of war ss5o,ooo.oo
CO. Rosters of eleven of the thirty Pleasant
$50 names
e Extracts from the Virginia Gazette relating to Dunmore.s War
e The ae of the Point Pleasant
es Kinship of the who fought the battle.
History description great Monument reared on the bat
tefed.
the topics which are eaboratel treated
The book nicely printed beautifully illustrated and substantially
bound CLOTH 1t should be every library every hOme
cal history is read studied.
1t will days at Van elders Drug Store Main street
Point Pleasant, W. Va.
S-The work has been privately printed
manuscript History of Lord Dunmores
has been issued Secure while get $3.50
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Il Had Not Hurt Him.

An English coachman, zone of
the olden time" is likely to be an
original character. The late Arch
bishop TAFT was driven by one Of
whom DR.. Benson used to tell this
good story:
One day a clergyman who called
at the palace asked him whether he
still had as much to do as ever. The
answer was sublime:
There's always goodish bit do
ing. sir. But it has been a trife
easier since We took young Mr.. Par
ry into the business" The Right
Rev. Edward Parry had then re-
Gently been appointed bishop suf-
fragan of Dover.
Another story he used to tell Of a
coachman will be new to many:
a gentleman living in the neigh
borhood of Addington, finding that
the stablemen were not-in the habit
of attending church, spoke to his
coachman about it.
'eThey ought to CO." he said.
That's Just what I say myself,
sir" was the rejoinder. 81 says to
them: Look at me. Igo, and what
harm does it do to me?'"
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His Clothing Essay.

Here is an extract from an essay
written BY boy in a London
school: Clothing is an article
which everybody should wear. The
least of this article is worn by saw
ages or natives, which is piece Of
cloth or few leaves or feathers
around the waist. In cold countries,
same as Eskimos. the people wear
more clothes than we do, count of
the icy cold out there. They can
skate all the year round, except
about one thaw there is in summer.
II they walked about ike natives
they would catch cold directly and
die Of bronitis. We put clothes on
which are nearly like our bodies.
Some have caps, coats and trousers.
but women and girls wear hats and
frocks to tell who they are"
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Oliver ontie,s Method.

Although of recent years the
books of the late William Taylor
Adams OLIVER Optic have been to
large extent overlooked by juve-
nile readers. there was a time when
the position he held among boy
readers was one of unchallenged su-
premacy. This was due to the fact
that his books won not only the in
terest Of the boy, but the approval
of the parent. For the benefit of
the latter he always gave eight or
ten pages OF sound morality To
friend he once told of his method:
my books are successful because
they are written according to a def
mite formula. ! am very careful to
put in the moral. and so the parent
is pleased. But ! put it near the
end of the book. and J always warn
the boy that it is coming and where
it IS coming. He knows that it be-
gins at page 324 and ends on page
332, let US say, and on page 1888 he
can take up again the uninterrupt-
ednarratiye. "-Bookman.
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It was late and getting later.
However, that did not stop the
sound of mufled voices in the par
Tor.
Meantime the gas meter worked
steadily.
The pater endured it as long as
he could and then resolved on he
roic measures.
'Phyllis." he called from the
head Of the stairs. EFhas the morn
ing paper come yet"
NO, sir" replied the funny man
on the Daily Bugle. eve are hold
ing the form for an important de-
.ision."
And the pater went back to bed
wondering if the would keep house
u live with him.
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duces a big-boned. well-devel-
oped, mentally energetic race.
His experiments prove that
good oatmeal such as Quaker
Oats not only furnishes the best
food for the human being, but
eating it strengthens and en-
larges the thyroid gland-this
gland is intimately connected
with the nourishing processes
of the body.
In conclusion he says
It seems probable therefore
that the bulk and brawniness Of
the Northerners (meaning the
Scotch has been in some
measure due to the stimulation
of the thyroid gland by oatmeal
poridge in childhood. ("
The Scotch eat Quaker OatS
because It is the best of all osl.
meals.
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STRAW SAVED NECK
OF MURDERER LITTLE
DID MURDER NPEE COuNTYN, AND
DRAWING OF STRAWs SAVED Ills Lift.

ceredo. W. Va, Dee. s.-How-
ard Little, who is now under sent
ence to be electrocuted for the muir
der of six people at Hurley, Va,
once escaped the moose in Kentucky
by drawing of a straw. About fifteen
years ago Little committed q murder
in Pike county, KY, and L. P. viii
liams, who conducts pool room and
barber shop at Kenova, was foreman
of the jury that tried him. Accord
ing TO Mr.. Williams statement to
the Wheeling Intelligence repre-
sentative, the trial consumed about
two weeks. On the jury was man
named Farley Wicker who evidently
did not believe in capital punishment
or the evidence produced did not
convince him the prisoner was guilty
to such an extent that he should be
hanged.
When the jury retired the first bal
lot resulted in FIVE for a life sentence
and seven for death penalty. FL
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WINGED DEATH.
Poison Laden Arrows of the Natives of
East Africa.

Poison Laden Arrows of the Natives Of
East Africa.
The poisoned arrows Of some Of
the natives of East Africa are ter
ribly effective weapons. They are
quite beautifully made, smooth in
the shaft, feathered carefully with
vulture wing feathers, a twist be-
ing given sometimes to the feathers
Something / have never seen in
any arrow feathering before). the
result being to give the arrow
spinning fight, ike that of rife
bullet. The arrow heads are made
from iron wire. The shaft is of
fine split bamboo cane. Into this
shaft fits exactly an ironwood head
some six inches long, and on this
again the barbed point is fastened.
The steel head Of the arrow and the
ironwood top piece for two inches
or more are smeared with the much
dreaded poison.
The kongoni, stung by the blow,
rushes off, and the feather shaft
drops, leaving the ironwood head
and barb of the weapon in the
wound. If the poison is fresh and
shoulder or a neck shot has been
made the, N'dorobo say positively
that no beast Will run a hundred
yards. 1 am inclined, however, to
think that they exaggerate some
what the action of this poison. That
it is very deadly there is no doubt.
Newman. who lived among the Re
MIA N'dorobo. satisfied himself Of
that. In a mans case its deadly
action was almost instantaneous.
Quite lately there happened small
fight between ten Nasal young
bloods) and some Kamasea. who
used the same poison on their ar
rows. The Nasal were cattle steal
ing and had the temerity to attack
small village.
The Kamasea saw them coming
and. lying in the grass, let them
come. Eight out of the ten raiders
fell almost at once. They had only
time to cut up their shields and
break their spears (no enemy at
least should ever WELD these) and
die beside the broken weapons.
Gallant fellows anyway! The bro
ken war gear was taken by the IA
masea to the nearest civil officer.
The bows are very strong and well
strung, and. poor as they are, the
natives Will seldom part with Their
really good bows and arrows. The
old and inferior weapons are moi
hard to buy. Each poisoned arrow
IS very neatly wrapped with skin
tape and kept so covered I'LL need.
ed.-Harper's Weekly.
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nally Foreman Williams persuaded
ten of the men TO vote for death
penalty. But not 50 with Wicker.
he still held o1t. for the life sentence.
After deliberating for twenty-four
hours, and after the twelve men were
about exhausted, Mr.. Williams pro-
posed that he and Wicker draw
straws, the eleven jurymen 70 vote
with the winner. This was done
and the obstinate Wicker won. The
Jury returned a verdict Of life sent-.
enee, when Little was sentenced 70
the Kentucky penitentiary for life.
After serving 6ve years of the time
the governor pardoned him.
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R.adx "a th. End.

The rector and farmer were dis
eussing the subject of pork one day,
and the rector displayed considera-
bic interest in a pen Of good sized
Berkshires. CHOSE pigs of yours
are in fine condition, Tomkinson,' 2
he remarked. Eyes, sir, they be"
replied the matter of fact farmer.
e All, sur, if we was all Of US only as
fit to die as they be, sur, we'd do. .
London News.
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The highest medical authority
on foods,
Sir James Crichton Browne, M-D.-F.RS.
Of London
gives the best reasons for ealing more
Quaker Oats

In an article published in the
Youth S Companion of Septem-
Der 23rd, 1909, DR.. Browne, the
great medical authority on
foods, says. about brain and
muscle building
There is one kind of food
that seems to me of marked
value as a food to the brain and
to the whole body throughout
childhood and adolescence
youth, and that is oatmeal.
Oats are the most nutritious
OF all the cereals, being richer
IN fats. organic phosphorus and
lecithins. !"
He says oatmeal is gaining
ground with the well-to-do Of
Great Britain. He speaks of It
as the maiIstay Of the Scottish
laboret's diet and says it pro-
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-12-08
ANIMALS LOVE OF MUSIC.
Singing TO Squirrels sad Mies-Musie
Lesson For Blue Jaws.

Lesson For Blue Jays.
Many of the forest folk are very
fond of music and seem to take as
much pleasure m It as We do our
selves. A young blue Jay at one
time spent two months is guest
in my home. We all know what
harsh voices the JOYS have. Did
any one ever hear a jay sing =
sweet, tuneful little song, / won
der? While the small Jay lived
with me it was my custom to prac-
tee singing for half an hour every
morning. No sooner had / seated
myself at the piano and struck a
few chords than III" hoped over
the doorsiH and settled himself on
the rung of a nearby chair.
BE listened with rapt attention,
and after a few days he tried a bit
of song himself. At first l had to
stop and laugh. his performance
was 50 amusing. But after a few
weeks practice he could sing very
sweetly-not exactly the tunes he
heard. but little ones that he made
up as he went along. If any noise
pleased him he began to sing. A
heavy thunder shower or the whir
of the sewing machine always
moved him to express his delight in
song.
More than 200 years ago ayoung
yiolinist, Isidore Berthaume, was
obliged to practice on his violin
many hours daily. One day he saw
a spider peeping at him from its
crack in the wall. Soon it ventured
forth. and every day it grew a little
holder. drawn irresistibly By the
sweet sounds from Isidore's fiddle.
At last one day the boy had the
great pleasure of seeing the spider
take its place on his bow arm. Pres
entity his stepmother, coming into
the room and seeing the spider,
killed it with blow of her slipper.
The death of his pet was such a
blow to the boy that he fell faint
ing to the floor and was i'll for
three months afterward.
When the great herds of cattle on
the plains become restless the COW
boys sing them to sleep and often
prevent a stampede in that way.
They say that the steers are espe-
cially fond of ''3Iy Bonnie" 90
rena" and 'sThe Cowboys Lament"
Squirrels and mice are ardent
music lovers. DR.. Cbomet tells US
that one day while strolling in the
woods he sang an air from an Ital-
ian opera. and. CHANGING to look
around, he saw a number Of
squirrels all listening with delight
to his song. The next time you
take woodland ramble try singing
a few songs, or if you play flute
or fiddle play few tunes and see
what effect it has upon your little
forest friendS.-Nashville Visitor.
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TRAPPING big CATS.
Easiest Victims Of The Wild Animal
Trapper the Most Feroeioas.

Trapper the Most Feroeious.
Strange as 1t may seem, the
easiest victims Of the wild animal
trapper are the most ferocious-
those hloodthirsty huge cats, the
lion and tiger, and those other
beautiful felines, the panther, the
leopard and the jaguar.
With the lion. for instance, It Is
simply a matter of stealing the
cubs. But kidnapping her Thelps
from dangerous beast Ike a lion
'ess Is, of course, an exciting prob
lem.
In the heart OF the darkest, most
ltnpenetrable thicket, In the midst
OF a tangle of vine and thorn and
.creeper, the lion mother has With
her from four to six cubs-golden
Pufballs-tumbling over one an
other, scrambIing over the great
yellow body of the majestic crea-
ture which none on earth save these
-defenseless kittens may 60 near.
Not in the wild world, It would
seem, was a home better protected.
Yet out of thicket well to lee
ward the trapper's eyes are bent
upon the lion home. for once in
every twenty-four hours nature her
self renders these babies defense
less, when the mother. stirred by
the pangs of hunger, ventures forth
to hunt and to eat.
Beside the trapper IS pair of
Kafirs armed with nets made of
stout cords. In the trapper's hand
Is a rifle loaded with a slug of lead
as big as a little finger. The slight
est swapping ola twig and the dan
gerous brute comes to the attack
headlong like a yellow streak. or If
she cannot locate the danger she
picks up her cubs one BY one by
the neck. bounding away with them
IN ten foot springs and hiding them
in a tangle even more dense than
the other.
For hours the trapper must lie,
nerves on edge, before the mother
quits her lair.to strike down a buck
or water buffalo. Then cautious
ly, with rifle ready, the trapper
presses forward and into the IN
guarded lion home.
Quickly the men must work.
Should the ioness return unex-
pectedly nothing but bullet well
and quickly aimed could save them.
Capturing cubs is. however, only
one of three methods which the
trapper uses to transfer the big fe-
lines out of the wilderness into his
cage. By far the greater number
Of his captives are adult beasts in
the height of their prime, vigor and
foreclosures. To catch these the
trapper uses either pitfall or
huge trap. W. Rolker in Cen
fury.
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CONVINCING Argument.

Anna Margaret had great many
toys. and her mother thought she
ought to give some of them away
before Christmas to less fortunate
children. Anna Margaret was will
ing to part with the broken trunk
and the cracked set of dishes and
the one legged bear and a few other
toys that were in the same dilapi-
dated condition. But when it came
to her pet baby doll, the one that
went to sleep with her every night,
she rebelIed. Mamma assured her
that Santa Claus would undoubted-
ly bring to her another doll, even
better. She reused to be comfort
ed.
Mamma" she walled. eff God
sent you another baby would you
give me away?" She kept her doll.
-Delineator.
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WAIVED

Two hundred Mason County farm-s
ers to subscribe fOrthe Farmers Jour
nal Of West Virginia. Price 5ocents
a year. In clubs ofthree, IS cents
Best farm paper and the largest cir
eulatiOn in the great garden and To-
bacco section of the state. Sub
scribe at once and begin with t6e
new year. Farmers Journal, Teays,
West Virginia.
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opened the Door Eor iim,oIf.

a travelling salesman whose bust
ness keeps him con the road" nine
months every year lives when in
New York with a married sister in
a large apartment house on the up
per west side. The day after his re-
turn from a long trip he found a
jury duty notice on his plate and
rushed with it to the commission
er's Office, framing all sorts of e1-
cuses on the way. Then, to his dis
comfort, he found that he had Dor
rowed trouble needlessly-the mo-
tice was intended for his brother
in-law. "What / am worried about
now" he tells his friends as the
moral to his story, "is that my time
VIII soon come, for before my error
was discovered / gave my name and
confessed that had never served"
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Persuaded.

Come up and see US tonight, old
man"
@An right. IN be glad to-"
@our daughter is studying mu-
'By lingo! I have Just remem-
bered an engagement. I am sorry,
but ! cannot positively come"
'Pshaw.. As l was about to say,
our daughter is studying music IN
Germany, and We get a little lone
some"
TN just cut out the engagement
and come anyhow" London Tit
Bits.
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Register l1.Oo . year.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-12-08

@come up and see us tonight, old
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leaeleai6aft iiber ni6t meniger ais
$22, 900 unb cine 9lnaabl Shnll,i-
laden BON bobem @erte entbielt.
4nberoem befanoen ii6 in Der 90
ide nod Die fir Die Hiidfabrt eiilti-
gen Sdiffsideine fir Die @eiea-
idaft.
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der Seite erlaiiene @ornnng por
ii6er9roBem Sptinrisnus gegeniiber
ben perlodenoen Nodridten ban gro.
Ben neuen 0iamantflnben it
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tere amtlibe grfIdrl1ng gefoIgi,
pelde Die gere6tieune ser 9gar-
nung mebr als geniigenb beitatrgt.
Die amtlide Mitteilung beiagt nit
fur5en @orten, oaB Ser @ouperneur
bon Siiomelt=Mfrifa, Serr b. S1uf.
manu- iorgfaltigit Nabforidungen
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los perlaufen iino. Die Solge oa.
bon NOR Elm meiterer 4llrsftur5 III
ben bon ibrer @obe ibon betradtlieb
6erobgegangenen gtnteili6einen Der
an Der 9ianranten-glusbeu interei-
iierten ltnternebntrngen.
9lllf cine 9[nreguna oes be.
fonnten 2eip5ieer aulturbiitorifers
Bref 2ampre6t Amit Dem 9rofel-
ioren-austouih omii1en ben Ser.
Staaten uno Oeutl6lono ail6 ei-
nen -Mustauif @ano iil
Sano geben 5tl laifen, bat Die bent
i6e &egierung beiblolien, biermit
obne Saunen ben Nnfane gu mo-
6en. Cine 9lraabl beuti9er Stu-
oenten iueroen nit itaatli6er llttter-
itiisnne idon i'm ndditen Semeiter
nod ben Ser. Stoater eeididt, Inn
an peridiebenen anerifanii6en Uni
beriitaten gu ituoieren.
slls 0a6folser bes Hrofeiiors
Siduoi, oelien Sortgeben bon Ser
lin I'M poriget Sabre piel beipro-
den lpuroe, lit Der Seioelbereer
Gunitbiltorifer Hrof., Senrp 9bobe
an Die Spise Ser gerIiner !peo-
tionalgalerie berufen moroen.
Der Weiniiter oes sleuBeren
Der &epublif @olipia mabt offi5ien
befanntt bob oie 9olfsitinlmlule
mebr luo mebr elmer frieoli1en 8ei.
legrng oes streites nit Yeru lmo
glrgentinien giinitia merbe uno oaB
iid] Die &riegsgefobr INNER mebr
berminoere.
auf Dem gunoro-9an.pfer
o2uconia" brad, iuabreno ct i'm 0i.
perpooler Safen lag, elm Seuer aus,
oas 5ien1lid piel Sdaoen ongerid).
tet bat. Der 9ompfer nuroe III.
ter @aiier geIett uno oas 0euer
aitf oieie @eiie ecloi6t.
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Cute Mrbeit.
sGslid in San Gntonio setan. @iele
giirser ipreden oabpn.

6oIt ieoer 2eIer bat bon Doons
geieren Eiaen gebort. sbre quite
9lr6eit oouert in San a1ltonio tort
uno uniere giireer fiieen inuner net
tere 3eueniile fir ibre @irfion,teit
ben alten bel. geidts lit Elm beIierer
geipeis oes @ertes ols Die grfobrun.
gen ltnlerer Sreunoe uno Ra1borr.
2eit oieien 6a0:
S. g. @rabanl 730 8ponriilg
StraBe, Son 9lntonio, 3eras, iogt:
Sd gebrou9e 9oon's 9eieren gilleil
ieit Sobren nit Dem belten grfole.
Sd fonnte feine 2inoerung gegen ei=
ne broniide 2abn1ung in meinea
2enoen firoen ltno oa id bon 0oons
9eeiren=&illen las, i6offte id mir eli
men Gorrat an. Sic tpirften 10 aus
ge5ei6net oaB i6 Bis Dor &urSen
feinen peiteren @ebraud fir eine
Nieren=Weeoi5in botte. Da falnen
mefne geieren in l1noronung unb Die
@usi6eioungen iebr unnatiirlih. Mn
ben guten Grfolg, ben i6 porber pon
9oans geieren Biaen erbielt, mid err
innerno, ging id nd6 Der 8era.
Drug So. uno bolte mir cine S6ab,
tel. Sd batte erlt einen Sell oeriel-
ben gebrou6t ais aae geidtperoen
beri6monoen.
3nm gerfallf bel aaen @anoleral.
Breis so Gents. Jolter-MiIburil
Co. Buffalo, Seem gorf, aneillige
9leenten fir Die Ser. Staoten.
Grinnert @ub oes yeamens =
0oans - uno nebnt feline onoeren.
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gietoria 9ipiiiun, 6. S. e g. q.

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RoO. so2 -euerO. sictoria, 1880 na4m
Qbfa6rt-
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