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The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-11-03
Very Aaaravatina.

Most trying companions are they
whose first thought concerns them
selves and their possessions. A girl
who lived with her aunt was often
disturbed by evidences of the old
lady's seIfshness.
One day in going down the cellar
for some butter she tripped and fell
heavily quite a distance. The maid
en- aunt rushed to the door and.
peering down into the darkness,
called out sharply:
'D'ye break the dish?"
40" Numbered back the niece.
for once thoroughly aroused. no,
out I will" And she shivered ii
With hearty good will against the
cellar wall.
The old lady was so shocked by
this dramatic reproof that she took
to her bed and kept It for week
London Telegraph.
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Eaps OF cRIMINALs.
Mardsrers Who Were Particular as 70
Personal Appearances.

Persenal Appearance.
Oscar Slater. who murdered Mss
Gilehrist IN her Glasgow fat, Prov
ed himself typical dandy even in
the condemned cell and also y
stickler for the properties. BE In
sisted, for instance, from the very
beginning in being called .s1lr. :
Slater, and each morning he chang
ed his linen, varied his necEwear
and demanded polished boots.
Similar. exhibitions of strutting
peacock vanity are not uneom-
mon on the part of men doom
ed to die on the gallows. Wain-
wright on the day preceding his
execution absolutely refused to
dress because his clean linen had
not arrived from the laundry, and
a new shirt and collar had to be
bought for him. When the even
ing arrived-his last on earth-hc
eraved a smoke. A pipe and to-
bacco were brought to him. but he
rejected them with disdain. BE
would have cigar. And he got it.
LEROY, who murdered poor old
Mr.. Gold in railway carriage on
the way to Brighton, wore an even
ing dress suit during the whole of
the period that elapsed between his
condemnation and his execution:
also he Was greatly upset ut the re-
fusal of the authorities to allow
him to be hanged in a new silk hat
presented to him in court.
As rule, however, the thoughts
of the condemned turn mostly to-
ward food. Rush. the Stansfeld
Hall murderer, was an educated
man. q want my slippers and the
Times" were his first words on re.
turning to jail after his conviction.
But a little later he called for pen
and paper and wrote out an order
for his next days dinner, "Pig and
plenty of apple sauce"
In those days it was the custom
to give capital convicts whatever
they asked for in the way of food.
But the rule was abolished soon
afterward, one of the first delin-
quents to come under the new regu-
lations being certain jeffrey, who
murdered his six-year-old child by
hanging him in cellar in Seven
Dials. he was unaware of the al
teration and called for a roast duck
directly be entered the condemned
cell, and when it was refused him
he behaved so violently that he had
to be put in straitjacket.-Pear-
sons Weekly.
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Twentx.first centurx wooina.

The grave young medical man
entered the front parlor with sober
mien. christening his small black
satchel, ne produced little purple
vial, and, taking therefrom a tiny
bug, he slipped it into a hypodermic
syringe and advanced toward the
shrinking girl.
'No, no" cried the pretty Pencil
ope. at cannot be! I could not
love You in the world!"
NFYou just wait until Mr.. Coccu-
samoritis gets busy in your deli
cate blue veins," said the young
doctor, injecting the love germ.
Their devotion is now almost pro-
yerbial.-Brooklyn Life.
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VANITY OF AN SUPPRESS.
Josephine Dearly Loved Her Gowns
and Her Jewels.

abS 'aS1 SS"1Aos
1t is a rare privilege to be allow
ed to peep at the mysteries of an
empress toilet, to ransack her
wardrobes, with their treasures of
costly gowns, to open her jewel cas-
ket and to gloat over gems that
would purchase many a kings ran
som. But when this empress is the
most luxurious and picturesque wo-
man of an extravagant age the
temptation is too strong to resist,
says the London Standard.
Such an empress was Josephine,
in turn the spoiled darling and out
cast wife of Napoleon l., whose star
filed the social heaven of Europe
for Eve years. Josephine was more
than forty years old and had al
ready exhausted all tie arts of lux
ury when she was crowned empress
in 1904. Her first beauty had long
left her, and it is said she had prac-
ticed the fatal and fashionable art
Of enameling until the enamel
would no longer retain its hold on
her skin, but cracked and covered
her with a constant layer Of white
powder.
For ordinary occasions her hair
dresser was a N. Herbeault, "a
magnificent creature in an embroid-
cred costume, with a sword at his
SIDE" but for any important occa-
sion NJ. Duplan, the most consum-
mate artist in the world, was called
IN. M. Duplan's salary for these
occasional services was 10000
francs a year, increased later by Ma
poleon to $1,000 francs. These two
uuriyaled artists designed for Jo-
sepfine's benefit no less than a
thousand new methods of hair
dressing, each adapted to the spe-
ciaI circumstances in which it was
worn.
Much as Josephine loved her hun
dreds Of costly dresses, she loved
her jewelry more and was never
happy unless she was adding almost
daily to her treasures. In a few
short months she spent half a mil
hon francs on jewels, and her hap
piest hours at Malmaison were
spent in spreading out her thou
sands of gems on the table before
her and gloating over their dazzling
charms.
2e-- &x.=ss-:ss-=- gss the cause
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KEEP THE KIDNEYS WELL
Health i. Worth Saving. and Some Point
PleaaantPeople Know How to saveIt.

Many Point Pleasant people take
their lives in their hands by neglect
ing the kidneys when they know
these organs need help. Sick kid
neys are responsible for vast amount
of suffering and i'll health. but there
is no need to suffer nor to remain in
danger when all diseases and aches
and pains due to weak kidneys can
be quickly and permanently cured by
the use ofDoan's Kidney Pills. Here
is Point Pleasant citizens recon-
mendation.
Louis ]. Petty, Fifth Street, Point
Pleasant, W. Va, says: chad often
read public statements given by
parties who had taken Doan's Kid
ney Pills and in this way was led
to try the remedy, a few months ago
when my kidneys became disordered.
The flow of the kidney secretions
was scanty and my back panied me
acutely when stopped. procured
Doan's Kidney Pills at HoofF7s drug
store and the use of one box was
sufficient to relieve me. As have
had no return of the annoyances, /
consider my cure permanent one. =
For sale by all dealers. Price so
cents. Foster-Milpurn Co.. Buffalo,
New York, sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the name-Doan' $
and take no other. 81
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STATES APPLE CROP WORTH
MORE THAN COAL PRODUCTS
S0lE STARTING FIGURES ARE PRESENID BY WEST YIRGRlAIS
WHILE m NEW YORK.

nOuneement equally amazing to the
effect that while the whole world
talks mnsh of Kentucky, there is
much mere blue grass acreage in
West Virginia than IN old Kentucky,
only you do not hear 50 much pro-
claimed and about it in the news
papers.
The coterie of West virginians
INST noticed around the Waldorf is
made up of men who are at the head
of great corporations formerly estab-
lished and with no stock tosell. The
big men in these West Virginia COM
GAMES are looking for business and
f markets but not to sell stock for
the sake of raising money. They
have money enough and are looking
for more of it with which to still
further develop the almost virgin soil
of West Virginia and eastern Eentuc-
ky.
Here are the Watsons of Fairmont
already mighty well established, pay
ing out a million cash for new coal
territory and panning the paving out
of three million dollars more. for
building of railroads that will take
the products to the new property to
market. This is one big company of
several Others operating in many
parts of the state, also in MARYLAND,
Kentucky and even Southern Pennsyl-
venia, There is reaching out for
n=w markets of course and by meth
DDS that eventually prevail and bring
millions of money into West Virginia
pockets not to mention the influx of
thousands of workmen who will 9th
erwise and in building up the state
incidentally add to the big republican
majority.
Pleasant it is to see the watsOns
Enthusiastically adding year
by year to the power of the republican
party in West Virginia and all the
Hon. Clarence gets out of it is the
honor of being a delegate once in
four years to natural convention.
No one from West Virginia enjoys
telling of his state wonderful growth
more than the Hon. Isaac T. Mann,
of BramwelI. Mr.. Mann has gone to
Gotham, but after the winter season
he will have his family in part located
in Washington.
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S0ME STARTING

New York, Oct. s7.-It seemed
startling of course, when the West
Virginia coal and timber magnates,
grouped in Peacock Alley finished
fulsome compliments on their state
Fescu,ce, onlystol1ear the Hon. Joe
Chiffon chip in with the remark,
The apple trees of West Virginia,
bring in more money than all the
coal mines
There was a murmur of dissent on
the part Of the coal nabobs but it
ceased when Mr.. Chiffon pulled the
figures to show that more money is
received each year by the apple orch
ard owner; than by the much talked
about owners of great coal concerns.
It was claimed by Chiffon and approx
ed by Others who joined the group that
in the great apple producing section
of the state enormous sums of money
are taken in each year by apple
raisers who are thrifty in taking care
of their orchards but who have little
to do once the fruit ripens, as buyers
pay SO much for the crop as it clings
to the trees.
Tales were told of farmers in the
Martinsburg region who sell a crop
for se6, 900 and even more in espec-
tally good years and in other fruit
raising countries such sales are com
mon. Long ago those of US in Wash
ington, who hear the Hon. Geo. NJ.
Bowers, boast of the apple crop in
Lis section thought him just a little
over enthusiastic but ike Chiffon he
pulled the figures ofthe state agricul-
tur i board and proved his assertions.
Once the topic came up here in New
York, there was the added informa-
ton that each year is seeing great
increase in the orchard acreage of
the state and in all sections where
apples and other fruit flourish best.
To much has been written about the
wonderful coal and lumber develop
ment of West Virginia that residents
and nOn-residents forget what the
trees are doing on the uplands Ofthe
mountain state. While special men
ton is made of apples it should not
be forgotten that peaches and berries
are also big product each year and
bring in an enormous revenue.
Col. Chiffon advanced another an
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OF many tea1s anu ...~~.. .r------
ing from Napoleon, who grew tired
Of paying bills, many of them reach
ing almost million francs. But
in the end he usually succumbed to
her pleading and penitence and
would say to her: Come, Jo-
sephine! Come, nv little one!
Console yourself. ] viii make it all
-1+" Poor. silly Josephine! Poor
Eanoleon,
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clean ready for seed or market, and
save it, even the light oats which
other machines blow over. Grain
from our machine sells for one to
three cents per bushel more because
it is so perfectly cleaned.
"Geiser' Gas and Gasoline Engines
are strictly high class, simple in eon-
struceion, easily understood and opes-
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and guaranteed to deliver their full
rated power. They are ideal for
farm and factory, and are approved
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The facilities ofthis most thorough
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employed to supply the demand for
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The writer, who is well known e
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We solicit inquiries regarding our
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2l4 Capitol Street, Charleston, W.
Va. will receive our prompt and care
full attention
Very truly yours
W. W. THOMAS
June e-emo Charleston W Va.
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A Way Out.

Servant-A newspaper reporter
wishes to interview you, sir.
Great Man-Did you not tell him
I was hoarse-codld hardly speak?
SIGNIFICANTLY, sir! But he
assured me he would only ask ques-
tons which you could answer BY a
nod or a shake of the head.
Great Man-Then tell him I have
/ stiff neck.
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10 THE saw MILL MEN
THRESHERlIEN OF WEA.

The Geiser Mfg. Co., of Wayne
boro, Pa, manufacture complete
line Of highest grade Traction. Pot-
table and Steam Engines and Boiler.
Saw Mills, Grain Threshers, Clover
HullerS, Gas and Gasoline Engines,
Hay Presses, &c, in size to suit the
requirement Of the individual or Gus
tom operator. "a
Peerless traction engines are
the best roadsters and hin climber.
and, like our portable and stationary
engines, deliver maximum power a.
minimum cost. Our traction and
portable boilers are the locomotive;
pattern bywhich the greatest amount,
of water and steam space is secured
With our Stationary Engines We can
furnish either locomotive or retnrn
tubular type boiler. Anparts ofour
machinery are made 70 STANDARD
guage with scrupulous regard for I'M
iformiry in workmanship, thereby
making all parts interchangeable.
Geiser Saw Mills are the most
complete and convenient, duiekand
accurate in their operation; simple
in construction, not requiring a skill
ed mechanic to set them up. Our
variable automatic friction feed is self
contained, is Independent Of, and
does not interfere with, the move
ment of the saw mandrel, a feature
by all practical saw mill
men. Geiser mills are light run
ming and unsurpassed for accuracy
and quantity Of work done.
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MOTHERS AND HUSBANDS.

The following may be a little ex-
aggerated, but it is worth thinking
about:
Once l was young, now am old,
and never see a girl that was I'M
faithful to her mother that ever came
to be worth one eyed button to her
husband 1t is law of God. 1t isn't
exactly in the Bible, but it is written
large in the miserable lives many UNI
fortunate home. am speaking for
the boys this time. If any of you
chaps ever come across a girl that,
with face full of roses, says to you
as you come to the door, l can't go
for thirty minutes yet, for the dishes
are not washed, you wait for that
girl. You sit down on the doorstep
and wait for her, because some other
fellow may come along and carry her
of, and right there you lose an angel.
Bin Arp.
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oueer Pronuneiation,.

Below are a few names of places
that often puzzle stranger. Hap
pisburgh, in Norfolk. is pronounced
"Fazeboro." Abergayenny simply
drops a syllable and becomes "Aber-
venny," and ii is alleged that st.
Neots sounds more like "Snoots
than anything else. Cirencester
seems to vary from SISTER to
"Sizeter." In Suffolk Waldring-
field is "Wunnerful" and Chelmon-
diston "Chimston," while in the ad-
joining county of Norfolk Hun
stanton is 'Hunston." and in the
west country Badgeworthy is "Bad-
gerry" and Cornwood "Kernood."
Huntingdonshire claims the purest
English, but they call Papworth
''Parpor." London Answers.
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Napoleon:
The Size Of Texas.

Texas is larger than all the New
England states combined, larger
than all the gulf states, including
Georgia, combined; larger than the
middle Atlantic states, consisting
Of New York, Pennsylvania, New
Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, vir-
ginia, West Virginia and the Dis
trict of Columbia larger than Ger
many, larger than France, larger
than Austria-Hungary. 1t is big
enough to supply the population Of
the United States with almost
everything it needs to eat, wear and
make life worth living without ex-
hausting its resources. All this is
not so remarkable from the stand
point of room when it is known
that the area of Texas is 265, ESQ
square miles, that its greatest
length is S25 miles and its greatest
breadth T40 miles. = Galveston
News.
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He BIT.

The city man was jogging on to-
ward the farmhouse in a rickety old
wagon. The driver was glum and
far from entertaining, and the city
man felt rather lonely.
Fine field over there" he ven
tured after a long silence.
Zine" grunted the driver.
@Who owns it?"
%old man Bit"
"old man Bit, eh? Who are
those children stacking up hay?"
"old man Bits boy"
"And what is his idea IN having
them out there in the field such a
hot day?"
"Waal, I reckon he thinks every
little Bit helps, stranger. Any
thing else you want to know? Get
mn here. hossesw = Philadelphia
t1ai
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-11-03

New Peerless :,
and "Geiser1
Threshers have
no sleeves or rid
dies to choke and
clog and cause
trouble and ex-
pense. They
thresh clean out
of the heads.
oCAtAAtAlC S4C14
from the straw
and by our Gram
Plate and Roller
System clean the
grain PERFECTLY
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We have new line of cushion
covers; all new designs. Mrs. L. j.
Williamson.
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Renernl,

and take no other.
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.e- ex.sssT.ss--=-es IS The cause
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1909-03-12

Official. sin haberse aprobado
los presupuestos por causa de
la resistencia de Ia Camara al
Consejo respondiendo a la ac-
titud de este ante los mas i'm
portantes proyectos de ley pa
sados por la Camara respecto
de asuntos economics y poll
ticos cerro sus trabajos Y asi
10 comunic6 al Consejo Eje-
cutivo. Este cuerpo contest6
a la Camara en- los mismos ter
minos felicitandola por su la
Dor y ell gobernador Post, res
pondi6 a la necesidad de que
Sc trataraD y aprobaran los
proyectos que babian quedado
pendientes y atendido q uD
espiritu de copcordia y demo-
cracia, convoc6 enseguida a
otra asamblea eXtraordinaria,
enviando hoy SUI mensaie a la
Camara Y volviendo esta 4 rea
nudar sus seSiones.
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Mise LIMA OAVALlER}
Afamada soprano que can't
actualmente en- Nueva York.
6hHCC TERRITORIAL ! AGRIcoLA
DE PUERTO-RlCO.
Cspital suIeriIado s. 40O, 900 Capital rsi
Iueo S5l5,5 ,532.9s U 5 c

tkAA@sANANa NJ HHAAaAA
pitEEmos. Con garaHtIAs psrsorAlss.
con eo.ateraIes, y con hipotecas 4 eorio
largo plalo gobrs fiueas rdstieAs
DssCusntos. De giros. paEsrfs. y Gill;
rAriones eomsreiAlss 4 e0rts piaIa.
Guos- sohrs EspsbA. Nsu YeTk. Paris
Lrreres HznburEo.
Gros Per Cahls. sobrt Ssu YofE y
Nadud
CUsriEs Cerrsntst. Ger intsres De
n auaal dispaEitica 4 10 vista pof obsqgss
lzroiiricnss 4 piaIs fijo: Goa intsrss
10 3 r arual ssEGn temp
ssIridn es Shorro8. lmFos5cienss srhrs
.t1rstAs dssds = cts. 4 } 90 cca lnisrt1st
81 G aEual
Csbrsn1Et. Per eusnts artna son ora
fta m-nina ds oobrs. sin csmlsl6u para
g ccrTisriistas-
ptpssitss: ne elective vaiorss
CAnhao ss 1saedaE Dt tsaos lg' ral
-
vsuta as rtsslas hipoftcarias. Il re,o-
iuysrsi6a en- Puerto Eico. iuterks o. g.
raEs5sro poF cup1uss sel.estraiss
Vsrta ts fircns. D4ndr fariltia1rs Para
tI raga. sn las iurissiirctaurs d. Ad5unfaV
Agaas Busuas. Aibon5to. A-sriho. Fs-rs-
.snrta. Bare. Cayry Csa,ss rarurai. r.1ara
l1usf.. Barrn- Cayvv. EEA3ss. CsrrEa.
GuayAza Haidia. Jsana u1az. Lai1a. Maza-
q. Narirao. Nartnito. PatIlas. Rig Gra1-ss
utzsdo. Ysdgno4 YHaco-
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yIENDo LA session..

Otro grupo de distinguidas
damas estuvo anoche en- la
sala de la Camara presen-
ciando los debates de la Glti-
ma session. Entire otras Sc vie
ron q las dlstinguidas senoras
de Diez de Andino, Virella,
Ashford, Lopez Diaz, Llorens-
Torres, Oppenheimer, Palmer
Arrillag. Las bellas sehoritas
Finlay- l}asanta, Asensio, Ra-
quel y Maria Hoheb Y Matlen-
20 completaban el simpatlco
cuadro.
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HabTa session esta nOChG.

La Camara de delegados seguira es
ia noche sus trabaios en- la session ex-
traordinaria, para teJminsr los in
formes y aprobaci6p de los nuevos
proyectos de ley que Sc han presen-
tado en- la reunion de 10 mafana.
Mafana probablemente Sc ceie-
brara session por Ia mshana, tarde
y noche,y Sc espera que en- estos dlas
queden ultimadoo los trahajos pen
dientes. ..,
Las comisiones de coafcrenclas
han estado trabaiando toda la mana
ma y tarde y Sc dara cuenta esta no.
che con los acuerdos ultimados
entire las representations &c am-
bos cuerpos.
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In ptlato del ST. LaITiinaga

"The Tea and Coffee Trade Jour.
nal" revista agricola comercial de
Nueva York, publlca en- su prime
ra pagina Y en- 10 edlci6n de febre.
70 ultimo, el retrato de nuestro com.
patricia Sr Tulio LarIinaga.
LIE llama, comlslonadc de Puerto
Rico en- Washington y "ardlente
proteCcionista del cafe.
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Cuiosose miti0s.

Dfcen de BERLIN que la prensa
polaca, a fin de burlar las ngorosas
ordenes del Gobierno aleman. Que
lie. prohibe eelehrar reuniones, ceIe-
bra ests lie un modo original.
En- 10 litins no s. labla una pa
labra camente reparten no.
jas imp 49,. donde IS aSistentes
al mltih eden leer, en su idion,a
native, Ii !lscursoS, Y sobre una r.
zarra Sc ;rlben los acuerdos v de
clSones de la asamblea. efectuan-
dose las votaciones de Ia manera
mas silencioSa
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Buena peplta.

La fe y el enbusiasme dedos, b
cadores de orc serobustsce de
de en- tarde 'cuandeee dada not:
del hallazgo de alguna pepita
grandes dimenslones.
Pecas igualaran en- tamaho
en- Ia nina Rheola .
tralia). 10 cual pepita (quien Ia
seyeraD mide IS centimetro:
longitud y pesa 24:76 kiogra
FL talor Sc estims en- mas Dc
900 frances.
De una pepita asf Icualquier
enamora.i