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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1909-09-17
Elderly People
Helped Free

The last years Of life are the sweet
est, and yet the most difficult TO pro-
long. 1t is then that the greatest care
is exercised in maintaining bodily
health. But the chief care should al
ways be with regard to the food you
eat and whether you are digesting it
properly. You should not allow your
self to become constipated.
No doubt you have tried salts and
cathartic pills, purgative tablets, ETC., and
have come TO the conclusion that they are
violent in action and do but temporary
good. Listen, then, TO the voice OF ex-
perlence with regard TO a wonderful and
mild laxative, DIR. Caldwelis Syrup Pep
sin. II is not new, only we are trying
TO find new friends for II.
A. A. Felts, of Johnston City, ILL.,, suf-
fered from stomach trouble for six years
and found his cure In DR.. Caldwell 8
Syrup Pepsih His wife uses ii too with
success. We could name hundreds OF
others. Some heard of il first through
neighbors or friends; others through the
doctors OFFER TO send any sufferer from a
stomach, liver or bowel complaint a free
sample bottle for trial. without charge.
II you will send your name and address
he will send you a trial bottle direct to
your home. II ii proves itself as he
claims then continue the. treatment by
buying a 50-cent or 81 bottle OF your
druggist, as all OF them sell It, Old people,
like children, should look for purity, and
II is well TO mention that the purity OF
this remedy is vouched for with the U. S.
government Also, though free bottle
is sent TO prove its merits, results are
always guaranteed from the regular
bottles bought OF druggists, who will re-
you. Send at least for the free test bottle
TODAY.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1909-09-17

II there is anything about
your ailment that you don't
understand, or IL you want
any medical advice, write
70 the doctor. and he will
answer you fully. There is
no charge for this service.
The address is DR.. w. B.
Caldwell, 500 Caldwell bldg,
Monticello. Ill.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1909-09-17
In the Garden.

Rose-Isn't that vine a fool to run
up so many feet in single season?
Tulip should say so, but, you see.
he's only a sucker.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1909-09-17

In the beginning of neck boil a
good thing is a pure grain alcohol
poultice made by soaking a marble
size wad of surgeons cotton in alcohol
and keeping it on wet all night with a
bandage.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1909-09-17
PROFESSIONAL AND BUSINESS CARDS
LAW YERS.

INCOLN n. TITUS, Attorney AT Law. Weston
- Block, Paw Paw, Michigan,
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wv ]. BARNARD, Attorney al Law. Once OPP
W posite court house. Paw Paw, Mich.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1909-09-17

p NJ. CHASE, Attorney at Law. Weston Block,
IN. Paw Paw, Mich.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-12-22
FOR CHRISTMAS SHOPPING.

Many heartburnings win be saved
if common sense is applied to the
Christmas giving andand purchasing,
says an exchange, which offers the
following suggestions
Buy early and get advantage Ofthe
better assortment.
Be cheerful. This is the special
season of good will on earth.
Don't scold the sales girl. You
could not do as well if you were on
her side of the counter.
Patience is one Of the graces few
persons possess. Try to cultivate it
while waiting to be served in the
stores.
Don't Az into apashion If a mistake
ola pickIe is made in your change.
See the cashier.
Buy within your means. Get rid
of the foolish notion that your friends
viii think you are mean if you do not
send expensive gifts. They are not
friends if they think that way.
Many pretty things can be bought
for small sum. Take time to look
through the stores. You WILDE well
coined everywhere and the store
folks will go to lot of trouble to
help you in selecting your gifts.
Don't make a display of your
money. Pickpockets are on the
lookout for such fools.
Don't scOld or fret if the crush of
the crowd jostles your new hat out of
plumb. That is what the crowd is
for. But hold on to your purse and
tongue.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-12-22
WAS LONG TRAMP TOO MUCH FOR OLD
MAN.

Clarksburg, W. Va, Dec. II
George W. Chapman, of Gallipolis,
o., war veteran rs years old, who,
despite his advanced age and partial
blindness, started to tramp to his
home from Grafton, was aided by
the city and by policemen and others
who attended police court here. A
ticket to Parkersburg was given to
him by order of the Mayor and the
others contributed small purse Of
money to assist him on his way
home.
Mr.. Chapman had been in Phila-
delrhia undergoing heltment for
blindness, with which he was strick-
en- eight years ago. The treatment
proved beneficial and the sight ofone
eye was restored.
His money gave out, after he had
paid his expenses in Philadelphia,
and there was only enough left to
pay for a ticket to Grafton, so he
started to walk to Gallipolis from
that city. When he arrived in Clarks.
burg Sunday evening, he applied for
lodging at police headquarters, and
he was cared for until Monday morn
ing.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-12-22
TIE SNAKE asa EAIER.

Alarmed physician in Philadelphia
makes the suggestion IN a medical
publication that rattlesnake poison
is an excellent remedy for cOnsump-
ton. 1t may be affirmed with con-
fdence that a person who receives a
good dose of this strong medicine,
administered by the snake himself,
cooled up as coFkscrew. will not
die of consumption. Wise men are
always discovering use for those
things which are populary deemed
useless. Even the uses of adversely
are said to be sweet. But snakes
have always served a useful purpose.
In Maine they have been used to bite
persons III order to entitle them to
buy adrink of whiskey. Rattlesnake
grease is good for many ailments,
and rheumatism has been cured by
tying snake skin around the waist.
In the rural districts, in times of
great drouth, it is customary to kill
a snake and hang.it on tree in order
to bring rain. This IS done cautious
ly, however, for when certain kinds
of snakes are used violent and des-
tructiye storm sometimes follows.
If, indeed, snakes poisiOn can be
used to cure consumption, it will
afford pleasure to all. Perhaps
some good man in Philadelphia will
now undertake to discover a use for
flies and mosquitoes, and so win the
gratitude of mankind, and especially
of that large and respectable portion
of the human race who, because of
high and continuous thinking, have
lost the hair of their heads.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-12-22
BEST FAMILY Weekly

ever published. We want your aid
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and choice of reading.
We want you to join US for the
purpose of making life and home
happier; morality, honor and ambi-
ton on, higher plains, and crowding
out all manner Of depravity that Of
late years have grown to such grave
excuses as to threaten the fair fame
of our country.
No act of legislation, law of force,
will effect reforms in ones life!
Like the constant dripping water
wears away the hardest stones, so
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-12-22

'FYassan! Yassah! Hol' on q.
minute, 4 yo' please, sab! Dess
femme tell yo' how 'tis!" expostu-
lated a colored citizen who was
down on his back and being elab-
orately chastised by a larger and.
somewhat harder headed gentleman
of his own race. 'T'l pay yo' dc.
money if yo' puts de argmunt to-
me in dis mannah-yassah, pay 70
de money right now, widout no mo
o dis yuh beatin' and hammerin-
But I want it understood, sab, dat T
isn't no ways 'thusiastic bout it. 4
bows to de indeible when I meets
It, sab, but l keeps muh 'thusiasu
to muhsef - yassah, keeps It to-
muhsef to de bitter end s-Puck.
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MAJ Eaeed crabp.

The world famous man faced crab.
of Japan is one of the most singu-
lar looking creatures that ever walk
ed the earth or Swan the waters
under the earth" Its body is hard
ly an inch in length, yet the head
is fitted with a face which is the
perfect counterpart of that Of a.
Chinese cody = veritable missing
link, with eyes, nose and mouth alE
clearly defined. This curious and
uncanny creature, besides the great
likeness it bears to a human beng
in the face, is provided with two
legs which grow from the top Gifts
head and hang down over the sides
of its face. Besides these legs two
feelers, each about an inch m
length, grow from the chin Of the
animal. They look for all the world
like a forked beard. These man
faced crabs swarm in the inland.
seas of Japan.-New York Tribune
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A Beautiful p,v

Two Scotchmen were going home
very drunk together, and the one
said to the other: teWeel, Donald.
we've had beautiful day. But
what bothers me is that / Gamma re-
member what like the bride was"
whist, man" said his friend, ct
Sisna a merriage: it Wis a fun'ral.1
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-12-22
A WINTER NIGHTS THOUGHTS.

Coming home from work this even
ing saw big automobile, carrying
six or seven passengers, skidding
around on the snow. never owned
an automobile, and never had the
pleasure of scooting around in one
when the roads were covered with
snow. 1t may be lots of fun, but /
am here to assert that automobiIing
in the snow, no matter what compa-
ny you are in, isn't in it for minute
with the old-fashioned bob-sled rides
We used to take, years before the
automobile was invented. There
was fun for you!
Just as soon as there was a good
snowfall the word would be passed
around that the gang" would meet
at Franks, Mays or Fred's, prompt
ly at Z 80 p. NJ, Friday evening.
We selected Friday evening because
there would be no school next day.
And then two or three ofus would
skirmish around and get the old bob
sled. Remember how we used to
put a wagonbox on the hobs, fill the
box full of fragrant hay and warm
robes, and then attach the best team
of horses we could scare up? When
all was ready we'd draw cuts to see
who would have to make a sacrifice
and drive one way, with some other
victim to drive back. Then we'd
drive up to the meeting place and
the whole bunch would pile in, nest
ling down into the hav and covering
over with the warm robes. Then
away we'd go, the huge strings of
sleighbells making the air ring with
their music, while We added to the
music of our fresh young voices.
Gee, how we used to sing! Let's
see-there was Steamboat Coming
Around the Bend; GOOdby, my Low
er, Goodby;'' and ''Gwine ter git a
Home in Georges" and ''Hear Dem
Bells" and Jingle Bells;'' and
"Gwine Back ter Dixie;;7 and-and
+, o, we can't recall them all now,
but we used to sing them.
And the merry jests, and the
quips of jokes! Me, o my! Re-
member how She snuggled up closee
And how fearful we were lest Her
hands grew cold! And how soliciti-
GUS We were that Her nubia, or muf-
fer, or whatever you may call it, was
properly found around Her neck!
Huh! we'llbet cookie that the
people who jimmy around in autos
this kind of sleighing weather don't
begin to have the fun we used tohave
in the old bob-sled. And we didn't
leave trail OF foul-smellins gasoline
behind US, either. The only trail We
left was trail of music, and good
cheer, and youthful exuberance.-
Will NJ Maupin in the Commoner.
T
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HAVE YOU SEEN IT?
THE LAST ISSUE OF THE CINCINNATI
ENQUIRER,

or any recent issue? If not, you
know nothing of the wonderful bet
terments its pages exhibit, or what a
valuable, instructive, and cheer Civ
ing weekly visitor you are missing.
We are aiming and will make it
the very
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-12-22
IMAGINATION.
The Way Il Can Be used to sis.cs :
Psrson,s Health. b

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The Way L Can Be used to Aisoct :
Person's Health.
A nerve specialist Of Philadelphia
told at a dinner an amusing story
of the influence Of the imagination
on the health.
"a young bank clerk" he sud.
feeling tagged from the excessive
heat Of a trying Philadelphia sum
mer, consulted a physician. The
physician Questioned HIM, sounded
his lungs and then said grayely:
az viii write you tomorrow.
sThe next day the bank clerk re-
ceiyed a letter from the medical
man telling him that his right lung
was gone and his heart seriously de-
ranged and advising him to lose no
time in putting his affairs IN order.
"'of course the doctor wrote.
you may live for weeks, but you
would do well to leave nothing Of
Importance unsettled
Naturally the young bank clerk
was very much depressed BY tins
sad letter. nothing less than a deaeln
warrant. BE did not. Of course, 90.
to work that morning, and before
noon he was having trouble with his
respiration, while severe pains shot
rapidly through his heart. BE did
not get up all day, and on toward
midnight he had had a sinking SPELL
that caused his people to send post
haste for the doctor.
The doctor on his arrival vas
astounded.
why he cried, ethere were no.
symptoms Of this sort yesterday.
What on earth have you been doing
to yourselfs
'The patients face screwed up
with pain; he pressed his hand %
his breast and said feebly:
%Tts the heart, l suppose, dos
@The hearth said the doctor.
There was nothing yesterday the
matter with your heart
%My lungs, then,' the patient
@What ais youg the doctor
shouted. You don't seem to have
been drinking
"Your letter, doctor-you told
me / had only a few weeks to liye.'
Nonsense! Are you crazy? Z.
told you to take a months vacation
at the seashore and you'd be as
good as new again
"The patient drew the fateful let
ter from a drawer beside his bed.
"FWell,' said the doctor, glanc-s
ing at it, this is a pretty mess. This
letter was intended for another
man. Ny secretary mixed up the
envelopes
'The patient laughed. BE satup-
in bed. His recovery was rapid.
That snight, in fact, he was well
again.
eAnd what" ended the special
ist-"what of the dying consump
tive who had got this young mans.
letter? The consumptive, delight
ed with the prediction that a !
month at the seashore would make
a sound man of him, packed his
trunk and took the first train for
New England. That was ten years
ago, and today he is in fair health. -
Los Angeles Times.
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MAY Be PARDONED
AFTER FIFTY YEARS
WEEMURDERER EXPECTS TO SEE MAR.
YHS OF MODERN LIFE.

Hartford, Conn, Dec. ls.-John
P. Warren, seventy-One years old,
who has served half century of a
life sentence OfimprisOnment for wife
murder; who probably, has been i'm
INJURED longer than any other crimi-
nal in the world, hopes to emerge
from the State Prison at Westers6eld
tomorrow.
Then the State Board of Pardons
win act on the appeal for mercy sub
mitted by Warren, Convict No. u
in the prison; the grandfather of
criminals.
8 An old man, Your HonOrs, who
for fifty years, a lifetime, has paid,
uncomplainingly the penalty for the
crime of his youth.
Warren, a model prisoner, said to-
day:
81 expect to get the best Christ
mas present of all, my pardon"
You viii be born again, Warren, !"
said the correspondent.
True, born again at seventy
one" said the old man, smiling sad
ly. 81 will go into new world, not
the world left in 1859. l haye
read of the new world-if I had not
read, read, read, should be crazy
by now. The new world is one of
great railroads, of automobiles, tele-
phones, typewriters, skyscrapers,
wireless telegraphy, submarine boats
and hundred other wonderful
things
During the long years ofhis incar-
ceration Warren has never uttered a
word about the dreadful crime he
committed In July. 1859, Warren
invited his eighteen-year-old wife to
take walk with him, and coming
toa brook near their farm in Will
ington he suggested that they take
of their shoes and stockings and
head under water until she was dead.
wade in the water.
She acquiesced, but once in the
brook Warren seized her and held her
Just what fury or passion animat-
ed Warren to commit the deliberate
cold bloOded and apparently unpro-
voked and unreasonable crime no one
knows. He plead guilty, and to this
plea and his counsel's eloquent argu-
ment for second degree sentence
Warren owes his lite. He was sent
enced on the very day on which ano-
table gathering was held in Hartford
oftamous Connecticut patriots re-
sponsive to call to save the I'm
ion.'
Warren entered wethersfeld pris-
on before the civil war began; of
events which have happened since he
has learned only from newspapers.
Warren is well preserved, mentally
and physically; he looks more like a
man of fifty than seventy-one. His
remorse has made him most tracta-
bic; he enjoys as many privileges as
the PRISONS severe discipline allows.
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PREPARED FOR THE CELEBRATION.

At a flag day celebration one boy,
to show good reason why he should
take part in the parade said he had
a real gun; another had a pistol; a
small girl had flag, and so on. FL
nally one lad of six came up and
stood waiting for the teacher to see
see him. well, what is it," she
asked.
4 has a union suit. y
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-12-22

The United States Supreme Court
refused a writ of certiorari to banker
Charles W. Morse, and granted an
appeal to Samuel Gompers and other
labor leaders.
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FAITH IN SANTA
Claus ALWAYS:
NO SANTA CLAUS Thank GOD, He
uVEADHVE FOREVER.

Tear down thestraetureofa ehild's
faith in Santa Claus, wreck his loyalty
and love for old kris Kringle'' and
you despoil forever that ehild's great
est sense of appreciation of the un-
seeable but beautiful things that 90
to make oflife for all ofus, all that is
lovely. Some one-soolish, narrow
minded person-tried TO destroy the
faith of one little child in the below
ed Santa, and the child wrote the
following missiye to the editor Of the
New York Sun:
Dear Editor: | am s years old.
Some of my friends say that there is
no Santa Claus. Papa says, If you
see it in the Sun, it's so. Please
tell me the truth. Is there Santa
CLAUSE
VIRGINIA o. HANLoN.
And the editor ofthe Sun, mighty
man of inyeetive and sarcasm, be-
came even as little child,' . and
wrote the following charming reply !:
Virginia: Your LITTLE friends are
wrong. They have been affected by
the skepticism of skeptical age.
They will not believe except they
see.
Yes, Virginia, there is a SAINT.
Claus. He exists as certainly as love
and generosity and devotion exist,
and you know that they abound and
give to your life its highest beauty
and JOY. Alas, how dreary would be
the world ifthere were no santaclaus
1t would be as dreary as if there
were no Virginias. There would be
no childlike faith then, no poetry, no
romance to make tolerabIe this ex-
istence. We should have no enjoy
ment except in sense and sight. The
eternal light with which childhood
fills the world would be extinguished.
You might get your papa to hire
men to watch all the chimneys on
Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus,
but even if they did not see Santa
Claus coming down, what would that
provea Nobody sees Santa Claus.
The most real things in the world
are those that neither children nor
men see. Nobody can conceive or
imagine all the wonders that are un-
seen and unseeable in this world.
You may tear apart the baby's rattle
and see what makes the noise inside
but there is a veil covering the UNI
seen world which not the strongest
that ever lived could ever tear apart.
Only faith, fancy, poetry, love and
romance can push aside that curtain
and view and picture the supernal
beauty and glory beyond. 1t is all
real? All, Virginia, in all this world
there is nothing SO real and abiding.
No Santa Claus! Thank God, he
lives and lives forever. A thousand
years from now, virginin-nay, ten
times ten thousand years from now
he will continue to make glad the
heart of childhood. /"
PREPARED FOR THE CELEBRATING
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The gentleman selected to probe
the Milk Trust will no doubt get
iuto deep water.
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SEE our CLUBBING AS.

We will send the Weekly Enquirer
and either of the following journals,
both ono year, for price named:
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The jet button craze alreadyshows
signs of waning.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-12-22

Paris is offering all sorts of hats
except small ones.
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The Cincinnati
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clubs of 5 at 75cts each.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1909-03-12
Among our advertisers.

Miller, the taylor, advertises in this
issue.
Bargains 10 dry goods, notions, etc,
at Avery's.
Charles advertises list of drug sun
dries in this issue.
Fresh caught trout and hot house
lettuce at w. }. Warmers.
Low prices on groceries are quoted in
Warmers adv this week.
Hawley 81 Warner have a new furni-
ture adv IN this issue. Read carefully
Attention is called to f. g. rhayer s
public sale, advertised for Thursday
March is Read it.
When you want to know about the
OesI gasonue Stoves nlaac, Eaik 10 Wa
ters about the Quick Meal line.
Have you seen the display of spring
suits and skirts in Selick' east window
Read his adv. in this issue regarding
same.
Beautiful new line of spring goods in
lawns, mulls, India linons, gInghams and
perc ales also the much advertised "Flax
on" cloth at Broughton's. Read adv. il
this issue.
Radical changes in the new styles
makes new spring suit, overcoat, rain
coat, trousers necessity. f. Smith &
Co. beckons you, the home of the Hart
Schatfner ~ Marx fine clothes.