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The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-07-21
Point Pleasant Liquor House,
Homer Smith, Proprietor.

All orders by mail should be accompanied by Cash. Posofce
Express Money Order Check We will send any address
the following brands the prices stated below We conduct
of Mail Order Businesses in the State of West vr
gnia
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A Crease Spot Suit.

A man whose wife found much
fault with him-probably with JUS
tice-on account of his untidiness,
went to a tailor to order a suit Of
clothes.
What kind of goods DO you
want?" asked the tailor.
%All wool and exactly of this
color" replied the customer, pre-
senting sample.
at is hard to tell Just what color
this is" rejoined the other, inspect
ing it. "Where did you get it"
Il cut it from my last suit"
at doesn't seem to have any fig
ure."
''No. This is where some grease
got on it. l cut out the entire spot.
l want something a grease spot
won't show on. See:"
After a lengthy explanation the
tailor succeeded in convincing him
that there was no cloth of that kind
in the market.-London Mail.
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Was Some Mud.

OF all the yarns that ever came
down the line regarding deep mud
the following should be entitled to
the blue ribbon. 1t happened in
the place where mud originated: A
man was walking alcng the roadside
one summer day and noticed a fair
ly good looking hat out in the road.
Reaching oat with his cane, he gave
it cut and was startled to hear a
voice exclaim: "Here! What the
deuce are You doing?"
Then he made the astonishing
discovery that the owner OF the
headpiece was under the hat up to
his ears in mud.
Great heavensw exclaimed the
man who had hit the hat. as that
mud as deep as that?"
"Deep" cried the victim. "Whv,
man alive, Pm standing on a load
of hayn-Lippincott's Magazine.
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A Grand Memory.

a highland girl who had been in
service in Dundee and had gone to
a place farther south called upon
her old mistress on her way north
to visit her friends.
She was invited to take dinner
wth the family, and her master
asked a blessing on the meal as
usual, when the girl said:
My master, We maun haze a
gran memory. That's the grace
We said when I was here sax years
syne."-London Telegraph.
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A DANGEROUS Place.

When the newsgatherer was ad-
mitted, one of the first visitors, to
the old house recently bought ard
fitted up by the Historical society,
he was able to get full column Of
interesting information for the next
issue of the paper.
Doesn't seem to me it'll be safe
for folks to go to the old Parker
house without they take some pre-
cautions" said Samuel Hobart, the
village wag, when he had finished
the reporters account Of what he
had seen. Lem Colburn had a
pretty narrer escape by what he
tells in this paper"
E'What does he tell" demanded
Mrs. Hobart.
"I'll read it out" said her hus-
band and proceeded slowly:
con first entering the hall the
visitors eye is caught by a long
sword over one side of the mantel
and then drawn to the old fintlock
on the other side, after which it
naturally falls on the mantel itself
and from that TO the old brick tiled
hearth
"Now, if LENS eyes can stand
that kind O treatment they must
be pretty tough" Youths Com
panion.
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So Il Would Seem.

They were talking about silver
ware down at the general store the
other day. Farmer Bellows said he
thought this firm turned out more
silverware than any other, and some
of the rest disagreed with him. 1t
was Farmer Stubs settled it.
Seems teh me-" said Farmer
Stubs, "these here Sterling people
10 a lot o business. Yeh see their
name on most everything" Sub
urbanite.
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AMERICAN HUSBANDS.
Tho Money Game and the Ills Tia.
Come In It's Train.

Come In Its Train.
The American masculine claim of
absorption in his work does not in
the least justify such a condition.
Frenchmen support their wives and
still find time to go shopping with
them too, Englishmen do Likewise
and find energy left to place their
sons in school; energy to watch
xeenly the love affairs of their
daughters, unbesitatingly bidding
this or that man begone; moral
courage and physical vitality left
after the days work to be in fact
as well as in fancy 'the head of the
house" They have the wisdom to
leave hours for play, for pure boy
ishness of living. And all this may
be observed in the same middle class
that with rs turns the whole issue
over to the wife, expecting of her
all wisdom, though knowing her
hheltered youth, and all vitality to
run increasingly and unaided the
whole machinery Of the family. No
wonder our women have nerves.
No wonder they are becoming NOR,
and more restless Zone of the first
evidences of strain, more and more
disconnected as time passes! Mas
cuine kindness to our women is
sometimes so tangled up with self
ishness that there need be no sur
prise that there is some confusion
regarding them.
Not that our men want the
money after which they are striv-
ing for themselves, for their pleas
uees. They do not. They are al
most VIGOROUSLY generous. Our
rich men give, give, give, to their
wives, their children, to colleges, to
hospitals, to churches, until the
whole world is amazed at their gen.
crosby.
The habit and fury of work, I'M
reasoning, illogical, quite unrelated
to any need, is a masculine disease
IN this country, and the whole social
system has for years paid the inevi-
table penalty. Here and there man
tries to stop in time, but finds him
self obsessed by work so that he can
no longer think of anything else.
He is as much slave to it as is any
opium taker to his drug and drunk
ard to his potion. 1t is a grave
danger not only to the individual,
but to the whole American civiliza-
tion.-Anna A. Rogers in Atlantic.
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NOTICE
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ANT REGISTER.

Since the announcement to
subscribers IN our issue of April
7, 1909, a controversy has
arisen with reference to whom
subscription arrearages to the
Weekly Register should be paid,
and in order to relieve our sub
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The Dir. of Aces.

a charitably disposed official Of
the municipal government at Wash
ington tells of an interesting ex-
change Of views between two ur-
chins at a dinner given to the news
boys of the capital by popular sub
scrip6on.
As the lads were waiting for their
dessert they placed their grimy
hands side by side on the table
cloth.
Mine is dirtier than yoursm was
the claim made by one boy.
Maybe it is" said the second
newsboy, "but you don't wanter
fergt you're two years oldeT'n me"
-MashinSton Star.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-07-21
MUNYON'S FELL FROM CLOUDS.

A report comes from Camp Creek,
in Mercer county, to the effect that
during the hard rainstorm a few days
ago good sized minnows fell from the
clouds. The minnows were unlike
the native species, and the belief is
that they had been carried a long
distance by currents of air before
they were precipitated.
The phenomenon is accounted for
by the supposition that these small
aqueous animals are caught up in
water spouts and delivered to the up
per currents of the atmosphere, and
finally fall with the rain when they
reach the lower air strata.
--
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sHAKEsPEARE's LAW.
Citations to Show That He Was In the
Fashion Of His Time.


No ordinary reader of Shake
spease's works can fail to be struck
by the copious and ever recurring
legal phraseolog with which they
are filed. Not only are law terms
frequently employed with an al
most professional correctness to
give color and intensity to his SEN
fences, but whole scenes are taken
up with illusions to or discussions
on purely legal matters, as in ''The
Merchant of Venice" Henry v"
and the grave scene in Hamlet"
not 'to mention other plays. So
profound indeed is the knowledge
displayed all through that no less
an authority on the subject than
Lord Campbell has told US that ito
Shakespeare's law, lavishly as he
propounds it, there can neither be
demurrer nor bill of exceptions nor
writ Of error" To this marked
feature Of the works more than to
any other one might perhaps with
justice attribute the very origin of
the whole Baconian theory. The
point is naturally of extreme i'm
portance in the eyes of those whose
only knowledge of the literature of
the period is confined to Shake
speare's writings. But that impor-
lance shrinks rapidly to insignif-
canoe after a course of reading
through the general dramatic liter
allure of the time, in which, as a
matter of fact, legal SMILES and al
lusions are found to occur with
about the same frequency as in
Shakespeare's works. So strong in
deed is the legal coloring of all
stage writing at the time that one is
forced to believe that law talk must
have been more common among law
men in those days and especially
among laymen of playgoing dis
position than it has ever been dur
ing any period since. There are in
dications besides that some critics
were getting tired of all this legal
jargon, Decker, for instance, who
writes:
"There is another ordinary at
which your London usurer, your
stale bachelor and your thrifty at
torney do resort-the price, three
pence; the rooms as full Of com
pany as jail. If they chance to
discourse it is of nothing but stat
utes, bonds, recognizances, fines, re-
coveries, audits, rents, subsidies,
sureties, Enclosures, liveries, indict-
ments, outlawries, feoifments, judg-
ments, commissions, bankrupts,
amercements and of such horrible
matter. "-Gull's Horn Book, 1909.
Tourneur also:
There are old men ut the present
That are so poison'd with III aHectation
OF law words. having had many suits
canvassd.
That their common talk is nothing but
barb'rouB
Latin. They cannot SO much as pray. but
In law. that their sins may be remov'd
with
a writ OF eror and their souls fetch'd up
To heaven with 4 certlorari.
-Revengcr's Tragedy.
There is therefore no more diff
Guilty in Shakespeare's case touch
ing his knowledge of law than in
the case of any other playwright of
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There is therefore no more diff
Guilty in Shakespeare's case touch
ing his knowledge of law than in
the case of any other playwright Of
his age.-Nineteenth Century.
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Eat What
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KodoI will digest it.

You need sufficient amount Of
good wholesome food and more than
this you need to fully digest it.
Else you can't gain strength, nor
can you strengthen your stomach II
it is weak.
You must eat in order to liveand
maintain strength.
You must not diet, because the
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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-16

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Hundreds of such letters from girls
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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-16
PREACHER HITS CHURCHES.
Condemns Holding Up Merchants in
the Name of Religion.

Taking for his subject Tolerated
Graft on the Increase" Rev. M. A
Matthews. pastor of the First Pres
byterian church of Seattle, dealt
with religious as we'll as other forms
of grating. In the course of his
sermon DR.. Matthews said
Among the many kinds of graft
now tolerated, and which are steadi-
ly increasing because of this tolera-
ton, is religious, or. ecclesiastical,
graft. When l first came to Seattle
1 found in the programme of this
church number of advertisements
of local merchants. l protested
against this. No merchant ever sold
five cents worth of goods through an
advertisement in church pro-
gramme. The church, in accepting
the merchants money for the little
two-line advertisement was simply
grating by using the church as a
means of holding him up for the
money paid for the advertisement.
The average church dinner is also
a specimen of ecclesiastical grating.
The church goes to the merchants
of the city and begs the ham, bread,
cake and sugar, prepares the dinner
and then invites the very merchants
who have given the materials to the
dinner or luncheon at So cents per
plate. The merchant gets n0 value
for his money; he is simply held up
by the church organization. If
churches cannot publish programmes
and cannot give entertainments and
dinners without this sort of grating
they should forever cease publishing
programmes and giving dinners.
Churches also graft on the cities
IN which they are located by begging
free water and free light, and by
seeking to escape paying their just
proportion of the taxes. 1 believe
that every dollars worth of church
property in this and every other city
should be taxed.
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MOTHERS
WHO HAVE
DAUGHTERS
Find Help in Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound

Winchester, Ind. -"Four doctors
told me that they could never make
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-16

test through years. Eastern and
central Kansas filed up comforta-
bly,; land prices advanced; laws took
old membranes off for the far
western farms, and the great burden
of mortgages was raised. Then the
men in the eastern end OF the state
began to look for larger and cheaper
land. They saw the west end. True,
it had failed before, but it was be-
cause the settlers were ignorant.
They had tried to farm on semi-arid
land as they would have farmed in
the Mississippi valley, where the
problem is too much moisture rather
than not enough. Gradually a few
settlers drifted out. This time they
were real pioneers, men who knew
what they faced and were prepared
to fight it out. They acquired the
cheap lands as low as so cents an
acre. Their great farms extended
over thousands of acres and they be-
gan cultivating on a monumental
scale
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-16
Administrators Sale.

Georgia, Terrell COunty.-By vir-
tue OF an order of the Court of Or
binary of Dougherty county, granted
May 3, 1909, there will be sold at
public cutlery on the first Tuesday in
July, 1909, at the court house in
said Terrell county, between the u.s.
ual hours of sale, the following real
property belonging to the estate of
George Finley, late of Dougherty
county, deceased, situate in said Ter
rell county, to-wit:
All of the west half of a certain
tract of land or town lot situate in
the northeast portion of the city linn
its of Dawson, Terrell County. Geor-
gla, in the Twelfth district of said
county; bounded on the south by the
Dawson and Bronwood public road,
and on the west by an alley running
north from the Baptist church, being
the west part of the lot at one time
owned by Simon Conyers and his
wife, and bought by said Conyers
from j. B. Grim, except a small tract
sold to one Britt Cooper; said prop
erty being the same conveyed and
more fully described in a deed from
one j. D. Laing to one William
Wooten, dated March 10, 1885, and
recorded on the record of deeds in
the office of the clerk of the superior
court of Terrell County, Georgia, in
Book NJ, Pages 613-614.
The sale will continue from day to
day, between the usual hours of sale
until said property is sold. Terms
cash. This the 1st day of June,
1909. r. P. HALL.
Administrator upon the Estate of
George Finley, Deceased.
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The Final Triumph.

About this time that misnamed
science dry farming" was discov-
cred and taught to the new settlers.
To those who know nothing of it the
idea may be described as farming
by conserving natural moisture. The
new settlers learned that there were
cOpious rains in the fall, heavy SHOWS
in winter and rains in the spring
again. If this moisture which ran off
into swollen streams with the COM
ing of spring could be conserved to
the growing crops the desert might
yet be rejuvenated, and so they set
to work. The great farms were
pIowed 10 and II inches deep. They
were narrowed fine in the fall and
the rain was allowed to settle in the
subsoil. In the spring they were
cultivated again, these 10,0O0-acre
farms, and they were left standing to
absorb moisture for year, with con-
slant cultivating to help the moist
ure retention.
The second fall the seed was put
in and the new rains and snow and
thaWs brought out the spring wheat
thicker and greener than ever. But
what Of the blistering suns of sum-
mer? The new farmer prepared for
them by blanketing his land to keep
the sun from drying out his subsoil.
For this purpose a dust mulch was
spread over all the sowed land. The
rays of the sun were reflected by it,
and underneath the moisture nour-
ished the roots of wheat, though the
tops were dry.
The experiment succeeded admira-
bly,, and through it great crops of
alfalfa and sugar beets are being
grown. Now all through these re-
gions are great ranches where hand
fed and fattened cattle are produced.
Not the gaunt range steers of Texas,
but fat cattle ready for the market
and commanding top prices.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-16
TEDDY r. IS NO HERO.
DIR. Seaman Has Been Through the
African Jungle.

III. seaman HAS been through Ine
African Jungle.
DR.. Lewis Seaman of New York,
who has just returned from a hunting
trip in Africa in the same region that
Mr.. Roosevelt will traverse, has little
patience with the talk that some
travellers have INDUCED in concern
ing the dangers the former president
will run.
"A lion stands no chance at all, -
said DR.. Seaman. Before the hun
tiers get a shot at him he has been
chased by the beaters until he is so
Winded that there is little harm left
in him. For the most part African
hunting is about as thrilling as an
English park.
THE one real danger is the Tsetse
fly in the lowlands."
DR.. Seaman is a friend of the
former president and was at the din
ner given in honor of Mr.. Roosevelt
at MOmbasa April 21st
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-16
TEXAS BUTTER TO CHICAGO.

Gainesville Creamery Sends Solid
Car Load of 26,S15 Pounds.
The Gainesville (Texas) Creamery
Company has shipped a solid car load
of butter to Chicago, which was all
fresh and in good condition. The
car contained 26,815 pounds, for
which the creamery received &c.
703.75. Manager d. D. Keller of the
company said his creamery was now
one of the big institutions of the
state, and other car shipments would
be handled frequently. Farmers OF
the county are adding to their dairy
stock and the creamery has been
making from 500 to 1000 pounds
of butter per day.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-16

When a sufferer from stomach
trouble takes DR.. Kings New Life
PMS he's mighty glad to see his dys-
pepsia and indigestion fly, but more,
he's tirkled over his new, fine appe-
tite, s ong nerves, healthy vigor, all
becaus stomach, liver and kidneys
now work right. 25c at Dawson
Drug Cos.
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EXCURSION RATES.
Via Central of Georgia Railway
Company.


Company.
TO ATLANTA, GA, and return, ac-
count inauguration of Governor
Elect Joseph NJ. Brown, to be
held June rs, 1909. Tickets on
sale June 25th and for trains
scheduled to arrive in Atlanta
before noon June 26, 1909.
Tickets will be good returning
leaving Atlanta not later than
midnight of June 27, 1909.
Rates apply from points in Geor-
gia only.
TO BROWNSVILLE, GA, and re-
turn, account Grand Lodge X.
of P. of Georgia (colored), to
be held July 1918, 1909.
TO MONTEAGLE AND SEWANEE,
TENN, and return, account Mis-
sion Week (Willetts and Gilbert
Lectures), to be held July 1-16,
1909; Monteagle Bible School,
to be held July 1929, 1909;
Monteagle Sunday School Insti-
tute and Musical Festival to be
held July 80 to August Is, 1909.
TO ATHENS, GA, and return, ac-
count summer school University
of Georgia, to be held June 26
to July II, 1909
TO KNOXVILLE, TENN, and re-
turn, account Summer School of
the South, to be held June %
to July 80, 1909.
TO ASHVILLE, n. c., and return,
account Dramatic order knights
of Khorassan, biennial meeting,
to be held July 1920, 1909.
TO ATLANTA, GA, account Ameri-
can Association of Opticians, to
be held June 21-24, 1909.
TO ASHEVILLE, n. c., and return,
account International Conven-
ton Baraca and Philathea, to be
held June 1923, 1909.
TO CUMBERLAND ISLAND, GA.
and return, account Georgia
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held June 1925, 1909. Excur-
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