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The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-06-02

IT is rare person who appreciates
anything great while.
If dances are so enjoyable, why
don't married people attend them:
Every girl should be so neat that
she feels uncomfortable when her
stockings are wrinkled.
A man should always bear in mind
chat at least six other men have their
eyes on his opportunity.
There are only few evils left for
the coming reformers to tackle and
they are job lot and out of style.
There would be considerably less
demand for large standing army
if the officers got the same pay as
the privates.
After man marries, the only per-
son at liberty to compliment him is
his wife, and she thinks he is already
too conceited.
You cannot avoid seeing the faults
of others occasionally, but you can
avoid a constant search for them,
with magnifying glass.
A mans idea OF the sacredness of
love gets its first shock when he
notices the tendency of his girl to
make a circus procession of their
engagement.
Considering how men are abused,
there are somo surprising good fell
lows among them.
Kick at all times and about every
thing, and you will become known
in time as high authority and a
great critic.
Have you ever noticed that wise
man keeps his mouth shut a good
deal:
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-06-02
HOW DOES THIS SUIT YOU.

If you want to tote gun give
your bond and get your license.
If you want to fish get your writ
ten permit.
If you want to hunt get your IL
cense, and pay the bill.
If you want to get married dig up
$500 for your license.
If you want to loan money on
real estate security, pay big license
tax first.
If you want to pay cash for time
notes at discount, first pay your IL
cense.
If you want to keep your little dog
about your house, pay 5000 taxes
for this and last.
If you want the County Clerk to
look up some old record tlrSt pay him
so cents.
If you want deed recorded pay
the clerk in advance Sl.75.
If you want pay for your sheep,
killed by dogs, wait until the dog
tax is collected.
If one days work wont buy sack
of -four, work right on, till you do
pay for it.
fyou enjoy these luxuries con-
tinue to vote the republican ticket.
If you are not fond of them, change
your voting for them.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-06-02
SAD STATE OF AFFAIRS.

Did it ever occur to you that a
man life is full of crosses and tenn
ptations: He comes into the world
without his consent and goes out
against his will, and the trip between
is exceedingly rocky. The rule of
contraries is one of the features of
this trip.
When he is little the big girls kiss
him. When he is big the little girls
kiss him. If he is poor, he is a bad
manager; if he is rich he is dishon-
est If he needs credit, he can't
get it; if he is prosperous, everyone
wants to do him favor.
lfhe is in politics it is for graft, if
he is out of politics, You cant find a
dlace for him and he is no good to
the country. If he doesnt give to
charity, he is stingy cuss; If he
does, it's for show. If he is actively
religious, he is hypocrite; if he
takes no interest in religion, he is
hardened sinner.
Ifhe gives affection, he is a soft
specimen; if he cares for no one, he
is cold blooded. Ifhe dies young,
there was a great future before him,
if be lives to an old age, he missed
his calling.
If you save money, you're a
Crouch; if you spend it, your e a
lOafer. Ifyou get, it you re CRATER,
if you don t get it, you're bum
so what's the use.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-06-02
SENATOR ELENS OH OIL.

Washington, May 81 Some day
this week Senator Elkins of West
Virginia will make speech in the
senate in advocacy of tariff on oil.
The senator has taken charge of the
oil mems cause in the senate and ex-
presses the opinion that a duty Of
some kind will be granted. Hesays
that there are a sufficient number Of
votes in sight now and that just what
the tariff will be depends upon the
finance committee. He is certain
that the committee viii be favorable
to some measure ofprotection. Per-
sonally, he prefers speci6ce duty.
Senator cummins today introduce
ed resolution which the senateadopt-
ed, asking for report which the
geological survey has just made on
the Mexican oil field. The report
has not been available and inquiries
for information have met with re-
fusal. In consequ, nee, report has
been circulated that the report is UNI
favorable to the contention of the
oil men that a duty is needed.
Senator Cummins is one of the sena-
tors unfayorable to duty on oil.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-06-02
WESTON, OCEAN.TO.OCEAN WALKER,

SAID recently: when you feel
down and out, feel there is no use
living, just take your bad thoughts
with You and walk them of. Before
you have walked mile things will
look rOsier. Just try it. Have you
noticed the increase in walking OF
late in every community: Many at
tribute it to the comfort which
Aliens Foos-Ease, the antiseptic
powder to be shaken into the shoes,
gives to the millions now using it.
As Weston has said. 1T has real
merit. June est.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-06-02
WEST VIRGINIA COAL.


The secretary of the mines and
metallurgy department of the Alaska
Pacifc-Yukon Exposition, which will
open June LIST at Seattle, Washing
ton, desires to have samples of West
Virginia coal to put on exhibition.
In letter addressed to the state
mining department the secretary of
the mining exhibit stated that if it
were possible to obtain them he
should like to secure as many sam
pies as possible of the different Goals
found in this state.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-06-02
BOARD OF REVIEW APPOINTED.

Charleston, May go, lso9-The
State Board of Public Works has
concluded its appointment of Boards
of Review and Equalization in the
several counties, naming three citi-
zens in each county, two Republi-
cans and one Democrat.
The following were appointed to
serve in this county:
Mason County-Samuel L. Par
sons, Rep, Beech Hill, Alex S.
Ridinger, Rep, cottageville, R. F.
D.; R. L. Hutchinson, DEM, Hen
derson.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-06-02
WEEKLY
SUBscalPTros sl.oo A YEAR IN ADANcE.
FOR MEMORIAL DAY.
They died-their brave hearts break

They died-their brave hearts break
ing slow
But, self-forgetful to the last,
In words of cheer and bugle blow
Their breath upon the darkness
passed
A mighty host, on either hand,
Stood waiting for the dawn of day
To crush like reeds our feeble band ;
The morn has come,-and where
are theys
Troop after troop their line forsakes !;
With peace-white banners waving
And from our own the glad shout
breaks,
Of Freedom and Eternity!
Like mist before the growing light,
The hostile cohorts melt away;
Our frowning foemen of the night
Are brothers at the dawn of day.
John G. Whittier.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-06-02

To build up town there is no bet
ter way than by giving our business
men our entire and exclusive patron
age. The more We help each other
the more We help the town. You
should not make your money from
home people and then send it to for
eign concerns for things that can be
bought at home. Some people say
they do not keep what they want
here, we believe that is because they
never inquire for it. We think our
business men try to carry as near as
possible everything needed in first
class store. Trade with them-you
win save by it.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-06-02

IF any of our big farmers are for
tunate enough to have money to loan
to their neighbors they are required
to first pay license $500. Your
neighbor B may only want $1,000
and neighbor c. only $500 and
neishbor D $500. Now Mr.. A you
must pay your license of $500 be-
fore you en- loan your $500 with
security to accommodate your neigh
bors. This appears to be the law.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-06-02
MOVEMENT FOR fathers DAY"

Recently the whole state of West
Virginia celebrated Mothers Day"
That was well and good and highly
commendable but an editor, who,
ike all editors, must be constantly
agitatins something has started a
movement for Fathers Day.
In support of this newly conceived
idea he prints the two appended
selections. They are good enough
to reproduce. Here they are:
Dad is growing old and weary and
there's silver in bis hair, and his eyes
are always solemn, he has seen so
much of care; he has seen so much
of sorrow, he has known so much of
tears, he has borne the heat and bur-
den of so many bitter years; Dad $
already in the twilight of life little
aeeting day, and perhaps We Il often
ponder, when his load is laid away ;
oh the steps We might have saved
him when his feet and hands were
sore, or the JOY we might have given
to the heart that beats no more.
Well recall hundred errands that
we might have gladly run, and a
hundred kindly actions that we might
have gaily done; we'll remember
how he labored, while the boys were
all at play, when the darkness hides
from US at the closing of the day
Walt Mason, in Washington Herald
on Dad
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-06-02
NEW LAYS OF YFST FlRCrIlA.

Through the kindness of our friend
Chris HetzeI, we are in possession of
all the laws of West Virginia up to
date. We have got everything tax
ed now in this state from the nails
in our great grandmother's coffin to
the swaddling clothes of the tenth
generation yet unborn. People think
of the bureaucratic system of Russia.
1t is tame compared to West Virgin
ia. We have commissioner of every-
thing now from tarnation to torment.
And for licenses man must take out
a license to die. He forfeits his es-
tate if he dies without license. In
order to die, man must first adyer-
tise the fact for four weeks in two
newspapers of opposite politics, and
must have a certificate from the
County Court that he is of good NOR
al character and not of incorporate
habits. If he does not but plunges
hence as heretofore, his estate is for
feited Under the tax laws. He must
also take out license every year to
be the father of his own children.
The license tax is $1,000 per year on
girls and $4,000 boys. Any man
who permits his children to call him
pap without having paid the IL
cense tax is subject to fine ofs5oo
and Imprisonment for six months and
the court is denied discretion. And
if you get aeas on yourself there is a
hunters license to be paid before
you can pick EN- of. Any man
found hunting aeas or doodle bugs
without having paid hunter Ii,
cense shall be guilty of misdemean.
or and fined not exceeding S5oo.oC
and imprisoned at the discretion O
the court. If You have the itch you
must take out scratcher S license be,
fore you can scratch yourself. The
law says any man found eithe'
scratching, digging, rubbing, o
squirting the itch without stat,
license therefor shall forfeit $1,000
for the first oFense and $4,000 TO
each subsequent ofFense. If you hay,
the toothache you have to get license
to grunt, and if you have the meas
les You must have a license to smell
bad These are only few thing
that We have noticed in the Acts o
9o9---Gazette, Charleston.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-06-02
COMMISSION MEET, JUNE 9.

A meeting of the commission re-
Gently appointed by Governor Glass
cock to revise the printing laws of
the state and to investigate the ad-
visibility of establishing state
printery has been called for Charles
ton June .. At that time the COM
mission will effect an organization
and outline the work to be perform
ed.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-06-02
BANNER MILCH COWS.

The banner mich COW says the
Gallipolis Bulletin, is owned by Sam
uel People, of vinton county. In
just FIVE weeks the family made and
sold II pounds of butter for which
they can show weightbills from the
dealer. In addition they fed calf
and two pigs and furnished their ia
bic with butter and cream.
W. L, Carson sold forty dollars
worth of butter from FIVE cows, be-
sides feeding FIVE calves, last month,
and thinks his sales will reach fifty
dollars this month.-Ripley Herald.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-06-02

1t is the understanding among
those interested in the well on the
Waggener place that thorough test
be made. A depth of about fifteen
hundred feet has been reached. If
no oil is found at the Berea, the in
tentiOn is to go to the Gordon and
and Fifth sands, which viii likely
be found at depth of about twenty
seven hundred feet.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-06-02
FATHER 5 DAY.

Let US wear white carnation
For the dear old mothers sake;
She's the best of Gods creation,
And as good as he can make;
But the father plain and prosy,
Should be recognized some way,
For their lives are not so rosy
But, like dogs, they need their day,
Not the sly dads or the fly dads,
Who when rocky grows the road,
Duties Houting, take an outing,
And let mother bear the load;
They deserve no compensation
But cowhide or goad.
Let US give some recognition
To the dads who, year by year,
Keep their posts with grim decision,
Loss of job their greatest fear.
They are working uncomplainins
In the mill and market place,
Just modest living gaining,
As they keep their steady pace.
Not the club dads nor the dud dads,
But the dads, who day by day,
Keep on working, never Sinking,
And at night take home their pay,
They deserve some recognition,
Not one day, but every day.
New York Times.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-06-02
ECLIPSE OF MOON.

Tomorrow night will witness the
total eclipse of the moon, lasting a
little over an hour. The moon will
emerge from the total phase at nine
o'clock Eeastern standard time, and
will leave the shadow at lo:l4 p. IN.
Farther west the moon will rise later
and emerge from the shadow at s
o'clock Central standard time.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-06-02
E0Ez05zE0zzoEI
Y OUR HOME CIRCLE COLUMN
r AcoLUMN DEVOTED TO THE HOME +
70zE0zzz0EE0E

Praise the work of your children,
no matter how trivial the act. It.
will give them an honest desire to
do better next time.
Brother when you come in from
work in the evening, We all know
you are tired, but put on your best
look and assume happy mood; do
not frown if the floor is not swept,
nor supper ready. Engage the little
folks just little while and get
them to looking forward to your
coming with pleasure. 1t will help
to happily home wonderfully.
A girl who is gentle, brave and
spirited; who is unselfsh, high
minded and intelligent; who has
sweetness and depth of character;
who does not think of herself, but
works for the happiness of Others;
some, as a girl should be, will never
who is merry and dainty and whole
lack either lovers and friends. She
is the light of the home, a good and
the sunshine of the old folks, friend
to her sisters and brothers, God
bless her
Many of US find life hard and full
of pain. The world uses US rudcly
and roughly. We suffer wrongs and
injuries. Other peoples clumsy
feet tread upon our tender spirits.
We must endure misfortunes, trials
and disappointments. We cannot
avoid these things, but we should
not allow the harsh experience to
deaden our sensabilities or make us
stOical or sour. The true problem
of living is to keep our hearts sweet
and gentle in the hardest condition,
and experiences. You remove the
snow from the hillside in the late
i winter, you will find sweet Aower
growing there beneath the cold drifts
unhurt by the storm and by the
snowy blankets that have covered
them. So should we keep our heart:
tender and sensitive beneath life.
. fercest winter blasts, and through
the longest years of suffering, anc
even in injustice and wrong treat
ment. This is true victorious living
One reason why so many girls anc
boys, men and women, too, are un
interesting, is because they try Sc
hard to be like somebody else rathe,
than be content to remain himself o
herself in life. In nature you don
see an oak posing as willow, or /
black duck as yellow leg or I
horse rs COW, or lily rs rose
or lilac as peony, or dog a.
cat. Be natural and you will b,
all right. Many girl without tn,
slightest talent for music is runnin.
a piano who should be making bon
nets or bread; and many boy i
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-06-02
JOHN BROWNS CAPTOR DEAD.

Mitchell, S. D., May ss.-MajOr
Israel c. Green, aged eighty-fve
years, who captured John Brown, of
osawatomie at Harper's Ferry, is
dead near here on a farm where he
lived thirty-six years.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-06-02

IT is not worth while to speculate
concerning those canals on Mars I'M
til the astronomers have agreed
among themselves whether or not
they really are canals.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-06-02
RATHER INCONSISTENT.

The Wyoming, W. Va, Tribune,
gives two column account of re.
hgious revival in the town of Pine.
vile and column and half of ap,
plications for license to carry revol.
vers or other pistols. This seem,
somewhat inconsistent.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-06-02

The new "Point Pleasant Regis
ter with its more modern features,
is becoming one of the most attract
i've and newsy newspapers in the
state under its manager, Warren c.
Whaley.-Mountaineer, Ripley.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-06-02

A NEw York paper publishes an
editorial on ''why Girls Leave
Home" In the majority of cases
they go because they are invited by
young men to do so.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-06-02

While we are condemning the man
who rocks the boat, why not include
the nervous woman who trails her
hand in the waters
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-06-02

Two new battle ships year is the
fixed plan of the Navy Department.
The country that expects to blow
Uncle Sam out of the water will have
to do it early.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-06-02

It ISN'T going to be any easier for
a gentleman leaving a banquet at
g a. m. to call for tetrahedral
kite than it is for him to say that
he wants 'taxicab."
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-06-02
FIDUCIARY SETTLEMENT.

The account OF A. II. Roseberry. administra-
tor. OF ". o. Rosebery. deceased, Is before me
Given under my hand this the s,st day o, May
1909. JOHN Z. BELLER.
Commissioner OF Accounts for Mason County.
West virginia. June 2-2w
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-06-02

Now that fertilizer trust is being
organized, of course something ought
to be said about such an organization
probably being in bad odor but let
it pass.
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90

SpecialSale ofSeasOnable Goods
At Tippett's. TheLowestPnced
Furniture And Undertaking Es
Enlistment in the Valley. Wall
Papers, Carpets, Mat6ngs, Lin
olerm, Oh Cloth, Rags, Lace
Curtains.
China mating at l2! cts; Cotton
warp mating at l6S cts; Floor OF
cloth at 90! cts. the so ct. grade:
Linoleum rs cts. the 60 ct. grade;
Window shades mounted on spring
rollers, 1octs., best water color cloth
shade ss4 cts; curtain poles, 5 to
s cts; Lace Curtains 4Sc; $50; CSC;
l.4Sc; Lose; per pair, worth double
the money.
WALL PAPERS
q cts. per roll; the kind that
Others ask s and 10 cts. for. We
VIII hanS paper cheaper than anyone
else and do it as good or better.
Handsome is inch Borders cts.
per roll.
No goods charged at this special
sale, everything cash.
Call and see our Fireless cookers;
Porch Screens; Porch Furniture;
RefriSerators.
New line of Fall Carpets and Room
Size Rugs just received; We will sur
prise you in our low prices.
TIPPETT'S FURNITURE AND
UNDERTAKING STORE,
Point Pleasant - West Va.
90
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-06-02

FARMERS who raise big wheat crops
this year will forget that there has
been such thing as panic. But
farmers of that sort don't know
much about panics anyway.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-06-02

The man who kills another through
reckless auto-driving has committed
as serious a crime as though his
weapon were knife or a gun.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-06-02
THE GIRL ON THE YARN.

The farmers girl does not gener-
ally realize the advantages she has
for self improvement, over the So
ciety girl, or those situated in other
positions of life. The freedom and
independence of farm life affords OPP
portunities for study which, if right
" employed, would develop our
farmers girls into the professional
women workers of our times. How
is it, girls, and especially young girls
on the farm, that We hear so often
of the self made man (and most
of our great men are of that class
and so little of the self made wo-
man? Our farmer boys become
great lawyers and statesmen, etc. !;
as they? The girl who has been
have you not the same opportunities
raised on the farm, and has aspir-
ations to any of the professions, gen
orally conceives the idea that she
must get away from the farm to do
her studying, at the very first jump.
Do not be too hasty in leaving the
farm, where you can keep such per-
feet health, which is the great re-
quisit to a brilliant mind. And,
first of all, before you aspire to any
professional work, learn your duties
as housekeeper. Household work
will not interfere with study. You
require exercise, and there is none
better than keeping farm house.
And if you do not wish to take up
any profession, study will not hurt
you; make the most of the talents
nature has given you, and when the
happy fellow is met your happiness
will be of the kind that you will not
regret the time you considered vast
ed in study. Do not be too haSty in
running your neck into the matri-
monial moose. Iftoo from necessity.
You will find you from choice should
remain single edo not fear that you
will have burdens to tighten, and
plenty of loveless ones upon whom
to lavish the wealth of your charit-
able affections. Be assured that true
happiness is not found in living
for one S self alone. Do your best,
make the most of the material at
hand, and at the close of life's jour
ney you will enjoy that peace, the
knowledge of a well-spent life alone
can give
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studying for a learned profession
whose proper sphere is the machine
shop or the mill; many man is
splitting up churches who ought to
be doing good service in some insti-
tuition of learning, teaching or work
ing on farm, and many a woman
is trying in vain to be a society
leader when she should be model
housewife in her own homo.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-06-02
SUNFLOWER PHILOSOPHY.

S unfayorabIe to duty on oil.
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luch about panicS anyway.