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The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-05-25
After the Snakes.

Nearly all the rattIesnakes seen IN
the ZOOS Of this country and In mos,
OF those OF Europe are captured by In.
dian boys and girls on the western res.
ervaaons- They locate a spot where
the snakes come out to sun and then
creep up with squirt guns charged
with ammonia and spray tie rattlers
and render them helpless. When the
snake revIves he is a prisoner and
worth three dollars to his captor.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-05-25
Poison Of Coal Gas

The poison of coal gas has been sun
posed to be the carbonIc oxide, but
experiments by DR.. Won vRhlen. at
Halle, have shown poisonous effects
two or three times as great as could
be produced BY the amount Of car.
oonic oxide present Il is evident
that coal-gas is not made nonpolson-
Gus by removing this constituent,
though what the other poisonous sub.
stance may be he is not yet deter.
mined.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-05-25
GAINESVILLE GIRLS HAVE LEPROSY.

GAINESVILLE, o., May IA gener-
al report is aaoat here this morning
to the effect that two high school
girls of this city are afflicted with
leprosy. The authorities and those
in position to know do not deny
the report, but refuse positively to
give out any information whatever.
One of the girls WIS in school FRI
day, but the other one supposed to
be afflicted with the malady was
taken to consult specialist Thursday
evening. The city is all agog over
the report, and since it can not be
verified, much indignation is felt.
The leprosy is in the first stages, it
is believed, but one ofthe girls, how
ever, IS more severely afflicted, and
upon the advice of the physician, was
taken away. The Board of Educa-
ton, the teachers, superintendent
and the Board of Health officers give
out no information and refuse to talk
on the subject.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-05-25
FIDUCIARY SETTLEMENT.

The accounts of L. c. Somerville,
Executor of the last will and tesla
ment of Mary f. Gabbert, deceased,
and L. c. Somerville, Trustee, un-
der the last will and testament OF
Mary E. Gabbert, deceased, are be-
fore me for settlement.
GEO. SOMERVILLE,
Commissioner of Accounts for Mason
County, West Va. may 25-at.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-05-25

A bride attracts terrible lot of
attention considering that she is no.
thing more nor less than bunch of
hopes dressed up and on the way to
be swallowed up in disappointment.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-05-25

A man does love an appreciative
woman, and by that he means
woman who will glow and smile for
a week because her husband tells her
she makes good gravy.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-05-25
g & 3
ribbon fashions

Following the lead &C
France, there is a decided
growing tendency for Rib
bons in this country in the
best and most aut-entic
fashion circles.
Principal use for Rib
bons, according to the ultra
fashionable standpoint, is
for girdles, sashes and Hair
garnitures, especially made
with drops and buckles, or
with rosebud, rosette or
shirring.
Ribbons for Sashes embrace
all the finest types-Messaline,
Liberty Satin and Floral Rib
bons, all the dainty evening and
StyllSh ShadeS-0 to y inches
wide-25c to $3.50 a yard.
White Ribbons for Conhrma-
ton, Graduation, ETC., for Sasbes,
Girdles, also Hair Bows-Moire,
Satin, Satin Stripe, Combina-
tons, Brocades, Tafetas. Tai
fetas with Brocade borders,
Satin & Moircs-6 to 8 inches
wide-35c to $1.50 a yard.
these same Ribbons in Col
ors-Sash and Hair Bow width
-35c to $1.50 yard.
BOGGS G. BUHL,
NORTH SIDE, PITTSBURGH, PA.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-05-25
HANDY DRAIN PIPE CLEANER
Rubber Hose Connects with spisot
and Outlet at Sink. Enabling
Woman to Clean Sink.

One of the most useful OF all re-
cent inventions for the home is the
drainpIpe cleaner designed by Mich
isan man. This not only enables
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-05-25

Most good men have had good
mothers.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-05-25

mothers,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-07-13
let in the heart of John Howard
Payne, and the melody of Home,
Sweet Home"


Under the direction of the United
States government Office of farm
management, the, bureau will conduct
an experiment on lands in the sec
ton known as hill farms for demon
stration purposes, it being the claim
of the government department of ag-
riculture that the hill farms sur
rounding Binghampton are ideally
located for production of large crops,
especially potatoes; with proper
crop rotation, good cultivation and
fertilization.
Agencies are being established in
Scotland, Holland and Sweden where
by the emigrants from those sections
desiring to settle on the farms will
be given either positions or furnish
ed with an opportunity to reach farm
land in the Binghampton territory.
Since 1865 the young men from the
farm sections of southern New York
have been leaving the farms for the
industry and business life of the city,
or to go west and take up government
lands which they could get for moth
ing. These lands in the west are
now practically all occupied. By rea-
son of this, the farm lands of south
ern New York, especially the hill
farms, have greatly deprecated in
value and their value at present is at
low ebb and cannot further decrease.
The soil is in good condition for Gull
tivation and the farmers who have
taken up these lands within the last
Er-A
now getting an annual income of
about $4,000 year from a farm of
about $50 acres, which required a
first investment of less than $4,000.
The soil conditions were right and
with intelligent management bumper
crops were harvested. The farmers
in this section have a great advantage
over those in the west and south in
the matter of nearness to metropoli-
tan markets, where the best prices
for farm products of all kinds are
paid.
The government and state depart
ments of agriculture, in conjunction
with the state college of agriculture
and the local farm bureau, claim
that neither in Binghampton nor any
other locality in the southern por-
ton of New York state where a move
ment of this kind will be undertaken
that the population of the commun-
ity, the value of the farm lands, the
products and bank deposits of the
farmers themselves can be redoubled
in from five to ten years by such in
telligent cooperation offered for farm
development as is planned by the
business and farm interests of Bling
hampton and the surrounding coun-
try
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-07-13
An invitation to Women.

The Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine
company of Lynn, Mass, cordially in
vite any woman interested to call at
their laboratory at Lynn, Mass, and
see for herself the care which is
taken with the vast correspondence
received from the women of this
country. No letter or testimonial has
ever been made public without the
written wish or consent Of the writer.
No confidence has ever been violated
and never in their history have they
sold or disposed of any of their let
tiers from women. 1t is for these
reasons that thousands of suffering
American women every year feel free
to write Mrs. Pinkham for her val
liable advice, which is always given
free of charge.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-07-13
Sentiment.

The Waco CTexas) Times-Herald
publishes an article to which it calls
attention in the following words:
1--WE print on this page a prose
poem from the mind and the heart
and the soul Of John P. Cooper, who
formerly lived at McGregor, but is
now a citizen of Arson, out there in
Jones. 1t is entitled to a place in
your scrap book, brother beloved"
The prose poem" referred to fol-
lows:
When God raised up man from the
dust of the newly made earth and
breathed into his nostrils a living
soul he planted in his bosom the
seeds of sentiment-the sentiment of
love, and the baser sentiments of
hate and envy, and ever since that
far away morning, in the dawning
light of history, when the angel led
our erring parents through the east
ern gates of paradise, and hand in
hand, with wandering steps and
slow" out in the boundless earth
tthey took their solitary way" man
has been moved to deeds of benevO-
lence and charity, involving sorrow,
self-denial and martyrdom, by that
divine sentiment that God has given
US.
Down through all the slum bering
ages this indefinable element in mans
nature, which we call sentiment, has
pointed the way to his moral, social
and spiritual development, and in the
development of these three attributes
of human character is contaminated
mans perfect civilization.
Sentiment touched the harp of Is
rael's bard and Judea's pastoral hills
echoed with divine melody; that mel
ody has awakened the sentiment in
the souls of men as century has sue
ceeded century, and as time has roll
ed its restless tide, leading them be-
side the still waters of peace and
into the green pastures of repose.
Sentiment bloomed like a sweet VIC
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-07-13
CITY That Doctors Drunkards.

The municipality of Columbia, S.
c., is adopting an experiment with
its inebriates that looks logical and
that recommends itself to the wis
dom and the humaneness of other
towns and cities, says the Atlanta
Constitution.
Hereafter, seasoned topers appear
Ing before the recorder will not be
railroaded to the public works or
fined.
The city has made a contract with
a local liquor cure for their treat
ment. So, the gentlemen who imbibe
too much too frequently will be
treated in wards specially adapted to
that purpose at the police station.
The theory is eminently sensible.
If the municipality Furnishes the
inebriate with Imprisonment, there is
his upkeep, with the uncertainty of
getting much in the way of work
from a man weakened by dissipa-
ton.
The thing is repeated over and
over again getting worse each time.
What is of more Importance, it is
likely that for a period at least, the
family of the topper will be a charge
upon the community, not to mention
the loss entailed by the industrial
inactivity of the topper himself.
Spending a few dollars in an ear
nest, scientific attempt at cure may
turn out to be among the best in
vestments any city can make.
1t seems, however, that the At
lanta plan, now put forward, TO send
.pebriates to a farm for free treat
ment is the more feasible.
at any rate, goth century thought
new goes at the problem from the
economic, as well as the phiian-
thrcpic, angle. And that is what
counts.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-07-13

peoples is represented by brass bands
barbarian orchestras, tom-tom players,
weird pipers, silver chimes. chanters,
Gervishes. castanet ballets and operat-
ic choruses.
For the children there are fete
GAYS and kirmiss scenes, fairyland
tableaux, depicting all the charac-
ters from Mother Goose, Alice in Won
derland, the Arabian Knights, the
Water Babies and Robinson Crusoe.
The tapestry and rugs are from Tur-
key and Persia. The costumes are
from France. The laces are from
Ireland. The scarfs, banners and flags
are from Japan. The wagons, floats,
palanquins. rickshas, howdahs, pal
aces and thrones are made from the
finest woods, carved by hand and bur
rished with pure gold. The harness
is silver mounted.
Zebras, llamas, camels and elephants
do the work of horses. There are
1880 men, women and children in
the line.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-07-13
WORTH WEIGHT
IN GOLD
Lady Learned About Cardui, The
WOman'S Tonic and is Now
Enthusiastic in ifs Praise.

Mount Pleasant, Tenn.-"Cardui is all
you claim for it, and MORE" writes Mrs.
M. E. Rail, of this place.
''I was great sufferer for 2 years and
was very weak, but learned about Car
dui, and decided to try it. Now am in
perfect health.
"My daughter, when changing into
womanhood, got in very bad health.
gave her Cardui and now she enjoys
good health.
"Cardui is worth its weight in gold. I
recommend it for young and old"
Being composed exclusiveiyo of HARM
less vegetable ingredients, with mild
and gentle medicinal action, Cardui is
the best medicine for weak, sick girls
and women.
II has no harsh, powerful, near-pois-
onous action, like some of the strong
minerals and drugs, but helps nature to
perform cure in natural easy way.
Try Cardui.
N. B,-WTfse TO: Ladies' Advisory Dept, Chats
nooga Medicine Co, Chattanooga Tenn, Tor SpeciG
INSTRUCTIONS. and GA-p2gc book. Home Treatment
Tor Women. seat IL PLAIN wTa2pcr. On request
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-07-13
HurnOr and
Philosophy
REALTHFUL JOINT.
3y DUNCAN n. SMITH

IF overeating is the cause
l. OF most our human woes
The danger isn't very great
For me. you may suppose.
For at the modest boarding house.
To which each meal turn.
II there is anything in that
We should have health TO burn
If men get govt and rheumatic
Because they live too high.
Appendicitis and such things.
From which they almost die.
i do not think ! stand a chance
To pay a doctors bill
Because the feed. while there is some,
Is almost next to nil.
It used to be quite high enough
Before the era when
In any little grocer shop
To turn round cost you ten,
But since they've ceased to give you
change.
No matter what you buy.
The groaning board has ceased TO groan,
Its weight is far too shy.
And so since there is hardly food
Enough to shovel in
We revel in the choicest health,
And that is how win.
No chance TO corner a disease;
No danger on that score.
/ wonder. though the price is high.
They do not charge US more.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-07-13
The Argus Daily Short Story
Pete Interfered-By Clarissa Maclzie.
Copyrighted. 1910. by Associated Literary Presa

Evelyn. having returned her engage
ment ring 10 Richard Hallam, was col
lecting her other gifts for the same
purpose when il occurred to her that
she would like to keep one of them.
What should she retain?
Why, Pete.
She caressed his brindled coat, and
a strange lump came into her throat
az his pink tongue licked her little.
ringless hand. Then she sat up and
blinked back the brightness to her eyes
and completed her task.
She wondered if Richard would come
tonight No; be would sulk one day,
and then tomorrow evening he would
come.
The next day Evelyn shopped and
lunched and called with exceeding dill
igenCe. Late in the afternoon she slip
ped home TO a quiet cup of tea in her
own sitting room. There were no let
teTS, no MESA ges-nOthing for her.
In the evening Mr.. Hallam was an
nounced. Evelyn tried TO subdue the
wild beating of her heart and dallied
over the adjustment of a rose in her
hair. 1t would be all right after all.
16E SouI SdHS Win JOY pui' CopuetIe
that she was. Evelyn schooled her face
to proper severity as she entered the
drawing room.
Good evening. Miss Lowell" said
Hallam. with grave politeness. taking
her hand for an instant and dropping
it hastily. Il received your note last
evening ! have brought Jones around
with me to help carry the stuff away"
"The-the stuff" she stammered,
nonplused at his manner and the
stranGeness OF the situation.
WHY. yes" be replied cheerfully;
you wrote that you had some tritles
you wanted me TO remove from the
premises. and here | am
Evelyn lifted her head haughtily.
Certainly" she said with assumed
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-07-13

carelessness; 81 had forgotten for the
moment. l will ring for Martin to
bring them"
They sat in silence until Martins fat
white calves staggered into the room
under the weight of an assortment Of
neatly tied packages. Evelyn stared
miserably at the sight. Hallam grin
ned broadly. Looks like a Christ
mas festival" he said. with i'll timed
levity.
Martin deposited the packages on
the floor and departed. Dick Hallam
drew a slip of paper from his pocket.
81 have an inventory here" he re-
marked. with a businesslike air that
was disconcerting. Evelyn felt that
she was the victim of some horrible
nightmare. 1t could not be possible
that Dick HaAam had been so mean
as to keep an account of the gifts he
had given on birthdays and at Christ
mastide: Where was the generosity
and love that had always character
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-07-13
UPHOLDS ANTI-MOB LAW
Cairo Judge Decides Removal of the
Sheriff Was Legal.

Sheriff Was Legal.
Cairo, Ill, July 13.-Judge w. w
Duncan, in the Alexander county cir
cult court yesterday upheld the con-
stitutionality of the anti-mob law in
so far as it relates to the removal of
Frank E. Davis, from whom two pri1-
Cners were taken and lynched while
he was sheriff of this county last No
vember. There were three points in
VOWED in the decision-that the con-
stitution did not deprive the legi.-
lature of the right to give the gov
erncr the authority to remove tho
sheriff; that more than one subject
was not embraced in the act whose
title is IAN act to suppresse mob
Violence" and that the act is not
special legislation. The court de-
clared that Fed D. Nellis. who Snc-
caeded Mr.. Davis as sheriff by ap-
pointment from the county board,
was Illegally appointed because the
unexpired term was for more than
veal. Davis was removed by proc
iamation of the governor Nov. is.
1909. The date when the governor
finally passed upon the case sust1in-,
ing the removal of Davis was within
the year. The court held that the
office became Vacant when Davis was
first removed. AS a result of this
double-barreled decision both Davis
and Nellis will appeal the case to
the supreme court.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-07-13
THERE WILL BE A PARADE
Barnum & Bailey Circus Inaugurates
New ideas

new 1u60S
The public halls with delight the
announcement that when the Barnum
& Bailey's greatest show on earth VS.
It's Moline, Thursday, July 81, it will
present a free street parade as a part
of It's days entertainment. In no par
ticular will this new parade be like
those of the past. 1t is an altogether
different idea.
Before the circus began it's season
Il promised a surprise in the way of
street professions. It announced that
it would present a pageant three times
the length OF any other and costing
ten times as much. 1t is now fulfill
ing that promise TO the letter. The
open air spectacle represents three
years work. The best artists of italy
and France made the designs for the
various vehicles, the costumes and
fantastic trappings. The best proper
ty and spectacle builders and master
artisans of the great theaters OF Eur
ope put those designs into execution
They worked night and day for threee
years in. the foreign workshops of the
show in England. When the bills for
all this labor were turned into the
management they amounted to over
$1,000 900. But the result of the work
Is worth it. The parade is beautiful
beyond description. 1t is a parade
Of ten thousand wonders and novel
tics.
1t has great value as a worlds expo
s;tion. 1t presents all types of the
human race, together with their CO.'S
tunes tapestries, banners, flags, wea-
pons, engines of warfare, statutary
anc paintings, carriages of state, my
thology and idols A complete street
menagerie is displayed in open dens.
There are herds of camels, dromedar-
les and elephants and 700 horses. The
characteristic music of the worlds
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-07-13

Engaged 10 Italians cousin. isn't
she?" asked GoodalI.
Il didn't know faltered Evelyn.
$50 they say. Bob Haiiam is in the
Philippines, you know. The engage
ment hasn't been announced, although
it leaked out at the club
oh" said Evelyn. and it is not on
record what Evelyn thought.
Three miserable weeks dragged by.
miserable for Evelyn Lowell. Dick she
saw occasionally. always the same
cool. courteous. distant Dick. Nothing
more had been said about Pete. and
he remained in Evelyn's possession.
the hostage Of her love. Once in the
solitude of her room she had attacked
the astonisbed Pete and shaken him
forcibly.
You hateful. horrible dog! If it
hadn't been for you | do believe
What she believed Evelyn did not ut
ter. so the agcrieved Pete never knew.
One crisp morning she sailed forth
with Pete AT her heels. She shopped
without enthusiasm. and then. over
come by IL WEAKNESS that WAS unnat-
ural to her buoyant temperament. she
went into Il certain smart little tea
room and ordered luncheon. Pete sat
on d chair beside her loftily indiffer-
ent to the tempting sights and smells
that surrounded him.
The room was deserted save for her
self and group at another table in
a far corner screened with palms. She
discussed her salad languidly. Sud
denly she raised her eyes and saw that
II was Richard Hallam who was seat
ed at the opposite table-and of course
the Cameron girl. She lifted her chin
with hauteur and bowed coldly. He
returned it stiffly. She thought he was
looking pale and tired and somewhat
bored 1t was strange that such
busy lawyer as Italian could spend
time dangling after n creature like the
Cameron girl. Oh. everything was
strange and so horrid anyway.
Pete sat beside her. his black nostrils
twitching and bulging. expectant eyes
fastened on Dick Hallam's face. His
whole body quivered as if controlled
by a multitude of tiny muscles of steel.
Suddenly. as if in response 10 some an
ticipated signal. he uttered loud yelp
of joy and bounded across the table
leaving disaster in his wake.
Straight as a die be shot toward
Hallam. who rose hastily and endeav-
ored to quiet the excited animal.
Evelyn had arisen from her seat.
Her face was quite white. and it was
evident that he was agitated over the
contretemps. Hallam advanced toward
| her, determination In his manner.
Come and join US. Evelyn" lie said
authoritatively.
81 cannot" she whispered brokenly
Nonsense tie laughed. Come: my
cousin from the Philippines is con
cealed behind the palms. You must
| meet him"
She went. There was gladness in
her heart in her eyes and in the caress
! she vouchsafed the faithess Pete.
"Dick." she said later when they
were making all things right between
them. did you call Pete to come TO
! you?"
Hallam laughed happily. Il did" he
| admitted. and
And l told him to CO." she muir
INJURED to the lapel OF his coat.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-07-13
July Is in American
History

lIS0-SJepaeu uOpnIlS. "SiSner Tor
Rhode Island. died in Providence;
born 11OT.
1S9O-John Charles Fremont. explorer,
soldier and presidential candidate
in 1886. died; born 1913.
19O9-Louis Loeb. noted artist and IL
illustrator. died at Canterbury. n.
H: born 1866. Colonel Frederick
Phisterer. civil war veteran. mill
tary writer and statisucian, died
at Albany, n. Y; born 1896.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-07-13

Germany has informed the United
States that it has no hostile tendency
toward the policy Of this government
in Central and South American af-
fairs. For these evidences of inter-
national friendship and good will we
are all deeply grateful.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-07-13

- b a I tired feel
ing" If such is the
the case. that old
excuse of being too
tired won't go any
longer. When John
ny uses this force
ful argument in ex-
planning why he
doesn't want to go
TO school. this new
discovery is I b e
thing for him. And
all messenger com
panies will want it
b,y tho CorlOaH Tho
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-07-13
Professor Loewy's New Discovery.

And now comes a brand new dis
covery that should bring glory. fame
and money in big punches to Pro-
fessOr Loewy. This noted German
scientist claims to have found a new
vim producing product, single dose
of which will instantly drive away
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-07-13
Work "a Hours a Day.

The busiest little things ever made
are DR.. Kings New Life Pills. Every
pill is a sugar coated globule OF
health, that changes weakness into
strength. languor into energy. brain
flag into mental power; curing con-
stipation, headache, chills, dyspepsia.
malaria, % cents at all druggists.