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The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-01-19
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Charles Dickens had great di6-
Guilty in choosing titles for his va
rious publications. The following
is q list of fourteen suggestions CIV
en- by the author to his adviser, Eos
ter, for the title of one book, ont
Of which, need hardly be added, No.
6 was chosen: l. According to
Croker. 2. Prove It. 8. Stubborn
Things. 4. Mr.. Grandgrind's Facts
5. The Grindstone. 6. Hard Times.
z. Two and Two Are -Four. 8. Some
thing Tangible. 8. Our Hard Head
ed Friend. 10. Rust and Dust. IL.
Simple Arithmetic. 10. A Matter
of Calculation. Is. a Mere Matter
of Figures. Il. The Grandgrind
Philosophy.
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Tho Talking MaeauIay.

Macaulay is an taImost) never
ceasing talker and pours out the
prodigious stores of learning, wit
and eloquence with such an ABSORB
ton in his subject that / doubted
when heard him if he would not
90 on Just the same if everybody
left the room. Somebody asked the
Duchess of Sutherland latter din
ner at Stafford House, if he liked
the society of women and whom he
seemed to prefer. She answered,
sob, he only looks upon US all in
the light Of Interruptions. LADY
Granville's Records"
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INSECT INSTINCT.
How Bees Treat Intruders That &c.
Into the Hive.
What does the bee DO when some

-
What does the bee do when some
foreigner in the animal world, as,
for instance, a heavy slug, inyades
Its hive? Stings it to death, of
course. But what then? All the
bees In the hive may not be able to
drag out the carcass, and yet they
must do something with it to keep
it from injecting the colony. Move
into a new house? Scarcely, for
they would abandon their store of
honey. No, the workers cease gath
ering honey and start out after pro-
polls, the red resinous substance
with which bees line and fence their
hives. This bee glue they spread
all over the foreign substance in
little fllets until the foreigner is
completely embalmed.
So, too, if a snail invades the hive
and evades being stung to death
they glue him fast in his shell and
when he starves to death embalm
him with propois.
But the bee is not the only in
sect that exhibits a clearly defined
intelligence. The maternal nature
shows up in some of the meanest
insects TO a wonderful degree. The
pine silkworm moth tears all the
hair and down from its own body in
order to make a soft nest for its
young and expires soon after. This
Is to greater extent than the nab
bit, which tears only the fur from
its belly for its nest.
Some gall insects even immediate
themselves to protect their OF
spring. As the insect, full to great
distension with eggs, expels them
gradually till all have been laid and
nothing but hollow shell remains
of the mother. she sees that her
task has been accomplished and
gathers the eggs into pile, spreads
herself over them. fastens the sides
of her own body down over them,
and thus dies. This, Of course,
forms an impermeable covering for
the eggs till they are Matched. The
mother has here paid for the child
birth with her life, and the chill
dren are born in the shelter of her
corpse.-New York Tribune.
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Whom &c Woman Eainted.

This happened on the Lake Shore
fiier not long ago. A man rushed
in from the car behind, evidently in
great agitation, and said: 'Has any
body in the car any whisky? a wo-
man in the car behind has tainted"
Instantly dozens of TASKS were pre-
duced. The man who had asked for
it picked out the largest one, drew
the cork and put the bottle to his
lips. With a long, satisfied sigh, he
handed 1t back and remarked:
''That did me a lot of good. I need
ed it, for it always makes me feel
queer to see a woman faint"
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No act of legislation, law of force,
will effect reforms in ones life
Like the constant dripping water
wears away the hardest stones, so
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CLEANING the Clock.

a farmer has an ambitious son
twelve years old, who, being left
alone for few hours the other day,
tried to clean the clock. He easily
got the clock to pieces, but his DIFF
fculty lay in putting them together
again after cleaning.
At this task he was only partly
successful, and upon his fathers re-
turn home he eagerly exclaimed:
Father, I've cleaned the clock
and got enough works left over to
make another one!w
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will the influence of the good, moral
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ually give them a yearning for bet
ter things and useful industry.
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Hard TO Suit.

''That editor is certainly getting
hard to suit" the author remarked
in discouraged voice, gazing sadly
at a heavy envelope upon his table.
"What is the NATTER" asked a
cheerful friend, who gets a regular
salary.
ooh, he returns this story with
the comment that it is too bald.
Last week he wrote that he didn't
care for stories Of the hair raising
kind. What can you do with maa
Ike that?"-Lippincott's.
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Oily.

An enlightened Glasgow woman
has named her twin daughters Gas
oline and Kerosene. The fathers
name is Pete Roleum, while her
own is Rosaline. It is to be hoped
that the babies viii grow up par
atm girls, for then the man who
marries into that family will I'M
doubtedly strike oil. Of course
there is some likelihood that spark
ing in the immediate neighborhood
of these girls may prove a some
what dangerous pastime and that
when they do make a match Of it
they viii have to be very carefully
handled lest the husbands find
themselves in the wrong box. =
London Scraps.
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TICKLE FASHION.
Some of the Things Tha. Start Styles
or Kill Them.

Some Of the Things That Start Styles
or Kill Them.
1t is not easy to kill a fashion.
but it may be done with authority
and skill. Authority comes in with
the postmaster generals limitation
of the cardboard box to SIX feet
measured either way), which means.
being interpreted, that the post1nas-
ter general, being man, forbids
you, being woman, to achieve BY
parcels post hat which is above the
regulation government official size.
Whatever you are, ladies, the post
master general, with his tape meas
ure, remembers what you wear.
The postmaster general and the
lady who vas hanged in q black silk
dress are not alone in the setting Of
fashion. The size of the hat Is Inn
tied by the size of the bandbox the
postoffice viii accept, and the WON
en- of England said they would be
hanged if they wore a black sitk
dress in which a notorious lady Wus
strangled. But a budding fashion
was curiously squashed in the end
Of the last century, the fur cape, q
useful article and ornamental to Ehe
slim. A fat duchess saw herself m
the glass, saw that it did not SUIT
her stubby figure and dressed her
goodman in it. And the fur cape
became 60 Questionable that even
tootmen struck.
Both black satin dresses and.
white lace wells went immediatGly
out of fashion when a murdeEaSE
wore them at her execution. The
woman was Mrs. Manning, who, with
her husband, was executed for the :
murder of a man named o'ConroF
before Horsemonger lane jail on
Nov. Is, 1s49.
A particular kind of black beaver
hat fell in popularity when Franz
Muller was in 1864 hanged for the
murder Of Thomas Briggs on the
North London railway. Muller's
hat, found in the railway carriage,
formed the connecting link in a re-
markable chain of circumstantisl
evidence. Henceforth "mullers,
as they were called, were tabooed.
and anybody who wore one risked
having it smashed at sight.
While in England garments have
been made questionable by fgur-
ing at the execution of criminals,
in France the public executioner at
one time actually set the fashion.
Samson, the executioner, was IA
nous for the richness of his attire
and attracted such attention there
by that Just before the revolution he
was forbidden to wear blue, which
was a nobleman's color. By way Of
protest he made himself even more
gorgeous and despite his office made
The green cloth which he adopted
with the court handles,
who initiated both the cut and color
If his clothes.-London Chronicle.
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On. Way to Avoid Il.

When Carrie was three or four
wears old she went with her grand
mother to visit an aunt. The little
one ate very heartily of berries,
when her grandmother said, Don't
eat any more berries or you will
have a pain under your apron"
Carrie regarded the dainty apron
seriously for moment and then
said. 'Please take my apron OF,
grandma. "-Delineator.
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R0THENRURG.
An Ancient City That Is Still Stately
and FASCINATING.


and Fascinating.
For thousand years ROthenburc
has been u city. For more than 500
years it WIS a free city of the en-
pire. 1t is not like those ancient
towns which, through centuries Of
strife, preserved their entity
through being huddled near the
base of some great castle. It is not
like those towns that were protect
ed by powerful princes, for it has
maintained itself by its own unaid-
ed sturdiness. If great barons
came to Rothenburg they came to
receive protection, not to give it, or
else they came to be entertained
with the lavish open handedness
that made the city place to which
emperors themselves found pleasure
in resorting.
By crusaders and pilgrims Roth
enburg was held in affectionate re-
gard, not only for Its generous hos
pitality, but because, seen from the
river, it bore 4 striking resemblance
to Jerusalem. But there was order
in those times of turbulence, and in
an old, old house used by Pslestine's
pilgrims and still known as Pill
grims' House there is an ancient
stone, bearing upon it an ancient
carving Of hand and Ratchet,
with the ominous inscription, "He
who quarrels in this house shall
have his hand cut off,"
Yet since those early days the
town has been comparatively for
gotten. Even yet it has not become
haunt Of the tourist and the trav-
eler, although each year a few
Americans resort there, bringing
back tales of this city that out
Nurnbergs Nurnberg. It is easily
reached, being on a little branch
hne from the railway between
Frankfort and Munich.
1t is a place where the sightseer
cannot so wrong, for everywhere
is fascination. There are both
stateliness and beauty. There are
towering houses with crisscrossed
fronts.
There are deep dungeons under
the Rathhaus, reached by stairways
dripping with moisture, into which
not ray of light can enter, and in
one Of these dungeons some five
centuries ago the men of Rothen-
burg placed the burgomaster who,
more than any other in the long
burgomasterial line, gave to the
city power and wealth and prosper
ity. But they charged him with
conspiring with the emperor and
not only gave him no light, but
edged their luminosity by deliber-
ately giving him no food. 1t is in
all fiercely dramatic story, for
friends who were still faithful tun-
neled to the cell and madly cut
through its prodigious wall and
reached the prisoner, but only to
find him dead.
Nowadays they treat unpopular
burgomasters with more considera-
ton. Each burgomaster is chosen
for three years, and at the end of
that time he is either elected for
life or gives place to successor. !
But an election for life does not
give unchecked power, for it is
simple matter with these townsfolk,
if they tire of life chosen mayor, |
to make him so crazy with vexa-
ton" as it was expressed to me,
that he is glad to resign and ac-
cept the pension that they pallia-
lively offer. Only recently they thus
got rid of one.-Robert Shackleton
~
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I am in the picture business. Ii
you want an enlarged portrait, Civ,
me your order. Work guaranteed
If l don't see you send small pictur,
md order. get work done at on,
of the best houses in America.
J. NJ. Burdett, Agent.
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RIA GOT DONE BROWN.
And Pa Got Mad and Also Go. Some.
thing to Look At.
Last summer Something went nm.

EH'S = S0S MSd ah6 Also Coz Sorno-
thing to Look At.
Last summer something went up,
and pa made lot OF money. As
soon as ma found it out she said
she was going to be done in oil.
"An right" said pa, %how much
of you are you going to have done2"
"a full length" said ma.
Gracious. You'll ruin men said
pa. S'Think of the frameII"
You see, ma is what I call fat,
but she says she is in the prime OF
life and that it is fitting for wom-
an of her age to be portly.
'1f you're going to be DONE" pa
told her, 'be done brown. So don't
80 to a department store and be
done by the yard with a halo
around you"
Ma gEinned ike she always does
when she gets her own way and
went to a real artist-one Of those
fellows that lives in an attic with
big skyhght and armor and pieces
Of people hanging around. This
was last September, and since then
ma has been going about once a
week to sit to the artist.
The first time ma came home
from her sit pa asked her how much
of Venus had risen from the sea.
Ma got mad and told him to wait
until he saw his wife hanging from
the line at the academy.
Well, ma is done now, and the
other night we three went around
to the academy to see ma hanging.
Pa said he would like to see her as
others saw her. The picture looked
just ike ma, only her cheeks were
red, and she didn't have any funny
little lines around her eyes. Pa
said she looked like a duchess and
patted her on the arm, and she got
all red and her eyes shiny, and she
looked real pretty. Then ma want
ed to go home, but pa wanted to
stay and hear what people said
about the picture.
While they were settling their
differences, as pa calls it. two ladies
came along and began to talk about
mas picture. One of them said:
isn't it hideous? ! don't mean the
picture, but the subject. Why is it
artists always choose such ugly sub
iects:?"
Pa said 'cBlast the women real
loud, and they looked around and
saw ma dressed ike she was in the
picture. ''Merciful heavens" one
squealed. ''There's the subject
now~ And ma said, EJames, if
you had gone home when l wanted
TO you would have spared your wife
this humiliation"
Pa never said a word, and we
went home without stopping to get
anything to eat, Ike We do when
we go to the show, and ma went
right to bed.
The next morning pa asked ma
where she was going to hang her
picture. "Where am | going to
hang it," screamed ma. 'Tn place
where neither YOU or Thomas
CHATS mel or any one else will see
it." And ma made the artist take
the picture out Of The academy.
When it came hone she had it
tied up in sheets and nut up in the
garrett and locked the door. Pa said
# she wouldn't let him see the pic
ture he was going to have some
thing to look al. 30 lie pasted the
bill up on The wall Of his den.
Gee! 1t makes me sick. Pa and
ma are always preaching about
"willful waste nmkiug woeful want"
That's what that rrture was. They
might have bought an automobile.
New York Press.
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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-20
NotIce of PubIIcntIon.

State OF Illinois. Rock IslaAd Coun-
In the Circuit Court To the May
Tenn, 1910.
erin Chancery.
Afidavit Of non-residence OF the above
named defendant. Andrew Shererr, hay
ing been filed in the clerks office or the
circuit court OF said county. notice -
therefore hereby given 70 the said nom
resident defendant that the complain
ant filed her bill OF complaint in said
court on the chancery side thereon, on
tn 31st day OF March, 1910. ana that
thereupon a summons issued out or said
court, wherein said suit is now pending
returnable on the first Monday IN the
month OF May next, as Is by law re-
Now. unless you. the said nonresident
defendant above named Andrew Shererr.
shall personally be and appear petore
said circuit court, on the nrst DAY OF
the next term thereof. 10 be holden AT
Rock Island, in and for said county, on
the first Monday in May next, and plead
answer or demur to the said Complain
ants bill OF complaint, the same ana
the matters and things therein charged
and stated will be taken as confessed
and a decree entered against you &C
cording 70 the prayer OF said Dill:
GEORGE W. GAMBLE. Clerh-
Rock Island. Ill, March 81, 1910.
Marion y. Sweeney, complainant 80
licitor.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-20
Notice of PuhIioation.

ty-ss:
Term. 1910.
Irwin n. Grimm and Mabel Honopster,
rs George A. Griffin; John II. Grimm:
Dona Brookman; Gladys Grimm; Will
nam Mosher. administrator with will
annexed of estate OF Joshua p. Grimm.
deceased; Frank Seefeldt; United Brew
Vogel and Reinhard VogeI, partners.
etc, as Vogel Bros company and George
kadeL-In Chancery.
AFFIDAVIT of non-residence of the above
named defendants. George A. Griffin;
iona Brookman; Gladys Griffin; Her
man Vogel and Reinhard Vogel part
ners; etc, as Vogel Bros. company. hav-
Ing been filed in the clerks once of the
circuit court of said county, notice 70
therefore hereby given to the said nom
resident defendants that the complain
anus nled their bill OF complaint In said
court on the chancery side thereof. on
the first day Of April, 1910, and that
thereupon a summons issued out OF said
ing, returnable on the first Monday in
the month Of May next, as IS by law
required
Now. unless you. the said. non-resi-
A. Griffin: Dona Brookman: Gladys Grif-
fin: Herman Vogel and Reinhard Vogel.
partners, etc, as Vogel Bros. company,
shaI personally be and appear before
SAID circuit court. on the first day OF
the next term thereof. to be holden at
ROCK Island, in and for said county, on
answer or demur 10 the said complaint
ants bill of complaint, the same ana
the matters and things therein charged
and staed will be taken as confessed.
cording to the prayer OF said bill.
GEORGE W. GAMBLE. Clerk
Rock Island, Ill, April I. 1910.
Marion z. Sweeney. complainant's So
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-20
Notice of Publication.

State of Illinois. Rock Island Coun-
ty-ss:
In the Circuit Court OF Said County.
To the May Term, A. d. 1910; in Chan
Emma L. Hester VS.. John A. seheli.
Kate Lohr, Lovina Willie and Lewis
Kleist:
AfHdavit of 1on-residence Of the above
named defendants, Kate Lohr and Bo-
yina Willie, implicated with John A
Schen and Lewis Kleist, having been
filed in the clerks office Of the circuit
court of said county on the 26th day OF
March, 1910. notice is therefore hereby
given to the said Kate Lohr and Lovtna
Willie. nonresident defendants, that
the complainant fled her bill OF com
plant in said court on the chancery
side thereof. on the 29th day OF Novem-
Der A. d. 1903, and thereupon sum
mons issued out OF said court. wherein
the first Monday in the month OF jan
uary. 1910, and said cause was by oroer
OF court on the 26th day Of March, 1910,
continued for service. and thereupon
alias summons issued out or said court.
wherein said suit is now pending re-
turnable on the first Monday IN the
month of May next. as is by law re-
Now, unless you. the said Kate Lohr
and Lovina Willie. non resident defend
ants above named. shall personally DO
and appear before said circuit court. on
the first day of the next term thereols
to be holden in Rock Island, Rock IS
land county, state Of Illinois on the
first Monday in May next and plead.
ants bill OF complaint, the same ana
the matters and things therein cnarBed
and stated win be taken as contessed
against you. the said Kate Lohr ana Lo-
VIVA Willie, and a decree entered against
YOU according TO the prayer Of said Dill
GEORGE w. GAMBLE, Clerk
Rock Island. Ill. March 20. 1910.
McEniry & McEniry, complainants
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-20

FOR sA,LAA i've room cottage. lot
SUx12b feet. IN good condition, cen
tralIj located. Inquire 2S10 Eighth
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-20

Estate of Mary Schantz. deceased
The undersigned having been APP
pointed executor of the last VIII ana
testament of Mary Schantz. late OF the
county OF Rock Island, state or Illinois,
deceased. hereby gives notice that he
will appear before the county court OF
Rock island county, at the county court
room in the city OF Rock Island, at the
June term, On the first Monday in juno
next, at which time all persons having
claims against said estate are request
ed 10 attend for the purpose OF having
tho same adjusted. All persons indebt-
ed TO said estate are requested TO make
Immediate payment to the undersigned
Dated this 4th day OF April, A. u.
1910 FRANK ID. BURGER
Executor.
L Grntf nifnrnar