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Mexico Missouri message., 1912-10-03

MARSHALL
NUGGETS
Let us UNDER
stand that 1t Is pos
siblc for the man ia
broadCloth and the
man in hoddCn-Gray
tO be brethren Ia
America "
"Ihc protest of
every man who
voted for Pre- dent
Taft and who Is now
dissatisfied with the
Presidents manage
mCnt of public af-
fairs proves that for
four years ~ minor
Mexico Missouri message., 1912-10-03

WILSON
NUGGETS
"Thcrc never was
n time when impa-
thence and suspicion
were more kccniy
aroused by the pri"
waite power scliishiy
Employed
at requires self
restraint not to at
tempt too much,
and vet il would he
COwnrdly to attempt
too little"
"No group of di"
rcctOrS, economic or
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1912-05-02
Fork and Plate Conversation.

One whose ear has been trained TO read
intelIigently the click OF telegraph
instrument sometimes puts this training
to test under strange conditions. An in
stance, which resulted in embarrassment,
apologies, and finally in a pleasant
acquaintanceship among the persons con-
cerned, is told by certain Ohio farmer
who spent his early years in the employ
OF the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany.
Some years after impaired health had
driven him from the telegraph-office to
the farm, he and his wife were spending
short vacation in the South. While they
were dining in hotel in Memphis, two
young men entered and seated themselves
at the same table with the couple from the
West.
After a survey of the strangers, one OF
the youths took up his fork, and tapping
it in an apparently careless way against
the edge of his plate. spelled out in the
Morse code:
"Do you think they are bride and
groom?"
Eyes, surely" raped his companion.
"Just watch how soft they are"
Immediately, TO the dismay OF the
young men, the fork OF the supposed
bridegroom joined in the conversation.
With rapidity it tapped out:
Gentlemen, you are mistaken. We
have been married five years, and have
three children"
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1912-05-02
Shepherdstown jefferson County, Virginia Thursday May 1912
The Interesting Snail.

If you wish to examine a snail, place
him on a piece of glass. He is cold
blooded creature, and contact with a
warm hand probably induces in him some
what the same sensation that we should
experience if we were placed on top Of
the kitchen range. The coolnesS of the
glass will be agreeable to the snail, and
he will travel along peaceably by expand
ing and contracting his broad, suckerlike
foot.
His horns, or feelers, are protruded in
an inquiring manner; and if 3 finger be
placed in front OF him, he will probably
walk on until the feelers come in contact
with it. Then the feelers are withdrawn
and waved about in an effort to see the
obstruction more clearly for each feeler
has at its end small, imperfect, but still
discernible eye, that is capable, at least,
of distinguishing between light and dark
ness.
A Snail's manner OF withdrawing his
horns is very interesting. He does not
pull them back bodily into their recep-
tacleS, but turns them inside out, just as
one sometimes turns the fingers of a
tight glove.
The little creature has a sense OF smell,
and also a fairly welI-developed ear,
which lies close 10 the root of his horns.
His breathing apparatus is of the SIM
plest description. On looking carefully
at his right side, any one may see that
distinct hole occasionally appears there,
remains open few moments, and then
closes again. This is simply cavity in
the creatures body, into which, at suta-
BILE intervals, he allows a certain quantity
of air to enter.
When air has thus found lis way into
his interior, he keeps it there until the
oxygen is exhausted by his vital process
es. What remains, laden with carbonic
acid, is allowed to escape by reopening
the little trap-door, and the receptacle is
again filled with pure air.
The snail's mouth is armed with a saw
like tongue, like long, narrow ribbon,
coiled up so that only part OF it comes
into use at any one time. Distributed
over the surface OF this ribbon are tiny
teeth, sometimes as many as thirty thou
sand.
AS one set of teeth becomes worn away
by leaf-cutting, another portion OF ribbon
is uncoiled, and the teeth which were be-
fore wrapped up at the back of the mouth
come forward TO take their turn in press
ing the food against the horny upper sur
face Of the mouth, and thus cuttingit.
The snaiPs she'll is horny covering
that serves to protect IFS soft body against
numerous foes. Slugs are simply snails
that live a retired life, and consequently
need no covering at all. The shell OF the
snail is built up from lime in the plants
on which il feeds. The creatures are
never found on soil which contains no
lime
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1912-05-02
They Were Too Polite.

There are many humorous anecdotes
current among his countrymen. which
Chedo Mijatovich relates in "Servia OF the
Servians." The following neatly illus
trates the point that there are other things
more important than mere etiquette:
Nasrapin Chodja took much trouble to
teach his pupils how to behave politely.
Among other things he taught them
always to clap their hands and shout,
"Hayir Allahp God bless you'll when
ever they hear an older person sneeze.
Once the Chodja, mending something in
the open pit in his garden, slipped and
fell in. Nearly drowned in the deep
water of the pit, he called his pupils to
bring rope and drag him out.
The dutiful schoolboys soon found a
rope and threw it down to their master,
and when he had seized If, began to drag
him out. Only a few feet more and he
would be out OF the pit-when, unfor-
tunately, thoroughly wet as he was, ne
sneeZedl
In an instant all his pupils dropped the
rope to clap their hands, shouting:
"Hayir Allah Chodjal"
The poor Chodja fell down to the
bottom Of the pit.
"Ah, it serves me right" he cried
al ought TO have taught these boy:
common sense first and then politenessl"
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1912-05-02
Secret Writing.

PostaI-eards would undoubtedly be in
much greater demand than they are for
purpose OF correspondence but tor the fact
that the messages they convey are open
TO all through whose hands they may pass
Yet this objection is easily overcome.
There are some beautifully simple ciph-
ers than are almost impossible for any one
not in the secret TO read. Only by luck,
for instance, can even the expert find the
key TO a short message written in the
"trellis" or grill" cipher. Its extremely
simple, and thousands of people use il to
battle folks who take an interest in the
contents of postcards.
To use if all you have to do is to cut a
few oblong holes in blank post card,
place if over the postcard you mean to
write on and write your message in the
holes. Then take the upper card off and
write some natural reading sentences
round the cipher words.
Any inquisitive person reading the card
when If reaches your correspondents
housewife find a message OF no interest
whatever. Only your correspondent
himself-or herself-can read the real
message, and that by placing on the card
a blank card cut exactly the same way as
your own.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1912-05-02
A Hasty Judgment.

al don't see how that man ever built
up such large business" said Mr.. Boyd,
as he took off his overcoat. He had
been making some purchases of a man
with whom he had not previously had
dealings. The remark led Mrs. Boyd TO
ask what the matter was, and whether
the prices were higher than they should
have been. Her husband replied that,
on the contrary, they were lower than
he had been paying. Then he went on /:
81 have always supposed that mans
manner had a great deal to do with his
success. A man likes to deal with a
genial person, but this man, Montague,
is anything but that. He has most in
different, brusque manner"
"In that case" declared Mrs. Boyd,
Indignantly, 81 shouldn't gothere again
out of your way so far, and then not to
be treated courteouslyl" She was SEN
sitive in matters which concerned her
husband. "How did he act ?" she con-
tinued.
"Well, when asked him about grain,
he showed me samples of the various
kinds, and gave me the prices in all off
hand way, as if he didn't care whether
bought or not.
"There it is in those bags he said,
pointing TO them. Customers can look
at it for themselves. | never ask any
one to buy. have all can do to get it
hauled off,
'Just as was coming away | thought
I'D ask him if.he knew Of any one who
wanted to buy good horse. He threw
UP his hand as if to wave me off, and
said, i don't know anything outside OF
this building"
"He must be delight TO his family"
Mrs. Boyd remarked,
eyes, couldn't help thinking how
pleasant he must make things at home"
"Still. Fred" Mrs. Boyd said, with
the dexterity of her sex in shifting her
position, 81 don't know but that you'd
better go there if You can really do better
You know we have been so dissatisfied
with Grant & Fisher. You said the other
day you never wanted to get another
thing there"
ayes, | know, but-Well, declare,
he new man is prompt, anyway" Mr..
Boyd exclaimed, as he looked out OF the
window. "Here is my grain now"
And he hurried out to the laden wagon
which had just driven in.
Mrs. Boyd stood watching the driver
unload the bags of grain. He was a
rather intelligent looking young fellow,
and after he had finished unloading. he
stood a moment by the empty wagon,
talking with Mr.. Boyd.
{" wonder what they are Saying2"
she thought, with the interest in details
born of suburban life.
"Well," said Mr.. Boyd, when he came
in, w've just had another lesson on the
danger of hasty judgments. Idon'tknow
whether that driver overheard our con-
versation this morning and wanted to ex-
plain, or not; but he said just now, 1T
isn't very strange that Mr. Montague acts
kind of queer sometimes, is'it?'
81 asked him what he meant. He said:
We'll, sometimes his manner is little
queer lately. He's mighty fine man,
but he doesn't act as he used to; doesn't
seem TO take the same interest in things.
guess he's kind of lost his grip, but it's
no wonder. Within two years he's lost
his wife and four children. All went with
consumption. The last child was buried
yesterday
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1912-05-02
Did Father Laugh ?

Young RichIiegh's father allowed him
to take a trip TO Europe last summer. says
the San Francisco Argonaut. Before
starting, the youth made up cable code
OF his own for possible use while abroad /,
and handed a copy 10 his father. who
locked il up in his desk without looking
al il.
A month later the elder Richliegh re-
ceived cable consisting OF one word
Laugh" He laughed. II seemed to be
something quite pleasant. His code was
at the house. He went up there in high
humor. He got out the code and read:
"Laugh-Send me five hundred dol
lars"
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1912-05-02

NEW VOL. 47-No. Is.
The Titanic Disaster.

Mrs. Danske cambridge, of Shepherds
town, last week wrote the following let
ter to the Baltimore Sun:
To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir:
May say that am glad Colonel Astor
remained on the deck of the Titanic and
went down with her2 He had, in that
moment, chance given him to save his
soul alive and he took il. He is no more
dead than you and |, and do not doubt
he is very glad at this moment, wherever
his living spirit may be, that he acted as
he did.
But where there were a few rich peo-
pie on that ship capable of making the
supreme sacrifice for the sake of others,
there were hundreds OF poor men who
did the same. We honor them all.
When lady says that il was pity to
save peasant women and LET so many
men drown, cannot agree with her. The
peasant women are the mothers of labor
ers. We need the great army OF laborers,
the producers, more than we need most
ofthe very rich, who are spending so many
millions in Europe every year. Weneed
honest, industrious workers more than we
do arrogant mllionaires, Wall-street gam
blers, or the host Questionable Divorces,
who corrupt the morals Of our country
men and women, and fill the minds OF
the people with luxuy-loving unrest.
There is something about wealth that
hardens men and women, deadens spir-
ituality, and makes selfishness, ostenta-
ton and greed. As matter OF fact many
milIionaires become moral degenerates
and have no influence for good at all. but
a very great influence the other way.
Then as TO the poor women who were
saved being immigrants, what does that
matter 2 Are we not all descended from
immigrants ? Some OF our ancestors had
blue blood and little money, most OF
them had good red blood and no money
to speak Of Butthey were all immigrants
and some OF them founded the wealthiest
and most arrogant OF our modern Ameri-
can families.
The lesson the Titanic disaster teaches
is the spiritual impotence OF wealth, and
that "a mans man for a that"
DANsKE DANDRIDOE.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1912-05-02
The Price OF Beauty.

Nobody knows better than the birds
that beauty may be curse as well as a
blessing. There is not single creature
OF lovely plumage which the envy and
greed ofmankind do not persecute. Gene
Stratton-Porter in "The Music of the
Wild" declares that the breast of the
grebe is its curse. The feathers are so
tiny and fine as TO render adequate de-
scription impossible. There are eight
members Of the family which have this
exquisite plumage, although if varies with
the species. Crested grebes are killed
without mercy for this small patch ofrare
feathering, and their marsh cousins do not
escape.
There is no bird slaughter for plumage
more wanton, unless it be that practised
by the egret-hunters, who take the life Of
the brooding bird for few beautiful
feathers found on the shoulders only at
nesting-time, and thus leave her young
TO slow death from starvation.
When plume decked women chide you
for taking moderate amount of game in
season, tell them this egret story. Tell
them, too, how the grebeS are caught by
hand, because they will not fly how the
skin OF the throat is cut with nippers and
ripped down, and the living bird then
left to die as it may, among the grasses,
rushes and blue flags OF the marsh.
Whether you know il or not, you are
familiar with the breast OF the grebe.
When you see woman with band
of white plumage tinted almost invisibly
with blue and green and more strongly
with golden-brown, ornamenting her hat,
know that from one TO six OF these HARM
less, Iovable, Sweet-voiced birds were
stripped TO supply it.
When you see that other woman wear
ing cape, the collar OF which reaches
above her ears, and the skirt 10 her ell
bows, and it is made OF mostindiscerni-
BILE, delicateIy colored sections the size
OF your hand, know that each stands for
the life OF one OF the charming marsh
chatterers.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1912-05-02
Laugh.

When the pastures smile in flowers meath the April
sky:
When the young leaves softly rustic TO the May
winds sigh:
When the brooklets laugh and chatter and the NV
ers Groom;
Laugh. because the world is laughing Laugh. to
keep in tune
When in spring the daylight fingers after work is
done,
And the village children frolc after set OF sun
Or when strolling lovers nger in the dusk Of June
Laugh, because the world is laughing Laugh. to
keep in tune
When the darksome days OF winter bring the Christ
mas-tde.
And there's JOY Of gift and giver scattered lar and
wide;
When the shout Of merry coasters rings beneath the
moon:
Laugh, because the world is laughing Laugh, to
keep in tune.
If. through the granite alleys beneath each smoky
shed,
Sounds the stocsn calling the fight for bread
As you go forth TO battle, toing late and soon,
Laugh The world has need Of laughter Put the
world in tune
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1912-05-02
The Demons of The Swamp

are MOSQUITOES. As they sting they put
deadly malaria germs in the blood. Then
follow the icy chills and the fires ffeyer.
The appetite flies and the strength fails;
also malaria often paves the way TO:
deadly typhoid. But Electric Bitters
kin and cast out the malaria germs from
the blood; give you fine appetite and
renew your strength. "After long sui
fering," wrote VIM. Fretwell, OF Lucama,
N c. "three bottles drove all the ma
Iaria from my system, and Eve had good
health ever Since" Best for all stomach,
liver and kidney ills. 50 cts. at Hills
Pharmacy.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1912-05-02
The Widest Note.

BY no stretch of imagination can the
hawk be counted as a song-bird, yet in
"Music of the Wild" Mrs. Stratton- Porter
says that his battle-cTy is musical effort
from which small birds flee IN conSteTna-
ton, and at which great ones quail, even
if they remain to fight.
A hawks battle-homn is hair raising
scream-shrill, loud, and the widest note
OF the forest
No bird OF field or forest has the force
OF expression to be found on the face OF
a big hawk. There are character, dignity.
defiance and savagery combined. In his
wonderful powers OF flight and sight, in
his grace and royal bearing, in the dignity
of his silence, and the strength OF his cry,
he is one Of the finest birds that live, and
the most beneficial TO us. For although
he occasionally takes young chicken
that we intended TO eat, his steady diet
is snakes, moles, field-mice and grass
hoppers, all OF which constantly menace
the landowner.
So long as hawks are unmolested and
happy theYare silent-a strange reversal OF
the law OF music in blrdlahd. Almost
without exception other birds sing in bub-
bling ecstasy when they are happy, and
NOPE in silence, broken only by few
pathetic notes OF wailing, when in trouble.
There is not much to be said for hawk
music, yet the voice Of the forest would
lose the charm of its widest note were
this great bird extinct, and it is because It
is wild and different from sounds OF every
day that we love it, Then, as a picture
seen from afar. the forest would never be
complete without these birds Of tireless
wing hanging over it, and reigning upon
their thrones OF air.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1912-05-02

A clergyman in small town was de-
ploring the fact that none of the couples
that came in from the country to be mar
ried stopped at his house for the purpose.
swell, brother" said the man address
ed, "wflat can you expect with that big
sign on the tree there, Five Dollars
Fine for Hitching Here :"
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1912-05-02
How cold YOUR nose isP'

Chow cold your nose IS
These words came from the daughter
of the house, who was sitting in the par
lor with her beau.
"Is Towser in the pahor again 2" de-
mauded her mother from the next room.
There was long pause.
mo, mother; Towser isn't in the par
Ior" And then silence resumed It's
reign.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1912-05-02
CORrALcoGthTS
Those Recovering from Any Sc
we're Illness

After a long wasting illness, con
valescents require nourishing food
that will not oyertax the digestive
functions-snd in the way Of a
strength-restoring and vitality-niaking
tonic, we know of nothing that equals
yinoI, our delicious cod liver and iron
tonic without oil).
vfnoI creates an appetite, re-estab-
fishes good digestion and helps the
daily food to make rich blood, form
flesh, strong muscles and impart new
life and vitality TO every organ In the
body. We ask those who need q
strength and fesh-buildfng tonic res
toratfve to call at our store and get a
bottle of vinol, with the understand
fng that II II does not help them we
wiz refund their money without ques-
ton.
Owens & Miller, Druggists,
Shepherdstown W. Va.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1912-05-02
Helms A Iudge In Bad Fix.

Justice Eli Cherry, of Giilis Mills, Tenn.
was plainly worried. A bad sore on his
leg had baffIed several doetors and long
resisted all remedies. I'll thought Il was
a cancer" he wrote. "At last ] used
Bucklen's Arnica Salye, and was conf
pletely cured" Cures burns. boils, VI
GERS, cuts, bruises and piles. Is cents at
Hills Pharmacy.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1912-05-02

Farmers. mechanics, railroaders, laoor-
ers rely on DR.. Thomas Eciectlc vi.
Takes the sting out OF cuts, burns or
bruises at once. Pain cannot stay where
II Is used.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1912-05-02
Facing Famine.

An untimeIy biting frost effectually COM
pleted the mischief done earlier by the
insect enemies OF Mr.. Barden's potatoes.
The tops OF the plants, which had served
as pasturage for the pests, were entirely
destroyed, and with them Mr.. Barden's
hopes of crop.
He was not selfish, however, and could
think OF others in the hour OF adversely.
Going TO town in the afternoon, he was
accosted at the post-oifice by James
Hayes, an intimate acquaintance.
"Hello, Giles How's everything up
to the corners 2"
Trouble enough, Jim, trouble enoughP'
was the gloomy response. "Ten million
'tater-bugs, and nothing for 'em 10 eat +
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1912-05-02
WANTED.

Wanted to borrow 81 $4,000 for two
years, giving good security on very val
liable real estate. Address "V." Care
Shepherdstown Register, ,Shepherdstown,
w. Va.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1912-05-02

Don't think that piles can't be cured.
Thousands OF obstinate cases have been
cured by Doan's Ointment. 80 cents at
any drug store.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1912-05-02
TunnWorths.

Improve your stock by buying thor
oughbred TamWorth Boar. The Tam
worth is strictly bacon hog and is the
best to cross on the ordinary swine.
They are prolific and hardy, and the pigs
grow quickly and mature early, produc-
ing meat OF the finest quality. Young
Tamworth boars and sows from registered
stock. Have now. for sale four sows 9
months old, weigh 200 to 250 pounds,
and one sow and two boars months old.
II. w. POTTS.
Shepherdstown, W. Va.
Jan. IL, 1912.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1912-05-02

She had just finished reading Edward
Everett HaIe's "The Man Without q
Country" and as she laid it down she
sighed and said:
"a can notimagine anything worse than
a man without a country"
"Oh,I can," said her friend.
"Why, what?"
"a country without man."
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1912-05-02

Bilious? Feel heavy after dinner 2
Tongue costed2 Bitter taste2 Com
plexion sallow2 Liver needs waking up.
Doan's Regulets cure bilious attacks.
. cents at any drug store.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1912-08-09
Mems Fancy Hose
Boys Suits
So. so to 81. 50 Values, sale price $l.75
Mems Suits

$40, Sill, $l2. so values, sale price $3.50
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-12-16
CALL Mr.. TAYLOR
TO CALVARY CHURCH
POPULAR MISSOURI MINISTER IS
TO SUCCEED REV. ny
LAND KNIGHT.

Upon recomn, ndaticn NJ the pulpit
* II uttteS the congregation Of Cal
.ayy Baptist church yesterday morn
:n< uuAn 'rnously selected ta| Res, J.
\ Taylor, Of Fulton, Mo. 10 I'll The
2Achncy in the church made by ire
resignation Of Rev. DIR Ryland kniE"t-
Mir. TAYLOR is graduate of George
town college. OF Georgetown, Ny, and
OF the Southern Baptist Theological
seminary in 1900 His first charge
was in Parkland Baptist church.
Louisville. Ky, and later was called
TO Shelbyville, Tenn. He afterwards
accepted q pastoTate in Fulton, No,
which he is now filling.
A letter will be dispatched to the
Rev. Mr.. Taylor Immediately notify
ing him Of the church $ selection. Mr..
Taylor Is said to be an excellent
preacher and large number OF the
congre cation said Yesterday that they
would he well pleased to have him
accept the call to Calvary Baptist
church
DR. Ryland Knight resigned al pas
tor OF the church several weeks a ~
to accept can to Clarksville, Tenr
Fl $ resignation takes effect Janualy
LIST.