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Sistersville oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1896-1901, 1898-11-30
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$l.29
local and Otherwise.

N ne Gays. are SuoIt. al s.
i Circuit court next week.
! The Christmas tree is nearly
ripe.
/ Hog-killing season is with as
again.
Less than a month until Christ
mas will be here.
There is talk of building street
car line from Pittsburg to Wheel
ing.
We had some little sleighing
yesterday forenoon, the hsrt OF the
winter.
Rev. Eagleson, we'll known here,
is preaching at New Cumberland.
this states
We are to have another legal hol-
iday, - Expansion Day = and It
comes July 18TH.
j.. Olmstead, of Sistersville.
was business visitor in our town
Tuesday.-St. Marys Oracle.
Miss Alfretta Russell, of Sisters
vile, is the guest of friends in town
this week.-St. Marys Oracle.
Mr.. Hal Porter6eld, of the
Mountain Stale Gas company has
returned from visit to Oil City,
Pa.
Charles Bissett and Frank Green
ate Thanksgiving dinner with
friends in this city.-Marietta
Times.
Mr.. G. P. Smith Of Tyler county,
visited his son AL, manager of the
| Matamoras mill, last Saturday.
Matamoras Mail.
Green apples sell in our market
from s. so to IS 90 barrel. We
| just look at 'em, simply this and
nothing more.
Miss Mary Heintz came down
from Sistersville Wednesday and
spent Thanksgiving at home
Marietta Times.
You could not send your absent
friends more welcome Christmas
gift than the Daily Oil Review for
year. Try 1t once.
DR.. R. H. Thaw made business
trip to Sistersville this week and
was accompanied home by his
mother.-Kanawba News.
Miss Lou Spivey, of Fairview, is
home from visit to her sister,
Mrs. Charles Carothers, of Sisters.
vile. Hancock Courier.
The other day three hunters from
Woodsfeld killed 124 rabbits in
one day. or else the newspaper
lies, which is hardly probable.
Mrs. J. S. McCutcheon, Of Sis
tersville, was visiting friends in
town Monday and Tuesday Of this
week.-New Matamoras Mall.
The South Penn Oil company
has opened on Office in Spencer,
Roane county, this state, in which
the Standard hopes to open up q
pool of oil.
Will and Carl Keiser came home
from Sistersville Wednesday eve
ming and made a short visit, re-
returning to that city late last
evening.-Marietta Times.
During the past week the various
steamboats, took up past here for the
Pittsburg markets, over twenty
Thousand turkeys. and it was not
very good week for turkeys either.
Jos. Miller came down from Sis
tersville to spend Thanksgiving at
home. He was accompanied by
Harry Blackmarr who was his
guest while in the city.-Marietta
Times.
The big boat, Virginia, passed
down yesterday afternoon at
O'Clock. and laid at the wharf here
a good, long while putting off
freight. The Virginia is very pop
ular with our people.
At the last election in Preston
county, this state, $40 votes were.
cast against the school levy. In
other words, $40 voters said by this
act they did not want any free
schools. 1t is time the devil gath
cred these men up.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1898-01-23
LOOK CAREFULLY OVER THE FOIL OWING PRICES
FOR LADIES.

One lot OF Ladies' very fine Mackn-
toShcS, strictly all wool with long mill
,ary capcs. in all colors, former price,
$40; sale price, SI.00.
a very fine lot of Ladies' High Grade
Storm Coats, all double texture in single
and double detachable capcS, with or
without velvet collars, colors black blue,
and light; former price, $3.50; sale price.
600.
Attention is called TO this special lot
OF Ladies' high-grade Mackintoshes. all
double texture, lined throughout with the
finest of woven Innings. checks and plaids,
Two capeS, detachable velvet collars In
all colors, cloths. cassimcres, scrgcs CO.
vcrts and Iicnricttas; former price. SIZED;
sale price, $3.50.
Ladies imported high-grade double tex
tire Aackintoshcs, two capcs. detachable
velvet collars. lined throughout with the
finest Of changeable silk Innings, no finer
made for the money; never sold for less
than $3.50: sale price, $500.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1898-01-23
The Books In Which Our Treasury Was
Started Are Interesting.
COMMAND IMMEDIATE ATTENTION
Tho Books Are 100 Tcnrs old md
Form the FirML Link In tho Chain
ofHistorS OF This Country's Tinnnl
cinl Dealings with HIS Ncprcscntn-
tivcs at Home nnd Abroad.
washington Letter in Philadelphia
TimcS)


Among the cu;iosities at the United
State Treasury Department in WASH
dngton kept on hand by obliging clerks
for the purpose of entertaining tour
lists who may happen during the course
OF their sightseeing to visit the ma
tons capital and Uncle Sans principal
stronghold, there is Il set Of books;
that commands the Immediate attcn-
ton of all who see them The set con-
sists OF ledger, II journal and Il blot
ter. or waste-b book, and was the first
set of books used for jotting down
the business of that all-important
branch of the Government, one, by
the way, that is giving 4 great deal
of trouble to thinkers to-day.-the
Treasury
me books are over I20 years old and
forming. as they do, the first link in
the cha in Of the history Of this coun-
try's financial dealings with its repre-
sentatives, both at home and abroad,
during the period of the revolution
that time that tried men by fre-are
not only interesting, but instructive.
They are both rare and valuable--rare
as specimen OF the old-time book
Keeping then in vogue, when there
were no books ruled so as to divide
the page into the pretty columns OF
hgures so common now, and when
steel pens were practically unknown,
and valuable for the associations that
cluster around them and hallow them
and for the priceless records they con-
tain.
Another book that is interesting and
which. while not a pant Of the set re-
ferred to, is shown along with it, is
called. "a Journal of Cash, fol the Com
mission at the Court of France" This
book Is also over 100 years old--the first
"a IN, F.f.
lf7G. The book contains a full account
OF the commission that went to France
TO solicit aid for the young republic and
some Of the items are not only interest
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1898-01-23

quarters of the continental congress
and Uncle Sans money box. The dates
and headings of various entries show
that the Government OF the republic
was compelled to move about from place
to place pretty lively, sometimes q re-
markably long jump in a remarkably
short space OF time, 10 escape British
interference with the way in which our
forefathers thought the affairs OF :h:s
county should be handled. Philadelphia
finally became the home OF the books
at the close Of the revolution and con-
Tinued SO until 1850, Nhen the general
government was moved to the new
capitol provided for it on the banks Of
the Potomac river III the District of
Columbia
The blotter or waste book Is of course
much more Interesting than the other
books in the Sc: on account of the de-
tails that are set forth on it's pages.
The writing on it is not nearly so good
as that on the journal or ledger, but it
IS leeible, and rs in the other books,
remarkably we'll preserved.
The first entry in this book was made,
as stated, April IT, 17TG. and this is the
first entry, of course, in both journal
and ledger. 1t is an item OF certain
moneys paid TO James Warren, pay
master general of the United States Ar
NY. III me lttSeT anu journal me VIII
ing is beautifully DONE while the pap
and ink are remarkably well preserved.
The paper had no lines on il at that
time and the bookkecper was compelled
to do his own ruling, but his work bears
close inspection and would pass for
machine ruling at Il curs0ry eXamina-
ton. Nearly all the prominent men of
the period of ;hc revolution arc men,
toned in both ledger ana journal and
many interesting items are to be found
opposite their names One highly in
tcreSting entry is that of the lottery
conducted by the Uaited States Govern
ment in 1871.
The accounts of George Washington
are all entered in these books in due
shape and are always items of moneys
paid on his demand. Washington would
receive no stated sala!y for his services
TO the Government, but stipulated that
he should submit from time to time
statements of expenses, as occasion
should arise, for which he felt sure that
the Government would reimburse him,
and these entries are to account for the
demands he made during the revolutions
a!y Period. OF course, when he became
President his salary became fixed
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1898-01-23

The Muslin Underwear sale is in pro-
gross. Never was one SO brisk here.
Ladies' and childrcn's wear was never
SO cheaply sold. Never was the stock
here so well assorted. The finest trade
is buying. These to closc-delay and
You will not see them: Chld's Short
White Dresses, soiled. were s1.GO and
$1.25 are soc. Infants Long Slips,
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1898-01-23
FOR MEN.

Mems heavy Rubber Coats, for hremen.
and tcamsters; former price, $3.50; sale
price. Sl.00.
Mems Mackintoshcs all wool, double
texture, with capcs. plaid Innings, colors
blue and black; former price. $3.50: sale
price, SEQ.
Gents very fine Mackintoshes, double
texture, In all colors, cloths, cassimcres,
tricots and coverts. made single and dou-
bio breasted box style, velvet collars, and
also with capes; former price. $I250; saio
price, $3.50.
Gents imported hlgh-Eradc Mackin-
Meltons. Serges and Coverts, silk sleeve
Innings In. the very finest of plaids and
these garments. have never sold for less
than $500 to $500; price to close them
ont, from $500 to $3.50.
Children's Rubber and Macintosh Gar
ments almost given away at any price.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1898-01-23

pieces Black Silk Warn Henrietta,
4G-inch. Save SIC. or more on every
yard, SlOO.
Priestlcy's Vanished Board Brand
Cravenette, S1.25. Likely s1.75 where
ever else YOU go.
Black N1ohair Cheviot, 46-inch. 5Sc.
5i-inch Black Fancy Cheviot for
capcs or tailor made costumes, 75c
Russell Cord, Bengaline weave,
black. 3G-inch, fine, soc.
SIX designs Black French Novelty
Matelasse Silk effect, 46-inch The ia
brio Mohair. finer, better, dearer than
many silks. Tho average store will
get Sl.75; the high stores probably 81.
This store imported these, so
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1898-01-23

what we intend doing make
tributary to it.
established
lar for ourgo
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1898-01-23
Moquette Rugs Down.

Too many here when stock was talk
en-. This will do the business: I.arg-
est $500 ones, $3.50; the $3.50 ones, near
2 yards long. $500. Mats down now to
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1898-01-23
87H cents
Black Goods Specials.

Some do not, but thousands do know
that this is the Black Goods Store.
Assortment fullest. quality up to the
finest, price below the lowest. Those
who should know best, say these, at
old prices, are % per cent. below the
market. a look will tell: so pieces Jet
and Blue Black Serge and Henrietta
the "l2 W." Hcnricttas, worth 50c, SO
inches wide, 37Iac. n yard. 30 pieces
All Wool. IS inch Serge, soc. yard.
3 pieces Black All Wool Brocades,
(mohair), size. yard.
2 pieces I6-inch Basket Weave, all
wool, black. T5c. quality. soc. Il yard
10 pieces Royal Henrietta, 46-Inch,
75c. quality. Csc.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1898-01-23
ONLY ONE MORE WEEK AT THESE PRICES.
CHANCE OF A Lifetime !!
To Secure Rubber Macintosh Garment
at 33 l=3c. on the Dollar
GREAT MANUFACTURERS MACINTOSH SA|F
NOW GOING ON AT
332 MAIN STREET.

What the greedy Trust cannot buy they aim to crush Tie
effect OF this policy is shown at No. 1872 Main Street
where the Rosenthal Rubber Company is giving the Trust
the biggest battle Of their life
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1898-01-23
12H c. Goods, SC.

Black ground. bright autumn leaf,
flame sky and foliage green colorings,
In figures of new design. Cotton fab
ric, this, for dresses. wrappers and
waists. Three color printing, perfect
register. These n flying special for
Monday; cheap at 123ac., will be
s cents
The Mena star., 1898-09-07

The st. Louis & San Francisco rail
road is the direct through car route to
points in Southwest Missouri, South
ern Kansas, Arkansas, Indian Terri
tory and Texas.
The most direct route to st. Louis
and the East. Double daily vestibuled
trains. Free reclining chair cars;
observation and drawing-room sleep
ers; Harvey dining halls, Ask your
nearest ticket agent for full particu-
lars, or write Il. L. WINcHELL, GENT
Pass. Agt., st. Louis, Mo.
The Mena star., 1898-09-07
GRAND GIFT DISTRIBUTION.
A Full Set of Six War Memorial
Spoons Absolutely Free.

For sixty days we'll absolutely with
out cost, give full set of war memo
rial spoons to every family sending us
cash order for household furniture
selected from our catalogue, no matter
whether the order be for 81 or for
81. 900. This means that we are going
to add SO. 600 names TO our list OF per-
manent customers. We are going to
demonstrate that it pays TO send dl-
rect to the factory for furniture. This
distribution will cost us thousands of
dollars-and make US thousands OF
friends. Each spoon is of different
design-four u. s battleships. includ-
ing the Maine, soldiers in camp in
Cuba and Moro Castle.
These spoons are not the cheap kind,
advertised extensively at 81. 90 to $l.50
set. They are warranted best coin
silver plate on base of pure nickle
silver mot low grade brass). They will
wear for years and become a priceless
heirloom for future generations. Send
for copy of our catalogue to-day
You should enclose a stamp or two to
help pay postage. Quaker Valley Mig.
Co, 351 w. Harrison ST., Chicago
35-4m
The Mena star., 1898-09-07

The speech of Father Abraham IN
tue last mum Der of Poor Richards Al
manac, published by Benjamin Franklin
inl757, contains the wisdom of manv
ages and nations assem- bled and formed
into one connected discourse. When
first published 1t attracted world wide
attention and was copied in all of the
newspapers in America and England
and translated INTO many foreign Ian
guages Would you not like to read
~ Get copy free Of charge at Y.
savages's drug store. 81 A.
The Mena star., 1898-09-07
HE pENoUNcEs noNopoLIsTs.
A millionaire Who Thinks That Labor
should Unite Against Capital.

A millionaire Who Thinks That Labor
should Unite Against Capital.
from A New York Dispatch.
II seems odd, and yet tberelis Stand.
ard Oil millionaire who says the labor
;oo class should unite and prepare
themselves for mighty conflict with
capital; who openly denounces monop-
DIV as tyranny and monopolists as
thieves and robbers; who asserts and
believes that labor fails to get its just
rights, and who says the time must
come when labor must be emancipated,
and who predicts revolution. The
man who makes these astonishing
statements is himself mem Der OF the
Standard Oil trust ard a stakeholder
IN IT. He is Charles Russell Burke, a
descendant of Edmund Burke, the
great commoner of England. He was
secretary of the famous Eagle Oil COM
many before it was swallowed up by
John ID Rockefeller's great trust, and
has ever since held an important place
In the Standard, being All expert in
the oil trade. His father, Russell w.
Burke, was the greatest handler of
netroleum in the world prior to the
organization of the great trust by
Rockefeller, into which he was draws
with most of the other dealers in
America Charles Russell Burke. the
author of this striking bit of advice to
American workingnen, is a cousin to
senator Redfield Proctor on his moth
er's side. A rich and influential uncle
of the writer is Charles C. Burke, ex-
president of the New York Produce
exchange. In his novel called Thistle
Sifters," Mr. Burke says all that is
above credited to himand great deal
more. The novel itself is a light and
fiimsy affair, the characters being in
the main detestable crew, but the
story is interesting. In statement
regarding his book Mr.. Burke says;
II believe that the plan outlined in
my book, Thistle Sifters, would ena.
Bile the laboring men of this country
TO obtain their rightful share of their
labor.
II have found that the wage earners.
while wondering at the tremendous
combinations of capital they see around
them, know nothing of their own
power to accumulate sums as great.
They place their savings in savings
banks where they draw small interest,
aud they reason that they can do moth
ing else, thinking it would not pay
them to buy one share of stock in this
or that corporation and not realizing
that with org anization, the savings de-
posted in New York city alone-about
45O million dollars-would buy for
them the absolute control of several of
the greatest trusts in the United
States.
Let them once be taught their own
power. and in my opinion, the dream
of Utopia will be accomplished"
The Mena star., 1898-09-07

Bride-I'm SO afraid people will find
out that we're just married that I've
made VIII promise to treat me In
public just as II he had no thought for
anyone but himself.
Aatron-I adopted that plan when ]
was married. and my husband never
got over it.--N. Y. Weekly.
The Mena star., 1898-09-07
M. HI.
For Sale or Trade.

A tract of land comprising 160 acres
near Grannis, one mile from railroad.
1t has house and barn and thirty
acres in cultivation, and is finely tim
bered and watered. Will sell or trade
for small track of land near Mena
Apply at Star Office.
The Mena star., 1898-09-07

DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve has the
largest sale of any salve in the world.
This fact and its merit has led dishon-
est people 10 counterfeit 1t. Lookout
for the maa who attempts to deceive
you when you call for DeWitt's Witch
Hazel Salve, the great pile cure. Pip
kin e. Hanes.
The Mena star., 1898-09-07
1t Wa. /. Hint.

That fellow" he said, always seems
to show up just when he isn't wanted"
WHO doesn't want him, Mr.. Brown p
she asked; and after less than a min
ute OF thought he reached the conclu-
sion that possible he had made mis-
take as to who was not wanted.-Chi-
cago Post.
The Mena star., 1898-09-07
coughed Twenty-five wears.

Isuffered twenty-five years with a
cough, and spent hundreds of dollars
with doctors and for medicine to no
avail until used DIR. Bells Pine-Tar-
honey. This remedy makes weak
lungs strong. 1t has saved my life.--
j. Il. Resell, Grantsburg, Ill.
The Mena star., 1898-09-07

Mrs. Kelly-So they stint yure poor
little Jimmy Z tn refarmitery? Such
a good choild, too.
Mrs. Grady-Sure, and he wor thot,
Mrs Kelly. Everything thot darlint
iver shtole he'd bring roight home t
his muther.-Tit-Bits
The Mena star., 1898-09-07
Fruit. of Experiences.

Here's good article on the Art OF
Making Mustard Plaster
"Poohl There's no art In making a
mustard plaster; the art is In getting
it put on your husband after you have
made it."-Chicago Record
The Mena star., 1898-09-07
Lung Irritation

is the forerunner to consumption. DR..
Bells Pine Tar Honey will cure it, and
give such strength to the lungs that a
cough or a cold will not settle there.
25 cents at all good druggists.
The Mena star., 1898-09-07
Bees For Sale.

have twenty or more good hives Of
bees that | offer for sale at $3.50 a
hive, at my place at Rocky, four miles
north of Camp Ground
M. II. CHAMBLIN.
Orders left at this Office will have
due attention. 364t
The Mena star., 1898-09-07

Truth wears well. People have
learned that DeWitt's Little Early
Risers are relia BILE little pills for reQu.
latlng the bowels. curing constipation
and sick headache. They don't grippe.
Pipkin & Hanes.
The Mena star., 1898-09-07
Weak Eyes are Made Strong,

Dim vision made clear, styes removed
and graduated lids or sore eyes of any
kind speedily and effectually cured by
the use of Sutherland's Eagle Eye
Salve. It's put up in tubes, and sold
on guarantee by all good druggists.
The Mena star., 1898-09-07
A New Anatomical Form

Willie. how did the goat
happen to butt you?
WILLIE was STOPPING over.
Where did he butt you?"
I'm the bend of the stoop."-Up to
Date.
The Mena star., 1898-09-07
Stoves and Ranges.

A carload of the cele brated Bridge <
Beach cook stoves and ranges just re-
ceived at the Lloyd hardware store on
De Queen street. Please call and ex-
anime the neatest and best stove ever
offered for sale in Polk county. 17-ti
The Mena star., 1898-09-07

For any kind of an ice-cold drink
go to Jackson's up-to-date soda foun-
tain.
The Mena star., 1898-09-07

Fly paper at Jackson's Drug Store.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1898-12-16
Peace on Earth.

There is no actual war on any
quarter of the globe, and Christmas
of 90 finds twenty millions of hui
man beings free who were slaves and
serfS in '97. SO much has been done
In this brief period for the glory of
God and the lasting good of human
ity, that it staggers belief. The fin
asst islands of the South Atlantic. the
greatest group of the mid-Pacific,
the teeming archipelago of the China
sea. and the populous valley Of the
Nile, have been wrestled from bar
baious mIsgovernment and their fac
es turned to the morning. For all
this civilization and the liberated
people have TO thank the two great
English speaking nations whose unit
ed powers will hence forth speak for
Peace on Earth and god will to
men.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1898-12-16
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1898
American Diplomacy.

The British Ambassador the 9TH
er day in a speech at Paris attempted
to palliate "a particularly brutal and
undiplomatis speech 10y saying that
his disregard of all precedent and all
decency was the result of the new
school of american" diplomacy.
We deny emphatically that any
American has ever done while in u
diplomatic position anything half as
reprehensible as Sir Edmond Nun
sons useless attack on the country
whose exequasioE he held, and whose
honored guest he was. Old Man
Bayard used to honey-fuggle the
English people until kis countrymen
became disguised, and many of
them demanded his recall; and Han
mis- Taylor, after coming home from
Madrid, made Il base and unwar-
ranted use of knowledge he hal ac-
qulred at the dinner tables of the
hid lgos, who regarded him as the
next friend of their country; but no
American has ever brought his
country into disrepute and ridiculc
by designating such well grounded
contentious rs the French govern
ment made in regard to the Fashoda
affair as spin pricks," nor sneered
at his hosts because the sensitive.
ness of their institutions made fire.
quent changes of government neces-
sary. The courteous frankness
which has been designated alike as
the virtue and the fault of American
diplomacy has no affinity with the
infinite 'gall' displayed by this en-
inent Brton. We like our English
cousins. We admire their robust
bumptiousness, and their happy fac
ulty Of looking at Cosmopolitan
questions from middlesex stand
point, but this thing middlesex that
they call American diplomacy, we
must repudiate.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1898-12-16

sion expenditures, which are cSii-
mated al not less thaa S2n.01a
600 annually "a = beginning La-s.
bat NOT Least, wc ;nu>t con>.d.i 4
tiic PAY OF tn" new list of office.
holders, who Will be- enlisted uiA,r
the banner Of Observation-Disclosures -
or vanipiriSm--,o administer The
EVIL affairs OF oar l~lands of the
SEA.
When all this is taken into ac-
count, the br Inter hue of Mr..
Cages outlook beyond the end OF
this fiscal year fades rapidly. 1t
is clear as u mere mathematical
proposition that If the policy of
Mr.. Mckinley and his imperialiS-
tic Supporters is to prevail, we will
have to borrow to the point OF
weakening our credit, if not OF
bringing on bankruptcy, or will
have to grind the life out of our
people by taxation. 1t is as plain
as a pike staff that we must en-
brace one or the other of these
alternatives or reject Imperialism.
Richmond Dispatch.