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Sistersville oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1896-1901, 1898-02-23

A final proposition has been sub
mitted by the U. S. Pipe Line Com
pany, offering to extend their line
from Coraopolis, Pa, to the West
Virginia or southwest fields, which
we give in full below. 1t is merely
a business proposition, and there
is nothing compulsory or unfair
stipulated in it.
1t is a we'll known fact that there
is large profits in piping oil. The
Standard know this and do
not attempt to deny it when
they can declare such enormous
dividends. They try in every con-
ceivable way to divert capital from
opposing them. The capitalists are
winning in on railroad stocks and
various other holdings of the Stand
ard until they feel that they are
obliged not to do ANYTHING detrl-
mental to the interests of the Stand
ara.
The producer alone must fight
his own battles. If he ever hopes
to realize just and legitimate COM
petition in the petroleum industry
he must do his share towards es-
tablishing and promoting such en-
terprises as will eventually be a
large factor in determining the
price of the high grade oils, both
crude and refined.
Realizing competition and the
effect that it would produce, as
every one must, it would seem to us
that a few thousand dollars ex-
pended in this manner if not a dol
lar was returned, would be very
good investment.
1t is an established fact that the
Standard is today buying produc-
ton that is near the independent
line in the Butler field at All enor-
NOUS price. Those who are famil-
lar with these purchases claim that
the properties are almost entirely
worthless.
Yet they are willing and anxious
to do anything that would injure
the rapid growth of the United
States Pipe Line, which is the only
real competition they have had
since the monopoly was effected,
You can not expect to ever ele-
vate and build up the oil business
unles competition is effected. There
is a possibility that another oppor-
tunity will never present itself, and
in the following communication
from Pittsburg presents the PROPOSE
tion-will you accept or reject it?.
Pittsburg, Pa Feb. IA, 1898.
To the oil producers of West Vir-
ginia:
1t appears from the lists received
that enough money has not been
subscribed by you to warrant US in
putting five inch oil line into your
state, and to enable those who have
subscribed and those who have not,
to have fair understanding of how
matters stand, will say that unless
500, 900 of stock is taken by the
producers of your state the line will
not be built by the present indie
pendent interests. If this money
can be raised we will assure you
that this line will be started and
completed as rapidly as possible in
to West Virginia.
M. MURPHY, Vice President.
E. H. JENNINGS, Treasurer. I
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Sistersville oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1896-1901, 1898-02-23
THE ULT|MATUM
In the Pipe Line Question Has
Been Reached.
u. S. PIPE LINE OFFICIALS
Asks for One Hundred Thou
sand Dollars to be Subscribed.

This is a Final Proposition, and If not
Accepted by the Producers, This
Ends One of the Greatest Opportun-
ties Ever Accorded the Independent
Over One-HaIf of This Amount Has
Already Been Subscribed. ana me
subscription Paper Can Now be
Found With ID. A. Bartlett.
Sistersville oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1896-1901, 1898-02-23

Cascarets, Candy Cathartic, the
most wonderful medical discovery
of the age, pleasant and refreshing
to the taste, act gently and posi~
lively on kidneys, liver and bowels.
1t clenses the entire system, dispels
colds, cures headache, fever, habit
ual constipation and billiousness.
Please buy and try a box of c. c.
{. today; 10, IS and so cents. Sold
and guaranteed to cure by all drug
gists.
Sistersville oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1896-1901, 1898-02-23
OIL NOTES.
From Wednesdays Daily.

OF crude Oil all along the line.
Tiona, Pennsylvania, Evansville,
Corning and New Castle credit
balances were. marked up two
points, while North and South Ii
ma and Indiana only advanced one
point.
When in the exchange at Oil City
offers of about Ioc. more a barrel
are being made, we see no reason
for the producer selling his product
yet, If the Standard would not
manipulate the market at will, the
price of oil would now be above the
one dollar mark.
Field news is very scarce today;
but very little work is being done
and each day can see that little
narrowing down. The advance to-
day may have a tendency toward
inducing the operator to again start
up, but it is not at all likely until
the roads improve.
Yoke q Co. expect to complete
their No. I Z. c. Fluharty in the
northeast extension of the Elk Fork
pool.
In the southeastern portion Of
this pool the Argus Oil company
are spudding at their No. 9 E. P.
Snider.
Nothing could be learned con-
corning Cobb & G1enn's No. 3
Myers that is now due.
At the Jug the Victor Oil and
Gas company is still drilling at their
No. Armstrong Smith. On Will
son run, Washington county, o.,
the U, S. Oil company's well on the
Walton farm has been put to pump
ing, but its capacity is not known
Boyd Bros. have completed a
shallow sander back of St. Marys
and have IS barrel pumper. In
Lewis county, near Weston, this
same firm are drilling at 1900 feet
en- the Woodland farm.
From Thursdays Daily
Already, before a lick has been
struck on the U. S. pipe lines ex-
tension into this field, oil has
jumped three cents per barrel in
the past two days. Can the produc-
erS be so blind as not to be able to
see through their flimsy schemes to
still continue their practice Of high
way robbery?
The producer who fails to sub
scribe stock to the enterprise should
have no sympathy, The upward
tendency of the market is simply a
delusion and snare. 1t is simply
manipulated in this direction with
the hope of diverting the indepen-
dent capital and attention from
helping themselves while the OPP
portunity is afforded.
The Elk Fork pool is attracting
considerable attention again from
the fact that Cobb & Glenn are due
at their No. : Myers in the south
west extension and Yoke & Co. are
past due at their No. I G. G. Flu
harty ID the northeast portion of the
pool,
Both Of these locations are in ad-
vance of developments in their re-
Spective directions, and will be the
means of starting other work, pro-
'vided they prove producers,
At late hour this afternoon we
were informed that gas had been
struck III the Fluharty well and the
boiler was being moved back. The
pay will be reached tomorrow.
The Elk Fork Oil & Gas compa
ny are still fishing at their No, II
J. K. Hill,
At the Jug the Victor Oil & Gas
company has drilled. through the
sand at their No. Armstrong
Smith with no better results than
from the first pay. The we'll is al
most worthless. Drilling has been
Sistersville oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1896-1901, 1898-02-23
Constipation

Causes fully half the sickness in the world. 1t
retains the digested food too long in the bowels
and produces biliousness, torpid liver, indl-
Sistersville oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1896-1901, 1898-02-23
JOS. HORNE & CO.
"NEW SILK" SALE.

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for waists, skirts and
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This timely occasion |
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Sistersville oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1896-1901, 1898-02-23
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Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1898-09-15
Cold and Electricity.

That extreme cold paralyzes every
vital function is Of course a piece OF
everyday knowledge. But it has
been left to Professor Pictet, who
has been conducting some expert
ments on this subject, to discover
that at temperature of $50 degrees
below the centigrade zero there Is no
chemical action between nitric or
sulphuric acid and potash, between
oxygen and potassium, though, un-
der ordinary circumstances, the at
fnity of the latter metal for oxygen
Is so great that it will burn if thrown
into water, owing to its combination
with the oxygen in that fluid. But
II the electric spark is played on bod
les which have thus lost the power
of chemical affinity, some new and
curious combinations result. The
latest Investigations, the conclusions
of which, however, have been theo-
retically presaged for some years
past, may require us toreconsider the
question of the temperature OF outer
Ipace and the possibility of an at
mosphere composed Of gases in COM
bination existing there.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1898-09-15
Tho Servant r,o Fool.


The other day a man OF gentle
manly appearance called at a house
in a we'll known suburb OF a provln'
cial town. In answer to his knock
the housemaid came to the door.
"Is Mr.. P INF" said tls gentle
man.
Hes just gone out, sir"
us Mrs. P at home|
"No, sir. She went out with mas
ter"
Dear me, how unfortunatel
wanted particularly to see one ct
them. Can I leave note"
"Oh, yes, sir. Come in, please"
replied the girl, ushering the visitor
into the dining room. But instead
Of leaving him alone she rang for an
other servant, whom she desired 70
bring writing materials.
The gentleman wrote his note, en-.
closed it in an envelope, addressed 1t
and left it on the table.
This being done, he departed with
a profusion Of thanks to the maid,
who escorted him to the door.
On returning home Mr.. Pound
the note awaiting him. 1t ran thus'
"Your servant is no fool"
This compliment was fully justi-
fled by paragraph in the next days
paper, giving an account of the
plumber Of neighboring mansion by
a similar visitor. York Adver-
tisar
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1898-09-15
Tho Tower Of Pisa.

The famous leaning tower of Pisa
Is campanile or bell tower. The
building, which is cylindrical in
form, is 1877 feet high and so feet in
diameter, made entirely of white
marble. 1t is called the leaning tow
er from the fact that 1t inclines some
80 feet from the perpendicular, and
it is not generally known that this
inclination, which gives the tower
such a remarkable appearance, was
not Intentional. At the tino it was
about half done the error III meas
urement was perceived. 1t was
guarded against by the use Of extra
braces in the further construction OF
the building and an adaptation OF
the stone in the highest portion.
There are seven bells on the top Of
the tower, the largest of which
weighs 1000 pounds, and these are
30 placed as to counteract as far as
possible the leaning of the tower it
sell. Fire and Water.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1898-09-15
Cnn Plants See2

The mysteries of vegetable life are
not all yet explored. An Indian
botanist has made experiments which
induce him to say that some plants
can see. Whether the inference can
be accepted or not, these experiments
go to show that the plants made an
effort to reach supports placed at .
little distance and grew toward the
supports wherever placed. The plant
was convolvulus, and when pole
was placed near 1t and In such way
that the tendrils would have to turn
away from the light to reach 1t,
they invariably did so and within q
few hours twined about 1t. That
certain plants have the sense of
touch is well known. Medical Times.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1898-09-15
Before and After.

As an instance of the Surprising in
crease in value that picture &C.
quires after an artist has become ia
NOUS, the following Is interesting,
A dealer once went to the studio Of
David Cox and purchased painting
off his easel for 910. A few days
afterward the old man went to him
and said;
"You are young and have wife
and children. 1 think / have charged
you too much for that picture, and I
have brought you back e."
Not many years after that same
painting was sold for $50 guineas.
London Tit-Bits
With many persons it would be a
great gain to health if they would
walk to and from their places Of
business in preference to riding.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1898-09-15
THE LADIES' HCME JOUR-
NAL FOR 1897,

fIs fi$sf ohh i rs 0" ts @
ally interesting and strong. The list is strong and
sturdy. One series of papers alone would sell the
magazine: that is, the three White House articles
which ex-Prcsdcnt Harrison is to write. No man has
ever done what General Harrison will do in these
articles: show US what "A Day With the President
his Desk means in article; III another tell of
The Social Life Of the PRESIDENT, and in third ar.
tclc describe upstairs Life in the White House.
Each of the articles will be profusely illustrated. An
other series equally fascinating is the ono called
Great Personal Events in which some of the great.
cnthusasns which have occurred in Amer lea will
be revived: those wonderful tunes when Louis kos-
suth rode up Broadway; when the young Prince of
Wales was here; when Jenny Lind sang in Caste
Garden; when Henry Ward i,eechcr electrified his
congregation by selling s,aNeS in his pulpit; when
Grant went round the world; when Henry Clay hade
farewell to the senate when John Wesley preached
in Georgia, OF which so few know. All these mem-
orable and others will be wildly recalled,
told more graphically than ever before and ilIUstra-
cd with pictures which have occupied twelve artists
over year. third series is unique and valuable
from the fact that it will give women scores OF ideas
for their homes. 1t will reveal what there is "Insids
of Il IlurGrci Amer, Homes, and carefully re-
produce pictures Of one hundred completely furnish
cd room, IN homes in this country from Maine TO
lively eng. gci By the JOURNAL: Mrs. s. T. Rorer,
who will hereafter have charge OF the domestic de-
pattmcnt and give series of cooking lessons, and
Dwight l.. Moody, the famous evangelist who is to
put the rcsut II h:s ie study q he Bible IN dc.
artist, Charles Dana Gibson Who crclted the Gibson
girl, will present Six full page pictures showing ~ he
Will alternate with MIR Gibson and present her idea
ot ''>,iX Types OF American Wonanhood,' showing
the American Wo':lan in society ia religion, in BUSH
nc,s, in summer. in the home, and as a mother.
Mary Z. Wilkins. the New England writer, will re-
vivc Tic old GuiltnrparIy the ancient Singinsschool
and The appc-parin@ trc in lie Pleasures Of Our
Ncighborhood.' ST llcnry Irving is to tell how 10
study read ard present Shakespeare in Small Com.
munitics.' Philip SCusa has written waltz, while
Ira u. sankcy has composed hymn which he con,
sidcr5 greater than his famous Ninety and Nine"
Ian Macarcn will have story, while Herbert ID.
Wards numerous real, THE Burglar Who Moved
Paradise will run through the year. Jenny I.inds
daushre-i is to sketch My Mother as Recall Her
while George w. Smallcy is to show The Personal
Side Of the Prince of Wales in ayishly-illustratcd
gin. and woman to take this magazine, it is excel
lcHt one. and, unlike many other fals a sensible
Tho JOURNAL is published by The Curtis Publish
ins Company Of Philadelphia.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1898-09-15
North Carolina Emeralds.

In Alexander county, N. c., the
farmers in blowing used to turn up
pretty grass green prisms which they
called green bolts" Professor W.
e. Holden identified them as emer-
aids, and in July, 1880, he started in
10 mine for them. He got many en-
eralds, but also discovered another
kind Of emerald green stone unknown
until then, which he named hidden
tte.n It occurred in slender prisms.
Digging for it has since been carried
on very pro6tably In that locality.
By lapidaries 1t Is highly esteemed,
and 1t has found much use in Jew.
elry. Seventy-four emeralds were
found In single pocket" but most
Of them were too badly fawed to
have much value. 49, Boston Tran
srrint.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1898-09-15
Away Ahead of job.

I heard an amusing story Of Sir
Henry Hawkins from q legal friend q
week or two ago, but l cannot vouch
for the absolute truth Of it. Sir
Henry was presiding over long, to-
dious and uninteresting trial, and was
listening, apparently with absorbed
attention, to long, tedious and unin.
teresting speech from counsel learn
ed in the law. Presently he made q
pencil memorandum, folded it and
sent it by the usher to the 9. C. in
question. This gentleman, on un-
folding the paper, found these words,
patience Competition-Gold Medal,
Sir Henry Hawkins. Honorable Men.
ton, job" His peroration was wound
up with as little delay as possible
Sketch.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1898-09-15
ONLY FOUR iMMORTALS.

yanss Russsh Lowell Crowns Homer.
Dante, Cervantes and Goethe
There are certain books which it Is
necessary to read, but they are very
few. Looking at tho matter from an
aesthetic point Of view merely,
should say that thus far only one
man had been able to use types so
universal and to draw figures so cos
mopolitan that they are equally true
in Ill languages and equally accept
able 10 the whole Indo- European
branch, at least, Of the human fam1-
". That man is Homen and there
needs. 1t seems to me, no further
proof of his individual existence than
this. very fact of the solitary unap
proachableness of the "Iliad" and the
"Odyssey." The more wonderful
they are, the more likely to be the
work of one person. Nowhere Is the
purely natural man presented to us
so nobly and sincerely as In these
poems.
Not far below these I should place
the "Divina Commedia" Of Dante, in
which the history of the spiritual
man Is sketched with equal com.
mand Of material and grandeur OF
outline. Don Quixote" stands upon
the same level and receives the same
universal appreciation. Here we
havo the spiritual and the natural
man set before us in humorous con-
trast In the knight and his squire
Cervantes has typiAed the two OPP
posing poles OF our dual nature-the
Imagination and the understanding
as they appear in contradiction
This is the only comprehensive satire
ever written, for 1t is utterly indie
pendent Of time, place and manners.
Faust" gives us the natural his
tory of the human intellect, Mephis-
topheles being merely the projected
irnpeFsonation Of that skepticism
which Is the invariable result Of
purely intellectual culture. These
four books are the only ones In
which universal facts Of human ma
ture and experience are ideally rep
resented. They can therefore never
be displaced.
Ihave not mentioned Shakespeare,
because his works come under diff.
ferent category. Though they mark
the very highest level of human gen.
Jus, they yet represent no special
epoch in the history of the individual
mind. The man Of Shakespeare is
always the man of actual life, as he
is acted upon by the worlds of sense
and of spirit under certain definite
conditions. We all Of us may be in
the position Of Macbeth or Othello
or Hamlet, and we appreciate their
sayings and deeds potentially, 80 to
speak, rather than actually, through
the sympathy Of our common nature
and not of our experience. james
Russell Lowell's Posthumous Essay
In the Century Magazine.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1898-09-15
Don't Stop Tobacco.
HOW TO CURE YOURSELF WHILE
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FARM NEWS.

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A Poor Production,

Candid Listener-Good morning,
Janet. am sorry to hear you
didn't Like my preaching on Sunday.
What was the reason1
Janet--I had three vera guild rea-
sons, sir Firstly, ye read We ser
mon; secondly, ye didna read 1t well,
and, thirdly, 1t wasna worth readin
.a'.--Exchange.
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