Sistersville oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1896-1901, 1898-08-31
TOPICS or THIN TIMES

The is the time of year when that
miserable, contemplate, soluble
stroying, profanity breeding disease
known as hay fever is abroad in
the land. If ever there was any.
thing that would cause man to
barter his soul with Satan, it GER
tainly would be that pest. / believe
if Satan could guarantee cure for
this disease, that would be all that
was necessary for him to do in or
der to get nine-tenths of the souls
of the poo devils, who for about
two months in the year are COM
PEELED to sniffle and sneeze and wipe
their watering eyes. l do not be-
lieve there is disease of trifling
nature that is so much dreaded and
that will cause as much suffering as
hay fever. About the first OF Au-
gust is when it commences to get
in its work, and from that time un-
til late in the fall some folks are
sufferers from it. If you would
know when you have hay fever,
observe the following: A tingling,
tickling, itching sensation about the
nose, sneezing every other second,
eyes watering, red and swollen,
stufiness in the head, and general
tired feeling. There is no known
remedy that will efectually cure it,
and the usual way is to flee to the
high altitude of the mountains,
which is about the only place that
relief can be found 1t makes
man or woman wish they had never
been born, or, being born, had died
before they were grown up and had
contracted the disease.
Of course every one knows the
tobacco chewing habit is bad one
worse than smoking though
either one is bad enough. There
have been many different cures sug-
gested for each of the habits, but
the most novel cure have heard of
is that told by prominent business
man of the city, who at one time
was an inveterate chewer of the
weed. In reply to a question as to
how and why he quit he said he had
INDUCED in the weed for several
years and had become an almost
helpless slave. One morning he
reached the Office little late and
on his desk he found a pile of
checks which had to be signed in
hurry to catch a certain mail. TAX
ing big chew he took a pen and
started to the work OF placing his
signature to the checks, and as each
check was signed it was deposited
in half open drawer of the desk
right in front of him. Just as he
had signed the last of the checks it
dawned on him that he wanted to
expectorate very badly and he did
so, but something happened. In a
fit OF observation-disclosures he had
thrown the last of the checks into
the cuspidor, which was sitting at
the side of the desk, and instead of
expectorating in the cuspidor had
a large mouthful of the tobacco
Juice in the drawer on the checks
and they were all ruined and had to
be writer all over again. Since
that time this one particular man
has not taken chew of tobacco and
he says he never will.
It looks very much as though
that talk about new side walk be-
ing built to the station in the near
future was all a bluff. At the least
there is no sign that there will be
sidewalk along that street very
soon. Something should be done
in regard to this matter before the
bad weather sets in. 1t is impos-
sible to keep Burt street in such a
condition that it could be used as
roadway for pedestrians without
good deal of expense to the city
and if it was not kept in clean
condition the people who are COM
PEELED to use it to get to the station
would be subjected to much incon-
venience and trouble.