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West Virginia daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1894-1902, 1902-06-02

Special Low Rates On Sundays During
Summer Season, Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad.
The Baltimore & Ohio R. r. will
sell excursion tickets at very low
rates, good going and returning
same day, every Sunday during the
summer season. on regular trains to
and from ali stations between Sis.
tersville and Parkersburg and be.
tween Sistersville and Wheeling
inclusive. No rate higher than
81 so.
Call on ticket agent for rates and
time of trains. Sep I
West Virginia daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1894-1902, 1902-06-02
To the oil producers In general and
to all who may be Interested:

y TIC Oll PLOuuCC1S III SCuC1oA oAu
to all who may be interested:
This Is to certify that for the past
year the people of Jackson township
have been complaining to me about
the unnecessary work being done
on Sunday In this field. Lately
the complaints have been almost
commands and I was compelled to
take the steps which have been
taken. The story has been gener-
ally circulated that the men who
have been lately discharged from
the employ of the Central Oil com
pany were the instigators of the law
being enforced. I wish 1t to be
plainly and distinctly understood
that they were not.
B. ROWLES,
Constable.
Sworn to and subscribed In my
presence this 28th day of May, A.
D. 1909.
JACKSON Taught,
Justice of the Peace.
as
West Virginia daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1894-1902, 1902-06-02

Wanted-A 80, 600 to Co.. 900 dol.
lar oil production. Keener sand
preferred. Pay half down, balance
reasonable payments. Address, Civ
Ing location, acreage, wells, age
production and price.
7. w. LARSEN & Co..
Sistersville, w. Va.
90 at
West Virginia daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1894-1902, 1902-06-02

For ren.:-Five room house on
Main street. II. B. Crane. 81 st
West Virginia daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1894-1902, 1902-06-02
From The County Seat.
County Seat Budget.
Middlebourne. Nav

Middlebourne, May 81.
Decoration Day was observed by
the G, A. R. and the people In and
near town and the graves of the old
soldiers and persons buried In the
Old and Greenwood cemeteries
were profusely strewn with flowers.
After the decorating Of the graves,
the people assembled at the court
house and were entertained by the
Junior Epworth League, who sang
PATRIOTIC songs and recited appro-
pirate Rotations. E. r. B. Mar
tin Esq, of ST. .Marys. delivered a
short address. After dinner, the
old soldiers and a great many OF
the town people went to Lazear's
chapel and decorated the grave OF
the old soldiers there. The band
also furnished some good music.
John F. Shore and c. B. Jen-
nings, of the Middlebourne Bank
staff spent Decoration Day In New
Martinsville. Mr.. Shore will spend
several days at Clarksburg before
returning.
]. A. Meredith. Jr., Esq, of Sis
tersville, took In Decoration Days
severlces here.
John B Riggs, Commissioned
County Court, was here on bust
ness yesterday.
Ingrahm L. Fordyce, of McKim,
was In town Friday.
Hon. Joshua S. Roberts,of Iuka,
come down to town yesterday to
Decoration Day services.
W. E. KirchEer spent several
days Of this week at Elizabeth,
Writ county, on business.
H. w. Smith was In SistersviIle
this week.
Mrs. DR.. Reppard has returned
home after two weeks visit with
friends At Centerville.
Col. II. II. Hardman passed
through town on his way to Deer
Park.
O. w. 0. Hardman Is attending
the Congress of Charities and Cor
rect1on, which Is In session at De-
troit: He was appointed dele.
gate by Gov. White.
Henry I. Stealey, of Wheeling,
visited his parents Mr.. and Mrs. L.
L. Stealey of Dodd street, this week.
DR.. Campbell attended the meet
ing of Medical association of the
state at Parkersburg, this week.
]. w. Grim has purchased three
lots OF Miss Mary Stealey In her
addition to Middlebourne for the
sum of 500 cash.
BUILDING NOTES.
I. S. Engle, Esq has bis new
house In Mary Stealey's addition to
Middlebourne raised and ready for
the weather boarding.
]. w. Grim has his house No. 2
In the same addition weather.
boarded and ready for the roof.
The foundation and cellar for G.
B. tensions new house In the same
addition Is completed and ready for
the superstructure.
Born, unto Mr.. and Mrs. Rolly
Smith, a big Democratic boy.
Mother and child doing we'll.
The many friends of Frank Percy
Swan and wife of Huntington, will
be pleased to learn that said couple
are the happy parents of a fine girl
baby. The intelligence Is also
received that Frank sufficiently re-
covered his mental equilibrium to
meet his friends with smile only a
little above normal.
DR.. D. c. Smith and DR.. Ira
Lemley, of Shiloh, were In town
Thursday on professional business.
West Virginia daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1894-1902, 1902-06-02

DR.. D. c. Smith and DR.. Ira
Lemley, of Shiloh, were In town
Thursday on professional business.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1902-06-21
EXPERIMENTS.
Finding q Money Crop to Replace
Cotton Realizing Five
Cents q found

In April 1 began my planting ex-
periments. For a southerner the first
thought is to find e money crop that
will displace cotton, as it can not be
raised at five cents per pound. L have
planted upland rice, castor beans
and broom-corn. Rice is worth two
cents per pound in the rough, and
fair average land will make about
800 pounds per acre, with half the
cost of an acre of cotton, besides
having a ton and a half of rice straw
in preference to millet. Castor beans
are worth $1.65 per bushel, and COM
mon land will produce from 35 to so
bushels per acre. They will grow to
perfection on poor, sandy soil, where
cotton can not be grown at a profit.
Although they are half tropical, |
have seen them gro ring as far north
as Missouri and Kansas. Broom
corn is a doubtful crop, as the prices
are subject to fluctuation, but IL I
find IL suited TO my soil and climate,
| shall put in a factory when there
Is no profit In the raw material. II
takes three acres of land to produce
II ton of brush, which is worth AT
present from S125 to $500 per ton,
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ceeded in building up a reputation
which he can live on after he ceases to
be a drawing card with the public.
The theatrical agent is brought
into touch with both sides of the shift.
ing life of the stage. He meets an en-
thusiastic "raw recruit" one minute
and the next turns to face an actor
or actress who has outlived his or her
stage usefulness and is searching dill.
gently for an engagement. The agents
life is, in fact, a better drama than the
average stage production, and he has
enough comedy thrown in to relieve
the monotony. And there is a good
deal of comedy about a theatrical ex-
change, and comedy goes.
The sole business of the theatrical
exchange is to supply attractions to
managers for every kind of show, and
as most specially people are under on
tract with one agent or another dur
ing the season this is done with az
much system as prevails in a well-regu-
lated banking institution. Whole pro-
grammes are made up by the agent
as a manager is required to do but one
thing-sign a check covering the cost.
The price of complete performances
ranges from $3.50 to 81 $50, not includ-
ing transportation expenses, which the
manager is required to pay.
Individual acts are naturally rated
according to the ability and popularity
of individual actors. Speciality people
draw much higher salaries than those
engaged in legitimate work, but, even
at that, they are admittedly underpaid
considering the character of some Of
their acts. For instance, a woman will
stand against a board and allow a
man to hem in her body with SHARP
knives, thrown a distance of IS feet
for $40 a day (list price,, and two
knockabout comedians will beat and
batter themselves numerically fol
sos a day Dist price,. This is n sample
of the salaries paid to men and women
who appear on the variety stage, YET
the market is overstocked with then
all the time.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1902-06-21
POSSIBILITIES OF
AERIAL NAVIGATION
BY M. ShhTOS-DUMONT.

from the capitalists who have shown an interest in the subject Of
aerial navigation.
H NAVIGATION OF THE AIR AS A MEANS OF RAP
I'D TRANSPORTATION IS IN KEEPING WITH THE PROG
RESS OF THE AGE. Given the opportunity to test its utility and
the people of to-day will take up with it more readily than did our
ancestors Of three quarters of a century ago take to the railway train
and the steamship. They not only expect but demand progress, and
accept it when their demands are complied with. The science Of
aerial navigation is keeping pace with the public demand, and the
public n ready to accept it as a means OF travel just as soon as the
capitalists OF the world re ready to provide the means for carrying
out all the inventors have made possible.
A word more as to the possibilities. My small balloons, those
used for exhibiting purposes, have developed a speed in the air in
excess of that shown by the great ocean liners in the water. With
size comes power. 1t il because OF the size of the fast ships between
Europe and America that they ire able to produce the power that
drives them across the Atlantic in from five to seven DAYS. THE
SAME WILL BE TRUE OF THE AIRSHIP. With a million dol
lars it will be possible to build an arship sufficiently large to carry
the power to drive it across the Atlantis. in two days time.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1902-06-21
LIFE ON THE STAGE.
The Length of the Average Theatri'
cal Career Is Rarely More
Than Ten Years.

A new crop of stage people is har-
vested in the United States every ten
years. Each decade marks the begin
ming of a new epoch in theatrical his
tory.
This fact, says the Chicago Tribune,
does not apply so aptly to- stars and
stage people who dominate in the pro-
f~ession, for the life of these, so far as
the public is concerned, is usually
somewhat longer. But with the rank
and fle-those who never rise higher
than the level of minor roles ten
years is about the limit of endurance.
After having served before the public
for that length of time without doing
anything sufficiently meritorious or
novel to attract unusual attention the
actor or actress, as a rule, passes away,
in SO far as the profession is concerned,
and a new crop is harvested among the
many anxious recruits on the waiting
list to fill the depleted ranks.
Men who deal in the talents Of stage
people to the extent of reaping inan-
cial returns from their labors are bet
ter qualified to "size up" the situation
than others, and their experience
teaches that few ordinary people OF
the theatrical profession remain long
err than ten years in the business. They
either achieve Observation-Disclosures
this is the exception rather than the
rule-or else dropinto other lines after
having been convinced by experience
that the stage, so far as they are direct
ly concerned, offers practically no OPP
portunities for advancement. For this
reason the rank and file of the profess
sion is constantly changing, and the
popular idea "once an actor always an
actor" is easily disproved.
1t is the office of the theatrical agent
the man who mediates between the
stage people and managers-that pre-
sents the truest phase of stage life. In
this little clearing house, where talent
is the standard of consideration, the
mask is removed, and everything goes
for just what it is worth. By reason Of
this fact those who manage the affairs
of stage people are better able to
Judge of the vagaries and allurements
of the profession than persons on the
outside, and in their opinion ten years
is the average life of the person who
chooses the stage as a profession.
This condition is more evident
among speciality people than among
those who adhere to the beaten paths
of legitimate drama. The latter field is
less exhausting, because it is less
original than the former, and changes
from one line to another are more cas-
fly brought about. The stock and trade
Of men and women on the variety stage
is originality, and when this endow-
ment has been exhausted the resources
of the person cease unless he has sue
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1902-06-21
JOHNNY'S hIST'RY LESSON.

think, of all the things at school
A boy has got to do.
That studyin' hist'ry, as a rule,
Is worst Of all, don't you2
Of dates there are an awful sight,
An though l study day an night,
There's only one I've got just right
That's fourteen ninety-two.
Columbus crossed the Delaware
In fourteen ninety-two;
We whipped the British. fair an square,
In fourteen ninety-two.
We whipped the British, fair an square.
In fourteen ninety-two.
AT Concord an at Lexington
We kept the red-co1ts on the run
While the band played Johnny Get Your
Gun,
In fourteen ninety-two.
Pat. Henry. with his dyin' breath
In fourteen ninety-two-
Said: Gimme liberty or DEATH"
In fourteen ninety-two.
An Barbara Frietchie, 20 Its said, =
Cried; Shoot If you must this old. gray
head.
But I'd rather 'twould be your own in
stead"
In fourteen n~inety-two.
The Pilgrims came to Plymouth Rock
In fourteen ninety-two,
An the Indians stardin' on the dock
EtShCu. " nat are shA sun
An they said: I'VE seek your harbor drear
That our children's chi,dren's children dear
May boast that their fore1athers landed
here
In fourteen ninety-two."
Miss Pocahontas saved the life,
In fourteen ninety-two,
OF John Smith, an became his wife
In fourteen ninety-two.
An the Smith tribe started then an there,
An now there are John Smiths everywhere,
But they didn't have any Smiths to spare
In fourteen ninety-two.
Kentucky was settled by Daniel Boone
In fourteen ninety-two,
An l think the COW jumped over the moon
II fourteen ninety-two.
Ben. Franklin flew his kite so high
He drew the lightnin' from the sky.
An Washington couldn't tell a lie
In fourteen ninety-two.
Nixon Waterman. in Saturday Evening
Post.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1902-06-21
CLASSIFICATION OF MULES.
The Different Grades for Various
Purposes-Advantages in
Mules Over Horses.

In DR.. Knights new work he gives
the following classification of mules
as furnished by the largest dealers
in Tennessee. Their idea of a mine
mule is not correct for Pennsylvania
collieries. They use small mules,
IA to Is hands, the majority below
the latter height.
The sugar mules run in age from
three to five years old and from 15H
to 1914 hands high; they are fed from
the time they are colts until they are
shipped to Louisiana.
The mine mules are from Is to 10
hands high, from five to ten years
old, and must have bone and good
foot and good body.
The dray mules are from three to
five years old, 1871 to 1914 hands high,
from 1900 to 1,4o0 pounds.
The cotton mules are from three
to five years old, 1871 to 1874 hands.
The mules sold to the British gov
eminent must be from five to twelve
years old, but must be sound and
free from blemishes.
Mules from 15h to 1871 hands high
sell better in spring, summer and
fall for work in Tennessee.
The dealers begin to buy cotton
mules in the fall and fatten them for
| the southern market, which COM
mences in October and continues IN
til March.
There are several advantages in
handling mules over horses. You al
sell them readily at any age. They
sell at weaving, one year old, or at
two, three, four, or at any age you
have him in market order you car
get his cash value. You do not have
to curry and rub and educate to the
different saddle gaits and break him
to harness before he is ready for
market. You can often sell them
in carload lots instead of selling
them at retail, and by so doing you
get your money in bulk and can in
vest it to a much better advantage
National Stockman.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1902-06-21
HERE AND THERE.

The largest return from an acre
Of corn is obtained when it is made
into silage. The next largest return
is when the corn is cut, shocked, the
ears shucked, and the remainder
shredded.
Considerable complaint is made
by wool buyers of the habit of many
sheep men have of tying fieeces with
sisal Irvine. Manufacturers complain
that fluff from this Irvine gets into
the wool and is most difficult to sep
crate.
This has been a hard year on hog
men IN account of scarcity and high
price of feed. Even the breeders have
suffered from the same cause and
have not enlarged their business as
they otherwise would have done.
The Live Stock Reporter says
that Suffolk ewes usually have twin
lambs and often triplets, but the
strength of the mothers, and their
fine milk-producing qualities, prevent
the lambs from becoming a misfor-
tune.
More sheep are needed to supply
the market with both mutton and
wool. On our many small farms
there is room for thousands Of sheep
where only hundreds now exist. A
few sheep on a so or 100-acre farm
may be kept at very little expense.
Twelve years ago hogs to average
300 pounds had to take about fifteen
months to make the necessary
growth. Now whole carloads nine
months old average 800 pounds. This
average is due to better breeding and
better feeding.
Eighteen millions of dairy cows
in the United States produce annual
ly nearly eight billion gallons of milk
which was manufactured into one
and one-half billion pounds of butter
and nearly three hundred million
pounds of cheese. The total value Of
dairy products is given at $500, 0o0,-
900.
Farm horses should not be kept
on n kind of feed. A variety is APP
%preciated by horses as well as men.
1t is said that the corn belt contains
by far the largest proportion of blind
horses. While oats are good they do
not make the best iced for work
horses on the farm If fed alone or
with hay.
Horses often suffer for want Of
water. For some unexplained reason
other animals tre allowed TO Judge
for themselves, but horses are xept
on short allowance. This is all
wrong. Excep. when too warm or i'm
mediately after feeding horses should
have all the good, pure water the ,
will drink.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1902-06-21

cropped out one day at a dressmak-
ing establishment where he was in
company with his mother.
Mrs. Gould noticed that for some
time her little boy had seemed fond
of going with her to the dressmak-
er's, and she soon realized that the
clever little fellow was not without
a motive other than his natural fond
ness for her society. He knew that
in these centers of fashion making
there were pins, a really riotous
waste of pins. One day at the Fifth
avenue establishment when MRS.
Gould and a friend she had brought
with her were busily engaged in criti-
cising the various imported gowns
brought out for their inspection, Miss
Ward, the head saleswoman, noticed
young Edwin Gould bending over a
spot on the floor where a box of pins
had been carelessly upset some hours
before. Noticing that he was pick
ing them up she smilingly offered to
give him ome
mo" explained Mrs. Gould, he en-
joys collecting them. At home l
sometimes strew them over the floors
just to give him the pleasure of pick
ing them up"
Apparently unaware Of the COM
ment he had excited, the child con-
tinued his researches, and later,
when Mrs. Gould had gone into an
other room, and a saleswoman APP
preached and offered him a hairpin
TO dig the more recalcitrant pins
from the cracks, he was so much abb
sorbed that he did not ever look up
to reply.
Even when she told him hat he
would break his finger nails in the
pursuit he did o %falter, and only
when she explained that the hairpin
would greatly increase his speed in
acquiring pins did he accept it.
why do you pick up pins?" she
asked, encouraged by his gracious &C.
ceptance.
Il get pennies for Them answered
young Edwin, promptly. 81 pick NJ
all l a find. and when l have 200
get a cent. 1 can make lots OF
money"
He did not stop working to give the
information, and even when Mrs
Gould was ready to go to her car
rage he left the house of many pins
with evident reluctance, but enriched
by several cents.
The Goulds have always known tn,
value of money, and the early com
mercial instincts developed by tn,
scion of the Edwin Gould family ar,
the natural result of influences o.
heredity and otherwise. Jay Goulc
was the son of a poverty-strickeI
farmer in Delaware county, N. Y
When IA years of age he started gu
to make his way in the world with
total capital of so cents, and in tn,
next 30 years carved his way to
fortune of more than $4,000, 900.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1902-06-21
uoh I have known It TO sell for

though I have known 1t to sell for
$50.
While I have been looking for sub
s~titutes for cotton, l have not neg
Iected the cotton itself, but am n
perimenting with seeds and fertiliz-
ers to see if / can not lessen the COST
of production. I am experimenting
in a small way with hogs, keeping an
account with five shoats, and charg-
ing up their feed to them. l believe
our pork-raising to be the greatest
drain on southern farms. We ship
our hogs to St. Louis, and they ship
us bacon in exchange. While l have
been experimenting along other lines.
I have not forgotten the garden. Since
I have been farming it has been my
aim to live well from the farm, so l
always try to have a surplus OF vege-
tables to store for winter. With only
a little work done at leisure times,
the farmer will have a bountiful sup
DIV of the best produce of the earth,
which would be out of reach of his
city cousin, who works for fair
wages. Rents, fuel and corporation
taxes are n heavy burden to the city
toiler; besides his wages may stop at
any time, while the farmer has a
competence for life.-Enos c. Pitt
man, in Epitomist.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1902-06-21
PONY IN U o
Creature Loved Its Master, n Learned
Judge, So Much That II Followed
Him Inside.

Henry Ward Beecher, often visited
the courtrooms in and around the city
of New York, where. he said, the wit
and bubbles, quirks and pranks of
the judges and lawyers made better
fun than the circus.
There were two scenes, many years
ago, enacted in the United States court
room at Frankfort, Ky, which Mr..
Beecher would have said we're equal
to Barnum's best. They were well
known to the lawyers of Kentucky of
the olden time. At present we will
speak of one Of these scenes.
Hon. I. +. Monroe, at the time re-
ferred to, was United States judge for
the district Of Kentucky. He was
sometimes extremely absent-minded;
when he became deeply interested in
a great legal subject everything else
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1902-06-21
U EDWIN U
Although But Eight Years OF Age No
Is Displaying Rare Talent rs
IA Money-Maker.

The Gould family heritage, which
seems to be to make millions out OF
pennies, has developed in a new cen
ter. Edwin Gould, Jr., has set up
in business for himself. This is sur
prising, for Edwin Jr., is but eight
years old. What is more, he is much
in earnest over his money making
venture, and, like his father and
grandfather, has chosen to begin IN
a small way. He is in the retail pm
business and his scale of prices is n
cent for 200 pins.
Young Edwin drifted into the pm
business rather unconsciously, but
his efforts were well directed from
the first, nevertheless. He is q
grave child and among his earliest
reflections was one on the waste OF
things in general and pins in partic-
ular. He conceived the idea that the
pins thrown away should be saved,
so he started out simply as a coilec-
tor. He gathered hundreds of these
little brass strays and castaways
with no thought of gain.
At this stage of his development
heredity asserted itself and young
Edwin came to the conclusion that a
thing could not be ~pleasurable unless
profitable. So he put a price upon
his labors and in the Gould pin es-
adjustment the motto. 1900 pins for
one cent" was created.
Edwin had the pin collecting fad
for some time before it was known,
but his unnatural business instincts