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Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1902-09-30
PARKERSBURG
Real Estate.
How to flake
Money.

On March 23rd re sold lady a
lot for $500; one month later we re-
so d 1t for Der for 5000; $500 profit
in thirty days
On July 24'h we sold gentle
man lot for $475; on August 9th
we reso'd it for $575 SIoo profit
In twelve DAYS.
On June the 5th two gentlemen
bought fifteen acres of land on the
Parkersburg & Marietta car line fer
So S.; on the nth of August we
sold IT for them for S. SEQ. $3.50
profit In two mouths
What others have done eau be
cone by you. Parkeas burg real es-
tate is the best investment you can
make. 1t has advanced steadily In
value TOR twenty FIVE years
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1902-09-30
Sold by D. A. Henderson,. Druggist
The Fisk Sewing Machine con

The Fisk Sewing Machine com
pany, 900 Elizabeth street, have
rented the building at 6o4 Brown
Betty street, and will put on sale at
reduced prices rearly two hundred
sewing machines In the near future.
Misses Nellie Morrison and
Nella Mccoy left this afternoon for
Washington, D. c. to attend the Ma
tional Park Seminary this winter
The young ladies were accompan-
led by J. II. Mccoy.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1902-09-30

The man or woman whose diges-
tcn Is perfect and whose stomach
performs Its every junction Is never
sick. Kodol cures positively and
permanently all stomach trouble ,
Indigestion and dyspepsia Rev.
J. H. Holiday, of Holiday, Miss
writes: Kcdol cured me- / con-
slider 1t the best rem tdy for dyspep
sia and stomach troubles.
Opera House Drug Store.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1902-09-30
FOR SALE.

Iron bed and springs $I2 co.
I Iron bed and springs $500.
I Dining room table $2.oo.
I Sewing table soc.
I Chart soc.
Screen doors $I.oo.
I Excelsior sewing machine $I2 !.
I Lounge soc
Picture framed soc
I Tobacco knife 25c
Gas burner and mixer SO gas
Valves 75c..
Cali at COS Avenue A.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1902-09-30
Lots on Easy Pay
mentS.

In order to give every one an op
portunity 10 own a lot In Parkers
burg, we have decided to put TWEEN
ty lots on the market on easy pay
ments. The price is $500 per lot.
The terms Is $25 down.and balance
S. per month. Toey are located
close to Tarrapin Park, about ft-
teen minutes walk from the bust.
ness par of The town, and three
blocks from the electric car line
The title i perfect. ard we give
you general warranty deed.
Get one of these before they are
all gone. Remember there are only
twenty tor sale on these terms.
Ten acrss of beautiful land on
Parkersburg & Marietta car line,
one of the fEest situations for a
home along h line; price $500.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1902-05-24
A Novel Fourth Of July.
From the Muskogce Times

rIoui tnc MuskoHce lincH
There has been good deal said az h
the time Of the delivery Of the deeds for
the Greeks lands.
The 'Times suggests that a time be
set when the first deed Is TO be delivered
and that 1t be made the greatest occa
sion that has ever been witnessed In the
Creek nation. Let this date be the
Fourth OF July, 1902,
II Ia further suggested, In view Of the
fact that IL was under him that the
movement for the final allotment OF
Indian lands WAS originated, that the
first deed be issued to Isparhecher and
that there be u big, old.fashioned Indian
barbecue on that day. There will be
several thousands Of the deeds ready by
that time and all these people can get
them on that day, q red letter day In
the history Of the Greek nation and the
Indian Territory.
Isparhscher Is an Indian and the chief
Of his tribe. The delivery Of the first
deed marks tho passing Of his people ~
u nation and no IL willing to give up all
the old traditions and the customs and
the government Of his people for the
better things that the white man 3 civ.
ilization has Ia store for him and his
people. Touching and melodramatic
the scene.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1902-05-24
Important Decision.

Judge en- has handed down IN i'm.
dortant decision In the United States
court ut Vinita, holding that any Cher.
okee citizen can take up and hold land
lying anywhere upon the public domain
Of the Cherokee nation, whether within
one-fourth mile OF another citizen = i'm.
provement or not The lands Of the
Cherokee tribe OF Indians belong TO the
tribe ~ II nation, and no one citizen
will be permitted to fence up u tract Of
land and at the same time hold another
citizen OIL " quarter Of u mile around
him Under the Cherokee law n citizen
could fence up tract Of land and hold
every other citizen of the land within u
quarter OF mile Of his improvents.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1902-05-24
Consumption of Whisky.
From the Little Rock Democrat.


Recent statistics indicate that there is
a great decrease In the consumption OF
intoxicants in the southern states. The
temperance people claim this is a great
victory due to the prohibitory laws that
have been enacted in most Of the states
against the sale Of whisky. There is
doubtless some merit in this contention,
but there Is another very potent cause
that has probably done more TO Grad.
icate the excessive use Of intoxicants
than all the laws and enactments that
can be placed on the statute books.
Public sentiment has long since refused
to countenance inebriety, and the day
has come when 1t Is a part Of the ordi.
nary business qualifications Of man to
be sober. The spirit Of commercialism
and desire to make money are stronger
elements In the makeup Of the average
man than his appetite. II WAS once the
case that q professional man could in
dulge In excessive drink when he chose
and spend the remainder Of his time In
the practice Of his calling. But such Is
not the case now. Every conceivable
line Of business and every profession
has become practical teacher OF tenn.
perance. No man can afford to drink
10 excess who expects TO succeed and
make money and money.making has
become the ruling passion Of the world,
The decrease In the consumption OF
whisky Is not due TO any great moral
wave that Ia sweeping over the country,
nor 10 the various stringent prohibition
laws that have been enacted, but more
properly to the demands OF modern
commercialism and the changes In the
tastes Of men growing ont Of the new
conditions Of life.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1902-05-24
"lland 10 Mouth" Liyers.
Prom Success.

From Success.
One Of the paradores Of waste Ia that
the persons most addicted TO II are not
men and women Of independent means
who can support themselves In spite Of
their extravagant expenditures, but the
poorer classes. There Is hardly IN
able.bodied laborer who might not be.
come financially independent II he would
but carefully husband his receipts and
guard against the little leaks OF need.
less expense. But unfortunately this Is
the one thing which the workingman
finds II hardest 10 do, There are u hun
dred laborers who are willing TO work
hard 10 every half dozen who are will.
ing properly TO husband their earnings,
Instead Of boarding u small percentage
Of their receipts 40 NJ 10 provide against
sickness or want OF employment, they
eat and drink up their earnings IN they
20, and thus Ia the first financial crash,
when mills and factories shut down,
and capitalists lock up their cash instead
of using II In great enterprises, they are
ruined Men who thus live from hand
to mouth, never keeping more than u
days march ahead Of actual want, are
little better of than slaves,
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1902-05-24
Statehood for Territories.
ON the Philadelphia North American.

Like every other measure Of import.
ance that has come up Mt this session
the question Of admitting the three ter.
ritories, Arizona, New Mexico and
Oklahoma, to statehood, has been con
sidered in the house from the standpoint
of partisan politics. For cynical frank.
ness, however, General Grosvenor, who
spoke in opposition to the pending ON
nibus bill, outdid all others on either
side. He had voted, he confessed for
the admission of the Dakotas in the
hope that 1t would strengthen the Re f..
publican party, but fear that one or
more of the territories now demanding
statehood would go Democratic prompt
ed him to disregard the pledges of the
Republican platform, His plan would
be to confer statehood only on states
which had given conclusive proof OF
confirmed Republication and to let all
others wait until such proof was forth.
coming.
General Grosvenor's objections, Il
may be inferred, are Arizona, which
since 1887 has sent delegate Mark
Smith, Democrat, to Washington
continuously, except during the Fifty.
sixth congress. Since the subsistence Of
the free silver craze New Mexico has
been safely Republican, and Delegate
Flynn Of Oklahoma, a Republican, has
missed election only once since 1893.
Considered, therefore, strictly on q par.
tisan basis, as General Grosvenor in.
sists must be done, the Republics n
party has nothing to lose by letting all
three territories into the Union. It al
ready holds an overwhelming majority
In the senate, and, rs the territories
now stand, would increase Its majority
In the house by one vote.
Weighed, however, by their fitness
for statehood, there can be no disputing
the right Of Oklahoma and Arizona to
admission. Objection has been made
to the Mexican element In the popula.
ton Of New Mexico, yet for the last
half q century, under an elective legis.
lsture. 1t has Jared far better than a
number OF the Oldest states are doing
today The chief Of Its Affections has
been the carpetbag officials who have
been saddled on 1t through outside
political influences working through
Washington,
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1902-05-24
Negroes Drifting North.
From the Memphis Commercial Appeal.

The negro population Of the United
States Is migrating northward. From
their homes amid the cotton blossoms
and the msgnolias they are seeking
homes in the Northern cities. II the
present movement Is long maintained
the negro will cease to be associated
with the Sunny South and Dixie Land.
Washington the capital Of the nation,
according TO the census Of 1890 had the
distinction Of sheltering the largest ne.
gro population Of any city In the United
States, although at the time 1t ranked
fourteenth OF all cities In size.
The last census dethrones Washington
In the matter Of black inhabitants,
Chicago having surpassed the nation 8
capital In the ratio Of gain, having re.
ported a growth In the last decade that
showed u gain Of 4, 74s more blacks than
Washington.
Philadelphia. II II maintains It's pre-.
sent ratio Of gains, will show q heavier
negro population than Washington In
1920, and maybe In 1910, New Orleans
for years had the largest negro popula.
ton Of any city In the United States
holding the record until 1890, when dis
placed by Washington.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1902-05-24
Have Locked Horns.

A full page of last week s issue of the
Bonneville Democrat Is taken up
with some spicy correspondence between
Judge j. H Evans and Governor Davis
1t presents matter that should occupy
space in every political scrap book in
the state. Judge Evans after the last
primary took occasion to congratulate
the governor on his success and to speak
good word for Judge j, V. Bourland
But It appears the governor has 1t In for
the Judge, and the rejoinder to the letter
of congratulation Is couched inlthe usual
vulgar strain Of j. d. as are all the
other letters from him, while Judge
Evans letters, while pointed a.plenty
show they are written by a man Of dig.
nifty. decency and self-respect.
How will the "hill-billies - and "red
necks'' who know Judge Evans rs a
man, gentleman and Judge like Davis
scurrillous letters, Is o question that
springs up in our mind.
WONDER since the correspondence
began how Judge Evans feels over hav.
ing voted for the Honorable Jefferson
D. We surmise be 5 got enough OF him
now.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1902-05-24
PROPOSED AMENDMENT
To the Constitution Of the State Of
Arkansas,

Notice is hereby given that the following Joint
resolution, proposing an amendment TO the
State Constitution, was passed by the General
Assembly at its regular session of 1901 and that
the same will be submitted 70 the electors Of the
State at the next general election W be held
September /, 1902, for adoption or rejection viz;
PROPOSED AMENDMENT.
That Section IS, OF Article g. OF the Constitution
OF the State OF Arkansas. be amended 30 10
to read rs follows.
Article 8, Section l6. Pay and Mileage.
The members Of the General Assembly shall
receive such pay and mileage for their services
~ shall be fixed by law, No member OF either
house, shall, during the term for which he has
been elected, receive any increase OF pay for his
services under any law passed during such term.
The term OF all members OF the General Assem-.
bly, shall begin on the day OF their election.
Approved May q, 1901.
Each elector may vote for or against above
amendment.
Witness my official signature and seal Of once.
JOHN W. CROCKETT.
tsEAi.l Secretary Of STATE.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1902-05-24

Mules are preferred for farm work
because they require less feed, are less
liable TO disease. harder In every way
and will do more work than horses
twenty per cent heavier. They are
more reliable and have fewer vices.
They are not ~ fast ~ horses but get
there sooner because their gait Is more
uniform and persistent, A pair Of good
mules 10 the best farm team on earth
Under the saddle the mule does not
show of like the horse, but there IL far
more comfort In riding one, They are
more sure footed and In critical juno.
lures find q way ont far more readily
than q horse. Farm and Ranch.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1902-05-24
THE RULE OF SOBRIETY.
Modern Temperance Reform Is Moving
Along Practical Lines.
From the Portland Oregonian-

From the Portland oregouian-
Practical temperance reform took q
notable step forward when, 3 few weeks
back. the Union Pacific railroad man.
agement made an order to the effect
that no man who frequented drinking
saloons, while either on or OF duty,
could remain in the service Of the COM
pany. Everywhere along the Union
Pacific lines there followed sudden
decline in saloon patronage, and at
Cheyenne, Wyo., the chief center OF
railroad labor on the transcOntinental
route, twenty-five drinking places shut
their doors within a few days. This
incident illustrates conspicuously q
principle which Is now being very gen.
orally enforced. First, the line Is being
drawn against the occasional and mod.
crate drinker, who Is regarded rs an In.
cipient drunkard. The great railroad
companies led off In the movement and
their example Is being followed by en-
ployers In every situation where large
responsibility Is involved, or where q
clear head and steady hand are essential
to efficiency.
The progress of industry and the pres
sure of competition have practically
eliminated the drunkard. When indus
try was on an individual basis, 1t
was possible to "get along In some
sort with partially efficient men, but
under modern conditions this Is no
longer true. An inefficient man or
a man not dependable Is q nuisance
in any relation. In the railroad ser.
vice his lapse Of attention or jndg.
ment may result In the most serious
disaster; In factory one man not 'up
to his work. may hold back a score or
q hundred Of his fellow workmen, and
he is certain to destroy the discipline
upon which the general competence OF
a working force depends. Under these
conditions there Is no room for the
drinking man and no tolerance for the
man who, through the saloon habit, Is
in the way Of becoming a drunkard.
The principle applies to professional
as we'll as other forms of labor. We
used to hear of famous lawyers, doctors,
generals and statesmen with an infirm-
ity of "self-indulgence. but such men
are heard OF no more. Nobody now
employs in any relationship of respon-
sibility, in any duty calling for steadi-
ness and Judgment, man who cannot
be relied upon for the best that is in
him at any time. The fashion of the
world has changed, and 1t has changed
not in response to any merely senti-
mental feeling, but from conviction
enforced by many and painful exper-
fences that the drinking man, whether
he be drunkard or mere occasional tip
pier, is a dangerous man. So import
ant change is having, naturally, an
important effect upon social and domes-
tic manners The social club Is no
longer place where excessive drinking
Is tolerated; no decent man becomes
fuddled with wine at dinner; In respect.
able social circles, no matter of what
rank. there Is no liberation Of those
practices OF excess which no less than
twenty years ago were common II not
general
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1902-05-24
THE Republicans throughout the state

The Republicans throughout the state
are going TO make every effort this fall
10 carry the state. OF course theirs IA
u forlorn hope, They hope that the
nomination Of JEFF Davis will disgruntle
enough Democrats TO give them a fight.
Ing chance, but they will find them.
selves mistaken, The Democrats OBJ.
posed 10 JEFF know that the rank and
file Of the Republican party are particeps
criminis In his nomination. Their lead.
ers shouted for Davis, their organs en-
dorsed Davis, and a good many Of the
rank and file slipped In and voted In the
primary for Davis, and MI OF this was
done In the hope Of being able TO
beat him with the votes OF disgruntled
Democrats In September u was an
undetermined game, and will lose.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1902-05-24
ARKANSAS GROWTH.
Wonderful Development in this Great
State In Population, Farm, Tim.
her and Lumber Values.

Fifty years ago Arkansas had 2O9, e97
Inhabitants. Only S42, Hve-fourteenths
of one per cent. Of these were engaged
In manufacturing as compared with Co.
SOL, or two per cent. Of the total popu..
lstion at the present day. The assessed
yalue Of the real estate has increased
from 81 ,S72, 554 to e128, 004 6e7. The
gross value Of manufactured products
has jumped from 1851, 9O6 In 1850 to
~, SS8. 762 In 1901. 1910
The farms Of Arkansas June !, lsOo,
aggregated 17s, 894 10 number and 1885,, :
1S2, 10 In value, with total products In
1899 of $40, 849, 400, according to a cen:
sus report on agriculture. OF the total
farm valuation two per cent. represents
the buildings and 70 per cent. the land
and improvements, other than build
ings. The value Of farm implements
and machinery was $s7, 483, ISL. The
total value Of farm property In 1900 was
$751; ,4l8, 001.
Of the total value Of farm products In
1899 almost 20 per cent. represents the
value Of animal products and "A per
cent. crops, including forest products.
The total value Of farm products In 1899
exceeded that of 1889 by 30 per cent. In
Arkansas In 1899 the gross farm income
was 500, 078, 500 and the income from
investment was 88 per cent.
The manufacture Of lumber and tim
Der products is by far the most import.
ant. The 1l9 establishments reported
for this industry IN 1890, with capital
OF $21, 727, 10 gave employment to 49,.
1915 wage earners Of the entire state.
The value of the product was S23, $685., =
9s3, an increase Of 1877 per cent. in a
decade.
Flour and grist mill industries rank
second In importance. A capital OF
81, 1856, 052 Is invested in 410 establish
ments that turned out products valued
at 80, 7OS, 700 in 1900. Third In rank is
the manufacture Of cotton seed oil cake.
The 20 plants produced 81, S74, 1874 worth
of stuff and employed 867 persons. The
capital invested Is %. 4S5, 794.
The greatest Of all these was the In
crease in establishments In ten years In
cotton ginning, the per centage being
739. In 1900 there was 81 1852, O97 in.
vested in ginneries. This does not in.
clude those connected with saw, grist
and cotton seed mills.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1902-05-24

TIE supreme court OF the United
States passed upon Tennessee case
recently involving the right Of a state
TO pass such election laws as 1t deemed
wise and judicious, The district court
OF Tennessee had delivered q decision
adverse TO the Dortch law and the state
appealed the case TO the supreme court,
which tribunal has now reversed the
ruling Of the district court. This will
be rather discouraging TO those who
have contended that the United States
government has q right under the con
stitution to interfere In such matters.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1902-05-24

leased to the Dickinson company under
the well-known brick-yard contract.
The state supreme court has held the
act of the penitentiary board in revoking
the contract invalid. II will be remem-
bered this formed an important subject
during the late campaign. Davis then
said that If the contract was held valid
he would pardon every convict In the
penitentiary before he would allow it to
be carried out. Again 1t is up to JEFF
and we will hear of some more craw.
fishing.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1902-05-24
WARNING ORDER.

In the Circuit Court OF Crawford County, Art.
Dorastus Payne. Plaintiff
against
Mary A, WassOm, John G. Wass0m,
J, q. WassOm. W, h. Wassom, Beu.
lah wassom, white wnssom, Edna,
Wassom Allen Wassom, Victoria
Robinson, Berkeley MeadOrs, Myrtle
Mcadors and Tholdo MeadOrs, De.
PENDANTS.
The Defendants. Mary A. wassom, John z.
WassOm, ], q. Wassom, W, l.. Wassom. Beulah
WassOm. white Wassom Edna wassom, Allen
Wasom. Victoria Robinson and Berkeley Mead.
ors are warned TO appear in this Court within
thirty days and answer tho complaint OF mo
Plaintiff, Dorastus Payne,
April 20, 1902. W. y sADLgR. CLERK
by J, J. BuRHow. d. e.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1902-05-24

DoCToRs will continue to disagree.
Some time ago they declared that ma {.
laria could be contracted IN no other
way than by mosquito bites. New York
physicians are now combating this idea.
They claim that malaria Ia due 10 fresh
ly turned earth, swamp emanations or
sitting out Of doors In the damp night
air. This last statement Of these ply.
slcians Ia borne out by the fact that
there are more mslarial fever cases now
In New York than ever before In its
history, which Ia attributable 10 tunnel
excavations In that city.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1902-05-24
Cain Harvey, Railroad MagnAte.

The Monte No Railway company WAS
Thursday granted u charter by the state
board OF railway ineorporators, and
filed its articles Of Incorporation with
the secretary Of state, The capital
stock IL ga 900, all Of which has been
subscribed, The incorporAtors are W I.
II, ("Coin Harvey, Carl A. Starck
John Il, Felker, Joseph W, Kimmons,
+. +. Freeman, Robert II. Harvey,
and Thomas W, Harvey. directors B..
r. Davidson, A. l.. Williams, j. H.,
Mclroy, II proposes ~ build u line Of
railway from Monte Ne TO Lowell, on
tho Frisco, ~ distance Of four miles,
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1902-05-24

A singular fatality 10 noticeable In the
lower branch Of congress. Recently
the speaker appointed Mr.. Otey Of Vir.
ginia 10 attend the funeral Of Congress.
man Cummings, and Mr.. Otey died the
next day. The speaker appointed Mr..
Salmon Of New Jersey 10 attend the fu.
neral Of Mr., Otey and he died two DAYS
later. Hereafter this function will
probably 20 begging.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1902-05-24

Prof, T, r, WATSON has been reelected
principal Of the Uniontown high school,
This Is n wise choice, FOR Prof, WATSON
has been most energetic In bringing this
school up to its present high grade Of
efficiency.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1902-05-24

TEE veterans Of the blue and the gray
Of Harrison have decided 10 hold = Joint
three.days reunion at that place early
In September. Preparations are to be
made on extensive scale.