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Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1902-11-20

Old Jim Hewson, who has just re-
turned from New Mexico, witnessed
three lynchings while he was gone, and
he says they were all bungles COM
pared to our artistic ways.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1902-11-20
p.c,ac Coas. wi,nout Change.

In new Pullman ordinary sespe1s; wase
1estibuled and with every mod fn,n oincinnati
.nS sha csSie az W. louisville, New Orleans,
les San Francisco Rates Tor berns less de-
hall Of cost in regular see npaTt;cusGs address
pichter. travelling A gent, Illinois Sentra'
Rsiiroad. SIa PARK Building Pittsours ia;
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1902-11-20

Old Joe Wheeler claims to have seen
a silver tipped bear near Sailor creek
last Sunday. If he is telling the truth
then he struck something at last he
couldn't ask to buy him a drink OF
whisky or lend him q quarter.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1902-11-20
LOCAL NEWS

| very iS" IoiS hSA III snS 10y
just now,
Kore Queen LETT this morning
for points south on business.
Attorney F. L. Blackmarr went
to Parkersburg this morning.
Architect W. B. O'Neill, of Ma.
rietta. was a business caller here
today.
Great Roadway is being made In
the work of building the new glass
plant here.
| A. ], Yoke returned to tue city
last evening from business trip
to Pittsburg.
Contractor Jack O'Hare left the
city this morning for the Jackson
burg oil field.
c. M. mclaughlin, of Cam
bridge, Ohio, was transacting bust
ness here today.
E. M. Roome, popular hotel
man, OF Pine Grove, was business
visitor here today.
Mrs. Chase and daughter. Bessie,
OF Big Moses, spent the day shop
ping In the city.
G.. ". Lazear, OF the firm OF
Lazear Bros went to Pine Grove
this morning on business.
Attorney c R. Martin, of Mid
dlebourne, went to St. Marys this
morning on legal business.
Josiah Dobson, a we'll known
gauger of Trail Run, Ohio, was
calling on friends here today.
Nose Bowman, a we'll known
contract teamster of Salem, was a
business caller In the city today.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Riggle and
Mrs Asia Powell, of Middlebourne,
spent today In the city shopping.
T. W. Larsen, the we'll known
real estate broker, left the city this
morning for points south on bust
ness.
A.. Conway and sister Miss
Bessie, of Alma, spent the day In
the city calling on friends and shop
ping.
Fruit cake and Angel Flo od.Get
them at Frantz & Hissam's. They
are baked by the National Biscuit
company. - II lot 90 d
Messrs. George and Thomas
Bell received a message yesterday
afternoon conveying the sad intellt-
gence of the serious illness of their
mother, of Lima, O. They left last
evening for her bedside.
Misses Margaret and Maude Nc
Gee, of New Martinsville, and Miss
Myrtle earns and Miss Figley, of
Burgettstown, Pa, spent Wednes-
day with their cousins, Mrs. For.
ouer and Mrs. Gruber, OF Spring.
dale street
The Morgantown Real Estate
company will have lot sale In
Kingwood on Saturday. the 25th.
They have laid out IS acres and
have graded some streets and alleys.
There Is no reason why Kingwood
should MOI get share of the gen.
eral growth that Is prevalent.
Drop into McCoy's Book Store
and take a look at their stock OF
handsome pictures and china.
Their stock of china Is the very
best ware on the market and the
very latest designs In china The
prices will surprise you. Call and
take a look. All are welcome.
The gamblers and other unde-
slrable individuals recently chase d
ou' of Clarksburg have made their
way to Petersburg. That town
now has more slot machines and
green cloth than ever before. 1t IS
said there that the new chief Of
police may give them a cool recep-
ton.
A farmer brought In a dressed
turkey yesterday that tipped the
scales at 81 pounds. He took
home for that turkev In good solid
cash the sum of six dollars and
twenty cents, Turkeys selling at
IS and 20 cents a pound this year
is going to make the editors save
up for a week or two In order to
buy a small one.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1902-11-20
THE ARIZONA KICKER.
Some Lively Items of News From q
Busy Editors Den.
Copyright, 1902, by c. B. Lewis.l

Copyright, 1902, by c. B. Lewis.I
There will be no fall boom in Give
adam Gulch this year, but six more
saloons will be quietly run up and nm
ished off to accommodate the increas-
ing business.
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Her Rarrnin.

Charley, DEAR" said Mrs. Torkins
81 have such q bargain"
"IndppdT"
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"Yes. You told me that poker chips
were worth a dollar apiece, and I got
a whole lot of them for IS cents!'-
Washington Star
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1902-11-20

RI. GREGORY,
ATTORNEY AND couNssLLoR-Ar'LAw'
,ae~.. Nos, , and 5, First National san1
Building
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Wal, .ract,ce In all state and FeaeIsi SoH ~,
80 ~. ststes OF Ohio and PennsylvanA So'
Hcration work Q specially
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A Z PORTER
tTroRNKY-Ar.LAW AND NorAhi Fo0
special attention given 70 the
oil business.
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M D. HANES,
ArroRNEY-Ar-LAW.
v,n practice In state and Federal c'us''
..,,- and sssaographer In ONCE. Pnone -
.s.,r.c,,ns titles carefully and neatly ooh'
oAsce on the Diamond Square
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TONER L. BOWsRR
NJrARY PUBLIC,
Tor Tyler county.
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Am su,,usss Entrusted In my care vii Ts ssssr
..ss,s, and Immediate attention. speci41 In uts. |,
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The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-12
The Fruit Stand Matter.

The Board of Mayor and Aldermen
meet on Wednesday night next, and
ut that time will consider the petit
lions of the people in favor of abolish
Ing the sidewalk fruit stands of Bir-
bingham. The Age-Herald Is in
formed by prominent Alderman that
the indications are that the Board will
consider the wishes of the citizens
and take steps towards the abolish
ment of this nuisance.
The Age-Heerald is likewise In
formed that the Aldermen were not
nesirous of ignoring the action of the
Commercial Club. Indeed, several
Aldermen have stated that the matter
was not properly presented to the
Board, otherwise it would have been
respectfully considered and due def
erence would have been given to the
Commercial Club and citizens gener.
ally.
The Age-Herald has no desire to
rriticise the Board Of Aldermen.
There are good and wise men on the
Board, and when the matter is pre-
scented at the meeting next Wednes-
day night, it is highly probable that
the membership of the Board of Alder
men will consider this matter care
fully and grant the wishes of the
great masses of the citizens of Bir-
mingham-
Z. The fruit stands are a nuisance.
Every citizen of Birmingham not d.
rectly interested in the profits of the
same realizes this fact thoroughly and
wouldshavelthe7n moved into buildings
as other merchandise concerns are
required to do.
The people are aroused on this sub
feet and expect proper action from
the Mayor and Board of Aldermen.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-12
Mardi Gras a Back Number.

Memphis has abandoned the cele-
bration of Mardi Gras, holding that
1t has misrule enough without giving
over one or two days in the early
spring time to license of all sorts. The
Umpire of Joy has been abandoned,
and Mobile is considering a like prop.
osition.
The Mobile Herald comes forward
with a remarkable proposition-it
proposes to retain the Mardi Gras
saturnalia and make it decent. 1t
should attempt to make water run
up hill, or white black. When it had
accomplished these tasks it might
tackle the one it has proposed.
The essential feature of Mardi Gras
Is unrestrained license, and when Mo-
bile undertakes to prohibit individual
maskers and the like 1t simply takes
away the characteristics of the day.
For the modern Mardi Gras is but a
shortened reproduction of the Roman
Saturnalia, which lasted seven days
and wffch is the prototype of all that
Isl indecent period of general H.
cense In which the passions and vices
run riot This town long ago gave
over all festivals of Saturn or the
King of Misrlle. 1t has enough of
such excuses every day in the year.
The Herald will see that Mardi
Cras cannot be retained and made
orderly and decent. The use OF masks
means just the opposite. It means
the very orgies that the Herald de-
cries. It means license which readily
becomes unlimited. AS Memphis and
birmingham have done, so will Mobile,
soon or late, be compelled to do,
namely, apply the municipal axe to
the root instead of the branches. The
King of Misrule should be. kicked out.
His agents are too numerous at all
times, and there is no need to hand
whole city over to him at any time.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-12
Church Energy.

"Agnosticism may be rampant, as the
leaders of the school of unbelief boast
1t is, but never in the history of the world
were the different Christian demonina-
lions so well organized for purposes of
raising money for church extension as
they are now" said an ardent Methodist.
Last year was a record breaker in the
way of church revenue. While the Meth
odist led off in raising a great Twen-
tieth century fund, others have followed
In this work and Presbyterians, Baptists
and Episcopalians have done wonders.
'The amount contributed to the
churches of the United States last year
was about 260,000,000. There would be
economy in the churches getting together.
The question of consolidation on the part
of some of the Protestant bodies has been
agitated but no practical plan has yet
been agreed upon and never will be in my
opinion. Presbyterians, Methodists, Epis-
copalians and Baptists have distinctive
views about dogmatic theology forms and
polity, and they will never quite come
to terms.
This is the age of trusts, and If any
one could bring about a. church combine
it would be Pierpont Morgan, himself an
active layman of the Episcopal church.
But even he has never figured on any
thing of the sort. Unity of spirit is desired
but uniformity we do not want, say Pres
byterians and Baptists."
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-12
THE r1URr1UR OF THE WORLD.
hes1,oze~

to whisper dear nonsense, is the old hall
of the House of Representatives in the
great white capitol upon the hill, the
noblest building in the world. Before the
splendid extensions of the capitol were
built the Representatives performed their
duties of legislation in this hall After
the completion of the present hall of the
House, the old hall was set apart as
chamber in which should be placed stat
ues of illustrious men of our country, it
being decreed that each state of the
Republic should be represented by at
least one statue of some one of it's great
sons. There are many statues there ar,
ranged to form a ha1f-dsc in conformity
with the dimensionU of the hall. Our Ala
bama is not represented
Why this hall is universally known a.
the Whispering Gallery is this: One per-
son standing by one of the great marble
pillars in the southwestern corner of this
hall can by speaking in very low tones
convey a greeting to another person
standing in the northeastern corner, some
eighty feet away, ana the greeting may
in similar manner be returned The low
tones of the voice are conducted by the
pillars to the arched ceiling and by the
ceiling across the wide space and down
to the floor opposite. Why this is so has
never been explained and cannot be, as
the science of acoustics knows not the
secret.
1t has long been the Gust ON of lovers.
welded and unvedded. who visit the
capitol to seek the nations Whispering
Gallery and whisper to one another
through that peculiar medium of sound
transmission. Thus whilst some fifteen
rods UP the corridor there roll the thun-
ders of acrimonious political debates in
Congress, in the old hall of the House Of
our fathers there is the whispering of
loves dear nonsense.
Whispers! Whispers people and move
the world. Whispers join hearts to
hearts cement friendships unite ambi.
tions, build homes and raise armies; whis-
pers rear the affairs and bring thither the
bride and the bridegroom-rock the cradle
and rock the world
All the winds that-blow, whisper whis.
per. whisper.
And so is whispered to the winds thai
blow to the South this greeting of the
New Year:
when love unites wide space divides in
vain,
And hands may clasp across the spread
ing plain
Thus is it whispered sk
LUCIEN JULIEN WALKER
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-12

the irrepressible applause brought out
dear old tunes that were rendered
as only great artist can render them.
Stephens Collins Foster would himself
have shed tears If he could have heard
the singers tones linger over his lines
and notes, which are indeed classical
IAN American classic.
Birmingham should wake up and
pull itself together. It should not
permit fine entertainment to slip
upon it as the Nevada Company did,
to go away unappreciated. Madame
Nevada was not hurt by the empty
seats, but Birmingham was, and Bir-
mingham's chief pride, next to iron,
is music. 1t was caught mapping for
once, however.
tits. difficult to name the good fea-
lures of the prima donna's work. Her
voice is SO clear that she did not hest
tate to compare it directly with
flute in the hands of another artist,
and the flute came off second. But
her soft notes are SO extremely must
cal, so delightful to the ear, so sooth-
ing to the heart, that the palm must
be awarded to them. She has high
soprano voice, and 1t is as fully under
control as voice ever was in the world.
AS to her prolonged long notes they
simply charmed and delighted the
audience.
There is no need to waste words
over those who were present. Our
purpose consists wholly in telling
those who did not attend what they
missed, and to wake them up to more
vigilance and discrimination in their
selection of entertainments. The few
who did go are to be envied, the rest
are simply objects of commiseration
and pity.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-12

copies OF it have been sold. It Is not
much more than character sketch.
but merit and sales have no relation
to each other at present in this coun-
try.
Frank Norris Octopus" was per
maps the best Of the lot Winston
Churchill is the favorite, however, and
the sales of THE Crisis have. been
enormous. Irving Bachelors new
book is scarcely as felicitous as "Ebep
Holden" but the sales Of! "D'ri and r.
have been. large. AS much may be
said of THE Helmet of Navarro" by
Miss Bertha Runkle, very youthful
writer. The more youthful the writer
the better nowadays. If any other
stories were published during the year
Of even mentionable merit the fact
has escaped us. Not one of them will
be read or even mentioned five years
later. The times are propitious to great
sales and money-malting, and the
novels and poems that the world will
not let die go over to some more pro
ductive period. Not one was published
last year.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-12
Fiction and Poetry.

England has lost her leading novel
lists. Thomas Hardy is writing poetry,
and Besant, Black and Blackmore are
dead. Gilbert Parker is a member of
Parliament, but his last book, 1.-THE
Right of Way" is the best that the
old country produced last year, al.
though Mrs. Humphrey Wards new
book deserves mention, as does Mrs.
Harrison's, "T'he History of Sir Rich
ard Calmody."
The output in this country did not
lack in numbers or popularity, but
let quality be considered. Enormous
sales have become the fad of the day.
They are fashionable, and book that
has been absorbed to the extent Of
million or billion copies, as the
case may be. is no longer impossible
David Harum" set the fashion, and 1t
may not be forgotten until a million
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-12
coIored Industrial School.

I'm the industrial school attached to ST.
Marks Episcopal church, colored. work
of far reaching good is being DONE" said
a prominent Episcopal clergyman yester-
day.
"The Rev. C. W. Brooks, the colored
rector, is the principal of the school and
Bishop Barnwell has general supervision
Of it. There are about two hundred pupils
In this school and nearly every one OF
them seems to be inbued with the spirit
of the institution. In addition to grammar
school routine cooking sewing, and laun-
dry work are taught and when the girls
graduate they know enough to make
themselves useful and be credit to the
colored race Two hundred pupils are
only few compared with the mass of
negroes in Birmingham, but school of
the sort referred to Is center of infln
ence, just as Tuskegee is and in the
course of years, many long years, per-
haps, this influence will be felt in a
large way"
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-12
Heavy Losses by Fire.

Disastrous fires seem to visit cities in
waves, and Richmond has had more than
it's share of CONGREGATIONS recently said
a commercial man from Virginia
mo city of 100000 poulation has more
efficient fire department than Richmond.
1t has eight steamers, one or two chem
icai engines and three hook and ladder
companies. The department is command
ed by a first-class chief and 1t Is well
manned in general. And yet Richmond
has had fire losses within the last twelve
or fifteen months of something like mil
lion dollars.
These fires have been unfortunate for
the reputation of the city from the in
suance point of view and several compan-
les have stopped taking risks"
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-12
The Charleston Exposition.

1.-THE scope of our exposition is realized
by few" remarked a man from Charles
ton at the Hillman.
1.-THE exposition buildings are larger
than those seen at Atlanta, Nashville or
Omaha, and the floor space equals that
at the Pan-American.
LAS in the case with all great exposi-
lions. there was delay in completing some
of the buildings The finishing touches
will not be put on before the last of this
month.
I'VE expect a large attendance In Feb
ruary. but the largest will be probably in
March and April. Everything points to
a financial success. The attendance from
adjacent territory will certainly be I'M
precedented in exposition travel, for the
railroads have issued rates that are so
low as to be little more than nominal
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-12
Warrior River Improvement.

The estimated cost of completing
the locks and dams now needed In the
Warrior is now put by the chief en-
gineers at $S74.Ooo instead of 100000
as originally estimated.
The completion of these locks and
dams would bring slackwater naviga-
ton six feet deep the year round to
mines in this district, and it would
really bring navigation within or at
least near to our "switching-charge"
district. In other words, products
can then be placed alongside barges
at an expense of two dollars car,
which is the switching charge. This
is, not all that Is needed, but this will
alone be helpful, and it will greatly
promote the industries of the district.
1t will at least show them what will
be readily obtainable later on.
The strongest possible effort should
be made to procure this appropriation
for the three new locks and dams.
The district calls upon all Southern
members for help, for every part OF
the South will be benefited by the
opening of the Warrior. Some will
thus obtain cheaper fuel, some cheaper
iron, and all will reel the impulse that
the establishment of great iron GEN.
ter in the heart of the South will
create.
What is needed this year is an ap-
preparation of $874,00O for the con-
struction of three locks and dams.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-12

\ 1C6AHD ChOkGA mas 1naIiy
NJ retired from the leadership of
i'm Tammany Hall. Croker is a
u man of good common sense. He
realized that his political influence had
vanished. His personality perhaps did
more to lose the last New York city cleo
No man can live in England and control
politics in any section of this country.
Croker has accumulated several mill
lions of dollars. How he got 1t no one
but himself knows. He is getting old,
and he prefers to enjoy his wealth In the
ease and luxury of an English estate to
delving further into the politics Of New
York city.
Lewis Nixon, who succeeds him. is said
and of great force. He was tho man
whom Croker decided to nominate for
Mayor the last time, but Croker's per-
sonal support injured rather than
strengthened him. He is a Southerner,
having been born at Leesburg, Va He
received his early education in Virginia,
after which he graduated at the United
States Naval Academy at Annapolis.
Under Nixorfs leadership Tammany will
probably become a stronger political or
ganization than 1t has ever been.
Many of us abuse the trusts. Yet If 1t
had not have been for the trusts Birming-
ham might have been without some of its
largest and most prosperous manufactur-
ing plants. The American Steel and
Wire Company bought out a big wire
and rod mill up In Illinois. The people
who sold out Immediately came here and
built the great wire and rod mill ut Ems
ley. Had 1t not been for the United
States Cast Iron Pipe and Foundry Com
pany the great Dimmick pipe plant at
North Birmingham possibly would not
have been constructed. Perhaps had the
Republic Steel and Iron Company been
taken into the United States Steel Cor
poration the great modern iron furnace
now nearly completed at Thomas would
not have been built, nor would the big
steel plant to be constructed at Thomas
have been provided for.
Many of those In the manufacturing
business in this country, who were
bought out by the trusts. have invested
their capital in Birmingham. The wrought
iron pipe plant at Helena was construct
ed by one who sold out to the trust.
1t is said that men who once get into
the metal manufacturing business never
quit it. They may sell their plants at a
big profit. but they go elsewhere and
build others. Several new big plants
making finished product of iron and steel,
are contemplated for Birmingham In the
near future. They are to be built by new
men and not by those already here Thus
up to date the formation of trusts have
tended to build Birmingham,
BY the way, speaking of new buildings,
1 was shown yesterday plans for six
story apartment house to be constructed
on the South Highlands in the near flu
ture. 1 am told that the building is to
be fire-proof and to cost something like
$3.50, 900. 1t is to have q beautiful roof gar
den enclosed in glass, in which there Is
to be a cafe and a ball room. Architec-