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New-York tribune., 1902-04-27

have been in the company of the heroine anu
her mother and we confess to having been
family interested in one two of the subor-
dinate figures; but we wish that the author had
chosen for her principal actors more edilylns
associates, and had placed them all in some
what different posture Of affairs This is IN
other words, a good novel which might nave
been made ever so much better.
When Mr.. Bullen published his first WRITINGS
on life at sea he was, as every one soon admit
ted as interesting any romancer NO" ulaI
he has Ia ken to the production Of hcton ne can
give even freer scope to his imaginative power
and is II anything. more effective The stories
in Deep Sea Plunderngs' are remarkably en-
tertaininE The confidence in the authors apl-
ity raised by the opening sketch. Through FIRE
and Water" is shaken little by the pages
Immediately following, devoted to The Ola
House on the HILL" a narrative in which the
conventional properties of the novelist are used
by one i'll qualified to deal with them But the
next story You Sing" revives our faith IN Mr.
Bullen and The Debt OF the Whale clinches
the matter. ThenCeforward the book holds US
absorbed. 1t contains abundance OF incident,
well invented and handled with spirit; 1t is full
of the sea lore which is the authors most char
acteristic resource and it has that other precious
element through which he has deservedly won
repute tho true atmosphere OF the sea and OF
New-York tribune., 1902-04-27

life on shipboard. Deep Sea Plunderings" will
be appreciated by whoever cares for peril and
adventure in the wide spaces of the world.
There Is negro dialect in Mr. Pecks
volume of alabama Sketches" and cannot
say that it facilitates enjoyment of the episodes
with which the author is concerned. But Mr..
Peck has humor and he writes as if thoroughly
acquainted with the people and things he has
chosen to write about He is ingenious in his
Stories but he is artlessly natural too. The
occurrences he relates amusing, the people
in the book are described with good touches of
Characterization, and are. the whole.
pleased to follow their fortunes
Nancy, the happy young lady whose person.
ality and dOings are celebrated by Miss HOyt in
eleven brief chapters. each one relating to Il
distinct phase of her journey toward welded
bliss is an amazingly vivacious individual. She
is pretty, she dresses bewitchingIy and she is a
tremendous frt She does mischevous things
with the gayest smile in the world, and nobody
can be angry with her for two minutes together
Sometimes she strikes being more pert
than clever. But end by forgiVing her The
stories very brskly told with light touch
and very lively sense of artistic proportion.
New-York tribune., 1902-04-27
FICTION.
4 NOVEL. AND SOME SHORT STORIES,

MARGARET VINCENT A Novel, Ry Mrs. w X
Clifford Emo. PIP $50. Harper * Bros
DEEP SEA PLUNDERINGs. By Frank 7, Bullen
f. Il. q. 5. 12mo, PIP. Xi 35l- D. Appleton d %
ALABAMA SKETCHES. BY Samuel Minturn
peck l2mo PIP. @g9 Chicago: ~ {. McCIufs
TIE, NISDFMEANORS or NANCY. BY Eleanor
I4oyt Illustrated iy Penrhy m Stdnla"S I-Iho
p;. 2I3. Doubleday. Page ~ CO.
The author Of Margaret Vincent might write
a pretty unsatisfactory book and sull 1t would
get Itself read She has quality which Is not
exactly what one would call distinction. but
which is something very like it Possessing the
narrative gift in sufficient measure, she always
tolls her story in such way that it is interest
ing despite defects in her material. Those de-
fects moreover are apt to be related rather to
her choice of theme than to her treatment OF IT.
Margaret Vincent" offers a good illustration
It begins promisingly. with the experience OF
an Englshman who has broken with the church
because he cannot subscribe to all its dogmas.
and wanders up and down the world while his
friends willingly forget him. At last fate brings
him to the door of farmhouse in Surrey. where
he takes lodgings and after a while marries the
New-York tribune., 1902-04-27

These be Mr.. George MOore's latest IteTdrS
opinions: There are English noVeIlStS. Eng
land has produced some great poets put no
uovelsts Pater was the last EngllSn
prose writer. Swinburne is the last EnSLSh
poet The large languages are USED up Ih5
English and French languages have produced
three harvests-a sixteenth and a seventeenth
century harvest, eighteenth century harvest
and 4 nineteenth century harvest NO Iansudse
can produce more. A language is like feld-it
wears out The German and the Russian IAN
guages have produced only one harvest each;
they NAV produce a second harvest if journalism
has not sterIized these Iangua ges. The hope Of
any future literature or any future art Is a very
slight one. The small languages have been
crushed out sometimes by force Of circum-
stances sometimes deliberately The Taal.
which might produce literature. Is going TO be
stamped out by Mr.. Chamberlain. whose dislike
of art is eoual to that of Calyin's The future
world will consist principally of eight roomed
houses and a universal language which the
newspa pers are preparing. and here and there
amid those endless suburbs there will be
museum In which Will be collected the art OF the
New-York tribune., 1902-04-27
SHAKESPEARE PORTRAYED.


THREE CLEVER DRAWINGS BY MIR. E J SUI
LLVAN
The reprints of famous classics pubIlsned py
Newnes. in London, and by the Scribners. In
New-Yors, under the general title of The Cax-
ton Series' have more than once been pralSeo
in The Tribune. They are issued in shapeV
little Volumes with clear Typography on paper
which is very thin. but of such an excellent
rnands upon the eye. The frontispieces, title
pages and end papers are artstcaliy designed
and the bindings. of limp Iambskin, are dainty
in color and tastefully Ornamented-
We have already noticed the reprints Oh
Shakespeare Burns and Don Quixote." lately
brought out in the series but return to the
first of these for the sake of Mr.. SuilivanS in-
teresting frontspieces The Shakespeare Is III
three volumes the first containing the traSeuie''
the second the histories and poems. ana tie
third the comedies. with general GLOSSARY.
Mr. Sullivan has adopted conventional lines Al
the portrait of Shakespeare which hgures -
each OF his three frontispeces; but he has gwen
some study to the expression in each case anu
has especially distinguished himself by deFe'p
ing different compositions for the differeht S0
un,es These are happy in conception. ana ui'' my
are executed with the skill and indivlduiu.'
which make Mr. Sullivan one of the most no''D-.
draughtsmen Of the day. We reproduce ~
three with the quotations accompanying '
They form an unusually artistic group.
New-York tribune., 1902-04-27
THE EARL OF ORFORD'S FAMILY GHOST.
From The London World.

From The London World.
1t is interesting to note, in connection with
the late earl's burial that his coffin when
brought from London, where he died, was not
driven three times round the church at Wolter-
ton although this is the first time the formality
Rad been omit ted. The tradition held that Hora-
ito second Earl of oxford. destroyed the tombs
of the SCalmers, former posSessors of the place,
and one of the unhappy ladies of this family.
finding no rest is said to still haunt the church
ward always searching for the remains of her
relations. To mollfy her uneasy spirit, every
Earl of Or ord at his burial is driven in his
hearse three times round the church before he
is laid to his rest.
New-York tribune., 1902-04-27

picturesque and even becoming in master
mariner. Unless you are very sure OF yourself
it is we'll to be careful. to keep the safe side,
to observe drawing room manners. Yet Hugo IS
right when he urges that work should be judged
not by its defects but Its qualities for perfection
does not exist, whereas greatness does.
New-York tribune., 1902-04-27

The Magnetic North is the title of the new
novel which Miss Elizabeth Robins, the authoF
Of The Open Question" is Just coumpIellhS-
The authors experience in Alaska are said TO
appear in the book.
New-York tribune., 1902-04-27

Old World. and wretched beings who have out
lived the age of beauty will pass the turnsues
and read the Inscriptions
Professor York Powell is publishing his trans
lation Of Omar Khayyam for the reason, as ne
declares that the version which appeared IN
THE Pageant of 1897 has been incorrectly and
''impudently misprinted by pirate in the United
States" Here is the professors idea OF omar;
He is a plain. downright man. and his
message is only friendly whisper to them
that care to sit near him, bidding them trust 10
the real and front life Squarely. So read omar.
ranging him to his standpoint with Shake
speare and those who take the same kindly half
ironic dutiful view of life Rabelais and Whit
man of the company
copy of the Edinburgh edition of Stevenson
sold in London the other day brought $40
nearly double the original price.
Mr. Leslie stephen has been appointed Ford
lecturer at oxford. and some particularly inter
esting and valuable historical work is expected
from him.
Mr.. Quiller- Couch. in summing up the late
Robert Buchanan'S career. quotes the dead
mans words:
''Revolter. sword in hand
Friend of the weak and worn
A boy, L took my stand
Among the knights fOrlOru.
Never to bow and kneNl
To any braZen Lie
To love the worst, to feel
The least is eV'n /
To hold all fame unbleSt
That helps no struggling man
In this. in the rest,
l end beganr'
$50 he did, doubt adds the critic "He
had tender heart, high courage, burning
scorn of meannesS and injustice although he
often did injustice by mistake, and could even
deceive himself into meanneSs. In spite of
damaging passage Zone, at any rate) he was
fundamentally masnanimouS and honest. He
heartily desired to leave the world better than
he found It, But In method he was untractable
He had none Of that education of mind whicn
teaches q man to allow for his adyersaries. AT
bottom he may have kept q humble heart: I
New-York tribune., 1902-04-27

think he could be humble with himself. before
his Maker; but in practice he covered ms huml-
ity with a raw conceit. and turned restlVe, pas
poetry as in everything else. he ended as he
began-a man of great promise incapable Of in
structiOn-"
New-York tribune., 1902-04-27
LITERARY NOTES.

MIR. Henry James is still Ill and his new novel,
THE Wings of the Dove" will not appear Ior
some time to come.
New-York tribune., 1902-04-27

Mr. A. II. Bullen. no longer a puDllsher mas
taken to the drama and is writing a play MISS
Robins will appear in the leading Character
New-York tribune., 1902-04-27

MIR. tom" Watson is preparing to write his
tory Of the United States-to be, as The Atanta
Constitution announces, something crisp and
New-York tribune., 1902-04-27

Mr. Leslie stephen has been appointed Ford
lecturer oxford. and some particularly inter
esting and valuable historical work is expected
from him.
New-York tribune., 1902-04-27

copy of the Edinburgh edition of Stevenson
sold in London the other day brought SlO-
nearly double the original price.
New-York tribune., 1902-04-27

In an entertaining article or some critical laws
laid down by Victor Hugo THE Saturday He-
view SAYS: IF one comedies all that Hugo de-
mands, and allows genius TO make Jaws aoso-
IIteIIy for itself all the more essential must be
the discipline Of taste In every artistic eHort
there are two faculties involved. the faculty
lects and rejects Just in proportion as he dis
penses with arbitrary rules laid down 70 guide
every body does it become vital for the artlst 70
be severe with himself in his selection, TO reject
whatever he is not sure that he can justify.
The object OF art is to achieve beauty, ana TX
Aristophanes and Rabelais Go not disgust the
right minded il is because their superb and
reckless contempt of deCenCy is only one mani
festation of a sovereign force that has the
beauty Of all strong grOwthS. But the person
who sets out 70 establish a reputation Tor great
ness by initiating these liberties IS very apt 70
produce the same effect q small boy VINO Ills
his mouth with the strange words that may DC
New-York tribune., 1902-04-27

THREE CLEVER DRAWINGS BY MR. E. J SUI
New-York tribune., 1902-04-27

Mr.. Quiller- Couch. in summing up the late
Robert Buchanans career. quotes the dead
mans own
New-York tribune., 1902-04-27

MARGARET VINCENT A Novel by Mrs W. Is
Clifford Emo, up. 356. Harper * Bros
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1902-09-08
School News
For Boys.
School will soon open, but we are now open
with complete stock of
Boys and Young
Mems Suits.

They are good, serviceable school suits.
We cannot tell you their many points of
superiority, but it is only by seeing them,
by critically examining them and by COM
pairing our
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1902-09-08
The Public Take Notice.

That all persons desiring priv
1eges OF whatsoever kind and char
acter during the Carnival week,
beginning September IS and ending
September 20, must apply at once
for such permits and contracts. No
one will be permitted TO conduct a
business On any street, walk or va
cant building during the week
without a permit from the Fire De
partment Except regular licensed
places) without first obtaining per
mission from the Department
Privileges s. and S.. SO per running
foot. Special prices for other per
mits. By order of
The Slstersville Fire Department,
ROBT. L. GREGORY,
LYNN KIRKLAND, Pres.
Secretary. SGT
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1902-09-08
THE FAIR AT WHEELING
Opened This Morning. aud viii be in
Session All Week,

The twenty-second West Virginia
State Fair and Exposition opened
this morning on the Wheeling Is
land grounds, and will be Ii pro
gress during the remainder of the
week. 1t is mammoth affair
greater aud better than ever before,
as was to have been expected, and
we strongly recommend visit to
Wheeling. Better leave today or
tomorrow SO as to secure early &C
Communications and avoid the great
rush towards the last of the week
We have told our readers of the
big list of entries, of the great stock
display, of the long list of turf
events, of the special attractions and
of the cheap excursions and the
facilities for reaching the grounds
without discomfort. We have only
to add. stand not upon the order of
your going, but 60 at once. You
will not regret 1t, for there will be
things to see.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1902-09-08
PRACTICALLY COMPLETED.

and always has been stakeholder In the In.
dependent pipe makes the statement that the Pure on
practically accomplished what outlined 1887 by
Producers Protective Association but the men its head are Tor
identified with the
effort made by Hon. Lewis Emery " d.
L. Taylor Thomas Phillips and W. A. Johnson
Oil consolidate the protective build pipe
lines market the oil abroad 1t then that
into the producing business by
chasing properties the mentioned with the possible
Lewis Emery L who afterwards became the head OF the
Pipe Line and while longer othce still
one of largest The Mckinney Bros Sae6ed and
decease became identified with the of the
Oil producing interests did also N Clark
proessed be the most staunch of independents
Phillips OF his production the Standard Oil compny
but experience and individuality and like Emery he Is
among holders of Pure OH company stock
may that for than dozen the Standard OH
properties and the services the
and by every other progress of the indie
David Kirk of the McCamont oil company always
prominently identified with independent organized
company Mr. Kirk has since retired but always main
tanned his independence Murphy and Jennings who now the
OIL prominent the
independent Interests they had passed several years hard ug
gle Standard Oil through Col Carter and other
allies purchasing stock IN the independent
panies knowledge that Murphy and Jennings selling
Standard that selling panic among the
stockholders afterwards anspred that the astute gentle
working of hose deals for which they became notedhav
sold the Standard fancy they then purchased
large blocks at lower figures.
spectators became disastrous in that 1t
the independent rehners and
them dispose OF their refining plants TO the Standard
OH company progress independent de-
destroyed At time the Pure OH company
tank this after than dozen of
struggle and another against the oppression OF the Standard
company the weakness of Of the original
competitor be little said for the profits the
the who originally into the scheme have the
the original outlined practically
pleted only remains company its rein
Ing to keep the profits well within itself
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1902-09-08

John Westhafer, of Loogootee,
Ind, IS poor man, but he says he
would nor be without Chamberlain
Pain Balm II 1t cost FIVE dollars a
bottle for Ii saved him from being a
cripple. No external application
S equal TO this liniment for stiff
and swollen joints, contracted mus
cles, stiff neck, sprains and rheu-
matte and musculars pains. 1t has
also cured numerous cases of par
tial paralysis. 1t IS for sale by C.
w. Grier.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1902-09-08

roles. MissPaiee impersonates with
grace and ease tradgedy numer-
Gus among the Shakespearean
plays OJhello, Virginius and Spar
tacus Twelfth Nigh1 Romeo and
Juliet. Hers Is the art that con.
ceals art that makes the play
rights puppets real women and to
her wondrOus native talents she
brings long years OF study a nd ex-
perience. She has learned her
technique In the best schools and
she Is today the best exponent OF
the old and the new nodded into
one.
Miss Pages repertoire here will
include The Girl from the West,
The Outpost, Under Two Flags,
The Little Egyptian, Martina,
Roxana's Claim. a new play of the
purely romantic class, especially
written for Miss Paige by Espy
Williams, the we'll known literature
and dramatist OF London, England
The new play has been received
with popular acclaim by the public
0he most tickle of critics. and the
trained and experienced observer
of the drama In the cities where 1t
has been presented. It promises
to equal MORE THAN A QUEEN as
played by Julia Archer and UNDER
THE RED ROBE In enduring popu.
larity. Theatre goers are familiar
with the lavish manner which Miss
Paige's productions have hitherto
been staged and the same enterprise
will be manifest on this occasion
her first visit to Sistersville.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1902-09-08

Wanted-A stron boy at the
Review Office that desires to learn
the printing trade. ~ At
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1902-09-08

THE Fortunes Of Oliver Horn"
by F Hopkinson Smith. The chief
part Of the novel deals with the
career of an artist in New York, and
so gives Mr.. Smith the opportunity
TO picture the artistic and literary
life OF New York during the last
thirtyfve years, with which he has
been SO thoroughly familiar, and in
the telling of which he brings out
the power and pathos that he had
shown in his other we'll known
stories. $I25 at McCoY's Book
Store. sat
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1902-09-08
Food Changed to Poison.

Putrefying food In the intestines
produces effects like those of arse
mic, but DR.. Kings New Life Pills
expel the poison from clogged bow
els, gently, easily but surely, cur
Ing constipation, sick headache.
biliousness, all liver, kidney and
bowel troubles. Only 25c at d.
A. Memberships.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1902-09-08
1ne Wnite Nan Killed and One
Wounaed by Negroes.

Pelton, Del. Sept. 8.-This town
was the scene OF a bloody combat
Early Yesterday between whites and
regroes. John and Evan Benson, col
cred, lead an attack upon some
whites because Of an alleged insult
&C the Bensons late Saturday night.
the Bensons waited outside of a no
tel for Lemuel w. Wyatt and crowd
Of white men. When they appeared
the negroes opened fire on them. Two
bullets from John Benson's pistol
took effect, one hitting Wyatt and the
other Anthony Seward. The negroes
then fed. John and Evan Benson
were later arrested by posse headed
by Sheriff Reedy. Seward died two
hours after being shot. 1t is thought
Wyatt will live.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1902-09-08
Krause's Headache Capsules

are unlike anything prepared In
America. They were first pre-
scribed by DR.. Krause, Germany's
famous court physician. long before
antipyrine was discovered, and are
almost marvellous, so speedily do
they cure the most distressing
cases. Price 25c. Sold by c. w.
Grier.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1902-09-08
West Virginia Exposition and State Fair Wheel.
ing, W. Va September 9Th to 18th.
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.

Only One Fare for the round
trip plus so cents for admission
(25 cents for children) from Sis
tersville for all regular trains of
Sept. 9Th to 18th, inclusive, tickets
limited for return until Sept. 18th.
Call on Agent, Baltimore & Ohio
R. R. for full particulars. sep II
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1902-09-08
Lingering Summer Colds

Summer colds If neglected may
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ute Cough Cure will break up the
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Children like 1t.
Opera House Drug Store.
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You can get Waterman Ideal
Fountain Pen, The Globe Wernicke
elastic sectional book cases, Whit
Ing fine writing paper, ping pong
sets, at McCoy's Book Store. Are
you ready for one?" sat
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1902-09-08

The la and I:57 p. m. trains
were each 40 minutes late Sunday.
People are fast becoming accus
toned to not expect train over
the B. & o. road until 1t arrives at
the station.
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For Rent-Four well appointed
houses with gas and bath. Good
location. Cutler & Kirkland.
IS If.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1902-09-08

Both the hot and cold vicente
man will be with rs next week.
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1902-03-08
Yours Faithfully,
y 1WLLlAMS-HUCHES co.
January H.
The Consultation Tax.

The communication road tax is
receivable bv the county treasurer
the same as other taxes up to
March 81.
BY the law passed by the las,
Legislature the tax was made uni
form at 81 or eight days work if
SO many be necessary. In some
counties the payment of the tax in
lieu of woI king the roads amounts
to considerable sum, which Is
used, of course, for road purposes
bnt the improvements are made
nnGe, the direction of the county
commissioners wfo control the
chaiugang
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1902-03-08
Aiken Would Like to Have
Columbia Female College.

Some of the citizens of Aiken
are agitating the question of max
ing bid for the location of the
Colunabia Female college al that
place. 1t will be recalled that at
the last conference a resolution
was adopted authorizing the board
of trustees to receive propositions
from Column bia and other comIn,n-
tiles for the enlargement or re
moval of the college The board
is to meet in November 10 receive
propositions. Laurens and Green
wood will make bids, it is said.
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1902-03-08
THE LEDGER.
Shnraow s. Carter,
EDITOR AND MANAGER.
SATURDAY, MARCH S, 1902.

Senator Tillman says that there
is intense feeling in South Caro-
lima over recent events In connec
tion with himself and the presi.
dent. This is but another instance
Of the senator's "blowing of" his
mouth when there is no reason for
it. 1t is utterly false that there is
any feeling in South Carolina over
the White House dinner episode.
The people of the state do not
care snap of their fingers about
the whole business. -Colunbia
Record.