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Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1902-12-10

These pipes have cases 70 carry
them in, and we also have them
running from S2.25 down to CSC
each,
Our line of Fruit Cakes can't be
beat, kindly ask to see same and be
convinced that we are right at 35c
per Id.
We wish to call your attention to
our line of Package cakes and
Crackers.
Social Teas,
Butter Trims,
Butter Gems,
Brown Butter Waters,
Cheese Straws,
Cheese Sandwiches,
Reception Flakes,
Graham Crackers,
Faust and Oysterettes Crackers.
Our line of Fancy Candies, Mixed
Nuts, Fancy Oranges and Apples
will not be excelled In the City;also
Fancy Malaga Table Raislns ard
Grapes are OF the test.
Don't forget about a nice Xmas
Tree Our supply Of them Will be
fine.
You will also need Holly, and
we will have plenty O. 1t.
Fresh Fish and Faucy Fresh
Oysters all the time.
Newport weekly independent., 1902-03-21
Eupiorl Oil


When buying Illuminating oil insist on having EUPloN, the family safety. This is a dou- bic distilled process oil shat is oRDoaLEss and absolutely safe. II yoE will use clean burners and wicks and BUTTON OIL you will have best light obtainable. The only merchants in New
 port that sell this high grade oil are: Wolf-G -Goldm n Mer. Co.. " E. Chastain. NsTilmans Bros, R. D. Wilmans, Heili- gers Union Market Co.,, Martin Bros, and Harris < Daug.ierty. WateTs-Pierce Oil Comply
Newport weekly independent., 1902-03-21
NEWS OF THE WORLD.

Several cases of yellow fever arc reported at Vera Cruz, Mex.
 Theodore, Jr., the 15-year-old son of the pre- dent, is suffering from pneumonia.
 Euless Whitaker, colored, charg- I ed with murdering white man, was hanged by mob at Lynchburg, Tenn.
 \ special bill has been introduced
 congress to retire Capt. Hobson, he naval board failing to grant his yequast.
 The recent election resulted in the selection of natives as governors in four-ffths of the provinces of the Philippine islands.
 Lord Kitchener reports that Gen. DeWet's last field gun has been cap tured and three of his principal lieu tenants are prisoners.
 The chief surgeon of the Philip pines has reported to Gen. Stern berg, chief of the marine corps, that bnbonic plague has reappeared at Manila,
 Cattle in the Jimpson valley and Red river country, in the Indian Ter ritory, are reported as dying by the hundreds, there being no grass to, iced on.
 The laboratory and office building of the famous Keeley institute at. Dwight, Ill, were destroyed by fire Ioan 0n tn, 4th The loss is placed at 9ses2, ,oto.
 eater and James Turner, broth rr fought a duel at Alexander,
 y, the former using shotgun Ind the latter a hatchet, and both bf them were killed.
 Edmond A. Dubose and Lewis Russell, two American soldiers of company k of the Ninth infantry, were hanged in the Philippines on the 7th for desertion.
 bill Creating a department of co1lnilcrcu and faibor,. a new cabinet position, has passed the senate and it is, predicted will meet with little opposition in the house.
 A gang of race track followers skinned Covington and Newport pool rooms for $so,ooo by tapping the wires and placing bets after they discovered the result of races.
 Congress has been asked to ap- propriate the sum of $20,o00 to be expended in making a test of Texas oil to determine whether or not it can be used in the place of coal for fuel ip the navy.
 \ The Minnesota board of pardons
 declined to grant an absolute
 pn to the Youngers, now on pa
 but who cannot leave the statc..s
 heir petition, the Youngers stated it was their desire to be per- mitted to return to their old home in Missouri
 Damad Mahmud Parla, brother ln-law of the sultan of Turkey, has been sentenced to death on charge of conspiring to assassinate the sul- tan. The condemned man is now q fugitive in Paris, together with his lwo sons. He claims that he is be- ing pcrsecuted by political in- tissuers.
 Nine times married and eight times divorced is the extraordinary matrimonial record of Mrs. Bebonia Arms Hoop, of Elwood, Ind. Her ninth matrimonial venture has by no means been a successful one, for she IS now preparing to file her ninth application for a divorce from her present husband, Noah Hoop. Hoop ls alleged to have deserted her after l
Newport weekly independent., 1902-03-21

III as SecTetafy Ol lllc treasury on Llie 1st inst
 A highway robber was killed at Tipton, Ind, by two dogs, whose master the thief attempted to hold up
 On the 3d inst. gale wrecked a number of vessels along the New England coast and many lives were lost
 President Roosevelt has notified the republican leaders in congress that he IS strongly in favor of grant ing tariff concessions to Cuba.
 The treasury bureau of statistics, report large increase in the move ment of trade staples in the west for the year 1901 over all previous years.
 A bill increasing salaries of sena- tors and members of the house of congress to $6,700 per annum was defeated in the senate by vote of 15 to A
 Mrs. Elizabeth Eastwick and her 35-year-old daughter, of Chattanoo- ga, Tenn, both fell dead at their home from heart disease within an hour of each other.
 Gen. Yung Lu, who led the Boxer attack on the foreign legations in Pekin, has been chosen senior grand secretary of the Chinese empire, the place held by Ii Hung Chang.
 Otto Trostle, his wife and five children, of Chicago, were killed and their home blown to pieces by an ex- plosion of Illuminating gas, which escaped from jet that had been left turned on.
 Philippine merchants engaged in the tobacco industry have petitioned the Philippine commission to enter leaf and manufactured tobacco from the islands into the United States free of duty.
 In a recent speech Lord Salisbury declared the Irish question to be the most important matter confronting the British empire, and urged the government to lay heavy hand on the nationalist agitation.
 A terrible fire occurred at Patter- son, N. J, on the 9th, destroying valued at $lo,ooo,ooo. The fire burned its way through the -busi- ness section of the city and claimed as its own a majority of the finer structures devoted to commercial, civic, educational and religious use, as well as scores of houses. There was but small tribute of life and in- jury to the confagration, but hun dreds were left homeless and thou sands without employment. The fire in a shed at the power house of the Paterson Traction Com pany.
 All indications point to a gigantic street railway merger, embracing the best traction properties of nearly all the leading American cities, and in its scope the amount of capital to be involved md the number of great linanclers interested, fara .oyershad- owing any other industrial entes ,5s sse ever undertaken. Behind this gi- gantic undertaking are Morgan, Ell1ins, Whitney, Ryan, Gary, Marshall Field, Foerderer and Mack. This proposed traction mo- nopoly would operate all the street car lines of all the principal cities of the United States.
 The census bureau has issued a preliminary report on the cotton manufactures in the United States. The following is a summary of the figures for the manufactures, exclu- siyc of the small wares: Establish
Newport weekly independent., 1902-03-21

nave pellll0neu tue gOFefHlllcHI " increase the duties on the manufac-
 tured product from this country.
 The United States senate passed
 bill increasing salaries of federal judges as follows: Chief justice su- preme court of the United States, l$13,0O0; each associate justice, $12,-
 500; circuit court judges, $7,500;
 district judges, S6,250; chief justice
 court of claims, $6,125; each asso-
 ciate justice, $5,625; chief justice
 court of appeals, District of Colum-
 bia, $S,000; each associate justice, l$7,500; chief justice supreme court,
 District of Columbia, $6,750; each
 associate justice, $6,250
 Hester's analysis of the cotton movement for the five months of the season from September 1 to close of
 January, inclusive, shows that, com pared with the crop movement last year, Texas, including Indian Ter ritory, has brought into sight this season, in round figures, 432,o00
 bales less, while other gulf states, which include Arkansas, Louisiana,
 Mississippi, Tennessee, Missouri and
 Oklahoma, have marketed 376,000 more, and the group of Atlantic states, which includes North and
 South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama and Virginia, 42S,o00 more, making the net increase in the total of crop Marketed 372, ,0o0. 1 Secretary Root has rendered decision on an interesting question raised by Gen. Chaffee, commanding the military forces in the Philip pines. It appears that in many in- stances in the establishment of civil ! government in the provinces army officers who have been administering semi-ciyil functions have been elect ed to office by the natives. In relat- 1 ing these facts to the secretary of war Gen Chafee inquired if the statutes of the United States prohib- lting army officers from holding civil positions in the United States, K 1 cept in certain specified cases, will be applicable to civil officers in the Philippines under existing condi- tions. Secretary Root cabled Gen. Chaffee that the war department does not consider the statutes in question as applying to sach cases in the Philippines.
 The treaty between the United States and Denmark for the cession of the Danish West Indies, St. Thomas, St. John and St. Croix, which was made public last week, provides that Danish subjects resid- ing in the islands may remain there or remove at will !; retaining in either event all their rights of property, and in case they remain in the isl- ands they shall continue until other wise provided to enjoy all the pri- yate municipal rights and liberties secured to them by the laws now in force Those who remain may pre- serve their allegiance to the crown of Denmark by making before court of record within two years from the date of the exchange of notifications of this convention, declaration of their decision to pre- serve such allegiance Formal delivery of the islands is to be made within ninety days by the payment of the United States the sum of $5,000,000 in gold.
 Fire at St. Louis on the 9th which destroyed the Empire hotel, occupied by men exclusively, caused the death of ten men and one woman and dan gerously lnjuring eight people. The fire started at 30 a. m, and the
Newport weekly independent., 1902-03-21
Painless Dental arlors:

Dental Offices in the Watson Block better than before patrons Modern and have with latest Dental heated steizer work absolutely operations the mouth strct Dental Rays, which operate night mid day. enabling during have their work done
 strictly and the closest
 are Dental Firm in North
 s Night.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-18

the trouble to go to police court? For the most part the scurvy scoundrels have their own way. It would be convenient if temporary deafness could be brought or at will.
 Mobile also has ordinances against all tn. above enumerated offenses, and yet the court records are very seldom en- cumbeI ed with such charges. This is not because the offense Is not frequently com mitted in Mobile. but just because-. But there are some things which bring out prompt action. A casa in point: Yes for crying out the name of his paper (The Montgomery Advertiser) upon the streets and was lodged under the charge of dis orderly conduct" while a few hours be- fore fakers upon and adjacent to all the streets around Bisnville Square, were of their voices, free from interference. (We do not have reference to the legiu- mate exhibitions, which clearly have the rights granted by the city). but to the fakers. skin games, etc., which are no part of the exhibition and have no legal newspapers, has license from the city to sell its paper upon the streets, and It's agent was only crying his wares as do many others. However, when the case was called, Recorder McAleer decided that the boy had committed no offenss and the boy was discharged.
 Circulation Manager Scott of The Ad- vertiser, who happened to be present, says that the boys offense was disturbing the peaceful slumbers of the cop" How ever, 1t leads one to ask, why the least of the offenses against the laws are so vigorously prosecuted while those of the gl aver nature as above referred to, are ignored by the officers who should run in every offender?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-18
FRIENDS OF THE TARIFF.

The Milwaukee Free Press. a high class organ of the Republicans of the Northwest. has this to say about tariff revision:
 The tariff must be revised by its friends; but no friend of the tariff is ever going to be found to raise his hand to revise it. The true friend of the tarth stands pat. He lets well enough alone.
 And The Free Press is not at ease on the subject because 1t is not sure of the future. 1t spprehends a time when 'the stand-patters" as it calls them. may ex- haust the patience and forbearance of the people and that the Democrats will wake up some next morning after an the tarin-fxing machinery" If such a thing should happen our contemporary foresees a general business panic lasting four or five years. after. which the Re- pubIicans win again take hold and re- store prosperity. or words to that effect. All of this is very interesting. but we doubt if it will have much effect on those Republicans who are so ''sot in their ways that they will take chances of a general industrial and political upheaval rather than suffer any changes made in the tariff.
 Looking at the matter from a purely partisan standpoint we might say that the Democrats have chance to score no matter which horn of the dilemma the Republicans take. If they stubbornly re- fuse any concessions the country will hold them responsible for all the ac- knowledged evils of the present tariff. and if they attempt to revise it they are almost sure to create serious dissatisfac- ton in their ranks. Let them revise or stand pat-the Democrats should stand ready to take advantage of their mis- takes.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-18

race conflict. If we could only keep the negro out of politics, he would get all the chances he's looking for"
 President Roosevelt ought to see that he is not going about 1t the right way. To appoint negroes to important offices in the South against the wishes of the community is not the way to give them chance that will benefit them. Such course only intensifes the feeling of race antagonism. and is eventually hurtfui to the negro. Any encouragement to them to go Into politics in the South. at feast for the present is detrimental to their interests and is not an act of friendship to them. The colored man has an equal chance with the white man to make him. self a respected and useful citizen. but his way does not lie along the line of politics. not just yet.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-18
rHE 1oAsr or AppIcKs.

NIT. Gasman Addicks recently remarked to q reporter. referring to the election of two Senators from Delaware. himself being one: There won't be an election unless he Is one of them" And this re- mark. be it remembered. was made just after he had been in consultation with the President at the White House. The positive manner in which he spokeT taken in connection with the time leads to the inevitable conclusion that he will have the President with him in his effort to deprive Delaware of representation in the Senate. or to force himself on the Legislature as one of the men to be elected.
 This man and his methods have long been a stench in the nostriis of all de- cent men. not only in Delaware but else where He boasts that his efforts to con- trol the State have cost him not less than quarter of a million dollars and he is apparently as determined now as he has ever been. The New York Sun asks: Should the Republican admins tration at Washington make the deal
 with Addicks which the Delaware Re-
 puhlicans refuse to maker and the quss-
 ton ought to answer itself. but it does
 not. The position of this man has long
 been "Addicks or nobody" but to their
 credit be it said . few Republicans all along have refused to support him and
 without their support he has not been able to secure his election. He still sticks to his point and the Legisla- ture should be equally firm and let 1t be nobody until such time as they can rid themselves of this blight on the State and
 its politics. @..
 But while we condemn Addicks why should we not also condemn his support CT who occupies the highest ofice in the gift of the nation? It is beyond the pos
 sibiiity of doubt that Roosevelt is back ing Addicks in his fight and that be- 1 tween them they hope and expect to force ! him on the people and the State. It is discreditable to the President and to his high position that he should back this
 man and attempt to force decent Repub- and vote for him. There are a few of them who are holding out and if they
 could get few more Republicans to join them they could unite with the Demo- crats and elect Senator from each par ty. This is what they ought to do, and is probably what they would do but for
 fear of the administration at Washing
 ton which discredits itself by backing a | discreditable candidate.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-18
THURSDAY, DECEMBER ls. 1909.
DOUBLE GOLDEN SYMBOL.

The American Newspaper Directory uses esr- tain sigma to denote the relative standing and merit of the whole esld of newspzperdom which comes under its notics. and one of Ines. signs is the mystic symbol I9l denotins golden whi,h stands for high quality. ana M thus explained:
 "Advsrsissrs value this papor more for the class and quality of its circulation than for ths ners number of copies printed"
 Such papers are credited with a single sym hol; but there h . higher grade. according t0 ,nIs standard authority. which have BOTH QUALITY AND QUANTITY. and require the DOUBLE GOLDEN SYMBOL col 10 describe adequately their standing.
 The Advertiser has been accorded this double golden symbol [ G0l and is the only paper 8 distinguished in this section of ths South.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-18
We Need Him.
Mobile Item

Tba pirminaham Ledger says: There ara corners on the streets of this town where there is so much profanity and vulgar talk, that women do not like to pass them. It is crime to use profane language in the presence of a female Vet we have few arrests for it. A day or two ago The New York Sun published a little article that read this way:
 We don't Know Mir. Edward Airing ton of West Forty-second Street, put We like him Saturday night he insisted up on the arrest of three men who were hll- ing a Broadway car with obscenity and profanity and he promised to appear against them in the police court, The gers in cars in this town are treated too often are almost never resented or pun ished. Who wants to fight gang of ruff fiansl Who has e1eggy enough to rake
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-18
NOT AGAINST CHILD INsUR-
 ANCE.

A friend of The Advertiser seems to think that some recent comments on child insurance and child murder in Pennsyl- vania was a condemnation of this form of insurance. but such was certainly not the intention of the article. We were speak ing cf actual events in one State, and we did not tell all of 1t by any means. It is stated by what seems competent au- thority that in the city of Philadelphia alone there Is paid out every year not less than one and q half million dollars of premiums on child insurance. We are further informed that in many cases the child is insured for a large amount. In numbers of cases which have been inves- tigated the insurance is much more than parents are able to carry. and in order to keep up the premiums the children are neglected. scantily clothed and badly fed, and that the parents through poverty. negligence or brutal avarice fall to have medical attention for their sick children. As a contemporary puts it, the con- t;nUed grind of poverty may warp even mother lova. The knowledge that a sickly baby's death will put money in his pocket may become a strong tempta- ton to a brutal, drunken husband"
 These reflections may horrify a loving parent. or any other human being with spark of feeling. but they are called forth by actual happenings and not by any nawklsh or strained sentiment. A heavy policy on the life of a child may cause the brute in a parent to get the better of humanity.
 We strongly advocate and defend all forms of legitimate life insurance. It is often an almost incalculable blessing to those who reap its benefits. An insur- ance policy which covers all expenses and insures proper attention while sick and a decent funeral for the dead Is genuine blessing to the bereaved parents if they are poor. We have personal knowledge of instances where the insur- ance money was almost like a God-send to the parents. But for it they would have been unable to provide such med icine or medical attention as was required and but for 1t the little one would have had no decent funeral Child insurance may be a real and substantial blessing but when 1t is practised as an incentive to child murder it is time for legal sur yeillancs.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-18
A WISE SENTIMENT.

Tn a recent issue of The New York Commercial there are some references to what the paper calls "Old John Graham's Letters.". being a series of lstters from a wealthy old merchant to his son. and from one of them we extract this senti- ment:
 A married man Is worth more. salary than a single one. because his wife makes him worth more. He's apt to go to bed a little sooner and to get up little ear Her; to go a little steadier and to work little harder than the fellow who's got can't stay at home to do it.. That's why I'm going to raise your salary to $75 c week the day you marry Helen. and that's why I'm going to quit writing these let to her and let her keep you in order. I'll bet she'll do better Job than I have.
 While the letter is in a somewhat fa- in this extract. Marriage to a good wo- man ought to make any man better. IL ought to make him a better man ana . better citizen. While we take no stock in the idea that a woman should marry a bad man in order to reform him we nevertheless maintain that the very best of men may in some respects be bettered by union with good woman. The natural selfshness of mankind becomes intensi- fed and grows with the growing years of bachelorhood. He gets to care more for himself than for all others. and places his own comforts above all else. To marry in haste and repent at leisure Is not wise. but no man has fully done his duty to his country and his kind till he marries. Marriage is not a lottery but a sacred institution, not to be lightly or recklessly entered into but to be re, garded as one of the most serious and im- portant steps of our lives.
 Old John Graham was right. A good wife makes any man worth more to him. self and to the State. It makes him worth more to his employer. for If he has the right kind Of mate he will be more steady and attentive to his duties. Hav- ing less to attract and distract him he can and will give better service than if he is free to spend his unemployed time in dissipation or idle pleasures. If he has the making of a man in him all that Is best in his nature will come out and be utilized when he has somebody be- sides himself to love and to care for. We back John Graham's philosophy.