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West Virginia daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1894-1902, 1902-05-02

els plant In California, which he held
In joint ownership with Mr.. Spreck-
els. All other refineries were abso-
lutely independent Of the trust. The
capacity of the Spreckels refinery he
placed at soc. 900 pounds a day.
Asked by Mr.. TelleN whether he
was still buying sugar in Cuba, ho
said:
I'VE are still trying to buy, but we
have not succeeded in making sny
purchases since April 26, when the
sugar was Withdrawn from the mar
ket on account of improved chances
Of securing the American concession
How do you account for the fiuc
iuations in the price of Cuban sugar
which you have mentioned as having
occurred within the past few months"
"They are due to the changes in
the beet sugar market in Hamburg.
There has been constantly dropping
market there on account of the III
creased beet product. which has
amounted to about million tons in
the past year"
Then you regard the beet sugar
producers as competitors of yours ?"
II certainly do; there is what yol
might call commercial rivalry"
Last summer you fixed the price
Of refined sugar at points in the Mis-
souri, valley very low, did you not:
Eyes, we did; we put it at 3.103
cents per pound, whereas the price
before had been Az cents, and the
price in Atlantic coast points was
still maintained at the higher figure :"
How long did you keep the price
DOWN."
Undersold Beet Sugar People.
until we recovered our trade. The
beet sugar makers undertook to con-
troll the market by contracts with
dealers which / considered in re-
straint of trade. Consequently we re-
duced the price until our trade was
restored to us, keeping it down to the
lowest point for about two weeks"
The examination drifting to the as
sertion of Mr. Havemeyer that Cuban
sugar could find market in England
Mr.. Teller asked:
eff England is good market for
Cuban sugar, why has not the Cuban
product sought that market in the
past?"
Because" was the reply, "the beet
sugar product can be secured from
Germany at much lower freight
rates."
sIs it not fact that the United
States affords the only market that
Cuba has ever had?"
mo. the United States is not the
only market for Cuban sugar, but ow-
ing to its geographical position this
country is the principal market for
it, but years ago Cuba made large
expectations to England. Now the
freight rate is in favor of tn United
States and against England"
West Virginia daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1894-1902, 1902-05-02
A STARTLING REPORT.
One That Speaks Volumes
Tells of a Great Good Done.
Of a Certain Cure-For the
Nervous, Weak and Sleepless


Mr.. M. Campbell. of No. Io1
South Main street, Sistersville, W.
Va, says: my trouble was nerv
BUSINESS and sleeplessness pure and
simple and that In itself Is enough
Lack of sleep makes one dull.
was asked to try DR.. A. w. Chase's
Nerve Pills and did so, getting
them at Grier's Drug Store and an
able to say positively that they are
a splendid nerve tonic. My nerves
grew steady and strong and my
rest at night sound and natural"
DR.. A. w. Chase's Nerve Pill:
are sold at soc box at dealers OF
DR.. A. W, Chase Medicine Co
Buffalo, N. Y. See that portrait
and signature of A. w. Chase, M
D., are on every package.
West Virginia daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1894-1902, 1902-05-02

A new line of blank books just
In at McCoy's Book Store.
West Virginia daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1894-1902, 1902-05-02
Like a Drowning Man.

Five years ago dyspepsia took
such hold of me that / could hardly
CO." writes George S. Marsh, No.
coma, Texas. Il took quantities of
medicine but nothing helped me.
As drowning man grabs at a straw
| grabbed at Kodol. Dieting Is
unnecessary. After q few bottles
I am sound and we'll" Kodol d.
gests any good food and cures any
form of stomach trouble. Opera
House Drug Store
A new line of blank hooks inst
West Virginia daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1894-1902, 1902-05-02
DON'T 90 IT BLIND
Phone 1o.

In selecting liquo1s for home con-
sumption; be sure Of their favor,
quality, purity and fairness of price
before ordering-in a nutshell. be
sure of the reliability of the liquor
merchant who supplies you. We
challenge comparison as to the ex-
celleuce of our stock, the value
for.value of Our prices.
r. NJ. Clendenning.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-06

known among his fellow citizens as
Jimjones. The colonel discovered at
once that there had been too much
blamed scientific foolishness. He found
that there was a whole lot of nonsense
about the specific gravity and salinity
of seawater. The colonel announced
on the second day that he had intro
duced common sense Methods q will
put a fish in the water" said he, land
if he don't die why then / know that the
water is all right" The colonel pros
ecuted the study of ichthyology pub
licly day by day to the intense delight
of the town until he got hint from
headquarters to be more like his
charges that is, mute. But he found
it difficult and the newspapers printed
many gems from him. His enemies
circulated a yarn that he called him
self the greatest living authority on
fish because he hal always been fond
of chowder. However, that is all
matter Of the past He, too, has been
bounced now.
Much joy is departing from among
us. Duane.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-06

howery, and that is to describe it as
the Children's Babylon. 1t is not
possible to visit it at any hour of the
day or night without seeing young
girls-not the young girls" of nine
teen or twenty, but children of four
teen and fifteen-drunk and otherwise
in disgraceful condition., walking
brazenly on the streets. Loafers of
every degree, from the loafer whose
toes peer from his boots to the loafer
whose automobile brought him down.
are openly on the hunt of these chill
dren. And this is not something that
goes on because only few persons
know it, These revolving things play
in and out and are a. Snowy part of
the life" of the place which tens of
thousands (ffty thousand on Sundays
and holidays) throng to enjoy That
decent persons can see such sights,
knowing thoroughly well what they
mean. and still calmly rub shoulders
with the sodden victims and the lep
rous betrayers. is a characteristic of
New York life that makes one feel
as if indeed sfoulness unspeakable
hides behind a great city's magnfi-
cence.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-06

From the Rochester Democrat a
Chronicle

Chronicle.
Snake venom, from which $4,000 peo-
pie die annually in India, is poisonous,
when injected into the veins, to all
animals except the snakes themselves.
The bite of the cobra kills most ami
mails within two hours, but of 100 per
sons bitten only % succumbed in less
than two hours, while q survived more
than twenty-four hours. The poison
is chemical and physiological, states
NJ. Antoine Foreteur, microbes having
no part in the process. The blood glo-
bules are deformed and cOagulation
stops circulation, so that partial paral-
ysis may result when the venom has
not been sufficient to cause death. In
iections of chloride of lime tend to
counteract the effect. But the one
successful remedy seems to be DR..
Calmette's serum. prepared in gradu-
ated strengths by inoculating RABBITS
with the venom of the cobra or other
reptiles. and this is not only cure,
but fortihes against subsequent bites.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-06

The city's corporate stupidity is
shown in finance as well as in law.
New York is actually paying 100000
in rentals each year to private corpo-
rations. Yet despite all efforts of con-
trollers past and present it has been
and is impossible to get action toward
putting up a municipal building or mu-
nicipal land that shall save this vast
sum.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-06

There is growing feeling among
New Workers that the big city is a
good deal better place to leave than
to live in. The evening fight from
town has assumed proportions so great
that the transportation companies
have admitted their inability to cope
with it. A new city is growing around
the old-a new and beautiful one, ly-
ing around it in ring that some stu
dents of urban civilization say will as
sumo a diameter of fifty miles before
many years are gone. In this new city
there are neither factories or toll, noise
or dirt, traffic or smoke. One may drive
for mile after mile over asphalt and
past lawns with pretty villas standing
in seclusion beyond them. Yet with all
this growth of suburban living, the
demands for apartments in town are
so insistent that rents climb up not
annually, but monthly. 1t is impossi-
Bile now to live in New York in style
for rental of less than one hundred
and fifty dollars a month, or generous
~ and well for a rental of less than
seventy or, at the least, sixty, or com
fCrtably for less than fifty dollars. Be
low fifty one must assume all the
chances of field and flood that threaten
the nomad, including raids by the po-
lice on ones neighbOrs.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-06

Raids by the police are becoming
everyday features of city life and they
arouse passing interest only when
raider or raided happen to shoot or
maui each other. 1t is strange how
such individually clever citizens can
make so singularly stupid and blunder-
ing a community; for truly, New York
is bovine in its slow stupidity. The DO
lice make raid after raid on gambling
houses, policy shops, opium dives, pool
rooms and disorderly houses. The nro-
prietors are fined in court and all the
inmates and frequenters are discharg-
ed. Naturally a money fine is the last
thing to deter the owners of
any of the resorts from do
ing business. That is mere mat
ter of figures with them and it is not
ruinous investment to pay a ten
dollar fine out of profits ranging from
fifty to three hundred dollars day.
Now if the police and the magis-
trates and the district attorney and
the entire municipality had the least
thought of thinking, every man and
woman caught frequenting any of the
law-violatfng resorts would be held
for trial. Within a week the greater
part of the resorts would close-not
because the owners are afraid of the
police, but because the customers are.
By the way. we ought to consider this
method nationally in connection with
our Sunday liquor laws. Let us he
honest and say IF it be wrong to sell
liquor on Sunday, then it is wrong
to buy it. Arrest and fine every per
son who is seen entering a barroom."
AS a matter of fact this city haunts
into the face of all its visitors a scan
dial before which pool rooms and pol
icy shops and even disorderly houses
sink into obscurity. That scandal is
the famous ocean resort known as
Coney Island. There is just one way
to characterize Coney Island to-day
without in the least intending to be
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-06

Dear old town that she is, she is al
ways doing something foolish and then
scratching her head and wondering how
it happened. There was Richard f
Taylor last week. Taylor is actually
the father of baths for the poor. He
managed the first public bath of its
kind in this country and has been the
leading authority on the subject for
twelve years. Last January he was
appointed superintendent of public
baths Last week he was requested
to pass a civil service examination.
Mr. Taylor didn't do some of the
sums" correctly. He didn't pass at
the top of the list. He isn't superin-
tendent of public baths any more. And
the whole city is sorry and every one
says:
my, amt it terrible? What shall
we do?"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-06

Boris, cousin of the Car of Russia,
will arrive in this country July 10,
and has promised the splendor of his
presence at Newport during part of
August. Prince Cheng, related to the
present royal house of China, will
arrive in Washington, with his suite
of eight or ten mandarins and num-
berless servants, some time in Sep
TENDER and will no doubt arouse as
much curiosity as did the late Ii
Hung Chang, when trotted about our
streets in a gilded chair on the should
ers OF his servants, yellow jacket,
peacocks feather, hundred-year-o
eggs and all.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-06

Social life in the new Republic of
Cuba seems to be attended with diff
ficulties that are discOncerting to the
average American diplomatess. so to
saw. The first Eat home" of Mrs.
Suuires, wife of the United States min
lister. was a revelation to that accom-
pIshed hostess. Minister Squires has
taken a beautiful casa in fashion
able suburb of Havana-the same
which Gen. Lee had for his regimental
headquarters, seven miles from Ha-
vana. The rainy season has begun and
on the afternoon of the reception it
poured as if the gates of heaven were
opened again as at the time of the
flood. The guests arrived, swaddled in
mackintoshes and packed in roomy,
old-fashioned carriages-all together,
at precisely the same minute, as pre-
;cribed by local fashion. At exactly the
same time, when the fashionable mob
was striving to make the quickest pos
sible entrance out of the rain, a huge,
black object was brought to the front
door by an ARMY of workmen and eff
fectuallY blockaded it for half an hour.
1t was a grand piano, which Mrs.
Suuires had ordered to be delivered on
any day but Thursday afternoon. Mis-
taking her order, the piano was held
in storage for days by the accommo-
dating dealer, that it might arrive sim
ultaneously with the guests! Mean
while the callers were drenched with
rain in the open patio, while the band
played on in the gallery; and then the
sweating laborers who brought the
piano refused TO leave until served
with refreshments. Mrs. Palma, wife
of the President of Cuba, sent huge
punches of flowers to the reception.
Hardly dozen Cuban society ladies
braved the weather of their own coun-
try, but the Americans in Havana
turned out en- masse.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-06

The city is scratching it's head over
Barney Biglin, too. That he should
lose the federal contract for trans
ferring the baggage of immigrants
from Ellis Island to this city is as IN
credible to- all us good folk as it would
be to hear that the Statue of Liberty
had tucked UP her hideous garments
and had waded up the North river for
the summer. Barney and immigrant
baggage have been inseparable through
presidential administration after ad-
ministration Barney has been a land
land water) mark like the barge office.
Many and intricate have been the plans
to rob Barney of the proud privilege Of
amassing wealth by Juggling their
trunks from under suspicious ana
shrieking foreigners. But Barney new
er was beaten till the Man on Horse
back rode over him.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-06

So strongly fixed has this holiday
making spirit become that it proved
a profitable thing for the big excursion
companies to arrange long trips that
would not have been dreamed of three
years ago. One ocean steamship line
sent out two ships to cruise along the
coast north of the city for four days.
Another sent ships out leaving New
York at o'clock on Thursday after
noon and taking passengers along the
coast south not to return until next
Tuesday morning. The railroads ar
ranged all kinds of trips lasting from
two to five days. And all these schemes
met with such ready response that it
was necessary for one to engage pass
age far ahead. 1t is not only that this
shows how much leisure time our peo-
pie can command when they really
wish it. 1t shows. too, how much
money there is among the general pub
lie now, for the advertised expenses OF
these excursion trips ranged from five
to fifty dollars. And railroad men as
sure me that New Yorks ready re-
Spouse is not any greater relatively
than that which they find in the coun-
try generally.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-06

Equally sad with Barney is another
gentleman Of another political and Gu
taneous complexion-Col. Jim Jones.
Col. Jones for many years had been
a patient and forgiving Tammany man
taking a job when it came along and
waiting for one without growing when
it didn't come along When VanWyck
entered on his refined and civilized
career as Mayor, one Of his early deeds
was to discharge the superintendent Of
the New York Aquarium DR. Tarle-
ton Bean, one of the experts of the
United States Fish Commission. Into
the position thus ingeniously made
available the Mayor pitchforked Col
Jones, affectionately and otherwise
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-06

a. 1y the way. four noted foreigners
si' coming to be entertained this
1'i'liher- Prince Marshal Komatsu,
esLd nese representative of the coro-
30 ION Of King Edward, a member
D. me royal family of Japan, son of
NJ Fushimi, uncle of the present
~ @iGo-will arrive in August He
- Deen in this country before, abolt
sllt7en years ago. Close on his H.
=. ~ llr,loIs heels comes the crown prince
r1,. 9tsln' the worshipful Maha Dap
zen who is making a tour of the
g,,eI lu and will incidentally be the
s~sSt or Uncle Samuel for a few days
ent.I receive an ovation similar to that
-0!sd by Prince Henry. Grand Duke
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-06
NEW YORK TOPICS.
DRIFTS AND UNDERCURRENTS OF
THE METROPOLIS.

Leisure and Rest the Fad NOVELS Ii
a National CraVing.-The City's
ExtravaSant Demands in Rental
A "BabyIOn of Children" Is Concy
IsInnd-JOkes on the Community.
And Men who Lose Their Jobs.
New York, July ga queer change
has come over New York with this
summer. This city. whose very name
stands all over the world as almost
a synonym for hurry and ceaseless
work, is becoming continental in it's
sudden keen desire for recreation.
The change was shown strikingly dur
ing the past week. So long ago as
the week before one could not journey
anywhere in public conveyances, call
in any office or meet acquaintances,
without being asked what his plans
were for spending the holidays for
which the Fourth of July had given
an excuse.
Not many years ago the discussion
among business men would have been
as to the propriety of opening for a
part of the day on Friday, for that il
steamer day" and steamer day" still
is an important institution down town.
A small army drives hard all that day
and a good part of the night prepar-
ing foreign mail for delivery to the
ocean liners that all sail early on Sat
urday A merchant of the old guard
would have considered it little short OF
sacrilege to give up the important day
of business rites for any holiday, ma
tional, local or private. And it is far
within the bounds of reasonableneSS to
say that five years ago $1,000 persons
would have had to spend the greater
part of their Fourth of July in the
offices downtown. But this year men
did not even have to think over shut
ting down entirely on Friday. 1obody
even hesitated appreciably to shut
down on Saturday. The discussion was
if it would not be we'll to shut down
early on Thursday, and thousands Of
men started away on that day not to
return till Monday.
This remarkable manifestation of an
entirely new conception of life and Inv
ing is not, I believe, at all local one
or due to local causes. New York is
almost mercurial-in fact, is mercu-
rial in it's quickneSS of sympathetic
Intelligence. 1t throbs and reacts with
bewildering quicknesS in response to
the influences that come to it from
all over the United States And if it
ceases its once chara haste and
fret it will do so in sympathy with
a new philosophy that is not New
York's, but all Americas.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-08-05
MEETING OF THF STATE FARMERS
ALL NOE

At noon next Tuesday, August 18Th,
at Hillsboro, the sixteenth annual ses-
sion of the North Carolina Farmers
State Alliance will begin.
The reports that we have received
from the July county meetings are en-
c~ouraging, and we hope that the at
tendance at the State meeting Will be
good. Reduced rates will be given by
the principal railroads. Not only
must every delegate attend, but Sec
rotary Parker extends a cordial invi-
tation to all other earnest Alliance
men. No county in which a single sub
is maintained, should be without rep
reSentatiOn next week.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-08-05
The Thinkers.
WOMEN AND THE SCHOOLS

Associations of women in towns and
cities for the improvement of the
schools are common, and they have
done much to make school life more
attractive. It has remained for the
women of North Carolina to organize
a State association for the better
ment of the schoolhouses, and to plan
a campaign in which the Importance
of attractive school buildings is to be
set forth to the parents in every coun-
ty in the State and in every school
district in every county.
A committee of women has been ap-
pointed to distribute literature bear
ing on the subject, and to exhibit pic
lures showing that unattractive school
grounds may be made pleasant and
picturesque by planting trees flowers
and ~srubbery, and how the barren
walls of the schoolroom may be adorn-
ed with Inexpensive pictures.
Southern women are noted for their
ability to bring things to pass,-as,
indeed, all women are,--so North Car
DINA ought to be noted in a few years
for the charm of the rural school
grounds and schoolhouses.
It is in the South hat one would
expect the movement for more at
~tractive schoolhouses to be popular,
for the percentage of native-born
Americans there is larger than in any
other section of the country. But in
terest in the subject is not confined to
the South; in the North and West and
East also there are thousands of pleas
ant schools, the pride of the neighbor-
hood which supports them.
The interest which the mothers have
taken in the matter is largely respon-
sibIe for the adornment of the barren
structures that were thought good
enough a generation or two ago, or
for their displacement by c~ommodious
buildings t~astefully decorated and fit
ted with modern sanitary appliances.
Boston Youths Companion.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-08-05

of the poles, is about $3.50. This in
cludes cost of No. - wire, insulators
and brackets or pins. Either cedar
or oak poles can be used and farmers
can get these with their own labor.
They should be placed two and a half
or three feet in the ground, about 60
yards apart and along a road, or
across fields, anyway to get to the
central the easiest and quickest
way. Good telephones cost about $40.
Add this to the cost of line per mile
and you have an estimate of what it
viii cost o-estall ish the service. In
this county instead of forming neigh
borhood companies, some farmer in
a neighborhood buys a switchboard,
connects it with the town and then al
lows his neighbors to build lines to it
and gives them connection at $1.00
per month for each line. So if three
farmers go in together and build a
line they get the service at 80 1-3 cents
each per month. The owner of the
board furnishes the operator to give
connection and any bright child can
attend to a neighborhood exchange.
You can do no better than to urge
upon farmers the Importance of es-
tablishing the rural telephone system.
The telephone is an invention that is
destined to reVolutionize things in
favor of farm life, rendering it less
isolated and placing it in touch with
the busy world. 1t saves time and
money, affords social pleasure and
protection for the family. 1t pro-
tects them from a delayed visit from
the doctor in cases of emergency and
it protects, or will to an extent protect
them from criminals. No sane man
will commit a heinous crime in a sec
ton or county where there is a net
work of wires all over the country,
making it almost impossible to escape
without being ap~prehended. But it
is not the purpose of this article to
discuss the advantages of the system,
but to give some of the details as to
plan of operation and cost. All that
is needed is to get farmers interested
enough to act and when one neighbour
hood establishes the telephone system
1t doesn't take long to get others to
follow, for the rural telephone fever
is very Catching"
J. 7. GREEN.