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Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1902-12-29

The last Monday In the old v-ar
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1902-12-29

WflynOt have young hair and look young?
It's easily done with Ayers Hair VigOr.
Alwaysrestores cotcr, stops falling s AEs s.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-05-08

cashier. He did not beg for sym
pathy with pious countenance
suffused with lachrymose tears
He did not get discouraged be-
cause a humble position was pro-
cured for him.. but went to work
and did that work to the best of
his ability.
If G.. T. would only stop to con-
slider how hard it is for stranger
to get work in small city, he
would cease to wonder why there
is no demand for ex-prisoners.
There are thousands of honest
men with good references looking
for work, and other thousands
who are expecting promotion on
account of faithful work in the
past. The state realized the pre-
dicament the ex-prisoner was in
in regard to employment, and a
state agent was employed to assist
him. Later on a prisoners aid
society was organized to act as an
auxiliary to the state agent. Per-
haps it is pride which prevents
many from seeking their aid, but
Just think what an awful fall their
pride gets when they-come back
here. Is it worse to ask help than
to steal?
All! our friend has a lucid in
terval. He now gives voice to the
only pertinent fact which we have
been able to discern in his article.
He says: "In my belief the men
that work out their own salvation
do so alone and unaided without
any preliminary announcements as
to what their policy will be"
This is a remarkable concession
for G.. T. to make. Amazingly so
compared to his former sweeping
statements. Wonder what's up.
As usual, however, he put his foot
in it. They could not succeed I'M
aided someone must help them
by giving them work.
G. T.. don't imagine for a
moment that you can convert US
to your way of thinking by such a
standard as you unfurl to the
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-05-08

breeze. There are hundreds of
men in this institution today, who,
upon their discharge, will become
just as good law-abiding citizens
as the average man you meet on
the streets. This is an indisput-
able fact. Then why should you
cast your old, bruised castor into
the ring and throw wet blanket
over their future hopes and aspir-
atoms? II would have been far
better if you had cast it into the
ash barrel instead of exhibiting it
to the public eye. O tembora! Q
nt019S!
Come. my boy, and smoke up!
Knock off the barnacles, get the
ice out of your eyes and those
ravines from your forehead. When
you again get on the right road,
why control your emotions and do
not imagine your pathway is filed
with pitfalls and that each hole
contains a policeman who is wait
ing to kidnap you. By the way,
many thanks for the information
that G.. T. stands for your initials.
That's an important discovery.
***
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-05-08
ss WHY THE DRUMMER
~ LIKED BEddARs. q

eyes, and before the deep honest
gaze of this beautiful woman | felt
myself a monster. Let me. tell y ou
my story I said, I am at the end
of my rope and I am going to leave
my fate in your hands,
"When | had finished she looked
me square in the eyes and said: I
am only a poor school teacher and
my salary is small, but from my
savings I will loan you fifty dol
lars and simply trust to your word.
Silently I accepted.
"On the following morning |
purchased the mine and it made
me rich man, but all the fortune
was as nothing to the happiness
which came into my life when the
woman who was my benefactress
took my name and home. And
that is the reason I am not able to
Withstand the plea of the beggar
who stands solitary, alone, and pitt
full accosting those who pass him
on the corner Of the street. Better
to give to hundred and have
them unworthy than to refuse one
and find that he was in need" c..
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-05-08
Mon Ami sc. 7. f"

While we were practically coD-
WINGED that it was useless to argue
with G.. T. on the subject of ex-
prisoners, his reply decided the
matter beyond doubt. This doubt
ing Thomas desires facts, but he
half admitted in his last article
that he could not tell the exact
difference between fact and a
conjecture. It appears to me that
his knowledge on this subject only
consists of the chronicles of sun
dry crooks who have been arrested
for committing some crime, and
that these persons had served
time before. Does he suppose for
a moment that such cases are a
just criterion upon which to base
a logical sequence? Would any
sane man do SO? We think not.
On numerous occasions we have
talked with any number of second
term prisoners, and their opinions
were decidedly different from those
which G.. T. dwells on SO Justify
and pugnaciously. We also know
that any number of second term
ers arrive here from time to time,
and the fact of their former i'm
prisonment has only been ascer-
tanned on their arrival at this
institution. This evidence ought
to have solae weight in proving
that all prisoners are not being
bounded back to prison.
Say, G.. T., was it not vanity that
caused you to hastily gulp down
your supper, fill your little dudeen
with tobacco at lightning speed
and then to fall back on your
chair to read that article which
your eye Toasted upon as you
crossed the threshold of your DOM
icile? OF course it was. You ex-
pected salvos of approval, con-
tinued applause, innumerable
braves, bouquets, butter, biscuits
and beans, but in place of these
delicious morsels you got nothing
but dish of crow. We deeply
sympathize with you everybody
else does. Your anguish must
have been something indescribable,
because your sorrow must have
percolated its way to your brain,
hence the vapid, verdant and vari-
cose remarks which appeared in
your last article.
There is a beautifully plumed
bird which Webster defines as q
parrot. This bird is known to re-
peat only that which it has been
told. Your reply denotes strik-
ing similarity between you and
the parrot.
Once more G., T. breaks the ST.
lence and saws: ssWithout any
pessimism or anything savoring Of
lit, I will tell my critical friend
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-05-08
[. W. LEITnnEAD DRUG co.
WHOLESALE DRUGGISTS AND
IMPORTERS.
MINI.
DULUTH

Everybody, suffering from headache, buys the
celebrated "Leithheads Headache Wafers."
speedy, certain and safe cure for Headaches of
all origins, whether Sick, Bilious, Nervous or
Hysterical, and positive relief In Neuralgia.
Price 25 cts. For sale by all druggists.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-05-08


Why they, the ex-prisoners. drift
back to the so.called under world.
It is because they realize from ex-
perience that it is a case Of every
man for himself" That is all
rubbish rot. Every man for him
self, Ell? Wonder what kind of.
bugs are buzzing in your ear!
Great Scott won't someone please
hit me over the head with a crow
bar to better enable me to see the.
dazzling brilliancy of that idea
and what it leads to? First, it
typi6es anarchism, for it is one of
the paramount issues of anarchists
that every form of government
should be abolished, and that every
man should act for himself. Sec
ondly, it means individualism,
which is only separated from bar
barism by thin crust. Individ-
ualism fosters selfshness, tramples
upon friendship, and relegates to
oblivion the whole ,gamut of the
nobler traits of civilization which
have been cultivated and developed
by the human race ever since man
was in his primitive state. 1t is
the fetch that leads more men
back to prison than all other
agencies combined; and especially
is this true of the man who has
Just been liberated and imagines
that he is like the boy on the
burning deck, absolutely alone and
friendless.
Again our noble friend mods his
head, pulls the wool from his eyes
and remarks: "Why should they
leap in the dark imeaning the
police) when an 'ex-con' is to be
found summing himself in a brand
new suit of bulls wool on the
same block?" The idiosyncrasies
of this moneyless writer are some
thing awful to contemplate. The
kind of ex-prisoners which G.. T.
is talking about and the ones we
mentioned in our last article, are
Numerically opposed to each 9TH
er. While he is delineating that
biped commonly known as a
hobo, who rides in freight cars,
suns himself on the levee and de-
votes his leisure hours in walking
around brewery for the benefit
of his throat, we are talking about
an ex-prisoner who leaves here
with the intention of being honest
and tries to do the best he can to
regain his former standing in the
community by acting as man,
not as hobo.
Please, stop here, G.. T., and let
the above fact have plenty of time
to break its way into your under
standing. During the interlude
we will give you a we bit of adj
vice. It is this: Never attempt
to write with cork in each ear
and wet rag round your head.
This stopping up of all avenues
for the escape of surplus gas,
causes CONSERVATION in prose CON-
position. 1t also has a disastrous
effect on poetry. A spondee or
dactyl COMPOUNDED with iambics or
hexameters, tossed at random into
poetic meter, may look like poetry
and have a tinkling jingle and all
that, but one who knows what
poetry is would call the versifier
an ass. This depression is not in
tended to cast any reflections up
on G.. Us ode. His poetry is very
good and much more commend
able than his prose especially
when he talks about facts.
To resume. Now we hope you
will toss the corks away and hang
the towel up to dry and to rest, as
it has done excellent work. The
ex-prisoner of whom we are talk
ing is not to be found summing him
self on some block: he is to be
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-05-08
OILY crowd of travelling
men, we we're seated in
front of the hotel en-


z$ joying our cigars when
w a typical street beggar
approached and recited the usual
plea of want and asked assistance.
After giving him little good
natured banter we made up a
purse and told him go eat, drink
and be merry. All this would have
passed and been forgotten in an
hour had not one of the number
given the man a five dollar bill,
which naturally aroused some COM
ment and this was his tale:
81 must own" said he, "that l
cannot defend myself from beg
CARS, and above all those who come
to me for help in any sort of
scheme. No matter how wild and
foolish that scheme may be l find
it impossible to refuse them aid.
"Not many years ago | was a
poor clerk in a little town in Col
erado, and while my position was
humble and my salary small it was
an independence and [ was salts
fed to withgo the luxuries. One
Sunday evening, while bordering
upon the scantiness of this worlds
pleasures which had fallen to my
lot, [ walked along the village
street, on beyond the town and at
last found myself several miles
from home, lost in contemplation
of the grandeur of the mountains.
Noticing a board attached to a
short post which had been driven
into the ground little distance
from the highway, | went over to
read the words painted thereon.
The sign announced that two acres
of the surrounding property were
for sale. The sale would be con-
cluded on the following Saturday.
I thereupon sat myself down. and
began to dream daydreams from
which I was started by seeing a
green serpent glide by my feet
and worm itself under fiat stone.
II have an ingrained horror of
serpents and was frightened, but
nevertheless I overturned the stone
in search of it. 1 found an &C
cumulated mass of moss and shiny
creeping things. but no serpent
In beating about with my cane 1
broke up some the mass of soft
rock and my eye was attracted by
a CLEAN of yellow. Gold? Yes, I
was sure it must be gold.
"My gold mine was in the mid
die of two acres of ground which
were for sale. I found the price
was two hundred and fifty dollars.
By a series of petty economies I
had succeeded in saving two hum
-dred dollars, but where should I
get the remainder? I determined
to ask my employer for an ad-
vance, and received not only re-
fusal but was dismissed for my
impertinence. [ was desperate
and was upon the point of becom-
ing a criminal when the thought
came into my mind to beg. I
took the first train for the city
and there started to wiring from
the tender-hearted enough money
to make up the coveted fifty dol
lars.
"Bat, tho I begged as steadily
as possible and with considerable
cleverness, at the end of the week
I had only twenty dollars added
TO the original two hundred
81 was in the depths of despair.
On the evening before the date of
the sale I walked despondently
along the street crestfallen and
discouraged. By and by, lifting
my eyes from the ground, I-saw a
young woman advancing. She
was pretty young woman, even
nm my deep distress | felt her
charm. Madam said I, have pity
am She turned her eyes
anon NV face. Then nv verv
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-05-08

Wise mon ne'er Sit and wall their
loss, but CHEEKY seek how to re-
dress, their harms. Henry VI. '.
4.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-05-08

Never anything can be anliss,
when simpleness and duty tender
Midsummer Night dream, VI.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-12-09
POST OFFICE RECEIPTS.
Table Showing Increase During Month
of November.

The third assistant postmaster general
today issued a statement Of the receipts
Of the post Offices In fifty of the largest
cities on the country. for the month Of
November. With this statement Is a table
showing the receipts fote the same month
last year and the net iincrease. According
to these tables. the receipts of the post
offices as a whole Increased 81 per cent.
which Is considered by 1.-THE post office ofii-
cials to be fairly good increase. The net
increase was $40, u.s. The greatest in
crease was noted il the post Office at Oma-
ha, Neb.. which shows A.6 per cent. The
s4s127. against ss4 SO last year. the net
increase being $685., Next to Omaha
comes st. Louis, the Worlds fair city, with
an increase Of 22B per cent. The figures
show that SPAS, $3.50 was taken In by the
post Offices in St. louis last month, against
$2l2, 13S for the same month in 1901, the
net increase being SIC, 49, Two other cities
Los Angeles, CALI and Nashville. Tenn.
spectively. ~
Washington showed the greatest decrease
for the month. a per cent being registered
against this city. The figures give the re-
ceipts for the month as $0,213. against
x7O56O last year, net decrease of SAT.
Philadelphia comes next, with a decrease
Of 3. the figures being $36S. 105 for this
year, against 1863 2S1 last year. the net
decrease being $1.178.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-12-09
100000 POUNDS INVOLVED.
Secretary Shaw Recommends Free Ad-
mission of Tea

Secretary Shaw has written a letter to
means committee, calling his attention to
the fact that there is at present large
amount of tea in the bonded warehouses
Of the country that will be exported by
the owners who placed it there under the
impression that they could withdraw it free
year. Under a recent ruling of the south
ern district court of New York this tea
must pay the duty due at the time it was
warehoused. In spite OF the fact that the
tea Will be placed on the free list beginning
with the new year. The secretary believes
that Congress should pass law admitting
the tea in the warehouses In conformity
with the tariff reduction act OF last session.
The amount Of tea in bonded wareh houses
October 81 was Ga. 126, 7S5 pounds. Other
importations since that date, 1t Is estt-
mated have increased that figure to ap-
collected, would be ST 100000.
Mr.. Payne Of New York accordingly In
troduced a bill in the House which will
allow this tea to be withdrawn from bond
under certain restrictions before the date
for the abrogation of the tax, without hav-
ing the tax collected upon the same.
The bill was prepared this morning after
conference between the Secretary of the
Treasury and Mr.. Payne. The situation
has been represented to the treasury Off
Gals by the tea importers as serious from
the fact that so much tea has been imported
for release to commerce the first of the
year that the warehouses have become con-
gested and barely enough tea allowed on
the market to meet the demand.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-12-09
tack on Culebra Island, but the marines

tack on Culebra Island, but the marines
were not in physical condition to stand the
work in that tropical climate, so 1t was de-
cided to bring them home without furtner
delay The Panther arrived at Hampton
Roads Saturday, and yesterday Commander
Wilson, commanding telegraphed the Navy
Department that Captains Porter ano Lem
ly, Lieutenants Purcell and Frager, Ensign
Case, Sergeant Smith and thirty-hV PR
Yates had been transferred from the Pah
Their to the naval hospital at Norfolk An
other dispatch from a medical offlcer at
tsched to the Panther stated that all the
officers and men reported sick were sur
fering with malaral fever, and were con-
valescent except one marine, who continued
dangerously ILL
Under the orders issued by the Navy De-
partment the marines still on the PANTHER
will be disembarked at the League Island
ward at once and sent to their regular sta
lions in various parts Of the country, IN
GLIDING Philadelphia, New York Boston,
Norfolk, Annapolis and Washington They
will be kept under partial observation
however, for the present, in order to pre-
vent the possibility Of the development OF
any infection.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-12-09
SNAKE VIRUS ON WEAPONS.
Eeri Indians Poison Theirs With Rat
tlesnake Venom

vrom the Chicago Chronicle.
'I scarcely can think they are cannibals.
but one day we killed deer ana. tossing
the Indians a hind quarter, they proceeded
TO deyour It raw. They live on fish and
turtles mostly, and eat them raw
Thus spoke Edward de Haven concerning
the Seri Indians on Tiburon Island. He
was one Of the participants in ARIZONA
Charley's" expedition to the Tiburon Island.
and he says the trip was a success. The
party met at Hermosillo. Mexico. and con-
sisted Of Charley and Frank Meadows of
Arizona. John Arnold OF Randsburg. War
ner Wealdey of San Francisco and George
Fugard and Edward de Haven Of San
Diego. Cal
They stopped two days at Hermosillo and
then proceeded to Guaymas. At this place
the serious work Of the expedition COM
menced. namely, that Of getting q boat
and an outfit. Whenever the name Of IT,
huron was mentioned no one would 20.
A Yaqui Indian was hired, but he backed
out as soon az he heard of their destina-
lion. saying: Il would not go for 4 million
collars"
The party finally bought the sioop Ella.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-12-09
DEATH OF JAMES c. CLARK.
He Had Been Prominent as a Wester
Railroad Man,

CHICAGO. December 9.-James c. Clarh
president Of the Mobile and Ohio railroa
and one Of the most widely known railroa
men In the United States. died here las
night Of Bright's disease. Mr.. Clark wa
seventy-nine years old, and began his rail
road career at an early age. He was Dor
In Montgomery county. Md. in 1924, an,
entered railway service in 1914 with tn
Baltimore and Ohio railroad. He saw sery
ice as an engineer, conductor. station agen
and train master, and in 1855 he came
the Illinois Central railroad, with whici
company he was associated for nearly fort
years, save for a brief interval In the earl
seventies, when he was vice president ar
general manager of the Erie. Mr.. clark r.
signed from the Office of president of tn
Illinois Central some years ago on accom-
OF advancing years. He retired from tn
presidency OF the Mobile and Ohio In 1895
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-12-09

areas whose consequence is not dependent
upon manufactures. In the recent list nf
estates put up for sale for arrears of debt
upon moneys lent by the state to the M.
oihty Tor the improvement OF their prom
ery We md the Volga provinces showing
much the Same tendencies as chose Of 81
Petersburg and Moscow. Altogether In tha
Promncss about the Volga something like
t ~ acres OF mobiles Land is advertised
TOT auction In other words, TN half a
dozen provinces Of European Russia, mostly
devoted to agriculture, an area Of $500 odd
square miles In the aggregate Is passing
into the hands OF the newly forming mid.
die GLASSES. This IL equivalent to the entire
province OF Lorraine or more than three
times the size OF the duchy OF saxe-Cobure
and Gotha. The largest area tor Sale in
which was ono OF the chief ceayters of ths
peasant rising last summer. In this prov.
incs alone 100000 acres are advertised for
ualA. AoA
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-12-09
POLE WILL BE REMOVED.
Minister and Citizens Objected to It in
Front Of a Church

Secretary A. F. Sperry of the East Wash
ington Citizens Association has written to
the Commissioners that at a recent meeting
# the association a resolution was adopted
skiing that the fire alarm pole recently
cected by the District on Seward place be
emoved, and assuring the Commissioners
that the citizens will content them
selves with other existing conditions
as to protection from fire until the requisite
appropriations or other means for making
underground connections can be obtained by
the Commissioners. The municipal authori-
ties will grant this request for the removal
of the box. The pole was in front of a
church and the minister and several citizens
objected to its appearance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-12-09
Peculiar Case Of Coma.

A dispatch from ST. Louis, Mo-, yesterday
says: Vigorous massage treatment this af-
ternoon resulted in restoration to semi-eon-
seriousness of Mrs. James Abernathy, who
had been asleep since last Friday morning
After the vigorous rubbing today she open
ed her eyes, but she has not spoken and
does not recognize even her husband. Ii
quid nourishment was given her and she
swallowed it slowly. After taking the food
she was permitted to lie back on her pillow.
Her eyes remain open, her breathing con-
tinues regular, her color natural, but with
the exception of swallowing broth she has
not moved a muscle.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-12-09

OF eleven tons, and sailed to Tiburon. which
is about 125 miles down the gulf. They
sailed around 1t for thirteen days, making
two trips inland, one OF eight miles on the
Sonora side. and the other Of four and one.
half miles on the gulf side.
Whenever they saw any Indians they
made a landing. At first the Indians were
very suspicious, but finally they consented
to do some trading.
The party obtained some Of the natives
bows and poisonous arrows and a peculiar
bamboo boat. The Indians poison Their
arrows by taking the liver Of a deer, al.
lowing rahlesnake to bite It, and then
dipping their arrows into the inoculated
liver. The Serbs are supposed to have
horses, as the party saw several hooi
marks. The island IL about thirty-two
miles long and eighteen wide.
Members Of the expedition shot many
deer and reported that the island u filled
with rattlesnakes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-12-09
CLAIMED HE FOUND CHECK.
John Robinson Arrested, Charged
With Robbing the Mails,

John Robinson. a seventeen-year-old col
ored boy. was arrested today by Detec-
tives Miller and Peck and held to answer
charge Of robbing the mails. The boy was
employed as porter at an F street millinery
store. and 1t Is alleged that he robbed the
mail box at 10Th and F streets OF letter
in which was check for S2516S.
The check had been mailed to New
York wholesale establishment by Mrs. M.
N Nixon Of 1921 F street. A check for $40
was made out. it is charged by the boy
and the name of Mrs. Nixon forged to 1t.
This check the boy tried to pass.
When arrested he claimed that he found
the check for the larger amount on the
street and admitted that he had tried to
pass the SO check. The boys home Is at
923 New Hampshire avenue. He will be
given a hearing tomorrow.