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Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1902-10-31
Local and Personal Briefs
Now do your figuring.
Take In your front gate.

Now do your figuring.
Take In your front gate.
Put paddock on your property
tonight.
r. L. Stathers, of Tyler City, was
q business caller In the city today.
Daniel Yost, of Woods6eld, O.,
was calling on friends In the city
today. -.
O. every AoSy's lipsi whas1 Rssey
Oe@h Caeay. Only for sale @ Men
It Is to be hoped there will be no
serious Halloween depredations
committed tonight.
Rev. G. W. Hatch. pastor OF the
Baptist church, spent the afternoon
with friends at Bens Run.
J.B. Brennan, prominent bust
ness man of Wheeling, was bust
ness caller In the city last night.
To be In fashion you must cat Honey
C0mb Candy. Get q FREQ Sample Of Ih-
latest candy craze. Oaly fOr safe ~
Mem Bros. "a 81
Get your calendars for 1903 at
the Review Office. 20 If
William Loubaugh, a prominent
liveryman of Ben's Run, was bus
ness caller In the city last evening
Scott Mooney left this morning
on the 1908 train for st. Marys
where he was called on business.
The Honey Comb Candy. the Iatest
World os1 SS s: srSs y
Frank Moore and sister Mrs.
Gorham, of the South Side, were
the guests yesterday of Wheeling
friends. ~ Z Y %
Mrs. Fred Lowell, of Wells street,
went to New Martinsville this
afternoon where she will visit her
mother for a few days.
D. E. Thoenen returned to the
city this morning on the 1908
train from a business trip of a
week at points on the fSfort Line
railroad. y'...-
Misses Ida and Mary Rice, Of
George street, left the city this
morning for Graysville, O., where
they will be the guests of their
sister. Mrs. Emma Cummings for q
few days.
We are exceedingly sorry to
chronicle the fact that Mrs. Walra-
ravens symptoms are not so fa or
able. She has been gradually
growing weaker during the past two
days. AS we went to press this af
ternoon her condition was of very
critical nature.
M. J. Mccoy has about com
pleted his contract for moving and
raising the residence on Main
street, of J.B. Hull The house was
moved back from the pavement
about Is feet. Mr.: Hull will make
some repairs on his home, one OF
which will be a basement under the
entire building. Frank Wagner
has the contract tor the masonry
work.
The Bessie Smith and Jewell
passed up this morning about II
o'clock. The former was nearly
eighteen hours behind her sched-
ule time, having been delayed by
fog and low water. The Cricket Is
due up this evening. The Ruth
was forced to tie up this morning
on account Of low water. There IS
a small rise coming which will In
all probability enable the Rath TO
resume on Monday. There will be
no boats down this evening.
E. A. Ryan left the city on the
afternoon train for points south on
short business mission. Mr.. Ryan
Is proprietor of one of the most ex
tensive boiler establishments In the
Ohio Valley. He employees none
but the most skilled workmen, and
consequently turns out only first
class work. Through his fair and
honorable dealings with the public
In general, he has built up an ex-
tensive business In his line, and fills
orders for both new and repair
work for many miles In the sur
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1902-10-31

Guns to rent.
20 st A l.. CONE.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-07-14

Good roads" crusaders have won an
important convert in George Jay Gould.
Automobilists, owners of good horses
and New Jersey farmers will call him
blessed when his proposed philanthropy
bears solid fruit in macadam and
gravel on the drives in the country
around Lakewood.
Mr.. Gould has written State Engi-
neer Budd, of New Jersey, that he will
pay one-third of the expense Of making
first class the roads within driving dis
tance of his country place Georgian
Court If his wealthy neighbors and
the public funds will assist him in ex-
tending the system already improved.
The National Good Roads Associa-
ton and the Automobile Club of Amer
lea have made rival claims for the
credit Of inspiring Mr.. Gould to enlist
under their banner. An estimate of
the mileage and cost Of the road i'm
provements suggested by Mr.. Gould
will be prepared by State Engineer
Budd.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-07-14
AT THE SIGN OF THE APPLE.

halted at a pleasant inn
AS | my way was vending
y rosy apple was the sign,
From kno:tJ bough depending.
Mine host-it was an apple tree
So smilingiy received me,
And spread his choice and sweetest face
To strengthen and refresh me.
Full many gayly-feathered guest
Came thro' the branches springing;
They lightly few from bough to bough,
Their merry carols singing.
Beneath the shade I laid me down
And slumber sweet possessed me;
The south wind signing through the leaves
With touches soft caressed me;
And when rose and would have paid
My host so open hearted,
He only shook his lofty head
] thanked him and departed.
Helen Walters Avery.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-07-14
She Forthwith Obeyed,

A story is going the rounds wherein
figure two well-known Columbus
ladies and q parrot Mrs. A paid a
special call at the home of Mrs. B the
other day and was ushered into the
living room by the maid of all work to
await the appearance of Mrs. b.
Mrs. B had come into the possession
of a parrot only a short time before
and had been keeping the bird in the
living room. "Polly has a very good
command of English, and appears to
know when to use 1t. Mrs. A sat down
with her back to the bird without no.
ticing it, and as Polly made no sound
she remained in ignorance of Its pres
ence.
Observing a beautiful vase on the
mantel, Mrs. A arose from her seat
and, crossing the floor. took down the
dainty piece Of bric-a-brac to examine
it. She gazed on it rapturously, COM
pletely absorbed by its elegant deco
rations, when suddenly from just be-
hind her came the shrill and stern
command:
Drop 1t! Drop it,"
Mrs. A obeyed and turned with a
scream to face the imperturable gaze
of Polly, who sat in her cage with her
green head slyly perked to one side.
On the floor lay the beautiful vase,
smashed to bits. At this most EN-.
barrasslng moment Mrs. B entered
the room. Before Mrs. A could explain
the situation Polly shook it out Its
feathers and remarked.
You're it! You're it! You're itv'-
Ohio State Journal.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-07-14

The latest novelty in postage stamps.
says Golden Penny, is made to look
something like a menagerle, each page
being covered with bars. The only
stamps admitted are those which bear
n design Of an animal-and there are
more Of these than one would imagine
at first sight. From the United States
come pony and buffalo. from La
buan stag and a crocodile, Liberia
has a hippopotamus and an elephant,
Newfoundland has a dog, Goldfish
and a seal, and West Australia re-
joices in swan. The book is made
doubly interesting il it is illustrated
with pictures of the trees and foliage
belonging to each place.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-07-14


The rapid increase in the trade en-
joyed by the proprietors Of soda foun-
tains in the leading cities of the Uni
ted States has led to the installation
of many very elaborate and costly
outfits. Most Of the finer ones are
made of Mexican onyx and cost in
some instances as high as $4,000 or
$4,000. A $4,000 soda fountain would
be made Of the finest material and
would be of great size. 1t might have
thirty draft tubes and 100 syrup cans.
Very beautiful onyx fountains Of the
dimensions more commonly used, say
with ten syrups and three draft tubes,
can be bought for from $3.50 to $1,000.
In fact, handsome onyx fountain can
be bought for 5000. But not every
body wants an onyx fountain. There
are yet purchasers who prefer one of
marble. A marble fountain with onyx
trimmings could be had at, say, $3.50.
An old-style marble fountain might be
had for $3.50.
Fifty years ago or thereabouts soda
water was drawn from a silver tube
rising out Of the counter. Then came
the first visible soda fountains. small
marble boxes, placed on the counter.
From these developed the elaborate
and often costly fountains of marble
that preceded the onyx fountain of the
present. Beautiful and costly marble
was brought from all parts of the
earth to be used in the construction of
soda fountains, but now the fashion is
onyx. with canopy or superstructure
of wood. Along with its great develop
ment in beauty has come correspond
ing Improvement in the soda foun-
tain's working parts. The modern
fountain is far more convenient and
efficient in operation than its old-time
predecessors Exporter.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-07-14
Wide Tires.

1t is worse than useless to create
expensive and valuable highways to
have them only cut to pieces by the
use of narrow tires as now used for
the hauling of heavy loads in New
York State. When you have got
good thing 1t costs money and you
must take care Of it, and change your
methods to help maintain it. Wide
tires are of the greatest value in pre-
serving ordinary dirt roads. A State
wide tire law should be passed, simple
in its requirements, positive in it's en-
forcement and going into operation
two years from this date in order to
permit every wagon user to have am
pie time to adapt his wagon tires to tile
new law in the interest of road main
tenance.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-07-14
scotland's Sabbath Up-to-Date.

Even Scotia does not stand now
quite where she did, at least as re-.
CARDS certain of the more rigid OBJ
servances of her Calvinism. Says the
Dundee paper: "In the seventies we
We're observing public fast day, and
careless laddies We're rebuked for
whistling on the street on the Fast
Thursday. To-day ministers advocate
the running of Sunday cars. Fast
days are forgotten The old-time
spring and autumn fasts are becom-
ing holidays, and city and town folk
enjoy long-distance excursions at cheap
rates."-London Daily News.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-07-14

t greatest Roadway. from alEi
\ = accounts, in New York
State, New Jersey having
previously taken the lead in this re-
form. Road work is going on in New
! York, and plans are under discussion
which give promise OF results on
large scale. For one thing, the State
Engineer and Surveyor proposes a
State bond issue of $10,000,000 for
road improvement, this sum being
payable in seventeen years, and in-
volving an annual State levy of $780,
00C-not a great sum for as wealthy al
commonwealth as New York. With
this fund it is estimated that upwards
of 1850 miles OF good macadam road
can be constructed, which would cons
meet all the counties in the EASTERN,
central and southern parts OF the
State, and extend to some other coun-
ties where road improvement is am
urgent need. The work, it is figured,N
could be finished in four years. This
proposed system of highways contem-
plates trunk roads connecting with the
principal towns OF the State.
A State convention of road improv-
els, the third annual convention of the
kind, was recently held at Albany, the
Legislature being in session and its
members interested observers, in which
the enthusiasm rose so high that it was
resolved to double the estimate of
the State Engineer and make the debt
S20000,000, to honeycomb the State
east and west with thoroughly mod
ern highways. This proposition is not
being pressed by the road improvers,
but is put forth for discussion by the
people. Meantime an appropriation of
$1,000,000 is asked for the current
year and will probably be granted.
1t is reported that in the South roa, |
Improvement is being prosecuted with
a zeal never before displayed in a sim
liar undertaking. The greatest single
stimulus to this movement in the
Southern States came from the CO.
operation of the Federal Government
and the Southern railroads in their OBJ
ject lesson of last fall, when Il good
roads train was run through several
Southern States, stopping Mt important
points, where, before large gatherings
Of townspeople and farmers, road work
was scientifically performed.
Some such object lesson would do
good in Kansas, where good roads
would bring in large profits. to the
farmers in enabling them to get to
town with their crops and truck at
seasons of the year when these pro-
ducts are highest in the market. That
it costs more TO transport farm produce
tions to railway stations than to trans
port them to their destinations by thea
railroads is fact realized by few pro-N
ducers, but demonstrated by the sta-
tistics compiled by the Government.
a State convention of road improv-
ers ought to be held this spring in
Kansas, and the cooperation of our
railroads asked for good roads excur-
sion train some time during the early
season. Experience proves that the
first cost of good roads is speedily paid
back In the better accessibility to mar
ket and the saving in wear and tear
on horses and wagons.-Topeka (Ian.)
Capital
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-07-14

The recent appointment of COM
mission to consider the whole question
IF Russian agriculture and the condi-
tion of the peasantry marks a new de-
parture in the internal policy of Rus
sia. The powers accorded to the COM
mission are of the widest possible, and,
in fact, amount to a charge to COM
plete the work begun a generation ago
with the freeing of the serfs. Thus the
entire manner of life with the Russian
mujik will form one of the principal
matters of consideration for the COM
mission, which is empowered to pre-
sent its proposals for the lettering
financially, educationally, economically
and in general culture of agricultural
labor in all its phases.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-07-14

The Cooperative union at Milan has
established the first Rowton house in
Italy, a huge building with $50 bed
rooms, with everything of the most
faultless make and perfect pattern.
Cooperative pharmacies are much ap-
preciated by the working classes. There
are seventeen general stores in con-
nection with the Turin Cooperative al
lance, and excepting with regard to
bread, the Turin alliance has adopted
the old Rochdale principle. Bread is
sold under current rates. The stores
are open to all the world, and all who
deal receive the same amount of divi-
dends, but provident benefits, free
medical treatment, and education at
the popular university are reserved for
members only. The productive socie-
ties are for the most part humble.
The societies of bricklayers and stone
masons undertake contracts for execu-
ting buildings, and give general salts
faction. Italian cooperatives do little
as yet in respect of providing laborers'
dwellings; but, on the other hand, the
agricultural banking movement has
spread far and wide throughout Italy,
states the Economic Review.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-07-14

1t is notorious that the confirmed
practical joker is the least tolerant of
jokes at his own expense. He is never
able to see any fun in being duped.
This adds much to the enjoyment of
those who manage to trick him. On
one of the big days at the Buffalo Ex-
position the hotels were forced to make
new arrivals double up. drummer
who was an inveterate practical joker
proposed to have room and bed to
himself. He suggested to his friend
the clerk that should any applicant for
half his bed prove persistent, he should
be told that the drummer was just con-
valescent from smallpox. The drum
mer was aroused from his first deep
sleep by a man getting into his bed.
Hold on there!" he cried didn't the
clerk tell you l have the smallpox ?"
YES" replied tn newcomer, drawing
up the covers, "but that's all right
I've got it myself" With a yell the
drummer leaped from the bed, seized
his clothes, dressed in the hall and
spent the night in chair, longing for
the morning so he could get himself
disinfected. In the morning he discov-
cred that the man was a joker himself.
The drummer was infuriated by such
shabby treatment
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-07-14

The sale of recent translations in
Japan indicates that foreign authors
rank as follows in the estimation Of
the Japanese: Zola, Doyle, Gosse,
Lang, Bret Harte, Stevenson, George
Meredith, John Morley, Pater, Thomas
Hardy, Henry James, Ian Maclaren,
Ruskin, Steven Phillips, Tennyson and
Mark Twain.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-07-14

The Brooklyn Eagle says that within
radius of ten blocks of his office there
are twelve abandoned churches. The
population in the same era is greater
than it has been at any time in the his
tory of the city.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-07-14

Minneapolis Times remarks that
medical expert testimony in suits at
law has fallen in such disfavor that
judges, lawyers and physicians alike
are casting about for way to restore
it to respectability. Expert testimony
should be candid, impartial and scien-
tifically true. In practice the reverse
is too often the case.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-07-14

London's latest fad is said to be
system of somersaults for cure for fat
people. There is no question that the
turning of handsprings has tendency
to reduce obesity, but it is heroic cure
and the average man or woman who
weighs over 250 pounds would be in
great danger of breaking the neck to
indulge in such gymnastics.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-07-14

President Wheeler of the University
of California, says that football is be-
coming more and more restricted to
the specialist, that it tends to exclude
even the average healthy man, and
that it, on the whole, encourages root
ing" rather than physical develop
ment.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-07-14

The wedding in the dome of the Cap
itol at Washington, 375 feet above the
ground, may be classed with propriety
as happening in high life.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-07-14

New York's commercial supremacy
depends upon her ability to maintain
within her borders the cheapest freight
rate across the continent. The 12,000,-
900 tons OF farm produce raised from
the 100000 acres of farm lard in
New York State should be taken to
market on Il system Of improved high
ways, costing not in excess Of the ca
nal improvements.
Silver is naturally an antiseptic, and
is therefore less liable than paper
money to convey infection.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-07-14
a Boom.

. OOD roads work is making it's.
I greatest h2adway, from alEi
y accounts, in New York
State, New Jersey having
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-07
Copyright 1904, by
Robert Howard Russell.

YN a certain Western Town that
started out with the Expectation
of hurting Chicago. there was an
Early Settler who tried to build
a Fence around the Corporation.
He cabbaged all the Corner Lots and
nailed the Main Street Frontage and
then held on like a Summer Cold.
He was a grisly old Badger who wore
one Suit the Year round with Pair of
box-toed Boots, wooden Hat and
Moss Agate Collar button. While he
was doing Business at 2 per cent
Month, and holding out on the Asses
sor and billzing the Changers for Rail
way Franchises, he was regarded as
Wolf.
After he changed his address to Over
There, the Heirs erected something
that looked like the Bunker Hill Monu-
rnent and then they had him done in
Oil by a Celebrated Artist. The Ar
fist fixed his Hair for Him and gave
him a neat Stand-Up Collar such as
no one could have put on to the Old
Man with a Block and Tackle. They
named a School after him and every
one in Town who was related to him
could butt into Sussiety without
Ticket.
The Large End of all the Scades
mentioned in the last VIII and Tesla
ment went to Son named William H.
Jimpson. On the way back from the
Cemetery he took out a Pencil and
figured to see what he was worth and
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-07

The civilian clerk, who had refused
to open, calls for two cards. The pasty
young man takes one. The captain
says, It'll struggle with these and the
scar-faced youth draws two.
The captains face is smiling. He
reckons up the pot. 1t amounts to
$4,000. One or two of this sort will
make him whole.
The opener bets off a 10-cent chip
plus two yellows- The cavalryman
says, disgustedly: Hes got me beat,
but Anil see to him." and edges in his
chips. The civilian clerk@sees the $40
and says, calmly, Dos mas" -
At this there is stir. The File"
drops out. The captain reflects aloud.
"He couldn't open it," he says. "He
drew two cards to something foolish. |
think it's my money, but I'll just call
his 50 raise
He puts up. The cavalryman throws
his hand, three aces, in the deck. The
civilian clerk exposes four sevens. Then
there is language. The beared colonel
and the other colonel in cts clothes
who are watching the game from the
leather-seated settee- which extends
around the four sides of the smoking
room, tell each other that the civilian
clerk knows some poker.
The game goes on. The captain
loses three stacks at $40 a stack.
That's enough for one day." he says
at II o'clock. and sd quits.
Then the play is. four handed, all
jacks The doctor siouches in.
want hand, Medico?" sings out
the first lieutenant. Were going to
stop at H." baN@
The doctor sMdes1into the chair va
Gated by the captain.
Better not sit there, DOCTOR" calls
the loser; that seat cost me $50"
But 1T doesn't cost the doctor $50. He
takes the first pot1.he plays in. He
takes the second and the third pot. In
twenty minutes he has $100 in front Of
him. The captain Snorts and goes to
his stateroom. 1 gsi
At midnight the smedico cashes in, a
big winner. The heavy sfap with the
yellow stripes of the cavalry branch
has hit the game pretty well.
A Game of Dice.
A tall youngster, straight as a pine.
comedy of face, innocent-eyed, and
talking in the soft accents of the South,
comes into the room. He is pictur-
esque figure, in his infantry uniform
and gray sombrero decorated with a
rattlesnake skin for band. He and
the cavalryman share a stateroom.
They exchange badinage. The infan-
tryman softly rolls pair of dice over
the green topped table.
"Ah'll shoot you TO- a nickel, HON.
bre," he says.
Don't bothah me-" says the other.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-07

by Ellie de Beaumont in France, where
1t now has its most important repre-
sentative in the famous geologist,
Michel-Levy, who three years ago for
muIated the theory of the tetrahedral
shape of the earth in exact manner.
TN America RicfZrd Owen declared
as early as 1857 that the earth re-
sembled diamond crystal. He chose
the diamond because it has arched sur
faces and edges. However, 1t was Will
liam LoWthian Green, successful
merchant and pre-eminently acute and
original thinker, who died a few years
ago in the Sandwich islands, who
worked out this theory in the most
perfect and the clearest manner. The
results of Mr.. Green's Investigations
are contained in the work, 'Vestiges OF
the Molten Globe the first part of
which appeared in 1875 in London,
while the second part was published
in 1887 in Honolulu. In scientific
journals the theory was principally
discussed by Professors Hitchcock and
Keyes, and Prof. Emerson and DR..
Gregory have quite recently elucidat-
ed it in gatherings Of biologists.
All these scientists give the tetrad
as the basic form Of the earth. The
simple tetrad Is a quadrilateral body,
a trilateral pyramid. whose base and
three side surfaces are equal: OF
course, the earth is no pyramid, for 1t
should be observed that this tetrad