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The Tupelo journal., 1902-11-07
FARMERS AS BREEDERS.
They Should Seek Improvement of
Plants just as Much as They
Do of Stock.

Every farmer ought to be a plant
breeder as well as a live stock breed
er. There is as much for i'm
provement in the former as the latter.
Many farmers who would give nc lib
erty to a scrub stallion, bull, boar,
buck or cock, will permit any old
scrub crop plant to go on degenerat-
ing it's species year after year. Plain
ly, this is Il serious error, and is the
result of thoughtlessness and neglect,
and not of lack of desire for improve
ment. Some suppose that there are
great difficulties in the way of the
plant breeder, and that years and
pains and expert knowledge are re-
quired to produce results. True, the
more of these that are available the
intelligence understands how to select
animal breeders, for he knows the
kind and character of the stock he
wants and breeds from such, if avail
able, or approaches his ideal as near
ly as possible. If he will do the same
with his plants merely by carefully
selecting seed from plants showing
the characteristics he wants to per-
petuate or increase, he will find plants
as easily bred as pigs, or chickens. A
plant breeder to get rid of the pole
in every hill of lima beans, selected
seed from an unusually short vine,
and from the product of these seed
found some without running vines.
Continuing this course of selecting he
soon produced lima beans that do not
climb. By a similar course the seeds
have been almost eliminated from the
tomato. The warts and spines and
crooks from the cumber, the disa-
greeable pungency from the onion,
wonderful improvements have been
accomplished. Less attention, how
ever, has been paid to the breeding
of staple farm crops, and new varie-
ties improved for one section may not
be adapted to quite different environ
ments, just as is the case with fruits
and vegetables. There is always some
risk in planting new and improved va
%rieties in new and widely differing
sections, and it would be highly inn
prudent to plant largely of such.
Hence the Importance of farmers
carefully selecting and improving
their own seeds, while judiciously ex-
perimenting with the works of others.
Farm and Ranch
The Tupelo journal., 1902-11-07
DANGEROUS KIDNEY DISEASES CURED
Pe-ru-na Creating a National Sensation in the Cur,
of Chronic Ailments of the Kidneys.

MajorT L. H.. Mars, of the First Wiscon-
sin Cavalry regiment, writes from 1925
Dunning street, Chicago, Ill. the follow
ing letter:
"FOr years ESuffered with cafarrh OF
the kidneys contracted in the army.
Medicine did not help me any until a
COmrade who had been helped by Pc
runa advised me to try it. i bought
some at once, and soon found blessed
relief i kept taking it four months,
and am now wei and strong and feel
better than 1 have done for the past
twenty years, thanks to Peruna. "---
T. II. Mars.
Mr.. John Vance, of Hartford CITY,
Ind, says: my kidney trouble is much
better. | have improved so much that
everybody wants to know what medi-
cine l am using. l recommend Peruna
toeverybody and some have commenced
to use it. The folks all say that if DR..
Hartman's medicine cures me it must be
great."-John Vance.
Mr. J. Brake, of PefroIea, Ontario.
Canada, writes: "FOur years ago
had a severe attack of Brighf's dis.
ease, which brought me so low the
doctor said nothing more could be
done for me. / began to take Peruna
and ManaIin, and in three months /
was q wei man, and have continued
SO ever since. "---J. Brake.
Atthe appearance OF the firstsymptom
The Tupelo journal., 1902-11-07
HERE AND THERE.

"A field turned out to rest is like
a human l~oafer; if it is not kept
busy raising a crop it is sure to get
into mischief by growing weeds with
which to seed the useful acres. Why
should a farmer pay taxes on idle
land?
There r a hundred ways of do
ing anything, and out of the hundred
but one right way. Marvel not, nor
repine, that you take from the nine
ty-nine ways. just push ahead with
the light that is given you, and right
will somehow win.
-Vermin get on the fowls, and
suck the blood and annoy them SO
that thus weakened they become easy
prey to any disease that comes along.
If they had been kept free from
vermin, they might have resisted dis
EAST germs and remained in good
condition.
One advantage possessed by the
disc pillow is that it will do good work
on land 80 hard and stiff and dry that
an ordinary turning pillow Will not
work it at all. Very often blowing
ought to be done, but the land may
be "too dry to plow." Then is the
time to use the disc plow.
One COW will use all her food in
producing milk, except what is nee
essary to maintain life and vigor.
Another will put most of her feed in
her carcass. Now which is the most
profitable? In the first case you get
the milk and keep the COW indefinite
". In the second case you have to
kill the cow to get the flesh.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-11-07
THE POTATO TRADE.
An Item In the Country's Commerce
That should Interest SOUTH
ern Farmers.

imports of Notatoes into the United
States in the fiscal yea ende- June
90, 1902, amounted to 1866, 1862 bush
els, against 371.911 bushels in the
previous year Exports in 1902 were
o-S,4s4 bushels, leaving the net inn
ports 7,027,672 bushels. With two ex-
ceptions the 1909 imports into this
country were the heaviest ever made;
the short domestic crop of 1881,
amounting to only 100, 145, 494 bushels,
resulted in imports in til ~efollowing
fiscal year of s,7S9,SG0 bushels; an
other shortage in domestic produc-
ton in 1887, when the crop amounted
to only 134,103,t00 bushels, was fol
lowed>ly imports of S,259,53S bushels.
AS a general rule neither the ex-
ports 0 imports of this product are
important. The trade is, in fact, an
anomalous one among food products
in that heavy increases and decreases
in domestic production have little eff
feet upon the e ternal commerce.
During the past thirty years exports
of potatoes from the United States
have never amounted to so much as
a million bushels annually; in only
fifteen years out of the thirty have
imports exceeded that amount, and
four times only have they exceeded
5000, 900 bushels. The annual produc-
ton, meanwhile, has varied widely,
ranging from the .ow figures of 1874,
when the crop was only 105, 1881 900, to
the high record figures of 1895 when
the crop amounted to 297,237,370 bush
els. The difference between the small
est and the largest crops of the past
thirty years is thus seen to be 191,-
256,3T0 bushels, and it would be nat
Crally expected in an important food
product like this that the wide range
in production would be reflected by
important variations in the export or
import trade. 1t has not been I'M
usual, however, that, in a year when
the crop was greatly short of an av-
erage and was apparently entirely in
sufficient for domestic consumption,
there followed NJ appreciable in
crease in imports; crop variations
ranging from neglible quantities up
to as high as 100, 900, 900 bushels have
never yet resulted in an import trade
amounting to SO much as 10000, 900
bushels annually.-Crop Reporter.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-11-07

The postmaster of a small village in
Ohio owns a secret which many unscru-
pulous folk would pay much to know.
His name is Gustave Francis, and, be-
upon a method of removing ink stains
from used postage stamps a short
time ago, and to his credit be it said
that he laid the discovery before the
government. He was offered $50, 600
for his silence, a bride which he stoutly
refused on the grounds that his hon
eSty was above price.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-11-07
POOR MEN KEEP SECRETS.
Instances of wOrtl,ines Which
Has Been Unshaken by the Clam
ours of Wealth.

Some men poor in this worlds goods
hold secrets that are worth fortunes,
but refuse to di.ulge them, though
tempted by the prospect Of money
enough to enable them to pass the re-
mainder of their lives in ease and
luxury, says the Chicago Chronicle. In
England there is Il small cottage
among the marshes on the Thames
which hides a secret that Russia Of
fered $500, 600 for less than ten years
ago. 1t is the spot that is the key to
the situation of the submarine mines
guarding the worlds metropolis. 1t is
situated among dozens of similar struc-
lures and five men who go to and from
their daily work like ordinary beings
alone know which it is and how the
electric switchboard it contains can be
so manipulated as to sink a powerful
fleet in ten minutes.
At a certain seaport On the east
coast of England there lives a grocer
who could let his premises to a Eu-
ropean power at a rental of thousands
a year if he chose. Adjoining his eel
lars are the passages communicating
with the mines which control the en-
trance to the harbor, and event he is not
permitted to crafty his curiosity, for
several sets of doors fitted with secret
locks defy intrusion of any unauthor-
lied individual.
Whenever a secret treaty is arranged
between this country and foreign pow
ers it is duly "set up and printed by
government printers long before the
public has any idea that negotiations
are in progress. These printers are
paid no excrbitant wages for their ST
lence, though any III of them could
sell the heads of the treaty to foreign
nation for a small fortune.
In an American battleship there are
said to be oyer 500 secrets, any OF
which would command a fabulous price
if put up for sale. In building the ship
a small army of workmen are engaged,
to whom the majority of these secrets
are perfectly lucid. But, in spite of the
fact that their wages average about
$50 a week, it is an unheard of occur
renee for a piece of secret information
TO leave the dockyard.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-11-07
MESS ROOM GOSSIP.

Thirty-eight thousand swords have
been ordered by Chill from a German
firm.
Soldiers thrice found guilty of drunk
ennes in one year vii be summarily dis
missed from the army.
Kites 1T to be substituted for the
balloons now used on board Russian
war vessels for observation purposes.
Men going down in the new subma-
rines for the first two or three times
become almost stupefied by the strong
fumes of the gasoline used in propell-
ing the vessels.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-11-07
Wheat and Chat.

Shadows do not stop the sun.
God lifts up the heavy-hearted by
means of human hands.
The greatest truths are powerless
without the living teacher.
The heart within to resist evil is bet
ter than a fence without.
Active service saves a man from fool
ish fears ard speculations.
1t is not III fault if temptations
call on us; but it is if we entertain
them.
The arrangement of the Bible is pro-
phetic of our lives. eliminating in q
revelation.-Ram's Horn
The Tupelo journal., 1902-11-07

the escape of serum from the blood.
Peruna stimulates the kidneys to
excrete from the blood the accumu-
latlng poison, and thus prevents the CON
vulsions which are sure to follow if the
poisons are allowed to remain. 1t gives
great vigor to the hearts action and di-
gestive system, both of whichare apt to
fail rapidly in this disease.
Peruna cures catarrh of the kidneys
simply because it cures catarrh wher-
ever located.
II you do not derive prompt and sat
~lstactory resultsfrom the use of Peruna,S
write at once to DIR. Hartman, giving a
full statement of your case and he viii
be pleased to give you his valuable ad.
vice gratis.
Address DR.. Hartman, President of
The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus,
Ohio.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-11-07
The e1evating arAuerces If /.

The elevating influences of horti-
cultude are alone, inc would think
sufficient to pcpularize the pursuit
with the masses, and infuse into the
minds of the young and ambitions
to bcome n Of that goodly COM
paay.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-11-07
Always the Case.

"a woman, I notice, always lowers
her voice to ask a favor"
Eyes, and raises her voice when she
doesn't get it.n-Tit-Bits.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-11-07
The Way She :rook 1t.

Mary Barnyard-Out here we always
go to bed with the chickens.
Miss Wopsie-Mercy me! 1t must be
awfully unhealthy.-Judge.
The Tupelo journal., 1902-11-07

of kidney
trouble, Pc
runa should
be t a k e n.
This e
strik e S a t
t h G
very root of
the disease.
Tat once re-
lieves the ca
tarrhal kid
neys of the
S I n n t
blood, pre-
Y e L Or
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1902-11-08

1t Is lucky that a mans soul Is
not visible nor tangible for there
are times when he would swap 1t
tor a public Office.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1902-11-08

The Oil Review has often said
that SIstersville would remain the
best city In West Virginia. FIRE.
quently the statement was ques-
toned, but the paper had and has
confidence In the fact that the PEG
pie of this city would never permit
it to return to the condition of stag
nation so prevalent In some of the
boom towns of the State, but on
the contrary they would continue
the prosperity of the city, and if
possible make 1t better in the fu-
ture than In the past. Their pur
pose to do so has been exemplifed
In the past few weeks by
their landing the second window
glass factory and by their efforts to
secure the bottle factory, which the
Review Is pleased to say is now as
sured. Mr. P. L. Wise, the pro-
motor of the latter concern, conf
dent that the necessary stock had
been subscribed, left the city today
for Washington and Pittsburg, Pa,
to complete the arrangement for
the erection OF the factory. Al
most all the work necessary has
been done In Sistersville, and as
soon as the work can be done, the
people interested In the future OF
of the town will have the pleasure
of seeing a=c.kc. Industry being
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1902-11-08
One M,nut. Cough Cure.

Is the only harmless cure that gives
quick relief. Cures coughs, colds,
Group, bronchitis, whooping cough,
pneumonia, asthma, lagrippe and
all throat, hest and lung troubles.
1 got soaked by rain, says Gertrude
E. Fenner, Muncie, Iud, and con-
tracted a severe colo and cough. I
failed rapidly; lost 4S pounds Ny
druggist recommended One Minute
Cough Cure. The first bottle
brought relief; several cured me. 1
am back to my old weight, I4S
pounds. One Minute Cough Cure
cuts the phlegm, relieves the cough
at once, draws. out Inflammation,
cures Group. An ideal remedy for
children.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1902-11-08

Mr.. c. Haney, of Geneva, Ohio,
had the piles for forty years. Doc
tors and dollars could do him 10
lasting good. DeWi;t's Witch Ha-
Eel Sa1ve cured him permanently
Invaluable for cuts, corns, bruises,
sprains, decorations, eczema. letter,
salt rheum and all other skin dis
eases. Look for the name Dewitt
on the package-all others are
cheap, worthless counterfeits-
Opera House Drug Store.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1902-11-08
ORDER OF PUBLICATION.

The St ,te of West Virginia, 10 wit:
At Rules held In til Clerks OF.
fee of the circuit cou D Tyler
county, on the first Mcr5ag 10 No.
vember, 1902.
Samuel McCoacL
VS..
T. A. Gillipsie. K G Giiiispie
and the Iron City Ndo1si B,nk,
In CHANGER
the object OF this sal, : to com.
pei defendants, T. A G.ispia, r.
G. Gillispie and The Iron 81 Ma
tioual Bank TO relesse cedeia ven.
doris lien retained 5y sid O., lis.
pies In deed made ~ oam - COM
pia'naut, Samuel Mc1oser tated
the 10Th day of lamar rS94 and
recorded in the Office Of n clerk
OF the county couri g. TYLER
county, In Deed Book, II pag- 5SI,
20 secure the payment Of ST. ooo,
which amount with intsree has
been fully paid. And ar fl wit
having been made that tde dsfsud-
ants, T. A. GILLESPIE. TIE Iron
CITY National Bank and K G. Gil
Iespie are not resideD,s % this
State. the said defend ms sr= re.
CURED to appear here ~, hin one
month after date of the first publ.
cation OF this order ard d. shat Is
necessary to protect their istrests
herein.and that this ORDER b. posted
aud published as required b. law.
Given under my hand Til the
ard day of November, 1902
J. g.. MAYFIRLD,
Clerk.
Published first time November
9th, 1892.
Hall & Hall, attorneys for plain
tiff.
II44w I month
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1902-11-08
A Thanksgiving Dinner,

Heavy eating usually the first
cause of indigestion Repeated at
tacks lpfame the mucous mem
branes lining the stomach, exposes
the nerves of the stomach, produc
Ing a swelling after eating, heart
burn, headache, sour risings and f
nally catarfh of the stomach Ko
dol cures indigestion. dyspepsia, all
stomach troubles, by cleansing and
sweetening the glands of the ston-
ach
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1902-11-08
!. -. ....' >.'1 f-4a
A: D. Work & Sons.
To the Pubic.

Allow me to say n l. y words In
praise of Chamberlar as ough
R-medy. I had W severe
cough and cold and fear, d | would
get pneumonia, but aftrr ng the
second dose OF this m cic,ue 'elt
better, three bottles II cred my
cold and the pains In m hest dis
appeared entirely l IN very
respectfully yours % health
Ralph s. Myers, 81 Thru seventh
ST., Wheeling, " v ,.' Nale by
T.. w. Grier.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1902-11-08
Assured. Arrangements Almost Completed
SistersvlIe Soon to be the Workshop
of the Ohio Valley.
STOCK NEARLY ALL TAKEN.
Good News for the Future of the "GreateSt
Town on Earth"

built. This factory, like the sec
ond window glass factory, Is to be
controlled by home people. The
management will be here. 1t prom,
ises good returns, and will IN
doubleday be ;be same sur ass that
our first factory ha" .~'" II IS a
continuation Of - opla OF
this city evIc ,.' I'D
shall no. - t = estaO.
lIsmer' S4,. .,.. VI factories
and g, p. J.isuments which
shal claim Sistersville as
the ,..shpp of West VIrgipia"
E.r..e are still a few shares OF
stock remaining unsold. The par
ties who are so fortunate as to Sc
cure them will be exceedingly
lucky. The subscription paper Is
In the hands of c. A. Krug, who
will be glad to see any one who de.
sires to help Sistersville, and at the
same time make an investment
which promises good returns, better
than any investment with which
the Review Is familiar the present
time.
A stockholders meeting will be
held nex1week: and an organiza
ton effected. Immediately after
that, work will be prosecuted active
ly on the new plant, and by the end
of the year We, will have another
plant In operation.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1902-11-08
Opera House Drug Store,

God pity the mat who never re
bells against wrong and injustice.
His life Is useless. He Is jelly
fish amongst n en-.
The boil on he stove Is just as
fair for the goose as boil on the
b ok Is for the school boy.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1902-11-08
Opera House Drug Store

A man shows hi, politics In the
way he refers to the men who labor
and his religion In the way he
speaks of the poor.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1902-11-08
A BIG FIRE
AT SPENCER,
For The Third Time in The Last Few Years
Spencer. W. Va. wa, Last Night Wis.
- tied by a Disastrous Fire.

II 49, ~ - = T.
For the third time IN the last fe "
years, Spencer, Roane county, was
last night visited by 9 disastrous
FIRE. It swept around block and
destroyed nine buildings before 1t
wal. extinguished The loss will
probably reach twenty Thousand
dollars on which there Is only par
tial insurance. The buildings de
stroyed were on Main and Church
streets. / 8
The fire started about 9 o'clock,
In small bakery, run by a man by
the pame of West, which was In
the rear Of Chapman's drug store.
The building burned like finder,
and the fire made such Roadway
before 1t was discovered. that I
could not be extinguished. the
flames were soon communicated to
the drug store, and in a few min
utes gathered such strength thac
tor long time they could not be
controlled. They ragged for over two
hours and for time the whole
town was panic stricken. Many
handsome business blocks and resi-.
dences were consumed before the
flames were mastered. 8.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1902-11-08
DANGEROUS CRIMINALS.

,u 49,. h,h,o known very little about new Of burg
lars called yeggmen and which furnish srounos M
alarm The tramp nuisance reached Its heisn onins
u,nistraton In 1894 and when Coxys army mace It's ae "
~ II continued although with gradually lessenng NUMBERS uh
the outbreak of the SpanlshAmerica war; at wncn ue many
sd the army Thedeperate and depaved creatures VINO %
,so have remained large They the most difncut cr
,ns In the world to with Their headquarters are "
the conditions are favorable for securing tree saloon
and where the people hospiable that IN Re" nou's
beg enough to keep him In comfort for several days.
ORIGINALLY the yeggman tramp or hooo by ohee, "
In the prisons elsewhere he has learned Inc use
81. ,s,,as They work companies, more OF wno" are
cacksmeu They purchase dynamite STICKS ano extract Tue
cpe from them by soaking In water or conoi anu
the explosive at the with syringe II IS usuay
hottie Considering careless manner IN wnicn lucy
s sprnrisus that there serious explosions
The police ofaNebraska town recently tooK yessm nv ~
brake rod of passenger train, wnere nc '' H "
have been riding for three hundred mics. - No -
session was enough high explosive fluid to nave o"n
IN. whole train into eternity The yeggmen carry lew 'oos 30
far local experiences CO. bottle rubber bag OF no
bar of soap and with Eliminating cap maze up inc
~ sd TO close the cracks the safe door and to form
cnp over hinges at the top which Will noa
permit 1t o follow around the CRACKS. ..,, -
While such explosions usually wreck the SAFE ana AROUSE ~
bors or the police yeggs not frightened and THIS
character Is evident They have no regard @
life and to have policeman be elevated hgn IN the
Of other yeggs
circumstances attending the death Of that Omaha pastor
a Tho missionary woman which explanation In the
s MACE Is hardly apparent why from Chicago nouo 20
rs missionary Omaha There might be some popey
the case, Omaha going to Chicago Inc 'ees
the traqedy states that bodies lying on the h
,,.n. head being pillowed on the cushions lneY
evidently In that position for several hou's ine
seems to be that death accidental VI course
who are accidentally asphyxaed usually place cusnon' on e
before accidentally turning the And yet there are
people who will be uucharae question the methods
emnoyed BY this Chicago missionary in trying to work reform
Omaha.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1902-11-08
Balm for said Heads.

C.M Northup the live real estate
man OF Kansas City. Mo-, writes.
,Boro CARROLL Salve to, my surprise
has. started a fine growth of hair on
my head that has been partially bald
for years. I have recommended 1t
to several OF my friends who were
afflicted the same way and all vouch
for my statement. Refer any one
10 me. My Office Adde'S Is $40
Walnut ST., Kansas City, Mo
Free samples can be obtained at
D. "A. Henderson,. Costs moth.
Ing to try It,.