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Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1902-12-11
LOCAL NEWS
Cold rain.

Cold rain.
December weather.
Friday fair and colder.
Dense fog this morning.
Select your largest stocking.
Read the Fair" advertisement.
1I3t
Free sample Honey Comb candy,
Neff Bros. est
Have you eaten Honey Comb
candy2 Neff Bros. g st
Richard Ankrom, of Paden's
Valley, was business visitor here
today.
At this writing the outlook Is
not Very encouraging for white
Christmas.
Shears and knives ground at
Diamond street repair shop, 212
Diamond street. II IL 1T
Sistersvllle has experienced an.
other hotel robbery. The last one
might have been more serious.
Take that broken umbrella to the
Diamond street repair shop and
haye 1t repaired It's worth it.
IL I2t
DR.. w. T. Norris left the city
last evening for Cincinnati on
business mission of few days.
c. L. ellis. one of the city's
most energetic and popular young
business men, went to Pine Grove
this morning.
George Drummond returned last
evening from Youngstown, Ohio,
where he has been located for the
past few weeks.
George Morrison, general super
intendent of the Mutual OIL COM
pany, left the city this morning for
the Ben's Run oil field.
IF. Frame, the efficient and
popular B. & o. R. R. and Adams
express agent, was Petersburg
business caller to-day.
w. M. Birch, field superintend
ent for the Mountain State Gas
company, returned to the city this
afternoon from business trip to
Parkersburg.
D. D. Nolan, the we'll known oil
operator, returned to The city last
evening from business and pleas.
ure trip combined at Pittsburg and
other points In Pennsylvania.
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What is your husbands alma ma
ter" asked Ms. Oldcast.e.
oh" her hostess replied, Josiah
amt got any He always signs his in
itials just plain old fashioned without
any putin on"-Chicago Record-Her-
aid
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-05-18
Fruit Is Now Recommended
for the Complexion.

Fruit is highly recommended at this time
OF the year for the complexion. But there
are those who break out and pimple with
it. There are people who have a rash af-
ter eating Strawberries; others suffer from
that childish trouble. hives" on taking
the juice of the raw grape. Pears will
give many people a decided roughness and
the summer fruits, berries, etc, have been
known to develop pronounced cases of
widespreading blotchings on the face.
There is something peculiar about the
acid of raw fruits that is not fully under
stood by physicians. One person canno.
take the pulp of the pineapple without
making the mouth and throat sore; another
cannot eat raspberries without suffering
from a burning in the stomach.
Where there is a constitutional difficulty
of this kind avoid that kind of fruit. Shell
fish will give one person a bad complexion,
another cannot eat celery. Study your
diet and when you find that which is a
poison to you. let 1t alone. You cannot
tell what condition of blood may induce
the trouble and it is better not to tamper
with an idiosyncrasy.
But there are fruits you can eat. 1t Is
claimed that the wonderful complexion of
Lady Brooke. at the time of her belledom.
was due to stewed rhubarb. which her
ladyship ate constantly. Now. as the
Countess of Warwick. she lectures on fruit
foods.
The process of cooking makes fruit E.~0
disest!ble and apple sauce, stewed berries
and cooked foods generally seem to agree
better with the complexion OF the civilized
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GOOD THINGS FROM NEW BOOKS.

stretched from the shores of the Atlantic
1900 miles TO the Pacific. from the St. Law.
renee to the Gulf of Mexico, and. not COM
tent. I fear, following Britain's perilous ex-
ample. we are trying to annex foreign ter
ritory. The truth is that we have taken the
Scripture much TO heart. which tells Us
which, our humOrist. Mark Twain, said, OK
planned it all-our race is so meek; at all
events, we seem to have lost no time In
discovering that the true and only reliable
proof of the true inheritors was whether
they spoke English.-Carnegie. Empire OF
Labor"
The American woman prides herself on
her GOODNESS of temperament, and the
Frenchwoman on her susceptibility. When
delight is to give happiness, while the
American woman expects to be made happy
herself. This opposite way of looking At
things makes them as different from each
other as two creatures of the same species
could possibly be.-Coulevain, Eve Trium.
plant"
Were it not. as Huxley says, that 'ths
ignorance of the s~o-called educated classes
is colossal. there might be need for apolos
gy in restatement of the fact that man 10
not descended from the ape. The relation
ship between them is lateral, not lfneaA
both being offshoOts of the same stock, but
each remaining. of course, in very different
degrees Of development. isolated groups %
mamma1s.-Edward Clodd, Thomas Henry
Huxley $500.
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room so grandly as her Priscilla. He said
no, he never had. and the mother was graf
flied beyond measure. but. then. said ne,
her do is sweep out a room" 1t does not
office if necessary. l was one of those
sweepers myself.-Andre Carnegie, the
Empire of Wealth"
1t was once said of a Kentucky orator
ocean, unconscious of the depths beneath
Robertson, The Opponents"
Of seduction and the causes of woman's
weakness have never changed. which fact
proves that ruse and curiosity are among
the immutable factors of the human soul.
Man still succeeds with woman by persuad-
ing her that the tree of life has fruits
which she has not tasted, the favor Of
which is quite unknown to her.-Coulevain,
Eve Triumphant"
Huxley's "episcophagy'' took humorous
form in the story of a country school lad.
who put the mitral valve, so called from its
resemblance to q mitre. on the right side of
the heart. instead of on the left side. on
appeal Huxley let him through, observing,
Poor little beggar. I never got them Uhe
valves correctly myself until l reflected
that a Bishop was never in the right
Edward Clodd. Thomas Henry huxley"
Great Britain has spread the red spots OF
sovereignty all over the world; We have
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-05-18
JAPANESE ROBINSON CRUSOE.

| WRITTEN FOR H SUNDAY REPUBLIC.
News of q veritable Japanese Robinson
Crusoe was brought TO Honolulu by the
steamship China A small island, near Gen
san. off Corea. was the scene of the mans
residence, and seventeen years was the
period of his solitary confinement
When found by a special searching party
of Japanese sailors sent from a torpedo
beat, the wrecked man acted more like a
wild creature than Il human being. He
seemed to have forgotten his native tongue.
and it was with the utmost difficulty that
the sailors succeeded in inducing him to
depart in their company. He was taken to
the town of Sasebo' and turned over to the
Japanese authorities, who attended to his
wants.
He was a fisherman from the west coast
Of the Island of Nippon. When but a youth
he had gone out with his father and some
ether men of their village to fish. Their
sampan was caught in q storm and swept
across the Japan Sea, and after days OF
helpless drifting. vas dashed on the bar
rem shores of the island where the man
was found. of the crew of five men only
he escaped the storm.
Little. If anything. had been left by the
waves. but. with the aid of a knife and sev-
erai OF his fishing lines. he began life on
the deserted isle. Fish was found in abund-
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gentle. restful feeling began to creep
over me.
Just about that time the door opsued
slowly and one of the strangest looking men
I've ever seen came into the room.
AT first sight thought him to be an
Eskimo. but as he came nearer ] discovered
his dress was not fu.. but was composed of
thin, spongy material.
Noticing my lcok OF wonder. he made
this explanation:
II was born in this city, bur have lived
for years on a small inhabited island in
the Indian Ocean. where the natives dive
for the sponges that grow in beds along the
inner portion of the great coral reefs.
These natives are semicivilizsd, and
have discovered the art of forming a cloth
of sponge. by taking the largest and finest
of the sponges they obtain from the coral
reefs. cutting them into slices with keen
knives ard then knitting them together IN
der water by a secret process, which 1
have spent years in mastering.
cloth thus formed is made Id in
pretty much the same style as our own
dress, and a hat of the same material is
fitted with q cell of cool water. which can
be replenished as often as desired. and is
50 arranged that it will drench the suit
at the will OF the wearer when he becomes
hot and dry.
~ propose that We so into the business
of manufacturing these costumes for old
and young. We will lot only make a for
tune in a short time, but will be looked
upon as benefactors. Just think Of what a
blessing one Of these suits will prove to be
to the business man who really has 10 rush
around town on 4 hot day.
NOW in order that you may test its
advantages, suppose We change suits for a
short time"
The drummer paused for a moment to
light his cigar. and then continued.
well. I took the strangers offer, and
within a few moments 1 had put on the odd
costume and the hat. as Well.
Immediately I began to grow colder and
colder until the stranger stepped up to me
and pressed the cell in my headgear when
l felt an icy %drenching all over me and i'm
my limbs began to freeze and my
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ance. and the island was constantly visited
by birds. so. between the two. the man suo~
ceeded in procuring food. He had no timbef
out OF which 10 construct a dwelling, bus
discovered a cave, which he chose as his
place of habitation.
Frequently he would see vessels passing,
and, although he raised signals and often
thought that he had attracted the attention
of the crews. none of the vessels answered
his signals
For seventeen years he lived this sort Of
life on his lonely isle. Not once during all
that time did he have the opportunity Of
speaking with a human beng or even look
ing one in the face. but his deliverance was
at hand
A Japanese happened to visit the island.
thinking that it was uninhabited. When he
saw the dark. hairy creature. with shaggy
name and flowing locks. on the hills above
him. he became terror-stricken and fed.
The latter was almost as frightened as his
visitor. Solitude had instilled into the heart
Of the shipwrecked mar the fear Of any hu-
man being which did not resemble himself
The visitor hurried from the island, and
sailing to the harbor of Nagasaki. there in
formed the PTefectural Government of the
presence of the supposed wild man. A tor
pedo boat was dispatched in search of the
strange man, and succeeded in rescuing him
after some difficulty.
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WRITTEN FOR THE SUNDAY REPUBLIC.
for ~hot-weather wear, with a hat contain
ing a cell of pure. cold water to dreneh the
suit when the wsarer grows dry and hot?'
Two travelling men. seated in the lobby of
the Southern Hotel, had been chatting
about the hot weather. when one of them
put this question to his companion who an
swered with a broad smile and a look of
Incredibly.
'Oh! That's not all. What do you think
Of q man freezing to death while the Their
momete registered away above the hundred
mark
Thu who was asked these ques-
tons laughed heartily.
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The American woman is more feminine in
the atmosphere and surroundings develop
her femininity, or perhaps ii is that she IS
more venturesome. However, that may b.,
in Paris she likes to attract attention ard
admiration in the street. 1t is a pleasure
which she does not get in her own country.
and which she values ali the more accord
ilgly. Whenever a French woman is fol-
lowed persistently 1t always troubles her.
she Is annoyed about it and reproaches her
self as though she were to blame. An
American woman is not disturbed by such
trifles. II often happens that some idlcr.
attracted by her beauty or deceived by her
coquettisE name. mistakes her for a for
eigner on the lookout for adventures. and
follows her for the fun of the thing. Far
from being alarmed at this i!npertinence.
she is flattered by 1t, and most imprudent-
ly slackens her pace and stops to look at the
shop windows. When the follower i'm
agining that he is being encouraged. speaks
to her. she gives him a whitening look and
repulses him with an expression of such
freezing propriety that he retires more or
less abashed. She returns home delighted at
having Inundated an individual of the
stronger sex and conscious of no other feel
ing than that of satisfied self-respect.-
Pierre de Coulevain. Eve Triumphant
The other day a fond fashionable mother
in Michigan asked a young man whether he
had ever seen a Young lady sweep in a
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-05-18
Produce Pretty Glow.

To get a pink and white skin there is no
remedy any quicker than the strawberry
Juice one. But here. again. there is need
for an ounce of common sense. one woman
can rub the berry on her face after she
has bathed IL in warm water. Then she
can wash 1t off again and the result is a
pretty glow. The acid has removed the
stains from the face. Another woman,
having a skin like alabaster. Will be too
pink from the berry. Work slowly and
watch. Tie strawberry is an excellent
cosmetic. taken inside or out.
Mise Louise writes: Will you kindly an
swcr a few questions in your health talks?
How can l rid myself OF blackheads on
my nose and chin? l have three deep creases
~ my throat. caused by my beng so fat
when I was a baby. ! suppose. and I should
like to know what to do to smooth them
out. l shall he very much obliged if you
will advise me what 10 do in these cases ="
For the blackheads. battle the face in hot
water in which there is a teaspoonful of
powdered borax to a half gallon of water.
Hold the water on the face. using soap
first, then clear water. the object being 20
get the pores open.
Cover the face with white ~vaseline and
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Let me tell you the story" continued
the first speaker. 81 was on the top floor
of one of ST. Louis's great office buildings,
waiting alone in the office OF a friend who
had gone out TO meet a friend.
1.-The day was one of the hottest We had
In this city last summer.
"Ambulances were rushing about on hurry
calls to carry the victims Of sunstroke to
the hospitals. while fans and cooling
drinks went away above par.
In order to cool myself / took of my
coat. vest and collar. and. rolling up my
shirt sleeves. allowed a thin stream of ice
water from a cooler near my seat at the
window to trickle over my barred arm.
THE hot feeling gradually disappeared
and / grew cooler and cooler. while a
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whole body gradually assumed the appear
ance OF the pipes on a refrigerating ma
chine
Il was freezing to death with the Their
mometer above the nineties.
That stranger had my clothes on his
back with my money and watch in the
pockets and was silently backing out of the
office.
Il realized that I was the victim OF a
scheme to rob me, but I was rigid and
powerless to move or speak.
Just as l felt the sharp. frosty arrows. I
awoke with a start.
II had fallen into a doze and my head, in
stead of my arm, WAS under the faucet OF
the water cooler, the stream from which
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E4.ITTEN o THE SUNDAY
Once upon a time-this is a true fairy
~story-there lived a girl with freckles.
Her skin was pearly white. one of those
clear. nice skins that invite. Her hair
was light. the kind of hair that usually
goes with fair skin. But she had freckies
They were scattered over her forehead and
her chin and her cheeks.
And they were ON her nose. On the
very tip there was a yellowish blotch
hat looked as though you had touched
Ii with q daub of light yellow paint. o
such a freckleI
Now this girl knew that she could 20
o a skin specialist and have those freckles
ut of. literally shaved off. That the skin
would soon heal and within a month there
you'd be no scar. But she vas a timid
irl and shrank from the pain. Besides 1t
ost too much.
Then she thought of the acid cure.
hat il a method by which the freckles
re burned of. II certainly hurts. and the
III was a born coward.
She wanted to take the freckles of her
elf, and then she could stop If 1t hurt.
Now she had read somewhere that II
ould be done with a cut lemon. This is
What she had read: Lemon juice is the
andmaid of the woman who would have q
Thite skin"
So she procured a lemon and cut IL In
'ater and steamed her face. She set the
n basin containing the water on one
primer of the stove to keep it hot and she
.ade a little cont of a towel, and, putting
over her head, preached the warm air.
uggestions as to the Best
Ways of "Steaming."
She did not let the water boil so as to
jure her lungs. nor did she steam her
&c until she was exhausted. She merely
ought out the perspiration and got the
&c very hot.
The she rubbed the skin with half the
mon and Immediately washed 1t Off with
It water. Finally she amounted her face
tn cold cream lightly and did not wash
on that day for there was not enough
show.
Every time the girl went out she would
II and she was careful OF her skin. It
TX only three applications 10 Danish the
'ckles. But, OF course, being liable TO
m, she viii probably accumulate them
ne day, unless she is careful and removes
nm while they are very faint.
'hese little sun spots are annoying. but,
lily, they are not u great disagreement
I, ess they are large and deep in color.
n IN enc should remove them. beginning
the simple remedies until travelling
ough all the grades into the methods
I are actual operations upon the skin.
would be surprised to know how many
d preparations can be purchased at
& stores for removing freckles. Select
good druggist and put your faith in
ut the most important thing is the
oing of them away, the preventing of
r return. This can he done only by care
eternal vigilance.
here might be another tale told of a girl
wanted a perfect skin and who was
rted with blotches and blackheads.
face and neck We're rough and there
2 those unsightly little spots every
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Down With Warm
Eel Over the Face.

T these she steamed the face and then
ted it with hot water. Oh. the benefi-
results of proper steaming and the
ltul ones of steaning improperly. One
ID remain in a warm room at least an
after the steam plays upon the face
IL would be better to lie down and
a warm towel over the face.
'steaming' is not meant the actual
ig of the face into the direct vapor
e steam, but the process of holding
ace where il becomes heated from the
rapor that is given off as the water
to a boil. Ii should not actually
or this may be harmful to the eyes.
putting on of very hot cloths. one
another. will do just as well, but it
Gus and one requires an assistant to
out the cloths.
red to the care of the face is that
neck. Color and grace count with
elk, and particularly color.
that the vogue for the long neck is
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Benzoin Contracts the
Pores of the Skin.

In buying the benzoin mention TO the
druggist the use to which you are goinG to
put it. namely. for toilet purposes.
The henzoin contracts the pores Of the
skin a little. Be careful afterwards and do
not go out into the air at once. and. when
yen DO SO. rub a little good skin food into
the oren pores Of the nose.
For the neck that is creased follow the
directions given for double chin. using,
however. a skin food for the massage.
= Mrs. ]. asks for a remedy for large. I'M
slightly pimples. For this stewed rhubarb
and a spring medicine are advised. Our
grandmothers took port wine and sui
phur.
Annie r, requests a treatment for white
spots on the nails
These are caused by an injury to the
growing rail. Do not press it at the base
or around the moon with the cuticle
knife. MARIAN M~ARTlNEAU-
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let il remain on five minutes. Wash off in
soap and water. then clear hot water. Your
blackheads will now be largely gone.
II they are very obstinate. and are not
removed by this treatment, press them out
and Immediately wash the face with warm
water 10 which a few drops of tincture of
benZoin has been added.
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Wanted Music

AS I hear your piano very frequently,
Mrs. Fortissimo, 1 suppose that you are up
on musical matters?" -
Certainly. Mr.. Crusty." 9
.'Then do you know who was playing
when the poet wrote. Music Hath
Charms'?'
II 90 not: buy why?" 5=ss
"Weli if you can find out 1 wish that
you would invite that musician to play on,
your plane : fs-ss1s
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High Collars Tend to Cause
a Double Chin.

The practice Of wearing the high stock
has become such a national habit that the
women have stiffened in the neck and really
cannot bend OF turn il. The slightest at
tempt gives them that distressing malay
known as a stiG neck
So, In trying the beauty exercises, be
careful. Be moderate. Lift the chin slowly
and do not exert the muscles too soon.
Remember that a 'crick" in the neck will
be the price of any indiscretion of this
kind.
There is probably not one woman in a
hundred who does not dread the double
chin This often begins to show itself at
the age OF 30. and by IS most women have ii
In q slight form: by 70 1t Is pronounced.
From that age on the chins multiply Until
In later life they are frequently known to
lie In little folds. disfiguring the lower part
II the face.
The cause OF .he double chin is a two
fold one. First. a. can be laid to increasing
avoirJupois Second, to the habit of wear
ing the high collar. which renders the
neck movements impossible and allows fat
to accumulate for lack of exercise.
The double chin is, at all stages. remov-
able. but 1t needs patience and massage.
1t Is true that massage is a developer.
But IL II ia practiced in swift hard strokes
1t will reduce. A vigorous massage under
meath the chin will remove the layers of
fat. But with the massage there must be
exercise of another kind. and this is the
kline Of exercise which is TO be found in the
turning and twisting of the neck and the
bending backward and forward of the head.
The double chin will soon give way be-
fore this kind of treatment and the one
who is reducing her chin can be as rough
az she pleases. for the mass needs vigorous
treatment
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was coursing down my spine with icy eff
feet. This. no doubt, caused my strange
dream of the sponge suit.
But. say. 1 know the sensation of being
almost frozen on a hot day"
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in there are many little exercises for the
lengthening OF the neck. The stretching
process ic the best. 1t is performed by
lifting the chin as high as possible and
throwing the head az far back as one can.
II really does not add anything 10 The length
of the neck. or at least one does not see
how 1t could really do so. But 1t gives
grace end this increases the apparent
length.
Let a woman be able TO turn her head
lightly, and 10 lift her chin well. and her
neck will seem 10 be longer than the neck
of the one who sits with chin rigid and
almost immovable.
1t would surprise you TO note how few
women ever turn the head really. and how
little YOU turn your head yourself.
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woman than the raw material. There i
little logic in it. but it seems to be 50.
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The other day a fond fashionable mother
In Michigan asked a young man whether he
had ever seen a young lady sweep in a