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Eichelberger's departure, the quiet, scolarly MT. Bannister made what was intended for an attempt at dramatic pulpit antics. Such methods were so foreign to his character that he made but sorry attempt at them. But the attempt was made. Suddenly in the midst of his sermon he stop ped, thrust his hand down into his trouser pocket and flashed out a match box.
 There are in use in Ramsey, it should be explained, certain matches having red, white and blue sticks. They are called "chips that pass in the night" and there is a local tradition that they are used by the village sports as chips in games of cards for money. MT. Bannister's match box was filled with these matches. He held it up and rat tied it over his head, and at the same time laundering denuncia- tions on gamblers. Elder Winter, who sat well down in front to- ward the pulpit, leaned forward in wild-eyed amazement at this unwonted demonstration on the
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downright insanity until after the revivalist had left. Before he went away he exhorted Miss Mon- tross to continue the good work. He told her that if she would go on with it in the proper spirit she could save the town.
 On the Sunday after the evan gelist left, Miss Montross, then clearly demented, started out on her salvation mission. She went to one ot the village hotels and battered on the door in the early morning. When the door was opened to her she told the hotel proprietor that she had two ser mons to preach that day and that one of them she intended to de- liver in his hotel. She was with difficulty induced to go home. From that day on she went from bad to worse until last week it was decided that there was noth- ing left to do with her save take her to the Morris Plains Asylum.
 Her mother, accompanied by Town Committeeman John Ryer- son. started with her on the train, which left at 12:50 yesterday af- ternoon, and there was a pain
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a we'll prepared sweetbread or curry will usually meet with favor. A fillet of beef with mushrooms will always delight the inner man. He will not care for any of the compounds with mayonnaise that women delight in but a simple lettuce or romaine salad with plain French dress ing with a touch of garlic or red pepper.
 To the feminine mind sweet is in dispensable, but not so with man he will be better pleased with good cheese and black coffee, and is sure to wish a cordial, to conclude with, not the creme de menthe, that is woman's favorite but a glass of cognac or benedictne There gre exceptions and some few men like ices and characterless sauces, and now and then a woman that can distinguish at the first morsel between Erie and Ca membert cheese
 Such woman has usually been favored with friends among the masculine good livers and have not become addicted to what are known as "women's luncheons."
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MODERN FABL ES BY GEORGE ADE :::::::: : ;:

Photograph, which she numbered 32 and filed away in Blue En- velope.
 After which she said that would be about all, and some invisible Force seemed to lift him back to the other side of the Car. As he sat there, slowly recovering, 1t occurred to him that he had neg lected to get her Name and Ad- dress and make her promise to Correspond, which was very care less of him. He thought some of making another Try, but she was busy with a Book, other than the one he had given to her, and seemed to have forgotten that he was right there in the same Car.
 Lawrence began to suspect that he lad failed to Entertain her, but such was not the case.
 He did not see her again, but next Month his Friends called his Attention to an Article in an East ern Periodical, written by a Lady who had been Investigating the Intellectual Awakening of the Middle West. She gave Lawrence quite a Send-Off and used his Pic ture. calling attention to the lack of Forehead and the Vacant Ex- pression about the Eyes. She said he was a type of the Middle-Class Materialists, who cared more for Personal Adornment than for Men tai Culture, but as far as she had been able to discover, by turning the Specimen over, under the Microscope, there was nothing
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Lawrence, for such was his Name, had the Fatal Gift of Beauty and he was Wise to the Fact. He hated to turn out the Light at Night and have all his Good Looks go to waste for Hours at Stretch.
 What Nature had failed to do for him he did for himself. He kept his Neck neatly shaved and put Heliotrope on his Eyebrows and drank Florida Water to kill his Cigarette Breath before dash ing into Society
 When Lawrence had polished up his Rings and Stud with a Piece of Chamois and got into his Sack Suit with the up-and-down Stripe and put on his hobby white Hat with the black Band, you may think that he despised himself, but he did not. It was like breaking Home Ties for him to say good bye to Mirror.
 Lawrence was not entirely to blame for being so Popular with himself, A good many of the swellest Dining Room Girls on the Short Line between Herodsburg and Vandalia had fought for the Privilege of bringing him his Ribs of Beef with Brown Potatoes. It is said that even a Piano-Player or a Concert Tenor may develop a case of the Seven and three quarters Hat when the Women get after him, and therefore it is not strange that Lawrence, merely an humble representative of the
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In low, musical Notes, some thing like the Bird.Calls of the Forest, he told her about the House and the Bill of Goods he had sold in the last Town and how he attended Progressive Cinch Parties every time he got back to Saint Louey. She listened with keen Interest and looked him right in the Eye and never once did she call for Help.
 It appeared to be the strongest Ten-Strike of his glorious Career as Depot Flirt.
 She wanted to know all about him, even to the Extent of sound ing him on Literature and the Arts.
 He told her that Dan Daly had Julia Marlowe beat at least a Block when 1t came to putting up lively Show, and as to Books, he couldn't see Lew Wallace with a Spy-Glass, but the Duchess was Warm Stuff.
 His Views carried so much Weight ,nat she began to take Notes in little Book. She asked him how much he made in Com missions and Salary and what he spent on Clothes and Emery as compared with his Outlay for Soul-Food He began to wing a little and realized that he was up against a New Game, but he could not renig after making the first Play, so she Pumped him prop erly.
 Finally she asked nm for
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the community. irrespective of re- ligious creed. His funeral oc- cured in the village on Friday last and was largely attended
 MT. Bannister was taken to Morris Plains on the 9th of this month, a little after the oyangel- ist left town. He was not taken at once to the asylum. He has friends in Morris Plains and he went at first to visit them. Here his health gave way and he was taken to . sanitarium, where he soon became so violent that he had to be removed to the asylum. There he died on Monday last, the direct cause of his death being pneumonia, although he was violently insane and com plete mental wreck from, as Is believed, the great strain of the revival excitement.
 The second victim was Miss Grace Montross. the daughter of MT. William s. Montross, in Ram sey. Miss Montross was wrought up to a high pitch of excitement during the ten days the revival meetings were going on. She did not, however, manifest signs of
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human fortunes than even the Au- tocrat of all the Russias?
 He seems to be chiefly remark able for negative qualities. He has none of the slap-dash devil may-care ways that distinguished Barney Barnato, none of the taste for bluffing that made Hooley eel ebrated, none of Rhodes com manding individuality, no fads, no taste for ostentation, and no nig- ardliness. You could not find a better example of polished, cour- teous, reticent, Well-balanced man of the world.
 A man who has dined occasion ally in Belts Park Lane house says he Is an admirable host; not effusive, certainly, but simple and cordial and genuine. The house itself has been furnished with an eye to the avoidance of display. Perhaps its most striking feature is rockery just off the dining room, which, with the pressure of a button, becomes a beautiful se- ries of waterfalls, delighting the eye and cooling the air. Choice dinners are given there occasion ally, and high and mighty folk are often among the guests, but most of them are business con- nections of the host in one way or another, and women are rare ly included.
 It is dramatic to picture a null ti-millionaire as working harder than any of his employees, and as being obliged to live like Rocke- feller on crackers and milk-pro- viding one can't go to the other extreme and have him light his cigars with thousand dollar bills and have his pet poodle's teeth filled with gold-which last man. Hesitation is a matter of record in the history of Hooley. But,
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BUT THE MAN WHO WILL SUC> CEED CECIL RHODES IS ALMOST UNKNOWN Sc Sc I E 4

unfortunately, this quiet, courte. ous little German Jew does not come up to any of these require ments. He does not even work hard nowadays, and spends good deal of time riding, a recreation of which he is as fond as Sir Charles Dilke. He has succumbed to the Vaccinations of golf, too, and although by no means bon vivant, he seems to get a good deal of enjoyment out of life.
 Reticence seems to be the Belt motto. It is harder to get into his business offices in Bishopgate street.-the finest business offices in the city-than it is to get into the sanctorum of the Bank of England; and as for seeing the man himself on any business short of a million or for some per sonal reason, you cannot even ap- proach his private secretary's private secretary without an in- troduction. The clerks in his em- ploy include several members of the aristocracy, and nearly all of them are Oxford or Cambridge men. Even the office boy is cul- tured.
 Although this South African po- tentate is not as lavish in his gifts as Andrew Carnegie and Pierpont Morgan and has even got the credit for being rather cold toward charity, am told by a man who ought to know that his personal gifts in the name of his firm have exceeded those of the Rothschilds in the last ten years. An intimate associate credits him with having given half a million dollars to broken down South African friends since the war began. It is also said that he pays the best salaries of any employer In London.
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Much attention is being paid at the present time in Switzerland to breed Ing large and powerful race or dogs Tor life-saving purposes. Just as the cele- brated St. Bernard dogs are taught by the monks of the St Bernard Monastery to track out and rescue unfortunate trav- elers who are overtaken by snow-storms while crossing the mountains, and are In danger of perishing so these dogs which are a cross between Newfound- lands and other large breeds-are trained to save men from drowning. In Zurich the other day lfe-saving competition
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From the Chicago Tribune.

EAOlh bhC ObASo0O Aa@DNN~'
 ->OW that Cecil Rhodes is IAI( dead, the richest mil I'M lionaire in Europe, and, s1 perhaps, in the world, is coming out from under cover. His name is scarcely known to the general reader, and his re- markable personality has been quite overshadowed by that of the Colossus, although he vas far richer than Rhodes. But he will be in many respects Rhodes sue cessor, and the fierce light that beats upon throne will soon make him one of the most talked about men of the time.
 His name is Alfred Belt Short and ugly as it is, that name could make an otherwise worthless bit of paper into a check that might be used to shake Wall street and Lombard street to their founda- tions. Whether he is really richer than John D. Rockefeller is a question Belt himself proba- bly couldn't answer. Two men who have been closely associated with him in widely different ways have told me in the last few days that this financier prob ably could not scrape together more than a hundred million dol lars or so just now, although it has been stated in print that he has that many pounds-or, half billion of dollars. Both of these authorities agreed, however, that the end of the war in South Al rica, where this vast fortune has Its roots, would assuredly bring a prodigious increase in the Belt wealth.
 If he keeps on at the rate of the last ten years the world will not have to wait much longer be-
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his guests he will probably consult their taste in the matter of sweets entrees and ices When he is host of a party of men he avoids fancy dishes and indulges in heavy soups highly seasoned entrees and pays great attention to the hors d'oeunes and cheese.
 The mans dinner planned out himself seldom begins with soup. but with one of the foreign appetizers which are winning a place on the American table.
 Cariare, anchories, sardellen and the like are among these which give zest to the appetite.
 The delicate cream soups which women like are rarely mans choice. mock turtle. a good mulligatawny or other rich soup being their choice
 They care httIe for entrees. although
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She Got a Thrlfty Husband.

From the Boston Transcript.
 Mrs. Smith-I reckon our Jane has got ! first-rate husband.
 Mrs. Brown-Well, you ought to bl thankful.
 course, he isn't much to look at, and ht ain't over smart; but there's one thing and that is he's saving. Why. the ver1 first day after the marriage he told Jant she'd better let him take the engagement ring back and get the money returned He said there was no longer any use foi her to wear it now that she was married.
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The Rotten Convention System.

From the Montgomery Advertiser.
 Let us hope that we have seen the last of conventions which, in many cases, are little better than marts where votes and influence are bartered and where the voice of the people is almost unheard. It has almost reached point where good and conscientious people will have nothing 10 do with beat meetings and conventions because they know that will 9. last be made with
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DOGS TRAINED FOR LIFE SAVING

for these dogs took place. Sacks full of sand, equal in weight to that of a boy IA years of age. were thrown into the water, and also some boys, who of course knew how to swim, sprang into the wa ter and initiated the actions of a drown ing man. At a given signal the dogs were let loose and promptly brought both sacks and boys to land, the animal that accomplished his task in the shortest time receiving the prize. According to a correspondent the dogs even succeeded by diving in bringing to the surface the sacks which had sunk in water of some considerable depth.
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WHY DIDN'T HE WAIT?
The Debtor Meant Well, But Wa
 Somewhat Inconsiderats.
From the Baltimore News.

From the Baltimore News.
 Fellow out in my country said Rep resentative Cushman, the state of Wash ington humorist, lowed another fellow s1O. It was due on Tuesday. At midnight on Monday night the man who owed tho money came around, woke his friend up and told him he couldn't pay the ten.
 '''It worried me so I couldn't sleep and I just thought I'd tell you now. ht said
 "'Dern it. said the other man, 'whI didn't you wait till morning? Now l can't sleep either"
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AMSEY, N. J., was strucl

~ AMSEY, N. J., was struck
 lo) about four weeks ago
 JN with what might be 1 called a revival cyclone. The town never had anything like 1t before, and as to the advisabili- ty of having it again, there is some division of sentiment. One person died last Monday in Nor ris Plains asylum, who took an ac- tive part in the revival work and lost his reason soon after the re- vivalist left. Another person, a woman "A years of age, was taken to Morris Plains asylum yester- day noon raving maniac. She, too. had been one of the most ex- cited workers in the revival.
 There are plenty of people in Ramsey who believe that the re- vival excitement was at least the eliminating cause of these two people losing their minds. The first victim was the Rev Carleton Bannister, who for ten years had been the pastor of the Lutheran Church in Ramsey and was very much respected and beloved in
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of "A Widow in Name Only" by Ethel Gilblitz, author of Llnger- ing Love-" and the first thing she knew he was asking her If she wanted something to read.
 Instead of trying to jump out of the Window, she received him with a glad Smile, and moved over so as to make Room. At that Mo- ment he realized that a Handsome Boy with Nerve can butt in at any time or place.
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The Octopus Again

From the Baltimore American.
 .How's this?" asked the customer in the book store. Last week the prices on Bacon and Lamb were only SIPS. and now you have marked them up to s."
 well, you see." explained the book seller. .'since the meat trust began cor nering supplies"
 But the cutomer hurried away to secure matinee seats for "A Texas Steer" before the prices went up at the theatre also.
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A MANS DINNER.
eY MRS. E. G. STEVENS.

"Is it mans dinner or womans "What difference does that make All the difference in the word You would never think of ordering ard serving the same sort of dinner If you were giving it for men that you would if your guests were women
 This conversation grew out of request regarding the bill of fare fc- dinner.
 One might fancy there would be little difference. hut if man has women as
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Vicious in his makeup. He was simply a Case of Atrophied Cere- bellum and ingrowing Nerve.
 Lawrence could not get next to all the Long Words or he would have felt all cut up about it. As it was, he decided not to core spond, even after learning her Name.
 MORAL: Many a Man is up against an Analysis, when he is trying to make Paralysis.
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NCE there was a Sales i" man who handled dried N U Fruits and registered O from Saint Louey. He could tell about the Big Bridge and the Union Station and had a fifteen-minute Spiel touching on and appertaining to Dessicated Apples that was calculated to land the crossroads Wanamaker.
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Have your cuts for advertising made bv Age Herald Engraving Ca.
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Modern Fable of How the Fearless Favorite from St Louis Plugged the Hot>Looker Across the Way >C Copyright 1902 by Robert Howard Russell S
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1902-12-18
The Howard...DOrset
Company in Town.

AS Is customary with numerous
frst-class threatical companies the
Howard.Dorset company who will
be at the Auditorium all week
Christmas week arrived in town
Sunday night and are registered at
the Wells Hotel, and are laying of
resting all the week after a contlnu.
Gus season Of over one year. After
their engagement here they 60 to
Parkersburg New Years week. The
company comes to US highly rec
commended from other cities where
they have played lately In this Sec
tior of the country Charleston,
Huntington, Marietta, etc. 1t Is An
unusual thing for towus of this
size to have good holiday attrac-
tions and Manager Doyle Is to be
congratulated on his efforts In Sc.
curing this capable company of
actors for US.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1902-12-18
WARRING FACTIONS
MAY UNITE ON GREGORY
FOR NEXT SPEAKER,

FAIRMoNT, W. Va, Dec. 10
J1st now the mountain politicians
lof the State are discussing what
will happen when the House of
Delegates organizes at Charleston,
January ID The old plan to give
the counties along the river the
maj orlty portion of the loaves and
fishes has'been broached by several
methods, but 1t does not seem to
go down as easily as In the days
goue by.
Ia this section the situation has
becom clarified. 1t has resolved
itself into a contest between the
mountain counties and Wheel ling,
Parkersburg aud Charleston. II IS
now proposed to unite on Robt. L.
Gregory OF Tyler county for
Speaker and Harry Shaw of this
city for clerk. This has been
practically decided. There are
names being considered for other
Offices and they present strong
combination. The best of feeling,
however, prevails aud the contest
Is going on wit 1out animosity be.
Ing shown.
The mountain men argue that
the river cities have the United
States Senator, Governor, United
States Marshal, United States dis
trict Attorney, two congressman
and the bulk of the spoils thrown
iu. 1t Is understood that Gregory
will have the support of this Sec
tion for speaker, as will Shaw for
clerk. There will be 81 votes in
the Republican caucus and IS per
cent of these are in the hills and
not In the river front cities Be
sides 1t Is argued that Gregory IS
the second choice of members from
the Ohio river counties and will, as
the campaign progresses, add
strength to the cause. -Pittsburg
Dispatch.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1902-12-18
Pleasant Social Occasion.

Mr.. and Mrs. Orion Lazear en-.
tertained very recently, small
company of young friends at their
pleasant home on Diamond street.
The occasion was complimentary
to Miss Alice Young, of Wheeling,
who Is the guest Of friends In the
city. The evening vas most delight.
fully whiled away In a social man
ner cards being the principal amuse'
ment. AT the usual hour the
guests were served with q delectable
luncheon.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1902-12-18

William Caldwell, of Revolt
Iiouary fame, was In the city today.
He represents an extensive whole
sale boot and shoe establishment Of
Cincinnati and Is one Of the pioneer
commercial travellers of the Ohio
Valley: he was looking his "best"
and was as jovial IS Of yore. BE
tentertained q select few Of his
friends during his short soiourn In
TyIer's metropolis In very pleas
ing manner BY relating a number
of original interesting stories, for
which he Is noted.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1902-12-18
BRILLIANT
ENTERTAINMENT
Some Two Hundred Guests We're
Present Last Evening at the
Charity Ball Given in the City
Hall by the Carnation Club.

Brilliant In all its entourage and
one of the SWEETEST social functions
In local society of the holiday sea
son, from every viewpoint, was the
Charity ball given In the City Hall
last evening under the auspices OF
the Carnation club. The spacious
hall was redolent of potted plants
and holiday decorations, all of
which were used with degree OF
llavishness.
The affair, which has been the
topic of conversation in society cir-
cles for weeks, was most pleasing
success In every particular. Fully
one hundred dollars will be realized
from the entertainment, and which
will be donated for charitable pur-
poses The members of this popu.
lar organization deserve much
praise for their untiring efforts In
making the event so grand sue.
cess both financially and socially.
The hours were from 9 until 3
O'Clock and the dance program In.
cluded twenty-five numbers, ju-
dicious arrangement of waltzes,
redowas and two steps, with few
quadrills for diversity's sake. The
commingli G of handsome ladies,
garbed In a manner as to produce
the most enhancing effect of face
and figure, with the young men at
tired In the conventional evening
dress, conspired to produce feast
OF ad m iration at the opening of the
ball, seldom equaled In the city.
The graceful moving of the dane
ers to the rhythm of the sweet
music was an animated and pretty
scene. The dances and intermis-
sions were alike enjoyable, and the
merry laughter OF the guests be.
tokened light and happy hearts
About one hundred couples par
ticlpated in the festivities,a number
OF whom were out of-town guests
1t was shortly before midnight
when luncheon was announced and
the assemblage repaired to the
handsome dining parlors of the
Phoenix cafe and partook of a
sumptuous and refreshing repast.
Music by Prof. Helms full orches
ira.