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Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-07-15
The Uses of Temptations.

Temptations are the penalty of man.
hood; they are the sign of progress
upward. Only 4 moral nature can be
tempted. Temptations are the appeals
of the lower nature, the impulses to be
untrue to ones highest vision and to
carry into Il higher stage Of life the
characteristics Of q lower. In the ma
ture Of the case, therefore, they do not
separate US from God. Only yielding
does that. There is no experience Of
human life that lies outside the sphere
Of his purposes Of grace. God never
meant our lives to be artiticially screen
ed from danger. The safe life IS not
the+ sheltered life, but the victorious
life. INFESTED virtue is only possible
virtue. The process Of proving is for
the purpose of approving. Testing
manhood, temptations reveal 1t and
prove its worth.-Rev. Milton S. Little
field, Presbyterian. New York.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-07-15
Breaking 1t Gently.

This is true account of one persons
idea of "breaking the news gently
The cook, whose home was off in the
country, appeared before the powers
above" with letter in her hand.
I'll have to go home for couple OF
days, num-" she said. My cousins
just written to me-" And she handed
over the crumpled bit of paper with an
audible sniff.
Dear Mary" it ran, you had bet
ter come home at once. Your father is
very SICK And it continued with
many particulars of the illness.
At the end was a postscript which,
like the old joke of a woman's T. s.,
had the pith Of the matter.
$50 long as you'll be driving up from
the village you may as we'll bring the
undertaken along with you in the wag-
on."-New York Times.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-07-15

Another rediculus food lad has
been branded by the most compe-
tent authorities They have dis
PEELED the silly notion that one
kind of food Is needed for brain,
another for muscle, and still an
other for bones. A correct diet
will not only nourish particular
part of the body, but will sustain
every other part. Yet, however
good your food may be, its nutri-
ment Is destroyed by indigestion or
dyspepsia. You must prepare for
their appearance or prevent their
comming by taking regular doses OF
Green's August Flower, the favor
lite medicine of the healthy millions.
A few doses aids digestion, stimu.
lates the liver to healthy action,
purifes the blood and makes you
feel buoyant and vigorous. You
can get DR.. Green's reliable rene
dies at D. A. Hendershot's.
Get Green's Special Almanac.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-07-15
THE TYPHOON.
A Chinese Legend of the Origin OF
This Fierce Storm.

This very odd bit is by Chinaman:
"a little schoolboy while on his way
to school one day picked up what
seemed to him a small white pebble.
He put it into his pocket. 1t proved to
be a snake egg, and in time through
the heat of his pocket it Matched out a
young reptile.
"The boy fell in love with it and car
ried it from day to day to school with
him and fed it with part Of his own
lunch until it became too big to be car
ried, when he made nest for it at
home.
"But one day it suddenly grew to
enormous size, and upon the boys ar
rival home he was frightened to death.
when the monster saw what he had
done he was sorely afflicted and re-
fused to be fed, but Immediately put on
mourning by turning his color from
brown to pure black. He crawled be-
side the grave of his departed friend
and lay there for seven days and
nights.
"At the completion Of the seventh
night he came back to his late home,
but the boys old mother was SO en-
ragged at him for killing her only son
that she picked up an ak and chopped
his tail off.
with a fearful scream and lash Of
his bleeding tail he felled the house
and made his way to the Moo Soon San
mountains, where he never shows him
self but once a year, just about the
time when he lost his tail, to come out
and make trouble for the people by Gre
ating storms called the typhoon. This
he does to square himself for losing his
valuable tail"
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-07-15
Sumner complaint Is unusall

Summer complaint Is unusually
prevalent among children this sea-
son. A we'll developed case In the
writer's family was cured last week
by the timely use of Chamberlain's
Collie, Cholera and Dlarrhoea Rem.
edy-one of the best patent medl-
cines manufactured and which Is
always kept on hand at the home of
We scribe. This Is not intended as
a free puff for the company, who do
not advertise with Us, but to b=neft
little sufferers who may rot be
within easy access of a physician.
No family should be Without a
bottld of this medicine In this med
icine In the house, especially In
summer time.-Lanslng, Iowa
Journal. For sale bye. w. Grier
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-07-15
Night Was Her Terror.

81 would cough nearly all night
long," writes Mrs. Charles Apple
gate, of Alexandria, Ind, land
could hardly get any sleep. I had
consumption so bad that If walked
a block I would cough frightfully
and spit blood. but. when all other
medicines failed, three 81 bottles OF
DR.. Kings New Discovery wholly
cured me and I gained So pounds. "
It's absolutely guaranteed to cure
coughs, colds, Id grippe, bronchitis
and all throat and lung troubles.
Price soc and 81. Trial bottles
free at D. A. Hendershot's drug
store.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-07-15
THE ''RouND ROBIN"
No One Knows Origin of the Strange
Term.

Term.
A "round robin is one Of those
documents of which the name is fa-
| miliar to most people, but which IN
commonly few have ever seen or
signed. Every one knows that the
thing which bears so singular nalnC
is communication reLH"li-
STRANGE, warning or the like-the SO
natures to which are written &roI&I
| the circumference of the circle WIZ!
| incloses the body Of the ep!St!r. .:
| radiating thercfrom like the SpoN"S q
a wheel from hub, so that the +"
sponsibility of signing is equAlI}
shared. No one signatory can be AZ
cused of being either the first or IL,
| last to sign. of being the leader or the
whipper in.
The most famous example On RECORD
probably is the remonstrance which
was sent to DR.. Johnson in connection
with lis epitaph on Oliver Goldsmith.
| The doctor had prepared an epitaph in
| Latin, but some of his friends, who
| had also been friends of Goldsmith,
| took exception to it on two grOundS.
| the first being that it did not quite do
| iuStice to the author of the ''Trayeler'
as a writer. and particularly as poet.
and the second that it should be writ
! ten in English. The party of friends
| were gathered around Sir Joshua
Reynolds hospitable If somewhat i'll
90, nd thnnph thnV fn11nI
| themselves in general agreement on
| these two points, no one had the cour-
age to be willing to "bell the cat or,
| in other words, to take the lead III
| tackling the formidable Johr on OH
these two rather delicate matte s. "At
last" says Sir William Forbes, lit was
limited that there could be no way so
good as that of round robin, as the
sailors call 1t, which they make use
Of when they enter a conspiracy so as
not to let it be known who puts his
name first or last to the paper"
The idea was at once accepted, the
address to Dr. Johnson was prepared
and all signed it in the form proposed.
| This very interesting paper is still eX-
tant and is preserved among other
| valuable manuscripts in the library OF
Haigh Hall, near Wigan, the seat of
| the Earl of Crawford. 1t begins, I'VE,
| the circumscribers," and the sigma
lures, written around the circle which
| incloses the address, include those OF
| Gibbon, Burke, Joseph Warrior, Sheri-
dan, Sir Joshua Reynolds, George Col
man and half dozen others which are
nowadays but little known. Johnson
took the remonstrance in good part,
but as to not writing the epitaph in
Latin, declared that he would never
consent to disgrace the walls Of West
minister abbey with an English in
scription! The whole story is emf
nently characteristic both Of Johnson
and his times.
No one has yet been able to give q
satisfactory explanation of the strange
term ground robin."-London Globe.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-07-15
BrutalIy Tortured.
A case came to light that for pei

A case came to light that for per
sistent and unmerciful torture has
perhaps never been equaled. Joe
Golobick, of Colusa, Calf, writes;
"For IS years I endured insuffera'
bic pain from rheumatism and
nothing relieved me though I tried
everything known. I came across
Electric Bltters and It's the greatest
medicine on earth for that trouble.
A few bottles of 1t completely re.
lieved and cured me-" Just as good
for liver and kidney troubles and
general debility. Only soc. Salts
faction guaranteed by D. A. Hen
dershot, druggist.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-07-15
POLITICAL QUIPS.

Let the taxes stay IN the pockets Of
the people until the state requires
them.-Omaha Bee.
Hold up little on this presidency
talk. Sufficient unto 1904 is the evil
thereof.-New York Mail and Express.
The newspapers have done more to
send corrupt men to prison and purify
the workings of government than all
the self seeking politicians that ever
liyed.-Kapsas City Journal. 1.-.E
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-07-15
Danger In Kidney Disease.

Don't delay when the first symp.
toms of kidney troubles appear
Ask your druggist for a box of De-
Bells Kidney Pills. prepared ex-
pressly for Kidney troubles such as
lumbago, backache and all urinary
troubles. A weeks trial will oft
times cure mild cases. Take box
or two and your kidney trouble
will disappear. Sold on a positive
guarantee-No cure, no pay. Price
CSC per box. For sale by D. A.
Henderson,, druggist.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-07-15
Death by Hanging.

This Is the fate of man and wo.
man who meet death by hanging
to a hope, that by chance or lack Of
proper care that they may obtain a
cure for kidney disease. Only the
best medicine should be used, and
we from experience believe, that
DeBells Kidney Pills are the most
reliable on the market. They will
cure you or cost you nothing. Price
CSC. Sold and guaranteed by D.A.
Henderson,, druggist.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-07-15
The rrnS Monte.

The old squire lay a-dying. and his
faithful coachman was summoned to
the bedside. well, john" said the old
gallant. I'm going now on a longer
journey than ever you could drive me"
Never mind. squire; never mind
cried the servant in Il broken voice.
It'll b downhill all the way."-Lon-
don Globe
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-07-15
Silence.

What noble weapon is silence! 1t
turns aside the tempest Of anger. Be-
fore it hatred and malice are abash-
ed, if not defeated. SANDER and de-
traction are flushed in its presence.
The babble of idle gossip soon grows
tired in the face Of it's rebuke. If we
could but keep silence the world would
be rid OF half its evils.-Irish-Ameri-
can.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-07-15

Cut this out and take 1t 10 c. W.
Grier's drug store and get box OF
Chamberlain's Stomach & Liver
Tablets. The best physic. They
also correct disorders of the stom.
ach. Price Is cents.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-07-15
Her Military Taste.

as she fond of the military"
81 should say she was. Why, she has
all her books bound in one color, so
they will be uniform."-Chicago Rec
ord-Herald.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-07-15
CnrecoEnized.

Fortune knocks once at the door of
every man."
eyes, but she's generally very clever
iy disguised. "-Chicago Post.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-07-15
STOMACH DISTRESSED
AFETER EATING

Mr.. John Brooks. Stonemason of
Sistersville, w. Va, a victim OF
nervous indigestion and extreme
nervousness tells of his complete
cure by
DIR. A. w. CHASE'S NERVE
PILLS
Mr.. John Brooks, Stonemason
of Elizabeth st Slstersville, w.
Va says" I think a great deal of DR..
A. W. Chase's Nerve Pills. My
stomach was very weak and refused
to digest food. 1t distressed me af'
ter eating and I was exceedingly
nervous. I got some of tine Nerve
Pills at Grier's Drug Store and
they are fine. They so strengthen
ed my stomach that I eat with
pleasure and digest my food. My
Nerves are steady-I feel generally
strong and rest we'll at night. 1
am glad to recommend the Pills"
soc a box'at dealers or DR.. A. w.
Chase Medicine Co.. Buffalo, N. Y.
See that portrait and signature OF
A. w. Chase M. D. are on every
package.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-07-15

What happy world this would be If
every man spoke as we'll Of his 1--we
neighbors as he does Of his dead ones.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-07-15

Baltimore & Ohio R R.
Ohio River Division.
Time Table In effect May II, 1903.
EAs1 BOUND.
7-O5 A: N. Accommodation
Daily except For Wheeling and intermediate
sunday. points.
1854 A. n. Pittsburg Express
Daily. For New Martinsville, Mounds.
willie, wheeling Pittsburg, Frank.
lin, OIL City, Titusville and inter.
mediate points. Runs solid &c
Pittsbsrg, daily except Sunday
Daily to wheeling.
HISS p. II. Accommodation
Daily except For New Martinsville and Inter
Sunday. mediate points
l:57P. II, New York Express
Daily. For New Martinsville Mounds
Vile, Wheeling, Pittsburg Buha.
10, Washington, Baltimore, Phila,
deiphia, New York and all points
North and East. Runs solid &c
Pittsburg. Parlor car.
4:5S p. n. Accommodation
Daily. For wheeling and intermediate
points.
e:I5 P. N. Ohio valley Express
Daily except For New Martlnsville, Mounds
Sunday. willie, Benwood, wheeling Pitts
burg, Buffalo, Baltimore, Wash.
ington, New York and all points
North and East. Runs solid to
Pittsburg. Parlor car.
WEST BOUND.
s:2lA. Nj. Acc ,mmodatiou
Datly Fo' r,rkersEurg and interrne,
dla- .o'n'~
HIS 4. q. OH SslIrs knrtS..
Daily except Pc =. Mays N"-letta, Park,
eundsJ. ersbuII. Ravens VOID, Milwood,
Pomeroy, Pt. Pleasant, Charles
ton, GalEipols, Huntington, ken.
ova, Ironton, Port SIN outh, Cincin.
natl and all points South and
West. Runs solid to Cincinnati
Parlor car.
I:57 p. n. Kenova Express
Daily For st. Marys Marietta, Park.
ersburg, Ravenswood. Milwocd
Pomeroy, Pt. Pleasant, Charles
ton, Gallipolis, Huntington, Ken.
ova and principal intermediate
points. Parlor car.
S:I4 p, n. Accommodation
Daily except For Parkersburg, Spencer and
Sunday. intermediate points.
6:41 p. NJ. Accommodation
Daily. For Parkersburg and interrs
diate points.
S:25 p. M. Express
Daily except For Friendly, st. Marys, waveJ
Sunday, y, Marietta and PsrkersburR
D. B. MARTIN,
Man'g'r Passenger Traffic.
c. W. ALLEN, 7. P. A.
PS-ksTssurs, VIVA.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-07-15

Never suffer the prejudice Of the eye
10 determine the heart.-Zimmerman.
Arizona republican., 1903-06-29
A FIVE POINTS INCIDENT
In Which One Man Got Badly
 Battered Head.

Andrew Johnson and Charlie Weber, who have been employed at c. U. Col lins' ranch, came to town Saturday night with a wagon and two horses. which they left at the Cowboy. corral. While there they had some sort of an altercation with a man named Kauf- man, but settled it temporarily and came up town.
 Yesterday morning they went to the corral to hitch up, saying they were going back to camp. That is about as far as the story can he learned in a reliable way. except that they again met Kaufman, who hit Johnson on the forehead with something, making d gash that required the taking of sev- eral stitches by the surgeon who dressed the wound.
 After the injured man was attended to he reported the incident to City Marshal Kinney, telling him that when they went to hitch up Kaufman ap- preached them cursing and asked them if they wanted some more of the saTe Urea tment they had received the night before, following up their reply with a blow from a neck yoke. The marshal got a warrant from Justice Burnett and arrested Kaufman, who was re- leased on bond and will be arraigned
Arizona republican., 1903-06-29
LONELY WHITE CHILDREN
Who Live Tn the Islands ofthc South-
 ern Seas.

Of all the lonely white children on the face of the earth, the most lonely prob ably are the two boys who live on the far away, famous Christmas island, which is so tiny that it hardly makes a dot on the map. It lies in the Pacific ocean, more than 200 miles away from the coast of Java, and belongs to Eng land. These two white boys are much like two Robinson Crusoes, for, while there are $50 inhabitants on Christmas island. most of them are Chinese and almost all the rest are Malays. There are only four white men there and three women, so the two boys grow up pretty wild and must care for their own clothes and cook their own food and attend themselves to all the other wants for which most boys look to their mothers and other women.
 Almost as lonely as these boys are four white boys who live on one of the twenty small coral islands known as the Cocos or Keeling group. that lies about 1-200 miles from Singapore. These four boys are better cared for because they have a school to go to, but on the whole they are almost as lonely as the Christmas island boys. There are sixty-eight other boys on the islands. but they are scattered over the whole group. and it often is a days sail from one island to the other, un- less the weather is unusually good. So the boys do not see much of each other. Besides that. all except these four boys are native or Chinese, and there is no: much in common between them and the English boys.
 On the Chatham islands. about 500 miles away from New Zealand. there are thirty or forty boys and girls, all white. who get very little opportunity for ever seeing anybody from the out side world. for ships touch there only occasionally. Most of these children have to help their parents take care of the sheep, which are the wealth of the island.
 There are several hundred white children on the Fiji islands. They go to school with children whose grand parents were cannibals, and they get along very we'll with them. The white boys and girls are almost as good at canoeing and surf swimming as are the native Fiji children and the brown Polynesians, and they have lots of fun In Fiji, although they grow tired of the monotony of their ocean girdIed homes after a few years and go wild with joy when their parents decide to send them 10 school in Englan1 or America.
 On the Tonga islands there arc about forty white boys and girls who arc un- der native king-King George IT,. tho son of King George Tugou. who died nineteen years ago. The Tonga Islands arc under the protection of Great Brit ain. but King George is a real king for all that. and these white children hail him as such with the rest.-Washing- ton Post.
Arizona republican., 1903-06-29
ORIGIN OF NAMES OF CARRIAGES

Omnibuses were first seen in Paris in 1927, and the name is nothing more than the Latin word signifying flor all" "Cab" is an abbreviation of the Italian word cabriola, which was changed to cabriolet in French Both words have d common derivitive- cabriole-signifying a goats leap. The exact reason for giving it this strange appellation is unknown, unless because of the lightness and springiness of the vehicle in its original form. In some instances the names of special forms of carriages are derived from the titles of the persons who introduced them. The brougham was first used by the famoue Lord Brougham, and the pop ular hanson also derives it's name from its introducer, MT. Hanson. Landau, a city in Germany. was the locality in which was first made the style of ve- hicle bearing that name.-Kansas City Journal.
Arizona republican., 1903-06-29
AN INTERRUPTED ISSUE
The Heppner Times Story of the
 Great Flood.

There has been received at this office a copy of the Heppner (Or) Times of the date of June IS, three days after the terrible flood which washed the greater part of that town off the face of the earth and destroyed 800 Of its inhabitants. A part of the paper had evidently been taken from former issues. for it speaks in a per sonal way of many people whose names appear on the first page in the death roll
 There must have been a previous water spout for the Times prints in this issue a congratulatory article un- der the head of: The Timely Rains; Insures Average Crops in Morrow County; Water Spout Did Considerable Damage to Heppner and Vicinity"
 The article would be funny if the rest of the paper were not made up of such a horrible story. It is in part as follows: The abundant rains which fell throughout Morrow county last Thursday and Friday nights will be worth thousands of dollars to the farmers. Previous to this grave fears were felt for the growing crops but now the farmers and everybody m gen. eral gre wearing broad smiles as a con sequence of the soaking rains of the last week. Although the rain came down in torrents in Heppner and vii cinity, veritable water spout. and considerable damage to property re- suited, there is a jubilant feeling just the same as the benefits are much greater than the damage. NeVerthe- less the property loss is much regret ted. The sum total of the dama EOS as result Of the clOudburst will foot up between s3.0oO and s4.OOO. But after all the copious rains will be worth tenfold more than the loss sustained"
 Elsewhere in the paper there appears a legal notice signed by four farmers warning persons against hunting or fishing on their lands. Most of the lands mentioned in the notice disap- peared with the later flood.
 There were many freaks of the flood. One of them is described as follows:
 For distance of ten miles along the valley a great number of glass fruit jars from some doomed house had been carried unbroken- Although the metal tops had been screwed down tightly on the rubber bands. the jars evidently having been empty when they started on their voyage. they were found in every instance to contain about half pint of muddy water How this water could have entered the sealed jars, and by what fortuitous circum- stance the fragile glass escaped injury in a watery tempest which tore trees rom their roots, wrecked large resi- dences and snapped or bent steel bars llke putty cannot be explained"
Arizona republican., 1903-06-29

Gives point to the fact that excessive or irregular eating disturbs the digestion. Nightmare or night hag has it's day time correspondence in the undue fullness after eating, with the belchings and sour or bitter rising so often experienced after too hasty or too hearty eating.
 Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery cures dyspepsia and other diseases of the stomach and its allied organs of diges- ton and nutrition. When these diseases are cured, the whole body shares in the increased strength derived from food properly digested and perfectly assimil- ated.
 -Your Golden Medical Discovery and Dr. Sages Catarrh Remedy have been of great benefit to me- writes (Prof) Pleasant A. Oliver, above mentioned remedies my sleep was not sound digestion bad a continued feeling of misery. I feel like a new man. Any one m need of medical treatment for nasal cataTTh conld do no better than to take treatment of Dr. R. V. Pierce. I know his medicines are all right in this class of diseases"
 Sometimes a dealer tempted by the little more profit paid on the sale of less meritorious medicines will offer the GUS toner a substitute as being ujust as good" as the Discovery" It is better for him because it pays better, but it is not as good for you, if you want the medicine that has cured others, and which you believe will cure you.
 Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets cleanse the clogged system from accumulated impurities.