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Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-06-13
Local News

49,
Fine hammocks at Mccoys Book
Store. 86t
F. S. Lawrence, of st. Marys,
was In the city today.
Rubber stamps made to order at
McCoys Book Store. 8 ct.
W. G. Hays was a business caller
today at Newport, Ohio.
House for Rent.-$15 month.
Inquire at this Office. Sot
Theo Taught, of Witten, Ohio,
was a business caller here today.
July fashion magazines at Nc
Coy's Boot: Store. 8 ct
Coss Bradfeld, of Matamoras,
was calling on friends here today.
The Delineator and Designer for
July at McCoys Book Store. 8 ct.
Attorney F. L. Blackmarr went
to Cameron this morning on legal
business.
Croquet sets, all kinds, entirely
new styles at McCoys Book Store.
8 ct.
The Fourth of July ammunition
wagon can already be heard rum
bling In the distance.
Wanted-Coat maker, at once.
Call or Phone J. A. Burbacher,
Middlebourne, W. Va. SIT
]. w. Arthur, of Middlebourne,
went to Parkersburg this morning
to attend U. S. Court.
c. H. Moffat and l.. T. Shannon,
of Woodsfeld, Ohio, were business
callers In the city today.
For RENT - Nicely furnished
rooms, cool and qniet location. No.
o21 South Water Street. 26.tt
Three weeks from today Is July
the 4th. We should arrange to
celebrate the day at home.
Our physicians and lawmakers
are doctoring effects, instead OF
cauterizing poisonous causes.
F. Martin, of the Martin Drill
ling company, left this morning for
the Wilson Run, Ohio, oil field.
A young msn has a hundred per
cent more chances of going to the
penitentiary than to the presidential
chair.
T. +. Sellers. Jr., of Middle
bourne, left yesterday for Clarks-
burg on a business mission of few
days.
Everybody that has not already
done so, should 60 to the polls at
once and cast a vote for 9 months
school.
Where private property Is more
sacred than human life, Is a bur-
lesque on Jesus to erect Christian
churches.
Miss Eva Wright. of Charles
street, returned this morning from
q short visit with New Martins
willie friends.
Wanted-First class room and
board In private family, In central
part of city, by lady. Apply at Oh
Review Office. 6Stf
Nine tenths of the great people
whose praises the world sings, de-
serves our contempt more than
our veneration.
We are pleased to note that Mrs.
II. A. Wright, Of Charles street,
who has an attack of typhoid fever,
Is convalescent.
When you pay money to the man
whose heart aches for gold, always
put 1t In his left hand-nearest to
the ache. you know.
For Rent-Two rooms for light
house keeping. Reasonable rent
and good location. Inquire at 2e6
north Wells street. 10 1t
At Pittsburg FIVE fatal cases of
lockjaw reaulted from the use of
toy pistols on Memorial Day. 1t Is
interesting to contemplate what the
harvest will be on the Fourth of
July.
]. II. Dodge, general superinten.
dent OF the New England OH and
Gas company, went to Marietta
this morning to spend Sunday with
his son, J. Warren, who Is attend.
Ing college there.
When you don't feel right-are
The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-13

What becomes of the pins?" is a
question often asked, and nobody can
answer. What becomes of the calen-
dars?" might be asked with equal
force, for the number of calendars is
sued annually in this country, like the
number of pins, is simply incredible.
One American patent medicine firm
alone issues 100000 calendars a year
nearly one in ten to the population
OF the United States. That is the rec
ord order, but issues of million or
so are not few, and one big insurance
company sends out between three and
four millions annually.
And yet calendar is never at hand
When it is wanted.
The Calendar Maker Can't Find One.
What becomes of them all, I Won
der?' said the head of a large litho-
graphing concern which turns out
many millions of colored advertising
calendars every year. 1.-THE other day
The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-13

pher who does business with actresses
is up against it worse than any other
man in the matter of giving satisfac-
ton. Don't you believe it! He has
a soft snap compared to my PROPOSE
ton when 1 have to suit a big custo-
mer with a design for a hundred thou
sand or five hundred thousand or
million calendars.
The PhiIistine Pork Packer.
Hiram P. Smifkins, the eminent
pork packer, VINO wallows in the gore
of 10000 pigs per day, comes into my
office and says:
Say, I'm going to place an order
with you for a million calendars for
next year. Trot out your ideas.
don't care for the expense, so long as
you give me something real good and
striking
II get out half a dozen of our best
artistic designs-pictures that are as
dear to me as the apple of my eye,
pictures that make you think of the
earliest buds of spring, and the pearly
dew-drops on the meadows, and the
I've heard it said that the photogIa-
The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-13
THE TYPICAL $$-. -l:
BAQ Room CALENDAR

ner table and pigs being incorporated
into the frame of the hungry citizen.
Thus it is concluded the calen-
dar maker, heaving a deep sigh, that
even our art, humble as you may
think it, is throttled by the Philistine."
Art Calendars the Best ADVERTISE
ments.
The pork packer has plenty of COM
pany railroad manager often wants
locomotive on his calender, a manu-
facturer of fertilizer insists on a
truly rural scene, with a barn and
chickens and pile of his product in
the background, and a company which
insureS people against Burglary likes
a vivid picture of the safe-blower at
his midnight task.
AS a general rule, manufacturers
and merchants who send out calendars
to their customers wish to advertise
their business directly and blatantly.
But this is by no means an invaria BILE
rule. Some calendar buyers like to
get the prettiest and most artists de-
signs procurable, and they only print
I their names upon the calendar in small
and inconspicuous type, perhaps on
the back. Big corporations, especial
ly. do this. They argue that an OBJ
| vious advertisement will be thrown
I lIllO llG MdSlG- paper BdShtl ny hlAAc
out of ten persons who receive it,,
while an attractive calendar will he
used to decorate the office or the
home all the year through, and thus
| insidiously produce its advertising
| effect.
This idea of calendars is being ac-
| cepted more and more every year, and
| the direct advertisements are becom-
| ing fewer and fewer. One railroad
company, which issues a fine art cal
endar famous throughout the trade.
charges 25 cents for it, and sells many
thousands of copies, even though it is
an advertisement of the company's
business. That is a clever and dar-
ing move. Obviously, man will value
the calendar he has bought much
more than the calendar which has
been given to him. But, of course,
this calendar has to reach the top
notch of attractiveness. Each one of
it's four pictures is we'll worth franz
ing, and has, indeed, become a favorite
at the print shops since its appear
ance in calendar form.
Good Business for the Artist.
The making of calendars is a profit
able business for good artists who
know how to hit upon popular ideas
and subjects An effective design will
fetch anything from $50 to $3.50, and
there are historic cases in the calendar
business where as much as $500 or
$500 have been paid. Even the best
known American artists do not scorn
the work, although they will not al
ways sign their names to their calen-
dar pictures.
would an artist with reputation
like that of Charles Dana Gibson, for
example, work for you?" a publisher
of calendars was asked.
Sure" was the reply. Artists talk
The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-13

mating call of the dove, and home, and
mother, and everything else that's
sweet and pleasant. / put these gems
before him, and tell him that any one
of them, in calendar form, would be
cherished in every household in the
land.
HE looks at them and snorts con-
temptuously.
"'Great Scott!' he shouts. why do
you show me those darned things? I'm
not an art museum! I'm pigs! Give
me something with pigs on it!'
"It is in vain / assure him that our
types of American beauty would turn
Gibson green with envy, that our pic
ture of the baby and the kitten must
inevitably drive every mother to tears
of pure delight, that our battle scenes
would waken martial ardor in the
breast of every true American. 1t is
of no use. He insists on pigs, and we
have to give him pigs. Imagine the
chaste beauty of a design which in
cludes pigs 'au naturel,' pigs in vari-
Gus stages of dissolution, pigs in tins
and pigs in sausages, pigs on the din
The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-13

a lot about the dignity of their art,
but I've yet to meet the artist who
scorns the Philistine's check. Mr.. Glib
son has made a good many advertis-
ing calendars, l believe, and he still
issues calendar of his own every
year.
Sometimes" the publisher went on,
"a customer will come to us and say
that he wants a calendar designed by
a famous artist whose work he hap
pens especially to admire. He will
take nothing else, and even if the
artist is willing to do the work, which
is not always the case, the cost is
frightful.
Il heard of a rich Chicago mauufac-
turer who paid $1,000 sketch to
well-known French artist for a very
ordinary calendar (which made no inn
preston at all on the public. Another
man went to a rival of mine and de-
manded a calendar illustrated by
Leighton, the former president of the
Royal Academy. 1t was impossible
to get it, A representative was sent
to England to see Leighton, and to
offer him a. big price. He had too
much on hand and refused the COM
mission"
But it is not often that the prospec-
tive buyer of calendars is so ambitious
and so anxious to patronize high art.
"I remember" said this same pubs
Usher, receiving a visit from a we'll
known millionaire who does a great
business among the farming popula-
ton in the Middle Western states.
He was a good customer, and 1 was
anxious to please him. He had exc
crably bad taste, and the calendars he
had selected in former years had not
been popular. l was delighted, there
fore, when he chose one of the pref
tiest designs l showed ilim-a pastoral
scene with a Vatican shepherdess
holding her court as Queen of Love.
But, just as 1 was congratulating
myself. he nearly fioored me by TAX
ing half a dozen photographs out of
his pocket and saying:
"Ill take 100000 and perhaps more;
but / want you to fix up the design a
bit first. I'm thinking of combining
business and pleasure. These are by
girls pictures, and / want 'em worked
into the calendar in place of those shep-
herdesses. II will be a pleasant sur
prise for them-sort of delicate compli-
ment, don't you think? James the eld-
est, so make her the Queen of Love,
and the others can be her maids of
honor
II looked at the photographs, and
saw that all the girls were homely.
James was positively ugly. If the call
endar went out in that shape, it would
certainly be failure and the man
would blame us. So l temporized, adj
mired the photographs and advised
him to get the girls consent before he
published them. He didn't like it,
said he wanted to give the girls nice
surprise-but at last he agreed. As
l expected the girls were sensible
enough to turn down his scheme"
The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-13
By GUY T. VISKNISKKL.
Copyright. 1903, by Guy T. visIknisl<ki.

was able to set UP as a merchant in
Mott street. Then. as time went along
ard his savings grew, he began look
ing around for a wife. He found her
in the belle of the colony, and soon
thereafter the street was merry With
the wedding festivities.
For five years the merchant and his
wife were childless, and then one morn
ing, when the man went into his store
to serve his customers with tea, his
face was filled with a great joy.
at is a son." he told them.
A little over a year ago, when the
boy had reached his sixth year, there
suddenly overlook him what his father
had Offered up many a prayer in the
Joss House to avert-a spinal disease
that was hereditary on the fathers
side.
Chinese doctors were called in. one
after another. They could bring no re-
lief. Then. although he was a good
Buddhist the father turned to Amer
lean physicians. but they, too, shook
their heads. Your son Will not 1--we
the year out" they said.
The merchant was beside himself
with grief. Money he had a-plenty.
but only one son-and the boy was all
the more precious 10 him because the
mother had died while giving him life.
How 10 save the child was the one
Thought that ran through his mind.
Al last there flashed to his memory
a day when, far up In the interior or
Chlna-far away from his home IN can
ton-he stood with his father ln "a
great. rich black field az the foot Of q
towering mountain. His father had
taken him there that they might gath
IN certain roots with which to cure the
child of hls fathers brother. who lay
nm with some spinal complaint, ANA
al they gathered the roots his father
mad told BIN that those same roots hnd
been used in he family fog geaei atloas
The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-13

means running and lots of 1t, and that
in time means healthy boys and girls.
"Saunka' is a facinatig game to
yellow boy or girl. First little girl
is chosen and stood in the center or
the street. Then four boys are sta
toned around her as her guards or
officers-two in front and two behind.
Next, the remaining children divide
equally into two bodies, and each lines
up opposite the other on the curb.
After all are in their places, the score
keeper, usually an older person, claps
his hands or says Ego" in Chinese,
and the head of one column runs in
straight line toward the little girl,
who is called queen, in the center of
the street. He tries hard to touch
the queen, and maybe he does, but
aore likely the officers who face MIN
I'VE him out of reach of the queen.
10y do not use their hands, but their
les to do this.
Next, the head of the opposing col
unn tries to do the same thing. and
the two officers facing him likewise
endeavor to keep him from accom-
plishing his object So 1t goes down
the line, everybody taking his turn
at trying to touch the queen.
Twenty touches are usually tried
for. At the end of that time the score
keeper announces which side has the
most touches, and then the victors
bear off the little girl to be their
queen. AS many as fifty children often
take part in the game, but no matter If
there are only enough for four on
side the game is played regularly
whenever the weather will permit.
The Tricks OF the Yellow Children.
But whil7 "saunka" is similar in
many respects to not a few running
games Of American children. the Chi
nese boys and girls at play differ from
Yankee youngsters in that they do not
carry teasing to the point of making
any one feel hurt or cry. Indeed, the
little yellow .rompers often maintain
an amusing dignity through 1t all. The
most a boy does in the way Of devil
ment is TO sneak up behind a girl and
tickle her on an ear; or get off an
other boys slipper and make him run
barefooted after H.. or seat himself on
the curb and call TO a fellow playmate:
"Que 20 sueng!" Come. and I'll tell
you a story
The victim unsuspectingly squats by
the eide of HIS tormentor
Nom Qu chef" (when / came over,
begins the boy. when suddenly the lis
tcner Is pulled backward by the speak
cr'a confederate who has sneaked up
from the rear, the speaker himself grabs
the victim By the heels, and forthwith
he ID carried down the street, the Two
mischiefsmakefs shouting ana lsushinR
The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-13

and had never failed to cure the trou-
BILE. He had been a mere boy at the
time-the years had all but obliterated
the incident from his memory. But
now it had all come back to him, and
the father took fresh hope. He went
into the room where the child lay, peek
ed, gradually dying.
Light of my eye" he said, II am
going far away to get a wonderful root
that will make you we'll again"
Then he committed the boy to an
aunts care, and few days later, when
he had received his return papers, he
China.
In four months he was back in New
York. In the meantime he had gone to
Canton, spent days in a river boat, then
travelled on foot many miles until the
field where the wonderful root grew
was reached. He brought back great
bundles of the herb and a certain kind
of ginseng for giving strength to his
boy after the other root had accom-
plished its purpose.
He returned to find the child all but
dead. He saw that quick work was
necessary and he wasted no time
Straightway he set to work and shaved
down root after root, and then, when
he had the right quantity, he made a
bath of it. Into this he placed the
wasted little body of his son. and after
the prescribed length of time put the
child in its bed again. This treatment
the father kept up for two weeks. and
after each bath the child seemed to
take a firmer grip on life. Then one
day the native doctors were called in.
wonderful" they exclaimed. The
boy is all but we'll again"
To-day the boy is running around
the streets of New York's Chinese col
ony as healthy and robust as any boy
can be. But not one of the many white
customers of the fathers tea store
know how the cure was made possible
by parental love. They only know that
he was cured-the father shows them
an inscrutable countenance when they
speak Of the lads remarkable recovery.
The Sacrifice OF Mother.
The doctors at a certain hospital
IN New York can also give testimony
concerning parental love among the
Chinese.
some few months ago a boy from
Mott street. Lu Long How BY name,
went 10 town 10 visit cousin who
runs laundry. While there he ac-
cldentally backed up against red
hot stove, and before be could move,
Ills back was badly burned.
THE boy was taken 90 the hospital,
where despite 40 that could be done,
~ burns would not heal and the
The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-13

child's life was despaired of.
THE only thing that will save him, :"
I the doctors told his father, lis skin
grating"
After the Chinaman had grasped
what skin grating meant, he put a.
hand to his throat, and the next mo-
ment was standing naked to the waist
before the doctors
Take the skin off there" he said
simply, pointing to his own back. And
the mother, who was present, quietly
made a similar offer.
The next day nine square inches of
skin were removed from the woman
and eleven inches from the man, and
neither would allow cocaine to be
used to deaden the pain.
1T was one of the finest cases Of
nerve sustained by parent love that
have ever known" said one of tbs
surgeons who performed the opera-
tons. And 1 am happy to say tn
the parents got their reward-Ls
Long was sent back to them well ana
sound"
How the Parents Guard the Chill
dren's Health.
To him who knows the American
Cinnamon well, their love of their
sons and daughters is also displayed
in their every day solicitude for the
health of the youngsters. He who lets
his children be weaklings is a weakling
in his love" is a rought translation of
a Chinese proverb.
In their effort to keep their children
strong and healthy the parents of
Chinese colonies, notably those in
New York and other eastern cities,
have set a play-hour for the little
ones. AS a result, long before white
boys and girls are beginning to rub
the sleep out Of their eyes of morn
ings, the yellow boys and girls of
Chinatown are romping up and down
the streets in all the abandon Of hap
py childhood. This very early play
hour--in summer it is 1870 o'clock--is
due to two things. The parents like
the streets to be clean and also free
Of vehicles when their offspring romp;
and at such an hour no white
devil with a little black box is likely
10 be slipping about in an endeavor
to point the eye OF the box at the chill
dren
Here. with the fresh morning air
tossing their little pigtails about, and
urged on by the grown-ups 20 health
ful exertion. Wan Sing. Lee Vow,
F0ng Dow. Lee Chung Lee Nov and
their little sisters, Wan Hong Nee
Neod. Huey Chow. Dung Mann, Nom
Kong and many others with equally.
funny names. play the favoriie 0f an
their games-"saunka" And 10 ls
fayorits with the parents. TOO. Tor t.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-13

I saw it estimated that a hundred mill
lion calendars are issued in the United
States annually. That's an absurd
ly low figure. The big orders of the
Well-known concerns when put to-
gether would exceed it; and then you
must remember somebody is issuing
calendars in every city, town, village
and hamlet throughout the country.
Take the total all the way from the
insurance company, which issues its
million, to the village grocer, who
issues his hundred, and you will find
it is enormous. 1t must be al least
enough to give every man, women and
child in the United States three or
four calendars apiece.
But where do they all go to?
Whenever a man wants a calendar
there never seems to be one handy.
The other day [ had an argument with
my wife about the day of the month,
and when I wanted to convince her
that 1 was right 1 found that, though
I make millions of calendars every
year, I hadn't the sign of one in the
house"
The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-13
BEGGARs WHO MAKE BETS.
Officials Unable to Check Gambling
in English Workhouscs.
From the London Mail.


From the London Mail
The Birmingham (England) guard
ians are quite at loss to deal with
the gambling which is known to pre-
vail among the inmates of their work.
house and to which one of the pau
pers recently drew the attention of the
local government board. So long as
the discipline of the house is not in
fringed, the officials say they have no
power in the matter.
Many of the old inmates were pros
porous booknnakers and we'll known in
the sporting world, some having kept
a carriage and pair in the food tide
of success, and the ruling passion is
undiminished. AS paupers even they
have plenty of opportunities to bet.
Pensioners are allowed to retain a por-
ton Of their income, relatives provide
many of the men with money, and
there is always some one out on leave
who can act as agent for the book
maker. Then there are thoughtful
friends of the pauper who see that he
has a good supply of newspapers.
Workhouse officials recall an incident
illustrating the lengths to which the
inmates will go. Some time ago 1t was
found that they were persistently cut
ting the buttons from their garments,
and the nuisance became so aggravated
than an inquiry was held. II was as
certained that the old men, being tenn
porarily pennless. were utilizing the
buttons as counters 10 continue their
gambling transactions.
As TO the present trouble, the guard
fans are disposed 20 discount the story
OF the pauper who alleges that one OF
the employees OF the work house owes
him 81, his winnings IN seven bets
made on the last Derby. The old mans
tale was circumstnntiai He produced
a betting book filled with entries ID
what he insisted was the handwriting
~ the nnleiaL Ana Dc further allaaad
The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-13

Ask the average missionary in the
Chinese quarter of an American city
whether the Acknowledged grown-ups
care for their children, and he will an
sWer in a voice of mingled astonish-
ment and sadness:
My dear brother, these people come
oI race who sell their girls as slaves.
now can they love their children"
But despite the fact that he works
among Mongolians, the missionary
frames his point of view in much the
same manner as does the average
american. A Chairman. pagan Of a
thousand ancestors, is not in the habit
oi taking a white preacher into his
confidence. Both the missionary and
me iayman must judge the Chinaman
W what he shows thenl-a stolid, in
SsSSrutable eountenance and a tongue
va IS well brided.
'h'e IN rare while, however.
ccttlle devil comes along to whom the
TyH'hdnan VIII reveal his tender side.
u" may be moved 10 do this for many
s'aohs-the white man can speak the
10 suage OF the Flowery Kingdom; he
- - protected the laundryman from a
,,"a OF nagging boys; or he has
,.'Nh John for years. and constant
~ RECOURSE brings about the revelation.
Us 10 men Of this sort that such stor-
or the chinaman's love OF his Off
uhs are told az that one which has
v''.h ana influential merchant Of New
'N'N CHINATOWN for itH hero.
"rehter Love Hath No MANI
r. .H particular merchant came from
some twenty years ago. From
tat he started in Ironing shirts
s-ssfg followed him. and soon 70