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Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-03-06

McCoy's Book Store has been
very much improved In appearance
by beautifully patterned linoleum
which now covers the floor, adding
greatly to the neatness and cleanli-
ness of the room. This store has
been pronounced by travelling men
as one OF the largest, neatest and
most complete In the State, and
certainly deserves the large patron
age which the energy ard progress
siveness Of the manager, Nh. Thos.
J. Mccoy, has attracted to 1t.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-03-06
For Catarrhal Deafness

You will find Bunsen's Cararrh
Cure just the remedy you need
Avoid drying inhalents, use that
which cleanses and heals the mem
brane. Bunsen's Catarrh Cure Is
such remedy. Cures catarrh
easily and pleasantly: contains nc
mercury or other injurious drug. I
Is quickly absorbed and gives In
slant relief. 1t opens and cleanses
the nasal passages. Regular size
CSC. For sale by D. A. Hender
shot.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-03-06

The recent Mardi Gras In New
Orleans, 1t Is said, was attended by
the largest crowd that ever attended
the big show, included In which
were quite a number of Sistersvll
1ianS
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-03-06
NOTICE OF APPLICATION
FOR FRANCHISE

Notice Is hereby given that the
Parkersburg and Ohio Valley Elec
trio Railway company will apply to
the council of the Town of Friend
| ~. in the county of Tyler and State
OF West Virginia, at meeting OF
council to be held at the counciI
chamber In said Town on the 31st
day OF March, 1903, at 7 o'clock p
M, for the franchise. right and
privilege of constructing and oper-
ating an electric railroad upon,
through and over the streets. alleys
and public places of said Town, and
also for the construction and oper
alton of an electric light plant In
said town, upon, across and
over the streets, alleys and public
places of said Town.
Notice Is further given that a
copy Of the ordinance which said
Electric Railway company will
present to said council TOR the
franchise of operating said electric
railroad and electric light plant, has
been fled with the recorder of said
town of Friendly.
Notice Is further given that at
said meeting so to be held at said
council chamber on said 3Ist day
of March 1923, an opportunity will
be given any citizen or corporation
interested in the granting or re
fusing of said franchise, to be
heard
PARKERSBuRG AND OHIO VALLEY
ELECTRIC RAILWAY COMPANY.
By V. B. ARCHER,
c. L WILLIAMS,
T. J ANDERSON,
W. R SMITH,
WI SMITH,
john H. Mccoy,
CLYDE B. JOHNSON,
E. R. B. MARTIN,
R. J. A. FOREMAN,
J. D. LIVINGSTON.
Incorporators.
224 I'm
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Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-03-06

OF IncOrpOratOrs ana IncOrpOraiOrs
and Stockholders Meeting Of Par
kersbure and Ohio Valley Electric
Railway ComSany.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-03-06

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NEW BOOKS.


If the reader will accept the statement
that Mr.. Gellett Burgess and MIR. VIII IRWIN
have no moral, psychological or literary
end in view in writing "The Reign of Queen
Jsvlr (McClure, Phillips Coz, he may get
n good deal of enjoyment out of the book
He will at any rate taste condensed ex-
tract of slang, old and new, that may or
NAV not crafty his palate. The book seems
10 be an outlet for the boisterous spirits
of the authors, boisterousness like that
with which town crowds greet college
athletic performances or pranks,
O. seems the chief object and in the con-
Meeting story from which the short tales
bra, CHI cut there is little besides action to
be found. The intercalated short stories
are humorous The fun generally is not
oyerre fined, but it il mere horse play,
described in the language of the street
and il is absolutely free from suggestive
ness or mpropriety. There is plenty to
laugh at, and we should not be surprised
if the book were to attain great popularity
among those whose animal spirits are
easily keyed up to its high pitch of carni-
val fun. II is painful to think, however,
that the British public may take this inten-
tional fooling for a picture of American
manners.
The sun., 1903-11-25
Mark Twain's Jumping Frog.

Mark Twain long ago reached the point
where whatever he said, no matter how
serious, was laughed at as being excru-
ciatingly funny. He has now attained
sort of voltairean apotheosis in this life
when anything he does is deemed right and
proper This explains the publication of
aThe Jumping Frog" which consists of some
Introductory and concluding remarks, of
the text of his Jumping Frog story, of n
French translation of the same, and pretty
good one, too, in spite of the authors in
gratitude. and, finally, of Mr.. Clemens &
word for word translation into English of
the French That is funny but unfair.
There are pictures, and there is a curious
story of DR.. van Dyke and the Greek ver-
sion of the frog.
The sun., 1903-11-25
TpnnNsOn's .JCtSan,.

The school of cfrontery that has gained
n Soothold in criticism, bellies lettrcs and
fiction seems to be invading other literary
fields. The propriety and the delicacy of a
publication like "Tennyson's Suppressed
Poems" Harpers) collected by j, {. Thomp-
son is surely questionable, but what can
he said for the imper, ire nee of the editor 3
nreface? "Tennyson's place in the liter
arv hierarchy is as yet indefinite; he has
va, to stand his rials at the bar of posterity
and the verdict will be given, not on what
he hoped he had done, but on what he did.
Here | have collected some three score
counts in his indictment for or against.
as the reader shall decide,
With the seventy years output of Tenny-
sons muse, and no stinted output at that,
to Judge him by, posterty could very well
do without Mr. Thompson's ghoulish ferret
ing. The pieces he reprints bear on their
face the authors good reasons for with
drawing them. Some are youthful pieces
like his prize poem "Timbuctoo," others
personal attacks on men which he felt had
no place in poetry, others failures that
almost show the readers why Tennyson
was dissatisfied with them, All are above
the level of the successful poetasters OF
the day, but none can affect Tennyson 8
reputation in the least They are literary
The sun., 1903-11-25
UPTOWN MOVEMENT BRISKER.
Social Register Records Many Changes
OF Residence.

Tho new number of the New York Social
Reristr, which appeared yesterday, shows
that there had never been 80 wholesale a
changing of residences among those who
are listed in the publication, 1925 families
having moved in the last year.
study Of the book also shows that very
few residences are left in the area between
Nineteenth and Thirty-fourth streets, leav-
ing almost an oasis in the Washington
Square district. The centre of New York s
fashionable population has moved uptown
in the last year considerably more than
the usual block year, The largest in
crease has been in Fortieth street and on
the east and west sides above Fifty-ninth
street The increase in Fortieth street, it
is explained, is due TO the occupation OF
new bachelor apartments.
The book records $40 marriages and 800
deaths. a slight variation from the figures
for the previous year. The scope Of the
pubIioa,o has been extended, and now in
cludes Pittsburg and the Southern cities
from Richmond to Atlanta.
The sun., 1903-11-25
New Holiday Editions.

One of the most celebrated books in lit
erature, book more quoted from than
read, we imagine, in spite of the countless
editions published, Count Baldassare Cas-
tiglione's IL Lbro del Cortigiano,' is re-
issued in Mr.. Leonard Eckstein Opdycke's
translation by Charles Scribner's Sons as
The Book of the Courtier by Count Bal
desar Cas-, igione." 1t is among the
handsomest products of the De Vinne
Press in Typography, in makeup and in
illustra ion a book put together from
the booklover's standpoint entirely. AL
though now, perhaps. only an authors
book" it's popularity in the century in
which ii appeared was amazing. Within
a few wears it had been translated into
the principal languages of Europe, and Mr..
Opdvcke can count up 40 editions in his
photography. The annot otations are schol-
ary and full. The book makes slnpt uous
holiday gift.
All of thirty years have passed since
Secretary John Hay, then Secretary of
Legation at Madrid wrote his pleasant
description of Spain in "Castiian Days"
Things move slowly in SPAIN and the
description is not only as entertaining
now as then, but is practically just as
true. The book is published again by
Hought on, MifIlin Il Co., with many wash
drawings by Mr.. Joseph Pennell, who
here turns his back on his well known pen
and ink sketches They are interesting
as impressions. 1t seems an impertinence,
however, to leave out n part of the text
because Mr.. Pennell could not ilhlst rate
it, Surely Mr.. Hays literary work is OF
higher value than Mr.. Pennell's art.
The admirable folklore collection of
Games and Songs of American Children.
made twenty years ago by Mr.. William
Wells Newell is published in new and re.
vised edition by the Harpers. The new
matter added is about one-siXth of the
original book 1t will interest children
and still more those who are called upon to
nmuse children, while it will satisfy the
most exacting scientific folklorist.
William Morris's story Of "Pygmaion and
the Image" from "The Earthly Paradise"
with the four pictures by Burne-Jones
and Morris's portrait by G.. F. Watts for
illustrations (R II. RusselD, makes as dainty
and artistic a gift book as any one could
wish.
Mr.. Edmund Gosse in an introduction
tells us that he secured the London book
shops to find copy Of William PENIS
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british sightsecrs In Italy.

volume on Italy, far better In con cep-
ton than in execution, has been COM
piled by Mr. II. Neville Vaughan in "The
Book Of Italian Travel 15sO-l90O" Grant
Richards; F. P. Dutton Il Coz 1t begins
with accounts of various travellers who
have visited Italy from Chaucer to Grant
Allen Among these are Frenchmen and
Germans and few Americans. but the
greater number naturally are Englishmen
Then follow extracts from what they had
to say Of the things they had seen, arran ged
by cities, beginning with Venice and end
ing with Naples. 1t is here that more dis
elimination would have helped, No notice
at all would have been better than the
The sun., 1903-11-25
GainsbOrOugh.

Another short biography Of Thomas
Gainsborough" comes to us from George
Bell h Sons (Macmillans). 1t is written by
Lord Roland Sutherland Cover. and is a
much better piece Of work than the same
noble authors life of Reynolds. There is
garrulity, to be sure, and the tendency to
wander OF into accounts OF the persons
painted by the artist, but the thread of the
story is retained pretty well, The pictures
are very numerous-a hundred or more
and serve to identify the paintings de-
Set ibed; in the present state OF pictorial
reproduction. however. something better
than these process pictures could have been
turned out at no greater expense.
The sun., 1903-11-25
Booth
Tarkington's


People who like things that enter
tain will be charmed with Cherry.
Says the Chicago Record Herald:
"It is a lively, witty, joyous comedy,
which will increase Mr.. Tarkington's
reputation" The Rochester Herald
thinks that "Mr. Harrington is to be
congratulated upon this altogether
original comedy, and for the creation
of character unique in modern
literature"
The sun., 1903-11-25
Georgia Reprints.

Two interesting historical volumes come
TO us from Atlanta. One is facsimile
reprint Of Thomas U. p. Charlton's "The
Life OF Major-General James Jackson
(J. T. Doonan 4 Coz jackson was Revo-
Iutionary soldier. and after the war Repre-
sentative and Senator in Congress and
Governor Of Georgia. The LITE" was
written room after his death, and with
the letters and documents contained In 1t
ia an important contribution TO Georgia
history. The book had become extremely
rare.
The other hook from the same publishers,
-Miscelanies Of Georgia. by Absalom H.
Chappell, also an old book, is written in the
fine. sound English that once was more
The sun., 1903-11-25

guide book remarks about many towns,
and the o,mpiler seems blind to anything
expressing his authors individual i'm
pressions. When it comes to statement
of mere fact Baedeker is surely more trust
ny than Stendhal or Goethe. The
British have the lions share in the selec-
tions The authors view that -in that
country very little has altered since the
Northern travellers first journeyed there in
the seventeenth century" hardly seems
to accord with the facts, even when all
allowances are made.
The sun., 1903-11-25

Some Fruits of Solitude" a book that was
very popular in it's day. The book is now
issued, very prettily gotten up and with
quaint cover, by the H, NJ. Caldwell Com
pany, Boston
A short article in dialogue form, attrib-
uted to William Makepeace Thackeray,
and processing to be reprinted, so far as we
can make out. from the publications of
bibliophle society, is published with the
title Reading a Poem" by the A. Vessels
Company. If it is by Thackeray NJ did
well to suppress it, and it is pity that any
one should resurrect the piece now.
The sun., 1903-11-25
THE
MAIDS OF
PARADISE.

Unlike Mr.. Chambers's last book,
which dealt with American scenes
and people, this, his latest romance,
is laid in France at the time of the
Fr.nco-P Prussian war. The reader
is carried alternately from the heart
of the fighting to remote and peace
full French country places. The
story tells much of the plot and
counterplot of German and French
secret service, but the interest centers
in the true romance, a love story of the
kind only Mr.. Chambers can write.
The sun., 1903-11-25
First OF the Tuesday Dances.

The first OF the Tuesday Evening As
sembies for this season was given last
night at Delmonico's with full attendance.
The patronesses, Mrs. Hector H. Have
meyer, Mrs X. l.. Gilbert, Mrs. Thomas h.
Wheeler, Mrs. Elbert A. Brinckerhof. Jr,
Mrs, Guernsey Curran, Mrs. Frances Craw-
Iord, Mrs. Gerard Warriner, Mrs. Frank
NnIeS Nnwn! Mrs nv Knsse Saron a. NoWes " Wioos s
S7csived
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Good ~! g. =! ~ IL eGsiD! g.!
~ ~ DEN In Malnet

common than it is now. The author
essays deal with the Oconee war, with the
Yazoo fraud, and for this we have Joel
Chandler Harriss assurance that 1t is
authoritative, with the descriptions Of
many parts Of Georgia at the beginning
Of the last century, and biographies OF dis
tinguished Georgians. The essays are in
and scholarly
The sun., 1903-11-25

curiosites at most and that ia the only
excuse Mr.. Thompson can have for collect
ing them. His contention that they are
needed for an estimate of Tennyson is pre-
posterous. A poet is judged by his best
only, or his best known. Otherwise where
would VOL dsworth be- or even Shake
sppa re?
The sun., 1903-11-25
HESPER,,
By Hannlin
Garland.

A novelist, speaking of Hamlin
Garland's new story recently, said:
"When I read Hesper 1 can feel the
wind come down the canyon and can
see the mountains rise before me-"
One of the charms of Mr.. Garland's
novel is that the reader is irresistibly
made to feel the exhilaration and the
beauty of outdoor life depicted. As
an antidote for crowded streets and
noisy cars, read Hesper.
The sun., 1903-11-25
Compliment 10 the 100 Prosecuters.

When jury went out yesterday and {
General Sessions calendar had been =,
depleted by adjournments obtained by
counsel for defendants that no other case
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.uas1 90. r.sr-.e~s H H...s
PUBLICATIONS.
Harpers Book News
LETTERS
.HOME: =.
A NOVEL,.

As picture of New York, viewed
from the varied standpoints ofpeople
from all parts of the country, this,
w. D. Howells's latest story, is
remarkable piece of fiction. As
love story, it will satisfy every de-
mand of its readers, and as an ex-
ample of the wonderful literary abil-
ity Of its distinguished author, it
will take its place as one Of Mr..
Howells's best books. Every person
who has ever been in New York will
recognize his thoughts and feelings
in some Of its passages.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-09-30
a Valuable Bulletin.

Washington, Sept. 26.-Owing TO
the great public demand, it has just;
been announced that under the joint
resolution of Congress, adopted at
the last session, reprint of the
report, issued by the Department. of
Agriculture, on the diseases of the
horse" is now in press, and will soon
be issued. There has probably been
more demand among the farmers Of the.
country for this publication of the
Department Ct Agriculture than for,
any other bulletin issued by the de-
prtment. The original copies Of the
bulletin were soon exhausted and the
demands upon the members of Con-
gress were so great that frequent re-
prints were ordered. The number al
ready issued has. it is said, reached
nearly half "a million copies. There
will be under the new edition publish
ed 200, 900 copies, 128, 600 being for the
use of the members of the House of
Represents tatives "a, 600 for the use Of
the Senators, and 5000 for the use OF
the Department of Agriculture. The
number allotted 30 the department is SO
small that they will have none for
general distribution, so applicants,
should apply to their respective mem
bers for copies of the bulletin. The
bulletin is allotted only to members of
the Fifty seventh Congress. New mem
bers of the House of Representatives or
Senators, that is the present Congress,
will not be entitled to a quota.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-09-30
BOYCOTT. IN COLUMBIA.
Union Men Warned not to Pat
ronizs, Merchants.

The boycott, which has heretofore
never been ordered in this city, has
been posted against certain firms.
Circulars and small posters have been
distributed over the entire city calling
upon union men not to patronize these
concerns on the charge that they were
s.pnfair,, that is, did not employ un
ion men. No name is signed to the
circular, but it bears the mark of the
"A LIED Printing Trades eouncilsofz CO.
lulmbia, and those against whom the
boycott had been ordered stated this
morning that an effort will be made to
ascertain the name of the party who
ordered the circulars printed and
bring. suit against him, this being
about the only redress they have. Ex-
cept to those directly concerned in the
attempt to boycott it is not likely that
any harm will be done the firms, and
considerable Indignation was express
ed among citizens generally, not SO
much at the order to boycott as at the
anonymous character, which will ere
ate i'll feeling and does not give the
merchant the opportunity to obtain
redress. This is the first attempt at
boycott in Columbia and the develop
ments are likely to prove interesting.
Columbia Record, Sept. "a.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-09-30
IRE APpRERENslEE
The Race Question Troubles Some
New Orleans Military Officers.

Recent War Department correspon-
depce in regard to the militia law
shows that some of the militiamen IN
the South are alarmed lest the en-
forcement Of the statute may develop
situation not in accordance WIsn
Southern IDEAS It is said that the
officers of white militia company
in New Orleans are concerned over
the possibility that in attending a
general encampment they might be
compelled to deal officially with colored
officers Of equal rank, and that regl-
ments of Southern white soldiers might
ind themselves in the same command
with Northern regiments IN which
there were companies composed OF
coiored menwit il colored officers.
While admitting that such ccndl:
zion might arise, the officers Of the
regular army do not think it should
eanse any embarrassment, as it onght
not to be- difficult to arrange affairs
harmoniousiy to both Interests In an
article on this subject. the Army and
Navy Register expresses the army
sentiment as follows: 8,
- sortunatIy, this question has not
come up in more serious form than
the expressions locally made, and there
does notsseem any reason why there
should @bes apprehension among
Southern soldiers and officers over the
ciashing of the races. In the army
the race question has not disturbed
anyone, and there is no difficulty IN
maintaining harmony in battalions
composed of white and colored troops.
The War Department authorities
gpoins ont that there is no more reason
for dissatisfaction on that ground
than there is in long parade where
negro troops are. found in the same
column with white troops. At army
posts guards made up Of white and
colored soldiers seem to get along
without difficulty. and it is pot con-
ce;yed that the Southern railitiamen
viii, in the end, find themselves
Inundated or embarrassed by this
vexatious question. It seems great
deal like Wanton mischief making to
introduce such matter at this time.
Washington Star.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-09-30
Lion and Elephant Fight.

New York, Sept. 26.-Thousands OF
visitors to Coney Island we're thrown
into panic by the escape from an
amusement park Of lion which ran
through the crowded streets pursued
by police and trainers until he was
driven into a corner and secured.
The lion, on being brought out OF
his cage to go through ring perform
ance with an elephant, suddenly be-
came enraged and leaping on the ele-
phant's back, buried his teeth and
claws in the big brute's shoulder.
Trumpeting loudly, the elephant rush
ed around the ring and finally succeed
ed in gripping the lien with his trunk.
tore him from his hold and hurled
him into a lagoon nearby. By this
time the terrified audience had fed
and communicated the panic to the
crowds in the streets. When recaptur-
ed the lion appeared to be weary, and
was probably more frightened than
any of his pursuers.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-09-30
HIaYWAYnEN Use DYNAMITE.
Fiendish Murder and Robbery of
a Pittsburg Contractor.

Washington, Pa, Spet. 25.-One
of the most fendish and bloodthirsty
murders and robberies in the history
of Washington County occurred this
afternoon, on the Middletown road,
about fifteen miles from here. Samuel
T. Ferguson, of the Ferguson Con-
struction Company, of Pittsburg, was
instantly killed, and his secretary,
Charles Martin, OF Cincinnati, was
fatally injured.
The two men were driving along the
road in a buggy, carrying So, 800 In
cash, with which to pay off some OF
their men employed on construction
work along the line Of the Wabash
Railroad, when suddenly an explosion
Of dynamite in the roadway literally
tore the rig to pieces, killed Ferguson
outright and threw Martin 200 feet,
tearing his left arm almost from the
socket. It has been learned that two
men, supposed to be Poles, placed the
dynamite in the road for the purpose
of killing Paymaster Ferguson, and
had arranged to explode it by means
of an electric battery. The satchel
containing the money is missing.
Two suspects are under arrest IN the
camp of the Construction Company,
near the village. but the farmers OF
the section, who are securing the
country for traces of the murderers,
believe they have one of them at bay
in an abandoned coal mine about a
mile and half northeast of West
MiddIetown. i;