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Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-09-29

A little snow flying through the
air on the top of the mountain her
aids the season when the tooth
some buckwheat cake and sausage
gravy are indispensable articles of
diet In every up to date household.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-09-29

Rev. G. w. Hatch. pastor OF the
Baptist church, left this morning
for Pleasant Grove, Pa, to attend
the annual session of the Baptist
Association, which convened there
this morning.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-09-29

And now It's spring weather In
the morning; summer at midday,
and late fall In the evening, and
the only way to meet the changes
Is to carry an overcoat on the arm
and fan In the hand, with a dock
leaf In the hat to ward off sun
strokes.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-09-29
90 St

K.J. Shot found two pieces OF
underwear on Burt street last eve
ming belonging to child about
four wears old. Owner can have
same by calling at the grocery
store of S. G. Kline.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-09-29

Miss Nella w. Mccoy, Miss
Nellie Corbitt Morrison and Miss
Emily Morrison will leave this
evening on the 5:35 train to attend
the National Park Seminary at
Washington, D. G. this winter.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-09-29

Grow strong and well after using
TaoMPsoS's SWEET Worm POWDER.
Very pleasant to take. Contains no
calomel. Never fails. Worms are often
mistaken for indigestion and other di
geassa re sr-a ~ gat Thomp9oI'g =
giac> 'n'' ~. |.7.s%'frs = "S:SA
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-09-29

The average man boasts II times
as much about what mes going to
to do as he does about what he has
done.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-09-29

Worthy of note Is this-from
colored philosopher: II lets de
clouds do all my weepln, en- de
winds ali my sighin!"
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-09-29

It's pity some people don't lose
their tempers where they can't frud
them again.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-09-29

The crop of apes in the Can
onsburg, Pa. region Is better this
fall than for several years past.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-09-29

Fault finding friends are more
strenuous than the praise singing
kind f
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-03-05

were guests at the wedding and a fine
supper vas served.
Fremont Gazette: VIM. McKibben
moved back to Fremont Monday after
a winters residence in Oskaloosa.
City life is too strenuous for Billy and
he feels more at home in Fremont
than at any other point on the globe.
The family r living in the Jim Bar
Gus house until Mr.. McKibben can get
possession of his own,
Newton Courier: o. N. Wagley
has been holding Masonic schools of
instructions at Oskaloosa and other
places during the past week or SO.
Mr.. Waglen is we'll fitted for an in
structor, las he is thoroughly in touch
with 1.-THE work, conscientious and
painstaking, and the brethren are
always pleased to have him with
them.
A Keota correspondent says: ~.
Omer ~Singmaster went to Oskaloosa
Monday to let the building contract
to parties there for his new SIC, 900
residence, work to commence as
soon as possible. 1t will certainly be
a fine one, and as j. Omer expects to
go to the old country in the early
fall, the work will be pushed from
the start"
DR.. J. E. Fleener is home from Chi
cago where he went to be in attend
ance at the fifteenth annual meeting
Of the Chicago photographic Soci-
ETY.. Over two thousand dentists
were present from the several points
of the compass and the three days.
meeting was crammed 80 full OF good
things that it will require a years.
time to fully digest the things seer
and heard.
Concerning a former Oskaloosa
lady the Pella Chronicle says: Mrs.
A. E. Shipley, of Des Moines, deliv-
cred a very interesting talk on IMAM
and His Home" at the residence of
Mr.. and Mrs. Herman Rietveld last
night to about fifty friends who as
sembled to listen to her. Hell main
idea was that the men of to-day
ought to try and make their homes
more inviting and pleasant. Those
who listened to her talk say that it
was one of the best that has been
heard in Pella for years.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-03-05
IOWA WORK.
Fourteen Gangs Employed on the
East Division.

The extensive work of the bridge
and building department of the Iowa
Central is progressing very nicely,
fourteen gangs, numbering eight or
ten men each, being at work on diff
ferent parts of the line, largely east
of Oskaloosa. The department is
working mainly on reinforcing old
bridges and putting in new ones. The
pile driver is in operation each day
and has just finished up the work OF
driving the piles for the new coal
chutes in this city. Wednesday 1t was
sent to South Skunk river to pick up
several large timbers lett there after
the construction of the large bridge
last fall.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-03-05
THE FIELD.
Iowa Telephone Co. Does Away
With C~enterviiIe Exchange.

C~enterville Citizen: The local ex-
change of the Iowa Telephone Com
pany will be practically a thing Of the
past after this week. After that time
the Iowa company will have a toll
station in Centerville although the
lines which will probably be built
from this city to nearby towns this
summer will make it an important
station. But for the present the toll
lines will run into the Orange drug
store on the east side OF the square
and if the local phones are not taken
out they will be used merely for cHn-
venience in reaching patrons.
o. r. Potter, of Oskaloosa, man
ager for this district, arrived yester-
day and last night the work of vacat.
ing the present exchange of the
company in the Bradley-Stubbs
block was begun. Next week the
exchange will have been removed to
it's new location. The Iowa has less
than a dozen local telephonesl in use
so the transfer will not be difficult.
Under the Enew arrangement there
will, of course, be no night service
after the drug store closes, but as
the druglstores keep open late, the
service will be practically the same,
as veryilittle business is done after
midnight.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-03-05
Not a Candidate.

Oskaloosa, Iowa, Feb. %, 1908.
To the Public:
Some persons, as 1 understand it,
are currently circulating upon the
street the story that 1, in the event OF
a change of city administration, am
to be chief of police. 1 desire to state
that this thought has never entered
my mind. / am now serving in the
capacity of constable, which is far
more satisfactory to me than to be
chief of police. And 1 further de-
sire to say publicly that 1 would not
accept or consider the office of chief
of police nor on the police force un-
der any circumstances. l am now
my own boss and under orders from
nobody, and desire to so remain.
Respectfully,
GEO. ANDREWS.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-03-05
cLYNcH EAR o
An Iowa Inebriate Seeks Freedom
in Illinois.

Montezuma Republican,: 1t is re-
ported that the ubiquous Pat Clynch,
who ESCAPED from the inebriate ward
of the Mt. Pleasant asylum, soon
after landing, has showed up in
Illinois, has forgiven his wife for
sending him to the drunkard-infirm-
airy and has written her to join him
there. Reports further states that
she is going to sell the belongings on
the farm and follow the perambulat-
ing Patrick. A woman's love is a
queer commodity when it is once
stirred up a little. We heard her
VOW in the court room that she was
through with him until he became a
mar again-and it may be that the
bracing atmosphere in our neighbor-
ing state!has done that very thing for
poor Pat. EAfter a couple have lived
together as long as they have and
brought up a family of children it
takes considerable of q commotion
in the human heart to work a separ-
alton. If Pat thinks he can live a
sober life away from his old crowd
she is doing the sensible thing in 60
ing to him. What an awful lot of
grief whiskey causes in this old
world! 1t will tear asunder the most
sacred ties and fill a trusting, loving
heart with anguish and woe. Happy,
indeed, is the man who leaves the
devilish stuff severely alone.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-03-05
Tragedy Averted.

Just in the nick of time our little
boy was saved" writes Mrs. w. Wat
kins, Of Pleasant City, Ohio. "Pneu-
monia had played sad havoc with him
and a terrible cough set in besides.
Doctors treated him, out he grew
worse every day. At length we tried
DR.. Kings New Discovery for Con-
sumption, and our darling was saved.
He's now sound and we'll" Every
body ought to know, it's the only sure
cure for Coughs, Colds and all Lung
diseases. Guaranteed by Green &
Bentley Drug Co. Price SOC and $1.0O.
Trial bottles free.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-03-05
More Riots.

Disturbances of strikers are not
nearly as grave as an individual dis
order of the system. Overwork, loss
Of sleep, v tension will be fol-
lowed by utter collapse, unless a relia-
BILE remedy is Immediately employed.
There's nothing so efficient to cure
disorders of the Liver or Kidneys as
Electric Bitters. It's a wonderful
tonic, and effective nervine and the
greatest all around medicine for run
down systems. 1t dispeis Nervous
ness, Rheumatism and Neuralgia and
expels Malaria germs. Only soc, and
satisfaction guaranteed.
Green & Bentley Drug Co.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-03-05
Working Overtime.

Eight hour laws are ignored by
those tireless workers-Dr. Kings
New Life Pills. Millions are always
at work, night and day, curing Indi.
gestion, B~iliousness, Constipation,
Sick Headache and all Stomach, Liver
and Bowel troubles. Easy, pleasant,
safe, sure. Only 25c at
Green & Bentley Drug Co.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-03-05
The Stomach is the Man.

A weak stomach weakens the man,
because it cannot transform the food
he eats into nourishment. Health
and strength cannot be restored to
any sick man or weak woman without
first restoring health and strength to
the stomach. A weak stomach cannot
digest enough food to feed the tissues
and revive the tired and run down
limbs and organs of the body. Kodol
Dyspepsia Cure cleanses, purifes,
sweetens and strengthens the glands
and membranes of the stomach, and
cures indigestion, dyspepsia and all
stomach troubles.
Green G Bentley Drug Co.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-03-05
What's in a Name?

Everything is in the name when it
comes to Witch Hazel Salve. e. c.
Dewitt & Co. Of Chicago, discovered,
some years ago, how to make a salve
from Witch Hazel that is a specific
for Piles. For blind, bleeding, itching,
%protruding piles, eczema, cuts, burns,
bruises and all skin diseases, De-
Wits salye has no equal. This has
given rise to worthless
counterfeits. Ask for DeWitt's-the
genuine.
Green & Bentley Drug Co.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-03-05

Fields
Views on Ambition and DyS-
pepsia.

Dyspepsia" wrote Eugene Field.
''often incapacitates a man for endeavor
and sometimes extinguishes the FIRE of
ambition" Though great despite his
complaint Field suffered from indiges-
ton all his life. A weak, tired stomach
can't digest your food. Il needs
rest. You can only rest IL by the use
Of Q preparation like Kodol, which re-
iieves Il OF work by digesting your food.
Rest o restores 1t to its normal tone.
strengthening,
Satisfying,
EnvIg0ratIng.
Prepared only by z. o. DEwIrT& Co. Chicago
Green q Bentley Drug Company.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1903-03-05

a very pleasing effect. 1t is the
intention of the company to increase
their number as soon as possible to
sixty.
(From Saturdays DaiIy.)
Mrs. W. W, Eby is reported seri.
ously i'll with pneumonia,
A. T. Stevens went to New Sharon
this morning to care for business
matters.
WalteriR iceYreturned to his home
near Wright this morning to spend
Sunday.
Mrs. DR.. Swarens went to Rose Hill
this morning to spend the day with
friends.
Mrs. Mary Riggs went to Wright
this morning to visit relatives for a
few days.
Miss DIESEL Kenworthy returned
this morning from a short visit with
relatives at Lynnville.
Pierce Ratliff came in this morning
after an extended stay among his
business interests at Sioux City.
Misses Lena and Jennie Shaw went
to Fremont this morning to spend
Sunday with friends and relatives.
Miss Blanche Drinkle, is in Mar
shalltown for a short visit with her
u~nclesand aunt, Mr.. and Mrs. W. j.
Allen.
Miss Helen Katt, of Harvey, who
has been visiting in this city for tn Q
past few days, went to Beacon this
morning.
Mrs. A. H. Harper, ofNew Sharon,
passed through the city this morning
enroute to Sigourney to visit her son,
W. A. Harper.
Mrs. Susan Brown went to Batavia
this morning to take n of her
niece, Mrs. Carrie Linn, who has
been quite sick.
,Mrs.'A. Hull, wife of Prof. Hull,
who has been quite sick for several
weeks is improving slowly and will
soon be out again.
Mrs. D. T. Evans, of Ottumwa, re-
turned to her home this morning,
after a visit at the homes of T.B. Will
son, near Beacon, and other friends.
A. W. Phillips, OF Union township,
who has been in the city for the past
few days acting on the grand jury,
returned to his home this morning.
Mrs. Tom Farmer left last night at
fve-thirty over the Burlington for
Rochester, ILL.,, to g her mother,
Mrs. P. A. Craig, who is seriously i'll.
s. W. Needham, of Sigourney, who
came to the city to care for business
matters and to.attend the oratorical
contest, INVENT to Fremont this morn
ing.
Marshalltown Times-Republican:
II. B. DeVore, formerly of this city,
but now.of Des Moines, was in the
city Thursday, leaving this morning
for Oskaloosa.
Harry walton arrived home last
evening from an extended visit
among relatives in Pennsylv ania. He
was called east some time ago by the
death of an aunt.
Merl Ogden, of Coe college, has
been visiting his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Neri Ogden, during the meeting
of theloratoricsl contest and will re-
main for a few days.
The condition Of Mrs. w. H. Seev-
ers remains about the same.as during
the pastl few days. Her death is
hourly expected, and yet she may
linger for several days.
President Mclean of the State
University, who acted as nj Of the
judges on delivery at the contest last
evening, returned to Iowa City this
morning via the Iowa Central.
Mesdames Chas. Harlan and e. r
Hatcher who have been visiting in
this city at the homes OF A. Updegraff
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-22

I'll wager that you took not the slight
est personal offense at the preacher
remarks"
81 thought 1t an interesting sermon"
said Judge Sawyer, with grave smile.
MIR. Russell is a young man, and a
little inclined to be impulsive, per-
haps, but he is earnest and honest.
have already assured him of my sup
port, but / think Colonel. that you
exaggerate my influence. However, it
is safe to predict that Mr.. Russell will
not be forced from his position. Neither
will he be asked to modify his pulpit
utterances to suit Deacon Snow or any
one else
1.-The people of Lincolnville-and for
that matter every other community, 3"
remarked Col. Monroe, ARE divided in
to two classes. One holds for banks
and bankers a reverence which takes
the form of abject fear the other be-
lieves that all bankers are in a con-
spiracy to corral the wealth of the ma
ton and incidentally to suppress all
discussion of their methods. This lat
ter class has conjured up a monster
called The Money Power an argus
eyed dragon whose Dionysian ears
catch every whisper of protest and
whose clutch means financial death.
This tabled creature has inspired a
public cowardice and servility which
is astounding. The ancients had an
unpropitious god so sacred and dreaded
that to mention his name meant
death. We have preachers, statesmen
and even editors who have grown so
timid that they dare not write bank
or railroad without mentally crossing
themselves"
There is truth in what you say"
admitted Judge Sawyer. LAS a plain
old ia SbiOned Damopraf I do not like
to be the object of this unconscious
servility. A banker is nothing more
or less than a money merchant, and
should WELD no more power nor be
accorded a higher standing than any
other business man. If there be a
money or trust conspiracy your aver
age banker, be he of the city or of
the country. is no part of it. If the
trust system be a plot rather than an
economic development. the small
banker should be the first to protest.
If the great city banks succeed-as
they probably within passing a law
authorizing branch banks, they will
force every country bank into liqui-
dation.''
There is no reason why the small
bank should not go the way of all
small undertakings" said Col. Monroe.
1.-THE small railroads, the small facto-
ries and the small markets have been
merged into huge corporations called
trusts-why SHOULD the small banks
escape? We are witnesses to a stu
pendous industrial and financial rev.
olution, and the minimizing ones cry
conspiracy, while towards dread to
contemplate, much less discuss, per-
fectly natural phenomenon. There is
a popular belief that a score or more
of year ago a number of inspired men
originated a plot which has brought
about the existing combinations. They
accord to the men who are at the head
of these vast organizations credit for
a. sagacity whiclNis more than human.
They proclaim these men kings, and
bow before them in fear and trem-
bling. They worship before an mag
mary throne. These new gods are
more astounded than their subjects. J.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-22
THE NEGRO AND HIS VOTE
Letter From a Former Slave Owner Who Is Now
His Old Slaves Best Friend

with Tom to this good day. And there
are others.
In 1898 during the brief war with
Spain / was an officer in the First
United States Volunteer Infantry. My
regiment was at New Orleans Tom
and Cindy heard l was there What
did they do? They went to New Or
leans, braved trip on a railway train,
braVed the glare of a great city than
which nothing has more terror for a
simple plantation negro of the old sort.
TWO old negroes, man and a woman
presented themselves at the entrance to
the camp. The guards stopped them.
BOSS, says Tom, Il wants ter see
Mars john Jess tell him Tom and
Cindy's here and wants ter see him."
The word reached me and they came
to my tent. l was dressed in the regu-
lation blue uniform of the army. l had
some visitors who happened to be from
the North and were a little shocked
when old black Cindy threw her arms
around me and kissed me and cried
over me as she had a thousand times
before. But what of Tom? He mt
his hand on my arm as if he was afraid
the blue sleeve would hurt him, and
tears streamed down his face.
What's the matter, Tom? Are you
not glad to see me?"
Yes. Mars John. I'm sho' glad to see
YOU. but what would Mars Dave saw
If he seed you in this hyar blue uni
form %
There is the old negro. There is the
reason the Southern man loves the old
Southern negro.
But what has the new condition
done? Would Southern men dare trust
their mothers, their wives, their chill
dren or their sweethearts to the ne
groes of to-day as they trusted them to
the negroes of 1S61-65? They womb
not. Then, why not? Ask those who
nave sown hatred, have sown discord
have destroyed the old relations and
put new-fangled notions of an artificial
even If constitutional equality into the
heads of the negroes. My observation
leads me TO agree with Secretary Root
that negro suffrage is a failure. II has
destroyed, together with the conditions
1t brought about, the most splendid
quality possessed by the negro race.
its loyalty to the whites. None such as
:. who have felt the protection. the low.
OF the negro, can look upon this ruin
with other than a heart filled with the
pity of il all. Nississinnisr
Galveston, Tex, Feb. 49,
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-22

The following letter was addressed
to and published in the New York
Sun:
1 have read your editorial, why Is
Negro Suffrage a Failure?" with great
interest Can it be that the Sun is at
last to shine on all sides of this vexed
question? / hope so.
l was born on a plantation in Missis
sippi. My family were slave holders. 1
was the first grandson of my genera
ton. After the manner of the times.
my first present from my pateynal
grandfather was a woman to take care
of me, to be my own, individual prop
erty. Her name was Lucindy-"Cin-
dy." Her husband was Tom, my faith
ers body servant.
The war came. My father entered the
Confederate army. He took Tom with
him to Virginia. When his regiment,
the Twelfth Mississippi, left the state
not white man remained on the plan
tation. There were over 500 slaves, my.
grandmother, my mother and an aunt.
1 was an infant.
In the battle of Spottsylvania Court
House my father was desperately
wounded. Who carried him out of
that bloody angle, that worse than hell?
Tom. Who nursed him, tended him,
cared for him, stood by him and took
what was thought to be his last mes
sage to his wife and baby down on
the Mississippi plantation where they
were being cared for by other slaves?
Tom. Can l ever forget that? Since
the war Tom has lived on the old plan
tation, which has become mine, Guilt
waited a little patch of ground. raised
his pigs and his chickens and when he
dies, he will sleep in the old graveyard
on the hill where my father and seven
generations of my people are at rest.
Suppose l should go to Tom and say:
See here, you've lived here thirty-four
years and never paid a cent of rent.
This place is mine. You've got to clear
out"
What do you suppose he would say?
You don't know. But l can tell you,
for I've tried it. He'd say. What's de
matter wild you, Mars John? l thinks
you must done loss your wits"
How about Cindy? She is right there