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Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-02-27
Pacific Coast Without Change

In new Pullman Ordinary"
sleepers, wide vestlbuled and with
every modern convenience, in
charge of competent agent, from
Cincinnati to Chicago via Louis.
Vile, New Orleans, Houston, San
Antonio, FL Paso and Los Angeles
to San Francisco. Rates for berths
less than half of cost In regular
sleepers. For free descriptive mat
ter and full particulars, address E
A. Richter, Trav. Pass. Agent,
Illinois Central Railroad, Park
Building. Pittshure. Pa IL It
One Minute Cough Cure gives
relief In one minute because 1t Ellis
the microbe which tickles the md
cous membrane, and at the SAME
time clears the phlegm, draws out
the Inflammation and heals and
joothes the affected parts. One
Minute Cough Cure strengthens
the lungs, wards off pneumonia and
Is harmless and never failing cure
in all durable cases of coughs, colds
and Group. One Minute Cough
Cure Is pleasant to take, harmless
and good alike for Young and old.
Opera House Drug Store.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-02-27

Clothes Wringers-LaBelle ball
bearing clothes wingers. very
popular seller at from S. 90 to
$ 50, Our Special 1926
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-02-27

Flour-The Superlative brand a
choice spring wheat brand. You
are paying 60 to IS cents for -four
not as good as this brand, Oar
Special Sale price, the S26.
sack.
Oleomargerine The zoe quality, our
special sale price per &2c
pound .......... .....
Peas-Vau Camps Elk. standard
peas, you cannot buy a better pea
in the city for less than 10 to IS
cents can, Our Special &I6.
price, the can ............" ~
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-02-27
FRESH r1EAT DEPARTMENT

Shoulder Steak-Nice tender juicy
steak, Special Sale price n2c
the pound.................. A~C
Standard Oysters-Just the kind
for stewing. Special sale sSSC.
price per quart. OC
Round steak Something very fancy
in the meat line, Our Special
Sale price, the pound WAc
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-02-27

Cups and Saucers-Lo Belle china
tea cups and saucers, the kind
that sell for Go to IS cents set,
Our Special Sale price, A&c
Set.... ....................
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1903-12-12
NATURE SCULPTURE.
Rnered Outline of California, Bowlder
Hears striking likeness to
George HIN gton.

One Of the most remarkable pieces
OF nature sculpture in California is the
George Washington rock, about IS
miles northwest of Los Angeles. in the
Santa susanna mountains, says the Sum
set Magazine. Near this rock a two
mile tunnel is being bored through the
Santa susanna mountains just outside
Chatsworth Park. A chiseled monu-
ment could hardly bear truer likeness
to George Washington than this chance
picture in the ragged contour of huge
bowlder. Viewed from one point and
only one. IL stands out sharp and dis
tinct against the sky. From all other
points the rock Is shapeless mass.
The image measures full 25 feet from
chin to brow and is close to the ton
of the hill. In the vicinity have been
found Indian relics; ovens. stones con-
tanning Indian writings. arrow heads.
mo-tars and many traces Of a settle
ment Of aborigines.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1903-12-12
GRAND MARSHAL DONE FOR.
Figure Tint May He Displaced by
Motor Vehicles I'm This
Horxeless Age.

when power-driven vehicles shall
have superseded horse-drawn vehicles
entirely, as no doubt, in the not far dis
tant future. they will have DONE" said
Mr.. Gozzleton. according to the New
York Sun, what will become of the
grand marshal? Will anything be de-
vised that will enable him to shine with
anything like his present glory?
Now, with broad. bright-colored
sash worn diagonally across his manly
bosom. and with dahlia-like rosette
pinned upon his breast. he rides grandly
at the head of the procession mounted
on horse. What would a procession
be without a grand marshal, and what
would marshal be without horse
And what will he do when there are no
horses?
His prospect now is dim. indeed; but
let us hope that, when the horseless
age shall actually have come. some
means will be found to preserve the
glamour and the glory of the grand
marshall"
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1903-12-12
PHILADELpHIA's FLY-KILLER
Gathers Thousands Into . Room and
Exterminates Them with
I Persian Powder.


Philadelphia has employed . man to
kill flies. He is an expert In the
slaughter Of these pests and, has no
computations concerning their exter-
mination. In common with the head
of the Philadelphia health department,
he believes that flies have no value
as scavengers, but that, like rats and
mosquitoes, they are active enemies of
the human race, spreading a variety
of dirt diseases and making epidemics
possible, says the New York Evening
World.
He regards the hole-in-a-piece-of-
bread-over-a-goblet- trap
as a weak and ineffective device; fly
papers are TO his mind expensive and
valueless. dishes of fly poison worse
than useless. screens merely defen-
sive appliance. His methc d is to make
chamber attractive to flies, gather
thousands there, burn a handful OF
Persian powder in the chamber and ex-
terminate his guests.
+. The undertaking seems task for
Hercules, but its profit promises to be
great.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1903-12-12
Are Cruel to Cats.

We could name certain seashore re-
sorts along the Atlantic coast. the
abode through the long summer DAYS OF
healthful Srecreation, of care free house
wives and the lightheartednes Of para
disc itself, which are the scenes Of many
humble tragedy in the autumn.
writes q contributor to Good House.
keeping. Here is the plain, unadorned
fact: Many of the cottagers leave
their pet cats to starve. Persons resid-
ing in the vicinity the year round are
witnesses. Sometimes the poor emf
mails are left locked within the cot
tages, when the doors are barred ana
windows boarded More often they
wander the beach. wan ghosts Of their
old selves, picking up q scant living from
hsh. until cold weather puts an end "a
thsir misery.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-10-20
The Springfield Republican of Aug

The Springfield HepuDlcan OF Aug
ust rs, publishes under the headline,
"The Cost of the Tour" very severe
criticism of the presidents course in
this matter. 1t is q subject which
congress should not fail to investigate,
lest its own members fall under the
suspicion OF sustaining similar rela-
tons to the same railroad company.
Every year the same railroad COM
pany entertains as it's guests at Allan
tic City all the correspondents Of the
great daily newspapers, paying not
only travelling expenses. but all other
expenses of those who accept Its hos
pitAlity. And all the great newspa-
pers, like the president. approved the
legislation above mentioned.
It 10 also capable of proof that the
railroad companies give free passes to
congressmen. II not to judges; and we
know that many congressmen-all the
republicans in congress, at least, fav-
ored this legislation.
This method of procuring legislation
without paying for it in advance may
be properly called credit-bribery-ac-
tion on the one part with the under
standing that there will be reciprocal
action on the other at subsequent
period.
It Is fortunate for the democratic
party that its members in congress op-
posed this railroad legislation almost
unanimously.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-10-20

mlnlstrauOn In Frank H. Hitchcock.
government departm ents, and for that
reason Mr.. Cortelyou will probably
never receive the full credit which be-
longs to him for what he has done.
He has taken great many bureaus
and independent divisions belonging to
ing by themselves, and ne has amalga-
mated them into the new department,
looping of superfluities, adjusting
Jurisdictions and fixing relative re-
sponsibilities.
1t is doubtful whether anybody could
have come in from the outside and
succeeded in this. 1t is due to secre-
tary Cortelyou's intimate acquaintance
with all government departments and
with administrative routine gained
while in the post Office department and
at the white house that it has been
possible to bring order out of chaos
1t is doubtful, too, whether he could
have done it If he had not been for
tunate enough to select at the very be-
ginning chief clerk who is almost
as much master of administrative de-
tail as Cortelyou himself.
Frank H. Hitchcock, who has been
the secretary's right hand man in this
preliminary work, and who has been
compelled to attend to the greater part
Of the detail of the reorganization, is a
young Harvard graduate, who made a
great reputation as statistician in the
agricultural department before Cortel-
you picked him up. He is one Of the
most promising young men in the en-
tire government service to-day.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-10-20
COMBINING WITH THE DEAD.
A Strong and Universal Tendency Of
the Living That Has Survived
Attempts at Suppression.

The tendency to commune with the
dead and to pray for them is strong
and universal. 1t survives whatever
systems of whatever creeds men may
invent for its suppression. Samuel
johnson is professedly a stanch Prot
estant, bristling with prejudices, but
a delicate moral sense enters the rug
ged manhood of his nature, says a
writer in Donahue's Magazine. In
stinctively he seeks to commune with
his departed wifi" aft"r tho manner
dear to the Catholic heart. but forbid
den to the Protestant. He keeps the
anniversary of her death and he COM
poses beautiful prayer, full of Cath
Ole sentiment, for the repose of her
soul. Tennyson has the same thought
beautifully expressed in his "Morte
d Arthur" He makes this hero say:
More things are wrought by prayer
Than this world dreams of. Wherefore,
let thy voice
Rise like a fountain for me night and
day"
The great Cardinal Newman, before
he found rest within the bosom of the
SiiuASil, PSliiiSu tHcsc oeduli1u VI Ahes'
Help, Lord. the souls which Thou hast
made,
The souls to Thee so dear,
In prison, for the debt unpaid
OF sins committed here
Later in life, when his wanderings
in quest of truth We're over, he wrote
that exquisite poem, "The Dream of
Gerontius," in which he causes the
angel to say to the souls it tenderly
consigns to the golden prison:
Farewell, but not forever! brother, dear,
Be brave and patient on thy bed of sor-
row;
Swiftly shall pass thy night of trial here,
And / will come and wake thee on the
morrow"
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-10-20

developed into one of the most inn
portant bureaus of the government.
There are times when the work that
falls to his lot would be worthy of a
cabinet officer, and he has never yet
failed to meet every emergency as it
arose.
Col. Edwards is young man. He
was graduated at West Point in 1888,
and he has seen service in Cuba and
the Philippines He has the head of
veteran and the manners of prince
Of the blood. To see him at work one
would not imagine that he had a seri-
GUS problem to consider or any task
of consequence to complete, and yet he
is continually deciding knotty ques-
tons and accomplishing important re-
suits. He has to be familiar with prob
lens Of currency and the tariff as re-
lated to the Philippine islands and
with every other detail Of colonial adj
ministration. He is in effect secre-
tary of the treasury, a secretary Of
state. a secretary Of agriculture and at
torney general for the Philippines
rolled into one. All the publications
for the Philippines pass through his
hands. He presides over bureau of
statistics and general information
bureau. He has charge of the records
and the archives containing the pa
pers which have been brought from the
Philippines from time to time. In
short, he is the representative in
Washington of the Philippine govern
ment. and he goes about it all with the
modest unobtrusiveness Of locker on
LOUIS A. COOLIDGE.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-10-20

the official keeper of the Morgue, con-
tains some interesting information.
1t appears that during the year just
closed no less than 10,155,146 pieces
of mail found their way into the
dead house. That was 854,795 more
pieces than were reported during the
previous year-35, 900 a day year in and
year out, and the number constantly in
creasing.
A little over one-thirtieth of this num-
Der was delivered unopened. That means
that the skilled clerks in the Office sue
ceeded in deciphering more than $1,000
apparently unintelligible addresses and
starting them safely on their way again.
The clerks found $48,634 in money in
misdirected letters which were opened,
and drafts, checks and money orders rep
resenting face value of 81 ,493,563. Some
of this money was finally delivered to the
persons for whom it was intended, but
the larger portion went to swell the
postal receipts.
To handle this business there are 1876
clerks. and some of them are marvels
in the skill with which they can decipher
writing that apparently has no mean
ing. The most skilful of all of them is a
woman who draws salary of $1,000 a
year. There are few typographical
enigmas which she cannot master.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-10-20
NEARLY WEEDS BRIDESMAID.
Minister Had Reached Fateful Par
When Bride. Realizing situ-
alton, Calls Halt.

But for sudden protest by the bride
the bridegroom at wedding in ST.
Mary's church, New Britain, Conn,
would have been married to the brides
maid the other day. Peter Wood and
Miss Rosa Strader, the principals, en-
tered the church with Stephen Ferry
and Miss Edwina Softleigh, the best
man and bridesmaid. When the rarity
reached the altar the bridesmaid, in
stead of retiring in favor of the bride,
remained at the bridegroom's side.
Rev. ]. T. Winters began the cere-
mony, but just as he had reached the
fateful part Miss Strader jumped up
and asked Father Winters to stop.
An explanation followed, the young
women exchanged places, and tho
ceremony went on. The bridesmaid
had never attended wedding before.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-10-20

netic, and fascinating in manner. AL
though an Englishman to the finger
tips, he had yet an instructive under
standing Of American ways and sympa-
thy with Yankee idiosyncrasies which
gained for him cordial regard every
where he went.
Perhaps the fact that he was married
to an American wife had something to
do with it, but that was not all, Sir
Michael was genuinely, heartily, spon-
taneously, sympathetic and kindly. tbs
hardly conceivable that Great Britain
can send another ambassador here who
can win so high place in so short a
time. 1t is only little more than year
since Sir Julian Pauncefote disappeared
from the scene after thirteen years of
service in Washington, and there were
many men who thought that sturdy old
English squire had made record which
could never be equalled; but Sir Michael
was already on the road to winning a
place in Washington which even Sir
Julian never occupied.
The British ambassador in America Is
a far more important parsonage now
than the British minister was 20 years
ago. Great Britain now feels 1t incum-
bent upon her to send her very best man,
and the Washington embassy is regarded
as the prize assignment in the entire
diplomatic service. 1t is not SO very long
ago that 1t was regarded as something
of a humiliation for a British diplomat
to be sent here: but things have changed
nightly Of late.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-10-20

greatly II the Russian government
were to decide that his services would
be of greater value to the empire else
where.
1t is Of great Importance that Russia
should be represented here during the
next few years by an ambassador who
thoroughly understands the United
States, and who can make himself
personally acceptable to the powers
with whom he is forced to come in
contact. Our relations with Russia
are becoming year by year more COM
plicated, and they contain possibilities
OF international trouble unless they are
handled with consummate skill. The
Russian ministers of the car realize
this as we'll as our own secretary Of
state, and we may expect to see Count
Cassini succeeded by somebody of in
finite tact and diplomatic astuteness.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-10-20
SOMETHING PRETTY BAD.
Great Railroad Pays the Bill of the
Prudential Swing Around
the Circle.

The Washington correspondent Of
the Providence Journal pays the fol-
lowing left-handed compliment to
President Roosevelt: 1T is a fact that
on his recent tour the railroad COM
pany (the Pennsylvania on which he
started from Washington, and in
which he returned, paid all the bills"
In view Of the fact that the Presi-
dent had only few weeks before he
entered on this tour signed the union
station act. which appropriated mill
lions Of dollars to that particular COM
pany, this is an exceedingly grave
accusation. If it does not place Mr..
Roosevelt in the same category with
Littauer, Machen and Beavers, it Ger
tainly comes very near it. II the rail-
road company didn't bride him techni-
cally, 1t certainly gave him a liberal
seward for approving an unconstitu-
tional and dishonest measure by which
the people of the United States and
abe District of Columbia were grossly
robbed
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-10-20
steam and which, therefore, compete

steam and which, therefore, compete
with bituminous coal. Nearly all of
this imported coal is consumed in New
England and on the Pacific coast. It
does great deal to free manufacturers
in these sections from the exactions Of
the hard and soft coal trusts now
charging us two or three times fair
price for this bounty of nature. Pos
sibly some mistake was made when the
Almighty consigned this most valuable
heritage to Mr.. Baer to parcel out to the
rest Of us earth jewellers at so much per
ton.
It will be observed that the excess Of
imports over former years $4,000, 900
tons) just about measures the surplus
stock of steam coal for which no mar
ket can be found, although priceshave
been reduced from IL to 30 cents ton
for these sizes. How Mr.. Baer must hate
free coal! But he is lying low and say
ing nothing, for he knows that his re-
publican friends in congress put coal
on the free list only for one year and
that bituminous coal will be dutiable
again next January. He will not agi-
tate this coal tariff again. But will the
manufacturers and the people keep
quiet?
BYRON w. HOLT.
The administration is said to be in
favor Of having merit prevail in the con-
sular service in both appointments and
promotions. But how about the postal
service.-N. Y. Times (Rep.).
Gov. Yates, Of Illinois, wishing to
be renominated, has determined to "cut
under" the republican machine, which is
opposed to him. He is sending out 30O,-
900 letters of inquiry, addressed to indi-
vidual voters, asking whether they ap-
prove his administration and desire to
have him for their governor for another
term. The experiment will be an expen-
sive one, and the result will he worth
watching.-Hartford Times Cnd.l.
The post Office department dragnet
is about to be hauled in, and the strange
thing about it is the little fish were not
able to escape through the holes which
the big fish made when they broke
through the meshes.-Galveston News
Qnd.)
And now newspapers friendly to
the president are stating that the entire
cost of his recent 13,000-mile trip was
paid by a railroad corporation. The
original publication was made about a
week ago. and as yet no denial is reported
FROM Oyster Bay. It is desirable to have
accurate information on this point
Louisville Courier-JouYnsl.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-10-20
THE TRUST BEING HURT.
Twice as Much Coal Being Imported
Under Free Coal ms in Any
Previous Year.

The New York Times of August 81
contained an interview with Mr.. George
F. Baer, president of the Reading rail-
way, in which he said that coal mines
might have to be closed soon and miners
thrown out of work because Of the diff
ficulty of getting rid of coal, especially
of the steam size. The Times report
says:
"He said that the plan he had in
augurated when he became president Of
the Reading of making reduction OF
so cents ton in April, and then adj
yancing the price ten cents a month
until the figure again reached normal
by September had worked very salts
factorily."
Yes, Mr.. Divine-rights Baer, it does
seem to have worked beautifully-for
the coal trust 1t is, however, little
hard on few millions of us coal con-
sumers who now have to pay higher
prices for coal than ever before, except
during and after the strike Of last year
The retail price of anthracite at Wash
ington is now 1925 and at Chicago $3.50
b ton.
Immediately following the Baer in
terview, the Times contained dis
patch from Pennsylvania saying:
"The Philadelphia and Reading Coal
and Iron company has issued sweep
ing order closing every one of its wash
cries that produce small sizes, and other
corporations and individual operators
have followed suit. 1t is estimated that
there are 100000 tons of small sizes
now in stock, for which there is little
demand"
The inadequate demand for anthra-
cite coal is said to be partly due to
closed mills and to the increased use of
soft coal for steam purposes. But the
statistics of foreign commerce for the
year ending June 30, 1903, offer some
additional explanation as to this over
supply of hard coal. They show that we
imported, last year, 3,818,1S9 tons Of
coal, or nearly 100000 tons more than
were imported in any previous year,
and that Of this amount 207,664 tons
were anthracite. This is more than 100
times as much anthracite as was i'm
ported in any year since the Dingley bill
taxing anthracite became law.
It appears, then, that free coal, while
it has not compelled the hard coal trust
to lower its prices for ordinary sizes of
coal (and this is not strange when it is
considered that there is nowhere else
anthracite like ours-that is Baer's-to
take it's place., especially at interior
points, has compelled it to reduce prices
of Its smaller sizes. used for making
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-10-20
The Salve That Heals

without leaving u scar is DeW1tt's.
The name Witch Hazel is applied to
to many salves, but DeWittS Witch
Hazel Salve is the only Witch Hazel
Salve made that contains the pure IN
adulterated witch hazel. If any other
Witch Hazel Sale is cffered you it is \
counterfeit. e q. Dewitt invent d
Witch Hazel Salve and DeWitl's
Witch Hazel Salve is the best saIye In
the word for cuts, burns, bruises, tet-
ter, or blind. bleeding, itching ard
protuding piles. Sold BY Shuttieworth
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-10-20

MOlSue. i udl Is IuS
eminently appro-
pirate name COM
monty applied to
the dead letter Of
fice-the destina-
ton Of all the let
tiers that go astray
in the mails.
Few people have
an adequate con-
ception Of t h e
amount of business
that is transacted
in this establish
ment; but the an
nual report of First
Assistant Postmas-
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-10-20

go Great Western Railway.
$3.50 to Billings, Montana.
$2l.40 to Livingston or Hipsdale,
Montana.
$23.40 to Helena or Butte, Mont.
S25 80 to Spokane, Washington.
S2S 40 to Portland, Ore, Seattle and
Tact ma, Washington
$2S A. to Vancouver and Victoria,
B G.
Tickets on sale daily up to Novem-
b.r Both Inclusive. Superior Service
and Unequalled Equipment. Full
information on application to any
Chicago Great Western Agent, or to
J P. Elmer, G. P A. Chicago, Ill.