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Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-08-08
Hay Fever Easily Cured.

Al. druggists are authorized by
the manufacturers of Busens Ca
tarrh Cure to refund the money
where 1t falls to cure any case OF
hay fever no matter of how long
standing. One application gives
ease and rest. This is the only
hay fever remedy sold on a positive
guarantee-No' cure No pay.
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At very low rates, Thursdays,
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20, and Sept. 8, 1908,
Tickets will be good sixteen
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For tickets, time of trains and
pamphlet giving full information,
call on or address neareet Ticket
Agent, Baltimore & Ohio R. R., fol-
full information. sep
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For Sale

OIL Royalty best wells Jackson
Township Ohio-Pays greater than
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Colorado Springs, Colorado.
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The sun., 1903-12-09
RI. Steyenson's Mother.

A wholly pleasing addition to the Steven
son literature to which nobody can take
exception is From Saranac to the Marquee
sas and Beyond" by Mrs. NJ. l.. Stevenson
Charles Scribner's Sons). 1t is the letters
from Stevensons mother to her sister
during the trying period in the Adiron-
dacks and the first cruise in the South
seas, a period that preceded the contro-
versy and trouble of the Samoan episodes
The letters have been edited very carefully
The reader will see Stevenson from a side
that has been darkened by his exploiters,
and will form very pleasant impression
of his mother. The contrast of the new
scenes into which she came with the old
Scottish manse where she was brought up
is interesting; while the letters show that
there was heredity in Stevenson's ability
to write as well as hard work on his own
part A pleasant book it is, even apart
from its connection with the authors son.
The sun., 1903-12-09
CEMENT MILLS TO SHUT DOWN
All to Close for Six Weeks Between Now
and Next April.

Forty-two companies were represented
at the second annual meeting Of the Asso-
citation Of Portland Cement Manufacturers
held yesterday at Sherry's. Several mem-
bers said that because Of the great demand
for cement in the last two years they had
been obliged to keep their mills in continu.
Gus operation day and night and that it had
cen impossible to make repairs. reso-
luton was adopted that the members OF the
association should close their mills for six
weeks or more between Dec. l. 1903, and
April /, 1904.
The association agreed to erect build
ing at the st. Louis exposition at cost OF
S35, 600 to $4,000. 1t will be constructed
during the progress Of the exposition ana
will be made entirely Of cement.
Robert w. Lesley Of the American com
pany retired from the office of president
and was succeeded by j. b. Loher OF the @
Vucanite company. A. +. Gerstell OF tile
Alpha company, formerly secretary, was
elected vice-president. E. NJ. Young OF
the Lehgh company, formerly treasurer.
was elected secretary and E. II. AckerTnan OF
the Lawrence company became treasurer.
The new executive committee consists ol
H. W. Maxwell OF the Atlas company, " a
Harding of the Bonneville company, n w.
Lesley Of the American company, ". II, ar
rem of the Virginia company, George Il.
Bartol OF the Dexter company, \; Hagger
of the Illinois company and 5. b. Newperry
of the Sandusky Company.
The association held a dinner last nj ght
and gave a silver loving cup to MIR. Lesley,
the retiring president.
The sun., 1903-12-09
Cross.EXaminatiOn.

Important as the ability to cross-ex-
anime witnesses is to the lawyer, we had
always imagined that it depended on GER
tain qualities like shrewdness and COM
mon sense, that cannot be acquired from
books, but must be learned In the hard
school of experience. In swimming the
wisest of directions cannot compare with
one plunge into the water; and one case in
court, we fancy, will teach young lawyer
more about cross-examination and many
other things than library of textbooks,
Still, the advice and experience of those
not to be despised. For the preparation
Of 'The Art of Cross Examination" Mac-
millans) Mr.. Francis L. Wellman surely
has had experience enough, and a valuable
book might be expected. We fear, how
ever, that the two young intending law
yers to whom the volume is dedicated
will also have to learn the art, as many
before them had to, from the rough les
sons of practice.
Mr.. Wellman shares with many other
professional men the inability to write
clearly or satisfactorily of the things he
knows best, Some of the books of law
yers' "reminiscences from which he quotes
literally are marked instances of this
fault. Apart from some didactic rules
and pertinent, though sometimes mythical
anecdotes, there is nothing of value in
his book save the extracts from two or
three famous cross-examinations. AS gos.
sip about their profession it may interest
lawyers, but, notwithstanding frequent ex-
hibitions OF incompetence in recent trials,
and Of gross negligence in holding the
lawyers to the point on the part of some
judges, we should be sorry to think that
any lawyer in practice in New York could
learn anything from Mr.. Wellman's book
Any elementary textbook on evidence
could teach them more, Mr.. Wellman
should have explained what he wished to
show by the cases he quotes. Russell's
examination of Piggott is undoubtedly a
model, but Mr.. Joseph H. Choates brow
beating of Mr.. Russell Sage is a warning
of what such an examination should not
be. 1t is an episode for which Mr., Choate
is doubtless ashamed, and which the Court
should never have allowed. and shows a
man who is a wit and brilliant lawyer
in the part of a demagogio bully.
The sun., 1903-12-09

much that was mean and disgraceful about
the second Dukes. 1t may have been
nothing more than the difference in the
times, the wide gulf that separated the
England of Charles l. from that of Charles
II. Lady Burghclere is inclined to at
tribute his falling from grace in large part
to the infamous Countess of Shrewsbury,
for whom he neglected his wife, the daugh-
ter of the great Fairfax. The noble
authoress, by the way, holds that the story
that Lady Shrewsbury held Buckingham S
horse while he was killing her husband
in duel is myth. She has written care
full history, based on many unpublished
documents, and illustrated by excellent
reproductions of famous portraits. 1t is
possible that she might have been more
charitable if she had viewed the Rest ora
tion time with a less Puritanical eye, but
we doubt if unfairness is really done to
Buckingham or any one else.
The sun., 1903-12-09
Henry lrying's Lyceum.

The Lyceum Theatre, in London, Henry
Irving's playhouse has come to an end, as
every one knows, after an existence OF l3o
years. Whether it Is to be torn down or
used for other exhibitions, it ia a playhouse
no longer. 1t was only right that it should
have worthy memorial and this Mr.. Austin
Brereton has prepared in THE Lyceum
Theatre and Henry Irving Lawrence q
Bullen Mcclure, Phillips Coz, hand
some, we'll printed. finely illustrated mono
graph that is very entertaining and re-
markaby well done.
Mr.. Brereton confesses that Sir Henry
Irving's career at the theatre was what
he had in mind in undertaking the work and
that he intended to glance over the earlier
history in a preliminary chapter. Ihat
history is 40 glorious dramatically, however.
and contains such great names, that ne 1elt
obliged to tell it all. Edmund kean, Charles
Mathews, the elder and the younger. Phelps,
the Keeleys, Nine Vestris, Ristori, Marie
Wilton, Mr.. Toole, Fechter-are only few
of Sir Henry's predecessors, and there was
Italian opera at the Lyceum too.
Thus half the volume deals with the
pre-Irving Lyceum the other half with the
brilliant succession Of plays that Joined
his name and Miss Terry's to the Lyceum
for thirty years. At the end are all the
Irving playbills. There are portraits In
color of Henry Irving as Hamlet and Ellen
Terry as Lady Macbeth, with other pictures
representing them in nearly every part they
played, and portraits of every actor men
toned, pictures of the theatre inside and
out 1t is delightful book and valuable
compendium Of London's dramatic history.
The sun., 1903-12-09
Seville. the Marvel.

Seville Is one of the very few large towns
that have retained their picturesqueness
and charm in an age of destructive and
levelling progress. 1t still fully meets
the travellers expectations, with its Giralda
tower and Murilos and bull fights, its avn
ing shaded streets by day and its charming
patios in the evening. The gypsies and
the cigar girls may not seem SO poetic
as fancy painted them. but they are still
thefe in flesh and blood. No one will re-
gret. therefore, that Seville is included
among the charming volumes of the
Medieval Towns series published by j. NJ.
Dent 4 Co. Macmillans.) The text, by Mr..
Walter C. Galliohan, is not so satisfactory
as that Of other volumes of the series, but
enthusiasm makes up for many slips. and
no more fitting and delightful illustrations
could be desired than those supplied by
Miss Elizabeth Hartley. The photogravure
frontispiece Of Goya's st. Justa and st.
Ruflna would make one pardon much
graver sins than the book contains.
Mr.. Gallichan has made the book much
more like guidebook than the other vol
umes Of the set-a guidebook with COM
ments and description, to be sure. He
seems unaware Of the difference between
square feet and -feet square," thus Civ
ing some buildings startling proportions.
His use Of the word "Romish" on Page 93
is in bad taste, and absurdly misleading
when applied to Spain long before the
Reformation. Mrs. Gallichan has written
the three chapters on art and has done it
very we'll. The book will be an excellent
guide to that marvel that all good Ameri-
cans should see. and pleasant reminder
to those who have seen it.
The sun., 1903-12-09
Desirable New Editions.

AS pretty a set Of Lamb as any one could
wish TO possess is that published in twelve
volumes by j. NJ. Dent & Co. (E, P. Dutton
4 Coz, "The Works of Charles Lamb, /"
edited by William Macdonald. In type,
shape of the volumes and binding the ad-
mirable taste of the publishers is shown
at its best. The illustrations are pretty,
those by Winifred Green are extremely
appropriate. those by c. f, Brock much
less 80, but as nobody associates pictures
with Lamb, they are not irritating as his
Thackeray pictures aree, Where they could
be found, as in the case of the chidren's
books. the original pictures are repro
duced and there are many portraits be-
sides. We wish we could speak more favor
ably of the EDITORS work. His notes have
The sun., 1903-12-09

the merit of brevity and modesty and he
has taken care not to include everything
that has been attributed to Lamb, without
discrimination. We hardly think that his
shuflinp the essays about will meet with
general approval, though that is remedied IN
mart by a general index, and the two vol
umes of specimens Of the dramatic poets
that contain almost nothing of Lamb could
easily have been omitted. We fancy, too,
that no harm will result from skipping Mr..
Macdonald's prefaces. He gives good
text of Lamb, however, in a very desirable
form.
OF the very handsome library edition Of
Anthony Hope, published by the Appletons'
two more volumes are issued, containing
some of the best known work of the author
in different fields: Rupert of Hentzau"
and THE Dolly Dialogues, with Comedies
of Courtship" Mr.. Hawkins's modesty
abstains from adding to the sensible general
preface he wrote for the first volume
Paper. large type and canvas binding are
all that could be desired.
The same mechanical advantages attach
to the new volumes of A. Conan Doyle's
works, published also by the Appletons,
Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes and "The
Refugees" Since he was knighted, how
ever, Sir Arthur has taken himself rather
seriously, 30 he provides short explana-
tory preface in the first person for each
volume.
The attractive library edition Of "The
Novels, Poems and Memories Of Charles
Kingsley" edited by his son, Maurice
Kingsley, and published by j. F. Taylor
Il Co. in fourteen convenient and beautifully
printed volumes, is completed by Mrs
Kingsley's charming biography, Charles
Kingsley; His Letters and Memories of
His Life" in two volumes. Mrs. kingsley's
book is one of the real biographies, that
would be worth reading for its own sake
if her husband had never written line.
1t is as interesting a life story as any that
has been told.
quarter of century ago, when the
output of novels was reasonable enough in
quantity for the public to read and discuss
nearly all, Boston firm Of publishers
began "No Name" series by new and old
authors, who remained anonymous, that
set people guessing as to who the writer
could be. Among the most successful was
"The Colonel's Opera Cloak" which is now
published In a new illustrated edition by
Little, Brown Il Co., with the author
revealed as Christine C. Brush. The COM
parson between the fict ion of then and now
does not indicate progress in quality. The
older story stands out conspicuously among
this seasons products.
The sun., 1903-12-09
pICKpOCKET TO MR.. HILTON.
"Our Gang. Not williams. Tried for Your
Watch"-William Convicted.

Harry Williams, alias Willinkski, 2l years
old, was convicted yesterday before Judge
Cowing in the General Sessions of attempted
grand larceny.
Albert Hilton OF lo47 Fifth avenue. son
of the late ex-Judge Hilton, caught
Williams picking his pocket. on an Eighty
sixth street car on Dec /. Upon discoV-
cry Williams and several others ran.
Williams put up an unusual defence.
He said that he had been a professional
pickpocket for years and was on the car
with some pals, When they ran he ran;
although he did not know what they had
been doing. ,
MIR. Hilton has received a letter from
he is one of the gang that tried to steal MIR.
Hlton's watch and That they are all doing
we'll in Philadelphia. The writer asserts
that Williams ia Innocent.
The sun., 1903-12-09
Twin City Rapid Transit Bond Issue.

Ii was announced in Wall Street yester.
day that the directors OF the Twin City
Rapid Transit Company have authorized
an issue Of $40, ,OOO, 900 per cent. gold bonds
Of 1928 At the present time only 90, 500 600
will be issued OF this amount $1,000 900
is to cover expenditures on power plants,
sub-stations, equipment and other improve
ments made in 1908. Another 81 100000 Is
to be expended next year to finish the power
plant and sub-stations. The remaining
81 500 900 will be used to complete two addi-
tional lines between St. Paul and Minne-
apolis and for the extension OF other subur-
ban lines
The sun., 1903-12-09
BOOKS AND BOOK MAKING,
CONTINUED from Ninth Pdge.)

found in the recent exploit OF a popular
journal.
The editor advertised for love stories
running from $500 to 5000 words, and
offered prizes of $500, $780, &c. In all,
10 600 short stories were sent In within the
allotted time. force OF readers was kept
busy upon them for several months, and out
of the 10000 thirty stories were selected as
really satisfactory.
Yet In spite of the expense and trouble
the editor considers that the experiment
paid him, because with the addition OF a
few desirable short stories that may drift
In. he is provided with good stories of the
length required for several years to come.
The sun., 1903-12-09
The Mepner BuCkingha M .

The scapegrace Duke OF Buckingham,
George Villiers the Second, the author of
"The Rehearsal, the "B" of the "Cabal
Ministry. has been written up rather ex-
haustively by Winifred, Lady Burghclere,
In George Villiers, Second Duke Of Buck
ingham. 1s2s-1ss7. A Study in the His
tory of the Restoration" There was
something magnificent and royal about
the first Dukes faults and vices, there was
The sun., 1903-12-09
Exile Ellis Writes to jerome.

W, B. Ellis, who escaped from River
crest ,Sanitarium and went to Toronto, has
sent thence to District Attorney Jerome a
printed and illustrated pamphlet describ
ing himself as prosecuted man, whom
private detectives tried toTkidnap in Canada
He wants Mr.. jerome to have an order OF
Justice Bischoff committing Ellis to Ward's
Island revoked, so that he can come back
to town. After reading the literature Mr.
jerome said:
Ellis is afraid that il he ventures into
this State he will he committed to an asylum
and guess he would be if he should be
caught"
The sun., 1903-12-09
POLICE MATRON SLEUTHED,
And Fortune Teller Is Arrested ~ . Dis
orderly Person.

Herman Wells Of ITO West Forty-seventh
street was arrested last night on war
rant charging him with being disorderly
person. Wells says that he is palmist and
fortune teller.
Capt. Handy Of the West Forty-seventh
street station received complaints that
Wells had been collecting money for teulng
Mrs. Ellen Reynolds, the matron at the
station, called on Wells. She said she had
lost a brooch. He wanted SIS for going
into a .trance." but she gave him $s, and
then he said that he would have to go into
a six x-dollar trance.
He told Mrs. Reynolds that her brooch
was being worn by a woman in The Bronx,
but nothing more definite.
The sun., 1903-12-09
Typhoid stricken Butler Asks More Aid

PIrrsBURa. Dec. s.-The Butler relief
committee has appealed to Pittsburg for
additional relief. Mr.. Heineman, chair
man, said the typhoid epidemic is increas-
ing There were five more deaths in the
appointed from Pittsburg councils met
and will send out a general call for assist
ance.
The sun., 1903-12-09
WANT S1ea,O 900 FROM SNIFFEN.
He Gives $40, 900 Bail in . Suit From thu
Far West.

Edward D. Sniffen of 20 Wall street was
arrested yester day by Deputy Sheriff
Walgering in suit brought against Sniffen
by Oswald d. Humphrey to recover $l22 ,463.
Sniffen gave bail in $40, 900 and was released;
Humphrey is the assignee of claim held
by the Natchez Railway and Logging Com.
pany of Olympia City, Wash IT is alleged
In the complaint and in an affidavit by
President Weir of the company that Sniften
undertook to raise some money for the
company and drew 81. .4e3 in cash for various
preliminary expenses, but did not raise
the money The company estimated its
losses at Sl2O, 600 in prospective profits and
~ ,4es cash. President Weir says that he
learned that Sniffen was never in position
TO raise the money.
The sun., 1903-12-09
HELD AS NEW YORK THIEVES.
Two Men Arrested in Pittsburg. with jew
eiry on Them. to he Held.

Two Men Arrested In P1ttsburS, WIN JeW'
eiry on Them. to he Held.
P1TrsBURo. Pa. Dec s.-Acting Super1n-
tendent Of Detectives William kilmore
received a message from Captain OF Detec-
tives James j. Langan Of New York re-
questing him to hold Abraham Thaller and
Morris Opar, the men arrested yesterday by
Detectives Lally and Left with diamonds
and jewelry on them They are wanted IN
New York to answer a charge OF grand
larceny. .
Isadore Zoggan 100 East Houston street,
and Louis Whitelaw, 2O2 East Houst on
street, are coming here to identify property.
NJ. Winter. Orange. N. j.. who says his house
was robbed on Nov. 10, and Louis Hull OF
Minneapolis, who says he was robbed on
Nov. 2s, have telegraphed for descriptions
of the property.
The sun., 1903-12-09
Killed by n Falling Floor.

TRENTON, n. j., Dec. s.--The third floor
o one of the buildings of the j. l.. Mott
Iron Works gave way while it was being
tested to-day and killed Frederick Camp
bell, carpenter, of Winthrop, Mass. The
two lower floors were carried away and
the building damaged to the extent of about
$4,000. The floor was of concrete and had
225 tons of sand in bags piled within a space
of fifteen by forty feet. More sand was
being carted up when the accident occurred.
There were many narrow escapes.
The sun., 1903-12-09
job for New Yorker Under Cortel,o

New Yorker has secured job in the
Department of Commerce and Labor.
Secretary Cortelyou. it was announce d
last night. has named Frank W. Dickinson,
a lawyer, who lives at S2s St. Nicholas
avenue, to be an assistant attorney at 500
year. Mr.. Dickinson came to NewYork
from Rochester
The sun., 1903-12-09
Harrison Jewel Thief Gets Five Year,

NoRRIsTowN. Pa, Dec. s,-Adolph Waltz,
arrested in New York with $4,000 Wort h
of jewels, which he had stolen from Mrs
William Welsh Harrison on Thanksgiving
Day, pleaded guilty in court here to-day
and was sentenced to five years in the penl-
tentiary.
The sun., 1903-12-09
Josiah quincy Too Busy for Politics.

BosToN, Dec. s.-Josiah Quincy has ten
dered his resignation as a member Of the
Democratic State committee and as chair
man OF the executive committee. Mr..
Quincy is in Europe. 1t is understood
in Europe for some time.
The sun., 1903-12-09
Catholic Priest Becomes a Presbyterian

PITTsBURG, Dec. s-Frank Novak, for
ten years a priest in the Roman Catholic
Church, was admitted to-day to the Pitts
burg Presbytery as a preacher. He told
the Presbytery of his conversion. He is
native Of Bohemia
The sun., 1903-12-09
Pennsylvania Railroad Buys Land II
Greenyflle.

The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
purchased forty-three lots re recently in the
Greenville section Of Jersey City, adjoining
the New York Bay Railroad, which runs
from the freight terminal on New York
Bay across Greenville and Newark Bay.
The sun., 1903-12-09
~ C,sars for Christ mas =.

Preparations are beginning for the Christi
mas present season in Wall Street. One
of the best known Stock Exchange broker
age firms has bought 400 cigars, which it
intends to give to its customers. Each
cigar is l4i5 inches long, and cost a.
The big cigars come one to the box.
The sun., 1903-12-09
The Rev. Philip Kerrldse Called to Easton.

EAsToN, Pa, Dec. s,-The vestry OF
Trinity Episcopal Church of this city to-day
extended a unanimous call to the Rev
Phillip Kerridge, vicar of the pro-Cathedral
of New York city, Mr., kerridge filled the
pulpit last Sunday.
The sun., 1903-12-09
Killed by Fail Down Elevator Shaft.

K0bert McArdIe OF ITO EAst IUSth street,
an elevat or operator in the office building
at so Gold street, fell down the elevator shaft
from the third floor to the basement yes
terdaykafternoon and was instantly killed.
McArdle was cleaning his car at the time.
The sun., 1903-12-09
FIELD Fd

Hugh Kelly T
Take Up III
The Xavier
Its fortieth ad
union at the
President HUI
livered the adj
ing Of the duty
| believe tha
understandings
injustice done
failure hitherto
and to treat |
was so approp(
the cultured i
country to ad
import mt subj
Begin by und
In the State of
constitutional [
the ages of 81
expense. The4
OF this city ald
children in part
only a portion [
tional right.
Then reIneu
City Superintd
has, within theI
that this is Il
exist to a CRED
munity, so pH
public funds I'd
Having dond
and as CitizeIl
$1,000 childrenl
of this comlnu(
wise provided !
lie expense AMI
the Catholic al
Walter Ged
Sodality of Pm
address. He \
T. j. Finlay, l
Ball, NJ. D., pm
Sodality of 80,
were a muSl0
afterward. /
The sun., 1903-12-09
TWO CHI
Arrested Here

Wong Get,
In Chinatown
investigation
the family al
rested yester(
Finley and Cd
county, y. Z
an attempt td
Wong Get i
Sing Tong. |
tried to sell I'd
West orange,I
pretences. Il
Wong Get I
rpSted with II
Breen in $1,000
Last night boz
bshments bla
to all inquiry
never heard Z
their lives. !
Central Oh
inside knowl(
said last nigll
men who had
sentence to lid
men in Poato
the Hin SinR1