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Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-05-12
DIR. ABNER G. THOMAS,
Neurologist and opthalmologist

For the past six weeks I have
been advertising that with the as
sistance Of Nature, l am enabled
to cure Headaches, Dyspepsia, In
digestion, Vertigo, Piles, straight
en- Cross Eyes and cure Granu-
lated Eyes, without pain, drugs or
operations.
knew that would be ridiculed
criticised and censured; that [
would be called a fake" a
"humbug" and a CRATER" and
I have. But I am more firm in my
convictions than ever, for | have
accomplished results, and have
cured one or more patients who
were suffering from some one OF
the above arrangements.
Do not Judge me by words, but
by my works, and that person
who persists in saying that Il
can It do these things, " is ignorant
as I will produce the people whom
! have treated and let them speak
for themselves.
If you are suffering from any
of the above ailments or from any
nervous troubles, do not be pref
udiced by what you may think,
but remember I give you a writ
ten guarantee to cure in a certain
period or refund your money. DO
you know of representative OF
any other method of treatment
who will take your case under the
same conditions?
Remember, also, that I am not
a "traveling" doctor, but that !
am located here permanently, and
that my business interests would
not permit me of making any con-
tracts which l cannot make good.
ABNER G. THOMAS,
Neurologist and opthalmologist'
Sistersville, w. Va.
Rooms l & 2, Peoples Bank Bldg.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-05-12

The dust from the streets has
been very trying of late on the
average citizen. We can see no
plausible reason why this city
should not have street sprinkler.
There has been enough of the
city's funds wasted within the
past few years to pay for a dozen
silver mounted sprinklers.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-05-12
ESCAPED CONVICT
Has Been Returned to the State
Penitentiary.

Wash Frey, the convict who
escaped from the prison farm last
fall was returned to the peniten-
tiary at Moundsville yesterday.
Frey was captured in the forest
fastness Of Lincoln county, adj
joining Mingo, over Two months
ago. A guard was sent after him
and on his way to Moundsville
stopped at Huntington to spend
the night, having the prisoner
locked up in the Huntington Jail.
The following morning it was dis
covered that one of the inmates
of the Jail had the smallpox, and
the Jail was put under quarantine,
the authorities refusing to allow
Frey to be taken from the Jail.
Several of the inmates con-
tracted the disease before it was
finally stamped out, and it was
not until last Monday that the Ca
bell county authorities would per-
nit Frey to be taken from the
Jail.
Frey was a young man of very
little intelligence, and has an un-
governable temper. He was en-
ployed as a trusty about the pris-
on farm. He disappeared one
night last fall, taking with him a
suit Of clothes belonging to Mr..
Conway, who resided on the farm.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-05-12
Dead Body Was Recovered.

The body of a dead man, sup
posed to be that of the foreigner
who has been missing from one
of the railroad camps below SUIT
ton for some time, was found
lodged on a snag in Elk river.
Prosecuting Attorney Cutlip held
a post-mortem examination.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-05-12
Arm Broken.

This afternoon while Hattie Hill
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Geo.
W., Hill, was riding her tricycle.,
she upset and broke her wrist.
She is resting easy as possible un-
der the circumstances, and her
broken arm will soon heal.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-05-12
ANNOUNCEMENTS.

All announcements for State,
County and City Offices must be
paid strictly cash in advance. We
will make no deviation from this
rule in favor of any candidate.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-12-07
FLOWERS TO SELECT.

For all stationary boxes a favorite
covering is birch bark, and all the
new hanging baskets are made in a
coarse mesh, of wire or rush. so that
vines may grow out through the crev-
ices. for which purpose both ivy and
blue lobelia are favorites. Fuchsia,
geranium and varicgated vinkers are
reliable boomers for the centre of a
hanging basket, though the snartcst
touch is given to the porch by hanging
baskets in green alone, with all colors
reserved fer the boxes. Kenthia palms
are favoritc of the hour Cor small
baskets, boxes and fern dishes.
When the portable boxes border the
porch the following arrangement Of
plants is recommended by success
ful florist: With the house for back
ground, set 4 row of daisies or mar
guerites, which, If properly cut will
bloom almost the summer through.
Next comes row CT gcraniuns.
which must net ho too large when
transplanted from the florists beds or
hot house; then bcgolias, and finally
ivy, to trail over the front of the
porch. All these plants are sturdy
and will bear transplantlns when in
bloom.
If the taste runs to old fashioned
flowers, verbcnas ray be set into
the boxes when almost ready to bloom,
arc mignomettc lady slipper ald port
ulaca seeds may be planted among
the harder tranGplantcd blooms. But
for the emergency garden, started at
this season OF the year, the trans.
planted blooms are TIE eafest invest.
LcIt.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-12-07
CARE or SMALL FRUITS.

Frank Aiken, in the American AS:i
culturist, writes: The small fruits
Srow are red and black raspbcrrics.
blackber"ics, cr-ralts, goosebcrries.
and Strawberries. -'hc years care
OF all these cXccp. Strawberries be
gins with taEing cut Of the dead wood
in March. With raspberrics and
blackbe-ries all the wood that fruited
last summer Is taken out with q sharp
lock made of large fiat file and at.
tached to handle about three feet
long. With this tool l cut of all dead
canes and pull them out between the
rows as pass along. Then week or
two later so over the same rows and
cut back all the new wood that is to
fruit this year. My raspberries are
pinched in summer, so this growth is
mostly lateral and i9 trimmed to about
two feet long. Plants set the year pre-
vious are cut about one foot.
This leaves the dead wood and TRIM
mings in the niddles, where after
ward they are pulled TO ends OF rows
with q one-horse rake, then piled and
burned. This leaves the plantation
ready for cultivation, which begins
some time in May. uso n one-horse
hoe vita Vide sweep for the back
tooth.
l cultivate every week or two until
after berries are all picked. l usually
hoc once. and about midsummer or
later pull out tall weeds that often
appear. Gooseberles and currahts
are gone over in the same way. ex.
copt that usually there is not much
Ccad wood to remove and Tot so much
trimming is necessary. / shorten
sorlo OF the longest growth and thin
old wood where too thick. The cul-
uvatlol is the same as for raspberries
ard blackberries.
The only insect enemy of these
fruits is the currant worm. which will
cat all leaves from currants. and goose
berries If not prevented. These worms
appear soon after the bushes are in
full leaf. They are easily killed with
Paris green and water put on with
fine spray. l use weak Bordeaux mix
turo and Paris green. If spray after
fruit is half grown use white hele-
bore and water instead Of Paris green.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-12-07
RECKLEssNEsS IN MIDAIR.

That familiarity breeds contempt of
danger is shown by an article printed
in the Pttsburg Leader. "Sce that"
asked an engineer of the East River
bridge, pointing TO a small ladder set
into one of the steel piers at an elcva-
ton of more than 200 feet above the
street. SO closely did the ladder sling
TO the smooth surface of tie steel that
1t seemed almost impossible to get the
fingers between the rungs and the pier.
"Thosc steps were intended to be
used only under the most pressing DR..
cumstanCes,' continued the engineer,
"and only then with great care. Yet
the men would leap for the ladder from
n platform about three feet away,
snatch at rung and climb. up rather
than use n safe and guarded scaffold.
ing erected for the express purpose
only few yards away. Warning
notices We're posted that any one did
it would be discharged, yet the very
day the decree went forth man
jumped for the ladder. He struck the
side of the steps with his head and
was dashed TO the ground. OF course
he was killed instantly.
That stopped the ladder climbing,
but the men still do all sorts of reck-
less things. For instance, they climb
out on Il narrow beam projecting over
the river from the very top of the
structure, and stand there on one leg
TO be photographed.
Not long ago one of our foremen
found man taking an after dinner nap
on a girder at a height equal TO that
of twenty-story building. The grid
er was just wide enough for him to lie
on, and there was nothing hut air be-
tween him and the ground. Yet he
was quite indignant when the foreman
woke him up and threatened to dis
charge him."
"Our window cleaners are as rash as
any workman" said the superintend-
ent OF skyscraper. Each OF our win-
dows Is fitted with heavy iron eyebolts,
into which the cleaners are expected
20 snap steel hooks attached to broad
canvas belts that are buckled about
their waists.
you would not imagine that any
man would dare TO stand on the ten
inch window sills without seeing that
the belt is hooked into the eyebolts as
firmly as it will so. There is absolute
IL nothing else for the cleaners to hold
on TO, and in front of them is the
smooth face of the glass. The men
stand bolt upright, and even lean back
little, Yet every day we catch one
or more of them climbing out on those
narrow sills, twelve stories and more
above the sidewalk, with the belt un-
hooked
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-12-07
Gladstone VS.. Inuersoll.

About 16 years ago a young lady
went on her first visit to Hawarden.
She had never been there before, and
had never met either Mr. and Mrs.
Gladstone. Miss Gladstone, whose
friend she was, had been unavodably
called away from home The first
evening, to her dismay, she was
taken In to dinner by Mr.. Gladstone
and placed by his side. Though in
variably courteous, he never was good
at making conversation with stran-
gers. He was almost silent, she was
too shy to start n subject. and It
seemed as though the evening would
be failure. Luckily, however, some
one was there who knew well how to
draw Mr.. Gladstone out, in the shape
Of his nephew, the present colonial
secretary. 1t was at the time Mr..
Gladstone was engaged In corre-
spondence with Ingersoll, the atheist.
and Alfred Lyttleton mentioned In a
casual manner that he had met him.
"How! You know that scoundrel!"
MIR. Gladstone turned upon him with
an eye of fire, and, thundered forth a
denunciation of Ingersoll and all his
opinions, which lasted through the
rest OF the evening, to the mingled de.
light and relief of the shy girl. Her
name was Edith Dalfour, and few
years later she married Alfred Lyttel-
ton.-Lippincott's
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-12-07
APPLYING MANURE,

Farmers will have their own views
and practices how to apply the manure.
Circumstances and conditions will
make more or less difference. A farmer
should study the matter carefully and
by experimenting on his own land try
to find the best methods.
Both methods of piowing rlanCrc un-
der and surface application are prac-
ticed, and each will have its advan-
tagcs. Coarse, strawy manure should
produce the best results by plowing
under, as it is difficult Incorporating 1t
with the surface soil to any satisfac-
tory degree by narrowing. Turned
under it will be out of the way Of culti-
vatiol, decay and furnish food for the
roots of the plants rs they extend
downward.
1t will also serve TO tighten the soil
and furnish vegetable matter which is
of Importance TIE writer used to
have an idea that surface ranu"ing,
at least on his own land, was alto.
gcthcr the best, but later developments
rather indicate that plowing the man
hlt huS dhN 1hh 10
to be preferred.
or course, soils. cea-onS and depth
Of plowing will have some influence
or effect in the matter, and one should
not be SO decided in his opinions ard
practices that he will not be willing
TO make n change when indications
point to an improvement in so doing.
Il Ill 1. -
of the plowing in the fall, do it in the
best manner, and carefully apply all
of the manure available in tho manner
calculated to do the most gooG.-E. L.
Towle, in The American Cultlvatcr.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-12-07
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FARM TOPICS.
RYE AS A SOIL IMpRovER.

Rye ia not profitable grain crop on
good wheat land. It will not yield
with wheat, and its long. soft straw Is
difficult TO harvest. II will not pay for
the grain alone on good land. II the
soil is depleted clay, heavy and cold,
rye will prove more profitable than
wheat 1t is soil improver. If sown
In the fall on very thin land and per-
mitted TO mature. the grain. remaining
unharvested on the ground until the
next fall, then all turned under, the
poorest saddest land. IL well drained,
will grow clover fairly well.
Rye will furnish considerable pas
ture for sheep and swine in early
spring, and is not only an excellent
cover crop. but is probably the surest
crop for fall and winter pasture.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-12-07
Target Practice VS.. Glass Balls.

Shooting at glass balls and clay
pigeons doubtless renders one prof.
cient with shotgun, but in time of
war the enemy will not be up in the
air or sprung from trap. Target
practice is quite as harmless as shoot
ing at glass or clay, and when mill
tary rife is used soldier is being
trained for the nation. What this
country needs Is nucleus for vol
unteer army made up of qualified
marksmen, men who can hit an enc
my at from half mile 20 two miles.
A National Board for the Promotion of
Rifle Practice has been created by
Congress, and has devised compre-
hensive plan to encourage rifle prac-
tice among the militia, in military and
other schools and among individuals
who may be called upon to serve in
time of war. The idea promises we'll,
and Congress should give the board
adequate financial support.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-12-07
HORSE TECuNICALrrIES.

A white spot on the forehead Is n
star. A white face from eye TO eye
Is q bald face. A strip between the
nostril is snip. A white eye Is a
glass eye. A horse has pastcrns, not
ankles, and there Is no such point as
hind knee or fore shoulder. White
around the top of the hoof is n white
coronct. White below the pastern or
above the pastern Is n white leg. a
snip cannot be anywhere but on the
nose. Amble Is gait like pacing, but
slower, In which the two legs on the
sGue side are moved together. The
Group Is that part of the horse back of
the saddle The forearm is that part
of the leg between the elbow and the
knee, and the elbow IS the jollt of the
forcleg next to the knee and not to the
side. When the horse forges it strikes
the toe of the forefoot with the toe
Of the hind one, and this is sometimes
the result of bad shocing, Every one
should know that the hand, term
commonly used In describing the height
of a horse, is one-thrd Of foot, or four
inches.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-12-07
POULTRY NOTES.

Even those skeptically inclined adj
nit that now, when eggs ard chickens
sell at high prices, it is better 10 raise
them than to have to buy them.
After the trick of egg eating iG once
learned by hen, she very likely will
soon begin to pick at whole eggs, and
perhaps finally manage to break even
eggs with good, hard shells.
The treatment for the prevention Of
the egg-ea. Ting habit consists Of supply
ing the hens with proper and sufficient
food including grit and eggshell ma
terlals, and the regular and prompt re-
moval Of the eggs from the nests.
Hens will eat eggs whenever brol:cn
ones are placed within their reach. y
is natural for them to cat anything tia1
is good to eat and in proper shape for
them to eat. TO stop item from cat-
ing eggs, therefore, IS to Keep broken
eggs out Of their reach.
Nobody can get mere enjoyment ana
real comfort out of an egg than the
producer who knows all about its an.
tCCtutulS - st-IN lIul l4lS ON II
hens have manufactured it from unob.
jectionable materials only day or two
before it is used on the table.
Just at this time, whit, come of tho
old stocl; is still on hand, and the sur.
plus of the young stock not yet dis
posed Of, with carons, pullets and cid
old hens all ready for their daily mash,
or mashes, we need plenty Of feed
troughs If We wish to protect the birds
from unduly crowding one another ald
possibly preventing the weaker ones
from getting their share.
1t is often stated that eggs laid in
carly spring, while the weather is cool,
have better keeping qualities than
eggs laid during August or even Sep.
tember. This seems hardly probable,
and one shclld not hesitate to store tic
summer eggs for winter use, provided
they are gathered the day they are
laid, then put away in waterglass solu-
ton. and stored in as cool place as
may be handy.-Indianapolls News.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-12-07
FREE AFTER FORTY YEARS.

In 1874 / was travelling in the Aus
tralian bnsh-New South Wales-when
came across respectable old man,
over sixty years of age, who told me
an extraordinary story He said his
name was Edmund Galley. He and
q man named Oliver were tried at Exc
ter in 1896 for the murder of yeoman
farmer named May, on July 10, 1885.
They We're both convicted and sem
tenced to be executed. Oliver, in the
dock, turned TO the Judge and said:
This man, Galley, is quite innocent"
Mr. Cockburn. afterward Lord Chief
Justice, who defended Galley. and a
shorthand reporter. who was also pres
ent at the trial, made such strenuous
efforts that Galley's sentence of death
was not carried out, but he was trans
ported TO New South Wales. where he
arrived in 1889. Oliver was executed.
Many years afterward. a man named
John LonSley, on his deathbed. con-
fessed that he and Oliver were the
murderers Of May, and Galley was in
nocent
Huluper Oh people, ana L among
them. wrote to my fine old friend Sir
Eardley Wilmot, NJ. p, who took up
the case and presented it to the House
of Commons in simple, clear and ef-
fective manner. Galley did not like
TO marry until he received a free par
don. The proceedings in the House of
Commons are fully reported in Han
sard. especially the great speech of
John Bright. After an exciting de-
bate, 1t was resolved to recommend
the Queen to grant free pardon to
Galley, which was accordingly given
In 1879, forty-three years after the con-
vlction of this poor old Australian
shepherd.-J. ii. H., in the London
Times.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-12-07
A STRUGGLE WITH THE ICE.

The last craft to get through at the
thing of a reputation. Practical rea-
sons prevent any stoppage until the
last moment possible. The longer a
vessel runs, the greater the freights
earned, and often chances are taken.
No boat ever had more typical and
exciting trip than the Hutchinson in
the year just passed. On the evening
Of November 20 the Hutchinson, in a
high sea and driving snow storm, ran
on an mcharted rock in Lake Supe-
rior. The sharp points tore n hole
through the bottom of the big vessel.
In sudden terror some of the. fircmen
and crew made for the small boats,
but were driven back by the captain.
Rockets pierced the darkness, and a
huge bale of infammable stuff soaked
in kerosene was set flaming Mt the
masthead. Fires were lighted on the
steel decks, and all night long the sig
nails Of distress burned. With the
notification Of the life saving station
the life savers put off through the win
ter seas. During two days the crew
and the life saving men remained
upon the ship. m the meantime the
underwriters had learned of the
wreck; and the Hutchinson being
abandoned by the owners, Captain
Charles NJ. Davis, lake veteran Of
seventy, famous wrecker, was sent
to take charge. Wrecking outfits were
summoned from the $500" and a work
ing party engaged. At once the work
of jettlsonlng the cargo began. Six
inch centrifugal pumps poured water
into the holds filed with fiaxseed, un-
til fourteen inch pumps could suck up
the valuable stuff and force it over
board Fifty thousands bushels,
worth $4,000, We're pumped into the
lake in thirty-two hours. A wrecking
tug then started to pull the Hutchin-
son off, but so violent storm came
on that the immediate breaking up
of the vessel seemed unavoidable.
With this apparently inevitable, the
crew and the wreckers left her. Be-
fore leaving the heavy anchor was let
go. On the following day, however,
with the subsistence Of the tempest
the .astonshed wreckers found that
the waves. instead OF destroying the
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-12-07

Hutchinson, had lifted the boat off the
rock and that she was riding In safe
ty.
Then began one of the runs to be
celebrated in lake history. Nineteen
feet of water was In one compartment
and fourteen in another. The remain.
ing cargo had TO be slowed SO that
II would not shift in the heaviest seas.
The pumps We're kept going the entire
time. In this condition the vessel
plowed steadily through the heavy
waves, the thickening ice. At one
time, In zero weather and with blind
ing snowstorm n fifty mile gale blew
about the boat. She rolled heavily.
and because she was so weighted
down with the thick coating of ice the
water broke over her at every plunge.
Two ferry boats opening a way were
needed TO help her TO make Polntc au
pelco.
At the port of destiantion the appear
ance of the battered warrior of the
waters aroused the greatest cnthusi-
asm. Tho whistle Of everything that
had steam up was set going. The
wailing sirens of the great boats, the
footing of the smaller, welcomed the
arrival in cacophonous chorus. Three
hundred and fifty thousands dollars
were saved to the underwriters by the
cXploit-nnd the last boat Of the year
was "in."-Gcorge lIibbard, in lIar-
pcr's Magazine.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-12-07
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COST OF SPRAYING.
NCa .si

The cost of spraying apple trees
three times with bordeaux mixture Mt
the Maine Experiment station Is from
ten TO fifteen cents per tree. Baldwin
apples on sprayed trees showed ninety
seven per cent. of the fruit free from
scab, while unsprayed trees showed
only sixtyseven per cent. OF the fruit
free from scab. On full-grown trees
It is reckoned that the average crop Is
about three barrels, which would give
n gain of n barrel of clear handsome
fruit as n result of the spraying. The
profits Of the operation, however, vary,
as some years there is but little scab,
while other years II Is very prevalent.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-12-07
"JAcKlEs" PROFICIENT WITH
RIFLEsl
Secretary Morton comn,ends Their
Work at Fort Riley.

Work at Fort Riley.
Lieutenant NJ. L. Bristol. Of the
navy, a member Of the National Board
for the Promotion of Rife Practice,
recently called the attention of the
Navy Department to the result of the
national rifle match at Fort Riley In
August. Secretary Morton has writ
ten n letter TO Lieutenant Provost
Babin, of the navy, stating that the
department has noticed that the team
under that officers command gained
second place with final score of
4,294 out of a possible G,000 in compe-
tition with eighteen other teams, in
cluding two from the army and one
from the Marine Corps. It is also
noted that the naval team stood num-
Der one in skirmish firing. The de-
partment commends Lieutenant Babin
on the ground that the gratifying re-
suit Is manifestly due to his intelli-
gent, earnest and careful training OF
the team. The commcndatory letter
has been added to the official record
of that officer.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-12-07

Icebergs are the product OF Green.
land glaciers and are formed by the
thousand in the far northern nords.
As the glaciers sweep into the sea they
"calve" or throw off mighty blocks,
and these are what we know as Ice
bergs.