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Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-07-28

One of the best and most scien-
tifc baseball games ever seen in
this part of the country in recent
years took place at Paden Park
last evening.
After those present at the pic
nic-an account of which ap-
pears in another column OF to-
days issue-a game Of baseball
was proposed, and here is where
the fun began. The participants
were hardly as well up on base
ball rules as some others we might
mention, but it was agreed that
each fellow should knock the ball
Just as far as he could, and then
all would turn in and look for it..
A. D. McNey was on the rubber,
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-07-28

| have worked with a shovel in
a Denver smelter, and know the
conditions there-they> are inhu-
man. They turn stone into gold,
and men into stone. Three shifts
of eight hours each can be worked
Just as well as two shifts of twelve
hours each-but the twelve-hour
shift is cheaper-cheaper in mon
ey-but not in men. The smelter
men asked for shorter hours. Cap
ital refused-or lodged, gave ex-
cuses delayed, and acted in bad
faith. The smelter men did not
strike. Labor and capital and
the people in general-all three
dreaded strike; so labor, through
the ballot, requested the public to
give it human hours before the
furnaces, and, when the ballots
were counted, it was found that
the people had said eyes,
But capital said "No, and cap
ital fought it's determined fight,
fought it as slowly as ever paid
lawyers could drag it, through
one court to another, and at
length up to the Supreme court OF
Colorado. There capital won.
The law that the people of the
whole State had said should be
law, the Supreme court held to be
unconstitutional, although five
neighboring States-Utah, in par
ticular-had almost exactly the
same law, which the Supreme
courts of those States all held to
be valid in itself and good for the
people of their respective States.
Capital paid it's lawyers-and
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-07-28

Many leading papers through
out the State have been comment
ing on the percentage Of reversals
in the cases decided by our Su-
preme court in volume SO Of the
West Virginia reports, only about
1870 of the cases therein decided
being affirmed. In other words,
the Circuit court has been re-
versed in $50 of cases appealed to
the Supreme court.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-07-28
Opera House Drug Store

ask the readers of this paper who
are suffering with indigestion or
dyspepsia to call on them at once
and get a bottle of Kodol Dyspep-
STA Cure. If you knew the value
of this remedy as we know it,
you would not suffer another
day. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure is a
thorough digestant and tissue
building tonic as well. 1t is en-
dorsed personally by hundreds of
people whom it has cured of indi-
gestion, dyspepsia, palpitation
of the heart, and stomach trou-
bles generally. Kodol Dyspepsia
Cure digests what you eat. 1t Is
pleasant, palatable and strength
ening.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-07-28
GREAT BALL GAME
AT PADEN PARK

and it is hardly necessary for us
to say that very few strikes were
had. He simply made "Pass, old
boy" look like thirty cents. The
others in the game would take
their turn behind the bat and in
the field, and everything went
along like clock-wOrk. The real
surprise, however, was the mag
nificent playing of the boys from
the Pipe Line office. We are in
formed that they didn't catch a
single ball, but they did their best
and after repeated trials, succeed
ed in working up sweat. Taking
it all in all, the playing was really
superb, and even looked so easy
that some of the ladies joined in
and all had a jolly time.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-07-28
EXCEPTIONAL RECORD

The Fourth Judicial circuit is
far above the average. More than
500 of Judge Willis cases pass
ed upon by the Supreme court
have been affirmed. This does
not include the cases in which the
Supreme court refused an appeal.
And there is no circuit judge in
the State who has rendered Opin-
ions in a greater number of cases
than Judge Willis.-West Union
Herald.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-07-28

Supt. and Mrs. A. D. McVey
and a number of others of the
Eureka Pipe Line company, enjoy
ed an outing last evening at Pa
den City Park.
The occasion was given in honor
of Miss Katie Grub of Marietta,
and Mrs. Nelson Moore of Butler,
Pa, who are guests of relatives in
the city.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-07-28
ENJOYABLE OUTING

The merry party went up to the
park over the trolley line, arriving
about s o'clock. The evening was
delightfully."- whiled away, and at
a seasonable time refreshments
were served.
They returned to the city about
midnight, and all express them
selves as having enjoyed the ev-
ening's outing most hugely.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-07-28
National Social.

The ladies of the M. E. church
of Pursley, will give National
ice cream and box supper in ivy
ford's meadow, July 90. A cor
dial invitation is extended to all.
The ladies are requested to bring
boxes.
1886
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-07-28
1886

G.. O. Cutler, superintendent of
the City Water Works, drained
the fire plugs yesterday. The
plugs are now in fine condition in
case a fire should occur.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-07-28

Merchants report business i'm
proving.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1904-05-05
Goose Weighs IA Pounds.

Harry Pinkham, a Nevada (Ia.)
horseman, owns Toulouse goose
which is a monstrosity and which
has attracted great deal OF atten-
ton on account Of its great size,
says the Sioux City Journal. The
goose weighs l44 pounds, stands
over 2 feet high, and lays an egg A.
large around ss an ordinary caraie.
The fowl has been exhibited by Mr..
Pinkham at several Of the live stock
shows. and has always attracted at-
tention.
The weight Of this goose was so
great that the web feet became Grip
pied, and in order that the fowl
might easily walk over the frozen
ground this winter Mr.. Pinkham
had made for it q pair Of rubber
shoes which had been made to fit
exactly upon the two web feet, and
with this artificial aid the goose gets
about on the ice and the hard ground
quite well. With one OF the eggs
which the goose recently laid Ne.
vada boarding house keeper made
fourteen custard pies.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1904-05-05

Minutes Of Holmes County Carp,
U. c. ", No. 1893. A regular meet
ing Of this camp was held in the
court house, May 2, 1904.
Commander called the Camp to
order, and it was opened with prayer
by Chaplain Broadway.
Minutes Of last meeting were read,
followed by call Of the roll.
On recommendation Of Comrades
]. B. Doty and W. h. Melton, Levy
Walton. the servant Of Capt. James
Walton, Of Co. K, 29th Mississippi
Regiment, was elected an honorary
member Of this Camp.
An account Of $3.50 for stationery
for Adjutant Howell was allowed and
paid.
R. E. Baker, W. W. Lunsford, T.W,
Eakin and W. L. Young were elected
delegates to the reunion in Nashville,
June IA, Is and 16, inclusive, and
]. B. Dickard, ]. H. Downer, w. B.
White and J. W. Swinney, alternatss.
The following resolution was intro
duced BY comrades G. G. Phillips
W. W. Lunsford and W. N. Broada
way, was received:
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y. &. Y. Meeting
Proceedings of the Regular May Session of Holmes
County Camp, So. 328, u c. Y.

Resolved, That in consideration Of
the fact that the present per capita
dues Of 25 cents do not meet the
current expenses Of this Camp, the
annual dues be raised to so cents per
member.
The resolution requiring an amend
ment to the constitution is laid over
to the next regular meeting, the first
Monday in June.
Minutes were read and approved
and the Camp adjourned to the next
regular meeting, being dismissed with
q benediction by Chaplain Brosdaway.
r. H. Baker, Com'dr.
F. A. Howell. Adiussnt.
Petition for Pardon.
To his Excellency, Hon. jas. K. Var
daman, Governor Of Mississippi.
The undersigned citizens Of Holmes
county would respectfully petition
that Jim Hooker, who was sentenced
to seven years in the penitentiary At
the Nay term Of the Circuit Court Of
Holmes county, In 1908, be pardoned,
and assign - their reasons therefore,
that they believe that said Jim
Hooker was sentenced BY reason Of
perjured testimony.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1904-05-05
DREADFUL THINGS COMING.
Schedules End of World for June,
1908, As Most Important.

The prophecies OF LIE Spangler, a
York merchant, who calls himself
the last of the prophets, and whose
hobby for IL years has been the
making OF prophesies, has created a
stir here among those who have faith
in him says tho New York Sun.
From time to time during the
past II years he has issued pamph-
lets and tracts warning people to
prepare for the end of the world in
June, 1908. During the war be-
tween the British and the Beers in
South Africa he wrote a letter to
Queen Victoria in which he predict
ed her death within six months il
she failed to withdraw the troops
from South Africa. In letter to
President Mckinley ,SpangIer warned
him against assassination.
The most recent of his prophecies
to be fulfilled were the death OF
Malk Hanna and the breaking out
of war between Russia and Japan.
SpangIer says that his prophecies
are revealed to HIM in visions by
the voice of God. He said last
night:
"When the Maine vas blown up
in Havana tarbor, before l had
learned of the disaster, it was told
to me in vision that a foreign
country would perpetrate a terrible
crime against this country. Spain
was the criminal. Since the blowing 9
up of the Maine there has been nc
peace on earth.
"The Castilians aroused the war
spirit, which had been sumbering
and they applied the match, which
has caused the war flame to spread.
This was the beginning. The end
will be more terrible, more harrow
ing than tits possible for the human
imagination TO conceive.
"The war now going on in the
East is insignificant in comparison
with the wars that are to follow.
Complications will arise which will
draw many Of the European nations
into the fighting, and other wars
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1904-05-05

relations, especially with Canada; q
reduction Of governmental expenses,
especially those of a warlike and jim
goistic character the unveiling and
punishment Of corruption in the de-
partments; the cessation Of executive
usurpation of Legislative functions,
whether by the president, officers Of
the cabinet, heads Of bureaus or divi-
sions; an unalterable opposition to
British colonism, whether exercised
by Great Britain in the eighteenth
century or by the United States in
the twentieth century; in q word,
such a course in connection with all
matters that are active issues, as to
approximate so nearly as possible all
legislation along the line Of the
democratic ideal Of equality Of oppol-
tunity and equality Of burdens in the
relationship Of the individual to the
government
Mr.. Williams was questioned con-
cerning the report that he would be
a candidate for the presidential nomi-
nation. He said:
'I think you know me we'll enough
to know that / have never been
idiotic enough to take this seriously"
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1904-05-05

1t will be Of interest to those living
near Oak Grove church, just south
Of Lexington, to know that its men,
bers will hold a meeting at 3 o'clock
next Sunday afternoon for the pur,
pose of organizing and opening a
Sunday school at that church. All
are invited to attend.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1904-05-05
Washington, DC, May 3, 1904.

"oonihs ooLi, b'O', hldy ., lJOt.
Last week was hay-making and a
hay-raking one for the democrats in
the House of Representatives. They
placed the republicans on the spit
and toasted them to a rich brown.
In the first place the Hon. John Sharp
Williams, the able and vigilant floor
leader of the Minority in the House,
caught the republicans mapping in
the committee on the judiciary, and
when there was majority of demo-
Gratis present, and obtained favorable
reports on both his resolutions aimed
at the vitals of this republican ad.
ministration. One of those resolu-
tions requested the Attorney General
to inform the House whether any
criminal prosecutions have been insti-
tuted by the Department of Justice
against the individuals or corpora
tions who were adjudged recently by
the Supreme Court of the United
States, in the Northern Securities
case, to be guilty Of having violated
the laws of the United States, and to
send to the House all papers and
documents bearing upon any prose-
cutions inaugurated or about to be
inaugurated in that behalf.
These resolutions were sleeping
peacefully in the pigeon holes of the
desk of the republican chairman of
that committee, and there the repub-
licans intended they should sleep and
die of inanition or be smothered to
death. They did not want them ever
to see the light of day, because they
knew their recalcitrant Attorney
General had not taken any action and
would not take any action in either
case. When it became known that
John Sharp Williams had dug them
out of the committee with a favora-
BILE report, and tA1t the committee
on rules could not stifle them on ac-
count of the fact that they now come
up as privileged matter, there was
CONSERVATION on the republican side
and many quick conferences and much
wagging of heads. 1t was all too
late. The mischief was done and
their Attorney General will be shown
up as a tool of the trusts and re-
creant to his oath of Office, for which
he ought to be impeached. Let the
people of the country note and re-
ioice at a leadership on the demo-
cratic side endowed with vigilance,
brains and patriotism.
The next gun-shot the republicans
received was on last Saturday when
the Hon. W. Bourke Cochran, of New
York, simply tore the innards out of
them and strewed them along the
floor of the House. 1t was great
speech and aroused the most intense
enthusiasm on the democratic side of
the House and the deepest gloom on
the republican side. Mr.. Cochran re-
viewed the whole gamut of republi-
can legislation on the tariff question,
the trust question, and on the rotten
ness in the departments and the re-
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1904-05-05
DURANT SQUIBS.
The berry season is about over.

Hon. J. Wiener, our distinguished
iurist, was a recent visitor to the
capitol city.
Rev. Berryhill, W. 7. johnson and
John Kyllingstad attended the Pres
byterian Assembly at Greenville last
week.
Hon. Geo. A. Wilson was seen on
our streets few days ago.
Sheriff Wilburn was a prominent
! figure on our streets few days ago
Our friend, @. 0. Eckford, has been
circulating among his many friends
here the past week.
\ Our assessor, W. G. Red is now
going the rounds to see how poor
1 people are. There is a fuctuation ir
property at this season OF the year
Whenever people see Will coming
property depreciates in value anc
when he is gone it takes a rise.
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fusal of the republicans to investi-
gate them and give the people the
benefit of such investigation to the
end that the light may pour into dark
places and the guilty may be punished.
He arraigned them, he lashed them,
he scored them and blistered them in
language that fairly sizzled with
venom and invective and bristled
with facts that were irrefutable. The
republicans sank lower into their
seats than they have been wont to
sit for many day. Several of the
old dowager statesmen on the repub-
lican side, like Grosvenor, Payne and
Dalzell, essayed to interrupt him
with questions and statements, but
on each interruption they went to
their seats limping. He had fattened
out old man Grosvenor and old man
Payne, and made them look like thirty
cents worth of dog meat. He was a
human buzz-saw in rapid motion, and
any republican with the temerity to
interrupt him, had the sympathy and
commisseration of the House. The
climax of the dramatic scene, how
ever, came when Dalzell interrupted
him to state that he had understood
that Mr.. Cochran had received large
pay for his speeches for Mckinley in
the campaign of 1896. 1t was like
touching off powder magazine. Mr..
Cochran denounced the statement as
the vilest SANDER, and made a state
ment of his position in that campaign,
and that he had received not even
car fare for the speeches made at
that time. He said that no man was
quick to attribute infamy to another
unless he was we'll acquainted with it |
himself, and that they were trying to
accuse him of what every man knew
was the universal custom of every
republican politician taking money |
in a campaign. When Dalzell again
arose and said he had been informe ed
by a democratic member of the
House of the accusation he had made,
the storm broke over his head in
real earnest. Mr.. Cochran rushed
down the aisle shouting, with his
arms raised above his head, name
him." name him." name him." and
the entire democratic side joined in
the chorus, name him." until pande-
monium reigned and no such dramat-
10 scene has been enacted on the floor
Of the House during this session.
When Dalzell refused to name him,
then with the most withering scorn,
Mr.. Cochran turned to him and said
that any man who made that confess
sion could not again interrupt him
or come voluntarily within his vision.
He said that Dalzell, not being able
to name the author of the statement
or produce the proof, was what could
not be named on the floor of the House
under parliamentary rules, to-wit, a
common everyday liar.
1t was great speech by a great
man, and a field day for the democrats.
, Charles A. Edwards.
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will break out between European
nations. Within a year all Europe
and most OF the Asiatic countries
will be warring.
"The United States will be at
war with foreign countries and there
will be bloody race wars within her
own boundaries.
"We have just had a severe win
ter, but the severity Of next winter
will be greater. We will have cool
summers and rigorous winters until
the world is destroyed by fire three
and a half years from now.
'.Just before the destruction, an
archy will hold sway everywhere.
There will be widespread famine
and epidemics in all lands. God
will bring about these things to pre-
pare the faithful and discover and
expose the insincere.
Goods wrath will be especially
visited upon women. They will
lose their beauty. The Lord will
take tins method to punish woman
for her great vanity, which she has
been cultivating since the expulsion
from Eden.
president Roosevelt will be re.
elected as president of the United
States, but he will sigh thous and
times for private life again. The
cares of his Office will be the greatest
that any chief magistrate Of the
republic has had, and his admins
tration the most tumuItous OF any
in the history Of the United States.
"King Edward will be the last
king OF England and will witness
the destruction Of the world by fire
and the coming OF Christ"
Ed. Advertiser: Please say to the
person or persons who lifted my
buggy whip from my buggy on the
Sunday-school Institute day, last Sat-
urday, April Both, at Hebron church,
that if it is returned to me, | won't
say anything more about it. It may
be possible that the pair Of plow lines
| picked up near my buggy were left
in exchange for the whip, il SO, | de-
serve little boot. W. WI.
We keep on hand 3 or a different
grades Of roasted coffee. Try them.
| Ewin Ryna
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1904-05-05

Representative John Sharp Viii
liams, Of Mississippi, the democratic
leader Of the house, in a statement
given out says he believes that the
nomination of Judge Alton B. Parker
at the st. Lo lis convention is assured
He thinks that with the adoption Of
a platform containing nothing but
live issues the democracy can win
next fall with Parker at the head Of
the ticket.
1T seems clear to me-" said Mr.,
Williams, "that Mr.. Parker will be
nominated by such an overwhelming
vote that there will be substantially
no opposition when the time for the
convention arrives. Individually
favor his selection. | favor him be-
cause he comes from the right sec
tion and the right state. He is the
logical candidate geographically and
politically. I favor him because he
seems to be an eminently conserva-
tive, careful and healthy-minded man.
81 favor him because, although he
has differed with a majority Of the
party upon some great questions,
notably upon one great question, he
was still a democrat, in spite Of his
difference, and thought democracy,
even with one or two planks wrong,
infinitely nearer the truth than re-
publicanism. I think Parker is a fun
damental democrat-an anti-federal-
ist by nature. He is democrat by
temperament as we'll as by study and
association. That goes far with me.
'T have heard it que STONED that
he is a regular and orthodox demo-
crat; that he failed to support the
democratic ticket in 1896 and 1900.
I know that he has been regular; l
know it from a letter that he wrote
in the campaign recently, and | know
it from his own personal assurances
of the fact in talk that | had with
him.
'Tbelieve," continued Mr. Williams,
that If the democracy can win at all,
it can win with Parker. And more
over, l believe that with good brave
fight, with sound and unequivocal
platform asserting democratic poll
cies in connection with real and liv-
ing issues, and ignoring dead issues,
the democracy stands better chance
Of winning than it has stood since
Cleveland was elected in 1892.
TT ought to win and it ought to
win because democrats are now to-
gether. We may not be united upon
everything that has occurred, or
every political issue, but about the
things that are now issues, having
become such by application Of funda,
mental democratic doctrine to present
actions and conditions.
Without going into detail, be-
lieve the chief live issues will be a
sane and business-like revision and
reduction Of the tariff. the enforce
ment of the laws upon the statute
books affecting the trusts, and inter-
state commerce reciprocity in trade
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The Truth Of Il.

II hope, Johnny" said the visit
or, "that I haven't disturbed your
pa and ma at dinner"
"No," replied Johnny; Eve was
just goin' to sit down, but pa seen
you from the window an hs told ma
not to have dinner till you went. -
Catholic Stan dard and Times.