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Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-03-28
Local News
Eggs Is and 20 cents a dozen

House and lot for sale. Inquire
q L. Lowther. 2I7 tt
We will have a new Mayor and
city officers next Monday.
Bargains Ia Easter Novelties at
McCovs's Book Store. 26 st
Messrs. H. Wilson and j. Du-
bins, of Wheeling, was registered
at the Hotel Mercer Sunday.
All Easter novelties at reduced
prices at McCoy's Book Store.
rs st
Dillon w. Pickering, Of Mari
eta, was calling on friends In
the city Sunday.
For Sale-Two story house with
lot on East street. w. Noll. 23tf,
The Queen City is due up this
evening en- route to Pittsburg and
all way points.
Easter cards and Novelties at Nc.
Coy's Book Store. Big cut In
prices 2o st
The host Of friends of Mrs. G.
F. Mercer will regret to learn she
is quite i'll Of the measles.
Special prices on all Easter cards
and Novelties, at McCoy's Book
Store. 30 st
Republican convention Satur-
day next. All the faithful and
unfaithful and recent converts
are invited to attend.
For Sale-5 room house with |
water and gas. SO Burt street.
3256t
There was no preaching in the
M. E. church Sunday, the pastor
being absent attending the funer-
al of his mother.
For Sale-House boat furnished
Inquire of Lynn Kirkland No 700
Diamond Square 26 ct
The reservoir should be cleaned
out at once. 1t must be well fill
ed up with mud after the many
muddy rises we have had in the
river this winter and spring.
For Sale houses In a desirable
location. J, F. Neill, Wells Block.
21otf
George McCutcheon, of the
South Penn Oil compay, with
headquarters at Middlebourne,
spent Sunday in the city.
Special Easter numbers of all
the magazines now on sale at NC
Coys Book Store. 26 st
Hoffman, convicted of illegal
voting here, has been sent to Jail.
He is going to tell the grand jury
how and why he voted here. His
story will not be a long one, but
it will be very interesting.
A kew ring containing S keys
was found on Wells street today,
Owner can have same by calling at
Review c flee and paying for this
notice. 23t
Fc2 RENT Pleasant front room,
suitable for two gentlemen, or man
and wife. Inquire at on Review.
Munsey and Mcclure,s maya
zines for April both full OF new and
pleasing stories, 10 Gems each at
McCoy's Book Store. 26 1T
For Sale-Five room house. In
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-03-28

For Sale houses In desirable
location. J. F. Neill, Wells Block.
21etf
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-03-28

Munsey and Mcclure,s maya
zines for April both full Of new ant
pleasing stories, 10 Gems each a
McCoy's Book Store. rs 1t
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-03-28

FOR RENT-A modern Groom
house, plastered, finely finished
throughout, gas, electric lights,
fine bath, hot and cold water, pan
try and cellar. Inquire at Thorn
as Jewelry store. 47t
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-03-28

For Sale-House boat furnished
Inquire of Lynn Kirkland No 700
Diamond Square 26 ct
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-03-28

Republican convention Satur-
day next. All the faithful and
unfaithful and recent converts
are invited to attend.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-03-28

For RENT Pleasant front room,
suitable for two gentlemen. or man
and wife. Inquire at Oh Review.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-03-28

For Sale-5 room house with
water and gas. SO Burt street.
gas ct
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-03-28

There was no preaching in the
M. E. church Sunday, the pastor
being absent attending the funer-
al of his mother.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-03-28

For Sale-Five room house. In
quire at III Florence St.. 3Itf
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-03-28

Special prices on all Easter cards
and Novelties, at McCoy's Book
Store. rs st
The Imperial press., 1904-05-28
EducatIon and Agriculture

"Can know ledge of agriculture h'
 lcs, acquired by observation or from
 hooks7' asks subscriber 1i is only
 by ayaliug himself oi 10th ~ourrCs oi iu.
 formation that the farmer can attain
 thc best succcss An uCrasional farmer exceptionally endowed succc,,is reason. ably without much. ii any, education. On thc other hand, man v ho gris hts agricultural knoVlc,lgr from hooks ir.. Qucnily makc~ money. li is ptciiy we'll established that thr avrrsgc sucN-~>iul farmer is one who has had considerable experience. Agriculture is not au exact scicncc. Thcrc arr gr,v,t many i.iugs which rcquirc individual treatment and this can only hc iuiclhecuily given by one vho has had widc experience and observation. This cannot lc had from books But much time has l~-cu cX. pended in establishing principles and bringing la light facts Why shonld every farmer attempt io rccondnci cx. pcriments at great cxp-nsc, when letter and more accurate results have lSrn ob- iaincd hy trained eNI~rimentcr~H These records can bc had from l-oks at ! slight crsi; why mol use ib~ms The l question was prompted bv the old and | Tapldly disappearing pr.jndic-- of farm. CTS against anything that smacked oi | book learning. Country people have come to rec gulse the value of the ex- pertinent station, the agricultural col ! lege and the agricultural books The ! exp~rimenier and the writer have b-e- oeme exceedingly practical, -o that the for ihe most part working side by side Orange Judd Farmer.
The Imperial press., 1904-05-28

llc head ut tllc Emerson Really Com. yauN. iX2 S,nih Broadway.
 Mr Emerson has avhtvNv,i, iu lrtrrs and politics. au international rrPuia- tou. llc is SiCr chairman ut the Slvak. CTS Eurcau vt tbc Republican National Committee. autlot oi the lupulat novel Buvll Hampton. which rauk~i third in the United states as e commercial suc,V~> twu years aAo. lc is director oi thc American University ot Washing ton. n. C.. the largest Mrthoslisi ins,i. tutiau ui karuiug in the world. The late President Mckinley rankrd NIT. Emerson as one ut the tour m"st ciirci- i've and eloquent si~akcrs "n thr l-'liii- cal rssirum. lie was commissioner [" the raris Exposition.
The Imperial press., 1904-05-28
Found a Cure for Indigestion

| u~,' Chamberlain Stomach and Liver Tablets tor indigestion and find that they suit my c.ssc better than any dysprl~ia remedy have ever tried and 1 have used many different remedies. am nearly iii,y-onc years ot age and have suffered great deal irum iudigcs- lion. can eat almost anything want io now .-Gno. W. ENoEY. Kuck Mills, Ala. For sale bv Imperial Drug Co.,, nr r. S Anderson, prop. Phone 7S.
The Imperial press., 1904-05-28
Willis George Emerson

\ late Examiner has picture oi w. G. Emerson, oi ibe Emerson Realty Co, with the following sketch:
 WILLIS GEORGE EMERSON, ora tor. author and man-oi-affairs, has re gently located m Lo- Angeles, and is al
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-02-21
CURIOUS MINERALS
FOUND IN THE BLOOD

has been discovered that the scientist,
working In his laboratory. can produce
very simple mineral and organic colloidal
solutions, which have, however, proper
ties similar to those Of the complex col
loids Of nature, and it is through the
comparatively simple study of their
chemical reaction that the phenomena
involving natures colloids bid fair to be
elucidated. The colloids, whose existence
was first suspected some fifty years ago,
reveal therefore condition that had be-
fore appeared impossible, namely, that
such insoluble substances as gold, silver,
iron and other minerals may exist in
liquids, in a state analogous to that of an
ordinary solution, but with other distinct
and remarkable properties; and also that
they can thus constitute part of al
most every vegetable or animal organism.
The further study of these minute parti-
cles Of matter reaches therefore into
nearly every form of life and matter.
These colIoids are infinitesimally small
particles of substances that may be either
mineral or non-mineral, organic or in
organic, standing in size somewhere be-
low the highest magnifying power Of the
microscope. Being invisible they can be
studied only by chemical actions and re-
actions, although their presence NAV
usually be detected by the color which
they impart to water or other fluids in
which they are held in solution In ex-
aiming solution Of gold colloid-gold in
other words, so infinitely subdivided that
each particle probably win be forever in
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-02-21

BOSTON, Mass, Feb. 20.-It has some
times been fguratively said of great con-
querors and Of other heroic figures in
history that they had iron in their
blood"-a pretty figure which until with
in comparatively recent years nobody
imagined to be practical possibility.
But as matter of fact iron in the blood,
held there as a part OF such minute par
ticles of matter that no microscope Is
powerful enough to reveal them, is not
the unique property of heroes, but be-
longs to all Of us and simply constitutes
one of the many so-called "colloidal sub
stances" now under investigation by men
of science on both sides of the water,
and under examination In this city as
one of the important problems of the
special research laboratories of the Mas
sachusetts Institute of Technology. Very
little has yet been heard. outside the
laboratories, about these widely distrib-
uted cohoids, for their study Is still
largely in it's experimental stage Suf-
ficient has been accomplished, however,
to open up a wide and interesting field
of future possibilities. 1t is believed, in
deed, that the presence of these hitherto
unsupported little particles will throw
new light upon many studies connected
with the human body-such, for exam
pie, as the various functions of the nerv-
GUS system in living organisms; with the
growth of various forms of plant life;
and with the further development of sew
eral important commercial Industries. It
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-02-21
In the Housekeeper's Section

visible-the amount of gold may be rough
ly estimated by the depth of the red color
which the colloidal substance has inpart-
ed to the water. Other colloidal substances
have other characteristic colors and al
though. under ordinary conditions, the
colloids would remain thus held in solu-
ton practically forever, there are certain
chemical agents-salts which when dis
solved are capable of conducting an cleo
trio current-that not only cause them to
settle In the form OF insoluble masses but
appear definitely to prove that each Of
these infinitely little bits Of matter, be-
side which q micrObe Is a giant and a
drop Of water world. is charged with
electricity. This electrical condition is held
to explain the fact that the individual
particles would never voluntarily unite In
visible masses and so settle to the bot
tom of a vessel containing them, for
each particle repels its immediate neigh
bors in all directions and the whole mass
is thus perpetually maintained In a state
of suspension. Roughly speaking the con-
dition is similar to what might happen II
each lump Of coal In coal bin separated
itself by an inch or more from every
neighboring lump-as one body charged
with positive or negative electricity re-
pelS another similarly charged-and the
whole bin thus became filed with indi-
vidual bits of coal held in suspension be-
tween floor and ceiling. In the case Of the
colloids they may be actually precipitated
and this is held to be one proof OF their
electrified condition-only by the addition
of salts known as electrolytes because Of
their power to carry electricity. The
presence Of these salts Immediately dis
turbs the electrical conditions existing
between the different particles, and by
taking all the electricity to itself, per-
nits them to come together and form
masses. visible to the naked eye and each
made up. 1t Is believed. OF millions and
millions Of particles. To return to the coal
bin figure the effect is the same as if the
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-02-21
Finqers for Brushes.

The use of paint brushes is of great
antiquity; but as late as the fifteenth
century 1t was customary to apply var
nish by smearing 1t on with the fingers
or with a bit of sponge, as the var
niShess then used were too vtScid to-
flow well with a brush and could be
put on more thinly and evenly with
the fingers. This practice was used in
the earliest times of which there is any
record. The Egyptian mummy cases
bear evidence of having been vanished
in this manner.
The use Of fresco, or water color
paints though the Oldest, was not the
only method known to the ancients;
the Greeks and Romans especially
practiced encaustic painting. Encaustic
paints were made of clarified beeswaX,
with which, when melted, pigments
were mixed. These paints were applied
hot, with brushes or spatulae, and
when cold they were given glazed
surface by holding a torch or a hot
iron near them. The hot iron was
called the "cauterium."
Another method is said to have been
to melt the wax with rosin, and after
the pigment was added. the compound
was allowed to cool to a hard and brit
tie mass which could be pulverized.
The colored powders made In this way
were mixed with water, so that they
could be applied with a brush like
fresco paint; after which they were
melted by the cauterium. If resins
were thus used with the wav, a sort
of varnish was the result; If the wax
was used alone the finished painting
was sometimes vanished. These col
ored wakes were also used for writing;
the red especially was used for royal
signatures, whence the use of red seal
ing wax for a seal; and this "incaus-
ticum," as it was called in the middle
ages, is the origin of our word Ink
Casters Magazine.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-02-21

which Company was actively en-
gagged. Musical entertainment will also
be provided.
Armorer c. H. Wiley has returned
from California and resumed his du-
ties.
The first annual banquet of the Sec
ono battalion of the First regiment will
be held the evening of Washington's
birthday at the New Spencer cafe. The
banquet will be presided over by Mai.
z. Z. Spear. The companies participant
Ing are Companies c, D and p. of this
city. The men will meet at the arnorv
at q: 80 and march In a body to the cafe
in full uniform.
Companies of the st. Paul battalion
are looking for a new target range.
The present Crosby range Is made
quate, as 1t is under water half of every
season, and, moreover, affords an ex-
IRENE range of but 700 yards. while dis
tances up to 1000 yards must be in
GUIDED in target practice with the
krag-Jorgensen rife, the arm now in
use by the state troops.
Lambert F. Fairchild has been pro-
NOTED to be corporal Of Company D.
First infantry
Private J. B. Frankel has received
the appointment OF company clerk.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-02-21
THE NATIONAL GUARD

a DIT. GEN. LIBBEY has on exhibit
~ ton in his Office a complete set Of
the military wall maps which define the
various positions of soldier, and thus
give the recruit more thorough un-
derstanding of what is required of him.
Many companies have already secured
the complete set.
There is to be no change in the uni
form of the enlisted men for the present
aside from the chevrons.
Battery A is pushing repidly to the
front again and is already enlisting
many desirable young men.
The annual banquet of Company S,
Thirteen Minnesota volunteers, will be
held tomorrow evening (Washington's
birthday, as Is customary. There will
probably be about forty or fifty Of the
old members assembled and they will
pass the evening in the. customary
manner. Refreshments and cigars will
be served, after which the warriors will
indulge in "reminiscences of days spent
in Uncle Sans service and In the Phil
ippines, and especially will their mem
DRY go back to Washington's birthday
five years ago, when the uprising &C.
CURED in Tondo district, Manila, In
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-02-21
Missed Her Vocation"

Postmaster General Payne is mas
ter Of the epigram. He demonstrated
that fact recently when he was ques-
toned about some charges that had
been brought against one of the officials
of his department. Shrewd political
organizer and manager for many years,
one of the kitchen cabinet of several
administrations, systematic, quick and
unhesitating in his own private bust
ness policies, his command of incfsive
speech on occasion and aptitude at cpl
grammatic replies are not to be Won
dered at.
ut is not clear who brought these
charges" said Mr.. Payne.
"They were worked up by Charlotte
Smith, suggested his interviewer. "She
is reformer who is familiar fig
ure at the capitol"
Charlotte Smith" repeated the post
master general. yes, 1 know her.
Fathers everything; mothers nothing!''
Golfers.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-02-21

electricity in the individual Goals were all
at once diverted and absorbed by the
woodwork Of the bin itself and the Goals
left to fall to the bottom by force of grav-
1ty. 1t Is one Of the marvels Of modern
science that the invisible cannot only be
detected but measured and it has been
estimated, in several ways, that the aver
age diameter of these invisible particles
is In some cases about a tenth Of the
wave length Of light.
1t has been said the possible practical
value Of the investigation, which, on its
American side, DR.. w. r. Whitney is
now conducting in the research labora-
tories Of the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology and Drs. Loeb and Matthews
have been investigating In Chicago,
reaches into many forms Of life. In the
digestive process, for example, 1t is ap-
parently leading toward the solution of
many chemical mysteries that presented
no tangible theories until it became pos
sible to reckon upon the presence and
properties Of the colloids. The presence
OF the small quantities of mineral mate
rial invariably found by the chemist as
q constituent of all naturally occurring
vegetable or animal matter-whether in
the woody fiber Of the tree or the sinew
Of the man-ts now in accord with the
expected The. growth of these mate
rails take place by deposition from a
solution, as sap or serum, and in that
process certain small quantity OF the
mineral matter is also deposited In the
ordinary digestion Of food certain chem
teal phenomena are known to take place,
such as the production of hydrochIoric
acid in the stomach, that have pre-
viously been unexplainable. These re-
actions could never be obtained by COM
bining apparently similar compounds-the
chemical elements supposed fully to rep
resent the foods and those supposed fully
to represent the digestive products OF
the living organism-in the laboratory;
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-02-21

but they are obtained when the colloidaI
substances are present, thus obviously
that these little particles were the I'M
known factors in the equation
In the familiar phenomena produced by
applying an electric current to the nerves
of frogs leg it is again not impossible
that the presence Of these minute particles
of matter each of them highly electrified
may furnish solution Of the phenomena
and thus eventually shed further light on
the study Of the nervous system. In the
growth of plant life, as in the processes
Of human digestion to which IL is some
what analogous, the presence Of coIloidal
substance in the material from which the
plant derives Its food offer the hope Of a
future explanation Of a process that has
hitherto lacked any complete scientific
explanation. And In the Industrial SCI
ences, particularly dyeing wherein the
transfer Of color is in some cases doubt
less the transference Of colored colloidaI
particles from a solution to the fabric by
the depositing action Of salts, the further
study Of the coloids Is likely to be Of
considerable practical value. More than
that, the presence of these colloid parti-
cles in substances that may be taken
into the human system and SO be added
chemically to the vital forces of the
human organism offers yet another field
OF almost spectacular interest That
such possibilities exist, however, is the
result of nearly half century OF re-
search and experiment and the future
development OF any one Of them depends
probably upon years OF further study Of
the colloidaI substances. In Its broadcast
outline the investigation, as 1t now
stands, Is proof OF a widespread dIf-
fusion Of colloids that adds an entirely
new factor to the consideration of nearly
every form OF organic phenomena; and
that adds also further proof Of the wide
diffusion Of that mysterious substance
that we call electricity.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-02-21
Have STRANGE Customs

Matt Duhr, an Oklahoma Indian au-
thority, visited the Otoe tribe near Red
Fork recently, and these are some of
his comments:
THE Otoe dancing hall is q fit place
for heather to worship in. 1t is hor-
ribly decorated round house. The or
chestra consisted Of one thing, by them
called a drum Pounding with a sledge
hammer on the bottom of an empty
pork barrel would make just as doleful
noises.
''The pagan religious services last
week were suddenly and roughly dis
turbed by redskin espying a Jack rab-
bit In the distance. Most of the In
dams forgot their worship and chased
the long cared scamp. They pursued
1t for about two hours, when the cum
ming animal took refuge in the thickets
on the margins of Red Rock creek.
Lots Of the Otoe squaws are now
gathering the seeds of pond lilies and
dig the nicely tasting roots of the
Famous plants. Large quantities of
the tender pond lily pods are gathered
when green and are boiled and greatly
relished. Polecat venison appears to he
one of the favorite meats eaten by
the Otoes. They never eat possum or
cells, and give pretty heather reasons
Tor their repugnance to or generation
OF these creatures.
"Faw-Faw, chief of the Otoes, dress
es in costly civilized apparel, a huge
turkey feather adorns his enormous
slouched hat. and each of his cheeks
has a large blue star tattooed therein. /"
Kansas City Journal.