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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-02-01
SPOTTED BY HIGH PRESSURE
A Medical Explanation of the Newest
Form Of Caisson Disease.

From the New York Sun.
Much interest Is shown at Gouverneur
Hospital In the latest form of caisson dis
ease developed among the workmen in the
new Manhattan bridge caisson at the foot
of Pike street. Frank Aes. the sick man in
the case. was brought to the hospital from
the caisson. not only suffering severe pains,
but also spotted all over with large black
ish patches. After he had been In the hes
pital few days the spots entirely disap-
peared
The hospital physicians account for this
strange development in this way: When the
men are put under pressure In the catsson
the blood Is driven entirely away from the
surface of the body and brain back to the
regions of the heart. The arteries and veins
become relaxed and collapse. At the same
time quantity of air is forced through the
skin and finds Judgment in the tissues of the
flesh itself. When the men are taken from
the caissOn. unless they are decompressed
very slowly, the system Is unable 10 return
to its normal condition before the outer air
Is reached. When this Is the case. the blood
still remaining in the interior Of the body
| PUSHES to the surface and tears along the
veins with a fierce rush.
The relaxed veins are subjected to a sud-
den strain and in some cas- IS give way,
causing the blood to come to he surface of
the body In great clots, very much hike
blood blisters. The rush of blood Is render
ed the more dangerous by the enOrS Of the
imprisoned air to get free at the same time.
This has tendency to pull the veins and
arteries out of place, causing additional
strain. Sometimes a blood vessel will burst
in the ear from this cause forming clot of
blood Just inside the ear drum. This Away 6
results In deafness. and many of the work
ers in caissons become permanently deaf.
The region that seems to be especially
subject to such attacks is the abdomen and
chest. 1t Is here that the sandhogs, as the
| men who work In the caissons are called
suffer the worst pain. They are also attack
ed In the legs and arms but these are the
forms of the disease so common and called
by the men themselves the bends. because
of the tendency one has to double up when
, attacked by these cramps. Bleeding at The
nose. fainting. Observation-Disclosures are the
usual symptoms. but sometimes bleeding
will begin at the eyes, Physicians say that
half an hour. at least, should be taken in
decompressing the men, II, that is lone.
they say. there would be fewer cases IF the
disease. So many men have been taken
from the Manhattan bridge .caisson suffer
ing from caisson disease that the engine ,rs
are having trouble in getting enough men
to do the work. -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-02-01

them in the hand a short time the color
changes very perceptibly.
When my pets are ready to go to bed,
they dive into the sand where they remain
covered up until morning. Then here and
there a head hobs up. and gradually the
saurians either stretch out on the sand or
prop themselves up on their forelegS in a
most cOmical manner They soon become
are If files. crickets, grasshoppers or katy
dds are thrown to them. Frequently, when
one has seized q particularly fat grasShop-
per- another will attempt to take 1t away.
They are also fond of reaches, but care
nothing for hard-shelled beetles. They will
not seize an insect unless it is moving. and
one often knows when the attack Is to be
made. as the lizard opens its mouth just a
little way before springing upon its prey.
1t uses it's tongue with the same agility as
does the frog or toad. and gorges large in
sect pretty much the same way as snake
swallows a toad.
In burrowing in the sand they make sew
eral strokes with the right or left fOrefoot,
changing from one to the other: but when
this dirt Is to be worked out of the way.
they use their hind feet with alternate
strokes with great rapidity. The female In
this way evidently digs into the ground,
where she deposits a dozen or more white
eggs. which she leaves for the warm earth
to hatch.
know OF nothing else so easily tanned.
When caught in the hand they seldom at
tempt to escape. Placed on ones clothing,
they often sit In the same position for a
long time Knowing this popularity. 1 dec
grated my little son with nineteen lizards,
just to prove to some skeptical people that 1
was willing to back up my assertions with
demonstration. Yet one observer who wit
messed 1t declared that 1t was risky. and
that he knew a man who had lost finger
from the venomous bite of fence lizard
A teamster who was not afraid to handle a
snake could not be persuaded to touch a
lizard, although they both saw finger
thrust into a little saurians mouth. Igno-
rance Is hard to Danish. but it easily drives
away the truth.
They are not only harmless, but bene-
ficial Lying on the fences which surround
the field of growing crops, they devour
many insects as these attempt to enter the
have no appreciation of their value
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-02-01

let the sun go down on you here" A hint
is all that is necessary.
Another negro town is Wybark, located
on the Kansas river, at the point whore
the Oklahoma branch of the Missouri, Kan
sas and Texas railroad leaves the main line
north of Muskogee. This place is a shack
town and is well known to commercial nel'
making the territory. BY many IL IS re-
garded as upper tendon in colored se-.-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-02-01
HOW CONSUMPTION
DEVELOPS
And How to Prevent and Cure 1t.

huO AbVW W ElStCut duO OuIS IT,
slight cold neglected, often settles in the head
or throat, causing chronic catarrh. In the Of
persons with weak lungs, or who in any way
predisposed to bronchial or asthmatic troubles this
neglected cold Is very apt to gradually extend
down through the air tubes into the lungs them
selves, causing consumption
The intimate and close relations between the
various air tubes and the lungs make it easy for
neglected bronchial and catarrhal troubles to ex-
tend down into and fasten themselves upon the
breathing apparatus.
That consumption is the most terrible and deadly
of all diseases is proven by the fact that TIT,
greater than from all other contagious diseases
combined.
At the first sign indication Of trouble the suf
ferer should Immediately seek the best medical
advice he can find, instead of wasting precious
time with stomach nostrums which never cure a
single case of genuine consumption, but which
weaken the patients constitution at the very time
when he most needs all his bodily functions In
their best working order.
The only way ever discovered to eradicate the
consumption poison is by the Inhalation Of the
healing oily vapors of the Koch 'Tuberculine,' -
medicated with germcidal and curative oils. These
wonderful vapors penetrate the very seat of the
disease, killing the germs and permanently curing
consumption. asthma and all lung diseases. Hun
dreds Of people all over the land have been cured
by the Koch treatment and today living monu-
ments Of its success
The Washington Office Of the Koch Lung Cure is
at 1926 New York avenue, where consultation ex-
animation and trial treatment given absolutely
free.
II you cannot make regular visits to offices,
the Koch Home Treatment, with especially pre-
pared apparatus, can be sent to your home without
extra cost. Write for descriptive booklet contain
ing symptom blank
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-02-01

Dentz-'eWhat was that remark Miss
Artman made about Howlett's .singingf'
Lentz-"She said she admired his tech
nique.
T1A,tz-"was thai e? What is 'tech-
niers' anyway? French for 'nerver -
E'ii-ladeipii Press.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-02-01

ety. on account of the location of a negro
academy within short distance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-02-01

Choice of about fifty
dozen Mems Flannel
cite Night Robes in
various colorS and all
sizes, literally cut and
thoroughly finished; in
all sizes. at 35c. to-
morrow instead Of
Toe. and 81.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-09-03
SAN-CURA OINTMENT
Is Guaranteed to Relieve at Once
That Itching, Burning Pain and
Permanently Cure.

Eczema, letter, Salt Rheum,
Burns, Bruises, Scalds, Old Sores,
Ulcers. Frosted Feet, Chilblains,
Catarrh, Corns, Chapped Hands
and Lips, Boils. Carbuncles, Sore
Nipples, Broken Breasts, Testers,
Itching Piles, Bleeding, Itching
Piles, Bleeding, Itching Anus, In
sect Bites and Old, Chronic Fever
Sores.
San-Cura Ointment is pleasant
and soothing, gradually drawing
out all poisonous and foreign mat
ter, leaving a sound healthy skin.
1t is a great aid in preventing
scars. San-Cura Ointment does
not contain mercury or anything
that is injurious, but is antisep-
tic and cleansing. 1t softens all
infamed parts.
Druggists, 25c and SOC, or
Thompson Medical company. Tt
tusville, Pa.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-09-03
HOMESEEKERS!
MORE SPECIAL RATES
via.
FRISCO SYSTEM,
THE HOMESEEKER'S LINE TO
ALL POINTS IN
THE GREAT SOUTHWEST.

September - and 81, $15 round
trip homeseeker's tickets to all
points in Oklahoma and Indian
Territories, and many points IN
Arkansas, Kansas and Texas
tickets first-class and good q days
from date of sale.
September 20 and October 4 and
10, one-way second-class colonist
tickets, from st. Louis to Okla
homa and Indian Territory points,
So; to many points in Texas and
New Mexico at correspondinsiy
low rates. The one-way colonlst
tickets herein referred to are ten
dered only to parties of two or
more travelling together.
Write at once for full partic-
ulars, descriptive literature, etc,
to D. H. MALONEY, General
Agent, 415 Park building, Pitts
burg, Pa. S,3O-tf
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-09-03
BALTIMORE & OHIO R. R.
to the
WORLDS FAIR.
Very Low Rates.


Various forms Of excursion
tickets to st. Louis, via Baltimore
& Ohio railroad, now on sale from
Sistersville as follows:
Season Tickets, good to return
until December Is, 1904, to be
sold daily at rate of $23.5O round
trip.
Sixty Day excursion tickets,
final limit not later than Deem
Der Is, 1904, to be sold daily at
rate of $1S.75 round trip.
Fifteen Day excursion tickets,
to be sold daily at rate of $3.50
round trip.
Coach Excursion Tickets, with
return limit of seven days, will be
sold twice a week, every Tuesday
and Thursday, until July 3lst, at
$11.5O for the round trip. These
tickets will be restricted to day
coaches in both directions, wheth-
er on regular or special trains.
For further particulars regard,
ing stop-overs, time of trains, etc.,
call on or address nearest Balti.
more & Ohio ticket agent. 7.5-tf
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-09-03
PUCHASE TICKETS THROUGH
TO WEBSTER SPRINGS

BALTIMORE & OHIO R. r.
Patrons who contemplate visit
ing this popular health resort are
advised they can purchase tick
cts and check baggage through to
Webster Springs, W. Va, via the
Baltimore & Ohio railroad. Ask
ticket agents for particulars.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-09-03

Our Ice cream is manufacture
ed from pure jersey cream, and
we make it every hour. 1t is,
therefore, the best ice cream
that can be made. We don't
sell milk, but pure cream.
Our prices are only 25c quart,
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-09-03
John Daffin
Wholesale and Retail Dealer in
Fine Ice Cream
and CONNECTIONS

81 per gallon, delivered in any
part of the city. Special prices
made for entertainments, par
ties, etc. Families supplied. Try
our ice cream once and we are
sure you will continue to trade
with Us.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-09-03
WHEN I CAME.
(By l.. w. Coffeld.)

While Abolitionists, black as
crow,
Were crying freedom to and fro.
In Virginia one cold spring morn,
While fields were YET of verdure
shorn,
Two months too soon for planting
corn,
Is the time they say that I was
born.
| remember not just who were
there
To call me pretty and at me stare;
But one thing certain l may de-
clare
At entertaining | did my share.
Just six years after those things
occurred
| (My knowledge of which is what
/ heard)
My parents, who seldom, if ever
erred.
Sent me TO school. tho | demurred.
For the master seldom would
eschew
Applying gads in strokes not
few
On the backs of lads-and lassies,
Till the air was fraught with
"bOo-hoO-hoO.'
But he never struck me a single
blow,
For he was sisters sweetheart
beau;
And I've learned since, she let
him know
If he licked her brother, his cake
was dough!
We had pay schools then, the ia
theirs :, e..
And teach,:s i good ED Saxon
stripe.
WI. 81, Just how and when to
SWjn"
From fnrmers. their board and
quarters stipe.
In fancy | see the house Of yOre,
It's chinked-up walls and punch
eoned floor;
| It's classboard roof Of weight
poled galore;
It's hickorv-hinged and latch
stringed door.
Where log was taken from each
side
Were windows exactly so long, so
wide.
It's chimney Of sticks and mud
well dried
| Was built by a mason before he
died.
It's long slim benches, fore and
aft
Were made by cutting the
straightest shaft
That grew in the forest close
ahaft
With whipsaw and ak until twas
halted.
Then dressed off smooth on fiat
tened side,
A house-length long, a hand
breadth wide,
In the side where bark grew tight
as hide
Were holes bored slanting and
legs applied.
They had no front, neither had
they back,
For seating children they held a
pack,
And many an urchin whose spine
was slack
Would feign to brace up and drop
"Ker-whack -
"He's scrouging me, teacher, -
words used pat
| SO often as some little treacherOus
brat
Would shove his neighbOr and
send him flat
a voice from rOstrum-"BOys,
none of that !"
! Beneath each window a great
board plank
Was placed inclined on wooden
shank,
To which by turns we'd have to
| spank
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-09-03

YOUR TRADE RESPECTFULLY SOLICITED.
WE HAVE THE FINEST AND COOLEST ICE CREAM PARLOR
AND STORE IN THE CITY-COME AND COOL OFF.
No. $40 Wells Street Bell Phone 113W
SISTERSvILLE, W. VA
The Penn's Grove record., 1904-10-07
Al Big Fire At Pahlsbord

Early Monday morning fire destroyed
the ferry house at Lincoln Park, and two
ferryboats, the Asprey aud West Side,
inficting a loss of 500, 900 land putting
the Billingsport and Philadelphia Ferry
Company, to whom the property belong
ed, out of business for the time being.
Waterman Sam Gentry discovered the
fire on board the Asprey at 2 O'Clock.
She was on fire amidship at that time,
and burned fercely. A strong wind was
blowing the flames directly across Lin
coin Park, and the efforts of a bucket
brigade, which hastily formed, were in
adequate to check the flames, which
threatened to consume all the buildings
in the park and to spread to Paulsboro.
Assistance was telephoned for from the
city, and the fireboat Ashbridge was sent
to the scene. She was too late to save
the ferry property, but succeeded in pre-
venting the spread Of the flames. The
two boats have been running between a
point just above Fort Miflin, on the
Pennsylvania side, to Blllingsport, on
the New Jersey shore.
The Penn's Grove record., 1904-10-07
AN EDTTOR,s

Editor Summerill of the Pennsgrove
Record on Friday last completed twenty
years of editorial work on that paper.
In an interesting leader giving his ex-
periences as a scribe during that time
he says that he has had but three weeks
vacation in the twenty years and that
during the last seventeen years every
issue of his paper has been issued under
his personal supervision. Surely sucha
record as that ought not only to bring
our editorial brother material success
on this earth but a crown of glory here
after. The lot of the average county
newspaper editor is anything but an
easy one and Mr.. SummeriI' struggles
in the past twenty years show what
sacrifices are required to get out a news
paper in a rural community. VIZ re-
joice with him that his efforts have been
crowned with SO much ucces and wish
for the Record a long life and a profita-
BILE futuYe.-Standard,
The Elmer Times honored our TWEEN
tieth anniversary editorial by publish
ing it in full.
The Penn's Grove record., 1904-10-07
The Returns Don't Prove 1t.

Republican papers fondly allude tC
the Atlantic City gathering of twenty
nine of the Outraged" ones as q
democratic bolt" The leader of the
'sbouto appears to be John 7. Wright.
Mr.. Wright came to us in the halcyon
DAYS of 1896 and we made him the can
didate of our party for Congress. AS a
stump speaker he did the Republicans
more good than any other orator who
wei appeared in this section. Every
time he spoke he drove scores Of life
long Democrats out of the arty.-Sun-
beam.
If Mr. Wright was held in such bad
repute surely he would have run great
ly behind other good democrats on the
ticket with him. BY turning to the
legislative manual of 1897, any one can
see that MI. Wright received 16 more
votes than MI. Bryan in Salem county,
II more in Cape May, Ii more in Cum
berland, so more in Gloucester and IS
more in Camden, a total Of 149 more in
the first Congressional district than Mr..
Bryan who made only one speech in it.
The democracy of Willard F. Riley
who ran for Senator in Salem county
that year, has never been questioned.
He made no speeches, yet MI. Wright's
vote was so more than Mr. Riley's. r.
G. Miller received 100 more majority
over Mr.. Riley in Salem county than
MI. Loudenslager received Owe Mr..
Wright, who "drove Democrats away y
In looking down the columns of
Presidential electors the name Of Rich
ard V. Lindaberry is seen under the
title of "National Gold Democrat. y
He received 247 votes in Salem county,
MI. Bryan 3717, MI. Wright 2S19. Mr..
L~indaberry ran a Republican annex in
the whole state that year and received
6373 votes.
Mr. Wright has not changed his prin-
ciples neither has Mr.. Lindaberry.
Somebody else has. Mr.. Lindaberry
now leads the democratic ticket of
New Jersey as Presidential elector. He
is the attorney of the Steel Trust and
Ship Building Trust.
Since Mr.. Lindaberry and othersnow
on the State Democratic ticket bolted
eight years ago, there can be little con-
sistent criticism of those who fail to
support those same men this year, be-
cause Of the principles they believe in.
The Penn's Grove record., 1904-10-07

The Democratic orators and papers
declare that President Roosevelt has
been shooting holes i'll the constitution
by exceeding his legal authority. The
Republican party was originally organ
lied in opposition to the constitution
and the bred Scott decision of the Su-
preme Court. Even the constitution
is not irrevocable when an administra-
ton has the power to legislate for in
corporate interest. Even Uncle Joe
Cannon, Speaker of the House of Re
representatives. said in 1879, ''Silver is
just as much the money Of the constitu-
ton as gold, and should have just the
same treatment in every respect as
gold" Yet those orators who critlcise
Mr.. Roosevelt now, have shot a bigger
hole in the constitution by believing
Just as Mr.. Cannon and Mr.. Roosevelt
does now-in gold monometallism.
The Penn's Grove record., 1904-10-07
WHAT OTHERS THINK or us.
A DOCTORS OPINION.

Brooklyn, N. Y, Sept. 26, 1904.
FRIEND SUMMERILL,
l want to congratulate you on having
so nearly attained your majority as an
Editor and also to assure you of the
pleasure the weekly visits of yourpaper
affords us. We read first the personal
column and through it often learn of
the whereabouts of old acquaintance
who, like ourselves years ago, wander
ed off to try their fortunes elsewhere.
Next we read the items of local news
always to us interesting, and often all
too short; and then the letters from
nearby villages. If your readers would
adopt your suggestion and send in their
little items your. paper would be of
ever more interest to those away who
still retain an interest in the village.
OF course, we also read the editorials
and of course do not agree with their
politics.
The account in your last issue of the
picnic at ButtonwOod Grove has us
guessing as to the locality. If they had
not spoken of being able to see the
School house we would say it is what
we used to call DolbOw's landing. But
then the altitude! Well perhaps like
Davy Crockett's coon they had climbed
a tree. Any way we should liked to
have been there.
In doing your work for the past
twenty years you have made at least
one mistake; you have not taken enough
vacations, and thereby are likely to get
old before your time. You shouldcom
to New York and see some of the won
ders Of the world. Our great East riv-
Ell bridge with it's fairy like arch one
hundred and thirty-fve feet in the air,
and our still greater Williamsburgh
bridge, constructed of steel, and with
it's great paved roadway and asphalted
foot paths; then the subway soon to be
opened. Running the whole length of
Manhattan Island and tunnelled most
of the way through solid rock.
There are other wonders, but come
and see them for yourself, and remem-
Der that the latchs ring hangs always
on the outside, and we shall be
pleased to show you around. Yours
very sincerely,
DAVID G. HoLToN, M. d.
The Penn's Grove record., 1904-10-07
WJodslown whispefings

Oct. 5@~Mrs. Lydia Dickinson is visit
ing daughter Mrs. Jos. Stowe and family,
at Merchantville.
Ivan Flitcraft and John Goforth are
daily attending Banks Business College.
Misses Ethel Richman is taking a bust
ness course at Pierce's; Edith Davis has
entered the Art School; Elma Peterson
and Marion Harbeson are taking a three
months course OF the Mcdonald Dress
making System.
Messrs. Samuel Weatherby, Legrand
virgins and French Reeves attended
the Alumni reunion of Pennington Sem
mary last Friday.
Franklin Flitcraft was the supervisor
OF an excursion to Mauch Chunk from
this part of the state. Those who enjoy
ed the trip on Saturday from here were
DR.. and Mrs. L. Miller, Mr.. and Mrs.
Geo. Washington, Jr., Mr.. and Mrs.
Wm. Borton, Mr.. and Mrs. Franklin
Flitcraft.
Rally Day was observed i'll the Baptist
Church by the Sunday-school last Sun
day with appropriate exercises. Next
Sunday 1t will be observed by the Pres
byterian.
Mrs. Raymond Flitcraft, of Wildwood,
is making a short stay with Mrs. Mary
Crispin and daughter.
Postmaster Richman has secured two
additional mails for Woodstown, one for
Salem on the II. 16 P. M. taain and the
other for Philadelphia on the 4.30 P. M.
Heretofore communication with Salem
has only been possible early in the morn
ing and at 5.14 in the afternoon, both in
convenient hours for business matters.
With a gang of nineteen men working
for two weeks steadily on the washout at
Webster's mill was filled in and the gates
were lowered on Saturday at l o'clock.
Mr.. Asa Colson does not intend to repair
his dam, but expects to turn the pond
into a meadow-thus maring the one
attraction of the town.
The laborers at the mixing plant for
the Standard Bithulitic Company who
are constructing the 'tar" road here
struck for better wages oneday last week.
Their request was not granted and TIA
lians were secured to do the work.