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Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-07-29

effect of restoring him to his for
mer good health.
"Around the World" tonight.
Go.
G.. S. Miller of Marietta, was in
the city today.
We had nice shower of rain
yesterday about noon.
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Nose Bowman, a contract team
ster of Folsom, was in the city to-
day.
Frank Lawrence, local oil oper-
ator, of st. Marys, was in the city
today. (
Samuel Mccormick of Mata-
moras, was calling on friends here
today.
G.. W. Morgan of Friendly,
was a business caller in the city
today.
Miss Nina Thornberry of Bealls-
vile, O., is the guest of Mrs. M. D.
Hill of Georgia street.
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J. G.. Archer of Adonis, shipped
81 head of fine fat cattle this aft
ernoon to the Wheeling market.
Miss Josephine Hill, of Jackson
burg, w. Va, is the house guest
of Miss Susie Martin, of Kidwell.
Miss Nevada Boice is the house
guest of Miss Susie Martin, at her
summer home, Fairview, near
Kidweu.
NJ. A. Sybert Grocery company
will have everything in fruits and
vegetables found on this or any
other market for Saturday.
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John Shannon of Matamoras,
was in the city yesterday after
noon. Mr.. Shannon is prominent
banker in our neighboring town.
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Capt. John Reedy today sold his
house to Mrs. Clyde Hagan. Mr.,
Reedy contemplates leaving the
city in the near future, and To-
eating in New York State, where
he will purchase a home.
G.. L. ellis was out driving last
evening in handsome new turn.
out. He also had his pretty span
of Shetland ponies ornamented
with a new set of horness. Mr.
ellis can now boast of the mob
best outfit in the city.
If you want something delicious
include quart of Sunbeam Kisses
in your next order, only 10c 6
quart. M. A. Sybert Grocery com
pany sole agents.
Think of the good ride, the fun
! the food, the good you do, and
then pay twenty-five cents for il
all and 60 "Around the World
tonight any time after 7:30. M
E. parsonage the starting station
America!
The special prices advertised II
this issue by the M. A. Sybert
Grocery company will make the
clerks in that popular grocery
house hustle on Saturday.
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The family of George F. Dur
, ham left this morning for Lake
Chautauqua, N. Y, where they
will rusticate for a few weeks
Mr.. Durham will join his family
! at the popular resort in a short
time.
The death of Mrs. D. A. Scott
occurred at an early hour yester
day morning at her home in Chilli
cothe, O. Deceased was sister
of J. R. Dye Of the Ohio side. Mr.
and Mrs. Dye and son, DR.. Victor
attended the interment which Oc.
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Badness AS A BOON.

Our daily life of one great truth,
Fresh and insistent proof produces;
The oldest, most unlikely things
In Natures store possess their uses.
Thus even for the baldest head
The Press is now a use recording;
For it IN Paris has become
A moving advertising boarding.
Men with polished frontal dome
Meath hats no longer seek to stow il;
II they've a hairless scalp. it pays
At tariff price per inch to show IL.
Scored with the praises Of a soap
Or with the warning, stenciied gayIy-
Let those who'd shun a poll like this
Use 'Bunkum's Hair Restorer' daily!"
Good heads Of hair may now become
A deprecated superfiuity,
Whereas a-cranium Ike an egg
May prove a positive annuity
Locks prematurely lost may start
Anew In life our Grant brothers;
And sons may even shave their heads
To be the props of widowed mothers!
Truth
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Teasing the Porte.

The questions with which the Unit
ed States is teasing the Porte and to
which this Government proposes to
get an answer by inviting the Sultan
/ TO look upon a selected assortment
of vessels from the American Navy,
concern especially the status Of
graduates of American medical and
professional schools who go to pTac-
tice in the Ottoman empire.
European graduates are given suffi-
cient recognition TO conduct their
business without legal difficulties, but
il is said that Americans are dis
eliminated against. Along this same
line is the claim that insufficient pro-
lection is given American religious
and educational institutions. Turk
ish officials are likewise declared to be
an American citizen one who at any
time has been a subject of the Sui
tan
Turkey. in extenuation, claims that
the Armenians are unduly active in
becoming American citizens and then
returning to Armenia for the express
purpose of making trouble; also that
the United States is backward about
bringing it's citizens to justice at the
behest of the Turkish authorities.
The immediate cause of the present
fTftx In, he VT -
Smyrna is the inability of Minister
Leishman to get the Sultan to make
any sort of an answer to the Ques-
tons presented by the United States
as to the Sultan's intentions toward
American citizens within his domains.
1t is recognized that the Sultan's de-
lay may not be so much his fault as
that of certain conditions and in
fiUences which surround him, but II is
thought that the American ships will
provide a quick means for circum-
venting these conditions.
II is well known that it costs money
TO get to the Sultan. that there are
sundry officials whose palms have to
be crossed with gold If quick access
TO the august presence is desired. The
United States has consistently refused
TO regard this custom as anything
except bribery. In consequence, it is
suspected that some of this country's
most important communications have
never reached the Sultan at ALL There
is no doubt, however, that he will
see the United States naval display in
the offing.
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Behind the Curtain.

The world is in the position of the
audience in the theater before the
curtain has gone up on the second
act of the play as far as the progress
OF the war in the Far East during
the past week is concerned. There
are rumors in abundance, but definite
news is % scarce as men who do not
know how the election is coming out.
Are the japanese succeeding in
their investment of Port Arthur?
VIII Kuropatkin be able to extricate
himself from the gaping jaws Of the
engulfng Japanese net and escape
with his army to the north?
ST. Petersburg reports conflicting
stories-one that the Russians have
made serious inroads on the Japa-
nese feet and another that Port Ar
thur has actually fallen. But all
stories lack confirmation. More like
ly is the report that the Japanese
are steadily working their trenches
nearer the fortress and are meeting
with much loss of life in consequence.
Refugees are reported as declaring
that the japanese are from six to nine
miles Of the inner port.
Meager as is the intelligence from
Port Arthur, that from the north is
even more unsatisfactory. One tale
is that the Japanese are marching
upon Mukden. If that is true, they
must have Kuropatkin entirely cut
off or else he has already escaped and
the Japanese are in pursuit There
has been nothing official, however, to
indicate that either one of these spec
ulatiCns is true.
More reasonable is the hint that a
Japanese force is working northward
from Niuchwang in order to approach
Liao-Yang, where Kuropatkin's army
is supposed to be centered, on the
west. Such a maneuver, If successful,
would completely surround the Rus
sian army and positively compel
either the decisive battle or the in
glorious surrender-the eliminating
event which the world has been an
ticipating for so many weeks.
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made himself so familiar with the ma
chinery that he is able. in case OF a
breakdown, to set the boat right
Last summer he was in a launch In the
north part of the State with some OF the
associates and the motor broke. The
judge repaired il in ten minutes This
ought TO land the mechanic vote.
Queer Schedules.
Every time a train stops here the pas
sengers poke their heads out Of the
windows to lock at the new station and
the big pebble sign Many OF them -
pect TO see the Parker home, but thai N
Jhree-quarters of mile across the hills
I'D like TO know" said man who
tried 10 get 10 EsOpuS and was carried
south TO Cornwall. whether any one in
the world can interpret a West Shore
time table. The train = boarded az
Kingston was scheduled to stop at Eco
pus whenever passengers were TO be
taken on or discharged. The conductor
refused to discharge me.
II got In the same FIX" said another
visitor, and used my own remedy. /
pulled the bell rope. and had the pleas
Ure not only of getting of at Esopus.
bur of listening to the finest flight OF
strong language that ever was ehOrused
by conductor. trainman and engineer.
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LITTLE STORIES OF WASHINGTON LIFE
XII
THE HONOR OF THE HERRICKS
(The Society Editors Story.)

Did you hear anything about ti1is
when you were up there the other day?'
Nothing that ] could use" said Miss
Herrick hesitatingly.
The dickens! See here. Miss Herrick.
II you've made any -romises TO that
woman. never do It again. Wen get
scooped ON that story. like as not
Miss Herrick began to worry. The
morning papers on Tuesday. however.
contained no hint Of the story. She wen.
10 see Mrs Holt and begged permission
10 use the story that afternoon. The
lady emphatically forbade her.
IF you hadn't promised growled the
city editor. I'D use the story we have.
It's only rumor, but it's undoubtedly
true / don't want to get you into
noie though See here, what did you
find out about the thing. anyway"
But Miss IIerrick shook her head rue
fully. She could not make up her mind
TO break a solemn promise.
Wednesday morning the axe fell. The
Dispatch had a column account Of
the engagement, with pictures Of the two
young people. Mr.. Holt and Mrs Holt.
and Mr.. McDcrmott's uncle. who had
been minister TO Sweden. The "Messen-
ger" had not a lire.
Go up there. Miss Herrick." said the
city editor grizzly. -ard get any adj
dltional details you can. though II looks
10 me az If they'd got It all And don't
you ever get a scoop IN confidence
again"
Miss Herrick went The ethics Of Jour
nalism were becoming mixed IN her
mind. and she was contrasting the nonor
of the HerrIcks with the honor Of the
Hollis.
The city editor was right; there was
nothing mere to be had. Then Mlsa
Herriek, meekly but self-respeccfuIly.
asked her questions.
Mrs. Holt. didn't you promise me TIE
exclusive news Of your daughters en-
gagement? And didn't you refuse me a
picture on the ground mat Mr.. Holt
wouldn't allow it,
Il know. but the Dispatch reporter
came around last night, and he was so
persistent" said Mrs Holt pIaintivCiy.
He wouldn't go away; and he said he
should write something away. 50 I
thought he might as well have IL right;
the newspapers do garble things so And
then Mr.. Holt said that If they were 90
Ing TO have picture they might well
have a good one; and l took my own
picture cA Lii4di the Only JnS ndts
and gave II 10 them rather than let
them use the horrid one they were go
Ing TO. with those big sleeves and all
But you said"
Yes. but he pretended he knew all
about II already. and That could
door" expostuIated Mrs Holt. Really,
I'm sure l have a right 10 give my news
to whatever paper I please. have
nothing more 10 tell you. and I haven't
another picture; so I must beg you TO
excuse me. as I am very busy today"
And out swept Mrs. Holt.
Miss Herrick went back TO her Office
with feeling of amusement struggling
through Ter disappointment aHd irrita-
tion.
You were right about honor IN wo-
men-some women" she said TO the po-
Ice reporter.
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No End in Sight.

All the labor unions in Chicago
have Endorsed the stock yards strike,
and Michael J. Donnelly. the presi-
dent of the Butchers Union, says that
his organization is stronger than IL
was on the day the members knocked
on work. The action of the other
Chicago unions means not only moral
but financial s-Szort, so that any ex-
pectetiop that the present situation
will be modified in the near future
seems futile.
The packers admit that up 10 date
they have been unable to get more
than $50 of their former employees
back 10 work, though they claim that
they have half as many men at work
now as when the strike was ordered.
The strikers. on the other hand, de-
clare-and seemingly with reason
that every animal killed under the
present conditions means a loss 10
the packers, inasmuch as the unskill-
ed labor employed can make no use
OF the by-products, which constitute
80 large a part Of the packers profits.
In the meantime. the country, as a
whole, is getting along very nicely
without Chicago beef Encouraged
by the strike, the independent abat-
toirs everywhere are doing a rushing
business, which, thanks TO the gen.
eral decrease in the demand for meat,
keeps the trade well supplied. The
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quality of the beef may not be so
good as the Chicago article, and more
muscle may be required to deal with
it after it gets to the table, but no
body feels disposed to kick very hard
under the circumstances.
When the meat trust does finally
get its business on a peace basis.
therefore. it is likely to find that it
has a somewhat different proposition
to deal with than it had before the
strike. 1t will find that considerable
Of its trade has vanished altogether,
while lot more will require coaxing
rather than bullying to bring it back
into line
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Women as a rule have no sense 81
honor. OF course l don't mean YOU.
Miss Herrick. you're square enou-,.,.
But the general run OF en- aren't that
way"
The blunt police reporter departed.
and so did Miss Herrick, smiling a little
over the compliment. smiling a little
over the cynicism. She was on her way
TO interview Mrs Holt, president of TIE
local chapter Of the Daughters of Their
Fathers. on some matters connected
with the coming congress OF the organi-
zation- She was new at the reporting
business.
Mrs. Holt, a stately. gray-haired
dame. was most gracious. She was glad
to give the Messenger any informa-
ton in her power. After describing
briefly the plans OF the chapter for en-
PERTAINING the other Daughters. she said
confidentially:
Il don't mind telling you. in conf
dence, that shall not accept the presi-
dency for another year. Ny daughter IS
engaged 10 MIR. Wayne McDer mott, and
they viii be married IN October. I
shall be quite too busy 10 undertake any
extra drtles.--bUt IT is all quite secret
for the present. you understand"
MISS Herrick gave little jump. This
was news indeed. The wedding would
Join one large fortune and one lone
pcdigrce. and the securing Of such a
scoop would make her place on tie
paper safe
hen can use that announcement.
Mrs Holt?' she asked with suppressed
eagerncss.
On. my dear child. couldn't think
or having 1t published now. There are
-ah-reasons-the engagement is quite
private as yet. and 1t Is not certain whom
1t viii be announced"
VIII you let me know first OF all
when you do announce IT? should
so like to get It flrst-it would mean a
lot TO me on the paper"
Oh, certainly. Come-let me seA-
this is Monday-come Thursday and I
may be able to tell you more"
And could I have a picture Of Miss
HoitY The paper VIII want one"
on. no. | hardly think so. Mr.. Holt
IL very much averse TO having any of
our pictures published. especially LII
But you will surely give me the news
first" pleaded the little reporter.
Certainly. but remember. YOU must
not think OF using It Until you hear from
me-"
MISS Herrick went down the steps feel
ing as Ganymede might have felt on the
back OF the eagle. \ scoop, a glorious
scoop. dropped into her lap without the
slightest warning! She would show
them that they could trust her. The
thought OF the little silver-haired
mother at home was never far from the
girl in her dusty nook at the office, or
her expeditions about town. and the
little mothers code Of honor was of the
delicate old-fashioned kind which Is out
up In lavender, and places the betrayal
Of confidence even beyond the telling
OF a lie.
tuesday came. and with il, TO Miss
Herrick's horror. distinct rumor about
that wedding. The city editor sent for
her.
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Goose and GandeT.

Comment is arising In this country
over Joseph Chamberlain's views on
protection. which, having been adver-
tised in verse by Mr. KipHng. are
likely to attract the attention of peo-
pie who would not otherwise have
bothered about them for some time.
There is no doubt that a minority
of the English people stand with Mr..
Chamberlain In his effort 10 secure a
modified form of protection. but there
is also no doubt that large majority
would no more think of abandoning
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free trade than of abandoning the
Established Church or the roast beef
dinner
The funny part of the controversy
at present is that some of the very
people who believe in protection for
this country are making all manner
Of fun of Chamberlain for advocating
1t in his country, and want to know
what good he expects will come of
reviving the corn laws, which brought
the English laborer to starvation
when they were in force. The answer
to that is that conditions have chang
ed.
Mr.. Chamberlain's idea seems to be
to have a nicely differentiated tariff,
by which foodstuffs and manufactures
will be taxed more or less according
TO the source. The colonies will be
allowed to send in their products
practically free, while imports from
America and elsewhere will be taxed
enough to give the British and Co
lonial workman a show.
There is sense in this, particularly
as Canada and Australia have been
for some time feeling sore over their
failure to get any favors from the
mother country, and particularly.
also, as the Colonial is beginning to
feel his oats" since the war in South
Africa, in which ''the men who could
shoot and ride" helped materially to
save the honor of the nation.
Nobody but the narrowest of in
sular conservatives can fail to see
that England must bind her colonies
together by all the ties available, or
she will lose them sooner or later.
AS things are now, some of the best
blood of England is in the colonies,
and the adaptability. inventive gem
ius, enterprise and material wealth
Of Canada, Australia, New Zealand,
and South Africa are assets too valu-
able to be lost by any fool careless
ness.
But the development of these colo
MES means injury to American pro-
ducers who are in the same line. If
England gets her meat and her corn
and her cotton and her wool, and
everything else which her colonies
can produce, from those colonies as
cheaply as she can get them from
us, it is perfectly clear that that is
what she will do, and this country
will lose the English market.
That is why the matter ought to in
terest Americans, and that is why we
shall hear a good many protests from
American protectionists if such
policy comes to be actually adopted.
But when the times change, the Gus
toms change, and what we shall have
to do is not to abuse Mr.. Chamber
lain for visionary, but consider how
this country is TO meet the situation
If his dreams come true.
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TUESDAY. AUGUST 9. 1904.
Question of COntraband.

Secretary Hays note, sent two
months ago to the ambassadors from
the United States, and defining the
position of this country as regards
contraband of war. fully met the
position now being maintained by
Russia in respect TO captures made
at sea.
Russia's present claim is-judging
by the conduct of the prize court at
Vladivostok-that everything con-
signed to Japan. which Russian yes
sells succeed in capturing, is legiti-
mate for confiscation. 1t is evident
that if any such wholesale condemna-
ton of neutral trade as that were
permitted, the business of the nations
would be seriously interfered with.
Secretary Hay recalls that in the
Spanish war the Navy Department
declared: THE term contraband of
war comprehends only articles having
belligerent destinations" and adds:
Among articles absolutely contra
band it declared ordnance. machine
guns, and other articles of military
and naval warfare. 1t declared as
conditionally contraband coal, when
destined for naval station, a port of
call or a ship or ships of the enemy
1t likewise declared provisions to be
conditionally contraband, when
destined for the enemy's ship or
ships or for place that is besieged.'
This. in brief. is still the position
of the United States. and one which
Secretary Hay regards as strictly in
accordance with international law
and reasonable usage. AS he says:
The recognition, in principle, of
the treatment of coal and other fuel
and raw cotton (foodstuffs should be
included in the Iist), as absolutely
contraband Of war might ultimately
lead to a total inhibition of the sale
by neutrals to the people of belliger-
ent states of all articles which could
be finally converted to military uses.
Such an extension of the principle by
treating coal and all other fuel and
raw cotton as absolutely contraband
OF war, simply because they are ship
ped by neutral TO a n-blockaded
port of a belligerent, would not ap-
pear to be in accord with the reason
able and lawful rights of a neutral
commerce"
As showing, too, that in order to be
consistent with herself, Russia mus
line up with the other nations in thus
defining contraband of war, Secretary
Hay notes that in the West African
conference in 1884 Russia dissented
vigorously from the proposition to
make coal absolutely contraband, de-
claring that she would categorically
refuse her consent to any arrange
ment that so classified coal.
Russia's chief difficulty seems to be
her inability to perceive that there
are two sides TO every question.
Despotic rule has so narrowed her
vision that the fact that there are
other rights besides Russian rights
dawns slowly on the official mind.
Inside Russia, what Russian bureau
cracy may say, may go, but outside
Russia it goes only so far as it is just
for all parties concerned.
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THEY CELEBRATE
GOLDEN WEDDING

Mr. and Mrs. John c. Click. of 2lS G
Street northwest. celebrated their golden
wedding Saturday evening and were sur
rounded by a large number of relatives
and friends
Mr. and Mrs. Click came from Ger
many and were married in this city in
1884, and have made Washington their
home ever since.
Among the beautiful and lasting tokens
presented by friends was an old family
Bible, given by Mrs. F. Absolute, Of
Saginaw. Mich, the sister OF Mr. Click
The book had been rebound and was
furnished with a solid gold clasp.
Refreshments and speeches made the
affair a notable one
Among the guests were Mrs. +. An
schultz and Miss Marie Anschutz, Mr.. and
Mrs. Edward L. Barrett. George Letter
lein, Mrs. X. Stroebel aud daug liter, and
Frederick Absolute, all OF Saginaw,
Mich; Mr.. and Mrs. Arnold Holston.
John HolstOn and WIFE Mrs. j Wal
decker, the Rev. Mr.. Schroeder Mr..
Hirt, George Holston, Mr.. and Mrs. z.
II. Boeiter, Albert Bagelmann, and many
others, OF this city.