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Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-04-12

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kerr's Studio
Corner Wells and Elizabeth streets.
The Great Baltimore Fire

Has demonstrated the fact
that abundant water supply ap-
pliances for extinguishing fire
and solid construction cannot
stay she devouring element.
This is a warning to property
owners not to neglect the impor-
tant matter of carrying sufficient
Fire Insurance.
The fifteen companies of my
agency were all represented at
Baltimore, but all have paid their
losses promptly and their tinan-
cial condition not in the least i'm
paired.
I respectfully solicit a share OF
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Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-04-12
Gas
Engines

How many people, when buy
ing gas engines stop to consider
complications? There are few
If they would only investigate
the different makes before de.
Gliding on the purchase, there
would be fewer repair shops
over the land. A spring here
and q gear there, and loaded
down with q lot Of inventions,
most people say, "That must be
god engine. {" Well, they buy it.
In a little while, to keep it 60
ing, they commence to tinker,
and the more time and money
spent the more she gets out OF
whack. When they realize that
it takes an expert to do anything
with it. Now if they had only
bought a simple engine, one that
would not run because it did not
have a lot of fixtures, they could
have avoided the expense and
delay.
Our advice to you is not to
overlook the "Stouer" when you
are thinking of buying an engine,
as we can prove to you that it is
the simplest engine built, and we
feel satisfied that it will give you
but very little trouble. Repair
shops all hate the "Stoner," as it
gives them but little work.
THE sTONER MACHINE CO.,
Sistersville, w. Va.
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Makes a Clean Sweep.

There's nothing like doing a
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Sores, Bruises, Cuts, Boils, u
GERS, Skin Eruptions and Piles.
It's only Csc, and guaranteed to
give satisfaction by D. A. Hen
dershot, druggist.
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Photographs
In the Spring

The thoughts of maidens lightly
turns to dreams of love and
spring millinery and spring dress
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graphs to show to absent friends
just how nice you looked. We
have added several new styles OF
momtings to- our already large
line and know that we can suit
the taste and purse of everybody
in this vicinity. Call and investi-
gate. Developing and finishing
for amateurs. Kerr's Studio.
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much OF the after
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BUSINESS and weak
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time.
If there is an in
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fering from female
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sus,> falling of
womb, or from leu
corrhea who has
used DR.. Pierce'S
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In Ladies and Misses Suits owing account that have
many Ladies' Suits hand fact crowded that
have to turn around sweep ust
sell all Ladies Suits what price they
bring Come and for yourself This greatest price
sale known uptodate talormade Suits good
Ladies Spring Suits and Skirts any
city of Sersve Our gallant force of clerks your
mand will be pleased quote prices AS this positively the
force sale known in Ladies Spring Suits Sale
begins at until further notice.
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Greatly Reduced One Way Col
onist Fares to the West via B.


During the months of March
and April the Baltimore &
Ohio Railroad will place on sale
daily from all stations, one way
Colonists Tickets to principal
points in California, Arizona
British Columbia, Colorado.
Montana, New Mexico, Oregon
South Dakota, Texas, Utah
Washington, Wyoming, etc., al
greatly reduced rates.
For tickets and full informa
ton call on or address Ticket
Agents, Baltimore & Ohio Rail
road.
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] the TPt.sElQ Time

In young girls life is reached when
Nature leads her uncertain steps across the
line which divides girlhood from woman
hood. Ignorance and neglect at this crit
zeal period are largely responsible for
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Local News
Tuesday, partly cloudy.

| TUESDAY, pdItly~ciouuy"
A very heavy rain fell over this
section last night.
E. E. Gorrell, of Jacksonburg
is calling on friends in the city to.
day.
Charles Back, of Clarksburg,
was a business visitor in the city
today.
Will Hill left for Cameron this
afternoon on a short business mis-
sion.
FOR SALE-Eight room house.
Apply to w. M. Smith, Garry
| Owen. 4,4-tf
Edward Pentz, of Pittsburg,
was a guest at the Hotel Mercer
today.
D. M. Connolly, oil operator, OF
Parkersburg, was in the city last
evening.
Capt. Peter Grace, the veteran
oil operator, was in the city last
evening.
w. J. Fladding, Of st. Marys,
was calling on friends in the city
last evening.
Jas. J. Mccain, of Wheeling,
was registered at the Hotel Wells
this afternoon.
FOR RENT-Four-room house,
on Avenue A. Inquire of R. l..
Moore. Aft
Mrs. Adams, of Wick, was a
guest at the Hotel Mercer yester-
day afternoon.
Carl Truck, of Cochransville,
O., was calling on friends in the
city last evening.
S. T. Kerr, a popular photog-
rapher of New Martinsville, was
in the city last night.
Miss Bertha Folger, of Pursley,
is visiting her friend, Bessie Var
ner, of South Wells street.
Ed Jemison, a prominent far
mer near Meadville, was a bust
ness caller in the city today.
F. F. Furbee, of Middlebourne,
passed through the city this aft
ernoon on his way to Wetzel cOun-
ty.
FOR SALE-Ten room house;
inquire at lis Benton street.
4,6-tf
We are sorry to note D. w. Hill
lard is confined to his home by
a serious attack of typhoid fe-
yer.
Rev. Father Boice went to
Wheeling this afternoon where
he will visit friends for a day or
two.
j. B. Brennan, of Wheeling,
was numbered among the promi-
nent business callers in the city
this afternoon.
FOR RENT-Furnished and n-
furnished rooms; with gas and
water. Address Rooms, this Of
flee. 4,4-tf
Frank Tracy is substituting in
room No. 3 of the South Side
schools during the absence of the
teacher, Miss Belle Vannoy.
ID NToo,o of Mast Union
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-04-12

May fashion magazines on sale
at McCoy's Book store.
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THIS WILL INTEREST MANY NE

Jerome LOngwell, the Wheeling. West VI
ginia publisher, says that IL any one affiicfi
with Varicocele or ImpOtoncy, or are weal
where perfect men are strong, VIII adore
him, isend no money he Will direct them
a perfect cure He will tell you how he va
cured after years Of search for perfect MAJ
hood. Hundreds have tested this with stz
cess. Write to-day in full confidence
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Miss Belle Vannoy, one of the
efficient teachers of the South
Side schools. who has been I'LL for
several days, is improving. We
hope she will soon be able to re-
sumo her duties.
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GIVE :: US :: A :: CALL.
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LOST-$35 Sunday evening be-
tween the grocery store of S. G.
Sybert and the Oil Well Supply
store; finder will be literally re-
warded by leaving same at Re-
view Office. 4,11-3t
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A. B. Moore, of West Union,
passed through the city last night
on his way to Middlebourne. Mr..
Moore is the efficient court stenog-
rapher.
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John McMunn, of Wheeling,
will open an up-to-date harness
shop in the Rice building, at the
corner of Wells and Hill streets,
about May l.
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Frank Tracy is substituting in
room No. 3 of the South Side
schools during the absence Of the
teacher. Miss Belle Vannoy.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-04-12

The semi-annual inspection OF
Company A will be held in their
quarters on Brown Betty street
next Monday evening. A regular
army officer will make the inspec-
ton.
The San Francisco call., 1904-10-30

were blue or gray. and whether she
was tall or short, dark or fair, his lady
of dreams.
Afterward he plumed himself upon
having recognized her instantly,
though if the truth were known it re-
'quired no great perspicuity. Asked to
dinner at the Stanton's-the nearest
neighbors. though three miles away-he
had accepted on the chance of getting
some clew to the young lady.
And he did. At the sight Of him the
only other guest, young woman with
the bluest of blue eyes. gave a startled
but pleased look that flashed into her
eyes and out again so quickly that he
would scarce have been sure save for
the slight flush that backed up his
theory. Later on it transpired that she
was the one girl in the neighborhood,
and matrons, Trenham shrewdly ar
gued. would scarcely be up to such
pranks, or even thinking of the great
god Pan.
For the rest, there are people who are
still scandalized when they remember
the queerness OF the Trenham-Duke
wedding. 1t took place in sylvan style
a year later on the knoll overlooking
the river, and the bride wore-can you
believe it?-a. wreath OF dandelionsi
The San Francisco call., 1904-10-30

velope. scrawled something on an un-
used sheet and tore 1t off.
Almost holding her breath she tip
toed nearer. He was sleeping very
heavily. The scrap OF paper she had
twisted into the wreath At last she
stood within an arms length of his
head. She listened exciteoIy, but the
long, even breaths assured her.
Slowly she bent over: lower and
lower the wreath descended until it
rested on the crisp, dark hair. With
the braced air of a person who feels
that he is likely to be shot at any
moment, she Strengthened up and
waited, but he did not move. Then
with a last admiring glance, for he
looked like a veritable fiower-crowned
god now, she fed back along the path
and in a moment had disappeared in
the woods.
Trenham woke from a slumber so
deep that his very identity was lost.
Long, lazy shadows darkened the
sward about him. Who-what-where I?
Something pressed upon hisSforehead
and instinctipely his hand went I'D. his
The San Francisco call., 1904-10-30

to be passed around. 1t was long af-
ter lunch time, and he never misses
lunch time. He can put away more
fried bluef1sh and blackberry potpie
than five of the Muses.. but 1t is only
proof of his exceptional excellence,
and the overseer never rebukes him.
Did I tell you she was a widow?
Also, interested in botany. I think she
stands second best. He likes fried
bluefsh, etc.
Anyway, We missed him, and there
was a swift. summer storm stealing
blackly up from the horizon. and the
sea moaned as it broke in sobs along
the shore. They do those kind OF
things all right. I used to think that
went with the summer man. but it
doesn't.
"MacGregor Clarence Blair said he
hadn't shown UP since breakfast. and
he'd seen him making a bee line for
the glen, and he'd said. what's. yer
hurry? and the professor had said he
hoped he could have one morning in
peace to study without that thunder
ing crowd of old maids hiking after
him.
I'VE didn't believe MacGregor. He
looks like a pale, new sand fly, and
his father and mother own all Of No
Mans Land. The professor never in
all this world used such words as
hiking and laundering, but Mac
Gregor did. Therefore. I may say. in
the same common parlance, that the
whole laundering crowd of old maids
pitched In and lambasted Mac
Gregor until his pretty white linen
suit was not fair to see. and his
twining curls were full of sand burrs.
Then he howled and retracted. and
we all went up the glen after the pro-
fessor.
THE glen deepens and darkens as
you go in, and the sides are rocky and
precipitous, with much shrubbery and
underground, and scraggly pine trees
listed to windward And just as the
first streak Of lightning quivered in
the sky we heard a faint shout for
help.
1T was the professor He hung sus-
pended in air on the bare limb of a
dead pine that jutted out from the rock
half way up the bluff. like Genius on
Pegasus, the widow said, on petrified
Pegasus.
'"Then Genevieve Persey. our college
product, said Pesagus couldn't be petri-
fed. He would have to be ossified.
And the widow began to cry and sat
down on a log and said she didn't care
a bit either way, ossified or petrified.
and Professor Vogel was such a lovely
man and always paid his board like
a gentleman and she hated to see him
killed before her eyes and she never
felt so much like fainting before in all
her life.
'Genevieve said fainting was count
ed out He was a fine target for light
ming up there, and while 1t was none
of her business and she had no inter
est in the professor as a lovely man,
or in the continuance OF his regular
beard paying, still. she thought a rope
might be a good thing.
"Iu mountainous countries began
Agatha, the artist who has been
Europized, I believe they tie rope
around the waist of one person
It's the shoulders said Genevieve.
Kind of a slip knot
THE professor shouted for help
The San Francisco call., 1904-10-30

fingers cropping eagerly for some
meaning in the soft damp mass that
met their touch. Then they closed
upon the object and brought it around
where his eyes could help.
He stared at it in silence for a
moment.
Crowned, by Jove" was his dazed
exclamation when he at last found
speech. The scrap of paper caught his
eye and he detached it, smoothed 1t
out and looked at it with absorbed
curiosity
II salute thee, Great Pan was scrib-
bled thereon in girlish hand and at
the words a light dawned upon him.
Who was she and what was she like?
How strange that she, too, should have
been thrilled with the same weird sense
Of the nearness of pagan gods.
The dandelions were curling up like
tired children. but Trenham carried the
wreath home as carefully as If it had
been of the flowers of Eden, and he
smoked many pipes that night in the
soft gloom of Nortons roomy porch,
wondering how and when and where
they would meet. and whether her eyes
The San Francisco call., 1904-10-30
JIM DANDIES
By John Murray

Indians almost ceased their fire as
they wondered what was up.
Now. dudes,'' said the sergeant as
they. reached cover, this is no max
ing love to a red-headed girl on the
veranda Of a summer hotel. We've
got to hold them Injuns off this flank
if we die trying. You've got a
chance to show what you're made OF.
and durn my buttons if don't plug
the first man who looks to the rearl"
The Ninth had gotten itself into a
hole. 1t was not strong enough to
drive the enemy from it's front, and
were 1t to attempt a retrograde move
ment the Indians would be ENCOURAGED
to swarm out in full force The officers
saw the situation before the men did,
but when the latter became aware Of It
there was a flutter along the lines. It
might have been more than a dutter,
and the coloners heart was in his
mouth and his teeth set hard. when
from the "Jlm-Dandies' over on the
flank came the rousing chorus OF
John Brown" 1t stopped the nutter.
Some men laughed and some swors,
but the song led their thoughts into
another channel.
Again the Indians pressed down on
the left flank. They had discovered
that only half dozen men opposed
them, and that to win the flank was
to win the battle, but even with Ave
to one. owing to the nature OF the
ground. they could make no way. The
"Jims" were shooting to kill when
they were not laughing or singing
and the sergeant watched them close
ly and muttered to himself:
I've been down on these dudes alonR
with the crowd. but blast my eyes II I
ever saw purifier nghtin'. I guess I've
got to take back what I've said. Say.
now, but what's the matter over IN. the
center?"
The matter was that company was
being withdrawn to reinforce the
right. but the movement caused un-
easiness and slackening OF the IRE.
Men were beginning to look to the rear
and breathe heavily. and the Indians to
utter whooDs OF exultation and make
ready for a rush. when the six Jim
Dandies." who were temporarily out OF
1t. leaped uD on the rocks and began
to sing topical song. It was new to
most of their comrades, and the Jolly
air caught on at once and started
cheers all along the line.
Two hundred men Joined IN the
chorus. and they were singing yet as
the colonel perfected his plans and or
dered a forward movement. There was
a grand charge and rOut. and the
Ninth had not only extricated itself,
but won victory to De proud OF.
Splendid move Of yours colonel"
said the major when the fight had been
won.
But 1 couldn't have made ID with
out the singing. Tell Captain Barnes
to send his six Jim-Dandies' to me.
I want to thank 'em personally. A
dude glee club beats artillery all to
pieces at fighting Indiansl"
The San Francisco call., 1904-10-30
GRE AN
By Keith Gordon

imperceptible. A line from a poem
learned in youth trailed across his mind
Great Pan is dead"
It's a Me-" .he murmured drowsily.
Great Pans not dead. Great Pan"
The murmur ended in a knowing
smile, the smile of one who has learned
for certainty what fools most mortals
be and that in turn faded into gravity.
Trenham slept.
TITS singular sleeping beauty of a
place-has a breathless, charmed air.
as if 1t were under a spell 1 believe
there are fairies or godlings to be dis
covered"
So had Natica Duke written to a
friend soon after coming to Cantico for
the summer. There were few houses
IN the region-a half dozen within
twenty miles, and her first impression
Of the country was only deepened by
her long, solitary strolls. She had a
mystical feeling that there was some
thing to be discovered-some secret
that she was forever on the verge of.
Cooling, gnome or fairy, she fancied.
might rise in her path at any moment
without causing her any surprise, and
so it was without dismay that she
stopped short at the edge of the wood
one day upon finding her favorite spot
already occupied.
For the fraction Of second she half
believed. Then she wholly disbeIieved.
No godling would appear in tan OK
fords. Sandals were the utmost one
could conceived Still, as a mortal, the
sleeping youth before her was worth
consideration. A glance told her that.
and she cautiously drew a step nearer.
He lay so that the spreading branch
OF a tree shaded his face, his soft linen
hat tossed on the grass beside him.
thus revealing the thick dark hair that
looked as If IT might have curled had
not its owner sternly refused to hear Of
such a thing. His features reminded
her strangely Of certain marbles she
had seen, they were so massive. vet so
finished, and with girlish attention to
dress she bestowed an approving
glance on his white negligee shirt. the
sleeves rolled up to the elbows, and the
duck trousers to match. II he was not
godling he was at least a most at
tractive mortal
Daringly she stood and gazed at him.
tingling with the fear that he might
awaken, yet too interested to turn
away. The blue of her eyes was
matched by the color of the linen gown
she wore. Around her neck a dandelion
chain dangled like cable of rich gold.
With a sudden movement she lifted
the latter, breaking off part OF 1t and
fastening 1t into wreath. Again she
hesitated. Then, with her under lin
held between her teeth in a way that
showed two very merry dimples, she
took letter from her dress, hurriedly
extracted a tiny pencil from the ems
The San Francisco call., 1904-10-30

Copyright, 1904, by T. c. McClure.)
nHERE were six men in Com
pany B. Ninth Infantry, who
were nicknamed "Jim-Dandies."
A They were six spick and span
fellows, who always looked fresh and
clean and presentable. and they were
always detailed for the best headquar-
ter posts. This caused jealousy and it
was natural that by and by a story
should get affoat that the six recruits
were fellows without sand. 1t could
be truthfully said that their courage
had not been tested. as the Indians
had been quiet for long time. but no
one argued thus. 1t was easier to go
with the majority and say with some
Of the old veterans:
You just mark my words. II we
ever get into a brush with the reds
1T will take four men apiece to hold
these dudes on the firing line"
The "Jim-Dandies" were attracted to
each other and formed coterie. They
organized a glee club. sang love songs,
read popular novels and bought toilet
soap. They even wore linen collars
and carried clean handkerchiefs, and it
was said of at least three c. then that
they rubbed their faces with bay rum
after shave. The "Jims'' were guyed
and ridiculed, but they went their way
and bideG their time.
They had put in year Of this when
the call came for the Ninth to take
the field. The red men had grown
tired of eace and wanted war again.
Now keep your eyes on our Jim
Dandies,'" said the veterans to each
other as they went marching away.
IF we buck up against the Sioux you'll
see six sissy men fainting away to be
chucked into an ambulance"
The Ninth went out for business and
found it. On the third day after leav-
ing the fort it found big force Of
Indians in its front, and the fight was
hot from the beginning. The reds had
the advantage of numbers. and by and
by they began to work around on the
left flank of the command. The colo
mel saw it, but he could spare only
a few men to checkmate the move
They must get into the broken ground
and die fighting. 1t was a military
necessity that a small force should be
sent. but he hesitated to issue the or
der, and finally called for sergeant to
lead band of volunteers. The six
"Jim-Dandies'. came to the front at
once. Even on the march they had
clean collars on.
What in time is this" growled the
sergeant as they stepped out. It's
goin to take old veterans to hold that
ground. and these are only dudes"
Give us a chance. colonel" appealed
one Of the "Jims."
The seven men took open order and
double -quicked across the open into
cover and the six "Jims" sang as they
went. The colonel looked blank, and
five hundred men laughed and the