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Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-11-05

torium here tonight on the tax
question. Mr.. Hubbard assisted
in preparing the original tax bills
that Dawson won his nomination
on for Governor. He was also
the Dawson leader in the State
convention when Dawson was
nominated, and forced through
that unprecedented thing of hold
ing a Republican State conven-
ton without appointing Commit
tee on Credentials. Hubbard is
the gentleman who lead the Daw-
son fight in the most unfair Re-
publican State convention that
was ever held in this State. He
favored having Dawson sit as
Judge and to decide as to who
should be delegates before the
Republican State convention and
refused to let the chairman of the
convention, Sen. n. B. Scott, APP
point a Committee on Creden-
tials. So unfair, disreputable and
full of fraud was that convention
under Hubbard's management
that even as strong Republican
as w. L. Armstrong is, he left it
and came home on the first train
the first day of the convention.
Hubbard was the leader in that
fight. Hubbard was one of the
men who prepared the original
tax reform bills that provided for
levying a license on oil, gas and
coal He is also the same Hub
bard that helped to prepare the
tax bills that was enacted at the
special term of the last Legisla-
ture. He knows oil, gas and mined
coal is not taxed under the pres
ent laws. He is the same Hubbard
lwho, when he talks to Wheeling
audience says they who live IN
that city should vote for the new
tax laws because Ohio county be-
ing very wealthy pays more
State school taxes than it re-
ceives and helps to pay the school
ing of poor children in less rich
and thinly settled counties in the
State. He is the same Hubbard
that told the bankers in Wheel
ing in a secret meeting that the
law requiring bank cashiers to
show the bank books so the as
SCISSORS could assess all money
on deposit is no good as a law
because there is no penalty at
tached to it if the cashier re-
fuses to open the banks books.
And he is the same Hubbard
that wrote Il law to assess EoUl
farm, home and town lot at It's
actual cash value. that requires
merchants to assess their stock of
goods at their retail value, that
requires the poor man to pay his
head tax in April and the rich
man his tax in November, that
attached a severe penalty on the
Door man if he fails to assess his
property at its actual cash value
but failed to provide punish
ment if the banker refuses to turn
in the bank deposits. But he is
an able corporation lawyer, rep
resents many rich corporations
and railroads, has stock in many
rich corporations that will not be
taxed at their actual value He is
a smooth speaker and his princi-
pal theme tonight will be that all
honest men should be willing to
pay taxes on what they really
own. But he won't tell you the
rich man can avoid paying taxes
just as he always did by buying
bonds or sending his money out
of the State. He won't tell you
the producers do not pay any
fax on oil production. but the
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-11-05
Christian.

Sunday-school at 9:45 a. m.
T. w. Yoho will preach at II a.
m. and 8 p. m.
All are cordially invited to at
tend.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-11-05
Holy Rosary.

The masses at $50 and 1890
a. m.
Sunday-school at 2:30 p. m.
Vespers and benediction at 8
D. m.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-11-05
Weather Report.

Special to The Oil Review.
Washington, Nov. 5.-Partly
cloudy tonight and Sunday.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-11-05
Presbyterian.

Presbyterian.
Preaching by the pastor at II
a. m. and 7 80 p. m.
Sunday-school at 9 As a. m.
Junior and intermediate Chris
tan Endeavor at 2:30 p. m.
Senior Endeavor at $50 p. m.
Prayer meeting Wednesday ev-
ening at 7:30.
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Episcopal.

Episcopal.
In the place of the sermon at
the morning service the Pastoral
Letter of the House of Bishops
will be read.
Sunday-school at 3 p. m.
Evening service and sermon at
7:30.
Litany service on Friday after
noon at 4.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1904-11-26
THE 6 DIALECT.
Some Comments on Paul Laurence
Dunbar's Efforts to Sustain 1t.

Some Comments on Paul Laurence
Dunbar's Efforts to Sustain 1t.
"As a rule the negro who has grown
out of the dialect of his race makes an
extremely poor showing in an effort to
mimic the negro's talk" said an OBJ
servant man, land his efforts to write
it are even more pronounced failures.
But Paul Laurence Dunbar, the negro
poet, has written at least II thing In
which he sustained the dialect of his
race. In the Death Song Dunbar got
closer to the talk and the nature of the
negro than in any other effort. It Is
worth recalling, SO here it is:
Lay me down beneaf de willers in do
grass,
Whah de branch IL go a-singin' as 1t pass,
An wen Is a-layin' low
kin hyeah it as it go
singin', Sleep. my honey. TEX yo' res at
las
Lay me nigh to whah hit meks q little
pool.
An de watah stan's so quiet lax an cool,
Via de little birds In spring
Ust to come an drink an sing.
An the chillen waded on dey way to
school.
LET me settle, wen my shouldahs draps'
dey load
Nigh enough to- hyeah de noises IN de
road.
Flu 1 t'ink de las long res
Gwine to soothe my sperrit bes'
Eff rs layin' 'mong de things rs allus
knowed.
"You will observe, here that he shows
the negro's strong devotion to the IT,
and it Is interesting because of the
tendency on the part Of writer's Of ne
gro dialect to force the Il out by the
substitution Of "a Dunbar's use of rs
for the improper 4 is is genuine. Most
negro dialect writer's, Of today would
write it Abs for they nearly always
use 'Ah' for t. So he shows the same
preference for Il in the lines
can wen Is a-layin' low
1 kin hyeah 1t as 1t go
stngin', Sleep, my honey. TEX yo' res ae
las
"Here we have rs and: 4 kim both
showing the negro's devotion to the
sound Of s. So he uses 'gwine' for go
ing probably errs In the distinctive
.gwin to- for the negro. . rule, will
make one word out Of the phrase, CIV
ing it more the sound Of 'gwinter.' But,
on the whole, the dialect L. good and
10 we'll sustained New Orleans.
Times Democrat.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1904-11-26
POINTED

One-half the stuff you buy does you
no good.
Don't carry a lot of keys to private
drawers. Burn papers you don't want
e
A dollar is a large amount to pay for
bread, but it is mighty insignificant. in:
q poker game.
When some people haven't any great
trouble, they smile as much as to say,
How brave I am!
Many a good man fuses . great.
deal about nothing and makes himself
unnecessarily disagreeable.
There is this in being a parent: They
get the abuse IL their children are bad,
and no particular credit IL they are
gOOd.-Atchison Globe.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1904-11-26
Buryinx the Inn sign.

In some parts of England when a.
public house loses its license the sign
board is solemnly buried. On the last,
night it is removed from over the door
and "waked" in the bar by the old
customers. When the clock points to,
closing time and the house cease its
career As an inn the signboard is car
ried out in procession and inferred:
with an appropriate burial service,
which ends with watering the grave.
with a gallon Of beer or q bottle Of
whisky. %.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1904-11-26
OUR TREASURE l,W KEATS.
MS Poetry of Three. DsAenstQne
Hei9ht, Breadth and S0liaity.

IT'S Poetry of Three. nSAenstQn-
Height, Breadth and. seaiaity.
In reading Keats one. is, struck with
the wealth of his equipment, the solid
qualities of his art, his soaring imagi-
nation, his rare ems Of beauty, his
range of emotional response, his rich
resources Of language, and, not the
least noteworthy, his capability Of
growth in taste. To consider what a
poet thus endowed might have given
to the world had he. lived to the age Of
Shakespeare or Milton. excites the
mind almost to pain, SO little short Of
miracle was his actual achievement.
We believe there is, no. evidence that
he wrote a line of verse after his twen-
little after his twentN-fNurth. and yet
what a glorious body OF life and inspi-
ration he has left! 1t is poetry Of three
dimensions-height, breadth and solid
ity. And yet, withal,. it has arrowlike
intensity-a Quality OF which he him
self said, 1.-The excellence of every art
Is it's intensity. capable Of making all
d~isagreeables e%vaporate from their be-
ing in close relationship with truth and
beauty" ''"
His transcriptions 81 the classic into
modern speech in. Hyperion" and La
mia" the wonderful music and color
Of 1.-The Eve Of ST. Agnes" the deft
and eerie handling Of ballad themes in
La Belle Dame sans Merci' and lisa
bella; or, The Pot Of BASIL" the over
flowing dreaminess Of midsummer in
the lode to a Nightingale" the depth
and lyric directness Of such lines as
I'm a Drear Nighted December" and a
whole anthology Of noble sonnets in
terpreting life and nature-these. are
but a moiety of the ~overflowing stream
Of his passionate imaginings. for in
him the intellectual: and. the emotional
were kindly mixed, In the face. Of
such: q, record of good work the faults
Of his earlier manner are not worth
Notwithstanding. =
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1904-11-26
willinx. to: I,in<er

Longevity is ever a. subject Of alb
sorbing interest. The desire to live is
the common Inheritance of the ace A
desire to die, does not spring from a
sound mind in a sound body. A priest,
having administered the last rites Of
the church to a dying Irishman. asked
II he were not now ready to depart.
The sick man replied, "sure, father, I
would rather stay: where I am best &C.
quainted." So say we all. of u.s.
Kansas City Independent.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1904-11-26
Five thousand Distinct A..e..se..

Five thousand Distinct kaDg.ages.
Mr.. j. Collier is authority for the
statement that there are no less than:
5000 distinct languages spoken by
mankind. The number Of separate dia-
lects is enormous. There are more
than sixty distinct vocabulartes In Bra
I'll, and in Mexico the Nahua language
has been broken up into 700 dialects.
There are hundreds in Borneo. The
complexities are beyond classification
in Australia. and generally the num-
Der Of dialects decreases with the in
tellectual culture Of the population. II
there is an average Of fifty dialects
to every language we stfn have the
enormous total Of $4,000.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1904-11-26

Judge lockwood Hoar, brother Of
Senator Hoar, was noted as q Wit 40;
we'll as a jurtst. Shortly before bis:
death, as his daughter entered his:
room in the morning, he said: my
dear. I had a dream last night, and. in,
I'll saw the angel Of death sitting at
the foot Of my bed. At first l was
horribly. frightened. but as l gazed; at
my visitor my fears vanished. He.
wore q fur cap."-Brooklyn Life.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1904-11-26
Technically stated,

Music Teacher-Your daughters
voice is of fine quality and capable of
reaching and sustaining some very
lofty notes, but lacks control -Airship
sInventor-IM terms that are clear ito
one Of my profession. you mean that it
will fy high and far, but IL not dirigf.
bSeEnaitinoeo American.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1904-11-26
Soup.

"Who goes there?" q.
Godfrey-Godfrey-Godfrey de Bou-
Hon. stammered the young actor with
his first two line part /. !.
"supe.. super: yelled the ~unfeeling
gallery.-Pittsburg Post.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1904-11-26
The Opportunity.

1t was night ; - "
They're and she-were sitting "a
the porch looking at the stars:
%: 'Yoiu know,...I. suppose" he. whis-
pered. what. a young mans privilege
is. when; he sees a shooting'star7"
no." she answered. II haven't the
slightest idea. There goes one!.-Chi-
cago Tribune. :.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1904-11-26
Even Worse.

Mrs. Hoyie-1 hear that your hus-
band died intestate. Mrs. Doyle-Well,
I don't know what his trouble was, but
he had to have an operation.-Town
Topics.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1904-11-26
TAX NOTICE
Notice that the Taxesfor the
Year 1904 are now Due
and Payable.

Notice is hereby given that the taxes for the
year 1904 are now due and payable, and that l
have this day received from the county auditor
the tax lists for the 1904 tax.
Real estate tax is due and payable December
l. 1901, real estate becomes delinquent March
!. 1905, A penalty Of 9 per cent attaches to 1903
taxes, March L, 1905: 3 per cent April l, 1905;
3 per Gent June 1. 1915: and an additional 8 per
cent November /, ! 1906. All delinquent real es-
tate tax for the wear 1904, will be adve. Used for
sale IN November 1905, and sold by the county
aqditorttlie first Tuesday in Decemer, 1905. An
estate tax at close Of tax sale. Real estate sold
for tax draws per cent interest per month
from date Of sale until redeemed, and is sub
Jet to redemption within three ,ysars from
Der l. 1904, a penalty of 5 per cent attaches to
personal tax February l. 1905. and said tax
draws interest at the rate of / per cent per
month from February 1905. until paid or col
lected by distress and sale.
The county treasurer Is directed to mail to
each person In the month of December. a no.
tica that delinquent personal tax will be de-
Ivered to the sheriff for collection on or before
October 10, 1901.
The rates for all general purposes are as fol-
lows:
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1904-11-26

l., Malice eats up the greatest part of
her own venom and herewith poison
eth Observation-Disclosures.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1904-11-26

All taxes are payable ut the County T~ressurer's
Office in Washburn, N. ID.
Dated November 18th, 1904.
+. IRWIN ROOT,
Treasurer Mclean County. 1l-la
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1904-11-26
DELINQUENT TAX SALE.
-ll1m North Dakota,
,uinty OF Mclean. SIS
,lic OF County .tuGitor,

.'lllc Of County .NNt!ltOr,
~ta,uDurn, y. -. November I. 1901.
y One n. Wing, e unity Auditor of Mclean
SNilLy Aofth Dakota. do hereby certify that
{ = annexed list VI real property has become
-~l,lient by reason of non payment of taxes
I IA: year A. u 1908, and will be sold as pro.
:. y aid other costs accruing. said sale com
+ o nv, 1T 9o'clock Il. M. on Tuesday Deem:
Il Gin. lJU4 and closing ut 1 O'Clock y. m. of
& ,i.y and continuing further from day to
IS nut Ill lands or parcels OF lands have been
{, { ior sale, said sale to be made al. my
I &c ~ the ourt house in the town OF Wash
~. state OF North iiakOtt.
WGm.s- my hand and seal this 7lh, day of
| ,Entn Ger, A. u. 1901.
rNALl -. i. WING,
County Auditor, Mclean County, Nj.
The Washington times., 1904-02-14

the rapid development in the last If
teen years that there has been in the
Southeast. nor for the number of lines
has there been the money spent In the
West that there has been in the territory
east of the Mississippi and south of the
Ohio and Potomac rivers. In the last
year the Southern has made arrange
ments to expend SIS. OOO. 900 for improve
ments. the Atlantic Coast Line. Sl2. OOo,-
600: the Seaboard. $21, 600, 900: the Nor
folk and Western. s. 200. coo: the
Chesapeake and Ohio. $14. 900, coo. and the
Baltimore and Ohio. 81, 600. The
smaher lines have been expanding
money in ratio. according to their size
And this is not splurge for one year.
II has been going on for nearly
decade. The average man or woman.
however. does not stop to consider this,
permitting themselves TO believe that
conditions are little better than they
were in the years following the civil
war. Hence the statement that the long
distance record-at least the 700-mile rec
ord-is held in the South Is surprising.
The 7O0-mile record is of long-stand-
ing. II was made between Savannah and
Washington in 1894. when a train load
of knights OF Pythias' were brought TO
The Washington times., 1904-02-14

the Capital from the Gate City, dis
tance of $50 miles. In $50 minutes. count
ing the slow downs for the trestles over
the Sante. and Peewee and several small
er rivers. 1t is said that on the sandy
stretches this train made at times near
~ ninety miles I'm one hour. OF course.
this terrific speed was not sustained.
The Seaboard Air Line on the stretch
between Savannah. Ga. and Columbia.
S. G.. frequently makes more than
eighty miles an hour. The Chesapeake
and Ohio runs it's IF F. W between
Norfolk and Richmond at certain points
at seventy-five miles an hour on reg
ular schedule. The ordinary run of the
Southern's Palm Limited is twenty
hours 10 St. Augustine, a distance of
nearly 1900 miles. on the Central Rail-
road of Georgia records are standing
of eighty-seven miles an hour. The Ala
bama Great Southern and the Atlanta
and West Point both have schedules on
which trains run regularly at sixty
miles an hour.
And all of this has been developed
since the latter part of 1884. In those
days the Plant system engines were
burning wood. as We're the engines of
many other lines. Today there are to
be found no finer locomotives nor cars
than those on the Southern railroads.
The Washington times., 1904-02-14
FAST TINE ON SOUTHERN RAILWAY

~ OR years the belief has prevailed
that all OF the fast running by
railroad trains is In the North
and that most of the Southern lines
make no attempt to exceed thirty-five or
forty miles an hour. even with their
best trains. So widespread is this be-
lief that IL will surprise many to learn
that the record for long distance run
ming is held by the Atlantic Coast Line
and that both the Southern and the Sea-
board have stretches OF track in the fat
sand and pine lands OF the Southeast
where they make often nearly a hundred
miles in a little over a hundred minutes
In fact the improvements have come
so rapidly in the Southeast in the last
few years that there are few Iuxuries
20 be had on any of the Eastern trains
which excel those I'm the South And as
for the West. there is none finer than
the average Southern train, while none
can surpass the famous Florida ex-
presses -shich are operated from New
York through Washington TO Jackson
Vile
Figures issued by the Interstate Com
merce Commission show that even in tho
much-vaunted West there has not been
The Washington times., 1904-02-14

Whitaker Wright was a quiet chan.
rather jovial in modest way. but he
did not have much respect for the
cloth One night he and some friends
were in dance hall when Dr. TaImage
walked I'm, I suppose on a tour of in
spection to see how wicked Leadville
really was. The clergyman was pointed
out TO Wright, who gave a snort Of an
ger. He motioned to one Of the ugliest
girls i'm the hail. When she came up 10
him he pulled a $50 gold piece from his
pocket
That man over there is DR. Tai
mage. he said holding out the coin.
This is yours II yoU viii go over and
kiss him and call him Papa
THE girl agreed to the proposal and
started over 10 where DIR. Talmage stood
looking on AT the scene of reveIry with
true clerical disdain. She got as far as
Hello papa but she didn't fulfill the
rest Of her contract. When the outraged
preacher saw the blotched face thrust
near his own in "A most evident effort at
OSCILLATION he lost the nerve that might
have carried DIR. Parkhurst through the
ordeal He blocked the attempt by
throwing up his hands and pushing the
creature away. I shall never forget the
look OF utter disgust on his face as he
backed out OF the door, and don't
think he ever visited another dance hall
while he stayed
The Washington times., 1904-02-14

the ice fields There is no w4ter in sight
from the head OF the lake, and reports
from the Canadian head OF the Lake,.
Port Arthur and Fort William, are to
the same effect There Is no water in
sight from Ashland. Wis. and the Ice
field extends forty miles out from Bay
field. Wis
Had the ice fields attained this area
late in February it would have excited
comment. but with three-fourths Of the
great lce-making month stnl ahead It
is expected that all ice records for
many years past. II not within the
memory OF men. will he broken. II is
predicted that navigation on Lake SUI
perior viii not open this year before
May 20, about month later than the
average, An old lake captain. who is
visiting in Washington. said. at the
New Willard. that il win not surprise
him il navigation does not open before
June l.
II remember that the winter OF 1865
1854 was just such a one as this" sid
he. Il was conducting a trading posss
at the present site OF Duluth then. on
June 3. 1864. ] walked three miles on
the ice from the shore 20 the stcaIa-
or Keweenaw TO do some trading.
The Washington times., 1904-02-14

shown on this page. from Machen TO
the bank, drafting on the account CT
George Z. Lorenz for S1.O31. which is
within few cents of just half the
profits received by Croft from the sale
for which they were paid on January r.
This letter and draft were dated Janu-
airy "a. the day after Diller B. Groff be-
gan TO divide the money, as shown by
the deposit of Samuel A Croft. OF
81. OS1.S7 in January
Deny Any Such Agreement.
Machen and Lorenz have strenuously
denied that they had any understanding
about the splitting up of the money from
the fasteners. yet Machen drafted ahead
on Borenz for S1,Osl three days before
Lorenz received and deposited the
check.
The draft was for one-ffth OF the
amount of warrant. and that was the
proportion which the prosecution con-
tends was TO be paid him under the
alleged conspiracy.
Technical Charges Against Mrs. Lorenz.
II is only fair to say that the appear
ance Of the name of Mrs. Lorenz on tin.
DEPOSIT slip is not held to have impli-
The Washington times., 1904-02-14
WRIGHT'S FIRST ANDLAST JOKE"

llI WAS witness OF the only Joke
ever knew Whitaker Wright to
play. said John Wilkerson,
former resident OF Colorado now living
In New York And the strange part
about II was that the victim was the
Rev. 7. Dewitt Talmage IL was along
IN the summer Of 1873. when Leadville
was in the boOmicst Of her boom days
and everybody was spending money
whether he made IL or not Henry w.
Tabor was still taking sand carbonates
out Of the Little Pittsburg and the Chry-
sOlite. the two properties he consoIi-
dated and sold afterward for $50. 900. 900.
Wright was a young man. He had
made his pile. and was no longer acting
as a mining engineer lie was said
around town TO be worth about half "A
million. although this estimate may be
an exaggeration. Leadvile was wide
open and hilarious I'm crude way
There were no street lamps and the
thoroughfares were lighted by locomo-
tive headlights by night Dr. Talmage
came out there. accompanied by his
wife. who afterward was drowned. II
remember. lie did not preach To Us. but
he was fairly well known, as his reputa-
ton as u preacher was then at it's
height