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Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-03-26
Medical Treat
ment Free

The Doctors Extend their Free
treatment to March 31st at the
reques tof many invalids who
have been unable to call on &C.
count of the bad weather.
A staff of eminent Specialists
from the Electro Medical Insti-
tute at the earnest solicitation of
numerous patients under their
treatment in this section, have
decided to establish a permanent
branch of the Institute at Sisters.
vile, at 5O7 Wells street.
The doctors treat al kinds OF
diseases and deformities and give
a written guarantee to cure every
case they Undertake.
At the first interview a thor
ough examination is made and if
incurable you are kindly and
frankly told so and advised
against spending your money fol
useless treatment.
Male and female weakness, ca
tarrah, weak mugs, deafness, goi'
tire, cancer, vericocele, rupture
and all skin diseases are positive
" cured by our new method.
The chief surgeon of the insti
tute is in personl charge.
Office hours 9 to IL a. M. 2 tt
5 D. m. and Z to 8 p. m.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-03-26
Marriage Licenses.

The following marriage licenses
have been issued:
Charles M. Edwards, 81, Sis
tersville, and Iva Myrtle Sails
bury, %, Sistersville.
Mark D. Shriver, 81, Iuka, and
Laura Belle Kearns, Is, Iuka.
VIM. Clark Reed, 40, Locke,
and Mary Ash, so, Wilbur.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-03-26
Who To PatroniZe.

Do you know that the mer-
chant who advertises his goods is
the one you ought to patronize ?
It's a fact. You will get better
goods and they will be up-to-
date. The merchants who adver-
tise don t carry anything over the
season.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-03-26
Working Overtime

Eight hour laws are ignored by
those tireless, little workers-Dr.
Kings New Life Pills. Millions
are always at work, night and day,
curing indigestion, biliousness, con.
stipation, sick headache and all
stomach, liver and bowel troubles,
Easy. pleasant, safe, sure. Only
2,c at D. A. Hendershott's drug
store.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-03-26
No Life, No Energy, No Ambition

These are common express
sions nowadays and the
finger posts that point with
untailing accuracy to the
nervous system robbed OF
its vitality by overwork,
worry or excuses Of some
kind.
That any one should
allow this condition to 60
on to complete mental,
physical or sexual ruin, as
IL surely mustif neglected
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-03-26

"sIR MORTIMER" by Mary
Johnston just out and is for sale
at McCov's Book Store. st.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-03-26

A worthy successor to a most
successful Eovel is SIR NOR
TIMER" newly come from the
pen of Miss Mary Johnston, au
thor Of "To Have and to Hold
Price o. this book is $1.25 at Nc
Coy,s Book Store. 1T
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-03-26

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and thus building the very essentials of Force
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Bset health and strength will take the place Of weakness
nd debility The testimony Of thousands of and
whom BAR-BEN has lifted this helpless condition Of long
sxRens tells the tale Of this great remedy efecually
sAaa words can portray
doubt write for free sample AL druggists mailed
q rsesipt Of price, 50 cents.
BAR-BEN REMEDIES CO.. Cleveland, O.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-03-26
LIFE Plant
CURED
Joseph r. Sawyer, of Trinway,
Ohio, conductor, Of
RHEUMAT

MIR. Sawyer had rheumatism
for Is years. Tried many diff
ferent kinds OF medicine with
out obtaining rallof. Two bot,
ties OF Life Plant cured him.
MIR. Sawyer says:
Trinway. o., Oct. 10, 1908
The Life Plant Co..
Cantor. Ohio,
l wish 20 THANK you for the good
LIFE PLANT has done for me aud my
for the past fifteen years and used all'kinds
Of medicine WI hou ANY relief.
am a conductor on the Pennsylvania
Railroad and am well known: | VIII en- n;
dorse the medicine 10 al my friends LIFE
PLANT the greatest IN dtcine on earth. l
have used too bottles Only and IL has cured
me entirely. Yours tru.y,,
JU~. l.. SAWYER
Life plant has cured 81 out of every
100 cases of rheumatism we have
treated. In the past Is months we
have received 10000 testimonials from
rheumatic sufferers cured by Life
Plant. A remarkable record. No
matter how severe your case or how
long standing you can try Life Plant
ut our expense. If it fails to cure you
your druggist will refund your money,
and we will settle with him.
Price $1.00 per bottle.
Write for free booklet to The Life
Plant Co.
FOR SALE BY
Sold by G. w. Greir, Druggist.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-09-06

forgot five years of separation and
grieved that he had lost one day! The
past faded away, the future lay in the
distance, the present was their own.
Presently, as the first fierce intensity
Of her passion spent itself, she laid her
head upon his breast and listened in
sweet surrender to the beating of his
heart, hearing that heart throbbing
for her, only for her. The room was
very still. Words were never coined
to express what they felt, and neither
spoke.
1t was dark outside. The night had
fallen. Clouds had swept across the
face of the moon, hiding it's splendor.
The sky was overcast, muttered peals
of thunder rolled swiftly through the
chamber. The candle had burned it.
self out, 1t flickered away; the gray
shadows grew into darkness. 1t was
deep and still there. In that silence
heart whispered to heart in language
which gods and lovers may under
stand. Bye-and-bye her arm was
slipped from beneath his head. Had
hours or moments passed, or had they
lived an eternity since the kiss Of rec.
ignition? Her head. that had lain SO
lightly upon his breast, was lifted.
The sweet lips, whose color he could
dream of even in the darkness, melted
once again upon his own-and she was
gone.
He had NOT moved or stirred. After
she left him the sweet illusion was still
heavy upon him. He could feel the
presence of her head, the perfume, the
fragrance Of her hair, the beating of
her heart. He closed his eyes in the
darkness. Her lips seemed to brush
his own again-again.
Did he sleep. did he dream? All
night long she seemed to be by his
side.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-09-06

endearments in broken tones; all her
being Went out to meet his. She was
trembling with her passion, nervous
at his touch; she could not be quiet,
she must move or die She lowered
over him like an angel of love and
tenderness.
He lay there so white, so pale, so
weak, so happy, with love that was
as strong as hers looking from his
eyes. His one free hand she held tight
ly, pressed it to her breast, kissed it,
fondled it again and again.
And how beautiful she was! One
look in the unfathomable depths of
those great eyes might have told him
the truth before. The sound of that
voice quiyering with joy that was al
most pain should have spoken to him.
How blind he had heen-a fool! He
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-09-06
rHRup noznERs.

During recent trips over a large Sec
ton of the most fertile and beauhfnl
prairie regions of the west we. have
been greatly impressed with the very
evident deterioration Of much of the
arabic land. Three agencies are mer-
cilessly and increasingly at work to
bring about this lamentable result.
First IS grain farming. the continuous
cropping of the soil with cereals and
the selling of the product from the
farm, this coupled with an utter lack
Of sensible, intelligent rotation Of
crops. little or no pasture land, ne
clover. no fertilizing. Farms are be-
ing ruined by the one year renter and
a fool landlord who cannot see beyond
the end Of his nose. 1t is not an ex-
travagant estimate to say that not less
than 40 per cent of the farms Of the
west are cursed by this policy to a
greater or lesser degree. Secondly
there is erosion, the washing of the.
fields, a process which on all rolling,
surfaces is steadily eating the very
life out Of the soil; the great river,
throwing out its tentacle arms over all
the country and commanding the sery-
ice of frost and flood and every hill
side furrow, gathering the best of soil
fertility to feed it's rapacious nav.
Then, third, there is the plague Of the
weeds, an irresponsible japanese army
of exhaustive vegetation, contesting
for every available inch of surface
and every available particle Of plant
food No wonder the once rich land
grows poor and unproductiye, the corn
yellow, the ears of the nubbin type, the
potash, nitrogen, phosphates and hui
mus exhausted, twenty-five bushels
of oats where there ought to be sixty,
half ton Of timothy where there
should be two tons. There is no other
question in an economic way which
SO vitality affects the future interests
Of the American people as this of how
to conserve the fertility of our farm
lands, for when the soil becomes poor
and unproductiye then will the people
become poor also. 1t has always been
this way and always will be.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-09-06
SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION.

We have a request for some light on
the spontaneous combustion of hay
when placed in an uncured state in the
any sort Of vegetation containing a
large amount of water is piled together
it will heat. If the bulk is sufficient
the heat generated needs but contact
with the oxygen Of the atmosphere to
induce blaze. If for any reason the
NOW Of hay is found to be dangerously.
hot the safest thing to do is to ex-
clude the air from 1t as much as pos
sible, close the barn doors and win
dows, batten up the outside cracks in
the walls, lay covering Of boards on
top and cover these with some earth
or damp straw and let the stuff cook.
The process will not spoil the hay,
but, on the contrary, will convert it
into species of ensilage wonderfully.
fragrant and palatableAsomet hing in
texture like plug tobacco. The silo
does in perfect manner what the
barn does under these conditions in an
imperfect way. Some years ago the
practice was quite general in west
ern community to thus cure the clover,
hauling the crop in as soon as it was
free from external moisture, but be-
cause Of proper care not being taken
to exclude the air several barns burn
ed down, and the practice ceased, the
insurance companies interfering. Avoid
having the hay heat If possible by cur
ing properly in the field, ,'but If it
should heat do everything to keep the
air from it. ~
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-09-06
Relief in Six houra.

Distressing Kidney and Bladder Dis.
ease relieved in six hours by New
Great South American Kidney Cure"
1t is great surprise on account of its
exceeding promptness in relieving pain
in bladder, kidneys and back in male or
female. relieves retention of water al.
most INN ediatsly. If you want quick
relief and cure this is the remedy. Sold
by w. w. Ennis. druggist, Ottumwa,
lowe
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-09-06
Copyright lyOl. hx D. Appleton co., uew Yorl.

,pleton & Co., Kew York
He wished he had never given the
promise so lightly uttered in the cabin
of the Sutherland, but, being given, it
must be faithfully kept.
1.-THE honor of a woman?" she asked.
"Of man, mademoisel1e, of SOL
der, of friend"
Explain yourself, monsieur"
"Mademoiselle Anne, can not, but
l give you my word OF honor as an
English officer the word of an Amer
lean gentleman, your mothers land,
mademoiselle, that the lady of the
locket is nothing to me, that 1 cherish
the face of no woman except your own.
Ever since those days when was held
prisoner in the old chateau since the
hour-do you recall it?-when carried
you in my arms and kissed you first,
have loved you. have thought and
dreamed of you alone among woman
left my heart behind. You have had
it-you have it now"
But the locket?" she persisted,
while the music of his words rang
sweetly in the most secret chamber
of her heart.
Forget it,"
"Take it off, then"
ri can not"
"Can not? And yet she is nothing to
you, you say?"
Even SO, yet that little thing can
not do. l have sworn never to part
with it until"
"Ah, monsieur" she continued bit
terly, turning away. "You see! What
can l believer"
Believe only that love you; trust
in my honor; you will laugh at this,
we will laugh together, when am
able to tell you some day. In the
meantime have faith in me. Won't
you trust me?" he continued, as she
shook her head. Twice l might have
died if it had not been for you. Twice
you have called me back to life. My
life is yours, and yours is mine. will
not be denied" He turned and
stretched out his one uninjured hand.
Come back. If there is the faintest
feeling of affection in your own heart,
if you know what love is, you must
know tbs here!"
She hesitated, she moved nearer,
hesitated again. He strove to rise,
wrenched his arm, covered his eyes
with his hand, stifled moan. That
decided her. He suffered. and she fed
to him once again, little murmuring
cry, an inarticulate caress on her lips.
Oh, the ecstacy of that moment!
We live long years for the emotions
Of an hour. the pleasure of a sec
ond. We waste lifetimes in solitary
kisses, and the sum of dreams is gone
in single touch.
Anne de Rohan was promised to de
Wire. She meant to keep her promise.
She was wildly bitterly jealous of the
woman in the locket, too, in spite of
his assurances, although she really be-
lieved them, and she had never intended
this. She knew she could never be
anything to Grafton. Her reason, her
sense, told her that this was folly, but
the determination of her mind was
abrogated by the feelings of her heart.
Perhaps because she knew there was
nothing beyond she gave way the more
easily to her emotions. The flood
gates were open agaii, the long-pent-
up floods We're gu. once more. All,
this time there would be no confning
them again!
She knelt beside that old bed, she
slipped her fair, round young arm I'M
derneath his neck and lavished caresses
upon him. Her hands played with the
curls upon his forehead. Her eyes
looked love in his, her voice whispeed
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-09-06

August is flower month. The cannas,
salvias. geraniums. sweet peas, coleus
and asters furnish riot of rich bla-
zonry and lurid color schemes
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-09-06

II the seed corn is selected before
frost and kept where it will not freeze
until wanted for planting, your neigh
bors will want to get seed Of you.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-09-06

In Japan the landowners will not al
low post to be set for fence for
the reason that he wants the thirty
square inches of soil on which to grow
some plant. Here we give line fence
not only post room, but quite often q
weed strip of six feet on either side.
oh, for some Japs!
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-09-06

Here is trinity of farm redeemers
and mprovcrs-more and more clover,
an alfalfa field. If it Is possible to
grow it, and the silo.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-09-06

The Japanese may be able to fight like
wildcats on diet Of fish and rice, but
the knowledge Of this fact does not
make it any easier to endure the plague
Of the meat strike here.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-09-06

There are some queer notions still
current. Melon growers in Georgia
believe that by planting pumpkins here
and there in their melon patches they
get melon with harder shell.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-09-06

Here. in the middle Of August, we
are daily gathering fine specimens Of
American Beauty, Kaiserin Victoria.
Perle de Jardin and other dne roses
from our rose gardens the insect pests
all held in allegiance by nightly spray
ing of water under high pressure.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-09-06

Extremes in the matter Of rainfall
are not often found the same year II
the same st tie, but the state of NORTH
Dakota this year has been too wet II
the Red river valley on the eastern Dor
der and too dry 200 miles west.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-09-06

The farmer of sixty ought to have
earned the privilege Of just bossing the
work from then on and let the young
fellows do the sweating and grunting.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-09-06

Flowing done before Aug. Is is worth
for the. next crop at least S1.50 per
acre more than If done after the LIST of
October.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-09-06

A lumberman tells US that length
cuts no figure in the price of the Pa
cific coast product, thirty foot stun
being the same price as fifteen foct
When one has once seen those Wash
ington frs and cedars it is easy to SET
why this should be so.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-09-06

The Ruga Rugosa does not produce
very fine rose. Still it is better than
none, and this stands to its credit
that there is not a day from June to
October when there are not blooms
of the bush,
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-09-06

The crop experts of the government
forecast the 1904 crop OF corn at $780,
100000 bushels, the wheat crop at &C.,
100000 bushels and the cotton crop at
11,6OO00O b" les. At 40 cents a busheI
for the corn. 20 cents for the wheat
and $40 q bale for the cotton there
is added to the wealth Of the country
S1,644O 100000 from these three crops
alone.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-09-06
ECONOMIC WASTES,

Strikes are one of the worst economic
wastes which the country has to con-
tend with loss to the striker, to the
employer, TO the public, with the lat
ter usually .nulcted for all the costs in
the long run. We believe that the time
is not far distant when some political
party will make an issue on the ques-
ton Of compulsory arbitration, mat
ter which looks to us to be Of greater
import to the country at large than
any issue Of finance or tariff.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-09-06

Cooperation among farmers could
find a place in the matter of three or
four men Jointly owning an ensilage
cutting outfit. small thrashing ma
chine. a power feed grinder, a wood
saw and q corn harvester.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-09-06

The time loafed away by thousands
of men would If used to earn even a
dollar day soon give them a start,
Half the people would rather be poor
and have good time than to deny
themselves. Work hard and accumn'
late property.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-09-06

The state of Mississippi has always
furnished a good market for Texas
grain and hay, but the presence of the
boil weevil IN Texas cotton fields has
caused the closing Of this market tc
Texas products.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-09-06
WHEAr I'M ARGENr1NA.

The agricultural department has re-
Gently issued q very interesting bull
letin on wheat raising in Argentina.
There is vast territory in that coun-'
try which corresponds closely In cli-
mate, rainfall and soil to our own
northwest. The wheat crop is the
great crop and is almost entirely in.
the hands of Italian Immigrants. men
who have no desire whatever to be-
come owners Of the land which they
cultivate, but only aim to save every
cent possible with purpose to return
to Italy just as soon as they can. The
result is most Wretched condition
Of agriculture, wasteful, slipshod
method of farming which has never
been quite duplicated even. in the
worst days of the west. They have q
constant fight on hand with drought,
food, blight. hot winds and scarcity Of
labor to care for their crop.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-09-06

Two or three barrels of this August
road dust will be just what the hens
will be glad to get next winter. 1t is
easily saved. Set the kids at it with
their little cart. They will think 1t
great fun.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-09-06
Experts are placing tne wheat crop
of 1904 at 5T5, ooo,ooo bushels and the
probable price for the crop $1.20 per
bushel.

Every dog kept should pay his way.
II your dog can only wag his tail, howl
at the moon and fight fleas, better get
another dog or a pig.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-09-06

We notice one thing nowadays-the
man who claimed that the tile drain
age of the wet lands was cause of
drought is keeping very quiet.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-09-06

A young and unusually well fitted
young man was refused the manage
ment of large stock farm for the rca-
son that he was not married, and he
was unmarried Just because, as he
claimed, no nice girl would have him.
There should be some way to help such
q fellow out.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-09-06
THE ENGLISH HARVEST HOMIE

THE ENGLISH HARVEST HOME. =
The harvest home festival, one of the
old English farm customs, had much
to commend it. When the harvest was
NIL secured along about the last Of Sep
TENDER the farmer would give all.
hands half holiday, great rounds of
beef would be roasted or boiled, plum
buildings as big as half bushel would
be cooked, new barrel Of strong beer
would be tapped. while all hands-men,
women and children-dressed in their
best, would eat to the full and drink
their masters health. Simple, unso-,
phistocated, ignorant, with no ambition
to be any other than what they were,
these laborers regarded this harvest
festival as the great day of the year.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-09-06

It transpires that many Of the fine
imported French prunes which are
sold at high prices In this country are
just common five cent California fruit
exported, fixed up and returned. 1t is
Just the same way with many OF the
foreign brands of wine.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-09-06

The Rubdeckia. or golden glow,
should be planted in sod to get the
best results. On rich and mellow soil
1t grows so tall and rampant that it
becomes Disagreement to any lawn.
In sod it will rarely exceed height
of three feet and is an ornament.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-09-06

1t lies with the railways alone to put
an end to the tramp nuisance. If the
roads will put an end to the migrations
of these parasites they will disappear,
for they will neither walk nor work.
Some Of the roads are doing this to the
very great relief of the communities
which they serve.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-09-06

The problem Of how best to provide
for the worthy poor Of q community
is at best perplexing one. We are
inclined to think that the problem has
been most happily solved by those coun-
ties which purchase good farm and
have 1t operated by good farmer, the
home for the poor being located there.
on. Such farm when properly man
aged produces large share of the sta
pie nccessaries-milk, butter, eggs,
meat, garden stuff. fruit The farm
conditions are healthful, and the cost
to the taxpayers for the support Of the
unfortunate poor is then reduced to a
minimum