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Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-03-07

dnction and the remote prospects
|of maintaining, this condition
should be permitted then there
might be an inducement to drill
the very small territory for the I'D
vance prices that would surely fol-
low. There's now no profit In
searching and drilling for territory.
The Producers and Refners
branch of the Pure OH cor >any Is
gradually If not gracefully coming
off Its perch. Their price Is now
one cent In advance of that of the
Standard.
Statistics all show that the world
is taking all the oil being produced
at prices which bring fabulous
dividends to the Standard on Com
pany and show also that stocks of
all grades of oil are being reduced.
1t may be that the market max.
ers reason that there will be Just
about as much drilling at reduced
prices as there would should the
price be maintained at higher fig
ures.
The fields present no encourage.
ment for drilling and the market
presents no encouragement for con-
tinuing the search for territory.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-03-07

Annual Meeting Of the Stockholders d
the ParkrsbuS and Ohio Valley
Electric Railway Company
Notice Is hereby given that the
annual meeting of the Stockhold-
ers of the Petersburg and Ohio
Valley Electric Railway Company
will be held at The Office Of v. B.
Archer, 312 Juliana street, In the
city of Parkersburg, West Virginia,
on the zrst day of March, 1904, at
two O'Clock p. m.
V. 3. Archer,
RI. A. BoREMAN, Pres.
Ser.
Feb 4th II Is IS
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ing to himself or that he is dream
ing out loud" In spite of his long ex-
perience. he is not a good traveller,
and; the first day of the show he was
recovering from a trip from ottawa,
Ont. For half an hour he stood in
himself as if his life depended on it.
Then somebody woke him up-and
the look of annoyance on his face was
painful to behold.
From the samples displayed at this
exhibit OF the Minnesota State Poultry
association, the impression Is con-
veyed that the capons are singularly
patriotic birds In one coop owned
by Oscar Wolf of Minneapolis are
three big, capons. One is almost pure
white, the second is most decided
red, and the third. is a blue black.
Chickens with Whiskers.
Next to the patriotic capons are
several coops of Houdons who are dis
tinguished by being beared like the
pard. Every one of them, male and
is cross between a Van Dyke and
the style affected: by Colonel Joshua
Rogers. They also wear their hair
pompadour. There are two or three
other bearded specimens in the Ev-
ans aviary.
The gentlemen members of the
White Crested White Polish family
appear to be guaranteed free and
easy life Of it, SO far as. domestic fe-
licity is concerned; for, almost with
out exception, the feminine members
of the family have feathers all over
| their face and all around their eyes,
until the only thing they can seetmust
be stuck right under each and every
ones nose. Chicken fanciers say that
this very apparent. blindness on the
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ton of Custodian Frank Gaylord, if
he only had a cigar in his mouth.
Up in; the council chamber where
Wallace Evans Avarig holds so many
fine specimens of feathered domestic
ity there is a little highly colored
and business like manner. and general
contour Of face and figure cause one
to bark back to the days when Alder
man Lars Rand stood up at his desk
and in ringing" tones chased Char
ley Holmes to cover much as this lit
tie duck goes after one of the more
modest call ducks in the same cage
with him. There the resemblance
ceases. however, because the call
duck does not talk back.
Traits of Character Shown.
In nothing so much as their be-
havior during the trying process of
weighing do the various fowls show
their character. Weight is "a. consid-
atives merits of the different competit-
ors for the prizes. With big chickens
the more they weigh the better; with
little chickens it is just the other way.
Consequently the big chickens come to
the show with full crops and gener-
ally distended skins while the little fell
lows arrive sans food and sans drink
and stay that way until after they are
| weighed.
When big buff Orpington is rudely
seized by the legs, dragged from the
coop and set upright upon the marble
slab of the official scales he does not
set up a great cackling, as one might
expect. He looks as if he were study
| ing hard over something and he bal
ances himself gingerly while the
scales teeter uncertainty, but he
stands without hitching and when his
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and the rooster agrees in the matter of
complexion and in the detail, of having
little to say. AS the rooster with the
resemblance has the distinction of be-
ing a thorobred, the suggestion Of
fered here can not be regarded as a
reflection on either the bird or the
man.
Then there is a big white cochin
with a we'll developed chest and a
cheerful manner which somehow sug-
gests Alderman Schoonmaker of the
thirteenth. He is a well-fed speci-
men who looks as if he might have
ruled the roost in the barnyard ward
from which he came.
In entering the rooms which were
formerly occupied by the city engineer
and his staff the first impression is
that George Sublette is having a
seance with a few aldermen who are
making their regular call Of COM
plant becaus call the men out in their
| wards are not getting jobs on city
work. The noise indicates that the
seance is a lively one and that some
one is going to be thrown out, present
! ly; but the illusion is destroyed when
| 1t is discovered that it comes from
| the threats of a score or SO of male
| Ieghorns whose idea of vocal perform
ance is an exhibition of power and en-
durance.
Down in the mayors office where
/ the waiting were wont to cool their
heels until his honor, the mayor
might see them, the chickens there on
] exhibition have a curiously subdued
manner as if the influence of environ
| ment were still felt.
| There is a fat little buff Plymouth
/ Rock which reminds one of Alderman
Jakey Foell and an exceedingly wise
and thoughtful looking gander who
might be taken as feathered imita-
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St. Petersburg Budget
Journal Special Service.
Three Persons Dead as Result
OF a So-CaIIed American

st. Petersburg, Jan. 16.-Persons
who listened to some fine piano play
ing at the house of Captain Galane-
witch, suddenly heard half-a-dozen
shots fired in succession. The. music
room was locked, and when the doors
were battered down four apparently
1ifeIess bodies were found. They were
,Lieutenants Smolinski and Kunze-
witch and Madame and Captain Gal
anevitch. The latter revived after
medical treatment and reports what
follows:
Lieutenant Smolinski and his wife
were playing the piano, four hands,
himself and Kuntzevitch sat in the
next room listening. Suddenly his
companion drew a revolver and fired
at him. Before losing consciousness
he heard three or four more shots,
and it seemed to him as if both piano
players had dropped to the floor. In
the breast pocket of the murderer's
coat letter to the authorities was
found, containing this laconic in
formations:
American duel
'"In accordance with the conditions
imposed upon me by honor, I will kill
Madame Galanevitch and Lieutenant
SmOlinski tonight.
eff the captain is in the way, he
will have to go too 49,
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without protest to the impromptu
manner in which he is returned to the
cage.
Not so with the lanky, nervous Pur-
pie Andalusians. The Andalusians is
a nervous bird, greatly given to. stage
fright, and by the time he has been
captured and placed upon the scales,
he is SO noisily fdgety that the whole
building is awake and he has to be
held down by main force. The same
is true of his wife, altho she is garbed
in sober gray. and looks anything but
the historical creature she turns out
to be.
One of the most self-important Of
the feathered colony now at the old
city hall is the Dorking rooster. With
head we'll up, feet we'll down and chest
we'll out his blue and buff and his
pompous manner somehow remind the
spectator of our revolutionary fore
fathers. He is certainly a military
looking chicken who would appear
we'll wearing cane, and probably
makes his rather meek looking help
meet march to his orders.
Rooster Talks in His Sleep.
There is one rooster in Charles E.
Cooks collection of Black Minorcas
who has contracted the curious habit
of talking in his sleep. He is a DOGGY
sort of an old boy. anyway; long
months of daily exhibition at poultry
| shows in all parts of the continent
have made him rather blase. He is
plainly tired of the show business
and awfully bored by the people who
poke Things at him. So, to avoid too
much inpertinent attention, he gen.
orally stands on one leg, closes his
eyes and wanders away into chicken
drearnland wherever that may be.
And then his bill begins to click
! and you know that he is either talk
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Some of the Odd Features Of the Poultry
Show Now Open in the
Old City Hall.

part of the lady White Polish chickens
is apt to get the gentlemen into rather
bad ways and the latter have the
reputation of being the flirtieSt lot in
the exhibit.
There are several freak ways of
making up, followed by the birds on
exhibition. The Bearded Golden Po-
knots as to draw all attention from
their boards, of which they are very
proud. The different kinds of chick
ems also affect different ways of wear
ing the comb, much as men have diff
ferent ways of parting the hair. Some
chickens prefer to have the comb fall
over to the left and some to the right.
Among the younger set, however, the
only proper way is to have the comb
stand straight up. Some of the re-
Gently accepted additions to the smart
set are setting a new style, known as
rosc-leaf comb, which promises to
have considerable vogue.
Odd Makeup of Pigeons.
Probably of all the birds now TAX
ing part in the exhibit the pigeons are
the most given to affectation. There
is one sort which wears practically no
feathers on the top of the head, but
has a nice little fringe sticking UP be-
hind, much as the low Irish comedian
comes out on the stage with a bald
pate and fence of red hair rising
from behind his ears.
There is s, the Russian Trumpete1
pigeon, who parts his hair in the
middle, but across his head, instead OF
down the seam This gives him the
effect of coming and going simulta-
neously. "Double crested, the fanci-
ers call it.
The ruffed pigeons have. improved
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WOman's Cause Makes Good
Progress in Russian Empire.

The Society for the Advance of
Women and Their Higher Education
celebrated it's twenty-ffth anniversary
and reported that its treasury con-
trolled property to the amount OF
700 roubles, all Of which was
contributed by patriotic Russians. The
government and the city Of at. Peters
burg spend only 5000 roubles pei
year for womans advance.
During the last quarter of a cen
fury 2.217 Russian women graduated
from the universities; one-half Of these
became teachers, while many entered
the practice of medicine, or devoted
their time to literature. About rs pei
cent Of the professional women arr
married. showing that professional
women, even in Russia, are not all blu'
stockings.
Societies for woman's progress ar
also f1ourishing in Moscow, Kieff
Kasan and Charkow. 49,.
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-F it be true, as George AIDE has
suggested, that every office
building is filled with hollow
chested pushers of the pen who
live in the daily dream of
some time owning a chicken
farm in the country, such a con-
dition may account, in part, for the
popularity Of the poultry show in the
old city hall.
To one whose early days were spent
where chickens most do cOngregate,
or who in running the gamut of youth
carefully to the chicken coop as he
did to the stamp book, visit to the
Bridge Square building at this time
will be productive of much
"Reminiscences.
The rasp of the Cochin ROSTERS
crow, the hiss and boom from the
gander's throat, the shrill pipe Of the
two-pound "banty," the cluck and
chuckle of the contented hen and the
caressing note of the cooling dove, will
all be familiar sounds carrying him
back to those days down on the
FARM without which no ones life can
be complete.
Among the few thousand fowls now
"receiving' where politicians rose and
fell and administrations were made
and unmade, there are several suggest
i've Of departed glories in the persons
politicians, who have deserted the old
Shell on Bridge Square for the more
palatial quarters Third avenue s.. :
Some Aldermanic Fowls.
1t does not take a great deal OF
Imagination to see in one big Part
ridge Cochin rooster who stands
around and says but little, a re-
semblance to Alderman Peter Mccoy
Of the ninth ward. The alderman
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on the styles set by the men and wo-
men of Queen EliZabeth'S time, until
they can bury their heads in their
various collars and go to sleep in the
midst of any sort of excitement But
the vainest Of all the vain pigeons are
the fantails. Each and every feather
in these pigeons tails stands out at
right angles to the body until the
pigeon looks like a turkey on parade.
Fanciers tell you that the birds are
born that way, but one shrewd guesser
fan tail effect is the result of put
ting the feathers up in curl papers.
Ducks that, Laugh.
1t is commonly believed that a duck
can not laugh but that such a belief
is erroneous was demonstrated this
morning, when the ducks on the
ground floor were given the water
cure after having been denied such
privilege for two days. They not only
laughed when they felt the water go
ing down their insides and outsides.
but they drank it with an avidity
which would have aroused the great
est enthusiasm of any member of the
prohibition party, had any such been
about.
Between the ducks, the chickens
and the cats. and those who come to
worship at the shrine of all three, the
old city hall is one of the most inter-
esting places in the city to-day. It's
fun for the chickens, too. AS one
Plymouth Rock was heard to remark
to his neighbor: ITS a pleasure to
come to the city when you are so
thoroly appreciated.
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Avar1la Is Persona Non Grata
at the Austrian Court.

This court has refused to receive as
Italian ambassador. the Duke of
Avarna, whose wife was abducted by
Prince Colonna, who subsequently
added injury to insult by shooting off
.Avarna's ear in a duel. It is admitted
that Avarna is in no way responsible
for the scandal, his wife and the. prince
alone being to blame, but notwith-
standing Emperor Francis Joseph re-
fuses to accept him as ambassador.
The duchess, it appears, went yachting
with Prince Colonna, they were to re-
turn to Naples thesesame afternoon.
Instead the prince crowded on steam
the moment his ship reached the high
seas, and sailed for Morocco. Mack
avs adopted daughter was long sepa-
rated from Prince Colonfla, who, how
ever, receives a vast income from the
American millionaire. The Duchess
AVarna was divorced by her husband
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CRADLE, ALTAR
AND GRAVE

BIRTHS
ChristOpherson-Mr. and Mrs ST. POI Groveand
avenue, boy.
Clifford-Mr and Mrs. Elmer L., 31S Four
teenth street, boy. ',-5:
Halla-Mr. and Mrs. Joe, 1145 Emerson avenue,
N, girl
Day--Mr. and Mrs. Alfred, 5000 Second street
~ girl.
Halvorsen-Mr. and Mrs. Ole, 2217 Twenty sixth
avenue S, boy.
Collins-Mr. and Mrs. Thomas, $3.50 Fourteenth
avenue S, boy.
Turk-Mr. and Mrs. Andrew, Gil Fourteenth
avenue s, boy.
Dubea,l-Nlr. and Mrs. Thomas, 14O6 Marshall
street NE, boy.
Miller-Mr. and Mrs. P, 154 Tyler street NE.
boy.
| Crawford-NIr. and Mrs. Charles c., 1907 Thir-
teenth avenue Sc, boy.
Johnson-Mr. and Mrs. Charles, 1906 Emerson
avenue N. girl. -
Ray-Mr. and Mrs. Joseph 626 Fifth street NE,
girl.
schuppel-Mr. and Mrs. Fred, 4O39 Girard ave-
n girl.
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THE MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL.
WEATHER PREDICTIONS
FOR THE NORTHWEST

tonight Sunday rising
MnnesotaFair tonight possibly followed fues sunday In
northwest Winds be-
- II
Sunday; mostly southeasterly
Sunday
in
CONDITIONS
lowe
in accompanied
Section Director
|
Observations at seVentyhfth meridian Minimum
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Berlin Budget
Journal Special Service.
''TO Be Eaten by Worms Is a
Punishment Decreed


/ Berlin, Jan. ia Protestant
named Bleitreu said in the course Of
a sensational sermon against crema-
ton, delivered at Bonn:
by giving our dead bodies to the
worms, God meant to punish us for
our sins, and Christian men and
women have no right to forestall this
punishment by cremation. The AL
mighty willed it that man become
dust, by burial, and considering our
sinfulness. the punishment is certain
, ly richly deserved. Woe to those who
interfere with Gods judgment and
give their bodies to the flames
Somebody in the audience asked the
parson where he came from. From
Colgne," replied the reverend gentle
man.
And how did you get here?" in
quired the same voice.
''By the railway, of course" re-
piled the parson.
''Then you, too, are a transgressor, "
spoke up the critic, .for, according
to the Bible, you ought to have walked
here. The Bible says: Go into the
| world ETC.; it does not authorize the
use of railways or steamers.
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1928, Child's Tucked F'roclz,
1 to 4 Years.
CHILD'S TUCKED FROCK. 1925

Wee tots are always charming in
frocks of dainty material simply made.
The very pretty little model shown is
tucked to form a yoke and can be
finished plain or with the bertha as
preferred. The original is made of
fine nainsook with trimming of en-
broidery, but all fabrics used for the
dresses of little children are appro-
pirate. With the bertha the frock be-
comes suited to dress occasions, with
out it is adapted to the hours of play
and to simpler materials.
The dress consists of front and back,
the tucks forming the yoke, with full
sleeves that are tucked above the ell
bows in conformity with the latest
style. The bertha is circular and ar
ranged over the dress on indicated
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Vienna Budget
journal Special Service.
Emperor Francis Joseph, Too,
Attempts Playwrighting.

Vienna Jan. 16.-The author of
Maria Theresa" Baron Schoenthan,
told your correspondent that some of
the best scenes Of the, play were sug-
gested by Emperor Francis Joseph.
Hearing that a play dealing with
his great ancestress was to be writ
ten, says the author, This majesty
invited me to the Hofburg and asked
me about the plot and various incl
dents of the drama. After listening
patiently to what / had to say, the
emperor told me a number of anec-
dotes concerning Maria Theresa, and
many incidents of her life, which I
never before heard Of.
81 got them from my father, who
got them from his father-grand-
father had them from persons who
knew the great empress said Fran
els Joseph. They are family secrets,
but will not suffer by being put in a
good play
when finished my drama. the en-
peror again asked me to the Hofburg,
and I read the piece to him." con-
tinued the author, land then and there
he suggested a number of improve
ments, all of which I followed, and
they pleased the public immensely
When saw his majesty a third time
took the liberty to say. If your
majesty had not been born sovereign
the profession Of playwright might
have yielded you success and laurels.'
"'Hush,' cried Francis Joseph, Wi
liam might hear of this and I dom
want to have it known that I poach or
] his preserves"
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Bucharest St Budget
Journal Special Service.
Carmen Sylvia of Rumania -. -. =.
Will Paint Altar Pictures.

Bucharest, Jan. 16.-Queen Carmen
Sylvia has exchanged the pen for the
palette; she is busy on two fine panels,
intended for the altar of the local
Evangelical church, which celebrates
the fiftieth anniversary of it's founda-
ton next month. The unwilling of a
new altar will take place on the ami
versary, and for this Carmen Sylvia not
only furnishes the panels, but also the
cloth and some beautiful embroideries
in gold. The program furthermore
includes grand concert for the poor
in which the queen and leading artists
of Europe will perform.
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Madrid Budget
Journal Special Service.
Royal Actor Jeered at When
He breaches Revolution.

Madrid, Jan. 16.-The Prince of
Bourbon, known in sporting circles
as "Allons Perkins," was jeered at by
vast audience, when as hero of the
<Miserables,'' a dramatized version Of
Victor Hugo's great romance, he
preached revolution. The audience
was at first kindly inclined towards
this member Of the royal family-he
Is a cousin of King Alphonso-forced
to earn his bread on the stage, but to
hear a Bourbon shout: Long live
the revolution was too much for it.
Whenever the prince opened his
mouth in favor Of democracy he was
greeted, by veritable storms of laugh
ter. The prince may be forced to
leave the stage and go in for bull
fighting.
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YYP-TO-THE-MINUTE
u FASHIONS :.
A Daily Hint of Practical Value
to Journal Readers of the
Fair Sex.

The fashion pictures given daily in
this department are eminently practi-
cal, and the garments pictured can be
reproduced easily from the paper
patterns, which may be obtained at
trifling cost thru The Journal. The
models are all in good style. pretty and
original in effect and not 70 elaborate
for the ambitious amateur to repro
duce
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Tower of the Gold-Laced Coat
Is No Longer Persona CIR

~ NV ILohSoSl vi OISts
Despite his ambassadOrial toy
sword, cooked hat and gold-laced uni
form, Mr.. Tower is no longer persona
grata with Emperor William, who
would gladly see him replaced by an
American capable Of procuring the
erection of the Frederick the Great
statue in Washington at an. early date.
Tower, it must be admitted, worked
hard for the kaiser, but Washington
"holds back and, with his usual i'm
patience and habit of jumping at con-
illusions, Kaiser Wilhelm blames the
ambassador, tho the latter went SO
far as to promise to travel ahead of
the statue and receive it in state
that is, dressed in his diplomatic foot
mans unifOrm-in New York harbor.
Tradespeople will be sorry il
ambassadress are lavish spenders, and
Mrs. Tower even bought some of her
stunning gowns here instead Of going
of the diplomatic corps.
In diplomatic and court circles the
question is asked: What kind of 9
man will Towers successor be? II
he is not like Tower in outward ap-
pearance and size, it will never dc
for him to buy the present ambassa-
| doris official 'glad-rags," and if he
can't do so, the new representative
must necessarily be a person com
handing a large bank account, a:
| Tower had to spend more than &c..
| 900 for gold lace and other decorative
features. Only last summer he Dough
a "dress suit all. over festooned with
| real gold lace
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CAUTION-Be careful to: give cor
rect number and seisize OF patterns
wanted. When the pattern. is bust
measure you need only mark 80, "a,
So or whatever it may be. When in
waist measure, 22,24, 26, or whatever
it may be-. When misses or childs
pattern; write only the. figure repre-
sentings the age, It is not necessary to
write, inches or years"
Patterns of this garment;will be sent
postpaid ON receipt Nof 10 cents. Be
sure and mention number Of pattern.
Address I.
PAPER. PATTERN DEPARTMENT,
JOURNAL, MINNEAPOLIS.