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Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1905-03-18
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Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1905-03-18
WILSON'S MUSIC STORE,

514 Seventh Street,
Moundsville, :: w. Va.
P. S.-To all persons an
swering this ad we will mail
free a book of old-time
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Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1905-03-18
No Waste Room
In the Body

A muscle or ligament that con-
tracts will get both shorter and
thicker. There is no waste room
in the body-every bit OF space is
exactly filled by some structure.
If a muscle or ligament is thick
ened it will encroach upon some
softer structure, like a blood YES
sci, and limit or stop it's work; or
if a nerve is pinched, irritation
may develop so as to exaggerate
it's action. If hose is stepped
upon, water will not flow through
it; if a telegraph wire is ground
ed, it will not transmit message,
SO with nerves and blood vessels
when they become abnormally
pressed between the bones and
muscles, as at disturbed joints in
the spine or limbs.
Osteopathy ascertains where
characteristic mechanical troubles
have developed in the body in ev-
ery disease-and the diseases due
to such causes, in whole or part:
are legion. Practically all dis
eases may be caused by mechanl-
cal disturbance. By removing
these abnormal conditions, Oste-
opathy enables the body to re-
cover from it's diseases. 1t takes
the ground that these known and
verifable distractions to natural
bodily processes would better be
removed to coax back health than
drugging the body in such a way
as to hide the effects of such dan
gerous physical handieaps, which
has been the most popular sort OF
practice in the past. In a word,
Osteopathy removes the cause;
cure naturally follows.
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Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1905-03-18
NOTICE
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For Bids for New M. E. Church.
Bids for the material and work
for the new NJ. E. church will be
received until Thursday, March
30th, 1905, at 8 p. m, on that day
by G.. L. Lowther at his Office on
Diamond street, near City build
ing. Plans and specifications can
be seen at the said Office of G.
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Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1905-03-18
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A few more days like this and
the road between this city and
Middlebourne will be sufficiently
dry as OF allow the automobile to
make trips.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1905-03-18

A beauty specialist declares
that a woman's eyes are most
beautiful when a love-light shines
from them.
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All Muslin Reduced

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l2c al best cacos and prints at lie Thousands
white, all standard prints, lie yard.
Amoskeag apron Glnghans it Sc
Flanneetes and lsc qualities
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$3.50 and $500 Misses and cbdrens IL to q
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Fringed Clientele Table Covers 4sc
$50 Bates Bed Spreads Marsa patterns sale price ssc
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Reliability Is Wanted

The great prizes of life do not fall to
the most brilliant, to the cleverest, to
the shrewdest, to the most long head
cd, or TO the best educated, but TO the
most level headed men, TO the men of
soundest judgment. When a man is
wanted for a responsible position his
Shrewdness is not considered so impor-
tant as his sound judgment. Reliabil-
ity is what is wanted. Can a man
stand without being tripped; and, If he
is thrown, can he land upon his feet +?
Can he be depended upon, relied upon
under all circumstances to do the right
thing, the sensible thing? Has the
man Level head? Has he good horse
sense? Is he liable to fly off on tan
gent or 20 go off half-cocked?" Is he
"faddy?" Has he wheels in his head p"
Does he lose his temper easily, or can
he control himself? II he can keep a
level head under all circumstances. IL
he cannot be thrown off his balance,
and is honest, he is the man wanted
Success.
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water from their hair as they started
for the bank. They had been doing it
all summer.
Shooting the Chutes on Bicycle
A Chicago boy invented some of the
most desperate bicycle feats on rec
ord. He started riding down the
chutes. Then he invented an act which
was unique. He built a sIoping plat
form eighty feet high cut off short
forty feet from the ground, with a net
at the bottom. He rode his bicycle
down the inclined plane until it nit the
net and then he plunged forward
through space, diving into a shallow
basin of water.
The balloon, parachute, and trapeze
act is known TO all county fair at
tendants. The feat is without especial
peril-barring accidents, but the fail
ure of a parachute in this country was
The first performer in this country was
dare devil named Al Tolbert-an
Indianian who trained Tod Sloane 10
ride racehorses. Tolbert did balloon
ascension and parachute leaps, rode
standing Roman races" skeleton
wagon races, did tight rope per-
formance, and entered his running
horses in country fair races. A few
years ago he proposed TO q circus man
that he send up two captive balloons
anchor them 10O0 to 1900 feet above the
earth with a wire between them, and
he would do stunt on the wire.
Nor at that time did he carry life in
surance.
Human Cannon Balls Slight Risk
Another act which has for many
years been a standard, is the one in
which a woman is fired out of Il can
non across the top of great tent,
either catching a trapeze or landing
in a net. The charge of powder is, of
course, fired after huge spring has
propelled the woman from the can
non. Barring mishaps she is as safe
as if in bed-unless she happens TO
fall twisted into the net. If she does
she dies.
The net diving of trapezc troupes
within the last few years has become
one of the features of a circus and it
really is one of the most dangerous
and spectacular of circus acts. To
alight on the neck means death; TO
alight fiat" is an exhilarating expert
ence. The tricks of turning just before
striking the net make the act more
spectacular.
The ordinary trapeze performers.
working over nets, are in danger only
when apparatus breaks or when their
nerve or eye fails-and then they can
save themselves in the nets.
One of the acts which is declared eX-
tremely perilous and which requires
nerve. strength and wonderful eye
was Invented by an Iowa doctor, an en-
thusiastic bicycllst. He worked the
act up until now he rides down an in
cline of so degrees 100 feet. runs up q
short incline, lifts his wheel. flies
through space for 10 feet. and alights
on another incline. The slightest flaw
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y|EFFR0ES ON OSLERlSM


'jitsu,' or who hits you or something
like that. It's absolutely no good. If
it hadn't been for the Russian war
we'd never have heard a word about
it. jenkins, the wrestler, could make a
monkey out of any one of those Jap
men. You see, a mans got to get
hold of the other feller in that form of
wrestling before he can do anything,
get a good firm grip, and how is he
going to get that grip unless the other
man let's him?
Then, all the Jap wrestlers wear
those canvas jackets when they do
their stunt. It's those canvas jackets
that help the other men to get hold. If
they didn't wear 'ern, they couldn't get
the right kind Of a grasp. No. they're
all buncs."
rs that what they call the jackets,
Mr.. Jeffries?' asks the unversed inter-
viewer. Mr.. Jeffries stares.
"Buncs the name of the jacket? No,
it's the name of the men. It's short for
buncos-what we call 'em. Just buncs. y
"Ohi Did you ever hit a man just as
hard as you could?"
The big hands are like steel vises
coated with a sprinkling of jet black
hair, which matches the short cropped
head covering and the heavy eyebrows.
Half a blow from those hands would
seem 10 be better than a whole one.
That's rather a hard question to
answer" says Mr.. Jeffries, after think
ing it over. You see, in order TO hit a
man just as hard as ! could / would
have to have him in just the position
where that knock would be most effec-
tive. Well of course, in the ring l
don't suppose L have ever had a man
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Englishmen. They stretched a wire be-
tween two high places-the higher the
better-and one of them mounted a
bicycle, from which was suspended a
triangular framework with a bar and q
double trapeZe suspended from it. The
bicycle rider rode out on to the wire
while his comrade performed daring
feats on the trapeze. The feat, which
is unique and which looks more dam
gerous than almost any, is really al
most as easy as rocking in a chair
always considering that the men do not
lose their wits or nerve. The common
trick of balancing two knives stuck into
cork on a pin point shows how easy
the feat is TO any one having nerve
enough TO try il. The act is terrifying
to the beholder and especially spectac-
ular, but really little risk to the trained
up aloft' man.
Little Danger in Rope Walking
The tight or slack rope performance
is always new and a smaller proportion
of performers at this line are killed
than of bricklayers-yet the crowd
stands gaping and admiring the nerve
and daring of the man. The higher
the performer can go the better the
crowd likes it. Blondin's walk across
Niagara is still talked about, but there
are 100 circus performers in America
alone who would walk across Niagara
on tight wire just TO save the cents
on the drink of whisky on the Canadian
side.
Last summer a wire walker attracted
much attention by walking a tight wire
100 feet in the air between towers at
Coney Island. These men, especially
the slack wire performers, are extreme
ly adept in balancing. but there is a
man with Ringling's circus, whose act
passes almost unnoticed, who, circus
men say, does the most dangerous act
In the world. He is a head balancer
and works on an ordinary trapeze, bal
ancing on his head on the bar while
swinging to the greatest possible arc.
His is one of the acts which is really
extremely perilous, but does not look so.
High diving into shallow tubs of wa
ter is another thriller that wins. Men
dive 100 feet from ladders into water
"a inches deep and escape uninjured,
although the proportion of those hurt
is greater than in almost any other act
/ A good circus story in told of a prom
inent high diver who announced as a
special attraction that he would dive
from the Superior street viaduct at
Cleveland, o., into the river. The via
duct is 12S feet above the water. A
great crowd gathered to witness the
performance. The diver kissed his
hands, posed for his photograph, and
made a beautiful dive.
The crowd applauded wildly when
he reappeared in safety. Just at that
moment two small boys, attired only
in trousers and shirts, leaped upon the
railing and plunged into the river
coming up like turtles and shaking the
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~ ONE men are born to act, some
w men achieve acting and some
~ men have acting thrust upon
them. 1t was thrust upon Jim
Jeffries. He says SO.
The contention is made in a pleasant
parlor of the Hotel Navarro, New
York. Mrs. Jeffries. wife of the pu
gilist, who is having her nails mani
cured at center table, mods UNDER
standingly when he looks toward her
for sympathy and appreciation.
I'm a man of action, not acting"
says the champion pugilist, senten-
tiously. It's too much of a strain to
speak that part; it all falls on me, the
whole thing. l don't feel as if I was off
the stage a minute OF the time.
guess I'll get through the rest of the
season because L promised"
He sinks into an attitude as sug-
gestive of WEAKNESS as his stalwart
frame will allow, while he says:
Besides, me pipes are hoarse. It's
me throat. You see now 1 can't hardly
talk. Me pipes weren't ever intended
for this business, and then the lines
bother me. 1 never heard so many
lines-lines, all the time
1t does seem rather hard. Mr.. JEFF
fries cannot find anybody to fight him,
and he cannot fit himself into the ext
gencies Of the stage career.
Mr.. James Jeffries is not a person,
however, whom one would venture 10
pity long. There is something rather
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just where l could deliver such blow.
They haven't seemed anxious to let me-
and | don't recollect that have ever
had just the opportunity"
How do you classify the men you've
fought with?"
Il should say that Sharkey was the
toughest of the bunch. mean by tina:
that Sharkey has got the most endur-
ance- You can pound away at him
Without making any impression at all.
He don't seem to feel the blows that
would knock another feller out COM
pletely. l suppose the hardest blows
I've ever given I've landed at Sharkey.
No, it is not matter of training
at all; it is matter of nature. You
can't make man tough unless he's
naturally so. Sharkey is so naturally;
it's the way fighter is built
''F'itzsimmons is a great puncber
He can deliver the hardest blows of
any of the lot-at least, l know he has
MT me harder than any of the others
Then, again, Corbett is the cleverest
one of the men L have met; clever in
the way he gets away and comes back
at you, in his lodges and sidesteppings
and quick returns. Yes. Corbett is the
clever feller.
The longest fight? I should say the
one with Sharl1ey at Coney Island
That was twenty-five rounds and last
ed an hour and forty minutes
My shortest one lasted about thirty
seconds. 1t was out west, somewhere
| forget the feller's name. I believe 1t
was Finnegan. / walked across the
ring and gave him a poke in the chin
and it was all over. II hardly seemed
worth while.
Speaking of that reminds me of a
story someone was telling me of q.
youngster that was new in New York
and was taken TO a fight at Coney ISL
and. He was game 10 see il all right:
for ii was his first and he paid SO for
seat when he got there and got mixed
up in the jam without squealing once.
He and the friend that took him had
seats sort of far back, and the young
'un wore lamps. Just as the fight be-
gan the lamps got dusty, and he took
'em eff and leaned over to rub 'em
hard with his handkerchief. When he'd
fixed 'em to suit he looked at the ring
again and the fight was ali over. And
SO seat!"
Again the mir;hfui smile chascs Itself
across Mr.. Jeffries' face.
And your first fight?"
The very first was with :. feller by
the name Of Griffiths in Los Angeles
when l was II. He was 81. Ii lasted
for fourteen rounds. but il was really
sent me into the ring-just 4 personal
affair between us--and we settled 1t
that way"
Isn't II rather young to begin?''
Young? No. indeed. A man must
begin 10 fight when he's in his teens if
he's going TO be any good. He can't
wait too long"
And at what age should a man
stop?"
For the first time in the interview
Mr. Jeffries really hesitated a little.
That's another difficult question to
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convincing about his personality. AS
he stands, Mr.. Jeffries is 6 feet IL
inches and weighs 230 pounds. His
head is rather small for the size of his
body, and is well shaped, with certain
evidences of his chosen profession
the straight lines from the back of the
skull. 10 the neck and the square, firm
jaw. To offset these he has a good
brow, with bumps over the lids, which
are supposed to represent in the ar
hstic head a tendency to music, but
must have another meaning as WELL
He has large, intelligent brown eyes,
and the firmneSs of his lower face.
rather bulldoglike determination, of
Which there are presentiments already,
Is relieved now by Il quick smile which
shows rather amiable disposition, q
sense Of humor and good teeth.
Mr.. Jeffries does not sport a supply
of brilliants on his shirt front or on his
fingers. His clothes are dark, well
made. his trousers with very fash
ionable crease. He wears a small black
tie, immaculate linen, patent leather
shoes and presents a general ensemble
that does credit to his tailor. His hands
speak for themselves
His wife forms the not unusual con-
uast which marks many matrimonial
selections; she is small, rather delicate
and determined in appearance a not
uncommon combination, and explains
that she has all the nerves in the es-
tablishment.
''Nerves!" and the big hands come
out wing and wing. Il don't know
what they are; hear the women talk
about 'em, but Lord, no nerves for
met" "
Not even before you go into the
ring?"
Il never felt a moments excitement
or uneasiness in my life. I'm always
anxious 10 get in. I'm anxious now"
He smiles rather reminiscently.
And your training? Did you train
much before you went into a fight or
do you now to keep in trim?"
Never did! Never had 10: If
want TO eat anything l eat it, and 1 did
the same thing when 1 was getting
ready to fight. 1 mean, Of course.
good, wholesome food, that 1 would
eat anyway, no matter what / did [
never should eat pastry and sweets
Ind all that truck, but l never went on
regular diet; that's all right when
mans making weight, but it's all bosh
otherWlse- If l want to drink glass
Of wine l drink it. 1 did when 1
trained
Il know sometimes the newspaper
fellers would say to Delany, the train
er, Why, Jeffries is drinking wine
with ms dinner and the trainer used
to say TO 'em. Well. suppose you go
over and call his attention to it and
take 1t away from him. But they
never did! No, all those ideas of put
ting you OH a strict diet are old fash
ioned; they don't go at all with the
men nowadays; they eat what agrees
with EN-"
What do you think about this new
japanese form OF wrestling? BY the
way, how do you pronounce it, Mr.
Jeffries?'
'Oh. don't know what they call II,
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in the wheel, the slightest slip and he
will be killed, yet he does the act twice
q day all summer.
To loop the loop on a bicycle requires
steady nerve and a quick eye, for the
rider must throw himself and his wheel
out of the loop on to another platform
which slopes to the ground.
Looping the gap in an automobile is
another risk invented by Il Partisan
woman. The mechanical devices re-
qulred are ingenious. The auto first
rushes down an incline of so degrees.
Then it is caught by the upward turn
of the track and leaps thirty feet
through space, upside down, striking
the half circular platform on the other
side of the gap and rushing to the
ground. The act requires no skill and is
not particularly dangerOus-unless the
apparatus breaks-but it is sufficiently
terrifying to the beholder and prob
ably to the performer.
Another loop the loopist has gone his
rivals one better. He places himself
inside a wheel, with ans and legs
acting as spokes, and rolls down the
incline and around the loop on the in
side. Performers are now doing a dou-
bic loop, turning over twice inside a
loop.
Yet another man willing to risk life
to better his salary rides a bicycle
around the inside of q huge wheel
made of palings. The device looks
like big cask with the slaves pulled
apart. He rides around and around
inside this on bicycle with his wheel
and body standing straight out from
the side, held in place by his own ter
rife speed.
Shot From Car to Trapeze-
The newest thing in neckbreaking is
seen in Paris. Some frenzied perform
er invented a device which consists of
a roller coaster that flies down q steep
incline and up a short runway There
the car suddenly stops and the per-
former, carried on by the impetus OF
his body, shoots forty feet up into the
air and catches a trapeze bar.
But despite all these new life periling
featS circus men declare that the dan
ger is not 50 great now as in the Oil
days. The abolition Of the old spring
board and the double and triple somer-
saults over strings of camels and ele-
plants and horses has lowered the cir
Gus death rate greatly. That act was Il
man killer-and the more so because
everybody in the circus participated
in it.
There are scores of other ways in
which the neck may be broken. bur
these are some of the newest.
The performers themselves do not
speak often of the risk. They are like
/ the window washer who was working
on the eighteenth story of a s<yscraper
AMI looking into an office saw rows OF
clerks working over ledgers He
swung himself out on his rope. swung
across To the next window, where his
partner was working. and remarked:
Look in there. Bill. Some people
will do anything TO make living"
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NNE hundred ways of breaking your
lu neck are recognized in the amuse-

MNE hundred ways of breaking your
VU neck are recognized in the amuse-
ment professionalism is, 100 ways
in which you may risk your neck to
earn a living.
Adam Forepaugh, who, perhaps, was
closer to his employees than any cir
Gus owner except p. T. Barnum, had
a saying: The nearer you come to
breaking your neck the more money
I'll pay you" The rule still holds good
and the inventor of an "act" in which
the performer risks his neck COM
mands the biggest price in the amuse-
ment world.
Whenever the limit has seemed to
have been reached some person ap-
pears with a feat more desperate, more
dare devil than any before it. Things
that thrilled great crowds of specta-
tors five years ago and set them gasp
ing with horror now appear like kin
dergarten amusements.
The public-which pays the salaries
loves to be Mortified. Whether in
France, Germany, England or America,
the people who attend circuses are the
more dangerous TO the performer, the
better the spectators like ii.
And here is one strange feature. Cir
Gus men and vaudeville managers de-
clare that not one-half of the people
who pay to see daring acts ever see
them They avert their faces when
the act starts and look back just as it
is finished. They get their moneys
worth by the thrills of horror they feel
while waiting to discover whether or
not the man still lives or is a mangled
mass.
Another popularity of the profession
is that most of the riskiest acts are
invented and performed by persons in
other lines of business.
AS a rule the higher a person goes.
or the faster he goes, the more money
he gets-or she gets-for many of the
performers of heart stopping acts are
women. Also, it pays better to go up
side down.
The bicycle and the automobile have
been the instruments of the inventors
of the latest thrillers. Most of the re-
cent inventions are simply applications
of physical laws to mechanical contriv
ances, but to interest spectators II Is
necessary that some human being shall
place himself or herself in the mechan-
ism. An auto car looping the LOOP
would not attract ten men to place
but if man or woman sits inside the
car. the place will be crowded.
One of the most wonderful feats OF
equilibrium was the invention Of two