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Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1905-02-06

Strike Still Spreading.
Special to The Oil Review.
Warsaw, Feb. 6.-Government
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-03-03


 us as they are in London and Berlin. We are losing the advantage which made James Bryce in the first edition of his American Commonwealth" compare to our advantage our ono pauper to every $50 people with Great Britain's one to every B.
 Not particularly hard times, no. The times are about as easy as I have usually known them to be for the kind of man who earns s5,00O a year to get work. It is as easy as ever for the bright lad who ccmes out of college carrying his letters of recommends tion in his intelligent eyes. have known 50 such to be we'll placed with in the past few years. Take the man of cultured appearance. who knows how to wear neat but not gaudy clothes and to appear to adv antage among men of the world; he is eagerly sought by employers at prices which constantly tend to rise. I have even known big corporations to send out agents to try and hire patches of bright young college students before their graduation day. securing the refusal" of their services. only the other day . man in my acquaintance, a man gentlemanly and intelligent. but not unduly pushful. slipped into . S5.OO0 year place with employers who had never heard of him six weeks before he was engaged.
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tsregting poor. They began yeass agu with July "a pardonable date to hee the city. They took in Nov Years. after the calliag custom gave way to modernity; they absorbed Christmss when the passton for huge country houses furnished all ct once hundred hosts eager to display their wealth h sepseless ostentation. Thanksgivins was seized | little later. This year Lncoln's birthday was the signal Tor departure for Florida of | disttn- guished Wall street contingent; Wash ington's for society hegira.
 All this means that there must be someone loft to do the work. A man of 25, with ambition, force, clear. cold eye and an average brain, who Is willing to work with that brain and defer until he is 40 the enjoyment of his leisure as . reward may so almost any lengths. simply by doing their work for rich men who want to play. Tho weakness of the trust cure-all was that it combined 20 properties. put one man at the head of all and bade the other 19 to go play golf. Not SO were fortunes made; and from tho young men of no fortune who fill the subordinate places-not from the golf playing youth whose fathers toiled-- will come the rich men of 1940. And there again you have condition not foreign to Britain and to all the world besides.
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wealth at which the poor of metrop- oils must always look on in dulled wonderment there rises-the gaunt sceptre of Famine.
 There are estimates that 5000 men are out of work in the city, I do not know how such estimates may be made up, but many such men at least are here. If there are but 10000 in daily need it is pitiful army. think that there are many more than that. Nor Is their presence due to the hard winter. The coming of twice the usual amount of snow has even fa- yored the poor fellows by pouring out more than million dollars to city snow shovelers. besides perhaps an equal sum from private hands. It might be nearer the truth to say that immigration, and the immigrants habit of huddling near the landing place. is largely responsible. But the proportion of native Americans in the , long lines l see standing waiting to reach the coffee wagons is great. These men are borne to the city by vain hopes and find every avenue of em- ployment full to overfowing with the new arrivals. Five hundred such men, all more or less educated, mobbed the doors of an office where few copyists were wanted. Not tramps, not drunk ards, but men with clear eyes and good, though haggard faces. An un- usually high class of men have borne the 10000 snow shovels for the city.
 Robert Hunter, who has investigated poverty in most of the big cities of the world. says that 10000 children of New York go 10 school every day, not breakfastless. as he has been re- ported saying, but underfed. always hungry. Teachers on tho East Side confirm his statement. The efforts of the Salvation Army to relieve distress by distributing free breakfasts does not touch the situation. Religion is an element to be considered. Poor little Jewish children, their bones showing at every joint, will not eat food that is not prepared with: all the ceremonial of their ancient dietary laws Kosher" food alone would i'll the need.
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shine was creeping toward her. Tn the brazier which had warmed her tent the glowing bark and cinnamon had turned to cold. white ash.
 Through tLe girls veins the blood coursed rapidly. A few moments she lay in the rosy effulgence. restfully conscious that danger had fled and that she was bulwarked by the em. peror's favor. when a sudden thought broke upon this half wakeful mood and caused her to spring. all alert, from her couch. To dress with her had never been matter of great duration. The hair of the joculatrix naturally rippled into such waves as were the envy of the court ladies. Her supple fingers adjusted garment after gar ment with swift precision. while her figure needed no device to lend grace to the investment.
 Soon, therefore, had she left her tent making her way through the awaken. ing camp In the royal kitchen the cook was bending over his fires, while an assistant mixed beverage of bar ley water. yolks of eggs and senna wine for Charles when he should be come aroused. Those courtiers al ready astir cast many glances in the girls direction as she moved toward the tent of the fool.
 But If these gallants were sedulous she was correspondingly indifferent. Anxiety or loyalty-that stanchness of heart which braved even the ironical eyes of the black robed master of med icine-drovc her again to the ailins testers tent. and. remembering how she had ridden into camp and into the august emperor's favor. these fondlings of fortune looked significantly from one to the other
 "A jot less fever. solicitors maid. '' said the leech In answer to the in. quiries of the jestress. and she endur. ed the glance for the news. although the former sent her away with her face sfiame.
 -An the leech let her in. he'd soon have to let the patient out" spoke up a gallant. Her eyes are . sovereign remedy. where bolus. pills and all vile potions might fail"
 If this be a sample of Francis dam. sels. I care not how long we are in reaching the Low Countries" answered a second
 To this the first replied in kind. but coon had these gallants matters of more serious moment to divert them, for ii began to be whispered about that Louis of HochfeIs had determined to push forward The unwonted activ. ity In the camp ere long gave credence to the rumor- The troopers commenced looking to their weapons. Squires hur- ried here and there. while near the tents stood the horSes. saddled and bridIed- undergoing the scrutiny of the sroom>-
 Some time. however. elapsed before the emperor htmeeif aopeared Ncth-
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are ten miles from the city hall north and east. In Brooklyn. which has al- ways been known as a poor theater town because of the habit of its people of spending their amusement money in Manhattan, there are ten theaters which were once churches-the actual physical structure of the church mod flied to suit the new uses. This move ment has of course resulted from as marked a growth uptown as that of Manhattan itself. Famous preachers have held forth in some of these bedizened walls. And, as a strange revenge of time. church services are held in one theater which never was . church-by the Mormons of all peo- pie,
 Imagine what . shiver of apprehen- sion must have run through New York then. where l00, 900 people every night are in theaters. when the Casino burned out. showing that its stubborn seeming columns were but painted wood. its exits insufficient. its fittings finder. If there had been . crowded audience. the tale of the Iroquois in Chicago must have been repeated. All the nine days wonder. after that dis aster. of Mayor McClellan's order to the theaters to make alterations to At them for safe use went for nothing. The danger is what 1t has always been. except in . few of the newer .thsaters.
 OWEN LAS0DoN.
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7 lA constable received every at
 tention commensurate with
 the cheer of the camp. the lay passed but slowly. With more or esg interest she viewed the diversified :roup of soldiers drawn by Charles rom the various countries over which le ruled-the brawny troops from Flanders. the alert looking guards re- fuited from the mountains of Spain, he men of Friedwald. with muscles ough as the 6bers of the fir in their sative forests. Even the orient-sug :estIve of many campaigns-had been lrawn upon. and the bright garbed live skinned attendants. moving imong the tents of purple or crimson. blended picturesquely with the more old masses of color.
 For the Flemish soldiery who had srought the fool and herself into the amp the young girl had a nod and vord. but 1t was the men of Friedwald vho especially attracted her attention. md unconsciously she found herself ,Icfuring the land that had fostered his stalwart and rough soIdiery. A ocky. rugged region surely. with vast 'orests. unbroken brush. Wonder ar norer polishing a joint of steel seemed ike a survivor of that primeval epoch when the trees were roofs and the ,0und the universal bed. once or vice she passed him. curiousIy not ne his great beard and giant-Iike imbs. But he minded her not. and his. perhaps. gave her courage to ause.
 What sort of country is Friedvaldy' he said abruptly
 "Wid.- te answered
 ~b the duke Iikedy- she went on
 -Ya-
 70 you know his-jester:-
 No
 Fer all the information he would vol mteer the man might have been Dr. 2Abeiaisf model for lecoaicism. and a uonent she stood there with a slight rvwn- Then she gzzet at him meii- ativeiy. Tap. tap went the tiny ham Ger in the mighty hand zn.i- laughing uf1x che turned These men-R
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credible. The subway has been open less than three months. In spite of its existence the passenger traffic on the elevated lines has slightly increased, while that on the surface routes has fallen off but a trifle. In one year New York's transit will be worse of than ever. A new road, four-track through most of its length and three track throughout, which is capable of carrying 300,000 passengers on tus- mess day and twice as many on holi- days, will have been damned with peo- ple,. and have left no trace of differ ence on other lines. Where do the people come from? .s-
 At any rate, the result is a tremen- dous competition for the privilege of building other subways. It seems al- most impossible that the city should have practically had to bribe the Bell -Rothschild syndicate to build its present subway by giving 1t 5000. .000 profit upon the construction contract. and lending 1t the city's credit for 75 years. Capitalists are now willing to furnish their own money, build to the city's plans and permit the city to buy in at the end of the franchise, if it likes, at . valuation. The city will have. . perpetual option on the line;
 1t. can supervise. order. plan, specify expensive safety appliances, do what it will with the private funds of the builders. and when its own resources have been quadrupled by rapid transit 1t can buy in the lines at cost. Already the Brooklyn extension of the present subway, which will cost $S,000,000. is being built by the Belmont interests for only $2.000.000 provided by city funds, to be paid back to the city in installments. This exceptional bid was due to anxiety to retain the subway as . feeder of the present line. Here may be solved at one stroke municipal ownership for the future, and for the present the building of . transit sys- tenn without costing the city m addi- tional dollar, where it had been ex- pected that it's, credit would be strained by the gigantic sums needed.
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Friedwald were not unpleasiug in her

Friedwsld were not unpleasing in her eyes.
 Twice had she approached the tent wherein lay the fool. only to learn that the emperor was with the dukes plai- sant. "A slight relapse of fever.' had said the Italian leech as he blocked the entrance and stared at her with wick ed. twinkling eyes. She need be under no apprehension. he had added. but to her quick fancy hls glance said. "A maid wandering with a fool"'
 Apprehension: No. It could not be that she felt but new sense of loneli- ness. of that isolation which contact with strange faces emphasized. What had come over her? she asked herself. she who had been so self sufficient. tudden yearning and restlessness, i'm satience-she knew not what. She who thought she had partaken so abundant ly of lifes cup abruptly discovered re- newed sources for disquietude. With yelling heart she watched the sun go down. the glory of the widely radiat ing hues give way to the pail of night. Upon her young shoulders the mantle of darkness seemed to rest so heavily che bowed her head in her hands.
 "A maid and A fool. An. foolish maId-' whispered the wsnton breeze.
 The pale light of the stars played upon her. and the dews fell until. in- voluntarily shivering with the cold. she aro.e. As she walked by the emperor's 0papters she noticed a figure silhouef- ted on the canvas walls To and fro inc shadow moved shapeIess. gro tesque. yet eloquent of Ife's reIation of spirit. Turning into her own tent, the jestress lighted the wick of a silver lamp. A faint aroma of perfume swept through the air. 1t seemed tc so0the her-or was 1t but wearinesst-and SlortIy she threw herself on the siIken souch and sank to drezm.ess slumber.
 When she awoke the bright huei dome of the tent was agIOw in the morning sun The reflected radiance bzfbed her face and form Her hezvi- ness of heart had taken wings The little lamp was still burning. but the fresh fragrance of dawn had replaced the subtle oior of the oriental essence rpon the rug c apgie streak of sun-
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The Theaters of the Town.

HE grOWtn or the theater haoit is as marked as the growth of the street car habit, in a town of such
 magnificent dis tances that no one has time to walk. There are now 6 theaters in tho city. besides near ly as many minor music halls. Some of these theaters
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wh.r. Do Patrons Come Fromf

I IS one or tue signs of poverty on the great East Side that c0mpar- atively few people there ride on the street cars. And yet-the simple fact is amazing:
 if it were not but tressed by reams of complicated hg- urings, all sworn to and witnessed, {t u,or1d ho in
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P.i0t. BAILEY, C:tizsn Ba-k B'oeS
Learn To Dance

at Miss Nellye T.. Reeds Dancing Academy. los Bank street, second floor Jones X Morgan's building Advanced class and social series Tuesday even. ing. Class for beginners Friday even. ings. Terms. F class lessons, $A; { Lrivate and 6 class. 6: 6 private, @, single private lesson. $1. ssf
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The Out-of-Town Party,

MOTHER key to the situation is furnished by the out-of-towr par ties of Washing tons Birthday. You could hardly be in the swim in New York if you were to re- main in town over the holiday.
 These holiday house parties gre English in concep-
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The Two Currents.

lGHT here in this melancholy busi- ness is it's most melancholy fact:
 It is not par ticularly "h ar d times" It is that
 the "c a s s . g" which we used to pretend We did not have in America are drifting far ther apart. Tho problems of pow orSv haua no-n <o
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.POVERTY'S PROBLEM.
ONE SIDE or LIFE IN THE xI.
 TRoPoLIs OF NEW YORK.
ARMY OF IDLE AND HUNGRY
"classes" Drifting Further Apart How Society Spends Holidays-
 Puzzling Phase of Street Rail. :, way Patronage.

EW YORK.-The brilliance fades of rout and revel, the taste of rare wine pals, women of great names pale with growing fatigue under their flashing gems as the social season draws near its close, the opera loses it's charm
 and by gaunt con- trast with all the
 mad 1aviShnosS of
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Prof Bai1ey'S

S.lia0l of Instruction in the graceful art tf dancing continues it's clisses during Lent. Private lessons given morning. afternoon c. evening. Begin now if you are going to attend the after Easter dancing parties. Special rates now in private Waltz and Two. Step course. The right place for the new beginner is a strictly professiona, school. You learn thoroughly and at less expense.
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tion- They go with an awed peasantry
 and the village rector with his .in-
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Advertise in the Democrst
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CHAPTER XXvI.

" ALTHOUGH the daughter of the l4 constable received every at
 tention commensurate with the cheer of the camp. the
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-03-14

On both sides of the great contro-
versy which took such fearful shape
in the middle of the seventeenth cen
tury, but especially on the Protestant
side, the minds of men we're devoted,
not to seeking that peace which was
breathed upon the world by the New
Testament. but to finding warrant for
war-and especially the methods Of
the chosen people in waging war
against unbelieyers-in the Old Testa-
ment Did any legislator or professor
of law yield to feelings of humanity,
he was sure to meet with protests
based upon authority of Holy Scrip
ture. Plunder and pillage were sup
ported by reference to the divinely
approved spelling of the Egyptians"
by the Israelites. The right to mas
sacre unresisting enemies was based
upon the command of the Almighty to
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-03-14
DisraeIi and His Ancestry

Even in old age, when he was jour
neying to the grave full of honors,
Lord Beaconsheld spoke proudly of
his Hebrew ancestry; but Mr.. Lucien
Wolf is at some pains to prove that
the whole story of the Disraelis, as
set forth in his memoir Of his father,
is, to say the least, unreliable. Says
Mr.. Wolf:
THE statement that the name Dis
raeli had never been borne before or
since by any other family is only
true Of Lord Beaconsfeld himself, for
he was the first Disraeli. His father
to the end Of his days spelt his name
D'Israeli, and his grandfather, who
first adopted the nobiliary particle,
was known in his young days, like
his father before him, as simple Is
raeli. Nor is it quite true to say that
the name stands absolutely alone in
the worlds onomasticon. Throughout
the Sth century a Huguenot family
named Disraell, was resident in
London. 1t became extinct with one
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-03-14
Finding Warrant for War

the Jews in the twentieth chapter of
Deuteronomy. The indiscriminate
slaughter of whole populations was
justified by a reference to the divine
command to slaughter the nations
round about Israel. Torture and mu-
tilation of enemies was sanctioned by
the conduct of Samuel against Agag.
Of Eng David against the Philistines.
of the men Of Judah against Adoni-
beck. Even the slaughter Of babes
in arms was supported by a passage
from the Psalms. Happy shall he be
that taketh and dasheth thy little
ones against the stones" Treachery
and assassination were supported hy
a reference to the divinely approved
Phinehas. Ehud, Judith and Jael;
numbering the ministers of unap-
proved religions by Elijah's slaughter
of the priests of Baal--Andrew D.
White, in Atlantic.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-03-14
Few Good Reading Clerks

'The meeting of congress reminds
me that it is one of the rarest things
in tae world to find a good reading
clerk" said an old reporter, "and
thqe is, l suppose, a very good reason
for 1t. AS matter of fact, it takes a
peculiar type of man 70 make a read
ing clerk. There are a grea. many
men who can read we'll for a while.
But the man wanted by the large de-
Lucrative bodies must be able to sus-
tain himself, and in order to do this
he must learn how to control his
voice. In fact, he must be as careful
of his voice as the artistic singer.
Reading clerks in legislative bod
les often have peculiar condition
to deal with on account of the charac-
ter of Legislative halls. The men who
read for Congress also read under
difficulties. During the last national
conventions of the Republican and
Democratic parties l had occasion to
appreciate the difficulties of finding
good reading clerks. Each conven-
tion selected a number Of reading
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-03-14
KNEW HIS OWN TERNAPIN.
virginian Identified 1t by Its Peculiar
Expression.

virginlan Identified 1t by Its Peculiar
Expression.
"Tidewater Virginia" said Mr. E.
L. White Of Lancaster, Va, at the
Shoreham recently, is the most de-
lightful and wonderful country in the
world Everything that heart can wish
or the appetite can fancy is produced
from the fertile fields and the great
rivers that traverse them on their way
to the bay. Nothing ever surpassed
her oysters, her fish. her ducks. her
diamond-back terrapins
"The terrapin farming he contin-
ued, lis a remarkable business and
very lucrative But it requires large
outlay of capital and great deal of
labor. Each owner Of a 'farm'-as the
little water front fenced in for the
purpose is called-zealously guards his
domain and resents the slightest en-
croachment by neighbor or stranger.
And curious thing about it Is that
these men engaged in the business
have learned to know their own terra
pins by the expression OF their races.
Not long ago a negro boy was arrested
in one Of the lower counties in the
Rappahannock river for stealing a
diamond back and he was convicted
upon the testimony Of the owner. who
swore point blank that the said ter
rapin was his, and was stolen from
his farm because he recognized the
aforesaid terrapin by its individual
expression Of countenance, which he
had studied for years.
He stated also that all his terra
pins had the same smile and gentle
look out Of the quiet eyes; that he
would know them at once anywhere
among all the terrapins of the world.
tell you, sir, Tidewater Virginia is
a wonder. Washington Post
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-03-14

The Hague for him. and for this inter
ference do not thank Lord Neville" :"
Nor l." answered Jane. "Had he
not gone to The Hague he might
have been In London by this time"
Jane had risen as she said these
words, and was tying on her bonnet.
and Matilda watched her with a curl
Gus interest. Il was wondering" she
said slowly, If you will be glad to
marry Cluny Neville and go away to
Scotland with him."
"Oh, yes" Jane answered, her eyes
shining, her mouth wreathed In
smiles, her whole being expressing
her delight in such an anticipation.
Matilda made no further remark, but
when Jane had closed the door be-
hind her, she sat down thoughtfully
by the fire, and stirring together the
red embers, sighed rather than said:
why do people marry and bring
up sons and daughters? This girl
has been loved to the uttermost by
her father and mother and brothers.
aRd she win gladly leave them all to
70 of with this young Scot. She Will
call It Sacrifice for Loves sake
call it pure selfishness. Yet I am not
whit whittier than she. l woEld have
stayed in Paris with Rupert. though
my good uncle was in danger. | think
| will go to my evening service, ;"
and as she rose for hel Common
Prayer, she was saying under her
breath. I'VE have left undone those
things which we ought to have done,
and we have done those things which
we ought not to have done. And
there is no health in US"