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The Big Stone post. (Big Stone Gap, Va.) 1890-1892, 1890-12-05
VERY DlSHEARTENiNG.
What Your Sweetheart Will Eat In the
Course OF Her Existence.

What Your Sweetheart VIII Eat In the
Course OF Her Existence.
A cynical doctor. withal a man OF
wonderful resources and quick mind,
lives on ono of the avenues on the South
side, says the Chicago Tribune. He
was in his study few nights ago when
young man came in and began qucs-
tioning him about his (tho young man's)
propricty Of marrying. The young
man foolishly raved over his sweet
heart and called her angelic and so on.
He was afraid that she was too fragile
for this world. Tho old doctor grunted.
Fragile, ch?" he asked. "How fragile?
Ever test her iragility? Let me give
you somo figures about her and woman
kind in general, showing how fragile
they are. Let us suppose that this
piece of perfection is in moderately
good health. She will live to be, say,
sixty years old. Women don't like to
die any moro than men do-not as much
for women never grow old, you know.
Listen to me: She will cat ono pound
of beef, mutton, or some other flesh
every day. That's 305 pounds OF
meat in year In sixty years It's
$1,000 pounds. How's that for fragile?
''She will eat as much bread and as
much vegetables per diem, and there
you have in sixty years $1,000 pounds OF
bread and meat. II she is not 100 an
gelic she will drink daily no less than
two quarts of coffee, tea or water. And
by the time she is ready to have monu-
ment she will have consumed lis hogs
heads of liquids. Fragile? Now, young
man, these figures do not include the
forty or fifty lambs she will worry down
with mint sauce. 1t does not tako into
consideration the 1000 spring chickens,
the 500 pounds of butter. the $4,000 eggs
and the four hogsheads OF sugar she will
consume in sixty years. 1t doesn't take
into consideration her ice cream, her
oysters, her clans and such. All this
means about IS tons, or Us much as you
could stack in half OF Sibley's ware
house. Fragile? Think of your affinity
in connection with these figures and
then rave over her being fragile.
Young man, you are fool. Boof!"
The Big Stone post. (Big Stone Gap, Va.) 1890-1892, 1890-12-05
SOME CONDOLENCES.
A Bible Lesson That Was Appropriate In
More Ways Than One.


An old friend (call him W. relates
how, while he was in Florida last win
ter, his watch stopped one evening.
Since it was very good watch, and
never stopped before, and had been
duly wound the evening before, W. was
much surprised that it wouldn't go. by
and by the head of the house (call him
B. came in. "Will you please give me
the timc?" said ". Certainly" said
B., and pulled out his watch. B. had a
time piece which was entirely trustwor-
thy, not given to Irregularities of any
kind. He pulled it out of his pocket.
''By Jove!" he exclaimed, "my watch is
stopped; that's queor." They compared
the two watches, and they had stopped
at tho same hour and the same minute;
and why they had stopped neither man
was able TO discover.
Mono Of the condolences so far related
was rs droll as another which has just
come to the Boston Transcript Listen
er's notice. Within Il hundred miles Of
Boston there is pleasant little Episco-
pal chapel where services are regularly
conducted, and where q cabinet organ
which stands at one side Of the church
is played by young lady from neigh
boring parish who kindly comes
In for tho purpose. AS the
organ is situated in some
what inconvenient place at ono side Of
the chapel, and as the young lady knows
the service thoroughly well, she is in
the habit of leaving the organ when no
music is needed, and passing around at
the back of the room and sitting with
the congregation. At exactly the right
moment sho leaves this place and re-
turns to the organ for the music. The
other Sunday, as She was seated in q
pew, she got her cue in the service,
and rose softly to go around to her
post. As she moved out Of the pew her
skirt caught upon nail, and, with
a tear that loudly echoed through the
chapel, her gown was torn almost its
whole length. She was in confusion,
but the minister, of COURSE, did not in
terrupt the holy service. lie was read
ing tho morning lesson from the second
chapter of the Book OF Joel, and went
directly on with the passage before
him:
"And rend your heart and not your
garments"
Hero the congregation was dangerous
ly near a snicllor; and the clergyman
himself, suddenly struck with the
extraordinary aptncss OF the passage he
had read, WAS obliged to suspend his
reading for at least Il moment, while he
overcamc perfectly natural impulse to
burst into fit of laughter.
The Big Stone post. (Big Stone Gap, Va.) 1890-1892, 1890-12-05
lAZINESS DOESN'T PAY.
The One Grcat Secret of Success Is to L
Found In Activity.

The Ono Grcat Secret of Success Is to Be
Found In Activity.
The sun never stops in his course.
Light is constantly streaming over the
earth. In the great workshop OF the
universe, Nature is very busy with
those processes which are 10 robe the
earth with her carpet Of green and fill
the air with the odor OF flowers. Inac-
tivity there would soon bring trouble
and death.
In life, too, one secret Of success is
found In activity, says the Somcrville
journal. Not day without line, "
was the motto of great reformer-one
OF the grandest men our civilization has
known. Eight times did tho greatest
of Grccian orators copy tho history Of
Thucydides to perfect himself in that
great masters style. Franklin laid the
foundations of his greatness by using
the little bits Of leisure time which no
could save at dinner hours and evenings
while working as a printers boy.
Kirkc White learned Greek as he walked
from his lodgings to the lawyers
office, where howas employed as clerk.
Pennsylvania's greatest astronomer
learned to calculate eclipses by using
tho bits of time when, as plough boy,
his horses rested, and by figuring out
his problems on his plough handles.
Elihu Burritt achieved wonders in the
fields of learning by gathering up bits
of knowledge as he stood by his forge
with an open book before him, or while
he rested from severe bodily toll.
Tho French have proverb which
says. Step by step one goes very far"
In our tongue wo have a saying Con
slant dropping will wear away stone. :"
Sir Edward Bulwcr Lytton declared:
what men want is not talent but pur-
pose; not power to achieve, but the will
to labor
Boys, do you sec the moral? It's work
that tells. Whether with The hands
or with The brain. there's no success
without work. Don't be lazy
The Big Stone post. (Big Stone Gap, Va.) 1890-1892, 1890-12-05
RESCUING A POLICY.
A Life Insurance Man Saves Snu;
Little Sum for His Company.

A Life Insurance Man Saves Snug
Little Sum for His Company.
"The swindling of life insurance COM
panies by conspirators is an old story"
an officer in one of the big Broadway
companies said to a New York CORE
spondent, "but the way we sometimes
get even with them and defeat their
purposes is not SO we'll known. A local
agent and tho consulting physician Of
the town may conspire with the execu-
tors OF q rich mans will, and with tho
rich man himself, to report him TO tho
Now York company as sound and
health, sober and industrious, with tho
understanding that each is to get slice
Of the company's money after death.
Even if the company learns after death
that the application was founded on
lies, the money Is often paid, unless the
The Big Stone post. (Big Stone Gap, Va.) 1890-1892, 1890-12-05
The RIGHT TO VOTE.
1t Does Not Make Woman's Life Easlcr
Nor Hor Labor Lighter.

Nor Hor Labor Lighter.
Whenever woman enters the polit-
ical arena she sacrifices that charm OF
womanhood, delicacy OF manner, which
can not DO kept pure undcr the coarser
communicating influences, observes the
Des Moines Qa.) Register. We do not
assert that politics Is in every degreede-
grading to woman, but we do think 1t
not elevating; neither do we think
women WELD the purifying influence at
the polls suffrage advocates claim. We
have not observed case In years OF
observation where tho voice Of woman
is felt in tho primaries, the conventions
or as representatives, either municipal
or executive, though single female
delegate to a county convention may be
an exception. The better class OF wom-
en- care little for the ballot or political
honors, feeling that 1.-The hand that
rocks the cradle rules the world" that
tho mother who gives to her State half
dozen manly votes accomplishes more
for her country's good than the woman
who neglects home, children and duties
to voice the sentiments Of women who
never knew nor can know the meaning
of motherhood, love, or home. Women
as mass do not pine for tho ballot, and
were 1t loft to the ladies OF Wyoming to
decide woman suffrage would DO lost by
large majority. While Its influence
is not degrading to tho lords of creation.
yet we can not learn that they are par
ticularly purified by meeting mother,
wife and sister at the polls; and there
are but few men, while they might not
dare to openly express it but privately
feel o disgust at the thought OF thuso
The Big Stone post. (Big Stone Gap, Va.) 1890-1892, 1890-12-05
WAYS OF CROCODILES.
Some of tho Saurian's Habits arc EI
ceodingly Interesting.

Some of tho Saurian's Habits arc E1-
ccodingly Interesting.
As Artcmus Ward says: Tho croco-
die is not handsome, but he has very
open countenancc;" and some OF the
habits of this animal, as lately de-
scribed by NJ. Vocltzkow, in Nature, are
exceeding interesting. Travelling In
Wituland he obtained, in January last,
seventy-ninc new-laid eggs of the ami
NAL, from nest which was five or six
PAGES from the bank o. the Wagogona, a
tributary of the Ooi in East Africa. For
a space of somo eighteen feet in Diane
ter, n spot had been cleared of plants in
a circle, apparently by the crocodile
having wheeled around several times.
A few branches had been laid here and
there, but there WAS no nest-building
proper. The nest (so-called) lay open
to the sun, with the exception OF q
couple of bushes at one part. Four pits
dug in the hard, dry ground, about two
feet obliquely down, held the eggs.
about eighty-five or ninety in number,
including those broken in digging out.
The natives told the traveller that the
crocodile, having selected and prepared
spot, makes pit in it that day, and lays
about twenty or twenty-five eggs in it,
which it covers with earth. Next day
it makes second pit, and so on. From
the commencement 1t remains in tho
nest, and it sleeps there till tho hatch
ing of the young, which appear in about
two months, when the heavy rain period
sets in. The egg-laying occurs only
once in the year, about the end of Janu-
airy or beginning of February. M.
Voeltzkow disturbed the crocodile on
it's eggs, and saw it drop into tho water;
but from tho look he got of it it seemed
to be the Cr0codilps ruigarls, so common
in East Acknowledgements Magazine.
The Big Stone post. (Big Stone Gap, Va.) 1890-1892, 1890-12-05
Diagnosing tho Case.

The doctor found the patient raving i'll
a paroxysm of incipient dolirium.
did your husband receive any bad
news, any great shock, just before he was
attacked?'
No, the only thing he got was gas
bill"
"Ah, yes" said the physician. with L
supernatural intelligence, "acaSc of bill
ious fever. philadelphia Times.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1890-12-13
scream: then all was still.
.Mrs Clancy apainyr said one.


MRS. Clancy again!" said one.
"That was not Mrs. Clancy. twas
far different voice." answered Blake. and
tore away across the parade as fast as his
long legs would carry him.
Look! The guard are running too!
cried Mrs. Waldron. "What can it be!
And, sure enough, the CLEAN of the rifles
could be seen as the men ran rapidly
away in the direction OF the east gate.
Mrs. Rayner had grown glastly. and was
looking at Miss Travcrs, who with white
lips and clinched hands stood leaning on
one of the wooden posts and gazing with
all her eyes across the dim level. Others
came hurrying out from the hall. Other
young officers ran in pursuit of the first
starters. whats the matter? What's
happened?' were the questions that flew
from lip to lip.
"I--I must go home," faltered Mrs.
Rayner. "Come, Nellie!"
"Oh, don't 20, Mrs. Rayner. 1t can't
be anything serious"
But, even as they urged, man came
running towards them.
SIS the doctor here?' he painted.
eyes. What's the trouble?' asked DR..
Pease, as he squeezed his burly form
through the crowded doorway.
You're wanted. sir. Loot'nant
Haynes shot; an Capt. Rayner he's hurt
too, SIR"
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DR. Bosane's Cough and lung ayrvr
10 BE continued Neat Week.

This syrup is composed OF wild cherry. Ia,
and halSam OF Tolu, which everyone knows
are the most Tonic and healing rene, S
known Tor the thfoat and and Lungs. TO
this we add just enough s1uilS. I,ecac and
blood root 10 loosen and throw off the offend
ing matter, by expectoraiion. Ask YOUR doc
tor if there could possibly he more h,ppy
combination for the cue Of coughs, colds and
bronchitis, or t" build up Il weak and ema.
ciated coasunptive patient than this. FOR
crop and VII" oong cough there is nothing
better, and e. V motl who values the liv. 6
OF her little cl i,dren should always keep i :,
the house. |, is perfectly harm lis, and the
babies like it. Sold bv II. d. Blatchley.
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1H EtH he .UTSt man 0iso ddres enter!"
Straight as an arrow Mr.. Blake had
sped across the parade, darted through
the east gate, and, turning, had arrived
breathless at the wooden porch of
Haynes quarters. Two bewildered look
ing members of the guard were at the
door. Blake pushed his way through
the little hallway and into the dimly
lighted parlor, where strange scene
met his eyes; Lieut.. Hayne lay senseless
and white upon the lounge across the
room; young and pretty woman, sim
gularly like him in feature and in the
color of her abundant tresses, was kneel-
ing beside him, chatting his hands, i'm
ploring him to speak-to look at her
unmindful of the fact that her feet were
bare and that only loose wrapper was
thrown over her white night dress; Capt.
lsayner was seated in chair, deatlly
white, and striving to stanch the
blood that flowed from a deep cash
in his temple and forehead; he seemed
still stunned as by the force of the blow
that had fe,led him, and Buxton, speech
less with amaze and heaven only knows
what other emotions, was glaring at
tall, athletic stranger who, in stocking
feet, undershirt and trousers, held by
three frightened looking soldiers and
covered by the carbine of fourth, was
hurting d 'tiance and denunciation at the
commanding officer. A revolver Law
upon the floor at the feet of a corporal of
tho guard. who was grooming in pain. A
thin veilo powder smoke floated through
the room. As Blake leaped in-his cav
airy shoulder knots and helmet cords
cleaning in the light-a fash of recoc.
milton shot into the strangers eyes, and
he curbed his fearful excitement and
stopped short in his wrath.
"What devils work is this?' demanded
Blake, glaring intuitively at Buxton.
These people resisted my guards, and
had to take the consequences, said Bux-
ton, with surly-yet shaken-dignity.
"What were the guards doing here?
What, in Gods name, are you doing
here demanded Blake, forgetful of ali
consideration of rank and command in
the face of such evident catastrophe,
II ordered them hereto enter and
search"
A pause.
Search what? what for:'
10 lie continued Neat ITeeE.
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X NIGHTS OF PYTHIAS. MOUNTAIN GEM
IA Lodge No. 3, X Of Z. Meets the srconI
and fourth Friday OF each month at Odd Fellows
Han; Visiting knights are invited to attend.
M. b, GwINN, L. A. COWDEy.
X. of X. offs. G q
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'1RlQI|I2iS1I;aSif5RR
By Capt. Charles King, u. S. A.
Author of ''DUNEAvEN RANCH. " 1.-THE COLONIES
DAUGHTER, " ''MAEIoNs FAITH, " ETC.

Copyright by j. B. Lppncot Company, Philadelphia, and
published by special arrangement with theral
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w. w. WOOD.

| U. U, F.-CALDwELL LODGE No. 10. Hall
new brick building. Regular meeting We'd
nesday evening each week. Visiting Brethren
cordially invited to attend.
j. 7. JOHNSON, JAS. II, GwISN.
Secretary. Noble Grand
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IECCRE.
S. H. BAKER.

MATCHMAKER AND JEWELER: Has
w opened up II shop Ne "'or To iiult stand
workrlanlike manner. All work warranted.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-11
ENGLAND'S PARLIAMENT.
The Coming Adjournment Will be
Until November.

AhO SOInlLB AOJOuTuIH6uJ w Ill DO
Until November.
LONDON, July 10.-The opposition will
resist to the utmost any proposal for the re-
assembling of parliament before January.
In the House Of Commons to-day W. H.
Smith, the government leader, stated that
in view of the late period of the session the
government had decided not to proceed
with the outstanding order relating to the
postponement of bills from one session TO
another. 1t had also decided to drop
the Irish land purchase bill and tho tithes
bill during the present session, but to intro
duce them i'll the next session, which will
open in November.
In conclusion Mr. Smith said he trusted
that before the House was prorogued it
would pass the bill providing for the cession
OF Heligoland to Germany, the local tax
alton bill, the bill providing for the housing
of the working classes aud the census bill.
Sir William Vernon Harcourt said he
hoped the government would consult the
House about holding a meeting of parlia-
ment in November.
Mr.. Gladstone expressed a similar hope.
In response Mr.. Smith said that the gov
ernment was satisfied as to the convenience
Of the session opening in November.
The Parnellites will offer no further OBJ
structions TO the estimates
II is probable that the session of parlia-
ment will close at the beginning Of August.
A large number of conservatives are willing
to sign memorial asking Mr.. Smith to
postpone the reassembling of parliament
until January. IL is expected that Mr..
Smith will accede to the request.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-11
A CLASH OF CoLoRs.
Detectives In Combat With a Train
Full OF Negroes.

Full OF Negroes.
BALTIMORE, July 10.-A special dispatch
TO the Sun from Charleston, ". Va, says:
There are grave fears that serious trouble
will break out between the races in the
Pocahontas and Bramwell mining region,
arising out of terrible riot occurring on a
train on the Norfolk and Western railroad
on the evening of July 6. Between 200 and
800 colored miners from Pocahontas had
been on an excursion on the Blue Stone
branch of the road, and many were under
the influence of liquor. While in the cars
some Of the negroes got into row with an
unknown white man and were proceeding
TO cut his throat when Detective W. g.
Baldwin and three of his assistants who
were on the train interfered.
PRECIPITATED RIOT
"The detectives were at once attacked,
and a serious riot ensued in the cars seats
being broken TO pieces and used as clubs.
Detective Baldwin was terribly beaten
about the head, and Is in precarious con-
dItion.
Campbell, another detective, was badly
wounded in the side
Detective Robertson had his right arm
broken.
"R. NJ. Baldwin, the fourth detective,
escaped
Nine negroes were knocked in the head
and two were shot in the head.
The train was stopped at Bramwell,
where they received help. which probably
saved their lives
six Of the negroes are now in jail"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-11
GARRISON MAY STAY IN.
The Newspaper Berth he Counted on
Not Apt to Materialize.


WASHINGTON, July 10.-Gen. Clarkson
is still First Assistant Postmaster General.
He has not resigned. and his friends say he
will probably reconsider his determination
to do so on his return in a few days. 1t
seems that he has not been able TO get the
republican millionaires to materialize his
ideal republican organ and put him at the
head Of 1t, and so may need the shell
for time. His friends let out the
interesting secret that Gen. Clarkson
would not have thought of reSigning had it
not been that his powers and privileges in
the postoffice department. were inconven-
iently and disagreeably abridged, so that he
was limited to the vulgar work of chopping
off the heads of fourth-clasS postmasters,
instead of being allowed TO appoint new
fourth class postmasters, to conduct the
railway mail service and to make aud un-
make important contracts.
j. LowRIE BELLS HIGH HAND.
J. Lowrie Bell, to whom, as superintend-
ent of the railway mail service, Postmaster
General Wanamaker has committed entire
charge of the railway mail service, seems
to have particularly annoyed Gen. Clark
son by the exceedingly independent way in
which he has carried on his Office. Friends
OF Gen. Clarkson point out that Supt. Bells
office has no statutory warrant whatever,
having been created by the
mere order of a former Postmaster
General, and they think that
Supt. Bell ought to recognize the fact
that he Is mere upper clerk under Gen.
Clarkson, instead of putting on frills," as
one of them says, under the protection
of Postmaster General Wanamaker. They
darkly intimate that Supt. Bell may find
his salary reduced and his prerogatives cir
Gums ribbed by congress if he does not bear
himself more modestlY.
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lONDON'S POSrMEN.
They Continue at Work by the AC
vice OF Their Leaders.

They Continue at Work by the Ad-
vice of Their Leaders.
LONDON, July 10.-Notw withstau ding the
fact that the Postmen's Union decided last
night that a strike would be inaugurated
to-day unless the "blacklegs" in the employ
of the postoffice department were dismissed,
the carriers as body this morning resumed
their duties as usual, their leaders
having advised them that the present was
not an opportlne time to attempt to enforce
their demands by strike. A small num-
ber OF malcontents did not report for duty.
The postoffice authorities state that they
have applications from men desiring posi-
tions sufficient to fill all the vacancies that
may occur.
Two hundred parcels postmen have been
dismissed from service. "A number OF nom
union postmen are working with the union
pOstmel. The nOn-unionists, however, are
protected by policemen. The union post
men seem TO be weakening. The delivery
of letters in a few sections was suspended
this morning. In other sections the de-
liveries were delayed for two hours.
At nesting of 5000 postmen at Clerk
enwell this evening general strike was
still talked Of, Mr.. Mahon, secretary of the
union, declaring that between 300 aud 400
men had been dismissed,
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A BIG RUSH FOR srocK.
The Packing House Syndicate's Shares
More Than Sub scribed For.


The Packing House Syndicate's Shares
More Than Sub scribed For.
CHICAGO, July 10.-The books were
opened here to-day for subscriptions to the
securities offered by the English and
American syndicate known as the City of
London Contract Corporation. which has
secured control of certain packi6g houses In
this city and Nebraska City, eNeb. The
offers were 100000 shares of the common
stock of the face value Of $50 per share, aud
the subscriptions to o'clock this
af fiernoon were for 30S,000 shares
10000 shares of preferred stock, to which
the subscriptions amount to 10000, and
mortgage bonds to the amount of 1913, 900,
the subscriptions 10 which have thus far
been S4, 100000. Thus it will be seen that
the offerings have already been subscribed
for many times over, d it is expected
that they will be doubled by the time the
books close on Sat lrdaJ evening.
The amount of the su scriptions IN Lon
don, where the books opened simultane-
ouSly with the opening Of the books here,
has not been learned.