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The Big Stone post. (Big Stone Gap, Va.) 1890-1892, 1891-02-27
THE BIG STONE posi-, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY q, 1891.

ties. he has hut small fortune. He seems to
have scorned the assistance of money. Had ne
thought proper to avail himself OF the lniorina-
ton which has come to him by virtue CT ms
position lie might have been millionaire; out
all the forces of his nature have been concen-
trated in the legitimate channel OF his duty III
developing and improving the L. d y. system;
and while his elevation has not been so RAPID
as il might have been, it has been steady ana
is permanent He has wonderful breadth and
power in grasping details, crystallzing and
concentrating them into organized force. he
is so far removed from exaggeration or over
sanguinc prophcsies that many think HIM
atrabilious and gloomy. He is sure never TO
fall short of his promises. Direct almost to
bluntness, he is entirely free of deception, De-
ing honest, loyal and thoroughly earnest III all
he undertakes. Hehas by no means yet reach
cd the eminencc to which his character ana
capacity will carry him.
Sam Gaines, one of the most brilliant OF
kentucky's journalists, has bought paper III
Maysyilc, and will run it as q Tri-Weekly. Sam
am, though mere boy, was captain in Early $
infantry during the war and gallant soldier
he was. After the war Early wrote him let
ter, making some inquiries, and wound up after
this fashion: ~ have rot kept up with you since
the war, but if you have been still true to the
cause, God bless you: if you have not, G--d-n
YOU" Sam is something of apoct too, and un-
der the inspiration of female smiles or in re-
venge for female frowns, has gotten Oft hit
now and then, which showed his fine wit as
well as his fine frenzy. On one occasion, after
being knocked out in love affair, he rushed to
newspaper office and on the spur of moment
wrote these lines:
The Big Stone post. (Big Stone Gap, Va.) 1890-1892, 1891-02-27
POSE. Is EMILE.


) rose upon her brcast' All. me.
Why should such tender beauty blow,
And perish all unieelingly
Upon her boson's snow.
\ Neil in such place 'iwoud cost
An Alpine rose its life to stay
In such atmosphere Of frost
For cen the bricfcst day.
Young Mr.. Astor and his bride stopped IN
Richmond day or two en- route to Florida, and
engaged the best apartments at the hotel
apartments that had been occupied by royalty.
Mr.. Astor told the clerk that they did not wish to
receive any callers, it mattcred not how dis
tnguished they might be. In the afternoon he
hired buggy and horse and drove around the
city. The livcryman charged him five dollars
and he kicked at the price; which was somewhat
ungracious in one who is seventy-tivc times a
millionaire The outfit was doubtless the best
the livcyyman had, and if Mr.. Astor was
squcamish about = couple of dollars, he should
have asked the price in advance. Or if he
thought himself gougcd he should quietly have
paid the bill and sought another livery stable
next time.
The Big Stone post. (Big Stone Gap, Va.) 1890-1892, 1891-02-27
Tin in Virginia.
llnlINooa speci.Iin J. Y. irihu.

Chicago. February 70.
, 1891-03-04

/ know not only one but several cases
in New York alone where young women
are making a good, yes, an excellent,
livelihood with the pen. But-and here
is a strong point-they have a certain
specially, and by close study Of one sub
ject they have become an authority in
their line. One bright young woman
writes about nothing but fabrics for
fashion and trade papers, and makes an
income exceeding $500 per year, and
another woman has made a speciality of
fashion work, and she is perhaps the
best paid woman writer in New York
Her income is fully 81, 600 a year.
There is a bright girl who supports
herself by going around the great shops
and finding out all the novelties in brio
a-brac, needlework and home decora=
ton. She writes and illustrates them,
and sells often a single novelty for $25
and $50. She told me that during Christ
mas week she netted over $500. Another
bright girl has made a study Of fiction,
and reads all the manuscript novels for
one Of the big publishing houses. She
receives a salary of $1,000, and adds an
other 81 900 from outside connections.
Women who make their brain work pay
best are undoubtedly those who follow a
specially, become an authority in their
particular line Of work, and mere very
often they al command their own
prices.-New York Letter.
, 1891-03-04

The parent of insomnia or wakefulness
is in nine cases out of ten a dyspeptic
stomach. Good digestion gives sound
sleep, indigestion interferes with it. The
brain aud stomach sympathizes. One oil
the prominent symptoms OF a weak state
of the gastric ORGANS is II disturbance of
the great nerve entrepot the brain. In
vigorate the stomach aud you restore
equilibrium to the great centre. A most
reliable medicine for the purpose is Hos
letters Stomach Bitters, which is far
preferable to mineral sedatives and DOW.
eriul narcotics which, though they may
for a time exert a soporific influence upon
the brain, soon cease to act, and invariably
injure the tone of the stomach. The Bit.
tiers, on the contrary. restore activity tc
the operations of that all important or
gan, and their beneficent influence is re.
fected in sound sleep and a tranquil state
OF the nervous system. A wholesome
impetus is likewise given to the action OF
the liver and bowels by its use.
, 1891-03-04

Tales Of college pranks at Yale would
seem to grow old, but the Ltudents con,
t~inually ind something new with which
TO amuse or startle ths public. And al
Yale, nowadays, there is very little
"fun" Of this kind that is particularly
troublesome to anybody. Whoever has
seen the massive structure of the d. K.
Z. society, with its windowless walls
and the immel5e padlocks on its big iron
door, will appreciate the humor of the
neat sign, please enter without knock
ing" which was found to adorn it a few
mornings ago. Some of the sophomores
who have abandoned the custom of haz-
ing, but who cannot forget the spirit,
have succeeded in getting some unso-
phisticated freshmen into trouble with
their landlady in regard to their milk
supply.-Cor. New York Times.
, 1891-03-04
FAIR PROPOSITION.

The silver men Of Idaho recently for
warded a petition to their coDEressiona
representative who introduced it and mad
it printed IN the Record, 1t reads as
follows:
To the Senate and House Of Repre-.
sentatives:-We the undersigned, being
engaged in the lawful business OF silver
mining. find ourselves laboring under a
great disadvantage, compared with the
producers of gold, copper iron, wheat
aud other necessaries. on account of the
unjust discrimination against tho product
industry caused by the present
silver law and
Whereas, This law operates by indirect
ly lowing a tax upon the production Of
silver, which at present amount to 20
per cent Of our gross product, or one
ounce out Of every five produced THIS
is proven by the fact that the govern.
ment is buying SILVER at sl.C3 per ounce
and issuing il at the rate OF $l.29 per
ounce, the difference accruing TO the
treasury as profit. The loss falls upon
the producer alone, as the coined silver,
or silver certificates. circulate at par with
gold; and
Whereas. we do not believe that it is
the deliberate intention OF the people OF
these United States to levy a tax upon
the production Of silver any more than
they would levy a tax upon the produc-
ton Of gold, iron or wheat; therefore
We earnestly protest against and ask
the repeal Of the present silver law. which
permits the government to reap the bene-
fit Of one-ffth OF the gross product Of
our industry.
Also, that as our product even now
oirculates at par with gold, We ask that
you appropriate a portion Of the $780,
OOO,0 o profit already extorted from tho
silver producers, sufficient to pay the ex-
pense Of coming any and all silver bullion
hat may be presented free Of charge.
We ask that the government buy no
more silver, but simply coin what we pro-
duce, aud return it to us as money, that
we have the same benefit under the law
as the producers Of gold.
Believing that the free and unlimited
coinage of silver is our constitutional
right, and will work beneicially, not only
to us but to all people, your petitioners
will ever pray.
, 1891-03-04

An instance Of the success attending
the covering Of pipes for conserving heat
occurred quite recently, in which a resi-
dence was fitted with a complete system
of not water supply pipes on a scale suf-
fciently large for a good boiler in a five
foot kitchen range, but owing to the ext
gencies of a temporary delay a three foot
range was fitted up and connected to the
chimney and circulating pipes for tenn
porary cooking and hot water supply.
1t was not supposed that the little range
with its boiler would do much in the
way of water heating. but to the aston
ishment Of every n it gave an abund-
ant supply Of very hot water in every
part of the house as quickly in the morn
ing as a larger range could be expected
to do.
The best material for covering pipes
is hair felt. Hair is a poor conductor of
heat, and is indispensable for this pur-
pose, especially AS it is so easy of appli-
cation. The felt, which is readily OBJ
tainable in sheets, is cut in strips for
pipe work and wound around the pipe
spirally and secured with cord or wire.
-Pittsburg Dispatch.
, 1891-03-04

or late years a number OF terrapin
farms have been started along the Chesa,
peake. The biggest farm is on the Patux-
emit river, and it consists of a large salt
water lake, which could accommodate
thousands of terrapin if they would
breed as rapidly AS is desired. The
farmer has surrounded this lake with
board fences to keep out the muskrats
and foxes, which are the terrapin's enc.
mics. He has made hatcheries of boxes
partly filled with sand, and so arranged
that when the females enter them they
cannot get out until they are taken out.
He has nurseries for young terrapin, and
he keeps the little mes in here until they
+ ten months old. in order to preserve
them from their fathers.-Frank q. Car,
penter in Pittsburg Dispatch.
, 1891-03-04

In one Of the elevators in a down town
building the other day an absent minded
man came near departing this life with
u~S0ecoming haste. He had stood close
by the door when the car stopped at his
hoor and had allowed two or three other
passengers to brush by him. He had
made no signs Of "A desire 90 step out, but
when the elevator resumed its upward
course and the door was nearly closed he
gave a start and jumped forward until
his body projected Dat of the car and
prevented the door from closing. Luck
lily the conductor understood his bust
ness. With an instructive movement he
stopped the car in a few inches. Then
he drew back the door and released the
venturesome passenger, who walked
away without even looking back or a Y
ing a word. The other passengers looked
on in silence.
Even the elevator man had nothing to
say for a minute, but when the next floor
was reached the whole affair seemed TO
strike him in n new light. He didn't
think of the horror of a life suddenly
taken away, of the s%ickening sight Of a
crushed and mangled body. That's
what l call n mean man" quoth he with
severity. WANT to have me sent to the
Tombs, eh7 Gadl A man like that
ought to get hurt, he had ."-New York
Times.
, 1891-03-04

1 read a very interesting statement ~
Gently that the three late dukes of Athole
planted in their lifetime ii, ZOO, 900 larch
trees on their estates. The writer who
made this statement seemed TO doubt the
fact on the ground that he imagined that
their graces did so with their own hands,
which would necessitate each of them
planting 200 trees a day for sixty years.
When, however, n man is said to plant"
an estate it does not any more mean that
he does so personally than, when it is
said that II man furnishes a house, he
makes his own cabinets and tables, or
puts down his w carpets-though our
g~randfathers and grandmothers, rs often
as not, actually did the latter, as well as
good souls!-sewing the various strips
of carpets together,
II, however, it comes to planting trees
with ones own hands, there is still some
thing to be said. Charles II planted
nearly all the trees in the avenue at
Windsor with his, and some that are
now in st. James park; and George III
had n mania for planting his own trees,
as well as innumerable grape vines. Her
present majesty has planted over 5000
trees in various places she has visited,
and the Prince of Wales cannot be very
far behind her in also doing so.-Ga lig-
nani's Messenger.
, 1891-03-04
THE CURSE OF SCOTLAND.
rh-e Are ~Twenty-four Reasons Why ii

rh-e Are Twenty-four Reasons WIN the
Nine of Diamonds l. Called Uniueky.
Every reader has at some period Of his
or her life heard of the nine of diamonds
referred to as "the curse of Scotland"
but why, perhaps, you have never taken
the time or trouble to ascertain
In my Repository of the Rare and the
Wonderful" l find no less than seventeen
explanations Of the origin of the express
sion, while SOuthwick's ''Quizzism and
Its Key gives eleven, eve of which are
wholly different from the answers given
in the work above referred TO, making in
all twenty-four different accounts of the
origin of the expression in the two works,
Southwick traces it back 10 1745, men
tioning a c~aricature Of that date which
represents 1.-The young chevalier' at
tempting 70 lead a herd of bulls laden
with papal curses across the Tweed river
with the nine of diamonds lying before
them.
Perhaps the most satisfactory explana-
ton of the enigma is that which refers
it to the massacre Of Glencoe. The or
der for that cruel deed was signed by
the Earl Of Stair, John Dalrymple, sec
Rotary Of state for Scotland. The coat
Of arms of the Dalrymple family bears
nine lozenges, resembling diamonds, on
its shield. Thus it appears to have been
with reference to them that the nine
spot Of diamonds was called 1.-The curse
-sf Scotland The best and most likely
Of the other reasons for the origin OF the
expression are given below.
During the reign Of Mary a thief at
tempted to steal the qnwn from Eliza
beth castle. and succeeded in abstract
ing nine valuable diamonds from it. To
replace these a heavy tax was laid on
the people of Scotland, which impover-
ished them TO such an extent that nine
diamonds, whether on cloth, cards or
real jewels. We're spoken Of as "Albion's
curse"
In the game OF Pope Joan the nine of
diamonds is the pope, whom the Scotch
Presbyterians consider a curse.
II is also said that the Duke Of Cum
berland wrote his inhuman orders at
Culloden on the back of a card, the front
of which was marked with nine dia-
monds.
The "Oracle, or Resolver of Questions
printed in 1870, says that the crown of
Scotland had but nine diamonds, and
that the Scotch people were too poor to
add TO the collection.-St. Louis Re
public.
, 1891-03-04
BIRDS or A FEATHER.


The action OF the city council is en-
tirelY in keeping with the operating
principles of the Republican party, 1t
is arbitrary to a degree seldom known in
such n country as this. 1t proceeds
utterly regardless Of established rules and
%precedents, unsorupulously perverts the
law and even oyerturns the constitution
itself whenever 1t stands in the way OF
the accomplishment of their personal
schemes and Jobs. Having been so long
in office the party has become lustful Of
power. 1t stops short at nothing to
maintain itself IN the ascendency and-it
looks as though nothing short Of a gen
eral popular uprising would bring 1t to
terms.
The city council is following along the
the strict Republican line. It's arbitrary
treatment o. the mayor. its evident lack
of respect for the office and its f~ippant
method OF discussing all things relating To
the public welfare may possibly meet with
present success, but 1t will inevitably carry
with it disaster and defeat. The Re-
~publi,an members are neither adding to
their regulations or characters or do
ing a good service to their party. They
are simply working out their own destruc-
ton while hugging themselves with the
belief that they are just a little bit the
slickest set OF men in the Community.
, 1891-03-04

Al EszIs Trapped by a locomotive.
While - Chicago. Burlington and
Quincy freight train was coming hom
Burlington here recently the engineer
noticed an eagle sitting on the track
feasting on a rabbit.
The eagle arose when the engine drew
near. but the locomotive was running 50
rapidly that the big bird could not clear
1t. One of the wings tapped into the
wedge shaped space formed by the head
light bracket and the extension at the
front end of the boiler, and WIS held
there as in a wise. The fireman went
forward and released the wing and car
ried the eagle into the cab. where ii
showed fight and made things lively foI
the engineer. who finally cornered it and
brought it here alive. 1t isnow the pror
erty of r. w. ColviIle. master mechanic
Of the Chicago. Burlington and Quincy
and is an unusually fine specimen.
Galesburg ulls;) Cor. st, Louis Globe
Democr. e.
, 1891-03-04

Taken in time,
even Consumption yields to the
wonderful effects of DR.. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery. 1t
won't make new lungs-but it will
make diseased ones healthy when
nothing else will. There's reason
for it, too. Consumption is Lung
scrofula. For every form of scrof-
ula, and all blood-taints, the "Dis-
coyery" is a positive cure. It's
the most potent strength : restorer,
blood = cleanser, and flesh builder
known to medical science. For
Weak Lungs, Splitting of Blood,
Bronchitis, Asthma, Catarrh, and
all lingering Coughs, it's an une-
qualed remedy. It's a guaranteed
one. If it doesn't benefit or cure,
you have your money back. You've
everything to gain from it-nothing
to lose.
It's especially potent in curing
letter, Salt-rheum, Eczema, Erysip-
elias, Boils, Carbuncles, Sore Eyes,
Goitre, or Thick Neck, and Enlarged
Glands, Tumors and Swellings.
Great Eating Ulce-s rapidly heal
under its benign influence.
, 1891-03-04

How is this for climate? Lee Lothrop,
whose ranch is situated a short distance
from town, brought to this office a mon
ster watermelon, just plucked from the
vine and as fine to appearance as any
ripening in the month of August. 1t
measured SO inches in circumference
l~engthwise and 81 inches in circumfer-
ence the small way, and 1911 inches in
diameter. 1t was rich in color and flavor,
and was ripe from rind to rind. The
melon was no dollhouse production. but
was grown and ripened in the open field.
-Templeton (Cal) Advance.
, 1891-03-04

y y lfNh@A 80 al "a DtluNAbh=
Arkwright, the celebrated English in
ventor lin his younger days., and even Sir
Isaac Newton, believed perpetual motion
might be discovered. All so called perpet-
ual motion machines hat have run have
been impositions with seC-et clockwork or
some other hidden source Of propulsion.
Men have presumed, by the aid Of levers,
balls rolling on an inclined plane, the
wheel and axle, the Archimedean screw.
the pump, the syphon, the hydrostatic bel
lows. the hydraulic ran etc, TO have dis
covered perpetual motion. An authority
in the study declares: From the infant
machine projected in the Thirteenth cent.
ury to the last hydraulic, pneumatic,
weighted and lever worked pretensions
patented as motions, no motion whatever
has resulted from the one or the other TO
the present day. Not a solitary discovery
is on record, not one absolutely ingenious
scheme projected or one simple self motive
model accomplished Chicago Herald.
, 1891-03-04

Bradstreet's gives the gross earnings
Of 1919 railways for the year 1890. The
moun realized on n total mileage of
Sj.G.s was SiS4. 230, 1884, This is a gain
Jf IS per cent. in earnings and 81 per
cent. in mileage. The gain on 13G roads
ia 1889 over 1888 was 9.5 per cent.
Every group of roads shows an increase
for the year. the smallest gain being
that of the Mexican roads, seventeenth
Of l per cent, 3nd the largest that of the
southwestern roads, 1917 per cent. In
addition TO the latter Three others show
gains in excess of 10 per cent.-Siz., the
eastern roads, 10.3 per cent the south
zrn roads, 10 pr Cor, and tbe Pacific
roads, 100 per cent. The central west
ern roads gain 9.5 per cent, and the
grangers 81 per cent, while the trunk
lines show the comparatively modest
gain Of "a per cent.
, 1891-03-04
loves -MEsSENGERs.

A bunch OF vi1lets, purple tinged.
Tied with a ribbon white
Like a tiny bit OF sky befringed
With a cloudlet stepped in silvery light
Lies on my de=k tonight.
Al! fragrant waits OF flower wOoed
climes,
Come. tell me, whence are yer
Breathing their perfume into rhymes
And tones Of richest harmony,
They fondly answer me:
I'VE come from ono whose lovelt eyes
Would dim our deepest blue,
whose brow l. fair rs mrIliuE TIlsz.
Whose cheek has tie sunsets sonsst
hue
Loves messengers 10 you"
S. Easby-Smith in Kate Ii IDS Washing
, 1891-03-04

What a foolish habit some men have
Of putting water on the hair in this kind
Of weather" remarked one Of the Du.
quesne BARRIERS why put water on
the hair at alla It is done, to be sure. to
make the hair liz down, but it is more
Of a habit than anything else. The hair
can be- brushed dry as well as wet.
"You see mer % out OF barber shops
with the water running from behind
their cars. In u few minutes it is
changed into icicl.s. The next day they
complain of earacle. neuralgia. or pain
in the back of the head. Do you won
der why: The Cause is not deeply hid
den. It ia not wster on the brain this
time. but ice on the hair. "-Pittsburg
Dispatch.
, 1891-03-04

"omen's Tastes In the Choice OF Salads.
The cleverest women Of my acquaint-
ance are those that have come to APP
proach mems tastes in matters CASTRO
nomic. What salad shall we havey' j
asked of a man with whom l was taking
luncheon the other day. Here are
chicken and lobster" said he, with a
half query in his voice. "Oh, we're not
women" said the gourmet of the party;
'give us chicory with French dress
ing" Here was a ~gastronomic truth.
The meat salads, a mistake and a bar
barism from every point of view, are
dear to the palates of women, but often
siye, l fancy, to most men of cultivated
taste in matters ~gastronomic. Now and
then, however, nj finds a woman to
whom the masculine taste in such mat.
tiers is no longer a mystery, and it is de,
hghtful to see how the pretty creatures
plume themselves upon this item OF
agreement with the tyrant man.-New
York Star.
, 1891-03-04
CONOITYDNAL REPRIETE.

A CONDi"EONAL REPRIE We.
Governor Barber's willingness to grant
a reprievo OF sixty days to the condemned
murderer Miller is a concession which
could not very well be refused. This will
give Miller's attorney time to bring the
matter before the supreme cour for re-
vision and if he can make out a good case
for his client, as he alleges he can, he is
certainly entitled to this degree OF con-
sideratiou. We do not believe that the
dreadful facts in the Miller case can either
be modified or mitiRated but we have
been decidedly in favor of giving him
every advantage which the law allows him.
Complete justice having been thus shown
him if the supreme court find nothing
upon which to justify a rehearing then
the sentence Of the law should be carried
ont.
, 1891-03-04

Tha lata Judge Daniel Clark Of Man
chester. n. H., wa in the Unitel States
senate during the war. and was known
AS a man of wit an3 strong purpose. On
one occasion he obtained the floor for a
speech late in the day and asked for an
adjournment. as he had NOT tasted food
for twelve hours. This wa refused: hut
when he had a tray with tea and sand
witches brought and placed before him
his opponents Mt once voted a recess ~
let him eat his upper.
, 1891-03-04

Nelson II. Baker, district attorney OF
Westchester county. n. Y, writes:
Il have received many letters IN refer,
euce to my testimonial. lately published
commencing Allcock's Porus Plasters.
| cannot spare the time to answer them
in writing, therefore would again say,
through the press, that | have found All,
cocks Porus Plasters invaluable as chest
protectors and shields against coughs and
colds. Furthermore, | have found All,
cocks Plasters uuequaled for pains in the
side, back and chest.
, 1891-03-04

Mrs. Annie Wittenmeyer, ex-president
OF the National Woman's Relief corps, is
in attendance on the Pennsylvania legis,
lature, to help secure an appropriation
for the Brookville Soldiers Home. an
institution for aged and disabled soldiers
and their wives.