The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1893-10-12
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Mira. Arthur Stannard has resumed.
the cditorship of Winters Weekly
which was founded by her nearly three
wears ago. Another wcll-known wom-
an editor is tho countess of Aherdecn'
who with her daughter. Lady MaJorle
Gordon. edits the child's paper, Wee
Willie Wrinkle.
Edwin c. Marshall. who died in
San Francisco recently, was Il brother
of Kcntuclxvs orator Tom Marshall.
and himself and eloquent speaker and
man of brilliant parts. In his
Younger years he practlccd law III the
courts of Lexington and Versailles, and
the reputation for wit he made then
still lives in the bluegrass region.
Logan Carlisle. chief clerk OF tho
United State, treasury department, b
thirty-two years OF age rio Is directly
responsible for the expenditure OF over
g. 900, 900 annually. l.e is the son OF
the secretary OF the tire .ury "nd was
selected because hi: father vented
person upon whom he could implicitly
RELY. Young Carlisle is equal 20 the
trust.
There recently d;cd at CtSc%o
Lake. y. y. in the ninctH-'c, 'c;r
Of his age. a man named Joseph Fran
/ els, who was little known. and yet who
had done more for the liir-savin8 scrv-
ice than almost any other, rs be WAS
the first man 10 ,ler iron fGf building
lifcboats and life cars. III, appliances
were in general use in Europe long hc-
fore they were adopted b. the / nitcd
! States.
"A famous subject Of the Sultan 81
Turkey died short lime ago in
Adrnnoplc. lie was lIad>l!i Achr'rd
Izzct Pasha governor general OF the
Black Sea province. and Il great pr"tcge
OF h;a sovereign 1t WIS hi, custom
when obliged to give his hand TO
Christian 80 wash it upon withdrawal
in the prcscnc" Of the guest Further
than this, if any part of his clothing
happened 90 tnnch the "whitc-faced
foreigner" tho offending garmcnt was
never worn ugHin.
When the marquis OF Salisbury.
then Lord Robert Cecil. was Young
man he went 10 Australia /" seek hlh
fortune This was ii 1913. He
worked in the Mount Alexander and
Hrndiro gold fields rou1hing it like
the average prospr-tnr. doing his own
cooking and washing AMI generally
accommodating himself to the customs
of the country. He found little gold.
but accumulated Il stock OF rugged
health that stood him i'll good stead
during the rxhaustinY political cam
paigns of his later years.
-l,avard Taylor's home OF trdaY-
croft. lust sold. lies in one OF the love
licst agricultural regions OF the At
lantio coast 1t was here that Sidney
/ Lanier wrote some of his best poems.
Mr.. TAYLOR himself had become so
much a man of the world that he wA*
! somewhat at outs with the somewhat
nnrrow Quaker community III which
his home was, hut he had strong l0cai
attachments, anal it waS q pleasant
thing TO see him stirling about the
pretty village of Kcnnctt Squnru, his
iron-gray beard and ruddy face known
to all whom he met.
Mr.. Anthony J. I,rcxcl, the lfhiia-
dclphia philanthropist and the fonndcr
of the DreXcl institute in that city.
who died suddenly of apcplexy AT
Carlsbad, Germany. last June. was
born in Philadelphia in 1876. The
house OF DreXel & Go. WAS established
bv HIS father in 1877 and Anthony Ell
tered the banle ut tie age OF thirteen.
on the death of f. NJ. Drcvel in l-'i5.
his sons. A. j. and Francis A.. sue
| cccdcd him. and the firms became one
of the most substantial IN the country.
The New York house WAS founded in
1850 and the Paris branch in 1861.
HUMOROUS.
--{le-"rA, you Think uv nrss"Ac'r:
q ut4Ouhs4c at,~''i don't kn""I
Point ous tn" ulazA VITO ~ wonrfn4F a
pacaaA "--lntcs-Ocean-
City Hporteman-'l lavc You ~~n
anything worth shooting az around
herc?" Farmcr-"tcll, no: not until
You came. "-Somervillc Journal.
Mrs Dangle-''Wha do the papers
mean by the phrase painful silence.
dear? don't sec how silence could
ever be painful, do you bangle
$40, I can't. Mrs. BANGLE; no, can t..
---I!ufTalo Courier.
MIA" said a newspaper mans son.
II know why editors cell themselves
we" "Whyy" ''So's the man who
doesn't like the article will think there
are too many people for him to tackle"
Washington Star
Too Powerfully hcn are yOu
roinr to rive us the rest Of chat article