The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1895-02-07
LETTER FROH OLINGER.
Olinger. Va. Feb, End, 1898.

OlInger, q. Feb, Sno, 1000
Editor Big Stone Posr:-Does the. Jaws
Of this State allow man to deliberately
starve stock to death? Is there no law
whereby cattle or horses, which are actually
dying, can be sold from the owner VINO
won't feed them, to some one who wiifs
There is something in the air besides It's
component parts. Our Anglo Saxon tore
fathers had the plague, "the comet, ana
! the Suracens, rs epidemics almost every
year. Their descendants have mysterious
yisitations, as woves Of ''la Grippe" ana
The air is said to he full of germs but
if some Big Stone Gap Sovant will anal
ize barrel or two full! of the Immediately
modern air, his labors will be rewarded by
finding new 'bugul." 1t may be the
same bug that Adam met when he 100.
that walk just before the fall any way
the air is full of that bugulc, its descen-
dants, and it is the primordal germ OF
general cussedness." The indiaidual has
got it, Congress has got 1t, the country mas
rot II. For instance, woman who "got
religion" recently Mt the DISTRACTED meet
ing" now in progress at Ollnger' says
that ever since she "got religion" she has
been praying for certain man to go TO
"torment. An able bodied lahore stood
up before dozen others q few days ago and
advised them, when they couldn't get one
dollar day for work, to do nothing as
long as they could and then Eight it out.
In certain conditions, congestion, plethora
blood letting is good. The old time doc
tor went to see his patient, and whether
the sick man had "gonerel cHsscdness" or
itch, he slapped big ay plaster on the
patients lumber coidal ox-coxey-bust,
bled him and left. AS soon US he got
home he turned around and went and
gave his patient another dose OF exactly
the same treatment, with the addition OF
half ounce of cu!omc, an ounce of tartar
emetic, handful Of jalap anda pound OF
SIENNA, at one dose, then he stood around
looking wise and talked about the patients
''qonderrary" being out of fig, and of tine
inscrutablc ways Of Providence. Given
the right kind of case, and it was excel
lent treatment A fly blister ten miles
square and several feet thick, applied to
the city of New York and the blood letting
done in Washington, let the country take
the calomel tartar, cmctic, jalap and SEN
ma, andJohn Sherman can stand around
talk about the "ponderrary" and Provi-
dence. 1t is said that the Egyptian locusts
hallowed Pharaoh and that the Kansas
grasshopper has 1899 in plain figures on
his back; and that George Washington
saw the devil at Valley Forge, and anyone
can see that Georges numerous are pre-
pairing to see the devil and also the place
where he is supposed to dwell in, in the
very immediate future. Oh! Lord deliver
us from both, and let the anarchists and
pCUpIc WIZ aFC tOO id| w WI ny "HN WV
present Congress die first. Poor George
tle government he struggled so hard to
form and whiol, he prayed so feryertly,is
thing of the past, and the vision ho saw
while encamped on the Hudson is begin
ing TO he realized.
Let tllG blood letting begin. there are
eight or ten millions of people in this re-
public who need their heads cut off at once
and If Darwin will arise from the dust, and
he, or some Of his followers. will coax
Grover Cleyeland's candal extremity to
grow about eighteen inches longer and to
hair over, The missing link will be found
and the millennium will begin.
Resp,
LAZARUS CAscIQUE, Of Elk KNOB.