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The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1900-07-12
WISE COUNTY COURTS

County, couRr.-Held The &th Monday In each month
W. H. Bond, Judge.
CIRcuIr Controlled LIST Monday In April Sep'en'
her and December II. A. W. Skeeu, Judge.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
CouNrY AND CIRcUIr CouRT CLEKK.-w. y. Kilgorc
COMMONWEALTH ATTORNEY w. ". g. Dots0n.
TRE AsrRER.--H. &. Stewart.
COMMISSIONER eastern District. ID $. Kelly.
COMMISSIONERS western Di>trict.l-W ID. McAiel
ScHooi SUPERINTENDENT. II. Wamper
COUSrY SUkvEYoR.--S " Taylor.
JAiLER.-Chares Hughes
SUPPLEMENTARY o. THE :OOR.--G. H. Skeen.
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A Russian count and n French prince
are amoag the prisoners captured 10y the
British and are now enjoying the sea air
of St. Helena.
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There il trouble in the Carlisle, IA :
schools over the color line. The "hlte
graduates are opposed to three coiored
graduates taking part in the closing exer-
ciscs The School Board has decided that
they can not prevent it but the White
graduates have decided that they could
by declining TO have any closing exercises
and none will lie held.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1900-07-12
CHURCH DIRECTORY.
BIC STONE GAP.

TRINITY METHODIST CHURcH.--Rsv. J. A.
pvvAi, Pastor. Preaching every Sunday, morning
and.night
susDAv.ScuooL- Sunday morning at 10
o'esock.-J. p. wo,Sg, Superintendent.
Pa,fss-Assr,sa.--E Every Wednesday night.
Ctsss-NsEriSe.-fir Sunday in each month at
O'clock p. m.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH --Rsv. n. G. MArRg-
son. Pastor. Preaching Second Sunday In each
month, morning aud night, at the Episcopal Church
SuSDAy-Scsoof.-EveryS Sunday morning al 10
O'Clock. Ia Presbyterian Chappc near the brdgeii.
l. SULLIVAN, Superintendent.
BAPTIST CHURCH.--Rsv. VI. A. WILSON, Pastor.
Preaching every Bad aud 4th Sunday, morning and
night. AZ Norton every 3rd Sunday.
SrSoAy-ScHo0t. Every Sunday morning. at 10
oclock.--y. N. Go0iloe, Superiu'cnde
PRAYss-xssrSs. -Evcry Wednesday night.
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ITEMS OF INTEREST.

From Nebraska comes news that as
soon as the South African war is over, IL
the Beers are defeated, the Burlington
read will have agents in the field TO pro-
mote their emigration to the United States
and offer them the most liberal terms 10
become residents here.
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A German mathematician has hgured
that in programme Of twenty wal'zes'
four poikas and two quadrlIes dancer
covers nearly twelve miles in the course
Of an evening.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1900-07-12

'Algernpn j. vcsy interesting sa'd '"e
stick brokers' daughter.
..Wh,t does he talk aboutr' inquired
her father.
"Why, he's ever so well posted III
Shakespeareau quotations.
"Young woman," said the hnancier
stearnly, don't YOU let him deceive yor'
Don't you let him make sport OF your 10
norance. There amt no such stock on
the market"
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hiring 10 halt one 81 the big ocean steam
ers when shc is travelling at high rate
Of speed In tse meantime she will iraVc'
A distance of half mile.
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II is said that the color tones OF the SKY
have an influence upon the character anu
temperament OF the people who live under
them
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NATURAL TUNNEL ROUTE.
Time Table In Effect June u, 1900.
Eastern Standard Time.

Passengers desiring TO ride Local Freight Trains
No. IS and "a obtain permit from ticket agent.
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STONECA.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
srSpAY-ScRooL.-RveTy Sunday afternoon n, 2'S'
O'Clock. -JoaS ADAMS. ia, Superintendent
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1t requires three minutes in which to
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"Private monopolies are indefensible
and intolerable. They destroy COMPETE
| ton control the price of all material
and of the finished product thus roDoing
both producer and consumer, they lessen
| the employment OF labor ana arpitrarlly
| fix the terms and conditions thereof and
| deprive Individual energy and small cap
ital OF their opportunity for betterment:
"They are the most efficient means yet
devised for appropriating the fruits OF IN.
| dustry to the benefit Of the few at the
expense of the many, and unless their
insatiate greed is checked. all wealth Will
be aggregated in. a few hands and the
| republic destroyed.
evil by the republican party In state ana
national platforms is conclusive PROOF
| Of the truth of the charge that trusts
are the legitimate product of republican
policies. that they are fostered by repub--
| lican laws and that they are protected
| by the republican administration In re-
turn for campaign subscriptions and po-
| ltical support.
I'VE pledge the democratic party to
an unceasing warfare In nation, state
| and city against private monopoly In
| every form. Existing laws against trusts
| must be enforced and more stringent
| ones must be enacted providing for pub
LEFTY as TO the affairs of corporations
engaged in interstate commerce and re-
quiring all corporate officers to show be-
fore doing business outside of the state
OF their origin that they have no water
| i'm their stock and that they have not
attempted and are not attempting 40 mo-
nopoliZe any branch of business or the
production Of any articles OF merchan-
disc, and the whole constitutional power
Of congress over interstate commerce. the
mails and all modes of interstate COM
| nunication shall DO exercised by the en-
lctment OF comprehe nsive laws upon the
| subject of trusts.
"fhe tariff laws should be amended
| BY putting the products Of trusts upon
| The free list to prevent monopoly under
| the plea OF protection.
''The failure Of the present republican
| administration. with an absolute control
| over all branches Of the national gov
! .rnment, TO enact any legislation TO pre-
sent or even curtail the ahsoghinE nege.
The Conservative, 1900-12-27
Entered at the postoface at Nebraska City
Neb., as Second Glass matter. July 29th, 1893.
AGREEABLE.

Onemlndedness OF
the only living ex- x-presidents upon the
relations of the Philippines and other
insular acquisitions, there is general re-
joicing among patriotic Americans.
Mr.. Cleveland has expressed warm
approval of the noteworthy address of
Mr.. Harrison delivered at Ann Arbor,
calling it the best deliverance yet made
on the subject, and recommending it as
means of enlightenment for "those
who desire to acquaint themselves with
the precise question involved, and what
territorial expansion means to our re-.
public and with what it threatens our
people,"
And concerning this oneness of opin-
ion the Chicago Record remarks
"Supporting opposite views on many
national policies, as they have done as
representatives of democracy and
republicanism, respectively, Mr.. Cleve-
land and Mr.. Harrison yet come together
on this most important Of issues. Such
agreement, if it had been made known
before the election, might have had q
startling influence on the result"
And the result which that startling
influence" might have brought about
might have been more startling" than
any influence yet felt by this republic.
The two ex-presidents evidently agreed
as to "result" which would have
proved disastrous, and SO held their
peace until that calamitous "result" had
been safely averted. Neither of the ex-
presidents denounced the gold standard,
the writ of injunction and the right of
the federal government to defend it's
own life with it's own troops.
The Conservative, 1900-12-27
CONGRESS AND
ITS EXPENSES.

CONGRESS AND
IT'S EXPENSES. exists two years.
Each has "long"
and 'short" session. The latter, like
the former, beginning in December,
ends, by law, at noon on the 4th of
March.
Each senator, representative and
territorial delegate has yearly salary,
payable monthly,
of five thousand
dollars year. Thus each thirty days is
drawn four hundred and sixteen dollars.
The president pro tenn of the senate
and the speaker of the house, however,
each gets three
thousand dollars
year more than the regular salary, thus
paying them the same as cabinet officers
eight thousand dollars for twelve
months incumbency
Beside direct salary, each senator and
member of the house is allowed twenty
cents for each mile
travelled going to
and returning from sessions of congress
and also one hundred and twenty five
dollars year for stationery, postage
and newspapers.
Congressman whose terms begin
March preceding the December session
are permitted to
draw three thous-
and dollars, if they have taken the otah
of Office, before they have rendered any
service. When congress is not in session
members are paid by warrants on the
sub-treasury nearest their residence.
During sessions they get currency direct
from the sergeant at. arms.
The United States senate and house
of representatives cost the people four
millions of dollars
ss's"'' o' year.
Senators salaries and mileages COM
bined come to four hundred and sixty
four thousand dollars.
The pay and mileage of the house mem.
bers each year are one million three
hundred and forty thousand dollars.
Reporting the proceedings of con.
gress costs sixty thousand dollars a
year.
Stationery and newspapers take eighty
Thousand dollars per annum.
Fuel, heat and light for the capitol
aggregate twenty five Thousand and the
police force thirty
five thousand dol
lars each year to keep them warm and
unharmed. And in the same period
The Conservative, 1900-12-27

thirty five thousand dollars is paid out
for folding documents and thirty thous.
and dollars for furniture and repairs.
Besides these items there is fat round
sum each year for the miscellaneous
expenses" of congress.
The prayer maker for each honorable
body receives the same pay. Thus the
chaplain of the
senate and the
chaplain of the house are salaried at
nine hundred dollars year. Neither
of them can see the men for whom they
offer petitions to the Deity, for both are
blind. Sometimes it seems that the
blind are leading the blind.
The secretary of the senate gets five
thousand, the sergeant at arms and the
head doorkeeper
each receive forty
three hundred, and there are seven
minor clerks who each receive from
twenty five hundred to three thousand
dollars year, and then comes a senate
postmaster and librarian and keeper
of stationery who also get succulent
salaries.
The chief clerk of the house gets
forty-fiv hundred dollars year and he
has force of nine
clerks Immediately
under his orders who, altogether, draw
each year twenty Thousand dollars.
These are part of the expenses of the
congress of the United States and The
CONSERVATIVE will continue didactic
articles along these lines, from time to
time.
The rank and
file of the voting
men of the United States can never be
counted safely patriotic until they have
been taught their obligations under the
constitution and made to understand
that citizenship, besides comforting privi-
leges, also imposes duties.
No matter how logically and lucidly
questions of economic concern or
governmental policy are debated by
scholars and statesmen, if, after the dis
cussion is concluded, they are decided
by the ballots of ignorancs and vice.
The crank and file" too often depend
upon unprincipled leaders for opinions,
and when they do not do that they
frequently mistake prejudice for judg.
ment and passion 70 patriotism.
How many of the fourteen millions Of
ballots cast November 6, 1900, repre-
sented the study, thought and patriotic
| ;v,<or<iov, 0F int xuoll adroo<oA
The Conservative, 1900-12-27
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The Conservative, 1900-12-27

J. STERLING MORTON, EDITOR.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-01-05
B~RITISH-BOER WAR.

General French has occupied Coles
burg. after a sharp fight with Beers.
Red Cross subscriptions for the Trans
vaal in Berlin already total 100, 900
marks.
Boer Commandant Swart reports a
fight with Kafirs, losing three killed
and three wounded.
The common council of Boston, after
a spirited debate, adopted a resolution
of sympathy for the Beers.
There are rumors Of a Dutch rising
with the cadture of Cape Town and the
governor of Cape Colony as the object.
William Waldorf Astor has SUBJ
scribed 81 900 to the Buckinghamshire
fund to equip the county's contingent
of yeomanry.
The queen has approved the appoint
ment of the Duke of Connaught as
commander-in-chief of the British
forces in Ireland.
George w. Vansiclen, treasurer of
the American Transvaal fund, says he
is receiving $50 a day in small amounts
from all over the country.
Sidney Paget, who is the racing part
ner of William G. Whitney and brother
Of Almeric Paget, Mr.. Whitney's SON
in-law, will join the body of cavaly be-
ing raised by Lord Wolverton for serv-
ice in South Africa against the Beers.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-01-05
NEWS.

Filipinos attacked the American gar
rison at Subig, but they were repulsed.
The transport Thomas, with the bod
les of Lawton and Logan on board, has
sailed for San Francisco.
Aguinaldo's wife and sisters and
other Fllipinos have surrendered to the
Americans. The latter have begun a
general southern advance. Cuyabo was
captured after a hard fight.
The transport Lennox arrived at Ma
Mia on Dec. 20, and the transport Siam.
Dec. 20. These vessels took out a cargo
of horses and mules, the Lennox from
San Francisco and the Siam from Hon
olulu. ....
Colonel Loekett, with a force Of $500,
including artillery, Wednesday, attack
ed a strong force of insurgents in
trenched in the mountains near Mont
alban, about five miles northeast of San
Mateo. The enemy was completely
routed. Two Americans were wounded.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-01-05
A GrasshOpper For Luck.

Should you be reposlng in summer in
a meadow and a grasshopper happens
to jump on you by no means drive
him away. Welcome and cherish him,
which Is best done by perfect quiz
escence.
Whether his usual merry disposition
or his blithe hopping over all sorts Of
difficulties has any association with
the notion we know not, but the popu-
larity Of the grasshopper Is ancient
and distinguished enough, the Greek
species having been favorites with all
the poets from Homer and Hesiod to
Anacreon and Theocritus. So much
did the Athenians admire them that
they were accustomed to fasten golden
figures of them in their hair, and they
were always addressed by the most
endearing epithets. The sound of the
grasshopper Is always welcome and
naturally of good omen, abiding, as 1t
Were. to summer and sunshine.-Gen-
tleman's Magazine.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-01-05
NEWS OF THE WEEK
NEWS FROM WASHINGTON.

Bubonic plague is said to have gained
\ foothold At Honolulu.
America and Great Britain are stated
to have called q halt on French agrees
sion in Liberia.
Commissioner Ferdinand w. Peck
has appointed Sousa's band as the Off
eial American band to play at the Paris
exposition.
Secretary Hitchcock re%considered his
order to Oar Hall to close up his work
as Chippewa commissioner on Monday,
and has extended the time indefinitely.
In answer to an appeal for contribu-
lions of books and papers for the garri-
son at Guam, the navy department has
received 92S books, 3,217 magazines.
2.14s illustrated weekly papers, u sets
of dominoes, 72 sets of checkers and 70
sets Of alphabet blocks, the last to be
used to teach the native children.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-01-05
NEWS OF NOTED PERSONS.

Admiral Dewey will visit Savannah
on or about March 30.
General Daniel Butterfeld is seriously
i'll in his home in New York.
The condition OF Congressman G. A.
Boutelle OF Maine is understood to be
serious.
Milloecker, the Austrian composer, is
suffering from paralytic stroke. His
condition is critical. n
An operation for cancer of the stom-
ach has been performed on Roland
Reed, the actor. His condition is very
serious.
A dispatch from Vantage. County Of
Berks. says that Richard Croker, who
has been staying at a country house
near there, slipped while mounting a
horse, owing to the animal swerving,
and broke his leg.
Florence Blythe Hinckley, heiress to
several million dollars left her by her
father, Thomas Blythe, which were
awarded to her after ~protracted litiga-
ton, has been quietly married to A. A.
Moore, Jr., deputy attorney general of
California.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-01-05
UNFORTUNATE EVENTS.

A fire in the Krupp cast steel works
at Essen did damage to the amount OF
SIS, 900. Many valuable models and de.
signs were destroyed.
Fire did damage to the amount of
5000, 900 to the dry goods establishment
of George Dewald g. Co. and the kaag
crockery store at Fort Wayne, Ind.
One Of the animal keepers at the
Vienna geological garden entered the
cage of the lions in a spirit of bravado
and six lions rushed upon him and tore
him to pieces. ~
At Fort Yates, N. D.. Eva Trexler, a
schoolgirl, had her head nearly severed
from her body by running into a barb
wire fence while coasting. She was in
stantly killed.
The Cheyenne flyer on the Union Pa
cifc road crashed into the Boulder val
ley train at Brighton, Colo. One man
was killed, and as far as known, a
dozen persons were injured.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-01-05
THE DEATH RECORD.

Ex-Congressman Michael Griffin died
suddenly at Eau Claire Friday.
Miss Dorothy Dene, the English act
ress, is dead. She toured the United
States in 1893.
Professor Elliott Coues of Washing
ton, the world famed o~rnithologist and
scientist, is dead.
J. w. McAndrews, the old time "wa-
termelon man. of the Haverly Minstrel
company, died at the Elgin Oils asy-
lum Friday, aged "a.
Thomas Mcclellan, senior member Of
the firm of Mcclellan, Smith & Jordan,
type founders. died from pneumonia at
his home in Germantown, Pa.
Captain Jacob Jay Vandergrift, one
of the wealthiest and most prominent
men of Pittsburg and a pioneer Of the
petroleum and natural gas producing
industry, is dead.
Rev. Sylvester Malone, pastor of the
Roman Catholic church of Saints Peter
and Paul. Brooklyn, and a member OF
the board Of regents of the University
of New York, is dead, aged " years.
T. G. Fish, president of the Fish
Bros. Manufacturing company, died at
his home at Clinton, Ia., aged 66 years
He was widely known as the founder
Of the famous Fish Bros wagon, be.
ginning it's manufacture at Racine,
| Wis. in 1862.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-01-05
TO DEAL WITH THE PLAGUE.

Quarantine Regulations to he in Charge
of Marine Hospital Corps.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.-The war de-
partment is taking steps to prevent the
introduction Of the plague in the Phil
ippines, and Secretary Root called into
consultation Surgeon General Wyman
OF the Marine Hospital service to dis
cuss the establishment of a quarantine
system for the islands. 1t vas decided
that the war department should contide
the maintenance Of a quarantine sys-
tenn to the Marine Hospital service. 1t
happens fortunately, that the Marine
Hospital service has already two quar-
antine plant in the Philippines, while
two Of it's surgeons are now on their
way to Manila, so that little delay will
be encountered in beginning to draw a
rigid quarantine line in the Islands.
Surgeon General Wyman does not feel
apprehensivs as to the possibility of the
infection Of San Francisco from Hon
olulu.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-01-05
FINANCE AND TRAD u.

The total imports of wool into the
United States for 1899 from all coun.
tries was 76, 1888, 900 pounds.
The British consul at Odessa says the
American bicycle is sold 40 per cent
cheaper than the English wheel and is
q better machine.
The consolidation Of the sanitary
esnameling interests OF the country,
known as the "bathtub" combination,
has just been completed.
The Mexican government has abol-
ished the export tax on coffee. This il
expected to increase the receipts OF
Mexican coffee in this country.
The corporation Of Glasgow has &C.
cepted the bid of a New York company
for electric feeders for a Glasgow tram
way at 1851, 900, $40, 900 below the low
est British offer.
In the fiscal year 1899 u sales to
Russia were valued at $40, O29, 1888,
against 81, 934, O97 the preceding year.
In 1893 u exports to Russia aggre.
gated in value ~$2,447,414.
The San Francisco Examiner says
five independent Eastern tobacco fac.
tories have combined to fight the to.
bacco trust. and have made arrange.
ments for an aggressive campaign on
the coast.
The Panama Canal company Of Amer
lea has been incorporated in New Jer'
sey. It's object-is stated to be to &C
n,,ire the rights and property and tC
continue the work Of the French Pan
anna Canal company.
The Berlin Reichsbank statement
just issued is regarded in German bust
ness circles as highly u~nfavorable. i
shows II, 900, 900 marks less metal il
stock than a year ago; "a, OOO, 900 mark:
in notes in circulation and PAL, OOO, OO(
marks in discount in excess OF LAS
years figures.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-01-05
His wife Saved III i'm.

My wife's good advice saved my life
writes r. M. Ross of Winfield, Tenn. for
l had such a bad cough l could hardly
breathe. l steadily grew worse under
doctors treatment, but my wife urged
me to use DR.. Kings New Discovery foi
consumption, which completely cured
me. Coughs, Colds, Bronchitis, La
Grippe, Pneumonia, Asthma, Hay Fever
and all maIadies of Chest, Throat and
Lungs are positively cured by this "a
yelous medicine. SOC and S1.0O every
bottle guaranteed. Trial bottles free al
Chapple Drug Co.'S store.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-01-05
POLITICAL NEWS.

Governor Tanner has announced that
he is NOT a candidate for reelection.
Senator Vest his retire.
ment at the expiration of his present
term.
United States Senator John M.
Thurston says he is not a candidate for
reelection.
Goebel has been nominated for presi-
dent pro tenn of the Kentucky senate by
the Democrats.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson ia
vors the nomination of ex-Secretary
Bliss for vice president.