The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1900-03-01
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aid and Tribune.
DIR. Hatcher is still sick at his
country home, and the latest news
from him is that he is not as well as
he was a few days ago.-Ret'g'ous
Herald.
Prosperity in town is dependent
upon the united citizenship with the
single purpose of improvement
GreenviUe (Tenn.) Democrat.
A bow of II was married to a girl
of 10 at Donkey, Va. The Knox
vile Sentinel thinks "that place
must have been named for them in
advance. "-Saraudh { Ga.) Press.
The Bristol Courier seems to be
democratic in Tennessee and "mlghfy
nigh" republican on the Virginia
side. Come of the roost, brother
Slack.-Pulaski News-Review.
1t is little queer how the timidity
which prevents a man from doing the
thing he ought to do suddenly disap-
pears when he takes notion to do
the thing he ought not to do.-Hot-
ston Christian Advocate.
The Jonesville Virginian is groom
ing r. Tate Irvine, of Big Stone Gap,
for Attorney-General. We think the
Southwest is entitled to the Attor-
ney -generalship, and we know of no
one we would rather see get 1t than
Tate Irvine.-Lebdnon NeCs.
Col. Slemp and John Barker are
now referred to as the Montezumas OF
the Grab Orchard. That being true
Jeff Kilbourne, Charley Laningham
and Bud Cooper must come in under
the head of Aztecs.-JOneSultLe YER
gilman.
A drinking man whose foot is
crushed under the cars may truly re-
pent and be genuinely saved; but he
must hobble through the world on a
crutch or stump it on peg-leg the
balance of his days.-MidlGnd Meth
odiSt.
Victor Hugo said that "the rich
would do anything for the poor ex-
cept get off their backs" And, what
is more, the poor fight and slay each
other when it becomes necessary to
do so, in order that they may con-
tinue to ride on their backs.-Dalton
Herald.
The Virginia legislature is going
to bring suit to force West Virginia
to pay a portion Of the debt contract
ed before the state was divided.
This illustrates a "streak" that some
possesses of yearning for amusement
so much that they are willing to go
to law to get Bluefeld (W. Va.)
Telegraph.
The coal and iron, the marble and
zinc, the timber and the herbs of this
mountain country are destined to at
tract the attention of capital for years
to come. Labor will have profitable
employment, and home market will
be furnished for the trucker and the
farmer.-Bristol Courier.
A very fat man for the purpose of
quizzing his doctor, asked him to
prescribe for a complaint, which he
declared was sleeping with his mouth
open. Sir" said the doctor, 'your
disease is incurable. Your skin is
too short, so that when you shut your
eyes your mouth opens. "-Salem
TimeS-RegiSter.
The new president of the national
American woman suffrage association,
succeeding Miss Susan B. Anthony
retired, is Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait
of New York. She is a native of
Wisconsin, was school teacher and
editor, AMI as national organizer of
the woman suffrage association de-
veloped remarkable abilities.-Amer-
icdn AgriculturiSt.
Another rundown is awaiting the
Republicans. They have appealed
from Judge Taft's decision to the
Supreme Court of the United States
on the question Of jurisdiction over
the contests for the minor State
offices. Mckinley, Judges Evans and
Taft have all decided that the cleo
ton muddle must be settled in the
Kentucky courts.-Adair County
(Ky.) Neaos.
Thanks to a protective tariff, the
Carnegie steel works is making net
profit of half million dollars week.
This seems to be an argument in
favor of reduction of the tariff, but
as Carnegie is generous enough to
give probably 10 per cent. of his
profits to the common people" who
are taxed for his benefit, the aforesaid
common people are expected to gladly
continue to give Carnegie dollar if
he will mturn to them 10 cents
Louisville Post.
The next Republican State Com
mittee may endorse the constitutional