The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1900-03-15
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mer.-Pennington Gap Ners.
Just think of it! -Four thousand
Beers, without artillery, stand Oh
$4,000 British for ten days. Was
there ever a more gallant fight? Do
not men who can battle and die like
this. deserve to retain freedom?-
Clinch Valley News.
All the big cities are making lots
of fuss about the horseless carriages
lust as if it was something new. Ab-
ingdon has been blessed with the
horseless carriages for at least nifty
wears. and she "spects" to continue
their use.-Abingdon Herald
The British have relieved Lady
smith at a great cost in blood ana
treasure, but if they can consolidate
their power in South Africa there
will be a much larger yield in gold
and diamonds than under Boer SUI
premacy in that part OF the WORLD
Roanoke World.
The total Russian petroleum pro-
duction OF the principle districts Tor
the ten months amounted altogether to
1882, 447 tons compared with $500,
$40 tons for the corresponding period
of 1898. Of this quantity, 6,646'-
972 tons we're obtained by pumping
and 1886, 574 tons were received IRON
Scientific american.
Gossip has made many home a
hell upon earth. Gossip has parted
man and wife. Gossip has blacken-
ed and sullied the character OF many
poor girl. Gossip has parted low,
ers who would have been happy had
it not been for gossip. One little
mistake or one little discretion will
cause gossip to rise and start on her
bellish mission.-LebdnOn NeWS.
The farmer boy may not wear as
good clothes and put on as much
one horse style as the city boy, but II
| he buckles himeslf down to hard work
he will, at the end of ten years, be
able to buy and sell the other. Don't
get discouraged and dissatisfied boys
with the farm; it's the place where
happiness, prosperity and indepeDd-
ence is gai~d.-Grcenrille (Ienn')
Times.
We see that our good friend Judge
Sam w. Williams, of Wythevllle,
has publicly declared himself a can
didate for Attorney-General OF Vir-
gina. He is an excellent gentleman,
a learned lawyer, and Simon pure
Democrat. However, he will discov-
one of these days that Tate Irvine
has done gone and got cinch on
Jack Montague's joh.-JOneSuittC
Virginian.
Sam Jones believes Thoroughly in
the Bible according to the following
uttered during the course of his lect-
ure in Knoxville last week; 81 be.
lieve in the Bible; | believe that the
whale swallowed Jonah and if the
Bible had said Jonah had swallo we'd
the whale / would be prepared tc
meet Jonah some day with his waist
band let out. "-GrecnciHe (Tenn.
Republican.
Every now aid then some little
gold-bug democrat bobs up and ad-
vises the party he bolted four years
ago to drop the free-silver question,
as he fears for the success OF the par
ty if that plank is retained in the
platform. These fellows seem to
forget that six million voters stood
on that platform in 1896, and more
than that number are willing to
stand upon it again.-Erchdnge.
When you strike d neighborhOod
that does not have Sunday School
more than three months in the year
and preaching more THAI once in a
month and does not pay for that, you
may be sure that a low state Of NOR
| ais exist there and the church mem
bership, no matter its numbers, does
not amount to knot on log. Sun
day is day for visiting and the ex-
change of the news. The women
rend their neighbors with Their
tongues of sword and the men talk
politics and tell lies and obscene an
ecdotes. Such a neighborhood is a
paradise for the moonshiner. He
always strikes "pay dirt" in this re-
gion and the people will buy his
wares if they only have a crust for
bread and rag for clothing-JoneS-
boro { Tenn Herald dnk Tribune.
Mr.. Nat Dickinson, of Castlev ID,
made The OUTLOOK pleasant all
Monday. Mr.. Dickinson lives on
aad owns one of the most, If not the
most, historic places ia the county
His farm is the one formerly owned
by Gen. Russell, for whom the coun-
ty takes its name. On this farm is
buried General Russell's first wife.
The house occupied by Mr.. Dicken-
son is more than one hundred Years
old and was once an Indian tort.