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Do oohS tuO Poft Va WV
nineteenth century. The Hayden
Art Club was named for him, but not
because his pictures are of any great
value. He painted pictures. which
looked like tableaux OF The Judg-
ment of Solomon, The Rising of La
zarus, Napoleon Musing at st. Helena,
etc. They are hard and even the most
technically ignorant know that Hay
dOn's message was long ago delivered
and his meaning exhausted. The
club was named rather for TIE effort
Hayden made to oppose the formal
ism and colventiOnalism of the day In
his time he stood for breathing the
bondage OF tradition, for the same
thing that the impressiOnists signify
today. Therefore the Hayden Art
Club was named for him. Picture
dealers and artists who have pictures
to exhibit when they receive letters
from the corresponding secretary Of
the Hayden Art Club are discouraged,
thinking we are still clinging to chro-
mos and story pictures. Tten besides
the name has no locality significance.
The idea of the reOrganizers is to
unite dwellers this side the MiSsis-
sinpi into an institution for the foS-
tering and love of art. For this pur-
pose the board of directors is to be
composed of prominent men and wo-
men of the state who have already
shown an interest in and readiness
to make sacrifice for what is known
as "art."
The Western Art Associations spe-
c fic aim is to provide an exhibition
every year. and to offer prizes large
enough to attract new pictures from
the best artists. On Tuesday evening
the Twentieth of March. the new cub
will meet to hear the report of the
nominating committee which has
been appointed to nominate the presi.
dent and directors Of the new as
sociation:
Reorganization.
Every club woman should read the
remarkably plain, clear statement of
facts in regard to reorganization
made by Mrs. Decker Of Denver. 1t
disproves the charges of unwIeldiaess
and overcrowding made principally
by women who did not 60 to Denver.
Women have much to learn from men.
What man or men having accomplish
ed large success like the general fed
dration Of wOmens' clubs, would be
because it was a national
organization and insured the aJten-
dance Of delegates from all over the
United States? No man and no men
would venture to alter the basis Of
An aristocratic or.
ganization, only remotely connected
with individual clubs and their mem
bers cannot be popular. Its biennial
meetings will not be crowded. There
will be no surge beating on the doors
of the auditorium the exclusives elect
to meet in. The newspapers will let
the little tea party quite alone. All
the unWieldiness which bothered
9 ,me Of them at Denver will disap.
pear. There will be no unseemly
sQuabb,e for office. The few ladies
sifted from state federations will cast
their vote deliberately and the presi-
dency of the obscure committee into
which some of the Massachusetts,
club women desire to convert the fed
Grafton will not be weighted with a
national honor as at present. Mrs.
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THE PASSING SHOW;
VILLA GATHER
A Lyric Poet.

There is nothing so unmistakable as
true poem; there is nothing over
which the conventions OF men and
the laws Of the schools have so little
control as poetry. There is no art in
which ambition and effort and cul-
ture count for so little. This is Pc
culiarly exemplified in recent VOL
ume OF verse by that eminent scholar
and critic. Mr.. George E. WoOdberry.
This volume contains many ideas set
forth in verse, many musical lines,
but not one poem. IL is not within
the power Of any man to attain unto
poetry by much labor or wide learn
ing or faultless taste. A man can no
more write q poem by mastering
pOeticS than bOtaniSt can make a
rose, or an astronomer fashion a star.
Even true poets do not always write
true poetry. The true poem is and
must remain largely a happy acci-
dent, and the gift of the man who
writes it is accidental, unquestion.
able. And about this gift there is a
mystery so impenetrable and so be-
yODd the range Of our analysis that
it has among all peoples, even tie
most skeptical, been accounted as
certain touch Of divinity in man. In
all other arts perfect execution and
complete mastery of form insure a
large measure of success. but a man
either is a poet or he is not. Burns.
who was a plowman might make
poetry, Mr.. Woodberry, who is a
scholar, may not. This is as far as
we are enlightened On the matter.
Some three years ago an English
man calling himself simply A. E.
Housman published a volume of
lyrics which carried the hail mark of
true poetry. Their quality is as un-
mistakable as it is rare. 1 do not
know who Mr.. HOusman is, but l
know that he is a poet. l have
sought far and wide for some infor.
nation concerning this man, and
have been unable to obtain even the
most meager. Miss Louise Imogehe
Quincy has tried to locate him and
has met with no better success.
have decided to let him remain a
literary mystery and the theme of
many imaginings. He called his sim
gle little volume OF verse "a Shrop.
shire Lad" The lyrics composing il
bear no titles, but there seems to be a
vague sort of plot running through
item all, binding them together.
They might he grouped under two
general headings; songs of Shropshire.
and songs of exile. 1t seems that MIR,
HOusman was once Shropshire lad
and that there were many
lads there who tished and danced at
the fair and worked in the fields aud
were staunch comrades and true.
Then the lassies began to figure in
their lives and there was trouble
a-brewing. All. such sad endings
they came to. those merry Shrop.
shire lads, and to what dark havens
and down what black streams were
they born. those gay crafts that put
out into the Severn tide in the gad.
some morning. One lad, an athlete
died young, before the laurel Of his
triumphs had withered. and bis sweet
heart married his best friend. One
killed his brother by the haystack and
was hanged in Shrewsbury jail.
"Thsre sleeps tonight in Shrewsbury JaiI.
Or wakes, as may betide,
A kex4e. Ii e
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perfect breeding OF the moSleui,
breeding which refuses TO be amused
at variations in bodies. characters or
lives of the human beings that sur
round them. How grateful would lie
an infusion of Turkish manners into
American life in country town.
The amenities OF life in Lincoln are
saved for church. for parties, recep-
tions, and other functions where we
are obviously conscious that the wool,
Gotten or silk that clothes US IS the
best We have and rather elegant too.
Among us for forty years Mr.. Barr
wenttu and from his business as isO-
late as though he walked in world
of ghosts, the only 1--we man. His isola-
tion was temperamental and not to
be entirely destroyed by friendly in
sistauce but there is no record that
anyone ever tried. He has gone and
these reflections were untimely if
there were no lonely and mistranSlat-
ed ones left.
All. make the most
of what we vet may spend,
Before we too, into the dust descend;
Dust unto dust, and under dust to lie.
kentucky Women.
The Emergency Association Of
Louisville, club Of women, called a
meeting at one of the churches and
several thousand women attended it,
for the purpose of discussing the law
less acts at Frankfort. The mass
meeting was addressed by eloquent
women anxious to do what they could
to prevent what was then closely
impending catastrophe. Bishop Dud
ley made the opening address and he
was followed by splendid men and
women who plead for more patriot
ism and less partisan politics, more
statesmauship and less trickery.
Mrs. Ida Harrison, of Lexington, read
a Set of resolutions that were prompt
ly and unanimously adopted by the
audience. These resolutions, after
expressing the hope that the united
influence of the women of Kentucky
might incite men to rise above party
for the honor of statehood, urged the
cooperation of parents, teachers, club
women and kindred organizations in
Kentucky to this end. The resolu-
tons specifically condemed the car
rying Of deadly weapons, concealed or
not, and ascribed the disorder and
crime to this characteristic Kentucky
hibit. They urged that public opin-
ion should insist upon the enforce
ment of the law against carrying
deadly weapons. The presidents Of
the clubs which are members of the
emergency association and their de
legates held supplementary meet
iny in order to put the resolutions
into dynamic form. Mrs. c. p.
Barnes, auditor of the General Fed
Grafton of Womens' Clubs moved
''that special committee be appoint
ed TO convey to the women of Ken
tucky the sense Of this meeting. also
to formulate plan whereby its pur-
pose may he made practicable" This
was unanimously carried and s137
subscribed by the women present to
provide for the expenses of carrying
out the provisions of the motion.
The Stotsenburg Fund.
1t is doubtful if Mrs. Stotsenburg
will be granted pension Of even fifty
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fund. Nebraska people are just
emerging from financial climax but
this is debt Of honor and general
subscription such as CalifornianS
made to the Lawton fund will not
rest heavily on any one. The Ne
braska press, democratic. pOpulist,
republican and non.partisan has
never been united for one purpose.
This debt to brave man, who for
the glory Of his country and to save
the lives of Nebraska volunteers stood
up in a field where the men were ly-
ing down and where no other officer
ventured, to Iced charge on the in
trenched Filipinos. should be recOg-
nized. 1t cannot be paid. but We
can breathe more freely if we accept
the commission that Colonel Stotsen
burg, with his last breath must have
committed to US.
The Jury System.
theoretically the jury system is a
guarantee of justice. and bulwark
against tyranny in high places. but a
study of the individuals of a jury is
disheartening. The system unfolds
in book like public ownership of all
municipal service. If all men were
honest, able, discriminating and un-
prejUdiced, the jury system, like the
public ownership system, would be
worthy Of real as well as Of oratorical
enthusiasm. But jurymen are select
ed mostly from the hangers on, about
the court room, men who have nei-
ther the ability nor the energy to
make better living than that af-
fOrded them by occasional employ
ment as jurymen. One who, either as
defendant or plaintiff has studied the
faces of jurymen while testimony is
offered for their consideration or
while a judge is ipstructing them has
enjoyed the best opportunity Of study
ing the system and of comparing the
acumen of one mird with twelve. The
Judge generally comprehendS the
point at issue between plaintiff and
defendant. He understands the gen.
eral law which applies to this or that
case and explains i'm what way it may
be fitted to the case so that the yer.
dict and the law may not conflict.
Meanwhile the jury of ditchers and
diggers, give no sign of intellectual
apprehension AMI the verdict is apt
to reflect the jurymen's inattention
and intellectual barriers to the eG-
trance of an idea. Those who have
had much to do with The law, and
there are those who cannot be cured
Of the chronic tendency to litigation,
prefer to have their disputes settled
by judge. A litigant convinced of
the justice OF his cause would invari-
ably choose Judge. The latter has a
reputation to maintain. His decis
ions become precedents and they are
frequently taken to a higher court.
A jury is composed Of Tom. Dick and
Harry, men of no distinction, of
past With may be summed up in
the phrase hangers on about the
court roOm," of no future and Of no
definite responsibility. Such men are
weakly sentimental. What opinions
they possess have been cultivated by
the anecdotes they swap with their
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kentucky Women.
The Stotsenburg Fund.

1t is doubtful if Mrs. Stotsenburg
will be granted a pension of even fifty
dollars a month. How difficult it is
to rear a family on that sum no one
knows who has not tried. Several
papers of the state have urged the
raising of this fund. If all the pa
pers of the state would undertake to
receive contributions from their dis
tricts fund might be quickly rails
ed. Nebraska owes this debt and Ne
braskans should pay it voluntarily.
The Courier has received Que hun
dred dollars to be applied to this
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Another Of the Shropshire bows
went into the army, and fell into
some black disgrace and shot him.
self, and still another. the singer Of
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FROM FREEZING.
corre.pondence Of The Big Stone Gap Pos

Correspondence OF The Big Stone Gap POST
FEELING, VA, April l3.-County court IL
in session at Clintuood this week, with
Judge A. A. Skeen presiding. 1here IL
not much business of Importance to be
transacted at this term.
Daniel McFall, Of near this place Is IN
proving. after his recent illness.
Little Edgar Beverley, who has been
very i'll for some months, is improving
slowly at this writing.
Corn and feed is very scarce here now
Corn il being hauled from the railroad.
Mrs. John Trivitt, of this place, is very
i'll at this writing.
Miss Clementine Vanover, OF this place,
i. visiting at Coeburn this week
Monroe Lipps, who recently moved from
here to Cocburn, is here on business.
William Beverly has gone TO Kentucky
to take pictures this week
Our mails have been very Irregular dur
ing the past two weeks. Richmond sun
day papers have arrived at our office on
Saturday following The date of publlca-
tiou. F. NJ. b.
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Tennessee Romance.

In tho early days. before Fayette county
was as tbickly populated as it now Is, and
when there were vast tracts Of unsettled
lands, Mr.. Thomas Hall. who came origin
ally from Virginia, and lived several miles
from the present site Of Somer'ille, kept
q kind Of hotel, al which all travellers
passing that way would usually stop.
Just below Mr.. Halls house there was
large creek. By the side Of this creek
one morning, while OH his way to Som'r-
vile, Mr. Hall saw riderless horse
Seated by a tree, with bottle in his hand
and his arm raised in the act of carrying
the contents to his mouth, was man
Mr.. Hall rode up to the man, dismounted,
and, to his surprise, found him to be dead
His saddle bags we're examined and found
to contain $4,000, but no name, direction
or anything that pointed in any way TO
the identity of the dead man.
An inquest was held, the verdict oil the
Jurors being that the deceased came 10
his death from natural causes. The re-
mains we're then inferred at Somervile.
The money was turned over to the
county trustees, who Immediately put IL
out at interest.
Almost twenty.One years passed by ana
the incident had been all but forgotten,
when there came to the hotel kept by Dir
Hall young man about twenty-seven
wears Of age. Mr.. Hall asked him to reg
lister, remarking at the same time, "Regis-
terng might help to trace you in case you
should get lost" and then told the young
man Of the stranger who had persisted be-
side The creek.
The Young man became Interested IN
the story. He had been looking for years
for traces of his lost father. He had only
one child. His mother had told him that
his father carried $4,000 in gold. When
Mr. Hall stated that that was the exact
amount Of money the stranger carried the
young man was certain that he bad at
least found traces of his dead father. All
the papers bearing on the case. the des-
cription of the man filed away and the
verdict of the jury were closely examined
and though there was some delay the
identity Of the dead man was established
Further investigation proved also the
young mans identity and the truthfulne''
of his statements, and when the trustees
were fully satisfied Of tho identity of both
the money was called in, and the principal,
which has increased to $5O,O0O was made
over to him in full.-Mcmphis !Scimitor'
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His Life Was Saved.

Mr.. J. Z. Lilly, prominent citizen OF
Hannibal, Nc, lately had a wonderful de-
liverance from frghlful death. In tell
ing OF it he says: IL was taken with
Typhoid Fever, that ran into pneumonia.
Ny lungs became hardened. | was so
weak couldn't even sit up in bed
Nothing helped me. expected to soon
die Of Consumption, when heard of Dr.
Kings New Discovery. One bottle gave
great relief ] continued to use it, and now
am we'll and strong. can't say too much
in its praise" This marvellous medicine
is the surest and quickest cure in the
world for all Throat and Lung Trouble
Regular sizes 80 cents and $l.OO. Trial
bottles free at J. W. Kelly's drug store
every bottle guaranteed.
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No Right TO UglineSS.

The woman who is lovely in face, form
and temper will always have friends, but
one who would lie attractive must keep
her health. If she is weak, sickly and all
run down, she will he nervous and
irritable. If she has constipation or kid
new trouble, her impure blood will cause
pimples, blotches, skin eruptions and a
wretched complexion. Electric Bitters is
the best medicine in the world to regulate
stomach, liver and kidneys and to purify
the blood. 1t gives strong nerves, bright
ewes, smooth, velvety skin, rich complex
ion. fl will make good-looking, charm
ing woman of rundown invalid. Only
80 cents at J. ". Kelly drug store.
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WISE AND OTHERWISE.

Why do heps always lay eggs in the day
time? At night they are roosters.
What did the spider do when he came
out of the ark! Took fly and went home,
Why was the first day Of Adams life the
longest everknown? Because it had no
Eve.
"Say, Guy'nor, can't ye use good, live
man in your business?'
"No, | can't I'm an undertaken
Truth.
"What is fraciion?"
"a part of anything, sor.'
"Give an example"
"The seventeenth of June"
One morning little Nellie discovered a
spiders web in the window. ooh, NAM
ma" she exclaimed, "come and see this
bug in little hammock"
(Which is the head barberT inquired
the customer.
"We're all head BARRIERS" replied the
artist. "What did YOU suppose we we're
corn doctors?''-Y Onkers Statesman.
Mother-"Was your aunt glad to see
YOU, and Tommy and frankie aud FredF'
Johnny-"Yes, ma'am.'
Mother-"Did she invite you to call
again."
Johnny-"Yes, and she told us to bring
you and papa and the dog next time -
Harlem Life.
Three different walters at hotel asked
p nrim. precise little professor ut dinner
il he would have soup. A litiIe annoyed,
he said to the last waiter who asked the
question:
ais it compulsoryT'
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Therefore Great Britain and the United
States will be forced to stand BIZ japan,
while France as matter of self-preserva-
tion must stand by Russia. The whole
trouble ariser over the Chinese problem
and in the event OF war between Japan
and Russia the danger 10 that we, too, will
become involved.
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CHURCH DIRECTORY.
BIG STONE GAP.

TRINITY METHODIST CUURCH.-REv. J. A.
DUvAL, Pastor. Preaching First and Third Sundays
IA each month, morning and night.
SUNDAY -ScHOOL.--Every Sunday morning at III
O'clock L. WOLFE, Superintendent.
PRaYYR-MrErixG. Every We lnesday night.
ErwoRrm LEAGUE.-EvSry Friday night.
CLASS MEETING. Second Sunday in each month al
, O'Clock y. nj. {. SPEcHr Class-leader.
Rev. Vaught breaches at the Double Tunnel FIRST
and Third Sundays in each month at O'Clock, and al
Stoncga Second Sunday, morning and night, and q:
Ainersvilie Fourth Sunday.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH-REv. r. G. NATuE-
son, Pastor. Preaching Second Sunday In each
month morning and night, at the Episcopal Church.
SUNDAY ScHoOL.--Every Sunday morning at ~
O'clock in Presbyterian Chapple near the brdge-H.
/. SULLIVAN, Superintendent.
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Bismark's Iron Nerve

Was the result of his splendid health
Indomitablc will and tremendous energy
are not found where stoTach, liver KID
neys and bowels are out of order. IL you
want these qualities and the success ,ney
bring, use DR.. Kings New Lite rms;
They develop every power OF BRAIN ana
body. Only % cts. at J. ". kelly's drug
store .
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G. A. Snow & Co.

Z. A. Snow 4 Co., patent lawyers, oppo-
site the United States Patent Office.
Washington, d. O., who have actual clients
in every city and town Of the United
States and Canada, report tina. never be
fore in their % years practice has the
work OF the Office been so we'll up to date.
They claim that patents can now he pro.
cured in less than half the time formerly
required nov-jan3l
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WISE COUNTY COURTS.

CorNry Coum.-Held the 4th Monday in each month
W II. Bond, Judge.
Cmcur CouRr.-Held lst Monday in April, Septem-
Der aud December. II. A. W. Skecn, Judge.
COUNTY OFFICERS
CouNrY AND CiRCurT Court CLERE.-W. y. kigoro.
COMM0Nw WEALTH ATTORNEY.-W. W. q. DOts0n.
TRE AsURER.-H. G.. Stewart.
COMMISSIONER eastern Dstrct)-D. $. Kelly.
COMMISSIONER western District w. d. AcNiel.
School SUPERINTENDEST.-W. II. Nampler.
CorNrY SURVIVORS,. NJ. Taylor.
JAILER.-Charles Hughes.
SUPERINTENDENT or Tue fo0R-G. ii. Skeen.
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L. S. POST OFFICE.
Big Stone Gap. Va

]. NJ. Goodloe. PM S X. jesse, Asst. F. NJ.
OFFICE HOURS.
General delivery open from a III. to 9;l5 p. IN.
Except Sunday
Sunday hours.-from . a. IN. TO 10 a. IN. and from
80 p. M TO s p. m.
MONEY ORDER OFFICE.
Open from a. m. to 8 p. IN every day, except
Sunday.
MAILS CLOSE.
For l.. 4 y. X. r., East, at 8 30 a. m.
For l.. 4 y. X. H., West, at s rs p III.
For Va. 4 s. W. Il. X. at Q a. N.
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HJapan aud Russia do engage in war
the chances are that they will not 20 it
alone The interests which Japan will
night for are the interests of Great Britain.
and also Of the United States, because by
It's desertion Of time-honored principles
The United States has become in the
struggles Of Europsrn nations. And the
interests which Russia will fight for are
the interests lying close to Franc
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Among the many attractions of Florida
must be classed the large ostrich farms at
Jacksonville and Palm Beach, which are
among the largest enterprises of the kind
in this country. There are more than 100
superb ostriches on these farms. They
are from seven to ten feet high ard weigh
from l6O to 400 pounds, and finer speci-
mems cannot be found anywhere. 1t has
been demonstrated that Florida 10 admir-
ably adapted to ostrich raising, and the
two big farms are said to be very profit
able.
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The actual increase in appropriations of
the present congress over last session is
in round numbers over six and one-half
million dollars. The total amount appro-
priated is one and one half billion.