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The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1901-08-29

Daytona, Fla Aa-- -f.-Helen Post,
her husband. col &. d. Post. and her
son-in-lav. e. D. Eureman. were arr
rested ou iuiornation sworn 10 boy
Post Onice inspector Fred ID. rcrr
charging them with using the maii.
for fraudulent purposes. They pro
fcss TO cure patients 10 a distance 10y
,,.,ns Of mental science.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1901-08-29

New York. Aug. e4.-lusincss trou
bles show no increase. the fa;iure:
for the week numbering i6e as agaias'
IL last Necik. l35 ia thie week a year
ago. t54 IL 1899, IT, IN isss aud 2i0 ia
1897.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1901-08-29

London. Aug e6.-Emreror Nieho-
las and Empress Alexandra. according
to a dispatch 20 the Daily Mail from
81. Petersburg, will start for CoPen-
hagen Wednesday next.
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Atlanta. Ca. Aug. cj.-A head ena
collision on the River line of the Rap
IA TraniSs Co. killed Harry Williams
and injured u people, three OF them
seriously
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Che Nmkm0Qp19
Washington.

WASHINGTON AND SLAVERY.
Washington held two views of the
slavery question. AS a man he thorough
ly disapproved of it; but as statesman
and a citizen of state wherein the in
stitution was established, and of a fedora
ton, part of whose states accepted and
part rejected the institution, he consid-
cred it advisable that it should be sane
toned, if not protected, by the central
government.
He favored the compromises of the con-
Stitution by which the abolition of the
slave trade was secured, whie the re-
turn of fugitive slaves was provided for
since he saw that no federation could be
formed unless concessions could be Sc
cured from both slave-holding and non
slaVe-holding states, and he rightly re-
garded the political union of the states
as of far greater value at that time than
the satisfaction of any individual opin-
ions on the subject of slavery So, too,
when the fugitive slave law of 1898 was
passed by congress, it was approved by
Washington, for this law was then re-
garded as necessary to insure the execu-
ton of the fugitive slave clause in the
constitution.
Still, Washington personally disapprov-
ed of slavery, and proved this by making
full provision in his Will for the enamel
patton of the slaves on his estate He
had. it is said wished to do this before
but it was somewhat difficult to carry ont
the plan, as the slaves on his property
had intermarried with those iselon cling TO
the estate OF his wife. Over these he had
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If there is a battle in Europe, Asia
or Africa hundred years since. kodal
pictures of it will appear in america Il
papers the same day, the outline being
sent by ocean cable. Color photography
by that time will be a conn ete success.
Another hundred years will see that
the Immense sum of M ney now used
tc prevent the lower strait m from pull ng
down the social fabric is disbursed in pro-
jects to aid the poor in lifting themselves
up. Philosophers. like those who orig
mated the Hull house. in Chicago, the
1oynbee hall, in London and the Cniver-
sity settlement, in Bottom, will have done
marvellous work among the submerged
class before the year 300, in spite of
ward politicians.
We can see even now that sectarian
barriers are crumbling Men are climb
ing over the ecclesiastical fences
tc get nearer TO each other, and they
nave found that as they come together
they approach the eternal reason In a
hundred years man will have learned the
lesson of trusting his BROTHER, and the
nation which has drawn all people to it
with cosmfc gravitat:on and lifted them
with freedom and confidence will also
have destroyed the prejudice of race AMI
V-G
the new solidarity of fraternity, but it
is the old lesson which that first demo-
crat dauntlessly proclaimed on Mars
hill.
Some of the Indian tribes will have be-
come wholly extinct, leaving scarcely a
trace of their history outside OF the rec
ords OF the Indian bureau while other
tribes will increase and retain most of
their characteristic traits. The Pueblos,
of New Mexico. who are rejecting so sue
cessfully the efforts Of the government in
their behalf, will continue to be favor
tic people for ethnologists. The agenc. es
Will disappear and friction between the
different departments of the government
in trying to run Indian Offices will cease
Wild animals in all the settled parts
Of the world will have disappeared Rats.
nice and snakes will be exhibited in mu-
seums. Cattle and sheep will have no
forns They will be unable to run faster
than the fattened hog of today. A CEN
fury ago the wild hog could outrun
horse. Food animals VIII be bred to ex-
pend practically all of their life energy
II producing meat, milk, wool and other
6y-products. Horns, bones, muscles and
Nngs will have been neglected.
In theology more changes will be man
Hest In practice than IN preaching.
though sermons, too, will be different.
Ministers will instruct their hearers in
the philosophy of pure morality and teach
them how to, live The government of
the body by intelligent reason will be
the one virtue inculcated, ignorance and
laziress will be the sins condemned and
punished. The man who does not know
how to keep his own body in health viii!
be considered as great a sinner as the
man who cannot read and write.
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.Gen. Washington is Known
to Us, and President Wishing
ton. But George Washingt OH
Is an Unknown Man.
John Bach McMaster.

10 authority, as they would legally PASS
INTO the possession of the Custis children
In a letter to friend, in 1853. Wash
lngton wrote: THE scheme which you
propose as precedent to encourage the
emancipation of the black people in tais
country from the state Of bondage in
Whfch they are held is a striking evil
9ence OF the benevolence of your heart
/ Shall De happy to join you in so laud-
able work. There is NOT a man
4Vln9 VINO wishes more sincerely than I
Do to see plan adopted for the abolition
OF slavery. But there is only one proper
ana eHectual mode by which it can ue
accomplished. and that is by legislative
authority. This, SO far as my suffrage
will go, will never be wanting. To set The
slaves af1oat at once would. I believe he
productive of much Inconvenience and
mlscnlef, but by degrees it certainly
ed /" 70 S'o1'-
In 17S6 Washington wrote: II never
b'ean, unless some particular circum-
stances should compel me to it. to possess
another slave by purchase. it beins
ainong my hrst wishes to see some plan
ADOPTED by which slavery in this country
may be abolished by law
III 1891 ne wrote to Lawrence Lewis his
SISTERS son, that he wished from his soul
that virginia could see some way for the
Srauual emancipation Of the slaves with
IN her territory, believing that it might
prevent much future mischief. In this
SUBSEQUENT events showed that he Judged
Tigftly, but it is certain that though
asnlngton earnestly desired the eman-
cipation OF the slaves he believed that
TINS should be carried out by forms Of
raw, and that it should not be left to
the irregular methods of sectional agita-
tors.
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CroQb5eS OF Our OQpa1.

TIE MOL.LTE MAGUIRE TROUBLES.
scHeraf stories are in existence regard
1cE the origin of the name ''MoIIie Ma
re, all coming from Ireland What
. ef may nave been the causes FOR the
G sanitation of the Molly Maguires in
5r land, no such reasons obtained for
Iicn existence In this country Here
ere no oppressive land laws here no
l1nded proprfetors who ground down
L cir struggling tenants here no aim
IL nopoIists of the soil to grow richer
sfiid richer while the peasantry grew
l'"afer ana poorer; so that whatever may
: urged IN extenuation of tho onenses
cl the Molly Maguires in Ireland On ac-
O. unit of their wrongs and temptations.
4 sir race and their history, must NOT Ia
ccafounded with the deeds of violencs
committed by the illegitimate offsprinr
a the order which terrorized whole eoun-
II in PENNSYLVANIA, and left a blood
1Cd trail behind in the coal regions of the
keystone, state. When the coal fields
som 1860 to 1873 there was
latge demand for Iaborers, and
many of the best of the work
Ing classes answered the call hui
7gith these were numbers % Of the ao nf.
inG. drifting, unstable. In early war
times vague rumors were abroad that
laCSe restless elements in the nefghbor-
hood of PottSVille had crystalfized and
that an order called the BLACK Spots''
W3s in existence there. In 1862 It was
abroad that a powerful society called the
'fuckShot was exercising an unwho1e-
some influence in Schuyler and I.uzerne
ootnties. Both of these organizations
have had laid at their doors crimes OF
Eatlous kinds, assaults. arson. and evan
3i.trder. It was in the midst of such law
lessness that the Molly Maguires grew
lapidiy, and in such communities that
tier deeds of darkness and bleodshed
Mere perpetrated. To give even q record
q the murders and outrages the eorr.-
taiFted would take large Volume Those
which are known are numbered b. thn
hundred. and the unfortunate victims Ii,
hlehiy respected In The community IN
when they lived. However in 1913 a
za1ng detective named James McParI7n
vas .fetallea To Investigate the Mallr
AZ guires and learn their CHI, =: Ter az,
purposes He did so and the Secrets a.
The arder We're revealed, the slnglIiitary
Noi'k OF its members shown TO tic puh-
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EASTER EGGS.

Al the traditions connected with tie
Easter egg, its decoration. cooking an
eating are, of course, decidedly old
world, and yet there is some myth among
Ire legends of the Inca Indians wiricf
L IS OF magic egg and how it NAV he
1Gand in some mysterious spot, and of It's
Wonderful power Whether or not this is
- OF the superstitions of the far East
WHICH Marco Capac brought with him
from the other side of the Pacific is alto
stther unknown, but certain it is that in
Asia, Africa and Europe feasts we're
IL pt III most ancient times when the egg
played prominent part The Jews used
eGeS In their feast of the Passover long
10 fore the coming of Christ In Persia
coiored eggs are presented at the celebra
1icn CT the solar New Years. an extreme
l\ ancient custom with this people.
rom Germany comes the singular con-
nFction of rabbit with the Easter eggs.
Ii is believed that this little animal
steals into the house when all is ouiet
and hides a store of pretty eggs in most
impossible places, giving the children.
WHe must search for them. a great deal
Q trouble and excitement in finding
tht m. The house mother prepares by
Irtcuring a quantity of eggs and colors
them herself by wrapping them in col
cred calIcoes, some plain and some fig
Lrfd.
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There were practically no manufactures
in New England. and New York was Of
no general Importance as a port of entry.
All the rice, pitch, tar, wheat and corn
exported was sent out of Southern ports,
and the New England states were regard
ed as too poor to feed thsir own people
There was not cotton factory in the
world, for the fiber could not be separat-
ed from the seed save by hand. The
most important invention of the revolt
tionary period was Whitney's cotton gin.
ur to which time the separation of a sin
gle pound of cotton from its seed requir-
ed whole day, and the woven fabric
was more costly than. linen or wool
The war with France fought on the
sea hundred years ago, was a staple
topic of conversation, and Commodore
Truxton was the naval hero whose ex-
ploits were celebrated in firesfde tales.
The stanchness Of the wooden ships the
closeness of the actions, and the daring
of the boarders and the effectiveness of
the American hull shots were features
Of the fighting to glory over. The land
battles talked about were skirmishes be-
tween men in buckskin bearing fiintlocles
and painted savages armed with tommy
hawks and bows.
Republicans and Federalists were the
chief opposing political parties in 1901,
and Jefferson was the prophet of the
former, having been elected on that tick
ct in 1St0. Burr was the prince of in
trIgue and the prince of notoriety as well
and sat in the vice presidential chair
Hamilton was a leading Federalist. and
the storm was brewing which was to
cid in his death at the hands of Burr.
The center of population at the begin
ming of the century was in Maryland
near Baltimore, and it took thirty years
of progress westward to transfer it as
far as about Parkersburg, w. Va. The
people spread from the Atlantic coast
between Boston and Philadelphia. north
ard south, bat emigration beyond the
Ohio was very slow. The center of popu-
lation is now in Indiana.
Bear skins and buffalo robes were com
mon bed coverings. Quilted comforts
We're luxury. Dry goods were designat-
ed as mems SUITS or 'women,s stuffs.
There were no pianos; the ladies of mu-
steal talent played on the spinet or harp
sichord.
Cooking in winter was done in iron
pots before a hearth and in outhouses
during the summer. Stoves were an in.
ventiCn of the nineteenth century There
We're no factory-made chairs, no water
pipes in the street; there was no water
in the houses save what was carried in
by hand; nor were there any house
furnaces. The windows would not lift.
for window weights had not been invent
ed. The sashes sometimes opened out
wardly like our shutters, but We're not
often used in this way, for the i'm
portance of ventilation was not under
stood
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American Wars. Re-
bellions, Insurrec-
tons, Riots, Strikes.

lie, many of its perpetrators brought to
justice, and the strength and terrorism
OF its lawless leaders and tools broken.
TFIF CONCORD MOE.
This riot took place in the early DAYS
of the anti-slavery excitement. The alb
/ ollt1CnIStS were few in number end were
SUBJECTED 10 general odiim and abuse
George Thompson, an English orator, had
come over to this country to urge the.
question of slavery abolition upon pop
ular attention. John G. Whittier. the
quaker poet accompanied him to Con-
cord, n. r., to meet some friends and
MAKE arrangements, If possible, for an
Gnti-slavery meeting in April, 1875. The
people OF the town had heard that an
abohtion1St was going to speak and a
MOB OF several hundred had gathered in
the streets to break Up the assembly
Mr.. Whittier, knowing nothing Of the ey-
cltement, started down the street with a
TREND The mob surrounded them, Think
ing Mr. Whittier was Thompson but
though lis friend explained the matter.
eoth gentlemen were assailed by a show
er OF sticks and stones. Mr.. Whittier
anu ms TREND were both hult..-and took
Teluse TOT SAFETY in the house of Mr.
Kent who, though not an abolitfonist
was an honorable man. and barred bis
aoer, telling the rioters that they could
not touch Mr.. Whittier except by pass
1 nis over 1xe1 ms oead body Some time later,
MI Whittier learned that tho housc In
which THOMPSON was had been aSsailed
| by the mob. Borrowing hat he sailed
| OUT, and finally succeeded in reaching
the English orator. The noise and riot7
lllg increased, and cannon was brought
to Bernhard the house, and those witi,in
were in much alarm. I'VE did not fear
death, said Mr.. Whittier, in telling the
story. but we did fear gross nerson ma,
violence. Finally the rioters began
slowly to dispense. It was a briSnt
moonlignt night, and soon after midnight
when the town had become comparative.
y quiet. q buggy was procured 7;ld
Messrs. Whittier and Thomson drove
rapidly away. Curieusly enough, on thar
VesE eE<.ninS when Whittier was attack
e,t st Concord, at his home in Hayer1iI,
/ Mass, the Rev. Samuei May, who hal
gone 70 tt.at town to make an :inti-sJa.
cry siIeoch by Invitation OF Nj White
himself was assa5le1 By a furious band
of rioters end evea more roughly trf:1fa.l
than his friend had been ct Concord.
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oRDEALs.

The ordeal is practice which has pre-
vailed largely among widely-separated
nations of referring disputed questions,
particularly such as relate to the guilt
or innocence Of ar individual to the judg~
ment of God. determined either by lot.
or by the success of certain experiments
Of its existence among the ancient
Jews we have an instance in Mum. v.
where a Hebrew woman, accused of
adultery, is required to drink tile waters
of jealousy as test of innocence; a SINH
lar ordeal for ipcontinence is in use
among the natives of the GOLD coast OF
Africa
Compurgation of accused persons by
fire. as existing among the Greeks. is re-
ferred to in Sophocles' Antigone.
Among the Hindus the ordeal has been
in use to Ee practiced in different ways
by the balance, by fire, by water, by
poison, by the cosha or drinking water,
in which images of the sun and Other
deities had been washed. by chewing
rice, by hot oil, by red-hot iron and by
drawing two images out of jar into
which they have been thrown.
'fhe wager of battle was a natural
accompaniment Of a state of society
which allowed men to take the law into
their own hands. 'Tl,e challenger faced
the west, the challenged person the east :;
the defeated party, if he craved his
life, was allowed to live as a ''recreant;'
that is, on retracing the perjury which
he had sworn to.
Other kinds of ordeal were praeticed
in particular circumstances in different
parts of Europe. In the ordeal of the
bier, a supposed murderer was required
to touch the body of the murdered per-
sou. and was pronounced guilty If the
blood flowed from his wounds. The or
deal of the Eucharist was in use among
the clergy; the accused party took the
sacrament in attestatier Of innocence,
it being believed that. if guilty. he would
be Immediately visited with divine pun
ishment for the sacrilege.
CeFsned or morsel of execration, the
ordeal of Aleuromania, was a piece OF
cheese or bread, made use of i'll early
times with view to ascertain whether
persons suspected of crime were guilty
or innocent The corsned, according to
Blackstone was consecrated with a
form Of exoreism, desiring OF the Az
mighty that it might cause commissions
and paleness, and find no passage if the
man was really guilty, but might turn to
health and nourishment if he was inno-
cent In this mode of dIvination, bar
ley bread appears to have had the prefer
ence.
The magic circle was space in which
sorcerers were Won't according to the
ancient popular belief, to protect them
selves from the fury of the evil spirits
they had raised. This circle was usually
formed on a piece of ground in the midst
Of some dark forest, churchyard, vault,
or other lonely and dismal spot. The
circle was described at midnight in GER
tain conditions of the moon and weather.
Inside the outer circle was another some
what less, in the center of which the
sorcerer had his seat.
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THE EASTER LILY.

While all the flowers of spring find a
welcome place in the decorations of the
day and win admirers, the white lily e..
candfdum) is par excellence the Easter
flower. A native of the Levant, growing
Wild in most Mediterranean countries. it
has for many years been considered en-
blematic of purity and hope. The Greeks
called it the flower of Juno and told this
myth in explanation of its origin: jill
piter.' they said wished to make his
boy Hercules one of the gods So he
snatched him from the bosom of his
earthly mother, Alcemena. and bore him
to the breast of Juno. The milk Is spill
ed from the full mouthed boy as he trav-
erses the SKY, making the Milky WAY,
and what drops below stars and clouds
and touches earth sta ms the ground with
lilies AS the emblem of purity it was
contrasted with the passion rose of Aph-
Iodite, and beauty was represented
crowned with white lilies and violets
types of purity and modesty
The lotus holds chief place in all ORR
entail mythologies, its antiquity extending
far beyond the limits of Grecian myth
making The Egyptians spoke of it as
the throne of Osiris, the god of the day
anC they are represented on monuments
as holding the white lotus in their hands
at banquets. AS a symbol of purity and
benediction the lily was chiseled on the
pillars of Solomons temple and orna-
mented the great golden candlestick
While honored by specific mention by our
Lord, truth compels the statement that
the probabilities are against the lilv hav-
ing been the flower particularly referred
to-
The lily is not common in the flora of
Palestine, and some think it must have
been the red anemone, with which the
Galilean hillsides are covered in spring.
time, that suggested the beautiful fig
ure in the sermon on the mount. Others
advance arguments in favor of asphodel
amaryllis and narciSsus. Whichever if
was, and it is not impossible, though
improbable. that it was our liIy the fig
ure remains most beautiful and eff
tective one and has doubtless had a Won
derful and wide-reachfng effect in giving
the lily an added charm and sacredness
wherever Christianity has Established it.
Self.-Philadelphia Press
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SMlYeGgfifi0m@.
Strange Things People Believe.
HOLY DRAMA.

HOLY DRAMA
1t is not known at what period of the
Christian era Mystery" plays were first
performed in the churches, but it must
have been very early for in the middle
of the thirteenth century such spectacles
had been practiced for so long that they
had already assumed various forms. and
We're an important feature in the devo-
tions of the people. In Spain, always
the, most Catholic country of Europe.
these mysteries obtained more popularity
and were adhered te longer than else
where. The only Mystery" now per.
formed in a Spanish church is that of
Our Lady of the Assumption or the
transition and glorious assumption into
heaven of the Holy Mother of God, per-
formed every year from the 18th to the
18th Of August IL the cathedral of the
town of Elche. The devotion of the
thousands VINO take part is most intense
and impressive and the ceremonies are
very elaborate. There is a something in
the ancient music, and the varying per-
fcrmances and the piety of the masses
thai for The time being at least makes
the unheliever in spite of himself, wish
that he could believe. This mystery is
entirely different from the Passion
Play, which details the closing scenes
in the life of Christ
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SMITH.

Sidney Smith had severe struggle
with poverty in the early part of his life.
q large family. His daughter says that
his debts occasioned him mary sleepiess
nights. But he bore up bravely under
the burden, laboring onward with a
cheerful heart. eking cut his slender
means by writing articles for the maya
zines, until at length promotion reached
him, and he reaped the reward of his
perseverance, mis- industry and his indie
pendence
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IIERSCHEL.

Herschel the son of poor German
musician, maintained himself by music
while pursuing his discoveries in as
tronomy When playing the oboe in a
pupHc hall at Bath, England he would
retire while the dancers were loungir..
round the room, go out and take a peep
at the heavens through his TELESCOPES,
and quietly return to his instrument
It was while he was thus maintaining
himself by music that he discovered the
Georsiun Sidus. When the ROYAL So
ciety recognized his discovery the oboe
player found himself famous
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The Great Church Festival Comes
Next SUNDAY.

painted in water colors with a sin3le
spring flower, as d primo Sc or a butter
NY, also a symbol of the resurrection
They should be arranged in nests of
moss German children believe that the
Easter eggs are laid by hares, SO repre-
sensations Of this little animal are often
placed on them or near them. Painted
butterflies, mounted on wire, can be
made to hover over the nest.