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The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1901-01-03
THE SECOND ENTER,
TA1NMENT.
A Delightful Evening Of Vocal
and Instrumental Muoic

and Instrumental Mueic
The second uumhcr o. TIE Graded school
Library Fund Entesfainm<nts gisea hy
the Home Lyeeuu Course wss great sue
cess There vas an appr~eistive audience
present and Scs, drlishsfu, entertain
sa.ai -A- given. To sr J. 4. Mathews
ssieass The rrsdi, tor arrsarias the pro-
xrani and % evefs performer the audience
j. mach fudeLica
lae Home Lseeum coarse 10 already a
great saecess. IL increases in popularity
With each number. a deserves liberal
patronage and will have IL.
The foiio~ing il the musical bill Of fare
presented FOR The second number;
PROGRAM.
Plaza nSSt-NIesdsmes. Rogers
and Mathews.
Male Quartette-Messrs. Mathews,
Aldrich. Holden and Whitehead.
Bass Solo-Mr. Whitehead.
Male QGartettc-Messrs. Matthews,
Aldrich. Holden and Whitehead.
Plan" Solo-Mr Goldman.
Duet-Msndolin and Piano-Mr.
Barr and Miss Polly.
Piano Duet-Mosdames. Rogers
and Mathews.
Male Qusrtette-Messrs. Mathews.
Aldrich. Holden and Whitehead.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1901-01-03
LOST.

My milk COW strayed away from
my stable about four weeks ago and
has not been back since. She Is a
large. red COW. dehorned. and is
giving milk Any information lead-
ing t. her recovery will be literally
rewarded. w. &. HAD.
Big Stone Gap.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1901-01-03

Kemp Couk. a Blackshurg rat, and
Campbell Wynn. an Emery and Hen
~ rat. and Misses Emma Duncan
and Maud Russell, Martha Wash
iugton mouses. and Misses Hattie
Richmond and Hattie McLin. Stone.
wall Jackson houses. are al AZ home
in this county spending Christmas
vacation with their homefolks
How they have 'growed. "-Joacs-
r-Ne IiLninian.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1901-01-03

Capt G. Z. Dents son and
daughters. Mr.. G. r. and Misses
Katherine. Susie, aud Grace Dent.
arrived in the Gap last Friday night
from Pennsylvania and together
with thcir father have gone u house
keeping in one of the cottages South
OF the southern Methodist Church
recently brilt BY MI Prescott.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1901-01-03

Nj and Mrs i. ~ Goodloe enter
tanned at dinner at their residence on
Thursday evening. The guests
were: Miss Lizzie Polly, Miss Eliza
beth Fox. Miss Belle Siemp: Me~srs
Slenip. Ander son, Ferguson. aud
Go0dloe, Mr.. and Mrs T. T.. Good
loe aud lIr. aud Mrs. VIM Good
loe.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1901-01-03
BIsmark.s IRON Nerve

Was the result OF his splendid health
ludomitahlc wall aud Tremendous energy
are not found where siou,ach. liver Kid
news sud bowels are out Of order ID YOU
want these qualities ana the succ 81 they
hfing. lsc Dr. Kings New IL. Pills.
Tacf develop every power of brain and
body. Only - ct-. 1T >. " keiiy's drug
Store %
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1901-01-03
FOR SALE.

The School House Property near
the Sulp'inr Spring is offered for sale.
There Is an acre Of ground and a
good spring ON the property. T.e
house is a good one and with -littl.
expense can be made into a. good
dwelling. Apply TO
j. W. ktlL1.
Chairman School Board
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1901-01-03

Miss Memo Vineyard, who has
been attending school at Martha
Washington College. Abingdon. is
spending the holidays IN the Gap.
and will return to school the later
part Of this week
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1901-01-03

The best Salve in the world for Cut.
Bruises, Soros~ Uicers. Salt Rheam. Ave1
Sores. letter. Chapped Hands, chibisin-
Corns and all skin Erapiions, and posi-
lively cures Piles. or no pay rSqaired. 4,
Is guaranteed 10 give perfect satisfaction
or money refunded. Price IS cents per
box. For sale By J. W. Kelly.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1901-01-03

Miss Lizzie Adams. Of Norton
and Miss Sue Wells. of Wise. passed
through the Gap Tuesday, on route
back to school 70 Martha Washing
ton College, Abingdon
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1901-01-03
Shot into the Dummy.

On the evening OF December oath
ss the dummy was going 40 meet the
Virginia and Southwestern passen-
ger train. and when it was Just be-
yond the Methodist church some per
ION OF persons fired two shots through
the passenger coach. w. L. Faw-
bush was sitting near the window
through which the shots were fired
and was badly cut by the broken
glass about the face and eyes 1t is
thought that he will entirely lose his
right eye Ehoits src being made
to capture the miscrean,s. but a. yet
no arrests have been made.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1901-01-03
The Big Stone Cap Post
THURSDAY. JAN. >. 1901
LOCAL ITEMS.

during the hilidays.
j. l.. Mccormick went to Cum
berlsnd Gap last Thursday night
Miss Maggie Bum went to Olinger
Thursday night to visit her parents.
Attorney J. +. Bullitt spent a few
days in Louisville last week.
w. Z. Price. Of Norton. was in
town last week.
VIII Smith Of st. Paul. is visiting
ia the Gap.
r. L. Brown. the contractor. went
to Bristol Monday.
J. Z. Bum, OF Olinger. spent Sun
day and Monday in town.
Judge f. NJ Fulton. Of Wise. was
in town Monday.
f. 5. Paddock, of Wise. was in
town this week
:. d. Adams. Of Stonega. was reg
istered at the intermout Monday.
Miss Dora Falin, Of Msbtha Wash
ington College. spent the holidays
in the Gap.
MIs. No''" ana daughter o, mar
Ian. Cy.. were registered at the In
termont last saturday
Geo w. Childs. of Ridgeway.
Pa. president of the Extract works
'i's' -. y, moore pen, 'ne ho"-
""yS VIII" relatives '' W 'S"'"s'o"
IL - MoDo"e" ana we spent
'"e ho"''lS VII" 'e'"'''eS j" Ne"'
''''
ona,e5 Only, oil ~ fs"i' spent
,ne Ho'''"yS WI" "''''e'o'"S j" tue
""P'
l. l. '"'y OF ND'to%' spent
.'". ... az" '' i,y D" '"' zap
'''''''S "'''''o'"S
D., .n.1, ,Lo b1i;aar. ,,;,l, 1t.
ia 1'.nn..s..
T.. +. Only and iaml'y have NOV
ecp,ea a ,osition as town .ergc,n,
i.ame"eSs in the muscles ami joints
indicates rheumatism. Don I daily
s,n,r;u, ,nl ,,.. 3,
-,
"''ss Id" w ii"""N' OF Mar ma ~.
W aSmngton College, spent the holt
49,,
MISS hnoy w h'tehead' VINO is at
,e"u'ns Senool al S'onew'H Jackson
i"S'''0,e, spent 'he On''s,'nsS hoii-
" NJ ! Dung ana '"'"'ly, oil H'o"-
va spent several ""yS visiting ie'"-
''''' j" low" last week
w. '. b'cN'ey' oil br'S'oi, spent a
rev Jay, u"'ins ,"e no'l''yS WIN
"o'''''''NS u" '"e Gap
Miss Lid Bunn, who has been at
tending school at Southwest Nuginia
institute Bristol, Is visiting her
sister, Mrs. {. 4. Craft, IN the Gap.
Trol. X II Sheppe, principal OF
the schools at tins place, attended
the Southern Educational Associa-
geo w. A'on' OF lions Mil, Lee
county was IN town ON Saturday be-
lore Amas and subscribed Tor the
fosr.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1901-01-03
FOR SALE.

We have for sale hay. chop and
corr At reasonable prices. Call and
see us. We are also dealers in coal
J. B. PATTERSON x co.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1901-01-03

\ nice book was given each Of the
children ot the Sorthern Methodist
>uniav Schoo. for Christmas pres.
u'. instead al f'r n.nai present of
cst.y. iraii. q The presents we're
distributed Sunday morning
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1901-01-03

TO CURE a COLD IN ONE DAY
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets All
druggists refund the money II it fails to
cure. + V. Groves signature - on each
box 25c
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1901-01-03

Nj and Mrs. r. L. Harper. Jr.
returned Sunday morning from
Ironton. Ohio, where they spent =
couple Of weeks visiting relatives and
friends.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1901-01-03

We have everything good To eat.
You had better try us.
Big Stone Gap Furnace supply Cos
General Store.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1901-01-03
Stops the Cough
ano Works off the Cold.

Laxative Brotao- Qsinine Tablets cure .
ee'd In eae day. No Cure, no Pay. Price
% cents :
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1901-08-16
HERE AND THERE

Pigs cease to be profitable as soon
as they cease to grow. Not only
that, but they require outlay without
compensation.
A horse man of note has ex-
20 ssed the opinion that the short hay
crop merely corresponds with short
morse crop. Wars are harder ON
horses than men.
Sheep are timid animals and
should be carefully and kindly hand
led. To an average sheep fright is
as injurious as a blow, and protract-
ed mal-treatment as injurious as scab
or grubs.
An investigation of the Texas rice
crop by an agent of the department
of agriculture has determined that
the crop viii be about one-fourth the
usual yield per acre.
Mules are preferred for farm
work because they require less feed
are less liable to disease, harder ev-
cry way, and will do more work than
horses twenty per cent. heavier. They
are more reliable and have fewer
vices.
"A country is prosperous only
when its people are employed. Mill
ions of dollars may be stored in bank
vaults, but the wheels of industry de-
mand money in circulation. 1t is due
to the abundance of money that BUSH
ness is brisk.
The best thing that is going on
in this country to-day is the agricul-
tural and mechanical regenarations
of the south. Ont of the wreck and
waste of war, the old-time animosi-
ties well nigh extinct, the beautiful
southland is coming to its OWE
In the southwest, destructive
droughts are sheared of half their
strength by the long season, which en-
ables farmers to grow feed crops af-
ter the drought and vegetables in
abundance. Abundant hay and soil
ing crops may be grown after July
ends, and winter pastures are an easy
proposition.
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1901-08-16
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

King Edward has established a new
decoration, the cons picuou> service
silver cross, for warrant officers and
subordinate officers in the army
French olive growers have suffered
so much from the adulteralons prac-
ticed by middlemen that arrange
ments are being perfected for dealing
directly with customers.
The supply of coal for eastern Sibe-
ria comes chiefly from the island of
Sakhalin. where the mines are worked
by convict labor; also from Japan
and from the mines in the vicinity of
Nladivostock.
The treatment of copper ore in
Austria is still conducted on rather
Anticipated lines, and the output is
small. the entire production for Aus
tria -Hungary and Bosnia averaging
some 800 tons annually
According to an apparently authen-
tie article in French periodical, not
fewer than 10000 aristocrats are at
present confined in the prisons of
Europe. Russia stands first. with 49,
600 blue blooded lawbreakers
Green and brown jasper is mined
in the neighborhood of Zlatoust, a
Russian village. This stone is used
for tables, wash basins, han les for
knives and forks is susceptible Of a
high polish and is equal to the we'll
known Ekaterinburg stone.
France produces a fair quality of
coal, but not sufficient for the de-
mand. The economical policy Of the
country has encouraged a system of
utilizing coal dust, compressed into
briquettes. which fuel is almost uni
versany used on the railroad lines.
After thorough study of the drink
question in Russia, Stanislaus Pros
per, a st. Petersburg editor, has pub
lished a book in which he seeks to
prove that the government monopoly
and the closing of saloons on Sunday
have led to a great diminut.on of the
evil of intemperance.
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1901-08-16
DEMAND FOR GOOD HORSES.
Present Conditions are Propitious
for Breeders Of Draught and
Saddle Horses.

The excessive drain upon the sup
ply of horses for military purposes
in the last few years has practically
depleted this countrys number of
good horses, and there exists to-day
an actual shortage which can not be
made good for several years. The de-
mand has been chiefly for heavy
horses those suitable for cavalry and
for dragging heavy provision trains.
Horses that would answer the require
ments for these purposes have been
shipped to South Africa, Manila and
Europe in great quantities. 1t has
been impossible to meet all require
ments because of the lack of suit
able animals. The demand now is for
heavy draft horses, good animals for
seback riding, and even for road
STEERS. Breeding and rearing of any of
these must reurn good profits to the
farmer or owner. Horsetlesh in the
last few years seems to have recoy-
cred from the low depression it
reached few years ago. Then the
animals reached the lowest stage of
decentralization possible, but the losses
sustained by owners of horses then
were not wholly an evil. There was
some good that came out of it. Not
the least of these was the cleaning
out of all the poor and inferior ami
mails that had been accommodating in
the country. Years before the de-
preston prices for horses had been
so good that people paid eXorbitant
sums for pretty inferior horse flesh.
Breeders found that they could sell
almost anything they raised, and in
few years the country was flooded
with poor horses. The depression in
prices cleaned out these inferior ami
mails. Some were shot, others froZe
to death on the western prairies, and
some were shipped away. Only the
man with good horses decided that he
would not sacrifice his stock, and he
chung to his favorite animals.
Now the country is actually depict
ed OF good horses, and there never
was better time TO breed The type
of animals that is needed should be
an incentive to every owner of good
horse flesh 10 raise some for market.
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1901-08-16

A lazy man who uses his mind to
good advantage, makes a better farm
er than one who works both late and
early in wind and rain and snow, and
neither knows nor cares how or why
he does it. We know a good farmer
who declares he is the LATEST man in
the neigh borhood. and he makes the
best crop to be seen for miles around.
He lays awake at night studying how
to make one lick do as much good as
two usually do. He don't cultivate as
many acres as some people do, but he
makes more per acre.-Farm and
Ranch
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1901-08-16

Poor horses will never again pay in
this country. If the present boom
continues IL will never include the
interior animals which a few years
ago found a market. If one can not
raise animals suitable TO do their
work we'll in the world, it will be bet
ter to abandon the business entirely.
The farmer with fair intelligence
who has good stock to begin with
never had a better chance to make
money from raising good horses. and
the time to begin is when the supply
Is low and the country depleted of
stoek.-E. p. Smith, in Journal of
Agriculture.
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1901-08-16
LECUMINOUS PRODUCTS.
Their Value AS Food for Man IL Set
Forth In n Department of
Agriculture Bulletin

The department of agriculture pub
hshed last year bulletin on legumi-
nous food products which will bear
another reference. People often
read and forget; therefore a good
thing will bear repeating: Peas, beans,
lentils, and many other legumes have
been popular food crops ever since
history has recorded popular customs.
These plants, or some of them, grow
IN all climates and every country yet
explored. The bulletin mentioned is
intended TO inform the people as to
the true value of legumes as food for
man. Meats, it is we'll known, are our
most expensive foods, and if cheaper
substitute car be found il will be
blessing to the poor and those who
are economically inclined. The chief
value of meats as a food is for the
protein they contain-the fat can be
easily replaced by butter, oil, nuts
and many grain foods. Legumes are
especially rich in protein. \ large
portion of the human family must of
necessity eat less for the qualification
of the palate than to sustain health
and strength. Therefore legumes
may be made to take the place of
meat, wholly or in part, without Diet
rlment and with many actual benefits
The following is an extract from this
bulletin:
The green or immature pea and
bean are among our most valua BILE
green vegetables, and fully deserve
the place they now hold ON our bill of
fare. The value of the dried pea, bean
and lentil is such that one or more
representatives are found in every
country as a staple food. and they
have been thus used from the earliest
times. They are especially rich in
protein, the heterogeneous constituent
which forms the chief nutrient of
meat, and are thus fitted to take the
place of the meat in any dietary.
Since in comparison with their value.
their price is low, they must be con-
sidered among vegetable foods as
next i'll Importance to bread. As COM
pared with cereals, the legumes are
| % less completely digested if eaten
in considerable quantities; ca it is
improbable that they can be made in
to any form OF palatable bread, and
30 their flavor is less generally liked,
and OH that account will not be made
regular daily food, except by people
who are forced to it by necessity. In
view of their low cost and high nutri-
tive value, however, they may prof
itably be used to greater extent
than at present.
Care in the preparation of legumes
is very important, both as regards
their digestibility and their favor"
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1901-08-16
Stin More Counterfeitinr.

The Secret Service has unearthed an
other band of counterfeiters and secured a
large quantity of bogus bills. which are so
cleverly executed that the average person
would never suspect them of being spu-
rious, Things of great value are always Sc
lected for imitation. notably Hostetter' 5
stomach Bitters, which has many lmtators
but no equals for disorders like indigestion,
dyspepsia, constipation. nervousness and
general debility. Always go 10 reliable
druggists who have the reputation of CIV
ing what you ask for
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1901-08-16
The Last Straw,

The regular contributor to the Poets
Corner" in the Berrytown News was sum.
moned before the new editor.
Il shall be obliged to request you to dis
continue your contributions, unless there
is marked improvement in your rhymes, -
said the editor.
What" cried the poet, Indignantly.
when | am willing to publish for the love
Of my art without financial recompense2"
That makes no ditference-or very lit
tle," said the editor, firmly. 81 have borne
with you while you rhymed love with
move and sour with pour and come
with home But when in your last poem,
entitled: The Death of August you tried
to inflict peaches and she aches on q
long suffering public, felt it was my time
to speak and say that unless you buy a
rhyming dictionary, can publish no more
poems from your pen. Youths Com.
panion.
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1901-08-16
IMPRESSIONS OF INDIA.
The Most Thing About 1t Is an Ele-
ment of Mystery That Is
AI-Perynd;uE.

In his papers on The East of To-
Day and To-Morrow," Bishop Henry
c. Porter. writing in Century, gives his
"Impressions, of India"
"If one were asked to express in
single phrase that which exists in the
western mind as its distinctive concep-
ton of the land and the people inelud-
ed within the geogra phical boundaries
of what we are wont to describe as
India, it would oftenest be done. | inn
agine. by calling ii the land of mys-
terry. Western people are ordinarily,
it may be presumed, as ignorant of
China or Japan as they are of India;
and travellers have probably been as
often obliged to correct their earlier
impres sions of either of these coun-
tries in the light of a fuller knowledge.
But no other people have in them so
much that has been inscrutable, and
that continues to be so. as those vari-
Gus tribes and states that extend from
the Russian frontier to the Indian
ocean.
And the interesting thing is that
This element of mystery does not disap-
intimate acquaintance. 1t would be a
small thing to say that my Bengal
servant was inscrutable to me after
several weeks of his constant compan-
ionship by day and by night, in travel,
~esthouses. dak bungalows, and inns,
on shipboard, and in those frequent
and quite unreserved conferences
| oh, III ~, Il l.
| tween a foreigner and one who is
guide, valet and Interpreter all in one.
Any traveller would say. doubtless.
that to understand the occult mental
processes and topographic speech of
| any foreign servant is easily beyond
the cleverness of the most experienced
mind-reader. But this inability to
comprehend, and still more TO fore
cast, the mental processes of these
orientals, is, have found, unreserved-
~ admitted even by those who have
known them for a generation. Indeed,
the dramatic element of British rule
in India largely consists in that alb
sence of certainty IS to the character.
motives or possible conduct Of those
| over whom they are set which | have
often heard admitted on the part of
their rulers.
1T is this that must needs lend 10
the land and to its people an excep-
| tional and perennial interest. As in
| the costumes and customs of other
eastern nations there is forever want
| ing that note of almost startling pic
| tureSquenesS which salutes the
stranger in India, so ii is with all that
costume and custom stand for. Prodi-
| gal wealth, oriental splendor, subtlety
in speech and action. nexhaustible
craft, unwearied furtiveness, swift
and secret revenges, hot passion and
its reckless blow, far-seeing purposes
and their marvellous adroitness OF
| scheme and instrument. the tragedies
of racial or tribal ambitions, the care
| lessness Of life in warfare, the un-
| speakable perfidies of intrigue in the
lives of kings and courts. the surface
| of gentleness and obsequiousness, and
the hard glitter Of undying hatreds
that CLEAN beneath them-these are
some of the elements that long ago
made up life in that strange land, and
that are long way from having van
| ished out of il to-day"
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1901-08-16

An Alibi.-"Has my Willie been in swim.
ming here to-day" asked Willie's angry
father. mo, sir replied the biggest boy
in the water. "Are you sure" Sure.
Why, it was as much as he could do to keep
from drownin', but we got him out all right.
He's restin' over there in the bushes now"
PHILADELPHIA Press
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1901-08-16

Shake into your shoes, Aliens Foot-Eas.
a powder FOR the feet II makes tight or New
Shoes Feel Easy, Cures Corns, Itching
swollen, Hot, Gallons, Nmarting, Sore and
Sweating Feet. All Druggists and Shoe
Stores sell it, 25c. Sample sent FREE. Ad
dress, Allen 5. Olmsted, lie Roy. y. Y.
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1901-08-16

Bridget was just over, and didn't un-
derstand the uses of the call bell, so
her mistress explained that she was
to come TO her when she rang it. The
next day milady missed the bell. She
called Bridget TO inquire about it, and
Bridget replied:
"Sure. mum, I have it, and when
want You III ring it."-N. Y. Times.
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1901-08-16

Tigg-Did you hear what Count Ded.
broke tried to do when he came over here
in search of an hciress?
Nigg-No What was it,
Nanted position as tax assessor. so
he could get inside information. "-Balti
more American.
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1901-08-16
4 Ipuzxler.

Chilly Nytes-Bil kin ask more puz-
zlin' questions dan criminal lawyer.
Breaker Day-W'ot's his latest?
"Dis: 'W'ot would yer sooner do er
not do .t?"-Judge.