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The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1902-11-06

Writes About John Fox, Jr..
and Big Stone Cap.

Virtues ROOQt JOHN TON it,
and Big Stone Cap.
We reproduce the following inter
esting letter written from Dsruwell,
:. c.. 70 the Richmond Dispatch,
under date Of October 18th. by Prof.
w n. Jones. who Tor two years had
charge Of the school at this place.
The article is as follows:
some one asked you about "Charles''
Fox. she novelist. You correctly located !
The man as John Fox. Jr. ALLOW me 10 I
say taat since 1873 John Fox has been ,
living en- Big Stone Gap. Va. and u is
there In that, the most unique. town in i
Virginia. that De has made his reputation !
a. a vriter ot fiction. The scenes OF most /
ai Bis short stories are land IN Virginia.
aud many OF his characters are we'll l
knoan men OF Southwest Virginia, among I
them Joshua Nuilitt. General Ayers, Tate |
Irvine n. H. d. b. Weniz. In his most
asauifui story. "Ihc Purple Ehododeu-
ircn. he immortaiizcd former Rich
mouicr of prominence. "fhc Ken
tuckiaas" aud "Cr.ttcnGcu" are bis longest
stories. and the scenes Of both are LAID "a
Kentucky "Hcii Fer Sartin. "Ihc fur-
rir HIodolaniron.' "1ho Senator "A
Mountain Eurcpa. aud othcr- of bic
diallct stories. are erittcn about tnat
rUicrncsr. rartit in Virginia and partly
.n htntackF, destined to hc Che fttshurE
district of lhc South. HE latest volume
i.cnfiiitd Bluegrass and Khododcndron,
and .-. OBJ me. tac mnst Interesting of aii
hi. aotks. for the stories are almost an
trua to the conditions of Southeast Nir-
-ia.a and k,utacsv. aui sono of them are
simply -arrtNnns of real events.
IU fWRfNC MAN
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1902-11-06
SOUTHERN SENTIMENT.

We hope 90 see this crusade against the
ever, man that bccome@ notorious bv
reason 81 De-. Vitc speech shall De marked
sri ae-lised man hy The better element
OF she eommsaity in Which be lives At
lania lerrnsi.
A. nan gro~s intellectually and morally
bsasdsf asa indisiaaai spinion d steadily
bclug liberated flom fAe sksekles Of 20
lilicsi er religious prejudice. The eellie
has esasen to hope tor. x bet expect, an
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-07-10
FIGHT GOVERNMENT ECONOMY.
Printers Join Hands to Resist Intro
duction of Labor-SaVlng Machinery.
PHILADELPHIA. Press


More than a year will elapse before the
date set for the completion of the new
government printing office building will
have come. but that date is regarded as
most important one by the members of
the art preservative throughout the land,
says the Washington ID. c. Times.
The equipment of that establishment is
what is giving concern. 1t has been pre-
dicted time and time again by persons
who pretend to know whereof they speak,
since soil was broken for the erection Of
the mammoth office, the greatest OF its
kind in all the world, that every approved
modern implement for turning out printed
matter-the linotype, automatic press and
ruling machine feeders, folders and coun-
tiers. and the many other inventions that
have in recent years been gradually dis
placing hand labor-would be introduced
there, and that hundreds of old, tried and
true employees would be turned adrift to
gain livelihood elsewhere.
With the possibility, If not probability,
that these prophecies will prove true,
there was particular care taken, it is said
at the recent election Of the local union
in the selection of representatives to the
coming annual convention Of the Interna-
tional Typographical union, which meets
in Cincinnati in August.
1t is asserted that these delegates were
chosen with special attention to their
ability to argue forcibly against the en-
croachment of labor saving machinery
in the government service and that they
will make this burning question before
the convention. IT Is, therefore, hoped
and believed that with a united effort on
the part of the international body the
representatives Of all political factions In
congress can be arrayed against the in
vasion dreaded and the alleged purpose
to substitute machinery for hand labor
in the great printing shop thwarted.
But there are grave doubts expressed
by many thoughtful, observing members
of the craft that the International union
as a body can be brought into line to
fight this much-feared encroachment. The
convention will be composed Of more than
200 delegates. Intelligent and able, they
are fearless and independent. All, 1t Is
admitted, may believe that what Is good
for a private concern ought not to be bad
for a public one, and IT is to be expected
that many will refuse to go into a move
ment designed to promote and protect the
interests of the government employe wnlle
thew are powerless to bring about similar
supposed benefits for the thousands OF
their brethren of the craft who are not
under the wing of the general govern
ment.
1t is also said that the national bodies
Of pressmen and press feeders will join
the printers in the struggle in opposition
10 machinery of the kind mentioned being
nut into the new office Of the public
printer and that the next year promises
MANY lively developments to the members
of all wings of the printing trade.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-07-10
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FOR TOBACCO TAGS

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cent for each tag IN subscription to The
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VIII pay for six months and 150 tags Will
pay for twelve months subscription.
This amounts TO six cents per- pound on
tobsccos containing nine tags tolthe pound
IN payment for subscription to The Semi
Weekly Journal
Traylor. Spencer & Co.'s tobaccos are
sold direct from factory to best merchants
20 all southern states.
The above emntioned tags will be re-
deemed IN payment for subscriptions 10
May ]. 1903.
Address all tags with your name and p.
o. address direct 20 The Semi Weekly
Journal. Atlanta, Ga
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-07-10
FROM STUDENT To PRESIDENT.
Daniel {. Mitchell Made Head Of Cum.
berland University as Soon as
He Got His Degree. s

In the election of Daniel E. Mitchell as
head Of the Cumberland university, at
Lebanon, Tenn, the officers have con-
ferred a unique honor upon a young man
who until few days ago was an under
graduate Of the institution. Indeed, such a
promotion from student to college presi-
dent is said to be without precedent, and
while 1t may seem an extraordinary pro-
cedure by the general public, II is regard
ed as altogether logical and natural step
by those familiar with the work which
Mr.. Mitchell has already done for the
college.
Mr.. Mitchell IS only Is years old, and
when compared with the veteran college
presidents Of some Of the larger ifstitu-
tons of the north he may truthfully be
termed a boy president. But in the three
years that the young man was an under
graduate of Cumberland University he
showed such ability as an executive that
it is believed under his future manage
ment the institution will enter upon an
era of greater growth and prosperity.
Within the last year, for example, the
friends Of Mr.. Mitchell say he has been
influential in improving the equipments
and buildings Of the college to the extent
OF $4,000, and he has instituted elabo-
rate plans for advertising the college
throughout the country. and of soliciting
new students. Mr.. Mitchell believes that
college, like a business enterprise, needs
to be advertised and kept before the pub
lie eye, and that even as efforts are made
by a corporation to increase its trade
through the solicitation Of agents, in a
similar way should an educational insti-
tuition build up its faculty and undergrad
uate body.
Mr.. Mitchell has had an uphill fight in
life. He was born In Monongahela City,
Pa, February Z, 1876. When he was II
years of age his father, DIR. @. P. Mitch
ell, died, and the boy was obliged to go
out to work in order to help support his
mother and sister. The son, however.
found time to continue his schooling, and
in 1890 he entered the Southwestern State
Normal school. at California, Pa. Imme-
diately after his graduation, in 1893, he
was made principal of the public school
at Roscoe, Pa. Three years ago he mar
ried Miss Elizabeth Smith, daughter OF
the Rev. Arthur Smith, of Pennsylvania,
and Immediately entered Cumberland Uni
versity. Throughout his college course
the young man has been active In student
life, and displayed particular energy
in securing funds for the further endow-
ment of the institution.
The Cumberland University, which was
founded in 1872 by the Cumberland Pres
byterian church, has preparatory, acadern-
&c, theological and law departments. Its
undergraduate classes number about 400
students.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-07-10
CHRIST STILL HELPING AND
HEALING THE NATIONS
BY BISHOP WARREN A. GAMBLER.

tianity they would perish from the
world if Christianity should die.
Hereby it is demonstrated that
Christ is in a true and lofty sense
(apart from any theological mean
ing of the word) the Life and the
Light of men. He is still healing
the sick, cleansing lepers, making
the lame to walk, giving sight to the
blind, unstopping deaf ears, bind
ing up the broken-hearted, giving
liberty to captives and taking the
little children into his arms and
blessing them.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-07-10
An Ecclesiastical Joker
Philadelphia Times,

Philadelphia Times.
On the occasion OF a Roman Catholic JubileN
In his former diocese, st. Louis. Archbishop
OF a procession that formed part OF the cele-
bration found himself seated in carriage
western dioceses AS nearly everybody in
PHILADELPHIA knows, Archbishop Ryan is OF
portly build His companion Of the carriage
was a slight ascetic looking man. The con-
trast between them marked as they light
ed from the vehicle. and the Philadelphian
doomed I'D large beside the westerner. The
contrast struck the archbishop forcibly. ef
''Blshop Glennon," he said. I've often won
archbishop and bishop, but think need
wonder no longer" rt
He placed himself close beside the smaller
divine and, describing a semicircle that fol-
lowed his front outline from chest to waist,
added:
IT'S all in the arch"
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-07-10
Weak Men
Cured Free
Send Name and Address Today--Ycu
Can Have It Free and Be Strong
and Vigorous for Life.
INsUREs LOVE AND A HAPPY HOME

How any man may quickly cure himsele
after years OF suffering from sexual weak-
ness, lost vitality, night losses. varicocele.
etc, and enlarge small weak organs to
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-07-10
rhIrd Victim is Dead.

READING, Pa, July S.-Edward Hart
man, aged % years, the third victim Of
the shooting here on the night of July 4th,
died today. The Italian street musician
who shot the three men is in jail. The
men teased the Italian. and he drew
revolver and fired into the crowd Of by
ISLANDERS.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-07-10
The Ceiling Too Low.
~ Sfafe InurnaI

ssI regret said the manager OF the trav-
cling Uncle Toms Cabin show. he stepped
IN front Of the curtain before IL rose. chat
usual"
There was a murmur OF surprise swept over
khe audience.
The fact Is" continued the manager. I'VE
Ind that the stage ceiling Is too low for her
% make q successful ascent"
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-07-10
A SUMMER EVENING.

The evening comes, the fields are still,
The tinkle Of the thirsty rill,
Unheard all day. ascends again:
Deserted is the half-mown plain;
Silent the swaths! the ringing vain,
The mowers cry, the dogs alarms,
Are housed within the sleeping farmsl
The business of the day is done,
The iast-left hay-maker Is gone.
And from the thyme upon the hight,
And from the elder blossoms white
In puffs Of balm the night-air blows
The perfume which the day foregoes.
And on the pure horizon far,
See pulsing with the hrst-born star,
The liquid sky above the hill!
TIE evening comes, the fields are still.
Matthew Arnold
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-07-10

wHltp his name and address plainly and man a TO
81 fanss Medical Assn, 81 Sc. James Building
cmQ1nna1, O., and they win EnEE
nlcnroiy sealed PREPAID.
-. JAMES MEDICAL AssocIATIoN,
- s. Jamss BldR, CINCINNATI. O.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-07-10

For that ::all run down" condition you
need a good tonic and blood purifier like
Hoods Sarsaparilla. 1t will make you
strong, create an appetite and give you
restful sleep. zee
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-07-10

full size and vigor. Simply send your
name and address to DR.. Knapp Medical
Co., 34S4 Hull building. Detroit, Mich,
and they will gladly send the free receipt
with full directions so any man may
easily cure himself at home. This il cer-
tainly most generous offer, and the fol-
lowing extracts taken from their daily
mail, show what men think OF their gener-
osity:
Dear Sirs-Please accept my sincere thanks
for yours Of recent date. I have given your
treatment thorough test and the beneft has
been extraordinary. It has completely braced
me up I am just as vigorous as when boy
and you cannot realize how happy am %
Dear Sirs-Your method worked beautifully.
Results were exactly what needed. Strength
and vigor have completely returned and en-
larNement Is entirely satisfactory"
Dear Sirs-Yours was received and had no
trouble in making OF the receipt as directed.
and can truthfully say II Is a boon to weak
men am greatly improved In size. strength
and vizor"
All correspondence is strictly conf
Dental. mailed in plain, sealed envelope.
The receipt is free for the asking and
they want every man to have It.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-07-10
BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES.

We KNOW you are looking for q safe invest
n,ent- Then why not invest your money where
can withdraw all or any part OF IL on demand
we are an old-estahlished firm that has never
lost a dollar for any Of its investors Five per
cent or more dividends paid weekly. Others
are constantly falling WhyF Because they
usce a wrong system Our system VIII never
allow us 10 fail. We do not claim 70 make you
rfch but we can increase your savings. IL VIII
rav vou 20 investigate. Positive proof furnished.
Best Of references Benedict Co.. suite lie
Toepp building south Bend. Ind.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1902-09-04
SOMETHING BETTER.

1t seems that Marietta will not
secure the Seaboard Airline rail-
way, as to come by our town would
lengthen the road few miles.
This being the case can't we like
the farmers alliance have some
thing better''-the electric line
to Atlanta for instance? Angus
ia and Aiken, S. c., which are
about as far apart as Atlanta and
Marietta are now connected by q
trolley road and the business of
this line would not probably be as
heavy as would that of similar
line between Marietta and Allan
ia. The great number of Atlanta
people who would reside in Mar
ietta with such a line in opera
tlon would far more compensate
for the loss OF some trade to our
merchants, which might go to At
lanta. Marietta would certainly
secure as much patronage from
these extra people as they would
lore to Atlanta.
Senator Clay announced at the
Journal correspondents picnic
this that place would have, before
hlssecond term as United States
Senator should expire, a fifty
thousand-dollar federal post-office
building. This with free rural
delivery soon to be established,
and fri e city delivery of mail
which will come in about a year.
wall place the town on a high
plane of improvement.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1902-09-04

After a good deal of patient in
vestigaticn, the Geological Survey
thinks 1t has arrived at the true
derivation and meaning of the word
Chicago" Prof. Cannot of the
SURVEY says that, in the language
of the Miami Indians "she-gahg'
meant skunk-weed or wild onion.
The skunk was called "she-kaw-
kaw," on account of the similar
ity of it's odor and that of the
wild onion. Both wild onions and
skunks abounded along what is
now the Chicago river, and from
them both river and town were
named. 1t is pungent explana-
ton.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1902-09-04
A MHANGE OF LIVE TOPICS
Penned for Journal Readers
by q Local Scribe.
HE Is MISTAKEN.

Colonel Estill, who will be re-
membered as the candidate who
made meteoric race for COVER
nor, is out in a statement in which
he declares that as result of the
information which he derived
from mingling with the people
during the gubernatorial cam
paign that he believes that the
people of this state are in favor
of fighting out the Philippine
problem to finish.
From what part of the people
did the Colonel obtain this start
ling information? If our memory
serves us correctly the late Geor-
gla Democratic convention de-
clared against the policy of this
governments holding colonies on
the other side of the globe. The
seventh district congressional con-
vvntion certainly did so in no un-
certain terms. The delegates to
these two bodies ought surely to
be acquainted with the views up
on this question of their constr
tuehts. Colonel Estill has proba-
bly, made the mistake of assuming
that the few manufacturers (espec-
tally of cotton) of the towns of
this state who may have express
ed desire to retain these islands.
constitute the people, of the
state; but if he should run again
for governor and with this princl-
pie for his platform it is doubt
full If he would receive four thou
sand votes instead of the forty
thousand votes which he actually
polled.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1902-09-04
NEGROES DESERT TEXAS CITIES.

There is a famine of negro do
mestics througnout the cotton belt
of Texas. In Austin the negroes
began leaving for the cotton
PATCH" as they call the cotton
fields, several days ago, and the
exodus has become so great that
within another week there will be
very few of them left in the city.
This is only repetition of what
they do each fall as soon as the
cotton picking season opens. Ne
gro men, negro women and small
negro children flock from the
cities and towns into the country,
by the hundreds and remain for
several weeks until the cotton
picking season is over. Those
holding good positions as do
mestics leave their places without
notice and go to the cotton felds.
Probably the greatest attraction,
however, is the remuneration.
there being such scarcity of cot
ton pickers III that section during
the last two seasons that the wag-
.es have advanced from 40 cents
per hundred pounds to 81 per
hundred pounds and in few To-
calities last season as high as 81. 10
per hundred pounds was paid
pickers. At this high rate of wag-
es good pickers can make enough
during the season to keep them
comfortably through the ensuing
winter and until next cotton pick
Ing season rolls around. The
larger planters in Central Texas
bring train loads of Mexican cot
ton pickers from the Rio Grande
border each year. These Mexi-
cans work until the close of the
season, when they are returned to
their homes on the border. The
transportation both ways is paid
by the planters. How you Geor-
gians who 60 to Texas going to
get your cotton picked?
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1902-09-04

EDITORS JOURNAL will give
you few lines from about Mt.
Vernon Church and Lookout
Mountain. We have very good
health here now. Crops not good
on account of SO much dry wealth.
er. We have just closed a glorious
meeting at Mt, Vernon church,
missionary Baptist There were
eighteen additions, among them
being Mrs. Mary Kelley, Mr.. Joe
Norris, wife and daughter, Rosa.
Rev. G. E. Jones, is our pastor
and he is doing great work here
for the Master. He is carrying on
his fourth protracted meeting this
week. Wishing the Journal much
success and it's many readers.
A FRIEND.
Aug. Doth 1902. Powell. Ala. g
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1902-09-04
F. e. A. SOHILLING

Keeps what we believe to be Give"
thoroughly "up-to-date" Hardware
store, one that we are striving to make
better each month of its existence.
Our efforts at steady growth are con-
centrated along such lines as these
l.. A stock of goods kept bright, fresh
and attractive.
2. Selling atprices easily recognized
as fair ones and guaranteeing quality.
s.. A treatment of customers that
makes 1t seem as their continued pat
ronage was actually desired.
;, Our stock may be summarized as
follows and each department found to
be complete:
l. General building and shelf hardware,
IL. Wood and metal workers tools,
IS. Carriage and wagon material,
T. Cutlery of every description (exccpt
poor.
o. Household wares and conveniences.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1902-09-04
UP AGAINST 1T.

A Jew years ago a negro woman
named Ida Wells toured England
and aroused the people to a high
state of indignation against the
southern people by her descrip-
tlons of the horrible lynchings of
negroes which she declared was
habitually practiced Ly the people
of this section. The London Tel
egraph was one of the first English
papers to espouse the cause of this
woman and it's denunciations of
the South for it's alleged barbara
ties to the negroes were severe.
Since the surrender of the Beers
III South Africa the negroes are
now up against the negro problem
In that quarter. The London Tel
egraph now declares the negro is
incapable of rising by his own eff
forts. that the efforts made in his
behalf have been failure, that he
should not have the right of suf.
frage and that the repression OF
this race by the Southern states OF
America is just and proper. Tn.
der the Boer law negroes were in.
variably shot on sight Cor lynched)
for crimes against white women.
and it is said that the Boer law on
this subject will be sustained by
the British.
All of this reminds us of the
fable in the old blue back spelling
book about the farmer and the
lawyer in which difference was
made as to whose OK was gored
r. VIcToR.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1902-09-04

Cases of typhoid fever in Wash
ington have recently multiplied
so rapiyly that the local authori-
ties have become alarmed and a
special sanitary expert has been
appointed by the commissioners
of the district to investigate the
cause or causes of the epidemic.
There are now 305 cases of ty-
phoid in Washington, and the
disease is on the increase.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1902-09-04
Young Plants

Every farmer knows that
some plants grow better than
others. Soil may be the same
and seed may seem the same
but some plants are weak and
others strong.
And that's the, way with
children. They are like young
plants. Same food, same home,
same care but some grow big
and strong while others stay
small and weak.
SCOTS Emulsion offers an
easy way out of the difficulty.
Child weakness often means
starvation, not because of lack
of food, but because the food
does not feed.
SCOTS Emulsion really feeds
and gives the child growing
strength.
Whatever the cause of weak
ness and failure to grow
SCOTS Emulsion seems 70 find
it and set the matter right.
Send for free sample
SCOTT & BOVINE, Chemists, 400 Pearl ST., New York
SOC. and III 90 all druggists.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1902-09-04
IRONY.

The Atlanta Journal suggests
Judge Speer as suitable person
to assume the editorial manage
ment of the recently failed Angus
ia Chronicle. The Journal surely
speaks ironically for with rene
gade in the sanctum of the Chron-
icle that paper would be in a hope
less condition indeed SC far as
circulation is concerned.