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The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1904-12-22
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the colored children la the fomer
slave States. and nearly S60O.0OO00O
Tor the same purpose for the white
children Of the same section.
NInety-siX reform schools arc re-
corded. with 3l.46S inmates. 2l.608
Of whom are learning useful trades.
- lirgiaiq School Journal.
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OINTMENT fails 20 cure anv csse. no
matter Of how long standing. On oto "a
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The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1904-12-22

Mrs Y. $ Paine came over from
Bristol Saturday nigh. aud spent
Sunday with Mr. Paine at Hotel En-
gene, who returned with her 90 Bris-
col Monday morning.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1904-12-22

Charles w Cox. of Roanoke ar
rived in the GAP Monday night. and
will spend the Holidays with his
father, Lieutenant james Coast this
place
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1904-12-22

Mr.. 5 r. Jessec. the insurance
agent at this place. aaj Mr. Charles
G. Bales. prominent attorney of
Rose Hill. Va, will open real cs-
tate and Insurance office AT Penning-
ton Gap, Va, on Jan l-i. 1905
Nj. Bale, viii have charge Of the
business al that place.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1904-12-22

Take LAXATIVE BRONO QCINiNE
Tablets. Ali druggists refund tae money
n u fails 90 cure. = ". Groves sigma
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FOR SALE.

An up-to-dsse. 5 room, two ito
~ residence located on Poplar Hill.
for sale on easy terms. This res
deuce Is FIRST class IN every respect
snd j. wen worth ,he price asked
to anyone wanting an up-to-date
home.
For further Information apply 10
the editor Of this paper
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1904-12-22

1t will pay TO advertise You
Christmas goods in the Big Stone
Gap Post.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1904-12-22

Mr. " " Nickeis has on exhi-
bition az bis store at this place. one
Of the largest pumpkins We ever saw.
which he raised in his garden. IL
weighs 6S pounds
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1904-12-22

Superintendent r. l.. Counts. Of
Coeburn. visited the public school At
this place last Thursday.
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LOOKOUT.

J. r. Kidd win be a candidats for
[,~a Sergeant al the coming June
Election, 1905.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1904-12-22

After looking over "a recent issue
Of the Lebanon News. o. small boy in
Big Stone Gap, said. "Well mama.
they surely DON'T raise anything In
Lebanon bat ,vhiskey. DO theys''
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1904-12-22

Make Hopr wife happy y ma- hs
giving her new kitchen range
Hamblen Bros have fine stock.
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FOR SALE.

We have for sale hay. chop and
con- at reasonable prices. Call and
see Us. We are also dealers in coal.
j. b. PArrERsoS & Co.
ffa1 SIR
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Dr.. = a. SPRoLEs.
f<es@isHS11r D@sasa-e.
Big Stora Ga, ~.

| tH stii al ms old staad 10 Skseus
Building. where I viii Be losnI fsou $50
n TO 80 p na- prepared to do ali kind.
OF Dental Nork- crovn and Bridge Work
aud Painless Extrarti0n % teeth special
ties. Prices reasonable i.nf-a
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1904-12-22

Look ont. Christmas will soon be
here
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1904-11-30
HAD MANY CALLERS TO-DAY
Governor Holds Weekly Session
And Makes Two Ap-
continents.

Governor Warfield received many
callers today in connection with a
variety OF subjects touching ON state
matters. He held the regular weekly
session to dispose of matters needing
his attention. Several applications
for pardons were presented, but they
were not acted upon, it being decided
TO open them at a later day.
Two appointments were made by
the Governor, as mentioned elsewhere
IN these columns, and he attended a
meeting of the Safe Building Commits.
sion. tie also ratified the findings OF
the Board of Election Canvassers.
Early in the afternoon ne left for
Baltimore to attend a meeting in
connection with the Burnt District
Commission of Baltimore. He will
return to Annapolis tomorrow to affix
his signature TO several papers. 1t
was thought by many that there
would be some talk with reference to
the calling Of an extra session for the
purpose of taking some action on an.
other disfranchisement act The SUBJ
ject, however, was not broached in
the Governors presence.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1904-11-30
EXECUTIVE APPOINTMENTS
Mr.. Melvin Is Appointed County
School Commissioner For
Anne Arundel.

The Governor today appointed Mr..
George i. Melvin of Annapolis. rs n
Democratic member of the School
Board of Anne Arundel county. vice
DR.. Elijah Williams, deceased. Mr.
Melvin is Well equipped for the posi-.
tion, having taught school himself
end being a lawyer of some ability.
de was strongly recommended by the
people interested in the public schools
and by the leading citizens of Annap.
oils and the county, particularly by
the minister's of every denomination in
Annapolis, who seemed TO be espec.
tally interested in the matter of the
selection of DR.. Williams successor.
There were a number of other appl.
cants for the place. which has been
vacant for several months. The Gov
ernor also appointed Hon. Harry A.
Roe as the Republioan.member of the
Caroline county school board vice
Thomas w. Jones, deceased. Mr. Roe
is member of the State Senate and
at the last session OF the Legislature
manifested great interest in ali mat
ters pertaining TO school legislation.
His appointment was made without
any solicitation on his part or that OF
his friends and solely because of his
interest in the work of the schools and
his qualifications for the place and the
further fact that be is a very repre-.
entative Republican of Caroline coun.
ty.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1904-11-30
TO Discuss Education

The annual meeting of the Associa-
tion of School Commissioners and
County SuperinteLdents will begin at
the State Normal School Building, in
Baltimore, tomorrow and will continue
for two days. This Association was
formed for the purpose of recommend
alton and has no executive capacity,
but is considered effective in its
sphere. The following subjects have
been assigned for discussion:
/. How may the County Superin-
tendent and the County School Com
missioners help to increase the number
OF teachers doing the work of the State
Reading Circle.
2. Should this Association encourage
the publication uf a Maryland school
journal!
g. How can manual training be ex-
tended TO other schools than the one
where the department is locatedI
f. Best way to increase the useful
ness of the Maryland State Teachers
Association.
At p. NJ. on Friday an inspection
of the State Normal School will be
made, when the teachers of the An
napolis High School will attend.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1904-11-30
NOW READY FOR CONGRESS.
Special Dispatch to Evening Capital.

Washington, ID. c., Nov. 30.-rhe
national capitol is being put in readi-
ness for the assembling of Congress
next week During the last few
months the big building has been
cleaned from basement to dome ana a
number of improvements have been
made. A large archway has been cut
in the wall which formerly complete
Iy divided the two dining rooms of
the House restaurant. A steam table
has been installed and it is announced
that less elaborate menu, but more
satisfactory one, will be served hungry
statesmen, beginning at II o'clock each
day after the session cOnvenes. For
the first time in quarter of a century
the base of the dome has been scraped
and painted and a number of leaks
stopped The committee rooms have
been redecorated. new carpets laid,
and new mahogany furniture INSTALL
ed, and the old furnishings of both
House and Senate have given way 70
new.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1904-11-30
County Commissioners

A single session of the County Com
missioners was held yesterday and
many subjects of interest came up for
discussion and disposition.
1t was reported by theRroad commits
sioners of the Fifth district that they
had opened bids for the hauling and
spreading of shells on the road from
Glen Burnie to Furnace Branch and
had awarded the contract TO Frank
Grey at 80 cents. The award was
ratified.
The Clerk was authorized to adver-
tise for bids for the building of a
bridge at Saw Mill bridge. in the
Fifth district, the bids to be opened
December 20.
Messrs. Joseph A. Lee, Louis Ar
niger and Ernest Tucker were ap-
pointed examiners to determine the
need of change of road in the First
district through the lands of Charles
D. Stewart.
Authority was given the COLCHESTER
Steamboat Company to make needed
repairs to Carr's wharf, not to exceed
800 in cost, the cost to be equally
divided between the company and the
county.
A committee composed of Messrs.
Fl. A. Tydings, John +. Pettibone and
f. M. Duyall TO maintain the ferry
across the Severn river and to super
wise its operations.
William L. Hawkins, justice of the
peace reported 5000 in fees
Squire Charles @. Feldmeyer report
ed fees amounting to $33 60.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1904-11-30
FRENCH CELEBRITY.
To Lecture At Naval Academy.

The first of course of lectures to
be delivered at the Naval Academy
under the auspices of the Alliance
Francaise. " French literary society
recently organized, viii be delivered
on Monday, December -.
The lecturer will be the noted
French celebrity, NJ. FAM Funck-
Rrentano, author of a number OF IA
nous books. His subject will be the
Bastille and thes Iron Mask Man.
He will speak ON France of the seven
teenth and eighteenth centuries. He
is custodian of the Bastille's famous
recods and is accredited as special en-
voy.
M. FAM Funck Brentano Is secre.
tary general of the Society Of Histori-
cal Research of Paris and Is renowned
because of his deIying into the records
of the BastiIle, of which he is custo-
dian. He arrived in New York No
vember 30 on the Glascogne, of the
French line, to deliver lectures under
the auspices of the Federation de
I'Alliance Franchise upon France in
the seventeenth and eighteenth centu-
ries. He is a special envoy of the
Minister of Public Instruction.
In 1885 NJ. Funck- -Brentano took up
in the Arsenal Library ia Paris the
unfinished work of Francois Rayais-
son in classifying the archives Of the
Bastille. Ia the prosecution OF this
talk he solved the identity of 'The
Man with the Iron Mask. !"
The society under whose auspices
NJ. Brentano will lecture are the mem
bers of group OF the Alliance Fran.
caise recently organized at the Naval
Academy. The organization is COM
posed of ladies and gentlemen who
have literary trend and who will
have the beneft@f this winter of a
course of lectures by the most noted
lecturers and men of letters in the
country. M. Brentano's lecture will be
in French, and only members of the
group of the Alliance Francaise and
perhaps a few invited guests will be
privileged to enjoy it. The lecture
will be illustrated.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1904-11-30
PRICE ONE GENT
THOUSANDSOF OYSTERS LOST
The Large Tank of The Severn
Glass Works Responsible
For Trouble.

startling condition of affairs has
been brought 70 light by tie heavy
seas OF the last few days. It has been
the means of discovery that thous.
ands of dollars damage has been done
30 local oyster bedders.
Practically all of the oysters which
have been bedded in the harbor by local
packers and others interested in the
propagation of oysters are utterly lost
to them or will place upon the own.
ers expenses which will materially
lessen their profits.
One packer in Annapolis has lost the
value of 800 bushels of oysters i'm
addition TO the shueking. Others
viii be forced to go to the expense of
having the oysters tonged and placed
IN the waters OF the bay in an effort 20
save themselves from complete loss.
Some time since large quantities of
oysters were bedded at the head OF
the harbor basin to provide a source
OF supply in case of inclement weather
preventing the tongers from plyinR
their trade. Most of the oysters we're
bedded by packers who have often
suffered as result of their inability
20 secure oysters when needed.
The blow of tho last few DAYS has
brought to light startling condition
OF affairs. The tongers were unable
TO get out on the bars and the bedded
oysters were drawn on to supply the
demand. They were shucked and
shipped to other cities. Complaints
have been received in nearly every in.
stance TO the effect that they were
strongly impregnated with kerosene.
In every case the oysters we're re-
turned as dead loss TO the shippers.
An investigation was at once begun
TO ascertain the cause of the trouble
It needed but little search to locate
1t. lt was traced TO the presence of
coal oil in the waters of the harbor
basin and which had escaped from the
large tank formerly located on the
grounds of the Severn Glass Plant
The oysters were found to be SO thor
oughly impregnated with the oil that
they were utterly ruined, as far as
eating purposes was concerned. 1t has
been decided by those owning the
planted oysters TO move them to the
bay in an effort to cleanse them of
the oil. This is now being done at
great expense.
Owing to the sluggishness> of the
tide in the basin il is believed that it
has been rendered forever worthless
as place to bed oysters. II is claim
ed that it will be an after impossible
ity to cleanse the basin Of oil.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1904-11-30
MANDAMUS AGAINST GOV.
Effort Being Made To Have Him
Sign Amendments.

After a lengthy delay which created
the impression that no action would
result from the talk mandamus pro.
ceedings were begun in the Anne
Arundel Circuit Court this morning
against Governor Warfield. The suit
is to compel tine Governor to affix his
signature to the Constitutional amend
ment passed at the last session of the
Legislature. Attorney General Bryan
has maintained ever since the passage
of the amendment that it cannot be-
come operative without the signature
of the Governor 1t is hoped by the
members of the state Democratic
committee that decision of the court
will make it necessary for the Cover
nor to proclaim the amendments by
advertising them.
The matter will probably be threshed
out during the May term of court.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1904-11-30
An entertaining LECTURE.
Mr. Peters Hays Mech Wisdom
And Philosophy On "The
Variety Tree

The Rev. Il. L. Peters delivered a
most entertaining lecture at the Pres
hyterian Church under the auspices
of the Christian Endeayor Society.
The pastor, the Rev. George S. Bell,
in introducing the lecturer, said Mr..
Peters, who had kindly consented to
lecture, was too we'll known TO need
an introduction. Mr.. Peters, in turn,
said he always felt at home in the
Presbyterian Church and was pleased
TO give the lecture-'A Variety
Tree. =
The audience was an unusually
large one for a lecture. and certainly
an appreciative one, the minister at
its close receiving many warm hand
shakes and congratulations on the good
lecture. The lecturer started out with
the statement that there is a Variety
Tree and variety of trees, enumera-
ting the oak, the pine. the cedar, the
Judas tree. etc. the single trees, cross
trees and the axle tree. The Bible
speaks of a tree of knowledge of good
and evil, also of the tree of life. The
children have Christmas tree and
there is the Liberty Tree.
The church. too, has a tree. 1t is q
"miff tree. = This is the tree ON which
all the people who get miffed in the
church 90 TO roost, The preacher
enumerated some Of the 'miffedn ones.
as follows: The old rooster who gets
mad with the church board the old
hen who got insulted at a church
supper; the young rooster who wanted
to modernize the church; the pullet
who has outgrown the Sunday school,
and has beau; the bantam who could
not get an official position and whose
talent is not appreciated, so he thinks !;
the pea fowl, who could not find So
ciety in the church; the turkey, who
had trouble with the preacher and
the old parrot, who is the old hypo-
critic who leaves the church because it
is not good enough for him, and he
won t associate with bad people.
The lecturer said of all trees the
genealogical is the most fruitful. 1t
has been bearing dates since the days
of Adam, but the variety tree'' is
the most remarkable. 1t bears all
kinds of fruit in all climates. Mr..
Peters pictured the Variety Tree as
an imaginary tree, like the equator,
an imaginary circle across the earth.
The tres is full of nuts, hickory nuts,
walnuts and chestnuts. Indeed it is
loaded with chestnutS. DR.. Hills
says more than $50 of the stories he
uses originated in the last century and
many of the stories are 5000 years
old. The lecture was illustrated for
chilly at telling points by a number of
humorous anecdotes 1t contained
much that was practical and philoso-
phical and was altogether pleasing and
inRtruetive
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1904-11-30
Pennsy's New Ticket Office

Commencing tomorrow, Thursday,
December /, the Pennsylvania Rail
road Company's ticket Office formerly
located at the A., W. e. B. Railroad,
will have its headquarters at 81 Mary
land avenue, the Office of the Annapo.
lis Storage and Transfer Company.
Tickets will be on sale to all points
and arrangements will be made to
check all baggage from the residence
to the destination. Mr.. r. b.
Shaver, former ticket agent of the A. !,
w. q b. Railroad, will have charge of
the Pennsylvania Office on Maryland
avenue and will act as the company IS
local agent. Mr. Shaver is q thorough
ly experienced railroad man. He is
affable and courteous and the patrons
of the Pennsylvania Railroad may be
assured of the best and most satisfac-
tory service.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1904-11-30
The Great Parsital

A most remarkable feature of Henry
w. Savage's production in English of
Richard Wagner's sacred music drama
Parsifal, = which will be seen at
Ford's Opera House. Baltimore, the
week of December 12, is the great
panorama of the first and third acts.
These panoramas depict the progress
of Parsifal and Gurnemanz from the
depths of the forest up to the wild
rocky mountain of MontsalYat to the
temple of the Grail. They are three
in number and are swung on six great
wooden rollers, each 40 feet long,
which stand three on each side OF the
stage. See ad in another column.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1904-11-30
SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENTS
Hold Single Session In The Old
Senate Chamber.

Although it was but the second
meeting since it's inception the attend
ance at the session of the association
of spuerintendents of schools through
out the state was we'll attended. The
meeting was held in the old Senate
Chamber and while there was not a
large volume of business transacted
the discussions were of the greatest
interest.
New forms and systems in matters
of instruction were gone over at great
length and matters were so shaped
that 1t is hoped much good viii be &C.
complished in connection with the
meeting of school olcommissioners which
eonvenes in Baltimore tomorrow.
The association of superintendents
is closely allied TO that of the COM
missioners and, in fact. is made up
largely of commissioners and exami-
ners.
At the conclusion of the meeting
today all of those present were enter
tanned with a course dinner at the
Maryland Hotel as guests of NJ. Bates
Stephens, state superintendent of
schools.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1904-11-30
Gossip of Extra Session

There is talk of an extra session of
the legislature TO substitute a more
acceptable form of constitutional
amendment to limit the voting franc.
hise and perhaps TO remedy the de-
fects in the primary election law and
to enact a uniform general election
law. Nothing definite could be learn.
ed at the EXECUTIVE Department to-
day, as the Governor was too busy to
give audience on the subject and
Clerk Hardy said the matter had not
been referred to in the office.
Among the suggestions made by
more timid Democrats relative TO the
extra session is the question If the
Democratic party can afford to stand
the record of three extra sessions
within four years. and two of these
for political purposes. The answer
made by the more sanguine Is that ii
the suggested extra session were call
ed to remedy the grievances complain
ed OF by the opposition, that opp0si-
tion could not consistently complain.
As to expenses, it is said that all the
necessary bills could be prepared and
agreed upon between Governor War
field, Attorney General Bryan and the
German leaders beforehand, and that
the session could be limited to one
week.
The small army Of employees incl
dent to regular session would, it is
said. be dispensed with. and Governor
Warfield might be depended upon to
prevent grating. 1t Is also suggested
that the legal proceedings about to be
instituted to determine the validity of
the Poe amendment might be permit
ted to fall into innocuous desuetude
or allowed to go against the amend
ment by default.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1904-11-30
To Command Training Station.

1t is announced at the Navy Depart.
ment that Capt. Albert Ross, u. $.
N, recently engaged as inspector of
colliers, has been detailed as COM
mandant of the naval training station
to be established ON the Lake Bluff
site. in the vicinity of Chicago, and
that Civil Engineer George A. Nc
Kay, recently stationed at the coal
depot, Narraeansett Bay, r. l.. has
been detailed to duty as his assistant
Cap. Ross spent Sunday with friends
ia Annapolis, which he acknowledges
to be his residential city.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1904-11-30
State Board of Education

All the members of the State Board
of Education attended the meeting of
that body held today in the old Treas
ury building of the state house. The
meeting was of purely business ma
ture and had to do with ways and
means in connection with the opera
tion of the schools. No radical changes
were suggested or made in connec-
tion with the policy of the board.
The members of the board left for
Baltimore in the afternoon to partici-
pate in the meeting tomorrow Of the
school commissioners.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1904-11-30
Funeral Tomorrow

The funeral of Mr.. Weems Winches-
ter, whose death occurred yesterday
afternoon at the residence of his moth
er on Conduit street, will take place
tomorrow, Thursday morning, at 9. 30
O'Clock from st. Mary's Churcn. The
deceased was a member of the Holy
Name Society, which will attend the
obsequies. The pallbearers will be
DR.. j. Newton Gilbert, DR.. Eugene
Mullan, Messrs. Roland ChiIds, Dan
iel Nichols, Lawrence Walton and
Albert Winchester. The interment
viii be in St. Mary's X. g. Cemetery.