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The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1905-05-18

Washington. May 10.-Postmaster
General Cortciyou has signed a con-
aenlon with the jamaican government
ssA'endine the money order system OF
suis country TO the province OF Jama-
,ea- Ine eonyeation has been sent 10
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POETS CORNER.
SATURDAY NIGHT

Written Tor n, "foss''
The sabbath is a blessed time
OF which the muses. sing:
Another hoar nvokes ny rhyme,
Ny trihate ! would bring.
To ionsed for hour At labor's close
The last eve Of the week.
When homeward every workman goes.
His cottage door to seek.
Sweet hour Of rest, sing Of thee,
Let nought that hour alloy.
Bring hope and health, prosperity
Aud love for lsbor's joy.
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" ash'nsion. May l3.--A cabinet Of
,s aesr : authority for the statement
nat nat Paul Morton. secretary Of the
-ats, VIII. In very short time. start
s~ay on a pleasure trip. nom which
as win return only to sever his CON. On
'a VIII :As RysFamsnt sersIes.
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A POWERFUL BODY.
National Interests and International
Consolation Association Formed.

Paris. May l5.-A powerful body
comprising leading public men OF En.
rope and America have founded tho
National Interests and International
Cancellation association under the
presidency OF Senator BertheIot. For.
mer Premier Leon Bourgeois and Sen
alor Des'ournelles de Constant repro.
sented France. and Andrew Carnegie
the United States and the duke Of
Marlborough Great Britain. The pur-
pose OF the association is the doyelon-
ment Of the domestic interests Of the
respective countries by means Of good
international relations. Prominent sa.
wants. authors. artists. politicians and
lawyers have promised their support
10 carry out the program OF the asso-
citation.
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Hartford. Ct. May 1.-The iesisla-
ture In joint session formally declared
Frank B. Brandegee elected upited
States senator for the unexplred tern,
OF the late Senator o. H. Platt. whico
began March 4. 1903
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RAILROAD CONGRESS.
The Foreign Delegates viii Make
Tours in the United States

Washington. May 1.-two parties
or foreign delegates 90 the Information.
al Hallway Congress. which closed lts
seventh session here. left washington
on tours of the United States The
parties include about 800 delegates ana
occupy four special trains one party
VIII reach New York May %. after
having visited Altoona Pittsburr
Cleveland. Buffalo. Niagara Fails
schenectady and Boston. Tho other ia
due In New York the 27th. stopninr nf
Altoona. Pittsburg. Cincinnati. 81
Louis. Chicago. Niagara Falls. Mon.
treat Saratoga. schnectady and al
oany. The foreign delegates. who in-
Guide representatives OF many Euro
pean and other governments and rail.
roads. are travelling in the United
states as guests OF the American Rail
road association.
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OOUeLE MUROER ANo SUICIDE

''0'''as "UNaI NIIIeu tdIth FerQuson,
Hal Williamson and Himself.
Mempnis. Tenn. May IA tripie
tragedy occurred here when Thomas
Mccall night watchman for the ur.
nois Central railroad. shot and kinei
Edith Ferguson and Hal Williamson
The murderer an hour later turned the
weapon upon himself. firing a ballet
into his head. Mccall IS said 10 have
been Jealous OF Wiuamson's atten.
IONS To the woman. He found the
Two together and nred on the couple
Edith Ferguson was Instantly killed
aud Williamson sustained wounds
from which he died an hour later.
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His excellency drew near. Jack
leaned forward little and lifted his
hat, not with the idea of catching his
eyes at all, but the governor saw him
saw him-and he stopped suddenly,
turned white and recled.
ut Is nothing" he said. recovering
quickly. The hcart-a sudden faint
ness. Let us 60 on"
The procession went on. But the
governor looked back once more into
the crowd For he had seen. after
seventeen years, standing among the
common people, the old friend of his
youth, by whose act and deed he him
self was what he was and where he
was.
lie recognized mo" said Jonathan.
striding away. "llc caught my eve
and he knew me. ! saw him change
color and stop. Strange meeting after
so many years. lie will send FOR me to-
morrow, and we shall have talk OF
course he will trust me still should |
give him that papcr2 think not"
SO while the new governor enter.
tanned the legislative council at n ban.
quet, his old friend sat at dinner in his
cabin and contentedly munchcd his cur.
ried beef and drank his sour claret and
water and congratulated himself on the
beauty and the happiness of the wifi,
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CHAPTER II.

lie stepped out again upon the veran-
da. The sea breeze had sprung up: the
was refreshed: he drew long breath
air and looked cut into the darkness. His
memory went back some seventeen
years. A morning came back To him;
he saw what happened. not as he saw
IL then. an actor on the scene, but he
saw IL, now from the outside, here as
the audience. The actors were two
specters OF the past--young men both.
The face Of ono was radiant. his eyes
and cheeks flushed, his lips trembling.
The other was also flushed but his eyes
were dropped, his head hung, his voice
faltered.
Jack" he murmured, "T cannot LEI
you do it, No friend can expect such 6
thing of another"
why" said Jack-Longden's name
in fact, was Jack. but IL was ffteer
years since he had been called by his
Christian name. and he had almost for
gotten it-"why. man, what's the goot
Of being friends IL we can't stand by
each other? Look here--it's a devil o.
mess
1T Is, lndCcu. 10 1ne III Is rum
evcrything--everything is lost, includ
ing Eva. Good God! Who is TO tel
hero"
"Wcll. Harry. sooner than Eva should
suffer--sooncr than you should suffer
I would suffer myself. Now, look here
I've done this thing-you know-no'
You at nll--not you at all" He laid his
| hand ,,,,ou hiC friand'g
mo, mol cannot, Think Of the con
sequences"
"There will be bit of shindy.
dare say IL will blow over. My prig OF
an elder brother will groan and say he
always knew; but you will be happy
old man, and--and so--what is the ust
of being friends, and sworn friends, too
II we are not TO bear the burdens OF
each othcr?"
The other protested, but weakly ant
with tears and self-accusations: IL wa
too great a sacrifice. He had been Q
fool and wretch; he must take the con
sequences Then Jack remarked thai
there was another person TO consider
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. ''He certainly said that, r'murmured
the audience. "He said f--iind have
the paper still--and he is governor and
AN Junior in his audit Office.
Then he looked again md he saw a
girl. She turned her eyes from one TO
The other in astonishnaent. very
beautiful girl she was AZ the sight Of
her the audience caught his breath.
"Whv." she said, what Is the matter
with You both?'
Eva" cried the man, whose burden
was TO be transferred hat said no more.
Eva" said Jack, 81 am sorry you
have come Mt this moment. But YOU
may ms well hear the truth at once
Truth? What TRUTH" She looked
quickly. not at Jack, but Mt the other
THE truth is" said Jack, that o.
very disgraccful thing has been found
! out, and that one Of us is going 20 say
uood-by-most likely forever"
what Is IL, Harry" She caught him
by the arm. "why do you look like
thisp"
''Because he is my friend. Eva. I
have shamcd him. II Is l who have
done this dsgraccful thing. You had
better go now. both Of you"
eyes, he said that" murmured the
audience. "And they went away and
left the guilty man. And there was an
end of everythingV
The guilty man folded the confession
and placed It in his poclSetbook. well"
he said. ~ would have done more than
that for Eya's sake. not TO speak of
Harry. don't suppose she will ever
know that have ever done II or why.
Now we must face the footlights.'
The scene disappeared and the black
night returned. Longdcn was on the
veranda again looking out into the
darkness; he heard the gentle tapping
Of the water on the coral reef and the
kncll Of the bell buoy tolling out at
sea beyond the harbor. and the filhnos
mourned and sighed in the fresh sea
breeze
Yes" said Longdcn. ''Iie was
eighteen. and he believed In friend
ship. What did the other man believe
imp
And he remembered how tho thing
which he had assumed was really n
much more serious thing than he had
believed. in fact. thing which stains:
a thing which win not wash off: thing
for which he was Immediately sent
home 10 his father who refused TO re-
ccive him. for which in fact he was
bundled OF 30 small clerkship In q
distant colony with no farewells OK
cept from his elder brother-the prig--
who informed him that IL was never toe
late TO build up n new character on
the ruins Of one which had been dc
stroyed.
when Jonathan died" 'Longder
murmured. David wept and lamentod
Suppose Jonathan had disappeared N
disgrace only to be recovered when Do
vid was king over Israeli"
lie went 20 his room and 10 his bee
in the dark. But he slept little. an
} when he woke in the morning II wa
with an uneasy sense of having becom
King David, and Of having found hi
. old friend Jonathan adding up the az
: counts in the chief stewards chamber
and Of being embarrassed by the dis
eovery.
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CHAPTER III.

The monotony Of life, praised so
highly, was rudely broken by this
strange event. The colony was so linn
tied as TO size, the officials SO small in
number. that the governor would GER
tainly know something about everyone
in the service. There was not the least
doubt but that King David would dis
cover Jonathan. Henry DIVERSION
Dunkcld, king. would discover his old
friend John Lorimer Longden among
the scribes Ia the palace. What would
the king say? Would he call for the
purple robe and wrap IL round that
scribe, and send him forth upon white
horse richly caparisoned, with trum-
peter proclaiming the honors done by
order Of the king? Or should Jona-
than begin it? Should he bow himself
down upon the ground saying: 80 king,
| live forever. I am Jonathan, friend of
thy youth. and am held down in low
estate by reason of thing" How would
that do?
Longden pondered the subject long
and doubtfully. What would happenP
As for the confession, he had IL still.
The papers lay among other papers in n
desk. There was letter from his
father casting him off; one from his
brother preaching q sermon as to a
condemned criminal. There was por-
trait of girl--the Eva for whose sake
his friend had consented; there was an
other of his friend himself, gallant
youth. and some letters from that
friend, written before the fatal trans
fer--none after: and some verses writ
ten In praise Of Eva, dancing--thcy
were after Herrick "If at any time in
the future you can advance yourself by
using that paper, use it," The words
returned again and again. How should
he use it2 lie might place the paper
into the hands of the governor, and
leave the matter TO him. He might
90 TO him and say: 81 am your ole
friend. We know what we know, but
we trust each other. What ! hav,
done have done" So thinking. hi
heart grew soft 10 that old friend; HI
said to himself that he must have suf
cred from thinking of what had beef
done; but that for Eva's sake-doubt
less now his wife-the thing was wei
done. He would do IL again, whateve
happened.
With the rest Of the world, with tn
acting governor, the bishop. the colone
commandant, the Legislative eounci
and the heads Of departments, be wen
down TO the quay=-he did not stan
with these illustnous persons, but we
behind them in the crowd--to receiv
, the governor.
His excellency, Sir Henry Dunkelt
X. c. NJ. c., came ashore in the harbC
| masters launch, with an awning and
crew OF six stout negroes. He was n
: c ompanied by mis- wife, his daughter,
4 child of ten, his daughters governes
and his aide-de-camp.
! Oh, yes; Jack Longden knew him
!. once. And Lady Dunlseld, too-Eva,
j, course, Then he had married Eva, The
q she was, and after seventeen years
: lovely woman still. OF course he wou
o have recognized her, too, at once. II
heart become very soft watchir
thesn old Friends 81 his youth
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CHAPTER ".


So he did nothing. The new governor
paid visits to various places in his king.
dom, and gained great popularity by
his aifability, and by the many charms
and graces of his wife. But he made no
sign at all to his old friend.
Time went on. Three months passed,
nd no advance was made.
~ say, Longden." said his chum, one
lay. II heard something this morning
that should like 90 tell you"
Tell away, old man"
at concerns yourself, and want you
not to get angry about IT,"
~ won't Tell away"
az was in the private Eecrctary's
room. sitting at n separate table, maxi
ing precis for him. Well, the gov
ernor passed through on his way
10 his own room. lie stopped Mt
the secretary's table and began TO talk.
suppose no one noticed me. He was
talking about officers and salaries.
Presently he pointed To a name on the
list-and looked at his secretary as
much as to say. who is this?
"J. l.. Longden.' said the secretary,
he is very good clerk
"'He has been here a long time
al think he has no friends at home
There is something against him. Not
anything out here-at home and long
while ago Then he told a story about
you, Longden."
"You needn't repeat the story said
Longden. 81 believe have heard the
story before. My brother, the prig, told
1t at the colonial Office To somebody
who told IL TO somebody else,
who brought It 10 the colonial secre-
tary here. The story is the property of
the office. They don't tell it about but
II there is any question of promotion
they bring IL out and look at It, Go on.
by the way, the story is only half true,
and the half that is true isn't exactly
the half that they believe"
"Why don't you let them know
then"
Because, my sonny, there are other
people 10 be considered. Meantime
what said the lSing?'
"Well, his excellcncy heard the story
and shook his head Then he said
slowly and sorrowfully: There are
things which can never be forgotten
Forgiven he added, they may be ant
are by the persons injured. But for
gotten by the world-ncver A mar
who has such story as this believed
of him Is like a man who is doomed fol
life. Such an action--such fall-car
never be retrieved Pity pityH Their
he went into his private room and shu
the door"
The man with the shady recorc
laughed. "Ah" he said, virtues only
weak by reason OF her unforgiveness
otherwise she would draw the Who'll,
world, like beauty, with a single hair
He heard this story for the first time
and it--it shocked his Righteousness.
ITO be cOtinued.
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be actually sent out by the colonial
Office at the age OF twenty, 10 begin, as
he should, with his foot on the lowest
rung, md then 20 be left there, Is not
common. After fifteen years he re-
mained n Junior in this department; he
drew. it is true, two hundred and forty
pounds year, or double his original
pay, but lac had been passed by all his
contemporaries, and now remained
stuck fast, apparently forgotten. IL
was said that there was some scandal
about him which stood in the way of
his omotion--something he had done.
What that was did not take n definite
form. Here, however. was the fact:
An English gentleman, OF good family,
left in the lower branches of the colo
NAL service, fve-and-thirty years of
age. possessed OF every quality that
should command success. What did ~
mean?
There's some news in the CONNER
cial special" said the young fellow.
We've got new governor. lie comes
out next mail. Here's the order"
lie tossed IL over. There was half
column hastily printed with a summary
of this month Longden glanced down
the paragraphs. Suddenly he started,
sat up and dropped the paper.
Good Lordl' he cried.
"What is it?" asked his companion.
Longden sprang to bic feet. Then he
stepped out upon the little vcranda he
fore the cottage and began TO walk up
and down with an energy worthy OF
his native land in an east wind.
Presently Longdcn came back and
took up the paper and read slowly a
second time the paragraph that had
startled him. "Sir Henry DIVERSION
Dunkeld, X. c. H.. is the newly appoint
ed governor. Sir Henry Durkcld, the
| eldest son OF Maj, Gen. Dunkcld, II. A.,
p, was educated at Trinity college, Cam
bridge, where he obtained n first class
and fellowship in the year 1873. lie
was called TO the bar in 1871; he sat IN
the house of commons for the borough
Of Chester on the conservative side
from 1879 To 1852. lie was then
appointed lieutenant governor al
Bcnang: in 1884 he was made governor
Of the Leeward islands. Sir Henry Is
believed TO possess great administrative
abilities. lie Is personally popular
he Is said TO possess great charm OF
manners, and his sympathies with any
religious and philanthropic movements
are well known"
Good Lord" said Longden once
more. "And am an assistant clerk In
his audit Office"
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I've been here fifteen ycars-fftcen
years; think of that! Fifteen years. II
were a coolic, dead and buried fifteen
years ago, my grave trodden level with
the ground, | couldn't be more for
gottcnl"
But you've got friends at home,
You must have people"
II have. There's my elder brother,
the prig-I'vc got him And there are
cousins by dozens. first and second, and
second once removed And | had n
father, but he is dead. poor old mani
Friends? Plenty of friends. As for
friendships well-but once had true
friend. We outdid David and iona
than. So far as know, David never
but then Jonathan died young and per.
haps there were passages. Ours was a
divine, an ideal. friendship-no two
friends ever more so; because, you see,
in the higher planes of friendship
what one gives the other has got 10 nc.
cept. The world doesn't understand
this. for there Is TO friendship in bust
ness, and we are mostly business men
therefore there are no friends
II don't understand"
mo more do now. II was magnifi
cent. but it wasn't business-Well, n;
I said, had true friend orce, more
than pal, closer than brother. Wher,
il that true friend now?'
when you go home again"
81 never shall go home again. sonny
This is NV home. Very thankful
ought 10 he 90 have such home. VIVA
more can man desire? From ten u
-four the hcalthful labor Of the Office
Homo to this elegant mansion at five
A stroll on the shore till hnlf-past 81,
or so; dinner, the finest dinner in tn,
world. with the best clarct in tn,
world. No promotion, even, To agitat
the soul
'You will get promotion some day
You must. Oh! 1t is shameful"
You will. you boy. As for me
what does il matter? ! draw two hun
bred rupees month. am a junior il
the audit office. We live in this agree
able mansion of three rooms, and
vcranda It's walls arc made of pacl,
ing eases; and It's roof is made OF tn
tin which formerly lined those cases; !
is surrounded by n lovely compoun
containing three ragged bananas and
priclSly pear, and IL is furnishe
sumptuously. Behold style, secon
empire, for the most part"
The speaker, man with n count.
nance still ruddy. spite of his tropica
experience, and big brown beard,
large limbcd man, lay back in his chai
and replaced his pipe between his lip
lie spoke bitterly, but his face was no
bitter, and his eyes were as kindl
as the eyes of any silver king o
lord of nitrate boom could be. TIL
other was young man OF one an
twenty, just beginning his career !
the same splendid service which ha
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namely. a certain Eva. Above all
things she was TO be kept from the un.
happiness which would fall upon her If
she knew.
Then the other man gave way But
he made a condition; so much grace was
left TO him. He sat down, and he wrote
at hoadlong speed a certain little nara
tive. This he signed, dated, read
through, folded and gave TO his friend,
Jack, he said, II win accept your
sacrifice on one condition. Here is a
complete confession of the whole bust
ness. Take II, DO what you like with
IT, III you suffer from the consequences
reveal 1t; am altogether in your hands
II at any time in the future you car
advance yourself by means Of that pa
per, use It, You have tho right Il
use IT,"
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taken away the elder mans youth.
The united resources of this mess were
slender, and when the rent of twenty
rupee, month had been paid and the
wages of their one servant and the
dhobie and the clarct (which was dear
at sd the bottle) and the whisky and
the stringy beef and the skinny chicken
which graccd their board. there really
was very little left for the minor lux
uries. Yet i'm lands where twice year
there falls no shade on any side of rock
or house, the minor luXurieB are To most
the simplest necessities On the two
sides Of the room were two small bed
rooms, in each bed, a mosquito cur
tain, an arm wire, n chair and wash.
stand. The room in front opened upon
n small vcranda.
"Well, my boy Longden went on,
'you shall have better luck; you shall
get promoted early; you shall leave me
and mess with other promotions; chief
clerk presently in your department
acting head of department; sent of "a
some other colony as head colonial sec
rotary somewhere else; lieutenant gov
crnor G. NJ, g.; governor, n. c. NJ, &
Heart up, sonny. The world is all be
fore you"
The younger man was little discon
certed nt this outburst; when one Il
twenty II Is hard 10 understand that {
man Of nvc-and-thirty, which seems al
age so advanced, and a man who ha'
''stuck" in his upward fight, and ont
who is invariably cheerful and ap
parently contented, should ever hav'
had ambitions,
Longdens case was exceptional
There are plenty Of shady Englishmel
who get taken on in the colony, in oh
scure branches Of the government
service with never a chance or hop
Of promotions but for young man 4
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for whose sake he had taken this bur
den upon himself. In the morning.
when he recalled the landing and the
recognition. he understood that in the
latter there was surprise or dismay,
terror--but not n sign OF joy. And he
ceased TO feel quite so warmly towards
his old friend.
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AVE you got
your letters by
by the IN all,
Longden?"
MOL haven't,
my son. ! never
do get any let
ters. ! have left
off cxpcc ting
letters"
His chum, who
yvas a new ar
rival, look e Il
surprised.
NNfl .
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KING DAVIDS FRIEND.
BY WALTER BEsANr.
90 xxfTAVE Won

Copyrighted, 1891, by the Authors Alliance !
CHAPTER l.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-06-23
An Awkward Situation,

Congressman Morrell, of Philadel.
'phia, said in the course of an address
to National Guardsmen;
"As colonel Of the Third Regiment
'Of Pennsylvania, l once took part in
IAN odd and amusing episode.
My regiment was marching down
Broad street in the van of an immense
and magnificent parade when, near
Walnut street, it became necessary to
push the people back q little. The
ropes had broken at this point, and the
people, quite Internationally, en-,
cruached on the line of the parade.
Il assigned a handful CT young
privates to help the police handle the
crowd, and one private, stationed near
me. kept my eye on. He got every,
body back except fat man. This per.
son did not move.
"'Private.' said |, PIT that fat man
back
He says he cant get back, the
crowd is pushing so, the private an.
swered.
Put your musket butt in his chest,
said 4. and force him back. You are
the stronger
Yes said the private, Il know I'm
the stronger, but he's the foreman of
our shop"