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The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1907-01-02

elapsed since Franklin was
born his gift; of S., 900 will have
rolled up about $40, 900. 0oo'
The above Instances afford
practical examples of h o W
money piles up and it is the
knowledge of it's cumulative
nature that has enabled a large
majority of rich men 10 become
aiiluent and has made millions
of persons independent, prosper
Gus and happy.
II you are working for wages,
commence with the new year
of 1907 that is about TO dawn,
by laying up as much each week,
or month, as you can possibly
spare from your business and
the support Of yourself and
family. BY the first Of January,
1905, you viii find that it has
materially increased.
Follow the practice through
out 1905 and the year after and
continue TO do il and you will
be surprised how much you
have saved up, when the time
comes fOryou to put it into some
safe Investment or in "a home.
and after the first 81 900 you
will be surprised to find how
much easier IL is 20 get the
second 81 200.
Unless you already have an
ample fortune, that you have
earned or which has been be-
qucathed 10 you, this is the
safest. best and most satisfac-
tory way 60 get rich.
10 is far better than spccula-
ting or risking your money in
many Of the get rich-quicS
schemes that have ruined so
many thousands of persons. -
Knoxville Sentinel.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1907-01-02
FROM APPALACHIA.

The teachers and pupils have
enjoyed a ten DAYS holiday:
they went 90 their respective
homes Mrs. Lanier visited at
Clinchport. School re-opencd
January D.
Mrs. b. $ Grim. accompanied
by her sister. Miss Reed. went
60 Middlesburg Thursday eve.
ming for "A visit of a few DAYS.
Annie Kerr Tompkins spent
last week in Norton.
Mrs. III. a. Ramsey returned
from Abingdon Wednesday last
and after "a visit 60 home folks
here left for her home at Sto.
mega
Misses kilbourn and Bruce
We're visiting in town Thursday
from Big Stone Gap.
Mrs. Schumacher, who visit
ed her sister. Mrs. Tompkins.
left for her home at Sioux Falls.
South Dakota, arriving there
December path.
DIR. Smith expects TO leave
quite soon with his family for
louisville. where hc viii enter
n medical college.
Smith y nartsock have rent
eel W. a. Head 3 new building
and moved their stock of goods.
The Woman's Home Mission
Society will meet at Inman
with Mrs. Whitehead Wednes-
day, January 2nd.
! Il. Hampton and wife have
been stopping in our town for
several days.
w. NJ. Peyton and II. J..
Breeding, of kcokce. Va. made
a business "trip TO our town last
week
Rumor says Policeman Moss
has rendered his resignation.
lnman Sunday School rivals
all others around here i'm the
way OF Christmas trees. Christ
mas eve two trees stood erect
IN the church heavily loaded
with gifts, " hilo banked around
each WAS enough 60 till de
livery wagon. which could not
iiud room upon the trees.
Report saws lnmau has had
less whisky this Christmas than
for several past ones.
Misses Ruby Whitehead and
Pearl Pepper, of Norton, visited
Mrs. Tompkins last. Monday.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1907-01-02
WANTED

Four OF I've good, experienced
men 10 take contracts 10 drive
headings at new coal mine drift
openings. So fluch per foot OF
yard. Each party 70 furnish
his own back hands. Company
will furnish timber and track.
Pay every two weeks. IN cash.
Apply to
UNITED STATES COAL & COKE co.
Gary. Mcdowell County,
sSt West Va.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1907-01-02
now MONEY PILES UP.

mas CDoul Htcctd WITCH tNtAF
one i'm the United States seemed
bent upon spending all the
money that he or she could get
hold of, il might be well, as the
new year of 1907 approaches,
20 take thought Of how we may
save up more than we did last
year before, and add 20 our
store of money OF property.
While the accumulation of
money as an end. for the merely
ignoble purpose Of hording II
as a miscr does, is unworthy
of any good person. that money
as means, as being a great
force for doing things" in this
day. is not 20 be denied.
Some persons possess "A nat
ural aptitude for m a X ing
money. They never trade bat
they get the better OF that
trade. Everything that they
touch seems 60 turn 20 gold.
There are others who seem TO
lose on every business trans
action and who cannot keep
money whom they get IL.
To the first class mentioned
above no advise is needed. but
10 those who find IL difficult 60
get ahead in their finances,
little reflection will convince
them that. with even a moder-
ate income. 10y exercising "a
little will-power and Sclf-abncg-
alton for reasonable period of
time. they may become in
dependent SO far as finances are
concerned.
Let a boy og girl of 10 years
of age figure out what they
will be worth IN money 10y
saving 10 cents week for sixty
years. dcpositing il in a savings
bank as often as it reaches the
amount required for a deposit.
and adding the interest at per
cent every six months. The
result will surprise you.
When the fund has increased
TO sufficient amount To inve st
in good real estate in some
prosperous and growing city
you will be surprised how soon
your property and money Will
double in amount.
After the first N, 600 il viii
surprise you still more TO see
how. by judicious investments,
and living within your income,
you can get the second $1,000,
and how each succeeding $1,000
becomes easier TO accumulate.
a little more than loo years
ago Benjamin Franklin be
qucathod 80 600 10 DO put out
for century ~ interest. and
the interest compounded, for
the benefit % the working youth
Of the city of Boston. AS the
result the managers - 1 h e
Franklin Union now have on
hana. for actual use. \ round
million dollars in cash, and. in
addition 70 shat 100000 in good
securities. which will accumu-
late interestfor another hundred
years. xsbea IL is expected q
havepredsssS q DeSs capital Of
eight or nine million dollars.
While Mr.. Carnegie made a
generous addition 20 that fund,
nevertheless the bulk OF il Ia
from what Franklin bequeathed
and all the 900 now set
ia securities is derived from
Franklin's original gift. In
two hundred years (which is
the length of tinre tImt has now
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PAID OUT.-I9OG
Jan. months bonds $40 oOO) $l,4l5.oo
July months interest bonds $4,000 2,25OOO
Balance in bank of October eth 1906, 81, S3O.42
Interest allowed on balance 7.5OI
$l,s37.9e
j. S. WRIGHT, Recorder
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1907-03-28
Benny on the Codfsh.

The Goldfish is large. salty fish. 1t
comes in dry slabs, which you buy at
the grocery store, and has a strong
smell. When mixed with mashed DO
tato it can be eaten without fear al
though I would rather have custard
pie. The Goldfish is a native Of the
ocean, and is caught by bearded men
who smoke pipes and have great
rough hands. In its wild state it
mingles freely with other fish. and
Will sometimes eat them when pro-
voked or If 1t is suffering from the
pangs Of hunger. My Uncle Jared
once knew a man who lived for six
weeks on Goldfish and water, to cure
himself of dyspepsia. It cured him Of
the dyspepsia, but it gave him the
dropsy. This shows that everything
has some use. Let us be kind to our
fellow creatures, obey our parents.
and we may live to old age, respected
by all. The Goldfish has fms and scales
and is all stringy inside-"Benny," in
Chicago Tribune.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1907-03-28
HAND HARPooN OUT OF DATE
Weapon for Slaughter of Whales Now
Fired from Gun.

The Norwegian whale fisheries ex-
tend over nearly the whole of the Arc
tic sea, from the north of Norway to-
ward Spitzbergen and even to the
Shetland islands.
The whales are shot from small
steamers, the implement used being
the so-called bomb harpoon, an arrow
shaped iron spear furnished with a
line which is discharged from a small
cannon.
The whale often drags the vessel
a long distance until it becomes ex-
hausted and expires. 1t is then lowed
to the anchorage, where 1t is stripped
OF the blubber.
This whale fishery was begun by a
well-known Norwegian, Svend Foyn.
in 1865. While only 80 whales were
killed in the first year, 1850 whales
were taken in 1897, when 513 men
were engaged on % steamers. At
first only the blubber was utilized for
train oil; now the bones are crushed
for manure and the fish is used for
fodder.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1907-03-28
Railroad Accidents.
(Scientific American l

The crying need of the hour is the
institution of government board for
the investigation of accidents on United
States railroads. This board should be
composed of railroad engineers of abil-
ity and exp cience. They should be
paid salaries commensurate with their
reputation, and sufficient in amount to
place them beyond any possibility of
temptation. They and their local
representatives in the various parts of
the country should be invested with
sufficient authority to enable them to
make the most searching investigation
and to enforce the attendance for exam
nation of any official or employee from
president to trainman. Upon this COM
mission would devolve the duty of out
lining such legislative measures as. in
It's opinion, were necessary to secure
the safety of the travelling public.
1t is our firm belief that before such
a commission had been in active exis
tence five years. the number of railroad
accidents in this country would have
been cut down so per cent. and that be-
fore a decade had passed the number
would have been reduced to the more
humane figures which obtain on Euro
pean railroads.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1907-03-28
Improving Our Waterways.
kansas City Journal.N

Heretofore, aside from the improve
ment of few harbors, the expenditures
of the Federal Government upon the
country's waterways have been mostly
wasted, if not entirely thrown away.
Millions upon millions have been appro-
priated in river and harbor bills, but
when the money was spent it left
scarcely a mark on the face of nature.
The fifty or sixty millions lavished upon
the Mississippi have left no trace ex-
cept at the mouth and the nine millions
devoted to the improvement of the Mis-
souri, are equally fruitless of results.
And so with most of the inland streams
which have received hundreds of mil
lions of appropriations under the log
rolling processes which governed the
governments futile policy in the past
The most promising feature of Presi-
dent Roosevelt's new departure is the
fact that hereafter the Government will
stand committed as firmly to the syste-
matte development of its inland water
ways as it is to the building of the Pan
anna Canal. Instead of having to over
come the inertia of Indifference. or the
active hostility of large per centage
OF congressman who have hitherto op-
posed river improvements, the western
country which is chiefly concerned in
the matter, will be able to appeal for
support In developing its waterways on
the high ground that it is the fixed. set
tied policy of the Government. In this
respect alone the Presidents action
Will be of incalculable benefit.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1907-03-28
AS Others Saw Him.

The artist possessed a strange tai
ent. 1t was to depict a face as it will
look after the years have gone by and
made it old.
AT dinner with him sat an old man.
old enough, in all conscience. and un-
beautiful. The artist at once busted
himself with drawing a sketch of him.
which so exaggerated his age and
ughness that the lip of the old man
trembled at the sight of it and a tear
rose to his eye.
A woman who sat at the same table
took pencil and paper and began to
draw not the old man but the artist
who, though young, was quite as un-
beautiful. She fashioned the uneven
line OF his profile. the small, crooked
nose, the unstable chin, the high bald
forehead, the fringe of hair around the
edge of the badness, the neck, the
collar. and handed 1t to him.
THE likeness is perfect" cried the
others. I'VE didn't know you could
draw. When did you learn, and how ?"
Il can't remember when learned
or how, l have drawn SO long," said
she, but" as she saw the chagrin of
the artist, Il seem to have been edu-
Gated in art for the triumph of this
moment"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1907-03-28
AMBITION FOR LITTLE SON.
italian Peanut Seller Had Great OBJ.
ject in Life.

Outside Columbia university sub
way station is pathetic instance OF
the eagerness of a newly-arrived Ital.
ian to learn English. says the New
york Herald. He sells peanuts at the
corner OF the university grounds, and
can be seen any time of day laboring
over an English reader. the same that
his little ten-year-old child studies In
the public school nearby.
Shortly after three in the afternoon
he is Joined by his little Rocco. to
whom he daily recites his lesson.
Many passerby stops before the
touching picture of the middle aged
father listening with rapt attention to
the boys explanation of the printed
page. Rocco is not the only teacher.
occasionally Columbia student
pauses to help him with a difficult
word. or at least to inquire what prog
reSs he is making. One of them the
other day interrupted the lesson with:
Well, Giuseppe, you'll soon be ready
for the university. won't your"
No, l no goal no goa" smiled
Giuseppe sadly. Then. flinging his
arm passionately around his little
teacher, he added proudly:
But Rocco. he goa soon. Six. sew
en- year, he goa Columbia. Then he
be gentleman, Rocco"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1907-03-28
4. w. GLEASON,
Notary Public

a concrete illustration of the value of
good roads is furnished by New Jerseys
experience in the matter of improving
public highways within its borders.
Sixteen years ago, in 1891, that Com
monwealth inaugurated the policy of
State aid to road building, the legisla-
ture at that time making an appropria-
ton of $40, 900 for the purpose. From
that small beginning the system has so
expanded that today New Jersey has
1,151 miles of good, hard roads, con-
structed at a total cost of Sc, 655, 939.
Results in the way of increased devel-
opment and increased taxable values
have justified the expenditure many
times over. At the roadmakers' con-
vention recently held in Pittsburg, Road
Commissioner Hutchinson of New Jer-
sey declared that the State Aid law had
done more for his State than any other
law on the statute books of the Com
monwealth. Wherever good roads had
been constructed, he said, farms which
few years ago were practically worth
less and on the point of being abandon
ed now command high prices, adding
that the improvement of one thorough
fare alone had resulted in increase of
property values to the extent of "a, 900, =
600. The facts hpt strengthen the con-
clusion already reached by US that
there are few, if any, directions in
which the State can expend its funds to
better advantage or with more certainty
of greater and more general benefits
than in road-improvement and road
building. Norfolk Virginian-Pilot.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1907-03-28
Saved Her Sons Life

The happiest mother in the little town
of Ava, Mo-, is Mrs. s. Rupee: She
writes: Zone year ago my son was
down with such serious lung trouble
that our physician was unable to help
him; when, by our druggists advice |
began giving him DR.. Kings New Dis
cOvery. and soon noticed improve
ment. l kept this treatment up for a
few weeks when he was perfectly well.
He has worked steadily since at carpen-
ter work. DR.. Kings New Discovery
saved his life" Guaranteed best Cough
and Cold Cure by John E. Jackson.
Druggist. SOC and $1.0O Trial bottle
free.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1907-03-28
TOO EXPENSIVE FOR HIM.
Cocktails Were a Luxury He Couldn't
Afford Too Often.

A well-known promoter was invited
by friend to have a cocktail before
dinner the other night at the Wal
dorf, says the Saturday Evening Post.
"Cocktail?" snorted the promoter,
Indignantly. Did hear you say,
cocktail? Don't use that word when
you talk to me. If you wish to remain
my friend. Cocktail? Do you think
I'm Rockefeller"
NO, but"
Did you have a notion that I hold
it disgrace to die rich? Well. If you
DO don't can't afford to pay a mill
lion and a half for a cocktail often
er than once a month, and that's what
one of those devil mixtures cost me
iast week. Yes, Bill, $1,5OO,0O0, in
this same identical cafe, talking bust
ness. Explain? Cert! The other
day l was here with a party of men
from Canada who had a mine to float.
l listened to their story, and, as they
had been vouched for by friends
whom l trust, and besides which I
wasn't separating myself from six
cents, l believed them. 1 told them
I'd turn the trick for them. They
wanted only about s75O,OOO for it. 1
became quite enthusiastic as thought
OF the fat and juicy curb market in
our midst, and l suggested a 5000
share company, par value of same five
dollars each. Those bloated Canucks
demurred at this. They said they
didn't want any water in theirs, and
asserted that 100000 shares. at five
bricks per, was ample in their esti-
nation. Did you ever? I stuck out
ior 6OO.OOO-it was only $4,000. 600
but they insisted that SOC. 900 shares
were enough. There was a deadlock
and 1 suggested cocktails ordered
them. 1t was not my first drink and
1t made me feel so good-natured that
gave in to them. The stock went in
a week. I could have sold a million
shares. leave alone 100000 the cock
TAN made me consent not to issue
cocktails? Take one with a strong
dash OF prussic acid, will your"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1907-03-28
Beware Of Petitions.
amherst New Era.)

Petitions are being circulated by the
various candidates for commissioner of
the revenue. We advise all citizens to
refuse to sign any petition. In the
Constitutional Convention, and since,
we favored letting the people elect
these officers, as we thought the people
were more capable of electing their
officers than one mantle judge of the
circuit court. But the incumbents, the
old commissioners of the revenue, over
rode this position-virtually declared
the people were not capable of self
government or electing them-so the
Legislature obeyed. Now that the
judges have the appointment, let the
responsibility rest upon them.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1907-03-28

I'm 1897 had a stomach disease.
Some physicians said Dyspepsia, some
Consumption. One said would not live
until Spring. For four years / existed
on boiled milk, soda biscuits and doc
tors prescriptions. l could not digest
anything ate; then picked up one of
your Almanacs and it happened to be
my hfe-saver. / bought a fifty cent bot
tie of KODOL and the benefit l receiv-
ed from that bottle all the gold in Geor-
gia could not buy. In two months |
went back to my work, as a machinist,
and in three months / was well and
hearty. May you live long and pros
per. &C. N. Cornell, Roding, Ga.i9O6.
The above is only sample Of the great
good that is daily done everywhere bv
kodol for Dyspepsia. 1t is sold here by
John E. jackson.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1907-03-28
Lessons From Japanese.
Savannah News.)

Are we about to take some lessons
from the japanese? They took lessons
from us for many years. and they got
all they wanted from us and other ma
tons. 1t begins to look as if they were
almost ready to give us some lessons.
Our naval officers are looking forward
with keen interest to the coming of the
Japanese cruiser Tsukuga, which is to
be at the jamestown naval display.
She was built in Japanese shipyard by
by japanese workmen, who have prac-
tically just begun naval construction.
This ship has a speed of TWENTY-FIVE
miles an hour on natural draft. We
have no cruiser that can make that
speed under similar conditions; at least
1t IS our understanding that we haven't.
A matter that is worth much more than
a passing notice is that within two
years from the time the keel of the
ship was laid she was under commission
and on the sea. That is a record in
building not equalled in an American
shipyard in the construction of a naval
vessel And those who have seen this
magnificent cruiser say that she is per
feet In every detail. If Japan can do
such wonders in ship building is it too
much to say that she is in position to
give US lessons in some things.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1907-03-28

The mutilation of Roman fountain
attributed to Raphael is probably not
the work of Italian vandals. The omen
and comparatively unprotected way in
which art treasures are displayed in
Italy proves the respect in which the
natives hold them. In an open portico
In Florence. called the Loggia del Lam
H. Tor example, are displayed price
less sculptures by Flaminio Vacca.
Giovanni da Bologna. Donatello and
Benvenuto Cellini. Among them beg,
gaIs and peddlers have eaten and
slept for centuries and never a statue
has been defaced.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1907-03-28

The News-No Pure Drug Cough
Cure Laws would be needed, if all
Cough Cures were like DR.. Shoop's
Cough Cure is and has been for 20
years. The National Law now requires
that if any poisons enter into a cough
mixture, it must be printed on the label
or package.
For this reason mothers, and others,
should insist on having DIR. Shoop's
Cough Cure. No poison marks on DIR.
Shops labels and none in the med
icine, else it must by law be on the la
bel. And it's not only safe, but it is said
to be by those who know it best, a tru-
ly remarkable cough remedy. Take no
chance, particularly with your children.
Insist on having Or. Shops Cough
Cure. Compare carefully the DR.. Shoop
package with others you see. No poison
marks there! You can always be on the
safe side by demanding DR.. Shoop's
Cough Cure. Simply refuse any other.
Sold by John E. jackson.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1907-03-28
Benefits of Waterways.
(Houston Post.)

Admittedly, such plan as the Presi-
dent has invited this new commission to
prepare would in its execution require
the expenditure of hundreds of millions
of dollars, probably as much as two or
three billions. But when once completed
it would witness thousands of miles of
river navigation which our commerce
does not now enjoy; it would witness
water communication between the
great lakes and the Gulf of Mexico and
such other completed projects as would
afford complete water competition for
the bulk Of the traffic of the country.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1907-03-28
Woman DESERVING Of Hnnnr

Not long ago Wilbur Nesbit. author
OF the Gentleman Ragman, was sent a
list OF questions by woman who was
arranging a symposium Of some sort
for a publication with which she was
connected. One of the questions was:
Who. in your estimation, was or is
the greatest woman in the world?"
Mr.. Nesbit's reply was:
THE unknown woman who invented
apple pie. She was, and is. and ever
Will be- the woman who has done
more than any other TO gladden.. the
heart of man"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1907-03-28
ABSOLUTELY PURE

The larger part of the Italian briar-
wood is found along the Mediterranean
coast extending from Savonna on the
north to Calabria on the south; the Lig-
uarian Riviera, Tuscany, Umbria, the
Roman Provinces, the three provinces
OF Calabria, as well as the Islands of
Corsica and Sardinia furnishing an
abundant supply.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1907-03-28
Cause for Reoret.

A Scot who had been a long time
IN the colonies, paid visit to his ma
tive glen," and meeting an old school
Fellow the two sat down to chat about
old times and acquaintance.
In the course of the conversation
the stranger happened to ask about a
certain Gordie Mckay.
He's dead long ago." said his
friend, "and I'll never cease regrettin'
him as long as I live"
Dear me! Had you such respect
for him as that?"
Ma. ma! 1t wasn't only respec' I
had for himself, but 1 married his
widow"