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Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1907-03-23
HONORS IN BOSTON
For Oldest Member OF Cath
Ollie Hierarchy in
America.

On April % next His Grace Arch
bishop John Joseph Williams, the
Oldest member of the Roman Catholic
hierarchy in America, will celebrate
his eighty-fifth birthday anniversary,
for which the priests and laity have
united to make the occasion a notable
one in the history of the church,
one that will show the high
esteem in which the venerable head
of the church in New England is held
Archbishop Williams was born in
Boston on April %, 1892. He. began
his education at private school and
later attended the Sulpician College
in Montreal. In 1s41 he was sent to
the theological seminary conducted
by the same fathers in Paris, where
he was ordained in 1s45. On his re-
turn home he was assigned TO the
Franklin-street Cathedral as assist
ant, and afterwards as rector. He
was later assigned to st. James
church, and while there was appoint
ed Vicar General of the diocese by
Bishop Fitzpatrick, whom he sue
ceeded as Bishop of the diocese in
1866. In 1875 Boston was raised to an
Archbishopric, and on May the
pallium was conferred on Archbishop
Williams.
In all the long course of years that
he has lived as priest, Bishop and
Archbishop in Boston, the same zeal
and devotion to duty have character
lied Archbishop Williams, and 1T has
been said for many years that his is
one of the best overnedg dioceses in
the Unioed States, and that with the
church authorities at Rome no Ameri-
can prelate has higher standing.
Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1907-03-23
BURNING QUESTION.

A teacher in one of the public
schools of Baltimore was one day
instructing her pupils in the myster-
les of etymology when she had occa-
sion to question a boy pupil with ref
erence to the word "recuperate."
"As an example," said the teacher,
Eve will take the case of your father.
He is, of course, a hard working
man."
''Yes'm," assented Charley.
"And when night comes he returns
home tired and worn out, doesn't
hep"
''Yes'm," in further assent from
Charley.
Them continued teacher, sit
being night, his work being over and
ne being tired and worn out, what
does he do?"
That's what ma wants to know"
said Charley.
Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1907-03-23
NEED MORE CARE.

In the United States every year
1000 more persons are killed in in
dustrial pursuits than fell in battle
and died of wounds during the four
years of Civil war. We are killing
twice as many every year as per-
ished by violence in both the French
and English armies during the three
years of the Crimean war. There are
more killed and wounded on our
railroads every year than the entire
losses on both sides during the Boer
war. We have enough industrial
casualties every year to keep a con-
flict like our war with Spain going
1900 years. Our peaceful vacations
kill more people every two days than
we lost in hattie during the entire
Spanish war.
Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1907-03-23
TAKES OUT uHR Liver.

A Liverpool lady had given her
utcher her daily order over the
Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1907-03-23
FEAR FOR BILL.

Bill Jones is a country storekeeper
in Pennsylvania, and last summer he
went to Philadelphia to purchase e
stock of goods. The goods were
shipped immediately and reached
home before he did. When the boxes
of goods were delivered at his store
by the drayman his wife happened
to look at the largest. She uttered
loud cry and called for a hammer.
A neighbor, hearing hex, screams,
rushed to her assistance, asking the
cause OF the trouble. The wife, pale
and faint, pointed to an inscription
on the box phich read as follows:
"Bill inside"
Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1907-03-23
WORTH FRYING.

V'arnish the Kitchen linoleum three
times year and it we'll last three
times as long as it would without the
coats of varnish.
Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1907-03-23

telephone, and later in the day de-
'cided to change it a little and coun-
termanded. an order she had given for
some liver.
Ringing up her butcher she said:
You remember that gave you an
order for a pound of liver while
ago."
YES" was the reply.
'Well, find that do not need it.,
and You need not send it,"
Before she could put down the
receiver she heard the butcher say
to some one in the shop: "nake out
Mrs. Blanks liver. She says she can
get along without it,"
Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1907-03-23

In Bilbao the ringing of church
bells is prohibited by law.
Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1907-03-23

Make your selection where
money has the greatest pur-
chasing power, quality con-
sidered. Pianos sold at Fourth
aud Walnut are no better
though much higher in price,
than Pianos sold at Sixth and
Walnut. Come and see and
hear the Upright Pianos at SIS
to $125-6ner grades from
5000 to $35o-almost one-half
of what you pay an agent or
on Fourth street. Pay only
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1907-12-18
FROM KEOKEE.

keokee, Va, Dec. IA Mr. Ii
+. kilbOurn's son, of ST. Charles,
in the Pocket. was here SUNDAY
looking over the great develop
ments made by the KeOkee Coal
and Coke Company He said
it was the finest prospect he
ever saw.
The people are waiting pa
tiently 10 see a passenger train
on the Black Mountain division
of the V. & s. w. Railway
they are also eagerly wanting
railway Nail service speedily
opened up. The company is
getting the road in very good
shape and I IA construction
force Is putting in some good
trestles
Mrs. Robert Witt, of near
Harlan Court House, Ky, to
gether with Miss Nellie Witt. of
lower Crab Orchard. were here
last week visiting relatives.
The kcOkee Coal and Cox e
Company are pushing their
work at this place.
The work of the postofiice
here consumes near two hours
in separating the mails and al
these hours 10 other work can
safely be done. The postmaster
asks the patrons not to cali al
these hours of special work.
Xxx.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1907-12-18
MODERN SPIRIT.

w. l.. Alden, the novelist,
who has returned from London
to Buffalo. was talking TO a re-
porter, says the Washington
Star.
Frankly" said the author
of Jimmy Brown" frankly
| abominate modern CONNER
cial spirit. IL makes men rich
but how it hardens their hearts
Il once knew an old, old
man, a bookkeeper His back
was bent but his soul was up
right. He had worked for the
same firm-at the same salary
for forty years.
'sW ell, at the end of these
forty years, my poor old friend
said to his employer timidly;
Are you aware, sir, that to-
day is the fortieth anniversary
of my service with your
THE employer took a square
box, neatly wrapped in white
paper from his desk.
~ know it, Mr.. Quille, hs
said, and ! have prepared {
little surprise for you. Pra,
accept Tins alarm clock; viii
nay best wishes for Jour con
t,nued puncsnal.ty.'"
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1907-12-18
BIG LAND SALE.

Barboursvill'-. Ky, Dec. To-
One of the biggest land deals
on record in this section has
just been comp rted between
Col John + Golden, a local
capitalist and 7 j. uoblitzell
Of Mes crs'iale, Pa, Col. Golden
diSrosing "f l5.OOO acres Of coal
and timber it.sls in Leslie. Per.
~ aud L.icher counties. The
pnrcha~' prize, was not made
public. hnf - Is known 10 have
been very large. Mr.. Hobiitzell
will hold the land for future
development.
The Interstate Coal Company
is "A new concern OF Tie past
week \ large acreage has
been leased from local capital
lists. and minrs will be opened
at once, rh- territory under
lea" Is the newly opened Brush
Cre' k fields. IN upper Knox
county
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1907-12-18
DON'T PASS
JUDGMENT.

Don't Judge a man Il y his
clothes. God made one and !,
tailor made the other Doat
Judge a man by his fan,i.v,
Cain belonged 90 "a 'gos.i" fa,l
lily. Don't jadS "a man ~ fs
failure IN life for many ma
fails because be- Is too ls,.,r-f i,,
succeed. Don't judge "a ,na', ~
the house be lives in. for 'ae
lizard and the rat often sri t
the grander structure. "a n.h q
man dies they who survive hins
ask what property there - l.ft
behind. The angel who bsi,Is
over the diving nan asT~ ~ hat
good deeds I.e l.t- sees l..t,.ts,
him Selected.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1907-12-18
SHOW This?

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward
for any case Of Catarrh that cannot be cured
by Halls Catarrh Cure.
+. J. CHENEY * Co. Toledo. q.
We, the undersigned, have known r. j.
Cheney for the last l. years, and believe
him perfectly honorable 10 carry cut any
obligations made 10y HIS firm.
NALDtSG KTSSAN & MARVIN,
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo. o.
Halls Catarrh Cure Is taken internally
acting directly npoR the blood and mueoa
surfaces of the system. Testimonials sea
Tree. Price u cents per bottle Sold by
all Druggists
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1907-12-18

Abraham Brown. Of Winterton. y. r..
had very remarkable experience. be says
doctors got badly mixed mp over me; one
said heart disease; two called it kidney trpr-
BILE: ibe fourth, blood poison, aud the fifth
stomach aud liver trouble, bct none OF them
helped me; 50 my wife advised trying Elec-
trio BiGtegs, which are restoring me 10 per
feet health. one bottle did me more good
than all the five doctors prescribed Guar.
anteed Ia cure bIoed poison. weakness and
all stomach. hger and kidney complaints
ty I. W. Kelly, druggist. J0e
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1907-12-18
MERCHANTS REPORT
BUSINESS .'0c0D." !"

On the subject Of the present
times, the Daily Bulletin OF the
Manufacturers Record says:
With the idea Of getting in
close touch with the exact busi-
ness situation liz sii parts Of the
country, the rrodsric q Bas-
com Rope Co. Of st. Louis.
No, had its mail az ,nts and
other business houss which
represent il make IN liries as
TO the opinions OF business men
m their several sections. OF
those replying. S. per cent re-
ported good" or "fai5ly good -
only 10 per cent .'bad. while
thrce-tifths of the 50 per cent
unhesitalingly said good in
capital letters Extracts from
various letters also give an
optimistic lew of the situation
and a rapidly growing return
of confidence. From the South.
east comes the following. I'VE
believe that just as soon as this
trouble IS eliminated trade will
40 right ahead. in fact, Me have
made great many quotations
lately On the frs item n-c,s-
sary ma manufacturing plants.
namely, engines ag a boilers.
which indicates Z o our mind
there viii be lots Of new enter
prises started ia this territory as
soon As question OF money is
Strengthened out" From the
middle Of the south comes this
expression. "The present vol
a m e. Of business should D. he
maintained throughout the
forthcoming ear Another
point ia the South says. The
prospects in our vicinity are fair
ly good on account O good
crops. and we do urt know OF
any rea SON ~ D. y business
should not bee at least normal "
And also from an other sec
tions Of the country ave come
equally encouraging reports. of
which the following from a well
posted observer ina New York
City is characteristic of the
general feeling
" We must take into consider
alton at tho present time the
greater wealth aud superior pro-
ducing conditions of the coun-
try. which without question are
many fold greater than in 1857.
1851, 1873 or 1892. The interests
of [ IA e federal, state railroad
and the greater industries are
Identical, and lack of confidence
IN one destroys confidence in
the other, but without any ques-
ton we viii all finally issue
from this trial Of confidence in
due season.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1907-12-18
HONOR ROLL.
Big Stone GAP schools for No,embsr.

F,r~t Grsds-I. ollie Larkin~
Mol, Morris. Elsie Favor.
Eleanor Baker. Will m Bak.
BerrN Br, ant. Jessie Chanai,r.
OdHs" Mofii~. Willie Nul lns.
4 hariie Willis. Edith Ballard
IL. Minor Rogers. Mary Seutrr.
Helen Mccormick. orthN
MtntiOn--Margaret Barron.
Second Gradc-Chariie Live
say. Reginald Smith. will
Tucker worthy Mention
Maud Pippin. Bertha Murph,
Cornie Hurd, Bruce Skeen. o.
Sic Dickinson. Ossie Hurry
George Guthrie. Henry john
son, Lille Garrison. IL Nnn.
W % TIA y Mention - DeNuu
N".f~ Eugene Cassidy. Dew,
L2ikins.
rhird Gradc-I Ella Cawood
Della Parsons. Willie Baker.
Mary Baker. Worthy Mention
Beu ah Blevins. Lucy Pippin.
Carlisle Pippin II Lvda Free
man. Virginia Wright. Alph4
Ch,sSer. Carrie CT ndler. Lii
liam Head, Wor - Mention
Ida Baker.
Fourth Grade Thelma Ba
ker, Minnie Williams. Worth,
Mention-Eva Cassidy. Kath
lern knigh g. H. Aldwyth
Rogers, Nora Cowan. Bessie
Chesser. Miriam Taylor. Wor
thy Mention John Lane. Bcs
size Palmer, Lille Jones.
Fifth Grade Black burn
Napier. Belle Ramey. Jerome
Ramey Worthy Mention ia
sic CoHey. H. Ransom PAYNE.
Harry Wallace. Donald Pres
colt. Worthy Menti0n-Girtha
Bishop
sixth Grade. Virginia
Beverly. Addie Fieenor. Rosa
Hamilton. Gnstava Parsons.
Worthy Mention Kemron Par
sons H. Zollie Palmer. Wor
thy Mention Florence McCor
mick.
Seventh Grade High School
Grace Wolf
lst Year Matte Jervis.
2nd y ear Beatrice Gobble.
Winnie Mullins
3rd Year. Eugene Brown. -
Worthy Mention Ella Horton.
4th Year Retta Thompson
w or G h y Mention William
Nickels.
For Honor Roll Preseutever,
day, good department. fewer
than TWO half day absences
fewer than four tardy marks.
and an average of go on all
studies.
For Worthy Mention Same
"a above, with average Of S5.
except that a day s excused alb
sence is allowed If the average
scholarship is 500.
Respectfully.
r. II. SHEPPE,
Principal
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1907-12-18

The hncst Conee Substitute ever made
has recently been produced hv nr Shoop
Racine Wis. Nou done have 90 loI L
twenty or thirty minutes. mala in a iuin-
ute says the doctor Health sonre *
really the closest Coffee iuniatI Iau ever y-t
Produced Not a grain 90 real g. lec iu t
either. Health Coilre Imitation rs ma
from pure roasted grains viih iaalt. aut,.
etc Really il would fol a cxpeit-- wtrs
he 20 unknowinglY drink i f,s C.h ,a-A.
X. Naan
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1907-12-18
A Dangerous Deadlock.

ihlt .omeamcs terminates fatally i> the
.tnppaEe nl liver aud bowel urorou- To
quickly cnd thi. condition without di.arrec
able sensations. Dr. King Sew life pills
should always Ne fuur remedy. Gulran-
Irrd absolutely satisfactory iu every case or
money 1lcA at j. W. kells DRUG store.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1907-12-18

Send your next order for Job
printing to the Wise Printing
Company, Big Stone Gap,
prices reasonable and quality
Al
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1907-12-18
SCHOOL FUNDS.

The State Department. Of Edu-
cation last week completed the
second appropriation Of school
funds for 1907 among the vari-
Gus counties and cities. This
fund was taken from the cur
rent revenue. and amounted to
S9s7 .7so 40. Tho apportioament
given ont some weeks ago was
of the appropriations made by
asst legislature out of the Treas
.ury OF this last apportion
ment Scott county, with a
school population of S.3g2 gets
Sl4 26O 39. Wise county, with
1862, gets So, $50 30. Lee coun
iy. with 0.oS7, gets 1870. so.
The counties that have larger
school population than Scott
are Accomac, Albemarle, Au-
gusta. Bedford. Franklin. Hall
fax. Mecklruburg. N Norfol X,
Pittsylvania, h O C k in < h am,
southampton and Washington
Norfolk county. outside h q
cities, has "a school population
of l5,sO9, being the largest in
the State. Pittsylvania is sec
ond with 1850. James City
county. the smallest has only
,l5l school population.
When winds Hshriek high in
fiendish glee,
And enters winter with his
key
Protect yourself from disease
he FREE.
Take HOLSTER Rocky Mount
ain Tea
LrU,El.t. Pros
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parts Of the East. When worn
out fields can no longer produce
agricultural crops, nature TAX 60
them back and clothes them
with trees again to give them
shade and rest, and slowly re-
store fertility. This is more in
evidence in the first settled
parts of Virginia perhaps than
anywhere else ia the country
for the reason that q longer
time has passed since the oriei-
nal forests were cleared away
and the second growth has had
better opportunity 20 take the
land.
In James City county, Vir-
ginia. the first permanent Eng
lish colony in the United States
was established three hundred
years ago, aud In that old
county the whole cycle Of de
forestation and re- forestatior
may be studied. The threaC
Of American history lead back
TO tile beginning at jamestown
i'm 1907 when not "a forest tree
had fallen beneath the white
mans ak.
Agriculture for "a long period
pushed the forests back and
plantations covered the country :
then tho forests came again and
crowded agriculture out. A
hundred Years before the Revo
luton tobacco plantations oc-
cupied the best parts of tide
water Virginia and had pushed
up the rivers into the Piedmont
region. Continuous bodies Of
cleared land embraced thou
sands of acres. Nearly every
large plantation had river
frontage and a wharf, and ships
carried the tobacco directly to
Europe and brought merchan-
disc back Ii would be difficult,
perhaps impossible. TO deter
mine with approximate accu-
racy the proportion of clear land
20 the forests an tideNater Nir
ginia fifty years before the
Revolution, but there can be
no doubt that there was more
cleared land then than now.
Written and printed records
relating 20 the early history of
shat region are fragmentary
and hard 10 find, but the en-
croaching forests of sec ond
growth furnish record the
truth of which none can dis
pute.
The census record OF the Old
Dominion Is unique.
Virginia had eleven counties
whose population was smaller
in 1890 than when the FIRST Fed
eral census was taken "a century
before, 1880 No one State ap-
proaches this record. Ia the
whole United States, outside of
Virginia, only six counties had
a larger population in 1890 than
in 1890. This applies to counties
onksi'those population was not
diminished by cutting off ter
ritory 10 form new counties.
Each of the following States
has one such county. Maine,
Massachusetts, Maryland d 4,
North Carolina. South Carolina
and West Virginia.
Many great Virginia planta-
tions of colonial times have
contracted under the pressure
of surrounding forests, giving
up field after field to the pine
seedlings, until small openings
now mark the sites of former
estates, and all else is woods
second growth or third growth.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1907-12-18
Forest EnCrOaChInent Upon
Old Virginia Plantations.


of land are pointed out in
James City county, ald also in
nearby districts, which have
been under continuous cultiva-
tion for nearly or quite three
hundred years. jamestown Is
land, the site OF the very earliest
settlement, still produces corn,
hay and peanuts But such
places are few. The majority
of the oldest plantations have
partly or wholly gone back to
forest.
In travelling through that re-
gion it is frequently possible 20
note the successive stages Of
the forests advance into the
cleared land In one place a
body Of timber may consist o
trees a foot ia diameter and
probably 20 feet high. Their
even tops and uniform size
show that all are about the
ne age, and indicate that
ley occupy the site OF a former
ield where seedlings took pos
session after the plow left off
its annual tillage. Adjoining
such a woodlot another may
often bee seen, with smaller and
younger trees, suggesting hat
they occupy the site Of "a field
abandoned at q later date
Nearby may be- seen a still
younger stand. In some lecali-
ties even tops of one woodlot
are seen beyond another. de
scending like stair steps, and
making the sites Of one aban-
dOned field beyond another,
each succeeding one a little
later and the trees a little
smaller. The descending series
frequently ends with "A field
where young trees are Just
starting from seeds blown from
neighboring woods. It IN a v
mark the site of tho last rem
nant Of former plantation
which was allowed 10 relapse
INTO woods because the soil was
worn out.
The encroaching forests are
mostly loblolly pine. Occa-
slonaily other stands are seen,
and hardwoods in mixture are
not infrequent. Small poplar
trees are cut by pulpwood cut
ters many years before they are
mature. The pines and oaks
are cut locally for fuel, and a
few small mills saw lumber
from the larger sizes of the
second growth. The loblolly
pine Is doubtless much more in
evidence now than when the
first forests covered the region.
IL is an old field tree. 1t thrives
on poor soil and creeps down
from the sterile ridges and occu-
pies land which has been ex-
hausted by tillage For that
reason il is important 10 the re-
gion's physical geography. 1t
grows where little else will,
shades the ground, h e c k 5
erosion, and slowly brings UP
the soils fertility by dropping
needles and twigs which decay.
Few, if any, of the primeval
forests remain in tidewater Vir-
ginia, but large trees of second
growth exist. A sycamore more
than two hundred years old,
and known to be of second
growth, was cut this year on
the site of a building burned
during 8acon's Rebellion in
1876, and many other trees as
large are growing where to-
bacco was cultivated two cen