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Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1907-09-04
low 10 AVOID CATCHING COLI

As every one Is liable to catch
cold and as colds are dangerous no
cause they may terminate in cbropl,
throat or lung diseases. Every on,
mould be interested in learino bow
avoid colds The way IS slmnlo
Never sleep too cold. never ,sr
.'eep In a cola room. or while #,
ing IN q cold draft. never alt or Il,
u cold room cr q cold draft NJ
me ever CATCHES cold when The
'ody and mind arc active. no matte,
no. cod one may get r. you ar,
''f'ring from q cold or its effects
HYdale' Cough Elixir IS the oulckee,
and best remedy you can use nv
oales Cough Elixir IS sold npder 4,
guarantee rs and 5o rte. bottle
For sale by The WHIT PHARMACY
Cor Bland street and Princeton ave
MONITOR PULvERIzED ~ PRE-
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1907-09-04
FARM FOR sA.E.-1 have lust

FARM FOR SAT- have Just
lad placed M LA hands for sale a
arm consisting ~ 965 acres with a
line-room DWELL finished i'm hard
wood. with n!s I'll room. 1nis
and is situate u 3 l-2 miles OF
he city limus, -s=out 200 acres
feared. Every - OF the farm can
~ irrigated iro 'orious spring in
he mountain II T-9nt OF the build
ng. 1t Is one CO 9i-~ ptettiest homes
Mercer c"ui will be sold
or a reasoL Dlo Title perfect
Address ID. p. BGlS~. i, Pioneer Real
state Agent, Blu6eld, w. Va.
7-26-10
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1907-09-04

Mr.. and Mrs. j. w. Bailey. o..
Sandlick, Mercer county passed
through Blueiield on their way to
jamestown Exposition.
Miss Majorie Thompson eft this
morning for Farmville, Va. to at
tend the Virginia State Normal.
Miss Bessie Moss. who has been
visiting Misses Majorie and Lillian
Thompson, returned to her nome in
Richmond, Va, today
Miss Lillian Thompson I rs gone
o Pocahontas to begin her chool.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1907-09-04
WOMAN WITHOUT 4 sToNACt

WOMAN WITHOUT \ STOMACH.
Several years ago. an eminent sur
'eon removed the entire stomach
OF woman suffering from Cancer.
Fhe patient survived the operation
nd lived several months. This wo-
nan had no use for Rydale's Stomach
'abiets. But every one whose
stomach is diseased or deranged
does and will find these tablets a
perfect remedy, no natter what form
For sale by The White Pharmacy
or. Princeton avenue and Bland Ct
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1907-09-04
hONITOR BREAD rs DIGFSTABLI
NOTICE.

Following Is notice that u. J. Kal-
ey and J. II. Moyers. trading as Kel-
ey X Meyers, who hold state IL
cense to sell at retail Spirituous
liquors. wines, proter. ale. beer and
drinks of like nature at Nos. 81 and
Al Bland street, Bluefield. w. Va,
have made application to the County
Court Of Mercer county for transfer
Of said license from the above named
place to their new building recently
rected on the corner of Raleigh
treet and Higginbotham avenue.
Given under my hand this August
s, 1907.
ESTILL BAILEY.
Clerk of Mercer County Court.
S-l3-4w
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1907-09-04
Public Opinion

II the nomination of Col. Henry
Watterson for the presidency. as
Harpers Weekly suggests. is going
TO interfere any with the editorial
page OF the Courier-Journal. We say.
don't do Charleston Gazette.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1907-09-04

FOR SALE:-I have Just had placed
In my hands for sale a new up-to
date frame ara metal roof dwell
ing on Giles seESsst on very reas-
enable terms- epzS rooms, with
bath room al Nga9e attic, hot and
cold water eiaGsz4e lights. phone
connections an dhot air furnace,
inside beautifully finished up In
hard wood.
ID. b. BALDWIN, Pioneer real
estate Agent First National Bank
Building.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1907-09-04
Bribc To the south.

Secretary Of war Taft thinks, or
at least says that the south is en-
titled TO a more prominent partici-
patton i'm federal affairs than il has
enjoyed for the past forty-five years:
and he intimates that this partlcipa-
ton will be given II when IL breaks
its pre- ient political solidarity: that
is 20 say. when some OF the southern
states enroll under the banner of
Republication. The secretary would
have the south TO become. I'm the
phrase OF John S. Wise. an "apostate
for the price Of its apostacy." This
Is not the way for the Republican
party to put an entering wedge into
the solid south. No state OF the
south will change IT'S politics for the
loaves and fishes that are dealt out
by the Republican administration.
but such change will come. If ever.
because OF an honest espousal OF the
politics of the Republican party-a
distant day in our opinion. Char
lottesville (VaD Progress.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1907-09-04

ly knock the Traction Company re.
day Give them some hot shot and
Wen have Tenders
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1907-09-04

New people Monday night. En-
tire change of bill at Wonderland
Theatre all next week. the best yet.
S-31-2t
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1907-09-04

The news comes from Charleston
that Auditor A. c. Scherr has
almost decided to become can
didate for the Republican nomina-
t!on for governor. and the anti
Swisher crowd IS disposed TO hail
him as Republican Moses. MIR.
Scherr has been twice elected au-
ditor and we are bounl to say has
made a fairly good one Rui cant
The Republican party Anu natl, e.
born West Virginian for the states
chief executive? When il came into
power 1t seems to have turned the
reins over to Pennsylvanians, Ohio
ans, x-Democrats and Europeans. but
II has been slow to honor the native
as Dickens says, anything so low
as native" Foreigners are swarm
ing to tAnericas shores at the rate
of hundred thousand a month: but
the foreign element has already been
recognized i'm this state and Auditor
Scherr has had two fat terms i'm n
nigh office. Isn't that enough? And
cant the Republican party find
somewhere a genuine and worthy
son OF West Virginia il would de-
ight TO honor? Monroe Waterman.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1907-09-04

Thaw has concluded that he will
plead insanity without any mIbclowe
at his next trial. II Is very doubtful
whether it will avail. He should put
all the blame on nature and alice
the provable fact that he is a fool.
He can prove that without any trou-
BILE Parkersburg Sentinel
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1907-09-04
L. b. ALLEN.

HOINNTI Az law.
begs to announce that he has resuua-
the practice of law, with ONCE At
No S21 Princeton avenue, and oYeru
his services to the public. He will
practice In both Slate and FederaI
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1907-09-04

WANTED-Four good boys to
sell papers on the street Apply at
-eader Office.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1907-09-04

FOUND pocketbook containing
money aud other articles. For In
formation apply at the Leader.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1907-09-04

FOR RENT-Three rooms. Apply
to ID. Schnurman. S39 Princeton
avenue S-27-tf
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1907-09-04

That Elliott Northcott is now the
Dawson combine candidate for gov
ernor Is douDly assured by the ener-
getic boost given by the machine or
gans whenever his name is men
toned -Parkersburg Sentinel.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1907-09-04

MONITOR PULvERIzED - PURE.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-10

difficult to get a shot at one under or
binary circumstances. | am confident the
experiments will prove successful and
we will be able to rid this part of the
country of the pests which have been
botherng us so long.
Contrary TO the tales which have ap-
peared in magazines from time to time
for the past thirty years. wolves do not
attack the weary traveller as he wanders
through the woods unless they are eN-
tremely hungry and ere in large numbers.
wolf is deathly afraid of a man unless
wounded or starving. Old hunters testify
that it is the greatest sneak of all the
denizens of the woods.
Probably no man on earth hates a
wolf worse than | do said Hart Doan,
the veteran trapper and hunter of Trout
Lake. who is conceded to be one of the
best posted men in the north woods. but
I'll have to amt that I admire the var
minis for one thing. They never kill a
deer unless they are hungry. They kill
fawns mostly. but they always eat them.
They never waste the meat. All over
the upper peninsula you can find traces
of the destruction of deer life, however,
which shows that there are thousands of
wolves here. | can go into the woods any
dcy and inside of fifteen minutes find
traces of a deer slaughtered by wolves.
That may sound strange, but it is no ex-
aggeration. 1t is the truth. every word
of it
Game Warden Chapman says he cannot
say at present when he will be able to
turn his first hounds into the woods. but
he hopes to be able to secure some dogs
to work before tho snow goes off.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-10
No Corns in Japan.

A few years ago the proprietor of a
great steel file company in New England,
which has several branch factories in
various parts Of America. althcgether en-
ployng skilled workmen by the thousand
called at the office of a forwarding firm
in New York, one of whose partners is a
European. and asked that they suggest
the proper man to introduce his files in
Europe" says Harold Bolce in brilliant
article in Appleton's Magazine This
factory makes 1000 varieties of files. and
enjoys a great reputation throughout the
mechanical world of America. The agent
selected was a European, who had been
Americanized. who believed in the vr-
tues of the files he was to SELL and who
was familiar with the great opportunity
In Industrial Europe. He went from one
manufacturing town in the Old World to
another and to demonstrate the superior
quality of the American implement, took
similar European tools and filed right
through them, to the astonishment or for
eign mechanics and factory owners.
"Orders began to go to America by
cable 1t was not long before one request
reached New England from Germany for
superior goods had done the work. The
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-10
PRESERVING WOOD
USED IN THE MINES
Forest Service Solving Pro-
bIem of Prop Supplies
LIFE OF TIMBERS TREBLED
Properly Seasoned Wood, Preserved
With Creosote by a Cheap Pro-
cess Stops the Ravages of
Decay-Creosote.
LIFE OF TIMBERS TREBLED

one of the greatest sources of loss to
the coal mining industry of the United
States is found in the decay of the props
used to support the gangways and CALLER
les in which the miners work That this
loss is not alone financial one, calcula-
bic in dollars and cents, is shown by the
frequent reports of Minis disasters, when
men are entombed alive or crushed to
death by falling tunnels. Mine owners,
fully aware of the losses they sustain,
have sought a means by which damage
might be lessened or averted Humani-
tarism and commercial reasons alike have
prompted their efforts. Since mine props
are always of wood the operators finally
called upon the forest service for help in
solving their difficulty.
The forest service Immediately started
the investigation along lines that it had
proved effective in the preservation OF
railroad ties Proper seasoning and pre-
servative eatment with creosote had, on
an average, practically doubled the Pc
riod of service of ties In other words,
where preservative treatment was used it
had cut in half the bills for tie renewals
Some idea of the saving that would be
effected If all ties were treated may be
gained from the knowledge that new ties
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-10
MlcHIGAN's WOLF PLAGUE.
Siberian Hounds to Be Imported to
Fight Animals.

From the Chicago Chronicle.
Because of the havoc wrought through
out the upper peninsula of Michigan by
wolves during The past two or three
years farmers and sportsmen have be-
come alarmed. Great inroads are being
made n focks of sheep and the deer of
the wooded sections
State Game Warden Charles II. Chap
man las determined to hunt the animals
Systematically with Siberian wolf-hounds.
lie has taken the matter ND with the
RUSSIAN minister at Washington with a
view to importing dogs if they cannot be
procured in this country
Tho campaign for the destruction of the
wolves will be inaagurated soon as
possible. Thousands of wolves are today
roaming the country south of Lake Su-
night. Their bowls fill the woods at night
Hundreds of sheep have been killed by
then within the past year.
Deer are slaughtered By thousands an
nually by these denizens of the woods.
although bountes varying i'm different
counties all the way from S25 to $40 per
head are freely offered. Being of most
way nature, it is extremely difficult TO
kill the wolves, so that they are increas-
ing in numbers rapidly.
Siberian wolf-hounds it is claimed, will
kill off the wolves rapidly IL they are in
troduced in sufficient numbers. The work
of the game warden's department at first
will be of an experimental nature but if
successful several hundred dogs will be
brought north and set TO work.
'The wolf-hound.' says Cane Warden
Chapman, kills the wolf In the same
manner as the wolf Kills a deer. He
sra-s him along the -pina column and
breaks his back AT first the hound pre-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-10

country, naturally unsuited to agricul-
ture, the mines themselves render the
ground above almost worthless for any
thing but forest. When an old working
is abandoned the props are generally
Withdrawn, and the "cave-ins" that re-
ST often extend to the surface and pit
the ground with ''sink-holes. All this
area, instead of lying idle insight
ly commons. might become revenue-pro-
ducing II used for growing the future
supply of mine timbers. The forest SER
VIC has already prepared planting plans
for companies with extensive holdings,
and these plans will be put into effect
in many locations throughout the valleys
of the Ohio river and its tributaries.
The mine timber problem is only one
of the many that are being solved by
the forest service in its efforts toward
helping the growers and users of timber
in the United States. In this single in
stance the saving to coal mine operators
should annually amount TO millions of
dollars. At the same time the greatly in
creased life of the props lessons the
drain upon our forest resources and forms
another step in the progress being made
toward a greater economy of the timber
supply. All such steps tend to lessen or
to forestall the impending timber famine
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-10
Why Farmers Grow Old Early.

Woods Hutchinson. M. D.. In Harper 8
for March.
Any one who has lived on a farm does
not need to be told the reason. for he
knows of the strain under which the
American farmer lives during the five
months of spring and summer. His work
day is from to in the morning until
or 9 at night. including chores-ffteen
TO seventeen hours of the hardest kind
of physical labor. and every minute of it
at high tension, especially during harvest.
Then comes a period of relaxation in the
fall the one time in the year when he
has just enough muscular exercise to
keep him in health. Later, the winter
season. approaching stagnation, in which
he takes on flesh, gets .logY." and then
furious debauch of hard labor through
the spring and summer again. No Won
der that by 10 he has had a sunstrolse
and cant stand the heat" or has "A
weak back or his "heart gives out, I
or a chill makes him rheumatic; and
when you add to this furious muscula 4
strain the fact that the farmer sees his
income put in peril every season. and his
very home every bad year, so that each
unfavorabe change in the weather sets
his nerves on edge, it can be readily
imagined that the real quiet. peaceful
country life is something sadly differ
ent from the ideal.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-10


There are number of allied prob
lens in the field of mine timber inves-
LEGATIONS, and the elimination of waste
before the tlmbers go into the Mines
as well as the prevention of decay after
setting is a phase of the subject that
must be carefully studied. There is much
waste for example in cutting the logs
to the arbitrary 2S-foot length, because.
while the average logs may be nine and
ten feet long in many cases a six-foot
log will suffice for the high side; and
the loss of three feet of solid timber.
when repeated In a great number of
sets, means big waste. BY permitting
the timber to be shipped to the mines
In lengths varying from % to 80 feet Il
more complete utilization would follow
If the particular locality to be reset in
tue mine were measured before the sticks
We're cut up into the component parts
OF props.
Every night the fire bosses" put in
new timber. They could send measure
ments to the men on the timber banl-"
outside so that the sticks could be cut to
fit exactly Thus a 2S-foot stick could
be used for four 7-foot logs, or a 30-foot
stick for three 10-foot logs. In this way
the present waste would be eliminated.
Seasoning yards should be established
near where the timber is cut. This would
reduce transportation charges because
green timber with the bark on is much
heavier than peeled and seasoned logs.
In the aggregate there would be meas
urable economy.
Going still further the forest service
re ommends that coal companies own.
manage and protect their own timber
lan6s. in order TO regulate and assure
present and future supply of props.
TIL. is particularly advisable because
there is hardly any portion of the tree
that the coal company can not use. Every
stick above two inches in diameter can
be used as mill timber for headways,
mainways breaks. or nuleways. or for
'laggngs" to hold the gangway walls
between the props.
.oreover the seasoning and treating,
which have proved so advantageous, de-
pend on a regular and certain supply,
free frcm the present rushing" of the
timber from the WOODS into the mines
The forest service has also recommended
| that the mining companies plant their
! own lands to trees. Much of their hold
| inss are useless for other purposes. Even
when they are not in rough and hilly
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-10
The Editor Regrets.
From Harper's Weekly.

From Harper's Weekly
when | was city editor of the Vr-
ginia City Enterprise" remarked Mark
Twain at dinner in New York, "a
fine turkey was one day left at the Of
flee"
Turkeys were rare in that high alt-
tude. and we all hankered after this bird.
The proprietor, though, claimed it for
his own. lie took it home and had it
cooked for dinner.
",rhe next day, as he was expatiating
on the turkeys richness and tenderness,
a letter was handed to him. lie opened
1t and read:
" Mr.. Editor:
" Satisfactorily I sent you a turkey
which has been the cause of much dis
pute among us. To settle bet will you
kindly ask your agricultural editor to
state in tomorrow's issue what it died
Of
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-10

100000 dozen. A good salesman and
salary of the agent was raised to $40
900 year and expenses. and the Ameri2,
can file today is furtherng the con-
structive work of every mechanical CEN
ter in Europe.
Contrast that masterful record with
the fiasco of the American who spent
$1,000 to introduce corn medicine into
Japan, only to discover that the multi
tudes of that empire wear no shoes and
consequently have no corns."
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-10

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annually cost the railways of the United
States more than s36,OOo,o0o
But the mne-prop experiments carried
the artificial preservation of timbers one
step further; a most important one be-
cause it demonstrated that the preserva-
ton could be had simply and inexpensive
ly, and at such great saving over former
methods that there can no longer be any
question as to the economy.
The Mine Props.
In its essential features an underground
portion of a coal mine consists of gall
leries and gangways that follow the
veins of coal. In addition to the gang
ways there is net work of mueways,
manways, breaks. and headways, all
serving their various purposes. The al"
/ Is generally warm and heavy throughout,
and very damp.
The walls, although black like coal,
are often built up mainly of wood. for
there are SUGGESTIONS of sets of props.
In general each set consists of three
pieces two uprights that slant in toward
the top and support a third piece across
them, that in turn supports the roof of
the passage. These props may be so
close that the interval between them is
not more than two feet. From prop to
prop along tops and sides, particularly
in soft" workings the space is closely
filed in with smaller sticks called lag
gings." In some places, however. where
the gangway goes through slate, or where
the slate forms solid roof above the
vein, the props may be less frequent and
the laggings or even the top piece. may
be omitted. OF the three pieces of prop
the one across the top is called a col
lar The two supporting pieces are
legs"
Most of the prop timber in the Schuyl-
kill region Is lobbolly pine from the PENN
sula between Chesapeake and Delaware
bays some is Pennsylvania pitch pine,
and n slight portion is oak. 1t comes in
an arbitrary leugth OF twenty-eight feet,
which is supposed to furnish 9-foot
collar. 9-foot leg for the high side OF
the gangway, and 1O-foot leg for the
LAWYER side In other localities Pennsyl-
Nania pi'ch pine. hemlock. and local
hardwoods are used, and in almost any
length.
In the NINE the impression is one OF
total blackness, accentuated, rather than
ae,,e sr ~ h ,ne ~ t,,s es III s. ,',r
| blacl,ness. white funsous growths may he
seen almost everywhere on the deca wing
timbers. nothing and streakinr the wood
of the nrops. The preventive of these
decay-promoting fungi are creosote car
bolineum zinc Chord. and similar anti
septics or these. creosote or dead oil
of coal tar. is most used And the fungi
constitute but one of the three principal
enemies that the creosote is used against.
The others are insects and mules
Although mine operators are fully
familiar with the losses they sustain
through the failure of mine props. and
though they also know that proper sea
soning and preserving and to the length
of life of timbers in me mines. they
have "rushed, green ,lnDeeled and nm
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-10
FOR SALE.

Why rent again when we
will sell you a NEW, MOD
ERN residence same as rent
ing? Can you pay $50 per
month for elegant, new, fur
mace heated residence? If so,
call at once. Thompson-B Booth
R. e. & I. Co., 2113 First ave-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-10
Other Recommendations.

necessary amount of oil, and the best
shape for the treating tank
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1907-12-27
New Forms for Application
and Proofs.

Commissioner Bailinger Of the general
land Office at Washington has issued
the following notice regarding new
forms that are 10 be used for applira-
ton and final proof
New forms Of application Of home
stead entry. soldiers additional ! o ne
stead entry. desert land entry. and for
timber or stone sworn statements. tim
Der or stone hnal proofs. aud yearly
proof In desert land cases. have been
adopted. and on and after March (
1908. no entries will be allowed In IN,
class of cases above mentioned nnles,
executed npon the new official form
or upon forms which are exact dnpli
Gates thereof, both ~ 10 wording, ar
rangement and size. Each OF sait
forms Ia . combination Of the severn
forms and aifidaYits formerly requires
t. he filed in such cases. aud the up'
thereof will result in q saving Of time
labor and expense 20 the local land Of
65erp. proof-taking officers and claim
ants.