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The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1908-07-29

Conference at Middies6oro last
week, between the Kentucky
Louisville and Virginia on
ferences. They report a snien-
did meeting.
Empire has resumed work in
full Fifty Industrious coal
miners can find steady work at
good wages by applying 6 the
mines of The Empire Coal &
Coke Company Landgraf. w.
Va. inlv 52-3n
Leander and Nancy Ashley
were before L. S. COMMISSIONS
Rush Monday on the charge of
violating the Internal Revenue
law. The We're each held 10
await the action of the grand
jury at Big Stone Gan next
month--Clintwood Times.
Normal Stationery of am
kinds at Hamblen Brothers.
Superintendent Baker and
committee composed of the
principals of q number of
Wise county schools. have lust
issued "a study course for the
various schools of Wise county.
me course is gotten up in ac-
cordance with the regulations
and instructions of the State
Doaru OF hducation, and is. we
i t1lnN, a good thing, as 1t cna-
pies an The schools of the coun-
Health Coffee" readily eec..-o.. c.f
~ l.' ..,. eyer tet produced. r
dacpi .. n- -r.0. ~ r
Scoop Hss.,. c'f. p
toa-i.d grains. n.th malt rr... ... R.r.
:, s @o..a .oo. ae eEpcr'.-nao mrt lrn.
bo.in- .u.s. '..
or. Sold hr a. Ncir N.an
Rev T. =. Russell. who has
been ln Che city this week con
Quoting mission for Rev. ID
q. Aayers. of the Episcopal
church, viii Doe Joined here
Monday evening bv his wife.
and together they viii make
tour of Canada. and visit SIR
hussei.s old home REV. Mr.
Russell ls pastor of Emanuel
episcopal church. of Bristol
and is one of che Border Citv's
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1908-07-29

j Is. Oaeh, cA bAiseVi' %
.,nong the travelling men in
town last week.
Miss Golden Coins, of Jones'
ellie is visiting her uncle, r.
T. Brown, and family in the
Gap.
DR. J. w. Kelly was a bust
ness visitor to Wise the first of
the week.
q F. Jones was IN Wise
Monday looking after the
wants of the merchants in his
line.
Cold. Puro, Sparkling, Soda.
-Kelly's Drug Store.
Attorney John W. Chalkley
spent Monday in Wise on legal
business
Attorney j. +. Bullitt and
his steuographer. George Tay-
Tor. are in Wise tins week at
tending court.
Horace r. Fox and c. G.
Cochran were in Wise Satur-
day and Monday.
Little Miss Josephine Kelly
snent Saturday and Sunday
with friends and relatives ia
Norton and Wise.
DR.. y. 49, Kelly was a bust
ness visitor TO Bristol last
Thursday
Wrs q. q. Hagy and two
children. of Bristol, are visiting
friends. the guests of Mrs. j. a.
Willis
Miss Anna Kerr Tompkins.
OF Appa.achIa, spent Saturday
Do ODE Gap visiting her young
friends
There will DE preaching at
che Episcopal Church Sunday
morning and night by Rev.
John d Lloyd.
Hon B Tate Irvine has been
attending to legal matters dur
ing this session of court at
Wise
Squire W III Horton was in
Wise Monday on business.
By a. score of % to 3 the APP
pa.acha boys went down i'm de-
feat DOB O. match game of ball
wllA lle local team at this place
on last saturday afternoon.
Rev. D. II Blanton. of Rich
monl hy- preached i'm the
Episcopal Church SUNDAY
.moru.hg for Rev. Robert McIn-
.mr1
United States District Court
wu. convene at this place AN
gus, I.,h Quite a number of
c.N cases are d0cketed for
hearing at this term.
The roof is being put on the
Minor Building and the work of
,nis office structure which is lo-
Gated on che corner of Wood
avenue and East Third Street.
IS progressing rapidly.
This week closes one of the
most successful nOrmals of its
Bind iu the State. il is thought
ihat neX, year the attendance
WALL Oe much larger than this
year
The Wise Printing Company
Can handle your Job work. let
lae order be either large or
small All orders are given
prompt anl careful attention.
ana our prices are just as low
rs good work can be done for.
d. 4. Hendricks, foreman of
,his Office, and family spent a
Few aay the past week visiting
relatiyes at Wise.
Z. e. Blankenship, dealer in
musical instruments and furn.-
suie az Jonesville, was in town
iaS' thursday on business.
Robert Skeen, who went from
ur1ey Cove To New Mexico
e'eral months ago to take up
anu ana locate, has returned 10
lis home in the Cove
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1908-07-29

The Clintwood TELEPHONE Ex-
change rs improving under the
new manager. J. II. Davis. of
Norton. Two uew phones
nave been Installed within the
last few days. The line will be
extended from Nickels Gap TO
9Neetrock. re q uirin Z two
phones VI ore - homes
WI shortly Dee placed ON the
tikhoru line. &C lin wo O. g
Times
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1908-07-29
B0AROERS WAIVED.

For drst class board on or
phone MOL
3i-35 81. p. YOU'LL.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1908-07-29

There viii bee a public enter
tainman. at the School Hall
on Thursday night. compliment
tary CD the teachers attending
the Normal, 60 which every
body Dis invited. 80 charge
3 he entertainment viii consist
OF music. re.itations. deriama-
tions. addresses. etc.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1908-05-22
Rucker Given 20 Years.

The case Of Kay Fucker. who
vas charged with attempted rape on
an eight year old child came 10 a
close Thursday afternoon. after a
hard fought legal battle OF tEo days
Duration. Attorney Moore and
Thomas made strong and eloquent
liguments for the defendant. and
Tom Smith and Will Hester prose-
uied. After the jury deliberat-
~ a short time a verdict was return
ed Tor 20 years Imprisonment.
some talk Of mob violence was
heard on the streets last night, how
ever, a close guard was kept around
'ne city jail and no attempts we're
made to reach the prison. Fulton
Leader.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1908-05-22
Heard In s>ttAk3
The Crowd KT-I

H.LF. Gilmef will preach at
Dill. Christian church next Sunday
-.m.ng and evening Ed. Gilmer
reaching some stirring sermons
,ol should hear him.
.f6ha. said the newly married
He.s man. "Yessir." respond
..the Office boy. "Call up my wife
...r. 10 minutes. and humble lovcy
.r. t00tscy-wooisey. about seven
.fht times. Exchange.
Ia- petition Of Mrs Blanche
.sris applying Cor divorce from
husband Homer Richards vas
t-I ln the Supreme court Saiur
III. This case was appealed from
Il0n County Circuit Court.
tHIl has been introduced in che
A. making d unlawful for the
ument 90 issue license 90 sell
heating liquor Boz prohibition
States. That is the one effective
b.. io get at the roo, OF the whisky
..1u.
49, H1ater vas found 10 the Misgis.
... liver near Thompson's Land
Wednesday and an inquest vas
.-.. by Coroner r. x Ogilvic
... body vas that Of white man
..ai thirty years Of age and from
..aeamuces had been in the water
r ONE time Nothing vas found
me- body 10 indicate the identity
. 'ar man.-Chaflsalon Courier.
Hickman ought 20 have wagon
a-. Warmers vho come 10 town
s..l then have a safe aud convent
place to hitch and feed their
an. As b is. teams are huched
far hfr place found and are al
t-i t0 stand there some times az
aU without fool of water. and
....f places shere they stand.
getting aies Boo the summer time.
a..ss 9th and a stencil that Is dan
Porous 90 health.
Heaven help the man Who thinks
can dodge enemies by trying TO
please everybody II such an indi.
llal ever succeeded. We should be-
glad li o. not that one should be
rHF through the world hunting
-Ams 10 knock and thump bis head
against. dispuiing every mans opin.
Hl aFht.ng, clbovinE and crowdinF
eho differ from him That.
..an is another extreme. Other
Die have their opinions have
r don't fall into the error of sup
1ug they gill respect you more
.T turning your coat every day to|
match The color Of theirs.
The Illinois Supreme Court rem
Tered a decision last week that white
and negro children should attend
f.. -hools OF that state together
..I hat no separate schools for the
t.'e and black would be- maintain.
f.. The case has been in litigation
'.r twenty five years and came up
from Alton IL has been tried seven
Zines iu the lower courts where the
.fy gave a verdict for separate
.1oois and reversed each time by
'ar supreme Court This time the
court vent so far as TO decide the
Jazz themselves. saying that both
negroes and whites must study to-
T.ihsf and recite in the same class
rf. Poor old Illinois.
$50 Nye had the truth we'll told
saen he said "a man may use a
Fart on the back Of his neck for a
collar button ride on the back coach
no railroad tram 90 save interest
900 bis money till the conductor gets
around stop his watch at night 20
save wear and tear. leaves his "i'
.r CO.. without a dot or a cross 10
save iuk pasture his mothers grave
o.. save corn But a man of this
sort is a gentleman and a scholar
impaired TO the fellow that will
'a-e "a newspaper two or three years,
and shen asked 10 pay for 81, puts
20 into the office and has d marked
U.r.N....H
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-01-05
~ THE SIDE-SHOW X
NEW YEAR FANCY by W. Baran Lewis

In broad eXpanse OF meadow
along the highway lies a city of can
vas, round white tents that look like
toad-stolls in the distance. From the
poles and along the tent ropes hun
dreds of colored streamers fly gaily
in the wind, presenting a vivid APP
pearance. 1t is the Circus of Life,
and as one enters the lot it is found
to be composed of numerous tents,
"side-Shows" and "kid-tops," without
any main tent, or arena. In front of
the entrance of each of these smaller
tents that comprise the circus, are
glowing banners telling of the sights
to be seen within. Among them are
to be found Birth and Death, Joy and
Sorrow, Peace and Conflict, Love and
Hate, and all the tiny dramas that
are talked and acted by man on his
stage, the world.
in the confines Of the lot-youth and
age, comeliness and LONELINESS,
lovers and sweethearts, widows and
orphans, rich and poor.
A band has just started to play in
front OF the tent named on its ban
ners, "The Tent of Good Resolutions"
Two or three of the passing throng
stop idly, to listen and to read the
gilded banners, that sag and fill in
1.-THE wind on each side of the en-
trance. Upon the banners are many,
many resolutions, fitting TO all classes
of mankind-the drunkard, the gamb-
Ter, the hypocrite, the unfaithful, the
proud, the rich and the failures.
First Idler: Whats this?
Second Idler: This is where you
get your resolutions for the New
Year.
Voice Within the tent: Ballyhoo.
Ballyhoo! Ballyhoo!
First Idler: Let's stop and listen.
Second Idler: Oh, I've heard ii
lots of time He's good though. is
that kindly fakir, Father Time, who
ballyhOos for this. You'll find it in
teresting.
(Father Time energies from the
tent and climbs upon the platform at
the entrance He looks idly. over
the crowd burt as the music grows
faster and faster to call the attention
OF the mass Of people, his eye lights
and he smiles and beckons with his
right arm and leans upon his sythe.
which is held in his left. The Dand
stops with a final crash of brass, and
Father Time begins)
Fatner Time: hurry, hurry, don't
lag, come arrunning, come arunning.
You'll be sorry if you don't This is
the last chance. Before tomorrow's
sun-up it will be too late, for. we will
have packed our tents and glided out
in the darkness like the Arabs Of the
desert. Hurry! Hurry
First Idler: He's pretty good for
an old man, amt he?
Second Idler: He'll never change.
Time moves as fast now as he did at
the beginning. Listen.
Father Time: Come on come oni
Well please you all. The young, and
the old, the comely and the homeIy,
the sweetheart and the lover. the
child, and its grandfather. Hurry,
hurry! Gather up close don't want
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-01-05
The Game Warden
and His Salary.

The journal Is of the opinion that
the county commissioners acted too
hastily when they cut the game war
den's GALAXY from $50 to SIS per
month.
Many people have an idea that the
position of game warden Is not a
very important Office, but that idea =
an erroneous one. The older the
country becomes and the more scarce
the game becomes, The greater the
necessity for stringent game laws
and an active, efficient game warden.
IL the present game warden is
doing his duty, $50 per month is not
too much for him and $15 per month
IL beyond question too little for his
services. If the game warden Is not
doing his duty, then the county COM
mssioners should make charges to
that effect, cite him to appear before
them, and see that he does do his
duty. Cutting down his salary is not
the proper way to secure a proper
performance OF duty.
We trust the commissioners viii
reconsider their action OF last week
ana decide to either pay the proper
salary to secure proper service or
else discontinue the office altogether.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-01-05
Park Commissioners
Should Get to Work.

For the first. time in the history of
the city, Pensacola has, this year,
special park appropriation. This APP
preparation has been divided among
the various parks and squares in the
city, and it will be spent in accordance
with the plans devised by the respec-
tive boards of park commissioners.
1t is, therefore. the duty of these
park commissions to organize and get
to work. At present, the Plaza COM
missioners are the only ones who are
doing anything, and the Plaza is the
only square in the city that looks in
any way credftable. The other park
commissioners must begin work just
as the Plaza commissioners have
done.
This month-January-is the proper
time to plant trees. February is a
good month to plant some trees, but
March is too late for most OF the
trees-except palms which are indig-
enous to this soil and climate. There
fore, IL you are going to plant trees,
you TnuSL 9CI at u n OSANJ ~
six weeks will mean the delay of an
other year.
The first thing to be done in your
plan for park improvement is to have
water put into the parks, and have
1t done right away.
It is foolish to spend time and
money in planting trees and then let
them die for want of water. They will
live and grow without any artificial
help after the first year, but the first
year they require water and that is
what you should provide for at once
The Journal hopes the various park
commissions viii get down to business
Immediately, make plans for the year
work, proceed to get private subscrip-
lions to augment the city park appro-
priations, and make a showing for the
work done. The main point about the
matter is, do II NOW.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-01-05

you. twon't cost you much, and you
need it badly.
GThe crowd is beginning to enter
the tent, and as 1t disappears behind
the curtains, Father Time renewi
his call to the people, who still hest
tate in front of the entrance).
Father Time: Don't hesitate!
can't wait, you know We must be
going on and on all the time. We've
must keep moving. Come right in.
Take your choice. The best patterns
go TO the first ones in. First come
first served. Hurry, hurry Don't
the last hour. You won't be ready
fer the new year If you don't hurry,
Get a resolution. Take 1t 4ome and
keep it. You all need them. Buy
now, buy, now.
Cali Of the throng that had gath
cred in front OF the tent have dis
appeared within its door under the
spell Of the speakers exhortion save
few stragglers, who are left be-
hindu.
First Straggler Laughing mocking-
ly): They amt any good, I've used
them before. They never were. Why.
last year ] bought one Of every kind
they had, and it didn't do me any
SOou. 1Hey CAH FOp0 me III. lime
fa1tir, anyway.
Second Straggler: I don't know
the one / got last year was a mighty
pretty thing and it was made of gold
all right. / found out because | sold
it and got the face value of the>gold
in it. with regret) / don't know
but that wish / had kept it, The
money didn't do me any good
First Straggler: What'd you get?
Second Straggler: That I'd be
honest"
GThey wander on moodily toward
the highway. A short time passes.
and the curtains to the Tent of Reso-
lutions are thrown wide apart, snd
the crowd flows out In the prone
made. chatting happily over their Sc
lections for the most part, though
! here and there a stern expression OF
concentrated will marks the face of
someone who has selected and means
to care for his selection jealousy.
A young couple walk gaily down to
the road arm in arm).
Youth: What did you take?
Maiden: See. (Unrolls her pack
age and gold trinket. shaped like
heart glistened IN the moonlighD.
Youth: Breads slowly and impres-
sively): Resolved, that / shall be
. faithful to my hearts love forever
fDelightedly) Why. that's Just what
II got, too.
Maiden. Whispering softly: And
we are to be married tomorrow.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-01-05
BY
the State
Press
POLITICS AND
POLITICIANS.


silly gobblers in our brood Editor
JMayes ought to know this already.
But he will have many things TO
ledrn when he comes to Tampa dur
ing the state fair.-Tampa Tribune.
Two of Kind.
The Key West Citizen quotes with
approval the remark of the Tampa
Tribune that next year there will be
the greatest consumption OF cigars
on record Nothing like politics. to
make clear Havanas circulate. Manu-
facturers, please get ready to enlarge
your factories and payrolls. TINS
may be regarded as the voice OF ex-
perience, notwithstanding the accus-
toned newspaper jokes. about cleo
tion cigars Jacksonville Times
Union We now know why those
Tampa and Key West people are al
ways stirring up the politics of the
state. But from what Jacksonville is
doing in that connection we would
imagine she owned half the cigar
factories in the country-Pepsacola
Journal Well, this from The Pensa-
cola journal knocks us fat. We have
heard Of the pot calling the kettle
black, but-Editor Mayes why don't
you keep on pegging away for your
own original candidate for governor?
Talk about stirring up,-Tampa Trib-
une.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-01-05

any OF you to miss this and then re-
gret your opportunity. I can't wait,
must go on, but l give you a
chance.
(The crowd chickens about the
platform. Ali nationalities, ali class
es are represented. It's life's circus,
and mankind is there).
Father Time: You see what we
have on the banners here Well,
we've got all these and many more,
all for your choosing, If you'll only
step inside want to tell you a
little of what we have. You see this
| large banner on our right, reading:
Resolved, That shall foreswear
drinking. That is one of the most
popular OF our resolutions. Hundreds
and thousands make them every
year, and we've got splendid
anteed to wear and last forever, and
made of gold
A child, in her fathers arms: bet
me one daddy, they is SO pity.
First Idler {whispering): Did YOU
hear tnat little girl.
Second Idler, (ruefully): They're
pretty all right, but mine never
lasted. They proved to be gilt and
Father ITEM (overhearing the re.
marE): Gilt and plated? See here,
young man, I'm much older than
you; have lived longer and will live
forever, and let me tell You that these
articles are real true gold, provided
you handle 'em right They'll last
forever, ladies and gentlemen. Bear
( in mind what / say-theyIl last for.
ever, used rightly. CTurning to his
| left and pointing to another banner
| Here we have one OF the oldest pat
terms ever made. Read it with me:
Il shall be faithful There is a res.
olution that began with Adam. and
has been handed down from age to
| age, and generation to generation
Peoples after peoples that have lived
and died have used this resolution,
and 1t never grows old Take II
home with you--yeu can get 1t on the
| inside-handle it carefully, guard II
and use 1t well-its worth keeping
and you need it, all OF you need II
buy now. and remember. this Is
| the last chance
/ A richly CARRIED, pompously dressed
man, to his compaion. Doastfully: ]
don't need it.
Father Time: Hear hint Hear
him! He doesn't need 1t, My friend
you need It more than any. To
what are you faithful, except self
But If that design doesn't please you
sir, (emphaticalfy) then perhaps this
one viii. tpointing to another reso-
luton on the banner) I shall be I'M.
selfish Thai sir, should be pur-
chased by you, but It won't look well
| in your fine house-you see 1 am
frank with my wafes-no, it won't
look well in your fine house. because
this Is the only modest resolution we
make. lis q little grey article that
locks best In plain surroundings, and
against gold plate and polished mir.
rors, it takes on a cheapish appear.
ance, but its the richest thing we've
got in the tent Take It home with
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-01-05

was permitted to experiment on
South Pass, his compensation and a
3o-year maintenance contract, with
the government being conditioned on
the success OF his work. Southwest
Pass had depth of about IA feet
over the bar, and South Pass only 4
feet at low water. Eads gave South
Pass a minimum depth Of rs feet
and completely demonstrated the
truth of his theory, that by narrowing
the channel and thus augmenting
the current, the current itself would
SCOUT out and maintain channel.
What is now being done by the gov
eminent in Southwest Pass is a mere
adaptation on a larger scale and un-
der more favorable conditions than
the work done by John B. Eads. As
ISOLATED with Dads was James A.
CottreH, who has done in South
America and Europe much work
along the lines proved by Eads in
South Pass, winning a world wide
fame. CottrelPs work in Argentine
has been his most extensive. Eads's
theory, too, underlies the levee and
bank work done by the government
at an annual cost Of millions Of dol
lars along the Mississippi and other
sediment carrying streams. MAT
tresses" of woven willow, weighted
with rocks, are sunk where the bank
erosion and caving are extensive
enough to affect the current and
channel Of the river, and the levees
are in part maintained by the gov
eminent to guarantee the waters of
the river remaining in the river and
doing the securing out in flood
stages, instead of overlooking the
adjacent lands and, by the loss of
current volume, filing up the river
bed instead of scourging it
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-01-05
BUILDINGS
DESTROYED
BY Associated Press.

San Francisco, Jan &c. PolhiM,
an English missionary, who has spent
twenty years in China and arrived
yesterday on the liner Nippon Maru,
says that shortly before he left his
station at Kai Tsfen, in the province
of Sachuan, a place about $500 miles
from Shanghai, the Boxers had caused
considerable alarm - to the foreign
residents. The imposition of heavy
school tax and a heavier tax on
opium had aroused the Boxers to an
ger and started them on a wrecking
rampage. No lives We're lost in the
outbreak, but five buildings belong
ing to the Protestant and Catholic
missions were destroyed before the
authorities succeeded in quelling the
riots. Pofhill is on his way to Lon
don. He expects trouble all over
China in a few months.