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Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-06-20
NOTICE OF ASSESSMENT
FOR STREET PAVING

To the owners Of the real estate
abutting on either side OF Grant
and Henry streets. between the
north end Of Grant street bridge
and the intersection of Henry street
with Grecnbrirr street. in the city
Of BIuefcld West virginia.
You will please take notice that
the council Of the city Of Bluteaeld
ON the 9th day Of June. 1908. made
assessments for street paving
against the real estate abutting on
oithei side of Grant and Henry
streets between the points above
mentioned and the respective own
ors Of such real estate as follows
'O-wit.
Grant street, West Side.
Part lots 3 and 4 section So. John
Norfolk q Western Ry co.. $40
front feet. 214OI32.
Grant Strcct, East Side.
Norfolk & Western Ry CO.. $50
front feet 8f7fGO.
lot j. section s Sara ". May
nard. 100 front feet S3GG.8O.
Lot 3 section 50 Edna J.. steel
man " front feet. 83144
Grant Stree, North Side.
lots Q and . section 80. John
Walter and Theodore DuIaney. Sc
from fr.'. 311G.72.
Part Lots 2 and 3. section 81.
Florence g. Hancock, 30 front feet.
$4,000.
Part lots and o. section So. y.
VI wilson 80 front feet 81S1.OO.
Henry street, West side.
superior supply Go. 178 front
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-06-20
VERMONT DEMOCRATS

Burlington. VT, June 20.-Dem-
ocratic caucuses are being held
throughout the stae today. prelim-
mary to the state convention here
next Friday. 1t is likely that the
eight Vermont delegates to Denver
Will go uninstructed, although there
is strong sentiment among the rank
and file of the voters in favor of
w. j. Bryan as the nominee for
president.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-06-20
PILES! PUESi PILESi

Williams San Pile Ornamen
Will cure 9lInd, Bleeding and Itchin
Piles. It absorbs the tumors, allay
itching at once, acts as a poultict
gives instant relief. Williams II
dian Pile Ointment Is prepared 20
Piles and itching OF the private part.
Mall DC. and 800. Williams M
CO., Cleveland, o.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-06-20
A BIC GOAL DEAL
FAlsMONr COAL co. TAKES
OVER FINE PROPERTY IN
HARRISON AND BARBECUE
COUNTIES.

The Fairmont Coal company has
purchased tho holdings of the
southern Coal & Transportation
company, consisting of large
tract OF coal land in Harrison and
Barbour counties mostly in the lat
ter county. The portion in this
county is situated in Elk district
and consists of PA acres Bosidcs
paying a liberal amount for thc
property the company assumed IN,
bonded Indebtedness of half nil
lion dollars.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-06-20

feet. $466.36.
Henry street, East Side.
j. NJ. Wilson. 115 front feet.
$301.3O.
You and each OF you are hereby
required to appear before the Board
OF Supervisors at a meeting there
OF to be held at the city hall in
said city OF Bluefleld, on the 18th
day OF July, 1908, at 8 O'Clock p.
m. and show cause. II any you can.
why said assessments should not
become final.
BY order OF the Council OF the
City OF Blueheld. West Virginia,
June 8, 1908.
j. T. AKERS. Auditor.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-06-20

BY order OF the Democratic state
Committee.
JOHN T. McGRAW. Chairman
J. CARL VANCE, Secretary
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-02-07
WHEN THE TIME CONES.

"I've no patience with these people
who spend time discussing ways Of
living to be a hundred" remarked q
woman of sixty to her youthful grand
daughters. "A hundred, indeed! I
hope that when my time comes I'll
have the good taste to die, and not
try to hang en- like withered leaf.
What do I<cpnsider the proper age
for dying? My dears, it depends on
the individual. I know a man who
is youthful at eighty, but he wastes
no time considering how he can keep
alive till he reaches the century mark.
l doubt If he ever thinks of it. He
is too busy keeping abreast of the
times, seeing his friends, reading,
walking, playing his part in human
affairs. I know a man of seventy who
is old. very old. I met him yesterday,
swathed in furs and fiannels, as if It
were midWinter. He told me in a
quavering voice chat he had just
heard Of new food and was on his
way to get some-a food warranted
to put more lime in the bones, or
else-I forget which-to take lime
out; anyhow, it would enable any
one to I've to be a hundred at least.
You should have seen the CLEAN in
his old eyes as he talked Of it. But
why does that man wish to live so
long? He is feeble. he is constant
anxiety to those about him, there is
hardly anything he can enjoy. No,
I cannot understand this striving to
put off what is as natural, when the
time comes, as birth.
Yet every now and then somebody
who ought to know better throws a
fresh faggot on the craze for centen-
arianism, and every one seems to
have vague idea that it's peculiarly
virtuous to live great many years
no matter what use is made of said
years. I'm glad to observe, though,
that some very well known doctors
are throwing cold water on the craze
of late. New York Tribune.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-02-07

been Obliged to devote more thought
to the futures of his six sons than
the ordinary paterfamlias would be-
stow on bevy Of beauties, whether
heiresses or not. Of course, every
thing the Kaiser does is successful in
Germany. because nobody dares call
It failure. He really has done we'll
by his boys, though He got a good
wife for Crown Prince Frederick Will
liam when he choose for the heir app
parent Duchess Cecile of Mecklen-
burg-Schwerin, simple hearted
young woman who swiftly is becom-
ing Berlin's fashion leader, which her
mamma-in-law never has been. For
Prince Eitel Frederick the Kaiser Sc
lected the Grand Duchess Of Olden-
burg, and tho young woman whom
Prince August William is to marry
shortly must struggle along until her
wedding day under the awesome
name Princess Alexandra Victoria
Augustine Leopoldine Charlotte Anne
LA Wilhelmina OF SchlesWig- Holstein-
Souderburg- Glucksburg. Although
Princess Aloxandra's title reads like a
cross between a county fair catalogue
and symphony concert programme,
she is an unassuming creature, who
probably will be the good housewife
every German, even Of the highest
classes, demands. She Is her future
husbands first cousin, but there's
nothing strange in that to royal
minds, for plenty Of other girls in Eu-
ropes best set have become the
brides of their first cousins, including
Queen Maud of Norway and Princess
Henry Of Germany. In fact, Prince
Henry married two of his first cousins,
his first wife, Princess Victoria Nell
ia. also standing in that relation to
him. In royal circles the sentiment
seems to be whats a little thing
like consanguinlty between friends?"
New York Press.
4
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-02-07
WISE WORDS.

Anyway, a sandy man is apt to be
Irritating.
Some people would rather rust out
than dust out.
Selfishness is universally CON
demned because everybody recognizes
it so readily.
A serious mind is necessary to per-
feet poise, but you just have to have
the mind before you can render it
serious
Hot air makes good showing, but
doesn't always pay the interest on
the mortgage.
The better the intention the easier
the DETECTION.
1t is hard to work on the up grade.
That's why it is up.
Some dogs are so measly that their
licenses won't take.
1t is hard to be guilty of SANDER
if you never do any talking.
1t may take two to make an ordi-
nary bargain, but the head of a de-
partment can mark up some extraor-
binary ones single handed and alone.
alone
Some people who are said to be
really good at heart probably have
too much avoirdupois for the good
ness to readily work to the surface.
From Pert Paragraphs" in the
Busy Bee.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-02-07
.'Next."

II was counsel for railway COM
pany in the West, says a prominent
New York lawyer, Tin whose employ
a section hand had been killed by an
express train His widow, Of course,
sued for damages. The principal wit
ness swore positively that the loco
motive whistle had not sounded until
after the entire train had passed over
his departed friend
You admit that the whistle
blew?' 1 sternly demanded Of the
witness.
oh, yes, it blew
Now added impressively, If
that whistle sounded in time to give
Morgan warning, the fact would be
in favor of the,company, wouldn't it?'
I suppose SO, said the witness.
Very well. Now, for what earth
ly purpose would the engineer blow
his whistle after the man had been
struck
Il presume replied the witness,
with great deliberation, that the
whistle was for the next man on the
track. "-Harper's Weekly.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-02-07
4 sec1eosoeoassscs ssooeoaee
!: TO PUT TT SHORTLY !:


A deliver in old scrapbooks sends
no the following bit OF entertain
msnt, yellowed with age but still
lively:
A Dresden paper, the Weidmann,
states that among the Hottentots
(HotGentoten) the kangaroos (Beu-
telratte) are found in great num-
hers. Many of them wander over
the country free and unmolested;
others less fortunate arc taken by
hunters and put into cages (Kotter) !,
provided with covers (Lattengitter)
to keep out the rain. These cages
are called in German Lattengitter~
wetterkotter, and the kangaroo after
his Imprisonment takes the name
Of ttengitterwe tterkotterbeutel
ratte. One day an assassin (Atten-
tater) was arrested who had killed
o Hottentot woman, Hottentotenmut-
ter, the mother of two stupid and
suffering children in Strattertrot-
tel, This woman, in the German Ian
guage, is entitled Hottentotenstrat-
tertrottelmutter, and her assassin
takes the name Hottentotenstratter
mutterattentater The murderer was
confined in kangeroo's cage Beu-
telrattenla Q n g lit erwetterkotter.
whence few days later he escaped;
but fortunately he was recaptured
by Hottentot, who presented him.
self at the Mayors Office with beam
ing face.
Il have captured the Attentater."
said he.
Which one?" replied the Mayor.
1--WE have several"
THE Observation-Disclosures
Observation-Disclosures"
Which Attentater are you talking
about?"
About the Hottentotenstratter
trottelmutterattent
Then why don't you say at once
the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
taterlattergit wetterkotterbeutel
ratte?"
The Hottentot fled in dismay.-
From the Boston Transcript.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-02-07
Photographic Telegraphy.

It is reported that the method, in
vented by Herr Korn, Of Munich. Of
transmitting photographs BY tele-
graph, has been perfected to such a
degree that transmission is now pos
sible over long distances. Some tests
carried out recently between Berlin
and Paris were, it is said, completely
successful. A photograph jof the
Kaiser was telegraphed front Berlin
to Paris, and a photograph of Presi-
dent Fallieres from Paris to Berlin,
and both were well reproduced. ThS
length Of the wire is approximately
500 miles. The subsequent transmits
sion Of other photographs proved
equally successful. Engineer.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-02-07
CH1NA's RAILWAY PROGRESS.
New Lines Are Following Each Other
Thick and Fast.

In two decades the railway will be
as common in China as in Europe
Already the following lines have been
constructed or are under way, the
necessary concessions having been
granted:
/. Shang-Hai-Wusung, completed
in 1876, but closed to traffic owing to
the fanatic opposition Of the popula-
ton. 2. n-Shanghaikwang Eat
the eastern end of the Chinese VALID
173 miles being opened for traffic in
1890, and the line now being extend,
ed to Mukden, Kirin and Vladivostok,
connecting with the Siberian
Railway. g. A line is being built to
connect Stretensk, in the Trans-Bai-
kal government, with Vladivostok,
passing through Manchuria. A. . A
line is open for traffic from Pekin to
Tientsin. S. A Belgian syndicate
has almost completed line from Pc
kin to Hankow. Pekin with popu-
lation Of 100000 is probably the
third largest city in the world, and
has very important river harbor.
s. A line is almost finished, going
in southwestern direction from Pc
kin to Tai-yuen, the capital Of the
province of Show-Sin, distance of
about 500 miles. Z. A part Of the
Chinese loan is being used for the
construction of the line Shanghai
Nankin. 5. The British are building
a railway from Mandalay, Burma, to
Talifu, province of Yunnan. 9. The
French~are pushing northward from
Hannoi to Laokai and Mongtse, PROV
ince Of Yunnan, Southern China. 10.
The Chinese themselves are construct
ing railway from Takoi, Canton.
northward, the terminus Of which will
be probably at Nankin or Hankow.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-02-07
A woman's $4,000 Hat.

Women's hats are both common
and costly, as rule, but woman
in Brunswick, who made no great
pretensions to fashion, holds the
record for the highest price paid for
an article of millinery. She bought
a hat with a lottery ticket which the
merchant accepted in place OF the
money. A few weeks later the ticket
drew the great prize of &15,000, and
though the woman's husband tried
to induce the merchant to share the
results, he only received 225. That
hat cost 214,975.-New York World.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-02-07
our Government Cemetery in Mexico.

Our Government Cemetery in Mexico.
Though very few people are aware
OF the fact" said an army officer the
other day, the United States Cow
ernment owns and maintains a ma
tional cemetery in Mexico. 1t is lo-
Gated at San Cosme, near the City Of
Mexico, and was purchased and es-
tablished in the year 1850 for the
purpose of interring the remains OF
the soldiers of the United States who
died or were killed in the vicinity
during the war with Mexico and also
for the purpose Of interring the bod
les OF citizens of the United States
who have died an that vicinity since
that period. WaShiagton Star,
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-02-07
A Rare Ola Book.

A copy of the Koran, now in the
possession Of the Shah of Persia, is
said to be worth s125,OOO. It's
parchment sheets are bound in a
solid gold cover an eighth Of an inch
in thickness, with silver lining
equally thick. The gold cover is
decorated with precious stones in the
form of crescent. One hundred
and nine diamonds, 1877 pearls and
1872 rubies make up the brilliant
decoration. New York World.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-02-07
NEW SHAPES OF DISEASE.
EFFORTS BEING MADE IN ALL PARTS 81 THE WORLD 10
AROUSE THE PEOPLE TO RIGHTEOUS WRATH AGAINST
CREATURES WHICH SPREAD CONTRACTION

The interval which always sepa-
rates the purely intellectual accept
ance OF a scientific discovery and its
real incorporation into the fabric OF
daily life, seems to have been longer
than usual in the case OF those dis
coveries which have to do with the
transmission OF disease. They are
immensely valuable, of course.
Health authorities apply the new
principles successfully in times of
threatened epidemics, and laymen
know, when they stop to think, what
precautions will reduce the likelihood
Of catching this or that disease. Some
few very sensitively minded persons
do try to reckon continuously and
consistently with their bacillus
swarming environment. But no such
prophylactic measures have yet be-
come instructive, like those by which
we protect ourselves against even
some petty Inconvenience. Efforts
are being made just now in many
parts of the world to rouse the Deo-
pie to righteous wrath against GER
tain OF the creatures which science
has shown to be persistent carriers
of disease. This is test OF how far
the new theories have really sunk
in" The task is not merely to fill
the people with an DISCRIMINATING
rage against some particular four
footed or six-footed species, it is to
supplant the whole outfit Of preju-
dices which make us constitutionally
less afraid of the bringers Of mi
crobes than of more material adver-
saries not one-tenth as deadly.
One who would estimate accurate
ly the difficulty Of the task should
make his researches, not in medical
annals, but in those of art and let
tiers. We are not speaking now of
the belief in pestilence as a divine
chastisement, though that has held
mankind for ages. Disease has been
variously incarnated by the magma
ton, but always as figure Of terri
BILE dignity. 1t was the Wandering
Jew who carried the cholera. A
cloud passed over the great city, and
from it an awful hand was stretched
forth to scatter the seeds Of destruc-
ton
The angel of Death spread his wings on
the blast.
And breathed in the face Of the foe as he
passed,
And the form Ct the sleeper waxed deadly
and chill,
And the heart but once heaved, and for
ever grew soil.
Poe's story of the ''MasQue Of the
Red Death" is one Of the best speci-
mems of an extensive literature from
which generations Of readers have
unconsciously gained an idea of the
semblance OF disease. THE figure
was tall and gaunt, and shrouded
from head to foot in the habiliments
of the grave. His vesture
was dabbled in blood and his
bread brow, with all the features of
the face, was besprinkled with the
scarlet horror. A throng of
the jewellers at once threw them
selves into the black apartment, and,
Selling the hummer, whose tall fig-
ure stood erect and motionless with
in the shadow of the ebony clock,
gasped in unutterable horror at and
ing the grave cerements and corpse
like mask which they handled with
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-02-07
The Retort Practical.

Moscheles, the most distinguished
teacher Of the pianoforte Of his time,
was particularly proud Of his staccato
playing. One day, when the hand OF
an American pupil had been unusu-
ally heavy, the musician turned upon
him.
IF the keys Of the piano were red
hot pokers,' he said, you would
never think of allowing your fingers
to rest on them!"
81 guess" the American replied,
dryly, IF they were red hot pokers !
shouldn't touch them at all. -
Youths Companion.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-02-07

50 violent a rudeness, untenanted by
any tangible form" For conceptions
like these, fascinating and Christening
despite their horror, science substi-
tutes what? The figures Of rats ard
mice and such small deer.
In India, where over FIVE million
persons are believed to have died Of
the plague since 1896, the transmits
sion OF that disease is traced through
the rat and the flea to man, and the
authorities are planning a slaughter
OF the rats, in spite Of the serious
obstacle of the natives belief that
their departed ancestors inhabit
those very creatures. In London,
rat crusade has already been begun,
and has the support OF such mon as
Lord Avsbury and Sir Harry joan
ston. Here in New York a commit
tee Of the Merchants Association has
reported that certain diseases in the
city regularly increase and decrease
with the number Of flies in the air,
and is insistent that the fly question
be ecognized for what II is, one cI
the most serious that confronts any
community. The mosquito, OF course,
has long been prescribed, and impor-
tant societies, as well as public agen-
cies, are warning against him.
1t happens to be true that ali or
these disease bearing creatures were
already unpopular on other grounds.
Germs or no germs, nobody liked
rats or mice or flies or mosquitoes.
So far as the average man was con-
cerned, cockroach on tablets rim,
q yellow cockroach was to him, and
it was nothing more. But that was
quite enough to doom the pestifer-
Gus insect. On the other hand, if the
scientists had found that the butter
fly, and not the house fly, was
common carrier of the typhoid bacil-
lus, that the park dwelling, peanut
fed gray squirrel, and not the rat.
disseminated diphtheria, and that
the chickadee brought influenza in
his beak, we can imagine that their
tasks would have been much harder.
Possibly some philosophers may be
profound enough to find the reason
for the very fortunate circumstance
that the already unpopular vermin
are the ones which in strict justice
deserve capital punishment Perhaps
it is merely that the species which
have become domesticated to the
point Of running about through Sur
household arrangements are tho only
ones which have the chance to carry
much infection, and at the same time
are the only ones which bother us
enough. to make us hate them.
Undoubtedly the next few decades
will see some. remarkable work along
the lines here discussed The house
fly, to find a use for which in the uni
verse the interpreters Of the best OF
possible worlds have to invent fables
about sentries being walked up by
impudent flies just in time to repeI
attacks, has had his day A very
little care on the part of large
number Of persons would make him
rare insect. And If to-day the predic-
tions of ratless, mouseless, flylesg
world seem fantastic, the sanitarians
have in the past caused fulfillment Of
prophecies which seemed at the time
quite SO much so.-New York Even
ing Post.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-02-07

In large enterprises the individual
workman, the life and the soul of the
buildings OF olden days, is noM
merged into number, a negligible
unit, working SO many hours pei.
week, in gathering little OF joy FROM
his work, save only in wage-earning.
How seldom is workman now 70 be
seen taking his wife, his children,
friend to look at his handiworH
Architectural Review.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-02-07
SHAKER OPERA cLoAKs.

The Shaker sisters at the Waldorf
Astoria presented quaint and an
unworldly look in the midst of the
gayety and fine raiment there, but
the things they were selling for they
come strictly on business-are beau
tiful enough for any of the women in
that or any other hotel.
They have a large assortment of
Dorothy" or Shaker, cloaks, all
made by the sisters at their COM
munity at East Canterbury, N. H..
These cloaks are after the identical
pattern worn by the sisters who came
from England in 1874 and founded
the community. It was in 1896 that
Philadelphia woman introduced the
fashion Of wearing them for opera
cloaks. They are most graceful, fall
ing in long, straight folds. They are
of imported broadcloth, the more ex-
pensive lined with satin. Delicate
blues, mauyes and pinks, soft gray
lined with the palest pink, and deep
reds and blues-all the colors are
here.
"For if we make for the fashiona-
BILE people," said one placid faced,
gray CARRIED sister, with sigh, "we
must use the colors they like"
other things are for sale, too.
There are work baskets, beautifully
woven. out Of poplar wood by the
brothers, and lined and fitted up by
the sisters. There are pincushions of
all kinds and patterns, and other
fancy articles, and there is varied
assortment of cloaks and other gar
ments for dolls and Teddy bears.
One of the sisters said that they
were not doing quite as well as they
did at the sale here last year. Il sup
pose, she ventured, 1T may be be-
cause of the difficult times with the
banks. New York Tribune.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-02-07

Tourists complain that Japan is
getting to be the most expensive Of
all countries to travel in. Every
body considers foreigners legitimate
prey. $1,000 -.,--------