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Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-05-20

Mrs. w. j. Hutton, of Davidson
street. underwent a very successful
operation at the Bluefeld Santa
rum yesterday and is reported rest
ing well today.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-05-20

A. j. Dalton, of Powhatan. is here
today.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-05-20

J. o. Kelley and VIM j. Myers.
OF Portsmouth. o.. are stopping at
the Atamont.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-05-20

Kiln Dried Laths-Pinc, Pop
lar, Hcmlock. Standard dimcn-
siOns.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-05-20

Hon Harry NJ. Smythe of the Po-
eahontas Headlight. is in the city.
He will resume publication as soon
as his health will permit.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-05-20

Mrs. j. c. Dixon ana son, Clyde,
left today to attend the commence
ment exercises of Virginia Chris
ian College at Lynchburg.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-05-20

c. j. French. a civil engineer Of
Narrows. Va, is visiting friends in
the city
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-05-20

Wood Fibre or Patent Plaster,
Virginia, Imperial Brand,
Wheeling, also Calcinc Plaster
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1908-04-02
Our Company.

| A clever young man, who was
not making progress to which his
talents and industry seemed to en-
title him, went to a much older man
for advice. "The trouble with you,"
said his friend, sis the company
you keep. You associate with
young fellows who know as much
or less than you do. The result
is that you give and get little or
nothing in return. You grow only
when you are deliberately working
at growth, whereas you ought to
grow fastest when you are appar-
emily merely enjoying yourself"
To associate with those who are
less than ones self is both easy
and satisfactory to ones vanity,
but is beyond question a waste of
time. And it encourages man to
DC content with cheap trlumphs--
a spark makes a great showing in
a dark room.
The theory that the only relax
atoms for the mind are things
bordering on insanity or imbecility.
the theory that to be serious is to
be dull; to be purposeful is to be
priggish-those are the inventions
of the lazy for their own excusing
and for making for themselves as
much as possible of that company
whereof misery is proverbially fond.
Saturday Evening Post.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1908-04-02

God bless the cheerful people
man, woman, or child, old or young,
illjterate or educated, handsome or
homely. What the sun lie to nature,
what God is to the stricken heart.
are cheerful persons in the house
and by the wayside. They go un-
obtrusively, uDconsciously, about
their mission, happiness beaming
from their faces. We love to sit
near them. We love the nature of
their eye, the tone of their voice.
Little children find them out
quickly, amid the densest crowd,
and passing by the knitted brow
and compressed lip glide near, lay
ing a confiding hand on their knee,
and lift their clear young eyes to
those loving faces. "A. A. Wilt.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1908-04-02

| Audrey closed her eyes and
murmured enigmatically:
perhaps I would have been
afraid fit was different" Anxiety
was in her voice when she con-
tinued:
/. "What will Aunt Hester say to
me? She sent me over here to
town on an errand and that is how
l saw the accident, and them .
her voice trailed off into silence.
She dressed quickly, and after
thanking Blair for her kindness
she passed into the store. As she
came out, Berriman, who had been
waiting there, stepped towards her
eagerly.
Audrey was all he said, but
the gratitude in his eyes spoke
with more eloquence than ever did
a silver tongue. Together they
walked down the sloping road
leading to the river valley. As
they left the outskirts of the vii
lage, Berriman spoke, his face set
with apurpose..
Audrey, there is something l
must tell you. 1 should have told
you before now, but I thought ;"
he paused In perplexity, dismayed
at the task he had undertaken.
Around them the dawn had bios
somed gloriously. The river flushed
softly in the morning sun, trailing
like an orange-tinted ribbon into
thedistance. A shy breeze strayed
up from somewhere and touched
the waves of her hair. She faced
Berriman. her attitude betraying
her knowledge of, and at the same
time fearing what his sympathy
hesitated to reveal.
"You wished to speak of Quinten
BurgessP'
He nodded, a feeting surprise
in his face.
ooh, you need not tell me. At
first when I helped him off the
rock last evening he said some
absurd things" and she looked
away from him, "but by the time
we reached the bank he was q
little delirious. He talked ofmany
things-of his treasure of the mist,
and Of" she shrank back a little,
"Wilhelmina," she whispered.
He stared at her an instant and
then blurted out:
"Tell newly did you risk your
life to save Quentin"
Her eyes dilated. Then she
lifted her head proudly.
Because II don't think I'll
tell your
And she was gone the wooded
curve in the road shutting the
slight figure from view.
Berriman stared after her and
ct is all too late"
ITO be continued.)
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1908-04-02

Prisoner at the bar said the
magistrate. "for the crime of over
speeding you will pay fine of $40
or be took to Jail for ten days"
"That's not q correct sentence, :
murniured the prisoner Philadel-
phia Ledger
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1908-04-02
Out Of the mist.
II Short Serial Story.
BY G. II. w

there will be Margaret Shaw anc
Ruth Terhune for the Milliarc
sisters. aud John Moree for Porter
Brown. The only trouble, you
see, is to find some one to be Louise.
"Let's see," Dysart broke In
"Louise is the heroine, isn't she:
She is too tragic for Blair and toe
sensitive for Ruth or Margaret.
Blair might do, but"
! "Yes, but Blair is to be Marie
Sheldon. Didn't You say you
wished that part, Blair?" appealed
Barden.
II wouldn't do for Louise, Harry
thinks; so Marie is the only thing
left. You have settled all the rest,
Bard" and Blair laughed softly.
Then a little frowning line creased
her pretty forehead-and smoothed
away again as she triumphed:
'I'll tell you've thought of
some one to take Louise. She
lives down on the Shaw farm
you've both seen her. She comes
to church every Sunday with Hes
ter Shaw. [ saw her down by the
river once and she looked more
beautiful than any one I had ever
seen before. If we can just get
her. What is her name, daddy?
Is che a relative of the Shaws?"
Joe leaned forward, rubbing his
hands together, and nodding:
'"That girl is Hester Shaw's
sisters child. Her name is-what
the dickens is it?-something that
sounds queer"
"Aint 1t Audrey?" Barden put
in.
Audrey! Audrey! That's it.
Blamed funny name, [ think"
"But her last name, daddy; what
is her last name?' repeated Blair.
Passelton hesitated moment,
then muttered:
Never had any that I ever heard
off,"
Did the last, faint passing of
the sunset glow red for an instant
on the girls face?
SWELL, anyway we want her"
"How tragically you say it, Blair;
[ never saw you SO serious before.
[ think it makes you look prettier
than ever. Of course we want
her." and the young sohoolmaster
laughed little confusedly.
saw, I say Dysart," bawled a
voice from the doorway, "come
here"
"Wonder what that old shank of
a Randall wanted with Dysart,"
Barden meditated audibly.>
Huh? oh, he's loony Teller"
Blair looked up quickly.
"You don't mean Mr.. Dysart,
daddy?'
Didn't say anything bout Dy-
sart, but I don't like that crazy
Randall"
Don't you, daddy? 1 thought
you liked everybody
"Hey there, Passelton! Joe Pas
selton!' the voice was rough and
excited now.
Joe got up slowly.
"What in tarnation ails the fell
low" he grumbled.
Barden inpatiently watched his
progress to the door. When the
hugh form had passed outside, he
turned to Blair eagerly:
"Blair, you know what I told
your"
"Oh don't i like you, Bard:
I've told you SO; but I don't love
you"
"But you could learn to, Blair
She shook her head.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1908-04-02
CHAPTERI ".
IN TELL you we can do it al
The clerk leaned atr 81

the counter and emphasized
the words IN tone of mild excite
ment.
Passelton's store stood at the ex
treme end of the one long ram bling
street, but this fact did not place
It at disadvantage as one nigh
suppose. In winter the snow
about "Uncle Joe's" door wal
always packed hard and dirty by
the tread of many feet. Winter
and summer alike, Joe Passelton
fat and benign, dealt out the bits
of village gossip from his throne
on an overturned soap box. 'Uncle
Joe" was a character-a character
that made one imagine he was on
leave of absence from the pages OF
a popular book. He had estab.
lished, he would proclaim, sort OF
"telepathic persuasion" between
himself and his one clerk, Barden
Haywood. At rare intervals, when
Barden received one of these word
less commands he would walk
,coolly to perch on the nail key
and accept IN unconcerned silence
the torrent of wrath poured out by
his employer, after which perfect
friendship reigned again. This
"Uncle Joe'' explained as ''con-
tract tween Bard and me so 1
won't fall into the endless rut of
complacency. 'Taint good for a
man to get so fat he can't cuss
once in while. I want Bard to
stir me up occasionally
In the years gone by "Uncle
Joe" had married, but his wife
proved to be woman who stirred
him up" to occasionally, finally
DESERVING him and her little daugh-
ter Blair. But Joe only grinned
and grew fatter. and when a solicit
Gus spinster attempted to unbur-
den her sympathy for him, he held
up deprecating hand:
Nov, don't you worry, Miss
Bangs. You know what the Good
Book says, 1T is better to be a
chimney sweep than to live with
woman in brawling house. Now
doft you just worry bout Mrs.
Passelton a-fying the coop. I'm
getting along fine-God bless her."
And "Uncle Joe" expressed his
appreciation of Miss Bangs show
of compassion by inviting her to
sample the freshness of new
case of cocoa-nut waters.
But it was very evident that he
worshipped his child. She had
grown up in the store, and her
presence, as she sat by her daddy's
side on the long soap box, her
curly head against his arm, had
been felt as an unconscious check
upon the boisterousness of the
crowd that assembled there. As
she grew tall and slender and the
light of knowledge dawned with
the sweetness in her eyes, this in
fuence did not lessen. She came
less often from their rooms back
of the store now, but this May
evening she sat by her fathers
side, in the last warm sunset light
glowing thru the open door, listen
ing 10 the conversation between
Barden, the clerk, and Harry Dy-
sart, the village schoolmaster.
Haywood leaned on the counter
combing his fingers thru his waves
of fair hair. As Blair was the vii
lage belle SO her fathers clerk was
the beau of Wiscoy, and prophecy
had long linked their names to-
gether.
81 tell you,' Barden was saying,
eve can do it all right. I've looked
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1908-04-02

claiming:
"What is the matter, Mr.. PASSED..
Ftonp''
"Uncle Joe" turned away from
the crowd:
"A couple of city chaps tipped
over up there at the rapids. One
of them was lodged on that big
rock in the middle of the river and
they cay he is badly hurt. I,
seems nobody saw the fools but
that girl Audrey. we was talking
about. She took old Burns skiff
and went out and got the fellow
off the rock, and pretty near got
drowned for her trouble. The
other chap got to shore all right by
hanging onto the bottom Of the
boat, then he tainted cause his
arm was sprained. Sherwood is
going to bring them back to town
in his rig" and Joe waddled back
to his seat on the soap box, adding
as an after thought:
''Lots of young fellows get cap
sized in the rapids of'this life just
because they don't have sense
enough to stay out of 'em. There
was Smiths daughter member
Mary Smith? The serpent told
Mother Eve she could have the
apple, but when one of them chol-
lies came down here from the city
one summer, his breath soaked
with 'Sin-Sin,' he just gave poor
little Mary a bit of hot air and she
up and skipped off with him. It
wasn't long till she wrote back and
wanted to come home again but
her father has never forgiven her.
l hear she still writes every little
while, but he don't answer. That's
why him and me don't speak. If
somebody had just warned the
poor girl against trying to paddle
her own canoe in those raging
rapids, p'rhaps she would a.still
been happy"
In the kitchen back of the store
a half hour later Blair was urging
her hospitality upon Audrey.
ooh, you must not go; it is going
to Storm and as she spoke fash
Of lightning went zigzaging across
the sky while ominous rumbling
was heard off to the north.
"Stay with me tonight"
Blair put her arm around Aud
rey's waist and together they went
into the store. Her fathers ques-
:ioning glance followed her as
Blair drew Audrey into the cosy
shelter of her room.
When the dawn crept into the
room, Audrey awoke, frightened
rom her dream of the twisting
waters. As she lay there, staring
mt at the reddening sky, the sense
If wonder grew in her heart; and
t was not until Blair came softly
nto the room that she remembered
where she was. q
care you awake, Audrey" and
IS Audrey's eyes answered with a
'mile, Blair sat on the edge of the
bed, taking dark ringlet Of her
quests hair in her fingers and
it idly about them.
"You have beautiful hair" she
aid admiringly. IL was so inter
'sted last night forgot to tell you
ny name; it is Blair
ooh, I know" Audrey antici-
,ated eagerly; "you are Mr.. Pas
elton's daughter. I have seen
'ou quite often when I came to
hurch."
She was looking up expectantly,
nd Blair, divining the question in
Ter eyes, said:
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1908-04-02

Lawyer-"And did this gentle
man never shave your"
Witness ssNo SIR
Lawyer-"How do you know
that he never shaved your"
Witness-"Cos no gentleman
ever shaved me; I have always
shaved myself. Toledo Blade.
care you really looking for
work."
Yes, indeed, ma'am."
"What would you do if you were !.
to find it'"
''Send word to my brother,
ma'am."
''Where does your brother live?'
In Japan. !" Ex.
Graham guardian., 1908-03-13

The movement on foot to pre-
sent the name Jesse r. Grant to
the National Democratic Conven-
ton is not likely to meet with sue
cess. Mr.. Grant has no political
claims on Arizona that would al
low the Arizona delegates to bring
him forward as q candidate, and
50 far as we can see, he is really
only the candidate of the New
York World, and no doubt repre-
sents the class of democracy that
the World Is seeking to oppose
Bryan. Mr.. Grant is certainly not
the favorite son of the Southwest
any more than he is the favorite
son of California, where he sought
the nomination for United States
Senator. The Democrats of Ari-
zona have better material in their
native sons if they wish to bring
forward u candidate, but it is a
foregoue conclusion that Mr.. Grant
will not be taken seriously, and
the New York World will have to
seek another candidate.
Graham guardian., 1908-03-13
Notes from Eden

Misses Nancy Marvin and ZelIa
Curtis visited Thomas the past
week as guests of G. d. Stephens
and wife.
The Bryce Base Ball Club are
regular visitors in this part of the
valley, and their contests with our
boys are very interesting.
d. o. Colvin leaves in the near
future for Globe, and from there
will 90 to Pine Top, to visit his
parents.
jamie Blair and her little sister
were down from Hubbard, Mon
day of last week, visiting with Mr..
and Mrs. Will Blair.
Eden has taken on a cottonwood
craze, Hundreds of these trees
have been set out, and in the near
future we expect to have shade on
every side and plenty Of it.
Death cast its shadow of gloom
and sorrow in the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Joseph Martin, of Eden, on
February 18th, when their two
year-old son, Deval, departed this
life. Their sorrows were added
to when on February 26th, anotb-
er son, Monroe, four years old,
died. Both children died from
membraneous Group. The grief
stricken parents have the sympa
thy of many friends.
Graham guardian., 1908-03-13
Hot Springs Notes

G. G. Criss and Ira Barker are
preparing for another trip to the
mountains in search of large game.
Fl. B. Bryce, of Bryce, will accom-
pany them as guide.
Leslie Colvin, of Eden, met with
u painful accident February 25.
While riding, the horse stumbled
and fell, breaking a bone in the
young mans leg. DR.. Claypool,
resident p hysician at the Springs,
is attending the young man and
reports him doing nicely.
The famous guano deposits at
Batvllle, few miles from Indian
Hot Springs, are still creating
much interest. TEe owners have
standing cash offer for the place,
but the price Is below their con-
sideration. Recently, a Los Ange.
les expert examined the caves, and
made a report which brought the
owners a large cash offer, but they
have not, as yet, closed the deal.
Andrew G. Alexander has just
completed large lake, a few hun.
dred feet from the swimming pool.
The lake is quite an improvement
and adds much to the beauty OF
the grounds. The old fish pond
has become quite crowded with
catfish and Mr.. Alexander will
stock the new pond Immediately
In another year, he expects to be
able to supply the tables with fresh
fish from these ponds. The fish
thrive well in the mineral waters
and the flesh is firm and of good
flavor. Mr.. Alexander started the
fish industry about eighteen
months ago. At that time he re
ceived two hundred small catfish
from the government. At the
present time there are thousands
large and small, IN the old fish
pond,
Graham guardian., 1908-03-13

The Commercial Club of Phoe-
nix is making good headway in
the matter of adjusting freight
rates with the different railroads
entering Phoenix. The campaign
against rate discrimination is be-
ing pushed by f. A. Jones, a for
mer railroad man, who understands
freight rates thoroughly. The
Santa Fe is now at work, through
its freight and traffic department,
making an investigation of the
charges made by Mr.. Jones of dis
crlmlnation against the Salt River
Valley in favor of coast points,
and no doubt the rates will be ad-
justed in the near future. The
credit for securing better rates will
be due to the business men of
Pboeniq, who organized club for
the purpose, and the same thing
can be done IN the Gila Valley,
with the assistance of the Globe
Board of Trade, if the business
men would get together and take
up the matter of rates and seek ad-
justment. A Board of Trade is
sadly needed in this valley, and
one could be easily organized if the
business men of tho valley were
alive to their interest.
Graham guardian., 1908-03-13

election are better than they havo
ever been and many of the Repub
lican leaders are already conced.
ing it.
Mr.. Bryan can be trusted to do
the right thing and his enemies
and his pretended friends will net
be able to force him out or coax
him out of what he considers is his
duty.-New Haven (Conn.) Union.
Graham guardian., 1908-03-13
MARCH l3, 1908.
A DIFFERENCE OF OPINION

EDITOR GUARDIAN notice in
your last issue this statement: "As
a State Arizona would select from
its own citizens men to fill the
public offices which are now given
to broken down politicians, who
are passed their usefulness in their
own States, but have to be placed
in payment for their work for the
party leaders, who have influence
with the Administration"
Mr.. Editor, that statement is not
fair, either to the Administration
of Theodore Roosevelt, nor to the
clean, high.minded and able people
who are now Arizona's federal ap-
pointees, and you wrongfully in
sinuate that they are not Arizon-
ians. Governor Kibbey has been
here for twenty years, and so has
Secretary Nichols. Judge Sloan
came here when scarcely more than
a boy, and Judge Doan nearly as
early, while Judges Nave and
Campbell are thorough Arizonians
and were permanently located here
long before appointment. Judge
Kent was appointed from another
State, but he is the very aDtipodes
of a "broken-down politician" and
is making us one of the most COM
petent chiet justices this Territory
ever had. Joe Alexander, the
United States District Attorney, is
an Arizona product, and Marshal
Daniels has been here long enough
to be Hassayamper, while both
the register and receiver of the
United States Land Office are old
timers in the Territory.
/ would like TO see Arizona be-
come a State, yet to-day we are
having better government, admin
istered by cleaner and better men
than two.thirds of the States in the
American Union. Our courts are
the best in the inter-mountain re-
gion at the present time, both for
high-mindedness and legal acumen,
and to-day Arizona is governed the
best that any Territory of this Ma
tion ever had was governed, and it
hardly looks right, and certainly is
unappreciative, to speak of the diff
ferent officials as you have done.
Your statement was true of the
long past, not of the immediate
past, nor the present.
Very sincerely,
GEORGE III. CROSBY, JR.
In answer to Mr.. Crosby we will
sta.e that the article in question
did not refer to Governor Kibbey
or the members of the Supreme
Court bench mentioned by him.
The article wished to point out the
Graham guardian., 1908-03-13
THE SYSTEM" AT WORK

The movement on foot to ellml-
nate Mr.. Bryan from the Demo
cratic nomination has been secret
ly planned for some time. 1t came
into the limelight at the meeting
of the Democratic National Conn
mittee in Washington last month.
The people engaged in it bolted
Mr.. Bryan in 1896 and 1900, and
wouldn't vote for him If he was
nominated in 1908. Ninety per
cent of the Democratic party is in
favor Of the nomination of Mr..
Bryan at the Democratic conven-
tion in July. In our judgment he
can poll from one-half million to
one million votes more than any
other Democrat. If Mr.. Bryan
cannot be elected, in our humble
judgment, the Democratic party
cannot elect anyone.
The same tactics arc being pur-
sued as we're pursued In the pre-
limiuary campaign in 1904. The
system, or interests, desire to
nominate the candidates of both
parties. They believe it to be
cheaper to select the nominees
rather than have the Democratic
party nominate a man like Mr..
Bryan, whom they cannot control
and who, if nominated, the chances
at present are very favorable to
his election. What troubles them
is not the defeat of Mr.. Bryan, but
the fear of his election.
The rank and file of the Demo
cratic party will never again sub.
nit or surrender to the conserva-
tive or reactionary element who
care nothing for principle and are
in politics for what they can make
out of it. The malcontents having
come to the conclusion that they
are unable to secure little over
one-third of the delegates to the
Democratic National Convention
and that Mr.. Bryan will be nomi-
mated in spite of everything they
can do, are now sending out an
appeal to the good nature and
patriotism of Mr.. Bryan to with
draw from the nomination in order
to save the party.
The people engaged in this move
ment are not the friends of the
Democratic party or Mr.. Bryan,
Mr.. Bryan is not seeking the nom
nation, and if two-thirds of the
delegates assembled in the Nation
al Convention, vote for him, 1t is
a duty incumbent upon him to ac-
cept the nomination and make the
fight. The loyal men of 1896 and
1900 demand this of him, and the
enemies of Mr.. Bryan from within
and from without, should have no
influence whatever upon him in
deciding upon what he considers
to be the right, and when he has
made up his mind in doing it re-
gardless of consequences.
The schemers having been toiled
in their attempts to force him out
are now endeavoring to coax him
out. Mr. Bryan's duty is plain,
and that is to abide by the decis-
ion Of the representatives assem-
bled in the National Convention.
There are but two things that will
prevent his nominations: First,
death; second, bls refusal to accept
it. The nomina ion is forrgOne
con clusiOp, and the chances for