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The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1909-06-02
The BOY and THE FARM.

reers spent their boyhood days
on the farm. But a great many
farm bred boys would haze
been better off aud far more
contented in life had they been
satisfied TO be ga big toad in a
small pond rather than a small
toad in a big pond"
Agriculture is the foundation
OF our national prosperity. To
safe guard that prosperity some
financial inducementm must be Of
terred the farn-bred boy to fol-
low his fathers occupation. The
North Atlantic States farmer
raises 1884 worth of products
from farms averaging 96 acres
each. The South Atlantic States
farmer raises only S4S4 worth of
produce on farms averaging los
acres. The farmer Of the North
Central States raises slO74
worth of products on farms
averaging IA acres while the
South Central States farmer
raises but S53G worth Of pro-
duce on farms averaging I55
acres each. These figures are of
the last census year.
Therefore 1t is easily seen
that the farmer must learn in
tensive cultivation of the soil
and turn from the extravgant
methods of the past. There
should be a fuller scheme Of
public education, but a new
Kind of education adapted to
.he real needs of the farming
people.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1909-06-02
APPEAL TAKEN.

Abingdon, Va, May 27.-An
appeal has been taken by the
defendant in the case of Kirk
vs.. Dotson, which has been
pending in the United States
circuit court at Abingdon for
some years. This case involves
large lumber interests in the
counties next to the Kentucky
border. Cctson sued Hirk and
ether Ohio parties .or breach of
contract. Then this suit was
enjoined by a chancery proceed
ing. The chancery suit was re-
Gently decided in favor of Kirk
ct al, and Dotson appealed. The
record is very large. as the case
has been contested with consid-
cradle vigor by attorneys of
ability.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1909-06-02
Ball Game.

The keokce bali team came
over to the Gap Saturday after
noon and crossed bats with the
local team in a match game on
the beautiful diamond at this
place at $3.50 O'Clock. Notwitb-
standing the fact that Keokee
has good team and the bows
play good ball, the result was n
decided victory for the home
team, the score standing 10 to >
IN favor Of the Gap at the close
of the game.
The lineup and score is as
follows.
Keokee. -Murrin. p; Wood
son, 30: Denny, ib. Barney -:
Baker, II; Filtz, CT; Williams.
rf' Cheshire. Do. Owens. c.
b. s. G.-B. Carnes, If; Wolfe.
10, Wyatt, ss; Potter. 20: A..
Oarnes, 30; Jones, C; Wax. CT:
Kelly, RI; Horton, ..
Earned runs. b. 5. q .: 3
base hits. Wyatt; passed balls.
Jones .. bases ON balls. Horton
3; Mnrrin 3; hit by pitched bali.
Horton j; struck out. by Horton
4; Murrin 4 double plass. Hor-
ton TO Wolfe 20 Carnes. Wolfe
unassisted, Wyatt 60 Potter To
Wolfe; umpircs. Faust and
Blevins; time. l.io.
Score by innings.
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The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1909-06-02
SEN ERE PENALTY.

We often see attorneys get
together and relate 10 each
other the peculiar and jocrlar
experiences they have had in
their professions. Especially
1t Is funny when we hear them
recount the old way Of dealing
Justice 20 an offender of the
law.
Here is one of these old time
incidents that has not been
published for a long time. over
IN Scott county, Virginia. the
nrst court was held in an old
log house IN place called Moe
casin Gap. A few of the settlers
got together and selected a
Judge 10 try all persons charged
with offending the law. A man
had stole a mattock from one
of his neighbOrs, so the Judge
empaneled a jury and the case
was submitted TO them. They
went out and soon returned a
verdict of murder in the first
degree The judge remonstrat.
ed with the jury that the pen
atty was too severe and they
agreed to confine the
man IN another old house which
stood near by one hundred /
iays.-Mountain, Ky, Eagle.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1909-06-02
TOTAL ECLIPSE.

According to the almanac. a
total eclipse of the sun is due
on June II. The eclipse will
begin about o "a. m. and will be
so complete that entire dark
ness Will prevail and chickens
viii go TO rOOst. June Il is
also the date for new moon and
it viii travel right along with
sun nearly ali day, appearing
as a bright little ring.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1909-06-02
SUPREME COURT.

The summer term OF the su
preme court of appeals of Nir-
ginia begun at Wytheville on
Tuesday. Juno I. The docket
rs very a large one, there being
some half "a dozen common.
wealth cases on the docket
among them being that of Eli
Jah Wright. of Dikenson coun-
ty who is under sentence of
death 10y hanging for murder.
Wright killed has man prior TO
the enactment OF the law pro.
viding for electrocutions. and
for that reason he was sentenc-
ed TO die on the scatTold. The
court granted him a writ of
error,and Will review the case.
though that does not mean that
a new trial is to be granted.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1909-06-02
REFUSED A NEW
HEARING

Richmond, Va, May %
The supreme court of appeals
OF Virginia today refused a new
hearing the case of ID. +. Bond
OF Wise county, whose suit for
absolute divorce against his
wife, Mrs. Narca 4. Bond. al
leging statutory grounds, was
dismissed from the trial court
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1909-06-02
PAYING s5oS. 10000 A YEAR FOR Rad
ROADS,

There are 100000 miles #
public roads in this country
Only 5000 miles, OF per cent.
are improved All the rest can
oe fairly described as bad roads.
The waste of oar natural r..
sources, reckless as il is. is
nothing compared to the money
waste brought about by this
condition of our highways.
10 costs the French peasant
an average of i2 cents a mile
per ton 20 haul his produce to
market. 10 costs the American
FARMER an average Of 25 cents
q mile per ton, 100 per cent.
more shan the Frenchmen
During the year 1905 IqO0 haul
ings Of farm produce to ship
ping points amounted 90 be-
tween forty and fifty-tive mil
lion tons weight. The average
haul was 9.i miles. If the
farmers could have done their
hauling over French roads. in
stead of their own inferior ones.
they would have netted S5s.-
500, 900 more on their crops But
all the hauling 90 shipping
points is not done by farmers
by any means. The Interstate
Commerce Comission tells us
that m all something like 25O.-
oOO, 900 tons are hauled for ship
ment every year. The willing
ness TO move this immense vol
ume of freight over poor roads,
as against good roads such as
France enjoys, costs the coun-
try a cool and unnecessary $685.
100000 year.
These figures and facts come
from the office of Logan Waller
Page ths United States Direc-
tor cf Public Reads. If any
body can examine them and
still think that there is economy
Of any sort shape or
dimensions in bad roads we
shall Be interested 70 sea his
line OF reasoning.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1909-06-02

Those attractive women who are lovely
II face, form aud temper are the envy =,
many, who might be like them. A wask
slckiy women will be nervous and irritable
constipation OF Kidney poisOns show in
pimples, bl0tches. skiu eruptions and =
wretched complexion. For al such. Elec-
the Bltters work wonders They regulate
stomach, Liver aud kidneys purify the
blood; give strong nerves. bright eyes. pure
breath, smooth. velvety skin. lovely com
piexion. Many charming women owe their
nesita and besuty to thesn soc Al J. W.
Ks!U's Drug stofo.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1909-06-02
A Tsrnl.ug Rescue.

EcT -asl e. L31u &. C-s1 Wash, vaS
saved .-o-. Q tr.g-t1al 1e4.~ a story -
thrill the world. 4" j bard cold, he wri,es.
brought Oh desperate lung trouble that
oatlied an expert doctor here Then I paid
$40 To si5 visit to a lung specialist in
spokane who did not help me Then I
went 70 California bat without benefit. At
last l used DR.. Kings New Discovery.
T-icn completely cured ne aud now I a1n
cllt-s, Co-g-s an Co.'s. Asthma. Croun
aud w-h0oplng Cough its Supreme. soc aad
81 &c. Trial bottle ffee Guaranteed nv
J. ". -eily Dxuxnst.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1909-06-02
NORTON TO HAVE ANEW MAYOR.

Norton Va, clay 26.-Mayor
Whiteaker has resigned to go
away on account of business
affairs.
Mr.. Whiteaker's successor as
mayor will probably be E. L.
DameTon, general manager os
Thomas Andrews & Company
or j. j Body, general manager
OF the Norton Mattress & Manu-
featuring Company, either of
whom Will discharge the duties
OF Mayor acceptably.
At a meeting of the town
council last night the firm Win
gate ! McGee, of Roanoke.
was awarded the work of
laying off the town and making
a survey preparatory to build
ing a sewerage system and
macadamizing the streets. as
provided for in recent bond
issue of $50, GOO.
We understand that Mr.
Whitaker has decided not To re-
sign and will continue 10 hold
tne office until the expiration of
bis md.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1909-06-02
HOWtOKiNYour Town
Kick.
Keep kicking.

Kick.
Keep kicking.
And don't quit kicking. One
pull one way and one the either
Go 90 other towns and buy
your goVds.
Denounce your merchants be.
cause they make a profit on
their goods.
Knife every man that disa-
grees with YOU on the method
OF increasing business. Make
your own town out very bad
place, and stab it every chance
you get.
Refuse Ca unite IN any scheme
for the bettcrment Of the ma
teriai interests Of the people.
Tell your merchant that Won
can buy your goods a great deal
cheaper in another town and
charge him with extortiom.
Keep every cent you get, and
don't 30 anything of "A public
nature unless YOU can make
something ont of Is directly.
w hen you say anything Of
your town say 10 in such a way
THAT it wiiiieave the impression
that You have no faith in il.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1909-06-02
A STRAIG H0UT
PROTECTIONIST.
Mr.. Slemp Fayors the DingIey Duties
UPoT such Thiazs As Are Produced
in The Ninth Virginia District.

The Washington Post in q
recent issue quoted the Hon G
B. Slemp. representative Of the
Ninth Virginia district. as fol-
lows with reference to his views
ot protection as il relates to the
interests of his district:
Il am for the preservation
of the Dingley tariff schedule
The industries affected in my
district, the Ninth Virginia
which Is situated in the south.
west section of the state. near
the Tennessee and West Vir-
ginia lines, are coal, iron ore.
tannic acid. barytes, gypsum.
and lumber. The people of NV
district are unanimously in fa-
vor of protection of all these in
dustries with the exception of
lumber, concerning which opin-
ION is divided.
"Ihe lowering Of duty on
coal or the putting of that ar
ticle on the free list so as 20 ad.
INIT Canadian coal would put
completely out of business the
coaling industry in Virginia
Kentucky, Tennessee and West I
Virginia as far as the Atlantic !
coast trade Is concerned. Nv
district produces practically all /
the coal and coke that is pro- /
iuced in Virginia.
Baryies in Ballast.
The barytes plants of my
district are in bad shape as il
IS, because of the shipments Of
barry ties from Germany, whence
t Is brought to this country rs
ballast for transatlantic freight
fessels, and as landed in New
1 ork at little or no cost at all. /
our tannic acid industry is Sc
'iously threatened by the i'm
'ortations of that product from
5razil. where it is made from
Iuebacha wood. If the duty
we're taken of iron ore. impor-
ations from Cuba would ruin
he internal pig-iron trade of
.irginia, West Virginia. Ken
ucky and Tennessee.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1909-06-02

No one has ever made salve. ointment
lotion or balm tn compare with Bucklen's :
Arnica Salye. Its the one perfect healer OF
Cuts. Cons. Barns. Bruises, Sores. Soa.ds.
Boils. Ulcers. Ecscma, Salt Rheum- For
Sore Eyes, Cold serce Chapped Hands is
Supxeme. i0tal;sbls Cor piles. O14y ~ st
j. ". Kslfy's Druk Sasf3
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1909-06-02
TENHss srH coal COMPANIES MERGED

Chattanooga. May 2l.- North
ern capitalists have Just closed
a d 2 involving Sl2O, 900.
whereby 1900 acres of coal
lands 20 White county. the
property Of two comUaniss. are
merged. The Clifty Ccnsolidat-
cd Coal Company purchases
the Ciifty Greek Coal q Coke
Company and the Caney Fork
Gulf Coal Company. Develop
ment of the 1000 acre tract of
latter company will be pushed.
The deeds for the transfer have
been recorded at Sparta
The CIifty Consolidated Coal
Company is a Maine corpora
ticn ot $500, c,cCo capital Al
amendment 10 it's charter has
been filed with secretary of the
State of Tennessee at Nash
vile.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1909-06-02
RURAL TELEPHONE FOHS
HORSE THIEVES.

a cool-headed farmers wife.
who knew enough to rush 10
the telephone while her hus
band was exchanging pistol
shots with two horse thieves
near his barn, aroused a posse
that chased the strangers away
and perhaps saved the farmers
life. This little incident. a strik
ing demonstration of the use
iuiness of the rural phone. oc-
Cured Sunday, May lG. at I'm
ION Corners, near East Chester
n. \. John Gruber. a wealthy
farmer, grabbed his revolver
when he heard noises outside
and opened fire on the intrud
ers he saw in his yard. Mr..
Gruber owns some valuable
trotters, and had already been
aroused by the frequency Of
horse thefts in Westchester
County.
Mrs. Gruber immediately
called up Fishers Hotel. I'll
took very little time for Gustav
Fisher TO get out his shotgun
and collect a posse. The men
pursued the thieves, but were
unable to catch them. Luckily |
he bandits did not hit Gruber /
The farmer says he saw a trail |
IF blood leading away from his /
barn, and is certain at least one /
If his shots took effect.
What would have happened |
% this farmer and his wife. had
hey not been protected by the
eiephone, one can only con-
eeture. A bullet would I'M
Ioubtedly have reached Mr.
iruber but for the timely ar
lval or the aid summon over
he "ire. Farmers know the.
a telephone they are
Practically helpless in a case of
his sort. The rural telephone
las outlived the stage where it
las been a luxury, or even
omething very handy to have
'oout the house. 1t is a neces-
lty IN every rural district-for
rejection, for business, for So
Ia lie, AID fcs education.
The great growth of the rural
eiephone's popularity is shown
the enormous sales of
phones. The Western Electric
company, the largest manu-
acturers of telephone appa-
atus in the world, supplying
II the equipment used by the
ntire Bell System, has sold
1ore than $4,000 rural tele-
homes during the past sixty
'aSs.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1909-06-02

again, as n by magic: but des.
troy our farms and the grass
will grow upil the streets of ev.
cry city in the land. William
Jennings Bryan.
If there is one lesson taught
by history, it in shat the per
manent greatness of any State
must depend more upon its
country population than upon
anything else. No growth OF
cities. no growth Of wealth can
make mp for a loss in either the
number or character of the
farming population. Theodore
Roosevelt.
Thus the two leading expon-
.ents Of public life in America
plead against the migratory
movement of the boys and girls
of the farm TO the factories and
the cities. How to prevent this
movement has been a subject
of study by statesman. sociolo-
lists and political economists
for years; but as "a factor of
national Importance it has
never before assumed the pro-
portions that it reaches TODAY.
Contrarily, every effort is be-
ing made TO induce residents of
large cities who are unable TO
get work TO seek employment on
the farms in the west and
southwest. Strange as it may
seem these who, in a great ma
lority Of cases are reduced TO a
state of dire poverty and dis
tress refuse TO leave their
crowded and filthy tenements
which breed diseases with ev- I
cry succeeding day, for "a place
where they can satisfy their I
wants and breathe the pure air
)f freedom.
The situation is a paradoxical /
)ne and well worthy of the at
.ention being given il. IL NAV
be said. however, that efforts
oward the correction of this
'vil can hardly be expected TO /,
meet with marked success for
ears TO come.
Reasons for this are many
'ociologists may advise what I
.ction 20 make the farm bow
atisiied the calling they would
orce upon him. Statesman
nay enact legislative measures
which would make that calling
more attractive; but what can
hey offer the country bov y
which will make his life so !
romising financially as a busi- {
ess career in the city, {
The mistaken idea is preva- y
mt that the farm boy leaves his '
ONE because he is discomfort '
d with his social environment q
nd that his country life does e
OF otfer enough of amusement. a
other words that he is dis f
Nsiled with his home life \
ms IS not true. The farm bov S
ives his home, its surroundings d
ives his parents and it causes
lm many heart aches to leave
iom; he does leave because
? sees IN the city more oppor
mites for commercial and '
nancial enterprises, better a
'clal advantages, more oppor- a
mites for meeting people
nanclally. socially and poll n
'aiiy prominent, and more op- d
'rtunities for making a mark I
the world. ol
Inc desire of the farm boy to Of
Ter commercial life of the city ia
a vast majority of cases, first W
stalled IN him by his parents. OF
''h a natural pride they over
estimate his capabilities and &C
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1909-06-02

The Wise Printing Company
can do your printing as good as
any house in the whole country
at prices as reasonable as any
one else.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-06-19
fOHN DREW IN
JACK STRAW"

Jack STRAW"
Jack Straw" the delicious lit
tie comedy which John Drew
brings to the Tacoma theater
Tuesday night, has a most inter-
esting and unique plot. The
story outlined by the pen of w.
Somerset Vaughan, the author,
is as follows:
Jack Straw, a mysterious indi-
vidual who appears as a waiter
In one of London's swagger ho-
tells, is induced by party of ho-
tel guests to become the central
figure in a practical joke to be
played on snobbish woman. He
is to dress In regal clothes and
be introduced to the lady as a
Pomerian archduke. 1t is the
plan of the perpetrators to intro
duce the psuedo-archduke to the
woman, and then, after she has
fawned upon him for a while, to
disclose the fact that he is merely
q waiter and have a good laugh
. at her expense.
The scheme works out all right
until Jack Straw falls in love with
a daughter of the snobbish wom-
an. He keeps his love secret from
the instigators of the joke, and
when the denoument is due to
break he refuses flatly to have
himself discloved as a waiter. 1t
} the archduke that he has been
eventually turns out that Jack is
pretending to be, and that his oc-
cunatfon as waitar WAS the result
of bet.
The role of the masquerading
archduke is one that suits Mr..
Drew to a nicely. He has sur
rounded himself with a capable
company, including; Miss Rose
Coghlan, Miss Mary Boland, Miss
Adelaide Prince and a score of
others.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-06-19
AT THE GRAND

Onaip, the aerial pianist, will
appear at the Grand next week In
his sensationally mysterious act
an act that has set the wise ones
guessing wherever it has been pre-
sented. At the opening of the act
a Hindu temple Is shown. and a
short Oriental ceremony is intro
duced. A short pantomine is CIV
en-, leading up to the real mystery
of the act. An ordinary upright
piano is then wheeled upon the
stage, and a whfte-flanneled youth
begins to play. His music is filled
with discord, until another man,
dressed in black and of austere
mien, walks on the stage and
|hypnotizes him. When the young
man falls under the hynotic influ-
ence. his music becomes perfect,
and at the same time the piano
begins to rise from the stage. The
pianist rises with it, his stool re-
naming on the floor, and when
they have attained a height of
eight feet the whole thing COM
mences to revolve. All the time
1.-THE player is turning out one tune
after another. The climax is
reached when the piano turns
completely over, and when it be-
gins to revolve at the rate of 40
times a minute. Finally 1t sinks
to the stage, the pianist is placed
ION his stool, and he walks off
larm-in-arm with the hypnotist.
The entire act is given with the
lights full up.
"An Easy Liar" is the title of a
humorous sketch to be given by
Frank Bacon and company.
The Mink and the Mixer" by
Seymour and Hill, comedy aero
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-06-19
AT THE PANTAGES.

Three tiny trained elephants
will head the Pantages bill next
week, the act being one of the
most novel and peculiar of the
many new Pantages features. The
elephants are known as elias
cocks troupe" and the little fell
lows stand on their heads, do the
do head-balances and
many other things that an ele-
phant would never be expected
to accomplish. Little Mike,'
leader of the trio. walks back
wards and forwards on a row of
upright ninepins.
The Buch Brothers promise a
clever acrobatic take-off. The
scene represents the deck of a
ship, and the men are clad as sail
|ors. Their work consists of &C.
centric bounding on an elastic
net. Despite the burlesque of the
act, the duo have several sensa-
tional and difficult stunts.
Harry Van Fossen, late of the
AL. G. Fields Ministries, is on the
bill for a monologue.
Roberts, Hayes and Roberts
will be seen for the first time
here in their laughing success,
THE Cowboy, the Swell and the
Lady" The act consists of sing
ing, dancing and burlesque. Six
costume changes are made during
the act.
Princess Wladeneroff will ap-
pear in Hungarian and Russian
costume, singing native songs.
She will also give selections on
the mandolin and xylophone. She
has three costume changes, end
ing the act with the famous Rus
sian dance in typical costume.
Bert Vincent will have a popu-
lar song next week, and the Pan
tagescope will present two new
films.