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Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1909-01-05

Who says We are not great
hearted people when a Macon man
lends money 90 the chap who yhot
MIN, In order that the assaiIant
might pay his fne?-Atlanta Jour
nal.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1909-01-05

Teaching morals to the negroes
by means OF music has the one
drawback that they already have
more music than morals.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1909-01-05

WANTED -Four boarders In pri-
vate family, middle aged men pre-
terable. Reasonable terms. Over
Follansbee's Drug Store. No. FL
Bland street.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1909-01-05
CRUSHED LIME sTONR.

any size made and delivered to tiny
part OF the city at q reasonable
price by w. II. Coffman Coke Co.,
Blueheld, w. ".
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1909-01-05

FOR RENT-Two four room fla.s
with bath on Red Lot, over Busy
Bee restaurant. Reasonable prices.
G. O'Leary & Son. 1O-3O-tf
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1909-01-05

Unless Pennsylvania hurries up
with the punishment of those graft
ers all the others viii die of old age.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1909-01-05

Already that New Years resolu-
ton wears a pa and at,enuated
look.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1909-01-05
NOTICE

I will be In my office at the city
hall at all times betw en- the hours
of nine and eleven O'Clock a. m. and
two and four p. m, and at other
hours between eishS O'Clock a. m.
and five o'clock p. m. when not at
tending to official duties o'.sside of
the ofce.
J. T. AKERS,
City Auditor.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1909-01-05

What would John Randolph say IL
he should come back and find Roa-
noke dry.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1909-01-05

Store room for rent on Raleigh
street. Dwelling for rent on David
soa and Day streets. Apply M. H.
Kelly, or phone II. 12-11-tf
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1909-01-05
TUESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1909

BY the way, has Joe Pulitzer
been sent to federal prison yet?
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1909-01-05

FOR SALE-An excellent re- all
grocery business for reasonable
cash payment and security for resi-
due. Bus ness centrally located.
Address R, care Leader.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1909-01-05

FOR RENT-Six room fat with
bath on Prnceton avenue, near divis-
ion office. Apply e. H. Easley. 425
Princeton avenue 12-17-tf
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1909-01-05

WANTED-Manager for branch
office we wish to locate here in Blue
feld. Address, The Morris Whole
sale house, Cincinnati, o. 11-27-26t
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1909-01-05

buy clean rags at
&c. per lb. Address F. care Daily
Leader, or call in person. 1-2tf.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1909-01-05
J. T.. AKERS,
City Auditor.

A Leader want ad pays. Try It.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1909-01-05
ELkS OPERA HOUSE
WE'D. JAN. 9Th.
COMING To BIUEEIFLO!
FRED {. BROOKS
THE POET HUMORIS1
OF AMERICA

The eminent author, poet, and
humorlst, Fred Emerson Brooks.
VIII appear at Elks Opera House
January 9Th He is a peerless ora
tor, brilliant and dra uatiC. There
Is not lecturer ON the platform
today that IS his superior. AS a
wit and an elocutionist he is superb.
Bring your boys and girls and sweet
hearts.
Under management OF the Public
School Entertainment Course.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1909-01-05
FOR RENT

Four room fiat over Busy
Bee restaurant. $4,000 per
month.
Six room houses on North
side. $500 per month.
Twelve room fiat on Hig-
ginbotham avenue. $4,000
per month.
Three store rooms on Raj
eigh street. between Stewart
street and Hlginbotham ave-
nue.. $4,000 per month each.
Six room house with bath,
furnace and all conven,encss
on Carolina avenue. $22.5O
per month.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1909-01-05
FOR SALE

Eight room house ON Prince
ton avenu. Lot 60x135. Price
$4,250. Terms $4,000 cash;
ba ance monthly payments.
Six TO m houses on north
side, $3.50. to $4,000 on
monthly payments.
Six room house in west
end with electric light
bath, furnace, etc. 100000
Terms $4,000 cash, balance
monthly.
Lots in Eureka Land Com
pany addition. $500 and $3.50
Terms, $40 cash, balance $40
month.
Lots in Hale addition, $500
to 100000. Terms agreea-
BILE to purchaser.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1909-01-05

Telephone: Business office and
Ed torial Room, sos.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-05

it never so much as heats a bearing,
though ii keeps all the time steadily
speeding up.
And do you know that that's a very
curious thing about time--its apparent
variations Of speed? TO different people
Il may seem TO have different rates of
speed, and to different people, according
to their age or TO circumstances, It may
have many different rates of speed all at
the same time, or It may even seem to
have different rates of speed to one per-
son at the same time.
ITO me IL is galloping, fairly galloping,
and the sound of its hoofbeats comes to
me louder and louder this morning with
thoughts of the declining year. Here I've
! hardly got used TO writing 1909 yet, but
before I know it I'll nave to begin writ
ing 1910. Huufh! I wish I could do
something to slow time down. 1t reminds
me of a story.
Years ago, a good many years, there
was a~man in New York who advertised
a cure for something, / don't remember
what, but it was some common affliction
| of mankind, and this cure he had discov-
cred somewhere Off in some faraway
country, and now he wanted 10 commu-
nicate this to the world at large for the
benefit of his fellow men, and he adver-
tised It and he used TO start off his ad-
vertisement like this:
"a retired physician whose sands OF
life have nearly run out and then he
used to go ahead and tell about his won
derful discovery and about how now he
wanted to make It known TO all; and a
man out west who read this advertise
ment and whose sympathies had evidently
been aroused by IT, for the old physician
himself wrote to him 10 say that II he'd
mix a little molasses with his sands they
wouldn't run out so fast.
81 wish / knew just the right sort of
molasses to mix with the sands of time"
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-05
SWIFT & CO.'S NEW HOME
Splendid Plant of Brick and Concrete
Towers to Sky.
LATEST AND BEST IN METHODS
'snnItRtiOn" the W~atchwOrd and
Cleanliness" the War Cry I'm
This Great DIodern scien-
tifIc AbbatOiF.

The latest and best that the science Of
modern sanitary construction knows has
been embodied in the abattoir Of Swift &
Company OF South Omaha. Externally it is
but a towering cliff OF brick and con-
crete. Within, despite the maze Of ma
chinery and process that attend the utili-
cation OF the animal products, the building
Is hardy less simple in the general plan
OF construction, Each Of the six floors is
peculiarly so constructed that they can
be flushed with water over every square
inch n perfectly drained, This is accom-
plished without the use of any guttering.
Each floor IS then a much exagger-
ated funnel. sloping toward the center
from every point. Sanitation that is
the word. Everything in the plant points
10 that one effort-to keep clean, for dirt
and decay mean loss.
This structure was completed in July 'ast,
and has been in use bus a few months.
II Is about the last word when IL comes 20
reinforced concrete construction. The en-
tire building is one sold continuous piece
of artificial stone, There are no cracks
and seams. II is all just one piece. as much
as though hewn out OF a mountain OF
granite.
Mechanically the plant embodies the
fruits Of many years OF experience in the
packing business. An interesting bit OF
economy Is in the utilization the force OF
gravity in performing every possible pro-
cess. The killing is done on the top floor.
under the clear bright sunlight shining
through acres Of glass. From that floor
downward the carcssses keep traveing
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-05
FREAKS OF A REAL CYCLONE
Strange Capers of an Autumn
Thriller in the Interior OF
Tennessee,

Cyclones are not what they used to be
in the old days" complained Colonel A.
NJ, Hughes of Columbia, Tenn. while talk
ing in Washington of the recent storm that
swept his home state.
The cyclone which devastated parts of
Tennessee a couple of weeks ago killed a
large number Of persons; just how many
probably never will be known. But /
haven't heard of any freaks perpetrated
by the storm. Houses were blown dow
and people were crushed to death, but
the storm seemed to spare nothing In its
path.
Ten years ago. when the town Of Co
lumbia was visited by the cyclone which
tore up a large part of that section of
the state, about sixteen lives were losk
in and about the town. After the storm
had subsidized reports of it's peculiar antics
began to come in. On a nearby farm a
house which had been constructed in a
more than usually substantial manner was
absolutely twisted and ground to pieces.
The bricks We're hammered apart and the
timbers were twisted into kindling wood.
Yet within 100 yards a flimsy shack which
was used as a chicken house was left
untouched, A man OF any strength at
all could have pushed It over with his
shoulder.
ION another farm a large tree was
found transfixed by a beam carried from
a house.
"The timber had been shot through the
tree as neatly as an arrow through a tin
target. Why the beam was not shattered
to s~plinters by the terrible impact no one
could tell. But the perforated tree with
the captive timber stood there 20 prove the
story,
"The entrance Of the government arsenal
at Columbia was guarded by an immense
stone pillar on either side. The storm con-
fined it's attention to these pillars They
we're literally torn from the ground and
broken TO pieces. Cyclones of these days
Just 60 around killing people without doing
a single interesting stunt"-Washington
Post.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-05

ucts is assured by the watchfulness OF
a corps Of ~twentyrthree government in
spectors and veterinarians. There is one
expert to every department. The car
casses they reject are destined to the
fertilizer works. There is no appeal from
their decision. They must say whether or
not an animal is fit for food. The
stringency Of their tests becomes the more
apparent when 1t is considered that these
same animals nave passed the examina-
lions Of several inspectors during their
journeys through the stock yards before
they are admitted to the killing pens.
The Swift plant comprises twenty-three
acres Of ground, Of which about a third
is covered by buildings. These buildings
contain nearly thirty acres OF floor space.
giving room to hundreds OF office desks
and buzzing machines,
The power plant alone would be ample
to light a large village. Big, throbbing
engines are delivering about 2,0OO-horse
power. Two hundred and ten kilowatts of
electric energy are consumed by the mean
doscelts and the humming motors. All
this power means the consumption OF
AZ 600 tons Of coal each year-the output Of
a small mine,
The curing processes Of the bacon and
ham departments require $500 tons Of salt
ard 2S.0o1 pounds Of sugar per year.
A distinctive feature of the swift &
Co. organization is the Employees
Benefit association" This association is
a sort Of mutual protective organization.
Zach employe is entitled TO membership
and a vote In the affairs Of the insurance
company. II is conducted under the
patronage of swift & Co. The
company pays all the expenses Of the in
surance organization, Including salaries Of
clerks and officers requirbd. The pack
ing company also stands back Of the in
surauce funds with a promise to make
good any deficit and insure against the in
ability 20 meet benefits due. The insur-
ance offered is graded on a scale which
varies with the value OF the services OF the
insured employe 10 the company. The
fees are but nominai, The insurance ar
forded is for accident, sickness and death.
This feature has proven highly attractive
to foreign laborers, who see In the insur-
lance a protecting sympathetic spirit on the
part Of the employer.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-05

until they tumble out Of the coolers into
the cars below, finished products.
Eyes, gravity is a great help" remarked
John Patterson. general superintendent Of
the plant of Swift G. Company down in
South Omaha. you see gravity can al
ways be depended upon to be on the job
every morning, never tired, never kicks,
nothing to do but work"
At this plant the killing floor Is unique
among the packing plants Of the world.
Each animal is killed on the top floor.
The problems of sanitation attending this
department are solved all at once, in just
one place. Eleven thousand animals a day
can be put through the abattoir.
The loading docks Of the Swift plant
furnish a good study in efficiency. Cars
are loaded there at the rate of one every
seven and one-half minutes Twenty-three
cars can he loaded at the same time at
this dock. Thus an entire train load Of
packing house products can be loaded, iced.
billed for shipment and started on their
way across the continent in about three
hours, That can be done by the regular
and ordinary operation of the system, a
much better record might be made II they
would hurry against time.
There are several acres Of refrigerators
III tne DlB SWlII pant Ihht attract the
attention of the visitors. Just ten below
comfortingly Treasured a guide, who con-
suited a thermometer while waiting for
the elevator.
That happens to be the lowest tempera-
ture needed, they could Just as we'll drop
1t many degrees lower IL desired. Some
miles Of ammonia coils generate the cold,
or more scientifically speaking, absorb the
heat. The cold OF this refrigerator is,
however, altogether too positive a reality
TO be described according to the high
school physics definition as the absence Of
heat.
The big beef coolers alone have a
capacity for nearly 5000 steers. For two
days the side Of beef hangs in the coolers.
Then they are hurried into the freezing
room where under the effect Of the low
temperature they become as hard and
brittle as glass. The beef as it hangs in
long avenues OF rosy pink and pearl
tinted meats IL an appetizing spectacle.
The average kin OF cattle per week in
the Swift plant at South Omaha is 1000
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-05
GoinR to Extremea.

A buxom colored sister approached her
pastor and said: "Brudder %Johnsing, me
an my ole man don't agree at all. We
is all de time quarrelin'. VIII you oblige
me wild some advice?"
The pastor replied: Sister Jackson, has
yo' tried heapin' Goals of fire on his head7'
She then exclaimed: mo, Brudder
Johnsing, but Use tried hot wateT.'-Maek's
National Monthly.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-05

head. As many as 1000 steers a day can.
however, be converted into dressed beef
ready for the table. At the same time an
equal number of sheep can be handled,
while 1000 hogs are weekly put through
the abattoir.
In the matter Of statistics the Swift
plant has some interesting figures to pre-
sent. The single item Of wooden boxes
for the packing Of meats runs into some
thousands Of dollars annually. Seven hun-
dred and forty thousand boxes are used
each twelve months. For the same period
1900 barrels and tierees are required for
packing purposes,
TIL purity and fitness OF the Swift proC-
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-05
FATHER TIME FIRST FLYER
Fleeing Moments Beat IL by speed
Varying with Life One
Leads,

We'll, say! Do you know what strikes
me this morning. said Mr.. Graytop'
"It's the flight Of time.
"Now there's a flying machine that
never gets out Of order, never anything
the matter with It at all; never breaks a
wing or. drops a propeller or gets out of
gasOiene, Just keeps a plugging and a
plugging and a plugging and a plugging.
It's the only real perpetual motion. and
The daily Alaskan., 1909-07-22
UNCLE JOE.

have seen splendid picture of our good old Uncle Joe, in q bout with Jack 0'Brien, who's in truth a worthy foe. have sized up all the scrappers who have fought in recent years, and they're all like selling platers when your Uncle Joe appears. Jeffries once was quite attractive, an his dukes were swift and hard, but be struck the easy places and he's all grown up 10 lard. Good old Fitz Is in his dotage, and he's painful to the view; once there wasn't in the world a smoother looking kangaroo. Nelson, he bane purty handy, he bane best of all. ay tank, but he's always up and humping, wheeling money to the bank. Johnsing is a mighty sol dier who has whipped some spavined vets, but I've never had passion for that style of ripe brunettes. So it is with all the fightrs-there is something wrong with each, till we strike the Danyille Wonder, who Is certainly a peach. He has all the speed and action that a critic could desire, and his footwork is a marvel, and his method full of fire; he can fairly slay a foeman with a sheer of body blows; if you're anxious for statistics, any man in congress knows Walt Mason.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-07-22
ROYAL A. GUNNISON
 ATTORNEY AT LAW p. o. BOX E. JUNEAU ALASKA

the men interested in Alaska to get
 busy: The close of the year shows
 little change in the mining situation of Alaska. More capital is needed in that country and better transporta' the resources of the country. A few good properties are working success fully, but the rest of the gold comes from small prospectors who are mer- ely transient and take the top layer, so to speak, leaving the poorer gravel for those who can afford the equip ment and pay the cost of getting machinery to the place of action. The recent panic really hurt development in Alaska, and probably placed the country year behind what would have shown next year if money had been obtainable. The proper methods have not been used to interest the public in this country, which is really enormously rich in various metals outside of gold.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-07-22
WHAT THE KIDNEYS DO
Their unceasing Work Keeps Us
 Strong and Healthy.

All the blood in the body passes through the kidneys once every thre minutes. The kidneys filter the blood They. work nigt and day. When healthy they remove about 500 grains of impure matter daily, when un- healthy some part of this impure mat ter is left in the blood. This brings on many diseases and symptoms pain in the back, headache, nervous ness, hot, dry skin, rheumatism, gout' gravel, disorders of the eyesight and hearing, dizziness irregular heart, debility, drowsiness, dropsy, deposits in the urine, etc. But if you keep the filters right you will have no trouble with your kidneys.
 w. A. Hawkins, 669 Yesler Way, Seattle, Wash, says: Tt gives me pleasure to confirm the statement l gave for publication some years ago in favor of Deans Kidney Pills as lDS TeueI ODI1LuGu llOLu IuSA N'N has proven permanent. l suffered from an acute attack of kidney rou- tle and though l used remedy after remedy, l was unable to find relief. had the most severe pains across the small of my back and was also annoyed by irregular passages of the kidney secretons. Deans Kidney Fills helped me at once and continue use entirely relieved me. am a great advocate of Doan's Kidney Pills and have recommended them on many occasions"
 For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co.,, Buffalo New York, sole agents for the Un ited States.
 Remember the name-Doan's- and take no other.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-07-22
THE GREED FOR GOLD.

NEW YoR,,.. July ll-"American patriotism is egotism."
 Money is the American god"
 New York city is big, but 1t is not great"
 As Lochinyar came out of the west, comes the Rt. Rev. Charles D. Will Hams, D. D., bishop of Michigan, to hurl from tue pulpit Of St. BaEthOl. Omew's church an exclusive brand of patriotism, of which these utterances are the synopsis.
 The bishop did not hesitate when interviewed, 10 emphasize rather than retract his previously expressed opin- ions.
 America is materialistic, indiyid- ualistic. and innuman," declared pr. Williams. "All We think Cf here IS money. No other country in the world worShips money the way We do Our Congress is run by the trusts an Senator Aldrich. The poor man ha not a chance. We are nothing if not material.
 We are inhuman, and here the bishops voice to0!- a deeper tone.
 Not another nation holds human life as lightly as We do. In Pitts burg last year 1000 human bodies were malmed or killed by accidents from which they should have been guarded. Our laws for the protection of human lie are neither properly made nor properly enforced.
 On laws protecting women ana children, We rank with one ether na- ton. That nation Is Russia. We sit with our hands folded and watch the slaughter of the innocents,"
The daily Alaskan., 1909-07-22
The Douglas Island News says tha

The Douglas Island News says that once in a while good man gets into the newspaper business. Each one of us naturally thinks that Bro. Hopp had us in his minds eye when that mighty truth was penned. Of course he didn't mean himself, because that would be egotistic, and good men are ever modest. No one has ever ac' cused that Juneau bunch of pet Wal lopers of ever being good, and God knows the SkagwPy man is no more saintly than he ought to be if he does print a bible yers" every day. Who is there left? Just Bushel! and the Miner Editor. Its a clnCa he didn't mean Bushell-Ketchikan Miner.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-07-22
:sss::;'::::::1:::::;::t:::tE..:::::::.: BTHE WEATHER MAN IS INCIDENTALLY l
 # OPPOSED TO SPOKANE TOURISTSs
,st.sts;;:it.tzss::..:.s,:,it,t,t,..,,t;,t,,,ss

The result Of the observation taken at Moore wharf at midnight, July 20 1909, Is as follows Temperature time observat'n 55 above Max. temp. preceding 24 hours v above Min. |" " n 50 above Mean e |" n B3l aboye
 Barometer go S6 Fair and calm
The daily Alaskan., 1909-07-22
Home rule for Alaska.
SEND ME BACK MY HEART.

Y PRITHEE send me back my heart.
 Since l cannot have thine. For if from yours you will no: part. 1 Why then shouldst thou have
 mine? Yet. now think on (. let it lie. To find it were In vain. For thou'St q thief in either eye Would steal It back again. Why should two hearts in one breast
 lie
 And yet not lodge together? O love. where Is thy sympathy If thus our breasts thou sever? But love iS such mystery l cannot find it out. For when ] think I'm best resolved Then am most in doubt. Then farewell care, and farewell woe. I will no longer pine. For I'll believe l have her heart AS much as she has mine.
 Sir John Sucking.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-07-22
COMPETENT JUDGES.
Beauty Doctors Endorse Herpiclde

Beauty Doctors Endorse Herpicide. Women who make business of beau :itylng other women come pretty near Knowing what will bring about the best results. Here are letters from two. con- SerninG Herp!cide:
 "I can recommend Newbro's "Herpl- HGc." as 1t stopped my hair from falling put: and. as a dressing it has no super or.
 "(Slgned) Bertha 4. Trullinger
 "ComplcNlon Specialist, "2aIs Morrison St. Portland Ore" After using one bottle of "Hcrpicide" ny hair has stopped falling out, and my ycalp is entirely free from dandrum. "iSiGnCd) Grace Dodge.
 Beauty Doctor, 'TS5 Sixth St. Portland. ore" Sold by leading druggists Send lnc. In ,tamps for sample to The HerpicIde Co.,. Detroit. Mich.
 One Dollar bottles guaranteed. Wm. Britt. Special agent, Skagway
The daily Alaskan., 1909-07-22
FRYE-BRUHN co.
FULL QUART MEASURE

Old Famous Cedar Brook Bourbon Bottled in Bond, well Aged in wood, from the Renowned McBrayer Dis tillery. Full Quart $1.5O, at the Pack Train. If
The daily Alaskan., 1909-07-22

When a strong man armed keepeth his palace his goods are in peace Luke, Chapter 1l-2l.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-07-22
Hunaor and
 Philosophy
PERT PARAGRAPHS.
px pVMcAN NE. .sN4ITK

It is curious world. Some people have trouble because they haven't money, and others have trouble be- cause they have.