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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1910-06-17

Doan's Regulets cure constipation
tone the stomach. stimulate the liver,
promote digestion and appetite and
easy passages Of the bowels. Ash
your druggist for them. Is cents 9
box.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1910-06-17
INCREASED ATTENDANCE
MARKS SECOND DAYS
SESSION OF CONVENTION
MORE THAN TWO HUNDRED DELEGATES HERE
FROM WITHOUT THE COUNTY AND 9TH
ERS COME ON EVERY TRAIN
REPORTS OF THE TREASURER AND OTHER
MApE-NUMBER OF ORGANIZED COUNTIES HAS INCREASED
FROM TWENTY ONE TO sxTYsEvEN-NoRLE WORK DONE BY
JUDGE cARTHEL REFERRED TO.

ties having increased from II to 81
within year, and the number of ban
ner counties having increased to
twelve.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-04-17

property man lost his job somewhere
in Kansas"
A EARY tells me that he was the man
who found Al Adolph Bauer when
- the musicians dementia had over
come him. 1t happened out at the
Cliff house, and the leader of the Tivoli
orchestra met Leary. I'VE had been
looking for him." said Leary, but he
had mysteriously disappeared. When
met him he seemed to be all right for
a little while, and L urged him to come
back to the Tivoli and pick up his baton
never have to work again for said
he, i am now worth $4,000 600
Where did you get so much money! i
asked. thinking he was fooling L won
it on the racetrack,' said he solemnly
and seriously He really thought he
musician and fine soul. Too fine. in
fact, for he wore himself out with his
nervous activities. / remember an ar
gument that we had once; and I've
wondered whether it didn't have some
thing to do with his madness
You're great musician, said | to
him; you can write these symphonies.
and you know all about them. / don't
know a thing about music, and 1 have
no education at all, but I'll bet you the
price of a dinner that I can scribbIe
something in half an hour that will
get more applause than you can write
in week He took the bet. and
wrote the song, We Won't Do a Thing
to SPAIN and sang it that night Poor
Bauer had no chance against the Amer
lean flag, and 1 won the bet, though
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-04-17

tender first. We are in our costumes,
Ted with his long beard and his grizzly
makeup, and l as the young lad of the
play. Mccarthy is disguised as the
Chinaman in One of the Bravest.' and
walk on the stage. Mccarthy glares at
us in blank amazement. 1 says: Where
is that washing that Rip Van Wrinkle
gave you 20 years ago?' Mccarthy
sputters, and the audience doesn't know
but what the speech is part of the play.
I want that Washing l repeat. That
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-04-17

was Ted's cue. and he walks on the
stage and both of us proceed to break
up the laundry shop and the scene.
while Mccarthy faints in a corner.
Then we walk off calmly. pass across
the alley and appear on the Tivon
stage just in time. Mccarthy said
things to us afterwarj which you
wouldn't publish. but he bought the
dinner.
The time when 1 walked on the
stage and shook hands with Nat Good
win? He was playing at the Bush
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-04-17

there's little credit to me in telling
about it.
nHID 1 ever tell you about Charlie
! | BMcCarthy? He was at the Column
bia playing One of the Bravest.'
You remember that the stage doors of
the Columbia and Tivoli opened on the
same aIley-where the police wagon
drives up now Teddy Hartman and
Mccarthy and l were sitting in the
Louvre one night, and were talking
shop, of course. Mccarthy was bragg
ging that nothing could ever upset him
when he was on the stage. In those
days players used to go from one thea
ter to another and walk on the stage
at unexpected moments, shake hands
with the star and walk off, Once
gave Nat Goodwin glass of beer when
he was in the middle of a scene Any-
how, Mccarthy declared that nothing
could ever worry him or make him for
get his lines on the stage. So Ted and
l put up money for dinner that we
could shatter his scene any time we
wanted to. A week went by and we
were framing the job UP on Charlie.
When we thought he had forgotten all
about the conversation in the Louvre
we pulled our practical joke. Charlie
played the part of a Chinaman in the
particular scene at the Columbia that
we had decided to break up. Ted was
Rip Van Wrinkle and / was young Nick
yedder in sthe washington Irving play
at the TivoIi.
We'll, we have long wait after the
third act, and Ted and sneak across
the alless and get into the Columbia,
having liked it, with the stage door
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Newcomb. There wasn't anything to
the event except that hadn't seen Nat
for long time, and simply dropped in on
him in the middle of "a scene. shook
hands with him. handed him a glass OF
beer and departed.
Nowadays everybody takes the stage
too seriously. We players have lost all
our gypsy instincts. We act too much
like businessmen"
Its whole lot better" said Miss
Georgena, than it used to be- Imag-
inc being brought up in the tray of
trunk. like 1 was"
4 EARY came to San Francisco in
1876. He was wood turner and
scroll sawyer and was looking for
job. He came from New York. There
was not much call for his services in
that day. and according to Leary he
was up against it,
Il wanted to be an honest. hard
working man." said he, but fate was
agin me. and I couldn't help being an
actor One afternoon, when 1 was feel
ing pretty blue, 1 met James Webster.
one of the Webster brothers. I had
known him in Brooklyn. n Y,
when 1 was doing amateur stunts. His
partner had left him. and he was look
ing for somebody to work with. Well,
when he spotted me. he lured me to
the footlights easily enough. Wood
turning and scroll saving had not
Il
yield at once. 1 made my debut at the
Adelphi theater. which was in Pine
street near Kearny. The place was
built, by the way, by Cogen and
Cooper, who were the greatest and the
oldest song and dance team in the
country Cooper was the father of
Georgia Cooper My first appearance
was in sketch called The Strike on
the Railroad, which Webster and
played for some time. until he went to
New York. 1 stayed here and became
a full hedged performer.
I'll never forget the opening night
of the skit. There was supposed to be
hand painted locomotive come down
the track and hit me in a convenient
place The man who operated the en-
CINE was either drunk or fOrgetful; at
any rate he didn't show up. and can
you imagine me trying to pull that
scenic railroad on top Of me. and try
ing. meanwhile. to act as though it
were an accident? In the excitement of
the moment I derailed the train; the
locomotive fell over into the orchestra,
and the house roared. thinking 1t was
part of the farce"
X. TRIED to make school teacher
out of her" said Leary, pointing
to his pretty daughter.
"why? 1 asked.
oh" said Leary. Il guess because I
didn't want TO have acting become
epidemic in the family. But Mrs. Leary
and Miss Leary turned me down, and
absolutely refused to take a hand in
my plans. so 1 gave UP. With two
against a man. what can he dor
u want 20 do light comedy roles"
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-04-17

my first boss. He married Emma
Young, who was a daughter of Brig
ham Young by his third wife. We
put on d woody western play one night,
in which I was an Indian. When I
wasn't a thinking sergeant or sitting
in the minstrel show l was an In
dian. was supposed to get
killed in the first scene. ! fell
with mob of redskins and
on my clothes and departed. The next
night Crosby says to me. Where were
you last night?' Here says !. No
you weren't says Crosby You're a
liar says l. I was shot in the first
scene and then I went away. Don't
you know says Crosby, that Indians
have to be killed every act? You
are supposed to attend four funerals
night, and don't you overlook that
important fact
In those days there was a dancing
team called Masters Harry and Char
Iey-neat. refined Irish dancers They
were favorites at the Bella Union.
TN bet Harry Orndorff will be sore"
said Leary, If I identify him as the
Harry of the team. They were a fine
couple of lads were Harry orndorff and
Charley Mcdonnell"
ISIS GEORGENA listened as 1 did,
AN and then complained that dad"
~ was monopolizing the scene. Il
have had some weird experiences on
the stage too" she said.
Miss Georgena was born travelling
Tie circumstance occurred in Fort
Worth, Tex. Her mother was one of
the famous beauties, the Hull twins,
and Dad was along, too They were
playing vaudeville, and the Hull twins,
trimmest. neatest, prettiest pair of
twins in the world, and Miss Hull, who
is Mrs. Leary, is the prettiest of the
two-so Dad tells me.
This is our souvenir of Texas" Dad
broke in, pointing to 'Georgena.
And they nearly burned me up in
Denver, Colo.,7 said Miss Georgena. Il
learned all about it later. Mother was
on the stage doing the angel act in a
melodrama- She was the fairy, the
heroine. was left in the care of the
nurse, who, il seems. had taken a sud
den liking for the property man. She
placed me, bundled up, on a box, and
then fiirted with the idol of her dreams
and forgot all about me. The villain
pursued my mother, meanwhile, on the
stage, and grabbed her, in order, I sup
pose, to kill her. Red fire accompanied
the scene, and the tray with the fire
in it was close to the box wherein L
lay Naturally I fell into it, and ma
turaIy 1 yelled bloody murder. The
scene became as realistic as though
David Belasco had staged it. Mother
heard the hoIler, and evaded the viii
lain's clutches just in time to snatch
me from a spectacular death in red
fire.
What became of the nurse?"
"She was fired next day, and the
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-04-17

EARE-I mean Mr. Thomas +
I.eary-has written a doggerel I
song about dear old Frisco" 4
which lie unloads at the Princess (
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1910-05-04
CLEARING LAND
OF STUMPS

Roanoke, Va. April -. The
economical value of clearing
land of stunps by use of explo-
sives was fully demonstrated
ON Thursday at Ivor, Va.
The exposition was under the
auspices of the Norfolk and
Western Railway, on their
Experimental Farm at tn a l
point, and was conducted by
representatives. of the +. /. du
Pont Powder Company, who
have for the past two years
given these educational demon
strations throughout the coun-
try.
The increasing value of land
renders it necessary that every
acre, especially of farm land,
should be cleared of stulnps.
The reasons for using Du POnt
explosives for this work are
many; first it saves time, the
stump is broken up into pieces
that can easily be hauled off
and burned up, while a stump
machine pulls the stump entire,
involving considerable work to
cut up and haul Off. Every
farmer knows the land under a
stump is the richest in Virgin
soil.
Land with stumps is prac-
tically worthless; clear it up
and you add to your acreage.
The stumps on the railway
farm consist of pine, oak and
black gum, ranging from six TO
forty ty-eight inches in diameter,
and were removed quickly and
thoroughly. About zoo farmers
awaited themselves of the op-
portunity, the demonstration
continuing from 1890 a. m. to
4 p. m. A Doubtful luncheon
was served under the direction
of Mr.. +. A. LaBaume, Agricul
tural Agent, and Mr.. S. NJ,
Geyer, manager of the farm.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1910-05-04

jamestown commission. and
steps were taken to turn the
exhibit over TO the control of
the geological survey.
Efforts were made to put the
exhibit with the commissioner
of agriculture, but a sufficient
space for the combined exhibit
of the mineral and timber
collection at jamestown and
the agricultural products could
not be found.
Delegate Baker conceived the
idea of placing the exhibit in
the rotunda OF the new Library
building and turn it over TO the
geological survey. This met the
approval of Governor Mann and
che members Of both the James
town commission and the com
mission of State geological
survey.
Two car loads of exhibits has
already been shipped and the
remainder will be brought here
early this week and the exhibit
will-be arranged at once.
DIR. Watson says he will place
a competent assistant here who
Will be in charge of the display.
The railroad companies Of the
State Will be invited TO make an
exhibit in the new building TO
toe IN harmony with the States 8
display Richmond Times Dis
patch.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1910-05-04
GOING BACK
TO THE FARM"

In this era of prosperity for
the farmers, when dwellers in
cities are being advised by
many more or less disinterested
persons TO go back 70 the farm.
the advice is receiving the
earnest attention of thousands
who have no personal knOwl-
edge of farming In view Of
both the facts and the theories,
which bear upon the subject,
this state Of things is entirely
natural. The salvation Of
America moral, political and
economic, we are told, lis the
farm, and the efforts of philan-
thropists and we'll wishers of
their fellOwmen should all tend
toward encouraging agricul-
ture " To a considerable ex-
tent such advice is futile and at
variance with the spirit of the
times. 1t is like signing for the
return of the day of the stage
coach IN transportation and
of hand labor in industry, it
would be well If practically all
our population, especially dur
ing the years of childhood,
could spend much of their time
amid rural surroundings. But
in the nature of things the city
is bound TO be the chief abiding
place of even a larger proper
tion of Americans than il is at
present. There are reasons for
the massing of people in the
/ cities, and these reasons will
continue TO operate. Improve.
mcnt of transportation facili-
ties. tending TO promote the
development of suburban as
distinguished from strictly ur
ban centers, is a wholesome
counter-infiuence.--C h icags
News.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1910-05-04
'ElkhOrn Field May
Soon Begin Decline.

be done under difficulties on
account Of the robbing OF the
No. 3 vein which was and il
being mined first. When the
time comes that the price OF
coal increases so that IL will
pay TO mine other veins many
large seams will be opened and
the field will start an altogether
new development It il not
likely that this will be done
while the price OF coal is low
and the No. 3 vein is still an
inducement 20 steady and cheap
mining.
Foreseeing just such emer-
gencies the United States Coal
and Coke Company at some OF
it's operation is mining both the
No. and the No. seam at the
same time, and i'm this way
they will be able 20 get the coal
out from both seams without
experiencing the problem Of
getting out the upper seam after
the mountain has become
weakened by the taking out OF
the lower seam.
The Loop Greek Collieries
mines three seams AT the same
sim. 80, ,l,o s,,.,. ,r,,o-,,. ..l
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1910-05-04
Lioa fondIes A Child.

In P1ttSbufg a savage lion fDndled the
hand that child thrust into his cage. Dan
ger 10 child Is sometimes great when least
regarded. Onen Il comes through Colds
Croap, and Whooping CoRgh They Slay
thousands that DIR. Kiags New Dis
cOvery could have saved A few doses
cured our l-aby of very bad case Of
Group, writes Mrs. George X. Davis. el
Fiat Rock. y. C.. we always give Il "a
him when be takes cold. Its wonderful
medicine .or babies" Best for Coughs.
Colds. La6rippe, Asthma, Hemorrhages.
Weak Lungs soc and si.00. Trial bottle
Tree Guaranteed by J. W Kelly, Druggist
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1910-05-04
DRILLING FOR OIL
TO BEGIN AT ONCE
Machinery Is Expected To Arrive Within
a Few Days President OF Oil
Company Is Here.

The drilling for oil will at once
begin at Jonesville, or in the
Valley west of here, is now an
assured fact. The Cedar Valley
Oil Company has already ship
ped its drilling machinery,
consisting Of several car loads,
from North Carolina, and il is
expected TO arrive at Ben Hur
within a few days.
T. p. Ratigan, of Philadel-
phia, President of the Cedar
Valley Oil Company, and NJ. w.
Marsden, one of the directors
of that company, arrived in
Jonesville Saturday night, and
have spent several days looking
over the Company's leases in
this vicinity. These gentlemen
say that the company will have
an expert on the ground in a
few days who will locate the
exact spot where the well will
be sunk. They were Joined on
Tuesday by Q. Sitgraves, of
Bristol, who is one of the chief
representatives of the company
and yesterday they left for Big
Stone Gap, expecting to return
shortly.
The Cedar Valley Oil Co. was
organized under Virginia laws
last fall by Philadelphia capi-
talists, with "A capital stock of
$50, 100000 and with chief office
at Jonesville. Immediately af-
ter the organization of the
company, 1T began 10 take a
great number of oil leases. be-
ginning with the farm of Cox
Bros, east of Jonesviile, and
extending as far west as Rose
Hill. They were unable to get
their property in shape for
Beginning operation until the
bad weather of winter set in.
but they are now in a position
to begin work, and will do so as
quickly as the machinery ar.
rives and can be gotten ON the
ground.-JonesviIle Star.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1910-05-04
EXHIBIT
TO BE In LIBRARY
aaie Geological Survey 10 Have Future
Control Over IL.

The mineral and timber ex-
pbit of the State of Virginia,
lmiiiarly known as the James
Pwn exhibit, will be in the
Pture under the control of the
|Fate geological survey. 1t will
e placed in the rctunda of the
|brary building.
State Geologist, DIR. Thomas
\ Watson, had a conference
|hth Governor Mann and Dele
PIE w. w. Baker, of the
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1910-05-04
DECISION OF FREIGHT
RATE CASE EXPECTED
Virginia Operators AnsionsIy Await Oui-
come OF Contest before Interstate
Commerce Commission on
Rates.

Local counsel interested in
the coal freight rate case of the
Tennessee kentucky operators
against the Southern Railway q,
stated Monday that no intima-
tiOn had been received as TO
when the interstate commerce
commission will dispose of the
case. by handing down its
decision. In this case the
Tennessee Kentucky operators
charged the Southern with
discrimination in the matter of
freight rates on coal for south
ern points, in favor of the
Virginia operators. They are
seeking a relatively lower rate
to the southern markets than
that given by the Southern and
Virginia and Southwestern, 10
the Virginia operators, either
by a reduction OF their present
tariff or an advance Of the rates
from Virginia
Bristol lawyers figured in the
trial of the case, as counsel for
the Virginia operators, who
strenuously resisted the efforts
TO have the present rates TO the
south disturbed.
Much interest is felt in the
outcome of the case, as 10 is of
great Importance TO fhe Vir-
ginia coal fields, the coal from
which all moves 10 the southern
markets.
The case was argued and
submitted some weeks ago, and
10 was thought that there would
be a decision as early as April
4, but now the matter is IN
doubt. Bristol Herald-Courier.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1910-05-04
MILLIONS IN IMPR0V-
ING RAILROADS

New York, April 30.-Tho
Railroads of the United States
will expend this year more than
$500, 900, 900 in new equipments,
betterments, steel rails, addi-
tional and better equipped
Terminals and the like. If con
ditiors are favorable they will
spend on extensions and inn
provements more than $780,
o.. 900. If traffic conditions
Warrant the expenditure the
Railroads will expend $1,000
o., 900 10 handle the greatly
Increased volume of business.
James J. Hill declares that if
the railroads intend TO keep
mace with the business of the
country they must spend at
least 81, 800, 100000 a year for
fhe next six years for better
ments and equipments. a total
oil 50 900, ,O0o, 900.
The officials of the railroads
having terminals in this city
and in Jersey City are non
cDmmittal "a TO the amount
they will spend in betterments
this year. It is known. how
ever, that the railroads have
placed an enormous volume of
orders with manufacturers and
steel companies for steel rails
and locomotives.
ON the basis OF orders placed
IN during the current year the
foliowing amounts. For 2SO,-
o. steel cars. S255, COO, 900; for
locomotives, on a basis of 500,
o. per engine, Sl09 .44O. 900; for
locomotives, built IN the shops
of the respective companies.
s. s, ,000,OOO Total, 3,040,O00.
The estimates does not ia
clude expenditures for steel
nails improved terminals.
straightening and improving
roadbeds, etc, or even for
Messenger cars. These items,
DC railroad men say, they are
unable TO compute.
w. VI. Corey, president Of the
fnited States Steel Corporation
has stated that in the volume
OF business transacted this year
al records will be broken by
his company. So pressed are
The steel works that rails are
now being imported into this
country from English manufac-
hrers. The bulk of the steel
companies business is derived
ffom the railroads. In March
Ne railroads placed orders for
? 400 steel cars and $50 lOcomo-
tves. In addition to the roads
began the building of 200 en-.
glnes in their own shops. This
shop work has resulted in or
Gers 10 the steel companies for
H. 600 tons of structure steel.
Since the first of the year the
railroads have contracted for
81 900 10 55, 900 steel cars and
I 100 locomotives. Further con-
Faets are pending for 500 to
" additional locomotives,
mcluding 500 for the New York
tentral and Hartford systems.
lhe price of a locomotive varies
BOm $4,000 to $s5 900.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1910-05-04

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