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The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1917-03-21
Practical Farm Cooperation.

Practical Farm Cooperation.
This is admittedly nn age Of
improved machinery AMI adj
vnnccd methods in farming
No longer is it possible for the
man who farms by the old
method aud with the old tools
Of our fathers to compete With
his more progressive neightor
lf he undertakes it he is sure to
go down in defeat
But right at this point
the advocate OF odvanc-
ei methods and improved ma
chinery il met with staggcr-
ing opposition. Thousands Of
small farmers tell him point
blank that they can not afford
the great outlay of money nee
cssary to stock their farms with
the latest labor saving implo-
ments.
Anu u Is ,he solemn truth,
They can't afford it, 1t would
bankrupt them TO undertake it,
What, then, is the nnswer?
One word -Co-opcration, CO.
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The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1917-03-21
Miss Corrinne Taylor Weds
in Graham.

Miss Corrinne Taylor, the
Oldest daughter of Capt. and
Mrs Henry Taylor, Of this
place, was married in tho
Episcopal Church at Graham
last Sunday evening to Mr.. A..
Il Sexton, Of Pittsburg, Pa, in
the presence of Mrs j T..
Littlewood, of Toms Greek, and
Miss Miriam Taylor. of the Gap,
who accompanied the bride TO
Graham, where she was met by
the groom, who had position
with the Virginia Iron, Coal
and Coke Company at Toms
Greek for several years.
The ceremony was performed
10y Rev II a Rich OF the
Episcopal Church, of Graham.
Mrs Sexton was married in a
beautiful bright blue velour
travelling suit with gold trim
mlngs, with gold colored shoes,
gloves and hat, and wearing a
corsage of yellow rose buds.
Immediately after the cere.
mony MIR. and Mrs Sexton left
for Pittshuyg, where he has "a
good position and WHERE they
viii make their future home.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1917-03-21
All But Three States South
to Be Bone Dry" After
June.

Atlanta, Ga, Mich. l7.-lnto
only three states in the south
Florida, Louisiana and Texas
may liquor in any quantity be
imported legally for personal
use when the postoiiice bill con
tanning the Reed bone dry"
amendment becomes effective.
They alone have retained local
option"
Congress, by its action in
adopting the Reed amendment,
makes absolutely the statewide
prohibition legislation of Viz
lginia, North aud South Caro-
lima, Georgia, Alabama and
Mississippi Thus they join the
bone dry" states, Arkansas
and Tennessee, which already
had enacted status forbidding
the importation of liquor.
The Florida legislature at its
biennial session in April is cx
pected to adopt II resolution pro
viding for "a referendum on
statewide prohibition, although
there are only five ont of %
counties in the state where
liquor can be sold legally. Dry
forces in Louisiana are prepar-
ling to fight for a statewide bill
at the next session of the legis
lnture in 1918. About half Of
the Louisiana PARISHES are now
dry
Virginia became dry only on
| November ! last, although the
people had declared prohibi
ton by 10000 majority at a re-.
fcrndum in September, 1914.
The prohibition law passed by
the Legislature in January 1916,
permitted every head OF a
household to receive a shipment
OF one quart of whiskey and
one gallon Of wine or three gal
Ions of beer month. Sale and
manufacture within the state
were prohibited.
North Carolina became a pro
hihitton state ON January i.
l9o9, after the people had rnti.
fed a statewide bill by a ma
lj2rity OF $4,000 "a, a referendum
election in May 1905.
The legislature passed law
IN l9l5permitting any iudividu-
al TO receive one quart Of wins
key or wine aud five gallons of
beer every fifteen days.
South Carolina adopted pro-
hibltlon 10y a referendum vote
IN September, 1918, after hav-
ing had a dispcnsary system
since 1891 The law permitted
each to receive a gallon Of eth
err whiskcy, beer or vine a
month.
Georgia has been classed as
la dry state since JAlutrv l.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1917-03-21

I SSUBScRlBERS are earnestly re.
questcd to observe the date
printed on their address slips,
which will keep them at all
times posted us to the date
of the expiration of their sub.
scription. Prompt aud timely
attention TO this request will
save all parties a great deal of
ANNOYANCE.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1917-03-21

Legal Blanks
For Justice Of the
Peace.
We have the most Complete
set Of forms for use by lusticcs
oi The Peace of any house III
Virginia. Our prices are
rs cents per Hundred
OF an assortment of blanks.
Cash with order which can al
ways be filed promptly. All
Ways order BY number.
So.
Warrant Of Arrest
commitment 10 Answer Indictment
'Illlcale OF Commitment for Trial
NI1lii''ment until Fine and Costs aIt
b commitncnt FL, ,,o,,-,.....
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49, i''s'hAi sIhg nom Jail, upon
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-03
LAST OF THE ssCHARACTERS''

birdshot when he was consul at Mozam- bique and wished to emphasize his disap- proval of her taste in bathing costumes Col. John A. Joyce, with his military soft hat and his mane of white hair roll ing down on his shoulders, he who used to beguile his leisure by driving Ella Wheeler Wilcox into spasms of indigna- tion at stated times by asserting with solemnity that he had written her poem, Laugh and the World Laughs With You" The outraged poet has never seen any fun in the situation to this day, and perhaps Joyce himself did not.
 Some of the lost tribe of Characters. are remembered with nothing but amuse- ment, some with tenderness and the mirth whose fountains lie close to those of tears. Edwards and Bledloe were of these last. Stricken down five years ago with a frightful malady whose issue was sure and painful death, Edwards faced 1t with a laugh, and for five years he died dauntlessly. He had laughed all his life. and he laughed to the last; he went to the dark tower like Childe Ro- land. It was gallant death, a fitting one for the man who was to end the century-old book of the "characters' of Washington.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-03
NORTH DAKoTA,s SAD CASE

From the New York World.
 To the devoted suffragists who per- sist these cold days in picketing the White House gates the folly of the women of North Dakota must appear al- most criminal They have tamely ac- cepted at the hands of the state legisla- ture the right to vote for all except con- stitutional offices. After July 1, next, they will vote, on the same terms as the women of Illinois. for local officials. for representatives and United States sem ators and for presidential electors. Only 10 weeks ago North Dakota rejected a woman suffrage amendment to the state constitution. Now 1t has enfranchised nearly 5000 women by legislative act. and they submit to it!
 If the women of North Dakota were worthy of the cause, they would not tol- crate the outrage. If they were awake to the glories of martyrdom, they would hurl back in tho face of the state legis- lature and Governor Frazier the new privilege acquired at the hands of a mere state. The noble example of the leaders of the Congressional union has been in vain
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-03
A MAN

By Thomas Hardy. In Casterbidge there stood a pile, Wrought with plaster. bay. and balus-
 trade In tactful times. when shrewd Eliza
 swayed-
 On burgher. squire and clown It smiled the long street down for near
 mile. But evil day beset that domicile; The stately beauties of it's roof and wall Passed into sordid hands. Condemned
 to fall
 Were cornice, quoin, and cove, And all that art had wove in antique
 style. Among the hired dismantlers there One till the moment of his task untold When charged herewith he gazed, and
 answered bold:
 "Be needy I or no. I will not help lay low house so fair. Hunger is hard But since the terms be such, No wage, or labor stained with the dis. SIHCo
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-03

poorer showings than that-Arkan- sas, 46,O0O,00O Mississippi, 49,00O,- 900, and Louisiana, 45,00O, ,000. Texas was the only southern state that made bumper crop in 1916-150, ,000, ,000 bushels. Tennessee came next with S9,000,000 bushels; Georgia next with 65, 5,O00,0 900. There is no reason why Alabama should not lead all the cot ton states next to Texas.
 With anything like seasonable weather Alabama should come close to the 10O,0O0,O ,OO0 bushel mark next summer, and with that line once crossed it should be easy to come for ward with another stride and achieve reputation as the south's best corn and cattle state. Less cotton, but more economical cotton and a record breaking corn crop should be the rule in Alabama. The farmers will un- questionably increase their corn acre. age.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-03

From the New York Times.
 6NHE old Washington is no moro. It may have seemed an insignificant S thing when Shoomaker's disap- peared from Pennsylvania avenue and Hancocks closed It's doors, but those things were symbols, like crepe on the door, Washington has changed its char acter, which is to say that the old Wash ington Is dead and new one begun. "Th' new kind" as MT. Dooley said of a world without alcohol, may be betther; but it'll be diff rent, an tn wurruld will be a sadder an & safer wurruld to live in."
 The last of the characters" of Wash ington died few days ago, and with the passing of that famous tribe the meta morphosis becomes complete. There is no ! room for them in the Washington Of to- day, but they have flourished there since the presidency of Jefferson, and were feature of it's life duplicated nowhere the men who were pointed out to you on the street under that title, just as were I the monument and the capitol. For 100 years, if a character" died there were always plenty more for 1t was a self
 renewing institution; but they have been
 dying off with no successors for the, last few years, and when Charles Edwards ''of
 Texas"-the name was never pronounced
 without the suffix-died last week, a chapter in the development of Washing ton was closed.
 l .eWhen Bill Sterrett went to Washing
 ton" said Col. R. M. Johhston once. "he made a great stir as the typical wild and
 woolly westerner, and made what seemed
 granite reputation. But when Charley Edwards arrived, he hadn't more than got off the train and hung up his hat
 before everybody was calling Bill effemi- nate" He had helped Brann make the | Iconoclast; he had imbibed his philosophy | of life under the tutelage of Eugene
 Field. He wore an immense black som- l brero and sweeping black mustache, 1 and once, in the Senate gallery, when he whispered, as he thought, to a neighbor, a capitol attendant came down and touched him on the shoulder, saying:
 "Shouting is not permitted in the gall lery, sir"
 It was a sight for the gods to see him and that other famous character" pr. Bedloe. when Greek met Greek; Ed wards and Bedloe, storm and sunshine,
 a cyclone and summer day. with rap- turous crowd instantly congregating for the collision of fun and wit. Coarse
 humor, sir, coarse humor," was always Bedloe's final and conclusive rctort as
 he walked sunnily away. Tom Ochiltree belonged to the era of both, was a friend of Bedloe's; he died in eclipse. long re- moved from Washington. but he out lived old John Chamberlin.
 Congress contributed its quota to the same era of "characters;'' Private John Allen. Belford, the Red-headed Rooster of the Rockies, and many others But
 these congressional characters were not quite the same as unofficial characters. There was old Judge Riley pacing down
 the avenue all stateliness and touch-me- i nottishness he who won fame by pep Ipering the Queen of Madagascar with
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-03
A~lEzMM1@anefH
AN ENTERTAINING COLUMN

From the Montgomery Times.
 The column on the editorial page of The Birmingham Age-Herald over the signature of Frank Willis Barnett is very entertaining. In the issue of January 30, MT. Barnett wrote a most readable ar ticle on his impressions of the way the Italian girls could dance. MT. Barnett spent great deal of time in the old world and being keen observer did not fail to make the very best use of his opportunities to see everything.
 The column of MT. Barnett is one of the most pleasing features of Birming- hams great morning paper, and Ed Bar rett displayed keen business judgment when he made arrangements with MT. Barnett to give his experience of Euro pean life to the public. It Is lending spice and snap to the editorial page of that paper, and the public is thoroughly en- toying the bright pen of the newly-ac- quired staff writer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-03

Of wrecking what our age cannot replace To save it's tasteless soul I'll do without your dole. Life is not
 much!' Dismissed with sneers he packed his tools
 and went, And wandered workless: for 1t seemed
 unwise To close with one who dared to criticise And carp on points of taste. To work where they were placed rude
 men were meant. Years whiled. He aged. sank. sickened
 and was not; And 1t was said. "A man intractable And curst Is gone" None sighed to henr
 his knell.
 None sought his churchyard place; His name, his rugged face, were soon
 forgot The stones of that fair hall lie far and wide And but few recall it's ancient mould. Yet when pass the spot long to hold As truth what fancy saith: |"IIis protest lives where deathless thinss
 abidoi'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-03
LUKE M'LUKE SAYS

Many a husband wishes he could boss his wife the way her two-year-old son can.
 Tho woman who marries a man to re- form him may lack for other things in her welded state, but she never lacks for regrets.
 As recently as year ago there lived a 1s-year-old Princess who didn't sass her mother But she was so old-fashioned that the angels carried her away.
 A girl may be prettier than you think she is. But she is never prettier than she thinks she is.
 Your time is mighty valuable when some other man is doing the talking. But it is different when you are doing the talking.
 When a man happens to make some money out of a lucky guess he never gets done talking about his good finan- cial judgment. After you have rummed around the world for awhile you discover that il isn't cold weather that gives most peo- pie cold feet. The surest way we know to keep your. self from exceeding the speed limit is l to pay as you go. Girl babies and grown women are alike in that as soon as they get what they want they want something else. There are lot of other mysteries. But
 why does pretty girl imagine that daubs of carmine paint enhance hel beauty? | Every husband may not be in love witf his wife. but every husband is in lov' with his wife's husband. | Somehow or other you never hear mer
 thanking the Lord that they have nor.
 than they deserve. Men are just as cowardly as women The only difference is that the womer
 admit that they are scared. | A man gets his clothes made to fit hi.
 form. A woman gets her form made tt fit her clothes. | Many prohibitionist is chronic ailer because he knows that when he is ail
 ing his doctor will prescribe 2 littlt
 whisky.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-03
HOTEL LOBB1Es
No Bucket shops Here

q can't for the life of me under stand how Commissioner Arlie Barber has it in his head that bucket shops exist" said Commodore" J. D. Orcutt yesterday. "The state and federal statutes make 1t impossible for such an institution to be run and the deal- ing in futures is absolutely legitimate. Any person, having procured an or der for cotton. has the right to demand the cotton to be delivered and the actual delivery will be made.
 "As regards placing a high license on the cotton buyers and brokers, those of Birmingham pay as much as in any other city in the state. I thought that this situation was so well understood that no question could be raised"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-03
No Need to Hunt Them

T am no longer a believer in pos sum hunts" said Judge A. H. Benners, flor last Tuesday morning a friend came to my door and told me there was some kind of an animal in tree in my backyard. I expected to see 9 wild beast, but instead, perched on high limb, was a full-grown pos sum.
 VT called few neighbors and to- gether we managed to get him by saw ing off the limb. The animal had no collar or chain on 1t and I am con- vinced that it came from the woods from the rear of my residence on Huntsville avenue, in thickly popu- lated district.
 Tt beat anything I have ever seen. I have often wandered all night and caught only one possum, but I will never do it again. And the best part of 1t all was the eating. It certainly was great"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-03
Weather Crowded I,obbies

The travelling man who could spend Friday in Birmingham was lucky at that" said H. J. Cryer. T guess there were more travelling men here than on any day for long time. The hotel lob lies were crowded, and 1t really looked like a convention. I can tell you one
 thing, I was mighty glad I didn't have to go out on the road.
 '"They tell me that over in Mississippi it was hard to get around at all. Cold
 weather's all right; but when it comes
 up suddenly like this, it gets next to a person, and mans mighty glad to have nothing to do but loaf around the hotel lobby, guess.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-03
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
PROGRESS.

Whats become of the old-fashioned girl who used to blush every time per sons limbs were mentioned in her pres ence?"
 "oh, she occupies seat close down in front when her daughter, clad in veil and happy smile, does an interpretativt dance for sweet charity"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-03
IN NO HURRY.

rYour self-control is remarkable. You have been trying to get that telephone number for about 20 minutes, yet you have not lost your temper"
 Don't give me credit for being patient until you know the facts in this case. I've been trying to call up my dentist and tell him I would be down in a few min utes" PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-03
The end crowns all;

BEGINNING THE DAY Lord, Thou showest Thy love in giving ThyseIf to men. The very jewels of Thy nature Thou seekest to share. Thou keepest not even the purity of Thy heart nor the gentleness nor grace of Thy hand. but wouidst give them away. Thy passion Is to destroy Thy distinction and make us like Thyse1f.-H. M. F.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-03
A HIGH PRICED MAIL CARRIER

From the Providence Journal.
 Who wouldn't be a government mail carrier at a salary of s4s.5oo! But mark the attendant conditions: the carrier is to use an aeroplane for round trip twice week between Nome, Alaska, and a mining camp nearly zoo miles distant That means he must travel more that 15o0 miles week, many times under conditions of extreme att |mospheric severity. Whether forfeit will attach to any failure to keep to schedule is not stated in the brief an- |nouncement of the proposed arrange ment.
 If the contract between the govern ment and this avaitor IS signed ne will be the best paid person in the public service except the President. But even so, how many of us envy him his "lucrative' position2
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-03
roo MUCH COMPETITION

From the Talladega Home
 An ingenious German has patented a machine for stringing beads. A costume for an oriental dancer can now be made almost in the twinkling of an eye.-Bir- mingham Age-Herald. Oriental dancer The little lady from the orient is hay. ing quite tussle to keep in a class by herself nowadays.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-03
ON 5000 A YEAR

From the Duluth Herald.
 A letter carrier in Indianapolis worked
 30 years on an income of 5000 a year or
 risen as high as $12Oo year.
 Yet this man today says that provi- |dence has been kind to him; and well he may say so, for this is what he has done: He has reared and educated family |of four boys and two girls.
 Three of the boys and one of the girls have been through college-in part, no doubt, by their own efforts, though the parents deserve credit for so rearing them that they were willing and able to help on the college expenses
 The three boys who went to college are all civil engineers with good positions. and the girl who went to college is teacher of physical training. Two of the boys helped build the Panama canal. One of them was in the engineering division six years and is now an examiner in civil engineering for the United States civil service commission at Washington. The other was with the Panama rail- road eight years and is now in Alaska with the United States Alaska engineer ing commission. Tho third boy is assist ant superintendent of maintenance and right of way with an important railroad. The youngest boy didn't go to college, but did get all the common schools could
 give him. and has splendid position as
 managing salesman with great corpor- ation. The girl who didn't go to college took high school course and remains at home with her father and mother. | Every child born to this family got a fair start in life and is doing well. The home from which they emerged into the world is the kind of home of which the foundations of the republic are built. And 1t was all done on 5000 year!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-03
WHEN WIPES FACE IS SLAPPED I1rorn tha Nav York World

WHEN WIPES FACE IS SLAPPED From the New York World.
 The position of MT. Holt and his asso- ciates in these International proposals Is precisely like that of an individual who in private life should demand that if a ruffian slapped the face of a decent mans wife and If the decent citizen promptly knocked the ruffian down, the peace league should, in the interest ot the ruffian, attack the man who ob- jected to having his wife's face slapped Theodore Roosevelt.
 From Theodore Roosevelt's point of view the human race is divided into three classes:
 l. Wives whose faces are slapped.
 2 Men who slap the faces of other mems wives.
 g. Husbands who personally avenge the skipping of their wives faces.
 Yet in spite of the authority of MT. Roosevelt, we venture to think that this is not the sum total of human rela- tionship, and that it might even be pos sible to provide an international code which contemplated a milder calamity than an immediate world war in the event that the face of ones wife was slapped, which usually it Is not.