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between Big Stone Cap and St. Paul, twenty-one miies from either point, on the line of the Clinch Valley Extension of the Norfolk
ocatecl mlC,W^estern Railroad. Three Great trunk lines of Railway practically at her doors, the Norfolk & Western, Louisville & Nashville
and Charleston, Cincinnati & Chicago; thus affording shipping facilities and cheap rates
to all parts of the country.
. . . sUrrounded by 6.000 acres of the fine t coking coal in the South, which
{l] j)C vwrked by the facoma-Mining and Transportation Co.
?j ), .. property carries a ten-foot vein of superior coking coal.
Th( first lots were sold the 10th of June. Over 500 lots have been sold by the
>mpany to date. ?
Street grading is progressing rapidly, bridges are being erected, and a number of
stores and dwellings.
The place is surrounded by the best forest of timber in Virginia.
.Two hundred adres of beautiful flat land, with abundance of water and railroad
sidings, to be given away as factory sites, and free fuel for five years, less the cost of
mining, to all manufactures.
\ laiye ?rick Plant, capacity 40,000 per day. in operation. Finest clay in the
outhwest.
Several lan'e le ases for mining coal and making coke will be let in a short time.
|. , hanije and Deposit Bank, capital $50.000.
Complete Planing Mill and Wood-Working Machinery in operation.
A large Saw Mill, 15.000 feet per day.
Waterworks, being constructed.
A substantial Hotel of thirty rooms will soon be completed.
The Contemplated Site for the New Court House of Wise County.
SUBSTANTIAL AND SOLID TOWN, BACKED UP BY ENTERPRISING INVESTORS AND A PROGRESSIVE COMPANY, COMPOSED OF
WELL KMOWM BUSI?TESS
There is no safer place for investment in the South than Tacoma.
OFFICERS 2
ff, E. HARRIS, President. J. C. STAMPS, Vice-President. F. A. STRATTON, Treasurer. W. T. MILLER, Secretary.
For full information address HARRIS & HARRIS, Special Agents, Tacoma, Va., or W. E. HARRIS, Big Stone Gap, Va.
DE COW CARRIED A BILLY.
H>W UM) niLI. MORGAN WAITED
LOXG KOK RKVKXGK.T1IAT
WAS sWKKT.
InlM-tirear's Confession ?rv?lthWhleh II?
l.ahl A?Wl?* on OcemtlouH.
Tol.r Greilr had whipped cvctv man,in
foiusctt county. To some men fighting
liav )?? only a recreation, hut to Tobe it
fas a necessity. Once he awoke at mid
light, und, unal.lv to go to sleep ugain,
tossing ami groaning.
?What's tliu mutter, Tobet" Iiis wife
I dunno; I um all out of sorts."
in't you tliiuk it's hecaxe you ain't
?il nobody lately?"
that's the very reason."
11, <in up an' wimp yo' brother-iu
llien go to Bleep."
[ol op. whipped his brother-in-law,
Minn thru slcpl like a-sycamore log.
\m T.vlic hail whipped old Kill Morgan once i
? k for the past ti-i? years. Bill. |
in, lv elastic in disposition, did not
ipe; lie took boxing lessons of the '
ircuil rider; and then, with great |
invited Tohe to whip him.:
lid so; and then Bill mounted his
marc, rode over lo Mount /.ion meet
louse and "whaled" the circuit rider
ihhtg boxing under false pretenses.
iiit;lit during a heated revival in !
[Tohe was stricken with conviction
Iding to the entreaties ->f his wife,
up to the mourners' Irnich ami
;J his repentant head on the white
i oak Klali. He pound forth n stream of
^lamentation?declared after the manner
Bit' n great apostle that lie had been a chief
Binioitg sinners, and vowed that it' the
??Lord would exercise His merciful pardon- '
ling power. In would, every year contribute ;
I In sheep to the religious Itarliecue, and I
Would refrain from lighting to the liest of
Ihis ability. Suddenly he sprung to his
Jcct nr<Ldeclared that his sins had been
* rrat with ? lender baud, and that he
ypurcl to meet his friends that hud
ifore, an<l that any man in thecon
V-n might cnjo\ the privilege of
liiiu a horse-thief without incur
(danger of beiug tliuni] ail.
till Morgan was particularly de
Vvith the conversion, and after
hands with Tohe, turned to a
ititd remarked: -1 have j?ot him on
fcirfp now, an' I'll hel you a Imll-tougnc
ipw an' a set of rope gear that 1 whup
jiin l>efor' the week's out."
Tohe wn.te out a coiilVasion of faith on
jdece of paper hag, and carried it in his
?et. At night when he would
,d led that he must whip some
slccplcssly on his wheat straw
Uld reach over, gral.l.le his con
1 of his pocket, read it over,
lew of long-green tobacco, ami
? llloug as Kest he could. OllC !
i, lile he was milking a blue-look
hat wore u mischievous wink, old
up to the fence,
[her Toi..." said he,"] think the
me to whup you have come."
iu reckon it have?" Tohe replied,!
;,.ose the blue cow's milk nozzle *
ng a drop of pale milk from Iiis
ud.
'low so."
:ght," Tohe responded, and tak ng '
ssiou of faith from his pocket !
it on top of the lVuee, placed a
Vi it and said: "Faith in things
been an' air yit to come, rest
maul this sinner."
He climbed over the fence anti few
moments later Bill, with " stitch ??? his
sid<- and a sciatic disturbance of i ie h r?.
1 limped toward his humble dwelling '?
1 nexl evening when Tobe was ngiih. ? 1 ing
a few drops of milk from the blue cow,
Bill c ame up to the fence and said: " T< i
to be enjoyin' yo'sc'f putty well."
j "Yas, reasonably so Have you g-ii
'well?"
"Not exactly?still got ? shootin' pain
in my hip."
"Did you come over fur a elost 'scocia
tion with meV"
"No, I'm about as well acquainted with
you as 1 keer to be. 1 'lowed tint after
fessin' 'ligiou you moot be a leetlc mo'
tender in yo' manners, but I find out that
you hain't. You didn't git a very st-ong
dost, did you?"
"Yas, strong enough for all practical
purposes. When I hatter tight a man I
jest lay my faith aside. That's the reason
1 writ it out on paper."
"Wall, some day 1 mout meet you when
you kain't git it outen yo' pocket in time
an' whup you like puttin' out a lire."
? That mout be, but I'm powerful quick.
A man that kain't make his religion handy
oughtenter have none. When a person
finds that his religion is sorter crowden'
him, w'y he's mighty up' to turn it loose."*
"Yas, 1 reckon that's so. 1 got three or
IV sorts liofo' 1 found one that fit me
right well. 1 tried one sort over on Ter?
rapin Hill an' several down in the swamps
an' none of 'em stuck till I got a holt of
the sort that they shoved out down at
Bugg's meet in'-house. 1 reckon I'm all
right now."
"Think vou've got enough to last von,
ehr*
"Yas. I think so. My wife, sometimes
thinks I'm a leetlc sorter shakey an' holds
her love off I'rum me at a putty cold de?
gree, but I go out an' git her a mess of
turnip greens along with some co'n bread
so hard that you could hit a hoirid in the
side with it an' make him howl fur a week
or so. an' that smooths her down might'ly.
What- did you git that ar cow?"
"Bought her frum old man Beers."
"Purty good cow', is she?"
"Yas, she do putty well. Sometimes
she don't want to let down her milk, but
1 git a-feucl* rail an' punch her in the mile j
till she turns it loose all right."
"Do you allus milk?"
"Yas, I do the milkin' all the time."
"An' you never do let yo' wife milk
none?" **' *8rt?
"Never a tall. Thar air some cor s :-iat
wimtnin folks kin milk ??' again that
air others that they;k*tn't tcck V
got ter skeer a cow when want* ,o
milk. Ef you don't skeer 'em i ev lot
down the poorest milk they've got. I am
a great milker me. I jest nachulally
skeer a cow into cream. I bought a cow
frum a feller wunst that didn't give h-tnn
in' hut what they call Blue John. I ar
gyed with her a while, but she kep' on
givin' Bine John. 1 got tired one day an'
lammed her a time or two with a rail an'
then you oughter seed the milk. It was
mithin' but cream."
"Do this here cow all.is switch her tail
tluserway?" Old Bill asked after a mo?
ments silence.
"{>h. yes, specially in fiv time."
"Don't it hurt you when she hits vou in
the lace?"
"No. for I am so ustcr it."
"Wall. I must go now. Good-bye.
Whenever 1 think I kin whin you I'll
come over agin." '
j "Do ef you please, an' you'll.aUus find
Faith" Ut 6rahb,V m*' Confession of.
The next evening when Old Tobe went
t. milk Hie blue cow he noticed that she
I appeared to be nervous and disturbed
. about something. He spoke to her gently
i at first, hut when she began to toss her
: head he reminded her of the fact that he
I had often beaten her from a disposition of
j skimmed milk into a willingness to give
cream; but when he sat down on his one
legged stool to strip the milk from her re?
luctant udder, she struck him on the head
with her tail and laid him out. Old Bill
Morgan dropped down behind a neighbor?
ing log and roared with laughter. That
morning he had caught the cow in the
woods and, in an ingenious manner, had
fixed a chunk of lead in the bunch of hair
at the end of her tail. Om: P. Reap.
(irowth of Manufactures.
(From Trade and Truffle.)
The trade statistics for of the eleven
leading manufacturing industries?cotton,
woolens, chemicals, paper, agricultural
: implements, lumber, flour, glass, iron and
j steel and shipbuilding?are so complete
I and accurate that they anticipate the cen?
sus reports, and furnish an instructive
j indication of the progress our entire in?
dustrial system has made in the last
decade. These eleven industries in 1H79
had $l,l(i5,000.000 capital invested in
theui, and S44,770 hands employed; they
paid out in wages $:25h',795,000, consumed
$1,197,000,000 worth of raw materials, and
showed a gross product of manufactures of
the value of $1,774,000.000. In 1HH9 they
had $1,7S4,740,?M)0 capital invested, anil
1,^74,000 hands cmplopcd; they paid out
in wages $350,089,000, consumed $1,570',-'
000,000 worth of materials, and gave a
product of manufactures of the value
of $:i.:>93,779,000. The increase has been,
in capital invested, $<>! !>,740,000; in the
number of hands employed, 439,?!4; in
the umouut of wages paid out, $93,894,
000; in the materials consumed, $397,000,
000, and in the value of the product turned
out of $.') 19,779,000. There is over 5JJ per
een!'. more capital invested in the specified
manufactures than there was ten years
Bgoj 50 per cent, more hands employed;
owr 30' per cent, more wages paid out;
over 30 per cent, more material consumed,
mid nearly 30 per cent, greater product.
It is not believed that the growth of
these eleven industries has been excep?
tional; many new manufactures huye btfen
established in the last decade, and there
are reasons for believing that the country's
whole system of industries has shared the
prosperity exhibited-by the eleven here
named. Assuming that this is the case,
!tnd making an estimate on the basis of
the figures of 1880, we have the following
exhibit of our manufactures for 1890: Cap?
ital invested, $4,185,000; number of hands
employed, 4,050,000; wages paid per an?
num, $1,279,000,000; value of materials
used, $4,414,000,000; value of product, $0,
979,000,000.
It is difficult to grasp the full meaniu'g
of these enormous figures; nevertheless
they give us some idea of the marvelous
growth of the country's manufacturing in?
terests between 188? and 1890, and they
show, further, how rapidly we are ad?
vancing to the front, of industrial inde?
pendence under a policy that secures our
home market to the products of our home
labor.
"Why, Maud! what on earth is the good
of your trying to get a position as a cook?
You cau't even boil a potato."
"No, but I can swear like a trooper and
abuse delicate ladies, and 1 have plenty of
biceps to assault inoffensive 'husbands;
Boil a potato? Good heavens, child!
you're away behind the age^?Judge.
The ?ulhnl.
[K. Ii. Weeks in Harper's Magazine.]
Throughout India people will make pets
! of any animals that can lie induced to
i contribute to their entertainment. We
I noticed in Delhi that the average small
boy, as well as children of a larger growth,
exhibited a particular fondness for a cer?
tain little bird of ashen plumage and
black crest. This was the famous bulbul
of which Hafiz has so much to say, and
some Western poets also who have senti?
mentalized about the Vale of Cashmere
without even having seen it. He is
usually tethered by a string attached to
his leg. and sits upon his owner's finger
or hops about on his arm; sometimes too
he adorns a tall perch in the front of the
doorway. A lady at the. hotel remarked,
"that if was touching to see how fond
these poor people were of their little
birds." The mystery was soon solved.
Returning from a drive one afternoon, we
passed the colossal gateway of a groat
mosque, and saw that the broad and tow?
ering flight of steps before the principal
entrance was covered with scattered
groups of people, all intent on some occu?
pation of absorbing interest. So vast
and imposing was the architectural back?
ground that the crowd of little figures
suggested one of Martin's weird pictures
of the Judgment Day. Some great relig?
ious ceremony was evidently going on.
So we got out, deeply impressed, to obtain
a nearer view, when, behold, in the center
of each little group was a pair of these
birds in mortal combat; and they fought
as pluckily as the bravest of game fowl,
and breathless was the interest shown.by
every spectator, whether street urchin or
shawled and turhnncdmerchant.
A SABINE LOTE STORY.
111 ust ruling the Effect of Gentle Force On
'Woman's Sweet Nature. -
Here is a cute little story from the
French of Catulle Mendes. Not a pretty
word, perhaps, but tlien she said it so
prettijy!
She was a sweet little thing, and when
she put her hands on her hips, lifted up
her saucy little face, and, looking at you
with half-shut eves, emitted this pro?
voking-monosyllable, it flew as straight'
and swiftly to its murk as any shaft in
Cupid's quiver. And just because the
little minx>as perfectly conscious; of tlje:
effect of "Pshaw!" she uttered it on.all
public occasions.
"She said "Pshaw!", to everybody aud
without any apparent reason, but * there
was one to whom she said it more fre?
quently than to anybody else, and for the
very best of reasons. For he loved her,
and she pretended that she didn't love
him, und bo for a long time "Pshaw!" was
all the answer the poor fellow got to his
sprayers and protestations.
"I love voui"
"Pshaw!"- *
"I would give my life for a kiss from
your lips!"
"Pshaw!" said she, bringing her laugh?
ing face still closer to his so that her
tempting red lips fairly touched his beard.
She wasn't a bit afraid of him, you see,
but he, poor fellow, was still a little afraid
of her,,and she drove him almost crazy
with her coquetry. At last he lost all
patience, and coming upon her unexpect?
edly one evening he said never a word but
took her in his arms and covered her face
with kisses. She struggled; and screamed
like a captured bird, and as uselessly, for
the victorious lover paid no attention to
her remonstrances, but kissed - her half,
'? brow, chocks und lips with the concen?
trated passion of months of desire.
And as he grew bolder, and, drawing
I her on his knee, kissed her white throat
(clasped her yet more passionately, she bc
Icame alarmed. She gave up struggling
and had recourse to fears and entreaties.
"Let me go, oh! Please let nie go!"
"Pshaw!" said he. He didn't say it as
prettily as she did, and he didn't have
such a saucy little face, but then he was
a good deal stronger, and?Well, when he
did release her there were more tears and
some reproachful glances, and then a
sweer little kiss of forgiveness, given
without the least compulsion. She ne.ver
said "Pshaw!" to him again?that is, not
when she had on her best frock and
wanted to keep her hair in order,and they
are to be married next week. I believe.
Doch Farming; Pay ?
(From the Orange Jndd Farmer.)
In a recent issue of Bradstreet's Report
Edward Atkinson has a paper, in which
he maintained, with facts and figures,
! that, measured by the cost of produc
! tion, now and in years gone by, and by
i the present as well as the past pur
1 chasing power of what the fanner produces
i from the soil, that farming is just as
; profitable as it ever was. Mr. Atkinson
' laid particular stress upon the important
factor which labor-saving machinery has
] become in farming, as in everything else,
i cheapening production and lightening the
j load of the farmer. The Fort Dodge Mcs
j senger takes up another phase of the sub
iject, and shows by comparative figures
that the farmer can purchase quite as
much for what he gets for his crop as
when he received a dollar or more for
wheat, fifty cents for corn,and good round
prices for cattle and hogs-. The first figures
giji* cost of farm machinery in 1890 and
1880.
The declension in the price of nearly all
farm machinery since IKSO is from 30 to It'O
per cent., and during this interval the im?
provement in the manufacture of all
implements luvs been so great that the re?
duced priced of to-.day buy far more ser?
viceable and effective machinery than the
high prices ten . years ago. The price of
barb wire, the item next in importance on
a prairie farm, has declined from 10 cents
to 4 cents a pound. Iron nails were then
$0 per keg, and steel nails can now be
bought for $3.80. Plow steel has fallen
from.-13^ cents to 8,^ cents per pound,
and a cook-stove costing $33 then is now
worth $24. Milk pans have i Villen from
$2J?5 to $1 per dozen, and proportionate
reductions, ranging as low as 70 per cent.,
hare extended to all articles of household
hardware. Groceries have also declined
in a corresponding ratio: Sugar, from 12 V*
to 7 cents, granulated; kerosene, from 25
to 13 cents a gallon; flour, from $4.50 to
$2.50 per cwt.; salt, from $2.20 to $1.25
-per bbl.; tea, 30 per cent, lower; crockery
is about 25 per cent, lower than in 18W0.
Though dry goods were already quite low
in 1880, there nns been a continuous de?
crease in them. Calico is reduced from C
to 5 cents; unbleuehed muslin from 8 to
6; gingham from 12J-.V to 10 cents, and
worsted dress goods about 25 per cent, all
around. Readymade clothing is down from
30 to fifty per cent., and boots and shoes
have fallen 33} 3 percent. Lumber, drugs,
furniture and all remaining incidentals
that the farmer must purchase have under?
gone the same reductions. Absolutely no
exceptions are found to this rule. JSvary-..
tbing is much lower than in 1880.- ? Rail
"rdatT charges have proportionately'les-'
eened. The reduction is most marked in
rytbing that is made by machinery,
{This is notably true of furniture, clocks,
I watches, sewing-machihesj organs', pianos,
j etc. The Messenger supplements its state
j inent with figures taken from its own
i market reports for April. 1**0. These
show that at that time wheat was worth
lint 70 to !)0 cents in Fort Dodge, in April,
1880. Corn then was 18 to 20 cents, as
against 18 and :20 now; fiaxseed was then
$1.25, now it is $1.25; hogs are now $3.05
to $3.80, as against $3.50 and $2.7.") then;
oats have fallen from r*I to 17 cents; cattle
from $5 and $4 to $2 and $:i; eggs have
risen from 7 cents to H and !), and butter
has fallen from 1<> and 18 to 14 and
15 cents. It might bo remarked, in
passing, however, that the greatest re?
duction has been in the price at which
farm machinery is sold. This, too, in
spite of the fact that the machinery mod
have been looked upon as the worst enemy
of the farmer. Next to his investment in
land, machinery is the most expensive ac?
cessory of the farming industry. The
very great reduction, therefore, which has
been made, in this department alone should
be an important offset for the low prices
which prevail. But it does not stop there.
These figures are something new in the
voluminous literature now extant on the
subject of agricultural depression. The
farmer has gained more by the reductions
in his favor than lie has lost from the de?
creased value of his products. Although
the conditions by which the American
farmer is surrounded are not so favorable
as they might be, it is apparent that a
good many extravagant estimates have
been made upon his misfortunes. A few
more such critical analyses as these wffl
doubtless fully convince the public thjp
the agricultural industry is really in mne%
better shape than has come to be believed.
Try tin' Post's new job <{$<'''. It turn*
out rrery variety of job work on short
notice.
TEN DOLLARS A MINUTE.
Successful and Clever Scheme. Now lieiug
Worked in Barrooms.
t [Ohkas-.thm;*.] J'' ' .-.-.^Jr
The very latest flim-flam game has been
worked i in Chicago, chiefly among the
saloons, without' detection for several
days past." The clever knave enters a
saloon, calls for a drink, and pays the
exact change. He then says he hasten
one-dollar bills and, as he wishes to send
that amount to a friend, asks the bar?
tender to giVe him one $10 hill in ex?
change. The bartender, always willing raj
obtain small bills for a large'one," obliges"
him. He tosses over a roll of ones, takes
from his pocket an envelope, addressed
and stamped, places the $10 bill therein,
and seals itr.replacing it in his pocket.
By this time the man behind tue bar has
counted the roll and discovered that it
contains only $!). On-haying rlii? called,
to his attention the operator himself
counts them, and acknowledges the mis?
take. "The roll was just given me by my
brother-in-law next door," says he, "aniL
I had not counted- it.! If yo? wiirtsfce*
this envelope und keep it for me I'll run
in and tell him of the error and bring you
in the other dollar.".. The envelope is
placed behind the bar, flie man goes o\i\
with th? $tt, and ut the end of an hour-oi.
so the obliging bartender grows suspicious.
.For some, time he doesn't dare open-the
United Stites mail, but wtienhe dbe**?
.finds tjie envelope empty. The supposi?
tion is that he r'jaUv places the biU in the
envelope, but' he has a duplicate in his
pocket. Fifteen ssloons are sai-t to have,
beea thus successfully worked yesterday.
