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The Big Stone Gap Post. ?t STONE WISE (^????^????????????^????BHI^ NflLaa. Milton H. Smith Pre?ideat Ot I., ft .*.. A Railroad Kin*. Clawed With Hill And Harri Who are our great n Who will be thought, a century hence, to bave made the biff' ontributions to our civil n, to have influenced profoundly the life of our and of the future? This ia a buaineaa age, and it 18 not hat dis; his aa will write down the lost maatera of business, riginators and condiu of great business ' iaea, -ularly the railroad kings, aaa 'a beat repreaenta and important of it Noll railway ?mk of waa men wi: here man, J. ? Louisville & .' ? ._ Ltoa 1 irriman. M li is roll i ? ii oun thia ? attie li i m as 11 ibis laugh at the .ring him ' maji-.mun. le aa atinont?and I .us is ?d as Mr. ? il as Hill's in the khama - uti railroad Le* r particularly at him, that -h the Legislature might this road into a 1 and might even undo much of what he had I up the Sta erecting a great inonu to his memory, would not rank too high ind of genius these displayed We attempt idgement of the methods have employed. But we ae how their greatness veil be questioned. Marl agh waa a great man be? cause he could teach the doubt? ful battle where to ragt ?tre greater still who can te tch the doubtful streams of commerce where to flow? fee a day merely, but iecadea, centuries. M..r? than that; these men taught cities where to % they have taught great pro? vinces how to prosper When three such men ves to the same general . it is a good bet that Um task ia going to be accomplish It appears that this if what these three have done. They have all three, it s? taken hold of the idea that ims of commerce ought tc ? greater volume front hweat to aoutheast, anc versa. The development - rending in that t! tion ia tho salient fact of ver> a Great Man. ! 1 ecent railroad ; ably no one of these caj be I to have started the lt began, rather, front natural lauses, and from th. that the far to the ports of tba < Julf than it is to Phila? delphia and which is hy ugh to support two or three I pools or Hamburgs built enough rooda bring G;< greater than Philadelpl Boston's?next, in f States weat and i Texas begeo route to the aea. ll ? but with t1 I the Iliin< ham to connect with it, an pract sys the a branch t through the j way. ! ing aec niue more, to sel; BARIUM AN DEAD i H. Harriman died at b in Arden, N. > ii. Mr. Harriston ha in ill healt 1??K !lt *l was only within tl that he began to decline ably. A trip to Bu maulted brought but since his return to Am thr. ago, r ins home here ha\ show that he was rapidly grow ing wor His illness has been a ing effect upon all at which he was int- and Wall Street ha interest in his i Mr. Harrim.i ith had j beer I Last Sunday be sutv i se ; rious relapse du.-to an attack I of acute ii and he was un;i rally from the critical condition which then thre With him *t the time of hit , death were ail the merni ? his immediate family and l>r ie his persona) physician. .itatberlain ~ ? - | -enterr. aaa should t the nriit anuat! <->>i|ilreo aa< dy cwtv BUYS STEEL RU ls (??ana First of Bit Railroad* ia Dixie to Place Larfc Order. Ba: D? The he la- ? mg mantt ring r and v, a tiating a Kessem.T M-.', rails, withprivi Hail year. Seah ight i n va a lt ? The Road i FKOM FREELLNCJ Fr :ig ha.! durn ? hie i ling tumbi ? og a ? and hat. ; froi: it will out ' tin* fa1 ('timberland Mountain. itting in a body of til for This Hibbitta and Mullins, who a lumber mill are preparing i ? ?.!)-:!? r .(.'?? ?-? OE f Pound !; Mr. and M have g. Greene cou Ten ness relati Isaac Willis is having a c I farm near lui md W. B k Triv itt hctve contra t job of hauling for Van Kitchen ft Co , lumbermen. 01 fVeatocky Hiv a number of people at the justi. art a . !Clintwood, as witnesses frorj i here, on Saturday. 1 them were Mr. and Mrs. Mc t Donald Whitaker. Bryant, and Andrew H av nea. ikinn will be i gr ess here this week. -? <htroi \n MINKI.vi.roMI'ANY bartered ky Bri?tai Pa apia rae Oaaeiaf) aatat ia Scatt Covan*. >f Br irtered last ?reek .stol Herald nday sn h a and j rs at work or tw -ews| paid ; . wai seen by a Herald j ginia j thick par ipidly i include ic. lin fron All ol ^ ami are uniforn Ighod i an 1 trea* th* Karl Mill? et of i Krank Wioaton arc arnon*. I lt is UIlil >se names | n. $100 REWARD. SIM. ->en?l li -"I HIV VIRGINIA. In a write up of a recent I i th west Virginia, ror his paper. Kev. it uses tbe follow anguage in speakii t" so, j 1 hr. reen rollin. . with h ? nd anywhere ? ? ry want ti theae beautiful' -capes a present-j ing their \ i any-1 ?'S of k atains. the brae; a and Dights; a any and - grow i and ft! DANTE M . 1 1 said . r? Of tl: Base Ball. Bif Sloae Oap ta Middle?U>ro, at Mid dlcsboro. September 11 th aad 12th. la rf; H M . .cf rf; t )aks. lb; Salyer amp p. Lin .es, If; ter, t?; Collier, ? i, p; Baker, lb. ? ne, Jb; Sampeon, If; Vi I Johna, rf. ?ond game score by inn Batteries Middlaaboro M . no Mitb A Raab. OPPOSE HONORIA fi i/rov Waaf Virfiaia Taacbara Cia lal taaaacv laveatad tbe The school teachers of Morgan county. NV \ a . have adopted resolutions protesting against ?^tice d v> n e James Ramsey, a re- >f that and who they waa ll of the resolutions set forth that Karn- his steamboat ?cern ber S anil ll he boat ?as The teach era state that ni 0 saw the m men ts of the boat at act. at Paitoa waa tainted with Ramsey, and 1 of the new boat, t J iph. Night Oa Bald Muumain. i \nn ui ?o. i oviiTi ui u li edda sra turned waa could pass ft the Mag iaaaa at l It was April - I it waa nothing but Althi to undergo a feeling of w> ness. Next d ir taking all our ol it of while w? zon. Waa it possible that this deso? late r - potoli of ? art: -ed the ambition ?lauy und, la/.zling white snow to break the frightful we started on our return." KAI. Tht High - -ram public school The wa* very interest il ld was mi j wy tal by those who ?? tfoiawoiiii aa ? tost arb*-. saab sal Iaatjf ?aaa* aaa* .. - ? by atfttaracia* I*