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Bluefield Dally Leader. a JET i / (T t THE LEADER PUBLISHING COMPANY. lNCOCPOCATSP. "Catered as second-class matter April 8." 1808, at the poet office at BleeOeid, W. a., under act of Co acres* of March 8. 1878 " 1 t8dib fit Nanamnaxt ut Thus. B. Gak.nbk Published Every Day in the Year Except Monday. Pour Dollars a Year. Two Cents a Copy. lulieu Otllce: Blaid Street, Next Door te PntiHIce. Minefield Telephone No. .r>03. Adverting Rates Made Known on Application Rules Keuitoni.i)le —3-,r- f- • ^ ? - •Veat Virginia Come to the Hide, The Land of Prosperity and Oi West Virginia, Where . Fleaty. Has the Greatest , Nature Lavishes,Her Natural Resources in the Greatest World. •>/!</* 11* • Gifts ..... The Greatest Among all of the State s Varied Resources is the Poca hontas Coal Fields of this Vicinity. 1 taosjAM , ,.n I — DEMOCRATIC ticket. • 1 till ... /or Congress, 5th District, JOS. 8. MILLER, ' of Wdyne County. For Circuit Judge, Mercer. Monroe end McDowell. » . ,t t t, . , For State Senator, 7th Dis trict, JAIRUS COLLINS, •f Me.per County. For Judge Criminal Court, C. E. McNUTT, of Princeton. For House of Delegates, JOHN CULLTNEY, of Bluefleld. . , JOHN B. NEAL, of Rock. /or Commissioner County Court, H. M. SHUMATE, of Athene. For Chairman Board of Ed ucation, A. H. LAND, of Bluefleld. For Supt. of Schools, A. C. JOHNSTON, of Bluefleld. For Commissioner Board of Education, W. H. THOMAS, of Bluefleld. For Congress 9th District of Virginia, ROBERT P. BRUCE. There are 10,700 pieces of v.ood, cloth and felt und 1.180 feet of wire in a coucert grand piano. The earliest recorded public performance on the pianoforte took place nt Coven* Gut • den, Londou, on May 16, 176 7. The first Japanese newspaper wok published in 1863. only forty-throe years ago, and it contains some news translated from some of the Botch papers. Today Japan lias 1,500 dily newspapers and periodicals. Mrs. Russell Sage, it is learned, may be u gen rows patron of the movement to establish a permanent I woman’s art club in Brooklyn or [Manhattan at a cost of *100.000 or more. Mrs. Sago has recently been allowing a keen Interest In women artistH of Muuhultan who are strug gling to make a livelihood In art. If Mrs. Sage should contribute it Is .probable that tho scheme to raise j $100,000 to erect a studio building | near Prospect park will be enlarged ;to raise a much greater sum. proba bly $300,000 or $100,000. Alfred Binet, director of the phy siological laboratory at the Sor bonne. Paris, has been investigating the value of handwriting “experts.*' An expert to whom he gave a specl 1 men of Ernest Renan's chirogrnphy said the writer was a person of only tnoderte intelligence, credulous and ■ garrulous. Vital, a criminal who murdered several women with re volting barbarity, appeared to an other expert as “a timid girl, dis tinguished by moderation." i Subscribe to the Dally header. ,Kmperor William. «>f Germany,, smokes huge cigarettes specodly I mad* for. him. Kin” Kdwflpl of! England, has always been devoted to cigarette**, but of Jute years has i leaned more and more toward dark •f-fuvann rlentrs." Wm perot Pr4ucii.fr> jseph «>r Austria, likes the A'*1 ia-. made cigar manufactured of Vhgin, : ia tobacco with a straw rnnullhl* | through It. King Leopold of |;,d giuiu Ik u cigarette fiend, but Is fre quently seen smoking a pipe. The greatest smoker of all Ik the oyer (undented Klnu -C*r’oe pf For-: tugal. It Is said thpt'he i moke* for t>’ cigars a day. King Alfonso of Spain. takes an occasion! cigarette only. Plus X is the first pop* who has been known to enjoy u good ci gar. -- .. Thu latest effort In Germany Is said to bo to obtain a cigar that shall be ••nicotineless.” or contain as little nicotine as possible. Cigars are al ready being produced which are de scribed as "free of nicotine” or "poor I in nicotine.” In Saxony there is an uttempt to fix the maximum that a [cigar “poor In nicotine” may contain ^ in order to be sold as such, and to require that cigars marked "free of i nicotine" must be actually so cured that a chemical analysis will not re-1 veal any nicotine. Whether or not j tlis chemical analysis must reveal any tobacco is not stated. After the election—when Bruce has won his fight for manhood, against the world the flesh and the devil - we don't want to hear any l>ig-inouthed democrat got upon Vs hind legs and cry. "We did it." The best element of the republican party In this district are going to elect i Bruce. Tho storm Is brewing and | no human power can stay it.- Nor* | ton Free Press. | King Alfonso, of Spain makes Jokes ail day ami behaves u <vmth< r like the hoy ho is. To his mother In-law he is the vei > soul of poli»< ncRs | and It is said to be Jr’.lgii ful o see j them together. SOME HONKS. Ho w’ho maims and speeds away will live to drive another day. Falnted-hearted driver never won fair lady. "Oh, that tills too, too solid flesh would melt, thaw and resolve itself into a dew'*—so as not to make ft Jar when the machine strik e if. Don't cry over spilt milk—be thankful It wasn’t the gasoline. But trailing clouds of gory do we 1 come. Where ignorance is bliss, 'tls folly to let them know you got If at a raffle. I Man wants but little hero below. (This makes no reference to the po lie© Judge.) ^ .V very aurtont Hnd flah-Uk* rnneB A br|M In lime Eaves a fine. There- Is »o much bad in fh© beet -of t hum; There Is so much good In the worst of them. That It doe* not behovo uh owners of any of them To talk abotfl them achlnos «>f the rest of thorn. . J __' T ■' ’ /X_ur,.. m -.I. « ... .. TO TltB VOTERS IN SEVENTH SENA TORIAL DISTRICT Gentlemen.:/, I was unanimously nomi nated by the Democratic Dis I rict Convention at Hinton on September 29th for office of State Senator for this dis t.riot and desire to announce my candidacyf and solicit your good wishes and votes on election day. "L'lie convention, recog nizing my wishes, re strained from instructions, thereby leaving me untram melled to act, if elected, as my conscience approves for the best interests of the peo ple of the district irrespect ive of party. I appreciate this expression of confi d 1 < k 1 1 / b a * «-% ^1 M ^ . 2 __ i. 1. . 1 I V) IIAIU piuuusc LIltlL I same was not misplaced. L believe the cardinal prin ciples of Democracy, Home rule, sound money, and tax* a! ion only for public pur poses, as founded by Jeffer son, best for the people, and will advocate requisite state laws governing its indus tries, without appeals to the general government, and, will also advocate that tV.e levy of county taxes, be they much or little, be left to the counties and such taxes, in cluding licenses, be used solely for county purposes. 1 hope to make a canvass of each voting precinct in I lie district and discuss is sues with the people. In tlu* event that I am not able to carry out the program, I will apprcciete suggestions from any citizen. Very Truly Yours, JAIRUS COLLIN'S. Bramwell, W. Va. Oct. 8th, 1900. ~ I I ' . j> ■ ■ . .2 I CLAUDE W MOSS, District Agent f [ ELKS BUILDING BLUEPIELD, W. VA. \ CAMERAS AND We carry In stock Alias sad Plates for* Kbdaki/' HarwkacMi f Ini Pr**Dio Csmerti:- — tographlc work. Sond Us Your Ordors. 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