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"KEEPING EVERLASTINGLY AT IT BRINGS SUCCESS." NO. 22. VOL. I. Prof?*? ?1oM?1 Card*. A. L. PR IDEM OR Ei A ITORNEY AT LAW, Jonosvi?o, Virginia. Joncsvil}?, V?. JACKSON & BLANKENSHIP, AT l'ORNEYS AT LAW. Jonesviile, Virginia. n ?ux ci*H v. RA. AVERS. - - JOS. L.KELLY. LAW OFFICES IN AYERS BUILDING, Big Stone Cap. Va, ? : n. J". '' ' M*l?0 VW.K, jh. ?ULLITT & McDOWELL, ATT< )KNE^ S AT- LAW, i NT C Al\ VA H. A. W. SKEEN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Stone Gap, Virginia. R. T. IRVINE, ATTORNEY AT-LAW. Snnuuciii I i l5oi!<ii:ig, Wooil AviiMle Big Stone G:ij>. Virginia. L. TURNER MAURY, QTORNEY-AT-LAW. Big Stone Gap, Virginia. WA LT LH L. ALOioON, ATTORNEY AT-LAW. ? Big Stone Gap, Virginia. ,W Im- C.ILVn. BURNS & FULTON, ATD >RNEYS AT-LAW, i. : I, "' ' ? ????? I -ntinl] .unl Ol. HBfi 11 Sl '? S w K 's' i ? jo. . v: m \ i von, ^?w' ?'? .? '? SIoih.'f.ap. DU . \:?:. r/t ATMs-ws * ?.iaynor. m'H ()RNEYS AT LAW, H Big Stone Gap, VIrginia. :4tnS> l lli'inilaiice. W. J. HORSLEY, BT l%< >RNEY AT LAW, ig Stone G ip, Virginia, fwcijii i n? T.V. \l A . AT i P.?)mji{ ?in SON & MILLER, "vEYS AT LAW. H )KNRV AT LAW Va, J. W. KELLY, PHY vGEON, Bi. SI n i a. Itoth Kl-if i-'. v irgmia, . . '??"I tliecltr THEA Of?ca: ?. REEVE. M. D. DISEASES OF WOMEN EXCLUSIVELY B istol, Tenn. :>- J. C. PR UN ER, dentist, ,nr,;No- 9, C ntral Hotel. lay in i??cli ?iiltl make avs during W W, T HACK ER ENGINEER AND PURVEYOR, it0ne Gap, Virginia. lLCOLM SMITH, ENGINEER AND ^veyor! f.! , Cxt to Post Office. WC To\K (JA.*, VA. HURD, HiTECT, sJp#e Gap, Va. f'CATIONS A^i^ ST S MATES ? ?' ? TtfonouoiJ and I \VU* Couiifcy Official Directory. Circuit (.'?nri flr-t Monday In April. September ?ml Dec-ember.?II. !*. K. Mohhi*o>, Judge,(?ateCity, V?. County Court flr-t Tm-Mlay after ibefourth Monday In e?ch mouth.?It. A. w. Skkkn, Judge, P.Ik Stone (?ap, V*. Commonwealth** Attortiav.?It. P. Bbcck, TVUo C II . v*. County end Cirrnit Court f>rk.?I. F.. Lirrs, Wlso C. II., v?. Sheriff.?VYioos iloMiDKOoit, WlseC. IL. v* Treasurer.?B. Wn. Mwvki i. WiseC. U . Va. Superintendent of School*.?ff?. T. Kksskut, Itig i Stone Cap, V?. j County Surveyor.--S. N. Tm'i.ok, N'orton, Vt?. ' Commissioner ol Kcvenn?, Kaltem MMrlrt.?G. IV. i I Ik vi ri.v, Wine C. H . V... ! Commissioner of Ucvenuc, Western Mi?irirt.?0. C. i 1)kan% WiscC. M., Va. OfflclnlCity Directory. Mayor.?IT. T, llri?oK.v*. Coanellmeti.?('. \V. Kv\.v?. JK. k. fi??nr>t.o?', vt. T. Kr.\.\rr?r, J<nmr.? Mci.uxs, W. F. I.akkr. vy. vt. T ui.??. City Attorney.?W. S. Matiwwk. Commissioner of llev??uue.?firs. W. Ixvhi i.. City Collector.?J. K res. Kceorder.?S. II Jkssk. City Bnglncer.?S. W.Thxckkr. Chief of Police?Holt \i'K B. Fox. Servant ?UmtnoN K. ilii.i nr. ?\.?-tdstaiii Sergeant.?Fi.kkiwooii Joxth. Committee on Finance.?C. W. Bvans, Chairman : B. K. Goo. i.or, W. T. KK.x.?VKnr. Committee on stn et*.?W, W. Tivi.or. Chairman: w. F. Ii ?Kfd. Josiu \ Muu.lNK. Committee on Polin? (im! I'uldle Kuildlngs.?W. T. Kkwkht. Chairman: w". w. Tavi.o*. ('. W. r>??.s. i Coinmlttee*>u Fire, W.-eier. Sewer* Mini Lights.?W*. F. Uakki, Ch?irnoui' B. K Goohmik, W. T. KexxKav. Sanitary Commitl e.?W. T. Kr.n*nky, Chairman: i IV. F. ItsKKII. JoSIM'a Mi l l ins. School Trustees.?.1- W. Fox, Chalrmnii: C. W. F.\ vT. w. Tavi on. Ordinance Committee.?K. K. ftooni-o*, Chairman; c W. r?? i>k W. T. Kknskdv. Park Commission.?Jm>. W. Fox, >r., Chairman: w. K. Hakui*. \V. T Kksxkiiv. In chargr of Uiir Stole- (Jap Improvement Cn.V Ground*. Itiver Itanks and Trees.?Jso. W. Fox, sr. (Easl Fifth Street,) Big; t < >? * ?t> Oup, Va, J. M. G00MI.0K, Postmaster. Ceneral dellv ery npi n, w i?cfc tiny >? only, from S *. in. |o.s.;;up. in. Monet Order iK'parlment open from S ji. in. to n p. in. Mail for North and Hast, via. I,. ,V K., closes S. 1ft p m. u " Eist " M " I1.1An.iii. " West ?* 14 ?? r?..iop.m. " South, via. S. A. A ()., ?* W no m. F.xprcs* Pouch for Ihlstol, Teiin., H.15a.m. To liisncc prompt dispatch ?I mall iuutt?r It r>lM>iiid Ik? i|.?po?iti?d In post iidlce letter Ixix lN*for? the time for clositig, n?? staled ahove, SUGGESTIONS TO TNF. PUBLIC. I From F. s. Official Guide.| 1.? ?\ildre-?. nil mail mutter legildy mid fully. Give name of p?nt office and Slate in full, street mnl lion?-?' ?huiher. If the office he a small one, add the name of ihe county. 2 ?I'm \our name mid address upon upper l?-ft hand rornrr of nil ift.itter mailed l?y you. .*:.?(?n foreign letters always jilweo the name fif county in full. j ?I.?Mo not use thin envcl*|?es. Stsmpeil atiTelo|N*s are the liest. .1.?H??gl?>ter ?II valuable Idlers. t; ?Semi money by Money Order. 7.?Affix stamps securely on the upper rlght-hsud corner. s _ i, nut tender for postage stamps moin?y so mu Mlat"d as to tu? nncurietit, or more Inan tweniy-flrc cents in copper or nickel bolus. I).?Mo not i>>k the postmaster or clerk to nfllx stamps for you. in.?fhi not n-k credit for |tostngc stamps or money orders. 11 ?Mo leu teti'l : i hei ks ur drafts in payment for nione?, orders, or pio monej exci'pl that which i? le ?^al tender, and National hsiiK notes. 12 ? CpoH coniei of envelojM's supplieil by hotels, direct what dlspo?nl shall lie made "f lettrr If na delivered. The I'ost tifTleo Oepartmeul deems it quite Import nut that all the patron* of post offices should supply themselves with Monthly Postal Guide, It would he to their iiit'-r?'?! and business advantage, as well a? lastly io the interest of the postal serylco, >inee li ihi hrintf sImuj: more accurate knowledge of the re rfuireineuls ?>f that <erv iee, wmtbl reduce the amount of mail matter improperly addressed, poorly wrapped, >r insufficiently >totnj????I. and would largely dlminich I hi : ? 11,111 r nf letters and jwekages going to the Dead Ih liei? Offiro. Very iesjieetfully, l?, It. JrssKB, Ass't P. M. StocUliolfJerK* Cortina:. j The nnnun] meeting <>f thp Ktock I holders of the I>ig Stone (inj) lilcc trie Light sVfV*l Power Co., for the purpose of electing officers for the en sning year, .-nil! to transact any other business tliat may brought before them, will be liebl, Thurgilay, May 4, 1893, in the oflicc of sniil company, ;it Uig Stono < i:ip, \*a. Jos . I>. Kki.i.v. Sec. Stockholder*' .Meetloir. The annual meeting of the Stock liohlers of the Central Land Compa? ny will bo held iu the Directors mom of the Appalachian Hank, Hig Stone Gap, Va., on Thursday,.'May the4th, L893, al two (2) o'clock p. m. Ofli cois for the ensuing year ami all other general business of the compa? ny will be transacted. .Ias. W. (ttehow, Provident, R. T. !i:\iNK, Secretary. -? ?*.', i?f*J. Stork ho Mlers' 'Uc.'t log. The annual meeting of the stock? holders of tlio Big Stone (?ap and Powell's Vallcv Railway Co., for the purpose of electing officers for the the ensuing year, and to transact any other business that may be brought before them, will le held Thursday, May 4th, 1893, in the ?>liicp of said company, at Big Stone Gap, Va. W. 0. IlAltltlNGTOX, S(?C. Stockholders' .Meeting:. The annual meeting of the stock? holders of the Appalachian Bank, of Big Stone tiaji, Va:, for the purpose of electing officers for the ensuing year, and to transact any other busi? ness that may be brought before them, will be held at 4 o'clock p. m., Mon tiav, May 8th, 1893, in the officer, of said bank. W. A. McDoavekl, President. Stockholders' Meetlnsr. rrhe annual meeting of the Stock? holders of the K?st Big Stone Gap Land and Inprovemont Compa? ny wilt be hold in their office in the Harris building, Big Stone Gap, Va., on Thursday, May the 4th, 1893. S. (j. Bf.huvman, Secretary. D?M?ervinK Urnisc. Yfie de-iire to say to our eitixens. thai for veaiH w? hure been sellin"; Drr Kmx't> New discovery for CoU?UUiptioU, Dr. King's 5ew Life l'illa, llucklen's Arnica Salve and Elec? tric Bitters, and have never handled remedies that sell as well, or that have given *ucb uuiversul satisfaction. We do not hesitate to guarantee them every time, ami we tttund ready to refund the purchase price, if satia faetory reanlfs do not follow their use. These remedies have yvoq ,their pjreat jaipiilar ity ou their merits. S. h. Whitehcad A Co., Drug MARCH OF CIVILIZATION. ; Colloquy Bctwcon n Native African und a BIjj, Strong European. A large, strong man dressed in a j uniform, and armed to the teeth, knocks ' at the door of a hut on the coast of i Africa. "Who are you, and what do you want?" asks a voice from the inside l4In the nanrebf civilization open your door, or 111 break it down for you and fill you full of lead." "But what do you want here?" "My name is Christian Civilization. Don't talk like a fool, you block brute. What do you suppose I want here but to civilize you, and make a reason? able human being out of you if it is pi.s Biblc.*1 "What nre you going to do'.'*' "In the first place, you must dress yourself like a \vhitc man. It's a shame I and a disgrace the way yon go about j From now on you must wear under : clothing, a pair of pants, vest, coat, plug Vhat and a pair of yellow gloves. I will i furnish them to you at a reasonable ! price." "What shall I do with them?" "Wear thorn, of course. You didn't expect to eat them, did you? The first step of civilization is to wear proper clothes." "Hut it is too hot to wear such gar? ments. I'm not used to them, f'llper? ish from the heat. Do you want to murder me?" "Well, if you die you will have the satisfaction of being a martyr to civil? ization." "You are very kind." "Don't mention it. What do you do for a living anyhow?*' "When I am hungry I eat a banana, j I eat, drink or sleep just as! feel like iL" "What horrible barbarity! You must settle down to some occupation, my friend. If you don't I'll have to lock you up as a vagrant" "If I've got to follow up some occu? pation, I think I'll .start a coffee-house. I've got a good deal of coffee and sugar on hand" "Oh. you have, have you? Why, you are not such a hopeless ease as I thought yon were. In the first place, you want to pay me fifty dollars." "What for?" "An occupation tax, you innocent heathen. Do you expect to get all the blessings of civilization for nothing?" "But I haven't grit any money." "That makes no difference. I'll take It cut in sngar and coffee If 3*ou don't pay I'll put you in jail." "What is a jail?"' "Jail is a progressive word. Yon must be prepared to make sacrifices for civilization, you know." "What a great thing civilization is!" "You can not possibly realize the benefits, but you will before I get through with you." The unfortunate native took to the woods and has not been seen since.? From the dennan. A TELL-TALE SIGN. How Ho Know That They Had Just Been M;trrle;L Scone; A railroad train. A man in a certain seat is deeply ab? sorbed in a newspaper. A1 tie-ugh the train stops at a station he does not look tip or cast a glance through the win? dow. But he has that queer self con? sciousness of what is going on about him that people sometimes have In the midst of the most serious reading. IIu was half conscious of a great shout and much laughter outside on the platform. The laughter was largely feminine, and the melodious din was punctuated hy a series of slight reports that a person who gave full instead of half his atten? tion might have recognised as kisses. Then the man dimly felt rather than saw the seat in front of him receive two occupants, and recalled afterward an impression of the two occupants hav? ing shouted and laughed a good deal i through their window. Then the train started. As it moved away the man with the newspaper fin? ished the interesting thing he was read? ing and looked up reflectively. lie saw in front of him a }roung man and a young woman, still without associating any thing with them. lie was thinking of what he had read. The young mnn wore a light derby hat. He pushed it on the back of his head to mop his heated forehead. As he did so there was a little patter on tho newspaper that lay in the lap of the man who was ruminating. The man who was ruminating looked down and saw that this patter had been caused by some tiny grains of rice. This dis? covery broke the chain of his reverie. He looked up again with a highly in? terested expression. 1 le saw the young man half turn his head as if he had, heard the patter on the paper. The girl was very pretty. She exchanged a glance with the young man that made the middle-aged observer have a warm feeling under the left-hand upper side of his vest front. Then she leaned over and whispered to the 3'oung man: "I've got some of that down my back."?N. Y. Recorder. What She Had Hoard. "Money talks." said a Cleveland mil? lionaire, with more dollars than depth, to a pretty and smart Cass avenue girl. "Yes?" she responded with a cute little interrogation point humping itself up under her eyebrows, "I have heard that the shallows murmur while the deeps arc durah.*"1 Then he began to feel uncomfortable and it wasn't long after that until he was on his way to catch a night boat southward bound.?Detroit Free Tress. Boys Bettor Than Sheep. "I have about fifteen acres of bearing apple trees," writes an agricultural cor? respondent, "and 1 have a good chance to buy forty sheep; would the orchard afford sufficient pasturage for them?" What's the good of wasting money on so many sheep'? Give your Sunday school class of boys a picnic in the or? chard; they'll pasture it so clean it would starve a sheep to look at it? Burdette, in Philadelphia Press. An Oversight. Travcrs?You have actually sent a { bill with my clothes! What insultl What infamy! r Tailor?It was all our new book? keeper's fault, sir. He got you mixed up with those people who pay'.?Satur? day Evening Herald. i ? - . The roa?l to ruin is always kept in ?good repair, as the expenses are paid, by those who travel on it RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL. ??"When we wear the yoke of Christ, ; tho heavier the load the easier it is to travel.?Ram's Horn. ?The late P. T. Barnum. of Bridge? port, Conn., gave the First Baptist so? ciety the sum of $43,000 for their church edifice, In order that they might get a more eligible Sit?, and tho oldstructure will be torn down and a business block j put up in its place. j ?God wills, and things are; that is j divine omnipotence. Things are, and I man wills them; that is human wisdom. Tilings arc man wills them, and that, j too, as Cod wills, when He wills,and be j cause no wills; that is Christian philoso ) phy.?Mme. Elizabeth of France. ?Mrs. PrlscUla Scroggins, who is living near Gainesville; Ca,, has been a consistent member of the Methodist church for more than a hundred years, j She was born in Pickcns county, near j Andersonville, S. C. March 8, 1770, and j joined the church when only nine years of age. She is one hundred and twelve years old, and for- more than twenty j years has been a member of Mt, Zion church in Georgia.?Christian at Work. C?According to advanced summaries of the Congregational statistics, there are 4,S2H churches, a net gain of 134 during the year: 4,(510 ministers, a de? crease (if 21; and 500.7S2 members, an increase of about 15,000. Of baptisms there are 12.544 of ?adults, and 0,860 of infants, the latter showing an increase of over 1,000, and the former a decrease of about 1,200. The total of benevolent contributions is 82,267,386, indicating a decrease of $130,051. ?From inquiries which have been made at Paris, it appears that last year there were 1,071 foreign students there, and this is represented as a fair aver? age. The Germans amounted to only 10, while the Austrians numl ered one less. There were 154 British students, and 20G Russians and Poles. The Balkan Peninsula sent the large contingent of 815?Greeks, Turks, Roumanians, Ser? vians and Bulgarians being included in tli is category. The schools of medicine and law appropriated by far the great? er number, .for while 72!) attended the former, 182 attended the latter. The faculty of theology only had one for? eign student?Pittsburgh Dispatch. ?According to the will of the late Nancy S. Howe, of Winchester, which has heen filed with the clerk of the M iddlesex Probate court at Fast Cam? bridge, the following bequests have been made: American Home Mission? ary Society. 88,000; American Congre? gational Society, S3,000; Orthodox Con? gregational Church of Winchester, Women's Board of Missions, and Wo? men's Home Missionary Association/ ?2,000 each; proposed public library, to be known as Syincs Memorial Library, 81,00.0. Her real estate is willed to the town of Win ehester for the erection of the proposed town house and public library. The residue, after deducting numerous bequests to relatives, is willed in equal parts to the American Board of Foreign Missions, American Bible Society, and Congregational Union.?Boston Transcript ?One hundred years ago' girls were not allowed to attend any of the public schools of the country. When the first high school for p*irls \v:is opened in Boston, in 1S'2.">, there was snch an out? cry against the innovation, and so many girls applied for admission, that after a year or so the scheme was abandoned, nnd was not* attempted until 1858. In 1774 the first academy for women yeas -opened by Moravians i*i Pennsylvania: in 1TS0 the first semi? nary for women in New Fngland was inaugurated in New Bedford, Massa? chusetts, and Mary Lyon, in 1836, founded a college for women.in that state on the broadest basis ever hefoye attempted. Oberlin college was opened on the co-educational plan In 1S33, and Antioch college in IS5& Put these were innovations which met with tmich dis? cussion and opposition, even among , women themselves.?Young Men's Era. wit and wisdom. ?People live for what they hope for. ?Ram's Horn. ?By all means ise sometimes to be alon e. ? t i e orge Herl) ert ?A good business sign?A display advertisement.?Washing^ n Star. ?He removes the greatest ornament of friendship who takes away from it re .-pect.?Cicero. ?Likely Enough.?Burke?Do you think your uncle will die? Smirke?I'm afraid so. It's the poor one. ?There is nothing like prosperity to cover faults, and it may be said that money covers more than charity.?Tex? as Sif tings. ?The only objection to the self made man is that in so many cases he has Tailed to put himself together so as to work noiselessly.?Washington Star. ? Never spread an ill report about your neighbor until you know positive? ly that it is true, and don't do it then if he is a good deal bigger than you are.? Texas Sif tings. ?A man was seen at one of the mountain resorts one day last week. He got away, however, before the lady boarders could get their back hair fixed ?Boston Transcript Oh, college maid. So bolil with bookery, - Why thus afraid Of common cookery? ?Washington Star. ?First Thespian (on the Rialto)? There is old Rusk in, the tragedian. Second Thespian?Why does he always look so melaucholy? First Thespian? My boy, that's his conception of him? self. ?She Referred to the Umpire.? "What are they quarreling about? Don't they like the vampire's decteiony she asked '"By Jove!" returned Oad lcy, very much excited; "that's just what he is." ?There is one thing which may safe? ly bo affirmed of mother Eve. She was perfectly correct when she asserted that her first bora was just the cutest ittle itesy mite in all the world?Bos? ton Transcript ?Watchman?For heaven's sake get away! Don't come any nearer! Scroff? gles?Wot's the matter wid yer? Watch? man?Can't you see that is a powder mill? How dare you come so near with a nose like that" ? " ..... 7 _ So.MK people are always finding fault with Nature for putting thorns on roses: I always thank her for having put aojeai on thorns.?Karr. ll?H .tTiir Forecast. [Rev, Irl It. Micks in Wnnl nn.l Work?.] Indications arc that May will open with cool, fair wether in most parts, with frost in northern directions. A warm wave will past eastward across the country, giving rise to reactiona? ry storms, centr.il on and next to the I 3rd. After a i ?w days of cooler, clear weather, a ?out the 7th it will grow warmer in the west, and dur? ing the 8th to 11th'the warmth will increase as it advances eastward over the continent, resulting in many storms about the 8th, 9th and 10th. There is a marked tendency to frost, as a rule, from about the 10th to 15th of May especially when storms occur on or jn>t proceeding these dates, lint the indications lor this month are that the frost period will reach its crisis at the close of reactionary j strorm central about the 15th. The new inoon on that day, and the equi? nox of Mercury on the 16th, will in? crease and prolong storm conditions, and add to the probabilities of frost after the storms in northerly regions. From the 1 Stli to 22nd falls a marked storm period, the crisis of which will likely lie reached about the 22nd. A very warm wave will pass over the entire country during the period, and dangerous storms are liable to result, (.'loud formations and other storm indication should be prudently watched. Easterly to southerly winds, sultcry air, with low and falling barometer, are certain harbingers of coming disturbances. After storms pass, if wind continue from soiiteilv points, or the barom? eter suddenly refuse* to rise, look foi l a repetition of rain, wind and thun? der, in cycle of twelve and twenty four hours, until winds shift perma? nently to westerly, and the barouie-1 ter moves decidedly upward. About the 25tli and 2Gth there an-ill be an othre rise in tempaturo, results in reactionary storms, beginning, ol course, first in the west, and appear? ing later and later at points along their march to the east. Fix this fact well in yonr minds. Von will soon learn by the plain indications when the storm are liable to be re tarted, or to appear early in the periods in your locality. The last day of May is the center of n regnlnr storm period which miisj into the openinj* days of dune. Full j moon on the 30th will tend to hasten developments, so that n wry wann wave will be well defined and on'its winy from the west attended by in? creasing storms, by the closing hours of the month. The effects of the Venus equinox will bo felt in all the storms up to the miijdle of May, hence there will be a marked tenden? cy to hard hail storms, excessive and sudden changes from very warm to very cool, increasing the probabilities J of frost after storms in all northerly regions. It will also be prudent to anticipate tornadoes?-to watch close? ly all ominous storm-clouds, and to have your arrangements made, and your mind clear as to what would le the best tiling for safety in a moment of manifest danger. The electrical power of the sun is very great in all iho central parts of our northern hemisphere in the month of May, and forces which expend themselves in April showers, earlier, often gather in May in storms of great violence and wide extent. We beg our readers to post themselves on the important sub? ject, and to rob the storms of their power to terrify and destroy, by such knowledge and preparations as will insure safety to hitman life. When KtlUon Whs Young. "1 was an operator in the Memphis oflicc when Thomas A. Edison ap? plied to the manger for a position," said A. G- Hockfeller, a member of the Reminidcent Club, St. Louis. ''Me came walking into the office one morning looking like a veritable hay? seed. He wore a hickory shirt, a pair of butter-nut pants tucked into the top of his boots a size too large and guiltless, of blacking. 'Where's the boss?' was bis query as he glanc? ed around the office. No one replied at once, and he repeated the question. The manager asked him what he could do for him, and the future-great proceeded to strike him for job. Bus? iness was rushing and the office was two lftcn short, so almost any kind of a lightning-sliuger was welcome. He was assigned to a desk and a fus? illade of wiuks went the rounds of the office, for the 'jay' was pnt on the St. Louis wire, the hardest in the office, ?'At this end of the line was an operator who was chain lightning and knew it. Edison had hardly got _-u M.-M .nagaeaaeaga seated before St. Louis called. The newcomer responded, and St. Louis started in on a long report, and lie pumped in like a house on fire. Kd ?ison throw his leg over the arm of Iiis chair, leisurely transferred a wad of spruce gnm from his pocket to Iiis mouth, picked up the pen, examined it critically, and started in, about two hundred words behind, lie didn't stay there long, though St. Louis let out another link of sped, and still another, and the instrument on Edison's table hummed like an old-style Singer sewing machine. ''Every man in the office left his desk and gathered round the 'jay' to see what he was doing with the ele tric cyclone. Well, sir, he was j ig!. : on the word, and was putting it down in'the prettiest copper-plate hand yoti ever saw, even crossing his t's, dot? ting Iii? i's and punctuating with as much care as a man editing tele? graph for 'rat' printers. St. Louis got tired by and by and began to slow down. Kdison opened his key and said: 'Here, here! this, is no primer class! Get a hustle oili you!' Well, sir, that broke-St. Louis all up. He had been 'raw-hiding' Memphis for a long time, and we were terrible sore, and to have a man in our office that cold walk all over him made us feel like a man whose horse had won the Derby. I saw tho'wizard' not long ago. He doesn't wear a hickory shirt nor put his pants in^iis boots, but he is very far from being a dude yet."?Practical Electricity. Aren uihI Annual Proilct Coal. An annual book of available infor? mation relative to coal production, prices, transportation, etc., hot hat home and abroad, published by the Coal Trade Journal contains many facts of great interest not only to the trade but to the general public Ijlreat Britain is credited with an output of upward of 85,000 gross toin per annum, while l.iermany pro produces 90,000,000 gross tons, and the United States has a yearly out? put of 140,000,000 gross tons. The coal area of the country is estimate 1 at 192,000 square miles, of which 120,000 can profitable be worked at present. In most of the centra! states the output of coal wys largei last year and prices were in the mail better for th?? producer. In Indiana there was an increase output and some of the coal brought large ad? vances over the preceding year's val? ue. A eompari. on shows an aver? age gain of 20 cents a ton. Iowa, Kansas,Missouri. Colorado, Utah and Wyoming all figured up a larger out? put than in previous years and sold at better prices than during 1891. In central Ohio it was found thai there bad been such unprofitable competition that they concluded an armistice ami formed a corpraotion to handle coil for the present year. In the limit of annual product is placed at 60,000,000 tons the United States should have coal at this aver? age rate for about I'M) years, though this period may be somewhat pro? longed by the diminuation of the out? put as parts of the field cease alto? gether to produce. Arlltte'nl Clouds, [CrtllfornH Fruit Grower.1 The pratico of creating artificial clouds to protect vineyards from tin: con sequences of late frosts is follow? ed in many localites. An application of the same methods to sugar-cane fields has been successfully made use of for a number of years on the sug? ar plantations in Queenland. Any sort of cheap material procduciug much smoke, and mix with asphalt or coal-tar, is heaped up at distances of 20 to 40 yards on the eastward and on the windward of the planta? tion*. Dnring the critical period when late frosts are to be feared, the thermometer is carefully watched, and when about midnight, on a clear, crisp night, it falls to about 3s Cen? tigrade (87* to 38= Fahrenheit), measures are taken to light the fires about half an hour before sunrise, should the temparture contine to get lower. These are kept going for an honr or two af? ter sunrise, the smoke producing a sort of a screen, which prevents the two direct and rapid effect of the Hist I sun rays on the frozen shoots. In tho ease of an ordinary frost the smoke intervening between the cane and sun is found quite sufficient pro? tection, if the iusoke is dense enough and is well distributed over the sur? face of the area it is desired to pro? tect. Automatic instruments for lighting the fires have been invented and art; procurable. WsMtttd Time. About forty years ago a specimen of microscopic penmanship was ex? hibited in this country which, per? haps, has never been excelled. It consisted of the following in? scription, written upon ginss, within a circle the 025th part of an inch iu diameter: ?'Lowell and Senter, watchmakers, <>4 Exchange street, Portland. Written by Fermat, at Paris, 1852 " The circle within which this was inscribed was much smaller than the head of an ordinary pin, and if a needle were placed between the leuse ?>f a microscope and the writing, the latter was completely concealed. At the D?sseldorf exhibition a few years ago a gentleman showed a post? al card upon which the whole of the first three books of the "Odyssey*' was written, and the remaining space was filled with a transcript of a long debate which had taken place in the German Parliament a short time be? fore, the whole card containing 33,000 words. In the spring of lsS'J h native sent to a Vienna paper a grain of wheat on which he had written 301) words from Sissot's book on Vienna. ? ? . ?.. ? All Noten (?iiotl os (Johl. Opposition papers, including the New York Sun, tried very haul last week to get up a (inancial panic by asserting that Mr. Carlisle was at loggerheads with the President over the question of whether the Treasury notes issued in payment for silver should be redeemed in gold or not. And they partly succeeded, lor there was a rumor on Wall street last Fri ilay that Secretary Carlisle bad given orders that the Treasury notes should be redeemed onlv in silver, and the ?.tree! was ready to go off into a first class panic when it became known that ;is a matter of fncl ^iI\ ? ? notes were still being redeemed in gold at the sub-treasury. Thon tu make as suranee double Mire the President gave nut a formal statement that nei? ther be nor the Secretary of the Treasmy nor any member of his Cabinet had ever contemplated re redeeming the Treasury notes in sil? ver as long as it is pcsible t-? redeem them in gold. One would think that this state? ment was sufficiently explicit, but yet there are papers which quibble >ver the practical admission coutaiu ?d in Mr. Cleveland's letter that circumstances might arise in which it would be impossible to maintain gold redemption. That admission only means that the President is not i dictator, lie has pledged himself to use all the powers entrusted to him to maintain the credit of the country as to all of its obligations, but that is as far as he could go. When he has exhausted the powers conferred upon him by law, if gold continues to flow out of the country, he will be com? pelled to call Congress together, and then it will be for the legislative branch of the Government to deter? mine whether or not the unblemished record of the United States in regard to its financial obligations shall tar? nished by an act of repudiation. Sfet'gngea Without Wire*. The promise of electrical commu? nication between two distinct points without the agency of an intervening wire is being full Hilled with startling rapidity and almost incredible succes. The wonderful capacity of the invisi? ble electric energy for leaping across a gulf of air miles in width and nn eringly delivering its message is al? most daily enlarging its functions. Inductive electricity, as it is called, which thus rinds the atmospheric air or the other a sufficient c mdutor for its purposes and was a few years since but little more than a theory of the laboratory and elass-ro ?m, has now become a momentous fact in civ? ilization and commerce. Jt is only four years since we re? corded as a remarkable triumph the fact of telegraphing to and from railway trains in motion by a parallel telegraph line. In this instance, it may be remembered, the electric mes? sage jumped across a distance of some twelve feet without any con? necting wire and this achiev ement on the Lehigh Valley was the theme <f considerable jubilation throughout the American continent. To-dav English electricians at Cardiff and elsewhere are easily tranmittiug elec? tric messages across a wireless dis? tance of three miles withont any sign of approaching the limits of the elec? tric function in this direction.?Leis? ure Hours. Have yon pafc[P^^abg^]^g^^