The Raleigh Herald from Beckley, West Virginia • Page 5

THE RALEIGH HERALD. a Young Man te Time. is money, yes mo than money. And it is jusf- as important to keep tally on time as it is to take care of other items of value. Every boy over ten should have a reliable watch and learn the value of a minute.

There is no other gift equal to i good watch for son or daughter. I have a full line of very fine the lowest prices. Come and take a look at them before buying. Fine watch and jewelry repairing a specialty. All work guaranteed to give satisfaction.

J. R. Anderson The Jeweler Heber Next Door to Post Office Bolt As we have seen nothing: in the Herald from our town tor some time, we wish to begin by informing- the readers that Bolt still exists. The warm weather of last week was quite conducive to ill heatth and Dr. G.

P. Daniel, of Marshes, is making frequent trips to Bolt. The families of G. W. Bolt, 0.

W. Trump, V. P. Jackson and H. W.

Clemens are on his list of patients. Miss Jemima Trump, who is teaching the Snuffer school this winter, is visiting her parents, Mr. and Jlrs. H. J.

Trump at present. Miss Frankie Goff has returned from Spencer, where she spent the holidays, and has resumed her school work at this place with great success. The other two schools are progressing nicely with B. J. Shumate and Wayne Henderson as instructors.

Lee Snuffer, a well known trapper in this vicinity, went out one morning recently and failed to find a single one of his traps. Dr. Kinnis, of Oak Hill, was a business caller here a few days since. Two grass widowers are holding forth in our midst, as Wavie Trump and Hallie Shumate are visiting their parents who live at a distance, and their husdands, Ben and Oliver are keeping. M.

E. Church South Services Fourth Sunday; Beck ley at 11 a. m. Raleigh at 7 p. m.

VIRGINIAN RAILWAY Biff Schedule Effective Nov. 13th, 1910. EAST BouNti No. 14 daily 8 43 am Iv 1050am J210pm 1239pm 12 44pm 1 00 pm 1 45 pm 2 54 pm 3 45 pm 4 32 pm 13 pm f526 pm 6 13 pm Charleston Deepwater Pax HARPER Eccles Lester Mullens Matoaka Princeton Rich Creek Pembroke Merrimac WESTJBOUND No. 13 daily ar 6 00 pm 4 05 pm 235 pm 2 05 pm 1 59 pm 1 40 pm Iv 1253pm 1149pm 1100 am 1014am 9 32 am f919 am 6 19 pm ar Yellow Sulphur ar 27 am 7 19 pm Salem 7 33 am 7 40 pm Roanoke Iv 7 15 am lOOOpmlv Roanoke ar 7 00 am 1154 pm ar Altavista Iv 5 07 am 1558pm" Brookneal 407 am 2 20 am Meherrin 2 47 am 3 35 am Alberta 1 31 am 4 30 am Jarratt 1236 am 6 25 am ar Suffolk 1050 pm 716am" Norfolk "1000pm stop.

Train No. 2 leaves Roanoke daily at 8 00 am for Norfolk and intermediate stations. Arrive Norfolk 5 00 pm. Pullman sleeping cars operated on trains Nos. 13 and 14 between Roanoke and Norfolk, and Virginian Club cars between Roanoke and Charleston, and on day trains between Roanoke and Norfolk.

Connections made at Charleston for Huntington, Parkersbnrfr, Wheeling, Pittaburg and points West and South- went. S. M. ADSIT, General Agent, Norfolk, Va. IT WORKED WELL Hit Schema Succeeded Even It Did Upset the Family.

An excited man rushed Into the office of a banker with his mouth full of words. "Say," lie paused, "you remember well enough that 1 was In here for two hours this mornliife'. don't two and half, but two anyhow?" Tho banker nodded that he recalled that fact. "Uh, hull," went on tho excited man, slightly relieved, "and. those two hours or more included tho hour between 10 and 11 o'clock, didn't they? You remember that, don't you? "Ah, I am ghitl you remember.

Now, if my wife calls up and asks you if 1 was here right In sight every minute of the time from 10 to 11 you could tell her so truthfully enough, couldn't you? Good: What do you think? You know that fellow Smith that lives right next door to us? Always seemed like nice fellow, but what do you s'pose he did this morning? On his way by thif house he wife- that I've just been arrested for insulting a woman down ou the public square about 10:30 and that I then got into a h'jrht with her husband, who managed to punch my face for me before the police got there. 'Smith thought it'd be a great joke. I s'pose. Yeh. Funny one, wasn't it? And now my -wife called me up am won't believe there wasn't anything to it.

Says the reports may have heei exaggerated, hut surely something must have happened. Gee: I'm glad you're able to prove an alibi for me Well. 1 must get along. This thing's, upset mo so that I've had to let my work just sort of slide." The banker waited for the wife to call him up, intending to every thing in his power for the acquittal of his friend. In about three-quarters an hour the friend came rushing In n.

This time he was smiling am 1 was less excited. It's all right." he said. "Here's 30w it all happened. My wife hnd an awful spell of hiccoughing and ran over to the Smiths to see if they knew nny way t.o~^top it. Smith that sudden fear or sudden consternation would stop it, so ho faked up the story about me insulting the woman.

His scheme worked, except my wife vouldn't believe him at first when ho old her that he'd just said it to stop liceoughs. Everything is all right now. though. Smith's terribly sorry ibout it. but he meant well New York Herald: A SHARP CLIENT.

Fooled His Counsel, but Hit rierve Won Him Freedom. TUe Paris.bur islaiighlng at tho niso of a advocate wlio had to defend a imin whose of the best. After nnu'li thought the counsel concluded that if he could produce documentary evidence of his client's honesty all would be wcll'iuid to obtain nn acquittal would mean much, as far as future practice was concerned. Like most suspects, the client was penniless, so to produce the necessary. evidence it was nepdful to provide tun means.

The advocate gave his client a live fraiiL- suggested that be should take it to (be police and NUGGETS 01 GOLD Some of the Largest Ever Struck Were Found by THE OLIVER MARTIN CHUNK. It Was Turned Up by a Miner Who Was Digging a Grave For His Drowned Starving Miner Unearthed the "Welcome Stranger." Nowhere docs fortune Indulge her love of the dramatic and'llic sensational more fully than In the gold say he found it'in the street and thus I fields. obtain a receipt. The client acqui- Take, for instance, the story of escod. went to the police oliico and re.

the discovery of the world famous turned with a receipt. The advocate! "Blanche liarkli-y" nugget i he curly gave a cursory glance at tho docii- i of Australian sold mining, whicii hient and tied it up with his brief, lit- scllt (hrm imuill W)1 (l cmnctl VOLLON'S PUMPKIN. A Painting That Parisian Into Hysterics. It is iitirt of the duty of the official pictiuo hanger of I be Suclcto des Krmicais to distribute the canvases whh-Ji are ottered for the furls Salon throughout the rooms of the L'alais dcs Beaux Arts. The Jurors are then summoned to examine these and commend or condemn as'they see lit The arlisls aiv at liberty to appeal to the jurors, and an influential artist can make (rouble for the picture hanger.

In this connection a story is told of Vollon, the painter of still life. Some years ago Vollon had painted what ho deemed his masterpiece, a luxurious pumpkin, orange in color and heroic in sixo. such as one sees at nn agricultural slimy. The jurors did not approve ilip olllelal picture hanger's choice of a for it. A second jr.

and tie thinking of the sequel. On the day of the trial the young ad-1 vocate relied entirely on the police re- i ceipt and thus terminated his appeal to the jury. '1 have a document which shows He Miss Mattio' belonged to the old ioutb. and she was entertaining guest of distinction. On the morning following his ar- iral she told the little colored maid, to take a pitcher of fresh water Firman's room and to say that Ul'ss Mantle sent him her compliments nd that if he wanted a bath the bath- oom was at his service.

When Tillie returned she said: "1 tol' him, Miss Mnttie, en ho aughed tit to bus' hisself." "Why did be laugh. Tillie?" "1 duuuo." "What did you tell him?" what you tol' me to." "Tillie. tell me exactly what you aid." "1 banged de jIoahrlTnd I said, 'Mr. irman. Miss Mat tie sends you bet ib.

and she says. "Now you can get and wash yo'self." He Was Lucky. Au Irishman who was always cheer- il and happy go lucky appeared on he street one morning in a badly bat- ercd condition, but still smiling and Upper. He met a friend, and the oliowing dialogue ensued: "By th' powers, it's bor-rn lucky I ml" "Phwy do y' think so?" "I was hit be a automaliilcrjHSt as li startin' f'r th' shop yistherda' lorniu'. It made me stbagger.

an' a op pinched me for bein' dhrunk. .1 and without delay he took it to the police. Is act of a thief?" Then he triumphantly handed the document to the president of the court. The judge examined it closely and asked: "Was it 5 francs that he found?" "Yes, Mr. President." was the reply.

"1 am quite sure as to that." "But," said the president, "the receipt is for a franc only." The court was convulsed, and the jury, appreciating either the Ingenuity of counsel or the sharpness of his client, acquitted the "honest" knave. I IJTne tho pumpkin had be- jc'ome the prineipn! tniiie of couversa- lion in all the studios of Paris, and tho leading in-UsU Ui'sun to look in lit the Salon to niiiku sure that their exhibits were not being iujurcd by an nnfor- contrast. 1 fainted with homir on seeing expenses, when one August day, tlle nlmpkin llol om llls pictures. lo, toll the story in own words: aK- that thin had dug down about fourteen uel Napier, a sailor, with his In-other Charles and one IJuhen tliuir cook and genera; handy man. had been digging for gold for months at Ivingower, about forty from lien- that during the past week my client digo.

without discovering us much of found a live franc piece in the street. the precious metal as would prty their lr French Servants' It is nn unwritten law in France that you must never say anything bud about a servant or employee in his (lint is to say, if you cannot say anything good you inust.content yourself with noncommittal statement which will not compromise his prospects. For instance, if you have caught your cook robbing you In such a shameful and impudent fashion Hint you are obliged to dismiss her you may not state on her "cerliticate" tllat you have dispensed with her services because you found she was dishonest. That, it is held, might prevent her obtaining a situation clsewhcro, and as every one has to earn his bread the cook'must i bo given the opportunity oE recom- mcncing her larceny elsewhere. All I that you arc enlltlod to say ou her "character" If you will not lie and pay her compliments is that she entered and left your service ou certain dates.

Letter t.3 London Globe. Slio Could Talk. 1 girl never says floes she? she talks all; i the time. doosn't alter; my Uecord. Doubted ths Statistics.

I "How did flarkins act when he I heard he had triplets in his family?" "He could hardly nelic-ve. Transcripe. Tit For Tat. The lady of the house was a handsome woman of a mature order of beauty, and when she had completed her toilet she gazed fondly at herself in the glass aud remarked to maid. "You'd give a good deal to be as handsome as I am, wouldn't you, now?" "Yes'm," was the maid's answer, "almost as much as you'd give to be my age." Forrest's Wonderful Power.

An effeminate young man. an intense admirer of Forrest, enlisted among the supers so as to be nearer his idol. At the eud of Forrest's most effective speech, then en. the new actor was so overcome that he fainted. The incident so pleased the "old man" that he called him to his dressing feet to the pipe clay stratum aud were shuttling around in the bottom of the shaft more dead than alive from the heat.

Old Ambrose lit his pipe and leaned against the side of the hole to rest. Just then I struck something with my pick. I turned it up so the light could strike it. and, by jiminy, it was a chunk of gold as big ae a hubbard squash!" The nugget sold for $35,000. Among the thousands who Docked to the Victorian gold fields In the early fifties were two Cornish miners, John Deason and Richard Gates, who staked a claim near the village of Moliaquo.

They set to work with vigor, confident that in a few months they would be -retire to-thcir native Cornwall "IT'S BOR-TIN TjtICKY I AM." licked in a fight, an' later I wor blowed fifty feet high be a premachoor blast. When 1 come home Dugau's Itout' butted me into th' house, an' the Dulrt woman wot 1 layln' fer me wid a L'ollin' pin." "An 1 in th' name av the saints, do )-ez call thnt lucky?" "Sure: Ain't I alive this Cleveland Leader. Timely Warning. The recent publication of the memoirs of celebrated English university professor, Oscar Browning, recalls famous epigram, said to be one of tho most admirable ever composed. It was perpetrated by a brilliant pupil, K.

Stephen, upon the professor, who was somewhat Inclined to corpulency: O. 0)1, be obedient To nature's stern decreei, For, though you be but O. You may be too obwet A 3IEMKSTO OP OCCASION. 'ootn, wbeve. after few remarks, ho ireseuted him with a dollar as a memento of the occasion.

Ou rejoining lis fellow supers, flve in number, the lappy recipient spoke of his good for- une. dilating upon the cause thereof, it the next performance Forrest kept his eye 011 him to see if he could again overcome him as to cause him to aint. When he reached the scene and his astonishment can be im- igined when six of the supers fell over in a dead faiut. Civil Question, Rude Answer. One dgy O'Rafferty was up before Judge Brady in New York for assaulting Patrick.Murphy, and this was tho examination: "Mr.

O'Rafferty," said the judge, "why did you strike Mr. Murphy?" "Because Murphy would not give me civil answer to a civil question, yer honor." "What was the civil question yon asked him?" "I asked him, perlite as you plazo. 'Murphy, ain't your own brother the biggest thafe on Manhattan Island, excepting yourself and your uncle, Who is absent at the penitentiary at Sing what rude answer did he give you to such a very civil question?" "He said to me, 'Av course, prisint company So I said. 'Murphy, you're a and struck him wid nio fist." Explaining the Cause. There were introductions all around.

The big man stared in a puzzled way at the club guest. "You look like a man I've seen somewhere, Mr. Blnkler." ho said. "Your face seems very familiar. I fancy you have a double.

And funny thing jiboul it is thnt I remember I formed strong prejudice against the man who looks like I'm quite sure we never met." The little guest softly laughed. "I'm the man." he answered, "and 1 know why you formed the prejudice. I passed the contribution plate for two years in the chhyb you Cleveland Plain Dealer. rich men, but their expectations were doomed to cruel disappointment. Not only months, but many years, passed and found them still as far removed from fortune as at the beginning, and by JSOO, fifteen years after they began their search for gold, they were reduced to the last straits.

Starvation stared thorn in the face. In despair the miner seized his pick and wandered away to the outskirts of the gold field, and as he wandered, downcast and heavy hearted, he noticed a gleam of yellow in a rut made by a peddler's cart. Lifting his pick, with a few frantic blows be brought to light nn enormous nugget, which, with all bis strength, he could barely raise an inch from the ground. The nugget, which was soon known the world over as the "Welcome Stranger." actually weighed two hundredweight and was sold for nearly $30,000. And these were but a few of the many similar blocks of gold discovered In Australia under equally dramatic While a native sheplierd" named Kerr was tending bis sheep one day his attention was arrested by a yellow rock projecting a few inches above the soil.

In his excitement at the discovery he ran to fetch bin mas-- tor. The rock was unearthed and proved to be a nugget of two hundredweight, from winch 100 pounds of pure gold were extracted. A few years later another monster nugget made its appearance at Ballarat. A party of miners had worked a claim to a depth of sixty yards when cue of them struck with bis pickax a hard, irregularly shaped mass, which on being unearthed proved to be block of almost pure gold twenty inches long, a foot wide and seven Inches deep. Its weight was almost one hundredweight and a quarter and Its value away!" he shouted; "it kills my white and pink nymphs!" So.

the pumpkin was removed. But here Corninn objected. Ho declared that It should not stay in the same room with bis pictures. "Its juxtaposition to my lions and bears nnd tigers," said he, "makes them look like tame cats." Tattegraln was the next artist to protest. "Don't place it near my work!" he exclaimed angrily.

"What becomes of the martial spirit of my canvases, and what Is tho use of exhibiting starving garrisons with big pumpkin alongside?" So the pumpkin wns shifted about till it had passed through fifteen rooms, and not a member of the society would tolerate its presence. Fi- nallytne picture hanger placed the pumpkin in the entrance hall, officially called "Salic d'Honneur," but popularly dubbed I he "Chamber of Horrors." Naturally Vollon became the mortal enemy of tin 1 unhappy picture Weekly. OYSTERS ARE LAZY. It was the periodical Ballarat of these monster nuggets which first fired the blood of the entire world in the faraway fifties. But even Ballarat lias no other romance to rival that of the discovery of two huge nuggets within a few days in the same cluim.

The story runs that four miners had worked their claim down to about sixty feet when one of them brought to' light' a nugget weighing nearly one hundredweight and worth $27,500. In their joy at such a rich treasure trove the men abandoned the diggings and took their nugget vlth them to England. They had scarcely left Bullarat when their successors in the claim, with almost the first stroke of a pick, turned over another nugget heavier than the first and valued at more than $33,000. Of all the romantic stories told of gold discoveries in California not one is more remarkable than tuat of which Qliver Martin was the hero. For months Martin and a companion- named Flawcr had been prospecting for gold to- no purpose.

Worn out by hardships and half dead from starvation, they were on the point of abandoning the quest in despair when fate administered her last crushing blow. They were overtaken by a terrible storm. In which Flower was drowned. Martin, weak though he was. set to work to dig his fallen comrade's grave at: the foot of a tree nnd had dug down barely two feet when his spade struck a hard, unyielding substance, which, to his amazement nnd delight, proved to bo an enormous nugget, the largest ever found on the American continent.

The "Oliver Martin Chunk," as It cnme to be known the whole wojkl over, weighed 151 pounds 0 ounces and was the nucleus of a fortune of million dollars which Martin accumulated In later Saturday Journal. They Spend Practically the Whole of Their Lives In Beds. Just like confirmed invalids, oysters epond their lives in beds. The principal parts of an oyster are salt water and a handsome stomach. Every oyster has a mother-of-pearl lined overcoat with the moss on the outside.

But a Waldorf-Astoria oyster gathers no moss. Oysters, as rule, keep their mouths shut, but when they have been in society too long they begin to gape. They are fond of playing games, one of their favorites -being rlng-around- i-rosy. In this game they join shells a circle tfn a live-in the ocean in summer and during tho win- months frequent the principal bo- and restaurants, -where they have seats on cakes of Ice specially prepared for them. They are rarely met with at buskings or church fairs.

An oyster is a coueliologist by nature, a bivalve by profession and an appetizer because lie cannot help himself. There arc girl oysters as well as mou oysters; bul, so far as is known, one is not superior to (lie other. Oysters viu-y lu size su'CordUtg to their circumstances and their bringing than others. There Is no particular rule about this. But: if at first you don't succeed, try.

try again. In June the oysters ought to be as rare as the L. Masson In Judge's Library. Sorvio Famous Echoes. There is a famous echo on the Rhine between and Biiigen which repeats word seventeen times, while in the sepulcher of Motella, the wife of Sulla, iu the Roman Campagna, there is an echo which repeats five times in different keys and will also give hack with distinctness a hexameter line which requires two and a half seconds to Butter.

Brewster mentions an echo on. the north side of Shipley church, in England, which repeats twenty-one syllables. An Oversight. To impress on youiig children Just aud should not be done and why is among the most trying problems of evidenced by. the recent experience of a West Philadelphia mother.

Last Sunday she asked her small sou. aged eight, to carry a chair for her from the diuing. room to the parlor. He started off but Lu bull he tripped aud fell. Auiid tho crash could be hoard the boy giving vent to utterances that would have done credit to a pirate of ancient days.

The mother was taken by surprise aud was greatly shocked. She gave the boy a long and serious talk on the subject of profanity. This apparently did not make the right impression, for when she concluded tho boy added to her discomfiture by exclaiming, "I am sorry I swore, mamma, but I forgot it was Record. Benton to a Mummy. Until pretty hue in the eighteenth century mummies entered into a great variety of drugs, balms and other medicaments.

As the genuine mummy was then expensive, recipes were given by many ancient -writers for converting human (lesb lino mummy. Usually only certain of'the body were used, and these were beaten, dried, macerated and spiced out of all likeness to their natural condition, hence "beaten to a mummy." Numerous allusions are made to the practice in ancient literature, aud in an old play, "Bird In a Cage," are the directions, "Make mummy of my flesh and sell me to the apothecaries." Not So Green. "1'cou city chaps think ycou arc pretty smart, don't yeou?" drawled the farm lad. "Ever been to one of our spelling bees?" "Never bad the pleasure," responded tho city boarder. "Waal, by heck, yeou've missed a lot.

Now our favorite catchword Is Ice." "Why. that only has three letters. Why should the word ice be so popular?" "Because it is easy to slip on. Ha, ha, N'ews. It's Nature.

"I noticed in tho store we visited today everybody wns crowded nround the perfumery counter." "That's not surprising." "Why not?" "Oughtn't perfume naturally to be a scentcr of A morlcnu. The most completely lost of all tho one on which wo have not WHAT Is YOUR CLOTHES BUYING GUIDE? Are you guided by style? Are you guided quality? Are you guided by price? any suit by ntiy one of these three points from otir stock and you'll find the others there also. Smart Style, Super. io'r Quality Moderate Price Mr. A i) OR CLOTHING COM'Y Beclcley, West Virginia.