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THE FLOOD.
. For weeks and weeks the snow has boon piling; and drifting in oar ttiotiutains until a depth of two or three feet of packed iciness ray on the level, and in the wind protected reeesws of the closely growing sprnce thickets five feet of enow was to be found. Of the drifts, the like has not been seen in fifty years. In the open, fences wore covered up and some valleys and ravines were leveled over. There have been few bright days and no warm ones, and thejpre- vailing winds have blown over the great snow fields of the north. Bunny rlopes, which aie isually bare ground in a few hours after a storm, have been snow encrust- ed for many days. The streams wire soon ico bound, and nights after freezing days soon increased the thickness of the ice from inth es to nearly a foot. .
Old men shook their heads gravely in speaking of the snow and forecasting the effect of a sudden change to rain or the ad- vent of a warm wind, although some of the deepest snow of their memory'went off gradually, v ith tto exceptionally high water. ..
The days of last week were fog- gy, with a little rain, and the snow began to* melt. Thursday morning the ice broke up in the Greenbrie r below the big dam at Case, - and for several hours the river ran full of ice. On the is- land at the mouth of Beaver Crjek this groge j.'imbed, and hung for ten hours. The ice and water backed for several miles. Ice was piled into the tops of tall treis, and the islands covered deep with ground-and broken ice.
Early Friday morning the Wea- ther Bureau at £lkins issued this bulletin: ••Warin Rain Today and Tonight will cause Bapid Rising of Small Streams." Then ihe dweller on the low lands be* gar! to feel for some uneasiness, email streams make the big river.
Friday the rain fell in torrents and the soft south wind melted the snow like a hot blast. The water gushed from every hill as from a fountain, and soon the rivulet was a rageing torrent.
Late at night came the report that conditions at Durbin were rather equally, with the ice run- ning within two feet of the rail- way bridge. At Wioterburn it was necessary to weigh down the bridge with a heavy engine and loaded train. For a time the dam at C»ss checked the ice floe. The railway embankment is fully twenty feet higher than the wate-, bat the ice blockaded the track. An engine in clecring the way bad even its bead light torn off by the resisting weight -of ice.
At five o'clock a head of water bad gathered sufficient to tear loose the fastenings of the big mill dam and for several beurs the river gorged full from side to •id*, with ice, timber and drifts. In a few hours.time at this point the river rose four or five feet and spread to double its ordinary width, but did little damage.
A tew hours later a cold wave cams on, with snow and a freez- ing temperature, stopping the flow from melting snow banks, and causing the floods tp recede.
Knapps Creek was higher than in thirty years. While it flooded the East End with backed water, leaf inconvenience was caused than by smaller floods. This was doe to the clearing of a back cban nel and the enlarged bed where it join*, the Greeabrier. At Driscol and Huntersville foot bridge*, ten Ie«t above ordinary water were washed away. A few saw 'ogs were seen to go into the river, having floated over the boom two tUee above town. The water reaebed the cap irons of the brie|< pie*.
Saturday was an official holiday in town. Littlo work aod lees cooking were done than ir> a long ti i e.
A few houses were surrounded by water, and a nnmber of base- ments flooded. Soroo water got into the Star B»kery but did not extinguish the fires. M»j >r Sam uel Grovcr found it necessary to desert the ship and seek safety for his photographic material in the second story of a neat by building.
A tresael on the -Marl in ton snd Camden railway across Stony Creek was washed out.
T. B. Rogers, Xiimber^contract- or for the Campbell Lumber Com pany, lost several hundred dollars worth of logs, chains and tools on account of the rapid rise in Days Run. Much damage was also done his roads aid bridges.
The telegraph wires are down in a number of places above Mar- linton. At Cass eleven poles are down in one stretch, whero the ice reached the railroad.
The tn.iii Saturday was dolayed six hours by a blide at Anthony.
The younger boys er joyed the flood to the fullest. Wot a little sport was had at the extremity of the mnskrats which were drowned out of their homes, and were float ing around. By throwing stones and snow balls, the rats would soon become exhausted by diving, and fall an easy prey. The older people, think of gardens to be de- vastated allowed this cruelty to gv unchecked.
Is It a Square Deal? That the management of the
Chesapeake & Ohio railroad dis criminates unfairly against this State is a question that has been raised hero and has probably ta ken root elsewhere in West Vir ginia. Those who hold that this is true point to the fact that in Virginia additional passenger ser vice baa recently been given the people, while in tl is state the passenger service has been reduced to the mioi mum and beyond the point cf comfor'; the new passenger sta tions are everywhere in evidence in Virginia, while there is only one decent depot on the C. & O. in West Virginia; and it is further alleged that the city of Richraoad collects taxes on all the rolling stock and personal property of the road, because this is turned into the assessors there and is there fore not taxable elsewhere. Whether the latter allegiation is trde or not we do not know. We do know that a comparison cf the passenger service and depots in Virginia and West Virginia shows a marked discrimination in favor of Virginia, and why this should be is a question only the manage ment can answer accurately. West Virginia gives the C. & () the greater part *f its revenue. West Virginia pays the freight. West Virginia wonld like to have some of the comforts and conveniences it pays to maintain.—West Vir- ginia News.
Woes cf the Editor A country editor was made to
writhe in keenest humiliation of spirit on receipt of the following scathing criticism by a subscriber on the conduct of his paper:
Dear Bur—I hereby Offer my resignation as a subscriber to jour paper, it being a pamphlet of such small konscquence as not to Benefit my family by takin of it. What jou need in your sbete is braces and some one to rueeell up news and rite eddytoryala on sensible topicks.
No menshion haa been made in your ahete of me butcherin a pig weighin 869 pounds, or of the gaips in the chickens out this way You *t«Djusly ignore the fact that«> the dry rot it eatin things up out here, an aay nothin about Bill
Simpson's durham bnll calf break in its legs fallin down a well, or of grandma Sjpos bavin the core leges.
Too important weddins, hero has been utterly i<. knorod by your kolunins, an a two kolum obitch- uary wrifcby me on the deth of {.rancTpa Henry was left out of
alfabetical poem beeinnin with "A is for Andy and also for Ark" writ by my darter- This is why ycur shete is unpopular here. If you don't v. ant er'dytoryals from this place-and ain't goin to put in no news in your shete we don't want said shete.
Yourn in disgust, I 111!AM l'OAKS
P. S.—If you print that obitch uary in your next isoo 1 may sub skribe again for 3 our shete* —Tid-Bits. H. D.
WOMEN AND CIGARETTES The growing tendency of wom-
en to smoke must be te^arded as a misfortune to the race by all who think deeper than the surface of things.
It is useless to say that the vice is no more injurious to woman than.to man. The subject does
your shete, to say nothin of a. tot 6D(j there. Until nature pro-
STATE NEWS
James K. Scott baa been ap- pointed Clerk of the Circuit Court of Greenbrier county iu the place of the lale Jonathoo Hays.
The monthly report ebows the penitentiary to have a population of 1,186 the first of February. Tbis is a decrease of 22 during the month of January,
E W. McCormick writes the editor of the Raleigh Rugiete.* that be would like to acquire sev- eral hundred acres ef partly level land for making a game preserve for Canadian Eik.
Judge A N, Campbell, of UL-
ion, is being spoken of as Demo- cratic nominee for governor.
The Blue Jay Lumber Company in Raleigh county, has shut down indefinitely, throwing a large num- ber of men out of employment. No demand for lumber is the cause.
The Charleston Mail publishes official returns of the vote on the prohibition amendment in 1888. It lost out at that time by a vote of nearly two to one. Only three counties in the state returned ma jorities for it: Nicholas, Hancock, and Clay. Pooahontas roturned a vote of 813 to 330 against tie i m-.'iidm«nt. The tables ha> e turned in twenty years, however, and unless we are greatly mistake n if the matter comes to a vote the amendment will carry by a vote of three to one.
At Fayette last week, six per- sons were immersed, six inches of ice being cut to get to the water.
'C. F. Young has been appoint- ed editor of the Fayotte Journal and Raleigh Register in the stead of Editor Mclntoah. who has been ousted because he persist- ently refused to Vow the knee to Baa1, and would Lot support the candidate of the machine.
The peach growers of the east- ern Panhandle expect an enor- m 'Us yield this year, owing to the cold winter.
vides some other way for the race to obtain birth than its present methods the habits and thought of woman are of graater import- ance te the world than those of men.
Every child com*s into the world strongly impressed by the p enatiil condition surrounding the mother. /-
Science bus proven that the poorly nourished and illfed mother produces an anemic and weakly child, nnd that drinking mothers produce diseased or abnormal children. 1A countries where great poverty exists, at d where women aro the burden bearers, the race is almost always under- s'z'-d.
The accumulation of proofs that the thoughts of the mother affect the child before birth is overwhelming.
Physically and psychically the mother's part in making her child what it proves to he is so great that it borrows -clow upon om nipotence. Napoleo'i'd mother -ead histories of wars, and wae firei with the conquests of great warriors before his birth. A woman of my acquaintance has an abnormal appetite for fruit be- cause her mother was living on a ranch before her birth where fruit
was not to be obtained. The suppressed desired, ten-
dencies, and appetites are more frequently given to the children
gratified. Therefore it is most important that a woman who ever hrpas to become a mother should not create a habit, appetite or taste which, by its indulgence, will harm her chjld physically, or by its suppression will harm it meijtaUy.
The woman who fills her system with nicotiue wbit«j carrying a child under her heatt could not expect te give that child a good coostitntion.
The woman who caved cigar- ettes continually, and resisted, would give the ohild that craving
Hundreds of young girls think a surreptitious cigarette is ''great fun.""
. If it ends at that, as it does in the Boej >rity of cases, no harm is dono. It does not pay in this worli to be too straight laced, or, as a bright woman expressed it, "to be always tightly buttoned up." But it does pay to so con trol our habits, appetites, and cus- toms that we are masters, and that our minds and bodies are kept clean, wkolesome and well poised; and to so live that our
his woudeiful book, can make her child into what she wishes it to be.
It is a remarkable fact that the present growth of the cigaratte habit among women is largely due to men. I knew at least a •core of men who have taught their wives to smoke. They de- clare it is "sociable'' and makes the wo nan more companionable."
Yet several of the men ha ve been deeply cone rnod when the habit grew upon their wives.
A gifted and beautiful yonng wife of my acquaintance smokes HO incessantly that (he is obliged to take a ''rest cure'' in some san- itarium once or twice a year,
Then, after clearing her system of nicotiue she begins to fill it up again. And never onco 'does she admit to herst>lf that the cigarette habit is the came of her nervous breakdown. She always thinks it doe to her "artistic tempera- ment" and over brain work.
It is to be regretted that women who occupy prominent positions iu the world of society and art, do not feel tho "Noblesse Oblige" which prevents a woman from
StateofWeat Virginia, Pocalioutas.County, to wit: At rules held in the Clerk's
office of the Circuit Court of IV abontaa County on the first Mon- day in February, 1908. The.Standard Oil Company,
va. IN CHANCERY W. 8. Taylor.
The object of tbis suit is to at- tach the real estate of the said W. S. Taylor within the jurisdiction of this Court sufficient to pay the sum of f 129 38 with interest and the costs of this suit.
This day came the plaintiff by attorney and on his motion and t appearing by affidavit filed that the defendant W. S Taylor is a 11011 resident of this State, it is ordered that he do appear within one month after the date of the first publication hereof and do what is necessary to protect his interest in this suit-
Tea te: J. G. TILTON, Clerk.
W. A. BBATTON, Sol.
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children will receive only tho best 'placing ber personal sanc'ion on influence for their earthly portion
FOR SALE—Two pair heavy Percheon colts for Jste or will
of the incarnation to which we call thorn.
Upon the coudition of the mind of the mother depends greatly the kind of spiritual ego she calls from space at the moment of con- ception. To that ego is added the physical inheritance from the par- ents and ancestors and the prena- tal influences of the mother.
Every new born child, is, there- fore, a wonderfully composite creature, but the mother who un- derstands the law of prenatal in- fluence, and adds to it a knowl- edge of what can be done by the high training of the human plant,
a habit which is an injury to the trade for good youog catHe- Ad- sex at large, and to coming gene- dre88 H* H- Slavin, Meadow rai>ns.—Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Dale, Va.
N. B. ArVoghast has been ap- pointed postmaster at Djrbiu, the
Notice
AH those having accounts or office having grown into the rresi- , . , ., , , , . _ claims against the Town of Mar dential clasi. G >od for Darb in, and good for orr friend "Poley!" linton will kt once place the Same
The appointment is well deserved. Pr0PerlJ proven in the hands of- Mr. Arbogast has nursed it from tno Auditing Committee compos its infancy—in fact cared for it ed of 8. B, Wallaoe, Dr, N, R. when it was such a weakling that pfice and 8. L. Hogsatt. no one else would have it. May
thai those which are indulged and as Luther Bur bank expresses it in
he live to see it the "head of the class!"—Highland Recorder. *
Much Paper Mency Printed Dally. The average valuation of the pt»er
money printed daily by Uriel* Sam te tali over ?3,080,COO. ,
8. L. Hogsett, Recorder.
Otlve OH Cheap tn Greece. In Greece the usual prlee of otlve
oil is enly about 20 eente a quart at wholesale. When the yield Is Uonnlly laage, pure oil la still i
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It will be the big bargain hit of this big Jive town. We are not in the habit of promising good things that we are* unable to supply. We
have a rather bad season on account of this money panic, and oonse quently have a larger stock of goods on our hands than usually at this timo. It is an iron clad role not to carry goods over from one season to another, and we must dispose of them.
Its at the placo where yon can savo that it,is to your interest to buy.
know a merchant cannot live and grow unless he treats hie customers foir in every way. Wben any one buys anything from this store he or she can rest assured that it is bought at the lowest possible prices.
This is the Store of Good Goods - at Low Prioa3 •. >---
Dont wait until tomorrow—Jhats the day that never comes. Be Lere barly and get the beet Bargains. Bale begins at once. We have reduced every line in out bouse one third to one half, and sincerely
Everytime we make a sale wO believe we save the purchaser monev , m . u J < »v . _*_ i _— <» J v '• hope our patrons will take advantage of this opportunity because it < * . - • . °
It is not our idea to get rich by charging exhorbitant profit. Wo gives you the values in Cass.
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Anthony's Creek Irca Ore Mr. J. W. Bell, superintendent
of the new iron ore mining opera- tions on Anthony's creek, Green- brier county, W. Va . and also superintendent of the Gosben Fur- nace, was in Covington yesterday. In a conversation with him te in- formed us that prospects for min ii g <re on Anthony's creek on an exteneive scale were exceedingly bright. His company has now a number of houses cree'ed, a com misesry, acd a quantity of ore ready for shipment. , The ore is of an excellent quality, running frr m 50 to 60 per cent pure ir< n and there is almost sn inexhaust ible quantity. Experts estimate the amount in sight at 280,000,000 tons. One vein that baa been opened is 60 feet wide and over 500 feet deep, Mr. Btlt thinks he will be ao*e to supply from these mines all the ore needed in this section for years to eome^—• Qovifgton ^Va.) Sentinel. |
Meiis Winter Suits (10 puits, sale price 12 50 16 17 18 22 24
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7 98 10 98 12 98 13 98 15 98 16 98
Mens Over Coats $8 00 Overcoats, Sale Price 5 79
11 •• ew 8 79 14 " 9 79 16 " 10 79 13 " . 12 79
Men* Pants $1 50 pants, Sale Price
1 75 2 25 «• 2 75 " 4 7 8
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98 1 25 149 1 89 2 69 4 69 5 49
Heavy woolen pants sale prio 1 98 »' 2 69
Boys Suits f 2 25 suits, Sale Price
4 4 50 5 75
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1 69 2 69 8 69 4 98
Woman'8 and Misses long, loose coats, never sold for less than $6, sale price - 4 69
$11 00 long coats, | 7 49 16 " 9 89
Childrens Coats $3 00 coats, sale price
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6 8 *
Ladies Skirts 2 00 skirts, sale price 5 4 «« 7 50 " 10 " 11 silk skirts
2 19 2 59 3 59 4 79
119 3 79 2 79 5 79 7 79 7 79
Blankets & Comforts Blankets large size 10 4 Sof*
Fleeced Gray cotton, blanketf cos4
price 75c sale price 59 cento. - Comforters regular Price $2 00 sale price > 129
Fine quality American Mills Broad cloth, 53 inches wide, in black, brown, red, green, sold at coet. • ' <_
All wsol, Njvelty dre« go>d« biggest bargains we hare ever offered in this department, all wool dark tan novelty dress goods checks, stripes and indistinct This seasons choicest styles and colorings will be sold at cos;
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All winter goods must go to make room for our Spring Stock.
Jacob Cooper UPTODATE CLOTHIER,