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Show PARSON'S COFFEE Hi GREAT KICK BIG STONE GAP, Ya - Parson Toll! I ver Simpson has been a "circuit rider" jin tho mountains of Virginia, West : Virginia and Kentucky for nigh on to forty years. Regularly, with th phases of the moon, Parson Simpson on his bony old nug could be en winding through the valleya to tho Life tlo settlements, carrying the gospel to tho mountain folk, administering to their ills, If such hardly folk "wore down.' and carrying them supplies from the outside world And so the par6on was beloved of the mountain folk But now the par-leon par-leon hasn't made a visit to tho folk down in the valleys for several weeks. His swallow tailed coat and top hat no more are seen bobbing up and down ' on his bouncing old sorrel The par-I par-I son has found a "bar hole.'' as tho saying goes and la staying thar And Bud Barrow, who came to town tho other day. went back to his clan with I tho information that the parson had fallen from grace. It's a queer story Tho parson, It seemed, began to feel the high cost of living, even though h always had a bunk and a meal at any of the mountain cabins ho visited. But ho long had been in close touch with poverty and in helping others had no time to help himself. Then he had the germ of a great idea. He would sell coffee. The parson made all the little mountain moun-tain towns soiling coffee, and only once In a month or so would he co back to the mountain to carry tho (ruth " He bought himself a Jolt wncon and though the old sorrel balked. Indignant Indig-nant at having to pull something he went on. Coffee became popular In the towns outside the hills and the par-sou par-sou went farther into the larger places. The demand for "Java" became greater great-er and greater. Then tho parson came to grief. Ho sold some of tho coffee to a "rev-noor" "rev-noor" one day. The purchaser found a bottle of whtio liquid amid the coffee cof-fee beans. Ho tasted Hoop! It mado him tingle, that moonshine did. |