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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1915-02-19
HAMLET WYNN.

The letter referred to by Mr.. Wynn
contains an extract from personal
Recollections," written by Mr.. Nc
Dougal an attorney, of Kansas City,
Mo-, concerning DR.. Thomas Dunn
English. These facts stated by Mr..
McDougal have already been pub
lished in this paper. We find, how
ever mistake in the following par
agraph:
line man who made Ben Bolt fa-
nous, and put it into the mouth of
every American and English singer
as IL song, however, was not the au-
thor, but a brainy, clever, Bohemian
minstrel named Nelson Kneass, of
Baltimore, Maryland" Mr.. Kneass
wrote the music only for the poem.
The following letter received from
the large music house, the Oliver
Ditson Company, is authentic. The
letter says, quoting from a publica-
ton, Our Familiar Songs and Who
Made Them:
The name of DR.. Thomas Dunn
English is familiar to the readers of
the past forty years; but l think it
has not generally been associated with
this widely popular song, Ben Bolt.
The music appeared with only the
SOAhPooSio iietiilS aIldCHeu, ana JIluL
has always been given incorrectly.
DR.. English was born in Philadel-
phia, June 20, 1919. His vigorous
poem "The Gallows-G Goers" made a
great sensation in 1845, when cap
ltal punishment was an exciting sub
Ject of popular debate. A selection
from his historical poems has re-
Gently (880) been published in New
York, under the title of American
Ballads
Ben Bolt was written in 1912. Its
author was visiting in New York and
N. P. Willis, who, with Geo. p. Morris
was editing the New Mirror, asked
him for a gratuitous contribution, and
suggested that it be a seas song. DR..
English promised one, and on return
ing to. his home, attempted to make
good his word. Only one line that
smacked of the sea came at his bid
ding; but at a white heat he compos-
ed the five stanzas of Ben Bolt" as
it now reads, betraying the original
intention in the last line of the last
stanza. Within a year the poem had
been reprinted in England, and it's
author then thought it might be a
still greater favorite if set to appro-
pirate music"
The music company states in q
private letter, that the "words of the
poem were adapted to a German mel
ody by Nelson Kneass.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1915-02-19
Cooking in the Vocational School.

Factory legislation, the eight hour
law, as we'll as some of the methods
Oh modern industry, are needed in
many kitchens, according to Mrs. Iris
Irouty O'Leary, whose bulletin on
Cooking as Training for Home
making Vocational Schools" has inst
been issued by the United States Bu-
reau of Education.
housekeeping lacks the spirit and
inspiration of teamwork" saws Mrs
OLeary. "The woman who has once
Deen IN industry misses the compan-
lonshlp to which she mas been accus-
toned. She finds herself, therefore
without tanbible incentive to speed
and quality of work"
Home making outranks all other
trades in the number of persons en-
ployed, according to the bulletin. or
the 81 millions of women over ten
years of age in the United States. "a
millions of women are engaged in
home making. Mrs. OLeary points
out that while girls may enter other
trades, the great majority of women
become, at one time or other, home
makers. Wage earning for them is
but temporary affair, which thew
VIII leave for permanent position
in their own homes.
The bulletin lays emphasis on the
fact that cooking is scientific pro-
cess and should be taught as such.
especially in the new vocational
schools that are being established
Ability to cook is something with
which every girl is by tradition en-
dowed. No number of poor cooks
seems TO offset the belief that skill
in this trade will come at the call of
necessity. The aim of trade training
IN cooking, through the vocational
schools, is to teach the subject in such
a way as to give actual ability to do
this work under home conditions and
In a professional manner"
The bulletin deals solely with the
teaching of cooking for home-making
purposes in the day and evening class,
es OF the vocational schools. "Such
instruction." says the bulletin, "aims
to develop appreciation and to give
training. The training should give
manipulative skill and knowledge of
materials to the extent of producing
a commercial product" Cooking an.
preached from the trade rather than
the merely cultural side demands ex-
perienced instructors and far more
time than is given in the regular
day school which must necessarily
teach by the group method and give
but 0O hours year to the sub iect -
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1915-02-19
HOW DISTRIBUTED.

hundred sommunes and distributing
centers in Belgium. The distribution,
which is under the supervision of
Americans, is conducted by COM
mittee created from principal
business men in Belgium, together
with representatives Of various prov
inces of Belgium. Every effort is
used to effect as nearly as possible
equal distribution of foodstuff in all
the land. The head office of the COM
mittee is in Brussels.
In each district or commune, each
destitute person becomes subject
of special Investigation If found
worthy, the person is given free
non-transferable ticket, emitting him
to rations twice n day. Persons of
small means are given the same ra-
tons at a nominal cost, averaging
nine francs month.
PER CAPITA PORTION.
The allotment to each person con-
sists of three hundred grams of bread
portions of potatoes, coffee, vegeta-
bles and meat. The food is supplied
IN canteens, one for adults, another
for children under three years of age
and another for children between three
and twelve years of age. The chill
dren in the last named class are Civ
en- rations at school.
This gives some idea of how the
food is given to the Belgiums. AT
another time | will go into detail as
to the formalities and rules the peo-
pie are required to recognize before
they are given anything further to
eat.
ONLY A SMALL PART.
With several million hungry people
to be supplied, the people of Virgin
ia may readily see that the Lynorta's
cargo was small portion of q great
work. Here in London / have heard
that the American relief commission
already has sent, and plans to send,
48 vessels of mercy to the Belgians,
amounting in round figures to q lit
tie more than 100000 tons of supplies.
Before closing / want to say that
the experience of seeing so many peo-
pie In want has very saddening eff
feet. A man does not like to see
women and children suffering. 1t
goes to the heart with pang that
cannot be described. One thinks of
his own fireside and little ones; and
the vision that they too could suffer,
as these people are doing, stirs the
deepest compassion in ones breast.
But on the other hand | will never
forget what l have seen in the faces
OF even the smallest children, some
In their mothers arms. When they
have seen small and withered little
flag of the Stars and Stripes, carried
IN the lapel of some and have heard
the word, America" whispered by
mother-lips, | have heard them lisp
back America" as none else could
say. it. except Belgian child, whose
plaintive voice sounds as if it were
mIurmurlng some music we hear only
IN dreams--and America" has grown
to be the sweetest music to them.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1915-02-19

w. O. Barns was here on Tuesday
feeling good deal "worse for wear"
The grip has had him and rattlei his
bones.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1915-02-19

Mrs. d. G. Gibson is reported i'll
with pneumonia at her home in
Thompson Valley.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1915-02-19

the brick house near the graveyard
The remains of this chimney were
there 81 years ago when L left the
spring on rising ground near @ It the 6
grave yard. (See Beckley's history of
Iazewell county,. My grandmother
Wynn was sister of Thomas Peery
and DR.. Henry Fielding Peery, of
Jeffersonville.
|, want to say this to my old Taze-
well county friends and relations, If
any there be: 81 bid you good morn
ing and | bid you goodby."
Sincerely
/
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1915-02-19

few more of these sunshining
days, and the ground will begin to roll.
Better had", for really all the spring
plowing is to be done yet.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1915-02-19

Hobart Sparks, some of the late
Hugh and Ella Sparks, died at his
home in Baptist Valley on Wednesday.
after two weeks illness of typhoid
fever. 1t is thought that the disease
was contracted in a railroad camp.
The burial occurred yesterday in Bap.
tlst Valley, the services being con-
Quoted by the Rev. Ezra Linkous, of
Cedar Bluff. 1t will be recalled that
the parents of the deceased died last
of each other.
Wish all the names of all the good
people who have renewed their sub
scriiption this week, and new sub
scrlbers too, could be mentioned in the
paper, but it would take too much
space. All of these have the thanks
of the editor,
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1915-03-12
Canal Shows Increase.

Notwithstanding expectations to the
contrary, both tolls and tonnage OF
the Panama canal for January showed
an increase over any previous month
since the canal was opened for traffic
on August Is last. During January
the canal earned $419,037 in tolls, de-
rived from a total canal tonnage OF
44S,957. The total tonnage is only a
little o than that for November,
the previous high month. The totals
are $7,141 in excess of those for De-
cember, the previous high month for
receipts.
Since the canal opened on August
Is it has earned 81, 1865, 137 in tolls. The
total tonnage for the period from Au-
gust Is to February l was 2,192,s $50,
which was carried in asa vessels of all
descriptions. In January, 90 ships
passed through the waterway, of which
six did not carry cargoes of any kind.
The number of vessels for the month
was n below December.
An analysis of the canal traffic in
dicates that the United States coast
wise shipping continues to make the
largest share of canal tolls payments,
although that to the United States and
Europe from South American west
coast ports is increasing rapidly.
Traffic from the United States to
the far east is making slower Roadway
than either of the other two large
trade routes through the canal.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1915-03-12

ing good health now and wv it all to
your remedies. / take pleasure in tell
ing my friends and neighbors about
them."-Mrs. MATTE HALEY, sol Col
quhone Street, Danville, Va.
No woman suffering from any form
of female troubles should lose hope I'M
til she has given Lydia e. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound fair trial.
This famous remedy, the medicinal
ingredients of which are derived
from native roots and herbs, has for
forty years proved to be a most valua-
BILE tonic and invigorator of the fe-
male organism. Women everywhere
bear willing testimony to the wonderful
virtue of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegeta-
BILE Compound.
If you have the slightest doubt
that Lydia Il. Pinkham's Vegeta-
BILE COmpOundwin help you, write
to Lydia Observation-Disclosures Co.
(cOnfidential) Lynn, Mass, for adj
vice. Your letter will be opened,
read and answered by a woman,
and held in strict confidence.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1915-03-12

1t is becoming more and more GER
tain every week that 1915 is going to
be a prosperous year for the United
States. AS a result of the war, Eu-
rope and the world at large is more
dependent upon this country than ever
before and ours is the great oppor-
tunity of stepping forward about 100
years, commercially and financially.
This year is bound to show a great
Improvement in businss generally over
1914, and either 1915 or 1916 will be
the biggest business year in the his
tory of the United States. And condi-
tions out here in the Pacific North
west are especially favorable.
The steel sinews of business are
drawn taut with the tension of ex-
pectancy. AS far back as last August,
some of our more daring prophets
were f~orecasting an era of unprece-
denied business activity as a result of
the European crisis. The knowledge
that such a condition must inevitably
follow in the wake of the war, gradu'
ally spread throughout the country.
Proof Of the prophesied prosperity
soon became evident. Reports thai
large orders were to be placed here by
Europe YER given prominence by the
press. Finally the actual orders be
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1915-03-12

The decline of one branch of the
fishing industry in this country is in
Dictated in the announcement from
New Bedford, Mass, of the suspen
sion of the Whalemen's Shipping List.
When the paper was established in
1S43 the number of vessels engaged
in the whale fishery was 675, with an
aggregate tonnage of 49, ia. Three
years later high water mark in the
Industry vas reached with $50 ships
a~ggregating 233,25s tons. Today only
32 vessels, with a total tonnage of g.
613, are occupied in the search for
whales. In 1851 the whaling feet
brought to this country sofa bar
rels of sperm and whale oil and $685.
800 pounds of whalebone. In 1914,
with the pursuit Of whales almost
wholly confined to the Atlantic ocean,
the oil brought home amounted to but
1920 barrels. Three vessels brought
back from the Arctic $4,000 pounds
of whalebone. The highest price for
sperm oil, reached during the civil
war, was $2.75 a gallon; last years
product sold at As to 4S cents.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1915-03-12
SOUR, ACID STOMACHS,
GASES OR INDIGESTION
Each "Pape's Diapepsin" digests 5000
grains food, ending all stomtch
misery in five minutes.

Time it! In five minutes all stom-
ach distress will go. No indigestion,
heartburn, sourness or belching of
gas, acid, or eructations of undigested
food, no dizziness, bloating, foul
breath or headache.
Pape's Diapepsin is noted for it's
speed in regulating upset stomachs.
1t is the surest, quickest stomach rem-
edy in the whole world and besides it
is harmless. Put an end to stomach
trouble forever by getting a large
f%ifty-cent case of Pape's Diapepsin
from any drug store. You realize in
five minutes how needless it is to suf-
fer from indigestion, dyspepsia or any
stomach disorder. It's the quickest,
surest and most harmless stomach
.octor in the world.-Adv.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1915-03-12
new ARMOR PLATE
The New Process, it is
Claimed, VIII Make
Large Guns Useless.

Another of the series of experiments to
determine the resisting power of a certain
class of armor was recently
with extremely satisfactory results. For
~tifications built of this metal might be
made indestructible and it would be use
less to lombard them.
1t is also useless to try to make a sue
cess in life if handicapped by poor health,
You lack the strength and stamina neces-
sary to win.
In the majority of cases of poor health,
stomach trouble is the real cause; but
this can be corrected by careful diet and
the assistance of Hostetters Stomach
Bitters. 1t tones, strengthens and helps
the digestive functions and when the o
is properly digested, strength and renew
ed vigor is sent coursing through the en-
tire system.
The proper time for action is when You
notice the first symptoms of weakness,
such as loss of appetite. headache, bloar-
ing, heartburn, sour stomach, indigestion
or constipation and by resorting to Hos
letters Stomach Bitters you can help Ma
ture conquer them. Delay only aggravates
matters and ~prolongs your suffering.
Take a bottle home with o today but
see that the stamp over the neck is I'M
broken.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1915-03-12
10 CENT ~"CASCARETS"
IF BILIOUS OR COSTIVE
For Sick Headache, Sour Stomach,
Sluggish Liver and BoweIs-They
. work while you sleep.

Furred Tongue, Bad Taste, Indiges-
ton, Sallow Skin and Miserable Head.
aches come from a torpid liver and
clogged bowels, which cause your
stomach to become filled with undi-
gested food, which sours and ferments
like garbage in a swill barrel. That's
the first step to untold misery-indi-
gestion, foul gases, bad breath, yellow
skin, mental fears, everything that is
horrible and %nauseating. A Cascaret
tonight will give your co~nstipated
bowels a thorough cleansing and
straighten you out by morning. They
work while 0 sleep-a 10-cent box
from your druggist will keep you feel
ing good for months.-Adv.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1915-03-12

James j. Hill, the railroad magnate,
has started a campaign to teach
farmers throughout the Northwest to
raise stock and how they may get the
funds to finance such enterprises.
Howard R. Smith, professor of animal
husbandry of the University Of Min
n~esota, has been employed to conduct
the work. He has resigned his place
at the university and will devote an
entire year to his new work. He will
begin by talking to groups Of farmers
There are doubtless times when
righteous indignation is to be com
mended, but it is only when you are
sure that you are right.
and bankers.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1915-03-12
Quick Relief When
Utterly Worn Out
Getting tie Blood in Order
Is Required By Most
People.

If you think you have gone to smash and
Mt only for the discard, try s. s. s. for the
blood. 1t will surprise you to know what
can be done for health once the blood Is
released Of the excess of body wastes that
keep it from exercising its full measure of
bodily repair.
If you feel played out, go to any drug
store and ask for a bottle of s. S. S.. Here
Is a remedy that gets at work in a twink
ling; 1t just naturally rushes right into
your blood, scatters germs right and left,
up and down and sideways.
You feel better at once, not from a stim-
ulant, not from the action of drugs, but
from the rational effect of a natural medi-
cine.
The ingredients in S. s. s. serve the
active purpose Of SO stimulating the cellular
tissues of the body that they pick out from
the blood their own essential nutriment and
thus repair work begins at once. The relief
Is general all over the system.
Do not neglect to get a bottle of s. s.. S.
today. 1t will make you feel better in just
a few minutes. 1t is prepared only In the
laboratory Of The Swift Specific Co., $50
Swift Bldg, Atlanta, Ga. Send for their
free book telling Of the many strange con-
ditions that afdict the human family by
reason Of impoverished blood.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1915-03-12

F~orecasting the market is a good
deal like ~forecasting the weather. The
only thing that it is possible to do is
to ascertain, so far as possible, what
has happened, under existing condi.
tons in the past and guess that the
same thing will happen again. 1t is
reasonable to suppose that similar
conditions will produce similar re
suits, but it is just as well to take this
fact into consideration that the unex-
pected occurs with discopcerting fire.
quency, if you contemplate placing a
bet on the outcome,
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1915-03-12
The dispatches one

gan to appear. The dispatches n
day noted that:
England had ordered a million
pounds Of corned beef in Chicago.
France had bought 100000 yards
Of over-coating in New York.
Russia had purchased a million wool
Ell blankets in Connecticut.
A million bushels of wheat had been
sold that day in Chicago for export.
An American agent had returned
from Europe with an order for s15,-
100000 worth of vehicles, harness and
saddles.
Half a thousand motor trucks had
been bought by Europe from a Wis
consin firm.
An automobile factory in Michigan
had landed a million dollar order from
Europe.
All this is a single days reports!
And similar orders are coming almost
every day.
AS one writer puts it: THE air is
swapping with the electric, vitalizing
force that you cannot see-only feel.
You know it's coming. Nothing can
stop it. Business-big business--the
biggest year the country ever had"
We believe it. We hope you believe
it. And here's a handclasp over the
miles to express the hope that you get
your share of it,
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1915-03-12
GIVE SYRUP OF FIGS"
TO CONSTIPATED CHILD
Delicious Fruit Laxative" can't harm
tender little Stomach, Liver
and Bowels.

Look at the tongue, mother! IL
coated, your little ones stomach, liver
and bowels need cleansing at once.
When peevish, cross, listless, doesn't
sleep, eat or act naturally, or is fever
ish, stomach sour, breath bad; has
sore throat, diarrhoea, full of cold,
give a t%easpoonful of California Syrup
of Figs" and in a few hours all the
foul, constipated waste, undigested
food and sour bile gently moves out
of its little bowels without gripping,
and you have a well, playful child
again. Ask your druggist for a so.
cent bottle of California Syrup OF
Figs" which contains full directions
for babies, children of all ages and
for grown-ups.-Adv.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1915-03-12

plants are working double time; ship
building yards face many months of
activity; automobile shops, especially
those making commercial cars for use
in the European war zone, are speed
ing up, and certain branches Of the
machine tool industry are swamped
with war orders.
Railway earnings r working up
better, and January reports, taken col
lectively, are likely to present a more
pleasing view.
Bank clearings for the week five
days. aggregate $685. o6 900, a de-
crease of TO per cent as compared
with the like week last year.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1915-03-12
Mother wants a penn'orth of glor!

Mother wants a penn'orth of glory
divine"
I'VE don't keep that" said the
chemist.
"Oh, yes, you do" the little maid
retorted. We've got it here before.
Mother puts it down the drain in the
back yard"
Then the chemist knew that the
glory divine" was another way of
saying chloride of lime.-Strand Mag
aZine.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1915-03-12

IA MIR. Andor kiss, Mo- 31S
80 Clinton Place, Kansas City,
Mo-, writes: 81 cannot
thank you enough for being cured.
For seven long years l doctored
steadily for my catarrh and cough,
which cost me hundreds Of dol
lars. But my catarrh grew worse
all the time. Even though I was
under the treatment of some Of
the most famous doctors, I still
had a terrible cough and thought
sometimes that l would choke.
l could get no air. I then
q bought a bottle OF Peruna, and
that evening and all night my
wife gave it to me according
to the directions, and I felt bet
ter the following day already.
Three days later L felt much i'm
proved, and today, after the use
of the fourth bottle, | feel en-
tirely cured. I can conscien-
tiously recommend this grand
medicine to every citizen"
A Good Cough Tablet.
There are people who object
to taking fluid medicines. For
such people the Peruna Tablets
are especially valuable. They
are convenient to carry in the
pocket
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1915-03-12
General Trade Conditions.

Bradstreet's says: Renewed expan-
sion in trade, especially in the south
west, further speeding up in industrial
operations and excellent advices as to
winter wheat go hand in hand with
optimism, which, however, is tempered
by conservative buying. There is no
disposition to speculate as to the flu
ture. With war orders furnishing
activity to a number of lines, idleness
has decreased, many ammunition
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1915-03-12
A POTATO ROMANCE

eff | were a farmer boy, or a boy with
cut capital, and wanted an early compe-
tency, I'd. start right out growing Pota-
toes" said Henry Schroeder, the Potato
king of the Red River Valley, whose story
in the John A. Salzer Seed Co.'s Catalogue
reads stranger thar a romance.
That advice of Mr.. Schroeder's, the self
made Potato king, comes from a warm
heart, a level head, an active hand, and
above all, a successful Potato grower!