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The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1915-02-17
MIR. D. H. Bruce Dead.

MIR. Daniel Hoge Bruce, who
for more than five years has
been an invalid from creeping
paralysis, died at his home last
Wednesday afternoon.
Mr.. Bruce was born in Bland
county August %, 1916. and
was the oldest son OF Mr.. and
Mrs. Joshua Henderson Bruce.
He spent most of his early life
in Bland county, but afterwards
moved to Wise county. where
he has lived ever since, having
made his home in the Gap for
twenty-five years.
He was converted early in
life and joined the Southern
Methodist Church, of which he
has been IA devoted member
ever Since, and most of the
tame was an officer of the
church Ills strong character
and cunsecratcd christian life
was a silent influence I'm every
community IN which he lived
Although ho had been an in
valid for more than five wears.
he was always patient and
cheerful during his sutTerings.
which gave his devoted family
aud friends, who were constant.
~ at his bedside. hope aud
courage up TO the time the
death augei came. and he sank
10 the peaceful sleep OF death.
Tine funeral services were
conducted at 90 o'clock Friday
morning The Masonic frater-
nifty, of which he was an honor
ed member, conducted the bur
ial at Glencoe cemetery in the
Impressive style of the order,
At the Southern Methodist
CHURCH, IN the presence of a
large sorrowlng audience, beau
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1915-02-17
Bill Prohibits Kansas Women
Using Earrings.

Topeka, Kan, Feb. I2.-Kan-
sas women under 10 years who
wear earrings or treat their
faces with cosmetics "for the
purpose of creating false i'm.
preston" will be guilty of mis-
demeanors, and, upon convic-
ton be subject to fines, if IA bill
introduced today in the lower
house of the legislature becomes
a law.
Face powder, perfume, false
hair ard bleaching materials
for the hair are among the ar
ticles the women would be for
hidden to use. The bill provides
that the women may not have
their ears pierced nor wear ear
rings at parties or in any public
place.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1915-02-17
Sneezers
Bad Colds, Spread by Careless
Sneeezing, Declared More
Fatal Than Aerial
Bombs.

Richmond, Va, February -.
The cruising Zeppelins, which
have been scattering death at
Dunkirk and in Southern Eng
land, are bad enough, but as
destroyers they have nothing
on the tiny balloons launched
on deadly missions whenever a
person with a bad cold care
lessly sneezes or coughs.
This, in substance, is the
mid winter warning of the
State Board of Health, issued
today. The board calls atten-
ton to the fact that whenever
person sneezes, fine PARTICLES
of spray are thrown out, which
are, to all intents and purposes,
minute balloons. These float
in the air for an indefinite
period and, if they can reach
the nose or throat of "A well per
son, will give him cold which
he in all PROBABILITY will erron-
eously attribute to draft or ex-
posture.
"Carelessness ON the part of
IN e well-failurc to protect
against sudden changes of TEN
perature, wet feet, drafts and
the !ike-are of course respon.
sible for many hundred colds. ="
declares the State Board of
Health, "but carelessness on
the part of the sick is even
more reprehensible. a single
sneeze or unguarded cough in a
close room will send scores of
little Zeppelins into the air
which may be as fatal as the
cordite bombs thrown from the
giant cruisers of the air.
zone of the most important
rules that can be observed is to
always hold handkerchief
over the mouth when sneezing
or coughing, or, where this can
not be done, to hold the head
down so that the spray will fall
to the floor. 1t is not wise to
cover the mouth with the hand
when sneezing, since that act
merely transfers the germs to
the skin of the palm and fingers.
whence they can easily be con
veyed to others by shaking
hands.
"In the aggregate, bad colds
are responsible for hundreds of
deaths in Virginia every year.
They are often followed by in.
tiuenza, by pneumonia, by
bronchial involvements and
sometimes they so weaken the
bodily resistance that the per
son falls II victim to tuberculo
sis. The sneezer is under sus
picion Mt this season, especially
III crowded places, street cars.
moving picture theatres, etc.
and he should save others from
his malady."
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1915-02-17

School will be very helpful to
all the teachers and visitors.
After the program Friday
night reception to all visiting
teachers and delegates will be
held. Free entertainment has
been provided and reduced rail
road rates will be applied for.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1915-02-17

West Virginia is so terribly
dry that the intensity of the
drouth took all the Dickinson
county sap out OF Claude Bev-
erly's whiskers before he had
been in Charleston "a hours.
Norton News.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1915-02-17
Civic League.

The Woman's Civic League
held its regular monthly meet.
ing at the home OF Mrs. X. b.
Alsover, the third Friday in
January.
Minutes of last meeting were
read and approved. \ motion
TO continue "chain of teas" was
carried. The Junior League,
through their superintendent,
Mrs. Sayers, decided to pay
$500 of amount due on Vic
trola for school, if the school
would raise the other $1,000.
Mrs. Mouser and Mrs Ed. Good
loe were appointed to take de
cislon to Prof. Wolfe. The cor
responding secretary was asked
to write Council regarding bet.
ter garbage service.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1915-02-17

The regular monthly meeting
of the Woman's Civic League
was held at the residence OF
Mrs. Ralph Taggart, Friday
February 2nd, at $3.50 o'clock
Mrs. H. b Alsover, first vice
president, presiding. The min
utes of the last meeting we're
read ana approved Mrs Bene-
dict and Mrs. Mccormick were
appointed committee to in
vestlgate the feasibility of en-
gaging the picture show for one
evening. Mrs. Knight and Mrs.
Ed Goodloe were appointed on
flower committee. Mrs. Marvin
Kelly was appointed chairman
of committee TO give some form
of entertainment to raise mon
ey. Mrs. Benedict reported
that hose had heen bought for
school, and delivered She was
appointed To buy Il wall brush
for school building. The cleo
ton of officers for the new year
will take place the first Friday
in March aud we hope for a
year of usefulness in making
our little city more beautiful
and our cemetery a fitting rest
ing place for our loved ones.
Mas. l. O, Perrin.
Recording Secretary.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-05-08
Snuff Spcons.

All the world is familiar with snuff
boxes, but snuff spoons are pretty little
refinements of which this generation
has hardly heard. Very probably they
came into use about two years after
Sir George Rockies expedition to Nlgo
bay III 1902. when he captured half a
ton Of tobacco and snuff from the
Spanish gaIleons, and snuff thus be-
came n common article in England.
One of the characters in a comedy
published at oxford in 1904, entitled
AN Act at Oxford" by Thomas Ba-
ller. SAYS. But | carry sweet snuff for
the ladies'" TO which Arabella replies:
~ spoon too. That's very gallant, for
TO see some people run their fat fingers
into box is as nauseous as eating
without fork In the forties and
fifties of the last century snuff spoons
were still in use on the Scottish bor-
der. They were of bone and of size
TO go into the snufrbox. People fed
their noses, it was said as naturally
as they carried soup to their mouths
London Mail.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-05-08

Even the same kind of bird often
lays eggs that show great difference
In their marking. And often this is
true Of the same individual bird. At
least one long. infertile egg is included
in the clutch OF house sparrow, be
sides several eggs that are of a darker
OF lighter shade than each other. One
may find a dozen clutches that contain
some one type quite different from the
rest. The tree sparrow also lays one
always different from the others in the
clutch Some birds always lay an IN
colored egg, such rs the golden eagle.
osprey and others. Some birds eggs
vary much more than others in color
md markings. a result of experience
shows that the following are among
the common birds that lay eggs which
vary considerably: Robin, linnet, rock.
skylark. cuckoo, hawk and snipe.-Chi-
cago Herald.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-05-08
Purity Gives Power.

There are still many persons il.
the world that need to be impressed
with the fact that the purer tbs
blood is the greater is the power OF
the system to remove disease and
the less the liability to contract it.
Persons whose blood is in good con-
dition are much less likely to take
cold or to be long troubled with it.,
or to catch any contagious or infecti-
Gus disease, than are those whose
blood is impure and therefore inn
poverished and lacking in vitality.
The best medicine for purifying the
blood is Hoods Sarsaparilla, and per
sons suffering from any blood di-
sease or any want of tone in the sys-
TEN are urged to give this medicine
trial. 1t is especially useful at this
time of year.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-05-08

it is impossible for the mother and
child to be together.
1T isn't necessary to know how
many war babies there win be- said
Mrs. Pankhurst. I'VE know theirs
will be many, and we want to bring
them up in home that will serve as
model to other social workers. The
w. S. p. U. Children's home viii be
looked after by staff Of efficient
nurses, and woman doctor will re-
side in the house. The experiment
Will be limited to girls"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-05-08
A RECORD PRESCRIPTION.
After 1t Was Bought and Paid For It
Lost Its Charm

Lost Its Charff1.
The largest amount ever officially
recorded as the purchase price of a
prescription is $1,000 (S25, 600, paid by
the British parliament to Mrs. Ste
yens to reveal the ingredients of her
cure for gravel and stone in the blad-
der and Kidneys" Parliament voted
this amount to satisfy the demands
Of the British public; also because Mrs.
stevens would not take penny less
for her secret.
The Ingredients as revealed by Mrs.
Stevens were as follows: "Eggshells.
snails Shells and alb, hips and haws.
ash keys, swine cress and various 9th.
er vegetables all burned TO cinder,
and the ash mixed with camomile
flowers ana fennel and other vege-
tables"
Curiously enough, when this high
priced prescription was made public 1t
Immediately lost its potency-and its
popularity. New cases failed 10 re-
spond to its magic, and cases which
had been cured while its mysteries
We're still unrevealcd promptly de-
yeloped new symptoms. At the end
of year it was practically forgotten.
But It's price record still stands; also
the record of one instance in which Il
British parliament failed to get its
moneys worth.--I.os Angeles Times,
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-05-08
COLOR AND MOISTURE.
There is Good Reason Why veseta-
ton Is Mostly Green.

ton is Mostly Green.
Doubtless many have wondered why
the vegetation of the earth is mostly
green. That is. not what makes it
green. hut why it is that color instead
of blue or red or purple.
Moisture. it has been found, will be
collected by the green foliage in proper
quantities While foliage of other colOrs
will not be properly nourished by the
dcws ana moisture from earth and at
mosphere.
A rather curious experiment proves
this.
Paint piece of glass yellow. another
green and one red and one black and
place all these painted pieces of glass
ont in the open air over night during n
summer or autumn night.
When examined early the following
morning il will be found that the vel
low piece will be very wet and the
green piece only fairly moist. while the
red and black pieces will be dry.
This is proof that yellow foliage
would collect TOO much dampness, and
the red and black would gather none.
Green. which collects the medium
amount of moisture, seems to be the
color best adapted 10 the conditions ex-
listing throughout the earth.
Yellow foliage has been known to
damp off and decay under the same
conditions that makes green foliage
thrive.
\ few yellow leaved plants are
grown under considerable difficulty un-
der ordinary weather conditions
York American.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-05-08
Whist Could He Dor

Il hntc TO be contradicted," she said.
''Then l won't contradict you." he re-
Turned.
You don't love me- she asserted.
q don't" he admitted.
You area hateful thing!'' she cried.
II am lie replied.
81 believe you are trying to tease
me" she said.
II am he conceded.
And you do not love me-"
Il DON'T
For moment she was silent.
"Well," she said Mt last. Il do hate
man who's weak enough to be led by
n woman. Houston Post.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-05-08
Estate Of George W. Potter

STATE OF VERMONT, The Honorable
- Dstri of Remington, ss. Probate Court
for the District afore;ad:
TO all persons interested In the estate of
George W. Potter, late OF Powral in said
district. deceased. GREETING:
Alta Probate Court holden at Bennington,
within and Tor said District, Ga The 9Th day Of
May, 1905. AN instrument purfortidg to he the
last VIII and Testament Of ileorge ". Potter,
late' of POwnal in said District deceased wa
preselt to The Coutt aforesaid for Probate.
And It is ordered by said Couru that the 3 st
day OF hay. 1915. at the Probate office in Ben
nington. BE- assigned or proving sig instrr-
ment and tn notice the feof be given 70 all
pc sons concerned, by publishing TINS ord +
,hree weeks successfully in the Benning
ton Evening Banner. newspaper, circulating
pointed. F
TdEREFoRE. you are hereby notified to ap-
near neiore said Court, at the time and place
aforesaid, and contest the proba'e of said vi
II YOU haVec-uie.
GIVEN UNDER My HAND Mt Bennington. in
said District, this 9Th daY of Nav. 1918.
AMY II. HARBOUR, Register
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-05-08
How 70 Tell iflt Is Silver.

To distinguish silver from white
metal the Jeweler and Nietalworker
gives the following directions: Rub on
a piece of slate, wet the streak with
dilute nitric acid, by which it is dis
solved, and then drop or two of
hydrochloric acid from the end of a
glass rod, when Il curdy white precip-
itate is formed which does not dlsap-
pear on the addition of small or
large quantity Of water, being, in fact,
jndissoluble in this. while most other
metals viii not he thus affected.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-05-08
HOME FOR WAR BABIES
British sufragists Plan to Adopt and
Rear so Infants

London, Friday, May 1.-THE Daily
Chronicle says that while politicians
and social reformers are inquiring in
to the matter of war babies the Won
ems Social and Political Union is tax
ing action Mrs. Pankhurst told a
Daily Chronicle representative yes
terday:
1--WE mean to adopt fifty war bah
les and to take care of them until
they are grown up enough to earn
their own living. The only cases to
be delt with win be those in which
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-05-08
TINE BLUE DEVILS
OF; INDIGESTION

are put to rout by Dys- pep-lets, the
simple effective digestive tablets,
oval, sugar-coated, prepared by C. J.
Hood Co, Lowell, Mass.
They give the most gratifying rellce
in sour stomach. distress after eating,
bclching, nausea. heartburn. etc. Per-
fectly safe. perfectly reliable, per-
foctly free from narcotics.
one or two crushed in the mouth
and swallowed slowly--that's all
You'll not think OF your stomach
again. Try them. Ten or twenty :
five cents or a dollar.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-05-08
optiniat and Pessimist.

In contest in the Woman's Home
Companion the first prize for the def
milton Of pessimist went to Miss u. Nc
Kelvey OF Colorado, who wrote: a
pessimist is man who knows The
price of everything and the value of
nothing The first prize for the dedni-
ton of opinist Went to Mrs. l.. X.
Carter OF Pennsylvania. Her deiini-
ton follows: AN eptimist is one who
thinks the high cost Of living is worth
the PRICE
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-05-08

Among the famous lost mines of tho
western world and one which is again
being sought is The Tislngall of Costa
Rica. 1T IS said to have yielded great
quantities Of gold in the time Of the
Spanish domination. After quelling
the Indian uprisings, however, the
Spaniards failed TO relocate the mine.
1t is thought that 1t lies hidden in the
bed Of one OF the larger streams
Many legends are heard dealing with
its wonderful richness, and many at
tempts have been made to find it, but
SO far without avail.--Argonaut
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-05-08

"What became of that good roads
movement that seemed to be going so
strong out this wayY
at sort o died out. The mud got so
deep that we couldn't do the travelling
necessary to attend the meetings."-
WashingtOn Star
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-05-08
POPCORN CRISpETS

Pure, clean and wholesome. On
sale at Hudson's, w. c. HouraL S
and at 400 Gage ST., S cents per
package. Get the original and best.
with the lame CHAS. G. WALKER
package.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-05-08
A perfume of flowers is waited gent

A perfume of flowers is waited gent
" from the mountains. The sun is
new risen, and the dew stil glistens
on the leaves OF trees and the petals
of flowers. A road like gray ribbon
thrusts into the quiet mountain gorge
"a stone paved road which yet looks
as soft as velvet, so that one almost
has a desire to stroke it, Maxim
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-05-08
rba o,lv w,v

"Jones has figured out scheme to
avoid paying roal estate tax"
Lets have it.
"Sell the property. = Brooklyn Eagle.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-05-08
The DrysdaLe Store
Delightfully."- Chic

late models in Women's Coats ar
rived here yesterday. There's up
wards of fifty of them, and no two
alike. Tan coverts, white chinchil-
las, checks, tweeds and SPORT
COATS for the younger folk and
no end of BLACK COATS for
the more conservative dressers.
,odness and style even 81 90 to $1,000
Middletown transcript., 1915-05-29
HE'S BORN-NOT MADE
(BY ELIZABETH B. vEssELs)


Amid the hurryings and scufIiings of
a hard, travelling generation, there re-
mains still one mortal to whom the
world revolves comfortably upon its ap-
pointed axis.
This perfect bystander can be found
balancing himself upon the curbstOne
or propping up a teleph 1ne pole, or
resting hand lightly upon a fireplug,
or reclining softly against his neighbor's
back fence.
He's as much of genius as a poet.
Upon his face is the dreamy, far-away
expression of Uneeda biscuit, and his
spirit communes within itself, while he
chews the cud of reflection and tobacco.
With head little to one side, moving
an arm or a shoulder every twenty
minutes or so, he'll watch building
from the digging of the cellar to the
placing Of the door-mat, and have per-
sonal conversation with each employee
on the premises. He never looks hur,
ried. never looks impatient, a trifle
weary, perhaps, as man who has been
through much trihulation, and has
learned that the world has nothing to
offer worth the striving for. Most of
us cannot attain this perfection of
idleness at all. Some can, and are
content just to exist, while others toll.
Middletown transcript., 1915-05-29
The Business Farmer

To prove that what the country needs
is more business methods in farming,
many of the farm journals $50 called
are printing for our ediication stories
about how certain business men from
the cities have gone to the farm and
made it a grand success by the intro
duction of business methods. We are
willing to take the statement that the
farmer needs business methods in his
work, but at the same time it is lmpos-
sible for thinkers to understand just
how some of these publications can be
so shortsighed as to allow their columns
to TEEN with statements such as we
find in some of them. When we do we
are led to the belief that as many pro-
fessional and business men fail at farm
ng as do farmers fail in business, and
some of the statements made bring on
this belief. At any rate if some Of
the methods used are such as 1--WE read
then it must be so. Some business
would fare better if given the atten-
tion that good farmer gives his land
and crops.
Middletown transcript., 1915-05-29
PREDICTS WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE

WASHINGTON. D. c., May goth, 1915.
In notable address before the gradu-
ating class of Fairmont Seminary, one
of the leading girls schools of this city,
with students and alumnae present from
almost every state, Philander P. Clax-
ton, Commissioner of Education of the
United States, pr; dicted the early dawn
of woman's suffrage.
"You might as we'll stand on bridge
over the Mississippi: and with wisk
broom try to sweep back the waters as
they rush to the sea, said DR. Claxton,
''as to attempt to stem the tide of public
opinion in favor of votes for women.
"When the people of Memphis hear
that the Mississippi has reached flood
tide at st. Louis, they know the flood
will reach them. Just as the floods in
rivers are caused from little rivulets
and smaller streams, so is the flood of
public opinion for woman's suffrage be-
ing made up in the United States.
Nothing can stop it.
The graduating classes of 1915 hsve
greater obligations and crater oppor-
tunities than any class ever graduate I
in this country, because the war in
Europe has given America her great
opportunity and unless we take the
leadership in everything we will be rec
reant to our duty The young women
graduated this year will have larger
opportunity in the worlds work than
any that has graduated before. So it
behooves the girl graduates of 1915 to
consider their opportunities and obliga-
tions very seriously, for with the COM
ing of suffrage they are going to have a
great opportunity to help make laws OF
the future and those laws will be only
as just as public sentiment makes them.
You young women will have as much tc
do in the creation of this public senti.
ment as your brothers.
DIR. Claxton's vigorous endorsement
of woman's S suffrage has caused much
favorable comment in the National
Capital, especially on account of the
widely representative audiedce before
which it was delivered.
Middletown transcript., 1915-05-29
FRUITSRATHER THAN MEDICINE

Nearly all fruits hold in solution acids
and salts which are more palatable
than medicines, and they are cleansing
and cooling to the blood. Rhubarb is
one o. the most valuable spring plants;
it is filled with oxalic acid, is both pur.
gative and astringent and is particularly
desirable just nov. But do not forget
it can be utilized in more ways than
stewcd with sugar, the usual form in
which one sees it served. Try it in
puddMgs, shortcake, or serve it in salad
form. To prepare it for this, cut first
into cubes, then cook until it becomes
tender, but not a mass; cool and serve
on lettuce with an oil dressing.
Oranges and lemons are usually
plentiful at this season and, filled as
they are with citric acrid, they are
natures best tonics. 1t is said "an
apple day will keep the doctor away"
and have found this equally true of a
lemon. The pineapple is becoming less
expensive each year and many, there
fore, appear frequently at our tables.
Its mineral salts, fruit sugar, and
water all help to eliminate impurities,
and what scientists term its active
principle, ananasine, has been proved
to be a digestive agent quite similar
to the gastric juices. This fruit lends
itself well to salad combinations but re-
member, when mayonnaise is served
with it, leave out the mustard, use
lemon instead of vinegar and, also a
little sugar. If a few nuts are added,
pineapple salad may replace the main
course at dinner, the nuts supplying the
protein. Woman s World.
Middletown transcript., 1915-05-29
CURRENT PRICES

M1DDLETOwN. DEL, MAY 80, 1915