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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-12-23

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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-12-23
Christmas for the Animals

CBy RAMON RAAios. Norton. Pal
Twas tho night before Christmas. when all
through the barn
Not a creature was stirring 70 give an
alarm
The traps were all baited with nice. nice
In hopes that the mice would whln it in the
breeze.
There wers lots Of animals Ia the stalls.
Happy as tho folks In the lireslde halls
Saint Nicholas would come ap through the
floor
And put sweet oats In the box BY the door.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-04-08
How Not to Sneeze.

Everyone who attends church or
goes to the theater or other place
where people are assembled knows
how embarrassing it is to have to
sneeze with the usual unpleasant
sounds that accompany such an
outburst of our real nature, an ex-
change says. Such may very easily
be avoided by thinking quickly and
following a simple little rule which
will save us much annoyance.
When the feeling comes over us
which always precedes a sneeze, all
we have to do is to lay our finger
across the upper lip directly beneath
the nose and press firmly upon the lip
for a few seconds
The sneeze will leave without max
ing itself heard.
The same result can be obtained by
laying the finger across the lower lip
just above the chin and pressing rath-
er firmly for few moments.
Either of these acts will not attract
attention and in almost every instance
the person will be saved the annoy
ance of disturbing the entire audi
ence.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-04-08

"Oh! why did you bring me here
why did you ever tell me?
Mrs. Lura Davenal, two years a
bride, moaned and wept and drew
back from the window whittier sus-
pense and suspicion and the subtle
plotting of a woman she should never
have trusted, led her.
She deemed Minna Burton a friend.
She should never have placed faith
in this false counselor. She knew she
had been one Of a group of admirers
Of her husband before his marriage,
who had been particular never to go
out with her. for her reputation was
not clean one. but he had been cour-
teous to her. Minna had not seen
much Of him until the last month.
Then q lady friend Of hers had init
mated to Laura that Minna had told
her secretly that she felt sorry for her
because her husband was deceiving
her.
The lady friend had brought about
meeting between the two. Lura
had demanded to know the occasion of
Minna's insinuation. The latter, crafty,
jealous schemer that she was, had
hemmed and hawed and feigned en-
barrassment. Then, when firmly
pressed by Lura, she had spoken of
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-04-08

her deep respect for her, her desire
to shield her and spare her sorrow
and then had declared that her hus-
band was false to her.
He goes to see a certain lady every
day." said Minna. Dear Mrs. Davenal,
spare yourself grief. Men are all
alike. 1t can do no good to unmask
him. Let the episode pass.
"Never!" Lura was aroused and
then Minna had said: Every well,
will take you tomorrow where you
shall see for yourself" and she had
kept her word for looking across a
court between two hotel buildings in
room Lura saw her husband and a
woman she did not know. The latter
smiled at Sydney Davenal. She play
fully stroked his face, she even kissed
him.
Lura was heartbroken. Viewing her
with a crafty eye. Minna began to
give advice. Why not abandon this
false husband? At least, teach him
lesson, disappear, if only temporar-
lily. From distance bring him to his
feet In humiliation and contrition.
And to all this poor distressed Lura
listened, never dreaming that a wom-
an at heart a wicked plotter was bent
on separating her from man she had
once loved.
Eyes, yes" she sobbed, take me
somewhere away from this heart
break and sorrow!"
Il have cousin, a Mrs. Lavery, a
widow, living about a hundred miles
from here, who will be glad to give
you a temporary home,' suggested
the specious Minna. and Lura, half
mad with her grief and suspicious,
agreed to be at a place Minna named
later that afternoon, prepared for the
journey. She was to bring her grip
and Minna was to convey her to the
train and start her on her way to Sc
clusion and safety, as she put it.
Lura returned home in tears and
made her preparations for departure,
sobbing heartbrokenly. She wrote
brief note to her husband, telling him
that oLt ldu NlSNONtItu HIS DtTlu1
and that she would never return to
him. She placed this on a stand in
their room, where he would be sure
to see it. Then she left the house.
Lura was unfamiliar with the ad-
dress Minna had given her. She had
told her it was a quiet restaurant and
to go to its side door anu wait in a
secluded rear room. Lura in her ur-
gency and confusion of mind arrived
a half hour ahead of the appointed
time.
She shivered and glanced about her
apprehensively as she entered a vacant
room. The sound of clinking glasses
and ribald voices in an adjoining
apartment frightened her. Suddenly
girl wearing tawdry garb peered in.
to the room. She viewed Lura critic.
ally and then she approached her.
Il don't know you, amt your
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-04-08
Safe to Jump on Him.

Safety first seems to be the motto
OF some of the judges in the West
Indies. When an alien prisoner is
brought before them they consider the
possibility of a gunboat from the cul-
prits native land popping in to make
trouble.
1t is told that Haiti magistrate on
examining prisoner found that he
was from Switzerland
Switzerland. he unused. "Switzer-
land has no seacoast. has it,"
No seacoast, your honor" said the
interpreter
And no navy?"
No navy. your honor
Very well, then" said the Judge.
ii give him year at hard labor.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-04-08
TONIC EFFECT OF VICTORY
Army Surgeons Say It Acts Almost
as an Anesthetic-Some Re-
markable Cases.

Bonnette, a French army surgeon
attached to the Thirty-ninth artillery,
writes In the Presse Medicale of the
extraordinary Indifference to the pain
of operation manifested by the SOL
diers of Napoleon while the great
conquerer was sweeping VIGOROUSLY
over Europe. While the defeated SOL
der is full of imaginary terrors, sub
ject to panic. madness and treason,
the conqueror, on the other hand, Is
intoxicated with success. says the
New York Medical Journal. Nothing,
not even the morbific microbe. can re-
sist troops who believe themselves to
be invincible.
Victory is the most powerful of
restoratives and the deepest anes-
thetics Legless members of the Old
Guard crowded into an ambulance
would at sight of the emperor rise
on their stumps to salute him. After
Eylau Larrey operated uninterrupted.
ly for &c hours. and he reports how
the soldiers seemed unconscious of
their own troubles, lost in thought of
the glory of their leader, and MANNED
as they were lending their best aid
to fellow-patients
AT Borondino Larrey disarticulated
the shoulder of a colonel, who imme-
diately set out for France on foot.
where he arrived after three months
walking. After fording the Beresina,
river in Russia. General Zayonchek,
IS years old, had his kneecap shat
tered by a bullet; amputation was
performed in three minutes in a VIC
lent snowstorm and it bitterly cold
weather. yet the white-haired officer
was placed in a sled and taken to
wilma, where he died at the age of Sc
years Many similar anecdotes are
told by our Civil war veterans
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-04-08
Poisons in the Dark

\ writer in Farm and Preside gives
some ingenious ways to identify poi
son bottle IN the dark and to elm.
mate all chance of accident from mis-.
taking drugs. "Th safest method is
to run cord through the cork. leav.
ing about eight in he, of string on Cd.
posite sides of the cork. Then drive
the cork in as tightly as possible and
wrap the string around the neck of
the bottle in opposite directions and
tie securely. |. that bottle is opened
1t Will be oDened Intentionally. If
there are no babies on the place. an
easier method is to run three or four
pms crlss-cross through the cork. The
pms sticking into the fingers will pre.
vent accidental use of the contents"
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-04-08

kind" she said, but can guess from
something | overheard this afternoon
that you are here to meet Minna Bur
ton"
IF l was-if-if-has she been
here?" faltered Lura.
"She will be soon and you must go
away at once. Listen, lady, fly from
that woman. All she has had you meet
her for is to compromise you, for
this is a den no respectable person
should enter"
Lura turned white as a sheet Her
deepest suspicious were aroused. She
hurried from the place. She fairly ran
until several squares distant.
Now she was more hopelessly
wretched than ever. She thrilled with
horror as she thought of the wicked
snare set for her feet. Were all wom-
ankind unworthy and cruel? She shud-
dered. score of wild thoughts in her
mind. Even the dark, deep river
seemed to invite her. Gradually the
distraction grew less intense. She re-
membered married school friend.
Surely she, her closest companion for
four years, would offer her a refuge.
Lura resolved to return home, destroy
the note left for her husband, write
to hor friend asking her to take her
In, await reply and then leave the
house forever.
She was faint and trembling from
excitement and despair as she neared
the house. She entered, stood dazed
as she saw her husband coming from
upstairs. He was never home at that
time Of the day He must have found
the note, and yet with beaming face
he came towards her.
you dear little wanderer." he cried.
Wherever have you been, when l
have a great surprise for you?"
"A surprise?" she repeated, scarcely
knowing what she said
"Yes. come" and he entwined his
arm about her and drew her past the
drawing room draperies.
"Lura, my nearest and dearest of
kin, Myra Blodgett." spoke Sydney
and Lura faced the young lady that
Burton had pointed out to her. She
extended hand, but her senses were
Keeling. What did it all mean?
Cousin Myra is responsible for the
first secret | ever kept from you,
dear proceeded Sydney. "She is a
papa and all that, She
would not let me bring her here for
fear she would be located. but within
an hour her gallant knight Grant will
be here with clergyman and then
we can face the ISSUE
II will be down in a moment" STAN
mered Lura and almost unceremon-
lously left husband and guest. Her
nerves were at fever heat. The note!
Sydney must have found it. Yes, it
was gone!
Lura sank to chair. gasping for
breath. What would Sydney think?
How could she explain it all? Then
suddenly great cry of Joy left her
lips.
The note! The breeze coming
through the open window had blown
It where she saw thunder the bu-
reau.
And Sydney Davenal marveled at
the strange clinging devotion Of his
wife all that day, and the sweet, hap
py smile of supreme content that new
er after left her face.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-04-08
Worth While ouo.atsoa.

Whenever you are angry OF tesi ~
SrumbiinS or pouting-whenever 20
are gloomy, fretful or MICROSCOPES
are consuming your energy. wasting
your vitality and opening the sluice-
ways In your mental reservoir instead
OF sending the power over the wheel
70 DRIVE the mental maohinsry-Se
lscts4
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-04-08

kno~tedse Gained BY Experience.
During the last school year q teach
Or IN the Indianapolis schools asked
lar pupils to tell her which was the
most important, to keep the face or
the teeth clean. and why. One OF her
small boys replied without a moments
hesitation: Your teeth, cause they'll
rot on. and your face WON'T
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-04-08

Many Ways Of Measuring Stone.
Because Of the variety OF uses TO
vhisA 1t il put In Its different forms
thsrs u no uniform aystem OF measur>
ING stone Square feet, yards and
rods. perches, cords and tons are all
Included In the list
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-04-08
not the Only Onea.

New Jersey robins used a two-doA
lar bill as material for nest. They
are not the only builders who have
put all the money they could get to-
gether into a home
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-04-08

Surely Not

WfkE+Wfkh-Pau-Aloba- b the -
t,ond motto OF Hawaii, a sentiment
to which none but the most particular
can possibly take excepuons.-Er-
change.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-04-08
konQ-Eelt Want

4 saoetha man, Doc Tennal reportS
u working hard TO perfect a device
oy winch an umbrella can be opened
only by Its owner.-Kansas City Star
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-04-08
Robins and Sparrows Lead.

The commonest bird in the north
eastern part of the United States is
the robin. The English sparrow comes
a close second.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-04-08
EashInn Nnt..

snort women should avoid much
trimming on their skirts. saws a fa.h-
ION writer. Yes. and so should lons
women IL their husbands are short
Pittsburgh cle-Tslszraph
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-04-08
Ever Upward.

Yesterdays highest point Of
achievement is the starting no,n, -
today s '-Paulist Fathers Motto
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-04-08

Optimistic Thought
Evn report is easy to lift but dificun
TO carry
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-04-08
TheFalse
Friend
BY ALVAH GARTH


Copyright, 1916, by w, G. Chapman.)
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-04-08

her deep respect for her, her desire
to shield her and spare her sorrow
and then had declared that her hus-
band was false to her.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1916-08-16

MIR. and Mrs. John Il. Lipps
AMI son, Gilbert. and MIR. aud
Mrs. Cicero Addington motored
down from Wise Sunday and
spent the day here visiting the
family of Mrs. Elizabeth Oily.
Chas. Young, of Stonega,
spent Sunday in town visiting
relatives.
Miss Lula Mahntfey and little
brother, Ray, spent Sunday in
Turkey Cove visiting relatives.
Rev. aud Mrs. j. NJ. Smith
were the guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
j. q. Cawood Mt supper Thurs
day night.
Thos. r. Williams has sold
his new Cadillac touring car to
Joe S. Kite, of Bristol, and Mr..
Kite drove tho car to Bristol
Friday afternoon.
Mrs. Will Potter and two chill
dren left last week for Bristol
where they will spend several
days visiting relatives.
Mrs. a. II. Gilmer accom-
panied by her daughter, Miss
Matte, Of Lebanon, and Miss
Sallie B. Price, of Norton, spent
last Wednesday, afternoon i'm
Gap visiting her son, Clarence,
who is clerk at the Monte
Vista Hotel.
S. S. Masters has bought the
interest of j. @. Neal, which
firm has been known as Neal q
Masters, blacksmiths, and the
business will DO conducted un-
der the formers name.
j. b. Collier left Sunday
night for Cincinnati and Louis
vile, where he will spend Sow
eral days buying fall stock of
goods for his store. He will
traverse part of Kentucky on
his return by automobile.
Carson Perry, who is work
ing on tho government building
being constructed at Norton,
spent Sunday in town with
homefolks.
Dervin Cox is visiting rola-
tives in Kingsport this week.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1916-08-16
LOCAL ITEMS.

Gus w. Lowell, of Cincinnati
was business visitor here last
week for n few days.
Simon and Roy Banks were
visiting friends in Gate City
Sunday.
Attorney Ezra Il. Garter, OF
Gate City, is in town Attending
United States Court.
Martin Oarnes spent Sunday
in Bristol visiting friends.
l.. b. Howard, of Pennington
Gap, was among the attorneys
IN town this week attending
U. S. Court.
Mrs. Helen Bright, who has
been spending the summer with
Mrs. Everett Drennen, returned
Saturday to her home in
Columbus, Ohio.
Mrs. j, B. Richmond, of Nor
ton, spent last week visiting
Mrs. Cora kilbourne near the
l. 81 N. depot.
Miss Elizabeth Wells, of Nor
ton, is spending n few days in
town with her sister, Mira. |. w.
Nickels.
Mrs, Chas. f. Camp is spend-
ing several days with friends
and relatives in Bluefield.
Miss Bertha Mahaffey is
spending this week at Inn an
with friends.
Mrs. NJ. X. McCorkle spent n
few days last week at McCorkle
above Dante with Nj. Il. Nc.
Corkle and her son, NJ. r., Jr.
Claude f. Beyerely, of Nor
ton, is attended court here this
week.
Master Stuart Napier, of Tur-
Key Cove, was in town n few
days last week visiting the
family of w. L. Mahaifey.
Mrs. j. G. Mcconnell, of Gate
City, spent Sunday in the Gap
visiting her daughter, Mrs. j.
b. Wampler.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1916-08-16

Rob,. Fox, of Winchester
Ky, is spending some time in
tho Gap visiting relatives. Mr..
Fox liz II brother of the late
John Fox, Sr., of this place.
There will he services Mt tho
Episcopal Church on next Sun
day morning Mt IL O'Clock.
EVERYBODY cordially invited to
attend.
Mrs. III. l.. Goodman and
children, who have been visit.
ing Mrs. l.. II. Winston, left
Sunday moroiDg for Roanoke,
where they will visit for some
time before returning To their
home in West Virginia.
FOR SALE:-Six room two
story residence. All rooms
large and well lighted. All
modern convcnienccs. Located
in one of the best communities
in Big Stone Gap. For further
information apply to tho editor
of this paper.
ID. Is. Wcntz, ofPhiladelphia,
president of the Stoncga Coke
u Coal Company, il spending "A
few days in the Gap this week
looking after the intcrests OF
his company,
Miss Florence Hess, of Mid
dlesboro, il visiting Misses
Edith and Ethel Van Gorlor
this week NJ thor home near
the extract works.
Robert Brown, who spent
several days in the Gap visiting
relatives, returned To his home
in Aliddlcsboro Monday night.
Carl Knight returned homo
with him and will spend few
days there visiting his aunt,
Mrs. II. l. Brown,
Mrs. Henry Morrison and four
attractive children, Lucy,
Amelia, Henry, Jr,, and Kyle,
returned To their beautiful bun
galow on Poplar Hill Saturday
after spending the summer with
relatives at johnson City.
Miss Mary Blair Martin, the
attractive daughter of Rev.
and Mrs. [. p. Martin, returned
Saturday from Abingdon where
she underwent a successful
operation for appendicitis in
the Hospital there a few weeks
ago.
Miss Willie Mcdowell, of
Jonesyille, has accepted the
position as stenographer in
Bullitt and Chalkley's Office
recently vacated by Miss Car.
RE Watts. Miss Mcdowell is
with her aunt, Mrs. j. Ct. Nun.
sey, on Poplar Hill.
G. j. Reason, prominent
farmer residing near Olinger,
was in town last week ON bust
ness ana while here called and
had the Post sent to his broth
or, ID. E. Reasor, at Perdie, Mo.
The Interstate Finance and
Trust Company are having the
interior of their banking house
remoddied and improved, which
will add greatly to the convent
ence and comfort of both their
employees and patrons.
Judge j. w. Orr, of Jones.
Vile, was business visitor to
the Gap last week, and while
here made the editor q very
pleasant call. Judge Orr is one
of Lee County's most promi-
nent citizens.
Joe S. Kite was over from
Bristol the last Of the week.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1916-08-16


Mr.. Boze, of the Chesapeake
and Potomac Telephone Com
rany's camp across tho dummy
bridge. returned from his vacn.
ton Monday night bringing
with him Il bride. much to tho
surprise of his tuntmntes. Mr..
and Mrs. Boze will have a room
IN The Polly building while tho
work of setting up poles con,
tinues at this point.
Misses Leila and Goldie Bea-
man left Frinny night over the
l.. Il N for Anderson, Ind,
where they will spend two
months with their sister, Mrs.
Ralph llauck.
Mrs. Euln Young Morrison ia
moving her household effects
down To her mothers in Turkey
Cove preparatory to leaving for
Richmond the first of the
month.
z. H. Wells, formerly meat
cutter at the Cooperative Trad
ing Company, has resigned his
position, and moved to Big
Stone Gap, whore he will have
charge of the Comniissnry at
the Big Stone Gap Iron Fur
mace. MIR. Wells won many
friends here who regret to see
him leave, but wish him every
success in his ncw vcnture.-
Appalachia Progressive.
Alec Bean, Of the Ford Ser.
vice Shop Mt this place, and
Dan Hill, of the passenger SER
vice, went over to Chilhowie
"Wednesday morning in Mr..
Beams racer.
Mrs. Samuel Graham, of Po-
cahontas, Nn., who is visiting
her mother Mrs. Sallie Flanary
and family spent u few days
visiting Mt Big Stone Gap this
week. Mrs. Graham will return
to hcr homo Fridny.-Wise
| iIRiilihH.
Friends of Miss Ellasuo Wag-
ner will he pleased to learn
that she arrived in Vancouver
on August Sth and expecta to
snil for Kobe, Japan, about tho
10th. She will be at sen at
least "A days. On her arrival
at Kobe she will continue her
Journey for somedays till she
reaches Songdo, Korea, which
she expects to do by August
2Sth. Miss Wagner won many
friends while in Big Stone Gap
and in knowing her we feel a
great loss in giving hor up to go
to the work she loves so we'll.
She has done great work
among the Koreans, and rocog.
MIXING her efficiency we shall
expect more wonderful things
of her in tho future. al her
friends will anticipate, with
pleasure, her safe arrival in
Songdo.
The U. s. Trachoma Hospital
at Coeburn will hold a special
clinic the whole of Thursday
and one,half of Friday, August,
24th and 25th, under the
auspices of distinguished
oculists from Washington for
the treatment of trachoma; all
applying with any eye trouble
will be carefully examined free
and those suffering from ira.
choma, will be treated in the
hospital without charge. This
will be an excellent opportuni-
ty for expert advice free of
charge. No glasses fitted;.
nothing to sell. Remember the
dates August 24th and 18th.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1916-08-16
Radfom State Normal School for Womon

Grammar ,,. an, a.
Domestic Science
scholarships teacher 't'p'a courses fee
ilhs ,ot
faculty. Young
anlas
oafy IRE it2ing Room, Vocal I1Enoau ~ -
ami health enHne
TOT 'a'""guc f"ekt of Views. so
JoiN PRESTON MCCONNELL, President, EAST RADFoRD VA.