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The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1916-09-06
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The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1916-09-06

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The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1916-09-06
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The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1916-09-06

Boost Big Stone Gap first last
and all the time. Help make
it the best town i'll Southwest
Virginia. It's easy if every.
body helps,
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1916-09-06

Old newspapers for sale at
this Office.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1916-09-06

The public schools of Wise
County have all started for
what ia hoped will be the best
school year in the history of
the county. The schools of the
county have kept pace with the
rapid developments that have
been going on here for several
years.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1916-09-06

Entered according to postal regulations
at tho post.offlco at Big Stone Gap as SOC.
ond-olass matter.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1916-09-06

Big Stone Gap may have
some faults, but it has mighty
fine class of people and is the
mos: beautiful spot in South
west Virginia.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1916-09-06

Big Stone Gap needs more
dwelling houses. Could some
way be devised to secure the
building of more houses here
the towns population would
rapidly increase with n very de-
sirabre class of citizens. Can't
something be done?
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1916-09-06

There are certain traditions
of conduct of good tnste and
gentle breeding that are sup
posed to obtain always. Among
them is that only Il coward in.
suits the dead, flag or n re.
ligion. Richard HardingDavis
New Britain herald., 1916-02-29
To Train Maids. (Meriden Journal. )

An innovation is beng tried in Kansas City that housewives all over t}ic land will be interested in for it may have a bearing on the solution of the servant girl problem. The board of education is establishing a school for the training of girls in domestic science.
 Those who have wrestled with the everlasting maid problem year after year, will undoubtedly agree that incompetency is one of the most common faults of girls who apply for domestic service. There are, of course, many other features which make the problem one that is con- stantly acute. The reluctance of girls to enter house service has it's foundation in the social disadvant- ages which are wrongly associated with it.
 The personal disaualifications of many women for relation of 'nli5- tress,' complicate the prolcm in a large proportion of instances. Rut most of these aspects of the situa- ton are purely side assures. They do not go to the heart of tho trouble the absolute unfitness of a large ma iority of girls in domestic service. There are a great many families i1 this and every other community which would gladly remove all the incidental objections which hired girls usually raise, if only they could get maids who were competent to perform the tasks for which they
New Britain herald., 1916-02-29
Dances Tife Away.
ohila North American.

(Philadelphia North Amerlcan.)
 Foolish insect! He lives only one day, and spends the greater part of it dancing You've doubtless been guest at one of their dances held over a stream on a warm summers eve ming. You've seen the insects in swarms, lcaping up and down in fancy steps and intricate figures. You've attended the dance of the May flies.
 There is a general supposition that all May flies live only for a day. As a matter of fact they will live several days, if the atmosphere isn't too dry. Then again they may survive only through q single night. Even this impend ding fate cannot stop them from dancing.
 This brief-1ived characteristic, how ever. applies only to thc winged exist ence of the insect. Before they grow wings they pass through several stages from the larvae, which live in water, through several moults and transfor- nations. So while it is a May fly only for short time, it exists for a longer time, and perhaps we can par don 1t If it dances during the brier period it lives in the air.
 The fly has two pairs of wings, one pair much larger than the other and two or three long, bristle-1ike tails. It's mouth is small and soft and not made for eating. The May fly has no time to eat-he's too busy dancing.
New Britain herald., 1916-02-29

belief in the survival of the Attest. And the old man has a saving sense of humor. as evidence his reply to the query which sought to learn if his sisters and brothers lived to a ripe old age. NO; they never got very old. My sister Anna died when she was only ninety-eight But my brother Joe lived to be ninety-nine.' What other sisters and brothers the old man knew, if any, must have died in infancy, in their late seventies or eighties. Anyway, he has lived to see the century mark, and there will be great rejoicing in Monroe county to- day Because he has been so con- sistently cheated in this matter of birthday celebrations, we hope he lives to see the twenty-f1fth He de- serves that many, anyway.
New Britain herald., 1916-02-29

good as the man at the desk The man in the .overalls helps make the world go round, and if he chooses to put on his spiked tail coat and go forth on the Rialto, he is entitled to do as he pleases. The business agent at Worcester has the right idea. One of the best ways to forget the cares of the day is to assume the irresponsible ness of the night, and the dress suit IS the advance agent of pleasure. Lay aside the old toggery worn dur ing the hours of druggery and put on the garb of frivolty, of fashion, of fun king. Surely it will be a good thing for the American laboring man to take to the latest dictates of style and fashion. After night of squirming and twisting in a dress suit he will appreciate all the more the softness and f1eXibility of a pair of overalls and do better work for him self his employer and his country. Hail then to the new--off with the old.
New Britain herald., 1916-02-29
WHY NOT?

# When at the close of the days toll be laborer goes home why should he #ot discard his overalls, grimy cap, End sturdy boots for the conventional &vening dress, the high hat and the Polished pumps? Why should he not 3hen disport himself in some place &f amusement, a theater, a movie, Hr mayhap lobster palace, and there " ese eshe elapgiQg- sound of the shop, the hummnig and buzzing engines? Why should he not? The question has been raised and demands an hnswer. The business agent of the Moulder's Union in Worcester says Ehere is no reason why the laborer khouId not appear at his after dinner affairs properly garbed. It would re
 move one of the artificial lines that how separates the classes, he thinks.
 And- if this is so, if there is to be a
 hne of demarkation drawn between
 khe laborer and his employer merely Iby the donning of a full dress suit, kpr a tuxedo, or anything in fashion $ &tpe, we make haste to say, away with gtl1e falsity of it all. The laborer is ventitled to dress after dinner if lie
 Bees fit,-or before dinner, or for the
 dinner. In fact, it would be a good
 thing if all these barriers of c1 rss
 were removed The dress suit las
 been looked upon with distain by tae
 1aboring man for cons and cons. It r@-. something entirely for the dude
 this spic and span suit that looks like
 the natural clothing of the crow. Ii
 has always caused a laugh among the 1aboring classes, the claw hammer ahc soup to nuts outfit.-and .un- dustly so. It has been held up as the badge of aristocracy in a country where there is no aristocracy, where phe man at the bench is every bit as
New Britain herald., 1916-02-29
Johnny's Twin Brother.

"Johnny,' said the office manager there's a vacancy on the staff, and I rather thought of giving the place to vo,,r twin brother" Irwin brother, sir' echoed the office boy .Yes, the one I saw at the football match when you were attending your erandmother's funeral last Wednes- dsy,' said the chief, smiling grimly. "Oh-ah-er-um- said John ny. "I'll-er-go and fetch him!' .:Thats right" said the manager "and don't you come back till you've found him.. Johnny is still looking for his twin brother.-Roches Times.
New Britain herald., 1916-02-29
Whose White Coal Is IL?
(Watcrbury Democrat.)

The water power of naviga ble streams is greater than tho sum of all the power of every kind now in use in the United States. According to Clifford Pinchot, the Shields bill, now before the senate, would give to l the power interests the use of this water power. without any compensa- ton. Bills similar to this were vetoed by Roosevelt and Taft. Why should they pass today? This is no pa rtisan matter. It has nothing to do with ones political preferences. Even the advocates of peacc-at-any price must admit that the kind of pre- paredness represented by conserva- tion of national resources is wise. Franklin Lane and Clifford Pinchot arc both opposed to tho passage of this bill. Says MT. Pinchot: The water power men charge that con- servation hampers development. The admirable recent report of Secretary Houston shows, on the contrary, tha,,
 the most rapid development is in the
 National Forests, where conservation
 is best enforced. On the other hand, |120 public service corporations own
 and are holding undeVeloped and out. Of use an amount of water power
 equal to four-ffths of all there is de-
 vcloped and in use by all the public
 service corporations in tho whole
 United States Whose water power
 is this of the naviga ble streams. any
 how? Or of the National Forests,
 " hich the Ferris bill would also give
 into the hands of the power interests
 Is it our white coal? And our chill
 drcns? Or is it the exclusive prop
 erty of few grab bers? If the ordi-
 nary citizen doesn't watch our-ard
 watch his senator---its easy to see
 whose property it's soon going to be,
New Britain herald., 1916-02-29
Mighty Fortress Guards
 The Gulf 0f Finland

There are hundreds of small, thickly-wooded islands strewn over the coastal waters around Helsingfors. It is upon group of seven of such
 islands, which are larger than tleir neighbors, that the almost impregna
 ble Sveaborg fortress is built. More over. small redoubts and batteries are we'll concealed in several of the out lying islands, which surround, like a thinlN-flung skirmish line the fort ress near the coast.
 Many a vain seaWard attack has shattered against Sveborg's defenses, in by-gone days; and, in recent years,
 Russia has brought the strength of the place up to 2Gth centuy require ments. It is said that more than 1000 guns are mounted here: and scv- eral thousand soldiers are quartered in the fortress even in times of peace. During the Crimean war the allies at ! tackled this point violently and with out success. The story goes that Eng lisch guns alone hurled more than q i thousand tons of shot and shell into the fortress, almost without apparen ] effect. It has fallen only once, ane ] then bribery is credited with victor! ! and not the force of arms. It sur
 rendered to tho Russians without ar
 effort at defense, surrendering at thu
 same time that it's garrison of si2 ] thousand men laid down their arm 1 lenses, the whole country of Finland.
New Britain herald., 1916-02-29

What must those militant suffra gists of London think of Mrs. Nellie Best, secretary of the Women's Anti Con scription League in England, who has been sentenced to prison for carrying ments? She spent her time Keeping hundreds of lads from recruiting" be- cause "the Lord has told us not to kill A very good commandment that unless obeyed by both sides, is replaced by the injunction "an eye for an eye and q tooth for a tooth."
New Britain herald., 1916-02-29
HOW TIME LEAPS.

This is the day the extra twenty four hours we have saved out of every four years and put in for good meas ure during leap year. In some parts of the country it is being Celebrated as Prosperity Day, in other portions of the globe it takes on different significance. ..-... .e.
 Down in Monroe county, Pennsvl
 vania, at a place known to some few thousand people as Fern Ridge the natives are today celebrating the twenty fourth anniversary of the birth of their oldest inhabitant, An- drew Wrick, who has just entered his Feb. 29, 1S16. This really should be his twenty fifth birthday, figuring the one away back in 1920 as his first; but old Father Time skipped him the event in 1900 and so he is one birth day party shy. There is only one thing, really two, botherine the ven erable centcnarian,-he is cutting a pair of wisdom teeth. Outside of this slight annoyance and a aittlc touch of rheumatism the old gentleman Is sound as dollar. veFltable patrl- arch of old. He comes from fight ing stock and attributes his tenacious sticking to life to pure grit and a
New Britain herald., 1916-02-29

Washington, D C., Feb. 29.-"After more than eighteen months of naval war upon the Baltic sea between the fleets Germany and Russia, the first successful shot has yet to be fired against the mighty fortress Of Svea- borg which guards the neck of the Gulf of F'indland. and the water ap breaches to the Russian capital,' be- gins a primer on war geography just issued by the National Cieogra phic so- ciety at Washir gton. 'Svea borg, best known as the Gibraltar of the Bal tic,' powerfully secures its holders control to all the wide basin of the Gulf of Findland, thus giving them a most important base for disputing the control of the northern inland sea. It was the acquisition of this stronghold that constituted the strongest impell- ing force in Muscoviet politics toward the conquest of Ffndland from the Swedes.
 Sveaborg, lies ReNal the seat of other powerful shore dcfenses and of inn portant Russian navy-yards. Tn two points block the way from the Baltic against any naval power al most as securely as the forts kilid Bahr and Chanak kalessi blocked the English ships at the Dardanelles. Re val is situated on a sharp bay at lthe north astern gulf shore of Estonia Sveaborg fortress stands just before ,HeIsingfors, the capital of Finland.
New Britain herald., 1916-02-29
D. MCMILLAN
ORDER OF NOTICE or HEARING
1s9-aO1-:O3 MAIN STREET.
DISTRICT OF BERLIN, ss; F
Court, New Britain, Feb. 2S A. D 1916.


 Estate of John F. Reynolds late of the town of New Britain, in said district, deceased.
 Upon the application of Ellen E. Reynolds, praying that as trustee uH- der the will of John F. Reynolds, de- ceased she may be authorized aSd empowered to sell and convey an in tercst in real estate located in New Britain, as per said apDl!"at on tH file more fully appears if is
 ORDERED, That said application be heard and determined at tn" Pro bate Office, in New Britain, in said district on the 4th day of March, A. D. 1916, at o'clock in tho forenoon, and that notice be given of the pen dency of said application and the time and place of hearing thereon, by publishing this order once in some newspaper having a circulation in said district, and by posting a copy Of this order on the public sign post in the town of New Britain. in said district, and by giving notice to all parties, either per- sonally or by mailing to each ope, prepaid postage a copy of this order. and return make to this Court Of the notice given.
 Attest: 4 .
 BERNARD F. GAFFNEY, Judge.
New Britain herald., 1916-02-29
or Those Who Walk Alone.

(Richard Burton, i'll the New York
 Evening MailD Women there are on earth, most sweet and high, Who lose their own, and walk be- reft and lonely, Loving that one lost heart until they die, Loving it only. And so they never sec beside them grow Children, whose coming is like breath of flowers; ConsoIed by subtler loves the angels know Through chIdless hours.
  Good deeds they do; they comfort and they bless In duties others put off till the nor TOW; Their look it balm their touch is ten derness To all in sorrow. Betimes the world smiles at them, as 'tWere shame This maiden guise, long after youths departed: But in Gods Book they bear another name The faithfu1-hearted.' Faithful in life, and faithful unto death, Such souls. in sooth, ilIume with lustre splendid That glimpsed, glad land wherein, the vision saith Earth's wrongs are ended.
New Britain herald., 1916-02-29
TAKING THE TARIFF OUT OF POLITICS AND THOSE
 FIVE GOOD JOBS.

Much consternation is now caused by President Wilson announcing him self against the proposed tariff com mission measure which provides that two members of the board be named by the ajority in Congress, two by the minority, and the fifth member by the chief executive. Naturally the Senators and Representatives would want to have a hand in the making of such a commission if it must come about, and for reasons of patronage they would be reluctant in passing any measure that would able the own choosing to these good jobs. AS under the Constitution all laws per- taining to the laying of imposts or duties on imports or exports are sub ject to the revision and control of the Congress, and as tariff making has been ever a function of the national legislative body, the members will consider long and well any move de-
 
 While under the law any tariff com mission will be limited in it's power and scope, it has been the history of these federal institutions that they always crave more power and gen. orally succeed in running away from their swaddHng clothes. As th7 packers of this proposed tariff com mission have started out with the avo>ved purpose of taking the tariff out of politics they must eventually if they wish to succeed,-get it out of the hands of Congress.
 There is no gainsaying the fact that five perfectly good and healthy jobs are going to be created the mo- ment the federal tariff commission comes into being,-if it does. And these five good jobs will be viewed by Congressmen and others in the same light father looks up his first born baby boy,--only five times more so For various reasons, not necessary to set down here, every mothers son in
  and lowing and scraping, to be able to name any one member of this com mission. Another reason why a lon& I drawn out dispute may take place :,C- 1 tween the President and the Congress 1 over these five good jobs. This is ] more than politics, it is the jugular l vein of politics, it is patronage. That Is the way, at least. the public looks on the situation But getting right ! down to bed rock it makes little diff ference to the average Congressman in this case whether the President or | the House and Senate name the five l members to the tariff commission. At ! best there would be only two or threo l leaders in either chamber who world have anything to say about the mat | ter The others would merely fol- l low the leaders like a herd of sheep, | knowing not the lay of the land. And l in the end it would make no differ l ence to them who appointed the com mission, whether it was the President or the Powers that be in Congress
New Britain herald., 1916-02-29

All that the American shipbuilder asks at this time is protection from foolish legislation. Upon him, as on tn c shipoWner, governmen interference e weighs heavily. The present scarcity has created an unpreced edented demand for new tonnage. No competition by the foreign builder, concerning which the politicians have been so anxious in the past need now be feared. All over the world the shipyards are workin 2 to full capacitp. The menace to the American shpbuilder is that such prosperity cannot last under existing laws.-Philadelphi Ledger.
New Britain herald., 1916-02-29
IANUFACTURERs' EXHIBIT.

| k of the surest ways to make
 ess is to profit by the experience
 ners. This applies as we'll to the
 scipality as to the individual
 this in mind New Britain as a
 facturing city might do we'll to Eve the success Louisville. Ky,
 Httained through a very simple 8gement. Less than a year ago # Commercial Club there estab-
 permanent exhibition of #lcts manufactured in the city. # Il near the business section, with
 space of twenty thousand square
 was leased for two years and #y-fIve manufa lecturers have taken #e and arranged their products so
 catch the eye. Exhibitors are &ged the nominal rate of one #r 8 square foot for a year, and Commercial Club furnishes all the Bee for the care of the exhibits. nuisville could not far excel New lain In this matter of exhibiting if bnce got down to it. The purpose Slch a display is not only to secure but to bring to the attention of local public and visitors from |, {e-t ,oi, Ia in, bn It is a recognized: fact that a ht one-ha1f, CT less, of the popula- here knows what is going on in way of manufacturing. There are |e wonderful goods made in New lain and, if possible, they should set up in permanent exhibition. plan in Louisville is meeting with at success. According to the re- t from the Department of Com rec: "A portion of the exhibit hall set apart for monday lunches at 1uent intervals, and special even- meetings of various local clubs are I there, as well as special functions the different exhibitors the object ag to get as many people as pos e to see the exhibit. The space set Tt for this purpose has a seating acity of 300 or 400." Then the 1Faittee in charge of the exhibi- l has offered prizes to High school ,ils for essays on the articles man. ctured and why they should be lght. all of which stimulates inter
 in the city.
 There are many visitors through w Britain in the course of year l such an exhibit. as Louisville lsts, conveniently situated, would D materially in spreading fame l trade. There is plenty of room
 for commercial development and s is one way to help it,-shoW the 1pIe what you've got, and the rest easy. It takes money to make ,ney. It takes success to breed sue IS. It takes strength to grow, and " Britain has all these.
New Britain herald., 1916-02-29

are hired. It must, of course, be re- garded as a condition precedent that the girl in service shall be more than reconciled to working in that ca pacity.
 There is certainly no lack of ap- rreciaton on the part of a thorough ly competent maid. There is far more than appears in the joke books to the art of being a good cook, or Jewel of d maid.'
New Britain herald., 1916-02-29

- Within q few years the employees share of the total receipts of the car rying cornpanics has increased from forty to fortS~five per cent. As the advance cannot>continu unless tn ere is corresponding inceasc in the rates the railroads are permitted to charge. the public's interest in what promises to be a country-wid demand by rail- way workers for mor& pay is almost as great as that Of the men them selves.-Rochester Post Express.
New Britain herald., 1916-02-29
However much anxiety may exist IF

However much anxiety may exist in the United States in regard to the Per sia affair, it still see,ns to The World that a thousand times more anxiety must exist in Vienna and Budapest. At the worst we are m erely the victims of an official lie, but Austria will have ostracized herself from the court of civilizatiorl unless she voluntarily ana q unreservedly makes good the pledge that her government has so solemnly mad,e.-New York World.
New Britain herald., 1916-02-29

hibiting farmers from feeding en- silage to cattle be issued.
 Helme replied that he had been feeding ensilage to cattle for 23 years and has yet to sec a COW made drunk on it or milk which could honestly be said to be alcoholic as a result of ensilage feed.