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The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1916-01-05
FREE PORTS
BUILDERS Of
COMMERCE
CONGRESS SHOULD GIVE THEM
PREFERENCE IN APPRo.
pRiATloNe.
BY Peter Radsord.

This nation ia now entering upon
an era OF marine development. The
wreckage of European commerce has
drlfted TO our shores and the world
war is making unprecedented de-
mands for the products of farm aud
factory. In transportation facilities
on land We lead the world but our port
facilities are inadequate, and our flag
Is seldom seen Ia foreign ports. II
our government would only divert the
energy we have displayed in conquer
ing the railroads to mastering the
commerce of the sea, foreign bot
tom would be unknown on the oceans
highways.
This article will be confined 10 a
discussion OF our ports for tho pro
ducts of the farm must pass over our
wharfs before reaching the water. We
have in this nation 81 ports, OF which
Al are on the Atlantic and 10 are on
tho Pacific Coast. The Sixty-second
Congress appropriated over $4,000.
900 for improving our Rivers ana
Harbors and private enterprise levlea
q toll of approximately S50.000,00O
annually in wharfage and charges for
which no tangible service is rendered.
The latter item should be lifted OF
the backs OF the farmer OF this ma.
ton and this can be done by Congress
directing its appropriations to ports
that are free where vessels can tie up
TO wharf and discharge her cargo
free OF any fee or charge.
a free port is progress, 1t takes
out tho unnecessary link in the chain
OF transactions in commerce which
has for centuries laid heavy hand
upon commerce. No movement Is sc
heavily laden with results or viii
moro widely aud equally distribute
its benefits as that OF free port
and none can be more easily and et
feotiyely occurred.
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River Pilot
Tells How
Relief Came
Louisville Steamboatman De.
scribes Recovery Via
Tanlac.

Louisville, Ky, Jan. Capt,
L. j. Oatman, one of the oldes.
and best known river pilots in
Louisville, who resides at 30s
South Sixth street, this city,
adds his testimony to the hun
dreds of others in louisville,
who have gained relief by the
use of Tanlnc, Captain Oatnan
said:
al have been afflicted with
stomach disorders aud catprrh
many years. My condition be
came 30 serious that lost my
appetite, foods OF solid nature
always causing great Iiscom
fort and pains in the abdomen
"My catarrh also became
worse, aud every damp, cool
morning would get up with n
choking sensation in my throat
aud II fullnoss of my head |
coughod up mucous and and
went about sniiIiiug most Of the
time.
~ tried Tunlac and found it
was tho best thing had done
in many years. az ii helped me
from the first dose. My catnrrh
hns virtually disappeared and
my stomach is strong and feels
right. | cannot praise Tanlac
too highly"
Tanluc, the premier prepare
ton. is now obta,nnble III Big
Stone Gap at the Mutual Drug
Company, and in Norton ut the
Norton Drug C0mpnny.
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THE LAYMANrS DUTY

There never WAS time when
preachers and politicians formed an
nnholy alliance that civilization did
not shrek out and Christianity cry
aloud. Since the beginning OF gov
ernment. politicians hive sought to
deco the ministry into the meshes OF
politics and make them carry banners
In political professions. They have
taken the ministry to tIhe mountain
top OF power and offered to mako them
monarch OF all they surveyed, and
while most of them have said, Get
thee behind me Satan" z few have
fallen with n crash that has shaken
every rulpitiin ChrsDtendam,
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Bctrothal Announced.

Miss lone Hudson, II former
resident of Bristol as a little
child, sing daughter OF Mrs
Thomas Hudson, II daughter of
the late Benjamin and Mrs.
White, is soou to become the
bride of very prominent aud
and wealthy young man of Los
Angles, Cal. In the announce
ment of her betrothal, the Los
Angeles Times prints a three.
column picture Of the bridc.to
be, and devotes liberal space to
the announcement. Mr., and
Mrs, Hudson and their daughter
resided i'll Chattanooga until
three years ego, when they
went TO California. The
Chattanooga Times has the fol-
lowing to say of the betrothul.
Mr. and Mrs, Thomas r liud
son,' of Los Angeles, formerly
OF this cit y, announce the
engagement of their daughter,
Mics lone Hudson, To MIR
Lawrence ouu BAKER, also OF
Los Angeles. The wedding
date has not been decided Mr..
and Mrs. Hudson and Miss
Hudson left here about three
years ago TO locate in the west,
Miss Hudson is an attractive
young girl and has large
number of friends here, having
spent her younger girlhood in
this city, She is il graduate of
Winston-Salem. Her father
was n well known attorney OF
this city. and il Il member of
au old Virginia family, The
Los Angeles Times had an at
tractive picture of Miss Hudson
with the announcement, and
spoke of her as being one OF the
most beautiful and popular girls
OF the youn ger set Of Los
Angeles society. MIR. and Mrs
Hudson hnvo leased furnished
house at ca Crenshaw boule
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DICKINSON COUNTY
NEWS.

Freezing. va Decemher3I,t
Miss Cora J rrivitt has return.
ed trornu vtSitto her sister. Mrs
Hattie Ratiil, OF Whtcsbnrg,
Ky 90
Morgan $ DAVIS, OF Baden.
was With friends at lNreelinl,
early in the week.
Rcuh"p - McFall is VISITING
Fioyd kIlIcn, OF Pound
b II. Moore. Of osborn's
Gap, was visiting friends there
week.
Russell 5 haynes Was at
shelby Gap, KY, during The
week, where he is mixing ar
engagements To locate,
Henry Short, of Osborn's
Gap, is visitor az Froeling.
Mrs. Gala McFau, OF Bole.
camp, is visiting her mother in
law l, Mrs Mary McFau, Of
Freezing.
Noah l.. Vanover was at
Jenkins, ~, during the first
of the week
Mrs. Edna Willis has moved
to itnckleberry, where she viii
make nor nome since the death
OF her husband.
Ralph Hanover is The guest
OF lis father IN law, George W.
Fleming, Of Byrnc.
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ward. a fashionable residence
section, and the wedding will
probably take place there.
Mr. Baker is the only son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred l.. Baker, a
wealthy family of Los Angeles.
His father is president Of the
Baker Iron works and also
president of the Automobile
Club of Southern California.
His family is one of the best
known andlmost influential of
the State.-Bristol Herald Cou-
rier.
The brideis cousin OF Mrs.
Mnlcom Smith. of Big Stone
Gap.
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Old newspapers for sale at
This Office.
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Blast Furnaces in Kentucky
Opening.

Whitasburg, Ky, Dtc. 81.
The Prarsitc Company, with
headquarters ~ Pi,lsburg, Pa.
is putting down eleven large
blast furnaces at Clay City,
Ky, below here, whore they are
building large dye manufac
turing plant, said To be the
largest south of the Ohio river
The coal is being gotten from
the Camel cont fields nround
Canned City. Several hundred
men are at work in the plant
while increases will be made
from time to time.
Representative of Armour 4
Co, are still in Eastern Ken
lucky looking over the situation
for the purpose of securing To-
cations for three tanning acid
plants, soon to be located al diff
forent points along the l.. Il Il
branch of the l.. & n railroad
One of the plants, according
to the information given out
here yesterday, will be located
in the vicinity OF Whitesburg.
The plants will use scrub and
underclass timber that abouuds
in the hardwood timber fields
OF Eastern Kentucky, much Of
which Is cut.ovcr timber. IL is
said that construction of the
plants will be started immedi
ately after the first OF the year.
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One American soldier was
fatally shot aud two others
wounded in battle with Car.
rama troops on the border line
az Noga!es, Ariz., according 10
dispatches To the war depart.
ment at Washington. The Car.
rama soldiers fired by mistake
on The American troops. The
americans wounded several
CarranZa soldiers and officers
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NEW REAL ESTATE FIRM.

Norton, Va, Dec, 1.-The
Hagan " Miller Reality Corpor-
alton, with offices at Norton
and Bristol, is the name OF n
new firm which will begin bust
ness with the New car.
Charles Il. Hagan, OF Bristol,
who is also manager of the large
Hagan Estute, will be president
and treasurer of the new con.
Germ, and Howard e. Miller, a
real estate dealer and former
newspapers man Of Norton. will
be secretary an ii manager.
Their line of business will con.
sist in the purchase and sale of
town and city property, farm,
coal and Understands and the
negotiation of loans.
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I.EAyE NORTo N-G45 a. m for
Lynchburr and intermediate s,a-
lions pnllman sleeper Blrefieid 10
pbiladelphia via Iiagersiown. aud
pullman sleeper Roanoke to Rich.
mond and Norfolk. Also connections
at Blucfcld with trains Westbound
Pullman sleeper 10 Cincinnati and
Columbus
TFAVE MOTION 80 .. for points
Nr,h Fast and West
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Y. 4 S. W Railway
In Effect February 18th, 1914.

LEAVES BIC STONE GArj
No. . daily 0:O5 a IN for Bristol ard l.
terucdiatG points Pullman sleeper
louisville to Bristol. Connects viii
y y W for points East and Sou X
torpoinls South aud West
NO. daily. except Sunday, u - q. W
FOR 1t. Charles and int ermediAte
No. daily except Sunday, BIT p. IN. for
Bristol and intermediate points Con
meets with \ " ". tor points East
Connects at Moccaslon Gap Will
train No. $ for Bulls Gap, Rogers.
Vile and intermediate points.
For additional Information apply 10
nearest Agent or
W L. ALLEN,
General Passenger Agent,
Bristol, Tenn
The Seward gateway., 1916-02-26
HENRY FORD.

Henry Ford has been called a jack ass and a clown because he hired a ship and sailed across the sea to stop the most frightful slaughter the world has ever known. The big thing in his action is not the question whether he will or will not stop the war, but the fact that he is willing to try! It was by trying that he got where he is. But still he keeps on trying.
 In the face of overwhelming odds, in spite of worldwide criticism, he is willing to undertake the greatest job that ever fell to the lot of a human being in the worlds history. He brushes aside the thousands of columns of newspaper criticisms, he ignores the public utterance of sO- called statesmen, he sets his face to- ward the most glorious goal that any man ever hoped to achieve-and goes on his way Trying,
 So far, he is the only person who 1as taken a definite step toward end ing the war. True it may not be the right step, you get that by trying. The men who sit in swivel chairs and sheer and make funny jokes about that man Ford are not taking steps of any kind to end the war. The job looks too big and too hopeless to them. It looks big to Ford and may be it looks hopeless to him. But he's got the nerve to try and spends his own money. Asking aid of no man. What a nation this would be, if each industry could be headed by a Ford who was willing to try, what chance would any other nation under the sun have with us. What if more of us were willing to try and less of us were slaves of convention and creatures of habit. There is a word in the dictionary called can't, leave it there. Never use it. Well we've been Henry FOrding" it for the past twelve years, and expect to keep right at it, until the Powers that be, and the Engineers that direct it, awaken to the fact that Seward is the Begin ming and Final jumping off place of construction of Government railroads n Alaska. In the meantime, we have plenty time and help to serve you. Best treatment, best price, and sure ly the Best Goods.
 SEWARD COMMERCIAL CO.,.
The Seward gateway., 1916-02-26

The registration books win close this evening at 10 o'clock for the election Tuesday feness the voting remarkable but the people are probably the of eng city officials There is no other way in which to account for the registration up yesterday.
The Seward gateway., 1916-02-26
~THE PIONEER" SALOON
 GOES OUT OF BUSINESS

IDITAROD.-" Ramps Peterson, who has been in the saloon business in Iditarod since the earliest days of the camp, on Tuesday last completed a deal by which the business was turned over to George Marsh of the Budweiser, and on Wednesday last the Pioneer" saloon closed it's doors. It is understood that it will not be reopened.
 Ramps" has made no definite plans for the future, but will take life easy for a time, and probably will again embark in business of some kind or make a visit to the Outside.-PiOneer.
The Seward gateway., 1916-02-26

The Gateway needless M has said anything against foreign m When anyone makes assertion he just doing politics and try ing to gain sympathy very idea is absurd and would be particularly absurd so far as he Gateway concerned This paper certainly believes that men who ensc ignorant should not go into public e I"e S man who public life the ma" who cannot express - - what others are saying and comprehend even if @ understood every word A man may have bit of book education m still not be ignorant in the worst sense of the word There have beenmany mon who were unable to write their names still gentlemen because
 ey were gifted with natural intelligence The gnOramus who is so ign0 r that he cannot ze is the one who has the nerve get into public the result the lowering of the tone of the who'll, community Dcmo,ae win be properly governed until there
 some standard of intelligence before he can be elected to any office Really downright ignorance only removed from unaey and is as dangerous respects.
The Seward gateway., 1916-02-26

The result bowling ought to make Anchorage feel more friendly about dog There why the race could not be made an annual event between each having it's own year as the starting place
The Seward gateway., 1916-02-26

Jersey Cream Kisses" VANILLA FLAVOR. A pure food candy, made in Seward Alaska. For sale at the Key.
The Seward gateway., 1916-02-26

It is certain the prince of Germany did not commit suicide has undergone many eotastrOph since the beginning of could easily imagine how he could do any
 thing According press dispatches he has been killed three times has been wounded twice and least That's what is to be iu public eye
The Seward gateway., 1916-02-26

uf the move for preparedness takes deh- nlte concrete form few men win play more important parts than pr. l.. H Beekeland. chairman of the naval con- sultlng board committee on ordnance and exploslvea America must take @ leaf from Germany's book and learn tho paramount importance of organizing and utilizing the economic and scientific TO- sources of the country pr. Baekeland is one of our most eminent chemists. and his attachments and achievements were recognized a few days ago by the award Go him of the famous Perkin medal for eminence in industrial chemical re search
The Seward gateway., 1916-02-26

DON'T FORGET:-"The Key" is the original place. Always try "The Key" first.
The Seward gateway., 1916-02-26

Hi Press white rubber boots and shoe pacs. URBACH'S.
The Seward gateway., 1916-02-26

All kinds of tools and builders hardware at Brown & Hawkins, Quality First"
The Seward gateway., 1916-02-26

Fox's Oyster Cocktails at the Branch.
The Seward gateway., 1916-02-26

Mime. Cherut designed this frock of saf iron broadcloth. Checked satin ribbon has been used as a fetching trimming an the skirt apparently buttons on Co tho short bodice To onset the sleeves of georgette crepe is a scarf of pointed fox. and the brown velvet hat is untrim- med
The Seward gateway., 1916-02-26

SEWARD. ALASKA SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2s' l9l6
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HEALTH HINTS
Regularity OF habits does much 70

Regularity Of habits does much TO
keep q baby healthy.
When baby has become IaccuBtonned
to eating and sleeping at certain per-
iods he will do SO without q Whtmper
and thus make things easier for che
mother.
When baby is awake don't get Il
In the habit Of being held; u Will ba
just as well satisfied and much more
comfortable IL It Is left In It's crib.
Do not take baby up Just because
It cries at night unless it b feeding
time or the diaper needs changing.
Sometimes a baby has Just become
uncomfortable and turning Il into a
fresh position will send ~ back into
sound sleep.
The mother can teach baby TO stay
awake at the time she wants IL to DO
by playing with 1t or BY taking Il IN
from its crib at that time.
II started right the baby viii. taIte
a long sleep in the morning. stay
awake several hours during the mid.
die of the day, and take another
nap in the early afternoons Then il
will sleep soundly at night. =
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anyway, wouldn't worry until
hanrd

Weeks went by and no word came
The hotel porter who brought the mail
never told Of a scuffle he had and Of
scattered letters that were oil gather.
ed up but one.
Aurelia waited in stoical silence, and
finally began to think Of Coalport and
her machine. Work might kill mem.
CRY. Then one day they saw on the
register F. X. Powers, Tuscite, Arizo.
ma. Red flooded Aurelia's face under
the TN, and she was sure the hotel
clerk could hear her heart beat.
See, told you! said Alicia, wisely.
He ! as come back for you.
But something odd happened. Mere
suspense turned into certain unhappi.
ness for Aurelia, for Mr.. Powers had
changed so completely in his absence
that he might have been another man.
He was not only reserved and back.
ward in his conversation, but he seem.
ed to have forgotten all about his fc7.
nier affinity, and rather preferred to
sit quietly in corner of the long
porch and talk with Alicia.
I am. going home, announced Aurel.
10 one morning, as Alicia came In and
found her on the floor before an open
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THE DAILY
SHORT STORY
The Man From Tuscite.
BY LOUISE OLIVER.
Copyright, 1916, by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate,)

Copyright, 1916, by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate)
One day the postman left a letter
at the front door addressed to the
Misses Fairleigh and haying for Its
postmark Tuscite, ArizoSa. The up.
per left corner Of the envelope indica,
ted that the communication had come
from the office OF Franklin X. Powers,
secretary and treasurer of the Grand
Canyon Development company.
Aurella stopped her sewing ma.
chine, and the hem of Miss Lawnber.
rvs new yellow net was kept waiting
while Alicia ran scissor.blade under
the flap and pulled out the contents.
For GOODNESS sake, hurry up! urged
Aurelia, unable to bear the suspense
any longer, while Alicia. womanlike,
was running her eye over the whole
thing at once and trying to grasp the
meaning.
I'm hurrying. Alicia's voice was an
almost inaudible whisper, and the let.
ter shook SO she could scarcely hola
it. It's about a mine, Reelie, and it
seems we are to get some money!
Here. you take it: I'm shaking all
over!
My goodness, from the way you act
you'd think somebody was dead and
You had to pay the funeral expenses.
l hope somebody has left us a gold
mine or something substantial. I'm
about all In this hot weather fixing
up duds for other people to go away
to the seashore, and won't have to
thing twice how to spend it II it's real
money. But we'll see! Here's what
1t says:
Dear Mesdames: AS representative
Of the G. &c. D. company Of Tuscite,
In which your late uncle, Moses B.
Wright, as a director and stakeholder,
l have the pleasure to inform you that
the '!arian Turquoise mine recently
redeveloped has yielded rich matrix
deposits, as beneilciaries of Mr..
Wrights. estate, you are entitled to
twelve per cent of the net profits.
inclose check for your share Of the
dividend and will report quarterly un.
less receiving contrary directions
from you.
am your most faithfully,
FRANKLIN X. POWERS.
Reelie!
Yes, really! But. Joking aside,
here's a check for eleven hundred and
thtrty-six dollars that's real enough
and I'll show you how I'm going to
spend part Of it right now.
She pushed back her chair from the
machine and went to the phone, call.
ing Minnie Sweet: Minnie, I've got a
yellow net dress all done but two ruff.
fies. l can't do them and you'll have
to. Send Tommy over for it and get
1t done by tonight and III give YOU
ten dollars a ruffle. I'm all In and am
going away. All right-good for you.
Good bye.
She hung up the receiver with de.
cided emphasis.
That's settled, she said, turning 10
Alicia, who sat petritied with surprise.
Oh, Reelie.
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:: CONFESSIONS OLA WIFE =:

i asked Alice to take the key that
I always wear on the chain around
my neck and bring me all the little
books" from the secret drawer at the
back of the bookcase.
She had to make three trips, for
/ have filled good many Of them
since that Tlast night Of my girl.
4 hood"
.eg All about me on the bed she put
them, and picked them up one Of.
ter another and almost Rugged them
up close to my heart.
Alice, who Is q very understanding
person, left the room and was alone
with my dearest Of conhdants and
4 friends.
AS I held the one to which had
confessed by Righteousness when
Sonny died, I wondered II my dear
little red books were not my best
friends. They had never obtruded
themselves on me and yet they had
always been near when wanted them.
They had let me run on with my con-
xessions Of pride, Of sorrow, Of long.
ing for things that perhaps was bet.
ter off without. They let me make
up my mind without advice and never
said. II told you So" when I found
Yves all:wrong.
Just then Dick came in. His face
changed as he saw the books piled
about me, but he tried to speak nat.
urally as he said: $50 you have de-.
termined at last to let Pat publish all
these little books, Margie?"
..No. DEAR" answered, "I Just had
them brought ut&here to try to help
me decide what ! should do with
them"
"shall take care of them, Margie? ?"
and. Dick made assiftto gather them
up.
Nov Isn't 1t queer, last little book,
that some way, of all the people I
knew simply knew that Dick was
the very last one I wanted to take
care Of the record Of my soul?
NO, please don't touch them, DEAR"
1sexclaimed. II don't want anyone to
take care of'them until after am"
4 Dick softly put his hand over his
mouth
Don't Margie-you know nothing
u going to happen to your
His voice trembled a little In spite
OF his effort to keep Its perfectly nat.
spick,. 4 said after a few, minutes.
silence, Y want 70 make my win.
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Dick groaned. But he sent his at
torney to me that afternoon.
My will directed my executor tc
have my body cremated, and then that
everything had, personal, real o,
Mixed" should be given to my dear
husband, with the exception Of a few
keepsakes to personal friends. add.
ed line in which said that ten years
after my death ny little books should
be opened and read by my husband, II
he were alive, or someone that he
should delegate: and 1t should then
be decided whether their con tents
should be published.
And now, little last book, I am BID
ding you a long farewell. It may
be months a: bess before I write IN
you again, and It may be that Margie
Wavely's confessions to you haya end.
ed.
have finished the entire story o!
Paula, for Pat, and 1t will appear da:iy
while am Ill. am sure it will HELM
roeny girls who are struggling as
Paula did.