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The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1916-07-26
Pay Of Soldiers
Uncle Sans Boys Get From
so cents Up.

The rates of pay in tho United
States army per day arc "a fol.
lows:
Priyate-Cavalry, artillery,
infantry, signal corps; second
class private, engineers aud
ordnance; musician; trumpe-
ter-50 cents.
Privnte-Hospital corps-53
cents.
First-class private--En.
gineers, ordinances, signal corps;
hospital corps-60 cents.
Corporal-Cavulry, artillery,
infantry, WAGNER, artificer,
farrier; snddler; mechanic; field
artillery-70 cents.
Corporal Engineers, ord
nance, signal corps, hospital
corps; chief mechanic; coast
artillery; private, bands-so
cents.
Sergeant Cavalry, artillery,
infantry, hospital corps; stable
sergeant; company quarter
muster sergeant; cavalry artil-
lery, infantry, cook, acting
cook, hospital corps; fireman,
corporal; bands; horseshoer;
cavalry; mechanic, field artil.
larry, performing duty as horse.
shoer--Sl.00.
Second.class electrician SER
gennt; sergeant; engineers, ord
nance, signal corps, bands;
company quarterinnsler ser.
geant; engineers, color sergeant;
drum major-$ l.2n.
Junior sergeant major; squad
ron and battalion sergeant; bat.
talon quartermaster sergeant;
field artillery, master gunner;
chief trumpeter; principal
musician-$l .33.
Senior sergeant major; first.
class electrician sergeant; first.
class sergeant; signal corps;
post ordnance sergeant; post
qunrtermaster sergeant; poat
commissnry sergeant; regiment
al quartormaster sergeant; com
missary sergeant; sergeant
major; battalion sergeant.
major and battalion qua. ter
master sergeant; engineers;
first sergeant-Sl.50
First,class sergeant Hospital
corps-fl G7.
Engineer-$l.l7.
Master signal electrician;
master electrician; chief musi.
cian-$2 90.
Second lieutcnant-s4.72.
First lieutenant-$5. 56.
Cuptain-SG.G7.
Major-SS.33.
Lieutenant colonel-$9.7 II.
Colouel-$ll.ll.
Rrigadier- general 1867.
Mulor-general-|25.22.
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Just Watching the River

Mrs. G. Huettel has just re-
ceived letter from her daugh-
tor, Miss Monica, who is attend !
ing the summer normal at East
Radford, saying that all eve
have to do is watch the river"
The river ia beyond its banks
there. a bridge, says Miss
Monica, was about to float
away with Il crowd on it. Sew
era! houses are under water and
more property is threatened
Norton Reporter.
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CALOMEL DYNAMITES A
SLUGGISH LIVER.
Crashes Into Sour Bile, Max
ing You Sick and You
Lose a Days Work.

Calomel salivates, It's mer-
cury. Calomel acts like ayna-
mite on sluggish liver. When
calomel comes into contact
with sour bile it crashes into
it, causing cramping and
nausea.
If you feel bilious, headachy,
constipated and all Knocked
out. Just go to your druggist
aud get n 30 cent bottle of bod
sons Liver Tone, which is n
harmless vegetable substitute
for dangerous calomcl. Take
"a spoonful and if it doesn't
start your liver and straighten
you up better and quicker than
nasty calomel and without
making you sick, you just go
back and get your money.
If you take calomel today
you'll be sick and nauseated to-
morrow; besides, it may sail
vate you, while if you take
Dodson's Liver Tone you will
wake up feeling great, full of
ambition and ready for work or
play. It's harmless. pleasant
and safe TO give to children
they like it.
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Umpircs Murrin and Inglc
Struck out by Banks, @; by l.iekcns-
purgcr, u
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SAD ACCIDENT.

a sud accident occurred at the
home of II. D. Stlllard, of Bold
Camp, when his little son fell
from tree and sustained injur-
los which resulted in the child's
death. Two children OF Mr.,
Stallard's were playing in a tree
and seeing which could come.
down the quickest and the child
lost his hold and fell, the side
of his head striking n stone.
He was taken to the hospital q,
Coeburn, but died in n few
days. The entire community
is in sympathy with the bereay.
ed family in this time of sor-
row. Wise Republican.
LOST, "A cash-box, OF black
enamel, about f2 inches square.
of the kind carried regularly
in stock by the Wise Printing
Company. This box belongs to
the estate of r. D. Morrison.
deceased, of Big Stone Gap,
Va, and has been missing aimee
his death on June 9th. II con-
tains valuable papers, aud ia
supposed to be in a safe or
vault, forgotten by the. party
to whom it was entrusted by
MIR. Morrison. a reward will
no paid by the estate for the re.
turn of box, or for information
!eadingto its recovery.
FANCY EDEN GEM CAN.
TALOUPES, quality fine, $I.Io
per crate. Cash with order. j..
II Rnv I.nnriraAnro. NJ -
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DORCHESTER

Innings 9 i5G1S 0-R 1T +.
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the desire of the Commanding
Officer to have everything in
sanitary condition before com.
mencing drill-work. General
farKer, Commanding Officer of
the troops here, has instructed
Colonel Leedy to give the
troops from four to eight hour
drill a day, commencing next
Monday. This, with tile detail
work, will keep everyone busy.
Leave of absence is given the
men after supper each night.
They can go to Brownsville if
they care TO, and must be back
and in bed by ten o'clock.
There are good many sore
arms as n result of the typhoid
vaccine injections aud the small
pox vaccinations, but the gem
eral health of the men is very
good. Authorities claim that
this section Of country is as
healthy as can be found.
The heat is terrific, but a con
slant wind blows, and makes
old "Sol" impotent to do any
harm.
The attitude OF the Mexicans
who comprise fully seventy five
percent of the population,
everywhere is one Of thinly
yelled hostility, aud great pre-.
cautions are being taken to
avoid any trouble between them
aud the soldiers. Orders are
that no notice is to be taken Of
insults given by them.
The town of Brownsville is
under martial law, and the
daredevil Texas Rangers do
great service in keeping order
there.
The only real "thorn in the
flesh" is the absence of payday.
For some reason, the Virginia
soldiers have not been given
their salaries, aud nearly every
one is "brokc', and all who
had any money at all have
been touched heavily,
The following promotions
have occurred recently To be
scrgeants-Thomas Cochran
and G. l.. Chapman. Sergeant
Peck to be First Sergeant. II l..
p. Young to be Mess Sergeant.
Privates Hammond, Alfriend,
Ebert Gillian, Coward, Cress,
to be corporals. Privntes
Horn, Ewing, and Rcpass to be
Lance COrporals.
Ilnroute from the Gap, the
treatment accorded the boys
was generally all that could be
asked. We must make the ex
ception of Spartanburg, whore
the restaurant owners charged
the soldiers more Than the law
allows on sandwiches, coffee.
and so forth. In striking con
trast to this was the royal re-
ception gwen in Dallas, where
Mr.. n. X. Boone, the Manager
of the Y. NJ. c. A., there, met
the company and took them
down to the swimming pool for
n bnth
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WANTED.

y few pupils in Expression
by competent instructor from
Washington, d. G. Terms rea.
sonable, Miss Elizabeth Agee,
Big Stone Gap, Va.
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News From
The Border
War Correspondent of Post
Writes OF Experiences
Since Leaving Camp
Stuart.

the Gap drop in on Hungry Al
lev, as the company street of
H is aiieciionately termed, he
would be impressed with the
efficiency aud economy of the
arrangement of tho quarters.
TheCnptain's tent stands Mt the
head OF the street, with the
Company flags floating at each
side of the door. And this
tent seems to be Il very popular
one in Officers Row.
On the left are the Lieuten.
: ants quarters where Lieuten-
ants Painter and MacFerran
Z keep bachelors hall.
/ Across the regimcntal street
stands the Cook Tent, the Mec-
ca of yoracious non-coms and
Il priyates. Three times day a
{ long, hungry dread line"
forms ana passes through this
tent, and ia served with Cooks
y Bill Wax and jerome Wells
\ army corrections. The hard
Il tack Of Field Rations has
& changed to the loaf bread of
4Garrison Rations, to the delight
aof all-for Ha I'd Tack
qis indeed hard to tackle, And
3it is worthy of note that the
3lformerly "finicky'' ones never
4refusc anything that appears
ION the bill of fare. One "rooky",
swho in the days os long ago
simply couldn't bear onions,
3swas recently overheard by the
1swriter to inquire anxiously,
3"Ain't there no seconds on
ononsf"
The officers fare just as do
,sthe privatcs, and all, being hui
enan beings, are glad to hear
the hugle sound, "Soupee,
sonpee, soupee, without a
single bean"
~ Next to the cook tent is the
.iSfow of twelve "squad tents"
stretching along in n single
ssline, Under each of these
Sranyas apartments" live
eight men. ~ corporal "bosscs'
isStach squad.
4. Should the civilian visitor of
ssthe first paragraph happen to
Pc of the feminine gender she
Ss%onld marvel Mt the ncatness
s8pI everything. Small drain
witches are cut around each
isslent so that the hardest rain
s9~lIl not dnmpen the floor.
lhls precaution was not taken
seNS ednesday afternoon, the day
:%ei our arrival, MS night fell
coon after the tents were pitch
s9sd. a tremendous rainfall (the
Erst IN this district since last
r. pecember) came and flooded
everything. Everything that
happened to be lying on the
ground was soaked, as were
Yhe members of the company
sEho were detailed for guard
euIy That night. This over
sight would nave been un.
81 ppardonable but for the fact
shat no enc thought for min
q'e that it ever rained here.
{ IN front of each tent is a
Esg ash'stand-three pegs driven
plto the ground and basin sci
it.
Every day is wash day, and
every man scrubs his own
sothes, spreading them upon
a'e tents to dry. Inside the
Ems neatness and cleanliness
y Tie rnle. After revoille at
Se'lh'rty a. M, all equipment
arranged in order upon tho
o'S, guns and metal equipment
Z oiled and rubbed, and
Middletown transcript., 1916-10-07
What the Doctor Knows
KIDNEYS MUST BE RIGHT TO
INSURE HEALTH.

Few people realize to what extent their
health depends upon the condition of the
kidneys.
The physician in nearly all cases Of
serious illness, makes a chemical analy.
sis of the patients urine. He knows that
unless the kidneys are doing their work
properly, the other organs cannot readily
be brought back to health and strength.
When the kidneys are neglected or
abused in any way, serious results are
sure to follow. According to health sta
tistics, Bright's Disease. which is really
an advanced form of kidney trouble,
caused nearly ten thousand deaths in one
year, in the State of New York alone.
Therefore, it is particularly necessary to
pay more attention to the health of these
important organs.
An ideal herbal compound that has had
remarkable success as Z kidney remedy
Ii DR.. Kilmer's Swamp Root, the great
kidney, liver and bladder remedy.
The mild anG healing influence of this
preparation, in most cases, is soon real.
lied, according to sworn statements and
verified testimony of those who have used
the remedy.
When your kidneys require attention,
get Swamp-Root at once from. any phar-
macy. It is sold by every druggist in
bottles Of two siEes-50c and $l.OO.
However, if you wish first to test this
great preparation send ten cents to Dr.
Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, n Y, for .
sample bottle. When writing be sure and
mention this paper. ADV.
Middletown transcript., 1916-10-07
Seasons Coats Show Novelty


heaped with fur. Nutrla is used, rab-
bit, brown, gray and white, but not
many Of the coarse, long-haired pei
try. The fur this season must be dat
and pliable, so that 1t can lend Itself
to all the soft curves Of the material
Bernard has turned out black satin
coat with brown fur that the Ameri-
can dressmakers think will have long
run of popularity. It follows the
fashion of last year, In that 1t has
wide, dfstended openings at the side,
exactly below the waist, that are heav-
lily corded at the edges. There is a
black gown that goes with this, with
a deep renaissance yoke of gold lace,
but the majority of women will buy
the coat, probably, without the gown
Miles OF Embroidery.
It would be terrifying to have a
statistician measure in-miles the en-
broidery used on the new gowns. 1t
would make a new burden for our
minds to carry, which are already feel
ing the burden of fhis departure in
clothes.
If there Is one thing that France
knows how to do batter than any other
place in the world, It is needlework
She has called up all her resources IN
this line today. All her needlewOrkers
are not under the cOlOrs, but they are
under orders to cover every piece OF
material that goes out of Paris with
the most complicated embroidery.
The designs are drawn from sew
eral sources of inspiration. China, ia
pan and Russia are tie nations which
are represented. The majority of the
designs, however, are reminiscent OF
the mOyen age-those sumptuous ahd
exquisite patterns that were produced
from the twelfth to- the fifteenth cen
fury.
There are bits of embroidery on
street suits that look as though they
were copied from altar cloths. En-
tire coats have their surfaces plns-
tered with soutache braiding, which
incorporate hundreds of fiat disks,
wonderfully done.
All Colors Seemingly Used.
Oyster gray sOutache is the color
chosen for the largest amount Of braid
ing done, and every color is used in
the embroidery, as we'll as every stitch
and design that the world has ever pro-
duced.
Jet and cOlored beads are prOfusely
used. A black silk house gown is al
most covered with design in jet. Col
Ored beads in ornamental motifs hang
from belts, collars and cuffs.
Metal thread is laVishly employed
and usually several metals are com
bined. One of the mort effective eve
Middletown transcript., 1916-10-07

of the value of a bull is the character
of his offspring, and this is the safest
and surest guide. Many aged bulls
with good records and splendid off
spring are sold at bargain prices to
avoid inbreeding, and afford an excel
lent opportunity to the man who
wishes good bull at moderate cost.
Strength and virility must go with
good ancestry to make good sire.
The grade sire should have no place
in the dairy herd.
Select Cows on Their Records.
Cows may be selected according to
type and apparently by men who are
good judges, but the only safe and sure
basis for selection is the annual milk
record.
The keeping of milk records In all
parts of the country and in all classes
and kinds Of herds has shown:
1. That some herds make large an
nual profits while others make none.
2. That In the best herds there are
usually some improbable cows, and
very many such in the poorer herds.
3. That without records the owners
of the herds could not tell with any de-
gree Of accuracy which cows were pay
ing profitably and which were not.
4. That many dairymen would have
made a greater yearly profit had they
sent their herd to the butcher at the
beginning of the year, thus saving half
their feed and labor expenses and get
ting all the profit from their best cows.
A fact worth noting is that several
worlds record cows of different breeds,
now worth thousands of dollars each.
Middletown transcript., 1916-10-07
WATCH THE PAINTER AT WORK
Poor Economy in Using Shoddy Mate
rial and Cheap Labor Where Looks
of Home Are Concerned.

In no branch of the building game Is
poor material and workmanship so
common as in exterior painting, says
a writer in Popular Mechanics Maya
zine. The architects specifications for
painting generally set forth that
the painting contractor must pro-
vide all the materials of every descrip-
ton, including ladders, scaffOlding,
ropes, brushes, etc., for the proper per-
formance Of the work in substantial
and workmanlike manner; all the ma
terials to be of the best of their re-
spective kinds, and all woodwork to
be thoroughly cleaned before being
painted; all nail holes, joints, cracks
and defects in materials to be filed
with putty; all jointed work to be sand
ed smooth before applying the second
coat.
The specifications then itemize what
work is to be done, and how, as fol-
lows: All outside woodwork to be
given a certain number of coats of
good white lead and linseed oil paint,
mixed to correspond with the color Sc
Iected by the owner on outside blinds
or shutters, exterior of sash, window
screens, door screens, outside doors,
tin and galvanized ironwOrk, ironwOrk,
roofs and cement work.
The homebuilder should know wheth-
er his specifications are rightly drawn
and whether they are being followed
by the painting contractor.
Undoubtedly the best way OF know
ing if the work is being rightly done.
Is to know how to do 1t.
Middletown transcript., 1916-10-07
DUCKS THRIVE ON SOFT FOOD
NutritiVe Organs Not Adapted to
Whole Grains-GiVe Them Green
Feed in Abundance.

The ducks nutritive organs are not
adapted to whole grains. The natural
diet of ducks is soft food, worms and
bugs, from the banks and marshes. For
best development, ducks should have
soft feed, always accompanied by wa
ter in pans deep enough to permit them
to submerge the beak to the eyes. Give
them lettuce, spinach, beet tops, onion
tops, weeds-green food Of some kind
In abundance.
For a few ducks the vegetable par
ings may be boiled and fed with mash ;
small potatoes, not to exceed fifth
of the mash, may be used. Too many
potatoes are not good.
For stock ducks in autumn and early
winter, an excellent ration is equal
parts of cOrnmeal, wheat bran and
boiled vegetables, with 10 per cent of
beef scrap fed morning and evening;
at noon little cracked corn, wheat or
oats. When the birds begin to lay, in
crease the proportion of meal and
scrap, and add low-grade -four, max
ing a mash about as follows: Meal,
one part; bran, one part; lOw-grade
-four, one part; vegetables, one part,
with from Il to 15 per cent of beef
scrap.
Middletown transcript., 1916-10-07
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BAD HOUSING CAUSES MISERY
New York Tenement Expert Describes
Evil Conditions-LiVlng In Small
Place Best After All.

The three great ScOurgeS of man
kind, disease, poverty and crime, are
largely due to bad housing, accord
ing to John J. Murphy, New York's
tenement house commissioner, whose
official task it is to study and remedy
as far as possible improper housing
conditions in New York city. Mr..
Murphy, who is the only tenement
house commissioner In the United
States, recently had published an az
ticle on housing conditions, based on
his investigations in large centers OF
population, in which he said:
''There can be no question that the
three great scourges of mankind, dis
case, poverty and crime, are in large
measure due to bad housing, in its
broadest sense. Intemperance in many
of its most repugnant forms may be
traced to the fact that so many Citi-
zens are obliged to live in homes in
which they can take neither pride nor
comfort and which make the saloon
seem desirable by contrast.
'Bad housing is especially detrl-
mental in its consequences to the chill
dred reared under its influence. In
many cases the evil influences of en-
vironment can never be eradicated.
The need for the erection of institu-
tions for the blind and hospitals for
the child victims Of tuberculosis, spinal
meningitis and other diseases of like
character is greatly intensified by bad
home conditions. The employee liV-
ingdn a house inadequately lighted and
ventilated is unable to perform his
task with proper energy and intelli-
gence. Women compelled to live in
such houses develop tendencies to frri-
liability, which frequently lead to fam
lily disruption.
"Bad housing tends to increase the
tax burdens of a community by reQuir-
ing larger expenditures for remedial
service, which might otherwise be elm
mated. The lack of proper cleanliness
and decency in the exterior and inte-
rior of houses sends to reduce the self
respect of the occupants. Note how
eagerly the family which has even
slightly improved it's financial stand
ing seeks buildings with more attrac-
tive exteriorS and better decorated
rooms. 1t will also be found that as
families descend in the social scale
one of the pangs most keenly felt is
the necessity for the occupancy Of
quarters in buildings whose general ap-
pearance indicates that they are Occu-
pied by the miserably poor"
Middletown transcript., 1916-10-07
WordIess Traffic SIGNS.

Unlettered road signs are being
used to regulate motor-car traffic on
the driveways of Fargo, N. D., park.
Although they do not give mOtOrist
a single word of instruction or warn
ing, they have served their purposes
efficiently. At best, road signs detr0ct
more or less from the appearance Of
a parkway or boulevard, especially
when they are literally signboards.
While those used in Fargo are only a
small improvement in this respect,
they hold a good suggestion. One OF
these signs was recently erected to di'
rect traffic into new artery branch
ing from an old and much-trNveled
one. It consists of white post, at
the top of which are two arms, the
right one pointing In the direction to
be pursued, while the other hangs
down. Although this means a reversal
Of the accustomed direction of travel.
from the beginning motorists turned
in to the new road without hesitation.
Popular Mechanics Magazine.
Middletown transcript., 1916-10-07
Widows Bonnet.

While the majority of mOurners are
not making their mourning cOnspicu-
Gus by it's very intensity, there are
still widows who persist in wearing
the long veil as a token of their be-
reavement. For such there are several
picturesque new styles being shown.
The veil draping is not very different
from that employed by those out of
mourning who are adopting the tong
veil for it's smart style qualities. 1t
is thrown over small toque founda-
ton. thrown back from the face and
held perfectly plain In front by a band
of white crepe around the face line.
A bride of white crepe is passed un-
der the chin and is quietly very chic
to an attractive woman.
Middletown transcript., 1916-10-07
Sportswoman's Wooden Stockings

tity of 1t would naturally he apt to
pull the material out of shape.
Gold and black embroidery motifs
were used on a putty-cOlOred chiffon
afternoon gown seen recently. and on
a pale gray crepe gown there were
embrOiderieS of silver. gray and blue.
A white net evening gown was
trimmed with embrOiderieS placed OF
the skirt to catch up the draperies
at the side and on the tiny sleeves.