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The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-03-10
Miss Elizabeth Torrey is collect or of news for the week.

method used by the party.
 In these ways a good many ac- cidents have occurred and although the one who is unfortunate enough to be the cause and feels the deep est regret and shame, still it is an accident and both parties must suf- fer the consequences. Such as in this case. Two parties
 this case: Two partners were hunt ing, and one was accidently shot by the other, and had to suffer the loss of a leg. This is only one of the many unfortunate results of acci- dents in hunting.
The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-03-10

Waterfll 6 Frazier whiskey at The Branch.
The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-03-10
Community Christian Church

Regular Sunday services: II to l2, Sunday school; 7:3O to S:3O, song ser vice and address on "The Permanent Place of the Fighting Instinct" Every one welcomS. DorcaS society Thursday at 1 o'clock. St. Patrick's day social Friday, March 17th, D. m. Come and have one big time.
 HARRY C. MUNRO, Pastor.
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THf CHURCHES
Methodist Church

II a. m, theme, "A Call to Serve Christ in the Home" 12:15, Bible school. 6;&O D m, Young Peoples meeting. 7:&O D m, subject, "The En- largement of Life" The Ladies Aid will meet with Mrs. Frank Ballaine Thursday afternoon at 2:&O. All are cordially invited to attend these ser vices.
 J. J. PATTON, Pastor.
The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-03-10
In Grammar

The class had been studying the use of raise" and "rise." and had learned that "raise" must be used only when it takes an object.
 The sentence was, "Rise up, Cain, and get ye over the border"
 Teacher (applying the teSt)-Did he raise anything?
 Pupil-Yes, he raised Cain.
The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-03-10
ORIGINAL POEMS
 RESULT OF FINE SEWARD WEATHER
Number 4

The following original poems were inspired by the glorious sun shine of the past few weeks.
 By Willard Shellhorn Oh, for summer joyful play! In the sunshine all the day. Oh, sun you make the world warm In the summers lovely charml You're such a very jolly fellow, So big and bold and round and vel low: First you go behind a cloud; Then you shine so very proud; The mountains glisten from your light; You make the world so very bright.
 Francis Ballaine l ike 10 see the sunshine, And everybody thinks it's fine. 1t shines all the day, When all the children like to play.
 Harry Edwin Revell The sun is shining all around; It shines on mountain, field and tree. 1t shines into the ocean blue, And on the roofs and school house too. It melts the snow, it melts the ice; It brings the spring and flowers so nice.
 By Gladys Green The sun is what 1 like to see; How glad the little birds will be, That summer is coming, and so are we. The sunbeamS are playing every where, And make the world so bright and fair.
 Heard in the Class Room
 In Literature Teacher-Prue is the girls name. What is that the nickname for? Pupil-Prunes.
The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-03-10
EXTENSION OF HILL ROAD
 TO SAN FRANCISCO REPORTED
(By United States Cablc)

SAN FRANCISCO Friday, March 9.-The San Fran cisco Chronicle today publishes statement that the Hill road now terminating at Bend Oregon is soon to be ex tended to Eureka, and on to San Francisco.
 Railroad construction work has been at standstil for the past Is months throughout the United States but it is evident that new era of activity is near.
The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-03-10
4 SOUTH AMERICAN REPUBLICS
 WILL DISCUSS PLAN TO END WAR
(By United States Cable)

BUENOS AIRES, Saturday, March lO.-Government officials of the Argentine Republic here have received
 surances that the governments of Brazil Chile and Peru are willing to join in a conference at Buenos Aires at which the South American republics will discuss ways and means for bringing about end of the European
The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-03-10

Heard in the Class Room
 In Literature Teachcr-Prue is the girls name. What is that the nickname for? Pupil-Prunes.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1917-01-24

Speaking recently before the Terra
pin Club OF Philadelphia, Eugene G..
Grace, President ot the bethlehem
Steel Company, said in part:
In peculiar sense bethlehem Steel
serves the American people.
For example. though we have been
able to obtain In Europe almost any
price. we have adhered. in our charges
to the United States Government, to
the basis Of prices established before
the war began.
We agrecd--it tile Government would
abandon its plans FOR Federal plant
to make armOr for our navy at aug
price The GorcrHmeD. tscV might con-
'ider fair.
Our ordnance plants are at the dis
posal OF the nation at fair operating
cost, plus small margin, thus saving
the Government Investment and de
probation.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1917-01-24
CAL0MEL DYNAMITES A
SLUGGISH LIVER.
Crashes Into Sour Bile, Max
ing You Sick and You
Lose a Days Work.

Calomcl salivates. It's mer-
curry. Culomel acts like dvna
mite on a sluggish liver. When
calomel comes into contact with
sour bile it crashes into it. caus.
ing cramping and nausea.
1t you feel bilious, headachy
constipated and all Knocked
out, Just so to yorr druggist
and get a so cent bottle of Dod.
sons Liver Tone, which is a
harmless vegetable substitute
for dangerous calomel. Take
a spoonful aud if it doesn't
startyour liver and straighten
You up better and quicker than
nasty caiomel and without
making you sick, you lust 90
back aud get your money
If YOU take calomel today
you'll be sick and nauseatrd To-.
morrow; besides, it may sail
vatc you, while if YOU take
Dodson's Liver Tone YOU will
wake up feeling great, full OF
ambition aud ready for work or
play. lrs harmless. pleasant
ID safe to give TO children:
they like it. -ydv.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1917-01-24
East Stone Gap

ora Buchanan and Willie
Thompson went to the
movies nj Big Stone Gap
Saturday night
Hobart Witt nf Roda, spent
Sunday with homcfolks near
East stone Gap.
Mrs w. w. Miuton and her
two sons, Nirgel and Clarence
were shopping i'll Big Stone
Cap Saturday afternoon.
Prof. Givens was a business
visitor in Big Stone Gap one
day last week.
}, =. Qualis, OF Pattonsville,
is visiting relatives near town
this week
T G. Morris spent Saturday
afternoon in Big Stone Gap on
business.
Nelson Blanton, Addie Col
lier, James Gily and Harry
johnson spent Sunday after
noon in the Valley attending
Sunday School.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1917-01-24
Mendoza
Man Praises
Tanlac:
After Taking Five Bottles He
Felt Better and Had
Gained AboulFifteen
Pounds.

81 suffered from Indigestion,
my symptoms were that would
Till up with gas after meals and
stomach would DO sore" said
II. Q. Fugate, of Mendoza, Va !.
a farmer, and in continuing lie
said, 81 bought Taulac beausc
thought II would benefit me
aud after taking FIVE bottles |
felt better and gained about
fifteen pounds"
When the digestive organs
so wrong food clogs in the in
iestinal tract, ferments and
generates foul gases, causing a
sour, CASEY stomach, pressure
III chest. around heart aud in
sides. II causes constipation.
nervousness and headaches.
One usually wakes in the morn
ing lacking energy, sleep was
poor, tongue is coated and
breath is foul. Your head is
dizzy and the brain is sluggish.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1917-01-24

We have not the slightest idea what
profit there win be In the making OF
these shells. We DO not know that
there VIII lie any. There IS no certain.
y that 1t would be possible for us to
deliver "A shell to meet the test
For officers in the Navy 10 assume
that any bid made under such condl.
lions is ''exorbitnnt" IS utterly unfair.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1917-01-24

one OF tho special needs OF the new
navy is siHtceninch guns-guns sixty
feet long and capable OF hurtline
1000 pound shell with such power and
accuracy as to hit 30 foot square tar
get fifteen miles away.
We have undertaken voluntarily to
construct. Mt IA cost OF S45O0oO0, a
plant fitted to build siTteen.lnch guns
Under no conceivable circumstances
can orders which we may receive for
this plant pay even fair return on
the Investment
Considerable comment has been made
upon the fact that British manufac.
nrer recently bid less uian American
manufacturers Tor sixteen and four
tecu-inch shells for the navy.
Rm unable to state tho basis upon
which the English hid was made It
should be remembered, however. that
this bid was Tor a specific she'll, sam
pies OF which are being sent over for
tesla test not yet made.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1917-01-24
TO BUILD SHIPS
At COST PRICE
Bethlehem Steel VIII Make o.
fer 10 Uncle Sam.
BIDS ON is INCH NAVY SHELLS

No Chance Fer Profit In Them Under
Present Tests. Grace Says-PossiblO
Explanation Of the Prices Made BY an
English Firm Which Bids Under All
American Manufacturers.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1917-01-24

Two years ago we took an order for
24OO fourtceninch nrmor-picrclng shells
at contract price Of ST6SO0O, to be
delivered within a certain time OF We
had TO pay a large penalty.
Tho only specifications FOR making
these shells are that they shail bc
OF certain slze ana must pierce
armur plate at a certain velocity on i'm
pact II IS Impossible to forctell the
exact conditions Of the tests
We had mAAe large quantities OF shells
in the past which had been accepted.
But IN placing this particular order tile
Department altered the angle at which
tile tested shells must pierce armor-
plate. The result, however. has been
absolute inability ON our part to pro
duce Ia any quantity, shells which VIII
meet these novel tests In fact. we
know OF no process OF prolecule-innk-
Ing through which 1t is possible to pro
duce IN quantities shells which viii
conform 10 the requirements
The result IS that up to now on that
contract OF S7Gs .0on, we have put Into
nctunl operating expense S4l7SSl,. and
hive been penallzcd Tor non-dellvery
SIe5.7li.. total OF Sol2,G25.. with no
receipts Whatever.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1917-01-24

We bid on the new battlo-cruisers
sums which Navy department experts.
after examination OF our books. found
would yield a profit OF less than ten
per cent We agreed to assume risks
for increased costs OF materials and Ia
Dor. that made II possible that these
contracts might Yield no profit what
ever.
The costs run beyond the amount ap.
propriatcd by Congress on the basis OF
the cost estimates made year ago.
And because shipbunders could not
alter the memorable cost facts and re
duce bids to early estimates Of the
Navy Department, the prices are called
"e1orbi,ant.'
II would be n real advantage to be
relieved of this naval construction. The
profit from 1t cannot possibly amount
to much. and the responsibility is enor.
nous.
We have determined 70 make this
offer TO the American Government
III you Will build two Of the battle
cruisers In Government navy yards.
we viii build the other two at the as.
certaiued cost OF building the ships In
The Government yards. without add.
honal expense or commissions OF sny
Kind. We will also contract to have
our ships ready FOX service ahead of
The Government ships"
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1917-01-24
The Thrice "A Week Edition
OF the New York World.
Practically Daily AT The Price Of a
Weekly. No other Newspaper in The
world gives SO much at so low price.

The value and need OF newspaper in
the household was never greater Than AT
the present time The great war ia
kurore is nov halfway into It's third
year, and whether peace be at hand or
yet be fat OIL, it and tbs EVENTS 10 follow
II are sure &c be OF absorbing interest FOR
many month 20 come.
These arr woHi-shakiug af,Airs. in
which the United States, willing or I'M.
willing is compelled to take part. no
Intelligent person can ignore such issues
THE THRICE A.WEEk WORLDS
Regular subscription price IS only $i.O0
Per year, aud this pays for 1873 papers
we onot this uncquallcd newspaper and
the Big Stone Gap Post together for one
year for sl.7a
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1917-01-24
~ al S HGIl1.Ags a3S}SYa
EzrnrSyzz-zsEss Schedule n Ftieci
NOv - lgii

nov. -, WI.
LEAVE NORTON. VA.G.i5a IA and
aud 80 i "a for Blucncld aud TO-
tcrincdiate stations larlnr Gar du
ESQ p. no train Connection al Blue
field with Trains East aud West
Pullmai Slcepcrs, Dining Cars
LEAVE BRlSTOL.VA. Daily. G.i5a.m
ior East Radlord, lioan6ke. Lynoh
burg Petersburg, Richmond and
Norfolk Pullman Iarur car to
Richmond Roanoke TO lagcrstowi
Hulman sleeper llagcrstown TO New
York
900 y M for Norfolk and Intermediates
points, Pullman Slecpcrs TO Norfolk
l'i3 p tn aud 80 p. m Omitted Solid
trains with pullman sleepers to WASH
lugton, Baltimore Ihiladelphia ana
New YORK via l.ynchburg. Does NOT
make local stops
l2:l5p M dailyfor All points betwcet
Bristol ana lynchburg. Cmnectsl-
Walton az $40 = m With the Chi
eago Express for al points west and
northwest.
vs. G. SAUNDERS, q. 4. \.
w y liEviIL.
Pass Traf Mgr
ioanckG Va
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1917-01-24

Cost of Living High in
France" sand headline, but
wo are under the impression
that the war has forced the
French to stop that kind of II
ing.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1917-01-24

Such was the experience In the light
OF which we were called upon recent
Is 10 bio FOR siStecn.inch shells.
We bid on these shells nj approx
mstely the same rate per pound as
that OF fouriccnInch shell contract
OF one year ago upon which the Gov
eminent awarded contracts.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1917-01-24
WANTED

Ore miners utIrondale mines
Steady employment at good
wages.
Intermont Coal & Iron Corn
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-23
Honors Gwilym Davies
GWilkes-Barre Record

high honor has come to Gwilym
Davies, supervisor of music in
Wilkes-Barre public schools, in a
communication from the State De-
partment of Public Instruction, ask
ing him to act as a State examiner
in music, 1t is required that all mu-
sic teachers in the public schools un-
dergo an examination for special
certificates. Mr.. Davies has accepted
and will conduct an examination in
Scranton next Friday and at Will
Transport on Saturday. He Is rec
ognized as one of the most compe-
tent instructors in the State, and
has also achieved an enviable repu-
tation in composing music books for
use in the schools. They have been
adopted in a number of places be-
cause of their splendid ads ptation to
the easy mastery of the funda-
mentals. The honor that has come
to Mr.. Davies reflects credit upon
the community as we'll as upon him.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-23
Bitten on the Limb
fKansas City starl

The other day while 1 was out
hunting items l was told that a
young woman had been bitten ION
the limb" by vicious dog, says Tom
Thompson. / knew at once that she
had been bitten on the arm, but a
few more particulars were needed to
make it news item. Luckily 1 had
scarcely moved from the spot when
1 saw the young lady herself ap-
preaching. As she is a member of my
Sunday school and a modest, sensible
girl, mentally made bet with my
self that she wouldn't call it her limb,
so accosted her with: whats this
hear about you being bitten by a
mad dog7" WELL" she replied, "a
dog ran out and bit me last evening
when 1 was going home. I hardly
think he was mad-but was" After
few other questions and answers
asked: Where did he bite your"
Right up there on the corner" she
answered, waving her hand in the
direction of her home, and looking
me squarely and soberly in the eye.
"Yes-ah-so he did. Well, I'm glad
you weren't hurt much" was about
all / could think to say. But I won
the bet-she didn't say limb.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-23
Birds Foil Gas Attacks
[From the Literary Djgestl

tFrom the Literary Djgest1
One of the favorite characters in
the folklore of all nations is the
kindly disposed fish, or bird, or frog,
or rabbit who heaps benefits upon
the hero, coming to his rescue in
moments of peril at the very nick of
time.
This pretty fairy tale is coming
true at present for the heroes OF the
trenches. whenever those grim
bitches have been dug near a forest
or orchard. For the birds overhead
give warning of the approach of the
noxious fumes OF asphyxiating gas
before it is perceptible to the senses
of the soldiers.
Doctor Cabanes, writing in La
Chronique Medica1e. says that the
birds are reused from their slumbers
before the odor of the gas has been
detected in the trenches, and 3t once
begin to make a confused clamor as
they hastily take their flight to the
rear, thus warning the men behind
the guns to don their gas masks and
be ready for the deadly unseen foe.
This circumstance Is in accord with
the familiar use oil a canary to de.
tect foul air in mines. and 1t seems
probable that the superior sensitive.
ness of birds in this respect is due Il
the highly oxygenated condition OF
their blood, causing them to suffel
from the slightest lack of oxygen.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-23
Porous

When he bitches up his wagon
To make the weekly drive to
town
And he takes unholy pleasure
In holding all the roadway's
crown
Shuts his ears, and never needing,
When chasing Lizzie" calls;
Iurns his head and looks back grin
ming
When the hand-worked Klaxon
bawls-
You can write it in your mem.
book,
He's a h. o. g.!
When he gets his little brass-bound
Tln-shop out upon the byway,
And the big car comes a'hooting
Calling loudly. Please! Some
highway"
Then he hugs the left-still smiling
Chokes her down to almost twenty;
Getting even with the big car.
Got his goat? Yes! Got him
plenty!'---
Paste it in your little bonnet,
He's h. o. &.
When the man with Eight or Twin
Six
Blocks the road as If he's It;
Makes the man who's in a hurry
Mutter words that don't sound fit;
II he fails to push the button"
ahead, or give fair clear
He's the worst one in the business,
Premier pest of interference.
Print his name in all the papers,
He's h. o. &.
w. p. Highway Bulletin.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-23
Stone-Age Stuff

You can do anything that you try
to do
If only you try to do it.
You must get little start,
You must have little heart,
Then a long, strong pull, and go to
1t!
oh, it may take years to worry it
through,
And you may break n leg or an arm
or two!
But in the by and by you will find it
true
That you'll do anything that you try
If only you try to do it!
You can be anything that you want
to be
If you're sure that you want to be 1t.
You must keep your little mind
Very constantly inclined
To the far place long before you see
it.
Life may seem struggle in an angry
sea;
But beat along to windward and be-
ware the drift to lee;
And some day you'll be sailing on
the blue 9nd free;
For you'll be anything that you want
to be-
II only you want to be It!
You can make any mark that you
want to make.
II only you want to make 1t.
YOU must lug your little pack
You must plug along the track,
You must keep the pace and never
more forsake 1t.
oh, your brain may pain and your
muscles ache.
Your soul may sicken and your back
may break:
But keep your smile In the game OF
give-and- take
And you'll make any mark>that you
want to make
II only you want to make it,
But, whatever the aim OF your make
be-do,
Be sure that you want to reach it,
For the thing Is up to you.
Quite too trite and quite too true
For me to try to sing 1T or to sereecl
II,
Few Of us will practicewhat we dali!
preach;
Most of our observance is honored II
the breach,
But, in reaching any goal that yol
want to reach,
Be sure that you want to reach 1t!
Edmund Vance Cooke, in tn
Saturday Evening Post.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-23
Prohibition During War

Whatever wor action may be de-
cided upon with regard to the liquor
traffic should be rational. No sub
stantisl benefit to the country will
be derived from a few states adopt
ing prohibition for the period of the
war As to the legal questions in
volved, they undoubtedly can be re-
solved; if 1t shall be decided the
country must be dry" as protec-
tive measure, the Federal authority
charged with the common defense
can enforce its decision. State au-
thorities will scquiesce and cooper
ate to make the decree effective. No
one will question the supremacy of
the Federal authority in the emer.
gency that is upon us. At the same
time, action by state legislatures vol
UNFAIRLY suspending the liquor bust
ness during the war will be helpful
to the national government If that
power concludes the country should
be dry" The plan reported from
Harrisburg, designed to establish
prohibition temporarily in this state,
should be taken up with the Federal
authorities. Harmony between the
state and national governments is
more than ever eSSential.-PittS-
burgh Gazette e-Times.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-23
By BRIGGS

growing in strength and compulsive
authority month by month, with the
gradual unfolding of the real char
acter of German aims and methods
1t was that force alone which
brought home to the great demo-
cracy overseas the momentous
truth that they were standing at the
parting of the ways.
There was never in the minds of any
of us a fear that the moment the
issue became apparent and unmis-
taxable the voice of America. would
not be heard. She has now dedi-
Gated herself without hesitation or
reserve, heart and soul and strength,
to the greatest of causes, to which,
stimulated and fortified by hen com
radeship, we here renew our fealty
and devotion"
John Dillon, for the Irish Nation
alists, welcomed the United States
and with it, every man of loyal Irish
blood there, and said that it was
difficult to describe the full meaning
of this action, that It was not like
the entrance of the other allies, but
had a more mighty significance to
the whole civilized world because il
was breach with an unbroken ira
dition of a century, a tradition ad
hered to with vehemence and pas
sion, ol lHe pflnClple ldlu down Dy
Washington that the country keep
clear of entangling alliances. He
said in part:
The difficulties with which Mr.
Wilson has been confronted in the
last two and one-half years have not
been sufficiently appreciated in this
country. He had to keep the nation
united and bring it united into the
war. He had to deal with a people
which had deep-seated and ineradl-
cable hatred of war. To bring the
United States into the war was to
make them go against one of the
deepest instincts of the soul of the
race. The craftsmanship, courage
and patience of President Wilson
bring him into the forefront of al
the great statesmen of the last cen.
tury."