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Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-04-15
AmusementS.
For the TAzEwELL REPUBLICAN.

For the lAZEWELL hEPU LILLIAN
In this age Of the world, as well as in
the preceding generations, the tendency
of majority Of young men is to indulge
in amusements which are debasing in
themselves, harmful in their tendency and
frequently resulting in low irnmoralities.
In the present day we hearof baseball clubs,
peanut clubs, black cat clubs, foot ball
clubs, lnqe kiln clubs and there may be
some others equally as degrading as these.
From such withdraw yourselves. Let it
not be supposed that this writer believes
that the young men who are growing up
around us have a lower standard of
morals, than the young men of half a
century ago, neither let it I've thought that
the writer does not believe in healthful
games or innocent diversions and plays;
for these are as necessary for intellectual
and physical enjoyment, as a healthful
food TO the body. The writer's observation
and experience go back five decades and
more, and he knows whereof he is writing.
Therefore, with all the emphasis at COM
mand, he would enforce the truth, that
these times demand higher standard OF
morality, and more progressive rules OF
Christian ethics than in any previous age
of the world. One reason why this de-
mand is in force may be found in the fol
lowing assertion: Every young man,
every society, every community and every
country is being judged by the morals and
ethics which prevail in individuals, and
society generally. 1t may be also positive
ly asserted that young men who are strict
ly moral, educated and progressive are al
premium, and are being diligently sought
after by the business world. Therefore.
for any young man who is using the thread
bare expression 81 can find nothing to do
shows at once that he is lacking in one Oh
more of the foregoing prerequisites of &
business life. Any way we look at it, life
is too short and precious to be abused
with any of the fleeing and evanescent
pleasures of this life which so often end IL
shame and remorse. G. B.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-04-15
Down With the Conspiracy
Norfolk Pilot

Norfolk Pilot
"The Republicans are fighting it," says
the esteemed Glade Spring Citizen, al
luding to the constitutional convention.
Yes: the Republican are fighting it; but
the Citizen neglected to say that the Demo
Gratis, as representation both Wings by
the Richmond Dispatch and the Rich
mond Times and other leading or influen-
tial journals all over Virginia, are also
fighting it. The Citizen like other jour
nails We wot of seems prone to this sort Of
bobtailed statement; as in the case of a
resolution adopted by small conference
of Populists, to the effect that they favor
ed constitutional convention, provided
that it was confined to provisions reducing
taxation, and further provided that its del
egates were elected under fair and honest
election-law. This conditioned resolution Of
conference, Was announced by the Citizen
as the action Of State convention In I'M
conditional support of the constitutional
convention. 1t now says that it stated a
fact, but only so far as suited its purpose.
But the suppressio veri is often equivalent
to the suggestio falsi, we would respectful
ly remind our contemporary. However,
it further says:
The Pilot objects to our statement as
misleading, and in supplying the missing
links it admonisLes US to be more careful
in the future. We stand corrected, Of
course"
Confession is said to be good for the
souls and now let the Citizen further con-
fess that large portion Of the Democratic
press and the people are fighting the con-
stitutional convention, and not merely the
Republicans, the people of the oyster re-
gions irrespective of party, and all others
whose rights and interests are more or
less openly menaced by the proposed con-
vention and its proposers and supporters.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-04-15
A Faith Cure.
Roanoke World.l

News of a remarkable example of faith
cure comes from Capron, Southampton
county, Va. Mrs. Joseph T. Barham,
wife of a leading merchant in Capron, a
helpless invalid, who has been unable to
sit up Or feed herself for more than six
months, was made well at three O'Clock
yesterday morning, when she woke her
husband and startled him by declaring
she wanted to walk around the room.
Mr.. Barham thought his wife was delirious,
and was nearly dulnfounded when she
jumped from the bed and glided nimbly
about the house. News of the recovery
spread and to-day there was a big recep-
ton and much rejoicing at Barham's resi-
dence.
Mrs. Barham's father died recently, and
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-04-15
EVENTS OF INTEREST.


The Summit Me poor farm is tenanted
by solitary pauper.
An instructor in physical culture in
Louisvill, KY, resigned short time ago
rather than lecture to colored teachers.
Farming operations in the vicinity of
Bismarck, N. d. will probably be very
much retarded this Spring, as the Winter
has been the most severe in fifteen years.
The Health Department of Baltimore
has been called upon to look into the con-
ditioa of number of bakeries reported to
be in a filthy state. Nine hundred and
seventy eight inspections were made last
year, resulting in decided improvement
in cleanliness.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-04-15

The Cinch Valley News is urging the
people to vote for calling constitutional
convention, so that we can have more
economical government. We wish the
News would point out where it would in
troduce economy. The newspapers advo-
eating a constitutional convention have
been called upon to file bill of particu-
lars, but so far have been unable or unwil-
ling to do so. Their pleas for economy
are nothing but sham. They want to rob
part of the people of the right to vote, and
are playing a sneak game to accomplish
their purpose. Some of the most inteli-
gent Democratic newspapers in the State
are opposing the scheme, and many OF the
party leaders are doing the same thing.
Hon. A. Stellar, who represented this
Senatorial district in the State Senate the
last term is opposed to convention, and
he is not the only prominent Democrat IN
the county who has taken that stand.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-04-15
Perfidy to Liberty.
Norfolk Pilot.

Norfolk Pilot
Corea, in her hour of need,
Found at her side friend indeed:
A little heather japanese:
That bent the Chinese giants knees.
Then Crete, beset by bloody Turks,
Found Greece a friend that never shirks:
All laud to Greece! to little Greece!
That scorns to be the Turks police!
But Cuba, as her need grows worse,
Finds on her flank, at each reverse,
Foes baser than the Spain she hates
These great and false United States!
Oh, Freedom, turn thy face away
Look not upon the shameful sway,
That, false to thee and country too,
Is swift earth's tyrants work to do!
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-04-15
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since then she had prayed to be well
that she might comfort her mother in her
old age. She looks upon her cure as
direct answer to Ler prayer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-12
FAVOR BIMETALLIsM.
Governor Pingree Says the Election
Show a Reaction for the Double
Standard

Detroit, Mich, April Ex-Governor
Pingree issued an address to the citi-
zens of Michigan today declaring that
the defeat of Captain Stewart for mayor
of Detroit is not a defeat for the gov
ernor Mr. Pingree asserts that Mayor
elect Maybury is pledged to carry on
the old fight against the street railway
combination" and will have his (Pin-
gree's) unqualified assistance.
In the course of his address Cover
nor Pingree stated that there has been
a reaction in politics all over the coun-
try In Iowa and Ohio and other
states cities that gave enormous Re
publican majorities last fall have elect
ed Democratic officers this spring. 1
predicted after the fall elections that
the Republican party would never win
another victory for the single gold
standard, and I am today frmer than
ever in my belief There is a reaction
in favor of bimetallism which all par
ties will be compelled to recognize"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-12
TOPEKA NEVER STANDS STILL.

The purchase of the old starch factory
for the purpose of esta blishing a can
ming industry, the extensive addition
to his plant proposed by Mr. Otto Kueh-
ne, the esta blishment of the creamery
! and the letting of the contract for a
new business block on the corner of
Sixth and Jackson, afford abundant evil
dence that prosperity and business ac-
tivity are returning to Topeka whatever
may be the condition in other locali-
ties.
1t is encouraging to note that these
proposed investments are not in the ma
ture of the speculative enterprises us
ually attendant upon a boom, but are
rather warranted by the existing trade
conditions The manufacturing con-
Germs above referred to, cannot fail to
succeed and grow in magnitude and
Importance for the reason that they
have both the raw material and the
market for their products at their very
doors.
When so much progress can be made
under existing circumstances, it is clear
that much more may be hoped for, if
as a result of the supreme court de-
cisiOn in ten transmissouri traffic as
ISOLATION case, the time shall come
when. Topeka will no longer be han5 j.
capped by the discrimination in freight
rates which has placed her at a disad-
vantage in relation to Missouri river
points all these years. With an equi-
table adjustment of rates there is no
reason why these products shall not be
sold throughout the west and south.
1t is to the credit of Topeka that
throughout the period of hard times be-
ginning with the panic of 1898 and ex-
fn 2 10n he
not stood still While private en-
terprise has not been extern
sive in its operation, public improve
ments have gone forward steadily
Within the period named have been
built the high school building, the new
court house, the Santa Fe hospital and
the Kaw river bridge has been started.
In addition to all this many thousands
of dollars have been spent on the capitol
and on the street improvements.
1t would be difficult to ascertain how
much of the present encouraging out
look is due to the advertising Topeka
has done through the means of the Fall
Festival and the Pure Food show, but
that much of it is due to those enter
prises viii scarcely be disputed. That
the business men of Topeka realize and
appreciate this fact is evidenced by the
aAdCHlly anu uDefallly Win Whlch they
are subscribing to the fund for this
years festival and the interest which
they are taking in the projected audi
tOrium.
There was never before, perhaps,
abroad in Topeka so much of the spirit
which it takes to make a city The
cities which grow and wax great most
rapidly are those which never stand
still. but always keep doing and lose no
opportunity to place themselves in the
way of public notice
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-12
THE PATHFINDER's WIDOW
Mrs. Jessie Benton Fremont Living a
Contented Life at Los Angeles.


Los Angeles, April 12-It is many
years since John c. Fremont first took
up his headquarters in that low adobe
mouse standing now in the pOpulOuS
residence district of this city, but his
name, so glOriOusly written upon the
pages or history of the entire country
as well as that of carry California, is
not unfamiliar to a younger generation,
Whlcn mas read in history Of that pres
idential campaign of 1856, when the fol-
lowers of the Republican standard took
or their hats and shouted for its candi-
date for chief executive, John c. Ere
mont, the Pathfinder and then cheer
ed for his beautiful wife, Jessie Benton
Fremont, the IovabIe woman who is
now spending the evening of her life
within view of the scene of some of the
most thrilling incidents in her hus-
bands eVentful career.
She lives on Adams street. that part
or Los Angeles remarkable for its fair
homes, made fairer by the Iuxuriance
and charm of tropical gardens
or the many "reminiscences of which
she has store, none are as interesting
as the story she tells of the courtship
OF Cen Fremont and of her romantic
marriage to the explorer. She met John
= Fremont in the very late 30'S.
Inc young lieutenant proved to be an
ardent Wooer and at once began to press
his suit. The object of his affection look
ed faVOrabl upon his WOOing, but the
parents of the young lady seriously OBJ
Jected to his attentions TO their daugh-
ter.
1t was during the summer of 1841
while young Fremont was endeavoring
to overcome these impediments that had
Deen placed in the way of his maria ge
that he received a strange but emphat-
&c order from the war department to
make an examination of the Des Moines
river, then upon the extreme frontier.
and upons whose banks the hostile Sacs
and Fox Indians made their homes
He went and served bravely and faith
fully.
Soon after the young officers return
to Washington on the 18th of October
1841, he and Miss jessie Benton were
quietly welded in Washington Colonel
Benton and his wife soon became rec
Onciled to the marriage-so soon, that
the very next year the colonel intrust-
ed his II year old son, Randolph, to the
care of Fremont as his companion dur
ing his expedition to the Rocky Noun
tainS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-12
NOT A BARONESS.
A Woman Marries a Supposed Baron
and He is Only q Detective.

ana ne Is OQ4Y u O0LSCGlN0
San Francisco, April 12.-Mrs. jeanne
Young the woman who assumed the
name of Mrs. d NJ. DelmaS, is not a
baroness after all. The man she mar
ried in Oakland on Saturday and with
whom she is now speeding across the
continent on her wedding tour is not
Baron Ludwig Won Turkheim. He is
not a member of the royal guards of
Germany, nor does he own estates in
Mannheim county of Baden, Germany.
Baron Carl Won Steinmotz, private
detective in the employ of Charles J..
StillWell.
This rascal entrapped the woman in
to marriage with him." said H. W.
Hutton, attorney for Mrs. Young in the
presence of the chief of police last night.
1T was a trick of Detective Delmas to
get her out of the state. Won Arnold
was in Stillwells employ and the money
he spent so lavishly on the day of the
wedding as we'll as the 81 900 he paid the
woman for her interest in the property
Delmas bought for her came from Still
we'll.
But the trick will avail De1mas Moth
ing The wedding party will be stopped
at Ogden or some place this side of
ogden and Won Arnold will be brought
back to Sacramento by order of the
charge of perjury. Once inside this
state he will be held if he escapes the
charge of perjury. to await a requisi-
ton from Kentucky where he is wanted
for a forgery committed in Louisville.
The marriage ceremony with Mrs.
Young was illegal, because Won Arnold
made Misrepresentation to her"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-12

This from the Charleston Is. CO
News and Courier is an unexpected
voice from the south:
We have got on in this state for thirty
years without Jim Crow car and have
not missed it. If we could endure its
absence just after the war and
throughout the reconstruction period
we can endure it in the present i'm
proved conditions. In every city in
the state we ride in the small street
cars with our cOlOred fellow citizens
and nobody is the worse for it so far as
we know There is more room in the
railway cars. In our experience of
railway travel in the state no colOred
passenger has ever made himself Of
fensive in any degree or way to his fell
low passengers, and if he had he could
and would have very readily been sub
jected to corrective measures. To speak
plainly. we need, as every one knows,
separate cars or apartments for rowdy
or drunken white passengers far more
than Jim Crow cars for colOred pas
SengerS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-12
THE CIVIL SERVICE.

A good word is spoken for civil
civil service by the Chicago News (non-
partisan). 1t says:
The merit system in official positions
always stands in the way of those who
regard once chiefly as a means of Sc
curing continuance of party success
1t is so in national as well as munich
pal affairs.
While the civil service rules in force
under the government have given
most unqualified satisfaction it is
strange that more denunciatiOnS have
been heard of them in the present con-
gress than in any other since the sys-
TEN has been put into practical Oper-
alton. Every extension of the classi-
fled service has been warmly Endorsed
and its further extension urged upon
the executive. Both parties have in
dOrsed the civil service rules by the
acts of their executives until the CLASH
fed service now embraces about &C. 900
civil positions, nearly One-haIf of which
were SO designated by Mr.. Cleveland in
his last administra ton.
Some of the more extreme Republi-
can partisans in congress have recent
ly severely criticised the merit system
because by it they are deprived of the
offices for partisan uses. Mr.. GrOs-
venOr of Ohio has publicly attacked the
system with more YigOr than discretion
and now Mr.. COrliss, the Detroit mem
Der of congress, has introduced a reso-
luton to set aside the orders made by
the last administration, by which the
classified service was largely extended
The folly of such a change is apparent
when it is understood that all Mr.
Cleveland's orders applied to Republi-
cans as well as to Democrats. who were
in office when such orders were made
and It is asserted that more Republi-
cans than Democrats have profted by
them.
But the civil service rules have be-
come popular in the country and the
merit system is claiming recognition in
state and municipal governments, as
well as in the national It's defense is
one of the main issues in cur present
city campaign and the better the peo-
pie understand it the stronger they
are in its support.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-12
FREE SILVER SOUVENIR.
Representative McMillin viii Loan
Celebrated Gavel.

Washington, April 12.-Representa-
tive McMillin of Tennessee has q SOU
venir of the Chicago convention which
he prizes highly and is going to lend
to the Centennial exposition at Nash
vile.
It is the gavel used by the chairman
in the vain attempt to restore order
after the nomination of William Jen-
nings Bryan for president. The gavel,
which was almost pounded to pieces,
is to be bound with silver and sent
down to the exposition. The head is
made of wood from 81 states and the
handle is of hickory from a tree grow
ing at the Hermitage, where President
Jackson passed the last days of his life.
Mr.. Bryan's presence in Washington
naturally renewed interest in Mr.. Nc
Millin'S souvenir.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-12
CARLISLE'S PRACTICE.
Friends Saw $4,000 Fees Are the
Commonest Thing in the World
With the Ex-Secretary.

Washington, April 12-From what
ex-Secretary Carlisle's friends say,
$4,000 fees are a common thing with
him now. They relate most astonishing
stories about the extent of his profess
sional engagements, and say that they
will bring him in at least 100000 the
present year.
He is said to have accepted a large
fee from J. PierpOnt Morgan, with
whom he negotiated the bond contract
a year ago, and will look after all the
legal business of the house of Morgan
& Co. in the southern states
He has made an engagement with
the Southern Railway company to
serve in a similar capacity, and his
friends say that he will be compelled
to employ several assistants and main
tain offices both in Washington and
New York.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-12
OHIO'S FRACTIONAL FIGHT.
FOraker's TactfuI Methods Contrasted
With Hanna's Secretary.

New York, April PA WASHINGTON
special to the World says: "A distin-
guished politician from Ohio, who has
been here several days endeavoring to
secure an audience with Senator Han
ma, today said:
Senator Foraker is quietly working
against the election of Hanna to the
senate. Foraker is the most popular
man in Ohio. The younger element
IS with him to a man, but six years of
Hanna in the senate would fIatten him
out and he knows it. Hanna is not
popular with the hard workers in the
party, but he has made himself feared
by them.
Senator Hanna's private secretary
is from the state CT Washington and
does not know one Ohio man from an
other. Prominent Ohioans who seek to
see Mr.. Hanna on urgent business are
compelled to run the gauntlet of a half
dozen dOOrkeepers, and are at last re-
fused an audience by the private secre-
tary. One gentleman, whose word is
the political law in three big Ohio coun-
ties, called on Mr.. Hanna the other
day. After waiting in the corridors for
an hour, he was Informed that the SEN
ator could not see him. He wrote back
on the back of the return card: Mr..
Hanna, you will want to see me a sight
worse than l want to see you before 1
call again
The visitor took the next train for
home and joined the Foraker forces in
their scheme to elect Brice the next
United States senator instead of Han
ma.
Senator Foraker's reception of visit
OrS contrasts strongly with that attrib-
uted by his constituents to Mr.. Hanna.
Mr.. Forakers apartments are open day
and night to all corners. All day long it
is 'Hello!' and How are you, old mann
And then the senator sadly informs
the hopeful aspirant for office that he
has no standing with the administra-
ton and cannot even control his own
postoffice.
'' You see,' he says, Hanna has
complete control of the patronage. Now,
if it only rested with me, I could do
something for YOU
THE applicant retires, denouncing
Hanna and blessing Foraker"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-12
JOHN JONES INDIGNANT
Because of His Dismissal-sherif
Kepley Confirms the Dismissal

On his return to this city Saturday
Afternoon, Sheriff Kepley confirmed the
order of Under Sheriff Lucas removing
Deputy Sheriff John Jones for allowing
Hayti Weatherby, a witness in the
Craiger case and a city prisoner to es-
cape from the district court room.
acted as turnkey at the county Jail.
Jones denies being al all interested in
the Craiger case, and says the state
nentS of County Attorney Jetmore to
the contrary are false. He says he ask
ed for keys to lock Weatherby up in
one of the rooms of the court house,
but did not receive them, and that he
was only doing his duty in watching
another state prisoner entrusted to his
charge. He feels very indignant over
his discharge.