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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-02-27
TORPEUOES IN WARFARE.
HOW THEY ARE OPERATED AND THE
DESTRUCTION THEY CREATE.
.nv.v,r, FROM A FLOATING KEG OF GUN
POWDER TO PERFECT ENGINE OF
DEMOLITION AND DEATH
From The Chicago TimesHerald.

Torpcdo warfare has been advanced TO such
q scientific basis I'm these days that the destruc-
ijou of the Maine would have been an easy IN
dcrtaking for some treacherous Spdnlard or
some interruptions Cuban determined upon iorc,
inf, crisis between the United States ard
Spain The modern torpedo is as terrible an
ensiDr of destruction as the inind oi nan lI.''
conceived for the purpose Of warfare from
the n.,dfinC kegs loaded with charges OF gun
powder which Captain David Bushneli set adrirt
i'm Ncw-York Harbor 10 the CONSERVATION OF the
British fleet i'm Revolutionary days, TN. torpedo
has advanced by rapid Gtares to the dlSnity 81
\ machine of the most perfect ana sklltul con
struction capable Of demolishing IN an instant
the largest and most powerful battle-ship once
regarded as experimental devices. the torpedoes
hav,. become recognized weapons or maritime
warfare admitting of varied application.
In a general way torpedocs may be diVidti
into two classes. They are either contflVanccs
propelled through the water 50 as 10 STRIKE ti'c
r,,oulv's ship or more or less stationary SUD
merged mines each 50 arranged as 70 ne SCI
off when ship is over it. The germ OF the idea
10 fo.Ind in the Greek OF the ancients, from
which the torpedo has been developed since IN, INC
introduction of gunpowder into warfare. me
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-02-27

bottla-shin Rlanco Encalada was sunk WIN
q crew of one hundred and fifty by torpeuo
During the war between emma ana Jdpn" ~
1897 "DJ submarine operations played a supoIui-
nate part until the japanese attacked "ei-ii'',
Wei with a torpedo nOtilIa. Attacks were 'iaue
on two successive nights. which resulted III
sinking four vessels, TWO Oh "hiS" WV "
fnOred ships Of war. -
In this country and some other countries pos
s.seinc an extended seacoast the service Oh Tor ,
nedoes has been divided between the Navy ana
The engineers Of the Army-the FORMER OPERA. =
irC extensively afoat. and the latter deiensiNeiy
from the shore While in general the llne OF
domarcation between the two services rs mus
plainly marked. some Of the weapons such as
fish torpedocs steercd by electricity, may De
operated either from land or from stipboard'
and may be used in war either by Army VI
Navy. as occasion might offer
one of the most successful types OF torpedoes
and one which might have caused me rum 10, OF
the Maine Is known as the Whitehead. The
right 10 nee this torpedo has been purchased
bv the United States and by most European
m tons r consists q an iron and siee! vessel
IN the share IF . spindle. and Is driven by n
propeller moved by comuressed air It can he
projected from a launching tube or started by
hard and IS capable of regulating and pre-
serving its depth ard direction. within narrow
limits in still water. such ae the Havana Har-
L." offers The latest British pattern or the
WI i'chead carries chatgc OF two hundred
and fffv hounds Of un-cntton, enough 10 blow
any ship out Of the water.
THE FISH TORPEDO.
The fish torpedo is essentially a boat of the
Whitehead class which carries and unree!s a
coil Of insulated wire, through which an electric
current from battery on shore or on shipboard
can be passed at will and made TO control its
motions perfectly. The boat may be set to move
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-02-27
HUDSON BAY COMPANY RECEIPTS.

From The Kansas City Journal
Received per Lapwing Jane GooiE A. -
invoice in good condition, and ia.
Received. per Osprey. Mathilde Ilm'hs
turned per Iapw ing. rs not being ih a'N'''
with description contained in invoice. M
Thus read two receipts recently iolhH A'''
The archives OF the Hudson Bay COni.""''
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-02-17
ENGLANp.s GRANARY.
Fields Thousand Years oid-HoV'
These C.ands We're Worked.

Fields Thousand Years Old--Ho ~
These Lands We're Worked.
Some very competent writer's, fright
pned by the disproporton between the
wheat grown in England and the guam
tity needed for our daily bread, have
recently urged the establishment of
public granaries for use in time of war.
The only wonder is that the figures
which impress them have not made
more impression on the public. But
while hundreds of thousands of acres of
good wheat land lie uncultivated in
England, the proposal to buy and hoard
foreign corn is rather too previous. Our
best public granaries gre the wheat
fields of old England, which have fallen
into partial ruin and premature decay.
The wheat fields Of England have two
special claims to consideration, based
onuHheir merits, and apart from senti-
ment, though we have lately begun to
apprehend that national sentiment in
great concerns may be as valuable as
public spirit in smallones. But the fact
remains that the wheat fields of Eng
land are the oldest national industries
in this country and the most productive
in the world.
A wheat field thousand years old
is quite a common sight in this coun-
try. Of course it has not grown crop
of corn every year in. the ten centuries,
but during that long sequence of ages
in the fixed and abiding order of this
ancient country, that particular area
of land has been cultivated with the
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-02-17
COMMISSIONERS NOTICE.

Geo. Buston, J. g. Buston and II. L.
Buston, merchants and partners in trade
under the firm name and style of Buston
d Sons; Geo. w. Yost, A. D. w. Walton,
trustee; j. 5. Moss and j. A. Greever,
merchants and partners in trade under the
firm name and style of Moss q Greeyer; b.
w. Stras, }. b. Hankins, Thomas Hanklns
and b. II. Baylor, late merchants and
partners in trade under the firm name and
style of J. b. Hankins < Co.; X. X. Henry
and 5. C.. Graham. law partners as Henry
4 Graham; J. W. Chapman and 10 Lane
Stern, trustees for the Columbian Building
4 Loan Association. of Richmond, Va;
Columbian Building 4 Loan Association,
of Richmond, Va; Mary +. Warden, Jo-
seph Warden, her husband; Robert J..
Yost, W. w. Yost, John G. Iost and
Elizabeth Iost
Take notice: That on the 25th day of
February, 1898, at the law Office Of H. G.
Anderson, Tazewell, Va, shall proceed to
execute decree of the Circuit Court of
Tazewell, county, entered at the December
term, 1897, in the case of Buston q Sons
against Geo. w. Yost ct ais, requiring me
to take further proof and report any mat
ter required by any party TO this suit.
w. II. ANDERSON,
u II E {. s 1idss2on c0"mi: s5sa5
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-02-17
NO CHILDREN THERE NOW

White House Has None for the First
Time in 3iany Administrations.
There are no children in the white
house now, says a Washington letter
to the Chicago Inter Ocean. 1t is the
first administration since that of Blu.
chanan where there have not been chill
dren in the presidents family. Lincoln
had three boys when he came TO the
white house, and the Christmas festi-
val was celebrated with enthusiasm in
the good old-fashioned way with
Santa Claus. Grant had his three boys
and the pretty Nellie to make merry at
Christmas time. Hayes had complete
domestic household, with romping boys
and a winsome little girl, who has
grown TO womanhood and has recently
been spending her honeymoon at the
white house, where she was child.
Garfield and Arthur had children to
celebrate Christmas, and Cleveland in
the last year of his first administra'
ton had baby girl to make Christmas
for. Harrison's children were grown
to manhood, but he had his grand
children with him in the white house,
and Baby Mckee became more cele-
brated character in the child history of
the white house than any since Ted Lin
coin. In Cleveland's second administra-
ton there were two little girls to well
come Santa Claus. There are pictures
of two beautiful babies in Mrs. McKin-
ley's room and many fond remem-
ORANGES of them, but they sleep in the
old graveyard at Canton, where they
were buried many years ago.
No president ever occupied the white
house who was fonder of children than
the present chief magistrate. No mis-
tress of the white house ever had more
loving care for the babies of others than
has Mrs. Mckinley. They both love the
prattle of children and gather the
little ones of their friends about them
when opportunity offers.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-02-17
Another Green.

at is true that a poet finds inspira-
ton on every hand" said young Qua
train, to his admiring wife. THE sim
plest things serve his purpose; the most
commonplace. trivial matters he can
turn to sweet and tuneful verse. Now,
for'instance-" Here Quatrain, junior,
aged five, created diversion by stub
bing his toe and precipitating himself
and a tumbler brimful of cold water
into the old armchair, newly covered
with denim of cool green shade. Then
while Mrs. Quatrain hurried for cloth
and sopped up the results of her sons
collision with the furniture the poet
betook himself to pen and paper. In
the poets Corner" of the Flatville
News there appeared the next week a
poem entitled 80 Summer MSrn." The
first lines of this tender yet spirited
composition were as follows:
On the green the clear drops sparkled.
Strewn by Natures lavish hand.
Youths COMPANION.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-02-17
IRON is The FEATURE.
General Improvement in the Distributiye
Trade.

New York, Feb. 1l.-Bradstreet's to-
morrow Will say:
A number of favorable circumstances
and events present themselves this week.
Perhaps the most notable Of these are the
renewed activity and confidence in the
iron and steel market, accompanied by
prompt and even rapid advances in sew
eral grades Of crude pig iron and steel
and the advance in the price of raw cot
ton, long predicted, but unrealized until
the present week.
What might be regarded as a minor
feature in the business, although at the
same time conveying much that is hopeful
to the interest involved, Is quite general
improvement in dstrbutiye trade and
demand in the central West and in the
South, where spring trade is reported
opening in good shape. Less favorable
features of the week are the slowness Of
spring trade in dry goods to develop at
New York and other Eastern centres, ex-
cept Boston, and the mild weather in the
extreme West rendering it likely that re-
tailers' stocks carried over will be larger
than expected.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-02-17
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

\ wagging tongue often spoils a lot OF
nice, sweet silence.
Peanut vendors might be accused Of
working shell game.
1t is usually the most promising young
man that gets into debt.
The wise man is always known by the
company he keeps out of.
1t isn't always the best actress that gets
the handsomest boquet.
The poor man who marries nowadays
usually finds himself welded to art.
The trust may he able to limit the out
put of whiskey, but it can't limit the in
put.
All men are born free and equal, but
some of them grow up and spoilit by mar
rying.
y fellow-feeling makes US wondrous kind
unless it's fellow feeling for our pocket
book.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-02-17
ADVANCE IN COTTON.

Although the advance in cotton has
been claimed to be too rapid, it has I'M
doubtedly impaired a much more cheer
full tone to the Southern business situation,
and with the advance in iron and steel
has done much to add to the confidence
with which the trade outlook for 1898 is
regarded. Business failures continue tc
make favorable comparisons with previous
weeks and years, the total for the week
just ending being 27S, against 295 last
week, 30l in the corresponding week OF
90, ISL in the week of so, 29G in 90, and
$50 in 81,
Canadian failures for the week number
81 against II last week, but compare with
81 in this week a year ago, and 10 in the
corresponding week Of 1896.
Wheat exports fall slightly below last
week reduced total, aggregating for the
week 1891 ,5O4 bushels against 1925, COO
bushels last week, 2,G5l 900 bushels il
the corresponding week of 1897, 2,71S,00
bushels in 1896, 2,572 900 bushels in 1895
and zoos, OGO in 1891.
Corn exports show a gain amounting as
they do to 4,50S,O00 bushels against f.
100000 bushels last week, 4,l69. 900 in
1897; ), l43, 900 in 1896 and 562, 600 bush
els in 1885.
Bank clearings continue to point to an
immense business doing in the country at
large. in a total aggregating for the week
81, 434 100000 less than two per cent.
smaller than last week, % per cent. larger
than in the corresponding week last year,
IS per cent. larger than this week in 1886,
"A per cent. larger than in 1895, 81 per
cent. larger than in 1891 and G.3 per cent.
larger than this week in 1892.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-02-17
an EGG TRICK.
Mean One Played by kiondike's
"SyYiftYyater ELL"

Mean One Played by IEiondike's
"syviftyyater Bili."
Mr.. Wardner, reports the Milwaukee
Sentinel, exhibited paper in which was
an article on the Klondiker and por-
trait showing a Frenchy-looking man
with a big diamond in his shirt front,
swell cut of clothes and a stovepipe
hat the prince of Wales would have been
proud to wear. Mr.. Wardner laughed
as he looked at the picture again and
related some anecdotes of "Swiftwater
Bill" the man who had struck $4,000
to the square foot on bedrock" Bill, "
had the second best claim on the Yukon,
and was so seif-important on his re-
turn that he kept a private secretary
through whom the reporters had to in
terview him. He married the sister OF
Gussie La More, a vaudeville dancer who
danced in a tent in Dawson. Swift
water BIZ paid her attention, but got
mad at the dancer and married her Sis
ter. The dancer was very fond Of eggs
while in Dawson, and after their quar-
rell "Bill' bought up every egg there
was in the place, paying one dollar
apiece for them to the number Of about
400, and then ate his meals.n near her so
as to enjoy her annoyance at not being
able to have her egg order filled. While
he was eating his fill of eggs in tam
talizing way she had to be content with
bacon at $25 an order.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-02-17
cURLY-HEADED MEN AS JURORS
Lawyers Dislike Them Because They
Are Not Easily Convinced.

Lawyers Dislike Them Because They
Are Not Easily Convinced.
It is not generally known that there
is a well-detined prejudice against
curly haired men when it comes to
choosing a jury to try criminal cases,
SAYS the New Orleans Times-Democrat.
The prejudice, when it is manifested,
comes from the defense. When asked
to explain the objection to curly-haired
men, a prominent practitioner said:
when I was just starting my legal
mentor inculcated that idea 10 me, He
said that curly-haired men had almost
invariably been the pampered darlings
of their parents and in their youth had
been so used to having their own way
that they had come to believe that every
body on earth was wrong except them
selves. IL this way the seeds of oppo-
sition were sown, and when they grow
older they make point to disagree with
everybody and everything. If every
body else on the jury votes for acquittal
they vote for conviction as matter of
course. They live on combat and are
as stubborn as the days are long. A
curly haired man never gets on a jury
when am defending a man if can see
him in time"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-02-17
"wALKIN. HOME wLrH Macy

The moon was silver clear that night,
The snow was pure and sparklin',
And trees. and bushes 'gainst the white
Was blots of shadder dark min.
Each fence rail had jeweled load,
Each twig was gemmed and glary,
And l, along the pastur' road,
Was walkin' home with Mary.
/ So still, a dog, two mile away.
! Could reach us with his howlin',
The tumblin' breakers in the bay
Was plain as thunder's growlin'.
My clumsy boot-heels crunch and squeak,
Beside her step so airy,
Seemed sayin: "NoX's your time to speak;
You're walkin' home with Mary"
The far-off breakers lent their help
BY boomin': Now, young feuer!'
And all that dog could find 10 yelp
Was: Tell her! Tell her! Tell her!'
And every crackin' bit of ice
Seemed like kind Of fairy.
A-givin' me the same advice,
When walkin home with Mary.
And so. 1 swalered down my heart
'Twarn't greatly to my credit,
With all the airth to take my part
But anyhow l said it.
And then that dog shet off his bark;
There weren't breaker, nary;
The hull wide world stood still to Lark
And hear the word from Mary.
She answered, and the breakers fell
And reared congratulations;
That blessed dog let out yell
That must a-woke the nation.
Twas thirty year or more ago.
Yet still il makes me scary
To think, what If Ia heerd a NO."
When walkin' home with Mary.
joe Lincoln, in l.. ~ w. Bulletin.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-02-17

Frank declared this man, dressed in
little brief authority.
"'Frank has family, and have not
replied John Swift, stepping UP upon
the tun-table, and in ten minutes was
on his way back.
"He went slowly into the water now,
as that course gave him the hope of
saving himself if the engine went down.
He was not half way across when he felt
the engine tipping, and pulling the
whistle valve wide open. he jumped far
out into the dark, cold water.
"The wind, the escaping steam and
the agitation of the water as the great
engine fell upon its side, confused him
so much that when he reached the bank
he knew not which way to turn to find
Jimmy's shanty. and seeing in the dis
lance the lights in the little cluster of
houses about the station. he made the
best of his way toward them; but his
frozen. heavy clothes made it hard trav-
cling. ard Q was with the utmost diff
Guilty that he reached them at last. He
would have given out when within a few
rods. had he not been encouraged by the
lights streaming out of the waiting
room door when Wilcox opened il to go
in.
"But l thought I should come out all
right, because it is the 25th of
March, added Johnny.
GLOW is that?'" asked Wilcox.
"And the brave young fellow replied,
in half shamefaced way:
cob, had my horoscope read once,
when a child, and was told that,
although I should be often in great
peril, nothing bad would happen to me
on an odd day of an odd month, so, of
course, fellow can't help thinking of
It,
Johnny, as soon as he was able to be
out, was given the position Of engineer
on a construction train, whichwas used
in changing the roadbed above high
water mark, and as soon as the Arcturus
was out Of the shop, he was promoted TO
be her engineer"
Gle was killed the seth of Feb
ruary." said Charlie, looking again at
the paper, which he still held in his
hand.
"There may be nothing in it, and
again there may be-" said our caller, as
he pegged away on his crutch; "but you
will find most railroad men just little
apt to think of those things, they have
so many dangerous experiences and
narrow escapes" Golden Days.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-02-17
und His Rcvengc.

81 should err got dat post Office" said
one OF Frank Stanton's colored poll
ticians, "but dey gin it to white man
after all. But bless God got my re-
venge!"
"Yo' rewenge?"
eyes; makes dat white man wait on
me. an fly roun' same's cg had lin
hired. 1 goes in dar bout ten times a
day, throw down dollar, en- hoIler out:
Gimme a one-cent stamp, heah, durn
quick."-Chicago Journal.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-02-17
EMPEROR ENGINEER.
The German Monarch to Decide on an
Electric Tramway.

Tho German Monarch TO Decide on IN
Electric Tramway.
To act at one and the same time as
German emperor and king of Prussia
is no sinecure, says the Pail Mall Ca
zette. In addition to the functions nat
ural!y pertaining to his exalted position
he has to solve terrifying number OF
questions that in other countries would
be reserved for the municipal authori-
ties. Thus the question as to the sys-
TEN of electric trGmways to be adopted
in Berlin is lying in the kaiser's cabinet
for final decision. The plan of the lines
has already been approved, but the sys-
ten of conducting the current has not
been settled. The emperor has there
fore TO act, as il were, as imperial en-"
gineer in deciding between overhead
wires and underground conductors or
accumulation cars.
AS soon as he has pronounced his hoe
volo, sic jubeo, Berlin will be provided
with the largest system Of electrical
tramways on the continent The Ber-
lin Tramway company has already COM
pleted its preparations, the lines are
laid and the cars are ready; only the
wires and poles for conducting the cur
rent have TO be procured. Everything
therefore, will be in full working order
by the summer. The emperor is GER
tainIy taking plenty Of time for his de-
cision, for the plans have been in his
civil cabinet since October, and are still
without his signature.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-02-17
nefccts of New York Rnrbor.

A big steamer, the New York, was de-
.aved two hours in sailing from New
York harbor the other day. because
there was not water enough on the
bar until the tide turned. For one of
the greatest harbors of the world this
is n sad state of things.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-02-17
1InnIn sugar snuce.

Melt over a moderate fire half pint
of maple sugar by setting dish contain
ing sugar in a dish of hot water Let
sugar simmer and remove scum; add
four tablespoonfuls of butter mixed
with one teaspoonful of flour ard one
of grated nutmeg. Let boil and serve
with boiled pudding-Ladies' World.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-02-17
SEMINARY FOR SALE,

The valuable property known as the
Tazewell Female Seminary is for sale. 1t
is Il new and large building and located on
one of the principal streets Of the town. 1t
can be used for school or other purposes.
For terms apply to
GEO. W. ST. CLAIR.
l.27.f Tazewell, Va.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-02-17
Russian Forest on lee.

One of the largest forests in the world
stands on ice. II is situated between
the Ural mountains and the 0khotsk
sea. A we'll was recently dug in this
region, where it was found that at a
depth Of 116 meters the ground was
sill frnzen Sun.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-02-17
nIatriplonial.

MEMS promises" the young wife
said bgs.9 cen sobs, "are like piecrust-"
That's tough" said the young nus
band; and then she got angry enough
10 cry.-Tndianapolis Journal.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-02-17
Belfast Mills, Va, Dec. S, 1897.
Messrs. Higginbotham & Kirby,
Cedar Bluff, Va.

Gentlemen:
wish to say that I have been having
my wheat ground at your mill for the last
year or more and have found your flour
derfectly satisfactory. can truthfully say
that it is the best flour can get; my deal
ings with you have been very pleasant and
satisfactory. Yours truly.
/. r. W0LTZ.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-02-17

-Conyicts in the penitentiary at
Boise, Idaho, are permitted toplay base
ball on Saturday afternoons. They have
organized two teams, and their playing
Is considered quite clever.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-02-17
II Needs Scrnping,

Aunt Prudence see in the paper
that they are going to build a sky
scraper in Pittsburgh.
Uncle Ebenezer-Well, they need one.
It's so black now there that a full moon
is in danger of gittin' lost.-Puck.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-02-17
Methodist Episcopal Church South.

Public worship of God on the 1st and
Srd SUNDAYS at II \, NJ, on the 2nd and
18th at $50 P. NJ.
Meeting for prayer, Wednesday at $50.
p. NJ. Sabbath School at $50 p. NJ.
Meeting of Epworth League each Mon
dav night at $50, the third Monday
night of each month being devoted to
A most cordial welcome is extended to all
isaac z. MARTIN, Pastor.