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New-York tribune., 1899-11-21
THE STATE OF TRADE.

Buffalo Nov. 20-spring wheat-Demand active
higher No Northern new, spot. I2Ae No Z NoFtne.n
c 4 T. Gq&c. Winter wheat-No red Ili5c: No white
7Onc bid Corn unsettled: light offerings, No yellow
39c; No yellow. 3sA.c: No yellow, 36a36Eci 10 :
corn 81 TiRG37Ac corn 36l2c: No corn 20 = 5oc
good demand. stronger No white 29g29'+si Ne 3
white. 2S5c No white, 2sa2S4sc O.. No mixed, &c NO
mixed. 26iRc. Rye-No track offered at 6O'7c
Canal freights steady; wheat &c: corn. 82c oats ZsS
barley 34c to NeW-York Flour steady; good demand;
best patent spring S4q$4 % bakers STRAIGHT spring
75GS4 bakers clear spring S3n3 5O low grade SPRING
s2dS2 5O patent winter s4qS4 %: best family winter
S3 5OdS3 70; low grade winter, s2gS2 5O' graham
best, So 10.
Chicago Nov eo-The leading futures ranged as fol-
lows:
wheat No. % Opening Highest, Lowest Closing
Nae 71ha7is 7la71% 7la7ls
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-05-25
MUST BE REDEEMED.
come Valuable INFORMATION About
Thenter Seats Not Gener-
ally Known.

The fact that ticket bought for
lheater and not used on the date
stamped on it Is always good for an adj
hittance Is not generally known, and
probably theater managers would take
rerv little trouble to spread knowledge
of the fact; but it is nevertheless true,
saws the New York Sun. "a man who
hnvs reserved seat for o theater,"
said theater treasurer who handles
more tickets every season than any
other in New York, "may not use it
on the evening for which he bought It,
Good for this date only may be
stamped on the pasteboard. That
would seem to mean that the ticket
could be used at no other time Prob
ably most of the public accepts that
as proving the impossibility OF max
ing use of the ticket, and therefore lew
make any attempt to get the worth
of their money when they were pre-
vented by any cause from using 1 ne
ticket on the date marked on It, But
it could be presented at any time ana
would be good for an admission. Any
theater manager would have to recog-
nize the holders right to enter the
theater, although that would OF
course, carry with 1t no right to the
seat. 1t is that right which is limited
by the printed date. For all other
purposes the ticket is quite as good as
if used on the date 1t bears"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-05-25
WITH A BROKEN ARM.
John D. Gordon Kept His Engages
ment to Lecture Despite O
Bad Accident.

In Washington few days ago Gen.
John B. Gordon told the story OF a
remarkable experience he had ten days
ago. Said Gen. Gordon:
81 venture to remark that did some
thing that not one of the youngsters,
including Joe Wheeler, can do. I had
an engagement to deliver my lecture
on The Last Days Of the Confeder-
acy,' in town near the border of Kan
sas and Nebraska There was @ foot
of snow on the ground, and my only
way to reach the place was by sleigh.
1--WE started and all went well for
several miles, until the driver struck
something, and out 1 went with the
sleigh right on top of me. When l
tried to rise I found that my left arm
had been wrenched clear out of the
socket, and pulled down to remark
able and painful extent. 1 never
thought of anything but reaching my
engagement, where 1000 people were
waiting to hear me. BY good fortune
I was near the house of o surgeon and
In q few minutes after the accident he
was repairing my damage. While ne
doing that 1 sent for another sleigh
two miles away. 1t came on time, and
with such splendid pair of horses that
I reached my engagement on the mo-
ment.
The rumor Of my fall and injuries
had preceded me and I never had q
more enthusiastic reception In mn va
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-05-25
RELIGIOUS CAT BACKsLIDEs.
The Sensitive Animal Refuses to At
tend Prayers After Murder of
Her Offspring.

In Susquehanna, Pa, is G household
made up of an old man, his housekeep-
er and their old cat. Family prayers
are the rule each evening in the house
hold, and the cat fell into the habit OF
regular and punctual attendance. No
other of the cares that proverbially
crowd d cats life was ever allowed to
interfere with this religious cat. AT
the signal for prayers she would even
leave a mouse half caught or give
doomed bird longer lease of life and
decorously compose herself in the lap
of the housckeeper with an air OF atten-
ton to the service that was highly edl-
fying. At the first "amen" she went
briskly about her business
But in an evil hour there came O. kit
ten that was deemed superhuous, and
sentence of death was pronounced upon
It. The head of the household under
took the execution of the sentence, and,
unknown to him, the cat was wit
ness of the scene. From that day the
cat refused to attend the evening serv-
Ice, and cannot now beinduced to listen
to the prayers of one who has shocked
her sensibilities and murdered her Off
spring. She faithfully performs all
other duties as before, and socially
purrs for the family on all secular oc-
casions, but rigidly draws the line on
| family prayers.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-05-25
SNAKE cHARMERs
Hardy American Indians Who Carry
Deadly Rattlers in Their
Mouths,

It u generally supposed that the SER
penis exhibited by snake charmers
have been deprived of their fangs, and
this is doubtless often the case, while
one instance at least is recorded in
which the mouth of the snake had
been sewn together to prevent 1t from
biting, says the Westminster Review.
The writer noticed at the Ceylon exhi-
bition, given some years ago In Lon
don, that one Of the snake charmers,
finding the cobra he was exhibiting
becoming too lively and aggressive
seized the reptile by the neck and thrust
1t hastily into the small round basket
In which 1t was carried, at the same
time pushing it with voiuminous
white cloth, at which it bit savagely.
Having almost closed the lid Of the
basket, the man drew away the cloth
violently, thus doubtless dragging out
the fengs which were fastened In 1t.
BE then secured the basket and car
ried it away.
This, of course, required large
amount OF cool courage, as well as
great quiclness of hand and eye, all
which qualities must be doubly neces-
sary in capturing and tanning these
deadly reptiles. But If we are aston
ished by the skill and dexterity dis
played by Indian snake charmers, still
more must we marvel at the hardihood
of the American Indians, who, in their
snake dances, not only handle the dead
ly rattlesnake with IMMUNITY, but abb
solutely carry 1t about in their mouths
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-05-25
FOND OF TOBACCO.
A Trainer Says That Many wiid Ana
finals Have q Liking for
the Weed.

az have been an inveterate user Of
tobacco in some form for the past 40
years, and during that time have had
much to do with all sorts Of wild beasts,
which have found are nearly all, more
or less, partial to the smell or taste OF
the weed" observed an old and expe-
rienced animal trainer to Washington
Star reporter. "For instance, the COM
mon brown bear is so fond Of the fumes
of tobacco that if you blow smoke
through the bars of its cage it will,
with evident delight, push forward and
rub it's back and head against the iron
bars over which the smoke passes. This
is invariable. Not long ago I blew
through hollow stick pinch of snuff
into the nose of q sleeping lion. The
brute shortly after awoke, sat up
straight, sneezed violently, and then
lay down to sleep very contentedly
again. All goats, deer, namas and so
on will chew and eat tobacco and snuff
with great eagerness. Monkeys and big
balloons also breathe with great sat-
isfaction the smoke from cigars.
az once made very vicious llama, be-
longing to circus, my friend by feed
ing it daily with small quantity OF
snuff. One day when the show was in
Brooklyn, N. Y, several men-o'-wars-
men came to see our exhibit of tame
and wild animals. When the men got
to the Enclosure where the llama was
kept, one of the company commenced
teasing the beast. By way of protest
the llama suddenly spat at the Offend
ing sailor, and the latter, with very
astonished look, exclaimed; Holy
Moses, how his breath smells Of snuff,
boys"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-05-25
CURRENT TOPICS.

A writer in The Edinburgh Medical
Review declar that many fancied disor-
ders of the stomach are really the results
of the metaboIic misdeeds of bacteria in
the inte3tinc7. Rest, milk diet and cheese
are among the remedies suggested.
The Times of Cuba asserts that no vi :
tor can obtain access to the Havana Jail,
even upon written order from the author
tiles, unless he first grease the palm CT the
taller With quarter. "It costs money to
get in, ;" says the journal referred to, sand
it costs more to get out. +"
George Wilder, of Madison, Wis, who
is pursuing some special lines of study in
Zurich, Switzerland" says The New York
Tribune, ISIS highly iucensed over the treat
ment he received at the hands of the local
Health Department recently. A son hay
ing been born to him, he notified the
proper department, as is compulsory, and
demanded the certificate which, according
to law, he must have. Being q patriotic
American, he desired his sons name to be
George Dewey Wilder; but here he reck-
oned without his host, for the official In
formed him that in as much as Dewey was
not a name in any of The four languages
spoken in this country-German, French,
Italian and Romanish-the name could
not be accepted. After an hours parley-
ing the officials agreed, however, to name
the young American George - Wilder"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-05-25
pEEEER TURNS REPUBLICAN,.

Ex-senator PETER, of Kansas, hf7
bolted the Populist party, and announces
that hereafter he will act with the Repub'
Jican party. He scsigrs as a reason for
taking the step the wonderful prosperity
that now abounds throughout thecountry'
He acknowledges that the conditions that
prevailed during the Cleveland Admins
tration were produced by some other
cause than the denomination Of silver
or the Republican party. Of course the
Democrats and Bryanites will declare that
there never was much in PETER; but the
indications are that he has more sense
than many of the infatuated followers of
MIR. Bryan vino persist in preaching the
doctrine of discomfort, in the face of the
splendid business conditions that are now
found in every section of the Union.
Senator PETER says:
Along in the fore part of the eighties
Kansas was moving lively. We built
many railroads and the country became
rapidly settled. Many improvements of
all sorts were made and the State was at
the highest notch of prosperity. Then
came the hard times, and all at once the
bottom dropped out of everything.
Many of us honestly thought there was
danger ahead. l really dreaded what
was coming at one time. The masses
were disconnected, and we were afraid
something might happen, some strike or
riot or something of the sort, TO cause
general breaking out of the smouldering
discoutent. But through our great crops
al home and the crop failures abroad and
our late war we are apparently coming
out al right. The war has nationalized
us. It has allowed the people to work off
their surplus steam. We are all getting
broader view of what Americanism means.
The labor question is settling itself, and
YOU don't hear anything more about 16 to
l. People won't listen to Is to now any
more than they will to discussion OF the
lsariff. And some of those old,time free
Ssrs of the South are really advocating
S.Sriff on some things now.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-05-25
A GREAT HOUND.
Runs a Fox to Cover After coutinu.
GUS Chase of Thirty-si1
Hours.

The greatest fox chase of which there
is sny authentic record took place in the
neighborhood of Long Branch in
Meade county, lately, says the News OF
breckenridge, Ky. Ben Matthews,
colored man living at Long Branch, has
q foxhound named Queen. One even.
ing, when the air was soft, Queen and
her companion, Don, together with jim
Bickerstaff's "Ole Maze" started for the
hills near by, and were not long absent
when they started vigorous old fox.
By their vigorous mouthing 1t was
known that they had warm scent and
were on the trail of fox of fine stay
ing qualities. For several hours during
the night the residents of that vicinity
could hear all three hounds tonguing
together, and then the two male dogs
dropped out of the run, leaving Queen
to keep up the chase alone All night
long she followed the trail, and long
toward morning was joined by some
fresh hounds, who stayed with her for
a few hours, fell out, rested up and
Joined in the chase again at intervals
during the next 20 hours.
On the second day of the chase VIII
LaGrand's "Tige," hound noted for
its staying qualities, joined her and
remained until the close Of the
run. Queen was on the run, with
out rest, the entire. Sc hours consumed
In the chase. She stopped only when
she had run reynard to cover. After
she had accomplished this she lay down
and guarded the burrow, and when
found by her owner was so stiff and sore
that she could not move limb and
had to be carried to the house. Mat
thews, her owner, thinks she is the
best foxhound on earth, and would not
trade her for the best horse IN Ken
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-05-25
THE SOUTH AND BRYAN.
His Hold on That Section Declared not
to be so Strong as Believed.
Memphis appeal tDem.l

Memphis appeal tDem.l
1t must be admitted that to stranger
there may appear some cause for the bellel
expressed by tourists that 'the South
wants Bryan lirstand platformatterwsrds'
The platform of 1896 was, in some respects
a radical move in advance or departure
from former platforms, and the campaign
brought many new men to the front. The
old staeers who took the field in advocacy
of the platform were in sense new men,
and many more who had been but little
heard from leaped into prominence and
became conspicuous.
During the campaign Mr.. Bryan was
very active, almost ubiquitous, and the
brillancy with which he carried on the
contest made of ii Bryan campaign, be-
cause his name was on every lip. The pol
ihcians encouraged the idea and accepted
it as Bryan campaign, and were elected
to Office as Bryan supporters and Bryan
followers. Bryan supporters they wish
to remain and be considered, because the
bridge that carried them safely over they
are in no humor to despise. They expect
10 successfully cross it again, and they
realize that with 3ryan out of the way
and the magic of his name gone they
would have to shift for other means to
enable them to cross the stream, and this
might be troublesome question in some
instances. Hence they are for Bryan
first and platform afterward, Or appear
to be.
But popular as is Mr.. Bryan and pow.
erful as are his oflice-holding supporters,
they could not lead the Democracy Of the
South into desertion of the well-defned
principles of the party. Let he OR they
once announce that individuals and not
principles must be followed and the fol-
lowing will be small.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-05-25
Protection and Southern Industries.
American Economist. !


American Economist.
Since the return of prosperity under
Protection, as exemplifed in the Dlngiey
law, many factories have been built and
many new enterprises started in the South
ern States. The people of the South are
waking up to the value of manufacturing
companies and are willing to make great
efforts to secure the establishment of such
industries in the South. A commercial
club has been organized in Greenfield,
Tennessee, for the purpose of promoting
industrial enterprise. The dispatch which
announced the formation of this club add
ed: 1.-The people of this community want
manufacturing interests Of any and all
kinds, and they are now ready to offer
liberal inducement to get them"
AS soon as manufacturing industries be-
come established in the Southland at the
present rate of commercial progress that
time is not far distant-the people OF the
South will wake up to realizing sense of
the value and necessity of a Protective
Tariff. The hour has struck for the disap-
pearance of ''solid South united to
support Free trade. The Southern people
will not, merely for tue sake Of loyalty to
a false theory long adhered to, consent to
give up the great prosperity which he's
come to them through Protection in ez-
change for the industrial run which re-
suited from the "frst step" toward Free
Trade taken in 1894.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-05-25

THE national treasury is reported to be
suffering from plethora of gold. For
some months all payments of salaries to
Government employees have been in gold,
but the yellow metal continues to pour in
faster than the Department can get it in
circulation. One of the objections raised
by the silverites to the gold standard was
that there was not enough of the yellow
metal in the world to justify ~ single
standard of gold. The indications are
that instead of being q famine of gold
there is likely to be scarcity Of paper
money. If that condition does come, no
doubt, there will be proper currency legis-
lation at the next session of Congress to
relieve the situation.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-05-25
ON eUARD IN LuZoN.

BLOW hack and forth, with growing dread,
My lonely round pace.
The night Is quiet as the dead
In some last resting place.
fhe sad-faced moon, low-hung, immense.
Seems falling from the sky.
Affair the silent, ghostly tants
In martial order lie.
Off shore huge bulking on the tide
Gray ships of battle creep,
While fiery-eyed about them glide
The dragons Of the deep.
Strange whispers float from each retreat,
At every sound ] start,
And heavy fingered moments beat
A tattoo on my heart.
Where'er I look each object takes :.
Some foreign shape, and grows
Upon my vision till 1t breaks ;,
To twenty quickened foes.
With noiseless feet across my path
They leap to crouch and gibe,
Their horrid faces black with wrath,
An unknown, spectral tribe.
Midnight ALPS wellr The hollow cry
Sounds doleful as a knell.
Post ninep' hasten to reply,
Midnight, and all Is well!
To fight when cannon cheer the strife
And steel to steel Is laid
To die red-soled with dews of life,
By worthy foeman's blade
To flash enc lingering look along -.
ragged, charging line,
Inc last faint prayer a battle song
would such a death were mine!
But hero to feel the sudden sting
OF towards steel-to lie =
A staring, crook'd deserted thing
God! what death to die!
A night bird far within the wood
For sudden gladness sings;
IT fear not, for the Lord is good" -
Through all the silence rings. ."
And In that song hear a prayer,
Low, solemn, trusting, clear,
OF one who's doing picket there -
For mo on picket here,
Still back and forth alonAI pace, x
But when the hour ten r.
1 see her pure, uplifted face,
And know that all is we'll.
Charles Eugene Banks, in Chicago Inte
Ocean.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-05-25
JOURNALISTS AND EXPANSION.
The Chicago Meeting Demonstrates
That They Stand by the Pres
ident.
chicago HTimes. Herald' 1nd.ll

Chicago "Times- Herald" Gnd)l
The Associated Press, the greatest news
gathering organization in the world, de-
clares with one voice that our flag must
stay in the Philippines, where American
valor has planted 1t, until Congress de-
cides what shallbe done with the archi-
ipelago.
The editors, who have come from every
section of the Union and who may be
said to speak for the dominant sentiment
of the people in the respective localities
which they represent, declare with one
accord that there must be no retreat in
the face of the rebellion and civil disorder.
AS nation we cannot shirk the response
bilities forced upon US by the accident OF
war. We are accountable to humanity
and civilization for a disposition of the
Philippines and the establishment of a
government that shall promote the highest
welfare of mankind.
This is the sentiment of the editors who
are attending the annual meeting of the
Associated Press in this city. Even those
who are opposed to expansion, who be-
lieve that the retention of the Philippines
is not necessary to our further commercial
development and who refuse to recognize
our national or moral obligation to restore
civil order Oh, found great free govern
ment in the islands, are agreed that we
cannot now turn back with honor or credit
to the nation. The preponderance of SEN
timent, is strongly in favor of expansion
as permanent American policy that has
its defense in the demands of commerce
and civilization.
The Associated Press editors are pa
triotic and American. They will stand
by the President and the flag in the
Philippines.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-05-25
PERSONAL NOTES.

Commander w. w. Meade, who has
just been placed in command OF the
Brooklyn, was one of the designers oil
that ship.
DIR. w. Seward Webb has presented
war medals to every Vermont volunteer.
The metal used was taken from Ger
vera's flagship, the Maria Teresa.
The Duchess of Marlborough owns
spaniel whose ancestor was the dog which
followed John Churchill, the first duke,
through the battle of Blenheim.
The Duchess of Portland, unlike most
wearers of the strawberry leaves, goes
into society very little. She is areligious
woman and is devoted to her two small
children.
Senator Hanna owns theatre in Cleve-
land which is one of his pet hobbies
He gives 1t great deal of thought and
attention and when in town is, with Mrs,
Hanna, confirmed First nighter."
A pension of $27 a month has been
granted Lula 8. Randall, the l6-year old
daughter of Frank B. Randall, chief engi-
neer of Dewey's dispatch boat McCullagh,
who died from sunstroke the day after
The battle of Manila Bay.
Charles Broadway Rouss, the blind
millionaire, is fond of good reading and
has a companion read 10 him every even
ing after dinner, The papers he hears in
the morning, the reader giving only the
headlines, except in case of subjects MIR.
Rouss is particularly interestedin.
Thomas Edison frequently has BIZ
lunch served in his laboratory and is as
frequently distracted from eating by IN,
terest in his work. When this occurred
the other day one of his assistants sub
stituted an empty plate for his CHEERS
full one and the result wa3 that when
Edison at Lat returned to eat he cried
out: "Why, my memory is getting
poorer every dayl Here, I've eaten my
lunch and forgotten all about it,"
GIL. Watson, of Glasgow, designer Of
the britannia, Valkyrie and other famous
Yachts, refuses to have anything to do
with boat after it once leaves his hands.
He has never owned yacht and SO jeaI'
ously does he guard his model room that
no one has ever gained access thereto
ave Lord Dunraven (whom MIR, Wat
son now styles 'Doneracing'') and Lord
Ionsdale, who represented the German
Emperor in the building of the Meteor.