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PANAMA IN SORE STRAITS.
Isthmian City May Fall Into the
Hands of the Insurgents.

San Francisco. May 13.-The steamer
San Juan. which arrived here from Cen
trail American ports, reports that the rev
olution in Colombia is far more serious
than the cable dispatches from Panama
would lead one to suppose. The chief of
ficer of the steamer said:
.The claim of the Colombian govern
ment that the revolution has been sup
pressed is absurd. The revolutiohistS
are increasing in strength every day
and Panama is liable to fall into theli
hands at any time. They are not only
better armed than the government forces
but they secretly have the sympathy OF
the people of the isthmus, who have be
come greatly incensed ut the arbitrary
acts of the government. Prominent citl
zens of Panama have been imprisoned
on suspicion, and many unjustihable acts
have been DONE"
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presses news out of Difference to thu
government, and correspondents are no
permitted to send the true facts by ca
bic. The San Juan left Panama Apri
% and stopped only at Acapulco. Sh'
brought no passengers, but large carg'
OF coffee.
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Criminal Court Today.

May term Of Court OF General Sessions
opens today. The majority OF cases to
be tried are petty ones. There is but one
manslaughter case.
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disastrous EIrfosion.

Bristol, Tenn, May 13.-News was re-
ceived here at the headquarters OF the
Virginia Iron, Coal and Coke company
of disastrous explosion in their coal
mines at Toms Creek, Wise county, va.
Six men were killed. Only meager de-
tails have been received owing TO the
remoteness of the mines from Telegraph
ic communication. \,
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Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-05-17
CURRENT TOPICS.

Queen Victoria has lent to the pavilion
of the city of Paris at the Exposition fouI
fragments Of low relief sculpture which
ornamented the old statue of Louis NV
on the Place DIES Victories before the great
revolution. The fragments found their
way to England during the upheaval in
France, according to The London Chroni.
Gle, and were given to Queen Victoria.
The new Iowa School Library law pro-
vides that every school district must an
nually set aside from ) to 10 cents for each
child of school age, the money to 90 to-
ward the purchase of books for the library.
During the academic year the books are to
be kept in the schoohouse, but during va
cation time they are to be kept for the use
of the pupils in the house of some one Sc
lected by the board. As the books may
be loaned to persons not pupils it is sug-
gested that the country stores be used as
vacation quarters for the libraries, and the
proprietors of these places, in view of the
additional trade which the books would
bring, are eager to comply.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-05-17
PERSONAL NOTES.

Ex-Governor Wolcot, Of Massachu'
sets, is to make trip to the Philip
pines early in the Fall.
Rudyard Kipling expresses the Opin-
ion that, though short stories may be
made successful in youth, the best novels
must be written IN maturity.
Count Schwartzkoppin, German mill
tary attache at Paris during the Dreyfus
affair, has been made a major general
and put il command of a brigade Of foot
guards AZ Berlin.
Moses w. Richardson, of Boston, has
gwen Templeton Center, Mass, his ma
tive town, a handsomely equipped inn,
the revenues from which are to 90 into
the town treasury.
When George B. NJ. Harvey, the edi-
tor of the North American Review, >
was a reporter on New York daily, bis
declaration that he would some time
edit large magazine was a joke among
his companions
The engagement is announced OF Dr.
Henry S. Pritchett, president of the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
to Miss McAllister, daughter Of Ward
McAllister and sster-in-law of Congress
man Newands, Of Nevada.
Young Alfred c. Vanderbilt, whose
engagement was recently announced,
has seen very little of society, and does
not care for it. He was always a close
student at st. Pauls School, Concord,
y. H., and at Yale, and during his vaca-
ton went out but little.
The Anglican bishop of Natal has
been a conspicuous figure on the battle
fields of South Africa. Hearing an Of
ficer remark that he never heard of an
English bishop with an army, the &C.
clesiastc replied ; Odd YOU ever hear OF
an English bishop whose diocese was
invaded by an enemy ?"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-05-17
Adjourned by Reporters.
,hicagO Inter Ocean.

OnlthBO lnter ocean.
"Well, that bumps me, said the Colo
mel, as he began tanning himself with a
Panama hat. 81 know that the cheek of
these newspaper reporters is always in full
flower, but | didn't know that they as.
sumed to legislate for the State"
Gan know is asserted the Judge
again, chat two newspaper reporters once
adjourned a session Of the Illinois Senate. "
"How'd they do it? Choke the Speak
err with copy paper ?"
"No; they were civilized about it. 1t
was one day when every body expected a
dull session, and only two Of us Senators
put IN an appearance, countin Dave Lit
tier who was in the chair
" 4 want to get an interview with Lit
tier when this things over said one
newspaper man.
" So do /, said the other. Il move
that we adjourn, he shouted at I.itter.
Il second the notion said the first
reporter.
1T is moved AMI senaa ed that we adj
iourn, said Litter solemniy. Those in
favor will signify it in the usual manner.
Ave = shouted both Of the reporters.
Carried = said Litter"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-05-17
ANOTHER AMERICAN TRIUMPH,
Philadelphia Press. J

/ Philadelphia Press
The announcement that large quantity
Of the American machinery on exhibition
at Paris has already been sold to foreign
manufacturers and that it is probable that
all of the machinery in the American ex-
hibit will be similarly disposed of before
the close Of the Exposition, will not occa.
sion any surprise in this country. The
vast superiority Of American inventions
and labor saving machinery has been ire-
quenty demonstrated in recent years by
their extensive purchase for European use.
1t is in this field that Germany sees III the
United States her most formidable rival.
England has recognized the superiority OF
numberless American inventions, and has
either appropriated tie ideas or adopted
our system. The expression Of shipping
Goals to Newcastle" has seen its fulilment
in The shipment of American cutlery and
tools to Sheffield and cotton goods to Man
chester.
The general superiority and adaptabiity
of American machinery has received its
greatest Endorsement in the recent an
noucement that State railroad of one Of
the German principalities has ordered a
number Cf American locomotives with tie
idea of operating them on their lines and
ultimately constructing locomotives of
their own from these American patterns.
1t has been a notorious fact in our consular
service for years that German manufacture
ers did not scruple to make tools after
American patterns, only Of an inferior
quality, label them as made in the United
States and palm these bogus articles off on
their foreign customers, notably those Of
South America.
1t is the commercial and not so much
the territorial expansion of the United
States that industrial Europe fears. The
fierce struggle in the Orient for additional
markets for European trade Is convincing
evidence of this fact
In connection with the announcement
of large sales at the Paris Exposition is the
further statement that so great is the-p
ularity of American machinery that Rus
STA is urging that an exhibit Of our pro-
ducts in that line be given in Moscow,
with the promise that it will be greatly to
tie advantage and expansion Of American
trade in the empire of the Gar. Although
the project has not received official sane
ton as yet, there is little doubt that en-
will be given to the enter
prise, as properly should be.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-05-17

yearly average per capita consumption
| in this country was GIL gallons An in
crease has gone on with great stcadIness
in good years and bad alike until 1892 %
the consumption reached the highest
point which it has ever had-l60S gal
lon. Then for the first time since malt
liquors were introduced in this country
by the German emigration in 1913 there
began a slight decrease in the per capita
consumption Of beer. Ii has fallen slight
~ year by year, rising in 1898 as COM
pared with 1897, but falling again in 1899,
when it was 1894 gallons per capita.
The additional tax levied for war pur-
poses Of 500 per barrel may have had
its effect Of decreasing the consumption
by slightly increasing the price, but as
the price Of beer per glass has in general
remained the same it is difficult to see
how this can have affected retail con-
sumption.
What has really taken place is that
this country is growing more sober. 1t
does not uss onehalf the spirits for
beverages which it did sixty years ago,
and it Uses only about two-thirls as much
as it did thirty years ago. In spite Of
the enormous increase in the product of
domestic wines, which has very greatly
increased in the last twenty-five years,
the consumption per capita is less than
it was, 50 that population has grown very
much faster than the production and the
per capita consumption of beer has
reached its maximum and begun ito de-
crease. Every mans personal observa-
ton will bear out this fact. Less drink
ing is seen in public places and at public
dinners. The accounts Of many clubs for
long series Of years show a decrease in
the amount expended on liquors in pro
portion to the size of the membership.
The number of men who do not drink at
all is steadily increasing.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-05-17
HOW TO PREPARE BALLOT.

The General Assembly of Virginia, by
an Act approved March 9TH, 1900, direct
ed an election to be held on the fourth
Thursday in May, nineteen hundred, at
which the voters of the State are to pass
upon the question 'Shall there be a
convention to revise the constitution and
amend the same p
Under this Act the ballots to be used in
said election are to be furnished by the
respective electoral boards of the counties
in the State The Act also says cat
those precincts where there would other
wise be no election, the ballot furnished
shall have the words "FoR CONSTITUTION
AL CONVENTION" printed thereon, which
shall be in such type as is provided in the
general law, and shall be al least one inch
belOw any heading or printing on said bal
lot"
The Act further provides "a ballot
deposited with the words for constitutions
al convention printed thereon shall be a
vote for convention, and ballot de-
posted with the words for constitutional
convention erased or stricken out shall he
a vote against convention"
The Act is a partial, unequal and parii-
san measure, in that it does not give the
same opportunity to electors who are OPP
posed to a convention that it does to cleo
tors who are Tor convention. In other
words, it provides a complete and ready
to-hand ballot fOl those who want to vote
for convention, but requires those who
are against a convention to use the only
ballot prepared, and to scratch or erase
therefrom the words "FOR CONSTITU,
TIONAL CONVENTION"
1t the Legislature had desired to do the
honest, fair thing it would have ordered
that two ballots be prepared, one with "FOr
Constitutional Convention" printed there
on, and the other with Against Constitu-
tional Convention" printed thereon.
Those who want to vote against the con-
ventiOn will have to use the official ballot
and erase OF strike out the words FOR
CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTIONS >
We urge our readers to do their work care
fully. Erase or strike out the three
words "For Constitutional Convention, "
but do not add anything thereto.
There is an impression that those who
want to vote against the convention will
have to write the word against" on the
ballot. That is a mistake. If the worj
against" is written on the ballot, or any.
other word is written thereon, any such
addition or change will cause partisan
election officers to treat it as defaced hal.
lot and 1t will not be counted.
Strike out the words "For Constitution,
al Convention and do nothing more to
the ballot.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-05-17
Tortured a Witness.

Intense suffering was endured by wit
ness T. l.. Martin, of Dixie, Ky, before
he gave this evidence Il coughed every
night until my throat was nearly raw
then tried DR.. Kings New Discovery
which gave instant relief. | have used
it in my family for four years and recon-
mend it as the greatest remedy for
Coughs, Colds and all Throat Chest and
Lung troubles. 1t will stop the worst
cough, and not only prevents but abso-
lutely cures Consumption. Price SOC and
LOO Every bottle guaranteed. Trial
bottles free at JOIN +. JACKsoN's Drug
Store.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-05-17
Declared Bin Sums in Dividends.

The Wythe Lead and Zinc company
! held the annual meeting of its stockhold-
ers at Austinville on Monday last and a
very full representation Of the stock Was
present. The report of the manager,
Captain John G. Raper, showed the
mines and business to be in more pros
porous condition than they have ever
been in and the earnings of the compa'
ny most satisfactory to the owners OF the
stock. The probabilities are that the
company will have distributed in divi'
dends, for the year ending July next, at
least hundred thousand dollars, az 1t
has already since last July paid to Its
shareholders seventy.six thousand dollars
on dividends account. About noon on
the day of the meeting Captain Raper en-
tertained the stockholders present at a
very splendid dinner.-Wytheville In
terprise.
We are glad to hear that this old COM
pany HAS DeeH 80 euCCtselul III "o D"Si
ness operations under McKinley's adj
ministraton. If we mistake not the
management has always been strongly
pro Democratic, and in 1896 Austnvlle,
or Lead Mines, precinct was largely for
Mr.. Bryan. Perhaps the remarkable
condition of prosperity that has come up
OIL the old Wythe Lead and Zinc Mine
Company may change its views with re-
gard to Mr.. Bryan and his ultra free ell-
yer, free trade and auti-coporation doc
trines.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-05-17
TOO MUCH POLITICS.
1t Obstructs Business and Helps to
Keep the South Poor.
Nashville American (Rep)l

Nashville American (Rep)l
What is needed in Tennessee in this
year Of grace 1900 to make the people
prosperous and happy, to give labor OPP
portunity, and chance to work, is more
business and less politics.
Something else needed is to get oul
farmers out of the ruts they are in. We
had Just as well be plain. They do not
get the return from the soil they should.
They are behind tibet times. Farmers Of
other States, Indiana for instance, are
ahead of them.
We need men in the public offices in
Tennessee who will arouse the farmers
to action, who will blaze the way foI
them, who will, in reality, cause two
blades of grass to grow where one grew
before Opportunity, opportunity is what
is wanted. Opportunity for our young
men to work, to labor, to develop the
good that is in their hearts and minds,
to push the State forward and make it
what nature intended it to be, the finest
State in the Union.
How can this be accomplished when the
energies of the people are frittered away
over the ambitions of Office seekers ?
When the State is turned upside down
because this man or that wants to 90 &c
the United States Senate ? Is this the
only issue before the people ? Is this the
only reason men are coming to the Leg
islature next time? Or is there business
to be attended to Is there wise legsla-
ton to be enacted which will aid materi-
ally in encouraging commerce and agri-
culture
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-05-17
THE HONEST BOER.
Philadelphia Press

Philadelphia Press
In few weeks case will be heard III
Brussels which is likely to illuminate the
Boer character in a way most displeasing
to 30 eminent n citizen as the "HOn.
Web. Davis. The Transvaal Govern
ment is suing the Northern Railway Com
pany of the South African Republic on the
ground of certain crookedness in the con-
tract work. The company, in denying ex-
cessive profits made on the contract, de-
clare that part of their outlay was in the
form of brides needed to secure the con-
cession. Their list as to the main often
ders runs az follows -
Mrs. Kruger, 5000.
Elof, Kruger's son-in-law, $500 casl.,
$4,000 in shares
General Joubert, $26, COO in shares.
General Smit, Vice. President Of the Trans
vaal $25UO in cash.
President of the Nolksraad, 1928 in cash.
Box, member of the Executive Council,
$500 in cash, $1,000 in shares.
Secretary to the Volksraad, $1,000 in cash.
$1,000 in shares.
Mare, member of Volksraad, $4,000 in
shares.
In addition christmas presents were
showered all through the Nolkraad, and
the company, while not listing it, is said
to have given Kruger $40 900 in cash aud
100000 in shares 1t is quite probable
the company is not at all what it seems to
be, but its method of finance would pass
in Lombard and Wall Streets. However,
it makes no pretensions to anything but
business sense, while the claim for the
Beers, for tile Ringers, has been that they
represented the virtues of unsOphlstlcated
Christians. This is certainly an error Sc
far as money goes as the good Kruger is
known to have very liberal views as to
''presents." A conscience SO flexible if
hardly Christian, though, judging from
Rhodes, it is unquestionably South Afri-
can. And as for the honest Boer, it is to
be feared he is rare bird. At least, he
does not seem to be in office in the Trans
vaal or to be a iavorite in the executive
mansion.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-05-17

| consider it not only a pleasure but a
duty | owe to my heighbors to tell about
the wonderful cure effected in my case by
the timely use of Chamberlain's Cole
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. ! was
taken very badly with llux and procured
a bottle of this remedy A few doses
of it effected a permanent cure. 1 take
pleasure in recommending it to Others
suffering from that dreadful disease
J. w. Lynch, Dorr, w. Va. This RENE
DIV is sold by JOHN f.. JACKSON.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-05-17
THE DECREASE IN LIQUOR DRINKING.
Philadelphia Press. J

Philadelphia Press
Alcoholic beverages always increase in
consumption during periods Of prosperity
and decrease when times are hard but
it is remarkable proof Of the steady
decrease in the general consumption Of
spirits in this country that during the
present season of prosperity the per
capita consumption of spirits is far be-
low that in like seasons in the past.
In 1884 the highest point of annual
consumption reached during a period Of
prosperity was AS gallons per person.
After the panic decrease followed to
l.2l GALLONS per capita in 1887. Con-
sumption increased again to l.5l in 1892.
1t fell under President Cleveand's adj
mnislratiou and reached the lowest
level on record of a yearly consumption
of spirits in 1896 Of only ! gallon per
capita. From this point it increased,
and in 1899 it was l.l5 gallons per per-
son, or barely thrce.fourths the yearly
per capita consumption in 1892.
This decrease IN the consumption OF
alcoholic liquors has been IN progress
for TWO generations and the average an
nual amount Of spirits consumed per
capita in this country IL now only two
hfths of what it was sixty years ago,
according to the census Of 1910, when
the per capita consumption was 2.52
gallons. In 1860 it was still higher, or
2.S6, so that from 1860 to 1897 the per
capita consumption had fallen almost
One-third.
1t is remarkable also that the con-
sumption of wine varies in much the
same way. 1t rose a little over one-haif
a gallon per head in 1880 .56 Of a gallon ;
decreased steadily through the depres-
sion of 1885; rose again in 1888 ID
81 Of a gallon, and then continued to
decrease, reaching its lowest point in
1896, when it WAS only .26 Of gal
lon per person From this point it has
increased, and in 1899 was 80 of a gal
Ion. The consumption of wine does
not follow as clo,ely the general con-
dtion of prosperity as the consumption
of spirits, but it bears a close relation
to the general state Of trade.
Malt liquors, on the other hand, have
increased steadily in consumption with
great regularity and through all years.
In 1879, a quarter of a century ago, the