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Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-01-04
1899 AND 1900.

The year which has just closed has been
one of marvellous results, so far as the In
dustrial and business interests of the
United States are concerned The number
of business failures have been less than In
any year since 1888, and smaller in amount
of commercial value than in any year since
1881. The greatest amount OF The default
ed liabilities were the result of reckless
speculation, and not Of legitimate business
ventures.
There has not only been wonderful
growth in our domestic trade, but the
trade with foreign countries has expanded
enormously. The total exports of the
United States for 1899, will reach the
enormous value of 1880, 0G0,000, which
will be a gain of 8 per cent. over the record
of 1898, that of 1898 being the heaviest re-
corded in cur history. Imports have also
exhibited a marked revival, and for the
year will aggregate $SOO,000,0OO SO our
total trade with foreign countries, exports
and imports, will reach the vast amount of
$4,000. 100000.
From all sections Of the country we have
received, during the year just closed, the
most cheering accounts of business condi-
tons, so far as they related to all classes of
citizens. Labor has never been in greater
demand or more constantly employed,
while wages in the great manufacturing
centers have been repeatedly advanced
Among the agriculturists there existed
throughout the year perfect satisfaction
with existing conditions. While grain has
been lower than in some former years the
average for agricultural products has been
favorable, so much so that the farmers
have been not only satisfied but delighted
with the situation. The only farmers who
grumbled were those who had nothing to
sell
Manufacturers and merchants have
never experienced such trade as that
they enjoyed in 1899. They have found
more difficulty in filling orders than OBJ
tanning them.
The year 1899 has also been an eventual
one so far as the health of the country is
concerned Nothing of a startling or I'M
usual character in the way of plague, pesti-
lence or famine, has been known in any
quarter of the Union. 1t will be year
long to be remembered in the history OF
the United States.
The new year is likely, in business way,
to be as remarkable as the preceding one,
as there is every promise that there will
he no decrease in our domestic or foreign
trade. This is what is called a Preslden
tial year, and in such yeals business If
generally affected by partisan politics. Ii
this year should be departure from the
rule in that respect, it will be most CRAFTY
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-01-04
Surprising Statistics About Women

Surprising Statistics About Women
The following statistics, recently
published by the United States govern
ment, are interesting: In 1870 Ameri-
can actresses numbered 692; there are
now 1883. Female architects have
grown from to so; painters and sculp-
tors from 412 to 10000; literary and SCI
entifc writer's, from 100 to 1851; pas
tors from 81 to 1922; dentists from 81
TO All; engineers, from CT to 2O1; jour
nalists from 35 to 472; legal profession,
from 5 to All; musicians from 5,763 to
47,3O9; officers, from Ala to 6,712; doc
tors and surgeons, from 527 to $685.
directors of theaters, from 100 to o43j
accountants from nothing to 4a,071i
copyists and secretaries, from SOLO to
96,S24, and stenographers and typists.
from 7 to 5O,633. These figures apply
exclusively to women.-Boston Trav-
eler.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-01-04
Weary.

"Remember," said the morahst, "thet
poverty is no disgrace"
eve been remembering 1t all my
life," answered the young man with
a cynical tone. "I've been remember
ing it so hard that am getting brain
fap. I'd like to have a chance to get
rich and forget it awhile. just for the
sake of the rest."-Washington Star.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-01-04
Crushed.

Spilins Is a college graduate. The
other evening he was calling on Q
young lady and they were talking
over the results of the Saturday foot
ball games.
"Were you a football player, Mr..
Spilkins?" asked the young lady.
"Oh, yes, indeed. was quite a star
In my day."
"Oh, you were. One of those fall
ing stars, suppose"
Spilkins went home early-Detroit
Free Press.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-01-04

1t has been demonstrated repeatedly in
every state in the Union and in many for
eign countries that Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy is certain preventive and cure
for Group. Ii has become the universal
remedy for that disease. NJ. V. Fisher, of
Liberty, w. Va, only repeats what has
been said around the globe when he writes:
81 Lave used Chamberlain Cough Rene
dy in my family for several years and al
ways with perfect success. We believe
that it is not only the best cough remedy,
but that it is a sure cure for Group. 1t has
saved the lives of our children a number
of times" This remedy is for sale by
John f Jackson, Druggist.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-01-04

WANfED-sEvERAL BRIGHT AND HONEST
w persons to represent us as Managers
in this and close by counties. Salary $500
year and expenses. Straight, bona'fde,
no more, no less salary. Position perma-
nent. Our references, any bank in any
town. It is mainly Office work conducted
at home. Reference. Enclose selfad.
dressed stamped envelope THE DOMINION
COMPANY, Dept. 3, Chicago.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-01-04
A Entry Tale.

."Goodnessl Where did the Joneses
get that big silver loving cup that Is IN
their parlor Window
"Why, it was given to them by the
neighbors that used their iawn-mower
and telephone all summer."-Indianap-
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-01-04
Trespass Notice.

All persons are hereby warned not to
trespass ON my lands, by hunting, riding
over, burning rails and timber, or other.
wise. situated two miles and half east Of
Witten's Mills, in Tazewell county, Va.
This applies to my two farms-the one on
which / live and the one, especially, known
as the Carter farm. The law viii be en-
forced against any person who violates this
G. w. CROCKETT.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-01-04
Court and witness Agree.

An amusing incident occurred IN
one Of the common pleas courts the
other day. The lawyer for the GO
Tense was making very lengthy
cross-examinstion Of On old lady,
when he was interrupted by the Judge
with the remark: II think you have
exhausted this witness"
Eyes, judge" she exclaimed, i DO
feel very much exhausted."-Phila-
delphia Call .....
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-01-04
Having a Great Run on Chamberlain's
Couch Remedy.

! Manager Martin, of the Pierson drug
Re, informs us that he is having great
"a Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. He
IN bottles of that medicine to one of
kind, and it gives great satisfac-
kese days of la grippe there is
Ghamberlain' Cough Rene
cough, heal up the sore
and give relief in very
Mes are growing, and
r Qsed with its prompt
Daily Calumet
kson, Druggist.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-01-04

Ho Who Borrows Trouble.
There is one peculiar thing about the
man who borrows trouble; he Is always
willing to share 1t with others~Chl-
cago Daily News.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-01-04
Worse Than a Sea Lawyer.

Sea time, as most people know, In
stead of being reckoned by hours, is d.
vided into watches" of four hours each.
From four o'clock to six, and six o'clock
to eight, there are half divisions, nau-
tically termed dog watches" In a re-
cent admiralty case the counsel asked
an old sailor at what time Of day a GER
tain collision occurred, and received the
reply: about the middle Of the first
dog watch" In summing up the case
the newly-admitted admiralty proctor
enlarged upon the information thus I'M
parted as follows: "You can imagine,
gentlemen of the jury, the care which
existed on this occasion, when, as ap-
pears from one of the plaintiffs own
witnesses, this valuable ship and her
cargo and the lives of passengers and
crew were intrusted to what, gentle
men ?-why, to the mere watch OF a
dog!"-Collier's Weekly.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-04-19

machinery, calcium carbide, soap. tin
plate, iron coil. sole leather, hay. -four
cotton, paper boxes, hardware, bicy-
c,es' OIL. water meters, generators,
SKINS, office desks, cotton sheeting. or
gans, domestics, dry goods, electric
goods, telephone fixtures, lead pencils
and agricultural implements.
This is a tremendously interesting
statement, and it will bear looking al
more closely. In this one shipload was
merchandise for Yokohama. Kobe,
Newchang, Nagasaki, Shanghai, Toxic,
osaka, Honk Kong and V~ladivostock,
the latter being thirty-three cases of
agricultural implements.
In the cargo were $4,000 sacks and
1910 barrels of -four, a prophecy of flu
ture trade in millions of bushels of
wheat and -four between the orient and
the United States. In cotton the cargo
included 10000 bales, an item OF great
Importance for what it suggests
Sioux City Journal.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-04-19
HOWLERS OF PIONEER DAYS AND
TODAY.

When the Conservative first settled
upon Nebraska prairie in 1854, the coy
ote was a majority of the animal world
along the west bank of the Missouri. A
little further towards sunset, just be-
yond where Lincoln, embellished with
statesmen, salt wells, universities and
the ~penitentiary, now flourishes, were
vast herds of buffalo, bands of innum-
cradle antelope and great droves OF
deer. But the coyote was discontented.
There was rot enough meat, per capt.
ia, in circulation from his wolfish and
indolent standpoint of view. The coy
ote was the original walking delegate.
He never worked except to destroy. he
never sought any job except a job OF
feeding. eating, devouring something
which he did not earn. And even when
his stomach was full of stolen food he
would uncomfortably seat himself on
a knob of prairie and raising his wick
ed eyes and had little face towards
heaven, like a Populist orator-talklng
OF the money octopus--howl his dis
cordant discomfort at the starry skies.
The coyote was the primitive Populist
and original bowler Of Nebraska. But
he perished from the earth. He could
not fatten on discomfort. The politi-
clans who initiate the coyote will ike
Iy vanish from sight and like him only
he remembered as a nuisance. Ster-
ling Morton's Conservative
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-04-19
BRYAN OUT OF TOUCH WITH THE
SOUTH.

Bryan has evidently made a mistake
If he thinks that his anti-imperialism
barmonizes with the prevailing Dem
ocratic sentiment of the South. The
rapid development Of the industries OF
the South has indeed made the most
influential business men of that section
enthusiastic for expansion, and their
feeling was voiced by Chief Justice
snodgrass, Tennessee, in his speech at
: banquet at Chattanooga, Tenn. on
the same night of Bryan's fortieth an
niversary. when he fashioned the Dol
" warden" platform at Lincoln. Snod-
grass said: =,
The retention of the Philippine ISL
ands is practically settled. There Will
never be an issue about 1t. There is no
doubt of u retaining them.
To succeed we must present living,
aggressive issues. not dead negatives OF
objection. 80 800 ho-
fore the people biennially and preached
relief by professions in favor OF TIN
rering with the tariff and amending
the Ten Commandments. /.
Let us offer them something oroaa
and hopeful, the addition OF great Ter
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-04-19
NEW YORK SIN SHOTS


Bryan's running mate.-Boston Ad-
vertiser.
That must be Aguinaldo.
The Washington correspondent OF
the Baltimore Sun calmly tells his pa.
per that while the Democrats are
somewhat divided on the question OF
expansion, they are a unit as to i'm
perialism." AS Imperialism is only an
antl-expansion synonym of expansion,
this correspondent must be classified
as the maddest wag hat mad March
blows upon.
Pressure on Bryan that may induce
him to attend the national convention.
st. Louis Republic.
Pressure" is good. Probably his
speech OF acceptance and delirium is
already in hot storage.
General jim Weaver of Iowa, once a
candidate for President, and still a
Populist Of fame, is justly grieved be-
cause he has been represented as urg-
ing Colonel Bryan to abandon and be
tray" silver. Il had supposed" he
says p~laintively, that no n would
have accused me of abandoning the
principles for which | have stood dur
ing the last quarter of a century" No
good and true man would have accused
him so. No well-informed student of
the life and public services of General
Jim Weaver would have believed him
guilty of an attempt to "deviate into
sense
Hoke Smith quits politics.-Erring
Exchange.
When was the Hon. Hoke Smith in
politics?
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-04-19

ritory, the freedom OF a great pouy o,
people, the extension of our tra& . anu
the upbuilding of all business. T.,
Let us go before them to show III. y
we Will soon every fragram
breeze hat blows over these distant
islands OF the Pacific to be laden with
the hum of American industries, the
music of American civilization and the
shouts of American freedom.
Let us teach the world a new lesson
in natural enlargement, prosperity and
power for the advancement of human
liberty. g..
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-04-19
FACT VERSUS PETTIGREW FIG.
TION.

(From Pettigrew's letter to the Cotton
growers of the South, N December
Iast.) D.
You may not realize the magnitude
of oriental competition. A large
modern cotton mill, making yarn as
good as you make at Charlotte mot as
good, perhaps, as the best you make)
operated by Chinese laborers alone, is
located at Hankow, Chinn. This mill
has $4,000 spindles and 700 looms in
operation. The average wages paid all
the men-engineers, weavers, spinners
and carders-is $1.T5 a month in our
money, and they board themselves,
Not a single person other than native
Chinese is employed in the mill. There
are eight or ten such mills in Shang-
hal, and more are being built.
From a letter written recently In re-
ply. by Consul General Goodnow OF
Shanghai, China.)
The facts about cotton manufactures
in China are these;
The mill at Hankow mentioned has
discontinued weaving cloth, as 1t could
not meet the competition or foreign
niece goods. The looms are being taken
ont and are being replaced by spin
dies. In Shanghai there are now run
ming $50 looms. 1t is claimed nat
these are now (but only very recently
making a coarse sheeting at a profit.
But the cost of making this sheet
ing is fully as much as the manufac-
ture of the same grade of cloth costs
in America. Instead of wages averag.
ing SITS per month the cheapest
cooIie laborer receives SO Mexican ($3
gold per month; carders and spinners
Teceive SOC to $50 Mexican ($12 to sl5
gold per month. Wages have risen
very fast in the treaty ports WIN she
building of mills and the establish,
ment of the foreign businesses, and
are maintained at the highest level.
The labor, however, is less effective
than the American labor. The Amer,
can weavers accomplish two to three
times and American spinners at least
four times the results attained by cor
responding Chinese workmen In the
same time.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-04-19
MORE FARMERS MISERY,

one or h pet arguments of BRYAN
and his Democratic aids is, that the
farmer is still a neglected, impover-
ished being, victim of the gold
clique" and deadly monopoly" and
that the removal of the Republican
party from power will give him a
grand boost into prosperity. Bryan
has steadily ignored the greatly i'm
proved condition of the farmers in his
W state, and he shuts his eyes. in
fact, to all changes in industrial and
financial conditions, since he was bad
ly defeated in 1896. He still holds that
the products of the farmer are growing
cheaper and cheaper. If he will read
h report of Mr.. Hyde, statistician of
the department OF agriculture, he will
acquire some interesting information.
Mr.. Hyde shows that there was an
increase in the total value of horses
mules, mich cows and sheep last year,
of more than $216. 600, 900. In the west
ern states the gain was the largest.
The increase in value of horses aver
aged S7.21 per head: $3.50 for mules;
S1.94 per head for mich cows; $2.18
per head for other cattle, and IS cents
per head for sheep. The value of
swine and increase for 1899 has not
been reported. During the last three
years the increase in the value of the
farm animals of the United States ex-
ceeds $50, 000, 900. Farm horses have
increased in value $151 ,0OO, 900; mules,
$19, 900 900; milch COWS, STAG. 600, 900;
other cattle, 1881 900, 900; and sheep,
S56, 000, 900; and the estimate for swine
is 500, 000, 900. The number of horses
has decreased by 127, 1873, owing to the
increased use of electric power for
traction, but the average value OF
horses has increased in the last year
from S37.40 to $4461 per head, or from
aggregate value of S511 ,074.S13 to $685.
800 ,442.
Iowa leads in horses, the number on
January l, 1900, being 979, 389, valued
at $4S. $40, ia. Texas exceeded Iowa in
numbers, having LIPS $40 horses,
valued at 500, 507, 407. Pennsylvania,
New York, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana,
Wisconsin, Kansas, Nebraska and Min
nesota follow Iowa, Minnesota having
ASS, 673 horses, valued at SIS ,256. 1853.
Bryan's state. Nebraska, has 65S, 1907
horses, valued at s2S, 100, SIP.
That does not look as if the farmers
there are suffering, and horses consti-
tute but a single item in many pro-
ducts of the farm. AS the aggregate
value of COWS in the country has ad-
vanced from SiZ4, 233 1926 to 1914 .S12,-
TOO during the year, the farmers are
| evidently not suffering from cheaper
and cheaper" products of that kind.
When Bryan or n other Democrat
ic leader approaches solid, full-faced.
irreyerSible facts. he gets away as
quickly as possible and betakes him
self to the bottomless bog of feather
headed theory and to well-worn fakir
tricks. In the coming campaign no
body can be deceived by the farmers
misery" babble, not even the farmer
himself.-Sioux City Journal.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-04-19
FACTS AS TO PUERTO RICO.

(From a speech in the United States
senate by Senator Depew of New
York, on April 2, 1907
Now, as to the charge that 1t will
stifie the industries Of Puerto Rico.
Puerto RicaD coffee, representing five
Fights of her product and of her labor.
will come in free; Puerto Rican sugar
and tobacco will come into our ports
in competition with the sugar and to-
bacco of Cuba. Puerto Rican sugar
and tobacco, when the Dingley tariff
applied equally to both of them, found
q ready and remunerative market in
this country. Under the operations of
this bill, by which full tariff duties are
paid by all others and only Is per cent
OF them by Puerto Ricans. the Cuban
sugar man will pay in Dingley tariff
duties SLIGO for every 100 pounds, while
the Puerto Rican sugar man will make
the same profit with an addition, on ac-
count of the concession of IS per cent
to him Of $1.36 on every 100 pounds,
This will practically give the control
lers of the sugar product of Puerto Ri
co a return of from so to 80 per cent
on their investment. Precisely the
same conditions and precisely the
same excess of profit will be the good
fortune Of the Puerto Rican tobacco
dealer under this concession of IS per
cent from the Dingley tariff as against
his Cuban competitor. There can be
but one result of this concession of So
per cent to Puerto Rico as against Gu
ba, and that is an enormous stimulus,
on account Of the enormous profit, TO
both sugar and tobacco areas and pro-
auctions in the island of Puerto Rico.
Under this bill this tariff lasts only
two years, and may be ended by the
Puerto Rican legislature at any time.
1t is a tentative measure; it wholly for
the benefit of the people of Puerto Ri
co; its proceeds are used for no other
purpose than to improve their condi-
tons and enlarge their opportunities.
Congress is always in session, and two
years will be an object lesson in the
experiment of caring for and governing
the Puerto Cleans.
(From recent letter by Speaker Hen
derson.)
There are large quantities of tobacco
and sugar in Puerto Rico, bought up
by trusts and syndicates. They want to
get that into the United States free of
any duty, and when once in, of course,
it will sell in the markets at the same
rates al tobacco and sugar which have
to pay full tariff rates, thus giving
hundreds of thousands of dollars profit
to the s~yndicates, etc. The trusts and
s~yndicates are fighting the bill, and |
have given you the reason why. There
has not been, nor is there now, to my
knowledge, any lobby here working for
the Puerto Rican bill, but these syn
dictates and the Goldfish interests of
New England and other interests, in
Guiding the flour interests, are all try
ing to get into Puerto Rico without
paying the Is per cent duty on their
products, as proposed in the bill. While
under the Dingley law a tax Of 81, to
illustrate, is imposed upon a certain
article, under the house bill it would
only pay Is cents.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-04-19
sHRrNKAGE of THE DEAD SEA.
Level of This Famous Body of water
Is Gradually Falling.

Lever Ot his hfhtuS bou. oI aAtT
Is Gradually Falling.
The level of the Dead sea is steadily
falling on account of the large volume
Of water tributary to it. which is now
absorbed by irrigation enterprises. The
sea was formerly much larger than at
present, as is shown by the old beaches
stretching at various attitudes around
the whole basin. Since the middle of
the century it's level has been very
slowly rising till quite recently, hut
now it is falling again.
The phenomenon is not due to natur-
al causes but to the steadily -increas-
ing quantity of water that is taken
from the Jordan river for irrigation
streams flowing into the sea, and they,
too. are being utilized by the increasing
number of farmers. who are diverting
all the water they can get to the lands
and are relieving the monotonous as
pect of the former arid and ~lifeless re-
gion with many yerdant fields.
The latest travellers say that some of
the salt deposits covering the bottom
of the whole lake may now be seen
above the water in the shallower parts
and near the shores. This is a new as
pect in addition 10 the deposits of salt
crystals that have always been OBJ
served On the shores. But even though
this d~essication go steadily on, it will
take a long time to dry up the waters,
for 1t requires IL sounding line ovel
1890 feet long to touch the bgttom in
the deep northern part of the lake.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-04-19
BROUGHT TO DATE
rev and Aguinald0, His Friend--More Misery for
L Farmers--How Prosperity Hits Bryanism-.-
Facts About Porto MISUNDERSTANDING
All tlong the Line.


the sake of making Mr.. Bryan presi-
dent, and turning the country over to
Tillman and Altgeld.
The theory of non-constitutional
government of our new possessions is
strictly Democratic. 1t was original
ed to influence the country in favor of
expansion. Let it's authors be COM
PEELED to abide by it, especially when
the American wage scale is at stake
and the American standard of life is
threatened.-San Francisco Call.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-04-19
orrp TRADE IN THE ORIENT.

The possibilities of American trade
In china are reflected in the cargoes
of American goods that are leaVihs
north Pacific ports almost daily for the
nr;ant Take one of the cargoes to IL
mstrate. The Tosa Maru cleared ron
SEATTLE for Japan February ~. Sne
carried a cargo valued at $6lo,Zss, an
American goods. 1t Is interesting -
note the variety of articles carried