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Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-05-24
THE HOG INDUSTRY.
Figures showing That Porkers Are
the Most Profitable stock the
Farmer Can Raise.

The last few years have brought the
hog industry forward almost, if not
quite, on an equal with the cattle in
dustry, although the two industries
should go hand in hand. The hog OF
the past was looked upon as merely
scavenger, and not as an object OF
profit, unless he could be kept upon
food such as no other animal would
eat. And in some farmers estima-
ton they have not advanced one per
cent. up to the present time. regard
less of the lessons which well con-
Quoted experiments have taught the
reading farmer. My experience with
hogs, although very limited, has
proven to my entire satisfaction that
hogs are the most profitable stock q
farmer can keep. One good brood
sow properly handled, will pay for
herself twice every year. l have one
sow that brought me eight pigs last
June. The sow and pigs were kept on
alfalfa until August, when the pigs
were started on grain. They were
given soaked barley first and this was
gradually changed to corn. Those pigs
were marketed when six months old,
and weighed little over 200 pounds
each; they brought me about SOS. !
have seven more pigs from that sow,
that will weigh about 40 pounds each,
and she will bring me another litter
of pigs in June. Now, this is only
one SOW, and an average of my herd,
but I think it fair illustration OF
the profit in a good brood sow upon q
farm. Some farmers may say that
hogs are more liable to disease than
other animals, and this may or may
not be true. 1 have lost a few hogs,
but never lost one from cholera or any
other contagion that know OF posi-
lively, although have had cholera all
around me. My theory for curing
this disease is to doctor the pen and
not the hogs. / never use one pen or
lot longer than six months at time,
and always make it point to grow
some crop each summer on the ground
used for hog lots during the winter. and
early in the spring pillow my summer
lots and sow to oats or barley. This
has always been my way of handling
hogs, and have never been bothered
with disease, never shut my hogs
in small pen until few weeks be-
fore putting them on the market
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-05-24
UNIQUE CONTINUANCE.
Used with Great Success by the In
ventOr in Raising His Lambs
by Hand.

First, take coffee pot holding about
one gallon. Take off the ordinary
spout, and cover the opening formed
securely so that nothing can leak
through. Then fasten three spouts
on near the bottom of the pot about
one and half inches apart. These
spouts should be Ike tubes, larger at
the bottom and tapering to the top,
which should be large enough to fit a
nipple on nicely. The spouts reach
from the bottom up even with the top
Of the pot and should extend out five
inches from the top. Stay each spout
to the pot with tin brace, about three
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-05-24
SORGHUM FOR FEED.
Ohio Man Who Has Tried 1t Advises
All Farmers to Sow Few Acres
This Spring.

Sorghum is one of the very best OF
cured feeds that ever used. Having u
small amount of hay to depend upon
last year, 1 concluded to try sorghum
as a substitute. About the first of June
/ sowed three acres on rather thln
land where poor stand of clover ana
some weeds had been turned under,
sowing broadcast, one and one-fourth
bushels per acre of late Orange sor-
Vhum seed. This year l shall SOW one
and one-hah bushels per acre, as the
hay will be finer, better to handle and
easier to cure.)
I cut this sorghum about September
10, with moving machine, just as hay,
left it lying in the swath for ten days
then raked and shocked and left III
the shock for three weeks, the shock
being very large; then | drew to barn
and put in NOW. The result is that we
have sufficient feed for stock, and hay
to sell. Our sorghum gave us II large
loads off of three acres.
AS to sorghum for green feed, think
that first-class pasture is just as good
but il is all right when pasture in late
summer is short, to feed cows or
horses. In May of last year we sowed
an orchard of two acres to sorghum,
in drills, using a corn planter, one peck
of seed per asre. This we commenced
feeding in midsummer, when pasture
began to get short, and found that
COWS and stock of all kinds except
sheep relished it. Six yearling cattle
were put in a small lot and fed sorghum
exclusively one month and l think they
did as well as those given the run OF
pasture fields. Horses are fond OF 1t
in the green, especially about the time
Il is ripening or has gained its growth
and will relish it even in pasture as
well as in manger. AS to its being
poison for any kind of stock, do not
find it so. have fed it in all stages
of growth, even turned spring calves
upon the second growth, with good re-
suits. This year 1 shall sow "a acres
in place of three, and shall give the
young cattle sorghum all winter, as
those fed thereon this winter are do
ing well. I have some doubt as to its
being as good feed for sheep as hay
Some of our sheep seemed to have
looseness of bowels, and as we were
feeding sorghum hay once a day, to-
pether with fodder and clover hay, we
thought perhaps it was the sorghum
caused it. We dropped off the sorghum
but the trouble has not stopped as vet
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-05-24
No IIse for a Throne.

Napoleon Bonaparte is quoted as
saying to DR.. O'Meara at St. Helena:
"If l was in England now, and the
French nation was to offer me the
throne again, would not accept OF
it, because if l was to do so l would
be obliged to turn bourreau (execu'
tioner). I would be obliged to cut off
the heads of thousands to keep my
self upon it, which would not be pleas
ing to me. Oceans of blood must be
shed to keep me there. No, no; | have
made enough of noise already in the
world; perhaps more than any other
man will make; perhaps too much. /
MN getting old, and only want retire,
ment. What could ! do in France?
Alone, to set myself against all the
powers of Europe. Manifestations
tl1rV
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-05-24
ILLUSIONS OF A SOLITARY.
Eerie Feeling That Came Over Lone
Hunter Far Up on the
Mountain.

Over and over again, says W. j. Still
man in Atlantic, as 1 sat alone by my
camp fire at night, dreaming awake,
have heard voice from across the
lake calling me to come over and fetch
It. and one night rowed my boat In
the darkness more than mile, to find
no one. Watching for deer from tree
top one day, in broad sunlight, and
looking over a mountain range, along
the crest of which were pointed frs
and long level ridges of rock In irreg-
ular alienation, the eeris feeling sud-
denly came over me, and the mountain
top seemed city with spires and walls,
and heard bands of music, and then
hunting horns, coming down with the
wind, and there was a perfect illusion
of the sound of hunting party hurry
ing down into the valley, which gave
me a positive panic, as II I were being
pursued and must run. remember
also, on another occasion, transfer
nation, TRANSPORTATION, rather, OF the
entire landscape in colors such as
neither Titan nor Turner ever has
shown me. It was a glorifcation OF
nature such as had never conceived,
and cannot now comprehend. l had,
one evening, when was lying awake
in a troubled state of mind, vision
of woman's face, utterly unlike any
body had ever seen, and so beautiful
that. with the sheer delight OF it's
beauty, 1 remained for several days In
q state of ecstasy as If 1t were con-
stantly before me; and 1 remember II
still, after more than 40 years, as more
beautiful than any face ] ever saw in
the flesh, and it was as real while II
lasted as any material object could
have been, though it was head with.
out body, like one of the vignetted
portraits which used to be SO fashion
able in my early days.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-05-24
Rread in Havana.

Havana's bread carts are usually
two-legged-that is, bread Is carried
about the streets in large, shallow
baskets, borne on top Of mems heads.
It is served in sticks as long as base
ball bat, or in small loaves or pones'
one Of which is supposed to serve for
the morning meal of an ordinary clti-
zen.-Chicago ChroLiele.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-05-24
USEFUL BARN BENCH.

shoe boxes, by cutting down empty
grocery boxes, as suggested. Screw a
knob to the front of each, and you have
q most convenient bench and drawers
for the barn or shop, where few tools
nails, screws, rope and other "fxings'
can be kept handy. Half an hours
work will make the affair, and it's con-
venience will be appreciated for years
IN. Y. Tribune.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-05-24
Cooked Rations for Cattle.

The cost of cooking the food OF
stock is the great drawback to the use
of cooked food, yet where there are
as many as % COWS or more the method
might be adopted with advantage. II
would induce farmers to grow more
root crops, and it has been found that
when we'll cured corn fodder has been
cut fine and steamed there was a gaS
by the experiment. Glover hay can be
cut and steamed with advantage dur
ing cold weather, as it is relished by
both cattle and swine.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-05-24
The CHURCHES.
Methodist Episcopal Church South

Public worship of God on the lss an9 9
srd SUNDAYS at II A NJ, on the End and
9Th at 1880 P. M. .,o =. 7.eo
Meeting for prayer, Wednesaay AZ Gov
p NJ. sabbath School at $3.50 A. M; o.
Meeting of Epworth League each sun sun
law at 3 y. NJ, the third Monday
IL, ,;3h, Of each month being devoted TO
w" most cordial welcome is extended to all
n '"''' ]. 5. FRENCH. Pastor.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-05-24
TA7EWElL co. DIRECTORY.
Circuit Court.

Robert G. Jackson. judge; II. Bane Har-
man, clerk. Terms of court-lst Monday
in April, Attn Monday in August and lat
Monday in December.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-05-24
n.para,nr His vocation.

Towne-He has been the ruinatiOn 'of
many man.
Browne-Gambler or saloon keeper!
Towne-Neither. He's manufacturer OF
Easter hats.-Brooklyn Life,
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-05-24
Notice.

All persons whomsoever are hereby no.
tilted and warned not to hunt, fsh, rideI
walk, drive stock across or otherwise tres.
pass on my premises, for tie law against all
such will be rigidly enforced.
SAMUEL T. HESIsGKR.
June 22nd. 1899, 6-22.l2m
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-05-24
Rev. MOwbray's Appointments.

Preaching at Pleasant Hill Church LIST st
Sabbath in the month at III 8. 10. ana ~
White Church the same day at p. M MI.
Preaching the Third Sabbath at Wnlt e
Church II a. H.; in the afternoon az
o'clock at Pleasant Hill Church.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-05-24
Contagious Bleed

Mrs.T.w. Lee, Mont
gomery. Ala, writes I:
"several years ago ]
was inoculated with
poison by a diseased
nurse, who infected
my baby, and for SIX
long years I suffered
untold misery. My
body was covered with
sores and ulcers. Sew
eTal physicians treated
me, but all to no pur.
pose. The mercury and
potash they gave me
seemed to add fuel to
the awful fame which
was devouring me.
Friends advised me to
tUS. Q. 9. / began TAX
Ing II and improved
from the start, and 3
complete and perfect
ekra waf the result.n
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-05-24
Christian Church.

Preaching lst and Srd Sundays at p
and 2nd and 4th Sundays at ii y. IN:
PRAYER meeting Saturday night AZ
clock. Sunday school every Suncay al
Wv PHILIP JOHNSON, Pastor.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-05-24

40 w ct CLAIR. ATTORNEY AT LAW
EEEso..i, Va Practices In the courts OF rae
SaI1 snd adjoining counties and in the s1pre% -.
court Of Appeals ut Wytheville. ParticunIssss az
tention paid to the collection OF ciSiln'' ""0e
ptras building
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-05-24
County Court.

III. Stuart, Judge; I. K. George, clerk.
rsrms of court-Tuesdsy after Sd Monday
in each month.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-05-24

opEEvFR 4 GILLESPIE, LAWYERS. Tszewell
ETa prs'.s..e n the courts of Tazewell and az
oining counties. Ofhce--Stras building EosAi
l.. Greeyer Barns Gillespie.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-05-24
BENCH FOR THE BARN.
Can BE Made In Half an Hour, But II
Convenience Will BE Appreci-
ated for Years.

Get two empty shoe boxes and set
them on end little way apart. Nail q
wide board from top to top, as shown
in the cut, and fit drawers inside the
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-05-24

POWELL ROYAL, ATTORNEY All LA",
!. Tazewell, Va. Once WIN OnSp'."" -
Gillespie
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-05-24

,,rNcENr L. SEXTON, ATTORNEY AT LAW,
vTszeyeii, Va. viii practice In the cour@ -. -
tsnsion paid 10 the collection Of claims once In
3tras building.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-05-24
LAWYERS.

FULTON & CoULLING ATTORNEYS SnSrs. az ~ Tsss.
ali county. s. NJ. B. Couling will contnns ms
practice In all the courts Of Buchanan es3 nni,rs
& Fulton, Wytheville, Va. b. d. D. "oui'Hs'
Tsxewell, Va.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-05-24

n C. BOWEN, ATTORNEY AT Law a,V,tb nS1s,
i. we'll, Va. Once west END Oh Ooui'NO'-
yard.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-05-24

n r. ANDERSON, ATTORNEY AT Law Tsze-
~ SSsI1 Va. viii practice in the courts OF Tsze'
ms,I county and the Court of Appeals a. "y'ne'
Vile. Collecting specially.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-05-24

,.s spRATT. ATTORNEY AT LAW, Rich
w lands Va. Practices In the courts Of Ls .,s
eel and adjoining counties Prompt eucn'i'A
csid 10 the collection Of claims.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-05-24

4, " STUART. ATTORNEY AT Law. Ia well,
Va Land titles in Mcdowell and Logan c0nn.
H.. West Virginia, speciality. once In ssra'
building.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-05-24

HENRY & GRAHAM, LAwYER . u TsseweIs' v
HOaice in building near court HOUSE " -"
u v :. G.. Graham. B. w. Stras.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-05-24
Omeers.

Address, Unaka, Va. o,
pH Williams, County Supt. SCHOOLS
Address, Snaps, Va.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-05-24
CURE YOURSELF AT HOME.

eight days after change Of feed. If
you are not sure you will have enough
feed otherwise, few acres of sorghum
will not come amiss next winter.-Carl
Vollbom, In Ohio Farmer.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-05-24

s HrdGINBoTHAM, ATTORNEY AT- a,,,S
H. Taze veil Va. (0ice up stairs Ia law snd 1u "A.
,ny counties and in Court Of Appeals Of VIZ
ginil
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-06-12
A QUEER CORK SAFE.
Dupes Were Unable to find the
Place Where They Were
Bunkosd-

did you ever hear of a cork safer"
asked a drummer who represents the
latest thing in chilled-steel and burglar
battling time locks, according to the
New Orleans Times-Democrat. LAS far
as | am aware" he continued, when
everybody chorused negative, "only
one of them was ever built 1t was
made by an ingenious Dutch mechanic
for one-time famous confidence man
named DR.. Bags, who operated in
Denver, Salt Lake and Frisco. The
safe was folding affair, made of paper
on a backing of sheet cork and when it
was opened Ep was six feet high, and
looked exactly like the real thing. AS
1t was always placed in a corner, it had
oHy two sides, but every visible detail
was complete-combination knob,
hinges, lettering, bolt-heads and all.
When folded it could be carried in an
ordinary dress suit case. Baggs used
the thing in fake lottery Office which
was of itself marvel of trick furnish
ing.
When the victim entered the place
~ AOOhCu Inc al OIulndIl DuSlucss tS'
Enlistment, with desks, railing, maps
or. the walls, safe in the corner, and sew
eral clerks at work on books. The in
slant he left roll-top desk was opened
up into bed. The railing was folded
together and slipped into a closet, ;
table was turned into a wash stand,
cabinet turned into bureau, the SAT-
was put away in its case, the curtains
were pulled down and the room was Il
all appearances simple sleeping apart
ment. By that means the poor dup
was never able to find the place wher
he had been bunkoed. l saw Baggs
old cork safe when | was last in Sal
Francisco. 1t is now owned by ciga
dealer, who bought it as a curio. an
while it is pretty badly battered, on
can still see plainly that il was a Won
derful piece of mechanical work"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-06-12
NIGHTKEYs FOR CHRISTMAS.
why a Brooklyn Man and Wife Re-
cefved Them from Their Next
Door Neighbors.

A Brooklyn man and wife have had
two peculiar experiences which have
caused them to be talked about in their
neighborhood. A few months ago they
went out for the evening and forgot TO
take a nightkey. The servant was out
the same night. When the man and his
wife returned and failed to get re-
Spouse to their ring, the husband
smashed one of the windows and
crawled in. In this way he opened the
door and admitted his wife, says the
New York Sun.
One experience of this character is
sufficient to make an impression. but Il
left no warming on the mind of this
man. Not long after the incident be and
his wife again went out and forgot a
night key. Failing to get in or their
return the man sent BIS wife TO neigh
boris while he went over TO hotel neas--
by TO borrow jimmy, as he had decid-
I'd to get in with that and save the OK
pense of window glass Armed with
the implement he returned. and after
considerable effort he forced the door.
walked upstairs and found his neigh
bors and his wife enjoying themselves
He had forced the doors of his neigh
bors' house, adjoining his own and
INTELLECTUALLY a counterpart of it.
/ Then his wife made the discovery that
she had the key of her house
Among the Christmas offerings re-
ceived by the man and wife was a
bunch of night keys.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-06-12
EXHIBIT BY THE NEGRO.
II VIII Have Place I'm the United
States Sociological DEPART
ment at Paris.

Under the auspices of the United
States government, the American negro
is to have a distinctive exhibit at the
Paris exposition. Thomas j. Galloway,
of Washington, prominent colored
man, has been appointed to prepare
this exhibit.
A limited space has been set aside
in the United States exhibit in sociol-
ogy for this feature. 1t is aimed to
show that ''the people of African
descent in America are civilized, Chris
tanned, possessors of vast education
al privileges. They are owners of per-
haps half a billion dollars worth of
property. They are engaged in every
industry and pursuit common to white
Americans, and universally accredited
with rapid progress. America can
therefore furnish Europe with much
evidence of the negroes value as la
borer, a producer and a citizen, that
the statecraft of the old world will be
wiser in the shaping of its African pol
icies."
The leading colored intercolonial
institutions of the United States are
arranging for creditable exhibits.
There are more than a dozen other
features of the negro exhibit under
way.
Every New England state will be
called upon to contribute toward the
exhibit.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-06-12

In paper on Recent Ethnsgraph-
ical Work in Scotland" read before The
British association, Mr.. Gray described
his observations on the color of the
hair and eyes of the schoolchiidren Of
East Aberdeenshire. The pigmenta-
ton of the Scotch children was shown
in a table and compared with the con-
tinental districts, whence, according
to tradition and history, the lowland
Scots derived large element OF their
population-viz.: Schleswig- Eolstein,
Lueneberg, and MecSlenburg-S chwerin,
the reputed original seats OF the Angles
and Saxons. The tables showed that
the three north German districts were
more blonde than East Aberdeenshire-
Germany got more brunette and less
blonde from north to southl and we
must go as far as upper Bavaria to get
"A district approNimaiing in pigmenta-
tion to East Aberdeenshire.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-06-12
ODD CALENDARS.
There Is One Used In Russia That Is
Twelve Days Ahead of Ev-
erythfng Else.

The most out-of-date almanac is that
possessed by Russia, while the palm for
the Largest circulation" goes TO that
issued from Peking. Incredible though
it may sound, it is nevertheless fact
that the land of the Great White Tsar
still cherishes a calendar which is IL
days ahead of everybody else, says the
Cincinnati Enquirer.
1t is true that our own calendar was
II days out until 1851. Then our Eng
lish forefathers put it straight by drop
ping these spare days out of the rec'-
oning, much to the dismay of the IN
educated. The public state of mind at
that time may best be realized from
the fact that it held riotous mass meet
ings, to protest against the robbery"
with bands and banners, from the lat
ter of which blazed forth its grievance:
'Give us our IL daysi" Indeed. it was
not until several heads had been brcke n
by the swords of the military that
those which still remained intact cooled
sufficiently to appreciate the fact that
the change was inevitable, and not
merely the outcome of a government
dodge to fleece the workingman out of
IL days pay.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-06-12
A KNOTTY CASE.
In Which 1t Is shown That Cows Are
Valued More Than "a Mere HUI
man Body In Africa.

A Uganda woman had married three
husbands at different times, and had
had son by one of them-the second,
says a writer in Blackwood. The faith
er unfortunately died, and the other
two quarreled about the possession of
the son, who meanwhile lived with his
mother. AS soon as he was old enough
to take law into his own hands the boy
elected to live with the first husband,
and left his mother to do so; thereupon
the third husband raided the first, car
rying off ten head of cattle, and, as if
to still further complicate the case, one
of the cows calved on the road. 1t now
fell to my lot to decide with whom the
boy was to live, and what was to become
of the cattle.
So much evidence was produced that
1 became utterly confused, especially
when the mother crawled in on hands
and knees to give evidence as to parent
age, in which, by the way, she was fat
ly contradicted by her offspring.
finally decided that the boy was to live
with the first husband, and that hall
of the cows were to be returned to him
the remaining half, with the calf, be
ing kept by No. 8. At this decision
No. 1 was delighted, but could never
make out why, as five cows, even with
out a calf, are usually valued far abov'
any mere human body in Africa.