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Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-02-13
COAL TN NAVAL WARFARE.
The Fuel supply II . Great FaotoS
in the Success 81 Our
Warships.

The problem of naval success In war
Is a problem of coal. A feet cannot OPP
crate with success If it must limit itself
10 defensive operations with a home
base; it must be ready to strike of
fensively in the spot where the stroke
will be the most effective, and TO do
this X must have access TO coal supply
at widely distributed points.
The report of Admiral Bradford,
chief of the equipment bureau of the
navy, shows how We are progressing
toward a provision of sources of coal
supply. The progress Is slow, but q
gain is being made. We are as yet
without a proper equipment of coahng
sta tons on our own coast; and while
we now have coaling stations on Mex
lean and japanese territory, we have
none in Cuba, and none in the direction
of Europe. In the Pacific and in Phil
ippine waters we shall soon be so well
equipped In this line that we shall not
be at a disadvantage in the far east.
An immense sum has properly been
spent in the last fiscal year 10 deposit
American coal at these widely scat
tered stations from Pichilinque, Mex
loo, through Hawaii, Tutuila and Guam
to Japan and the Philippines. Another
war would not see our navy 80 nearly
paralyzed by q coal famine, says the
Black Diamond, nor so dependent on
the friendly Offices of another power,
as 1t was in the Spanish war.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-02-13
SAMPLE OF BRITISH RED TAPE
An Order Issued by n Major General
to the Eject That There Were
No Orders.

Every once in awhile something is
blurted out that tends to indicate a
few of the reasons why our soldiers
cannot travel as fast as Beers. One
OF the reasons, 1t is suggested, is
that they are hobbled to some extent
with red tape, says the London Ex-
press.
Here is a military order which has
just come to hand. 1t shows how at
least one officer is wasting time and
stationery:
District orders by Maj. Gen. Boyce
Combe, C. B., commanding Rawal-
pindi district, Murree, Tuesday, Oc-
tober IS, 1sO1.-No district orders
were published yesterday. By order
D. G. L. Shaw, major, assistant adj
jutant general"
This particular brand of mind that
secretes performances like these can
not be expected to do much on the
field of war. Catch DeWet? The
military genius who did this couldn't
catch q cold at the north pole.
The fact that an officer quartered
In a wild island does a thing like
this does not, of course, show that
he did not win the battle of Waterloo
or that the charge of Balaclava was
not courageous. 1t is symptomatic,
however. We can imagine the peo-
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-02-13
WAIT A WHITE AUSTRALIA
Plan Adopted in Gaeensland for the
Deportation of Polyne-
SLAMS.

The movement to make a white"
Australia is. not receiving Such gen.
eral approval as the Chinese exclu-
sion has in this country, but it Is
none the less certain that yellow and
brown labor must go from England's
colony. Phe bill now being discussed
in the commonwealth parliament
permits the introduction into Queens
land (the state most affected by the
measure, for it is there that sugar is
grown) during 1902 of rs per cent. of
the number of islanders (Polyne-
sians) who return to their homes
during the present year. In 1908
only so per cent. may return, and by
1906 there will be none in the col
ony, for by that year all will have
been sent back to their island homes,
whether or not they hold property
or can pass the education test, says
the New York Commercial .Adver-
tiser.
The chief opponents of the meas
ure are the sugar planters and man.
ufacturers, who say the white labor
in the cane fields is much more ex-
pensive and much less effective, and
they promise the extinction OF a
growing industry on which great
sums Of money have already been
spent II it becomes necessary to rely
solely on expensive and incompetent
labor. Premier Barton's idea, how
ever, is that by a system of import
duties and bounties the sugar indus
try may be so protected that the loss
of cheap and efficient labor will not
harm Il.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-02-13
A MARTYR DOCTOR.
heroic Work and Final Sacrihce IN
Behalf of Humble
Patients.

The fund which has been started by
the president of the Royal Irish Col
leges of Surgeons and Physicians on
behalf of the family of the late DIR.
William Smyth has shown that the
Irish public'is not unmoved by story
of simple heroism and devotion, says
a Dublin correspondent of the Lon
don Chronicle. However, the AGO
raised will go but little way to pro-
vide for the widow and eight children
(the youngest six weeks old) who
have lost their bread-winner. The
story of the case has been told by the
committee in charge of the fund.
They wrote:
DIR. William Smyth was the medical
officer to the Butonport dispensary
district, which includes the Island OF
Arranmore. On the island an epf-
demic of typhus fever made its APP
pearance. To appreciate the devotion
DR.. Smyth exhibited it must be un-
derstood that owing to the terror in
spired by the typhus among the peo-
pie of the district he could get abso-
iutely no help in fighting the epi-
demic. Alone each day he rowed his
boat across the stormy waters Of the
sound to the island, distance OF
four miles. Into the cottages devoid
of windows, and therefore owing to
lack Of sunlight and ventilation, ree's-
ing with foul air, he daily made has
way. In many cases air, he daily
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-02-13

made his way. In many cases he had
TO carry lighted candle to enable
MN TO see his patients, lying some
times three and four in one bed.
Alone he tried to be at once nurse
ana doctor to these poor stricken
people in their miserable homes.
When at length he succeeded in
persuading them that their only
chance of recovery lay In their re-
moval to the mainland he was con-
fronted with the diffiealty that, ow-
ing TO the terror of the econtagion, no
one would help him or even lend him
a boat.
Fortunately the arrival on the
scene of DR.. Brendon Mccarthy, the
medical instructor to the local gov
eminent board, brought him at least
one willing helper. Without any other
help these two devoted men brought
the typhus patients down to the
beach, embarked with them IN a
crazy boat and rowed them across
the sound. So defective was the boat
that she was only kept ahoat by the
continuous baling of the strongest
of the patients, and she sank five
minutes after reaching her destina-
ton. Happily all the patients were
safely transferred, and, we are glad
to say, are now on the way to re-
covery.
1t is sad to have to add that DR..
Smyth died of the typhus from which
he saved so many.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-02-13
BEST OF RUSSIAN SINGERS.
Monks Whose Voices Are Capable Of
shatterins an Ordinary
Glass

Russia boasts of the worlds great
est choir. It 10 in the cathedral of
Alexander Nevosd, In st. Petersburg,
and is attached to a convent erected
in honor of the patron saint Of Rus
sta. Its members, of whom there are
about 30, are all monks, and are
chosen from the best voices In all the
Russian monasteries, says q London
paper.
When a Ans singer appears among
the novitiates he Is sent to the mon
astery of Alexander Nevosh, where
he is trained as carefully as an opera
singer, and remains there doing moth
ing except assisting at the music at
mass in the morning and VeSpers In
the afternoon, until he becomes aged,
when he Is retired on pension.
Some Of the voices are Of marvellous
strength and sweetness, and II Is said
that every man In the choir can shat
ter an ordinary glass into fragments
by singing into It, so powerful are
the vibrations of bis tones.
The monks are all vegetarians.
They never eat meat. Tho rules Of
the Russian ehuFch forbid them to
shave, and their hair is worn like q
woman's. Unlike ordinary monks.
they are fastidioVs about their ap-
pearanee, and put up their hair and
whisksrs in papers every night, 80
that they are wavy and curly.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-02-13
HOW he BECAME PROMINENT.
The Unenviable Distinction Acquired
by = FacetiOus Travelling
Man.

"He is quite prominent man in
the neighborhood," said the village
merchant to the travelling man,
speaking of a gentleman who had
just left the store, relates the Chi
cago Inter Ocean.
what does a man have to do to
become prominent in this neighbor-
hood" asked the travelling man,
GROSSLY, for business was not very
good with him that day.
"Oh," said the merchant, "he may
do any one of many things and some
times become prominent, or even ia
nous, by doing nothing, Ike old
Hiram Rees, who, by just living for
s3 years, has become the oldest man
in the township. Some men become
prominent by taking prizes at the
county fair, some by raising big
wheat crops, some by paying their
debts, and some by never paying any
thing. knew a man once who be-
came prominent because his wife
made good biscuits, and you viii be-
come prominent in this locality be-
cause I fred you out of my place for
making light of things serious"
And then he took the travelling
man by the ear, led him to the door,
and kicked him into the muddy
road
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-02-13
NOT SIGNALS FROM MARS.
lights Observed I'm December, 1900
Attributed to Illuminated
Clouds.

While far removed from the popu-
lar notion of signal lights from Mars
the explanation of the phenomenon
on that planet observed at the Lowell
observatory in December a year ago,
as made by Pref Percival Lowell be-
fore the Philosophical society, was
little less interesting.
By analogous reasoning he showed
that the projections" were alto
gether dissimilar to projections
which may be observed on the moon
when that body is less than full and
which, he said, are caused by the
sunlight Illuminating the peaks OF
mountains or edges of craters, for
the reason that the projections on
Mars as observed on December z and
8, 1900. appeared at different places
on the heat equator of that planet,
Travelled with great rapidity in the
same northwesterly direction, rose
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-02-13
MISTAKES ON RAILROADS.
An Old Engineer Crashed Into Pas
senger Train Through
B1under.

at is a pretty easy thing to make
q mistake in railroading,"' said an old
engineer as he thought of the recent
wrecks on the Wabash and the Iron
Mountain roads in which so many
lives were lost, says the Mexican Her
aid. GAS I understand it, those
wrecks were caused by defective or
ders. The train dispatcher sent out
his orders directing one train to pass
the other at a certain station. The
operator did not copy the order on
his manifold book, as he should have
done. Instead, he wrote it on slip
of paper and handed it to the engi-
neer. But in making the copy the
operator made mistake and
changed the name of the station.
The collision was the only natural
result.
IAN accident just like that hap
pened to me once when / was work
ing in the states. I received orders
to pass a train at the next station.
1 was just pulling out when 1 saw
the headlight of locomotive loom
ing up close behind me. Did l jump!
1 guess did. The engines were bad
ly smashed, but fortunately none of
the passengers were badly hurt, as
I had reversed my engine before 1
Jumped and the other engine was
slowing down for the station when
the collision came. An examination
showed that the original order had
been for our trains to pass at the
station which 1 had just started to
laaveo
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-02-13

"Nurse!"
The darkness had passed from Dicks
brain, and having opened his eyes and
seen things as they were, though with
an imperfect grasp of the facts, he
whispered the monosyllable.
The quick rustic of dress answered
him, and the words:
eyes, my dear boy!"
"You, mother?" said Dick, looking
up at the face that was the best and
truest object in life for him.
She clasped his hand-a bony shape,
loosely laced with skin.
Suddenly the cloud fell from him.
It all came back-wound, fever, the
long weeks in hospital, the voyage
home in weakness and anxiety as well
as hope, the news of Mary's fortune
and Sir Tarver Brown, his rebuff in st.
Paul's churchyard and his journey to
Nellerton.
He groaned in spite of himself, and
turned his face to the wall.
"Now, then, dear, let me raise your
head"
"What's the use?" he murmured.
It was his one and only flash of
peevishness. The next instant he
obeyed orders with smile. It was a
dreary smile, yet smile.
"How I must have worried you,
motherl" he said, quietly, as he settled
after the tonic. 81 suppose this is Mel
lerton?"
She kissed him as mothers do kiss
their grown sons of whom they are
very proud.
"Try and sleep again, DEAR" she said,
rather TREMENDOUSLY.
But Mary Dudley and her infdelity-
her excusable infidelity-were vivid in
his mind. How could he sleep amid
such realizations?
"All right" he said, shutting his
eyes.
Then a sunny gray mist settled upon
his brain, and his surroundings were
to him as if they were not. 1t was not
so much sleep as translation of spirit.
30, Mary, Mary, what shall do with
out your his lips cried aloud, even
While his mind was active in some
remoter atmosphere.
Nothing, dear Dick; you shall not
do without me as-long as we live, for
we will be always together" A hand
was laid on his forehead-a- little
satiny hand, with love warm in all its
pores. And instantly Dick opened his
eyes.
YMary!" he gasped.
This time Mary Dudley laid her face
by his on the pillow, smiling, and whis-
pered, with her mouth close to his
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-02-13
A Romance of Finance.

An element of romance attaches
in most countries to the annals OF
national debts in respect Of the
struggles and vicissitudes to which
they relate, but in Egypt, a land
where finance spells politics, the
story of the public debt is pre-
eminently romantic. Recklessly and
prodigally contracted, that debt has
for years pressed with crushing
severity upon the docile Egyptian
peasantry; but the astonishing fca-
ture of it's history is that, in the end,
out of evil came good. The public
debt, with it's association N grind
ing taxation and of the pcr'oash.
was destined itself to Home the
salvation of cAe f4laen. Foreign
Intervention in the interest of the
creditors brought with it the for
eign control which, has secured the
Egyptian peasantfy better condi-
tions of life than they have enjoyed
for centuries, possibly better condi-
lions for the mass of the people
than have ever been known on the
Nile. Reform in Egypt grew out of
the necessity of protecting the labor
of the fellaheen and of securing
them such immunity from extortion
and maltreatment that the fruit OF
their toll would suffice to meet the
obligations imposed upon them with
out their knowledge and without
their assent.-North American Re-
view.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-02-13
HISTORIC HONESTY.
New q NoRvO ChaFwOnaa Guarded =
. Treasury Package ceAfaAAtA1
Thousands Of Dollars.

"The most nstable exhibition Of
honesty within the histSry Of tAs
treasury depart@sAt," says . writer
In Ladies' Esms Journal, was made
by Sophie Holmes, . colOTsd woman
Rrst employed 40 ys1rs ago By Gen.
Spin1er-tAen treasurer Of the United
States-As Q temporary eharwonan.
One afternoon in April, 1888. while
sweeping and seFubbiAg the AeoR OF
the issue division she found package
full of crisp thousand dellar notes,
which some careless clark had neglect
ed to return 70 Ne safe. She deter
mined TO stand guard ever the trsas-
ure and 10 eenHde her secret to no
one but Gen. Spinner himself, who
slept in the treasury building during
those troablssome war times. She
swept the dust Of the 1oom into one
pile, then another; scattered It about
and swept II up again and again, doing
thus to keep up tAs appearance Of In
dustry and to make the atmosphere
of the room a. uniRvitin r Ia possible to
the intruding guards, who now and
then Sauntered In. From sheer weak.
ness she finally fell asleep until past
midnight. when, imagining she dds
cerned.ra figure moving In the room.
she CROPPED her way to the valuable
bundle, secrettd IL between two desks.
sat upon Il, and while continuing her
vigil thus fell asleep again. About
four o'clock in the morning she was
awakened by Gen. Spinner's footsteps.
Although she gave tke treasurer .
great fright he rewarded her with q
life appointment az natron in the Is
sue division. And he did justly. When
the package was examined It was found
to contain, some say. 10000; others.
500, 000."
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-02-13
A Burst of Generosity.

A man from Dunedin once visited
the town of Wellington. An Irish
friend insisted upon the visitor stay
ing at his house instead of at a ho-
tel. and kept him there for a month,
playing the host In detail, even to
treating him to the theaters and 9TH
er amusements, paying all the cab
fares and the rest. When the visitor
was returning to Dunedin, the Irish
man saw him down to the steamer,
and they went into the saloon to
have a parting drink.
"Whatll you hAve?" asked the
host, continuing his hospitality to the
very last.
"Now, look here" said the man
from Dunedin, "I'll hse nae mair O.
this. Here we've been keepin' me at
yer hoose for q month an payin' for
a. the theaters an cabs an drinks
tell ye I'll stan nae more O. 1t.
Well just haze a toss for'this onel"-
Gcotsman
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Al lenRIn ne moved aBdlH' les,
that's what I'll do" he murmured.
"Poor girl! One can't blame her.
She shall marry him with free
Conscience, at all events"
Then once again he whispered:
"As for me"
At the Kings Arms inn of Neller-
ton, that evening, Dick took pen and
paper and wrote the letter to Mary
which was to accompany the re-
turned ring. 1t was short and to the
point:
Dear Mary: Somehow, though l would
like to keep this / can't do II. and so l
bring 1t back to you; and you mustn't think
1 mean to be nasty by making It come to
you on your birthday. quite understand
that things are changed between US. Wish
ing you all the happiness life can give you.
believe me, sincerely yours always,
RICHARD JERRAM."
mo drivel in that, l think" he
said, with a pang of pride when he
had read it and folded it up. The
ring was in little box and the let
ter was now wrapped round the box.
The whole was addressed to Miss
Mary Dudley, 2 Devonshire road.
In the darkness he tottered out
Devonshire road way. He gazed at
the house and the lighted window in
Mary's bedroom-gazed and gazed till
he felt silly. And then he tottered
back and went to bed.
He lay restlessly, now wishing wild
ly, now dumbly resigned to all
things.
Once it occurred to him to wonder
what the maid of the inn meant by
smiling like that when she gave him
his candle and said a gay good
night" But he had far intenser
stimulants to thought than that, and
the damsel soon drifted away from
him.
His most strenuous moments fol-
lowed the realization that he had
been careless enough to leave Mary's
packet downstairs on the mantel-
piece in the little parlor.
"Shows what ami" he said, fiercely,
rs he made an attempt to get up, light
a candle and go down for it.
But he found the effort quite appal-
lingly severe, and gave it up.
He dozed deliriously, played with
Mary in boy-and-girl fashion, danced
with her, had her all to himself in the
Bradshaw woods, wooed and won her
all over again. Off and on he woke, to
gasp and groan and utter exclama-
tions.
For the second time the girl knocked
at his door.
"Your hot water, sir!" she cried, and
set her ear to listen.
She did not listen long, but hurried
downstairs, with word for the master
that the gentleman in No. 3 was shout
ing in the queerest way.
81 think he's i'll, sir" she said. "He
looked bad last night"
The landlord made no bones about
entering Dicks room when he, too, had
raped to no purpose. He gazed at
Dick for a few moments, and felt his
blood chill little at Dicks furious
cry: 81 tell you you are dead, Mary, so
don't deny It'll" touched Dicks burning
forehead, and left him.
"He's in a fever-that's what's the
matter with him." he said. "You just
go for Mr.. Barker, Jane, right away"
"Poor young fellow!" said Jane.
eagerly. ''That will, sir"
Moreover, being in love herself, she
determined to kill two birds with one
stone.
Its maybe present for Miss Dud-
lev" she said to herself, and, putting
on her hat, carried off Dicks little
packet for No. Devonshire road.
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to a maximum height Of about 4-lo
miles above the surface and disap-
peared. The phenomenon, he SAID
was undoubtedly caused by the rap
id generation of clouds at great
height, which were successfully IL
Illuminated by the rays OF the sun as
it was setting on Mars.
In the discussion on the subJect'
says the Philadelphia Ledger, Prof.
Snyder, of the Philadelphia obserVa-
tory, stated that the Russian astron-
omer, Gogovsky, in an article recent
ly published reviewing the physical
conditions under which planetary at
mosphere may exist, markedly con-
firms not only the observation but
the explanation of the Marian phe-
nomenon offered by Prof. Lowell.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-02-13

pie who issued this order trying to
put out fire or pursuing a rebel. All
the parties interested would die OF
old age before the printing presses
and the pianos that they would take
with them were packed up.
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mouth:
"of course, Dick. who else should
IL be?"

But IL was not until the evening that
she was allowed to give him in full
measure the only tonic that could be
warranted able to make him himself
again in spirit and IN truth. Then she
did not spare him.
81 ought to feel ashamed of you,
Dick" she explained; "for, supposing,
IL only for one second, that could care
anything for my money apart from
you? Sir Tarver Brown. indeedi Why,
/ was just waiting for a sign from
you. And 1 got Tiny own ringi o,
Answers.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-02-13
Physicfans in Hawaii

Hereafter no physician who is un-
able to speak the English language
will be given a certificate allowing
him to practice his profession in tho
territory of Hawaii.-Chicago Inter
Ocean.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-02-13
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Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-02-13
India's Famine.

The last great Indian famine affect
ed $4,000, 900 people, and was caused by
deficiency of IL inches In the rain
fali.-N. Y. World.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-02-13

An Extinct Fetoano IN new OK
A Harvard professor has discovered
what he considers the remains Of an
extinct volcano at Schuyleryille. N. T.,
small country place already famous
in American history.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-02-13

GEO. w. ST. CLAIR, ATTORNEY AT Law Law
wall and adjoining counties and in the Supreme
Court of Appeals at Wytheyille. Particuis; al
tention paid to tina collection OF claims once
Btras building
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-02-13

N c. ANDERSON, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Taze-
N, we'll, Va. VIII practice in the courts OF Taze-
well county and the Court Of Appeals at Wythe-
Vile. Collecting speciality.