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Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-01-02
CARE OF WOUNDED SAILORS.
Their Position in Naval Battles Is
Matter of Grave Con-
sideratiOn.

The British Medical association was
sitting at Cheltenham recently, and
one day some very interesting facts
were brought forward as to the po-
sition of the wounded in naval bat
ties. Owing to the alterations in
the structure of the ships, the old
arrangements under which the
wounded were at once carried down
to the cockpit cannot be continued,
and, on the opinion of Fleet Surgeon
C. Kirker, the most humane course,
now adopted both by the French
and japanese, is to leave the wound
ed sailors lie where they are until
the action is over and men can be
spared to carry them down in ambu-
lances, which it will take some me-
chanical skill to devise.
A light sleigh on runners OF his
own device is now being tested pre-
vious to approval. The wounded are
as safe on deck for short time as
elsewhere, and modern wounds do
not cause dangerous loss of blood.
1t is essential, however, says the
London Spectator, that each ship
should have an operating room, which
at present is not included in the ac-
cepted designs. 1t appears that the
general health of sailors in warships
is good, iron being much better than
wood for sanitation, but some inn
provements are greatly required, and
should be attended to by the admir-
alty at once.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-01-02
The Force of Habit.

An amusing instance of force of
habit is reported in England. A lady
walking in the country with a brother
lately returned from the front was
greatly alarmed, not at the sound Of
blasting from a neighboring quarry,
but at her brothers falling fat to
the ground at the instant. She, of
course, assumed that he had been in
jured; but it turned out that he had
been in the habit, for months, by or
der, of prostrating himself on the
veldt at the sound of a gun. Me-
chanical obedience of this kind has
been effectively utilized in the case
of suspected deserters. An abrupt
shout of 'Halt" brings any man who
was lately in the ranks to a sudden
standstill.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-01-02
ADny for Candy-NInkers.

There is a street in Paris to which
New Years day is a whole years
fortune. This is the Rue DIES Lom-
bards, where the wholesale confec-
TONERS reside. For days preceding
January / this street is blocked with
wagons loaded with sweetmeats
ready for shipment. There are all
forms and descriptions made Of
sugar and hollow to hold bonbons.
It is said that for sweetmeats alone
100000 is spent annually on this day
in Paris. Jewelry is also sold in
great quantities, for no Frenchman
calls empty handed. The day is
filed with exchange of visits and
bonbons. and the occasion is one of
enjoyment and rejoicings.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-01-02
NORWEGIAN FLRE-ESCAPES.
Are Installed I'm Most Hotels OF NOT
way with Instructions as
to Their Use.

European travellers having whole
some desire to sleep at night would
do well to give the hotels of Norway
wide berth. AS described by the
London Daily Mail they are not places
for rest or recuperation.
They are built of wood. In the
chief room on every landing there is
a fire-escape, but even the occupant OF
this room is not insured a happy
night. for from hour to hour timid
travellers knock him up to see II the
fre-escape is working properly. Look
ing over one another's shoulders, they
ask:
"Is there any danger" -,
"Do you really think the rope would
work?"
"Have you tried it yourself?
Angry assurances that it is all right
are often powerless to convince par
ticularly when ancient ladies prepon-
derate among the questioners. AS a
last resort the occupant of the cher
room may turn the minds of his VS.
itors into another channel by permit
ting them to read the printed notice
which gives complete instruction, IN
Norwegian English, to the traveller
threatened by fire. 1t runs thus:
"Fire-escape to throw out the win
dow" a.,
"The plated snotter shall be found
in every room"
"To increase the hurry let down the
body one by one until all shall De
left"
IN. B. The cord shall put out tne
ground from the shoulders thereun-
der"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-01-02
WOMEN HAVE BEST OF IT.
Difference Shown the Feminine sex
in Transferring Salt Lake street
Car Passengers.

Women in Salt Lake City have a
considerable advantage over the men
when they come to patronize the
street cars. In that haven of Nor
monism they have system of street
railway transfers which is hard to
beat. The passenger who receives a
transfer from a Salt Lake conductor
is compelled to use it himself or
throw it away.
Every ticket has printed on 1t, be-
sides the usual hours and the names
of intersecting lines, row or seven
small heads. Five of them are male
heads, two are female. Of the male
heads the first is a beardless face,
the second bears a mustache, the
third mutton chop" whiskers, the
fourth a chin beard and the fifth is
fully bearded. Beneath the row are
two plus signs, with forty between
them. The conductor is required to
identify each passenger by punch
inc. one of the faces and one of the
signs for age, the first plus being
used for young men, the 40 for men
of middle age and the final plus for
elderly men.
OF the heads representing women
one wears a hat and represents
Young women in general, and the
other bonnet, for matrons. With
really rare delicacy, the question Of
age is not mentioned in regard to
female passengers.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-01-02
THE WHITE STAR STEAM LAUNRDY
Located at Lynchburg, Enjoys an exten'
siVe Trade From Distant Towns.

The White Star Steam Laundry, located
at Lynchburg, enjoys the well-merited rep
utation of being one of the best, if not the
best, steam laundlies in Virginia. Being
equipped with the most improved machin-
cry and facilities for doing first-class work,
this laundry enjoys an extensive trade
from towns at distance and once custo-
mer is gained bis patronage is permanent.
This laundry has built up large patron
age in Tazewell through It's agent, MIR.
Fred w. Pendleton, who sends off bas-
ket every other week. This trade will no
doubt increase during the coming year, as
all are well satisfied with the work and
the care their wearing apparel receives.
The White Star Steam Laundry prides
itself upon its ability to launder lace cur
tains, table linens, counterpanes, etc. 1t
also has department in which trousers
are cleaned and pressed equal to new.
Energy, quality of work and judlcious
advertising has placed the White Star
Steam Laundry on the high pedesia al
which it now occupies, AMI if its volume
of business increases during the next few
years as it las in the past it will soon be
the most extensive concern of its kind in
the State.
The people of Tazewell appreciate such
work as is turned out by the White Star
Steam Laundry, and many are availing
themselves of the opportunity to patron
ize such reputable and worthy concern.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-01-02
Use of Revoivers.

I was present at the trial where
man with a split-second watch timed
a very ordinary denizen of the border,
who drew his six-shooter and emptied
it in a second and a quarter, says
Munsey's Magazine. 1t takes a tyro
that long to pull the trigger once
when he is all ready. The experts do
not pull the trigger at all. Long ago
it was demonstrated that it was vast
ly quicker to file off the pawl that
locks a gun and trust to flaming"
the hammer, than it was to shoot
even the easiest of double-action re-
volvers in the ordinary way. This ex-
plains how it was possible for the
famous man-killers to accomplish
marvels against other and equally
desperate men as well armed as them
selves.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-01-02
Ronfs and PrOsperitY.

Some years ago 1 was talking with
one of our leading manufacturers,
and himself a very acute man. He
told me that long experience had
shown him that the sale of boots is
a sure barometer of the prosperity
of the country, so far as the working
classes were concerned, says London
Truth. If things are going we'll peo-
pie buy new boots when their old
ones have worn out, if the reverse,
they do not, but make shift without
new purchases. And he instanced
ireland, where he had a large trade
output, as an instance of this. When,
therefore, I hear that the boot bust.
ness is not fourishing, l know what
that means. Although it cannot be
said to be absolutely bad, yet there ia
already shrinkage in sales at home
owing to the effect of the war on the
resources of the wage-earning class
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-01-02
FURNISHING SOUVENIRS.
A Large Item Of Expense to Hotels
But They Are Not Willingly
Given.

Hotels find that the furnishing OF
souvenirs to their patrons is very
large item of expense, and in case
of the larger houses sometimes runs
into thousands of dollars a year.
These souvenirs consist principally
of silver forks, spoons, saltcellars
and such articles of table furniture
as are readily carried away without
attracting attention, says the New
York Herald.
The proprietors do not intend to
furnish these things to enable their
patrons to recall pleasant memories
of hospitality; but they do furnish
them, just the same.
The large hotels of the metropolis
are great sufferers, and are continu'
ally buying expensive tableware to
keep up the supply of souvenirs.
These things are not always taken
without the act being observed, but
it is not often policy to call attention
to the patrons penchant for relics
of his visit. If he is spoken to, it is
usually in the privacy OF the mana
gers Office.
A Pan-American exposition story Is
told that illustrates this habit, bit
the same story has come from other
cities of great fairs. Two pupils
were telling their teacher of pres
ents their parents had brought from
Buffalo.
Papa brought me a nice silver
cup" said one. "My name was on It,
and il said: For a good boy"
my mamma brought me silver
SPOON" said the other boy, land on
it it said: 'Iroquois HOTEL
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-01-02
A VERY POPULAR HEALTH RESORT
Is the Blue Sulphur Inn Situated In the
Beautiful Place Called Cedar Bluff.

There is but one health resort or wafer
ing place in Tazewell county, and that is
the "Blue Sulphur Inn" at Cedar Bluff,
Va. 1t is owned and run by Mr.. E. b.
Scott. The spring is what is known
as blue sulphur water. and is located
short distance south of the hotel near the
bank of Clinch River. 1t descended to e.
B. Scott from his father, Thomas NJ. Scott,
who became its owner when there were
very few roads in Tazewell county and
but two citizens of the county were own
ers of two.horse wagons.
For many years the spring had been
known as the "powder spring" and had a
local reputation for the health restoring
quality of its water. In 1890 MI. E. B.
Scott began to build and make improve
ments about the spring, and has continued
to do 80, until he now has well appoint
ed hotel with thirty.two bed rooms, a
large dining room, nice office and sample
room.
The house is always filled with guests in
the Summer time and there are more APP
plicants for board than can be accommo-
dated. Mr.. Scott is very efficiently as
sisted in the management Of the Inn by
Mrs. Scott, and their cordial and careful
treatment Of guests has made them not
only very popular with travelling men, but
their house also. The house has a large
patronage from transient visitors.
Ny. Scott keeps good livery in connec-
ten With the hotel. and 1t is his purpose
to improve the house by placing in bath
rooms and closets the coming Spring.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-01-02
TIE AMERICAN FARMER.
This Writer Calls Him Reader, an
Observer, n Politician and
Power.

When farming was conducted on
small scale, limited to the mere eff
cheney of the farmer and his sons, its
interests were narrow and its circum'
stances mean, writes Frank NJ. Todd
in Ainslee's. It's rewards were so
meager that the "hired hand" was
often better off at the years end than
the man who owned the land, took
the chances and worried away his DR.
gestion over the mortgage. The gen.
erous moods of nature were examples
too expensive to be initiated, and close
listed parsimony was exalted as the
chief of the virtues.
To-day that is changed over large
area of the country. On the great
bonanza farms of the west man with
10000 acres under his care, and hun.
dreds of men in his employ, is figure
of Importance. His intimate concern
with the worlds affairs makes him
reader, an observer, often politician
and a power. Even 10000 acres is too
small for him to confne himself to.
His great business demands that he
travel. He must go to Duluth, to Min
neapolis, to Chicago, to Buffalo and
to New York. A small mistake, a
failure to sell at the right time, or to
discard an old machine and adopt a
new one, may cost him thousands. He
is working his brain as hard as he can.
and calling on his faculties for all
they will do. He is bringing himself
and his business more and more into
touch with the modern spirit, and
through combination with his neigh
bors is making agriculture more and
more a power in the land.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-01-02
THISTLEPL0W AND FOUNDRY COMPANY
One of Graham's Most Successful En-
terpriSes.

On the lst of May, 1898, Mr.. j. P. Cam
eron purchased what was known as the
McWane Foundry, located at West Ora
ham, Va. 1t was then comparatively
very small industry, but under the man
agement of Mr.. Cameron it has steadily
grown in size and interest until it is now
one of the most useful industrial enter
prises in Tazewell county. When he pur'
chased the foundry the pay roll amounted
to from $50 to $50 per month. Now the
pay roll amounts to more than $500 per
month for skilled and unskiled labor. The
output of the foundry has been increased
in even greater ratio than has been the
increase in wages, as the facilities for doing
work have been greatly added to, some.
thing like $4,000 having been expended
for additional machinery. One lathe alone
cost $500 and new 30-horse power en-.
CINE, with an S0-horse power boiler, were
substituted for the smaller engine that was
connected with. the plant when MIR. Cam
eron became the purchaser.
The foundry is now thoroughly equipped
with all necessary machinery, such as
lathes, jig saws. rip saws, emery wheels,
shaftings, pulleys, TASKS, drills, moulding
tools, etc., ETC. The pattern shop, which
is located on the second floor of the build
ing, is we'll supplied with machinery for
pattern making and is filled with patterns
of every description.
The castings of the Thistle Plow and
Foundry Company are of ouch excellent
quality that there is constant rush of or
ders to be filled for customers along the
Clinch Valley division and in the Flat Top
and Elkhorn regions. The foundry is most
favorably located for filling orders from
these sections, and work is done with such
promptness that all persons Tho send in
orders know that they will be speedily
filed.
Twenty men are now employed at the
foundry, skilled and unskilled. A number
of these have been in MIR. Cameron's en-
ploy ever since lac began the business.
They have been 60 kindly treated and have
received such fair wages that they have
become thoroughly devoted to bis inter-
ests.
Recently Mr.. Cameron decided to open
store for the purpose OF supplying bis
employees with groceries and provisions.
He is now laying in stock of these arti-
Giles and will open up the store at once.
A short while ago Mr.. Cameron pur-
chased very valuable piece of property,
the large furniture factory building, with
five acres of land attached, located just
north of the junction of the Clinch Valley
and Elkhorn divisions of the Norfolk &
Western at Graham. He has intentions
in connection with this purchase that will
hereafter be made known.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-01-02
MULTIPLICITY OF "FAKES.
This Writer Proposed International
Exhibition of Bogus
Articles.

Every collector has some things
pictures, books, worries, enamels, cas-
kets, gems, terra cottas-which he in
his heart suspects, and which his
friends know, to be flakes" There
are even many faxed" charters, and
autographs without number (espe-
cially of Burns) are as "fake" as the
"faked" Decretals. Could not Amer
lea organize an international exhibit
ton of "fakes?" 1t would be highly
instructive, writes Andrew Lang, in
the New York Independent. A sim
gle stake" may deceive anybody, but
an assortment of the same kind at
once betrays itself. There is the
famous old Greek crown, from the
Chersonese, 1 think in French pos
session. German scholars say, think,
or used to say, that it should be sent
to this exhibition. The pictures
would be numerous, if we trust mod
ern art critics; for my part ! do not
1t is their profession TO alter at
tributions of authorship. The works
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-01-02

of Homer are a vast "fake," if we
listen to critics.
VIII public and private owners of
collections contribute to this useful
and original exhibition? Mans hui
man vanity bars the way; people do
not like to believe that they have
been gulled. Yet what collection is
free from imposture? Not one,
fear, and 1 will gladly exhibit my
own forged twopenny treasures in
the cause of humanity. | verify be-
lieve that there is forged guinea
of James II. and VII. on my watch
chain at this moment. If not, his
majesty had debased the currency.
Warned of these things, collectors
ought to be very careful. I fear that
I have put autograph collectors on
with forged autographs of my own.
But autograph collectors are out OF
all law-hostes humani generis.
Everything is fair against an auto
graph collector.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-01-02
HUSTLING COUNTRY MERCHANT
Two Stores That Are Doing Splendid
Business.

When anyone asks "Who is the tustlng
country merchant in Tazewel county,"
the response is invariably given, tom
Smoot"
In 1890 I. X. Smoot, "a youth to for
tune and fame unknown" in the business
world, determined to embark in the mer-
camille business at Witten's Mills, in this
county. He had limited capital, but
generous stock Of grit and resolution.
Soon he gained the reputation of being
one of the most promising merchants OF
the county, and built up trade so extern
sive that older merchants were startled by
his. enterprise and methods. His stock
was enlarged at Witten's Mills to meet the
ever growing demands of his trade.
Then time arrived when his energetic
spirit demanded that he should look for
new worlds to conquer, and on Feb. lst,
1909, he opened another store at Tiptop,
Va, where business equal in size and
value to that conducted at Witten's Mills
has been established.
At each of these stores Mr.. Smoot car
res a stock of from $4,000 to $4,000
These stocks are selected with great care
and are SO well suited to the trade that his
stores are always filed with customers.
We are told that he has remarkable ca
pacity for collecting accounts from persons
who are found reluctant to pay others.
This, do doubt, is occasioned by his gem
erous treatment of such customers.
Mr.. Smoot has acquired considerable
real estate since he began merchandising.
He owns the large store house IN which he
does business at Wltten's Mill, and also
owns the store house at Tiptop and six ad.
joining lots, with dwelling and storage
houses. The dwelling house is occupied
by renter, as Mr.. Smoot has never had
time to get married.
In addition to his general merchandise
business, he deals largely in country pro-
duce, provisions and forage. He buys his
flour and feed in carload lots and enjoys
very large trade in these articles. Be-
sides this he is large contractor for fur
nishing railroad ties and mining ties and
props. The ties used by the Norfolk d
Western between Tazewell and Graham
are supplied by him, as are ties and props
to a number of large operators in the coal
fields.
Last year was the most prosperous MIR.
Smoot has ever had since he became a
merchant, and he will enlarge bis store
house at Tiptop this year, more room be-
ing necessary.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-01-02
LIVE COUNTRY MERCHANT At GRAFTON
He Deals in General Merchandise and
Country Produce.

On March 18th, 1897 R. A. Crockett &
Co., opened up a general merchandise
business at Grafton, Va, on the head of
Clear Fork. This point was an old stand
and thrifty business was conducted by
the firm until February 18th, 1899, when
Mr.. Crockett became sole proprietor Of
the business, which he has since conduct
ed in his name, r. A. Crockett. Until he
made this venture Mr.. Crockett had never
been engaged in the mercantile business,
but he was an apt scholar and became
rapidly familiar with the duties of coun-
try merchant. His trade, while rot as
large Ss many others IN the coun try, is
good one and steadily increases in volume.
Experience bas taught him what to buy
for his trade and how to sell.
A well-selected stock of general mer'
chandse, above the ave. age kept in coun-
try stores, can be found at Mr.. Crockett's
store. He deals largely in country pro-
duce, which Is valuable adjunct to his
business. His expenses being limited, he
can and does sell as cheap as the same
quality of goods can be bought anywhere.
Last year Mr.. Crockett had erected
nice dwelling house near his store, and he
is contemplating building a new store
house in the near future.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-01-02

received from different sections OF the
country from persons desiring homes and
farms, coal and timber lands in Tazewell
and adjoining counties, we have deter
mined to open General Real Estate OIL
fee. through which we can bring the seller
and purchaser together. Any persons
having houses and lots, farming, grazing
coal or timbered lands for sale Will ma IL
to their interest to send us description
price and terms of such properties
We have on hands 5000 acres OF coal
lands, reaching within three miles OF the
railroad, for sale. Respectfully,
in. Hartman x Company,
Real Estate Agents,
Tazewell, Va.