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The Columbus weekly dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 1902-1905, 1903-05-28
TUESDAY.

1870 a. m. Graduating exer-
cises, and address by Hon. E. 5.
Gambler of Corinth.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1903-11-19
SELECTING A WATERMELON.
There Are n Number of ways, But ThhA
One In Said TO He Better
THAI Amy.

Good, sound watermelons, not
cracked, kept In q shady place, Will keep
three or four weeks. Many attempts
have been made to keep them all winter,
but the fruit preserYsrs have not made
much Of a success Of it, says the New
York Herald.
The scene at the great freight piers Is
q busy one when a cargo Of watermelons
comes in. News Of the arrival Is soon
spread among the dealers, and at what
ever hour In the day or night 1t may be.
the trucks Of the commission merchants
OF dealers crowd the piers.
No attempt is made to handle the mel
ons In bulk or in barrels. They must be-
passed out from hand to hand, and long
lines of men are formed for this purpose.
There is always a crowd Of youngsters
Italians and negroes-at the depot to
catch a stray melon that Is cracked or
broken, and the dlsmembered parts are
soon gobbled and disappear In gulp.
There are various ways Of telling a
good watermelon. Some persons say
they can, by pressing the sides together,
hear, in good, sound. ripe melon, pc
cullar sound Of crispness like that OF
celery A well-known expert gives these
directions:
Lay the melon on its back, with white
part up, scratch the skin Of the lightest
part with your finger nail. II the skin
is tender and the melon is yet firm to the
pressure Of the finger, so that you can
with difficulty pierce It with your nail,
Il Is probably good melon"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1903-11-19
LABOR "PiCKETS" ILLEGAL
Punished by a Judge in Chicago for In
terferng With WOrkmen.
lhlcago Chronicle lDem.l

Chicago Chronicle (Dem)
In visiting condien punishment upon
'pickets" who disregarded his injunction
Judge Holdom at once indicated the au'
thority of the Court and rendered an I'M
portant service not only to the public but
to the labor organizations.
l: is necessary to give the trades unions
to understand plainly that their members
are as much bound to obey the laws as
any other members of society. Union
members have come to think that acts
which would be criminal if committed by
others are innocent when committed by
them. 1t is necessary that they should be
taught that trades union has no right to
order and its members have no right to
do anything criminal or unlawful, and
that no wrong act is in the least excused
or pallated by the fact that the man who
commits it belongs to trades union or
acts in obedience to the orders of a union
or its officers.
Judge Holdom said; "The law must
protect these men and these women, both
uuon and non.unlon"-these men and
women who chose to work against intimi-
dation and assault by men who order
them not to work. They have not the
right and that they are not exercising
their legal rights, there constitutional
rights, when they picket and patrol and
insult and annoy men who wish to 60 to
work"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1903-11-19
PROPER CARVING OF FOWLS.
Illustration of the ScripturaI Method
by Monk for His
Hostess.

A scriptural method of carving fowls
when in secular company was claimed
by witty monk, who, having been asked
to carve one day, said: 'Inasmuch az
you demand it, will carve the fowl &C.
cording to biblical principles. YES"
exclaimed the hostess, "aot according to
the scriptures"
The theologian therefore began the
carving, relates the Chicago Daily News.
The baron was rendered the head Of the
fowl, the baroness the neck, the two
daughters a wing apiece, and the two
sons a first joint, the monk retaining
the remainder. According to what in
depreciation do you make such a d.
vision?" inquired the host Of his confess
or, as he regarded the monks heapins
plate and the scant portions doled out to
the family. From an Interpretation Of
my own" replied the monk "As the
master of your house the head belongs
to you by right; the baroness, being
most near to you should receive the
neck, which is the nearest to the head;
in the wings the young girls will recog-
nize a symbol Of their mobile thoughts,
that fly from one desire to another; as
to the young barons, the drumsticks
they have received will remind them
that they are responsible for supporting
your house, az the legs Of the capon sup
port the bird itself"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1903-11-19
The People on the Panama Question

Detroit "Free-PIess" tInd)
In this particular case we do not believe
that 10 per cent of the popular vote could
be polled against the Administration on
the issue of recognizing the revolutionary
Government Of Panama. If it were left to
the citizens of the United States to say
whether this Government should ''stand
pat' 10 Panama or retrace its steps the
chorus Of popular approval of the Admin
STATIONS policy would be deafening. With
the dissenters we should find only the
schening politicians of the Democratic
party; the iL-and out-of season advocates
of the Nicaragua Canal, the transcontl.
mental railroad lobby and those excellent
but often misguided people who feel them
selves perpetually under obligations to
apologize for their country and their
countrymen.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1903-11-19
Personal Notes.
pOratlOIis

Dr. II. f. Swanback, the oldest living
Old Fellow in Nebraska, is the only man
in that State who wears the Iron Cross of
Prussia, presented to him by Frederick ".
Mr.. Babcock has just been installed
pr, sident of the Tucson (Arizona) Uni
yerslty. President Benjamin Ide Wheel
er, of the University of California, made
the address.
Miss Edgar, an Irish lady, is governess
to the young Archduchess of Russia, and
when her charge has grown up she will en-
JOY a handsome pension and high social
rank.
Baron Speck Won Sternberg, the German
Ambassador to the United States, has dis
posed of the business connected with his
Saxon estate, which took him to Berlin,
and will sail for New York on November
II.
Otis E. Allis, the oldest living male child
born in Nebraska, resides at Mentions
Station, Ia, just across the river from
Omaha. He is the son of the first Me-
braska missionary of which there is any
account given.
Prof. Charles Zueblln, of the University
of Chicago, says that city has the most
insignificant park system in the United
States, and in park acreage near the bot.
tom of list of cities with population of
100 900 or more.
When Judge w. II. Taft assumes the
War Department portfolio he will sit at
the same desk which bis father, Alphonso
Taft, occupied while holding the same
Office under President Grant The elder
Taft occupied the post only few months
The Calvary Methodist Episcopal Church
New York, the largest church of that de-
nomination in America, has just received
the resignation of both its pastors. Rev.
Willis T. Odell has accepted a call TO the
First Methodist Church of Germantown,
Pa.
Cardinal Richard, Archbishop of Paris,
has been summoned to Rome, it is sup
posed for the purpose of ending once for
all the long existing conflict between the
French Government and the religious
interests of France, which is becoming
more and more accentuated.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1903-11-19
RAILROAD WRECKS.
A Large Number of Late, due Apparent
ly to CareIessness.
Baltimore Herald.

Baltimore Herald.
In the last FIVE or six years the public
has settled down to feeling of compare
live safety in travelling On railway trains
Fatalities became fewer and fewer as rail-
way management was perfected and re-
duced to a machine-like system. Now it
seems that the public must suffer a re-
ai,se in its feeling. Railroad wrecks have
been alarmingly frequent in the last
month oriso. Some Of them were uu-
avoidable, but the most of them were due
to carelessness or incompetency, chiefly
the former, as no railway management
will knowingly employ an incompetent
person.
The record for the past week was five
bad wrecks-the. Inflated wreck on the
Santa Fe, in Missouri, in which Mrs.
Booth Tucker lost her life and Others were
killed and seventy wounded; the wreck Of
the Colorado Chicago fiier, in which thirty
trainmen and passengers we're injured; the
wreck on the Big -Four, in Indiana, which
has resulted in sixteen fatalities, princip-
ally football players; a collision between
an express and commuters train in New
Jersey, over twelve injured; and the wreck
of the K&nawha and Michigan passenger
train in West Virginia, in which the en-.
gineer was killed and number injured.
So long as the percentage of wrecks in
this county is greater than in any other,
one would think that there is room for i'm
provement in railroad management.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1903-11-19
HUMOROUS.

"Papa, what is eccentrfcityP" "The
foolishness of q rich man, my son.
Town Topics.
First Lawyer-"The judge seems
quite sweet on the widow" Second
Lawyer-"What you might call legal
tender princeton Tiger.
Mistaken Identity-"I think have
met you before. Aren't you timekeep-
er for the Bloss & Gloss company
mo, sir. am singer of topical songs
and know nothing at all about keeping
time kansas City Journal.
Matter of Taste.-She-"Are you
fond of birds?" He-"Sure thing! 1
simply adore them" She-"Which is
your favorite2" He-"Quail on toast"
Chicago Daily News.
$50 your sister is married." Eyes,
and she did very well-splendidly.
You have heard of the duke of West
minster2" "Oh, yes. Did she marry
into that family?" "Well, yes, so to
speak. She married nephew of one
of the duke of Westminster's cooks.
He is the driver of 'bus!"-London
rft-Bits.
"You were very lenient with that
conductor" said the first passenger.
"Oh," replied the other, we're all liza
BILE to make mistakes" perhaps you
were conductor yourself once" mo,
sir; I'm a weather forecaster. Phil
adelphia Press.
And They Did.-The prisoner told
remarkably straight story. Allswho
heard him were impressed. Many
were the comments made about the
courtroom, such as: 'Methinks there
is something in that story" "He
sounded very much as if he were tell
ing the truth" All agreed that his
words carried conviction with them.
And so it proved. For the jury, with
out leaving the box, rendered verdict
Of "Guilty."-Baltimore American
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1903-11-19
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

The operating expense of bank with a
capital of 100000 is IA per cent. of the
loans AMI discounts, bu. the operating ex-
penses are only l.33 per cent. if the bank
have capital of 81 200. 900 or more.
Fsr kept IN filtered water will die. This
il because h. nulriment in the fluid has
b,en filtered out of it. What Is nutriment
/" The fish, however, proves injurious to
mankind when 1t il taken in beverage.
Cranberry culture Is the greatest gamble
in the entire frult Industry. la snrcess-
FIJI year good bog often nets the grower
- per cent. on Ills Investment. But the
very next season he may luse his cntire
crop.
Ire house fly, with total life If about
ten days, develops in these periods: Egg
from laying 10 Matching, oDe-tnird of a
day; Matching oflarva to first molt, one
day; second mott to pupation, three days;
pupation to issuing of the adult, five days
About a square mile of France has been
worn away by the English Channel in the
last five years. In North Brittany has
been noted a gradual subsistence Of the
land which has been in progress since 709,
at which time the Channel Islands were
joined to the coast by an isthmus.
An Interesting discussion is going on in
one of the Belgian papers as to whether
wldowerhood or widowhood tends to sui.
eide. The result Of statistics on the sub.
ject prove that single blessedness leads to
mental disorders and suicide, especially
among women, who, obliged to provide
for themselves, fall into monetary diff
culties.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1903-11-19
PREPARE YOURSELF.
removed,

One of the most dangerous provisions of
the Constitution affecting the electorate of
the State is that which provides for the
payment of poll tax as prerequisite to
voting after 1904. The only persons
exempted from this provision are those
who during the late war between the States
served in the army or navy of the United
States, or the Confederate States, or any
State of the United States, or of the Con.
fe erate States"
If you haye not served in either the
army of the Confederate States or United
States during the Civil war you will have
to personally pay, at least six months
prior to the election lin 1904 all stale poll
taxes assessed or assessable against" you,
or you cannot vote at the Presidential
election in 1904.
As we have already stated this is one Of
the most dangerous and vicious provisions
of the new Constitution. That it was i'll
tended to depuve men of their right to
vote and curtail the electorate of the State
is conclusively shown by the concluding
sentence of Sec. o., which says: The
collection of the state poll tax assessed
against any one shall not be enforced by
legal process until the same has become
three years past DUE" This is clearly
offering an inducement to poor men not to
pay their poll tax when due, but to post
pone its payment for three years. Why ?
So they may forfeit their right to VOTE
"Will you walk into my parlor, said the
spider to the fy?" No more diabolical
scheme was ever devised by constituencies
partisans to cheat honest, poor men out of
the inestimable right of freemen, the right
to vote.
Though the poll tax prerequisite is an
iniquity and its intention vicious, it is now
fastened upon the people, and they will
have to meet the situation the best they
can. 1t, therefore, becomes the duty of
every honest citizen, and Of every news
paper in the State which pretends to be
fair, to arouse voters to the danger that lie
ahead of them. The very men who are
likely to be caught in the trap belong to
the wage-earners, the toilers who produce
the wealth on which taxation is levied.
Should this class of men be excluded from
the electorate, even temporarily? Let
there be no delay in telling them that they
must pay their poll tax for 1908 on or be-
fore the LIST of May, 1904, if they want to
vote in the Presidential election next year
Urge them to get the necessary $3.50 and
pay it to the county or city treasurer.
Now is the accepted time, even the delay
of day is unwise.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1903-11-19
Railroad Abuses not Easily Ended
Railroad Age.

Railroad Age.
Railroad officials are not ignorant that
abuses exist. They know of many things
that they would like to change, but which
without concurrent action they cannot al.
ter. 1t is easily conceivable that the pro-
cedure which fits the traffic of one Locality
may constitute an injustice in another,
and yet no discrimination ia allowed. A
great many objections which now attach
to railway operations would be possible of
removal by the repeal of the anti.pooling
section of the act to regulate commerce.
Others would be corrected were the In.
terstate Commerce Commission given the
power to prescribe maximum and mini
mum rates. Both Of these changes would
tend to equality and stability in rates, con-
siderations which every shipper will admit
are of the utmost importance. These are
the ends which railroads are striving after.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1903-11-19
The Best Remedy for Group.
rom the Atchison, Kan. Daily Globe.

From the Atchison. Kan. Daily Globe.
This is the season when the woman who
knows the best remedies for Group is in
demand in every neighborhood. One of
the most terrible things in the world is to
be awakened in the middle of the night
by whoop from one of the children. The
Group remedies are almost as sure to be
lost, in case Of Group, as a revolver is sure
to be lost in case of burglars. There used
to be an old. fashioned remedy for Group,
known as hive syrup and tolu, but some
modern mothers say that Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy is better, and does not
cost so much. IL causes the patient to
"throw up the phlegm" quicker, and
gives relief in a shorter time. Give this
remedy as soon as the croupy cough APP
pears and it will prerent the attack. 1t
never fails and is pleasant and safeto take.
For sale by Jno. Z. JAG. son, druggist.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1903-11-19
Democracy's Only Hope.
Omaha Bee

Omaha Bee.
When the railroads shall have all gone
into the hands of receivers and the wheels
of the mills and factories ceased to hum,
when the wsge'worker is again reduced to
enforced idleness, then Democracy in Ne
braska will feel at home and look for an
Endorsement for the contamination of it's
wishes.
Instead of directing it's efforts toward
improving conditions and maintaining the
plentiful prosperity now at hand, the
Democratic program will be to produce
calamity, by which it expects 10 prosper.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1903-11-19
A "Tun-HOrn', spOrT.

$50 yo' wants ter know what q tin
horn spot Is, honey?
"Well de mos cleares' way kin tell
you all Is 1aik dis: Suppose dere wus
five men. Four men wus matchin'
quarters an de fifth wus lookin' on.
An ebry time de four men would frow
dere money inter de air an den match
de fifth man would turn a quarter over
behind his back an steal a look an den
see what de other men had. In dat way
he'd git all de excitementwid louisiana
in no chance Of winnin' or losin' moth
in. OATS about es near es kin cum
ter deAnin' 'tin-horn spot honey"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1903-11-19
A Scientific Discovery.

KUdol Dyspepsia Cure does for the
Stomach that which it is unable to do for
iueli, even when but slightly disordered
or overloaded. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure
supplies tie natural juices Of digestion and
does the work of the stomach, relaxing
lie nervous tension, While the inhamed
muscles Of that organ are allowed to rest
and heal. KOdol Dyspepsia Cure digests
what you eat and enables the stomach and
digestive organs to transform all food into
rich, red blood. Sold by Jno. E. Jackson,
Druggist.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1903-11-19
Stepped Against a Hot Stove.

A child of Mrs. Geo. T. Benson, when
getting bis usual Saturday night bath,
stepped back against hot stove which
burned him severely. The child was in
great agony and his mother could do
nothing to pacify him. Remembering
that size had a bottle Of Chamberlain's
Pain Balm in the house, she thought she
would try it. In less than half an hour
after applying it the child was quiet and
asleep, and less than two weeks was well.
Mrs. Benson IL a well known resident of
Kellar, Va. Pain Balm is an antiseptlc
iniment and especially valuable for burns,
cuts, bruises and spralns. For sale by
Jno. K. Jackson, druggist.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1903-11-19

the owner and publisher of the Lynch,
burg News. His pet scheme of restric-
ton has put the electorate of Lynchburg
in very aggravated form of restriction.
From an article; "Pay The Poll Tax"
published In the Lynchburg News of the
18th inst. it seems that tie voting list of
that city bias been fearfully reduced, and
further reductions are certain to be made.
The News says;
"From the record at the office of the
City Treasurer it is seen that 3,14S white
men in Lynchburg are assessed for the
poll tax of $3.50. There are ,53S colored
men, making a total of 1886 AS above
stated there are in Lynchburg 2,215 regis
tered white voters, and 1educting this
from the total assessed number for capita
ton and you have 933 white men IN the
city of Lynchburg who have not had their
names placed on the registration books.
Tue total registered colored vote in the
city is 453, so that there are l,085 cOlored
men in the city who have not qualified to
vote. The combined unregistered white
and colored vote in Lynchburg is 2,0lS,
or almost half of the male population that
has reached the years of majority"
We find that nearly one.haif the men of
voting age in Lynchburg, the weathiest
and most progressive city of its size in the
south, perhaps in the United States, have
been disfranchised by the new suffrage law
Of this number 933 are white men, There
are 2,0lS men who are denied the right to
vote but are assessed for taxation. How
does this agree with the pet theory of
Democracy that there shall be no taxa
ton without representation
Another alarming disclosure made by
the News is that of the 2,215 white regis
tered voters in the city there are only 1876
who have paid their poll taxes 10 the city
treasurer. There is to be an important
municipal election in that city next June,
and only those voters who pay their poll
lakes on or before the 10th of December,
1903, can vote in the city election in June,
1904. 1t is not only possible but probable
{, hat more than onehalfthe registered White
voters will not pay their poll taxes in time
to vote at said election. If this does occur
the City of Lynchburg will have less than
twenty-five per cent of its taxpayers
qualified to exercise suffrage and to vote
for those who shall direct its affairs for a
term of years. Mr.. Glass should be de-
lighted with the success of his effort to re.
strict the electorate of his city.
The condition at Lynchburg is no ex-
ceptlon, but will be found to be the rule in
all the cities and counties of the State. 1t
will be ascertained that the registration
laws and the poll tax qualification for
voting will ultimately reduce the number
Of qualified voters to an alarming and
dangerous extent. Without something is
done to relieve the situation our State will
pass under the control of small minority
Of its citizens, and three-fourths of the
weallh.producers and tax. payers will have
no voice in the government. Shall such a
condition come and continue? There is
no use in bewaiing the condition if you
approve of the cause. The cause must be
removed.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1903-11-19
a Remarkable Case.

One Of the most remarkable cases of a
cold, deep seated OH the lungs, causing
pneumonia, is that Of Mrs. Gertrude K
Frnner, Marion, Ind, vino was entirely
cured by the use Of One Minute Cough
Cure. She says: 1.-The coughing and
s;raining so weakened me that ran down
in weight from 14S 10 92 pounds. l tried
number of remedies to no avail until
usei One Minute Cough Cure. -Four
bottles of this wonderful remedy cured me
entirely of the cough, strengthened m
lungs and restored me to my normal
weight, health and strength" Sold by
JnJ. L. Jackson, Druggist.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1903-11-19
A Sure Thing.

1t is said that nothing is sure except
death and taxes, hut that is not altogether
true. DR.. Kings New Discovery for Con.
sumption is sure cure for all lung and
throat troubles. Thousands can testify to
that. Mrs. @. B. VanMetre of Shepherds.
town, w. Va, says Il had severe case
of Bronchitis and for year tried every
thing | heard of, but got no relief. One
bottle of DR.. Kings New Discovery then
cured me absolutely" It's infallible for
Group, Whooping Cough, Grip, Pneumon-
ia and Consumption. Try IT. It's guar
anteed by Jno. E. Jackson, druggist.
Trials bottles free. Reg. sizes SOC, Sl.00