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Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1903-01-01

Mrs. Mary Scott Harrison Mckee,
daughter of the late ex-President Harrl.
son, has brought suit to force the sale Of
valuable Indianapolis real estate in order
that che may obtain her portion in the
property.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1903-01-01

Mrs. Mary A. Livermore celebrated her
SD birthday at her home in Melrose,
Mass, last Friday. Mrs. j. Sewell Reed
read poem written by Alice Stone Black
well appropriate to the occasion.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1903-01-01

Prof Edmond O'Neill, of the Uniyers-
ity of California chemistry department,
hiss discovered a new process for making
cyanide of potassium from nitrogen of the
atmosphere.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1903-01-01

Half an hour Later Harold stood be-
fore his mother, his eyes ablaze with
anger and indignation, his breath COM
ing in short gasps, his hands cnnched
until his finger nails bit into his palms,
and Mrs. Penstone, sitting In a low
chair, held her face between her hands,
sobbing as II her heart would break,
while tears tricklsd through her fin.
gers.
why did you not tell meP" he de.
manded. you say 1t is true. Why
was 1 not tOld?"
II never thought it would be neces-
sary," she sobbed. II always thought
to hide It,"
Truth viii out, mother" he an
swered.
But 1t was not your fault, my poor
boy" she said. you are not respon-
sible for your fathers sim"
Her sobs ceased suddenly and she
lay quite still in her chair. He pulled
her hands from her face, lifted her
head, and then fell back.
"Heavens!" he cried; she's dead.
This shock has killed her. Mother,
motherl"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1903-01-01

III so you choose to call it. 1 demand
it, here and now"
Before my daughter?"
There is nothing am ashamed she
should know"
Then l will tell you-youF father
was thief, sirl Is It to the son of
thief you would have me marry my
daughter?"
For a moment Harold could net re-
ply. He seemed to fail to grasp the
full meaning of the Golonsl's words.
Then he cried Euddsaly: 1T = q
He."
1t cannot be true, father" Grace
said, tears streaming down her face.
If your mother has hidden the fact
from you am not to blame" Col. Ash
ford said. III she Is still alive, ask
her"
1T Is a hs," Harold said again II
DO not believe It. And even SO, ana
responsible for my fathers sin9 Il
any son to be blamed and kicked for
his fathers crimeP A crime which he
could not avert, in which he took no
part. Must he be as bad as his father?
1t isn't fair, it's outrageous. But I
tell you 1t Is lie, sir"
What's bred in the bone, you
know" was the colonsls answer.
Harold could have felled him to the
ground, but he turned on his heel to
leave the room. At the door he faced
round.
You do not believe It, GFacsP" he
asked, half fearful as TO what the an.
Swer would be.
"As l stand here swear before God
it Is true" replied the colonel MY
child knows nothing"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1903-01-01
Mrs. Humphry Ward, the novelist, is
critically ill at her English home.
The crowned heads of every nation,
The rich men, poor men aud misers,
All join in paying tribute to
DeWitt's Little Early Risers.

H. Williams, San Antonio, Tex, writes:
Little Early Riser Pills are the best ever
used in my family. l unhesitatingly re-
commend them to everybody. They cure
Constipation, Blliousness, Sick Headache.
Torpid Liver, Jaundice, malaria and all
other liver troubles. T. r. Smoot, Tip
top and Wittens Mills, Va.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1903-01-01

Judge Henry K. Braley, of Fall River,
Mass, has been nominated by Governor
Crane to fill the vacancy in the State Su-
preme Court caused by the resignation of
Chief Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1903-01-01
Painter to Mad MuIInh.

The mad mullah, says the Chicago
Tribune, will be wise not to busy him
self in such way as to attract the at
tention of Gen. Kitchener.
Banishment of the Horse.
New York has 1923 fewer stables
and $500 fewer horses than In Deem
Der. 1896. The decrease is attributed
to the disappearance of horse cars on
surface lines. Expert observers think
that the automobile, at the present
rate of improvement, will Danish the
horse from business traffic within four
or five years.-Indianapolis News.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1903-01-01

Theodore G. Lennon, superintendent
of the Indian training school at Grand
Junction, Colorado, is IN Washington, ar
ranging for improvements in the institu-
ton.
Douglas Island news., 1903-07-15

Judge Wickersham has appointed J. T. Cowles, an attorney formerly of Cir cle, as United States commissioner for Chenoa, in the Panama, district. Fair banks already had d commissioner.
 The Northwestern Commercial Com pany contemplate during the coming summer running a number of excur- sions to Siberia, employing for that purpose the steamship Manauense. Application has been made by R. N. Simpson for a street railway franchise in Nome; work to be commenced this summer. Mir. Simpson is connected with.the Northwest Commercial Com pany.
 A silver tip bear weighing about 600 pounds was killed by Charles Hammer on Hungary creek, back of Nome, a few weeks ago. The meat was sold on the ground at the handsome price of S3 pound.
 Judge Brown has discontinued the Porcupine mining district. Hereafter all matters for record arising in the territory heretofore belonging to the Porcupine district, must be sent to Skagway.
 Work on the Engineer mine in the Atlin country has ceased for a time. It will be resumed again as soon as there is an opportunity to get men with any certainty that they will re- main at the mine.
 The remains of another victim of the Yukon were pulled out of that river near Circle June 20th The corpse has not been identified. It was nude eX- cept for woolen shirt and felt shoe on one foot when found.
 Col. .Grigsby was rendered banquet by the citizens of Nome, as mark of appreciation for the labors performed by him last winter in behalf of Alaska, especially in securing needed legisla- tion. Covers were laid for 100.
 A. E. Boyd, manager of the long dis tance Telephone Company, made the trip from Council City to Nome in seven hours and fifty-six minutes actual travelling time, breaking all pre- yious records. The distance is eighty. five miles.
 Mrs. Vie, a woman who had been working in Dawson for some time, com mitted suicide in Forty Mile by shoot ing herself in the head with revolver. The motive is not known. The remains were buried at Forty-Mile. Her former home is not known.
 A big strike has been made at Hog creek in the Koyukuk. From S5 to $2o has been made daily on the north fork diggings, which are worked by a Yer, mont man, who is the biggest winter producer in the basin. The camp has 300 men, all we'll supplied.
 The Nome jury in the case of the United States vs. J. J. Jolly, charged with the murder of former police off Ger James, returned a verdict of not guilty in less than 40 minutes from the time they retired. The first ballot was an informal one and stood 10 to 2 for acquittal. The next one was unan' j imous. Jolly was chief of police and had dismissed James from the service for alleged "crookedness." He pied self defense.
Douglas Island news., 1903-07-15
The N0rthIand The Latest News, from Reliable Sources, Concerning the Great
 North, Condensed. Information for Everybody.
Drinks are a bit at Rampant.

Drinks are bit at Rampant.
 The Oregon brought the first news from Nome.
 The tin fields at Cape York are to be further exploited.
 The Skagway school house will have a new heating plant. An increase is noted in the business done by the Atlin postottlce.
 Miss Eva Booth, commissioners of the Salvation Army for Canada, is in Daw- son.
 Whitehorse won the ball game at skagway on the Fourth by a score of Sto4.
 The two teachers in the Wrapgell Public School will receive sSo and s6O, respectively.
 The Rampant Forum says that 30 years ago the ice remained in the river all summer.
 A fire in the Hotel Lawrence at Nome on June 18th destroyed property to the value of s3O,OO0.
 The subscription price of the Ram part Forum is s10 year, single copies 0Eo ,oooko0o olIod
 Miss Mamie Hanson was elected God dess of Liberty for the Skagway Fourth of July celebration.
 Jack Knott, captain of the White Pass team could not refuse job at Dawson at S7.50 per.
 Rampant will have larger output of gold this washup than in any previous year, says the Forum.
 Dr. D. c. Medill, from Dawson, has been elected mayor of the town oi Fairbanks in the Tanana.
 The Nome Nugget says quite plainly that Judge Moore has takena most in opportune time for his vacation.
 The light fingered gentry who trava in the wake of a moral wave, have reached Dawson and nothing is safe.
 M. Watson, a tinsmith at White horse, was sentenced to 60 days harC labor for attempting to beat his wife.
 William Patterson, sawyer in Daw son sawmill, was scalded by plug blowing out of steam pipe nJune "A
 W. L. Leland, of the Miocene Co says that Seward peninsula will pro duce s1o,OOo,OOO in gold dust this year
 A Kansas man by the name of Thom as Ryan has been appointed as Alaska commissioner at the St. Louis World' ;. Fair,
 On Miller creek in the Klondike tn dirt taken out this winter yielded al ,E ayerageof 50 cents to the bucket. Ter to fifteen individual claim owners ar working on the creek.
Douglas Island news., 1903-07-15

The two biggest dumps in the Nome country are the Anvil property of the Northern Mining & Trading Company. Thirty thousand carloads of gravel have been taken from this property, which product is expected to represent fortune.
 Bob Griffith, the mail carrier, estab- lished a record for fast travelling by bringing the outside mail from Isaac's point to Nome, making the round trip in five days, lacking twenty minutes. The distance is 330 miles, an average of more than sixty.five miles day, in- cluding stops.
 The interior department will doubt less discover that it would have been far easier for an Alaskan commissioner to the Worlds Fair at St. Louis to per suade the people of this district to fur nish an exhibit free of charge than it will be for Kansas commissioner for Alaska to do.-Skagway Alaskan.
 A ten-stamp mill is to be installed on the Violet group of quartz claims, be- tween Eldorado and Ophir creeks. The mill has been ordered, and it is expect ed to have it in place some time in July. The mill will be the first install ed in the camp, and if the project proves successful, it will mean much for Dawson.
 A Washington dispatch says that 1 Thomas Ryan, the newly appointed commissioner for Alaska to the worlds fair, will soon leave for Seattle to con- suit with prominent Alaskans. Strange, but somehow there is an idea prevail ing in the North that most of the "prominent Alaskans" live in Alaska. -Skagway Alaskan.
 The Fourth of July was celebrated on the City of Seattle on the North bound trip in an appropriate manner. The ship was decorated with bunting and flags inside and out, and Capt. Cam provided the passengers and crew with an elaborate supply of fireworks. An especially prepared supper was ser ved, and in the evening there was dance in the cabin.
 The arrival of the Ohio found Nome's larder depleted. While there was no danger of lack of food, yet there was scarcity of staple foods. Meats, pota- toesAvegetables and eggs were practic- ally out of the market, and other pro- visions were running short. It was with great delight, after being closed in for seven months, the first steamers were welcomed back, bringing their cargoes of fresh fruits and other eat ables, also news pertaining to the out side world.
 The Nome Nugget of June 17th says: "Since Sunday morning last seven steamers and the revenue cutter Thetis have reached port, besides the little sailing schooner Zenith. The Oregon reached Nome at } a. m. Sunday morn ing with full passenger list. She was followed by the Discovery on Monday morning at o'clock; the St. Paul got in from San Francisco at 11:3o Monday evening; the Gussie Brown at 2.3o 1 Tuesday morning; the Roanoke at $50; the Centennial at 4 o'clock the same morning; the Ohio arrived at 2:30 Tues day afternoon and the Thetis at 6:25.
Douglas Island news., 1903-07-15

The systematic robbing of cabins on the creeks contiguous to Nome seems to have been pursued as business last winter.
 The first ordinance passed by the Wrangell city council provided for a fire department and fire protection for the town.
 The White Pass and Yukon R. R.. has offered to transport the body of Jo. Juneau from Dawson to Skagway without cost.
 Owing to official red tape in the Dawson Custom house the N. c. Go. will summer their mail dogs on the American side.
 There are now more than 5000 people in Nome, and everybody is fully ex- pecting it to be the most prosperous season in her history.
 Mrs. Durfee, better known as Corinne Gray, committed suicide at Rampant by shooting herself. Her husband died there last winter.
 In Rampant the Indians come in with their skins and return minus their hides, but with plenty of copper dis filled. says the Forum.
 Every claim owner on Glacier and Miller creeks who worked his property during the last winter has paid his debts and owes no one.
 A number of steamers will be placed on the Kobuk river this summer in an ticipation of stampede to the new strike on the Shungnuk river.
 s1a,65S clear money on the side, made by feeding U. s. prisoners at Nome, seems to be the thing that made trouble for U. S. Marshal Richards.
 Alexander Coutts, who was shot at Fairbanks by Recorder Dienckle from Tacoma, has recovered. No prosecu- tion will be made against Dienckle.
 A phenomenal clean up is said to have been made recently at the head of Dry creek. Phenomenal cleanups are just beginning in Seward peninsula.
 Judge James Wickersham and aparty of five have left Fairbanks to join the Cook expedition to climb Mount Me, Kinley. They will return to Rampant in August.
 A modern hay moving machine and g hay rake were shipped from Dawson tc Selkirk on the steamer Sifton. They belong to Swinehart, the pioneer farmer of Selkirk.
 Indians from the Kuskokwim report that the steamer Anna Wanda, belong ing at Lynn's post, was lost when the ice went out of the river. Damage also was done to the post.
 The boats of the Northern Conner cial Company on the Yukon will ust oil for fuel beginning the coming sum mer. Four 5000 barrel oil tanks have been put in at St. Michael.
 There is plenty of good ground oper for the prospector on nearly all th' creeks owing to the cancellation O over 100 leases, says the Atlln Claim Miners are scarce and there is room fo, I more at good wages. The camp nevel I. had brighter aspect and even tn, akickers" have ceased to kick:
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-11-27

the automatic nest, which preserves
the eggs free from the faint Of incuba-
ton. No degree of incubation is pos
sible, because, by means of these new
nests, the egg is removed immediate
~ after it is laid. The automatic nest
has a hole in the bottom, beneath
which is a revolving disk that receives
the egg as soon as it is laid and moves
it away from the nest.
The growth Of the poultry business,
as conducted on a large scale, could
find no more significant criterion than
the recent marvellous development Of
the incubator industry. The centre Of
the incubator manufacturing business
is found in the middle West, and one
town in Illinois turns out more than
$4,000 incubators every year. 1t is
estimated that not less than 100000
incubators are now in use in the
United States. Many of the large poul-
try farms have incubatOrs with a ca
pacity of 1000 eggs each, and from
which there may be Matched 10000
chickens a year, the loss varying from
five to twenty per cent. From a sci
entidc standpoint probably the most
interesting incubator plant is that
erected by former Vice-President Nor
ton, at Ellerslie on the Hudson, al
though ex-President Cleveland has a
high class installation on an expert
mental farm at Princeton, and Presi.
dent Diaz Of Mexico has a costly in
cubator built especially TO his order
! by an American manufacturer
Even in the testing OF eggs, i'm.
provements have been made in the pre-
vailing method. The most effective
way of testing an egg is to subject
it to the light, but under the old plan
when the egg was held close to the
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-11-27
BEDROOM WALLS.

From a sanitary point of view n
painted wall surface can scarcely be
improved upon unless one wishes to
indulge in thing or glass, as in hos
pitfalls. Painted walls may be wiped
with dry or a damp cloth or scrubbed
II desired. II must be admitted that
wall papers are more decorative, but
n very pleasing effect may be obtained
by painting the side walls a color
suited to their sun exposure, and, at
a height of five or six feet, putting a
grOoyed molding on which photographs
may stand or from which pictures
may hang and painting the walls
above and the ceiling n lighter shade
Of the same color as the lower walls.
A cornice molding, painted like the
picture molding, to match the other
woodwork, may also be added.-Annie
Graham Eockfellow, in Good House.
keeping.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-11-27
TQ PREsERYE EGGs.

Uave a kettle Of boiling water on the
stove, and into that dip the eggs. Let
them remain as long as II takes you
to count ten fast. This recipe has
been I'm use in my family for forty or
fifty years. The eggs cannot be told
from perfectly fresh eggs, as the hot
water cooks that fine inner skin. and
there can be no evaporation. There
Is no taste Of lime about them put up
I'm this lgny. 1t is n fine thing for
country women who want TO hold FOR
better prices, and also for the city
woman who wants TO purchase for
future use while eggs are cheap
Woman's HCme Companion.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-11-27

correct general disposition of the arti-
cles to be placed therein. The different
eatables are here arranged in the way
best suited to their preservation. This
is but one detail, however, and the
keeping of the fooddepends upon many
other things. In the first place the re-
frigerator must be kept clean. In case
anything is spilled it should at once be
wiped up with a damp cloth. Glass or
tile Innings are preferred, and wood
comes next. The old-fashiOned zinc
lining is not liked as there is risk OF
poisoning from corrosion of zinc from
action thereon of acids contained in
vegetables and other foods. To get the
best use of a refrigerator there are two
necessities-the ice compartment must
be kept full and the doors must be kept
tightly Observation-Disclosures Record.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-11-27
a Note In Passino.

Eyes, said the bandmasLer, eve do
have troubles with our musiciaas
sometimes.
once we were engaged to play at a
funeral Our notice was very short so
we had no rehearsal. We reached tho
cemetery without any mishap, but
there something happened. We were
to play a solemn measure while The
body was being lowered into the
grave. Only few instruments were.
needed. / was slowly and solemnly
swinging my baton, the spectators
were silently weeping, when suddenly
the trombone gave a loud, long blast,
enough to wake the dead Some of
the mourners tainted, the players
stopped in CONSERVATION, and jumped
over chairs and racks to where the
trombonist, a dull, heavy German, sat-
stolldly gazing at his music.
What the devil did you mean By
bursting out that way?" I shouted.
"He raised his eyes slowly to nina,
"Vell l vas Watching de moosic,
und just den horse,hy got on de pa.
per. fought he vas note, una l
played him. Dat vas all, amt it?"--
October Lipplncott's.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-11-27

of the building is built Ia the form
of the letter U, and has a periphery
OF $40 feet. In the basement or the
other part are thirty incubators, each
containing 300 eggs, SO that there is
a total of 5000 eggs daily i'll a state of
incubation. The filling Of the machines
is so timed that one incubator will
discharge its brood each day, and thus
the plant may be said to have n daily
Matching capacity of 300 chickens.
From the incubator cellar, the small
chickens are taken to what is known
as the nursery" which constantly
shelters about 5000 young chickens,
ranging in age from one to thirty days.
When the chickens have attained the
aged of thirty-0ne days, they are low
cred by an elevator to the ground
floor and put in the U-snaped part of
the building, which is divided into
sixty pens. The chickens advance
one pen each day. so that at the end
of two months they have completed
the circuit and are ready for trans
ference to the shipping department. 1t
may be noted in this connection that
the U-shaped portion of the building
is constantly tenanted by about 21,060
chickens, ranging in age from thirty
to ninety days The egg house at the
Sidney plant is 537 feet in length, and
similar in construction to the building
above described. 1t is bisected length
wise by a four-fo0t aisle. Oil each side
of which are thirty pens containing
fifty hens apiece. The 5000 high geade
Leghorn fowls produce daily 200 doz-
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-11-27
DIDN'T PLAY FAIR.

Said an indignant mother to her
young son: why did you strike lit
tie Elsie, you naughty boy?"
Dick. indignant in his turn, ex.
claimed: What did she want to cheat
for, then"
How did she cheat?" asked
mamma, more mildly. 49,.
Why" exclaimed Dick, Eve were
playing at Adam and Eve, and she he
the apple to tempt me WITH and 81
never tempted me, but went and al
1t up herself. "-TitBlts.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-11-27
NJ
y EJl lNsqI'' I17TY W. ISL <lg2V "a
Isl, ELt2StSk- e. ~ Yin Id

Buttermil1 Griddle Cakes-Beat one
egg; add one pint of buttermilk and
half a teaspoonful of soda in a little
boiling water; put three cupfuls Of
-four in a bowl and pour the liquid over
it, beating the mass thoroughly; have
the griddle hot and bake cakes brown
on both sides.
Sage Cream-3oil quarter pound Of
sago in one pint of water for five min
utes. Turn it into a seive. Return
the sage to the saucepan, add one pint
OF boiling water and simmer one hour.
Add one cup Of currant jam or orange
juice. the juice of one lemon and three.
fourths of a cup of sugar. Let boil
twenty minutes longer Fill small
moulds with this, serving cold on 4
glass dish and sarnish with whipped
cream and candied cherries
Dreamed Cold Veal-Put two table
spoonfuls Of butter in a frying pan;
when it is hot add one small onion
finely chopped; cook slowly five min,
utes, Go not brown, then add two
tablespoonfuls of -four, cook one min.
ute, add one cupful of veal gravy
diluted with water; stir until boiling
add salt and pepper to season; strah
and add two cupfuls of minced cooked
veal, let boil two minutes, add one
tablespoon OF lemon juice; remove and
add half a cupful Of cream; serve ovel
slices Of toast.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-11-27

that. should a chicken become sick or
breed vermIn, the trouble cannot
spread beyond the one reservation
without detection: and thus there Is
obviated the danger from epldemlcs
such as have frequently IN the past re.
suited In serious loss 10 poultry rails.
crs. Another new adjunct is found IN
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-11-27

ncss-a subject to which the United
States Department of Agriculture, as
well as progressive poultrymen, have
of late years given great attention;
and, as an indication of what has been
accomplished in this direction, it may
be pointed out that the average year
ly yield at these scientific poultry
farms is in the neighborhood Of 200
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-11-27

onies of not more than thirty hens.
Each colony has its own reservation,
maintained in the highest state of by
glenic cleanliness, and each group Of
hens is separate and isolated at all
times from the others. This also facil-
itates the use of feed calculated to
insure the greatest possible productive