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Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1903-11-05
GENERAL ELECTION NEWS

The result Of the election In Ohio Oh
Tuesday was a great victory for the Re-
publicans. The Republican plurality in
the State is more than 125,00O. The Re
publicans will have at least sixty majority
on joint ballot in the Legislature. This
insures the reelection Of Senator Hanna,
Tammany carried New York City by a
plurality of over 81 ,OOO Now the ''red-
lights" can shine without interruption
again. In the State of New York the Re-
publicans have gained considerably on
Assembymen,
John L. Bates, Republican, was re-
elected Governor of Massachusetts, by a
plurality of over $4,000, and the Repub-
licans retain control of the Legislature.
The Republicans elect their entire State
ticket in Iowa by large majorlties.
The result of the election in New Jersey
leaves both Houses of the Legislature con-
trolled by the Republicans.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1903-11-05
THANKSGIVING
PROCLAMATION
President Roosevelt DeSignateS NOY. rs
as Day to Offer Up Thanks.
FOR MANIFOLD MERCIES.
Which God Has Bestowed During Last
Twelve MOnthS-We Should Rejoice Be-
cause of What Has Been
Given.

Washington, Oct. 3l.-The president
TODAY issued his annual Thanksgiving
proclamation in the following terms:
By the President of the United States Of
America-A Proclamation
The season is at hand when, according
to the custom of our people, it falls upon
the president to appoint day OF praise
and thanksgiving to God.
During the last year the Lord has dealt
bountifully with us, giving us peace at
home and abroad and the chance for our
citizens to work for their welfare unhin'
dered by war, famine or plague. II De-
hooyes us not only to rejoice greatly be-
cause of what has been given us, but TO
accept it with a solemn sense OF RESPONSE
bllity, realizing that under Heaven 1t rests
with us ourselves to show that we are
worthy to use Alright what has thus been
entrusted to our care. In no other place
and at no other time has the experiment
of government of the people, by the
people, for the people, been tried on SO
vast a scale as here in our own country
from the opening years of the twentieth
century. Failure would not only be a
dreadful thing for us, but a dreadful thing
for all mankind. because it would meal
loss Of hope for all who believe in the
power and the righteousness OF liberty
Therefore, in thanking God for the mercles
extended to us in the past, we beseech
Him that He may not withhold item IN
the future, and that our hearts may be
reused to war steadfastly for good and
against all the forces of evil, public and
private. We pray for strength, and light,
so that i'll the coming years we may with
cleanliness, fearlessness and wisdom do
our allotted work on the earth in such
manner as to show that we are not alto
gether UNIV orthy of the blessings we h&ve
received.
Now therefore, l, Theodore Roosevelt,
president of the United States, do hereby
designate as a day of general Thanksgiving
Thursday. the twenty. sixth of the coming
November, and do recommend that
throughout the land the people cease from
their wonted occupations and in their
several homes and places ofworship render
thanks unto Almighty God for his mani
fold mercies.
In witness whereof have hereunto set
my hand and caused the seal ofth United
States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington this 9lst
day of October in t4e' year of our Lord
One Thousand Nine Hundred and Three
and of the Independence Of the United
States the One Hundred and Twenty
Eighth.
THEODM&E ROOSEVELT.
f#Dy% JOHN HAY, Secretary of State.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1903-11-05

The Harmans came on the 3rd inst. land
won another, though bloodless, battle in
Tazewell county.
Tommy finch and Billydope are now
rowing another squad of their unhappy
victims up Salt River
We wonder what he now thinks of bis
claim that Tazewell county would be
safely Democratic under the new regis
tralion.
In the contest which has just closed we
did not hesitate to give our views on the
political and public acts of the candidates
for office. Their private acts and person
al character were things with which we
had no concern, except to say nothing
about item. The public acts of ell candi-
dates are public property, and as such we
shall always claim and exercise the right
to discuss them.
A great number Of the good Democrats
of Tszewell refused TO give their votes to
the candidates that had been selected for
them. They were weary of machine
methods.
Shields Harman's majority at North
razewell, his home precinct, was one Of
which any man may feel proud. Party
lines gave way there.
We congratulate the Republicans Of
Russell county on their splendid victory
on Tuesday. We have always known that
with an honest election the county was
and is Republican.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1903-11-05
No Tariff 1inkerlng.
st. Louis Globe-Demoerat.

st. Louis GlObe-D emOerat.
Says Congressman Dalzell, one Of the
leaders of his chamber, after a visit to the
White House, "There will be no tariff
legislation either at the extra session or
the regular session of Congress" This
may be presumed to express the purpose
of not only the Republican majority IN
Congress, but to voice the wish of the
President. The extra session will bave
something to do in getting the Cuban
reciprocity treaty adopted. Possibly the
Chinese and the isthmain canal questions
will be discussed little in that session
Reciprocity, however, will very likely sum
ND all the work which Congress will finish
in that session. This is all right. There
is no real need for any tariff or hnancla
legislation.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1903-11-05
GIFT TO PAUL KRUGER.
The Aged ex'President of the Trans Vaal
Makes a Brief Speech.

Mentone, France Nov. Paul Kruger,
the former President of the Transyaal Re-
public, replying today to the gift OF a
statue from the subscribers to the Patrie,
said;
81 do not despair. A man of my age
has no further earthly expectations, but l
have confidence in the justice of God.
The younger generation will witness the
triumph of this justice and will see the
realization of our experience and pat
ience."
Mr.. Kruger is described as being con-
stanty occupied in reading the Bi BILE, as
desiring isolation and as maintaining a
dignfed bearing. But he is calmly re-
signed to the events in South Africa. The
Pdtrle asserts that an unwritten chapter
of the war will appear later, disclosing the
faot that the Beers relied on the promises
of Germany, but that Great Britain sue
ceeded in gaining German neutrality.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1903-11-05

She raised to manhood and womanhood
two sons and two daughters. The sons are
industrious, sober men, and her daughters
show the influence of a religious mother.
Why a mother should have been taken
from the care and training of her younger
children seems, to 6nite minds, myste-
rious, yet God sees not as man, and we
must bow to his Divine behest. X.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1903-11-05
DEMURRAGE AND OETENTI0NAL
CHARGES
Virginia Supreme Court Will Hear I'M
pOrtant Cases
, PRESIDENT.
JOHN HAY, Secretary Of State.

Richmond, Va, 3.-The State Supreme
Court will meet on November 18th at
Richmond and the docket, which has just
come from the printer, contains eighty
four cases.
Some of them are of sweeping public
importance, and this class includes that
involving the right of the Corporation
Commission to fix demurrage and de-
tention charges by railway companies.
Attorney General Anderson will have
charge Of the case of the State. Associated
with him will be A. g. Braxton, of Au'
gusta and former Senator ]. l.. Jeffrles, of
Norfolk, who will appear for the State
board of trade. Alfred j. Thorn, of Nor
folk, Alexander Hamilton, of Petersburg;
j. Allen Watts, of Roanoke, Henry T..
Wjckham, of Richmond, and many other
strong corporation attorneys will appear
for the railroads, and the case will attract
the fullest measure of public interest when
it comes to trial.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1903-11-05

Bristol, Tenn, NOV. "a laVal eleCt'Ou
row occurred in an election booth at Fair
view. Scott county, Va, today. Two men
were killed, one other fatally injured, and
one seriously. The dead;
JOHN OSBORNE.
EZEKIEL NlCKELS.
Wounded: J. Ii. Catron, shot through.
the neck; will die. Alexander Keys, shot
in the right hip.
The trouble arose over obj j2ctions beng
made to G. p. Roller serving as Repubh'
can Judge. Roller, it Is claimed, had been
selected by Democratic election commiss-
LINERS for service. Osborne and Nickes,
the two dead men, were Democratic
Judges and we're brought into the quarrel
ON account of their official connection
with the election. ills believed that Cat
ron fred the shots that killed Osborne
and Nickels. The two men who were
killed shot Catron and Keys
The Bristol News of the 3rd inst. gives
the following;
According to the meagre details re-
ceived over phone from Dutfield, Va, by
The News this afternoon the battle to
death was brought about over a discuss
ion as to who should be the Republican
Judge at the Fairview voting place.
The Democrats, who control the APP
pointment of election judges, had selected
G. 7. Roller, a Republican, to serve as
the representative of that party, along
with Deputy Sheriff Nlckels and John
Osborne, the Democratic judges. Just
before the polls opened early this norm
ing some Republicans OBJ jected to Mr.,
Roller serving as a judge.
This brought on a discussion, each side
arguing pro and con. The discussion
waxed warm and soon hot words passed
between those implicated. Following the
cross fire of angry words a blow
was struck and a general battle en-
sued. During the scramble and mlxup
reyolvers we're drawn and the firing began.
Many shots rang out and excitement was
high. When the smoke had cleared away
and mems senses returned to them, both
Osborne and Nickels were lying on the
ground dead in their own blood While
J Catron and Keys we're staggering oh,
wounded men. The prompt efforts OF
cool headed men checked the battle and
kept more human blood from being spill
ed. The bodies of the dead men were re-
moved to their respective homes where
loved ones in tears awaited the coming.
PHYSICIANS were summoned and medi'
cal aid administered to the two wounded
men.
Just who fired the fatal shots is not
known, but it is generally believed that
they came from John Catron's revolver.
Fairview is IN Scott county, Va, and is
near the Tennessee line, with Hancock
county, Tenn, on one side and Lee
county, Va, on the other. 1t is at the
foot of a mountain and is considered a
rough territory. 1t is about twenty miles
from Gate City, the county capital OF
Scott. and is tenmiles distant from Clinch-
port.
The Powell precinct polls large vote
and is a Republican stronghold, there be-
ING but few Democratic voters in the pre-
cinct."
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1903-11-05
OBITUARY..

Departed this lite at ten minutes before
3 o'clock, October l7th, 1908, at the resi-
dence of her husband, F. P. Rutherford,
three miles east of Tazewell, Va, Mrs.
Ages Jane Rutherford. She was born
June 18th, 1854, and was married to F. ?.
Rutherford July 2nd, 1874. In October,
1889, she united with the Lutheran
Church, and made a quiet, orderly and
consistent member, and was regarded by
those who knew her as one of the best
women of our neighborhood.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1903-11-05
VICTORY IN RUSSELL.
Republicans Elect Solid Ticket

Col. Joseph Harrison yesterday after
noon received the following telegram from
friend in Russell county;
Russell elected solid Republican,
ticket"
This means that Griffith, is elected oye
Ghent to the House of Delegates, and the
Republicans haye elected county treasurer
and sheriff. Routh, independent Demo
crat, is elected Commonwealth Attorney
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1903-11-05
THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 5, 1903.

smokes when he is dressing in the mora
ing, and he esmokes all the forenoon ami
he smokes all afternoon.
"A person will smoke cigarette when
he wouldn't think Of lighting II lipe Or Il
cigar. They are so Internally convenient
and small and inexpensive that he will
light one after another simply for want Of
something 10 Go.
'I've a fellow working for me now who
nearly died from the effects few months
ago. His stomach and all his digestive
organs went completely back on hiu, and
be had a mighty close call While he Was
i'll he couldn't smoke, or, | should say,
they wouldn't let him. And when me ii
nally managed to crawl around l had a
good talk with him about it, and per-
suaded him to smoke cigars instead. He
tried it, and for while he was pretty Tel.
but saw the poor wretch with cigarette
in his mouth only a day Or two ago. .,
it's an awful habit. Once it gets hold Oh
you it's hard to break it.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1903-11-05
CAUSES A DESIRE TO DRINK.

"There is slight quantity Of pyrIdine
present in cigarette smoke that drlea the
mucous coat of the mouth and throat and
that makes a man want to drink. They 20
we'll together, those two drugs-cgarettee
and alcohoI-and they accomplish won
ders in reducing a man to a vicious an
imal.
1.-The disastrous effect doesn't stop at
the arrangement Of the digestive organs.
The influence on the nerves is felt all over,
even to the hearts action. The brain,
being merely great mass of nerve matter,
suffers largely in time, and the result Is
loss of memory and the sense Of mora
responsibility. lhe whole plane OF IN
telect is lowered.
"There are accounts in the papers every
day of boys going insane and committing
suicide. Three murderers in Philadelphia
this year we're crazed by smoking cigar
pi tps
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1903-11-05
NO DANGER IN SMOKING.

Ats not the tobacco that makes the
trouble. | smoke constantly, and | work
from in the morning till midnight, and
I'm never sick, and don't know what it If
to break down. OF course, | take relaxa'
ton in the way Of automobiliDg, and gel
plenty of exercise.
"My father was an inveterate smoker OF
cigars-would smoke six or eight day
and he lived to be 81. It's all bosh about
NICOTINE doing the damage. The nicotine
is almost entirely consumed in the burn
ing of the tobacco, and what little is lefl
is filtered through the end of the cigar,
and as for the statement that single drop
of It will kill a dog, don't believe 1t.
"But what if it would? You wouldn't
get a drop of nicotine from smoking half
dozen cigars.
"If cigarettes were put up in tobacco
wrappers instead of paper you could
smoke them with impunity; but there's
tie rub, the cigarette smoker wouldn't
want them. The taste is different, and the
powerful nerve stimulation of the acrolein
would be absent.
Cigarette tobacco smoke in apipe is
different thing from smoking a cigarette.
You wouldn recognize it.
MAKES RACE DEGENERATEs.
"Tbat English scientist who says that
in ancient times the Turks were a fierce,
rowing race like the nomads of the desert,
and that incessant cigarette smoking has
changed them into quiet, sedentary peo-
ple is about right. And he could go fur
ther ard say it has made them a race Of
weak, vicious degenerates.
There's another indirect effect of Gig
arctic smoking. The constant inhalation
of the smoke so infsmes the membranes
of the lungs that full, deep inspiration
of air causes discomfort, so that the Gig
arctic smoker becomes weak lunged ami
short winded simply through the lack Of
properly using his lungs."
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1903-11-05
HUMAN BLOOD Split AT POLLS.
Two Killed, one Fatally and one Serious
ly Wounded in Scott County.

Bristol Tenn, Nov. 3.-A fatal election
row occurred in an election booth at Fair
view. Scott county, Va, today. Two men
were killed, one other fatally injured, and
one seriously. The dead:
JOHN OSBORNE.
New-York tribune., 1903-11-08
EXCITING BUFFALO HUNT.

yawlful of men wrecked by buffalo is
among the exciting "reminiscences told by the
author Of Steamboat Navigation on the Missouri
days was extremely PLAIN and scanty. One of the
boats, commanded by a Captain La Barge, was
going through the buffalo country with only poor
supply of salt pork and dry bread Every eye was
alert for a meal OF fresh meat. if such should ap-
pear on four feet anywhere in the vicinity At
sighted. swimming the river. Captain La Barge :
first mate was a greenhorn lamed John Durack
and the captain thought this a fine opportunity to
break him in TO some Of the experiences Of the
wild and woolly West He gave orders to the men
on the boat 10 shoot the bufaoes, and he and John
would lasso them when either wounded or dead
II seems. did not quite understand the programme
About midStream he suddenly flung the moose over
the head OF the foremost buffalo. which was nat
urally the strongest of the swimming quartet.
Captain La Barges shout of dismay came too late
Isn't he Is good any?" called back the in
nocent first mate, tuggng hand over hand at the
rope.
The buffalo right about faced" and swan, like
mad for the further shore, the yawifuI of men
helplessly in tow. The rowers backed their oars.
protesting violently TO the obdurate John in the
bow. but all to purpose. Soon the buffaIo's feet
touched bottom. and up the bank he scrambled
carrying with him the stem Of the vawI as II
struck the rocky shore. Terrified and furious the
buffalo, lasso boat, bow and all went careering out
OF sight across the prairie. and the sorry yawl
crew had TO walt. hungry angry. disappointed on
the further bank until their companions as hungry
and angry and disappointed as themselves came
to fetch them and take them down the river be-
yond the warning bellows OF the escaped buffalo
New-York tribune., 1903-11-08

of the forest 20 SEQ II can find them and
must both call their all the time. they
raz hear Us II they are anywhere around"
And SO Il happened that while Nanny look
ing for her children down by the road Farmer
yindlass's hired man saw her as he was driving
home from spending the evening with his sweet
heart and before Nanny knew what he was up 20
he had stopped his horse and caught her and tied
her the back OF his buggy.
'sOh my Oh. nyi Whatever shall dor bleated
Nanny. Now Billy will come back and when he
can't nno me he viii think the wolves have at
tacked me or that some other dreadful thing has
happened 20 me"
She blested and baaed as hard as she could. in
the hope OF making Billy hear her: but she might
well have bleated to the moon in the hope OF
being heard for Billy in the depths OF the
forest calling his kids.
The hired man took Nanny home and shut her IN
with the other goats. and as he closed the gate
or her Re said Well where did you leave old
Billy? I bet he not far on"
Late as Il was. all the other goats woke up and
wanted 70 know where she and Billy had been and
how she happened 10 be brought back without Billy
or the dds.
know. we win go back and see what has become Of
Billy.
The first place ne went 70 look for the kids was
IN the depth OF the forest by the spring. he had
e hard time 10 ind f. by this time the forest
was as black as pitch and every once In while
he would run his against a tree. Then he
would bieat and stop 10 listen for an answering
call. hut none came and his heart sank with dread
ard Sisappointrnent, for he was afraid the wolves
had eaten them.
AZ last he wandered back TO where he had 9sft
Nanny but she had not come back. so he lay down
81 v,aff for her return. After waiting long time
lle rot I'd and started in search OF her. He spent
the resi- Of the night IN looking, and just AT day
break discovered her footprints in the mud OF the
brook where the man had caught her he smelled
around q Lttle 10 make sure they were hers and
xhen he found they were he followed them % where
the hn5 been taken for he was afraid some butcher
might catch her and kan her. He felt greatly re
lieVed when he found she went in the direction OF
Er windlass's gate. for then he knew she was
eafe.
You can imagine Nanny's surprise when in the
morning she found Billy standing outside the gate
waiting 70 be let in, and when Mr.. Windlass found
the two runaWays back he said We'll old fellow.
YOU have back, have you? But I wonder
what mischief YOU have been Up 10 while away.
also wonder what you did with your kids, for they
disappeared from NJ. Bells the same night you
New-York tribune., 1903-11-08
PRIZE CONTEST NO. 8.

The end of the second prettiest baby contest has
been reached and the votes before November IL
will be counted and the prize of So awarded In the
have been that a third contest will be opened
beginning with the photographs published November
Is. From that time until November 29 covering three
consecutive Sundays, pictures entered in the
viii be published and the prize Sunday
following December s. Photographs intended for this
third contest will be received later than November
25, and not later than December g. The cOndi-
tion of this contest the those of the
two preceding. The Tribune offers prize of
little sending in the prettest picture
of a baby.
number of the pictures will be printed this
page.
The baby may be either a boy a girl, but must
not be four years old
Grace of pose counts much beauty Of face.
All pictures sent must be sharp clear n detail
as otherwise they not available for newspaper
production.
Each picture must be accompanied by the name and
address of the sender. The name of the baby be
sent or not. as the contributor chooses.
The winning picture is to he ded by vote. ANY
desiring to vote for the whose pic-
ure Is published in any issue by cutting out
the picture and sending it TO this office.
The prize will be given the sender o the picture
which receives the largest number of votes.
All communications regarding this contest must he
addressed TO Little Men Little Women The New
York Tribune.
Photographs will returned if postage for this mr.
pose is incIosed
New-York tribune., 1903-11-08
LINCOLN'S PROMISE.

While member of Congress Abraham Lincoln
was once criticised by a friend for his seeming
rudeness in declining to test the rare wines pro-
vided by their host" The friend said to him:
There is certainly danger of man of your
years and habits becoming addicted to the use OF
wine"
II mean no dsrespect John" answered Mr.. Lin
coin. but l promised my precious mother only a
few days before she died that would never use
anything intoxicating as a beverage and ! consider
that promise as binding to-day it was the day l
gave it
But" the friend continued there is a great
difference between child surrounded by a rough
class of drinkers and a man in home OF re-
finement."
"A promise IS a promise forever" answered Mr..
Lincoln, "and when made to a mother II is doubly
binding"
New-York tribune., 1903-11-08

and Nanny away from here. Well. I am glad
TO see you both. and guess you will find there is
no place Ike home after all.
Billy and Nanny did not run away again. and
they gave up the search for their children with
rowful hearts They never forgot ceased to
talk about them, and on warm, moonlight nights
they would lie out in the pasture and wonder
where Day and Night
A long time after this. when goats had come and
gone at Mr.. Windlasss. Billy and Nanny could be
still seen there. Billy getting a little stiff in
the Joints from rheumatism. contracted from lying
on the damp ground at night, and Nanny had
grown from slender young thing into fat, ma
tronly looking goat
One day two strange goats were seen coming down
the lane.
Who can those two handsome visitors be-one
so strong and black jet, and the other equally
strong but more slenderly built with white
hair?" asked both the old goats at the time.
The strangers seemed TO know the way, and ap-
peRred TO be very much at home. for they walked
along until they came 10 the lowest part of the
fence. and then, without a moments hesitation.
Jumped over IL into the meadow and walked
straight up TO where Billy standing chewing
grass old man chews tobacco with his long,