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Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1904-04-14
INJUSTICE TO THE BOY.
He Wanted to Excel, Bat His Father
Didn't Give Him Credit
for 1t.

The old gentleman had the boy "on
the carpet" and was telling him q few
unpalatable truths, relates Elliott Flow
er, in the Brooklyn Eagle.
you have no ambition, he said.
You are content to do nothing. When
I was your age wanted to be somebody.
I wanted to excel l saw what others
were doing, and tried to beat them"
That's what l want to do, father"
pleaded the boy.
"Oh. you dol" retorted the old gentle
man, scornfully We'll, you have 4
queer way of showing it. You should
nick out some man who Is or has been
a star In his line, and try to emulate
him"
That's Just what I'm doing" said the
boy.
The old gentleman looked at him in
artonishment.
Have 1 really judged you unjustly?'
he asked.
Indeed you have" asserted the boy.
"Is It possible that your mind is filled
with great thoughts? Have you really
an aim In life? Do you wish to lead,
to excel, or at the least to equal the tri-
umphs OF others?"
That's 1t, exactly" asserted the boy
Then have done you an injustice,
said the old gentleman. IF you real
" have an ambition, you may count on
the help of your old father. What is itF'
well, was reading awhile ago OF a
Young fellow who set out to spend an in
heritance of s75O 900 cash In two years,
explained the boy. "The papers made
quite a fuss about 1t, and he certainly
aid well and deserved all the attention
he got. But, father, believe l can beat
him, II you'll give me the chance.
think I could make him look like a
plugged nickel IN that line I'm sure
, could reach the pinnacle Of success and
make more talk"
"I1l bet you could" Numbered the old
gentleman, "but you're not going to have
the chance"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1904-04-14
FIRST BAD RAILWAY WRECK.
Caused the Banishment of the Spokeo
CarwheeI and Started a
Universal Test.

Ex-Sheriff c. W. Dimmick, OF Pike
county, is one of the only two persons
now living who were in the first rail-
way disaster Of note that ever oc-
furred in this country, says the Ne%
York Sun. It was on the New York y
Erie railroad, now the Erie, on July
"a, 1916, when the railroad was less
than five years old, and was still run
ming four-wheeled cars, and cableSo
locomotives without cowcatchers. The
carwheels were cast with spokes In
stead of solid centers.
This first railway disaster occurred
at Seamans Bridge, near Monroe. A
broken wheel on one of the cars de-
rallied the train as it was passing over
the bridge 1t broke down. A car fell
into the creek below. Other cars were
telescoped. Three persons were killed
instantly. Three subsequently died oil
their injuries. Twenty were serious
" injured, and many others more or
less hurt.
The train contained two cars OF
students from a Middletown private
school and their friends, bound on an
excursion to the Elysian Fields, a
famous picnicking ground Of that day,
now busy part of Hoboken. Dimmlck
was a pupil at the school and mem
/ Der of the party. He was slightly In
jured. The dead and wounded were
all excursionists, members OF leading
families of Orange county and New
York.
The accident being the first serious
one on any railroad, 1t became notable
4 throughout this country and abroad.
From 1t grew the first damage suit
against railroad company for In
/ 1uries sustained in an accident to a
train, and in that suit originated a
custom in railroading that became uni
versal. and which is still adhered to
on railroads the world over.
The suit was brought by Gilbert W.
oliver, who was among the badly In
jured in the accident. The contention
was that the disaster was caused by q
cracked wheel on one of the cars; and
the possibility of the railroad COM
pany's ability to have become aware
of the flaw so that the unsafe wheel
could and should have been replaced
by a sound one, which the company
denied, was established by the evil
dence of two carwheels produced In
court by the prosecution. One OF lne
wheels was a sound one. The other
was cracked as the wheel on the
wrecked car was, there being no denial
of the alleged flaw in that wheel.
The wheels in court were each sub
iected to the smart tapping of ham
mer. The damaged one gave forth a
dead, fat sound; the unchanged one
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1904-04-14
ZEBRA is EASILY tanned.
Wild Horse of Southern Africa Il Be-
coming a Valued Domestic
Animal.

Among the advantages promised to
the people Of South Africa by the
British government is the utilization
as a domestic animal of the zebra,
which is indigenous to that region.
An attempt is to be made to domesti-
cate the zebra for use in the recently
acquired possessions. 1t is proposed
to catch large numbers OF wild zebras
and allow them to breed In captivity,
training the young as draft animals.
No attempt apparently will be made
to tame and train the captured AMI
mails themselves, although this has
often been accomplished with selected
individuals.
The zebra proper is very difficult to
tame, but allied varieties, such as the
South African quagga, are more easily
domesticated At the Cape 20 years
since these were often seen working
with draft horses
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1904-04-14
PLANTS OF GREAT VALUE.
Many Possessing Medicinal Proper
ties Are in Danger of Being
Differentiated.

The rapid destruction Of the forests
Of the United States, especially In the
eastern portions, with the consequent
interference with the water supply,
change of climate, etc, has for some
years been q matter OF serious concern
to the thoughtful citizen. A recent ar
ticle by DR.. Henry Kraemer smpha-
sizes an aspect Of this question that is
of particular interest to the medical
profession. This writer states that II
the present rate Of gathering Of native
herbs and drugs continues for ten
years it is probable that our principal
medicinal plants will be well-nigh ex-
terminated unless measures are taken
either to conserve or cultivate them
Inquiries indicate that some Of our
wsll-known plants are already nearly
exterminated.
Among these are spigelia, serpen-
taria. senega and cypripedium. The
possibility of improving plants by Sc
lection and cultivation, as has been
done with coca and cinchona, is an In
centive to their study, but Of greater
importance is a knowledge OF the pc
culiar requirements Of each, in order
that they may be cultivated. If this
should be necessary to insure their
perpetuity The following classification
is given: Cultivated medicinal plants
in the United States, 1870; wild indigen-
GUS or neutralized, 17S; foreign plants
that might be cultivated, Sc; foreign
plants uncertain as to cultivation, Is.
This shows that approximately three
fourths Of all medicinal plants are
growing wild or in cultivation in this
country, and that Of the remaining
one-fourth probably one-half could be
grown here. The article in question IS
very. pertinent and timely and should
be brought to the attention OF not only
physicians, but also nurserymen and
the laity, who primarily must take the
uatter In hand.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1904-04-14
Trapping the Andean Condor.

Anyone who has ever watched heavy
bird rise from the ground has doubt
less noticed that it runs along the ground
for a few feet before it rises; the bird
must acquire some momentum before
its wings can lift its heavy body into the
air. The natives in certain parts OF the
Andes understand this fact very well and
by means of it catch the great Andean
vultures, the condors. A small space Is
shut in with high fence and left open
at the top. Then lamb or a piece OF
carrion is placed on the ground inside.
Presently a vulture sees the bait and
swoops down upon it, but when once he
finds he has alighted on the ground in
side he cannot get out, for he has no run
ming space In which to acquire the mo-
mentum that is necessary before his
wings can lift him.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1904-04-14
FINERY FOR THE FAIk
notes of the Modes for the Coming
Spring and Summer
Seasons.

The new pongees and standings VIII
charm color lovers with their soft pas
tel tones.
Small clusters of very green apples,
bears and currants appear on French
millinery.
Small hats are to be more fashion
able the coming summer, it is predict
ed, than for several seasons past.
A wide silk girdle of the same color
attached to the lining is a Characters
tic of the new Etons.
The lace or chiffon waist to match
the color Of the skirt is the correct
separate waist just now.
Blouses of plain-colored silk can be
completely changed in appearance by
altering the style of the lace collar.
Hairline stripes and small checks in
taffeta are to be the first shirt waist
suits worn for spring.
Batiste brilliant is an exquisite thin
material, with a crisp, yet soft sur
face. and a satin finish.
One of the new fashions in evening
dress is long sleeves, very full at the
elbow.
Blue and green as color combina-
ton Is to be revived in the new sea-
sons thin fabrics.
Box plaits both broad and narrow,
single and double, appear on many OF
the newer skirts.
The incoming models for the shirt
waists OF early spring show a liking for
! embroideries in ccioT.
For tea jackets, dressing sacques and
house gowns, rufles are an exceedingly
popular means of decoration
When wells are worn with the strictly
tailor-made suit, they should be less
deliberately draped than when used with
visiting toilette.
It is noticeable that the trimming OF
the spring neckwear is concentrated in
the front. Nearly all the stocks taper
off toward the back, and the bows OF
rosettes with which they are adorned
come in the front.
The turquoise seems to have almost
disappeared this winter, and to have
been relegated to the Jewel cases. The
gems most in vogue are pearls, dia-
monds and sapphires.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1904-04-14
COAL MINED BY MACHINES.
Mechanical Production on the In
crease In the Principal CoaA
Producing states.

Characteristic Of the age 10 the
growing use Of mine machines In the
bituminous coal mines of the United
states. The report Of Mr.. Edward ".
Parker on the production OF coal IN
1903. which forms part Of the annuai
volume of mineral resources pup
ushed by the United States geological
survey. shows that s,41S machines
we're employed in 1902, al against.2,622
in 1898.
In a few of the states there was q
decided decrease in the NUMBER OF
machines used, but with the excep-
ton of Wyoming these were states IN
which comparatively little develop
ment in the mechanical production OF
coal has been made. All of the states
where the use of machines had ex-
ertsd any significant effect upon the
production prior to 1903 showed sub
stantisl increase in that year.
Ohio claims the largest proportion
ate production by the use of machines
moro than half the product of that state
in 1902 having been machine mined
Ohio also stands second in the total OF
machine mined coal, Pennsylvania be-
ing first. Illinois ranks third in the
amount of coal produced by machines
West Virginia fourth, Kentucky NTH
and Indiana sixth. 1t will be noted
that these six states comprise the we'll
known competitive" coal fields. In
1902 they produced rs per cent. of the
total output of bituminous coal in the
limited States, and "a per cent. OF the
total tonnage of machine mined coal.
The total machine mined product re-
ported for 1902 was 9,611 1882 short
tons. an increase, as compGred with 81
S4S.335 short tons Of 1901, or 11,76S,241
short tons. or 20 per cent AS the total
production OF bituminous coal In the
United States in 1902 was Is per cent
larger than in 1901, it will be seen that
ON the whole, the production by the use
of machines has more than kept pace
with the increased output. In fact, tbs
percentage of the machine mined prod
net to the total output has increased
from 25. 6S in 1901 to 2609 in 1902.
The statistics for 1902 as contained
in the surveys report have all been OBJ
tanned from the reports made to the geo.
logical survey by the coal mine opera
tors. 1t is possible that the falling of
in machine production in some state;
has been due to the failure Of opera
tors to reply to this particular inquiry
ON the survey schedules. Where no ma.
chimes have been reported it has beer
considered that none was in use, al
though the same mines may have re-
ported the use Of machines in 1901.
OF the 5,41S machines in use in 1902
1856 were Of the "pick" or "puncher'
type, 2,1S2 were chain-breast machines
and 81 were of the long-wall design.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1904-04-14
THE USE OF ARSENIC.
T. In Deotb to the Nervous System,
Yet Doctors Go Right on
Prescribing 1t.

One might as we'll take whisky for
chronic alcoholism as to take arsenic
sor nervousness. Arsenic in any form
is as sure to produce nervousness as an
overdose of whisky is sure to produce
drunkenness.
Arsenic will not cure nervousness. IL
will produce nervousness. No one was
ever cured of nervousness by arsenic.
Thousands have been made nervous Dy
arsenic. Thousands more will be MADE
nervous by arsenic. Yet the doctors go
right on prescribing arsenic for nervous
ness says Medical Talk for the Home.
There are various preparations OF ar
senic known by great many different
names.
Arsenic Is death to the nervous sys-
tenn. Arsenic produces bloodless nerve
renters, causes the nerves to Jingle, trem-
Bile and culver. Arsenic will make hys-
terical babies of the strongest athletes.
It will convert wholesome, healthy
woman into a petulant, pulling, fading
invalid.
II the doctors were obliged to take
arsenic themselves long enough to dis
cover by personal experience the disas-
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1904-04-14
IN QUOTATION MARKS.
pIOrabIe Condition of HUI
man Life.

The next-door neighbor had just run
in to consult with Aunt Sue about her
new pongee. She wished, after all, that
she had not made it with a shirred
1ounce. Mrs. Avery was telling her
about one she had seen trimmed with
straps edged with pale green the touch
of color made IT. so much more becom-
ing. she said, and then It was different
from what everybody else had. The
sleeves, too; she was sure she was not
going to like those sleeves; they were
really too big
Aunt Sue laughed cheerfully, relates
Youths Companion.
Now don't you begin worrying over
that pongee," she said 1T looks all
right every way, and is as becoming as
anybody's dress need be. If you want
a touch Of color, you can easily get 1t
in the stock and belt. Don't let Mrs.
Avery discourage you. If you had had
It made with straps she would have pre-
ferred shirring; you know she-would;
it's her way. Anyway, | don't know
why my opinion isn't as valuable as
Mrs. Avery's, when you come to that"
Poor thingl" Aunt Sues niece said
when the neighbor finally departed with
q relieved expression. I'm certainly
glad that she came to you. Her spirits
rose 80 degrees in that ten minutes. And
It is disappointing to have new gown
and then not like It,"
Aunt Sue shook her head shortly. 1T
won't do any good" she replied. The
nezt person she meets she'll consult
e: hat pongee, and if the opinion
suN a. tering she'll be down In the
bMes ssnin. l know Mary Hunter!
Tra r, next neighbor to her for ten
vsefa. rs so long since she's used her
o,r n.u' that she's forgotten she pos
sessts any. You can always tell whom
she's been talking with last by the views
she airs. Sometimes I do get out OF pa
tience with her, confess, but most OF
the time I'm too sorry for her. She is
slave for life to they say and if you
know q worse slavery, except sin, l
don't!"
There are very few people" recent
writer declares, who do not live In QUO
tation-marks most of their lives" Prob
ably the situation is not so bad as that;
certainly most Of US can call to mind
individuals of positive and emphatic
temper who should go far toward restor-
ing the balance of nature in this respect.
Yet none the less the warning is not to
be lightly ignored. Much Of the discom-
fort and fret of life would be eliminated,
and much freshness and interest would
he gained, II we resolutely determined
to stand upon our own feet and think
for ourselves and-banish the quotation
marks.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1904-04-14

a clear, ringing sound. The evidence
was accepted, and 1t could not be
refuted. oliver won a judgment OF
$40, 900, and from that testimony OF the
carwheels came the custom OF testing
carwheels by tapping them with a
hammer at certain stations during a
trains trip over a railroad to detect
any nawed wheel That accident also
led to the abandonment by all rail-
roads OF the cast iron spoked wheel
and the introduction Of the pattern OF
wheel now In use.
other damage suits followed the
Oliver suit, and the Erie's first railway
accident cost the company over $780,
900. The other survivor OF that acci-
dent is Mrs. Pronk, OF Middlstown'
N Y
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1904-04-14
IN SOUTHEASTERN ALASKA.
Interesting Experiences and Discov'
cries of Two Government Geo.
Iogists in That Region.

Not all the Alaskan explorers arc
condemned to the monotonous diet or
bacon and beans, of dried fruits and un-
ending cereals; nor all are confined 10
the chilly comfort and narrow limits OF
b canvas sleeping bag on frozen ground
There was one party of two from the
United States geological survey that
spent the summer Of 1903 in Alaska ana
had the privilege Of reposing between
clean sheets every night, OF taxing
bath in a porcelain tub as often as they
pleased, and eating four-storied cnoco-
late cake whenever they had been good.
They tell of one long 16-hour tramp that
they took, but they contriVed to END
that unusual adventure at the haven
where the sheets and the tub and the
cakes and ale awaited them. These for
tunate creatures were Messrs. Arthur
C. Spencer, geologist, and Charles W.
Wright, field assistant, and the scene OF
their endeavors was southeastern Alas
ka in the vicinity Of Juneau, where boast
is made of good hotels.
Their task was to make detailed
study of the geological features OF a
limited district adjacent to Juneau and
to investigate the mineral deposits In
that neighborhood. They secured data
for a geological map to illustrate the
distribution Of the various formations
and their relations to veins and ore de-
posts. They made careful study OF
the active mines of southeastern Alaska
including those of the famous Alaska
Treadwell group, on Douglas island.
The result of this reconnaissance VIII
be published In the form OF short de-
scription accompanying a general geo
logical map of the mainland strip De,
tween salt water and the international
! boundary. This map will cover the re-
gion extending from near Port l1ough-
ton to the head Of Lynn canal ana VIII
include the Porcupine placer district
{ which covers an area about 2OO miles
long, with an average width OF 90 miles
Both silver and gold ores occur al many
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1904-04-14

Editors OF medical journals refer to
the cruelty of depriving fowls OF their
feathers, and compare 1t with the
cruelty of vivisection. They call at
tsntion to what appears to them to be
an inconsistency on the part OF anti
vivisectionists, who, they say, nave
never raised their voice against pick
ing fowls, but have confined their at
tention to the Vivisectionists who cut
up living creatures for alleged sci
ientifc purposes. These editors seem
to think that the antl-vivisectionists
are very silly people-that they should
Immediately turn their guns away
from the vivisectionists and level them
at those people who are In the habit
Of procuring live feathers by picking
fowls.
We confess that this thought had
never occurred to US before. 1t may
be that picking geese is cruel per-
Torrance. That 1t was universally
practiced in New England, and SO far
as we know still continues to be prac-
llCGu WHeIS1Cl 6CC5S oAO hSPN, NNNS @O~
prove, of course, that 1t is not cruel
to pick them while they are alive. We
would not undertake to say that this
is not a cruel act.
Having witnessed It so many times,
having assisted in the performance so
often, our observations have been that
If the process is painful one the fowl
fails to put in any very violent pro-
test. It must be more or less disagree
able to the fowl to have the feathers
removed in the violent manner they
are plucked, but whether the pain OF
their removal in this way equals the
comfort which the fowl aftsrward en-
Joys by being relieved Of the feathers
is a question that never occurred to US
hafOra
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1904-04-14

ton should consent for a. day to en-
ploy anything but a decimal currency;
yet with what lightning rapidity does
q London bookkeeper make his compu-
!ationsI What life Of tedious formal
ity seems that Of an English house serv-
ant; yet there was no slowness Of in
tellect in that footman in an earl's fam
fly, who. when his young lord fell over
the banister, and the next Of kin called
to ask IL the elder boy was hurt, an
Ewered promptly: KILLED, my lord!"
thus accomplishing in an instant the
transfer of the title appertaining to an
earl's eldest son and heir only.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1904-04-14
urcIe Tom Pudding.

To one breakfast cup -four, add one
small cup minced suet, two ounces
brown sugar, two cups dark molasses
one teaspoon ground ginger, one of Gin
namon. one of allspice, one Of soda,
Beat up two eggs, mix with a cupful Of
milk and add to the other ingredients.
Mix all together, and pour into but
tered mold. Boil two hours and serve
with sweet butter sauce.-Orange Judd
Cro,
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1904-04-14
oUICKNESS is RELATIVE.
People in England Not Slow When
It Comes to Things They Are
Familiar with.

The careful American observer soon
finds that the standard Of Quickness is
to be determined in England, as every
where else, by the point of view, says
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, in the
Atlantic. People who go slowly on new
ground may turn out to be quick enough
when wholly at home with any particu-
lar line of thought.
How odious and complicated, for In
stance. seems to an American observer
the computation of pounds, shillings and
pence! It seems strange that any ma
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1904-04-14
Weak
Hearts

Are due to indigestion. Ninety-nine Of even
one hundred people who have heart troubL
can remember when II was simple indiges
ton. II Is a scientific fact that all cases d
heart disease, not organic, are not only
traceabe to. but are the direct result Of indb
gestion. All food taken into the stomach
which fails Of perfect digestion fer rents I'D
swells the stomach, putting up ainst a,e
heart. This interfe IS with the tion Ct
the heart, and in 1urs Of le thai
delicate but vital r., 'eco es eased.
Mr.. D. Kauble. Of Ne,1s p says hso stomach
trouble and was in a bai hss hear trouble
with Il. took Kodol Nv. g Cure Tor about fosu
months and It cured mo
Kodol Digests What You Eat
and relieves the stomach of all nervous
strain and the heart Of all pressure.
Bottles only. Sl.oo Size holding ~ times the It'd
size. which sells for soc.
Prepared by e. o. DEWITT & co., CHICAGO
For Sale by Jno. E. Jackson, the Drug
gist.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1904-04-14
Future OF the Drama.

GLOW did you enjoy the play last
night?"
"I was a good deal disappointed. The
f1reproof paint on the scenery looked
lust like any ordinary paint, and don't
believe the new steel curtain Is as
heavy by 1000 pounds as 1t has been ad-
vertised ."-Chicago Tribune.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1904-04-14
One Exception.

Friend-I suppose you never en-
countered a will that you couldn't
break.
Great Lawyer-YeS one.
And that was"
my wifs's."-Chicago Daily News
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1904-04-14
nu,4e "a inherent Reason.

Folks say you only married me be-
cause l had money"
Nonsense! My principal reason for
marrying you was because had none.
illustrated Bits.