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Turnips. carrots and potatoes contain
large proportion OF water. and. though
such crops are bulky. yet tho actual
proportion OF the solid matter taken
from the soil is small. Containing such
large quantity of water. they are
very succulent and are equal to ensi-
lage for cattle, though ensilage is
cheaper I'm cost. When sliced or cooked.
these crops can be fed In connection
with ground grains with more profit
than In any other manner, and they
give a greater value TO the grain by
assisting digestion and keeping the
stock thrifty.
Dfgestibffity OF Foods.
The value OF cattle foods depends
largely upon their digestibility. There
Is more protein In straw than In corn
fodder. but the latter is more digesti-
BILE. Some coarse foods are valuable,
however. In assisting TO digest the con-
sentrated foods hg giving bulk to the
mess and separating the materials. es-
pecially when the coarse foods are re
duced to fine condition. Even IL but
portion OF the straw foods II d.
gested. they nre prepared for the ma
nure heap by the animals and are thus
Increased In value compared with
wasteful use.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1904-03-11
INVESTORS RE ID THE
Wall Street Journal
Cheap Rates.

To all points in Montana. washing
ton, Oregon and British Columbia
March LIST to April 30th, 1904. Special
rates to North Dakota in March. Write
at once for information aud maps, e
". ii Allen, District Passenger Agent
Wisconsin Central Ky. 62l Park Bldg,
Pittsburg, Pa
1-29 -l3t.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1904-03-11
North and East.

Pullman Vestibuled Coaches,
+. Sleeping aud Dining Cars.
See that your tickets read oyer the
Norfolk & Western Railroad.
Cheapest Seats and Quickest line.
Write for Rates; Maps; Time table;
Descriptive pamphlets to any station
Agent, or TO w. b. Bevill, General
Passenger Agent, Allen Hull, Divis-
ION Passenger Agent, M. f. Bragg,
Travelling Passenger Agent, Roam
oke, Virginia.
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First Class, Second Class, and
Emigrant Tickets.
Best Route to The
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1904-03-11

Wishing to retire from business
| offer for sale my hotel business
at Blue6eld, w. Va House we'll
furnished and good patronage
]. L. PATTON
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fp ADinoaI Story For
Little Folks
The Handy Eel

Said Mrs. Eel one morning:
Pray. don't forget those things:
Remember first the crullers
And then tho muffin rings
BE sure 10 stop at mammals
And get n jar Of jam:
Then swim down past the grocer's
And buy a little ham.
I'D like dozen eggpiants.
A dozen onions. too:
or parsley get two punches
To put into tho stew.
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Land Plaster"

We are now in position to
furnish the people of Tazewell
md adjoining counties all the
PLAS Ei< they may need.
fhankias yon for past favors.
We AVA { your valued orders.
Yours Truly,
j. H. Kirby & Co
Broadiord Va, Smythe, Co
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1904-06-23

poverished peer, married the only
daughter of wealthy brewer, whom he
met last winter at house In Wales, and
some day he will get at least half
million with his wife; and the second
man won the heart of rich and at
tractive young widow, who was one of
house party in Devonsbire, and is now
in a position to play the host on prince
ly scale.
But one Of the best pieces of luck
fell to the lot of young Baliiol man
who was reading for the bar and whom
l sent as a paid guest to the house of
rich Yorkshire squire. He was a very
clever, fascinating kind of fellow, and
the old squire took such a fancy to
him that he induced him to stay on per-
manently as a companion-really to
take the place of an only son who had
fallen early in the Boer war-and when
the old gentleman died a few months
ago he left his quondam hired guest his
entire fortune with the exception Of
few small legacies.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1904-06-23
Roosevelt's Wildcat.

President Roosevelt recently pre-
scented to the Zoo at Washington a
large wildcat, which was sent him by
some unknown admirer in Georgia.
The animal was wild and fierce, and
his unexpected delivery at the whits
house created small panic among the
servants, who feared that he would
escape from the box in which he was
shipped. The box was dumped on the
front porch at the white house, and
remained for some time before any
one could be found who would sign a
receipt for it. When the president
learned of the strange gift he hustled
the animal to the Zoo with his compli-
ments.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1904-06-23
No More Barrels of Matches.

Senator Hoar bewails the innovation
recently introduced at that end Of the
capitol in the purchase Of matches. AL
most since the time that friction matches
were invented the senate has been re-
ceiying its supply in little, round,
wooden boxes. Matches in these boxes
have been for years kept about the cap
itol. When, in Mr.. Hoar's committee
room, some one asked for matches, the
senator would remark: why, We have
barrels of matches" and forthwith, at
the utterance of the bon mot, round
box would be produced.
Now the purchasing agent of the SEN
ate has decided to buy matches in the
usual paper boxes with which the gen.
eral public is familiar That is consider
ably less expensive, but it puts an end
to barrels of matches" in the senate
committee on the MISUNDERSTANDING
ton Post. .-
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1904-06-23


women are allowed on the streets only
during curfew time, between twilight
and early forenoon. During the day
they are in seclusion.
In anticipation of the stone-throw-
ing fete, the natives save all shapes
and kinds Of rocks. Even the small
est child has his stone pile, and takes
pride in it. They practice diligently.
aiming at different targets. OFTEN
hemp man like a scarecrow Is rugged
up, and the entire family use him for
q fake enemy to be demolished BY
stones. Other targets are mandarin
ducks, good-luck geese and foreign SOL
diers made of cotton wool paper.
In preparing for the fete, towns and
villages put aside a goodly sum or
money for the wounded, and to buy
prizes for the champions. Queer bands,
composed of strange instruments,
mostly drums and moon fiddles, an
nounce the opening of the festival. The
participants are drawn up In two sides
like an army in battle. At the signal,
stone throwing begins, and soon the
rules are laid aside, and the game be-
comes hot and furious. It is called on
by some member of the squire-noole
class, a village elder or court offi-
ctal.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1904-06-23
COSTLY STICKS OF TIMBER.
Some Mahogany Logs Bring as Much
as S50,000-Mexico the Chief
Source of Supply.

Sydney H. Shadboldt, of Washington.
largely interested in a 1S0,OOO-acre tim
Der and plantation tract in the state
of Vera Cruz on the Coatzacoalcos river,
is familiar with all phases of the timber
trade, and for several years his attention
has been given largely to the purchase
and marketing of mahogany, says the
Mexican Herald Speaking Of ma
hogany generally, he said:
Mahogany has been esteemed very
valuable wood for more than zoe years.
and during all that time the world has
had substantially its whole supply from
Mexico, Honduras, Cuba and Santo Do
mingo. Up to within about ten years the
proportion secured from these districts
was about 60 per cent from Mexico, 80
per cent from Honduras, and 10 per
cent. from Cuba and Santo Domingo
combined. Now comparatively little is
obtained from Cuba, and practically
none from Santo Domingo The prod
uct of all Of the four districts belongs to
the same species, but there are marked
differences in the fibre of the wood from
West India islands and that from the
mainland. The Mexican and Honduras
growth is of better grade than any 9TH
er. The mahogany of Mexico is worth
in the United States and Europe from
$50 to $500 thousand feet, on the aver
age. The value Of individual logs, how
ever, is occasionally very high, single
sticks bringing as much as $4,000"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1904-06-23
OUT THERE WITH JOHNNY.

The wise and cunning diplomats go on ex-
changing notes
And yet the warning navieS try to keep on
sinking boats;
The monarchs in their stately halls I'M
meaning smiles bestow
On bowling women, richly clad, whom youth
left hong ago,
And in the country Mother Earth her good
ness reaffirms,
Oh, would that l were there to-day with
Johnny, digging worms.
Rhe eager millionaires contend for all the
golden stores
The bold adventurers set sail for strange.
far-distant shores;
Around the pit where hopes are wrecked
and hearts are crushed the cries
OF men who seem half frenzied in crazy
chorus rise,
While statesmen eloQuently name the dam
gers we should shun,
And irony and scorn are heaped upon them
when they've done,
The world Is full Of trouble there are wars
and more to come,
And many man who proudly boasts to-
morrow shall be dumb;
Ambition goads the eager crowds; the
judge, in somber gown,
Who yesterday was cheered, to-day is boot
ed through the town;
From small to great we toll and let our
masters name the terms,
And envy care-free Johnny who Is out
there digging worms.
IS. (. Riser, in Chicago Record-Herald
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1904-06-23
A Dukes Treasures.

In illustration Of the ,lavishness with
which Chatsworth house is endowed
with art treasures and of the distrait
element which is supposed to be feat
ure of the duke of Deyonshire's mind
an amusing story went the round Of the
French press at the time Of the last Paris
exhibition. The duke, it was said, was
strolling through the loan section Of the
English exhibits with a friend and
stopped to look with admiration at a
prophyry table of matchless beauty. He
examined it long with the eye of a con-
noisseur and at last exclaimed: Il Won
der who is the owner Of such beautiful
specimen of workmanship. Ialmost feel
inclined to envy him" His companion,
who had consulted the catalogue.
handed it to him with smile. 1t con-
tanned the information that the table
came from Chatsworth house and was
lent by the duke of Devonshire.-Lon-
don Chronicle.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1904-06-23
DOORS OF EUROPEAN CITIES
Paris, Cologne, Moscow, Calais and st.
Petersburg, Each Has It's Char
acteristic Smell.

Some sensitive essayist should take
the smell of place as subject. Paris, for
example, says the London Chronicle, is
lightly pervaded with the odor of burn
ing charcoal, and coming from Paris to
London one is newly assailed by the ap-
peal of SCOT. Cologne has a reputation,
long undeserved, for smells other than
that of its famous water" and it has
been said that in years of old blind man
could find his way about Cologne by fol-
lowing his nose. Moscow has an odd
perfume of its own. Itsugegsts cranber-
ries of peculiar pungency. And it never
leaves the nose.
Garlic is the basic smell that greets
the stranger who lands at Calais. But
the most curious of the smells of place is
that of st. Petersburg. The present
writer had often wondered what it was,
having detected 1t even between the
sheets of his bed at the most exorbitant
hotel. On his third visit he was driving
in a droshky from the station with a
fresh young English girl, who had never
been away from Kent before. Now do
you smell anything?" he asked. eyes"
said the girl. "Old boots" That is the
smell of st. Petersburg. Centenarian
shoe leather
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1904-06-23
Officers.
CHURCH DIRECTORY.

CHRISTIAN CHURCH.-Su n y
School every Sunday at 9:SOa' m. Preach,
inc first and third Sundays Up. m, second
and fourth Sundays ii q. m. Christian
Endeavor every Friday at p. N. II. T.
Elmore, pastor.
METHODIST CHURCH Main Street.
Sunday School every Sunday at $3.50 T. M
"Little Workers" Juvenile Missionary
every second Sundays p. m. Preaching
first and third Sundays IL a. M, second
and fourth Sundays p. M, nth Sun
days ii a. M. and p. m.
NORTH TAZEWELL CHURCH.
Sunday School every Sunday at 10 a. w.
Preaching first and third Sundays Z p. M,
second and fourth Sundays ii a. o..
PRAYER meeting every Friday p. NJ. l.
j. Eskridge, pastor.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.-Sunday
School every Sunday at $50 a. m. Preach
ing second, third and fourth Sundays al
IL a. m. and z. p. 10. Preaching nitn
Sundays at II a. m. Prayermeeting every
Wednesday evening Z p. m.
PRESBYTERIAN, BURKES GAR'
DFN.-Preaching on first Sunday at IL g.
m. and 4 o. m. S. o. Hall, pastor.
TAZEWELL PREACHERS COUNCIL
Every Monday at 2 p. no.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1904-06-23
A QUEER KOREAN GAME.
People of All Ages and Glasses Are
Much Given to the Stone
Throwing Habit.

Every country has its national game
With Americans it is baseball The
Koreans prefer stone fighting or throw
ing, says the New York Times. Tray
elers soon learn of the art acquired
by stone fighters, though there is but
one day in the year given over to It,
If anyone offend a Korean, he an
swers with stone. During the Chi
nese-Japanese war, the latter found
their greatest difficulty in lodging mis-
siles from roof tops and trees. All
classes indulge the habit 1t is said oil
a Korean woman that she never talis
to throw a stone straight Within
bounds she is as expert as a man. The
childhood pleasure of skipping stones
along the surface Of streams Is as
well known to the Korean as to the
Yankee. On stone-throwing day, how
ever. she is restricted to curfew time
for her pleasure, as upon other Gays
In the Land of the Morning Calm
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1904-06-23
Forrot His Native Tongue.

A recent traveller in arctic Siberia, Mr..
vanderlip. a gold hunter, tells the fol-
lowing of his return to civilization: I
found that half a dozen of the officers
and men of the steamer which my en-
ployers had sent for me had come to hunt
me up. The captain dismounted and l
tried to address him in Russian, but he
said: You forget that l speak Eng
lish.' Now it may seem scarcely credi-
BILE. and yet it is true, that for few mo-
ments was totally unable to converse
with him in my native tongue. l had
not used a word of it in conversation for
months, and my low physical condition
acting on my nerve, confused my mind
and I spoke a tumble of English, Rus
sian and Korak 1t was week before
1 could talk good. straight English
again"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1904-06-23
THE PALMISTRY BUSINESS.
Quick Profits Realized at Coney Is
land by Fortune Tellers-Argu-
ment of a Sorceress.

Somebody Is going to make money
out of the palmistry business, and why
shouldn't I be that person." said the
Egyptian sorceress who came from Ala
bama, and who supported her sick hus-
band and her poor children by the pro-
ceeds Of her Coney island stand, ac-
cordlng to Frank Leslie's Monthly. II
said to myself: Tll go into this as seri-
Gus business, and I'll go into 1t the right
sort of way. I'll be the executive and
I'll hire experienced people to do the
rest I started in with only $500, and
I've got $4,000 worth Of fittings alone
now. l don't know anything else
could have taken up that I'd have been
able to get along so well at. I'm able
to pay my people good wages, too, which
couldn't have done If I'd taken up
dressmaking or anything else I'd have
to employ girls in. | start them in at
eight dollars a week and l raise them
as high as SIS when they prove to be
quick and clever at reading character"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1904-06-23
HIRED GUESTS IN ENGLAND.
Versatile People Engaged at Country
House Parties to Entertain
the Company.

To the ordinary man Of hospitable In
stincts it would seem the height OF alb
Alrdity to pay a substantial sum for the
privilege of entertaining any guest,
however desirable, with the best his
house can furnish or money can BUY;
and yet, says London Answers, on the
evidence of one of the gentlemen who
supply these guests there are hundreds
of country houses where the thing is
regularly done every winter.
If you think about it little, said
this gentleman to the writer, you Will
soon see that there is great deal to be
said in favor of the practice of hiring
guests. AS you know, there is many
day in winter when you can neither hunt
nor shoot, skate nor motor, and when,
unless you wish your guests to grow
suicidal or take the next train home,
you must make things as cheerful as pos
sible indoors.
At such times it is invaluable to have
a guest who can make things go-one
of those clever, versatile people VINO
can sing a good song, tell a good story,
get up theatricals, organize dance, anu
turn his hands to many of the scores o.
ways in which dull days and long even
ings can be pleasantly passed. OF course
in most house parties there are one or
two of such people, but the difficulty is
TO get them to bestir themselves SUI
ficiently. They are too indolent or too
difident; and so country hosts are only
too glad to get hold of the right kind OF
man and pay handsomely for MS
services.
And there are lots Of men who VIII
lump at this kind of thing, men OF fam
ily and accustomed to good society-Ior
this is a sine qua non and who are per-
fectly in their element at the game OF
entertaining. ! have over hundred on
nv list and could double the number at
a few days notice; and they are OF all
kinds-retired army men, younger sons
of noble houses, a sprinkling even OF
Young men with titles, young barristers,
writers, university men and so on-all
gentlemen, with more time on their
hands than money In their purses and
all glad to have a good time in the coun-
try while replenishing their ex-
chequer.
l have also on my list few men VINO
are expert in different lines In science
music, politics and so on, and who can
talk learnedly on most subjects, from
the megalithic age to the mechanism
of a motor car, so that, as you see, ne
must be a difficult host whom carnot
satisfy.
OF course, It would never do for man
to be known in the house as a hired
guest, and so no one is in the secret ex-
cept the host and myself. He is simply
one of the house party, and in every re-
spect treated exactly the same as the
other guests, and he knows nothing
whatever of the financial arrangement
between the host and myself.
There are other advantages, too
In addition to having good time and
getting through the dull part of the year
pleasantly. There is always the chance
of picking up an heiress, you know, and
of making influential friends who may
be Of considerable use later on in life
Within the last year two of my mel
have made excellent matches.
One of them, the younger son Of an i'm.
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Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1904-06-23

six hundred miles wide on the sixtieth
parallel of latitude, and about one
thousand miles long in extreme meas
ure from north to south.
The United States, which has para
mount interests in North America, and
is the only country with either the
capital and energy or the population
capable Of developing the vast unoc-
cupied regions to the north, is scarcely
likely, after 60 years Of whaling in
the Hudson bay, to admit Canada's
pretensions. The rights Of the United
States in Hudson bay antedate those
of Canada by a great many years. In
any case, the substantial interests or
this country in those northern waters
are OF far more Importance than the
technical claims of Canada to exclusive
authority there. Obviously the destiny
of the great unoccupied regions of the
northern half of North America Is to
lie wholly in the hands Of the people
who are yet to inhabit and develop
that land of possible wheat production
and Of mineral wealth.
When any one Of the districts from
Manitoba westward or northward may
choose to seek admission as state
in the American union, the ties that
bind it, through the British North
America act, to the Canadian domin-
ion will be as ropes Of sand. Mean
while, there is just now ferVor (that
in due time sound economic consider
atiens will abatel for building short
line railroads to the Hudson bay in
order to ship wheat to England by
route that is icebound more than half
of each year. An infinitely better solu-
ton for Canada's economic problems
is that which Gov. Cummins advo-
cates-namely, an open market in the
United States for all the natural and
agricultural products Of Canada, in re-
turn for large favors in the Canadian
market for American manufactured
goods. Canada is In danger of Grip
Ming her resources-and all to no
ayail-in her eagerness to build rail-
roads in the wrong direction, with
view to rendering herself dependent
nnon a transatlantic market.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1904-06-23
Engineers on Fast Trains Have Toe
Much to Do to Worry About
Possible Accidents.

Speaking of railroad wrecks" SAID
the commercial traveller in the smoking
compartment Of the Pullman car, &C
cording to the Chicago Inter Ocean, my
observation leads me to believe they are
due to the fact that the nerves OF the en-
giners are brought TO such high ten
sion after a number OF bad accidents
that they lose control of themselves"
That's just where you are wrong
quietly said a gray-haired man with
tanned, weather-beaten face, VINO SAT
near the window smoking a cigar. i
think you will all credit me with know
ing what I am talking about, as have
been railroad engineer for the last 81
years, have run all kinds OF engines
from mine dummy to hundred-ton
passenger engine with a seven-toot
wheel, and have raiiroaded on all the
principal lines in the United States
"The majority of people seem to have
the idea that the engineer of fast train
Is always in fear Of run-ins and COLI
sions, and that he is under such nery-
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1904-06-23

Gus strain that he sometimes has to be
lifted from the cab when he reaches the
end of his run. That isn't 80. An en-
gineer has too many duties, such as
watching his signals, keeping water In
his boiler, and seeing that he Is on sched-
ule time, to have much time to worry
himself about accidents that are likely
to happen. AS long as he pays the prop
er attention to his own train he knows
that is all ne can do, and that II anything
goes wrong 1t is beyond his control. SO
he doesn't take up any Of his time worry
ing. Accidents will happen. no matter
how much care is taken to prevent them,
and sometimes there can't be found any
reason for them but you may be sure
that they are never caused through the
engineer losing his nerve"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1904-06-23
HUDSON BAY SOVEREIGNTY.
Rights Of United States on the Wa
tiers Said to Antedate Those of
Self-Assertive Canada.

Having failed in their project for
cutting the Alaskan seaboard of the
United States into detached strips, the
Canadians have now set up a novel
Eaim of absolute sovereignty over the
waters OF the Hudson bay; and they
assert the right to close the broad
Hudson strait to the whaling ships OF
New England. which alone have had
the hardihood to seek those waters for
the past two generations, says the Re
view of Reviews. The Hudson strait
averages about one hundred miles in
width; while the Hudson bay, which
is far remote from any Canadian popu-
lation, is a great body Of water about