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Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1905-07-13
COMMUNICATION CUT OFF.

All communication with the doomed
men in this direction is completely cut
off. No. l shaft, adjoining, has ordi-
narily afforded communication with No.
2. The 800 men in No l and the few
who escaped from No. 2 were drawn
up.
A rescue party descended, but it's
work was seriously impeded by the foul
air and the falling masses of earth dis
lodged by the explosion.
Altogether So bodies have been re-
covered.
Heroic efforts have been made for
hours to reach the entombed men, but
late tenight the absence of all sound
from the interior Of the mine told the
tale Of the worst disaster that has ia
ken place in South Wales since 1894,
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1905-07-13
Welsh Coal Mine Disaster.

Cardiff, Wales, July 11.-An explo-
sion of fire damp in No. 2 pit of the
United National Colliery Company at
Wattstown, in the Rhondda Valley, the
centre of the great WEIGH coal fields,
this morning, is believed to have re-
suited in the loss of at least 1875 lives.
The explosion was followed immedia-
tely by the belching Of clouds of smoke
and dust from the pit shaft, in which
$50 men were working. The force of
the explosion wrecked the machinery at
the mouth of the pit.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1905-07-13

The only cigar on this market that
contains combination of Havana and
Porto Rico tobaccos and sold for 1Octs,
Tabard Inn, only 5cts. Ask your deal
ers for it.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1905-07-13
Laughing Likeness.

Lawyer-How can we use this flash q.
light picture as evidence against the ac-
cused? His eyes are shut tight.
Detective But his mouth is open SO
Ti1e We az identity the lllilg in one
.. hi Ia J. t,eJh Detroit Free Press.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1905-07-13
PEOPLE THRoNG TO THE SCENE.

The news of the explosion spread
rapidly, and hundreds of women and
children and thousands of men thrOng=
ed the head of the pit seeking informa-
ton. The mountain roadways were
crowded all the afternoon, and there
are now streams Of people in the
neighborhood of the mine, all eontribu-
ting to the pitiful scenes.
Efforts at rescue were still in prog
ress at midnight, and currents of fresh
air were being driven through the
shaft, but the rescurers are now work.
ing without hope of reducing the list of
fatalities.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1905-07-13
ROANOKE COLLEGE
SALEM, VIRGINIA.

Courses for Degrees; also Commercial
Course. Able faculty. Library, $4,000
volumes; working laboratory good moral
influences; six churches; NO BAR-RooMs,
Healthful mountain location. Very mod
crate expenses. 53rd year begins Septem-
Der 18th. Catalogue free. Address
J, A. MOREHEAD, President.
julylSf
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-09-05

and Uncle Wesley attended to the
horse, we did enjoy that hour. And
L do belleVe this was one of the
most peaceful, contented homes of
all. This faithful couple spent their
best days in slavery, but they have
a good farm and nice home, and
L hope they may live many years to
enjoy the comforts by which thew
are surrounded.
Then in the glooming we started
for home, watching the evening light
fade and the stars come out, and in
due time arrived at home to find
the old watchword was true: 'Nine
o'clock; lights out; all is well;" and
l must say, I have been travelling
around over North Carolina and
have found many, yea, very many,
good friends, fine men and women,
fine schools and churches; but old
Alamance still stands at the head of
the list.
."There is a land of every land the
pride,
Beloved of heaven and all the world
beside,
Where brighter suns dispense seren-
est light
And milder moons emparadise the
night
OH thou shalt find wherein thy
footsteps roam,
That land thy country and that spot
thy home"
III. M. GATES.
Alamance Co., n. @.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-09-05
About Cotton Prices.

The Executive Committee of the
Southern Cotton Growers Associa-
ton will meet at Asheville, Septem-
Der 9Th. to fix a minimum price ct
which cotton is to be sold by the
members of the Association. If the
price is fixed at ten cents, then the
members are expected to hold their
cotton when the price goes below
that point. Here will come the rub,
but this is the point. There is no
doubt that the price can be controll-
ed if the amount to go upon the mar
kets is limited, Mr.. Jas. Proctor, in
his talk at Back Swamp, Saturday,
illustrated the point. He said that
the price of diamonds is constantly
increasing, yet there is stored away
in South Africa sufficient dia-
monds, if gut on the market alto
gether, to make them almost as cheap
as marbles. The owners, however,
know that they are safe and are
good securitv. so they retain them
and get for those they do turn loose
as much money as they would for
many more if there was no system IN
marketing them. The same principle
will necessarily operate in the mat
ter of cotton. 1t does in land,
money, bonds. and all things. If half
the farmers in the country to-day
should offer their farms for sale,
land would fall so per cent within
week. But let little be sold as there IS
a demand for it, and the price will be
so far from falling that it will con-
stantly increase. Then, let every
farmer determine to cooperate with
the Association. 1t has been demon
strated what it has already been able
to do. It can do more with your help.
Then, fail not to give it. A long
pull, steady pull, a pull altogether
and cotton will not again go below
ten cents.-Lumberton Argus.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-09-05

Rev. J. II. West, Presiding Elder
of the Morganton District, has been
elected president of Rutherford Col
lege to succeed Prof. A. G. Reynolds,
who resigned to accept the position
of superintendent of schools for
Buncombe County.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-09-05
A GREAT PAIN KILLER.

Salem Chapel, n. c., Jan. 27, 1904.
The Lawrence-W Williams Co., Cleve-
land, Oh: I have used Gombault's 5
Caustic Balsam with great success.
[ was a cripple for two years, my
disease laying in my lower limbs.
Am now entirely well. Have not suf-
fered any at all in twelve months.-
T. P. Dalton.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-09-05

How near must person live to Inc
to be my neighbor? Every persons
is near to you whom you can bless.
He is the nearest to whom you can
bless most.-William Ellery Chan
ming.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-09-05

Most people dread far more the
social frown which follows the doing
of something conventionally wrong
they do the qualms of conscience
which follow the doings of something
intrinsically wrong.-Herbert Spcn-
Ger.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-09-05
Tormenting Eczema Gone.

Toruentine burning, itching, eczema al
WAYS dies when Tetter1ne is applied.
TETTERINE CURES DANDRUFF.
bly the best remedy for all forms OF SKIN
diseases, SOC per box. J. T. SHUPTRINE,
Mfr, Savannah, Ga.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-09-05
a,+nrer Gates in His Home County.

few dayS that l. 16el ike GcIllIlS duOuC
= did not know what was the
,,,atrer with me; / semed to see new
beauties in everything. The trees
were bigger, the grass greener. and
rhc birds made better music. and
everybody was so kind and seemed so
bapnv that | asked my wife what
it meant.
She said. "Why, you are at home"
and | guess that was just it.
This is my own county and has
ALWAYS stood at the head of the list
alphabetically, but l never seemed
to see so many things to be proud
of until / made this little trip. But
must tell you about it at once,
for | seem to be getting off on
side-track.
left home Saturday morning, the
18th instant, accompanied by my
wife, heading for Green's school
house. We stopped for dinner. with
our kinsman, Webb Gates. Webb
has only been married a few weeks.
and we wish for him and his good
wife a successful journey through
life with just enough shadows to
make them appreciate the sunshine.
At 3 o'clock we met a crowd of
more than sixty farmers really
wide-awake fellows, who live at home
and own and manage their own af-
fairs. Green's school-house is not
a log cabin daubed with red mud, but
it is one of Ex-Governor AYcock's
living monuments that Will live and
grow and do good as long as the
waves beat upon the shore. 1t is in
what is known in local parlance as
ONahoma Territory-the strip c'lt
off from Chatham III the late survey.
Well. this is Just such a school
house as one would expect such men
as met us here to build. Their very
voice and the warm hearty, honest
handshake told US that they were
waiting to add their names TO the
already goodly number of the Con
cord Alliance. | don't know when |
or one that enjoyed better, or wrote
the names of men that l had more
confidence in. And I am working
for still greater things here. breth-
ren, and I feel that will not be dis
appointed. That night we spent with
our good friend, Jeff Biddle. We
did not sleep much; we Just talked
and talked and talked. May he and
his good wife long live to extend
such hospitality to their friends.
Sunday we spent at Saxapahaw Ga
splendid cotton mill town. with our
nephew, Jesse A. Gates. We only
saw one thing lacking to make this
home complete-no little folks to
romp and play. Here we spent a
pleasant day and enjoyed the good
dinner and good music with Jesse
and his good wife. We talked about
old times and about his father, who
has been gone so long, and came
away feeling that blood was stronger
than water after all.
Late in the evening we started
home, but turned aside to see Uncle
Wesley Paris. Wesley is an old fam
lily servant of the type that is rapid
ly passing away. He and his good
wife are honest and Industrious,
faithful and loyal, to their white kin
folks in whom they see their best
friends. We sat on their front porch
and admired the trees loaded down
with pears and peaches of the rarest
kind with other signs of prosperity
until we were invited to come
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-09-05

III. M. OA I ED.
Alamance Co., n. O..
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-21
BALFoUR AND BEAcoHsF1E1D.

The ironical compliments which MI Balfour
paid TO the Opposition on the cleverness of their
scheme for entrapping him reminds US Of what
Lord Beaconsfeld, when still Prime Minister
said across the House Of Lords 10 Lord
Granville, in commenting on some affair which
the latter had brought under his notice: so
your lordships will that there is not one
word of truth in the statement which the noble
earl, as leader OF the Opposition in your lord
ships House, has very properly put forward"
II was all right Lord Granville was only dis
charging a function appertaining 10 his office
And 80 with the Opposition of to-day But if
they are well within their rights in drawing up
resolutions intended only to bother the govern
rnent and without any practical bearing on the
question TO which they nomInaIly refer, the
Prime Minister is equally within his rights in
taking such steps TO counteIact their manceuvres
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-21
sPoRTsMEN FOR OFFICERS

What we want in the cavalry are sportsmen
Not because they were scientific soldiers Or
were particularly we'll educated They were
neither But because Of the outdoor and sport
ing life they led The cavalrynan who can af-
FORD TO hunt and play polo IS, other things being
equal n more useful man TO the country than
the man who only plays cricket and lawn tennis
ana never gets on horse except on parade He
Is better horseman and, what IS even more i'm
portant on service, he is better horse master
he develops an eye for country, and is accus-
toned 20 making up his mind in a hurry Some
OF the best scouting work in South Africa was
done by the fox hunting officers Of the first con-
ungent OF YeomanrY. We have the authority OF
the late commander in chief that these sports
are the best training for cavalry officers and
this view is so strongly held in America that
instead OF prohibiting pole forty ponies are
kept at the public expense at West Point for
the use or the students Now, it is only men
who are faily we'll off who can afford 10 indulge
in these pastimes and. instead of driving them
out OF the cavalry, II seems to me 1t would be
wiser 10 Try and keep them at any rate until we
nave something to put in their places-(Colonel
the Earl Of Enroll, in The Nineteenth Century
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-21
POINTS FoR SMOKERS.

Very few people are aware how much harm e
done 20 young men by the almost universal habit
OF cigarette smoking The man who smokes cigar
cites has one always in his mouth. and Is con
tnualy nhaling nicotine until the system Is satu-
rated with the poison.
The result OF this practice Is a catarrhal condI-
ton OF the nose, throat and br0nchi. a dlsordered
and very irritable state of the nerves. weak and
rapid action OF the heart, and Indigestion.
Thin, anemic. weak, with clammy hands stained
with nicotine poison unstrUng nerves and degener-
ated muscles. the youth OF the land go on izno-
rantly suffering the consequences OF q pernicious
habit until attacks OF heart trouble. nervous pros
tration. meancho,ia, etc. bring their condition 10
The attention OF the physician.
II man must sInoke-aud we admit the charm
OF the habit 70 those who have become accustomed
to its soothing iuhusnces-let- him choose 4 mild
cigar and have certain set times for iadulginE 7.
ne DHts certain restraint upon himself from the
start in the matter OF smoking. he viii not overdo
H. aQd there are few men who can smoke more
Than three cigars day without intury.-MedIcaI
BRIEF
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-21
FERDINAND GALLANT.

Gallant himself was the greatest attraction
Nine. d'Epinays circle could claim When he
came in on dripping country afternoon at La
Chevrette or in some murky winter twilight in
Paris there came with him, said Diderot light,
brightness, gayety. folly, mirth-every thing
which makes one forget the cares Of life.
He was perfect treasure on 4 wet day. If
the toyshops made Galianis everybody would
buy one! The Able takes his seat, cross legged,
as usual and from that head which a T.
brarv Of anecdotes reels out dozen stories,
acting them all with an inimita5le liVellness,
while his hearers laugh til they cry
few Of those stories sound duh in print or
have lost point With their youth; many more
disgust modern taste by their elegant indie
cency But the man who dubbed Paris the Cafe
de rEurope d'Holbach the maitre d'hotel OF
philosophy. and the Vaunted liberty OF the
Apostles of the Social Contract the right of
Interfering In other peoples business stiu
proves his title Of WIT 1t Gallant. too, who
defined the death Of Maria Theresa as IAN ink
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-21
TIE AMERICAN WOMAN.

The American woman is q somewhat glitter
ing creature. Usually she is wholesome intel
Hgent and-to decline upon the vernacular-
perfectly straight as we'll. Invariably she Is
very alert very articulate. very self-confdent
her commercial Instinct is strong and in all her
dealings she has a remarkable eye to the main
chance. These may be qualities of eminent
value in the evolution OF the social system Of a.
young country. In her natural environment
and under the stimulus Of the American climate
"a climate which makes for the DEVELOPMENT Of
nervous energy rather than for that of sex-she
doubtless is, as she rather loudly claims To be
the very blossom and crown Of things feminine
But here. in the Old World not only are sur
rounding conditions very different, but we
women are made Of slower, heavier yet more
passionate and dangerously infammable stuff
Light without heat appears TO be common
enough in her case. In ours II is practically I'M
known. and so II is not possible for US TO 20
the lengths she does in certain direCtions-take
dress and filtration eXamples-w!thnut def
Unite and highly undesirable results H. follows
that Notwithstanding her brightness and as q
rule, her virtue the influence of the American
woman, not only in England but on the Cont
nent, has been extremely harmful. II has made
for friVolty, for extravaganza, for selfshness
ners, toward lack of reverence and reticence
and increasing Impotence of restraint II
has brought US the interviewer-that enemy of
the dignities OF private life. II has taught us
to spell society with capital letter. II has also
taught US the art OF observation-disclosures in all its
branches. 1t has gone far TO IndoctrInate US
with the hardly grace begetting belief that
everything in life really worth having can be
bought for hard cash and that 1t is the primary
in a position TO buy it.-Lucas Malet. in The
FOrtufghtlV Review.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-21
AN EXPENSIVE SPORT.

Autograph hunting is a sport hard to under
stand Somebody has paid 1900 for draft OF
a letter written by Mary Queen of Scots. Where
is the value? 1t is a long letter, perhaps 2oOO
words, in the Queens large, legible hand. But
il had been published in Photographic rae,
sir77ile with text and translation in print. and
every drop OF historical information had been
wrung out of il by Father Pollen, s. J. II the
original draft had then been burned. nobody
would have been the poorer, except the heirs or
the late Mr.. Scott. OF Halkshill, the owner. His
family generously presented Father Pollens ad-
mira Bile edition to the Scottish Historical So
ciety year ago so II is not the novel historical
contents that make the seven pages of old
paper sell for $500 l hope that the purchaser Of
a small parcel of state papers of 1916, about
robbery of jewels from Queen Mary when a
prisoner viii print the contents, as they may
have artistic, II not precisely historic interest
(Andrew Lang in Longmans Magazine.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-21
SYDNEY SMITH AS A COUNTRY PARsoN.

For twenty years Sydney Smith remained in
Yorkshire. and though his ideas of clerical duty
We're not those of to-day, yet it viii not be de-
MED that he a vigorous country parsOn.
entering into the pursuits and the daily life of
his humble neighbOrs and doing his utmost TO
improve their lot. His descriptions Of his life
and surroundings at FostOn are among the most
delightful of his humorous writings. Every
has heard of Annie Kay, the little country girl,
made like a milestone" who, christened
Bunch" became the best butler in the
county; Of the rawbOned riding horse "Calam-
!ty" which flung over his head into
neighboring parish, as If I had been shuttle
cock and l feel grateful that 1t was not into
neighhOring planet; Of the ancient green char
Tot named the Immortal" "at which the village
boys cheered and the village dogs barked"; of
his four draught oxen, Tug and Lug, Haul and
Crawl of which Tug and Lug took to fainting.
and required buckets of sal-volatile and Haul
and Crawl to lie down in the mud" AS a mag
istrate Sydney Smith became famous for max
ing I'D local QuarreIs and for dealing gently with
poachers. The game laws. like good Wing, he
could not abide. and il stirred his honest wrath
TO reflect that for every ten pheasants which
futteved in the wood. one English peasant was
rotting in gaol." Like Charles Kingsley at
Eversley in after years. he RETAINED from shoot
ing If you shoot he said. the squire and the
poacher will both consider you as their natural
enemies and l thought il more clerical to be at
peace with both. "-(The Rev. Canon vaughan
in Longman's Magazine.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-21

shipper and preacher Of the ideal who was able
TO give himself up entirely to il. that he could
concentrate all the forces Of his nature upon it's
realization, and accept without reservation all
its consequences He had the inquiring mind of
the scholar, keenly criticising the principal ten
denotes of modern philosophy with which he
was familiar, well deep and genuine re-
hgious feeling, the principal feature of which
was faith in Christian principles. not as ex-
perienced in actual life, but as they are some
cay to be realized Add to this mental attitude
the various qualities Of philosopher poet and
agita tor, and you have in SoIoViev the type of
mind toward which contemporary spiritual
thought turns with all the strength OF its de-
sires and aspirations.-(Count s. c. de Soissens
in the Contemporary Review.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-21
MARcoNIcRAMs FROM PIXIES PEAK.

Wireless telegraphy from the summit of Pike 5
Peak is the latest experiment decided upon by
the American De Forest Wireless Telegraph
Company. The right TO use the steel observa-
ton tower on the top Of the Summit house a
station has been given the company by T. c..
Simmons of Kenosha, Wis, vice-president and
treasurer of the Manitou and Pixies Peak Rail-
way Company.
II Is planned TO begin experiments in wireless
biography about May. President Abraham
White. OF the American De Forest Company.
thinks il Will take until then to get the station
installed and have conditions favorable for the
tests.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-21

cident about his stay there: It had been one
Of the notifications of his younger days that
the dean of the diocese, who in his day had con-
nrrned hinn, had treated him badly, and put
the afront on him Of placing him, as a poor
boy, down in the bottom of the church. among
the curates poor candidates, although he prop
erly belonged UP above, among the deans own.
he CHANGED 10 hear that this man now held a
post in the island of F6hr. so asked the
King" said Andersen, If I might for once have
one OF the royal carriages, with coachman and
footman in red livery, the same as the royal
family themselves used, placed at my disposal
to pay visit. The King smiled and said With
pleasure So drove out in the royal carriage
with panached horses and coachman and foot
man, TO pay a visit to my old diocesan dean
The carriage waited outside while I was in the
house. That was my revenge Il seems to me
that We have Andersen's whole self his romantic
bent his old humiliatCns. and his vehement
half childish greed OF honor in this little story
view.