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Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-09-03

Meetings of the Board Of Supervis-
ors for Tazewell county are as follows:
Regular meetings second Tuesday in
January and fourth Monday in July.
Call meetings the second tuesday in
each month except January and July.
s. M. Graham, Clerk.
New-York tribune., 1908-02-21

dent that railway managers are compelled 10
reduce operating charges, whether it be by lay
ing off employees by lowering wages. 1t is
probable that railroads, especially those in the
strongest position financially. will resort TO d
reduction in their working forces, pairing them
down to the irreducbe minimum before risking
the possibility of quarrel with the unions 10
some extent employees have been laid oh as the
idle freight cars ard locomotives and the aban-
doned passenger trains show; but this process
has not vet been carried as far as it can be, for
the managers. hoping that the depression in
business would be short, have felt that it was
desirable to keep their armies of workers to-
gether as long as practicable The extensive
new work being carried on by railroads Will
probably be reduced as much as possible, general
repairs will be cut down and rolling stock out or
rehar will be put on sidings until business calls
for the use of larger equipment than Is re-
auired today 1t is said that one of the Eastern
railroads expects, without lowering wages, to
save S1,5OO,O1O month by economies like these,
which will throw men out of work and reduce
the sum of wages paid, but will invite no con-
troversy by affecting the scale of wages
1t may well be that If such economies prove
INADEQUATE and the contraction in business con-
tinues the railways in general will have to face
the question of cutting wages, and il is not inn
probable that some of the Western railroads
which have felt the panic most severely are al
ready confronting this necessity. If it has ar
rived or should arrive the case of labor with
the public will be weakened by the selfish policy
announced by President GOmpers, of resisting
wage reductions no matter what the eXigency.
That policy means the keeping of a favored few
at work with high wages when employers dis
pense with many in order to be able to pay the
scale. 1t is thus heartless toward a large body
of workingmen themselves 1t ignores the fact
that recent advances in wages were obtained on
the ground of the increased cost of living and
that the cost of living is now falling Labor
until few months ago was demanding "a share
in the country's prosperity: can it now resist
sharing in the countrys adversely? Further
more. that policy actually tends to delay re-
turn to normal business conditions The crash
last fall took place because, among other things,
of the high cost of labor and of commodities.
and until the price of both gets back to the
normal il will be hard to reconstruct business
on a secure and lasting basis.
New-York tribune., 1908-02-21
RAILROADS AND WAGES.

President Roosevelts prompt action in direct
Ing an investigation into the facts that may be-
come an issue between the railroads and their
employees will probably make effectively for
peace. If the examination is conducted with in
telligence and impartiality. and if the public is
convinced Of its completeness and fairness an
extended labor quarrel will be unlikely Most
strikes occur with conflicting claims put forth
by both sides and with the public in the dark
and unable 10 obtain light on the merits of
the controversy. In this instance the country is
10 know in advance whether 1.-THE loss of busj-
ness is such that the burden should he equi-
lably distributed between capitalist and wage
worker The commissioners will undoubtedly
publish the statistics regarding the railroads
loss In gross earnings, their almost undimnisbed
operating expenses and their consequently heavy
FALLING Of IN net earnings. They will doubtless
tell US, too, what is less known-the present
rate OF wages paid 10 railway employees the rate
Tor several years past with the increases in
II and the reasons for the Increases Then the
public can make up its mind for itself should any
controversy arise.
The reasons which are prompting the railway
managers 10 reduce operating expenses are
fairly well known Since tie beginning of the
panic the railroads have suffered a severe loss
OF business About three hundred and 6fty
Thousand freight cars are idle. Net earnings for
November Tell TO j. per cent below those of the
si,iae month OF the preceding year and in
December they fell still further, 10 about .so
per cent below those OF December. 1906 Ne,
earnings for January and for February to
Date are lot reported. but the decline In
gross earnings has been progressive being 8
per cent 10 January, as against 3 per cent
IN December and 10 per cent, so far as re-
ports have been received, for the first week IN
February. In the face Of these facts It is eyi.
New-York tribune., 1908-02-21

were recalled there was always the superb de-
fence of Port Arthur to counterbaance them.
Men beginning to rank Port Arthur with
Sebastopol and Gibraltar, with Lucknow and
Londonderry for the almost superhuman power
and courage of its resistance to an all but IRE
sstble foe. That as we understood 1T, was
the estimate of the Japanese themselves. as OF
the rest of the world, only year or two ago.
And now!
Now we are assured. with all the weight Of de-
liberate judicial findings, that the famous for
tress might have held out longer, that 1t was
betrayed through cowardice and that the das-
tard who betrayed it was no other than General
StoesSel himself. If anything more humiliat
ing to humanity is to be added, it is that this
commander and his wife during the siege made
sordid pecuniary profits by trading upon the
privations of the garrison! Perhaps all this is
true. The inevitable presumption now is that it
is true. If so. new horror has been added to
war, and the sentence of the court upon the
arch-culprit is not whit too severe.
New-York tribune., 1908-02-21
A 4musemcnfs.

ACADEMY OF MUsIC-s:15-The Great Divide
ArsHAMBRA-2-S-Naudev
ASToR-s:i5-lrene Wycherley.
AScO-s:l5-The warrens Virginia
RIJOU-s-15-The Merchant of Venice
BI-ANEg-S-S:i5-Jarice Meredith
BROADWAY-s:I5-A Waltz Dream.
cASrNQ-s:E5-Top IN World
RITERIoN-s:I5-Miss Hook of Holland
pALYS-s-The Enigma and PsEhaccl
DEWEy-2-S-Naudeyile
EDEN MI-SEE-The World Wax
fMPIRE-S-ae-TheJ testers
CARRICK-s:50-Fiftv Miles from bossoh'
GERMANS Aforementioned
fIaCKETT-s: :I5-The Witcnng Hour
f7 f7aassfFRSTEINS-2- i5-NaEdevtiie
HERALD SoUARE-s-I3-Th Girl Behind the ooun'e Th
tsTPPoDROME-2-s-Bsttl of Port Af'nuf' LUG
-Four seasons and Winter Carnival
r5r-roS0N-s 2o-The Honor of the Family
i NICK M; FsOC' hER-s:15-The Talk OF New holh
lIBERTy-s -2a-Poiiy of the CIRCUS
I-YCErN-s .3e-The Thief
yyRfF-S-I.ord pundrearN-
MsnIS0N .4o-The Worth OF w
MADISoN SQUARE GARDEN-lo q. II. 10 II D. M
Sportsmans show
s1s-Fandsnna Land
MANHATTAN OPERA HoCSf---s-Aocla u ~
xFTRoFo1ITAN OPERA HCUSE-s-Paghacci pre-
cedea bv Hsensel und Cretel --.u-
AM-s.1 .15-The Merry H.uoN-
NF-yN NCTRCI-F-e:l5-I>onesome Town
New -2a-Tlse Soul Kiss :, ,.o
SaToY-s-A Broth and twenty Days "' NY
ST NICHOLAS RINK-Ice Skating sessions
sTf-yKFSANT-s:l5-A Grand Army Man
MAIL Af~K'S-s. s.ao-A knight for a Dsv -, ,..x-r
wFRr,R's MUSIC HALI-s:15-Burlesque OF Ihe 'i'''
New-York tribune., 1908-02-21

present proposal is simply that the Senate snail
share that authority with the Executive.
There may be felt by some fear that thls
system will delay arbitral proceedings and even
forbid arbitration in some cases in which IL
might appropriately be exercised. On the other
hand 1t is not inconcevable that thus some
indiscreet proposals of arbitration may De
checked or profitably amended; and 1t would
probably be better to decline arbitration IN half
a dozen legitimate cases than to resort to IL
improperly in a single case, since the FORMER
would at worst cause regret that arbitration
was not adopted, while the latter would cast
discredit upon arbitration and arouse prejudice
against it. Certainly we may regard with
favorable anticipations any practice which VIII
fix the mind of the Senate as well as OF the
Executive upon peaceful means of international
settlements and which will associate the whole
government as completely as possible with such
enlightened methods. The great desideratuih
is not merely to have as many disputes as pos
sible disposed of by arbitration. but TO nave all
arbItraI proceedings, whether they be Few or
MANY. amply authorized and their verdicts
Loyalty accepted in the fullest possible degree,
not merely by few special neSotiators, but Dy
the whole government and the entire nation
New-York tribune., 1908-02-21
BOB.

We observe with some surprise, not unnfn-
gled with a certain exhilarating anticipation Of
| much fun, disposition on the part Of various
| misguided Democrats in New Jersey to attempt
| TO minimize the Importance of the Hon. Robert
| Davis as a party leader and the guide.
| philosopher and friend of the Peerless Colonel
Bryan. 1t will he recalled that short time
| ago Colonel Bryan visited Jersey City and i'm
parted to that community one of his justly ad-
mired addresses on topics other than that of
| the immediate and unlimited coinage of silver at
the ratio of 16 to 1, and that the Hon. Robert
Davis served as the orators cicerOne and spon-
sor on that occasion, thus making his guest the
Logical Candidate of the New Jersey Democ-
racy and himself the logical leader of that party
In the state: in addition, incidentally, so they
say out Essex County way. to putting the nose
of the Hon. James Smith. ir., conspicuously and
irremediably out of joint
To this, however, some take exception; IS
witness the Hon. William B. Gourley. who may
be remembered as at one time the chairman
of the Democratic State Committee and who
now holds the ornamental Snecure of New Jer-
sey's member of the Democratic National Com
mittee. He speaks slightingly of even the
Peerless One, while for the Hon Robert
Davis, he makes him the target for all the
scorn and contumely which a brevet member Of
the Down and Out Club can pitch. chuck. shy
anu DtleTNlSS cast upon tue HIdn WHO is Oh Top
of things. He declares that it is ridiculous for
this boss to attempt to voice the principles
of Democracy" and that after the record which
he made last year "he ought to be pretty lucky
"if he gets into the convention himself.
This type of boss must go. He is an anach-
'TonSn.'
TO all of which the judcious will say Pooh,
BAH Likewise, ''PishI Tushr Also, in the
transfuvia vernacular. "Shucks" 'This boss"
forSOoth Why, the Hon Robert Davis is The
Boss the only one He is, as Isaac H. Bromley
once observed of somebody else, "the Head
Centre, the Hub, the King Pin. the Main
spring, Mogul. and Mugwump' of New Jersev
Democracy. He is It, bob hook and sinker. AS
for the record which he made last year, if our
recollection serves us Alright and if present
observation is accurate, the Hon. Robert Davis
got his man elected Mayor of Jersey City and
consequently himself appointed to the Office
which he wanted. In the name of Andrew
Jackson what better record from the point of
view of pure and unterrifed Democracy, could
a man make? Who could better voice the prin-
ciples of the hungry and thirsty Democracy
than the one who alone of all succeeded in put
ting those principles into practice by getting
into the public crib?
However one point may agree with
the Hon. Mr. Gourley He says that this kind
of boss is an anachrOnsm. Yes. now that we
come TO think of it. We had ourselves noticed
that it has for some time been quite out of style
for Democratic bosses to win elections and get
offices, and one who does it must be regarded
quaint survival of a long past age.
New-York tribune., 1908-02-21
WILL or LOYAL L. SMITH FILED

The will OF Loyal L. Smith. OF Nc. IlS MADISON
avenue who died at Atlantic City February II
was filed for probate yesterday His orcths''
Floyd l. Smith. OF West Chazy. y Y. receives
$4,000 the city OF Plattsburg receives $'""', th'
Plattsburg City Hospital S225 01o. and the fouhs
Mems Christian Association Of PlattSburg. NSS'V'-
Alexander = w Kinnan, Of the executors. >
a beneficiary for $500. the Wesleyan Methoas'
Church. OF Pattsburg. SSeCo the Samuel r Was
Home, Of Plattsburg. SJdoe. and the Home OF th'
Friendless. Plattsburg. &oe0o- There are many os-
quests 10 relatives.
Should the reSiGuary estate not amount to s""-
Oc0. IL Is TO DE- paid over Floyd l. smith oe'
should II be more than that the balance y
to be paid 10 the Title Guarantee and Trust COM
pany. trustees Of the Loyal L. Smith Esiueau0n
Fund. for the education of boys and yoHns men
ot Clinton County. y. Y.
New-York tribune., 1908-02-21
AT THE WHITE HOUSE.
IFrom The Tribune Bureau.1

tFrom The Tribune Bureau1
Washington, Feb 20.-The President this after
noon received Baron Kogoro Takahira the Am
bessador from Japan The reception took place in
the Blue Parlor, and Secretary Root made the fos-
NAL introduction.
Charles G. Burton. commander in chief of the
Grand Army of the Republic. headed a delegation
of veterans that called the President to urge
his support of the widows pension bill. The Presi-
dent told the old soldiers that he was in sympathy
with the measure.
Other callers at the White House were Secre-
taries Taft, WILSON, Metcalf and Garfield Senators
Long and Smoct, Representatives CaufeId Hob
son. Crumpacker Cooper. Padgett and Langley w
W. Rockhill, Minister to China; Senator Mulkey
Of Oregon: Ex-Governor Bates of Massachusetts
AMI Internal Revenue Commissioner Capers
New-York tribune., 1908-02-21

'"The Charleston News and Courier" suggests
that after the Kentucky Legislature has ao-
journed without electing a United States Sen
ator "Beckham might cut the Gordan knot py
appointing himself "Beckham wants the
office" it adds. land in the politics of THESE
times blessed is the man who helps hlmsel-
This programme might be feasible except Ioi
two facts In the first place the United States
Senate declines to recognize the right of a Gov
ernor to fill a vacancy when the Legislature has
had an opportunity to fill it. but has failed to
make use of that opportunity. In the second
nlace Mr. Beckhan, is not now Governor of Ken
tuckv and could not exercise the power of ap-
pointment even if such power were to be rec
ognfzed by the upper house of Congress-
New-York tribune., 1908-02-21
THE CASE OF GENER4L sTOEssEJ

The case OF General Stoessel NAV not be
unique but 1t certainly is exceptional. We have
seen many courts martial amid the aftermath
OF wars, and men who were at first acclaimed
as heroes revealed afrerward as common and
base clay. We have seen sieges and campaigns
refOught before tribunals with the judgments
of the actual battlefields sometimes reversed
and sometimes confirmed. But not in our day
we think. has another man been so suddenly
cast down from the highest pinnacle of praise
TO the lowest depth of contempt and condem-
nation has General Stoessel or has the
aspect of another great military achievement
been SO completely and so rudey transformed
During the siege of Port Arthur and for a
time afterward General Stoessel was regarded
by the world at large Of the foremost
and truly heroic figures of that war on the
Russian sice-a man whose enduring virtue and
stubborn valor went far toward redeeming the
Russian army from the repr0acheS which un-
worthy leaders, demoralized forces and sue
cessive disasters brought upon it. When the
awfnI defeats of Moukdca snd the Liao-Yang
New-York tribune., 1908-02-21
IN WASHINGTON SOCIETY,"
The Tribune Bureau.1

Washington. Feb 20.-There were. as usual few
large dinner parties preceding the Presidents re-
ceptiOn tonight. entertainments generally being
confined to small and early affairs the hosts after
ward taking their guests to the White House.
Mr.. and Mrs. Franklin Ellis had to dine with
them the Minister from Belgium and Baroness
Moncheur Senator Aldrich Associate Justice
Moody, the French Counsellor and Nine des
Portes de la Fosse, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Keep
Mr.. and Mrs. Pierre Lorillard. Mr. and Mrs. Purdy
Mr.. and Mrs. Woodbury. Blair. Mr. and Mrs Hugh
Legare. Miss Josephine Patten. Baron HaymerIe
Ne and Mrs. John Wilkins, Miss Wetmore and Mr.
DO AmaraI
New-York tribune., 1908-02-21

Major General and Mrs. j.
Franklin Bell
Captain and Mrs. NJ F.
Bell.
Major General and Mrs. r.
c. Ainsworth.
Brigadier General and Mrs
j. B. Aleshire.
Miss NJ. ID. Aleshire.
Miss d. d. Aleshige.
Brigadier General James
Allen.
Brigadler General William
CroZier.
Mrs. J. Z. Reyburn.
Brigadier General and Mrs.
George p. Davis.
Major General and Mrs.
William 2. Duvall.
Brigadier General and Mrs
w. S. Edgerly.
Brigadier General and Mrs.
C. r. Edwards
Brigadier General and Mrs.
Ernest A Darlington
Miss Darlington
Miss Harriet Nauman-
Majer General and Mrs. F.
.. Grant.
Captain A. ]. Bowley.
Brigadier General and Mrs.
William P Hall
Brigs dier General Alexander
Mackenzie.
Brigadier General and Mrs.
Arthur Murray.
Brigadier General and Mrs.
Robert NJ. O'Reilly.
Brigadier General and Mrs.
Henry G. Sharpe.
Brigadier General and Mrs.
Charles III. WhippIe.
BrigaGier General and Mrs.
William ". Wotherspoon.
Brigadier General John NJ.
Wilson.
The Admiral of the Navy
and Mrs. Dewey.
Commander and Mrs. s. S.
Wood.
The Chief Of the Bureau of
Navigation and Mrs.
PillsburT.
The Judge Advocate Gen
eral and Mrs. Campbell.
The Chief Constructor of
the Navy.
Rear Admiral and Mrs.
Richardson Glover.
Miss Dora Glover.
Miss Beatrice Glover.
Rear Admiral A. r. Cou-
den.
The Chief of the Bureau of
Equipment and Mrs.
The Chief IF the Bureau OF
Yards and Docks and
Mrs. Hollyday.
Rear Admiral an! Mrs. 2
II. c. Leutze.
Miss Leutze.
The Chief Of the Bureau Of
Ordnance and Mrs.
Mazor.
Miss Murray.
New-York tribune., 1908-02-21
PERVERTED INGENUITY.
springfield Republican.

England was rather in advance of America in de-
manding honest names for drugs and articles OF
food, and recent heavy penalty has dealt
serious blow to the profitable traffic In spurious
Havana cigars The stale trick resorted to of
adding qualifying word; 'Habana rivals" the
cigars were called, with rivals in small print
and IT was ccntended that the meaning not
that the cigars were Havanas. but that they
T1Fhlted HaVanas in merit. But this excuse did
not appeal to the court The movement for
honesty In trade is incidentally educational
movement for the honest of the English
language. Much perverted ingenuity has gone 10
the invention of deceptive phrases. and get rid
or such auiobles Is sturdy upward step in com
mercial ethics.
New-York tribune., 1908-02-21
GOV. FOLK TO ADDRESS CIVIC FORUM

Governor Joseph w Folk of Missouri will speak
at Carnegie Hall next Tuesday night before the
Civic Forum. His subject will be The Era of
Conscience" Ex-Justice Morgan J. OBrien will
preside. Governor Folks speech Will be followed
by the usual free forall discussion Governor Folk
will be in New York for only two days as ne is
in the heat of contest for the Senatorship from
Missouri with Senator William j. Stone
New-York tribune., 1908-02-21
ST. PATRICk's CHURCH CENTENARY

In anticipation OF the Tooth anniversary of the
laying OF the cornerstone Of ST. Patrick's Church
in Mulberry street several Of the parishoners have
formed the St Patricks Society and have issued
an appeal 20 all parshioners and ex-parishoners
TO attend The celebration will be held June S.
1903 and Will be attended by many prominent New
Workers.
ST. Patricks was the first cathedral church estab-
lished In New York The. society which has lust
been formed will hold meetings on the third Thurs
day of each month in the school building, No. "a
Mulberry street.
New-York tribune., 1908-02-21
The DUCHESS DUES SAILS.

The Duchess dues. sister OF the Due de Chaui$
nes who recently married Miss Thsodora Shonts
in this city. sailed for France yesterday on tns
French liner La Bretagne. accompanied BY Princs
Galitzin. the Dues uncle
The Due and Duchesse de ChaUlneS we're at ths
pier when la Bretagne sailed The Duchess dCEes
said she would have remained longer in this coun~
try and was anxious to see more OF the Cniter
States but the illness OF her compelled her To
return
New-York tribune., 1908-02-21
JUSTICE BREWER SPEAKS TOMORROW.

David ]. Brewer. justice OF the Supreme Court os
the United States. is deliver address ro-nlor-
evening Cooper Union. under the auspices
of the Board of Education. His subject viii 20
Quantity and Quality in the Natiop." and VII %
free the public The address will De given ID
connection with the celebration by the Board ob
Education of Washington's Birthday Many lect-
patriotic subjects have been arranged !"
the various boroughs for tomorrow night.
New-York tribune., 1908-02-21
AN ICICLE FACTORY.
From The Pathfinder.

In Austria ice sticks manufactured at a
profit series of poles Is arranged so that the
water will fall slowly over each one in the series
OF course, the water in the winter time freezes
forming large icicles. When the cices have at
tained the proper size the employees of the ice
plant" come around with carts, break Off the great
sticks OF ice and haul them away to a place where
they put in storage. or course it is much
easier to handle large quantity of ice in this
way than it is to cut it from some stream and
then pack ii away There may, however be
difference in quality between stick ice and lake or
ice
New-York tribune., 1908-02-21
AMBASSADOR REID SAILS.

Whiteaw Reid, Ambassador to the Court of ST.
Jamess. sailed for England the White Star
liner Baltic yesterday afternoon. My vacation
benefited greatly in health" he said 'and I
going back with the expectation of getting into
hard work 1 have enjoyed my stay in my own
country very much, and return to England with
the feeling that business conditions will reach
the normal here"
New-York tribune., 1908-02-21
SOCIAL NOTES FROM NEWPORT.

IBy Telegraph The Tribune.l
Newport. r. l., Feb. 20.-NIrs. Austin Sands left
Newport to-day for New York where she intends
to spend the remainder of the winter.
Guy Norman and Maxwell Norman OF Boston,
New-York tribune., 1908-02-21
THE PRESIDENTS RECEPTION.
TFrom The Tribune Burean.l

Washington Feb 20-Flags. martial music ana
full dress military uniforms distinguished tne re-
ception at the White House tonight from all the
other state receptions given by the Presioeht anu
Mrs Roosevelt 1t was the largest and most prli-
liant of this winters series. All the nigher oih-
GERS of both services present, with huiioieuS
of the Junior officers of the two branches' ana di
unusual number of out-of-town Visitors- ihe' Z
were few flowers used. the United states nag anu
those of the President, the Secretary OF war anu
the Secretary of the Navy furnishing suiIcien'
decorations while the scarlet uniforms OF the MI
rjne Band in the marble entresol ana the iohs
Grecian receptacles in the CORRIDOR hled VIII"
tropical foliage, gave diversified erect Inc pres
entation of Mr. Takahira. the new Japanese Aih-
bassador swelled the number OF diplomats OF MS
rank and there present the French Ahods-
sador with his staff, the Brazilian Amosssador
with his staff and the Russian Ambassador whhe
nearly all foreign ministers credited 10 WASH
ington attended the reception, accompanied Dy
their STATS.
After the President and Mrs Roosevelt marcned
to the Blue Room, accompanied by the Nice-Pres-
;dent and Mrs Fairbanks and the members OF the
Cabinet and their wives, the reception began oy
the presentation of Admiral Dewey and Major
General Bell. ranking officers of the navy and the
arny and the prominent diplomats who attended
Among the guests especially invited 10 the blue
Room