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Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-04-09
LEAVE BLUEFIELD.
EAST BOUND.

1910 a. N. for Roanoke, Lynchburg.
Norfolk and all points on Shenandoah
Division. Pullman sleeper and Cafe Car
20 Roanoke. Pullman sleeper Roanoke to
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Roanoke and Norfolk.
500 a. m. daily for East Radford, Roam.
oke and Norfolk. Pullman Parlor
car Roanoke and Norfolk.
2:55 p. IN. daily for Roanoke, Lynchbure
and intermediate stations and the Shen.
ancOah Valley. Pullman sleeper Gary
to Philadelphia via Hagerstown. Cafe car.
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Richmond, Norfolk. Pullman sleeper TO
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Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-04-09
Crime In England.
(Chicago Tribune.l

A recently published report of the
criminal statistics for an English wear
indicates that there has been a notable
relative decrease in crimes during the
last half century. The year 1906 saw
practically the same numbers of thefts
and crimes of violence as was recorded
for 1857. Between the too dates the
population of the country has grown
from $4,000, 900 to 81, OOO, 900. Making
comparison, it appears that crime has
decreased about 40 per cent. 1t is
pity that so much can not be said
Tor this country, where there is q
frlghtful increase of some forms of
crime.
Just why there should be such a
state of things is a matter for the So
biologists. The improvement in the
facilities for education is mentioned as
one reason for the steady decrease in
crimes. Englishmen never have been
so given to homicide and the greater
crimes as the people of the Southern
European states, for the instance. In
other respects, too, they seem to be
becoming more law-abiding as the
years go by. Fairly homogeneous in
race, they do not have the problem
which the United States has to face.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-04-09

Next Tuesday is horse market day.
Seed Oatsl
Clinch Valley M;llino 70
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-04-09
DISSOLUTION NOTICE.

l hereby give notice that have sold
my interest in the firm Of C. w. Bal
q Co., heretofore doing business at
Raven, Tazewell county, Va; and that
have nothing more to do with the bus
mess of the concern.
J. w. HERNDoN.
March 10Th, 19O8.-4w
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-04-09

The Big Store.
HARRISON & Gillespie Bros.
See notice of meeting of stockholders
of the Clinch Valley Coal and Iron Co.
in this issue of the Republican.
EASTER TIES!
The silk worms best effort.
HARRISON & Gillespie Bros.
Mrs C. F. Tynes and little son.
James, of Bluefeld, were visiting rela-
tives at Tazewell this week.
Our Easter neckwear display is well
worth seeing.
Harrison & Gillespie Bros.
Mrs. Mamie Walker, who had spent
the past winter with relatives in Texas.
has returned to her home at Tazewell.
mi, Good dEessers always keep an eye on
The Big Store.
Harrison & Gillespie Bros.
There will be services at Stras Memo
rial church on next Sunday morning,
April 18th, by Rev. ]. ]. Lloyd. All
are invited.
We have never had a complaint of
Great Western Sheep Dip when il was
used according to directions.
Jackson's Drug Store.
Messrs. Kincer & Vermillion are now
busily engaged building the stone foun-
dation for the new residence of Mr.. r.
c. Chapman.
Queen Quality shoes are made in an
endless variety of shapes and for all
the different types and sizes of feet.
Harrison & Gillespie Bros.
Moses Dickinson, colored, died very
suddenly at his home in this place on
Wednesday morning. The funeral and
burial services took place today.
The best styles in Jap and China mat
ting are being taken up very quickly.
DOM put off buying, come now.
Harrison & Gillespie Bros.
Rev. H. M. Fugate, former pastor of
the Baptist Church at this place, but
now residing at Farmville, Va, is visit
ing his many friends at Tazewell this
week.
We have on hands at our mill large
stock of feed of all kinds at very close
prices. Come and see.
Clinch Valley Milling Co.,
North Tazewell, Va.
There will be a special conclave of
Clinch Valley Commandery, No. 20, K.
T., on next Monday night, April 18th.
All Sir Knights are requested to be
present.
YOUNG MEN!
Do you know that we are carrying
now three lines Of the very best high
grade shoes for men from So. 90 to Sc. 90
a pair?
Harrison & Gillespie Bros.
H. W. Crockett, of Shraders, was at
Tazewell on Monday. He left on the
afternoon train for the Republican
State Convention, which was held at
Lynchburg yesterday.
Old-fashioned, underground corn
meal, made from selected corn. thor
oughly cleaned, abolted or unbolted.
Wholesale prices to merchants.
Clinch Valley Milling Co.,
North Tazewell, Va.
Recollect that the next salesday of
the Tazewell Horse Market will be on
next Tuesday, the 14th inst. The farm
ers ought to take an interest in this en-
terprise. Bring your horses and mules
here next Tuesday if you have any for
sale, and come any how.
We have just heard of the death of
Mr.. Samuel Peak at his home in Burkes
Garden, which occurred yesterday af-
ternoon about 4 o'clock. Mr.. Peak had
been ill for about three months and the
end was not unexpected. He was 81
years of age and had lived in Burkes
Garden for a number of years. We
regret that we are unable to give full
details of his sickness and death, but
we could not get them. He is survived
by his wife and one daughter, to whom
we wish to extend our deepest sympa-
thy In their loss of loving husband
and father.
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In the garden of "Elzabeth's House." Brixton Hill, in England, are said to have been grown the first potatoes in Europe. A rival site. however, Is that of Lord Burghley's old garden in the Strand. In favor of the former 1t may be said that Sir Walter Raleigh, who shares with Sir Francis Drake the honor of first in- troducing the potato in England, lived at Brixton Hill near 'Elizabeths House." Formby, in Lancashire, also claims the honor of being the site of the first cul- ture of the potato in England.
 They are said to have been grown there by Formby man, who sailed with Sir Walter. The earliest cultivation of the potato in the British Isles was probably at Youghal, on the south coast of Ireland, where this navigator had an estate. It has been generally accepted that the potato was brought from Virginia, and that it was cultivated there by the na- lives.
 Sir Joseph Banks and De Condelle both lent the weight of their authority to this view. But 1t has been ascertained that the Indians of Virginia, though they used
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wide berth when the shades of night have fallen. The stones at the northern cor ner of the house, where is located tue room occupied by the fair daughter of the French family that dwelt there over a century ago, are much whiter than the others. And the present occupants, people no more superstitious than the ay- craze say that about once a year a scraping noise can be heard in that cor ner of the building as though spirit hands were scrubbing the stones. In the morn ing the stones are wet. while the rest of the exterior of the building is dry and shows no change in color
 At the present time, at Fondavera, there is a red Irish setter whose actions are, to say the least, not recognized as normal by the best society of the canine world. The colored people declare the dog Is insane. And his attenuated frame, shifting eyes. quivering unrest and strange erratie actions seem to support that theory. The animal will suddenly dart aside as though lodging blow from an unseen hand. Again, it rushes madly
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expense; but more important than that, loss of time. Time plays a most i'm portant part In the transportation of coal, for practically all of the vessels in the business are under charter and every minute must therefore be taken into con- sideration.
 From the yard on the shore end of the piers the loaded coal cars are pushed out on the top platform of the pier and are stopped directly over trap door, be- heath which is the chute that leads to the vessels. hatchway. Then the bottom of the car 'is dropped out and the coal gushes down. In order to prevent the coal falling too swiftly and to prevent the large Jumps from either breaking up or injuring the vessel there are here and there checks.
 As the cars are emptled they are shunted to the outer end of the pier, where they are sent on turn table which swings them over on another track, and they return by gravity through the cen ter of the pier to the yard whence they came. The operating of the cars Is done largely by mechanical power or gravity. When one of the piers Of the Western Maryland Railroad was built it was found that the shore approach would be too steep to permit engines pushing the cars to the top of the pier. as is done at the other piers, so a rather ingenious plan was resorted to. Under the approach thera was set up a steam engine which operates cable that leads from the top of the platform to the ground and on the lower end of the cable is barney
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rectly in breathing, and when this has been thoroughly mastered the voice is not only fully supported for the present, out for the years to come.
 Not single artist can be pointed out whose voice has stood the strain of many years hard work but has correctly used the diaphragm in breathing. The cause of many singers voices going after being few years before the public is incorrect breathing.
 Let the student lie fiat on his back, with hls head directly on the floor, and arms outsretebed behind his head. Take a deep breath attending the diaphragm to it's fullest ext4nt. Next exhale slowly. pressing, from the bottom of the lungs, drawing the diaphragm inwards to com mence with ald upward to the finish,
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had already chosen his bride, the church But his strength was as the strength of ten. And so his love burned into the ashes of outlived heartbreakings, or found solace and rest in that "peace of God that passeth all understanding And 30, too, with the beautiful French girl, for, though she returned his love, the story runs, she fretted out her life in silence through all the years.
 HER SPIRIT HAUNTS THE ROOM.
 Even to this day. the legend continues, the maiden's soul haunts the room which in life was warmed by her presence. They say she has been seen, on the nights when the priest has kept his lonely vigil, standing in the low French window that faces the chapel half-hidden in the shadow and the ilmy curtain. There she stands with clasped hands and burning eyes gazing longingly, tearfully at the restless priest love-tortured, pacing to
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How to Train the Singing Voice.

until the air is forced from the lungs.
 It is good exercise for the student to practice 20 times every morning before dressing, with the window open, in order to insure pure, not vitiated, air entering the lungs. A common fault with students and one likely to cause endless trouble Is that they press out the bottom of the lungs against the diaphragm when exhal- ing, consequently they are trying to press the air upward over the vocal chords and downward at the same time, which natur- ally causes the voice to sound pinched.
 The lungs must be treated as a tube of paint. Press the tube at the end, follow on and the entire contents will be ex- hausted; but squeeze the tube in the middle and only part Is used, portion remaining in the bottom of the tube.
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bucket arrangement is unsatisfactory.
 There are practically but two methods that have been found to be satisfactory. One is the rather crude bucket and the other the modern dredge. In the former operation iron buckets, each holding about half a ton, are lowered into the hold from the end Of a crane and filled by shovels. With the dredge a machine not unlike that used in deepening channels Is used, only the dipper part is operated from a crane on a high trestle or pier. The dip per drops into the hatchway and grabs a couple of tons of coal at a time. As 1t lifts the crane swings and the coal Is deposited into hopper cars that take it either to the storage yards or else to it's final destination. Although the dredge does away with more men than the buck cts, there Is nevertheless employment for large gangs of shovelers, who pile the coal beneath the matches that the dipper may get 1t.
 The colliers are also of interest. Among the sailing vessels most of the craft are schooners ranging from the modest kttle two-master to the giant with six masts. The seven -masted schooner Thomas W. Lawson, which was lost on one of the Scilly Islands, was built for the coast wise coal trade, but she proved to be a bit too large.
 The barges that are lowed from port to port by powerful tugs are largely relics of the days of square triggers. Most of the barges were originally sailing ves- sels that had met with misfortune and not considered worth the expense of fit- ting out again so as to withstand the strains of sailing. These vessels are cas- fly converted into barges. The saving off of the bowsprit, the cutting down of the masts and the building of a deck house on the poop, and the floating cof- fin," as sailors call barge, is ready to go to sea.
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HN ICH in romance. fable and legend,
 the abode of French king while NN In exile. the scene of the occasional wanderings of the spirits of an old mis- sion priest and his sweetheart, a fair French maiden whom the mandates of the church kept from the arms of her priestly lover, and the dwelling place of q dog, said to be insane. that obeys un- heard commands and at times accom- panies his spirit master in a ghostly yigll-such is Fondavera, the oldest resi- dence on the historic Bardstown pike, two miles distant from Louisville, Ky.
 The house is indeed travesty on its name, for the Spanish word ''Fonda," meaning place of rest" and Vera" the Russian word meaning 'fn all truth" were never more misapplied than to this quaint old building around which the eolored people of the neighborhood de clare the restless spirits of its former occupants roam at midnight and re-enact the turbulent scenes of their past lives.
 THE OLD STONE HOUSE.
 This "place of unrest" as 1t might more appropriately be called is built of huge slabs of rough-hewn, white stone
 
 years that have sifted down their toning compound of winter snows, summer show CTS and golden floods of sunshine over the sloping roof and long narrow French windows set deep in their massive frames Many of the stones are 10 feet in length and all are from two to three feet thick A new roof and a frame porch have been added by the present occupants, who are interested in the growing of ginseng Over the sun-tanned face of the stone at the rear of the building the slow-creeping ivy has draped it's evergreen veil, through which the glass of the quaint French windows gleam like crystal eyes, resent full of concealment.
 Close by, as was the custom of the devout French, stands a little chapel like a sentinel, keeping watch over those who dwelt within the old chateau. We'll set, deep-creviced and boldly outlined in it's huge blocks of stone is a Latin cross, emblematic of the religion taught within when those sturdy first settlers hewed their lonesome way through the wilder ness to rest upon the fertile lands of Kentucky. In the yellowed leaves of an old history called "The French Mis- sions In Kentucky" Fondavera is men, tioned as the home of a wealthy French family who built the place prior to 179S Close by the chapel and almost under the great cross, carved deep in the mas sive stone, is a weeping willow tree, be- heath whose dropping branches is buried the body of one of the French mission priests, who long years ago followed the call of the Christ Child Into the Ken lucky wilds.
 SHROUDED IN MYSTERY.
 The place seems shrouded In mystery, and the negroes living nearby give 1t a
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A resonant speaking voice is essential to good speaking. If one does not articu- late clearly fin speaking, the same defect will be noticeable in singing, as the same muscles are used in both instances. The Italian language, with its open vowel sounds, is the easiest to sing in. Conse- quently 1t Is easier for an Italian child to sing without training than an English one, as tho former has been used to speak with an open throat from infancy.
 As an open throat is essential to good singing, 1t follows that one speaking con tinually a guttural or throatly language has some difficulty in producing the full open sounds necessary in singing. The first essential to student Of singing is correct breathing, which is the basis of she art. The diaphragm must be used cor
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and other parts of the hold. Then, when the last carload has been dumped the men trim the cargo off level on top and from one end to the other so that the vessel is evenly loaded.
 The trimming of vessel is an exceed ingly important work, for sailing craft especially, as if the vessel is not loaded on her sailing lines she will make poor headway, to say nothing of her being difficult to manage in high sea.
 In loading vessels that are going coast wise 1t makes little difference whether the coal be dry or wet, but when yes sel is to carry coal foreign or around the Horn to San Francisco, then the loading becomes a very serious matter, for every ounce of coal that goes into her must pc absolutely dry, otherwise on such long voyages there is danger of spontaneous combustion.
 Spontaneous combustion is one Of the peculiar features of bituminous coal, and even when stored in piles on shore 1t Is liable to self-ignition. So great is this danger that even railroads that use i'm nense quantities do not care to keep any great quantity on hand. while the miners preler to get IL oh oi 'Nei' ~ as soon as 1t is taken out. Sealed Tn q vessels hold for a dozen weeks or more the danger of the coal igniting is all the greater, and not few coal-laden vessels have been destroyed by fire, due, primari- ly, to the coal having been wet or damp when loaded.
 The unloading of collier is just as in teresting as the loading. In the taking out of a cargo of grain the process is Just the reverse of putting It in, for the endless chain buckets and the tubes that shoot it in suck it out With the dis charging of coal there is marked diff ference, for there has not yet been de- vised any suction pump that will answer the requirements, and the endless chain
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cannot come within five feet of him, for he's off in an instant. But it is at night that the animals actions are strangest. Then it walks up and down the path leading from the mission chapel to the baywindow in the house of Fondavera, whining in a low, gruesome tone. Af- ter a final run to the willow tree, it crawls into an old empty box there, curls up and goes to sleep as would any sane, healthy dog. The animal has never been able to stand fre'' and hence Is of no value in the hunting field.
 Though 1t is hard to believe in the pres ent day, there are those dwelling near Fondavera who say that not once, but several times in their lives, they have seen a most marvellous and "creepy' e1- hibition of ghost walking" at the old chateau.
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are being built faster than they are lost and the number in service is constantly increasing.
 So important Is the bituminous indus try that there is not day in the year when there is any cessation and it is only when furious gales along the coast make it dangerous do the vessels fail to go
 For one who has never seen the opera tion of placing several thousand tons of coal on a vessel a visit 10 one of the load ing piers is well worth while. These piers are immense wooden structures GO or more feet high, and extending from 50o feet to 600 feet out into the water. so that two large craft may lay on either side at the same time.
 From the top of the pier and along the sides every 20 feet extend the chutes, not unlike the chutes with which household coal is dumped from the coal cart Co the
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From the double portals of the chapel, down the path leading to the window in the room formerly occupied by the French girl. they say, a ghost of a mission priest, presumably the one buried under the old willow. has been seen to walk His tall, vaporish figure, wrapped in It's coarse, brown cowl moves with stately, measured tread. From his hands a TO- sary sways as the long, nervous fingers tell off the Ave Maria" and "Pater Nos ter"
 And there is a strange, pathetic legend told about this restless spirit of the church. In the long ago he loved, so the story runs. It was a love that burned with all the intense fire of repression, for he never spoke of it, not even when the dark eyes of the young French girl were lifted to his with their story bursting forth through the limpid windows of her soul. The stern voice of duty-to his church and his God-sealed his lips, for he was a mission priest true to his high calling, and she one of his faithful com municants. He had looked upon the face of woman and dared to love i-he who
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cellar, only they are much wider and heavier, requiring considerable effort to operate them. Since they are arranged with series of counterweights they can be handled with comparative ease The object in having so many chutes is that no matter how long vessel may be there will always be one chute that will lead direct into it's hatchway.
 While the moving of a steamer few feet forward or backward is a small mat ter. as she can be moved by her own power. the shifting of a large sailing vessel requires tug. This would mean
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full speed was put on, and the airship travelled splendidly. The pilot tried the new steering apparatus, and found 1t to answer we'll the twin rudders sending the nose of the airship to the right and left promptly and surely while the keel like attachment which turns the whole length of the underpart of the balloon, insured perfect steadiness. After execut- ing various maneuvers, the airship took a wider circle, the wind which was blow ing about eight miles an hour, having no appreciable effect upon the course. The s'Nully Secundus H." is 150 feet long, about. 50 feet in diameter, and ends in blunt points. She is more than mere gas bag.
 Low down on either side, near the stern, are large horizontal fins, which can be adjusted to different angles for ascent. Right after are two rudders. The greatest novelty is the tapering keel under the balloon. to which 1t is joined.
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For some time it was known that ex- periments in aviation were being secret ly conducted by Colonel Capper at Alder shot, near London, so when the news came of Count Zeppelin's success near Geneva British officers wore self-con- fdent smile, and now the smile has been explained to the public by the success full achievement of a new military air ship called "Nul,y Secundus H." The pub lie demonstration took place in the pres ence of a crowd of 5000 persons. The new airship, at least as far as the gas envelope is concerned, is constructed from the wreck of an old one, which came to grief during secret experiment. After rising about 200 feet, one of the swing ing tow ropes got caught in the pro- pellers, and stoppage and descent were necessitated. Again the airship rose, and. with her propellers working half their speed.
 After rising to about 600 or 700 feet,