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

The plans and specifications for the
Iazewell High School Building having
been revised, bids for the erection Of
same will be received by the Jefferson
vile District School Board until Friday
September 18th at noon. Plans and
specifications may be seen at old school
building. Bids will be opened in the af-
ternoon of the 18th. The bidder must
state clearly and distinctly the amount
which they will allow for the material
In the old building as it stands, and also
state what amount they will allow off
their bids if the old building is torn
down by the board and such material as
is suitable for the new building put into
proper shape by said board; also what
difference they will make in their bids
If entire building is removed from the
grounds BY the board. The successful
bidder will be required to give bond in
double the amount of his bid, and the
board reserves the right to reject any
or all bids.
By order of the Board.
J. H. LEWIS, Clerk.
Jeffersonville District School Board.
Tazewell, Va, Sept. 2, 1908.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-09-03
Award Premiums For ScaIps.

AT meeting of the Board of Super
visors, of Tazewell county, held on
Tuesday, the 9th of June, 1903. the
board, acting under authority of an Act
OF the General Assembly of Virginia.
approved March 14th, 1908, ordered that
premiums for scalps be awarded as fol-
lows: Ten dollars for each wolf scalp;
one dollar and fifty cents for each scalp
OF wild cat, catamount or red fox;
seventy-five cents for each scaln of
gray fox, and fifty cents for each scaln
of chicken hawk or owl, except screech
owl, upon satisfactory evidence that the
same were, respectively, killed within
the limits of the county, and by the per
son in whose behalf the same NAV be
presented. to DC paid on vorrant of
said board on the county treasurer.
F. THOMPSON.
o-ll-OS Chairman Board.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-09-03
Trespass Notice.

All persons are hereby notified not to
treepass on any of my lands situated in
Tazewell county, Va, on the Coal Branch,
two miles wet of Pocahontss, and known
as the Hugh Dillon place.
John W. Moore.
aog29yl
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-09-03
TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS.

A big Tablet at Jackson's for cents.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. r. Brown and family
are visiting relatives in Burkes Garden
this week.
LADIESl
How about a handsome tailor made
suit for the fair? We have them.
Harrison & Gillespie Bros.
r. c. Chapman has returned from
New York, after spending three weeks
there purchasing his Fall stock of goods.
Misses Anna May Black, of Norfolk.
Va, and Mary Fowler, of Pittsburg,
Pa, are the guests of DR.. and Mrs.
Isaac Pierce.
New styles, new shapes-Queen Quail
ity Shoes for the Fall season-iust ar
rived at The Big Store.
Harrison & Gillespie Bros.
Mrs. Jean johnson and children. of
Rsdford, Va, are visiting her parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. J. May, and other
relatives at this place.
Gage Y. Kelly, who has a position
with the Turner Drug Company, of
Bristol, is visiting his parents, Rev. and
Mrs. W. H. Kelly, at Unaka.
LADIESl
Our new tailor made suits, skirts and
coats are coming in now. We want
you to see them.
Harrison & Gillespie Bros.
There will be services at Stras Me-
mortal Church on Sunday morning, Sep
TENDER 9Th, at IL o'clock. All are in
vited. Rev. Chss. W. Sydnor, Rector.
Send US your next order for Job work
we are in a position to do it lust a
little better and a little cheaper than
any other printing Office in this section.
Send for price list
Mr.. 1. L. Pruett, a native of Bland
county, died at his home at Ingleside,
W. Va, on Sunday last, aged 81 years.
He served in the 45th Virginia Regiment
of Infantry during the four years of
Civil War, and was brave soldier.
DR.. J. Henry Thompson has been ap-
pointed assistant physician at the Bots
sevain plant of the Pocahontas Consoli-
dated Galleries Co. DR.. Thompson is
well known at Tazewell, and his many
friends here rejoice at his good fortune.
The Sunday School of the Christian
church will hold its annual picnic at
PIsgah this year. The exact date has
not yet been determined, but we are
authorized to say that it will be held
either Thursday or Friday of next
week.
In order to handle the great fair crowd
easily and rapidly this year, tickets will
be on sale at several places in town.
There will be two ticket offices at the
grounds, one at each corner and none
at the gate, thus avoiding the usual jam
at the gate.
TAZEWELL MILLINERY co. AN
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-09-03
DORSETT SHEEP

DORSETT SHEEP
/ have for sale this ;season a large
number Of Dorset Rams, of the ages
of lambs, yearlings and two-year-olds.
My sheep are of the best type and
quality, having been selected from the
best fiocks III America. Prices reason
able. Correspondence solicited.
SAMUEL T. HENNINGER.
july2m3 Burkes Garden, Va.
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VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE
Estate Agricultural and Mechanical
College.)
AT BLACKSBURG. VA.

Fifty-six Instructors. thoroughly
equipped Shops, Laboratories, and In
Urinary: Steam heating and electric
lights in dormitories Library IL. 600
volumes. Farm of HOO acres. Degree
courses in Agriculture, horticulture,
Appiled Chemistry, Applied Geology,
Civil, Mining, Mechanical and Electrical
Engineering, Metallurgy and Metallic
graphy, and Preparatory Veterinary
Medicine.
SCHOOL OF AGRICULTURAL APPRENTICES
Total cost of session of nine months.
including tuition and other fees, board
washing, uniforms, medical attendance
$226. go.
The next session opens Wednesday,
September 23rd, 1908.
Paul B. Barringer, M. D., L. L. D.,
july9m2 President
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-23

There's to be no foolish, high priced contrap-
lions stuck around, he declared aggressively
''windms squirtn water all the barn an
house an everywhere, an gates that fly open in
front of one, scarin horses; an machines that
steal jobs from settin' hens; an drain pipes that
bury good money in the ground! If the Lord had
wanted sech things, he'd put drain pipes in the
ground himself jest like he made brooks an rivers
an he wouldn t had hens wastin their time hankern'
to set: An there amt to be no buzz boxes scarn
milk into butter fore it gets cold Sech things
amt natral Well keep on usn churns''
Il will not do thing that will cost you an
extra cent, ia her" Hirams noncommittal
answer; - and if you rent to shall see that you
get your payments promptly, and shall do nothing
that harm deteriorate the farm in anyway.
Beyond that l must do things in my wy.
To meet the payments must succeed and to
coed l must do the very best l according
to my knowledge. l will not throw any money
away
Old Job eyed him keeny nodding little doubt
fully. Yes ye're bound to make every cent We
cam, he agreed; but won't be rentin'. If do
anything for ye it'll be jest rest, nothin
more. Ye're good farmer, Hiram, will say that;
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other day, all diked up with ribbons an things, an
she was buyin' posies,' with infinite scorn, TO set
out A gal like that wouldn't be no good on a
farm. Look here, Hiram his voice softening a
little, 1--WE lived longer'n you, an seen more!
What you want is gal that bile 'taters an
wash dishes an carry Stops to the pigs. Old Stan
woods place is covered with contraptions that cost
money, an his gal has growed up with them idees.
Why, stead O stayin in the kitchen where she
belonged this very gal Maggie that you're hankerin'
arter went off to school, an somehow worked her
way through o them agricult raj colleges
where in spectacles git paid for tellin farmers
how to do their own work! Sech places amt fit
heered that this Maggie got notiony she couldn't
put up with her own mothers cookn, but had to
60 off an learn diff rent.
Yes, Margaret took course of lessons in
cooking school, Hiram said, keeping his voice
steady with an effort.
The old man stared at him in amazement. An
ye'd bring thing like that your wife, live
my farm an eat up what I've worked forty years
to earn" he demanded, his voice trembling with
indignation. She'd at everything We did.
an set round an let your ma slave for her, an
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Drawings By Harry A. Linnell

most simple, inexpensive kind.
A few days before Hiram was
twenty-one, old Job turned sud
denly to him in the field. II
s'pose yell be runnin' off like the
others soons we git to be your
own master?" he grumbled.
Hiram hoed on for some min
utes in silence. Not unless you
force me to, father" he said at
length. Il like farming, and
mean to keep on at it; and of
course l like this farm best, being
home But we can't keep on in
the same old way. l shall be a
man then"
What way dye want, -" asked
the old man suspiciously,-"wages
or int'rest?"
Some interest in the farm; or
| am willing to hire part of it or all
of it, and will pay you a good rent. "
Old Job glanced at him side
wise Hiram was a strong, well
built young fellow, and could al
ready do a better days work than
he could himself. Renting he
would not consider; but an inter-
est might not be SO bad. Hiram's
quickness and willingness had
made him almost indispensable
to the farm; hired help could not
fill his place. But the old man
was cautious
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of manufacturing town less than two miles away
and between that and the farm the steel rails
of trunk line which banded the east and west
the public roads all good now, with many of
them macadamized; and instead of doubtful
low priced market there demand for every
thing almost at the very gate of the farm.
But through the thirty five intervening years
Job Marshall had not kept pace with the change
The early struggle had been too hard, soaring the
value of cent so deeply into his soul that when
the cents changed to dollars his soul too SCARED
to throw off the shadow of former necessity Some
times the pressure of necessity would return, and
to meet that time he boarded the accommodating
dollars he had counted the less plentiful cents in
the old days.
Modern Improvements he did not countenance
investigate. In the first place they were too
expensive, and in the second they minimized the
severe labor that he believed necessary to
successful farming. He had hewed and grubbed
a living with his and hoe and they had made
his muscles and endurance like iron. His boys were
mbued with modern ideas which called for more
results with less work; but he did not it that
way. To him desire for less work meant less
btion, less manlness less possibilities. Occasion
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at his full height now. his eyes be-
ginning to blaze You will kindly
remember that Margaret Stanwood
is to be my wife before long, and
speak of her accordingly! She is the
best and most industrious girl l
know, and everything she has learned
has only helped to make her stronger
and more capable. She would be
prize and helpmate to any man
lucky enough to win her, and | shall
always thank God that l am the
fortunate one Now unless you can
speak respectfully of Miss Stanwood,
please do not allude to her again!".
Old Job looked at him, his mouth
open. Was that big indignant fellow,
Hiram the meek, the obedient, the
boy who had never opposed him in
anything? His mouth shut with a
snap we've been the best boy
I've had" he said, his voice low
through the very intensity of his
wrath; but if ye d been a hundred
times better, l wouldn't let We bring
gal like that onto my land. | won't
even encourage We by hirin' We as a
common hand. Ye've got to give her
up right now an here, or lea"
HE stopped abruptly; for Hiram
IA had reversed his hoe, thrusting
its handle deep into the yielding soil,
then started across the field toward
the house The old man watched
him till he reached the line fence,
which he vaulted lightly. Once the
grim old lips relaxed and parted a
little, as though with an idea of call
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but / amt sure bout
how ye're to be trusted.
An l amt goin' to give
up farrnin' myself yet.
I'm needed to keep We
from fallin' into new
contraption holes. But
there's another thing"
his keen eyes growing
harder: Ye've got to
give up waitin' on that
Stanwood GAL"
FOR the first time an
L added color flushed
Hiram's face, and he
hoed on till he regained
control of himself and
the color faded. At
length he rested on his
hoe. Margaret STAN
wood and | are engaged,
father" he said steadily,
and will be married
as soon as | am able
to furnish a home. /
told mother of it several
months ago, and would
have told you tiff l
had felt | could. We
will not discuss Miss
Stanwood now"
" But l tell We we will
discuss her now!" the
old man burst out wrath
fully. What other time
would there be? An l
tell We no Stanwood gal
is ever comm to live on
this place to eat it up! l
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ally one of the boys in moment of
evaporation would remind him of
his Indebtedness to modern ways;
but the old man, with the perversity
of those who work too hard and too
necessarily for much thought, would
not see it, He had worked hard, and
his boys could do the same
He followed the old custom of
demanding their time until they
were of age; but on that day, one
after another, the first four boys
left the farm, to become clerks or
railroad men.
HIRAM, the fifth boy, however, was
H a farmer by nature, and home
boy in spite of the adverse training
Like the other boys, he was imbued
with modern ideas, though quieter
and less OstentatiOus in expressing
them. He had read some practical
books during the rare moments be-
tween work, and had remembered
what he read; and in the brief visits
to the town and adjoining farms his
clear eyes had seen and taken note
of a good many things But he
never attempted to force any of
them upon his father Perhaps his
intuition was keener than his broth
ers', or possibly he was benefiting by
their experience. When he i'm
proved a gate, or arranged some lit
tie continuance that made work
more convenient, it was always SO
simply and quietly done that his
father became accustomed to it be-
fore he noticed the chance The
changes, however, were all of the
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AS SOON as Job
~ M arsh all ha d
q taken up his hun

ldhCli VI lllo l1ull-
dred and sixty acres
he began work with
grub hoe and ak, and
when later he obtained
a team he was obliged
to cut a road through
a mile or two of forest
before he could get
his produce to market.
With his AK and a clay
bank on the creek near
by he built a crude
two-room cabin and
put up his own CHM
ney; and with the
grub hoe he broke an
acre or two of ground
for his first planting.
Other things came lit
tie by little, through
the building up of the
country and his own
industry.
But though in time
the two-room cabin
was turned into a sta
BILE, and a plain, mex
pensive frame building
erected in its place, and
a few other improve
ments made, the farm
as a whole remained
the same.
Beyond the zigzag
fences, however, the
world had changed.
Tall spires of smoke
rose from the chimneys
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-10-14
WHO PAYS THE BILL?

II the W. W. P Co. desired to initiate bridgebudng
which the city liable for of the expense the
might build the bridge without exactng
with the city of cost depending entire
ly the chance of collecting reimbursement afterwards
W. w p nightly heavy strain the imagination
go manner, would be
Immediately thereafter
and the situation to the city however and there
revealed just exactly the proposition presented in the aga
the council expensive bridge
rN'~ the Monroe bridge, the building of
which The relations
regard to highway rights there couded
beyond Final solution doubtless depends long
period litigation thanks the reckless irresponsible method
franchises
eyes of
monopozed this field and public cham
pons.
Notwithstanding cry bridges
taxpayers They're
tons furnished by the Spokesman
In all this ink rot in all the carefully selected interviews of
prominent citizens public
obligations possibility
double dealing
S
lie because the pubcs obtained for that
Misrepresentation corporations
in
Probably n public
to the outcome of the pending problem but they certainly
taking time obtain they
mendaion and spite pressing
On the other side of the
voved giving ability protecting
they
judgment
but fail strengthen the position RELOCATING
the really money
much will
This question people companies want settled
that each party pay in
ton to benefits received would
poratons involved, is fair basis
Choice Of bridge of after that
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-10-14
CONCERNING COUNTY OFFICERS

The Press has been informed confidential courthouse
that its criticisms of the county
sioners business thing
and for the good of everybody concerned should
The inference given experience con-
siderable difficulty
Interested unless reans from attaching
house administration must inquire affairs
The Press has only declaration for it
comes through who have in
office and whose position in regard rights
be hard to understand peculiar that
has been around this rule
criticize blame ALL general resent
and participate the melted out to nubc
ton so foohardy to attack the
The Press is sacegous enough through charmed
circle as If 1t never existed for This
has called slpshod method of transactng
county commissioner business becausa NOW hs u VI .ahacus
troll presently and 1t is time that adopted The
people evidently think no fear but that the
TEST taxpayers of the city and that opinion
The making which to base av lew and
permitting be exceeded ~
adding bearing Indebtedness 70 tho sunn M .
ALREADY authorized
actually intended represent rate of county
system so ridiculous and unbnsness,ko +hat ~
prevailed at all but for the fact practice has been
fully concealed The CO
public Importance concealed anv LONGER ana the
ONCE holders as private citizens would applaud that de-
termination. ~ w
attacked the honesty If apv official ~ +,
ana VIII not without absolute charges
but cannot understand why intelligent men should o
crate in public office iey would never permit in
business penny " p'''a'e
An made to ascertain the opnin Of
official in this particular and has met with
suspicious attitude. suggestions explanations nor nmaton
nothing but mutterings drust against he nouirr
has right inquire into public business
who has? ~ '
Men who hold office after deny right to honestly
investigate their administration of public esening such in
qy aspersons their standing are peculiar 70 the
Spokane county courthouse alone amounts to dec
aton that the methods adopted are perfect and that tho
public has no further in teres in matter ~
AT the same time The Press trying tell them that the etb
DDS OF the county commissioners matters of considerable
to the public that there conclusion esner-.x IN tho
country that better administration possible and imperative The
Press trying to ascertain this sentiment because
is serving the people who and not the small co If
offceholders who the money. WV i ~ "
II the latter % themselves IN nc srnar;o - A..
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-10-14
SlssSSegTGr
, WORKING
EFFICIENCY
BY DR-W-R-C-LATSO

take an interest in his work and
learn to love it. That may seem
difficult; but in reality it is very
practical, even easy
For instance, what can be more
deadly embarrassing than the work
of a ledger clerk-a bookkeeper's
assistant? | once knew a boy of
16 who was a ledger clerk. When
he complained to me | suggested
that he should make himself just
the very best ledger clerk that
ever happened-that he should try
to make his duties work of art
that he should improve his writing,
study commercial law, study ac-
countancy and learn the great
science of figures.
The boy was encouraged-and
worked. He learned to add single
columns of figures with wonderful
speed and with absolute accuracy.
Soon he could manage two. then
three columns at once. In short
time his superior knowledge of the
theory of accounts and of CONNER
cial law won the respect of his fell
low clerks. He was looked upon
as coming man.
That was seven years ago To
day he is one of the foremost ac-
countants in the country, with an
income of not less than $4,000 a
year.
And how has he managed it all?
He has made his drudgery work
of art. He has regarded every lit
tie detail as a matter demanding
special study.
1t may seem strange, this idea
of transforming drudgery into a
work of art but 1t is true and prac-
teal.
Learn to make the humblest task
work of art. To wrap parcel
may be humble task, or-it may
be work of art. And he who
does it as a work of art will do it
rapidly and accurately. Also he
will find his work interesting in
stead of commonplace, and himself
at the end Of the day, free from
fatigue and depression.
Besides which, he won't stay long
at the parcel counter. He will go
up as surely as a bubble rises to
the top of the water. He has found
the secret of working efficiency
interest and Joy in his work
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-10-14
By FRED SCHAEFER,

Id ISIS uselessly to be a flying
skivirrel so long as peanuts grow
underground.
Der longer chiraffe's neck, der
shorter der rope i'd takes to hang
him.
Id ISIS a paradox. but der lynx
brefers to be chainless.
Eff der dolphin lifed on liant, he
voult be consistered a good diver.
Aldough der zebra wears stripes,
he brotesds hiss innocence.
Der reason der OK ISIS patience ISIS
becoss he knows he will get efen
nit us in der hereaftervard as en-
balmed beef.
Do nod laugh ad der low altitoot
of der ant hill-id ISIS as high as
der ant feels like climbing
Der horse ISIS der most useful do
mestig animal. but der hong wagons
see hiss DOMESTIC finish.
Der bullfrock ought to be glat Sc
ISIS waterproof, yet he wishes he
wass alzo bullet proof. ~.
Eff der fly hat web feet he coult
walk ouid of der spiders reception
room.
Der bellows fish sairches vain
lessly for a submarine blacksmit
shop.
A monkeys imitatifeness nefer
goes to der oXtent of taking a bath.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-10-14

Work is the law of life. ITO
work like beaver" is true of most
of the other Notwithstanding
man. 1t means a long wait at the
pool for the tiger; hard chase
for the wolf and an almost con-
slant search for food and water on
the part of the grazing animals.
AS for man
He also must work, and work
hard, as most of us know by ex-
perience.
And how shall he best do his
work? How shall he get the
greatest amount of work out OF
himself without injury or undue
fatigue?
Well, in the first place, he must
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-10-14
PACKING A HAT.

When packing a hat in a trunk
see that the crown Is we'll stuffed,
so it will not become crushed. 1t
is not necessary to use tissue
paper; stockings, handkerchiefs or
other soft articles of clothing will
answer as well. If the hat has rib
bon loops see that these are kept in
shape with crushed tissue paper.
Pin the hat carefully into the trunk,
so it will not slip around.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-10-14
NmlUWlNuIg@R MEMnTnRRDMmg1s

tured his heart. But by the time
the car was rumbling over the Will
liamsburg bridge his thoughts had
shaped themselves into decision
to have new crystal put on the
watch, and send it as gift to his
sweetheart in Russia.
He got off on Delaney street,
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-10-14
SHE CAN'T LIVE
WITHOUT CHEW

ST. LOUIS, Oct. Al would
rather die from chewing tobacco
than live without it," declared Mrs.
Anna Siefert, age 43, who is the
only woman on record suffering
from tobacco heart. She is in
precarious condition, after smoking
clay pipe 20 years and chewing
three years.