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Communicated.

Men who are engaged in and in
sympathy with the liquor busines.
are in these days Of reform and
doubtless victory over this malicious
business sending up a weak, pitiful
wall to the minions OF public senti'
ment, that II the saloon goes out ol
business the commercial interests
of the state and city will go to the
wall and universal chaos result.
This is a lie. Either from igno,
rance or from malice. At any rate
the essence OF truth can not be
found in this statement. In a let
ter in my possession from Gov.
Il, w. Hoch of Kansas, he asks
this pointed question: ''How can
an institution which destroys the
earning capacity of all its patrons
and unhx them for any business
be a commercial benefit to any com
munityH II this is not enough
listen to the testimonials of men in
our own state. Mott * Son say in
letter dated January o, 1908 at
McMinnville, Ore. I'VE have been
in the merchandise business here
over three years. During the rs
months just closed our house sold
10 per cent more goods than we
did under the former rs months of
saloon reign, Notwithstanding that
we were told that prohibition would
ruin the town and kill everything"
How do you like thatl II that is
not enough here is some more.
McMinnville, Ore. January 6,
1908. whom it may concern:
Our business has been better since
the closing of the saloons, but this
is not the best reason for being in
favor of local option. We are glad
to see the change of sentiment by
men who were ardent supporters
of the saloon and voted against
local option, but have expressed
themselves as being in sympathy
now with local option, and will
vote against the return of the sa-
loon. c, Tilbury * Sons.
These are facts, pointed facts,
and when we come to look at this
,ccursed thing in the light in
which it ought to be looked upon,
as crime and not as a business,
which under our national constitu-
ion and by decision of the United
States Supreme court has no right
% exist we will then exercise the
bower of our citizenship and over
hrow this monster evil. In St. |
|ohns that time will come on June
!, 1908. Chester p. Gates.
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Pointers for our Patrons.

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We do not allow any printer to
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we put the best stock into our jobs.
The difference between poor
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price OF satisfied customer. 1t is
better to make so cents less on a
job and have customer who will
come back, than to use the fiimsy
stock, make the extra so cents and
lose your customer. That is the
way we figure il.
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The suburbanites have the hen
fever and have it bad. That is a
great many Of them have. They
are buying incubators and setting
both the wooden and the feathered
hens. Some with good results,
some bad and some indifferent. II
will pay any one who loves the
chicks to invest so cents in a good
poultry paper that will tell you
more in one year than you ever
knew about poultry. There is no
better paper for the poultryman
than the Northwest Poultry News.
Leave your subscriptions here.
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Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-08-06
THE LITTLE WOODEN BARREL.
urned Out In This Country In Mil
iions and Sold All Over the World.

Among the all but endless variety
OF things of wood produced in Amer
lean factories are little wooden bar
rels. They are turned out OF white
birch, and come In many sizes, from
tiny AFFAIRS an inch and half high
up 70 barrels ten inches high.
The biggest OF them are turned with
hand manipulated tool. but those
ranging from six inches downward
are turned each with a cutting tool
having an edge so formed that II turns
me barrel all at once. They set
oiock OF wood In the lathe and adjust
the cutting tool and 1t turns the bar
rel INTO shape complete as quickly as a
man turning with a hand tool could
nave turned one of the hoops on 1t:
and on the smallest barrels one man
can run three or four machines.
These little barrels are sold in the
aggregate in great numbers, millions
OF them yearly. A single tack manu-
iacturing concern buys them in car
load hts, 1000 gross, or 2SS.000 bar
rels at time. Great numbers are
used by confectioners, who fill them
with candy, and they are used to con
tain a bottle of perfumery.
Many are sold to be given away at
fairs or in other ways, being filled
with a sample of a staple product Of
the region. perhaps of -four, or It
might be of sugar. Many Of them are
made with a slot cut In one end, or
head, through which coins can be
dropped, the little barrels In this form
being used for savings banks, or Civ
en- out by Sunday school teachers to
their pupils to make collections in for
some specific purpose. Individual
purchasers buy the little barrels to
use for button boxes, and great mum
bers of them are sold for toys.
So in this country there are used
millions Of them annually, and for all
the various uses TO which the little
barrels are put they are exported in
large numbers to countries all over the
world
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-08-06
The New Party Nominations.
Philadelphia Press.

fAtiASi llld iISSS-
The Independence party by nominal
ing Thomas L. Hsgen, of Massachu-
sets, for President, and John Temple
Graves, of Georgia, for Vice President
gives notice that it intends to take as
important part as possible in the cam
paign.
There are States 10 which it will have
to be reckoned with. It already has
pretty effective organizations in widely
separated sections of the country-as
widely separated as Massachusetts and
California. The man whom it has nom
mated for President was the Indepen-
dence League candidate for Governor
of Massachusetts last year and polled
many thousands more votes than the
Democratic candidate. That he can re-
peat that this year is hardly likely. and
IN any event, the independence party
vote IN Massachusetts will have no eff
feet on the result.
1t is in such States as New York. In
diana, Illinois and California, and possi-
bly, in one or two Of the Southern States.
that the effect will be felt In Illinois.
New York and California the organic
ton has already shown its strength. and
electoral tickets in those States will be
quite certain to get thousands of votes.
In the nature of politics pretty near all
of such votes will be drawn from BRYAN.
Nobody can now pretend to estimate
what the aggregate will amount to. but
1t is another obstacle to Bryan's sue
cess.
That Bryan himself understands that
TINS new party movement is dangerous
to him has been shown by his efforts to
conciliate William r. Hearst and others
of its leaders. He completely failed as
Hearst failed four years ago to get
Bryan's support for the Presidential
nomination, and four years is too soon
to forget. Bryan will not only lose the
greater part of the votes cast by the
new party, but he loses the support of
the chain Of Hearst newspapers reach
ing from Boston to San Francisco.
All this is entirely too serious to be
treated as a joke by Bryan and his
party. Clearly the Independence party
IS going to do what it can to make Bry-
ans election impossible, and whether it
IS needed on that job or not it will make
things more interesting.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-08-06
OUR CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATE.

The Republicans of the Ninth Con-
gressional District have met in conven-
ton and nominated their candidate for
the National House of Representatives
That candidate is c. B. Slemp. and he
was the unanimous choice of his party
for the distinguished honor. When he
was nominated last December at Gate
City, some persons claimed it was the
result of sentiment and an adroitlv
packed convention. No one but a fool
will now undertake to say that the NOM
lnation of Mr.. Slemp at Norton on last
Thursday came from any cause but the
profound esteem in which he is held bv
his constituents, or that it is not a lust
tribute to his worth as a citizen as well
as his superior record as a representa-
tive.
Bascom Slemp has won his way to
the hearts of his people, both Republi-
cans and Democrats; and he will not
only receive the united support of his
party in the Ninth, but many Demo
Gratis have declared their intention of
rallying to his standard.
AT this writing we do not know who
Will be the Democratic candidate, but
we feel confident that if the Democrats
make nomination that their candidate
will be defeated by one of the largest
najorities that has ever been recorded
in this district
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-08-06
French FIstlcuffs.

They were talking about the strange
fight between Prince de Sagan and the
Castellane brothers.
The French" said an ethnologist,
lead the world in intelligence. and
that is why. in fisticuffs, they lag at
the worlds tail end. For, the more
intelligent we become, the more in
capable we also become of physical
violence.
Hence the ludicrous oddly Of
French fighting, with its scratching.
biting, beard pulling. pinching and
tears"
He laughed.
There were two taximeter cabbies
jawing one another last month as
they trotted from the Ritz across the
Place Vendome to the Rue de la
Paix
THE first cabbie raised his whip
with threatening gesture
Pig. he shouted, not another
word, or I'll give your fare a cut
across the jaw!'
Dare to touch him. cried the
other, and I'll cut your fares coat
to ribbons with my whip lash!'
Then each began to slash the
others passenger furiously.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-08-06

der the law misdemeanants are not sub
ject to lease. The boys father inter
ested Judge Rodgers in the case and
the latter went to the camp to see the
boy, but was not permitted to see him
except in the presence of a guard. He
learned, however, that the boy had tried
TO run away from the camp, was caught
brought back and terribly whipped and
sentenced to two months longer con
Wet service for running away. The
Judge got the boy released because no
one had legal right TO detaia him in
the camp. but the misdemeanants gen
orally who were leased without author
ity of the law had to accept their fate.
as few were able TO get Judge to in
terfere in their behalf.
These things excite the people of
Georgia when brought into the day
light, but they hav. been going on for
many years. They have been exposed
and condemned with powerful eloquence
by Judge Emory Speer. They are CON
demned by the newspapers of the State
and by its public men. The convict
camp cannot be reformed. OnIy smen
OF the hardest and aarshest nature go
into this business and they cannot WELD
the absolute power which IS given them
without abusing it. The strong indig-
nation which these latest revelations
arouse in Georgia give ground for the
hope that this shameful feature of its
penal laws will be at length wiped out
OF existence.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-08-06
ISLANDER RAMPANT.

Since the Richmond News Leader has
become proselyte to Organism it has
been earnestly striving to establish its
standing as devotee to a cause it has
HERETOFORE affected to despise. Not
content with offering its dollars and
with soliciting the contributions of 9TH
ers for establishing a corruption fund,
1t seeks further to prove its loyalty, and
awaken the confidence of those Demo-
Gratis who doubt its sincerity, by a cam
paign of villifcation and Islander against
the Republicans of the Ninth District.
In its issue of the SOth ult., there was
an editorial, The Ninth Alive" which
was filled with gross misrepresenta-
tons of the character and quality of
both the Republicans and Democrats in
this district. We quote from that edi-
torial as follows:
1T is warming to the heart to see the
revival of hope and confidence and dash
and the good American spirit of fight
among the Democrats of the Ninth Dis
trict- The same good report comes
from all the splendid counties of South
west Virginia. . Mountaineers are
always free. White men and Virgin
ian's will not submit to being ruled and
bossed by gang of Republican politi-
QIQnc IIdinor tho Af
holders and the influence of government
jobs, corrupting the people and appeal
ing, with low and cheap cunning, to the
prejudices of ignorance
1--WE hope and believe these Virginia
mountaineers will hem and drive the
Slemp crowd as their forefathers hem
med and drove Ferguson and his trait
ors and turn-coats at Kings Mountain.
They can and they should hit the ring
at every turn and point. They can and
should invoke the law and the courts.
Nobody can doubt for a moment the pa
triotism, the erergy and courage of the
men of that district The manv
thousands of loyal democrats and faith
full Virginians in the district can form
an organization which will be invincible.
They can watch and prevent the ex-
tortion of money for the election of
Slemp from Federal office-holders. They
cat make bribery so dangerous that it
will have to be abandoned. They can
arouse the consciences of voters so that
attempts to bribe will be resented in
stantly and bitterly. They can resist
every attempt at bulldozing
and make sure that no counties shall be
carried by q process Of murder. They
can make it hot for those who have
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-08-06
Cattle klnn Of Anstralla-

Accompanied by his wife. his son
and three daughters. Sidney Kidman.
one OF the most interesting personal
tiles in the empire, has arrived in Lon
don from Australia. Known as the cat
tie king OF Australia. Mr. Kidman was
born in the island continent 81 years
ago. and has never been in this coun-
try before.
AT IA Mr.. Kidman, whose home is at
kapunda, about so miles from AIDE
laide, was earning two dollars a week
where the Broken Hill mine now is.
To-day he owns or Is interested in 49,
ZIG square miles Of country, the acre
age being something like S1,66s,6S0.
Beginning life as a teamster he has
worked his way up till he is the largest
horse-breeder and the greatest cattle
owner in Australia. He owns 1OO. 900
head of cattle and 10000 horses
From London Letter.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-08-06

Bryan Is now sneeriDg at his former
dear friends and honored political asso-
ciates, Thomas E. Watson and William
Randolph Hearst In Mr.. Bryan's es-
TEEN they were net only good but very
good Democrats But Mr.. BRYAN has
changed his opinion of these twogentIe-
men. He has also greatly altered his
views as to the merits and character of
certain other Democrats. 1t was not a
very great while ago when Mr. BRYAN
held nothing but contempt for Tom
raggert, Roger Sullivan and Charles
Murphy. He looked upon these as bad.
awfully bad Democrats. Now he takes
them to his heart and places them upon
his list as good boys, good Democrats.
Mr.. Bryan's test for goodness is the
Willingness of Democrats to accept his
theories and to help further his political
ambitions.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-08-06
500 Reward, 100.

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Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-08-06
A Proner Pride

Farmer Green-D'ye remember tibet
ornary little Pimpernell boy tibet
helped me with tn haydn last year? I
gave him is month an found. Well.
he's got to be a right smart ball pitch
er. an t'other day Teller came along
an offered him 5000 to finish out tn
season with a perfeshnal club.
The City Boarder-Well, welli He
jumped at it. of course?
Farmer Green-Not yet. Sandy Pim-
pernell may be a freckle faced runt.
but he's got proper pride about him.
too. He says tibet he don't know as he
cares to be tied up to any team tibet
looks like 1t might be a tail ender.-
Cleveland Plain dealer.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-08-06
Taft IN The South.
Baltimore American.
ambitions.

--~AN--Aaf = sAAtANAA
The Cotton Trade Journal Of Savan-
nah declares that "throughoot the
South there is an undercurrent of indi-
vidual mot poliiicaD sentiment favor
able to Mr.. Taft to degree that prom
lseS probably more strides toward
bigger Republican party in the South
than ever before
There is possibly some reasonable
distinction between mans "individu-
al opinion and mis- political" opinions.
but 1t requires some nicely in defining
to show why there should be such a dis
tinction. What the Cotton Trade Jour
nal seems to mean Is that there are
many people in the South who. from in
ner conviction. favor Mr.. Taft for pres
ident, but who. from the habit of mast
political affiliations, will act contrary 70
their individual convictions. There are
probably many thousands of people in
the Southern States in just this attitude
OF balance between their honest opin-
ions and their acquired political habits
There Is but one right course for those
IN this condition of mind to pursue: thew
should follow the line of honest convic-
ton by voting for Mr.. Taft and shake
OIL the bad habit of voting automaticaI-
lv. 1t Is high time for the Southern
States to break away from that antiou-
ated absurdity Of a solid Democratic
South-a South that is always expected
10 go Democratic, just the way that
Maine once went for Governor Kent.
There have been in recent years en-
couraging signs in some of the South
ern States Of a strong tendency to
swing loose from the dead issues and
to line up politically with regard
to living issues. The progressive
New South, with its millions of cot
ton spinGles and its scores of blast
furnaces. is, in its material interests.
just as much dependent for continuous
prosperity upon those policies for which
the Republican party has stood. and
will continue to stand. as is either Penn
syivania or New England. No section
of the country has made a more i'm
presslve progress during the past ten
years than those states generally class
flied as "the Solid South" Neither
cotton mills nor blast furnaces would
have sprung into existence under a free
trade policy.
The Cotton Trade Journal saws fur
Their that "Mr. Taft enters the field
with the kind wishes of more voters in
this section than other candidate here
tofore." 1t will be interesting to note
just how much substantially there is in
those kind wishes by the election re-
turns from the State of Georgia next
November. Mr.. Taft will probably not
be IN any need of the electoral vote of
Georgia, but if the Red Hill State
should happen to break away from the
dead past traditions, the result would
be pivotal. The example would induce
other states to swing away from the
chronic habit of going Democratic re-
gardless of the issues involved.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-08-06
WHOSE FAULT?

The speech of acceptance of Judge
Taft is not meeting with the approval
of the Democratic press. Judge Taft
did not expect it to be approved by the
Democrats, especially, the Democrats
of the South. The Norfolk Virginian-
Pilot says: "It is not entirely the fault
of Judge Taft that his speech of accept
ance is neither frank nor convincing. T"
Very true, the fault is with the befud-
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-08-06
Tho Usual Treatment.

Look at that boy" exclaimed.
Sherlock Holmes keen gaze fol.
lowed my own.
The urchin now sketched in pencil
on the drawing-room wall. Now he
carved his name on the piano. Anon,
laughing lightly, he spilled milk on q
Louis Seize fauteuil.
''In heavens name" cried.
Calm yourself, my dear Watson"
Sherlock Holmes interrupted. There
is no need for interference here. Do
you not understand? That villa has
been rented furnished for the season."
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-08-06
Tho LARGEST Clock


The largest clock IN the world has
recently been added to the wondrous
sights Of New York, the Giant City.
While this clock-a real old-fashioned
Seth Thomas. is a faithful timepiece
to the people OF New York, yet It is
located on the factory OF Colgate &
Co. at Jersey City, N. J. In this it
has the distinction of serving the peo-
pie OF two states. The tourist from
across the ocean will find the hour of
his return clearly set before him as he
passes up the North river to his land
ing place. The small office boy Of the
downtown section may peep out of
the windows, across into another
state, to learn when quitting time"
comes around.
The dial of this gigantic clock will
be forty feet six inches In diameter
and will be made Of yellow pine
boards six inches wide, spaced three
inches apart. The minute hand meas
ures 20 feet from the end of the hub
to the tip, and weighs. with the coun-
ter balance, $40 pounds. The hour
hand is 10 feet in length and weighs
500 pounds without the counter bal
ance. The numerals on the dial are
five feet high and 80 inches wide.
The speed of the hour hand measures
three feet ten inches in width, while
that of the minute hand is two feet
eleven inches. The point of the min
ute hand travels every minute 2S
inches, while in a week 1t covers
three and two-thirds miles.-Bennett
Chapple, in National Magazine.