Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-11-04
MUCH IN LITTLE.
Breezy Items Boiled Down For Our Busy
Readers.

The Atlantic Coast Line, the Rich
mond, Fredericksburg and Potomac
Chesapeake and Ohio and Seaboard Air
Line Railroads have signed an agree
ment to substitute the telephone TO-
telegraphy in the operation of trains.
After a conference lasting nearly
three hours, James J. Jeffries, retire
champion, and Jack johnson, the pres
ent incumbent, on last Saturday siRne,-
articles of agreement to fight forty-fivc
rounds or more before the club OFFERING
the largest purse for the pugilisti.
championship of the world. The battle
will not take place until some time mex
spring, the date of which will be made
known on December !.
An announcement comes from Abing-
don to the effect that at the next tern
of the circuit court of Washington coun
ty the Norfolk and Western RAILWAY
and the Virginia and Southwestern Rail
way are to be tried upon the charge o.
violating the Virginia law against oper-
ating trains on Sunday 1t is stated
that there is an old statute which pro
vided that freight trains shall not be
operated on Sunday, but this is the first
time in many years that its application
has been suggested.
Agitation over telephone rates and
service, with two companies in the
field, has given rise 10 proposition for
municipal ownership Of telephone svs-
tenn in Norfolk. Laurence Waring
clerk of the city circuit court, first ad
vanced the idea. Mayor Riddick thinks
the proposition worth investigating
while City Attorney Duncan states thai
he will ask Representative Merritt T.
Cooke to introduce & bill in the next
Legislature providing for a change in
the city charter which will give the city
the right to own its telephone system.
According to bulletin of the Inter
state Commerce Commission, given out
Saturday, the number of accidents that
occurred on railroads during the year
ended June 80, 1909, was sc, I'll, or 2, 79l
killed and 63, ,92O injured, as against
72, 753, or 3, 764 killed and 6S, ,6S9 injured,
for the year ended June 30, 1908. This
was decrease in the total number of
6,042, or 973 killed and 5,O69 injured as
compared with the number reported in
the previous year. The number of en-
ployes killed in coupling and uncouplinE
cars and engines was 80 per cent less
than in 1908. The total number of col
lisions and derailments in the quarter of
1909 ended June 80 shows a decrease of
thirty, as compared with the number
reported for the same period a year
ago.
Federal Judge Peter S. Grosscup.
speaking before the women of the o.
soil Club in Chicago on last SATURDAY,
night, said: ''You can't be theoIogians,
because you haven't the power of anal
ysis; you can't be lawyers, because yor
are devoid of the reasoning faculty; yol
are not successful scientists, becaus,
you consider only ono detail at time
you are only occasionally successful il
business, and you succeed only in thos,
branches of medicine which call for tn
exercise of the nursing instinct" Blu
the wise old jurist escaped the ven
geance that might otherwise have bee
wrought upon him by telling the womel
a lot of things they can do and whicl
they must do, If this old world is to rol
along unchanged in the course mappe,
out for it. '1'll tell you what womal
can do," continued the learned Judge
''The femme miEd is the complement o
the masculine mind. With but one O,
them in existence the world would sool
become a dreary place of existence, an,
in Few generations its population
would disappear.