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Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1911-12-14
Essay on Husbands.

A husband is the dream of maidens,
the hope of single ladies', and a stern
reality with married women.
A husband is about one-eiphth of a
I married couple. Being a husband is a
serious business with most men. and it
requires most of their time and all of
their money to make good on the lob.
Men become husbands at the age of
twenty-one or Whereabouts and continue
during life or good behavior.
Being husband is a great privilege.
and most men make several frantic eff
forts to go into husbandry during their
early youth before they finally succeed
10 become husband one must secure
the unanimous consent of some girl.
This requires from ten minutes to ten
years, according to the amount of sense
possessed by the girl. Some girls will
spend four days picking out husband
and four weeks picking out a wedding
dress. But girls of this sort are very
apt to make several selections of hus
bands before finding perfect fit.
The duties of husband are to come
home on time for meals, to pay the bills.
to exterminate burglars at night. to 90
to parties and remain happily around
until called for, to hook up dresses be-
meath his breath, to eat the tough end
of the beefsteak at dinner, to go back
to the house after handkerchiefs and
gloves, to admire the latest misdeman-
ors In millinery, to make his last years
overcoat do few years longer, to put
his collar in the laundry bag, to mail at
the earliest possible minute a letter
written In answer to one received last
year, and to enjoy conversation served
hot or cold at all hours. There are no
perfect husbands, and the usual success
in accomplishing these duties is about
SO per cent. The husband business has
as many failures as any other life work,
but this does not deter callow Youths
from rushing blithely into it equipped
for the job only with a good appetite
and firm determination to hold rock
ing chair down in its proper place.
There is large demand for domestic
or American-born husbands in this coun-
try. They are, as rule, durable, easy
to run. and yield larger returns than
any other brand. Women fond of lux
uries, however, often import husbands
at cost of from $1,000. 900 to $40, OOO,-
600 apiece. They are snowy goods and
will wash, but many of them are re-
turned because of other defects. Hus-
bands who are treated kindly and are |
not fed soggy biscuits or conversation.
will frequently last a lifetime. Fresh
husbands are undesirable, but not as |
much so as those who are picked in |
alcohol GEORGE F1rcu
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1911-12-14

Another new enterprise for Roanoke
is partly promised. The Tazewell Re-
publican intimates that it will come to
Roanoke when Tazewell has been taken
into the Sixth District and establish
here a Republican daily. 1t will be
welcomed with bloodless hands to a
hospitable grave.
The Washington Journal says it will
look with interest for the clash between
the Republican and the Roanoke Times
when the two are in the same city.
There will be no clash-just a gentle,
quiet smash, such has has befallen pre-
vious Republican journalistic expert
ments here. But during the process
the boys spend some money, pay rents
and employ labor; and therefore they
are welcome always. We like good
spenders here. Roanoke Times.
Possibly the Times believes that it
has so completely debauched political
sentiment in Roanoke that its citizen
ship will continue to accept the false
and pander to vice rather than receive
the truth and cultivate virtue. If this
be true the Republican will surely leave
the field clear for the Times.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1911-12-14
Making The Soil Yield More.

One way to reduce the cost of living
is to make the ground produce larger
crops. Too many farmers are more in
tent on adding to the size of their farms
than in getting bigger returns from the
land they already own.
1t is well known that in some Euro
pean countries where conditions of soil
and climate are scarcely as good as they
are in this country the yield per acre of
crops is much greater than with us.
Germany produces twice as many BUSH
els of wheat to the acre and England
does even better.
We see similar contrasts even in our
own land, and the strange thing about
it is that states possessing the richest
soil sometimes show the poorest rela-
tive returns in yield. Illinois, for inst
ance, ranks high in soil fertility while
the soil of Connecticut and Maine ia
naturally poorer, yet Connecticut gets
20 per cent more of corn off an acre
than Illinois does, and in wheat Maine
gets twice as much. A similar condi-
ton prevails as to potatoes, oats and
some other crops, and this difference in
yield is, of course, due to the difference
between intensive and scientific farm
ing and that which to large extent is
superficial.
1t stands to reason that if man is
a benefactor to his race who makes two
blades of grass grow where but one
grew formerly, so also is the man who
on given amount of ground doubles
the yield of corn, wheat and other crops
and the thing can be done.
That this would benefit the consumer
goes without saying, but it would also
benefit the farmer. True there would
be slight extra cost for labor and per-
haps somewhat smaller price for his
products, but the much larger crop
would more than balance this. Then,
too, it must be remembered that it re-
quires no more buildings, tools and fenc-
ing for hundred acre farm producing
thirty bushels of wheat to the acre than
for the sarle size farm that yields but
half the amount. And this fact is equal
ly true as to other crops.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1911-12-14
Speaking of the late Judge James W.
Marshall the Abingdon Virginian says:

Speaking of the late Judge James W.
Marshall the Abingdon Virginian says
He came into the district
unheralded and almost unknown anG
when, as the Democratic nominee he
conducted his contest against Gen. j. A.
Walker, the Republican nominee, he
won
The Virginian seems to have the hab-
it Of the Democratic press of the State
of being unable to get anything right
politically. They have become so &C.
customed to inaccuracy in statements of
matters political that they cannot state
the facts of the political history of the
State correctly. AS matter of fact it
was H. C. Wood that was beaten by
Mr.. Marshall in 1892 and General James
A. Walkers first race was made in 1894
when he beat H. S. K. Morrison for
representative of the Ninth District.
Will the time ever come when Demo-
cratic papers will tell the truth politi-
cally?
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1911-12-14

If a few of the defaulting county
treasurers and other officials who year
after year rob the people of this Com
monwealth of vast sums of money were
sent to the penitentiary, where they
rightly should be, instead of being 'dis-
ciplined' for their lax methods of book
keeping and business methods, as sug-
gested recently by the legislative audit
ing committee, it would obviate the ne
cessity of employing high salaried &C.
countants to see that the States bust
ness and monies were handled in bust
ness ike way. The mere removal from
office of men who do these things does
not suffice, and unless 1.-THE powers that
be" are themselves afraid of becoming
enmeshed in the great drag-net of the
law, they should see to it that every
man who robs the county and State, as
in Chesterfield and Rockingham coun-
ties, feel the strong restraining hand of
an avenging justice.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1911-12-14
Not Gaining In The South.

DIR. Jacob G. Schurman, president OF
Cornell University, uttered note OF
warning against the spread of socialism
in this country in an address at the
University Club of Atlanta, Ca, where
he was guest of the alumni on Noyem-
Der 25th.. At the same time he stated
that the South would be the salvation
of the country through its conservative
progressiveness.
81 have been in every section of the
United States in the last few months
and have had opportunity to study the
political situation thoroughly, said DIR.
SchTman. Socialism is gaining in
every section of the Union, save in the
South.
I'm the South alone have found that
same spirit of conservative progressive
ness which marked the spirit which sni
mated the founders of our country.'N
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1911-12-14

When the rumor became current that
there -, i-:oeuisri.i,s in the ballot of
Buchanan county, and that the name of
the Republican candidate for the House
of Delegates, Hon. Samuel P. Mustard.
appeared on some of them different
from on others, his opponent, Hon. W.
2. Payne. came out promptly in a card
and stated that he would decline to &C
cept the seat on such a techuicality.
This was characteristic of MIR. PAYNE.
and everyone in this county knew he
meant just what he said. The only
thing doubtful in tho matter was the
stand taken by the Roanoke Times,
which highly commended this action on
the part of MIR. Payne. The reputation
of this paper in standing for anything
and everything which it thought would
be of any partisan political advantage,
and for commencing low political trick
cry, made many suspicious that there
was negro in the wood-pile. A
news item in the Richmond News Lead
er of the 9Th, however, explains it. The
State board of canvassers did throw out
the Samuel P. Mustard" ballots but
found that there were still enough votes
cast for IS. P. Mustard to elect him.
The question now is: Would the Roam
oke Times, if there had not been enough
IS. P. Mustard" ballots to elect, have
loudly cried for the unseating of Mr..
Mustard? Its course in the past indi-
Gates an affirmative answer.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1911-12-14

feels that the State should extend aid to
the counties so that they NAV have
their accounts correctly kept and fix the
responsibility for the public funds.
The negroes at Petersburg are COM
phmented for the excellent manner in
which they preserve State property.
while it is evident that the committee
has heard of vandalism at the other
educational institutions.
among other recommendations are:
There should be skilled accountant TO
handle the immense expenditures of the
department of Public Instructions; de-
partments should be required to draw
their funds from the Auditor by individ-
ual warrant for each separate claim in
stead OF In a lump; developments in
Rockingham and indications at other
points show a necessity for the instruc-
ton and discipline of many officers &C
countable for the public funds of the
counties and the Commonwealth
In the palmy days when Democracy's
greatest organization, Tammany Hall.
was robbing both the city and state of
New York, right and left, and the pa
pers began to expose them, the leader
OF the party in the city defiantly asked:
What are you going to do about it?"
This is exactly the attitude of the
Democratic leaders in Virginia today.
In spite of the revelations made by the
legislative auditing committee of last
year, which should have opened the eyes
of the people and made those RESPONSE
bic for the States financial condition
cautious, the report this year shows
no improvement of the sores on our
body polite, and the only retrenchment
or reform suggested is to scale the pen
sions of the brave old Confederate SOL
diers and to try to prove that some of
them are defrauding the State in order
to have an excuse for dropping their
names from the pension rolls. Not a
word, though, about the Attorney Gen.
eral and his assistant not doing the work
they are paid to do, nor of the hiring of
lame ducks" as special counsel at high
salaries. Not a word about the numer-
Gus officers, like Speaker Byrd, drawing
several salaries in defiance of the State
constitution. Not a word as to economy
or reform in the management of the
various bureaus or commissions with
which our State is cursed; but they say:
Take it out of the old soldiers" Not a
word about Furnishing the unfaithful Of
ficers who defraud the State and coun-
ties and Of putting honest men in their
places, but instead, suggestion is made
to appoint more experts" to help keep
the books-more pie for the younger
sons who cannot compete in the open
market for living.
what are you going to do about it?'
On people OF virginia! VIII you sit su-
pinely year after year and read the e.
ports-not of political opponents but by
political friends-of the fearfully corrupt
condition of affairs within your State.
or will you rise in your might and smash
the machine that is solely responsible
for it all? The Ninth district has point
ed the way. Then up, boys, and at
them, and let the tidal wave of political
reform that originated in the great
Southwest move on with increasing
sweep and volume until reaches the
coast and submerges the corrupt cohorts
who control the State in the ocean of
oblivion.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1911-12-14
A Terrible BIunder

to neglect liver trouble. Never do il.
Take DR.. Kings New Life Pills on the
first sign of constipation, billiousness or
inactive bowels and prevent yIrulent
indigestion, jaundice or gall stones.
They regulate liver, stomach and bow
els and build up your health. Only Csc
at all dealers.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1911-12-14

Curiously enough the conservative
party in Canada which defeated reci-
procity largely because it sounded SO
Justify the pro-British slogan, has fol-
lowed America instead of England in
choosing q speaker for the House of
Commons. AS is well known the Eng
lish speaker of the House is neutral as
between parties and is reelected at the
opening of each new Parliament no
err which side is 10 power But at
pening of the new 49, -
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1911-12-14
FOR THE "GITY BEAUTIFUL"

What golden opportunity these long
winter evenings afford for planning
how to beautify and improve ones
premises in the spring and summer, in
like manner to make their town a Getty
Beautiful in the coming year.
The sense of beauty has been cult
waited greatly in recent years and many
village and city shows the effect in
charming streets, lawns, trees and
parks. Many an unsightly place once
given over to rubbish and weeds has
been transformed into a beauty spot
most refreshing to look upon, and gen.
orally the money cost of transforma-
ton has been very little. Wise plan
ming and enthusiastic action has wrought
the change.
What has been done in many towns
may well prove a stimulus to those
places that have been content tc exist
in shiftless way due to an absence of
local pride. Beauty is always attract
i've and never more so than in the ap-
pearance of city. 1t helps to draw
trade and builds. up business, and it at
tracts people who want to live where
the refining Influences may be enjoyed
bY every member of the family
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1911-12-14

The official report of the cause of the
blowing up of the battleship Maine in
Havana harbor is respectfully referred
to the Norfolk Virginian-Pilo for its
careful perusal.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1911-12-14
Fool OF Fanatic.
rfolk Virginian-Pilot,

NOIIOIk VIBInIdn-FIIOG.
Andrew Carnegie warned young men
against smoking and classified intoxi-
eating liquor as much worse than all
other evils put together" in a talk to
the members of the John D. Rockefel-
Ter Bible Class in the Fifth Avenue Bap-
fist church.
This is the sort of wild exaggeration
that makes level-headei advocates of
temperance distrustful of the sanity of
prohibition. Drunkenness is a vice
which brings an appalling procession Of
suffering in it's train, but the drinking
Of Ii<xuox !. -----6uuE11
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1911-12-14

No man can get away entirely from
his fellows, therefore it is not impossi-
BILE to live altogether to oneself. Yet
there are some who nearly succeed in
doing it because of their lack of power
and energy. Practically they are no
nentities.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1911-12-14

This year the fatalities in deer hunt
ing and those in aviation are running
each other quite closely.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1911-12-14

1t may usually be taken for granted
that the man who is long on promises
will be short on performances.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1911-12-14

The action of Italy in Tripoli Is an il
lustration of the bad old rule. "Tha;
they shall take who have the power.
and they shall keep who can"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1911-12-14

We wonder if those unworthy" vet
Grams whose names are said to appear
on the Confederate pension rolls of vir-
ginia today do not belong to that class
of grizzled old heroes recently referred
to by the Lebanon News, namely, those
who vote the Republican ticket? During
the last Congressional election it was
suggested, not only by the News but by
individuals as well, that the names of
veterans who voted the Republican ticket
should be stricken from the States pen
sion roll, and we honestly believe that
the recent ''reccommendatiop,s
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Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1911-12-14

Carolina Cnhfed
requested
u W THEODORE DEHoN, JR, D. f. q r A, c. c. & o. S.
Spartanburg S C.
D. CAmfioN, CHAs.
Tr1eefres and Traffic Manager, T. p A. C.. & O. Ry
= N"s 0'op johnson CITY, Tenn Johnson City, Tenn.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1911-12-14

- - CONDENSED SCHEDULE
CAROLINA, GLMCHFED and OHIO RAILWAY and CAROLINA CNCHFn and
OHIO RAILWAY of SOUTH CAROLINA
THE NEW SHORT LINE BETWEEN
Dan 81 Paul and S Ferry Va Johnson City, Tenn tauaSs and Marion
NJ o. and SpatanbuTg, S. c. "GLNGHFlElD ROUTE"
effective NOVEMBER 2e. 1911
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1911-05-04
SCRATCHED TILL BLOOD RAN

when my boy was about three
months old his head broke out with a
rash which was very itchy and ran a
watery fluid. We tried everything we
could but he got worse all the time,
till it spread to his arms, legs and
then to his entire body. He got so
bad that he came near dying. The
rash would itch so that he would
scratch till the blood ran, and a thin
yellowish stuff would be all over his
pillow in the morning. l had to put
mittens on his hands to prevent him
tearing his skin. He was SO weak
and run down that he took fainting
spells as if he were dying. He was
almost a skeleton and his little hands
were thin like claws.
HE was bad about eight months
when we tried Cuticura Remedies. l
had not laid him down in his cradle
in the daytime for a long while. I
washed him with Cuticura Soap and
put on n application Of Cuticura
Ointment and he was so soothed that
he could sleep. You don't know how
glad l was he felt better. 1t took one
box of Cuticura Ointment and pretty
near one cake Of Cuticura Soap to
cure him. / think our boy would have
died but for the Cuticura Remedies
and l shall always remain a firm
friend of them. There has been no
return of the trouble. / shall be glad
to have you publish this true state.
ment of his cure" (Signed) Mrs. M.
c. Maitland, Jasper, Ontario, May ~.
1910.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1911-05-04
No Legal Bar to Reciprocity.

What little objection there was on
the ground of its possible legal in
validity, to the passing of the Cana
dian reciprocity measure, has been
removed by a decision of the customs
court.
1t has been held in some quarters
that the favored nation clause in the
American treaty with England would
extend automatically to England any
reduction in duty made ON the prod
uct Of another nation. 1t was not, of
course, the intention of the United
States to make concessions to Eng
land in connection with the agree
ment with Canada, but the point was
raised that the Washington govern
ment could not help itself once it
had made a deal with Ottawa.
The decision that set aside this OBJ
lection was a simple case in which
there was difference of opinion on
the amount Of duty to be laid on
whisky coming from England and
France. The court held that the duty
on the English product must be paid
as specified; that the existing trade
agreement with France could have no
influence on any other business
| Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1911-05-04

watched while he disappeared in the
bushes. Then she said to the boy:
"You call at the house In about
two hours and I'll give you the fifty
cents, but IL / hear of you catching
another rabbit, or If you capture a
bird Of any sort I'll make you
troubled"
Maybe you own the earth!" called
the lad after he was thirty feet away.
you can tell that villain / dol"
She hunted for other snares, and
she found three and destroyed them.
After a couple Of hours she started
for home. Just as she left the woods
she passed a young man entering
them. He was we'll dressed and a
stranger, and the manner in which he
raised his hat and his d~eferential bow
told her that he lived In the city. IIu
was staying In the village with some
relative for a few days, probably, and
out for a stroll. the same as she had
been.
That evening the boy called at the
house. His fifty cents was ready, but
he would not accept 1t. He brought q
note to be delivered and he sat down
with a grin on his face while Miss
Gertrude answered 1t. 1t read:
Miss Ainsley: Your conduct this
afternoon in the brow-beating a young
employee of mine is simply reprehensi
BILE. The terms in which you char
acterized me are no less so. I have
yet to learn that you have been ap
pointed the legal guardian Of the birds
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1911-05-04
Churches and tuberculosis.

Statistics showing how serious a
problem tuberculosis is to the ordi-
nary church congregation have been
issued by the National Association
for the Study and Prevention Of
tuberculosis. From reports received
from over 725 churches, with a mem
bership of over $4,000 communicates
of twenty denominations, and from
20S cities and towns in IL states In
various parts of the country, out OF
nearly 1000 deaths in 1910, over 700
or 10 per cent. were caused by tuber-
culosis. This means 2.24 deaths for
every thousand members or COM
municants. While the percentage Of
deaths from tuberculosis compared
with other diseases is not higher in
the churches, according to these fig
ures, than in the country at large, the
tuberculosis death rate, as known by
the church returns, Is higher per
thousand communicates than that for
the general population In the registra.
ton area of the United States, which
the census bureau gave as 1.67 in
1909.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1911-05-04
AS HE UNDERSTOOD THEM
Apprentice Carried Out Orders Of His
Employer, but the Result
Was Sad.

"Now, William" the old farmer said
to his new apprentice, 81 want thee to
mind what | do say to thee, to be
sharp and attentive and to delay not
in carrying out my instructions"
"Ay, ay, EUR" replied William.
First, now, | want thee to take
out the old white mare and have her
shod."
"Ay, ay, EUR" said William, and de-
parted.
He returned two hours later and the
old farmer questioned him.
"Thee hast not been quick, lad"
he said, %reprovingly, "but if thee hast
done thy work as / ordered thee thou
shalt be forgiven. Didst thee have
the mare shod, Is l telled thee?"
"Ay, ay, zur!" replied William,
beaming. "Didst thou not hear the
gun? l shot her myself and I've just
buried her."-London Answers.