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Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1912-03-21
Railroads and Legislation.

The following editorial from the Bal
tiTnore Sun is so true of railroads every-
where, and SC plainly expresses the real
situation in every state, that we take
pleasure in submitting it TO cur readers:
Yesterday, Senator Maloy intro
duced bill in the Senate at Annapolis
requiring the railroads of the state to
place extra crews on passenger trains
under certain circumstances. A few
days before Senator Hammond intro
duced bill providing for the taxation
of stocks and bonds held by railroad
companies upon which no taxes now are
paid. Yesterday, the Interstate Com
merce Commission handed down a de-
cision to the effect that the railroads
may be required to carry certain class
es of freight at loss if existing rates
are necessary to enable small dealers to
compete with their larger rivals. The
railway engine' rs on all the lines east
of Chicago are preparing for strike in
case their demands for higher pay are
not acceded to. Meanwhile the rail
of their rates on any classes of goods.
Isn't it about time to give the rail-
roads fair chance to earn a 6 per cent
dividend on their stock? Doubtless.
some years ago, they all, more or less.
sinned previously against God and man.
They granted rebates, they showed dis
| elimination, their high officials took
graft from the supply companies and
made the public pay for it, and there
was no health in them. But the gross
abuses have certainly been corrected.
The Interstate Commerce Commission
keeps pretty firm band upon them in
the matter of stock issues as we'll as
rates and discrimination and proper SER
vice. Through the Erdman Act the
Government has taken a hand in the
matter of prescribing wages paid. and
it seems probable that it will increase
its activities in this respect in the fu-
ture. Wages, in fact, have gone I'D
| enormously in recent years, and the cost
of supplies has increased tremendously.
Yet when the eastern roads asked the
commission some monshs ago for per-
mission to increase their freight rates.
the met with polite refusal.
The time will certainly come when a
halt must be called to this system of in
creasing expenditures and decreasing
revenues, and great many disinterest-
ed students of the problem think it has
arrived now. The railroads must paw
dividends, otherwise they will not be
able to get the capital that is necessary
for them to maintain their tracks and
equipment in proper condition and to
increase their facilities for caring for
additional business. If the present ten
dency continues, the result will be
cheese-paring economies that will pre-
vent proper handling of traffic, and in
that event the railroads will not be the
only sufferers; business men of the
country generally will suffer as much
as, or more than they"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1912-03-21
Ten things 10 Do This Month.

/. Get the land ready for the crops.
Plow well; harrow and re-harrow until
a perfect seed-bed is obtained. Re
member that good preparation is half
the battle.
2. Use good seeds. 1t will be cheap
er to pay good price for good seeds
than to plant those of poor quality.
Then arrange some seed plants and
grow your own seeds.
3. Get the tools out some rainy day
and see that they are in condition to do
good work. Look sitter the planters
! especially. You can't afford to have a
poor stand from careless planting.
4. Take special care of the horses.
See that the harness does not rub and
that the collars fit. Groom well and
rub their shoulders three or four times
a day.
s. Study the feeding of the brood
SOW; fix Up the narrowing pens; when
! the pigs come give them careful atten-
ton and keep them growing.
Make start with pure-bred poul-
try. Fix up houses and run-ways. Rid
the premises of lice.
Z. Put the spray pump to work in
the orchard. Keep up the garden plant
ing and cultivation.
8. Paint the house. Buy a lawn
mower and start it running. White
wash fences and outbuildings.
9 Order needed seed OF cowpeas, soy
beans, etc. Arrange to grow your own
hay this year and to get the nitrogen
you need from the alr.
10. Give the boy an acre to work in
corn or cotton, or q calf, or litter of
pigs. Interest the girls in tomato
growing or poultry raising The Pro-
gressive Farmer.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1912-03-21
THURSDAY. MARCH 81, 1912
UNSTABLE.

The Roanoke Times is a versatile
newspaper. 1t is little of everything
and, in most things, wrong. 1t is illogic-
al, ill-tempered, uniformed. unfaithful.
uncertain, unfair, ungrateful, irritable,
evssive, execrsble, insoient, unstable.
injudicious and inordinate. In fact, it
has All the ms and un's that make Up
the negative qualities of a newspaper
Lately it tried to be a prophet and
forecast what the legislature would do
in the redistricting of the state. It
said:
because General Lee surrender
ed at AppomattoX courthouse forty
seven years ago is no reason why
the county of Appomattox with
5000 people and losing population
should have a delegate in the lower
house Of the assembly, while coun-
ty with $4,000 people and gaining
population has but one"
Evidently the Times has very little
Influence with democratic legislature.
and adds to its negative qualities that
Of being unprophetic
To give the Times its due, however.
it is only fair to say that it shines as a
comic newspaper. Reviewing the &C.
ton Of the last legislature it says:
The worst omission of the as
sembly was that to enact the Chalk
ley anti-bribery law. That was
caused chiefly By the Republicans.
They were persuaded that the law
would he used to prosecute mem
bers of their party and they stood
solidly, in the house, against taking
it up ou- of its order on the calen-
dar."
How droll, That a handful of repub-
hcans, less than ten per cent, could take
The overwhelming democratic majority
y the throat and strangle needed legis-
lation. The truth is, the democrats
want no honest election laws. The
whole of the election laws Of the state
are manifestly partizan and unfair, anc
were put on the statute books for the
purpose of perpetuating the democratic
machine in power, and then for the
Times to try to shift the blame, when
opportunity offered to amend the laws,
is ludicrous indeed. 1t is to laugh. The
Times is, indeed. funny paper.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1912-03-21

The list of immortal" that has been
compiled presents some names that are
a surprise to the average man. Anyway
it is difficult to place among the i'm
mortals while he is living This, usually
cannot be done until generations after
his death. The world has to find out if
he abides in the thoughts of men and
whether his acts or productions have or
have not high permanent value.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1912-03-21

The movement to make the school
house the social center of the rural COM
munity is meeting with well deserved
success in many sections of the country.
If the plan is generally adopted it will
do much to break that monotony that
has told so injuriously against rural life.
Not unlikely in the future school houses
may De so designed as to better serve
the two-fold purpose of promoting edu-
cation and social life.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1912-03-21

The British government are building
with great secrecy battleship which is
to far eclipse anything now afloat, and
the German government is completing,
also with great secrecy, q turbine en-
CINE that will revolutionize naval war
fare. And so the mad rivalry goes on
while nations talk peace and the tax
payers foot the bills.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1912-03-21

If those people who are constantly
talking of the good old times could only
be transported back to have little ex-
perience of those days they would at
once be cured of their delusion. AS a
matter of fact the world was never SO
good as it is now in spite of all the cor
ruptionists, big and little, that curse
political and business life. And, which
Is better still, the world is getting better
every day.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1912-03-21
The Tazewen Republican nnnt.

Inv AoNSNClA NciuptlCAO quot
ing Genera! Grant. says: The dem
ocrstS n Yer see AIRY thing until aft
er the have passeg il. Admit il,
ard yet the republican record has
passed in review, democracy has
scanned 1t scr ctinizingly and writes
upon it; 'Weis bed in the balances
and found wanting
And this will be the verdict of
large majority of the American
voters when that faulty record is
passed upon at the polls. To see
things as they are is about all that
human eyes may DO.
Tomorrow, Lord, is thine -
Farmville Herald.
The people of the United States hav,
been passing on the record of the re
publican party for over half century
and with the exception of two briet
spasms they have always approved
The memory of Cleveland's last admin,
istration will, no doubt, keep the people
safe and sane" and lined up with the
party of progress and reform, notwith-
standing the prophecies of our contem-
porary.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1912-03-21

Paraphrasing the old saying that an
Ambassador is an official sent abroad
to lie for the benefit of his country" it
may be said that special correspondent
in this country at the present time is a
man sent to Washington to lie for the
benefit of the paper that sent him and
party or faction it represents.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1912-03-21

After the south pole, what next? If
people imagine there are no more dis
coveries to be made they are greatly
mistaken. Africa is yet to a very large
extent Dark Continent, and there are
vast regions on our own continent of
which but little or nothing is known.
They, probably, will be the next points
of attack.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1912-03-21

If the big financiers do control the
money market and put on the pressure
when and where they please it doesn' Z
make much difference whether it is call
ed a money trust or just an understand
ing. 1t is distinction without q diff
ferance for the result is the same.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1912-03-21

Better than all the quack remedies
for identifying the complexion are good
habits, plenty of fresh air and water, q
Tranquil mind and loving deeds to
Others.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1912-03-21

The scriptual statement that many
are called but few are chosen" will be
realized in a political sense during the
peesent year. Thousands of political
aspirants will believe they are called,
but very few of them will be chosen by
the voters.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1912-03-21

In almost every community there are
people who, if they took as much care
to be good as they do to be bad, would
be shining examples for others to fol-
low.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1912-03-21

The world is never going to be trans
formed by those people who are content
to ''sit and sing themselves away to ev-
erlasting bliss"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1912-03-21

It is not the work a man does today
that wears him down, but the worrying
about what he shall do tomorrow.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1912-03-21

a press dispatch sent out from Rich
mOnd few days previous to the ad-
Journment Of the Legislature. spoke Of
the slowneSs with which pending bills
were being disposed of, owing to L e
differences existing between the House
and the Senate over the redistricting
measure, but said also, that when a
measure affecting Confederate veterans
was brought up, there was always a
scramble to get into the band-wagon. ="
However true this might have been, we
90 not recall any Of the democratic
brethren in the Legislature having run
over each other in their eagerness to
aid Senator Royal, of Tszewell, in his
efforts to get an increase in pensions for
the grizzled old heroes of Virginia who
were the backbone of the Confederacy
on the field of carnage back in the
days of the bloody sixties. Veterans,
isn't it about time you realized that the
democratic party in Virginia is no long
er your friend?
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1912-03-21

forth, and is uncertain whether at night
he will sie,p in his bed or on the door
step. His language at times is pc;ur-
esqae and slw - decidedly pesslmi-;ic
But the man invariably survives the
ordeal Of spring cleaning, and when at
last, after every thing is cleaned and in
its place. and every part of the house is
purged Of Impurities, his wife asks him
II he has not row Sc "Y'->e fit to live
in, he joyfully acquissc,s and walks
about with elastic tread and with q
smile 81 contentment upon his face.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1912-03-21
DIET AND HEALTH
HINTS
BY DR.. T. J. ALLEN
Food Specialist
FOOD VS.. MEDICINE.

Or. =. MaqendIe, the eeIe-
brated French physician, says,
In one Of his published lectures:
when ! was chief physician at
Hotel DIeu hospital, Paris, some
$500 patients passed through
my hands during a year. Be-
fore my term expired | tried the
experiment Of giving one-hah of
the patients that were then pres
ent no medicine at all; tho rest
the usual medical treatment Tho
former were given, Instead, only
what Is known a. food and sim
pie remedles,' and, to my un-
bounded surprise, they all got
well-not a single death; while
among those receiving medical
treatment The customary num-
Der Of deaths occurred. A sec
ond trial yielded a like result,
and ] was converted. Ever since
have given but little medicine
to nay patients" This ls the prac-
tice Of most sanltariums now, and
especially Of the tuberculosis
sanatorlums, In which food Is
the essential treatment. While
It Is not probSbls that medicines
VIII be entirely eliminated, diet
will be the chief means Of euro
In all cases In tho future, as 1t
now 10 In diabetes, rheumatism,
consumption, BrlGht's disease
and others.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1912-03-21

The Carolina Cnchfd and
Ito
to -O
J. &c CANTON, CHAs T MANnp1
VicePres Traffic In Ehoroa p.a. H..
FLAG Stop johnson CITY. Tam " " O"Aise r~Ss Dep"
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-05-14
FORTY YEARS THIS TIVE
For the Second Time Sargean,
Manley Convicted.

Sergeant J. D. Manley, tried al
Waxahachle on change of venue
from Dallas, chsrged with che murder
of L. Reichenstein, was for the second
time convicted and his punishment as
sessed at forts years in the penitenti.
cry. juicy was out twelve hours On
first trial, at Dallas, life Imprisonment,
was the verdict
Offense for which defendant was
tried was alleged to have been COM
mitted during President Taft's visit
to Dallas in October, 1909 Manley
was member of company L, Texas
National guard, guarding the gate al
the fair grounds through which the
president was to enter the enclosure.
Reichenstein and friend cried to
cross the space wired off to reach a
street car. Defendant, in charge al
that point objected, and an argument
resulted. A twenty Inch bayonet en-
tered Reichenstein's stomach, causing
his death in few hours. Manley in
his testimony claimed the yoneting
was an accident; that Reichensteih
was showed by those behind him
against the bay onet, which went all the
way through the unfortunate man.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-05-14
PROMINENT TEXAN GONE.
Clyde D. Smith Departs This
Life at Austin.

/ Clyde D. Smith, secretary of the
Texas senate for the sessions of the
last ten years, died at his home in
Austin, the result of a relapse from
an illness of loug standing He had
been in an iDGrmary many weeks, but
recently seemed much improved and
returned to his residence.
Mr.. Smith was about thirty. eight
years old and went to Austin from
Wichita Falls. During Governor
Campbell's administration he was ap.
pointed registrar of vital statistics
with the state board of health, but re-
signed when the last special session OF
the Thirty first legislature convened.
He was elected to the senate secretary
ship at twelve regular and special SEES
sions.
More recently Mr.. Smith was con-
nected with publicity bureau at the
state capital.
He was q member of the Maccabees
and Red Men. A widow, three young
sons, his mother and a sister, Mrs. J..
G. Hunt of Wichita Falls. survive.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-05-14
kB|DES BY Law
SAYS l|GHIE0OI
Successor Of Former coraescS
Acte Propessss
THUS REPORTS OFFICIAL
Attorney coner OF Toass @vos
Out Statsme NJ In WEIGH ese Sage
The~s 10 NothiNg Nso&x vtite the
OH coSpor0tioes.

Attorney general Lisetsost, Vhd
vent east to Investigate rumo9 in re
gard to certain eorposations. b 40 cub.
mitted a report.
The seport completely ezoeesatcs
the Pierce Fordyce Oil associations
and the Magnolia Pet~oleup eompany
from the charges of che vio'ssaon 81
the Texas ANTITRUST Laws, which had
been unofficialls preferred against the
companies and expresses She epinion
that ehe Texas field furnishes Nesns
of some lively congestion between she
OIL concerns.
In his statement the attorney genee-
III says: Nothing ~as disclosed ID
our Investigations tending 80 chow
that either the Pierce Forlyce Oil o.
ISOLATION or the MagnoliA Peseel eum
company was doing other then . lee
fuf business in this state"
Charges made during taking o. ees-
timony in a ST.. Louis court hesrine
that the old Waters Pierce Oil com
pany was doing business ct the sans
old stand, in the same old way,' in
Texas, was one OF the things that sed
ehe attorney general to take his trip
east to investigate,
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-05-14
ROT AFFECTED.
Raasandsrs Msv Still Coasinue
OF Occupatiom

OF Occupasso@
ComptsolIes's depastmen., Enough
ke BartseH, o. ehies Eqacs pesmis
clerk, has held Nere is no4Aiae ita
the liquor laws 10 in prohibits &
eerkeepes, ~hohas been fosced Ont Of
employment through ere cancellation
o. the license q his former employees.
from accepting employment in snoth-
er saloon where such bicense has not
been revoked.
Question came up through an iA-
quiry from the proprietor OF large
saloon al Galveston, who escaped in
the general cancellation OF liquor Il.
eenses at that place by the comptrol~
Ter. The saloon man advised that
since the closing of the forty nine sa-
looms at Galveston his business had
been increased, but that he has en-
ployed two barkeepers who held posi-
tions with some of the now closed ss-
looms, and he wanted to know if this
was a violation of the law. He was
advised that it was not.
This inquiry was inspired by . pro
vision Of the liquor laws which pro-
hibits owners and proprietors OF sa-
looms in which the licenses have been
forfeited from acting as barkeepers or
walters in another saloon for q peri
cd Of five years.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-05-14
ITO ABOLISH PUBLIC CUPS
Or Tssip. h Texas lias Resa
Decided Opse.

Duelns the meeting AZ u eco % -
'etste boSed 81 health il vas decided
10 sboltsh public detnkinR cups On
galway sssssenges Grains ia Texas. 10
ss considered Ay b. Steiner, tke stsbs
Aeshb o@oep, rat shis ass . long
etep coward tie e@nsers OF lea ~ che
people 40 tho country.
Atshis meeting a1e sosrd eoasia
cred Also De enenigisis euestiOa, hus
pr, Steiner did noe care asshis Cline
% discuss tho cong asaoa eeadAed On
lahe subjecs, cut stated ss1as au' eSieiai
statemer8 eill he issued wishsn Q shert
Gme Tie hossd 10 NeterWined, with
Ae mass a. stfaei SECS it Aas Seta IN ed
90 his matter, ~ prevent . recurEence
OF an epidemic OF tho diseae b. this
STATE. 1t is tkought the @asemerS will
likely embrace accommodates 70 the
county andeity health officers % NJ
state which gill Gave De effect Of lsse
cent spread Of meningitis &ho4la II
sgain eregt cue 40 sny gsiHs sahs
yeNsa
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-05-14
NARRATED
IN
NOTES.


and one of the b.ot hnowc horsemen
10 America, died at Lexington, Ky He
was fifty-two years old.
James Moren, a pioneer of Ohio riv.
er shipping, who gained considerable
wealth, passed away at San Francis.
CO, Pittsburg was his home
While detectives are investigating a
| story Of a wedding on a wild noun.
tain road near Cumberland Gap, Ky,
q girl fifteen years old and a Syrian.
twenty one years old, Jacques Smiles,
are being detained at Cincinnati. The
man is being held on white slavery
charges. Home of the girl is Spring
City, Tenn.
National house of representatives
voted, 100 TO 40, to abolish the United
States court of commerce.
Five men we're instantly Killed and
eleven injured when an explosion in
the plant of the American Steel Wire
company at Cleveland, O., wrecked a
blast furnace Two of the injured
were fatally hurt
Elks from every portion of Oklaho-
ma met In annual convention at Mus.
kogee and transacted much business
Disting uished members of the order
from Texas and K ansae were In attend
ance Session lasted two days.
An uprising among the natives on
the plantation of Charles Hamilton,
an American, resulted in twenty.four
of the attacking party being slain lu
the ranch house. near Monterey, Mex :,
the Americans barricaded themselves
which was stormed by the Mexicans
A state soldier and two rurales we're
also killed In the tight Americans
escaped unframed
BY the capsizing OF a launch while
squall was raging near Fox Lake
ILL.,, its seven occupants drowned
United States Senator Smoot of
Utah denies that Rev Clarence v. r
Richeson, under sentence of death at
Boston, was ever member of the
Mormon church
After he had been pronounced dead
Joseph Niemiec of Chicago, victim of
accidental asphyxiation. was revived
by the use OF three tanks of oxygen
| Crashing through window into the
home of Judge Agnew at Waakesha.
Wis, a carrier pigeon han attached
to leg tag labeled San Fran
cisco to Milwaukee ! The bird 1as
revived and liberated
University of Chicago students plan
co operative grocery store.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-05-14
Gratitude.

Sir Thomas Upton relates the follow
Ing experience Of his own:
when ! was starting In business |
was very poor and needed every penny
! could earn to enlarge my little bust
ness. | had lad OF fourteen as assist.
ant. One Monday morning the boy
came In with very mournful expires.
sion. asked him what the trouble
was, and he said:
II have no clothes fft to wear to
church, sir | can't get new suit, be-
cause my father il dead. and | have to
help my mother pay the rent
y thought 1t over and finally TOOK
enough money from my hard earned
savings to buy the lad good warm
suit of clothes. with which he was de-
lighted
THE next day he did not come to
work. nor the next aud when three
days hui gene by and had heard
nothing from him went to his home
to find out what had become of him.
Well, you see. SIR. said the mother
Of the boy. Robert looks so respectable
IA his new suit. thanks to you. sir. that
We thought be had better look around
town and see Il he couldn't ret better
fph: vefrIo01'n Aaesxine