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Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-07-01
SOUGHT sToNEwALL JACKSON.
Evidently Thought He Still Played In
the Brass Band.

the Brass Band.
The Stonewall Brigade band of Staun-
ton, Va, which participated in the
Grant day ceremonies, made things
pleasant for the guests of the Windsor
during their stay. Concerts were held
every evening in the lobby of the hote.
Among those who enjoyed the concerts
were the president and his party, Gen.
John b. Gordon and Congressman Far
ish C. Tate, of Georgia. 1t was first
class band, uniformed in dazzling blue
with white feece-trimnled capes and
hussar caps. The programme each
evening contained, besides operate and
classical selections, several old-time ia
vorite airs and southern melodies. The
band is an old-time organization, al
though most of the members are now
young men. Stonewall Jackson once
played cornet in the band, and per-
haps that accounts for the fact that
the leader played q cornet while direct
ing the players.
The first concert was held on Monday
evening, when President Mckinley ar-
rived. 1t was q big success, and after
ward the members of the band crowded
around Gen. Gordon and shook hands
with him. A well-dressed man with a
sandy mustache sidled up to one of the
spectators, and, pointing to Gen. Cor
don, said:
as that Stonewall JacksonF"
The spectator turned toward the
ouestioner with a quizzical look, but,
noticing that the man was apparently
in earnest, said, with smile:
mo. I'm trying to find out who
he is"
Congressman Tate, who was talking
with Gen. Gordon, left him for mo-
ment, and was buttonholed immediate
" by the sandy-mustached man.
excuse me, sir, was that gentleman
Stonewall Jackson that you were talk
ing to?"
The congressman glared at the sandy
mustached man, apparently undecided
whether he was the subject of north
ern affront or not.
"No, sir, it was not" said the con-
gresham.
"Well, when will he arrived" queried
the sandy-mustached man.
The guileless expression of the ques-
toner caused the congressman to smile
as he said:
"My dear sir, short course of United
States history would do you world of
good"
The congressman then walked off.
The sandy-mustached man was last
seen receiving an explanation from the
hotel clerk.-N. Y. Sun.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-07-01
THE SEASONS HATS.
They Look Like Gorgeous Walking
Flower Gardens.

They Look Like Gorgeous Walking
Flower Gardens.
Two or more varieties of straw are fire.
duently used in one hat. An assort-
ment, of course, of rough straws is all
the vogue. Chip is also in demand, and
a glistening straw called silk fiber.
Straws of more than one color are used
in making a single nat.
The brim is frequently one tint OF.
straw and the crown another. A few of
the brims are made OF bands of straw
alternating with pufings OF tulle or
silk.
Crowns are all. eccentric asito their
shape. Some emulate Tam GShanter
in shape, others resemble an hour-glass,
or look like a jam pot turne6 upside
down. Many of them are made entirely
Of spangles.
Flowers are used layishly on the new
hats-either in big punches or in
wreaths encircling the crown. Aagrettes
are muchin favor. and bows androsettes
or ribbon yelled in tulle. Accordion
plated chiffon is also used as trim
ming.
The coIors are startlingly brilliant.
Until July all the shades of purple and
violet will be worn. Brightsred is d
spring and summer color this year.
Leaf-green and forgetme-not blue are
n favorite color combination, as we'll as
violet and scarlet. Hats in three or
four shades of one color are much the
fashion. French hatssof shirred taffeta
silk will be worn fortearly spring, and
many tulle hats during the summer.
The sailor is here,again. but it is so
much trimmed thatiall its old-time Sc
verify of style is now thing OF the
past.-Philadelphia Times.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-07-01

people; they should speak and write
for the minds and the hearts of the peo-
pie, yea, and for their pockets as well;
they should write ard speak distinctly,
bravely, honestly, practically, in such
way as 10 turn the attention OF the
millions to the great question; in such a
way as to set hundreds of thousands to
talking about good roads where thou
Sands now are talking about them; in
such u way as to arouse enthusiasm,
bring about organization, lead TO prac-
teal work, 10 the actual building OF
good roads.
That is what am going to try to do
in this article, not to shoot over the
heads of the people, but right into their
hearts, their minds, their pockets.
A gentleman who has had much eXpe-
rience in travelling over dusty as well as
muddy roads has figured on the cost OF
both dust and mud. Let him deal with
dust now. He estimates that the dam
age to harness from dust is S. per
team. or $l5,OOO,Ooo annually, and to
vehicles double that, or $4,000, 900. His
estimate of damage to clothing is an
average of $40 to every man and woman
obliged to encounter dust clouds and
storms, which means that the 100000
of people lose $70,0OO,Oo0 each year
from flying dust. He expresses the be-
lief that thousands of people every year
receive injury to their eyes from the
same cause, requiring large outlay OF
cash, not 10 mention suffering, incon-
venience and loss of time.
These figures are well calculated to
cause thoughtful men and women to
stop and count the cost of bad roads in
other respects. A loss of $115,ooo,OOo
from one result of poor roads is worth
looking into.
For a century the people have been
suffering from dusty roads certain
portions of the year. Probably not one
in $4,000 people from the birth OF the
republic until now has ever stopped to
consider the question of damage from
dust, while all have groaned over its
inconvenience and annoyance.
1t is easy to figure up the billions OF
dollars that have been lost from that
one cause the past century. The aver
age good road affords but little dust.
Some one asks how shall we get good
roads? Begin by agitating. Agitate
in the home circle, in the everyday
walks of life, inpublic meetings, through
the press, in farm institutes, at county
and state fairs, in the debating societies,
anywhere. everywhere, and when pub
lie sentiment has reached the right
stage it will do the rest-get good roads.
Agitate it practically; antagonize no
element; interest all clements; make
it plain that good roads are in the inter-
est of all from money standpoint;
from the standpoint of comfort, con-
venience and economy.
Such agitation, on such question, in
such an age ought to be easy. Go at it,
j. A. WATROUS.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-07-01

don't want anybody TO leave. II any
body leaves I suppose l ought to.
haven't cheat2s today, because-well,
brought the wrong papers! But
have cheated lots of times, that is, for
freshman. And apologize. Pm sor-
~. I think Mr.. McRawney is right
about it. A gentleman ought not to
cheat in examinations" He looked all
around him on the faces of his class
mates, and. spoke on:
eve can beat these southern colleges
in athletics, but they have some good
ideas, and I think the class of ninety
blank is the class to intro
duce them here. Fellows, I be-
lieve the professor will give us
another examination if we ask for
it, and if he WILL move you, Mr.. Presi-
dent, that from this time forward the
class of ninety-blank puts itself on its
honor"
He glanced timidly across the room
at me and sat down.
The anarchist pocketed his watch.
as the motion seconded?" he said,
gravcly. But all parliamentary de-
corum was lost in q tumult of boyish
clapping, and dozen freshmen were
on their feet at once, stammering out
confessions and apologies.
The professor made an incoherent
speech, and the next day he gave out
new Greek paper, so easy, in truth,
thot even McRawnev passed it; and
thus the honor system" famous
enough now, but suspiciously regarded
then, made its entrance into the old
collkrc, where it has wrought more
miracles than will ever be set down in
print.
As for its fostcr-fathcr, the anarchist,
he dropped around to my rooms few
weeks later, to ask what thought OF
the ACCESSIBILITY of his studying modern
Greek at Athens. replied, somewhat
lightly, that he would doubtless find
it an interesting experience.
Il thought So" he said, simply. i
reckon I'll go. You you see man OF
my age gets kind of restless sometimes
here among these boys"
"But how can you go?" vcnturcd.
He stretched his big shoulders.
"Oh, that's easy enough" he laughed.
I've made couple of voyages. And
after I've picked up that modern Greek
professor" he confided, I'm going to
Push on east and see what it's like.
Did YOU ever read this pocm?"
He pulled tattercd newspaper clip
ping from his pocket and passed 1t
over to me. 1t was single stanza
from Kipling's "AIandalay." He muir
injured couple of lines of it, lying back
in my casy-chair, and staring at my
cast of the Olympian-Hcrmes:
ION the road to Mandalay,
Where the flyin' fishes play,
An the dawn comes up like thunder
outer China, 'crost the bay!'
"Kind of romantic, isn't it?" he de-
mandcd.
can the dawn comes up like thunder
eff old Tom Marshall were alive now
how he could speak that line, eh?
That's real poetry; old Homer would
have rolled that out pretty full, too.
We'll, 1 reckon I'll go in the morning.
III send you letter from out there"
lie has never sent the letter, but
somewhere "out there" On the road TO
Mandalay I have no doubt the innocent
minded. chivalrous-hearted anarchist
may be found at this very hour
Youths Companion.
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49, ------- ''-''- go 80 -.-''--
REPAIRING ROADS.
A Lesson That Has Yet to Be Learned
NV Many Farmers.

A Lesson That Has Yet to BE Learned
by Many Farmers.
Plans for improving the roads should
be made early in the season. Too often
every thought of doing work on the
roads is delayed till after harvest, and
worse still till the fall months. With
out doubt the sooner the work is done
the better. Why should it be necessary
to drive over holes, ruts and washes
made by one winter until another Win
ter is nearly at hand before they are
repaired?
Were it not that some of us are too
afraid of doing little generous work 1t
would notbe so hard to take our shovel
and stop washes, open bitches or fill
holes on the road a few yards from our
door. 1t is apparent that a few minutes
or few hours of this work done at the
right time will save days of work later,
and the right time is during the wet
and thawing period of spring, when
our services are not especially occupied.
IT is not maintained that the era of good
roads is to be brought about in this
way, but when one sees that days OF
work can be saved by q little timely at
tcntion, and especially when the work
should be done in sight of his fireside.'
he is not a little selfish who refuses to
do the same because the benefit may eX-
tend to others as we'll as himself.
1t need not surprise the reader if the
one who cries the loudest for good
roads and who complains the longest
about high taxes is the last one to do a
little unpaid work on that part of the
public road which he travels every day.
/ am not harsh, but it does not seem
out of place to agitate the need OF a
little self-help along this line.
One lesson yet to be learned by many
is the Importance of taking care OF q
road. In nearly every neighborhood
there are some farmers who manage to
do a good deal of hauling every spring
at the time when the roads are in the
most yiscid state of the year. AS is to
be expected, big load is hard to pull,
and since there is no thought of load
ing lighter the most natural thing to
do is to hitch on four horses and take
the wagon right along. AS would
be expected, such q team has about
the same effect upon a soft road as the
same number of horses hitched to q
rlow and throwing up q furrow at
each side of the track. Such farmer
will explain to you that there is no law
to prevent him from doing so, that the
roads are for public use, and that it is
the best way he ever tried for tough
ening his horses for spring plowingt
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-07-01

There ought to be law specifying such
destruction misdemeanor, but Shame
ON the farmer who must be thus re-
strained from tearing up the highways
by legal enaction.
Let it be remembered that success in
road improvement lies most In making
the very best use of the means at ones
command. Not every section has gravel
and stone in abundance, and without
these there can be no pixies. But even
where these materials are scarce it
must be admitted that such is often
wasted by lack of thought and neglect.
Because gravel and macadamizing ma
terial can be secured in but limited
quantities it is not thought necessary to
properly prepare the grade before lay
ing the road material. Nine times out
of ten farmers who haul out only a
dozen loads of gravel per year will use
them to fill mud holes. They are con-
WINGED that this is the best material
for the purpose that they can find. But
what waste! Before a year these
isolated loads will have gone into the
soil, with only little gravel mixed in
the mud left as remembrance OF this
the best material to fill "chuck holes"
I do not wish to be misunderstood
here. .Iwoultl especially urge the filling
of holes with gravel or macadam on
road that has been thoroughly graded
and grayeled before. Such repairing
will repay many fold. But the person
who dumps load of gravel in hole In
a fiat or hollow dirt road may get Il
receipt for the time expended, but the
travelling pablo will not gain greatly.
Let the holes be first filed with earth
and the grade well raised, then after it
is well compacted apply the gravel, and
your wisdom will be manifest.-Na-
tional Stocknan.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-07-01
So: = Road 'l4A. ):
ss|AS>s$ss sea SI.G5ttg
IMPROVEMENT.
HEAVIEST OF TAXES.
An Eloquent and Convincing Talk on
Mind, Money md Dust.

An eloquent and Convincing Talk on
Mud, Money and Dust.
1t was Gen. Phil Sheridan, in one OF
his great battles in the Shenandoah VAL
ley, who rode along the line and gave
orders 10 this effect: DO not shoot
over their heads. This is not going to
be play battle Shoot to hit, and have
it tell" That was good advice in war.
IL is equally good in civil life. This
contest for good roads, contest that
means much for the millions and hun
dreds of millions of profit to the mil
lions, is not play contest, battle for
amusement. 1t is u contest in which
the best minds and the best hearts Of
the nation are becoming interested; in
which men engaged in all branches OF
trade are becoming interested; in which
every farmer, every laborer, every man
and every woman in the country will
yet become deeply interested. AS this
is true, every orator who talks on good
roads at farmers institutes, county and
state fairs, and on other occasions,
should not talk over the heads OF the
people; every editor and correspondent
who writes on the subject should write
with a distinct purpose in view. They
should not write over the heads Of the
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-07-01

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Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-07-01

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Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-07-01
Whine Of Cottonsecd.

Those who have made study of the
proper methods for the perfect culti-
vation of cottonseed claim that if proper
apparatus were introduced in the south
The value of the produce could easily
be doubled. and reach not less than
$l0O,OOO,O00 annually, an amount equal
10 one-third of the cotton crop itself.
Us it is, the processes in the manufacture
of cottonseed oil are very crude. and
much that is useful is wasted. The
charge of carelessness in manufacture
seems strange in view of the fact that
most of the $3O,OOOO0O invested in cot
tonseed oil manufacture is northern
capital, and the managers are northern
men.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-07-01
MIGHT HAVE BEEN A DICTATOR.
Gen. scott Declined to Consider u
pronnaition Affecting Mexico.

i
Gen. Scott Declined to Consider u
Proposition Affecting Mexico.
1t may surprise many readers TO learn
that oyertures were made to Gen. Scott
hy many MeXicans of position and by
many American officers TO permanently
occupy Mexico and organize new gov
ernment. The scheme proposed to Gen.
Scott was, in substance, this: It was
supposed that upon the conclusion of
treaty of peace at least three-fourths
of the American army would be dis
Charged and that large portion of the
officers would resign, and, with many
of the men, would enter the new army
of Mexico, and enough others would
be recruited in the United States to
make the American contingent $4,000
strong. and to this might be added n
like number of Mexican soldiers. With
such an army it was suggested that
Mexico could be held and governed in
an orderly way, and prosperity might
be assured.
The plan contemplated pronuncia-
mento, in which Cen Scott should de-
clare himself dictator of the republic
for term of five years or more to give
time for agitators TO acquire pacific
habits and to learn to govern them
selves and TO respect an orderly govern
ment, where the rights of property
were not only respected, but fully pro-
,ected. Already in possession of the
forts, arscnals, foundries, cities, mines
and ports of entry, with nearly all the
arms, it was not doubted that very
general acquiescence would follow.
Scott was invited to several conclavcs
Of officers, but from the first emphat-
ically declined to enter into the plot.
lie did not purpose to change his al
cgiance or his service or his flag, but
meant. he said, to return to the United
States. lie had several reasons for this
determination. He was essentially
conservative thinker and was endowed
with a remarkably high sense of JUS
tice, and he had genuine contempt for
any adventure which had any favor OF
dishonesty or bad faith about it, and
he would not consider for moment
the project OF placing an alien govern
mcnt over Mexico while the nation was
dominated by superior force. Had still
another consideration been needed to
influence his course-as was not the
rase, however-there was one most per-
suasive consderation-his prospective
bride, awaiting his return at White
Haven home, near jefferson Barracks,
Hn,-Midland Monthly.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-07-01
nisrrncefnI Country Roads.

While the entire state is taking
great deal of interest in good roads"
the immediate vicinity of Oil City can
furnish some examples of bad roads
that are fearful to contemplate.
Good roads can be constructed II the
proper materials are used and proper at
tentiou paid to the grading and drain
age. The people are paying for this
sort of improvement and should insist
on getting their moneys worth. 1t
is easy enough to make q road that Is
good in summer, but what is demanded
is something that can be relied upon at
all seasons of the year,!
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-07-01
HrtfUI.

James-Do you always write letter
in such large script as you are using
now? could not help noticing it.
uenry-No; but this is to girl. You
know they always size fellows re-
gard for them by the number of pages
he fills.-Cincinnat Enquirer.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-07-01
HOW to Keep Pies.

When pies are to be kept over until
the second day after baking it is wise
plan to brush the undercrust with
beaten egg, then to put the tin or dish
On the ice half an hour. After putting
in the filing of the pie bake quickly.
This will keep the crust from getting
soaked.-Brooklyn Eagle.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-07-01
LIFE IN THE PARIS cArAcoMss.
Creatures That Thrive In subtcrra-
mean Parts Of the French Capital.

Creatures That Thrive In Subtcrra-
mean Parts OF the French Capital.
Milne Edwards, the celebrated zoolo-
gist, is making an examination of the
1arious forms of life which thrive
among the bones which line the en-
tensive catacombs of Paris. The little
animals which live among the relics Of
no fewer than 100000 souls, packed
into these underground galleries, are
chiefly insects, centipedes and crusta-
ceans, but they are so curiously altered
by their surrounding conditions as to
present some interesting features to
the naturalist They form an interrne-
date or transition species between
those which live in the light of day and
the same animals found in natural
caves.
The prevailing color is white of diff
ferent shades, for light is required for
the development of the colors Of pig
ments in animals and plants. Some
insects which have red eyes, apparent
ly sound, are blind, and when light
approaches they show no symptoms of
alarm until they feel the heat Of it.
In others the place where the eyes
ought to be is covered with integument
and there is 10 trace Of the eye. To
compensate for this deficiency the audi
tory and factile systems are abnormaily
developed, simple or fortified hairs
growing all over the body, helping the
animal to find its prey or avoid some
danger. The campedes live on moss,
podmrelles swarm in the fungi, myria-
pedes eat the old wood ard white
worms, beetles ard spiders abound.
The underground water is also thronged
with infusoria, cyclops which feed on
them and an infin:4e variety Of forms OF
life, all modified in similar way
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