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The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-09-03
IN II D CORNER.

SOME STRANGE, QUEER AND
CURIOUS PHASES OF LIFE.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-06-10
THE DEAF GIRL UNDERSTOOD.
Young Mans Tender Remark to His
True Love.

Young Mans Tender Remark to HIS
True Love.
It doesn't always pay to express your
inmost thought even gunrdedly in the
presence of deaf mutes, says the Boston
Record. A story was told at the meeting
of the Woman Suffrage association the
other afternoon which showed conclu-
sively the wisdom of the above remark
A devoted couple who, apparently,
had been long separated were thrust
suddenly into each others company at
a largcly-attended reception. The lady
who told the story said that she was
present in company with On educated
deaf girl. The happy reunited pair dis
played fully the thoughts that were in
their hearts by the beam upon their
countenances. Suddenly the young man
drew near to the one whom he adored
and said, in low tone, inaudible to
those about him, few seemingly Of
fectionate words.
The deaf girl watched the proceedings
with intense interest and suddenly
broke into q broad grin. Her companion
inquired what it was that amused her
She turned about so that the couple
could not see her and replied:
"That man said: If all these people
were not here I'd kiss you. If they don't
get out of the way pretty soon shall
have to before them The girl replied:
Then I shall scream"
The deaf girl understood their words
by the motion of their lips.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-06-10
ONE OF LlNooLNs STORIES.
About Some Powder That Had Decn
Misreprosentod,

About Some Powder That Had Decp
Misreprcscntod.
The following aneodotc by Lincoln
was told during Lincoln's visit to the
front ut City Point;
In the course of tho conversation that
evening he spoke of the Improvement in
arms and ammunition and Of the new
powder prepared for the 15-inch guns.
He said he had never seen the latter
article but he understood it differed
very much from any other powder that
had ever been used. ! told him that
happened to have IN my tent q speci-
men which had been sent to head
quarters as curiosity and I would
bring it to him. When l returned with
o grain of the powder about the size Of
walnut he took it, turned it over In his
hand and after examining 1t carefully
said; "Nell, it's rather larger than the
powder we used to buy in my shooting
days. 1t reminds me of what occurred
once in q country meeting house in
Sangamon county. You see, there were
very few newspapers then and the coun-
try storekeepers had to resort to some
other means of advertising their wares.
If, for instance, the preacher happened
to be late in coming to prayer meet
ing OF On evening the shopkeepers would
often put in the time while the people
were waiting by notifying them of amy
new arrival Of an attractive line OF
goods.
"One evening man rose up and said:
Brethren, let me take occasion to say,
while we're a-waitin', that have just
received new inv'ice of sportin' pow
der. The grains are so small you kin
sca'cely see 'em with the naked eye
and polished up so fine you KIN stand
UP and comb yer ha'r in front of one
O them grains jest like it was lookin'
glass. Hope you'll come down to my
store at the crossroads and examine
that powder for yourselves
"When we had got about this far Il
rival powder merchant in the meeting,
who had been boiling over with indig-
nation at the amount Of advertising the
opposition powder was getting, jumped
up and cried out: Brethren, I hope
you'll not believe single word Brother
Jones has been sayin' about that pow
der. I've been down thar and seen it
for myself and I pledge you my word
that the grains is bigger than the Jumps
in a coal pile; and any one of you,
brethren, CT you was in your future
state, could put bar'l o that powder
on your shoulder and march squar'
through the sulphurious flames sur
roundup you without the least danger
Of an explosion "-Gen. Horace Por-
ter, in Century.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-06-10
1T WAS A COLD DAY.
Had to Heat the Ice to Get Wnter-A
Modern Ananias,

Had to Heat the Ice to Get Wnter-A
Modern Ananias.
"B-r-r-r-r!" said the man from Potato
Creek, crowding up to the stove, ac-
cording to the indianapolis Journal.
"Purty cold"
"Yas," said the grocer, at is purity
frosty fer the time of year. I see it
went 25 below in Helena, which 1 think
1t good thing that the town has them
last two syllables in its name, or it
would be about as hard to believe as
some of them yarns of old Ananias over
there"
The man with the ginger beard looked
up and said: "Who you calm old Ana
MAS? Any of We ever ketch me in lie?"
NO" said the grocer, II guess you
never was ketched in lie yit. Anyone
that kin lie as fast ez you kin amt liable
to git ketched."
But, speaking of cold weather" said
the man with the ginger beard, II guess
1t was about as cold in Winnipeg in the
fall of 65 as I ever see it, er anybody
else"
GLOW cold was it2" asked the man
from Potato Creek.
oval, ez fur cz degrees below zero
goes, can't tell you nothin' about that"
said the man with the ginger beard,
"fer they wuzn't no thermometers long
enough fer to measure it, but do
know that when we wanted 10 git water
to drink the ice was froze so hard that
we had to heat it red hot 'afore it would
begin to melt"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-06-10
MIDAS HAYsEED AT THE PLAY.
Reads His Programme by the Light of
Assurance md Mntches

Reads His Programme by the Light of
Assurance and Matches.
lie was middle-aged, guieless Of as
pect, slightly gray, wore store clothes
and silver spectacles and had whiskers,
says the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. 1t
required no sign on his back for one to
discern he was from out of town. The
only urban characteristics he possessed
were an independent air and q nerve
that air born Of money in the pocket
and that nerve the outcome of being the
whole thing in country town.
lie went to the theater the other
night, got there late and had seat in
the rear of the house. For time he
watched the antics of the nipper-legged
comedian and the "frivoling" soubrette.
He had never seen them before and ne
liked them. lie wanted to see who they
were, but the theater was too dark for
reading the programme. Then he did.
something no city-bred man would
have thought of doing in q thousand
years. He struck half dozen matches
and read the bill of the play from end
to end.
1t was all over by the time the ushers
had noticed what they thought was
private bonfire and reached his seat.
He had settled back comfortably and
looked so innocent the manager
wouldn't let him be disturbed with
warming
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-06-10
MILLIONS IN PAINTING.
The Observation-Disclosures Collection Il
Worth S7,5O0,000.

The Hertford-Wallnce Collection In
Worth S7,5Oo,0O0.
The celebrated Observation-Disclosures col
lection of pictures bequeathed to the
British nation by Lady Wallace is esti-
mated to be worth $7,5OO,OO0. Her mag
nanimity, says the Boston Transcript,
is all the more noteworthy because she
was struck off the queens visiting list
many years ago.
Sir Richard Wallace died on July 20,
1890, leaving behind him the most IA
nous art collection of any Englishman.
The whole of Sir Richards great wealth
and the peerless collection of pictures
(Which includes 10 examples Of Nelson
Ter and Is of Greuze) were given to his
wife for her own free disposition. Prior
to his death, however, he expressed his
wishes to his wife that after her death
his superb collection of works of art
should go to England's national gallery
and that his wish in this respect should
be carried out she arranged several
years ago.
The magnificent Hartford collection
comprised when it passed into Sir Rich
ard Wallace's hands q splendid assort-
ment of paintings, porcelains, bronzes,
decorative furniture, jewelry and other
works of art. His own purchases dur
ing the past 80 years included many Of
the choicest examples of old japanese
art, which he was one of the first to
bring to the attention of European
connoisseurs; Of the masters of the
Italian renaissance, notably the produc-
tons in silver of Benvenuto Cellini and
his immediate followers and of modern
French painters.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-06-10
HOME READING.
THE SUN woRsHIPER.

Raise the winder. Billie; let the air blow in
a mite,
want to hear 1T whisper. an want to see
the light
Climbin' down the mountain till 1t strikes
the timber line,
shinin' on the cactus an the quakin'- asp
an pine.
When the snowy mountains poke their
heads out of the dark
In the early mornin'-when there's shao-
ders in the park"
Seems to me the sunlight fallin' on the
powders speaks
OF a sorter Somewhere layin' back beyond
the peaks.
An the clouds a-noatin' half way up, like
fluffy things,
Kinder seems like angels just let out to try
their wings
When they stopped to listen where the
canyon waters roar
Daylight come an caught 'em an they
can't sit back no more.
Ev'ry mornin', Billy. since you moved me
over here,
I have iay'd an waited for the daylight
to appear;
Yes. an ev'ry evenin' have watched the
CROWN shade
Creepin' up the mountain when the day
begun to fade.
I have watched 1t. pardner, when the gold
was turned TO red,
Flashin up an upward through the great
blue, overhead;
] have watched the peak line turn into
namin' track,
An I've seen the pine trees CROWN dim,
an dark an black.
Billy, when leave 1t. an 1t won't be long.
know
Never mind, old pardner, for we all have
got to go
Don't you let them put me down there IN
derneath the hill,
Yunder in the canyon where It's dark, an
sad, an still.
Take me up the mountain till you reach the
very brow,
There beyond the pine trees, where the
clouds is foatin now;
Where dawn in the mornin' from the east
begins to break
An the golden daylight will first touch the
grave you'll make.
Where the sun will shine as 1t goes trav'lin'
through the day.
Where the light will linger as 1t turns to
go away,
An the last faint glimmer at my restin'-
place will bide
AS the sun in glory drifts down on the other
side.
Chicago Record.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-06-10

1o-hlgnt l am regenerated man.
Hereafter I shall feel that her part of
the work is quite equal to mine. Be-
sides, she has Philip, and that means
an amending combat with compressed
activity. In fact, am free to say, from
my small experience and large oppor-
tunities of observation, that not even
with my strength and athletic training,
and my non-obtrusive garments, would
L exchange. Never will 1 again under
value woman's work, and while 1 live
she shall have my sympathy and help.
I, however, hasten to write this to-
night. I want my good resolutions to
go on record while they are fresh and
crisp. How shall feel tomorrow, be-
ing rested, and having recovered my
equanimity, cannot tell. My impress
sions may not be so clear then as they
are now, and I may have slipped back
into my old way OF thinking; for old
prejudices are not always banished, nor
are single principles changed by
single eXperionce.-Woman's Journal.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-06-10
RARE EMBROIDERY.
Exquisite Lace Made of the Fiber OF
the Aloe.

InS AAOSs
Perhaps the most accomplished de-
slgner and needlewoman in the world
is Nine. St. George, who has charge OF
the classes in the government art school
of embroidery at Vienna, says an en-
change. This institution Is the glory
Of the Austrian capital. The entire
course of instruction, which is free,
lasts five years, but many pupils leave
after two or three years, especially
ladies' who do not intend to make art
work profession and are satisfied with
knowing the rudiments of either lace
work or art embroidery, for every year
has it's special course. Every years
course has it's special room and instruc-
tress and the pupils cannot go from one
to the other until the year expires. The
pupils of the last years course were
busily mending a magnificent canopy,
the work of Empress Marie Theresa.
An idea may be formed of the magni-
tude of the task when it is said that ten
girls under Nine. ST. Georges superin-
tendence had been working at 1t for
ten years already, and she expected 1t
would take two years more to COM
plete it. Every kind of embroidery, in
Guiding Persian, Indian, japanese,
Turkish, ETC., is done here, and the
visitor is astonished to see some beauti-
full samples of the "manduty," or spiders
web, made by the Guarini women Of
Paraguay and rarely seen in Europe.
This lace is made of the fiber of the aloe
and is so fine that it is made inside of
the huts, with the door shut, so that
not the least breath of wind can
iOuob ~
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-06-10
CHlNAMEN SHUT OUT.

Only u Limited Number to De Admit
ted for Tennessee Exposition.
The Encouragement has rendered all
opinion to the secretary of the treasury
in which he holds that, under the joint
resolution of congress suspending the
operation of certain parts of the i'm
migration laws so as to admit foreign
crs to be employed in various capacities
in connection with the Nashville
(Tenn.) exposition, the secretary has
the right to limit the number to be so
admitted. The question was raised as
to the admission of several hundred
Chinese, who had arrived on the border,
and had applied for entrance. The d.
rector-general of the exposition, In an
swer to inquiries from the department.
stated that 200 Chinese should be adj
mitted under concessions already
granted, and that number will be al
lowed to proceed, but no more. This
will necessitate the return to China of
over a hundred now at Port Townsend,
and probably many more soon to arrive
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-06-10
AFTER THE BATTLE.
A Domestic Infe1icity md What Hap
Dened to the Arrrcssor

Domestic Infe1icity and What Hap
pened to the AESressor.
A Washington lawyers life is not en-
tirely without agreeable features, al
though possibly the first syllable of
that word is not always spelled fee,
says the Star, of that city.
Recently one had a client, very quiet,
unobtrusive young marketman who
owned and conducted a market garden
somewhere beyond the city limits. 1t
seems that the young fellow had some
trouble with his father-ih-law, med
dlesome old man who. had always i'm
posed on the husbands of his daughters,
and after it was over he came to consult
the attorney, whom he had known for u
long time.
"Um-um," said the attorney, thought
fully, after hearing part of the story,
your father-in-law charged you with
treating your wife harshlyP"
Eyes, sir" was the brief answer.
"What did you do?"
ITO her?" :r;
"No; to him"
81 denied the charges from start to
finish, and SO did She"
What did he do then?" -,
Called mo liar" 81 4; ~,
"What did you do?" a.!
"Hit him one-just'one, sir" i::!
"What did he do then?" ''''
Nothing, sir. The doctors done the
rest"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-06-10

PAINTED the 1Inest, OF his freseoes, ami
one chamber contained the "Aldobran-
DIM Marriage Feast" which is supposed
to supply link with classical art. Bene-
letto Bonfillo took up his masters brush
to complete the adornment of the last
two apartments. This sumptuous suite
served as a home for the popes until
sixtus V. and Clement VIII. constructed
the existing palace. During the sack OF
Rome by Constable de Bourbon much
damage was done to the Borgia quarter,
which has been practically abandoned
until to-day. Unhappily, the mural
paintings in only two of the rooms have
been found in o state admitting of re-
pair. Elsewhere it has been necessary to
renew the decorative work as far as pos
sible on the original lines.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-06-10

or two OF each other, were born III 1920.
1t is one of the most striking events
in the long history of the archbshops
Of Canterbury that the late archbishop,
who was one Of Mr.. Gladstone's appoint
ments and afterward diverged from
him in political opinions, should have
been stricken while sitting in the
squire's pew of his old friend at Ha-
warden. 1t is q most merciful thing
that Mr.. Gladstone did not happen to
be in church. To man of his years
the shock must have been most danger
GUS. What an archbishop of Canter-
bury Mr.. Gladstone would have made
himself He would have rivaled even
Dunstan or Beckett and not improbably
proved the greatest prelate of them
oil -:
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-06-10

the tsetse ny. the researches of Bruce
indicate that the fly acts as carrier of
the parasite from diseased to healthy
animals. lie has shown by experiment
that after feeding On the blood of an
infected animal the tsetse fly can COM
municate the disease to a healthy ami
NAL by its bite. After short period of
incubation the haematoza appear in the
blood concurrently with the develop
ment of fever and followed by rapidly
progressive inaemia, dropsy and death.
The so-called "surra disease" which
prevails in certain portions of India, Is
believed to be due to similar parasitic
protozoan (trypanosma evansi). Ac-
cording to Lingard this infusorium ex-
lists as an innocuous parasite in the
blood of rats in India. 1t is not catho-
genie, or only feebly so, for the native
OK of India, but gives rise to fatal IN
fictitious disease in horses, dogs and
cnmels
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-06-10
BRICKS OF STRAW.
Mixed with Tar and Formed In
Cubes Under Pressure,

Mixed with Tar and Formed Into
Cubes Under Pressure.
A Polish newspaper announces new
invention made by a Warsaw engineer,
who proposed to the city authorities
quite original material for street pay
ing. He uses cubes of compressed straw
instead of the wooden blocks used In
some other European countries. The
manufacture of these straw cubes is
carried on according to peculiar proc
ess. Straw is cut in pieces of GER
tain length, impregnated with fluid,
the composition of which is a secret Of
the inventor, and then pressed in
blocks. The inventor buys up straw
IL bales, binds them closely together
with wire, and then immerses the en-
tire bundle into ahot solution, the smell
of which indicates that several materials
like pitch, rosin, tar and other of the
same kind form part of the mixture.
These bundles of straw remain for n
certain length of time in the solution
md are then subjected to heavy pres
sure in machine, which they leave in
the shape of ready cubes. According
to the inventor, this paving material
is cheaper than wood, but more durable
and stronger, and at the same time
more elastic,
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-06-10
A Coming Color.

It's matter of comment that for the
coming hot season red is to be SO ex-
tensively used in NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
scarlet, and not alone the deeper shades
In Jacque rose, begonia. geranium.
damask, claret and other tints that
have been so popular. Even the mauVe
hats with gilded basket-work crowns
and green straw tops are cmbellished
with vivid lobelia blooms or gorgeous
field peoples, whose uniform we all
know, and trails Of trumpet creeper and
loops Of cerise satin ribbon aid In the
conspicuous decoration of the dreadful
chapeaux of 1907. Many OF the bright
flower trimmings are treated aigrette
fashion, set up very high on the hat ut
the back, the leaves forming toplofty
background against which small cor
servatory Of flowers nod and sway.-N,
Y. Post.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-06-10
49, - - =
A DOG THAT CAN TEST METALS,
Silver Tip Knows Good Money from
Bad, Every Time.

Silver Tip Knows Good Money from
Bad, Every Time.
No bank teller in Iowa has truer
instinct for real, genuine cart-wheel
silver dollars than has Rock Rapids
dog called Silver Tip, says the Chicago
Times-Herald. Silver Tip is tan-colored
and weighs about ten pounds. All his
two years of life he has been the prop
erty of Landlord Barber, of the Lyon
hotel, at Rock Rapids, but it Is only
within the last year that his power of
immediate insight into the nature OF
metals has become known to his owner.
The way Tip manifests his powers,
as his owner puts 1t, Is as follows: If
one takes a pile of coins the size Of an
American dollar-say trade dollar a
Mexican dollar, five-franc piece and
some counterfeit dollars-and puts one
genuine dollar piece in the center OF
the pile, Tip will rummage around
among them for an instant and then
snatch the good coin and proceed to
take care of it in approved dog fashion
to IN accompaniment Of growls and
bites. Or if one rolls coin along the
floor TIP can tell every time whether
1t is good stuff to be chased.
Tip never makes mistake, and there
isn't bit of doubt about his powers.
He has been tested by Chicago bust
ness men and by committees of Iowa
scientists. He gets no human help in
his work. The good coin Is not marked
in any peculiar way for his benefit,
nor is it scented. Anyone can use his
own coin in the experiment. Nor does
Tips powers depend on signs from his
master. The latter leaves the room
without detracting from the dogs obil-
ity in the least.
Mr.. Barber has refused all offers for
the purchase of Tip.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-06-10
pU MAuRIER AND NORRIS.
Both Born IN March, 1884, and Died in
October, 1900.

Both Born in March, 1884, and Died in
October, 1900.
One of the most extraordinary par
allels in chronology is the almost en-
act coincidence of the time spent in
the world by two men who had so much
TO do with the molding of the literature
and art of their day as George du Maui
rier and William Morris, says the New
Orleans Times-Democrat. Du Maurier,
the elder of the two, was born exactly
16 days before Morris, on March 6, 1884,
and he died but four days after him;
30 that these two great men, who lived
more than 62 years, were on the earth
for exactly the same time, with the ex-
ception of less than three weeks, both
being born in March, 1884, and dying
in October, 1896. Similarly, both Sir
John Millais and the archbishop of
Canterbury, who died within a month
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-06-10
DON'T VERSUS DOESN'T.
Grammatical Oddities That Crate Up

Grammatical Oddities That Crate Up
on the Ears of Educated Readers.
The subject OF pronunciation has
been up for discussion q good deal OF
late. The following regarding don't"
and doesn't" should be of interest,
coming from the best authority, says
an exchange:
Don't is like dropping the final G of
the present participle, vulgarity of
people of culture. Thackerny and An
thony Trollope constantly place 1t,
along with amt for "am not" or sis
not" In the mouths of their highly-bred
characters. The late prince consort
used 1t. l recollect-quoting from
memory from his Life" by Sir T. Mar
tin-that, speaking of Princess Beatrice
as an infant, the prince wrote: "She
doesn't like it"
Other corruptions are, or were, 'em
for "them," Hawyut for Harriet"
chawyet for chariot" yallow for "yel-
low" tossel for "tassel," Lunnon for
London" Roome for Rome" goold
for "gold," obleege for "oblige." The
first duke of Wellington, as 1 have been
told, always said obleege. 1t certain
ly does CRATE upon the ear to hear don't
used for doesn't" and yet we find it
used in "Pickwick Papers" in the song
which Mr.. Wardle sings on Christmas
eve at the Manor farm, Dingley Dell:
"And love that's too atronu-v,hv n don't
last long,
AS many have found to their pain"
In East Anglia they say you don't
ought" and "he didn't ought" which,
though true, is slightly ungrammatical.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-06-10
soReIA Rooms PHOTOGRAPHED.

Chambers in the Vatican Ruined by
Constable De Bourbon Restored.
The restoration of the Borgia rooms
In the vatican is an undertaking which
will long serve to preserve the memory
of Leo XIII. as patron of art, says Il
London exchange. These six noble
chambers, situated above the famous
stance of Raphael, were built in 1406
by Alexander VI. of unhallowed renown.
The first, named the hall Of the pom
tiffs, had been redecorated in the time
of Leo X. after Raphaers designs. On
the walls of the three next Pinturicchio