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Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-07-14
DIVERSIFIED FARMING.
Old Saying About Keeping All the
Eggs in One Basket Is us
True as Ever 1t Was.

This is a subject which cannot be too
often brought to the attention Of
farmers everywhere, because it is the
most rational as well as the most profit
able system that has ever been devised.
To raise corn alone or wheat alone or
cotton alone is not the part of wisdom.
Thousands of acres of Kentucky land is
barren because it has been devoted to
tobacco exclusively and multiplied
thousands are barren in other states
because cotton, wheat or corn has been
grown year after year, until the plant
food for the particular favorite crop is
exhausted.
There is hardly place in the United
States where the farmer is confined to
q single crop as his main dependenc.
H can rotate corn, oats and grass or
clover; corn, wheat and clover, or corn,
oats, wheat and clover in the corn belt,
cotton and almost any other crop or
series of crops in most of the cotton
belt and even the great wheat fields of
the northwest may be given over to
rotation of at least three years dura-
ton to the benefit of the land.
When one crop fails from stress of
weather another is usually the better
for it. This year the corn prospect is
very bad, while in the same sections,
wheat, oats and meadows are looking
better than usual, and the man who has
diversified crops is able to face the stu
alton with calmness.
Our southern brother who .devotes
his whole time to cotton and buys every
thing he needs III the way of food,
might profitably\devote few acres to
growing food supplieswith great profit,
and if to these he would add live stock
he would find profitable market for
his stock and secure the best fertilizer
for his cotton at the same time.-Farm-
ers' Voice.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-07-14
HOW ELECTRICITY KILLS.
A Physician Gives Some Advice for
the Benefit of Those Coming
In Contact with Wires.

The amount Of electricity that will
sometimes pass through the human
body without producing fatal results
is surprising and often mtable,
while at other times currents less pow
erful in every way, for some reasons,
are often fatal.
The alternating current of great am
peragc, high voltage and low frequency
is the current that causes the greatest
number Of accidental deaths, as well as
the current that is used in the state Of
New York for the purpose of executing
criminals The continuous current, such
as is used in our incandescent street
lighting, while not harmless when
close-circuited through the body, does
not offer the same degree of danger as
the arc light, or alternating current.
Still, electricity, like the oldlwoman's
gun, without lock, stock or barrel, is
usually found to be dangerous. If so,
what we are 10 do in case of accident
is the paramount question. First of all,
keep cool; do not lose your head, and,
with the following rules, do what you
can:
Do not place yourself in the circuit
to help others out, as thus you only add
one more victim to the result.
Under no consideration catch hold of
the wire, unless you are positively in
sulated by rubber boots or gloves, or
both. A large, dry silk handkerchief
or dry cloth is the next best thing, and
If your own coat is perfectly dry, place
that on the ground to step on. Never,
under any circumstances, when you are
removing person from live wire
allow his body to leave the earth; IN
other words, do not lift him. When the
victim has been released from the wire,
proceed at once to artificial respiration,
being sure that the clothing is we'll
loosened about the neck and waist.
Personally I should advise suspending
the patients head down for minute
or two at a time, all the while keeping
up artificial respiration, with the
tongue pulled we'll out.
Nitric of amy may be found useful
| II at hand.-Dr. Francis B. Bishop, In
Journal of Practical Medicine.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-07-14
If You are Bilious III @NN "a
DO ROT FAIL 10 ~ 81 W
q YE.I2ySS
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Dattleships and Cruisers.

81 tell you," said Jayson Spriggs, "all
this talk about our not being prepared
for war has been simply buncombe.
We've been ready from the first. We
may not have as many old hulks in our
navy as Spain has, but when it comes
to battleships and cruisers we beat her
two to one, easy"
Say, pa" asked little Willie Spriggs,
whats the difference between battle
ships and cruisers, anyway? They
look about alike in all the pictures that
ever SEEN"
"Pooh" Mr.. spriggs CALCULATED,
don't you know the difference between
a cruiser and battleship?"
mo, and amt seen anybody that
does, either" the boy replied.
You must be crazy, them" said Will
lies pa. "Why, the papers have told
the difference dozens and dozens Of
times. Cruisers are named after towns
and battlesbips are named after states.
Any fool ought to know that by this
time" -Cleveland Leader.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-07-14
The Plant and the Soil.

Each plant has its own requirements
of water and heat. Wheat, oats and
tame grasses require soil that will
retain 20 to 25 per cent. of its own
weight of water and a medium temper
AZURE for their best development. This
means a fne-textured soil, well settled
below the surface. Corn and the sor-
ghums do best on a moisture content of
is to 20 per cent. and high tempera-
ture. Corn roots prefer thoroughly
pulverized soil, not too compact. We
always find the fbrous roots or food
gatherers most abundant where the soil
was we'll stirred. Potatoes will thrive
on less moisture than corn, but as a
rule good corn soil is good potato soil.
Western Plowman.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-07-14
JER.R.R.oME.

one day wandered through grove
OF aspens all a-Quiver,
And when the evening shadows fell
reached the flowing river.
Afoat, afioat within boat,
] sought while dews were falling
TO find a long-lost boy for whom
! heard strange voices calling:
,Jer-r-r-ome, Jer-r-r-ome, Jer-r-r-ome-"
Up from the water grasses;
| Come home, come home, come home
Among the weedy passes;
Jer-r-r-ome, Jer-T-r-ome, Jer-r-r-ome-
o, why do you not reply?
The frogs are calling and we are searcnlng'
! and the Flre-Flyl
rhe shadows gathered thick and fast,
The merry stars were twlnkling,
And breezes from the woodsy hill
Set little waves a-crinkling;
But still heard the voices call,
In accents loud, and deeper,
up from the weedy pools below
The banks entwined with creeper:
'Jer-r-r-ome, Jer-r-r-ome, Jer-r-r-ome-
o. where can the boy delay?
Come home. come home, come home
For the night flies fast away!
But yet no whisper rose or fell
In answer to the crying,
Although listened. and the bat
A moment ceased his flying. -:
.Jer-r-r-ome, Jer-r-r-ome, Jer-r-r-ome-
but bark!
A little voice came creeping
typ from the weeds along the bank.
And cried: "Asleep-sleep-sleepin
knew, knew the search was done;
The voices swelled in number,
There was no need of calling
For Jerome was wrapped in slumber!
And still throughout the summer nights
Along the flowing river.
hear the frogs, and wonder
If Jerome will sleep foreverl
Henry Ripley Dorr. In Springfield (Mass)
Republican.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-07-14
An Underground Doat.

Submarine electric boats are just now
receiving good deal of attention from
inventors, but it is probable that the
only underground electric boat in the
world is in Worcester, Mass. 1t isn't a
very pretty craft. It's mere platform
% feet long, built on catamaran and
operated by paddle wheel in the mid
die. This is turned by chain and
sprocket arrangement like that of a BIZ
cycle, turned by electric power derived
from an overhead wire. This boat runs
in a big sewer and lows lot of barges
which carry bricks and cement for a
big sewer repair job in progress. There
are plenty of boats in the big Partisan
sewers, some of which are fitted up
with board scrapers shaped like the bot
toms of the sewers they run in, to clean
the bottoms of the sewers, but these are
all run by hand, not by either steam or
electricity. The Yankees still lead the
world in ingenuity.-N. Y. World.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-07-14
FASHIONS IN WAR TIME.
Tho Probable Eject Upon Dress OF
tho Present Difficulty
with Spain.

If we do net enjoy an influx Of
frogged coats, military feathers, war
like trimmings, mess jackets, mantil-
las, and all the rest ST the Hispano-
American suggestions, it will be sur
prising. Every war that creates world
wide interest creates also special run
of fashions.
In America military buttons are al
ready enjoying q furore. Billions have
of late years been used variously. The
latest idea has been to wear them as
Frenchman does his order, in the but
tonhole, and in London last year dur
ing the jubilee many enthusiasts thus
decorated themselves, some bearing
likenesscs of the queen, others loyal de-
vices,
The buttons worn in the states now
are, whenever possible, the real thing;
but when these are not procurable cop
les are being issued as fast as may be
often the military buttons worn by the
troops. They are worn set in the tops
of umbrellas and sunshades, as orna-
ments hanging from the chatelaine or
porte-bonheur, as corsage brooches and
hatpins.:. Most certainly also the many
picturesque items in the uniforms of
the men will be seized upon by the
modistes and adapted to the needs of
the enthusiastic women.
To take examples from other days,
what a vogue Garibaldi's scarlet shirt
gave TO blousesl A Garibaldi was first
a red flannel or cloth jacket or shirt.
Then the color changed, and the shape
remained; then the shape altered, and
still the name remained. Some people
used to call it as if the syllable bald"
were the synonym of hairless, others
as if it rhymed with sal" At last,
Garibaldi himself having gone out of
fashion, these, shirts were no longer
named after him, and the shirt and
blouse came into fashion.
To go back much further, to the
French revolution, pictures of the
period disclose a classical leaning in
dress. Every woman thought she
ought to appear as Liberty personifed,
and the most curious results followed;
draperies were woefully scanty, and
fewer women lnolead liza hAantif,'i
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-07-14
mon dieu! neva1r!"
And Annette 2"

mon dieu! nevairl"
And Annette?"
"Helas, one short year affair, re
modiste's shop was burned. Ny An
nette has perish in re fire."
Ipuzzled over the enigma for week,
and the more I thought about it, the
more inexplicable did 1t appear. I had
no doubt that at the little stag dinner
my friend had drunk sufficient wine to
render him entirely incapable of re-
membering what happened afterwards;
he may have visited the Twenty-third
street shop, or may have gone straight
home-in either case everything con-
nected with the coming to life of the
French dummy must have been simply
a dream. But lis possession of the
ring, o beautiful, ilawless gem, too yalu
eble by far to be the subject of joke,
remained still unexplained
1 was about to give the matter up,
when 1 bethought me of looking
through the newspapers of that date.
And, in a copy of the Herald of the
day Immediately succeeding the bach
elor dinner, came at last upon the
simple explanation, in the form of this
old advertisements:
Lost-Yesterday on Twenty-third street,
between Sixth avenue and Madison square,
q valuable diamond ring. Finder will be
literally rewarded on returning it to -.
The name was that of "a well-kDown
society leader of the time, whose home
on upper Fifth avenue now is pointed
out as one of the show places of the
town.
I have not told her of the little
Frenchman, who, one night so long
ago, picked up her ring from the side
walk beneath the window of the mo-
diste's shop, and slipped it on his finger,
all unconscious of what he did; nor
have I wrecked the little romance
which Jules Lemaitre for 90 years has
treasured in his heart. Why should 1?
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-07-14

Two years before, Jules Lemaitre had
brought to America with him q set Of
cngraver's tools, thorough education
In his trade, o lively imagination, and a
susceptible French heart, An orphan,
brought up in suburb of Paris by an
old aunt, who had given him his educa-
ton and in return had insisted upon
the most constant attendance and de-
votion, he had no companions of his
own age-excepting those in the de-
lightful books of romance which he
bought while on his way to and from
the Polytechnic, and devoured with
glowing imagination in his small cham
Der each night after his aunt had re-
tired.
Based on the highly colored descrip-
tons of the heroines of these tales, he
had created for himself an ideal-a
sort of composite heroine, as 1t were:
and to himself, in his impulsive French
way, had sworn solemn oa:h that he
yuulu searcn pne woriu over, until some
lay he should meet with her and win
aer for his own.
Small opportunity there was, in the
secluded life he led, for him TO meet
with any girl; but one day, before he
had quite reached his eighteenth year,
ais aunt died, leaving him along with
her blessing the small house IN which
they had lived. So the young engraver,
putting a weed on his hat in respectful
remembrance of his kind though stern
oenefactress, sold the house, bought a.
ticket to Havre and New York, drew a
ieep inspiration, and, whispering to
himself: "Allons!" started forth with
no very well-defned plans into the
world.
Jules life and training had made him
shy and timid. Longing for adventures
If the most romantic type he lacked
The courage even to make acquaint-.
ances. A week he spent, wandering
about New York alone, gazing on the
rushing Thongs and into the windows
of the shops, sore troubled to know how
best to begin his search for Her. And
then. on busting Twenty-third street,
beyond a crowd of shoppers, he caught
one day glimpse of slight form that
made his heart leap up into his throat.
There was the slender, sdyph-like fig
ure: the heavy, raven tressesI arched
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-07-14
GOOD THING TO HAVE.
Some Reasons Why Reliable Scale
Should Be Found on Every
Up-to-Dntc Farm.
Comparatively few farm conveniences

Comparatively few farm conveniences
equal those of a good farm scale in con-
Quoting farm operations on business
basis. 1t is very unfortunate for man
to be placed in such a position that he
is obliged to accept the weights and
measures of a buyer in disposing of his
produce, though we are glad to say mis-
use of this advantage is comparatively
rare among buyers of farm produce. But
in addition to the economy of knowing
the weights of produce to be sold, the
scale is of immense advantage in keep
ing track of the growth of live stock
during feeding operations and in testing
the feeding qualities of the animalspro-
duced on the farm, as may be done by
frequent weighing. The scale is also an
element of interest when boys are
growing up on the farm. They have a
natural instinct for keeping track of
those things that may be found out by
weighing and measuring, and the scale
thus becomes an educating influence
that has great value attached.-Prairie
Farmer.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-07-14
CHOW IS YOUR SISTER,"
A Tragic Story of Ex-senator Ran.
som's Abstracted Way of Ask
ing Questions.

Former Minister to Mexico Ransom
was in the house few days ago talking
about his experiences in Mexico. After
the minister left the cloakroom one OF
the members said:
Did you ever talk to the minister
when his mind has been occupied with
business?" and without waiting for
a reply the member continued: 81 did,
I met him soon after his return from
Mexico, and after we shook hands, he
said:
"'How is your sister, Frank"
"'She is well,' said.
THE minister's mind then returned
to some business for five minutes, and
then he saidI
"'How is your sister, Frank and,
as before, I replied that she was well,
Five minutes later he raised his eyes
from some papers and remarked:
"'0h, Frank, how is your sisterY
thought the conversation was becom-
ing rather monotonous, and to change
it answered that she was very i'll.
"'Bless me, you don't say so; am
sorry to hear it, Frank
HE turned to his papers again for
another five minutes, and hang me if
he didn't turn around and say:
Frank, how is your sisterY At first
1 thought he was guying me, but, look
ing at him sharply realized that he
had forgotten the conversation and l
answered, sadly: She is dead
Why, man, you don't mean it, he
exclaimed, jumping from his seat and
extending his hand in most sympa-
thetic manner, adding; This is dread
full. When did it happen? Tell me all
about it.,
"Why,' l replied, I killed her just
now. When l came in your office told
you she was well twice; then I told you
she was very i'll, and that didn't impress
you. So for your benefit l have just
killed her.
"The old man looked at me for O mo-
ment and then repled;
"'You must pardon me, Frank. Twas
thinking about those papers. '"-Wash-
ington Star,
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-07-14
Record IN C1othermaking.

Thomas Kitson, of the stroudsburg
mills, in Pennsylvania, had six sheep
sheared at $3.50 o'clock in the morning.
The wool was then sorted, secured,
dried, carded, spun, woven into cloth,
and the cloth was given to the tailors
and made up into a suit of clothes,
which were given to Mr.. Kitson at12:34
o'clock, or six hours and four minutes
from the time of shearing. The best
previous record was about eight hours.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-07-14

s,atuary than like fanciful and piteous
travesties of rt-gallery treasures.
In Napoleon's day the fashions were
most conspicuously warlike. There
were bodices like soldiers TUNES and
skirts trimmed en- suite. Even the
eolors worn were military.
During the Crimean war the same eff
feet was pronounced. Small fur caps
were modish, frogged and embroidered
jackets were seen, and women often
cut their hair short. There is sure to
be revival of short, military-lool1ing
crops during the progress of the war.
The hair may be curled or waved, but
it must have the outline of the head
defned.-London Mail
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-07-14
BIZ zl1GEyS-
WE.SS1S
bosses MANY a body and buI

bosses many a body and bur-
dens many mind. You can't enjoy
the food you like because you are
bilious. You take all sorts of pre-
cautions, and yet the bilious attack
leaps on you like a tiger from ambush.
You know the feeling! The blood
seeming on fire with dull heat the
boring pains in the eyes the head
seeming to open and shut; the hor-
rible nausea. You know the irrita-
bility which precedes and the languor
that follows the attack. It's miser-
able, isn't it? Why not cure the
trouble a? There's pill that will cure
biliousness. DR.. J. C. AYERS PILLS
are an acknowledged specific for this
arrangement.
A. Swanger, Texarkana, Tex, writes:
For fifteen years have used Ayers Pills,
and find them very effective in bilious COM
plants. l have yet to see the case where
they have failed to cure"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-07-14
Methodist Episcopal Church South.

/ Public worship of God on the 1st and
s.d Sundays at II A. NJ, on the 2nd and
4th at 1870 P. Nj. ZOO
Meeting for prayer, Wednesday at $50.
p. NJ. Sabbath School at $50 ?. NJ.
Meeting of Epworth League each Mon
day night at 100, the third Monday
night of each month being devoted to
literary work. -
A most cordial welcome is extended to all.
isaac ?. MARTIN, Pastor.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-07-14
Her PIciadcs,

A Bolivar woman, after burying her
seventh husband, erected monument
to the whole lot. 1t consisted of mar
BILE hand with the index finger pointing
to the sky, and on the base, instead of
names, dates, etc, were the words:
"Seven Up.,zSomerville journal.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-07-14

T WISH that / could tell the story in
the words of Jules Lemaitre himself,
as, one evening, over our cigars and
cafe noir at his favorlte table dhote
near Blocker street, with much ges-
ticulation and q sparkle in his bright,
black eyes, he related it to me. But
his broken English would be hard to
understand by one unacquainted with
it, and without some knowledge OF his
little idiosyncracies and high pitched
ideas OF truth and honor, his queer adj
venture would be neither appreciated
nor believed.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-07-14
What Martial Law Implies.

The mere presence of hostile army
proclaims martial law, whether or not
any proclamation declaring martial law
or any public warning to the inhab-
itants has been issued.-Chicago Trib-
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-07-14
CORN MARKER.

four-row marker, but has hinges on ii
so it will mark on rolling or uneven
ground as we'll as on level ground. The
wings can be turned up so as to go
through-a narrow gate or around OBJ
structions in a field I used four six
inch L hinges and common buggy
tongue. My runners are three and one
half feet long, six inches wide and two
inches thick. Have q wide board on
the center so as to ride if you mark by
stakes.-G.'A. Baldwin, in Ohio Farmer.
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Rantist Church Services,

Sunday school every Sunday at $50 a.
m; preaching lst and 4th Sundaysat II a.
m. , and on LIST and 81 SUNDAYS at 1;SO P
IN; B. Y. P. U. every Monday q $50 p;
M: prayer meeting every Thursday at 7 ;5O
q. m; Missionary Society I'd and 4th Sun
davs at 4 p. m. All are invited to attend.
Strangers welcome. w. q. FOSTER
Pastor.
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County Court:
Officers.
THE CHURCHES.
sTRAS MEMORIAL EPISCOPAL CHURCH

Divine Service-First and Third Sun
DAYS of the month at II q. m. and Sp' m.
Holy Communicates Sunday at II
a. m.
Sunday school every Sunday at $50
m.
A hearty welcome is extended to all.
REV. w. d. BUCEEER,
Rector.