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Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-09-28
HOW A MAN SHOULD LEAVE.
What He Should DO If He Would lie
welcomed with His Sweet
hearts best Smile.

The man who wants to be welcomed
with open arms when he goes out OF
town goes armed with sweetmeats-
if he is wise, says the New York Com
mercial Advertiser. He need not COM
plain that there is nothing novel in
the shops these days. The big bonbon
shop lies in wait for just such custom
ers as the summer man, and when he
asks for a box of chocolates or a
mound or two Of fondants the insinuat-
ing lady behind the counter says, with
a smile: wouldn't you prefer one Of
the new baskets? 1t won't take any
longer to put them in that than in a
box and they are very pretty?" Then
she brings half dozen pretty little
wicker and reed baskets of palest
green and white and pink and lilac
and blue. Some are in the form OF
canoes, others are baskets like the
farmers wives use for carrying eggs
and butter and fruit to market, and
others are shaped like catboats, with
capacious locker in which the bonbons
are slowed. Wheelbarrows of woven
sweet grass are receptacles for bon
bons also, and sailor caps of duck or
cloth hold within their crowns enough
sweets to make glad the heart and
painful the teeth of the greediest OF
summer girls.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-09-28
DOG-WHIPPING DAY.
When Every Boy Is Allowed to Use
Switch in Englnnd-An Old
Custom.

There are parts of rural England
where they still set aside day for
whipping dogs.
Dog-whipping day is October IS,
Then every boy in the neighborhood is
privileged to arm himself with sticks
and lashes and beat every dog he meets
to his hearts content. There are diff
ferent stories as to the origin of this
strange custom. In Yorkshire tradi-
ton has it that a priest, when going his
rounds many years ago, dropped the
holy water used in communion service.
A dog that happened to be near by
swallowed it, and was promptly
whipped for his gulttony, and in COM
memoration of this event it has been
deemed expedient to thrash the entire
dog family on this day throughout the
succeeding years. In the vicinity of
Manchester the tale goes that the good
fathers in certain monastery used to
set platters of food outside the gates
for the poor pilgrims that infested the
country at certain seasons. On one &C.
casion n dog, whose stomach was prob
ably empty as any pilgrims ever dare
be, very selfshly ate the food him
self. He was caught in the lawless act
and was whipped soundly, and his
crime and it's punishment have been
visited upon his descendants these
many generations.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-09-28
HIS SINS FOUND HIM OUT.
The Checkered Career of a Man Who
Founded n Bogus Diamond
Mine In Arizona.
EICI.
I'm

az saw reference the other day to
the great Arizona diamond field swim
die" said an old jeweler to New Or
leans Ti1nes-Democrat man. 1T was
sprung on the public just 30 years
ago. and I remember the excitement 1t
created. The originator of the scheme
came from New Orleans. He was
brilliant man, a chemist, geologist and
natural diplomat, but he lacked moral
counterpoise. He and his associates
procured number of uncut stones
from Holland, and sailed canyon
in the mountain south of the ella river.
Then followed the discovery and the
organization of q company and in a
few months nearly 100000 worth OF
stock was sold. 1t was several years
before the exact character of the swim
die was developed, and by that time the
affairs of the company were SO con-
fused that nobody cared to undertake a
prosecution.
81 saw the professor as he was
called, at Ogden, Utah, in 1884, and he
described the whole affair with great
glee. Afterward he was mixed up in
two other shady enterprises. One was
scheme for aging whisky and the
other was a device for refining sugar
by electricity. Both were fakes, but
he made lot of money out of them, and
as usual escaped punishment. 1t was
the old story, however; he went broke
in the end and died few years ago in
the charity ward of a Chicago hospital.
A good deal of the diamond mine stock
was taken in New Orleans, and l dare
say some of it is kicking around here
to this day."
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-09-28
GRoUPER AND PARROT FISH.
The characteristics of One Striking
Iy Displayed in the Tank OF
the Others.

The Bermuda groupers are so calleu
on account of their habit of grouping
together. There are plenty of fishes
that on occasions by accident or design
may come together side by side, or in
some other regular order or formation,
but there are few if any that get to-
gether as the groupers do. In the tank
of groupers at the aquarium, says the
New York Sun, these fishes may be seen,
half a dozen or more of them at time,
ranged along the glass at the front OF
the tank, heads all to the front, and
with their bodies tapping one another
diagonally with uniform regularity.
Sometimes at feeding time they stand,
or rather suspend themselves in the wa
ter side by side, in a uniform rank,
heads up, near the surface, and wait
there for the man with the food, whose
step they may have heard on the plat
form back of the tanks.
A curious illustration of the fishes
tendency to group was shown in an
other way. Into tank in which there
were two parrot fishes there was put
also a grouper. One of these parrot
fishes was not feeling very lively; in
stead of swimming around it lay on the
bottom of the tank, over in one corner,
just breathing and taking things easy.
This was the grouper's opportunity,
and it stretched itself out on the bot
tom of the tank right alongside the par
rot fish and as close to it as it could get,
and STAYED there.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-09-28
THE ART OF REToUcH1NG.
some of the Wrinkles of Photog-
raphy Brought to Light in
London Court.

Some "wrinkles" of photography
were brought to light in the South
wark county court, where profession
nj and an amateur fought out their dis
nuted accounts, says the London Tele-
graph. According to the former, the
charge for retouching a photo depended
upon the subjects face. His honor sug-
gested that if the physiognomy was
long one it would cost more to retouch
the photograph than that Of person
with a short, small one, and an eXpret
agreed. adding that some people have
so many freckles or wrinkles that they
give lot of extra work. Judge Addi-
son said he supposed that in some cases
they had to take out such defects and
everything else a person didn't like in
order to make portrait acceptable, and
the professional concurred. Counsel
went even further and suggested that
not only had imperfections to be taken
out, but nonexistent beauty to be
added.
From this it may be gathered that,
while photography is witness of truth
the artist is often fatterer, and as
such expects to be paid. His honor
took the photograph in question and
pazed at it, and then had good look
at the person present in court whom 1t
was supposed to represent. After a
long inspection of both he said that at
last he understood the art of retouch-
ing and gave the Judgment, which
showed that he considered the laborer
was worthy of his hire.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-09-28
PEN PICTURE OF THE Beers
A Congregational Minister Tells a
Few Facts About South
African Affairs.

The Rev. DR.. William Dover, delegate
from South Africa to the International
Congregational Council, III Boston, which
meets this week, reached the city yester-
day from Montreal and other Canadian
points, where he had visited relatives, says
the New York "Tribune." He has lived
at Port Elizabeth, South Africa, for So
years, and is well informed about South
African affairs.
In giving his impressions of the Trans
vaal crisis, he said among other things:
"'Ihe crux of the question in dispute be-
tween the Beers and the English will, af-
Ter all, be found to I've the color line. |
have given the subject a great deal of
study, and have come TO this conclusion:
When England abolished slavery in South
Africa many years ago the Beers did not
relish it at all, and although they are the
descendants of ancestors who fled from
Europe in the sixteenth century to South
Africa in order to enjoy the blessing Of lib
city, still they are bitterly hostile to the
English idea of giving the natives of South
Africa anything resembling equal political
rights. In the nansvaal every man with
drop of coored blood in him, whether he
is three-fourths Beer or not, is required to
wear a badge With number. He has alb
solutely no standing with the Beers, who,
whenever they can, hold the natives in
practical slavery.
at is the shadow of a more humane
treatment of the colored men of South
Africa by the English that actuates Kru-
ger in refusing to acknowledge the suze-
rainty of Great Britain. The English,
Scotch, Irish and Americans, who princi-
pally make up the Outlanders, have been
used to practical liberty. In the Trans
vaal they pay pretty near all the taxes and
still have nothing to say about the fran
chise. This has grown to be intolerabe to
the English. Kruger is an anomaly of
piety and prejudice. He never spent two
days in q schooltouse, yet he is the peer
of any diplomat in the world. The Beers
will be able to place in the field about 20,
600 men. If the Orange Free State
should, on account ofracial sympathy, join
forces with the Beers, there would be
many more. The Boer as fighter has
not been overestimated. He is hardy
and splendid shot. The Beers are well
provided with all kinds of arms, and if
hostilities break out between them and
the English it will be hard struggle.
1t will amount practically to a civil war,
as the Dutch and English have inter-
married to large extent.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-09-28
WHAI WILL Ii PR0EII2

When Governor Tyler first declared his
candidacy for tile United States Senate it
was hoped that he would not only fight
the machine, but put himself forward as
an advocate of honest elections and clean
politics in Virginia. With that hope in
spired the Republicans were most favora-
bly, disposed to his candidacy; but there
has been nothing developed by the con-
test that is now being waged between the
Tyler and Martin factions to show that
the former is any more favorably disposed
to fair elections than is the latter. 1t
looks very much like the Governors fight
against what he calls an ''otfce-holdcls
trust" is not provoked by the dishonesty
of the trust, so far as it is exercised toward
Republicans, but is occasioned by the
policy of the trust to shut cut from Office
all those who are not connected with it.
1t is the monopoly that seems to disturb
the Governor and his friends, and not the
dishonesty of the methods on which the
monopoly has been erected. In other
words this Senatorial fight in Virginia has
apparently resolved itself into a contest
between the two factions, to determine
which shall have control of the machine,
and which shall be constituted san Office
holders trust"
The Martin men do not hesitate to stand
by and uphold the present infamous
methods by which one hundred and thirty
five thousand Republicans in Virginia are
practically denied any representation in
the halls of legislation. On the other
hand the Tyler men are silent, or if they
express any disapproval of the election
laws of the State, their criticisms are of
such vague character as to impress no
one. Even those Democrats in Virginia
who favor honest elections must be disap-
pointed in the equivocal conduct of Gov
ernor Tyler and his supporters.
In this fight for control of the machine
the Virginia Republicans have no interest.
What matters it to them who constitutes
the "ofI;ce- holders trust" if is to be ad-
nlinistered by continued election frauds ?
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-09-28
They Do Not Know the American People

Boston journal" (Rep)
A Western Congressman who has just
travelled clear across the country with his
eyes and ears open tells the Journals"
Washington correspondent, Coolidge, !"
that "the sentiment of the people, in my
opinion, aud from the observations have
made, is overwhelmingly in favor of main
tanning American supremacy over every
foot of territory which came to us as re-
suit of the war with Spain. The people
insist that we shall hold every foot of it. I"
This is correct Interpretation Of the
will of the nation-there can be no doubt
of that. The fatal defect of the opposi-
ton to the plans and purposes of the Ma
tional Administration is a total misunder-
standing Of the character of those plans
and purposes and of the great motive of
the present war. The "Anti-Imperial.
lists" have made no Roadway because
they don know their fellow. country
men.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-09-28
A TRICK CAMERA.
One That Was Disguised ms Wicker
Basket and Used to Photo
graph Qualifications.

"a travelling photo salesman showed
me very ingenious trick camera the
other day." said q local dealer to the
New Orleans Times-Democrat. 1t was
box about six inches square, set in
side of what seemed to be an ordinary
wicker lunch basket. When desired,
the box could be pushed down through
the basket, so that its top was on a
level with the wicker bottom. The top
of the box was also covered with wick
er, and the basket would then appear 10
be perfectly empty. The camera pro-
trading meanwhile from TIE under size.
An upward push would restore it to it's
original position, and the lens worked
through a small hole near the end. The
continuance was evidently of foreign
manufacture, and the salesman told me
it had been made especially for an
agent who was sent to take pictures OF
Notifications on the French frontier.
According to his story, which is
little romantic, but which 1 have no
reason to doubt, the spy would saunter
out, dressed as tourist, and carrying
the lunch basket on his arm. When
an officer came along he would push
down the box and show him that the
basket was perfectly empty. 1t never
occurred to the guards to turn the
thing upside down or 1t would have
been promptly confscated. The pres
ent owner carries it around as a curio,
and it is certainly the oldest little ma
chine ever laid eyes on. AS far as
know, it is the only camera in the
world that is mounted on a disappear
ing carriage"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-09-28
Watterson and the Befuddled Democracy
New York "Times" Dem..

.NSh iOih INNS ADSi-i'f
Mr. Watterson is quite out of patience
with the idea of abandoning our newly ac-
CURED possessions. To reject expansion
seems to him antagonistic to Jefferson and
jackson, both "apostles of national expan.
sion. And he cannot see why fifty. sixty,
OR eighty years of time should make any
difference in the soundness Of an idea that
to him seems like an indication of mani
fest destiny.
Can the Democrats ignore this stimu-
lating advice? Can they unite in support
Of the ideas and purposes urged by Mr..
Watterson with so much vigor as to reveal
the hope with which he utters them? Or
will they prefer to take the chance of re-
jecting his advice and accepting the alter
native that he offers with the confidence of
an inspired prophet?
No party ever threw itself across the
pathway of its country's greatness ard
glory and lived to tell the tale, and no par
ty ever can, or will, or ought.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-09-28
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER IS, 1899.
THE EXCITEMENT ABOUT TRUSTS.

There is great deal being written and
said about trusts in this country. Some
of the talk that is used is very intelligent
and some of it is sensational and silly.
Whatever may be the merits or dement's
of trusts, there can be no question that
the great prominence which they are now
holding before the public has been given
them by partisan politicians. We admit
we are not sufficiently informed as to the
effect the much abused combinations are
having upon the general public good. Up
to this time it seems to he debatable
question whether they are injurious 10
trade and to the great body of the people.
We are not against trusts, because it has
not been satisfactorily demonstrated that
they are injurious, nor are we for fruits,
as it has not been certainly proven that
they are beneficial.
Those persons, among them Mr.. Bryan,
who are so buslly occupied in trying to
alarm the public mind should use more
intelligent way of pointing out the dangers
they are clamoring about and also some
reasonable and certain legal way of avert
ing the dangers They should first show in
what manner the public welfare is suffer
ing and to what extent it is likely to suffer
in tie future. Dc the combinations injure
labor by curtailng the number Of men
employed or by areduction in wages? Do
the trusts work an injury to consumers by
an unfair advance in prices?
These are pointed questions that cannot
be avoided by dealing in generalities.
If those who are so violently opposed to
trusts would first demonstrate that they
are unlawful and injurious, they would be
in proper position to formulate remedy
for the evil. They could tell what kind Of
legislation would be necessary to suppress
combinations in trade and whether the
legislation should be by State Legislatures
or the Congress Of the United States.
So far no wise and intelligent plan has
been suggested by Mr.. Bryan and those
who agree with him. So far they have
produced no sufficient evidence that trusts
are running the country. We shall not
undertake to condemn or defend until the
question is presented more intellgently
TO our mind.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-09-28

TIE Republicans Of Nebraska held a
harmonious State convention on the 18th
inst, which was enthusiastic in its en-
dorsement of President McKinley's for
eign policy. Major Killian, of the First
Nebraska, recently returned from the
Philippines, made an earnest speech in
behalf of supporting the Administration in
the Far East. His speech was heartily
app!auded. But the convention and the
large body of spectators were set wild by Il
speech from Chaplain Mailey of the First
Nebraska. He SAID he had never voted
the Republican ticket in his life, but he
intended this Fall to vote to uphold the
hands of the Administration in the Phil
ippines. This shows to what extent Mr..
Bryan has succeeded in impressing his So
called anti-imperialism views on the PEG.
pie of Nebraska, and especially on its vol
unteer soldiers who have so CALAMITY as
sisted in upholding the flag in the Philip
pines.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-09-28
Mr.. Bryan Impractical.
Memphis Commercial Appeal."l

MIR. Bryan's cure for trusts is not prac-
teal one. He favors combining corpora
tons to the States where the charters are
issued and allowing no business to be done
in any other State until authority is obtain
ed from the Federal Government. This
would interfere with interstate commerce
and it would be direct assault upon the
sovereignty of the individual States. Not
only this, it would disorganize and disrupt
the business of the country. Mr.. Bryan
admits that the Constitution would have
to be changed, which is confession of the
impracticability of his scheme.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-09-28
PERSONAL NOTES.

The late Sir Francis Burdett once receiv-
ed an election bill from his political agent
in which was the item: ITO extraordinary
anxiety on your account, $500"
Captain John G. Cameron, commander
of the great Oceanic, is native of New
Zealand, but has been afoat since boy
hood. He is so years old, nearly SIX feet
tall, broad shouldered and athletic.
Andrew Carnegie's Gift of $4,000 for a
pubic library in Oakland, Cal, was Sc
cured by the efforts of Henry A. Chitten'
den, a newspaper man OF that town who
first interested Mr. Carnegie in the place
John Browns son, Jason, is living a
hermit's life on the highest peak of the
Santa Cruz Mountains in California. He
was with his father at Harper's Ferry
and still suffers from wound received
there.
Senator Clark, of Montana, in speaking
of his wealth the other day, said he really
did not know its precise extent. cit has
increased so rapidly" he added, "that l
am now unable 10 estimate even the aggre-
gate of nv possessions.
Rea: Admiral Farquhar, who will sue
coed Sampson as commander of the North
Atlantic Squadron on October 10 next, goi
his first experience of the sea in 1859 along
the coast Of Africa, where portion Of our
navy was engaged in suppressing the slave
trade.
Henri de Regnier the French poet and
author of Episodes" and Arethuse" is to
give a course of lectures on modern French
poetry at Harvard neXt January. He
married daughter of Heredia, and is de-
scribed as tall, slender, slightly bald, with
eye glasses, dropping fair mustache and
a Chinese cast of countenance.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-09-28

THE declarations Of Captain Dreyfus
after his pardon and release are calculated
to strengthen belief in his innocence. He
says: "The Government of the Republic
has given me my liberty. But liberty is
nothing without honor, From today shall
continue to seek reparation for the fright
full judicial error of which remain the
victim. wish France to know by a de-
finitive judgment that 1 am innocent,
My heart will only be at rest when Their
remains not single Frenchman who i'm.
putes to me the abominable crime per
petrated by another"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-09-28

Mr.. WILLIAM J. BRYAN says; GOOD
made men selfish" and that lone of the
great purposes of government is to put
rings in the noses of hogs" He compares
selfish men to hogs, and selfish men are
the rich ones. Ifany one in the United
States is more eager to become hog than
Mr. Bryan we would like for the man to
he named. He acknowledges that he
wants to get rich, and if reports be true he
is rapidly having his hogish nature graft
fed.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-09-28
A WONDERFUL CURE OF DIARRHOEA.
A Prominent Virginia Editor Had Almost
Given Up, but was Brought Back to
Perfect Health by Chamberlain's
Collie, Cholera and DiarrhOea
Remedy.
From the Times, Hillsville, Va.
Dood hie Edifo,ial

From the Times, Hillsville Va.
Read his Editorial.
| suffered with diarrhoea for a long time
and thought was past being cured. l
had spent much time and money and suf-
fered so much misery that | had almost
decided to give up all hopes of recovery
and await the result, but noticing the adj
vertisement of Chamberlain's Collie,
Cholera and Diarrrhoea Remedy and also
some testimonials stating how some Won
derful cures had been wrought by this
remedy, 1 decided to try it. After taking
a few doses l IVES entirely we'll of that
trouble, and l wish to say further to my
readers and fellow-suGerers that | am a
hale and hearty man to-day and feel as
we'll as 1 ever did in my life.-O. R..
MOORE. Sold by Jno. +. Jackson, Drug
gist.
I'm
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-09-28

THERE are factional fights going on in
the ranks of the Democratic party in a
number of counties in Virginia, but we do
not think it will help the Republican party
to exhibit any sympathy for either Of the
factions. 1t looks like case of "dog eat
dog" and it will be best for Republicans
to partake from neither table.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-09-28
TeIeurams by Post Gard.

The Vienna Chamber of Commerce has
petitioned for the introduction of telegram
post cards and telegram letter cards, the
invention, like the ordinary post card, of
Professor DR.. Hermann. They would be
posted in the usual way, and the messages
written on tLem would at once be tele-
graphed or telephoned from the post office
to the receiving office, and there trans
ferred to other cards, which would be de-
livered with the ordinary letters. Jew
elers WEEKLY"