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Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-06-01
VALUABLE TIMEPIECE.
II IL an English Watch That Vnriea
Only One-Third Of "a Sec
Ond IL Day.

A watch of remarkable perfection is
described in the London Times, its dis
tinction resting on the fact of its hav-
ing Just gained the Kew certificate of
Glass y, especially good" with the ex-
traordinary mark of ST. out of posi-
BILE 100. To win the latter watch
would have to be absolutely perfect as
timeleeper, result admitted to be
scarcely within the range of practical
achievement.
This watch, an all-Engllsh pocket
chronometer, has a mean variation of
daily rate amounting to only one-third
of a second, and the mean difference be-
tween the extreme gaining and losing
rates to four seconds. The makers at
tribute this result to the use of re-
volving escapement, or tourbillou, de-
vice in which the frame that carries the
escapcment Is made to revolve slowly
but continuously in the main frame by
the action of the watch, thus reducing
the error in tlmekeeplng from change
of position-a piece Of mechanism
which does not materially increase thu
complication of the watch, involving,
in fact, the addition OF one wheel only.
While the marks OF this watch for
temperature compensation are not
claimed to be unsurpassed-as many as
1871 having been recorded out of 90
those for smallness in variation In daily
rate and for absence of positional err
rors are unusually good.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-06-01
AN ODD CATCH.
How n Mlsckievous MILDLY Fooled an
Obnoxious Sublieu-
tenant.

The followers of Izaali Walton G9
board q man-of-war are wont to ply the
gentle art with line alone) from over
the ships side during the evening, says
the Cornhill. y sublieutenant, who was
not particularly liked by his junior
messmates, was one day so engaged,
when midshipman, seeing the line de-
pending from the "chains" above,
reached out of one of the main deck
ports and gave it couple of violent
tugs, in imitation of fish biting. Up
the line was hauled with alacrity, but,
of course, with no result.
Once again the sub" essayed to catch
this big fish that had given him SO heavy
a bite. This time the middy's plan was
more elaborate, for, getting compan-
ion to keep the necessary strain upon
the upper portion, he hauled up the
lower part of the fishing line and at
tachcd to the hooks an old shoe, an
empty bottle, holy stone and a sardine
tin. Having carefully lowered these to
the full extent Of the line, he gave it a
more powerful pull than ever, and the
cxpectant fisherman above hauled in as
fast as he could, hand over hand.
But his language when he discovered
the nature of his "catch" is too much
to ask even an unfortunate compositor
to set up in cold type.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-06-01
COOL AND TELLING NERVE.
A knowing GeoIOgist Made Use OF
nm Opportunity to Overawc
His Help.

For sheer, cool nerve and absolute,
inspired genius in dealing with men,
commend me to Clarence King, the ge-
ologist, if the story that is telling about
town be true. Mr.. King, the tale runs,
was in the field all one summer-last
summer, 1 thinl1-with a government
expedition. The field happened to be in
the far west, and the men he was com
PEELED to employ as assistants were
band of cheerful ruffians, half-breed
desperadoes and ''greaser" scamps' says
the Washington Post. Bad as they
were, they worked well, and they were
indispensable. One night one of them
deserted. Mr.. King knew what that
meant 1t meant stampede and an
empty camp if the deserter were al
lowed to go unpublished. He chose a
companion on whose silence he could
depend, mounted and took the trail.
On the third day the deserter was over
taken, captured and landed in con-
venient fort.
The runaway had subsisted for three
days of his liberty on such game and
birds as he could kill. His horse was
white, and as he rode often with prey
slung to the saddle the animal was
streaked and stained with blood. The
man being in safe keeping, Mr.. King
and his companion rode back to camp
leading the crimson-streaked horse
with all the deserter's belongings
strapped to his back. They spoke nc
word of the missing man to his former
companions, but dismounted in grim 81
lence. The men endured the pangs OF
curiosity as long as they could. Then
they sent committee to Mr.. King tc
make inquiries about the fugitive. Mr.
King gave a meaning glance at the
blood-stained horse and made answer
briefly:
"He is gone" he said, impressively
''He is gone where anybody else who
tries to desert will go, too"
Half-breeds and 'greasers" gaspet
and crossed themselves, and from tha
day on no one of them ever tried to de
| sert.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-06-01
A Joke as Was Not a Joke.
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle" IRcp.l

Rochester Democrat and Chronicle Rcp'l
Six years ago President Clevland per-
petrated joke. Being visited by dele
CATION of British journalists, and discover
ing that several of them were from Wales,
Mr.. CIevland said: 81 suppose, gentle
men, Tat YOU have come 90 the United
States to try to discover those mythical
tinnlate mills which were to have been
established under the tariff bill adopted
by the last Republican Congress. HIS
created much laughter, although II the
visitors had taken Mr.. Cleveland at ms
word, and gone upon the search suggested
by him, they would have discovered that
there were enough mills i'll the country
that year QS93) TO produce l23,6Oo OoO
pounds of tinplate. The industry subse'
ouentlv became less and less mythical,
and more and more real, and expanded tc
such an extent that the output in 1898 was
1872, 29O,00O pounds. The total produc
ton of TIN and terne plate from The enact
ment of the Mckinley law to Decenbe'
81. 1898, was . ,235 $50, 629 pounds. Anc
the price is now % per cent, lower than II
was eight years ago.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-06-01
THURSDAY, JUNE l, 1899.
THE COUNTY ELECTIONS.

There was never an election held III
Tazewell county which excited more at
tention than tie one which was held for
county offices last Thursday. 1t was pn-
marily non-political election, and only
short time before the day of election was
politics allowed to creep into the tight
There were two candidates for the county
court clerkship and two for the circuit
co,rt clerk-all of the candidates being
Republicans. For county treasurer there
was but one candidate, and he Demo
crat. For sheriff of the county, until TWO
weeks prior to the election, there was but
one candidate, and he Republican.
Then opposition was brought out tor the
sherifalty, the new candidate being a
Democrat with two Republicans as his
running mates. AS soon as this opposl-
ton was announced excitement became In
tense. and the friends of the respective
candidates went to work with great energy
The result of the election has shown the
continued popularity Of the old county OF
fcers. Though strong effort was made
TO defeat them, by telling the people tha'
they had been in office long enough the
effort was in vain.
Regarding it as a non-political contest
fine REPUBLICAN took no part in the light
saving nothing for or against any candl
date. treating them all alike. The editor
had his personal preferences, and like al
other voters in the county did not hesitate
to vote his personal preferences.
The contest is now over, and, no doubt
there are many who feel deep disappoil
ront about the result. With some Their
will remain feeling of bitterness OH &C
count of the opposition of persons whom
they thought should have been their sup
uorters. That kind Of feeling is unneces
sary and unwise. Every man should &c
cord to every other man the right to max
his own choice. 1t is as much the PRIV
,gc of the voter to vote for whom b
nlelses, as it is of the candidate to rul
against whom he pleases.
The fight has been concluded and' a
was expected, some of the candidates AM
their friends have been grievously disap
pointed. For such the wisest course WI
be to accept the results without any Ill feel
ing towards friends and neighbors Tor tn
course they have pursued and the choic
they made.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-06-01

The Bristol "Tribune" under the head
of democracy on Top" crows loudly
over the result of the county elections IN
the Ninth Congressional District. 1t is
especially boastful ofthe results in Scott
and Washington counties, and says; ODE
mocracy is on top, and she is there for
many years to come. The work accom-
plished last fall has been gloriously
strengthened in the spring election" "
Yes, the work started 10y Rhea last fall'
with such we'll trained assistants as Stone
and Cox, has put the political thimble-
riggers on top. But the "Tribune' Is
wrong in its conclusion that the people Of
this district will long submit to the con-
troll of men who secure power and control
by fraud.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-06-01
Mr.. Bryan's Stale Jokes.

Philadelphia Press
For few months after his defeat in
1896 Mr. Bryan was III the habit of asking
people whom he met whether the Gener-
al had arrived and when inquiry was
made as to what General he meant his re.
ply always was: "Why, General Prosper
ity." Events soon blunted the edge Of
that joke, and now Mr.. Bryan has coined
another joke. He began his speech in St.
Louis Thursday night with it, saying: can
actor who visited Nebraska recently, upon
learning from a Republican that conf
dence had been restored, remarked that
he had examined Websters Dictionary to
learn what confidence meant and found
confidence defined as trust" Then he
understood that confidence had been re-
stored"
Mr.. Bryan probably imagines that by
telling this story glibly he can make peo-
pie laugh and laughing forget how lament
ably mistaken he was in 1896 when he was
going about the country asserting that
prosperity would never return unless there
was free coinage Of silver at the ratio lG
to |. The world is wiser to-day than it
Was three years ago and it is not likely to
forget that Mr.. Bryan proved to be false
prophet once and that the schoolboy
jokes he may tell for the delectation Of the
galleries are not arguments. He will also
find it difficult task to place the Repub-
lican party on the defensive on the ques-
ton of trusts. Its national and State
platforms have been unequivocal on this
subject. The much larger part of the leg
islation for the regulation and restriction
of trusts Las been enacted by the Republi-
can party. The Democratic party had full
control of the Fifty.thlrd Congress, but
not one piece of antitrust legislation was
passed. Since then neither party has had
a majority in both houses Of Congress.
And Democratic laws against trusts passed
by the State Legislatures have either been
declared unconstitutional or have had to
be ignored.
With this record behind his party Mr..
Bryan's attempt to trick the people
by setting up another DOGGY will
prove to be humiliating failure. But it
must have needed unusual self-assurance
for him to assert in his st. Louis speech
that: "The Republican party is impo-
tent to destroy the trusts. 1t is controll-
ed by those who are interested in trusts
and its campaign funds and sinews of war
are supplied by the trusts" Mr. 0. II. ?.
Belmont must have smiled as he listened
to this attempt of Mr.. Bryan to make OPP
position to trusts plank of the platform
on which MIR. Belmont himselfhopes tolun
for Vice. President. 1t will have as much
effect on the country as one of Mr.. Bryan's
stale jokes.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-06-01
PLASTER CASTS.
With Them Hot Water In Used FIrsi
to Reduce the inflammation
In Sprains.

"Plaster casts are now entirely re-
lied upon in sprains as far as the limbs
are concerned" explained q well-known
surgeon to Washington Star reporter,
"as well as In the treatment OF frac-
lures. And beyond the cast there is no
further treatment necessary. The cast
should, however, not be put on until
the inflammation in consequence OF the
injury has disappeared. 10 reduce the
Inflammation continuous application OF
hot water is found to be the most efhca-
cious remedy. When once the intam-
nation has gone down an antiseptic
bandage should be put on the injured
part, and on this the plaster, bandages
and splints. This incases the hand, arm,
foot or leg in plaster boot, which keeps
it's place and keeps the injured part in
tact. The old-time idea that sprains
should be treated with embrocations
and liniments, which hung on for so
long, has about disappeared in the mod
ern method of treatment, and expert
ence has shown that cast is much
safer way of treating n sprain than by
rubbing it with liniments. 1t is, be-
sides, much more rapid way of re-
storing the functions of the injured
part. The cast should be kept on as
long as possiblc-at least week I'M
der all circumstances, and in cases OF
q sprained foot, ankle or lag for ten
days longer. In cases of injury caused
by a spran of the ankle or foot the plas-
ter cast should under no circumstances
be removed in less than a week, for the
greatest care is required in their treat
ment, otherwise the injury becomes
Dermanent"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-06-01
Answers a Question.

The Richmond Times appears to be IN 81
mood TO compromise with the regular
Democrats. Our contemporary declares
if will Join hands with the party II any
other platform than the enc OF 1896 Il
adopted. In all seriousness we VIII ask
The Times if it will be one Of lis If we
adopt the Chicago platform Of lS92 ana
nominate for President tile Hon. Wm' j.
BRYAN p Stanton Spectator.
Without hesitation or qualification we
declare we would support Mr.. Bryan with
all our might should he stand on the Dem
ocratic platform of 1892 upon its adoption
and his nomination by the Democratic
party.-Richmond Times.
The Spectator" and the "Times" must
be making sport of each other. Neither
of them can seriously think it possible for
the Democratic party to adopt in 1900 the
platform of 1892, and to nominate Mr..
BRYAN on that platform. The question OF
the Spectator" and the response of the
"Times" thereto, are both mere idle talk.
They must know that Mr.. Bryan will not
consent to run on any platform but the
one known as the Chicago platform, and
that if he should consent to become a can
d,date upon a declaration Of principles
similar TO those of 1892 he would have to
stultify himself. Besides his followers
would be placed in an equally embarass-
ing position. They were not only ardent
advocates of the platform Of 1896 but pro-
nounced critics of the platform Of 1892.
To return to the one of 1892 would be an
acknowledgment of the falsity of every
declaration made in the one of 1896.
Snch conduct would destroy all confidence
in Mr.. Bryan and his followers. 1t would
be proof that he was either masquerader
in 1896 or humbug in 1900. Bryan will
either have to stick to the Chicago plat
form and Popullsm, or cease 10 De, leaoer
of the people. Only as an agitator is he
brilliant and attractive.
We are surprised that the Richmond
"Times" should place itself in such ridi-
cnlous position as to say that it would sup
port Mr.. Bryan in 1900 under any circum-
strances. We fear the "Times" is getting
in such a compromising temper that it will
soon abandon the brave position it has
held on some National and some State
Questions. 1t has been said that when
man hesitates he is already lost.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-06-01
observation-disclosures.

An American traveller in Persia re-
ports being asked by village soldier
if he knew of dog-worshipers. Il told
him l had heard of fre-worshipers
cow-worshipers and the like" he says
but not of dog-worshipers. lie said
he had seen some in Teheran. Some
foreigners there had fed them, fondled
them in their laps and taken them rid
ing in carriages. Were they not dog
worshipers?'
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-06-01
Mr.. PETER Only a Starter.
Washington Star LTnd.l

The next twelve month will probably
reveal throughout the West many men
like Mr.. PETER, The Populist party IN
that section as originally formed was re-
cruited almost entirely from the Repuoli-
cans. The hard times explained the
organization there. Such pianks in the
platform as the initiative and referendum
Government ownership and control OF
railroads and telegraph lines and Govern
ment loans on crop and live stock were
largely fancy touches, designed to finish
off and attract attention to the propagan-
da for a large volume Of money. But
more money-enough Of it at least to ease
I'D the whole stuation-has come by the
old agencies and many Of these men, with
the wrinkles in their stomachs filled out
and their wallets again in shape, are will
ing to postpone a general reforming OF the
Government to later day,
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-06-01
CURRENT TOPICS.

At Carmel, Ind, recently young
w,man was married on the silver anniver'
.arv of the marriage of her parents ana
he golden anniversary Of the marriage OF
her grandparents.
John Barrett, formerly Minister 10
Siam. who has Just returned from the
Philippines, says in the Independent
THE navment of the $20,OOO,OOO for the
Philippines is mere bagatelle compared
+, their real value. That sum would
hardly pay for the public property ana
real estate which we get from Spain. The
wealth of the islands is well known, anu
in the future they may control the COM
.nerce of the East. There are over one
thousand separate islands, having an area
Of 100 900 to lis, 900 square miles, nearly
,oual TO that of Great Britain and Ire
land; a population of 5000, OOO; an annual
fo,eicp trade Of 6O,O0O,OO0 Tor one-ttth
that of the japanese Empire), and con-
trolling the approaches of $500, 100000 of
foreign trade with 5O0,OOO,OOO Asiatics.
70 acquire control over such an important
archipelago means mighty step IN adj
vance for the United States, and an eX-
mansion of our trade which cannot well be
measured in dollars and cents at this early
day"
A scientist of some standing asserts
that chemically pure water IS poison to the
human stomach. He upsets some hither-
to accepted theories regarding distilled
water by the argument that in distlllatioh
the water loses sundry salts which 1t
greedily abstracts from the animal tissues
when it is swallowed, thus constituting a
Orotoplasmic poison.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-06-01
PERSONAL NOTES.

The women of Detroit are collecting
money to present to Admiral Schley IL
handsome sword and complete dress uni
form.
Senator Depew has, on the desk of his
New York private office, little bust Of
Lincoln not quite completed. 1t was the
last work done by w. w. Story.
Mrs. Ormiston Chant says that while in
this country she complied with 1907 re-
quests for autographs, and, most wonder
full of all, never once lost her temper while
doing so.
Marie Corelli, the novelist, says that
whatever pride she has is not in her work,
but that she has fought her fight aloLe,
81 have" she says, mo thanks to offer to
any one, save those legitimately due my
publisher"
Coils p. Huntington always wears when
at work an ordinary black silk travelling
cap. This he dons at once upon removing
his hat, and his clerks have a story that
no man in his employ has ever seen him
bare-headed.
Arthur c. Humphreys, former Spanish
Vice. Consel at Norfolk, Va, was kind to
number of Spanish prisoners after the
war, and now, in recognition of that fact,
Admiral Cevera has sent him large,
signed photograph of himself, the Admir-
AL
The Duchess of st. Adams ownes what
is probably the most interesting collection
OF Victorian photographs in the world.
Besides the royal family and the nobility
represented there are words especially con-
tributed by Tennyson, Browning, Glad
stone, John Bright and Chamberlain, and
verse written exclusively for the Duchess
by all the best known verse makers of the
day.
At the surrender Of Santiago an Officer
of the Rough Riders who had been sent
forward on dangerous scouting was at once
recalled. He Indignantly sought an inter.
view with Colonel Roosevelt. He was
splashe1 with mud from head to foot
"Why am l deprived of this chance:?" he
cried. "What am to do?" "Well," said
Roosevelt, smiling, "the thing I'd advise
you to do first is to wash your face. "
Joseph Hatton thus describes Sir Henry
Irving's famous diningroom in the actor
knights house at Brook Green al
might be simple Lyceum set, in whicl
the artist has striven to represent an un
ostentatiJus interior with all the pictur
esqueness of the old days and all the luxu
rious conyeniences of the new. The darl
oak sideboard and over-mantelpiece, tht
soft Turkey carpet, the brass dogs in tn
fender and the white, shining glass on tin
polished table give an impression of qule
magnifcence never to be forgotten"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-06-01
The FossiIization of Bryan.

4. Louis Globe Democrat
In 1896 BRYAN was meteorlc. Now lie Is
;, petrifaction. His nomination was at
tended by the most radical changes in the
Democratic creed. His role now as a
manager is to prevent any change, He
insists that the platform Of 1896, every
blank of it, Is imperatively neces AIRY IN
1900 and that no man who would modify
= cs,, he q Democrat. The wild party lco-
noclast of 1896 is the ultra party conserva-
rive of 1899. His personal fortunes de-
pend upon repetition of The Chicago
nlatform. Tie herald ofstormy revolu'
ion and party division has become the
champion of the status quo. His ideal OF
Democratic National Convention Is quite
different from that in 1896, when the ira
.litional policy of the party was swept
AWAY and the shrill Bryanite yell OF til
umph went up oyer 800 empty seats on tho
floor the token that more than third O
tbe delegates would not embrace Popullsn
nor consent to the debasement ofthe mon
ey of the people. As Bryan's persona
conspicuity still contents him, he advise
AGAINST ANYTHING in the nature Of changing
the platform.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-06-01
Gentle CnnnIbals.

Capt. Guy Barrows in Parsons Mag
azine maintains that cannibalism is q
sign of a little higher development
than the tribes who do not practice it
possess. 1t is a relic of some religious
rite or perhaps hunger that has been
retained until the descendants like the
practice of it. The flesh of relatives
Is never eaten and some tribes forbid
the use of human flesh to their wom-
Ell. a cannibal is often kind and af-
fectionate and no bad moral results
have been discovered from 1t.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-06-01

owe will never par; with the Philip
pines, am sure, and in future years the
idea that any body should have seriously
Suggested it will be one Of the curloslnes
Of history" Thus spoke Admiral Dewey
Will the Bryan anti-expansionists have the
courage to tackle Dewey?
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-06-01
Significant Evidence.

indianapolis Journal" (Rep).
1t is remarkable that every prominent
American who has visited the Filipino;
either before or during the present wal
and made study of the location and re
sources of the islands favors their retention
by the United States. This is tue Of civil
lians and of military and naval officers.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-06-01

SENATOR PENRosE, of Pennsylvania, has
declared himself in favor of the renomina-
+ on Of William Mckinley for President
In 1896 the solid delegation from Penn
sylyania was against Mckinley.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-06-01
How Bryan Harmonizes.
Hartford "Courant" (Rep'l

HArtIOTu "CUuTHHl INeP
What genial, conciliatory, harmonic
ing, unifying party leader is young Mr.
BRYAN, of Nebraska! He was in Quincy,
ILL.,, Tuesday. He Grated. He was inter
viewed. His thoughts and the ailvery
stream Of his speech turned toward the
gold Democrats. ''Those who left the
party in 1885," he said, "will find the
door just as large now as when they went
out, and they can get back through, if they
have not grown too big"