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Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1901-01-24
ANIMALS THAT WEEP.
Many Species of the Brute Creation
Shed Tears when Fright
ened or Hurt.

"He cried like a calf" is a remark
sometimes heard. 1t is no disgrace foT
a calf to cry and he sheds tears in guam
titles when his emotions Justify them.
1t is even easier for him to cry than for
many other animals, because his
lachrymal apparatus is perfect and
very productive.
A scientific writer writing in La Ma
ture says that the ruminants are the
animals which weep most readily
Hunters have long known that a deer
at bay cries profusely. The tears vii
roll down the nose of a bear when he
feels that his last hour is approaching
The big, tender eyes of the giraffe fiji
with tears as he looks at the hunter
who has wounded him.
Dogs weep very easily. The dog has
tears both in his eyes and voice when
his beloved master goes away and
leaves him tied up at home. Some va
rieties of monkeys seem to be particu
larly addicted to crying, and not few
aquatic mammals also find it easy tC
weep when the occasion requires it
Seals in particular are often seen tc
cry.
Elephants weep profusely wher
wounded or when they see that escape
from their enemies is impossible. The
animals here mentioned are the chic
ones that are known to weep, but there
is no doubt that many others also dis
play similar emotion.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1901-01-24
WILL LAST TWENTY YEARS.
Be Manufactured by Mills
in England.

If the plans of certain English capt.
talists do not miscarry it will be
possible ere long for the economical
parent to purchase a suit of clothes
which may be passed along among his
sons for the fifth of century, says
the Chicago Chronicle. Mills are now
being built in England for the manu-
facture of this kind of long-wearing
material, which can be turned out
in almost any color wanted. Think
of getting a suit of clothes that will
last for 90 years; that will cost only
a third more than a suit costs now,
and that will be absolutely water
proof without appearing to be so.
Revolutionize is rather an overworked
word. but 1t fits this case exactly.
Instead of singing: "Papa's pants
will soon fit Johnnie" the refrain will
run: Johnnie soon will wear pas
pants" for when pa once begins to
wear these extremely useful articles
before Johnnie has got out of dresses
he may continue TO wear them for the
next 20 years, and by that time John
ME will have grown up to them. The
same with little Mary and her moth
er's skirts. Instead of cutting down
the garments for the girl the moth
er will war them for generation or
80 andthen turn them over to her
daughter.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1901-01-24
WOOD LOOKS LIKE METAL.
A New Process by Which Strength
and Hardness Are Given to
the Fiber.

A European scientist has discovered a
method by which wood may be given
the appearance of metal. Outside OF
the added value for decorative purposes
which this may give, the advantage to
be derived is not clearly apparent. The
wood is said to be rendered exceedingly
hard and strong, although it is equally
uncertain what part of the process may
be assumed to confer these desirable
qualities upon wood which was soft
and weak before treatment, says an In
dustrial exchange.
The process is described as follows:
The wood is first soaked for three or
four DAYS in solution of caustic alkall
at a temperature of from IS to 80 de-
grees centigrade, and is then trans
ferred at once to a bath of hydrosul-
phate of calcium, to which saturated
solution of sulphur in caustic alkah IS
added after "a hours. The wood re-.
mains in this bath, which is kept at Ii
temperature of from IS to so degrees
centigrade, and finally it is soaked for
about 30 to 80 hours in a solution OF
acetate of lead. The wood is then dried
at a moderate temperature and may be
polished with a burnisher of hard wood.
In this case it can be made to acquire a
brilliant metallic luster and if the sur
face is previously rubbed with piece of
lead, tin or zinc and glass or porcelain
burnisher is used the effect is increased
The wood treated in this way resem-
bles a metallic mirror.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1901-01-24
Make the Home beautiful.

The farm home should be made at
tractive and beautiful. 1t is the farm
er's home and should at least demand
as much proportionate care as the farm
itself. If this fact would be realized by
more farmers the question of chow to
keep the boy on the farm" would not
be so portentous. Instead of laboring
from morn to night on the farm, if the
farmer would spend even half hour
each day in planting hedges, trimming
nearby trees and setting out flowers
near his home, it would become at
tractive to the boy and the girl-they
would take an interest in the work of
the parent, and no spot would be so
dear to them as the home farm.-B. 7.
Galloway, in Farm and Home.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1901-01-24
pRAWNS ARE GOOD EATING.
Those Dried by the Sun In Mexico Are
Highly Esteemed by Gour-
NETS.

In many delicatessen stores the Don
vivant can now purchase sun-drleo
prawns. which form an admirable ac-
cessory to the daily bill OF fare
STEPPED over night in warm water
they swell to twice and thrice their
original dimensions, and in the morn
ing are ready to be made the basis oil
a score Of toothsome dishes. Nearly
all of these come from the Gulf OF Mex
leo and their story is an interesting
commentary upon the thrift and enter
prise of our Chinese citizens, says the
New York Evening Post.
Some IS or 20 years ago" said
Chinese merchant recently, some Chi
nese sailors in New Orleans noticed
that the gulf prawns were like those
of south China, only larger and bet
ter favored. They carried the news
to their countrymen, who immediate
" conceived the project of drying them
in the same way as in Kwang-Tung
They organized several settlements
along the gulf. There is one not far
from Mobile, second near Pensacola
and third in the Tampa district. The
prawns are gathered at low tide
washed, boiled, shelled, sailed and
then dried in the sunlight. In bad
weather they often use ovens, but the
flavor of a prawn treated this way is
not as good as when dried in the open
air. The drying must be very thor
ough and usually takes a week or
fortnight, according to the amount OF
humidity in the air. When thoroughly
desiccated the soft meat is almost as
hard as wood, and in that condition il
will keep in a warm climate for many
months, and in a cold climate for sew
eral years. They are boxed and bar
relied and shipped all over the United
States. Formerly the dried shrimps
and prawns of this market were
brought from China and Japan, but the
import trade has been well-nigh ruined
by these establishments upon the
gulf"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1901-01-24
GooHe Market at warsaw.

At Warsaw, Poland, they hold a
goose market every year in October.
The geese, about 100000 in number,
ar. driven to Warsaw from all parts
of the country. Many of them come
from distant provinces and as con-
sequence have to travel many miles
over roads that would wear out their
feet unless some means were taken
to protect them. This is done by
driving them through tar poured upon
the ground and then through sand.
The operation is repeated several
times. and by the time they are ready
to start their feet are completely COW
cred with a hard crust which effec'
,tually protects them from all injury
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1901-01-24
Rankin's Rations for Ducks,

The well-known pioneer New Eng
land duck farmer, James Rankin,
feeds his breeding birds in fall and
early winter as follows: Three quarts
wheat bran, one part oat feed, one
part cornmeal, five per cent. beef
scraps, five per cent. grit, and all the
green feed they will eat, in the shape
of corn fodder (cut fne), clover or oat
fodder. Feed this mixture twice a
day, all they will eat. When the lay
ing season begins, about February l.,
they get equal parts of wheat bran
and cornmeal, 20 per cent. oat feed,
10 per cent boiled turnips or potatoes,
Is per cent. clover rowen, green rye
or refuse cabbage, chopped fine, five
per cent. of grit. Feed twice a day
all they will eat with a lunch of corn
at noon. Keep grit and oyster shells
constantly by them.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1901-01-24
REMODELING A BEEHIVE.

ones; the side pieces arc either rab'
beted out or made of two pieces oil
boards, as shown in Fig. 3.
This gives cover with some space
above the hive. but not enough or in
the right shape to put in any covering
over the brood chamber. TO obviate
this lay the quilting in and hold it in
place with two cleats, as shown in Fig
2. This covering, held up from the
brood frames by cross strips, | consider
quite essential. The bees themselves
would make provision for a way to
cross from one brood frame to the 9th
er, but their plans are thwarted by
the changes incident to the removal OF
the Honey boxes.
know | lost the first two swarms
tried to winter in the Hives in their
original shape. and succeeded in carry
ing two through the following winter
in these hives altered as | have indi-
Gated. 1t is very little trouble to
make the change, and the hives are
much more satisfactory, anyhow
Richard II. Mitchell, in Country Gen.
tleman.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1901-01-24

the girls dim form and nutterlng
draperies out on the balcony, and
could watch Don Fernando as he tot
tered up and down beneath her, now
mopping his tired face and now and
then casting up amorous glances at
his bride-elect above. Knowing full
we'll whom she had to deal with, and
even in, spite of the fact that the
KEYS of Ynez' room were in her peck
ct, the dona never removed her eyes
from the white figure in the balcony
So long as it was there things were
all right.
One day-one fatal day-Dona An
tonia left her niece a little earlier
than usual, having to see certain
modiste; later, she would go to see
her crony, as usual. Ynez, at the time
of her departure, was busily trying
a new white gown on a new-fangled
American dress form. So occupied
was she with her work that she did
not even seem to hear her aunt as she
withdrew, closing and locking the
door. taking the heavy keys in her
hand. Three minutes later the CIR
did hear the heavy Spanish street door
swing to below, and knew that she
had at least five minutes respite be-
fore Don Fernando arrived on the
street below for his "bear-playing
act.
With trembling hands she dragged
the white-robed dress form close tC
the balcony, twisting a heavy black
mantilla about the neck and pinnin9
futtering handkerchief to the waist
Then, watching carefully, she slid the
cleverly made-up form into the very
corner Of the heavily-grated balcony
pulling down the curtains and vines
so as to conceal the fact that the body
had no head. For that matter, she
knew well that in the gray dusl
neither the dim eyes of her aunt
across the street nor the bleary ones
of old Fernando below the balcony
could see more than the white outline
of the figures skirt.
Then she set to work with a file
that she had guarded carefully in hel
bag of bicycle tools. 1t was a fiesta
day; not q servant remained in the
great house; her aunt was safe fol
more than an hour in the house Oppo
site. and down in the street paced Dor
Fernando, leering at the dim white
figure on the balcony, and thinking
fondly Of how he would tame the pref
ty vixen, once she was safely his. Ter
minutes fling did the work; anC
shortly thereafter Ynez, with hel
money and jewels hidden safely in {
big purse, made a quick fight from
the room, down the servants stairway
and cut of the back of the house
There, running hurriedly down a bacl
street, she was met by John Ward
who had with him a couple of flee
horses. In half an hour they were
cover the border and AVA" and mex
morning were safely married.
The scene upon Dona Antonia's re
turn leave you to imagine. The opeI
door and young Wards file told thu
story, and she promptly went int
violent Mysteries. AS for Don Fernan
do, he had an attack of fury when HI
heard the news that finished his ca
reer. And a good radiance of bad rub
bish at that, you will doubtless say
Mrs. L. NJ. Terry, in San Francisco
| Argonaut.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1901-01-24

a, Small plant In fruit. one-fourth natural
size; b, leaf from younger plant, natural
size;.c, seed enlarged five times.
flower belong, but the species could not
be discovered in the manuals at hand
1t was identified, upon request, by
Prof L. H. Dewey, of the United States
department of agriculture, as spread,
ing mustard. Erysimum repandum L..
a native of the eastern Mediterranean
region. This is rather low plant, /
to IS inches high, but freely branching
with narrow remotely toothed leaves
and not large yellow flowers. The pods
are three to four inches long when
mature and their seed supply album
dant. Further, what is rare in mus.
tards, this plant, If it has room, will
grow in wide-spreading or quite tum'
bleweed form. On considerable farm
it had become scattered almost
throughout
On inquiry it developed that this seed
was introduced in clover seeds sown in
1898, but had spread within the year
following. The seed was stated to have
been secured in a certain locality in
a neighboring state, but plants of il
botanists, although known some years
since from New York and New Jersey
as ballast plant and from Nebraska,
where it shows weedy habits as in Ohio.
There is high probability that spread.
ing mustard has thus become one Of
our permanent weeds; it is more likely
to become widespread than to be com.
pletely eradicated in the locality
named, even with the greatest dill
gence in its suppression. Summarized
briefly, the spreading mustard grows
as a weedy plant in the Mediterranean
region and its seeds have in some man.
ner become introduced into red clover
seed sown in Ohio. We may suspect
that it came. first in crimson clover
seed and was since scattered. This is
supported by the known Introduction
of conical catchhy, (Silene conica L.,
poppy (Papaver dubinum L.,scleran.
thus, S. annus u and two or three 9TH
er plants new to Ohio in crimson clover
seed, shipped from Delaware and sown
near Clyde, o., few years ago.
In this way we are constantly adding
to an already widely extended weed
list; the only real aid can come from
buying seed for quality and examining
all sown to escape noXious weeds.-A.
ID. Selby, in Ohio Farmer.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1901-01-24
WEEDS FROM ABROAD.
Many Come to Us I'm Seeds Imported
from the Various Countries
of Europe.

We recognize that our stock OF weeds
unlike our bank stock. live stock, etc.
is now sufficiently large for comfort oil
convenience; yet, large as this is, il
may be constantly augmented. The
case in hand will well illustrate both
the weed elements and their manner OF
fostering and distribution. AS re.
suit of changes now in operation ouI
foreign weedy plants are certain to be
largely augmented. l here use the
word foreign" to designate any plant
not native within our state border
though Indigenous in other states, as
well as those transferred from coun.
tries outside the union.
In May of the present year re-
ceived from Zanesfield, Logan county
o., plant OF the mustard family which
was thoughtnew to the local region and
such it proved to the whole state. 1t is a
plant of the mustard family, as well
attested by the pungent taste and yell
low blossoms of four petals in cross
form. 1t was referred by the writer
to the genus Erysimum, to which the
treacle mustard and western wall
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1901-01-24
hlRAM's FAMILY TREE.
reoollsck when 1 wuz young
clt,un an aDnle tree

I reoolleck when l wuz young
clum an apple tree,
An all :er once linn cracked on
An fell, ker smack with me.
One mint wuz feelin' smart
Away up in the air;
The mex, 1 dropped. l swan! l felt
Right foolish lynn there.
Wen, when Hi Mugglns' cousin Tom,
Down York way, struck 1t rich,
An went an wed a city gal
With ancestors an SIGH,
Hi Muggins SEE: DUN blaze my hide!
Her folks can't Guido me;
III they kin sport coat O. arms
I'll hev a family treew
So Hiram he begun ter climb
An sort O. raise the dead
A-nosin' round in dockyments
An graveyards, fer" he said,
"Thets where feller's got ter hunt
Ter find his pedigree;
They're sort o branches tibet you use
Ter climb yer family tree"
The more tibet Hiram hunted out
o them dead kin o his
The more HIS notion O. the wuth
o Hiram Muggins riz;
An when he found tibet his great-great-
Gran dad he'd crossed the sea
In seventeen-ten. he sot an crowed.
Up in his family tree.
IL sailed me some ter see his airs,
But all seq was: 'Hi,
1 reckon she's a good stout tree,
But don't you climb too high"
But Iii seq: "Shucks! These I've found
Amt none O. high degree,
I've got an idee there's Il king
Atop my family tree"
Well, He he writ ter England where
His grandad's grandads pa
He'd lived, an when his letter went
lie most talked off his jaw,
A-tellin' us poor common folks
How happy he wud be
When he got word some earl or dock
Wuz on his family tree.
Hi he he'd clum plum out O. sight
An then there come one day
4 letter, an ct seq: We've looked
An we regret ter say
Thet Obadiah Muggins wuz,
In sixteen ninety-three,
A-caUght a-stealin money
An hung up on Tyburn tree"
SO tbets how come tibet Hiram Is
So meek an lowly now;
Becuz he KEEP a climin'
Till he struck rotten bough,
An fell so hard ct mashed him fiat;
Thets why ct seems ter me
Els risky fer us common folks
Ter climb a family tree.
Ellis Parker Butler, in National Maya
zine.
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~. . tx bEES.gX'Is7
-" I6 E@11HH@T
IMPROVING A HIVE.
How to Remedy Defects Which Are
Apt to Interfere with the Health
of Its Occupants.

Fig. 1 shows a hive in quite common
use, and one that has really much to
commend it. 1t is dovetaled at the cor
ners. and this fact gives it its name.
The beveling of the roof boards, to give
the necessary slant. makes the outer
edge so thin that it is liable to warp
and form a crack, so that wind and
storm can blow into the top Of the hive
To remedy this | nailed on strips, as
shown in Fig. @, The end strips are
straight-edged pieces of the same
length and thickness as the original
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1901-01-24
Perhaps.

Customer-I'm looking for one OF
the latest books. / don't recall the
title, but It's long story of war.
New Clerk-Here's one called
"When a Mans Married" Maybe
that's it.-Philadelphia Press.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1901-01-24
The Funny Man.

If q fellow tries to be funny all the
time, he ought at least to hit on a
joke once in awhile.-Washington
(Ia.) Democrat.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1901-01-24
TAzEWELL co. DIRECTORY.
Circuit Court.

Robert G. Jackson, judge; II. Bane Har'
man. clerk. Terms Of cOurt-lst Monday
in April, 4th Monday IN August ana Ist
Monday in Decemher'
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1901-01-24
Officers.
THE CHURCHES.
Methodist Episcopal Church South

Public worship of God on the LIST ami
.rd SUNDAYS at II 4 W.. on the 2nd and
4th at 7:30 P. Nj. o.7.oo
Meeting for prayer. Wednesday |" Gov
p. Nj. Sabbath School at 9:3o A. Nj;
Meeting of Epwor5h League each pun,
5sy at 8 y. m, the third MONDAY
1iSbt of each month being devoted TO
'' : most cordial welcome is extended to all
- j. ). FRENCu, Pastor.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1901-01-24

Cracks through which the cold blasts
of winter blow are not needed for fresh
air. A stable can be ventilated without
having draught&
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1901-01-24

90 w CT CLAIR. ATTORNEY AT LAW
ETrsv..I W. PracLices in the courts OF TAze
vi snd adjoining counties and in the Supreme
WI. ~ L1neals at Wythevile Particuls. at
tsnticn paid TO tina collection OF Claims once
Strss building
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1901-01-24

oprrvFR a. GILLESPIE, LAWYERS, Tazewell
Hv. Pr.a..LEi the courts Of Tazewell and al
s,nins counties. Ofice--otr building Edgar
L. Greever Barns Gillespie
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1901-01-24
Christian 'hurch.

Preaching let and SD Sunday,at Z p. ~
and 2nd and 4th Sundays at ii q. m.
PRAYER meeting saturday night at
O'Clock. Sunday school every Sunday al
$50 q. m.
PHILIP JOHNSON, Pastor
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1901-01-24

~ - ANDERSON, ATTORNEY AT LAW Taze-
N ~.n Va WIN praciic. in the courts OF Taze-
we'll county and the Court of Appeals AZ "yIhe-
vile. Collecting specially
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1901-01-24
County Court.

III. Stuart, jutge, I. +. George, clerk
Terms of court-Tuesday after Sd Monday
in each month.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1901-01-24

,,,NcrNr L. sexton, ATTOaNEY AT LAW,
vTsSewell, Va. viii practice in. the courts OF
r.za~sil nd adjoining counties. Particular az
tsnti"n psid to the collection of claims. once IN
5tras building.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1901-01-24

7 POWELL ROYAL, ATToR Ii;S Gsd AT Law Z
!. Tazewel, Va. ONCE with chapman q
Gillespie
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1901-01-24

r,,rroN g. COUPLING, ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
tT.,swsIl Va. Practice in the courts Of Taze-
veil county. S. NJ B. Couling will continue bis
practice In all the courts OF Buchanan county; J.
E Fulton, Wytheville, Va. 5. NJ. b. Couhng'
Tazewell, Va.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1901-01-24

III. STUART, ATTORNEY At LAW, Ia we'll
iva. Land titles in Mcdowell and Logan coun l
ties West Virginia, specially once IN stras
building.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1901-01-24

m G. BOWEN, ATTORNEY AT Law Isze-
II " veil. Va. Office west end of Courthouse
yard.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1901-01-24
windows of Mother of Pearl.

Windows OF Mother OF FeHFI'
Many Chinese temples have win
dows made from the white mother-o'-
pearl found in oyster shells. The ma
terial is perfectly transparent and
.ooks ike opal glass.-N. Y. Sun.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1901-01-24

an r sPRATT, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Rich
w lands Va. Practices in the courts Of rae
well and adjoining eOun5es. Prompt afternoon
Maid 10 the collection OF claims.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1901-01-24

q HIGGINBoTHAN. ATTORNEY-AT-LA.,Wy
4. TazeSell Va lohice up stairs IN law 5ui,1
80 prsctiees in Courts Of Tazewell and a J.
ii.ininc counties aud in Court of Appe.lsof VIZ
gJi:a
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1901-01-24

HENRY & GRAHAM. LAWYERS; farewell Va
HOfice in building near Court House H. H.
~ mn 8 C. Graham. b. W. Stras
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THE HOODWlNKING
OF FERNANDO

By Mrs. L. M. Terry. !
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Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1901-01-24

cures Contagious Blood
Poison in any and all
stages; contains no
mineral to break down
your constitution ; it is
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1901-01-24

a. Small plant In fruit, one-fourth natural
size; b, leaf from younger plant natural
size;.c, seed enlarged five times.