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to create in the sex : natural gravita-
ton toward business life. When a boy
is old enough to learn to swim he is often
thrown overheard beyond his depth, where
he thrashes and founders till he sud-
his father did before him. But no parent
expects his daughter to have this skill
in water by the same sort of natural selec-
ton. In one of the Sandwich Islands,
however, infants, girls and boys alike
are put into the water in their rush
baskets when they are a few days old.
They sleep and play in the tapping waves,
and both sexes can swim by the time
American babies can walk. So the bust
ness instinct may come in time to be a
birthright of women. but as yet it is not.
To paraphrase an oft-quoted couplet:
Business is to womans life thing apart
It's mans complete existence.
Any career in the business world is still
abnormal and difficult for a woman, and
success is hardly gained. Recently a wo-
man who has won and held for some
years a high place in the newspaper
world, and who is often quoted as a wo-
man of remarkable poise and judgment,
told a friend confdentially that she never
turned the knob of the Office door with
out a fluttering of the heart that cost her
an effort to subdue Il suppose" she
went on, lit is because | lack the conf
dence born of training and long expert
ence." And an editor of one of the big
New York dailies, man, showed his
an enquiry concerning his opinion of wo-
men II: the work:
Frankly" said he II am delighted
with them in many ways. They are faith
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to the more changeable air and fire signs
| Taurus is at the head of what is called
| the earth triplicity. He rules from April
- till May 20. Eleanor Kirk says that
Taurus women are apt to be "hypercrit-
ical in domestic matters" and that Tau
rus men are hard to cook for.
Taurus people are usually good tenn
pered. unless something stirs them power
fully the wrong way. Then those who
have not learned to control themselves
give way to furious bursts of temper.
tossing things as the bull losses objects
upon his horns. But the Taurus woman
who has learned to control herself will
find that this deep, forceful nature gives
her added power of achievement and of
influencing her children and others for
good. Taurus persons have naturally
,, strong appetites and passions and should
avoid intoxicants and too much meat
Taurus rules the neck Those born ''on
the cusp' between Taurus and Aries, the
preceding head sign-that is, between
April 10 and 25-are often highly gifted
persons of very strong character.
Taurus people are apt to be OF power
full build physically. with somewhat short
necks, broad shoulders and the large nos
trils that proclaim splendid lung power,
says Clara Branscombe. They enjoy good
eating. luxurious living, and the exter-
nails which indicate worldly prosperity.
They are apt to think too much of these
things and too little of the finer, spiritual
qualities of human nature, which they
should especially cultivate. They fire.
Of others as superstitions, and at the same
time they themselves need most to de
velop their own spiritual qualities and in
buttons in order TO bring out their high
est, greatest power.
Marriages between Taurus people and
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you have good legs, and walk-just walk
It's simplicity itself. You may knead your
face and rub it with a towel before and
afterward If you like, but the chief things
are the rain and the walking.
How about taking cold?' enquiries the
thoughtful.
"Bosh,' responds the English woman
when thus questioned by a writer in the
philadelphia Telegraph" Follow my d.
rections and don't stand around, and you
won't take cold. On the contrary, you'll
be all the better for the exercise you've
taken. That's part of the cure.
You see, it's as plain as the nose on
your face. American women envy the
poor Irish and Scotch servant girls who
come over here with red checks and clear
compilations, and yet they themselves
for six months in the year in rooms heat
ed by hot air and wonder why they dom
have complexion like Bridget's.
When they go ont they ride in heated
car. They have hot biscuits and ice wa
ter for breakfast, drink more ice wa
ter throughout the day. yet when they go
out are ever so careful that a little good
wholesome rain water doesn't touch their
faces.
I'm summer it's a little better. but the
ence in the life of Kate and Mary and
Bridget in their native heath. In the
first place. the air is nearly always moist
and cool, and it rains or is misty-foggy
you might call 1.-TWO days out of three
for nine months In the year
Kate and Bridget probably worked out
doors in the fields. Whether they did or
not they weren't slaves to umbrellas. and
while American women take a car to go
three blocks they would walk three miles
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-04-21
She Paints Church windows.

Miss Marie Hernd1, a young artist re
siding in Milwaukee, has won national
reputation and is fast winning wealth, in
new field of effort. Her speciality is
ornamental church windows of colored
glass. First a sketclEis made Of the scene
to be depicted by the finished window
Next complete drawing is made, and
then the glass is made ready to receive
the colors and figures. These colors are
burned into the glass ia huge oven, the
work done by Miss aHerndl herself
At the present time shells working upon
six windows for the chapel of St Fran
els Seminary This work she commenced
a year and a half ago. and she is now
completing the hfth window. The sub
jeCts Cor the windows are The Good
shepherdt Christ and Ifs HRiseiPies
MARY and Martha. and The Crown Of
We'll, you see, was born in Munich, "
she said, rising from In front OF the draw
she was just placing the figures for the
inlaid floor. Il showed artistic talent it
seems, so my parents sent me to the art
school at Munich. If | had been born
here | would probably never have been
sent They have such funny ideas in this
country about what n chhd ought to
study After / completed my course of
studies | took an advan ed course under
Prof Herdrich Next studied the kind
of work which | am now doing under Di-
rector Zettler of the Royal Art Institute
of Munich.
Miss Herndl labored for some time in
her own country before going to New
York there she did some fine portrait
work and also designed windows for some
of the best residences of that city. Next
she went TO the Worlds Fair and received
a medal and diploma for the work she
exhibited there Her principal exhibit
was an immense window, II feet high and
8 feet broad.
Miss Herndl went to milwaukee, in 1893
and her work has met with nothing but
praise ut the hands of the critics.
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ITALIAN SERVANTS.
Gould Ours Only Do as the
Romans Do,

Romans Do.
Mrs Maud Howe Elliott. in a recent
| literary meeting of the New England Wo-
! mans Press Association, held in Boston,
gave delightful talk on her life in Rome
with her artist husband. She took up
that part Of housekeeping that specially
appeals TO American women-the servants
and told such an ideal story that more
than one perplexed housekeeper among
the guests wondered if it were not all a
fairy tale.
Could there be a spot on earth where
the servant girl question is not? But
Mrs. Elliott said that she paid her cook
and her waitress but Sc month each
and she declared they take such care of
you the dear things" Besides, they have
the greatest faith in one; they never
stand out for their rights, they never
even think OF them, but trust in one 6
generosity to give them what is their due
II is all quite patriarchal and so diff
ferent from anything we have in this
country. They confide to one all their
little love affairs and all their family
matters, and they will set UP half the
night to take care of one and then go
right to work the next morning without
making a bit Of fuss. One cannot help
loving them.
Mrs. Elliott described her home in
Rome, from whose terrace she could see
the famous square of st. Peters, and all
the professions that enter and issue from
that famous edifice. a notable procession
was that on Sundays when the host
is borne through the streets-a conces-
sion to the Church made recently by the
Government.
1t is carried by a priest, who marches
beneath a canopy. accompanied by long
line of singing priests The procession is
led by a number of little girls, dressed in
white, who scatter flowers along the way
The funerals are also very splendid
Mrs. Elliott also described various out
ings to places famous in story and in
song.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-04-21
THE BUSINESS INSTINCT.
Women Have to Acquire what Man
Has Inherited.

In considering the question-which
seems to be again interesting number
of persons-of the relative success of men
and women in business. one important
fact should be emphasized. Men have the
great advantage that the business instinct
is an inheritance with them. Generations
OF business men have had thGIs Influence
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one of the latest and smartest dress
adornments is leaf trimming 1t recalls
the decorations that were in vogue in the
early Victorian era, but there is now
probably less stiffness and more grace
about the idea than there used to be- The
leaves are ctit cut u pdune, velvet cloth
or silk, and are laid one on TOP of the
other quite conventioually. The Napo-
leonic wreath IS a favored motif IL has
been made to look exquisite in gold and
silver tissue. and so far very few en-
broideries are put upon the-1eaveS, for
their main idea is to suggest Just what
they are, and not fanciful kind OF en-
bellishment-
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ful, untiring. and never complain of work
or hours. ! have but two faults to ind
with them-they have little or no self
reliance, and are seldom able to direct or
plan for others" Both Of these faults
come from the same source-a sense of
newness to business responsibility.
Many more business women will admit
the same experience in some guise or
other. 1t Is not helpful. and it is a tax
that the coming business woman may not
have. The wage-earnlng woman is grow
ing younger every year; she is entering
upon her work earlier In life. choosing
often, like her brother. some field of la
Dor as soon as she has finished her schol-
astic education. The influence of this
fresh, energetic, well-equipped young per
son must make itself felt In every occu-
patton that she invades. and we may look
to see the coming business woman, news
paper or other sort. as capably conf
dent as any man Of affairs is today.
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and think nothing about it. In winter in
the house they have an open fire in the
kitchen, and the living room, If they have
two and cold bedrooms. so there ls no
warm, dry air TO dry their skin and fade
the color in their cheeks
"of course, one can't alter climatic
conditions, but that isn't necessary. If
American women would shut off the heat
from their bedrooms except when it is
really very cold, and walk out when it
good and damp and healthful and let
the rain beat on their faces and the moist
ure soak into their skins they would be
all the healthier and look all the better
for N
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-04-21

The artist of the British royal family
is undoubtedly Princess Louise Duchess
of ArgylD, whose statue of the Queen
was unveiled shortly before the Qneen's
death. Londoners may see another exam
pie of the duchess skill in Kensington
Gardens, for under the shadow of what
the Queen called her dear old home" Is
a marble presentment of Victoria the well
beloved as she looked at the time of her
accession. The Princess was hfty-three
years old on March Is.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-04-21
She Saw the Woman.

Detective-Did you see man and wo-
man driving past here in a dogcart about
an hour ago?
Mrs. Blank-Yes.
"Ah, were getting on the track of
Shem! What kind of a horse was itr'
They were driving so fast ! didn't no.
tice that. But the woman had on a Scotch
nohair and wool jacket Of turquoise blue,
last years style. with stitched lines, a
white pique skirt with deep Circular
6ounce, a satin straw hat, tilted and
FATHER nat, trimmed with hydrangeas and
loops OF pale blue surah, and her hair
was done up pompadour That's all
had time to see."-1it-Bits.
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RAIN A BEAUTIFIER.
An English woman's Recipe for n
PeachN CompIeNion.

Ingredients-One nice drizzly or misty day
which nature will provide in plenty this
month; one good country road. which can
be secured for a scent car fare; one pair
of easy shoes. light rubbers, a golf skirt,
a comfortable rain coat, and go out for
a walk
Take one hour for it, anyway; two If
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-04-21
THE REASON WHY.
One Doctor Knows why women's
Eyes Get Crooked

The other day a woman. calling for adj
vice concerning her failing eyesight at the
office of an oculist, took up a looking
glass about the size Of half-dollar and
began to twist her neck about in her eff
forts to see the back of her head in the
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-04-21
The First ofHer Kind.

Mrs. Caroline NJ Parker the first
newspaper woman of the West, is spend
ing her old age at Los Angeles surround
ed by every comfort that money can pur-
chase She was on the staff of the San
Francisco POST as early as 1872, and aft
erward filled many important positions on
other paperS.
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THE TIME OF TAURUS.
Were You Born ut This Time OF
the Yenrf

Astrologically considered, the constella-
tions Taurus, Virgo, and Capricorn gov
ern the three earth signs. Persons born
while an earth constellation reigns are
declared to be more fixed in their habits
and opinions than individuals belonging
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those born under the sister earth sign of
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES - to January 20
and the union of Taurus and Libra individ-
uals-Libra being an air sign and ruling
from September % to October 23-are said
to be the happiest and productive of the
best results.
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An AIsatInn Proyerh.

Here is a nice complimentary Alsatian
proyerb: IF you would make n pair of
good shoes take for the sole the tongue
OF q woman; II never wears out"
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-04-21
FASHIONS FROM FRANCE
England's New Queen Has Set the
Style in Hair Dressing.

The Little Daughters of the Rich
VIII GO Through the summer ms
Radinot NJ Chcrubs in SpotIess
White Picturesque Suggestions.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1901-10-10
REPUBLICAN COMMITTEE
NET At HIGHLANDS
And Selected Senatorial Candidate to Take
Place of Col. Browning.

The Republican Committee, composed
of the county chairmen of Tazewell, Rus
sell, Buchanan and Dickinson counties,
met at Richlands last Saturday afternoon
at 6 o'clock.
w. M. Thornbury, chairman of Dicken-
son county, was made chairman OF the
meeting, and w. B. Spratt, of Richlands,
was made secretary.
The chairman announced that the object
of the meeting was to select a candidate
for the State Senate to represent the coun-
ties of Tazewel, Russell, Buchanan and
Dickenson, which constitute the Third
Senatorial District, in the next General
Assembly of Virginia. The Committee
then selected j. n. Harman as the candi-
date by unanimous vote, and Mr.. j. H.
Meade and DR.. j. II. Lockhart were ap-
pointed to notify Mir. Harman Of his NOM
nation. Mr.. Harman was introduced and
in nice speech accepted the nomination.
The meeting then adjourned.
w. Nj. THoRNBURY,
w, b. SPRATr, Chairman.
Secretary.
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:, flesh wound; Sheriff James Brooks,

ley, flesh wound; Sheriff James Brooks,
slight.
Sheriff Brooks attempted to arrest one
of the Chadwels, who resisted. Both
Brooks and Chadwell are wounded.
The feud between the Morgans and
Chadwells has existed long time. Last
Christmas they met at Walnut Hills, Va,
when a pitched battle ensued in which
several were killed. Eighteen months
ago they met near the Hancock line.
Fighting followed, and one was killed.
Both the Chadwels and Morgans are
PROSPEROUS and influential, and have large
families. More trouble is feared.
Middlesboro, KY, Oct. THE situation
at Big Springs, Tenn, where at the Union
Baptist church, Yesterday, four members
of the Chadwell and the Morgan factions
were killed and five wounded, is gloomy
tonight, and it is the general opinion
that more boodshed is certain to follow.
A report reached here tonight by way OF
Tazewell, Tenn, that second clash be-
tween the factions had occurred late this
afternoon, but the story is yet uncondrm-
ed. At noon, when a horseman arrived
here flom Ewing, Va, FIVE miles from
Big Springs, no more trouble had occurred
although the feeling was at high tension
Both factions wele barricaded in their
homes and were armed to the teeth.
Many believe they are only waiting for
darkness to renew the trouble. The MEM
bers of each faction came to Cumberland
Gap today and secured large supplies Of
ammunition.
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Fires at Tazewell.

Yesterday morning about 10 o'clock an
alarm was given that the building owned
by Mr.. G. H. Belew and occupied by W..
L. Draper & Co, was on fire. 1t seems
that sparks flying from one of the CHM
neys near caused the Shingles to become
ignited. Fortunately Mr.. Belew was in
the upper story of ,he building and sue
ceeding in extinguishing the flames before
they had gained much headway.
In the afternoon about 8 o'clock mes
sage over the phone stated that the barn
belonging to MIR. j. A. Greever was burn
ing. number of people fastened to the
scene but the flames had spread 10 rapidly
that nothing could be done. The barn
was filed with hay and theloss is estimat-
ed at about S25O.OO The building was un-
insured
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TAZEWELI. VA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1901

and we hereby extend to his wife and rel
atives, to the Fraternity and to the Nation
our heartfelt sympathy in this hour OF
sorrow and affliction.
Resolved further, that we denounce and
condemn anarchy. and those who have
for their motto the destruction of organ
lied government and defiling of society,
as high treason, which oughtto be dealt
with accordingly.
Resolved further, that as a mark of our
sincere respect to our departed Brother,
our Lodge room be appropriately draped in
the garb of mourning for thirty days, that
these resolutions be spread on our minutes,
a copy be sent to the family of our de-
parted Brother and copies forwarded to
our county papers for publication.
MAX WEINBERGER,
J. H. KIDD,
]. Nj. NEWTON,
Committee.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1901-10-10
TO SAVE MISS STONE.
The State Department Putting Forth
Energetic Efforts.
w. Nj. THORN BURY,
Chairman.
w. B. SPRATT,
Secretary.

Washington, October S.-Not since the
successful attempt to save the life OF John
Hays Hammond, the American engineer
implicated in the Jameson rid, has the
State Department put forth such energetic
efforts TO save human life,a as it is now ex'
erting in behalf of Mise Stone, the Ameri'
can missionary, who was captured by Bull
garian bandits. A sum of money has been
forwarded to Spencer Eddy, the United
States secretary of legation at Constantine
pie, who has shown remarkable energy
and ability in unearthing the rani6cations
of the plot which resulted in the kidnap'
ping of Miss Stone. There is little doubt
that the Turkish government has done all
that could he expected to run down
the bandits, and what is now to be done
is to secure similar action on the part OF
the Bulgarian government, and to that
end influences more potent with the Slav
races than that of the United States gov
ernment are now at work. Should these
measures fail, then the ransom money
must be paid, and that is why Mr.. Eddy
has been placed in possession Of this pow
erful auxiliary. The officials refuse to
give any information concerning the case,
beyond the merely negative statement
that they have not been informed of the
reported extension to one month or the
time allowed for the ransom of Miss Stone.
Constantinople, Oct. 8.-Mr. Haskell,
the American missionary at Samokcf,
Bulgaria, is opening negotiations with the
brigands with the view of reducing the
amount of the ransom deman led for the
release of Miss Stone.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1901-10-10

When the Senate committee on military
affairs resumed its investigation OF charges
AGAINST Lieutenant Colonel Heistand,
Thomas j. Mackey appeared as attorney
for Major Hawks, the prosecuting witness
Former Assistant Secretary of War George
d. Meiklejobn, resuming his testimony
begun yesterday, detailed a conversation
which he had with Hawks in the course
n which the latter had declared that un'
less he was appointed to a position he
would publish the details of the hemp
combination. Mr.. Meklejohn told him
that so far as he was concerned he might
do so.
MIR. Mackey, counsel for Hawks, asked
if the proposed hemp company was mol
abandoned because Flint, Eddy & Compa
nv had a monopoly of the hemp business
in the Philippines, but Mr.. Meiklejohn re-
plied that he never knew anything about
Flint, Eddy & Company.
The committee declined to permit coun
sci 10 ask questions designed to bring Sec
retary Root into the investigation.
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ACCUSED OF ID MURDERS.
Four Husbands and Children Are In
cluded in the List.

Dayton, o., Oct. Mrs. a. j. Witwer,
a widow residing in this city, has been ar
rested by the police at the instigation OF
the coroner, and is held prisoner at CEN
t-al station pending an investigation into
very serious charges. Mrs. Witwer, the
police Say, is suspected of fourteen MUIR
ders, the list including four husbands,
five children, one sister and four members
of different families in which she was en-
ployed as housekeeper. The last supposed
victim was her sister, Mrs. Anna Pugh,
who died week ago under mysterious
circumstances. An autopsy performed at
the request of Mrs. Witwer's mother, who
came here from Detroit. is said to have
disclosed the presence Of arsenic and cop
peras in the stomach. Following closely
upon the death of her first husband, Fred
Schweger, came, according to police de-
parlment data the death of two children.
The second husband died suddenly years
after the wedding and the children OF this
marriage died in rapid succession. Her
Lust husband, A. j. Wilmer, died last
April. In each instance death was some
what sudden and we're strangely alike.
The prisoner is AZ years Of age and for
merly lived in Middleton this State. She
has two sons in the Philippines and sls'
ter it is stated, in New York asylum. No
conceivable metve for the suspected crime
has been disclosed. Drugs which were
found in the house occupied by Mrs. Wit
uer are in possession of the police and will
be examined