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Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1901-04-11

m G. rOWEN, ATTORNEY AT LAW Iaze-
i. well, Va. Office west end OF Oour'nouSe
yard.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1901-04-11
County Court.

III. Stuart, Judge; T. f. George, clerk.
Terms of court-Tuesday after Sd Monday
in each month.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1901-04-11

POWELL RoYALLo s ATTORNEY I;fS nd All aAW
Gillespie
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1901-04-11

ureG1SBOTHAN, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW'
a, TrrcreH Va. (0tfice mp stairs IN Law Buil9'
,,o P-actiees in Courts of razewell ana al
ioininc counties, and 10 Court of Appeals OF Vir-
ginia.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1901-07-10

Guaranteed Thermometer
given to each GAZETTE sub
scriber paying a full year
in advance.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-10-22
LAW POINTS.

The removal of fixtures and their re-
erection in another store under contract
do not entitle the contractor to a lien
upon them.
Where an agent sells his own and his
principals goods and collects money in
sufficient to pay for both he must apply
it on his principals debt.
The selling price of the stock OF a cor
poration is not conclusive Sl the Vaiue OF
its assets for the purpose of taxation OF
it's oapiual stock and surplus. 70 N. Y.
Supp, 100.
1t is not sufficient to vitiate a transfer
or a sale of goods to a creditor Of the
seller that the latter had knowledge of
the fraudulent designs of the debtor. 1t
must appear that he participated in same.
A distress for rent may lawfully be
made after the death of the tenant pro-
vided the term continues and the tenant
has appointed an executor or administra-
ton has been granted upon his estate.
48 At. Rep. IN. j., 1,020.
The court of civil appeals in Texas
holds that person who receives letter
addressed to another and who retains it
an unreasonable length of time is guilty
of obstructing the mail and is liable for
whatever damage may thereby result.
Negotiable paper payable to bearer OF
Endorsed in blank which has been lost or
stolen cannot be collected by the thief or
finder, but holder receiving it in good
faith before maturity for value can hold
it against the owners claims at the time
I 1t was lost or stolen.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-10-22
nInnn4nina Mnde nf sI.eletons

Many of the most imposing mountain
ranges of the globe are largely made up
of liu9estones composed almost entirely
of the hard parts of animals which once
lived in the sea, the most important of
these rock building forms being of a very
small size. The solid earth is, in fact,
a colossal graveyard, and many of its
most imposing elevations are stupendous
tombstones. &
The chalk making up the white cliff
to which England owes her name
Albion Latin. albus, white) is chief
composed of microscopic shells closely re
sembling those now found at the bottom
of the sea- Hills and mountain ranges
largely made of this chalk extend from
Britain and France round the shores of
the Mediterranean and away into Asia,
and are largely represented in other parts
of the world. Even more remarkable is
the limestone of which the pyramids are
built.
This is chiefly made up Of coin shaped
shells (mummulites), partly responsible,
no doubt, for eastern legends of magic
money. The limestone containing them
attains a thickness of several thousand
feet and is the material of which many
mountain ranges are largely built. Be
ginning on the west, we have the Pyre-
nees and Alps, followed by the Carpa-
thians. Caucasus, mountains of Asia
Minor, North Africa and Baluchistan
and, lastly, the Suleiman mountains,
Himalayas and ranges in China and
japan
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-10-22
Effect of Thunder on Fish.

Of the army of 10000 fishermen that
occasionally or regularly wet lines in the
waters contiguous to New York $4,000
never think of going a-ishing after two
or three days of thunder and lightning.
They know better. The other 5000,
hopeful and imaginative, with nothing
better to do, take a chance at it anyway
and come home with fsherman's luck.
The highest authorities among bay men
tell me that thunder drives the fish into
deep water offshore and that vivid light
ming so disturbs their sleep that they take
a day or two off for rest and recupera-
ton Thus it happens that on the third
day after hard storm with Illumination
and pyrotechnics the catch is phenome-
nal, whereas on the first or second day
after there is no sport except sailing Ger
the bounding pillows or grooming on a
ground swell.-New York Press.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-10-22
FLOWER AND TREE.

A well raised root graft is as good q
tree as one may wish.
About 10 per cent of the apple trees
planted come into bearing.
In pruning make each cut slanting and
paint over with linseed oil or shellac.
In planting trees cover the newly set
roots with finely pulverized earth, press
ing it well and leaving cavities among
them.
Poison ivy can be readily told from
Virginia creeper by the fact that though
the leaves are similar the first has three
in cluster and the latter five.
The rudbeckia Golden Glow beats ev-
erythiRg else out or sight in the way Of
yellow flowers. 1t sends out its yellow
globes for weeks and is perfectly hardy
and untroubled by insects.
exposure as on the north side of a hill,
produce better, harder and more durable
lumber than those which have been PAM
pered by the southern sun.
Flowers with woody or hard stems may
be kept fresh for many days, if they are
gathered with long stems, by peeling
some of the bark off and then, after wrap
ping leaves around the peeled part, plac-
ing them in water that is changed daily.
The ostrich fern is the tallest of east
ern American ferns, and many regard it
as the handsomest. Its fronds in a ia
vorable soil sometimes attain a length Of
seven feet. 1t gets its name from its
fanciful resemblance to an ostrich feather.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-10-22
SOIL ANALYSIS.
why IL Has Little Value as a Guide
to the Use of Fertilizers.

why II Has Little Value as a Guide
to the Use of Fertilizers.
The Ohio experiment station receives
many such requests as the following:
"Will you make a chemical analysis Of
my soil to determine whether l need
nitrogen, potash or phosphoric acid,
and, If so, what will be the charger
To this request we make the uniform
answer that such an analysis would be
very expensive and when made would
usually have very little value as q
guide to the use Of fertilizers for the
reason that the chemist has as yet dis
covered no reagent which possesses the
same capacity for extracting plant
food from the soil as that of the living
tssues@of the plant.
To illustrats: Potash Is character
istic constituenIXof granite rocks, and
a soil formed from such rocks may ap-
pear rich in potash under she chemists
analysis, and yet if that potash be still
In the form Of granite sand it VIII be
yielded up very slowly to the feeble
solvents of the plant.
Akdlll, 6OlllC VI lhC pOQl1CAh 5ldbCO
are immense beds Of rocks containing
large percentages Of phosphoric acid,
but If these rocks are merely ground
and mixed with the soil their phos-
phoric acid, which has resisted the
solvent action Of soil water for ages,
will continue insoluble, and hence the
necessity for treating these ground
rocks with sulphuric acid In order to
make their phosphoric acid available.
Still further, when piece Of marshy
land has been drained, 1t is often found
that the crops planted upon it fail to
thrive, although it seems to be very
rich in nitrogen. The remedy here is
to add barnyard manure, something
which savors strongly of carrying Goals
to Newcastle, but the explanation is
that the semiaquatic vegetation which
formerly occupied the land decays so
slowly that cultivated crops cannot get
nitrogen rapidly enough for their
needs. When the manure IS added,
however, it sets up fermentation,
which converts the nitrogen bearing
materials into more soluble and
hence available form.
For these reasons the only practical
way of learning the needs Of partic-
ular soil is to make experiments on
that soil and thus learn which combina-
ton of fertilizing materials will pro-
duce the greatest effect.-Charles E.
Thorne, Director.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-10-22
RUNNING THE ROOSTER.
4 Brutal and Coward1y Sport Thax
FIOurizhed In Mexico


The sport called in Mexico running
the rooster" is one of the most brutal
and cowardly diversions that can be wit
nessed-cowardly in the extreme because
the victim is always sure to be killed, has
no vestige of a chance to escape his fate.
Utterly defenseless by reason of his lack
of size and strength, he is so treated that
he cannot even use the simple means of
saving himself which nature has given
him
Every old resident in Mexican commu-
mites has witnessed it, but few others
have any idea what the game really is.
A rooster is taken-a dozen or more may
be used for a single occasion-and is bur-
led in the ground up to the neck. The
frightened thing can only turn his head
and cast pitiful glances at the hilarious
brutes surrounding him.
A dozen or more caballeros then mount
their restless ponies and in Indian file
gallop for the rooster, who keeps lodging
his head in every direction to escape the
hoofs Of the ponies.
Rider after rider at full gallop stoops
down from his saddle to grasp the fowls
head and wrest it from its living tomb.
As soon as one succeeds he is off, holding
the rooster by the neck. He now becomes
target for all the rest, who ride at him
full speed, trying to take his prize from
him.
His nearest assailant will have the
ROSTERS body struck in his face. Should
he, however, get hold Of leg or wing,
both pull. The leg or wing is liable to
come off, of course, and the bird screams
in agony as long as it can. But that is
soon over. 1t is torn in pieces by the diff
ferent champions.
The one who can make the designated
circuit and deliver the head on the judges
stand is declared the winner and gets a
small money prize.
By this time most of the contestants
are bloody from head to waist if not to
foot Shouts Of applause greet the val
liant champion.
Another rooster goes into the pit and is
compelled to pass the same ordeal. This
is repeated until the supply Of ROSTERS is
exhausted. Horses and men sometimes
fare ill too. The riding is of a most reck-
less character, and horses run into each
other and are thrown down. 1t is not
many years since a man by the name of
Romero had his neck broken by being
thrown under his falling horse.
1t is impossible to imagine a spectacle
more revolving than this. In the bullfght
the animal sometimes gets in little
work, but the rooster is simply butchered
in the most brutal style imaginable-torn
to pieces while alive-simply to crafty
the savage tastes of crowd of lockers
on.-Denver Post.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-10-22
nRIpINe The STANG"

An Old Custom That Still Lives In
the North of England.
In some portions of the world the GUS
toms of the 'good old days" still obtain.
The method pursued in the treatment of
drunken husbands in the north Of Eng
land is survival from the time when
there were no magistrates convenient be-
fore whom the erring husband might be
hailed
This method is known as "riding the
stang" and, though a very old practice,
quite recently two cases of its being en-
forced were brought before the public
notice.
The erring husbands were tied astride
long poles and carried in this ridiculous
and uncomfortable position through the
streets of their town and followed by
jeering crowd of men, women and chill
dren, who did not hesitate to pelt them
with refuse, according to the time hon
ored usage on these occasions.
There are variations of the methods Of
riding the stang" however, that men
toned above being perhaps the severest
form.
In parts of Yorkshire and other north
ern counties, for instance, riding the
stang" is practiced more as a vicarious
punishment for any frailty on the part
of man or wife than a direct and per-
sonal punishment, as in the cases in
stanced above.
Needless to say, in the cases in which
the ceremony is performed vicariously
the person who rides the stang is not
subjected to bodily i'll treatment at the
hands of those who perform it.
1t is usually some good natured friend
who is selected for bestriding the stang.
He is carried through the streets in the
dusk of the evening on the shoulders of
two men, preceded by another carrying
lantern.
At every fifty yards or so the process
sion makes a halt, during which the ac-
commodating stang rider recites these
verses:
Good neighbors attend while you harangue;
IT'S neither for your sake nor for my sake
That ride the stang
But it is for the wife of John Smith
That ride the stang.
In the fullness of time the procession
finds itself outside the house of the guilty
husband, where it disperses after few
choruses of boots and jeers.
The vocal discord, however is seldom
deemed sufficiently soul stirring, a sup
Elementary pandemonium produced from
pots, pans and kettles usually being en-
ployed against the offender.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-10-22

BUDDING THE APPLE.

Row Very Popular and Has Some
Advantages Over Grating.
Although grating is a much more
common method Of propagating the ap-
pie than budding. the latter has some
advantages over the former and can be
done at time when grating could not
be successfully performed.
The season for commercial budding
is from early July to the middle of Sep
TENDER, August and September being
in many sections the best for budding
the apple. Young stocks of the second
seasons growth from seed are much
used. The process Of budding adopted
for apples consists In inserting bud
with very little or no wood under the
bark of the stock and on the surface OF
its wood. It Is called shield budding.
Budding is best performed when
there is still sufficient sap beneath the
bark to permit Of the latter being easi-
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-10-22
Soaring the Conscience.

OF all her curious customs London can
not boast of more singular one thar
that formerly so strictly adhered to al
Holland House, one Of the most historic
o. mansions in the British capital. The
last OF the Lords Holland shot himself
during a hit Of dependency; everything
pointed to a clear ca-e of self murder
yet the Holland family could never be
dissuaded from the notion that the ole
man had been murdered by some un
known assassin. Accordingly every
night for years it was the custom for one
of the family to go to the rear of the
house punctually at II o'clock and fire a
gun for the purpose, it is said, of "scar.
ing the conscience" of the murderer.
This curious practice is relic of medi-
Rval days in continental Europe, and
the case to point is probably the only
instance where it has been noticed since
the days of the crusades.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-10-22
SHIELD BUDDING.

" raised with a knife. On the other
hand, IL the work is done when the tree
is still growing vigorously the bud Is
liable to be drowned out" or, In Other
words. forced out, by reason OF toe
much sap and growth Of stock.
If the proper season has been chosen
for the work, the bud should remain
dormant until spring. If it starts in
the autumn, 1t may be killed during
the winter. In the following spring
the stock should be cut off just above
the bud, which will cause all the
strength Of the stock to be directed in.
to the bud and produce rapid growth
three feet not being an exceptional
growth for the first season.
Budding is now very popular meth,
cd of propagating apples. The first
seasons growth is greater than from
root grated trees, and there is larger
proportion of straight trunked trees by
this method. If it is desired also to
prevent trees from becoming on their
own roots, budding is preferable, as
trees propagated in this way may be
planted SO that the stock is just at the
surface Of the soil and all roots are
thrown from 1t.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-10-22
SOME VERY QUEER BATHS.
Mud, Wine, Milk, Honey, Eggs and
Even Gold Have Been Used

Even Gold Have Been Used.
The mud baths at St. Amand-les-E Faux
enjoy considerable vogue. The mud or
''moor' is composed of a peaty, Doggy
turf and although the period of INNER
sion varies from half an hour to five
hours can be easily at the conclusion of
the bath removed from the skin. The
mud bath treatment is by no means a
novel fad, having been in use in the four
teenth century.
For the wealthy the wine bath is rec
commended. A recent circular sets forth
its efficacy and for such as are run
down. recommends twenty minutes
stay in a bath containing 100 liters of
malyoisie, which can be used a hundred
times without losing its invigorating
properties, ''for," says the circular, 'aft-
er the 100 baths the malvoisie may be
distilled, and the result will be found to
be delicious brandy"
A devotee to milk baths was Beau
Brumme, who when a prisoner for debt
at Caen used to have a certain quantity
left at the Jail every morning for that
purpose. The idea did not, however, orig
mate with this modern sybarite, for we
read that the Roman empress PoppRa
immersed herself daily in asses milk and
that when she Travelled she was accom-
panied by 500 asses to supply milk for
her tactical additions.
Even stranger fads, however, are on rec
ord Marie Antoinette was wont to bathe
in decoction of wild thyme, laurel and
marjoram, made more invigorating by
the addition of sea salt, while Isabel of
Bavaria immersed her fair body in dis
tillation of chickweed, which was in her
opinion a sovereign specific for the skin.
The honey from roses, melon juice and
the milky extract from green barley were
likewise employed by old time beauties.
John Law of Mississippi scheme fame,
who was a notable beau in the early
eighteenth century, was great believer
in the yolk of eggs, 100 of which were
added to his daily bath, which was made
aromatic by certain carefully prepared
scents and essences. At times, however,
he discarded this for tub of veal broth,
thus anticipating in a way the present
whim that recommends the application of
q thin layer of veal as beautifer for the
complexion.
Then there are baths taken without
any reference to hygiene, mere freaks OF
eccentricity. Such a one was that en-
dured by Mile. de st. Aubin, afterward
known as the Comtesse de Genlis. who
to outwardly express her humility insist
ed upon having bath in the water that
had been previously employed in having
twenty beggars, a repulsive act that
might have cost her dear.
Far different the footbath INDUCED in
by the French novelist Frederick Soulie.
On one occasion he received in payment
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-10-22
The Carb,,ncIe.

Carbuncles, to which the ancients at
ributed fantastic properties, were in real
ity rubies. They served, it was said, to
give light to large serpents or dragons
whose sight had been enfeebled by age
They bore them constantly between their
teeth and laid them down only for eating
and drinking. 1t was even claimed that
the carbuncle emitted light in darkness
and that the thickest clothing could not
stop it's rays. Without all the exaggera-
ton of such legends it was believed for a
long time that rubies contained luminous
rays. The truth is that they have double
refraction and send out the red rays with
unequaled brilliancy. Traversed in a vac
uum by an electric current they are illu-
minated with a red fire of extreme inten-
sity. The greatest heat does not change
their form or their color.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-10-22
Clearly Understood.

They seldom gave dinner parties, and
those they gave were small. But they
liked things done decently and in order
and generally had the best. On the after
noon of one of the little parties the host
summoned the boy in buttons and said to
him, "Now, John, you must be careful
how you hand round the wine"
Eyes, sir"
"These bottles with the black seals are
the best and these with the red seals the
inferior sherry. The best sherry is for
after dinner. The inferior sherry you will
hand around with the hook after soup.
You Understandable and inferior sher-
ry after soup?"
Eyes, sir; perfectly" responded the boy
in buttons.
The evening came and with it the
guests. Everything went on swimmingly
till the boy went round the table asking
each of the guests, ''Hock or inferior
sherry ?"-Tit-Bits.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-10-22

They were telling fish stories, and at
last the tall, lank man on the cracker
barrel said:
81 went down to the river this morn
ing, and, although the water was high al
most to a food, took ten foot pike
"Stop there!" exclaimed the fat man
with the corncob pipe. "Tell us you took
an eight pound trout, and I'll sit idly by.
But ten foot pike, never! Ananias died
for less than that!"
81 took a ten foot pike pole" continued
the unrufled TALL lank man on the crack
er barrel, "and in less than five minutes
l hooked out fifteen foot bass
'See here! See here" yelled the man
who owned the grocery. you'll have to
go way from here to finish that lie! l
hain't got no lightnin' rod on this store
yit"
81 hooked out a fifteen foot Eastwood
log persisted the tall, lank man, land
want to ask how much you think | kin
git for it"-New York Times.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-10-22
Love md Gold

The English papers are telling n story
of Daniel O'Connell, the Irish statesman.
His great rival was Sergeant Tom
Gould, pronounced Gold Tom was a
confirmed old bachelor, but when over
eighty years of age proposed to and was
accepted by girl of eighteen. He an
nounced his engagement to O'Connell in
verse, concluding thus:
So you see, my dear Dan, that, though eighty
years old,
girl of eighteen fell in love with old Gould
To which O'Connell replied:
That a girl Of eighteen may love gold it is true,
But, believe me, dear Tom, it is gold without U.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-10-22
TWILIGHT.

The day Is done, and from the east, afsT.
Nights shadow comes apace; the rose
Breathes out her vesper fragrance ere it Close,
And yonder, godlike, CLEANS the evening star.
Silence is here, save just enough of sound
To make its presence felt; there is no stir
A robins lullaby, criekets chirr-
No moving air in all the trees around
Thus would l have lifes busy journey end,
With shadows sweeter than the glare of day,
With music soft and in the dappled sky
Star after star, here and there friend
Strides forth to bless the pilgrims old and gray
That, like the twilight, puts his burdens by.
Chicago Record.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-10-22
Preferred the NAMING.

President Hayes when about to retire
one day from his working room in the
capitol asked his messenger if there was
any one waiting to see him.
"Only two, and one of them is crazy"
"Send in the sane one" said the presi-
dent.
A grave looking man was introduced
who announced himself as the emperor of
the world. The president rang the bell
and told the messenger if that was his
idea of sanity to send in the maniac.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-10-22
81. strenuon. Enort.

"Let me congratulate you, old fellow
see you are In print at last"
eyes, but I'm not just sure about tn
congratulations"
"Why notp'
"Well, / was In deadly earnest when
wrote that article, and l thought ther
was great idea in it. butt
"Wellr
"The editor has run it in his depart
ment of humor "-Chicago Post.