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Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1901-10-03
GIRLS AS BANK TELLERS.
Do Better Work and Are More Trust-
worthy Than Men, Says a
Bank Cashier.

Behind each of the 10 windows in
the savings department of the Royal
Trust bank, 169 Jackson boulevard,
sits young woman taking in and pay
ing out the money of several thousand
depositors, reports the Chicago
Chronicle.
The young women have been en-
ployed there for some time, though it
is the only bank in Chicago where they
do that kind of work. They have
proven faithful and accurate in their
work and the manager of the bank
saws that men will never displace them.
"They are always at work on time,'
said Cashier Edwin F.Mack, land when
closing time comes they do not rush
to get out for fear of working min
ute too long. Then they do not spend
the banks time in telling each other
of their experiences the night be-
fore.
"We are not hiring girls to save
money. We pay them just as much as
we once did men in the same places
We simply made the change because
we found them more reliable and eff
Gent"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1901-10-03
DOG AND PARROT CASE.
Two Novel Partisan Libel Suits Grow
Ing Out of Actions of Pet
Animals.

Two worthy wives mutually sued
each other for what they called libel
before the correctional chamber.
Plaintiff No. 1, being asked to state
her case, said it all came about owing
to a parrot, says Paris correspond
ent of the London Telegraph. The
bird had a vicious disposition, and it's
mistress (the defendant) egged it on
to be even worse than it was by ma
ture. The plaintiff could not put her
head out of the window without the
bird shouting opprobrious epithets at
her and generally libeling her charac-
ter.
Before deciding the case the judge
said he would hear the other, where
upon the second matron stated that
what she had to complain of was her
neighbours dog. 1t had been taught to
bark at her whenever she went out,
and so maliciously clever was the ami
NAL that at the instigation of its mis-
tress it actually threw stones at her
window panes by tossing them up with
its paws.
BY this time the people in court were
convulsed with laughter, but the judge
remained serious. In commenting up
on the two cases he pointed out that
neither action had been correctly de-
scribed as a suit for libel. Then he
rendered his decision, which was
worthy of a Solomon. One of the plain
tiffs, he said, should have prosecuted
the dog, the other should have cited
the parrot. Both actions having been
wrongly instituted, he should there
fore dismiss them both.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1901-10-03
TEACHES INDIANS TO WORK,
Cheyenne Boy Laborers Brave tne
Jeers and ScOrn of Their
Elders.

Indians are not easily persuaded to
abandon old customs, and the work of
the government agents when they try
to teach them the white mans way is
often arduous and the results discour-
aging. An experiment of much value
was attempted among the Cheyennes
IN Oklahoma not long ago. An Indian
agent wished the schoolboys to milk
COWS for him and agreed to give to
each one who MIXED for three months
a nice calf. Fifteen boys started, but
they were so ridiculed by the older men
of the tribe'that ~ of them gave it up.
Three won the calves, and the pride OF
being owners of cattle served as Quite
an assistance in getting other Indian
children to try. After a year IL boys
had won calves and the agent asked
them to pillow corn for him, agreeing
TO give them all the corn they could
grow. Ten boys volunteered to grow
corn, and they actually raised 1900
bushels, which was sold and afterward
converted into 35 head of steers.
Each steer was branded with an in
dividual brand chosen by the boy
owner. This made them prouder than
ever and more Industrious. Every boy
at the agency wanted to go to work at
once, and as result of that expert
nent the Cheyennes are the most in
dustrious farmers of any tribe so re-
Gently on the warpath.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1901-10-03
TRICKS OF ALL TRADES.
Bhirtwaists Wouldn't Sell Nice anf
Fresh So They Were
sprInkIed.

The woman who is always STUN
bling on things had an experience
the other day Ceh she declares
wounded her in the deepest part OF
her nature and shook her faith in an
ancient institution, says the New
York Commercial Advertiser. She
was detained on the top floor Of a
big out-of-town store until the crowd
ing of the elevators with the en-
ployes made her prefer to find her
way out by the staiAvays. One OF
the floors of the building seemed,
she says, to be devoted solely to the
storing of goods, and as she passed
by the open door of one OF the rooms
on this floor her attention was at
tracted by hearing a mans voice ex-
claim in tones of satisfaction:
"There, they wouldn't take 'em nice
and fresh. Let's see II they'll take
'em this way" Through the open
door the astonished shopper saw
member of the firm industriously
sprinkling a pile of clean shirt waists
with watering pot. An attendant
Driskly supplied fresh waists as the
pile diminished, and preparations for
great fire sale" were evidently un-
der way. Next day the involuntary
discoverer of the shrewd plan to
crafty the bargain hunter found her.
self unable to keep away from the
''ire SALE" and there, sure enough
were the orumpled half-dollar waists
of the week before selling at ~
cents, and plenty of takers.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1901-10-03

men that occasionally or regularly
wet lines in the waters contiguous to
New York, $4,000 never think of going
afishing 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 1t any way, and
come home with fisherman's luck. The
highest authorities among bay men
say that thunder drives the fish into
deep water off shore, and that vivid
so disturbs their sleep that
they take a day or two off for rest
and recuperation.
Thus it happens that on the third
day after a hard storm with fulmina-
ton and pyroteSAnics, the catch is
phenomenal, whereas on the first or
second day after there is no sport ex-
cept sailing DER the bounding bill
lows or grooming on a ground swell.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1901-10-03
THE CH,LDLEsS.


~ wonder why shed those tears
When they laid my little dead child
away?
After the lapse of wcarying years
/ am glad that I sit alone to-day;
/ can hear his laugh and his glad wild
shout.
I can see him still, as he ran about.
And I know the little prayer he used to
say.
81 hold his picture to my face
And fancy feel his hand again
AS It creeps into mine, and he takes his
place
On my knee as he did in the fair days
when
The world and the fates were kind to me
And the songs / heard were but songs OF
glee.
And 1 stirred the envy of other men,
His days were only days Of Joy,
Happy, he shouted the hours away
He was glad with the glee OF careless
boy,
He laughed an only the innocent may:
He never was doomed to YEARLY fret,
He never looked back with vain regret
At the close Of sorrowful day.
'I keep the little clothes he wore,
l treasure the shoes that encased his
feet;
The way was smooth that he travelled
Ger,
The flowers that bloomed at its sides
were sweet;
The winds that blew through his curly
hair
Had blown out Of peaceful realms and
fair
There were no grim foes that he had to
meet.
II wonder why shed those tears
When they crossed his hands and laid
him away?
After the lapse Of wearying years
l am glad that toll alone to-day!
He knew life's gladness. but not its woe,
And have his memory, and know
The sweet little prayer he used to say"
s.. E. Kiser, in Chicago Record Herald.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1901-10-03
. One Satisfied Farmer

A Missouri farmer has just sold his
apple crop for $4,000. Yet the man
who works for $50 a month in the
city and lives in three little rooms
next to some alley, says the Chicago
Record-Herald, wants to know how
people can possibly be contented in
the country.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1901-10-03

vention, yet two women who could
have loved, and understood, and
helped each other. She wanted TO be
'friends'-think of i'll And my face,
that told her so much, did not tell her
the truth, though l writhed before
her. Thank God for thatl Thank
God she can still be happy"
She pulled up on the curb and hailed
hanson driving towards her. But
someone had already claimed it. The
cabman pulled up few PAGES off, then
drove away with another fare. Alison
walked on.
"'First come, firse serve So all
through life!" She laughed at this
prosaic illustration of theme for
tragedy. 1.-THE first, not the fittest!
Because he met her before 1 crossed
his path-and there Is nothing to tell
us what the real face of love will be
like when we see it. We are made
ignorant, and then punished for our
ignorance? Is it fairs 1t juSt?
"Ah, yes" she thought; perhaps
things are leyeled more than they
seem to our tangled notions of jus:
tice. She has her husband, her home,
and her children, while l am alone and
have nothing. But have never been
iealOus-she has. I have always been
sure of him-she has not. If she has
his children and sits at his table, have
I not shared all the romance of his
life? Do we not sit at the feast of
memory together, he and always
together. So the sum balances out!
And why should she not get her
hearts desire?" Mrs. Kynaston was
wondering, too, on her way home.
She felt sure that dear Miss Cole had
a story-a secret sorrow which she
longed to share. And she told her
husband sO.-Black and White.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1901-10-03
BenRal Bay.

The greatest bay on the face of the
earth is that of Bengal. Measured in
a straight line from the two inclosing
peninsulas, its extent is about 100000
square miles, or nearly double that OF
Texas
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1901-10-03
An Aluminium Curtain.

Aluminium has just been employed
for the construction of new fire-proof
curtain to be used in theaters. The
curtain is 60 feet wide by 81 feet high,
il composed of aluminium sheets one
twelfth of an inch thick and weighs
1000 pounds.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1901-10-03
FISH FLEE FROM THUNDER.
Seek Refuge from Storm I'm Deep
Water Away from Coast.

Fishermen along the Atlantic coast
know the peculiar effect of thunder
storms on fish, and save themselves
unnecessary work because they do
know it. OF the army of 10000 fisher
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1901-10-03
Formulation of NiphOn.

OF large islands, Nippon, the main
island of Japan, has, for its size, the
heaviest population. On $4,000 square
miles, about half the area of Great
Britain, there are 100000 people.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1901-10-03
Notice.

All persons wnomscever are hereby No
titled and warned not to hunt, fish, ride,
walk, drive stock arross or otherwise tres
pass on my premises. for the law against
a sllch will he rigilly enforced.
SAMUEL 7. llESsI,G'R
Dec. @. 1900. i.m
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1901-10-03
TAzEWElL co. DIRECTORY.
Circuit Court.

Robert C. jackson, judge; II. Bane Har'
man. clerk. Terms of court-lst Monday
in April, 4th Monday in August and LIST
Monday in December.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1901-10-03
Officers.
THE CHURCHES.
Methodist Episcopal Church Soath.

Pubic worship of God on the let and
9rd SUNDAYS at ii A NJ, on the End and
tth at 7:30 P. Nj. 900
Meeting for prayer, "Wednesday at GSO'
p. NJ. Sabbath School at $3.50 A. NJ;
Meeting of Epworth League each sun
1ay at 8 p. M, the thlrd, MONDAY
1ight of each month being devoted TO
A most cordial welcome is extended to all.
Us. FRENCH, Pastor.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1901-10-03

oREEvER a GILLESPIE, LAWYERS, Tazewell
6Va Pra.s.IG. the courts Of Tazewell and ad-
dining counties. Ofice-Stras building. Edgar
L. Greeyer Barns Gillespie.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1901-10-03
Rev. MOwbray's Appointments.

Preaching at Pleasant Hill Church LIST
Sabbath in The month at IL a. M, and at
White Church the same day at p. m:
Preaching the 9rd Sabbath at wni'e
Church IL a. H.; in the afternoon at 8
O'Clock at Pleasant Hill Church.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1901-10-03

MO w. ST CLAIR, ATTORNEY AT Law
tiTazewell Va Practices in the courts OF Taze
wall and adjoining counties and in the supreme
Cont of Appeals at Wytheville. Particula: at
tention paid TO tina collection OF claims. once
Btras building
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1901-10-03

FULTON & COULLING, ATTORNEYS AT LAW
fTazewell, Va Practice in the courts of Tsze-
we'll county. S. NJ b. Couling will continue bis
practice in all the courts Of Buchanan county J.
Fl Fulton, wytheville, Va. 8. M. B. Coullng'
Tazewell, Va.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1901-10-03

al B. sPRATT, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Rich
MI lands, Va Practices In the courts Of Teze-
well and adjoining counties Prompt attention
paid TO the collection Of claims.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1901-10-03

VINCENT L. SEXTON, ATTORNEY AT LAW,
VTazeWell Va. VIII practice in the courts OF
razewell and adjoining counties. Particular at
tention paid to the collection of claims. Once In
5tras building
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1901-10-03

m a. ANDERSON, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Taze-
M, we'll. Va. Will practice in the courts Of Taze-
well county and the Court Of Appeals at Wythe-
vile. ColiectiDga speciality
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1901-10-03

4 8. HIGGINBOTHAM, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
a. Taze veil, Va. l0tfice mp stairs in Law Build
fue1 Practices in Courts of Tazewell and al
ioinine counties and in Court of Appeals of vir-
siniz
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1901-10-03

II. STUART, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Ia we'll,
java. Land titles in Mcdowell aud Logan coun-
ties, West Virginia, q speciality. ONCE in Stras
building.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1901-10-03

BOWEN e. ROYAL, ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
d Tazewell, Va. Will practice in the courts OF
Of Appeals at Wythevillee Collections given
special attention. Office in Masonic Building.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1901-10-03
County Court.

HI. Stuart, Judge; T. L. George, clerk
Terms of court-Tuesday after Sd Monday
in each month.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1901-10-03

HENRY d GRAHAM, LAWYERS, Tazcwell, Va.
nOfice in building near Court House x. X.
Henry. s. C. Graham.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1901-10-03

CHAPMAN & GILLESPIE, ATTORNEYs AT
GLAW. Tazewell, Va. Practice in all the courts
Of Tazewell county and Court OF Appeals 81
Wytheyille. J. w. Chapman, A. p. Gillespie.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1901-10-03
Christian Church.

Preaching lst and 3rd Sunday lat p. m.
and 2nd and 4th Sundays at III a. m.
Prayer meeting Saturday night at !
O'Clock. Sunday school every Sunday al
$50 a. m. D
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-06-20
Domestic.

Chicago July wheat, 1850.
William J. Sanford, governor OF
Alabama, is dead.
A class of PIP graduated at the Uni
ersity of Nebraska
Senator Cullom is to be a candidate
for president in 1904.
Glass day exercises at Vassar were
witnessed by 5000 persons.
A Chicago judge decided that sick
children must be given medical treat
ment.
A pearl worth $4,000 was found in
the Mississippi river at Prairie d.
CHEN,
In the Iowa district court the state
anti-cigarette law was held constitu-
tional
Brooklyn republicans started a
boom for Charles A. Schieren for
mayor
In Chicago Judge Waterman decides
that boycotts, black lists and strikes
are legal.
w. A. Northcott of Illinois was re-
elected head consul by the Modern
Woodmen.
Only % of the SO candidates for
admission to West Point met the re-
quirements.
Jubilee day of the Y. NJ. c. A. was
observed by the international conven-
ton at Boston.
The government crop report shows
decrease of spring wheat acreage of
1,235,000 acres.
The American Medical Association
voted unanimously to indorse the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-06-20
China.

Commanders of the international
forces in China will choose Count Won
Waldersee's successor.
The foreign ministers at PekiD
oppose the American plan of arbitrat,
ing questions pending with China
Prince Chun, brother of the Chinese
emperor, started for Germany to make
reparation for the murder of Baron
Won ketteler.
Belgian missionaries in China have
informed their government that the
situation there is now more alarming
that before the boxer revolt
The German government is organ
izing large expedition of coal miners
who will so to exploit the coal mines
in the province of Shan Tung when
peace has been restored in China.
High authorities have received a dis
patch from Viceroy Liu Kun Wei to
the effect that secret societies have
arranged to raise a rebellion this
month along the Yang Use valley.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-06-20

opened up an attack on my pocket
book by saying:
Madame, this is new to me, for
was more fortunate once. Now | am
poor and old and SO weak that | can
hardly stand on my legs. To appear
as a supplicant at other persons
doors is an almost unbearable torture.
but it is the only thing l can ask YOU
out Of the great kindness of your
heart to let me have few coins as an
assistance. You may be sure that
your generosity will be repaid, if not
in this world, in another
Somehow, although 1 knew it was
foolish, had become inclined to help
him, but when he uttered those last
words my generous impulse took
flight.
The next thing l expect to see is a
professional beggar driving up to my
| front door in an automobile. New
York Sun.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-06-20
COINS QUEER HISTORY.
For Thirty-two Years One Quarter
Circulated Between Two Men.


Circulated Between Two Men.
There is a proprietor of a popular
cafe in a downtown cross street who
guards as his chiefest treasure a
worn and battered coin which was
struck from the mint in 1869 The
coin is only 25-cent piece, but it is
safe to say that S25 could not buy it,
and the reason why is this:
When the owner of the coin opened
his cafe. shortly after the civil war,
he chose a good location, and this
fact, coupled with his own vigorous
personality brought him flourish
ing trade. His business grew so
rapidly that another cafe was opened
by a rival directly across the street
The newcomer announced that he was
after part of the trade in the neigh
borhood, and that, what was more, he
was going to get it. His attitude
was distinctly defiant, and the Gus
toners of the established cafe wagged
their heads solemnly and said that
trouble was brewing.
On the day that the new cafe was
opened a crowd of idlers filled the
place and waited for something to hap
pen. They were not disappointed, for
in the middle of the morning in stroll
ed the restauranteur from across the
street, and, throwing a shining quar-
ter On the bar, he asked his rival to
have something to drink. So the
men drank, while the crowd gaped
and wondered who would strike the
first blow. But no blows were struck
On the contrary, during the afternoon
the owner of the new cafe took the
same coin which his rival had used
in the morning, and, walking across
the street, treated in turn.
The operation was repeated the next
day and every day for thirty years.
Meantime the piece of money grew
worn and old, and the two men grew
| worn and old too. At last the pro-
prietor of the newer cafe died and the
other man was the chief mourner at
his funeral and when it was all over
he put the battered quarter in a safe
place and vowed never to part with it
this side of the line separating him
| from one who had been both his rival
and his friend.-New York Mail and
| Express.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-06-20
he Beers,

A. J. Balfour denies rumors that
the beers have sued for peace or that
any negotiations are in progress.
The contemplated plan of a visit
by President Kruger to the United
States it is said, has been abandoned.
At johannesburg a regular famine
is raging among the British and boer
population. Entire families are dying
of starvation.
On the horse guards parade, King
Edward, accompanied by the queen,
distributed the south African medals
imposing amid elaborate displays.
Queen Wilhelmina prevailed upon
the kaiser, a Hague despatch reports,
to consent to end the boer war through
the international court of arbitration.
William ST. John Brodrick, secretary
of state of war, reaffirmed in the house
Of commons that the British govern
ment would not discuss the question
of boer independence.
President Kruger, DR.. Leyds and A
ID. w. Wolmarans are in conference at
The Hague, where it is rumored that
the arbitration court has already be-
gun action on the south African war
Pesident Kruger will grant an
audience to Mrs Botha, wife of the
boer commander, who brings to
Holland a message from her husband
urging the acceptance of peace terms
The Transvaal concessions com.
mission. appointed by the British
government, has decided to annul the
dynamite and railroad concessions in
the Transvaal.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-06-20
FOOD OF FISHES.
Things That Appeal to the Tastes of
Denizens of the Water.

Denizens of the Water.
There are many thousands OF
| species Of fishes, and naturally there
is a great diversity in their food.
| Nevertheless, it is possible to divide
| it into seven distinct classes. Now,
all animal life rests on foundation of
vegetables. Plants store up the vital
forces in the air and the sunshine,
and pass them on to the great army of
vegetarians, who in their turn yield
them up to the animals which live on
| flesh. One or two additional steps
may sometimes be interposed, but
| the result is the same. A caterpillar
eats cabbage, an ichneumon fly quar-
| tiers her brood on the caterpillar, an
insect-eating bird snaps up the fly
and a bird of prey pounces upon the
fly catcher and finishes the story. The
inevitable order is plant, vegetarian,
flesh eater.
The vast majority of fishes feed On
fishes or other animals found in the
sea. Probably, however, the vege-
tarians are more numerous than is
all the textbooks declare that the
gray mullet feeds on a living mater
obtained by straining sand or mud in
its mouth, which doubtless is true,
but they go On to explain that, owing
to the peculiar construction of it's
throat, larger bodies are prevented
from passing into the stomach, which
is not true. No amount of letter
press will persuade a Lands End
fisherman that a gray r1ullet cannot
or does not eat seaweed; he is con
WINGED from a lifelong observation Of
its habits that it does, and the fact
that the f1sh's stomach is often found
full of seaweed proves that the fisher
man is right. Fishes which un-
doubtedlv catch and swallow living
prey are wont on occasion to treat
themselves to dish of vegetables. I
have just assisted at the post-mortem
examination of a Dream which con-
tanned, in addition to a crab, large
helpings of two kinds of seaweed, in
different stages of digestion.
But, doubtless, it is a fact that
fishes live for the most part on an
animal diet, and it is obvious that
this must consist largely of some
other class than their own. If fishes
ate fishes only the race would soon
become extinct. Fortunately, the
sea is full of life. and for those which
cannot or will not eat seaweed there
are worms innumerable, jelly fishes,
star fishes and sea urchins, the great |
host living in shells, from the oyster |
to the periwinkle and the limpet, |
crabs an all their kindred, and, !
lastly other fishes. The appetite |
must be capricfous, indeed, which can
not find something to tempt it among
all this vast array.-Lorgm an's Mag
azine.