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Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-07-10
A BAD COMPLEXION.
Proper Cleansing of the skin Has
Much to DO with Its
CIearHcss.

There is really no excuse for the girl
Who goes around with her skin max
ing open confession that size is rebel
/ against the laws of health.
There are many forms Of skin dis
ease, of course, that are beyond the
control of those suffering from them.
Some of these are exceedingly obscure
as to their origin and obstinately re-
/ sistant to treatment, and all such
cases should be under the care of COM
petent dermatologists. We have only
reference in this article to those muddy,
pimply, uncared-for skins too often
shown by girls in the very bloom OF
youth and freshness, but who, through
ignorance, and far too often through
uncleanliness or laZiness or greediness,
start and maintain, sometimes through
years, condition of skin that would
disgrace an Eskimo, says Youths Com
panion.
There is one great prescription, and
one only, for a clear, bright complex
ion, and that is-frst, last and al
ways-bodily cleanliness, both eXter-
nal and internal.
Now, cleanliness of the skin is by no
means attained by mere surface rub
bing and scrubbing, although GER
tain amount of this is necessary, and
many a proud, fastidious and other
wise dainty young woman needs to be
told to wash her face properly.
But she needs to be told more than
this. The Organs of this wonderful
body of ours are curiously loyal to
each other. If one organ is unable to
perform all the work which is put upon
If. for instance, the others faithfully
turn in and labor to do its share as
well as their own This is a beneticent
provision for the tiding over of tempo
rary difficulties, but it was never in
tended in the scheme Of things to be-
come permanent arrangement.
When it has lasted long enough. the or
gan or organs doing the extra work
begin to show signs of distress. Ma
ture is JUST we'll as kind, and always
takes toll.
When the skin is put to it to perform
part of the work that should be done
by the liver, the kidneys or other or
gans, it must soon throw out its sig
mails of distress in the form Of sallow-
ness, roughness and pimples.
\ young woman ashamed Of her
complexion should try the effect Of
drinking more water and eating less
candy, giving her digestive organs
bath and rest. Let her then treat her
face to an occasional thorough wash
ing in soft water, using one Of the
good, mild soaps of which there are
now so many offered. Let her also
breathe plenty of fresh air, and then
watch the speedy improvement that
will come.
On the other hand, errors of diet,
neglected bowels, insufficient bathing
and an unventilated bedroom would
dim the complexion of dryay in
week
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-07-10
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

A host named Bacon keeps the
Shakespeare restaurant at Stratford-
On-AvOn.
Maurus Jokal has been granted a
yearly pension of $1,75O by the Hun
garian parliament.
The late Bret Harte was good deal
of a recluse, in that respect resembling
Hawthorne more than any other man
of letters. In spite Of his long absence
from California he never lost the spirit
of the golden state, his latest stories
of mining camps breathing the same
mir as those he wrote for the Overland
Monthly in early days.
Out in Iowa they have a story that
when Roosevelt was travelling in that
state he saw in store window a copy
of his book. "The Winning Of the
West" He entered and after looking
at the book said to the storekeeper;
"Who is this ROOSEVELT" Hes q
rancher somewhere. and l want to say,
stranger, that in my opinion he'd bet
ter stick to his ranch and give up writ
ing if he.can't do better than that"
Marion Crawford has been appointed
to write the official biography of Pope
Leo. While the novelist is persona
crata at the vatican it is held. here that
his florid and melodramatic stylewould
be unsuitable for the formal record OF
the life of the pontiff. Years ago his
holiness cho8e bis domestic prelate,
Father O'ReiIly, to produce his biogra'
ply. O'Reilly has written a much ap-
preciated life of Pope Plus IN.
Prince George of Hohenzollern, who
died in Germany recently, wrote under
the pseudonym of sc. Conrad" num-
Der of dramas, several of which ran at
length in Berlin. Though a distant
cousin of Emperor William and for
merly a cavalry general, the prince
kent aloof from court and military
circles and associated chiefly with lit
erary men and artists. Hewasfond OF
wandering around antiquary shops and
deciphering inscriptions with micro
sc~re which he was never without.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-07-10
SAM'S CHOICE OF BRIDES.
There Wasn't $3.50 Worth OF Differ
encc Between the Two,
lie said.

Former Lieut.. Gov. John c. Under
wood. Of kentucky, told a story one
night about negro in his employ who
was married four or five times, every
time receiving as a gift five dollars
from his employer, says the Chicago
Daily News. The sixth time the sery-
ant appeared Mr.. Underwood said:
This thing has gone too far, Sam;
this time you have got to get married
in the regular form. l will get you a
license from a county clerk which will
cost $50. which sum | will deduct
from the five dollars am going to give
YOU"
Sam demurred. but finally consented
to have the license procured. He came
to Mr.. Irnderwood's house in the even
inc and when the certfficate.was read
to hi mi tcontained the name Mary
Ann Jones'. the name cf woman 10
whom Sam had been paying attention.
Lands sakes. marser, Mary Ann
Jones amt de woman. It's Sarah
Jenkins [ wants to marry
COL Underwood replied that he
would arrange it all right, says the
New York Times, and would take out
another license. costing $50. which
sum he would deduct also from the
FIVE dollars.
"This is getting 100 expensive" cried
Sam. 81 think yen better leave de pa
rer ike If am. ! did wanter marry
Sarah jenkins. but dere amt $50 diff
ference tween dem, so 7 reckon III
take Mary Ann Jones dis time"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-07-10
lMFORTANCE l0F ALASKA.
"ro"th OF INDUSTRIES and Population
III the Last SlAl ienrs Have
Wrought Cbanre

Since 1896 five even Is have occurred
that wholly change conditions in
Alaska for the BETTER saws fhe Fngi-
heer 5 Magazine. Il In that year
the hlohoISe SoId lFcOyeries were
made and i'm 1897 and 1ogs y oreot
rush TO a"d through ALASKA began,
resulting III doubling of the popu.
Iation ana IN an outpu1 of gold from
the Yukon region to date of s75.0oo.-
600. (2) In 1895 the PhilipDine Is
lands we're acquired bb the United
States, giving Importance To the di-
rect route along the Alaskan coast
between NortD America bhd the new
possessions. ~ In 1891 gold was
discovered on the beach olf the Nome
and this carried 10000 pebple TO this
part of Alaska and resulted IN an
output of S5,OOOO10 in gold annually.
or more than twige as mlcb as All
Alaska had previously ielded. CD
The Alaskan salmon fisheries in
their infancy in 1896, have lqrown in
1902 to great companies, ctpitalized
for S2O,OOO,O0O, and employlg 10000
men. (j) Two railroads hlve been
constructed IN Alaska, one f which
in the extreme southeast, costing
$4.oo0,oO0, earned last yeah over
$3'Ooo'Ooo net, and the other III the ex-
IRENE northwest near Nome. L. little
road ~hFe miles long, which Harned
9So'oOO net. (o) Coal fields io 4 melly
specifically known have LcoI ey-
plored and Investigated, wl.lA new
ones of great value have bccI dis.
covered.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-07-10
LACES AND CRAVATS.
Hints for the Adornment of the Lady
of FashiOn-Some Effective
Collars.

The dainty ct ceteras for the neck
are more attractive each season. For
the morning blouse and tailored cos
tune narrow white and colored linen
embroidered collar is attached to two
long white embroidered ends, which
can be tied either in a knot or bow in
front. These are especially practical
to place inside the neckband of the
corsage or blouse, and others have lace
or embroidered linen collar bands with
two fan-plaited ends bordered with a
band of colored linen, says the Wash
ington Star.
For lace and mOusseline applique
with colored silk and mousseline flow
ers there is a perfect fureur. The at
tractiye and dressy finish Of a cravat
to a simple plain costume is the neces-
sary detail of Importance to which the
Parisienne gives special attention. The
new tour de cou in plated mousseline
and net edged with bouillonnes or col
ored mousseline or floral velvet leaves
is this season arranged in fiat plaits to
turn away from the throat, invariably
decorated with a rounded lace collar
land terminating in front by long nous
seline ends.
They are decidedly effective and evil
IDENTIFY introduced as being more prac-
teal for the low couture than high
outstanding ruche, which certainly
would be an inconvenience with the
hair dressed low and the long ends Of
lace, ribbon or foliage falling over the
hair to the extent Of the present sea-
sons modes.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-07-10
NO RETAILERS NEED APPLY.
One of the Court Regulations OF Eng
land That Is Very often
CircumVented.

According to regulations in the lord
chamberlain's Office, no person who is
in retail trade can be admitted to court
or be presented to the sovereign. In
these days the question who is in retail
and who in wholesale trade is a very
difficult one, especially when it is the
fashion for high-born ladies to set up
shop in the neighborhood Of Bond
street, says the New York Herald
4 lady who deals in what are called
"creations," when interviewed on this
subject, said:
at is, after all, very simple. You
have only to call yourself by some
name such as 'Coralie or 'Henriette,'
to prevent your own name appearing
in connection with your business. and
you are admitted to court if invited"
The countess of Warwick was with
out doubt in the retail business when
she sold a needlework shop in Bond
street to Hon. Mrs. Forester. Lord
Inchiquin's daughter, now Lady Her.
yey Bathurst, worked up a splendid
hat business gefore her marriage.
"Forget Not" over the door of a
millinery shop in Bond street was until
recently the trade name Of one of the
members of Lord Abingdon's family
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-07-10
TRAIN AS A DEER-SLAYEll
Many of the Animals FaScinnteA
the Glare of the Headlight Ard
Destroyed.

If it were possible to arre- L.
fine a railroad train for tiY.- L.
that section of the state nae .a
which prohibits the killing of at
within the limits of South la
except at specified times, a passeae,s
train which makes daily trips owe,
the Spearfish branch of the Burling
ton & Missouri River railroad, in IN,
Black Hills, would ere this have beer
called to account for killing thes.
animals out of season, says a report
from that section.
The train is gaining quite a repu
tation us deer slayer. The other
evening three deer were observed by
the engineer to be on the track near
the Spearfsh electric light plant. The
glare of the locomotive headlight fas-
cinated them and they refused to
move until the iron monster was al
most upon them.
Then two of the animals jumped in
time to save their necks, but the third
was knocked over and injured so bad
ly that it died. \ number of deer
have been killed by the train this
spring at the same place.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-07-10
CAUSE OF MILITARY CRIMES
There Are Many Sources of Way
Wardncss Open to Weak Men
Who Enter the Army.

Hardship and privations do not i'm
prove the temper, and insubOrdina-
ton easily superyenes, while the
temptation of drink, if it is to be
had. is too often irresistible to weak
but well-meaning men long deprived
of such dissipation. Another fruit
full source of transgression which, if
we are to trust vague reports, be-
come at times epidemic, was the al
most natural surrender to physical
exhaustion, says Maj. Arthur Grit
fths in the Fortnightly Review. To
sleep on sentry is one of the most
serious of military crimes; it is in
excusable from the military point of
view, for the safety of thousands
may hang upon the vigilance of one
man, yet the strain of some weari-
some, long-protracted march or ia
tiguing operations will sometimes eX-
plain what cannot be defended. Nor
can we shut our eyes to possible
guilt of more contemplate, if not
more fragrant, crime. Misbehayior
before the enemy cowardice, in plain
English, is not absolutely unknown
in our or any other army; it is
wiser, perhaps, to draw a veil over
its exhibition and the punishment
that must follow, yet we cannot shut
our eyes to the certainty of its oc-
casional occurrence.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-07-10
ANCIENT AZTEC SWEETMEATS.
TOothsOme Delicacies OF NOnte-
Euma's Time Are Made by Mex
lean Indians.

Some Of these days clever historian
will discover and publish the daily bill
of fare which Montezuma offered the
mobiles of his court. 1t must have been
very excellent, judging from the rel
les which have survived the clash Of
war and centuries. The tamale, the
chill con carne, and the tortilla are
three dishes of which we know consid-
cradle, and of late years we have be-
gun to learn something about the
sweetmeats upon which the children
in the Aztec homes once RECALLED them
sIves. They re satill made by the Mex
lean Indians, and more especially the
Mayas at the present time, and occa-
sionally a few are brought by travel
ers to this city, says the New York
Post.
They are manufactured chiefly of
fruits and sometimes of nuts and fruits
mixed, and with but little sugar. They
are more like macedoines Of fruit than
ordinary preserves. The favorites are
the guava. loquat. orange. lemon. lime,
cocomut, custard-apple, pineapple. fig.
banana, pawpaw, grape, currant and
berry. The cOcOanut is used Just be-
fore maturity. when hte meat is still
soft and pulpy. In general the fruit is
cut up, cooked with very little sweet
ening, and boiled down to granular
paste and then preserved by the addi-
ton of some vipOus fluid.
The MeXicans to-day employ brandy.
aguardente mescal, or strong wine,
so that the finished product bears a
avgue resemblance to our own
branded peaches. With the exception
of the guava it is seldom that one
fruit is used alone. The common prac-
tice is to combine two or morei cocoa
nut, guava and orange are one pleas
ant combination; cocoanut, orange and
pineapple, and pawpaw third; rails
ms, orange, banana and cocoanut are a
fourth. Some 30 or 40 combinations
are recognized by the rustic house
wives
When the fruit have been properly
boiled down they are transferred to an
earthenware jar or tin can, covered
with the liquor, and then the can is
sealed with paper or other material.
These "dolces" are very economical,
costing hardly as much as appe-butter
and Quince-butter in oSr own markets.
There is no reason why they should not
be imported, as they would nd ready
market the moment their merits be-
came known to the New York public.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-07-10
NEW WAY TO KILL MUSKRATS.
Maine Man DiscardS OId-FnshiOued
Traps for Beer Bottles FILLED
with Fresh Lime.

In March and April, just before the
muskrats shed their winter coats, the
boys and men who wish to earn money
and have a short outing. camp along
the muddy ponds and sluggish
streams of Maine and spend few
weeks trapping these animals, the
pelts of which are worth from 20 to %
cents each when taken from their
bodies, but when tanned and dyed for
furs are sold as high as one dollar,
says a Dedham report.
The usual way to get the rats is TO
bait a small steel trap with a bit Of
raw parsnip and set it on log or
stone in deep water. The trap should
be weighted with a stone. so when the
animal is caught it Will leap into deep
water and drown. for if caught above
water the rats will readily amputate
their legs by biting them Off above the
traps. leaving a worthless foot for
the hunter.
This spring James Sukeforth intro
duced a novelty in the way Of catching
the rats, which has yielded large prof
its and which promises to revolution
lie the business. While the water is
coated with ice the muskrats make
their homes in rough houses of mud
and sticks, built the previous autumn,
and so constructed that the roofs are
above the ice while the walls run down
to the mud at the bottom. The mud
walls keep the ice from forming on
the inside and leave hole through
which the animals can go and come at
all seasons.
Sukeforth. who had kept barroom
in Bangor few years before, was the
owner of 400 or 500 ancient beer bot
ties with rubber caps and patent
wired fastenings. When the new
STYLED bottles came in. he could not
sell his stock and took the lot to his
farm in Dedham. In his intercourse
with wild animals he had noticed that
muskrats were much annoyed by the
presence of lime. quitting their dens
rs soon as any of the powder was left
nearby. Two weeks ago he brought
home a cask of fresh lime. and having
broken the Jumps, filled them into the
peer bottles, put in as much water as
the spaces would hold. and closing the
caps sunk them inside the muskrat
houses. Then he laid out n box Of
loaded shells and stood at attention,
with his shotgun at hand.
The wetted quicklime soon began to
swell and bubble within the bottles,
and when the pressure grew too much
for the glass to stand the bottles ex-
ploded with a noise that Jared the ice
and set the pond in culver. The
muskrats, startled by the noise
sought their homes for safety, but
meeting the lime in the water made
haste TO reach open air. As they
emerged on top of the ice Sukeforth
shot them as fast as they came. BY
using eight bottles of lime in four
homes he was able to capture 154
muskrats in one forenoon.
It is declared that the new way of
killing muskrats will enable one man
with a gun to gather more pelts in a
dav than six men and 1000 traps could
by the old way. The lime, which the
rats take into their lungs in trying to
get breath, swells the bodies so they
can be skinned more rapidly than if
they were lank from long imprison-
ment in traps.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-07-10
Recommending Coal.

A promoter Of a recently discovered
coal mine in Rhode Island sent a
quantity of the material to Prof. -,
of New York university. Afterwards
he asked for a certificate of its quail
ity, whereupon the professor wrote:
"To whom it may concern: This is
to certify that l have tried this coal
in my fire places, CRATES and stoves
for several weeks, and, having done
so. I can recommend it to all my
friends that they hurry into the
state Of Rhode Island on the Day of
Judgment, being well satisfied that it
will be the last portion Of the earth to
burn. Pittsburgh Dispatch.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-07-10
! Mr.. HigbY privately"

MI liSDJ PiNdOSiy'
They went away together, arm in
arm, Ingby mystifed and big Brock
bending over him in earnest converse
ton. Nobody ever heard Highly talk
about his "new fairy" after that. In
stead change came over him for
which none seemed able to account.
He quit drinking and took to study
He grew serious and staid in words
and habits, and began to shine bit
at examinations. The students thought
they understood it all when word went
round the college that Brock and the
laundry beauty had been seen togeth-
err at church. Certain it was that Brock
the austre, Brock the woman hater,
Brock the ascetic, had at least won a
measure of recognition from the
naughty beauty round the corner.
She was seen talking to him across
the counter, and the smile on her face
was certainly not inspired by any ar
gument over a lost collar. Along to-
ward Christmas Brock began to take
her home from work. They seemed
very confidential and happy as they
marched away, and every man in the
college envied the Kentuckian. The
queer part of the affair soon developed,
however, and after Brock and Highly,
one at each side of the goddess, had
been seen escorting her from the laun-
dry. nobody knew just what to think,
Every man in the college knew that
Highly was violently and probably
hopelessly in love with her, that Brock
had "cut him out" and that the
chances, were good for fierce and
bloody feud between the two former
friends.
1t was just before the final examina-
lions that Highly made verbal an
nouncement of his approaching we'd
ding.
"Who's the lucky girl, Hig?" the stu
dents would ask.
ooh. YOU don't know her." he would
smile. "I'Il introduce you after the
wedding. We're to give all you fellows
a reception and a chance to dance in
our honor. Brock is to be best man."
That seemed to settle it. Of course
Brock wouldn't be best man for his
successful rival, and the students de-
cided that Hig was to marry some So
ciety girl The list of guests included
every professor and student in the col
lege, and when the night of the recep-
ton came none of them knew any
more about the wedding than it had
been solemnized privately in Louis
Vile.
Highly met them at the door. Be-
yond stood old Brock, radiant and
towering, shaking hands with every
body, and smiling while the tears
stood in his eyes. Just behind the
big Kentuclian stood the bride.
Prof. Hatfield, with a dozen favor
lite students at his heels, was the
first to see her.
"Professor," said Brock, introduce
ing him, "let me present you to the
bride, Mrs. Highly, my sister"
1t was the laundry queen, the new
fairy, the goddess around the cor
per.
"Whose bride?" Numbered Sykes,
grinning as he came up.
"Why, Higby's, of course" laughed
Brock.
Whose sister," whispered Sykes,
looking Duzzled. as he gaZed at the
rare splendor of the beaming bride.
"My sister, Sykes" said Brock, and
in a few moments they all under
stood.-Chicago Record-Herald.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-07-10
elf ; WAS PAW"

II was paw and paw was me,
lieel what a great thing that 'ud bel
wouldn't whip him just cause he
Went sneakin' OF sometimes TO hsn;
And If he'd druther play than go
To school ID say 'All right and, Oh
But wouldn't he have good times though
With everything for which he'd wish!
I'd let him stay up late at night.
And then I'd so ahead and light
rhe gas fer him, because he might
Bump into chairs oF things, you see;
I'll bet he'd be that glad all DAY,
With not a thing TO do hut play,
He'd haft to yell. he'd feel so gay,
IL was paw and paw was me.
If was in his place I'll bet
That everything he'd want he'd get,
guess he'd think that he had met
The kindest paw he ever saw
But still I'm glad that l can't be
My paw and that he isn't me,
Because If l was him, you see,
Then nav, she wouldn't be my nav
S. e. Kiser, in Chicago Record-Herald.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-07-10

"If you don't consent III kill my
self tonight" he said. recklessly.
The fair girl shuddered.
"Wait a week-three days before
taking the step"
81 WILL" he answered. for in this
request he saw more than sign OF
hope.
because, you know" she cOntin-
ued, 81 have a friend who is in the
insurance business, and feel you
love me too well to refuse to allow
him, at my request, to make little
something out of your disposing Of
yourself."-Stray Stories.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-07-10
Not Far on,

Someone of an antiquarian turn has
dug up a picture drawn in 1884 and in
tended as a prophecy as TO how the
human race would travel a century
later. All sorts Of airships are flying
about, but none Of them seems to be
as practicable as that navigated by
Santos-DumoRt. Horseless carriages
are also shown in profusion, some of
the models being surprisingly similar
to the up-to-date automobile. Even
the houses, stores and public buildings
are on wheels, and in one corner is a
ghowwmau's van with his invitation:
"Walk up, walk up, and see live horse,
rupposed to be the last of his race"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-07-10

A few days ago rather bashful
young woman went into Lyon coun-
ty (Kan3 store carrying three chick
ems. She inquired the price of chick
ems, and at the same time put them
on the counter. The clerk did not
know the chickens feet were tied,
and asked if they would lay there.
She bit her handkerchief and tucked
her head and said: mo, sir. They
are ROSTERS"