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Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-08-21

OF which contemplation shows man
life as whole. Discipline teaches US
to keep distinct and separate the per-
manent and the transitory; on the
moral side discipline teaches us that
right and wrong are not matters of
sentimentality, that will and energy
are untrustworthy guides. Discipline
lies less in woong success than in
marriage to unsuccessful causes, UNI
popular aims, unfattering ends. Dis
cipline is devotion to form; it teaches
that everything from clay to the
thought Of man is capable of per-
feet form, and that the highest pur-
pose of labor is to approach that
form. Discipline will not let us mar
row life to one or two ideas, it Will
not let us deceive ourselves, or put
on the semblance of JOY or grief like
a Sunday coat.
For the holy Spirit OF Discipline will fee
deceit,
And remove from thoughts that are without
understanding,
And will not abide when righteousness
cometh in"
Discipline and contemplation bring
life to that ripeness which is the
foundation of happiness, of righteous
ness, Of great achievement; they are
the means by which, while we wait
for the inspiration and leadership of
great men, we may hope to piece out
the brilliant but imperfect education
provided by our industrial ciyiliza-
ton, and help our sons to become, in
Lowell's proud words, the finest race
of gentlemen in the world.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-08-21
WHY HE WORE THE SHOES.
Wanted Folks TO Think He Was =
Millionaire Coming Home
Behind Time.

"I'd as lief have q dentist file away
at my teeth as to walk behind pc
destrian with squeaky shoes" said
a Detroiter who is we'll known for
some of his whims, according to the
Free Press. And l may add that
thereby hangs q tale. Three or four
years ago l sent a pair of shoes &c
the cObbler to be half-soled. When
they came back they squealed. L set
them in a pan OF water for an hour,
but it was no good. ] oiled the soles
and edges, but they still squeaked.
1 left them out over night in the
rain, but the squeak was still there.
l worked at those shoes for a month,
and then gave them away to a
darby who was choring around the
house. He was>prcud of the squeak,
but it grated on me till l told the
fellow to clear out"
1.-TWO weeks later" continued the
nervous man, my wife woke me up
one night and said there was a man
prowlinP around the yard. ! sat mp
and listened, and | heard his shoes
go squeak, squeak, squeak, as he
moved about. 1t wasn't a minute
before I identified the sound.
cts dollars to cents that those
are the shoes l gave away to the
darby said |.
"'The squeak is certainly the
same replied my wife.
81 raised the window and looked
out, but it was too dark to see any
body. I continued to hear the
squeak, squeak, however, until l
finally lost it in the alley. Next
morning I got up to find my lawn
mower and garden hose missing, and
three days later the darby was be-
hind the bars. / told the police OF
the squeaky shoes, and they found
the stolen goods in the fellows
house.
"'Boss, how did you do itP' he
asked, as I went down to court.
att was those squeaby Shoes I
replied. 4 heard you moving about
the yard
"'Befo' de Lawd, but what fool
7 wasr he exclaimed. DE old woman
dun told me to go b'arfut, but jest
wanted dat squeal1y noise long to
make folks think dat MILLIONAIRE
was comm home late!"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-08-21
VERY YOUNG SMOKERS.
Even Babies, just Old Enough to
TOddIe Are Addicted to
the Habit.

STUNNING to find out how the 9th
er half lives, has always been more
or less of society fad; yet, perhaps
there are conditions even in sweet
smelling Detroit not generally UNI
derstood. Why, l know of streets in
this city in which nine out of ten per-
sons, men, women and children,
smoke. Even babies, just old enough
to toddle, are addicted to the tobac-
co habit"
Such were the remarks introduce
tory to a story by gentleman whose
work in the slums is not in any
sense a fad, states the Free Press.
Not long ago." said he, 81 was
talking with a woman who seemed a
little more intelligent than her
neighbors: y.
"'Do your boys smoke" L asked,
not knowing for certain that there
were boys, but knowing that in this
street the home without boys was
the exception.
Not attempting to initiate her dia-
lect-'yes, they do she said, both of
'em. The oldest one isn't bad. He
just smokes pipe once in awhile.
But my youngest boy, he does like
tobacco! Why, every time he gets
hold of five cents he goes right oft
to the store and buys one of them
long black cigars, and sits right down
and smokes it,
"Come to find out, the moderate
pipe smoker had reached the discreet
age of seven. The smoker of long,
black cigars was five!"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-08-21
IMPORTANCE OF THE KITCHEN
II Is n Part of the House That Should
BE Carefully Fur
ufghcd

As regards the arrangement and
furnishing of the kitchen we may
learn much by studying the Dutch.
In Holland the kitchen is often the
most interesting room in the house
If it is possible, by all means have
the room tiled like the Dutch ldtch-
ems. If tiles are too expensive,
which Is often the case, tiled paper
may be used, and this vanished over,
so that it may be easily cleaned, or
the walls may be covered with paint
in buff or a warm light brown, never
In dingy greens or slate-colOrs. Peo-
pie have an idea that anything is
good enough for the kitchen. They
are very wrong in this; on the other
hand, nothing is too good for a kitch-
en-. The kitchen should be room
which we should not be ashamed to
allow our guests to enter. An ar
tistic, cheery-looking kitchen must
needs have an eleyating effect upon
the servants who work there.-Jo'
sephine Wright Chapman, in WON
ans Home Communion.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-08-21
Keeping Things Tidy.

Marie" said Culberson, in tone
of forced patience, Il do wish you
would keep this room little more
tidy. Seems to me things are al
ways lying about in the middle of the
floor"
"I'll try, DEAR" said Mrs. Culberson,
meekly.
That night Mrs. Culberson took tea
with a cousin. When she returned
she found Culberson raging about in
a vain search for his dressing gown.
This is a pretty state of affairs."
he began. Here l come home and
ant find my slippers, nor my paper,
or my pipe, nor my glasses, nor any
thing else. When l left this morn
ing they were here all right"
YES" said his wife. They were
in the middle of the floor. l think
if you will look in the cupboard and
on the writing desk and the parlor
table, you will find them all safe"
And they were safe.-Chicago Jour
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-08-21
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

OF the 105 cathedrals in the United
Kingdom 40 are Roman Catholic.
That was a clever ALTERATION of
DR.. Blanchard, when speaking OF the
reign of the spirit of pleasures:
More golf than Gold; more cards
than Christ"
One of rs candidates for the de-
gree of doctor of philosophy at CO.
lumbia university won the degree
from that institution this year for II
thesis on Sunday school movements
in America.
The heroic days of the Methodist
itineracy are not yet past. a West
Virginia preacher has six churches
ION his s0-mie circuit His salary
sips a year! He shares this in
%pme with his horse.
\The priests delegated to present
thu claims of the work Of the propa-
CATION Of the faith to the Catholics
Of Mouth America report that the
weary 1900 was a bad one for those
countEies, and 1901 still worse.
The total amount of money to be
raised Auring the coming year by the
London \school board is close upon
e2.5OO,OoN Of this immense sum
over e1,A 100000 will go in teachers
salaries. A7OOOO in wages for school
keepers ami $4,000 for fuel, light
and water.
Harry SwaAtz and Sidney Bernheim,
fellow students in New York high
school, were Sreat friends and also
strong rivals fpr a scholarship, the
former being son OF tradesman in
small way and the latter belonging
to a wealthy fam Ny. Bernheim out
stripped his chum\ by small mar
gin, but withdrew from the school In
order that Swartz might get the
scholarship, which hS did.
In his baccalaureatA sermon at the
University of PennsylE ania Dr. FL
wood Worcester startlN I'D his hearers
by declaring that the mArality OF col
lege life is inferior to that OF the
world at large. A graduate OF the
university this commenF TO make:
of DR.. Worcester's assertion is true,
then the right of colleges TO exist
is wiped out. But people Will nesl-
tate to accept this assertion as 1ully
or even partially established. II may
be true that many of the colleges
are not all that they should be, but
that they fall below the morals OF
the business and political world IS
hardly credible"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-08-21
AMERICAN SELF-DECEIT.
4 Failing Which Calls for the Exer'
else of Discipline Of the
Intellect.

Our sclf-deceit is n sign that we
have neglected great interests con
nected with the intellect, says II. ID.
Sedgwick, Jr., in Atlantic. If our
minds were used 20 study not merely
material things, but also all other
IDEAS that surround and WITTY life,
we should not be able to lead this
amphibious existence of self-deceit,-
half in words and half in deeds. AS
contemplation is our help to see life
as a whole, and our guide toward
ripeness ard completeness, so we
may discover help against self-de-
ceit in the observance of discipline.
Discipline is the constant endeavor
to understand, the continual grapple
with all IDEAS, the study of unfamil-
lar things, the search for unity and
truth; it is the spirit which calls
nothing common, which compels
that deep respect for this seemingly
Infinite universe which the Bible calls
the fear OF the Lord. Discipline
turns to account al labor AL expert
ence, all pain; it is the path UP thc
mountain Of purgatory from the top
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-08-21
HIS WONDERFUL SHOES.
Startling Footwear OF Young NAN
from Garden Spot Created
Sensation.

He's a very nice young man, but ne
comes from a county that shall be
nameless, and the city ways are quite
new to him. He says his home coun-
ty is the garden spot of the world,
but then so does every Marylander
from Allegany to st. Mary's, so that
doesn't tell much of tale. AT all
events, he's a little unsophisticated,
and his ideas of dress are quite
unique, relates the Baltimore News.
He is in the middle Office with
number of other young men, and
when they began to assume their
spring clothes recently he regarded
their garments with much interest,
from tan boots to panama hats. Then
one morning he appeared in new
outfit. 1t consisted Of a plaid suit,
the plaids very large and the eolors
very intense, pink shirt, red tie
and a pair of carpet slippers!
They weren't exactly carpet slip
pers, either. They were velvet, but
there were roses on tho toes and the
heels were yellow, and the irreyer-
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-08-21
SOME LONELY PLACES.
Island Homes Where the News OF the
World Is News n Month After
the Event

The lighthouse keepers at Eddy
stone were II days late in learning
the news of the peace in South Al
RIGA, but they may be quite early
compared with st. Kilda, which may
have still to learn that the war Is
really over. 1t is strange to think
that, in this age of telegraphs and
telephones, when messages are
flashed round the world in less time
than it takes cabman to drive from
St. Pauls to Charing Cross, there are
still lonely parts of the empire many
months removed from civilization, so
isolated that no whisper OF great
events reaches them until they have
taken their place in history, and are
all but forgotten in the great world.
More remarkable still is it that in
these days of imperialism there
should be, even in an empire which
shelters one-fourth of the human
race, whole community quite for
gotten, says St. James Gazette.
Yet, forgotten empire" is much
more than a mere phrase. There is
pathos as well as glory in empire.
The entire population of a lonely
island in the Pacific, over which the
British flag flies, was found two or
three years ago to be "close to
death" through starvation. For nine
months not a ship had called at the
Palmerston islands, and, though the
heat killed all the cocoanut trees and
dried up every plant and vegetable
which could be used as fruit, the peo-
pie of the islands were cut off from
the rest of the world, and from food
supply of any kind. Somehow, in the
shipping arrangements which en-
brace Palmerston islands, the place
had been forgotten, and the situa-
ton of the people had become des-
perate when the relief arrived. The
owror of the island had died the day
before, I'D the whole population was
starving when a calling vessel, hap
PLY named the Empire, brought them
food.
The Eddystone lighthouse men,
though left for IL days without an
historic piece of news, have never en-
durcd the bitter experience of the
lighthouse men on Percy island, one
of the many small islands on the
Queensland coast. For months they
were forgotten" and the supplies
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-08-21

which should have reached them IN
August arrived at the end of October,
with the result that the unhappy
men, 20 in number, were found al
most delirious from lack of food. The
food supply of Percy island is sup
posed to be delivered once n quarter,
but no food arrived at the island
after the first week In June, 1900, I'M
til a British sloop CHANGED to pass in
October. The islanders managed to
hail the vessel, which left behind an
ample supply of provisions, and re-
minded the Queensland government
of the lighthouse men, whose ex-
istence it had forgotten.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-08-21
SMALL PAY FOR HARD WORK.
Women I'm the Government Treasury
Department Who Are Poorly
RecompenSed.

In the great printing office ut
Washington where the government
paper currency is prepared for cir
culation there are some very skillful
women who receive only small pay.
This is notably true of those who
inspect and count the sheets OF bills
as they come from the presses, says
the Chicago Chronicle. Every sheet
contains four bills, each of which
must be perfect. If there is ever so
small a spot or haw in the printing
the bill is rejected. These women
have to be experts who have served
in all the capacities from printers
assistant up, until they can detect IN
an instant a flaw which would not
be seen by the unframed eye. They
inspect and count 10000 sheets OF
bills a day, and their compensation
is $500 a year; they have to pass
rigid examinations before they can
get into the service at all.
Persons who suffer from the heat
in summer should be comforted
whenever they lick postage stamp,
for the girls who put the sticking
material upon that stamp are in
much warmer place. During the av-
erage warm day in Washington the
thermometer stands at ITO degrees in
the big room where the govern
ment's stamps are coated with glue.
The sheets of stamps are run
through long boxes filled with very
2snair in order to dry them thor
Aad these heated boxes raise
hssre of the room in spite
aspd many electric
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-08-21
MUSIC ON THE CANAL.
Not Many Pianos Are Carried There,
but Lots of MeIOdeOnS and
Organs.

We've been hearing more or less
lately" said canal boatman accord
ing to the New York Sun, about
pianos ahoat in these days on the big
schooners carrying freight up and
down the coast, but nothing about
music on the canal
"Pianos on the raging, too? Well.
not great number of pianos there,
maybe, but l guess you'd find on the
Erie o hundred melodeons and or
gans and pretty much all of them
have gone into these boats within the
last ten years or 30.
"Many canal captains carry their
families along, as they've done for
years to be sure, but the newer boats
built in these later years have been
made with more roomy cabins, to say
nothing of being fitted with more
room-saving contrivances in the way
of swinging tables and that sort OF
thing, and better fittings generally
along with these last things have
come the melodians and the organs.
One reason why these have been
chosen instead of pianos is that they
take up less room. You get one OF
these instruments in under the deck
in a canalboat cabin, which, of
course, you couldn't do with an up
right piano.
at used to be, you know, in the old
days, that an accordian was about
the summit of things In the way of
musical instruments to be found on
a canal boat, but nowadays In many
a homelike canal boat cabin, with
windows trinity hung with curtains
and filed with plants, placed inside
or outside, according to the season,
you'd find among the comfortable
fittings and 6xings a melodeon or an
organ; you'd find a hundred Of 'em
at least on the Erie"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-08-21
1ncome from Endowments.

A common note in the financial re-
ports of institutions of all kinds is
the regret at the decline Of income
caused by the fall in the rates of in
terest. The basis Is now three or
3H instead of six or seven a dozen
years ago. This means that endow-
ments must be doubled in order to
keep up the income returns. The
lower rate also has a far-reaching
effect upon the chances open to the
average man of retiring in his age
with a competency. He has to save
twice as much money to secure the
income that he desires as in the early
eventies.-Boston Waterman.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-08-21
international Bird Protection.

An international agreement for the
protection of birds useful to agri-
culture was concluded in Paris this
spring. The parties to the agree
ment are Belgium, France, Greece,
Austria, Portugal, Sweden, Switzer-
land and Spain, and a few smaller
states. All birds useful to agricul-
ture are to enjoy unconditional pro-
lection, and the destruction of their
nests and eggs is prohibited. Certain
other birds are named as michieyOus.
Sporting rights are protected. Italy,
a country in which the capture of
nortbwardbound birds is u regular
trade, does not appear as of the
treaty signers.-N. Y. Sun.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-08-21

ent and thodghtIess young men who
are his confreres nearly had hyster-
les when they saw them. Indeed,
these velvet posies quite disorganized
the force the first day they appeared.
But the young man from the gar
den spot of Maryland didn't seem TO
notice the excitement, and with inn
plicit faith in his own taste in dress,
he's still wearing the costume.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-08-21
Proof Sufficient.

"Why," said the man who was trS-
ing to sell me a horse, "a woman can
drive him!"
Of course 1 laughed scornfully at
this preposterous claim.
81 mean what I say" the man per-
sisted. "Look! When pull on the right
hand rein he turns promptly to the
left, and when l pull on the left-hand
rein he turns promptly to the right;
and if I drop the rein and shrek
'Whoa!' in a terror-stricken voice, he
moves off gently in the very middle of
the road"
Now, here was ocular demonstration.
Besides, the man seemed an honest
fellow.-National Tribune.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-08-21
TrIbute TO Greatness.

"Bigsby is a worshiper Of notoriety.
What DO you s'pose he did yesterday"
"Giye it up"
"Took off his hat to roast of beef
in a butchers window."-Cleyeland
Plain Dealer.
AS a sequel to the recent earth
ouakes in Sardinia an enormous
chasm has been opened in the EARTH
while the surface has bulged into a
hill of considerable elevation, from
which stones and masses of earth
are projected. There are also symp-
toms that the interior of the hill Is
in an ebullient condition. Scientists
incline to the belief~thSt the phe-
nomena observed are volcanic. An
other consequence of the earthquake
is that "a Sspto, near Maa
which VIZ 900 yas3M
100 wide -
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-08-21
$50 LlTTLE


30, so little doneF'-Cecal
["So much to
Rhodesl hat thou dost owe
Ts there M deht ~ care or woe?
n Hehte~ othar-brt thou canst give
Is thera ~ CONT creature live?
TO help anotherL SSs .nV ,. eans' OeS'o"
Hast thou no PEI 0e'"e ANo"'
ana let saoost Trim, stop awhile
Nh Ea,,ox, puogul loving smile.
To s5,a he,nSf hine own to 1--we.
nv ne e. 80 fained so must thou give!
As thon bast .bnly OF thy wealth.
Rnt live not 7ttle-of myself.
SiVe' TOO. swer thus to me:
oh AZ M, II cares that first must be-"
'sT'vs orsste-Hot live this way for. Friend,
Thou oanss ,bnfront thee at the end
VIVA will Ills little comfort stored
since thara Tho live 10 merely-hoard
TUT thoSe wstultifed. and mean,
oh eso,,l ca 4 love canst thou then CLEAN?
what hit = me voice to interoede
with not thee. In thy pressing need?
Ana helm III to It. Aye, count the cost
7 ,ook thenhs. helpful moments-lost.
VI pfec'o ITO do, So lttle-done!
CO much fstrange the Worlds unwon.
Il &c not Hone by you and me,
Go Iittla Sove with Charity
So little IA HReUeIlc Oeu'%Han' al Az -
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-08-21
Won,t Work in Rain.

There's a queer thing about ltal-
ian laborers," said a contractor who
employs a great many of them, land
that is that they absolutely refuse to
work in the rain. Stop a minute and
think Did you ever see gang Of
them working on the streets, dig
cling trenches or doing any other
manual labor, in the rain? Well, you
never did, and probably never will.
Just as soon as a shower sets In, no
matter how slight, they will scram-
BILE for cover. If the rain continues
they will soon complain of feeling
sick, and knock off for the day. One
fellow will have a sore throat, an
other will be doubled up with pains
in his stomach, and others will sud
denly acquire equally severe ailments
of all sorts. 1t is useless to attempt
to do anything with them, and pref
ty soon they will all go trooping
home. Why is it? l suppose it's
their natural antipathy to water
Chicago Journal.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-08-21

Sunday School Teacher-And Sam
son was shorn of his strength and
compelled to go into retirement.
Why was this?
Tommy-'Cause he had his hair cut
by woman. That's enough to make
any Teller want TO sneak off an hide
here.-Philadelphia Press.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-08-21
un,rne Hundred DEGREES of Cold

Fahrenheit, by the action Of salt on
ice. secured what was then thought
to be the lowest temperature attain
able and used it as the basis of his Their
mometer; but now, through the use of
liouiiied gases, temperature of 800 de-
grees fahrenheit is easily produced
Science.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-08-21
Everyday Chicken shortcnIse.

Boil a chicken one year old or
more until so tender that it will slip
from the bones in sufficient water to
cover; season nicely with salt and
pepper and little celery salt if liked,
and if the chicken is not fat add a
lump Of butter. Bake light short
cake, using for a medium chicken
iH pints of flour; split and arrange
the chicken on it, thicl;en the gravy
a little, and pour over all. This was
Il iayorite dish with well-known
New England authoress, and the
recipe was given to friends by her.
ladies World, New York.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-08-21
Corroct breathing for Consumption

1t is a curious fact that consump-
ton, the scourge of civilization, is
not found within the arctic or ant
arctic circles. 1t is probable, how
ever, that this immunity from con-
sumption is in large part due to the
fact that the clothing is so construct
ed that it does not restrict the move
ments of the body in the slightest de-
gree, and gives an opportunity for
the freest activity of the chest in
breathing.-Good Health.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-08-21
FGrce of Dabit.

Alistl css-Now, Bridget, how often
have l ca1ticned you against break
ng TIE ninth commandment?
Hr.dge.-lEG9de. mum, an / guess
:. must T. been the cat done it,
mari Set.