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Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-06-19
SUNLIGHT ON THE SKIM
The Tan Produced by Continued Ex-
pOnure Thought to Produce a
Protective Eject.

A physician has been investigating
some of the effects of direct sunlight
on the skin. Painting a band on his
arm with India ink, he exposed the
member to a scorchiDg sun. The usual
painful effects followed except be-
meath the band, where the skin re-
NAMED white and unaffected, says the
Buenos Ayres Herald.
He suggests that the tan which con-
tinued exposure produces upon the
skin is a protective effect. If further
experiments establish. this inference,
a further hypothesis will be rendered
probable-namely, that the power ac-
quired by the human skin in the trop-
les of secreting a pigment is really
protective of its lower and function
ally active layers. Offhand one would
be apt to conclude that black skin
ought to increase the heat effects OF
the, solaTradiance. =
We are required now to learn
whether the harm is really done by the
heat rays, for conceivable it may be
due to any other Of the diverse sorts
1of vibration of which that reliance is
now known to be hjghly-complex
phenomenon.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-06-19
WILL. BIZ DIFFICULT WORK.
An Engineers Description of POr-
ton of the Proposed Near
aqua Canal Line.

! much doubt if L exaggerate the
difficulties which have to be encoun-
tered during the first 20 miles or so
after leaving <GreytOwn, when l say
that excepting the heavy work in
the Culebra section and the construc-
ton of the Bohio dam, the entire
Panama canal might be built more
easily and at no greater cost, says a
writer in the Engineering Magazine.
For many miles of the distance men
toned the Nicaragua canal line pass
es through fat and swampy coun-
try where the rainfall is -abnormally
heavy and practically continuous.
The swamps communicate freely
with the rivers in the neighborhood,
the flood levels frequently rise many
feet above the level of the Caribbean
sea and embankments will be re-
quired for long distances, not only
to maintain the canal from Within,
but also to exclude flood waters. The
soil, moreover, is often unsuitable
even for the toughest of-embank'
ments that clay for their construc-
ton will have to be brought from
the adjacent hills. At least two riv-
ers will have to be diverted, and four
waterways are planned, each neces-
sarily at a considerable distance
from the canal line, for the purpose
of protecting it from floods.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-06-19
OLD AND NEW WORLDS.
WOrn-Out Planets Devoid of Life and
the Problem of Evolution
on Our Globe.

We must look to the solar system
for examples Of stars in the last
stages of development. Each of the
planets may, in fact, be regarded as
an object of this kind. The bare and
rocky surface of the moon affords a
desolate picture of what may result
from this long-continued process of
condensation, says the Popular Sci
ence Monthly. The volcanic region
which is shown to excellent advan-
tage in a photograph recently taken
with the Yerkes telescope, gives no
evidence of the existence of life; in
fact, the spectroscope indicates that
if there is any air on the moon it is
much too rare to suppoGt life, as we
know it. Fortunately, the moon is
not the only example of WORKOUT
star. The earth, which probably has
many counterparts in the universe,
is another example of less desolate
kind. Here, though the process of
condensation which is the chief cause
of celestial phenomena has ceased,
the problem of evolution has not
ended. In fact, though the cosmical
problems which we have considered
in their barest elements will not be
completely solved for centuries, it
may be truly said that the questions
raised by the countless living organ
isms in a single drop of ditch water
are still more complex and will re-
quire a still longer time for their So
luton.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-06-19
THE UNIVERSITY GIRL.
Ordinarily she Finds Her own Quar-
tiers and Manages Her Own
Affairs.

What most impresses the impartial
observer is the extraordinary indie
pendence of the university girls, says
"An Athenian," in Atlantic. 1t is the
rarest thing in the world for father
or mother TO come with a daughter
and see that she is suitably lodged
and properly started in her univer-
sity life. / am told that when these
exceptional parents do come they
are apt to think that the president
of the university should personally
superintend the selection of lodg-
ings. Ordinarily the girl finds her
own quarters and manages her own
affairs. Her goings and comings, her
hours, her companions, are all at her
own disposal In the eastern
states, where women have only
gained admission to the universities
after a long struggle, they take their
privileges seriously. They go to
Radcliffe or Barnard for study, and
not for fun. The women students in
a western college or university are
not a picked lot. Seriousness is not
absent by any means, but frivolity is
present. Girls even say that they
hate to graduate, because they will
have no more good times" y y
The girls who come to the university
for amusement rather than for study
are without doubt greatly in the
minority, but because they are here
at all there should be some system
of guardianship.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-06-19
GREEK M0NASTERIES.
Interesting Facts About Some That
Dot the Various Mounts OF
Their Country.

II is a firm belief of the, eastern
monks Of the Greek church that Cpd
will not allow monastery to he
burned. When the Russian monastery
of St. Pantelemon at Mount Athos was
burned few years ago the Greeks,
who constitute the great majority OF
the 600 monks on the peninsula, main
tanned that their Russian brethren had
brought the calamity on themselves
because they had fire engines and eX-
tinpuishers and did not trust whollyin
God. Now the ighboring Greek mon
aster,k 1T ST. Paul; which had no fire
ENGINES. has recently been utterly de-
stroyed by fire, says the Chicago Daily
News.
The monastery of St. Paul was one
of the more modernand less populous
of the 90 monasteries which dot Mount
Atht. 1t was erected in the four
teentA8 century and had less than 60
inmates. But, its reliquary possessed
many byzantine objects Of great in
terest. Tie more remarkable being
Byzantine model of Herod's temple
and silver cross three feet one inch
in length. covered with jewels and ex-
quisite miniature portraits OF the
saints in enamel The library consist
ed of about 100 manuscripts, the ma.
iority in Slavic and few in Greek.
Most of, the monks came from the
Ionian islands. and, though those is
lands passed from the Control of
Great Britain in 1862, were commonly
called "Englishmen" by their core
ligionists.
Iteis said that the monastery of ST.
Paul was the only one at Mount Athos
which has ever been visited by wom-
an. The wife of a British ambassador
landed from her yacht one day on its
tiny pier and insisted on entering the
church. In consequence, the monks,
relieving each other by relays, for 40
DAYS and nights maintained continu-
GUS service of prayer to purify the
church from this contamination.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-06-19
A CIGAR DID THE TRICK.
rhs Trihe That Secured Govern-
ment OniciaI His Appointment
and Changed His Whole Life.

at is the small things which control
our present actions and ultimate des-
TIMES very often" remarked a chief
clerk of one of the executive depart
ments, according to the Washington
Star.
"a ten-eent cigar changed my whole
course in life, when the friendship OF
senator's and representatives in con-
gress and their efforts were without
value.
81 had been trying for the place l
sought with that alternate hope and
fear which besets all who want a posi-
ton under the government, and who
believe one day they have it and the
next they have it not. My funds were
running short, my principal opponent
seemed to have the inside track, and l
had about agreed that had no chance.
Zone evening as l was wandering
aimlessly around in the northwest
waiting and hoping for the results OF
tomorrow, as | had resolved to go out
of town on that day unless received
the position, stepped into one of our
big hotels and bought ten-cent cigar
AS l was lighting it, an influential
friend who had been heretofore in
different to my cause approached me
in the lobby, saying:
81 am going to get you that place.
1 thought you had left town The old
man (meaning the secretary of the
department in which l had hoped to
enter) is upstairs. Stay here; for per.
sonal reasons shall block the appoint
ment of the other fellow. His senator
has done me dirt; just wait. l will be
back in five minutes
at is superhuoIs to say that l
waited and that my hand was trifie
shaky as l let go of the swinging gas
jet/With which had lighted my cigar
My heretofore lukewarm friend re.
turned to the office in few minutes,
and with him L assembled to the pres
ence of the big chief. The big chief
said that he was glad to meet me, had
heard all about me; that l was just
the man whose peculiar aptitude made
me fitted for the place in which he in
tended to install me, ETC., but l knew
in my own heart that if l hadn't
stopped to buy that cigar, and if the
senator backing my opponent hadn't
done my influential friend dirt the
big chief would never have discovered
those remarkable qualities of mine.
Nov for the sequel, as this is true
story:g My opponent becoming dis
gusted, went to New York, entered the
practice of law, married a wealthy
woman, and makes to-day thousands
where 1 make hundreds of dollars.
And the question remains, would to-
day have been better off if 1 had
bought that cigar elsewhere and left
town the next day?"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-06-19
FRENCH ELECTION MANIFESTO
CuriouS Circular Issued Against Med
icaI Candidates for the Cham
Der of Deputies.

The following curious election mani
festeo was issued the other day IN
Paris:
ELECTORS and business nsen! On the
eve of the elections the friends OF the
small dealers call your attention TO
the present very grave danger-name-
Nv. the invasion of the chamber OF Dep
uties by medical men. Oppose medical
candidates; replace them by CONNER
cial men. And why?- Because the
trend of the 6ygienists is to exercise
an insupportable dictation concerning
the supplying of food. To increase
their authority these hygienists do not
hesitate to exaggerate in an absurd
manner the Importance of food frauds
and then they pose as sayiors of hui
man life. Thus sometimes these ny
gienists, who are nothing but quacks'
accuse purveyors Of milk, sometimes
wholesale provision dealers, or, rather
crocers. No branch of food supplies
Is free from their accusation of fraud
and falsifcat ON. Defend yourselves
them. against the calumny. Food pur-
yeyors of Paris and the provinces; vote
against medical men. Let all parties
choose other men to uphold their flag.
Let them, for instance, choose food
purveyors."
49, Japanese Are Fish Eaters.
The Japanese eat more fsh Inan
any-other people in the world. WITH
them meat-eating is foreign lnnoya'
zion, confined to the rich, or rather 70
those fich people who prefer it to the
1atiDnai diet.-AlbaHy Argus.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-06-19
NoRFoLKh& WESTERN SCHEDULE.

Commend ing May 25th additional pas.
senger train kervice will be operated over
Norfolk & Western Railway, as follows:
Leave Roaknoke 700 a. m,, Lynchburg
s 45 a. M; a8rive Petersburg LOO, p. NJ,
arrive Richmb nd l;50 p. m. Leave Rich.
mond Ills 81 NJ, Petersburg 200 p. ~,
Lyncbburg 6Al5 p. M, arrive Roanoke
800 p. IN.
. Leave Lynch burg 1920 a. m, arrive
Roanoke sos M, arrive East RadfOrd
1915 a. H., am 1--WE Bristol 200 p. M.
Leave Bristol R.05 p. ny arrive Fast
Radford sos D. NJ, arriye Roanoke 1855
.. M, arrive Ly pchburg $50 p. m. COse
connection at Ia LIST Radford to and from
Bluefield, Nortoh, Welch and intefMedi-
ate points.
Leave Roanoke 500 p. m, arrive lia'
gerstown 4:l5 al m. Returning leave
Hagerstown l:2O n. m, arrive Roanoke
GOA a. M, connecting to and from darrIs-
burg, Philadelphia New York and inter.
ior Pennsylvania pbints Pullman sleep.
ing cars Philadelphia and WEIGH, w. Va.
Leave Roanoke 8 tl5 a. ~, arrive Win.
ston-Salem 200 p. !, b., arrive Charlotte,
n. G. $40 p. m. RETURNING leave Char
lotte ll:lO a, NJ, eave Winston.Sa,em
2:55 D. In, arrive Roanoke 7:40 p. m.
Train runs solid BETWEEN Roanoke and
Charlotte.
See regular SCHEDULED advertisement for
further Information. 70 At
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-06-19
BOERS IN MONTANA.
HOIlander COlOnlstH Have Number
of Thriving Settlements and
-MOre in Prospect.

Montana has several hourishing set
Elements of Beers. and it is announced
that the coming summer VIII see the
arrival of new influx of the natives of
Holland. The Beers who are in the
state already are highly satisfied with
the conditions there, and say their
countrymen are coming TO the state
in large numbers, reports the Mime
apolis Journal.
The Boer settlements in Montana
are at Manhattan, in Gallatin county,
near Big Timber, in Sweet Grass coun-
ty, and around Wormser City, in Gus
ter county. Rev. George Wormser,
after whom the town of Wormser was
named, is leader among the Boer
colonists.
The Beers in Montana are farmers
and for a dozen yeats or more they
have been making the land about their
settlements bloom like the rose. Farm
ing is natural to them, and they have
adapted themselves to the conditions
in Montana as their countrymen did
in South Africa with wonderful IA
cility.
They have constructed large irriga-
ton bitches feed their land with
water, and one of their fine pieces Of
engineering work in the form of big
irrigation conduit near Big Timber has
been purchased by the state.
The Boer immigrants scheduled to
arrive in the state this summer will be
distributed among the three colonies.
Mr.. Wormser, who manages many
things for the Beers, has already made
arrangements for their settlement on
the land.
The Beers make good citizens and
their neighbors of all nationalities
Sneak well Of them
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-06-19
Killed n HiEh-LIving Wolf.

The biggest wolf story of the sea.
son comes from Billings county,
where G. w. Myers was the lucky
captor, says the st. Paul Dispatch.
Lupus in this case is reported to
have been seven feet and ten inches
from his nose TO the tip of his tail,
and to have weighed 16s pounds dead.
He had been a longtime offender
and Mr.. Myers had for years made
a standing offer of $50 for his cap
ture. 1t is estimated that he has
killed $1,000 worth of stock. Within
the last few months he has killed
number of full-grown cattle on Mr..
Myers ranch. The hide was tanned
and will be retained as a souvenir.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-06-19
The Post Check Notes, Safe and Con-
venient Method of sendihF
Money by Mall.

A measure intended "to prevenqrob-
bling the mail, to provide saferland
easier method of sending money! by
mail, and to increase the postal Eey-
enues" is pending in congress And
should receive consideration. Its Ps-
sage would not entirely prevent nfil
robbery, but it would reduce the nut r.
Der of such crimes by reducing tie
profits accruing from their successful
preparation. 1t would certainly prk
vide safer and more convenient meth.
cd of sending money by mail, and unt
ouestionably would increase the int
come of the post office department.
To adapt these post check notes to
their purpose it is provided that the
words payable to bearer on demand"
which appear in the notes for which
these are to be substituted, shall be
eliminated, and in place thereof shall
appear the words: Payable to the
payee named hereon; payable to
bearer if the spaces are not filed"
Every device to insure absolute safety
appears to have been incorporated in
this bill The fact that more than half
of all the post offices in the United
States are not money order Offices is
sufficient reason for providing this
species of currency, %instantly trans
ferrable into safe money to send
through the mails" 1t will answer
every purpose of money in ordinary
business, and will be changeable into
q personal check on the United States
government by the simple process Of
writing a name. The saving thatthe
government would effect by SUBSTITUTE.
ing these notes for money orders
would, it is estimated, be about $780,
900 aNyear. AS an accommodation tn
millions of persons, the scheme COM
mends itself to general appreciation.
POSSIBLE the pending bill may re-
quire sors,e amending, but the pur-
pose is ssod, and the carrying oflit
out wouhsgreatly enhance the utility
of the mails, while reducing expenses
and increasing net revenues.-Wash-
ington ID. c. Post.
Newspaper publishers, business men
and farmers realize the benefit from
having money in the hands of the peo-
pie that could be instantly made into
a money order without the delay and
expense of journey to the post Office.
Ladies would appreciate its conve-
nience. Even with free rural deliv-
cry the farmer has no convenient and
safe way to get the money for his
Ivy paper to the publisher. Every
Il Z interested should write senator's
nd representatives requesting that
the post check currency be furnished
the people.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-06-19

Beat to cream half cupful of
butter; add gradually one cupful Of
graduated sugar and the unbeaten
white of one egg. Beat vigorously for
ten minutes. Dissolve half level tea
spoonful of bicarbonate of soda in one
gill (eight tablespoonfuls) Of warm
water Add this to the mixture and
then stir in gradually one quart of the
best graham meal. Knead until smooth,
roll out a little at time into sheet
as thin as a wafer. With sharp knife
cut into squares of about two inches,
and bake in a slow oven until crisp
and brown. Rye meal or whole wheat
flour may be substituted for the graz
ham.-Mrs. Rorer, in Ladies' Home
Journal.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-06-19
FACTS ABOUT BRAZIL.
According to n Resident of That
Country 1t Is the Best Friend
of the United States.

Senior F. de Gaffee, an affable young
gentleman of Portuguese ancestry from
Brazil, has been studying in New York
in the last few years, and has also Wis.
hed England, Germany, France and
Russia, studying the customs and life
of the people, says the Denver Repub'
lican.
"Of all countries In the world,
Brazil is most friendly to the United
States" said Senior de Gaffee "The
people are Portuguese, not Spanish
and they have none of the feeling
which the war with Spain caused
among the Spanish-American coun-
tries. Brazil stands with America in
the support of the Monroe doctri
81 cannot understand why it is ,~at
people in this country know so little
about Brazil. We have, except Russia,
absolutely the largest country in the
world of continuous boundaTies. Bra.
I'll is larger than the United States,
and has wider range of climate, ex.
tending from the tropics at the
Amazon south into a climate which is
colder than this--in Rio Grande do Sui,
the state in which is my home. That
is the southernmost state of Brazil,
and was recently the seat of revolt.
There are 200, 900 cowboys in the state,
most of them Indians and wilder even
than the cowboys out here. So you
see it was a sort of cowboy revolt,
and nothing that could be important
at all Brazil is through with revolu-
tons, just as we are through with the
monarchy. and the 2O,0O0.0O0 Of white
inhabitants are settled down to the
work of making ours a nation common
.surate in Importance with the size and
the resources of the country"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-06-19
pc,ne Edw.rd,s Beer.

King Edwards brew of beer on Bur-
ton-onTrent, for which he has been
harshly criticised by Rev, DR.. Joseph
Parker and others, will be when ma
tured, according to those who should
know, the strongest ale ever brewed at
Burton, and not drop of the 400 bar
rels containing the liquid will be
touched for 20 years. except for the
purpose of testing.-Chicago Daily
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-06-19
Served Throne Four Centuries.

Among the great governing fam
lilies of these realms, the courtly
house of Cecil is probably unique, for
it stands preeminent at least in con-
tinuity of service to the throne. 1t
has fourished under two earldoms,
each reaching marquisates, for nigh
four centuries, and during as many
dynasties-Tudor, Stuart, Hanover
and Saxe-Coburg. Though three of
these dynasties have come and gone
the house of Cecil remains firm
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-06-19
FLOWERS for Cutting.

Every garden should have a corner
devoted to flowers grown for the pur-
pose of cutting. The best flowers for
this purpose are sweet peas, sweet
elyssum, scabiosa, asters, ten-weelS
stock, calliopsis, phtox, nasturtiums
and Marguerite carnations. -Eben Z.
liexford, in Ladies Home Journal.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-06-19
Expecting Further Trouble.

$50 you've gotten your hair cut, have
your" said the government agent.
yes answered the poor Indian
discontentedly. 81 suppose the next
thing we know, they'll be-requiring US
to get baldheaded and wear chin whis-
s.'--Philadelphia Press I
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-06-19
VERY LOW RATES
to the
NORTH EST
March lst to April the Both, 1902.

NORFOLK K WESTERN RAILWAY
Will sell tickets to Montana, Idaho, Ore.
gon, Washington and Coast points at ex-
Ieeedingy low rates from all stations. 1t
Is possible rates to the West will never he
No cheap again; choice of three route.
Write for rates and schedules, say to what
Mint you are going and your nearest Sta.
t bn to this line. See any agent Of n. &
w, Ry. or NJ. f. Bragg,
w b. Bevlll, -Trav. Pass. Agent.
zen. Pass. Agent.
Roanoke, Virginia.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-06-19
Confetti In France.

Confetti throwing has at last been
legalized in France by a decision
given in Paris court.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-06-19
TAzEWELL co. DIRECTORY.
Circuit Court.

Robert G. Jackson, judgeSH. Bane IIar-
man, clerk. Terms of court-1st Monday
in April, 4th Monday in August and LIST
Monday in December.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-06-19

powEN & ROYAL, ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
d Tazewell Va. viii practice IN the courts .!
Tazewell and adjoining counties, and the Court
of Appeals at Wytheyille. Collections gwen
special attention. Office near Courthouse.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-06-19

n {. ANDERSON, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Taze-
n,well. Va. Will practice in the courts OF Iaze-
well county and the Court of Appeals al "ythe-
Vile Collecting speciality
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-06-19

oFO w. ST CLAIR. ATTORNEY AT LAW
UTazeweu va Practices in the courts OF Taze
well and adjoining counties and in the Supreme
Court of Appeals at Wytheville Particulas al
tention paid to tina collection OF claims. Olnce-
Stras building
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-06-19

Mf q. SPRATT. ATTORNEY AT LAW Rich
W,lands Va. Practices in the courts OF TaZe-
well and adjoining counties. Prompt attention
paid to the collection of claims.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-06-19

oRFEvER a GILLESPIE, LAWYERS, Tazewell
UVa Prao,.1C. the courts of Tazewell and al
oining counties Ofice--Gillespe omiulng
Edgar {. Greever Barns Gillespie.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-06-19

A French oculist has taken up with
remarkable success the treatment of
cataract without operation by the
application of baths of salicylate of
soda. He has arrested the progress
Of the opacity of crystalline lens for
several years in numerous eases and
is sanguine of success If the treat
ment is begun at an early stage.