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Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-02-27
Hodges Roof Garden
Rhapsody
BY JOHN II. RAFTERY.

j. Dillingham; Hodges mind was
made up. Mn. Lunetta, the clairvoy-
ant, had told him that he would make
his fortune through Cupid, and there
fore he buckled down to the business
of winning his way. He had reached
that age when his complexion worried
him. Nature had not done much for
him, and therefore he began to heed
those arts which are supposed to make
the old young and the young mature.
He had begun to shave, but the hirsute
results were as yet hardly tangible.
Then there were those disfiguring
pimples Nothing seemed to quite
reache them. He spent good part of
his salary buying hair growers and der
pathological cure-alls, hoping against
hope that soon the day would come
when he would sally forth with waXed
mustachios and an Incompatible COM
pleXion to win the heiress.
No matter how gayly he attired his
gangling form, the girls, or at least
the desirable, well-groomed, knowing
ones, never gave him a second glance.
He followed the fashions as closely as
an S1S-a-week clerk can follow them,
but it was no 60. He couldn't swim"
anybody on his looks. The big bows
in his low-quarter shoes and the drop
stitch socks of vocal designs didn't
help him at all. He began to think
that he was foreordained to failure
and that, being doomed to loveless
life. He must be a genius. Then he
began to write poems" about the
moon and let his hair grow down over
his raglan.
He was well launched on this phase
of his decline when he met her. He
was coming uptown on a Cottage
Grove avenue. car when he noticed
standing on the back platform the one
girl. She wore a maroon automobile,
Gainsborough hat, diaphanous veil
so palely blue that it glorified the
wonderful beauty of her face, white
gloves and lot of other things that j.
Dillingham; couldn't name, but which
exhaled wondrous perfume and fut-
tered in the evening breeze like an
angels wings.
AS he looked at her she seemed to
regard him with a lingering interest.
"Aha," though j. Dillingham;. "At
last 1 am discovered! Now, indeed, I
know what love at first sight is"
He began to hope that the train
would collide with something so that
he could rescue her. He specialized
upon the possible conduct of her rich
father when they should arrive at the
mansion, whether he might offer a
mere pecuniary reward and how he, j.
Dillingham; Hodge, having deposited a
fainting girl upon the $500 dfvan,
would spurn her fathers gold and de-
mand his daughters hand. When she
signaled the conductor to stop ]. Dill
lingham sprang to his feet and beat
her to the car step. He wanted to
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Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-02-27
NJ JUDAH gists to CURE Tobacco Habit.

hagen and the Nile. Thus, it has been
remarked, the Nelson legend affects
not only Jacks work, but his food and
clothing as well. The broad blue collar
itself is older than the great admiral
1t was first adopted at that period
when sailors plastered their hair into
a stiff pigtail with grease and powder,
says the London Family Herald.
At nine o'clock each night the sentry
in every ship In harbor fires off his
rife. For the origin of this custom
we may have to look back to the days
of flint locks. Then, in order to test
the printing and see that his weapon
was in disable condition, the sentry had
to fire 1t off each night. There is no
necessity for such a test with modern
rifles, but the nine o'clock firing is
religiously carried out.
Every officer or man climbing to the
quarter deck salutes. The origin OF
this usage dates back a long way.
When England was a Roman Catholic
country a crucihx stood on the quarter
deck of all ships. Every time any one
of the crew approached this holy sym
Dol he crossed himself. Out Of that
has grown the custom of saluting the
quarter deck.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-02-27
FRANCES GREAT CHEMIST.
Science by BertheIOt In
Fifty Years.

The great chemist, NJ. Berthelot,
has just completed his so years OF
service as a scientific teacher, an oc-
casion which was celebrated at the
Sorbonne in Paris. No other chemist
perhaps has so helped to lay the
foundation of chemistry as has M.
Berthelot, and that the congratula-
lions he received came from all civ
ilized nations is no matter for sur
prise, says the London Lancet. His
career has been a remarkable one. be
became professor at the early age
of "a years, and a brilliant investiga-
tor within a few years Of this APP
pointment, gaining enormous insight
into the laws which lay at the root
of chemical architecture.
Perhaps his most epoch-making dis
covery was his demonstration of the
true nature of glycerin as an alco-
holic body capable of interacting with
three molecules of such acids as
acetic and palmitic, although his con-
tributions to thermal chemistry were
models of ingenuity, resource and
original conception. Later he at
tackled the question of synthesis and
until the publication of his "Chimic
Organique fondee sur la Synthese"
no systematic research had been at
tempted in the direction of building
up compounds of carbon comparable
with natural organic compounds by
the union of elements of which they
are composed. We must remember,
however, Wohler's synthesis of urea
in 1928 and Kolbe's synthesis of acetic
acid in 1845.
But the methods subsequently, en-
ployed by NJ. Berthelot were more
simple and direct. He started, for
example, with the elements them
selves. He took carbon and hydro
gen which produced acetylene; add
ing more hydrogen he got thylene,
and from this he obtained alcohol
and "A series of organic salts. Again
he set himself the task of proving
that compounds identical in every re-
spect with the products of animal
and vegetable life may be formed
from dead mineral matter.
Thus in a series of experiments he
employed the carbon obtained in the
form of carbon dioxide from barium
carbonate. It was then made to pass
successfully through the forms OF
carbonic oxide, f0fmic acid, barium
formate, ethylene, ethylene bromide,
ethylene again and finally into ethyl
sulphuric acid and its crystailized
barium salt, from which the ultimate
object of these experimentation
was generated. 1t follows that wa
ter and carbon dioxide were the only
compounds from which the elements
of this alcohol were derived. Little
wonder, then, that scientific men OF
all the civilized nations assembled at
the Sorbonne to do honor to this
great exponent of natures methods
and mysteries.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-02-27
FLIES SPREADING TYPHOID.
Insects Are Chief Cause OF mortahty
Among British Troops In south
Africa.

A British army surgeon who has long
been at the front in South Africa writes
an interesting letter to London med
zeal journal from Harrowsmith. de
expresses the conviction that flies have
a great deal more to do with the raw
ages of typhoid fever than has been
generally suspected. He believes that
they are the chief cause of the fearful
mortality from the pest in South At
RIGA. He argues that inasmuch as ma
ture has designed them to convey pol
len on their legs from one plant to an
other, 1t is only reasonable to suppose
that they are equally capable OF carry
ing and distributing the germs of dis
ease. He points out as remarkable
fact that, although there was terri
BILE outbreak of enteric in Ladysmith
during the famous siege, when flies
abounded everywhere, there was none
last year, when there was also nota-
BILE absence of flies. This latter phe-
nomenon he ascribes to the treatment
of all meat and other articles pecul-
iarly attractive to these winged null
sances with some sort of chemical
preparation which effectually kept
them off. The pernicious activity OF
the fly obviously would make him a
most efficient agent for the diffusion OF
poisonous microbes.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-02-27
RAISING IRON VALUES.
What the Possibilities of Bars Placed
in the Hands of Different
Artisans Are.

The man who takes the first bar
may be a rough blacksmith, who has
only partly learned his trade, and has
no ambition to rise above his anvil.
He thinks that the best possible thing
hs can do with his bar is to make it
into horseshoes, and congratulates
himself upon his success. He reasons
shat the rough lump of iron is worth
only two or three certs pound, and
that i. is not worth while TO spend
much time or labor on it. His enor-
nous muscles and small skill have
raised the value of the iron from one
dollar, perhaps, to ten dollars, writes
o. S. Marden, in Success.
Along comes cutler, with little
better education, little more ambi-
ton, little finer Perce ption, and says
to the blacksmith: as this all you
can see in that iron? Give me bar,
and | will show you what brains and
skill and hard work can make of it,"
When his work is done, he shows
the astonished blacksmith $1,000
worth Of knife blades. where the lat
ter only saw ten dollars worth Of
crude horseshoes. The value has been
greatly raised by the refining process.
Still another workman. whose proc
esses are so almost infinitely delicate,
whose product is so little known by
even the average educated man, that
his trade is unmentioned by the max
ers Of dictionaries and encyclopedias,
takes but a fragment Of one of the
bars of steel, and develops its higher
possibilities with such marvellous ac-
eTracy, such ethereal fneness Of
touch, that even mainsprings and hair
springs are looked back upon as coarse,
crude and cheap. When his work is
done, he shows you n few of the min
utely barbed instruments used by
dentists TO draw out the finest branch
es of the dental nerves. While pound
of gold. roughly speaking, is worth
about $3.50. a pound of these slender,
barbed filaments of steel, If a pound
could be collected, might be worth
hundreds of times as much
Just as each artisan sees in the crude
iron some finished, refined product,
so must we see in our lives glorious
possibilities, if we would but realize
them. If we see only horseshoes or
knife blades, all our efforts and strug-
giles will never produce hairsprings.
We must realize our own adaptability
to great ends; we must resolve to
struggle, to endure trials and tests, to
pay the necessary price, confident that
the result will pay us for our suffering,
our trials, and our efforts.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-02-27
USEFULNESS OF SNOW.
Stores Up Moisture for the Summer
In Isolated Ravines I'm Dry
Regions.

If all the condensed moisture of the
atmosphere were to fall as rain, and
none of it as snow, hundreds of thou
sands of miles of the earth's surface
now yielding bountiful crops would
be little better than a desert, says the
Youths Companion. The tremendous
economic gain for the world at large
which results from the difference be.
tween snow and rain is seldom real
lied by the inhabitants of fertile and
well-watered lowlands.
1t is in the extensive regions where
irrigation is prime necessity in agri
culture that the special uses of the
snow come chiefly into view. All
through the winter the snow is falling
upon the high mountains, and packing
itself firmly into the ravines. Thus in
natures great icehouse a supply Of
moisture is stored up for the follow.
ing summer.
All through the warm months the
hardened snow banks are melting
gradually. In trickling streams they
steadily feed the rivers, which as they
flow through the valleys are. utilized
for irrigation. If this moisture fell
as rain it would almost Immediately
wash down through the rivers, which
would hardly be fed at all in the sum-
mer, when the crops most need water.
These facts are so well known as
to be commonplace in the Salt Lake
valley and in the sub-arid regions OF
the west generally. They are not so
well understood in New Jersey or Ohio.
where snow is sometimes a pictur-
esque, sometimes a disagreeable, fea'
ture of winter.
In all parts of the country the no.
ton prevails that the snow is of great
value as a fertilizer. Scientists, how
ever, are inclined to attach less inn
portance to it's service in soil nutrition
for some regions which have no snow
are exceedingly fertile-than to its
worth as blanket during the months
of high winds. 1t prevents the blowing
off of the finely pulverized richness Of
the top soil. This, although little per-
ceived, would often be a very great
loss.
In natures every form there is
meaning.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-02-27

sex was such a disappointment TO
the Russian nation. The care OF these
children devolyes upon Miss Edgar, an
Irish lady, and two Russian under
nurses. The children, however, occu-
py the same bedroom as their head
nurse, and the older ones also take
their meals with her, says Pearson's
Magazine. In their playroom the
mighty ruler Of all the Russias Ia fire.
quently to be found gambcling with
his young daughters, whilst he never
allows a night to pass when ne is at
home without making his way to Kiss
them before seeking his own room.
Self-interested kinsmsn may ridicule
his efforts at reform; sx grinding and
imaginary plot discovering officials
may try to render his hfe terror, but
there is at least one pleasure of which
they cannot rob the car, and that -
In connection with his home kfe.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-02-27
Cost OF Royn [ House Moving.

Contrary to thy general opinion,
the expense of the many changes
made necessary by the queens death
in the various royal residences will
not be paid by the state. All the
changes in Buckingham. palace and
Windsor castle have to be paid for
out of the kings own pocket, for
while they belong to the government
the reigning monarch occupies them
only on a life lease, rent free, and 10
is understood distinctly that any in
terror repairs have to be made at
the occupants expense. sandring-
ham, Osborne and 'Balmoral are The
private property Of the royal FAM
lily, and the king can do as he Ill,
with them, inside and outside, aud
pay neutrality-suspicious. NJ. A. ?.
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sd4 es and YOU CAN CURE YOURSELF AT HOME
INTERNATIONAL AURAL CLINIC 596 La SALE AVE. CHICAGO. ILL
THE WINDS AT PLAY.

These many days the winds have been at
play,
And they have swept the sky
Clear of all clouds that barred their bolster
Gus way
And marred their revelry
With wild delight they yell as on they
sweep
Across the trembling deep.
They lash the sleeping ocean into foam,
They strip the tossing trees,
They rudely drive belated wanderers home.
They tear across the leas
No rest for them-from dawn to evensorg
Their mirth is loud and long!
In ruined woods high carnival they hold;
The dry leaves pirouette,
giGdy whirl of scarlet and of gold!
Whilst down the rivulet,
Full to the brim, the russell spoils and red
Are to the ocean sped.
The golden elms to one another bend,
The revels wax apace,
The forest seems IS dance fran end to
end,
The beeches interlace!
And for the orchestra to this mad crowd
The winds are piping loud.
IF. B. Devotion, in Westminster Gazette.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-02-27

Arrayed In all his sartorial glory
his hair parted into football tufts,
alum in his pimples and a nosegay in
his lapel, he braved the majesty OF
the hotel clerk, aud extending a
new, engraved card, asked that it be
sent to Miss Grace Miller.
The clerk smiled as he summoned
Buttons"
The boy grinned as he darted to-
ward the elevator.
j. Dillingham; Hodge fumed and
wondered at the impertinence as he
impatiently paced the lobby.
"This way, Mr.. Hodge," said the
bellboy, touching his arm. And then
the ardent lover followed that boy
through the dark and devious hall
ways, up queer and misleading stairs
and around food-smelling regions OF
the hotel.
"See here, boy" at last yelled the
painting Hodge, where is Miss Mil
Ter? Did she say she'd see me in her
apartments or IN tne parlOrF
"She amt got no say about it,
snapped the lad. She'll see yer in
tn laundry r she won't see yer a
tall. See?"
Look here, my boy" gasped
Hodge, slipping a quarter into the
hand of the surprised Buttons, stop.
Tell me. Who is Miss Grace Miller?''
The boy stared second at the
quarter before he answered.
"Grace is de head laundress. Go
t de end o. dis hall an"
But j. Dillingham; saw an open
door that led into the alley and
thither he fed.-Chicago Record-Her-
aid
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-02-27
Unripe COcoanutS,

Before the shell of the cocoanut be-
comes thick and hard and while the
meat is soft and about the consistency
Of clabber many of the nuts are gath
cred and sold upon the street corners
of South American cities and in the
shops The nuts are cut open with
machete. The milk proves most re-
freshing drink, while the meat is eaten
with a spoon or, more often, with a
silver cut from the shell.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-02-27
Water I'm Warfare

Explosive water is the very latest
thlng IN modern warfare. 1t is the
invention Of an Italian artillery of
hcer named Cornara. For long
Time 1t has, Of course, been known
to scientists that water electrically
oecomposed possesses, under certain
conditions, violent explosive quail
ties; but it has been left for Col.
Cornara to make practical use Of the
said knowledge. The colonel in
closes the doctored water in her
metically sealed steel bomb, end,
when exploded, il is said to develop
destructive energy IS times great
er than that of the best gunpowdeE,
and rs times greater than that Of dy-
Mantle.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-02-27
Two Points of View.

do you believe in heredity, Mrs
Simpson,"
Indeed do. Every mean trait Bob
by has / can trace right back to his
father"
"Does his father believe in heredity
too?"
Eyes; he traces Bobby's faults al
back to me."-Tit-Bits.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-02-27
BRITISH NAVAL CUSTOMS.
An Interesting Account of tho Origin
of . Number of Regular
Practices.

A fact not generally known Is that
the black silk handkerchief which
Jack knots around his throat was first
worn as mourning for Nelson, and has
ever since been retained. The three
white stripes around the broad blue
collar Of the sailors jumper commem-
crate the victories OF afalgar, Copen-
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-02-27
Literary Subjects.

"Whom did you discuss at your lit
erary club this afternoon, dear?" asked
the husband in the evening.
"Let me see?" murmured his wife.
sob, yes, / remember now! Why, We
discussed that woman who recently
moved into the house across the street
from US and Observation-Disclosures
Journal
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-02-27
Light Made from Smoke

A Belgian engineer, Tobfansky, has
invented an apparatus for producing
light from smoke. 1t appears that
the origin of the smoke is a matter
Of Indifference. 1t is simply forced
into receiver where it is saturated
with hydrocarburet, and can then he
burned, giving brilliant illumina-
ton
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-02-27
CHILDREN OF THE CAR.
All Girls and Their Care Is Entrusted
TO an Irish Lady-An Affection
ate Father.

Although no boy has hitherto
blessed their hearth, four girls have
been born to their imperial majesties
Olga. The eldest; Tatiana, Maria and
Tx inore.reeenlly-argised baby, whose
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-02-27
Woman of II.

Clare-I broke my engagement with
Jack Swiftleigh last night. He's too
fast.
Maude-Foolish grill Don't you
know that people should wed their
opposites ?--Chicago Daily News.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-02-27
Longest Drirt OF n Bottle.

The longest measured drift Of bot
tie was in the Pacifcy-from- four de-
greeaS south of the equator to the Fiji
-slands'e distance O9d'7OO miles in AS
days.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-02-27

Miranda rallied under careful treat
ment; but her hold on life was gone,
and when the wild cherry was in bios
som the end came.
There was much speculation as to
what had become of her fortune, but
whether its original amount had been
exaggerated, or Mirandy had spent,
lent, or given it away, was never
known.
"Poor Mirandyl" said Mrs. ODER
baugh, as she turned away from the
broken sod; "she had hard row to
hoe" and she kept the dead woman's
secret.-People's Home Journal.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-02-27

Telephones i4 Western Europe.
Western Eurole will soon have as
complete lonst distance telephone
service ss'A-s- Unised States now has.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-02-27

GEO. W. ST CLAIR, ATTORNEY AT Law Law
well and adjoining counties and in the Supreme
Court of Appeals at Wytheville. Particulss at
tention paid to the collection OF claims once
Btras building
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-02-27

Canyasser-Don't let me disturo you,
sir
Busy Merchant won't. Williams.
show the gentleman out.-Chicago
Tribune.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-02-27

N e. ANDERSON, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Taze-
n,Well, Va Will practice in the courts OF Iaze-
well county and the Court of Appeals at Wythe-
vile. Collecting specially
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-02-27

poWEN e. ROYAL, ATTORNEYS AT LAW
d Tazewell, Va. Will practice in the courts OF
Tazewell and adjoining counties, and the Court
of Appeals at Wytheville. Collections given
special attention. Office in Masonic Building.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-02-27

al B. 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, 1902-02-27

VINCENT L. SEXTON, ATTORNEY AT LAW,
tTazewell, Va. Will practice in the courts OF
razewell and adjoining counties. Particular at
tention paid to the collection of claims. Office in
5tras building.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-02-27

H. STUART, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Ia well,
lrVa Land titles in Mcdowell and Logan coun-
ties, West Virginia, q specially. ONCE In Stras
building.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-02-27

oREEvER a GILLESPIE, LAWYERS Tazewell
UVa PraGsaLei n the courts of Tazewell and al
dining counties. Ofice-Stras building. EdgaI
L. Greever. Barns Gillespie.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-02-27

HENRY & GRAHAM, LAWYERS, Tazewell, Va.
nOnice in building near Court House X. H.
Henry. s. G. Graham.
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Officers.
THE CHURCHES.
Methodist Episcopal Church South

Public worship of God on the o Isl ana ana
= d SUNDAYS at II A NJ, on the znu anu
IN Meeting e. for prayer, Wednesday at ''Oo'
Nj Sabbath School at $3.50 A. M,
Young mems prayer meeting eacn 0"HO"'
at 8 p. m. axtanded to all
a "o''0 R. A KELLY Pastor
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TAzEWElL co. DIRECTORY.
Cirenit Court.

Robert G. 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, 1902-02-27

4 3. HIGGINBOTHAM, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
d. Tazewell, Va. (0hice mp stairs in Law Build
iuQ0 Practices in Courts of Tazewell and adj
Joining counties, and in Court of Appeals of Vir-
ginia.