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Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-10-09

break bottle or something ths day
it's done, and then somebody will pull
q string or something and let the wa.
tiers of the Pacific flow into the Allan
tic. That's fine, isn't it?"
Its really grand, my love-"
"And | was thinking of anothei
thing, George. You know what a fish
eYman papa is, and how he loves to
fish for tuna, but hates to go away
across to California to find them. Dc
you think the tuna will swim through
the canal so papa can catch them down
in Florida?"
"Why not, my love? Ihave not doubt
that all sorts of things from the Pa
cifc side will float through-ChinesC
scows, and whales. and seals, and wal
ruses, and polar bears, and"
stop, George, you're a hateful
thing!"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-10-09
HE EXPLAINED THE GAME.
And 1t Was Not Altogether the Young
Lady's Fault That She Didn't
Understand.

There are very few young women
left in the land who do not understand
the rules of our national game, but
there's at least one whose education
has been neglected in this direction.
She's brotherless girl, of course, else
she'd have known all about base hits
and three baggers long ago. She's felt
her ignorance keenly for years, and SO
the other day, when two masculine
cousins, who are enthusiastic on the
subject of baseball, offered to take her
to a game and teach her its intricacies,
she accepted the invitation gratefully
and went, relates the Baltimore News.
She didn't learn much before the
game commenced, because her escorts
were too deep in a discussion OF the
merits of the man who was to pitch
to pay any attention to her, but when
the first inning commenced both men
in chorus explained to her something
like this: cts perfectly plain, Elsie;
you see the pitcher stands in his box
and sends the leather over the plate to
the batter, who knocks 1t out for
bag if he can. He gets around the dla-
mond andy! vi! Vi! VII"
The Vi! VII Vi! vi! wasn't part OF
the explanation. 1t was the shout that
went up from the throats of the speak
ers at an achievement of Baltimore
player that took place at that mo-
ment, and both young men, with one
accord, rose to their feet.
Elsie, watching diligently, az she
had been told to do, got very dis
tipct vision around the edges Of their
Tapping coats of two daisies and a
tuft of grass growing in the field.
"What happened?" she asked, when
order was restored. "Was any one
rcA hurt?"
"Wbat happened? Why, the great
est play of the season." replied one
cousin, excitedly. "He smashed out a
two-bagger. I declare, didn't think
it was in him, did you, Fred? Vow!
Vow; there it goes again, good for a
run this time"
And again the two youths were car
ried to their feet by their emotions
and again Elsie, peeping around cor
ners and under edges, succeeded in
discerning a small boy sitting on the
ground near the bleachers
"It's very interesting, isn't it?" she
asked, when all was quiet once more
$50 foolish of me never TO have
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-10-09
LIFE IN THE PHILIPPINES.
Good Methods in Times of Plague
and Epidemic.

War is not always hell. at least in It's
results, says the Medical Record. J.e
number of lives saved in Cuba and
Porto Rico by the sanitary measures
which the result of the Spanish war
empowered us to institute is already
almost incalculable, but some notion
of it may be gained by comparing the
death rate of Havana or Of Santiago
de Cuba now with what it was before
the American occupation. The saving
in the Philippines is less apparent. be-
cause of the distance of the islands
and because all the cutlery has been
of killing and of torture, but it is
none the less real. Gen. Lloyd
Wheaton, who recently returned, after
being three years and half in LuzCn,
is quoted as saying that 1.-THE devasta-
tions of war have cost many lives and
the loss among the natives has no
doubt been large, but when one takes
into consideration the hundreds Of
thousands of lives that have been saved
by reason Of the sanitary precautions
of the American army and the civil
commission, that loss by war seems in
fnitesimal." Smallpox, he says, be-
came epidemic soon after our troops
entered Manila, and would have caused
frightful mortality among the natives
but for compulsory vaccination. Later,
when bubonie plague appeared, the
army medical men stamped it out en-
ergetically. Now cholera is there. but
it is being gotten well under control
and is claiming only small proportion
of the victims it would have had under
the former unsanitary regime. These
three dangers" Gen. Wheaton says,
"have been met and oyercame by the
Americans, and it is perhaps no eXag-
geration to say that half a million lives
have been saved by the presence Of
the Americans in the Philippines"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-10-09

learned the game before. Your ex-
plantations have helped me wonder
fully"
Her escorts looked at her suspi-
ciously, for men hate sarcasm. "All
you have to do is to keep an eye on
the ball and the pitcher and catcher
and home plate and the men on bases"
they assured her. "See, that one was
scooped in by q fielder. Now watch
us retire the other fellows in one-two-
three order"
"What is one-two-three order?
Why, I knew that when l was four
years old. It's-what in the name of
thunder does he mean by such a
throw? They ought to retire that fell
low on a pension. He's in a state of
decreptitude. By George, caught at
the post! Look at himl Look at
him!"
And Elsie, viewing the scene be-
tween waving folds of serge and
tweed, saw one gentleman sitting on
another gentleman's head, violently
cutting him.
"You never told me this was prize
fight" said she, reproachfully, then.
81 wouldn't have come If l had known.
When does the ball game commence"
"My dear little coz" replied the old
er of her relatives, as he famed him
self with his hat, you have just wit
messed a part of one of the most ex-
citing baseball games ever played on
these grounds. If you haven't enjoyed
it. it is merely because your taste
runs more to ping-pong than to manly
sports and not because Fred and /
haven't conscientiously endeavored to
explain the rules to you and make
YOU a mistress of the subject. Keep
quiet, like a good child, a little while
longer and going home in the car I'll
explain to you what pitcher is and
likewise who won and what city the
opposing team is from. Hi! You!
There he goes again!" And That's
positively all the explanation that
Elsie received that Gay from the gen
tlemen-her cousins.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-10-09
THROUGH TIE PANAMA CANAL
A Domestic Discussion Which brings
to Light, Some Tremendous
Possibilities.

George, dear, don't sit there asleep
with the flies biting you"
"It's me the flies are biting, my love.
If 1 don't object to it, and the flies
don't object to it, why should you|'
replied George, according to the Cleve-
land Plain Dealer.
But want to talk to you about this
Panama canal, George. It's like other
canals, isn't it?"
eyes, my dear; only it's wider and
deeper and shorter"
"But it's just ditch, isn't it?"
eyes, my dear, it's just gloriiied
ditch"
"And what will they do with the dirt
they shovel out of it, George?"
'"rhey will dig a hole and bury it,
my love-"
''There, now, you're stringing me.
How long is it going to take to dig it,
dear?"
"Oh, r'half dozen years"
"MyS but that seems long while to
wait ii you are in hurry to get
though. And l suppose that they'll
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-10-09
AFFAIRS IN PORTO RICO.
BusipeSs, Health and Prospects In
General Are Better Than Ever.
Before, Says Gov. liant.

Gov. William II. Hunt recently ar
rived here from Porto Rico on the
steamer Coamo, reports the New York
Tribune.
Gen. Miles landed IN Porto Rico four
years ago to-day. Great changes have
taken place and the island has much
TO be thankful fer since cur nag was
raised.
The close Of the fiscal year showed
better business, better health and bet
ter prospects than ever. Tie insuIar
treasury balance on July i was $314,-
OOO, gain OF $50 in the year. The
total exports for Lass year aggregated
S12, $50 So. showing an increase III e;l-
ports TO fore 81 countries cf 81 10
per cent over the previous year, and
IS Clio per cent. increase Of exports
to the United States. The increase IS
principally in sugar, cigars and cigar
cites, straw hats and coffee. We sent
$2O4, 500 worth Of straw hats alone to
the United States last year.
american merchants would do well
to study Porto Rican imports from
Europe. with a view to enlarging home
trade. Porto Rico bought over $4,000
worth Of Nova Scotia Goldfish last year
and over S15O,OOO worth of foreign
soaps. Spain sent us rice valued at
more than 100000, and over $50O,OOO
worth of potatoes. This business
should 60 to our own markets, and,
with larger development in the island,
it's future commerce must be kept
closer at home The Porto Rican cof-
fee continues to go to Europe-to Aus
tria, France, Spain, Italy and Ger
many. America took only $4,000 worth
last year, while Europe took over 3d.
OOO,OJ0 worth. The superiority of the
coffee is such that we cannot under
stand the insignificant demand for it
in New York; still, it is gradually gain
ing favor, and viii soon be sold e.
tensiyely, / hope.
Fruit growing is receiving atten-
ton, and with quicker transg2rtation
will invite investment. ImpibIement
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-10-09
SOFIA AN INDIAN DRINK.
National beverage OF the C:eeks Is
becoming Very Popular win
the White People.

Sofia. the national drink Of the
Creek Indians Of the Indian territory,
is to them what the mint julep is to
the native Kentuckian. 1t is made of
corn and water. There are three kinds
plain, sour and white. The latter
two are fancy mixed drinks, says the
Chicago Inter Ocean.
The recent invasion by white people
of the domain Of the Creek Indians has
popularized sofka until the fashion OF
drinking 1t has spread all over the
southwest, and it promises to become
an equal favorite with the mint julep
and whisky sour.
Indians have a dish made expressly
for sofka. When an Indian wants
sofka dish he goes to the woods, hews
down a hickory tree, and cuts there
from a block ten inches thick In one
side of this block he hollows out
bowl-shaped cavity six inches deep
and makes the inside as smooth as pos
sible.
In this vessel the Indian places his
corn, and with pestle, which is some
times made of stone, but more com
monty of hard hickory, he pounds the
corn until it is a coarse meal. Then
he takes some kind of fan, or some
thing which will take its place, and
fans the broken grains until all the
husks fly away. If the broken grains
-, 81 ha folyac ont the
larger grains and beats them into
finer meal.
A potful of hot water and two
quarts of meal are used in making
sofka. When the corn and water have
been put in the pot and the pot has
been placed over the fire, take some
vessel having perforations in the sides
or bottom and put in it some clean
wood ashes. Then nearly fill the YES
sci with water.
Hold this vessel over the pot contain
ing the meal and let the lye made by
the water soaking through the ashes
drip into the sofka. Then the mix
ture is allowed to boil for from three
to five hours. 1t is next set aside and
not drunk for some days later. This
is plain SOFIA.
The sour sofka is made in the same
way, but the mixture is set until it
has soured of fermented. This soured
mixture is the popular drink among
the full-blooded element.
White sofka is made from white
corn, and tastes much better. The
Indians have a fine white corn which
they raise exclusively for this purpose.
In making white sofka the grains are
cooked whole and the fakes are eaten
later after having boiled in the water
and lye. The corn is then known as
big hominy.
The Indians eat with this sofka
dish known as blue dumplings, which
are quite as necessary as cheese and
crackers with beer. In the making OF
blue dumplings two cups of corn meal
are used, a half teaspoonful of baking
soda, and a small quantity Of butter
The meal and soda are mixed thor
oughly. Enough butter IS used to
make the meal hold together. and 1t
is rolled into little balls. These 1T
tie balls are dropped into a pot Of boil
ing water, boiled for from three to
five minutes, removed with a spoon,
and served hot. The dish is fit for any
| palate.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-10-09
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Oueen Victoria left an enormous
lumber of private letters which, ac-
,ording to a court official, lit would
AXE the better part of a mans h1e-'
lime to sift, sort, docket and arrange
,or publication or intelligent preser-
'ation."
Reginald Vanderbilt is the only
representative of his family with ut
,rarv inclinations or ambitions. lie
has written short stories ever since
.e was a small boy at school, some
,f his work showing considerable lm-
Igination.
at is odd" said the poet, with vio-
ently-concealed cSmplacency, but L
cannot remember any of the verse
have written" "How fortunate,
exclaimed the friend; "and perhaps
some day you will be able TO 1orget
that you wrote it."-lndianapohs
News.
Lord George Goschen, former Eng
dsb chancellor of the exchequer,
heretofore best known as an autnor-
ty on finance, is at work on Dlog-
raphy of Goethe, of whose writings
De is a great admirer. Years Oh re-
learch are said to have resulted IN
Eir Georges gathering together
mass Of new material.
Lord Derby, former prime minister
Of England. was looking for a book
IN his library ore evening in the
presence OF Lord Arthur Russell.
Passing his candle along the shelves
ne came to the poems of William
Morris. 'If ] had known that he
was going to turn socialist L
wouldn't have gone to the expense
Of binding him in red morocco" re-
:. marked Lord Derby.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-10-09
Coolies Do the Hard work.

The brunt Of the hard labor in NJ.
Mia, as in many eastern cities. is'er-
formed by the coolie class. tbs is
generally an ignorant but rather con-
tented class. They receive very lev
wages and subsist upon what Other
people would throw away. They are
indolent unless driven by want Of fo)d.
and they bask in the sun like animals.
One of the strange and interesting
sights on any day in Manila is to Nit
ness the coolies at their MONDAY ST.
esta. They sit about on their Launches
and quietly puff their pipes and appear
but half awake. This is always after
they have had full meal of rice and
We yeta Chicago Chronicle.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-10-09

was rendered completely useless for
traffic
A battleship is over six inches long
er in summer than in winter, and an
ironclad in the tropics is nearly foot
longer than her sister ship in a more
northern sea. One Of the most power
full breathing materials employed for
engineering work is concrete. The
aqueduct for the conveyance of the
water for London, extending from Bell
Weir to Hampton, distance Of about
eight and three-quarter miles is pro-
vided with what are technically termed
expansion joints, at intervals Of 30
feet. to enable the material to breathe.
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FARO SAVED A MANS LIFE.
How n PENNSYLVANIA Judge WOn$ $40,
coo and Divided 1t with Il De-
BpOndent Friend.


"1he other day when l was il
Philadelphia" said a New York man
according to the sun, 81 was
told how one of their million.
aires, Peter 4. b. WIdoner, walked
the streets Of Philadelphia ali
night once with $4,000 in his
pocket, wondering how he was 60
ing to invest it so as to double it
Now I'll tell you a story Of another
man who walked all night.
~ judge Of a county court in the
upper end of my state came to town
to play faro. His name was Ber
tram. He never played cards at
home, but he used to come to my
town and go up against it for a
week at stretch. He was usually
winner.
The night l have in mind Judge
Bertram met an old friend who had
been running down at the heel finan'
cially until he looked like cripple
He frescoed his story up pretty well
to the judge, who was peculiar
combination. When Bertram was a
winner at faro he would divide his
pile with any friend, but he would
let the same friend starve before he
would help him until he had shaken
the bank, as he put it when he won.
His unfortunate friend told him that
he was going to jump into the river
that night unless he got some help.
The faro bank was on the upper
floor of building that stood facing
the river. Bertram said to the run
down man:
{" You go down to the levee and
walk up and down until | give you
n signal that l have made a, winning
If | shake the bank you'll get some
of the dust. If you don't see the
signal jump into the river. You are
no good without money, anyway. "
1T was a bargain and they sep
arated, the Judge to win or lose, his
friend to win or die. All night the
Judge won and lost alternately.
Sometimes he had stacks of reds and
blues so high that they cast shad-
ow on the dealers box; sometimes
he had a few measley whites on 4
card which looked like poor rela-
ton.
Meantime the man on the river
front was walking, looking at the
dark flow Of the water like the poor
unfortunate in Hoods Bridge of
Signs anon CHANGING up at the win
dows of the gambling room. ter
rife thunderstorm broke over the
town and still the man walked
along the river front until he was
drenched to the marrow in his shiv-
ering bones.
I'm the gray of the morning, with
sheets of rain still falling upon the
scene, Judge Bertram left the game
q $4,000 winner, and walked down
to the river front, where his impecu-
NOUS friend was shiyering.
81 expected to find you in the
river said the judge. L didn't sig
nal because 1 made it all in heap
"If it hadn't been for the rain
said his friend, Il might have jumped,
but l said to myself: What's the
use; you are already wet through,
and if the rain keeps on you'll drown
on land
The Judge called hack and the
two drove to the best hotel in town
and had breakfast. They left town
together. A year later they owned
one Of the biggest cattle ranches in
Colorado.
at was the judges last game, and
it was the last time his friend ever
did any walking. Bertram is dead
but his partner has interests
stretching across the continent in
Hawaii and Japan"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-10-09


1.-THE native masculine costume Of
Casper consists of 81 pair of boots,
$3.50 hat and 75-cent pair of over
alls-'bout $1.25 for shirts, l guess.
l didn't see many cowboys. They call
'em Sheepmen now. Everything's
sheep out there. Casper isn't stock
yards, but once in awhile a bunch of
cattle went by the house, and once
l got mixed up with bunch of sheep.
If Mary's little lamb smelled anything
like it don't wonder that the teacher
objected.
''The native Casperite is not med
est man. His voice is large, and when
he talks you don't have to ask him
twice what he said. if you happen TO
be standing a mile across the prairie
away from him. He is partial to ex-
aggerating the truth His children
are the finest, his wife the best cook,
his ranch the biggest, his crops the
largest, his sheep the most numerous,
his state the best his politics the only
kind in the whole union. He wouldn't
change shoes with Pierpont Morgan
not on your lifel He's honest and big
hearted and open-handed. l like the
native Casperite.
"Tbe woman of Wyoming votes.
She wears divided skirts when she
rides horseback, so you may know that
she rides in the fashionable attitude.
She doesn't powder her face and frizz
her hair. She's big and buXom and
healthy, and when she laughs it isn't
windy giggle. She can hit a rabbit
on the jump with 45, and she knows
how to fry sage chicken and bake
rabbit pie. She rears numerous and
husky progeny, and to express it mild
w. she rules the roost.'
Fruit is scarce out there. and ba-
nanas are so cents a-dozen, so they buy
'em by the bunch. The Casper taste
runs to bananas-bananas for breab-
fast, bananas for dinner and bananas
for supper And say-talk about
feed! Maybe you don't think they
feed a fellow down there!"
81 don't see that you're any fatter,"
interposed the Managing Editor.
"The bronco did that" mournfully
returned the Tenderfoot. 81 lost 20
pounds in perspiration, epidermis and
fatty tissue. And say amt just
tenderfoot any more-I'm tender all
over now"
"Well, I guess you'd better go to
work and get tough again. You can
give US a story of your western eX-
periences as a starter. Go on now,
Pm busy" commanded the Managing
Editor
"All right" grunted the TenderfOot,
as he laboriously prepared to lift him
self into standing position. You'll
excuse my moving gradually for day
or two, however. ought to have an
other week to rest up in"
Guess you don't want to go west
again in a hurry, hey?"
Don't Il" said the Tenderfoot.
Next time I go I'll stay there, too.
I'll buy half dozen sheep and go up
in the lovely cool mountains and roost
with my gentle baabaas, and get rich
in couple of years. Say, you can buy
land for so cents an acre out in Wyo-
ming-plenty of water on it, tool"
"Where?" demanded the Managing
Editor.
"On the river bottom" serenely re-
piled the Tenderfoot, as he limped
hastily out of the Managing Editors
atmosphere.-Chicago Record-Herald.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-10-09
Will Make
Affidavit
New Lease of Life for an Iowa
Postmaster.

Postmaster R. Fl. Randall, Dunlap, Ia,
saws: / suffered from INDIGESTION and re,
sulting evils for years. Finally l srLeo
Kodol, soon knew had founo wnas .
had long looked for. am better 'Oua y,
than in years. Kodol gave me = new
lease Of life. Anyone GU my o.,
fidavit to the truth of tr Iel " =
Kodol digests your food. 7 .e ,S sno
system to assimilate supp ~ ~ * :
ing every organ ard re- 49,
KOdOl Makes You o.
Prepared only by E. g. DEWITT & an Chs :i4s
The il. bottle consainssh times spsSOc' sl-''
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-10-09
The sennfe Crane

The United States senator looked
down at the diminutiye bootblack
and smiled.
"Bub," he said, passing down a
dime, 81 see that although you be-
gin at the foot you are bound to
shine"
The bootblack looked up with an
expression of disgust.
Look here, Doss," he said, have a
little pity fer de public. If any Of
desc reporters heard yer spring dat
gag dey'd have It in de papers fer a
wear to come. Dere are too many
funny senators already.'-Chicago
Daily News.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-10-09
Envy PrnnnSnI.

eff I only had an ambassador at
the court of Lowell" sighed the bash
full swain.
"a minister would be good enough
for me-" replied the demure maiden.
"Arabella!"
HERBERT"
And so they were married.--N. o,
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-10-09
Officers.
THE CHURCHES.
Methodist Episcopal Church South.

Public worship of God on the LIST and
Srd Sundays at IL A NJ, on the md and
4th at 500 2. Nj.
Meeting for prayer, Wednesday at 500.
P. NJ. Sabbath School at $3.50 A. NJ.
Young mems prayer meeting each Sunday
at 3 p. m. -
A most cordial welcome is extended to all.
K. A. KELLY Pastor.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-10-09
PerIIs of Ocenn CnbIee.

Among the perils to which sub
marine cable is subject are ocean cur
rents which swirl against seabotton
crags and the attacks of sea mon
sters, sharks, swordfish and the like
Albany Argus.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-10-09
Melons In Colorado.

Artesian wells made possible the
growing of melons in Colorado, crops
being successful several years run
ming, and then a sand storm came
along and cooked the melons on the
trees.-Denver Republican.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-10-09
A HonoluIu Duck RaIser.

Yen Lee, of Honolulu, raises ducks
by the million. He graduated into
the business from the kitchen OF the
late Chief Justice Harris third of a
century ago.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-10-09

Of the five daily newspapers pub
lished in Chinese at Shanghai, three
have a circulation of 10000 or over.