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Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-01-02
NEW THEORY OF SLEEP.
Narcotic Secretion in the System
Thrown Into the Circulation
Causes the Phenomenon.
What causes sleep?

What causes sleep?
Very likely there is not scientist
of your acquaintance who will be able
to tell you. AS for the poets they
have been offering explanations ever
since time began, but, unfortunately,
none of them is reasonable, says a
scientific exchange.
A rather startling theory lately
put forward by young Psychologist
is attracting considerable attention.
This student believes that gland or
certain glands in the system secrete
narcotic substance; that this SUBJ
stance is stored in the gland or
glands until at definite times main
ly Influenced by habit and "tiredness"
of the individual-it is thrown into
the circulation, and thereby causes
the phenomenOn of sleep.
There is no direct evidence of the
correctness of this theory, but he re-
fers to a lately discovered fact that
the urine of health secreted in wax
ing hours always contains a narcotic
substance, and he urges this point in
support of his theory. The existence
of such glands is difficult to deny.
Sir T. Lauder Brunton' has pointed
out that opium will keep person
awake if he wishes to be wakeful,
and, conversely, will make him sleep
if he wishes sleep-which would seem
to show that sleep is in some meas
ure under the control of the will.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-01-02
HOW THEY FELL OUT.
One of Those fearful Little Tiffs
Over Nothing That Ends
In the Sugar Pot.

They had been married three weeks,
and had just commenced housekeeping
He was starting to town one morning
and she followed him to the door, says
London Tit-Bits. They had their arms
wrapped around each other, and she
was saying:
"Oh, Clarence, do you think it pos
sible that the day can ever come when
we shall part in anger?"
why, no, little puss," he said. "Ot
course not; what put that foolish idea
into my little BRIDES head, eh?"
"Oh, nothing, dearest. was only
thinking how perfectly dreadful it
would be if one of us should speak
harshly to the other"
well, don't think of such wicked,
utterly impossible things any MORE"
he said. eve can never, never quar-
rel"
81 know it, darling. Good-by, you
dear old precious, good-by, and-oh,
wait a second, Clarence, I've written
a note to mamma. Can't you run
round to the house and leave it for
her some time to-day?"
"Why, yes, dearie; if / have time"
eff you have time! Oh, Clarence!"
What is it. little girlie?"
"Oh. to say if you have time to do
almost the very first errand your lit
tie wife asks you to do"
"Well, well, dearie, I'm awfully busy
just now"
TOO busy to please me? Oh, Clar-
ence, you hurt my feelings So"
"Why. child, 7"
"T'm not a child, Clarence; I'm a
married woman, and I"
There, there, my pet. I"
"No, no, Clarence, if I was your
,p-p-et, you'd t-t-ry toto"
"But, Mabel, do be reasonable"
ooh, Clarence. don't speak to me So"
mabel, be sensible. and"
go on, Clarence, go on; break my
heart"
stuff and nonsense!"
Oh, o-o-Qh!
"What have said or done?"
"As you need to askl But go. Hate
me if you will, Clarence, I"
"This is rank nonsense!"
"I'll go back to mamma if you want
me to. She loves me, if you don't"
"You must be crazy!"
"Oh, yes; sheer at me, ridicule me,
Perhaps you had better strike mel"
He bangs the door, goes down the
steps with a jump, and races off, NUT
tering something about women being
the "queerest creatures" -
Of course, they'll make up at night,
and they'll have many such a little
tiff in the years to come, and when
they are old, they'll say: We've lived
together As years, and never-no,
never-spoken a cross word to each
other in all that time"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-01-02
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Zoe. N41:fSyEY,V-r-~rr,,. -uxxry-.n7Tl7ET An
a5e. soc. AA1l sAsAsAA Druggists.
Genuine stamped c. c. c. Never sold In bulk.
Beware OF the dealer who tries to sell
something just as good"
REGULARS NOT SUPERIOR.
Modern Methods of Warfare Make
Citizen Soldiers Equal to
Professionals.

In an interview in the London Mail
on the military situation in France,
NJ. de Bloch says the lessons of the
TraIsvaal war are that the methods
of warfare hitherto employed have
become obsolete and impossible; that
professional soldiers no longer pos
sess their former superiority over civ
ilians transformed into soldiers; that,
on the contrary, the intelligent citi-
zen possesses more initiative and in
dependent action. The soldiers pres
ent training is almost useless on the
battlefield. The Beers, who are sim
ply peasants, have proved excellent
soldiers. Even in the British army
the colonial troops and the Yeomanry
were equal to the regulars.
Just as Plevna was revelation
from the point of view of defensive
tactics, so the Transvaal campaign
has demonstrated that in future wars
at every step there will be Plevnas,
for the defense of which soldiers who
are only good marksmen will suffice.
Even for the offensive warfare the
experience of England tends to the
conclusion that seven months train
ing for artillery and a few months
for infantry are quite enough. As to
the cavalry, all training is useless,
since, according to Col. Henderson,
the small bore and smokeless pow
der have destroyed the last vestige
of the traditional role of cavalry.
Cavalry armed, trained and equipped
as the cavalry of the continent is as
obsolete as the Crusaders"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-01-02
RARITY OF GREY QUEUES.
Cinnamon Who Show Their Age in
This Way Are Seldom
Met with.

81 saw a Chinaman in Mott street
the other day whose queue was get
ting gray" said the man of experience,
relates the New York Times. Il con-
sidered those silvery threads among
the black quite a phenomenon, and in
my surprise at their appearance l
stopped the old fellow and asked him
how in the world he ever happened to
get them. He could understand but
very little English, however, and speak
less, and, as 1 was equally deficient in
a knowledge of the Chinese tongue, we
didn't make much progress in the mat
ter of explanation. Finally went into
a BARRIERS shop near by and sought
to satisfy my curiosity there. Some
how, | fancied the man must be an
octoge marian at the very least, but
learned that he was still in his prime
and had, unlike the majority of his
countrymen, turned prematurely gray.
This phase of the matter COMPOUNDED
me all the more. In all my travels he
was the first gray-headed Chinaman I
had ever seen, and I had met many of
his race here and in the far west.
e"It is really a curious thing, when
you come to think of it, how rarely
Chinaman shows his age, at least so far
as his hair is concerned. 1 have seen
many of them who have turned slight
ly gray around the temples, but I had
to wait till the other day to find pig
tail streaked with white. The Mott
street barber assured me that this
immunity from gray heads is in a great
measure due to the excellent care be-
slowed upon Celestial heads by native
shampooers. Seldom it is that an Amer
lean patronizes a Chinese barber to
test the beneicent properties Of his
touch. but those who have so eXpe
rienced agree with the Chinese patrons
that he has a way about him that puts
new life and vigor into mans scalp.
This efficacious massaging, together
with a certain oriental tonic with which
the water is perfumed, constitutes the
secrets of his trade and preserves the
locks of Chinese customers in their
pristine duskiness.
"After had parted from the gray
headed Chinaman I poked around the
streets of the colony for an hour or
more on the lookout for another of
his kind, but my search was vain. How
ever, there may be more gray heads on
L -,
remote corners of the city. If so, I
wish their owners would stand up to
be counted"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-01-02
METAL EGGS FOR DRINKS.
OvOid Capsules of Copper Containing
Ice for Cooling TOO-Warm
Beverages.

One of the oldest of recent inven-
tions is refrigerating egg, as it
might be called. 1t is an ovoid cap
sule of nickel-plated copper, about
the size and shape of hens egg, hol-
low and nearly filed with water. For
use it is frozen so that its contents
become ice, says the Philadelphia
Post.
If you have a glass of milk that is
not cold enough, you do not like to
put ice into it, because dilution with
water spoils the beverage. But, if
you have one of these eggs handy,
you may drop it into the glass, and in
a few moments the liquid is reduced
to the desired temperature. In the
same way you may cool your cup of
coffee, if it is too hot, and the idea is
equally applicable to any other
drink.
Many people nowadays are disin-
clined to use ice in their drinking wa
ter, because it may contain germs.
All danger is avoided by dropping one
of these metal eggs into ones tum-
bier.
The refrigerating egg is little
lass than full of water, so as to allow
for the slight expansion of the liquid
in freezing; otherwise, of course, the
capsule would burst. After being
filled the capsule is sealed so perfect
ly that no one can tell where the
opening was, and thus it is absolutely
water tight. Such an egg of metal, it
is said, can hardly be broken, and
ought to last forever.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-01-02
FLOWERS ATTRACT INSECTS,
Not by Their Bright COIOrs So Much
as by Their Stores of
Sweets.

Much interesting information in re-
gard to the attraction which flowers
possess for insects is contained in a
paper by Prof. L. Plateau, of Client
which is published by the Entomo
logical society of Belgium.
He arrived some time ago at the con:
clusion that insects are but little at
tracted by bright colors, and he is now
confirmed in this opinion by expert
ments, which show that brightly col
ored stuffs and scintillating metallic
objects placed among the leaves OF
flowers have only slight attractive
ness for insects. In regard to the
constancy of insects in visiting in
variably the same species of flowers
on the same fight. he says that cen
tain species of Bombus are very in.
constant; that the megachile and
coelioxys are less so, and that the
honey bee and anthidium manicatum
are remarkably constant.
The habit of constancy he attrib.
utes to the insects desire to save la.
Dor. The syrphidae (hover fies), he
points out, show considerable ten.
dency TO be attracted by bright col
Ors, whether of flowers or Of inani.
nate objects, ard to this quality. o. Il
not 10 airy aesthetic serse. E., TO ~
tritussd il:gir habi. cfhs,rng SCI
towers.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-01-02
KEEP YOUR BLOOD CLEAN
Campaigning I'm ss.nar.

With the exception of small part
of the island of Samar the ground is
entirely covered with dense jungle
which it is next to impossible to pene.
trate, says a Manila newspaper. The
trails lead off fairly and after few
miles end in a blank wall of jungle,
which is so matted that it takes hours
for the soldiers to cut trail wide
enough for the passage of single
man at a time. What the natives call
trails in the mountains are simply
paths almost entirely covered with
Jungle grass, rattan and bamboo,
through which the hardy mountain
GERS force their way with ease, while
the more encumbered and less accus-
toned white soldier cannot get
through at all.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-01-02
JAPAN'S INTEGRITY.
Her People Are Proud to Serve Their
Government for Pit
lance,

The modern Japan which Mar
quis Ito's policy has brought forth
was made possible by the religious
devotion of mobiles and coolies to the
emperor, which made the imperial
wishes law; by the intense patriot
ism and the official integrity of the
retainers of the Diamyos, who have
become the officers of the army and
navy and members of the civil serv-
ice, writes Frederick Palmer, in Serb
ner's. AS an occidental, I should
place integrity as the first cause.
When you have official servants so
proud that even the postman will not
accept a Christmas present, states
man knows that, whatever his errors
of construction may be, the timbers
are sound. AS long as men become
policemen on less than a coolies pay
for the honor Of serving the govern
ment, it will never lack for first-elass
ability to fill its Offices. Japan may
well reverence her old military aris-
tocracy, with it's false punctilios.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-01-02
The Heaviest of Cups.

Americas cup is apparently the
heaviest bit of silverware in the
world. Sir Thomas Upton, that
prince of sportsmen ard genial gen.
tleman, has not been able to raise
that cup or tilt 1t the least bit in his
direction, says the New York Her
aid.
1t is estimated that he has spent
about $1,3OO,OOO to lift it and yet it
firnly maintains its level of the last
half century. He has spent enough
to lift Westminster abbey an entire
story and still is unable to move that
cup the smallest fraction of an inch
nearer the British islands. If he had
put that money into coal, and by its
combustion converted a small portion
of the water he has sailed over into
steam, he would have power enough
to lift the great pyramid. Yet all
this power directed against that lit
tie cup has not been able to even
shake it on it's foundation. Surely
this is a wonderful exhibition Of
gravity.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-01-02
Venezuelan Pearls.

When the Spanish discovered Vene-
zuela they found the natives wearing
pearls for ornament and the fishery
is still fourishing to-day More than
400 boats are employed in the work,
each one paying about three dollars
per year to the government. The
pearls are of fine quality, usually
white or yellow and rarely black.
Only recently white pearl valued
at $4,000 was found. The shell of the
pearl oyster of Venezuela is small
and of poor quality. The oysters
themselves are shOrt-lived-eight
years or so. A French company has
lately been formed to exploit the
fisheries by means of divers, who
take only the mature shells and leave
the smaller sorts, so that the beds
will not be exhausted. The annual
output of these fisheries is about
100000 and it is said that most of
the pearls are sold in Paris.-N. Y
Sun.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-01-02
DRIED GARDEN TRUCK.
Fruits and Vegetables Freed from
Water to Serve as Food for
Soldiers.

Dessicated vegetables are coming on
the market for use, especially by pros
pectors and hunters, who are obliged
to economic every ounce in the
weight of the provisions they carry.
Necessity compels them to select such
foods as combine the maximum of nu-
triment with the minimum of bulk and
avoirdupois. This implies waterfree
substances and dried fruits and veg
etables are especially adapted for the
purpose. Of late the war department
has been experimenting with prod
ucts Of this kind; it has found them
wholesome and in all respects desir-
able, and is likely to use them largely
in future years.
White potatoes, carrots and sweet
potatoes have been found particular
ly available for dessication. The
sweet potatoes are cut up into little
cubes, while the white potatoes and
carrots are sliced When wanted for
use they have to be soaked in water
before cooking them; as sold, they
are supposed to be absolutely water
free. What a saving in weight and
bulk they represent will be realized
when it is understood that fresh white
potatoes contain so per cent. of water,
and fresh carrots 90 per cent
Experiments have proved that the
drying process causes no loss of nutri-
ment, and that the product furnishes
a most valuable addition to the food
of people who are unable to get fresh
vegetables. The dessicated white po-
tatoes are as rich in muscle-forming
elements as the best wheat -four,
though consisting mainly of the
starchy material which is so useful as
fuel for the body machine. The same
thing may be said of the carrots and
sweet potatoes; but a notable fact is
that dried eastern vegetables are rich
er in starch and poorer in muscle
forming material than those grown in
California.
These dried vegetables are sold I'M
bleached, as a rule, bleaching prepare
tions being bad for the digestion.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-01-02
OUTGREW HIS COFFIN.
Singular Features of the Funeral of
q Man who Had Made His own
Burial Cnsket.

At Benton graveyard, near Port
Washington, where no interment has
been made for 20 years, a funeral
was held on a recent Sunday that for
strange and peculiar features had no
parallel in that vicinity, says the Co.
lumbus CO., Press. 1t was the funer-
al of Philip Haas, an eccentric Ger
man resident of Buckhorn, and in
compliance with his request his body
was kept five days before burial.
The coffin in which he was buried
was one he had made five years ago.
1t was constructed of planks and
covered with black velvet. He made
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-01-02
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Seth Low has been made doctor OF
laws seven times by various colleges.
Cassius NJ. Clay, the Kentuckian OF
many exciting experiences, is now
over 90 years old and is preparing ms
autobiography.
The daughter of ]. Pierpont Morgan
Miss Anne, as might be expected from
such a father, is a systematic business
woman, keeping books of her expenses
and income and overlooking all her
investments herself.
George L. McNutt, the New York
minister who gave up preaching to be-
come a workingman and live with the
poor, declares that clearinghouse
fare drives many a man to drink. ut
ought to be a penitentiary offense to
fry beefsteak," he says.
Few subjects of the British ruler are
inclined to refuse the honor of knight
hood when offered and yet this is what
A. G. Jones, governor Of Nova Scotia,
did twice during the duke of Corn
wallis visit to Canada. Mr.. Jones an
cestors settled in New England over
200 years ago, but after the revolution
emigrated to Canada.
1t is said that Rev. DR.. Edward Ever
EFT Hale, of Boston, has attended every
annual meeting of the Boston female
asylum directors and inmates for 46
years. The last was on Wednesday,
October 3d. A Boston paper said that
he told the children pretty stories, and
they in turn recited and sang for him.
He baptised some of their grand
mothers.
Ernest Seton Thompson, the we'll
known writer and author, has been
granted permission by the supreme
court of New York state to change his
name to that of Ernest Thompson
Seton. Mr.. Seton Thompson in his
petition said that the surname of
Thompson was pseudonym adopted
by his family, which hid from the Eng
fish government after having taken
part in the Jacobite rebellion in 1745.
DR.. hansen has liking for bright
colors. That is why his ship, the Fran,
was painted green, gray, scarlet and
white, picked out with gold. The ex-
plorer is a clever artist and lover of
music-of his wife's singing especially
but he does not care for so-called
artistic" furniture. The table atwhich
he does all his work when at home at
his place at Lysaker, six miles from
Christiania, is merely a huge kitchen
table.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-01-02
A Queer Trade Drawer.

BY very simple means a Philadel-
phia merchant attracted more at
tentiOn to his store than any amount
of placard advertising would have
gained for it. A great Maltese cat
was tied to eight yards of rope and
was fastened in the marble doorway.
1t was a rare instance of a cat hay-
ing its liberty thus restricted, and
throughout each afternoon crowds of
persons focked about the door. The
drawer among them did puss the hom-
age of a pat on the head, while more
timid souls felt sure the animal was
fierce and kept at a safe distance.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-01-02
A WARM SUGGESTION.
Made by a High Climber Who Hns
Had Some Hot Expo
riences.

IF you want to know what heat
is" finally said the High Climber, in
the autobiography of High Climb
Rim Frank Leslie's Popular Month
ly, "you must be at the top of a
chimney where the furnaces are
going at full clip below. / was point
ing up the sides of one high chimney
in Massachusetts one hot summer
day. 1 was up about 100 feet. 1 had
done one, two, three sides, and now
pulled myself up to shift my hook
around to the fourth. My bo'sun's
chair swung down from this hook,
you understand.
at was hot enough anywhere on
the top, but around the. cap on the
fourth side where the wind was blow
ing out the smoke and heat it was
awful. dropped my hook down and
walked around to the cooler side to
rest a bit. Around the cap ] had a
space of about a foot's width to walk
on. In a moment I went back and
put my hand on the hook to slide
down the rope to my chair. Gee! L
thought the hair would come out Of
my head. My shoes frizzed. The hot
iron of the hook blistered my hands
| could stay nowhere near it.
again and again l went back to
that hook. Each time I was driven
to the other side. There in the sun
and the furnace heat pouring up,
blowing this way, the hook got hot
ter and hotter. There was no other
way of getting down even. 1 was
caught there.
Finally, in desperation, I took off
my undershirt and grabbed the hook
with it. Blistered and burned, I half
fell into my chair and managed to let
myself down"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-01-02
Similarity of Names.

1t appears that consignment o.
"Wheeling stogies" recently shipped
to England was classified by the Gus
tom house officials as "leather manu-
factures," on theassumption that they
were boots for bicycling. This is equal
says the Pathfinder, to the Dutch pat.
ent office, which classified an American
machine for making ginger snaps un'
der "distilling and brewing" on the
assumption that "ginger snaps" was
some sort of "schnapps" to drink.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-01-02
A Far-TroveIed Locomotive.

The English papers record the recent
completion by express locomotive No.
of the Great Northern railway Of its
-millionth mile of travel. The en-
CINE was built at Doncaster more than
30 years ago, and is still in active serv-
ice. It-has single driving wheels, and
VS. me of the first to be fitted with
outside cylinders. Four million miles
is more than 1914 times the distance
between the earth and the moon, and
100 times the circumference of the
earth. But the veteran locomotive
would have to continue the same aver
age rate of travel for about 700 years
in order to traverse q distance equal
to that of the sun from the earth,
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-01-02
ne'2 s. and YOU CAN CURE YOURSELF AT HOME at"
INTERNATIONAL AURAL CLINIC 500 LA SALE AVE. CHICAGO ILL
COAL WASTED IN MINING.
Twenty-Five Per Cent. of the Total
Output of English Mines
Annually Lost.

at has been recently computed
that more than 5O,OOO,OO0 tons of coal
are wasted every year in the mine"
So said j. Stephen Jeans in address,
ing the South Wales Institute of En-
gineers, reports the London Tele-
graph. This waste is that mainly Of
small coal, and is, of course, quite in
dependent of the reckless and useless
consumption that goes on in nearly
every domestic CRATE and at every
furnace. Even this huge figure is
less than it used to be, for with the
general adoption of coal washing
plants, the introduction of producers
capable of using small coal in the
making of gas and the manufacture
of briquettes, the loss has been re-
duced. 1t forms still % per cent. of
the total output, and represents a
money sacrifice of 920,OO0,000. AL
lowing 100000 homes in the United
Kingdom, these 5O,00O,OOO tons would
allow five tons per annum for every
family. A high authority (Forster
BROWN reckons that at the existing
rate of consumption land waste)
within 40 years from the present
time an increase in the cost of coal
will begin to be felt as new element
in the commercial position of the ma
ton" Mr.. Jeans thinks this esti-
mate too pessimistic, but if we allow
twice 40 years it is a terribly short
time in the life of a nation. Most
people ignore the fact that the ex-
haustion has begun. In the North
cumberland coal field most Of the
thick seams are worked out, and it
has now become necessary to work
seams from two feet to two feet six
inches thick, which is reducing the
output per man by from IS to 20 per