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Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1903-08-13
SAND-FLY LIVES BUT A DAY.
Interesting study TO the
Scientists.
Here is a tragic story of the sand

Here is a tragic story Of the sand
fly.
1t has but a day to live in the light.
In order to earn the right to that day Of
life it lives from one to three years in
darkness, down in the mud at the bot
tom of lakes or rivers. Moreover, the
sand fly is perfectly harmless. 1t can
not even bite. 1t has no sting. 1t
cannot even eat. All it can do is to
fit about for a few hours enjoying the
light of day or the glare of an electric
lamp.
Professor c. B. Davenport of the
University of Chicago, told the other
day, says the Inter-Ocean, about the
delicate, beautiful little insects which
prove a pest to a great many people
The sand fly Is known to scientists
Familiarity as the May fly. In scientific
terms 1t is called Ephemerida. This
name is taken from the Greek word
Ephemeros, which means lasting only
for a day. To the scientists the sand
fly is one Of the most interesting and
beautiful of insects.
The fly lives but a day at most, but
before It sees light it has lived for
from one to three years under the
water in the form of what the scien-
lists call nymph. This nymph can
both walk and swim. AS it grows it
molts and after about the ninth mott
tiny wings appear on its thorax. These
grow larger until the insect comes
forth from the water a sand fly. 1t
then has but one duty, to lay its eggs.
This done the sand fly zigzags through
the air until its brief life is ended.
The popular idea that the sand flies
are blown across the lake to Chicago
is wrong, according to the university
scientists. The sand fly could not live
to be blown that far, and, besides, the
insect always flies against the wind
and not with 1t.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1903-08-13
SWORDFISH KILLS WHALE.
Fierce Battle Between Monsters of
the Deep Witnessed by Steamer
Passengers.

A sanguinary battle between deep sea
monsters, in which whale was killed
by a "thrasher," aided by swordfsh,
was witnessed by the officers Of the Pa
eific Coast Steamship company's City
of Topeka on the last trip OF that vessel.
The battle was fought at the entrance
of Queen Charlotte sound. When it was
over the water for several hundred
yards around was red with blood, says
Seattle report.
First officer ]. S. Lawrence, in telling
of 1t, said;
"The swordfish was not visible dur
ing the fight, but from what l know Oh
similar battles, it is probable that ne
was underneath the water engaged in
prodding the whale. Every time the
swordfsh, which Is generally IL or IA
feet long, struck the monster the mon
ster would rise out of the water. The
thrasher' would jump completely out
of the sea, and, spinning around on Its
head for a few seconds until it had the
head of the whale located, 1t would then
descend with a splash that looked like
a building topping into the sea and
strike the whale. The latter would then
start to sound or dive, but the sword
fish would prod it from underneath I'M
til it rose out of the water to again be
struck by the thrasher.
"This was repeated time and time
again. The noise of the fight was loud
enough to be heard for miles. Even
tually the whale began to spout streams
of blood, and, as the passengers passed
out of sight, his awkward motions be-
came feebler and feebler."
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1903-08-13
ROMANCE IN VARIED GUISE.
ceptible of IA Wide Diver
sificatiOn.

What is romance? Even the COLO
quail use of the term is varied. When
we say you are romancing" or call
anything as romantic as distinguished
from what is real or what is true, we
mean one thing, but quite another
when we apply the term romantic to
natural scenery, says Harper's Maya
zine. And in this application we must
distinguish between the effect upon us
Of that which we call romantic because
-of human associations with certain
sights or sounds and that wildness Of
nature which we call romantic because
of its absolute dissertation from any
thing human.
Keeping out of mind for the present
the use of the word in artistic and lit
erary criticism, let us try to find what
element of reconcilement there is in the
diyersities of colloquial usage.
In all that is generally called romantic
In the cases above mentioned there is
the common element of strangeness.
We easily revert to what must have
been the original sense Of the word in
its connection with those medieval
notifications of the Latin tongue known
as the romance languages. The Saxon
or Celt would have found his native
tongue sufficient for all ordinary needs,
but if he caught the Roman air in any
way, by travel or refinement of taste
and habit, he would, to meet the newly
developed need, borrow the graces of the
Roman speech-that is, he would ro-
nance.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1903-08-13
TACT IN MEDICAL PROFESSION.
As Necessary as Skill I'm Many Gases
That Come Under the Doctors
Advisement.

To succeed in the practice Of medi-
cine tact is as necessary as skill. In
Everybody's Magazine a woman doc
tor tells of the loss of her first OPP
portunity: "A delicate young woman
came fluffing into my office on a wet,
raw day to know why she had such a
cold. | looked down at her thin ties
and openwork stockings, and expressed
myself with comfortable freedom.
How could she expect anything else
with such foot-gear? She took my
prescriptions in displeased silence and
never came back. 1 heard that she
described me afterward as quite too
cold and unsympathetic to be good
doctor; and 30 perhaps l lost others
as we'll as her. l had been right, Of
course, from the highest standpoint;
but that is a luxury no young doctor
can afford. I should have petted her,
babied her, listened to all her troubles,
and introduced the matter Of foot
gear so delicately that she would be
drawn away from openwork by the
silken thread of persuasion"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1903-08-13
KILLING ANTS WITH CANNON.
riOr Species, AssaiIed with
Artillery.

Artillery charged with grapeshot has
been employed to destroy great for
tresses which the termites, or warrior
ants, have made in many tropical
countries, reports the New York Her
aid.
In South Africa the termites work
enormous havoc. They live in re-
public of their own, and some of them
have wings. The workmen, the SOL
diers and the queens, however, have
none.
The workmen construct their build
ings, the soldiers defend the colony
and keep order and the females, or
queens, are cared for by all the others.
These become, in point Of fact, mere
egg laying machines which have to
remain tied to one spot.
Their nesting homes are often 20
feet high and pyramidal in shape. Cat
tie climb upon them without crushing
them. A dozen men can find shelter
in some Of their chambers and native
hunters often lie in wait inside them
when out after wild animals
The ants construct galleries which
are as wide as the bore of a large
cannon and which run three or four
feet underground.
The nests are said to be 500 times
as high as the ants body. and it has
been estimated that if we built our
houses on the same scale they would
be four times as high as the pyramids
Of Egypt.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1903-08-13
WHAT MAKES A GENTLEMAN.
Qualities That Neither Wealth Nor
Education Can Impart to
Any Man.

Archbishop Temple, the recently de-
ceased primate of the established
Church of England and man of the
highest character, gave a short time
before his death the following out
line of what he considered really gen
tlemanly conduct:
"The man who is thoroughly unset
fish in all small things, he is the man
in regard Of whom it is quite impos-
Bible for you not to feel, that man is
a gentleman. Let his rank in society
be what it may, let him be ignorant
of the ordinary conventionalities of
social intercourse, still, if the man
is truly self-sacrifcing, if in his or
binary relations with his fellows
there is true and genuine unselfish-
ness, it is impossible for any man
who has much to do with him not to
feel That man is a gentleman L
don't care whether he is learned or
not, whether he is educated or not;
don't care how ignorant he may be
or how low he may stand; l don't
care if he be ever so poor; the man
who constantly shows that lie is Civ
ing himself up for the sake OF other
neople, that man is at heart and IN
reality one Of natures gentlemen and
this is the way in which he shows 1t"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1903-08-13
AN. EAR FOR MUSIC.
Unconscious Relations That Exist BE-
tween Musical Art and the
Human Organism.

According to new theory advanced
by Fere and Jaell, two French investi-
gators. the influence Of musical tones
and intervals on the physical organism
is exactly the same with all persons,
says Success. The only difference be-
tween musical and an unmusical per-
son is that the former is able to realize
the esthetic relations of these reac-
tions, while the other is not. BY means
of Mosso's ''ergograph," a sensitive de-
vice by which the exciting or depress-
ing effect of any influence on the or
ganism can be measured, the expert
mentors have ascertained which are
stimulating combinations of SOUNDS
and which are depressing ones.
Thus they find that a discord has just
the same depressing physical effect on
person who "has no ear" as on one
who is exquisitely sensitive to tones.
"These experiments seem to prove"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1903-08-13
RACE SUICIDE IN AUSTRALIA.
Birth Rate Has Dropped to Small Fig
ure and Marriages
Are Few.

A colonial newspaper has drawn at
tention to features in the affairs OF
Australia that are calculated to give
pause to those who are looking for
ward to the future of this depend
ency, says London Sketch. One of
these is what he calls the total ar
rest of immigration, and the other
is the steady shrinkage of the birth
rate. He puts the point very cogent-
ly thus:
"Here is continent equal in area
to the whole of Europe, if Russia in
Europe is omitted; it is only little
less than the United States"
The richness of the country does
not require to be enlarged upon,
yet" our correspondent goes on to
say, Eat the end of nearly 100 years
of colonization, its population is less
than 100000, or about equal to that
of a couple of London suburbs"
The annual increase of population
has fallen from II per cent. to two
per cent. The marriage rate has
shrunk from S.64 to 6.S7, and, while
the average number of children for
each marriage used to be six, it is
now only a little over four.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1903-08-13
MAKING ENGLISH WORSE.
Foreigners Have Enough Trouble
over II without These Mis-
takes Being Made.

Foreigners are always complain
ing, and not without reason, at the
difficulties Of the English language.
This is quite natural, considering
how very different our pronunciation
is from our spelling, but what must
to them appear to be gratuitously
adding insult to injury is the entirely
opposite meanings some common
words possess in different localities.
says London GentlewOman.
In the eastern counties Particular
ly, many words are misleading. For
instance, there were several there"
means not just few, but a great
number; shy girl" is bold one:
and some of the verbs do double duty
with absolutely opposite meanings,
notably that of "to learn"
I will quote an instance cleaned
from this mornings local daily pa
per: Situation required as under
housemaid, or where lady Is willing
to learn. Good references.-Apply,"
etc The advertiser was quite inno-
cent Of any impertinence. She meant
"vhere lady is willing to teachl"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1903-08-13
UNCLE SANS GIRL ARMY.
Five Thousand Young Women work
at Typewrfters for Him
Every Day.

From eight o'clock in the morning
until close to six in the evening there
are 5000 typewriters grinding cut let
tiers for the United States government.
During these hours there are, Of course,
5000 typewriter girls busily hammer
ing the machines, says the Chicago
Tribunte.
Uncle Sam is the largest employer Of
typists in the country and should be
the patron saint of the typewriter girl.
The amount of manuscript his workers
turn out would make even Clyde Fitch
look dizzy.
Uncle Sam is the incest kind of man
for typewriter girls to work for. He
pays large salaries and he supplies his
workers with everything they want. If
girl expresses a preference for a GER
tain kind of machine she gets It, She
does not have to sit down and try to
pound typewriter she does not like.
Whenever new typewriter girl Is
Employed in one of the departments
she names the machine and it is pur-
chased for her.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1903-08-13
ONE OF THE ARTISTS.
as Well az the Rest of the
Talent"

Billys sister is the organist of the
church in the country town where the
family spends its summers and Billy
blows the old-fashioned instrument
upon which his big sister performs,
says the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
Some day, however, Billy will be an
artist himself If his present spirit of
pride in his work persists. Still, al
though he enjoys his task, the 25
cents he earns every Sunday is much
appreciated by him.
A concert was given in the church in
aid of a local charity, and the singers
and quite a number of artists" who
summer in the village, and whose serv-
ices usually command big romunera-
lion. volunteered their services.
When the concert was over, the
chor-master came to Billy, who had
enjoyed greatly the Importance Of the
occasion and his share in It, and held
ont a quarter to pay the boy for his
work
Billy looked up in grieved surprise
why. say" said he, aren't the rest
ot the talent giving their services for
rCthing?"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1903-08-13
OUR RAILROAD INDUSTRY.
Million and a Quarter Workers on
American PayrOlIs and Their
Number Increasing.

The railroads of this country are en-
ploying more persons than ever before
in their history. According to statis-
tics in the report Of the interstate COM
MERGE commission there were 594 rail-
road employees for every hundred miles
of tracks last year, and there were1 1884,
315 employees altogether, reports the
New York Sun.
In the year before there were only
1,071 1869 railroad employees, and the av-
erage was only 54S for every hundred
miles of line, so that independently Of
the increase in mileage the number Of
workers employed has increased as for
each hundred miles of line.
Since these statistics were collected
there has been a correspondingly large
Increase in the number of employees, if
railroad statistics are to be believed, so
that the number of men on the railroad
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1903-08-13
UNSELFISH PHYSICIANS.
No other Profession Gives More for
Nothing to the Public Than
the Medical.

There is @ disposition often to scott
at the code of ethics by which doctors
of medicine are governed-at the rule
which brands as quack any practi-
toner who keeps for his own exclusive
use and profit any discovery he may
make of a curative agent. Yet there
is no other profession which gives
more for nothing to the public, and
whose giving in that respect is abso-
luteIy without selfish motive, says the
Cleveland Leader.
This is illustrated by a recent state
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1903-08-13

mont to the effect that the revenues
of the medical profession in recent
years have practically been cut In two
by the hygienic reforms which have
been brought about by the efforts Of
the doctors alone. That statement is
well within the realm of truth Med
zeal science is constantly striving to
make ii possible for the human race
to get along with less medical treat
ment Not only are the efforts Of in
vestigators directed to the discovery Of
new and more effective remedies for
disease, but to discover means Of pre-
venting the spread and even the incep-
ton Of disease. Broadly speaking, the
doctors are working continually to de-
prive themselves Of occupation and
revenue
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1903-08-13
Prisoner PIenses Car.

A prisoner in Siberia lately sent the
ear o silt in the shape of large hazel
nut. inside OF which is a miniature
chessboard. with all the pieces complete,
carved cut of ivory. The prisoner had
worn ed at this little gem in his leisure
hours for more than a year. The car
was so pleased that he desired to know
for what the man had been sent to ST.
IBERIA, and it is expected that reprieve
will be granted to him.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1903-08-13
FEW ALIENS IN SCOTLAND.
Most of the Inhabitants of the Land
of Heather and DOOns Are
Natives.

Scotland, according to the latest re-
turns, is not dumping ground for
aliens, says the London Chronicle. Only
1.O33 per cent. out of population of
4,472, 1868 are aliens. The number of
English-born persons north of the
Tweed, if transferred to London, would
be hardly noticed. They number only
1880, or 1887 per cent. Irish people,
on the other hand, aggregate POS, O64. or
1855 per cent, and patriotic Scots,
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1903-08-13

backed up by police statistics, charge
this remnant and their connections
with committing so per cent. of the
crimes annually recorded on the far
side of the Chevfots.
Welshmen seem to shun Scotland. rs
only 2,G73 were found there when the
census enumerators came round. Mar
riage is popular to the extent of 46777
per cent. of males over Is years Of age,
and fair womankind is appreciated to
the extent of 4,277per of like ages.
While the widowers number 72.741. the
widows total no fewer than 175,4O5,
which bears out the truth there lies in
the now neglected ballad of Three
Women for Every Man"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1903-08-13
WORLD WEARY.

keetAert Your little boy comes home again
10 lonely for the love Of yesterday!
Cude6e me down In your dear arms as then,
For I am tired Of play!
kiss, kiss mine eyelids down all tenderly,
Just rs of old, that so to me may seem
AL this wcrld-weariness which mocks at
me
Is but a dFeam-a dream!
kotherl ! want to whisper In your ear
The same sweet prayer your own lips
taught to me
Long. long ago. for surely God will hear
A child SO near to thee
MotherI Your little boy has wandered far
Adown the years-but still little child.
want to toddle back home where you are
And see you as you smiled
Upon me last. and dying, gave me to
The gentle Mother Natures care and
keep;
am so tired, dear. and want you
To rock me back to sleep!
Laurence Curran Hodgson. in st. Pau
Dispatch.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1903-08-13
payroll in this country is considerably

payroll in this country is considerably
over million and a quarter.
The good times and the extension i'm
provements set on foot by the railroad
companies as the result of their pros
perity are responsible for this increase
in employment. Eight years ago the
number OF railroad workers was only
Al for every hundred miles, so that
should return to that standard be pos
sible it would mean the laying off of
$4,000 workers, to say nothing of the
consequent reduction in the wage
standards.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1903-08-13
COMO Drum, TaIlr.

Perhaps the most curious means
of communication in the world Is the
drum language of a Congo tribe.
These queer people can talk to each
other with large drums made of
bamboo hoops. over which the skin
of some animal is stretched The
drum, however, is used only on i'm
portant occasions.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1903-08-13
officers,
CHURCH DIRECTORY.

BAPTIST CHURCH.-Sunday Sc6ool
every Sunday $50 q. n. Preaching nrs'
and third Sundays, IL a. IN. and p H.
d. A. Glenn, pastor
CHRISTIAN CHURCH.-S u n d a,y
School every Sunday at 9:3Oa. IN. Preach'
ing first and third Sundays Up. M, second
and fourth SUNDAYS IL a. IN. Chrlstan
Endeavor every Friday at p' III. H. T.
Elmore, pastor.
METHODIST CHURCH, Main Street.
Sunday School every SUNDAY at $3.50 M
"Ijttle Workers" Juvenile Missionary
every second Sunday p. d. Preacnlng
first and third Sundays IL a. M, second
and fourth Sundays Up. IN.
NORTH TAZEWELL CHURCH.
Sunday School every Sunday at 10 a. m.
Preaching first and third Sundays 4 p. m {,
second and fourth Sundays II a. m.
PRAYER meeting every Friday p. M h.
A. Kelly, pastor.
UNION PRAYER SERNICE.-Every
Wednesday evening z p. m, alternating
between the Baptist, Christian and Meth
odist Churches.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.-Sunday
School every Sunday at $50 d. m. Preach
ING second, third and fourth Sundays at
IL a. IN. and I. p. 10. Preaching nltn
Sundays ut II a. m. Prayermeetlng every
Wednesday evening Z p. m.
PRESBY TERRAIN, BURKES GAR
DEN on first Sunday at II a.
M. and p. m. S. o. Hall, pastor.
- TAZEWELL PREACHERS COUNCIL
Every Monday at 2 p. m.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1903-08-13
Monks Purchase Iona Island,

1t is understood that the duke of
Argyll has sold Iona island, Hebrides,
to the Carthusians, who were re-
Gently expelled from the monastery
OF the Grande Chartreuse in France.
The terms Of the sale provide for
the preservation of the sacred and
historical associations Of the island.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1903-08-13

says the writer's, that our musical cul-
ture makes more and more perceptble
to us the unconscious relations that
exist between musical art and the hui
man organism"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1903-08-13
Weak
Hearts

Are due TO indigestion. Ninety-nlne OF every
one hundred people who have heart trouble
can remember when II was simple indges-
ton. II Is scientific fact that all cases Of
heart disease, not organic, are not only
traceable to, but are the direct result OF indi-
geston. All food taken into the stomach
which fails Of perfect digestion ferments and
swells the stomach, putting it up against the
heart. This interferes with the action Of
the heart, and in the course Of time that
delicate but vital organ becomes diseased.
Mr. D. Kauble Of Nevada, o., says: had stomach
trouble and was in bad state as had heart trouble
with It. took Kodol Dyspepsia Cure for about four
months and It cured me.
Kodol Digests What You Eat
and relieves the stomach Of all nervous
strain and the heart Of all pressure.
Bottles only. 100 Size holding ~ times the trial
size, which sells for SOC.
Prepared by e. Q. DEWITT & CO., CHICAGO.
For sale by T. K. Smoot, Tiptop and
Witten's Mill, Va.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1903-08-13
Millions to PoIicy-HOIders

An authority on life insurance mat
tiers has been gathering statistics on the
subject Of insurance policies and pay
ments. In 1888 cities and towns in the
United States during the year 1902 the
total distribution to policy holders and
their benefciaries exceeded 1920, OOO, 900.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1903-08-13
Tender-Hear Burglar,

Though taking all the money he
could fnd burglar who broke into a
womans house in Paris left a note say
ing he could not find it in his heart to
take her jewels lest they were heir
looms.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1903-08-13
von1crfuI Pbotocrauhy.

Prof Molisch, of Prague, has been
able to photograph the colonies Of q
phosphorescent micrococcus by means
of its own light. BY inoculating large
TASKS of half-liter capacity containing
a subtle culture medium with the or
ganisms, a bacterial lamp is obtained,
with which it is quite possible for an
observer at a distance of one or two
meters to read a thermometer or to
see the time of a watch" On dark
night the bacterial lamp" is visible
at a distance of more than 60 PAGES.
King Edward "a Coca shOt.
1t is as a deadly pheasant shot that
King Edward has won his reputation as
a marksman. He is considered, after
Lord WaIsingham and Lord De Grey
the fine., pheasant-shot in England