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Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1904-04-07

dividing line. and not Fahrenheits zero
mark, which does not get into play until
Won have frozen up TO the extent OF 81
degrees. When you are told how colo
It is you need to know how much all the
frost amounts to, and not a part, just IA
when II begins to be warm, you neec
IN know lust how warm it is from the
freezing point, and not as with the ran
renheit thermometer, have to subtract
80 degrees of non-existent frost, say
IN July. in order to learn the actual
truth.
The Centigrade and Reaunur ther-
mometers are really the only sensible
ones in use. Both take the points Where
water freezes and water boils as points
fixed by nature, with which it is de-
ceptive impertinence for man to med
die. The space between these two points
is divided on the Centigrade thermome'
ter into 100 degrees, and on the Reau'
muir thermometer into 80 degrees. The
division into 100 degrees is probably
better than into 80 degrees, but only Tor
the reason that so many things IN thls
world are divided by tens and hundreds
that we are almost all by more or less
use adjusted to the decimal system. In
this country we count our money by deci-
mails. Just as almost all other nations
do. but still refuse to adopt decimals
in our weights and measures, and STICK
fast to Herr Fahrenheit's absurd Their
mometer, while England, which is tina
most pigheaded country in the world
where anything in the form OF prece-
dent or usage stands in the way OF sci
ence and common sense, still plods along
with pounds and shillings, and pence,
and its Fahrenheit thermometer, and
only sees science daylight now and then
when it handles something that goes by
hundredweights.
But both the Centigrade and Reau-
muir thermometers are honest and &C.
curate in marking zero just at that point
on the tube where there's actually moth
ing doing as between cold and warmth
where, il any change is made, it must be
made either in the direction Of heat or
frost. With either OF these thermome-
ters we could find out in this country
what the weather is really doing for us or
to us, but with Fahrenheit's absurd old
tube we are, without mental calcula-
ton, 80 degrees out Of the way all the
while, whether it is January or July
whether we are trying to find out how
cold we are or how hot We are.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1904-04-07
SOME MASSIVE CLOUDS.
II II Not Unusual for Them to De Five
to Eight Miles from Base
to Summit.

Scientists have recently been measur-
ing the dimensions Of the clouds and
have arrived at some rather startling
conclusions. The dimensions Of single
clouds, as far as the area covered by
their base is concerned, vary, as anyone
can see, from the cloud the size Of a
mans hand to that which covers the en-
tire visible heavens; but the height OF
clouds can be observed more definitely
and can be estimated with convincing
accuracy and it is this height that large
" determines their contents and charac-
teristics.
A great, cumulous thunderhead, tow
ering up In the horizon like huge, fam
bovant iceberg is often higher than the
highest Alps would be II they were piled
on top Of the Himalayas It is not I'M
usual for these clouds to measure five,
six, or even eight miles from their fiat,
dark base, lowering a mile or two above
the world, to their rounded, glistening
summit, splendid in the sunlight. And
In these eight miles the changes OF tenn
perature are az great as those over many
thousand miles Of the earth's surface
These clouds contain strata OF tenn
perature, narrow belts Of freezing colo
alternating with large distances ofrainy
mist and frozen snow and ice particles.
Hailstones, which are formed from a
snow particle that falls from the upper
strata and is frozen hard in the freezing
belt and coated with added ice in the
wet belt, are often found with series OF
layers in their formation. showing that
they have passed through this success
sion of cloud strata more than once on
their way from the upper air to the
aarth
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1904-04-07
Chinese Struggled In.

1t seems that the smuggling of Chi
nese into the Philippines has become a
money-making industry, but the ex-
posture Of one device on the Togo Kisen
Kaisha steamship line has taught the
Manila customs officers caution. Seven
Chinese were brought over and actually
landed on the beach near Manila, where
they were captured. The ships officers
declared these Celestials were stow
Always, but one of the Chinese declared
that they had paid money to be landed
In Manila. but had been thrust into a
little apartment and left without food OF
water during the whole voyage from
Hong-Kong. The steamship company
was fined $500 each for the coolies. but
appealed the case, and it will come up
before the court of customs appeals
San Francisco Chronicle.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1904-04-07
THINGS CAME HIS WAY.
Not Only All the schnapps He WANT
ed, But n Nice Bunch of Money
as Well.

This is how one of the regular patrons
of the auction sales of things seized by
the customs oficers-a hooked-nosed
man, whose speciality is the collection OF
eurios-got a present of 500 by but
ting in at a sale in which he had no in
terest, says the Chicago Inter Ocean.
There was a lot of the best schnapps
put up. The curio collector had strolled
into the auction room, and, having MOTH
ing else to do, took a glass OF the stun.
He liked it so we'll that he took more.
A clique of dealers usually buys at
its own price, all good liquor that IS
put up at auction by the customs au-
thorities, and there was a committee OF
one anxiously viewing the action OF
the curio collector, inspired with fear
that he might bid on the schnapps and
compel the clique to give up more than
it usually did.
The committee went alongside the
hook-nosed man and asked in whisper
If he intended to make bid on II. he
was Just smacking his lips over min
glass of the gin. He winked knowingly
all his commercial curiosity aroused by
the strange manner of the committee
and intimated that he might do so.
The committee thereupon said with
much solemnity, that it would be the
financial advantage Of the curio collector
If he refrained from bidding. Fifty dol
lars. the committee said, would be about
the figure.
The curio man rose to the OCCASION
He remarked, with the air of connols-
seur, that the schnapps was OF very
superior kind, and that he really could
not think of letting his chance to acquire
apart of it 90 for so small a sum. linen
he drank some more.
The committee came alongside again
and suggested rs. The curio man said;
"Thash mere bagatellsh!" and sur
rounded another glass
The committee had only few more
minutes to strike bargain and desper'
atelv murmured: Zone hundred" The
curio man said, or made an effort to say
that under the circumstances, he woulC
accept and the committee suggested
that the payment would be made aftel
the sale.
The curio man proclaimed that Il
was a question of cash in hand, or h
would buy the whole lot of schnapps
The committee, in apparent fright. hand
ed over the money, and the curio man
after a last draft, departed to tell tn
joke to his friends.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1904-04-07
Weak
Hearts

Are due to indigestion. Nlnsty-nins Of svs4
one hundred people who have heart troubk
can remember when II was simple indigsa
ton. II Is a scientific fact that all cases d
heart disease, not organic, are not snly
traceable to, but are the direct result Of indh
gestion. All food taken into the stomach
which fails Of perfect digestion fer ,ens ssd
swells the stomach, putting Il up n ainst Ire
heart. This interfe'ss witt the aIcn Ct
the heart, and In 1urs OF re thai
delicate but vital ~. ? 'ecc IS c eased.
Mr.. D. Kauble. Of Nev1a says hso siensch
trouble and was in a bAi 5 hs' heart trouble
with Il. ! took kodol Tvs Cure for ABOUT fou
months and II cured me
Kodol Digests Nhat You Eat
and relieves the stomach Of all nervous
strain and the heart OF all pressure.
Bottles only. sloo Size holding az times the tri.i
size. which sells for soc.
Prepared by e. o. oswiTT q co., ohIokeos
For Sale by Jno. 4. Jackson, the Drug
gist.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1904-04-07
RECORDS OF INVENTION.
Show That Supposed Recent AnNeT
lions We're ForeshadOwed
Many Years Ago.

A certain preacher once ventured the
nninion that there was no new thing
under the sun, and the experience Oh
the ages has tended TO confirm the Ut
lerance. One WHOSE studies have Deen
tf a scientific nature has amused hlln-
self recently by going through the MES
of the National Magazine, in the sclen-
tific department of which he uneartheu
the following records, which go to snow
that many recent discoveries that nave
eycited much comment were foreshad-
owed many years ago:
January. 1853-Photographs IN MAUI
raj colors have been made in Paris Dy
M. Niepee.
March, 1S53-It is proposed to apply
the telegraph to the piano. so that Llszt
NAV sit in Paris and play the piano IN
Berlin or st. Petersburg.
December, 1S53-Discovery has oeen
made of a way of heating houses by gas
and the use of coal and wood for Gull
mary purposes will pass away
February, 1854-A new method OF
transmitting articulate sounds to a
great distance has been discovered. The
instrument is called telephone.
September, 1S54--A new composing
machine in the Office of Fraedrelandet
of Copenhagen, is thus described: "A
person sits before a machine with keys
like a piano, which he plays on inces-
sa1sly and every touch on the tangent
( is followed by click; the letter is al
ready in it's place in the long mahog-
any channel prepared for it.
II distributes the already set type al
the same time it sets new page, ano
with an exactness perfectly sure.
December, 1S55-M. Bonelli, OF Turin
has invented a new electric telegraph by
which trains in motion on a railway are
enabled to communicate with each other
with all rates of velocity and at the
same time with the stations, and the sta
lions with the trains.
July. Disqualification has been calico
in France to the discovery of new
metal called aluminium. 1t may riva
gold and silver by its unchangeableness
and iron by its abundance on the very
surface of the ground. The price II
three dollars pound, and it is expected
it will be reduced to so cents.
November, 1884 Frenchman hal
invented a reaping machine. 1t cut two
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1904-04-07
TWIN PROPELLING SCREWS.
They Were in Use as Long Ago as
Civil War Days in the
United States.

When we read of triple-screw cruisers
of the present day as among the best ex-
amples of the modern ship-builder's art,
it may be interesting to recall that with
respect to these, as well as many other
things and events, history certainly
seems to repeat itself, says Casters
Magazine.
In the matter of ships with more than
one or two propelling screws we need
not go more than about 40 years back
to find that during the American civil
war. in the eos, number of gunboats
were built for the United States navy
which were equipped with four propel-
lers on four distinct shafts. They were
named Winnebago, Chickasaw, Milwau-
kee and Kickapoo, and were designed
and constructed by the late Capt.
James E. Eads, Of Mississippi river
bridge fame, under direct contract with
the United States navy department. The
batteries carried thin armor, had a
very small draft of water, full model,
and very little speed. They were nat
bottomed and each had two Ericsson
turrets containing two 11-inch Dahlgren
guns.
The vessels were intended to coop
crate with the army against towns on
the western rivers, but were not COM
pleted in time for any important serv-
ice. The vessels had bateau sterns and
their small draft of water required the
four screws in order to obtain the neces-
sary propelling surface.
Besides these vessels mention should
be made of triple screw battery, the
Mississippi, built at about the same
time at New Orleans for the confederate
states navy. This would seem to have
been a rather more formidable craft
sea-going vessel of several thousand
tons, 27O feet length and 60 feet beam,
with four engines to drive the three
propellers. The vessel is mentioned as
having a speed of II knots.
Still other multipropeller ships OF an
earlier generation were a number OF
Russian circular ironclads which had
six shafts, and the Russian imperial
Yacht Liyadia, which had three.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1904-04-07

acres in two and .one-fourth hours with
one horse and three servants. 1t does
not leave straw behind, gathering all
into bundles for binding.
December, 1884 gentleman resid-
ing in Edinburgh has successfully sent
telegraph messages without the use OF
wire, using a milldam 500 feet wide.
On each side the end Of wire was sub
merged and messages sent through the
water.
January, 1S55-Dr. Little, Of Utica,
has taken out patent for a machine to
feed paper to presses. If the press could
be run fast enough the machine would
feed 100000 sheets an hour
March, 1S55-The Albany Evening
Journal appeared printed on paper made
entirely from Eastwood.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1904-04-07
A FAULTY THERMOMETER.
According to This Authority the Fah-
renheit Is Not as Reliable
as Some others.

The popularity Of the Fahrenheit
thermometer is that when y marks zero
there are 80 degrees of frost in the air.
That is a very good starter for cold
day. But when so degrees of frost are
added, by the drop of the mercury this
much below Fahrenheit's arbitrary zero
mark. what the people are really getting
is 50 degrees of frost, states the Hartford
Comm Courant.
The point where things begin to freeze
or to thsg is the natural and sensible
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1904-04-07
Hnrniia Foundation.

Regarding the population of Hawaii,
figures show steady decrease In the
number of natives and steady increase
in the number of persons Of foreign
births especially japanese and Chinese.
In 1872 the number of natives was, in
round terms, $4,000, and in 1900, 10000.
In 1872 the number of Chinese was, in
round terms, 1000, and in 1900, 25,OOO.
The record of japanese among the popu-
lation only begins with 1884, when the
number was 116 persons, but in 1900 the
number was over 81 900. The total popu-
lation of 1872 is given at 56,S97, and in
1900 at 154,001.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1904-04-07
VESSELS FOR PHILIPPINES.
Boats of Light Draught Built In Sec
lions in the United
States.

Ever since the United States came into
possession Of the Philippines there has
been a growing demand on the part OF
the navy for small boats suited for the
waters surrounding this group of 1,2OO
or more islands. Only craft OF light
draught are adapted for use in the outly-
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1904-04-07
Equal to the Emergency.

The old sexton approached the pulpit.
"Parson," he exclaimed, in a hoarse
whisper, 1.-The church is on fret"
"All right, John; don't get excited"
rejoined the good man, as he stopped alb
ruptly in the middle Of his sermon.
"You pass down one aisle while go
down the other, and We'll quietly wake
up the congregation. Chicago Daily
News.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1904-04-07
AMERICANS IN PORTO RICO.
vorfouxIy Estimated from SIX Hun
dred to Five Thousand ana
Number Swelling.

The question is, how many Americans
are there in Porto Rico? The number
has been variously estimated atfrom GU
to 5000, but all estimates are mere
euesses, states the San Juan News -
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1904-04-07
Land Area of philippines.

The Philippine group of islands have
a land area of lac, 900 square miles. The
six New England states, together with
New York and New Jersey have about
an equivalent area The population Of
the islands is about 100000, including
/ 600 600 saYages
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1904-04-07
Improved Microscope.

A new improvement Of the microscope
consists in so arranging the illumination
that no light can enter the objective
except that reflected by the object under
examination This, it is claimed, brings
into view objects about half the size OF
those formerly, improving the limit OF
minuteness.
Woman's insufficient Knowledge.
Mrs. Julia Work, the Indiana sociolo-
gist. who has come into national repu-
tation through her scheme for providing
orphan girls with husbands, says that
"the country is in need of wives who
know the difference between Batten-
hurg lace and biscuits" And that really
Is an important point Most young
women will not allow the baker to fool
them in the matter of biscuits, but how
few have sufficient knowledge Of fine
laces to buy neutrality-suspicious. Tran
script.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1904-04-07
Pnrtrnninr Character.

Never does a man portray his own
character more wildly, than In his
manner OF portraying another.-Rich-
for
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1904-04-07
x,,,sn IA. TROUBLES VIII Begin.

A Chinaman has been made lieuten-
ant in a California regiment. His trou-
bles will begin, says the Chicago Record
Herald, when he goes around to ask
the colonel's consent to marry his daugh-
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1904-04-07
SECRET ORDERS.

= CLINCH VALI-EI
COMMANDERY, NO. 20
KNIGHTS TEMPLAk.
Meets first Monday in each month.
JNO. s. BOTTlMORE, Gen,
Acting 4. 9.
w. q. YOUNG. Recorder.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1904-04-07

opo W ST CLAIR. ATTORNEY AT LAW
GTe1ereu Va Practices in the courts Of i82e
well and adjoining counties and in the supreme
Conrt of Appeals at Wytheville Particuls- st-
tention paid to the collection OF elailns' VU''f-
3tras building
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1904-04-07

powEN & ROYALL, ATTORNEYS AT LAW
D Tazewell, Va will practice in the courts SO, o.
Tazewell and adjoining counties, and the Court
AnneaIs at Wytheville. Collections gwen
speeiai attention. Office near Courthouse.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1904-04-07
TAzEWELL co. DIRECTORY.
Circuit Court.

W. ]. Henson, judge; I. 4. George
clerk. Terms of cOurt-3rd Monday IN
February. and 4th Monday in May, An
gust and November.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1904-04-07
CHAPMAN & GILLESPIE,
LAWYERS,
TaZeWell, Virginia.
TazeWell,

CouRrs:-Tazewell and Russell counties.
Va, Court of Appeals at Wytheville. Vs;,
and Circuit Court of Mcdowell county, W.
Va.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1904-04-07

rr1ToN d COUPLING, ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
fTs1ewell Va. Practice in the courts OF IaIe
we'll county. S. B. Couling will continue ms
:rsctice in all the courts of Buchanan county o.
I Fulton, wytheville, Va. S. M. b. Oonilns'
razewell, Va.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1904-04-07

n q. ANDERSON. ATTORNEY AT LAW, Taze-
H,weil. Va. VIII practice in the courts OF re
we'll county and the Court of Appeals at Nyth'-
Vile. Collecting specially.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1904-04-07

m B. sPRATT, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Eich-
W,lands, Va Practices in the courts OF IrZe-
well and adjoining counties. Prompt attention
paid to the collection Of claims
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1904-04-07

1ENRY L GRAHAM, LAWYER fszewell Va
nOnice in building near Court House X. X
henry. 8. G. Graham.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1904-04-07

Sir Hervey Ralston, honorable and
clear-souled himself, incapable OF sub
terfuge or pretense, was never ready
to imagine evil of any shape in others.
And if during tle weeks that followed
it seemed to him that Adelaide grew
more and more impressive, while a
spirit of unrest had seized upon his
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-12-02
Japanese JuggIers.

The most graceful and at the same
time the most undoubtedly genuine
performances seem to be those Of the
Japanese jugglers. Their pharapher-
MALTA is of the slightest, consisting
chiefly of top and some paper but
terfiies. An eyewitness thus describes
them: HE took an ordinary boys top
and spun it in the air, then threw the
end of the string back toward it with
such accuracy that it was caught up
and wound itself all ready for the
second cast. By the time It had done
this it had reached his hand and was
ready for another spin" The paper
butterflies he made by help of a fan
to alight wherever he wished. The
spectator requested that one might be
made to settle on each ear Of the Jug
gler. Gentle fluctuations of the fan
waved them slowly to the required
point and there left them comfortably
settled. London News.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-12-02
A WONDERFUL FACTORY.
The sleepless and Busy Worl<men OF
the Human Body.

The SleepIess and Busy Wori<men of
the Human Body.
Andrew Wilson, the English scien-
fist, says the human body is work
shop. 1.-THE manufacturers are the
cells which form the essential parts
of every gland. Indeed cells appear be-
fore us as the yeritable workmen of
the whole body ranging from nerve
cells, which rule us, to the cells that
build up and produce our bones. Now,
in the glands of the body these work
men, each microscopic unit of proto-
plasm or living matter, discharge the
function of making from the blood
whatever product gland may offer as
its contribution to lifes processes. The
cells which compose our liver are bile
makers in addition to their performing
certain other curious works represent
ing the livers duties. Other cells in the
glands of our eyes manufacture our
tears Others again Secrete the gastric
juice by which the food is acted upon
in the stomach. A fourth set of cells
produces pancreatic juice in the sweet
bread, and a fifth set supplies the sa-
Iva.
"Tears, saliva and bile and so forth
are all employed directly through their
being poured outward on the food or
into various organs. Even the oil that
lubricates our joints represents Sc
erection which is perpetually being pro-
duced and insinuated between the sur
faces that move one upon the other.
When, however, we come to consider
internal secretions' very different
state of matters falls to be noted.
Here we meet with substances that
are not poured outwardly, but inward
~. The work of internal secretion is
performed by certain glands. The thy
roid gland in the neck is one of them.
This is a gland which grows very
large in goiter or 'Derbyshire neck an
ailment of hard water districts. If the
secretion of this gland is not duly add
ed to the blood disease of very dis
tinct type appears, and 1t is cured
; when the physician administers to the
patient the thyroid gland substance of
the sheep.
"Even the sweetbread itself, though
it does make a definite fluid of use in
digestion, seems also to supply some
thing necessary to the blood, for we
find that diabetes is always of more
serious type where the sweetbread is
involved. Such discoveries bring us to
the very limit of present day research
into living functions. Their most graft
flying feature in addition to their
throwing light on lifes workings is
that which places in the hands of the
physician knowledge both of the cause
of disease and of its cure"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-12-02
MARRIAGE MUSINGS.

The honeymoon sometimes reaches
its last quarter.
Marriage is woman's sphere and
mans hemisphere.
To the altar may be only fifty feet.
From it may be fifty years.
Some husbands are known by the
keys they are allowed to keep.
Love lights life's pathway, but for
practical purposes the gas stove has
advantages.
1t does not add to the joys Of the
wedding trip to recall that there are
no Pullmans on the suburban sched-
ules.
The word "obey" sounds well in the
ceremony. There is always plenty Of
time afterward for laughing at the
joke.
Relatives sit in the front pews at the
ceremony, ON the front porch in sum-
mer and in judgment on the bride and
groom throughout the year.-Philadel-
phia Post.