Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1904-08-11
PERSONAL NOTES.


Governor HUM has detailed Major
Evan g. Boyd, of New Castle, to COM
mand the battalion Of the First Delaware
Infantry, to be sent to the maneuvers at
Manassas, Va.
Former Premier Waldeck- Rousseau's
condition causes serious anxiety. 1t is
feared that the operation for stomach
trouble four months ago has not resulted
in permanent cure.
Henry G. Davis, the Democratic Vice
Presidential nominee, used to be great
hunter in his younger days and bis West
Virginia countryside is full of stories of bis
success with game, big and little.
Cardinal Satoll with his suite visited
the Brooklyn Navy Yard yesterday. From
the navy yard the party was taken by a
tug to Governors Island, where they
called upon General and Mrs. Corbin.
Henry W. Goode, director general OF
the Lewis and Clark Fair, has been
elected president to succeed II. w. Scott,
who has been compelled to resign from
the presidency on account of the pressure
of private business.
Miss Jean Clemens, daughter OF Samuel
L. Clemens MARK Twain, who was
thrown from her horse in South Lee,
Mass, last Saturday while riding borse-
back with Rodman Glider, will be laid up
for at least FIVE weeks.
General Davis, Governor of the Panama
Canal Zone, has left Panama for the
United States, having been called home
on account of the illness of bis wife, who
has been spending the Summer at Big
Moose Lake, in the Adirondacks.
President Roosevelt, busy as he always
is, generally finds time for certain
amount of reading every day Of his life.
This is generally in the evening when be
returns for awhile to the favorltes of big
youth, Thackeray and George Eliot
John Burroughs, famous alike as a nat
uralist, critic and poet. has, after years Of
study, come to the conclusion that the
lower animals cannot properly be said to
think at all, but have keen perception
and i've entirely in and through their
senses.
Judge Parker, as everybody now knows,
was at one time a school teacher. "And
much as ! liked it, the Judge recently re-
marked, sit was Just about the hardest
work l have ever done. Teaching ia, OF
course, a great profession, but l know OF
none less appreciated.
Acting Postmaster General Wynne will
leave Washington August ID fer New
York, whence he sails August 20 for Eu'
rope. He will be away about six weeks.
Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Bris-
tow has gone 10 Debsconeag, Maine, where
he will spend several weeks,
Albert w. Washburn, counsel for the
Treasury Department before the Board of
General Appraisers at New York during
the last three yearS, has resigned to take
up the practice of law. Mr.. Washburn,
previous to bis appointment as Treasury
counsel, was Assistant United States At
torney in Boston.
Secretary OF War Taft will deliver an
address at ChautauQua, N. Y, on August
II. His subject will be the Philippines,
He also will speak at the st. Louis EXPOSE
ton on August IA, which has been desig-
mated as Manila Day. Colonel Edwards,
chief of the Bureau of Insulsr Affairs,
will accompany the Secretary to st.
Louis.
General Keller, who was killed the other
day while commanding the Russian forces
at Molten Pass, was, oddly enough, a
great admirer of Tolstoy. Not 30 long
ago, however, he explained, in an inter-
view that, although he had written an sp-
preciative criticism of Tolstoy's work, his
admiration for the man was for Tolstoy the
novelist, not Tolstoy the philosopher"
Prof, Frederick Starr, head of the de-
partment of anthropology at the UnlVer-
city of Chicago, will leave in the Spring
for long tour of the Orient in quest of a
mysterious white race which lives In the
mountains of northern China. Prof. Starr
may spend the remainder Of his life
among the Chinese, for he declares that
China within three years will occdpy the
center of the worlds stage in commerce.