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Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1904-03-03
BAR SHOOTING FOR SWANS.
One Method of Cunning for the Swift
est Flying Birds In the
World.

The true bar-shot, the uncompromis'
ing aristocrat of duck shooters, Is
pleased to disdain decoy shooting. Sadly
'he spends morning after morning in the
box" prsferring the memories OF an
cient glory and wild shot or two al
black ducks or swan or geese to the COM
paratively fair and easy success OF &C.
coy work. Perhaps two or three times ID
a season, if he keeps at it, there will come
a real taste of the old splendor, says
Country Life in America.
The bar is a very long, narrow spit
of sandy beach and marsh, stretching
out for mile between the river and the
bay. The ducks, geese and swan, in trad
ing from the river to the bay and from
the bay to the river, find it easier in most
winds to cross the bar rather than labor
iously fly around it. From their height
its so yards of width looks like mere
ribbon between the broad waters; with
an extra squirt of speed and few yards
more altitude they swing across ano
above with the speed of a tornado.
Crossing as they do in mid fight, with
an acceleration of speed instead or the
slowing up of decoyed birds, the bal
flying gives the task of hitting the most
rapidly moving objects known to the
shooting world. This would not be an
insurmountable obstacle for quick eyes
and steady nerves, but there is one pecu-
liarity of this shooting that makes 1t at
once fascinating and maddening to the
best of shots who have not found the
secret.
Your duck, goose or swan is flying say
100 miles an hour He is SO yards In the
air when he cross. Taking the velocity
of the shot at 1900 feet per second, the
shot will take something like one-seventh
Of a second to go the sixty yards, and
In that time the great bird will have
rushed through the air a distance OF
about 20 feet In other words, If youl
swan hunter shoots at point some ~
feet ahead of the bird, the swan will fly
into the shot
What the bar-shot really does is TO
throw up his big gun just before the
birds come to be perpendicularly oyel
him, follow themjust to the perpendlcu-
lar with gun held on them to get the
line. and then shove the weapon away
ahead of the hurting targets, pulling the
trigger while the gun is moving. How
to do this pulling trick so as to estab-
lish the necessary connection comes to
be an instructive matter with the elect
Many, even the quickest and deadlies'
of field shots, simply cannot learn 1t.
the masters In shooting rise" on swift
rank Of fowl sweeping below the clouds
and cut single bird out of the ghostly
whirl overhead! SO mighty is the ter
sion of nerves and wing muscles In these
flights that the struck birds keep far on
IN their rush even when theoretically
killed. some times for a quarter OF
/ mile.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1904-03-03
FOREST RESERVES IN MAINE
Private Ownership of Tracts IL VIZ
orousIy Opposed by Local
Hunters.

Maine and New Hampshire do not yet
suffer from the tendency of the times
among millionaires to purchase the
great forest tracts and set them apart
for their private uses. However much
this may be so in the Adirondacks, and
however much it may be becoming SO IN
western Massachusetts and Vermont
the two eastern states have thus far es-
caped. says the Boston Advertiser. And
the huntsmen and woodmen, who feel
that they have an inalienable right IN a
primitive forest which holds good above
legal title, have reasons to be elated.
The experiment of Marshall Jewell,
Gen. Grants postmaster general, In
leasing a 100000 acre forest lot In the
Maine woods has never been repeated.
For a time he and his associates made
their reserve close against all poachers,
and they were the only ones who were
allowed a free hunt in the wilds. NO
matter how big the game might be or
how tempting the chase might prove,
even the Maine guides who had roamed
without restriction through the great
woods were forbidden to enter. This
stirred up hostile feelings throughout
the state, and eventually when the pro-
moter died the vast tract again became
the hunting ground for Maine people
themselves.
Since then both state and individuals
have zealously guarded their interests
against any syndicate which would try
to repeat this experiment Hunting and
fishing clubs may control exclusively
some Of the ponds and smaller lakes In
the pine region, but they have found 1t
lnexpedient to deny others the hunting
privileges which they have themselves
enjoyed. The same situation has been
true in the main in New Hampshire, the
exception being in the case OF the Corbin
park, which embraces parts of two or
three townships where there were once
villages and farms. But this is really
an animal reserve, in which every cit
izen feels pride and interest, because
hunting is entirely secondary, the aim
of the park being to keep from EXTERN
nation some animal species which
would not survive without protection.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1904-03-03
Fear of Microbes.

Fear Of microbes seems to have
spread to the possessors of old furnl-
ture, which during long life and un-
known experiences may have collected
the germs of disease. Recently a eau.
tious/ lady in London who bad beer
studying the medical warnings inherit
ed Sheraton table. She would not aG-
nit it to her house, but sent 1t off tc
a cabinet makers with orders that III
exact replica be made, the original t.,
BILE being offered in payment. II thi-
lady's craze for new and innocuous fur
niture spreads there should be goes
times in store for the cabinet maker
as we'll as for collectors who prefer tn;
risk of microbes to the certainty Of
shoddy.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1904-03-03
WOMEN TO BE THE LARGEST
Acknowledged Authority Proph'
estes That Men VIII Decrease ana
Women Increase In Size.

Men are growing smaller and wom-
en- larger-the human race Will soon
be like the family of ArachHidae, the
spider, predicts a Chicago anthropolo-
gist. He says that in the domestic ar
rangements of the house of spinner the
lady is the business head. 1t is Mrs.
Spider who sits at her gossamer front
door and with her finespun theories en-
frances and later entraps the unwary
Reuben of the rural districts Of Flydom.
Her lord and master(?) does not assist
in the bunco game at all, except to lend
his unimportant presence at the juicy
division of the spoils.
This same gentleman of anthropo-
logical tendencies carries out the anal
ogy between the commercial world OF
Arachnidae and that Of the genus homo
to an alarming. extent. says the New
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1904-03-03
GOT HIS PREFERENCE.
And IL Was Just What All of His
NelghbOrs Put Him
Down For.

Several Sullivan county farmers met
recently in the post Office at Higgins
Corner and stopped, as was their wont
TO talk, relates the New York Tribune.
From sheep scab, swine plague and hog
cholera they went on to the breed OF
fowls and the hen industry in general
finally concluding with boil weeyil, the
isthmian canal and Wall street. They
were on the point of quitting the glow
of the stove when a stranger, farmer
from Ulster county, entered, bowed, was
greeted cordially and sat down. Chairs
were again tilted back against the wall
and the sandbox in the center Of the
room once more became an article OF
utility.
Conversation flowed unevenly from
the start because they had already run
the gamut of worlds events; so they
drew nearer home and were soon at 1t,
hammer and tongs, periodically har-
snguing over the respective merits OF
Sullivan over Ulster county.
The stranger, unaided. bore the brunt
of the attack; If he had lost his temper
before the keen satire and knife-edged
sarcasm of his opponents, he gave no
outward manifestations. AS a climax
to the debate a Sullivan county cham
pion, to whom his mates always gave
way In such crisis, set the four legs OF
his chair firmly on the sanded floor,
waved his lean finger in the direction OF
the visitor, and said:
I'D ruther be the meanest man In
Sullivan county than the best man In
Ulster"
Intense satisfaction spread over the
features Of the men of Sullivan. They
chuckled, slapped their knees and snort
ed with no pretense Of concealment.
But the man from Ulster county, though
alone defenseless and in his last ditch,
was equal to the occasion. He wiped his
glasses, set them cleanly on his aquiline
nose, shifted contemptuously, and re-
piled:
WAL, by mighty! l guess you've got
your d'ruther"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1904-03-03
USE OF THE wISHBoNE.
ItA Importance Is shown IN the Turn
ing of Birds While on the
Wing.

At the last meeting of the Boston
Scientific society, c. J. Maynard, an
authority on birds, spoke OF what
proved to be a very timely topic:
why there is a Wishbone." To be-
yin with, says the Boston transcript,
The speaker deplored the lack OF
knowledge that exists regarding the
structures of the birds. internally.
For example" said he, ut Is doubtful
If five men in the United States know
much about the anatomy OF the COM
mon robin. The ornithologlsts know
all about external characters, the
color, arrangement and number OF the
feathers, methods OF fight habits, and
the like, but exceedingly little about
the interiors of the birds they study. -
Considerations have been made large
ly by externals, when study OF the
anatomy must be a very important
part of the subject He had himself
begun with the anatomy, and more
than 20 years ago, in some OF his pup
locations, he dared to separate the Owls
from hawks. They have been placed
in the same order, and have so re-
NAMED till very recently. Now others
have separated them even more wide
Iy than Mr.. Maynard did so long ago.
His deductions we're from a knowledge
Of the anatomy.
The wishbone is called by scientists
the furcula, and Is in reality the union
of what are in man the two separate
collarboRes. These in the birds re-
ceive the brunt Of the strokes OF the
wing that turn the creature IN us
flight. Few realize the strength OF
stroke of the birds wing. 1t is said
that a swan has been known to break
mans leg by a blow of its wing,
and in like manner the wing-beatngs
of the larger birds are dangerous II
they strike the head or face. If, there
fore. a large bird is in the habit OF
making sudden turns to right or lett
in its fight it must be fitted with a
wishbone competent to withstand the
great strain of the wing-stroke on one
side, with no special action on the
other side. For this reason we nnu
in the eagle and like birds of quickly
turning flight furcula that is a per-
feet Roman arch, widely at variance
with the gothic arch, which is the
shane of the wishbone of our common
fowls The eagles furcula is solo
rounded arch, everywhere equally
strong. and not developing those
points of weakness that make our
sport of breaking the wishbone pos
sible.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1904-03-03

mention that the whole establishment
of the Bethlehem steel works extenos
in one direction continuously for
length of a mile and quarter, and that
the 40 or so landings and transsnip-
ments which occur in making single
Krupp plate take place in and between
such buildings as the openhearth slruc-
ture. which is Ill feet wide by 1850 feet
In length; the machine shop, 1161z feet
in width by 1875 feet in length; the
armor forge, $50 feet in length, and q
face hardening department and an ar
NOR plate machine shop, both Of which
are but little less in size.
Further elements of expense are the
large percentage Of losses which is IL
able to occur, the high first cost Of the
extensive plants must be laid down and
the fact that new and improved methods
of manufacture may at any time render
the plant more or less obsolete. The
greater cost of the Krupp armor Is
largely compensated for by its much
greater resisting qualities, which make
it possible to give equal defensive quail
tiles for 20 to rs per cent. less weight
of armor.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1904-03-03
His Honor Was There with a Good
Hard Knock When the Oppor-
tunity offered.

The Judge had had his patience sorely
tried by lawyers who wished to talk and
oy men who tried to evade jury service.
Between hypothetical questions and ex-
cuses it seemed as if they never would
get to the actual trial Of the case. So
when the puzzled little German who had
been accepted by both sides jumped up
the Judge was exasperated, relates HI
lott Flower, in the Brooklyn Eagle.
"Shudge!" cried the German.
what is it?" demanded the judge.
81 tink l like to go home to my wife. "
said the German.
"You can't" retorted the judge. "Sit
down"
But, Shudge," persisted the German
Il don't tink make a good shuror."
You're the best in the box" said the
Judge. "Sit down"
What box?" asked the German.
THE jury box" said the judge.
ooh, l fought it vas bad box that
peoples get in sometimes"
NO." said the judge; 1.-The bad box is
the prisoners box"
But, Shudge," persisted the little
German, Il don't speak goot English
"You won't have to speak any at all,
said the judge. "Sit down"
The little German pointed at the law
yers to make his last desperate plea.
"Shudge," he said, Il can't make nod
ings out of what those fellers say"
1t was the judges chance to get ever
for many annoyances.
Neither can anyone else," he said
"Sit down."
With a sigh the little German sa
down.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1904-03-03

Keep to the broad highways Of Hope
and Cheerfulness. Expect to succeed.
Think success and you will succeed
Keep out of the back alleys OF gloom and
pessimism. Join the procession of the
cheerful, the willing and the hopeful.
Be sanguine. Know the pleasures Of
living. Enjoy the sunshine Of hope. Be
ware of the encroachments Of the carp
Ing, psssimisdc spirit. 1t is hardy
plant. It takes root easily in the mind
and, Ike the thistle, when once 1t gains
z foothold it Is well-nigh impossible to
uproot But 1t cannot live in an Atmos-
phere of sunshine and chserfulness.
Therefore, keep to the highways Keep
out OF the back alleys,-Chicago Daily
News
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1904-03-03
HEALTH AND BEAUTY.
A Few Items of suggestions which
May Be of Value to Some
Persons.

Vinegar and cooking soda in solution
are said to make capital cure for warts.
If the wart is kept moist with it for ten
minutes Several times day It will dis
appear In the course of a week or So in
ordinary cases, says the New York
Tribune. Another cure Is to touch fire.
quently with acetic acid or nitric acid,
but one must be careful not TO irritate
the surrounding skin by dropping either
acid.
To prevent perspiratiOn under the
arms a beauty specialist advises first
washing the skin thoroughly with soap
and warm water and then drying and
sponging with a preparation made by
mixing half an ounce of rose water two
scruples of fannie acid and two and a
half ounces Of rectitied spirits of wine
with three ounces Of water.
Where the hair Is dry and dandruffy
the following lotion used every other
night will be found beneficial: To four
ounces Of rose water add half dram
each OF sulphur, glycerin and borax.
This will clear the scalp Of dandruff and
prepare it for the new growth of hair.
While the head is in the abnormal condi-
ton indicated by the presence of dan
druff the hair will neither be glossy nor
Of a good color nor will there be a
healthy growth Of new hair. There need
be no anxiety over the falling of the
hair-unless it falls to excess-proyided
new hair keeps on appearing, but no
head of hair is so rich and luxuriant that
it can stand indefinitely being depleted
even by one hair day If there is no
corresponding gain to balance the loss
Therefore, no pains should be spared TO
stimulate a growth of new hair.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1904-03-03
Officers
CHURCH DIRECTORY.

CHRISTIAN CHURCH S II d '
School every Sunday at 9:30a IN. Preach
ing first and third Sundays Up. m, second
and fourth Sundays IL a. IN. Christian
Endeavor every Friday Al p. III. X. +
Elmore, pastor.
METHODIST CHURCH Main Street
Sunday School every SUNDAY at $50 ID.
"Iit,le Workers Juvenile Missionary
every second sunday p. m. Preachlna
first and thru Sundays IL a. NJ, second
and fourth SUNDAYS 7 p. H., fifth Sun'
DAYS IL a. NJ. and p. 10.
NORTH TAZEWELL CHURCH.
Sunday School every Sunday at 10 a. NJ
Preaching first and third Sundays 7 p. M,
second and fourth Sundays i a. 81
Prayer meeting every Friday I p. m. /
j. Eskrldge, pastor.
PRESBYTERIAN CHI URCH.-SuDday
School every Sunday at $50 Il. N. Preach
ing secoud, third and fourth Sundays a
III a. III. and Z. p. Ia. Preaching NH
SUNDAYS at II q. m. Prsyermeetins every
Wednesday evening Z p. NJ.
PRESBYTERIAN, BURKE'S GAK
DEN.-Preaching on first Sunday at ii a
m. and 4 p. m. S. 0. Hall, pastor.
TAZEWELL PREACHERS COUNCIL
Every Monday at = p. ~.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1904-03-03
COSTLY ARMOR PLATE.
The Process of Making IL Is very
Tedious and Requires Much
Patience.

The general public has always been
mystlfed at the extremely high price
paid for armor plate. The most impor-
tant item is the great length of time
required for the successful manufacture
of a plate, for, on an average, every
plate is being constantly worked upon'
either in furnace, forge, machine shop
or annealing and tempering department
for a continuous period Of nine months
Other causes of high cost, says the
Scientific American, are the large num-
Der of separate operations, the fire.
uuency with which the great masses
must be transported and the distances
over which they must be carried in their
journey from one department to an
other. To illustrate the vast scale on
which an armor plate and gun steel
works is laid out, and the distances to
be covered from shop to shop, we may
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1904-03-03
GAMBLING AND STOCKS.
Stock Speculation Il outwardly Re-
spectacle But Just as Certainly
Brings Final Financial Ruin

The very fact that the professional
gambler is to a large extent social
outcast, plying his craft at night and
behind steel doors and only then with
the purchasable connivance of the au-
thorities, is in itself warning that not
even the stupidest can fail to observe.
Stock speculation, on the contrary, says
Leslie's Monthly, hangs out the banner
OF respectabllity-which a great many
unthinhng persons have somehow come
to confound with morality-and under
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1904-03-03

its protection, carries on its traffic night
and day, in city streets and village lanes,
in parlor and boudoir, in store and in
factory-in short, wherever it can find a
single human being possessed of this
mania for getting something for moth
ing. Men who would scorn to cross the
threshold Of gambling house, gamble
openly in stocks and are not ashamed to
discuss their ventures in the presence
of their own children. When Wall street
ruins man, it strips him of everything
that he possesses-destroys his bust
ness, places a mortgage on his home,
eats up the trust funds of which he was
custodian and leaves him naked to the
world.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1904-03-03
Settled Old Account.

A letter was received at the Eas
Dorset (Vt) post Office few weeks age
postmarked at Spokane Falls, Wash.
and directed to Benjamin Ames or any
of his descendants. 1t proved to b;
from a man who 60 years ago boarded
with Mr.. Ames for a time and lef
without paying his board bill. He saiC
that he was now SO years old and
wanted to pay. The bill was sent hin
and he sent a check for the amount.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1904-03-03

York Herald. He points out, in support
of his doleful prophecies, that the aver
age size of man is decreasing, while that
of the better half is on the increase.
whittier are we bound? To land of
henpecked masculinity and overaggres-
sive, loudly assertive, voting femininity,
where woman reigns supreme, not by
her sovereign majesty Of commanding
weakness, but by her newly acquired
physical superiority and strength? Sh!
Speak It not aloud in Gotham, but let
every newspaper take the tip so serious
ly given and cut out all this matter tell
ing women how to exercise in endless
muscle developing ways. She will soon
be too muscular.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1904-03-03
Profit from Garbage.

A Denver man comes to the front with
a solution of the garbage question. He
has made q proposition to the city OF
st. Louis to take all the garbage of the
city free of cost. His scheme is to cook
this waste material and feed 1t to cattle
and hogs. He claims that the plan
works all right in Denver and will be-
practicable in st. Louis. This will save
St. Louis $4,000 per year and the Off
Gals will be glad to make such a con-
tract. The process will be watched with
much interest, and, if success, will
probably be adopted in other cities.
Garbage in IT'S usual decomposing state
is undoubtedly not the best feed in the
world for stock, but 1t may be that Mr..
Worthlngham, who makes the offer, has
a way Of preparing 1t and mixing It with
grain that will make 1t satisfactory
feed.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1904-03-03
FEMININE FASHIONS.
Notes and Suggestions for Those Who
Keep Pace with the New
est in Dress.

One of the new skating jackets Is
fashioned on the lines Of Norfolk
jacket.
For sleighing or automobiling in
frosty weather nothing is more correct
and comfortable than one Of the long
fur coats.
A pretty high crush girdle is OF chine
Dresden lousine, with a deep cream
ground.
From England comes the word that
gray is to be the correct hunting color,
but in this country individual taste will
probably present variety of shades.
The latest bonbon cases represent Ok
ford ties in porcelain initiating patent
leather, white suede and waterproof
leather.
A new species of sandals has APP
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1904-03-03
PAYS FOR THE LIGHT.
Beacon on Lonesome African COAST
Partly Maintained by United
States Government.

Among the estimates of the state de-
partment for the current year is found
the sum of $3.50 for our annual proper
ton of the expenses of Cape Spartel
light, on the coast of Morocco, includ-
Ing loss by exchange"
All travellers passing through the
Strait of Gibraltar see Cape Spartel
light, fronting the Atlantic ocean on
the south side Of the strait. 1t is eight
miles west of Tangler, and stands on
q cliff rising 500 feet above the sea.
The government of Morocco thought
1t was very hardly treated when it was
compelled to build this lighthouse. The
other governments had requested Mo-
rocco to build it as an aid to navigation
but Morocco bluntly refused.
Diplomatic pressure was then
brought to bear, and the leading COM
mercial nations at length induced the
sultan to build lighthouse at Cape
Spartel. The contract was given a
French firm, and the result is a fine
and solid piece Of stone work.
The lighthouse is noteworthy for the
remarkable manner in which it is sup
ported The agreement with Morocco
was that If the sultan would build the
lighthouse the other nations would at
tend to its maintenance.
Ten governments, therefore, contrib
ute annually about $500 apiece, and
this money pays for the services Of the
lighthouse, keeper and his assistants
and the oil and other materials needed.
The consuls at Tangier form the board
of lighthouse supervisors and the Mo-
roccan government has nothing to do
with the management.
Few lighthouses have so beautiful a
location. It is the favorite picnic
ground of the European residents of
Tangier.
From this elevation visitors may
look far out upon the ocean and see the
entire length Of the Strait of Gibraltar
and Cape Trafalgar, where Nelson de-
feated the French Spanish fleet in 1905
is plainly in sight to the north.