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The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1905-05-02
THE LIFE AFTER DEATH.
BuIwer-Lytton Believed 1t Would Be
Pronressive


A Welsh lady, writing in Black
woods Magazine on her visit to Kneb-
worth in 1857, says that Sir Edward
Bulwer-L ytton spoke thus on the sub
ject of spirits:
He said he did not believe we should
reach the highest heaven when we die.
NO" he continued, ut is not likely
that we, imperfect as we are, should
be suddenly ushered into the Divine
Presence on leaving this world; our
minds would not be prepared for SO
much glory; we are far too sinful for
that. We shall pass through success
i've stages of existence, rising higher
and higher until we reach the fullness
of knowledge and of happiness. We
cannot expect instant transition from
darkness to light, which to us would
be insufferably bright. Does not
everything progress? Is not progress
sion the order of all Gods work here?
Why not hereafter? 1t is strange, he
went on that all spirits, when ques-
toned about heaven, agree in stating
that into our next stage of being we
shall carry the pursuits and character
istics of mind which are ours on
earth. but all refined and ennobled
None of them, however, profess to
have reached to the great knowledge
of our final heaven, nor to know by
what means we shall pass from one
stage to another"
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1905-05-02
CARPENTER eossep THE SHOW.
Ono Case Where Richard Mansfield
Yielded His Authority.

Another tale of the urbanity Of Mr..
Mansfield, the actor, is going around
the theaters.
With his company is a stage car
penter whom Mr.. Mansfield considers
the acme of perfection in his line,
just as Richard himself is in his. Now,
this carpenter, whom Mr.. Mansfield
would not lose for the best leading
lady in the land has his own eccen-
tricities, even as Mr.. Mansfield has
his.
One afternoon during the time of
rehearsal the carpenter was heard
pounding with his hammer in the
wings. Mr. Mansfield sent messen-
ger to tell the carpenter to desist, but
the pounding went right on vigor-
ously.
Finally Richard in high dudgeol
strobe into the wings himself, and
above the noise of the poundings Mr.,
Mansfelds objections could be heard
One actress, holder than the rest
crept near the scene in the wings
She beheld Richard bending over the
carpenter, who was on his knees
pounding away.
What do you mean?" cried Mr.
Mansfield. why don't you stoF
when l tell you to-"
"Sh-sh--" said the carpenter, not
ceasing to let his hammer fall.
"You-you-" cried the enraged
master. Don't you know who's talk
ing to you, you blockhead of an old
fool?"
The carpenter looked up a minute
Speak piano, Richard" he said, "you
will disgrace yourself with the PEG
pie on the stage" And he resumed
his good hearty strokes.
Mr.. Mansfield walked off. THE car
penter runs this show" he com
planned.
Some of the company think Rich
ards right.
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1905-05-02
Urn Buried for 1000 Years.

In the neighborhood of Bourne
mouth, England, recently, during the
construction of a new road the exca-
vators cut into a mound, which is in
dictated upon the map as an ancient
buriel ground, and large sun-baked
clay urn was unearthed. 1t was in a
remarkable state of preservation and
was intact The roots of the heather
had forced their way into the interior
of the receptacle and into the ashes
and dust it contained The urn was
estimated to he 1000 years old.
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1905-05-02
Who Would ] Be?

Had I the choice my wife I'd choose to
be 1T, q,
(Forgive the tribute to her worth l
70 hut "a fathom all her love for me
And fitch the secret of her winsome
way;
The tender hopes, the trust that never
The faith, the constancy, the patient
care, IL.
The steadfast heart, the courage that
Iifes tears and tolls and Borrowings to
bar
To live with such sweet fortituds the
space r..
OF one brief day were task enough for
man;
Yet she inherits but the simple grace
Bestowed on womanhood when earth
--TatIer.
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1905-05-02
Grand Opera in GEORGIA.

Grand Opera IN Georgia.
Last Tuesday night the grand opera
people left an order for twenty bottles
of beer, six half pints and two pints of
whisky.-Augusta (Ga.) Herald
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1905-12-14
GRIP COMM
IN. Y. Globe.)

Our old but unwelcome friend, the
grip, has arrived in London, and may
soon be expected in New York aboard
one Of the Atlantic liners. He or she,
according to ones point of view on the
woman question (only the female mos
quito bites), has adopted new disguise
in the shape of facial neuralgia. This
grevious mask, happily named by the
French the "dolorous habit" is said to
be a marked characteristic If the pres
ent London cases.
1t adds considerably to the patients
sufferings, but is apparently less fatal
than the so-called rheumatic influenza,
which type characterized some of the
earlier epidemics. The London experts
who predict that the disease is on the
wane, and that after year or two cpl
denies will disappear entirely until a
new generation has grown up for it to
feed upon, know, it is to be hoped,
whereof they speak.
The fact, however, that many per-
sons suffer from repeated attacks year
after year seems to indicate that grip is
not malady in which immunity can be
depended upon after the first infection.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1905-12-14
PERSONAL NOTES

The English author, Miss May Sin
clair, is visiting Mrs. Kate Douglas
Wiggin at. her New York home.
One of the most successful designers
of stained glass windows in America is
Miss Mary Tillinghast of,New York.
Rev. w. ]. Dawson, the celebrated
English evangelist, who has decided to
make the United States his future home,
has purchased property in Taunton,
Mass.
Prof. Paul H. Hanus, of Harvard, has
been elected first president of the New
England professors and teachers of ed
ucation, at sessions just held in Cam
bridge.
Henry F. Shaw, of Boston, well
known in railway circles for his devo-
ton to the problem of balancing the re-
ciprocating parts of locomotives, has
presented to Pardue University, mod
ell locomotive embodying his latest de-
sign.
Collecting wild birds and animals for
geological gardens is the unique occupa-
ton of Mrs. c. F. Latham, of Grant,
Florida. Her home has been in that
locality for twenty years, and she has
had some exciting as well as interest
ing experiences.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1905-12-14
Is THIS DEMOCRACY d?

The old time Democracy, that OF the
Jeffersonian and Jacksonian type, was
was radically opposed to anything that
had the semblance of paternalism. 1t
was strongly opposed to anything and
everything that tended to impair the
doctrine of States rights and advance
the idea of Capitalization.
But times have changed and Democ-
racy has also changed. We now find
the Democratic leaders, especially from
the South, the most earnest advocates
of Federal supervision of the railroads
and other corporations, of insurance
companies; and many of them are for
asking and taking appropriations from
the Federal Government to aid in build
ing public highways. They are now
the supporters of such policies as these
and claim that they are Democratic
policies. When did they become such?
When did Democracy stand for pater-
nalism?
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1905-12-14
NIAGARA AND "COMMeRCIALIsM."
(Brooklyn Eagle.)

A public spirited citizen of Iowa, who
is petitioning the powers to prevent the
destruction of Niagara Falls by the
electrical power companies, asks if it
would not be disgrace to our country
Ito see such a grand piece of Natures
work destroyed in such manner?' 1t
would. But we care less about the man
ner than the result. Whether the falls
are to be ruined by the corporations who
are now at work upon them, or by mill
owners, or cannal diggers, or by any
people, whomsoever, the fact of their
impending ruin should be enough to
bring every American to his feet in pro-
test-every real American, we mean,
for there are some among US to whom
the dollar is larger than the country,
and it is men of the lower commercial
instincts who seek the devastation of
Niagara in the interest of their own
pockets all the time. We can spare
such men better than we can spare the
Niagara Falls.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1905-12-14
FORTUNE SEED.
ATLANTA Journal.)
friends.

A peny may seem to you a very insig-
nifcant thing. But it is the small seed
from which fortunes spring.
If you want to raise flower you get
the seed, plant it in the best soil avail
able and do all that you can to encour-
age its growth. You may be fortunate
enough to procure half-growth plant,
but some time, somewhere, somebody
planted the seed.
The penny is the seed of that wonder
full growth which the best of us cannot
help admiring and for which all of US
more or less ardently ng-the fortune
plant.
If you would have one of these plants
your own. If you dream of sitting at
ease under its branches in your old age,
90 about growing it in rational way
and in conformity with the fixed laws
of nature.
Treat the disc of copper cent-with
the respect that fortune seed deserves.
Nature is the greatest of all teachers,
but many of US fail to see the signif-
canoe of the facts which are so quietly
but SO insistently placed before us.
If one who has received a comfortable
salary for five or ten years suddenly
finds himself out of a position, with no
money saved up, he is pretty sure to
blame his "luck," instead of sensibly
realizing that experience is putting be-
fore him in the most convincing manner
a lesson he needs to learn by heart.
If. instead of bemoaning his "luck, ="
he will listen he will hear still, small
voice whispering to him of pennies and
nickels and dimes and dollars which
have been not wisely sown, but scat
tered on the winds and wasted.
Money spent in legitimate pleasure
need never be regretted. Such indulg-
ences bestow delightful memories that
comfort even in the cruelest hardships.
Suppose that at 20 one should make
a VOW to put away at least cents day
and not touch his savings for ten years.
From this investment, to small that ne
would scarcely miss it, he would have at
80 the sum of $1S2. so to his credit.
This is little? Yes; this is the small
est thing he has gained.
He has learned to look upon his pen
MES as fortune seeds, and that lesson
is worth far more than his nickel day.
He has acquired the habit of saving,
which grows infinitely faster even than
money at compound interest.
The chances are that within year he
has made his savings dime day and
within two years quarter, that at 30
he has thrifty fortune and at 40 a snug
fortune
We hear of fortunes being made sud-
denly and seemingly by magic. Yes;
the other day in Wall street eight mill
ions were made in five minutes in deal
in cotton.
But don't be deceived. Ordinarily,
fortunes are not made in this way. For
one such there are thousands that grow
like the plant, day by day, from little
seeds of savings.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1905-12-14

denominations, is likewise strong and
growing. The Presbyterians are at
work upon the erection Of an organized
form and fellowship for the men of that
name. A tendency toward similar ac-
ton in other ecclesiastical bodies may
easily be discerned. Already the Ro-
man Catholic church has federated into
one cohesive body the numerous and di-
verse societies of men within its par
ishes.
If the men of the churches are to take
hold of religion, as these signs would
seem to indicate, and press its interests
as they press the present day CONNER
cial enterprises which they direct, we
may look for extraordinary develop
ments in church life and in the attitude
of society in general toward the latter.
With skilled and devoted force of lay
workers, permeating every department
of human activity, the Church need be
less concerned than she now is over the
dearth of candidates for the ministry.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1905-12-14
AN AMERICAN WESTMINSTER ABBEY.
New York Sum-

Every subject of Great Britain hopes
his services to his country will entitle
him to tomb in Westminster Abbey.
We could offer similar ambition to our
people if Congress would build suita-
BILE memorial building in Washington
and move the remains of every man
who has been President of the United
States, and bury them in this building,
and erect suitable tomb over each.
Ten years after the death of every
very prominent man, require the Sen
ate of the United States to meet in Sc
cret session and carefully examine the
record of his services. If the Senate
decided that he was entitled to place
in this building his heirs should be in
formed officially that they are author
lied to erect tomb to his memory in
the memorial building.
There are hundreds of people buried
in Westminster Abbey who gave no
service to their country, and were not
prominent officially, politically, or in
any way. In ours, on the contrary,
Presidents of the United States would
be buried, and the only other tombs
would be of men whom the Senate
had decided (ten years after their
deaths) to be entitled to be so honored.
Possibly in time men would prefer
ours to Westminster.
The Presidents belong to the whole
United States, and their bodies should
be taken care of forever in a dignified
and proper way by Congress.
The private begging that has been
going on for the last hundred years
to build, repair, and keep in order the
tombs of ex-Presidents is undignifed
and unworthy of great nation.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1905-12-14
PICKLED POSTS AND POLES.
kansas City Journal.)


Preservation of wood is becoming
more general every year." said Mr.. o.
Chanute, who has put in a number of
railroad tie picking plants throughout
the country.
They are even extending this picking
business to fence posts and telegraph
and telephone poles. 1t works out well
in both of these. In the picking of ties,
the railroads are using great many of
the softer woods, those which ordinari-
ly wouldn't last more than two or three
years. By the treatment of chemicals,
though, their life is extended to at least
ten years.
The movement first had its origin
about 1880, when attention was called
by the government that there was be-
coming scarcity of timber in various
sections of the country.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1905-12-14
THE MASCULINE IN RELIGION.
philadelphia Press.)

The newest note in the church life of
America, next to aggressive evangel-
ism, is the emphasis that is being placed
upon the masculine in religion.
Almost unchallenged the impression
has prevailed among people generally
that women and children hold mort
gage upon religious activities. The
churches, it has been thought, paradox
ically, have been manned by women.
The latter undoubtedly form the larger
portion of the average congregation.
They raise money, do the work and
dominate the life of the churches.
Of late this order has shown decided
signs of change. The Young Mems
Christian Association half a century ago
did much to shatter it with respect to
more general religious activities; and it
continues, with increasing effectiveness,
to give Christianity caste among the
world men. The development now be-
ing considered, however, has to do
strictly with the work of men in the To-
cal congregation or denomination, as IL
Illustrated by the mass meeting which
the Presbyterian men of Philadelphia
held one evening this week.
Most conspicuous among the churches
in which the male element is conscious
of its identity and power is the Protest
ant Episcopal, whose Brotherhood of st.
Andrew has done mighty works in de-
veIoping mems activity for men along
religious lines and in aligning men in all
walks of life with specifically Christian
effort. The kindred Brotherhood OF An
drew and Philip. to be found in several
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1905-12-14
THURSDAY, DEC. IA. 1905.
1Hs PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.

President RooSeVelt'S annual message
has been we'll received by the press and
public generally. There can be but one
objection urged to it, and that is its
great length. But when one stops to
consider that there were so many I'M
portant questions that had to be treated
the length of the message must be ig-
nored. Every question is discussed so
frankly, ably and sincerely by the Presi-
dent that the people will be likely to ap-
prove his views on each subject he has
treated in the message.
The Democratic press is as earnest IN
praising the message as is the Repubh-
can. The Democrats can find but one
objection and that is what the President
said about the tariff. He makes no rec
concentrations on that question, and in
so doing acts wisely. This is no time
for agitating the tariff. If we were
passing through or threatened with
business panic; if labor was unemployed
and agricultural, mining and <manufac-
turing interests greatly depressed there
might be some reason for the agitation
of an economic question which greatly
influences the business conditions OF the
country. But the United States is now
ENJOYING one of it's periods of almost
nnequaled prosperity, and Mr.. Roose-
welt has concluded that it would be fol-
ly to make any change in the industrial
policy of the government.
The failure of the President to advo-
cate what has been called tariff reform
must be great disappointment to the
Democratic leaders. They have for
some months been bolstering them
selves with the hope that he would de-
velope into regular tariff ripper or
smasher. 1t was thought by sanguine
Democrats that Mr.. Roosevelt would
not only express decided views in favor
of ultra tariff revision, but that he would
try to force his opinions on Congress.
Then it was thought would come the
Democratic opportunity. 1t was I'M
derstood that the Democratic members
of Congress would unite with those Re
publicans who favored tariff revision
and back Mr.. Roosevelt up as against a
majority of the Republicans members.
A very nice little scheme but too Wis
ionary to have been born of real states
menship. 1t about measures up to the
leadership of the Democrats in the
House of Representatives. John Sharp
Williams has been and is now the leader
of the Democracy in the House, and he
hales from State which il the lowest
in the scale of progress of any in the
Union. Mississippi has the greatest
per centage of illiteracy of any of the
States and in industrial enterprise is
at the foot of the column.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1905-12-14
THE LITTLE FOOL.
Baltimore Herald.)

Holding by long tradition to the low
ing appellation "The Little Father" in
referring to the car, it is highly signif-
icant of the embitterred feeling of the
populace that they are now freely
speaking of him as the little fool. Such
a change in sentiment denotes the depth
of popular feeling against the man
whom the Russian people hold charge
able with their ills and whom they ac-
cuse of bad faith in not putting into eff
feet his promised reforms.
1t is just such straws as the uncom-
plimentary ALTERATION that show the
direction in which the wind is blowing
and the rising force of the popular
storm in the Russian empire.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1905-12-14

Nothing will cure indigestion that
doesn't digest the food itself, and give the
stomach rest. You can't expect that a
weak stomach will regain its strength and
get we'll when it is compelled to do the
full work that sound stomach should do.
You wouldn't expect sick horse to get
well when it is compelled to do full day 3
work every day of the week. Kodol Dys-
pepsia Cure is a perfect digestant aud di-
gests the food regardless of the condition
of your stomach. Relieves indigestion,
beIching, sour stomach, and all stomach
disorders. Sold by John E. jackson,
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1905-12-14
AN ELASTIC CURRENCY.
philadelphia Press.)

Secretary Shaw urges in his annual
report the one plan proved safe, ade-
quate and efficient to provide new bank
currency when business requires more
currency.
Following the German plan he pro-
poses that national banks have the au-
thority to issue one-half more than their
secured currency; but pay 5 per cent. a
year tax on this issue. The result will
be that when the rate for loans is low,
below per cent, none of these notes
will be issued. There will be no profit
to them.
But when business expands loans are
in demand and the rate of money rises
to IL per cent. in New York, as it did
last summer, or to ID per cent, as it
has been recently, these notes will be
issued to secure this profit. They will
ease the strain on credits and prevent
stringency in bank loans at the financial
center OF Cne country.
This is no theory. The plan has been
tried in Germany for twenty-four years.
since the Bank of Germany was given
this power. In quiet years these notes
are never issued. Let a strain come
and they appear.
In September, 1897, $51, 900, 600 were
issued on this plan; in September, 1898,
S69, 900, 900. in September, 1899, $92,-
500, 900, and in September, 1900, $7O,-
900, 900. These were all periods Of vast
liquidation, owning to the fall in Ger
man industrials. This year $40, 900, 600
of these notes were at one time issued.
When the stress is passed they disap-
pear and are retired in day to save the
tax. So they would here. Secretary
Shaw's recommendation would give not
only currency elastic and expanding
as needed, automatically, but it would
give this expansion legally, instead of
outside of the law and with no legal
sanction by the issue of NeW York
Clearing House certificates.
Congress should enact Secretary
Shaw's recommendation without delay.
If it does not we shall continue to see
the perilous rise of the rate for interest
when a stress comes.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1905-12-14

1t has just been discovered that the
late Prof. o. C. Marsh, of the Peabody
Museum, of Yale University, made the
most complete collection of antiques of
the Chiriqui Indians of the province of
Panama in existence. 1t is discovered
that these Indians represented civili-
zation in prehistoric times second only
to the Aztecs.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1905-12-14


We have received several copies OF
the Daily Times which began publica-
ton at Harrisonburg, Va, on the LIST
inst. It is bright, newsy sheet, Of
excellent mechanical appearance, and
is Republican in politics. Mr.. D. Shelf
fey Lewis, editor of the Spirit Of the
Valley, will have charge of the edito-
rial department Of the Times, which is
a guarantee that the paper will be ed
tied with o ability. We welcome the
Times among our exchanges, and hope
81 may be a successful venture
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1905-12-14

The mission of EARLY Risers" is to
clear the way and give Nature full sway,
These famous little pills rid the stomach
and bowels of all putrid matter, thus re-
moving the causes of headache, constipa-
ton, sallow complexion, etc. DeWitt's
Little Early Risers never grippe or sickeD.
A cafe, pleasant, perfect pill. Sold by
John 4. Jackson, druggist.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1905-12-14
Deafness Cannot BE Cured

With LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they
cannot reach the seat Of the disease.
Catarrh is blood or constitutional dis
ease, and in order to cure it you must
take internal remedies. Hal's Catarrh
Cure is taken Internally, and acts directly
on the blood and mucous surfaces. Halls
Catarrh Cure is not quack medicine.
1t was prescribed by one Of the best ply
sicians in this country for years and is a
regular prescription. 1t is composed Of
the best tonics known, combined with
the best blood purifiers, acting directly on
the mucous surfaces. The perfect combi-
nation Of the two ingredients is what pro-
duces such wonderful results in curing ca
tarrh. Send for testimonials free.
FL CHENEY & Co., Props,
Toledo, Ohio.
Sold by druggists, price 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipa-
ton.