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Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1905-04-06

tendance Of American students Though
their number may not increase mate
rally, still they come. And 1t is we'll
that they should, particularly those
that have in view special studies and in
vestigations in certain lines; for Ger
many is prominently the land of spe-
cialists, and it must be admitted that
German devotion to special work has
added immensely to the sum of knowl-
edge Besides, year or two spent
abroad cannot but prove to be great
blessing to the average American stu
dent, not because he needs 1t to prepare
him for his life's work, but because
travel and sojourn in this and other
countries are in themselves liberal
education, and tend to broaden the
mind, widen the horizon, remove petty
prejudices and supply an Independent
Judgment of men and matters. A few
semesters at a German university,
bringing a young man in ouch with the
ideas and methods of the great schol-
ars and scientists of this country, as
we'll as with the spirit of the German
students life, is an advantage generally
all through life. But all
this is rather luxury than a necessity.
No American need any longer come to
this or go to any other country for high
er education. In my judgment the
United States offers to-day facilities
for collegiate, academical and post
graduate studies equal in quantity and
quality to those offered by any country
in the old world.
HENRY w. DIEDERICH.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1905-04-06
IMPROVEMENTS IN PANAMA
Moneys to Be Appropriated for Public
Expenditures in the Va
rious Provinces.

The republic Of Panama, having re
ceived the 100000 from the United
States-the amount due on account Of
the canal contract-seems to be Intent
on carrying into effect the various pub
lie improvements throughout the re-
public which have been contemplated
for some time.
This idea finally eliminated In an act
by the national assembly on the 9Th
of JuAe, 1904, by which certain sums
were appropriated to the various prov
incAs, as follows:
Province of Panama, 100000;
province OF Colon, 5000, 900; province OF
Chiriqui, s45O,OOO; province of Cocls,
$3.50 900; province Of Los Santos, $780,
600; province of Vera Aguas, $3.50, 900;
province of Bocas del Zorro, $45O,OOO.
Section of the bill provides that
within 90 days the president of the re-
public shall send to each one Of the
provinces engineers and architects,
whose duty 1t shall be to study the
various improvements contemplated
and present plans and specifications
showing cost, ETC., of each. These plans
and specifications must be submitted to
the secretary Of public works on or be-
fore the 31st of December next.
The act gives the president Of the re-
public the right to admit free Of duty all
material used in these public improve
n1ents.
The Improvements for the province Of
Panama consist in part of the following:
Capitol or public government building,
municipal palace, palace Of justice,
library and museum university, uni
versity for the sciences school OF arts,
Offices and commerce, theater, police
station, public Jail and normal college
for young men. Some two years ago
Gov. Carlos Alban, who was at the time
at the head Of the Colombian forces on
the Pacific slope, was killed in an en-
gagement In the Bay of Panama. Sub
seQuently park was opened in the city
near the Panama railroad station and
named in honor of this distinguished
Colombian. From time to time since
that date there have been some improve
ments of this park, and now in this bill
an appropriation has been donated for
the purpose "of improving and beauti-
flying Alban park"
In the other provinces the fund is to
be used for various and sundry pur-
poses, among which are named the fol-
lowing: Erection of houses for the gov
ernors, police stations, normal schools,
prisons, courthouses hospitals, boring
artesian wells, erecting bridges Of iron
and wood across rivers and streams,
opening up public roads through the
interior, cleaning harbors and opening
up rivers. establishing electric plants In
various municipalities. erecting light
houses and making other improvements
along the lines indicated above.
II there are those who wish more
specific information as regards these
matters. Hon. Manuel Quintero ", sec
rotary Of public works, Panama, will
doubtless give the information desired
on application.
II A GUDGER
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Officers.
CHURCH DIRECTORY.

CHRISTIAN CHURCH.-S a }
School every Sunday at 9:S0a M. Preach
ing first and third Sundays Up. NJ, second
and fourth Sundays ii a. In. Christian
Endeavor every Friday at p. IN. h. T.
Elmore, pastor.
METHODIST CHURCH, Main Street
Sunday School every Sunday at $3.50 a. IN
"Little Workers" Juvenile Missionary
every second Sunday 3 p. m. PREACHING
first and third Sundays ii a. M, second
and fourth Sundays s p. M, NTH Sun-
days IL a. IN. and z p. m.
NORTH TAZEWELL CHURCH.
Sunday School every Sunday at 10 a. IN.
Preaching first and third Sundays Z p NJ,
second and fourth Sundays ii a. On.
PRAYER meeting every Friday p. m. l.
j. Eskridge, pastor.
PRESBYTERIAN H.-Sunday
School every Sunday at $50 a. no. Preach
ing second, third and fourth Sundays at
III a. no. and 7. p. In. Preaching NTH
SUNDAYS at II a. m. Prayermeetlng every
Wednesday evening Z p. m.
PRESBYTERIAN, BURKE'S GAR
DEN. Preaching on first Sunday at III a.
m. and 4p. m. S. o. Hall, pastor.
TAZEWELL PREACHERS COUNCIL
Every Monday at Up. m.
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he can reasonably expect failure. 1t is
true that few Americans have en-
gagged in the raising of staple tropical
products, such as coffee, vanilla and
fruits, and some have engaged in cat
Tie and corn raising in the tropics with
some degree of success, but many of
them have stated to me that they could
have done better in the United States
with the same amount of capital and
work, and would have avoided the dis
eases and discomforts incident to liv-
ing in the tropics. 1t cannot be said
that tropical agriculture is a failure,
but in so far as Americans are con-
cerned 1t is largely an experiment. The
pioneers, as in any other case, will be
the greatest sufferers It is not unrea-
sonable to suppose that an American
may make a success of raising coffee,
sugar, tobacco fruits, or other tropical
products after some years of expert
ence, provided, of course, that he lives
through the experience.
EDWARD NJ. CONLEY.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1905-04-06
THE BEST EARLY BIRDS.
Are the Travellers Who Get Up When
They Are Called on
Time.

A college student who had been chas-
ing the nimble dollar during vacation by
selling agricultural implements to farm
ers in the middle west was telling few
friends in a downtown cafe something
about early trains, says the Chicago In
ter Ocean.
you fellows who stay right here in
town." he said, where you can catch a
train for anywhere at almost any hour
of the day or night, don't know what you
have to be thankful for Compared with
some Of these western roads, even the
depleted schedule of the Dog River line
looks as swift as the elevated road serv-
fee. For instance, last week l was IN
Plymouth, Ind. I wanted to take an
early train to Rochester, in the same
state. left word with the clerk to be
called early. About AS, when the por-
ter banged at my door, chased him and
went to sleep again. When l went
downstairs at seven o'clock remarked
with some sarcasm, to the clerk that
When said an early train did not mean
midnight
" Well he replied, take all the time
you want over your breakfast. The next
train does not leave until 5:45 this even
ing
THAT was fact, boys. There were
only two trains day from that town;
never had been any more, and probably
never will be-"
IF you had been travelling about the
country as much as have" said the
atrical man, you would lnow that in
rural communities all through the west
and south there are only two trains a
day-one early in the morning and the
other somewhere near the corresponding
hour in the evening. Theatrical COM
panies must, of course, catch the morn
ing train, or they cannot reach the next
town on the route in time for the even
ing performance. Hiring a special IN
these places Is much like chartering an
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1905-04-06
MEAL WAS MADE OF AcORNS
Food Supply of American Indians Be-
fore Wheat and Corn Were
Made Use Of.

BY Indian meal Is commonly under
stood meal made Of maize, or Indian
corn; but In some parts of the country
a more primitive meal was made from
acorns. Mr.. Galen Clark, in his book
on the Indians of the Yosemite" de-
scribes in full the food supply of the
native tribes. That portion Of their
rations which may be classed as bread
stuffs consists Of acorns, obtained from
the black oak, so beautiful and so
abundant in the Yosemite valley.
The acorns are gathered in the fall,
when they are ripe, and are preserved
for future use in the old-style Indian
cache, or storehouse. This consists Of
q structure which the Indians call a
chuck-ah. 1t is a large receptacle Of
basket shape, made Of long willow
sprouts closely woven together.
1t Is usually about six feet high and
three feet in diameter. 1t is set upon
stout posts about three feet high, and
supported In position by four longer
posts on the outside, reaching to the
top, and there bound firmly together
to keep them from spreading. The out
side Of the basket Is matched with
small pine branches, laid points down.
ward to shed the rain and snow, and to
protect the contents from the depreda-
tons of squirrels and woodpeckers.
When the baskets are full the top is
also covered with bark, as protection
from the winter storms. When the
acorns are wanted for use a small hole
is made at the bottom of the chuck-ah,
and they are taken out as required,
The acorns are bitter, and are not
eaten in their natural condition, but
have to be deliberately prepared and
cooked to make them palatable. First
the hull Is cracked and removed and
the kernel pounded or ground to fine
meal. In the Yosemite valley this was
done by grinding with stone pestles in
stone mortars, worn by long usage, in
large fiat-top granite rocks, one OF
which was near every Indian camp.
Lower down in the foothills, where
there are no suitable large rocks for
these permanent mortars, the Indians
used single portable stone mortars for
this purpose.
After the acorns are ground to
fine meal the next process is to take
out the bitter tannin principle. This
is done in the following manner: The
Indians make large, shallow basins in
sand, in which are laid
q few fiat, fan-like ends of fir branches
fire is then made nearby. and small
stones are heated, with which water is
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1905-04-06
Electric-Power Era in Scotland.

No trade here has better prospect
at this time than that of the electrical
engineering firms. The demand for
motors and all other electrical appa-
ratus will undoubtedly continue to
grow from month to month, and Amer
lean companies prepared to compete in
these lines of manufacture have now
their best opportunity. The application
of electricity as a motive power in yari-
Gus industries, for urban lighting and
traction, as light and power for coal
mines and other uses, examples of
which are numerous, marks the real
dawn of the eleetric-power era in this
part of Great Britain American manu-
facturers have in the past few years
furnished some of the heavy machinery
for municipal generating stations and
private plants, and also a considerable
number of dynamos, motors, etc.
American English concerns have done
much in this line-in fact, they seem to
be we'll ahead of all others. Recent
developments mean an expanding mar
ket, to which our manufacturers of cleo
trical machinery and supplies may find
It profitable to devote earnest attention.
RUFUS FLEMING.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1905-04-06
The Rosy Gross Of Thibet.

Any of the British officers now on
the road to Lhasa who may happen tn
be Free Masons have, perhaps, just an
outside chance of solving an interest
ing question. For there are those
who believe that the high Rosicrucian
adopts, having emigrated to the east
about the beginning of the seventeenth
century, still inhabit the Thibetan pla-
teaus to-day, and some of the myster-
les of Freemasonry have been sup
posed to have been acquired from the
Rosicrucians If they ever existed, the
Rosicrucians were a secret society
possessing the art of turning baser
metals into gold, and vowed them
selves to gratuitous healing of the
sick. Skeptics, however, maintain that
there never was such a society, but
that it was invented as a ponderous
joke by learned seventeenth century
treatise writer.-London Chronicle.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1905-04-06
IN GERMAN UNIVERSITIES,
Growth in Attendance Has Come from
Foreign Countries Other
Than America.

1t is interesting to note that Of the
1862 students enrolled in the German
universities for the term now drawing
to q close, 1908 were foreigners, OF
whom 9S6 were Russians. Feraale stu
dents to the number of 1874 were en-
rolled for the term.
These figures do not include such
students as are merely guests (hospit-
ants), of whom there are always quite
number. These enjoy all the privi-
leges OF the regular students, but they
cannot be graduated. If these be added
TO the others, it is safe to say that fully
ten per cent. of those attending German
universities are foreigners. Almost
1000 Russians, or rearly one-third Of
the foreign element, were matricu.ated
last winter Next come the Austrians
and Hungarians, numbering COL, or
about 20 rer cent Switzerland fur
nisheC 322 regular students, and there
we're 224 Americans enjoying the same
opportunities.
The number of foreign students espe-
cially of those coming from Russia. has
e.e2G!lv grown, but a careful STUDY Of
me attendance at the German universi-
ties seems to show that Americans have
not been adding TO this increase. Thus.
II We look over the reports OF the winter
half-year Of 1S99-1900, we fud that the
total attendance at German universities
during that period was 1884 reeula-
students. Of whom 2,3e9. or about seven
per cert, were foreic ners: ard that 6G7
of these were Russians ass Austrians.
265 Swiss AID 317 Americans Thus
there were Only seven more Americans
enrolled last winter than there were
four years ago.
During the nineteenth century Ger
man universities ed the world in srudj-
ton and scientific investigation, and
their great professors attracted many
students from all parts of the world in
quest of higher education. But times
are altered Having myself been en-
gagged in educational work as an Amer
lean college professor for a good part
of my manhood, have naturally taken
considerable interest in the life and
work at the various institutions of
learning in this country and it is my
impression that the facilities for higher
education are improving in the United
States much more rapidly than in Ger
many. Despite all our imperfections
one cannot but admire the great up
ward strides which the American sys-
tenn of education, from the humble dis
trict school up, has been making during
the last few decades
American educational institutions
are the best equipped in the world I
know but one German university that
can claim to be up to the times in this
regard. and It stands third in the list
of attendance. There is a steady prog
ress all along the line of public instruc-
tlon in the United States, and partic-
ularly in our higher class Of universe
ties.
The regular reports of German uni
will continue to show the at
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1905-04-06

airship to the moon. The company
simply must catch the morning train,
and 1t is the road managers place to
see that 1t is done.
ut is not the acting that wears out
men and women on a long trip Of one
night stands. 1t is getting up early in
the morning for trains and wearisome
days in the cars. And want to say that
it is not the women who worry the life
out Of manager by getting to the sta
ton just as the train is coming to a stop.
So far as one-night stands are concerned.
the dawdIing woman and the impatient
man Of the humorist are not in the pic
ture. It is the tardy actor who stops for
just one more drink and cigar, or who
hates to leave bootblack's chair with
only one shoe polished, that manages to
jump on the rear platform when the
train Is pulling out. The women in the
company are on time, all right"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1905-04-06

l received long letter last week from
q young mother who was greatly trou-
bled by child which, although only two
years old, insisted upon having his own
way at certain times, and would fight for
hours on until completely exhausted, and
refuse to yield. Such a child at the pres
ent day is special study, and that moth
er who succeeds in properly training
her young is wise indeed. In these days
Of nervous strain some children, from
the very first, are so highly strung and
intensely sensitive that they shrink
from a sharp work more than healthy
child would from the sting of whip A
curt reprimand will bring the tears will
ing to their eyes and sob to the throat
1t Is no good to get angry with such chill
dren for the weakness.
Children are very like flowers; each
one needs individual treatment, and
for nervous natures like this, care, kind
ness and affection will do far more than
seedlings. BY which do not mean that
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1905-04-06

A temperature OF 104 degrees at an ordi-
nary bath is as hot as most people can
endure. | Will not here dwell upon the
effects of dry heat or upon the heat from
ipcandescent bodies, as the matter of
light in the latter case is very closely as
ISOLATED with heat. II you will bear in
mind the fact that freckles are produced
almost entirely by the violet rays in
ordinary sunlight, you will see what
remarkable results may be produced by
the use of light alone. 1t Is because OF
these facts that so many natoriums are
using lights In their method Of treat.
ment.
In a very general way heat Is essential
TO all life, especially to the higher organ
isms, while many seeds and the similar
forms of life have been able to with
stand very low temperatures. None OF
the higher forms can survive tempera-
ture lower than the freezing point of
water, namely, 80 degrees, Fahrenheit.
The seeds have been subjected to the
temperature Of liquid air which is 32O
degrees below zero on the Fahrenheit
scale, and have not had their vitality de-
stroyed Snakes and frogs may be frozen
In ice for several hours without being
killed, but these conditions do not apply
to any of the higher forms. Heat gener-
ally increases chemical activity, and OF
course effects the change In the cells OF
the human body in a similar manner.
That it produces a direct effect on the
skin may be observed from the discolor-
alton that follows the long and fire.
quent application Of heat poultices to the
same areas of the skin. The first direct
effect of hot water upon the skin Is Of
course just the opposite from that of the
cold water, small vessels are dilated and
the skin reddens as result Of the in
creased flow of blood. This Is where the
water is at temperature of from 100 to
104 degrees, If the temperature is in
creased above ITO degrees the first effect
is similar to that of very cold water.
Goose-hesh is produced the same as 1t
is with extreme cold, and sometimes
there is slight shivering. In dealing
with cold think neglected to say that
the extremely low temperature produced
an effect similar to extreme heat. Liquid
air burning or cooking the skin in the
same or similar manner that boiling
water does.
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Trouble Enough.

When Philip Verrill Mighels was
gathering material for his novel
"Bruvver Jims Baby" he ran across an
old miner who unconsciously posed for
his character of If-Only Jim. The old
man sat alone in his cabin, where the
hand of woman had never been known
and dirt reigned triumphant. The con-
versation turned upon cooking.
"Yaas." drawled the old man, 81 got
me one o. them there cook books wunst,
but I never could do nothin' with it,"
what was the trouble?" asked Mr..
Mighels, persuasively.
why, every one O. them blamed re-
ceipts started off with take a clean
dish. "-Denver Republican.
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warmed. This is mixed with the acorn
meal until the mass has the consisten-
cy of thin Cruel. This mixture is pour
ed into the sand basins, and as the
water runs out 1t takes with 1t the bit
ter quality. The water is renewed I'M
til all the bitter taste Is washed out
from the meal.
Then the meal is put into cooking
baskets, thinned down with hot water
to the desired condition, and cooked by
means of hot stones, which are held
on 1t by two sticks for tongs. While
the mush is cooking it is stirred with
a stick made of tough oak sprout
doubled so as to form a round, open
loop at one end.
When the dough is well cooked 1t is
either left in the baskets or scooped
out in rolls and put into cold water to
cool and harden.
Sometimes the thick paste is made
into cakes and baked on hot rocks. One
Of these cakes, when rolled in paper,
will in short time saturate the paper
with oil.
This acorn food is probably as nutrl-
tious as that made from any of the
cereals,
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1905-04-06
JOKE THAT DID NOT PAY.
Expensive Skeleton Used to Brighten
a Supposed Gawk Furnished
a Treat.

Mark Twain, at banquet recently,
told the following story Of one of his
apprenticeship pranks: About thou
sand years ago, approximately, l was
apprenticed as printers devil to learn
the trade in common with three other
boys of about my own age. There
came to the village long-legged indl-
vidual Of about 10, from one of the in
terror counties-hsh-eyed, no express
sion, and without the suggestion Of a
smile-couldn't have smiled for a SAL
airy. We took him for a fool, and
thought we would scare him to death.
1--WE went to the village druggist and
borrowed a skeleton. The skeleton did
not belong to the druggist, but he had
imported it for the village doctor The
price Of the skeleton was $50 We bor-
rowed It about one o'clock at night, and
we got this man-Nicodemus Dodge was
his name-to go down out Of the way,
and then we put it in his bed. He
lived in a little one-storied log cabin
in the middle of vacant lot We left
him to get home by himself. We en-
joyed the result in the light of antici-
patton, but by-and-by We began to drop
into silence.
"The possible consequences were
preying upon us. Suppose that 1t
frightens him into madness, overturns
his reason and sends him screeching
through the streets? We shall spend
sleepless nights the rest of our days
Everybody was afraid. By and by II was
forced to the lips Of one of us that we
had better go at once and see what had
happened. Loaded down with crime we
approached the hut and peeped through
the window. That long-legged critter
was sitting on the bed with hunk of
gingerbread in his hand, and between
the bites he played tune on jews
harp. There he sat perfectly happy,
ard all around him were toys and gim-
cracks and striped candy. He had gone
and sold that skeleton for five dollars!
1.-THE druggists $50 skeleton was
gone We went in tears to the druggis.
and explained the matter. We couldn't
have raised that $50 in $50 years. We
were getting board and clothing for the
first year, clothing and board for the
second year, and both of them for the
third year. But the druggist for
gave us"
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they should be given way to and spoiled.
but that reproof should be administered
with discretion, and faults pointed out
gravely and kindly. so that the child
may realize that you are not angry, but
only sorry.
In this special case advised that the
child be at once undressed and put into a
bath, although bathing the entire head
in cool water might answer the purpose
just as we'll. A careful study Of the
foregoing lectures upon the effect Of
cool water applied locally, will readily
explain the reason.