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Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1905-07-20
THE PARENT OF RADIUM.
Uranium, from the Disintegration Of
Which the Former Metal 1s
Produced.

That uranium is the parent OF radlum
Is the conclusion drawn by Prof. Bolt
wood after extensive analyses OF large
number of minerals of various origins,
states the Chicago Tribune. He finds
confirmation of the supposition that
radium is a product of the disintegra-
ton of uranium in the constant proper
tionality found in most minerals be-
tween the two, The participation OF
thorium in the production of radium is
entirely excluded in his theory, since
the ratio between the radium and uran-
ium found in the thorites with approx
imately so per cent. thorium is the same
as that in minerals where the propor-
ton of thorium is not over few huns
dredths Of one per cent. at the highest,
All monazites contain notable quaint;
ties of uranium and radium, and this
affords him an explanation OF the oe-
currence of helium In this mineral with=
out recourse to the hypothesis Of the
formation of helium from thorium.
Since the age Of monazine Is extreme,
1t may be assumed that It originally con.
tanned more radium than at present and
that the accumulated hslium represents
the disintegrated product Of radism for
countless ages,
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1905-07-20
Officers.
CHURCH DIRECTORY.

CHRISTIAN CHURCH.-Su d ,
Sch sol every Sunday at 9:30a, m. Preach,
inc irst and third Sundays Up. M, second
and fourth Sundays ii a. m. Christian
En-, .eavor every Friday at p. m. Il. H.
Elu,ore, pastor.
iETHODIST CHURCH, Main Street.
Sunday School every Sunday at $3.50 q. M
sI tie Workers" Juvenile Missionary
eve, second Sunday 3 p. m. Preaching
frs and third sundays IL a. M, second
and fourth Sundays s p, M, NTH suh-
dsya IL a. 10. and p. m.
North TAZEWELL CHURCH.
Su law School every Sunday ut 10 q. m.
Pre- ching first and third Sundays z. p. No.,
secand and fourth Sundays IL a. No..
PRAYER meeting every Friday p. m. J..
J. skridge, pastor.
iP PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.-Sunday
Sch,ol every Sunday at $50 a. m. Preach
Ing ecoud, third and fourth Sundays at
ii 4. M. and z. p. 10. Preaching nth
SUI lays at II q. no. Prayermeeting every
We lneeday evening p. NJ.
y PRESBYTERIAN, BURKE'S GAR
DE- Preaching on first Sunday at II a.
u. nd D. no. S. o. Hall, pastor.
z NEWELL PREACHERS COUNCIL
Ely Monday at 2 p. m.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1905-07-20
DINING SERVICES OF GOLD.
Entire Sets of Four Pieces Made from
the Solid Metal Are
Costly.

happened to be In Tiffany's recently
and asked one of the head men II 1t is
true that people really eat OF gold
plates, writes Cleveland Moffett, in
Success Magazine.
He smiled, and turning to a young
man said: Bring me an after-dinner
coffee set"
And presently the young man re-
turned with small tray holding three
small pieces. They were gracefully
fashioned and looked like gold. And
the tray looked like gold.
What do you think they are?
asked the head man.
"Silver gilt" suggested.
"Hold It," he said, and put the serv-
ice in my hands.
Its heavy" said l, "but-it can't
be solid gold?"
That's what II Is" he assured me,
and pointed to the mark. These four
pieces, the tray, the coffee pot, the
cream pitcher and the sugar bowl, are
1S-carat gold-solid, The price Is
$1,000"
Not only is It true that a number Of
millionaires In America own plates OF
solid gold or silver gilt (Which latter
is considered good enough for Euro
pean royalty, but there are rich fam
lilies who boast sets Of china costing
from $4,000 to $4,000 dozen, so that
the breaking Of single plate means
the loss of several hundred dollars.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1905-07-20
ENTERING THE ROYAL NAVY
Unexpectedly Easy for q Young Man
Who Joined Soma Fifty
Years Ago.

Ths contrast between entering the
English navy by years ago and now
is amusingly described by Admiral
Freemantle in THE Navy as ! HAYS
known It." Notics Of his appointment
reached him in rather striking man
nsr while he was at school, boy Of
Is, says Youths Companion,
The master In charge lad gone out
Of the room, and q friend opposite, SIT
ting near the door, took advantage OF
his absence to throw q book at me,
a compliment which 1 naturally re-
turned. Just at this moment the mas
ter reentsTed the room, and 1t unlucki-
ly struck him lightly On the head.
He Immediately disappeared. When,
therefore, a moment later, was told
that the head master wanted to see me,
] naturally thought that i was IN Tor
It." and / was much astopished at be-
ing met at the entrance of the Tong
room" where We dined, by the head
master, who said. u salute you as q
member Of the royal navy"
| scarcely knew what to make OF
this somewhat stilted announcement
Of my new dignity, but II seemed that
/ had suddenly become an important
person,
NY uncle took me to Wooiwich the
next day, and when In the train asked
me IL ! was prepared to pass nay sx-
animation. This was Q surprise TO
me. as I had not before heard the
question of examination mentioned, ss
/ told my uncle. when tae following
conversation took place;
"wsll. what have you been doing ct
SCHOOL,"
"Oh. Virgil, and . little Horace,
Xenophon's Anabaais. and 70 on"
This did not seem to b near enough,
% my uncle looked grave: but seeing
my somewhat. troubled look, no soon
added:
WELL, don't think you'll be asked
much OF that. What have you dens
in Matchmaker
So I began again:
Fractions, decimals, 50 many books
of Euclid, algebra as far as Quadratic
equations" and there stopped.
Again my uncle said:
''Well, don't think they'll ask you
much of that" and then added: Can
You do the rule Of three. and can you
write English from dictstioh?" To
which I replied that II thought
could,u and he promptly relieved my
mind by sayingI
"Wsli, Eddy, l think you'll pass"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1905-07-20
DOWN IN PELEE's CRATER.
Psrilous Descent Of Martinique Able
Into the Volcanoes
Mouth.

MY companion, much more In
trspid than l, stsRped on the edge OF
the crater, examined the ground and
said with admirable assurance: Here
u who're we must 90 down. Without
giving me time to offer the least OBJ
lection he put the knOtted end Of the
rope into the hands Of LAtour and my
self, threw the rest Of the rope into tn
crater and began to. descend" Thus
writes the Able J. won OF Martinique.
descKbing descent he and Franz
Bertrand made into the crater of
Mount Pelee October "a Of last year,
reports the Chicago Daily News. Their
feat was the first Of the kind since the
great eruption Of May, 1909. The able
tells of the fear that seized him when
his companion slid over the edge, and
how, leaving their one attendant,
Latour, to hold the rope, he himself
made the dangerous trip into the vol
cano's mouth. This frst descent, how
ever, was only q matter OF 30 or Az
feet, but after 1t there remained Q
quarter of an hours hard scrambling
over sharp rocks before the crater's
floor, far below, was reached.
Thus we arrived" he says, at the
bottom of the valley at the base Of the
dome, which nlls completely the Az
enus OF communication with the In
terror Of the earth. II Ia an error TO
suppose that there 10 great hole from
which lava and gases have come out
At present there IL . tremendous CORK
Of andesite ian sruptivs rocO, which
Is called the dome, and which must
have q diameter Of 800 meters N,SOO
fee) and a height Of 400 meters (1,SOO
fest). On all sides Of the dome there
are fumaroles (Smoke holes), some OF
which throw out Q reddish smoke,
others discharge wAitisA vapors and
still Others are surrounded with Q car
Dot Of sulphur. 1t il extremely dan
gerous TO remain there on account OF
the avalanches, which are now very
frequent. Probably not two minutes
pass without ones occurring.
I'VE were Just quitting the vicinity
Of the fumarole when . rather thick
cloud invaded the crater and prevent
ed our seeing. We could no longer
perceive the courses OF the aYalanehes.
It was very disquieting. for each mo-
mept we thought that they were COM
ing upon US. It was very NECESSARY 70
leave the spot where We were. The
immense blocks which descended from
the summit sometimes struck snd
broke of other blocks. There were
on all sides discharges Of stones IKE
the explosions Of shells, accompanied
with troublesome clouds Of hot dust"
A perilous climb from the crater and
then a dizzying crawl along . narrow
LID Of rock between the crater on one
side and the abyss Of PrechsuF on the
other led the explorers back 70 safety
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1905-07-20
MAN WITH NO TEA IN HIM.
Characterization of the Individual
Who, in japan, Is Lacking
in Estheticism.

The long isolation Of Japan from the
rest of the world, so conducive to intro
spection, has been highly favorable to
the development of Teaism. Japanese
homes and habits, costume and cuisine,
porcelain, lacquer, painting-the very
literature-all have been subject to its
influence, writes Okakura-Kakuzo, in
the International Quarterly. No student
of Japanese culture could ever ignore its
presence. 1t has permeated the elegance
of noble boudoiFs, and entered the abode
of the humble. The peasants have
learned to arrange flowers, the mean
est laborer to offer his salutation Ia
the rocks and waters. In common par
lance the Japanese speak Of the man
with no tea" in him when man is In
susceptible to the serio-comic interests
of the personal drama. Again they
stigmatize the untamed aesthetic who,
regardless of the mundane tragedy, runs
riot In the springtide Of emaneipated
emotions, as one with too much tea" In
him.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1905-07-20

eggs and such like rural commodities.
A quantity of steel disks, numbered
from l to rs, were put into a black
bag, and the little daughter Of the
innkeeper put her hand in the bag and
drew a disk for each Spectator in
turn. The person whose number was
the highest got the prize.
"Well, it had been noticed that the
innkeeper's wife got the prizes pretty
frequently, but nothing was thought
of this by the simple, honest rural folk.
"One evening though, the little girl,
with her hand in the bag, paused. 1t
was her mothers turn. and she did
not draw forth her mothers disk In
her usual quick and careless way. She
rummaged about. The other raff1ers
looked at one another oddly. The inn
keeper said:
leone. come, child, hurry up
"'But. father said the little girl, I
can't find the hot ONE"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1905-07-20
SWISS SCHOOL HOLIDAYS.
When Thermometer Goes Above Ger
tain Mark the Children
Are Let Out.

1.-THE heat holiday" said a school
teacher, according to the Philadelphia
Bulletin, "is a Swiss novelty that we
ought to introduce here. 1t is not
right for us to treat our school chill
dren in the matter Of weather as we do
eThe Swiss have a maximum tens
perature for school, When the Their
memeter goes above that maximum
there is no school, whether the month
be April, May or September. The chill
dren, In the insufferable heat, are free
to battle in tinkling brooks, to picnic
in cool groves or to boat in windswept
lakes.
"The Swiss recognize that we can
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1905-07-20
PIECE OF "ToWN's MIND"
Cutting Rebuke Of Insolence Admin
istered by Judicial Celebrity
Of Massachusetts,.

About 30 years ago Justice William
T. Spear was a well-known lawyer In
Plymouth, Mass. He took a deep In
terest In the affairs Of the communi-
ty, aud his acquaintance with parlta'
mentary usage lifted him above those
who simply vote others into office
AS nearly ga might be, says Youths
Companion, he was the Towns
Mind" to use the large phrase invent
ed by the forefathers.
In this character Judge Spear never
failed to attend town meeting and
rarely failed to speak with force and
clear intention, but on one occasion
he faltered Unexpectedly in setting the
little state In motion. He rose In the
house of freedom with all his aecus'
toned dignity, and began with au'
thority:
'T am not here, Mr.. Moderator"
He hesitated a moment, then begar
again:
81 am not here, sir"
Again he paused, and IN the silence
a young man in the assembly cried
out:
"Tell us where you are, them"
Fifty years ago it was considered In
decorous for a young man to take an
active part in the proceedings OF the
town meeting. He was there to vote
-silently-and was expected to re-
strain the speech Of his deep, attentive
mind. No wonder, then, that Judge
Spear turned upon the audacious
speaker with a mighty frown.
81 am not here. sir" he Numbered,
"to be barked at by every puppy that
crawls into the town housed"
Then. turning to the moderator,
Judge Spear proceeded as usual to reg:
ulate the calendar of the town year.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1905-07-20
Big Ship Hospital.

One of the big ship hospitals IN the
New York harbor Ia Erie Basin, we'll
worth visit at any time. Every size.
shape and class Of vessel NAV be seen
there except the biggest liners. One
of the Shamrocks is now standing high
on stills, canvas-covered, to illuminate
past history In international yachting
Tramps, steamboats,, barges, tugs, pri>
vate steam yachts, sailing yachts.
launches, whalebacks-all are there
In confusion and profusion, many rest
ing their keels on immense floating
dry docks, awaiting the removal Of
harnacles or a general overhauling-
When the tide is out the basin has Is
feet Of water.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1905-07-20
READS ALL THE POSTALS.
Postmistress in This Way Makes
Sure That Nothing Improper
Passes Her,

Talking with a party Of friends at a
downtown cafe the other afternoon, re-
lates the Philadelphia Record, travel
ing man told of new experience he en-
countered in a little village not far from
Philadelphia on his last trip out. He
was standing at the window Of the post
Office In the village while the mail was
being distributed, when he noticed that
the postmistress-who was certainly old
enough to know what she was about
put the letters as she came to them in
their proper boxes, but placed all the
postal cards In a pile together on a
shelf.
what are you saving the postals
for ?" asked the traveller at last.
"Oh, I've got to read EN- all first, " was
the reply.
Got to-" exclaimed the traveller, with
an accent of surprise on the verb. why,
how's that?"
81 have to read 'em, every one" said
the postmistress, Ito see that they con-
tain nothing improper. rs a rule of
the department." And she went on
placidly with her distribution.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1905-07-20
Land of Many Horses.

In q recent address Prof. H. F. o.
born gave some additional facts about
ancient American horses. 1t appears
that In North America there were al
ways from four to six entirely differ
ent varieties Of the horse family, liv-
Ing contemporaneously. Some were
slow-moving and relatively broad
footed horses, living in the forests;
others were very swift, having narrow
feet more resembling those of the
deer, and lived on the plains. More
over, there were American horses
larger than the huge Percherons Of to-
day, and others smaller than the most
diminutive Shetlands. Strangely
enough, the greatest beauty and va
riety In the development Of the horse
family were exhibited here Just be-
fore the total extinction Of horses on
the American continent, catastrophe
which still offers an unsolved problem
for investigation.-Youth's Companion
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1905-07-20
Great Family Record.

Asa family record the following would
he hard to beat: In the town of Thurso,
England. an old man, 81 years old, still
follows his duties as superintendent OF
some fiagstone quarries. Among the
workmen he has seven sons, six sons-in-
law, 29 grandsons, four grandsons-in-
law and two great-grandsons Forty
nine members Of one family, all con-
nected with the same trade, employed in
the same works and living in the same
district, is something decidedly out Of
the common.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1905-07-20
THE pARKYs DISTINCTION.
Knew the Difference Between Legis-
laters and Men Who Gave
Him Tips.

A travelling man who makes" Kan
sas City frequently was dining in the
cafe of one Of the large hotels one day
when he thought he'd play trick on
his waiter. "Se that man at the next
table George?" he said.
The waiter nodded assent
That's DR.. Alonzo Tubbs, the Mis-
souri, legislator, who is trying to stop
all tipping" The waiter grew inter
ested at once.
"Well, amt dat too bad" he said.
"Ah's been waitin' on him, too"
"Well, you won't get any tip there"
said the travelling man.
"Ah suttingly treated him right" re-
piled the travelling man.
A few minutes later the man at the
other table left and the waiter re-
turned to the travelling man.
WELL" said the drummer. what
did I tell your"
Excuse noe, sab, but Alb thinks you
tole me err fabrication" said the
waiter, grinning. Dat man amt a
legislatah-he's a gentleman"
The man had given him quarter.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1905-07-20
LONGEST WIRE ON EARTH.
Circuit That Extends from London to
Teheran, the Capital Of
Persia.

What Is probably the longest tele-
graph circuit in the world has been in
operation for over a year on the lines
of the European Telegraph COM
pany, between London and Teheran,
Persia's capital. This circuit is 1000
miles in length, and in it's course 1t
traverses the North sea for 200 miles
and passes through Belgium, Germany,
Russia, Turkey in Asia and Persia.
The Wheatstone automatic system OF
transmission and reception Is en-
ployed on the circuit, transmitting
messages at the rate of 80 to 400 words
a minute, according to the nature Of
the circuit, as against 25 to 80 words
by manual Morse transmission.
While this is, no doubt, the longest
telegraph circuit in daily operation,
long circuits have been successfully
operated experimentally. For exam
pie. q circuit on which there were IA
automatic repeaters was made up on
one occasion from Cape York to Der
by, around the coast Of Australia, a
distance of 1916 miles, over which
messages were transmitted at the rate
of II words in q minute.
Quite recently, also, in the early
hours of the morning. an Associated
Press Geographic circuit was made up
which extended over almost the entire
United States. 1t included the cities
of New Orleans. La; Memphis, Tenn;
Dallas, Tex; Louisville, KY; Wash
ington, D. c.; Baltimore, Md; Phila-
delphia, New York, Chicago, Kansas
City, Mo-; Denver and Leadville. COL;
San Francisco, San Diego, Fresno and
Los Angeles, Cal This circuit worked
successfully for over two hours, dur
ing which long official report from
Gen. Nogi's headquarters was trans
mitted.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1905-07-20
MIND CURE OF THE INDIAN
Inherited Superstition Makes the
Medicine Man an Absolute
NecessitY.

The skilled professional doctor ID one
Of the greatest helps to the Indians.
and the Navajos are receiving him
with very little distrust. The savage
misapprehension of things that are
new is gradually subsiding, as results
make clear to him that the white
mans medicine Is more powerful than
his. But there are exceptions. The
purely physical troubles may be eradi-
Gated by the doctor, but there still re-
mains. in many cases, a mental unceF=
tainty that demands the attention OF
the tribal medicine man. 1t Is not a
foible or fancy that can be overcome
by medicine, but a mental disease gov
erned by countless ages Of mysticism
which necessitates the occult, mind
easing treatment of the old days. This,
then, is the mind cure Of the Indians
the Christian science Of the savage
which. hand in hand with concrete
medicine, exists in all races, whether
barbaric or cultured. 1t is as necessary
to the Indian as certain amount OF
mind cure is essential TO our happl=
ness,
The knowledge of modern curative
agents should be impaired to the
younger members of the tribe. They
are capable of assimilating new facts
and will take readily to the new
school. Civilization is disrupting the
major portion of the old laws and be-
liefs relating to the cause and cure OF
disease will soon be things OF the past:
with this essential of the old life
gone the work Of the medicine men
will have been finished, At present
there must be certain cooperation be-
tween the modern doctor who goes
among them and the medicine man OF
the tribe.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1905-07-20
Rapacity of Rats.

No place is sacred to the rat. From a
sleeping man to an elephant there is
nothing which he will not eat Rats
have eaten their way through live pig
and bitten off the legs of live birds.
Some years ago the keepers of the Lon
don geological gardens could not under
stand what made the elephants so rest
less, so uneasy on their feet. Investi-
CATION showed that at night the rats
came out and gnawed off the thick skin
growing about the nails on the monsters
feet. Apparently they must have fan
cied the horn Of the rhinoceros, too, fol
regularly the keepers used to find fat
tened rats where the rhinoceros had been
lying
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1905-07-20
Problem In Physics,

Most of US have probably speculated,
at one time or another, what would
happen II q hole were bored right
through the earth and one were to
drop a stone into it; and f. r. A. 8,
now gives his views on this pulling
question. 1.-THE stone" he says, would
fall with increasing speed to the CEN
ter OF the earth, where 1t would have
attained a rate of nearly 300 miles a
minute. It's momentum would carry IL
at a constantly reducing speed through
the remaining hall OF its Journey until
by the time It appeared at the anti
podeau end of the hole 1t would have
come to a standstill. K would then
begin to drop again, and would per-
form exactly the same journey on its
return to the starting point Thus 1t
would continue to travel backward and
forward from one end of the earth to
the other practically forever. Lon
con Tit-Bits.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1905-07-20
Merinans Not Vegetarians.

"Hasty travellers" said United States
Consul Leroy at Durango, noting the
common Mexican diet of frijoles
(beans) and tortillas (corn cakes) set
Mexico down as vegetarian. The fact
is that meat is the most favored ar
ticle of diet in Mexico, those who can
afford to do so eating It twice q dag,
while the poorest classes eat It when
ever they can get It, The meat slaugh.
tered in Durango last year amounted
to nearly 100000 pounds. Even al
lowing for the shipment Of one-half OF
this to other parts Of the republic In
various cured forms, there would re-
main an average daily consumption fol-
each inhabitant Of this city of nearly
one-seventh of pound.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1905-07-20
To Scare Away Crows

can give a sure preventive against
.orn pulling by the black rogues I
had tried all sorts Of devices, and was
rigging a scarecrow, when a gawky
came along and said "Tie ears OF corn
TO the tops of poles around your field.
and the crows won't stay nigh IT," I
said: They will eat the corn, and you
and they will both laugh at me-"
tried the plan, however, and sure
enough they looked at those poles and
went away and stayed. | suppose IL
was on the same principle as that OF
the Trojan warrior who said: ~ most
fear the Greeks when Offering gifts"
e. P. Powell, in Suburban Life.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1905-07-20
HOPELESS Case.

Mrs. Jenner Lee Ondego-I wonder
what has come over Mrs. Lapsling. She
seems to be the victim of settled melan-
choly.
Mrs. Seldom olme-I have noticed
it. You can't get her into conversation,
even at musical recital.-Chicago
Tribune.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1905-07-20

chester England gas works. These
gas works are owned By the municipal
ity. He says that gas has now been
placed in the front row as the cheapest
illuminant. The Manchester engineer
shows that electricity, for light, is eight
times more expensive In Manchester
than is gas light. He demonstrated that
to produce light Of 1.000-candle power
it would cost $40 cents II gas were used
and SO.1 cents II electricity were the IL
luminant.