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Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1906-08-02
GAVE UP SUPPORTER
PINK MONKEYS IN DANGER.
Worlds Supply of Absinthe May Be
Shut Off by Switzer-
land.

Pea green elephants, pink monkeys
and white blackbirds, together with
the flock OF famingoes which absinthe
drinkers insist have roamed at will
about Central park, may soon become
extinct by reason of the action of the
Swiss government.
Nearly the entire quantity of abb
sinthe imported into the United
States is distilled in the canton of
Neuchatel in Switzerland. Virtually
all of it that is imported goes to the
three cities of New York, New Or
leans and San Francisco.
Because of the great evil resulting
from the habitual use of poison, there
is a movement on foot in Switzer-
land to prohibit the production Of
absinthe and even to forbid its sale
within the republic.
The manufacture or distillation of
absinthe is a government monopoly
in Switzerland. The estimated reye-
nue. to the government is about ST.
OOO,OpO q JSdi. lulo iCNChuO 10 NAS
tributed by the government among
the various cantons or provinces
with the proviso that 10 per- cent of
it must be expended in promoting the
cause Of temperance.
Now prohibition is in the ascend
ancy in Switzerland and is seeking
a constitutional amendment to forbid
the distillation and sale Of absinthe
and to enforce absolute prohibition
through the entire republic.
The movement, according to Consul
Clifford at Basil, has given a great
impetus because Of the fact of an
absinthe-crazed father in the canton
Of Vaud, in killing his wife and chill
dren.
With any diminution in supply in
Switzerland the importation to the
United States must come from a new
source.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1906-08-02
Appetites of Wild Beasts.

A very lucrative if somewhat spec
ulative industry is the traffic in wild
animals. The stock is most difficult
and expensive to procure, and equally
so to maintain. It's mere existence
calls, not for square feet, but for
whole acres Of space; and when on.
considers that a single elephant will
make away with $50 pounds of green
stuff in a day, he begins to realize
what a serious matter it is to keep "a
stock of wild beasts on hand at all.
Call at Hagenbeck's business office and
you will be shown accounts dealing
with the food bill of the animals on
hand. You will notice that among
the years items 400 tons of horse
flesh. tens Of thousands Of chicken
heads, hundreds of tons of fish, whole
trainloads of hay, vegetables, fruit,
sugar, bread, milk and crackers; hun
dreds of thousands of eggs, besides
wines, medicines and many other
items
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1906-08-02
GREAT HATCH OF CHICKS.
Mammoth Incubator in New York
Town Turns Them Out by
Thousands.

mine, ten, a good fat hen," sitting
ten years, or a thousand hens sitting
each on their Is eggs, would be re-
quired to do the work of the new in
cubator, with a capacity Of $4,000 eggs,
lately completed in Pembroke, N. Y.
Partitions divide it into 100 compart-
ments, each accommodating two trays.
The trays have wire bottoms and hold
rs eggs each. The incubator Is heat
ed by means of coil of eight steam
pipes passing over the top Of the egg
chamber on one side and returning on
the other These pipes are connected
at one end with a water tank and
heater. The water, flowing through
the pipes is heated to exactly the right
temperature, a thermostat attached
to the stove opening and closing the
drafts to make this possible. The only
attention required by the heater is
supplying it with coal night and
morning. The thermostat is an ex-
pansion tank which stands over the
heater. The tank is filled with oil in
which is a float. AS the heat of the
furnace warns the water in
the jacket surrounding the heater ex-
pands and the float rises. This move
ment actuates a throttle attached to
the float arm and shuts the draft of
the heater; another lever at the same
time opens the cold air draft of the
furnace. In this way the temperature
is automatically regulated with ex-
tremely little variation, the eggs being
kept at temperature of 1O2 degrees
Fahrenheit. A second novel feature
is that the heat of the eggs is regu-
lated by raising and lowering them In
the egg chamber, which is nearly a
foot high inside, burlap separating 1t
from the pipes The egg trays rest on
double frames hinged by galvanized
arms. AS the chicks develop the trays
are lowered on these supports, the
first drop being made in six days, and
others at intervals, until on the TWEEN
ty-first day the trays are resting on
the bottom of the chambers.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1906-08-02
HONESTY OF THE CHINESE
That They Possess This Trait Trav-
eler in Their Country Gives
Evidence.

rhe route lay directly through the
heart of the "Hung-hutze" count.y.
which was at that time in state OF
disorder. AS l had no passport tc
travel in that locality, writes T. T
Millard, in the Far New East, l was
forced to conceal myself in one Of
those instruments Of torture known as
a Peking cart, my luggage occupyina
another. The arrangements were
made by a Christian friend of mine IL
Mukden, who committed me to the
care of an old carter, with instructions
for him to get me across the Dor Ter
We left Mukden just before the dawn
one morning, and travelled for two
days, finally arriving safely in neutral
territory. Two nights ! slept in viii
lagos infested by "Hung-hutzes." Il
would have been simple matter fol
them to have made away with me and
seized my effects, and my carriers conH
have easily betrayed me without tea;
Of detection. But such was my conf
dence in the integrity of the Chinese
that I did not feel the slightest un'
easiDess, although l was entirely un'
armed. During the entire trip l was
compelled to trust absolutely to the
old carter, not being able to hold an
communication with him, as he did net
understand word Of English or any
other foreign language, and cannot
speak Chinese He showed great clev'
erness In getting me across the Lac
river, past the Cossack border guards
without being detected; AMI when we
ARRIVED at Sin-min-tin he seemed ever
more pleased than myself, and refused
to accept any remuneration in excess
of the sum agreed upon.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1906-08-02
THE FLOWER GARDEN.
Old Favorites Should Do Well with
Attention to Few Conditions
"A List Given.

Among the flowers that are old
standbys for the summer garden are
asters, sweet peas, nasturtiums, poppy.
phlox, castor plant and sunfiower.
Asters should be planted in boxes in
March and transplanted in the garden
In May. The nasturtiums and sweet
peas should have poultry netting held
in place by stakes to vine on. With
the exception of the aster, these flow
ers should be sown the last of April
You can depend on these flowers
every time if you give them good soil
to grow in and keep the weeds away
from them. If prevented from ripen-
ing seed by gathering the flowers as
fast as they appear, they will come
into bloom early in the season and
produce flowers well up to the frost
time,
The old-fashioned sunfower can be
used to advantage, and to give the
garden a tropical effect the recinus
or castor plant with its palmate leaves
is strikingly effective.
The castor plant and sunfowey
should be used as background for
the garden, and should be planted on
the four sides of the garden and nex'
to the fence, and the space of from
three to four feet of the fence should
be filed in with the asters, sweet
peas, peoples. nasturtiums and phlox,
Orange Judd Farmer.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1906-08-02
MSabotsn in Use.

Wooden shoes are Gathering into
use in America, chiefly among our
adopted citizens. A few years ago
there was supposed to be only one
maker of sabots in New York city.
Now there are known to be several
manufacturers in new York and other
cities. Indeed, the industry has grown
in Michigan to be lusty infant.
Prison for Kissing a Man.
For kissing stranger in moment
Of exuberance, an 18-year-old waitress
at Tetschen, Prague, has been SEN
fenced to IA days imprisonment. The
ofsnse took place at the railway sta
don, and the injured" man COM
planned at once to the police and The
girl was arrested. SO impressed Was
the magistrate with the Nervousness"
of the crime that he increased the Sc
verify Of the sentence by ordering the
girls four fast-days on the fortnight,
and also directed that after completing
the sentence she should be banished
from Bohemia and sent to her home in
Dresden.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1906-08-02
THE MIKADo's HOME LIFE.
Enjoyed in Quiet Fashion by the EN-
peror with the Empress
Alone.

It is we'll known that the emperor
Of Japan finds great pleasure and COM
fort in the society of the empress,
says the Worlds Work. When the
days work is overland his majesty's
working day, beginning at dawn and
frequently continuing till midnight, els
a strenuous one-he repairs to her
apartments, and they talk over things
very fully and confdentially. 1t is
her majesty's delight to find new inter-
ests and pleasures for these moments
of relaxation, to use her woman's wit
to draw the emperor's mind from the
cares of state to pleasant and cheerful
subjects. A new book, picture, an
album such as the one sent to her ma
iesty in commemoration of the Japa-
nese play given in New York last
spring-these things are set aside for
the emperor's half hour Of rest and
recreation. Then the attendants with
draw, the only one who refuses to be
dismissed being the emperor's little
Yorkshire terrier, venerable court
lady now some II years old, who never
leaves her masters side. With the 9s-
surance of impunity she jumps on tie
empress lap and listens to converse
tons which no one else is permitted
to hear. 1t is on record that one day
she fell asleep there unnoticed; her
majesty wished to rise, but ere she
could do so the emperor cried, DO
not move! You will wake the dog"
whereupon the empress subsidized,
laughing, to wait the convenience OF
the fluffy tyrant on her knee.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1906-08-02
Snail,s Sense of Smell

Emil Jung, a professor in the Uni.
versity of Geneva, say that snails per
ceive the odor Of many substances, but
only when not far away. In order to
prove this it is necessary merely to
dip a glass rod in strongly smelling
substance and bring it near the large
tentacles of snail in motion. If it is
put close to these horns, the tentacles
are violently drawn back. AS the
animal perceives the odor, it changes
it's course. Snails also smell by means
of their skin. Contact is not necessary
for the mere vicinity of a perfume
causes an indentation of the skin.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1906-08-02
Use for Korean Walls.

The wall which runs round Seoul
serves no useful purpose whatever; in
fact, by restricting traffic between the
city and suburbs to few narrow
gates, it is a great nuisance. There
are enough stones in the wall to re-
construct the greater part of the
drainage In the city, and with little
leveling the banks upon which the
wall is built would make admirable
building sites, and the money obtained
from them would go long way to-
wards the cost of city Improvements.
Seoul Daily News.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1906-08-02
WOOD PIGEONS IN LOVE.
Are Much Like Human Beings In
the Respect Of Indifference
to Weather.

The amorous wood pigeon, whose
usually dignifled demeanor is so ia
miliar to the most ordinary observer
in the London parks, takes but little
notice of the bitter northeasterly
breezes and squalls of sleet and snow
with which March has so frequently
favored us Of late. For the time be-
ing, says the Pail Mall Gazette, he Is
so busily occupied in making advances
to the lady Of his choice that outside
influences have no bearing at all on
his general behavior.
Rain or shine, you may see him just
at present sitting side by side with his
inamorata on the swaying bough of
elm or plane, whispering soft moth
ings in her ear IN those gentle tones
that makes ones fancy fly back to the
great woods of the countryside where
primrose and anemone are pushing
forth their fragile buds from beneath
their wintry covering Of fallen leaves.
1t is too early yet for the wood pigeon
to build his nest, but he and his mate
In the intervals of love making are
already on the lookout, as you may
see If you watch, for suitable site.
A little later, when the leaf is out,
the more serious business Of the sea-
son will begin, and then 1t will take
you all your time to discover the place
where the loving couple have arranged
their untidy platform Of sticks, where
on, so they say, cock and hen take 1t
In turns to brood over the couple Of
snow white eggs from which presently
will emerge two Of the ugliest young
sters that a pair Of good-looking pa
ronfr avar nrndunad
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1906-08-02
Commercial Products of Lava.

Lava, like adversely, has its uses.
It may be blown into Opaque bottles
of gossamer lightness, and the hard
err sort makes a beautiful green glass
of half the weight and double the
strength of ordinary glass. But it is
not always the same. Every volcano
pours out its own special brand Of
molten mixture, disagreeable to meet
on your walks, but sometimes yield
Ing precious products, as ponzzolano
and pumfce stone. Lava, like all
things, decopposes under the touch
Of time, as the fertile plains of Sicily
testify.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1906-08-02
officers.
CHURCH DIRECTORY.

CHRISTIAN CHURCH-S n a y
Schuol every Sunday at 9;30a IN. Preach
ing first and third Sundays Up. M, second
and fourth Sundays IL a. m. Prayer
every Wed day at p. IN. Stephen DAVE,
pastor.
METHODIST CHURCH, Main Street.
Sunday School every Sunday at $3.50 a.. III.
little Workers" Juvenile Missionary
every second Sunday p. IN. Preachlnv
first and third Sundays II a. M, second
and fourth Sundays p. M, fifth Suit
days IL a. m. and 7 p. m. q, G. Rector
pastor.
NORTH TAZEWELL CHURCH,
Sunday School every Sunday at III a. M
Preaching first and third sundays p. M ,
second and fourth Sundays II a. M.
PRAYER meeting every Friday p. M u
q. Rector, pastor.
PRESBYTERIAN CHI URCH.-Sunday
School every Sunday at $50 Il. IN. Preach
ing second, third and fourth Sundays at
III a. IN. and Z. p. IN. Preaching nth
Sundays at II a. m. Prayermeeting every
Wednesday evening p. m.
PRESBY TERRAIN, BURKES GAR
DEN.-Preaching on first Sunday at ii a.
10. and 4 o. IN. S. o. Hall, pastor.
TAZEWELL PREACHERS COUNCIL
Every Monday at 2 p. m.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1906-08-02

the three-cent pieces and two-cent
pieces and the cents and half-cents
were added 1t would still leave total
in money far less than that represent
ed by the collection of cash fares in
New York. With a reasonable allow
ance for the number of coins that
must have been lost and destroyed in
one way or another since our mint
was opened, it is probable that the
total amount Of change now in this
country, including all coins between a
dollar and three cents, would not ex-
coed the sum which was collected last
year on the New York transportation
lines. OF course, the secret is that the
same coin does duty over and over
again.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1906-08-02
Regicides Unpunished.

Although nearly three years have
passed since the king and queen Of
Servia were murdered by political con-
spirators, the murderers, or many of
them, are still unpublished. Great
Britain has refused to enter into dip
lomatic relations with the new king
80 long as this condition exists. The
latest news from Belgrade is that the
king intends to retire the guilty army
officers as soon as possible. Naturally,
he has had to act cautiously, for he
knows that men who killed one king
would not hesitate long to kill an
other If an adequate excuse were pre-
scented.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1906-08-02
OCEANS OF SMALL CHANGE
Nickels Paid Into New York Street
Car Companies Reach an En-
ormous Total.

1t is probable that all the fiye-cent
pieces now in existence would not
have more than paid the cash fai rs
collected on the New York City Rail-
way company lines alone. According
to the report of the state railroad com
mission, the number of cash fares
paid in 1906 in New York reached the
enormous total of 1,171,151 ,69S. At i've
cents each that amounts to $5S,557.-
$500. In the period from 1893 to the
close Of 1904 the total value Of the
five-cent pieces comedian this country
amounted to only $24,i75.7SS.15. Ii all
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1906-08-02
Flvine ACROSS the Continent

Across the continent In less than
three days, which has just been accom-
plished by Railroad President Harri-
man, is a record which makes the hair
of oldtimers to stand on end. It comes
so close to Puck's girdle of the earth
that one has to blink few times to see
II this is an age of fact or only of
oriental fancy. There are still living
many of the argonauts of 1910, men who
braved every danger to reach the gold
fields Of California Six months used
to be a good time limit for the trip to
San Francisco. Now 1t is only II hours.
Yet we must not forget that it was the
men of courage and persistence who
made the six months trip that eventual
ly built the road that makes a tour to
California mere pleasure trip instead
of the event of lifetime.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1906-08-02
French Writer'S Discovery.

lola, in his youth, before fame came
to him, wrote some stories about mill
lionaires, wherein it seemed to him
that he exaggerated shamefully in his
descriptions of the cosby homes and
habits of the rich. But later on, when
lola became a friend of millionaires,
he found that his accounts of their ex-
travagance had fallen far short Of the
truth
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1906-08-02
Natures balance.

Man has sinned more than any 9th
err animal in trifiing with natures bal.
ance. Glover crops and the killing of
hawks are, apparently, unrelated, yet
the hawks eat the field mice, the field
mice prey on the immature bees, and
the bees fertilize the clover blossoms.
The death Of the hawks means an over
increase of field mice and the conse.
ouent destruction Of the bees.-Coun-
try Life In America
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1906-08-02
REMARKABLE SODA SPRING.
Has Formed Vast Bed of Solid Salts
Through Which Stream
Passes.

Undoubtedly one or the most remark
able springs in the world has recently
been discovered In New Mexico. 1t is
literally spring, says the Engineering
and Mining Journal, saturated with
sodium sulphate. Distilled water
weighs 1888 pounds to the gallon. The
water of this spring weighs 1866 pounds
per gallon; and evaporation yields 3.13
pounds of dry solid matter, of which SO
per cent. is sulphate of soda, crystalliz-
ing out chemically pure.
The sulphate of soda crystal contains
81 per cent. water At ITO degrees F. it
melts in its own water of crystalliza-
ton; and the temperature of the spring
being slightly in excess of ITO degrees
f., the saturated liquid upon overflow
ing and cooling Immediately forms
crystalline mass like ice.
The natural inquiry arises as to the
deposit or accumulation of ages from
this spring; for, unless 1t discharged
into stream of fresh water, the deposit
would be vast in extent. No more fit
ting location could be imagined, for it
is in the lowest portion of vast sink
or basin, scores of miles in extent.
The deposit, therefore, has formed
vast bed, miles in extent, Of solid sodium
salts, through which this spring, by rea-
son of its heat, maintains its channel
and continues to augment the deposit.
Inasmuch as the soda crystal efloresces,
or gives up its water by evaporation, the
elements serve to smooth and level the
surface; so that the lake, though dry, is
white as snow and bears some resem-
blances to a northern lake in the en-
brace of winter.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1906-08-02
Had His Misgivings.

Admitting Friend-Your new as
sistant, Miss Gwimple, is quite an edu-
Gated young woman, is she not?
Old Fashioned Principal-H'm-I am
not so sure about that. l am afraid
she is a coeducated young woman
Chicago Tribune.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1906-08-02
True Philosophy.

How fur is It ter de land er Con-
tent?" "It's cordin' Ger how much
faith you got. Eff you think you in it,
dar you is. En- eff you don't-well,
It's ten mile furder on."-Atlanta Con-
stitution.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1906-08-02
Too Busy.

when a man is sho' 'nuff lookin' fob
work." said Uncle Ebeu, you wants to
remember dat yoh good advice an SYM
pathy is mebbe jes' wastin' his time"-
Washington Star
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1906-08-02
Public Opinion Against Him,

Tramp lin the country)--Yes, once
rode bike, but had to giye it up.
Cyclist-Why?
well, yer see, the owner was coming
down the road behind me, and the po-
liceman had rope stretched across in
front. STRAY Stories.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1906-08-02
Sad Mistake

Some men think the only way to re-
form this world is to retire to heaven
and try to wash it with the rain OF their
tears. -
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1906-08-02
Knocking Them Again.

Blobbs-Is the population Of London
more dense than that of New York?
Slobbs-Sure. Didn't you ever try
to stelI an Englishman a joke?-Phil-
adelphia Record.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1906-08-02
7AzEWELL co. DIRECTORY.
Circuit Court.

w. j. Henson, judge; I. E. George,
clerk. Terms of court-3rd Monday In
February. and 4th Monday in May, Au
gust and November,
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1906-08-02
She Had Principles.

Mrs. West recently diyorced) Don't
you want the candy. Gertrude?
Little Girl-No, thanks; it's against
nv principles to accept gifts that are
purchased with alimony. --Life.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1906-08-02
WRITE US A LETTER

freely and frankly, in stricteSt conf
dence, telling us all your troubles.
We will send Free Advice Gin plain,
sealed envelope). Address: Ladies'
Advisory Dept, The Chattanooga
Medicine Co., Chattanooga, Tenn.
New-York tribune., 1906-07-15
FISHING ON THE
GRAND BANKS

The clash
fishing bank the
capable an author.
New-York tribune., 1906-07-15
THE WAR OF THE
WHITE ELEPHANTS
SUCCESS AMONG MEN

philosophers of who
and the talked about Britain the
a the in
makef for the of the Individual
New-York tribune., 1906-07-15
THE REFORMATION
OF CINNAMON


partner Cinnamon Hughes.
Star ranch resolved drowning
fell TO Miss Moly's Bank the
New-York tribune., 1906-07-15
ON MANY TRAILS:
FACING WILD ANIMALS


With only Kahr boy for Colonel Blake
farther than Dr. Livingstone
New-York tribune., 1906-07-15
WOMAN'S ONWARD
MARCH IN THE
TWENTIETH CENTURY

imitation of America immense widening of sphere
marks the Twentieth Century, and astounding
woman's work already in sight.
New-York tribune., 1906-07-15

make love ward chancery Great Britain
pened when young American followed his lady love
Chancelors abode love tale we'll worth the telling