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Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-01-09
Religions Items.

Some professed Christians pinch and
starve themselves into walking skele-
tons. and then try to excuse themselves
on the plea of i'll health or ''ccastitu-
tional' ailments. The medicines they
need are from Christ's pharmacy. A
large draught of Bible taken every
morning, a throwing open'of the hearts
windows to the promises of the Master,
few words of honest prayer, deed or
two of kindness to the next person
whom you meet, will do more to bright
en- your countenance and help your d.
gestion than all the drugs of the doc
tors. If you want to get your aches
and trials out of sight, hide them under
your mercies. Theodore L. Cuyler.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-01-09

Japan and China now use more mer-
curry than most of the other countries.
and this is about the only metal the
price of which has decreased of late.
In the East it is used for making YER
million, and in Japan largely in the CON-
pounding of secret explosive.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-01-09

The finest Coffee Substitute ever
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have to boil it twenty minutes or thirty
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either. Health Coffee Imitation is
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Harrison, Barns & Co.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-01-09

We protest. The William j. organs
Of prominence are becoming entirely
too numerous. There is William Jen-
nings, of Nebraska; William James, of
Florida; and now Texas has trotted out
a William john Every time the Editor
writes William j. he will have to ex-
plain which Bryan he means Norfolk
Virginian-Pilot.
What's the use of protesting? You
know you have to take your medicine.
So. prepare to wreath your face in
smiles and look pretty. while you have
to say the dose is good.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-01-09

The use of the miscroscope in the up
right position causes much fatigue. A.
A. c. E. Merlin, an English microscope
ist' has designed new eyepiece, which
has a prism enabling the observer tc
look through the tube from the side, in
stead of the top.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-01-09

The Taft boom seems to be taking
new life and gaining in proportions.
There is no doubt but that Judge Taft
is one of the ablest and purest men of
our country. If he should be chosen
President the American people will find
him an able, just and fearless Chief
Executive.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-01-09

Governor Johnson, of Minnesota, has
undertaken at great length to reply to
the New York World question: "What
must the Democratic party do to win?''
He could have answered that question
In few words by saying: eye must
be born again.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-01-09
To Keep Well

The whole year through" writes L. A.
Bartlett, of Rural Route l, Guilford.
Me-, and my family use DR.. Kings
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tone the system and cure billiousness.
malaria and constipation. Guaranteed
at John E. Jackson's drug store, 25c.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-01-09

The Choco and San Juan districts of
Colombia are very rich in gold and plat
mum, but until they are tapped with
routes of communication. over which
provisions and machinery can be taken
to the mines, there is little hope for
their DEVELOPMENT.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-01-09

Trial Catarrh treatments are being
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Shoop, Racine, Wis. These tests are
proving to the people-without penny's
cost-the great value of this scientific
prescription known to druggists every-
where as DR.. Shops Catarrh Remedy.
Sold by Jno. E. Jackson.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-01-09
How to Cure ChilblaIns.

ITO enjoy freedom from chilblains, -
writes John Kemp, East Otisfield, Me-,
apply Bucklen's Arnica Salve. Have
also used it for salt rheum with excell-
ent results. Guaranteed to cure fever
sores, indolent ulcers, piles, burns,
wounds, frost bites and skin diseases.
25c. at John z. Jackson's drug store.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-01-09
Enough and to Snare

And the name is to be''-asked the
suave minister as he approached the
font with the precious armful of fat
and founces. Augustus Philip Ferdi.
nand Codrington Chesterfield Liyings.
ton Shocks" Dear mel" Turning to
the sexton: "a little more water. Mr.
Perkins. if you please. "-Tit-Bits
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-01-09

Certain kinds of noise attract snakes.
The whirr of the moving machine is
one, and in six months as many as l2O
cobras alone have been killed on a grass
farm in India by the advancing machine.
Madras Times.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-01-09

Colonel Watterson declares that one
more defeat of Mr.. Bryan will bring
the end of the Democratic party. The
poor old thing was long ago absorbed
by Organism, and, therefore, no one
will know when it dies.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-01-09

II. st. George Tucker announces that
he will be candidate for the Demo
cratic nomination for Governor next
year. He will only be a candidate.
The machine has already fixed the NOM
ination.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-01-09

People say that it does not make any
difference whether a man keeps the Ten
Commandments or not, he will go to
heaven anyway. If that is the kind of
a place heaven is, it is scarcely worth
while for anybody to go there. 1t is
simply this world over again. For my
self, though l love my kind and my own
redemption, pray my God to keep
heaven as it is to change me, change
the world, not heaven; to bring me to
the feet of the Lord and Savior of heav-
en- and then | shall walk among all the
stars with their glory undimmed. and /
shall know the meaning of that highest
of my Lords beatitudes, BLESSED are
the pure in heart for they shall see
God. Alexander Mckenzie.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-01-09

The Bishop of Bristol, England, in
addressing an open-air meeting of rail-
road men, observed that he was a work.
man, only he did not get his SATURDAY.
afternoons and never got a Sunday off
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-01-09

Pyocyanse serum, the discovery of
Professor Emmerich, of Munich. is
claimed to completely destroy diphtheria
bacilli-even in the severest cases
when sprayed into the patients throat.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-01-09

The most northerly railway in the
world will soon be opened for traffic on
the island of Spitzenbergen. The line is
about Is miles long.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-01-09

The largest kind of West Indian fire.
fly gives light so brilliant that by il
printed matter may be read at dis
lance of three inches.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-01-09

The total weight of the fagpole on
top Of New York s tallest building is g.
300 pounds. 1t is 60 feet high and 612
above the ground.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-01-09

Send US your next order for job work
we are in position to do it Just a
little better and little cheaper than
any other printing Office in this section.
Send for price list.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-01-09

William Cross, secretary of State in
Oklahoma, signs his name officially
"Bill Cross"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-01-09
Trespass Notice.

All persons are hereby notified not to
6Iespass on any Of my lands situated in
iazewelI county, Va, on the Coal Branch,
TWO miles west OF Pocahontas, and known
as the Hugh Dillon place.
aog29yl
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-01-09

The state railways of Italy have a
mileage of about 10000 miles, an in
crease of $500 miles since 1885.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-01-09

Alonzo Smith, of Showhegan, Maine,
has an old gun which was used in the
battle of Bunker Hill, 131 years ago.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-01-09

Mexico has brewery which has an.
nual receipts of Sc, 900. 900.
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Art objects collected by the late Rich.
ard Mansfield are to be sold during Jan.
uary at the American Art Galleries
New York.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-06
VSxyk9U9 MIssYsNT N5HEM1N4sE5
lZHE ETcNINE JTTTE~E~ ~

honest enterprise, so, Of course, there was
no eagerness to possess If for France"
It was their manner of conversation that
aroused the a%ntagonism of the Frenchmen
who came in contact. Not all, but some, or
the a~viators frankly did not believe the
wrights and thought it all a huge scheme
to get money for nothing. The Wrights kept
close mouthed and let the discussion run on.
They started experiments last year down
in a spot in North Carolina, near a town
called Kittyhawk. From this place day
after day came reports of flights, accidents,
successes and the like, all dictated by the
Wright brothers to the reporters whose du-
ties took them there. One result was a
statement that the aeroplane had covered
241S miles in 3S minutes, in all ways a record
for flights in that type Of machine. That
was in the early part of last summer.
Wilbur Wright went in June of last year
TO France and spent the rest of the time for
more than a year in assembling his aero
plane and getting ready for trial flights.
It was not until August s Of this year
that he really gave a public exhibition of
his machine. On that occasion he went up
into the air at lie Mans and cut a figure
eight with his ~aeroplane to show its tracta-
biiity and dirigibility. From then on he
made all sorts of tests at lie Mans, from
covering half a mile in 1 minute and As sec
down on August q with the announcement
that he had covered a section of his flight
at the rate of fifty miles an hour. The
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-06

entire attention would be taken UP in
managing the machine, It would be Of little
use as a war engine. In reply to this
contention an earlier statement of the
Wrights may be used.
They said they had counted on all
that. but as children did not come natu-
rally by walking, but had to be taught,
they figured that the teaching an aero
pianist had to get before he could manage
his machine was no more unnatural.
At any event, they were not through
with their flying machine yet, and they
purpose to make 1t more and more simple,
until eventually they get it into the line
of useful flying devices. with a CONNER
cial value outside that of war IL possible.
While Wilbur Wright has been over in
France trying to convince the government
that his machine is the best Orville Wright
has been trying at Fort Myer, Va, for the
United States government prize OF S25, 900
for certain speeds attained by a dirigible
flying device. Just how this thing is to be
worked out does not appear. The Wrights
seemingly are determined to have their
machine adopted by one of three govern
ments. If report is true the Germans do
not want it. However, there is a mild sort
of competition between France and the
United States.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-06

the first place the old Residenz theater,
in which they are given. is an ideal place
for them. 1t is a gem of a house, smaller
than any of the New York theaters and in
a mellow, old fashioned style OF decora-
ton quite in keeping with the rich and
high-blooded character of Mozart's music.
1t has prosconium boxes. circle boxes three
tiers high and a royal box in the center.
Prince Ludwig Ferdinand preferred a
proscenium box. He was accompanied by
his wife, a sister of the king OF Spain,
and the image OF the gallant young Alfonso.
Motif had an orchestra of about thirty
eight men and a most excellent orchestra
1t was. 1t played with exquisite precision,
with clarity Of tone and with a ravish-
ingly dainty enunciation of the string pas
sages. The wood wind phrasing was capt.
tai, but not better than that which New
York heard under both. Campanini and
Mailer. Motif, himself accompanied upon
a harpsichord the recitatives. and his per-
Torrance was something to be remembered.
1t could not have been heard IT. the big
Metropolitan, but in the tiay ResidenE
theater it was just the da.ntiest Of musical
lace work.
The mounting Of the operas would have
been a revelation to New York. The Best
denz has a revolving stage with which It
is possible to make every scene a full set.
There is no hauling up of drops. There
are no 'front.' scenes. Three sets can oc-
cupy this stage at the same time, one
facing the audience and two behind. When
a scene is ended the lights are turned
down, the stage revolves and one scene
changes to another in full view OF the au-
dience. The effect is excellent. No one
runs on with a table or a chair. Every
thing is in its place. There is no noise.
The setting Of the scenes is done in per-
feet silence. The action of a work hks
Don Giovanni" moves with perfect steAdl-
ness and sm~oothness.
SO again we find tina with Mozart in
Munich as with Wagner in Bayreuth the
present resources of German lyric art are
sufficient only for the orchestral choral
ard scenic presentation of the works. The
musical results In "Cosi fan lutte" were'
indeed, far better than those in "Lohen-
grin" at Bayreuth; but they were chiefly
brought about by the capa5ility OF two or
three singers, together with the splendidly
Intelligent conducting Of Mottl, the playing
Of the orchestra and the scenic pictures.
In Don Giovanni" the solo singing, as
already noted. was inadequate. What is
this mighty work without II? The tenor
did not even attempt "Dalla sua pace"
Those who heard him sing III milo tesoro"
thanked him for the omission.
Perhaps in the ~fullness Of time Mozart'H
operas Will be transferred from the Metro
politan to the New theater, and Belasco
be induced TO devise their pictorial attire.
In the meantime the best we can hope for
is that Oscar Hammerstein will invent a
removable, revolving stage for the Manhat-
tan 10 be used for Mozart and put In the
closet while Puccini is on exhibition in
West Thirty-fourth street.
W. J.. HENDERSON.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-06

three years ago, and his acting had grace,
distinction and variety of touch. A little
heavy at times and a little to vociferous,
he was nevertheless a Don Giovanni whom
even epicurean New York would have liked.
In "Cosi fan tute' matters were much
better. Bosetti's Destina, absurdly farcial
in the two disguise scenes, was much better
in its musical and anna conception
than her Zerlina. The two women, FL
ordiligi and Dorabella, were in safe hands.
Indeed the former had an exceptionally
good Interpretation by Frieda Hempel of
Berlin. who sang the first flower maiden In
"Parsifal' at Bayreuth.
In New York a director could hardly
afford to cast a Sembrich for the flower
maiden, yet Fiordiligi is a Sembrich part.
Miss Hempel is not a Sembrich, but she is
the light soprano of the Berlin opera, and
a real artist, who sings with good technic,
with intelligence and with taste. Her de-
livery of F1ordiligi's difficult air in the
second act, full Of troublesome traps in
the Intervals, was most praiseworthy.
She may go TO New York some day, and
she should be welcome there. She is one
of the very few real singers now on the
German stage-not a great singer, but an
honestly trained one.
The men, with the exception of Baur-
berger, as Alfonso, were mediocrities.
Bauberger sang also Masetto in Don Clio
vanni," and made of him what he ought
to be, a country pumpkin but not a
caekling idiot, as he almost invariably is
in the hands of an Italian buffo. These
on the performances Of the
principal singers ought to serve to convince
any New Yorker that he can hear Mozart
better sung at home. He need not spend
his money in travelling to Munich. And
the incompetency of the singers in the
matter Of voice is not the sum Of the whole
matter. The employment Of the German
text i'm a work Don Giovanni" written
originally in the. glib Italian does great in
jury. Some of the singers have indeed ac-
quired remarkable fluency Of utterance,
but at an utter sacrifice Of intelligibility.
A German singer who sat behind this
writer admitted that she was frequently
unable TO understand the words OF the
text, although they were in her mother
tongue. This condition It must be remem-
bered exists among singers rigidly taught
TO enunciate. Again In many instances the
awkwardness Of the German phrases quite
spoils Mozart's fluency Of style, as when
Don Giovanni exclaims "Ach, VIE traurig!
Ach, vie traurig." instead Of 'Poverina,
poverina!'
When Leporello in his "Madamina" says
"Aber in Espagna, aber in E~spagna,' in
stead of Ma in Espagna," he not only up
sets Mozart's musical prosody but makes
impossible a deliciously humorous effect
on the initial NJ, which every Italian singer
used TO good purpose. And when he strug-
giles 70 rattle off the rapidly repeated "Und
die kleine. und die kleine,' instead Of the
ripping La picclna, la p%iccina," he at
tempts the impossible.
But certain features Of these Mozart
performances in Munich are admirable. In
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-06

somehow to the sense OF God and of
genius, unutterably sweet.
And then the quintette at the close OF
the first part of the third act. Oh, so I'M
~speakably appealing. 1t is as f~Della Rob
bias boys had found voice; as If the gods
of Greece had awakened from their dust
of years and come back singing through
the summer might; as If five truant cherubs
had escaped their golden house in heaven,
and had flown smiling through a dream to
show the manner of angels songs when
they hymn in Paradise.
."All this is vague and highflown doubt
less, but 1 am not ashamed, rather glad,
that 1 can entertain such young extrava-
gance of emotion.
Am the setting was perfect. Munich is
the home of good taste. The Prinz-Regenten
theater is the fastest of alone rising
floor Of seats, each as good as the other,
and boxes only behind all the seats, walls
gray and gold, no gaudiness, only tempered,
most chaste agreement. Orchestra con-
cealed, no gesticulating leader to distract
you. No coming in during an act; If you
don't get there on time you don't get in
that's all.
The echo of the thing is with me today.
l could cry at the least suggestion. l nave
had a musical debauch."
When 1 had read this 1 felt that there
were many people in Omaha who would like
to enjoy the pleasure 1t gave me and so
l begged for it to copy over night. DIR.
Crane was very good about It, adding la
conically. Don't tell them that you wrote
1t yourself" Since leaving Omaha some
years ago he has practically mastered
three languages. His knowledge of German
astonishes me daily. We have been study
ing the text and music Of the Ring of the
Nibelungen" every day and attending all
performances. But l must stop now and
give you some impressions Of the works we
have heard in another epistle. Anything
that l should write after DIR. Cranes rhap-
sody would be flat. THOMAS ]. KELLY.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-06

pany, you are permitted to pay $3.50 for
an orchestra chair, which is more than you
had to give in New York last season to
hear Eames, Gadski, Farrar, Scott and
C~haliapine, with Mailer as conductor.
But in Munich you get Felix Motif as
conductor, Possart's revolving stage and
what is there believed to be the true Mo-
Fart spirit. That is why 1t is good to come
TO Salzburg and gaze at the Mozart manu-
scripts and his clavichord and the little
half fiddle which his childish fingers ca
ressed. 1t is good to gaze on the spot
where his cradle was rocked and to think
of the marvellous genius, the inexhaustible
fountain of pure and ravishing melody, that
was here first made known to a blessed
world. You forget. all about Munich, where
they nave such profound insight into the
true Mozartian spirit and so little ear for
Mozart's music.
They have been performing lie Nozze di
Figaro" Don Giovanni Die Entfilhrung
aus dem Serial" and Cost fan lutte in
Munich and they have had excellent audi
ences. The "Aufstellung''-or art and in
dustrial ex~hibition-has drawn crowds to
the delightful city and in the Mozart audi
ences there was a mixture of German, Aus
trians, English, Americans, Italians and
French. Even Gatti-Casazza and DIPPED
were in Munich-but not on the same day,
and they did not go TO hear Mozart, Otto
Kahn was not present on either occasion.
The Mozart performances at Munich dc
not require extended discussion, They bear
a family resemblance to the Wagnerian
interpretations given at the Prinz Regentcn
theater and at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus
However, they have their ups and downs,
for the solo singing is not always bad.
TIL Suns correspondent heard Don Clio
vanni' and "Cosi fan lutte" and only one
was badly sung, and even that one had
redeeming, features.
In Don Giovanni" all three of the women
were unequal to the requirements of the
music, though Bosetti. the zerlina, almost
sang BATH. BATH" and was acceptable in
her share of La CT darem." These are
the Italian words. The performance was
in German, and heaven forbid that this
writer should attempt to misrepresent Da
Ponte by giving the Teutonic text.
The Donna Anna, whose name may be
reserved for local celebrity. could not sing
a phrase in tune and numbered through
Mozart's aristocratic and ele sant measures
like a country boy going through a minuet.
Her delivery Of the big florid air in the
second act was something 10 be recalled
with shudders. The SUMS correspondent
had just a fleeting memory OF 1t today in
the Mozart house while gains ct a SPLEEN
did portrait Of Lii as Donna
Anna.
The Donna Elvira was even worse than
the other mournful woman. and the Lepo-
relic (Kempter. the Munich Beckmesser in
die Meistersinger') was quite tame and
dry. The one bright spot in the cast was
the Don Giovanni OF Feinhals. who is en-
gagged for the Metropolitan. He sang much
better than when the Suns correspondent
heard him as Hans Sachs and as Wotan