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Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-01-02
A Startling Telegram.

Ten girls In composition class were
told to write telegram such as would
be suitable to send home In case OF q
railway accident while travelling One
OF the girls wrote:
Dear Papa Mamma is killed. 1 am IN
the refreshment room.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-01-02
Mexican POliteness.

Foreign Visitor lin Mexico)-Whati
Do you still have those barbarous bull
fights in your counry7
Native-Oh. yes; so many American
travellers want to see them. you know.
that we have to give one now and
then.-Chicago Tribune.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-01-02

Hotel Clerk Ito Colonel Cutter Of
Kentucky)-Will you have q pitcher of
water sent to your room7
The Colonel-WaterI Great guns,
amt there any fire escape?-Indianap-
oils News
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-01-02
Much PIeasanfer.

prosperity has ruined many q man."
mo doubt But II I'm given any
choice in the matter I'D rather be ruin
ed by prosperity than by adversely.
The process is more enjoyable."-Chi-
cago Post.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-01-02

Yeast-They say the darkest hour IL
Just before the dawn.
Crimsonbeak-Yes Well, know
when I've gone home In the morning
and knew my wife was waiting for me
things have looked unusually black
Yonkers Statesman.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-01-02
Made a Success of Street Scenes

Arthur P. Spear, the artist. who re-
Gently returned to this country after
four years work in Paris, has settled
in Boston. He made a success of
street scenes abroad. and will con-
inue the same branch of art in Bos,
on
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-01-02

The goodness in rs impresses those
around US for their good. since good Is
always stronger than evil.-Ladies'
Home Journal.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-01-02
Nocturnal liberalization.

Husband have 81 more in my
pocket tonight than ] had last night
Now guess how much ! have.
Wife-Seven dollars. Chicago News
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-01-02

Raymond. dear" she sobbed. then
laughed Historically. mother is so
happy, we are going to .he city to live
Father is coming for us tomorrow.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-01-02

IL you board. look on the bright side.
Nothing Is better for the system than
prunes.-Atchison Globe.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-01-02

The true art of memory Is the art OF
ttention.-Johnson.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-01-02
Rheum atiSm

have found 9 tried snd tested cure for Rheu-
tnatismi Not remedy that win strnighten the
Erowths back 10 flesh again. That Il impossible
But can now surely kin the pains and pangs OF
this deplorable disease.
In Germany--with Chsmist in the City of
Darmstadt-i found the last Ingredient with
which DR.. Shops RhsQmatto Remedy was made
= peIfected. dependeble prescription. without
thet last Ingredient successfully treated many
many cases OF khenme tism but now. at last itpn
iormly cures All liable cases OF this heretofore
wastes. found In Rheumatic Blood seem to dissolve
and pass away under the action OF this remedy as
freely as does sugar when adde's 70 pure water.
And then. when Dissolved. these poisonous wastes
freely PASS nom the system. and the cause Of
kheumausm 70 gone forever. There Is now no
real need-no actual excuse 70 ssffer longer with
cut help. We sen. and In conddenos reoornrnard
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-01-02

A 8. HIGGINBOTHAM, AUTHORITARIAN,
~ farewell, Va. (Onice up stairs III Law Build
tng.) Practices in Courts OF Tazewen and ad-
Rinia.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-01-02

"a B. SPRATT, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Rich
" lands, Va. Practices In the courts Of Taze-
we'll and adjoining counties. Prompt attention
paid 10 the collection Of claims
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-01-02

n q. ANDERSON, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Ta1e-
Us well, Va. VIII practice IN the courts Of Taxe-
well county and the Court OF Appeals at Wythe-
Vile. Collecting a specially.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-01-02

BOWEN q ROYALL ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
TaxeHeI, Va. VIII practice In the courts OF
Tezevell and adjoining counties, and the Court
Appeals at Wytheville. Collections given
pecial attention. once near Courthouse.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-01-02

cREEvER "a GILLESPIE, LAWYERS, Tazewei
IVA Practice the courts Of Tazewell and ad
dining counties. Ordce--Gillespie building
Edgar L. Greever Barns Gillespie.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-01-02

Mrs. Malcomb sat in her hammock,
quietly reading her magazine. She
was aroused by the patter of the san
daled feet of her little son who come
running up the walk with the mail
he had induced the postmistress to
entrust to his care.
Here. mother" he cried in youth
ful mtrth. here are your letters"
With giddy feeling of a mingled
hope and fear the woman tore open
the small thin envelope containing
the tinted note. She clutched the post
of the veranda for support, hardly
daring to let her eyes rest upon the
lines before her. Her eyes were
lighting and darkening, and her breast
was heaving with suppressed emotion.
Upon that paper which fiuttered in
her nervous fingers was written her
fate which meant to her unbounded
JOY or utter desolation. One careful
look and with a heavy sigh and q soft
rustling OF her garments she sank
backward into the hammock, covering
her face with her hands and wept
Quietly.
Mother" pleaded the boy. don't
cry, 1t makes your eyes so red.v
She picked him up and folded him
closely 20 hAr (boaon,
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1908-06-11
CHAPTER XIII.

Instinct said to Jane that MOhun,
broken and disappointed, would find
her out at once; and instinct was right.
At O'Clock in the evening of the next
day Clifford walked coolly into the little
parlor where she was sitting, breath
lessly happy, and expecting him.
"Jane-let us be friends again"
This was all his explanation of the
past or promise for the future; but the
sound of his voice, of his footstep, was
enough to unlock the whole long frozen
love of Miss Grand's heart. She made
no show of coldncss. no roncealment of
what she felt at receiving him back
TO her again.
"Gfford-ah, Clifford! ! have waited
so long for you."
And then she took his hands and led
him to the place where they had used
to sit beside the window, and looked
into his face, and | regret to say-cried
over him, rs mothers sometimes do
over very prodigal sons who are given
back to them; and Mohun's pardon for
the cruelty of seven years was sealed.
1t must have been n somewhat
strange feeling for him, feeling
strange from its freshness and yet
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1908-06-11
Is the Oyster Becoming Extinct:

The decline and fall of the oyster
empire is threatening the fond world
of oyster lovers. Thus at least saith
the professor. William X. Brookes.
Every mature oyster mother lays
about 100000 of eggs for one
Matching. These eggs are cast forth
in the spawning season and drift hith-
er and thither with the tides until
they are impregnated. Then the life
of the young oyster starts. If the
spawn of single oyster mother were
all fertilized, grew to maturity and
reproduced themselves without any
perishing, and this continued until
the fifth generation, the descendants
of the fruit oyster mother would be
greater in bulk than eight worlds
Fortunately for other folks, from the
time of spawning the oyster is beset
with dangers so great that each one
has one chance in 10, ,145, 900 of
reaching maturity. SO no matter now
fertile the oyster may be there is lit
tie danger of the bivalve ever block
aiding our harbors, but, on the con-
trary, ii there were no artificial culti.
vation of these favorite morsels there
would not be nearly enough to supply
the demand for our tables. The oys.
ter is a sedentary animal. never leav.
ing his home after afiixing himself to
some rock. log or shell. for the right
valve must be free to remain open or
the mollusk will be smothered and
die. From the water which flows
over him he secures everything in the
world he desires, food, air, drink and
building material for the stony house
which he erects around himself as a
habitation. He must secure all of
these things, and in the proportion
necessary, If he would live. The first
need is an anchorage place, some
shell or rock upon which he may
erect his fiat dwelling. 1t is the alb
sence of such foothold, or, rather.
shellhold, that causes the greater
number of the young which spawned
to fail to develop to maturity.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1908-06-11
LIVED UPSIDE DOWN
SIXTY-SIX YEARS.
Vital Organs Of Brilliant Ju.
r'st Topsy-Turvy- Heart on
Right Side and Liver Capsixed

An autopsy performed upon the
body of the late Judge John E. Nc.
Keighan, of St. Louis, who died at
the Johns Hopkins Hospital of mall
ady which had puzzled physicians.
disclosed a most extraordinary jum-
BILE of the Judges vital organs.
The heart, instead of being to the
left, was turned to the right. In a
peculiar transportation was the liver,
which was bottom side up, with the
gall bladder up near the heart. There
was union of kidneys by an extra
the shape of horseshoe. The spleen
was also in an abnormal position and
of unusual size. Many of the other
organs were massed together amid
entangling cords and fatty substances
which produced condition in the
stomach both unique and interesting
in the history of anatomy.
The question that agtated the sur
geons was how a man could live with
such a onslomeration of the machin-
tiN III HIS ht Saoc was Soh-
sidered marvellous, for the Judge had
reached the age of siXtysix years.
Judge McKeighan was one of the
brilliant lawyers of the West. The
condition OF the stomach did not
seem to have interfered in any par
ticular with the activity of his brain
and he was said to have been hearty
eater up to the time OF the Illness
which preceded his death. When
the Judge was stricken the best ply
sicians of st. Louis were summoned.
but he did not seem to respond to
their treatment. Consultations were
held, and it was deemed advisable to
bring him to Baltimore. He was
brought to the Johns Hopkins after
arrangements had been made with
Dr. Hugh H. Young, one of the hest
known surgeons in the South The
physicians up to this time had dag
nOsed his case as stomach ailmcnt.
but his condition was such that it
would not permit Of an immediate op-
Grafton. He did not seem to rally
in fact, he grew worse, and it was
decided to perform an operation.
When the incision was made in the
lower regions in The vicinity OF the
kidneys the surgeons were startled by
the remarkable condition of these or.
SanS.
Judge McKeighan sscmed to i'm
provo after the operation. hut when
night came Oh the malady began to
assert itself. He grew slowly worse.
and his condition became so alarming
that his relatives were summoned to
his bedside He survived another
right, hut early on the morning Of
the next day passed away. --Balt'-
more Special to the New York World
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1908-06-11
Eyes and Seeing,

Prof. w. D. Scott sounds note Of
warning about the increasing use of
the eyes for reading and the inspec.
ton of small nearby objects. This
especially affects school children.
Professor Scott says that the human
eye was evolved for distant vision.
and in it's structure is relatively poor.
ly suited for nearby vision. The in
crease of all sorts Of printing aug.
ments the trouble every day, and "all
things seem to be conspiring to make
US use our eyes more and more for
the very thing for which they are the
most poorly adapted" There is, no
doubt, much reason in this, but could
the world Danish its printing presses
and retain it's civilization?
John Burns is said to have tn.
best working library of any member
Of the English House of Parliament.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1908-06-11
PROMINENT r;LpLI.

James J. Hill, after long stay in
New York, has returned to the West.
Senator Beveridga says that the
war talk died out Coincident with the
arrival of the battleship feet in Pa
ciic waters.
Thomas Edison has become con-
vert TO form Of vegetaranism as
the result Of his study Of the question
of diet following his most recent i'll
ness.
Mark Twain and the Rev. Dr.. New
Ell Dwight Hills were The princio pal
speakers at the eighth annual dinner
Of the American Booksellers Asso-
riatior.
Baron Rosen. Russian Ambassa dor
10 the United States, sailed for Eu-
rope on leave of absence, being the
first time he has left America in
three years.
According TO Professor r. II.
.Tamos. of the University Of Missouri
within fifteen years the Middle West.
instead of the East, will he the uni
versity centre of the United States.
Captains Richard Wainwright and
Seaton Schroeder. commanding the
second and fourth divisions of the
Atlantic battleship feet, have been
commissioned acting rear admirals.
Chicago friends of L. T. Dickson
expect that he will be elected COM
mander-in-chief of the Grand Army
of the Republic at its national en-
campment in Toledo, Ohio, in Au-
gust
Admiral George Dewey, familiar
figure driving about Washington, ID.
c., in his high stanhope and we'll
matched pair. is looking remarkably
we'll. and seems thoroughly satisfied
with life.
+. l.. Marston, who is known in
England as the Staffordshire Spur
geon. and is only nineteen. is one of
the most successful Baptist evangel-
lists Of that country. this being his
eighth year of Christian work in be-
half of others.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1908-06-11
FEMININE NEWS NOTES.

Mrs. Julia Ward Howe entered
upon her ninetieth year
Mrs. Asquith. wife of the new Brit.
ish Premier, is we'll known for her
phjIanthropic work in the east end OF
London.
The Maharajah of Nepals gems
outshone those of Queen Alexandra
at the gala performance in Covent
Garden, London.
Hetty Green confided to friends
that she took quarters at the Plaza
Hotel because she could do there
better business in loaning money.
Eugene V. Debs, Socialist candi.
date for President. announced that
the Countess of Warwick would make
speeches in New York City in behalf
of the Socialist candidates.
Princess Stephanie of Belgium,
who has just put patent chafiDg
dish and spirit lamp on the market in
her own name, is no novice in the
difficult pursuit of invention.
Driven mad by the suicide Of hei
husband. Howard Maxwell, who was
president of the Borough Bank in
Brooklyn, Mrs. Maxwell was confined
in a sanitarium at Easton, Pa.
Miss Clara Clemens made her Lon.
don debut at concert given by the
Society of American Women for the
benefit of fund to provide scholar
ships in England for American
women.
Miss Nellie Huntington. of Cleve-
land, Ohio. daughter of late Stand
ard Oil magnate. has forsaken society
and is devoting her time to the teach.
ing of classes of girls in social set
tlement at Cleveland.
Miss Minnie A. Tyler has Just been
reelected town clerk of South Lon
donderry, VT. This is the thirteenth
successive term of Miss Tyler in that
office. Her predecessors were her
father and her grandfather.
Mrs. Margaret Craven passed be-
yond lately at Waukesha, Wis, at
the age of ninety-three.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1908-06-11
Bird Returned to Its Cage.

The Rev. Cecil H. Fardell, of Liam
denny parsonage, Usk, Monmouth
shire, writes that some years ago,
finding that a. Gagged bulltinch which
he placed out of doors every morn
ing was visited daily by the wild
birds outside, he prepared a second
vacant cage, which was promptly oc-
cupied by splendid wild cock bull
finch. This bird was frightened one
day by dog, and the cage door being
open it flew away
Four months later gentle tap at
the window was heard. The bird had
returned to captivity. He again oc-
cupied his old cage.-London Even
ing Standard.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1908-06-11

SPORTING BREVlTIES.

The plan to send American crews
to the Olympic regatta in England is
off.
The New York University's eight
cared crew lost to Pennsylvania in
two-mile race by nearly four lengths,
Mrs. Tiny La Roux. Boston girl.
claims to be the first woman in the
world to ride and propel an airship,
which is her own property
l.. B. Stevenson, of Yale, will be
unable to run in the intercollegiate
games. Stevenson pulled a tendon
and in trying to continue sprained his
ankle.
Willie Lewis, the American mid
dleweight, who won eight fights in
Paris, including a five-round victory
over Walter Stanton, the California
fighter, has returned to New York.
James r. Keenes three-year-old
horse Celt won the Brooklyn Handi-
cap in 2.04 Is, breaking the records
both of the race and of the Graves.
end course. Fair Play was second,
Master Robert third.
Harvard undergraduates are now
breathing easier, as, so far as can be
Judged, winter sports will not be Of
fered up as a sacrifice to football to
satisfy the faculty demand for gen.
eral restriction of athletic activity.
In four-handed lawn tennis
match at Queens Club, London. Eus-
tace H. Miles and V. H. Pennell, the
English players, vanquished Jay
Gould and Charles f. Sands, of New
York, by the score of three sets to
two.
The English papers are very sore
on Tommy Burns for raising the price
of fighters. Before Burns showed
his unsportsmanlike Methods one
paper says, sit was easy to obtain the
services of boxers for just enough 20
pay their living expenses.
The American Automobile Asso.
citation defied the Automobile Club
of America, and the latter may black.
list the Vanderbilt Cup race.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1908-06-11
HIGH FINANCE.

"Say, Jinks, have a proposition to
put before you"
Put ahead"
-Four of us are going to chip in
and buy beefsteak on credit. We
propose to bond 1t for four times the
purchase price, sell the bonds and
pay the butcher. Then we're going
to divide the beefsteak. Are you in?"
links was in.--Kansas City Jour-
cal.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1908-06-11
Building Note in 1928.

In order to complete the 410th
story of the Skyndicate building the
contractors will have to raise the
sky three or four feet.-HarDer g
Weekly.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1908-06-11
Former Senator Jones Dead.

James X. Jones, formerly Senator
from Arkansas and chairman of the
Democratic National Committee, died
in Washington. d. C.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1908-06-11
CHAMBERLAIN WINS OREGON.
Democrat Receives 5OOOtO 10000 Ma.
jority For United States Senator.

iOrity FOF United States Senator.
Portland, Ore.-George c. Cham
berlain, Democrat, has received the
popular nomination for United States
Senator by the votes of Oregon. From
present indications he will receive a
majority of 5000 to 10000 out of a
total registered vote of 05,00O over
his Republican opponent. H. M. Cake
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1908-06-11

A dilapidated picture purchased at
Reggie Emilio for fourpence. and
sold again for five francs, turns out
to be genuine Van Dyck. FOR which
the present owner has refused 10000
francs
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1908-06-11

5000 Men Resume Work i'm Alabama.
With the resumption of mines, fur
naces and other industries at Bir.
mingham, Ala, 5000 men 60 back to
work
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1908-06-11
Unsatisfactory Work.

It's hard work fattening the soul
on a weekly sermon sandwich.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-05-28
Ort-Sighted laps.
Savannah News.)

Some weeks ago the Chinese captured
a Japanese ship that was Transporting
arms to a Chi ese port which were in
tended for Chinese rebels. The Chin
csc claim the capture was justified
under the regulations of international
law. Being the stronger power on the
sea Japan compelled China to give up
the ship on terms humiliating to the
latter. The Chinese people resented
Japan's action and instituted a boycott
on Japanese goods. The boycott is
doing Japan an immense amount of
harm. Baron Yoshire Sakatani and
half dozen other Japanese financiers
arrived IN New york thh other day.
and the Baron, in discussing the af-
FAIRS of his country, said that one of
the causes of Japan's financial depres-
sion was the Chinese boycott of jap
anese goods. The Baron is well quail
fled to talk of questions affecting the
welfare of Japan, for the reason that
until three months ago he was Japan's
minister of finance.
IL ism always wise for man or a
nation to act arbitrarily and unjustly
simply because of the possession of the
power to do so. This boycott of Jap
anese manufactures has cost Japan
many times more than the value of the
ship that was captured by the Chinese.
A fair settlement of that matter would
have preserved the friendly feeling be-
tween the two countries and at the
same time left the markets of China
open to Japanese goods.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-05-28

una settle cOnclusively the attitude of
the South at Denver, and Michigan
following on Ohio in his behalf leaves
johnson absolutely without following
IN the West outside Of Minnesota. Mr..
Bryan has at his command already
more than two-thirds of the convention.
The mention of any other name will be
mere waste of time. Virginia will
bring up the rear of the column. lead
ing the stragglers. with no other mis-
sion left her but to ratify perfunctorily
a verdict already authoritatively regis
tered by a great majority of her sister
States.
1t might have been different. 1t
should have been different. But the
leadership here preferred the laggard
role to that of the pioneer, fearing to
hazard an independent path lest mis-
take should lessen their claim upon the
winner. The safe and selfish policy
prevailed. All that remains is to make
the best of it. This Commonwealth
will WELD no influence at Denver. The
Roanoke Convention may do some good
work in mending the gaps in the home
organization and in perfecting the pri-
mary plan. Norfolk Virginian-P Pilot.
This pitlful wall from our Norfolk
contemporary: cit might have been
different. 1t should have been differ
ent, " will find echo in the mind of every
reasoning and every reasonable Demo-
crat. The meaning is, that the Virginian-
Pilot knows that the National Democ-
racy will make another hopeless con-
test with Mr.. Bryan as their president
ial candidate.
Our Norfolk contemporary is not very
complimentary to the leadership, that.
while opposed to Mr.. Bryan as a candi-
date, has been too cowardly to openly
oppose him. This cowardice has been
apparent for long while. 1t has been
recently demonstrated by the lining I'D
Of the Machine for the Nebraskan. as
evidenced by the recent avowal of Mr..
Swanson.
But there is one class of acquiescent
Democrats that are not referred to by
the Virginian-Pilot. They are the men
who now are wanting Mr.. Bryan nomi-
mated and defeated as means for getting
rid of him. There are many such Dem
ocrats in Virginia and throughout the
United States.