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Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-02-25
TOO Many for Hin,

An American travelling in Germany
was much bewildered at the large
number of distinct and apparently in
dependent countries through which he
went.
Just as he became accustomed to
Bavaria, with its blue and white ma.
uonal colors, he would find himself
without warning in Wurtemburg
where they have an entirely different
KING and entirely different military
uniforms. and strikingly different
dialect Then few hours ride on n
train whisked him into Saxony. and
then 1t was Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. and
tnen Saxe-Weimar, and then Baden.
and then Hesse Darmstadt At last
ne threw up his hands in despair.
Where are we now?" he inouired
Frankfurt-on-the- Main"
Who is the local .duke?" he asked
YEARLY.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-02-25
Simple Water pistIIler

A boatload of shipwrecked mariners
having few panes of glass may col
Iect from the ocean enough fresh
water to sustain life. The great rain
less area Of Chill had some brackish
water, which, however, neither man
nor beast can drink, and drinking wa
Ter Is now obtained by means of a
novel desert distillery containing 90.
OoO square feet of glass. The panes
are formed into V-shaped troughs
winch are placed over shallow pans of
the brackish water. The vapor of the
water evaporated by the suns heat
Is condensed on the lower side of the
glass, and runs down into little chan
nels, which conduct the fresh water
10 the main receptacle. A supply of
about 1000 gallons daily is thus pro.
vided.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-02-25
The Surprised Hiuhwaxman

A highwayman stepped out behind
fashionable young woman and hit
her a tremendous blow across the
side OF the head with piece of gas
pipe, expecting TO send her to the
ground unconscious and rob her OF her
valuables. Imagine his surprise when.
instead of a dull thud. a mufIed
scream and a fall to the pavement. the
weapon bounded back as though it
had struck large piece Of rubber and
the victim of the attack turned about
angrily with: Beast, What do Won
mean by trying to disarrange nv
hair!"-Lamar (Ga) Democrat,
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-02-25

ed the corn-starch drummer In sur
prise.
Yes, street II was the liyeliest
sporting event in the state. Yeou see.
old Squire Weatherby claimed that
he could chaw more tobacco in an
hour than any man in the village. Seth
Wheatley took him up Wall, as the
crowd was standing around and bet
ting on their favorites and Seth had
chawed up six plugs. a little piece
slipped down his throat and made him
sneeze. Wall, sir. there was a case of
hne pepper at that end Of the counter
and as Seth sneezed the pepper went
up In cloud, and then everybody
sneezed. Some Of It got in old man
Hardapple's eyes and he pulled off his
coat and wanted to fight. Then some
body upset the stove and scared the
cat When 1t was all over Josh Wea-
theroy found his watch had been
stolen by a horse trader who had crept
In TO get warm. Sport? Wall, give
me tobacco-chawing Marathon every
time"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-02-25
Origin of caucus. -

Caucus" is said to have arisen
from a corruption of the term "calk.
er's house" After violent fighting be-
tween the military and the ropemak-
ers OF Boston in 1870 the ropemakers
and the calkers. the better to meet
the soldiers. formed themselves into
a society. "at the meetings of which
inhammatory addresses were delivered
ana the most violent resolutions
passed against the British govern
ment and its agents and instruments
In America" The tories scoffed at
the caikers' meetings and the term
became in time softened into caucus
however. DR.. Murray declares that
the word existed previously. and he
suggests the Greek "kaukos," a Gun
perhaps because at private meetings
the flowing bowl is sometimes found
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-02-25
FOUNDED NEW SECT
JOHN WROE FOUNDER OF CHRIS
TAN IsRAELITEs.
Had Many Followers, Particularly In
Australia. Many Of Whom Still
Believe That He Is
Not Dead.

The alleged bogus burial of the
duke OF Portland as bruce makes one
think OF John Wroe. He died in Coll
ingwood, Melbourne. February 5. 1853
aged 81, and YET some fanatics appear
to believe that he is still alive. mas
much as he is reported to have said
he would never die.
Johanna Southcott died in 1914.
aged 81. Her followers believed she
would give birth to the Messiah. says
the Imperial Review. Six doctors tes-
tilted that they would believe she was
about ~ become mother if she was
young enough. A silvered cradle cost
ing G2OO was PREPARED for the in
FAINT and 800 more was spent in
gold spoons. pap boats and what not.
Wroe was her first principal follow
err With her sect as a nucleus he
formed the Christian Israelites. He
preached his doctrines for nearly half
century throughout Britain. Europe,
America and Australia
A follower named Stanley gave him
s9.5OO with which a temple was
built at Ashton. Eng Arterward it be.
came theater. Yet Wroe never sue.
ceeded anywhere so well as in Mel
bourne. His followers there sub
scribed and bought him a mansion
Melbourne house-in Wakefield. Eng.
No portrait was ever taken Of him,
as he forbade portraiture He is de.
scribed as an exaggerated likeness OF
Gen. Booth. with hook nose, fiery eyes
and shaggy hair and beard. The Chris.
tian Israelites are also called Wroe
ties and Beardies. The sect is still
prosperous in Melbourne.
Visiting its church. a handsome
olue-stone place in Fitzroy, on a re-
cent Sunday evening we found what
was described as an unusually small
attendance-about forty ladies' and
20 gentlemen. Twenty-eight of the
ladies were in white straw bonnets.
The younger ones had them coquet-
ushly trimmed with feathers and
they inclosed pretty faces. too. We
thought of Carlyle's saying when
Queen Victoria came to the throne,
Poor girl. At an age when she can
hardly be trusted to buy her own bon
net"
An outcome of the Wroeites was the
Fisheries. When Wroe died James
Fisher. charcoal burner of Nunawad-
ing, eight miles from Melbourne. then
in the wild bush, tried to obtain the
succession. Failing this he made a
secession. He founded the Church Of
the F1rstborn and obtained 100 fol-
lowers. with an astounding combina-
ton OF Wroeism, Mormonism. Spirit
ualism and Freemasonry.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-02-25
TREATED AS A GOOD FRIEND.
Intimate Association Between the Arab
and His Horse.

II is most interesting to note the
way the Arab treats his faithful
friends. So Injured, indeed. is the
Arab pony by long usage and descent
TO the manner of life in the desert
That even my own pony positively i'm
proved on the treatment and never
saw him so fit as when he came back
from the trip.
IL the Arab and his horse are by
legend closely allied, they are in
point of fact even more Intimately
connected. His mount is his first
thought. and at all times by far the
most interesting topic of conversation.
He Is ungroomed, unclipped, unhal-
tered, for the Arab prefers to shackle
him by means of two ropes, a short
cord connecting the fore and hind fet-
locks and long line lettering him
above the hind fetlock to a peg in the
ground. Thus he can move about or
roll at leisure, and should there be
any rough heritage at hand can for
age for 1t. Perhaps one of the princi-
pal reasons why the Arab so excels at
long Journeys is that the never worries
himself nor does he ever distress his
mount unless there is real cause to
do so. He simply continues a steady
walk all day and hardly ever g2llops
in the wild way in which one so often
sees them depicted by artists.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-02-25
Closing the Question.

The Sunday school teacher. being
aware that the rector intended visit
ing the church during this Sabbatb's
school session. drilled her little class
on such important questions as who
made them." etc. until he felt sure
'hat should the clergyman deign to
quiz her charges they would do them
selves and her credit.
Hardly had she so concluded, when
the church door opened and in strobe
the rector, who passed along the rows
OF ouzzing pews until he reached this
very cluster Of pupils, which he at
once proceeded to take in hand.
Now, my boy" asked he. picking
out a youngster in the end of the
pew, who made your"
God made me-" blurted the youth
giancing appealingly at his more
familiar teacher. Then suddenly en-
couraged by her eyes. he boldly faced
Ine minister and added, Unexpectedly.
an he made the whole bunch,"E
Circle Magazine.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-02-25
HABITS AND BRAIN RECORDS.
A Noble Personality the Result Of
Noble Desires Inscribed In Brain.

Remember that the brain is the in
strument through which the real per-
sonality expresses himself; and he
can only express what is already writ
ten there, says a writer in the Nauti-
lus- Consequently, the external man
viii be just what is inscribed upon his
brain, for all his actions must be die
tated or directed through these brain
records. You cannot saw wood with
hammer; nor can the soul play a
piano with the fingers until the knowl-
edge OF piano playing is written in the
music place Of the brain. You cannot
show forth high and noble person
atty until you have written within
your skull a record OF noble and holy
desires; according to the tools you
give it, so will the expression of your
soul be.
You can wind up a phonograph,
and you may make 1t run fast or
slow, but you cannot make II say any
thing that is not on the records. If
some one had put his opinion of you
on a record, even though you knew
that opinion to be untrue, you could
not make the record tell the truth; the
only thing possible would be to make
another. You have written your opin-
ion OF yourself upon your brain; you
cannot be anything else until you
change the record
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-02-25
Getting Along All RIoht.

A young Japanese in one of our in.
sututions Of learning. having ac.
CURED very good knowledge of Eng
ilsh, went out to deliver lecture in
tnat language. On his return. saws
the Hartford Courant, one of the in
structors asked If he had a pleasant
time. He replied: yes, very.
How did you get on with the lee
ture?' "Oh. quite well, but the audi
ence smiled at some things when I
could see no jokes" Gould You give
me an instance?" well. opened INV
lecture by saying that although was
new In English language thought I
could deliver the goods; and they all
smiled. Now, doubtless the audience
smiled at what they thought was the
ready way In which foreigner had
adapted bit of American slang. hut
he did not understand the smile nc.
cause he thought he was speaking
good English.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-02-25
CALLS FOR LARGE SACRIFICES
Ministerial Work Means Giving Up
Idea of Worldly Advancement.

Had we ministers trained and worked
Tor a business life as we train and
work for the ministry, and lived as
economically as we have in the min
istry, many of us could have accumu-
lated fortunes ere this. / should like
to know If there is any class of men
on earth who get more. out of the use
OF their money than the ministers.
Show me any other class of men on
earth with an average salary of $l2
week who dress so well, live so well.
educate their families so well, give so
much and save so much for a rainy
day, and will yield my point. Bust
ness men rarely realize the sacrifice
ministers make. once tried to per-
suade man of large possessions. who
Is making $4,000 a year, to give up
his business and accept a position in
our UNCONVENTIONAL work, which would
bring him in $4,000. He almost had a
mt at the very suggestion. We do not
envy our business classmates who
have won fame or accumulated wealth.
for In so doing they have had to forego
the heavenly privileges which we have
enjoyed. We do not want to be pitied.
We are not objects of charity, and we
are contented with our lot.-Rev. DR..
Curtis Lee Laws, in Leslie's Weekly.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-02-25

Hazlitts English Proverbs" gives
the proverb as "Betwixt the devil and
the Dead sea-" and quotes it from
Clarke's "Paroemiologia," 1859. and
adds this note Of explanation: "On the
horns of dilemma In Cornwall thev
say deep sea, which may be right"
Reddall's Fact, Fancy and Fable"
gives the following explanation of the
proverb: This expression is used by
Col. Monroe in his Expedition with
Mackay's Regiment printed in Lon
don in 1887. The regiment was with
the army of Gustavus Adolphus and
was engaged in a battle with the Aus
trians. The Swedish gunners did not
elevate their guns sufficiently. and
their shot fell among this Scottish
regiment, so that we were between
the devil and the deep sea-"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-02-25
LITTLE CHANCE FOR BUSINESS,
Man With Golden Opportunity Had
Called at Unfortunate Time.

Now, my dear sir" earnestly began
the suave stranger, with the up-tilted
cigar and unauthenticated diamond,
these handsomely engraved bonds
OF the Consolidated Mexican Milkweed
Rubber Company. which are positively
guaranteed to return a 90 per cent.
semi-annual dividend, and"
Il don't really s'pose you can do
much dealing in 'em around here. Mr..
Shcksmith," frankly interrupted the
landlord of the tavern at Skedee Cor
ners. You see, the only man in the
community who might otherwise take
an interest in your glittering PROPOSE
uon has been for some time engaged
In the payment of an election bet
wherein he was solemnly sworn to
roll peanut eight miles by means of
toothpick, which. speaking in round
numbers, will be likely to keep him
SO busy till along about the latter part
OF next May that he won't have time
to make fool OF himself in any other
way. Looks considerable like rain. off
TO the south'rd, don't it?"-Puck.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-02-25
INeERsoLL's TRIBUTE TO Low.
First Dress Of Immortality; Fills Il ,
World with Melody.

Love is the only bow on life's dar
cloud. 1t is the morning and evenin
star. 1t shines on the babe, and shoes
its radiance on the quiet tomb. It is
the mother Of art; inspirer of poe,
patriot and philosopher. 1t is the air
and light of every heart; builder Of
every home; kinder of every fire OF
the hearth; it was the first dress Of
immortality. 1t fills the world vita
melody, for music is the voice Of love.
Love is the magician, the enchanter
that changes worthless things to jov.
and makes right royal queens and
kings Of common clay. 1t is the per-
tume of that wonderful flower. the
heart. and without that sacred passion.
that divine swoon. We are less than
beasts; but with it-earth is heaven
and we are gods.-Robert G. Ingersou
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-02-25
SMALL BOYS PATHETIC WISH.
Story with a Moral for Some Over
Occupied Mothers.

He is a poor little neglected boy,
whose mamma is so busy with moth
ers' meetings and club conventions
and such important matters that she
really hasn't time to attend to her
children, says the New York Times.
This little boy was entertaining a cas-.
ual caller while his mother was up
stairs putting the finishing touches to
her toilet. Said the little boy. whose
own toilet was sadly in need of atten-
ton:
What does e. t. C. mean?"
e. t. CO. asked the caller.
Yes" said the little boy. It's a sort
Of a word. It's in a book was read.
ing"
"Oh," said the caller. Etc is an
abbreviation. 1t is Latin. 1t stands
for ct cetera."
The little boy looked puzzled. Pm
not In Latin yet" he said.
EFT cetera," explained the caller.
''means-well. it means and so on d"
The little boy was thoughtful for a
morlent, and then he said:
Il wish my mamma could find time
to ct cetera the buttons on my pants,"
And taking in his disheveled appear-
ance, the visitor murmured, Amen"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-02-25
A Lonu Sentence

The prize for the longest sentence
ever written may fairly be awarded to
the elder Dumas, who probably holds
a further record for fertility of pro-
duction. In the seventh of the % vol
umes which compose the Impressions
de Voyage" there is a sentence de-
scribing Benvenuto Cellini, which fills
three pages, or 10S lines, averaging
10 letters apiece. The sentence is
broken by 6S commas and 60 semi
colons; but as it contains 1876 verbs
and l22 proper names, the reader is
somewhat bewildered before the end
is reached.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-02-25
Why She Wasn't Disturbed.

His family is taking in the opera in
New York and he had entertained at
cards-American fashion-until the
rumbling of the early cars put an end
10 the game. In fact, he Just re-
freshed himself with a bath. and when
he came down to breakfast his heart
smote him.
i hope the gentlemen didn't dis
turb you last night with their noise "
he said to the maid, when she served
ms breakfast I'm sure they didn't
mean to be quite so noisy"
La, sir" was her reply, II 'aven't
slept IN the 'ouse since missus went
away l slept at me sisters, sir"
The joke was too good to keep. and
that's why the coal trade learned of
1t the same day.-Cleveland Leader.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-02-25
TypeWriters In IVA

The idea of mechanical letter-writ-
ing seems to have first occurred TO an
Englishman, for the earliest record of
a patent for such a device is of one
sranted by the English government
10 Henry Mill in 1714. The first TYNE.
writer invented in the United States
called the "typographer," was patented
IN 1879 by William Austin Burt of
Detroit Mich. also the inventor of the
solar compass. The machine was a
primitive affair, and could be manipu.
lated only slowly. No practical results
We're accomplished by the Burt ma
chine, and to-day it is known merely
as starting point of great Ameri-
can industry.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-02-25
WAS JUST ONE DOLLAR AHEAD
What Little Financial Transaction
Had Melted Widow.

More than year ago" said the in
surance man, 81 received a letter
which said that the writer was a
widow and asked for little financial
assistance. She wasn't very greedy.
but would let me off with a dollar.
showed the letter into a pigeon-hole
and paid no further attention to IL
Next week another came. Then a
third and a fourth. and as a matter of
fact one came for each week in the
year until l had So OF them. The
widow had spent $1.04 in her efforts to
obtain a dollar from me. l thought
such persistency deserved an answer
OF some sort, and so I.wrote her:
IAN your letters received. send
you the dollar asked for, but can't
you figure that you are still four cents
out?
AS promptly as If she had been a
business man closing up a 10000 deal
she replied:
Thanks. No, can't figure that
way As l begged my stationery and
stamps from the neighbors l am lust
81 in pocket in your case
1 have always had a tender heart
Tor widows" smiled the insurance
man. but in this case l don't think
there Is any call for my sympathy"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-02-25
WITH THE ELEPHANT FLEE i.
Indian coastlns Steamers That Trans-
port Largest Of Ali Animals.

Its elephant feet is one of tie
strangest and most deadly depart
ments maintained by the British gov-
eminent in India. 1t is a large feet OF
coasting steamers specially built for
the transport of elephants.
India's population is one-fifth that OF
the entire globe. All these people use
elephants. They use them for draught
work and for tiger-hunting, and in the
arenas of the native states they even
pit them against one another and
against wild beasts. The elephant
fleet transfers the animals from Dacca,
the trapping and training headqua'-
tiers, to the various districts whence
comes the demand.
To get an elephant aboard ship is 4
difficult and dangerous task The an
NAL must wade through the surf to L
stout raft. and this unknown surf. 81
white and tumultuous, often terrific
and maddens him. If in his fury h.
slaughters a mahout or two, he caI.-
not be greatly blamed.
Once on the raft, his legs are tie
to pegs, and the slow sail to the ship
is uneventful. But now a great bar l
must be arranged under the elephant
belly, and crane must hoist him ~
some twenty or thirty feet to the decl..
Here again the elephant cannot be set
down as intractable if. losing his hea
in that unprecedented aerial journey,
he murders some more mahouts.
Very prosperous. albeit stained a IL
tie with mahouts' blood, the elepha1
fleet for many years has piled up ar
! down the Indian coast, embarking ar
DISSEMINATING its heavy unmanageab
/ freight.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-02-25
At the Turn of the Road.

In the perspective from the turn of
the road we may now see how many
tlmes the paralyzing hand of procras-
dnation touched the good deeds we
meant to do, the golden dreams we
longed to transform into actualities.
we wished to do. and we wanted to
do, but we did not will to do. The
1ault was not in conditions, but in us.
we were not equal to opportunities.
IL is false philosophy that teaches
that opportunity calls only once al
any mans house. 1t comes with the
persistency of an importunate cred
itor, always in a new guise. and clam
ors for admission, but we may be too
busy to answer the bell.-CircIe Mag
azine.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-02-25
Worlds Coolest CItv

Yakutsk, in eastern Siberia. is said
10 be the coolest city in the world. II
Is the great commercial emporium of
eastern Siberia and the capital of the
province Of Yakutsky. which in most
OF its area Of 1,517,O63 square miles is
a bare desert. the soil of which is
frozen to a great depth. Yakutskv
consists Of about four hundred houses
OF European structure, standing apart
The intervening spaces are occupied
by winter yoorts. or huts of the
northern nomads. with earthen roofs
the doors are covered with hairy
hides and the windows are of ice.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-02-25
TaetfuI Society wonnan

One of the best known women in 81
clety' who is remarkable for havin ,
no enemies, laughingly said not long
ago that she attributed her popularity
TO never letting those she dislike I
Know of it by any word of hers. L
avoid discussing any unpleasant pe--
son, she continued, land l also nevt r
Join any social club where a member
is included that 1 do not care to il
vite to my house. BY this means I
am free to do as please. and also
never offend my own friends by bay-
ing persons that I know they dislike
at my house when they are there, as
that is questionable hospitality"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-02-25
WhistIlna on Sabbath in Scotland.

WhlstIIn9 on Sabbath in Scotland.
Concerning the Scottish reprobation
OF whistling on the Sabbath Dean
Rramsay has a characteristic story.
famous Glasgow artist met an old
Highland acquaintance Unexpectedly.
Donald, what brought you here?"
Gu, weel, sir. ii was a baad place
yon; they were baad folk-but they're
a God fearin' set O. folk here" well
Donald, I'm glad to hear it," "Ou. ay.
sir. deed are they; an I'll gle We an
instance OF. Last Sabbath Just as the
kirk was skailin' there was a drover
chield frae Dumfries comm along the
road whistlin', an lookin' as happy as
II 1t was ia middle O. the week. Weel
sir. cor lads is a God fearin' set o.
lads, an they were just coming DOT o.
the kirk cd they yckit upon him an
almost killed himi"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-02-25

OF judge the collar on his robe "a
changed from silk to velvet. When
this law providing for the guard OF
dignity was passed the prescribed
dress Tor practicing attorneys includ-
ed a white necktie. Years ago this
custom ceased to be observed. be-
cause. as lawyers tell me. it was ex-
pensive and troublesome. There is
one judge In Berlin. however, who in
sists on the proper dress, and law
yers who appear before him must ex-
pect, II necktie be black. TO be turned
away with the remark: Your cravat
is not white"