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Mexico weekly ledger., 1888-07-12
Senator Vest Keeping Hands Off

Senator Vest Keeping Hands Off.
WASHINGTON, July Ex-senator
Vest has been receiving a great
many letters from Missouri about
the gubernatorial campaign, and
owing to his prominence and in
tiuence, quite naturally many
writers have sought his aid in be-
half of this or that candidate for
Governor. He says he made up
his mind long ago to take no part
whatever in the gubernatorial
fight, for several reasons. One is
that he does not think it becomes
him as q Senator to have any
thing to do with the matter and
another is hat the people of the
various counties are fully compe-
tent to make up their minds as to
their preference for Governor, and
as he believes it his business to at
tend strictly to his Senatorial
duties, he will most positively de-
cline to take any part in the strug-
gle, but leave it entirely with the
candidates, who will have to fight
it out. He does not intend to be
drawn into the contest in any wav,
shape or form.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1888-07-12
SAM APOLOGIES.
The Georgia Evangelist Attacks
Methodist Ministers in
Wisconsin.

The following telegram shows
the methods of the cvangclists from
Gcorgia-Small and Jones, The
people of this city already know
something of the last named gen
tleman.
La CROSSE, WIS, July Sam
Small, the revivalist, has stirred
up Il row here which is the leading
topic of discussion IN church cir
oles. He opened last night with
bitter denunciation of the minis
tiers, charging them with derelic-
ton of duty.
All the ministers of the city were
on the platform, but did not resent
the insult.
The next evening all the minis
tiers were absent and the TRADE was
repeated with more venom Each
night the attack was renewed.
Last night the Rev. DR.. Thomas,
to the surprised of the audience,
opened the meeting. Sam Small
stepped forward and apologized for
all he said concerning Thorn
as Homer, Methodist minister.
Small enlarged his apology and
made it general. Small's course
has aroused disgust of all sensible
OaoO1e
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49, - -
* Log Cabin Logic.


6raWn anu BRAN -
The. powerful engine, with is wonderful
full' freig6ted with theIrichest fabrics OF
the intellectual looms of thecenturies-what
obstacles can stay the progress OF this mighty
force, when once under full steam along
llfes highwayl
Tho American With Drawn and brain does
not see the necessity for titles OF nobility,
does not care for elevation by descent, he can
reach out and pluck the stars.
But with Drawn or brain impaired, q man
is badly handicapped In the mad raca for sue
cess which is tho marked characteristic OF
the present ago
Tile physical system Is most intricate
piece OF machinery. II ought to BIO kept well
regulated, SO that it will work harmonicusly
In all its parts, then 1t Is capable OF an
immense amout OF work.
1t IS said that watch, il expected to keep
perfect time, must be wound daily. 1t will
not keep good time unless it s'runs regular"
Moro mon break down because they don't
run regular" than for any other reason.
1t is claimed by physicians that few mon
are killed by hard work. 1t is to tho ir-
Irregularities of modern social life that the
high death ratio Is due. Men burn their
candle at both ends, then wonder why it
burns out so quickly.
Tho main thing in keeping the human
machine in good working order is to keep the
regulator all right. ''The blood Is the lifc,n
and sound health is assured SO long as tho
blood flows through the veins limpid stream
OF purity.
Cabin sarsaparilla, tho old-fashioned blood
purifier, prepared after the best formula in
use by our ancestors in good old Log Cabin
days, and with the vigor of Drawn and brain
which must onsue, in your lifes lexicon you
will find no such word as fail.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1888-11-16
bieestIon Ia the Horse.

The horses stomach has capacity
of only about sixteen quarts, while tina.
ofthe OK has two hundred and fifty. In
the mtestines this proportion is re-
yerscd, the horse having capacity of
one hundred and ninety quarts, against
one hundred of the OK. The OK and
most other animals have gall-bladder
for the retention of part of the bile
secreted during digestion; the horse
has none, and the bile flows directly
into the intestines us fast MS secreted.
This construction of the digestive APP
paratus indicates that the horse was
formed to eat slowly and digest con-
tinually bulky and nutritious food.
When fed on hay it passes very rapidly
through the stomach and into the in.
testines. The horse can eat but about
five pounds in an hour, which is charged,
during mastication, with four times its
weight in saliva. Nov the stomach, to
digest well, will contain about ten
quarts, and when tho animal eats one
third of lis daily ration, or sevefi
pounds, in one and one-half hours, he
has swallowed, OF least, two stomachs
full of hay and saliva, one of these hay-
ing passed to the intestines Obserya-
ton has show1l that the food is passed
TO the intestines by tile stomach, in the
order in which it is received. If we
feed horse six quarts of oats it will
just fill his stomach, md if, as soon as
he finishes this, we feed him tho above
ration of hay, he will eat sufficient in
threc-quarters of an hour to have forced
the oats olear out of his stomach into
the intostines. AS it is the Office of tho
stomach to digest tho heterogeneous parts
of the food, and as stomachful of oats
contains four or five times rs much of
these as the same amount of hay, it is
certain that either tho stomach must
secrete the gastric juice five times rs
fast, which j, hardly possible, or it
must retain this food five times as long.
BY feeding The oats first, it can only
be retained long enough for the proper
digestion of hay, consequently it seems
logical, when feeding n concentrated
food like cats with bulky one like
hay, to feed TIE latter first, giving the
grain the whole time between the To-
pasts to bo digested. -Colui,a.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1888-11-16
UNDER THE AnpLr.rnEra..

This is tho orchard, here they grow,
The apple-trees in triple row,
Alb, we'll mind the years ago,
When we yerc young together.
Now wore in middle life, we say,
They show che moss, and / tho gray,
we both have borne, this many day,
Tho wear of time and weather.
They stand 1t well, this Baldwin, now,
The red fruit fairly loads tho bough,
Has 1t forgot, wonder, how
used to dig around It'll
Hard work, 1 thought and never done,
And life was mado for naught but fun
a sod mistake, rs l, for one,
Long, long ngo have found il.
This pippin, standing next, thoy say
Bears apples good tho following May! !
Bite one, you'd think 'twoud last for aye,
Though nil 50 fair and yellow.
Such men Pvc known, pray who has not,
That hardened as they older got,
Would shrivel, sllrivcl, yes, and rot,
But mover once grow mellow. =
Our sweeting's lonesome, "a it wero;
The planter knew, what all aver,
That sourer sorts nre juicier,
"One sweet" quoth he, ais p'enty.'
like to feel-it comforts mo,
Who am ut best, u Grabbed tree
That sweet and sour were meant to be
About as one in twenty.
There's not n branch tho orchard through,
But, green or ripe, full we'll know
The taste of all that on it crew.
Ills in my mouth this minutel
And all is nectar. Well, who knows
But lifc itself, with all its woes,
Will turn to sweetness ut the close,
Nodrop of bitter in it'll
So soft the airl a butterfly
On wagering wing goes zigzag by;
How pleasant OH the grass to lie,
And dream the old dreams overl
And when an apple drops anon,
Half sad, half glad, my thought runs on
Yes, yes, too shall soon be gone,
And lie beneath the clover
But you, my trees, will flourish still,
And other school-boys' pockets ill,
And bees will hu II, and sparrows trill,
And king birIs call and hover.
Oh, well it were if then were mine
a grave within your shade benign,
a simple slab, single line,-
'Of birds and trees lover"
-Brad(ord 7orrey, in Youths Competition
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Now is always the very besttime II We wi
only make it So
a Dream of rnir Woman.

Tennyson in his exquisite poem, dreams OF q
Long procession of lovely women Of ages past.
rms Is all very well, but the laureate would
only tod the women of the present how they
could improve their health and enhance their
charms. This he might easily have done by
Prescriptions. Health is tho best friend OF
beauty, ard the innumcrable ills TO which wo-
Long experience las proven that the health OF
wo;nankind and the ''Favorite Prescriptions
walk hand in hnnd, and are inseparabc. It is
gls's, under q, EOsitirc guarantee from the man.
ulaciurcrs, that it will give satisfaction in
every case, or money will DO refunded. This
WRAPPER, ana faithfully carried out for many
years.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1888-11-16

AccoRDING to New York correspond
emit, the Western man is looming up on
tho horizon of the New York woman in
most astonishing way. "Hc is just
beginning" he writes, "to take his
Tlaco here in social life, and lie takes
an awfully big place. He takes away
tho breath of the Eastern girl by his
self-contident methods, and by the time
she RECEIVERS it she worry often finds
that it is in reality her heart that is
gone"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1888-11-16

JOSIE MANSFIELD, the woman who
was ut the bottom OF the trouble be.
tween Jim Fisk and Ed Stokes, has
settled down in Paris, where she is liv.
ing gay life. Contrary to general
belief, sheis rather slim in form. and,
although nearing so years of age, looks
like a maid of 25. The cscapade in
which she figured here has been exag.
gerated by the impressionable French.
men until they really believe that she
was moving cause in the war of the
rebellion.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1888-11-16

NO. hns Pullman Buffet Sleeper New
York to Chattanooga and Memphis without
change, via Harrisburg, Hugerstown and
Roanoke; also bns connection at Haperstown
with fast mail from Baltimore.
NO has through connection from Phila.
oelphla via Harrisburg and c. v. Railroad
ana from Baltimore win w. M. r. II. Daily
except Sunday. Also makes connection nj
,Waynesboro Junction with G. Sc o. R'y west
bound train.
CONNECTIONS.
Hagerstown, Md, with tho Western Morv
land Railroad to and from b iltimore. Fre1
erlck, Emmittsburg, Gettysburg, Penmor.
Waynesooro, Pn., and points on the Western
Aarylnnd railroad and branches
with the Cumberland Valley railroad to
anu from Harrisburg, Carlisle Shippensbure,
Chambersburg, Mercersburg, Martinslmrt1,
road and BRANCHES.
Also to and rem Pittsburgh and tho West
md Northwest, and Boston, New York.
Phll'Ielphia and tho North and East.
AT Shenandoah Junction, w. Vo.. with
main line of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
to hii1 froni the West
40. 3 makes close connection Mt
Wayncsboro Junction with q. & o.
Ky. East and West bound trains.
,, at Loeb laird, with Lexington branch of
Richmond and Allegheny railroad
Az Buchanan with Main Line of Richmond
and Allegheny railroad
At Roanoke, with Norfolk AMI Western
railroad.
STAGE CONNECTIONS.
At Boyce, for Milwood and Winchester. Vo
AT TrOntville for Fincastc.
NORTHWARD. DAILY.
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Artificial Flowers

Artificial flowers, says n writer in the
GdrfenldHbe, were first invented by p:ous
nuns. In the Italian converts the altars
and shrines of saints were, up to the end
oil the eighteenth century, decorated
with artificial flowers, laboriously put to-
gether, OF paper, parchment, and other
stlif materials. Since then the "italian
flowers" which nrc made in Venetian
factories OF the imperfect cocoons OF
sllkworms, have become famous for their
iaintincss, which makes them particular
~ suitable for toilet decorations. Beside
these silk flowers other artificial flowers
are made i'll Venice, whence nearly all
Italy IS supplied, and whence whole
wagon loads are exported to other com
tries. no sooner has the visitor to Venice
taken his early cup of chocolate ut
tlorion's, near the Marcus place, when
the ciceronc appears, Offering to show
him the 'famous" factory OF the "fa-
nous Italian flowers" This factory ia
situated in one Of the gray old houses of
the FrcHzaria, and several hundred girls
are occupied in it. In the warehouse
the most wonderful reproductions of
natural flowers are exhibited in mlass
cases, and it seems in many cases rs ii
not only the richest and most brilliant
colors, but the very scent of the flowers,
had been stolen from nature, for some of
the artlhclal Towers arc stepped in the
perfume distilled from the flower which
1t represents. Any one wishing 10 take
home some souvenir of Venice can have
his choice of beautiful and often fantus.
tic objects Mt the factory.
In the upper stories of the house the
girls sit mt their work, CONSTRUCTING. with
clever hands, the most beautiful works OF
art, for all the most expensive artificial
flowers are nearly exclusively made by
hand, and their value depends solely on
the manual deXtcrity and taste Of tho
poorly-clad and mostly delicate looking
girls, sitting ut long tables and nhalin9
the unhealthy dust of the dyed mate
rails. No machinery could replace the
dextcrity and taste Last century Swiss
invented machine for cutting out the
leaves and petals, hut it can only be used
Tor the smallest kinds, such rs are want
cd for hyacinths, lilies of the valley,
and other small flowers. In larger petals
the irregularities of manual work are
preferred to the stiff and correct forms
produced by machinery. The material
OF which the petals arc made is woven
in special factorics the scissors and
other tools used by the girls, rs we'll ms
the presses in which the veins are traced
on the leaves, are of shape specially
adaptcd to the work Each part of Il
flower is made by specialists. In ono
room, for instance, only stalks Of flowers
and leaves are made; in another fruits
and berries of all kinds are cast, if they
are of wax, or blown, if of glass. The
clcvcrcst workers are employed in max
blossoms of the single petals, and bou.
quets, wrcaths and garlands OF the sin
glc blossoms. 1t is very interesting to
watch this process and TO see how, first,
the centre Of q flower is constructed,
then the petals put round, next The green
leaves, and so forth, till n flower or n
branch is complete.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1888-11-16
Womb Thro,v ThotInI

"AIy friend" said a tight listed banker
to young man who had'pulled him out
OF The water, 81 appreciate tho fact that
you have saved my life and am pre-
pared TO reward you-to reward you
Literally for your services. What can
do for your"
well, sir, there was suit of clothes
spoiled" said the rcscucr who was good
natured though not educated, "that
would be about seventeen dollars; then
lost my hat, that would be fifty cents;
tnen took considerable liquor to keep
on cold, which cost me n quarter. 1
don't think of anything else, Sir"
"But you do not mention tho fact that
you have saved my life. What can DO
for you on that score2n
"Oh, well, call tho whole thing
eighteen dollars am pil throw the life
saving in free. "--lLe7rIant IrJU.Lcy.
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CURIOUS FAUTS.

Ah luHno man nus invented 'NOsc
protector"
Queen Victoria h1s had wicker baskets
made for her cats to travel in.
Catechisms are said to have been com.
piled in the eighth or ninth century.
Tho London police now carry their
clubs in a pocket instead of the belt.
The only NIongolian landscape painter
in America lives in Portland, Oregon.
The word cloture means the same as
the previous question in parliamentary
law.
1t is declared that there arc restaurants
where robins are privately served as
game.
There is young lady in Kcokuk,
Iowa, who is six feet eleven inches in
aeight.
The log liuo was first used in naviga-
lion about 1870. 1t is first mentioned
oy Bourne in 1917.
The highest mark ever reached by the
Ohio River at Cincinnati was February
II, 1Ss4-71 feet inch.
One watermelon doctored with half an
ounce of strychnine killed 2OO0 rabbits
On ranch ut Traver, California.
Chicago has the finest Chamber of
Commerce in the United States. St.
Louis is the largest horse market in this
country.
The largest china vase in the world is
eleven feet high, is valued at $40, 900.
md it took eight years to make it--at
IIanley, England.
Lester NJ. NIicheny, OF Fairhavcn,
Conn, who recently died, had been u
sexton for twenty years, and dug 5000
graves for other people.
The curio dealers Of Kioto, Japan,
have decided to open a showroom near
the Kitano Temple, where ''no article
will be admitted that is less than 1000
years old
Very high crowned hats were worn by
Queen Elizabeth's couriiers, and high
crowns were again introduced in 1888.
Silk hats began to superccdc beaver
about 1872.
Ten different husbands who weretrav
cling when the Ashtabnla disaster took
place used it to 'play dead on their
wives and skip out to some other part OF
the country.
Charles King is the name of n man
living at Mldd.etown, Mass, who is l0i
| years old. lie has over GOD descendants
living. He was born near Quebec on
January II, 1881.
A San Diego (Cal.) paper says a line
of porpoiscs was seen in the ocean from
the Coronado Hotel few days ago
which WAS over heif mile in length.
They were estimated to number 10, $50.
~ Port Huron, Mich, undertaken has
hnd large tent made Whenever he
has funeral on rainy day he will place
the tent over the grave o that ;hc service
may be held with but little inconvcn.
fence.
A London preacher placardcd the city
with notices that he would preach in
Surgeons tabernacle on the sub Get
",-;-:-?-l." There WIS n large
congregation, to whom he announced
the text: ".Stand thou still awhile" and
then said that his subject was "Thc
Pauses of life"
A gentleman and lady who had boon
stopping DIT Maine hotel had q
queer experience. They met on the At
lantic ocean; he proposed in Sweden,
was accepted in Russia, asked her
fathers permission in England, the mar
riage settlements were drawn up in the
United States, they were married in
Alg;ers and spent their honeymoon in
Rhr liarbor
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1888-11-16
The Lost Found.

"Wcll, Miss" Intercepted the irate
father of Chicago girl and new thou
sand dollar piano; ''can you tell me
what this is, stuck onto this rosewood
like lump of grafting wax! Have YOU
decided to marry fs>mer, and is he Civ
ing you lessons in tree pEating?"
"Oh, no." answered the mSiden, with
q glad ring in her spruce like voice :
that's my dear old gum. When Harry
wanted song, l pat it where it would
be safe, and then forgot it ana thought
I'd lost it.n-IHo Moq.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1888-11-16
rIIE sunIAIER AlrrEn.

stood onco moro on tho dear old beach
Where we'd parted q year before,
And sitting there in the 6clf- Same spot
saw my love once moro.
Tho dress she wore Was tho ono loyod,
4 81 uple lown OF white,
Aud askol myself, When sho put it on,
Did sho know wouli come o-nisht?r
Tho moon shon, bright ~ clojer draw,
And knott Mt hcr feet On the snnl
Where toll her how htld loved her lon =.
And venturcd 10 TAKE her hnnI.
With c silyery laugh she raised her head,
And thcD. oh, horrible shock.
saw that 'twa1 only Rosaiies maid
In RosG1io's last years frock.
Redmond
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1888-11-16

Magistrate = "What's the charge
against this MANI"
Oilicer-"Hc threw n photograph lens
at baby and cut its head"
Magistrate Are you regular pho
tographer:"
Prisoncr-"Ycs, your honor. had
been trying for two mortal hours to take
a picture of that little imp--I mean lit
tic baby, your honor-aud-"
Magistrasr-"lou nrc discharged. l
used to be a photographer myself
Tie Cartoon.
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Electric Slgnr.

a queer story of an alleged wonder
iul discovery by an American inventor
and the practical application of it in
Great Britain comes from Scotch news.
paper, which vouchcs for its truthful
ness. The discovery is OF process for
refining sugar by electricity, and the in
ventor was the late Professor Henry
Friend, of New York. He was so secrc.
tive, it is said, that he repealed all at
tempts to facilitate the working of his
process by keeping the management of
the machinery in his own hands, and he
was so fearful that his secret would be
discovered that he sent the machinery TO
Scotland piecemcal from different parts
of this country. lie gave years of labor
and investigation to the process. IL IA
said, and only his wife was initiated into
his secret. At his private working room
he posted notice that it was death for
any one TO cross the threshold and when
he died his secret would have been lost
had not those interested in his scheme
insisted that he should make. written
record of his experiments for use in such
contingency.
No details of the new process arc
given, but 1t is declared that it renders
VIZ Doi'ioS vi suSur ITO longer necessary,
and thus saves much that is now wasted.
The raw sugar is put into his machine,
ana the first batch is converted into re.
fined product in four hours. After that
the process is continuous, the machine
working as long ms raw sugar is supplied,
and turning it into refined sugar in an
hour and three quarters from the time it
is put in. Ninety per cent. of the
saccharine matter in the raw sugar is Sc
cured, it is asserted, and The total cost
is only about eighty cents ton.
The right to use the process has, it is
alleged, passed into the hands of a firm
OF Liverpool merchants, and startling
changes IN the sugar business in the neal
future are promised. -Nc,o York Sun.
Victor Hugo said that God had created
woman the coquette as soon as he had
Ia ,aa, tLo eozl .'' 80
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1888-11-16
The Visitor Was NIistaI,cn

Proprietor Showing visitor through
the oilicel-"This is the editorial de-
partment"
Visitor-"Then 1 suppose that fat,
genlat-iooking chap across there is the
obituary editor, and that The thin, cross
looklng genius who just threw paper
mani"
Proprietor-"No; both gucsses arc
wrong. You probably obtained your
ideas from current paragraphs. The fat.
good-naturcd man is the humorst, and
The attenuated gentleman is the writer
of the tariff editorials"
Nisi,or-"Ah. indeed But this gentle
man with tic handsome desk, rallied in
from the rest of the Office, attended by n
pretty type writer and two messenger
boys' l suppose he is editor in-chicf."
Wrong again That is
the baseball reporter r'-IHe Mcr,
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1888-11-16
poRRINs, ELECTRIC

and take no othor. Nearly every grocer
from Maine to Mexico keeps it in stock.
If yours hasn't it, he will order from his
nearest Wholesale grocer.
Read carefully the inside wrapper
around each bar, and be careful to follow
directions on each outside wrapper. You
cannot afford 10 wait longer before trying
for yourself This old, reliable, and truly
wonderful DoDyISs' ELECTRIC Soar.
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learning Iinmlish

A Frcnchman of this city, having re.
ceived tho photograph of Il lady, asked
u friend what was customary under tho
circumstances.
Compliment it," replied the friend.
"Toll her its beauty is very rare
II beg to make zee Acknowledgements,
madame" he said TO her ut their next
meeting. Gee beauty of madame is
very scarce. "-Binqtamt9n Republican,
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1888-11-16
Fun Enough. ~

1t was his fist visit TO the city. AS he
stood on the curbstonc shaking his sides
with laughter, he was accosted by one of
New Ravens finest. "Whats the fun.
strangeri"
"fun' Can't you see it2 Just look
how that thing pointing to Watering
carO leaks. Why, the blamed fool won't
have drop left when he gets home. y
Ne,O Haren Mc,os.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1888-11-16

Gerald Massey, who is on his way tc
this country to lecture, was silk>mill
hand and q stIaw>platter before he was
poet, and is now GO years old. He
stirred up considerable feeling fifteen
years ago by delivering lecture that
was regarded as blasphemous.