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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-08-02
The Peculiar Caribs.

A peculiar sort of individual is en-
countcred Mt Puerto Cortcz, South
America, whose color, physiognomy,
language and entire demeanor marks
him distinct race from those around
him. He is the Carib, whose ebony
hue, bushy hair, fiat nose and thick lips
at once strike you as pure African. But
his origin from this latter race is denied.
lie is rather shy in demeanor, possessing
but few if any of the traits of the other
people among whom he lives. Rather in
contrast to other natives around him,
who are more or less inclined to indo-
lence and laziness, he is thrifty and en-
ergetic, and, though ignorant, he would
seem to constitute very substantial ele-
ment of Spanish America. We were
Informed that they are one of the most
peaceful elements on the coast, never
taking any part in the civil wars which
have so often agitated these republics.
Their favoritc occupation is fishing and
manufacturing boats, oars, ETC., as most
of the little pitpans, dories and other
small craft sailing the sea to which they
have given their name, are the work of
their hands. Their strange tongue was
for long time undistinguishable, but of
recent years it has becn carefully and
earnestly studied, and one missionary has
undertaken the laborious task of compil-
ing grammar. 1t is undoubtedly one of
the most difficult languages spoken in
this country, and the labor of collecting
Its difficult phrases, disjointcd terms
and strange gibberish is by no means an
easy task Chicago Ne'cs.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-08-02

mouth. You would have been out of
breath, too, if you had been with me.
Just think Of living i'll town that you
have to climb stone ladder of 1000
steps TO get to! That is the sort of place
Lolita lives in. 1t is called Acoma, and
L think it is the most wonderful city in
the world. The strongholds of Quebec
and Gibralter are nothing beside it. 1t is
in ono of the western counties of New
Mexico, that most interesting part of
America and one about which very few
people in the East know much. It's pco-
pie have brown skins, long black hair and
the strongest clothing imaginable. They
are Pueblo Enthusiastically miscalled
Aztccs-the children of that strange race
which have lived in this country for hun
drcds of years before Columbus ever
dreamed there was such place rs Amer
lea. They live to-day just about as they
lived then, in queer, neat houses, made
of big mud bricks dried in the sun, with
nice little farms and big ilocks of sheep,
cattle and horses. They call themselves
Hano Ohshatch, which means stThe Pco
pie of the SUM-, for they believe that the
"Sun Father" lives in the sun and the
'Moon Mother" in the moon, and that
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-08-02

but very strong and useful, and with the
queercst, wisest expression of face VOL
ever saw. TO look at him you would
fancy he had swallowed three dictionariel
and knew them all by heart already.
But really all he knows is to look out fo
himself pretty we'll and to be VEN
careful when he is intrusted with |;
burden.
Well, when I got to the top of tn,
cliff, painting and hot, there was littL
Lolita standing on the edge, where sh
could look down six hundred feet.
had seen her from the bottom, whenc
she looked no bigger than a black an
standing on its hind legs. But now
could see that she was about three year
old, very plump and with more dimple
than anybody else know. Perhaps tn
dlmple-maker was particular friend o
hers. Her hair was very long for such /,
little girl and hadn't a kink in it. Itwa
perfectly straight, very fine, black as ,
crow and changed" in front. can re
member very well when an American p;,
with bangs would have been curio2 Z.
to the whole country, common as tn
fashion is now; but the Acoma WONG
and children have been banging their hal
for hundreds Of years.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-08-02

thrcc-quarters, and sometimes nearly an
inch in depth. The eggs arc now just
ready to hatch, and rain would be Of
benefit in preventing the young choppers"
from reaching the surface. The Matching
is expected to continue two weeks.
The Legislature of Minnesota appro-
priated $1,000 Mt the last session for use
in the destruction of the eggs of the grass
hopper. Some 1000 acres have been
planted, and Professor Lugger is hopeful
that the efforts to destroy the pest will
be successful, notwithstanding tho dry
weather. A good, soaking rain would
improve the prospect of subduing the pest
very materially.
AS illustrating the manner in which the
cgg-masses arc laid, the cut shows
the locust ovipositing, an egg mass,
individual eggs, the cell filled with
eggs, and the manner of forming tho
cell. These are left with access of air
and means of escape for the insect.
The object of the deep blowing is to
break up and cover the whole so that the
young will not be able to reach the sur
facc.-Prdirie Farmer.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-08-02
Pennsylrania,s Black Frldnr.

The superstition that Fridny is an I'M
lucky day has been given additional
strength in the minds of those who havo
subscribed to the ancient myth, by the
fact that the great Pennsylvania horror
occurred on that day. Thousands of
dread visitations of fire and flood have
occurred on other days of the week; but
it just happens that Friday comes in of
ten enough with its tale of woe to keep
up its uncanny name of black Friday.
There have been several instances of blue
Monday, but Tuesday, "Wednesday,
Thursday, Saturday and Sunday have
never been brought into disrepute, al
though careful search of the records
will find that they have witnessed as
much woe MS unfortunate Friday.-..St.
Louis Star, Sayings.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-08-02
LOVE SHALL win THE DAY.

Oh, love, II life should end tonight,
How short our life would seem!
One little flash OF summer light,
One brief and passionate dream;
Ore glimpse of roses on the wall
Or bluebells in the lane;
Then, love, the end--the end OF all
Aye, buds might swell and leaves might fall
But not for US again
The streams we used to watch and love
Would ever onward flow;
From the dark pines the gray wood dove
Would call-we should not know.
All. not for us the pines would wavo
For us no stream would run;
We should lie silent in the grave,
Unable even to hoard and save
One little glimpscof sun.
Yet is not this sombre view
OF life and all it brings:
Thank Heaven, the bright waves still are blue
And still the throstle sings!
And OH! before loves conquering song
Deaths voice sinks quite away;
For life is short but love is long,
And death is fierce, but love is strong,
And love shall win the day!
&C. Barton.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-08-02

Senator Evarts, of New York, gives
famous dinners to the guests Mt his coun-
try home i'll Vermont, and always stipu-
latcs that on these occasions big crystal
pitchers OF milk shall adorn the table.
Then he can get off the joke which de-
lights him, and brings Il smirk to the
guests who haven't heard it before. 1t
always pops out when the champagne bot
tie is pumped down on the table by the
milk pitches. "IIelp yourself to cham
payne or milk" says the Senator, look
ing at Il guest; and he guizzically adds:
"They cost the same" And then the
Senator tells of some OF the delights and
expenses of fancy farming.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-08-02
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A STREET IN AcoMA.

After | had talked awhile with Lolita's
father and mother and eaten some matZin
their queer blue bread, which looks
exactly like piece of hornets nest-I
took Lolita by one hand and the sack of
candy in the other and went out. We
backed down the big ladder and stood in
the street, which is one smooth, solid
rock. In front of the houses were groups
of children, playing in little patches of
sand or tossing pebbles Mt Il mark. The
children OF Acoma are as queer us their
town. They never saw doll, nor any
other American plaything, but they
amllse themselves with sticks and stones
and mud pics, and have great deal bet
ter time than many white children. They
never went to school, and wouldn't know
what book was; but they know all
about outdoors, ride on wild horses, and
can take care Of themselves as we'll as
lot of grown-up Americans. The little
girls take care not only of themselves, but
also of the babies of the family, whom
they never pinch nor tease nor neglect
1t is very funny sight to see
wee girl of five years stoop down and
take her fat, naked baby brother pick-a-
pack, fold her little shawl around her so
that it holds him up as if he were in II
bag, and then trot off to her play, hold
ing the ends of the shawl tightly, while
his chubby face peeps over her shoulder!
These children hardly ever cry, and in
the years that have been among them
have never seen them quarrel, which is
more than 1 can say for my American
boy and girl friends.
But when we came down the ladder
the children stopped playing and few
timid ones scurricd into their homes. The
rest came edging slyly toward lis as if
half afraid might bite; but when they
saw what Lolita had in her mouth-for
time-they grew bolder. opened the
big bag and held up fistful of candy,
and they all crowded around me, holding
up their hands modestly, but saying moth
ing except with their expcctant eyes. |
noticed that when gave a stick of candy
to little girl she always gave it to the
baby on her back and held out her hand
again for piece for herself, which YOU
may be sure she got. In few minutes
all the children in town-about three
hundred of them-were around me,
reaching for dulces. A good picture of
that scene would have been very pretty,
but all the people of Acoma-littlc and
big greatly dislike to have their photo
graphs taken, and it c. st me great deal
of time and trouble-even a long time
afterward, when everybody knew and
liked me-to get pictures of Lolita and
n few other children. Only few weeks
ago an American who went down to make
some pictures of that wonderful place was
driven out of the town.
We had great times together for a few
days, Lolita and I. The other children
came around, too, to play with me, to
roar when I made faces at them, and to
"oo-ooh" with delight over the paper
dolls l cut out; but Lolita was my favor
lite. And now whenever 1 go to Acomn
she comes out dancing to meet me, puts
her fat little arms around my neck and
then dives in my pockets fGr the candy
shs KNOWS is thsSe. And xueneyer l cpps
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-08-02
Grasshoppers in Minnesota.

Professor Otto Lugger, of the Mime
sofa Experimental Farm, is reported as
being hopeful that the grasshopper pest
in Otter Tail County will be exterminated.
So far, he has had good success in
smothering the eggs now in the proper
state to hatch. This is done by blowing
the land deeply where the eggs are laid,
thus breaking the masses and preventing
the young choppers" from reaching the
surface. The dry weather has operated
against full success, aud the fall and win
ter were also favorable to the life of the
eggs.
The adult female locust lays its eggs
IN favorable localities, in large commune
ties, in cylindrical masses, from half to
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-08-02

these two are the parents of MI mankind
so they worship them in some very queer
ways. They go to church, too, in the
most wonderful church in the world. 1t
took them forty years to build it and
forty more to make the graveyard The
town stands on top of what they call here
q mesa, or table of rock, 600 feet high,
and with sides us steep as the walls of Il
house. There are only three paths to the
top-and such dreadful paths as they
are! One time man and n woman who
lived IN the town were coming up the
worst of these paths, and were nearly TO
the top when the man slipped and fell
backward. As he fell lie hit the woman,
and both tumblcd together over five hun,
drcd feet to the plains below, crushed
into horrible and shapclcss masses. So
you can see how fearfully steep these lad i.
ders must be. And when 1 tell YOU that
the church covers far more ground than
any church i'll New York or Boston and
the graveyard nearly rs much more, and
that these patient people had to bring
every timber and every bit of mud for the
church and all the dirt for the graveyard
(Which is great stone box over two hun.
drcd feet square and sixty-tive feet deep,
you will understand why it is so wonder.
full. In the same way they had to bring
up all the material for the houses in which
eight hundred people live-up dizzy
precipices which few Americans dare ia
climb with empty hands. As the great
table of seventy acres upon which the
town is built is one solid rock, of course
they can have no wells; but there are
three great natural cavities in the rock,
each large enough to throw big house
into, and whenever it rains or SHOWS q
great deal of water is caught in these.
Back in the States this water would soon
spoil, but it keeps fresh and cool all
the year round in Acoma, which is thou.
sand feet higher above the sea level thar
the top of the tallest mountain cast OF
Colorado. The beautiful plain all around
the foot of the mesa is green with rust
ling corn and waving grass, and thou
sands of sheep and cattle, horses and
burros are grazing all around. Did you
ever see burro2 He is a sort of pocket
size donkey, no larger than a young colt
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-08-02

With the visit of the Shah of Persia to
England, "reminiscences are being circu-
lated of his former trip to that country.
On one occasion he took large dose of
opium, and slept SO late the next day that
the Queen and her attendants, who were
to accompany him on trip, were kept
waiting an uncomfortable time. The
Shah's attendants were afraid to awake
him lest their lives should be forfeited.
Finally the expedient was hit upon of
ststioninga band beneath his window and
having it play some of the noisiest marches.
The experiment was successful, and in a
shor time the Shah appeMsa and al
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-08-02
A Horses Color Test of Gameness.

Many people might smile, declared a
st. Louis doctor, if said that horses
color was an index to his gameness, but
such is the case, rs 1 have found from ex-
perience. 1 have closely noted this fact
and have had an opportunity to Judge,
having performed thousands of opera
tons on horses, some of them sufficiently
painful to test the gamcness of the SUBJ
Jcct. have found that the most arrant
towards among horses are sorrels and tho
gamest brutes bays or browns. Some
time ago I performed an operation on n
pair of chestnut sorrels and they groaned
like human beings. A bay or brown
will usually suffer without noise of any
kind, just rolling his big eyes in an ap-
pealing way which is almost human in its
intensity. Gray and white horses, as a
rule, are not particularly game Globe
Democrat.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-08-02

! When King Malietoa gets back from
lexile, remarks the Chicago Neps, and be-
gins once more to draw his 500 week
IN cocoanuts and plug tobacco as Monarch
OF Samoa the status quo will be in good
shape, and America will be satisfied with
affairs in the navy-blue Pacific. Itwould
;be very mean of Malietoa, however, if he
were to refuse to go back to work at his
old job until his wages were raised.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-08-02

Europe produces about as much to-
bacco as the United States-500, 900, 900
pounds annually-and could easily pro-
Huce all she needs, but the American to-
bacco is desired for two reasons: 1t is
cheap and desirable for fortifying the
European product. So the the United
States furnishes 242,ooo, 600 pounds of
the annual deficiency of 1924, 900, 600
pounds.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-08-02

The town of Hayattsvillc, Md, which
elbows historic old Bladenburg, is going
to put Henry Georges singlc-tax thcor,
TO practical test. 1t was made the ISSUE
In the recent local election, and three
Town Commissioners who were chosen
are converts to the idea.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-08-02

Prohibition has had seven successive
defeats. New Hampshire, Oregon, West
virginia, Texas, Tennessee and Michigan
IN turn voted it down, and Massachusetts
recently gave the majority of 10000
votes against it.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-08-02

A "cotton chopper" or horse hoe has
just been invented by South Caro-.
iinian, and works so well that it is OK.
pected to quite supersedc the old-time
hand hoe. The inventor claims that by
using his implement the cotton planters
may save themselves just 81, 900, 900 0
wear.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-08-02

The foreign fruit bill paid by English
consumers last year reached the enormous
amount of S40,00o,O00. OF this, very
considerable item went for the 2, 434, 800
bushels of American apples imported and
readily sold.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-08-02
There are now 81, 600 Sioux in Min,

There are now $4,000 Sioux in Mime
,,ota, Dakota and Montana and they are
steadily increasing in numbers. They
comprise, states the Detroit Free Press,
,one-sixths of the Indians in the United
States. They are the typical North
American Indian, the dominant tribe and
the superiors physically and mentally of
all others.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-08-02

To eat your dinner comfortably in
America and in London within the same
week this is indeed a remarkable
achievement, in the opinion of the New
York Mail and Express But it is an
achievement that the passengers on the
lnman flyer, the City of Paris, have lust
performed with good deal of satisfac-
ton.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-08-02

away she goes down the big stone ladder
with generally on my back--to
watch me ride away; and the last thing
!see as turn in my saddle before round
ing the corner of the mesa is little Lolita.
standing on q big sandhill and waving me
pretty good-by.-Chas. II. Lummis, in
Ne,o York World.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-08-02

BY the next apportionment for mem.
;oers OF Congress Massachusetts is likely
to lose one member, New York four,
pennsylvania three, Ohio one; wherca.
Illinois and Indiana may escape without
the loss of man, according to the Chi.
cago Inter Ocean.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-08-02

The least disarrangement in any. ma
chinery, no matter how triding, is re-
ported to him, and receives his personal
attention, and at night, anywhere from
8 O'Clock until IL, he dons his suit of oil
and SCOT and goes over the entire field Of
his operations again.-Nso York Star.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-08-02

Only Great Britain, Belgium and Por.
tugal of all European nations do not pro.
duce enough butter and to spare. Tc
make up the defcicncy-25, 900, Ooo
pounds-the United States exports "a.
OO0,O 900.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-08-02

Always deduct about forty years from
the age of veteran claiming to he 120
years old, advises the Chicago Herald.
Medical science has no record of Il person
IN TINS country living beyond 1O2 years.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-08-02

England is now infested by graveyard
insurance companies of new type, risks
being taken on babies in their cradles
The number of children accidentally
smothered while sleeping with thci
parents has greatly increased.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-08-02

The efforts made to introduce Euro.
pean vegetables and fruits in the African
Congo States have been rewarded with
very great success.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-08-02

Of the four quick-f firing guns now used
IN war, threc-the Calling, the Hotch.
kiss and the Maxim-wcre invented by
Americans. The fourth is the Nordcn.
feldt
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-08-02

Partisan bonnets are now SO round and
fat that wit declares woman to be
stylish must sit on her head-piece before
putting it on.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-08-02

According to the New York Tribune,
't'gross land frauds are alleged to have
beer, committed in Oklahoma by promi
nent officials"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-08-02
LOLITA, OF AcoMA.
A PECULIAR TOWN IN A WEST.
ERIN COUNTY OF NEW MEXICO.
a stoFS Ladder of 1000 Steps II
the To~n-Tho "Peoplc of the
Sum-" as the Pueblo Indians
Call Themselves.
WAS very much out Oh

WAS very much out Of
breath when l saw Lo-
lita, and had just
enough left to say
"Quat-zee," and take
the little brown, fat,
dimpled hand she shyly
held out to inc-most
of the other being in
her cunning little
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-08-02
Silver coinage is going on at the rateI
ofs2,ooo,ooo month.

Europe imports over 100000, 600
pounds OF rice, but none oft comes from
the United States. M
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-08-02
The Deadly Parallel.

This world is not so very bad,
As some are prone to say;
Butwe could make it much moro glad,
Could we but have our way.
We very quickly would destroy
Some foes to earthly bliss,
And bores who now this space enjoy,
We'd bottle up in this:
You've met the individual,
The hero quite unknown,
who OFT his wondrous tales will tell
OF doings all his own.
His future fame he paints for you,
Or pictures what he was,
And this is what he's going to do:
And this is what he does:
Then there's the dry goods salesman's bore
A female, by the way,
Who on her rounds from store to store
Is sure to go each day.
She fingers longest "opening days,n
And the salesman's patience tries.
For here's the goods which he displays.
And hero is what she buys:
The icenlan is yexatious, too
And doesn't care pin
Our comforts to enlarge upon,
Our sympathies to win.
And though we're forced to bow to him;
Respect him, we cannot,
For leaving this much ice cold days:
And this much when it's hot:
-Omaha World.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-08-02
The New York Times declares that the
investor who has put money inythe South
Is man who is happy now.

A political move of great Importance is
promised by the intention of the Car OF
Russia to be crowned the King of Poland.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-08-02
And this is what he does:
And hero is what she buys:
And this much when it's hot:

-Omaha World
The Arizona champion., 1889-08-17

The roadway Of the Atlantic d
Pacific has, under the management
OF +. 4. Mellon, superintendent Of
roadway, been put in fine shape.
Volcanic cindsrs, a fine ballast, be-
ing used for the purpose.
There ia broad and extensive
field for tho manufacture Of shins les
in this rgion, with opportunities
presenting themselves much in adj
vance of other locations, and this
industry has reached large dimsn
sions.
A lodge Of Royal Arch Mas',ns
has RECENTLY been organized in The
fine apartments Of Flagstaff Lodge,
No. !. + Il A. M They start oil
with every prospect Of success. This
makes eight different orders in cur
village.
Why do not some Of our enter
prising citizen communicate with one
Of the many electric light companies,
Who would send their agents here to
give us the cost Of this class Of lights,
and possibly they might not DO SO
expensive that No couldn't afford
their use. i11
The Albuquerque Fair promiiss
70 eclipse AL other oceasiops Of this
kind ever given in that city. The
faro from flagstaff and return is
el7.20 and the railroad company
will carry everything for exhibition
free Of charge, the express company
charging half rates.