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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-10-18

a man named Frye, who lived on
Tinker's Island, used to be the town col.
lcctor of Mount Desert. If he didn't &c,
his money the first time he called, he had
an original way of helping the delinquent
10 remember that he would come again.
Taking apiece OF chalk from his pocket,
he would write the word "Tax" on the
woodwork of the room in large letters,
and the authority of the official is said tc
have been acknowledged so well that til,
chalk was allowed TO remain there till
time or the payment of the tax had
rubbed it OFF .-LewiSton (Wc.) Journal.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-10-18
SOMETHING NEW liz pnIc-A-BRAc.

Ethcl-"Oh, | saw such Il sweet match
safe this afternoon
Gcorsc-''What shape WAS it in2"
''lt WAS i'll the shape of II marriage
certificate. Time.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-10-18

There are in the entire United King.
dom only $50 banks with aggregate dc.
posts Of $500. 100000.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1889-02-15

Perhaps the most unlucky ship that
was ever launched from an American
ship-yard WIS the Harvey Mills, which
closed her ten years career Of disaster
by sinking of Cape Flattery on the
last day OF December. 1886. She was
launched on Friday and was baptized
in blood, killing a workman when
gliding into the sea Once in the mer-
chant service she met so many mishaps
that the underwriters actually classed
her as an extra hazardous risk. On
her first voyage she was all but lost,
and twice she narrowly escaped
laundering. She was on fire once.
while transporting cotton from Port
Royal TO Liverpool, and was trans
formed into floating furnace. Her
matches were closed down, enabling
her TO reach New York before the
flames cut through her deck. Later
she rode down aud sank bark in tho
English Channel. and mono OF the
barlS's crew escaped TO tell their side
OF the story. On her next voyage sho
was dlsmastcd by hurricane. Twice
she was given up for lost and wher at
last she battled unsuccessfully with the
frightiul gales of Cape Flattery, twen-
iy-one Of the twenty-four unfortunates
on boar were eugulfed SO quickly
when she sank that they could not oven
grasp q spar. --BostoH yoRsHal.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1889-02-15
Put Il in Writing.

. Verbal contracts occasion moro
trouble, dispute and litigation than any
other business transactions. The wise
merchant taught by experience will
endeavor to have writing executed
by the party to be charged. In every
case OF Importance arising in his bus
ness. This is especially necessary OF
guarantees. A man enters your office
whom you know TO be perfectly re-
sponsible. lie tells you to sell Brown
a thousand dollars worth OF goods.
Brown is all right; he will answer for
that, ctc. Make him sign a memoran-
DUN.
A customer gives you large order
for future and installment deliveries.
Make him sign II in writing.
You engage salesman for a year,
or for a month, or for a trial trip.
Have It all put down in writing and
signed.
You save taking your chances before
a jury, who nine times out OF ten prove
uncertain and too sympathetic with
that party whom they consider Is tho
''under dog"
II Is only little trouble at the time,
but IL usually saves heap OF trouble
in the future. Trade Mark Record.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1889-02-15
CHlNESE MANlACs.
Their Sad Addiction Not Admitted as an
Excuse for Crime.

Their Sad Addiction Not Admitted as an
Excuse for Crime.
"The latest report Of the Anting
Missionary Hospital In PeIIin contains,
some interesting information" says a
London exchange, "in regard to cer-
tain classes of Chinese patients. Sui-
cides are very common in Pekin, n.
strong extract of opium being most,
commonly employed for the purpose.
but stabbing with knife. in the
abdomen is common In one case Of
this kind which was treated Mt tine hos
pital, the reason assigned for the act
was that the man had applied to a
friend for loan OF money and been re-
fused. In order to spite the niggard,
he committed suicide that his spirit
might com G back and perpetually an
noy the latter. Possession by demons
or animals is a complaint for which
patients constantly require treatment.
rho animals in question are mostly
the fox, weasel, hedgehog, snake and
rat. Persons possessed OF one or other
of these are supposed to have extraor-
dinary power in revealing future
events, curing diseases, or indicating
lucky days and numbers. One patient
constantly attends TO complain OF a
man inside him, who keeps up per-
petual conversation, which in time
grows monotonous. A strong cathar-
tic keeps the intruder quiet for few
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1889-02-15
No, One Of the Hands.

Former Harvard graduate (meeting
old college chum out West) )-Guppins,
old boy, I'm delighted TO meet you.
So you did go into journalism after all.
This is nice little prlnting-oiflce you
have, too. But whore are all your
boysP Are you running the shop to-
day with only one handP
Guppins (somewhat embarrassed) -
Glad to-er-see you, Croxton. I'm
not exactly running the Office to-day.
This gentleman isn't one OF the hands.
Mr.. Croxton, my friend Mr.. GIL. Mr..
Gill Is tho cr-- sheriff. - Chicago TSfb-
une.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1889-02-15
THE INNOCENT JAPs.
Some ofthe Methods Thoy Employ to Take
IN the Unwary Traveller.

Some ofthe Methods Thoy Employ to Take
In the Unwary Traveller.
On landing at Yokohama the steamer
anchors about a mile from shore, and
most OF the travelling TO and from the
ship is done In boats that are worked
something like gondolas. These crowd
around the steamer in swarms, the
boatmen Offering in fair English TO
take you to the shore and back for six
cents. am now speaking OF passen-
gers who only stop at Yokohama en-
route for some other port
engaged one OF these boatmen, who
seemed TO understand English well,
shortly after my arrival ut Yokohama
some few months ago, agreeing to pay
him six cents for the round trip. On
my return | handed him Mexican
dollar and demanded the change, but
he had forgotten his English since leav-
ing the ship.
mo savvy,n said he.
Here, said |, II gave you n dol
lar, and you owe me ninety-four cents
change 1t was no use; no amount of
argument could convince the Jap or
make him understand what wanted,
and. singular enough. no other Jap
could act as interpreter This. l
learned, was an old trick OF theirs, as
they were never known 10 give any
change TO stranger when an excess
of their fare was given them in pay
ment.
Another trick was 10 lose an oar
overboard and charge "a dollar to jump
in after it. My experience in this, us
in other matters, was similar to that
Of every other stranger" on the ship.
Have the right change, | learned, or
you'll suffer for it.
/ hired "ricllshaw" on landing.
and the Jap agreed to "toten me about
for twenty cents an hour. After ] had
ridden for about five minutes another
Jap wanted TO help the first one by
pushing the concern. didn't want
him and said so; but as | couldn't by
any means. including profanity, make
him understand this fact | had to give
- ,.a.,.,s a, a. 49,, haronaThoa
SnisboS rJnt aS'rrnvI ,n. yido " '''' N''' O' w
r. wasn,; 80 ,u,,oh tho in,osi,ion nc
-. -. A.. -.
'he utterly inloo'n' WY III "nien
every man IooN my ueois'Ve no W
mean yes rouo "'i i'oui anu IL cos'
me eighty CENTS NOT 10 hlen'loh tne
twenty ceh's chhnso wiiich l oouiu. :
'heiu give up eVon WIN tno 'iu VI d
poIcenah' VINO diun SavVy e,'her.
remained TWO weeks ~ ioNohania
Deiore caught on ior aiVer thaV
wnen aho'ncr iiau came up WIN q
s'pusnee pushee Proposi'ioh ! sishiheu
assent ana 'nen quietly got gu, 'lhu
walked uhtii 'ne men nau settieu the
llatVer oe'"oen 'heih' ms som 's my
rlch-sh"" man saw thu' KNEW 'he
ropes l was h"' iur'nor ho,e7Oeu,
gov my rish' Slunso "'V'r '.a'' Aiso'
''s so' u ~ ''a'" VI sa,e ,, ,neni Wv.
correct amount III inc nrst place. "a
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1889-02-15
The Children of Fashion.

MAUD y said her husband. desper
ately, ''loolS at this monstrous bill sem
me for cleaning your dresses!"
r.Well,r said the wife. you couldn't
expect them to clenu my thirty-twe
dresses for nothing, could you~
He sighed.
"Are you going with me to Mrs
Carty's dinner tomorrow"
Mo-
eWhy notp"
Tive nothing 70 wsar.n- zsniA
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1889-02-15

Two old women recently fought in
the streets OF Guadalajara, Mexico,
over the love OF a man eighty years OF
age.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-10-20
The Nlagara Rapids swimmer.

". G. Campbell, who, with dog named
Jumbo, swan the Whirlpool rapids at
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-10-20

ample, but trying will spoil it all, and they
will most certainly fail OF course the young
debutante had scores of lovers at her feet, but
for long time she was a rover, with no dis
position TO go out of the game.
Alas for Lille, when finally she succumbed,
she chose in accordance with her reckless ma
ture and chose consciously. Many splendid
men, some one of whom might have wor-
SHIPPED her and made her a good husband,
were obliged to give way to man who could
not appreciate the prize he had won. Howard
Colt was one of those well born, good for moth
ing, large, lazy youths with no especial prin-
ciple, who are apt to get more favor from
young girls than they deserve. DR.. and Mrs
Hitchcock, Slrmising the condition of affairs,
whipped their daughter off to Europe But
Lille was young woman to circumvent any
one On the evening before her departure
she stole out and married her lover A few
weeks later he received a characteristic tele-
gram:
Howard, it's out"
Then she Joined her husband, but was not
blessed by her parents for several years.
1t is said that Mrs. Colt, in company with
her husband, once visited cock fight: that
she donned male attire in order to he admit
ted, but reckoned without her host The
scenes about the pit were altogether too
much for her, and she beat hasty retreat
So strong was her hold upon the hearts of
her friends and acquaintance that even this
breach of conventionality did her no harm
in their esteem.
Colt soon began to show his true character
He was libertine and first shocked his wife
by a liaiscn with a well known actress
Then he further showed his want of apprecia-
ton of the brilliant prize he had taken from
better men by special attention to the wife of
Billy Emerson the minstrel. This last affair
was too much for his wife and she left him
She did not ask a divorce, but went abroad
with her father. Colt finally made some
atonement for his past acts by dying and
leaving his wife a widow. She withdrew
from the world for a time, and has recently
come out of her seclusion and resumed her
old habits Judging from the recent exhi-
oition in her parlors, she is as much of a
natural sportswoman as ever.
She is charming hostess, and holds her
guests not only by her ability to make them
comfortable but by her own brilliancy in
conversation, and by that recklessness, that
contempt for conventonaiity necessarily OBJ
served by other women. In her peculiar
sphere she is a sort of genius. Nine women
out OF ten who live such life never succeed
in divesting those about them of the belief
that they are not pure. Miss Colt snaps her
fingers at the world and the world adores her.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-10-20

WALTER c. CAMPBELL. turn swim without
resting Campbell announced his intention
of swimming the rapids some time ago, but
very little attention was paid to him. Not
liking this he went to the police justice and
swore TO the trip he was going to take.
His swimming costume consisted OF cot
ton padded shirt, pair of blue trunks and
an ordinary, double sized cork life preserver.
His ears were stuffed with cotton, which was
held in place by means of rubber band
three-quarters of an inch wide. The ears
were doubled over and this kept the water
ont. William Leary's dog Jumbo, which
also swan the rapids, was provided with a
life preserver of TIE same kind as Campbell's
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-10-20
saw some SLUGGING.
The Peculiar Antics of Mrs. Lille
Hitchcock Colt.
THE NIAGARA RAPIDS SWIMMER
Jubilee Juggins, Who is One of the Wonder:
Of the WOrld-The Greatest
SDendthrift.

Mrs. Lille Hitchcock Colt, who recently
witnessed a smuggling match in her drawing
room in the Palace hotel at San Francisco
may have astonished the world by her act
but she has not astonished the 'Friscans. She
has been too long accustomed to do as she
liked, and has too long liked to do singular
things for woman, to astonish any one in
the city of her residence
Lille Hitchcock went out to California
with her father, who was an army surgeon,
and her mother, when they were obliged to
go by sea or overland in wagon. They
chose the sea route and their little girl cap
tivated the passengers by her bright, heller
SHELTER ways and her proficiency in fancy
dances. When they got to San Francisco
Lille suddenly developed fireman'S instinct.
Whenever she would hear the alarm she
would dash away to the fire, and soon got so
well known with a certain company that she
was often taken up in the seat beside the
driver of a hose cart.
One day as DR.. and Mrs. Hitchcock were
returning from walk, who should go by
perched on high seat, her hair flying in the
wind, shouting and gesticuIating, but their
own little Lille. Naturally they made an
effort after this to subdue the spirit that
burned in her breast, but it was of no avail
She stuck to the company and was elected a
member. She has ever since worn figure
the number of the company-and her plas-
Ger bust adorns their hall. They never have
Il dinner but a bouquet from their only
woman member decorates the table; and
zone ever dies but her flowers are laid on the
bier
When Lille Hitchcock made her debut in
San Francisco society in 1867 it was with a
silver figure 5 pinned on her shoulder She
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-10-20
7 EVILS 90 Der ct. LYE
u Powdered and Per
fumed.
(DATRN rrHnl


(PATENTED)
The strongest and parest
Lye made. VIII make 10
lbs. of the best Perfumed
Hard Soap in 20 minutes
without boiling. 1t is the
best for disinfecting sinks,
closets, drains, etc. Photo
graphers' and machinists
uses. Foundrymen, bolt
and nut makers. For engi-
neers as a boiler cleaner
and anti-incrustator. For
brewers and bottlerS, for
washing barrels. bottles,
etc. ForpainterS to remove
old paints. For washing
trees. ETC., etc.
PENNA. SALT MFG co.
Gen. AgtS. Phila., Pa
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-10-20
Apparently the

had come into a fortune spread over London
in hours and over half the British empire in
a week, and the harpies came down on MIN
in such numbers that, as he naively states.
eff it had not been for some interested
! friends who kept them of, they would
have invaded his bedchamber.
The interested friends made him pay for
their kindness. Here are few of the sums
| Feduced to dollars he lost in various gam
bling experiences: 500 Goo on one set of horses
in Australia and $60,G00 during the races
there, $500 at the Goodwood races, $780, 600
on Stanislaus, $40, coo in "a few games while
waiting for the train," $4,000 on Carlton,
| S15, 900 on the Isle of Wight racing circuit,
| $4,000 on Bendigo for the Jubilee cup,
$40, 600 on Anarch, S., 900 each on three racers
ut Ascot $135, 900 in one night at cards, and
| $3.50 600 in two weeks of the Goodwood races
| Isn't this enough to make a poor mans eyes
bug out?"
Sometimes, however, he won; and as he
never did the thing by halves his winnings
were enormous. At the Liverpool races he
won $50 900, and anywhere from $1,000 to
$25, 600 at various other places At the Hard
wicke stakes he won 49,, 600 on Ormonde and
an equal amount on the Northumberland cir
won $50, 900, then lost it all and $40, 900 more.
At the Jubilee races ION the date of the
queens jubilee he put $4,000 on one horse
and won, which gave him world wide fame
as the Jubilee Plunger." In one of his
| lucid moments he bought a small annuity,
and this is all he had to live upon after losing
his last dollar.
The family history is equally curious. His
father was a Hebrew with an unpronounc
able name, who married an English girl and
took her name-Benzon. He had already
made fortune in 1855 when ladies began to
wear crinoline; he somehow obtained COM
plete monopoly Of the spring steel used in
that manufacture and rapidly made $4,000,
600 more Being childless he adopted a girl
and made a will providing that she should
have his fortune or share equally with any
children thereafter borne to him. Ernest
Benzon was the child of his old age, and was
reared more like girl in French nunnery
than a healthy English boy. His foster sister
has all her 81 PSI, COO and some Accommodations
of interest
Ernest's guardians continued the absurd
system of his parents. The latter both died
when he was child, and he was twenty years
old before he discovered that lie was heir to
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-10-20

lHAonA NC" 1oiA "OiI4'I man who had pre-
sented claim for $50, 900 was persuaded to
give receipt for it on payment of S2,500!
He says he cannot remember what it was he
got of the man. By calculation of bills it ap-
peared that he had l.000 fine shirts, but his
valet could only find "a hundred or two of
them" Truly distressing scarcity of linen.
Mr.. Benzon, as we must now call him, for
he is Jubilee Juggins' no more, writes with
the utmost contempt Of his guardians and all
who had charge of his youth, and plainly in
Inmates that he considers them a set of fools
and never wants to see them again. And
one cannot blame him, for it is one of those
blunders worse than crimes TO rear a boy in
such financial ignorance His childhood, he
bluntly says, was unhappy and lonesome,
and, though he does not say SO, one will
readily conjecture that his guardians had
some sinister motive to surround him with
people who said little. He makes no pre-
lenses whatever to literary style and most of
the rules are often violated, and yet the book
is on the whole well written. 1t is SO charm
ingly frank He blurts out the truth with
out hesitation, talks right straight on through
all ups and downs, and therefore makes an
extremely interesting book. The moral" at
the close is 10 the last degree droll. He does
not seem TO be aware that he has committed
any particular sin, but insists that if he had
another fortune he could do much better
with it.
OF the two portraits of Jubilee Juggins
given with this, the first is an accurate copy
of one that appeared in recent number of
the London Pail Mall Budget. Examination
thereof will show that the act of making
newspaper portraits is not nearly SO well de-
veloped in England as in America. The
other portrait is redrawn from one that ap-
peared in a recent number of the New York
World
How the young man really looks is un-
known to the present writer.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-10-20
Roston,s Latest Acauisition.

By purchasing the entire Omaha team Bos-
ton secures Clarke and Nichols, the pick OF
the minor league pitchers developed this year,
and Maggie, the crack catcher. OF the in
feeders they will have no use for first base
man Andrews, second baseman Cooney and
third baseman Cleveland, all good men, but
they may find it to their advantage to hold
IN to Walsh, the short stop, who is conner.
The three outfelders are good ones, Willis
and Messit being hard hitters, but Caravan
Is weak in that respect.
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took society by
storm. Young wo-
en- possessing a
natural dash and in
dependence.against
whom there is no
suspicion Of impu-
rity, are intensely
fascinating TO the
majority of men.
Lille Hitc hcock
played a part which
was natural to her,
and h she
couldn't h clip.
Other girls may try
p, ,,,,f+,+a lo- ~
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-10-20

afortune. He went
at once to money
lenders, he says,
being instructed by
a friend, and paid
100 per cent. inter
est for loans. W hen
he came of age he
paid all who pre-
sented claims with
out question, till he
had paid out some
$4,000, and then a
good and interest
ed friend" came to
his assistance. One
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-10-20
ABOUT JUBILEE JUeeINs."
He Has Been One OF the Wonders OF tn
World for Several Years.

World for Several Years.
The newspapers of England first began to
devote their energies to recording the doings
of one Ernest Benzcn during the year of
Queen Yictoria's jubilee. Now and then the
American papers had a fling at him
Lately every sort of periodical on the other
side has been filed with matter about him.
But most of them have called him Jubilee
Juggins"
Why has this young man absorbed so much
Of the attention of so many able Journalist
Because he got away with million and Q
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-10-20

Niagara, lives at
Youngstown, n.
Y, is a small but
well built, active
and muscular fei-
low, fairly intelh-
gent, q years old
and a blacksmith
by trade. He is a
professional swim
mer and has spent
smuch of his time
, swimming in the
: Niagara near the
IN outh, and has
often m a de the
eight miles of q re-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-10-20

quarter or collars IN TWO years, the quickest
time on on record.
Now he has written book telling how he
did it, and newspapers big and little, on both
sides of the sea, are talking about it.
If all who have need of such lesson, all
who want to use him to point moral and all
who feel a keen interest in heavy gambling
buy his book-and it looks just now as if
most of them would-the copyright percent
age will go long way towards restoring his
lost fortune. That an English boy of Jewish
blood could in this age be reared to maturity
and fairly well educated, yet kept in perfect
ignorance that he was very rich-this, in
these days of laxative servants. is indeed an
achievement of the guardians skill.
That he should have been reared in almost
perfect ignorance of the value OF money, of
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-10-20

how it is made and
how it can be in
vested to yield an
income, is equally
surprising g, and
that he should have
got rid of every
cent of it in less
than two years caps
the climax. One
would say that he
had only lived to
illustrate the text:
"Where the carcass
is there will the
eagles Ivulturesl be
gathered. :"