Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-02-22

Hnd she grew happy in consequence.I
light \
But Moses proved sorry rascal. He
would tip over Aunt Peggy's work.
basket and wind all the thread around
the chairs and tables. He had trick
OF opening the clock, taking Off ths
pendulum and rolling it under the;
stove or some remote corner. There
was not n closet door in tho house bue
he could open, and many q choice NOR
sol did he deyour in tho night.
Yet the worse Moses grew, tho more
Alice loved him.
ut is his bringing up. auntie," sho
would say; "Ill cure him of all his evil
ways in time"
So, though Aunt Peggy fumod and
Aunt Tnbby frottcd, neither had tho
heart to take him away from the ohild.
He learned them lesson, too, for they
began to understand that Alioo had
been lonelier than thoy knew, so thoy
grow slowly into the habit of kissing
hor goodnight. They wore very timia
about it Mt frat, but it soon grow easier,
Alice was such loving little creature.
and 10 readily responded to all their
carcsscs.
SO time went on till at length
Thanksgiving Day camo. The two stir
old ladies tried to mako it pleasant for
Alice, and actually allowed hor to havo
Moses Mt the dinner tnble with her. Ha
sat beside his little mistress in higk
chair, ns grave III n Judge.
At ninc o'clock that evening they
all retired, Alice with hor beloved eat
i'll her arms. Nobody thought of tho
kitchen fro or tho towels thnt wcro
airing near it, But Just ~ the clock
struck twelve Aunt Peggy was aroused
by loud mcowl meowi and tho
litohcn door which she had left closed
flew opon.
She arose, saying to herself wrath.
fully: "Ill put that cnt outdoors nm
othcr night SEQ if don't in spite Of
Alicel / won't bo wnkcd ND like thisw
BY this timO sho had roached tho
sitting-room Hero sho stopped, aud
her hcnrt almost stoppcd too, for tho
kitchen beyond was in glaro of light.
She rushed through tho smokr to.
Alicc's room, which joined tho kitchcn.
shrioking for Tom and Tabby M she
went. Alice lny motonless mid tho
thick smoke. Aunt Peggy lifted her
from the bod and carried her back to,
tho sitting room, wlilo Tom sct To
work to put out thciirc.
Thore wnro blue rings about Alico'a
mouth and nostrils, for tho smoke Ind
nenrly dono its cruel work After II
wliilo she revived, and by this time
the fire wns out The fro Ind rot SO
mdor WAY thut hnd il been found ont
II few minutes lntcr tho house would
hnvo been burned.
After this Moses was II hero, Won
mny bc sure, and Ind ovory attention
shown him. And whom Alico wan
grown to womanhood and had littlo
thildren of her own, long after tho
Two old aunts were sleeping their last
sloep in the old ciurcliyard, Moses, II
blind old cnt, died in Alico's lap.
Loving little hands buried him and
loving little honrts mourncl for him.
"For yon know" sobbed Ncddie.
Mosea snvcd mammals Ito when slio
was II little girl. So We just. wouldn't
hayc had any mamma mt all if it
hadn't been for Noses '-Dora dn,iis-
/ Chase.
| a DRANK has como forward in Koys--
Vile, Va, who claims to have disrnv-
cred meteorological omen proving
that Bcnjnmin Harrison will not sur
vivo his Presidential term 1t showed
on tho 10th of November in tho year
when benjamin IIarrison's grandfather.
was elected to the Presidency. II.
showed on Nov. 10 in tho years whom
Taylor and Garfield were respectively
elected to the highest Office In tho
land. None OF these men lived to,
fulfill his administration. AS it showed
on Nov. 10 this year tho Koysville sage
dcduces the conclusion that BENJAMIN.
Harrison has not four years lease OF
life. All of which is nonsense.
UNDER tho First Empire only two
female nominations were made to tho
Legion of Honor, and these were both
for military achievements. Tho ono
was given TO virginie Chesquero who
had dressed herself asa man and taken
the place of her brother, who was not
strong enough to stand soldiers life.
EnT15ssS, in the Twenty seventh Rogi-
ss. Line, she displayed great
= ained tlie rank of SCR