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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-04-25
A War Time Mind Cure.

II tell you, rcmarked one legged
veteran yesterday, as he leaned his
clutches up against Captains Tip Har.
risons desk and settled himself for a
yarn, ''Therc's something in this talk
about mind cure. Heap of times it
does more good than pouring medicine
| into n fellow.
"Now, was about dead when they
sawed OIL that leg IN n Yankee hospital
| was lying there waiting for the doctors
to reach me, and | just didn't care
whethersI' lived that long Or not. Even
once in while I'd feel chilly, and a
blindness would come into my eyes, and
I'd feel like ! was bein' lifted up out of
my body. thought was goin' eyer
minute. I was lying there that way when
little round faced Irishman in Yankee
uniform come along
Hello, Johnny, said he, its mighty
sorry comply you look 10 be. How's
that fer a knife2 Got one2 Which
pockcts BE aisy now, an III git it out.
How'll you swap? Event l swindlcd
You that time. johnny know what
you're Il wantin'. Where do they livc2
How many children you got? Two, eh?
I've got nine-Ca'lina, amt you? Gcorgy2
That so-thats mighty hard place, is
Gcorgy. never was there. Pennsyl-
vany beats that. Look Il here, how'll
you swap back knives? Dye chew ter
baccol I'll give you that if yell swap
back knives. Me mother give me that
knife wen was byc-'dced, but you
needn't grin johnny, fer she did
ut was brand new knife, and the
fellow seemed in dead earnest trying to
convince Inc that his mother had given
him the knife years before. He was the
most comical looking man ever saw in
the world. He didn't grin once, but it
would have made au owl laugh to hear
him. hadn't spoken word, and he
just guessed yes or mo- by the way
looked.
"Somehow or other quit thinking
about dying and felt like laughing at
him. 1t made me feel good, too, to
think that had made him do all the
talking and then beat him on his own
proposition. hadn't had Il piece of to-
bacco in three weeks and the CIDER WIS
delicious.
"Hc was grumbling about getting the
worst of the bargain, and trying to swap
watch chains with me, when the surgeon
reached my bunk. In two seconds was
under the influence of either, and in five
minutes my leg was off and the stump
washed and bandagcd
"Thc doctors did things in hurry in
those days, and it was all done and over
with before had time to be afraid of it.
81 honestly believe that if it hadn't
been for that Irishman I'd a been dead be-
fore the doctors got there, or else died
while they WAS at work. | couldn't tell
you how much better he made me feel. /
was AS proud of that piece of tobacco as
l would be now of thousand dollar bill.
1 believe was actually trying to laugh
when the doctors got INC.
'They told me afterward that they Just
kept him there in the hospital for that
10 get fellow in good
spirits when it was real desperate case
wish | could sec him again, for l be-
licve in my soul he saved my life. ut
lcnta Constitutions.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-04-25

American cattle dealers are cndeavor-
ing to secure privileges at Montreal
which will make that city the greatest
live stock shipping point in America. 1t
is proposed, if proper arrangements can
be made, 10 ship 100000 head from
there next year, and if the business con-
tinucs to increase few years will suffice
to see commercial union between Cana,lo
and the States.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-04-25
rtaikis4

H4t9 hAygaS6fdents arc more dread
full tssRas' fass Salaiaah occur in collierics.
~ laa.sls i, ilaFs spepgh for the poor miners to
go dowfnintoithef dark cold earth and
delve in its black veins. They love the
bright sunshine and pure mir. But the
worst of their lot is the dreadful posi-
bility of fire or cave-n. To die like
rats in hole, the flames roasting their
unfortunate bodies is Il CHASTITY fate. Yet
it is only too common. A mine in Enr
land, which was considered model one
Tor ventilation, recently had an explo-
sion, and one hundred and seventy miners
persisted.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-04-25
DiscoYeries of Mercurr

Some very interesting discoveries have
lately been made on the planet Mercury
by Schiaparelli, the great Italian astron-
omcr. Such remarkably acute cyesight
has this man that he is able to discover
spots on the planet where other astrono-
mcIs see only blank surface. BY
watching and studying these spots dur
ing period of several years, Schiapar-
clli was able to determine the time of ro-
tation of the planet on its axis and the
angle which its equator makes with the
plane of its orbit. Schroeder a hundred
years ago, noticed bunting of the
horns of the planet when crescent, and
from these observations Herchel COM
pntcd that the planet revolved once in
twenty-four hours. Schiapareli's obscr-
vations show tins to be entirely wrong.
for he observed the spots repeatedly on
the same day without seeing any signs cf
rotation. However, from day to day lie
noticed slight change in the position of
the spots, and finally found that the
planet revolvcd on its axis in the same
time that it rotated around the sun, j. c.
in about eighty eight days. 1t, there.
fore, always turns the same surface TO-
ward the sun, just as our moon does to,
ward the earth.- Commercial Adrertiser.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-04-25

The authorities of the Russian prov
ince of wilma have issued decree pro-
hibiting the emigration Of inhabitants of
that province to America. The order
was provoked by the official discovery
from the various local returns that up
ward OF ten thousand persons cinigrated
TO this country from Wilma alone during
the wear 1889.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-04-25

In the statistics of the Protestant
Episcopal Church iRethe United States
thers is an increase in the number of
Sunday school scholars for the year 1883
SO, amounting nearly to $4,000, nearly
quarter of the increase being in the do
ccsc of Pennsylvania.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-04-25
Thcre is about S75, 900, coo of Eng
lish, $13, 600, 900 of German and $685.
10000 of American capital now en-
ploycd in Mexico. Il *

The recent influenza killed more peo-
pic in Paris &han the last two visitations
of cholera. But the news that the
dreaded AsiAtic pest has made 5000 VIC
tins ut Bussorah is making Lohdon and
Paris very uneasy, all the same.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-04-25
Wise l,Y ExnrrielIcn.

Mr.. Case (who has married his TYNE.
writer)--Well, my dear, suppose
must be looking around for somebody
to take Your place in the Office.
Mrs. Case --Yes; 1 have been think
ing of that. My cousin is just out of
school,
Mr.. Case What's her name?
Mrs. Case (sweetly) John Henry
Briggs.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-04-25

The biack-head bug has appeared by
the millions in the turpentinc forests of
southeast Georgia and is doing alarming
damage. Great tracts of pine woods al
ready show blight and are dying. The.
bug starts in a pine where it is boxed and
works under the bark, then around the
trunk. Its boring prevents the sap from.
going up in the tree, and eventually the.
tree dies.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-04-25

Forty-four thousand pounds of flour
for Western Indian reservations is to be.
furnished by c. II. Soaring, of Arkansas
City, Kan, at from $i.40 to ST. 60 per
loo pounds according to place of de-
iyery.e
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-04-25

Every year shows large increase in
the shipments of Russian petroleum to
England, while America remains nearly
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-12-05
Brave, Honest Words.

Rev. DR.. Ringgold. rector of St Johns
Episcopal Church at Knoxville, Tenn,
preached a rousing woman suffrage ser
mon recently, in the course of which he
said, among other pungent things:
There never was time, there never
was country in which virtue and intel
ligence could accomplish more than at
this time, in this country. And right
here and now, you may double the pow
or of virtue and intelligence by giving
the best half of your population a voice
in selecting the men to make the laws
that govern the country. In this year
of grace 1890, these DISTINGUISHED mill
ions of Christian women are doing more
to save this country than any portion Of
its citizens. They are one Of the chief
instrumentalities by which Almighty
God is saving the world They make
real and palpable to the eyes of men the
spirit of the Gospel. They illustrate
the worlds advance by showing the
rapid progress made since that very re-
cent date when woman was mans beast
of burden or his toy or plaything. They
are the best teachers in your schools,
and are training the minds and forming
the characters of the next generation.
They are writing some of your best
books, and they stand at the head of
your highest schools of learning. They
sanctify your homes, and make life
beautiful and blessed. But, with all
their virtue and intelligence, they may
not nullify the vote of the grog-seller.
the alien or the tramp. With all their
virtue and intelligence, hundred or a
hundred thousand of them may not
nullify the vote of the man too ignorant
to read his own ballot"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-12-05

In the Senate tariff bill and free trade
a. embodied in the Mills bill, and the
voters gave emphatic approval of the
former and emphatic condemnation OF
the latter. Congress responded to that
victory in the new tariff law, and upon
its work the people have not passed
Judgment They did not pass upon the
new law at the recent election They
could not have done so because no time
had been given for its trial 1t had
not been tested. II the verdict Of the
people on November 4 had any relation
to the new law it was upon representa-
tions made to them which were without
foundation in fact. The people, in my
Judgment, will stand by protection.
They always have when the issue has
been presented fairly.
''Our own history in the past gives
the highest testimony Of the value of
this great doctrine. The future of the
country will bring new triumphs to the
system which has already made Us the
greatest manufacturing nation of the
world: a nation of well-paid workmen;
nation of happy and prosperous
homes. offering widest opportunity t.
the masses and the best reward to
human effort and endeavor."
Mr.. Mckinley refused to say any thing
as to the ticket Of the Republican party
for the next Presidential campaign
| Chicago News
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-12-05

yelop each one to its highest The
sense of beauty, denied by the Puritan,
has been born, and she is learning all
secrets of form and color, and laying
the foundation of art, which is the her
itage from the past, and which. with
liberty for its soul, has beforeit future
Of which as yet we may but dream.
Through every shock of prejudice, every
changing creed, every falling away Of
old shackles of law and custom, the
larger life shows its face divinely fair,
and, by that divinity, compelling the
worship women give. Under all the ma
terialism of the age strange spiritual
forces are at work, and even the most
sluggish feel their power. 1t is no
or woman against man. Side by side.
eternally unlike yet eternally equal,
the two walk together, the same hope
and the same goal for each.1
To no woman on earth is there the
same opportunity or the same hope. 1t
is the spirit of liberty that moves in
her, and that opens the door for every
Saplihc nOmdH. Inc uOpc VI tIlO "ihO
world is here and in the hands of wom-
en-. This light of the world is here, and
the torch is held by woman, whose
voice, full and sweet, speaks the word
of present and future:
Justice Is mine, and 1t grows by loving;
changing the world like the circliny sun;
Evil recedes from the spirits proving. as
mist from the hollows when n ght is done.
1 am the test, o silent toilers, holding the
scales OF error and truth;
Proving the heritage held by spoilers from
hard hands empty and wasted youth.
Hither, ye blind, from your futile banding;
know the rights and the rights are won;
Wrong shall die with the understanding; one
truth clear, and the work is done.
Hither, ye weary ones and breathless, search
ing the seas for kindly shore,
1 am Liberty! patient deathless, set by Love
at the nations door.
Helen Campbell in Leslie's Ill News
OaDer
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-12-05
AN AFRICAN ROMANCE.
BY u. RIDER HAGGAED,
CHAPTER XIII.
WHAT HAPPENED TO STELLA.

The fight was over. In all we had
lost seven men killed, and several more
were severely bitten, while but few had
escaped without some tokens whereby
he, might remember what baboon's
teeth and claws are like. How many Ct
the brutes we killed 1 never knew, be-
cause we did not count, but it was vast
number. | should think that the stock
must have been low about Babyan's
Peak for many years afterwards. From
that day to this, however, have always
avoided balloons, feeling more afraid of
them than any beast that lives.
The path was clear, and we rushed
forward up the water-course. But first
we picked up little Tota. The child
was not in a swoon, as l had thought,
but paralyzed by terror, so that she
could scarcely speak. Otherwise she
was unhurt, though it took her many a
week to recover her nerve. Had she been
older, and had she not remembered
Hendrilla, doubt if she would have re-
covered it. She knew me again, and
flung her little arms about my neck,
clinging to me so closely that 1 did not
dare 70 give her to any one else to carry
lest should add to her terrors. So l
went on with her in my arms. The
fears that pierced my heart may well be
imagined. Should find Stella alive or
dead? Well, we should soon know now.
We stumbled on up the stony water
course; notwithstanding the weight of
Tota led the way, for suspense lent
me wings. Now we were through, and
an extraordinary scene lay before US.
We were in great natural amphithea-
ter, only it was three times the size of
any amphitheater ever shaped by man,
and the walls were formed of precip-
itous cliffs, ranging from one to two
hundred feet in height For the rest,
the space thus inclosed was level, stud
ded with park-like trees, brilliant with
flowers, and having a stream running
through the center of it, that, as after
wards discovered, welled up from the
ground at the head of the open space.
We spread ourselves out in line,
searching everywhere, for Tota was too
overcome to be able to tell is where
Stella was hidden away. For nearly
half an hour we searched and searched,
scanning the walls Of rock for any pos
sible opening to a cave. In vain, We
could find none. l applied to old In
daba-zimbi, but his foresight was at
fault here. All he could say was that
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-12-05
CURRENT COMMENT.

HMr. Blaine is a much more i'm.
portant factor in politics now than he
ever was before.-Chicago Journal
HThe Democratic majority in the
next House will probably run in three
sections-the Bourbons, the farmers
and the gerrymanders. - Washington
Pest
EWith a Republican Senate and a
Republican President the country Is still
safe, and two years from now the de-
feats Of this year will be amply re-
trieved.-Des Moines Qa) Register.
wThe Democratic majority in the
next Congress will be so large that no
power on earth can prevent it from
playing the fool-and not the blessed
fool, either, but the other kind Of a
fool.-St- Louis Globe-Democrat
HThe Ohio Republicans are the
only ones in the country this year who
can afford to sing the old songs. They
have carried their State by a majority
of 1000, whereas the Democrats last
year elected Governor. st Louis
Globe-Democrst
sThe free traders declare that Nc
kinney prices did it Mckinley prices
will do it again two years from now
When the Mckinley bill has worked
out its perfect work prices will be low,
labor in demand and the Republican
maiorities greater than ever.-N. Y.
Press.
wIt is not likely that Congressman
Kilgore, he of the calamitous foot, has
any ambition to be Speaker Of the next
House, but he is entitled to some recog-
milton at the hands Of his grateful DEM
ocratic brethren. Mr.. Kilgore is man
that would throw his whole sole into
the performance of any official duty
Chicago Tribune.
HA New York daily is authority for
the statement that Cleveland smiled
when informed of "the glorious result"
The same organ has cable from Lon
don, which tells US London was wild
in its delight" 1t is touching picture
Cleveland smiling, London euffawing.
American Democrats have crawlet TO
the order Of England. There is No mis-
taking that fact-Cleyelana Leader.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-12-05
Female Physicians In Russia.

The status of female medical practi-
TONERS, about which there has been so
much trouble and discussion, has now
been definitely and legally as we'll as
very sensibly settled by a decree just
published in the official gazette Of Rus
STA. Lady doctors may now practice
freely in all parts of the empire and
will wear a certain decoration denoting
their profession. They acquire the
special right of practicing in all institu-
lions and gymnasia and schools for
young ladies and in all benevolent es-
adjustments for women. They also
have the privilege of practicing in hos
pitfalls, dispensaries and ambulances be-
longing to the Zemstvos, and are exempt
from the obligation imposed by law
upon their male colleagues Of attending
when called upon as experts in criminal
trials
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-12-05
WHAT WE DO MOI KNOW.

We boast Of our knowledge, our science, the
lore We are vooing and winning,
OF the light we have cast On the darkness that
shrouded the worlds far beginning.
We have probed the old earth and dectphered
the hierogiyphieal pages,
Where the finger Of nature has craven the foot
prints of numberiess ages.
We have sounded the seas to their center and
counted the stars on their courses,
Have measured the speed Of the tempest and
reckoned the sum Of its forces,
Have fettered the wing of the lightning, con-
trolling its might andits motion,
And taught il to go, at our bidding, and serve
US in earth, air and ocean.
We have noted the comets appearing, and re-
corded its time Of returning,
But know not what nebulous iCal contributes
the light Of its burning.
Nay, back of all these and their substance, and
back OF their movements and shining
A secret lies hid that forever eludes our re-
search and divining.
From their mold-covered realm and its dark
ness, where brown roots are living and
growing,
And pulsing, like sentient beings, with life
fluids ebbing and flowing,
The young shoot comes forth to the sunshine,
But the mode Of it's life-giving forces surpssses
the reach of our reason;
We see the green leaves, bud and blossom, as
ordered, in natures completeness,
But know not the laws of their being, the
source OF their beauty and sweetness.
And we, in the state we call living. adrift on
the tide OF the ages,
Know not what We are, nor what changes await
US, in LIES futIr stages.
Know not whence we came into being, nor
whittier our footsteps are tending,
Forecast not the length OF cur journey, nor the
where nor the when Of its ending.
But trusting to Hin who appointed their life,
t6 the lilies and daisies
Whose ssisdom allotted our pathway, we can
walf, by HIS light, thro' its mazes,
AID hope, in the infinite fuIlness Of life that
elduCe'h forever,
TosOlye the mysterious problems that eluded
our human c8deayor.
Sarah 7. Bolton. in Indiana State Sentinel
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-12-05

this was the place, and that the Star
was hidden somewhere in a cave, but
where the cave was he could not tell.
At last we came to the tspof the amphi-
theater. There before as was wall of
rock, Of which the lower parts were
here and there clothed in grasses,
Hchens and creepers. walked along
it, calling at the top Of my voice.
Presently my heart stood still, for
thought heard faint answer. drew
nearer to the place from which the
sound seemed to come, and again called.
Yes, there was an answer IN my wife's
voice. 1t seemed TO come from the rock.
went up to it and searched among the
creepers, but still could find no opening.
'.Move the stone,n cried Stella's voice,
''the cave is shut with stone.n
took spear and prodded at the
cliff whence the sound came. Suddenly
the spear sunk in through q mass of
lichen- Iswept the Ichen aside, reveal
ing bowlder that had been rolled into
an opening in the rock, which it fitted SO
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-12-05

drika above, aided by other balloons, pu.
out all her great strength and pulled the
two of them up the rock. Twice Stella
swung heavily against the cliff. After
the second blow she felt her senses 60
ing. and was consumed with terror lest
she should drop Tota. But she man.
aged to cling to her, and together they
reached the cliff.
"From that time" Stella went on, 81
remember no more until awoke to find
myself in a gloomy cave resting on
bed of skins. My legs were bound, and
Hendrika sat near me watching me,
while round the edge of the cave peered
the heads of those horrible balloons.
Tota was still in my arms and half dead
from terror; her means were pitiful to
hear. I spoke to Hendrika, imploring
her to release US; but either she had lost
all understanding of human speech, or
she pretended to have done so. All she
would do was to caress me, and even
kiss my hands and dress with extrava~
CANT signs of affection. AS she did so
Tota shrunk away closer to me. This
Hendrika saw and glared so savagely at
the child that I feared lest she was
going to kill her. diverted her atten-
ton by making signs that l wanted
water, and this she gave me in wooden
bowl. As you saw, the cave was evil
IDENTIFY Hendricks dwelling-place.
There are stores of fruit in it and some
strips of dried flesh. She gave me some
of the fruit and Tota little, and made
Tota eat some. You can never know
what went through, Allan. saw now
that Hendrika was quito mad, and but
little removed from the brutes to which
| she is akin, and over which she has
such unholy power. The only trace of
humanity leftabout herwas her affection
for me. Evidently her idea was to keep
me here with her, to keep me away from
you, and to carry out this idea she was
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-12-05
SUFFRAGE SLIPS.

The Working Girls Club, Of Balti-
more, Nd, has decided to take up the
study of woman suffrage this year, and
intends to have lectures given upon the
subject The club is fourishing, and
will probably have club house of its
own next year.
You ask my reasons for believing in
women's suffrage. 1t seems to me al
most seli-evident an axiom, that every
householder and taxpayer ought to
have a voice in the expenditure of the
money we pay, including, as this does,
interests the most vital to human be-
ing.-Florence Nightingale.
IN England, Scotland and Wales,
women, unless married, vote for all Of
fcers except members of Parliament,
and some of them now hold offices as
school directors, aldermen and city
councilmen, and bill has been intro
duced to give them, whether married or
single, the absolute right of suffrage.
In Germany, 1t is said, not one Of the
leading German newspapers, nor one
German politician, or scientific man of
note, mas ever Oeen Oh ING sue VI equai
rights for women, and the advocates OF
woman suffrage in that country find
themselves obliged to quote foreign wri-
tiers when they want the support OF au-
thorities among men.
BELFAST is the only municipal bor-
ough in Ireland in which women have
full municipal suffrage. The same quail
ifcations are required as for men, and
the act defining these qualifications says:
For all purposes connected with and
having reference to the right to vote in
municipal elections. the word person in
this act includes women" -Four thou
sand seven hundred and sixty-six women
were found qualified to vote for city
councillors.