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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-09-18

uay. IL Is now an immense bureau, and
while nominally under the Treasury De-
partment, is controlled by q board con-
sisting of army aud navy officers of the
highest rank, with M equal number OF
civilians distinguished for their scientific
attachments. 1t is impossible Within
the limits of this article TO give anything
like a history OF tho system by which
this important establishment of the Gov
ernment is maintained. The Importance
of its work is known to oil the world.
Some little idea, however, of its cost may
be had from the fact that from 1891 un-
til 1880 it has been maintained Mt an
expense of SOB, 23S, e25. There nre
some lighthouses that huve cost ncurly
100000.
The finest lighthouse now completed
is that at Minot's Ledge, Boston JIarbor.
Though this was built more than thirty
years ago, it stands to-day rs one of tho
most expensive structures of its kind in
the country. The original AIinot's Ledge
light, which, by the way, is built in tho
open sea, was destroyed in 1861. 1t was
based on solid rock, and was built up to
height Of seventy feet. In that year,
in violent storm, it was carried away
light. structure, supply house and three
keepers were all swept into the seeshing
ocean. The new Minot's Ledge light
WIS started in 1856 and took six years to
complete. This was the most important
engineering work ever undertaken by
the Board Of Army Engineers. The
famous General Barnard has said of It
at ranks, by the engineering difficulties
surrounding its erection, and by the skill
and science shown in the details of its
construction, among the chief of the
great sea rock lighthouses of tho world"
a careful survey of the rock was made
under the orders of the Lighthouse
Board by Major Ogden, U. s. A. Gen.
eral Tottcn, then chief of engineers,
planned the masonry tower, and b. S.
Alexander, then lieutenant of engineers
and afterward chef of engineers in tho
army, superintendent its construction.
This grea. tower still stands rs nonu-
ment to the engineering abilities of those
distinguished officers. The last stone of
this immense structure was laid June 20,
1860, and its whole cost was 5000, 600.
Another of the great lighouscs of tho
Atlantic coast is that at st. Augustine,
Fla. This is known throughout maritime
circles the world over ms the American
candystick. 1t is built of brick and
iron, and is located OH Anastasia Island,
off st. Augustine. The structure is $50
feet high from base to light, and at 165
feet above the level of the sea shows u
first.order light. 1t cost more THAI
100000. 1t tnkes its name from its
spiral stripes of black aud white, by
which it is distinguishabIc in daytime
from other lights in the vicinity.
But perhaps the most weird aud alto
gether picturesque lighthouse under
American control is that on Tillamooe
Rock, Ore. This is built upon wave
swept rock about twenty miles south of
the mouth Of the Columbia River and one
mile from the main landi 1t is perhaps
the most inaccessible piece OF Gods
foo.stool on the whole earth. Though
the waves sweep over it in period of
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-09-18
Caledonia I'm Cauada.

In the Glengarry of Canada, where
more Gaelic is spoken than in Scotland
itself, there has just died celebrated
piper named Cameron. This ancien,
youth, when seventy-eight years old,
four years ago, performed the Highland
fling in dancing competition at Corn
wall, Ontario, and carried off prize for
pipe playing on the same OCCASION An
other time he startled an Ontario town
by climbing 20 the top of a new church
steeple just before the weather cock was
put on, and standing on couple oil
planks, whence for half an hour he sent
his beloved music skirling through the
astonished heavens. -IaR Nall Gazette.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-09-18

The man who gives as he goes along
is not likely to die a CrGsus. An In
dianapolis paper says: Owing to the
generosity that characterized his whole
l:fc, Senator Mcdonald died compar-
atively poor man. The firm Of McDon-
aid & Butler has been the most pros
porous in this city for many years and
McDonald's income from his law prac-
tice has not been less than $4,000 a
year for the past ten years. He did
not possess the faculty of refusing any
service to friend, and then the result
was that he was frequently called upon
to pay security debts, and much that
he made was expended in this way.
His property in this city is worth only
about $4,000, consisting of real estat
yielding fair rental"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-09-18
About Bees.

Plato was called the "Athenian Bee"
on account of the sweetness and purity
of his style.
"a bee in your bonnet" is phrase
meant to imply that your head swarms
with dreamy theories. This connectio n
between between bees and tue head is
derived from the belief of ancients, who
called the moon bee, and the word lu-
natlc or moonstruck means one has bees
in his head.
Mahomet admitted bees to Paradise
on account of the belief that they were
wandering souls.
Bee raisers have numerous proverbs re-
garding bees which they regard with
veneratioa, such as this:
"a swarm of bees in Mar
Is worth load of hay;
But swarm i'll July
Is not worth n fiy.n
An allusion to the custom of telling
the bees is found in histories ani is one
of the traditions of the past which is so
remote that its origin cannot be traced
On tue death of a member of the family
it was customary to drape the hives with
mourning. If this was neglected it was
believed that the bees would leave the
hives and seek new homes.
The custom is observed in rural New
England and many other parts of America
and is quite general in the old world.
Whittier has embodied the quaint SUI
perstition in beautiful poem;
Before them under the garden wall,
Forward and back,
Went drearily singing the chore girl small,
Dra?in5 eaci hive with sarsl of BLACK.
Trembling, listen: the summer sua
Hal the chill OF snow;
For knew she was telling tn, bees OF on,
zone on ths journey we all must 50.
And the song she was singing, ever sine,
In my ears sounds on:-
stay at home, pretty bees. a. not hence
Mistress Mary is dead and gomez"
Detroit Free Press
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-09-18
Dntes OF Notable Events.

The Reformation begun in 1917.
Magma Chnrta WINS signed in 1916.
The Suez Canal was opened in 1869.
The first watches were made in 14T6.
Organs were first used in the year
1865.
The War of the Roses occurred in
1455.
The first musical notes were used in
Tho first newspapers were printed in
1851
The frat postoilico was established in
1916
Daniel Webster and Henry Clay both
died in 1852.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-09-18

headland, the tendency of the sen face to
land-slides, and the great distance from
, Astoria, the nearest supply point, made
the execution Of the work task of Ia.
Dor, difficulty, danger and expense.
The very first Gay, in cffecting land
ing, the foreman of the working party
was drowned. Four days later four work
men, with hammers, drills, bolts, pro.
visions, fuel, stove and some canvas to
protect them, were successfully landed,
and few days later five moro men were
got to the rock. from which time the
commencement of the work may be dated.
1t took three years of unrelnitting labor
and at frightfui cost, to build this
lighthouse. The building is square,
oue-story dwelling, from the centre OF
which rises the tower, which is crowned
by gallery and lantern containing a
first. order lens. The material used is
stone for the outer walls aud brick and
iron for the interior. The light is forty
eight feet above the bnse of the tower
and 136 feet above the sea.
Upon this solitary rock, miles from any
human habitation, surrounded week in
and week out By bowling tempests and
angry waves, dwells the keeper with his
family. Not patch of green, not II
pound of earth. not shrub, not a single
thing i'll sight but the broad expanse of
ocean, and with no communication save
at such time as the lighthouse tender can
visit him, this solitary mortal, like Alex
ander Selkirk, must make the best of life.
He we'll earns the $1,000 which the Gov
crnment pays him, and, though he has
no rent to pay, no food to buy aud no
clothes to provide Tor himself and fam
lily, how many are there who would ex-
change places with hIm2-Br0oklya
Citizen.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-09-18

9 august
Flower

The Hon. ]. w. Fcnnimore is the
Sheriff of Kent Co., Del, and lives
at Dover, the County Seat and Cap
i;al Of the State. The sheriff is a
gentleman fifty-ninc years of age,
and this is what lie says: II have
used your August Flower for sew
"eral years in my family and for my
own use, and found it does me
more good than any other remedy.
+" / have been troubled with what L
call Sick Headache. A pain comes
i'll the back part of my head first,
and then soon general headache
until / become sick and vonit.
" AT times, too, have a fullness
" alter eating, q pressure after eating
" at the pit of the stomach, and
sourness, when food seemed to rise
up i'll my throat and mouth. When
II feel this coming OH if take a
" little August Flower it relieves
me, and is the best remedy have
F" ever taken for it. For this reason
~ take it and recommend it to
" ;, others as a great remedy for Dys-
"pepsia, &C." @
G. G. GREEN, Sole Manufacturer,
Woodbury., New Jersey, U. S. A.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-09-18
oult nu,nn,nr

Thore is only one way to remain
young, and that is to take Of yourself,
and quit cumming around. The. men
IN Atchison who look the youngest az
fity, are the mon who went to bed
early and behaved themselves when
they were younger. If you want 10
look like man of seventy when Won
are forty, get drunk occasionally, stav
out nights, and misbohave yourself In
every way.--Atchison Globs.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-09-18
LIGHTHOUSES.
EEACoNs THAT DOT THr.sHoREs
Or THE REPUBLIC.
Interesting Historical and Other
Information About the Light
houses ofthe United Statcs
Our Lights Free.

Docs any considerable portion of the
IS, 900, 600 of American people realize
what an immense establishment the light
house system of the United States isl
Any person who has been abroad and
who returns home will recall with what
peculiar JOY the cry, Light ho!" as it
sounds from the masthead of his ship
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-09-18
mO Ind Tact.

A traveller who recently lectured
here on Egypt auid to hi, audience: 1T
ts needless for me to explain to such nm
audience rs this who ISIS whs-and I
am sure you nll know Osiris. 80 will
pass to loss familiar subjects"
That audience would have sat there
all night af err that md never grumbled.
-Frcc Press
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-09-18
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Grrn Spre Is no quack medicine. II wns mr.
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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-09-18

FITS atonpcd froe by DR. kLfNE's GREAT
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Marvellous cures. Treatise aud S. trial botiio
FREQ. DIR. Kline, p3i Arch ST.. Phili., ia.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-09-18
=, Stamped Que
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"Golden Medical Discovery" works
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not only claims to do. good
guarantees it. If it doesn't benefit
or cure, in every case, you havo
your money back.
You pay only for tho good you
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-09-18

The raising of ostriches has been known In
New Aenland with considerable snccess
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-09-18

science lie 'picss.
All doctors agree that To enjoy gool health
the mind must lie kept In n cheerful condltio
nut no doctor on earth can givc u man points
that Will mako him Joyous when his collni
don't don, ut. nnd In this eonnesioi IL is very III.
has brought JOY and Klatlncss 10 thousnnds OF
homes by its wonderful cures OF loved ones
who hnd been given up 10 die Of consuInpt on
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-09-18

e35 So; 9th ST., QUINCY, ill.,, April IS, 1900.
am glnd You sent me u bottle Of Flornples-
lon. II does mo So much good hnvc boon tax
ing 1t over since from the druggist here.
Q, CnATTEN.
cure for Slick Headache, Indigestion, Dys,,el,-
la, Biliousness, Liver Complaint, Nervous De-
bility and Consumption. II Is tho only suro
cure for these complaints. AJAX your drugyist
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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-09-18

storm, there was yet at the top space OF
about fifty feet square upon which to ac-
commodate a structure. Upon this
Uncle Sam undertook to build light
house. The rugged character of the
headland, the tendency of the sen face to
land-slides, and the great distance from
Astoria, the nearest supply point, made
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-09-18
Science IIc'picss.

minute.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-09-18
"ItDocs him .o ,lucl Goo,,.n

Chcrrn Poonicn. in the Assam hills, has
q rninfall OF over 800 inches per nnnum.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-09-18

AE n ABOUT East Tenness- FINE
MU X CLIMATE and GREAT RESOURCES IN
"a q KNOXVILLE SENTINEL; daily mo-
- - 5Oc.i weekly year. 81; samples Sc
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-09-18

EAEW sKoy g. - due MI SOxnYrr,a,
r. y disabled. r. fee for increase. - years CT.
periencc. Write for Laws. A.W. Mc1,oRMfcR
BONG, WASHINGTON. d. @. q CiSciSSATI. %,
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1891-09-30
Foreston News.

FoREsToN, Sep. 2S.-We have not received
the prophetic cake yet. but will venture to
write again, in the hope that this letter may
inspire somebody to get married, or perpe-
trate something equally astonishing in or
der to give Button" an opportunity to
chronicle the fact.
Foreston is looking very beautiful this
season. Never has the sky been bluer, the
corn6elds brighter with the harvest gold
than now. It is soft, calm day, Septem-
Der dying away into October, and giving
nature farewell caress, while fleecy clouds
drift solemnly across the zenith and mass
in banks of splendor behind the forests
which form the background 10 charming
landscape. Nature is perfect success.
Why can't our lives be the same?
Now for news We believe that every
body has made friends with everybody e.s',
and are shaking hands across the chasm Of
petty feuds and disagreements.
We have always, IN our role as cones
pondent endeavored to be perfectly rella-
ble," tholgh we are not descended from
Gen Geo ,ge Washington, not clalmlng the
honor of being even 'pet nephew. Mr..
Editor, do You really believe that beautiful
romance about the ''chelry tree and the
hatciet?' We do not undertake q crusade
against family traditions, for they are cer-
tainly ariseocratlc and wholesome, but we
have been boy orrself and know just how
it is We think that cherry-tree episode
charming fiction invented for the benefit OF
the rising young America, and dispensed
as moral lesson, just as we would give
boy sugar coated pill.
Some of our prominent citizens made q
flying trip to the mountains last summer.
1t is good to be young, handsome, and rich.
We would not be surprised to hear that
they had made mash" amongst the
mountain nymphs, for they are all mighty
good-looking, and they know it.
1t is generally concl 1ded that editors
ought to be posted on every subject, 50 we
request solution of the following. When
YOU see widower brushing his hair before
the glass seventeen times day, what does
it mean? We have witnessed this phenom-
enon, but guessed it to be some strange
hallucination; or is it some new type OF dis.
ease which science is constantly evolving
or is it the same old affair which has caused
so much trouble in the world?
Our worthy section master, Capt S. Y.
Barnes, is keeping his road in fine condl-
ton, and it is pleasure to look both at the
road and the Captain, but a far greater
treat to hear the old veteran spin Confed-
crate yarn.
The ballot for Sunday-school superinten-
dent on last Sunday resulted in the election
of Mr.. ". T. P. Sprott. For once, the
children were masters of the situation.
We had antici pated visit to Mr.. Harrison,
ere this, but the care of our vast estates,
and tender regard for the readers OF the
TINES, compelled US to disappoint the
president, and keep the Foreston people
Informed of their present and future lnten-
tons, plans, and prospects. BUTTON
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1891-09-30
Saving Pea Vine Hay.

A Mississippi correspondent gives
this method of saving pea vine hay:
Two or thee hours after the vines
are cut he has them heaped in piles
large enough to heat. 1t will take
about two days to heat good. You
can tell when the heaps are hot
enough by running your hand in,
much better than doctor can tell
the condition of a patient by feeling
his pulse. Don't wait until it moulds.
When it gets hot throw it out and let
it cool one-half of an hour, then haul
and pack it in the barn.
That is the only sensible way to
cure pea vine hay. Whenever man
advocates letting it stay in the hot
sun until the leaves drop off and the
vine gets black and sleek with mold,
be simply does not know what he is
talking about, and ought to be made
to sleep with that well-known old
fogy who goes to mill with rock in
one end of his bag and bushel OF
corn in the other.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1891-09-30
Is Marriage q Failure!

'Rastus Smokers, colored, has only
been married few months, but he,
nevertheless, is already disgusted with
matrimony. He applied to Rev.
Whangdoodle Baxter to have the sa-
cred tie united, but was told that
sdem whom de Lord had jined to-
gedder no man kin put asunder."
sDoan't you lub her no MOP" quer-
led Whangdoodle.
sHit's a Gurus bizness, dis heah
tender pashun," replied 'Rastus; when
I fust married dat ar gal felt mos
lax eatin' ser up, but after I wuz mar
ried ter her awhile Iwuz mad at my
se'f fer not doin' it."-1eras SttlngS.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1891-09-30
Concealed Weapons.

They were seated on truck cart
in Cadillac square, discussing points
in colored etiquette.
'You amt no cul!ud gemman,
said one. "You's dis plain, COM
mon niggar."
"Huh who say dat?' growled the
other.
Il does.
"Whaffur ?"
"'Cause you hain't got no razor
bout yo' pusson, you hain't.'
"Has you?" inquired the other,
with eager curiosity, forgetting his
own insult.
"'Deed I has
The other man got up.
"Whar you gwine p asked his COM
panion.
"Dat's all right whar Use gwine.
Don you worry bout whar Use gwine
Use gwine to see dat police on de
corner an ak him ef he got mo- use
fer a cullud gemman, er fer plain
common niger. You dis wait till
gifts back"
But the "cullud gemman" didn't
wolf
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1891-09-30
Ta,bert SAYS He is a Democrat.

COLUMBIA, S. c., September 21, 1891.
To the Editor Of the News and Courier: l
see an editorial in your paper Of today un-
der the headlines: "Will Col. Talbert An
swer ?" in which You ask, "Will Col. Talbert
endorse, favor, and go into Third Party,
if the Democratic party refuse to accept the
Ocala demands"
I have already answered this question
from the mountains to the seaooard, but
win with much pleasure answer again, and
now. as have done before, by saying that
7 too am Democrat, and as such my re-
cord has never been impeached; but l. too.
am an Alliance man, and favor the Ocala
platform, and propose to make my hight
Tor Alliance measures in the Democratic
nrimaries or conventions, State or national,
and if we fail to nominate candidates who
stand on the Ocala platform, then we Will
stand by the regular nominees OF the Dem
ocratic party, trusting that at the next prl-
mary or nominating convention we may be
stronger, and on this line we propose to
FIGHT it out, not only through next summer,
bot through forty summers, or until success
shall perch upon our banner.
I beg to refer you to letter written by
me to your paper some time IN the early
snrino, in which expressed what were my
views in regard to Alliance doctrines. l
stated then, and repeat now, that on that
platform would stand, and there was not
enounh newspapers in South Caroline %
scare me of. plainly stated then that the
Alliance men would contend for the noml-
nation of candidates to office, in primaries
ar conventions, who stood on our platform,
with the assurance that in the general cleo
+;on u,a wor,ld not only vote for but work
for the regular nominee.
Mr.. Editor, we propose to fight 1t ont on
that line. and "never give up the ship so
long as there is Democratic primary or
Democratic convention before which we, as
Alliance men. can fight. This much have
said time and again in public addresses
and here repeat it, and if this be treason
# can be made the most Of. This, IN my
bnmble opinion, is good Democratic doc
trine: This is good Alliance doctrine, and.
believing this way, I shall pursue that
course without fear or favor. Now, sir.
where does your third party come IN No,
MIR Editor, all this cry about third party
con he heard ten times rs distinctly ontSlde
of the Alliance rs IN the ranks. and 1t Is
mon the same principle that the ''stolen
hnn1le" was found in the pocket Of the man
uho was running down the street shouting
Of the TOP of his voice. Stop the thief"
In conclusion will you allow me to ask
ron question !? Ii so, will you promise as
much for Your paper and yonr Influence IN
,.oco we oct men as the regular Democratic
non,inees who stand squarely and fully on
tbe Ocala demands? Stand up and answer.
Respectfully,
W J TAIBERT.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1891-09-30
NeatneSs in Girls.

Neatness is good thing for a girl,
and if she does not learn it when she
is young she never will. 1t takes a
great deal more neatness to make
girl look well than it does to make a
boy look passable. Not because a
boy, to start with, is better looking
than girl, but his clothes are OF a
different sort-not so many colors IN
them; and people don't expect a boy
to look as pretty as a girl. A girl
that is not neatly dressed is called a
sloven, and no one likes to look at
her. Her face may be pretty and her
eyes bright, but if there is a spot OF
dirt on her cheek, and her fnger-ends
are black with ink, and her shoes are
not laced or buttoned up, and her
apron is dirty, and her collar is not
buttoned, ami her skirt is torn, she
cannot be liked. I went into a little
girls room once, and all her clothes
we're on the floor, and playthings, too.
Learn to be neat, and when you have
learned it, it will almost take care OF
itself,-Erchange.