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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-12-11
Story of n Churn Doy.

"Churn-dog" stories arc always in or
der. A city man who used to live on a
farm, rs so many city men did when they
were boys, sends us this: SAT home on
the farm we had number of COWS, so
many that churning was too heavy
task for even the men folks, so Mr.. L.
rugged up dog churn, an inclined wheel,
a sort of canine treadmill. It became
the duty of Ponto, large white mastiff,
to tread that monotonous cycle, and not
withstanding the toothsome bit of meat
that was fastened on 10th within four in.
ches of his nose, he was not at all proud
of his position and responsibility. He
made several attempts to shirk his task,
and twice succeeded. He got to know
when churning day came around as we'll
as any one in the house.
son the morning of that day he would
loiter about the kitchen door until he
was fed aud US soon rs he heard the note
of preparation-thc bringing of the
cream jugs, preparing the churn, etc
he would put for the woods and would
not be seen again until night. The day
of churning was changed, and next mora
ing more crestfallen and astonished dog
was never seen when he was collared aud
harnessed to the beam which set the dash
in motion; he looked positively foolish.
He did his work, but with lowered head,
and in cogitation evidently On another
occasion he tried another dodge. When
they were about to put him on the wheel
he ran up to his mistress, holding up one
paw affecting to be lame. She thought
much of the dog, and was inclined to let
him off that day. The next instant he
was seen charging over a high fence af-
ter a neighbours cat. well, said the
old lady, 'if he can so after cat like
that he is able to churn.' And he did,
and never tried to shirk his work again"
forest and Stream.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-12-11
CHARCOAL FOR PIGS.

Now that the corn-feeding season has
come care should be taken to provide
fattening hogs with charcoal. It's alkali
helps correct the acidity of stomach which
often makes fattening hogs teeth rot
when they arc fed all they will eat of corn
on the cob. 1t is not the hardness of the
grain that does this. Soft corn makes sore
teeth, though it may be very easily
ground with the teeth. The seat of the
trouble is in the stomach, and wood ashes
and charcoal arc the cure. The charcoal
also probably furnishes some nutrition.
1t is nearly pure carbon, aud the same
chemically as the starch of corn or other
grain largely composed of starch. Burned
corn on the cob Is an excellent way to
feed charcoal to pigs. The burned corn
is also good as occasional diet for fowls,
though these when given run rarely
suffer from indigestion. Boston Guilt
0at0r.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-12-11
To Straighten a Child's Eyes.

Any squint or cast in the eye can be
cured without the expense of going to
physician or an oculist. 1t is only
necessary to get pair of spectacles with
plain glass In and color the centre of one
of the lenses black. The eye will
naturally make an effort to look straight
ahead all the time, and after fow days
the effort will be imperceptible. With
child cure can be effected in week,
and with grown person o month will
suffice to remedy the worst case. Wear
ing smoked glasses is the best possible
safeguard for weak eyes when in strong
light, and even these win help to get rid
of the "cast" by strengthening tho eyes
and relieving them from unnecessary ex-
ertion. -Neu York Journal.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-12-11
ROTATION FOR GRAPES.

The practice of changing crops more
Oh less systematically has always been
found advantageous, and various theories
have been offered explanatory of the
principles upon which the benefits of TO-
tativc cropping depend. The same re-
suits have been found in the culture of
the grape.
AS stated by Mr.. Saunders, the Super
intendent of Gardens and Grounds at
Washington, it has been customary for a
number of years for the Department to
propagate several thousands of plants,
embracing varieties of grapes. These are
mostly grown from single eye cuttings in
sand beds under glass, and placed singly
IN pots, when rooted. About the end
OF May they are turned out of the pots
and planted out in the open field, rather
closely, In rows which are about three
feet apart. When they have finished
their growth for the season they are
lifted and removed from the field, the
ground receives coating of rotted ma
nure which is worked in, leaving the
surface rough to be acted upon by the
frost.
In the following spring the soil is
placed in good order for planting, and
at the proper time young grapes are
planted as before. These are removed
ut the end of the season and the ground
receives similar treatment to that of the
previous year. Notwithstanding this
treatment the third crop is very indifrer-
ent, and if a fourth crop Is planted it
will prove to be an entire failure. In
view of such diminishing growths upon
the same ground, the question naturally
arises that if deterioration of growth
becomes 30 marked in SO short a time
and with such attention to the soil, what
may be expected when acres are closely
planted with grapes, as in the case of
vineyards, where the entire soil speedily
becomes filled with roots? 1t need not
be matter for surprise if vineyards be-
come unproductive after producing
several unsatisfactory crops.-Mw York
World.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-12-11
NOT IN STOCK.

Fair Customer-"Iliv live in the supln os,
and want Watchdog"
Dealer-"Ycs, num-"
"But of course don't want one that
will keep us awake all night barking at
nothing"
''No, num-"
''FIc must be big, aud strong, and
fierce, you know"
''Yes, num-"
"Yct as gentle us lamb with US, you
know"
"Ycs, num-"
"And he must pounce on every bruta.
tramp that comes along, and drive him
off,"
"Yes, num-"
"But he mustn't interfere with any
poor but honest man looking for work."
"No, num-"
"Ifa burglar comes prowling around
at night, the dog should make mince-
meat of him in an instant"
"Yes, num-"
"But he mustn't attack ncighbo,
who drops in for an evening CALL"
''No, num-"
"And of course he mustn't molest
people who come hurrying in ut all
hours of the night to call my husband.
He's a doctor, you know"
"No, mum. l see what you want.
You want mind-reader dog"
"Yes, suppose SO. Can you send
me one2"
Every sorry, mum, but I'm just out
of that kind" -Ne,o York Weekly.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-12-11
PROTECTING VINES FROM rnosr.

r. a. Platt, who is an old newspaper
man, but now foreman on the celebrated
Bigss vineyard, incidently gave us some
valuable information this afternoon, rela-
tive to the preservation of the vine when
1t is subject to the frost. As it is known
by every viticulturist of the country that
small PARTICLES Of frost sometimes fall in
certain districts ut this season of the year.
and as the young vines are very tender,
serious damages are often sustained by its
ravagcs in single night. Mr.. Platt, who
is considered one Of our wide-awake men.
Is ready for the frost should it come.
His theory, which is said to be correct
in every sense of the word, is to have
piles of straw or manure covered with
tar placed at different points over the
vineyard, and if any indications of frost
appear nc simply touches match to the
matter, and the elements for several feet
above the earth's surface are soon COM
posed of one dense mass of smoke.
which continues until after sunrise.
when all danger is passed. This is a
simple but nevertheless positive protec-
ton against the ravagcs of the FROST
Woodland Democrat.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-12-11

wheat were sowii. There Yves much In.
jury from winter-killing, but the plant,
injured were those where no peas had
been plowed in. The stronger plants
where the pea vines were did not yield
to bad weather.
The fertilizers used were kainit, acid
phosphate, cotton-seed meal, each 300
pounds per acre, and combination of
300 pounds, consisting of IT'S pounds
acid phosphate, 87a pounds cotton seed
meal and 37t pounds kaini., aud an
other combination of double the strength
OF the last named. Similar plats with
the same fertilizers were sown where no
pea vines were plowed under.
The seven acres without pea vines had
an average yield per acre of four bushels
forty-four pounds, and the seven acres
with the pea vines plowed in had an
average yield of twenty bushels fifty Eve
pounds OF wheat, with nearly corrc-
spending increase in amount of straw.
Where no fertilizers were used, excepting
the pea vines, there was in 1S8S-S9 a
gain of about ten bushels per acre over
the unfertiized plot without the green
manurinG, and in 1869-90 the gain upon
two plats was nearly the same.
The best results wcro from tho use of
300 pounds of acid phosphate with tho,
pea vines plowed in. or the compound
mixtures of lainit, acid phosphate aud
cotton-sccd meal, the double strength
made but slight gain over the other
where the pea vines were put, but de-
cided increase where no pea vines were.
The cost OF the acid phosphate was but
little more than the kainit, and less than
the cotton-scod meal or the 3O0-pound
mixture which produced but little
less.
They make tho following deductions:
Average increased yield of wheat due Ito
pea vines in 1889, ten bushels one
pound. Average increase due to pea
vines il 1890, sixteen bushels eleven
pounds. Acid phosphate showed better
results with or without the pea vines
than any other fertilizer tried. To OBJ
tain the same results upon wheat in Now
England or the Middle States peas
should be sown carly in the spring and
plowed under in July. There are
probably other crops that will do rs we'll
here as the pea vines, of which clover is
the most used. -American Cultioalor.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-12-11
he KNEW HIS SISTER.

Little Dick-"Is this the house YOU
and sis is to live in when you is mar
ried2"
Dir. NIcefcllo-"Ycs, my boy. What
do you think Of it2"
"'Taint half big enough"
"Your sister. myself, aud servant
will constitute the family, as u rule. 1
am sure there is plenty of room for us,
and spare rooms for relatives"
eyes, plenty for the family, but the
family don's count. What you want is
strangers, all the time, too"
"Ha, ha! Why should l wish to en-
terrain strangers, my boy? am not 60
ing to keep hotel"
Cause sis will always be real kind
aud polite to you when strangers is
about. - Good Me,os.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-12-11
THE wEIour OF ROOTS.

The weight of bushel of roots varies
in different localities. Potatoes are
usually estimated at sixty pounds to the
bushel. and this weight is commonly &C.
cepted as that of all other kinds or roots.
1t ID difficult matter to get as accurate
measure of the various roots, on account
OF the shapes that are so irregular, and
thus it would be convenience to have
some standard to follow. As there is
none that is ut all certain, it is the best
way to sell thcm by weight. York
Times.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-12-11
TO GET RID OF MoLEs IN THE oAnDEs.


Moles arc great nuisance in the gar
den, and it is desirable to rid tho garden
OF them. 1t is we'll known that the prin-
cipal food of moles is grubs and other
insects Of the soil, and they do not at
tempt to cat seeds of any kind so long as
they are hard, but writer in the Ameri.
can Garden has learned from experience
that if grains of corn are soaked in
"Fowlcr's solution of arsenic" (kept in
any drug STOREY until they become soft
and then dropped in the "mole runs" the
moles will suck it sufficiently to produce
death.
There arc other methods Of extorminat.
ing them, however. A large. mouthed
jar placed in the run or a cows horn are
frequently used with success in catching
them
A dead-fall with sharpencd spikes is
used also with successful results.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-12-11
GREEN MANuRrsa FOR WHEAT.

AT the North Carolina Agricultural
Experiment Station they have been test.
ing tho value of green manuring for
wheat by the blowing under of pea vines.
Inc land was every poor and close, con-
sisting OF sandy loan with o yellow
clay subsoii." Two bushels of peas per
acre were sown broadcast June z, and
plowed about the middle of October.
and on November IL the fertilizers and
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-12-11
ONE THAT BILKENs PRACTICES.

Wilkins-"Bcfore you strike man
see that he deserves it."
Bilkins-"Poohl + have a better
vule than that"
Wilkins-"What is it, pray2"
Bllkins-"See that he is smaller than
you. Yankee Blade.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-12-11
a LATE LITERARY pRoDUcr1oy.

"Have you anything new9" asked n
customer of a recently engaged clerk in
Chicago bookstore.
"lll see," replied the young man, as
ne swept his eye over the shelves. "Ycs,
here's THE New Testament Would
you like to look at it2"-Life.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-12-11
FROM THE CYCLONE SECTION.

Little Miss (who has been to the
opera)-"Uncle John, did you ever sec
Castles in the Air?'"
Uncle Wayback Crom the WesH-
"No, my dear, but I've seen houses an
barns in tn air many a timed Good
Neios.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-12-11
AN 1Ns1D1ous CRITICISM.

The Rev. MIR. Spouter-"H did you
like my sermon, yesterday2 What did
you think of my cxordium and my pero
ration, cha"
DcGrumpc-'I thought they were too
far apart. "--LDe.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-12-11
A SCATTERED FAMILY.

Bunting-"One of Larkin's sons was
accidentally shot in the lumber region
yesterday"
Mrs. Bunting-"It seems to me that
the Larkin boys are pretty we'll scattered.
1t was only Inst week that one of them
was badly hurt in the oil regions. -
Brooklyn Life.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-12-11
TnE ONES WHO COR LOCKED ur.

Gotham Citizcn-"That was horrible
murder last night. Have you locked up
the man who committed it2"
Policcman-"No, but we've locked
up twenty people who saw it."-New
York Weekly.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-12-11
THAT'S WHAT IT WAS FOR.

"My dear little wifel" cried the hor.
rifed young husband, "You don't mean
to tell me that you went and spent the
whole of your allowance on that dia-
mond pint"
"Well, Pm sure, Fred" sobbed the
wife, "when you gave me the purse you
told me there was my pin money!
Je,oeler's Circular.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-12-11
AGRICULTURAL.
TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE
TO FARM AND GARDEN.
breeding DUCK.

The ducks for next years laying, to
be used as breeders, should be selected
from the flock now, and the culls sold.
AS duck will lay about $50 eggs, but
few are necessary for supplying all the
eggs needed for Matching. A drake and
five ducks make a fair proportion, but
two brakes and ten ducks may be kent
In one flock if preferred. and
Fyreside.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-12-11
AT THE INTERESTING POINTS.

"Are you going to receive bulletins
from the football gamo2" asked caller
Eyes, sir" replied the editor; 1--WE
shall put out bulletin every time
man gets killed. Puck.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-12-11

for ten years, you at last got up spunk
enough to proposea"
Wilkins-"Yes. proposed last night.
1 guess it'll be all right
.'Ehl Didn't she accept9'
s'Not exactly, butI think she will
"What did she says"
SITS SO sudden "-Neo York ReeklN
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-12-11
ApPRAISING IT.

"But I changed my mind" said Lyle j..
wayte.
"Ah?" returned the fair maid of Pcth
Amboy. "Aud what did you get when
you changed it five pennies and Il
cl2"-Puck.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-12-11
A DESIRABLE WORK.

"Carton has written story that'll
make your hair curl" said DIawson.
SECT it Tor me, for goodness sakel"
said Mrs. M. "It'll save me from burn
ing my fingers off with the tongs. -
Hdrper's Basar.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-12-11
HOW II SLIPPED nr1r

Jack Tenter-"I don't see why you
keep me so long in suspense, Clara.
Cant you say Yes or NO right out?"
Clara Hooks-"Oh, you just wait un-
til we re married, and you'll find 1 can
speak out quick cnongh!"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-12-11
PUTTING HIM RIGHT.

De sapper-"I love to write poetic
truths. Listen: 'Yonder oak doth shed
Its golden leaves. IT.
Miss Bottoni-"Stop! That may be
poetic, but at the same time 1 insist on
you calling it fiction"
De Sapper-"Why sou"
Miss Observation-Disclosures 'yonder oak
Is chestnut-trce. "-Judge.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-12-11
NE WAS A uEARrLEss WRETCH.

"SIary," he said swectly to his young
wife, twill you make me just one Of
your biscuitsi"
sob, Harry, ",she murmured, throw
ing her arms about his neck, ssI'm so
glad. thought from what you said
when / made the last ones you didn't
like them"
"Um-er-er-um," he hesitated.
"You had those for breakfast. want
this one for paper wcightl"-Detrois
Tree Press.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-12-11

She-"Whlch of Mr. Caroll's poems
do you think evinccs the boldcst flight
of the imagination?"
He-"That in which he refers to him.
self us poet. life.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-12-11
BUDGETOF FUN.
HUMOROUS SKETCHES FROM
VARIOUS SOURCES.

Where the Pain Came In-Thc Only
Proper Thing to say-Ris Mas
terpiece-An Embarrassing
Question, Etc. Ito.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-12-11
ANOTHER CASE.

Frances-"It is that tiresome 8Ir.
cobalt, with his everlasting gable on
Laura (hotly)-"I think he amounts
to a good deall He is quite welded to
his art"
Frances-"A case where marriage
seems to be failure" Life.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-12-11
A NEW INDUSTRY.

Zones put his parrot in the cage
with his owl the other day"
''Wl1at was the result2"
CHE got enough feathers for u new
'feather-bed."
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-12-11
AN EMBARRASSING QUESTION.

He-"My lips never uttered word of
love 10 any woman before"
She-"How did you manage-spcak
through your nose?"-Judqe.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-12-11
APTLY NAMED.

"This geyser," said the guide in the
Yellowstone region, lis called the Pc
litical Geyser."
"Ah," replied the tourist. "And
why9"
because it throws mud. "-Judgc.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-12-11

1t was not her refusal that so hurt,
through,
And in manner dlgniled and curt.
CALCULATED "You.'
-Lif,
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-12-11
THE ONLY PROPER THING TO SAY.

"What do you say to tramp after
dinner" asked Walker, anxious for
walk.
Nothing. I unchain the dog.s-
Puck.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-12-11
THE USUAL SPEECH.

Bilkins-"so, after counting that gir
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-11-13
CORDOVA.

CoRDovA, Nov. Ill. C. Stock.
well is at home. and is making some i'm
provements to his property.
A social hop is announced for Friday
evening at Msrshsll's hall.
Two weddings are announced 10 occur
on or about the holidays.
james Green. who lately star ted his shoe
shop. is over-crowded with work,
W. Haynes, L d. Marshall and party
OF srorts are still camped on the 'Docia
A. S. Marshall and wife are expected to
visit relatives and friends here during the
holidays.
James Thompson has run his steam
craft, the Hope. upon the ways at Cor
| dova and intends 10 winter here.
Frank X. Hamblin was calling on old
friends on Wednesday Frank thinks
the M kinley bill in Ohio is very popu-
lar.
w F. Tew and Frank Case are &C.
knowledged sports and lose no opportun-
ity to Kill, trap or otherwise capture wild
animals or birds
John Ely, of South Rock Island, was
here on Tuesday and Wednesday and an
nounces that he is now ready TO pay the
highest market price for butter and eggs
Ollie Aug, the old Snowman, has again
gone into the interior to recuperate his
health, and incidentally to aid William
Armstrong in removing the shucks from
his vast field Of corn.
The Baptists are holding theil
revival meetings. Rev. Colwell
of New York. brother of Rev. A.
j. Colwell, pastor of the church here,
lie aiding in the work.
J: G. Carrothers. general agent for The
NJ. W. OF A. Accident association. wa.
here on Friday of last week. and with tn,
aid Of some Woodmen, succeeded in writ
ing six policies.
Wages for corn huskers have increased
within the past week owing to the scar,
city of men. supply and demand beins
the rule. Mckinley ct al to the contrary,
notwithstanding.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-11-13


In Peoria the authority whose duty II
is to look after the condition of the streetr,
is pretty much the same as 1t is in Rock
Observation-Disclosures the Herald sug.
gests that it would be the proper course
for the ''charitab.y disposed citizens of
Peoria to organize an exploring party and
see il said authority is not lost in the mud
now reigning supreme in Peoria, or that
i: would be a most graceful act for the
committee to organize searching party
to 60 out and find the pavements said to
exist under the heavy deposit of mud
The streets of this city are in disgrace.
full condition. There is no apparent
reason why they should not be cleaned
and kept clean"
Rock Island is similarly afflicted with
mud on its pavement, but Supt. of Streets
Blaisdell stated to an ARGUS reporter the
other day that when he had gotten
through with something more important
than cleaning streets, he would attend to
it. That something more important must
be very much more important
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-11-13
HILLSDALE,

HILLsDALE, Nov. II Miss Ella CAR
has returned from her Ohio visit.
j. Schsll is intending to build new
house this fall or spring.
Jake Reinerts is slowly improving. He
is able to sit up some today.
D. M. Martin lost fine horse yester-
day. Arthur Goodrich also lost one SUM-
day.
Last Friday evening costly fire, sup
posed to have caught from the afternoon
freight, swept over large portion of the
bottoms destroying about 60 tons of hay
together with large amount of fence
The NJ. W, A. have an important
meeting Saturday night at which the
names of several candidates will be acted
upon, also to consider the ACCESSIBILITY of
securing permanent quarters for the meet
ings. This is much needed. Heretofore
they have met at almost any place that
could be secured. Every member should
be present.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-11-13
LOCAL NOTICES.
Oysters at Krell & Maths.

ONsstTs ~ hIeil q Matls,
Cali on E. B. McKown for hard wood
and soft co.,. Telephone 1.1sS.
Send your friends to Krell s. Maths
for dish Of fresh oysters served in any
way you may wish for.
You can recommend Krell e. Msth to
anybody. as they have the best oysters
and know how best to serve them.
Remember the cold weather does not
affect the ice cream business particle.
You can get dish, brick, melon, pyramid
or individual ice cream at any time. no
matter how cold the weather is, at Krell
& Maths.
B. Birkenfeld offers for sale his entire
stock OF books, stationery, confectionery
and toys, ice cream parlors and fixtures
complete. Also his property for sale or
rent for any number of years to suit
parties.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-11-13
The Art Garland

IS the leading hard coal stove of the world. II
has stood the test of time, and has proven tSef
to be the Prince of Base Burners If YOU are nj
need of hard coal stove, it will pay YOU to cA
and examine the merits of the Art Garland IT'S
sold with positive guarantee that it has no equal