Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-07-15

taSes of such low fares should be OBJ
vious to all. Whatever tends To pro-
mote the mobility of labor is, in the in
tcrcst OF thrift and peace Especially
IL this true i'll these times when throt,.rh
changes of fashion production is, con-
Stantly shifting; ii the worll-pcoule
thrown out of employment in one place
could easily and chcaply remove to-
some other place where laborcrs are
wanted, suffering would he relieved.
paupcriSm diminished, and the congcs-
tons of labor. out of which many diff
cultics arise, greatly reduced. The
nigh rates of railroad fare prevent the
free movement OF labor, and aggravate
many of our social ills.
"SEND DOWN 49,"
How Gnrrulous Parrot Caused N
Horrible ltnilrond Accident.
Tho usually trustworthy PHILADELPHIA
Times is responsible for tho following
remarkable story:
Out in the far West on ono cold night
in January horrible accident occurred.
Snow several feet In depth covered tho
ground.
Tho littlo town OF R. was perfectly
dreamed OF tho sccno OF disaster that
would soon be witnessed. Tho small
stati' n-houso was for tho time deserted,
tho stntion-mastcr having COMO to tho
store not far distant. Poll sat all alone
In the cozy little station-housc over and
anon talking to herself. "Polly want n
cracker; Pretty Poll. Pretty Poll"
Then with wise shake of her hcnd she
hew to shelf that was just above tho
telephone, rang and receiving tho
answering ring shouted "Send down
1l3." Then flying back to her perch
shc was quietly sitting thorc when the
master returned. There was no telc-
graph In that part of tho country and
Poll had often watched her mastor talk
through the telephone to tho station
master Mt Jerome, n small
town not many miles distant. In
about half an hour tho passenger
train WAS duo. When It was nearly
timo for tho train to como tho station.
master thought that no hoard tho noise
of train in each direction, but con-
Guiding that he was mistaken he did not
trouble himself to look out In n fow
minutes tho passenger train passed up
nut 1t aid not stop, and i'll another mo-
ment n fearful crash WAS heard, n pierre
ing shrek rang out upon tho night air
ana then pitcous groans wcro heard
Snatching up lantern tho station-mas.
ter hurried out A fearful scene was he.
foro him. The freight train attached To
tho engine 1l3 had como into collision
with the passenger train.
Fifteen passengers and both engineers
were killed and five passengers were in.
jurcd seriously. In short time the
whole town was astir. Tho injured were
cared for and an engine arrived and
pushed the broken cars on side-track
Much excitement prevailed throughout
the town. Tho people wondered who il
was who had tclcphoncd to tho station
master at Jerome. They did not solve
tho mystery for many long day and
both station-masters very nearly lost
their situations, butas nothing could be
proved against them they wcro allowed
TO remain. Ono evening in June as the
stntion-master Mt b sat doing in his
chair he WAS aroused by hearing the
telephone ring. Looking up no saw Poll
sitting on the shelf above the telephone
and heard her call out in her shrill voice:
Send down 113."
AT last tho mystery Ind been solved.
Tho Itaw Material from which tho Ar
tees Made Their Implements.
When Cortez had completed tho con-
quest OF Mexico, the Spaniards, among q
great many other peculiar and cxtraodi-
nary observations which thcy made in
that remarkable country, were particu-
larly struck and puzzled by ono fact.
They noticed that tho Aztecs possessed
certain Implements, such as knives, dag
gers, ote., made OF iron, but it seemed
that only tho most distinguished OF the
natives possessed such, that iron was
great rarity, and was priced higher than
gold.
at first the Spnniards beloved that
tho Aztccs extracted the motal in some
crude fashion from its orc, which
abounded In many parts of the country,
but they soon asoertained thnt this was
not the case. They found that not
single smelling furnace existed In the
empire, and their surprise was not small
whom they learned that the Aztees were
totally unacquainted with any method
OF extracting tho iron from tho ore,
which indeed they had mover suspected
OF any kinship with the highly valued
metal.
Tho question whence the Aztccs had
procured tho little iron they possessed
became prrplcxing problem to tho
Spnniards, problem which they were
never able to solve. The natives do not
seem to have enlightened them much
on tho subject, for when asked they
mystcriously pointed to the sky and in
Dictated that thoy obtained their iron
from tho regions above. Such asscr-
tons no doubt the Spaniards received
with an incrcdulous smile, and they con-
cludcd that tho Aztecs received it bv
way of traffic with some other perhaps
moro civilized nation, which they sus-
| pected to exist and kept looking for.
north and south, for moro than q hun
dred years.
! 1t was left TO modern science to I'M
ravel tho mystery. Tho Aztecs woro
/ quito correct. The iron OF which thov
had made their implements was not
fashioned from materials of this tor
rcstrial globe, but had come to thom
from tho unknown regions of space
! Their iron was in fact of ,,n,,..;