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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-06-17
A Famous Old Aryonnnt Judge.

Judge RcardCn described the morning
appearance Of the late Judge Lake when
no sat upon tho bench. 1t seems that
Judge Lake used to be sort of Judge
Jetfreys toward criminals and that his
mercy was never strained. For in
stance, he would walk up tho steps of
tho "bcnch," and tho poor numbering or
thieving criminal below would SILVER
and think of cells and galows.
''Pat, would tho Judge say sharply,
cheat the stove!"
Then tho faithful mental would stir
the fire hurricdly, and tho Judge would
adjust his shining collar and faultlcss
ncckcloth.
Aftor which he would rub his polished
flnger-nails together and thrust them
through page or two of tho decisions
of that famous British jurist, Lord
Erskinc, and us climax he would look
ut his translucent hands and exclaim:
'IIurry them up-Ive only IL few
minutes this morning."
Then tho batch Of prisoners would DC
ushered into the dock and the stccly eyes
of the Judge would be turned upon them
in such n fashion that, like certain
pictures painted by the old masters, one
might Imagine that tho Dyes looked II
dozen ways Mt once.
Lake seems to have been so impartial
TINT he lacked discrimination, for on Ger.
tain occasion, when tho clerk called of
the first name on the docket, gray
bearded burglar of sixty-eight years
stepped forward to be sentenced.
''Prisoner Mt the bar" said the Judge,
inspecting his elegant little fnger-nail,
''you have been before this court on tho
charge of theft many times. hesitate
to be severe, but in justice to public
morals find 1T my duty to sentence you
to confinement in State prison for tho
term of fifty years, and when you emerge
from its walls may you be IL better man !"
"Say, Judge" said the clerk, look.
ipg up to the polished jurist, "you got
the wrong man-you forgot--it WIS
young Hayes you were going to send up
for fifty. The old tramp, there, he amt
going to Inst two years, let alone iittyl"
"Ah! how is that2" demanded the
Judge, inspecting the list on his desk
"Oh, sec-ycs, yes!-dcar me elbow
very oddl just give Hayes fifty years
also, and you may us well let the other
matter stand. When man of sixty odd
years hasn't learned enough to avoid
being found out he's much safer in
Jail"
And the docket would proceed. San
francisco Examiner.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-06-17

The Khcdivess dowager is still beau.
tiful woman with mngnific cent CON-
plexion, brown eyes, and ha ir of red
dish tinge. Notwithstandin 6 her power
over him, she never attempted to assist
the late Khcdive in the affairs of tho ma
ton, confirming herself strictly to social
and domestic duties.
She adores her son Abbas, the present
ruler, even as she did his father. and it
is unlikely that she will try to give him
any unasSed aid in doing all that Eng
land suggests-which seems to be the
chief duty of an Egyptian ruler.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-06-17

den, !" the SCREEN" the "ring," and the
" silver and have spread all
over the Willamette valley, which is the
most fertile in the world. Already they
have begun to do much damage aud the
farmers are seriously complaining of
them. They multiply at an enormous
rate, each female producing two or three
broods 4 season of from fifteen to
eighteen each. The cocks are very
courageous, and will fight anything.
They go into the barnyards and thrash
the best roosters. 1t is even reported
that they sometimes walk away with the
hens. Their favorite haunts arc low
grounds near grain fields, which they at
tack, destroying gardens also. People
often find their nests in old straw stacks
and stubblc fields, taking the eggs
and raising them under brooding do
nestle fowls. The males weigh about
five pounds each.
The trouble is that an exotic animal,
upon being introduced, usually finds it.
self in situation of great advantage
for multiplying. 1t has left all its old
enemies behind it. and those creatures
which might attack it in its new environ
ment require some time to .'get on to I"
it, so to speak. Thus the crows in
Oregon have only just begun to prey
upon the eggs of the pheasants, having
ascertained the nesting habits of the lat
ter. Inasmuch as nature always makes
allowance for destruction by foes in
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-06-17

| In the elections there was drawn between
the sssparrow" and the .santi.sparrown
men, all politics being made subordinate
to the question whether tho Government
should undertake the extirpatiou of the
bird. AT present in the land of the kan.
CARGO organized efforts to this end are
being made, one of tho most effective
being to carry sack of poisoned grain
with a small hole in it at the tail. board
of wagon, travelling over tho roads aud
leaving for mile after mile continuous
dribble. Men also go about with long
poles bearing hooks, with which they
pull down the nests. Ono pcrson in this
manner can distroy hundreds of thou
sands of eggs and young in single
season. Nevertheless, but little impress
siod seems TO have been made thus far
upon their numbers.
The injury done to Australia by the
imprudence of acclimatization societies
can only be estimated in thousands of
millions of dollars. Rabbits, introduced
from England for purposes of sport,
have laid waste the country, destroying
the crops and almost annihilating the
sheep farming industry. Poisoning aud
shooting, the artificial propagation of
diseases amoug them, wholesale canning
of rabbit meat aud the expectation of
skius and furs have had small effect in
diminishing their numbers. Ferrets,
introduced to attack them, have in their
turn proved nuisance, dcvouring the
farmers chickens. In like manner eas
owls imported to gobble tho sparrows
have exhibited n preference for the meat
of domestic fowls. Foxes, brought
across the seas by sportsmen, have multi
piled greatly and arc proving baue.
Even humble bees, fetched for the pur-
pose OF fcrtilizing clover, which depends
upon their agency IN this regard, threaten
to become SO numerous US to consume all
the honey which the honey bees would
otherwise have an opportunity to collect.
Taking all these things into view the
Government of the United States is in
clincd to disapprove of the importation
into this country of domestic animals
without its own authoritative superin-
tendence. Uncle Sam will fetch the
mongoose and will keep au eye upon it
for while, so that, if it should prove
obnoxious, it can be promptly EXTERN
mated by concerted measures. Recently
the Department of Agriculture has gone
to some extent into the business of pro-
curing parasites from abroad to feed
upon and thus destroy other bugs which
are harmful. The most notable case of
this was the introduction of the
"vedalia' bug from Australia, which has
saved the orange industry of California
by prcyiny on the scale insect that
threatened to wipe out orange culture al
together i'll that State. III the nature of
things it is impossible to avoid the i'm
portation of many Objectionable
creatures through accident. BY such
means rats and mice were brought tc
America. Similarly, pcstilcrous insects
come over in the shape of cocoons and
eggs attached to cuttings and seedlings
OF plants, and pretty nearly all OF the
most injurious foreign weeds have been
introduced in like manner to our soil. -
Washington Star.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-06-17
THE GOPHER.

providing for the propagation of
any beast or bird, the fresh
immigrant is apt to multiply
enormously and to become nuisance.
Generally speaking, such experiments
are dangerous as are being tried by an
acclimatization society in Portland,
Ore, which has within the last few
years brought over from Europe aud let
loose thousands of birds in the valleys of
that State--among others the nightin-
gale, the song thrush, the European
yellowhammer and the English black
bird, which is closely allied to and very
much like our robin. These birds were
caught by professional bird catchers in
Germany and England and sent across
the ocean in stages, supplied with seed
and cuttlebones. Skylarks aud star
lings have been imported similarly, col
onies of both being established on Long
Island, where they were wiped out by
the great blizzard. So far as the star
lings were concerned, this was probably
fortunate, because they are voracious
grain feeders and would have been likely
to prove most detrimental
The story of the so-called English
sparrow in America is a sufficiently ia
miliar one. In Australia, also, where it
was introduced, it has been doing
millions of dollars worth of damage
yearly, aud not long ago the main issue
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-06-17
Spontaneous combustion.

a young man of Parkenburg, w. Va,
cmploye of an oil company, and whose
wooden clothing was saturated with lin
seed oil and other inflammnbles, was
washing his hands in benzine when his
clothing suddenly burst into flame. The
other employees extinguished the fire, and
he was found to be ricusly burned. His
wounds were dressed in cotton waste
saturated with linsecd oil, and he was
put to bed. Some hours after that the
bed caught fire, and he was again badly
burned. DIR. Cowdcn, the attending
physician, supposing the fires to origi-
nate In spontaneous combustion, pro-
cceded to make some experiments, which
he thus describes: Tho first test was by
saturating waste with lnsced oil and
keeping it at temperature of 40 dc.
grees; in three hours it began to smoke,
and in draft :gnited. Second test, by
rubbing waste containing some paint and
the linsced oil on wooden block for
two minutes, then put in oil, both at n
temperature of ninety-five degrees mot
quite tho heat of the human body; it
took fire in less than one hour. Linsecd
oil alone was used on the waste, with the
same results. Fourth, linseed oil and
waste were kept at ninety-fvc degrees
three and one-half hours, were taken out
and rubbed, and coon Began to smoke,
and in draft ignited. These expert.
ments were intcndcd TO place the oil and
waste rs near rs possible under the same
conditions that they were in tho bed OF
the patient, and ut about the same tenn
perature of his body heat. All the cx-
pcriments brought about chemical oxida-
ton and combustion, and there is reason
to believe that the burning and subse.
ouent fire in his bed were from similar
causes.-Now Orleans Picayune.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-06-17
Icre

To tho man who labors with his hands, phys
ical trouble is q worry serious thiaw. II is not
merely the pain he sudurss, rackiny and tor.
m,renung MS It Is, but tho prospective. loss OF
limo, money anu place harnts him and sgy.rf-
Yates his suffering. Ho is bent on having
prompt relief and sure cure. Ho wants tho
heat and the proof and here IL is: Mr.. w. Il.
Schroeder, Gllberlville, Iowa, stated April 10,
lsSt, that no had used 81. Jacobs OIL in HIS
stables for horse complaints and upon himself
FOR rhoumatisn, aud Ind found 1t tho best
remedy no had ever tried. Again February
II 1887, no wrtes: ~ have used St. Jacobs
Oil for rheumatism aud sore back, a. stated,
and 1t cured; and for burns and bruises 1t does
Its work Ms recommended to do. always
Keep II In the house and recommend II to my
neighboro-" MIR. John GRrbutt, O5I Minnu ST.,
San FRANCISCO; CAL, writes: "Somc time back
sprainetl my knee and suffered ni,nny until /
tried st. Jacobs OIL. rho result wns II speedy
md permanent curc."-AIiss Ida NJ. Elcmjlv
). Carey ST.. Baltimore, Nd, says: IL hnti
been afflicted for two years with neuralgia,
and tried every means to get rid OF the tor
menting disease. had been given SO much
quinine thatmy nervous systom was seriously
injured. was advised to use st. Jacobs Oil,
which did, and It relieved mo entirely"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-06-17
WORDS OF WISDOM.

Our heaviest burdens are those we
borrow.
whe,c there is no faith there is no
obedience.
Much doing is not so important MS
we'll doing.
Genius may be swift, but patience has
tho surost feet.
a solf-madc man never gets tired of
Dragging on his job.
More people fall from encouragement
than from misfortune.
If grooming could heal broken bones,
nobody would be lame.
No man can look at the stars without
wanting to live forever.
If nobody had hobby tho world
would soon stop moving.
There would be moro good BOYS if
there were moro good fathers.
Love never has to be watched to sec
that it does full days work.
Living only for what wo can see,
proves that We arc short.sightcd.
The man who loves most is not the
ono who tries to keep the most.
Admiration is we'll enough in its way,
but it can never do the work OF love.
a fanatic is man who takes a burn
ing interest in something we don't like.
The greatest blcckhcad is tho one
whose mistakes never teach him any
thing.
1t is great deal easier to DO content
ed without riches than it with them. -
indianapolis Qnd.) RAMS Horn.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-06-17
Mns. LEROY G. CovILLs.
a lady writos u lerter for publioa,
ton believing 1t Will interest many
suffering from Rheumatism.

a lady writos u lettor for publioa,
ton believing 1t will intcrcst many
suffering from Rheumatism.
tF'rom the ChendnGo Union, Nortuioh, NJ "
McDonough, Ohenan9o Co., ". Y.
DR.. Kilmer, Binghamton, N. Y.
Kind SIR had been troubled for
years with that terrible disease Rhcuma-
tism aud last Spring, year ago, was
confined to my bed and could scarcely mous
or stir. Could not bear to have any ono
walk across the room or mako any noise
of any kind. Was also troubled with
Female Weakness and was completely
used up. 1 had doctorcd with tho best
Physicians 1 could get, but grew worse
all the time. Having read of your Rem
edics l at Inst made up my mind to try
them. 1 had very little fulth for I
thought, perhaps, thoy were no better
: than lots Of OF hers that had used before
without any benefit. But thanks DO to
God and also to you, tried them and
found it to my benefit. l only took too
lottles of your Scamp Root and ono OF
Female Remedy and used one bottle of
your U. e O. An ointment and was com.
ptefe(y cured.
1t is now over ono year since waa
troubled and yet have not felt single
touch or return Of the old complaints.
/ think was better before | had tnkcn
onc-half of the first bottle. l now believe
and have more faith in you than any
other doctor on earth.
If this will bo of any benefit to you OF
others, you can publish it and If need be
I can prore it by moro than twenty
good and reliable people in this vicinity.
God bless You and yours, and with
great respect, Mrs. Leroy g. Covile.
1.-THE preceding testimonial was set up iii thi.
otiice from the original letter written by Mrs.
Covillc. EpITons OF UNIoN.l
-Fipe thousand dollars is offered to any
one who will provo any portion of this
testimony untrue. Hundreds of similar
letters arc received daily by the propric.
tors Of Swamp Root.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-06-17
Near'y 900, 900 grown English people can
aeithcr read nor write.
Deafness Cun', DO Curod

By local applications, as thcy cannot roach thu
uiseascd portion or tho ear There Is only onc
Way TO euro deafness, and that Ia by constitu.
iionnl remedies. Deafness IL caused by an in.
Hameu condition OF tho mucous lining OF tho
tanned you havoa rumbling sound or imper-
Eect nearing, and whom It In entirely closed.
mntion can bo taken out aud this tube ro-
Etored to its normal condition, hearing will DO
nestroyeu forever; nino cascs out OF ton ara
SSa ael Dy cntarrh, which Is nothing but an In
nGmcd condition OF tho mucous surfaces.
Mowill give Ono Hundred Dollars for INV
cannot euro by taking Halls Catarrh Curo.
send for circulars, free 'o'
f., CHENEY 81 Co., Toledo. O.
Sold by Druggsts Zoe "
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-06-17

"Thcy're about as bad rs the
disease |" Not all of them, though.
DIR. Picrcc's Pleasant Pellets arc
pleasant both when they're taken
and when they act. They cure per-
manently Sick and Nervous Head
aches, Biliousness, Costiveness, and
all arrangements of tho Liver,
Stomach and Bowels.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-06-17
6PYKTcTrTET

II picture
Of health tho woman who has
faithfully used DIR. Piercc's Favor
ito Prescription. She feels we'll and
she looks so. It's II medicine that
makes her well, whether she's over.
worked and rundown" or afflicted
with any of tho distressing diseases
and disorders peculiar to her sex.
1t builds up-and it cures. For
all chronic wcakncsscs, functional
arrangements, and female com.
plants" of every kind, it's an I'M
failing remedy.
And it's tho only onc,' among
medicines for women, that's g,tar-
anteed. If it doesn't give satislac-
ton, in any case, you havo your
money back.
Can anything else be "just rs
good?"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-06-17
The Khedivess of Erypt.

Contrary to the custom of his fathers,
the late Hhedivc Tewtik, of Egypt. left
but one widow. She was princess of
royal blood, her mother being daugh-
ter Of the Sultan of Turkey and her
father having been Viccroy of Egypt.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-06-17
yalup or Comrz,i..,on..

Previous to July, 1871, when the
system was abolished, commission
in the British army could be pur.
chased at the following prices: Cor
net or ensign, s470; lieutenant, s7O0;
captain, s1,900; major, $4,000;
lieutenant colonel. s4,5O0.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-06-17
Sold by Druggists. zoe.
Tho daily consumption of salt in st. Louis
Is said To bo noarlY |. ONl nomnds

life has boon u burden TO mo FOR tho pnst
on ycors on account of great suffering from
crotino his done wonders for mo. 1 am NOW
now man, aud shnil procla I'm tho niorits OF
your medicine tn NIL can reach" George u.
towicr, Auorncy-at-L aMt palatkn Ella FIT v
cents ut drug sturua. ~
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-06-17

A SLIGHT COLD, it neglected, often attacks
Tho lungs. BRowN's BRoScuIAI, TRoCHEs
Eive surs and Immediate roller. Sold onlv q.
90rcs. Prices Is n.a-
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-06-17

OF the world 1T does excellent service by
killing snakes, to which it has mortal
antipathy, not hcsitating to attack even
the formidable cobra aud almost invaria-
bly, winning the fight. Also it is death
on rats, and on this account it was i'm
ported not long ago to the Sandwich
Islands. Field rats, the multitudinous
progeny of the domestic species run
wild, were creating havoc there, and this
remedy was sought with very remarkable
success, so that the Objectionable rodents
bid fair to be soon wiped out. In
Jamaica likewise the mongoose cas been
introduced for the same purpose and with
equally satisfying results.
So serious has the plague of gophers
and certain rodents become to farmers in
some parts of the west that the Depart.
menr of Agriculture proposes to fetch a
few specimens of the niongoose to the
United States with a view to exterminnt-
ing the pests. The animal is thoroughly
able to earn its own living and is in no
way likely to become charge to any
community. 1t subsists on small and
mostly obnoxious mammals, lizards,
snakes and occasionally n birds egg. En-
tirely susceptible of domestication, it is
warranted to keep houses clear of rats.
What it has done for the sugar fields OF
the Hawaiian Islands it is expected to dc
for the grain crops in the wheat belt and
elsewhere. The mongoose has never been
known to be harmful III any way, by kill
ing chickens or otherwise, and no dam
ageis likely to result ifit should multiply
great on this side Of the water.
So much canrot be said of so many
other animals which have been intro.
duced in this country with the nxpecta-
ton that they would prove desirable.
while ago some people in Oregon thought
that it would be an excellent thing to
bring thither the Chinese pheasant. Six
species were brought over and colonies
of them were established on Protection
Island in Puget Sound, on Vancouver
Island, and at the junction of the Will
Jeanette River with The Columbia. They
were imported from China by ex-Miuis-
ter Denny and were taken care of,
fed and guarded from sports.
men. -Four of the six kinds-the 'sgol-
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-06-17

REEcUAM's Pills havo boon In popular use
In Europe for 81 years and arc u snfe, sure and
Gentle remedy. IS cents q hoe.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-06-17

FITS stopped FREQ by Din. KhrSE's GREAT
NERVE REsroRgR. No Fits after first days
use. Marvellous cures. Treatise and 81 trial
bottle free. DR.. Kline. s3l Arch ST.. Phila., Pa.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-06-17

1t takes just 81 81 notes to weigh as much
ns n $50 gold piece.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-06-17
THE MON.G00SE.
UNCLE SAM TO IMPORT 1T FOR
ECONOMIC PURPOSES.
In India 1t Kills veno nous Scr.
penis, But Here It Will De-
vote Its Attention to
Gophers and Rats.


HE mongoose is to
bo added to the
fauna of this coun-
try under Govern
ment auspices. 1t is
a small carnivor-
Gus mammal, about
the size of n big cat,
which is native to
India. In that part
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-06-17
P N U 8
''Gep11larl
Syrup

MIR. Albert Hartley of Hudson,
N. c., was taken with Pneumonia.
His brother had just died from it.
When he found his doctor could not
rally him he took one bottle of Ger
man Syrup and came CIT sound and
we'll. Mr.. S. B. Gardiner, Clerk
with Druggist J. +. Barr, Aurora,
Texas, prevented a bad attack OF
pneumonia by taking German Syrup
in time. He was III the business
and knew the danger. He used tho
great remedy-Boschee's German
Syrup-for lung diseases. q
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-06-17

Razorville is the unique namo OF town
IN Maine.