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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1893-03-17
How Russia Recruits Her Spies.

Females play an important if not pre-
dominant part in the army of Russian
spies, all of them belonging to the So
called educated classes. The way in
which they are recruited is very simple
and Ingenious; the method was de-
scribed to me once by one of the pillars
of the Secret Section, and was confirmed
later on by lady spy with whom had
conversation on the subject.
An official dies (ninety-n nine out of q
hundred educated Russians are officials)
before he has served long enough to en-
title him to pension. His young wife
petitions the Ministry for an allowance,
and she receives sum varying from $50
to $3.50. After the lapse of some months
she petitions again and is told to call mt
the police Office, where about one.fifth of
the former sum is given to her, and she
is encouraged to hope that in two
months time something may be done for
her again.
When she next returns, she is informed
that as her husband did not earn q pen.
sion, she cannot expect to receive any
further assistance; that the authorities,
In fact, possess no funds for the purpose,
but that they are willing to give her o
little light employment which will en-
title her to monthly allowance, suffi-
cient to save her from social shipwreck.
She generally catches at the straw, and
seldom has leisure or calmness enough to
discover that it is not even a straw, but
golden chain that drags her down to
unfathomable depths. She is then in-
troduced into various families, visits the
scrni-public balls and places of amuse-
mcnt, and forwards regular reports to
the Third Section, aud visits the depart
ment periodically to answer questions and
take fresh orders. London Telegraph.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1893-03-17
lie Saved His Life.

"Years ago 1 saved that mans life. ~
said welI-known business man, in
speaking Of certain bank official. SITS
been fifteen years ago, l suppose" con-
tinucd he, "when one day this fellow
came to me in frantic state of mind
and told me startling tale. He was
teller in the bank then, the same posi-.
ton he now holds. Jim, he said, Eve
got to have $1,000 to-day or I'm ruined
Tor life. am short just that much in
my accounts and they are going to check
me up Tomorrow 1 was astounded. of
course. but he had been a true friend to
me aud got him the money and saved
him from exposure for four years. He
gave me a portion of his salary every
month until the money was paid with
interest. His honesty has never been
questioned, and as the years have gone
by he has grown in the esteem of his SUI
perior officers at the bank. 1 think.
when l helped him, fifteen years ago,
that saved him from dishonor and dis
grace. 1t was as good days work as
sver did. "-Louisville Commercial.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1893-03-17
Novel Way to Kill Deer.

A lumberman was a neophyte, as il
were, in the art of deer Staying, kno W.
ing which he armed himself with Win
chester rifle and took an armed Indian
along for luck. The first days bush
whacking beat up no deer, and our lum-
Der hero, with his faithful guide, biv-
ouacked beneath the silent stars. Early
the next morning upon opening his
eyes he beheld two deer standing on q
knoll not far away, gazing curiouslY up
on the camp.
Snatching up his trusty repeating rife
and quivering with suppressed case Of
malignant buck fever, he was about to
open iusiiade upon the game when the
naughty Indian struck up his firelock
with: "Uml Waugh no shoot um |!
You no kill uni Me fetch uni"
Taking off red napkin with which
he was begirt this son of the forest began
circling it about. The deer caught on.
Their eyes followed the gyrations of the
rag. They approached. They cam.
nearer, still following the motions of the
clout. AS circled the rag so circled their
eyes. Then their heads. Then their
bodies. Till with one mighty sweep of
the napkin these antlered kings of the
forest turned somersault and fell dead
at the hunters feet. Their necks were
broken. They had been stslked. Our
hero had saved his powder, his reputa.
ton and his meat.-Michigan Lumber
man.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1893-03-17

If Ferdinand de Lesseps had com.
pleted the Panama Canal the whole
world would have bent the knee to him.
He failed, and the world upbraids him.
His fall has degraded France, disgraoed
him and ruined his friends. The; suez
Canal is lasting monument to his gen.
ius; the Panama Canal is his tombstone.
The world has forgotten the abuse and
ridicule heaped upon him before he car.
ried to successful completion the project
Of joining the waters of the Mediterra.
mean to those of the Red Sea, a project
In which the Pharaohs, Darius the Great.
Napoleon Bonaparte and Mehemet All
had failed. He was a quarter of cen.
tury maturing his plans, and ten years
in building the canal. The actual cost
of the canal was $s7, $50, 600, and the
net profits in single year have been as
much as so, 100000. England owns
more than two-tifths of the canal, and
has profted more by it than all the other
Nations OF the world put together.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1893-03-17
Siren 9Th OF Spiders.

The strength of some of tho spiders
Shich build their webs in trees and other
places in and around Santa Ague, CAL,
IS astonishing. One Of them had in
captivity in tree in that town not long
igo wild canary. The ends of the
wings, tail, and feet of the bird were
bound together by some sticky substance,
20 which were attached the threads of
the spider, which was slowly but surely
drawing up the bird by an ingenious
pulley arrangement. The bird hung
head downward and was so securely
bound with little threads that 1t could
aot struggle, and would have soon been
'prey to its great, ugly captor had not
IN onlooker rescued it.-St. Louis
Rlobe-Deaccrat-
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1893-03-17
TRUST.

Ishall see,
.sWhen am dead,
And all my life, a finished scroll, Is reao,
That all the poor, rude fragments written
With faltering hand
Gather together in that scroll, and mako
An epic grand.
j shall hear
The noise and strife,
The clash and discord filling nll of life,
Gather in one deep burst of harmony,
Whose sound shall rise
Grand, wonderful, with u triumphant swell,
And fill the skies.
30 though the days may seem
Useless aud pitiful and incomplete,
still can trust my dream:
know ut last will come triumph sweet,
When Death and 1 shall meet.
-Floy Campbell, in Lippincott.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1893-03-17
Mea urins n Rivers Bre .dtl,.

Anybody can measure, approximately,
the breadth of river without survey.
or's compass OF any mechanical means
Whatever. The man who desires to make
the experiment should place himself nj
the edge of the stream, then stand per-
fectly still, face the opposite bank and
lower the brim of his het until it Just
cuts the opposite bank. Then let him
put both hands under his chin, 10 steady
his head, and turn slowly round until tho
hat brim cuts some point on the level
ground behind him. Mark the spot
where the hat brim cuts the ground, thor
pace off the distance and it will be found
about the breadth OF the river.-,New
York Advertiser.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1893-03-17
POPULAR SCIENCE.

Tho moon has no water, astronomers
tell US.
The nearest fixed star is 21,00U, 000,.
600 miles from the earth.
The fixed stars are OF all colors, violet,
blue, green and red predominating.
The mean temperature OF 1892 is re.
ported as being one degree below the
average.
Astronomers say that some stars are
so far away that 1000, 900 years are re-
quired for their light to reach the earth.
1t is said that process has been dis
covered for metalizing textile fabrics by
which the latter are rendered proof
against the attacks of insects.
A telephone desired for service on all
floors of high buildings by travelling up
and down chute is the latest economic
idea of the Engineering Record.
The machinery now at work tunueling
undcr the Straits of Dover makes head
way of one-half inch per minute. The
tunnel will, it is estimated, cost $780,.
600, 1000.
About 600 foot-pounds of energy are
set free by the firing of a small pistol,
while watch consumes about 1.54. 000,-
oOOth of horse power, the energy of
the bullet being sufficient to keep the
time for two years.
A German official report states that no
case has been recorded where q ship
rugged with wire rigging has sustained
any damage from lightning, except in a
few instances where continuous connec-
ton had to be made with the hull.
Edge tools are deleteriously affected
by tine light of the sun and moon. The
sharp edge disappears and the tool must
be retempered. An ordinary saw is said
to have been put out of shape in q single
night by exposure to the light of the
moon.
Sportsmen in Southern Egypt have moi
infrequently met with accidents to their
barrels, owing directly or indirectly to
using nitro-cartridges charged for the
damp atmosphere of England and sent
out for use in the dry, Iare6eld air OF
the desert.
The large lens, measuring twenty eight
inches in diameter, for the Greenwich
(Englaud) Observatory, is completed and
The other parts are said to be we'll ad-
vanced. The new sky navigator when
completely set up will have length of
thirty feet.
What is said to be the largest gas
holder in the world has just been com.
pleted for the gas company of East Green
wicb, England. 1t is 800 feet in diam
eter, and when fully inflated is $50 feet
high. Phe floating vessel of the holder
weighs 1900 tons, and the capacity of
the arrangement is 100000 cubic
feet.
The new leather "membranoid," or
"boucle," is somewhat puzzling to those
who are not in the secret of its origin.
1t Is neither more nor less than tripe,
tanned by new process and prepared
for use in about ten days. 1t is said to
be the lightest leather known and as pill
able as cotton cloth. 1t is made in ten
colors and can be used for pocket books,
albums, millinery, dress trimmings and
slippers. The leather looks like crash
toweling and the honeycomb portion of
cross-bar pattern is most ornamental.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1893-03-17
An Eli TralMel 10 Har.ltss.

A female elk was brou !ht down IRON
Port Oxford to-day oa the steamer En-
lily and taken out 20 the paddock III
Golden Gate Park 10 become compau.
ion to the BIZ" mae elk The Oregon
elk is very tame and William Linlester,
her former owner, has frequently har.
messed her to cart, which she drew
with case. At tho park the elk will
probably be used occasionally to draw a
ignt wagon in the children's play.
ground. The elk had hard trip of il
coming down and was slightly bruised
and scratched by being flung against rho
sides of her stall box during the rough
weather. Francisco Chronicle.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1893-03-17

The Chicago Tribune, promising that
''in Illinois, the third State of the
Union, the absence of country roads
passable in all weathers is serious loss,
urges the Legislature to do what it can
for highway reform. The criticism
which the Tribune passes upon Illinois
roads is applicable to the roads of all the
other States, remarks the New York
Tribune, and there is on to believe
that the lawmakers in nearly all of them
will endeavor during the present session
of their respective Legislatures to pro
mote the reform by we'll considered prac.
tical measures. And Now York should
take the lead.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1893-03-17

.M'ss KolloclS is studying Egyptology
anl.- Aeiyrian archie >.ogy in the British
Museum. On her return 10 this country
she expects 10 acS as co.pastor of the
University Church in Pasadena. Cal For
thirteen years past she has been pastor
of church in Chicago, and she has made
the remarkable record of beng absent
only once from her pulpit, and then OF
account of the grip. Miss Kolloci' S edu-
cation was obtained 1T tine Wisconsin
State University aud ut the University of
ST. Lawrence.--NcwY York World.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1893-03-17
Rev. Florence KOllOcIi.

An American woman who has made a
host favorable impression in England is
he Rev. Florence Kollock. Over there
:hc clerical Office is still almos. entirely II
masculine preroyatiSe, and evidently
here was popular impression that a
egnlarly ordained minister of the other
OK must be IA strange person. When the
nterviewcrs discovered Miss Kollock to
'e graceful, bright, intelligent woman,
with wavy hair and dainty dress, they
we're agreeabiy surprised.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1893-03-17

"The best gold fields il America to-
day are in North Carolina" is the
opinion of DR.. Herman, an old miner of
Atlanta, and the statement Is backed up
In local paper by other gold miners of
that region. This should be interesting
news for the crowd of disguised miners
now trying to get away from the San
Juan country, Colorado, and recalls n
remark of Connecticut gold mining
expert; "There's great deal of gold
in Connecticut" he said, "just about
enough to ruin any company that under
takes to get it out"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1893-03-17

need say how much dearer you arc be-
cone to me nows My little heroine,
will you trust the priceless heart to met
will you be my wife,
"But, Mr.. Arcncliff-"
"Well7"
Nj fancied that you loved Cccilcl'
He smiled, 81 have loved you, dear.
est, since 1 knew you first, scarcely
year ago. But you have not answered
my question yet!'
The soft brown eyes, dewy with a
sense of great happiness that was in
store for her, were raised to his with in
nocent frankness
81 love you, Mr.. Archoliff," she said
with shy dignity that was like herself.
.'But never dreamed you could love an
Insignificant little creature like mel"
He drew her towards him with
caressing fondness that was like new
lie to her starved heart! He loved her
that was enoughl
The little school was never opened
and when Cecilc read the long letter
that reached her the very next mail, she
bit her beautiful lips until the scarlet
blood started.
''Fool that have been" she muttercd,
Sand to think how skilfully that I'm.
conscious little Joscy has played her
cards! Audlcy Hall, indeed! Why the
Archcliif estates arc ten times Us Target
Aud the same June that brought o
wreath of white roses. Josephine
Carey's sunny curls, brought also the
dawn OF a new bliss to her girl heart.
Selden Archcliff thought his wife had
never looked so lovely as she did on her
wedding day New York News.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1893-03-17
a PR1soN AND PALAcE

Behold that tall and lambert spire
frradiate with sunset fire,
Those windows smit with twilight beams
With evenings irridescent CLEANS;
How they reflect the early night.
Its mingling gold and lazulite;
And how those tall TRANSPORTED towers
Bloom 'gainst the night like granite flowers;
how grandly lifts you FURNISHED dome
A skyey shape Of fire and foam!
"Wbat are those buildings, friendT said j.
THAT loom against the eastern sky,
And dashed with many u sunset CLEAN.
Look like the palace of dream?'
Them buildings boss" the man replied
A sly smile lit his features pale
"You jest look out you keep outside;
Them buildings is the county jail"
Panied at this ending of my dream.
This anti-climax to my theme.
found poultice for my pnin
In this wise moralizing strain:
We all live in county Jail
Whose towering walls we cannot scale,
Though firmly, all in vain, we press
Against its granite stubbornness.
Dull, cold Us fate, its wallis arise
And shut our vision from the skies.
But when hopes sunlight falls upon
Its thick and heavy walls of stone
They loom against the coming night
rransagured in mystic light,
And, bathed in gold and amethyst,
The granite grows rs soft as mist
Transformed becomes the culprit's JAIL
And from its towers cloud banners fling
Their gorgeous windings to the gale
It is q palace of king!
Sam Walter Foss, in Yankee Blade.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1893-03-17

The great Yukon River of Alaska il
soon to be made highway of commerce
BY the establishment on It of a regular
'ervice OF sidc-whecl steamers. The
drst boat of the proposed line, now
building, will run from st. Michael,s
Island, fifty-five miles from the mouth
Of the Yukon-at which point it will,
connect with Norton Sound steamers-
over'22OO miles up the river. The fact
that Alaska has the third-possibly the
second--largest river in North America
is not often remembered. The Yukon is
only navigable during July, August and
september, and it is thought that for the
present probably but three or four trips
year may be made.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1893-03-17

A public library has been founded in
Panama in COMMUNICATION of the four
hundredth anniversary Of the discovery
of America. Three hundred volumes
were provided to start the library and
800 more we're donated by the Society
Progresso del Istmo. An appropriation
to found and maintain the library was
mado By the municipal council.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1893-03-17

The modern Greek is not law .abid-
ing citizen. He believes 1t no sin to
murder and steal, provided he is not
found out. So, though Greece has only
1000, 600 people, about the same as
Indiana, she has over 100 condemned
murdereIs awaiting execution. The
guillotine is used to thin out criminal $,
but it seems to have no more moral eff
feet in REFRESHING crime than it would
have had in the days OF Agarnemnon.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1893-03-17

1t is a strange fact, thinks the Chicago
Times, that while paper is being used
for dozens of purposes formerly monopo-
lized by wood, or even n harder material
such as car wheels, boxes, barrels +,
tubs, pals, etc.-wood is rapidly driv-
ing other ingredients 10 the wall in the
manufacture of nearly all the cheaper
grades of paper.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1893-03-17
Japanese Superstition About Flowers.

The Japanese are auperstitious about
many flowers, and will have none of them.
Many of our favorites, as the orchid,
gentiau, daphne and azalia, are utterly
prohibited for felicitous occasions. There
Ia also with them an aristocracy of flow,
ers most sharply defined. The seven
royal favorites are the chrysanthemum,
narcissns, maple, cherry, peony, vista
ria, and the evergreen rhodea. Tie iris,
also, is of princeIY dignity, but because
OF its purple color must not be used for
weddings. -Demorest's Magazine.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1893-03-17

In consequence of the growing popu-
larity of savings banks in Prussia and
the difficulty found by the banks in ma k
ing profitable investments, the interest
pnid has been gradually reduced, and
this had its effect. About SID, 900, 600
less was deposited last year than in the
preceding year.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1893-03-17
The Wedding Coronal.

VERY small room, in
a very small house,
with a very small fire
burning in the CRATE
this is our scene.
There was no orna-
ment, unless the pure
white curtains, and
and the yellow dim
pie of the April sun
shine on n somewhat
faded carpet might be
characterized rs such,
and the fresh lowell
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1893-03-17

The newsboys in certain quarter of
London are encouraged to save penny
day. The money Is kept for them in
savings bank, and the boy who de-
posts regularly for n month is given one
penny interest on his money. The bank
is the work OF a good woman.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1893-03-17

1t is proposed to introduce into this
country the traction engine, so largely
used in England, for hauling freight be-
tween small towns where it would not
pay to build railroads.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1893-03-17

Fifty years ago, recalls the Atlanta
Constitution, a cold winter was enjoyed
in New York. Now tile complaint is
that it is too expensive. 1t interferes
with business and travel.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1893-03-17
A new industry of Southern Idaho is
raid To- be the shipping of elk to Eastern
States.

(, All the indications, declares the Chi.
eago Sun, point to 1898 as destined to
be the best year ever had in mining.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1893-03-17

"You will come and see me soon, Mt
Audley Hall, said Cccile Carey, bend
ing her sweet eyes on Mr.. Archclifre's
grave brow, rs he babe her adieu at the
railroad depot. He bowed quietly and
stepped back, just as the train began to
move. Cecilc drew long breath
"Strange that he has not proposed"
she thought. "But there will be no
lack of opportunities at Audley.
Selden Archclltf did not return di-
rcctly to his office, although there was
considerable arrear of business awaiting
him in those dingy precincts. He went,
instead, to the little room where Jose.
phine Carey was crying quietly on her
| sisters empty chair.
81 know l am very foolish" she fall
tered, "but my little school commences
Tomorrow, and have such a brief time
left for tears"
1t was the first time he had seen her
since the eyeninghe had brought tidincs
of the discovered inheritance. Since
then she had slyly avoided his presence,
dreadIng to read disapproval in his face.
Now, however, there was no evading the
ordeal-lt must come!
"Miss Carey" he said earnestly re-.
garding her." 1 have come to speak
to you with reference to this very un.
usual decision of yours respecting the
Audley property. Few girls in your cir.
cumstances would have acted as YOU
have DONE"
Her bright cheek caught more vivid
rose.
"You think I have acted WRONGLY"
"Let me tell you what I think. 1t was
oeed whose noble magnanimity is be.
yond all praise. You have abandoned
comparative case, and devoted yourself
to life of toll, because you thought it
right. am learning now for the first
time the true emblem's that dwell in ,
woman's nature. l loved you before
The herald., 1893-06-08
POLL TAX.
Los Angeles County.


No. Name and Description.
36403 Guadalupe Armijo, in rancho La
Puente, l3sz acres of land,
bounded north by sentous
Bros, west by Rowland, east by
Remeris, south by Houlihan..
s. 86563 Ambrosio Maquirray in rancho
de la Brea, acres bounded
north and east by Grazide &
Polaski and Don Jose Creak,
south and west by Jesus Ybarra
and hudson. ....... ............ 1.af
37354 Henry Aufdemkamp, in Pellisier
tract lot "a, block II ~
3742S David Laudreth, in Dorland's
addition to Whittier lot L..
1888 Samuel o Long, 40 acres of land,
being southwest quarter OF
southeastquarter OF section 80,
township south, range ID
s west .....-
1882 Ambrose A sproui, DO acres OF
land, being northwest quarter
OF northeast quarter of lless l
acre for county road) section
373se Jw Wore, in Claremont tract, in
block S, P & B tract, lot IT,.
39367 d Ambrose, 100 acres of land,
being southwest quarter OF
section rs, township l north.
range 8 west acknowledgements.
3S63A John Z Neher in Lordsburg, lot
SO, block 5I..........
$3.50 william II Pendieton. II. in
Rancho Santa Gertrudes, 255
acres bounded north by Van
fleet, east by Brittle, south by
cemetery ct al, west by public
1886 X Naylor, 80 acres OF land. be.
ing south half of northeast
quarter Of section 8, township
north, range II west.
39312 Hubert William Doggett, in
Amandale tract, 4.2I acres.
being lot 33.
39486 John Davis, IA acres OF land.
being all of the east Is acres OF
north half of northwest auar-
ter of northwest quarter west
and south OF land of Cannon
"a in section II, township /
south, range 10 west .......
39496 R P Finch. in Mcdonald tract
Is acres, being southeast quar-.
Tc ~ ter and south half OF northeast
quarter of lot 20.