davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-12-14
AFooT.

Comes tho lure OF green things growing,
Comes the call of waters flowing
AMI the wayfarer desire
Moves and wakes and would BIO going.
Hark tho migrant hosts OF juno
Marching nearer noon by nooni
Hnrk the gossip OF tho grasses
Divouackod beneath tho moonI
Long tho quest and far tho ending
When my wnyiarer is vending
When desire Is onco afoot,
Doom behind and dream attondingi
In his cars tho phantom chino
OF incommunicnblo rhyme,
He shall chaso the fleetlog camp-flres
Oftho DcdouIns OF Time.
Farcr 10y uncharted ways.
Dumb ns death 10 plalnt or prnisc,
Unreturnin2 he shall Journey,
Fellow to tho nights and days;
Till upon the outer bar
Stlllrd tho moaning currents nre,
TIL tho namo achieves tho zenith,
Till tho moth nttnins tho star,
TIL through laughter md through tears
Fair tho final peace appears,
And about tho waterod pastures
Sink to sleep tho nomad years!
-Chnrlcs q. ID. Roberts, In Scribner.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-12-14
THEORETICAL noMEsnorry.

She was q Vassar graduate, and
didn't know little bit about house,
keeping when she married her last
beau and settled down to domestic
life. Her first order ut the grocer's
was crusher. but that good man was
used to ell sorts of people, and could
interpret Vassar as easily as plain
English.
81 want ten pounds OF paralyzed
sugar, she said, with business air.
"Yes'm. Anything else2'
1.-TWO cans of condemned milk"
'Yes'm." He set down tpulverized
sug," condensed milk"
Anything more, ma'am?"
"a bag of fresh salt-be sure that
it is fresh"
''Yes'm. What next?"
ga pound of dosecrated goldfish"
''Yes'm." He wrote glibly "desic-
Gated cod"
Nothing more, ma'amp Here's
some nice horseradish, Just in.
"No," she said, with sad wabble
to her flexible voice. ''It would be
of no use, as we don't keep horse"
Then the grocer sat down upon q
kit of mackerel, and famed himself
with patent washboard. vassar had
taken the cake. Detroit Free Press.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-12-14

Yale students do not seem to care
much for prizes, which take work to
get. The Yale News says that the
competition this yonr for the John A.
Porter prize, the most valuable offered
by the university, is very poor, and
that the competition for tho Thacher
prize had to DO postponed for lack
competitors. The students, however.
show undiminished interest in prize
fights, boat races, football, etc.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-12-14
The Death Watch.

In the log houses built by our pio-
neer forefathers there could often be
heard in the night when perfect quiet
prevailed peculiar phenomenon
known as the death watch. This
would be heard somewhere in the
wall, as one lay In bed, and was On
exact imitation of the measured tick
ing of a watch. Tickee, tickee, ticlzeo
the sounds would commence, and
when perhaps dozen or twenty ticks
had been given, there was silence.
The ticks might be resumed again and
thus ut intervals continue rs long as
one cared to listen. BY many persons
this ticking in the night was heard
with superstitious dread as betokening
or prognosticating death. The sound
was really made by diminutive wood
beetle that had burrowed in log, but
whether this peculiar ticking was the
result of action involved in perfortion
or was the mating call, or prompted
by still other motives, has never been
made clear.
1t is not known that this death
watch has his habitation in modern
home structures, and the creature prob
ably does not perforate into timbers
of suoh small dimensions as from the
sides of frame houses. AS the sound
itself must be near the listener, in the
wall near the ear, it would not be
heard if in the stills or heavier tim
bers elsewhere, but it was nj ofttime
night accompaniment to the wakeful
person who listened in the structures
that are now no more.-Pittsburg
Dispatch.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-12-14
HOUSEHOLD MATTERS.
TAn1r so1,orua Asp nApKrns.


Every housewife takes deep inter:
est in the table linen, and fortunately
she may give free rein to her fancy in
this portion Of her realm whatever
fashion may dictate in other direc-
tions, Sometimes this table cloth or
that set Of napkins may commend
themselves to her favor for ordinary
occasions, but she will have O special
cloth with napkins to match the more
ceremonious occasions. White is al
ways standard color and looks well,
and will be always in fashion, but it is
mistake for the economical house
keeper to select fancy, colored linens,
which may be popular one season and
entirely under the ban the next. Nap
kins are now indispensable at all we'll
regulated tables. Breakfast napkins
are considered of the right size if they
are half-yard square, but for dinner
they must be three-quarters of yard,
Besides the table cloth aud napkins,
the numerous bits of linen connected
with the table service are most useful.
and most Of them can be readily made
from linen remnants or the best p6r-
lions of worn table cloths The
housekeeper can thus secure an ample
supply of carving cloths, tray cloths,
children's cloths, as we'll as the means
OF protecting the fine cloth or the
table from tea or coffee stains, or the
like. In fact, table linen in all it's
various details may be said to have
reached the perfection of the art
New Orleana Picayune
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-12-14
JOYS OF A RAIIwAr x,IpLoYE.

JOYS OF a RAILwAr x,rPLoYE.
The Nervous Woman--"How long
did you say it Yves before the train
leayes2"
Station Agent-"one hour and q
half, ma'am."
The Nervous 'sAre you
sure2"
Station Agent--"Y ma'am.
The Nervous Woman-'.That would
make it safe for me to go out for q
short time. wouldn't it,"
Station Agent ."Certainly.
The Nervous Woman-"You are
positive?"
Station Agent--"Yes, ma'am. How
far did you wish to go?"
Tho Nervous Woman--"I want to
go over to that newsstand on the
other side Of the street and get pa
per. But if I loso the train I'll re-
portyou, now mind. Chicago Record.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-12-14

The New Orleans Picayune says: "The
cotton interests have had much to
complain of during the past few years
i'll the way of shrinkage in the price of
the feecy staple, but the decline in
price for the Southern product by no
means compares with tie great shrink.
age which has taken place in wheat.
Wheat has declined fully fifty per
cent. in value, while cotton has not
{ lost more than third of its value in
s.he same time, if that much. And
yet there is no Encouragement in the
West, nor is there any report that
, the wheat growers have been driven to
, bankruptcy. The secret of tho sue.
I cess with which the wheat growers of
the West are able to resist the ill eff
/ fects of such heavy shrinkage in
value MS their cereal experienced is to
be found in the system of diversified,
( or rather intensified, farming which
prevails there. The Western farmer
does not depend entirely on q single
crop, but diversifies his products and
makes himself seli-sustaining as much
MS possible. Wheat thus becomes
merely his cash crop, and shrinkage
in its value only means the curtail-
ment, more or less, of his luxuries and
comforts, without threatening bank.
ruptcy and ruin. as drop in cotton
prices SO often does for the Southern
farmer. This system of crop diversi.
fication and intensified farming is what
isneeded in the South, and if more
energy were devoted to this, rather
than to continual extension of cotton
acreage, the South would be more in
dependent of fluctuations in cotton
pricea.'
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-12-14
SARCASTIC.

That eccentric English statesman,
Robert Lowe, afterward Lord Sher-
brooke, was criticising the marriage
service one night in his usual sarcastic
style. 'ssWith all my worldly goods
[ thee endow y" he scornfully quoted.
"Hhat was what 1 solemnly declared
to Mrs. Lowe, at time when hadn't
a shilling to bless myself with"
"But, my dear, demonstrated Mrs.
Lowe, who scarcely enjoyed this frank
revelation of their early poverty, "you
had your brilliant intellectual abili-
ties"
"oh, yes, " returned her merciless
husband, "out ] certainly did not en-
dow you with those"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-12-14

Observant physicians begin to be-
iievo that appendicitis and grip have
n relation of effect and cause. APP
pendicitis was never SO common MS it
has been since grip visited this coun-
try, and physician who has per-
formed many operations for the cure
OF the former advances the theory that
grip produces n catarrhal condition OF
the vermiform appendix that finally,
in some cases, induces the state of acute
inflammation to which the name ap-
pendicitis is applied. Grip is now
manifesting itself with many varia-
lions.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-12-14

The. Now York News thinks it must
be astonishing to Europeans to learn
that the United States can build and
launch ocean war vessels twelve hum
dred miles from tide water. That is
what has been accomplished ut Dubu-
que, Iowa. The torpedo, Ericsson,
has been launched there, and when
equipped will pass down the NIissis-
sippi. and through the Gulf of Mexico
to tho Atlantic Ocean.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-12-14
A MEAsURE OF EcoNo,1y.

"It's taking that painter out there
in the kitchen the whole day to paint
the woodwork" snapped Mrs. Chug-
water, "and he could do it easily in
two hours. That's what comes of
having n handsome young chit of q
girl for cook 70
81 believe you are right. my dear. {"
said Mr.. Chugwater, soothingly. "Per-
haps it would hurry him up little if
you would-h'm-go out there awhile. {"
Chicago Tribune.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-12-14

1t is stated that United States En-
gineer Skunk, who conducted the sur
vey for the international Railway
through Mexico and South America,
regards the schome as entirely fensi.
bic. The estimated cost for building
roadbeds and bridges is $22, 600, 600,
md it would require ton years work
to complete tho road.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-12-14
MADE HIMSELF A TERROR.

''Billiger," said Mrs. DIoSwat. 81
wish you would drive those rude, noisy
children home that have been playing
on our front walk all the afternoon.
Cant you send them home, Lo-
belia?"
cit wouldn't do any good for me to
order them to go. They know 1 can't
chase them. what they want is good
scare, and they'd get it if 1 were a
man."
"Boys," Numbered Mr.. MoSwat, APP
pearing suddenly on the sidewalk
about five minutes later with huge
club in his hand, "I'll give you Just
two seconds to get away from here,
and if you come back again I'll skin
you alivel Run, nowl Soatt Get n
move on you'll Hustle, il you don't
want every bone in your rascally
little carcasses brokeni"
'I'm getting ready for church ms
fast rs can, Billiger, and you know
it." said Mrs. McSwat, with her mouth
full of hairpins. az wish you wouldn't
be 80 cross.
Sim not CROSS, Lobelia," he ans
wered, pacing back and forth and
looking impatiently at his watch.
"You're not?"
"No."
81 say you are.
81 say I'm not"
'Billiger," she said slowly, and
pointing her finger straight at him,
'you have the reputation of being the
crossest, surliest man in the neigh
borhood. There isn't child within
half n dozen blocks of here that
doesn't run'as soon as 1t sees you com.
ingl"
And Billiger went out and sat on the
kitchen steps to cool of. Chicago
Tribune.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-12-14
Lord Roseberry's attack upon Ia,

Lord Roscbcrry's attack upon land
scape advertising in his academy
speech the Other day has given an i'm
retis to the agitation on the subject
England. One of the greatest
countryside advertisers announces
hat he will cease this manner of in.
,truding pills on the attention of the
public, and tacit boycotting of all
concerns which disfgure the landscape
Is becoming strong and popular
policy. 1t is without open organiza-
ton, because such movement would
be of doubtful legality.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-12-14
came mp blaokly before him, and he
half ra0rAtted TINT la had NOT re-

half regretted that he had not re-
mained- BY and by, however, his
spirits began to revive, his plans for
the future took distinct form in his
mind, and it was with q comparatively
light heart that he stepped into the
streets OF the young and growing
town of tho Northwest. Much to his
surprise he found his future employer,
Mr.. Reade, waiting Mt tho depot to
welcome him, and es no grasped the
hand extended him, and looking into
the franl, open face, he felt that he
was to have dealings with just and
generous man.
dodge telegraphed me when to cx-
pect yous" said Mr.. Reade. noting the
young mans embarrassment. "Iy
business is such that I will want you
to make your homo with me, and both
my wife and will do NIL in our power
to make you welcome"
The next morning, with deter
mination to please and to speedily win
the confidence of his employer, Paul
enteSed upon his new duties.
In few dnys there came q letter
from Annie Hummel, urging him 10
perseverc in the course he Ind under.
taken, and not to mind what others
said. He did persevere, and in o short
time won tho respect and confidence
OF his employer. His salary was not
as large as it had been formerly, but
every month nearly all of it went to
pny the debts he had left behind him
in the East. When year had passed
he had paid everything md was be-
ginning to save. Besides, he had
dropped all of his foppish airs and
habits, and become in every way moro
manly and independent. Ono day
near the close of his second year the
young bookkeeper and his employer
wero talking together, when the latter
said:
"Pnul, I am thinking of taking in q
partner. My business is growing so
fast that it needs two to attend to it.
and want some one that thoroughly
understands it. Havo you been able
to save much since you came out here?
You must, for you haven't any expen-
siye habits"
At first tho young man blushed md
seemed slightly confused, but recover.
ing himself he told his employer in n
few words how ho had come to leave
Johnsport, and in what way the most
of his money had been spent since TINT
time.
This is n surprise to me-" was the
reply; "yet 1 am not sorry to heir it,
Tor 1T shows that you have tho right
stuff i'll YOU"
A long talk followed, Mt the end of
which the two men had come to n
better understanding and were stronger
friends than before. Not long after
it was mado known that Mr.. Reade
had found n partner, and the new firm
bore the name of Reade &c Williams
During the next two years they were
striSingly successful, and this fact, ct
tho end of the time mentioned, led the
junior member of the firm to take
flying trip to JohnspoIt, where tho
object of his visit was made evident
by the announcement of his mar
ringe.
Paul Williams is now the master of
pleasant homo and far on the road
to wealth; but he has not forgotten
tho bitter experience of the past, and
often affirms that never, never again
will he be tho debtor of any one.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-12-14
SENSITIVE.

"I'll give you square meal" she
said, "if you'll chop that wood. That's
oil I've got to say to you"
Madam" said Wandering Mike,
care you maxim that proposition COS
ye need the wood split, er out o. the
kindness of yer hearth"
"Why-I amt in any particular
need of the wood"
81 suspected it from yer manner.
Madam, low OF 1 hev sunk, I am still
too proud to accept charity"
And he stalked haughtily away
Washington Star.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-12-14
DIPLOMATIC RErrcsNcE.

The social refofmer was paying o
visit to the convicts in the peni-
tentiary and asking them various
questions.
"And what are you doing here, my
friend?" he said to good-looking
man in the shoeshop.
Making Shoes" was the reply that
discouraged any further inquisition in
that direction. Free Press.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-12-14

A close observer is quoted by tho
Chicago Times as saying that one rea-
son why women has not reached emf
hence in tho mechanical arts is that
she has never been known to riso
superior to the idea that the right way
to drive q nail is to do it with both
eyes shut.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-12-14

The Atlanta Constitution advises
Southern farmers to pillow up their
cotton and plant corn and millet. 1t
asserts that food for stock will be high
this year, and cotton very low.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-12-14
A LOVE OF A DoNNET.

There was price upon her head.
She was very calm. A smile played
about her lips.
"'Tis WE'LL !"
She paused moment in thought.
"'Tis we'll will take it,
Then che removed the price from
her head. There WIS trifie of lace,
and flower or two, of course; but
the hat was mostly price. Puck.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-12-14
A MUCH NEEDED LESSON,
DY GODFREY oUoRLEs.

)UbD Paul Will
Jams have known
tho misfor tun o
that was to befall
him scarcely n
hour later, perhaps
he would not have
walked as jauutily
down the steps of
tho Porter House
and out into the
Main street of
j o nspOrt. tho
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-12-14
A pRILLIANT TALKER.

GLOW do you like your new neigh
Dor, Mr.. Snook?"
"He's most charming man, aud a
magnificent conversationalist. Why,
last evening he listened to my explain
ing my evolution theories for two
hours, and never Clipped in a word I"
Chicago Tribune.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-12-14
WHY THE I1aurN1No STRUCK.

che was standing in the doorway
and the lightning struck him on his
bald head and killed him."
al suppose the lightning struck
him on his bald head because death
loves shining mark"
"No; because nature abhors n
vacuum. Chicago Tribune.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-12-14

Herbert Spencer says that thirty
per cont. of the people who receive
gratuitous medical attendance at tho
London hospitals and dispensaries are
able to pay their doctors,
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-12-14
FULLY QUALIFIED.

First Politician-"As no is a man
of great ability, We may use him as an
orator"
Second ''But it is his
habit to keep his mouth shut, and
never say word"
First Politician-"Then we'll make
him boss Puck.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-12-14
AN OPTION.

"Ethel," he whispered, "will you
marry me?"
81 don't know. Charles" she re-
piled, coyly.
"Well, when you find out" he said,
rising, "send me word, will your
shall be Mt Mabel H1ckss until 10
o'clock. If don't hear from you by
10, Pm going to ask her."
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-12-14
NOT HIS FAULT.

Reginald -"Bah Jove, Miss Ed
gerly, do you know, had some cards
engraved recently, and tho beastly
stationer made a mistake and put on
Miss instead of Mr."
Miss Edgerly-"You must have or
dered them in person. Detroit FREQ
Press.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-12-14
THE CURRENCY OF INTELLECT.

THE CURRENCY OF INTELbEcT.
EDO you pny for poetry?" asked the
pretty girl.
Yves" replied the editor, with
some hesitation.
"What do you pny?"'
Compliments. Washington Star.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-12-14
ASKED FOR.

did you tender your resignntion?"
said man to on office holder.
u resigned by request, sir. but
there was nothing tender about it. 1t
was toug b, sir. "-Pittsburg Chronicle
Telegraph.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-12-14

hnte to sit thirteen Mt table
Though least supersti;ious OF men
Hhen noting my host Is unable
10 furnish provisions for ten.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-12-14
PRECIOUS MOMENTS.

Sneak Thief Dill-"Got the time
about, mister p
Pedestrian-"Yes, but I haven't o
moment to spare. - Raymond's
Monthly.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-12-14
BUDGET OF FUN.
HUMOROUS SKETCHES FROM
VARIOUS SOURCES.

\ Rhyme OF the "13" Superstition
Precious NIomeuts-On Other
Shoulders-Asked For
An Option, Etc.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-12-14

A regularly organized System of re-
lleylng poverty has been in vogue in
Chi"a for more than 1900 years,
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-12-14
on orHEn sHou1pEps.

"How is Dyking getting on with the
farm he .bought?"
Pretty we'll. He tells me he saved
money on it last year."
"Ho%?"
'Let it to another man. It'll Bits.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-12-14
..ss:9sss

: Souisville Courier-Journal ha,
az 81 war on the bicycle, which IL
siared to be tan unmitigated
nuisance on the streets"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-12-14

BUDGET OF FUN.
HUMOROUS SKETCHES FRo,,
VARIOUS SOURCES.
A Rhyme OF the "13'' Superstition
Precious NIoments-On Other
Shoulders-Asked For
An Option, Etc.
hnte to SIT thirteen Mt table
Though least superstitious OF men
Rhen noting my host Is unable
40 furnish provisions for ten.
PRECIOUS MOMENTS.
Sneak Thief Dill-"Got the time
about, mister2
Pedestrian-"Yes, but I haven't q
moment to spare. - Raymond's
Monthly.
ASKED FOR.
did you tender your resignation? ?"
said man to ON office holder.
81 resigned by request, sir, but
there was nothing tender about it. It
was tough, sir. "-Pittsburg Chronicle
Telegraph.
on OTHER SHOULDERS.
'How is Dyking getting on with the
farm he .bought?"
Pretty we'll. He tells me he saved
money on it last year."
'Ho%?"
"Let it to another man. Tit Bits.
THE CURRENCY OF INTELLECT.
"Do you pay for poetry?" asked the
pretty girl.
yves" replied the editor, with
some hesitation.
"What do you pny?"'
Compliments. - Washington Star.
NOT HIS FAULT.
Reginald -"Bah Jove, Miss Ed
gerly, do you know, 1 had some cards
engraved recently, and tho beastly
stationer made a mistake and put on
Miss instead of Mr.
Miss Edgerly must have or
dered them in person. Detroit Free
Press.
BRILLIANT TALKER.
elbow do you like your new neigh
Dor, Mr.. Snook?"
"He's most charming man, aud a
magnificent conversationalist. Why,
last evening he listened to my explain
ing my evolution theories for two
hours, and never Clipped in a word I"
Chicago Tribune.
FULLY QUALIFIED.
First Politician-"As no is n man
of great ability, we may use him as an
orator."
Second "But it is his
habit to keep his mouth shut, and
never say word"
First Politician "Then we'll make
him boss Puck.
WHY THE LIGHTNING STRUCK.
''He WAS standing in the doorway
and the lightning struck him on his
bald head and killed him."
81 suppose the lightning struck
him on his bald head because death
loves shining mark"
ono; because nature abhors n
vacuum. Chicago Tribune.
AN OPTION.
"Ethcl," he whispered, "will you
marry me?"
81 don't know, Charles" she re-
piled, coyly.
"Well, when you find out" he said,
rising, ''send me word, will your /
shall be at Mabel H1ckss until 10
o'clock. If I don't hear from you by
10, Pm going to ask her."
A LOVE OF DoNNET.
There was price upon her head.
She was very calm. A smile played
about her lips.
"'ris WE'LL"
She paused moment in thought.
"'Tis we'll will take it,
Then she removed the price from
her head. There WIS trifie of lace,
and flower or two, of course; but
the hat was mostly price. PUCK.
DIPLOMATIC RETIcENCE.
The social reformer was paying q
visit to the convicts in the peni-
tentiary and asking them various
questions.
"And what are you doing here, my
friend?" he said to good-looking