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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-03-16
THE STORY OF "rHE LADIES. )"

In Llangollen, Wales, the good fol
speak of "the Ladies'" and visitors by
the score make pilgrimage to the little
town to see the cottage where eth,
Ladies" lived. They were pair o
friends who forsook their families and
forswore marriage in order that their
days might be spent together.
Lady Eleanor Butler was the older
and the richer of the two who in ITS
fled from their Irish homes and estab
lished themselves at Plas Newydd, and
Miss Ponsonby was the younger. With
them fled Lady Eleanor's maid, Mary
Caryll, who lived with them until her
death. For fifty years they lived to-
gether in the little house that stood
among the most peaceful and beauti-
full surroundings. There were valleys
in sight and mountains with strange
Welsh names; there was mountain
stream dashing down in miniature cas-
cades. Within the house were carved
oak panellings, window-doors and
crossbeams, and an ideal combination
nj luxury and simplicity,
Az the years passed on and sho PEG
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THE HIGHEST AWARD,


Royal Baking Powder has all the
Honors-In Strength and Value 20
per cent. above it's Nearest Com
potitor.
Tho Royal Baking Powder has the
envioblo record of having received the
highest award for articles of its Gloss
greatest strength, purcst ingre.
dients, most perfectly combined--
Wherever exhibited in competition with
others. In tho exhibitions of former
years, at tho Centennial, as Paris.
Vienna and nj tho various State and
Industrial fairs, whoro it has been ok.
hlbitcd, Judges havo invariably award
cd tho Royal Baking Powder tho high.
est honors.
At the recent Worlds Fair the OK
animation for tho baking powder
awards wero directed by tho chief
chemist of tho Agricultural Depart-
mont at Washington. The chief chem.
lists official report Of tho tests of tho
baking powders, which was made for
tho specific purpose of ascertainiup
which was tho best, shows tho leav,n-
ing strength of tho Royal to DO 100
cubic inches of carbonic gus pc- ounce
of powder. OF tho cream of tartar
baking powders exhibited, the next
highest i'll strength tested contained
but lob cubic inches of lcnvcning gas.
Tho other powders gnvo IN average OF
III. Tho Roynl, therefore, was found
OF twcniy per cent. greater leavenine
strength than it's nearest competitor,
and forty-four per cent. above tho
average of NIL tho other tests. Its
superiority i'll other respects, however,
in tho quality of tho food it makos as
to fineness, dolicacy and wholesome.
ness, could not DO measured by fig-
ures.
1t is these high qualities, known and
appreciated by tho women of tho coun-
try for 30 many years, that have
caused tho salcs of tho Royal Baking
Powder, as shown by statistics, to ex-
coed tho sale of all other baking pow.
dcrs combined.
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KNOWLEDGE

Brings comfort and improvement and,
tends to personal enjoyment when
rightly used. The many, who live bet
ter than others and enjoy fife more, with
less expenditure, by moro promptly
adapting tho worlds best products to
tho needs of physical being, will attest
tho value to health of the pure liquid
laxative principles embraced in tho
remedy, Syrup of Figs.
It's excellence is duo to its presenting
i'll tho form most acceptable and pleas,
ant to tho taste, tho refreshing and truly
beneficial properties of perfect lax
ativo; eiloctually cleansing tho system,
dispclling colds, headaches and fevera
and permanently curing constipation.
1t has given satisfaction to millions and
met with tho approval of tho medical
profession, because it acts on tho Kid
ncys, Liver and Bowels without weak
cning them and it is perfectly free from
every Objectionable substance.
Syrup of Figs Is for sale by all drug
sists in 50c and 81 bottles, but it is man.
ufacturcd by tho California Fig Syrup
Co. only, whose name is printed on every
package, also tho name, Syrup of Figs,
and being we'll informed, you will not
accept any substitute if offered.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-03-16
How Mail Clerks Assist tho Memory,

Tho railway postal clerks havo n
unique method for learning tho
routes on which post Offices arc sit
unted. Take, for example, tho State
of Pennsylvania, i'll thero aroover
5000 offices. The prospective mil
distributor buys quantity of
blank cards-nbout tho size of tho
ordinary visiting card-and on each
of these he writes the namo of tho
route by which tho Office is served
with its mail. Taking in hand pack
age of these cards-sny from fifty to
1O0-ho goes over them one after an
other studiously, looking Mt tho bncls
each time and getting the name and
route clearly associated in his mind.
Tho second time he goes through the
pnck ho finds that no knows tho half
of the route by reading tho name of
tho Office. 1t is IL dull student who
upon going over pncl of cards n
dozen times docs not know them thor
oughly. Tho method is so simple and
such an MD to mcmorizing thnt it is
adopted by all railway mail clerks
BY it clerks hive been known to
mcporizo State like Pennsylvania
inside of two months.
Ga NIL large routes clerks work but
half time, the other half being devoted
to rest and study. Tho mail clerk Mt
home, continually reminded of coming
examinations, carries his cards where
over he goes. coming them over Mt
every opportunity. Ono demopstrative
clerk on the New York and Pittsburg
II. p. 0. is famed for having learned
the State of Ohio in four days. AS he
shulllcd over his cards no walked from
CARROT TO cellar, and vice vcrsa, from
dawn until tho shades of twilight fell
On tho fourth day he went to the OK
aminers Office and separated Ohio
without nm error. Scientific American.
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Some Ancient Locks.

Tho discoursing of locks and eafcs
before the students of the Nottingham
University, Mr.. G. II. Chubb had
much to sny upon an interesting sub
ject. Il is curious that, in tho wooden
Egyptian locks Of remote antiquity,
many germs are found of tho essential
features of good modern locks. In
China, where few things change, n
well-defined Roman style of paddock is
to this day in almost universal use,
but whether the Chinese copied tho
Romans, or the notion by some means
POUNDS its way from China to Rome,
nre questions it would puzzle Beck
man to determine. The simple device
of having the hollow stem or pipe of q
key open Mt each end, so that dirt or
other obstruction could be pushed
through, is as old ms the Roman EN-
pire. Nevertheless, hardly year
passes without some enthusiastic in
yentor rediscovoring it and Offering to
part with his idea for n largo money
consideration. Generally speaking, it
is ut tho commencement ofthe mediae-
val period that VIC begin to find keys
like our own. The old puzzle paddock
in its improved form WAS, it appears,
the work of Frenchman named
Regnier at the end of the last century.
The famous Chubb lock, invented and
patented in 1878 by the lecturers
grandfather and great uncle, owed It's
notoriety chiefly to its containing q
mechanicism called a "Detector," by
means of which the owner could tell if
any one had attempted to open it with
false key. It's details are so numer.
GUS and varied that it is said to be
easier and cheaper to make two OF
them to differ than to make two alike.
London News.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-03-16
Pens OF All Ages.

The. patent Office at Washington has
collection of pens that illustrates the
difficulties with which men had to con-
tend before they found suitable in
strument with which to write Their
are the styluses used by the ancient !;
the instruments for writing on wax
tablets, one end sharp like nm awl, the
other fiat like It paper cutter There
are the brushes used by the japanese
and Chinese of the present day, mn /.
quilts of every variety, together WITH
an infinite number of steel pens. Blu
the most curious are some quill pen
with steel points. They were made in
an effort to do away with the constant
necessity for the mcnding OF the pen,
II process that few could perform
properly and that everybody hated.
Tho effort was very ingenious, but UNI
successful, because the points could
not be made to stay. Chicago Herald.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-03-16
they are not allowed to oumber
crowded cellars, but arc SGT where
they will freeze and stay frozen. II
is considered the proper way to take
caro- Of them. Now York Recorder.
HomicIdal Cranks.

Therecent shocking murder of Mayor
Harrison calls attention again to tho
danger to which society is subjected
by the half-mad. Tho name which
science gives to their malady is para
noia persecutoria. It is not, however,
so much n real disease as il is On in
herent defect in tho structure of tho
brain. This defect exists in many,
but it is overcome and controlled by
education and training. In tho homi-
cidal paranoiao natural defects and
natural bad propensities are increased
by bad habits of life and thought. For
example, by tho over-indulgence in
| alcohol, tobacco and cxcitablo haran-
guing o man who hNs simply exaggera-
ted political views becomes q political
criminal or murderer. Tho question
naturally arises whether tho homioidnl
paranoiac has como with lis to stay
and to increase in numbers and ac-
tivity. Already it is necessary for
public men to exercise caro- in admit
ting people to audience, and the lifo
of the American millionaire or high
political funotionary is, perhaps,
already quite rs uneasy as that of tho
Oar of Russia
Wo see no Immediate prospect of re-
lief from this condition of things. Cor
tainly lynching will do no good,
though 80 strongly recommended by
many. Whether such people should
be hanged is question to be decided
in oach individual case. In some in
stances it is surely necessary and holp.
full, oven if from our standpoint it
seems cruel. But cranks and para
noiacs will not be suppressed by hang
ing, because they often love notorioty
moro than they fear death, or arc i'm.
PEELED to thoir not by morbid instinct
which no prospect of future punish
mcnt can suppress. Tho paranoic ia
tho result of bad breeding, and no will
flourish as long rs neurotio pooplo in
termarry and give birth to children
whose morbid tendencies are allowed
to develop. TO prevent tho increase
of tho paranoiacs We need good fath-
crs and mothers. Medical Record.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-03-16
FASHIONS CONSTANT CHANGES.

The constant changes of fashion in
relation to out-of-door garments are
quite serious consideration to those
who formerly made their handsome
coats last two or three seasons, and
even then did not find themselves very
much behind the time. Now, nearly
every year one is compelled to recog-
nize the fact that the fashions of n
typical yesterday are emphatically not
the fashions of to-day. Certain lead
ing striking features are introduced
every season, even when the old lines
are to great extent followed, but the
former serve to date the garment more
effectively. A fashionable gown, if
not pronounced in style and fabric,
may be brought up to date by certain
additions and alterations, but it is
much more difficult, and often quite
impossible, to produce the same result
where out-of-door garments are con-
cerned. Cloth is more impracticable
to deal with than silk or stuff goods,
and there is not the same latitude. =
New York Post.
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TELn.TALE cuRrArSs.

An observant woman says that
people conspicuously advertise their
good or bad taste by the character of
the curtains with which they dress
their front windows. Having occasion
to look up n family whom she knew to
be dainty III house-furnishinss, she de-
cided on reaching the street in which
they lived. that she could identify the
house by the character of the curtains
The house that she had supposed to be
the one sho decided against solely be-
cause. of its ugly curtains, and she con-
iidently rang tho bell of another be-
cause it was tastefully curtained 1t
proved to be. the right house. New
York Witness.
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WOMEN IN MANY FIELDS.

1t is stated that there is only one
woman journalist of reputation and
influence in France. This is Nine.
Severine, and it is alleged that she
makes from $4,000 to S15, 1000 year
by her writings. The author of this
transformation, now going the rounds
of the American press, should feel
ashamed of himself, or herself, as the
case may be. First of ali there are q
good many women employed to do
odds and ends of work on the French
newspapers, and these might be called
journalists for the use of better term
and also because the word journalist
rolls off the tongue in an easy and
graceful way. None of these women
make from So, 900 to $15, 600 year.
Neither does Nine. Severine make this
amount out of her newspaper writings.
She does make quite comfortable in
come from her feuilletons, her stories,
and her magazine work. But no
women engaged in journalism any
where in the world are paid SO we'll for
their labors as the American women.
And of all those engaged in journalism
directly, / doubt if there is one whose
income from her newspaper writings
alone will average $4,000 n year. Per.
haps I should except Mrs. Margaret j.
Sullivan from this list. There is hardly
newspaper of Importance in America
that has not from one to five women
on its staff, but in no case that I know
of is their pay over $50 week. Many
of these women are very talented and
readily earn snug sum from magazine
writing and other special work. But
the woman who earns 500 week by
her pen, even in these golden lays OF
woman's usefulness, is very rare, in
deed.--New York Advertiser.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-03-16
How to Eat n RadIsll.

Many clever people who have dys-
pepsiq-it is almost always exceeding
ly bright people that suffer from this
diabolical inhiction-cannot eat rad
ishes. This brilliantly colored vege-
table fortunately is not such an cpl
curean eatable that it is hard to resist
but like all things in tho world it is
not lacking i'll experimentation it
often forces to lie awake thinking
about it. A Frcnchman discovered
that if you quartcred the radish just
rs you would nm apple, without cut
ting through the top, and filled the
intcrstices with butter, and sailed and
peppercd it, You might indulge in rad
ishes with impunity. A buttered rad.
ish tastes better than it sounds and
discounts ice cream poppered, that
finds favor with not few fastidious
commands. New York Herald,
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-03-16
Preservation of Pictures.

The preservation of pictures has now
become in London, it would seem, rs
the result of some very ingenious ex-
periments, irregular scientific proceed
ing, if the accounts given are to be re-
lied upon. It is simply placing the
surface of the picture, be it OF canvas
or paper, i'll vacuum, thus protecting
it from the usual atmospheric action,
which is SO deteriorating In carrying
out this plan the picture is enclosed in
metal frame or vase, covering the
bnck and sides, and projecting from
the sides like an ordinary frame. In
the edges of this case plate of glass
is inserted, just as in an ordinary
frame, and Dramatically sealed to the
metal. The mir is then withdrawn
from between the surf1ce of the pict-
ure and the glass, and thus the picture
is in a vacuum. 1t is asserted that the
effect of this plan is to completely pro-
tect pictures from the action of damp
ness, air, gases and other causes that
operate to destroy paintings expose /
or framed in the ordinary way. -Bos-
ton Cultivator.
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uangcr III Cranes.

There is probably no more delicious
fruit growing than the grape, and
certainly none more relshed by the
Lamajority of people, but like all
othe1 slaasurable things of the Sc
ductive nature, -the grape has it's
dangers, dangers often quite as fatal
as the memorable grape" of Capt
Bragg, of military fame. People so
inordinately fond of the fruit should
observe extra caution to never swallow
the seeds. While the pulp of the
grape is exceedingly nutricicus and
healthful, and while even the acid in
the skins may be beneficial, yet the
skins and seeds are totally indigest-
fble. The seeds accommodating in
the intestincs often find Judgment
in a blind sack Of the bowel, known to
medical men as the yerirorm appen-
dix, from which only prompt, skill
full and dangerous operation can re-
lieve the sufferer. Every year during
the grape season many fatal cases Of
bowel trouble ocur.
Recently a woman at Grand RAPIDS
had what the physicians believed
was cholera. Thorough Investigation
revealed the fact that her suffering
was caused wholly by grape seed.
A little wisdom, Judgment and
proper caution would relieve the bur-
den of objection TO this luscious and
otherwise healthful fruit. Children
and hearty, rapid eaters should be
carefully posted regarding this hid
den danger.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-03-16

ENGLAND has no monopoly of
grand old men," Good and great
Marshal Canrobert, kneeling in tho
Chapel of the Invalides, when his
follow veteran MacMahon was brought
home to his last rest under the same
roof with Napoleon, furnished a
splendid example OF endurance amid
the worlds rough usage. Canrobert
is eight-four, and the last of the
French Marshals. He has seen his
fellow campaigncrs in Algeria and
those by whom he fought side by
side at Magenta and Soldering depart
one by one; yet he fingers, as if un-
willing to surrender the baton which
represents such historic memories.
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ovEREATINSIa,..
eh' Habit Is FrapEhs With tho Graves.

INC Habit Is Fraught With Tho s,r.s...
Danger.
Because of the peculiar sion,f,can. -
wn,ch now attaches to the word
temperance" we should NOT foroar
/, tnat Every man that stPlyeth For
the mastery is temperate in Mi
Things" and that it Is lust ma hind.
Ing on us to show moderation IN o,,r
use OF the necessities Of life as In our
use OF It's luXuries. Even the neces.
sities OF life may become superflui.
Ties through their quantity and DUAL.
lty being raised to the point of lux.
ury. Take, for example, the fond.
supply of the body.
1t Is obvious that the body must
have rich, force-supplying food in
order to carry on its daily tasks. Yet
the fact is often lost sight of that an
over supply of food to the body. like
oyercoaling the steam engine, is pro.
ductive of nothing but waste. Mora
steam is made than can be used
Nor Is this all. In such finely
adjusted machine as the human body
no one piece of the complex organism
san be overworked except at the
hiGlmale expense of the rest.
Not only are we innicting the
stomach with an unnecessary amount
of work when we crowd it with food.
but we are to the same extent inn.
posing upon the other organs. AS a
: matter of fact, it is the liver which
GENERALLY gets the brunt of the extra
burden, though the heart and kid
neys are also affected to a greater or
less degree.
Among the disorders caused by
this suDeriluous condition are hamor-
rh0lds or bleeding piles.
To ascertain the proper proportion
between the demand and supply of
the body, one must consider not only
the peculiar needs of each person.
but the season of the year. Heat is
the unit of force in the body; but
while forcc-supplying food may be as
necessary in summer as in winter.
the need for fats, or hydro carbons'
as they are called, to maintain the
bodily heat is by no means so urgent.
For one who is properly familiar
with the resources of his own body,
and who is not blinded by appetite,
1T is comparatively easy to discover,
to remarkable degree of nicely, tho
amount and kind OF food which his
system requires.
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FASHION NOTES.

Many of the new costumes show the
pointed apron overskirt.
Glass cracker jars with waving rings
and silver covers are new.
The use of olivines in foliage in
wreath brooches is very good.
Receptacles of silver, net-purse-
shaped, are made to carry the hand
kerchief in.
Fancy woven moose cloth comes up
among the handsome novelties in win
ter dress fabrics.
The marquiso rings are longer than
ever and SO slender that they might be
used us weapons of offense.
Evening shades in faille, armure
silk, and fancy sntins are sold at less
than half their former prices.
There is no end to the enameled
salt cellars iii silver gilt and the tea
strainers with enamelcd borders.
The cnpe in plush velvet or fur is
again fnvorito garment, not so much
for the street, but for the theatre.
There is no between this season.
Either ones coat must be short to the
waist line like the zouave OF long to
knee.
Many fancy pieces i'll capes and col
lars are seen in the shops, and are sure
to be extremely popular with plain
outdoor coat.
A new brooch of pink shell, convolv-
ulous-shaped, was wreathed i'll diamond
foliage with tiny gold Cupid crawl
ing from out it depths.
The newest bedroom silver candle.
sticks are low with square bases.
These are upturned mt the edges and
have perforated diamond shaped or
naments ut the angles.
Heavy wooden dress materials hav-
ing chine or clouded ground with
bright dashes of color here and there,
are made up with moire bodice trinf-
mings the shade of the gay color.
A pretty Persian lamb neckpieco is
made with pointed cape in the back,
coming over the shoulders and extend
ing down into two long tabs, which
reach to the knees. Ithas very high
Mcdici collar.
The newest floral jewelry has the
petals trimmed either with small dia-
monds or with gold or colored mark
ings. This is much better. A new
mourning brooch has crumpled petals
rs i'll n carnation.
Bear in boas and muffs is always
popular. A bon is the prettiest and
most graceful finish to street toilet
The mink tippet is also pretty, but a
long fur boa is apt to cntwine heart
in its graceful lines.
Among the pretty costumes for
slender youthful wenrers are those
having skirts of either crimson benga-
line or richly plaided silk and satin
mixtures, with skirted Russian blouse
or black velvet trimmed with jotted
collar and girdle. Tho sleeves are OK
ira full and the blouse and skirts
lined with shot silk The skirt OF
plain bengaline or plaid is made in
full circular form, with velvet ruche
three inches wide as finish.
The two-toned folt hats of the sen
son have found much favor, especially
in the plateau and sailor shapes. and
in the novelties narrow behind and
with raised sides. Good combinations
are tobacco and moss green, golden
brown and tan, blue and red, gray
and rescda. Black and white two
toned felts in plateau shape are in
constant demand. These arc trimmed
with ribbon loops, stiff wings, Jet
aigrettcs and buckles.
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WOMAN'S WORLD.
PLEASANT LITERATURE For
FEaIiNiNE READERS.
HAIR DRYING sroyrs.

;. In the hair-dressing parlors of New
YORK where women pay fifty cents for
shampoo and seyenty-6ve cents for n
shampoo with whipped egg trimmings,
the tresses are dried over small
sheet,iron stove. The attendant mops
tue wig with II towel, and then wheels
the tabled-stoye up to the customers
oacN, lets the hair hang down tin
spout, turns on the gas, gives her 4
fashion paper to read and goes off for
twenty or thirty minutes to shampoo
or cnrl another customer. New York
World.