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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-04-12

An embarrassing surprise awaits
any unwary bank robbcr who NAV
drop in any of the banks of Russell
Aan.' announces the Chicago Herald
There havo been several hold-ups Of
cashiers in that noighborhood lately
and the citizens havo clubbed together
to protect their wealth on deposit in
the local banks. The floor of eocb
bank is studded with electric nnsb
buttons, any ono of which will set n
score or moro gongs a-ringing on tho
streets and in public place., md n
double barrelod shotgun has been
placed in handy spot in every prom.
lnent spot. Should would-bo rob-
Der poke gun in at the cash window
the cashier will simply put up his
hands, step on the button and tho cit
liens will do the rest.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-04-12
WORDS OF WISDOM.

We are never wholly glad to SOC old
friends.
Why worry about our successors?
We are here. n
Even tho great American hog has
merit of persisteney. 4
You can worry over o years work,
but not do it, in On hour.
The man who can talk about himself
md be interesting is genius.
No man is SO old that he cannot run
upon o new way of being fool.
There's no merit in tho consistency
that keeps man constant to his mis-
takes.
He lives thankless lifo who can ex-
plot other mems enterprises and not
his own. !,
When everybody con reform every
body else tho bow of promise will be
fixture.
1t is never worth wbilo to DO dis
couraged just because our intimates
say "Boshl" :.
The 'middlc-class mind" unknown
In Greece or Rome, is the directing
force in society to-day. :
A man never grows moro eloquent
about hard times than when he talks
about them to his wife.
The man who is always thinking OF
OWL things willmost likely bo sufferer
from his own thoughts. j,
1t is not always the damage of an
injury that is CALLING. but tho spirit
in which it is prompted. i
1t is said, "Ho laughs best who
laughs last" It may be so; but he
has less time to enjoy himself.
He lives high who skins tho cream
of life, but he does not fare badly who
bores hole in tho bottom of tho pan.
Often We say, something is always
happening to man." whereas it is the
man who is always happening to some
thing.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-04-12
VELVET DRESS

would be much better off Mt the end
of tho season.
Ono of tho best dressed women in
the country makes it rule to put
away money to buy one good dress n
year, and it is n good one. Little by
little sho denies herself articles that
she thinks sho can get along without,
because of the satisfaction she finds in
the possession of something quite out
OF tho common. Among h4r present
seasons Investments is skirt of good
black velvet, call silk" sho com
plnccntly murmurcd to herself, as she
put it on for tho first time. A
shower of fino jets over tho front
of tho skirt she mndo for herself
ut very small cost, and with this she
wears waists of various sorts. Ono is
n lemon-yollow silk striped with black
velvet ribbon, the edges of tho ribbon
finished with very narrow very fine let
trimming. A collarette and belt of
velvet, lined with yellow and edged
with Jet, completes costume TINT is
simply regal in appearance. Another
waist is of pale.bluo chiffon striped
with darker blue velvet ribbon with Il
silver embroidered edge. The collar
and belt, of course, match, and Il
fringe of tiny silver-lined beads with
Jet falls over the front of the skirt.
The most stylish skirts are without
trimming, but there are many ladies
who do not seem to care for this, and
ornament their skirts in vnrious WAYS.
In one model there are velvet flowers
appliqued on in lines down the edges
OF the platte, in others there are very
full rose ruchings Mt the foot of the
skirt. Others have embroidered
edges with fine beads and heavy cord
silk. Embroidery of all sorts is some
times seen on skirts, but this is merely
for variety and is not considered tho
extreme of fashion.
All of tho enumeration is concen-
trated on the waist. and certainly
there ID quite enough of it. Never
has there been such an evident effort
to overdo oil reason and sense as mp
pears in the present styles. A concert
waist has enormous sleeves shaped
like beer kegs. Around the neck is q
collar made of braided velvet. From
this there are clusters OF loops pro.
]ecting on either side. Below this
collar is yoke edged with wide vel
vet ribbon, with very large bows on
tho shoulders, and below this is fall
OF lace that extends to the waist-lino
IN front, and covers the tops of the
voluminous sleeves. The distance
between tho outer edges OF these
sleeves, with this enormous frill over
them, is almost incredible. 1t is i'm
possible for the wearer to pass through
an ordinary-sized door without touch
Ing the castings on either hand. This
waist is worn with skirt Of satin with
velvet belt and long ends, and largo
velvet bows set ut intervals on tho
waist.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-04-12
HOW TO BUY A HORSE.

An old horseman says: If you want
to buy horse, don't believe your
own brother. Take no mans word
for it. Your ego is your market.
Don't buy horse in harness. I'm
hitch him and take everything off but
his halter, and lead him around. If
he has corn or is stiff, or has any
failing, you can SEQ it. Let him go
himself way, and if no walks right
INTO anything, You now that no is
blind. No matter how clear and
bright his eyes are, he can't see any
moro than bat. Back him, too.
Some horses show their weaknesses or
tricks in that way whom they DON'T in
'any other. But, BIO rs smart as you
can, you'll get caught sometimes.
Even tho expert gets stuck. A horse
may look ever SO nice and go n great
pace, and yet have fits. There isn't q
man who could tell it until something
happens. Or lie may have weak
back. Give him tho whip and off he
goes for milo or two, then all of q
sudden no stops on tho road. After
rest he starts again, but he soon
stops for good, and nothing but der
rick can start him. The weak points
about horse can better be discovered
whale standing than while moving. II
no is sound, no will stand firmly and
equarely on his limbs without moving
them, with legs plumb and naturally
poised; or il the foot is taken rrfrom
tho ground, and tho weight taken
from it, disease may DO suspected, or,
at least, tenderness, which is the pre-
cursor of disease. If n horse stands
with his feet spread apart or straddles
with his hind legs, there is weak
ness IN his loins and tho kidneys are
1isoriered. Heavy pulling bends the
knees. Blush. milky cast eyes in
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-04-12
A Cave of Bats.

The San francisco Call describes q
cave of bats, which is found in Caweah
canyon in the recesses of the Sierra
Nevadas. The cave is in the wall Of
tho canyon, not fur back from tho
water in the rainy season, and there
is nothing about the appe arance OF
tho opening to attract attention DUR
ing the day. But approach the place
ut about dusk and black stream of
shadowy forms will be seen passing in
and out of the opening, accompanied
by tho most peculiar odor in the world
and soft,-rustling sound. Tho bats
have been asleep all day and are going
IN search OF food. To enter the cave in
the daytime is not difficult task, but
is somewhat unpleasant. Tho open
ing is largo and man can enter in
an erect position. About ten feet In
the entrance makes a turn and o inky
blackness exists. Go little farther,
SO as to be, away from tho mir OF tho
entrance, and a most disagreeable
odor strikes tho nostrils. md every
lew feet one treads upon the body OF
bat. While the cave is in darkness
most profound silence exists, but
strike light and sound like q water
ieil Is heard. Thousands of bats that
nave been asleep at once awake and
commence to fly In circles about the
cavern, which can DO seen to be very
large: Round and round they go, in
creaslng IN speed every moment, and
the, odor of tho cave becomes moro
ana more disagreeablc. When this
happens 1t IS wise thing for the ex-
piofer to mako his escape and post
pone further investigation until
night, at which time the cave is de-
serted. Even the dead bats on the
floor will disappear, having been
eaten by the others US soon us they
invoke.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-04-12
POPULAR SCIENCE.
Celery is good for the nerves.

Oeiofy u BOOu IOr bne nerves.
Milk, boiled with fino sugar, will
keep during long voyage.
Cinnamon as q cure for cenccr in its
earlier stages is advocated by writer
in tho London Lancet.
Patents hnvo just been issued ut
Washington to Western man for an
electrical device making collision Of
trains impossible.
Paul Yernier, mathematical prod
igy of eighteen, has been admitted
without examination to tho Higher
Normal School in Paris.
Pneumatic tires on the wheels Of
cabs have been successfully used in
Glasgow and Dublin. Passengers
greatly prefer these cabs, as they les.
sen the jolting.
The New. York Board of Health has
discovered thnt there is fraudulent
anti-toxino on tho market. It is
harmless, but absolutely ,yaluelcss,
and resembles the true serum only i'll
color.
Chimneys smoke because the carbon
OF the coal is disintograted and drawn
of by the heat instead of being con-
sumed In tho fire. A furnace proper
ly tended would not smoke, Us oil the
fuel would be consumed.
A cat is enabled to. send out or to
retract her claws, because the bone
to which tho claw is attached has
rotary movement on the bono above,
and powerful ligament draws tho
formor down and exhibits tho claw.
Professor Roux, of Paris, is credit
ed with the statement that IN the Paris
hospitals seventy-tive per cent. OF tho
children inoculated with Behring's
anti-diphtheritine (serum taken from
horses) were saved, while only forty
per cent. of the uninoculated sur
vived.
The coolest place in the world, nc.
cording to Professor Wild, of st.
Petersburg, is Werchoyansk, in ST.
boria. He found tho mean tempera-
ture in July thirteen above zero, in
January flfty-thrce below, and for tho
entire year 1913 below zero (centi-
grade).
n reihur huole cuse OF rapid CROWN
has recently been investigated by the
French Academic DIES Sciences A boy
at the ago Of five began to grow q
beard and to change his voice; ho
seemed man of thirty. AT SIX years
old he was five feet six and strong
enough to lift and carry on his back
bags of grain weighing 200 pounds
At eight his hair and beard turned
gray, at ten his teeth fell out and his
hands and legs became palsicd, and at
twelve he died.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-04-12
Chinese Prisoners.

Describing visit to prison in
Canton, Florence O'Driscoll, NJ. P,
says in the Century,:
I had hardly finished my investiga-
ton of this weird and morbidly fas.
cinatlng picture when heard tire.
mendous clanking of chains over the
stone paving. Three men we're COM
ing along, and another walked about
twenty yards behind. All wore
hobble- chains, and, in addition, each
carried n large block Of granite in his
hands that must have weighed at least
fifty pounds.
As they drew closer, I saw that these
stone blocks had holes In the centre
md that through them ran long chains.
Each chain was rove through another
fastened around tho mans waist, and
running free, was carried up and
welded around his neck. Tho four
men had hardly sat down when another,
similarly fettered, appeared, coming
down the long courtyard. lie joined
them, and they sat in row.
L had not seen these fellows when
walking through the prison. They
presented the usual semi-ragged, IN.
shaven, unwashed, hungry, aud wholly
rapncious appearance. Some looked
defiant, Others broken-spirited; ono
looked coward and q sneak, and I
said i'll my own mind that he was tho
worst scoundrel of oil.
Still no magistrate appeared, aud 1
had leisure to examine tho surround
ings. The materials for turbulent
scene were present: first, the prison
ers; and, second, certain instruments
OF coercive nature.
There were four or five wooden col.
lars stacked like states against wall.
A narrow ring Mt the edge of tho neck
hole was worn bright and shiny. II
ended abruptly In ridge of black
dirt, which edged off outwardly, and
faded into the dull, dusty roughuess
of tao main surface. A few knotted
scourges hung from nail close by,
and also q piece OF heavy leather like
boot-sole.
The guide told mo that this was for
beating tho prisoners across the mouth
when they cried out too much during
examination.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-04-12

DR.. John I. Maggie, statistician Of
the New York Health Department., is
preparing report for the Tenemont
House Commission which, the Tribune
maintains, will be powerful praoti.
col argument in favor of small parks
In the crowded sections of the CITY
The report will deal with tho dcotb
rate among the tenement house ponu.
iatlon and point out tho decrenso in
the vicinity of the small parks estab.
ished IN recent years. Tho desira-
bility of such parks is generally nd.
mlttcd, but probably their necessity
is not recognized by many intelligent
persons who only know in varuo
way OF the actual conditions surround.
Ing the lives of thousand and thou.
sands of people in Now York. DR..
Naslo's report will doubtless open the
eyes OF such and call out their nm.
proval of the wise policy ON which the
city entered few years ago.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-04-12
THE TREATMENT OF porrED PLANTS.

LII. TREATMENT OF POrTED PLANTS.
Potted plants grown in rooms re-
quiro care during tho winter. The air
OF the room is nearly always dry, and
TOO warm for tho welfare of plants,
and thus it is that the leaves turn vel
low and the bloom falls OFF prema-
turely. Some plants, us tho beautiful
canollin, rarely perfect flower under
these circumstances, tho buds falling
oil before they open. The dry heat
encourages insect peste, notably tho
littlo red spider and the green lice
that abound on tho ends of the Young
shoots. Failure to keep tho soil about
tho roots moist, and tho temperature
OF the room low enough, are the chief
causes of the general disappointment
IN growing towering plants in tho
house. To meet all these points it is
necessary to water tho plants with
regularity. and to soak tho soil and
pots once week; then, by keeping
the pots plunged in moss, in wire
frame, there will be no trouble in
avoiding this most common mistake
too much dryness. Tho temperature
OF the room should be regulated by n
thermometer, and kept nt'ffom sixty
to seventy degrees. To keep the air
moist, pan of water should be kept
IN the room I'LL the time, in some con
venlont plncc. AS these necessary
conditions for the good OF the plants
are indispensable for the health and
comfort of those who live in tho
house, these precautions will be eff
iective for good every way New
York Times.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-04-12

under tho mostndverse circumstances.
This superabundance of fat prevents
the hesh OF this breed being highly
esteemed in this country, but it has
had most valuable effect in modify
ing the lean, gaunt hogs of England,
whilo the Noapolitan has added deli
cncy of flavor.
The original Chinese hog is of very
peculiar shape. It has long body,
with short legs, very heavy jowls,
small prick ears. short head, neck and
snout and tho eyes wide apart. In
color it is white or black, or n mixture
OF both, with the white predominant
ing. Now York World.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-04-12
CnINCHILLA.

Chinchilla, saYs Harper's Bazaar, is
very decidedly tho fashionable fur for
those who have suillciedt color in lip
and cheek to wear it becomingly.
There is great choice in this fur, tho
inferior skins looking brown and
dingy beside the clear gray shads seen
In tho best qualities brought from Az
RIGA. AN undulating collaretto in
two rows, or with stole front, is tho
iavorite shape, rs many insist that n
mass OF this fur when seen in large
capes is not effective. 1t is, however,
ohnrmingly warm and velvety fleece.
1t IL ut its best when combined with
black or with seal skin.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-04-12
CHINESE swISE.

Tho American swine of to-day are
very different from their English an
ccstors who few centuries ago con-
stituted ono OF the chief sources of
Briton's wealth. The improvement
in tho race is largely owing to the in
PRODUCTION of the Chinese and Nea-
politan breeds. Tho crossing of the
former upon tho English hog has re.
suited in the production of tho Berk-
shire, Essex, Poland China, Small
Yorkshire and Suffolk breeds.
Tho Chinese hog is remarkably pre-
potent, as is shown by tho tendency
of tho modern breeds to revert to tho
original type. This is doubtless ow-
Ing to the many centuries Of in-breed-
ing which have SO firmly fixed its char
acteristics. One OF the most impor-
tant Of these is its propensity to fatten
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-04-12
Plant Worshipers.

The plant worshipers who hold so
prominent q place in the history Of
the primitive races of mankind would
appear to have sprung from percep-
ton of tho beauty and utility of
trees. Survivals OF this still linger on
In many parts OF Europe. The peas
ants in Bohemia will sally forth into
their gardene before sunrise on Good
Friday, and, falling upon their knees
beforo tree, will exclaim, "I pray, /
o green tree, that God may mako thee
good" AT night time they will run
to and fro about their gardens crying,
Bud, 0 trees, bud or will fiog you"
In England tho Devonshiro farmers
and their men will to this day go out
into their orchards after supper or
the evening of tho Twelfth Day, cnrrJ9
ing with them largo milk pail ~
cider, with roasted apples pressed int9
it. All present hold in their hands nd
earthenware cup fillcI with liquor /
and taking up their stand beneath
those apple trees which havo borno
the most fruit, address them in these
words: r
Health to thee, good apple tree,
VOL to bear pocket-fuls. hat-fulls.
Peck-iuils, bush sl-bag-fuls
simultaneously dashing tho contents
OF their cups over the trees. In most
countries certain plants are to be
found associated with witches and
thelr craft.-New York Advertiser.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-04-12

The Cincinnati Enquirer tells this
story to provo that the instinct Of
felf-preservation is stronger than rem.
son; "A man on Lako Huron
steamer had the only specimen of
black rattlesnake have ever met with
1t was about the sizo of IN ordinary
garter snake and ms vicious as satan.
1t was confined in. a strong box GOV.
erod with thick plato-glass. When
any ono would touch tho glass with
his finger the snake would strike the
under sido opposite tho finger rs
quickly rs stroke OF lightning. The
experimentor would always jerk away
MS suddenly. There was not a man on
board, however muscular and free
from nervousness, who could keen his
finger to the glass when the snake
would strike, although knowing that il
could not possibly touch him. Strong
men would try it again and again,
certain of their ability to endure tho
test. but With the same result"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-04-12
THE POKE BONNET.

The poke bonnets suggest in n mod
ernized idealized form tho headgear
OF the immortal spinsters of Crawford.
Crawford, that dream CITY of the
Amazons, where Economy was always
elegant" and where tho delicatcly.
sensitively fibred maidens declared
though some might be poor, VIC were
nil aristocratic. ~
Tho poke bonnet seems to haze nil
the traditions of feminity to insure its
adoption by the distinctively feminine.
corps OF women, and it is rather To-
inevitable that it is not particularly
becoming.
:, Among the prettiest sort is tho one
illustrated herewith. It is of black
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-04-12
texture to subdue tho defects. THO

texture to subdue tho defects. Tho
plumes and bows and strings are black.
Tho ono enchanting note of color is
given by the bandeau and rosettcs
which arc of vivid geranium red velvet.
Any becoming color may DO most Of
fectively introduced in these bandeaux.
A bandeau of soft rcd velvet in q
poke bonnet that frames fair fnco
surmounted by gray hair is appro-
pirate and pleasing.
Attention to few simple rules will
assist any one to select from tho var
ious hats of tho season ono distlnc-
tivoly suited to her peculiar needs.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-04-12

Mr. McDougall, Mr.. Oppcr, Mr..
Taylor, Mr.. Zimmerman and other
very funny artists occasionally pre-.
sents to us the farmer as n person lack
Ing in mental quiokness. Will thew
oil please mako little cut OF tho In.
diana farmer who saved tho st. Louis
express, suggests Arthur Brisbane in
the New York World. This farmer
took of his shirt, sot fire to it. and
waved it at the otherwise doomed
tram, thus saving many lives.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-04-12

horses Indicate : moon blindness or
something else. A bad tempered one
keeps his cars thrown back; STUN.
bling horse has blemished knees.
When tho skin isrough.and harsh and
does not movo easily to tho touch, the
horse is heavy eater and digestion
bad. Never buy q horse whose
breathing organs are OF NIL impaired.
Place your ear at the heart. and if q
whoezing sound is heard, it is IN in
dication Of trouble. Scientific Amer
lean.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-04-12
VELVET AND JET.
THEY ARE BEADING FEATURES
IN FASHIONABLE EXHIBITS.
Sago Advice to Women of Moderate
Incomc-How to Dress Well
ut Comparatively
Small Cost.
Ell and velvet, according to the
Nn,u Vail al 49,. -.

EFT and velvet, according to the
~ Now York ledger, are Just now
~ prominent features in fashion.
able exhibits. Certainly, there
is nothing moro becoming, stylish and
elegant than velvet and jet. The soft
ness OF the fabric makes it pnrticu-
larry effective, and rs good velvet
needs little, if any, trimming, thero is
something to DO said on tho score of
the economy of making On investment
IN this material. AS long as bit of
velvet lasts it has its uses. There is
probably no article that has SO littlo
waste about it. This fact should ne
taken into consideration by all women
whose incomes arc limited. 1t is not
the amount Of money wo spond, but
tho materials We got to show for it
that tell in the long run. Tho woman
who buys half dozen dresses u year,
dresses that arc SO Inexpensive that
tho purchaser ilattcrs herself they arc
only trifles and really amount to very
little, is the woman who is always
complaining that sho has nothing to
wear, and, indeed, sho has not, mt
least nothing that is of practical use
in emergencies. Her cheap dresses
aro not good enough to savo care
fully, and sho never hns any that may
be called strictly elegant. If the
money she spends for these half dozen
costumes wero put into two, even
though she had to wait some time be-
foro sho could buy these two, she
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-04-12
COMBINATION CAPE AND CLOAK.

People with thin, delicately modelled
faces, whose chins are inclined to bo
pointed, should avoid the bonnets
with broad frontal trimming or hats
with wido straight brims, rs they havo
II tendency to emphaize the ''point-
cdness" of the fuce, giving it the look
OF iiat-iron or wedge. Such faces
should DO surmountcd by hats with
rolling brims and bonnets of high oval
shape or trimming.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-04-12

Few persons know that HUNTING.
ton, Penn, was named in honor of tho
Countess of Huntington, IN oigth.
teenth century great lady, who did
much for the University of Pennsyl.
vnnia. Provost William Smith, of tho
university, founded tho litslo city in
l777, and gratefully honorcd the
unlversity's patron in naming tho
now settlement.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-04-12
A poucNED Fur wAIsrooAr.

Ermine, which is SO fashionable for
capes, collars and various purposes of
trimming, has found further resources
Tor usefulness in tho waistcoat worn
with the tailor-made coat. 1t is made
with box plnit and ea pouch effect in
front quito as successfully as if it were
velvet.