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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-08-16
PITH AND POINT.

Wealth is study to some men, hap
piness to others. Troy Press.
Glass houses arc usually held to.
gether by the beams in ones own
eye.-Life.
Lovers are said to BIO blind, but
they often make u pnir oil spoctncles
of themselves.
To take away tho grievances of some
people is to mako them unhappy
Galveston News.
Make all tho friends you can; tho
enemies will make themselves. De-
troit Free Press.
To plant the seeds of character, first
use the pillow of righteous living
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Glow old are you, Jimmy?" "Two
years older than Johnny" GLOW old
is Johnny?'' 81 don't know. Life.
Give people cause, and they seldom
fail to DO grateful. Tue trouble is
that they go seldom havo cause
Atchison Globe.
The man who lindsa reason to blanc
everybody has male the mistake of
not beginning with himself. San
Francisco Gall.
Everybody who knows anything
says that good times AFRO coming. 1t
doesn't cost anything to bo cheerful.
Los Angeles Express.
He-"I'd just us Lief be hung for
sheep as lamb" She" Well, you'll
be hung for neitlc CT; you'll be hung
for calf OF nothing - Statesman.
Mother = "What's that smacking
noise in tho parlor?" Stulious Boy
(who goes to schooD-"It's sister and
her young man exchanging microbes "
Arizona Reporter "rhcy stung up
Alkali Ike this morning for horso
stenling." Arizona Editor-"WelI.
mako few lines of it MS n matter of
noosc."
Landlady-"rm always forgetting
do you take cream in your coffee,
Mr.. Spluds?" MIR. Spluds IA pcssi-
mistic.. boarder) -"Neyer in This house,
madam"
Old Gentlcman-"My, my L don't
like to SEQ little boys cry. Boys who
get hurt should net likomen." Boy
boo, boot Then I'll get li-lickcd
for swcarin'."
johnny" Mamma, + can count all
the way up to twelve" Mamma
"And what comes after twelve,
johnny" Johnny-"Rocess. Har-
psr's Round Table
Governess--'I repeat, Miss Chic,
TINT plants and flowers arc not pro-
vided with means of self-tlefonse.
Miss Chic--"Oh, but have seen
flower that has pistils and shoots"
De Cit there's any ono nuisance
1 hate moro than another, it's n fell
low is always going around INTRODUCE
ing people. There's Goodheart, for
instance" Bouttown -"What's he
been doing?" Do C.-"rhe fooll
Tho other day he introduced me to
man L owed money to. and I'd been
owing it so long he'd forgotteSf,all
about me. Now I'll have to pay ub or
BIO sued. Now York Weekly.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-08-16
a soNo Ar N1enp.

L. ~ Ii
Through drifting cloud-neece burn the otars,
The mockiES-bird is s!nying)
The cattle stand by pasture bars
(The mocking-bird is singins)
Down by the aIders nighi-winds blow.
On swaying grasses dew-lrops glow,
The rose drops petals soft ssnow.
CThe mocldng-bird is singlns.)
The moonlight Sits DER moaning pines.
CHE mochDg-b.rd is singlngl
Tho cleaning white road sadly winds
CThe mocking-bird is singing)
Around tho meadow, by tho mill,
Where oil tho noise of day is still,
And silent broods tho whip poor-wili.
(The mocking-bird is sinyng.)
The song of night above days DEATH
CThe mocking-bird is slnglng)
1t needs no words, the thing no saith
(The mocking-bird is singlng)
With eyermore that minor strain
Blent in the haunting sweet refrain,
Such ms hearts sing when taught by pain.
(The mocking-bird is slnging)
-Ireno Mckay, in Youths Companion.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-08-16
An Airy Blacksmith Shop.

Probably tho highest blacksmith
shop in the city in point of elevation
is one located ON the seventh floor Of
tho public buildings. Very few PEG.
pie nre nwnro of the existence OF the
shop away up under tho caves Of the
massive building, but it is there, just
the same, and, if tho making of horse
shoes is excepted, it probably turns
out as largo and varied m amount OF
work MS the average smithy in the city.
The shop is located on the north cor.
ridor, near tho west end, and glow
ing forge and several ringing anvila.
are kept busy oil day long. 1t sup.
plies the need for large amount OF
iron work to be dono in the construc-
ton of the remaining rooms and COR
ridors in tho building, and is On indis.s
pensablo auxiliary to the operations.
Philadelphia Record.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-08-16
A Bogus Dime.

Counterfeit silver ten-cent pieces,
that contain MS much if not moro sill.
yer than genuine coin, have been dis
covered i'll tho United States Sub
Treasury. They have been received
from banks and are so carefully made
that 1T requires tho trained eye OF au
expert to detect their bogus character.
The coins have tho appearances of be.
ing well-worn, IL result of careful worl,
on tho part of the counterfeitcr and &
valuable aid to their circulation. Sew
cral of the coins have been sent to the
secret service officials, who pronounce
them most dangerous counterfeits nnt.
express the belief that they were made
in Europe aud sent to this country
for Observation-Disclosures Record.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-08-16
The Monkey un n Tree.

II see monkey up tree. lie secs
mo and gets behind the trunk of the
tree. start to so around him and he
keeps going around MS L do, keeping
tho trunk of the tree between him AMI
me. L reach tho place l started from,
with the monkey still opposite on tho
tree. NowI have been around the
tree. Huvo I also been around the
monkey?" A Boston woman is quoted
MS saying: 81 tried it on my husband.
L had him for the monkey, and took
wbisk broom and went around him
brushing his clothes. Ho kept turn
ing around just rs | aid, and when
had been clear around had only
brushed one side Of him enl one leg
of his pantaloons. Now, nll tho pro,
fessors of Harvard University couldn't
convince me TINT had boon around
that man, and neither had the man
been around tho monkey in the tree. I"
Buffalo Express.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-08-16
The Causes oil Prosperity.

Tho New York Tribune Joins with
tho Iron Age i'll predicting prosperity
for our iron and stool Industries be-
cause of the prospect of good crops.
After referring to the increased de-
mand of the railroads for rails and
other materials owing to the probable
increase in grain frciShts, the Tribune
oil June 18th, says: "Bslief that agri-
cultural makers and makers of wiro
fencing would have large demands
from farmers have all helped
to stimulate buying of iron and its
products. But this is in an oditorial
on Business" written by practical
business nun. In the next column OF
the snmo issue the partisan political
hack gets in his brilliant and original
theory of the revival in our industries.
He says: "Tho people were assured
last fall that voting for the restoration
of power to tho Republican party
would bring back prosperity. .
The certainty that power had been
transferred was enough OF
itself to light thousAnds OF fires and to
open tho doors OF thousands OF fno.
tories and mills"
Which is right, the Iron Age, organ
OF our great iron and steel industries,
and the Tribune's financial editor, or
tho narrow partisan who tries to gull
his readers into believing that merely
voting for John Jones instead OF Will
lam Smith, started up all oar lido fur
nnces, mills and factories? What do
the sensible business men of tho coun-
try, who know That tho prosperity OF
any industry depends on the demand
for the goods mado by it, thinl, of tho
leading Republican papers idea that
trade is regulated by the political com.
plexion of Congress-?
The TRIBUNE should discharge eilhcr
its financial editor or its high tariff
hack. Or it should allow tho latter
to tell the truth occasionally, even
though party interests would sulfor.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-08-16
The Privateer Who Never Camo Back

a correspondent of tho Six Towns
Times has found pathetic story in
the town OF Windhnm. Some time
betweon tho years 1912 and 1914 tho
priyatoer Dash sailed away from Port.
land, ono of tho sailors OH board be-
ing "Nat' FL, of Windham. No it'd
ings were over again received of tho
craft, but one night, after long and
weary whiting on tho part of "Nnt's"
relatives, his father woke the house.
hold with piercing cry. Z" Nat has
gonel Nat has gonel" Whom he
was fairly awakened he said he had
had terrible dream, in which he saw
ship going down in whirlpool, and
on tho deck, wildly visible, his son
MAT" who, with others, seemed to
BIO imploring help from heaven.
Round and round went tho vessel,
each circle bearing them nearer and
nearer tho dreadful vortex. lie
watched tho vision until tho ship was
whirlod out of sight, aud then it was
he sent forth tho heartrending cry:
MAT has gone! NAT has gone /"
This writer also wildly recalls n
risi' 1"on1y years l1o 10 the lady to
whom 'Nat" was betrothod when ho
sailed away SO many years ago. Her
knitting was on hor lap, aud her thin,
wrinklcd hands wcro idlo above it.
Her sightless eyes, full OF unshod
tears (for she was homcsick, aud
weary and out of place., wore turned
toward the sunlight that threw its
slnntins beams through the open west
window, whero the soft mir camo drift.
ing in, sweet with tho breath OF roses.
II had been reading to her." no says,
from the Revelation of st. John tho
Divine, and when 1 read, The sea
gave up the doad which wero in it,
she laid her trembling hand on my
arm with tender touch. wait bit,
sho said ill voice trembling with
emotion; wait bit, and road it again
deary, boforo you go on. God grant
L may SEQ him once moro when tho
sea shnll give up its dcnd, aud there
shall DO no moro sea. "-Lowistol
| ME. journal.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-08-16

Every farmer and gardener knows
that plants grow better for On abun.
dnnt supply of fresh air, and scientists
have long held that this was due TO tho
ozone in the atmosphere. 1t appears.
however. through n series of careful
experiments recently concluded by n
band OF French scientists, that in tho
case OF plants electricity plays a chief
pnrt in their stimulation by fresh dir.
What is true of plants is, of course.
true of animals. The experiments al.
low the New Orleans Picayune to infer
that the growth of animals also may be
accelerated and invigorated by sub.
jecting them to more or less steady
electric stimulus. We may yet have
electric cradles and beds to place our
babies and ourselves in. And stronger
physiqucs for the whole race may re.
sult--in the far future.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-08-16

The Railroad Gazette announces
that railroad companies have ordered
this year %, 029 freight cars, and havo
bids out for 5000 more. The passen.
ger cars ordered amount TO seventy
two, with thirteen moro to come. This
represents an expenditure of over
10000, 900, which is worth consider
ing among the Influences working to
make times better. The Railroad
Gnzetto snys it is unlooked-for i'm
provement in car building. The rec.
ord for less than five months exceeds
that OF the entire yenr of 1891 by over
1000 freight cars. Tho passenger car
output makes very different COM
parison, 500 cors having been built
in 1891. In 1898, the car companies
built 81, 900 cars, and in 1892 tho out.
put was 49,, 900 freight cars.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-08-16

The Boston Herald says: A Port
land business man hns hit ON new
scheme for being awakened Mt tho
proper time in the morning, which no
declares boats any alarm clock that
ever was invented. Ho has his tcle-
phone III his bedroom, and each night
when about to retro ho calls up tho
central Office and requests tho opera
tor TO call him up at II designated hour,
i'll order to find if tho "phono" works
properly. Promptly at that hour tho
bell rings loudly, and he is awakened
with neatness and dispatch. He claims
that the service thus rendered is alone
worth the annual rental of the telc.
hone.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-08-16
Renewing Steel Rails.

Instead of consigning worn out stool
rails to the scrap heap, MS heretofore,
n process has been patented and put in
successful operation for re-rolling
them. Tho method consists in heat
ing the old rail below tho decarboniz-
ing point and then replacing tho dis
placed steel. The rails are necessarily
elongated in the rolling process, but
this does not seem to be II disadvan.
tage. tits claimed that with proper
heating tho steel is even of I'M i'm.
proved quality. Railroad Gazette.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-08-16

In five years there have been over
loo murders i'll San Francisco. aud but
one man has been hanged, records tho
Examiner of TINT city. Some of tho
murderers have beer sent to prison for
short terms, some for long-if Gov
ernor does not pardon them-somo
have been acquitted, but n long list of
them remains in Jail with theif fate de-
pending on dilatory prosecution and
III nnlustly merciful Supreme Court.
The effect of this state of affairs is mp
parent in tho steadily growing list of
crimes OF violence.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-08-16
A Nobel Protcctionist Professor.

The New York Press is adding to
the weariness of existence during tho
hot weather by publishing each week
several yards of drcary protection
rubbish writton by George Gunton.
In q recent issue of tho Press .'Pro-
lessor" Gunton attacks the English"
free trndo policy, and in the course of
the usual misrepresentation in regard
to the effect of FREQ trade in that
country, says: SIT tfree irade) did
not give to England the cheaper bread
that was promised. English wheat
for many years after the repeal of tho
Corn law was just as high MS it was
before, and today the Englishmans
loaf costs moro than tho loaf of any
other laborer in the world" And in
the Same article he says: .It free
trade) substituted foreign for homo
food supply, which drove the land out
OF cultivation.
The first question which nm intelli.
gent reader OF the Press (if there are
any, would ask is: If Mr.. Gunton's
first statements arc true, and wheat
remained as high many years after the
coin laws Us it was before, how did
FREQ trade in grain injure the English
farmer? And, if tho English In.
borer's loaf costs more than that of
any other laborer in tho world, why
does not the English farmer continue
to grow wheat and get the highest
price for it?
The answer to these questions is
very simple. Mr.. Gunton's state.
ments arc not true. 1t is probable
that no thought they were true, for
man who can shy, rs no did over his
signature, that wages are higher in
New York than in Philadelphia be-
cause rents arc higher in the former
city,. can believe almost anything.
But every sensible man and woman
knows that after the repeal of tho
English corn laws the price of wheat
declined, while the consumption of
wheat greatly increased. Tho Eng
lish laborer's loaf, quality for quality,
is MS cheap rs in any other country in
the world, and cheaper than in France,
Germany, Austria, Italy, Spain aul
many other countries. This is fact
beyond dispute, and 1t is only an iu-
stance OF the audacity of protcctionsls
that they should attempt TO deny it.
The chief reason for tho decline in
wheat protection in England has been
the competition of cheaper wheat
from America, Russia, Inlia and tho
Argentine Republic. At tho same
time the cxorbitant rents formerly
asked by English landlords is partly
responsible for the condition of many
Of tho farming districts of England.
No farmer could afford to pay tho
ronts demanded, 80 the land was al
lowcnd to lie unused, and tho clay
soils became "soured," requiring n
largo expenditure for drainage nnd
fertilizers before crops could be profit
ably grown. Had tho land been
leased Mt low rents and kept in cult
yntion, it would now be in much bet
ter condition and would not DO lying
idle. The only way protection could
help meters would be by increasing
the price Of wheat, but that increase
would not go to tho farmer but into
the pockets of the land-owning aristoc.
racy. Americans who aro complaining
against alien syndicates which hold
vast tracts of land in this country, will
not be likely to join Mr.. Gunton in
wasting sympathy on English land
lords.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-08-16
Converting Salt Water Into Fresh

A curious property OF tho trunks of
trees has been discovered, that of re-
tanning the salt of sea water which has
been filtered through the trunk in the
direction of the fibres. In au appur-
atus, specially adapted to ship use,
water is pumped from the sen into a
reservoir and then forced through tho
filter formed by the tree trunk. When
the required pressure Is reached,
about two atmospheres, tho water
makes its exit ut the other extremity
in fine stream, and is said to be FREQ
from every particle of saline taste.
The tree trunk used measured fifteen
feet III length by six inches in diam
eter. Some trees arc better adapted
to tho purpose than others. Boston
Journal of Commerce.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-08-16
Fourth oil July's Object Lesson.

Tho Republicans havo lost their
hold on Young America. In .conse.
quenco of tho lower duties on fire.
crackers the imports are 500 per cont.
larger than Inst year. The heather
Chnee was not, it seems, paying tariff
duties on our noisy patriotism, and
prices have fallen with tho reduction
OF duty. Fourth of July, this year,
has been m object lesson to all who
did not stuff cotton in their ears and
blindfold their eyes.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-08-16

The canal which will connect Mar
relies, France. with tho River Rhono
will run four and half miles of its
length through tunnel. Some idea
of the engineering required for this
work may be hal when it is realized
that the canal will be mado wido
enough for two boats, each of forty
nix feet beam, to pass ench other. Tho
total length OF the canal will DO thirty
five miles. It's cost is estimated ut
SSl, 900, 000.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-08-16

La Crosse, Wis, has an Indian
Chief for Mayor. DIR. d. Frank
Powell has only slight tingc of Indian
blood Ill his veins, but that is of royal
strain, and he has been for many years
Chief of the 5000 Winnebngocs yet
remaining, by whom he is greatly be-
loved AMI implicitly obcyod under the
name of "WhIte Beaver" DIR. Powell
is m old army surgeon, and spent
many years on the plains with William
L. Cody. lilo has been four times
elected Mayor of In Crosse.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-08-16

One of the most daring and crimi-
nal conSpiracies of tho year has Just
been nncarthcd i'll New Yorl; City.
Investigation has proved, according
to the New York World, TINT tho whole
series OF incendiary fires on the upper
west side OF tho city during tho past
Three months is the work of regularly
organized gnnss OF lirebugs in tho pay
oil insurance ndjustcrs, and bound by
oaths and penalties to impcril tho
lives and property of the people of
New York for the sake of gnin.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-08-16
INFANT INDUSTRY DODGE
PRorEoTIONIsTS DEVICE FOR FOOL
ING THE FARMERS.
High Tariff Organs Havo Evolved a
Novel Theory OF How Wo Became
an Agricultural Nation.

an agricultural Nation.
Realizing that the old "home mar.
ket" cry will not again fool tho farmer
into voting for q restoration of Nc
hinleyism. the protectioniet organs
are now trying to devise n scheme for
high tariff on farm products. In
spite OF tho fact that our agricultural
industries have been established from
ono hundred to two hundred and fifty
years, tho professional ''friends of the
farmer" are working tho same old gin.
fnnt industry" dodge which thcy used
eighty years ago in regard to manu-
factnres. According to these protcc-
tionists wo have been reading our
histories all wrong. Instead of tho
generally accepted theory that agri-
culture was tho first industry of tho
country, it appears that tho reverse is
the case. When the first settler,
landed on our shores they found here
number of kind capitalists with
factories oil ready for operation.
Being truly benevolent, as all manu-
facturcrs arc, these capitalists took
pity on the settlers and gavo them
work. After awhile some of the
settlers heard that land had been in
vented in England, so they sent over
for few shiploads, and spreading it
out, proceeded to grow crops ON it.
Tho crops grew SO we'll that they de-
cldod to make some lind for them.
selves, and being naturally Ingenious,
succeeded in short time in manu-
featuring large quantity. In the
meantime the number of factories
having increased, there was demand
for some moro land to put them on,
and to grow food on to feed tho opcr-
atives. In this way tho farming in.
dustry has been gradually built up,
so that it is believed that protective
tariff on wheat, cotton, corn and beef
would lead to the importation and
production of large areas of land.
AS America already exports great
Quantities of all these staple products,
it may Mt first sight seem doubtful
where the benefit to the farmers will
como in. Skeptical FREQ traders, who
bolievo that thirty years of protection
nearly ruined our farmers, will very
likely snecr and say that to talk OF
helping agriculture by high tariffs is
oil humbug. They will claim that in
the long run tho prosperity of any
country depends on tho condition OF
its farmers, and that to attempt to
protect an industry which sells its sur
plus products in foreign markets. is
tho silliest kind of nonsense. And
they will also assert that it was the
great agricultural industry of this
country, established without any Gov.
ornment pap, which was tho founda.
tion for all our prosperity
But there is no use in arguing with
these theoretical free traders. The
facts nre all on their side, and anyway
they never could be brought to SEQ the
wisdom OF making everybody rich by
taxing everybody. Let the good un.
selfish protectionists stick to their
doctrine that the way to help tho far
mers is by killing foreign trade, and
in tho course Of time they will be re-
gardcd MS merely innocent victims of
| Il harmful superstition
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-08-16

Catholics Tho remaining half arc
called "Pagans," although they have
IN ethical creed, formulated by fa-
nous Indian reformer called in Eng
lish Handsome Lake." who arose
about century ago aud devised q sys-
tenn which was highly praised by
Thomas Jefferson, who was then Presi-
dent Of tho United States. Tho rolig-
ion which this native "revealed"-for
he claimed to have received it from
heayon-is remarkably clean and ele-
waited.
Thcro are no bachelors or old ma ids
among tue adolf Indians, and some
cases of polygamy are reported. Many
marriages are celebrated with Chris
tian rites; others aro contracted in
the old-time tribal fashion.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-08-16

1t seems strange to the New York
Advertiser to think of the ubiquitous
bicycle extending its progress over tho
classic grounds of Greece and Mace
Goniu, male sacred to the student by
the writings of Homer and tho con-
quests oi Ncrxcs, but il seems still
more strange and homogeneous to think
OF il intruding in places mado dear to
CIR lcc"llcctions through Now Tesla
men! association; and yet tho bicycle
is i'll these countries.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-08-16
China Old In Art.

Besides the art of printing, in man.
ufacture of paper, AMI even tho issuo
of newspapers, the Chinese are cred.
tied with having made use OF wrought
iron and steel for 2000 years, and ii
is recorded that they threw bridge
OF cast iron over n ravine 1000 feet
deep in tho first century of the Chris.
tian era.-Chicago Times Herald.