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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-07-05
A Bir nristn1re


The biggest mistake and tie funniest
1 ever knew q merchant to make was
when one of my friends concluded to
spend $40 to have illustrated signs
painted on fences and barns In the
country. The pictures were all humor.
GUS and in colors, to be painted OH a
white background. One was bullfrog
reaching out after bug; another dog,
catching a fellow by the seat of his
pants, and another snake and bird.
n sort of n take-off on the "early bird
catches the first worm" Well, the
painter used whitewash and cheap
.colors. After the first rain the bull
frog picture and the words of the ad.
vertlsement got wonderfully blended
together, and the bull dog was made
to chew the advertisers name instead
of the other fellows trousers; at least
that is the way the blur made 1t ap-
pear. After the second rain there was
only n vague sort Of an indication of
an advertisement, the water having
washed out some words and letters and
leaving others untouched. For In.
stance, the line Purchase your Bug
gies" on one sign appeared as "Chase
our Bug. Farm Machinery.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-07-05
Japanese Shops.

The Japanese shop is like q big and
highly ornamental box, with ono sido
knocked out-tho side toward tho
street. Especially valuable goods nro
not exposed in the shops, but kept in
godowns or safe deposit vaults, to be
brought ont when wanted, but in
most shops the whole stock can DO
seen from the street. If the purchaser
is in hurry he simply sits down OIL
tho edge of the floor, which projects
over the street-there is no sidewalk
and calls for what he wants. For
purchases Of greater moment he entera
the shop. squats oross-legged. and is
trented to tea by the salesman.
Not only can one see whatever goes
on in Japanese shop, but even in q
home there is no privacy. II it is
night, and the sliding shutters OF oiled
paper are drawn, tie lamp light
throws strong shadows of The people
within on the Opaque shades, and
shows precisely what all are doing.
Some say that this lack of privacy en-
courages in the Japanese their polite
ways. They are always on their good
behavior. New York Recorder.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-07-05
Frishtencd Away.

While Mrs. Alice Freeman Palmer
was Miss Freeman, president of the
Wellesley College, she was on her way
West at one time, and had stopped over
for few days rest and recuperation
at an Adirondack inn, where 1t so hap.
pcned that her presidential identity
mid dignity were unknown. Her neigh,
bors at table were some three or four
entertaining Harvard youths, and rs
Miss Freeman was also entertaining
md quite youthful looking, they were
for three or four days. One morning,
however, Miss Freeman entered the
dining-room TO be met with cold and
distant mods instead OF the former cor
diality. Not word was said rs she
passed around the table, but when she
seated herself the mystery was un.
ravcled. There upon her plate lay q
pile of oniclal-looking letters, that had
been forwarded from the college and
that all bore the explicit address, Miss
Alice Freeman, president OF Wellesley
College" This the youths had seen
and had very naturally been over
whelmed at their presumption. Nor
could the previous good fellowship be
rc-cstablishcd. After they had found
out that she was formidable college
president 1t was impossible to joke and
thought her merely one of the most
charming women they had ever met
New York Evening Sun.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-07-05
One oil the 600 an international Rogue.

Tn tho Rogues' Gallery OF tho Secret
Service Bureau of tho Treasury De-
pnrtmcnt is tho card photograph of 4
once famous counterfciter who was mr.
rested by the Treasury agents anil
made to serve long term in tho pen
itentinry. Tho face is that OF rather
plnin-loolsins man of about forty-iive,
with the sort OF face that impressos
because of look of fearlessncss I'M
mingled with boldness.
The photograph is that of German
who served in tho British Army as a
private and passed through ono of tho
most exciting events of the Crimenn
War. Ho was member of tho fa-
nous Light Dragons. tho immortal
600 that rodo into tho valley OF death
in their charge on the Russian posi-
ton, and one of tho few that survived
that terrible engagement. He was
distinguished by tho British Govern
ment, but went TO tho bad, and evon
after his experience in tho United
States committed similar crime in
Germany and was again scntonced to
long torn of imprisonment. Wash
ington Post.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-07-05
To Abolish Six Grcat Trusts,

1t has long been commended by tariff
reformcrs that the best way to fight
trusts and monopolies is to open up
foreign competition by abolishing all
tariff taxation on tho goods controlled
by the trusts. This is remedy for
monopoly in line with Jeffersonian De-
mocracy, and would be much more Of
fective than the crude and paternalis-
tic scheme known rs the Sherman
Antitrust law, which, after trusts Ind
been created by the high tariff, tried
to slightly limit some of their powers.
There is no trust in existence which
has power to plumber the consumer
through higher prices which is not GRE.
ated or sustained by some form of
class legislation or special privilege
bestowed by law. Chiof among these
class laws is the protective tariff. in
which many of the great trusts have
their root. But so bitter is partisan
prejudice that although this has been
generally admitted by Republicans tho
crack of the party whip has brought
them in limo in favor Of keeping nh
duties for the benefit of MONOPOLY.
There are recent evidences TINT
many Republicans have finally grown
tired of protection in SO for as it helps
trusts, and m organization in whieu
such voters oan work with other
friends of free competition has been
formed under the title, CAN'T .Trust
League of the United States. " It's Sec.
rotary is B. r. Davenport, author of
"Uncle Sans Cabins," who PROPOSES
to help educate the people in regard
to tho close connection of high tariff
and trusts. As means toward that
'end the League is circulating form
of pledge which binds each signer ia
vote tor no candidate for State reois.
lature, nor for any candidate for rep.
resentativo in Congress or for Presi
dent, unless the political party by
which such candidate is nominated
shall insort in its platform plank that
nil tariff taxes must be abolished OF,
beef, sugar, coal. oil, leather and to.
bacco. Tho League is entirely non
partisan. Its present address is Postal
Building. New York City.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-07-05
Great Protection Picture.

Frank r. Stockton once wrote n
funny story of an artist who painted n
peculiar picture. When hung right
side up it was morning scene, with
the rising sun reflected in q woodland
lake. Turned upside down it was
changed into a twilight view, with tho
sun going out of sight.
A similar picture has for long time
been painted by high tariff orators and
editors. Holding up daub entitled
"McKinleyism" they point out the
beautiful high prices in tho fore
ground. "These," they say, "aro tho
effects of protection. by shutting out
foreign goods with high tariff wall
We enable tho homo manufacturers to
get higher prices. Because of his
higher prices he can pay higher wages,
people can then afford to pay moro
for goods and thus everybody is benc-
Gted."
Then, suddenly, flop goes the pic
ture, and the high tarillite resumes
"This gorgeous work of art by the
illustrious MIR. Chrome is intended to
represent an era of low prices, cnused
entirely by high protective duties.
BY shutting out oil foreign low-pricetl
goods we greatly stimulate our home
industries. The result of this homo
competition is to putprices lower than
they are already. In this way every
thing is made cheap and everybody is
helped"
Summed up, the argument for pro.
lection amounts to two principles.
First. it makes wages higher by rails
ing prices. Second, it makes goods
cheaper by increasing competition.
You pay your taxes and you don't get
your choice
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-07-05
Aiter.Di,ncr Mans.

Thuro liz quito difference of opinion
among recognized anihoritios rs to tho
usefulness of tho nftcr-diunor nap.
Some OF these people claim TINT tho
merost dropping of to sleep ia much
better than tho heavy, unlisturbod ro-
pose i'll which some Compartments
soon inclined to indulge.
In this matter, as in almost ovory-
thing else i'll the world, difference in
constitution, condition ind oircum-
stances il lost sight of. Az general
rule, it mny DO said TINT whoever falls
asleep and sleeps long and heavily
does SO because tho system has mood
of Tint sort of rest. Sleep is n COM
modify TINT docs not como by will,
but on tho most imperative demand of
nature. People who work hnrd, either
mentally or physically, who are in my
way ovcrtnxcd or exhausted by effort
of any kind, must in some why restore
tile nervous balance, and in no why is
this so readily and satisfactorily dono
us by long continued and untliBturbud
sleep, if tho individual can indulge
i'll il.
There nre few things moro coveted
than tho ability to sleep quietly and
naturally, and it is very raro indeed
that ono gots too much OF this kind of
rcpose.
TO be sure, there nro persons of
sluggish hnbit and people who nrc
given to over indulgence ut the table
which is productive OF inaction and m
almost continuous sleepy condition,
but these are exceptions rather than
the rule. Tho masses of people sleep
too little, aud it is scarcely worth
while, savo in exceptional cases, to
ourtail the hours that nature demands
for this most efficient means Of rostorn-
tion. Above all things should chill
dren aud young persons, those under
twenty especially, DO given MI tho OPP
portunity consistent with their occu-
patton and education for untronbled
sleep. Tho fact that nature domunds
n thing is most excellent reason for
granting it. "Forty winks" may do
very we'll for some temperaments, but
it is by no means to be rec commended
to persons who arc in any degree weary
or oyerworkcd. New York Ledger.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-07-05
proteo,ionlsts No Friends OF worI,men

a convincing proof, if any were
needed, that the organs of the pro-
tected manufacturers are MS class OPP
posed to tho best interests OF the
workingmen, is found in recent is
sue of the Philadelphia Manufacturer.
That especial mouthpiece of the pro-
teotionists asserts that "thero are no
conditions in manufacturing industry
generally which warrant increase Of
wages" and speaks with regret of the
strikes (which are multiplying in
every manufacturing district"
OF course the factory lords of Penn
sylvanin do not see any warrant for an
increase of wages. They never do.
except when q strike, or fear OF
strike, opens their eyes. 1t is true
that in theory tho good protectionist
manufacturer only lives and does buei-
pess In order to please his dear en-
ployes, and only wants high tariff so
that he will have to pay higher wages.
He wouldn't cut down any mans pny.
Not he. Yet. strange to say, when,
Ms result of the Democratic attempt
to unshacklo trado and create wider
markets, business grows brisk and
men are in demand, the high tariff
beneficiary objects to increasing wnges
until no finds that his mon are pro-
pairing to strike. Sometimes he re-
luctantly and grumblingly yields. AT
other times an actual strike is neces-
Bary to convince him that no is truly
good philanthropist. But at all times
he is suro that there is tno warrant
for higher wages"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-07-05
sitting a norso,s NostrI,,.

Sitting horses nostrils Is still prac.
uced In some parts of the world. as In
Persia, Mongolia, ana even In Northern
Africa; and ponies with slit nostrils arc
often seen in tho Himalayas and in Az
ghanistan. This mutlation is resorted
to In tho erroneous belief that the horse
can iphale more, OR when going at
fast pace. and also that 1t prevents
neighing-a disqualification OF much
Importance during war, or when It is
desirable to travel Oh silently as posi-.
bic. 1t was practiced In Hungary not
long ago, II wo are to accept rs evil
donce the copy of n finished sketch OF q
horso's head, by the celebrated Zof-
fani, given In Col. Hnmilton's work on
horses. 1t Is rather surprising that the
fashion was not renewed In England,
for two or three centuries ago, to pre-.
vent n horse ncighlng, it was recon-
mended to tic n WOODEN baud around
the tongue. Markham says
III either when you nre In service In
tho wars and would not DO discovered,
or when upon any other occasion you
would not havo your horse to neigh or
make noise, you shall take lyste
NouhU VI WoOiei ClOtT, una lyC IL TuSt
In many folds about tho middle of your
horses tongue, and believe 1t, so long
rs tho tongue Ia so tyed, so long the
horse can by no means neigh or mako
ony extraordinary noiso With his voice,
as hnth often been tried and approved
Of"
A very barbnrous and useless opera.
ton for the prevention OF stumbling In
horses WINS fashionable toward tho end
of tho seventeenth and beginning of the
eighteenth centuries; ths was tho cx-
posuro of tho tendon of muscle TINT
assists In dilntlng tho nostrls. and
twisting 1t round two or three times,
when 1t Ia divided. ain doing this you
shall 500 tho horse bring his hinder legs
TO his foro legs almost, when you have
thus pulled and tuuiied tho sinew two
or threo times" Such II statement will
givo somc iden OF the pain tho animal
experienced during tho senscloss opera
ton.-Tho Nineteenth Century.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-07-05
Tint Cow nnd Cnlc

An anecdoto from Mrs. Fields "Shclf
of Old Books" delightfully."- shows the
character of SCOTS mind and the charm
of his conversation. An old man in
Glasgow told Mr.. James T. Fields that
he had once carried n law case to Sir
Walter Scott for adjustment.
"How did he manage it7" asked Mr..
Fields.
"Oh, beautifully returned the old
client. "He told me bonny story ABBOTT
n COO and calf in Dundee, and then he
sent me over the way to brither law
yer, who, he told me- had n larger head
for SIGH affairs than himself. But 1t was
Draw story that he told me uboot tho
cattle O. Dundee, and 1t makes me
laugh to this day when think ont"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-07-05
Biesscd he onions.

ore OF the healthlest vegetables Is
the onion; yet, strange to say, very few
people use 1t as literally as they should.
Boiled onions used frequently in a
family OF children will ward of many
of the diseases to which tie little ones
arc subject.
The principle objection to the promis.
cuous use Of this vegetable Is that the
odor exhaled after eating is SO often.
slve.
A cup of strong coffee taken imme.
diateiy after eating is claimed to be ex.
cellent in counteracting this effect.
Although for n day or SO after eating
onions the breath may have disagree.
able odor. yet after this time it will
DO much sweoter than before.
For Group onion poultices are used
with success, providing the child Is
Kept out of draughts and sudden chill
avoided. The poultices are mado by
warming the onions in goose oil until
soft, then putting them on the child's
feet and chest as hot us they can be
borne. Except in very obstinate cases,
when taken In time, the Group readily
yields to onions.
This, although an old-fashioned rem.
edy, Is good one, as any mother who
has brought up u family of children can
attest
Onions are excellent blood purifiers,
md for Graduating boils or any of the
blood humors are very efficacious.
They are good Tor the complexion and
friend who has q wonderfully clear,
tine complexion attributes 1t to the lib.
eral use of onions as food.
People suffering from nervous
troubles are much benefited by using
these vegetables frequently, either
cooked or raw.
When troubled with hard cough, II
raw onion is eaten the phlegm will
loosen almost Immediately, and can be
removed with very little effort.
Those troubled with wakefulness NAV
Insure good nights rest often IL, Just
before retiring, they cat raw onion.
There are few aches to which chill.
dren arc subject as hard to bear and
us painful as earache. One OF tho best
remedies We know of IL to take out
the heart of an onion "a red onion Is tho
best If 1t can be had, although, lacking
this kind, any other can be used) and
roast it. When soft put it into the af.
fected car as hot as 1t can be borne.
Unless the cause is deeper than ordi.
narily the pain will cease in % very
short tlmeand will not return.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-07-05
sr1nL ROOM ron nEsEAncu.

"What is this new substance that
hear 20 much about?" asked tho omi-
nent scientist wife.
What new substance, my dear?"
"The clement in tho mir that hns
just been dotectod."
"Oh, that, my DEAR" he answered,
bcaming over bis speotnclcs with tho
good nature of superior wisdom, sis
known ms Argon."
"Oh,"
eyes. It's discovery is ono of tho
most remarkable triumphs of tho age.
1t has revolutionizod some OF tho old
theories; or ut least it will rovolution-
izo them before 1t gots through"
"What is it?"
it?"
81 said that"
"Well-nhem-you sec, wo haven't
rs yet discovered much about it OK
cept its name. Washington Star.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-07-05
A Slave From Boyllood.

(from the Red Wing, Nom, Republicans
"I am now twonty-four years old" said
Edwin Swanson, of White Rock, Goodhuc
County, Mimi, to o Republican representa-
tive, "and as you eau SEQ I am no. very large
Of stature. When I WIS eleven years old I
became afflicted with a sickness which baf-
fed tho skill and knowledge OF thephyslcian.
was not taken suddenly III but on tho con-
trary can hardly state tho eSect Tine when
1t began. The first symptoms were paths In
my back and restless nights. The disease
did not trouble mo much at first, but It
seemed to have settled In my body 10 stay
and my bitter experience during tho last
thirteen years proved that to DO tho case.
was OF course child and nevot dreamed OF
tho suffering in store for mo. complained
to my parents and they concluded that in
limo would outgrow my trouble. but when
'hoy heard mo grooming during my sleep
they became thoroughly alarmed. Medical
advice wns sought but to no avail; grow
rapidly worse and was soon unable to move
nbout and finally became confined continue
ally to my bed. The best doctors that could
BIO had were consulted but did nOthins: for
mo. tried various kinds OF extensively adj
vortlsed patent medicines with but the samo
/ result.
"For twelve long years wns thus suf.
ferer In constant agony without respite,
assesses formed on my body In rapid sue.
cession and tho world indeed looked very
dark to me. About this time whom all hope
WINS gono and nothing seemed left but to re-
Sign myself to my most bitter fnte my ntten-
tion was called to Dr. Williams Pink Pills
for Palo People. Like drowning man
grnsplng at straw, In sheer desperation I con.
cludod to mako one moro attcmpt-not to re.
gain my health Il dare not to hopo so mucb)
but II possible to ease my pnin.
~ bought box OF THO pills and they
seemed to do mo good. 1 felt encouraged
nnd continued their use. After taking six
boxes Mas up and able to walk around tho
house. have net felt 30 wcll for thirteen
years as during tho pnst year. Only ono
and nm ablo now to do chores and attend
| TO light duties.
"Do hesitate to let you publish whit
hnvo said? No. Why should II It Is tho
truth and nm only too glad to lot other sui.
lorers know my experience. II may help
those whose cup OF miacry Is MS full to-day
~ mino was In tho pnst."
DIR. Williams Pink Pills contain, in con-
denscd form, NIL tho olemonts necessary to
givo now lifo nnd richness to tho blood and
restore shattered nerves. Thoy are also u
specific for troubles peculiar to femules, such
ns supprcsslons irregularities and nll iorma
Of weakness. They fulld up tho blood, and
restore tho glow OF health to pnle and snllow
checks. In mon thuy effect q radical euro I'm
MI casea arising from mental worry over
| work or cXccsses OF whatever nature. Pink
FILLS AFRO sold In boxes (nevor In loose bulk)
ut 20 cents II box or SIX boxes for $2.5O nnd
may ho hnd Of ull druggists, or direct by
mnil from DIR. Williams Medicine Company,
Schenectady. N. Y.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-07-05
the NoyE11sr's REFUGE.

81 can't bring my fagged-out fancy
up to the point of portraying the oul-
minating love scene between the hero
and heroine of tins story" solilo-
quized the gifted novelist, "and I'll
Just say tho interview between Roder-
LEX and Penelope, those true hearts so
sorely tried, now SO happily reunited
Mt last, may DO safely left to tho read
er's imagination. This may DO lit
Ito disappointing to the reader, but il
ilatters him and saves lots of work.
There's cheating in all trades but
ours," continued tho gifted novelist.
making row of stars across tho page.
adding quotation from Byron and
writing the words: "The end. Chi
cago Tribune.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-07-05
Growth Of Public Expenditures.

Along with a demand for lower du-
ties tariff reformers have always urged
the necessity for sweeping retrench-
ment In our National expenditures. It
ID greatly to be regretted that the late
Congress was unable to escape from
tho bad precedent set by Gear Reeds
,bliiion Dollar" Congress, and out
down great many unnecessary APP
preparations. But the fact may as
well be admitted that economy is not
popular in Congress, simply because
1t is not popular with the country at
large. Tho people talk economy, and
the politicians of all parties promise
to be economical, but neither people
nor politicians really want smaller mp
preparations. AS an abstract theory
everybody says: "Certainly, I want
to see our National burden OF taxation
reduced. But when it comes to a
question OF log-rolling for each COM
munity or selfish interest, economy is
whistled down the wind and everybody
goes in to grab all he can for himself.
This country is so greet that by the
time each has received an appropria-
zion the total annual expenditure has
grown to an enormous sum.
The alarming growth of Govern
mental extravaganza in recent years
is largely due to the idea that indirect
taxes are not paid by anyone in par
ticular, and that anyway spending a
great deal of money is good for tie
country. Tho vigorous protest against
the income tax showed clearly that
while men will pay tariff tax amount
ing to twenty or thirty per cent. of
their income, n proposition to direct
iy tax incomes two per cent. will raise
lively row. The lesson is that if all
taxes were direct it would not be so
easy to get money to DO usolessly
squandered. AS for the notion that
the Governments spending money
taken from tho people is good thing,
it is only necessary to point out that
If the money wore left in the pockets
of the people, they could spend 1T for
some useful purpose instead of having
it practically thrown away.
Under present conditions it is use.
less to argue for lower tariff duties un.
less we convince the people that di-
rect taxation would lead to general
protest against all sorts of Govern
ment corruption and oxtravagance.