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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-05-17
CHANGED THE SUBJECT.

THAT'S o portrait of your grand.
mother as she looked when she was u
young lady, is it?l How strongly il
resembles you, Miss'Benderbyl"
"You only say that to flatter me,
MIR. Spoonamore. Grandma was quite
beauty, and everybody knows
don't mako any pretcnsions of that
kind"
'Indeed, I'm not trying to flatter
You, Miss Benderby! The family re.
semblance is striking. I've often
known cases of that kind. There
were two sisters was acquainted with
when I was boy. They looked won
derfully alike. just rs that portrait
looks like you, and yet one of them
was rs beautiful MS poets dream,
and the other was dreadfully-that
is. 1 mean, she wasn's ut ali-or rath-
er sho was lacking in tLat-t that Mt.
tractivo quality, you knew, that con.
stitutes-what perfectly lovely franc
this portrait has, hasn't It ?"-Chicugo
Tribune.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-05-17
immigration and the Tariff.

The New York Press is doing some
tall calamity bowling. 1t says that
"two years of tariff reform have re-
versed the tide of immigration into tho
United States, which in ono year had
reached 73o, 900 and now our net gain
in population from abroad for the last
year is only 1906. Our outgoing
refugees from bad industrial condi-
tions last year woro 312,77l and our
incoming immigrants wcre only 3d..
467."
This is indeed bad showing. for
which some party is responsible. 1t
occurred, however, not under Demo,
cratic but under Republican laws the
Mckinley bill being in full forco
during the last fiscal year. Since the
Wilson bill has been operative, wages
have begun to rise-at first slowly,
but now more rapidly-and tho lido
has turned toward this country.
Canadian mill operatives who lott Now
England by thousands during the dull
McKinley-Sherman period of 1894
are now coming back in nocke.
Tho Press is correct in saying that
"Nothing moro clearly indicates the
relative superiority of countries than
the tide of immigration. 1t always
flows toward the place of best oppor-
tunities for getting IL living. A lit.
Ito moro of tariff reform and the
United States will be reduced below
the water mark of Europe"
The fact that as many people wero
leaving this country for Europe in
1884 shows that, all things consid
cred, wages reached the Europeauy
level during the Mckinley period.
When wage earners considered the
rate of wages, cost of living and iep-
portunitIes for employment and On
joyment in Europe and America,
they concluded that it was, in 1893 -94,
about "six of one to half dozen of
tho other" There being no duty on
either emigration or immigration in
any country, labor is free to flow
back and forth at will---which it has
been doing. This fact serves to show
what a farce tariffs arc MS n means of
protection to American labor"
American labor has absolutely no pro-
lection Except the trouble and OK
pense OF crossing tho ocean, from
foreign labor; for, rs the Press ex-
plains, the moment the "oopportunir
ties for getting n living" arc better
here than abroad. foreign labor be.
gins to flow this way. Tariff duties
arc on goods aud oil tho "protection''
there is for any class COOS to tho man
niacturers or producers of these goods.
Tho case is very clear.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-05-17

Mrs. Samuel Crnwbnugh, of Clevc-
land, is tho first woman in Ohio to
register us qualified voter. She
went to the Board of Election rooms
in Cleveland the other day and re-
marked that she desired to register,
MS she would be out of the city on tho
regular registration days. She said
she was sixty-ono ycnrs old. Score.
tary Rowbottom placed tho pen which
was used in tho safe. and will present
it to tho Western Reserve Historical
Society.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-05-17

France has reason to rejoice. tho
New York Tribune feels. that bor
population again shows tendency to
increase. From tho interesting array
OF statistics published recently in the
journal Olliciel it is seen That 7l4G
persons were added to tho number OF
her people in 1893. In the three pre.
ceding years-1891, 1891 and 1892
there was decrease of 10000 in tho
population. In these days, when each
European Nation is striving to get ms
large an army rs possible, decreas.
ing population-to leave all other
points OF view aside-is q condition
far from desirable. Tho figures of
1898. therefore, small as they are,
should bring consolation to tho rulers
OF the great transatlantic Republic.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-05-17
CurrMlt Trust Wants Mckinley Duties.

The New York Press of April 90
says: california fruit growers desire
that currants should be taken on tho
free list, as their business suffers in
consequence OF the importation of for
eign currants in large quantities. This
is one OF the blessings of the Wilson
tariff bill, the practical workings OF
which have everywhere been fraught
with disaster to the industries OF our
country, both large and SMALL"
Certainly this is one of the blessings
of the Wilson bill. To have cheap
currants is blessing to all of the peo-
pie in this country, except tho few
California fruit growers, who have
been trying to monopolize our mar
kets and advance prices. Not having
tariff to keep out foreign ourrants
the California Currant Trust people
are having trouble in compelling
Americans to pay trust prices. OF
course they want the Mckinley bill
back again. What trust does not9
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-05-17
An Old Bible.

Frank Won Phul, of New Orleans,
In, favored the Picayune with sight
of cherished heirloom in tho shape
OF IL beautifully illustrated copy OF
the Lutheran Bible, printed in Nurem-
berg in 17GS, which has been in the
possession of his family for upwards
of n century. The portly tome is in
admirable preservation, and while,
perhaps, not having any great value
from photographed point of view,
is particularly interesting from tho
fact that it contains beautifully ex-
ecuted birth and baptismnl register of
tue founder of the family in America
and his eight children. The register
notes that Herr Wilhelm Won Phul
was born i'll Westhofen, in Hesse,
Germany, on November IL, 1889, and
came TO America in 176I and settled in
Lancaster, Penn, where he married
Catharine -Grneiiin on November Ia,
ITS. 1t also sets forth that the
founder fought as dragoon in the
Revolutionary Army. Thoregister also
preserves the dates of the births OF
his eight children, together with tho
dates of baptism and the names of tho
various sponsors. The Bible seems
to have been sent for to Germany i'll
17SG. 1t crossed with tho family by
stage to Lexington, Ky, from thence
to st. Louis, where it remained for
about fifty years, and two or three
weeks ago found final resting place
the cherished heirlooms of
the present owner. Mr.. Won Phul is
the third son of Henry, who was the
fifth child of the founder.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-05-17

When cows eat the litter from horse
stables or drink tho drainage from
manure heaps it is IN Indication of in
digestion resulting in what is COM
monty called deprnved appetite. The
Same cause impels COWS to cat rotten
wood or any other coarse stuff. The
treatment for this disease, which it
really is, is to give some raw linsecd
oil, pint is sufficient for ono dose,
but it may be repeated if necessary in
three days. Then feed some bran mash
or cut food wetted with hot water,
with the mash added, or any similar
easily digested food, adding to each
feed one dram each of sulphato Of iron,
ground ginger, and gontinn root. The
want OF Halt is very common cause of
indigestion, and provocative of this
unpleasant hablt.-Now York Times.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-05-17
M1LhEr AND muxaAnIAN HAY.

The hay from most varieties of mil
let and Hungarian grass is so strong II
food that it should be fed with groat
caution, especially TO horses. 1t is
safer and moro pnlatablo if cut before
the seed begins to ripcn, but even then
1T should be altcrnatcd with other fod-
der. When grown on II good soil,
through IL long season, the large.
headed German milict is the best
variety, according to A. A. Crozier, of
the Michigan Agricultural College.
The pointel-headcd common millet is
adapted to poor soils or Into sowing.
On fertile soils tho small, slender
headed Hungarian grass will yield
large amount of good hay i'll moist sen
cons. N1illet can be sown rs II catch
crop for hay when it is too lato to
plant corn, or when insects or hard
winter have destroyed tho clover, or
whenever II seeding of permanent
grasses fails. For hay, plant half n
bushcl per acre; if for seed. SOW one
peck. 1t is especially adapted to new
lands md good, snndy soil. The thick
stems cause it TO cure better if punched
to tho fold when partly dried, like
cloyer.-American Agriculturist.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-05-17

Tho New York Sun announces TINT
"Red Mule Smith, of tho Kentucky
Mountains, has been sentenced to bo
hanged. having been convicted of tho
last OF his murders. He is small, and
Tor noted Desperate very modest.
Common report credited him with tho
Killing OF twenty mon, but he would
only acknowledge to having done for
eight. This strict adherence to truth
Is remarkable in professional assas-
sin who offered his services for fee.
Red Mule Smith must have had some
other good qualities.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-05-17

A great many of the immigrants
from Northern and Central Europe
are used to eating rye bread, and
when they como to this country, oh.
serves the Boston Cultiyator, thew
continue to prefer that from wheat
Hour. 1t is darker, because it has less
starch, but it has greater proportion
OF gluten than has flour from wheat.
This gluten is tho most nourishino
part OF the grain, and its larger pro.
portion in rye makes that grain more
nourishing. In tho early history Of
New England bread made of rye flour
and Indian corn meal was the staple
food of the great majority of the PEG.
pie. Fine white -four was used for
cakes and pastry, but was considered,
as it lie. less nourishing than bread
made Of whole grain, whether that be
rye or wheat.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-05-17
SQUADRON Drills Mt Sen.

Tho smooth clean hulls OF the new
cruisers, their glistening steel wenp-
ons, their speed and power, tho evil
dences of strength, both offensive und
defensive, which they display. their
numerous mechanical and scientific
appliances, NIL mark them as fully
abrenst of tho development of this
age of steel, and rs worthy to main
tnin the honor of the flag under its
new and altered conditions Once
moro the navy of tho United States
seems equal to any demands that
might DO made upon it, to be II .suro
reliance in time of National emergen-
oy, defence in the event of National
peril.
The ships weigh from four thou san |
to ten thousand tons each. They
would be moving Mt speed OF fifteen
knots or more. Their formation
must be compact and regular, for nt
such speed nero touch Of one to
another might be disabling blow,
and if the squadron is scattered by
ships losing distance an alert onemy
may find his opportunity. Then tho
admiral's signals must be looked to.
If tho vessels change direction, they
should change as one. If the admiral
desires to change his formation or his
front, it must be dono without CON
fusion. A captain of n ship in fleet
action has therefore double duty
first, to employ his own weapons to
the best advantage and 10 endenvor to
avoid those of tho enemy; second, to
manDuvre his ship with her cousorts,
obeying and supporting his admiral
and the latter no must do amidst tho
terrible din, confusion, and destruc-
ton of the former. Quick manmuvr-
ing must therefore become TO him n
second nature-something tc be done
almost unconsciously MS IL matter of
habit, and this habit can be acquired
only by long and constant practice
The highest school of naval war in
time of peace, that work which solves
its problems, and is the best guaran-
tee of future success, is mannuvring
vessels in company with others-in
professional language, fleet or squad
ron tactics.
Proficiency in this art has always
accompanied naval supremacy. It
was SO in the galley period and, much
later, during that long period when
vessels were propelled by sails alone.
The victories of st. Vincent and
Nelson were the joint product OF their
genius and of fleets OF unusual mobil-
ity and tactical training. With mod
ern vessels of great speed and power,
independent OF the wind, and armed
with weapons of variety and precis-
ion, this kind OF training and drill is
moro valun5le-is, in fact, essential
Naval writer's of all countries dwell
upon its importance, and continually
urge that increasing attention be given
to it during those times OF peace
which afford the only real opportuni-
ty of preparing for the sharp and de-
cisive wars of modern times. -Har-
per's Weekly.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-05-17
Not Mothers.

A New Yorker tells of an incident
which occurred the other day. Two
pretty young women were talking
very earnestly in a street car, not np-
pouring to realize that the other pas
sengers could hear. 81 have very
little trouble with my. boys" said
one, "and L have seven. AS she did
not look more than twenty-five years
old, It seemed rather Il large family,
but the listeners fairly gasped whel,
the other observed: "Well, L have
had eighteen girls, and like them
best 1t transpirel that they were
talking OF their Sunday school classes.
New Orleans Picayune
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-05-17

Germany is i'll plcthoric condi-
ton. Her population now exceeds
ffty-one millions, and tho Argonaut
believes tnat but for tho safety valve
afforded by emigration to this coun-
try, her numbers especially in tho
citics-would DO source of cmbar
rnssmcnt Germans havo hal too
much sense to accept ex. Chancellor
Bismaack's invitation to emigrato to
Angrn Poqucnn, or the Zunzbar coun-
try, or Papau.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-05-17
A Tax on the Rich Only.

This odd medley of confession and
disingenousness appeared in yoster-
days Tribune:
"The contest is between the Ropub-
lican principle OF indirect taxation,
by which the rich, who use imported
goods largely, are compelled to pay
for that luxury, and tho Democratic
theory, which taxes sugar and whisky,
and rents and incomes, i'll order to
make diamonds FREQ and to lower tho
duties on laces and satins, kid gloves
and fino woolens. When the RspEb-
lican principle controls taxation tho
wealthy citizen pays largely, because
ne chooses to buy foreign-mado lux
uries.'
Hero is an admission that the tariff
is tax and that the consumer paysit.
But only a fortnight ago tho Tribune
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-05-17

DO added OF the rate of about four
ounces to every hundred pounds of
milk. During tho sailing and the
subsequent cooling the curd must DO
kept from mating by constant stir
ring. A sewed Danda9e should DO
placed in the hoop and the curd
pressed in firmly. When the cheese
has settled in tho hoop it is taken out
in tho cloth, placed ON shelf and
turned every day during the first
month and twice n week afterwards.
To prevent cracking it should oc-
casionally be rubbed with butter. Tho
curing will require two or three
months in temperature from sixty to
sixty-fve degrees.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-05-17

The National debts of tho great
powers OF Europe arc us follows: Great
Britain, $3.50, 719, 5G3; per capita,
sS7.7o. France, S4.446, 1903. 39s; per
capita, $116.35. German Empire,
SfI'o77,7 l9; per capita, $1.57. Russia,
sa'49l ,Ole,o74; per capita, 5000
mo wealth OF Great Britain, as ad
Judged from tho income tax, is great.
CT 'han that OF any other Nation. It
amounts to 1890 per capita for all
her population OF 81, 900, 900. France
comes next, with n valuation of SlOS1
per head of population, while in tho
United States the average wealth i:
about $1,000 to ench individual.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-05-17

swings and oscillatcs and brings tho
butter. Whether ono is believer or
disbeliever in washing butter, he will
stop churning when the butter is in the
granular state, the size of grains of
wheat. Then tho buttermill1 is drawn
carefully of. Some good butter-makers
dash water cooled to sixty-two degrees
upon the grains of butter and then
turn the barrel churn over n dozen
times more. Although the churns
usually do not provide for it, it is
well to have strainer of somewhat
coarse wire beneath the buttcrmilk
vent to catch the Jumps of butter that
would otherwise go'out with tho milk.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-05-17
PRIZE POLAND CHINA, SWINE.

of tho breed in that locality stamps
tho Poland China as possessing very
high order of merit.
In tho early days of the country tho
pigs were of the racer type, with razor
backs, long legs and little meat. They
wero great enters but poor feeders, re-
quiring two or three years to mature.
The admixture of littlo Berkshire
blood gnvo them the desired form and
early maturity, and tho judicious
blending with the Byofield, Big China
and Irish Grazier has resulted in pro-
ducing the present Poland China
breed.
This breed, now thoroughly estab-
lishcd, possesses fixed characteristics,
fine style and unquestioned,good quail
tiles and character. Tho best speci-
mems have good length, short legs,
deep sides. full, square hams and
shoulders; they are hardy, vigorous
and prolific, and combine in high
degree tho exccllence OF both large
and small breeds. They are docile,
easily fattoned, unsurpassed both us
corn-eater and fat-producer, their
flesh is of good quality, and they give
good return for tho food supplied
them.
They do not adapt themselves so
readily to climatic conditions rs tho
Duroc-Jerseys, hence their lack of
popularity i'll the South. These two
breeds resemble each other very close.
ly i'll nearly all points except color
Here the difference Is striking, tho
Dnroc-Jersey being rod-haired, while
the Poland China is black and whito
spotted.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-05-17
FARM CHEESE.

In Europe cheese forms very i'm
portant article of diet, but in this
country it is greatly neglected, and
on many farms its manufacture is
never attempted, writes 9. ID. Bell in
the New York World. This neglect
Is chiefly due to very general i'm.
preston OF tho righteousness of tho
work and the necl of n special cduca-
ton therefor. OF course this is truo
oil many varieties of cheese, but there
are other kinds which arc easily made
The following is simple recipe for
nice, small cheese suitable for home
use:
Strain tho evenings milk into n
deep can, which should be placed in
cold water. This will prevent the dc
Veiopment of bacteria and check the
rising of the cream. The milk should
be well stirred before retiring. In
the morning tho cream and n portion
OF the milk should be heated (neveI
above 100 degrecs), and then added to
the remainder of the evenings milk,
which has been stirred into the morn,
lne's. When all have been mixed the
temperature should be from eighty tc
oighty-four degrees.
The coloring matter, diluted will
water, should then be stirred in before
the rennet is added. Rather less than
an ounce of the latter is needed TO,
every 100 pounds of milk. The vessel
should then be covered and left fol
half an hour, after which time i,
should be closely watched, and as soor
as the curd breaks or splits ON passing
finger through it, it should be cui
with long-bladed knife into inch
squares. This opens the pores of the
ourd and allows the escape of the
whey. Tho cutting must be done
carefully, SO as to keep the whey clear
Some of the latter should be dipped
of and water heated to 14O degrees
and poured onto the curd 30 as to raise
the mass to about ninety-six degrees
The vessel is kept covered, SO us tc
retain the heat.
After half an hour the curd will be
tough enough to lift without breaking.
The whey must then be drawn a.
quickly MS possible. Tho culd is torn
into pieces with the hands and Tho
whey carefully pressed out. When 4
is fine enough good dairy salt should
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-05-17
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

Nervous horses require very careful
handling.
A well-broken horse always brings
more money.
Everything points to greater stu
bility in horse breeding.
1t pays those having horses to sell
to put them in the best possible con.
dition for market.
Tho Arkansas station recommends
tho growing of peanuts in that State MS
profitable crop for market or us IL
food for hogs.
Look at the harness now. 1t is not
very profitable during blowing time
to havo to spend two or three hours
mending broken truce.
"a q. From nine to fifteen pounds of tim
othy seed are sown to tho acre when
used alone. Twelve pounds is IL good
average ii the seed is good.
Trees should be mado to send their
roots deep into tho soil, IN order to
fortify themselves against drought
This is done by draining tho soil and
by blowing the orchard rather deep.
A ton Of grain or cottonseel meal
can only produce certain amount of
manure, no matter to which kind OF
animal it may be fed, and while some
animals produce manure of less value
than others, yet they produce moro of
it, and the loss in ono direction is u
gain in another.
Alfalfa prefers n deep, loose bed
reaching down to water, hut decidedly
objects to surface water, but there
seems to be exceptions, not that it
changes, but man is sometimes mis-.
taken in tho kind and condition of
his soil SO it is we'll for many to ex-
pertinent q little ON small scale.
When feeling wheat to the COWS about
one-half the bulk sbodld be ground
out iuto flour for family use, and
the rest mixed with on equal amount
of bran; certainly should the bran be
added if the wheat is used entire.
Wheat is apt to founder if fed in
quantities called for, but shorts never
do.
To succeed with turkeys all that is
required is good, healthy, vigorous
stock and little painstaking caro-
with the young birds for tho first
week or two after they are hatchod,
after which they will take caro of
themselves and will need little or no
food until time TO fattcn them in the
fall.
A hint concerning big limbs tc
those who are about to trim orchards .
Instead of saving under and then
from the top, saw the limb far enough
from the place you should saw smooth,
to make stick of firewood, let the
limb go tumbling to the ground, then
take time and saw the stub of smooth
at one saving.
There Is no need of making butter
at n loss with SO wide demand for
IL gilt edged article, yet plenty OF
people continually suffer this loss, and
do not seem to know Just how to 10.
cate nor remedy it. 1t is safe to say
that ninety-nino farmers out OF q
hundred never have any right appre.
citation of the possibilities of intelli
gent dairying..
Charcoal is quite necessary for
fowls. Wood charcoal is not relished
by fowls; it has no taste OF food, i:
not attractive to them, and is seldom
eaten. The best charcoal is made by
putting ears of corn in the fire and
roasting until the grains are charred.
This will be found very bene fetal,
will tend to put fowls in a healthy
condition, and give decided i'm.
provement to their looks. Their pale
combs will become bright red, and tho
yield of eggs be much increased.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-05-17
SHE WONDERED.

"They do tell me-" said Farmer
Corntossle, "that some O. these here
milliQnaires put in on hour day clip.
pin coupons
"Doarie mel" exclaimed his wife.
"That goes to show tibet rich people
is jest like other folks, after all. I
wonder whut they air votin' fur; the
most popular policeman or tho boy
tibet gets tho bicycle ?"-Washington
Star.