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

The New York Advertiser relntos tbo
following: A mind reader was show
ing of before party of men. Can
you rcad an nldcrman's mind and find
out how much money no got for his
last vote?' asked ono of tho spocta-
tors. "Certainly," replied the mind
reader, with n smile. Cali right try
1t on my friend here" indicating an
alderman who sat beside him. The
alderman became very red in the face,
looked ut the mind reader distrust-
fully, murmurcd something about his
friend beng "too gny," and then re.
treated.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-07-05
A FOURTH OF JULY ODE.

The Glorious Fourth has como.
Deaf tho Understanding drum, pound tho
tom-tom, sound the hewgag, blow the
horn ana
Let her come!
Shoot the cracker, fire tho pistol, punch the
eagle. make him scream.
Loudly scream!
Day OF powder and torpedocs, lemonade TINT
knows no lemon, gingor-pop devoid OF
ginger, leo cream
Innocent of crcaml
Tho Glorious Fourth has come,
Bang tho holow-sounding drum, sound tho
tocsiu. raise tho war-whoop, clash tho
cymbais.
Let her GOMEZ
Tintinnabulatc the ilrc-bells, raise tho small
boys ululation, crack tho canopy with
speech,
Roaring speech!
IIcar the clopucnce compounded of unmixa-
bio ingredients, ono per cent. Of
thought original, ninety-nino
Per cent. of screcch.
The Glorious Fourth has conc,
Wlack tho loud, rcvcrberant drum, pound
the tin pan, beat tho boiler, blow the
fish horn,
Let her come!
Tunc the flfc and blow tho bugle, shoot the
rocket through tho spheres!
Dodging spheres!
Let tho rnpid-mouthcd dcclnmcr pour his
cataract OF vcrbals, cloqucncc divorced
from meaning, words
Unmarried to ideas.
Tho Glorious Fourth has como,
Beat and pound aud whack tho drum, PUNK
the banjo, shoot the rocket, nro the
cracker,
Let her conc!
Scorch your whisicrs, shoot your arm of,
blow large hole through your head,
Swelling head
tiro tho cannon, crash your ribs In, break
your leg and save your country,
Then be carried OF to bed
New York World.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-07-05
ANATLON'S CHARTER
STORY OFTHfI DECLARATION OF
INDEPENDENCE.
n Glorious Document That Has Been
Neglectcd-Its Words Said to
Have Faded Almost He
You'd RccognitioD.
1HE original Declaration of In
dependence, of which Ban
croft the historian, ao;d tbot

dependence, OF which Ban
croft, the historian, said that
it had received renown
more extended than that OF any other
State r~per in existonce," has faded
away beyond the possibility of res
toration. The names of tho signers
to this great charter of American lib
critics arc no longer legible. After
118 years of careless guardianship, in
various custody-during tho greater
portion of which period it was
thoughtiessly exposed to tho destroy
ing influences of light, air and heed
less handling-now when tho irrepar-
nble havoc is done and the precious
nrchive has become hardly moro than
blank and wrinkled sheet OF paper,
solictudo for its preservation has be-
gun to DO felt, and Mt last it is cared
for MS it should have been cared for
years ago.
1t was my privilege somo time since
u privilege then accorded to few,
and now. under the strictcst prohibit
tion accorded to none-to SEQ and
touch this precious document, says n
writer i'll the Detroit Free Press. 1t
is kept locked up in steel safe in the
library of tho Department of State.
1t is spread out Hat in mahogany
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-07-05
Some Advice Tor the Fourth.

Don't throw lighted firecrackers
above your head, especially if there
are little girls with light dresses stand
ing near you.
Don't hold powder and lighted punk
in the same hand.
Don't look into the mouth of n TOW
cannon to SEQ why it husn't gono of.
Don't put tirecrackers into Your
pockets.
Don't drop roman candle if n
spark happens to burn You. BE brave
and shake it all the harder, but never
drop it, for the balls may do serious
damage.
Don't lenve matches and lighted
punk where ladies may tread on them.
Don't fool with toy pistols.
Don't make fun OF the little ones,
who take pleasure in torpedoes and
are afraid Of firecracl1ers. You were
little once, remember.
Don't get cross because mother or
the servant tells you you are wasting
matches or scattering them about.
Don't be mean, but let the ragged
boys and girls pick up some crackers
which may not go of. You might
drop some on purpose for thom, if
you wished to DO generous. Now York
Times.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-07-05

The State of New York has lust been
sued for SOL, S3S.2S by citizen Of
brooklyn named Roberts, who was
convicted of burglary that he did
not commit. and was pnrdoned after
he had served two years i'll Sing Sing.
Seyenty-iive thousand dollars of this
aggregate is claimed for injury to
reputation and mental and physical
suffering while in prison; tho rest is
his computation of the amount with
interest of what he pnid to LAWYERS
and OF what he lost by tho destruction
OF two business enterprises in which
he was engaged when arrested and
which have now passed into other
hands, leaving him penniless. His in
nocence is completely proved. No
doubt exists That his conviction was n
mistake, and, according to the Now
Orleans Picayune, there is general
concurrence in the opinion that some.
body ought to be held responsible for
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-07-05

No less well-informcd newspaper
than tho Court Journal of London
is authority for tho following: cit
IL snid TINT the Prince of Wales has
get his face against tho custom of
Tipping, and that society Will, of
course, follow his example. This
means either n considerable increase
in the salaries of domestics or 70.
volt of the great untippcd.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-07-05
residence, replied that there was m. :
other Charles Carroll and he dldn't

residence, replied that there was an
other Charles Carroll and he didn't
want them t. hang the wrong man.
The most enthusiastic advocate of
tho great measure, and the ono who
led the debate in its support was John
Adams, OF Massachusetts,, and when the
Declaration was adopted he wrote to
his wife :"rhis will be tho most memoir
able epoch in the history of America
celebrated by descending generations
as the great anniversary festival. com
memorated as the day of deliyerance
by solemn acts of devotion to God AL
mighty, solemnized with pomps,
shows, games, sports. guns, bells, bon
fires, and illuminations from ono end
of the continent to the other, from
this time forward, forever"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-07-05

The llnd-hcarted people who adyo.
cate abolishing the death penalty
shonld keep their eyes on Michigan.
is the advice Of the Atlanta Constitu.
tion. lin that State capital punish
ment was abolished q generation aoo
and the result has been an increase in
the number of murders. In the ten
years ending with 1890 homicides in
creased in Michigan more rapidly than
III any other Stntc. In 1891 and 1892
the total reached 1G2, a largo number
for State with 1000, 900 population.
vi tho 162 criminals thirty-nine wore
rever tried ut all, aud only three per
cent. OF those who were tried received
life sentences. Canada, with 6, OOO. 900
population and the death penalty
strictly enforced, makes a far bette,
showing. In TINT country during the
past ten years there were only 223
murders, against 49I in Iicbipap
Naturally. there is something revolt.
ing in the idea of hanging man, but
what can society do to protect itself
when murderer goes to work? 1t is
not safe to rely upon life imprison.
ment, for the prisoner may escape or
be pardoned, and again resume his
career OF crime. A life for life seems
TO be the only safe rule in murder
cases. Hanging will terrorizc some
criminals and it certainly prevents
murderers from adding to their list OF
victims. There should be no misguided
sentiment in favor of the monsters
who deliberately commit murder ani
arson and felonious assaults upon wo
men. They are better out of the worlt
than in it, and society is never safe
while they live. Tho experience O
Michigan is very good argument il
favor of retaining the gallows, AMI il
is to be hoped that no Other State will
make the mistake OF abolishing it,"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-07-05

1t is now said TINT tho insignificant
mortality of tho Japanese in bnttIc
during the recent war was partly duo
to their wearing n quantity of floss
silk under their outer clothing as n
protection against the cold. 1t is said
to have acted i'll many cases MS a bull.
lct-proof shield.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-07-05

not to cnll it suspicious run of luck.
But tho Little Dutch fellers never
hollcrs, but before the cvenin' comes
what with natural philanthropy an
tho whisky they had accumulated they
agrees to abandon tho Minnesota
Littlo Dutch festivities an both towns
como over to tho Red Bud blowout.
Everything rolls proper rs snid.
Tho horse races an tho lot sollin' in
the forenoon resulted very gratiryin'.
They was ono shadow cast over the
mornin' proceodin's, but it was only
passin' one. A kid from Captain
Scott's hay ranch, holm offended ut
tho freshness Of ono of Pawneo Pcte's
hirod men, started to clean out tho
Wild West. Ho crippled up Coyote
Charley md hnd begun on tho bow
legged chap which rides the buclsin'
mustangs before he WIS prizod loose
Two men was set ridin' herd on him
till he Gained down.
''Thcn led in for the Declaration.
My heart was swellin' with pride nm
in n general way was Dustin with
patriotism. 1t was great day for
Tom North an the Nation. Jist MS 1
was climbin' on tho stand in comes
Harry Hill, his big blue roam clearin'
II twenty-five foot town lot every
jump. Hill was lookin' like man
bent ON fndin' trouble if he had to
hunt for it till shutdown. You know
Harry Hill? He is the best lookin'
man in Kansas City, six feet tall,
black, curly hair, teeth white rs q
girls, nm eyes like dccr-theso big
brown eyes, only they don't get scary
like the dccr's. Hill owned ranch
over near Wichata, and had cut quito
figure in tho Oklahoma openin'
matter, whereby ho is by general con-
sent known as Oklahoma Harry In
80 he left his ranch with his foreman
an had turned over his stage line to
his superintendent. an he starts out
with Wild West show. 1t was fash
ionablo that year.
Hello I says, Harry I thought
you oil was up Kansas City way?'
" 80 I was, but I had business
down to Winfield an' hearin' of the
doin's over here rides over to help
swell the rejoicin' over the Nations
Twin to sec another birthday. An
right yere's the man Two rode thirty
mile fiat to mingle with
ffHe runs Pawnee Pete into n sa.
loon an lands on him like hawk on
Juno bug, an he says:
You're q long haired fraud nm
imitation. Yero's maverick I'll run
my brand ON SO all men my know
who he belongs to-.
F" Don't shoot, Harry. ant fixed,
hollers Pawnee Pete, 'be a good fellor,
BIO social now, Harry, nm don't bust
up these social arrangements
"I ant goin' to shoot nobody,
Petey, says Hill a-thron Pawnee Pete
down and sittin' on him. Don't be
alarmed, gerts, he says to the crowd
a-pullin' his knife, don't misconstrue
me. l ant goin' to break up no ar
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-07-05

London has maintained for many
years pre-eminenco in the fur trade.
American and Russian buyers both
visit that city to buy furs originally
taken in their own respective coun-
tries. Tho sales amount to $4,000,
600 vear.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-07-05
TIE FOURTH AT RED BUD.

ECKON it was lined
out 10 DO tho big
gcst nm most joy
o us celebration
ever pulled off west
of Sent Loooy,"
snid Tom North.
Ho sat on the
shady sido of the
Transit House. cit
wns n case of force.
Red Bud, which
had started on its
bounding corpor-
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-07-05
A Liberal Fatller.

CHOW, Bobby" said Mr.. Meanest-
man to his son, "if you'll DO real
good boy, on the Fourth of July papa
will let you take five cents out of your
bank and buy your little sister pack
ago OF torpedoes. "-Harper's Bazar.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-07-05

Northern settlers in Moore County,
North Carolina, are making success
out of pinnapples grown in the open
air, They say that they can raise in
North Carolina every kind of fruit
that grows in California.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-07-05
Both We're Right.

Absont-mindcd House Surgeon
"Dear me, what does this mean?
Another boy with finger shot of.
This is tho third to-day, isn't it?"
Fly fntcrn-'No; it's the Fourth"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-07-05

A lest of armored trains for coast
defense has been favorably reported
on i'll England. Tho idea is nm old
one, but in the new style of train the
cars cnn be anchored i'll moment and
can shoot in my direction.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-07-05
1t is only thirty years since the first
cable was laid under tho Atlantic.
Mexico has cheap labor, and it bids
lair to become formidable compel.
itor in cotton growing.

Under the new Mexican law train
robbers, if caught in the act, arc to DO
summarily executed without tho for
malities OF n trial.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-07-05

The general testimony of European
countries which have abolished CAPT.
tal punishment is that there has been
10 increase of crime.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-07-05
His Busy Day,

Cobble-"I called on DIR. Probe to-
day and the servant snid unless it was
very important he couldn't see me-"
Stone-"Why not?'
Cobble.-'Ho is resting up for the
Fourth of July"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-07-05

nte career amin to bc known ms tho
metropolis of Cowley County, Kansas,
nm figurin' mt como future Gay to
move tho county sent over from Win
field, was on the hog train. This was
in 80. The boom towns had Just
struck tho tobnggnn, Jarvis, tho real
estate sharp which had invented Red
Bud an laid out TO sell tho limitless
prairie Mt so n front foot, mnde
final desp'rit effort to put sand on the
slight nn' stop the journey to financial
ruin, but it want no use. Red Bud
WAS done bust then; they was no more
lett 10 it than toy balloon which has
set on tack. jarvis wouldn't admit
1T; he dnsn't. lie had too much into
the pot to go to the discard then.
Whereby lie fixes up this Fourth of
July celebration, mn, my boy, tho
programme was bird. They was to
DO racin' on the fiat in the mornin', mn
n whole lot OF Injuns an hnlf-breeds
from over near Arkansas City was in
it. Then Jarvis was goin' to sell on
some of his landscape Mt auction, after
which myself, havin' agreed to act at
chaplain Tor the occasion, was to rend
tho grand old Declaration of Inde.
pendence. which. read proper, clutches
Western crowd every time This WINS
to DO followed Ivy Charley Siringo
from Caldwell a-singin' of his Justly
celebrated production, 'The Rangers
Lament, which it goes like this and is
calculated to fetch tears from cay
use, an animal not much g;von ovor to
weepin' rule:
Far away from good old Texas
lays ne down to die
My saddle for pillcr,
My windin' sheet the sky.
There's song to move your heart
nm Siringo had it.
"Barkcep," callod Mr.. North
through the window, "bring mo an.
other Lemonade an ono for my friend.
Siphon settler, an lot it be lemon
juice out of the fruit. Pm dead loery
of lemon juice poured ready made out
OF bottle. 1t always looks like Civ.
in the house tho ago; they can loco it
on you too easy.
81 have come to look on it MS q good
thing, special on warm day. An it
was needed in Red Bud on that Fourth
I Pm tellin' you OF. They amt no
, thermometer yit stuffed with mer-
curry that can reach the top of warm
weather In Southern Kansas. But they
don't mind weather down there.
Tho afternoon was to be devoted
to wild Western sports, an in the
, evcnin' it was allowed to mako the
heavens blaze with various kinds OF
glory, Jarvis havin' sprung himself
) on the fireworks an brought down n
} car load.
: "Ihc afternoon sports was to be the
} feature. Jarvis had arranged for n
) whole lot of possible land buyers to
come over from Wichita, an had n
train load comm from ms far rs Kan.
sas City. These gangs, with the crit.
tiers that was always campin' around
: them parts a-waitin' for the Cherokee
u strip to open, would make quite herd
OF tender-feet, an it was figured that
the cowboy sports would vastly enter
faln EN- an get 'em enthused to n
point where they wonld go agin Jar
vls's real estate proposition.
J "Pawnee Pete was to have charge of
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-07-05

OF course Pawnco Peto's show busts
right there. A wild wcster with close
cut hair wouldn't havo much luck, nm
Pete has to lay low for three years till
his hair kin grow"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-07-05
"EireA" OH the Fourth.

''Going to keep tho Fourth this
year? Fire the cannon md all that?"
"Well-I don't know about firing
the cannon, but 1 may discharge the
hired man." Harper's Bazaar.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-09-26
In the Country.

I am gradually becoming acquainted
with country life have been here in
Hayville little more than week, but time
works wonders. On my arrival wanted
my trunk carried about block to my new
home.
"Come hither, my good man, I said in
lightest vein to a worthy looking fellow
dressed in pair of worn jeans, rawhide
boots and dirty flannel shirt. 81 would
a word with thee. Shoulder this trunk
and take it to yonder house, and I'll give
you more money for chewing tobacco and
popcorn than you've had in year" The
worthy fellow toted my trunk over all
right and 1 gave him quarter. The
next day L saw him buying bank stock at
an auction sale of the effects, real and per-
sonal, of a deceased millionaire. He clean
ed out about dozen other bidders by rails
ing it up to 157. l made some inquiries
and learned that he was worth over
$780, 900 himself. 1 concluded to go to
the postoff1ee via our COW lot and crawl
through the barbed wire fences except
when assured that he was far away
went to what they call a''sidewalk So
cial' last night. It is function that las
for it's object the Improvement of the side
walks in the town. Every one pays p
quarter to attend and a quarter TO eat
You bring along your own food and CT
that unless you swap jam and marmalade
with some neighbor. l tried to get i3ly
wife to swap off some Of her bread lit WAS
very good for d first attelnpt), bat she
didn't succeed. After the social a ccu4-
mittee of women called the sidewalk
committee takes charge Of the money
and the members fight over it for the rest
of the year. By the time they are through
fighting and have put couple Of new
boards in front of the minister's house
there is no money left, so it seems to be Il
sort of local Tammany.
There was an awfully pretty woman at
the social. She was dressed in a gown
that would have been credit to the Ia
mented Mr.. Worth, who died, poor fellow,
just before I wanted to order a couple of
dozen dresses from him for my wife. She
was graduate of Vassar and knew every
thing. There WASH t anything she couldn't
talk about, and she could play the piano
with both hands. We got a-going on al
truisn, which is one of my hobbies.
used the horny handed village blacksmith
for an object lesson. I explained at length
what the world ought to do for poor devils
like him. I showed her that life was
nothing to such as he; that he was in his
present social condition a mere unthlnking
machine, Shaving for the benefit of a few,
who like myself were brain workers
After we got home my wife told me that
the Vassaf graduate was the wife of the
blacksmith His shop fronts our cow lot,
SO am not going to the postOffice by that
route any more. I am going to send my
wife.-Truth.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-09-26
AT TIE GRAND.
Charles A, Lodrr. Gus Mills and Others
in the Hustler.

Charles A, Lod-r. Gus Mills and Others
in the Hustler.
Charles A. Loder pleased the audience
last evening more than any other one
person 10 the cast of the Hustler"
though there were some good speciaILies,
notab- y those by Fox and Mills.
The evenings entertainment was so
evidently meant for an audience made up
entirely of people from class represent
ed last evening by Fox.
The incorporation of vaudeville, and
very poor vaudeville at that, seems to be
the rule 10 cheap farce comsdy this year.
and "The Hustler" is no exception to that
rule.
Gus Mills spoiled what was at times
nearly clever work by extreme coarse
ness and vulgarity.
Tierney is better than the average Irish
comedian.
One serious fault with the com Danies
we have had this year is that there are
no real clever women in them.
For small favors the public should be
duly grateful, and it is a fact worthy of
note that no one sang all of "Only One
Girl For Me" last evening, though there
were some references to it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-09-26
SILVER CHINA.
Its Chespness Increases the Volume Of
Exports From That Country.

Its CheHpne6B AnCre&ses tAS GA
Exports From That Country.
WASHINGTON, D. c. Sept. 26-The
State Department is in receipt of a re-
port on the trade of China for 1894. pre-
pared by the secretary of the British
legation at Peking
The consul general at Shanghai
touches upon the silver question. He
says: stability in the value of silver is
the one desideratum of the foreign
merchant in the far east and it is pointed
out that fluctuations in it must really af-
feet the we'll being of the entire popula-
ton of United Kingdom.
Under the influences of cheap silver,
the volume OF exports continues to ex-
pand and the European consumer reaps
the benefit of their cheapness in gold
prices The fall in silver and low
freights have combined to enable the
majority of the staple exports of China
to be laid down in Europe at about half
the cost at which they could be sold
years ago"