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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-01-31
Treating Head and Hands.

At this season Of the year it is al.
most impossible to keep the hands
from chapping and looking red when
they are in water rs frequently as If
Is necessary to have them. Below is
given n most excellent recipe for
making laurelinc, which is simply and
easily prepared at home and very in.
expensive:
Two ounces of glycerine, one ounce
OF alcohol, oae-fourth ounce of gum
tragacanth, One-fourth to one.half
ounce OF rose water or violet perfume.
one pint of water; soak the traoa-
canth in the water two days, then
strain and add the other INGREDIENTS
Cut the glycerine with the alcohol. If
1t should be too thick add Il little
more water and alcohol. Bottle and
it IS ready for use.
In very cold weather, If it is too
thick to pour easily, heat it by set
ting over the register or in a bowl OF
hot water.
While most people admit there Is
nothing better for the scalp than n
thorough brushing of the hair morn.
ing and night, many will not persist
IN tins and are continually asking
what will make the hair come in when
1t Is fast coming out. Many of the
best hairJresserG aud BARRIERS are rec
ommendlng rubbing pure grease in il
very thoroughly every night or every
other night. In several instances this
mas proved very effectual and new
growth of short and strong fuzz all
over the head has been the result.
Many children and some of an,older
growth are severely troubled with
dandruf IN the scalp. which always
makes the head and hair look dirty.
This can be removed by rubbing pare
grease IN every other night and in the
morning following wash thoroughly
with tar soap. Chicago Record.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-01-31
The sIee. RaII combine Rsnsnea.


The combination between the man.
ufactufers OF steel rails, by which
prices are maintained at the highest
figures which will not permit foreign
competition, has been renewed for q
period of years. The result will be
that the members OF Che trust vilfcop-
tinue to make about fifteen million
dollars more ANNUALLY than if the steel
rail business was subject to free COM
petition. These fifteen millions will
in the first instance be paid by the
various railway companies, but will
finally come out OF the pockets of
farmers and other consumers who use
the goods carried by the railroads.
The farmer who is wondering why
freight rates are so high will find food
for profitable reflection in the opera
tons of the Steel Rail Trust.
A recent importation Of 10, 600 tons
OF rails from England by California
railroad proves the truth of the
charges made on the floor of Congress
/ by Tom l.. johnson, of Ohio, himself
one of the largest rail Manufacturers
In America. Two years ago Mr.. John
son asserted that the only benefit of
the Mckinley duty OF S13.44 Der tom
vas to allow the trust to charge more
for rails than they we're worth, and
that prices were fixed by the combine
at or near the point where FOREIGN
rails could be imported. For these
reasons he ulged Congress to put steel
rails on the free list. and thus abolish
an enormous annual tax on transpor-
tatioD.
The duty on rails was reduced by
the Wilson tariff to 1874 per ton.
With the business revival which fol-
lowed the adoption OF that law came
increased demand for rails. and prices
were advanced. Had tho Mckinley
duty still been in force the price would
have been put up to OF least $50, the
price in 1892, and probably to S3I. rs,
the price in the first year of McKin-
leyism. But as English rails could be
imported at about 500 a ton, owing to
the reduced duty, the trust made its
price little less, and thus was enabled
to control the market. Had there been
no duty the domestic railmakers would
have been forced to sell rails at about
81 per ton. AS it is, tho sale of the
10000 tons mentioned above was only
possible through the low freight rates
from England to California. If the
Mckinley law was in operation they
could not have been imported at all.
The methods OF the steel 1ail COM
bine are an ILLUSTRATION of how tariffs
enable trusts to roD consumers. How
do the people like pt? And what are
they going to do about it?
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-01-31

In Syracuse, N. Y, they have a tru.
ant school in operation, which prom.
ises to do great deal of good, and
might be adopted in other localities
with like beneficial results, suggest.
the Trenton IN. j. American. The
plan is to take boy who insists upon
playing truant to the truant school
for at least ten days. There he re-
celves good food, good bed, regular
study hours and plenty of time for
play. He goes to bed at 100 O'Clock
and rises at an early hour. After their
first confinement in this truant school.
the truants are given another chance
In tho schools which they are accus.
toned to attend. Iito secon Nsssa Zee
is morSsevero fnan tho first and 50
on
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-01-31
inconsistent Talk Avon. ..s;siiuur pntfss.

ff0oa DNtANE-
Certain wool dealers and WOODEN
manufacturers in Philadelphia are agi-
Eating for tho restoration Of Mckinley
duties on woods and woolens. Thew
produce some remarkable arguments
for higher dutieE One firm saws that
foreign manufacturers were obliged to
pay 1.-THE lara6r portion" Of Mckinley
duties for TIE privileges of Selling
woolens In our markets. Another firm
says that fcre; IN wool growers paid
the larger portion" of the Mckinley
duties on wool.
pf course it is nice to have foreign.
ers pay out taxes, but such being the
cRse what particular advantage are oui
wool growers or manufacturers to OBJ
tain through taxed wool and higher
duties on woolens? If the Australian
sheep raiser is foolish enough TO pay
twelve cents per pound to get his wool
into our markets when he can obtain
the same price in the free markets OF
Europe, in what way are our
wool growers benefited? If foreign
manufacturers sell their goods in our
markets at about the same price oh.
tanned In foreign markets and regard
less of the 100 per cent. duty which
Mckinley levied, what advantage is a
Mckinley duty to our manufacturers?
There evidently being 10 advantage,
are our manufacturers willing to see
Mckinley duties restored on wools
without restoring higher duties on
woolens? If not, why not?
Perhaps our (politicaD wool growers,
and wooden manufacturers are, las
might be inferred from their state
ments) not concerned about duties on
their own account, but simply on ac-
count of our Government. AS pa.
triotic citizens, looking out for the in.
terests of their country, they think it
would be q shame for US to neglect
This opportunity TO obtain revenue by
taxing foreigners. But even after adj
hitting their patriotism there still re-
mains the question "will their scheme
work ?" and the other question, ''Did
it work in 1890 to 1892" There are
still some skeptics left who say that it
did not work, and that prices of wooden
goods are now much lower because of
free wool and lower duties on woolens
than during tho Mckinley period.
These skeptics were very numerous in
1890 and 1892.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-01-31

such q thing as Providence IN this
world of ours, and Alice Armleigh did
not find happiness in her union. A
years married life-a year, il was
whispered. of quarrels and conten-
tions-proved TO be enough for both.
At the end of that period Armleigh
and Alice separated, by mutual con-
sent.
It was, perhaps, pity that "peo-
pie" could not hear what words passed
at that final and irrevocable quarrel
between Alice and Armieigh. 1t would
have modified their opinion about
Providence and other kindred mat
tiers, aud have induced them, however
unwillingly, to view Bob's sister in a
somewhat different light.
This last quarrel took place one
morning at breakfast. Alice had Just
said something to her husband which
made him white with rage and NOR
tification.
500 you mean me to understand, :"
he demanded, fiercely, tibet you mar
ried me simply TO get me away from
that sister of yours, and for no other
reason?"
''Simply for that" answered his
wife, regarding him steadily with her
clear blne eyes. "Ah, could read your
character better than you thought. I
was acquainted things
about you things which it might have
been hard to prove against you, and
which 1 should have been loath to prove
before that innocent chIld-things
which would have made your marriage
with her a gross pollution. Yes, swear
and curse am not afraid of you. Why
did L not tell my sister this? / did
tell her what 1 could-all that was fit
for her to hear. But Bob was too
true, too faithful, too confiding to lis
ten to these tales against the man she
loved. She would have married you.
Nothing would have stopped her, uu~
less an insuperable bar had interviewed.
1 (thank God y have formed that in
superable bar"
"Fhat, then, is why, after repelling
me first of all with your GOODNESS, you
afterward made such play to get me
back?"
Exactly. When I saw that you
had entered our home to ruin one of
us, l swore TO myself that your victim
should not be Bob. It has not been
Bob, and am satisfied"
She spoke in n tone of quiet triumph
which nearly maddened him. He
clenched his fist. believe he would
have struck her, had she not stood be-
fore him so fearless, SO strong, SO
scornful. But her aspect cowed him,
and he contented himself with strinq
of coarse abuse.
'You know what happened yester-
day." she continued, calmly, never
needing his vile words. "Bob was
married to a good, true man, who
loves her and will make her Eappv.
All that l aimed at is now accom-.
plished. We have lived together lon
enough, Rorsfdi ArmIeigh. mean to
leave You to-day-forever %
"And where, pray, shall you 60,
madam ?" demanded Armleigh, tryino
to force a contemptuous laugh. "And
what, do you think, Will become OF
you?"
II do not know; and do not care. "
Then, as n beautiful smile beamed.
for an instant, upon TINT strong, calm
face, she added:
Bob is safe; and II do not mat
ter. Truth
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-01-31

Some Of the prominent journals in
France are deorying tho proposition
for Paris exposition in 1900, on the
ground that such exhibitions have
come to do more harm than good, and
are sort of industrial and social de-
bauch. The attitude assumed by
these French journals has somewhat
broad ground. A simply utilitarian
exhibition would rot attract paying
crowds. Without sensational lectures
IN which the Chicago Worlds Fair
must be outdone, Paris cam Offer
anything startling enough to prove a
worlds wonder.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-01-31
Powers Are Wen Balanced

A late estimate gives Russia a peace
effective of $4,000 men and France
one of $4,000, making an aggregate for
what is someone's called the dual al
lance of 100000. On the other hand.
Germany is credited with $4,000 men
on peace footing, Austria with $50.
600, and Italy with 100000, making an
aggregate of 1,2G0,0O0. Thus the op-
posing forces are pretty nearly equal.
with the advantage of position and
facility of concentration in favor of the
triple alliance, as they are in perfect
communication, while France and Rus
sia are separated. The war footings
also show some preponderance for the
dual over the triple alliance, but there.
too, the elements of junction and sep
aration are to be kept in mind.-New
York Sun.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-01-31

Churches on wheels are a feature OF
one department. of the religious worl,
OF the American Baptist Publication
Society. Four evangelical railroad
cars are IN service, and a fifth is soon
to be added through the efforts of the
good people of Detroit. The frat car
was placed in commission five years
ago. Its success was so manifest, and
the amount of good accomplished SO
great, that another was added the fol-
lowing year, and one has been added
every year since. Tho cars 90 to
towns which have no churches. and
when side-tracked services are con
Quoted by two missionaries. The cars
have the right of way on oil the rail.
roads OF the country, and conductors
everywhere have orders to attach thom
TO any and all trains on the request OF
the missionaries in charge. No charge
is made, and some of the railways even
supply heating and lighting.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-01-31

The New York World thinks We are
now suffering from an epidemic of
Juvenile crime. a thing not rare in
this country. 1t has eliminated in the
wrecking CT n New York Central express
at Rome, one of the most hare Drained
and disastrous feats of the kind ever
perpetrated by boys. No doubt they
were excessive readers of dime novels.
a habit which takes the same hold on
boy as the use of opium or morphine
on man. The Rome outrage was
shortly afterwards initiated by bows
elsewhere. The time was when ad.
Venturous youths under thirteen start.
ed west to kill Indians; but they have
now grown more practical. 1t is to be
regretted that the old Indian ideal
has disappeared
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-01-31
AN AMERrcAn IN EUROPE.
Encounters Many Things Not TO DO
Seen at III oysc------------

Sceu III ~ oSt>c~~-----
We give an extract from the letter
of an American who had spent several
years abroad, and who had been ac-
cused, for SO doing, of want of patriot
ism. Whatever may be our opinion Of
her defense, it suggests Il fact which
concerns us all.
THE thread that holds me in Eu-
rope" she writes, rs slight, but it is
strong. Let me try to show 1t to you
watched this morning an freshman
building n hedge, which is I'm Ireland a
wall Of alternate layers of Hat stones
and slabs Of peat. He planted in each
layer slips of hawthorn.
why do you do that, JohnY 1
asked.
For the plisantness, ma'am. The
flowers cOncale the stones
1--WE are building stout walls in Amer
lea with our liberty and education and
Christian faith, and the chance FOR ev-
cry man, but we are so busy and anx-
ious that we plant but few flowers
Let me illustrate my meaning.
Il went TO Frankfort n year ago an
utter stranger, and took boarding in q
homely little pension. A week after
my arrival my birthday came. The
landlady discovered It I'm some way. /
was awakened IN the morning by her
children singing a joyous little hymn
outside Of my door. When l went down
to breakfast each Of them brought me
poSy. There was n huge iced Lehku-
chen before my plate. Everybu~ =.
from the old grandmother to Hans. the
waiter, came smiling to wish me a
happy year 1t was fete-day for the
Family. Now the whole celebration cost
them but few pennies, but how happy
1t made me. Instead Of being a
stranger, / was friend among friends.
The flowers had hid the rock.
81 drove last week from Salisbury to
Stonehenge with some friends. The
cabman, though / did not speak to
him, learned that / was an American.
When we stopped at q little inn for
luncheon, he went out and presently
brought huge bunch of crimson roses.
which he handed to me, gravely say
ing, 1T is hold Hengland's flower.
ma'amr
"AIy Swiss laundress. who never saw
me before and never will again, court
estes when I pay her and wishes me a
safe voyage, and that l may find my
family we'll and happy.
when / go into a shop In London
the women wait on me with smiles. If
buy anything they thank me, and If
do not buy they thank me for look
ing at their goods, and hope that will
come again.
THE conductor of the tram-car does
not thump me on the back for my
nickel He touches his hat to his pas
sengers as he enters the car, and says.
flares, please!
These little leisurely courtesies are
not shown to me in particular, they are
here as one of the habits of life / am
weak enough TO like them. The Amer
lean clearinghouse keeper, or laun-
dress, or shop-girl' would undoubtedly
do her work as well, and would prob
ably feel as kindly at heart to ner en-
ployers, but as yet has not time. or
rather has not learned to contribute
her trifle to the 'plisantness of life.'"
No life can be too real and earnest
for kindly courtesy. The Irishman's
stone wall is not made less servIceab bic
by the flowers that cover H.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-01-31
4 Remarkable Shot.

While his train was running ut q
speed OF twenty miles or more an
hour, fireman on aroad in Western
Washington last week shot and killed
an eagle measuring six feet eight
inches from tip to tip of its wings. 1t
used to be, and probably yet is, the
custom OF engineers and fremen on
railroads IN the West and Southwest
running through thinly settled re.
gions to amuse themselves by shooting
with their revolvers at the telegraph
poles, conspicuous rocks along the
tracks. prairie dogs, and any game
that might happen to be in sight.
Some of them became remarkably ex-
pert in hitting small marks while run
ming by at high speed. New York
World.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-01-31
Found venOmOus Reptile Pa,atable

A clergyman, native of the West
Indies, said the othar day that in the
home of wealthy planter he partook
OF dish which he supposed to be
fricassee chicken, and which was un-
usually palatab,e. EIe was informed
that 1t was prepared from the flesh OF
venomous reptile. Ibis known that
Vipers are cooked and eaten in some
parts of Italy; that the Weaknesses OF
the Alps made them an essential part
of their diet; that rattlesnake Is
dressed and served as "musieal
squirrel" in parts of the United States,
and that the practice is not unknc wn
among the French Canadians. New
York Tribune.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-01-31

sone-OepuDneans ~wanted-more
taxes on blankets and less on whisky
and tobacco.
1t is certainly most impudent sug-
gestion for the papers which are
clamorlng for the restoration of the
tariff OF 1890, by which taxes were
raised even higher than during the
war, to try and make capital out of
proposition to increase the tax on
beer, The defenders of the Ubiquitous
Mckinley tariff and the Billion Dollar
Congress should be ashamed to talk
of "~ar taxes" Their scheme is not
only war taxation but war against
American industry and the American
people.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-01-31

The New York City correspondent
of the Detroit Free Press observes
Riding on the crest of the same boom
wave that has waited the minino sock
microbe into Wall street is q comma
boom for altar of roses. What started
1t no one seems to know. Like ToDsv.
it has 'Just growed," and. what's
more, it keeps on growing, much TO
the delight of the druggist. Just now
1T Is retailing at ten cents a drop and
there Is no indication fforcive the
s OF drop In prices. The oil is
1ae1Ae TO this country in strong bot
ties packed in brown Turkish moss
Only the druggists buy it from the inn
porters IN the original pa,kaoe for
itscrrious. penetrating qualities make
4 difficult to keep in large quantities.
Which reminds me of that old story Of
Captain Marryatt, about tho ka1 of
altar OF roses being broken on shin
and nearly all the crew narrowly es.
capped sutfocation from the fumes AT.
ter that the vessel was broncbt int
port. broken up and her timbers tur,od
into perfumed toys, the fragrant oil
having Permeated every part of The
craft.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-01-31

During 1895 three times as many
horses have been shipped from this
country TO England as in any previo us
year. Horses are so cheap here that
the English find it cheaper to buy
than to raise them.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-01-31
= vlFREk rose.

: Hound, today, . withered rosa
within'a book che book her OWN.
And straightway. with the odor faint,
All b2lmy June was round me blown.
What iieiSs, what skies, yet, out of-door,
The snow lies white along the farms;
The wind comes diving from the North,
The forests shake their icy arms.
What brought for me. the summer back,
SO sweet, so reap An, love. that day
When thou and began 20 live
Can changing seasons change it2 Nav
James Buckhan, in Demorest's.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-01-31
SISTERS SACRIFICE

n a small house at
Brigham, Surrey,
lived Alice Baines
and her sister,
Bob. Both their
parents had been
dead for some
years, having be-
queathed to their
daughters a modest
patrImony upon
which they were
able TO subsist in
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-01-31

In a Kentish Sunday-school the rec
tor asked class of boys: "Who is
the patron saint of England?" They
shouted back all together: ''NIr.
Gladstone!"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-01-31

The New York Evening Post de-
clares that there are now 1900 men at
work on the Panama Canal, and that
soon there will be 5000, and that the
canal will be in working order on
schedule time in 1901. 1t thinks that
this will knock out the Nicaragua
Canal entirely.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-01-31

The University of California has set
tied by public debate thas tho new
woman is mot for the best interests
OF the race"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-01-31

Philadelphia gets revenue of Sl1, :
100000 year from the street car.
gas. water, telephone and other fran
chises.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-01-31

BY next year North Carolina ex.
poets to spin all her own cotton pro-
duct.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-01-31

People said that, if there was such a
thing rs Providence in this world of
ours, Alice would never find happiness
IN her union with Arpleigh, which she
had contrived, so cruelty, at the ex-
pense of her little sister. True, Bob
did get over the blow sooner than
might have been expected; true, the
faithful Gerald found favor again in
those childish eyes, and something
that he one day said to her brought
back to them the sparkle of life and
happiness. Yet this did not in the
least exculpate Alice, who, at the time
of lnhicting her unnatural blow could
never possibly have forseen the happy
conclusion.
The people who thus expressed
themselves had reason, ky and by, to
be very cock-a- hoop. There was such
The Ravalli Republican. [volume] (Stevensville, Mont.) 1894-1899, 1896-07-29

Lincoln, Neb., July 22.-It is
learned today that Chas. S. Hart
man Of Montana had a conference
with Bryan before he left for Omaha.
The conference lasted several hours.
Questioned as to the significance OF
his visit he said lie had been visiting
in Denver and had simply run down
here to pay his compliments person
ally to Bryan, with whom he had
served in the Fifty third congress.
II place the minimum majority in
Montana for Bryan at 30,0O0," he
said. "It is ordinarily 1000 or s.
900 republican,. We don't want
Bryan to visit that state or that sec
tion during the campaign, for We arc
for him and can take care of his in
tcrests. We want to see him devote
his attention to other sections. All
that lie needs in order to win in this
fight is a union in the silver forces
and time to carry forward the silver
swell" Mr.. Hartman speaks at d
meeting in Denver tonight with
Senators Teller and Dubois and Con
gresham Shafroth.