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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-08-21

a magnificent display of fat cattle
will be on exhibition at the Fair. The
management have reduced the mum
Der necessary to compete to 8 and
this will enable our people to show
without so great loss in weight. This
hberality on tho part of tho Fair
should be appreciated ana every
man who has them good enough
should bring them. 1t helps the
FAIR, the county and the people. Our
cattle are worth showing and seeing
In younger cattle an equal interest
shows itself, because it is from these
that the big ones grow.
Don't think that your liver needs
treating If you are bilious. IL don't
IL : your stomacV That is your stom
ach That is your stomach is what
causes the qiliousness. Ii has nut vo,r
liver on. of order.
See whats the matter with your s,om.
ach.
SICK stomach poisins liver and then
there s trouble. Shaker Digestive Cor
diai cures stomach and then alls well.
mat the case i'm a nut shelf.
Shaker Digestive Cordial is no secret.
Formula + on every bottle. But it's the
SIMPLE honest way It's made, the honest
shaker herbs aid other ingredients of
which it's composed, that make il So
efticacious.
ANY real case Of indigestion and bill
iousness can be cured with few bot.
Ties OF Shaker Digestive Cordial. Try
it.
Sold by druggist, price 10 cents to
500 per bottle.
After listening 10 Col. Hoge's
speech Il wolfe on Monday n sustain
tial country farmer remarked ms he
walked away. evidently in disgust:
well, he may drum up votes
enough to base IA contest on, bur
that's the only money he'll ever
draw from Congress-a little con.
test mOney.'-Saiem Times Regis.
Tor.
The fire proof vaults in the court
house have been completed aud are
n credit both to the county and the
gentlemen who had charge OF the
work.
Mrs. Stephenson Fox, sister of
our towhSman, Mr.. j. II. Grecvcr.
died mt her home in Burke's Gar.
den Tuesday, the 18th lust.
Mr.. Nathaniel Mortoson. a well
known citizin of Ishpeming, Mich.
an editor Superior Poster. who. for
a long time, suffered from the most
excruclating pains of rheumatism.
was cured. eight years ago, by TAX
ing Ayers Sarsaparlla, having
never felt twinge of it since.
The time for the Taxewcl Fair il
drawing near aud the attention of
Tue people is for the time being
drawn from gold and silver To things
more tangible and nearer home. The
improvement Of our cattle, our horses.
our hogs, our sheep and our farm
products is to be desired by all,
whether Democrat or Republican,, sill
yer or gold. Our Fair is our own.
where neighbor meets neighbor in
friendly competition, both trying TO
excel This means better things each
year.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-08-21
MONEY! MAKE TT YOURSELF.

have never seen anything in the papers
ebott the Peoples Wind MILL we call il
the peoples" because the inventor never
patented IT, but let everybody use il
free. Any farmer can make mill him
self, and all the material complete will
noAco over $40. 1t is a splendid mill
viii pump the deepest wells, and will
las longer than any mill ever had.
Any person can get diagrams and com
p!ete DIRECTIONS free, as I did, by send
ing Is two-cent stamps to pay postage,
etc, TO f. ID. Wilson & Co., Allegheny.
Ia. Wilson q Co. sell pumps, and when
you get your wind mill going would
he glad to sell you pump if you need
1t. 1t is certainly useless TO pay $50 or
$50 for wind mill, when you can
make one just as good for $40. think
there could be big money made putting
these mills up through the country as
everybody would like them.
A READER.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-08-21
HAIR RESTORED TO NATURAL COL
OR

have used many preparations for re-
storing hair to natural color, but nevsr
had satisfactory results till used Zulu
Vuher; 1t will restore any hair or ceard to
It's natural color in three weeks. II it
does not they return your money, SO you
take no risks. People who have never
tried it can get q sample package which
contains enough TO restore any ones hair
to natural color. by sending 81 two-cent
stamps, TO pry postage, otc., 60 Wilson. &
Co., NV Concord, Ohio.
The regw.ar price is $3.50 per package
III 1T does nat restore your hair 20 natural
color. or make any color Of hair darker
IN three weeks. they will return your
stamps. This proposition is SIS fair that
thousands arc using IL, Ito is harmless
but never fails. Why can't big money be
mace by selling Zulu yalier from house
to house?
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-08-21
WHAT A WOMAN CAN DO.

Last week ] cleared, after pacing all
expenses, 1855. IS, the month precious
$500 and have at the same time attend
ed to other duties. I believe any ener-
getic person can do equally as weh, as
l have had very little experience The
Dish Washer is just lovely and every
family wants one, which makes selling
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-08-21
fS4s. cHAnrtRrn Ig1g
WESLEYAN FEMALE INSTITUTE
Stauuton Vir ipia

For girls and Young women. Located
IN The Washington city of the valley
1900 above tide. New aud sound financial
basis. Teaching covers nine, different sub
jects in Library Departments. .Gonservnto-
ny course in mu-ic, Art in an It's branches
Elocntion, Physical culture; and thor
ough business training. Terms Reasonable,
For catalogue and particulars. apply 20
Rev, Henry p. Hamiil President.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-08-21

Scytlres, Swathcs, Scythe Stones
and Forks, at bottom prices at
the Tazewell Hardware Co.'S.
1t your Moving Machine is ont OF
repair get MIR. Long of the Tazewell
Hardware Co. To repair 1t.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-08-21
Corn Gowns.

Two cups Of cornmeal, two &c. = ~
flour, two cups Of sweet milk, two see =
three heaping teaspoonfuls of bakii !.
powder, one-half cup of butter. ono5
half cup of sugar. Bake ia gem tins<---
y. Y. Ledger.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-08-21

The OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Tameufass,
1t is estimated that from 6.O00.000 I'd
100000 of the human race were
butcAered in has WARE Of cocquest.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-08-21

Nv ANIED statesmen To sell complete
w line OF intoxicating oils, grcases var
nishcs, special les, etc. Good opportnni-
" Tor The proper party. Garland kefu-
lug Co. Cleveland, O.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-08-21

The first american college was HI,
ward. which WAS opened 10 receive ST,
dents in 1913. at Newton. Mass, %,
called Cambridge.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-08-21
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HIGHLANDS, VIRGINIA.

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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-08-21
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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-08-21

Roast? Tes. sir" said the bdtehe
Heres one saved especially for NOD.
But" said the man Of ,sncertai1f y
come, II also want TO settle INV 4,
count. I made raise yesterday"
''Oh. Jim. put that roast back ain
git one of them good ones out the IL,
boxl"-Cincinnat Enquirer.
The San Francisco call., 1896-12-25

sleep, and then cut them into pieces, salt
ing them and putting them into picking
tub with some pork which was there
already, meaning to sell the whole as
such. The Bishop. however, having had
vision of this impious tran saction, i'm
mediately resorted to the inn and calling
the host to him rep-oached him for his
horrid yillainy. The man, perceiving that
he was discovered, confessed his crime
and entreated the Bishop to inter-
cede on his behalf to the Almighty
for his pardon, and the good Bishop.
being moved with compassion at his
contrite behavior, confession and thor
ough repentance, besought the Almighty
not only to pardon the murderer but also
for the glory of his name to restore life to
the two innocents who had been so in
humanity put to death. The saint had
hardly finished his prayer when the two
youths were restored to life. Some writers
hold this to be sufficient explanation OF
the naked children and tub, which are the
The San Francisco call., 1896-12-25

well-known emblems of st. Nicholas, and
from this circumstance ST. Nicholas be-
came the patron of scholars. The mariners
also venerated him and sought his protec-
tion in the hour of danger. Armstrong in
his III History of Minorca' (1756) writes of
Cindadella:
Near the entrance of the harbor stands
chapel, dedicated to st. Nicholas, to
which the sailors resort that have suffered
shipwrecK, 10 return thanks for their
preservation and to hang up votive pic
lures representing the danger they have
escaped) in gratitude TO the saint for the
protection he vouchsafed them and in ac-
com plishment of the VOWS they made in
the height Of the storm" Another legend
tells how st. Nicholas appeared on the
waters TO some mariners and saved them
from an ocean grave. From the circum-
stance of scholars being anciently de-
nom mated clerks the fraternity Of Par
lsh Clerks adopted st. Nicholas as their
patron. In Shakespeare robbers are called
ST. Nicholas clerks. They were also called
ST. Nicholas knights. st. Nicholas being
the patron saint of scholars and Nicholas,
or Old Nick, a cant name for the devil,
this equivocal patronage may possibly be
solved; or, perhaps, it may be much bet
ter accounted for by the story of st.
Nicholas and the thieves, whom he
compelled to restore some stolen goods
and then converted to pious life.
st. Nicholas probably became the darl-
The San Francisco call., 1896-12-25

larly enough, his is the only one OF the
four Gospels the authenticity OF which has
never been questioned by the most pro-
found and critical of the theological
scholars. Yet John was a man utterly
without education. He was q fisherman
and was mending his nets on the shores of
Galilee when he first met the Carpenter s
Son.
To speak of man as being uneducated
in these latter centuries of the Christian
era means as a rule that he lacks the
higher or classical education, but in the
first century after Christ that man was
famously educated who could but read
and write. How John could have written
his wonderful narrative of the life of Christ
is a mystery indeed. Even in our own
day the fishermen who can read and write
are very far from being qualified to engage
in the simplest kind of literary enterprise.
But here was a lowly fisherman who be-
came the biographer of the greatest figure
and personality known to the Western
world, and his account stands out among
all the others as remarkable for its strength
and purity of literary construction.
Matthew was tax-gatherer, and OF
The San Francisco call., 1896-12-25
Stofy o5 St. N<Aolac.
Popularity Known Among the Little
Folks as Santa Claus.
Yreka, Cal.
By MRS. F. K. BENrz.

The memory of st. Nicholas, popularity
known among the little folks as Santa
Claus, and whose name is so closely asso-
ciated with the festivities of Christmas,
was born at Patara in Lycia, and though
a layman was for his piety advanced to
the bishopric of Myra. He died on the
8th of the ides of December A. D. 343. In
the Roman calendar his feast is marked
for the 9th of December. Many are the
legends cntwined with the name of ST..
Nicholas. He is the patron OF school boys,
mariners, clerks, nay, even robbers. while
virgins do him special honor, and little
children in the olden time, as well as In
the present day, looked up to him as the
donor of sweetmeats and pretty things.
The fame of st. Nicholas virtues was so
great that ar Asiatic gentlemen, on send
ing his two sons to Athens for education,
ordered them to call on the Bishop for his
benediction; but they getting to Myra late
in the day thought proper 10 defer their
visit till the morrow, and took up their
lodgings at an inn, where the landlord,
to secure their baggage and effects
to himself, murdered them in their
The San Francisco call., 1896-12-25
How the Captains
Dollar Is Increased
S. w. Booth
BY S. w. Booth

On Christmas evening there is pretty
sure to be a dinner given to them by some
one of the societies that make special
effort of looking after the sailors inter-
ests. These feeds are always good, and
as rule modest young ladies take the
part of mattresses, and the absent boys
feel for couple of hours as though they
really did have some friends in the un-
sociable port of San Francisco. After the
dinner comes an entertainment, at the
close of which another attack will be
made on a restaurant. Not content with
filling themselves with as much as they
can eat the apprentice will have an eye to
the future. He will watch his oppor.
tunity, and when no proprietor or waiter
is looking in his direction he will empty
the sugar.bowl in a paper bag which he
had in his pocket for that very purpose.
This will greatly help out his whaek for
the week and make it unnecessary for him
to beg few extra sweetenings from the
steward or obtain them from one OF the
crew in return for new shirt orsomething
of equal value. Before going on board it
is the inyariable rule to compare funds
and see who shall purchase the rooty tor
coffee early the next morning. A rooty is
the sailors name for loaf of broad, ana
while in port the apprentices always take
care that there is soft tack for the early
morning meal. When all these things
and their expenses have been summed up
each boy finds that he has spent happy
Christmas on about 81 80, and still has
something left for the coming Sunday.
When polishing the brasswork the next
morning the captain, if he be genial kind
of fellow, will ask the lads what they did
on Christmas day, and when they have
completed their narration he will wonder
how IN the world they accomplished so
much on dollar.
This is not sailors yarn, but an expe-
rience that all the boys on our ship went
through many times.
The San Francisco call., 1896-12-25

course man of considerable learning for
those days. His life of Christ lacks
somewhat of combining all the qualitie 5
that are perfected in the book of Luke,
and his style. though at all times pleas
ing and original, is also at times uneven,
and those who are critically inclined
might pick a flaw with some of his verses
on the charge of tautology. But the most
critical of all critics must admit that as a
whole Matthew's version of the Serm on
on the Mount is an incomparably beau
tiful literary production.
The value OF the story of Jesus does not,
however, rest entirely upon its classical
conformity, its purity, it's beauty and its
strength of technical literary construc-
ton. Technical greatness alone is not
true greatness, and there must be some
thing more than technical accuracy to
make lasting any work OF art. OF course
the biographers of Jesus were particularly
fortunate in the subject about which they
wrote, even for a time laying aside the
question-or the fact, as one may view it
OF his divine and miraculous origin.
But while this is true, it is also fact
that his biographers were poets and artists
The San Francisco call., 1896-12-25
Experts as Eoe-Eaters.

s'Do you like eggs2" was the question
that stirred up st'49-er'' to make some
talk in Bangar store the other day. He
was an old man and he Strengthened up to
something like the height of his prime as
he answered:
"I had surfeit of them once. Twas
many years ago when l was on the way
home from California. We left the 18TH
must on good brig bound for New York,
but ran into coral reef in the Caribbean
Sea and were wrecked. 1t was patch OF
sand just out of the water, but you ought
to see the hocks of seafowl that nestled
on it They had to move out of the way
to give US room to stay there and that was
about all they would do. Their nests were
every where and there were eggs in abund-
ance. We ate about barrel OF them every
day during the twelve days we were there.
"Some of us got off in boat and went
to San Juan, in Nicaragua, where we got
a vessel to go after those We left on the
reef That vessel was commanded by
William Lawrence Of Bath, who was killed
by man named Wilkinson while he was
policeman there. We tried to get to the
reef, but bad weather stove US up so we
had to set in for New Orleans, where we
found the rest of the men rescued by an-
other vessel; but eggs" the old mans
face took on peculiar expression.-Lew
iston Me- Journal.
The San Francisco call., 1896-12-25

Christmas? We have all kinds and
original brands of our own besides.
In the sunny southland there is the
Christmas of birds and flowers, of Eastern
tourists and balmy sunshine. In the
middle comes Christmas of velvet lawns,
odorous violets, gorgeous chrysanthe-
m ums and perhaps rain, but who in San
Francisco minds rain? Then up in the
mountains comes, most beautiful of all
to some of US, the white Christmas o. the
north.
1t Is winter, but not the steady winter
of the East. The snow has been down
and set its seal on the valley and the hill
sides are Ieahess but the white king has
retreated to his mountains again ana the
fields are growing green. The fall-sown
wheat peeps up and the grass OF the pas
ture land shows its color boldly. The
children begin to wish it would snow be-
fore Christmas and the grandmas repeat
The San Francisco call., 1896-12-25

ing of the little folks from the fact that it
was customary in many countries of
Europe for parents on the vigil of st.
Nicholas to convey presents of various
kinds to their little sons and daughters,
who were taught to believe that they owed
them to the kindness OF st. Nicholas and
his train, who, going up and down among
the towns and villages, came in at the
windows, though they were shut, and dis
tributed them. This legend has been
POLITICALLY perpetuated In verse, and in the
well-known Christmas poem, "'Twas the
night before Christmas: 'etc., ST. Nicholas
and his train of tiny reindeer are charm
ingiy described. 1.-THE stockings were
hung by the chimney with care, in hopes
that Saint Nicholas soon would be there"
This popular custom undou btedly origin
ated in the old converts OF Europe, where
it was customary on the eve of Saint
Nicholas for the boarders (young lady
pupiIs) to place each a silk stocking at the
door OF the apartment OF the abbess, with
The San Francisco call., 1896-12-25

the old adage about green Christmas
and fat churchyard.
a week before the wonderful day soft.
signing wind comes over the valley. The
sun still shines warm and clear and the
leafiess branches hardly shake.
But ever and again through the day
comes that gentle sigh. All day we hear
it, and at night the Sigh turns to steady
whisper ana now and then moan. The
next day the wind grows steady and
sweeps over the valley with steady MUIR
mur. In the afternoon comes white
haze over the mountain tops and we know
the snow is falling there. Still our fields
show green, and still we have no storm.
The third day the weatherwise children
announce that 'its going to snow this
afternoon" and lessons are forgotten as
they watch the white veil creeping, creep
ing, ever so slowly across the slopes down
into the valley, hiding all it covers.
The little town across the fiat disap-
pears IN white mist; the passing train is
then another is swallowed; and then-it
comes. The first fakes are so small and
crystal they are almost invisible. Soon
the doorstep and the fenceposts arc
furred with white, then the little ones
call them frosted cakes" as the flakes
grow larger, whittier, more plentiful.
The snow has come. All afternoon and
all night the soft whiteness will float
down and heap itself above the brown
The San Francisco call., 1896-12-25

of rare perception, as well as mere biog-
raphers, for not one of them but seems to
have had the genius OF literary discrimin-
alton; the faculty of knowing what to
write and what not to write; the power of
enlarging and drawing out the most dra-
matte incidents in the character of their
hero. 1t was q character rich in material
for both the artist and the poet, and it
seems as though these early writers lost
not word, incident or scene of real dra-
matte, historic and romantic interest. As
the life OF Jesus is told by Matthew, by
Luke or by John, and even to very large
extent by Mark, this carpenters son set
every chord of humanity in vibration.
His touch was upon the entire range OF
passions and emotions and inner aspira-
tions, and the whole octave of human
sympatnies were awakened by his master
hand. And in saying all of this one does
not vitiate or weaken or detract from, in
the slightest degree. the religious and the
dogmatic estimation in which the story
of the Christ is held by the churc hes.
The San Francisco call., 1896-12-25

fall down to embrace it and make pictures
of themselves in the yielding surface.
Boys Will bring out sleds and men will
begin to furbish up the sleigh so long idle,
and eyes will glitter to rival the glistening
snow. Joy for any time, but doubly a
Joy at Christmas.
Where have the hummocks and holIows
of the valley gone? Where are the patches
of rock land amid the field? All gone.
Covered with a white shielding mantle.
The vale is one level sheet of white. The
pines hang heavy limbs piled high, and
the manzanitas are only mounds of white,
the forest graves. The bare twigs of oak
show through, and the shaggy juniper re-
fuses to be decked except in spots.
The relatives will come from higher in
the hills ard from other valleys in sleighs
with iingling chimes or maybe only the
humble sheep-bell tied to Dobbin's neck
The road across the hill will seem all new
with its white dress; the cotton-tail will
stand and gaze fearle3sly, and the trees
will drop cod, clammy greeting il they
are roughly touched The world seems
listening, so still it is; the glad voices
ringing far across the fat, and the deep
puff, puff of the engine four miles off
comes plain to our ears. Truly this is
Christmas. 1t fits with turkey, mince pie
and tales of Santa Claus.
Our snow is all a joy and never men,
ace. We know that in a month from now
the sleighing and the coasting will be but