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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-02-21
hut it is not necessary to say that Her
Majesty never acts in matters OF State,
except on the advice of the Govern.
ment for the time being.
FUN COSTUMES.

In Norway the question of costume
is more ono OF comfort and OF preser-
walton from the intense cold than q
feeling of National pride. Experience
has taught tho people of the North
that it is extremely important for
their welfare that nothing they wear
should impede the free circulation of
the blood. which maintains the animsl
heat of tho body, and this accounts for
tho very uDshapely construction of the
National "kapia" or pelisse. II is
made of reindeer skin, with the hair
attached, very loose ned comfortable /;
1t reaches far below the knee and is
provided with an aperture for tho
head to pass through, fitting, in fact,
SO closely around tho neck that the
cold air and snow cannot penetrate it.
The shoes are also OF reindeer skin,
sharp-pointed and extremely graceful
OF form, and are lined with lambswool
or velvet. The cap is, perhaps, tho
most picturesque part OF tho entire
garb, for, square OF tho top, it is either,
brilliant blue or vivid rod, lined with
eiderdown and edged with broad
band OF otter fur. In Lapland and
Finland mask OF fur is attached
thereto and is drawn down over the
face in very windy weather. thus trans
forming tho handsomest man or pref
tiest woman into the eemblancs OF u
queer and le2endary-looking hairy
nuimal. New York Commercial Adj
yertlser.
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SIZE MAKES TANNING rAy.

Miss Annie Dennis is u woman who
has discovered the secret of making
agriculture pay. She is n Georgian,
and what sho does not make in the
regular discharge OF her occupation
she makes by winning prizes.
She runs dairy OF forty COWS, and
sho finds ready sale for oil her milk
and butter. She raises celery and
plants from fifteen to twenty acres in
tomatoes. She has no regular can
merry, but large house with boiler
and evaporation, III which the vegeta-
able and fruit canning is done.
She cans IN glass and tin. She ships
fruit i'll its natural state to Boston,
New York mud other places, and when
the shipping season is over the can
ming commences. AS yet she only sup
plies her own State with her canned
goods, such rs corn, tomatoes and
okra, and these three vegetables COM
bincd for soup. She raises sugar cane
and finds ready salo for tho best
Georgia syrup.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-02-21
LIGHT roH aENHousEs.

a great deal is said about the neces.
sity, of warmth for fowls in winter.
Quite as much, however, depends ON
light. In the short days OF winter
fowls are apt to get too little exercise.
They are sure to do so if kept in close.
dark henhouses, where the light docs
not penetrate until very late in tho
S60rt winter mornings. The hen
house may be made light us we'll ms
warm by providing double windows,
with close blinds to be tightly closed
aat night. One OF these double win
dows should DO on tho east side of the
house, and it's shutters should bo
opened as soon as the sun rises. Tho
colder the weather the greater the me-
cessity of feeding early and getting
the fowls to exercise. If the henhouse
is thoroughly lighted it will be easy
to get tho fowls down from thor
roosts. In lark henhouse We have
seen fowls remain on their perch for
IN entire day. OF course such fowls
grow poor and will not lay until very
late in spring. Too dark hcnhouses
are the cause Of more failures in poul-
try keeping than any other. In these
days. when window glass is very cheap,
il is an evil easily remediod. Boston
Cultivator.
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NAMES ron HER GUESTS.

a well known Louisville girl whose
brains have won for her tho reputa.
ton OF being enc of the most brilliant
women in tho city recently held o
book party at her house, and the
names she gave some of her acquaint.
nnces were SO excellent that I feel it
Is my duty to give tho public the bon
eft Of them. My consideration for
the people named will not allow me to
give their right names, but you can
draw your own conclusions, and dare
say that the right people will be
spotted in more than one instance.
Great Expectations" is the pseu-
donyn which has been given to n
young lady who believes that she will
eventually win the heart and hand of
man of birth and fortune. Unfor
tunately, she has not yet met this
man. 1.-THE Sign OF the Lyre" is the
name that has been given to we'll
known matroD, for what reason 1 can
only guess. Several we'll known spin
sters have been dubbed "Plain Tales
From the Hills" These ladies-or
girls. as they prefer being called-are
Just chuck full of stories which have
become threadbare from constant tell.
ing. -Louisville (Ky.) Post.
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A Lapse Into Honesty.

Nearly all discussions of the tariff
question have conferred on the effect OF
customs duties on prices. It has been
seriously maintained by protectionists
that high tariffs do not increase tho
cost of goods on which they are levied,
but in reality enable them to be sold
cheaper than under free trade. The
Democrats have pointed to the bust
ness fact that the importer adds tho
duty to the price at which he sells Az.
eign goods, rs ON illustration of the
manner in which tariff taxes are paid
by tho consumer. And they have
shown by comparison between the
market prices of the Same kind of
goods, at the Same time. in protection
and free trade countries, that rs on in.
variable rule higher tariffs make dearer
goods.
BY one of the occasional lapses into
honesty end intelligence which befall
even the best regulated protectionist
organs, the New York Tribune comes
over to the tariff side and odds its
testimony to the many facts previously
given by the Democratic press. In its
issue of December 16, tho Tribune
editorially says: "Woolen goods are
about twenty per cent. lower than in
1892" And this is ascribed to the re.
duced duties levied by the Wilson
tariff.
That leading Republican paper
should give away SO clearly its party's
case is surprising in view of the evonts
OF the past year. Ever since the pres.
ent duties on wooden goods took
effect the high-tariff organs. groat and
small, have united in asserting that
the people are not getting their cloth-
ing. blankets and carpets any cheaper
than when the good and great Nc.
Kinley's law was in force. Only few
months ago the Tribune itself said
that the consumers of woolens had not
been benefited by the new tariff. Aud
now, in trying to show that tariff re.
form has injured domestic industry,
it tells the people that they are get.
ting their woolens twenty per cent.
cheaper than in the brave Mckinley
days.
This is oil that tho Democrats want
to know, and it should be enough to
make tariff reformer out of every
man who wears clothes or sleeps under
blankets. When partisan protec.
zionist paper admits that tho prices
OF goods, OF which at least seven hun.
dred million dollars worth are used
every year, are twenty per cent. less
than under high tariff there can be
no excuse for the purchasers OF goods
voting for return to higher taxes.
Twenty per cent. on 800, 900, OO1
amounts to $40, 900, 600, and this
great sum has therefore been saved to
the people in one year on wooden
goods alone by the Wilson tariff. By
pasting these figures alongside OF
their clothing bills in 1890. when the
higher taxes of the Mckinley law
forced prices up, the American people
will have handy reminder as to the
best way to vote in 1896.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-02-21
esrnAw FOR COWS.

Cows may be fed and kept alive on
straw, IL the winter is not too severe for
them under such sad circumstances,
and, although given some grain food
with the straw, they cannot be expect
ed to afford much milk, and what they
may give will be very poor. A COW
needs good digestiblo rough food MS
we'll as grain, if she is expected to
give milk, and clover hay is tho best
coarse fodder. The ordinary method
OF feeding cut straw with pulped roots
will do very we'll for cattle that are
fatteniDg. if sufficient fattening food
is fed with it. This is SO because tho
fat only is expected. and no growth OF
flesh, for which the same nitrogen GUS
elements are needed as for milk. If
there is a surplus of straw to be dis
posed of, it may be sold and clover
hay procured with the money. This
vii be better economy than feeding
the straw. New York Times.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-02-21

predictions that it would be generally
used as substitute for cotton may
not have been entirely fulfilled, it is
used to considerable extent with
goods msde of wool and cotton. The
attention called to the now fiber gave
an incentive to flax growing. however.
which has resulted in much larger
aci cage of this crop than ever before.
Many farms that were abandoned in
New England, or in former days raised
flax for spinning, were planted with
this crop, and the general output last
year was enormous. Tue real extent
to which fibrelia is used in the man
ufacture of goods can be gathered
partly from the fact that in 1890 over
1000, 900 of flax straw were burned
in the fields after the seed had been
gathered, while to-day little, il any,
such struw is thus destroyed.
In the West the haxseed is sown
broadcast for the fiber at the rato of
two bushels to the acre, and all the
cultivation given to it is that required
to keep down the weeds until tho
leaves shade tho ground. The plants
are allowed to ripen their seeds, and
then the straw is pulled and put up in
small bundles for drying. The seeds
arc. thrashed out good deal as an
ordinary farmer would thrash his cats
or wheat. that is, with fail or with
IL machiue thrasher, the latter being
the more desirable, as it does not in
jure tue straw so much. Some still
resort to the "rotting" process, so
common in early New England days.
The bundles are taken to lac shallow
pond or brook, and stood in it with
the butts downward. After standing
lib src for five or ten days the core will
como out of the fiber when the stalks
arc broken. When rotted sufficiently
tho bundles are taken out with a
pitchfork and stood up to drain and
dry.
The next process is that called
"srassing." Tho stalks are spread out
upon the grass and turned over once
or twice day for week. This i'm
proves the color of the fiber. The
'breaking" process which follows is
done By set of fluted rollers, and the
"hntchelling" by machine that sepn-
rates the fine aud coarse iibers. New
and improved machinery has been in
vented for all OF those processes, and
some factories take the flax direct
from the farmers before the rotting
and bleaching processes have taken
place. A good crop of flax will pro-
duce 600 pounds of fiber to the acre.
Sold in the open market, this means
about $40 per acre.
But flax seed is exhausting to tho
soil, and, after it has boon grown two
or three years on one field, period
of from five to eight years should
elapse before another crop Is planted.
Tho soil has to be heavily manfred,
from 400 to GOO pounds of mineral
fertilizers being required each year to
the acre, besides barnyarl and other
manures. Potash aud phosphoric acid
are the chief ingredients that the soil
requires to produce good lax.-New
York Tribune.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-02-21
FEMININE LIFE IN A LIGHTHOUSE.

Boston hns lighthouse keepers
daughter who. perhaps, has not
emulated Ida Lewis, yet she is an no.
complished oarswoman rs we'll as q
versatile writer. Miss Louise Lynden
has lived with her father on that
beautiful headland for nearly fifteen
yenrs, and, although graduate of the
Boston Girls High School in 1879,
she has preferred to keep herself on
tho island summer and winter, ever
since her father was appointed as
keeper OF the light in 1880. Miss
Lynden is an accomplished photog-
rapher, and many OF her charming
stories are illustrated by her own pic
lures. Detroit Free Press.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-02-21
WHAT VICTORIA COULD DO.

As matter of fact, says London
Tit-Bits, our sovereigns have rarely
taken any active part in politics since
George HIS time, but they could
still do some very astonishing things
if they choose. The Queen could dis
miss every Tommy Atkins in our
army, rom tho Commnnder.in-O Chief
to the youngest drummer boy. She
could disband the navy in the same
way, and sell oil our ships, stores and
arsenals to the first customer that came
along. Acting entirely on her own
responsibility, she could declare war
against any foreign country, or make
present to any foreign Power of any
part of the empire. She could make
every man, woman and child in the
country peer of the realm, with the
right, in the case of males who are OF
age, to seat in the House of Lords
With q single word she could dismiss
any Government that happened to be
In power, and could. it is believed.
pardon and liberate all the criminals
n our lails. These are a few of the
things the Queen could do if she liked
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-02-21
RIBBON BLOUSE.

A certain wise woman had yards and
yards of pom padour ribbon which sho
had recklessly purchased ono day ut n
bargain sale. 1t was black with II
blurred design in peach blossoms all
use it and evolved this method:
She bought peach. colored satin rib
bon OF the same width-two inches
and covered it with black point
d'esprit. Then sho joined the lace
covered ribbon and the pompadour
until she had enough material for a
blouse waist. She inserted sleeves of
plain poach-coloroi satin aud was
ready for dinners and theatre parties.
New York World.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-02-21
FARSI AND dAnpxN NOTES.

DrauShts in tho poultry house arc
an invitation to roup 10 enter and
rlvnso your flock.
For successful celery culture there
must be plenty Of water, either natur-
ally or nrtifcially applied.
A good mixer must he good feed
er. but it by no means follows that n
good feeder is n good mixer.
The unsightly webs of tho tent
caterpillar that appear in tho orchard
should be cut off and burned.
The best ground fora peach orchard
is sandy soil that has been planted
for several years with general crops.
The objection to late growth on
trees is that 1t produces tender wood
that is liable to be Injured by freez.
ing.
Gut out and burn oil plants of rasp-
berries and blackberries affected with
orange rust. 1t is the only safe rem
edy.
Spraying with london purple, one
ounce TO ten gallons of water, is given
rs n sure remedy for the tent cater
pillar.
In some sections peppermint plants
are being substituted for hay rs
stock feed. They are said to give ex-
cellcnt results.
Experiments show that while the
percentage OF total solids of the milk
may be somewhat changed by varying
the food, yet the proportion of solids
to one another is independent OF tho
food and is determined by the COW.
Bowel diseases are often caused by
overlooking, a1d lack OF salt will
also affect tine stock. AT this season,
when the horses IRE idlc ut times,
they should be fed in manner only
to keep them in fair condition. 1t is
of no advantage TO them to make them
oyerIat.
When corn fodder is given TO tho
cows and sheep to pick over 10 not
throw the refuse stalks in the barn
yard to be trampled, but cut them no,
or shred them, 50 rs to convert them
into absorbent material in the stalls
or barnyarl. They can then also DO
more readily handled for use when
spreading manure.
Exhaustive experiments aro re.
ported by the French Society of Agri-
culture, IN which ration composed
chiefly of potatoes afforded rapid gains
in live weights of both sheep and cat.
tile, large percentage in dressed
weight of the slaughtered animals, and
flesh OF excellent quality. Cooked DO.
tatoes proved more effective and profit
able than uncooked.
The blowing of land upon which
fall weeds are still standing is often
done in q slovcnly manner, the Stub
bic not being completely covered,
every furrow showing the ends of tho
plants, the roots only being buried.
1t would he better to cut down
such material, let it dry, rake into
piles and burn, or, what is better,
burn the field over if it can be accom-
p!ished. Plowing can then DO done
more satisfactorily and more weeds
will be destroyed.
~fbere is more digestible matter in
the corn plant than in the grain, and
THIS fact is one which has been salts.
factorily demonstrated. One acre of
fodder gives more actual nutrition
than do two tons of timothy hay, and
the butts and coarser portions, which
are usually considered of but little
value, contain more nutrition than tho
tops and blades. 1t may be added
that much depends ON the stage at
which the fodder was cut, how stored,
and how prepared before feeding it to
the stock.
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AGRICULTURAL.
TOPICS OF INTEREST REhATlvE
TO FARM AND GARDEN
KEEPING CABBAGE.

Most people bury cabbage for win
ter use, and If properly done it is the
very best way to keep them. They
are. however, not easily got at when
the ground is frozen or covered with
snow. a port of the crop may be sat-
isfactorily kept as follows: Trim the
heads very closely, wrap in newspa-
pers. and pack in barrels. Set in a
cool cellar and use rs needed. They
will not dry out or decay rs when
placed In the cellar without protec-
ton. II this process is followed. n
quantity can be taken from the ground
ut one time. American Agricuiiurist
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WOMAN'S WORLD.
PLEASANT LiTERArURE FOR
FEMININE READERS
SUPERIORITY c. rJroH LACE.

Dutch laces do not have the solid and
lavish richness of design that mako
the Venetian and d'Alencon SO regal.
But it is conceded that for beauty of
texture and airiness of design they are
unsurpassed. Flax has always been
sent from many countries to be rotted
in their rivers. the waters of which
produce winter, CLEANER, more elastic
flbres Their damp cellars are signally
good for the spinning of thread SO
minute that dry air would make it
brittle. New York Advertiser.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-02-21
ABOUT FLAX GROWING.

IL is now several years since it was
July demonstrated in this country
that the textile fiber known as fibrelia
could be manufactured successfully
irom max straw, ahd,: although the
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-02-21

Lots of room for cheerfulness,
Though 1t rains a food;
Let's be thankful that it's not,
Slush instead of mud.
washington Star.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-02-21
ASPARAGUS.


Tho tops OF asparagus should be cut
down before the seeds fall, as the scat
tering of the latter over the bed will
produce plants in all directions. The
out stalks should be cleared away and
q good dressi ng of manure be applied.
This should be we'll spadcd in and n
mulch be spread over the rows. Nh
nure may be used for both purposes.
The object is to fertilize tho beds, as
it cannot be done in the spring, and
to prevent deep freezing, as the as
paragus is plant that starts growing
very early i'll the season. Nitrate OF
sodn is often used to force the aspara.
gus into quicker growth. As tisyeIy
soluble, it should not be mixed with
the manure. but should be applied
early in the spring. Scatter it alo ne
the rows.
Therei1s no reason why every farmer
should not have an asparagus bed.
Rich, mellow and deeply broken soil
is required. After the soil has been
prepared, open furrows three and one
half feet apart and ten inches deep
in order to bring the bed speedily
into bearing get year-old roots and
put Them in the burrows about two
feet apart. Then fiji up the burrows
and top dress with salt This wilrgiye
bed that will last for forty or Fifty
years with very little care. III the bed
is old and neglected and is thick with
crowns while the roots are spindlfng,
1T can be restored by cutting ont
spaces right through the bed and dig
ging up the roots SO as to leave the
plants in broad rows. The trouble IS
but triiing. and there is no vegetable
that gives better returns in the way .oI
health and enjoyment. New Yorl,
World.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-02-21
STACKING AND pAIrsa FopDrp.

Shredded fodder can DO stacked ont
OF doors just the same as hay or straw.
or course, it is better to have some.
thing underneath it to keep it from
lying on the ground, which, without
protection, would draw moro or less
moisture to either hay, straw or fod-
der. The shredded fodder keeps we'll
when properly stacked, but you want
to be careful i'll making the stack, go
shaping it that it will shed tho water,
covering the top in such manner rs
to turn the water from tho top until
the fodder settles. 1t wants to be left
standing in the stack week or two
until it passes through sweating or
heating process, when it will cure ont
nicely and can then be baked very
safely and shipped anywhere. Our
farmers in the vicinity stack great
deal of their fodder in this way and
then bale it from the stack.
We ore feeding to our own horses
around tho factory shredded fodder
that has been stacked and is now being
baled. This feed will soon get to be
nm article of merohantable commodity.
the same rs hay or straw. just rs soon
as people realize its great value MS
feed. We havo baled and shipped
carload to Philadelphia, and it makes
a better feed for horses or cattle than
the best timothy hay. In fact very
little grain is fed when using corn
fodder. 1t has also been shipped to
st. Louie, and wherever this.shredded
corn fodder has been introduced 1t is
considered far better than hay for
feeding purposes Breeders Gazette.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-03-23

text the words found i'm Matthew.
xviii, Is. ~. 20: "All power is given
to me in heaven and on earth. Go We.
therefore. and teach all nations, bap-
tizing them In the name of the Father
and Of the Son and of the Holy Ghost:
teaching them to observe all things
whatsoever | have commanded you.
and behold. | am with you all days.
even 10 the consummation of the
world" In his discourse he said:
Your Eminence. Very Right Reverend
and Right Reverend Bishops. Very Rev
erend and Reverend Fathers and Re
loved Brethren of the laity:
or all the impressive ceremonies in the
liturgy of the church there Is none so
solemn. so inspiring as that of the con-
secration OF bishop. Chosen after years
spent in the holy priesthood by the voice
iirmed by the judgment of the bishops D.
OF all divine authority here on earth, 10
the Vicar of Jesus Christ the successor
OF St. Peter. to whom has been entrusted
by Christ Himself the care of his flock
sheep and lambs, pastors and people. Ful-
ly informed aS To all the qualifications OF
him who has been considered worthy OF
the sublime dignity of the cpiscopatc. his
learning, his virtue, his piety, his zeal for
souls. the works of his ministry. the Vicar
of Jesus Christ sends forth his commits
sion. authorizing his conservation, and de-
termining what portion OF the faithfll
shall he entrusted to his care
You have heard the apostolic letter read.
The priest was presented to the consecrd-