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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-05-21
GREAT DAY FOR HIM.
Hc Proposed by Letter and Celebrated
When Her Ncply Cnnc.

Pm one of the men that proposed by
letter." admitted the captain who came
out of the war to successfully win in the
harder struggle of the business world,
says the Detroit Free Press. Though
bashful youth think would have
mustered courage TO have put my fate
to the test in the usual way, but was
nway up in the northwest when n letter
from my adorcd was received, and one
OF its sentences gave such an inviting
opportunity to say that would like to
marry her that | could not resist OF
course, I'll never know whether wom-
ans wit prepared that welcome OPEN
Ing.
"But when her letter of acceptance
came L was thrown into state of total
irresponsibility. The tidipgs of great
joy were too much for me. In trying to
get out of the post office I fell over r.
Newfoundland dog ana grasped pretty
young lady to keep from falling. This
seemed to me an act of treason, and my
apology was so confused that she put
me down as intoxicated and made nm
impossible effort to freeze me with n
look. gave ncwsboy n quarter with
out stopping to take a paper, shook
hands with several people 1 had never
seen before, beamed on all corners. ir
respective of sex, age, color or existing
conditions of scrvitudc, and made my
self so effnsivc generally that the opin-
ION formed by the young lady became
prevalent throughout the little town.
at the hotel her big brother waited on
me with blood in his eye, and for some
time my heightened sense of chivalrv
was stumped whether to fight or en-
plain. But chose the wiser course.
1T was not long until the entire COM
mun'ty knew the whole story and re-
joiced with me. They have n tradition
out there that it was pretty lively
time"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-05-21
Melting by ELECTRICITY.

Prof. Elihu Thompson, an eminent
authority ON electric Woodworking,
believes that there is no doubt whatever
OF the possibility of melting through
masses or iron and steel of even con
siderable thickness, provided there is
time enough to do it and sufficient cur
rent is available; but he thinks the
raraphernalia which the burglar
would have to carry along and have at
MS disposal for the attempted work
would be sufficient encouragement in
itself, while the time required and the
risk of discovery would be so great as
to remove the operation from among
the possibilities
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-05-21
HARp FIGHTERS LAW
Clients Dislike being Told Tint Their
CnReS ~. I,nnr

Cases Arc Poor.
Clients love n hard fighter and the
oniookers are impressed with his zeal, :"
says Richard ID. Doyle in an article on
Law and Lawyers" in the Southern
Magazine. I'm my own experience L
have had cases where l advised my
clients not to sue because was sure
they had no chance, and, although they
followed my advice, instead of employ
Ing other counsel, they refused to pay q
reasonable fee and in one case left me to
pay the court costs. And have seldom
advised client to compromise or sub
nit to arbitration that L did not dis
please him. 1t requires moral courage
to advise one against his inclinations,
but 1T is sometimes n lawyers sacred
duty. Whatever may be said us to its
morality or truo wisdom, yet l must say
that regard this aggressive and partl-
san spirit more conducive to modern
success than profound Judgment, for 1
have seen lawyers succeed chiefly by
reason of it in whom the logical faculty
was not mt all conspicuous. In speak
Ing of success, it will be observed that
do not mean the cminencc of such men
as Ersldne, Writ, Webster, William
Pinclney, Rufus Choatc and Charles
O'Connor, but such success us is at
tanned by the leading members of the
bar in every town or city of the United
States, who have n good practice, some
times very lucrative, though they arc
unknown to fame and forgotten outside
OF their neighborhood when they are
gone"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-05-21
WHERE LAND is CHEAP.
Two Hundred Acrcn Were Forced Up
ON Isnn.

TWO hunureu acres Were Forced Up-
ON 4; Isna.
a large weather map hangs in the sem
ate chamber in Washington, and SEN
ators gather before it in the morning
studying the conditions for the day.
Many good story is there told regard
ing the climate of different localities.
To Senator Kyle, of South Dakota, tho
New York Sun accrcdits such story.
Dakota weather is so bad, Senator
Kyle is reported as saying, that farmers
are often very glad to get rid of their
land. One of my neighbors saw n
stranger leading a COW along one day.
The two men began to talk, and soon a
trade was made, the farmer Offering
the stranger 200 acres of land for the
COW.
When the stranger, who could not
read, took the deed 10 Aberdeen o be re-
corded, he found it to call for 400 acres
instead of 200. He went back to the
farmer, cxpostulated, and tried to get
the deed changed. But the farmer
held out. Nothing the stranger could
say or do would move the farmer. and
the stranger was forced to take the
400 acres.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-05-21
WHAT DOES HE MEAN7
President Mckinley Should BE More
Definite in His Statements

brcsIucnt MctNtnIey should BE More
Definite in His Statements.
A recent discussion of President Nc
Kiniey's inaugural address in the class
ofeconomics atthe college of Citizenship
brought out question of public in
tcrcst as to the exact meaning of some
of his studied statements. In speaking
of the financial situation President Nc
1linley says: "Our financial system
needs some revision; cur money is all
good now, but its value must not fur
thcr be threatened"
The first part of this statement all
will approve. Also the declaration that
our money is all good now. But when
the president says: "Its value must not
further be threatened it is implied, of
course, that the value has already been
threatened, and the pertinent question
then arises: BY whom, in President
Mckinlcy's opinion, has this been done?
Does the president mean that the value
OF our money has been threatened by
the upholders of single gold standard,
or by the bimetallists who supported
his opponent in the recent campaign?
Since the republican party declared,
in its platform, for bmctallism, we
might infer that the attempt to make
permanent the single gold standard in
this country was the threatening of
money value to which he referred. But
the fact that the gold standard advo-
Gates supported Mr.. Mckinley for the
presidency makes this supposition i'm
probable.
The question is IN interesting one,
and the people have right to know the
meaning of the presidents expressions
of fear for our currency. Especially as
he continues: at should all be put
upon an enduring basis, not subject to
easy attack, nor its stability to doubt
or dispute" Does this enduring basis"
mean bimetallic basis that will insure
our currency against the evils of a single
gold standard? Or does it mean per-
petuation of the gold standard? And
does President Mckinley purpose,
through this perpetuation, to put our
money beyond the reach of an ATTACK"
from the mass of the people, or their
doubts as to its popular benefcence, or
their discussion of the question: Pm.
IL. W., in Western Rural.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-05-21

kept pace with the supply of other
things, there would have been no fall
of prices. 1t ought to be plain to the
dullest mind that if the production of
commodities go on with no restriction,
while the supply of money is, by law,
arbitrarily limited to metal which is
insufficient in quantity, the value of
money is bound to rise, while the money
value Tor prices) of the things which
are exchanged for money, will fall in
the same ratio. It should be equally
plain that this gives those whose wealth
is largely in the form of money, or who
have absolutely 'Tixed incomes" am
advantage over oil other classes. Sup
pose n mans fortune consisted almost
entirely of wheat, and n law were passed
making it crime to use any other grain
for food, or limiting the use of other
grains for such purpose. Would not
that give the owner OF wheat an adj
vantage over everybody else?
The case supposed is identical with
the present situation as regards gold.
In this behalf there are two other
simple suggestions which may be
thrown out. The Economist should have
stated what improvements have been
made in the facilities for production and
transport within the last 10 months,
sufficient to cause shrinl1age of three
per cent. in the money value of the
products of human toll. The other is
that this statement of the Economist
emphasizes what every intelligent man
knows to be the fact, that falling prices
and business depression are always close
companions. Still, when the silver men
In the United States propose O measure
by which prices may be raised, the mil
lionaire goldite raises his hands in hor-
TOR and protests against it upon the
ground that it will ruin the poor man.
If the business depression, coming from
falling prices or any other cause, even
benefited the poor man." we should
very much like to know when or where.
National Bimetallist.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-05-21
TEACHING DOGS TO ATTACK.
Most Singular business of n Trainer
of Dulllogr

Most Singular business of a Trainer
of bulldogs.
~ most singular business is that of n
certain Herr Straus, OF Berlin, who
trains mastiifs and bulldogs to attack
men i'll order to fit the brutcs for pursuit
of and conflict with criminals. saws an
exchange. lie also trains dogs to do
tricks in exhibitions and for other pur-
POSES, but the bulk of his business is of
The nature outlined in the previous SEN
fence. There is first preliminary
training of general nature, then the
dogs are put to work on lifc-sizc dunn
mes OF men, which they arc taught TO
throw down, TO drag about and to
watch. This is the most difficult of Herr
Straus' work, since it includes traininp
the dogs not to laccrate the features of
the wax face of the dummy. but TO cen
fine their by no means gentle attention
II the bard rubber collar of tho dunn
1'y's coat. After a dog has been TAUGHT
10 handle dummy properly he is cx-
trcised upon living subject in the per-
son OF trained attendant who must
also. naturally, have n great deal of
nerve, strength and self-possession. Al
1'rst this attendant is obliged TO wear u
leather or rubber collar similar TO that
On which the dog has practiced with the
cnmmy, but after long training he is
anie to substitute an ordinary cloth col
lar and when Herr Straus gets through
with the brutes they will slsillfuNy at
tack and throw down a man withoutin-
1urlng him or his clothing. The mas
TINS are moro readily trained than the
hulldoCs
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-05-21
POSTAL FACILITIES IN 1900.
n business Letters Slow staees
Century Ago.

$40" stages a
Century Ago.
In 1900 not only was the field of bust
ness enterprise restricted, but the trans
action of business within that field was
slow and difficult, says the Atlantic.
Inc merchant kept his own books. or
as we would have said, his own nc
counts; wrote all his letters with n
quill and when they were written let
the ink dry by sprinkling it with sand.
Ihere were then no envelopes, no post
age stamps, no letter boxes In the
streets, no collection of the mail. The
letter written, the paper was carefully
folded. sealed with wax or wafer. adj
dressed and carried to the post Office.
where postage was prepaid at rates
which would now seem extortionate.
10 send n letter which was n single
sheet OF paper, large or small, from Ros-
ton to New York or PHILADELPHIA cost
lSH and to Washington 25 cents: and
this when the purchasing power of n
cent was five times what it is ut present
To carry n letter from Philadalnbin
then the capital of the United States
to Hoston and bring back an answer bv
return mail would have consumed from
I2 to 1s days, according to the season OF
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-05-21
THE AMERICAN PEANUT.
1t Has become II FavorIte I'm All
In

IL inns Hccomc FnvorItc I'm All
Lands.
The peanut as an article of COM
-mercc and consumption" said judge
Nhrlstiancy, of the pension Office, to
Washington Star reporter, sis
something enormous, and great
deal more so than those who have
not had the slightest opportunitv
TO examine into it have the slight
est idea of. / don't desire to del.loe
you with statistics, but nv cxamina-
lion and that of others who have had
better facilities satisfy me that the pea
nut ranks second to anything else used
az fruit. The banana ranks first
liy this do not coniinc myself to this
country alone. refer TO the consulnp-
ton throughout the world. We are
shipping peanuts to-day TO every part
CT the world, and i'll Paris, London.
throughout Italy, Germany and Eng
land have already got the African pea
nut on the run. and are going TO make
it run very fast before we get through.
The peanut we ship does not eompare
however, with the nut that is sold IN
our own country, but it has secured
Inc market from the African pcanut.
which only few years ago was tho
only nut which was sold i'm Europn
In the zoos of Europe to-day the chill
dren are feeding American peanuts tn
the animals, as well as eating them.
the peanuts, l mean, themselves"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-05-21
NEGRO PRODIGY.
Though Uncducntcd lie Is II Lightning
Mathematician

mathematician.
Robert Gardhirc is ancgro, and an I'M
educated one, but when it comes TO fig
ures he can't be stopped by any mathe-
1natlcian in the world, says the Angus
In Chronicle. He is humble resident
of Augusta, and is employed as n la
borcr at the Interstate Cotton Oil COM
pany' In multiplication Gardhirc ia
as quick as thought. Before the aver
age person can set the figures down
with pencil Gardhire has given the
correct answer, and yet he cannot say
how he does it.
lie was asked what was the sum total
of 90 times CT, and without repeating
the figures to himself Gardhire an
swered offhand: "6,663." GLOW much"
asked one, sis sol times SEP" Without
stopping II second Gardhire replied:
"16,O32." And thus for over half an
hour numbers were thrown at him and
he gave the correct multiplication like
IL Hash. In the multiplication of frac-
tions the man is equally proficient,
and there seems no limit to his powers,
which are almost occult.
Gardhire cannot remember when he
hrst became aware of his power, and
does not even know how he discovered
1T. lie says that when the figures are
given to him he sees their answer i'm
nediately. Simply by CHANGING at
long line of figures he can tell imme-
thately what their sum is.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-05-21
A DUCK sHooTeR's PARADISE.
The Marshes OF -. Clair. Raieig:, and
Dover .'i:,tnn

Ihc Marshes az 81. Clair. Raleigh. and
Dover .'i:,inn.
as we neared JcaEctte's creek the
flood dccpcncd until The ditch was lost
and we could paddle at will i'm any di-
rection, says Outing. The great plain
looked like lake Of muddy water, and
for 10 miles in one direction only tons
of tall dead PUSHES and I'm occasional
siunted shrub limited that the cxpanse
was dusty dry during summer.
To the sportsman that drowned level
presented picture which will never
be duplicated on this continent. Only
the famous English fens, in their best
days, ever riva!cd the marshes of St.
Clair and Raleigh and Dover Plains.
In every direction were floating, or nv-
ing, huge RATS of wild fowl-hundreds
of thousands of them being in sight at
once. Mallartl, black duck, pintail, red
head, bluebill, wdgcon. wood duck,
blue and green-wingcd teal, bufliehcad,
mddy duck, mcrganser, golden eve,
coot and grcbe comprised the bull, of
that feathered host, but several COM
paratively rarcr varieties would be no.
uced during days shooting.
Geese in thousands, mostly big Can
adas, with perhaps an occasional brant
and snow goose, swept landward and
lakeward at the birth and death of each
DIV
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-05-21
Jenny Lind's Last Pubic Appearance.

"The last time Jenny Lind sang in,
public was on July 23, 1888, in the Spa,
Malvern Hills, England, writes MRS.
Raymond Maude, daughter of the,
Swedish Nightingale" in Ladies',
Home Journal. "The concert was in
aid of the Railway Servants Benevo-
lent fund, and indeed was red-letter
day to the country folk who came from
oil the country round with the modest
1S-pence which secured them standing
room On one of my walks, during the
last sad week helped to'nurse her, T
found an old woman in n remote cot
tage who eagerly asked for the good
lady who was so ill up there Upon
finding who 1 was she assured me that
1t would have been worth even more
stinting and further walk to have had
such treat in her old age as that sing
ing"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-05-21
Didn,t Iknow no wa. E1eetea.

That man could be elected to repre-
sent constituency in parliament with
out any knowledge of the fact seems i'm
possible, yet such has been the case of
Alfred Pease, now M. p. for Cleveland.
Mr.. Pease was travelling abroad when
a vacancy occurred and he was nomi-
mated and afterwards elected by good
majority. Sir Joseph Pease received al
telegram from his son from Arden. in
these terms; News of candidature and
election received. / will try and merit
the honorary friends and ncighbors
nave conferred Such an occurrence
could hardly take place in this country.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-05-21
PRICES OF COMMODITIES.
Logic OF London Economist Is Bad
nut Figures Tell the Truth.

Tho changes In prices of the principal
commodities during the past quarter have
been fairly numerous, but have In no ca 80
been decided In character. Tho advances
among the list which forms the basis of
our calculations are quite as numerous as
tho declines. but the latter are rather more
pronounced, and have consequently had
greater influence on the index number,
which, by combining the effect of the pre-
vious movements. gives @ general idea of
the course of prices.
AS compared with the end of December
last this shows n further slight reduction
indicating n continuance of the tendency
towards gradual lowering OF prices which
has been observable since tho beginning
of 1896. Tho movements in the index num-
Der at quarterly periods since the end of
lS9n hnYa been aa follows.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-05-21
Accuracy of the MusicnlEar.

An interesting instance of the accu-
racy with which music that has not
been written can be transmitted
through the ear and the voice is noted
by Miss Alice c. Fletcher in her studies
OF the songs OF the Omaha Indians. One
of these songs was recorded by means
OF phonograph, and it agreed in every
particular with the same song as it had
heen heard and noted down 12 years
before
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-05-21
Diggest Firc EnnInc.

The two biggest fire engines in the
world are in Liverpool. These are the
most powerful fire engines known,
throwing 1880 gallons of water min
ute. and jet 40 feet high. The force
with which the water is elected from
them may be estimated from the fact
that the jet is Warranted to kill a man
at so feet"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-05-21
Strange Rcyenre.

j. 4. Morris, the dead lottery king,
was once blackballcd by the New Or
leans Jockey club. Smarting under the
nffront, he boosted he would one day
make the Jockey club grounds grave
yard. When he got richer he secretly
bought the property and carried out his
threat. 1t is now one OF the leading
cemeteries of New Orleans.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-05-21

The French poodle has set the fash
ion for the worlds aristocrat;c Inn
dogs in the way of 14-carat gold brace.
lets, ablaze with Jewels and spangles
with which to adorn his hirh-born
legs, and with q collar and sbonIdor
harness to correspond. The cost Of
these small trapbings must, of course
vary according to the size and nunbar.
of jewels used.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-05-21

Tho average level of prices Is now not
much above what 1t was at the lowest
point of the recent depression of trade,
and. considering the activity that now ex-
lists, It is rather remarkable that prices
have not kept up at higher general level.
The facilities of production and transport,
however, tend to constantly reduce values
as expressed in money. and the increased
production of gold in recent years has not
so far done very much to counterfeit this
tondency.-London Economist
The reader will understand from the
foregoing that calling the average of
prices ut the close of 1895, 1899 by the
end Of March, 1897, they had fallen to
1910, 80 points. Stated in simpler
way, during tho last Is months prices
fell upon an average just about three
per cent, which is at the rate of nearly
rs per cent. year. This does not
differ much from the average decline
which began in the latter part of 1873
(the year in which silver was generally
demonetized) and has continued to this
day.
1t will be observed that, as usual with
gold organs, the Economist ascribes the
fall to better facilities for production
and transport, but in this instance the
great English authority "gives away
its case" by stating that the increased
production of gold has not done much
to counteract the falling tendency.
This is an admission that au increase
of gold has tendency to keep up prices.
In other words, that gold becomes
cheaper as its volume increases, pro-
vided, of course, that other conditions
rema4n the same, which ought to dis
pose al the 'inrtinsic value" theory to
the satisfaction of the most dogmatic
goldite in the world.
There are two brief comments which
we deem 1T proper to make upon this
utterance of the Economist:
First, the enlarged production OF gold
has had an effect in counteracting the
fall, for If the production OF gold had
not largely increased during TIA, last
TWO OF three years the fall VOC ss''sve
been still greater. -
Second, that no mattervt
tiles for production anl
rx.4<-A -<-[-. a
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-05-21
IMPROVED METHODS.
WhHt VIII the Coming Mnn DO IL
Thia Thing Keeps Up.

NhHt VIII the Coming Nam Do IL
Thia Thing Keeps Up.
Maize said the young lover, with
delicate intonation, as he was escort
ing his best girl homcward by MOON
light after the thcatcr supper, suppose
VIC follow out the old adage instead of
taking a car. Shall wc?"
"1'hc odd adage?'" said the fair one.
"You mystify me-"
why yom know the ancient saw of
the wise men, don't you, where they
say:
After dinner sit awhile:
After supper walk Il mile"
For IL moment the dear creature mcdi-
tated, ard then she lifted her voice in
the solemn stiffness. George" said
she, half stcrnly, 81 am no angel myself
but | must say that | hate slanis. You
might have put on my grandmother
with that sort of Il song-and-duncc wears
ago, but not the modern up-to-datc
belle. Stick to the truth. If, aftcl. tho
luxurious supper that we have enjoyed,
YOU are broke for car fare, don't quote
poetry, nor beat round The bush. Just
say: 'Mazic, dear. lend me a dime till
tomorrow, and I'll repay it with two
KISSES n minute interest at pawnbrok-
ers' ratcsl''
With sigh, says the New York Jour
nal. the youth closed his hand about
the precious silver piece and hailed a
missing car. 81 wonder what the com-
ing man will look like" he unused, ST
iontiy, "if the coming woman gets any
clcvcrcr?"
And, with a shudder, he helped the
fair mind reader into the cable ear and
sat down beside her rs gingerly as f he
were sitting down in basket of eggs.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-05-21
BUCKLEN's ARNICA sALyE

LIE BEST SALvE in the world for
Cuts Bruises, Sores, Ulcers. Salt
hheum, Fever Sores, TIE tier, Chopped
Hands, Chilblains. Corns and all
SKIN Eruptions, and positively cures
riles' or no pay Inquired. 1t is guar
"nteed {" give perfect satisfaction,
OF money refunded. Sricc % cents
per box For sac b Va. +. Har-
grave.