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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1898-07-15

1t makes one blush for his kind
to read of the brutality and COW
ardice Of all so called "mcnn OH
the Bourgoync.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1898-07-15

We stick it on our bank checks,
We taste it in our beer.
And every where that Mary goes
The "war tax" doth appear.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1898-07-15
Rich in Coal.

We have about eighty acres of
he finest coal and timber lands in
this section lying on the waters of
Dry Fork.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1898-07-15
One Way.

Rev. Longnecker-I wish I could
think OF some way to make the congre-
cation keep their eyes ON me during
the sermon.
Little Tommy-Pa. you want to put
the clock right behind the pulpit.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1898-07-15
TAZEWELL HIGH SCHOOL,
IaZeweIl. Va.

Prepares boys and girls for college Thorough training in Classics
English Mathematics German Elemsnta Science Good adyau
ges in Music and Art Discipline the
Of character Comfortable buildings and grounds new
hal for school exercises and recitation room for to od
vanced girl students.
Address,
G. BYRON, PRINCIPAL
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1898-07-15
A Curiosity Shop Combined.

A place where a little money goes a
long way, and where the big profit which
other merchants charge on Notions and fan.
cy goods is unknown. Bring dollar and
wheel barrow and see how many useful ar.
ticles you will trundle home
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1898-07-15
WHAT is A RACKET STORE7

This is the question SO often asked, and
here is the answer:
"A Racket Store is bazaar, a general
Emporium of all useful articles, and
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1898-07-15

We are selling our entire line of Spring
Goods at great reduction. We also carry
a large line of shoes which we are selling
from % to SOC on the pair less than you
can buy them elsewhere. We are ready
and willing to show you our goods at any
and all times, whether you want to buy or
not. We handle everything.
]. B. HAWKINS & co.
Opposite Court House.
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BOOKS AND THEIR MAKERS.

formation is impaired by the warrior
novel Adventures, and the Illustrated
will be found stimulating to the ina u
ination and mechanical talents of MI
boy reader Dana Estes & Co.
Herbert Elliott Hamblen, the populs
author, has spun a capital rough saiIt
or's yarn in Tom Benton's Luck"
which the young Yankee hero pssssl
through most astonishing adventura1
ahoat and ashore, to the delight Il
many a juvenile reader The pictu,,al
of sailor life ON board ship seem over1
drawn though undoubtedly the oond
tons of life at sea have always favored
greater brutality than was allowed :
flourish on land The story of tho
Herbert Fuller and the Olive Pecker
can scarcely be surpassed for wild
dramatic quality by any fiction that i,
likely to get itself written. The Macmil.
lar Company.
In 'Teddy: Her Book" Anna Cbani,,
Ray has made a pretty picture -,
Sweet Sixteen" Teddy is a dear eirI
as a certain young man finds out to his
happiness; the story is lively and
wholesome. Little. Brown g. Coz
From various magazines Harrje,
Prescott Spofford-always a faVorite
author with girl readers-has collected :
number of stories under the curionslJ
old-fashioned title of Hester Stanley.
Friends" the name of the first story in
the collection. 1t is a readable Vol.
ume, attractively printed and bound
Little, Brown & Co.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-11-27
GERMAN CULTURE AND AM
ERlCAN PROSE.

.Climpses of Modern German Gull
ture.". BY Kuno Francke. Dodd' Mead
& Co.
These sketches, nine of which have
previously appeared in the Nation, four
in the Bookman and one in the Atlant-
ic. are an attempt by one of the most
cultured and clear seeing Germans OF
the day to describe some of the "symp-
toms" of modern Germany, the classic
LAND of moral contrasts as he calls IT..
They are a valuable addition to the lit
erature of German life and thought,
being mostly in the nature of COM
ments upon the political and literary
phenomena of modern Germany. Prof.
Francke discOurseS in a scholarly way
with enviable force and directness, up
on Johanna Abmrosis, Hermann Grimm
and Sudermann's John the Baptist !;
but the kernel of the volume lies in
the three or four essays which treat dl-
rectly of the conflict going on in Ger
many and especially, of the part so
cialism plays in that conflict These
are peculiarly penetrating and sug-
gestive.
American Prose: Selections with
critical introductions by various writ
ers and a. general introduction Edited
by George Rice Carpenter, professor pl
rhetoric and English composition in
Columbia University. The Macmillan
Company.
This volume follows in general the
plan adopted in Mr. Craiks "Engich
Prose" and in Mr. Wards English
Poets" in presenting extracts of con-
siderable length from the works of
leading American prOse-Writers, pre-
coded by a critical essay and short
biographical sketch. An Introduction to
the whole in which the editor COM
ments on the use of American as
applied to >the literature of the United
States and declares resoluteness, nobil-
ity, simplicity and humor to be the
broad characteristics of American prose
literature, is valuable E. E. Hale, j.,
has written the critical essay on Jcn-
athan Edwards; Munroe Smith that on
Thomas Paine; Col. Higginson writes
on Brown, Cooper and Thoreau; Bran
der Matthews on Irving; George San
tayana on Emerson and Whitman
Hamlin Garland on Ulysses S. Grant
Howells on George William Curtis, and
John Fiske on Parkman. The allowance
of nineteen pages to Walt Whitman in
a volume from which Alexander Ham
ilton, E. P. Whipple and William Ell
lery Charming are excluded, needs eX-
planning.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-11-27
HISTORY AND LEGEND.

1.-THE Spanish Revolution, 1S6S-1S75. &"
BY Henry Strobel. Small, Maynard &,
Co.
Mr.. Strobel, who is now Bemis pro-
fessor of international law in Harvard
University, collected the materials for
this volume during his residence in
Madrid from 1885 to 1890 as secretary of
the United States and charge d'affaires.
The period covered by him is the most
interesting in the modern history of
France, and acquaintance with it is
necessary to one who would understand
the political situation in the Spain of
today. 1t marks the transition from the
Spain of Ferdinand III and Isabella II
to the Spain of Alfonso XII and the
regency and as Mr.. Strobel remarks.
forms an episode entirely distinct from
the history which precedes and follows
it.
Although the aims of it's promoters
were doomed to failure, the revolution
bore good fruit in the improved method
OF government which has distinguished
the reign of Alfonso XII and the re-
gency, and in the twenty years of tran
quillity enjoyed by the country from
the date of the restoration to the break
ing out of the instruction in Cuba.
AS this period has never before been
adequately treated5 Mr.. StrobeTs mono
graph has exceptional value, especially
for Americans today in that it offers a
clue to the weakness and the strength
of the Spanish people and shows the
struggles they have made in endeavor-
ing to adapt their traditions and ma
tional temperament to modern political
liberalism.
THE Enchanted Islands" By Thomas
Wentworth Higginson. The Macmillan
Company.
In a series of twenty pleasantly writ
ten and charmingly illustrated stories,
Col HigginsOn, who has recently re-
turned from a year abroad, tells of the
romantic legends that have gathered
for more than a thousand years about
the islands of the Atlantic deep-le-
gends that, as the author notes in his
dedication, unite the two sides of the
Atlantic, and form a part of the COM
mon heritage of the English speaking
race" Beginning in the east, and fol-
lowing the order of development, the
author recounts the story of Atlantis
and the enchanted islands of Wales,
then the tale of st Brandans and last
the Search for Norumbega," 1.-THE
guardians Of the st. Lawrence" and
"Bimini and the fountain of youth" in
search of which Ponce de Leon set
forth from Porto Rico March 10. 1872.
Atlantis is the Oldest Of these mystic
rious Islands, the island of Devils. in
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-11-27
BEFORE SANTIAGO.
Scenes During a Night assault by Spar
ish Army.
(From The Review Of Reviews

ltrom the Review of Reviews.)
On the night after the battle. while
We lay on the sloping field after a soak
ing by cold tropical rain, we saw and
heard the night assault of the Spanish
army which came from Santiago.
winch came to disodge our army from
me positions it had taken. The sound
OF the infantry firing was simply dam
nable. We cOuld see all along the line
the Hashing of the cannon fire AS our
hospital camp was cut off from the rest
Of the army, We had no one to tell us
what was happening. The scene was
magnitlcently terrible, AS the fire
rolled and rolled it seemed to us that
the hight was coming closer and closer
to our position. Gradually a rumor
spread from litter to litter that our
line had been forced. We al knew
what that meant-death without mer-
cy. 1t is hardly possible to conceive of
a more horrible situation than ours
we We're hopeless and felt that a ruth
less enemy was upon us. Suddenly the
firing ceased We spent most Of the
night silently wondering whether our
army had been defeated and what day
lght would reveal. At half past
clock in the morning the one surgeon
in our camp woke us, and announced
that he had been ordered to abandon
the position Immediately. Those who
were injured in the legs would be car
RED; all others must walk or be aband-
oned, In reply to my question he said
that he could not tell whether our army
had been defeated or not. know
what capture by Spaniards meant I
struggled to my feet and, weak as I
was, l walked. stumbling and crawling
as best / could, over the hills and
through the deep mud of the valleys.
tainted twice before I reached General
Skaters headquarters, where several
correspondents carried me on a. stretch
er to the divisional hospital Here I
had the bones of my arm set and my
wound thoroughly dressed The next
day l was tied on to a horse and held
on the saddle for nine miles until
reached Siboney, on the coast Here
lay two days in great pain. Beside me
ley another civilian down with yellow
fever; then Mr.. Hearst took me on his
private steamer and / was brought
back to New York
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-11-27
LITERARY ITEMS S.

"Wild Animals l Have Known" by
Ernest Seton Thompson. Charles Serb
ner's Sons.
Once in a while a really new kind
of book is invented, with either a plot
or d style, or else a hero or heroine that
seizes the imagination of the reader by
its freshness or vigor, and sets him to
wondering why it was never done be-
fore. Such a book is this volume of
animal biographies by Mr.. Thompson,
who is q naturalist of the government
of Manitoba and the author of several
works on animal life. Here We have
the personal histories of Lobo the
giant wolf that ravaged the Corrum-
paw valley for years, and only sue
cumbed when his beautiful white mate
was slain; of SilVerspot, the crow: of
Raggylug the cottontail rabbit; of Bin
go. the dog that fell in love with the
she-wolf and finally died of eating pois-
oned horse; Of NiX, the Springfield ION
and the pacing mustang that commit
ed suicide rather than live a captive,
and Wolly, the sheep dog, that led a
double life. and Rebuff the Don val
ley partridge.
Each of these stories is true, and each
is tragedy for says Mr.. Thompson
the life of a wild animal always mas
Il tragic END. Inc dlllIidlS NClS an
real characters. Mr.. Thompson has
written from the belief that natural
history has lost as much from vague
general treatment, that is so common
as man would, were his history to be
condensed into a ten-page sketch. How
much more profitable to devote that
space to the life of some one great
man. This is the principle Mr. Thomp-
son has applied to his ANIMALS. The
personality of the individual, and his
view of life-that is what he has set
out to show; only, he confesses, he
lives Of these real characters snow
the stamp of heroism and personality
more strongly by far than his pen can
tell. He has not humanized his AMI
mails. but the histories of one all en-
phasize the thought that we and the
animals are kin, and that, since the
animals are creatures with wants ana
feelings differing in degree only from
our own. they surely have their rights
Space forbids more than reference
to Mr. Thompson's style of narrative
which is well adapted to his subject
or to the delightful drawings by the
author. which are scattered over the
broad margins and between the pages.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-11-27
FOR HOUSEKEEPERs.

"Chafng Dish Possibilities" by Fan
ME Merritt Farmer. Little, Brown y
Co
Miss Farmer, principal of the Boston
cooking school, and the author Of The
Boston Cooking School Cook Book
has collected into a pretty volume her
chatting dish receipts as given by her
to her Pupils together with good .ad-
vice on the management of this popu-
lar utensil. The book includes nearly
250 receipts, all of which have been
tested by actual experience. Careful
directions for measuring are given.
Among the subjects treated are toast,
griddle-caRes and fritters; eggs, oys-
tiers, Holsters and some other shell fish;
beef lamb and mutton, chicken, sweet
breads vegetables cheese dishes, rel
ishes and sweets and candies. The re-
ceipts are up to date and simply stated.
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-
Jectlonaple. AS TOURISTS lhey are olceH
very roWdy, and make point 10 WISH .
all the places an lnlquity so as TO return
home able to speak Of their moran SUI
penonty' and SO torth ana so on
This gentle critic is now IN Lon noon
Iecturing. This etfuslon OF ms iIo i.
which the above - quoted was pun
lished in London paper. an II pe
possible ne finds TINS sort OF lh!ns pay
IN England?
Wonder what would happen TO me
gal-tongued eau, II WnlIe ne We're on
tour in this country, ne ruShed INTO
print in such coarse faShlGh ABOUT 'iie
American tourist in la belle France. IL
would NOT take much stretch Of the
imagination to picture nun kept puSy
lodging a bombardment of decayed
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-11-27
HOW'S THIS q

We offer one hundred dollars reward
for any case of catarrh that can not be
cured by Halls Catarrh Cure.
T.. j. Cheney & Co, Props, Toledo. O.
We, the undersigned, have known r. j
Cheney for the last Is years, and believe
him perfectly honorable In all business
transactions and financially able to carry
out any obligations made by their firm
ledo O. M
Walding, Kinnan & Marvin, wholesale
druggists. Toledo, o..
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally
acting directly upon the blood and m,tA
cous surfaces of the system Price 75c,
per bottle. Sold by all druggists Testl-
mOnials free 8 T
Halls Family Pills are the best.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-11-27
BOOKS FOR BOYS AND GIRLS.

The Lost City" by Joseph E. Badger
Jr.' is an exciting story of an airship
cyclone, the great American desert
indians and a buried Aztec city. There
IS rather too much slang, but useful m
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-11-27

the gulf of st. Lawrence. the newest,
Every tale in the book. so the author
assures us. bears reference to some ac-
tuaI legend, and all authorities are
carefully stated
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THE DIFFICULTY.

Poet-Why is it that you never print
ANYTHING that / write?
lidtor-Well, 1 guess it must be because
you never write anything that / print
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-11-27

lFrom Fliegende Blaetter.

"Adolar was bewitched Never had the
countess seemed to him so beautiful as at
this moment when, in her dumb grief
she hid her face"
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D. APPLETON & co. NEw yopD

Latitude 10 Degrees; A Romance of tbs
Eighteen Hundred and Twenty. Bv Ms
schuyler CrOwninsheld. Illustrated
The impeachment A novel Bv Doro-
inca Gerard Mime. Longard de Longarde1
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A. S. BARNES & CO, NEW YORK
Bird, Gods. BY Charles de Kay. Dec.
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BOOKS RECEIVED
For Week Ending November rs.

AMERICAN IRISH HISTORICAL, So
GETTY, BOSTON.
The Journal of the American Irish His
torical Society. Edited by Thomas Ham
!IIon Murray, secretary general, and
archivist. Volume / al a.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-11-27

CRoWELL & co, NEW YORK AND
BOSTON.
Twenty Years After. BY Alexand.r
dumas Two volumes. Illustrated.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-11-27

HENRY 7. COATES & co. PHTLA-
DELPHIA
Pemberton; or. One Hundred Years
Ago. BY Henry Peterson Illustrated
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The report of the committee appoint
ed to inquire into the abuse prevailing
at the South Kensington Museum has
brought out some astonishing facts.
| For example, in connection with the
charges of frauds and forgeries, it has
| been discovered that a Vernis Martin
cabinet bought as genuine for $4080, has
turned out to have been made of gen
uine panels only, by an artisan now
on the staff of the museum. Forged
Della Robbia pieces have now been re-
moved to Bethnal Green Museum and
! labelled limitations" Cardinal VOL
sey's chair, bought at the Hamilton
/ Palace sale, is admitted to be Cinga-
| lese work of the 18th century, and is
now so labelled. The agate cup pur-
chased at the same sale for $2675. is
said to be a modern makeup, worth
but one-tenth of the price given.
The plaster cast of Paul WayIand
Bartlett's heroic statue of Michael An
gelo, which will adorn the rotunda of
the Congressional Library, has been
| delivered at the works to be cast under
supervision of the sculptor. The statue
| is clever of conception. representing
the old master in the working clothes
he probably wore while carving his
Moses or David. He is slightly look
ing up, chisel in hand, surveying, as it
We're, the outlines, to see where the fin
ishing touches should be made.
The following awards have been
made at the third annual exhibition of
! the Carnegie Institute at Pittsburg:
/ To d. w. Tryon. for his Early Spring
/ in New England" medal of the first
class and $500; to Childe Hassam, for
| THE Sea-" medal of the second-cIass
and $1,000; to Alexander Roche, for 1.-THE
/ Window Seat" medal of the third-class
and $500: to John f. Weir, for Roses. -
/ honorable mention; and to r. A. Wal
mention. The jury was made up of
painters from Paris, London. New
/ York, Boston and other American
cities.
Carolus Duran has been elected to
succeed the late Puerre Puvis de Cha
vannes as president of the Societe Ma
/ tionale des BeauX Arts in Paris, the
younger organization of French paint
ers who exhibit at the Champs de Mars
salon.
The son Of Jean Francois Millet.
| Francois Millet, who is also an artist.
/ is now in this country
/ Puvis de Chavannes has beaueatbed
to the city of Lyons, his native town,
an exquisite portrait of his wife, paint
ed when she was the Princess Canta-
cuzene.
Twenty-seven pastel drawings by 7.
| Appleton Brown viii be shown at the
gallery of Dole & Richards, Boston.
until Dec Z.
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GEORGE II. ELLIS, BOSTON.
Our Unitarian Gospel. BY NJ j. Saw.
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age. o. 9"N-
NJ. r. MANsFIELDf& Co. NEW YORK.
THE. The Sea of Love. By Walter Phelps
The Story of Lois. BY Katharine 8
MacquQid. Third edition.
The Rev. Annabel Lee: A Tale Of 10
morrow BY Robert Buchanan
Q. p. PUTNAM's SONS. NEW YORK.
Historic Towns of New England. Edit
ca by Lyman ?. Powell. american His
torlc Towns Seres) Illustrated.
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS.
III me ne, Court ., Of the Second Empire. BY
Elizabeth G Martin. With portraits. ~
WILLIAMS 4 WILKINS COMPANY
BALTIMORE, ND
The Little Dame and the Wild Animals.
Slor% tod by little girl TO arnuse her
ton S7Ooiiu eul-
trated 90 III u7-
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handed her the earrings without muir
MUIR She took them, and passed out, be-
slowing a plying glance on the astonish-
ed grand dame.
In the Tenderloin she wore those ear
rings nightly, and her fingers were covered
with precious gems, and necklace of
blood-red rubies sparkled her snow
white neck For some three years shew was
the gayest butterfly of them all, and the
acknowledged queen of the dem-monde.
But all things have an end. and end
came to her reign. A year after he brought
her to New York, the merchant suddenly
left her and sailed for Paris.
Without a days hesitation she took the
next steamer and followed him. She found
him only to find that the parting was
sterner one. Ruin had been logging his
footsteps closely, ever since he had met
her. His own common sense and the en-
treaties of his family had led him to break
the association, while there was yet time.
She returned to New York this time in
company with the son of a former promi-
nent public official, and resumed her sway
in the Tenderloin. She wearied of 1T after
a time, and sold her establishment in haste,
getting something like $4,000 for $4,000
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Six short years ago, Vesta Dore Hast
ings, Vicomtesse de Henriot was the most
tall1ed-of woman In New York.
Today the Viscomtesse de Henriot is
buried in a foreign land her grave un-
marked by headstone or monument Hers
was curious history.
CHAPTER I.
Thirty-six years ago, Vesta Dore Hast
ings was born in Charleston S. C. Her
parents were people of wealth and re-
spectability and her mother came from
one of the oldest of the F. f. VS.. Vesta
inherited from her mother the dreamy
beauty which made her famous; from her
grandmother, the dignity of the ancient
Virginian, and from her father, the courte-
BUSINESS and sauveness of the hot-blooded
and impetuous southerner.
She was brought up as befitted her fu-
ture station in life. She was sent to the
best schools, had the best masters and
teachers, and at Is years of age, was thor
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oughly educated and accomplished. She
was a splendid singer, an expert dancer,
and spoke French, Spanish, German and
Russian like a native. She was as BEAU.
tiful as she was accomplished
She was naive and charming and with
al one of the wittiest girls of her day.
Many a bonmot of hers is still repeated by
the more ancient generation of Charleston.
At repartee, there was not her equal. A
ready retort seemed always on the tip of
her tongue. Witty, charming and beauti-
full, she was therefore dangerous to the
peace of mankind.
1t was a beau of the old school, who as
he kissed her hand said: Madame, you
are the most charming lady 1 have ever
known, but you will break mems hearts,"
She laughed, low ripping laugh, as she
answered: you are a sad flatterer, for
you say such cruel things. I would break
no ones heart, no, not even yours
AS the old beau kissed her hand again
he murmured, Madame, I am defcnceless,
spare me-"
From that day until the day of his death
this same old courtier was her staunchest
friend and when her caprices and follies
were talked of, his answer was: "Sr, she