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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1901-07-19
POCahOntas.

Miss Bloch, of Richmond, is spen-
ding few weeks with her sister and
brothers Mrs. j. b. Baach and Mr..
M. Bloch.
Mrs. T. 81. Gregg of Bluefeld,
spent Monday and Tuesday with her
mother.
Mrs. Frank Ward, and sister
returned from Bluefield last week
Mrs. Wards little boy who has been
so i'll, is at the present writing some
what better.
Miss Sallie Baach left Wednesday
for Giles Co.-to visit her sister Mrs.
r. B. French.
Miss Tuttle, sister OF Mrs Frank
Landon, returned from Cincinnati
Sunday. Miss Suttle has an excep-
tionally sweet voice, and those who
have heard her sing speak in the
most complimentary tones.
Miss Rachel Voight went to
Roanoke, Sunday TO attend the
funeral Of her mother--in law Mrs.
- Voights death came as a great
shock, to her mayy friends in this
section of the country, and we deeply
sympathise with her surviving hus-
band and children
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1901-07-19
COUNTY NEWS.
Items of Interest from the
Different Sections
Benbow.

Benbow. Va, July I7.-Mr. viii
Chapman and wife were visiting Mr.
A. b. Buchanan Saturday and Sum-
day.
Mrs. Ellen Thorn pson, who has
been i'll for several days, is not much
improved.
VIM. Walk was at home few days
last week on account of being sick
and unable to attend to business.
but is well enough to assume his
duties again this week.
Misses Annie and Bennie Smith
and Alex Scott and wife, spent last
Sunday with Mrs. Vicie Claytor.
viii Higginbotham was calling on
the young ladies' Sunday. He k rows
where to find pretty girls as we'll as
other boys.
VIII Correll spent the day Sunday
we'll we don't know exactly where,
but we do know it was not at home.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1901-07-19
Brye n Discusses Ohio Convention.

Bryen Discusses Ohio Convention.
Lincoln, Neb., July 15.--Mr.
Bryan to day gave out a copy of
what he will say in the next issue
of the Commoner on the action of
the Ohio Convention. He makes
very plain in his discussion of the
platform that he does not think
highly of it as a substitute for the
Chicago and Kansas City platform
Continuing, he says:
sThe convention not only failed
but refused to indorse or reaflirm
the Kansas City platform, and,
from the manner in which the gold
element hss reioiced over this
feature of the conven ton, one would
suppose that the main object Of the
convention was not to write a new
platform. out 10 repudiate the one
upon which the least national cam
paign was fought.
"Gen Finley was right in insis-
ting upon vote on his resolution
lndorsing the Kausas City platform
but he m ade mistake in including
in his resolution a complimentary
reference to Mr.. Bryan. Mr.. Bryan
is not q candidate for any Office,
and a mem on of HIM might have
been construed by some as an in
dorsemenV of him for office.
1.-THE gold papers assume that
the convention refused TO adopt
the Kansas City platform because
it contained silver plank. II so,
it would have been more courageous
to have declared openly for the
gold standard. 1.-THE gold standard
is good it ought to have been in
dorsed; if bad, it ought TO have
been denounced. To ignore this
subject entirely was inexcusable.
The money question is not yet
out of politecs. Every session of
Congress will have to deal wisth it.
Republicans declare that it is dead,
but they keep working at 1t.
"If the reactionary influence
succeed In Ohio or elsewhere, 1t
simply means another gigantic
struggle such as was witnessed in
1896.
''The Demo '-atIc party clnnot be
made plutocratic party even il
there was room in this country fol
two such parties. There was q
time, under the Cleveland regime
when the party leaders used gen
eral and ambiguous phrases t.
deceive the voters but that scheme
cannot be worked again. W.
cannot expect the voters to hav
confidence in the party unless tn
party has confidence in tn
voters and if the party has conf
dence In the voters 1t viii sr,te is
position on all the importan
questions before the country an
invite Judgment"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1901-07-19
In Memoriam.

On the 9th day OF July, 1901, at
Smithfield, Russell county, W.. Vir-
gina Lewis Raper Smith, wife OF
James Thomas Smith. daughter of
Captain and Mrs. Jno. G. Rapcr. of
Austinville, Wythe county. Va, at q
minutes past 2 p. M, gently and
sweetly, thou h reluctantly, hsde her
loved ones fprewell. a long ioug
farewell.
She was married on the 9th day
of April, 1901 and had spent seven
weeks of her married life IN Rus
sell, where she died. In Russell,
among strangers, she had only lived
seven weeks aud four of these werc
spent in sickness. Tall, graceful,
beautiful, n1ly, modest and aweet
she came among her new fou d
friends. She won them IA she had
every acquaintance through her life
and her departure marks an epoch
in their history. 1t was truly said
by friend Of her recent acquaintance
"everybody loved her who know her.
Through the four long weeks o.
sickness she struggled and as eacl
night the neighbOrs and employees
would gather in to ask after hel
, their thoughtfulness was invariably
renaid with a smile. Small wonder
then that at hor death pig strong
men, white and the black alike, wh'
ha never before, doubtless, shed
tear, crowded around her beir an'
wep. long and bitterly.
& No feelings were ever wounded b.
3 her-no frOwn was ever aimed at an
c one. Like beautiful lilly she cam
q aud smiled upon her relatives an
n friends and like its enfolding fC
d oloom, her character, christian an
pnre. shed it's loveliness wherevt
)t she went. And as lonely as 81
st came she went without a murmu
Id an ufkind word or fretful speecl
v She smiled upon the grief-torn ON
I'd arou,d her. sighed and slept.
A Every one was her friend and b
ne friends her pride. Nature was b
% flower garden and it's loveliness b
to boa cts. Al IL m. July 7th, 1901
or Smitbfeld short, sweet service W
held and tue remains, followed
ar the sorrowing acqnaintances OF b
10 br ef sojourn, were immediate
"A started for Honaker and by railw
- from sheEe conveyed to Austinsvil
r. her 'Bingsn on the Rhine" At 3
- m. July 9Th, after appropriate
impressive services she was laid
rest IN the Raper family bur
" grourd, o,ered by the most beati
''' of flower-.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1901-07-19
Virginia College.

The reputation of Virginia College
at Roanoke, Virginia, is national,
thirty States having contributed to
the number of IFS pupils during the
past school year. The coming term
promises to exceed ali previous years
in strength of attendance. New and
con,modious buildings have been
erected, with entire new equipment
steam heat, electric lights, bail
and toilet rooms, on every floor, ant
every other modern feature that vii
add to the comfort and health o
pupils.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1901-07-19
RAvAGEs or CHARBoN.
Death Rate Has Decreased Since
Supply Of Virus Has Been
Receive 4

supply or Virus has Been
Receive i.
Jackson, Miss. July 15. During
theS irst week or two of the charbon
eyedemic in the delta more than 80
per cent. of the animals affected
died, but since q supply of the virus
for inoculation was procured the
death rate has been materially re-
duced.
Unfortunately the disease is now
spreading over oil the country, mol
only in the delta, but in the hills
Several cases were reported to-day
in Rankin county, the adjoining
county to this, and only few mile
North of Jackson.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1901-07-19

II an indebted to one Minute
Cough Cure for my present good
health and my life. | was treated
iu vain by doctors for lung trouble
ollowing lagrippe. l took One
Minute Caush Cure and recovered
my health MIR. E. H. Wise, Ma
olson, Ga. John. Z. Jackson.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1901-07-19

Mr. +. A. Deat q, of Falls Mills,
W up visiting home folks and
friends Sunday and visiting some
that may perhaps he nearer than
homefolks in the futr 70 than they
are now. All right Ed is of OUT
hest hOve.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1901-07-19

When you want modern, up-to-
date physic try CHARACTERISTICS Stom-
ach and Liver Tablets. THY are
easy to t 'Se and pleas ant :, eff G.
Price 30 cents. Sample free a. Jno
E. Jackson's drug store.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1901-07-19

IL man will but turn his back on
Fortune in contempt she wi begin
to WOO him. But by the time q
man can act thus Fortune has moth
ing to give him that he cares for.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1901-07-19
of Two Evils the Lesser.

Papa-Didn't | tell you. Wiilie. II 1
caught you playing with Tommy Jink
again would whip you1
Willie-Yes, sir.
Papa-Then why were you playing
with him?
WIlie-Well. got sonesomer than 1
thought a iickin would hurt 80 Juss
went over and played with him; that's
why.-Detroit Free Press
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1901-07-19

The father OF the game OF whist, Ed
mond Hoyie. lived to be OF years old
His treatise on cards has been pub
lIshed In all languages. and probably no
work except the Bible has passed
through more editions The original
work appeared In London In 1742.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1901-07-19

DeWitt's Witch Halle Sslve
should be promptly applied to cuts,
burns ami scalds. IL sooihes and
quickly h ais the i,.jured part. Tn y
ar eworthless counterfeits, be sure
to get DeWitt's Johu e. jackson
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1901-07-19

Competition is the life of trade
but often death to the trade.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1901-07-19
TELLTALE PICTURES.
PAINTINGS THAT HAVE DONE TIE
WORK or DETECTIVES.

Instances Where the Canvas OF IN
Artist Has Led 60 the Confession 81
Criminsi--A Portrait and n stelsz
Diamond Pendant.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1901-07-19

1t is much easier to let thing go
than to make it go.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1901-07-19

There is more - be lea ned by
listening 'han by talking, that IS
whip the majority of us lie n SO
little,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-12-14
COSTLY BELGIAN GUN BARRELS.
They Are Made by Hand and by n Conn
plicated Process.

They Are Made by Hand and by n Conn
plicated Process.
The United States consul in Liege de-
scribes, in q recent report, the manufac-
ture Of and tlade in Damascus gun bar
rels, wholly handmade, III the valley of
the Vesdre, in Liege province. These
barrels are for sporting guns, and the
industry is many years old, the work
men i'll tho villages in the valley being
almost all gun barrel makers and the
trade descending from father to son.
The best barrels are n combination of
the best primary substances, welded
and forged by the martelage a froid
process. The steel comes from West
phalia; the iron is manufactured at
Couvin, in Belgium; the coal, which is
specially suited for the work, from the
Herve highlands, in Belgium, while the
motive power of the factories is obtain
ed from the river Vesdre. The industry
has increased greatly in recent years
These armes de luxe, as they are called,
are made by men working in pairs, each
pair in it's own little factory, quite in
dependent of all others. They are paid
by the piece, the wages being good, and
about ,, 600 men are engaged ON the
WOIk III lne valley. Meulum Quallty
barrels are made of coke iron and steel,
while the superior quality, which are
produced in the Vesdre valley, are made
of charcoal iron and steel. An ingenious
marriage Of these metals gives n COM
position which, when manufactured,
guarantees the required solidity and re-
sistance.
The improvement in these damascus
barrels dates from the introduction CT
PERCUSSION caps in place of the old flint
lock. Formerly iron barrels alone were
produced. Now, to manufacture the
curled damascus, the ingot is composed
of 80 sheets OF iron and steel, each hav-
ing a thickness of four millimeters,
which are enveloped in sheet iron box,
placed in an oven and welded together
ut the lowest possible temperature. Each
barrel receives 100 welding beats while
being forged. and if a single one of these
is unsuccessful the barrel may be a fail
ure, either by alteration of the damas-
cened work or an imperfection in the
welding.
There is no official test of these armies
de luxe, but they are thoroughly tested
by the manufacturers before delivery.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-12-14

ana mas no sneaths Tor Its claws, ana
has little obvious provision to aid it IN
swimming, catches and kills animals
larger than those killed by the tiger and
can kill them in the water. The VOL
verene, or glutton, which is heavy, slow
and has the feet of ferret, gets its liv-
ing as a carLivorous animal no less well
than the tiger cats, which have far
more specialized equipment for their
work.
There is actual evidence from the fos-
sill bones of tigers that this excess of
equipment once went further and has
been discarded as superfiuOus- An ex-
tinct species developed canine teeth of
such enormous size that it has been
named the ''saber toothed tiger. =" The
teeth We're too long for its jaws, and the
modern species use shorter weapons,
Just as modern ironclads are provided
with lighter guns. The curling tusks of
some of the mammoths and the palmated
horns of the Irish elk were also in excess
of requirements and are modified for use
in the existing elephants and reindeer.
Many monkeys possess thumb, but
some do not, and there is no evidence
that they are therefore at disadvantage
for their nonprogressive life.-London
Spectator.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-12-14
nrIrIn OF the Worh ..Cnnadn..

On April 90, 1854. Jacques Cartier
sailed from st. Malo, Brittany, with
two ships and CT men, for Labrador,
skirted Newfoundland. named Chaleur
bay. crossed the eastern end of Anti
cost and then headed for France
again. The next year Cartier returned
with three ships, thought he saw in
the st. Lawrence the wished for pas
sage to India and was only undeceived
by the freshness of the water on reach
ing the mouth of the Saguenay. Then
was revealed the majestic size of the
continent, for, with the exception of
the Amazon and the Orinoco, no Amer
lean river gives one such sense of
power and grandeur.
As the Frenchmen inquired the
names of the Indian villages along the
banks they were answered Canada"
n Mohawk word meaning village. but
which was applied by the Frenchmen
to the country.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-12-14

marmoset, the shrew, the chameleon
and the frog. In this list of five crea-
lures living upon similar food we find
that the physical appliances for obtain
ing it range from the perfect develop
ment of speed in fight in the swallow,
the addition of hands for capture in the
marnoset, bodily quickness and activity
in the shrew, the power of assuming
color exactly similar TO that of environ
ment IN the chameleon, supplemented
by special apparatus for shooting out
the tongue and capturing insects when
motionless, to the absence of any special
equipment at all, except that of rather
long tongue, in the insect eating frog.
Yet the frog. destitute of all these
specialized appliances, lives just as well
as the swallow, the shrew, the marmo-
set or the chameleon, and at least one
species, the barking frog, finds that to
get on in the world it has only to be
still and wait till creatures walk into
its mouth. 1t has acquired a skin color
suited to its environment and large
mouth. But it is not, and could never
be, considered well provided for getting
its living.
Our estimate of the physical means
and appliances necessary Tor TIE survival
and well being of animals is probably
set too high. We judge the needs Of all
from the perfect development and nc
quired powers of many, perhaps CT
most, which evolution has provided
with appliances in excess of their real
wants Most animals are Overequipped-
Evolution has run riot and provided
them with means and metal far in ex-
cess OF their needs, just as 1t has proyld-
ed them with an exuberance of orna-
ment which delights Us, but must al
ready have passed beyond animal COM
prehension.
Probably the cats, great and small.
would at once be named as the best
equipped of all classes of predatory
creatures, and the predatory creatures are
by necessity superior in most forms Of
physique to ~l3ose ON which they prey.
They are all built ON one plan, with
q special armament Of teeth, sheaths to
keep their claws sharp, muscles for
springing suddenly TO great distances,
padded feet to deaden the sound Of their
movements and color adapted for con-
cealment- These acquired appliances are
in excess of their wants.
The polar bear. which cannot spring
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-12-14
ANIMALS TOO RICH.
SOME OF THEM HAVE MORE ADvAN-
TAGES THAN THEY NEED.

How Evolution Has Affected Certain Spe-
eies-FroEs Are Poorly Equipped. Yet
They Get a Living EasEy-Cats Lead the
Predatory CIasses-
Certain snakes of medium size carry
the most deadly weapon, whether of Of
Tense or defense, owned by any animal
In addition they have the perfect YER
tebrate structure which Sir Richard
Owen so much admired, and can there
fore swim, climb and make their way
in places where no other animal of SIM
liar size can go. They are the best.
equipped animals of their kind Side
by side with these are found snakes of
similar size and equal powers, except
that they lack the invincible lethal
weapon. They only carry blank car
tridges in the battle Of life. Evolution
seems arrested for no reason. They not
only fail to grow the poison tooth, but
do not develop the power of crushing
their prey as the constructors do. 1t
would be far easier for "A common grass
snake to kill a frog by poison before
eating it, as the cobra does, than to
have to swallow it alive. 1t would save
1t trouble to crush it, as Il young boa
VI AllS HttAllG H4LC NOAAb W.
but it does neither, because it neither
has developed, nor seems III the least
likely to develop. the necessary equip
ment for so doing.
By the theory Of evolution the grass
snake ought therefore to go back in the
world, while the other common English
snake, the poisonous viper, armed with
a weapon, powerful rs "a protection and
u means OF killing prey, increased III
size and numbers and took It's place
Yet this is exactly what has not hap
pened. Grass snakes are larger and more
numerous than ladders, and there is no
evidence that the absence Of the poison
fangs in any way endangers the survival
Of the species.
1t is difficult to account for the alb.
sence of any visible failure in life Of in
sect feeding creatures competing for ex-
istence ON the same food, but with such
unequal physical means for obtaining it
rs are possessed by the swallow the
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-12-14
MRS. STUART's MODELS.
She Says She Does Not Have to Live
Among Them to Write of Them.


Among Them to Write of Them.
Ruth McEnery Stuart, the clever
short story writer, in talking of her field
from which she has drawn her charac-
tiers, says: You know Mr.. Stuart own
ed two sugar plantations down in Ar
kansas then, and my models We're right
around me, for Of course all his hans
felt they owned Us.
1--WE didn't live on either of the plan
tations, but in the little town near by,
and l can see all those darkies now, rid
ing in ON their mules, hitching them to
the mulberry trees in our yard, sitting
in rows upon our front steps, 'restin'
and 'foolin roun generally.
Some old 'aunty' would surely come
walking in every morning with bat
tered tin pail on her arm, filed with
perfectly worthless berries, gathered by
the wayside, not TO sell, but ter swap
fur jes' a leetle -four, please, ma am,
an pincher butter, honey, an couple
er Jumps er sugar, please, ma'am, Mis-
Stuart.
''Then there was an old uncle who
used to sit silently fishing all day long
in a shallow pool, with his underlip
stuck out phenOmenally far, even for
negro, who, when any one asked him,
Say, uncle, what's that you've got in
your MOUTH would reply laconieally,
'Wums, and shut his tongue down upon
his imprisoned bait again.
do miss such material up here?
Not at all find that in looking back
upon these old friends of mine their
dusky figures stand out more and more
clearly against the glow of tender re-
miniscence beside what types we have
here at our door in Gotham. New
York Correspondent.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-12-14
Co1erIdge,. Classification of headers.

CoIerIdge's Classification of Readers.
Coleridge says: Readers may be d.
vided into four classes-frst, sponges,
who absorb all they read and return it
early in the same state, only little
dirty; second, sand glasses, who retain
nothing and are content to get through
a book for the sake of getting through
the time; third, strain bags, who retain
merely the dregs of what they read;
fourth, mogul diamonds, equally rare
and valuable, who profit by what they
read and enable others to profit BY It
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-12-14

The annual production or damascus par
rels in the Vesdre valley is about 300.-
900 pairs, of a value of about $500, 600
francs OF this the wages alone-for all
the guns are handmade-amount to
about ?, 900, 900 francs. The principal
markets are Great Britain and the
United States. About half the barrels
made in the Vesdre valley are sold to
manufacturers of arms in Liege TO be
mounted. New York Times
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-12-14
Technical.

Bretto-Man-
ager Grooves
did not accept
my play. but
he praised it
very highly.
He spoke par
ticularly about
it's wealth of
atmosphere. l
wonder, by the
way, what he
meant.
Scorer Per
haps it was his
way of saying
that the play
was mostly
wind. Boston
Transcript.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-12-14
Bad Manners.
No Hitch.

Mr.. GoOps
Wasn't there
some kind of n
hitch about the
wedding of Mr..
SpOonleigh and
Miss Mooney?
Mr.. WOOph-
No; the groom
did not show
up, and so
there wasn't
any hitch at
all. Baltimore
American.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-12-14
Carried Further.

Not long ago lady was giving lee
ture. Her subject was the human fig
ure and the requirements in the way OF
proportion for beauty. She herself was
OF generous-One may say unwieldy-
size. and her manner was supercilious
and lofty. She was trying TO demon
strate the relative sizes Of the limbs as
they really ought to be.
For example" said she. twice
round my thumb''-she held it up
"once round my wrist, twice round my
wrist. once round my neck; twice
round my neck, once round my waist"
Here she paused. and n shrin voice
from the audience exclaimed:
Twice round your waist, once
around Hyde park"
The lecturer hastily passed on to an
other branch OF, the subject.-London
Answers.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-12-14
Pnbuc Purifier.

my friend said the solemn man,
''have you ever done ought to make the
community in which you live the bet
ter for your living in it?''
81 have done much, sir, !" replied the
other humbly, "to purify the homes Of
my fellow beings
'Ah,' continued the solemn man,
with a pleased air, "you distribute
tracts?'
''No. 1 clean carpets. London Tit
Bits.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-12-14
The Loss.

Harry-Well.
yes, l suppose
1 was rather
hasty in propes-
ing TO her, but
the fact is she
looked so very
charming l lost
my heart.
Dick Y gu
mean you lost
your head.
Boston Tran
script.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-12-14

Stranger In Town
See here. officer; how
long will it take me to
go to the Polk street
depot?
Policeman - Give it
up, mister. I amt no
mind reader. Better
consult the lady in
side.-Chicago News.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-12-14
Viewpoint.

I'm getting awful
" broad, am / not,
doctor?"
Nonsense Mrs.
Stout, You are less
than half Il column
wide in this paper. -
Chicago News.