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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1904-02-05
THE ROANOKE HORROR.

The entire State was Mortified by
the awful crime in Roanoke on last
Saturday. Lynchburg, and Rich
mond had similar horrors not Very
long ago. Such a crime, committed
in broad daylight, in a populous
street, in one of the best cities of the
State, is beyond all human or finite
explanation or endurance.
The old question, what is to be
done with these negroesg How shall
these crimes be prevented Prevent
ed they ought to be, and must be, al
anyand all cosls.Is there any sacrifice
too great to be made, or. step toe
severe to be taken, to protect our
women from such outrages as theseI
Where is the man or mind that cal
lift the pail of threatened DOOM
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1904-02-05
AD ApimaI Story For
Little Folks
A Tale With a Moral

oh. Clarence, dear cried Mrs. Rat,
what have YOU found TO eat?
I'm sure II must be something nice.
And know II must be sweet"
But Mr.. Rat just grufHy said.
you're right. II can't be beatl'
And never offered Mrs Rat
A mouthful OF the treat
He ate away the livelong day
And far into the night.
His better half she wcpt and begged
For just a little bite.
But Mr.. Rat ate on until
The bag was empty quite.
Now comes che sequel. and ! think
II really serves him right.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1904-02-05
WHAT HAVE YOU FOUND TO EAT2"

The next day he commenced to grow
And got both tall and fat.
BY noon he was at least the size
OF any ordinary cat.
At dinner time poor Clarence lay
Quite sick upon the mat
His size more like an elephant
Than that OF any rat.
Now. sweet. forgiving Mrs. Rat,
So worried did she feel,
She sought the paper bag from which
He ate his hearty meal
1.-THE Magic Fertilizer she
Saw printed on the seal
And put her little brain to work
With courage and with zeal
Hhe found n bag OF alum. and
a lot she did apply.
And soon wns well rewarded, for
While watching by and by
She saw him shrink to normal size,
And. with little sigh.
She gently murmured in his ear,
I'm glad you didn't die"
II some new food you chance 10 find,
First try 1t on your neighbor:
It's apt e. save you suffering
And others thought and labor
-Pittsburg Dispatch.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1904-02-05

co1ies as priceless boon, because II
cures womsnly ills.
"Favorite Prescription establishes
regularity, dries Weakening drains, heals
Inflammation and liberation and cures
female weakness. 1t makes weak women
strong, sick women well.
"After my first child was born writes Mrs
Jordan stout. Of Fswcettgap, Frederick Co, Va,
"uy health was very poor for long time and
last winter was SO bad with pain down in back
I could hardly move without great suffering
Ny husband got me bottle of Or. Pierce's Pa
vorite Prescription and vial of his Pleasant
Pellets which / used as directed. In four days
was greatly relieved. and now after using the
medicine three months, seem TO be entirely
well 1 can't see why 1t Is that there are so
many suffering women when there is such an,
easy way to be cured. I know your medicines
are the best in tho world"
DIR. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets the ia
vorite family laxative. One Pellet a
laxative, two Pellets q cathartic dose.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1904-02-05
Quit. . pin.r..s Matter.

IL think l may say" he announced
with some pride. that I never made a
fool OF myself in my life"
"Are you sure OF thatr asked his
companion incredulously. You'd bet
ter think again"
'Oh, WE'LL was the reply. after 4
moment OF thought. "of course l can re.
call several instances In which some
girl has made a fool OF me. but you
must certainly concede that that Is
quite different matter. No man es
eapes that."-Chicago Post.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1904-02-05
N. arly Forfeits His Life.

A runaway almost ending fatally,
started a horrible ulcer on the leg OF j.
b. Orner, Franklin Grove, Ill. For four
years it defied ali doctors and all rene
dies. But Busklen's Arnica Salve had
no trouble to cure MIN. Equally good
for Burns, Bruises, Skin EruptiCrs and
Piles. Doc - John E. .Jacksons.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1904-02-05
AD ApipaI Story For
Little Folks
The Cows REVENGE

There WAS once COW with brass
ring in her nose that lived alone In the
big pasture of Farmer Clark. One day
an artist came into the pasture to paint
a picture, and the cow thought it was
SO very fine that she said:
Wont you paint me one?"
Eyes" said the artist, and he daubed
q big daub Of green paint right In the
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1904-02-05

Mrs. Greene hope you trtss your
husband implicitly
Mrs. Brown-Oh. yes. indeed. but I
wouldn't have him know il for the
world. If he was aware OF my perfect
trust in him he might be tempted to
take advantage Of 1t, you know.-Ex.
change.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1904-02-05

rooted preference.
And so it often
happens that the
wife enters upon
the obligations of
maternity just as
thoughtlessly as
she entered on the
marriage relation,
because no one
has warned her
of the dangers she
faces.
Thousands of
women become
invalids for lack
of knowledge of
themselves. 1t is
TO this large body
of women that DR..
Pierce's Favorite
Pres eruption
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1904-02-05
Mysterious circumstances.

One was pale and saliow and the
other fresh and rosy. Whence the diff
Terence? She who's b'ushing with health
uses DIR. Kings NV Life Pills To main
tain it. BY ganty arousing the Iasv
organs the. compeI good digestion and
head of Goa stlpation. Try them. Only
25c at Jsckson's Deug Store.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1904-02-05
Clinch Valley views,
Tazewell, Va.

When women become real neighbors
they run across for achat without stop
ping TO tie something around their neck
and dabbing at their checks with n
powder rag.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1904-02-05
Honaker Hotel.
Old Honaker Va.

Desel vedly popular with the
travelling public. Fine table
clean and comfortable, winter
and summer, an d everything
first clHss. Rates very reason
able,
Livery and feed stable attached
n; B. HoNAKER,
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1904-02-05

The world will neve forget the the
musician who shall succeed in writing
something that sounds as sweet as the
laughter OF happy children.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1904-02-05

Marriage is very largely an accident
In few cases do men or women set up a
standard Of manly or womanly excellence
and choose by It. In most cases people
become engaged as the result OF pro-
piuQuity rather than because of any deep
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1904-02-05

1t will be a better day for the
negroes when they cease to try to push
themselves into positions and places
where they are not wanted, or fitted to
occupy.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1904-02-05

Slow x Sure may not make as much
noise In the business world Us Hurry &
FURRY, but usually Slow & Sure is the
firm with the longest credit at the bank.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1904-02-05
SPEND MONEY
AT HOME
Representatives Talk in
Favor of Good Roads.

T dVUI vi UOOQ hOdOS.
Washington, ID. c., Jan. 3O.-The
action Of the Virginia Senate i'm refus-
ing TO instruct the Senators from Vir-
ginia to vote for the Brownlow bill.
making an appropriation for the build
ing of highways in the rural districts.
has been much discussed to-day. Rep.
resentalive RiXey, Of Virginia, is in ia
vor OF the proposition to have the nat
ional government undertake the inn
pIovement of the roads OF the United
States. although he is not committed
to any particular plan by which this is
to be accomplished.
81 have not given critical examina
ton to the different bills which have
been introduced, one by Representative
Brownlow, and another by Senator
Latimer, of South Carolina, and per-
haps other bills" said Representative
RiXey to-day, "but am in favor Of the
general proposition of national aid to
the States and counties in the building
of important roads, and expect TO sup
port the proposition looking TO that end.
believe that the farming communities
would in this way derive more benefit
than from any other way in which APP
preparations could be applied. With
the exception of the postal facilities it
is probable that the agriculture classes
receive less benefit in proportion to the
taxes PAID than any other class of the
people.
The making and improvement ~ the
important highways will require an ex-
penditure of money which / think is
beyond the ability of the local commu-
mites to bear, and for that reason 1 fa-
vor State aid and national aid"
TOO MUCH MONEY.
Representative Thayer, of Massachu-
sets, is in favor Of government aid for
highway Improvements, but thinks the
amount contemplated to be expended
is too high, and that the experiment
should he tried with a much less
amount of money.
Representative Curtis, of Kansas.
said: 81 think that the government
can't do too much toward assisting the
various States in having the very best
roads, and | think the congressman
and leading citizens of the States should
take nm interest in the matter and do
all they could to have the very best
roads possible in ea IN community.
FOR HOME EoIKs.
Il am in favor of the general idea OF
the good roads bills that have been in
troduced in Congress, said Represen-
tative Griffith, of Indiana. Ever since
l have been in congress we have been
spending vast sums OF money for the
people of Porto Rico, Cuba, the Philip
pines and Hawaii, and L am very anx-
iouS 10 see some money appropriated
here at home where the direct benefits
will be given to our own people. / see
no reason why the idcah is not practi-
cable and it might be considered as
akin to the rural free mail system"
Representative Taylor, OF Alabama
said: 81 am in favor of national aid to
good roads. / regard the good roads
! improvements as of equal importance
with the river and harbor improve.
ments. / think there should be al
least system OF roads that will con.
meet the courthouses Of every county
in the State where travel can be had
easily and rapidly without tpe necessi.
ty for steam and rail-
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1904-02-05

When nations calling themselves
Christian have 100000 men under
arms, and spend more for rum and
war than they do for religion, how can
they say merry Christmas?"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1904-02-05
State of Ohio, City of Toledo, !
Lucas County.

A~NN0o OONhlJ
Frank j. Cheney makes oath that he
is senior partner of the firm of +. J.
Cheney & Co.. doing business in the
City OF Toledo, County and State afore-
said, and that said firm will pay the
sum of One Hundl ed Dollars for each
and every case of Catarrh that cannot
be cured by the use of Halls Catarrh
Cure.
Sworn to before me and subscribed
in my presence, this 9th day of Decem.
Der, A. ID. 1886.
- A. W. Gleason,
SEAL Notary Public.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken intern.
ally. and acts directly on the blood ane
muo Gus surfaces OF the system. Send
for testimonials, free.
+. j. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O
Sold by all Druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1904-02-05

The Wise News is again afloat. We
all missed Bill sadly, and glad to have
him once more in the fight
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1904-02-05

bred and owned by Victor d. Caneday.
Taylors Falls, MINI. She is very fine
In both color and shape and laid eighty
six eggs in four months in her second
laying year. Her grandam laid over
200 eggs in year.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1904-02-05

God does not look at the denomina-
ton Of the coin; He only looks at the
heart Of the giver,
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1904-02-05

The most fortunate man is the one
villa does not have TO spend the latter
part of his life unlearing what he ac-
cumulated during his earlier years.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1904-02-05

Sometimes we think that the Infant
class" in Sunday School should be
made up wholly of those who have
children Of their own.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1904-02-05
A PATRON

1t takes one hundred pennies TO
make dollar, but one penny will I'M
make n dollar.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1904-02-05

Greed is the soil that the devil loves
to SOW seed in.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1904-02-05
Wanted:

gentleman who is fond or books, to
take charge of branch OF the Old
Dominion Circulating Library. general
Office, 20 Governor ST., Richmand, Va.
2-1-4t.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1904-02-05

Fine White Rock.
The illustration. reproduced from
American Poultry Journal, shows a
pedigreed White Plymouth Rock hen
The Wichita daily eagle., 1904-05-08
CLUB WOMEN VERSUS CARD WOMEN.

There is thing in favor of the club women They
given babies FIN reading their long drawnout
hepfu papers, each other the real authors of which
long died and forgotten they, rule,
have left babies home husbands who need look
ing after Parenhetcally it always seemed that
the club woman should adopt a unform-made of buck
skin this depression in the direction of tough
ness However victims of the progressive euchre
habit only have homes and babies rule but they
neglect these their inatuation for gaming and gossip.
AS women or as aaround femniny these card addists
much preferable club women for home purposes
when they be kept at home The home is place
for club There she is wholly unutilizabe Still
the cardparty woman in her prime and physical perfec
tion all that she might be of comfort consoa
tion in the trying hours of colcky baby when the
hired girl is off lark leaving the mainstay of the
home alone to rustic with the deserted situation SO the
question with the of these degenerate times is what
shall do to the to their homes husbands
and babies The Achson Globe prints the following de-
tails of an actual narrowing episode:
'Twenty-one husbands who live in BayOnne n. J.,
met yesterday and organized the Married Mems Anti
Euchre and Home Preservation society They declare it
is high time that their wives and other wives
cured of the progressive euchre habit and propose
all their establish Several letters
from towns cities read ndorsng the movement
A named Hicks in accepting the presidency of the
society. said 1T is high time asserted
hood and made determined effort to down this habit
which threatens to wreck homes. Many a night
have had walk the floor with the baby until
o'clock waiting until my wife returned from euchre
party 1t has got that the clubs meet almost
afternoon and evening and talking about play
ing Sunday" Other spoke in a similar vein and
resolved curb the popularity of euchre by
IL their power
The Wichita daily eagle., 1904-05-08
ghe puieita HaiIy Easle sunday gors1is ay 8, 1904
a GREAT woMAN,s SINGULAR WILL

curious interest attaches the recent death in Lon
don of Miss Frances Power Cobbe the noted English
writer antvivisectonst and phianthropist, the
Philadelphia Ledger because of the singular provisions
OF her will and the dread which clung her for many
years of being buried alive her will she left strict
charge to her medical attendant to perform ION body
the operation of completely and thoroughly seyerng the
arteries of the neck wndppe nearly severing the
head altogether to render revival in the
absolutely impossible If this operation be performed
and its completion witnessed by the other of my
and testified by the same pronounce all the
bequests in this will to be null and void. Miss Cobbe
is chiefly for her writings humanitarian sub
jects Among her personal friends and correspondents
large number of the leading writer's and thinkers
of the day and her eghtieth birthday she was
sented with address, signed by of the greatest
in England and America in recognition of the
strenuous phanhropc activity and the high moral
pose which had pervaded the whole of her long life
The Wichita daily eagle., 1904-05-08
CANADA UP AGAINST 1T.

In catering England in proving her loyalty to the
British Empire the Canuck has got himself into fnan
cial and industrial hole border exchange says that
the Canadian Woolen Mills Company with plants at sew
era places going of business paying its creditors
in full but subjecting the stockholders heavy losses
One of the directors of the company that they will
sacrifice million dollars, thereabouts The of
this untoward ending of important enterprise is said
to be the preferential tariff British products which
Canadian loyalty perhaps stimulated by the hope OF there
by winning larger British patronage for Canadian prod
ucts has given for several years If this tariff nkerng
in favor of Great Britain is in truth the for the
failure of big woolen manufacturing company, in
country which nature has made natural market for
clothing and also excellent place for growing
sheep then Canada paying hard price for such sent
mental and practical advantages her favors the
Mother Kingdom have for the Dominion. There is
but all around sensible thing for Canada and that
is annexation. Next to becoming part of the Great
American Republic is independence.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1904-05-08
THE PATHOS OF OLD AGE.

Ed. Howe. editor of the Atchison Globe, draws this
pathetic pen picture of who his race of
whom the editor aforesaid knew in the time being
run:
while sitting at home last evening the doorbell rang
very tmdly Opening the door expected to find child
but standing there old whtehaired man; man
have known for years, a mechanic, but whom have
lately missed off the street. He very feeble and
talked with difficulty He said he had been sick year
and couldn't any better; had concluded
up and ask ME what he had better do. couldn't
do anything for him. He simply out: he
undergoing the that gathers about all when
pass off the stage His manner ptful that
the incident almost made cry. | talked cheerfuy
could TO him, and he finally went away feeby, and
hesitatingy. He went down the steps very slowly
though fearing fall The upwards of seventy:
he is dying Probably his people do not know he called
In his desperation in his weakness and despair,
and suffering. he concluded call me- and ask my
advice How wish could have given him advice that
would have been OF value, II L would give
nearly anything in the world TO help that old man.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1904-05-08
our IRREPRESsIsLE FAITH.

Man rresistibly looks up hopes, prays. When human
aid in whatever the extremity fails him there reach
ing out and In closing his autobiography Herbert
Spencer these words Religious creeds-which
other the sphere than rational inerpre
tation seeks occupy and fails fails
seeks-I have come To regard with sympathy based
community of need; feeling that dissent from re
suits from inability accept the solutions offered Joined
with the wish that solutions could be found Just
much Mr. Spencer by expression it would
be difficult TO state. but ii expresses fundamental
OF human life. Religious creeds really the
preston OF human need The philosopher well
any other Of is poorer without them. he may
he with every In every creed
but with their denonnator be
He believe that the has in
back of He believe that law is heart
less a word he God. Few would deny strong
ly existence OF such the possibl
fly being satisfied To live if the hope of this posi-
biy is reasonableis approach closely decision
yet experienced to control ones life
because it is reasonable TO believe them real?
The Wichita daily eagle., 1904-05-08
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

The Guymon Herald describes in county
a regular toad stranger
The jury has recommended jail poor
Lincoln and introduces its recommendation this
humorous vein Following the time honored custom of the
grand uries of this county"
Undaunted by failure S Banking
feet of casing brown shale formation
magazine called Oklahoma is being gotten Perry
by Bill Little They BIZ Little the publisher and he
but the fact remains that there is line of poll
tics in the
The longest drouth county ever
The county
again forward hourishnsly as last fall
by Kinghsher club
arrived last week 1t is TO be sold at - cents bushel
Kinghsher is threatened with getting railroad without
bonus. The has sufficiently recovered
tell the of the road
has southeast Oklahoma
for city
misdeeds.
Those officials viii lack for
hearty reception Nevkirk today people depot
Beaver CITY is to have new Democratic paper H E G
Putnam the editor bu unless he operates the gntte
feared that he will have enough caps TO our
single editorial.
fast train will run every day beginning
FL Reno Holdenvle the Choctaw. there making
nec,on with the Meteor for ST Louis Z hoped
at be otherwise Anhnuser
Bushs Fair NAY be cheated out OF some patronage
The cyclone that struck Bridgeport could be from ri
Tom Hensey reported having watched il. which
hard rs fr4Sd
hole possibly Humphrey.
Herald has installed linotype machines and
expects the Associated Press service shawnee
prising natives themselves
william Ramseh an Old solder Of blackwell ett his
wife at home away about eight weeks he
hasn't been seen heard from since
The already making showing u the
Thomas reports Saturday the busiest months
ssooaseePer Thomas display % suakes tn his
window last Used Euch
though Thomas had been dry
Herald Jim Derisoa down Stfstf0ra ssf
week OF I-Ve<s-x Cosnrnoa
Company. there ud-,ins rival Joha Ian
- Cd grusge they
gaged in talking Aecoranstv fTien6s loesed
ni-hf Ias -aorrsaS
NJ Ianaers his rack = fse
Toor eops~t43T Tzr<Yzed and E~1isca
whispering from
fact zbose enn-71ese;
aarde. tAIsers TIA; fcais~ea
rcuoa-up-
The Wichita daily eagle., 1904-05-08
1904.

The young man sat with coy and bsshfuI ais
while the maiden dropped her knees with I
graceful swing; -
oh. Algernon, will yo,iNpe mine2 have nothing
TO offer you except myself But dear. while MAJ u
not be as beautiful some. / have exquisite taSt.l
In dress Taste that has kept men dangling AZ myl
feet know. hao not seemed so far above shens
in my artistic tendencies J would have been mar.
ried many times over. during the past four years.
But, now that II is leap year. threw all restraint
aside. and ask you 10 be mine. WI tell you AZ
really In earnest"
Ageruon heaved autiering eish as he re-
piled: Alas Bertha, have not doubted that you
were In earnest. most desperately IN earnest Bat
IL was that exquisite taste ia dress an1 40 accm.us
ability TO fry bcefsteak. that has kept me silent
when IL was my prerosative TO speak But much ne
admire you. work of art ! am co-nt elled 70
decline your fatferng ouer. Struggle A. I may
fate has decreea that draw just S. q week from
my honorable connection with one of Wschitas
greatest firms. That sum. Bertha is not susic.ent
TO face the world in connection with an oxquis "a
taste IN dress
Turning swiftly upon her little pivot heel lest hs
should see the burrows her bitter tears would pioz
through the enamel her fair facc vita form,
erect. 10 preserve the straight front she wobblsd
ma jestioaily from the room.
As the door closed he thought he heard these saa
words waited back 10 him:
The darn fool. only a cheap guy. ans way"
The Wichita daily eagle., 1904-05-08
WANTS BACK INTO THE CHURCH.

Reports again abroad that Pere Hyacinth Loyson
is to return to the church. started doubt by his recent
visit Rome. Several years it reported that he
made effort enter the priesthood under the Oriental
rites but special commission appointed by the Pope
decided that priest of the Oriental rites marry
before ordination which Pere Hyacinth did He him.
self said that it within the power of the Pope
authorize his admission to this priesthood but the Pope
refused to do it because he refused to submit uncon
dtionally the dogma of Papal infaibily. This he
still refuses and therefore, there is chance of his
readmisson to the church.