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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1914-12-25
WHY NOT INVEST AT HOME?

Last week an agent representing
some kind of corporation up on
Long Island Sound, was here selling
lots. The young was in town with
stenographer for about ten days.
This proposition was to secure, if we
arc correctly informed, five subscrip-
tions of $2,500.00 each, making $l2,-
10000. lie secured four of the ncces-
sary five, and "comc mighty near"
they say, getting the fifth. Mr.. w. l..
Moore, the last one to bite at the Sc
ductive bait" didn't like the PROPOSE
ton toward the last, and backed clear
out, and the other four followed. The
young man and his stenographer left
the town and also the money here.
We do not presume to "pass upon"
this scheme. 1t is generally doubt
full scheme when it necessary to go
away from home to exploit it. There
is money plenty up about Long Is
land and if this investment is a VERT
able gold mine," the question arises,
why DO not some OF the many rich
men of that section grab it up? An
other thing: There is abundant OPP
portunity right here at home, for
profitable investment. 1t isn't neces-
sary TO go as far as to the New Eng
land coast, or anywhere else. Right
here in Tazewell there is room and alb
solute nede and demand for invest
ments. And so, if our citizens have
surplus money which they are willing
to invest in the sand dunes along the
coast of the Atlantic, will look around
they can find equal and superior OPP
portunities right Mt home. 1t is n
strange fact however, that generally
people are more willing and more
easily persuaded to invest away from
than at home.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1914-12-25
PEACH ON EARTH.

The Independent.
BLESSED are the pcacemakers," said
He whose advent was hailed with the
angels song, peace on earth, good
will to men," Yet today the Prince
of Peace looks down on world at
war, and with sad and stern aspect
says, as once to Peter, "Put thy sword
into its scabbard; for they that take
the sword shall perish by the sword"
And perish they do by myriads on
myriadS, nations weeping their dead,
too many to find mourning raiment for
their sisters and wives. 1t is sad
Christmas Day for hundred million
homes, for what home is there of the
great nations at war which does not
mourn its dead and sadly rejoice if it's
crippled and MANNED have returned?
Let there be Il Christmas on Christ
mas Day, says Il voice of holy pity
from Peters seat at Rome. A truce
for Christmas Day! Why not Il truce
till He who came with Peace shall
come again to confirm his reign of
Peace over all the earth? Out OF
honor to the Prince of Peace shall
they lay aside the bayonet and stop
the lannon's mouth from one mid
night to the next, and then, when the
hour strikes, hasten to insult Him
again with slaughter and blood? And
these are Christians who provoke and
create war, and baptize their swords
in Christian blood, and summon Mos
lem and Buddhist to iIelp them Stay
and Stay. 1t is all II perverse horror
that cannot be explained away. "Turn
the other cheek" said Jesus. "If he
take your cloak, give him your coat
also; but they rob and burn and bat
ter homes and temples of God. o gen
Grafton of murdcrers, how can We cs-
cape the judgment of pcrdition in this
world, with strange mercy as the only
hope for the next!
This is Il sad Christmas Day. That
will be Il glad Christmas Day wher
grass has long grown green, over
the graves of the slain and men shall
have learned-alas! that it be so late
in deed as well as in word, the
angels song!
Yet with the war of sin and strife
The world has suffered long:
Beneath the angels strain have ROLLED
Two thousand years of wrong;
And man at war with man hears not
The love-song which they bring;
Oh hush the noise, We men of strife
And hear the angels sing.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1914-12-25
A CHRISTMAS GREETING.

The Clinch Valley News extends to
It's readers, one and all, sincere
greeting, and wishes that every one
of them may have n joyous, happy
and satisfactory Christmas. To it's
correspondents in the county and else
where who have help us fill it's pages
with interesting news, special
greeting is extended. Only the ed
itors know how largely these good
people have contributed to the sue
cess of the paper during the past
year, and we take this occasion to cx-
press our sincere appreciation. To
the scattered sons and daughters Of
the county, separated far from the
old home, we extend cordial and best
wishes in the name of their old
friends, relatives and acquaintance.
We will all think of you, and, needless
to say, you will think of us, and, with
us, wish that you were in the old
home on this glad anniversary day.
Some of our readers, alas! are
dwelling in the shadows and the days
laughter and sorry will be turned in
to weeping. The grave has robbed
them. The Christmas evergreen and
flowers decorate the tombs of the be-
lowed. To these suffering ones we
extend most profound sympathy, and
wish sincerely it were in our power to
pour i'm tha hpoliur holpo
To one and all, we pray that the
Peace of the Prince of Peace, whose
natal day we celcbrate-"the peace of
God which passeth understanding"
may be yours.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1914-12-25
FAMILY AVOIDS
SERIOUS SICKNESS
By Being Constantly Supplied With
Thedford's Black-Draught.

McDuff, Va.-'T suffered for several
years." says Mrs. ]. b. Whitaker, Of
this place, with sick headache, and
stomach trouble.
Ten years ago a friend told me to try
Thedford's Black Draught, which did,
and found il to be the best family medi-
cine for young and old.
keep Black-Draught on hand all the
time now, and when my children feel a
little bad, they ask me for dose, and il
does them more good than any medicine
they ever tried.
We never have long spell of sick
ness in Our family, since we commenced
using Black-Draught."
Thedford's Black-Draught is purely
vegetable, and has been found to regu-
late weak stomachs, aid digestion, re-
lieve indigestion, collie, wind, nausea,
headache, sick stomach, and similar
symptoms.
II has been in constant use for more
than 10 years, and has benefited more
than million people.
Your druggist sells and recommends
Black-Draught. Price only 25c. Get a
package to-day. NC l2a
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1914-12-25
A CHRISTMAS THOUGHT.

If all the nations now at war i'm Eu-
rope were to stop their carnage today
they would stand just about where
they were at the beginning, excepting
that million homes have been de-
stroyed, million men murdered, an
other million MANNED for life, a mil
hon families are destitute, destruc-
ton has been caused which can never
be replacedfi and the greatest crime
In theh istory of the world has been
perpetrated. Nothing Whatever Has
Been Gained.
If community Of men went about
armed to the, teeth, sooner or later
they would be certain to cut each
others threats. We "civilized ma
tons" do not permit our citizens to go
about armed to the teeth in our cities
and communities, yet what we will not
tolerate in individuals we are all en-
gagged in collectively. The results is
certain to be the same. There is well
and carefully organized in this coun.
try a powerful movement to bring
about in this nation just such condi,
lions as those of which we have an ex.
ample of in Europe. For two wears
past every conceivable power and in.
fiuence, blackguardism and pressure
has been brought bear on the mar
who stands at the head of this Re.
public to force this nation into the
list Of military nations with yasl
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1914-12-25
WELL DONE, HENRY!

Henry Bulletin:
The county of Henry and the town
of Martinsville have done nobly in
their aid to the Belgans. Their con
trmutions in cash and supplies have
been not less in value than six hun
dred dollars.
Martinsville being the most popul-
Gus and the wealthiest community of
the county contributed the greater
part of that sum but not less than
one-third of it was given by the other
districts of the county and probably
more, which was a splendid express
sion of their liberality and of their
brethren in another land.
There never was any real question
as to the dire distress and urgent
need of the Belgians, nor of their need
of American charity especially need
which has been recognized by those IN
a position to know throughout our
land. We can therefore approach the
coming holidays with the feeling that
we have not been deaf to the cali of a
worthy charity, and that our people
have been helpful in relieving the
hunger and distress of many women
and children and of helpless men in
that curelly stricken land.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1914-12-25

sisting upon cotton bagging, cotton
bags; loaning money on farm prod
ucts to permit slower marketing;
buying a bale of cotton; campaigns
for reducing the cotton acreage next
year; "make the state feed ITSELF"
etc, etc. Some of these things may
be impractical, but it shows that our
people are beginning to recognize
their independence; that the posi-
bilities of cooperation are made plain
er; that although the war has found
us with an abundance of cotton and
inadequate systems of marketing;
not enough food products to profit
fully by the misfortunes of Europe
we are nevertheless entering upon CO.
operation that will make us more in
dependent and frugal.
The spirit of sympathy and CO.
operation recently has been manifest
ed as never before in the Southwest
and it means, we believe, the begin
ming of an era of greater prosperity.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1914-12-25
a NEW "VIRGINIA."
Raleigh CIV. Va.) Register.

Raleigh CIV. Va.) Register.
1t has been the custom of newspa-
pers all over the country, about this
season of the year, to reproduce
Charles A. Dana's-or, if it WASH.
Dana's whatsoever it was, classic reply
TO Virginia O'Hanlon's query of the
the great editor as to whether or not
there is Santa Claus.
The original "Virginia" has not vet
appeared this year in the columns OF
huntington newspapersb ut there is
herewith reproduced from the Fayette
Tribune another reply to Virginia's
query, from the pen of the brilliant
and versatile Colonel George C. Nc
lntosh, which will be found to be
worthy of place alongside the New
York Sun classic of nearly three de-
cades ago:
Eyes, Virginia, there is; and we
presume that he is still on the lob.
rho they do say that heb as had
right smart trouble filling his pack.
this, year, and that his fleet-flooted
nerd has been requisitioned for serv
Ice that ism OF conducive toward the
spread of Peace on Earth and Good
VIII to Men. We wouldn't discourage
you for all the world, Virginia, nor
send single pang into your little
heart. But things amt like they were
some time ago. Not even like thew
were one brief year ago. There are
lots and lots of little girls and bows
in this broad world who will look in
vain for the comfort and cheer that
comes with the season of the cedar
and the holly and the mistletoe. And
there are many mothers, little one.
whose eyes, if they glisten at all will
be when the light catches the crystal
That enlivens a tear. And there are
fond fathers-or, there were fond ia
thers-ah! Virginia,-those Paths Of
Glory! But, do you know, little girl.
when some hearts are depleted of the
comforts that solace, other hearts
grow stouter and send their message
OF love to fuse with the spark of fire
that isl eft; and thereby new fire is
klndled. That is why He is. That is
He. And He lasts along with human
Ity and love. He is humanity and
love So hang your stockings, Viz
ginia, and with all the faith of yester-
year, go to bed" -Huntington Adyer-
tiser.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1914-12-25
VIRGINIA GAME LAWS IN BRIEF
Open Season for Game:

Open Season for Game:
Wild turkeys, rufHed grouse, quail
and rabhits-East of Blue Ridge,
Nov. to Feb. /; West of Blue Ridge
Nov. to Jan. |.
*Woodcock-N Nov. TO Jan. /.
tBlacg breasted and Golden Plover
Sept. | to Dec. 16.
yellow Legs, Wilson or Jack
snipe-Sept. to Dec. 1G.
*Rail-Sept. to Dec. /.
Dcer-Sept. l to Dec. |.
1t is unlawful to buy or sell quail.
ruled grouse or woodcock at any
time.
No shooting or hunting is allowed
anywhere between thirty minutes af-
ter sunset to thirty minutes before
sunrise nor on Sunday.
No gun is allowed larger than n ten
bore, and that to be shot only from
the shoulder.
1t is unlawful to kill turkey buzz
Yards, robins and all song birds at any
time. Open season always on hawks.
owls and eagles.
Nonresident license-$l0.c0 (pay-
able to county clerk.
NO game can be shipped from State
except exposed to view and accompan-
led by owner or sent as gift, and
amount SO carried limited.
Open Season for Fish:
Black bass or chub-East of Blue
Ridge, June Is to Mar. Is; West of
Blue Ridge, July 1 to Jan. /.
Brook trout OF Rainbow trout-East
OF B.ue Ridge, always closed season
G .ceft as allowed by county author.
ties; West of Blue Ridge, April / to
Sept. /.
West CT Blue Ridge smallest bass
ALLOW ed caught seven inches, and trout
i've .nel.cs. Limit of bag in one day,
twenty-five bass or forty trout.
Nonresident license for fishing west
of Blue Ridge, $500.
No nonresident is allowed to fish
IN the State except with line or rod
held in the hand.
Heavy penalty for destruction OF
fish by fish berries, lime or dynamite.
Every dam on river must have Il
suitable fish ladder.
A full set of the State, Game and
Fish Laws will be furnished free on
application, and any report of their
violation will be appreciated.
VIRGINIA GAME AND GAME FISH
PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION,
+. o. Box 1899. Richmond, Va.
WILLIAM TODD, President.
National migratory bird law-an
excellent law.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1914-12-25

sands ps-uur-cftizens. Chief in this
campaign have been certain newspa-
per proprietors with vast landed inter
ests in Mexico. The spectacle is now
exhibited of an ex-President, would
be "War LORD, engaged in the same
sinister occupation. Thank God that
the clear head and .inilexible purpose
of President Woodrow Wilson have
been at the helm of state these two
years past.
Let every American man and wom-
an with Il particle Of courage and love
of humanity in his or her makeup lend
firm support in every way in his or
her power to the man of Peace, whose
wisdom has SO safely guided us past
the pitfalls and snares of those pow
erful human ghouls whose real, secret,
sinister purpose is riches Tor them
selves, no matter what the cost in
human blood and misery.
History will give to President
Woodrow Wilson and the able, sincere
men who form his cabinet and are
firmly supporting him, Il place with
the greatest men of all ages. Again
let us thank God this Christmas day
that He, in His wisdom, has given
such Il man to guide the destinies of
this nation, and show our apprecia-
ton by lending him every support in
our power. T.. G.. LEWIS.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1914-12-25
THE STORY OF CHRISTMAS.

(Mrs. Pearl Smith.)
When the snow is gently falling
Like a spectre on the hill;
And the wind is softly mourning
With a voice so sad and chill
Then my thoughts they go a-roaming,
To far-of, distant land,
Where, upon a Christmas morning,
Stood worshiping, shepherd band.
Through the night as they were
watching
Stood a star before their eyes;
And host of lovely angels
Sang sweet songs from out the
skies.
Told them of holy Saviour
Who that night to them was born,
Ho he'd left home in glory,
And would one day wear the thorn.
So they FASTENED to the city
Guided by the glowing star;
And with many songs of gladness
Praised the child-king from afar.
How their hearts were filled with
rapture
AS they gazed upon the child;
For they had longed for this-his
coming
And his reign so pure and mild.
And now when that morning dawneth
And the Christmas bells are rung
We think ever of the shepherds,
And the songs of praise they sung.
Then our hearts are filled with pleas
ure,
When we near the Christmas tide;
And our gifts to one another
Speak the JOY we cannot hide.
Show that we, just as the shepherds,
Love our king, who rules today,
With a hand as just and holy
AS he reigned that Christmas day,
And we try to offer homage,
Giving life and love and all;
For we know our blessed Saviour,
Hath redeemed us from the fall.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1914-12-25
A PREDICTION.
Salem Times-Register.

oalem llmeS-ReRlSter.
This section, we predict, will pro-
fit directly by the destruction of the
German cruisers which have been row
ing the seas since the beginning of
hostilities, menacing commerce and
practically cutting off the shipment
of coal, for the carrying of which we
are dependent upon foreign bottoms
The Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, Leipsic
and Nurnberg were sunk by the Brit
ish in the south Atlantic, and from
the conflicting reports it seems evil
dent that the Dresden is driven from
the ocean.
This leaves only the Karlsruhe of
the vessels which have been active
IN the waters of the Western hemis-
phere. These vessels had completely
demoralized coal shipments, and while
there was ample markets for Virgin
Ia and West Virginia coal i'm various
countries, ships could not be secured
which were willing to take the risk
of transporting this fuel. The result
has been that the Norfolk terminals
became crowded and shipments were
practically suspended. This has re-
suited in the large reductions in the
forces of the railroad shops and yards
in Roanokt, throwing hundreds of men
out of employment.
Even worse conditions, of course,
prevail in the nearby coal fields. 1t
is probable that coal shipments will
soon be resumed, and we believe that
the demand will not only restore nor
NAL conditions in the coal markets at
an early date, but the increased de-
mand will create an era of prosperity
equal to that which the textile manu-
featuring and steel-making sections o.
the North are now experiencing.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1914-12-25
A QUEER HUMAN CHARACTER
JSTIC.
Richmond Journal.

Richmond Journal.
OF course, the Richmond man who,
through the misrepresentation of
slick agents, was induced TO purchase
ct u fancy price land on Long Island
worth about thes amep er acre rs
thatl coated in Chesterfield, ten miles
from railroad, deserved to win the
suit brought against him by the COM
pany from which the purchase was
made. The jury believed that misrep-
resentation and fraud was at the bot =.
tom of the transaction and found for
thed efendant in snort order
The feature of the case was the
statement by Mr.. Ordway Fuller,
council for thed efendant, that the
company had found in Richmond some
twenty-five or thirty victims, severa.
of them prominent citizens, who put
their money in real estate upon which
their eyes had never rested and of
which they never heard until visited
by the agent whom they had never
seen before.
This is startling revelation. 1t
can but suggest the possibility, if nor
thep reliability, that many other citi-
zens OF Richmond have buried money
in investments of like character, never
to look upon it again.
1t is one of the mysterious char
acteristics of man that he so often is
blind to opportunities at his doorstep,
while so keen in locating those a
thousand miles away. That twenty
| five or thirty citizens of Richmond
should have been induced to buy real
estate in the Long Island scrub oaks
many miles from New York on the
possibility of its being Incorporated i'll
the metropolis in their lifetime, in
stead of investing it in any one Of
! the numerous attractive real estate
enterprises right herei n Richmond is
nothing short of amazing. The sue
cess Of the Long Island real estate
agents in wheedling Richmond people
out of their money is about as re-
markable as that achieved a few years
ago by the agents of an Oklahoma
land company who succeeded in in
ducing Vrginians 10 invest thousands
of dollars in high-priced farm lands in
Oklahoma, with its droughts and cy-
clones, while productive farms right
at home, with which they were entire
ly familiar, were drugs on the mar
ket.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1914-12-25
SUDDEN SHOCKS
Impair the System, Shorten Life and
Do Great Harm.

If you knew that you could cure
yourself or your child of a malignant
disease by the use of dynamite, would
you take the chance?
Calomel acts on the sluggish liver
like dynamite on the solid rock.
1t shocks and upsets the organs and
works much harm as proven by its
after effects.
Modern science has discovered q
vegetable substitute that produces all
the desired effects of calomel without
the shock or after troubles. 1t is SC
harmless that acids may be taken i'll
to the system Immediately after the
medicine without fear of after eff.
fects.
1t rids liver, kidneys and bowels Of
all poisonous accumulations anc
leaves the patient feeling new anc
strong.
CARSWELL'S LIVER-AID is O,
sale at Jackson's drug store at 5,
cents for a large bottle. The purchas,
price will be refunded in full if yol
find it unsatisfactory.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1914-12-25
A WARNING TO MANY.
Some Interesting Facts About Kidney
Troubles.

Troubles.
Few people realize to what extent
their health depends upon the condi
ton of the kidneys.
The physician in nearly all cases of
serious illness, makes chemical
analysis of the patients urine. He
knows that unless thick idneys are do
ing their work properly, the other or
gans cannot readily be brought back
to health and strength.
When the kidneys are neglected or
abused in any way, serious results arc
sur to follow. According to health
statistics, Bright's disease which is
really an advanced form of kidney
trouble, caused nearly ten thousand
deaths i'll 1913, in the State of New
Yorl; alone. Therefore, it behooves
us to pay more attention to the health
OF these most important organs.
An ideal herbal compound that has
had remarkable success as a kidney
remedy is DR.. Kilmer's Swamp-Roo
the great Kidney, Liver and Bladder
Remedy.
The mild and healing influence of
tins preparation, in most cases. is
soon realized, according to sworn
statements and verivcd testimony OF
those who have used their remedy.
If you feel that your kidneys re.
qulre attention, and wish sample
bottle, write to DR.. Kilmer e Co.
Binghamton, N. Y. Mention this pa.
per, encloset en- cents and they will
gladly forward it to you by Parce
Post.
Swamp-Root is sold by every drug
gist in bottles of two sizes-50c. ant
Sl.00.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1914-12-25
FORCING COOPERATION.
Farm and Ranch.

4 al III anu RdlCI.
Just as it is an all wind that blow;
nobody good" so it is "tame war"
that does not make people think and
perhaps reform their wasteful meth
DDS of marketing.
For many years Farm and Ranch
has been urging cooperation among
farmers and between farmers and
other business men. We have insist
ed that the interest of business men
and farmers is mutual; that it will
require close cooperation of all in
terests to build up our country. We
have pointed out wastes that we sus-
tain and explained how much of this
may be saved by cooperation.
Since hostilities have begun in Eu-
rope cooperation has been the CORE
spending result in America. Com
mercial clubs, farmers organizations.
bankers, merchants, jobbers and pro-
fessional men-all more or less de-
pendent upon the products from our
farms-are now holding meetings
talking more cotton factories for the
South; using more cotton goods; in