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The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-05-07
THE INJURED

The firemen isjured were, Bernard
Stork and Michael F. GTogan of engine
No 4, Patrick Docherty of the hook and
ladder No 3, aud fireman HanleY. The
wounds were all caused by falling
bricks. Among the employees known
to be injured are: Henry Maurer, scalp
wound and fractured leg; Mrs.
Henrietta Haas, reported to have
died on the way to the hospital. Miss
Mamie Haas, her daughter, was severely
hurt; two unknown women were pulled
from beneath the burning tImbers by
Chief of Fire Department NeYins. Rosa
Partridge, an employe of Milo Pynes, is
among the missing. Edwin Butler was
seen to jump from the second story into
the ruins and has not been seen since
Four of the men employ
ed by the Judd Manufacturing Co. are
also missing. Two women were taken
from the secord floor by the firemen
who had raised the ladders to the State
street building. Chief NeYin said:
believe there are at least twenty five
people IN the ruins, and their may be
more. The loss Is estimated al $780,.
600; Insurance unknown.
Three bodies have been taken from
the ruins. They were burned beyond
recognition,
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-05-07

1t Is now believed that thirty lives
were lost in the Brooklyn disaster. The
building was occupied by twenty small
manufacturers and there were about 90
men and women employed therein. 1t
was five stories high aud erected twenty
seven years ago. The cause of the fire
was tue oVerturning of the boilers of the
soap factory on the second floor.
The west wall of the middle
wing on Atlantic avenue had settled and
workmen were screwlng 1t up with
jacks. The middle jack had been
screwed up to the highest aud ii was
lowered when the weight of the wall
came upon the two jacks at the end and
1t fell with cSssh. Policeman McCor-
mick, of the third sub-preclnct, heard
the building had fallen and ran thither
hmm odiakaIv
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-05-07
Army 81 ina Potomac

NAPLES, May 5.-The eruption o.
Vesuvius is subeiding. 1t is hoped thil
is q sign Of an early cessation.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1885-04-11
Physical Perfection of the PoIynesians

All writers agree that physically the
Polynesians are among the finest look
ing races on the globe. Their average
height is about three inches greater than
that of Europeans, aud their limbs are
shapely and muscular. The men are
rather superior to the women, who,
though attractive in childhood, incline
to grow too stocky at maturity. Their
complexion varies from an almost
European fairness to a dark brown,
with occasionally yellow or olive
tint. The head bears a heavy crop of
hair, which is usually black, with a
tendency to curl. The growth is small
on the face and other parts of the
body, and is carefully plucked out.
The nose is apt to be long and aqui-
line, but disfgured by fiatness at the
extremity. The mouth is well shapen
and displays teeth of pearly white
ness. The shape of the head differs
little from that of Europeans. The
wide range of physical variation which
has been noticed among these island
ers, which at first view suggests mix.
ture of race, is due probably to their
relatively high development, which
always tends to differentiate men, to
the extent of their domain, and the in
frequent communication between its
parts. Only ON the border of Melane-
STA are we to think of intermixture of
races.-AmericGn Antiquarian.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1885-04-11
"A LITTLE NONSENSE"

Little Eddie took curious freak
when he went to bed the other night
and attempted to say his prayers back
ward. "Why, Eddie, what are you
trping to doP'' asked his mother.
"Only trying to say my prayers inside
out. boston Times.
"A personal item informs us that
"Victor Hugo mostly goes to bed on a
cracker and a herring" A funny
notion, that. If the cracker should
get mashed and scatter itself, Victor
would be apt to pass a very restless
-Norristoa0n Herald.
-'Is it cold up your wayP" was
asked of man from fifty miles north
of st. Paul. "ColdP" he said with a
rising infection, "Well, 1 should say it
was. We had to give the stove four
doses of quinine yesterday to keep it
from shaking the lids off. Chicago
Tribune.
Boston Girl-"O, please don't per-
ambulate so fast. Poor little doggie is
SO FRUSTRATED as to be hardly cognizant
of his surroundings. Her Escort
20, don't worry about your dog. He
is not tired" Boston Girl-''Not
tired! Look at his pendent tongue, and
Just see how he carries his unmen-
tionables. "-RhiIGdelphiG Call.
An inspector, who had been ex.
planning to class that the land of the
world was not continuous, said to the
boy who happened to be standing near.
est him: "Now, could your father walk
round the world?n mo SIR" was
promptly answered. "Why not?''
because he's dead" was the alto.
gether unlocked for responsible ht
Year Round.
Girl in blue There's young Mr..
Duderson over there; don't you think
he is just splel.did Girl in red
Splendid, that pan of mush! Why he
took me buggy iding last week, and
tried to kiss me G. l. B.-"WellP'
G. l. R.-"Well, he put his arm arounG
me, and-and of curse told him JUS
TO behave himself" G. B.-"Wellg
G. /. R.-"Well-he behaved himself.
Both-"Ughr'-San francisco Cost.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1885-04-11

California can produce pome-
granates enough to supply the East,
even were the demand as great as it is
now for oranges. In Southern Cali
fornia the pomegranate fourishes as it
does in Italy or in the Holy Land.
There is no limit to its productiveness
should a market be opened for it, and
as it bears transportation very well it
could readily be added to the fruits
which are now sent to Eastern con-
sumers. 1t would not be bad idea
for some of our fruit dealers to send
East small consignments of pome-
granates in order to stimulate taste
for this fruit, which is known mainly
through the imagery of the sacred
writers and its praises in Oriental his.
tory and romance.-San francisco
Chronicle.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1885-04-11

Oh uer nuSDduu. one saw unlS anu Ino
fact did quite as much as anything at
first to bend the proud spirit Her
husbands home was at Nagasaki, an
inland town in which few Europeans
dwell. His establishment was hand
some enough, and she was surrounded
with servants. The reason for keeping
SO many menials about her was not
quite clear at first, and she attributed
it to her husbands rank. She learned
better after time. She learned that
they were not only to serve her, but to
watch her as we'll. They were spies.
Even the pretense of love or courtesy
was soon abandoned by her husband,
and he came to look upon her as his
simple chattel. The customs of the
people among whom she found herself
7Jof her own people now, indeed; for,
under the laws of Japan, she, as her
husbands wife, was subject of the
Emperor-were distasteful, barbarous
to her. Her husband, as the readiest
means of achieving popularity and
showing his love for the nation, car
ried them to an extreme, utterly oppos-
ing the European innovations to which
many OF his countrymen turned kindly
enough. AS the last straw, he aban-
doned Christianity, which he had pro-
fesSed so ostentatiously, and took part
in pagan worship. The steps from a
feeling of incompatibility to neglect,
absolute brutality, and a heather con-
tempt for all that marriage in
Christian communion implied were
easy enough.
FLEEING FROM HER HUSBAND.
In all these months this wretched
woman had heard nothing from her
parents or the friends of her girlhood.
If letters ever arrived at Nagasaki-and
letters certainly were sent-they were
intercepted and destroyed before reach
ing her hands. She was forbidden to-
visit even the few Europeans resident
in the town, though not, as it afterwards
proved, before she had found one dear
friend in an English lady. To one
thing only her husband remained faith
ful-her money She never saw any
thing OF her securieties after she had
given them into his keeping. A par
ticularly degrading and brutal insult at
last determined her to leave his pagan
home forever. That, however, was not
so easy as it may seem. She was as
much his as his morse or MS dog, ana
might have been as readily apprehended
if she made any but the most prudent
attempt to flee. AS it CHANGED she had
obtained the affections of one OF the
horde of servants that surrounded her
by little kindly attention to the men
ial during a serious illness. Guided
and protected by this servant, she made
her way on dark night to the home
of the English lady in Nagasaki OF
whom mention has been made, The
latter supplied her with means, pro-
vided a safe conveyance to Yokohama,
and furnished her with q letter to an
English resident there and with
letters also to people in CAL
eutta and London. At Yoko-
hama steamer was taken TO Cal
cutta, where the letter with which the
fugitive was provided secured her the
kindest regard of distinguished
British officer and his family She
travelled with all speed across the Con-
tinent OF India to Bombay and took
| passage on one of the Peninsula d ORR
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1885-04-11

"A surgeon reports to Nature the
result of Investigations as to the rea-
sons why the tropical man is black.
He says the coloring pigment Us pro-
vfded by nature in order to protect the
body from the SUMS rays, just as
smoked glass defends the eye from the
sun, the pigment cells being placed in
front of the nerve Examinations. 1t
would, therefore, appear that nature at
least had no intention of eonsigning
the black man to an inferior position
when it made him black.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1885-04-11
COMMUNAL ADMIRATION.
An Acknowledgment Ode.

Jan dAter-Gne-dOneymoO Oues
NOT in her eyes that such eloQuence speak,
Not in the blush of her velvety cheek,
Not in the sheen of her bright yellow hair,
Not in her courtly imperial air,
Not in the kisses that hang on her lips,
Not In her fingers cute tapering tips,
Not in the curve of her chic little foot,
Not in her wit aye so gracefully put,
Not in her ear, like some rose-tinted shell,
Not in her teeth that no pearls can excel;
win,
Not in the dimples that grace her plump
chin,
MOI, in good sense, in which none are above
her,
Not in her breath, sweet as blossoming
clover,
Not in her form as perfection complete,
Not in her laugh so melodiously sweet
Not in her neck, than the sloe-blossom whittier,
Not in her step, than the mountain deers
lighter,
Not, cen in her love that so bindeth our
hearts,
Find the rapture her presence imparts:
But in her voice-sweet as Orpheus Tyre
That says: Stay in bed, John, I'll start up
the fire."
Patrick Mcbride, in Judge.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1885-04-11

If horse is kept up in good con-
dition he is ready for journey or
heavy draft at any time. If, ON the
contrary, he is kept thin, he is not in
fit condition for good service, and be-
sides is much more likely to contract
diseases. boston Post.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-02-27
A Hermit Woman.

There has lived, until the past
three weeks in the mountains back
Of Bernville, Pa, one Of the
strangest characters Of modern
times. Sallie Kitner, or the Her
nit Maid of the Mountains for
nearly half a century had lived in
a log hut, with no other companion
than her dogs and cats. She had
hidden herself away from ciyiliza-
tiOn and society, refusing all
intercourse with her kind and
utterly abhoring the presence of
man. She lived upon wild game
and such other edibles as she could
command from the barren and
rocky recesses where she had chos-
en- forty-eight years ago to spend
her life. About the 1st of the
month her log hut, from pure de-
cay of the timbers, tumbled down,
causing the death Of the old lady,
aged, 81, and four of her dogs
The story of her eccentric life,
would furnish material from which
to weave romance of thrilling
and stirring interest. When she
took up her solitary abode she was
thirty.six years old. People re-
member her as a stout, healthy and
comely woman. The story goes
that in her youthful days she fell
in love with prepos'essing young
man who followed the sea for a
living. He left with the promise
that in five years he would make
her his bride. He never returned,
having been impressed into the
service of another country. lie
died in a French prison sixty years
ago, but the old woman kept his
memory ever green, would never
have anything to do with men, and
in her bosom when dead was found
the last letter from lover, faded
with age, written just before he
died. The woman grew melan.
choly, forsOok her family and
friends, received small inheri-
tance from her father had in 1887
took up the life of hermit. She
fed at the approach Of strangers,
was good shot and during the
winter season her hut was full of
game, brought nown by her unes-
ring rife.
She abhorred mon, never spoke
to them, if she could help it and
lived in the society OF her cats and
dogs, of which she had nineteen of
the former aud twelve of the latter
Frequently she was not seen for
The rumOr in the neigh
borhoOd was that she was a miser
and had considerable money hid
away, but none, has yet been found
in the debris of her hut. Her rude
life had made her strong and when
she died she WAS as we'll preserved
as a woman Of fifty.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-02-27

lumber we need perteckshun from
Canady.'
From copper miner in Mishi-
gan:
we demand a keereful leyishun
NV the tariff, which must be sweep
in, and mcleod reduckshun on
everything butcopper. That must
be left ez it is, or eff any change,
slitely increased.
From a shugar refner, Moo
York:
'There ain Z no question as to the
inikity Nv the present tariff system.
The dooty is too high upon every.
thing except refined shugar. IF
that is fetched at all, it shood
be increest.'
From a Dimekratic brewer, Mil
waukee:
'The tariff is discrimnatin and
unjust to the people, and the Di.
mOcrisy demand in thunder tones
a complete and keerful reyishun.
Everything shood be slashed on
mercifully, except beer The brew
ers of Germany hev got beer down
to SIGH fine point that they kin
nndersell us, and it would never do
to let the pisenin NV the people be
done to the profit nv Germany. The
tariff on beer should not be teched,
onless it might he slightly increest.
This shood be looked into.'
There was suthin like a dozen
more, but these wuz specimen brix,
and quite enough to show the drift
NV things The President wus ter
ribly put out when | red EN-. He
simply remarkt, 'H-lp and then
continered:
What kin do when every man
nv EN- stands on the Republican
platform on everything that his
constitooence happens to be inter
ested in? Inesmnch as the DmOc-
risy happens to be interested in
everything that anybody else is,
and es every one nv them appeers
to be determined not to redOOse the
dooties on his own espeshl produck
| don't see how we are going to do
anything about it'
'Your Excellency,' Ireplied, 'your
head is level. Tariff reduckshen is
an excellent thing jist afore an cleo
shun, but it is an ugly thing to
tackle after the battle. | humbly Sc
jest that we let it severely alone
But | must make my administra-
shen conspicuous for suthin,' was
his reply.
sTroO, and we will do it. We shell
depend for success in satisfying the
people, onto Reform, generally.
Reform generally, without goin'
into pertikelers ez to what we shell
reform, is our best holt, and the
only thing we kin do
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-02-27

Eczema is one of the ugliest and
most troublesome of all blood di-
seases. 1t proceeds from humors
in the blood which are sometimes
very difficult to eradicate. For five
weary years Mr.. J. ID. Rodefer, OF
Greendale, Va, suffered terribly
from this disease. He writes;
'Finding no relief in the many
medicines till used Browns Iron
Bitters, purchased three bottles;
from the use of which | have OBJ
lained almost entire relief. l re-
commend it to every one in my
neighborhood for any disorder OF
the blood aud as a general tonic
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-02-27

titles as are compatible with the
hot water treatment.
.. It's effects are comparatively
uniform, provided it be given for
sufficient period. Exceptions
prove q rule. Isolated cases may
be occasionally encountered where
the results as stated do not occur.
3. II seems TO exert curative in.
huence upon many Of the chronic
diseases that influence and disturb
the proper assimilation Of food
Some Of these are important factors
in the development Of nervous
arrangements.
t. tappcars that the curative
influence Of hot water is not usually
transient. In many case the
symptoms have shown no tendency
to return when once checked by it
use, provided the patients indiscr.
tions dc not lead to a relapse.
>. II may be employed as an
adjunct to all recognized methods
Of treatment, without detriment to
the patient.
6. II cXerts a marked influence
upon disturbances Of the nerves.
7. In Diabetes and in some kidney
arrangements its action as a
diuretic is quito remarkable in
some cases.
s. As a laxative, hot water has a
slow but decided effect. 1t seems
to be ajustidable deduction that the
functions Of the accessory organ
Of digestion are made active by its
use and brought to a standard OF
health.
Q. The skin is stimulated by the
use Of this agent, and the cutaneOus
circulation is apparently rendered
more uniform.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-02-27

DB A. Ma ARTfE,
TAR. B. F. MAPHls & BRO.
--r,entists.

CrucEs. " Wo.dst.eA and stums''Ile' virginia
Ia Woodstoef, isi aud 81 weeks oil fa'A i-''---'
fr ssursvIiis "a and lth weeks. ,
.rao.s .u need OF frsi class Delusify az MoU'i
40 t,-i rss WI. d1 well t4 Gala - ..- az,
rii. ~. of Art.aclsi Tooth FROM s7.O9 10 tit01'
I'D 20. - ~ e.anss fon g. o. 60 5000. silver
aninrs from 75e.tl so. .,. o.,,..t
Ert.arlsl iss.h Pat up ~ s'ia sold COG ara
c.ii.ioif Car.h.ua-i3n C,ieiold tnt Rubber yaie'.
08ld aaI Porcelain rlgcuus Clasps a. l'.'-' .-
.t,.rtio. rfr.u io nlli.F all preserving lls N9-
800 te.tb ana correcting tle ilresaiaruea.
All wors warranted lrat clas8.
- 're.Ih .rlrao. g absolutely without PAIN ~
tbs -.e of NltIuls oxide Gas
March lJ.-h
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-02-27
Are you Tired Of Being sick {.

We want to say a word 10 the men,
women and girls who work in stores,
Offices and factories. There are hundreds
of thousands Of you in the country. Very
few Of you are we'll. You are shut uD too
much and exercise too little. In this way
you got sick. Your blood is bad, your
digestion poor, your head often aches,
you don't feel like work. Your liver,
stomach and kidneys are out Of order.
Parkers Tonic has cured hundreds Of sub
vvsw hkYwy sazs sod ysnssat
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-02-27
VOL. 65.
The Land Of the Afternoon

An old man sits in his garden chair,
Watching the sunlit western sky,
What sees be in the blue depth there,
Where only the Isles Of Memory lie
There are princely towers and castles high,
There are gardens lairer than human ken,
There mo happy children thronging by,
Radiant women and stately men,
Singing with voices of sweet attuno
The songs of the Land of the Afternoon
The old man watches form of cloud
That floats where the azure Islands are,
And he sees "a homestead gray and loved,
And hand that beckons him aiar,
O. cheek of roses and hair ot gold
O. ewes OF heavens divInest blue!
Long have ye lain iu the gmyey ard mold
But love is infinite. love is true;
lie will find her-yes lit must be soon
They will meet in the Land OF the Alter
noon.
The SKY has changed, and wreck OF cloud
Is driving aihwlrf its troubled face,
The golden mist Is q trailing shrond
To i, cold and break iu ihe garden place,
Theoll man smiles and DROPS his head,
The thin hair blows from his wrinkied
brow,
The sunset radiance BIAS appeared
O'er every wasted feature now
One sigh eXhales Ike breath ln june
lie has found The Land OF the Afternoon
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-02-27

People are going to the capital
of the nation to witness the inaugu-
ration of a President of the United
States-not going to a court OF
ROYALTY 20 behold the cowning of a
king. 1t is the great American
privilege to 60 as one pleases, and
not have to stand around and wait
the pleasure of anybody as to the
train to depart in. At the Is. q D.
depots, it Is needless to remark, the
great American custom is still in
vogue,
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-02-27

We sincerely believe that every
case of pulmonary disease, not
already beyond the reach ofhuman
aid, may, if properly treated, be re-
lieved and cured by the faithful
use of Ayers Cherry Pectoral.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-02-27

The B. G. o. in every essential,
an American road, ever viewing
the proper functions Of an Amer
lean railway to be to give the most
tor the least money. III other
words, the aGectation of exclusive
ness not q valid excuse for dOub-
ling demands IN the shape of extra
fares, and that sort Of thing. To
20 to the Inauguration via b. g. 0.
means to have money enough left
to pay expenses, and a little more.
Also, that the passenger, upon
arrival at the depot in time for any
train, will find his ticket good for
that that train. Upon some other
roads it will be found different.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-02-27

A girl has been born out west
with three tongues. IL she does
not die young some poor man viii
commit saioide
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-02-27

Several weeks since, Ii tile Genie,
four years old, while travelling in
company with his parents from
their old home in Maine to a new
one in California, occupied at night
with his mother an upper berth in
the sleeping car. Awaking once
in the middle Of the night, his
motner asked him il he knew
where he was.
'Tourse | do he replied. Tm
in the top drawer
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-02-27

Cancers, and cancerous tumors,
are cured by the purifying effects
of Ayers Sarsaparilla.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-02-27
CONCLUSIONS.

|. II is harmless if properly ad.
ministered. A degree or tempera-
ture that can be endured by tho
mouth will not impair the integrity
of the stomach. Many of us drink
coffee and tea at an equally high
temperature, and In as large quan.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-02-27
IN MEMORIAH.


IN MEMORIAh.
BY THE REV. DIR. BURCH-D.
Alone | walked the oceans strand,
A pcarly she'll was in my hand,
stopped and wrote upon tho sand,
Istooped and wrOte--my smile was bland
(Forgive me, o my native land,)
wrote three RS, you understand,
Grover &.
No wave did wash those Rs away
They came-ah, woe is me-to stay.
They shine moro plainly every day,
Where'er travel, near or far,
Afoot, in steamer, or in car,
A voice comes like falling star
"That's Burchard Of the fateiul X"
Grover c.
And henco it is call you mine,
And hence that you may call me thine
Well may you wear a look benign
And toast mo In your choicest vino
And hail me as your valentine,
Grover C..
Another rather pathetic yet hope
ful ditty is from the pen Of a we'll
known Democratic leader, whose
home is on the banks of the pic
turesaue Geneseo. 1t is equally
creditable to tho head and the heart
of the author;
A HASTY WORD.
by WILLIAM PURo-LL.
/.
Had spoken less unkindly,
Had sluggod you not so blindly,
Had | not the charges started,
had ne'er been brOken-hearted.
Had dosed you less with pepper,
Hadn't called you moral leper,
Hadn't torn around 30 madly,
I'd be feeling not so badly.
III.
Now that you have been elected
Bid me not to feel detected;
Mail a pardon-bo seraphic,
Call my errors topographic.
Still another striking ballad-but
we must stop, although there is
much richness remaining in the
package.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-02-27

Still another striking ballad-but
we must stop, although there is
much richness remaining in the
package.