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Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1886-04-23

Most people are averse to ap
pearing in court. They sometimes
think that it is reflection on their
own responsibility to appear as
witnesses. Mrs. Amanda w. Brown
was of this opinion. She lived next
door to man who was notorious
for the disturbance he caused in
the town. His name was Jake
Long, and he had been arrested foI
an assault upon a neighbOr, and a
constable had been sent to bring
Mrs. Brown into court as a witness.
"Areyou Mrs. Amanda w. BrOwnF
asked the constable. "Yes, sir; |
am"
81 have a subpoena for your ap-
pearance at court"
ga subpeeny? Want me to court?
Wal, neverl What fer''
"As a vitness.D
"Witness to what ~
GAS witness in the trial of The
People vs.. Jake Long"
IL dunno the first livin' thing
bout it. | never hav nothin' to do
with Jake Longs muses. ner the
people neither"
"Well, it is necessary for you to
come with me and tell that to the
Court
"What fer"
"Because l have an order from
the Court for your appearance"
"Well, now sec here, mister, you
90 back and tell the Court | can't
come; I'm washin' today"
"That won't make any difference
with the Court"
"Won't hit? Wal, it makes a diff
ference to me. An'Pve got my mans
pants to patch. He needs 'em bad"
"You'll have to go to Court all
the same"
"Plague take the Court don't
want to be mixed up with any Of
old Jake Longs fuses. Anyhow,
l don't know thing bout it
What's he done p
"Committed assault and battery
with criminal intent"
"Who's he assaulted an batted,
an what you say he done it with !"
"With criminal INTENT
"Jess like Jake Long. lie never
will come at a body fair an square,
but alters hauls out a weepin' of
some sort. | reckon this criminal
intent is something new he's got
holt of. But never seed it, an
don't know q thing 'bont it. You
tell the Jedge l said So"
"You'll have to tell it to him yer
self.
"Wouldn't he bleeve you y
"Nothing | could tell him would
excuse me for not bringing you as
a witness"
"Witness to lrhdty To RothiR' ! / |
jess aint goin' to smutch up my rep.
pytation by bein' publicly mixed
up with that Jake Long. | jess
aintw
'You'll be fined for contempt of
Court
"Fer what ?"
"Contempt of Court"
"Contempt of nothin'! amt say
in nothin' agin the Court. Well,
I'll go, an, when we git there you
kin call the Jedge an III tell him
don't know a thing bout this fuss.
never will set in Court long side
Did Jake and Sary Long, same as
/ was their ekals; | never
willw
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1886-04-23

A Sunday school teacher was
telling her children how the devil
goeth about like roaring lion
seeking whom he may devour, and
after the lesson was through she
said that those who wished could
ask questions. At once a little boy
spoke up aud asked how fast the
devil could run. "Hush, Johnnie,'
said the teacher, "such questions
are very profane.' "Well, | don't
care,7 said Johnnie, che can't out
run my pa, anyhow, cause | heard
pa tell a man down the street the
other day that he caught the devil
the night she came home from the
LODGE
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1886-04-23
SHENANDOAH HERflp
SOME ADVICE TO GIRLS.

Sam Jones closed for the week in
Chicago, Saturday night with a SER
mon to girls only. There were over
4,jOO present. Among other things
Mr. Jones said Girls watch your
company. An angel from Heaven
conldn'I keep such company as
some girls in Chicago, and not be
corrupt. Pure, noble girls stand
alone on this earth tor beauty and
glory. Boys 90 in bad company,
but the hope Of this land is in its
pure girls. Oh be yigilant T; guard
your parlor. Beware with whom
and how you go to entertainments"
Mr.. Jones then INDUCED in a long
description and denunciation Of
the perfumed young man. He also
described a chase of ladies after
spiderlegged dudes. "Tell me
what your associations are, young
lady, and ! will give you glimpse
of your history. Is he an exquisite
dancer? Does he wear perfect
pants Is his hair parted elegant
ly in the middle !? Does he clerk in
big establishment at $50 month
and spend $40 month for board,
$50 month for carriage hire and
goo month for theatres Does
be convince you that hehas not got
a stingy bone in his body? Doyou
think he is "just nice ~ Where
does he get his money?
" am in love with the wool-hat
and jean pants boy. He starts at
$40 month, sticks to business and
the wool.hat and until he gets a
thousand year; then gets to be
Junior partner, then senior partner,
and finally owns the whole stock
where he does business. Yor styl.
ish girls do not like him; well, he
wants a wife, he went back to his
country home and married plain
Mary, and for few years 1t was
love in cottage, and now he has a
residence Oh Michigan avenue.
Girls, tie to these wool-hat boys and
they will take care of you.
A beautiful girl of this city ar
ranged to attend wine supper last
week. When the night came she
sent word, say ing can't go; my
heart has been touched Oy the meet
ings.' Now she has brought three
of her associates here with her,
What do you want of wine suppers,
oh mothers ? No matter what the
devil may owe you, if he sends you
about three drunken son.in-laws he
will have paid all the debt and you
will receipt it in full. Then, girls,
watch these temptors. II girl is
ugly to her mother, che will make
it warm in her own home, il she
ever has one" All the girls who
talked ugly or saucy to their moth
ers, were asked to stand up. There
was no uprising, not one. "Moth-
ers, overhaul your Libraries. A
young girl once said she was terri
bly, bored by reading the Bible.
The poor, silly, sap-headed thing.
Some mothers fix their daughters
to be damned. They insist on hay-
ing little parties for their children.
A little party is big party in short
clothes, then comes the big party,
and then the hugging german.
want to have grass growing on my
grave, when my daughters are at
tending the germans. After the
germans, then whati will not go
further. Take the word Of a pro-
found priest, who says that at his
professional, 10 out of 20 young
women who have strayed, ascribed
their fall from purity and virtue to
the influence of the ball room."
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1886-04-23

MVtUVEf v NV y -" -'"'6
"My dear, it is a little girl with
wings who flies" r- v,~, y.t,
!. [" But i heard papa telling the
governess yesterday that she was
an angel. Will she flyf'
Yes, my dear, she will fly the
first thing tomorrow
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1886-04-23
Vyhy1

You wonder why they take such pains
To turnip our horse-radish,
To terra-alba all our sweets, IDI N.
To make Of good n bad dish,
To logwood wines, to slate our cOsls,
Make pepper of dried berries,
Use cabbage for tobacco plant,
For raisns run in cherriesl
They strive for gain, they mako 1t pay,
And men Of every nation ..-...r
They "sit MP nights andrack their brain
For new adulteration.
Each time a substitute is found
They pile it on the sleeper;
For there's nothing in this world 30 cheal
But that there's something cheaper.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1886-04-23
The rrcckIe on Her Nose.


Upon her nose so cunning,
Apparent TO the sight
Quite saucy and quite stunning,
Beneath her eyes SO bright,
Behold the work Of sunshine
A summer sun, ] 'spose,
The awful little freckle,
The freokle on her nose.
'Tis worthy Of a sonnet,
This little brSwny speck
Beneath her dainty bonnet,
Above her graceful neck,
II poses solitary
just near her cheeks Of rose,
This sVny little freckle,
The freckle on her nose.
She's tried to rid her Of it f;
She doesn't know tits cute
Her eyes flash ont above it
In Indignation mute.
think tits very tasty
To choose so fair pose,
This knowing little freckle, f .
The freckle on her nose.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1886-04-23

They tell In Louisville of a citizen
OF that town who went to New
York recently and lived at one OF
the most expensive hotels there.
He stayed four days and asked for
his bill. =" Fifty-onc dollars said
the clerk. Guess again. said
the Kentuckian. You haven't
sized my pile yet. I've more
money than that"
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1886-04-23

When a man comes out from be
hind a green shutter wiping his
mouth with his handkerchief, and
rams against his astOnished wife on
the sidewalk, and tells her that
place is a barber shop, and she
looks up in to his face with not a
shadow of doubt in her love lit
eyes, ought that woman to be trust
ed with the ballotf
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1886-04-23
mo. l. KELLEn
sBf. wALkxA.

DR. T. T. LOCKE,
~ SURGEON DENTIST.
OvTIcE; Main St., opp. the Court House,
WOODSTOCK, VIRGINIA.
Artificial teeth inserted in any manner
desired. Careful attention given 10 fll-
ing and extracting. Parents should bring
their children and have their teeth eI-
anined, and procure information that will
be Of great value in after life.
VIII visit EdinbnrE regularly on the lat
and 3rd Tuesdays of each month, at which
tine can be found at the residence OF
Mr.. Jacob z. Rnker.
All work guaranteed. Prices moderate
Julv 10 'r5-ly
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1886-04-23

Step right into the parlor aud
make Yourself at home," said the
nine.year-old son of the editor
to his sisters best young man.
Take the rocking chair and help
yourself to the album. Henen
Louise is upstairs and won't be
down for some time yet-she has to
make up her form, you know, be-
fore going to press.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1886-04-23
HISTORY OF THE VALLEY.

6c.-PreiimiHary Obserca'
tions on the Character Of the IN
dian Mode Of Warfare, and It's
Adoption By the White People.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1886-04-23
nR A. MA RTIN.
-
SURGEON & DENTIST.

respectfully informs the public that
he has resumed the practice Of his pro-
sssion s-ders left Al the store OF z. J.
Travel, In Woodstock. wllireceive pro-
syt attention
May Is, '54-tf
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1886-04-23

Send six cents for postage,
IInI70 and receive free, costly
d nIIE box of goods which will help
IL 4 lA1Vsyou to more money right
away than anything else in this world.
An Of either sex, succeed from frst
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oees address, True & Co., Augusta, Maine
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Hc, she, II.


HE.
Did / press thee, dear, too tightly
But my heart was on my sleeve,
And was struggling but to conquer
Thy fond love. and not to grieve.
sHF.
No, indeed, you did not grieve me,
Happiness may breathe sigh,
And the heart your own has taken
Answers TINS, and tells You Why
IT. rNNLN"
(YovHg brother behind tie curtaiu.N
Bet ger, Mister, that's all tafy
She was thinkin' what mess
All this kiss and huggiu' business
Was a maxim of her dress.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1886-04-23

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UNWILLING.

ITO be CONrNU Ed.
The Dawson journal., 1886-07-01
Gates iiar,

The touching pathos of child
hood is shown IN the following:
The death of well-known geE-
tleman had called forth many ex-
pressions of sympathy from
friends in the way of a profusion
of flowers in beautiful designs.
After they had been placed around
him as he lay in his casket, his
little daughter Alice. Of 4 years,
was led by her mamma into the
room to look upon the face of her
dead papa. She was naturally at
tracted by the flowers, and by the
designs of "The Gates Ajar."
Her mamma told her that "the
beautiful gate had opened, and
papa had passed through and
would never come back again.
The child looked steadily at her
papa's face for a few moments,
then climbed up so she could
reach over and kiss his cold lips,
saying: Papa, dear, speak to me
and say you will come to the
beautiful gate and meet your lit
tie Alice some ay."-Boston Cou-
rier.
The Dawson journal., 1886-07-01
The Town Cow Discussed

One of The most annoying things
that the country people have
ID contend with is the ordinary
town COW. When the farmer leaves
homo he puts in tho bottom OF his
wagon, or buggy, a bountifui sup
ply Of hay. He arrives in town, ,un-
loads his wife in front of some
store, and proceeds to hitch his
team at some point about the pub
lie square. No sooner than his
back is turned than a dozen starved
COWS Immediately surround his
vehicle, and before he can say
"Jack Robinson" with his own
mouth open, every straw in his ve-
hicle has gone through the gastric
olll lces of the aforesaid COWS. We
noticed one particularly careful
fellow the other day. After hitch
ing his team, he took his hay and
carried it into tue court house
yard He was going to have the
deadwood on that COW and bunch
of hay, and departed for saloon
with a grin on his face. We watched
the proceedings with considerable
interest He was not out Of sight
before 3 or 4 longhorns opened
the gate and proceeded to the pile
and chewed it up. Clubbing these
learned kline does no good. In fact,
they rather enjoy tho fun. You
can take an ordinary stick Of cord
wood and bounce it from off their
carcas .es fifty feet and they viii
turn around and smile at you. They
don't even grunt when you have hit
them hard enough to stave in their
ribs. Such punishment seems to
act rs tonic; it whets their app
petite5 and makes them enjoy the
repast which the farmer has haul
ed to them from his home many
miles distant. And after it's all
over, just notice the peculiar look
they give the man who came
to town sitting on a little pile OF
hay, as he departs for home sit
ting on the bare boards! The town
COW is a nuisance, but at the same
time a necessity in all rural vii
lagos. A home without mother
would not he a moro lonesome
spectacle than a rural village
without its herd of long horned,
stump-tailed ws.-West Union
(Ohio) Peoples Defender.
The Dawson journal., 1886-07-01
Good Results In Every Case.

ID. A. Bradford, wholesale pa
per dealer of Chattanooga Tenn,
writes, that he was seriously af-
hicted with q severe cold that set
tied on his lungs: had tried many
remedies without benefit Being
induced to try DR.. Kings New
Discovery for Consumption, did
SO and was entirely cured by the
use of a few bottles. Since which
time he has used it in his family
for all Coughs and Colds with
best results. This is the expert
ence of thousands whose lives
have been saved by this Wonder
full Discovery.
Trial Bottles free at Crouch
Bros. Drug Store.
The Dawson journal., 1886-07-01
WH00P-EE.
A MOTHER OF 26 CHILDREN at 81
YEARS OF AGE.

- 1AS l. As]~As VI -IC OAAAAtDAe~~~' ~-S
YEARS OF AGE.
The Atlanta Capitol tells the
following in apparent dead ear
nest:
DIR. Hobbs, the eye, ear and
throat physician, has operated on
a boy from Washington, Wilkes
county. for treatment of his eye.
/ He is one of 26 children and thais
mother is only 81 years ca!
The boy is 7 wears old.
The mother had four triplets
and four twins, and there are only
three ooys in the family. His fa-
theirs name is Jordan Sherman.
DR.. Hobbs, who is thoroughly
reliable, assures us that he has
investigated the peculiar case, and
is certain that the above facts are
true.
He has talked with Mrs Sher-
mans sister and has received Q
letter from responsible gentle-
MN in Washington, Ga, who
knows the facts are true.
The case is most certainly q
very strange one and out Of the
usual order.
The Dawson journal., 1886-07-01
HOW SCALPINiss I ;fgELS-
The Feverish Story OF a Young Cali
fornian Who Found the Indians.
Chico (f,,l y Cl,ron;c,o


fornian Who Found the Indians.
Chico (Cal Chronicle.
A sick and sorry looking speci-
men of humanity stepped from
the passenger train last night and
climbed into a waiting wagon and
was driven to the country. His
name was Samuel Neff. He is a
man of about thirty years of age
and his parents reside in Pine
Gre k. Young Neff is just home
from Arizona, where he has been
prospecting in the mines and act
ing as scout on a hunt of In
dians. Unfortunately for him he
found the murderous red devils,
and they almost made mincemeat
of him.
One day while riding through a
canon he was shot through the
shoulder and fell from his horse.
His assailants, finding that he was
not dead, tortured him outrage
ously. They cut gashes in his
face and all over his body, ap-
piled fire to his feet and hands
and ended their brutal assaults by
scalping him. He suffered untold
agonies and prayed that death
might relieve him. Finally he
fell into faint, land upon awaken
ing he found himself badly cared
for in q miners cabin. The miner
had picked him up and carried
him a long distance on horseback.
Nelf suffered weeks of excruc1a-
ting pain and raved with O fever,
and us soon as he was able to trav-
el he took the road for home.
Last evening Chronicle re-
porter asked Neff how it felt to
have his hair lifted.
"It is dreadful sensation," he
said. One thinks as the skin is
being torn from his skull that his
feet are coming right up through
his body to the top of his head.
Oh, it is terrible. 1t is so painful
that you cannot utter a cry, and
thousands of stars dance before
your eyes. You imagine red-hot
needles are darting in and out of
your flesh, and you clasp your
hands so closely that the finger
nails cut into the flesh. / would
rather be run through a threshing
machine, ground up in a sausage
mill,or thrown under''a LOCOMOTIVES,
than ever undergo such another
ordeal. 1t makes me shudder to
think of the tortures | have gone
through with and l never want to
look upon the face of another In
dian"
"Do many persons survive the
operationw interrupted the re-
porter.
"No, I have only heard Of two
or three men besides myself who
have lost their hair by the scalp
ing-knife and then lived to tell of
it."
"Mr. Nef, do you think the
hair will ever grow out again?"
'Oh, nc; [ shall always have a
bald spot there. The skin was
torn off for a space of four inches
square, and I am afraid it will
never heal entirely. Even il itdoes
heal over, the bare place will al
ways be 50 painful that l cannot
touch it. L keep my head tied up
in cotton and sweet oil. You can
see that my beauty has been con
Silerably marred. These fright
full gashes across my face will go
The Dawson journal., 1886-07-01
HINTS TO YOUNG MEN WHO WANT
TO MARRY.

/
Select the girl.
Agree with the girls father il
politics, and With her mother il
religion.
Ii you have a rival keep an eye
on him, if he is widower keer
two eyes on him.
Don't swear to the glrl that you
have no bad habits. 1t will be
enough for you to say that you
never heard yourself snore in
your sleep.
Don't put much sweet stuff on
paper. If you do, you will hear il
read in after years, when your
wife has some especial purpose in
inaiction upon you the severest
punishment known to a married
man.
Go home at a reasonable hour
IN the evening. Don't wait TIL
the girl has to throw her whole
soul into yawn that she can't
cover with both hands. A little
thing like that may cause cool
ness at the very beginning of the
game.
Ii you sit down on some molas-
SOS candy that little Willie has
left in the chair, while wearing
your new summer trousers for the
first time, smile sweetly and re.
mark that you don't mind sitting
on molasses at all, and that boys
will be boys. Reserve your true
feelings for future reference.
II, on the occasion of your first
caIl, the girl whom you have
placed your young; affections looks
like an ice berg and acts like g
quiet cold wave, take leave early
and stay away. Woman in her
hours of freeze is uncertain, coy
and hard to please.
In cod weather finish saying
goodnight in the house. DOM
stretch it all the way to the front
gate, if there is a front gate, and
thus lay the foundation for future
asthma, bronchitis, neuralgia and
chronic catarrh, to help you wor-
ry She girl TO death after she has
married vol.
Don't lie about your financial
condition 1t is very annoying to
bride who has pictured for her
self life of luxury in her ances-
trail halls to learn too late that you
expect her to ask a bald d-headed
parent, who has been uniformly
kind to her, to take you in out of
the cold.
Don't be too soft. Don't say:
"Thcse little hands shall never do
a stroke Of work when they are
mine" and "You shall have moth
ing to do in our home but to sit
all day long and chirp to the ca
naries," as if any sensible woman
could be happy fopling aw-y val
liable time in that sort of style;
and a girl has a fine retentive
memory for the soft things and
silly promises of courtship, and
occasionally, in after years, when
she is washing the dinner dishes
or patching the west end of your
trousers, she win remind you of
them, in cold, sarcastic tone OF
voice.
The Dawson journal., 1886-07-01
Relies of Blrblrism.
N. Y. Mercury.

N. 1. mercury
Asa dance in Newark, I'd unken
loafer insulted a young girl from
an adjacent town and struck her
in the face. The ruf1ian was ar
restel, but to her dismay, the girl
was locked up as a witness to ap-
pear agtin3t him, AMI mist re-
main IN custody until his trial,
when possibly both will be set free.
This ja;ling Of witnesses and the
possibility of imprisoninga man for
debt are blots upon our laws that
should De summlrily wiped out.
Had the the Good Samaritan lived
in these days, he would have clap
pei spurs to his mule as soon as
he saw the man who had been
beaten and left for dead, lest,
when tue robbers were arrested
and bailed, he should be sent to the
House of Detention IS q witness.
A Zion Hill girl was intending
to bow sweetly to a St. Paul fell
low, near the Sawyer House, and
show him smiling fact, bat ow-
ing to the slippery condition Of
the walk she only showed him the
soles of pair of number two
shoes, and some drapery we do
not know the name of, and the
way she went up Myrtle street a
moment later, would b eat four of
kind.
The Dawson journal., 1886-07-01
Bainbridge Democrat.

A FAMILY by the name of
Johnson recently moved here
from South Carolina. A child ten
years Of age is a phenomenon.
When born the child could be hid
in quart cup. Now it is but ten
inches in length aud weighs five
pounds. The body of the child
is perfectly formed excepting its
head, which is out of proportion
with the body. The childs parents
are both of ordinary size and me-
dunn height and none of the 9th
er children are any way maltorm-
ed. This dwarf is an idiSt and
requires the closest attention.
This is supposed to be the small
est dwarf in existence. It's name
is George Washington jefferson
Lincoln Grant Johnson.-Chatta-
nooga Dispatch to the Cincinnati
Enquirer.
The Dawson journal., 1886-07-01
Az End to Bone Scraping.

Edward Shepherd, of Harris
burg, ILL.,, says: Having received
SO much benefit from Electric Bit
ters, / feel it nay duty to let suf-
fering humanity know it. Have
had a running sore on my leg for
eight years; nay doctors told me |
would have to have tho bone
scraped or leg amputated. l
used, instead, three bottles of
Electric Bitters and seven boxes
of Bucklen's Arnica Salve, and
my leg is now sound and we'll"
Electric Bitters are sold at fifty
cents a bottle, and Bucklen's Ar
MICA Salve at g cents per box by
Crouch Bros.
The Dawson journal., 1886-07-01

According to the testimony of
physicians and coroners, in all
parts OF the Union, deaths have
resulted from the use Of cough
syrucs containing morphia, opium
and other poisons. In this con-
nection, DIR. Sam'l Cox, of Wash
ington, after careful analysis, en-
dorses Red Star Cough Cure as
being purely vegetable, and sb-
solutely free from opiates, poi
sons and narcotics. IS cents.
The Dawson journal., 1886-07-01
BUCKLEN's ARNICA sALvE.

The best Salve in t,.4e world for
Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt
Rheqm, Fever Sores, letter, Chap.
ped Hands, Pnilblains, C,rn ana
all Skin FfNptions, and positively
cures Fhes, or no pay reqHiaed,
1t Is guaranteed 10 give perfect
satlsfartlon, OF moaev refunded.
Price % ealts per h~- Eor sale
by Crouch =" -