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Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-09-12
The Astonishing Spread of Leprosy

According to Doctor Morell
Mackenzie, leprOsy, the scourge OF
the midle ages, has not become
practically extinct among Euro.
peans, but is ia reality spreading.
II has between 1000 aud 1920
victims ia Norway, Is also found
in Portugal, Greece, aud Italy.
and is rapidly spreading In Sicily,
Ia the Baltic provinces of Russia,
and in France, while the British
islands are not exempt from it.
La the United States cases have
been found In California. in some
of the States Of the northwest; in
Utah and In Lou ana. Many
cases exist in New 4 dnswlck. 10
the Sandwich Islands the disease
frat broke out In 1853, aud there
are now LOO lepers in the Molokai
settlement alone. The disease is
in the West Indies.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-09-12
BABY CAUGHT ON THE FLY.
THE WONDERFUL ESCAPE OF A
TWO AND A HALF YEAR OLD
INFANT-A NEwsBoY's PRES.
ENCE OF MIND.

A New York dispatch to the
Philadelphia Record says:
Baby Scbonab'e had ahont as
narrow an escape from death 70.
day az often falls 10 the lot of u
year Old girl. She fell in A baby
carriage from The roof OF the tonr
story b"ildIug No. 2O3 South Fifth
avenue. and she probably owes her
Lille 10 Is year Old George Mosley.
lively Young newsDoy. he
caught Der in his arms jast as she
vas about to strike the sidewalk
after her IebOunding from the
SprInging baby carriage.
Little Amelia is 4 hdxen.haired
browneyed daughter of Louis
Schonable, a painter, who lives on
the second floor OF the building
where the accident happened.
While Mrs. ScbOnable was en-.
gagged in her household work about
10 O'Clock this morning she left the
baby and her brother Louis (whois
bat twOA,ars older tLan Amelia TO
play about tue kitchen hallway.
The mother did not notice that
they had climbed the stairs until
she heard cries of alarm from peo.
pie IN the street. The children.
with LOUIS StichnOth, neighbours
child, who Is only years Old. had
made their way to the tin roof.
which pitches slightly from the
back OF the house toward the street.
Ga the roof was an old baby car.
rlage that had been put there as
convenient place of storage by one
Of the tenants a year ago. The
youngsters put the baby IN the
carriage and pushed 1t gleefully
back and forth TIL suddenly il
slipped from their hands and com.
menced to roll down the Slight IN.
cline toward the edge of the roof,
There was nothing to stop II, and
with the baby laughing and crow.
ing in 1t, all unconscious, Of course
OF danger, It plunged over the edge
and down so feet toward the street
below.
On the ground floor of the house
is Luke Boyle's rag and paper
store, and IN font Of the store were
a half dozen bales OF rags covered
with a tarpaulrn extending straight
from the bale Of rags below.
The carriage was shivered TO
splinters, and the little girl re.
bounded into the Dir and would
surely have struck the sidewalk
with tremendous force; bat lust
here in the very nick of time young
Moslry came 10 the rescue. He was
walking along the street when he
beard the carriage crash against
the iron arms al the third story.
Quick 10 realize what happening.
he sprdng 10 the side of the rag
OaleS, Just AS the wagon struck on
them. [ baby WAS fling toward
him. He caught her just as good
as a baseball player would catch
a fly in the LETT field. and what
was Drawer he held on 10 her. al.
though the impetus aud the weight
CT her body threw him 20 the front
of the building on a number OF iron
arms or brackets, placed there
with the idea apparently OF some
day building a fire escape on them
and then fell in "a heap on his
knees. The baby was uniujnred
save for a slight abrasion OF the
skin on the right side OF the tace,
where she struck her rescner's
shoulders and tore bis checked
shirt as big as the palm OF a mans
hand.
1t did not take long for a crowd
to gather, and many were the con.
CALCULATIONS heaped upon the boy
for his lucky catch.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-09-12

A ire.b ball, blue aud white, fell
in Brooklyn, Conn.,, during a re.
cent thunderstorm. Que account
says it seemed to come straight
down from the sky, and hit the
carriage in which Mr.. and Mrs.
Sperry and children were drying.
All were hurled ont of the vehicle.
Mr.. Sperry was badly burned, and
his wife and two children we're
paralyzed. Neither carriage nor
horse was much injured.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-09-12

The Norfolk & Western Railroad
company has done not only a very
generous but also very wise act
ia pensIo ling four conductors who
have grown gray IN faithful ser.
vice. 1t was generous because It
was handsome acknowledgment
of duty we'll done 1t was wise be.
cause it was notice served upon all
the employees of the company that
meritorious service will not fail OF
adequate recognition.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-09-12
VANCE AND THE FARMERS.
THEY ARE DETERMINED TO PRE-
VENT HIS RE ELECTION IF
THEY CAN.

A Charlotte, n. c., dispatch to
the New York Sun says:
Upon reviewing the prospects OF
SeDa Vance succeeding himself
in the United States Senate his
most ardent supporters find that
upon every hand mountains OF
difficulties arise, and some OF these
obstacles are paramount to what
the Democratic press of North
Carolina would have the public
believe were Vance's strongest
points. While the majority of the
convention have expressed the
desire that Vance should succeed
himself, yet in almost every case
these conventions have in the past
been composed largely Of farmers,
who are bound by an oath that
in many respects Is more sacred to
them than the oath that binds
them to the constitution of the
United States. The farmers of
North Carolina have heretofore
looked upon Vance as their best
advocate, and it is we'll known
that Vance has consulted the In.
terests of the farmers when, in all
probability, be could have gained
for himself a far greater name of
opposing them. His loyalty to
the farmers in the past, however,
seems to have been forgotten now,
and his recent attack upon the
sub treasury bill has caused a lack
of confidence by the farming ele-
ment. So at present the outlook
is not at all favorable for his cause,
and in some towns newspapers
heretofore strong for Vance are
opposing him in every conceivable
way.
North Cardinals next leglsla.
ture will be composed of Alliance
men, and the game that they are
going to play is quite evident to
the unprejudiced and deep.think-
ing men of this state. Col. L. L.
Polk, president of the National
Farmers Alliance and Industrial
Union, has been making a canvass
of this state with no other aim
than to cause the defeat of Sena-
tor Vance. No love is expressed
by him for Vance IN any of his
speeches, but on the other hand,
he points out Vance's defects Wig.
Orously. But whether Col. Polk
can make political capital out of
Vance's shortcomings is a serious
question of the Democracy of
North Carolina, and 10 the event
of Vance's defeat the Democracy
of North Carolina will be turT ell
entireiy'Over to an inexperienced set
of men that have nothing but the
agricultural interest at heart.
In this secret game that Colonel
Polk hopes to gain sensational
hOnOrs some of the most prominent
men in the state are leaders aud
hitherto strong men, and their
reason for dropping Vance Is SUBJ
stantially the same as the Alliance
gives, but at the same time they
hope to receive their share of the
Offices. The Charlotte Chronicle,
one of the leading daily newspa-
pers in the state aud a Vance or.
gan, has In the past few weeks
seen 6t to stir up the Democracy
OF North Carolina OH the Impend-
Ing dagger, bat the Alliance boot
ed at the idea and induced the
the newspapers to believe that no |
such danger WAS overshadowing
Vance's return to the Senate. |
Their motive for suppressing the
ruth can now be seen, for it still
remains as plain as ever that
Vance is in danger of losing his
reelection.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-09-12

An infant of Frank Warren. who
lives just outside OF Portland
Oregon, was killed by rooster
Saturday. The child was crawl.
Ing in the yard and hal a piece OF
bread in his hand. The rooster
ran up to the baby and at
tackled it by striking with its heak
aud spurs. Oae OF the epurs
penetrated the chiIds'eye and the
chicken selling the bread made OF.
The infant died In few minutes.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-09-12
What II Does.

Hoods Sarsaparilla.
1. Purlfies the blood.
9. Creates an appetite.
3. Strengthens the nerves
4. Makes the weak strong.
8. Overcomes that tired feeling.
9. Cures scrOfula, salt rheum, etc.
Z. Invigorates the kidneys aud
liver.
s. Relieves headache, Indigestion
aud dyspepsia.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-09-12

Bismarck's wife Is expert with
the needle and is famous as a
cook. She IS also remark
able for her simple piety aud for
her charities.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-09-12

or fifty thousand guesses OF the
weighto of a big cake of soap on ex.
hibition in Detroit only four,
strange TO say, were correct. Tho
weight was l,122 pounds.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-09-12

I prescribe Simmons Liver Regu-
lator. and 1t deserves all the praise
it receives.-Dr. ID. w. Atkinson,
Sloan Springs, Ark.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-09-12

Official figures show that there
are cut every year 10 AroJstook
county, Maine, iOo,OOo.oOo feet OF
lumber. ! 49,
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-09-12

Something dropped in Maine,
but it wasn't Thomas Bracket
Reed.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-09-12
The Hanqman's Work.

COLUMBIA, s. c., Sept. RIB
ert Shelton, colored, was hanged
at Larens today, for the murder Of
WIN. Ray ford, also colored. Last
February they had a quarrel about
a woman aud Shelton killed Ray.
ford With an axe and threw his
body into an old we'll. The drop
fell at 11:45 and Shelton was pro-
nounced dead in Ell ghteen minutes,
his neck having been broken. He
persisted to The the last moment
that the killing was in self.Gefenes.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-09-12

The curreutyear has already wit
messed the burning of SIX theatres,
half of this number being in Ger
many.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-07-05
NEW ENGLAND MOTHERS.
The Types Presented in the literature
tho Present Day.

The Types Presented in the Literature OF
tho Present Day.
In direct contrast are the New En-
gland mothers of Mrs. Stowe-Mrs.
Katy Scudder, with faculty" and Mrs.
Badger, who mothered every body,
black and white, within aradius of fifty
miles. Their personalities are like
electric currents, clean and stimulating.
Mrs. Whitney is the portrayer of the
mothers of girls. with Mrs. Holabird
it was always we girls in her heart,
since girls mothers never can quite
lose the girl out of themselves" Mrs.
Goldthwaite. Mrs. Strong, Cousin De-
light, Mrs. Gartney and Aunt Faith are
fine examples OF mothers after the flesh
and spirit.
Howells, in "a Modern Instance"
writes of a type possible only in this
country. A silent effaced woman going
into the kitchen when her daughter en-
tered the sitting-room, and leaving her
to manage the social affairs of the fam
lily. In these delineations of unfortu-
nate actualities Howells excels.
1t is relief to read Little Men" and
Little Women" 10 and her mother are
wholesome souls and the family history
is sweet with true maternity. In "Work"
Mrs. wilkins, though minus teeth and
many freclsled. has face glorified with
mother love and heart large enough to
hold her own brood sand all orphaned
ones.
AS we read modern fiction we are i'm
pressed with the fact that the domestic
novel is dying out The spirit of indi-
vidualism characteristic of the age gives
us the novel embodying some scientific
truth, some physiological problem or
some spiritual struggle. The heroes
and heroines, God help them, are incu-
bated by mans invention, not brooded
over by mother love. No wonder Hag-
CARDS arise to plead for the blessings of
barbarism and return to nature, the
mother of the ce.-Harper's Bazaar.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-07-05
FEEDING HER YOUNG.
Interesting Observations Upon Mother
Humming Bird and Her Nestlings.

Interesting Observations Upon "a Mother
Humming Bird and Her Nestlings.
In the AUX Mr.. William Brewster
records some novel and interesting OBJ
servations upon mother humming- bird
and her young. The two eggs were
hatched on the 4th of July in gentle
mans garden in Concord, Mass, and
Mr.. Brewster was taken to the nest
three days afterwards. The young birds
were then almost as large as their
mother, although they did not leave the
nest till they were exactly two weeks
old.
The little ones bills were about
quarter of an inch long--not half as long
as the bill If an adult bird of the same
species. Mr.. Brewster took position
at distance of about ten yards from
the nest, and with strong field-glass
watched it for two hours.
During this time the mother visited
the nest three times. AT her first com
ing she fed the young, and after brood
ing them for forty-fve minutes, buzzed
about in the tree--not once leaving it
for about a minute. Then she returned
to the nest and fed the young again, one
OF them tWlce In succession.
Immediately afterward she flew off out
of sight and was absent sixteen min
utes. At the end of this time she came
directly to the nest, fed each young bird
once, brooded both for six minutes, and
then flew away again, and did not re-
turn while Mr.. Brewster remained.
Her manner of feeding her offspring
f,l1 al,
of the nest, her tail pressed firmly
against its outer side in the manner of
a woodpecker, her body erect, she first
looked nervously around, then thrust at
least three-quarters of the total length
of her bill down between the upraised
open mandibles of the young bird. Next
she shook her head violently as If dis.
gorging something; then, with their
bills glued tightly together, both birds
remained for several seconds perfectly
immovable save for slight, rapid, pulls
ating orquivering motion of the mothers
throat.
The actual contact of the bills lasted
once four seconds, once six seconds and
twice eleven seconds, the time being
taken with stop watch. The father
bird did not appear at all. The young
were perfectly silent. The mother in
brooding them kept moving restlessly
about, as If she were tramping on them.
The close and prolonged contact of
the bills, the shaking of the mothers
head, the subsequent quivering motion
of her throat, and, above all, the fact
after sitting on the nest for nearly On
hour she fed the young second time
witheut leaving the tree, convinced Ms.
Brewster that the humming birds
method Of feeding her young is by re-
gurgitation. That is to say, the hum
ming bird, like the pigeon, transfers
partially digested food from her own
,rop to the crop Of her nesting.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-07-05
FAMILY CARES.


Ny cares are quite rs many as
The flowers on my gown,
And oft I have to sigh that things
Are more than upside down.
Whenever attempt to knit
Bclinda's airy sacque,
lcurn that Bertha's playing on
The pnrlor railroad track.
Now Alice, who's precious pet,
Blue.eyed and swectly fair,
With roses on her china cheeks
And sunbeams In her hair
Good gracious, she is In the rain,
Upon the kitchen stoop,
And Just as like ns not tonight
She'll suffer with the Group.
And then have cunning Jap,
III broidcred gown and shoon,
With half-closed, dreamy, laughing eyes,
And face just like the moon;
And now, to shatter my repose
And give my nerves shock,
He's clambered to the mantelpiece
And perched upon the clock.
When Arabel is bright and clean
The precious little bud
4 find Lucretia In the yard
A-soalsing In the mud.
And when Maud's hat is shining new
In ribbon and In rose,
From Arabella's button shoes
Peep out ten tiny toes.
That's why my life is full of care
That should be bright and gay.
I have so much to worry o'er
haven't time to play.
But II / had dozen dolls,
Like Evelyn Bartoo,
] can not tell you what in the
Wide world I'd ever do.
-Harper's Bazar
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-07-05
BILLS LITTLE MISTAKE.
He Could Size Up Tin Peddler But Was
Lame on Pictures.

Lame on Pictures.
A New York artist who was down on
the Jersey shore sketching and painting
last summer sold farmer crayon
drawing in which the central figure was
old Father Time with his deadly scythe.
The buyer took it away we'll pleased
with his purchase, but returned next
day with grin on his face and the pict-
ure under mis- arm and said:
1--WE got son Bill to home"
"Yes."
'He amt but fifteen years old"
"Yes."
''He's got tow hair and cataract eye.
but he's smarter'n chain lightning"
"Indeed, but I'm glad to hear it"
81 hadn't this picture home q I've minits
when Bill set up a-roarin' and laughing
and pinted out-what dye think? You've
gone and drawed old Father Time
a-mowing left handed. i might never
have noticed it, but you can't fool Bill
fur cider"
"My dear man," answered the artist,
"did you ever see Father Time2"
''Of course not"
"Did your son Bill ever see him?"
Sartinly not. he amt to be sawed"
'Well, then, how do either of you
know whether he was right or left
handed?"
'By gum!" gasped the farmer as he
stood with open mouth, you've got the
yoke on us. That's it, how do we know?
I've had three different hired men who
were left-handed, and I've knowed other
folks to be. jist jumped at it without
stopping to think. When Bill began to
haw-haw and pint to the scythe, 1 jist
sot in and agreed with him. sly,
mister"
"Yes."
"I've got son Bill"
"Well."
Hes smarter'n chain lightning at
sizing up tin peddler, but the biggest
fool in the State on picturs. IN. Y. Sun.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-07-05
A STRANGE COLONY.
Thirteen Hundred Squatters on the Pensa-
cola Naval Reservation.

Surgeon j. w. Ross, who is generally
considered as one of the best yellow
fever experts in the Government serv-
ice, called on Secretary Tracy accom-
panied by Surgeon General Browne, and
made an appeal in behalf of a colony of
people living on the naval reservation
at the Pensacola Navy Yard, Fla,
about eight miles from Pensacola. These
people, he says, number about 1900,
and are extremely poor, being descend
ants of the employees of the Pensacola
Navy Yard, which was closed almost i'm
mediately after the war and has re-
mained so since. They have built and
bought little homes, which they hold
without much expense, and their living,
such as. it is, is obtained from their
work as fishermen.
A few of them scratch the soil and
raise few vegetables, but the existence
| is sort of hand-to-mouth life that is
made even more precarious by the occa-
sional ravages of yellow fever, which
| has swept the little colony several times
The navy yard offers employment only
| for few men who are engaged in maxi
| ing occasional repairs, but the others
| have been waiting in the footsteps of
| their fathers before them, for the re-
| opening of the'yard in the hope OF OBJ
tanning positions. Micawber-like they
remain, clinging to their hard homes
rather than go to the city, where they
would be obliged to pay rent. But their
physical condition, bad as it is, is not so
bad as their mental state, and that is
the inspiration of DR.. Ross advocacy Of
the colony's needs.
The trouble lies in the fact that, being
squattors on a Government reservation,
they are not regarded as citizens of the
State, and are consequently ineligible
to the advantages of the States public
schools. For years they have gone
along without any sort of education,
even of the most primitive character,
until they have reverted, after couple
of generations to condition of semi
savagery.
Their ignorance is pitiful, resembling
that OF peasants in some of the more un-
enlightened countries OF the east. This
condition OF affairs grows worse yearly,
as all efforts to obtain aid from the
State of Florida have failed. DIR. Ross
has aroused the interest of the Commits
sioner of Education, who has promised
to ask for small appropriation for
some school facilities in the colony II
the Secretary of the Navy would recon-
mend it, this Difference to Secretary
Tracy being due to the fact that he has
jurisdiction over the reservation. The
Secretary yesterday said that he would
offer NO objections to tho granting OF
aid to those bonighted people. AS the
colony is about equally divided between
the white and colorcd races, two schools
will be required, one for each class
Washington Star.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-07-05
Tho Earliest Use of Forks.

The earliest distinct mention of the
established use of forks occurs in a
curious passage of Coryates' "Crudities,"
singular book of travels published in
England in 1911. The author says:
"Here will mention thing that
might have been spoken of before in
the discourse of the first Italian towns.
I observed a custom in all these Italian
cities and towns through which passed
that is not used in any other country
saw in my travels, neither do think
any other nation of Christendom doth
use it, but only in Italy. The Italians,
and also most strangers that are
travelling in Italy, do always at their
meals use little fork when they cut
their meat."-Dry Goods Chronicle.