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Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-08-29
TO SAVE FROM DROWNING.
FOUR RULES THAT, IF FOLLOWED,
WOULD SAVE MANY A LIFE.

To the Editor Of the Philadelphia
Press: Sir,-In the Press of AO-
gust 18Th noticed a statement OF
the means used to resuscitate two
persons who were drowned at
Spring Lake. Therin it was said
they wtIe rolled anil rolled, until
stout arms pched," sand it was
thought one died of heart failure,
as there was little water IN the
body" 1t Is too often the case
that just such means as these are
made use of, thereby destroying
the last Pickering spark OF life,
owing TO the already weak heart
being paraIyzed by the rough
treatment. | think it would be OF
inestimable value and the means OF
saving life If sou would impress
upon the public the following sim
pie rules for the treatment OF the
drowned or asphyxlated:
Rule l. Handle the person gent
Iy. AVOID harsh or rough measures.
Always keep the head lower than
the body. This Is important, 80
that the blood may be kept in the
brain.
Rule 2. Loosen all clot ing that
restricts the body or the neck.
Turn the person on the sile, prefer
ably right side. Place coat rolled
up under the body, 30 that tore
head and feet only touch the ground.
Draw the tongue forward aud see
that the nose aud mouth are clear
from ground.
Rule 3. Use artificial respiration
By gently elevating the arms so
that the hands touch. Then de-
press the arms to the side of the
body and press the chest gently.
Repeat eighteen times a minute.
Rules 4. Rub extremities, but al
ways toward the body. Apply ex'
ternal warmth. Give stlmulants.
Do not despair for at least an hour,
patients having recovered from sp-
parent death after this time.
JAMES MITCHELL, NJ. ID.
Philadelphia, August IL.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-08-29
GULL OUT POOR STOCK.

There is no better time than the
present tor culling out the tiocks
and selling those animals that it is
not desirable to retain another
winter, or beginning TO fit them
for a fall market. The sheep have
raised their lambs and have been
Sheared, and those which did not
show profitable results in either
respect, unless the failure resulted
from some cause which can be
avoided another year, should be
condemned to the butcher, along
With those that are too old or
which have some ailments that
make them liable to be Improbable
another winter.
So too with COWS. This should
be one of the most profitable
months in the dairy, but now,
while the winters performance is
fresh in the memory, is the time to
select the inferior ANIMALS and
commence to fit them for beet. A
few quarts Of grain extra each day
will increase the quantity and i'm
prove the quality of the milk dur
ing the summer, and lay the foun-
dation for putting on a good
amount OF flesh and fat by a few
weeks of extra feeding next fall or
in the early winter, when the milk
product has shrunk where it does
not pay for the grain given.
ALI animals which do not show a
good profit after paying for good
keeping and good care should make
room for their betters. Continue
the same process in the poultry
J ard. Do not keep fowl oyer two
years old, unless especially valuable
as breeding stock. A hen lays
more eggs between the time she is
six mouths old aud the time she is
two years old than she ever will
again in the same length of time,
and the young stock should be
grown now, so that they will soon
require all the loon. when hen
begins to be 5roOdy she is fat and
heavy, and if she is not to be kept
another wlDter that is a good time
to sell her. There are not many
who can make money raising
chickens to be Matched out in the
summer or fall.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-08-29
AGRICULTURAL NOTES.

A noted Western caIUio uIoouoi
says that "breeders have passed
the time when they aim to grow
steers first and then fatten them"
They feed to grow and fatten all
along the line.
Talk oyer the farm management
with the boys, and get their
opinions. AS a rule, parents do a
great deal of thinking and planning
for the boys that it would be much
better to let them DO themselves
Responsibility should be placed
upon them, just in proportion as
they are able to bear it.
The advantage of working around
some kinds of plants while they
are wet with dew, which is thus
shaken off and covered by soil, is
very marked. There is no time,
says an exchange, SO good for
hoeiug cabbages as before break
fast, while the dew is on them. we
know good farmers who, during
hot days in summer, get the Guilt
vatOr at work very early IN the
morning, and then rest both men
and horses during the midday heat.
The advantage of this is not mere
IL the cooler weather for working,
but the fact that dew cOndensing
from the atmosphere in the cool
nights contains a much larger
proportion of ammonia than ordi'
nary ralnwater. In contact with
soil this is absorbed, and is thus
saved from wasting wner the drop
of dew evaporates. But beans can
not be cultivated with advantage
when wet, as it Injuries the leaves,
and we are Inclined to place po-
tatOes in the same category.
The reason why butter which
has been we'll churned loses color
By much working is because the
force applied breaks the globules
and exposes the hard. white
stearine and margarine IN their
centers and hides, in part, the
colOrlng which is on their outer
parts when they are whole, aud
this displacement of their constl'
tuents also changes the flavor, says
L. B. Arnold. If we put into our
mouths butter composed of glObules
in their natural and unbrOken
state, with their flavor as well as
their color in their exterior parts,
that favor makes the first and
deepest, and, in tact, the only i'm
preston upon the organs of taste,
and getting, as we do, all the good
favor there is in them, we praise
the butter for its excellent relish;
but if, by much working, the
glObules are broken up, and the
flavor mixed with and bid beneath
the stearine and margarine which
generally constitute about two
thirds of butter, instead of the
havoring oils, these constituents OF
tallow come in contact with the
organs OF taste and give US more
flavor of tallOw than of butter, and
what might have been 6rst-cldss
butter Is suspected of being oleo-
margarine.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-08-29
Money In Poultry.

The man who sells eggs when
prices are high, says the Homestead,
and sets them when prices are low,
is generally the man who makes
the money. The man that raises
pare bred stock, raises brOilers aud
rOasters from the culls, and sells
eggs tor Matching, is the man that
has the profit. 1t is impossible to
make much money from one branch
alone. BrOilers, eggs aud pure
bieds are good sGjuncts to each
other, but should never be run in a
single branch alone. The man tina:
personally oversees, or does the
work, is the man who makes
money. Hired men are apt to be
careless, and are an expense.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-08-29
The Right Spirit.

81 see," he observed, walking
into the sanctum. "that you need
the services of a leader writer on
your editorial column"
"That position has been filled,
Sir" was the reply.
He sighed.
81 notice, alsO,' he went on, "that
you advertise for a person to adj
dress envelopes. Is that position
still open p
sit is, sir"
"Then I'll take it."-Puck.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-08-29

Daring the epidemic of iux in
this county last summer, had
hard work to keep a supply of
Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera and
DlarrbGa Remedy on hand. Pee
pie often came ten or twelve miles
in the night to get bottle of the
Remedy. l have been selling
patent medicines for the last ten
years and find that 1t has given
better satisfaction in cases OF
diarrhO@ and tlux, Than any otter
medicine | have ever bandled.-J.
II. Henhan, Druggist, GolcOnda,
Pope, Co., Illinois. Over five hun
bred bottles Of this Remedy were
sold IN that county during the
epidemic referred TO. 1t was Il
perfect success aud was the Ouly
remedy that did cure tue wo st
cases. Dozen of persons there will
certify that it saved their lives. Ia
four other epidemics of bowel com
plant this Remedy has been equal
IL successful. % and 80 cent bot
ties for sale by f. Il. IRWIN &
Bro, Druggists, Woodstock, Va.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-08-29
COAL LANDS IN VIRGINIA.
SPECTATORS TAKING TO BUYING
MINES IN THE OLD DOMINION.

SPECTATORS TAKING TO BUYING
MINES IN THE OLD DOMINION.
The boom of mineral and timber
lands in Virginia within the past
SIX months has been phenomenal,
not only within the history of the
Old Commonwealth, but surprise
to some OF her new sister States of
the great West. Starting at Win.
chester, the march of progress and
speculation has followed the
Shenandoah and Page Valley, and
til ence through to the Southwest
to the Tennessee and Kentucky
lines. There are lines of raj ways
traversiug these fertile valley con.
Meeting with the Seaports of Nor.
folk, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and
Western Railway.
Standing at Lynchburg and run
ming west, is to be found rich veins
of the beet semi.anthracite and
bituminous coal which compares
ny analysis to be superior to the
same Goals in Pennsylvania and
Maryland. There are also mount
aims of the best iron ores lying
along side Of the coal lands
Several large Eastern syndicateS
haye already entered this new
field of wealth for investments and
development of the ore and coal.
A few miles west of Pulaski
CITY, on the Norfolk and Western
Railway, Is to be found the cell
ebrated Peak Creek coal and
Iron land. There are seven hun.
dred or more acres of coal land in
this tract, situated along the base
of the mountains just above water
level. The seam of this vein of
coal is six and a halt feet thick and
free from slate and Phosphorus
The mouth of the tunnel OF this
mine is only 800 yards from the
railroad. 1t is claimed that the
coal can be mined and placed on
the cars at cost OF sixty cents per
ton. There are also 200. acres of
iron ore land on Diapers Mount
ain, belonging to the same tract
Ga the west of the Peak Creek
iron property is the Clark Summit
iron ore mines, which are being
largely and successfully operated
i by the Virginia Iron aud Steel
Company, while on the east is
located the Clayton iron property,
containing l 800 acres, which is 80
rich IN brown hematite ore that an
eastern firm of capitalists have
purchased it for $4,000.
It's claimed that this vein Of
ore, beginning on Clayton property
on the east, runs through the Gu.
tire Peak Creek property OF 200
acres to the Clark Summit iron
mines on the west.
The Peak Greek property Is con.
sidered By experts to be one OF the
most valuable of all the iron prop
critics in Southwest Virginia.
The analysis shows 50 per cent.
of metallic iron. There are num-
Der of iron furnaces already in
Operation in this section of the
State, which are doing an extensive
bust VGlley VirginiGh.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-08-29

Sam Jones says homeopathy
may be all right in medicine but it
won't WORK in theology. He be.
lieves IN "blOod in this world aud
fire in the next" but doesn't say
whether the husband or wife will
have to be up of mornings dallying
with he kindllng-wOOd.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-08-29
An Unfair Decision.

81 hear that Base Drummer is
to be sent back to Europe"
Yes. They decided he was
not an ARTIST"
elbow did they reach that de.
cisiOn ?"
"Well, unfortunately the coilec.
tor had a headache when the trial
came on, aud after the third whack
be de cided the man was nul.
nce."-Hdrper'S Bdzar.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-08-29

The sands along the banks OF
the Columbia River, IN Oregon, 10
an obstacle to railway traffic, al.
most as difficult to overcome as
the snow b'OckAdes during the
winter. Nearly every train Is dc
layed on account OF the ever
sand hills covering the
track.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-08-29
Sick Headache

IS a complaint from which many suner
| and few are entirely free. It's cause
is Indigestion and sluggish hver' the
cure for which is readily found in the
use OF Ayers Pills.
Il have found that for sick headache.
caused by disordered condition OF the
stomach, Ayers Pills are the most re-
liable remedy. Samuel c. Bradburn.
Worthington, Mass.
CATER the use OF Ayers Pills for
many years, in my practice ana iaihlly'
am Justified in saying that they are an
excellent cathartic and liver medicine
sustaining all the claims made for them
W \ Westfall. VI. D., '. 7. Austin
& y. W. Railway Co., Burnett Texas.
"Aver's Pills are the best medicine
known to me for regulating the bowels
and for all diseases caused by as,
ordered stomach and liver. l suffered
Tor over three years from headache, IN
DIGESTION. and constipation. had no
annette and was weak and nervous
most of the time. BY using three boxes
of Ayers Pills, and at the same time
dieting myself, was completely cured
Philip Lockwood, Topeka, Kansas.
ct was troubled for years with indi-
gestion, constipation, and headache. 4
Few boxes of Ayers Pills, used in small
daily doses. restored me to health
They are prompt and effective. w H.
Strout, Meadyille, Pa.
Ayers Pills,
PREPARED BIT
Or. J. c. Aver & Co., Lowell, Mass
Sold By all Druggists and Dealers In Medicine
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-08-29
She Was Ready for Him.

"Now show me the COW that
gives the buttermilk,' said young
DOlleS facetiously to the pretty
milkmaid.
GOA, We don't get that from the
cow replied the girl. THAT comes
from the gOat."-Munsey's Weekly.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-08-29
OUTBOUND.
tSunday only
CONNECTIONS.
'Dally, except Sunday.

Limited
arriving at Pttburg Columbus at % and Chicago
with Cincinnati at 40
m m Weaverton with train arriving i'gers-
Junction Frederick
2Apm. -. r So 81. .. .
and 81 Louis Arrive
90 Chicago at b PM cincinnati a" ' Pm ana 81
8
Ais have Pullman Buffet Par cars between stanton aa Bt
Ptsburg all express trains ,.on
o. L. H. OF
T. CiAS o. SCI it Ge9p Pass At ODELL Mana
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-08-29

Keep the farmhouse IN good re-
pair If only a sod house or board
shanty. This is necessary to CON-
fort and convenience, which may
be secured even in the humblest
dwelling.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-08-29

One OF the largest forests IN the
wOred stands on ice. 1t is situated
between Ural and the OkhOstk
sea. A we'll was recently dug In
this region, when it was found
that at depth OF 1l6 metres the
ground was still frozen.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-08-29

Somehow or other the man who
is called on for a speech just be.
fore your turn always knows your
best story.-EImira Gazette.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-08-29

Do not dose yourself or your
stock with medicine for every little
i'll. Diet and TEST. Sleep, and a
moderately empty stomach, are the
best medicines in the world.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-08-29

Simmons Liver Regulator has
never been known to fail to cure
Dyspepsia.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-08-29

MR. LIE. N lFf tAAAt gvA ANl@A . ~
St | only said Mrs. Allen was q very Well
Informed woman aud wished you would follow
her example
Mis- LEE. Eyes. and last week You said you
wished could manace 20 look as stylish as MIS-.
Allen-and she makes all her OWL CLONES. buL
she has Wha. / haven't
Mr. LEE "What is thalf"
MRs LEE. ell, she gets all Of her Informs
ton from the Magazine they take. l ADMIT tnaE
che knows all that h. going on, and Is bright ana
entertaining I'm conversation bur l could DO az
well as she docs II / bad the same source OF
information. She lent me the las- number OF her
Magazine lately and ! learned more in one hours
reading ab0u- various social matters ana the
topics Of the day. than would pick up In month
by my occasional chats IN frenas. II cerianiy
covers every topic OF interest, from the news OF
the day down 10 the details Of housekeeplngi
and everything is % beautifully illustrated TOO.
Every time Mamie goes over 70 the Aliens sne
comes back and leases me 10 get you 70 take
Demorests Family Md-azne, as the stories arc
SO good. Even tn boys watch for Il every month,
as a place l. found for them also In its pages and
Mr. Allen sXears by 10. IL is really wonderful
how il suits every member Of the family
ME LEE " ell perhaps had better send iorA
Specimen Copy; for II it Is anything Ike what you
eayit l. 10 viii arlgse and instruct the whole OF US
Mrs LEE. Il see that ". Jennings Demorest'
the publisher. Is East 18th Street. New YORK, IS
Offering To send a Specimen Copy for 10 cents 30
we cant lose anythug a. each number contains
q Pattern Oricr' emitting the holder 10 any
Pattern she may choose. and in any sizeIwnlen
alone makes each COPY Wortl 81 cents aud ll-s
want Jacket pattern ike Mrs. Aliens. Inc
eubscripion pr e Is only 50 90 year anu
must ssy | can't see how they can publish 70
elegant Magazine foT so little money"
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-08-29

dlona and 4 leave Woodstock at - m and
opping all stations arrive at apers Ferry
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-08-29

FeD.2S -lyr.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-21
TURN OUT THE LIGHT.

A Philadelphia paper is authority for the
statement that twelve persons have been
killed lately by Illuminating gas in that
city, and we may take 1t as settled fact
that it is growing decidedly fashionable in
Philadelphia to blow out the gas. When
one of the characters in THE City Direc-
tory" during the recent performance Of
that farce in this city, suggested that Phila-
del phians ought to be trained to turn off the
the gas, it was taken for irony of familiar
sort. But it now seems to have been a
sober and sensible suggestion, for the Phila-
delphia Inquirer, which has had great ex-
perience in turning on the light one way and
another, says editorially:
"Don't blow out the gas. Don't turn it
off and then on again. Don't sleep in room
without ventilation. Unless, of course, you
wish to furnish a case for the Coroner"
How the good old Philadelphians must
sigh for those halcyon and placid days be-
fore existence on the Delaware was disturbed
by pesky public Improvements, and every
body went to bed by candle light
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-21
A JOYOUS CHRISTMAS

To be Anticipated on Santa Claus Night
by Pittsburg Club Young People-A
Number of Weddings Yesterday-Other
Items of Interest in the Social World.
Christmas Eve will be celebrated in joyous
manner by the young people included in the
Pittspurg Club set The arrangements are all
complete, and invitations will shortly be issued
for brilliant subscription dance to be given
in the handsome assembly room of the club
house.
A number of prominent society ladies will
figure as patronesses of the affair, and a CON-
potent committee of young gentlemen well
versed in social ethics insures the successful
issue of the enterprise. While not an assembly
ball, it will equal in elegance and beauty any
thing ever given in the Pittsburg Club, as
all the young people are eager to
the opportunities for which have been SO linn
tied thus far this season, and the older ones
are equally interested In the affair. The hour
for assemb bling is designated as S:30-quite an
innovation, but a most commendable one ac-
cording to one of the fair patronesses, who
pronounced it IAN excellent idea in referring
to it last evening.
The master OF ceremony of the affair is Mr..
Frank 8. Wilcox; the committee Messrs, w.
Harry Singer, Jr, William c. Robinson, James
Werner ScaIfe and Frank w. Severance; the
patronesses Mrs. George Dilworth, Mrs. Sam
uel Severance, Mrs. j. s. Hays, Mrs William
H. Singer, Mrs. II. W. Oliver Mrs Charles S.
Scaife, Mrs. F. NJ, Magee, Mrs. Z. L. Magee
Mrs. William H. Forsyth, Mrs. Henry Darling
ton, Mrs j. s. Brown and Mrs. A. H. Childs.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-21
PITrsBURG's SOLID GROWTH.

Figures under some conditions are more
eloquent than words, and The DISPATCH
gives some figures to-day about Pittsburg's
growth that speak volumes. Everybody
knows that the increase in the value of per-
sonal property and real estate has been
great, and the statement made upon good
authority in another column that the valua-
tion for taxing purposes next year will show
an accretion of four or five millions of
dollars will be accepted as warranted by the
facts in sight. 1t is pointed out that the i'm
ptovement of city property has taken the
shape of stores and dwelling houses for the
most part, and a most satisfactory symptom
of the city's progress this is. The substantial
nature of Pittsburg's growth is one of the
best guarantees at this moment that the
financial disturbances elsewhere will not
harm her Such Improvements of the city
as the enlargement of Highland Park, re-
commended by committee of Councils
yesterday. will stimulate private enterprise
in every legitimate direction.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-21
CANADA'S OUTLINE.

Citizens of the nited States are gradually
acquiring more adequate view than for
merly of the extent and resources of the
Dominion of Canada. A recently issued
map of West Canada and British Columbia,
published in the new edition of Stieler's
Hand Atlas, makes an interesting and sug-
gestive exhibit of the numerous and valu-
able surveys and discoveries which the
Canadians have been making during the
last few years in their truly wonderful
country.
Upon it there appear lines stretching
from near the mouth of the Mackenzie
river southeast to the regions of Cape
Churchill and Port Nelson on Hudson Bay,
which indicate the northern limit of TIM
Der, potatoes. barley and wheat Perhaps
an even more telling way of stating it, is to
say that BY putting one leg of pair OF
dividers down upon the city of Duluth, in
Northern Minnesota, and swinging the
other leg to the Northernmost point where
wheat ripens, and then continue the swing
ing OF that leg around to the Southwards, it
would make its path 500 miles out at sea
beyond New York and likewise beyond the
Southern point of Florida.
The graIneries of the Saskatchewan,
Athebasca and Peace Valleys are going to
play a very important part in the history OF
the Great Northwest at no distant day. 1t
is thought that via Winnipeg and Duluth
they will find water transit via the Great
Lakes to the ocean. The traffic of those
lakes is already growing SO rapidly that a
sober view of the actualities of the immedi-
ate future almost staggers present belief.
All this but lends additional importance to
Pittsburg's Lake Canal.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-21
GOOD ENGLISH ADVICE.

Under the head of American Matters in
London, there occurs in the Illustrated Ne,oS
OF the World, the following observation:
"What the United States needs is rest from
agitation of the tariff and other industrial
questions, at least long enough to ascertain
how the new measures passed at the recent
session will work. Votes for the revival of
fruitIess agitation do not seem to be in ac-
coIdance with the dictates of sound policy
for business men, whose trades all need a
season of peace; for manufacturers who
wish to test the practical working of the new
tariff; and for workers, to whom it promises,
if undisturbed in operation, a larger demand
for their labor"
1t may strike a good many readers that
our English cousin hit it remarkably we'll
that time.