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Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-09-16
A Mules Way Of Killinn a Snake

Chulio District, in Geor gia, has long
furnished many curiosites OF various
kinds, but Just now it claims mule
which for self.defending intelligence
seems to surpass anything Of the kind in
the country. The mule belongs to Jack,
son Walker and is designated by tie
name of Jude, and il not very different
from the great army of mules living ia
Chulio, but the other day it did sonc-
thing that mules arc not accustomed to
do. 1t killed a snake.
The story is told by one Of the farm
hands who witnessed the transaction.
The mule was grazing in the tall grass
near a small stream aa1 came upon 4
large cotton mouth moccasin lying in the
sun. The mule grazsd up ultll its nose
almost touched the snake. The snake
commenced to prepare for stroke at the
mules nose, when that animal gave a
loud snort aud with its ears laid back as
if in a great rage, the mule seized the
snake in its powerful mouth biting 1t al
mos: entirely in twain, aud then lc' in
fall to tic earth where it died in a few
seconds. Atlanta Constitution.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-09-16

any more. neither shall the sun light OF
them, nor any heat for the Lamb which ID
in the midst of the throne shall lead them To
living fountains of water, and God shall
wipe away all tears from their eyes"
go a little distance farther on the same
road, and l meet maiden OF Israel. Sht
has no harp but she has cymbals. They
look as if they had ruste1 from sea spray
and say to the maiden Of Israel, "Havl
you no song for tired Pilgrim And like
the clang of victors' shields the cYmbals cal
as Miriam begins to discourse, 'Sing ye t
the Lord, for He hath triumphed glorously;
the horse and the rider hath He thrown into
the sea-"
pursue this subject only ono steT
farther. What is ths terminus? do moi
care how fine road you may put me on,
want to know where it comes out. My text
declares It, THE redeemed of the lord come
TO Zion" You know what Zion was. That
was the Kings palace. TWAS mountain
fastness. 1t was impregnable And *
heaven is the fastness of the universe
No howitzer has long enough range to
she'll those towers. Let all the batteries OF
earth and hell blazs away; they cannot break
in these gates. Gibralter was taken; Sebas-
topol was taken; Babylon fell; but those
walls OF heaven snail never surrender either
to humanity or satanic besiegement. The
Lord God Almighty is the defense OF it.
Great capital OF the uniyers.l Terminus OF
the Kings highway
When my last wound is healed, when tina
last heartbreak is ended, when the last tear
of earthly sorrow is wiped away, and when
the redeemed of the Lord shall come to
Zion, then let the harpers take down their
harpS, and all the trumpters take down their
trumpsts, and all across heaven there be
chorus Of morning starr, chorus Of white
robed victors. chorus OF martyrs from I'm.
der the throne, chorus of ages, chorus OF
worlds, and there be but one song sung, AMI
but one name spoken, and but one throns
honorel-that Of Jesus only.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-09-16
Vegetables Camel by Machinery,

DR.. Thomas Spackbrowcr, of German
town, Penn, who has an interest in a
large canning establishment In lower
Delaware, said to "A Philadelphia reporter
the other day: "Most persons who think
about tie matter at all doubtless believe
that canned vegetables are put up by
hand, but such is not the case, and in
that industry we have called in the aid
of machinery to a surprising extent. For
instance, my firm owns q machine that
will she'll 1900 bushels of peas IN a day,
and another ingenious contrivance that
packs the peas into the cans at the very
brisk rate Of 1900 cans an hour. The
work OF both machines is clearly and
economically done, and the peas are not
crushed or in any way injured. These
two clever devices last season handled
the peas that filed nearly 400, 900 cans,
and this year the figures will be close
upon half million. That is one reason,
and a very important one, too, why
canned vegetables are now so reasonable
in price"
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-09-16
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
FEEDING figs FOR PROFIT.

Any good breed of pigs, az the Berk-
shire, Yorkshire, Chester or Essex,
should make one pound of live weight
from four pounds of wheat Or six OF
oats. The larger quantity of hu'k in the
oats accounts for the difference. The
most effective way of feeding is to grind
the grim and mix it with skinned milk,
or, if this is not procarable, with water,
and feed the mixture in a thick mush.
With oats at twenty cents bushel, pork
can be made at cost Of four cents a
pound live weight, not counting the
milk. II milk is fed, of course this will
add to the weight and reduce the cost of
the pork. Wheat at fifty cents bushel
is cheaper than oats at twenty CENTS
New FORK Times.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-09-16
THE PRESERVATION OF BUTTER.

To preserve butter in all its freshness
for at least two months, the following
methods may be followed; Dissolve six
grammes (92I grains Troy Of tartaric
acid in one ltre az pints) of water, aud
six grammes of Dicarbonate OF soda.
This water will thus have the property
Of dissolving thoroughly the butyric
acid aud the spoiled casein which gives
rancid butter its abominable taste. Select
very fresh butter of good flavor and beat
it up with this water until the water is
clear, aud until by this mixing aud
MASKING the butyric acid and deteriorL-
ted casein have disappeared. The but
ter is then washed several times in fresi
water; it is then we'll drained in clean
cloths and put into glass or porcelain
jars. If you wish to utilize some jars,
the interior may be coated with layer
of wax or stearine to prevent the air
passing through the pores. BY pouring
the wax melted into the jars an imper-
meable coat is formed. Place your bit
ter, we'll drained, in these glasses Or
Jars, and cover the surface with a sheet
of paper STEPPED in melted wax. II you
wish to prolong tue preservation, salt
the butter when mixing.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-09-16

To illustrate the lack Of business
nlutbods, even among our most high
Is nducated ladies, says the St. Loais
Republic, one of the Mound City's
millionaires delights in telling the
following on his better half, although
be Gxacts pledge Of secrecy regard
ing names. Il got tired" said he,
"of signing checks for wife's pin
money, so one day ! deposited S., OOJ
to her credit in bank. Then l gave
nv wife a check book and explained
to her how to draw and indorse a
check, fill out the stub, etc. Six
months rolled around and l was
treated to a disagreeable surprise.
Look-a-here, Dan, said the cashier
of the bank one day, do you know
that your wife's account is over
drawn?' No. How much:' | said.
oh, 80, coo. knew it would be all
right, so l honored the paper Well,
YOU can Just bet that l made it all
right forthwith. Then l undertook
to give my wife a lesson in the rudi-
ments Of fnanciering. Mary, L be-
Gan, do you know that you have
oyerdrawn your bank account? i
don't know that l have; indeed. L
have not said she, in no amiable
tones. But the cashier says you
have, my dear Now, how much
money have you checked Out?' 4
don't know and l don't want to know.
There's my check book, can't you see
that there are five checks left, and
didn't you tell me that this book was
good for money in the bank?' L
found it convenient TO run down town
and meet q friend.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-09-16
They Have No Daily Bread.

"The cattle herders of the Argentine
Republic are perhaps the only civilized
people on the globe who eat no bread, )"
said George J. Giddings, of New
Orleans. 81 was sent to that country a
year ago by an English syndicate to buy
cattle for the London market. l pene-
trated 700 miles into the interior and
for months lived among the rural folk.
They are the happiest, geutlest and most
hospitable people l ever saw. Their
habits are frugal, though not especially
energetic, and their mode Of life is
primitive, but clean and virtuous. The
natives, for the most part, live in little
mud huts. They subsist entirely on
dried beef aud tea made from a native
herb leaf. When they want meat they
kill a beef on the panpas and, after
skinning and cleaning him, hang the
carcass up to dry in the blazing sun.
After thus exposing it to the sun for
two days the meat is then in prime
condition for the Argentinian palate
after it is cooked. A great thick hulk
of it is sliced of the neck or sides an !,
impaled on a wooden fork, is held over
a fame until it quits sizzling aad crack
ling. Then a bountiful supply Of salt
and rcd pepper is sprinkled over the
meat, a little grease aud water are pourel
over it aud you have a dish fit for the
gods, when the tea is drawn aud ready
to 90 with it. The better class OF natives
usually keen small supply of colrie
corn meal in their houses with which to
make bread for distinguished guests, but
they never eat any of this brea1 them
selves, nor do they seem to care for it.
st. Louis Globe Democrat.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-09-16
A Great Frozen Lak:.

On the load from Irkutsk to Kiakhta,
the frontier town Of the Chinese Empire,
the monotony of the journey is broken
by crossing Lake Baikal, a wonderful
lake frozen for niue months in the YER,
which has sky times the area Of the
Lake of Geneva, ard has au average
depth Of no less than 5l0l feet, or more
than mile. The cold is so terIsbe that
wheI hurricane stirs the waters the
waves often freeze as waves, remaining
in hummocks above the surface; but
when ]. NJ. Price, author Of From the
Arctic Ocean to the Yellow Sea-" crossed,
the cold had ciught the lake asleep and
the ice was perfectly smooth. He had
thirty miles to drive on the solidifed
water. "FOr about a mile from the
shore, the ice had a thin layer of snow
over it, but we gradually lett
this sort OF dszzling white carpet,
and at length reached the clear ice,
when saw around me the most wonder
full and bewitching sight ever beheld.
Owing 10 the marvellous transparency OF
the water, the Ice presented everywhere
the appearance OF polisie crystal, ant
although undoubtedly of great thickn ess,
was so colorless that it was like passing
over space. Il gave me, at first, an ul-
canny feeling to look over the side of
the sledge down into the black abyss be-
meath; this feeling, however, gradually
changed to one OF fascination, till a.
last l found it positively difficult to
withdraw my gszs from the awful
depths, with nothing but this sheet OF
crystal between mt anil eternity. | be-
lieve that most travellers, on crossing the
lake on the ice for the first time, ex-
perience the same weird and fascinating
influence. About halt way across,
l stopped to make a sketcl
and take some photographs. It
was no easy matter, as | tounl
on getting out of the sIedge, for the ic3
was SO slippery that, in spite Of my hav-
ing felt snowboots on, could hardly
staud. The deathlike silence of the sur
roundings was occasionally broken, how
ever, by curious sounds, as though big
guns we're being fired at some little dis
lance. They were caused by the crack.
ing OF the ice here aud there. was
told that in some parts Of the lake were
huge assures, through which the water
could be seen. 1t is for this relsOn tia,
1t is always advisable to do the journey
by daylight. We reached Mouish6aya,
on the opposite coast, exlctly four and
half hours after leaving Liestve1itz, tho
horses having done the whole distance |
of over thirty miles with only two stop ,
pages of few minutes each. 1t was !
evidently an easy biz Of WORK for them,
as they seemed as frcs' when we DIRE"
up in the POSTCARD as when they stared
IN the morning"
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-09-16
EoY 10 Tell Poison IYY.

Children who arc running about in
the woods are often warned TO beware
Of the poisonous ivy, but they, as well
as many grown people, find it difficult to
tel which is the poisonous and which the
harmless ivy.
First-Every three leaved ivy is dan
gerous unless its berries are rel.
Second-All five leaved ivys are harm
less.
Third-All ivys bearing pale green or
blush berries, almost white, are poison
Gus.
There is a poison ivy and poison
sumac, and these are unlike in appear
ance, excepting that they both bear blue
or grcen-white berries, which grow in
small, slender clusters from the axis of
the leaves.
The poison ivy has three leaves in a
cluster and light colored berries. The
woodbine, or Virginia creeper, which is
not poisonous, is five leaved, AMI its
berries are very dark.
The poison ivy is fond OF fences and
stone walls, covering both thickly; but
it does not cling close, like the Virginia
creeper, and it branches out at the top
like a tree.
The poison sumac, which is also known
as poison elder and poison dogwood,
grows all the way from five to twenty
feet high, and has five pairs of opposite
leaves ending in one at the top of the
leaf, like the sumac that is harmless, but
the shape Of the leaf Is different, that of
the poison sumac being more egg-shaped,
and blunt at the end, while the other la,
pointed leaves. The berries also OF the
harmless sumac are in clusters aud bright
red, while the other has light colored
berries.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-09-16
THE HOUSE CELLAR.

The cellar should be dry, well lighted
and ventilated, non-freezing, and at
least seven aud half feet in height. A
basket carried on the shoulder should
not strike the ceiling. An outside cellar
door is useful for carrying down milk,
fruit and vegetables. 1t saves tracking
dirt through the house. A narrow trench
fifteen inches deep around the cellar
floor, close to the wall, filled nearly full
with coarse gravel or broken stone, and
covered with earth, will catch all water
oozing in, which should then be carried
away by tile-drain. Double windows
will keep out the cold and let in the
light. Use wire screens instead OF windows
during the summer, trailing some morn
ing glories, or other quick-growing
vines on the outside for q shade.-Amer.
lean Agriculturist.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-09-16

Chile Sauce Two large, ripe toma-
toes, three green peppers, two onions
chop all fine. Add two tablespoonful
of salt, five of brown sugar, two cupstul
Of vinegar and boil slowly for a couple
of hours.
Eng Soup-Slice two white onions,
fry brown in butter, add three pints oil
water, aud let boil. season with salt, stir
until the soup thickens, take from the
fire, mix in gradually the beaten yolks
of four eggs. Serve with sippets of fried
bread.
Tomato Butter-Take ten pounds OF
ripe tomatoes cut fine after peeling,
three pounds brown sugar and boil to-
eethe5 till thick. Then add one pint Of
vinegar and a tablespoonful OF salt aud
boil again till thick. Stir in two table
spoonsful OF ground cinnamon and seal
in pint cans. This preparation is de.
licious with chicken or cold meats.
Rice and Apple Pudding-Soik evap-
Grated apples and chop small. Mix three
cups OF the apples with one cup wished
rice with or without one or two spoons
full of dessicated cocoanut. Fill even
full with the apple juice Or water, and
cook two or three hours in double boiler
lin bowl, not in metaD. Serve warm
or cold with or without dressing. This
can be bakel in pipkin in a SLOW
oven.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-09-16
CURIOUS FACTS.

A cat sees as we'll by night as by day
Canned rabbit is a New Zealand ex
port.
The mocking bird hates the color rec
as much as the bull.
There are 1900 Johnsons in Chicago
and only 420O Smiths.
CUur d'Alene are three French words,
meaning "heart of an awl."
The rife was invented by Whitworth
IN 1900; the repeating rife by Sharp,
1S4S.
1t is calculated that 1000 thrifty cof-
fee trees will yield fair average OF
5000 pounds of coffee per annum.
The leaves Of the life tree, which is
found only in Jamaica, grow after they
have been severed from the plant.
Horace wrote the first of his "Odes, "
on which his fame was to rest through
all time, at the early age OF twenty
three.
An alligator at the Crystal Palace,
London, lived in perfect health upon
nothing for eighteen months. 1t lately
took piece of very high mutton with
relish.
Out of 1900 guesses on big cake
of soap on exhibition in Berlin Only two
were correct. The cake was soap
makers advertisement, and it weighed
1922 pounds.
japanese jugglers are deft smokers.
Several of them vii sit before a curtain
and from the tobacco smoke, which
issues from their mouths, will form a
succession of readable letters.
The natives of Vera Cruz, Mexico, do
a large trade in fireaies, which they
catch by waving burning coal al the
end of stick. The insects fly toward
the light and are captured in nets.
II the dead of London were each al
lowed a grave two by six feet, with a
very thin wall of earth between, each
year her so, 600 corpses would fill a Gem
etery of about twenty-three acres.
In the Oriental Department of the
British Museum, tablet has been de.
ciphered as containing an oTer of mar
rage made by a Pharaoh t. a dau yhter
of the King of Babylon, about 1880 b. c..
At Hirniskctscher, Bohemia, the un-
equal working of nature in the destruc-
ton of rocks has resulted in a most
colossal and ruggedly beautiful arch, the
summit of which is upward Of 14OO feet
above the sea level.
Tornodoes originate in the tropics,
and are chiefly found ia five Localities
the West Indies, Bengal Bay and the
Chinese coast, north of the equator, and
in the South Indian Ocean, of NADIA.
gascar, and, in the South Pacific,
near Samoa.
When Jumbo, the nam moth elephant,
was dissected, pint and half Of gold,
silver, copper and brouzs coins were
found in his stomach. In the lot Their;
was coins of three Kingdoms, two re.
publics, five dukedoms, two principals
ties and one dependency.
The extent to which civilization ha'
been carried into Africa is indicated b.
the fact that the Zulu singers are nov
interesting London, having seventy
seven English songs in their repertoire,
and are particularly fond Of rendering
"Bid Me Discourse" and "Annie Laurie.
An enormous school of barracuda wa
sporting in Monterey Bay, California,
the other day, when, with sudden turn,
they headed straight for the beach with
out diminutIon in their speed, and were
soon landed high and dry upon the
shore. The belief is that the barracuda
were driven ashore by school OF whales
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-09-16
Farm AND GARDEN NOTES.

It's better to isolate all sick birds. 1t
is the surest way to check disease.
There is no class Of fowls thai will
excel turkeys for catching insects.
After the hens are two years old they
will not lay 50 many eggs as pullets.
The Russians are introducing the
French Percheron horse. in large mum
Gers.
Remember, if your fowls have proper
food, feathcr-ea.ing will be an unknown
thing to them.
Turn the pigs into the grain fields to
CLEAN after the harve;ter3. They will
find everything that has been missed,
aud make good use of it.
To get fair return from the British
market everything we ship must be
first class. Poor cattle aud poor fruit
alike can best be sold at home.
The great law to success in breeding
has been formulated as: "Bree1 in sufli.
GENTLY to fix the type, and then breed
out to strengthen the constitution.
The fowls will be able TO pick IN tue
most of their living if given free
range. When the hens begin mouiting
little oilmeal with grouad oa!s is a
good feed.
MuIching the fruit trees after the
ground has froz,a will prevent the buds
starting so early IN the spring, and save
then from being frost bitten. Rlther
warm for this advice now, but bear it in
mind.
The "earth mulch" is something the
grower should never forge: in drought.
Deep stirring OF the soil mixes tie dry
with the moist earth and haslens eyapor.
alton, but frequent stirring - the
depth of an inch or so husband; the
supply OF moi.tarc below this earth
mulcl.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-09-16

Both the method and results when
Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant
and refreshing to the taste, and acts
gently yet promptly on the Kidneys,
Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys-
TEN efectually, dispels colds, head.
aches and fevers and cures habitual
constipation. Syrup of Figs is the
only remedy of its kind ever pro-
duced, pleasing to the taste and ac-
reptable to the stomach, prompt in
its action and truly beneficial in its
effects, prepared only from the most
healthy and agreeable substances, its
many excellent qualities commend it
to all and have made it the most
popular remedy known.
Syrup of Figs is for sale in SOC
and 81 bottles by all leading drug
gists. Any reliable druggist who
may not have it on hand will pro-
cure it promptly for any one wLo
wishes to try it. DO not accept any
substitute.
CALIFORNIA Fjc syrup co.
SSg FRANCISCO. Cal.
LOUISVILLE. KK REV YOpK, nv
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-09-16
Mysterious Egg Shaped Lake.

One of the sight three. miles from
Ashland, Oregon, is an egg-shapei lake,
one-quartes By three-quarters Of a mile,
that has no visible outlet. There is q
cliff on one side, though the other is
open, and 100 feet from the bank is
narshy. Many deer have been kilIei
at their rendezvous on the lake, and ITS
depth has never been sounded, though
Il is believed to be very deep, as 1t no
doubt has been the crater Of a volcano,
New York Dispatch.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-09-16

In a recent case tried before Judge
Finletter, in which a person was
charged with an ofense in killing a
neighbours cat which annoyed him, 1t
was decided that this was perfectly
lawful; that N any case where ami
mails trespassed to the annoyance OF
any one, and there was no possible
chance Of catching and holding them,
the person so annoyed was justified
in. shooting as his only protection
against ANNOYANCE.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-09-16
Ths Hottest PLACES.

At Bushire, ON the Persian Gulf, an
extreme temperature Of 1870 degrees is
said TO have Leen recorded. Shikafpur,
India, at times has no place cooler than
40 degrees, and at sukkur the loves.
temperature is ninety-seven degrees.
Here hot winds from the desert arc
sometimes so terrible as not only TO kill
everything IN their pa.h, bu: even TO
burn up tissue and cartilage. The Rus
siaus claim that Genital Asia has places
even hotter than those.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-09-16

LOUIS KossUTH told a rece:.t interviewer
that he did not believe The Hungarian Aus
trian empire would hold together more thar
one more generation, and that the Magyar.
would form the nucleus OF the new state T.
be formed out of the wreck. He had faith
III the nearhoss Of republic in Italy anc
another on the Iberan Peninsula; while Tho
Radicals of Great Britain are sure to shelvt
the Guelphs eventually
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-09-16

We are willing TO stand the loss. If you buy
"a bottle OF Bile Beans Small and do not get
double value write rs and we will cheer uliy
refund yOur money. !. +. SMITH a Co.
%oW York y y
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-09-16

!. s. Parker. Fredonia. y. Y, says: shall
not call on you for the 500 reward, for be-
Geve halls Caiarrh Cure will cure any case
~ cafarrh. Was very bad" Write him for
particulars. Sold BY Druggists, 75c.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-09-16

The New Zealand Government pro-
poses starting a silk industry in its north
ern districts.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-09-16

For Dyspepsia, Indigestion. and stomach
disorders, use Browns iron Bitters. The Best
Tonic, ii rebuiid> the system, cleans the b God
and strengi hens the muscles. A splendid tom
ic for weak and debilitated persons
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-09-16

Clusters of clover, if hung in room
and left to dry and shed their perfume
through the air, will drive away flies.