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Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-05-27
The Future of the BIue-6rass Region.

What, then, is to be the future of the
blue grass Iegionl When population in
the United States becomes much denser
and the pressure is felt in every neigh
borhood, who will possess itl One seems
to see in certain tendencies of American
life the probable answer to this question.
The small farmer will be bought out, and
will disappear. The whole land will pass
into the hands of the rich, being too
precious for the poor to own. Already
here and there one notes the disposition
to create vast domains by the slow swal-
lowing up of contiguous small ones.
Consider, then, in this connection the
taste already shown by the rich Ameri'
can in certain parts Of the United States
to found country place in the style of
an English lord. Consider, too, that the
landscape is much like the loveliest Of
rural England; that the trees, the grass,
the sculpture of the scenery are such as
make the perfect beauty of park; that
the fox, the bobwhite, the thoroughbred,
and the deer are indigenous. Apparently,
therefore, one can foresee the yet distant
time when this will become the region of
splendid homes and estates that will
nourish a taste for outdoor sports and
offer an escape from the too-wearying
cities. On the other hand, powerful
aud ever growing interest is that of the
horse, racer or trotter. He brings into
the State his increasing capital, his types
of men. Year after year he buys farms,
and lays out tracks, and builds stables,
and edits journals, and turns agriculture
into grazing. In time the bluegrass
region may become the Yorkshire of
America. Century.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-05-27
How to Gst a Good Roo.

"When / was travelling in India, y
said Manager Tom Davis, 81 noticed
that all Englishmen, aud, in fact,
Europeans generally, signed their names
with whatever title they had before or
alter them. Simple Bill Jones, Chi
cago,' got no attention whatever COM
pared to these fellows. Englishmen are
awful kickers everywhere, and the
Englishmen with titles kick the hardest.
Lieutenant William Henry, Llewelyn
Smithe, H. NJ. Royal Fusileers,' got it
all on the register and kicked like q
Texas steer all the way through. It
seemed as if this was what was expected
of him. As soon as 1 thoroughly under
stood the situation l determined to keep
up with the procession, and thereafter
always signed my name Colonel Thomas
II. Davis, U. S. A. r. NJ Preserved
Militia), and usually scared the walters
half to death before l asked for any.
thing. This scheme worked beautifully
and got the best in the house. DE
troit Free Press.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-05-27
face of the earth it is hardly possible to-
guess"
lanuuaue of EIephants.

The language Of the ELEPHANTS as welh
understood by the East Indians and those
who have to do with the animal as il the
communication were made in their cwn
tongue, though, curious to relate, the
sounds in India and Ceylon have different
meanings attributed to them. When en-
ragged an elephant utters a shrill cry
through the trunk, which may be taken
as a warning. A sportsman engaged in
hunting elephants had approached large
tusker, when he found to his chagrin that
he had dropped his ammunition, so that
he could only lie concealed and feast his
eyes upon the huge animal. His disap-
pointment was partly compensated for by
observing the elephant informing the herd
that danger was lurking near it. Com
munication was made in the following
way. The tusker was feeding, and moved
slowly around until it suddenly came be-
low the concealed sportsmen, when, with
its wonderful scent, it Immediately rec
ognized the presence of its enemy. Then
it stopped feeding, raised the tip Of its
trunk cautiously, and, in a low, sup
pressed, but penetrating tone, uttered
with its lips the sound "prut," which it
repeated so that it somewhat resembled
the twittering of bird. The sound
would hardly have been noticed had not
the sportsman been near at hand; but it
was Immediately understood BY the herd,
which moved quickly but silently away,
followed by the sentinel.
Pleasure is often expressed by ele-
plants in an excruciating squeak, far
from pleasurable to the auditor. When
satisfied and contented, the animal purrs
gently. Fear finds expression often in a
remarkable reverberating roar, and some
times in a shrill squeak. A thoroughly
enraged elephant utters deep warning
sound In the throat, and often hollow,
reverberating, rumbling sound. When
suspicious, or desirous Of giving a slight
warning, the tip of the trunk is tapped
upon the ground, while from the trunk
there issues a volume of air which at
times SOUNDS like a sheet of TIN being
rolled. Young or baby elephants express
their wants by singular sounds uttered by
the throat. Another sound made by wild
elephants is produced by striking the
sides forcibly with the trunk. That ele-
plants use these and other sounds as
methods of communication or as language
there can be no doubt. Ameri-
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-05-27
A Wonderful Thing Is an Egg!

How many people who are fond OF
eggs and eat them daily, ever stop to
think what wonderful thing an egg is.
1t is one of the greatest wonders OF ma
ture. What part of egg is the animali
The clear white partl No. The yolki
No, that is merely food. Break a raw
egg, and beside the yolk aud the white
what do you fndl 0a the membrane
which covers the yolk you will see
little whitish circle. That is the animal.
When nature brings the young animal at
an early period into the outer air or
water, it provides it with means to live.
A young alligator, no larger than tiny
lizard, takes to the water the moment 1t
creeps out of the shell, and begins to de-
YOUR what il can. It needs no protec-
tion.-New Orleans Picayune.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-05-27
Foreign.

NEWFOUNDLAND decided to remove tho
discriminating duties on Canadian products
and to grant Canada bait privileges.
PERSIA has refused Russias offer of a loan
FOR paying the indemnity to the tobacco DR.
lporation, and will raise The money in Eng
land.
DISPATCHES from Venezuela confirm the
capture OF Bolivar by the insurgents.
The death is announced in London OF
General George Klapka, contemporary OF
Louis Kossuth. Hs was born at Temeswar,
Hungary, April Z, ls2o. He had a famou,
military career.
JoHS A. ANDERSON. Unitod States Con-
su.-General at Cairo, Egypt is dead.
FRENCH forces in Tonqun, China. re.
Gently attacked and captured pirate strong.
bold. The pirates made a desperate resis-
lance and their loss was very heavy. it being
Known that 125 Of them were killed. Ths
French loss was also heavy, fifty-thres sol.
diers and five officers being killed in the at
tack.
A CATASTROPHE was caused by an earth
quake in Transcaucasia. Three villages
were destroyed, and twenty-seven person,
killed and large number OF others injured.
An epidemic of virulent cholera is raging
in Harrar, Egypt, aud is spreading inland.
.lt is already causing hundred deaths
daily.
A HURRICANE in Mauritius caused the loss
OF many lives AMI great damage TO property.
E. P. DEACON, of Boston, Mass, was tried
at Nice France for the killing of u. Abeillo
his wifes admirer, was found guilty OF the
wilful wounding Of the latter, and was
sentenced to imprisonment for year
SPAIN has cancelled the prohibition Of ths
import Of American pork, which has been
in force for many years.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-05-27
CultlYatina Cocoa Tres.

Cocoa trees are cultivated generally
throughout the West Indies, Central
America and Northern South America.
The trees are planted about ten feet
apart. It takes them about eight years
to reach full productive age, aud they
remain productive from thirty to forty
years thereafter. When young the trees
are delicate. 1t is customary to plant
plaintains between the rows OF cocoa
trees to attract the insects that would
otherwise injure the latter. AS they
grow older the cocoa trees become very
hardy. The cocoa beans, from which
chocolate is manufactured, come In
pods, about forty to the pod. There are
two crops year, and tree in good con.
dition will bear perhaps three pounds Of
beans per crop.--New York Sun.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-05-27
THE LABOR WORLD.
ITvctE saw ha, 1000 women printers

UNCLE SAN has 5000 women printers
The supply of COOL stenographers In
Australia Is far below the demand.
GovgRSusSr farms are to be established
In New Zsalan for people out OF employ
ment.
ARTISANS in Italy receive thirty to forty
cents day AMI are not regularly empioyei
at that.
The workinyreu's General Benefit Union
has 10. f53 members and SO, 1D.1j IN its
treasury.
GIRLS who work as walters in the cheap
Iuucheoa places in New York City get 70
week and their meals.
THE international Cigar-Maksrs Union
has about i7J0 members on strike, anf$5ol-
COO in the general treasury.
EASTERN PESSsYLvAyrA farmers are
looking for emixrants 70 assist teen, homS
labor being impossible to obtain.
GoveRSoe FLOWER, OF New YORK, has
signed the bill providing that minss m1ss
have two entrances for the safety Of work
men.
coaatyArroS Of the leadinL houses in
ali branches of toe Bohemian glass In fustry
has been formed with tho object OF resula-
ting output and prices.
TIE Central London Railway, Eaylan1. Is
10 run three worSmen's trains daily, the rare
being only two cents for six miles, the cheap
est railway fare in the world.
THE Trades and Labor Council OF vancou-
yer. British Columbia, reports that over
forty-five per cent OF the worxmen, both IN
Vancouver aud Victoria, are out OF employ
ment.
United STATES LABOR COMMISSIONER
CARROLL ID. WRIsHr has found cotton
mill in whica the average earnin . for SIX
montbs was so head Of the labor en-
ployed.
IT is not uncommon in Northumborla.o.
Ea4laipd. for farmer to allow eu3ck BE
laborers who wish for It the keep o. COW -
part payment Of wages grsat1y = ~ o'ne'
lit OF their fanili,&
AUSTIN DrER master shIpbr|I = = ~
shipsard Of J. W. Bavagoe = - r.
Ne. L an unusual example q
perfectly Thorough h ~ ~
sbla parsoually, 70 - oY0E
work CONNECTED ~ -
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-05-27
WasniuUfOn.

THE Congress Of the National Art Assoc
ton, in session in Washington, passe a reso-
luton favoring the admission Of works OF art
free Of duty.
JUSTICE HARLAN aud Senator Morgan
have formally notified the President OF their
willingness TO serve as arbitrators on behalf
of the United States in the Berin3 Sen
matter.
THE body Of Senator Barbour, accom-
panied by the Congressional Committees, his
Immediate relatives AMI a few personal
friends, all in charge of Sergeant-at-Arms
Valentine, was taken from his house at
Washington and conveyed to Poplar Hill,
Nd, where it was buried beside thIt OF his
wife.
THE National Baptist Educational Con-
vention at Washington elected these officers:
President. Professor @. w. Hayes, OF Vir-
rinia, Vice-President the Rev. Isaac Tolli-
yer. of Texas; Second Vice-President the
Rev P. T. Maloy.
JOHN NJ. LAcKEy, Private Secretary OF
General Rosecrans. Register OF the Treasury,
committed suicide by shooting himself
through the heart while laboring under
temporary alteration OF mind.
Mrss MARGARET SMITH passed away at
the Baptist Home in Washington after bav-
ing lived m the National Capital since the
year 1870.
SECRETARY FOSTER has written letter
to Representative Loui. OF California, say
ing that il will take $3.50 900 a year to en-
force the new Chinese law. This estimate Is
basel upon the cost OF the arrest during the
present fiscal year and their deportation OF
$500 Cinnamon.
H. W. BLoDGxrT. Judge OF the United
States Court for the Northern District Of
Illinois, has been selected as one OF the coun-
sci for the United States In the Bering Sea
arbitration. This completes tho list
The President. Mrs. Harrison and party
returned to Washington from their trip to
Fortress Monroe.
A PROCLAMATION wss issuei By the Presl'
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-05-27
THE NEWS EPITOMIzED.
Z Eastern and Middle States.

SECRETARY BLAINE has appointed as
Junior Counsel for the United States befors
the Bering Sea arbitrators Russell Duane OF
Philadelphia. Mr.. Duane was a member of
the class Of 1891 in the law school Of the UniI
versity Of Pennsylvania. and attracted Mr..
Blaine's attention by his mastery grafton at
the commencement on THE Case Of the Say
ward"
JUST after train left Hyde Park, N. Y,
well.dressei man rose from bis seat in thu
parlor car aud shouting They are after
mep plunged the blade OF knive in his
throat. and drawing it rapidly right and
left cut his throat from ear TO ear. He died
instantly. He was Albert l.. Stanton. Of
New Jersey.
The Delaware Democratic State Conven-
ton held at Dover elected the following
delegates to the National Convention:
Thomas F. Bayari. Hiram r. Borie, Gov
ernor Reynolds, Richard r. Kenney; John
W. Causey and William L. Siuam. The re-
solutions denounce the Mckinley bill, OPP
pose the free coinage of silver, and strongly
indorse Cleveland. The Chicago delegation
was not instructed, but all favor the non-
ination of Cleveland for President.
AN extensive forest fire did much damage
on the plains southeast Of Windsor Locks,
Conn.
PROFESSOR JACOB GOULD SHURMAs has
been elected President OF Cornell University,
Ithaca, n. Y. Professor Shurman has been
at the head of the Sage School of Philosophy
at Cornell University during the past six
years.
The Grand Jury at Lyons, n. Y, com.
pletei their hearing on the case OK Oliver
Curtis Perry, the noted desperate OF express.
train robbery fame. Four indictments were
found. He was arraigned, pleading guilty,
and was sentenced to imprisonment for
forty-nine years AMI three months in the
Auburn Prison
A TERRIFIC storm along the South New
Jersey coast made havoc with piers and
beaches.
JEALOUS Ferdinand Palkowizc, a Hun.
garian blacksmith in East Orange, n. j.,
shot and killed his wife and ended his own
life.
A GREAT fire ragged along the water front
at Oswego. N. Y. sweeping through the line
of elevators. 1t started In the big Wash.
ington Mills. Six elevators were destroyed.
The Director of Warmers Observatory.
Rochester, n. Y. who discovered the comet
now attracting so much attention, has sue
ceed in obtaining an excellent photo yrapn,
The comet has eight distinct tails and is un-
precendented in astrolomic history.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-05-27
-NEWSY GLEANINGS.
FARM work is much advanced.

FARM work is much advanced.
FLOODS have damaged Cuba's crop.
FRcsrs in Illinois have ruined the peach
crop.
GERMANY decides TO prohibit pauper ion.
migration.
DILUTE, Mimi, is building ten "whale-
back" steamships.
THE crop of spring suicides was lager tdis
year than ever before.
NEW YORK CITY has grown si2, 900, ,Oo)
richer during the past year.
FRUIT is slightly injured by frosts in CEN
tral sections of New England.
FRUIT prospects are cool in Missouri, end
apples promise good yield in OHIO.
THERE were last year 43, $50 deaths in New
York City against ~, lob during 1899.
HUNDREDS Of cattle persisted in the re-
cent cold rains in Northern Nebraska.
In Iowa the season is soma fiftesn days
late; in Oregon, vegetation four weeks late
The caterpillar plague has reappeared
along the southern border OF North Caro-
lima.
The class Of 1892 in the Divinity School
Of Yale University graduated thirty-seven
men.
The new. ride for the United States Army
will be OF thirty caliber and uses smokeless
powder.
FRENCH emigrants to the Uaitei States
number 1909 per week on the Grand Trunk
Railroad.
REPORTS show that bees throughout ths
country have, with few exceptions, wintered
unusually well.
LARGE numbers Of Cinnamon are going
from Canada to Havana, Cuba, where they
hope to find homes.
SECRETARY ELKIss has directed that tbs
new military post at Helena, Montana, be
named Fort Harrison.
LAST year l47 people were killed outright
and 500 wounded in the streets of London.
Some Of the latter died.
The State of Hermosillo. Mexico, hss
made it a felony TO employ Yaqui Indians
end has ordered war OF determination
against them.
The marriages reported in New York
City last year were Is, 76i; there were H.
992 in 1890. Five colorsi men married
white women.
SECRETARY FOSTER has given his endorse
ment OF the plan TO issue l0,0OJ,OO) fifty
cent pieces of special design as souvenirs OF
the Worlds Fair.
THE exports OF petroleum pro iucts from
the port OF Bltoum. Russia, in 1891,
amounted to 26s. .0Ol, 900 gallons This pres.
ent price for crude oil is as low as five cents
q barrel.
THE recent fight near Mier, Mexico, be-
tween Government troops aud Garzi 5 men.
In which ten OF the latter wer5 killed. has
completely wiped out tas so-called revo-
lutionary movement.
DEFECTIVE CHARLES W. GARDER and
Miss Florence A. Collins were married q
few DAYS ago in the head OF the Blrsholdi
Statue Of Liberty, New York Harbor, BY
the Rev. A. II. Clafin.
THE United States Court OF Claims has
given the heirs of General Robert Z. Leo a
verdict for sell. 600 as damages to the estate.
caused during the war, by cutting timber on
Of it by the Federal troops.
An lniian who killed squaw at kyo-
quot British Columbia, has settled the affair
satisfactorily. He gave the trioo an Indian
girl to replace the one he killed, ami this has
eyidenty been mutullly agreeable.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-05-27
How Shat Go.

The instantaneous photograph, among
other marvellous feats, has caught n
charge of shot flying FROM gun. 1t
shows that snot not only spread out,
comet-ike, as they fly, but that they
string out one behind the other even to
greater distance than they spread.
Thus, with cylinder gun, when the FIRST
shot of charge reaches target that is
forty yards away, the last shot is tagging
along ten yards behind. Even with the
chokebore gun some of the shot will lag
behind eight yards in fcrty.-New Or.
leans Picayune.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-05-27
POPULAR SCIENCE.

Electric welding Is now applied to the
work of manufacturing iron wheels.
We live at a distance of only twenty
trillion miles from the nearest so. called
"fxed" stars.
A street letter box charged with elec-
tricity from crossed wires gave a severe
shock to Pittsburg Penn letter car.
rier recently.
Africa is the most remarkable of all
the countries as respects its animal dis.
tribution. Out of total of 523 known
species, 472 Of them are to be found il
no other country.
1t is now generally held by electrician:
that the principle of the aurora borealis
is the same as that shown by the Gelssler
tube, in which electricity is discharged
through rarifed air.
In discussion lately carried on as tc
the distance at which large objects or
the earth's surface are visible, it was
stated that the Himalaya Mountains have
appeared to view from the great distance
of 224 miles.
A new method of quickly rendering
glass transparent during the process of
manufacture consists in forcing into the
melted materials a stream Of oxygen gas
the enormous heat generated oxldizing
all deleterious materials.
A new form of saddle is being served
out to the garda du corps experimentallJ
by order of the German Emperor. There
has been some talk in military circles
lately of a new saddle, all the meta
parts of which are made Of aluminium.
At meeting of the Royal Society oil
Berlin, Germany, DR.. A. Bruce called
attention to a curious case OF cyclopia, oI
single eye, which had come uader bis
notice. There YVES but single socket
for the eye, that exactly in the centre al
the base Of the forehead.
A powerful lamp, which distinctly
illuminates objects over half mile dis
tant, by means of u great reflector, is to
be adopted in the French Army. 1t i;
carried on a light wagon behind the
soldiers, aud they will be in obscurity,
while the enemy aud all objects in front
will be made conspicuous.
The fora of Europe embraces about
10000 species. India has upward Of
$1,000. Natal and Cape Colony region
have $1,000 species, the largest number
known on any spot of equal size in the
world. In the whole of the British pos
sessions, which are as large as all Europe,
there are less than 5000 species.
Atrophy, or muscle wasting, is pro-
cess or morbid diminution of the whole
body, or part of it, caused by this
carly decline. Its process is slow but
decided-fbre by fibre, bundle by
bundle, and then muscle by mu'ce-and
as this atrophy goes on, fatty degenera.
tion it complete, and ELECTROMAGNETIC
coutractability is gone.
According to Professor Mer starch il
very abundant through the bark and
woody structure of trees about the fall Of
the leaf. 1t is gradually reduced in
quantity until the buds begin to swell in
spring, when it is rapidly formed again.
BY the end of April in France there waI
as much as in the previous September,
These results, from apparently very care.
fully conducted experiments, completely
reverses what has hitherto been regarded
as the "solid truths of science"
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-05-27
FOREVER.

So.tly the waves creep up the shore,
Idly the seagulls dip aud soar,
The sunset light grows dim;
"What care we if it fade or shine9
Come to realm all mine and thine"
So must l follow him.
Side by side as the years go by,
Under bright or a cloudy sky,
Close to his heart alway.
Ever as sunlit hills grow brown,
Still, as the golden sun goes down
Out of the dying day.
Feet, that fell on your weary way,
Pass follow through night and day
To one blank mystery grown,
Clouds hang low and the stars are dim,
Into the dark l follow him,
Into the far unknown.
Mary R. Corley, in Boston Transcript
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-05-27
unsIahtIr Streams Made EIsh.ponds.

Brooks or small streams left in their
wild state are often disagreeable objects,
but given a little attention, cleaning out,
deepening, planting tho borders with
suitable shrubs, making dams occasion
ally over which the water may tumble,
with now and then a fishpond or some
thing Of that kind, would render them
attractive features.-Greens Fruit
Grower.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-05-27

According to recent estimate there
are under ditch in the West 1S,533,150
acres. OF this Colorado has 5000, 200.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-05-27

A bill to increase the German army on
the basis of growth Of population Is
being prepared.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-05-27
dent announcing a reciprocity arrangement
with Guatemala to take effect MAY 30,

A BILL to place on the pension roll at the
rate OF SO a month, George W. Jones, OF
Iowa, formerly distinguished Senator from
that State, was reported to the Senate bY
Mr. Turpie and was Immediately passed.
The President sent to the Senate the nom
linaton Of Nathan A. Morfori, OF Ariz)na
TO Do Secretary Of Arizona.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-05-27
MONTE HOLLISTER.
BY +. b. WILLARD.

'OR a fact, you never
saw a fresher, cleaner
cowboy than Monte
HOllister. Monte was
from Maine, where
they make the boys
wash the dishes and
knit the socks if there
happen to be no girls