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Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1893-10-26
KNOWLEDGE

Brings comfort and improvement and
tends to personal enjoyment when
rightly used. The many, who live bet
ter than others and enjoy life more, with
less expenditure, BY more promptly
adapting the worlds best products to
the needs Of physical being, Will attest
the value 70 health Of the pure liquid
laxative principles embraced in the
remedy, Syrup of Figs.
y is cxeellorce is due to It's presenting
in the form most acceptable and pleas
ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly
beneficial properties OF a perfect lax
alive eifectually cleansing the system,
dispelling colds, headaches and fevers
ard permanently curing constipation.
1t has given satisfaction to millions and
met with aae approval Of the medical
profession, because it acts on the Kid
neys, Liver and Bowels without weak
ening them and Il il perfectly free from
every Objectionable substance.
Syrup Of Figs IS for sale BY all drug
gists in zoe and ST bottles, but it is man
ufactured by the California Zig Syrup
Co. only, whose name is printed on every
package, also the name, Syrup Of Figs,
and being well informed, you viii not
accept any Substitute il offered.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1893-10-26
pEREucTs OF TIE OCEAN.



Abandoned Vessels that Are Grave Perm
to Vessels.
There are to-day some fifty aban-
doned yessels-derelicts- floating on
the Atlantic ocean While most Of
them are on the sailing route to and
from the equator, many are found
drifting along the passenger steamer
lines to Europe, where they are di-
rect menace to navigation. The
danger involved in striking one OF
these derelicts Is apparent. Water.
soaked and often floating keel up
such craft might infiict an injury
fatal as that from running on ledge
or from receiving the blow Of ram.
On dark night or in fog trans
atlantic liner might not be able to
make out such an object until actu-
ally upon it. Perhaps it was in col
lision with a ,derelict that the Naron-
ic, the recent mystery of the ocean,
parished and the same NAV have
pesn inc rate of other vessels which
persisted mysteriously at sea, leaving
not record to tell how they dis
appeared
IT is quite apparent that some in
ternational action should be taken
20 rid the ocean of these derelicts.
The subject has been agitated for
several years and recently the Mari
time Exchange Of New York passed
u resolution fayoring international
action for destroying these and SINH
lar perils to commerce. With an adj
equate police supervision of the ocean
Tor the locating and destroying OF
aerelicts there would be fewer mys.
teries Of the deep.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1893-10-26

cannott afford, even .under nrassrra 90
seeming necessity, sell the fertility
of his land by the b asheI until its de-.
creasRhg productive ness makes longer
cuhiwation imposi able. Thousands
have gone this 70 sd, and have onlv
iouhd eneir mlssah when too late to
retract their steps.
However impor hant Immediate re-
Suits may seem, The careful farmer
looks to- next year and the year after
1t takessexceptlon al crops to make the
farmer indifferent to the future of his
soil. But the II rue economy consists
in combining DO th imirsediate and I'm
ture benefit by appl ring manures
chiefly to clovepan otI Ter crons which
themselves add to soil fertility, and
thus make it serve b 9th ends. II is
here that gram farm ers have an adj
vantage over those who grow boed
crops exclusively. Fhe farmer who
arrows grain caniand hould ALWAYS SOW
& lover with it. The Sl all the mappre
IN applies to the griain crop serves a
dc suble purpose. The hoed crop NAV
ma Ike the most morrey per acre, but.
il 1t is grown Year after year, it de-
man DIS the yearly purchase of a large
amo, mt of manur e. That will take off
the p -ofits The alienation OF grain
seeded with clover, and then after one
or two wears growth the clover plowed
under az green manure for some hoed
crop, SEQ ures both the immediate prof
it and the permanent benefit to
the soil Ayhid h every good farmer
seeksa-AmSrl ,an Cultivator.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1893-10-26
STATE OF oaro, Cry OF ToLEDo,


FRANK j. CHENEY makes oath that he ia the
senior partner Of the tirmof +. J. CHENEY e.
Co., doing business in the City of Toledo.
County and State aforesaid, and that said firm
VIII pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOL
LARS for each aud every case of Catarrh that
cannot be cured by the use Of II ALb's AT arm
CURE. FRANK i. CHENEY
worn to before me and subscribed In NV
presence, this 9Th day Of December, A. D. 1885.
~ A. w. GLEASON,
,--2-- Notary Public.
Halls Catarrh Cure istaken internally and acts
directly on the blood and mucous surfaces Of
the system. Send for testimonials, free.
f. j. CHENEY d Co., Toledo. O.
eaY~ Sold by Druggists, i5c.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1893-10-26

brown Iron Bitters cures Dyspepsia. Mala.
ria, Billousness and General jebilit,. Gives
creates appetite. The best tonic fo, ,1rsiny
Mothers, weak women and children.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1893-10-26

'Many per-ons are broken down from over
WORK o. household cares. Browns Iron Bit
Iers fepulils the system, aids digestion, re-
moves excess OF bile, and cnres malaria 4
sniendid tonic for women and Children
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1893-10-26

John Wesley's father was country cler-
gyman.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1893-10-26

An ocean racer burns about 5000 worth
coal every trip.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1893-10-26

NO matter of how lono stad;
I Ha, lree treatise, testimonial efc Write
P Price q. pr Co, Owego, Tioga Co, u. =
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1893-10-26

Pigeons were employed in the mail servic,
In Bible times -
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1893-10-26

Bescham's Pills correct ad effects of over
eating Beecham's-no others. 25cents a box
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1893-10-26
August.
Flower

II have been afflicted with bilious
ness and constipation for fifteen years
and first one and then another prep
aratlon was suggested to me and
tried, but to no purpose. A friend
recommended August Flower and
words cannot describe the adnlira-
ton in which hold it. Ithas given
me new lease of life, which before
was burden. Its good qualities
and wonderful merits should bemade
known to everyone suffering with
dyspepsia and biliousness. JESSE
BARKER, Printer, Humboldt, Kas.@
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1893-10-26

At the equator the average annual rainfall
is 100 inches
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-07-07
Curiosities OF Glass Making.

The art of glass manufacture goes
back into antiquity TO a time when the
"mind of man runneth not to the con
trary," yet we cannot penetrate the
mists which hang over the infancy OF
what has been for ages useful indus
try. It's original discovery is alleged,
on the authority of several reputable
writer's, to have been the result of an
accident in which some nitrum Sup
posed by some to have been salt was
fused with sand. The date of this
event is not even approximately given,
but is said to have taken place on the
banks of the Belus, in Palestine, where
some mariners had landed and were
cooking their meals, using blocks OF
nitrum to hold their pots in position
Sir Gardner Wilkinson gives o cut
of a piece of Egyptian sculpture work
which represents two glass-blowers
plying their art in manner which
strikes one as being surprisingly like
that practiced at the present time. Sir
Gardner informs us that this sculpture
was executed about $500 years ago
during the reign of Benz Hassan.
Theban paintings and sculptures,
which are known to date back to the
time of the Exodus, 14OO years B. c.,
show glass drinking vessels Of delicate
patterns and fine workmanship, in
some instances rivaling similar vessels
of modern make. Strabo and Josephus
both affirm that the Egyptian glass
workers were SO well skilled in their
art that they initiated the amethyst
and other precious stones to perfec-
tioD. Malleable glass was one of the
secret arts of the ancients, the formula
for making it now being reckoned MS
lost. Strabo mentions cup of glass
which could be hammered into any de-
sired shape, the material of which it
was composed being as ductile as lead.
st. Louis Republic.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-07-07
HOW TO GIRDLE GRArEvINEs.

The time for girdling is shortly after
tbe fruit is formed, and when the
young grape is about the size OF pea.
1t is done by removing ring of bark
nearly an inch broad from the arm or
branch of last years growth. One or
two shoots of the present season S
growth should be left back of the CIR
die for renewal, or for the next sea-
sons bearing wood.
A knife is made especially for this
purpose and vineyardists find it very
convenient. 1t consists of two hooked
blades attached to wooden handle,
parallel to each other and about seven
Fights of an inch apart. The inner
part of each blade is filed to a cut
ting edge. A chisel-shaped knife Is
fastened on the back of the handle.
In operation the blades are hooked
over the vine and the handle passed
around it, at the same time holding
the blades firmly on Tire vine; this
will cut two lines seven-eights of al
inch apart through the bark, the knife
is then lifted from the vine, turned
over, and with the chisel-shaped part
the ring of bark Is severed and lifted
from its place. The whole operation
is performed i'll few seconds.
The grapes should be removed from
the shoots left growing back Of the
girdle. as it is desirable that these
make a vigorous growth of wood for
bearing fruit the next season. The
vine beyond the girdle makes a great
growth of wood and fruit, and the edge
of the girdled spot callouses and partly
overorows the naked wood. Shortly
after the fruit has been harvested the
girdled part is severed from the vine
for the benefit of next years bearing
wood. American Gardening.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-07-07
LADIES' COLUMN.
AN ERUDITE sPINsTER.

Spinster Annie Maria Won Schur-
mann was the name of n woman who
lived at Utrecht during the Sixteenth
Century. She was so learned a woman
that all men of science Of that day
considered her a marvel. She spoke
German, French, English, Italian,
Latin, Greek and Hebrew with equal
facility, and even understood the Syr
ian, Chaldalc Arabic and Ethiopian
tongues. Astronomy, geography, phil
osophy and theology were her special
hobbies, and she wrote many interest
ing pamphlets on these subjects. Aside
from this, she was n painter, sculptor
and engraver of high degree, and
played and devised several musical in
struments. She was held in high es-
TEEN by and corresponded with many
of the prominent Swans Of the age,
even with Richelieu, Queen Anne OF
France, Elizabeth of Poland and Chris
tine of Sweden. She died unmarried
ut the age of seyentytwo. New York
World
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-07-07
wosrEx's WORK AT THE FAIR.

Some of our foreign friends are in
clined to make light of the women's
share in the great Chicago enterprise.
They say that much of the work
literary, oratorical, artistic, what not
has been, not to put too fine a point
upon it, and to use a phrase that the
women ought to understand, taken
from the oven little too soon, and
that the participants would have done
better to wait until they had some
thing more worth showing. Doubt
less there is ground for this kind of
criticism, but the pebbles seem to us
to be thrown from glass houses. The
exhibits, personal and other, made by
the stronger sex can hardly be said to
be monotonously perfect after their
kind. We have painful conscious
ness that large, very large, pro-
portion Of the speech AMI writing of
males on the subject of the Worlds
Fair might have been better baked.
Some of it might have been reduced to
ashes with advantage. And there is
another side to the question. 1t Is
moi. to be denied that there is excellent
work by women at Chicago-artists,
decorators, architects, writer's, to say
nothing of less pretentious exhibitors
Il is our judgment that competition
among the women, where a high level
is attained by some, will tend strongly,
directly, and permanently to raise the
level of the others. Not of all, of
course. There are women of Impreg-
nable vanity and hopeless stupidity as
there are men similarly afflicted. But
wherever a woman Of sincere purpose,
wishing to do the best, and ready to
work for it, sees other women's
achievements Ola worthy sort, she re-
ceives a definite impulse, an lnspira'
tor, and with these guidance and help.
The result, DESPITE any failures or
errors, is good and sensible men as
well as sensible women will rejoice III
it.-Harper Weekly.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-07-07

Great men have often been deflc-
lent in the sense Of humOr. This was
markedly the case with Napoleon l.,
whose sense Of humor, if he posse sscd
il, was of a grim sort. 1t is recorded,
however, that he had a certain SYM
Dathy with pun; and several Of his
minor appointments were actually
made because the app0intees' names
seemed to indicate their fitness fOT
the place. He made Monsieur BigOt,
Tor instance, his minister OF public
worship at one time; and when he
was looking about for governor OF
the pages in the imperial palace, he
could think Of no one so appropriate
for the place As General Gardanne,
whose name, in French, signifies a
keeper of dOnkeys.
When he came to make Marshal
Victor Beau-Soleil a duke, it struck
Napoleon that the opportunity was
an excellent one to make so OF
reverse, or "back-actiOn' pun on the
marshal's name. Beau-SOleil signi-
fes beautiful sunshine" so the En-
perOr created the man the Duo de
Bellune-which was very much as If
ne had made him the Duke Fine
Moon.
Prince Bismarck, on the other
hand, is one great statesman who is
remarkable FOR the possession OF a
keen sense of humOr. This he has
often shown; and it appears in the
contents of the youthful mem0ran'
dunn book which Bismarck kept at
college. German students are some
times presented with blank book OF
this sort, in which they are expected
to make a daily entry Of some thought
or reflection. Prince Bismarck, at
twenty, filed up book of this sort,
the contents of which have lately
been published.
Here are some Of the sage rehec'
tiOnS which young Bismarck put on
lecord in this book
Wealth does not bring happiness.
Oysters, for instance. obtain very
little real Joy from the jewel-case
which providence has Sarcasticallj
placed in one corner Of their cradle
"Idleness is the m Their of vice. II
Eve had been busily sewing tlg-leai
coat for her husband, she would prob
ably not have heard the whispering
of the serpent
~The spectacle Of a dentist suffer
ing with an aching molar is rare but
consolatory. 1t is sight which is.
perhaps, vouchsafed to US but once in
= lifetime. but its charm remains
18th us for lo2. yc2rs.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-07-07


We all MIKE and we all meet with
many amusing literary blunders. The
worst of it is that we readily forget
them. Every one should keepa book
of these delightful things, which
please us with a sudden sense Of
superiority. Amopg misprints is
knises Some swing on hooks, some
run knises through their hands, " said
an article in the Edinburgh Review.
Here every one would amend by
knives or krisses-kniyes was the
real reading. In "Ihe Monastery
Scott wrote about nursing evil pas
sions." This was printed "morslnE
and the verb ito morse" was de-
Tended by writers in Notes and Que
res.
1t has lately been pointed out that
in the surgeons Daughter" Scott is
made to say that the "Nautch girls
perfume their yOluptuOuS eastern
domes." whereas the real reading
must be perform their voluptuous
eastern dances" But we are not
aware that the coquillc has been cor
rectod. In "Pendenn 5" boy is said
to excel In running and pumping
This must mean jumping" though
the actual competition would have
its merits. There are no rulings in
Yorkshire, triding is the right word;
but there is a world Riding" in Mr..
Morris ."Heimskringla. - London
Saturday Review.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-07-07
The People Of Lapland.

The Lapps have reconciled me to
civilization. They are as cunning and
sharp as they can be, and not in the
least good natured, but somehow man
ace to live together without flying at
each others throats. In all instances
they are not rights. | saw few
comedy young women and a few crones
with really intelligent and interesting
faces and some beautiful infants. But
the men, without single exception,
were hideous, bowlegged dwarfs. To
the detriorating influences of dirt and
marrying in-and-in they superadd that
of drink. The wife of drunken hus-
band is allowed, without the formality
of divorce, to leave him and take n
sober one, or to neglect him for a man
that suits her better. All have a tai.
ent for making money, and they hoard
what they scrape together. The pc
culiar bad smell of Lapp settlement is
a compound of the smells in summer of
shambles, dirty diaries, dirty kennels
and of gatherings of dirty human crea-
lures. Bluebottle flies swarm on the
reindeer hides and on bladders filled
with RENDERS blood, that are out in
the sun to dry. Their bite is venom
Gus, and may be fatal, except to Lapps.
The huts reek with foulness unmen-
tionable.
1t seemed counter to the fitness OF
things for creatures of such beauty as
reindeer to be subject to those fright
full dwarfs. A herd of19O0 were fetched
down by dogs from the field for us to
see. They were picture and SO gen
tie that they would stand to be petted.
The dogs were told, when the reindeer
we're wanted, to 60 and fetch them.
Of they went by themselves. In about
half an hour we saw them, with their
charges, come down a mountain and
twice ford river on their way to the
inclosure where they usually come to
be MIXED. l was offered bowl of the
milk, but the wooden vessel holding 1t
was so filthy that I declined. How
ever. Norwegian MIXED n doe into
drinking horn he had with him and
let me taste the contents and offered
me draught, which 1 took. 1t was
like the richest and sweetest cream,
and I suppose is just the beverage for
a cold climate. A deep draught would
give one Indigestion. Laps themselves
cannot drink much of it at a time.
Diaries on the filds for supplying
timed reindeers cream to the Paris
market would, [ have no doubt, be a
financial success. A teaspoonful of it
would go further than teaspoontul
of cows cream and be more palatable.
London Truth.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-07-07
Few Words in Some Indian Languages.

The language of many Indian tribes
of the West continues in its infancy,
a few broken words of English or
Spanish being all that is added TO
their original scant vocabulary. The
Apaches are large and extensively
divided tribe. Each minor tribe
speaks language unintelligible to the
others. Among them is a tribe called
detached Apaches," which has
migrated from old into New Mexico.
This tribe is so bare of word language
that it is said they are unable to COM
municate with each other in the dark
except in the most limited manner.
Therefore they rarely attempt it, as
there must be light to enable them TO
see the movements of face and body. -
Kate Fields Washington.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-07-07
cHEM.EMI Efonnd a great

or '-.V lave iOuuU RTtdO udUI
mummies In caves in cliffs among the
Peruvian mountains How the lndi.
ans who entombed their dead in this
way reached the caves hundreds OF
feet down the sides of steep cliffs, is a
mater of conjecture A French trav-
eler, nj. Weiner, narrateS a visit to
one of these sepulchers, and the serl-
GUS danger he was in of ending his
travels then and there. al went with
two Indians" he writes. ito a point
on high plateau below which was
one of the caves, and had the Indians
lower me over the precipice with
leather ropes.
"A journey Of a hundred metres
straight downward, made in such
way, is extraordinarily long l ar
rived at last at the tomb. 1t was
half closed with rocks. l went in and
found two skulls and a mummy. |
tied the skulls to my belt, and taking
the mummy in my arms gave the sig
nal for the Indians to draw me up.
"Thcy Obeyed, and gradually |
neared the top of the precipice The
Indians had not looked over it, and
had no suspicion Of what was bring
ing in my arms. When the yellow
skull of their ancient ancestor ap-
peared above the edge of the clitf, the
Indians were terribly frightened, and
let slip the ropes.
Il cannot describe my feelings in
the next second, the awful terror of
beginning to fall. In my fright ! let 60
of the mummy, and it was dashed
into a thousand pieces at the bottom
of the abyss But the Indians had
not lost their hold of the ropes; they
drew me up again, and in moment
l stood in safety at the top OF the
precipice.
my superstitiOuS Indians explained
TO me that when those good people,
the mummies are disturbed by In
dians they seize them in fatal en-
brace, and they assured me that, a.
this mummy's head rose into their
sight, it opened its mouth and would
have uttered a fearful curse upon
them, had it not Just then been
dashed to the bottom Of the abyss.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-07-07
KNOWLEDGE

Brings comfort and improvement and
tends to personal enjoyment when
rightly used. The many, who live bet.
ter than others and enjoy life more, with
less expenditure, by more promptly
adapting the worlds best products 10
the needs of physical being, will attest
the value to health Of the pure liquid
laxative principles embraced in the
remedy, Syrup Of Figs.
It's excellence is due to its presenting
in the form most acceptable and pleas
ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly
beneficial properties of perfect lax.
atiye; effectually cleansing the system,
dispelling colds, headaches and feyers
and permanently curing constipation:
1t has given satisfaction to millions and
met with the approval Of the medical
profession, because it acts on the Kid
neys Liver and Bowels without weak
ening them and it is perfectly free from
every Objectionable substance.
Syrup of Figs is for sale by all drug
gists in SOC and 81 bottles, but it is man.
ufactured by the California Fig Syrup
Co. only, whose name Is printed on every
package, also the name, Syrup OF Figs,
and being well informed, you will not
accept any substitute if offered.