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Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-08-18
FASHION NOTES.

A beetle three inches long has
diamond body, emerald eyes and gold
claws.
Plaid and broche ribbons are used
for trimming plain-colored house
gowns
The only furs suitable for mourn.
ing are Persian lamb, black lynx or
black fox.
The cape continues in favor, but
many jackets are worn, the sleeves be.
ing enlarged to accommodate the drest
sleeves underneath.
Do not purchase hat simply be-
cause it is pretty, but ascertain if it is
becoming and appropriate and then
secure il forts eternal fitness
Rough straw mats known rs nut
meg straw, in pale violet shades, with
low crowns and projecting brims, are
trimmed with ecru guipure lace, EN-
pire loops of bebe ribbon in mauve
shades, and high cluster of Parma
Yiolets
Ready-made gowns are growing in
favor More attention is now given
by the makers to cut and workman
ship, and one can now find in the best
shops variety of modest, serviceable
dresses, which, with little alteration,
will fit comfortably.
For summer teas are shown beauti-
full tablecloths and napkins embroid-
cred with silk and gold. These give a
very rich and dainty look to the sup
per-room, and the linen retains its
color remarkably well if the laundress
understands her business.
Satin ribbons are this season pre-
fcrred to velvet for gowns of zephyr,
gingham and chambray The opal
cscent ribbons are also seen on i'm.
ported cotton dresses, serving as deeply
pointed girdles, dotted with tiny En-
pire bows, and for cuff trimmings and
folded stock collars.
Dainty girls not only line their
bureau drawers with silk delicately
scented, but they also keep a large
sachet to cover the entire drawer after
il is filed with its miscellaneous con-
tents. A pretty one is OF pale layen-
der embroidered with violets, and an
other Of white brocade and rosebuds.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-08-18
The BeaYer-Trapper.

Some 1000 beavers were killed IN
western Washington last year Once
it was considered rare sport to trap
beavers, and an expert beaver-trapper
was considered a king among men. No
dangers, no privations, could turn him
from his pursuit. Let but single
track of a beaver meet his eye, and he
forgets all dangers and defes all diff
culties. At times his traps were on
his shoulders, and he bufeted his way
across rapid streams and floating ice;
again he was found, with his traps
swung on his back, climbing the most
rugged mountains, scaling or descend
ing the most frightful precipices,
searching, by routes never before
trodden by white man, for springs and
lakes unknown to others, and where
he might find his favorite game. -
Seattle Washington Press times.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-08-18

called raising the bread"
1t needs but a glance to see that it
is, in its effects on the dough, purely
mechanical. The dough, which was
before n close-grained mass, is now
full of little holes, and when cooked
in this condition is what we ordinarily
call light. This porous quality of
bread enables the stomach to rapidly
and easily digest it, for the gastric
juices quickly soak into and attack it
from all sides. The fermentation of
the dough, however, uses up a portion
of the nutrient elements of the loaf.
If it be possible, therefore, to produce
q light porous loaf without this de-
struction and without the "knea1ing'
process, which fills the dough with
germs and filth, and without the long
period during which the raising pro-
cess goes on, the gain in food and the
gain in the avoidance of the germs is
exceedingly plain.
But while We can easily see the
dangers which attend the use of yeast
il is certain that the vesiculating effect
produced by it on the dough is to the
last degree perfect. 1t Is apparent
that if we are to substitute any other
system OF bread making we must have
one which will give us, first, mechanical
results equally as good, that Is, that
will produce minute bubbles OF
carbonic acid gas throughout the mass
OF dough. Now it is in no way diff
cult to produce carbonic acid gas
chemically, but when We are working
at bread we must use such chemicals
as are perfectly henlthful, Fortunately
these are not hard to find.
The evils which attend the yeast
made bread are obyiated by the use OF
q properly made, pure and wholesome
baking powder in lien Of yeast. Bak.
ing powders are composed of an acid
and an alkali which, if properly com
bined, should when they unite at once
destroy themselves and produce car
bonic acid gas. A good baking pow
der does its work while the loaf Is in
the oven, and having done it, disap-
pears.
But care is imperative in selecting
the brand of baking powder to be GER
tain that it is composed of non-iniuri-
GUS chemicals. Powders containing
alum or those which are compounded
from impure Ingredients, or those
which are not combined in proper pro-
portion or carefully mixed and which
will leave either an scidor an alkali In
the bread, must not be used.
1t is we'll to sound a note of warning
in this direction or the change from
the Objectionable yeast to an impure
baking powder will be case Of jump
ing from the frying pan into the fire.
The best baking powder mada IS, as
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-08-18
WARM WEATHER GOWNS.

Muslin gowns, being exclusively
warm weather gowns, are usually cut
down little at the throat, sometimes
merely in point, sometimes rounded
or a la Pompadour. The opening is
generally framed with a frill of the
fabric or of lace. Sundry Of these
muslin bodices are folded in the popu.
lar "serpentine" style, showing dag.
onal pleats sweeping from the right
shoulder to the extreme left side of
the waist. Naturally white or cream
laces appear most often on muslin
dresses, still there are many instances
where fine black laces are used, which
are skilfully employed to tone down
the lowered textile and make a charm
ing dressy toilet for lady of mature
age; but it Is by no means confined
to such uses, and appears with equally
good effect on elaborate gowns for
youthful women. The lace is gathered
very lightly to lose none of its trans
parency against the delicate back
ground. But lace is used SO lavishly
on other fabrics that it is an agreeable
variety to see it omitted on muslin or
organdie dresses. Hence we see fine
India muslins and tamboured and en-
broidered organdies made in elegant
simplicity, with only self-trimmings
and no laces, velvet ribbon bows often
being used upon the bodice. New
York Post
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-08-18
CURIOUS FACTS.

There are 900 deaf mutes in Kansas.
Wasp paper will take ink as well as
my.
Scotland uses American spinning
wheels.
There are forty-three mountains 5000
feet and upwards in North Carolina
Captain Smith, of Clinton, n. c.,
has hen fourteen years old and al
most featherless.
A carpet taken from the floor OF
the San Francisco lCal. Mint has been
made to yield $500.
The quickest time ever made By n
steamer between Hong Rong, CHM.
and England was twenty-four days.
A little colored boy was summing
himself on the banks Of n stream at
Maclenny, Fla. when he saw an alligator
hastily approaching. The lad fed and
took refuge in n tree, where he was
held prisoner three hours, the rep.
tile occasionally looking up and snap
ping its jaws at him.
H. L. Jones records an example of
graft-hybrid between two different
varieties of geranium, 6 red and Il
white. In several successive years the
flowers partook of the characters Of
both parents; some pure red, some
pure white. Other had some of the
petals white, other red, while in
others again the petals were red mot
tied with white, or notified with red.
Tom Flemming, of Memphis Tenn,
saved about twelve dollars by not re-
cording deeds and mortgages repre-
senting property worth 500, 900. A
thief plundered the trunk, robbed it
Of S2633 in gold coin, and burned the
mortgages to make a light while he
ransacked the house. As the papers
are destroyed, the nominal owners Of
the mortgaged property will dispute
Flemming's claim.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-08-18
LADIES' COLUMN.
A WOMAN JAuER.

Kent County Jail, Rhode Island,
boasts a woman jailer. She is Miss
Evelyn Smith, and the position was
given her because it had been held in
direct line in her family since before
the Revolution. When her predeces-
sor died she was the only one left in
succession, and after slight opposition,
she was appointed to her post. She is
OF commanding figure and well-de-
yeloped muscle, and is well-ftted to
cope with refractory prisoner. She
is also said to exercise an admirable
moral influence over her charges.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-08-18

ten. It has, then, the chance OF coll
lecting disease germs during this pro.
cess of raising and it has two periods
of working down or kneading during
each Of which it may gather the dirt
containing the germs from the bakers
hands. As no bread save that raised
with yeast, goes through this long
process OF raising and knsadiny so no
bread save that raissl with yeast has
so COOL chance OF gathering germ&
What is meant by "raising" brsal
is worth few words. Tho introlu
ton of the yeast into the moist dolg h
and the addition Of heat when tho pan
is placed near the frs produces an
enormous growth of the yeast fungi
the yeast germ" in other words
These fungi effect a destructive fer
mentation Of a portion of the starchy
matter of the hour-one of thu most
valuable nutrient elem ents in the -four
The fermentation pro luces clrbonic
acid gas, and this, having its origin in
every little particle of the starch
which is itself everywhere in tho -four,
pushes aside the particles of the dough
to give itself room. This is what is
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-08-18
seen at a glance, the bread Is raised

seen at a glance, the bread is raised
during thu time it is baking in the
oven, an1 this is tho most perfect OF
all conceivable methods of raising it,
Hsrs, then, there is No chance for
germs OF disease to get into thu dough
and themes into tho stomach, more
than that the brell is necessarily as
sweat as possible, there having been
no tina during which it could sour.
This involves the fact that the brea
50 made will keep loayer, al it is less
likely to be contlninatsl By the germ
that affect the souriny process
1t will bs strange if tho crowds Of
visitors to the Worlds Fair do not
greatly increase the number OF con-
tagious diseases, which w9 will have to
treat Under these circumstances is
it not folly OF follie5 to opsn a single
channel through which these germs
may reach us? Is it not tina part of
wisdom to watch with the greatest caro-
all that We eat AMI drink, AMI to see
that none but the safest AMI best meth
DDS are employed in thu preparation
OF our food? To mo it seemI as
though there could bo but one answer
to questions like these.
1 have shown the danger OF using
the yeast raised bread, an with this [
have shown how that danger may be
avoided. The ounce OF prevention
which in this case is neither difficult
nor expensive is certainly worth many
pounds of cure, AMI tho best thug
about it is that it my bo relied on al
most absolutely. Those VINO eat bread
or biscuits or rolls made az homo with
Royal baking powler may be sure they
have absolutely stopped one channel
through which disease may reach
them.
.-Housekeepers desiring intorml-
ton in regard to the preparation oil the bread
which. for sanitary relsOas, DR.. lson 50
strongly urges for general u.s., shoull write
to the Royal Baking PoTler Company, New
York.
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KNOWLEDGE

Brings comfort and improvement ana
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 to health of the pure liquid
laxative principles embraced in the
remedy, Syrup Of Figs.
Its 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
alive; effectually cleansing the system,
dispelling colds, headaches and fevers
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 tlgs,
and being well informed, you. VIII not
accept any substitute if offered.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-08-18
August
Flower

had been troubled five months
with Dyspepsia. l had fullness
after eating, and a heavy load in the
pit of my stomach. Sometimes a
deathly sickness would oycrtake
me. l was working for Thomas
McHenry, Druggist, Allegheny City,
Pa, in whose employ l had been for
seven years. fused August Flower
for two weeks. l was relieved ofall
trouble. l can now eat things /
dared not touch before. have
gained twenty pounds since my re-
covery. ]. d. Cox, Allegheny, Pa. o
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-08-18
The Water Dlock.

The principle of the water clock was
discovered, according to ancient recordq
OF the Chinese Empire, by a Chimes,
nearly 5000 years ago. The inventors
name was Hwang Ii. His apparatus
consisted of two copper vessels, one
above the other. The upper vessel had
a hole in the bottom through which
the water percolated into the Lowell
vessel, in which there was float, the
gradual rise Of which indicated periods
Of time.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-08-18

shown by analysis, the "Royal" 1t
contains absolutely nothing but cream
of tartar and soda, refined to a chem
ical purity, which when combined un-
der the influence Of heat an moisture
produce carbonic acid gas, an having
done this, disappear. Its leayeniny
strength has been found superior to
other baking pow lers, aul as far as |
know, it is the only powder which will
raise large bread perfectly. It's use
avoids the long period during which
the yeast made dough must stanl in
order that the starch ny ferment AMI
there is also no knel ling necessary.
The two materials used in the Royal,
cream of tartar an soda, are perfectly
harmless, even when eaten But they
are combined in exact cooperating
weights, so that when chemical action
begins between them thJy practically
disappear, tho substance OF both hay-
ing been taken up to form tho carbon
ic acid gas. More tina this, the
proper methoi of using the powder
insures tho most thorough mixing
with the -four. The proper quantity
being taken, it is mixed with the flour
and stirred aroun in it. Tho mix.
turo is thea siftei several times and
this inmres that in every part OF the
-four there shall be a few particles OF
the powder. The salt and milk or wa
ter being added, the dough is made up
as quickly as possible and moulded
into the lolves.
These are placad in the oven and
baked. But the very moment the
warmth and moisture att1ck the mix
ture of crsam OF tarta: and Ia, these
two ingredients chemically combine
and carbonic acid or lsavening gas is
evolved. The consequences may be
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producing new substances.

But the germs of the greater part of
the germ diseases, that is, of the infec-
tious and contagious diseases, will de-
velop or increase in number without
being in the body of q human being,
provided always you give them the
proper conditions. These conditions
are to be found in dough which is be-
ing raised with yeast. They are
warmth, moisture and the organic
matter of the -four on which the germs,
after certain changes, feed.
1t is necessary to remember at this
point that yeast is germ growth, and
when introduced into mixture of glu
cose or starch, in the presence of
warmth and moisture sets up a fer
mentation. If the mixture be starchy
dough the yeast first changes a portion
of the starch into glucose and then de-
composes the glucose by changing it
into two new substances, viz, carbonic
acid gas and alcohol.
Now the gluten, which is also a con-
stituent of dough and moist starch,
affords. With the latter, an excellent
indus for the development of germs of
disease as we'll as for the yeast germs.
The germs of cholera, as of typhoid
fever, would, introduced into dough,
find very favorable conditions for their
growth.
do not wish to "pose" as an alarm
list, nor am willing to say there Is
very much chance of the germs of
typhus and of cholera reaching the
stomachs of the people who eat bread
which has been raised with yeast. But
have not the slightest cause to doubt
that other diseases have been and will
be carried about in the bread.
l have met iourneymen bakers, suf
fering from cutaneous diseases, work
ing the dough in the bread trough
with naked hands and arms. l have
no reason to suppose bakers are less
liable to cutaneous diseases than any
other men, and know, as every house
wife knows, yeast-raised bread must be
worked long time. This is an ex-
ceedingly Objectionable thing from the
standpoint of a physician for the
reason that the germs of disease which
are in the air and dust and on stair
ways and straps in street cars, are
most often collected on the hands.
Any person who has ever kneaded
dough understands the way in which
the dough cleans the hands. This
means that any germs which may have
found lodging place on the hands of
the baker before he makes up his
batch of bread are sure to find their
way into the dough, and once there, to
find all the conditions necessary for
subdivision and growth. This is
equivalent to saying that we must rely
on heat TO kill these germs, because it
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is almost certain that they will be
there. Now, under done or doughty
bread is form which every man and
woman has seen.
It is a belief as old as the hills that
underdone bread is unhealthful. This
reputation has been earned for it by
the experiences of countless genera
tions, and no careful mother will wish
her children to eat bread that has not
been thoroughly cooked. The reason
given for this recognized unhealthful-
ness has been that the uncookel yeast
dough is very difficult to digest No
one but a physician would be apt to
think of disease germs which have not
been killed during the process Of bak-
ing as a cause of the sickness following
the use of uncooked yeast bread. Yet
this result from this cause is more than
probable. l have not tho slightest
doubt that could we trace back some
of the cases of illness which we meet
in our practice We would flu that
germs collected by the baker have
found their way into the yeast bread,
that the heat has not been sufficient to
destroy them, that the uncooked yeast
bread has been eaten and with it tho
colonies of germs, that they have
found their way into the blood and
that the call for our services which
followed, has rounded Of this sequence
Of events.
have already pointed out that the
germs of disease are to be found in the
air and dust. The longer any sub
stance to be eaten is exposed to the air,
the greater the chance that germs will
be deposited ON it. Bread raised with
yeast is worked down orlkneaded twice
before being baked aud this process
may take anywhere from four hours to
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SOME SANITARY ASPECTS OF BREAD
MAKING.
BIZ cYRus EpsoN. N. D.

Health Commissioner, New York City.
1t is necessary, if one would under
stand the sanitary aspects OF bread
making, to fully comprehend the pres
emit theory held by scientists of germs
and the part played by themin disease.
The theory of disease germs is merely
the name given to the knowledge had
ofthose germs by medicalmen, q knowl-
edge which is the result of innumera-
BILE experiments. Being this, the old
term of "theory" has become mis-
homer. A germ of disease is plant,
so small that do not know how to ex-
press intelligibly to the general reader
its lack of size. When this germ is in
troduced into the blood or tissues OF
the body, its action appears to be an
alogous to that which takes place when
yeast is added to dough. 1t attacks
certain elements OF the blood or tissues,
and destroys them, at the same time
producing new substances.
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we offer One Hundred Dollars Reward f si
arv case ~ Catarrh that cannot be cured by
Halls Catarrn Cure. ,r.,.so n
We the undersigned, have known 7, ). Che-
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and financ ally abls 10 carry out any o'"s"-
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rro.i.s Gsiarrh Cure Is taken internally, act
inx directly upon the bloc All mucous sori
Sas ~ ne eystem Price, 7jc. per bottle. Soil
bv all Druggists. Testimonials free.
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TnE Vatican has ciu59i Inquiries to .be
made in the United States as to the impress
sion produced ~ the Pope's letter to Carli-
nal Gibbons. 1t IL said tlat the Pope OK
preset contentmeai With the result
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Browns Iron Bitters cures Dyspepsia, Mals.
ria. Biliousness and General Debility. Unes
strength. aids ID est O., tone, the Wnrsing
crates appetite. The best tonic Tor NuiSinS
Mothers. y eak women and children.
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No matter of how long standing. Hr1
for free treatise. testimonals, etc, 70 v
Hollensworth q Co, Owego. tloga So'' 4'' -
Price 81; By mail, SLID.
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Malaria cured and eradcated from the sys-
tenn by Browns Iron Bitters Wh' en- eilI us n,
the blood, tones the nerves. aids diSest.Yiii
Acts liks a charm on persons IN genera III
health. giving new energy and strength
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We Cure Rupture.

When gossip beats the drum Of the ear the
tongue tells the tune.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-08-18

Some men rray without thinking and some
think without praying.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-08-18

No sympathy is felt for the man who IS a
DOL twice.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-08-18

A flower grows wherever a kind word IS
spoken.
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wonderful stomach oorrector- Beecham's
pills. Beecham's-no Others. . cents Dox'