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projectiles and boom lances, which act
on the same principle. The center OF
whale traffic has made a jump across
the continent and from the Atlantic
into the Pacific Ocean.
Alaska holds her ownin the fisheries
exhibit. The natives are the greatest
fishermen under the protection of the
Stars and Stripes. They still use bone
hooks and all the primitive instru-
ments for fishing. Their fishing spears
are converted into implements of
offense and defense in war time. The
simile touching on plowshares and
pruning hooks do not hold good IN
Alaska. There are hooks and spears
in the exhibit which were made by the
Quilleute Indians when they first OBJ
tained iron by trade. The natives
made use Of the copper which they
found in their mines, and their work
manship is surprisingly good. An
gahgah is native in Alaska, and his
native heath is near Point Barrow.
He has a mania for collecting fish
hooks, and was persuaded by some pa
triotic American to present his collec-
tion to the Government. The hooks
are adapted to halibut fishing.
The lines are strong, made of kelp,
called Nereocystis lutkeana for easy
reference by scientific men. The
hooks are made of two shank Of wood,
lashed together at the ends. Iron
barbs are fastened to the end of one
shank and the other shank is rudely
carved in the likeness of fish. Some
OF the hooks are made of shark s teeth,
some of splinters and others of hem
lock knots. The materials used are of
the simplest kind. The iron barbs, or
the sharp teeth, are lashed on with
strips Of white cherry. One kind OF
line is made of spruce root and Is very
durable. The singing gear and the
snood OF the more recent haliDut fish
ing instruments are made of tarred
cotton. with slot swivels, hemp gang
ings and galvanized iron hooks. By
the aborigines even walrus whiskers
are utilized in the manufacture OF
eangings The sinkers were made of
ivory and the lines of strips of whale
bone.
A gruff old sea captain from Prov
incetown on Cape Cod stroked his long
gray beard and spent an hour at the
cabinet where was exhibited the lines
and hooks of the old cod-hshers.
Provincetown is the home Of homes
for the fishermen OF the Atlantic coast.
II is ultima thule of every Goldfish that
swims in Vineyard sound or the bay to
the West, The lines are rough-look-
ing and the hooks are OF no recently
improved pattern. But they hook fish.
Captain Lemuel Cook sent line to
the exhibit which he used from 1912
to 1880. He is famous old fisher
man, known from Hyannisport TO the
far side of Nantucket The old man
from ProyincctQvg talked with a
strong flavor Of fs,hsh and his voice
. Has husky sea ysice. He loolaubHitb
IsSpoescssnps Sos at the. .gdiseases Of wOmer
I'D children. a.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-09-29

steamers of improved types. The
yawls are made of steel and are
guaranteed to give any refractory
whale the toothache that takes it into
his head to crush the boat between his
massive jaws.
There is not the danger in whaling
there used to be, and the captains
make twice the money that the old
New Bedford seamen got on their
perilous ventures. The darting boom
was invented by Captain Eben Pierce,
of New Bedford, one OF the whalers of
the old school, who knows more about
the habits of the mammoth cetacean
and can tell more stories of trips in
quest of sperm oil than any other resi-
dent of the quaint old Massachusetts,
town.
The darting bomb is about the only
instrument still in use. 1t has sharp
spear end and is loaded with powder,
which explodes when the spear sinks
into the body of the whale. There are
darting guns, too, which shoot sharp
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-09-29
The Field Daisy.

The field daisy is an anomaly in the
American flora, says the Boston Her
aid. Formerly it was the most de-
spised and detested of all noxious
weeds. We say noxious, because 1t
was the adherence and often the de-
spair of the farmer His name for 1t
was white weed, when, from n certain
legend connected with it, it was not
something worse. 1t was tenacious OF
its place in the soil, when it once OBJ
tained a place there, beyond any other
nuisance of the grass field. Flowing
did little good. If it did not still stay
in the burrows it would find it5 way
out in the manure next year and mp
rear its saucy head more fresh and
blooming than ever.
The worst of it all was that it was
always beautiful. The aesthetic sense
is not greatly developed in the average
farmer, and when it conflicts with his
profits it is never anywhere. Hecould
not see its beauties, and in earlier days
almost everyone else was with him.
But of late the beauty of the da"y has
been too much for the sense OF utility.
1t has become fashionable fiowef.
It's plenty no longer precludes it from
this distinction. Maidens go into
ecstasies over it, as Oscar Wilde, not
long since, bowed down in alteration
to the sunhower. While it is but the
worst of weeds in one quarter it IS
enshrined in another. Here, indeed,
is an anomaly, and it seems in fair
way to be continued.
Fashion has put its stamp on the
flower to stay, while those to whom it
is a nuisance will still regard it only
as to the grass field what the canker
worm or caterpillar is to the orchard
1t is pity that this ltostiferous work
should all be done with face Of such
smiling beauty.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-09-29
A Steam Carriage for Road Use.

c. L. Simonds, OF Lynn, has made n
steam carriage for his own use that will
make ten miles an hour. The carriage
weighs only 400 pounds and can carry
two persons at a time. It has the ap-
pearance of an ordinary carriage IN
front, except there are no provisions
made for horse. The wheels are OF
cycle make and are four in number.
The hind wheels are forty-three inches
and the front wheels are thirty-six
inches, with rubber tires. The boiler
and engine sets just in the rear of the
seat and gives the carriage the appear
ance of fire engine The steam gen
crates in what is called a porcupine
boiler, which weighs 100 pounds.
The steam is made by naphtha
flames from three jets. The naphtha
is kept in q cylinder, enough to last
for seven hours, and there is water
tank that will hold ten gallons. There
is a pump that is automatic in action
directly connected with the engine.
The steering part consists of a crank
wheel on the footboard, so that the
engineer can steer and attend to the
engine at the same time. The body
of the carriage rests on a cradle and
three springs. 1t is easy riding, and
allowance has been made for every
movement. The shafts are of steel,
and can stand all of 1000 pounds. Mr..
Simonds has given the steam carriage
a trial already, and it has proved
success. 1t started off at ten-mile
gait there was no noise, smoke or
trouble whatever. Springfield Repub-
lican.
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hooks 81 tell You what, - he said,
''thar air not so many Goldfish caught
nowadays as thar was when Lem Cook
and all of us had our way. Thare air
too many steamships and no easy times
like we used to have.
From the single hatch bedarka OF
the Alaskan natives, built OF drift
wood and covered with the skin OF a
female sea-lion, to the new fishing
craft designed by Captain Collins OF
the commission, is long step. The
evolution Of the fishing craft IS PIC
tured in cabinet just south OF the
north entrance to the Government
building. The first of the fishing YES
sells Which came to America was the
Sparrow Hawk, which met an untimeiy
end off Cape Cod. She sailed across
the water In 1926, struck reef aud
went to the bottom. Her old hulk,
which had been embedded IN the sands
for nearly two and half centuries,
was uncovered in 1865 and put on ex-
hibition in Boston Common.
TIE steamers AlbatrOss and Fish
Hawk, which are in the service OF tho
United States commission, are the
latest models of the fishing vessel.
Captain Collins's model is of fishing
schooner of moderate dimensions and
is being largely copied on both coasts
It's hull is built after the model OF n
racing yacht and the rigging is adapted
to the needs of fishing vessel 1t
combines the speed qualities Of a yacht
and the seaworthiness of fishing
schooner. Safety is also taken into
consideration.
The United States is far ahead of the
Nations Of the world in maintaining q
fish commission and caring for its
fishermen. A museum has been estab-
lished devoted to ichthyology, andthe
steamers of the fish commission cruise
all along the coasts Of the United
States to collect specimens Of fish lite.
Hatcheries have been established in all
the States OF the Union AMI every year
the work grows in its scope.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-09-29
Momentum OF Vessels.

Some years ago the Scientific Amer
lean took occasion to interview Il large
number of commanders OF ocean
steamers concerning the momentum
of vessels. Suppose, it asked, "e
steam vessel running at full speed and
the engines were reversed, how far
would the vessel run before it began
to gather sternway-that is, to move
backward :" The answers varied be-
tween two and four miles, but the con-
clusion was reached that il two vessels
we're approaching each other under 4
full head Of steam they might, after
hearing the foghorn at a distance Of
four miles apart, do their best to stop,
and yet come into collision with each
other, with serious consequences.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-09-29

entering the Government Building
from the north is a whaling boat fully
equipped for service on the sea. The
hardy fisherman of New England, a
potent factor in the early development
of the country, is given his due. In
cases all about are exhibited the abo-
riginal instruments used in fishing in
contrast with the modern. The bone
hooks and fsh-skin lines which the In
dian used hundreds Of years before the
first settler built his hut are fixed on
the walls with the FURNISHED Looks and
silk lines just from the factory.
The evolution of things piscatorial
has kept in line with the evolution Of
the trades and sciences of the world.
The exhibit OF the Fish Commission
has been arranged so as to emphasize
this fact. Just as improvements in
boats we're made the lot Of the fisher
man was made happier. Years ago,
when the Frenchmen first came to the
coast of Newfoundland and spread
their nets on the great banks, they
sailed in vessels the general appear
ance OF which resembled a modern
canalboat, such as carry coal on the
Erie canal. They were carayel-built
and had full convex bows, strongly
raking, of round, full bilge. The
quarter deck was high and the average
length of the queer craft over all was
about forty feet.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-09-29
4 Girl Of the Solomon IsIands.

We reproduce from the Illustrated
London News a picture Illustrative Of
the people OF the Solomon Islands,
over which Great Britain has recently
established protectorate. These
islands, thlrty-six in number, lie be-
tween five and twelve degrees south Of
the equator, to the east of New Guinea,
in the Melanesian region. Some Of
the islands, remarks Frank Leslie's,
are mountainous, rising to summits
$500 feet high, and the scenery on the
Rohokimbo and Aola rivers, in Guadal-
canar, one of the largest of the group,
is very picturesque. The land is gem
orally fertile, yielding cocolnut, bread
fruit, yams, and sago in abundance,
and may be cultivated for sugar and
cotton. The natives, who are of the
black Papuan race are in a savage con-
dition, especially in the northern
islands, where they are fierce head
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-09-29
Queer Arizona Fish.

A prominent Eastern naturalist in n
letter to the editor of the Citizen sew
eral years ago, in view of some exceed
ingly curious habits of bird and NAM
NAL life in Arizona, said: Hereafter
nothing from Arisona will surprise
me. The unexpected is always to be
expected. y
Apropos of the foregoing it may not
be known that the native fish in the
Santa Cruz River bring for their young
alive. A more remarkable freak in
nature cannot be found. The propa-
CATION of all true fish is supposed to
be by means Of the female depositing
their eggs in the water, where they
hatch and come forth, but the young
of the fish in the Santa Cruz are nearly
an inch long at the time Of their birth.
Each female brings forth about twelve
to fifteen young at time. The male
adult fish reaches from three to five
inches in size, but the adult female is
scarcely half as large. In color they
are grayish brown on the back, with
bright silvery sides. At the present
time the females are big with young,
and strange appearing We desire to
call the attention Of scientists and nat
.urAlists to this interestinstists anu'9us
form of fish life -TH' dsapS,s,su ,us ~ y
Citizen. soon.
EApNpp (
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-09-29
THE NEWS EPITOMIzED.
Eastern and Middle States.

TWENTY Italians employed by the Cambria
and Clearaeld Railroad Company. Altoona.
Penn, fought with some Frenchmen and
swedes In saloon. Five were wounded,
two fatally.
THE Coroner's jury to inquire into the cause
OF death Of William Hildebrandt. the nine
teen-year-old boy who was found murdered
q snort distance south Of Philmont. Colum-
Dia County. New York, has fixed the crime
upon John Schmidt, the boys stepfather.
PENNSYLVANIA Democrats convened IA
state convention at Harrisburg. F. c. 0s.
burn was nominated for State Treasurer ard
| >. I. Thompson for Supreme Judge.
"GENTLENAN' GEORGE A. ELLwooD. ades-
perate criminal who last February began a
! twenty-five years sentence at the Rhode
Island State Prison for burglary, was shot
and killed, while attempting TO escape. by
Deputy Warden Rowe. whom Rllwood at
tackled with heavy iron handle and hammer.
AT the request Of Lord Dunrayen the date
tor the first race or New York between the
Vigilant and Yalgyrie has been changed 10
October 5th.
Ex-SESAroR JOIN W. TAYLOR. OF Newark.
n. j., committed suicide by shooting himself
with revolver.
TIE steamer Paleniino reached Boston
with three men who had chung for nine days
to the capsizsd schooner Winiernere's bot
tom the FIVE other persons on the schooner
perishej.
By the carelessness Of mine foreman an
explosion Of gas was caused in a Plymouth
penn. mine, By which five men were killed
and six injured.
Mrs. DAVID DowDEN, living six miles
southwest o; West Elizabeth. Penn, at
tempted to light the fire with kerosene. An
explosion resulted and Mrs. Dowden and
her child were burned TO death. The house
and contents were destroyed.
Ar New York City. Christian Msese. dur
ing quarrel. threw ssrewdriyer at Jacob
Scoenenberger and made a deep hole In the
victims brain, from which ne died. Meesa
then tried TO kill himself.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-09-29
Foreign.

The Earl OF Aberdeen was sworn in as
Goyernor-General OF Canada.
The bombariment OF Rio Janeiro, Brazil,
by the insurgent fleet was resumed and was
continued for several hours.
A MAN and four women were burned TO
death In a fire in the Whitechapel district oil
London.
THERE has been great food in Gifu-ken,
Japan. Many persons were drowned, and
there is great suffering among the survivors.
Embankments burst in sixty places, over
200 houses were carried away and over 100
people wers drowned. At Yawatka. In
tiunjo-Gun, a side OF a mountain fell away,
crushing over fifty persons to death. AZ
Nara l54 persons were drowned.
.ADprR,r MELLo. conm1nder OF the rebel
BRAZILIAN feet demanded the surrender OF
Rio de Jansiro. threatening another bonn
bardment II his deman was not Immediately
compiled with.
THERE we're two deaths from cholera and
ten new cases o. the disease in Hamburg,
Germany.
A sKrFP which left Collingwood, Canada,
for Nottawassa River with eight persons, in
cluding two women. was struck by a squall
and overturned. Two men escaped. Tho
others were drowned.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-09-29

The gentleman lookel his thanks for
the confidence. 1t was dark almost,
but she could see that his eyes were
gray. She thought they were lumin-
Gus, but she was looking through her
tears.
care you employed at the hotel:
What happened to our driver? Is the
other carriage coming?' The mother
asked three questions in a breath.
81 AN not employed at the hotel. ]
was riding to town and found your
driver in a drunken sleep by the road
side. You will get no help from him.
l was afraid there had been serious
accident and hastened back" D"
Serious" asked Mrs. Chalmers IN
high voice, sis it not serious? On,
dear, dear, what would you have?"
"My uncle lives two miles down the
river" said the stranger. at is the
nearest house. You will come with
me for the night and tomorrow you
can return to the town"
"You are very kind, sir, said Miss
Chalmers. 'oWe will go with you
gladly"
''But two miles" protested the
mother; 81 cannot walk two miles.
'It is not necessary; you can ride
my horse. He is perfectly gentle, and
I will hold the rein, said their res
curer reassuringly; and the young
lady may ride behind you, if she will. "
"Oh, no; 1 would much prefer to
walk. 1 can walk two miles easily,
and the dear horse is already very
tired. Indeed, I will walk said the
young lady decidedly.
The young man assisted the mother
into the saddle The daughter clung
lightly to his arm and the little pro-
cession moved slowly down the long
hill and into the starless depths OF the
bottom. They travelled carefully, for
Mrs. Chalmers was not a good horse
woman. 1t was on hour before they
reached the farmhouse
An hour An hour is an epoch, an
age, an eternity. Love, which never
dies. is born, nourished and reaches
maturity in an hour.
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look at Miss Chalmers, but the woman
smiled to her, silently pointing to the
vacant seat. The unhappy young lady
was only too glad to accept the invita-
tion. Her mother did not notice the
incident, nor did the young man seem
to be aware of it. He did not once
turn his head, and she found herself
becoming curious about the color OF
his eyes. They must be gray.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-09-29
IN LIES TUNNEL.

Borne by q cower resistless and unseen
We know not wither,
We look out through the gloom with troubled
mien;
How came we hither?
Darkness before and after. Blank, dim walls
On either side,
Against which our dull vision beats and falls,
Met and defei.
Shrouded in mystery that leaves no room
To guess Alright,
We rush, uncertain, to a certain doom
When lo-the light
Grace DEMO Litchheld, in the Century.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-09-29

There was camp meeting IN
progress at the log house in the valley.
On the last Sunday of the meeting,
which happened to be also the last day
of the Chalmerses' visit in the noun
tains, a party from the chief hotel
visited the revival. The party was
composed of Mrs. Chalmers, Miss
Chalmers and tall young man with a
serious, grand face. The latter had
been a guest at the hotel for only
three weeks, or since the two ladies
had been abandoned on the mountain
side by their drunken driver.
On the afternoon of this Sunday the
two younger members Of the party
were half way up the long hill which
leads from the valley to the ridges.
They we're standing silently side by
side looking down into the valley.
There was a great white tent, tab
ernacle, indeed, near the log house,
and a score of smaller white tents about
the large one. Through the trees the
people could be seen moving about
like pigmies.
cit is beautiful and peaceful
scene, said Miss Chalmers, softly.
The young man was silent and she
presently continued, with some hesita-
ton:
81 have never thanked you-I
hardly know how-for your kindness
that first day in the church when l
made such all embarrassing mistake. "
cit was nothing; do not think
of it."
'But do think of it; it was a great
deal to me, and want you to remem-
ber---you know we are going away to-
morrow---I want you to remember that
appreciate it, My predicament was
almost as bad as it was that night
when you again"
81 beg you," he broke in, mot to
mention those things again.
She was silent. He turned to her
suddenly, abruptly, almost roughly,
and asked;
care you rich?"
She trembled little, but did not
reply.
81 am surprised that you asked
that question:" she said gently; "It
is unworthy of you; it is painful to
me-"
Forgive me-" he said, humbly.
"Oh, my dear, l love you, and L am
poor. Your beauty and your good
ness make you a long way above me,
and l have hoped that you were not
rich. But 1 adore you. want you
to carry that memory away in your
heart. I adore you. Some time /
will come and ask you to marry me.
You will have known me longer;
my prospects will be brighter. 1 will
come and take you by the hand like
this, my dear. will say Il love you
dearly have loved you since that
first day in the mountains. will love
you forever Will you be my wifeY
When ask you that question, when
my soul waits for an answer, what will
you say to me, dear?"
She was palid; she dare not look
at him.
'Js there no grain of hope for me?
Oh, love, will you tell me what your
answer will be on that day?"
With supreme effort she raised her
eyes to his face. She tried to speak;
she was speecbIess; but her lips formed
single word:
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At sunset q tall young man was rid
ing soberly along the wide road which
led to town. He stopped suddenly at
the sight of two harnessed horses graz
ing by the roadside.
81 know that team; what has hap
pened?"
There was no one to answer the
question, but he looked about and dis
covered the driver under the trees.
Here, wretch! !" he exclaimed,
"wake up; tell me what is wrong.
Wake up. wake up. Where are the
ladies?"
But expostulation was in vain. The
driver was a lump of clay-a log. The
young man mounted his horse again
and galloped furiously back toward the
log church. He looked at each side
of the road aaxiously, but did not
slacken his pace, and the horse was
covered with foam when he reached
the broken carriage and dismounted.
81 thank heaven you are safe, he
cried.
''But we are not safe; we are lost,
lost. Oh, merciful sir, pity usl" ex-
claimed Mrs. Chalmers, hysterically.
She thought the tall stranger was a
brigand.
Miss Chalmers knew better. She
recognized the young man, and feel
ing of security, almost Of happiness,
swept over her.
''Hush, mamma, " she said, softly /;
eve are perfectly safe now. This gem
tIeman will protect us; he has come to
help us.
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Nearly all of the exhibits of the
whalers come from New Bedford.
There are harpoons and harpoon guns
invented by famous old captains OF
whaling barks about which linger long
'yarn's" of varying degrees of veracity
and improbability. The old whaling
vessel which sailed from New Bedford
in years gone by has undergone a COM
plete change. Now the vessels start
from San Francisco for the Arctic Sea,
where the whale abides. They are
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tongue and bolt weigh 700 pounds,
and, when placed on the hanger, the
the ensire bell will measure eight feet
The bell is composed of innumerablt
relics of battles for freedom from all
parts OF the globe Around the top il
the inscription: "Glory to God il
the highest and peace on earth, goot
will toward men. Il
About the bottom is the leo,
Proclaim liberty through y 5 S.
land unto allthe inhabi'
On one side,
Se i, love " one khber Of races, both
the FL
rotting a.d running. I