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Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-11-17
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

SENATOR JoNEs. OF Nevada. is said 10 bs
one OF the best story tellers in Washington.
THE Rev. DR.. Talmage has an income
nearly equal to the salary OF the President OF
the United States.
QUEEN vIcroRIAs will is engrossed in vel
lum. quarto size. and is bound as volume
and secured by private lock.
The present Chinese Minister in Washing
ton is Of higher rank than any OF his prede.
cessors, being only few degrees removed
from royalty.
President CRocKEB. OF the Southern
Pacific Railroad Company OF California. has
a two months job before him to sign sl5,-
OO0. 900 worth Of consolidated bonds.
DuRING his recent visit to Fredensborg
the Gar OF Russia had with him no less than
three hundred large trunks, for the transport
OF which fourteen railway vans were re-
quired.
Az English writer describes W. s. Gilbert,
the author OF "Pinafore" and Patience, a.
tall, well-built, handsome man, With gray
ish-white hair and mustache and lively
bright eyes.
JAMES GoRDEN BENNETT, owner OF the New
York Herald. who has been confined TO MS
room By the coaching accident In Paris, is 10
be taken to the Riviera, but his friends are
reported hopeless that he will ever recover.
OS- ofthe most interesting figures at the
funeral Of Marshal MacAlahon was that OF
his brother-in-arms, Marshal Csnrooert.
Now thst MscMahon is gone, Canro5ert IS
the last Marshal OF France, and the famous
title dies with him.
Ex-sESAroR EpxUSDs. Of Vermont de-
rives an almost prlncely income from bis
practice in the Supreme Court, and still
finds time to fish Ia Florida In one and
Canada in another season OF the year. He
is a devoted fisherman
PHILrP d. ARMOUR has given his personal
check for $50. 900 10 the Armour Institute at
Chicago. and authorized DR.. 4. W. Gun
saulus TO spend the whole amount o. Jack
son Park for scientific apparatus and col
lections for the institute.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-11-17
THE LABOR WORLD.
.AR1s has sixty labor papers.

PARIS has sixty labor papers.
BRrcKIAYERs have 81 unions.
LONDON has $500 union printers.
ALL Fall River mills are running.
FALL RIVER. Mass. has 5000 weavers.
THE Chickasaw Nation needs cotton pick
ers.
CreARMAKERs have s5O4.OOO in their treas
ury.
sacRAmxxTo, Cal, has workingmen's politi-
cal clubs.
BREAD riots have occurred among Wiscon-
sin miners.
OuEENsLsSD has sixteen labor members Of
the Assembly.
THOUSANDS OF unemployed men from Co..
orado are going to Texas.
GEsMANr prohibits the employment OF
union men on Government works
STONE saw placed in the quarries at Rut-
land. Vt, does the work OF about 100 men.
FrFrY per cent. OF the workingmen and
women OF Pennsylvania are out OF employ
ment.
THE salvation Army at San Francisco gave
dinners to over 1850 people on one day re-
Gently.
MAoHrNERY in Pittsburg steel works en-
ables 2OO0 men TO do the work formerly done
by 5000.
A BosroS editor has been appointed State
inspector Of boilers, stationary engines and
engineers.
RIoTs have been precipitated at Los Au-
geles. Cal. in the work OF exterminating
Chinese gar len workers.
A PITrsBURG iron worker. after hunting
work for two months, was sent to the peni-
tentiary at Syracuse, n. Y, as tramp.
The State Convention Of Railroad Tele-
graphers at Syracuse, n. Y, declared against
strikes. The union embraces eighty-fve per
cent. of the craft In New York State.
BosroS coal handlers have asked union
men not to receive coal or wood after 5 p m.
Teamsters are now working fourteen hours
a day. and they get from 80 to eli week.
The occupation employs 1900 men.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-11-17
Washington.

The annual report ofsuperintendent stump
OF the Bureau OF Immigration shows that
during the last fiscal year 40. 1913 Immigrants
arrived in this country, decrease OF l4l ,O5i
over the previous year.
THE Governments expenses since Noyem-
Der have exceeded in receipts by nearly
1900 900.
The annual report OF Captain \. N.
Brooks. Superintendent OF Foreign Mails,
Postofice Department. shows that the total
cost Of the service for the last fiscal year was
s1141.6j9. OF which sum s646.030 was paid
on account OF vessels OF American register,
and si92. .629 to vessels Of foreign register.
SECRETARY GRESHAM and Minister Grip
exchanged ratiacations Of the Norwegian
extraditiOn treaty.
HUNDREDS OF aliens made paupers by the
business depression have asked the Govern
ment TO deport them.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-11-17
Ace OF Trees.

Elm. 800 years; ivy, 335 years ma
ple. SO years; larch, SIG years
orange, go years cypress, 500 years
olive. 500 years; walnut, 900 years
Oriental plane, 1000 years; lime' llou
wears; spruce, 1900 years; oak looO
wears; cedar, 2OOO years; yew' S2ou
years. The way in which the ages ol
these trees have been ascertained leaves
No doubt of its correctness. In some
few cases the data has been furnished
nv historical records and by traditions
bnt the botanical Psychologists have d
resource Independent Of either and'
when carefully used, infallible.
all the forms of nature trees
alone disclose their ages candidly and
freely In the stems of trees when
have branches and leaves with nefteu
veips-in all exogens, as the botaniS'
wonld sav-the increase takes place by
means of annual deposit of wood
spread in an even layer upon the sur
face of the preceding one.
In the earlier periods of life trees
increase much faster than when adult
the oak. for instance, grows more
rapidlv between the twentieth anu
thirtieth years-ond when old the an
nual deposits considerably diminish
so that the strata are thinner and the
rings proportionably closer Some
troes sIacken in rate of growth at a
very early period of life, and layers o'
oak become thinner after forty 'no'o
Of the elm after fifty, those OF the ye"
after sixty. New York Times
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-11-17
The 0rinin OF Anthracite.

The main difference between anthrG'
cite and bituminous coal is that the
former is devoid of volatile matter.
Heretofore the theory generally ac'
cepted to account for this difference
was that presented half-century age
bv Professor Rogers while conducting
the first geological survey of Pennsyl'
vania. Observing that the anthracite
beds lay in the eastern part Of the
State, in close proximity to the Arch
can axis of elevation, he surmised
that these coal beds had, SO to speak,
been cooked" upon the elevation OF
the Appalachian chain that IS he sup
posed that the heat and pressure &C
companyingt the Appalachian elevation
acting most vigorously near the axis
had distilled and removed the volatile
matter of the coal beds nearest it.
To adjust the theory to increasing
facts. Professor Lesley added the sup
position that the neat involved in this
theory was brought up by conduction
when the superintendent layers ol
rock we're extremely thick, which have
since been mainly removed bv the erO.
sive agencies which have been active
over the region for millions of years.
The inadequacy Of these theories has
led Professor J. J. Stevenson, of the
University Of New York, to PROFOUND
another and simpler theory which was
ably defended by him at the recent
meeting of the Geological Society OF
America. He would account for the
lack Of volatile matter in anthracite
coal by the simple fact that 1t had been
longer exposed to that kind OF decay
which takes place in vegetable matter
when immersed in water, and which
consists chiefly in the loss of the hy-
drocarbons which constitute the vol
atile elements in bituminous coal. On
this supposition, the anthracite beds
are those which were formed earliest
in the swamps and lagoons of the car
boniferous period, and remained long
est devoid of the covering Of sedlmen'
tary deposits which subsequently pre-
served them from further change.
This theory is confirmed by the fact
that there is no such strict relation OF
the anthracite beds to the Appalachian
axis of elevation as Professor Rogers
had supposed, and by many other con
siderations which Professor Stevenson
is about to publish. This simple cause
seems adequate to account for all the
phenomena, and probably solves one
of the long-standing mysteries OF geo.
logical science. New York Independ-
ent.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-11-17
Limited Education in Russia

The common people of Russia as a
rule speak only their own tongue a
large proportion of them cannot reso
the bewildering characters-homan'
Greek and composite-whieh form
their alphabet, and to help their igno-
rance the shop walls are covered over
with rudely painted pictures OF artl-
clas for sale within. The butcher
sbop has a picture of meats OF all sorts
and shapes, the tailor's walls are Gov
cred with paintings Of coats and trous-
ers The pills of the apothecary and
the vegetables of the green grocer are
advertised by pictures upon the doors
and windows of their stores. New
York Times.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-11-17
The House That Mike Owns.

rtlsa grand house, and to build one
like it would cost millions OF dollars
if it could be done Mt all, says the San
Francisco Call. And yet the man VINO
lives in it had hardly dollar to his
name. But then he didn't buy the
house. because it was built by nature
on the rocky walls of Sabina canyon,
in Arizona, thousands of years ago,
and has been ready for an occupant
ever since. The man who lives IN 1t
is Il prospector known as "Mike'
What other name he has is not known,
and besides it doesn't matter. He
SAYS he was going mp the canyon one
day year or 50 ago when he first saw
the place, and thought it was house
built bv man. When he saw his mis-
take he simply took possession.
Mikes house is truly most deceptive
piece OF natures handiwork, and a
very useful one. IT is on the canyon
walls, probably one hundred feet above
the bottom, and a flight of natural
stone steps leads up to it. 1t IS hard
to convince ones self that it is not the
work of man until it is examined
closely, when its enormous size alone
would make a person know differently.
1t is only one story, but the outside
wall is over one hundred ieet high.
The door, which is in good proper.
tion, is over twenty-five feet high, and
the room on the inside reaches up and
ends in black vault that there is no
telling how far away t s. When
Mike wants fire he just makes II on
the floor, and the smo.le curls mp 20
the top and disappears somewhere.
This is somewhat strange rs no water
ever comes into the place and shc
smoke cannot be seen coming out any
where. But it very likely goes through
some fssure into cave beyond But
Mike doesn't care where it goes. He
is satisfied with the convenience and
thinks he is the best fixed prospector
in the mountains. This house IS most
strongly suggestive OF Egyptian archi-
lecture and also bears great resemb-
lance to some of the cave dwellings in
the Salt River Valley The thing IS
an interesting curiosity, and although
it is the house OF prospector now
there is a strong possibility that 1t
may in the past have done duty as
home for some members Of the lost
races Of this strange country.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-11-17


pan that has holes measuring four one
hundredths of an inch in diameter.
Three-auarters Of them will be OF the
right size, but from fifteen TO twenty
five per cent. will be smaller or bigger
than No. f.
Another fact to be considered is that
brands of lead differ. All of them
will not make shot of the same sizes
or holes of given sizes. The operator
is obliged to get over the difficulty by
suitably adjusting the temperature Of
his melted metal and the thickness OF
the scum at the bottom of his pan.
The best time to make shot is when
the iron sides of the tower are whitened
on the interior with frost.
From the bottom of the well endless
chains of little buckets dip mp the new
made shot and carry them TO floor
above, where they are poured upon an
inclined table of heated iron. As they
roll across this table they are dried by
the heat, and at the other end OF IT
thev fall into great bins. There they
remain until they ale ready to pass
through certain further processes
which are required to prepare them
for market. On coming out of the
bins they go into a revolving cylinder
covered with wire cloth. Friction IN
this contriyance removes from them
all corrosion and dirt Then they are
conveyed by machinery TO series OF
wide boards arranged like steps, the
difference in elevation between each
two being slight. The first and highest
board is slanted sufficiently to set the
shot rolling to the end Of the steps.
The other boards are horizontal.
D
Now. between each two OF the step
like boards there is a space as wide as
three or four fingers. The perfectly
spherical shot jump clear across these
spaces. but the imperfect ones do not
roll sufficiently well to make the leaps
Perhaps they may get across one or
two of the gaps, but they are sure to
drop through by the time they get to
tbe third or fourth. Falling out they
are rejected Those which pass the
ordeal and jump all Of the spaces are
nartect shot and are deemed accepta-
HE without further test. The bad
ones are of all sorts Of shapes. Some
Of them are twins or triplets, having
stuck together in falling down the
we'll Finally the little pellets are put
tbrorob n series of revolving sieyes
with different sized holes, by which
tbev are automatically sorted into all
the different sizes known to the sports
man. Then it only remains to pack
them in bags and send them to market
Il sbould have been said, however
that before being sorted by the sleyes
they are put into a machine which
tumbles them around with plumbaso'
otherwise known as blacklead or gra-
pbite-the stuff which is used to make
pencils. Thus they get coat OF
plumbago, which gives them their
booutiful shine. Washington SIar.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-11-17
THE BROOK.

THE BROOK.
looked IN the brook and saw face
Heigh-ho, but a child was
There were rushes and willows in that place.
And they clutched at the brookas the brooi
ran by,
And the brook it ran its own sweet way
And as it ran heard it say
''Hasten with me
To the roistering sea
That is wroth with the flame Of the morn
ing sky"
l look in the brook and see face
Heigh-ho, but the years go by,
The rushes are dead in the old-time place,
And the willows knew when child was ;
And the brook it seemeth TO me to say,
As ever it stealeth on its way
Solemnly now and not in play
'Oh, como with me
TO the s'umbrous sea
That is gray with the peace OF the evening
sky"
Heich-ho, but the years go by
would to Col that a child were I
Eugene Field, in Chicago News.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-11-17
THE NEWS EPIT0MIZED.
Eastern end Middle States.

AT New YORK the Yale College eleven de
Ieated the New York Athletic Club at foot
ball by forty-two points to nothing Crescent
won from Wesleyan, and Princeton bea,
Orange.
A TRAMP VINO assaulted a young woman
near Lqmbertville n. j.. was pursued. aad
Jumped into the river and was drowned.
FBAScIs II. WEEKS pleaded guilty to en-
bezzlement in New YORK City and was sen
fenced to ten years imprisonment.
FRANc.s PARKWAN. the historian Of the
colonial days OF North America, died at his
home in Jamaica Plain. near Boston. Mass.
OF peritonits. He was born in Boston, Sep
tember 10, 1923.
A MEETING Of citizens OF Brooklyn. \. Y.
representing many clubs Of Democrats and
Republicans. appointed committee TO call
a mass meeting TO decide upon the line Of
action to be pursued in the prosecution OF
John Y. McKane. the boss Of Gravesend.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-11-17
South and West.

THE steamers Albany and Philadelphia
collided In Lake Huron. Both went dovn
and twenty-four lives were lost.
TEN Russian exles who had escaped from
n penal colony in Siberia were picked up in
the Sea OF OGhotsk by an American whaling
bark and taken to San Francisco. Cal.
THE work OF destroying the buildings in
Jackson Park. Chicago. has begun. The first
blow was struck in the New York state Build
ing. A suit was begun against the Ferris
Wheel Company by the Worlds Columbian
Exposition to secure payment OF percentages
amounting to $4,000.
Four Hooking Valley train hands were
killed in n collision near Rising Sun, ONO.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-11-17

Herat, in Afghanistan, is the city
which has been most often destroyed.
Fifty-six times have it's walls been laid
In ruinf, and the same number Of
times have they been erected again.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-11-17

ruy Emperor of China. who is twenty
three years old. is now studying the French
and English langu lges. while Prince ianagi-
Wara. the heir Yresumtiye TO the Japan
ese throne, entered the Nooies scnooi; Whsre
the pupils ere ccpoelled TO study a ,oreign
isnonare. The , oung prince, who has at
tained the age OF ourteen years, is pursuing
q course in Germ p.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-11-17

Last year the United States and Cam
ada published 10, 57S papers, with an
aggregate circulation Of 3,4Sl, 6lO, 600
copies.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-11-17
me AN MY DOG. I"
DY A. G. PLYMPTON.

ING COLE was a
little black dog
that belonged to
Private Peck of
Co. E.
There were two
very different
opinions of King
Cole at Fort st.
Martin. One opin-
ion was that held
by the general
public that he
wasa amongrel pup
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-11-17
$henattdna1t Derald.
Advertising Rates:

Advertisements will be inserted at one
dollar per square Of ten lines or less, for
the first insertion, aud 80 cents for each
subsequent insertion.
tB- Quarterly or yearly advertisements
by contract.
H- Unless the number Of insertions
be marked upon the manuscript, adver-
tisements will be published until for.
bidden, and charged accordingly.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-12-20

Making Large Tile" Samuel Cowgirl,
SuT0mitNiIla
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-12-20

Colncident with the meeting of the
wool-growers the Indiana civil engineers
and surveyors viii hold forth in their
fourteenth annual convention. 1t will.
however, continue during the two fol-
lowing days. The program is lengthy
and will be furnished upon application
to the secretary, w. p. Carmichael of
WilliamSnOrt.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-12-20

White Breed of Hogs Made in the Last
Five Years." B. w. Harvey, Blooming
dale
''The Care of Young Pigs" L J. Smith.
Windsor.
What Varieties of Feed Are Best for
Breeders During the Winter" T. NJ.
MINIS, Mohawk.
rs It Profitable to Raise Two Litters
from a Sow in One Year?" Cot. Barnett,
LOganspOrt.
(which Is the Best Method in Feed
ing?" A. D. Wood, Carroll.
Have Fall Ltters Been Profitable?"
II. Q. Boyd, Rushville, Ind.
How l Got the Pigs to Perfection
That Were Winners" Thomas Lanham,
Edinburg.
Us the Large Number Of Pigs Far
rowed by the Duroc Jersey SOws an
Advantage To the Breed?" James Cross
Lebanon.
rs Special Management Required for
the Victorias. and How to Manage
Them" George +. Davis Dyer.
History Of the Suffolk Breed Of
Swine a. c. Green. Winchester.
The Farmers reading circle will meet
at a. m. on Wednesday, the 4th, when
the following program viii be carried
out:
Report of secretary. Report Of cor
responding secretary.
Address by chairman Of executive
committee. Mrs. V. G. Meredith.
Address by j. A. Mount of shannon
dale.
Election of officers.
The Indiana beekeepers in thirteenth
annual convention will meet in room Is
on Friday at 9 o'clock a. m. The pro-
gram follows:
Address by President r. S. Russell.
Medicine
J. NJ. Hicks, Indianapolis.
profits Of Bookkeeping Combined with
Other Vacations J. A c. Dobson,
Brownsburg.
do You Wish to Prevent Swarming2'
George z. Wilson, Tollgate.
"Our Resources Compared with Those
Of Other States.' George c. Thompson,
Southport.
Properly Managing the Apiary."
Charles +. Muth. Cincinnati.
Bees for Profit" David Leaning. Ar
cadia.
Controlling the Mating of Queens"
w. s. Pouder. Indianapolis.
characteristics OF Different Races" j.
+. Michael. German. o.
Bees for Profit with Least Attention"
Dr. +. II. Collins, Carmel.
Value of Honey Exhibits and Bee
Conventions, +. 5. Pope, indianapolis
The Indinaa tile. brick and drainage
association will hold its first annual
meeting in room 40, continuing Jan.
ana l. This is the program:
Address by the president ]. J. Bill
iugsley.
Farm Drainage" Prof. W. c. Latta,
Lafayette.
"A Glance Backward" NJ. c. Dawson,
Rushville, Ind.
Drying and Burning Clays." Windfall
manufacturing company. Windfall.
Drainage of Marshes" William M.
Written South Bend.
Manufacture of Drain Tile and
Brick" +. f.. Dickinson, Wolcotsville.
Burning Tile" w. T. Dawson, Col
fax.
Making Large Tile" Samuel Cowgirl,
Summitville.
The Indiana highway and improve
ment association will meet in the hall
of the house of representatives
1vv,l,c-,7ov- aD5 uvt,,,rr7o,- To,.Cer-s ms,
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-12-20
THEY TAKE THE PREY.
THE REV. DIR. TALMAGE breaches
WORDS OF HOPE TO PIE WEAK.

a Sermon Full of announcement to
Those Who Labor Under DIsadvant-
ages I'm the Struggle of Life-ElO-
queut Plea to Those Who Are Tn
converted.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-12-20

The Indiana highway and improve
ment association will meet in the hall
of the house of representatives on
Wednesday and Thursday. Programs
can be had by addressing the secretary,
Evans WooIlen Indianapolis.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-12-20
Playing Cards.

You can obtain pack of best quality
playing cards by sending fifteen cents in
postage to p. S. EUSTIS, Genl Pass.
Agt., c., 3. & Q. r. r., Chicago Ill
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-12-20
BOARD OF AGRICULTURE.
THIS CORPORATION DIsPOsEs OF ITS
BONDS.

business Matters Now i'm n Satisfact-
DRY COnditiOn-PrOgrams Arranged
for the Various Industrial Societies
of the state.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-11-29
Favors the Prize Figter.

NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 29.-Judge
Ellis in the Civil District court to-
day rendered a decision virtually
in favor of the prize fighter, Bob
Fitzsimmons. FitZsimmOns had
sued the club for some nine
thousand dollars balance due
him for a purse in the fight
with Hall. The state interviewed
to prevent FitzsimmOns from get,
ting judgment for this amount
against the club on the ground that
no consideration had been given
Judge Ellis, this morning, set aside
the intervention which is a virtual
recognition Of the right Of the
fighter.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-11-29

NEW YORK, Nov. 29.-COlonel
Hopkins, the hacker of "Dan"
CreedOn the Australian middle
weight champion, and "BOb" Fitz-
simmons representative met at
the Illustrated News office yGster-
day for the purpose Of arranging a
a match between "Fitz" and Cree
don. After talking the matter
over for an hour the match was
made and articles Of agreement
were signed. All that remains to
be done i'm the matter Is for some
club to offer a purse for the contest.
1t is likely that the Duval Athletic
club of Jacksonville, Fla, will Sc
cure the match. The articles of
agreement signed by the represen-
tatiVe of the men are as follows:
We, the undersigned, Bob FitZ-
simmons, Of New York city, and
Dan CrerdOn, of Australia, agree
to contest at l5S pounds, middle
weight limit, at ring side, before a
club that may be agreeable to both
parties. The club Offering the
purse shall have to give a substan-
tial guarantee that the purse be
paid over in full Immediately after
the contest. The loser of the said
purse to receive One-tenth and the
winner nine-tenths. As soon as
the club has been agreed upon
each principal agree to post a for
felt of 81, 800 for their appearance
and weight, and will require the
club to post $1,000, guaranteeing
the mems training expenses, etc.
The referee to be chosen by mutual
consent of both parties and club.
The consent to be under the Mar
quis of Queensbury rules, with
regulation gloves.