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Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-07-28
WHY? WIEN? WHERE!

Whv should you insure your life? s Be- auSe other
you your family the profits arising from work 3D. If
you poor gives protection family 3D. II you are rich
gives you good investment
When should you insure your life? NOW.
M you may die before doing ID You may become
insuaole 3d. 1t certainly will cost you more you delay
Where should insure my life?
With the Equitable Life Assurance Society OF the United States
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Tonn policies now maturing show the holders have realized
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experienced by any other Company For information adj
dress JUhh X. WEST, Manager Richmond, Va
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-07-28
LUPay Female Institute,
Luray, Va.
R. E. BINFORD. M A., PRINCIPAL.

Session open Sept. 10. Full Faculty
Thorough Preparatory and Collegiate
Courses Nine distinct and independent
Schools. English Language ana LI.er-
allure, Latin and Greek, Modern Lan-
guages, Mathematics, Natural science
Mental and Moral Science, History ART
Music. Diplomas conferred In each scn41 81,
Two full Diplomas conferred. Admirably
located. Absolutely free from malaria
Elegant bailding OF modern design, cod
structed specially for the the purpose
furnished aud equipped Low rates
Send for catalogues.
July 1i-2m.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-07-28
Samuel w. Rinker, &c. Defts
Petition in ChdHcerV.

G. ODER & Sons Co. ..-..... Complt
AGAINSE
Samuel W. Rinker, &c. Defts
Petition in Chancery.
The object of this suit is to recover
against said Samuel W. Rinker the sum Of
S200.4S, with interest from Dec IL, 1891
until paid, evidenced by negotiable nOte
executed by him Dec. l. 1890, and payable
twelve months thereafter to J. W. Miller
& Co., and to audit the same in the suit
of S. p. Lonas. &C., VS., Samuel w, Rinker,
&c, as lien upon the real estate of said
Samuel w. Rinker set forth in said suit.
1t appearing by affidavit filed that the
defendants G. A. Rinker and Seraphlne
Rihker his wife, are not inhabitants OF
this Statt-IT IS ORDERED, That they do
appear here within fifteen days after due
publication hereof and do what is neGes-
sary to protect their interest that copy
of this order be published in some news
paper printed in Shenandoah county,
once week for four successive weeks,
and a copy posted at the front door OF the
Court House of said county, on the first
day of the next County Court.
GEO. W. MILEY, .. c. C. :. c.
A COpy-reste
GEO w. MlLEY, c. C. c. c.
Walton Il Wa ton p. O.
July 2l-4t.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-07-28
Senator Stanford Successor.

DDHdIOI DOtIHIOI q . RJN1~NN7-01'
SAcRAMenTO, Cal, July 2l.-George c.
Perkins has been appointed United States
senator by Governor Markham. Mr. Per
kns was elected governor of the state OF
California in 1919, and served from jan
nary, l5S0 to January loc3.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-07-28
NOTICE.

Having sold halt interest in my
Saddle and Harness store to Mr. j. A
Dysart, the business will be conducted II
the name Of J. A. Dysart & Co. | request
all parties indicted to me to call and
settle their accounts so that the old bus
iness can be closed up at once. l also
solicit the patronage Of my old customers
for the firm. JNO. II. GRABILL,
Juiy 2t st.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-07-28
ESTABLISHED 1879
J. F. Saum & Co.
WHOLESALE
Produce Commission Merchants
005 Louisiana Avenue,

Washington, y. Z.
Solicit shipments of every marketable
product-no matter what-Of the Farm,
Dairy, Poultry and Stock Yard. Shippers
paid daily the highest wholesale price.
IS years lover 20 IN this city of success
ful experience is guarantee Of our business
ability to handle shipments satisfactorily.
Refer to proprietor of HERALD and Citi-
zens' National Bank of Washington city,
DC. [20 mar. 's5 ly.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-07-28
Handmade Harness

In style, workmanship, material anC
price, we defy competition. Oul
motto is, BEST material and BeS
work for the price. Call and ex
anime our goods and prices.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-07-28

VIRGINIA AGRICULTURAL
' AND MECHANICAL COLLEGE
AT BLACKSBURG VA.
2! Instructors Thoroughly equipped
Shops, Laboratories and Infirmary Farm
of 33S acres-Steam heating and Electric
lights IN Dormitories. Degrees courses in
Agriculture ; Civil Mechanical aHd Elec-
trical Engineering: Applied Chemistry
and General Science, Shorter courses in
Practical Agriculture and Practical Ne.
chanIss.
Total cost for session of nine months,
including tuition and other fees, clothing,
board, washing, textbooks medical at
tendance, ETC., about 1880. Cost Ia
State Student sl4j0O. Next session
begins September 21st. 1898.
Fer Catalogue apply 20
JIM. McBRYDE, Phi. d. LII. d.
President.
July 81 At.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-07-28

John Swarthout, indicted for the muir
der of his father at Harrison, Ills, died
in the jail at that place Of consumptio
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-07-28

Hagerstowns Big Sunday Blaze
HAGERsrOwN Md, July 24.-Sunday
fire broke out in the stable of Jones a.
South. Their Wholesale house was COM
plete'y destroyed, together With the ad-
I lining houses of John Emmert and Dr. D.
$. wishard. The total loss is about $l2O
OOO of which Jones g. Smith lost 800. COO.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-07-28
FRIDAY. july rs. 1898.

Judicious Advertising.
Creates many q new business
Enlarges many an old business
Reyives many doll business.
Rescues many lost business.
Saves many g failing business.
Preserves many large business.
Secures success IN any business.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-07-28
VIRGINIA. To WIT:

VIRGINIA, To WIT:
' At rules held in the Clerks Office Of
the Circuit Court of Shenandoah COUNTY
on the third Monday in July 1893.
G. Ober e. Sons Co. --.-....-. COmplt.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-04-20
TIL. Angler of the Seine.

The old type of angler, according to
Balzac, was silent, meditative anu
crusty. His descendant is, on the con-
trary, loquacious, closely observant of
everything but his fly and line and care
lessly amiable Who would have dared
address the hoary and respected Pierre
when in the act of landing-for he really
used to land something else besides tad
poles and old boots-or when cajoling
with fish from his time honored corner
beneath the Pnnt Royal? No one, ven
ture to say, but the sharp tongued gut
ter urchin may chaff the seedy yet i'm
perturbable individual who has succeed
ed him, and, what is more, he receives a
return volley of repartee garnished with
puns.
Old Pierre, who was perhaps one of
the best known figures 20 years back
on the quays, breakfasted, dined and
supped off his takes of Seine fish, which
were mostly dace, carp, barbels and
tench. He had varied assortment of
recipes in his possession, and many a
Gordon bleu has received hint for cook
ing the finny tribe from this ancient fish
erman. No one knew exactly where or
how he lived or how he managed to OBJ
tain funds for the purchase of bait, yet
he was always well supplied with the
most expensive kind of gentles, greaves
and paste, where his successor contents
himself with roe and i'll made fies.-
Westminster Review.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-04-20
Trained Fish.

Fish have many times been taught to
perform tricks, and it would appear as
if they had much more intelligence than
is attributed to them. Mr.. ]. A. Bailey
of circus fame once had two brook trout
in a small aquarium in his private resi-
dence that would jump out of the water
and take flies held between the forefnger
and thumb and would also ring little
bell when they required food. They
would also leap over little bars of wood
placed about two inches above the sur
face of the water.
1t is very simple matter to teach the
fish these tricks. At first little tower
containing tiny, sweet toned silver bell
was fastened to the iron work of the
aquarium with piece of string attached
to the tongue of the bell extending into
the water where the trout were. On the
loose end of the string an insect or other
tempting morsel was placed, which the
fish would at once seize, and pulling the
cord the bell in the tower would natu-
rally tinkle After this had been re-
peated several days the fish were left
without food for some little time until
they made the discovery that they could
obtain it by pulling at the string to
which the delicacies had been attached.
This they never failed to do ever after
ward when they were hungry and as
that was nearly all the time the little
bell was constantly tingling as the fish
were continually pulling the co-1, and
it was quite pretty and move sight
New York Herald.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-04-20
all Papers.

Wall papers were little used in Europe
before the eighteenth century, though
they had been long before that applied
to house decoration by the Chinese.
Those that were first manufactured in
the west were adaptations of design from
Italian brocades. and at first they were
used in an unobjectionablem manner, Just
as hangings of the costlier material were
employed-namely, to fill spaces between
obvious structural hnes-and so applied
no objection could be made to their use.
On the contrary. the invention brought
it within the means of almost every
householder to fill blank wall spaces
with agreeable tracery and harmonious
color.
The cornice, frieze and dado remained
intact. Coigns were protected with
molding or plaster work, and the in
mate might feel that he was living in a
built room and not in a bandbox. But
gradually the wall features disappeared,
paper crept over everything except win
dow and door openings, even into the
very angles of the walls, and it is moth
ing uncommon now on entering sa-
loon of considerable pretension and pro-
portions to find the walls closely COW
cred with paper from floor to ceiling,
save a narrow skirting board to protect
the plaster from the housemaid's broom
and cornice reduced to meager mold
Magazine.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-04-20
General Grants Quick Perception.


One afternoon during the siege of Vicks
burg General Grant came sauntering on
foot toward the naval battery on Lo
gan's front.
The place was known as the "shell
basket, from the number of 10-inch NOR
tar shells dropped into the earth, which
exploded and raised clouds of dust that
obscured everything in the vicinity fo1
some moments.
In this instance few of us had watch
ed the fight of shell, but the general
saw the bomb only the moment before il
struck, and its windage threw him to
the ground. He was unhurt, and con-
scious that time was precious before the
explosion he had rolled himself sufi-
GENTLY away to escape the shock, but not
the earthly shower-from the dust of
which he presently emerged. intently
considering an unlit cigar.
Logan" he said cheerily to that gen
eral. who in the full bloom of clean
white shirt hastened to him, ''how can
you keep so clean in such dusty placer
This escape was followed by another a
few afternoons later, when shell landed
by the front pole of the awning before
Logan's tent, and eight generals. Grant
among them, rolled hastily out Of the
shelter to meet uninjured when the dust
cleared away from the recent place OF
conference.-T. R. Davis in Cosmopoli-
tan
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-04-20
Colonel Hale,s Short Visit to Town.

Colonel Hale blew into rapidly grow
ing western town recently and quickly
grasped the fact that there was no cable
road. Witt. everything gone but a silk
hat and S125, he spent 500 for admission
in a swell local club and proceeded to
exist on the remaining $25. He gathered
about him the leading moneyed men and
laid bare the scheme of millions in a ca
BILE road. He agreed to obtain the fran
chise and put it through for $50, 900. part
of which was to paid down as a guaran-
tee of good faith. The colonel busted up
his silk hat and attacked the aldermen
next By dint of promising and pompous
appearance of wealth he secured an or
dinance, was voted stock, drew what
was coming to him and blew out again,
leaving every one to wonder.-St. Louis
Globe-Democrat.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-04-20
NATIONAL LEAD CO..
CHURCH DIRECTORY.

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH-Rev. r. Alex
ander, pastor. Public worship every Sabbath
morning and evening; Sabbath school 9: 80 a. m /:
young peoples society of Christian endeayor, Sun
day evenings; general prayer meeting, Wednesday
evening. Strangers welcome to all services.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH-Rev
Harvey Webb, pastor. Sabbath preaching 10: 80
l. m.; p. m; young peoples meeting, Monday
,yenings; general prayer meeting, Wednesday eve
nings; Sabbath school 2:30 pm. Strangers cor
daily invited to all services.
UNITED PRESBYTERIANC CHURCH-Rey
Thomas Balph, pastor. Sabbath school, 10 a. m. ;
public worship, II a. m; weekly prayer meeting,
Friday p. m. monthly prayer meeting, last Satur
day of each month, 2 p. m; woman's missionary
5,ciety, last Saturday Of each month, p m; dis
trict prayer meetings, first Tuesdays Wednesdays,
Thursdays and Saturdays each month, p. IN. !;
Young wOmen's prayer meeting, second Saturday
ZACH month at the parsonage, p. m.
AFRICAN N. M.E.CHURCH-Rev Albert March
,astOr. Sunday service, 1890 a. m; p. m; Sab
bath school, 2:30 p. m; weekly prayer meeting,
Thursday evenings. Strangers welcome,
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-04-20

1t was in Paris. A lot of high rollers
were talking about tobacco. Howell
Osborne was there, Wilkie, the retired
dentist, and several other fellows who
had hard work to spend their income.
Wilkie, who didn't smoke, offered to bet
a dinner that he could fool another
member Of the crowd on cigar Man
swore he couldn't. He'd been cussing a
blue streak because he couldn't get Per
fectos on account of the government
monopoly. So they blindfolded him, and
Wilkie lighted cigar after cigar and
handed them to him. POOH" he would
say, another Partisan failure.
By and by Wilkie lighted cigar,
which he had obtained with some mys-
terry, extinguished the flame with quick
stroke of his penknife and handed it
over. The cigar was still warm. The
expert took several puffs and threw down
the cigar, exclaiming, French, and
mighty badI'
Then they set up howl, for the cigar
was smuggled Perfecto.-Paris Letter.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-04-20
Was His Own Grandfather.

Of all genealogical curiosities the one
set forth below is probably the oldest
a singular piece of reasoning to prove
that man may be his own grandfather!
Here it is: There was widow (Anne)
and her daughter Gane) and man
(George) and his son Henry). This wild
ow married the son, and the daughter
married the father. The widow was
therefore mother Gn law to her hus-
bands father and grandmother to her
own husband. By this husband she had
a son DAVID, to whom she was of course
great-grandmother. Now, the son of a
great-grandmother must be grandfather
or granduncle to the person to whom
his mother was or is great-grandmother,
but in this instance Anne was great
grandmother to him David, therefore
David could not be other than his own
grandfather.-St.L Louis Republic.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-04-20
EARRlNGEoRp LAWN.

Who hath seen the summer parlor of the king
Lovely and lofty. shut from view;
Walled with green and ceilinged with blue;
Round about 1t tie singers sung
Ross and lily their odors flung.
| myself that speak unto you
/ have seen the summer parlor OF the king
Who sat in the summer parlor of the king
His custom of an afternoon:
When summer came, when earth v as BOOM
When round about his singers sung.
Rose and lily their odors flung.
When summer came, when all was June?-
The king! in the summer parlor of the kingl
Lo! this was the summer parlor of the king.
Made it for him and fashioned fair,
Open only to delicate air.
Royal songs for the world to sing
Seemed writ round the walls in jeweling,
For myself have seen them there
Have sat in his summer parlor with the king
Mary Brotherton.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-04-20
The Hawaiian Death Prayer.

Upon the minds of such people as
the Hawaiians were, while under their
ancient form of religion, it was but nat
ural that superstition should gain a
rooted hold. The most curious and eff
fective belief towhich they were made
subject was that man can be prayed to
death-a belief that survives among the
natives to the present day. For the sue
eess of the tragical death prayer it was
necessary to obtain some hair or a piece
of finger nail of the intended victim. A
priest was then employed to use incanta-
ton and prayer for his destruction. AL
ways informed of the doom that the
priest was invoking upon him, the vic
tim generally pined away and died.
There is a story current that an Eng
lishman in the service of Kamehameha
I, having incurred the displeasure of a
priest, the latter proceeded to remove"
him by the death-prayer process. The
Anglo-Saxon, however, set up an opposi-
ton altar in derision, and jokingly pro-
claimed that he intended to pray the
priest to death. Alarmed at the threat
and overwhelmed at the failure of his
own incantations, the sorcerer died, prov
ing by his death his faith in his religion.
e. Ellsworth Carey in Californian.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-04-20
Sentenced to Matrimony.

A young man and a young woman
were contesting possession of piece OF
property, the one claiming under an old
lease, the other under an old will.
1T strikes me-" said the justice, "that
there is pleasant and easy way to ter.
inmate this lawsuit. The plaintiff seems
to be a respectable young man, and this
is very nice young woman. They can
both get married and live upon the
farm. If they go on with the law pro
ceedings, the property will all be frit-
tered away among the lawyers, who,
am sure, are not ungallant enough to
wish the marriage not to come off"
The lady blushed, and the young man
stammered that they ''hked each other a
little bit" SO verdict was rendered fol-
the plaintiff on the condition of his prom
ise to marry the defendant within two
months, stay of execution being put to
the verdict till the marriage ceremony
should be completed.
This is about the first couple ever SEN
fenced to matrimony in a court of law.
-Gripsack.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-04-20

POETRY reveals to us the loveliness OF
nature, brings back the freshness OF
Youthful feeling, revives the relish OF
simple pleasures. keeps unquenched the
enthusiasm which warmed the spring
time CT our being, reines youthful love
strengthens our interest in human ma
ture by vivid delineations of its tender
est and loftiest feelings. and through the
brightness of its prophetic visions helps
faith to lay hold on the future.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-04-20
A PrOnounced Casa

The reporter who may some day be
come a great American humorist was
sick, and friend was waiting ON him. A
bottle and a pill box were on the table.
Where's the quin1ne?" inquired the
young man, nosing around.
I'm that bottle" designating the one
on the table.
whats in the box?" asked the friend
picking up both and reading the labels.
''Keeneen," was the reply.
whats the difference?" was the some.
what astonished query.
The sick man laughed.
well, that in the bottle / got at
wholesale and paid 25 cents for 2OO
grains, and that in the box bought at
retail and paid 25 cents for 25 grains.
Do you catch on?'
The friend gave little whistle.
81 presume" he said, "eyether will
do" and gave the patient one of each
Detroit Free Press.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-04-20
GRAINS OF GOLD.

Ability is often reinforced by necessity.
We often weep before We had time to
smile.
There is no right way to do wrong
thing.
Failure mars the fool. but helps make
the man.
Condemn no good man for not think
ing as you think.
1t is less pain to learn in youth than
TO be ignorant in age.
The great perpetual battle of life Is
the warfare waged against ones self.
Putting screens in the saloon door is
one of the devils ways of tryio5 tO hide
his face.
1t is not joy or repose which is the
aim OF life. 1t is work, or there is no
aim at all
In seeking wisdom, thou art wise; in
imagining that thou hast attained 1t,
thou art fool.
Man is born barbarous is ransom
ed from the condition of beasts only by
being cultivated.
If you promise to meet a man or to do
certain thing at certain moment,
honor your engagement.
Never believe all you may hear; for he
who believes all that he hears often be-
Iieves more than he hears.
The art of living easily with regard to
money is to pitch your scale OF living a;
least one degree below your means.
There are persons who do not know
how to waste their time alone, and hence
become the scourge of busy people
The best government is not that which
renders man the happiest, but that which
renders the greatest number happy.
Envy pursues its victims throughout
life. 1t ceases to gnaw only when the
grave worm, its brother reptile, begins.
Man spends his life in reasoning on
the past, in complaining of the present,
and in trembling respecting the future,
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-04-20
Two Charges.

There was suit tried in the United
States circuit court at Raleigh some
years ago in which Baltimore commits
sion house was plaintiff and General
Bryan Grimes, who led the last charge
at Appomatto1, was defendant. Judge
Bond, who presided, was strongly anti
southern during the war and citizen
of Baltimore. The late Governor Fowle,
who was a very eloquent lawyer, repre-
sented General Grimes, and in his ap-
peal to the jury laid full stress on the
character and record of his client and
dwelt eloquently on the last charge at
Appomatto1" Coming out of the court,
ne said to the opposing counsel (now
Judge Fuller of the United .ates land
claims COURT, Fuller, that last charge
at Appomattox has got me the jury"
Yes said Fuller very quietly; land
that last charge of Judge Bond has got
me the verdict" And so it proved
Green Bag.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-04-20
AMoman sunsrintendent.

The momentous question whether it
should be a lady superintendent or wom-
an superintendent has been decided by
the trustees of the normal college. The
executive committee had recommended
that the bylaws of the college be amend
ed by designating one of the professors
woman superintendent.
Commissioner Lummis said he pre-
ferred lady superintendent. While there
was no doubt that woman superintend-
ent was correct, still he thought the term
was not generally applied in institutions
of as much dignity as the normal col
lege. He made an amendment that lady
be inserted instead of woman.
Commissioner Hubbell said woman
was better form than lady. Mr.. Lum-
mis- withdrew his amendment, and it is
now woman superintendent York
Sun.