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Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1894-02-09

o gusllce. snOuIu DC ashahio'i ~
offer you less than ten, and shall be
delighted to have such lovely gown.
Here's the money, Janey. Don't cry
so, dear. We all know it wasn't your
fault"
The merry music of the Twelfth
Night reel was throbbing on .he frozen
air when David Ellason jumped into
his blue sleigh and drove impetuously
away from the brilliantly-lighted doors
of the school-house.
'cNot here +" he had Indignantly ex-
claimed. '1f she's not here, then l
don't want to stay. I mean to go and
see what the matter is -
Halfway down the snow-clad slope
CT the road, he met two figures, hand
in hand-Janey Hammond and little
Peterl
"Why, Janey :" he exclaimed, check
ing his spirited black horse with a
jerk.
eyes, tie me, said Janey, her blue
eyes shining in the frosty starlight
''me and little Peter. Fathers that
mad he's turned us both out Of doors
Peter for being Peter, and me for tax
ing his part. And mothers just as
bad. SO I'm taking him to the par
sonage, and if Mrs. Warren will shell
ter us both for day or two"
Jump in, Janey!" cried Ellason.
eve can make room for Peter right
here in the buffalo robes. There
that's right. So they've turned you
out Of doors, ell? But there's doors
enough wide open for you. No, Janey,
I'm not going the down turn that
leads to Parson Warmers. I'd rather
90 in another direction-to my own
home, Janey. Mother waiting there,
fer ! vas sort O. calculatin' to bring
vou there this evening, if you said
YES. wanted to show her her new
daughter, Janeyl Is it yes? Because,
/ if it is, we can be married tomorrow.
Motherll be so pleased; and LITTLE
Peter shall be our crrand boy and live
with us. Tel mo, Jeney-isn't it
yes:"
M and Mr. Hammond had
thought, as they expressed it, to
brighten Jane into something like
common sense" by this sudden piece
Of strategy.
'She'll be back directly as humble
as YOU please, said the old man.
Goals hain't no business to be so i'll
dependent" yiciously uttered Mrs
Hammond. Twelfth Night parties.
indeed. and white dresses, and that
deceitful viper oi Peter mixed up in
it ALL"
But Janey did not come back. AMI
the first the old people knew Of the
new state Of things was when Parson
Warren told them of the quiet we'd
ding be had just celebrated at the par
sonage.
at amt possible!" said Mr.. Ham-
mond.
"I-neyer-could-ha' believed til"
said Mrs Hammond.
But they had made their bed, and
there was nothing to do but to lie
upon it. Saturday Night.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1894-02-09
An Extraordinary Experiment.

In 1864 Tyndall performed the ev-
pertinent of separating light from
heat, says the Cardiff Western Mail.
In the course of the investigations
which enabled him to do this he made
one Of the most daring experiments
that ever a scientific man ventured on.
Mr.. Jeans said: knowing a layer Of
odine placed before the eye inter-
cepted the light, he determined to
place his own eye in the focus Of strong
invisible rays. He knew that if in do
ing so the dark rays were absorbed in
e high degree by the humors Of the
eve the albumen Of the humors might
coagulate; and, on the other hand, ii
there was no high ABSORPTION, the rays
might strike upon the retina with a
force sufficient to destroy it. When
he first brought his eye, undefended,
near the dark focus, the heat on the
parts surrounding the pupil was too
intense to be endured. He, therefore,
made an aperture in the plate of metal,
and, placing his eye behind this aper-
ture, he gradually approached the
point Of convergence Of the invisible
rays. First the pupil and next the re-
tina were placed in the focus without
any sensible damage, Immediately at
terward sheet OF platinum
placed in the position which
tina had occupied became r.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1894-02-09

81 IdTlII, -VIIIg UI II U1III-, IIyT 10
"a valued at $500 an acre. All OF this
be covered with "slicksns.' washings fra
the mines ia the mountains, and thus be rea
dered yalueless.
The Kentucky Legislature adopted res.
olution instrrcting Senator's Blackburn and
Lindsay TO vote to reject the nomination ol
Peckham to be Associate Justice OF the SD
preme Court.
SMALLPOX epidemics have broken out Ia
Council Bluffs and New Hampton. Iowa.
VI. /. KNAPP went into the Office OF DR.. ".
II. Fitch. prominent ami wealthy physician
OF Rockford ILL.,, and showing a revolver INT
his face, forced him to sign $4,000 worth oi
notes
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1894-02-09
The Locomotive Whistle.

When the locomotives were first
built and began 10 trundle their small
loads up and down the newly and
rudely constructed railways Of England
the country roads were for the most
part crossed at grade and the engine
driver had no way OF giving warning
of his approach except by blowing
tin horn. This horn, as may be
imagined, was far from being sufi-
cient warning. One day in the year
1888 farmer Of Thornton was cross
ing the railway tracks on one of the
country roads with a great load Of
eggs and butter Just as he came
out upon the track a train approached.
The engine man blew his tin horn
Justify, but the farmer did not hear
it. Eighty dozen eggs and fifty pounds
of batter were smashed into an indis-
tinguishlble, unpleasant mass and
mingled with the kindling wood to
which the wagon was reduced. The
railway company had to pay the
farmer tho value OF his fifty pounds of
butter, his $50 eggs, his horse and his
wagon.
It was regarded az very serIS
matter. and straightway d.
the company, Ashlen Be-
-
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1894-02-09
JAMES NEW DRESS.

BY HELES FORREST GRAVES.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1894-02-09
Foreign.

TIE Brazilian insurgents captured D.
Jesus Island ia Rio Haroor twenty -
were killed and many wounded
THE Swedish tark WlIhsssa sn1
a cargo OF cor ter->Hlicsnte, has been
wrecked on the coast OF Cornwall, England.
Thecaptain OF the BARK AMI five Of her crew
were drowned.
TIE outrage at the American Legation
Quarters In Rome. Italy, is believed 10 have
been aimed at Minister Potter personally.
Russia has yielded to England in the
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1894-02-09
WEIGHT Of a Ton.

In the last District appropi
bill there appeared an item allce
fifty cents per ton for the removal'
garbage in steel tanks. Shortly aiteV
the law went into operation question
arose as to what number Of pounds
constituted a ton. The contractors
claimed that 2OOO pounds was the
legal ton, and made returns On that
basis. The first auditor, EUSayer' was
not disposed to pass the account until
the Commissioners explained the
definition Of the word "ton."
Attorney Thomas was called upon 10
give his opinion of the matter and to-
day returned the papers with the foi-
lowing opinion:
"The act does not specify the num-
Der of pounds which shall compose
ton, and hence we must go outside
a definition. Among Othe' AsaIa
Of the word "ton" given q
are the followiEK: The pgsht Or
twenty hu. .rrvd gF5Es or 22iO pounds.
In the United States the ton is COM
monty estimated at 2OOO pounds, this
is sometimes called the short ton.
The law in relation to the collection
of duties Oh imports prescribes that,
whenever the word ton is used in
reference to weighing bulky articles
in custom houses, it shall be construed
t. mean twenty hundred weight, each
hundred-weight being one hundred
and twelve pounds avoirdupois. but
this section throws no light on the
question, since but for the statute
2OOO might have been considered by
custom house officials as ton. Nor.
would there seem to be any practi
in the District amounting to I "a ga
since by an ordinance of theE d.
poration of Washington
the sale of coal 224O - =,
as ton, whilst sectiGn'e5J Of tho
District Revised Statutes makes 2O00
pounds Of hay and straw ton. In the
absence of definition OF the word
ton in the act OF March 3, 1898, no
speciol Importance is to be attached to
section 1851 Of the Revised Statutes,
in regard to the collection Of duties
making 2240 pounds ton, as showing
what Congress intended by the use .!
that word in the act Of March 3, 1873.
For these reasons my opinion Is th't
2O0O is to be taken as ton in weigh
ing garbage under the act Of 1898. -
Washington Star.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1894-02-09
FLOATING Islands Of the Aztecs.

'In by-gone days OF war and strug-
gle, these islets of reeds and bulrushes
enabled the Aztecs, who on their first
entrance into the Valley Of Mexico had
hard work to maintain their footing
against the earlier inhabitants of the
country, to exc out preclriou5 ex-
istence. Here they raised produce OF
various kinds, and in all probability
the islands then really foated, being
mere accumulations Of water plants
matted together. There is a town, az
we'll as lake, called Xochimilco,
where are to be found Aztecs Of un.
mixed blood, who are said to speak the
Aztec tongue.
"a vast amount Of vegetation grows
upon the surface OF the lake, AMI is
called cinta. It is made up of many
varieties of reeds, rushes, tula aud
water plants Large blocks Of the
cinta are frequently detached by heavy
weather, and, getting into the annals.
block them up, aud prevent for some
time the ingress or ogress OF boats
The Indians cut out rectangul e blocks
of the cinta, and, scooping up mud
from the bottom of the lake, gradually
build up patches of garden axYnd
which is unsurpassed in.de1 To
give additional 81 pact
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1894-02-09

An old piano. with
scription is sale I'm! *7 #
sold this piano to s
lies Of New York
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1894-02-09
BETTER HIGHWAYS.
PROVIDING A FERTILE COUNTRY
WITH GOOD ROADS.
The Most Immediate Need is For "A
Body of Trained Men-Ser-
vices the Federal GOvern-
ment Can Render.

Z DEQUATELY to provide a
y fertile country with good
. roads it is necessary to have
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1894-02-09


matter with your heorin', Id
like to know, Peter Lyon?'
Little Peter set down the heavy
milking pail close to the sink, across
which Mrs. Hammond was already
leaning. to make out whether that
will-o'-the-wisp CLEAN at the foot Of
the lane really proceeded from the
barn windows, or was merely Sim
Coxe's lantern, as he swung it to and
fro on his way from the railway sta
tion.
ooh" said he, otis Miss Janey,
huntin' eggs for breakfast, l guess
"That's Janey, ali over" scolded
the old dame. always puts things
of to the last minute. Why couldn't
she a gone after EN- little earlier?'
"Therc's eggs enough in the house,
snarlcl Joshua Hammond, "an' l
don't allow no Unnecessary lights i'll
the barnl Go tell her to come right
in, Peter
'Yez-zer, said little Peter.
But Mrs. Hammond supplemented
the command with such a host of or
ders, as to kindling-woo1, locking the
hen-house door, bringing the fresh
water, and other things, that he did
not Immediately carry it out.
For Peter had been a Gresham"
boy, whose friends were dead and
gone, and who had managed somehow
to get back again TO the place which
had once seemed of all resorts the
fairest and most blessed to him, and
was now drudge in general to the Ham
monds.
Poor little Peter He had discov
cred that the country all the year
round, and the country for two holi-
day weeks, were not quite the same.
But he made the best OF things, and
in his secret heart contented himself
by worshiping pretty Jane Hammond,
as Parsee worships the sun.
At this especial moment, Janey was
up in the barn chamber by the light
Of haring candle stuck against the
wall, holding up to Mariana Dow's ad-
miring eyes a pretty dress Of dotted
white muslin, with n blue sash and
sundry coquetish bits Of the same
colored ribbon knotted here AMI
there.
''You see, I have to keep it here,
said she. "Mother would find it out
else-and mother thinks brown calico
is good enough for any occasion, and
father says it's sinful to dance. Oh,
dear, Mariana, l hope I'm not doing
wrong; but it is so dreary living here
under the hill and never to go any
where or see anybody l made it NY
self, and it only cost a very little. "
"1ts Jest beau-yeau-tifuIl' - criel
Miss Dow, lifting hands OF admiration.
'Iucetta Morris's red silkolene won't
be nowhere. I declare to goodness,
the blue ribbons jest czacktly match
your eyes I'd like to see David FL
lason's face when YOU come into the
room"
'Nonsensel' smiled Ja6ey. 'But
here's my cake, Mariana" lifting the
lid Of long>disused box-trink, AMI
displaying a dainty cone Of frosted
sweetness. I'm coaxingm monthly
rosebush to bfoom so as to prt pink
rose in the yeil y crest---a real rose' mol
like buoetts ,sIorris's cOlOrsa p'psl
"walZaoo ssd!ssgs sn,sEg e and n. s =. ',''
: :
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1894-02-09
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

THE Gar Of Russia receives 10 salary.
OUEEy VICTORIA speaks ten languages
1Uently.
THg Oldest clergyman in England is Rev.
Sir John Warren Hays. who was bOrnin l799
DR.. TA1MAGE has promised to reconsider
his resignation Of the pa5torate OF tho
Brooklyn Tabernacle.
Prince EsrERuAzY. tho richest nan in
Hungary and the owner oi hundreds oil
towns and villages, is dead.
THE Empress nj Austria is winterins on
the Island OF Madeira, where she Is known
as Countess Won HOhenems.
EMPEROR WILLIAM has presented Prince
Bismarck with some gray cloth TO be made
into military OyercOat Ike his own.
CORNELIUS VANDERBILT, the New York
fnancier. il is said, has given q million dol
lars 20 religious work in the past two years.
PnoFEssoR Henry DersLER. Professor Of
Greek al Columbia College New York City
for fifty years. has asked to be retired as
professor emeritus.
GLADsroNE's eldest son. ". A. Gladstone,
is lord OF the manor OF Haw1rdsn. He Is q
dun. heavy honest Engiishmln with none o.
his fathers intellectual qualities.
JUDeE and Historian Charles Gayarre, OF
louisiana. was elected United States Sena-
tor in 1885, but declined bscauss OF ill
health. He's yet alive at eighty-nine, all tho
same.
RIDgR HAGGARD's English estate embraces
200 acres Of farm lands, the intelligent stuty
Of whica has made the novelist an expert
authority on crops AMI Other agricultural
matters.
SENATOR wHITE. OF California, is often
mistaken for ex-Prasident Harrison. His
beard is the same style aud color as tnat OF
Mr. Harrison. a0i in speech the res ombianee
Is very striking.
CoCgRAS, ono oithe leading ora
in Congress. came to this country IN
Moor ni with only fair EDUCATION.
)w regarded rs one Of the wealthiest
its the country.
wAsHINGroN, who die1 in lvan-
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1894-02-09

ETERl Peter ~
squeaked old
Mr.. Hammond.
"What's tn t
light out in the
barn.
Light, sir
out in t b c
arn?'
'Yes, Zig hit
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-12-12
Army Orders,

Capt. Oscar r. Long, assistant quarter
master, will proceed from this city to Fort
Monroe, Va, on inspection duty pertain
ing to the quartermaster's department.
Leave OF absence for four months is
granted Lieut.. Col. Thomas McGregor,
eighth cavalry.
First Lieut.. Tyree r. Rivers, third cav
airy, will report in person to the command
ant of the Cavalry and Light Artillery
School, Fort Riley, Kansas, for duty as
secretary of the school and as adjutant for
the subschool for cavalry, in addition to
his present duties.
First Lieut.. Herbert J. Slocum, quarter
master seventh cavalry, is relieved from
further duty in the department of Texas
and will rejoin his regiment at Fort Riley.
The leave of absence granted Maj. John
G. Turnbull, fifth artillery, is extended one
month.
The following assignments to regiments
of officers recently promoted are ordered:
First Lieut.. Edmund Wittenmyer, to the
fifteenth infantry, company E.
First Lieut.. Michael ]. Lehman, to the
nineteenth infantry, company E.
The following transfers of officers are or
dered, to take effect this date:
First Lieut.. Arthur b. Foster, from the
second infantry to the nineteenth infantry,
company E.
First Lieut.. Michael j. Lenihan, from the
nineteenth infantry to the second infantry,
company A.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-12-12
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.

Argument was heard yesterday at Lex
ington, Va, by Judge Mclaughlin on
writ of error in the case of Thomas n.
Goodman, who was recently convicted or
murder in the second degree for killing Col.
H. G.. Parsons at Clifton Forge, ana SEN
fenced to eighteen years In the peniten-
tiary. , 40,
The panama canal officials on the 18TH
mus claim that more than enough money
is ready to continue work for year, and
that the company has been promised much
more.
The Atlantic Coast Line has purchased
the Wilmington, Chadbourne and Conway
railroad.
The new 8 IL per cent refunding loan loan
issued by Philadelphia has been awarded
to Drexel Il Co. at premium which re-
duces the interest to less than 3 per cent.
Kansas city, Mo-, has sold S,UO,OOO
bonds for the purchase of the property OF
the National Water Works Company at
101, premium of $3O,Ooo.
Lumbermen OF Arkansas, Missouri and
several other states met at Little Rock,
Ark, yesterday for the purpose OF forming
an agreement to raise the price OF their
product. .
Paving Company has bought 9th avenue
dwelling in New York for $ooO,OOO.
Seven persons were drowned at Littleton,
Buchanan county, Iowa, on Monday, by
the breaking OF ice on which they were
skating.
vania county of murder, and sentenced
to twelve years in the penitentiary, yes
terday jumped from train at DanEille,
Va, and escaped.
Fifteen hundred tailors were locked out
in New York yesterday.
Prof. Louis Pasteur, the eminent French
chemist and discoverer OF the Famous
Pasteur treatment for hydrophobia, is
seriously i'll at Paris. He is seventy-two
years old.
The proposal to prosecute the deputies
who refused to cheer for Emperor William
has aroused storm of protest from the
socialist newspapers of Germany.
The Baltimore schooners Matilda, Capt.
Bryan, and Edward Leary, Capt Hadda-
way, and five longing boats have just been
captured in Eastern bay by the crew of
the police schooner Frolc, charged with
carrying oysters under legal size, and fined.
collision between crowded cable trains
in Washington street tunnel in Chicago
was caused last evening by the breaking
of a grip on a Milwaukee avenue car. One
man was fatally hurt. Fifteen more per-
sons were seriously injured, and a score
of others more or less bruised.
A memorial was yesterday sent to the
Rev. Charles Ii. Parkhurst of New York
by number of prominent reformers re-
questing an indication from him as to the
most acceptable form of a testimonial
which they desire to offer as a token of
their appreciation of his crusade against
Municipal corruption. DIR. Parkhurst ex-
pressed his qualification, but suggested
that aid be given the City Vigilance
League
The police committee appointed to pre-
pare a non-partisan method for the man.
agement of the Chicago police force made
it's report yesterday, recommending that
both appointments and promotions be made
by examinations. physical and mental
and providing that all present officers
under ten years OF service be required to
take the proposed examinations.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-12-12
MIR. PLATT'S PRESS BUREAU.
His Defense Supplied to New YOrL
Country Editors.


The New York Evening Post yesterday
published a letter of ex-senator T. c. Platt
to country editors, and also a document
which amounts to an appeal on the part
of Mr.. Platt for support as the representa-
tive leader in New York state.
Mr.. Platt's letter to tie country editors
says:
Il do not suggest that you print 1t in its
entirety, for in order to cover the ground
fully it has been made rather long, and
perhaps too long for your use at one time
My suggestion is that you possess yourself
of the salient points in this statement and
use them in editorials of your own writing
during the next few weeks" He adds that
he will appreciate all the receiver does.
The incloSure, after referring to the re-
cent republican victory, speaks of dissen-
sions in New York city regarding the use
to be made of it. After speaking of the
claims of DR.. Parkhurst and the commit
tee of seventy, Mr.. Platts Enclosure says:
Senator Plat has had the courage to
speak out boldly against these mugwump
and dem ocratic self-aSsertionS, and 10 re-
ing up with proclamdtiCns that they have
discovered a rev system of government
which they must straigbtway be empower
ed, at a good salary, to put into execution;
that the people have elected republican,
officials &c carry out their will. and that
these officials are not going to abdiCate in
favor of self-conStituted committees OF
over-Zealous individuals. Mr.. Platt's dec
laraton has the unqualified support of the
republican party from one end of the state
to the other, and yet the republican fac
ticnists in New York city are making il the
basis of a new cutlery. Apparently they
are willing to surrender themselves and
their party to the mugwumps and demo-
Gratis. They may, of course, do with them
selves what they please, but they cannot
carry the republican party with them
Mr.. Platts success as leader is due 10
the fact that he understands the republi-
can voters"
Further on he speaks of the New York
Tribune's recent. criticism of him, as fol-
lows: What ails the Tribune? 1t is true
that Mr.. Platt did rot permit Whitelaw
Reds young protege, Mr.. Milholland, to
disrupt the republican party by creating a
faction In opposition to the reorganization
of the committee of thirty. 1t Is true that
the Tribune has ceased to be the public
printer, and that the $4,000 of public
patronage which it has hitherto received
has now gone to THE Press" but these
facts don't constitute a reason why 1t
should play into the hands of the demo-
cratic party, nor are they good ground
for doing those things for which it rebuk-
ed other newspapers six months ago."