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Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1894-01-05
The Pariahs.

The Rev. T. B. Pandian, n Hinlu
gentleman of degree who has em-
braced Christianity, is endeavoring to
rouse English sympathy for the Par
iahs, or outcasts of Southern India.
There are 10000, 900 or 9,OO0,-
600 of them, and, though en-
tirely free by law, they are sub
iect to some disabilities by caste
opinion, one of which is so terrible
that we have no hesitation i'll saying
it ought to be remedied by force, even
at the hazard Of insurrection. They
are forbidden to drink pure water.
There are generally two public wells
in every village, but the caste men will
not suffer the Pariah families to ap.
proach them, even If they only touch
the water with buckets. The women,
therefore. have often TO go miles TO
get water from a stream, and IN prac-
tice the majority Of Pariahs drink only
dirty water left in burrows and pools
in the fields or jungle. The conse'
quence is that they are constant VIC
tins of dysentery, and that when any
tvphoidal disease strikes the village
they die like flies. 1t seems TO us that
this oppression is too bad, even though
it be based on religious prejudice,
and the caste men should either be
compelled to give up one Of the wells,
or better still, to sink new well for
the Pariahs, thus spending something
to protect their own ceremonial pu'
ritv. We have no doubt whatever OF
the exact truth Of this statement as
regards the water, and strongly rec
ommend the grievance to any phllan-
thropist in the House in want Of work.
II may be asked why the Pariahs bear
such an outrageous oppression. First,
because 2OOO years Of slavery have
made them towards; and secondly,
because they believe, or half believe,
the dogma of their caste neighbors,
namely, that their suffering is just re-
tribution for the sins of their previous
lives. They are losing that faith and
some day they will fight for five min
utes with torches instead of rifles, and
then civilization in South India will
temporarily end. London Spectator.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1894-01-05
The Bigqest Man on Earth.

Citizens Of this vicinity yesterday
had an opportunity to behold the
greatest living man in avoirdupois.
John Hanson Craig, with his wife and
three-year old child, was visiting James
Anderson and James Mcpherson, re
tives. Craig's home is in Danyil ?,
Hendricks County, but he has been in
the show business since his babyhood.
In answer to questions he said: 81
now weigh 902 pounds and am thirty
seven years old. At birth 1 weighed
IL pounds; at eleven months weighed
II pounds, at two years pos pounds.
At that time took the 81 900 premium
Mt Barnum's baby show in New York
CITY in the year 1853. At five years I
weighed 3O2 pounds; at thirteen years,
4O5 pounds; at twenty two, 72j
mounds; at twenty-seven, 75S pounds
at twenty eight, TIA pounds; at
twenty-nine, 791 pounds; at thirty,
SOC pounds; at thirty-one, S36 36pounds;
and my present weight is just 9O7
mounds. am six feet and i've inches
high. measure eight feet and four
inches around the hips, eighteen inches
around the ankle, twenty nine inches
around the knee sixty-six inches
inches around the thigh next to the
BODY. require forty-one yards for
suit of clothes, and three pounds Of
yarn for stockings
Mrs Craig is good-lookinS blonde
weighs 13O pounds, and formerly ac-
companied her husband in the role OF
snake charmer as "Zola Ayres." When
asked how long they had been married
she laughingly remarked that they
were Just now enjoying their second
HONEYMOON. as they were divorced in
January and remarked but a couple
Of weeks ago. Mr.. Craig explained
the trouble, stating that his wife had
expressed a desire to learn fashionable
dressmaking, and that he objected.
She applied for divorce, it was
Granted. and she went TO Terre Haute
and learned her trade. She then re-
turned home and they we're remarried.
Mr. Craig has been all over Europe,
and in every important city in the
world. They went from here TO Day
ton, where Mrs Craig was born and
raised. Frankfort Ind Dispatch.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1894-01-05
Improving the Eyes.

It is satisfactory to be toid by Mr..
Ellis that blindness in England IS
"slowly declining" though Great
Britain still stands in this respect be-
hind two other European countries
and three more come before Ireland.
Short -sightedness, however, appears,
to be increasing everywhere, Germany
having a signal and sinister pre-
eminence in this respect.
A French doctor has noted the re-
markable fact that wild beasts caught
quite young or born in captivity be-
come short-sighted, the conclusion
being that the eye adapts itself to ITS
habitual sphere of vision, and unless
"educated, to use Mr.. Ellis's term,
to see objects at distance, loses the
capacity of so doing Even in after
life the eve may be, to some extent
so educated, though probably only
when the myopia is not considerable.
IT is thus within the experience OF
the present writer that his sight
greatly improved in days gone by,
when he became volunteer by
practice at the butts, so that,
while At first he could not see the
target TO shoot at without spectacles
at the 3OO-yard range, after twelve
month or so he only needed to put on
spectacles at 800 wards But beyond
that range he was never able to DIS
pense with them.
Country excursion are, therefore,
extremely valuable as means oI
strengthening the sight of town-ored
children; and the conductors Of such
excursions should taSe pain 90 direct
the eyes of the children to distant OBJ
iects-to the furthest hill, church,
tower. or other landmark, noting, II
possible, any incapacity to discern the
selected object, and then selecting
some nearer Que for the weaker sighted
The Spectator.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1894-01-05
Pain.Enduring Animals.

The manner in which animals and
birds endure pain should awaken the
sympathy of all thinking people.
Horses in battle furnish n striking ex-
ample of this power of endurance.
After the first stinging pain is felt
they make no sound, but bear 1t with
mute wondering endurance, and when
in the silence Of the night n groan
comes from the battlefield, it is be-
cause of loneliness craving for
human companionship which is so nee
essary to once domesticated animals.
A dog will go FOR days with broken
leg without complaint, but the plead
ing. wistful look would attract atten-
ton from any one not totally blind to
all sensibility.
A cat, wounded by stick or stone,
or caught in some trap from which 1t
has either gnawed or pulled its way,
will crawl to some quiet, out-of-the
way place, and endure silently agony
which we could not endure
Cattle will meet the thrust Of the
butchers knife without a sound. The
wild dove with shot from the hunter :
gun burning in its tender flesh will fly
to some high bough or lay upon the
ground and die, and no sound will be
heard, save the dripping Of blood upon
the leaves.
The stricken deer will speed to some
thick wood and there in pitiful sub
mission await the end.
The eagle stricken in high air will
struggle to the last, but there will be
no sound of pain, and the proud, de-
iiant look will not leave the eyes until
the lids close over them and shut ont
the sunlight they loved so well.-New
York Herald
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1894-01-05
The Inventors Losses.

We read very often of inventors
profits. but we hear very little OF IN
ventors' losses. Not long since the
suicide of an aged man in this city was
reported. He had been left a fortune
amounting to nearly $780, in addi'
tion to Il very excellent business. All
the profits Of the latter and the for
tune itself had been entirely spent IN
a fruitless effort TO invent a clock that
would not require winding. He had l
sort of perpetual motion idea, and' OF
course, it was not practicable. An
English writer estimates that more
than million pounds sterling have
been wasted in Great Britain by in
ventors vino have yainly sought to
solve the secret Of perpetual motion.
A prominent inventor who Is III
the iron trade, in which he has
amassed an enormous fortune, re-
Gently said he believed more money
had been spent in this country In
fruitless endeavors to invent horse
shoe machines than in any other line
of mechanical research. Horseshoes
can be made by machine successfully
and with great profit. This Is done
at the famous Burden Iron Works III
Troy, built up by the invention OF the
elder Henry Burden, long since dead,
of the first practical machine for turn
ing out horseshoes from bars OF iron.
hear that 1850, 900 have been spent
by other inventors in this country in
an effort to rival the Burden machine.
Some of these efforts have been partly
successful and no doubt others will al
so succeed. But isn't it remarkable
that so much money has been spent
in A line of manufacture regarding
which we hear so little New York
Mail and Express.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1894-01-05
Washington.

GoyEREOR FISHBACK. Of Arkansas, wrote to
President Cleveland complaining Of the Ia.
dian Territory as q refuge for outlaws. and
suggesting the need Of change in its govern
ment.
JOSEPH DoNJAN. the man who has been
sending threatening letters TO Yiee-Presideni
Stevenson, Secretary Lamont. Senator Mills
aud other prominent public men in Wash.
ington. has been arrested.
SECRETARY GRESHAM has instructed Minis
ter White at 81. Petersburg 10 inform the
Russian Government that assisted immi-
grants will not be allowed 10 land in the
United States.
The Treasury Department is officially in.
formed that the net increase during the yea
ended June 30. 1893 over the year 1892. Of
exports from Mexico. amounted to l204l.
sos. The exports aggregated sS7, 900 900. ol
which $50, 900 900 was in precious metah
and s3l, ,OOO, 900 OF divers articles.
President CLEVELAND went duck hunting
down the Potomac, accompanied By Secre-
taries Carlisle and Gresham and Fighting
Bob Evans.
INyEsTrGATIoN OF the relations OF the pres
ent and last administrations with the
Hawaiian troubles was begun by the Senats
Foreign Relations Committee. Secretary
Emerson, OF the Board Of Missions Of Hawaii
was examined.
DEFINITE orders were issued from the
Navy Department for the monitor Miantono
moh to go to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1894-01-05
The Secret Of a Good Complexion.

"The secret of a bad complexion, "
said a well-known physician to me re-
Gently, sis bad digestion, and we
generally trace that to a bad liver.
One of the best remedies for a sluggish
liver" he added, "is cheap and
pleasant. lido not believe much in
pills and powders nor drugs Of arP
kind. Dieting is the secret of the
cure. The best liver regulator for
persons of sedentary habits, and these
are the ones whose compilations are
muddy, is to be found in apples
plain, ordinary, everyday apples
eaten baked if they are not well di-
gested when eaten raw. | attended
the pupils at a well-known board
ing school," said the doctor, "and
among them was a country girl whose
complexion was the envy of all her as
socintes. found that she was very
light eater at her meals, but she had a
peculiar custom of taking a plate of
apples to her room at night and eating
them slowly as she studied her lessons.
This was her regular practice. Some
of the other girls in the institution
took it up, and / know as result of
my personal investigation that the ap-
ple-eating girls had, with one excep-
ton, the best complexions of any one
in school. That one exception was
duo to causes which required medical
skill to remove. New York Mail and
Express.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1894-01-05
Tomatoes.

Tomatoes were used as food in the
south of Europe three centuries since.
A writer in Chambers's Encyclopedia
lnew edition) gives 1888 as the date
of their introduction into Spain, but
Dodonous, writing more than twenty
years before that, speaks Of them as
even then to be found in the gardens
of some European herballists. Gerarde
grew them in his garden in 1897, and
earlier. He says in his Herbal;
'1n Spaine and those hot Regions
they used to eat the Apples prepared
and boiled with pepper, salt, and oyle,
but they yeeld very little nourishment
to the body, and the same naught and
corrupt. Likewise they doe cate the
Apples with ole, vinegre, and pepper
mixed together for sauce to their
meat, even as we in these cold coun-
tries doe mustard. Notes and
Queries.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1894-01-05

have been invented and large factor
les erected, where artificial cofie
beans are made from acorn Hour ana
gum arabic, and these are mixed WIN
the real coffee; and even the real
beans are covered with poisonous
chemicals if they have been damage"
by sea water in transportation or tno
influence of the sun or time. Ground
or roasted coffee offer the best oppor-
tunities, however, for fraud.
But all these perpetrators OF irauo
and deception cannot hold a candle TO
the Chinese, who are masters IN the
art Of the adulteration of tea, Wh' Il
they dye, mix and prepare from
leaves that have but bare resem-
hlance to the real tea plant. st
Louis Post Dispatch.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1894-01-05
Fresh Air and Sound Sleep.

Not long ago the distinguished by
gienist, Professor Reclam, began a
crusade against the horror Off ven
tilated sleeping rooms. sleeping
with open windows" ne said, "ismost
ignorantly decried, as well as night
air generally. Now, night air is not
injurious. In swampy regions the air
is not injurious, but in dry soil, on the
mountains and everywhere on uplands,
especially in the upper stories of the
house, night air is more salubrious
than day air. Night air differs from
day air in being cooler, as there IS no
sun to heat it. Draughts are not in
furious unless one is in glow. To
healthy persons they cannot possibly
do as much harm as the staynant al
in a close room. New York World.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1894-01-05
THE LABOR WORLD.
: has 100. 600 idle.

ST. LOUIS has 1000 idle.
TEXAS unions will form a State body.
SAx FRAxcIsco Chinese have union.
PIrrsBURG has created work for 5000
LABoRgRs get ninety cents day in Lon
ion.
FEDERATION OF LABOR lecturers get $40 a
weeS.
The American Railway Union has 10000
members.
BosroS MAcH1NIsrs' UNIoS has abolished
the color line.
WHEELING Nv. Va } glassworks will estab-
lish cooperative union.
PHrLlDELPHIA bricklayers have declined to
join the International Union.
TOLEDO COhio) striking painters will or
game a cooperative company.
FIVE hundred men are to be employed on
a new coal find at Belt, Montan1-
DENVER (CoI.) union plumbers are fined
IS for smoking non-union cigars.
HOMESTEAD Penn glassworks boys struck
against a cut 70 fOrty-fye cents day
Two carloads OF men looking for work ar
rived at Columbus, Texas, on one day re-
Gently.
Bosrox1ANs insist that citizens only shall
be employed in the erection Of the public
library.
THE wages OF the laborers in the Home
stead PENN Steel Works are to be reduced
ten per cent
WASHINGTON 1nd.) railroad shop hands
get from ten to thirteen cents an hour. They
work nine hours daily.
GIRLS in Pittsburg bolt and nut factories
who formerly were paid SIG week now get
"A and 50 for the same labor.
DASEURy Comm coun, ills have pur-
chased eighteen acres OF timber lands ana
the striking hat workers will be given WORK
on the land.
NoRE than sixty labor organizations hai
Chr stmas ami New Year entertainments III
1923. but in 1884. ON account oil the nara
times no such entertainments we're neld
A TACOMA CWasb.) man lost suit Tor
$1,000 damages against the Ironmolders
Union He claimed that he had been out oil
work threevears because he was not mem
Der Of the Union.
The New YORK Letter Carriers Association
has is~usd an appeal for fifty cent suOscrip-
,iOns ire n all letter carriers to raise the 769l
nssled 10 complete the payment Tor the
statue OF 5. S. Cox, which cost s10,OOV.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1894-01-05
A "Fiying Switch. -

A flying switch Is not a mechanical
contriyance. it is man@uvre oil
railroad men, by which the locomotive
of train IS run upon one track and
the train, or part of the train, IS run
upon another track. When the flying
switch is to be made the engineer
causes the train to travel at consid-
erable speed the coupling between the
engine and the train is then undone,
and the engine, at a greater speed
runs from the still moving train upon
the track already ready for it. lmme-
diately the engine has passed the
switch points the switch is changed to
throw the train, running with its own
momentum, upon another track. A
flying switch is also called running
switch. New York Dispatch.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1894-01-05

one hand and bracing his back against
the wall Of the hollow. He had to
change hands often, and once he
nearly slipped down; but finally he
he had another pair of holes for his
fingers, snd could repeat his first per-
formance.
Each time that he began to cut fresh
resting places for climbing it seemed
to him that it grew harder work, but
he stuck to it, gritting his teeth and
measuring the distance to the top
every few minutes with his eyes.
At last he drew himself up so that
he could clasp his fingers over the
edge of the cavity, and in another
minute he had pulled himself entirely
out of the hollow and was seated on
the big horizontal limb.
Hanging a couple of feet above
him. from the broken branch, was the
dead squirrel, iammed so tightly that
it had not fallen to the ground. Tom
looked around-how bright every
thing was and how dark it appeared
in the hollow as he peered down it !
He breathed sigh of thanksgiving
and descended.
He was so weak he could not walk
and he sat down on log for awhile.
BY and by he felt stronger, and
then he put the strap of his game bag
sver his head, threw his rife over his
shoulder, picked up the big squirrel
which he had dropped to the ground
from the buttonwood and turned to-
ward home. St Louis Republic.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1894-01-05
South and West.

Pacific EXPRESS MESSENGER McCULLOUGH
was knocked down at Marshall. Texas, and
robbed Of pouch containing $4,000.
The business part Of Montpelier, Ind,
has been destroyed by fire.
Young Moiays Indian mother was burned
nj The Needles, in California, and her twin
babes Drained by her trIbesmen to satisfy
savage superstition.
Two men "held up" the faro dealers in
Chicago gambling house and secured s2200.
May wheat at Chicago reached the lowest
point on record on disquieting rumors from
New York and Bradstreet's report on the
visible supply. December closed at 595
cents and May at 643{ cents.
PENsIoN frauds. involving thousands OF
claims, have been unearthed IN Baltimore,
Nd.
THREE boys. Tracy F. and Oscar Bingham,
sons OF Bishop Bingham, and John Ash.
lander, We're drowned while skating on q
creek at Byerlale. Utah.
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THE NEWS EPIT0MIZEB.
Eastern and Middle states.

Eastern ana mluule Stdtebs
A SEVERE shock of earthquake was felt at
Huntingdon, Penn.
MARTIN B. BRowS, Public Printer of New
York City, is dead.
The cruiser New York sailed from the
Brooklyn N. W Navy Yard for Rio Janeiro
10 augment the United States navalsquadron
there.
A SOUTHWEST gale caused damage to ship
ping in New York harbor.
JUSTICE CULLEN granted John Y. McKane
a stay on reasonable doubt OF Justice Bar
nard's right TO issue the Gravesend CN. "
Injunction.
A MAN by the name Of 0'Nei, living at
Rockvillage, Mass, killed his wife by chop
ping of her head with an ak.
THOMAS C. PLATr was appointed Temper
airy Receiver for the New York and New
England Railroad In New York, and william
7. Hart in Connecticut
ELIZABETH PETTY, An old maid miser, OF
Newark, y. j., was mysteriously murdered
In her house, which she occupied alone
THE Keasbey and Mattison Company OF
Amber, Penn. capital $4,000, 900, has de-
manded the resignation Of all its employees
who favor the Wilson bill.
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PROMINENT PEOPLE.

HENRY GEORGE is on a lecture tour.
SENATOR DAVID B. HILL is fifty years old.
The King Of Italy eats only onemeal day.
SENATOR VOORHEES, is an Ohio man, aged
sixty-six years.
QUEEN VICTORIA has military guard Of
fifty men and three officers.
THIRTEEN nephews aud nieces of the late
General Lilly. who was unmarried. will have
his $4,000, 900 estate divided among them.
IT is said OF Judge Francis Marion Cox. OF
Macon County, Missouri. who died recently,
that he cared for and educated eighteen
orphans.
JOHN HILL, o. Derby, England, is thought
to DO the old st living Odd Fellow. He is
nearly ninety-one years old and was initiated
in the order in 1923.
GRAND DUkE ERNEST OF Hesse Is TO marry
Princess Victoria, eldest daughter Of the
Duke OF Edinburgh. in April. Both are
grandchildren OF Queen Victoria and Iirst
cousins.
VICTORIA SCHOzLCHER, who started the
anti-slayery movement which led TO the en-
frsnchisement of the Africans Ia the French
colonies, has just died in Paris, aged eighty
eight years.
LAWRENCE GRoSLUND. OF Washington. the
Socialist writer, is going TO lecture in kan
sas. He thinks the field is ripe for the or
ganization Of anew political party, the corner
stone otwhich will be Socialism.
THF class OF 1927 in the Yale Medical
School has become extinct by the death OF
DR. Henry Bronson. DR.. William Woodruf
class Of 1926. and DIR. Nelson Isham. class of
1898. are the oldest living graduates of the
school.
MISS ALICE FLETCHER. the ethnologist. re-
eeiyed IS day from tie Government as a
special agent OF the Indian bureau while
making the allotment OF lands for Indian
tribes. This is the highest salary Uncle Sam
has ever paid any OF his daughters.
GENERAL JosE NJ. HERSANDEz, who re-
sided recently In New York, but who is a
revolutionist. patriot and candidate for
the Presidency OF Venezuela. has been prom
inent In half a dozen revolutions. He has
seen the inside OF more prisons than any
other distinguished man In South America.
UNITED STATES SESAroR-ELEcr Thomas ID.
MARTIN, OF Virginia, never smoked or drank
intoxicating liquors. He IS forty-slx years
old, short. thick set. and DOESN'T look unlike
Thomas b. Reed. He is an able lawyer, and
is In the employ of the legal department. OF
the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Com
pany.
WITHIN the large house in Washington oc-
cunied BIZ Archbishop Satolli there Is not
woman TO be seen. All the servants are
men, speaking Italian, and only his inter-
prefer talks English. Satolli has but one
lad, and that is a fondness for birds. In al
most every room of the house there Is a
cage Of birds, and the whole residence
seems like mammoth ayiary.
SECRETARY JAESo, Of the Corean legation
at Washington, Is an ardent student OF the
English language He takes his lessons In
the most practical way, learning about
things he has to handle each day In the A.
fairs OF the household. Not long ago ne
had his English teacher make MIN OUT rs.
n 0roaeries and household utensils, with
their average price, which he now uses as q
check upon the storekeepers, who, as ru'z
endeayor to get the best Of him. p
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Foreign.

RUSSIA and Germany have come 10 an un
derstandiGg in regard 70 a commercial
treaty Each country makes some import
ant concessions to the other in the matter Of
Custom House duties.
The foreign Ministers at Rio Janelro.
Brazil. have decided not to recommend that
belligerent rights be granted 70 the insur-
gents.
THE Matabeles. OF South Africa. hay3
been completely subiugated by the British.
PUBLISHED statistics OF British trade show
a heavy falling OF for eleven months as
compared with the same period OF 1892.
FURTHER details OF the anti-tax riots in
Sicily show that six Of the mob were killet
and twenty-four wounded AT Lercara d
Freddi.