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Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1896-04-24

RE ana despite her privariOns enjoys
them highly. She likes reading and be-
ing read to- but wants her books true to
life and will not listen to fairy or high
ly imaginative stories She is able to
appreciate the rhythm Of poetry, and
Whittier and Tennyson are among her
favorites. She dislikes arithmetic and is
backward in it, but is proficient in geog-
raphy. She has learned TO mold maps in
clay and is able to repeat accurately the
details Of the surface Of the regions she
has studied. AT the school commence
ment Of 1894 she modelled the map OF
Massachusetts, divided it into counties
in the presence Of the audience and
pointed out the natural features and the
towns with her left hand, while with
her right hand she spelled the names in
70 the hand of blind classmate, who
announced them. She has become a
skillful dolls dressmaker without the
aid of patterns, and in teaching the use
Of the Braille typewriter to her compan-
ions she has exhibited the qualities OF a
strict disciplinarian.
Willie Elizabeth Robin, now 10 years
old, came to the institution four years
ago, totally blind and deaf and ignorant
Of language. She has become proficient
in reading, writing, elementary zoology,
articulation and knitting and sewing
by the Sloyd method. She has even
learned to use her tongue rather than
talk with her fingers. She is specially
interested in studying animal forms
and searches out the minute details Of
their structure. She is expected to tell
all she can discover of each specimen
given her, to repre- sent it in clay and
afterward write down what she has
learned. OF a crayiish studied thus she
reported: 1T has eight arms and two
legs and tail and two eyes; it has a
body; it lives in the water. The body is
hard, and the arms and the legs are not
strong; they are soft. "
Tommy Stringer came to the kinder
garten department feeble, inert, exhib-
iting few signs of intelligence and SEEM
ingly devoid Of most CT the impulses Of
children. He is now full Of eager curl
osity concerning the world about him,
enjoys life and is bright, affectionate
and extremely fond Of fun He is at the
head Of his class in some Of his studies.
He is remarkably interested in matters
Of housekeeping and domestic economy.
He has a strong bent toward geological
study. In a talk about fish his attention
was drawn to the backbone. He felt 1t
carefully from end to end and then
passed his fingers up and down his own
backbone to show the correspondence.
ION discovering the eyes, mouth, nos
trils. etc, cf the frog, he pointed to
similar features Of his own, and when
he found joints in the frogs hind legs
he Immediately began locking for the
Joints Of his own body and found near
" all. " No seeing boys portrait Is
more animated in expression than his
Popular Science Monthly.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1896-04-24
Spring Weakness.

1t usually is essential for the
health of the family that the house
keeper made a decided change in
her daily meals. If white bread
has been the rule, introduce coarse
Dread made Of rye meal or whole
wheat. or graham. 1t is not a
difficult matter to raise lettuce in
hot.bcd, so that it can be placed on
the table curly in April or nay; a
few dlndelioa seeds s)wsl with it,
and the plants tied up, will intro
duce with this sllad a little OF the
good tonic bittcrs of the d andelion
plant. Few salads are as excellent
and as valuable as those Of bleached
dandelion leaves and lettuce. Greens
Of spinach or beat tops ought to be
ready for the table as soon as pos
sible. It is time to give up fresh
pork when March winds blow and
introduce more delicate melts.
Acids are especially necessary now,
and tart cranberry sauce and apple
sauce and tart spiced fruits should
be used in place Of sweet clnned
fruits. The early parsnip is vale
able at this season, when all the
winter roots hat have been stored
up in the bins are becoming vatery
and pithy. Bitter tonic salads and
good boiled greens are more agree
able then nanseous doses OF spring
medicine, such as old-fashioned VIC
men with the best intention us.i to
manufacture from bitter herbs and
sisups.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1896-04-24
A Touch of Nature.

An American clergyman, whose dream
it had been to visit England, crossed the
ocean at last for his ten weeks vaca-
tion. For a fortnight he enjoyed going
about alone from place to place, seeing
the sights, but he soon became lonely
and then homesick. One Saturday morn
ing he started out for long walk, hav-
ing no plan for the mornings recrea-
ton. He penetrated far into the wide
reaches of the east end. There were
crowds Of men, women and children
wherever he went, but not face that
he had ever seen before or would ever
see again. Turning from the buster
streets he found a narrow lane and sat
down on the stone step of dreary tene-
ment house.
While he was sitting there he heard
a child's sobbing voice from the open
hallway behind him. Looking around
he saw little urchin crying as though
his heart would break. "What is the
matter, my little fellow" asked the
clergyman in his gentlest tone. Home
sick, sir. said the child. Since moth
er died l have had no home. l don't
seem to belong to anybody. Iwant some
one to talk to. " well, lad, there are
two of u.s. l am very lonely too" but
haven't you home anywhere" Eyes,
but it is a long way off, across the sea"
"Why don't You 90 back to itf If only
had a home, would never leave it. "
The lonely minister, who had found
his vacation in the awful solitude Of
London unutterably depressing, did not
have an answer ready. But his heart
went ont to the homeless little waif
He took the child out Of the empty
house, obtained decent clothes for him at
a charitable institution, paid board for
him at a lodging house, and finally car
ried him to America at the end Of the
vacation. San Francisco Argonaut
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1896-04-24
SUPERSTITION IN HOUSE RENTING.
6anItors and Slow Payments Are Not the
Only Woes of Agents.

Only Woes Of Agents.
Real estate agents tell strange stories
about the houses which are placed in
their charge by the owners, who shift
on them all care and responsibility, and,
for a certain percentage Of the receipts
expect the houses to yield the regulation
revenue. But sometimes houses will
yield nothing hut worry and expense.
With everything in the way Of loca-
tion and architecture in their favor,
houses sometimes remain vacant for long
periods, and in many instances the OWL
ers blame the agents, but find later that
superstition and not laxity on the part
of the agent bars the way to rents and
revenue.
Houses in which several people have
died within a short period are less val
liable for a time on that account "Of
course, an agent said, when deaths
have occurred because Of bad sewerage
and where the sanitary conditions are
otherwise bad, no one would blame peo-
pie for remaining away. But houses
where couple Of people had died Of old
age would be looked upon by a certain
class as 'unlucky, and there are thou
sands who could not be bought to 60 in
TO such a house.
1.-THE worst people in that respect, "
he continued. ARE the young mothers.
We have had contracts broken because
somebody said that babies never thrive
on that block and because the last
family that occupied the fiat had twins.
But the greatest trouble in that line
comes because Of Friday and the number
10. When you find a man who will sign
lease on Friday, you may make up
your mind that he will be good tenant,
and that he does not possess any Of the
qualities Of the dreaded kicking tenant.
AS to the number 10. why, it is as hard
to rent house with that number as one
in which there is a cross eyed hallboy or
from which a contagious disease flag is
flying"
To prove this, the agent told Of a
beautiful apG .tment house near Central
park, which had been completed recent
" and for which, despite its advantages
as TO location and superiority Of con-
struction, no tenants could be found, al
though its less attractive neighbors were
occupied. 1t took the landlord only a
short time to learn the cause, and when
the number was changed from No. 10 to
III he found that the home seeking
public appreciated his building.
There are hundreds Of cases like
this in this city" the real estate man
said. 1.-THE strongest 10 story know Of
is the one which have heard told about
Arthur McQuade, who was in the Doodle
board Of aldermen. 1t was said that
when misfortune overlook him his
friends-some Of them-attributed 1t to
the fact that he had purchased house
for $4,000 at sl3 East Thirteenth
street There are people today, he add
ed, "who will tell you that that was the
cause Of his trouble New York Trib-
upe
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1896-04-24
To stop Tipping.

At one Of the up town hotels in New
York the landlord has taken a decided
stand against the obnoxious Tipping"
system. On the first Of the month the
wages Of the walters were advanced 40
per cent, the object being to abolish, II
possible, the system Of tipping walters,
so detrimental alike to patrons and man.
agement. Notice Of the increase, with
an explanation Of the object, has been
printed on the back Of the menu cards.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1896-04-24
An Old Deed.

An old deed has been found in the
county clerks Office at Jamaica, N. Y.
It was given by the chief Of the tribe Of
Indians that formerly inhabited that
part Of Long Island. It is fully 100
'ears older than the patent to the land
ITanted by the English ruler. The docu-
ment was discovered by Counselor Van
Nostrand of Flushing.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1896-04-24

Nicola Tesla is more than half con-
WINGED by his experiments in radiogra-
ply that material energy is capable Of
penetrating the human skull. So the
cathode rays may yet supplant the crude
and primitive processes Of surgery as o
means Of conveying jokes -Philadel-
phia Record.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1896-04-24

tDFA-f HONS.
Train 4S connects ~ uarpers Ferry with
Fast Limited Express trains leaving 40 1913
p. m. arriving Columbus at $50 a.. On aud
Pittsburg at s:ij D. Ei.. fn nIiciso at ll7u a.
m next morning: with train leaving at j.l9 p.
m arriving at Cincinnati ar 1915 "a. 10. anu 40
ST. Louis al 600 p m. and conn cts 1t Meyer-
ton with l. ain arriving coo lldgerstovn 40
2:l3 p. m. and at Washington Junction with
train arriving az FIedeucN az 80 2. M.
Train 446 connects with fast yesti1ulei
trains at Harper's Ferry az lj9 3. ~. tor
Chicago; 1850 p. m for Pittraury. ana 1896 "a.
m. for Cincinnati and ST.. Louis. Arrive AZ
Pittsburg at $50 a. IN. t1iciEo at 800 D. NJ.
Cincinnati at 53Jp. ID. AMI 81 Louis at ZIP "a.
m. ParlOr cars on trains Nos is ana co. be
tween StauutOn aud Bllfim1ro.
Pullman Palace Sleeping ears run through
TO Cincinnati It. Louis Chicago and Pitts
burg. on all express TRAINS
For rates. tickets. baggage checks apply
10 any office of the b. Il %. u. r.. or 10 e.. +.
DudrOw travelling passenger agent Winch's-
ter. Va. or 10 &. Z. Hammond. city ticket
agent StauntOn. Va.
CHAS. q SCULL, II. ID. CAMPBELL.
Gen. Pass. Agt zen Man.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1896-04-24

Sweet peas should he sown very early
in the spring-in April, if possible.
They should be kept moist and cool at
the root. In order to secure these results
sow in trenches at least six inches
deep, covering lightly at first. Draw
earth about the plants as they reach up
until the ground is level again. La
dies Home journal
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1896-04-24
story Of a Titled spendthrIft.

In Vienna a man has just been buried
who, though be lived in great poverty,
was closely connected with the royal
house Of Wurttemberg. This was Count
Eberhard Won Wurttemberg, grandson Of
Duke William Of Wurttemberg and the
Baroness Tunderfeld. In his youth he
made himself so disagreeable to the
reigning house by his eccentricities that
he was kept prisoner in the Ulm for
tress. His escape was a romantic affair.
He swan across the Danube and fed to
Austria, never to leave it again until
death.
He had few wants and succeeded in
living on next TO nothing until the king
of Wurttemberg gave him an annuity.
But he regularly spent the whole Of it
during the first half Of the month and
had nothing to live on during the rest.
Part Of his small income was spent
upon his daughter, who survives him.
Count Eberhard composed music, and
his one Joy in life was to hear military
bands play his compositions. Of which
the Alexander Tegetthoff and Emperor
William marches are still on their roper
tory His parse was empty, as usual,
after his three days Illness and this
cousin of the king Of Wurltemberg. with
his fine physique and noble bearing, had
a third class funeral and no mourners
except his poor landlady. He reached
the age Of 6s and had lived 40 years in
Austria. London Standard.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1896-04-24
/ VALUABLE FARM
For Sale.

Twill dispose OF the Jos. Marhis farm
in whole, or in part. Parties wishing u
purchase will please address me, a.
WOodstoek.vA.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1896-04-24
800 MIXED rRAfxNoRTH

40 MIXED TRAIN NORTH.
Leave Woodstock at go a. m. arrived at
Harper's Ferry ar 5.li p. m. On Sunday
ave Woodstock at : . p. m.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1896-04-24
EVeRoN'Y

any thing Just nov, m VIII 90 uoIarm
to get our prices a.'t Investigate the
advantages ee claim a. 10
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1896-04-24
ADGa

and we can, both in price aud Quaiiiy,
successfully CONF ei1 Nith ans thing BOW
On the market. IL IL possible that you
may not
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-07-17

Inc dry season they made their homes
in caves, which they found or excn
waited for themselves. Some of these
cave dwellings | visited, discovering
fragments of their repastS and occa
sionally a broken stone AK. In the
rainy season they live high in the trees.
where they build rude houses of sticks
laid around and interviewed with the
branches, matched with dried slang
alang and reached by shaky-loolling
stick ladders. Most startling was the
solitude, the restitution Of life and mo-
ton in the great central plateaus which
we reached in our gradual ascent from
the river level. There were plenty of
the small creature of the squirrel tribe,
some of the peculiar pig-headed deer we
have in Java, and an occasional little
tiger cat. rather handsome than hurt
Unlocking. That was all. = Spring
Geld (Mass.) Republican.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-07-17
HOW The PAPUANs LIVE

Queer Race of People Who Inhabit the
Interior of New Guinea.
The interior of New Guinea is one
vast mass of upheaved granite, without
traces of mineral or metal ores, the
strata tilted and piled topsy-turvy
EVERYWHERE the work of Volcanic erup-
tions is TO be seen. Such thinly pop
ulated region, considering the fact that
it was an absolutely new country and
that fruits and small game were Sc
plentiful, did not suppose could exist
writes Van Gerstel. the explorer. The
natives we saw from time to time, at
distance mostly; they never molested
rs. Their heads were fiat on top, WITH
long. curly black hair; they went en-
tirelv naked. Their buttoclx extended
out eight and even ten inches, this re-
pulsive deformity constituting sup
portamply capable of sustaining cnlld
in sitting position. Nor was TINS
their most marked popularity. some
of the nursing mothers threw tnelr
breasts back over their shoulders or
under their arms, at will, TO feed the III"
FAINT carried in sling between their
shoulders.
The Papuans are very unattraclVt
race to look upon. In arms they were
primitive to a degree that was astouno'
ING. They had neither bows nor spears
that I saw, their only weapons Deing
stone hatchets. OF the1use OF metals
they seemed to be entirely ignorant ~
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-07-17
MALAGASY COOKERY.
Great Care Taken in Preparing the ST
pie Food,

Great Care Taken in Preparing the Sim
pie Food.
Cooking being an art, every race has
style of its own. The Malagasy, like
the gentle Hindu, knows how to pre-
Telegraph. 1t is not boiled to mash
as in England, or as our potatoes are
sometimes pulped, but, covered with
proper sufficiency of water, is carefully
treated until the grains are swollen fit
to burst and yet remain full, intact,
soft and rather nelly. The manioc
root is an easier dish to prepare. It is
sometimes served boiled, as yams and
sweet potatoes, and again as sort of
cold porridge. Native coffee they un-
derstand how to make, and the aroma
Is excellent; but tea, alas! you have to
look to the brewing of that from start
to finish If you desire drinkable cup.
Poultry and game are eaten fresh, and
the cooks have clever and withal
clearly trick of dipping the dead ami
mails In boiling water, which enables
them to pluck them easily and quickly.
The preparation for trusting comes
later. There is no lack of variety at
Malagasy table, but, all the same, you
miss the wheaton -four bread, sugar
and condiments when cl0yed with rice,
fowls, maniocsand eggs. The staple
fuel Is bunch esss, which when dried
burns fercely, and settles into glow
Ing ember that gives off deal of heat.
All the cooking is done on earthen
hearths, and the roasting, boiling and
baking In big iron pots. The grass be-
ing slightly aromatic, the odor is as
agreeable as that of hardwood fire.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-07-17
HOMES or RIVER PIRATES.
Caves in the Mountain Sides Are Watched
with Awe by Longshoremen.

Caves in the Mountain Sides Are Watched
with Awe by Longshoremen.
Along the west shore of the Hudson
river, between West Point and Esopus,
according to the New York World,
there are several sidehill openings that
are supposed to lead into big recesses
not yet explored. Daring men have
made the attempt to discover the inte-
rior, but have been frightened into re-
treat by all sorts of imaginings.
At Marlborough, Highland and in the
famous Storm King mountain, at Corn
wall, these rocky openings are watched
by longshoremen, who have reason to
believe that valuable property is con-
tanned therein.
A Cornwall fisherman says he be-
lieves that one of these caves, near the
foot of Storm King, is the rendezvous
: of gang of New York thieves, who re-
ceive and dispose of their ll-gotten
stock on strict mercantile basis. He
remembers that about the 1st of April
he and his father saw a small boat, in
which were four men, put ashore at this
point It was an inlxy black night, and
it was not safe for small craft in the
wind-tossed water of Cornwall bay.
The fisherman watched the landing
and saw the company, who were dis
tinguished by the lanterns they carried,
work their way up the mountain side
About twenty minutes after the landing
the lights were lost sight of at point
about one hundred feet from the
waters edge.
The superstition is that these men
entered one of those mercantile caves
to make ready for the years business.
No one has ventured near the place,
although several hunters say that there
Is an opening at the spot designated by
the Cornwall man. 1t is believed that
this cave is the main resort of river
pirates and robbers, who plumber ID
the Hudson river valley, and if SO
there is considerable danger attending
q visitation to the locality.
This site is particularly lonely and
deserted. 1t can be located by passen-
gers on the day boats as they are pass
ing. 1t is about three hundred feet
west Of the place where an attempt
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-07-17
MUNICIPAL FIRE INSURANCE.
Success of the System on Small Scale In
Switzerland.

success of the System on q Small Scale In
Switzerland.
Various attempts have been made in
different European countries to estah-
lish a system of state or municipal fire
Insurance, and the most successful eX-
amples are to be found in that nursery
OF European democracy-Switze
In Zurich and several other cantons
lire insurance is made part of canton
al government. One of the best laws
On the subject is in operation in Basel
otadt, one of the smallest of Swiss can
tons, containing only $4,000 people
less than the population of small
London local government district. The
town of Basel has a population of co.
OUO,so that the community is largely an
urban one. The fire insurance law is
administered by the general obl1ga-
"fy mutual fire insurance institution,
9Operating under the department OF
uhance. The law is not only compul-
Sory, but the system is monopoly, as
ouAdings insured by it are not allowed
" carry additional insurance. Several
.idsses of buildings are excluded from
'ne operation of the law, including
IInufehes, which belong to the state,
"uiidings of less value than 300 francs,
"len situated some distance from
l lH@ns or villages, as they perhaps run
MI. ,.e or no risk, and the buildings
"nich are of too hazardous nature,
sN as theaters and powder mills.
H. valuation commission appointed
.ne government council values the
WI inie.ing in the presence of the owner
~, ms agents. The value is determined
~ Tue amount which at the tirne OF
tbo. 'aiuation the buildings in their
3os existing construction would cost
tos material and labor, with deductions
ooa ase' use, poor state of repairs, etc"
ma advantage or site value does not
tbiao. ce the valuation. and movable
mas. s' such as machines or parts of
ra nery, are excluded. Buildings
o tS a'iued into four classes, according
nium. nature of the risk, and the pre-
DWELL. are graduated accordingly.
lsed nouses and oil buildings not
manufacturing purposes pay
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-07-17

premium of so centimes per 1000
francs value or 5 pence per 6 40. Or
binary manufactures and workshops
pay 80 confines per 1000 francs
Places of greater hazard, such as brew
cries, distilleries, gas works, tobacco
factories, pay franc 20 centimes per
1000 francs, while class four, including
chemical factories, dyeing works and
o few more places where the risk is
still greater, pay at the rate of I franc
80 confines. Where the hazard is eX-
ceptional and in the case of buildings
partly constructed of wood, an addi-
ton, which must never exceed francs
on each 1000 francs, is made.-Conten-
porarY Review.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-07-17
THE MOONS INFLuENCE.
Fair Luna's Effect on the Weather Is a
Subject of Dispute.

Fair Luna's Effect on the Weather Is a
Subject of Dispute
Fallacies about the moon are numer-
Gus, such as a full moon clears away
the clouds; that you should only SOW
beans or cut down trees in the wane of
the moon; that it is a bad sign if she
changes on Saturday or a Sunday;
that two full moons in a month will
cause food; that to see the old moon
in the arms of the new brings on rain,
and many others, of which catalogue
alone would take up a good deal of
space. M. Flammarion says that 1.-The
moons influence on the weather is
negligible. The heat reaching us from
the moon would only affect our temper
allure by twelve millionths of degree;
and the atmospheric tides caused by
the moon would only affect the bar
ometric pressure a few hundredths of
an inch-a quantity far less than the
changes which are always taking place
from other causes" On the whole we
which thus sums up the subject:
The moon and the weather
May change together;
But change of the moon
Does not change the weather
Even the halo round the moon has
been discredited, for Mr.. Lowe found
that it was as often followed by fine
weather as by rain, and Messrs Mar
riott and Abercromby found that the
lunar halo immediately preceded rain
in thirty-four cases out of sixty-one
We always have lingering hope that
some future meteorologist will Olsen
tangle the overlapping influences, and
arrive some day at a definite proof that
our satellite after all has something to
do with our weather Nature.