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The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1897-08-23
FOR ATLANTIC CITY.

Leave Broad street station via Delaware river
bridge-ExpTess, 4 As, 9 20 100 mnutes a. m, 2 33
lS minutesl, 80 100 minutesl, O5 100 minutesl
p. m. Sundays 4 45, 20 100 minutes a. m, 2 80
ls7 minutesl O5 p. m.
Leave Market street whari-Expreas 90,
20, 9 40, a. M, / 90 saturdays onlyl 90 las
minutesl, 3 90, 40 l75 minutesl, 90 no MIN
ugtesli 70 75 minutesl, 90 40 minutesl 8 30
l70 minutesl p m. Sundays 5 90, 80, 90 l75
ininutes, s 30 75 minutesl 600, AS [75 min
utesl a. IN, and 80 p m. Sl0O excursion train
90 a. m. daily.
For Cape May, AnRlesea, wildwood and Holly
Beaeh-EKpress, 90 a. m, 2 80 O5, 90 p. M
week days. Sundays, 8 % A. m. Cape May
only, 30 p m. Saturdays. Excursion, z 90 a. M
daily.
For Sea Isle City, Ocean City, Avalon and
Stone HaTbor-ENpress 9 10 a. m, 80, 20, 90
p. m week days. Sundays, so a. M EXcur-
sion, 90 a. m. daily.
For somers Point-Express 90, %, $40
q. m, so, 8 90, 4 co. 8 90, 30 p m week days
sundays 90, 2 90, 8 co. . 90 and 9 45 a. m
J b. HuTCHIEsON, j. II. WOOD,
Genl Manager. Gen'l Pass'g'r Agt
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Mormon Elders Horsewhipped

Columbia, S. c., Aug. 23.-Raids by
whitecaps have been Of frequent oc-
currence within the last few days
in Fairfield and Kershaw counties.
These raids have been altogether
against the Mormon elders and their
sympathizers. On Saturday night a
oand Of 12O masked whitecaps went 10
a house four miles below Camden IN
Beulah section, and took out three
Mormon elders, stripped them, and ad-
ministered a whipping,
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Don't Tobacco Spit and Smoke Your Ii,
Amoy

If you want to quit tobacco using easily
and forever, be made well, strong, magnetic,
full of new life and vigor, take No-To-Bac,
the wonder-worker that makes weak men
strong. Many gain ten pounds in ten days.
Over 100000 cured. Buy No-To-Bac from
your own druggist, who will guarantee a
cure. SOC or $1OO Booklet and sample
mailed free. Ad. Sterling Remedy Co.,
Chicago or New York.
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Beware
OF the Knife.

Mr.. Lincoln Nelson, of Marshfeld, Mo-,
writes: "For six years 1 have been a
sufferer from scrofulous affection of
the glands of my neck, and all efforts
of physicians in Washington, d. c.,
Springfield, Ill, and St. Louis failed to
reduce the enlargement. After six
months constant treatment here, my
physician urged me to submit to a re
moval of the gland. At this critical mo
ment a friend recommended S.S.S.,
and laying aside a deep-rooted preju-
dice against all patent medicines, l be-
gan its use. Before had used one bot
tie the enlargement began to disappear,
and now il is entirely gone, though am
not through with my second bottle yet.
Had I only used your S.S.S. long ago,
1 would have escaped years of misery
and saved over SISo."
This experience is like that Of all who
suffer with deep-seated blood troubles.
The doctors can do no good, and even
their resorts to the knife prove either
fruitless or fatal. S.S.S. is the only
real blood remedy; it gets at the root Of
the disease and forces it out perma-
nently.
{. s, 6. (gaa,ankeed SHyeEy Uegefd6Ie)
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PHlLA & READING RY
IN EFFECT July .. 1897.

| Trains leave Shenandoah as follows:
! For New York via Philadelphia week DAYS
2 10, 8 80, 05 "a a. M, II 33, 10 and 6 O7 p
For New York via Mauch Chunk, week days
! 5 36, 05 a. m, II SO and 10 p m.
For Reading and Philadelphia week davs
TO- 80, % am, u 33, 10 and o. p. m. sun
For Pottsvilie, week days, ? 10; O5 a. M, and
l2 83, . TO- o o. and 25 p m. Sundays, 2 10 a. M
For Tamaqua and Mahanoy City, week days
TO- 80, z % a. M, IL 38, 8 10 and 07 p. m.
Sundays ? 10 a. m,
For Williamsport, Sunbury and Lewisburp
week days. 3 25, 30, II 30 q. m, and 25 p. m
Sundays 25 IN.
For Mahanos Plane, weekdays, 2 10. 25. 5 &c.
o. 81, IL 30 a. M, y 80, 10, o. 25, SIS and
IL 40 p. m. Sundays, 2 10, 25 a. m
For Ashland and Shamokin week days, 25
3 80, %, II 80 a. m, 6 O7, 725 and IS p. m.
For baltimore, Washington and the West via
B q o. X. R;l through trains lea Reading
Terminal, PHILADELPHIA, (P: & R. r. al %,
3 20, 2 90, IL 26 a. M, 8 46 and 727 I'm Addi,
honal trains from Twenty-fOurth and Chest
nus streets station, week days, 10 80 a. m. u 2O
u 10 40 pm Sundays, 35, % p. m.
TRAINS FOR SHENANDOAH.
Leave New York via Philadelphia, week
days, u 10, 8O 90 a. M, and 30, 80, 90 p.
Leave New York Via Mauch Chunk. weeI,
days 80, 3 10 a.gm.i 80 and l5 p. m.
Leave Philadelphia, Reading Terminal, week
days. 20, 50, 10 10 m. and AZ, Od, 30 III 80
p. m. Sundays, ii 80 p. m.
Leave Reading, week days, / IS, 2 10, 10 O8, a. m.
- 90 M, 10, 90 and 20 p. m. Sundays, / 30
| q. m.
Leave Pottsville, week days, 2 85, 74O a. M.
IL 80 and - p. m. Sundays, 2 85 a. m.
Leave Tamhqua week days, 3 18, s 49, IL % a.
M, 49, 3 81, 20 and 43 p. m. Sundays, ls
q.
Leave Mahanoy City, week days, p 20, As,
y II AZ a, m, ~ Is, H. A and 10 O3 p. m.
Sundays. u 25, As a. m.
Leave Mahahoy Plane week days, p 85, 24o,
90 $50 20. 10 25 IL 50 a. M, 1872, 5 32 6 38
2 81, 10 p p m. Sundays, - 40, 2 40, 4 90 a. m.
Leave Willihmsport week days, AZ, 10 90 q
m, 90 and ii 80 p. m Sundays, III 40 p. m.
ATLANTIC CITY DIVISION,
Leave Philadelphia Chestnut street wari and
South street wharf for Atlantic City.
Weekdays Express 90, o 90, 10 f5 a. m,
Saturdays only, aol 2 90, 100, 40, 4 90, 4 80,
. 90 40, z 90 p m Accommodation 90 a. m,
8 30, 80 p. M
slndays-Express z 80, 8 co. 3d. 900, 10 90
a. mi 80 p, m. Accommodation, 90 a. M,
4 45 p. m. Sl.O0 excursion train TO foot OF
Mississippi Ave, 90 a. m, daily.
Returning leave Atlantic City depot corner
Atlantic and Arkansas avenues.
Weekdays Express, Mondays only G fB ami
z 90, 45, 10, 900, 10 49, II % a. m, 80, 80
8 80, 2 80, 9 30 p. m. Accommodation, 25, 10
a. m, 4O5 p. m.
! 2 90, 80, 8 90, 9 30 p. m. Accommodation, rs
a. M, O5 p. m. Sl.00 excursion train from foot
Of Mississippi Ave, only, weekdays, 90 p. M.
Sundays, 10 y. m.
! Parlor Cars ON all express trains.
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wAsHINaToN ANp nm sourH

For Baltimore and Washington, so, 7 20, 8 80,
10 20, IL p, a. m, u o. l2 a. l2 8 49, A. 10
Congressional Limited, Dining Carl, 6l7 655
Dining Carl, 81 Dining Carl p. IN end l2 o.
night week days Sundays 3 so, 90 o l2, II D,
a. m, 1909, u, 4 Al, l515 Congressional Linn
tied, Dining Carl 6 55 Dining Carl, z 7sl Din
ing Carl p. m. and " 05 night.
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every year because women i1-
noceutly and ignorantly neglect, during the
expectant period, TO take proper care Of the
delicate and important organs that bear the
burdens Of maternity.
There Is Just one known medicine that
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II is DR.. pierce's Favorite Prescription. IL
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Over 10000 have testified to its virtues
All good druggists sell it.
"In the fall of 1so3 " writes Mrs. N. A. Thomas.
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It Is as much awoman's dutyto look after
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PeRRa. Railroad.
sCHUYKILL DIVISION.
July 1, 1897.

Trains will leave Shenandoah after the abov,
date for Wiggans Gilberton, Fraokville, Darl
Water, St. Clair, Pottsvile. Hamburg READING
Pottstown, Phoenixville, Norristown and PHI
adelphia BROAD street staton) at O8 and II 05
a. m. and 20 p. m. on week days. Sundays
o O9 a. m, 10 p. m. For Pottsville and inter
mediate stations only 9l7 a. m. week days.
Sundays, 9 As a. m.
Trains leave Frackville for Shenandoah o.
10 40 q. m. and u 81, H. 2 50 and lO47 D. a.
Sunday, il 10 a. m. and Al p. m.
Leave Pottsville for Shenandoah as 10 Is
a. m. and l206, 49, 25 and 10 20 p. m. sunda,
~ 10 40 a. m, 10 p. m.
Leave Philadelphia, BROAD street statlon), 10
Shenandoah at 81, 85and 10 10 a. M, 4 10 and
2 J. p. m. week days. Sundays leave at 6 so a. m.
Leave Broad street station, Philadelphia, tUi
Sea Girt, Asbury Park Ocean Grove, Lon,
Branch, and intermediate stations, 0 90, R25
u l.89, a. M, $50 and 400 p. IN. weekdays. Sun
days, 8 25 a. m.
leave Broad Street Station. Phlladelphia.
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FOR NEW YORK.

Express weekdays %, 400, 45o E15, $50,
s3, %, 83, so, 10 p Dining Carr, II OF o. M
u 90 noon, p 85 LIMITED 90 and ia p. M
Dining Cars, 40, 2 30 Dining Carl o2J, 3 so.
p M " Oh, night. Sundays, 90 4 O5, 4 so, 8 49,
s 20, S3, 80 10 2l, Dining Cam, 1185 a. m.
" S5, O5 Dining Carr 2 80 Dining Carl, 90
(Limted % Dining Carl, 90 5 So, Dining Carr
6 85, o., 2 48, 10 90 p. M, 70 OF night.
Express for Boston without change, IL 90 a m,
weekdays and z 48 p. m, daily.
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PROFESSIONAL CARDS.

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N own wOmanly organism
: during the period preced-
ing motherhood, Is inno-
Gently and without rcaliz-
ing Il, as much responsible
r her child's death, as the
ad woman who slays her
.be after It's birth. Thou
nds Of babes are still-born
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UNIVERSITY
John Howard Harris, President.

College, with four courses of
study leading to degrees; ; Academy,
a preparatory school Ladies In
stitute, a refined boarding school
Music School for both sexes and
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~ How TO Purify and Boautify the Skin, Scalp,
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The woman
who kills her
babe by ueg-
icct Of the
health and
vigor Of her
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sod OF KirlInls drng gtore. Shenandoah. Pa
The Dickinson press., 1897-01-16
MlscellancOus,

A new soft coal pool is being formed.
A trust embodying oat meal and 9TH
er breakfast cereals has been formed.
The convention of the Order of Rail-
way Telegaphers has been called to
meet in Peoria on May IL.
The coroner's jury found that the
death of Mr.. AIcCullagh of st. Louis
was accidental, and not suicidal
Mrs. Leases house at Wichita was
sold Mt sheriff's sale for 5000. 1t cost
about $4,000. 1t was bought in by ].
Marsh, an Eastern mortgage.
The directors of the Delaware &
Hudson Canal company have voted to
reduce the dividend on the stock from
to 5 per cent per annum.
A bill for n receiver for the wholesale
jewelry firm of Mark Streicher & Co.
of Chicago has been filed in the supe-
rior court.
Pittsburg will follow the lead of Chi
cago in the passage of an act prohibit
ing the wearing of hats or bonnets by
ladies in theaters.
The Atlanta Journal makes the sensa
atiOnal announcement that every trust
operating in the State of Georgia has
succumbed to the Calvin antitrust
law, enacted by the recent general as
sembly.
Judges La Combe and Wallace, Of
the United States circuit court Of ap-
peals of New York, have made a deci-
sion which classities natural gas as n
mineral for all the purposes of the
statutes and customs laws.
Ouray and San Miguel counties, in
Colorado, are on the verge of a miners
strike that may surpass the one now
in progress in Leadville. The cause Is
the importation Of nOn-union miners
from Missouri.
Deputy Clerk Henry Cassin, of the
United States district court Of Louis
vile, KY, was appointed by Judge
Barr as Il special commissioner to sell
the Kentucky and Indiana bridge prop
erty within three months. The upset
price is S1,27O,OOO.
The Farmers Trust company Of
Sioux City, Iowa. which closed its
doors recently, will prove a hard blow
to its Vermont investors. According to
returns since the failure, 80 per cent of
the liabilities of $135.OOO is said to be
due to the people of that state.
In the matter of summer tourist rates
the trans Missouri committee of the
Western Passenger association found
that the question could not be settled
until the committees had been present
ed with detailed plan of ticket which
shall reduce the opportunities Of scalp
ing to q minimum.
A bill is about to be introduced in
the New York state legislature limiting
the height of buildings to 175 feet. It
will have the endorsement of the city
authorities of New York and will prob
ably be passed. The fire department,
the board of public works an dthe real
estate men are opposed to skyscrapers.
The most valuable piece Of real es-
tate ever offered at, auction in New
York was sold the other day. The prop
erty was the new fifteen-story sky
scrapcr, the Syndicate building at Mas
sau and Liberty streets. 1t was sold
under foreclosure of IL fourth mort
gage of $9OO,OOO. subject to the prior
mortgages. aggregating $2OOO,OOO.
The Dickinson press., 1897-01-16
A Roller Bicvclc Cl,o,n

a novelty seen OH one of the new
bicycles is a roller chain. 1t is wider
than the ordinary chain, but otherwise
looks about the same. Each pin is COW
cred with Il roller, which turns easily
and is supposed to reduce the friction
on the sproclict wheels. 1t is doubtful
whether the claim made for this chain
is justified. The links of bicycle
chain move only little out of the
main line of the chain as they touch
and leave the sprockets, and it is only
at these points that the rollers can
affect the friction, since when ON the
sprocket the links move as if part Of
the wheel. Still, a small percentage of
reduction will tell in a days ride, and,
possibly, in coasting. 1t is often sup.
posed that If ones bicycle coasts faster
than another it is sure sign that it
has superior bearings. That may or
may not be the case. The chain of the
more swiftly moving wheel may be
cleaner or better lubdicated, and the
condition of the tires whether hard or
a trihe soft, may be an important fac
tor-New York Tribune.
The Dickinson press., 1897-01-16
The Ghost Explained.

THIS is true English ghost story of
an unconventional kind. A young lady
arrived late at night on a visit to a
friend. She awoke in the darkness to
find a white figure at the foot of the
bed. While she watched it the bed
clothes were suddenly whisked off and
the apparition vanished. After an
visitor went down, with little appe.
titc, to breakfast. At the table she
was introduced to a gentleman, very
old friend of the family, who had, she
learned. also been sleeping in the
house. He complained Of the cold. II
hope you will excuse me-" lie said to
the hostess, but found it so cold
during the night that, knowing the
room next to mine was unoccupied, I
took the liberty of going in and carry
ing off the bed clothes to supplement
my own" The room, rs it happened,
was not unoccupied, but he never
learned his mistake.-Argonaut.
The Dickinson press., 1897-01-16
Washinxton Talk.

The public debt decreased $2,S39,517
In December.
Federal treasury .eceipts exceeded
expenditures last month.
a fraud order has been issued against
the Washington Farmer Land company
Of Seattle, Wash.
The Smithsonian Institution has de-
cidel to make the sultan of Turkey IL
present OF a llfe-size figure Of Sioux
Indian chief
The controller of the currency has
given authority for the organization OF
the Ham National Bank of Mount Yer
non, ILL.,; capital, $4,000.
There Is no truth in the report that
Senator Sherman, chairman of the for
eign relations committee, intends to
visit Cubs.
The secretary of the treasury award
ed a contract for the building Of a yes
sci for the light house service to Wolf
& Zweickcr OF Portland. Or, Mt $780,
600.
The battleship Oregon, now at Mare
Island. Cal. has been ordered to sea.
She will sail about the 18th instant ON
Il cruise along the lower California
coats.
The Dickinson press., 1897-01-16
To Carve a Turkey.

The best carver will at times let the
knife slip and may bespatter the table
cloth or some ones clothes. This can
and must be avoided by having the
knives always in trim, sharp and
bright, A carver must know just
where it is best to put in the fork,
where to insert the knife; there must
be no hacking at bone or twisting Of
Il joint to separate it. Put the fork
firmly in the breast Of the turkey, cut
off the wing, and cut round the thigh,
SO as to loosen it, then slice the breast
in nice thin, straight pieces. After all
the breast is cut off, sever the thigh
and cut off the drumstick. If more
meat is required and the other side Is
needed. take out the fork and insert it
in the breast and do the same as be.
fore. 1t is always well to get the poul-
try dealer to pull out the sinew from
the turkeys legs, as it is very hard to
cut. The dark meat will be found more
tender when the sinew ia removed.
The Dickinson press., 1897-01-16

03-N--~'
The practice >of woman changing
her name on marriage originated from
Roman custom land came into use
after the Roman occupation, says a
writer in the Commercial-Tr Tribune.
Thus. Julia and .Octavia. married to
Pompey aud Cicero, We're called by
the Romans Julia of Pompey. Octavia
Of Cicero. and in later times women
In most European countries signed
their names in the same way, but
omitted the ''cf." On the other hand.
at the beginning Of the seventeenth
century, the usage seems doubtful.
since we find Catherine Barr SO sign.
ing herself after she had twice mar.
ried. and we always hear of Lady
Jane Grey Glot Dudley, Arabella
Stuart mot SEYMOUR. etc.
Some persons think that the custom
originated from the Scriptural teaching
that husband and wife are one. This
was the rule of law so far back as
Braetcn, and 1t was decidede IN the
case of Won VS.. Smith, in the reign of
Elizabeth, that q woman by marriage
loses her former name and legally re-
ceives the name of her husband. The
custom, however, IL not universal. In
Spain and Portugal married women do
not take the names Of their husbands,
but continue to be known by their
own. In many parts of the United
States a woman never relinquislles her
maiden name. and is called by it as
often as by that of her husband. Even
in the rural parts of England one quite
often finds a married woman called by
her maiden name, and in country dis
tricts of Scotland 1t is sometimes found
that both names are used. In many
parts of France and Belgium the hus-
bands and wife's names are used to-
getber when either Of them is men,
toned
The Dickinson press., 1897-01-16
Crimes and Criminals.

The detectives working on the Blue
Cut train robbery case brought to Kan
sas City another suspect arrested near
Glendale.
Kansas City.-Eugene Rides:ay, the
attempted to rob an electric car be-
OH the night Of Nov. 27 last, has been
lodged in Jail here.
Corning. N. Y.-Horace Cook, n pro-
minent church worker, has been
arrested charged with the attempted
murder of his father-in law, Solomon
Adams. a prominent farmer In the town
of Woodruff, last Mondey night.
Gov Altgeld Of Illinois pardoned
twenty convicts, twelve of them
charged with murder. The sentences
Of the latter ranged from short terms
for manslaugltcr to imprisonment for
life for murder in the first degree.
Buffalo, N. Y.-Henry Duck, cashier
of the First National bank, of Niagara
Falls, which recently suspended, was
arranged last night before United
States Commissioner Norton, in this
city, on n charge Of being implicated in
the failure of the bank. He pleaded
not guilty, and was admitted to bail
in $4,000.
Springfield, Ill. - Gov. Altgeld has
committed the sentence of the Chicago
bankers, Charles ]. and Frank Il.
Meadoweroft, convicted of receiving de-
posits when their bank was insolvent.
The sentence was changed from peni
tentiary sentence to sixty days in jail.
The governor states that both the
states attorney and judge who presid-
ed at the trial recommended clemency.
o. F. Miller, convicted in the United
States district court. with G. II. Dow
and Sidney G. McClirken. Of having de-
frauded the Commercial National bank
Of Denver out Of $685. 600 by means of
''kiting," was released from Jail under
$4,000 bonds. The three convicted
bank wreckers will be sentenced Jan.
%, and the case will then be taken to
the supreme court.
The Dickinson press., 1897-01-16
FOOD IN THE ARCTIC.
Birds Have No Dif.culty Finding
in the Snow

Birds Have No Difsculty Finding II
in the Snow.
The number of birds that go to the
arctic regions to breed is vast be-
yond conception" They go not by
thousands, but by millions, to rear
their young on the tundra. The cause
which attracts them is because no
where in the world does nature povide
at the same time and in the same
place "such lavish prodigality of
food" That the barren swamp of the
tundra should yield a food supply so
great as to tempt birds to make jour-
neys of thousands of miles to rear
their young in land Of plenty, only
to be found beyond the arctic circle,
seems incredible. The vegetation con-
sists of cranberry, cloudberry and
crowberry bushes Forced by the per
petual sunshine of the arctic summer
these bear enormous crops of fruit.
But the crop is not ripe until the mid
die and end of the arctic summer, and
if the fruit-catiny birds had to wait
until it was ripe they would starve,
for they arrive on the very day of the
melting of the snow. But each year
the snow descends on its immense
crop of ripe fruit before the birds have
time to gather it. 1t is then preserved
beneath the snow, perfectly fresh and
pure, and the melting of the snow dis
closes the bushes with the unconsumed
last years crop hanging on them. or
lying. ready to be eaten, on the ground.
The frozen meal stretches across the
breadth of Asia. 1t never decays and
is accessible the moment the snow
melts. Ages have taught the birds that
they have only to fly to the arctic cir
Gle to lind such Il store of "crystallized
foods as will last them till the bushes
are once more forced into bearing by
the perpetual sunlight. The same heat
which frees the fruit brings into being
the most prolific insect life in the
world, the mosquito swarms on the
tundra. No European can live there
without a veil after the snow melts;
the gun barrels are black with them,
and the cloud often obscures the sight.
Thus the insect-eating birds have only
to open their mouths to fill them with
mosquitoes, and the presence of large
swarn,s of tender warblers, of cliff
chaffs, pipis and wagtails in this arc
tic region is accounted for.-New York
EVANGELIST,