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Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1905-03-31
, Gran, Painter. Beginning.

Sir Thomas Lawrence was one Oh
the great portrait painters in England
His parents were poor. his father be"
ing country innkeeper. one day
Lord Shaftcsbury's father and mother
stopped at the inn. having their young
er son. the future lord, with them. Ill
conversation the innkeeper spoke Oh
the genius OF his boy in drawing ana
wished them to test it by picture o.
their son. They assented, thinking 10
crafty a fathers pride. but not look
ing for any evidence Of superior talent.
The boy came in modestly, with chaik
and paper. and In few minutes had
drawn a picture Of their son on whlch
the parents looked with wonder. they
recognized the genius and the promise
Of future greatness and befriended the
Young artist. giving him the help heeu-
ed 70 develop his wonderful gift.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1905-03-31
rhe IdenI Saddle Horse.

The ideal saddle horse is from nj
teen to sixteen hands high. short back
ed and well coupled. 1t has thin. hlgh
witbers long. we'll arched neck ahu
q long keen ear well set on the heau
Tho tail should be set high on the
rurnp. and the rump itself should D,
Somewhat sloplng. The horse should
have lesldes fiat, sinewy bones IN IL
Iogs and q medium sized foot.-Coun
try 7 ife In America. -- -
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1905-03-31
Dry HunOr.

An eastern rheumatic who was visit
ing in southCsn Arizona was asked D|
the editor OF one of the local dallieS
what he thought Of that country.
"Wonderful dry air." said the inva
lid.
"Yes. everything is always as dry a
dust out here" said the editor. by the
way. while you're stopping here for
your health YOU ought to let me send
YOU my paper"
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1905-03-31
Tho Innrest NnNrI.

The STORY Of the Eight Dogs is the
longest novel that has ever been pub
ushed. Fortunately. PERHAPS it is Wit
ten in japanese. so no one Will set
himself the task of reading ii. 1t e.. ,-
tains l06 volumes. several hundred
characters and numerous dogs. all OF
which are successfully disposed Of ny
the time the last chapter IS reached
Just imagine reading through that
one book that would last lifetime.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1905-03-31
Tho Valuable Palmyra Palm.

4 Hindoo poem enumerates 500 pur-
noses TO which the Palmyra palm alone
IS put. Among other things IT supplies
paper for writing upon, an intoxlcaV-
ING drink called "toddy," large guam
titles OF sugar fruit and vegetable
for the table when the plants are
Young Palm wine is also optainea
from the Juice Of the sago palm, whien
Yields excellent sugar candy when Doll:
ed. The pith of the trunk forms .
large part of the food of the natives
in many parts of India. Ropes orusli'
es and brooms are manufactured fro'n
the fiber of the leaf stalks \
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1905-03-31
o,e ,Iop.s Iden of n Joke.

This artificial limb business IS get
ting to be something wonderful said
n Cleveland man. "When Il man can
wiggle the fingers Of an artificial hand
il is uncanny. Practical jokes Of terri
bic effect are possible with the artificial
limb. and the victim Is such in the true
sense Of the word. l saw a man IN
Denver about three weeks ago who
walked up 10 the hotel clerk and In u
friendly way reached across the coIh-
ter 10 shake hands. Then he wheeled
away and left his hand IN the Etip ot
the clerk. Tie clerk tainted actually
tainted. although ne realized. | believe
that the hand be- held WAS but an artl-
fetal one. The man who wore Il had
devised Il scheme 10y which be might
throw il Oft by pressing a spring Ihe
delight he took I'm th' joke c""s"I when
the victim collapsed. "-MiiWaukee Sen.
tinpl
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1905-03-31
Pulling Ostrich Feathers.

man who runs an ostrich farm
asked the other day as to the method
of Gathering the feathers, admitted
that they were pulled out of the birds
once in every eight months. Was the
process painful?
"Wcll." he replied, about equal 10
milling out your eyeteeth.' y good
many ladies who wear ostrich feath-
ers do so in the belief that they are
thereby serving the cause of humanity
AS a matter of fact, they are encour-
aging the most cruel and barbarous
torture which man can inflict upon
bird.-Sporting and Dramatic News.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1905-03-31
r,J.rs,ood His business.

Fashionable Tailor-Go front nj once
Two Young clerks there after sui's'
New Man (whispering)-lm waiting oi,
n millionaire. Leave him ana attenu q
70 the clerks. These millionaires.p0a
buy new clothes once in five years
A clerk Is good for a fresh suit every
three months. New York weekly.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1905-03-31

Among The Arabs of upper Egypt the
youth who proposes for grl mus
submit t. n whipping ut the hands o.
all her male relatives. And" says q
dry narrator. III he wishes To be con
SiIercd worth having he must receive
the chastiSrmcnt. which is sometime
exceedingly severe. with an expression
Of enjoyment" Not infreduently II
the maiden herself who Imposes th'
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1905-03-31
Tbe World of Trade.

yesterday | bought writes n GORE,
spondent. some black jet buttons ana
when | got home found Oh the caro-
BEST Australian Make | took a pen.
crl 70 write in my account book
found II had Il. S. A. upon II.
sharpened the point, and on the sharp
oner was New York got out "
match 10 light the lamp, and on 'he
box was Made in Sweden lt ule
Iomn and found on it. Made in Bava
ria and so on and so on.'-Londoi
Telegraph.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1905-03-31
A R1d ChasU.

eyes" said the cheerful idiot, there
"a one social chasm that politeness can
not bridge"
"Wbat, for instanceT asked the tireo
citizen In the hope that the idiot was
threatened with lucid interval.
Sarcasm" replied the cheerful ioiot'
laughing ghoulishly.-Baltimore Amer
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1905-03-31
Coined In BedIam.

The phrase "to sham Abraham was
cmned in RedIam. or Bethlehem hospi-
tal where there was at one time an
Abraham ward. the inmates OF when
upon certain days were permitted 10
90 out as licensed beggars on Dehaif
Of the hospital. These mendicant iu-
natics were known as abraham men,
and their success in invoking the pity
OF the charitable was such that they
had many unlicensed imitators' who'
when discovered, were said ito have
slammed Abraham.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1905-03-31

Words Of violence nearly always
begin with 'sp." said poet.
"IloV DO you mean|
"I mean that words Of violence Ike
spank begin with the same two letters.
$ u-l p. Tor example besides spank.
IL c.car word o. violence. W. Lave tie
sD beginning fir Suoh words as sQurt
split. spring. ~plutter, Sya-m. speed.
sru. spin. splinter >purn. spar. spun,
spike. spas, and 50 Oh. n."-Phiiade.gH gH1
Prlat-n
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1905-03-31
prtgbttur seasickncss.

There Is one place In a ship where
the voyager may be at rest. This writ
or discovered it during mid-AtlanuC
storm. when he went down to the bath
room. tumbled into warm sea bath
and foated. The vessel was perform
ing the most amazing antics, but the
water in the bath kept its usual gravi
ty. and the bather foated with smile
upon its bosom. London Chronicle.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1905-03-31
c. ,foupfoiu Stckuess.

II mountain sickness should come
upon you your bitterest enemy VIII
lead your horse for you. The symp-
toms are those OF habitual drunken
ness. All the limbs shiver, and In the
bioodless face the eyes have that ex-
traordinary look OF insanity when Is
| think. caused by an inability to focus
them. The speech comes with dim
Guilty. and In one case that | saw the
mental Conference was as obviously at
fault as The physical. - l-andor
"I.hassa."
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1905-03-31

Baron Graham once asked an epic'r'
how many oysters he should eat III Or
der 10 create Il good appetite for Dime
and was told To eat away until he be
came hungry. The baron. who neVe.
saw f5ose, ate ten dozen and theI
plairti{ely remarked. 'Pon my wora
| don't think am as hungry rs whd
I no ran -
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1905-03-31

Gwandu. Il native town in Africa.
contains between 1000 and 1000 III
habitants and is surrounded 10y pal
isade of poles, the top Of every pole
being crowned with Il human tkulL
There are six gates. and the approach
TO each gate is laid with Il payemer
Of human skulls, the tops being the
only parts that show above ground
More than 2.CO0 skulls are used III the
pavement leading up TO each gate
The pavement is of snowy whlteneSs'
polished to the smoethness Of ivory
by the daily passage of hundreds OF
naked feet.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1905-03-31
No Waiting For Breakfast.

Baxter-Married life isn't what II
used to be. Sisson-You're right there
Since the kitchen stove has been sup
planted by a gas range there's no such
thing as lying in bed in the morning
soothed by the sweet thought that your
wife Is at work building the fire.-Bos-
ton Transcript
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1905-03-31
SfnIe Drenn llnE.

A traveller says that 4 curious weak
ness OF grownup Moors is the love OF
eating newly baked bread. The ca.d
of Azemmo0r, in Morocco, discovered
that old bread was thrown away aS
waste. To waste food IS Il serious Of
fense I'm the eyes of MoSlcm. The
caid Of Azcmmoor therefore is ued a
bylaw prohibiting the baking of bread
upon one day in each week. The citi-
zens. he declared, must eat up the
bread already baked. and he fixed
Wednesday as the "bitalaA,' or holi-
day.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1905-03-31
True HerOisul.

The hero fears not tina, if he withhold
the ayowal Of a just and brave act II
will - uuwitnes>cI oud uniovcd. one
knows himself AMI is pledged by
il TO sweetness Of peace and 10 noble
ness Of aim. which will prove IN the
end a better proclamation of it than
the relating of the incident. Emerson.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1905-03-31

"Young man." asked the girls IA
ther have you any visible means OF
support"
"Why-aw-none that are visible to
the naked eye" replied the young
man hesitatingly. Il am one of the
microbe specialists Of the health de-
nartment." t."--Chicago Tribune.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1905-03-31
WilIie's Anguish.

"Say. ma" asked little Willie after
he had been in conjunction with the
paternal slipper did anybody besides
ua ever ask YOU to be hi, wife,
oh. yes. ! had lots OF proposals be-
fore your C., came along"
We'll d) you L. ..... you gained any
thing by Wlit'r@|'
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1905-03-31
Merely n Eeeler.

The Count-Did her father acquire
his money honestly? Miss Bright (sar-
castically)-Oh, yes. If he did not |
suppose you would not marry her! The
Count-Not at all II he acquired II
dishonesty he would probably be too
clever to give any of 1t away.-New
York Times.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1905-03-31

Ethel-NIamma. if Il little boy is a
lad. WHY isn't Il biz boy "a laddcrf
Mamma-For the same reason. l sup
nose that. although a little doll is Il
doll. a biz doll is not dollar. Ethel
(redectiyely.-ThatS SO. My big doIl
was S2.-Kansas City Journal
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1905-03-31
Hereditary.

Js genius hereditary" asks n scien-
tific journal. IL
An editor replies: I'VE have not tiihe
70 investigate the subject, but we are
inclined to think that it Is. AT al
events our youngsters are wonderfully
cmart"
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1905-03-31

"Ratber cold bIooded person, isn't
hep
"Cold blooded. Say, that fellow can
attend a ball game without gettine
excjted. New York Press.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1905-03-31
The Dificutt,y.

Mr. Rookie hope YOU didn't believe
what they said about me. Miss Budd-
I make ii a point never TO believe more
than half hear. Mr.. Ro)ke-But th'
trouble is you women generally beIieF'
the wrong half.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1905-03-31
r;is Hard Luck.

Benevolent old Lady 60 one of the
unemploycdp-Poor man. What nave
YOU done 70 your hand: Unemployed
Broke my hnuckles. mum. knockIh
at peoples doors aSllin' for work.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1905-03-31
His Argument.

Mrs. Jones-You ought to be ashamed
Of yourself not to go to work. Inc
Tramp-M Madam, IL nature has htted
me to get along without work why
should struggle against my manifest
destilyi
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1905-03-31
Ch-ouic Case.

"IIas your wife Complained YER
long?" asked the doctor
Ever since we were married re
piled Meekly sadly.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1905-03-31

A person is always startled when ne
hears himself seriously called old Tor
tbe first time.-O. w. Holmes.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1905-03-31

In order TO love mankind we must
not expect too much of them.-IIelye-
fins
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1905-03-31
Shenandoh Herald
Advertising Rates

Adv tisements will be inserted
at one ollar per square Of ten Iines
or less for the first inseI ton and 30
cents Tor each subsequent insertion.
T Quarterly or yearly ad'ar.
dsements by contract.
t% Unless the number of instr
tlons is marked upon the manu-,
script, advertisements will be pub.
lished until forbidden and charge
accordingly
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-05-20

Have All Nations Gratitude.
1t has been said that republics are
ungrateful, but that is not true OF the
people who live in this one. The old
remember too well, and the young
have learned to know the grandeur OF
the struggle that maintained the in
tegrity Of the nation. The emblem OF
the Grand Army has come to be sa-
cred, and the tattered flags OF 81 fill
the eyes with tears.
The soldiers OF the great war
are growing old, and the sentiment OF
pity has no place In the observance
Of Memorial day. Rather do we glory
in the strength that after forty years
on the march Of life still revivifes
the footsteps Of the veterans as they
touch elbows once more and hear the
music Of the old war songs. Rather
do we thrill with pride at the many
stalwart figures that carry their years
as lightly as If the spirit OF patriotism
had proved in some sort a fountain
of youth. Rather do we envy those
men that they had share in one of
the holiest and-to the vision of to-
day-the most romantic war the world
has ever seen. i
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-05-20

lin all the hospitals OF pain--on all
the weary marches. We stand guard
with them in the wild storm and uh-
der the quiet stars. We are with
them in ravines running with blood
lin the burrows of old fields. We are
with them between contending hosts,
unable to move, wild with thirst, the
life ebbing slowly away among the
withered leaves. We see them pierced
by balls and torn with shells, in the
trenches, by forts, and in the whirl-
wind Of the charge, where men be-
come iron, with nerves of steel.
We are with them In the prisons of
hatred and famine; but human speech
can never tell what they endured.
We are at home when the news
comes that they are dead We see
the maiden in the shadow of her first
sorrow. We see the silvered head Of
the old man bowed with the last grief
The past rises before us, and we
see four millions of human beings
governed by the lash-we see them
bound hand and foot-we hear the
strokes Of cruel whips-we see the
hounds tracking women through tan
gled swamps. We see babes sold from
the breasts Of mothers. Cruelty un-
speakable! Outrage infinite!
Four million bodies in chains-four
million souls in fetters. All the sacred
relations of wife, mother, father and
child trampled beneath the brutal feet
of might. And all this was done un-
der our own beautiful banner of the
free.
The past rises before us. We hear
the roar and shrek of the bursting
shell. The broken fetters fall. These
heroes die. We look. Instead of
slaves we see men and women and
children. The wand of progress touch
es the auction block. the slave pen,
the whipping post and we see homes
and firesides and schoolhouses and
books, and where all was want and
crime and cruelty and fear we see the
faces of the free.
These heroes are dead. They died
for liberty-they died for us. They
are at rest. They sleep in the land
they made free, under the flag they
rendered stainless, under the solemn
pines, the sad hemlocks, the fearful
willows, and the embracing vines.
They sleep beneath the shadows Of
the clouds, careless alike of sunshine
or of storm. each in the windowless
palace Of Rest. Earth may run red
with other wars-they are at peace.
In the midst Of battle, in the roar
Of conflict, they found the serenity of
death. have one sentiment for sol
diers living and dead; Cheers for the
living; tears for the dead.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-05-20

| tie, on which are inscribed the words:
Beneath this Stone Repose the Bones
of Two Thousand One Hundred and
Eleven Unknown Soldiers. Gathered
After the War from the Fields OF Bull
Run and the Route to the Rappahan-
mock. The Remains Gould Not Be
Identified, but Their Names and
Deaths Are Recorded in the Archives
Of Their Country. and It's Grateful
Citizens Honor Them as of Their No
BILE Army of Martyrs. May They Rest
in Peace"
The Arlington cemetery is part OF
an original grant of 1000 acres made
by William Bulkeley, Governor of Vir-
ginia, to Robert Howsen, in October,
1864, in payment for the transporta-
tion Of settlers from England to the
colony. Howsen, in the same year,
sold the property to a person named
Alexander for six hogsheads of tobac-
co, and more than a century later a
descendant of this purchaser trans
ferred 1t to John Parke Custis, the
equivalent being 1,100 pounds in Vir-
ginia currency. Custis was the son of
Martha Washington by her first mar
riage. He was aid de camp to Wash
lngton, and died OF camp fever" (ty-
phoid) at Yorktown, his two young
est children, G. w. Parke Custis and
Nellie Custis. being subsequently
adopted by Washington.
G. w. Parke Custis inherited the es-
tate, built the still existing mansion
in 1914, and died in it three years lat
er, leaving the property to his only
child, a girl, who married Gen. Robert
E. Lee. BY an executive order, dated
Jan 6, 1864, Arlington was ordered to
be sold for taxes, and was afterward
bid in by the government for $26, 800
Mrs. Lee, who died in 1873, never
claimed it, but her son, G.. w. Custis
Lee, brought suit a the courts to have
the sale set aside. The case went up to
the Supreme Court, which decided
that the heir had equity on his side,
and Congress paid him $150,000 for
the property. Thus it appears that
the estate was not confscated by the
government, as is commonly supposed.
In the southwest corner of the ceme-
terry where several hundred Confeder-
ate soldiers lie buried, two simple tab
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-05-20
|'0N EANEiS ETERIV4Igl
CAMPING GROUND
| ARLINGTON GSz 4
|THENATIONy MOST BEAUTIFUL CEMETERY

Historic Arlington, the most beauti-
ful of our national cemeteries, has
gained additional Importance recently
through the burial there of those who
lost their lives in the Spanish war,
including the dead of the battleship
Maine. The fate of the Names men
is commemorated by a striking monu-
ment, a granite slab surmounted by a
huge anchor, while a shaft Of great
height capped by an eagle has been
erected in memory Of the soldiers and
sailors who perished in the conflict
precipitated by the fateful explosion
in Havana harbor.
In respect to number Of burials Ar
lington is pretty nearly the largest OF
the eighty-three national cemeteries.
but its romantic history makes it by
far the most interesting of them all.
1t was formerly the property Of Gen.
Robert z. Lee, and he was living
there when Fort Sumter was fired up
on. He was married, in 1881, in the
drawing room of the old mansion,
where visitors nowadays are reouest.
ed to register their names, and IN the
room across the hall he wrote his
resignation as an officer of TIE United
States army on April 20. 1861 Two
days later he himself carried the res
ignation across the river to Washing
ton and handed it to Gen. Winfield
Scott He left Arlington on the same
afternoon, never to return, and the
next day accepted the command of
the Confederate forces.
About 1900 men have been buried
at Arlington since it was opened as a
national cemetery In 1864. Soon after
the battle of Bull Run the government
took possession Of the mansion for a
hospital and used 1t for this purpose
through the civil war. The first per-
son buried there was a Confederate
soldier named Reinhardt of the Twen-
ty-third North Carolina infantry, who
died in the hospital on May IS, 1864.
During the next two months 2,619
Federal soldiers were inferred there.
and nearly every battlefield between
the Potomac and the Rappahannock
contributed its quota to the Arlington
metropolis.
The appearance Of the old buildings
especially the Lee mansion, has been
preserved as far as possible six
stone columns, which beautify two of
the gateways on the east front, were
part of the north portico of the old
War department and were removed on