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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-09
Government Must Pay the
State for Auto Licenses
Special to the Evening Star.


TRENTON, Oct. 9.-In response to
a request for an opinion as to
whether the driver of an automobile
employed by the United States gov
eminent, and the machine driven by
such driver and owned by the gem
eral government, is required to pay
a license fee, under New Jerseys
automobile act, Second Assistant
Attorney General Theodore Backes
has rendered an opinion to State
Motor Vehicle Commissioner Job H.
Idppincott, in which he says the for
mer's department is justified in ex-
acting from the United States gov
eminent the fee required by law for
operating motor vehicles In this
State
In rendering his opinion, Mr..
Backes comedies with the opinion OF
Attorney General Wickersham to
President Taft in February, 1911,
when the same point was at issue
with reference to the use of the
Presidents automobiles In the States
OF Maryland and Virginia, adjacent
to the capital
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-09
American COnsuls at
Antwerp Are Cut Off

LONDON, Oct. 9. = The American
embassy in London is very anxious to
hear from Consul General Henry w.
.Diederich and Vice-Consul Harry T,
Sherman, of the American consulate
at Antwerp, to find out where they
are, but he has received no reply.
Hugh s. Gibson, secretary of the
American legation, Brussels, and
Harold Fowler, attached to the en-
bassy in London, went from London
at Antwerp. Ambassador Walter II.
Page telegraphed several times to
Antwerp to find out where they
left Antwerp for brussels. No reply
so far has been received from them.
The embassy here sent a telegram to
the American consulate at Ostend
but the officials there know nothing
about the missing members of the
Antwerp cofs ulate.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-09
Senatorial Primary Probe
to Be Delayed Until After
Elections in November

WASHINGTON, Oct. 9.-Postpone-
ment of proposed investigation of
senatorial primary expenditures in
Illinois and Pennsylvania, until after
election at least, was decided upon
today by the Senate elections COM
mittee. Chairman Kern said 1t was
impossible to secure senators to con-
duct the proposed probe before cleo
ton.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-09
Blanket Mortgage for B. and O.

NEW YORK, Oct. 9.-The Baltimore
and Ohia Railroad Company, it was
learned today, intends to follow the
lead of several other large railway
systems and issue a blanket mort
gage covering all existing issues of
bonds and providing for refunding
purpoes. The amount of the mort
gage has not yet been deter
mined, but probably will not exceed
$500, 600, 900.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-09
To Exempt Investigator of
Appropriations Committee
special to the Evening Star.

TRENTON, Oct. 9.-The New Jer-
sey State Civil Service Commission
will hold a public hearing on Tues
day, October 20, in this city, in the
matter of exempting the position of
special investigator for the joint APP
preparations committee. Any citizen
may appear either in behalf of or in
opposition to the granting Of such
exemption.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-09
Fear German Shells Ruined
Rubens's descent from Cross"
in Assault on Arras, France
BY the Associated Press.

LONDON, Oct y.-The corre-
spondent of the Telegraph in the
northwest of France sends the follow
ing:
Refugees reaching the coast today
from Arras report that the Germans
on Wednesday shelled the town,
ruined the belfry of the ancient Hotel
de Vile Clown HalD and sent several
shells into the cathedral
whether the shell fire damaged
Rubenss famous picture. THE
Descent from tho Cross" and other
priceless works of art cannot be
learned The wrecked belfry was the
greatest ornament of the town.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-09

ence, but who did not die after being
shot.
Provisions to get out those Ameri-
cans who still remained have been
made, the officers said. Five of the
party OF army officere who went over
on the Tennessee were left in Europe.
j. l.. Wilmeth. chief clerk of the
United States treasury department.
also was left behind to close up af-
fairs connected with the relief fund
that was appropriated by Congress.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1914-12-04
Coats the Monkeys Wear.

Have you ever wondered why nearly
all the monkeys which accompany the
foreign organ boys should be dressed
In red coat, with a sort Of jockey
cap?
The explanation is very simple. This
costume is no fancy one, but is an al
most exact copy of the winter dress
worn by the organ boys fathers in the
distant valley of Piedmont, where the
peasants usually wear red coat, rude
ly cut, with very stiff little tails, and
knickerbockers and jockey cap of the
same color.
These clothes are spun and woven
by the peasants and dyed red with the
madden which grows in the valleys.
The long roots are boiled, then mixed
with alum and tartar, and the result is
a red dye, which, though not very
bright, does not fade. The monkeys
coats are made of. the bits which are
left over when the peasants coat Is
cut out.-Philadelphia Inquirer.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1914-12-04
Titles of the Gar.

OF all monarchs of Europe the most
Imposing in his list of titles is Nicholas
of Russia. who bears the following
honors Emperor and autocrat Of all
the Russias. car of Moscow, Kiev.
Vladimir. Novgorod. kazan. Astra.
khan. Poland. Siberia. the Tauric Cher
sonese and Georgia; lord of Pskow.
grand duke of Smolensk. Lithuania.
yolhynia. Podolia and Finland; prince
of Esthonia. Livonia, Kurland, Sem
gale. Samogitia. Bieostok. Carelia.
Tver. Perm. Yougoria, Viatka. Bull
garia. etc; lord and grand duke Of
Lower Novgorod. Tcheringoff. Riasan,
Polotsk. Rostoff. Yaroslav, Belosero.
Oudoria. Obodria, Condia. Vitebsk.
Mstislaw and all the regions of the
north; lord and sovereign of Iveria.
Cartalinia. Kabardinia and the Ar
menian provinces; sovereign of the
Circassian and mountain princes; lord
of Turkestan. heir of Norway and duke
of Schleswig HoIstein, Stormarn. Dith-
mars and Oldenburg
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1914-12-04
SOOTHING His Father,

The father of Sir Hubert Herkomer.
the great painter. was poor man.
and the professor brought him from
his native land in Germany to live with
him in his beautiful house near Lon
don. The old man used to model in
clay in his early life, and now that he
had leisure he took to it again in his
old age. But his hands trembled, and
the work showed signs Of imperfec-
ton. 1t was his one sorrow. At night
he went to bed early. and when he
had gone his son would go into the
studio, take his fathers poor work and
make it as beautiful as possible When
the old man came down in the morn
Ing he would look at the work and rub
his hands and say: "Ha! ] can do as
we'll as ever ! did"
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1914-12-04
Famine.

I am the skeleton In every nations
closet. ! hide myself in the dark re-
cesses behind the silent uniforms
swaying in the dark. While the guests
make merry and the householders ply
them with viands at the friendly board
| bid my time.
But when the alarms sound and the
guests 60 out to kill then start forth
in the gray shadows of early morning
With my thin wand l touch the corn
fields and watch them wiiher.
And as the sun shines on battlefelds
my day of triumph comes. No longer
afraid to show my hollow face. stalk
through village and city, laying my
rafting hands on mother and wife
and babe.
Ny comrade, War. true to his eter
nal promise, has given me the entry
70 al societies.-Life.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1914-12-04
Australian Paris,

Pearls found Oh the coast of Aus
tralia are of many shapes and colors.
Those under ten grains are sold by
the ounce, above that by the grain,
Color has deal to do with the value.
The white pearls 90 mostly to Europe
and the yellow ones to In.lia. In Aus
tralia an ounce of good white pearls
will fetch up to $500. but sometimes
realizes only a fifth of that amount
The yellow pearls may be rated on AN
average at about half the value of the
white ones The seed pearls used for
cheap jewelry can be had for So per
ounce and discOlored pearls for Is. I'd.
but if the discoloratiOn is peculiar the
value is sometimes enhanced. For the
low class of seed pearls there is con
slant demand among oriental physi-
clans and apothecaries, who grind
them into powder and administer II
to patients as cure for many ills.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1914-12-04
Military Forces Of Ssrvia.

Eervia plan of nilitHr. organization
Is distinctive. Compulsory service is
personal for all ahebodied men and pc
runiary for all who are incapable Of
personal service These latter must pay
an indirect tax of ~ per cent addi
tionaI. The military forces are divided
into national army and the land
sturrn. which forms the last line of de
Tense. Service in the national army
begins at twenty one and ends after
forty five. In the Iandsturm it begins
at seventeen, chds at twenty one: be
gins again al forty six and ends at
fifty.
The national army consists of three
bans. the first ban including all able
bodied men between twenty one and
thirty -one. the second ban all between
thirty one and thirty eight and the
third those between thirty eight and
forty five.
The first ban has its cadre. school
through which every ablebodied man
of twenty one must pass. No one Is al
lowed to change his nationality while
belonging to the first ban. nor can any
member thereof receive any outside
appointment or become even monk
until he has served his term in the
Baltimore Sun.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1914-12-04
Eards For Juliet.

A charming custom. among tourists
at Verona is that Of leaving their Wis
lting cards at the reputed tomb OF
Juliet This act however, must be
taken as pretty compliment IT, the
immortal love story rather than as I'm
offering In memoriam. for II is unlike
" that travellers have not learned that
the tomb is In reality one OF those
pious fictioRe so dear to the sent
mental and that even Shakespeare's
tragedy itself Is generally held to have
no historical basis. A writer In the
Graphic Of London says. THE so call
ed tomb, Of red veronese marble, in
the gardens of the OrphaNage. was for
merly a washing trough Another
writer IL no less severe. There y
plenty to see In Verona" be says. the
cities Of northern Italy. without vast
ting time. money and emotion in look.
Ing at frauds But the custom -
mains and viii remain - long - thers
~ tourfBt1.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1914-12-04
Iinted Specs For Artificial Light.

For viewing objects Illuminated by
artificial light when it is desired to see
such objects exactly as they would APP
pear in daylight. II. E. Ives. the Eng
fish physicist. suggests colored glass
spectacles. The glass would be cover
ed with a collodion or gelatin surface.
stained with aniline dyes carefully Sc
lected to filter out the light rays pecu-
liar to artificial light For each klnd
of the latter a special formula would
have to be followed in preparing the
spectaclas. These spectacles would be
useful in many industries. as. for ex-
ample, the making of artificial teeth'
where color has to be most accurately
matched They might also be lent to
visitors at picture galleries by night or
on dark days. when artificial illumina-
ton is employed. in order to insure the
most favorable view Of the pictures
New York World.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1914-12-04
Louis the Maanificent.

As soon as he rose he was dressed by
his valet in coat of blue cloth. Two
little epaulets of gold cord were sewed
to the cloth. Under the coat was a
white waistcoat, which was almost en-
tirely hidden by the ribbons and wide
sashes of his ordera His satin
breeches ended In pair Of high boots
or CATERS Of red velvet, which came
above the knees and were more supple
than leather, for the thickness OF
leather on legs that were often painful
from govt would have created too
much friction. He made great point
Of these boots. He thought that they
made him look like general. ready al
any moment to spring upon horse.
though this was physical impossible
ity for him since he was much too fat
and too inirm He used powder with
a view to hiding the white locks OF
age. and this gave bis complexion an
appearance of youth. From The Re
turn of Louis XVIII"
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1914-12-04
An Endowed Flagstaff.

What II thought to be the only en-
lowed Flagstaff In the world is that be
longing to the Royal Asylum For the
Deaf and Dumb ut Margate. England
This staff was erected in the first year
Of the reign Of King Edward VII. in
commemoration of his accession to the
throne. The cost was betrayed by the
pupils and friends. and the collection
taken was SO large that it enabled the
purchase of twenty flags.
Even when the staff and the flags
had been p ii for f40 remained in the
treasury. This sum was invested for
an endowment fund. and the interest
Is used every other year for painting
and repairing the pole and Jackie.
Some of the various flags bought are
the royal standard. which Is flown OF
the kings accession day his birth
day and his coronation day; the stars
and stripes. run up on the president
birthday and election day; the French
dag. used on the presidents birthday;
appropriate banners for st. Dayid's. St
Patrick's and st. Georges da.S: the
union jack for the anniversaries Of ia
nous battles. and flags for the church
high Festivals York Tribune.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1914-12-04
The Seals VentiIator.

Not many people know how the seal
Of the far north gets air when the Arc
tic ocean is entirely covered with many
feet of ice.
The small spotted seal, which is a
hair seal and not a fur bearer, is the
hardy dweller of the northern waters.
Under his tough, thick skin he has an
inch or more of blubber. When the
ice closes up the open water in the
Arctic the seal selects spot and be-
gins to drill a hole to the surface by
pressing hiss warm nose against the
ice. Nobody knows how many hours
1t takes him to accomplish his task,
but he manages it, and, although he
Is obliged to work most Of the time be-
cause the surface of the hole is con-
tinually freezing, he keeps it open all
winter and, obtains air. Seals have
been known to drill in this manner
through fifty feet Of solid ice. Wheth-
er or not they take turns in the slow
drilling is not positively known. 1t is
at these "seal holes" that the polar
bear seeks food in the winter and there
the Eskimo waits, spear in hand, for
his weekly supply Of meat.-Youth's
Companion.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1914-12-04
"SIeepinq" Bullets.

The distance which a bullet travels
is divided into three parts. The first
distance the bullet travels in wabbly
manner, either up and down or side
wise; the middle distance it sleeps"
or moves on an exact plane, and the
third distance, being partly spent, it
wobbles in a serpentine movement
again. When the bullet Sleeps" it
cuts clean hole through the part of
the body hit, but when it is on the
frst or final distance it tears jagged
hole and moves either up or down and
is likely to remain in the body. When
the battle range is regulated in such
a manner that the line Of soldiers is
exposed to the range Of the sleeping"
bullets there is less work for the am
bulance corps.-Chicago Tribune.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1914-12-04
Gallows Work,

A curious note in ''Pepys'. Diary" re-
fers to the unpopularity Of hangmen
in those days. Commissioner PETIT,
who had Travelled, told Pepys 'how
despicable a a thing it is to be hang
man in Poland, although it is place
OF credit, and that in his time there
were some repairs to be made of the
gallows there, which was very fine, of
stone, but nobody could be got to mend
it till the burgomaster or mayor of the
town, with all the companies of those
trades which are necessary to be used
about those repairs, did go in their
habits with flags in solemn procession
to the place, and there the burgomas-
ter did give the first blow with the
hammer upon the wooden work and
the rest Of the masters of the compa-
MES upon the works belonging to their
trades that so workmen might not be
ashamed to be employed upon doing
Of the gallows work"
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1914-12-04
ReciprocitY.


With feeling of sadness for the re-
cipient. Dorothy finally concl @'rd to
pen missive to her former tiance-
Dear Harold it read NO doubt
you are aware that am to marry Mr.
Anthony the coming month. / shall
therefore. appreciate it very much if
you will burn all the little notes | sent
you. assuring you of reciprocity in re
gard to those yon sent me
DOROTHY BELL"
Immediately upon receipt of above
the young man made this reply:
Dear Dorothyi shall certainly
comply with your request. and at once,
And incidentally. as your new tiance
also holds Il few little notes OF mine
shall count it a great favor should you
be able to induce him to burn them
with the rest.
HAROLD SAWYER"
Buffalo EXPRESS
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1914-12-04
Pinesss.

Ffnesse - one of those wonderful
French words which seem to mean so
much and yet, when one hunts them
right down to their fundamental es-
sence. turn out to mean really nothing
SO very much at all.
The word fnesse as originally intro
duced into this country meant the
maneuver in whist by which you take
a trick from your opponents with a
card lower than your highest-a card
inferior also to one possessed by your
opponents.
Speaking generally. without chasing
the word too near its lair. fnesse
means the art Of doing things niftly-I
find it necessary to refer constantly
to American slang in order to get the
best definition for subtle French ex
pressions.
Now there Is, sisters and brethren.
an old saying which saith that it isn't
SO much what you do as how you do
It. The thing has tang of the south
about 1t, and l suspect that it really
isn't much older than the Louisiana
purchase; but. be that as 1t may. to lift
an expression from the newspaper
editorial writers fnesse has to do with
how you do things.-George Vaux Ba
con In Green Book Magazine.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1914-12-04
Anona the Lions In the Dark.


Lecturine at the Royal Photographic
society. reports the Dundee Advertiser.
A Radcliffe Dugmore said that on one
night in British East Africa be saw
twelve lions and succeeded in photo
graphing ten of them He set up three
cameras near carcass, connecting
them with fiashlight apparatus. He
watched through the night in hiding
place. and when lion appeared he
pressed a button, which opened the
shutters of all three cameras and ig-
nited the fash powder. Immediately
after the fash the lions ran off, growl-
ing, and it was then necessary for the
photographer to go out with hand
lamp and then reset the instruments.
Until a man had done that he never
knew what darkness was. Lions at
night, said Mr.. Dugmore. went BY In
troops of any number from three q
four up to thirty or forty.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1914-12-04
SOUTHERN RAILWAY.
Premier Carrier OF the South

Premier Carrier OF the South
Schedule between Washington, Alex
andria, Woodstock and Harrisonburg
In Effect Nov. %, 1914.
N B.-Follo wing schedule figures
published only as information ant
are not guaranteed.
WESTBOUND-fro Woodstock.
no 23-Daily-S:09 a. m. Loca
for Barrisonburg. Arrive Harrison
burg $50. q. m.
No. 40-Dai'y-12:58 p. m. Loca
for Harrisonburg. Arrive Harrison
burg 2:30 p. M. Buffet Parlor Car.
No. II Daily = $40 p. m
Local for HarrisOnburg. Arrive
Hsrrisonburg 1915 p. m.
EASTBOUND-from Woodstock.
No. IL Daily 1850 q. m.
Lnmitcd for Alexandria and Washing
ton. Arrive Washington 1850 3. m
Buffet Parlor Car.
NO. % -Daily-4:26 p. N. LOcal
for Alexandria and Washington.
Arrive Washington 9:15 p. m. Buffet
FarlOr Car.
No. "a Daily 6:55 p. m.
Local from Harrisonburg to Stras-
burg. Arrive Strasburg 7:3O p. m.
No. IA connects at Manassas with
Main Line Fast Mail Train No. 43 for
principal point South.
E. II. COAPMAN, Vice-President and
Genera Manager.
s 81. HARDwICK, Passenger Traffic
Manager.
q. F. CARY, General Passenger Agt.
C. W. WESTBURY, Gen. Agent,
Washington, ID. G.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1914-12-04
In Honor of Minerva.

The most notable festival at Athens
was in honor Of Minerva. All classes
Of citizens on this particular day
marched in procession. The oldest
went first. then the young men, then
the children, the young women, the
matrons and the people of the lower
orders. The most prominent object in
the parade was ship propelled by
hidden machinery and bearing at its
masthead the sacred banner of the
goddess.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1914-12-04
Brilliant Venus,

When she is at her brightest Venus
is so bright that If you knew where in
the sky to look for her you could easily
see her in the daytime. and at night
she sheds so much light that where
other lighting is excluded she will cast
a plain shadow She is about FIVE times
as bright as Jupiter ever gets. ten times
as bright as Sirius, the largest OF the
fixed stars, and a hundred times as
bright as the ordinary first magnitude
stars. Her reign is, however. short. for.
as she makes three revolutions to the
earth's two. she rapidly passes us and
begins to fade away.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1914-12-04
Qpposite Reasons.

Papa, why does the pretty lady
frown?"
Because, my son. the men watch
her when she goes down the street."
''Then. papa. why does the homely
lady frown'"
Because they don't" = Cleveland
Plain Daler.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1914-12-04
Old Time Beooars,

In the eighteenth century begging
was frightful nuisance in the Ger
man states. In Bavaria whole regi.
ments had to be sent out to arrest and
punish the numerous professional beg
gars. and Cologne. with population
at the time of only 10000, had nearly
10000 paupers.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1914-12-04

Put your savings in the Savings
Department of the Shenandoah Val
Icy Loan and Trust Co., Woodstock,
Va. at 3 per cent compound interest.
Amounts of 100 and upwards re
ceived. The only savings institu-
tion in the county for the accomula'
ton of the small savings of laboring
men, women. and children.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1914-12-04

Say. pa inquired young Sylvester
SnOdgrass. whats a test case?"
"a test case. my son." replied the
senior Snodgrass. lis case brought
into court to decide whether there's
enough in it to justify lawyers in
working up more cases Of the same
kind."-Ladies' Home Journal.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1914-12-04
Cats and Rain.

The fur of the cat is full of electric
fly. and before thunderstorm it will
he noticed that cat is always extreme
ly lively and playful, probably on ac-
count of its electrical condition Be-
fore rain is expected cat will assidu-
cusly wash its face.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1914-12-04
EarIv Risino.

Some one asked Archbishop Whately
if he believed personally in early rising.
That witty divine replied that he had
on one occasion risen early, but that he
felt so proud all the morning and so
sleepy all the afternoon that he had re-
solved In the evening never to do it
again.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1914-12-04
Camomile Tea.

Into a quart of boiling water place
one ounce of camomile flowers and
simmer for fifteen minutes, afterward
Btraining. This makes an excellent
emetic when taken warm and is
good tonic when taken cold. The dose
Is q wineglassful.