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Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1916-06-09
rree nark Glue erush.

An excellent glue brush for the cabk
netmaker or carpenter can be made
from a piece of elm tree bark, which
may usually be found in the yard OF
furniture factory, wagon shop or
any hardwood lumber yard With
sharp knife white away the brittle
outer bark down to the white dber
or inner side of the bark of which the
brush is to be made. Cut piece Of
this to the length and width required
for the brush. Soak one end of this
piece in hot water for a few minutes
Lay the water soaked end on hard
substance. such as piece of iron or
hard wood, and beat it out with a
hammer. dipping it in the water oc-
casionally to keep it thoroughly wet
The beating will cause the tough fibers
of the bark to separate at the end.
these forming an excellent and mex
pensive brush which never sheds hairs
and lasts longer than the cheap brush
commonly sold at the stores.-Popular
Science.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1916-06-09
: y
GAME WARDEN OF THE GULF
Captain Sprinkle Of the Royal Torn
Is an Efficient Protector Of
Bird Life.

The Royal Tern, boat which is the
property CT the Audubon society, il
commanded by Capt William Sprinkle.
born and bred on this gulf coast. who
knows the sea fowl. end the islands
where they breed and dwell, as he
knows the winds and the lovely, snil-
ing, treacnerous gulf waters. He il
game warden and he and the Royal
Teri are the police force of more than
five hundred square miles of sandbars.
shallow waters and intricate channels.
The man and the boat are two of the
chief obstacles in the way of the poach-
ers, the plume hunters and eggers.
who always threaten these bird sane
tuaries.
Many of these poachers are at heart
good men, who follow their fathers
business, just as respectable men on
the seacoast once followed the bust
ness of wrecking. But when times
change and once acknowledged trade
comes under the ban of the law the
character of those following it also
changes for the worse. Wreckers are
no longer respectable, and plume hunt.
ers and eggers are sinking to the same
level
The illegal business of killing breed
ing birds, OF leaving nestlings to starve
wholesale, and of general ruthless ex.
termination more and more tends to
attract nen 0f the sama moral cate
CORY as those who sell whisky to In
dams and combine the running OF
blind pigs" with highway robbery and
murder for hire. In Florida one Of the
best game wardens of the Audubon
society was killed by these sordid bird
butchers.-Theodore Roosevelt, in
Scribner's Magazine.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1916-06-09
The Cost.

War brings the heroic opportunity
to the door of the average man, and
the heroic incentive to the mind of
the exceptional man. We deplore this
kind of opportunity and this kind of
incentive. The cost is fearful, to be
reckoned largely in the price which
others must pay; but men recognize
the opportunity and feel the incentive.
1t would be worse than idle for us to
ignore the quick transition which war
may effect in responsive natures from
the commonplace or the cynical to
the sacrifciai and the sublime. No
one of US can deny. nor can we read
unmoved, the testimony of those who
have passed or are now passing
through this experience.-W. T. Tuck.
er in Atlantic
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1916-06-09
Sumptuary Laws of Cape Town.

Cape Town once lived under so Sc
we're a code of sumptuary laws that
anything like display was restricted
to the governor and his immediate
circle. Thus runs article 6 of the
Dutch laws against luxury and osten
tation: NO one less in rank than
junior merchant and those among the
citizens of equal rank and the wives
and daughters only of those who are
or have been members of any council
shall venture to use umbrellas" In
practice this restricted the possession
and use OF umbrellas to about fifty
persons in Cape Town.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1916-06-09
Find Bullets In eunstoeks.


Employees of the Remington Arms
company's plant at Eddystone, Pa, in
turning out gunstocks for the allies
have made the interesting discovery
that they are constantly coming across
bullets Embedded in the rough walnut
stocks. These stocks are shipped to
Eddystone in the rough from points in
the West and South and stored in an
immense dry kiln.
1t is considered not improbable that
the bullets may have been buried in
the trunks of the walnut trees either
in the war Of half century ago or
longer ago, in the days of bloody
strife between the noble red man of
the forest and the settlers of the
West.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1916-06-09

DR.. johnson was great tea drinkes
It Is stated that he would drink thirty
or forty CUPS Of tea during an evening.
Yet h. lived to fair age and appar-
emily sGi..eied 10 Yer, il. effects from
his great thirst fol. tea. He was one
of the most notable of feeders and ate
his food in what we should now think
rather piggish fashion. making great
grants ai.i graa,.s OF satisfaction O..
enjoyment the " bile AM going the
fus.pJ Of the mean very thoroughly.
Charles tease. The famous novels,
) reported TO have been one of the
strsn1est feeders en- rcor.l. \ conteih
pcra,y, writ ;Eg !: his Inea at the Ga9
rick club. says: He took caul;
.l2wcr i.in.,el by n il. of cream, as
Us FIRST q ;se and IL ;reat salad t.
e.ow. washed Gown by arious drinks
If The s..aa'y. af order. lie would
drink cc.,.>e asa lated with sweets
black ~ 's,;:i's ;.,i.i toasted cheese. to
fhe anna: en1olt o. any cnlooher"
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1916-06-09

Why did Homer call the Dardanelles
-broad" OF .'bonpdless," although at
the point where Leander and Byrop
SWAN II the breadth Is barely q milei
Ryron's comment IL very neat: THE
wranging about the epitbet. the broad
Heilespont.' or the 'boundIess Helles-
ront. whether 1t means one or the
other. OF What II means al all, has been
beyond all possibility OF detail. have
even heard it disputed on the spot and.
TT foreseeing speedy conclusion 70
fi1t. controversy, amused myself With
swimming across II in the meantime
Hif profanity may again before the
Ini:st is settled Probably Ho
Jis.i had the same Potion Of distance
tDi' II ru,pieltt has Ut time. and " ben
IL sais,s Of Doundl.ss means naIf q
Esii ~ the latter by q Ike figure.
vin'ti she says eternal attachment.
s.nIfI, specifies three weeks "-London
Spectator
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1916-06-09
Bible Saved Him.

How the captain in the Coldstream
guards was saved from death was TOLD
by Bishop Taylor Smith.
The captain. he said. was wounded.
and the men who examined him found
in his hip pocket Bible given him by
his father, who had written in the fly
leaf from the ninety-first Psalm:
Thou. Lord. art my refuge. There
shall no evil happen unto thee" The
shell had struck the Bible, cut through
the leather cover. had gone through
the pages a. far 40 the ninety-f1rsf
Psalm. and had then cut OF at tan
rent The doctor said that but for the
Bible the ma1 would have been killed
he had since gone back to the front
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1916-06-09
The Exrandino Stona.

In the rock of ST Gowan's chapel. u
Wales. was natural cavity upon
which the name of the expanding
stone" was bestowed by popular tradi
ton. because the strange fancy prevail
ed that this stone automatically adapt
ed itself to the size Of any one who
entered the cavity.
The legend ran, as quoted % Mr.
George F. Kunz in ''The Magic Of
Jewels and Charms" that once. dur
ing the pagan prosecutions. when a
fugitive Christian. hotly pursued, reach
ed this rock it opened up Of its own
accord SO that he could slip into it
and then closed about him so as to
hide him effe tuIlly from his enemies
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1916-06-09

A sign Of progress is a bill intro
duced by a Pacific coast representa-,
tive to substitute the Centigrade for
the Fahrenheit thermometer In gov.
eminent publications. When Gabriel
Daniel Fahrenheit nearly 200 years
ago devised the scale which bears his
name 80 degrees below the freezing
point was the lowest temperature he
knew, SO he called it zero. But his
graduation has been displaced in the
scientific world almost as completely
a. his idea of the extreme of cold.
Scientists everywhere use the Cent?.
grade scale. and the Fahrenheit is In
popular use in English-speakins
countries only.
The Centigrade thermometer is
graduated In a simple and rational
way. the freezing point being marked
zero and the boiling point 100. The
movement for reform Of the thermom.
eter ought to 60 hand-in-hand with the
propaganda for universal adoption OF
the metric system of weights and
measures and for uniform decimal re
lations Of coinage IN al nations.--
Newark Evening News.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1916-06-09
ORANGE Peel a. a Laxative.

The Lancet quutes from Rosenthal
the following recipe for very simple
laxative: Fresh orange peel is boiled
for half an hour in water This first
very bitter infusion is thrown away
Or utilized for washing or for the
teeth. The peel is then boiled sec
ond time for 80 minutes in slightly
sugared water and afterward spread
out to dry. 1t is then ready for use
The peel of single orange is suf
ficient to produce the desired effect,
and this Is accom- panied by flow of
bile of variable AMOUNT. and this bill
airy activity continues for several
hours
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1916-06-09
The Unicorn,

Chinese annals of great antiquity
contain numerous detailed accounts of
the supposedly fabulous unicorn, In
which the descriptions are identical
liest times in the mythology Of occi-
dental countries. From this it is in
feTred that at some time in the remote
past there actually did exist single
horned equine or cervine animal of
some sort
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1916-06-09
Roast Goose re New Years Dish.

Roast Goose re New Years Dish.
Although Their are few houses wher.
New Years day is observed with liz
sld time hospitality the day is not
~holly divorced from the thought OF
good things to eat One Of these Is
roast goose which is perhaps NOR.
liked 10 England than America. Bur
even more cha -asteri<tic are those al
miro bic little c.:es which come from
Germany and ~hteh arr imported III
tin boxes. German cooks have made
them for centuries. have lavished thei'
time and energy on new designs and
new fiavors. and the result Is cake 81
excellent that 1t must always be tn.
spec'-' delight Of the New Year feast
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1916-06-09
Renoecked Sparrcws.

Female srarroTs are especially
rannical toward t',eir partners. es)
cially at res, la'.iif'Ey time. when tn,
frequently ala :. their hrsba.3ds fiert
" on account IF their laZiness. :
such times the female voice can d
ways lie detected both lnsGer g
shril.er than tha. of her mute a S,
pe"ss ana tous.cs hi,a rntii h bea
an i~no:.iIious .et~ea. Hen b,a,a
birds and t'.-uskeS are oeten very oye
bearing and even ,i,itefu! toward the
mates whan tae.r houses are in cour>
Of construction
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1916-06-09
Respect for Law?

Because an assistant district attor-
ney was on the car and because the
dead bird was legally property of the
state, everyone on a Rochester IN
Y) trolley car was afraid to touch the
body of a pheasant which few through
the window and killed itself the other
day, the conductor, careful not to lay
hands on the bird. finally pushing it
off the car with stove poker.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1916-06-09
A Problem,

Oldbatch-What are you trying to
figure out? Longsuffer-A little mathe
NAUTICAL puzzle. Some time ago my
wife said she'd be dressed In a minute,
and shortly after my daughter said
she'd be ready Immediately. In. try
ing to find out which one will come
first--New York Globe.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1916-06-09
One Mans Theory.

Mrs. Wederly-Men talk of the joys
OF single blessedness. but statistics
prove that more bachelors than mar
ried men commit suicide.
Mr.. Singleton-Yes, that's true.
Mrs. Wederly-Oh, then you are
willing to admit it. Then suppose
you can explain why it is true.
Mr. Singleton-Sure l can. They
are driven to despair by other peoples
babies
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1916-06-09

TnfB exranuns s.oEe .as se..esss. y
manifest Its magic po,,'er hr +! iiiigin.
to pass the wish cxprtsss, by any o..
who entered it. provided he ,iid II
change his wish While he turn
around within it.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1916-06-09
The Old Crack Cuirass.

The Greeks had a cuirass made o,
linen or wooden fibers which was i'm
penetrable to the sharpest darts OF
spears. That. by the way. is one of the
discoveries that have not been reds
covered, for we do not know the secrel
Of its manufacture.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1916-06-09
"Gaspipe Cavalry"

The motorcycle and bicycle scouts
and dispatch riders of the British
army in France are Familiarity known
as the "Gaspipe Cavalry good ex
ample Of Tommy Atkins fondness for
slang nomenclature.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1916-06-09
Some Improvement.

Mrs. Dubwaite doesn't seem to mind
how much Mr.. Dubwaite operates the
monograph"
In the language of well known
advertiser There's a reason"
"Yes?'
As choice between two evils, Mrs
Dubwaite much prefers the phono
graph. Mr.. Dubwaite's favorite diver
sion in the evening used to be picking
out a tune on the piano with one fin
ger. Birmingham Age-Herald
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1916-06-09
AnticipatinQ.

Have you heard that Biglow's
daughter is going to marry million
aireT'
Yes. Heard it yesterday. Biglow
tried to borrow $40 from me on the
strength of it."-St Louis Post Dis
patch
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1916-06-09
Universal Demand.

The trouble with our son." said IA
Their. lis that he wants his own way
about everything" Yes" replied moth
er. land suppose that's what he thinks
about u.s. Washington Star.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1916-06-09

mo. thank you'll" politely said Pro.
lessor Pate, in reply to the tender Of
the spave agent, Il do not care to In.
dulge In oil stocks, mining shares, en-.
cyclopedias a other golden opportu.
mites which must be grasped at once
or lost forever. While my experience II
the ways Of the world IL somewhat
limita6. know q seward moro 1n1oy.
- nDtAn6D - n1nG1ng - ~
o. -.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1916-06-09
The Worm Turns.

How much are your four dollar
shOes?" asked the smart one
''Tw, dollars foot" replied the
salesman wearily.-Judge
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1916-06-09
A Trace of Kindness.

He-Can't you find anything pleasant
to say about the members of my fam
fly? She-Well. remember they were
all opposed TO our mariage.-Rich-
mond Times Dispatch
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1916-06-09
Two Extremes.

There ara no chagrins so venomou,
as the chagrins of the idle, no pangs
so sickening as the satellites Of pleas
ure.-R,iskin
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1916-06-09
Natural AnxiAtY.

Lawyer ito hesitating CLIENT Re
venge Is sweet. remember. Wen hgh,
this case to the bitter end. Client
But who'll get the bitter end, the other
fellow or met--Chicago News.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1916-06-09
Bored.

4 say, your ears have never beer.
pierced. Aileen?"
NO. but they're being 'boredr -
Lehigh Burr.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1916-06-09
fwo of a Kind.

Two OF KIND.
"Bald heads remind me Of kind
Words"
why so?'
.sThey can never dye. you know
Boston Transcript
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1916-06-09

ETowchef Is confirmed pessimim
isn't hep
les. Just uo,r be Is w0rry1ng asoue
She xib t'hsy ti.r lsaf mas - snr1A~1
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-09-07

Thomas A. Edison, the great inven-
tor, is a mar whom the whole world
admires. He has been a life. long re-
publican and in recent years and
campaigns a supporter Of Theodore
Roosevelt's policies. Now he is out
dent Woodrow Wilson, in which he
says: president Wilson has faced
more and greater issues than any pre-
ceding president and that he has
solved the questions confronting him
in a manner satisfactory to the great
body of the people," Such support
means something.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-09-07
COST OF HI 8-HOUR DAY

Chicago, Sept. 2.--Let US look at
the figures as they have to do with
the railroads claim in connection
with the cost of the S.hour day."
said Congressman Scott Ferris of Ok
lahoma today, who is in charge of
the western campaign headquarters
for the democrats in the absence of
Senator Walsh, who>is in the east for
the notification of President Wilson.
EDO not take my say SO for it., but
go to the report of the Interstate
commerce commission. Look at
what these figures mean in more
money in circulation, more money
for school shoes for the children and
all along all the avenues of trade.
1T was q solemn question asked
the individual congressman when he
was called to vote upon this PROPOSE
ton. / repeat, 239 of them kept the
faith. So Of them, headed by the mi
nOrity. leader, James r.. Mann Of
Chicago, refused to stand by the
brotherhoods. refused to approve Of
their appeal for an S.hour day and.
the better condition that goes with
Y. Now for the figures: During 1919,
tt being the LIST year Of the TAFT adj
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-09-07
THE PRESIDENTS
CONSERVATION POLICY

The record of the Wilson admin
%lstration in the conservation of our
public domain and resources will
meet with the cordial approval of
those Americans who have seen with
regret vast areas of public lands pass
into the greedy hands of monopolists,
billions of tons of coal, the property
of all the people, transferred to a
favored few and other public re-
sources frittered away, and who re-
call the frauds and scandals that
made these great national blessings
a ource of shame.
In sharp contrast with some of it's
predecessors stands the Wilson
record. No fraud OF trickery or even
charge or umor of fraud or scandal
has occurred. All of the vast terri
tory and riches Of the nation have
been conserved for the benefit of the
nation, the needs of the future con-
sidered and provided for and mil.
lions of acres made available TO,
homestead entry.
The record is without q blur anC
of marked energy and accomplish.
ment.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-09-07
THE FARM LOAN ACT

The passage of the Farm Loan Act,
by the Wilson administration, is the
last step in the long, hard, and intel
ligent fight which some few eminent
men with real knowledge of agricul-
ture and of requirements of the farm
ing business have been making for
many years.
And this final enactment of the bill,
which our Washington correspondent
has SO we'll described in his Washing
ton letter, is just the beginning of a
long series Of trials and tests, of
changes and of notifications, which
will undoubtedly have to be made be-
fore the operation of the lone system
is smooth and effective.
The bill has been admirably con
ceiyed and drafted, the board chosen
TO put it into effect is made up OF OK
psrienced and able men. But we
must remember that it is new work
pioneering in its way, and that time
and time only, will show results.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-09-07
ministration, the total railway earn

ministration, the total railway earn
ings al shown by the interstate COM
merce commission was 81, 933, O00, 600.
For the year 1916, tAe last year of the
Wilson administration the total rail-
way earnings Of the country was
So, zoe, 000, 900. This is an increase of
$767, DOC, 000-26.1 per cent.
"What will the new s-day cost the
roads? No mi can answer accur-
ately this question. The railroad
heads assert it will cost a hundred
million dollars to put the S-hour day
into effect. while the b~rotherhoods
contend that it will cost no greater
sum than twenty million dollars.
"Strike an average and grant that
the putting of the new S.hour day in
to effect costs sixty million dollars.
Then subtract this amount from the
increase in railway earnings of $780,
600. 600. 1t would still leaye the
railroads an annual increased profit
of $7O1 900, 900 over and above that
received during the last year of
Taft's administration. | pause and
ask you-'Has prosperity come to
the Railroads.&c.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-09-07

element amongst US which puts loyalty
to any foreign power before loyalty to
the United States"
Regarding the Mexican policy the
president reiterated that the people of
Mexico were struggling "blindly it may
be-and as yst Intellectually" to free
themselves from alien interest "some
of them Americans pressing for things
they never could have got in their own
country" and that he would do every
thing in his power to prevent anyone
standing in their way.
1T is hard doctrine" said he, "only
for thoee who wish to get something for
themselves out of Mexico"
81 am more interested in the fortunes
of oppressed men and pitiful women
and children than in any properly rights
whatever"
At the outset of his references to the
legislative achievements of his party
the president enumerated the statute
books relating to business including tar
if revision, ANTITRUST laws, revision of
banking and currency system, rural
credits, rehabilitation of the merchant
marine and creation of the federal trade
commission.
"What other party has understood the
task SO we'll or executed it so intelli-
gently and energetically?" he asked.
"What other party has attempted it at
all? The republican leaders apparently
know of nc can Of assisting business
but protection. How to stimulate it
and put it upou a new footing of energy
and enterprise they have not suggested.
AT the conclusion of his review of the
party record the president declared:
This extraordinary recital must
sound like a platform, a lift of sunguine
promises; but it is not. 1t is a record
of promises made four years ago and
now actually redeemed in constructive
Legislation. Then, later he added: 1--WE
have in four years come very near to
carrying out the platform of the Pro
gressive party as we'll as our own; for
we are also progressives."
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-09-07
B DAY REFLECTION

There has not been a labor day in
the history of the labor movement
on which the laboring people of the
nation have had such cause for con
graduating themselves as they en-.
joyed on Monday. There has Just
been accomplished for them national
recognition Of the righteousness, the
justness of an eight hour day, a thing
that has been one of the chief aims
Of the labor movement for genera.
ti0ns.
While the eight,hour day had come
to BIZ recognized in certain lines OF
industry and certain great corpora
tions had put the idea into partial
force, 1t had never been recognized
in a national or legal way. 1t is an
attainment that will have a far.
reaching effect, probably next in
effect to the freeing of the slaves by
President Lincoln.
In this hour of their greatest sue.
cess. 1t is we'll for the laboring peo-
pie of the nation to take heed or how
1t was attained, who gave it to them,
to realize that it was a democratic
president, Woodrow Wilson, who
shaped the policy and that it was
democratic congressman, senators
and representatives who adopted that
policy, made it a national law. They,
at the same time sheuld realize that
It was republican congressman who
opposed the measure and that it Is
the republican candidate for the
presidency who has sought by inuen-
do to cast unfavorable reflection on
President Wilson's actions in con
nection with the controversy.