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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-02
Step Toward se,f-Gov.rnm.nt,

by Associated PressI
AMSTERDAM. September Acc. N :
ing to tho Cologne Gazette. trsss;;.s/s
step toward the seif-governnfynt of
roland has been taken. From to-day
justice will be administered I'm tho
name OF the Polish crown and by Polish
judges.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-02
HoUMAN1ANs REPULsE ATTACK
u III In FOkSHANI REGION

PETROGRAD, September In
creased artillery FIRE in the wilma and
sectors, toward the
4northern end Of tho Russian front. is
.reported In to-day's official statement.
The repulse by the Roumanians Of an
attack In the Fokshani region. on the
sRoumanian front, also is announced.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-02
New Chief of Foreign Affairs,

BY Associated Press)
BERN. SWITZERLAND. September !.
Karl Paravicini. OF Basic. has been
appointed by the Federal Council to be
chief OF the division Of foreign affairs
lie succeeds DR.. !Alphonse Dunart.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-02
gSHAw SAYS NOTE Is REALLY
FeEssEflEt yrn b,

sls LONDON. September l.--"President
|yssWison's reply TO the Pope is really
~ ppessaEs to Germany" said George
Bernhard Shaw to-day in an Interview
vita the Associated Press. Reduced
10 Efhe verpacular. It means: Become
~ sf1pubifc and VIC will let up on you;
&So8pn kaisering and ws will smash
fyoE st
Asfhs President knovs what h. 8.
s.tgnttne for
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-02
SPRlsONERS TAKEN BY ITALIANS
EESss,esH INCREASED TO 1892

8. IF3y Fscciatod PrLssI
ROME, September 1.-The number
tAof prison .rs taken by the Italians has
heen increased to 1882. the. War Office
sannounces. or these 720 are officers.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-02

I ~ we've: nSdst on sheds Ia the
4EsatS corner Of the airdrome. in
e vicinity = Ore wac started.
y ok also were seen to explode on
4djoininE ,ostend-Thourout rail-
line. Many tons of explosives
~ sdropped- All our machines re-
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-02
DEATHS

McCREADY.-Died, September /. e:i5
NJ. at the residence of her sister. Mrs.
Richmond. Mhs.. NARY "i %ecRES Se5; so shs
i NcCe to mourn their loss. husband, w: J.
zion and Mrs: NJ; j. Ferriter. and one sister,
Mrs. James Sadler.
Funeral notice later
PolNDEXTER-Died,v very suddenly AZ II
o'clock +. NJ. September /. 1917, at his
nome, S35 West Grace Street. THOMAS
Funeral notice laInr 's'
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-02
TOO LATE TO Classify

FOR sale or exchange for two Nat house in
West End. 4 modern 7-room house near
Battle Abbey. $500.
nice nine.room brick house paying is per
=. cent on my equity. Located in good sec
ton OF city. Present tenant been there
eight years. A bargain. Only q small
ton b. = ~
FOR rent s-room. steam heated house. sos
/. North Twenty fifth Street. a sacrifice TO
immediate tenant. Phone Madison 7o9s
LOST. between C. & o. Station and Seventh
and Main, diamond ring Reward. Mrs
Il. Il. Leake. Madison 1901
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1917-01-05
SUPREME IN HIS EG0TIsM
Man So Sure Of Himself That he Suf.
fers Little From the Desire
70 Possess.

Men do not, as a rule, suffer very
much from the desire to possess, be-
cause they are SO sure that they do
possess, because they find 1t SO diff
cult to conceive that their wife can
find any other man attractive, writes
W. L. George in the Atlantic Monthly.
They are too well accustomed to be-
Ing courted, even If they are old and
repulsive, because they have power
and money; only they think 1t is be-
cause they are men. Beyond Jealous
care for their wives fidelity, which I
suspect arises mainly from the feeling
that an unfaithful wife is a criticism,
they do not ask very much. But wom-
en- suffer more deeply because they
know that man has lavished on them
for centuries condescending admira-
don; that the king who lays his crown
at their feet knows that his is the
crown to give. While men possess by
right Of possession women possess
only by right Of precarious conquest.
They feel it very bitterly. this fugitive
empire, and their greatest tragedy is
to find themselves growing a little
older, uncertain Of their power, for
they are afraid, as age comes, Of los
ing their man, while ] have never
heard Of husband afraid Of losing
his wife. or able to repress his sur
prise II she forsoOk him.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1917-01-05
MARK TWAIN NO FlNANCiEH
Humorkot Lost Money In All sorts o.
Wild Science and Rejected
Golden Opportunity.

Marx Twain, as most people know.
was, during a number Of years before
bis financial downfall, an exceedingly
prosperous literary man, but unfort1l-
nately there were moments when he
forgot that his lot was satisfacto
tried to improve 1t. His Colonel
imagination, inherited from both
pf his family, led him into business al.
ventures that were generally unprofit.
abba When man came along with
pateuf ssean-generator that would
sdve % per cent Of the usual coal sup
ply, Mark Twain invested his whole
bank surplus and saw that money no
more forever. Then came a steam-pul-
ley, small affair, but powerful enough
to relieve him Of SO, 900 in a brief
time. A new method of marine teleg-
raphy, promising continuance, failed
to return the $4,000 invested in it by
the humerist; and so on and so on.
Every scheme was plausible enough to
catch Mark Twain, according to Al
bert Bigelow Paine writing in st.
Nicholas, except the one that would
have made his fortune. A certain
Alexander Graham Bell appeared one
day offering stock In an invention for
carrying the human voice on an cleo
trio wire. But Mark Twain had grown
wise. He refused to invest even 5000.
Instead he lent 5000 to a friend,
who went bankrupt three days later.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1917-01-05
Woman's Honor.

Men are realizing that they have
handed themselves the greatest gold
brick of the ages when they set up a
craven image of their own in place of
live human woman, mans mate.
They are beginning to realize that the
voting woman is the best mother. The
home is more significant to her be-
cause she is citizen training citizens
for the problems of the mighty future
that lies before US.
Politicians have seen the light,
women have seen the light. Through
organization and persistent effort, the
voter must be brought to see the light.
For whether suffrage comes through
state referendum or through the pas
sage of the federal amendment by our
state legislatures, back to the voter
we must go. A man said the other
day, "The people must decide" No,
dear sir, only when we have votes for
women can we use the whole-souled
expression, "back to the people"-for
women are people.
And the woman's hour has struck -
The Forum,
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1917-01-05
Docs Of Luxury.

The appearance CT little dogs as OBJ
jects of luxury goes back to the mos
ancient times. Documents are no
wanting that go to show that Greet
and Roman women had little dog,
which We're idoliZed by their mistress
es. Even men. particularly among for
efgners. were lot ashamed TO walk the
streets of Rome with pet dogs unde'
their arms. Speaking of this subject
Plutarch relates that Julius Caesa:-
seeing one day i'll Rome some stranger
thus loaded with their dogs. aSkes
them ironically whether the women e.
their country did not bear childre;
Tertia. the daughter of LuciCs 1;lrr
Illus Paulus, vas so ford Of iler Go
that in the moment Of hidili1g farewe
to her father. who was about to lea
his country and his family 10 wa
war against Ferseus. king Of MaceG.'
mia. she frankly admitted that the So,
pess imprinted OH her face was Gve
the death CT her pet dog Persia l
Europe the greyhcunds we're the f.
favorites of women during the MIDI
ageS.-BoSton Post.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1917-01-05
The Romance Of Buried Pictures.

A romantic story of picture pur.
chased at a London auction which on
expert examination proved to be paint.
cd over q Rembrandt worth $4,000 is
curiously reminiscent of the discovery
Of Correggio under similar circum-
stances. A good many years ago two
picture restorers, Lovera and Hunter
spergh, bought at an art sale in Rome
q number of old pictures in order to
provide themselves with canvases for
repainting In the division of the
spoils Hunterspergh received an indif-
ferent picture Of flowers, on which he
painted study Of head. This pic
ture he offered to Lovera, who on close
examination found that the new
ground scaled Off and that underneath
were traces Of figure painted in a
style that denoted the hand of a mas
ter. Replacing the scales and conceal
ing his discovery, he purchased the
picture for little more than the value
of the canvas. Removing the two
grounds. he disclosed an exceedingly
clever painting by Correggio which he
sold to the Earl of Bristol for f1,5OO.-
Dundee Advertiser.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1917-01-05
MANY CAUSES OF HEADACHE
Sufferer From Annoying Complaint
Can Generally Make Correct dag
nosis Of His Particular Case.

Early morning headaches may be
due to many causes-eye strain, kid
ney trouble, dissipation, too much
smoking, overeating Of proteins, ex-
cessive mental labor or too high blood
pressure. The Medical Record quotes
some observations by the French Doc
tor Renon, which extended over Is
years, and in which he found in many
cases excessively high blood tension.
When the persistent headaches are
so severe that they unfit the sufferer
for work, it is generally found that his
heart is enlarged and his kidneys are
affected. Such cases often speedily
terminate fatally, but intensive treat
ment will alleviate the symptoms. The
Medical Record says coal-tar deriva-
tives and tobacco must be shut off.
The patient must have mental rest
he must go on a purely milk diet for
at least a week, after which he may
eat fruits and vegetables on certain
days for two weeks more. A light,
low protein regimen follows for sew
eral weeks.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1917-01-05
WOMAN FARMERS DOING WELL
Thevsands Have Won Success In This
Country. ~ They havs In The
British Islee.

English women are not the only ones
who are hurrying into the farming
business, remarks writer in the
Springfield (Mass.) Republican. Amer
lean women are turning In large num-
bers every year to stock raising, bee
raising and farming of all sorts. When
the national beekeepers' association
had its last annual meeting in Phila-
delphia 1t was noticed that q large
number Of the members were women
and they took a pertinent part In the
discussions.
Western women are older hands at
the business. The Missouri Woman
tells us there are 5000 woman farm
ers in that state, and they are women
who farm intelligently, scientifically
and successfully. They study the bull
letins sent out by the state board Of
agriculture. they compete at the state
and country fairs-often they have
been quick to realize that cooperation
between city and country is Of utmost
Importance to both.
The 5000 woman farmers Of Mis-
souri, make good profits in time Of
peace. In time Of war they could, very
likely, feed the entire state If all the
men farmers should be drafted into
military service. OF one example of
efficient farm management" we read
that she has been making money annu-
ally on 200 acres in wheat and extern
sive stock raising; another 'raises hogs
under glass"-that is to say, she at
tracted wide attention few years ago,
during a blizzard winter, when other
farmers were losing live stock by
freezing. through resourcefully con-
verting her greenhouses into shelter.
Missouri woman farmer Is
widely recognized as an expert In fine
hogs. Her Berkshires have taken prizes
wherever shown and her corn exhibit.
ed at San Francisco carried of the ex-
position gold medal.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1917-01-05
Broke Rubber MoncnoIY,

For many years the best rubber was
that which came from the banks OF
the Amazon. The people of that coun
try enjoyed practical monopoly and
determined to keep it. Not a rubber
seed would they let get out of tbs
country, under heavy penalties. Fu
in 1876, by means of generous pres
ents here and there, venturescme
Englishman sailed out of the Amazon
with 10000 rubber seeds, and that
was the start of the great rubber
plantations of Ceylon and the Malay
peninsula. 1t was % years after these
seeds left the Amazon before the FIRST
plantation rubber was ready for the
market, and then the total was only
145 tons. That was in 1905. Last
year it was close to 100000 tons.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1917-01-05
nealn seal KILLING.

A few years ago when pelagic seal
ers flourished and seals also were
killed on the rookeries, 1t was the IA
vorite trick Of milady to develop a
hollow cough which left her better or
worse half the alternative Of send
ing her to Florida for the winter or
purchasing a sealskin coat. Seals
then became scarce through the I'M
eeasing demand, and the government
stepped in and halted the killing.
This, observes the Seattle Post-1n-
telligencer, brought relief to father.
and he, since 1910, when the govern
ment took over the herds, has been
able to lay up little money for the
coal bill. Comes now 81. j. Christoffer,
assistant agent for the United States
bureau Of fisheries, with the depress-
ing information that the seal herds
on the Pribilof islands,, st. Paul and
St. George, have increased to such an
extent that the government will start
killing and put the hides upon the
market. All this means that history,
with reference to the sealskin coat, Il
going to repeat itself.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1917-01-05
WONDERS OF GRAND CANYOE
No Other Spot on Earth ls Believed
to Possess the Same Interesting
Formations.

Many people still living can remem
Der thrill of wonder and admiration
that ran through the world in reading
Of the daring exploit of Major Powell
In 1859 in navigating the rapids OF
the Grand Canyon Of Arizona in q
small boat It was his account of his
trip more than anything else up to
that time that called the attention Of
the world to the magnifcence Of that
wonderful gorge and to the brilliancy
Of the coloring on its rocks.
The United States has recently pub
lished bulletin. No. $40, report on
the geology of portion of the Grand
Canyon by L. F. Noble. This gorge
offers an opportunity of studying the
history Of the formation of our globe
presented in no other spot now
known. On the top are deposits Of
the Carboniferous period. and below
this strata, some Of them Of immense
thickness, ranging down to the Cam.
brian period at the base. In the Grand
Canyon we come to the basic rocks
81 the earth, the granite and gneiss.
This panorama is described as prob
ably the most complete geological REQ
ord of the world revealed to the eysa
u man.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1917-01-05
A "Friday" Ship,

A true story is told of a skeptica
Massachusetts captain who way back
tn the early years Of the republic de
termined to exhibit the fallacy of the
friday superstition. He contracted OIL
certain Friday for the building OF
q ship, and 1t was arranged that the
heel OF this vessel was laid on Friday
that she was launched on a Friday
named Friday, commenced loading on
a Friday and hauled into the stream
On the same day Of the week. To add
b possibilities Of disaster, a negro
cook named Friday was engaged, and
nus fully freighted with the sinister
name, the Friday sailed on Friday
bound to a port in the West Indies
From that day to this no tidings Cd
Il II fated craft have been received
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1917-01-05
Moss for Wounds.

All Americans and other tourists
who have visited Scotland and the
north Of England have waved en-
thusiastic over the beautiful coloring
Of the moors and mountains which
present to the eye a riot Of tints-
pink. crimson, yellow, green and rus
set. This is furnished by sphagnum
moss with which, literally, the coun-
tryside is carpeted, for it is as luxuri-
ously soft to the feet as 1t is a delight
to the vision.
From an appeal issued by the Aber-
deem Sphagnum moss Joint commit
tee 1t appears that this moss is being
furnished In great quantities for sur
gical dressings by this organization
to the hospitals in Britain, France,
Macedonia, Egypt, Italy, Mesopotamia
and elsewhere. A department for sub
limating these dressings has been es-
tablished and the committee is consid-
ering plan to compress the moss by
machinery into fiat sheets, IN which
form It Is light and portable and emf
nently suitable for dressing stations,
field ambulances, ETC., and for trans
port overseas to distant hospitals
where surgical dressings are sorely
needed.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1917-01-05
Funny Errors In Advertisements.


Laughable errors In illustrated adver-
hsements are often apparent to the
thinking man. 1t makes one wonder
why the designers Of the ads. don't get
their Information first hand from some
pne who really knows. Accuracy, even
b advertisements, has the same at
traction it has anywhere else.
For instance, when the setter bottle
in an electrical sign on Broadway Is
6lling the empty glass the level de-
sends as fast in the bottle as it rises
IN the glass, yet the bottle is five times
rs big. 1t couldn't possibly be, accord
ing to physics.
Still worse IS a picture of a piano
with q pair of hands striking certain
keys. Fortunate it is indeed that that
piano can't sound. for the particular
Keys struck would be jangling dis
rord. Why couldn't the artist have
zone to n musician for pleasing
ihora ;'nzons fhe infinite offerings Of
ca,rSie.% 49, ~-A'..N.,f lss',n,f1l
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1917-01-05
An Invisible Clock.

A public clock which can be heard
but not seen, Is one of London's Gu
rous possessions. 1t is in the tower
Of st. Mary Abbot's church. Kensing
Il, and is the only pubic clock in
the immediate neighborhood 1t chimes
the quarters and the hours. but com
mits itself no further. 1t has no dial
no hands, no outward and visible sign
Of any kind to show that it is clock.
This eceentricity, It is explained, is
the result Of two causes-one aesthet-
ic, the other financial. When the tow
er was built in 1879 a clock was sug.
gssted as an afterthought, but the
architect protested that 1t would mean
the addition Of fifteen feet to the tow
ex and the ruin of its cherished proper
tiens. A second point was that the
church, having but slender funds.
could not afford clock with a dial A
compromise was arrived at by install
ing the works of Ginning clock in the
slfry without dial or hands.-Pear-
. Ms
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1917-01-05
REALLY NO TROUBLE At ALL
Druggist Found It Easy to Deelphes
Handwriting That Had Proved
Puzzle to Drummer.

John Carpetbags was one Of the
most successful travellers on the road.
On one occasion he was sent out by
his people to try to get an order from
big firm which gave all Its orders to
rival firm.
Such were his persuasive powers
that within half an hour he had &C.
cured big order In the handwriting
Of the senior partner.
Unfortunately, this gentleman pos
sessed such an atrocious style Of calig-
raphy that not a word was legible.
However, Carpetbags remembered that
druggists can usually read anything
in the way Of handwriting. because of
their wide experience with doctors
prescriptions. So he handed In the
letter to the local druggist.
II wonder If you can read thatr'
he asked.
The druggist took it and returned to
the back Of the shop. Ten minutes Ia
ter he reappeared with small bottle
wrapped in paper and sealed.
"Oh, yes, sir! It was quite easy
Here's your medicine! Fifty cents,
please!"
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1917-01-05
Cut Infant Mortality,

When the recently deceased Gen
eral Gallieni became governor general
Of Madagascar in the early nineties,
he was appalled, at the unsanitary con.
ditions and the high death rate.
Though a soldier and not a physician,
he set about to remedy these condi-
lions. ~
He obtained the happiest results IN
his campaign against infant mortality.
He had native women trained as mid
wives and he established and popular
lied maternity hospitals. He regulated
marriage and restricted divorce. He
exempted the fathers Of five children
from taxation and he taxed bachelors
instead. I %
These and many other works pro
duced suc,e a change that the French
Academy Of Medicine awarded him
gold medal, a most exceptional distinc.
ton for one who was not doctor.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1917-01-05
EVOKED PRAISE or SURGEONS
Instruments Used by Romans f,ooo
Years Ago Almost Identical WITH
These Employed Today.


An exhibition Of ancient Roman sur.
gical instruments of bronze, 50 perfect
in their mechanics and principle Of op-
Grafton that they might be used in the
present day, was the wonder of hun
dreds Of visiting surgeons at the Patho-
logical museum In the Jefferson Ned
zeal college at Philadelphia.
Unearthed in volcano-smothered Her
culaneum, they are in almost perfect
condition, beautifully fashioned, etched
and carved instruments Of bronze, for
the surgeons of the ancient Roman en-
pire evidently were artists as well as
healers.
The remarkable fact for the visit
ing surgeons was that the instruments
are In mechanical way singularly like
the most modern instruments applied
to similar uses-modern instruments
whose perfection has been gained only
after centuries of study and improve
ment. The ancient instruments are
much more complex in their operation
than those Of modern times, but have
been made and adapted to particular
uses with wonderful ingenuity. There
are number Of instruments used for
genealogical work and to aid in
births, and an equipment Of scissors,
forceps for various uses, lances and
knives.
One famous surgeon from the West
examined the specimens very carefully
and admiringly declared that if the IN
Struments were refurbiShed ana
cleaned and sharpened he would not
be afraid to perform an operation with
them even at this day. 81 think these
instruments over 1900 years old are
better than the instruments in use by
physicians 200 years ago." he said.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1917-01-05
Too Much of a Good Thsno,

George MARSHALL. philanthropts
who always Kept sharp lookout neve
to be wasteful. decided to 80 for :
weeks camping, taking as his guest
some ragged street urchins. One morn
ing he used the bits of meat left frof
the evening before and made hash fo:
breakfast. There was some left over
which he concluded to reheat and serv
again at noon.
johnnie, will you have some hash?
he asked one lad.
Bet your life replied the lad, who
was constitutionally hungry.
Peter, pass your plate for some
hash''-to another freckled nosed lad
Not If l knows it, was the unex.
pected reply.
Il thought you liked hash from the
way you ate it this morning." replied
Mr.. Marshall.
81 did like it for breakfast" said the
lad, but none of yer review of re
views for me for dinner. "-Lippincott' s
Magazine
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1917-01-05
BORROWING Misdon.

Not always have the disciples Of
Robert Burns, the Scotch peasant and
poet, borrowed their wisdom from the
master and eschewed his follies.
To base uses has this sweet singer
Of social mirth been put. with the role
forced upon him Of select patron Of
the registering and soaking crew who
Cad an excuse for bibulous excuses
IN Tam o'Shanter and Scotch Drink,
and such imperishable lyrics Of the
social hour as 20. Willie brew'd a
peck Of maui" and "Auld Lang Syne."
Wfsdom's purer water Of admiration
for Burns exists In the silent deeps.
where reading and thinking are done,
far below the soiled, brawling foam
treated by Burnsite roysterers.-Nev
yaek Telegram. ~