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Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1918-12-20
HUNS Ms,lcIousness Proved.

Some additional light Is shed on the
German destruction of the magnificent
edifice that has been described as
frozen music" in an interview that
Cardinal Lucon, archbishop of Relms,
granted the editor Of Everybody's,
Howard Wheeler, who reports it in the
September number. "As you know"
the archbishop told Mr.. Wheeler. "the
Germans have stated that the French
army had been using the towers OF
the cathedral for observation purposes
and that guns had been concealed
there. The fact is that the French
leaders, fearing that harm would come
to the cathedral, refrained at all times
from using 1t for any military pur.
poses whatever. When the lombard
ments were commenced I Immediately
wrote letter to the pope, In which ]
solemnly swore, on my honor as a
man and as a prelate Of the church,
that never had 1 abandoned my ca.
thedral since the beginning Of the war,
and that never at any time had It been
used for military purposes. All to no
avail. The bombardment still contin-
ues and at regular intervals my old
cathedral is battered piecemeaEand
1t breakS my heart"
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1918-12-20
PROCURE OIL FROM BIRDS
Inhabitants Of the Island Of St. .kiida
Are Especially Favored In Re
spect of Light.

The price of coal oil Is a matter Of
no interest to the inhabitants of the
island of st. Kilda, favorite haunt
of that animated oil can, the fulmar.
observes the Cincinnati Commercial
Tribune. So rich in oil Is this sea
bird that the natives simply pass a
wick through its body and use it as a
lamp.
The oil Is also one of the principal
articles exported from the island.
1t is found In the birds stomachs, Is
amber colored and has peculiarly
nauseous odor. The old birds are said
to feed the young with it. and when
they are caught or attacked they light
en- themselves by disgorging 1t.
In st. Kilda it Is legal to kill the full
mars only during one week in the
year. but during that week from $4,000
to 10000 birds are destroyed
The mutton bird of the Antarctic
also carries its oil in the stomach and
can eject this oil through the nostrils
ms means of defense against enc
mics.
Quantities of mutton birds are
slaughtered every year for their oil on
the coasts Of Tasmania and New zea-
land In Its composition and proper
ties this 81 closely resembles aparm
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1918-12-20
RACIAL BLENDlMGS IN SYRIA
Country That No One Race Can
Claim Prominence.

Syria, the region extending from the
Taurus mountains to Egypt and from
the desert to "the great sea-" is the
land of the patriarchs and prophets
and apostles-"the Holy Land" Its
population numbers about three and
speaking the Arabic language, and yet
with so many races intermingled
through the centuries Of the various
conQuests and occupations that the
people cannot claim any one race as
their own. Greek, Roman and Euro
pean crusader, all have blended with
the acient Semitic stock to produce thu
Syrians of today.
In Syria was the one green sp0e
of Turkey-the Lebanon mountains. N
1850, because Of the massacres, ~
European powers insisted that thess
mountains be made autonomous. And
since that date this little district has
been living demonstration Of what
the people of the land are capable OF
becoming.
The steep mountain sides have been
terraced to height Of 1000 feet and
planted to olives, figs and vines. Taxes
have been low. safety to person and
property secured, good roads built and
kept in repair. The people have con-
structed more comfortable homes and
have sent their sons to schools and col
leges.
The story of the achievements Of
the Lebanon and its sons during these
80 years of autonomy would be thrill
Ing narrative In itself.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1918-12-20
ALWAYS SOMETHING TO DO
Secret of Sir Waiter Scott's Marvellous
Literary Achievements Told in
a Few Words.

"Never TO be doing nothing" was the
simple bat effective rule that embed
Sir Walter Scott TO get done the enor-
nous amount of work for which he is
noted. a passage in Lockhart's life of
the poet and novelist reads:
Those who observed him the most
constantly were never able TO under
stand how he contrived to keep him
self so thoroughly up with the stream
OF contemporary literature of almost
all sorts, French and German, as we'll
as English. That a rapid glance might
tell him more than another man could
gather by a weeks porting may easily
be guessed; but the grand secret was
his perpetual practice of his own grand
maxim. never to be doing nothing. He
had no 'unconsidered trlf1es' OF time.
Every moment was turned TO account
and thus he had leisure for everything
except, indeed, the newspapers,
which consume so many precious hours
nowadays with most men. and of
which, during the period of my ac-
Quaintance with him, he certainly read
less than any other man 1 ever knew
that had any habit of reading at all.
I should also except, speaking general
ly, the reviews and magazines of the
time. OF these he saw few, and of the
few he read little"
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1918-12-20
KEEP COOL AND KEEP WELL
Some Points of Importance to Be Re-
membered When an Epidemic 10
Threatening Public Health.


At Its worst any epidemic takes but
a relatively small toll of the popula-
ton, and as rule the majority OF
people are resistant to the assaults of
the worst disease germs. Including In
fiuenza, If they but take ordinary care
Of themselves. This Is important
Whatever medical science may advise
as to prevention or as to treatment,
one simple fact that outweighs every
thing else Is that If every individual
Will bur follow the normal life he has
led. eat those things that are suited to
his system. things he has always eaten
with resulting good health. rest and
sleep as usual and avoid overfatigue
while carrying on his work, also as
usual, he will escape the pestilence.
There is no excuse for any panic.
Above all, the individual should re-
member that the first and last rule to
follow In this state Of things is to keep
cool and keep well. For the man who
Will keep cool will keep well. and the
man who keeps well and has all his
faculties about him VIII keep cool.
This ID no time for Official or individ-
uai o. collective hysteria. Phaladel--
phia Rshits LsdGae.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1918-12-20
AMOUNT or FOOD NEEDED
Committee Of Experts Has Decidea
just What Must Be Supplied to
the Average Man.

AS basis for calculating the amount
Of food which must be provided for
the human system the interallied scien-
tific food commission has found that
an average man of 154 pounds working
eight hours day requires food having
an energy value Of $500 calories.
The commission consists of repre-
sentative of the United States, France.
Italy. Belgium and Great Britain, and
its purpose is to consider the food prob
lem Of the allies from scientific point
Of view, and in agreement with the in
terallied executives to make proposals
to the allied governments.
The commission agreed that, In event
1t should become impossible to supply
$500 calories of food, a reduction of
10 per cent could be suffered for some
time without injury to health. The
minimum ration of fat for the ''ayer-
age man" was determined upon as two
and flye-elghths ounces a day.
The commission recommended that a
uniform average milling extraction Of
IS per cent for wheat be adopted
throughout the allied countries, but
this extraction may vary from so per
cent in summer to 80 per cent IN win
ter.
The commission held sessions IN
London, Paris and Rome
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1918-12-20
HANGED FOR BURNING COAL
Ing After Production Would
Have Seen Sinecure.

The present-day restrictions with re-
gard TO the use of coal would have
seemed very mild to our ancestors, re-
marks q writer in London Tit-Bits.
There IS no doubt that the use OF what
used to be called sea coal' to distin-
guish it from charcoal had its draw
backs,
Many look forward to the time when
there will be no more smoky chimneys
In Britain, when the atmosphere of
London viii be US clean as 1t must
have been In the days of Good Queen
Bess, and when new building will not
be begrimed with SCOT almost as soon
as 1t is built.
In the reign of Edward / the inhabi-
tantS of London petitioned the king
against the growing use of coal, declar-
ing that It was "a public nuisance. cor
rupting the air with its stink Ond
smoke. to the great detriment of their
health" Whereupon the king prohib-
tied its use. offenders to be punished
for FIRST olfense by q fne and for a
second to have their kilns and fur
naces destroyed.
The practice of using coal was at
length made capital offense and a
man was tried, condemned and hanged
for burning coal In London
In those days the population of Eng
land probably did not exceed four or
ft-a u
and cheap from the vast forests that
covered tens of thousands Of square
miles where now are great towns.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1918-12-20
WHERE GREAT EMPEROR DIED
Lengwood, the Prison Houee Of Nspe.
:eons Is Maintained Much 90
He Knew Il.

Longwood Old House, the prison
home Of Napoleon, is about four miles
from jamestown, the capital of St
Helena. Dlsmaly unatractive, the
place Is In about the same condition
that It was In the emperors hIne. A
low rambling one-storied farmhouse.
once the dwelling Of peasant farmer
Of the island. Il Is hard to connect the
place with the one-tiine master Of tfsa
Tuileries and Versailles. But Long
wood has an cir OF romance and lnys'
terry Of its owr. Ior i8 was the death
place Of Napoleol
The house is badly lghted ard 81
ventilated. The rooms are tiny and
musty. The so-caIled Billiard rOen
could never have held even the small
est table and the players at the same
time. The reception room into which
the emperor was moved when dying. is
the pleasantest spot IN the place, for
1t boasts Of more than one window. It
was In the space between the two win
dows that the Death bed was placed
Here today Is bust Of the emperor.
Visitors to Longwood sign the ancient
cisitors' book In this reception room.
while the aged guide tells the story Of
Napoleon's last days
Above the first floor are the garnet
rooms, little more than cubby holes
where former statesmen and marshals
of France lived during their exile with
their master. Outside is the tiny gar
den and the emperor's favorite arbOr.
Here is the fishpool built by his own
hands. at the foot Of the plateau is
Geranium valley. and the emperor's
tomb. 1t was by Napoieon's own re-
quest that he was buried here. The
famous wiIlow tree of fiction and his
tory still shadows the emperor's tomb
In 1858 Queen Victoria presented
Longwood to Napoleon III, who re-
stored the old place to the condition
in which the great emperor knew 1t.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1918-12-20
Extravaganza.

It makes no difference who admins
tiers the extravaganza or how high the
purpose Is, extravaganza is an evil In
itself. There is somewhat In the very
fact that invites venality and corrup-
ton. The very sight Of a great pile
of money excites desire that too often
finds some way for satisfying itself.
The papers are full of instances Of
this kind. In fact, we could write a
pretty good history Of the country II
we limited our narrative to graft and
grabbing only, and yet much of 1t is
overlooked because II is usual and ex-
pected. Extravaganza has made many
an unearned fortune and it is doing as
much these days, especially In govern
ment contracts. This country should
hasten to apply the doctrine that an
overcharge is a crime and that profit
eering Is treason. There is nothing
that SO destroys the democratic level
of nation, whether It appears on the
heights or In the depths.-Ohio State
Journal.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1918-12-20
varxlnn Movements of Leaves.

Different species of trees move
their leaves very differently, so that
one may sometimes tell by the mo-
ton of shadows on the ground. If he
be too indolent to look up, under what
kind Of tree he is sitting On the
tulip-tree (Which has the finest name
that ever tree had, making the very
pronouncing of It's name almost like
the utterance of strain of music
Lirldodendron tulipfera), on the tulip
tree, the aspen, and on all native pop
lars, the leaves have an intense indi-
vidualism. Each one moves to suit
itself. Under the same wind one Is
trilling up and down, another is whirl-
ing, another slowly vibrating right
and left. and others still, quieting
themselves to sleep, as mother gently
pats her slumbering child; and each
one intent upon motion of Its own.
Sometimes other trees have single
frisky leaves, but usually the oaks, ma
plies, beecbes. have community of mo-
ton. They are all acting together, or
are all alike still.-Henry Ward
Beecher.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1918-12-20
QUAINT LEGEND OF ALsACE
Race of Giants Who Saw Importance
to Them of the Food
Producers

There is a quaint old legend OF
SAGE, recalls the Christian Science
Monitor, concerning family of giants
who, once upon time, lived in a GER
tain castle in the Old country. Tt
moral of tie story seems apDrop-i.
at q time when the French minister
agriculture is making special eaoF,
encourage the cultivation OF land.
The giants lived, says the legend
far from the peasants of the plan.
and one day the daughter of tins
house who, though quite child, was
already 80 feet high, strolled towar.
the plain and saw laborer peacefully
blowing his field. She picked up tie
peasant, the horse and the pillow, and
put them in her pinafore and returned
to the castle TO show what she had
found to her father.
"What you think is but toy" said
the giant, sis what produces the food
which enables Us to live. Put back
the laborer and his horse where you
found them" From that time oE-
ward, adds the tale. the peasants were
never molested by the giants.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1918-12-20
LITTLE RED ROOSTER
Brought DeIos Brown and
Martha Gilmore Together.
By GEORGIA SETTER.

Never having had any love affairs
Of her own to occupy her time, Miss
Martha Brown very naturally turned
to those of others. And so it came
about tAat scarcely a visit of Cupid
had occurred In Piainville for years,
that she did not bring about. assist IN.
or at the very least predict!
Lucia" she called one morning
20 the niece whom she had befriend-
ed In her orphaned youth. come and
see who this is moving into the old
fleming cottage"
Luella obligingiy left her dishwash-
ing and came to peer over her aunt's
shoulder.
why, that she said, must be
Martha Gilmore. l heard yesterday
ehe had bought the place Of Delos
Brown. / forgot to tell you, Aunt
Marietta" apologetically.
Quite a come-down, seems to me,
for old Artemus GiImore's daughter"
observed Miss Marietta crisply. 81
can remember when he mother didn't
care to associate with Plainville
folks"
"Oh. but Martha isn't that way g
Bit, aunt" said Luella loyalty. Il feel
real sorry to think she has had to
give up her old home. And she has
her old Aunt Martha to care for, too"
We'll, can't imagine what Delos
Brown is thinking of to sell that cot
tage-his mothers old home! / sup
posed he had more feeling for her
memory. I shouldn't think he would
want to see anyone else living there
Miss Marietta folded her hands as
was her custom when sitting in judg
ment.
why should he care?" objected Lu.
ella. "He never saw his mother liv.
ing at the cottage. It has stood empty
for years. l suppose It will seem
pleasant to have neighbors."
And to such q brazen thing as
Martha Gilmore" pursued Miss
Brown. not to be interrupted.
Luella returned to her dishes with
out a word
When Aunt Marietta has been
crossed nothing seems to please her,
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1918-12-20
The Bishop OF verdun.

ST. yanne, or Vitonlus died Novem-
Der 8, 1925. A celebrated congrega-
ton Of reformed Benedictines Ia Lor-
raine, formed in the abbey of st.
vanne In verdun, in 1904, took him for
patron. and from the famous abbey
and that of Moyen- Moustier, dedicated
in honor Of st. Hydulphus. benrs the
name of st. vanne and st. Hydulphus.
Many In France desired to accede to
the reform, but on account of the wars
then existing, union was thought too
difficult. A reform under the same
plan was set on foot In France, under
The name of the Congregation of st.
Maur, and began in the abbey of st.
Austin in Limoges in 1913. and con-
firmed by Gregory XIV, in 1927. which
now comprises 1856 abbeys and pri-
oriaa-
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1918-12-20
Strike That Failed.

Labor strikes were frequent even
in the earliest recorded days. An
important strike occurred In Egypt
during the reign Of Cheops, several
thousand years before the Christian
err. While the great pyramid
erected in honor of that monarch was
In course of construction it is stated
that $4,000 workmen refused to con-
tinue their labors. They were dis
satisfied with the food furnished to
them. which was insufficient In guam
tity and poor in quality. Argument
proving useless on the part of the
contractors, soldiers We're ordertl to
drive the strikers back to work, and
many thousands of them were cut to
pieces. while those who could escape
fed The others were compelled to re-
sumo their labor.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1918-12-20
pous In Roumania.

Each nation looks upon the dog in
a different way, but the dogs Of war
and the dogs of peace (of a pastoral
and agricultural people like the Rou-
manians) are beyond doubt the intel
ligentsia of their kind. A little far
Their east he was sometimes held in
fear. and an old Babylonian prayer
runs thus: .From the dog, the snake,
the scorpion, and whatever is baleful,
may Merodach preserve u.s." On
the other hand. on some OF the won
derfnl bas-reliefs Of that period. our
four-footed friends have been CRATE
fully immortalized and their names
remain written thereon to this day
.'He who ran and barked." ''The bitter
of his foes" 'sThe seizer of his enc
mics" But here In Roumania slayer
ol the vol" sthe friend Of sheep" be-
folnans = 49, dlsinfaresfed path In
mnrr
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1918-12-20


she thought. Everybody knows Mar
tina II a. nice a girl as ever lived"
They needn't tell me-" said Miss
Mariette. left alone in the sitting
room, that she hasn't set her cap
for Delos Browni"
This bachelor nephew, good look
ing, Of excellent habits and POSSESSING
. comfortable fortune, seemed to his
aunt . desirable husband for hss
niece, Luella Lewis.
An hour later. therefore, as he
young man was busily training his
grape vines over q new trellis. he ~
held his caustic aunt hobbling up ~
garden path.
so you've sold the cottagef" shs
began without prsamble.
Yes. Thought might as well get
It OF my hands when had good
chance. Il was no use to me except
what garden worked"
WELL" said Aunt Maristte shortly.
"if you had taken the trouble to ask
my opinion before doing 1t, you would
have saved good many remarks!"
Delos Brown started intentionally.
His sensitive nature dreaded the
sharpness of. village gossip. Perhaps
that fact accounted for his remaining
single despite his many virtues
@Of course you must expect folks
to talk when girl takes pains. to
settle under the very caves of desir-
able bachelors house. She is brazen
thing. but wouldn't expect man to
go MI
The old Lady glanced sharply ct the
ntt1e enfe standing open n the Inc
fenoa, and smiled dlsapprovin80 -
- hooound ae0bdlk 4nnswar1
Z lGmA 60 aaAn1iaG am1A ~
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1918-12-20
Telephones in China.

That China is being modernized
faster than most of US may think 10
lfAiicated by the Increased use of. the
telephone in that vast country. It also
Is worthy Of note that although prac-
tically the whole equipment comes
from abroad and is to a considerable
extent operated by foreigners, the
prices for service are much below
those to which we are accustomed 10
this land of high Chicago
Journal.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1918-12-20

are married." cried Lucia, rusnng
In excftedly.
Well" said Aunt Mariette, compos
eddy. after one mental gasp, I've
said from the day she moved into the
Fleming cottage that this Is what
would come of III"
Copyright, 1872, by Associated Literary
Press
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-05-08
Browning Gun, Output Disappointing

bile for the failure to make good on
production promises. In reply to a
question he said the only possible al
tentative to continued failure OF. the
company to deliver would be the COM
wandering of the factory by the gov
eminent, tho that would be attended
by difficulties likely to set back pro-
duction.
Despite the refusal of the war de-
partment to use the Lewis machine
gun, the delay Of nearly a year occas-
stoned by the effort to devise a better
gun, and Secretary Bakers announce
mcnt pronouncing the Browning gun
a marvel, the government, 1t also
transpired, is now purchasing every
possible make Of machine gun in
last desperate effort to get some wea-
pom Of this character into the hands OF
the soldiers
Buy Many Makes.
In addition to the 10000 Lewis guns
to arm airplanes the war department
has now contracted for 10000 addition
al Lewis guns 12,125 Vickers. $500
Colt, 1000 Berthier, 1000 Chauchat
and 1900 Hotchkiss machine guns.
For the arming Of airplanes alone,
General Dickson said, 100000 machine
guns will be needed eventually and
this number Is included in the de-
partmental estimates for the appro-
priations in the pending army bill.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-05-08

Washington, May 7.-Disclosures in
congress that quantity production of
heavy Browning machine guns has not
begun and may not begin for months.
gave a sensational turn to the long
controversy over the adoption Of this
weapon for the American army.
Secretary Of War Baker, it appears,
has failed to make good his promise
that quantity production Of the heavy
Browning gun would be achieved by
this time, it having been estimated
that deliveries would begin with 81
900 on April 80.
Now it transpires that only a few
samples Of these guns have been
turned out and that it is likely to be
several months before it will be pos
sible to begin to equip the American
forces with this vital and imperative
weapon.
The revelations were made to the
house committee on military affairs by
Gen. Tracy c. Dickson, chief of the
arms manufacturing division of the
ordnance bureau. Committee members
who had placed implicit confidence IN
Secretary Bakers fulsome praise of
the Browning gun as the superior of
all other machine guns and in his pro-
mise Of speedy equipment of the army
with the weapon expressed astonish-
ment,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-05-08
Ames Men in War Work.

Special to Times Republican
Ames. May S.-Two prominent facul-
ty men OF Iowa State College have been
granted leaves -of<absNce to take up
positions In war service Prof Mark
G. Thornburg has gone 10 Camp john
ston, Jacksonville, Fla. where he viii
enter the special training camp for
men in the remount service. Only 50
men have been accepted for this camp
and they are all above the draft age
and experienced with horses. Pro-
fessor Vhornburg was one of two Iowa
men chosen TO enter this camp and he
will be in training for period of one
to three months.
Prof J. VIII Parry, acting head OF
the engineering extension has accepted
the position of chief assistant OF the
executive head of the training section OF
the emergency fleet corporation, The
training section provides for :a' train
ing Of the workers in the III ship
yards which are controlled by the ficct
corporation and Professor Parrys posi-
ton is one of much responsibility.