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Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1918-12-27

tnat simply because You arrernpr some
thing beyond you some mysterious
power is going to pull you through.
The New Year will be full of chal-
lenges and for that reason I want you
to take stock and be ready for the test.
ing when it comes.
THERE'S nothing like knoa0i,tg srhot you
dare expect of yourself.
It's just as foolish to attempt jobs
too big for you as 1t Is to be afraid
of what you can do easily. There are
some organizations that put on cam
paigns these days to help people find
themselves. If you want the same
results without the publicity go after
your own case and don't be too easy
with the subject. The coming year
will be full of great opportunities and
you won't know what to do when they
come unless you take stock in advance.
To be sure some lucky turn of for
tunes wheel may put you in a high
place, but you are far more likely to
stay at the top If you rise by merit.
Yoa oaUe yourself and your friends
vOET OeSE TetOTC JOY me coming year.
1t should be a matter of satisfaction
to know that you have the ability to
do big things. It's equally important
to know. your weakness If you should
be confronted with big things. In any
case failure does not add to your
credit. Many of life's failures could
be avoided if men would only take
stock. This Is business, and you
should not shirk 1t If you want to sue
coed. Rise to power and criticism
go together. You will escape most Of
the latter if you take time to find
yourself and fit yourself for being
your best. Take stock before others
take it for you and corrections are
too late.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1918-12-27

TO pray, Forgive US our treSpasseS as
we forgive those who trespass against
us?" We only mean that perfectness,
in the sense of a ripeness for the
sickle, which comes in the lives of
some as If crown of glory had been
vouchsafed to them even before they
passed into the unseen.
And so may it be with some of you.
Though now your pruning. your dig
ging, and perhaps your growing days
are over, yet the quiet but potent rays
of divine grace are accomplishing a
maturity in your experience, so that
your Christian life never will have
been so attractive as in the hour that
you depart hence. eve all do fade as
leaf, but the fall Of you, We glory
crowned ones, is to be illumined by
the grandeur of an autumnal sunset.
God bless you, aged brethren! God
bless you, young and old, rich and
poor, saint and sinner! May you have
a Happy New Year" in the highest
and truest sense. "Happy> is the peo-
pie whose God is the Lord" Accept
him, serve him, wait for him. 1t is
only as we stand in such relationship
to him that, after employing the psalm
lists question, "And now, Lord, what
wait fOr?' we can confidently apply
the consolation in his words that fol-
low, "My hope is In thee"
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1918-12-27
A Woman's Beauty,

= There was once movie queen who
had ears that stuck out like door
knobs. Likewise in a moment of an
GER a jealous husband bit q piece out
II one of them. Did it leave her a
hroken-hearted wreck on the shoals of
aeauty? 1t did not. She forthwith
did her hair up In a cute way that COW
cred her ears completely from the
critical gaze Of the public. Now every
woman in the world is wearing her
hair the same way. The bovines and
the Ratchet faces are all In the same
class. The girl whose greatest physical
charm was her little. pink. shell-like
ears now has them buried meath q
whirligig of hair. The fashion makes
most women ugly,s but. they are. still
in fashion. Women are said to be
quite clever, but a lot Of them never
learn how to do up their own hair 10
adyantage.-Loss Angeles Times .
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1918-12-27


He shifted again, uttered satisfied
grunt, and, Selling it in his powerful
jaws, shook it.
"Whoop. a fruit cake!" yelled
watchful soldier, and grasped 1t as IL
rolled to the ground. "Hurrahl"
Some knitted socks and a dozen lit
tie packages tied up with ribbon. fell
out of the shattered receptacle. Dale
uttered a sharp gasps Among them
was a letter. He snatched it up and.
afiush and quivering. secreted It In his
pocket quickly. - -
But not for long. When he had d.
vided the cake among his importunate
comrades and gathered up the num-
berless mementoes from home. he got
to his tent speedily. BE opened the
precious missive, his eyes sparkled, he
kissed it fervently and his face fairly
shone. .o,s sa-
What wild, riotous, fun-producing
New Years day! Old Bruin did him.
self proud, and Dale never sang the
patriotic songs apportioned him on the
program SO thrillingly.
Il say" observed Roy Quizzically as
the day waned, you've acted like some
wild schoolboy!"
treason tor cried Dale fervently,
and his heart beat faster against the
cherished missive lying next to it
the letter from Winnie saying: Il have
always loved you, and. though halt
the world separates us, love you now
more than everw
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1918-12-27
Old Xalenciennea.

"The town of lace" wrote William
Of Orange to the Estates on the 18th
of April. 1877, sis lost to US. We are
very sorry TO be obliged to tell your
high mightinesses that 1t has not pleas
ed God to bless on this occasion the
arms Of the state under our guidance"
But lace is no longer made In Vaien-
ciennes, the capital of an arrondisse-
ment in the department Of the Nord,
and a fortress of the second class But
II is nevertheless a quaint town, with
sufficient seventeenth century houses
to give 1t q medieval appearance. The
handsome Hotel de Vile is also largely
seventeenth century work, and before
the war contained large collection OK
tapestries and of paintings, especially
of the Flemish school. The city also
possessed an academy of sculpture and
painting, museum of natural MIS-
tory, q lycee and an arsenal.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1918-12-27
Merits of October Ale.

Not the fluid of that name, bur the
elixir that is in this golden OCTOBER
sunshine. Influenza germs are deauiy
afraid of clear, cool, snappy sunshine.
The whole outdoors is full OF IT, anu
the invitation to enjoy 1t is 80 urgeh'
and cordial that the man or woman
who refuses to accept 1t is only aoo-
ing TO the risk that the doctors de-
clare everybody is assuming these epi-
demic days. Nature is trying TO aoo
compensation for the anxieties atteno-
ant upon contagious disease. In ner
cornucopia she has stored remedles
that are not only effective but pleas
ant to take. Get out of doors into the
October sunshine that has been anu
will be pouring its curative aud sulnu-
lating forces over the country. Inc
walking Is fine and the landscape new
or more varied and beautiful. The
forests are CARRIED in brown, purple
and gold. The silences are eloquent
with the slumber song of nature. Inc
air is a tonic for tired, taut nerves ana
bodies. Get out OF doors and shake
off the fears as well as the germs OF
influenza Gazette-Times.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1918-12-27
The Old Year
and the New

NE Old Year sat beside the hearth,
In thoughtful mood: the hour was late:
And ere he vanished from the earth,
The past he fain would contemplate.
i'1 brought wealth Of Joy for those
Who had oerburdened been with grief.s
-Ia said, land for unnumbered woes
Furnished the cordial of relief.
10 some.I gave a gardens bloom,
Sweet pansies and forget-me-nots:
To some the cypress and the tomb.
The baroness OF desert spots.
Nth love tarried for q while
.5raathing the sweet Elysian air:
s-nd bidding Hope serenely smile
Across the threshold of Despair.
- entered on my natal hour
Burdened alike with bliss and bane.
Commissioned by my Lord to dover
Some hearts with case, and some with
pain.
Where happiness had rich increase;
: shall be henored long, l know;
But those 1 robbed of jog and peace
they will be glad to have me go!
i've followed many a bridal train;
Have watched by many a lonely bier.
With birth ard death, with loss and gain.
Made up the record of the year.
And now beside ~December's gate
Where hangs the years aiarun1 bell,
/ Pause TO scan the past and wait
The sound of my own funeral knell.
"One,-How the hours have slipped away!
Two!-Some will weep with sore re-
greet:
Threei-Could still on earth delay
Four!-Some good I might accomplish
yet.
Five,-An angelic song awoke!
Six,-Surely are the letters riven.
Seyen,-Soon shall hear the final stroke
.-:sht!-chime sweetly with the clock Of
heaveni
Ntnet-I am nearer to my goal!
Teni-Time must eternity begin!
Eleven!-Awake, immortal soul!
Tweive.-Farewell! and let the New Year
M"
est come the Old Years debts to pay!
I come his promises to keep:
TO walk upon the worlds highway,
And deck the grave where dear ones
sleep.
Where he gave smiles I may give tears,
Lies path with good or i'll bestrew;
For unto him who views the years
The new Is. old, the old is newt"
Josephine Pollard.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1918-12-27
How Banana Grows.

What most people regard a. the top
of bunch Of bananas Is TIA bottom.
IN the stores the bananass hang bottom
side up. the way they Grow; TIE
lunches on each stalk are called hands,
the hands grow alternately ,ou@ the
stalk, the hands that number odd nun.
ers are on one side Of the stalk 40
hose that number even numbers or
ne opposite side and on q full stalk
the number Of bananas TO hand can
be definitely computed, as the number
Of bananas In hand contains one
less than the previous hand. this be.
ing invariably true. A section Of
banana divides naturally Into three
pieces shaped like q piece Of pie. Ma.
tives of banana growing countries al
ways scrape the Ineilly coating OF the
ounana before eating II.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1918-12-27
Made Truck Driver Smile

A Yankee truck drivers right for
ward wheel had Just sunk with an air
Of fnality into half-filled shell hole
on the road near Avocourt, and he was
throwing over a terrific barrage Of pro-
family when he suddenly stopped short
and his jaw dropped
Then It closed in grin as broad as
the Sacramento, from whose distant
shore he had gone forth to war. He
was contemplating the approach along
the roadside Of four stalwart and Inn
posing officers of the famous Prussian
guard On their shoulders as they
marched along in the drilling rain,
was stretcher, and on the stretcher
lay a wounded doughboy smoking
ciearette.-Stars and Stripes.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1918-12-27
ANOTHER LEAF

Within LIES book another leaf is turned:
Today we face new and untried year.
It's secrets and its purpose all unguessed.
No hand may lift the veil that hides from US
Success or failure, and no feet save ours
May tread our pathway do our several tasks.
We step into the New Years outst1etched arms.
And wonder if with all her Turing charms
Truer she'll prove than one we leave behind
What we have gained from wrestling with defeat
Mayhap will give us strength new foes to meet
Defeat and failure, or joys magic spell.
To each or all the new year holds in store
We reach our hands in welcome. for we know
Our tuest blessings from our failures grow,
And that our share of happiness will be
What we acquire through self-mastery.
Form Journal
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1918-12-27
SEEKING SECRETS or ARCTIC
Daring Feats That Haze Been Under
taken by Both RcaId Amundssn
and Storkef Storkerson.

Two Arctic explorers, Road Amund-
sen, noted Norwegian, drifting In his
ieelocked boat eastward from the At
lantic, and Storker Storkerson, leu
tenant Of Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Ca
madam explorer, floating westward
from the Pacific on an ice pack, are
both believed approaching the new 81
berian islands, which jut out OF the
Arctic ocean off the mouth OF the
Lena river in Siberia. Authorities
credited with knowing the Arctic cur
rents believe the two will reach the is
lands early next year, the Washington
Evening Sar says.
No other explorers are now in the
Arctic, and 1t is thought very likely
that neither Amundsen nor Stork erson
knows the other has the same sal In
mind. They probably will not meet,
for Storkerson is expected to arrive
ahead of Amundsen and probably will
land far west of Amundsen's course.
Amundsen, the discoverer OF the
south pole and navigator of the dill
cult Northwest passage, is on the first
lap of journey to the north pole. He
expects to make the last lap by air
plane. Storkerson Is bound back in the
general direction of civilization after
spending several years in the Arctic
Both are seeking new lands and study
ing the currents and life Of the north
crn ocean.
When Amundsen reaches the Siberi
an islands the current, 1t is believed
viii turn and carry him north He If
expected to remain with the drift until
1t lands him on the immovable ice fa1
up toward the pole. There, according
to his plans, he will establish bass
and attempt to fly the rest of the dis
lance to the top Of the globe.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1918-12-27
Only TODAY Is Ours,

The opening of the year is every
body's birthday. God has let US share
his work. God has gifts for days to
come. We may send our thoughts back
through the ways of memory; we must
send them forth through opening paths
of faith and hope. The past will come
no more, but today is ours and tomor-
row is in the hands of everybody
birthday, then, bring joy and courage
May Gods spirit help us, each and ev.
eryone, to walk with God and spend a
joyful year in the service of his King
dom.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1918-12-27
Blind Potters.

The new lighthouse" at Sayres,
where the famous potteries of the
French government are situated, Is ex-
pected to prove one of the most useful
methods of re-educating the blinded
soldiers. Making pottery is one Of the
occupations In which the blind may
become adept, and, although the Sevres
lighthouse has been In existence only
II short while. eight blinded men have
already been graduated from the mod
cling class into the government shops.
The French government has appor-
toned some land to the committee on
the grounds of the Sevres potteries,
on which it is about to build a training
school for blind potters, who will be
graduated from there to other FAC
tnr1na
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1918-12-27
Mystic Shrine.

The Ancient and Arabic Order Of the
Mobiles of the Mystic Shrine was found
ed 1,400 years ago at Mecca, Arabia.
The modern order is Of comparatively
recent origin. It was founded at New
York In 1871 by William ]. Florence,
the actor. 1t contains legend as to
Arabic origin and on its affairs rest
copies of the Bible and the Koran. The
Mystic Shrfners are an entirely sepa-
rate organization from the Masonic or
der. However, one of the provisions
Of membership is that the applicant
must be either Scottish Rite Mason.
that Is to say. Mason Of the thirty
second degree. or member Of the or
~ = KnlElfs 1lHplD /.
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~ Another twelvemonth has
almost gone, and we are
yet in the land Of the living. If we
give this serious consideration, we
must regard it as remarkable. Some
think death the strangest wonder of
human history, but is not life stran-
ger? When we reflect upon our frame,
and the shocks of life it must endure,
must we not exclaim with Young,
Strange that a harp Of thousand strings
Should keep In tune so long!
Is it to be wondered at if, like
David, we too should put the question,
"What wait for?" The mystery of
being here is not profounder than the
mystery of staying here. Let US ask
God the question. The psalmist felt
he could not trust his own conclusions,
and SO he said, Lord, what wait
forY
1t may be you are waiting to be
saved. God is not willing that any
should perish, but that all should
come to repentance and live.
20 Ephraim, how can give thee up,
how shall I leave thee, Judah?" Be
hold him weeping over the Holy City,
20 Jerusalem, how often would l have
gathered thy children together, as q
hen gathereth her brood under hel
wings, and We would not !" He is so
pleading with some of you today. Tc
go back no farther than the past year,
has there been no sermon, no invitation
or warning, no supplication or exhorta.
ton, that has appealed to your intelli
gence, or moved your emotions, plead
Ing with you to accept Christ? Have
you lost no friend or neighbor by death
during that period? Have you had no
escape from bodily peril or no illness
to remind you Of the uncertainty of
iife7 Can You cOnscientiOusly say that
IN all these respects God has left you
alone7 ,,..,,,,,,.e.-
1t may be you are waiting to bear
fruit. You are, by the grace of God,
already saved. let US suppose. But for
what purpose were you saved? Since
God loves you nth love that pass
eth knowledge" and since ito depart
and be with Christ were far better
than to remain here-why did he not
call you to himself at your conversion!
Why are you here instead of enjoying
your Redeemer's presence? There
must be some reason. Eye have not
chosen me-" said Christ, ''but have
chosen you, and ordained you, that We
should go and bring forth fruit, and
that your fruit should remain" May
1t be to give you another opportunity
to glorffy his father by bearing fruit,
that you are still here?
1t may be you are waiting TO be
perfected. ought to explain this. be-
cause there is sense In which every
true Christian is perfected the moment
he accepts Christ as his Savior. He
Is perfected In that he is both justified
and sanetified; his sin is put away, and
by the Holy Spirit he himself is set
apart for God forever. The New Tes-
lament is very clear on this; notice
Paurs words in his epistle to the Co
iossians, for example.
What, then. do we mean by saving
we may be waiting to be perfectedf
Do we mean the attainment of a state
OF sinlessness this side of heaven? No:
for II a Christian lived to be as old as
AGefhDsa1ah would be mt stin rennire
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1918-12-27
GIuantic Punch Sowl.

The largest punch bowl ever used
was at q party given at Alicant by Ad-
miral Edward Russell In 1894, when q
marble fountain was converted for the
occasion into a punch bowl. The in
gradients used In brewing the punch
included four hogsheads Of brandy.
one pipe" Of Malaga wine, 20 gallons
of lime juice, $500 lemons, 1900
pounds of white sugar, FIVE pounds Of
grated nutmeg, 800 toasted biscuits and
eight hogsheads Of water. A boy In a
boat filed the cups of the 5000 per-
SONS who partook Of the contents Of
the mighty punch bowl.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1918-12-27
THE DEATH OF THE OLD YEAR.

Full knee-deep lies the winter snow.
And the winter winds are YEARLY sigh
ing:
Toll We the church bell sad and slow,
And tread softly, and speak low,
For the Old Year lies a-dying.
Old Year, you must not die; x
You came to US SO readily, -
You lived with US SO steadily, ~
Old Year. you shall not die.
His face is growing sharp and thin, 8.
Alack! our friend is gone.
Close up his eyes; tie up his chin;
Step from the corpse and let him In i
That standeth there alone.
And waiteth at the door,
There's a new foot on the floor, ny
friend.
And a new face at the door, my friend,
\ new face at the door.
Alfred Tennvsou.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1918-12-27

tillery at the front Somewhere in
France"
"Oh, brought in a captive" was his
careless reply. Ran into the skulker,
marched him into camp and left him in
the guard house. Any letters?'
Mary q letter. They say the mall
packs here ars. four days overdue, but
they're rushing holiday stuff to the
camps"
Dale Webster sighed and his face
grew wistful. 1--WE been expecting one
letter particularly. You're my friend,
Row"
AFTER your carrying me on your
back half dead across the worst part
OF No Mans Land, with the Boches
plugging away for keeps, guess sol"
"And you remember Winnie Traskr
''As a memory sweet and fragrant
as a field of daisies."
well, one night in a dugout just
couldn't help but write her way back
home there what ought to have said
to her before we left. Three months,
and no word. I fancy was too pre-
sum ptuous. If l knew that Winnie was
caring for me, thinking of me, at home,
I'd never get lonesome, I'd fight double
to get this mix-up over and back to
her-bless her"
Don't lose hope" encouraged Roy
Barley. Zone of the fellows just got
letter written by his sweetheart last
September. 1t has been chasing him
all over the frontier. About your pris-
oner-make you any trouble?"
Not bit of it declared Dale in q
spirited way. "The bear"
The bearl' repeated Roy in won
derment.
"Oh. forgot to tell you that my
catch was a bear" spoke Dale. II
came across him curled up In a pit, q.
performing bear. strayed from some
mountebank master in one of the bonn.
barded villages. Soon as he saw me
he acted frightened and humble. and
when I patted him uttered jolly
growl, turned somersault and stood
on his head"
you don't mean It'll"
Come, Ill snow yOu.
Dale led the way to the guardhouse,
Outside Of it was gathered noisy
group. Halt way up the dagpole was
a great shaggy monster who cleyeRly
reversed himself, slid to earth, turned
. dozen graceful somersaults and
walked around On his hind feet
-Oh. wen put him on our vaude
,Sille program q the one leading a.
traction tomorrow I" voted a dozen oh.
servers. "Whats the VOW I" as cheer.
ing echoed from the Other. end Of, the
encAmpment. From q dust-covered.
battered automobile two men were
throwing OF packages.
"Belated mali announced the
driver. Section A. Throw OF the
plumber. men, and you hungry fellows
grab and distribute"
Boxes, packages, tied-up bundles Of
newspapers and letters passed from
hand to hand. Roy BARLEY was most
active in the work Of sorting out the
heterogeneous mass.
Something for you. Dale, he called.
poising square box before hurting 1t.
II say" inspecting the marks on the
box" It's been mp and down the whole
battle line"
"See II there Isn't a letter." directed
Dale, placing the box beside a tent,
and his eyes we're eager and hopeeRL
O0ubtle1s the box held remembrance
1Ho0 Domo home aSUan but - -
oGlulrI lHQQl111ng 80 -
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Isisllir1g Hun All Ehrry
Sarrraa fur a prusprrults
ann 9appy Nrm uear
"rd Hate to See You Flight"

Sergeant R. F. Eddy, Sixteenth en-
gineers. said In letter received by
his father. Frank NJ. Eddy, that foot
ball game between the engineers and
the medical corps, recently played In
France, was one Of the wickedest he
had ever witnessed. Both sides were
out for blood, and the fact that no one
was injured he attributed to the hard
ened condition of the players, sea-
soned by many months Of severe train
ing.
About five thousand French soldiers
witnessed the game, and afterward
one Poilu said to Sergeant Eddy: IF
that is what you Yankees call play,
I'd hate to see you fight."-St. Paul
Pioneer Press. s.,,
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Neutrality That Counts.

CompanionshIp, business co-opera-
ton and home discipline and happi-
ness depend upon neutrality that
snows when to refrain, withhold. sub
init and even TO submerge ones Ideas
and personality for the sake Of let.
ting otherwise drab, uninteresting peo-
pie or subjects come out In the clear
light.
But let US not permit our neutrality
to make US so Indifferent and inatten-
tive to faults or errors Of indiscretion
that we cannot voice some protest
helpful to delinquent warning factions,
whethsg 4 BE- n the isQne - = -
49, 100000 O01a
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New Years at
the Front
By
Saidee Estelle Balcom

ELL, what have you
done for your country
today?p
1t was the eve of
the new year and Dale
Webster, hailed by a
companion S oldf e r,
threw his knapsack
within their tent just
behind the, heavy ar.