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Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1919-02-14
CROW IS ENEMY OF FARMER
Under Modern Conditions There Seems
Little Reason for the Birds Con-
tinued Existence.

The record of the crow Is like its
coat-about as black as black can be
a writer in Detroit Free Press says.
II may be that in the great plan of
nature, some time In the past, the
GROW served useful purpoSe-ljke-
wise the hawk and the buzzard. Take
the buzzard. for example. Once pro-
teCted by human laws everywhere be
cause useful for removing carrion,
the stencil of which offended the nos
trilS If all animal life, ii is now out
lAWet because man realizes that Il Is
better to burn or bury the dead-leav-
iItT no excuse for the existence of the
disease-carrying huzzard. So, in the
beginning. the mission of the crow, we
may conjecture, was to preserve some
equilibrium. some balance in the econ
ony of nature. It may be he was
placed here 10 hold in check the weed
seed and grain eating birds, because
weeds were factor in the past in
covering the waste places Of the earth
and making them fertile. However
'l- may have been. there seems to be
az -. use for his existence now since
man, the agriculturist. seeds the
waste places to useful grains and
grasses ond needs the help of the in
SPctjYer0uS birds.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1919-02-14
The Indians Calendar,


The following account of how the
Indians used to keep track Of the sea-
sons Is told by veteran chief In Can
ada. The names corresponding with
the names of the months were:
April-Frog moon.
May-Sprouting of green leaves and
grass.
June-Egg (duck) moon.
July-Moulting (duck's) moon.
August-Flying (duck's) moon.
Notwithstanding of the deer.
October-Fall moon.
Novenlber-Misty moon.
December-Clear, frosty moon
Janunry-Wolf moon.
February-Eagle moon.
March-Goose moon.
Upon being asked how they kept
record Of the days In each month, the
chief replied that they always counted
20 to each month, and that 1t was an
Indians duty to keep record of them
by each morning taking a stick from
he days-to-come bundle and adding II
% the days-past bundle. Those sticks
we're carefully scraped twigs of the
pussy" Willows, which by their sill
very catkins show the first sign of the
spring season.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1919-02-14
GOLD IN NORTHERN SIBERIA
s!inety Degrees Below Zero Is Record
for the Whole World-Eighty
Above in Summer Time.

Turn up your collar, thrust your
hands to the bottom Of your pockets,
and read about the cold pole" Of
northern Siberia. where the natives
'n"ak patronizingfy about dreenland's
icy mountains and other such relative
~ halmy resorts. At the town OF Verb
'vansk, which would probably never
hove had any inhabitants If the lnse
RS government had not sent oc-
,iOnal patches Of pxiles thither. says
nUlar Science Monthly, the temper
tire has been known to drop 10 90
~-rrees below zero, which is a ''ree-
vi" fer tie whole world.
While the regions about the north
md south poles of the earth are cold
IL the time, the Siberian cold pole
ives its inhabitants q comfortable let
n in summer. when the thermometer
Guently climbs NJ into the sos
1--we zero, During the brief summer
'eason the life-givng rays of the sun.
which remains about the horizon day
nd night for some time during the
eight Of the season. exert an intense
stimulating influence upon the veg
,ation. and the ground is covered
it'll flowers.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1919-02-14
ENROLLED UNDER RED CROSS
Greek Girls, Trained Here as Nurses,
VIII Do Work Of Mercy In Their
Own Country.

Greek girls In the uniforms of
American Red Cross nurses are now
serving In the hospitals of Greece.
These girls are part of a number from
New England who, anxious to help
their fellow countrymen, decided to
become nursing aids, says the public
information bureau. Washington
They enrolled In training courses il
the Massachusetts General hosn:tu'
and other Boston hospitals, whert
they soon became proficient in theil
work. Recently four of them. VIII,
had practically completed theiy
courses, decided that they would lik,
to go back to Greece with the AnlerI
can mission which was just then abou
to leave. Through the Greek legation
they applied for permission to go with
This mission as members of the Amer.
lean Red Cross.
Now they are not MY serving their
own people. s.t are also creating .
eQe1e>> d 0cseae uhfdA cananAG ~
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1919-02-14
Early Trench Journals.

There is very long list Of these
early trench journals, the majority of
which have been collected by Mr..
Charles de La Ronciere, who has de-
posted them at the BibliotheQue Ma
tionale In Paris for the benefit Of the
future historians of the war. They In
clude lie Petit Echo du 1Se Regiment
d'infanterie territoriale, which was
very artistically edited by Corporal
Huhuet and autographed In many col
ors; L'Echo DIES Tranchies the editor
Of which was the famous short story
writer Paul Reboux and which con-
tanned articles and poems by such
writers as Poincare and Rostand,
Theodore Botrel and Henri de Reg
nier; and the Echo du Ravin, the OF.
gan of the Forty first chasseurs, which
boasted of O private wire connecting
the office with abroad-the barbed
wire reaching right up TO the trenches
Of the Boches.-Wide World Maya
gina
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1919-02-14
One of the OriainaI Jokes.


A writer telling about the outing of
the Authors guild at Florida, Mo-,
Mark Twain's birthplace, says that
The dumping frog" story was favor
lite anecdote among the stories told by
Twain's humorous uncle, John A
Quarles and that Quarles brought It
along with him from the backwoods
IF Tennessee. Some pundit dug the
same tale out of ancient Greek litern
'ure not many years ago. It Is NO
joubt impossible. but 1t would be high
" interesting to trace the lip-to-lip
Journey of the story back through thu
colonies and across the sea to the
learned clerk in Oxford or Cambridge
Who first translated 1t from classic
Greek to homely English and told II
vvef his cake and ale. Maybe It Wa
Dea Jonsoa and maybe Shakespeare
00nno1 e - aie
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1919-02-14
Merits OF Octo Der Ale.

Not the fluid of that name, but the
elixir that is in this golden October
sunshine. Influenza germs are deadly
afraid of clear, cool. snappy sunshine.
he whole outdoors IS full of it. ard
ihe Invitation to enjoy it is so urgent
and cordial t,I:if the man or woman
Aho refuses 10 accept it is only add
NJ 70 the risk that the doctors de-
rl"re everybody is assuming these epf.
'i1nic days. Nature is trying to add
compensation for the anxietics attend
ant upon contagious disease. In her
7ornucopia she has stored remedies
;hat are not only effective but pleas
ant to take. Get out of doors into the
October sunshine that has been and
Will be pouring its curative and stimu-
lating forces over the country. The
walking is fine and the landscape new
err more varied and beautiful. The
forests are CARRIED in brown, purple
and gold. The siiences are eloquent
with the slumber song Of nature. Tn,
air is a tonic for tired, taut nerves and
bodies. Get out of doors and shake
of the fears as well as the germs Of
ihsannalR1ffb4xh - nnA
~-...A--
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1919-02-14

There must be in friendship some
thing to distinguish 1t from a compan-
lon and a countryman, from a school
fellow or gossip, from sweetheart
or fellow traveller. Friendship may
look in at any one of these doors, but
II stays not anywhere till It comes to
BE the best thing in the world; and
when we consider that one man IL not
better than another, neither toward
God nor toward man, but BY doing
better and Drawer things we shall also
see that which Is most benencent IL
also most excellent; and therefore
those friendships must needs be most
perfect where the friends can b most
eseful-Jeremy Taylor.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1919-02-14
RoUsEs HENS FROM lNACTi0N
Theory az to Benefit of Use Of Arti-
fetal illumination Would Seem
to Be Plausible.

How can artificial Illumination have
any effect on egg production, is the
question being asked by some skep-
teal poultrymen who have never made
any tests.
The answer is, according to the
workers in poultry husbandry at the
New York state college of agriculture,
that the light appears to equalize the
time between meals and to shorten the
period of inactivity Of the fowls dur
ing the long nights.
The long nights Of the late fall and
winter months apparently cause the
fowls to use a larger proportion of
the night feed for bodily needs than
would be the case under normal con-
ditions In the springtime, when the
days and the nights are OF practically
equal length.
At the time of the year when fowls
lay the most eggs in New York state
the months of April, May and June
the days and the nights are approx
mately Of equal length. Under these
conditions, fowls appear to assfmilate
their feed, secure the proper amount
of exercise, and form their eggs to best
advantage.
The latter part Of December there
are about fifteen hours of darkness and
nine hours of daylight, whereas in the
latter part of June the reverse is true
there are approximately fifteen hours
of daylight and nine hours Of darkness.
In other words. Illumination at
tenlpts TO initiate spring conditions so
far as the hours of activity and the
regulation OF feed supply are con-
cerned.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1919-02-14

We do not think OF NJ Clemenceau
as the sort of man on whom practical
jokes would be played, yet he was the
victim of an elaborate jest some
While agO-in pre-War times, needless
to say-and he accepted the position
with commenl0ble grace.
A number Of Parisians received be-
gus invitations to dine at the pre-
mier's house. Some were total
strangers, and their grateful accept
ance nlystiied NJ Clemenceau until
he realized the hoax.
He did not pat them off. He or
dered the dinner and gave his guests
a pleasant evening. Not until the
evening was drawing to 4 close did he
inform them that their invitations had
been sent out by some one Of whose
identity he had not the remotest
knowledge
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1919-02-14
a Matter Of Distances.

Why did Homer call the Dardanelles
broad" or "bonndless." although a!
the point where Leander and Byros
swan it the breadth Is barely a mtlel
Byrons comment is very neat: Ihe
wrangling about the epithet. the broad
aellespont. Or the 'boundless Helles
pont,' whether 1t means one or the
other. or what it means at ali. has been
beyond all possibility of detail l have
even heard it disputed on the spot and.
DOT foreseeing a speedy conclusion tt
The controversy, amused myself With
swimming across 1t In the meantime
and probably may again before the
point Is settled . Probably Ho-
mer had the same notion of distance
that q coquette has OF time. and when
he talks Of boundless means half Q
mile. IN the latter. BY q ike ngure.
when she says eternal attachment
simply specifies thres weekA.-Londcn
0psetatoe-
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1919-02-14
Power Of Mind Over Rndu

The true physician will utilize pow
'r OF the mind over the body. August
Comte has said that doctors who bear
In mind only the animal side of hu-
man nature should conf1ne their prac,
ice TO animals-they should become
teterinary surgeons. AT the same
iime, let US avoid falling into the other
extreme. To say that "all is mind"
Is as wrong as to deny the influence
IF the mind over the body Man has
both body and mind-5rain and Drawn,
Let us recognize and utilize both. in
striving to achieve n high grade Of eff
'f'icncy, for In no other way NAV this
h' done. In short. let Us avoid ex.
zones. That seems. for many, to be
the most difficult of all things.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1919-02-14
ONE LESSON TAUGHT BY WAR
SCENE Certain That Soldiers VIII
Spread knowledge Of the Value
Of Outdoor Living.

Most of us are already planning
What we shall DO when the boys
come homer
They have been away so long, on
such dangerous heroic mission, that
when they come back we will love
them more and treat them better than
ever before. We will appreciate them
and take more time from our fool
sh hurryings for love and comrade-
ship. We will spend more time enjoy.
ng the human companionship Of the
boys and each other.
But if We spend more time with
hem We'll have to spend it out of
ioors-for they won't stay in the
house to play!
The men in the army and navy,
'lrawn from the cooped-up places OF
modern social and industrial life, have
suddenly been taught the uses and de
lights of plain, everyday fresh air.
They like it so we'll that they won't
be content with any other kind. They
have learned what 1t is to sleep under
the stars-a joy once reserved to
tramps and poets. They have watched
the exuberant glory and triumph of
rosy sunrise and learned the solemn
beauty of creeping twilights.
"In Flanders fields where peoples
grow they have learned a new and
mighty language of the common grass
and flowers, and thrill to the song of
the lark that braves the battlehelds
as they never thrilled to solemn or
gan tones.
A day in June or October is more
to them than q square on the calen.
dar. 1t is a God-given time Of sun
and air, and work and play, and
friendship and service-a glorious
period of full use of mind and soul
and body-for splendor of living IN
guessed In the old cooped-up life OF
indoors.
The soldiers have learned that out
doors is not just an interlude between
work and home and amusement Out
doors is freedom and health and hap.
piness-and If we want to work and
play with them hereafter we too shall
have to follow them out-of-doors.-
Chicago Evening Post
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1919-02-14
WOMEN or SHAKESPEARE
Danish Critic Interestingly Sums Up
Joys and Sorrows Of Many Char.
acters OF Noted Writer.

An interesting commentary upon the
women Of Shakespeare has been COM
piled by DR.. George Brandes, the Dan
ish critic. He sums up their Joys and
sorrows, their virtues and frailties. as
follows:
Katharine, flaming Of the Shrew:"
High-spirited, sef-willed, but lovable.
'eatrice, "Much Ado About Nothing"
High intellect. combative. energetic
Garingly v:tty. Rosalind, "As You
Like IT." Gay without a sting, sensi
tive and intelligent; loving passion
FraIv and being passionately loved
Viola Twelfth Night" Sound Of un-
derstandng emotional deep and pa
tlent. with great power of passive love.
Lady Macbeth, Macbeth :" Wicked
even to the point of brutality under
stress Of passionate love and great am
bition. Portia, Merchant of Venice"
Thoroughly genuine. almost masculine
vet most wc!lanly IN power of self
surrender. Helena. Loves Labor
Lost: :" IIigh-souled type Of loving and
cruelty m0irrHatld woman.
Tamora. "Iitrs Andronicus:" Power
fnl intellect. defiant of morality. Juliet
'Romeo and Juliet" Passionate love,
yet under control of principle Cor
della, King Lear" Filial love. kind
ness of heart. Cleopatra, Anthony and
Cleopatra :" Ouintessentially erotic
emotion chemically free from all other
Clements. Mariana. "Pericles:" No
hility Of character Isabel, Measure
for Measure" Srot'ess purity Of soul.
1-.oeea. "Cymheline:" Born for happi-
ness Injured to suffering. calm, cob
X cted. Hernione. winters Tale"
REALISTICALLY lovahle, grand and graz
c, Us simplicity Ophelia, Hamlet"
Unohtrusive affection, devotion even to
insanity. Miranda. Tempest" All
that is admirable In woman maidenly,
Immaculate, Desdemona, "Qt!clio:"
Victim of jealousy.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1919-02-14
Net EASY TO "cet of the Earth "

So great Is the power of gravitation
that man is practically prisoner upon
the earth's surface, even the aNiator
who temporarily escapes to a height of
2Orh0 feet or more. Yet q human be-
Ing might leave 1t forever. If he made
his departure at sufficient speed to
overcome the weight of the ball upon
which We live, 7,0O00O0,00O ,OO0, 900,
100000 tons.
The muzzIe velocity Of shell from
the most powerful cannon IS about g.,
900 feet per second, but this proiectle
will fall to the ground after traversing
few miles. SO its speed would have
10 be greatly exceeded by the individu,
al desiring to penetrate into space.
If a protectile could be fired at a
rate of 10000 feet per second. writes
Charles Nevers Holmes in Popular Sci
ence Monthly. ii would probably never
fall TO the surface.
When science makes possible an mi
ttal velocity of $1,000 feet a second,
about seven miles then n proicctile
would burst through the attraction Of
our planet and rush on into trackless
space.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1919-02-14
APES SUFFER IN CAPTIVITY
eor'''as' Taken From Their Native
Haunts' Speedily Die From Pure
Lack Of companlonship.

ANY sympathy that a soft-hearted
person has for captive gorillas is not
misplaced" says Miss Ellen velytn In
From Jungle to Zoo"
Many gorillas have been captiyes.
out IN spite Of the greatest care few
nave lived more than q comparatively
short time. There seems to be no par
ucuiar ailment from which they suf-
ier-nothing except intense home or
neaft sickness. They grfeve them
selves to death.
AN the anthropoid or manl,ke
apes such as gorillas. orans-outangs
ma chimpanzees. are extremely sen.
1uvs 70 surroundings and environ
ments. In order to keep these big
apes In good health It IL absolutely
necessary to give them plenty Of com.
pany, either Of their own kind ar Of
men-enythins, IN fact. to relieve the
seoium Of captivity. which they un-
ocootedly feel. When a chimpanzee
80 . new companion he goes into
e Widest state Of excitement: h
humps the floor and walls scampers
round his cage, and screams vith d.
Light" w" y"
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1919-02-14
SET RECORD FOR BUILDING
New York University Put Up Eight
Largo Buildings for Soldiers In
Thirteen Days.

New York university set record
In finishing an army barracks building
for the new students army training
corps in six days, says the New York
Tribune. This building was the first
Of a group Of eight needed for the
newly indicted soldiers at the univer-
sity. The entire group was completed
in Ii days from the time the work
was started. Prof. Collins P. Bliss,
head Of the department of mechanical
engineering at the university, super
vised this rush job Of construction, the
university authorities having contract
ed for the erection Of the barracks as
soon as 1t was learned that New York
university would become an 8. A. I.
G. camp.
The buildings are completely sealed
so they can be kept comfortably heat
ed by the big cantonment stoves.
There are double floors throughout,
there Is double sheathing on the out
side, and the walls are sealed inside.
Each barracks conforms to the arm!
plan of 43 by 12O feet dimensions.
In the mess hall 1000 men are fed in
two shifts. High pressure steam cook
ers are used. There are gas and coal
ranges, steam tables on which to keep
the food hot, and some kettles three
feet in diameter. A dishwaSher oper-
ated by steam cleans 5000 dishes an
hour.
One of the universities graduate en-
gineers-John Lowry. Jr.-was respon
sible for the rapid erection of the bar
racks. Being engaged extensively in
government work, he was able to
throw in large force of men, trans
ferred from other government work
that was finished.
The site of the first barracks was
surveyed and staked and posts were
set III concrete in one day
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1919-02-14
Hawk Works Hard for IIvI,,o

Hawk Works Hard for Living.
The hawk is a successful fisherman,
and were its task done with the catch.
Ing Of fish its lot would be an en-
viable one. But live fish is not de.
Eirable as the piece de resistance of q
hawk dinner, so the bird that catches
one always flies around until the fish
is dead. This, we are told, is the in
variable practice.
Sometimes fish expires quickly,
While at other times hawk must fly
around for hours before it can return
home to the waiting family. There
have been times when the fish have dis
pared stamina greater than the birds.
;, rs may explain why hawks seldom
pcunce on the croaker, most tenacious
of life Of ali ASH in the waters round.
about.
There is q Weli-attested Instance of
O hawk which started to fly around
with eroaker 1t had caught and, after
tapping about a whole afternoon and
half q night. fell exhausted on the
beach. Fishermen who were attract
ed ~ ths tlnsqal occurrence found
IT, hswk - 1klis IL croaker, fsst
r ~ ~ - - ~ efnlzsk
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1919-02-14
PLY ,icaf COURAGE.

Physical courage Is a common at
tribute of the male sex. in men and
animals. 1t is displayed to the highest
degree In the mother defending her
young. when 1.-The female of her spe-
eies Is more deadly than the male"
Physical cowardice is uncommon.
Physical courage depends much on
the size of the heart, therefore Is not
within the control Of person.
Moral courage Is superior to physi-
cal courage-although man may
have both. Often, 1t needs more cour-
age FOR young man to say mo !"
than for him to charge a trench.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1919-02-14
VIII Not Read Bible In Schools

he Atlanta board of education at a
r"t''nt regular meeting reversed it's ac-
t!'n which ordered the reading of the
b'bIe and repeating the Lords prayer
in the public schools of the city. This
action was taken by the board after
having heard read the address of the
late Senator Joseph E. Brown. war
governor of Georgia and the first
president Of the Atlanta board of edu-
cation. which was delivered In 1873,
and in which the Georgia senator de-
livered an argument against enforcing
the use Of the Bible in the schools.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1919-02-14


William EerSchel ''expIorer Of the
'8rers," discover, ! the planet IRA
.''s l37 years ago, Vt first he was not
rta:I that the strange star was a
'anet- hut subsequent observations by
'nSe!f and ether astronomers proved
at such was the Csc. Htrschel car
i on his Astronomical lahors under
patronage e George III and named
20 planet Georgium SiliS in honor of
h" English monarch. Other English
astronomers refused to accept this Ges-
-naten ana called the planet Her
bel. after the diScoverer Continental
"ientists insisted that the ole myth
'"~ical system should he followed.
III this plan was adopted the name
Janus. suggested by Todo, being now
rcepttd by all the sciet-ifc world.
Tie planet Neptune was discovered In
1915.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1919-02-14
To.kyW.

II Ia remarkable how many persona
some Of whom may lay claim to edu-
cation and familiarity with Japan. per
sist In misspelling the name OF japan
capital OF course If government ON
cials and western diplomats In Japan
insist on spelling it To-h-o, western
people, ignorant Of the japanese ian
cuage. cannot be blamed for pronounc-
ing 1t in three syllables CTo-keeyo''
much to the amused disgust Of the Jap
nnese. The Japanese tdeograpns are
only two and are best represented Ds
the two romaji syllables Tokyo, pro
nounced with a very slight emphasis
On the first syllable.-Japan Magazine
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1919-02-14
More Americans In China

Foreign firms and the foreign popu-
l2tion OF China are increasing percep-
tlbly. The American population in
creased in 1917 by 10 per cent over the
previous year, and American firms
from ISL to PIG; japanese advanced
from 104,275 persons to IA. 492 and
the number Of japanese firms in
creased during the year by 900; the
Russian population decreased by g.,
925, but firms increased by 1892; the
British population decreased, but Brit
iSh firms increased by II. There was
n total increase over 1916 of 34,S72 In
the foreign population OF China last
year and of 2331 firms.