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Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-07-15
PROGRESS on Isle of Man.

On the quaint and picturesque Isle
Of Man, made famous by Hall Gaines
fiction, an ancient pump of the chain
bucket variety, built into a masonry
abument on the face of q rock cliff,
lifts its endless load of water some
eighty feet from the pool below, says
Popular Mechanics Magazine. For
many years q big steam engine Of obso-
lete form, slow and eXtravagant of
fuel, attended to the duty of turning
the chain shaft. But now the old boiler
and cylinder are gone, and in their
place & modern wind motor has been
Installed, its slim, efficient steel form
rising from the cliff top in striking, yet
not inharmoniOus, contrast with tho
primitive ruggedness that marks the
earlier work of man and nature Tha
whirling 26-foot wheel of the new mo-
tive power now is drawing up 1890
gallons Of water an hour, as an aver
age figure, and 1t is significant Of the
value of modern methods that the
saving Of fuel, no longer needed for .
hungry boiler, soon paid the cost OF
the mill
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-07-15
HUBBY AT the cOOKsTOVE
Some Excellent Reasons Advanced
Why Head Of the House Should
Know How to Prepare Food.

Cooking has been added to the cur
r1culum of male students at Pennsyl-
yania State college. Cooking is some
thing that all men should know some
thing about.
Some men should know all about it.
Particularly should married men
have the necessary knowledge so that
in the pinch they can escanop a pan
of potatoes or stir up a mess of fluffy
biscuits
There is no telling when the good
wife may be absent from home at meal
time.
AS time goes on the legitimate rea-
sons for this are growing
And what is more pleasing to the av-
erage wife than to return from the
bridge party or the polling place, a
trife late, perhaps, and worried for
fear that she'll not be able to have
dinner on the dot-what is more pleas
ing than to be greeted at the door by
the man Of the house, all uniformed
up In a long overall apron, a dab Of
-four on his beaming countenance stir
ring for dear life at q bowl of embryo
drop biscuits?
And the teakettle steaming its heart
out1
And the smell Of burning beefsteak
permeating the otherwise hopeful at
mosphere?
Man should know how to cook st
Joseph Gazette.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-07-15
SATISFIED ~vv4Fss nyLL LIyEEcc
siamese Require Little, and Have .
Government Which SEES That
They Get Il.

Bangkok, for all its modern Wqter-
works and trolley cars, is 9 fairy-taIa
land, with fatry-tale king, writes
Florence Burgess Meehan in Asia
Magazine. In Bangkok the king is y
reality, not a fgurehead Two OF
three times day whistles announce
his approach along the street as he
takes the route to or from the golden
rooted palace and the audience hall
two miles distant.
Rama VI, Oxford graduate, play
wright, poet ana keen administrator
is perhaps the most absolute Of alt the
monarchs left on earth He Is al
autocrat bur his government is more
like an advanced state socialism
than anything else The state owns
the main lines Of the railroads, the
oil fields the forests and the mines
The street cars and waterworks and
the lighting system of the capital are
state property, and the king is the
state.
Siamese are satisfied with auto
racy. Siam seems to be the happies
land in the world, 1t has. no exciu-
sion laws. 1t has no class struggle
They are a happy go-luclzy people
Their by-word is "MypenaryT' ("Wh4I
does it mattGrY) They cultivate THEN
little rice paddles, and work at Jewel
ry or ivory carving or weaving, but
they almost Invariably remain crafts
men In Il small way, content with :
mere livelihood.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-07-15
JAPANESE AVERSE TO CHANGE
idea That They Would Take Kindly
to Amcrican-BuiIt Houses Proved
to Be Wrong.

With the double hope Of business
success and social service, certain
firm in Japan some years ago began
the importation Of American-made
movable houses on a large scale. The
houses, the firm believed. would offer
very comfortable and cozy little homes
at reasonable prices to the salary-earn-
ing classes Of Nippon and would bring
about great improvement in the do
nestle life Of the Japanese.
The enterprise, well-meaning as II
undoubtedly was, turned out to be q
failure. 1t was like an everzealons
but enlightened missionary trying to
impose the dogmas Of Christianity OLE
heathens, regardless Of the latser's
Ideas, temperament and history. The
Japanese have their own customs.
modes Of living and traditions, which,
irrespective of whether they be good
or bad, are dear to their hearts and
hard to give up in fortnight. Homes
are the most basic Of institutions,
and house construction is the result
OF centuries of home life to a nation.
To try to induce the japanese to give
up their houses Immediately and dwell
IN the American-made houses is like
trying to urge them to give up all
japanese ways Of feeling, believing
and thinking, and to adopt occidental
ways Of behavior. 1t is preposter-
ous.-East and West News
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-07-15
PREPARING TURF FOR FUEL
New Method, Said to Have Originated
In Russia, May Result in Reliev-
ing Shortage.

A new method of drying turf to re-
Heve the serious fuel shortage in Fin
land has been put in operation in var-
Gus Scandinavian countries. The new
method was invented by engineers
working under orders from the Rus
sian soviet government, to find q more
labor-saving method Of preparing turf
as fuel for the great central power sta
ton near Moscow, the process being
made known in Finland through an es-
Gaping engineer. The fundamental
principle of the process is quite sim
pie. The raw turf in the swamp, by q
powerful jet of water under q pressure
OF 20 atmospheres, is freed from all
old roots and changed to thin mud.
This is pumped out on drying field
and spread in layers. When sufficient
ly dry it is cut into bricks of uniform
size by means of a tractor. The turf
pump is constructed like an ordinary
water turbine, is reversible with aid of
electric motor, is equipped with a cut
ting apparatus which completes the
work of the water jet, and can be
raised or lowered as the surface of the
mud varies. The entire equipment is
mounted on q car which can be pushed
forward or backward on rails along the
line of Work.-Scientif1c American.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-07-15
Rose Always Loved.

Thesrose has been & favorite from
earliest times. SO deep hold has it
ON the affections Of the people that
1T rs -often spoken Of as the queen of
flowers" 1t has figured in the litera-
ture .of all ages and all nations. Peo-
PIE III all stations Of life yield homage
to it's beauty of form and color and
to its. delicious fragrance. It is loved
by pc or and rich alike. 1t is grown in
the d ooryards Of the least pretentious
cottages, where often the occupants
are Stinted in food and raiment, as
we'll as on the grounds Of large es-
tateS. where abound the choicest
things that money can buy. 1t is also
grown in immense quantities under
glass and is the most popular winter
cut tlo wer for all occasions.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-07-15
WORLD NOT YET FILLED UP
There Are Many Places Where the
Lover of SOLITUDE Can Find What
He is Looking Eos.

Crowded as the world seems to be
getting, Robinson CruSoe could find
haven today. and be would not have
to resort to the polar regions, either,
Numerous islands still DOT the seas
where a visitor would find no living
soul, and there are Others where the
Inhabitants are living in almost prilni-
tive simplicity, says Il bulletin from
the Washington headquarters Of the
National Geographic society.
Nor is it necessary for you to
choose q plot of land belonging to
any other than the United States.
There is Bakers island, 3,725 miles
out from San Francisco, as Well as
many other such Isolated dots In the
Pacific, where there will be no chance
of getting even a faithful Friday to
share your lot. Vessels used to haul
guano from the island, but today the
deposits are pr1 ally worked out.
If YOU feel that y 4 must have your
wife somewhere III the offing you can
send her on to IaEy nd island, 25
miles to the westward. an equally de
serted spot and row over to see her
when you get bored with you tree
dom.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-07-15
Convicted by the Bible.

Law founded on the Bible is good
enough for Mayor Gilmore of Morgan.
town. W. Va.
A local man charged with not hay
Ing the tail light burning on his auto
mobile was arraigned before the may
or, who assessed a fine of So.
The accused protested, said 1t was
q poor law under which he was fined
and that he did not think it would hold
water in court.
The mayor declared any law found
ed on the Bible was good enough for
him. The defendant said he couldn't
see where a tail light had anything to
do with the Bible. The mayor looked
pityingiy at the accused, and said:
DO you remember the tale about
the ten virgins, five Of whom had lights
and five of whom didn't? Well, if you
do, you will remember that the Lord
wouldn't have anything TO do with the
five without lights. and neither will
this court"
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-07-15
Have You Euphoria7

It takes a doctor to give q high
sounding name to a well-known phe-
noIneron "Euphorla" means feeling
At" 1t is as much q physiological
fact as scarlet fever.
Nature makes it worth While to be
alive simply through euphoria. The
Joy Of making a good tennis stroke,
the delight that q Woodsman gets In
the open air. the artists rhapsody-alt
are due to euphoria. Why do we drink
alcohol-when we can get tor
smoke tobacco7 To effect euphoria.
When a lunatic thinks that he LIZ
Napoleon and demands the homage
due an emperor, he has euphoria In
its worst form.
Too little is known about euphorih.
Since it can be effected by drugs and
chemicals, who knows but it may have
its seat In some gland?-Populsr
Science Monthly.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-07-15
POLISH WOMEN F0UGHfWELl
Famous "B4eadc Of Death" Gave
Good Account Of Itself on
Fields of Battle.

The occasion Of the rehabilitation
Of the wonen's brigade in the Polish
army, which consisted of 5000 fight
ers, has led to the consideration Of
Its actual services during the World
war. The commander Of this death"
organization expressed some doubts
about her sex proving Of much val
ue on the firing line. but upon what
her conclusion was founded is not in
dicated. The records of the brigade
show that so woman fighters deserted
to get married. 1t may be on this
score that the commander feels that
their efficiency Is dubious.
Walving this one drawback, how
ever, the discipline and fearlessness
of these women who had prepared
themselves for active fighting are rath-
er significant In temerity and in
trepidity they probably could not be
Outclassed or perhaps eQualed by the
women Of any other country. The
actual casualties Of the brigade were
not more than 100. but even this num-
Der indicates that its members faced
considerable danger and the possibility
of death. To be able to meet an
emergency, to be equipped and drilled
for combat, and to be prepared to die
on the battlefield may not be what
should be expected Of women, nor
ways in which they can best serve, but
the brigade has shown its mettle-
Knickerbocker Press.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-07-15
Moral Forces S.

Above all it is ever TO be kept in
mind that not by material but by
moral force are men and their &C
tons governed. How noiseless is
thought. No rolling of drums, no
tramp Of squadrons, or unreasonable
tumult of baggage wagons. attends
the movement. In what obscure and
sequestered places may the head be
meditating which is one day to be
crowned with more than imperial au-
thority; for kings and emperors will
be among its ministering servants; 1t
will rule not over but in their heads,
and with these its solitary combina-
lions Of ideas, as with magic formu-
las, bend the world to its will. The
time may come when Napoleon him
self will be better known for his laws
than for his battles; and the victory
Of Waterloo prove less momentous
than the opening of the first mechan-
les observation-disclosures Carlyle.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-07-15
pinner-PIate Pennies.

Some Of the first coins were enor-
nous. the idea apparently being to dis
courage the greedy from attempting
to accumulate and carry around too
many of them There We're copper
coins as large as dinner plates. This
inconvenient style had to give way to
the demand for smaller and more con-
venient forms OF currency, and the
giant pennies soon dwindled in size to
meet the popular demand.
The earliest trace of the use Of gold
as money is to be found in the pic
lures sof the ancient Egyptians weigh
ing in scales heaps Of rings of the
precious metals But there is no actual
record that these rings were known
as COINS with a fixed value.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-07-15
National Museum Gets oDals

The National museum in Washing
ton has just received from Archie
Rice, an opal expert in New York
100 specimens Of gem opal in the
rough just as they come from the
only opal mines in the United States,
The opals are red, white blue, black,
brown, green and purple; two have
replaced fossil wood, and three pos
sibly fossil bones.
The mine is located ID Humboldt
county. Nevada, about a mile above
sea level and some 200 miles inland
from the Pacific; not very accessible,
since the railroad town of Wine
mucca is about 12Q miles away Be
cause Of the high altitude, the or
binary water content Of the opals is
often injuriously affected when they
are removed from the ground
Thus far excavation for opalS has
gone only to depth of 20 OF 80 feet,
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-07-15
NEcKTlE HALTED A ROMANCE
Lovers Who Had Been Apart fer
Forty Years Made Up When Man
Wore Woman's Present.

Forty years ago John Emmons and
Charity Timmons Of Bishopville, Del,
were twenty years old and sweet
hearts. With her own hands Miss
Iimmons made necktie as gift for
her young gallant. The evening of
the day he received it Emmons put 1t
on. He didn't like the colors and re-
placed it.
AS usual, he visited Miss Timmons
that evening, according to a Selby-
vile Oel.) dispatch to the Philadel-
phia Ledger. 1t was a nice summer
night. The moon revealed that he
was not wearing loves token and Miss
Nmmons demanded the reason.
ITS too loud" replied the youth.
DO you mean you will never wear
it? Then you don't love me-" sobbed
the girl, and she went into the house
That apparently was the end of the
romance. Emmons went to Portland,
Ore, and prospered. AS the owner of
q big department store In the far
Northwestern city, he returned to
Bishopville last Christmas for a visit.
1t was inevitable that he should
meet his former sweetheart In the vii
lage. Soon each learned that the old
love would not die; that each had con-
sidered the other the only mate and
that neither had married.
OF course. Emmons proposed. Miss
Timmons did not refuse him, but she
bought a tie as nearly like the one
that started all the trouble as she
could find Then. when he wore IT
without fiinching. she coyly murmured
yes And so they were married the
other evening.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-07-15
WEAK, NEi.sJUS,
ALL RUNDOWN
Missouri Lady Suffered Until She
Tried Cardui. Says "Result
Was Surprising Got Along
Fine, Became Normal
and Healthy.

Springfield Monty back was SO
weak / could hardly stand up, and
would have bearing-down pains and
was not we'll at any time" says Mrs.
D. V. Williams, wife of a well-known
farmer on Route 6, this place. 81
kept getting headaches and having to
go to bed" continues Mrs. Williams
describing the troubles from which
she obtained relief through the use Of
Cardui. my husband, having heard
of Cardui, proposed getting it for me.
Il saw after taking some Caro-
=. that I was improving, The resi-,
was surprising. l felt like a differen.
person.
Later I suffered from weakness
and weak back, and felt all rundown
did not rest we'll at night, | was &c
nervous and cross. My husband said
he would get me some Cardui, which
he did. 1t strengthened me . Ny
doctor said got along fine. was in
good healthy condition. cannot
say too much for it,
Thousands of women have suffered
as Mrs. Williams describes, until they
found relief from the use of Cardui.
Since Il has helped SO many, you
should not hesitate to try Cardui Il
troubled with womanly ailments.
Fur sale evexyNhere. E83
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-07-15
re ahUW OLD GRaCFruLL 7
Desirable Condition That Greatly De.
ponds on Ones HABITS Of Mind
forined in Youth

The most inevitabie--and one Of the
eaSiest-of the things We DO is to grow
old. Yet what a difference there Is In
the way different people do 1t!
You probably 1paw, for instance,
some little old lady who. although she
may not be beautiful or brilliant, is
just "nice"-which is apt to mean
that instead Of bossing or scolding. she
tries not to he troublesome or unrea-
sonable to those around her. Or rath-
er, she does not have to try. for 1t is
characteristic Of elderly human beings
that they seldom try very hard to forrr
new habits. Youth is the period of
endeaVor, and old age of results. This
is the reason for the futility of young
folks displeasure at their parents
"old-fashioned" ideas. Such ideas are
hxed; they will not change.
Yet not all elderly people are age
bound in their thoughts; many can be
tolerant Of innovations, and a few can
even adopt them Such flexible con
dition Of the elderly mind is, like the
rigid, intolerant sort, a product of
earlier life and habits; # is not likely
to indicate any particular good or
evil trait In the person possessing It,
II the young man or woman who
feels impatient ct the old folks no.
tons will cease 70 shrug a shoulder
and eXcl&im: II hope I'm not like
that when Tn Old" and Will turn his
attention to the younger generation
starting With himself, he IS likely to
do much more for human progress.
When he himself has reached the age
Of fixed Ideas his character will de
pend on his previous habits Of mind /;
If he has kept himself free from pref
udice and cocksuredness and has been
always willing to learn better ways Of
thinking and doing, ne will be likely
to remain correspondent more ration
al with advancing years. and win. IN
truth DOT be "like that" when he Is
old.--Pendleton East Oregon,an.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-07-15
MaeauIaY SiIenced Critics.

Macaulay was a victim to the habit
of reading in bed. When going the
northern circuit as a newly f1edged
harrister, an old kings counsel stay
ing in the same hotel with him no
ticed that Macaulay carefully picked
out the longest candle as the members
of the mess were retiring for the
night. He demonstrated with him."
says Sir George Treyayan, ION the
danger of reading in bed, upon which
Macauay :replied with immense rapid
ity of uttnrance: I always read In
bed at home; and if I am not afraid
Of committing paricide and natricide
and fraticMe, can hardly be expected
to pay any special regard to the lives
Of the bagmen of Leeds And. so
saying, he left his hearers staring at
one another, sand marched off to his
room"
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-07-15
Cotton Stalks viii Furnish Paoer

The possibilities of cotton stalks as
source of paper have long been sus
pected and experiments in this direc.
ton have been made, but for one rea-
son or another it has never proved
quite practical.
The nearest approach to success has
been made recently, and 1t is an
nounced that there Is a plant at
Greenwood, Mass, where so tons Of
paper are made every day from three
times that amount of stalk.
Certain thin tubular fiber In the
plant will make excellent cellulose for
durable papers. 1t is strong and fie1-
ible. If quarter Of the annual SUD-
ply of the cotton stalks of the South
were put to this use each year there
would be no need of q paper shsrtaRs
In this couutxy.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-07-15
COMMUNAL SPIRIT IN JAPAN
Writer Notes the Fact That Natives
Share Their Sneezes With strana-
ers or Street Cars

japanese DO things in public foY
which We would ostraciZe a man or
send him to the lookup. From thelF
communal sphit which tolerates bath
ing in public together they 60 to the
other extreme Of coming ont on their
balconies and clearing their threats
at five o'clock In the morning and OK
pectorating into the open cutters be-
low.
They will hold their fans before
their mouths when talking or yawning
as do we, but Will cough and sneeze
In your face on street cars. And yet
among the refined, observance of Gus
tom Is pathetically beautiful. They
come to celebrate the arrival Of the
cTerry blossoms by bringing with them
their gefsha md their children; they
move in perfect hordes; they go to the
station In masses to see off some
friend or relative and crowd the plat
forms, bowling and howine and bowling
again as though there weren't a thou
sand strangers passing before them :;
they dress undress, eat, sleep and
drink whisky by the tumblerful on the
trains-yet their inner lives are rs Sc
cret to one another as they seem to
be to the foreigner.
1t is as though from behind the
scenes-in which many people are
more interested than in the play 1t
self-the actors had come, forgetting
Il a moment Of Observation-Disclosures to
put on their makeup, or had come
upon the street, forgetting to take It
ofr,-Sydney Greenbie, in Japan, Real
and Imaginary"
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-07-15
NAPoLEoN's ONE BIG QUALITY
Great Frenchman's Fascination Lay In
His Directness, That's All,
Says n. G. Wells.

The world has largely recovered
from the mischief that Napoleon did {.
perhaps that amount of mischief had
to be done by some agency; perhaps
his career, or some such career. was
a necessary consequence Of the worlds
mental unpreparedneSs for the crisis
Of the revolution. But that his Pc
imaginations of great numbers of peo-
pie throws a light upon factors Of en-
during significance In cur human
problem.
Marat was q far more noble, per-
sistent subtle and pathetic figure:
Talleyrand a greater statesman and
much more amusing personality;
Moreau and Hocn ADLER leaders Of
armies; his rival, Gear Alexander as
egotistical, more successful, more emo
tional, and with finer imagination.
Are men dazzled simply by the scale
Of his flounderings, by the mere vast.
ness of his notoriety?
No doubt scale has something to do
with the matter; he was a record"
Hhe record plunger; but there is
something more in it than that. There
is an appeal in Napoleon to something
deeper an more fundamental in hui
man nature than mere establishment at
bigness. His very deficiencies bring
out starkly certain qualities that Turk
suppressed and hidden In US all He
was unhampered. He had never Il
CLEAN Of religion. or affection, or the
sense of duty.
Directness was his distinctive and
fmmortaliZing quality. He had no
brains to waste in secondary consider.
atoms. He flung his armies across
Europe straight at their mark, there
never were such marches before; he
fought to Win; when he struck. he
struck with all his might. And what
he wanted, he wanted simply and com
pletely and gOt-if he could
There lies his faScination.-From
1.-The Outline OF History" BY H. G.
Wells
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-07-15

a friend who had known Thomas
Riley Marshall for a great many years
saw him after the cares of office had
been removed from his shoulders, just
as he was about to board a Washing
ton street car. He stopped and asked
him:
Tell me, Mr.. Marshall, what can be
done to make the office OF vice presi-
dent Il great Officer"
I'm tell you In one minute. and /
won't even have to miss this car" said
Mr. Marshall. There isn't anything
you can do. The vice president will
always be chambermaId to the king"