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New Britain herald., 1921-01-21

The originals of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States are kept in the state department library, in this thin safe which experts say wouldn't stand a fire for 20 minutes. It isn't even waterproof. For years congress has ignored annually, a request for $20,- 900 to buy a safe that's safe. Such a bill is now pending. Meanwhile the nations priceless documents are left in the thin safe despite the fact that a fire such as that which recently de- stroyed the national census records. would quickly eat through the thin walls.
New Britain herald., 1921-01-21

and when the war ended he was in command of a regiment.
 He was born in Muskoyee. Okla. lh lS42' his father being a Pennsyl- wanna German and his mother T fulI- blood Creek
New Britain herald., 1921-01-21

Mrs. ]. \. Mango. wife of n wealthy dfoek ship owner living in London. is the unhappy loser in the greatest Jewel theft in England in n decade. A necklace of 69 pearls which she is wearing m this photograph. was stolen. She discovered the loss while returning from dinner party at n london hotel. Reward of s1O.OOO is
New Britain herald., 1921-01-21

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New Britain herald., 1921-01-21

MADE FROM DOOR-when is a door not a door? When Private Harry s. Woods, a wounded soldier in Washington hospital. gets hold of it. He has just finished this fiddle, made from an old door.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-06-03
LEAF FROM NDLADY'S BOOK
Drummer Devised Shrewd Scheme for
Putting End to Series of Petty
Etortions.

Like cures like" said Speaker GIL
lett, apropos of certain extortions,
Abuse may cure abuse, too.
II once knew a drummer for a
chemical firm. This drummer would
visit Pottsville four or five times q
year. He would arrive late In the
evening at the Pottsville hotel and
depart after lunch the next day. He
didn't stop q fuu day, you see; he
got no dinner; nevertheless he WIS
always charged o full days board.
THE extortion got on his nerves
at last; so ole afternoon when his
bill was brought him, he took out his
pad and drew up an account against
the landlady for q carboy OF sulphuric
acid.
Take this to Mrs. TompkiDs,' he
said to the waiter, and ask her if She
would mind settling up at once
In q few minutes Mrs. Tompkins
herself appeared.
Why she said to the drummer,
i never bought any su1phuric acid
from you N my lite. This bill is a
mistake
Neither have I ever eaten any OF
your dinners, ma'am,' said the drum
mer, but you charge me for them
every time I come to Pottsville.'
After that the Pottsyille hotel never
charged the drummer for things he
hadn't had
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-06-03
FURs NO MARK OF RICHES
Even the Poorest Farmers OF Rous
mania Wear Collars and Hats
of Finest Astrakan.

The poorest farmer IN the Near East
can afford asuakan collars and hats;
and the man without q good piece Of
fur on his overcoat collar or a whole
fur lining Is almost always @ beggar
or a foreigner from America or west.
ern Europe, where these things cost
money.
Nobody wears more fur lining or
higher astrakhan hats than the cab
drivers,
These men comport themselves with
O dignity eQualed by no single other
class OF men in the world, unless it
be by the priests of the Greek church.
\ long black plush garment tight
at the collar and belted at the waist
by bath robe cord, envelopes them
from head to foot Because it is
lined with fur, this garment makes q
man look far bigger than he really is,
Aud the high conical astrakan cap,
like 4 curly Ounce cap, adds TO his
stature.
Many of the drivers are said to be-
long to 4 curious religious sect orig
mating in Russia. q sect involving
celibacy. They spurn friendship with
women as likely to decrease their love
for their horses
Whether this is true or not 1t Is
certain that the cab drivers are the
most picturesque figures In Bucharest,
outshining even the corseted and
rouged Roumanian army officers.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-06-03
NO LONGER OLD At THIRTY
Women Have Proved ConcIusiveIy
That Age Is Not at All a
Matter of Years.

Perhaps women who are not at all
a minority. But their number is grow
Ing. In almost any gathering where
women chatter pleasantly and with
some intimacy about things which in
terest them you find at least one
woman Who cheerfuny admits that
she Is not thirty-fiye, but forty-tiye,
or that it is q very long time since
she was thirty.
One of the tragic conventions which
have helped to wreck Women's lives
is this stupid tradition that at any
given age a woman gets old Years
ago most women celebrated their
thirtieth birthdays with a sense Of de-
preston. With greater common
sense, women at least began to see
that even after thirty they might en-
JOY life, and that the games and
amusements and joys which are pos
sible at twenty are no less possible
at forty.
Today there fingers this ancient su-
perstition that If you have reached a
certain age you must not admit the
fact But it will not endure long.
Now that we hear of q woman Of
ninety playing really capable golf, Of
women past fifty banding themselves
together in CHEEKY fashion as gol1ng
veterans, of women Of every and any
age enjoying life, 1t will become I'M
fashionable to conceal ones age
From the Continental Edition Of the
London Nail
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-06-03

On the quaint and picturesque Isle
Of Man, made famous by Hall Gaines
fiction. an ancient pump of the chain
bucket variety, built into q masonry
abuunent 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 big steam engine Of obso-
1ete 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 q modern wind motor has been
Installed its slim, efficient steel form
rising from the cliff top in striking, yet
not inharmonious, contrast with the
primitive ruggedness that marks the
earlier work Of man and nature. The
whiraing 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 a
hungry boiler, soon paid the cost Of
the mill
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-06-03
1NNOCENCE"-AND AN EGG
Is Was Milwaukee MANS Misfortune
That He Should Thus Have
Been poubly Armed.

4 certain Milwaukee man bought
an egg for next mornings breakfast
late one night and placed 1t carefully
in the outside pocket Of his coat. On
the way home he met q suspicious
policeman.
Are you armed?" inquired the
guardian Of the peace.
With innocence" replied the citi-
zen.
The policeman had never heard Of
that. He decided it must be some
new kind of Swiss cannon for night
use, backed the citizen against wall
and proceeded to pat him from head
to foot In search for Jumps. Ult-
mately he struck the lone egg.
"Ah-hai" said the cop, II thought
so,n
What he thought was never said.
He damned his hand down into the
pocket and the egg exploded-wrecked
by brutality. 1t spread over the IN,
side Of the pocket. 1t chung to the
cops fingers, stickilN gurnmily. The
cop pulled his hand out and backed
away,
81 got notion to run you in for
operatin q shell gamer he said, thick
II. go on--beat it,
'Beat what-the eggT' asked the
mon sweetly.
The cop chased him two blocks be-
fore his wind gave out--Milwaukee
Journal.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-06-03
TRAINING WAITS OF CAIRO
Government of Egyptian City Has In
stItuted School Where Stray Boys
Will Be Educated.

1t looks as if the problem of the
waits and strays of Cairo was going
to receive at last serious attention.
After much insistence on the part
Of some philosophical officials a spe-
c1al school for boys of this class has
been opened in the environs Of Cairo,
where they will be looked after and
trained by the government without
their having committed some crime to
admit them into the reformatory, pre-
viously the only institution OF the kind,
Nothing so far has been done for the
girl children, though another home is
promised for this purpose. 1t is there
fore satisfactory to hear of the forma-
ton of an organization called the
brotherhood Federation" ostensibly
nonsectarian and international, with
the object of looking after and i'm
proving the lot of the child waits gem
orally.
A meeting recently held in support
of this movement was given much
prominence in the local English papers,
but in spite of its intimate bearing on
a purely Egyptian problem none of the
Arabic papers appears TO have given
the matter any publicity.-Christian
Science Monitor.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-06-03
POLISH WOMEN FOUGHT WELL
Good Account Of Itself on
Fields of Battle.

The occasion Of the rehabilitation
Of the women'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
ne on the firing line, but upon what
her conclusion was founded is not In
dicated. The records of the brigade
show that 50 woman fighters deserted
to get married. 1t may be on this
score that the commander feels that
their efficiency is dubious
Waving this one drawback, how
ever, the discipline and fearlessness
Of these women who had prepared
themselves for active fighting are rath-
er significant In temerlty 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
Oh 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, 1921-06-03
AFFAIR OF GREAT DIGNITY
Daily Opening Of Session of British
House of Commons Is a cere-
monIous Matter.

The recent retirement of Hon.
William Lowther, who was speaker of
the British house of commons for 10
years, has given rise to considerable
comment on that job, which is one
of great dignity. The opening Of the
daily session Of commons is itself an
affair Of much solemnity.
First comes the speakers attend
ant wearing evening dress, with a
gold badge suspended from q chain.
AS he approaches the inner lobby
from the corridor the sergeant
bouts FLATS of, strangersi" and the
occasion Immediately enters the
.obby. Following the speakers attend
ant comes the sergeant-at-arms
bearing the massive gold mace. Some
body recalls that it was Oliver Crom-
well who cried, 'STake away that
bauble," and for the time wrecked q
custom that was speedily revived.
The speaker follows the mace. He
is attired in black silk gown, full
bottomed wig and silk knee breeches,
the tail Of the gown being lifted from
the ground by the speakers attendant
also gowned In silk. The chamberlain
and the speakers secretary bring up
the rear of the parRde.
It is said that the stranger who
was inclined to smile at this display
had only TO glance at the face of the
speaker to check his levtty. The
latter's composure and the fine dignity
Of his mien. robbed the ceremony Of
Gil staginess.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-06-03
SURVIVED STORM Ar SAMOA
Major General LeIeune One Of the
American Sailors Who Came
Safely Through Hurricane.

Secretary Edwin DENLY Of the navy
is q fan on the history Of that branch
Of the service and never misses an
opportunity to expatiate on its glories.
He WIS speaking at q Navy league
dinner not long ago and wildly de-
scrbed the events as they occurred
when, in 1889, a hurricane caught
three Of our ships, three German ships
and one flying the British flag in the
harbor at Apia, Samoa, and sank them
al except the Britisher, which man
aged to get to sea.
He told how the American ships
were battered to pieces on the rocks,
how the Tandaua sank and her
crew rode out the storm in the rig
ging which still proruded from the
water.
Three seats down the table from
Mr.. DENLY sat Major General John
a. Leicune, commandment of marines.
The secretary OF the navy did not
know at the time that Gen. Lejeune,
then q naval cadet, was one Of the
lads who hung on to the rigging Of
the Tandalia through the duration Of
the storm
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-06-03
WORLD NOT YET FILLED UP
There Are Many Places Where the
Lover Of Solitude Can Find What
He ls Looking For.

Crowded as the world seems to be
getting, Robinson Crusoe could find
q haven today and he 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 print
tive simplicity, says a bulletin from
the Washington headquarters of the
National Geographic society.
Nor Is 1t necessary for you to
choose plot Of land belonging to
any other than the United States.
There is Bakers island, 3,725 miles
out from San Francisco, as we'll as
many other such isolated dots in the
Pacific, where there Will be no chance
Of getting even faithful Friday to
share your lot. Vessels used to haul
guano from the island, but today the
deposits are practically worked out
If You feel that you must have your
wife somewhere in the of1ing you can
send her on to Rowland island, %
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, 1921-06-03
New Reason for DehornIna.

Young red cedar trees In the
Wichita National forest are no longer
injured by the herds which Craze
there. The solution Of the problem
was simple, the cattle are now de-
horned. One of the drawbacks to pas
turing national forests has been the
injury which was apt to result to the
young growth from the grazing ami
mails.
After Interpretation methods on the
Wichita were fairly worked out
and fires became rare instead Of
the rule, red cedar began to come
rather plentifully all over the forest
under the oak stands. AS the cedar
began to reach a little size the super
visor Of the forest noticed that 1t was
being broken rather badly by cattle,
both In the tops and in the branches.
After some consideration the super
visor decided to ask the cattlemen
users of the forest to run none but
dehorned cattle on the Wichita.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-06-03
The Spring Straw Hat

All winter long man wears hat
that is easy and conlfortable-a
friendly, slouchy, well-won sort Of
thing that he can pull down over his
ears when the wind blows or throw In
to the air at q football game. It's
Just the sort Of clothing a man ought
to wear, not tyrannical but compan-
ionable. And then along-comes spring.
In the spring say the poets, the Spirit
of man breaks its bonds. \ fellow
feels restless and indomitable, fit for
anything and free as the wind. He
brooks no restraint, not he. He looks
upon his good old cap or hat and de-
cldes he ought to buy another And
he does. He goes and gets himself
a straw hat-a stiff, uncomfortable,
unreliable sort of thing that is faith
less TO every passing breeze. man
can't roll it up and put 1t in his
pocket, he can't throw it into the air,
he can't pull it down over his ears,
he can't do anything with 1t except
wear 1t daintily and carefully, until
the time comes to smash 1t In the
autumn and go back to the old cloth
hat. And that's the best proof of the
madness Of spring-not love, not
blooming flowers, but the new straw
hat that leaves red mark on TEL
lows forehead.-San Francisco Call.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-06-03
SALvAGERs DID GOOD WORK
Recovering Disabled Shfps During the
World War Was Matter OF
Highest Heroism.

Landlubbers link salvaging ships
and cargoes to easy deals in treasure
trove. but the shippers Of the salvag-
ing ships would tell them that salvage
IS sweaty and poorly paid exertion.
They do not regard themselves as adj
VenturerS OF romance. They ale divers
OF seagoing ambuIances. They are
or disabled craft, says the Spokane
Spokesman Review.
Salvaging before the war was mat
ter-of-fact trade, but during the war
1t became a business fraught with ex-
traordinary dangers, The maritime
belligerentS had to save every dam
aged or Sunken ship that they could,
and the Salvager was almost as indiS-
pensuDIe to winning the war as was
the man-o'war.
At the Dardanelles tive vessels were
sunk near shore, and yet all were sal
vaged expedidously by the Liverpool
firms.
In june Of 1917 the salyagers recoV-
cred four good-sized steamers il ten
days that had been sunk In the English
channel They salvaged Beattie's flag
ship and the Britannia and the Astu-
rlaS; the submarine h-13 after its crew
had been submerged two and a half
days; the wrecks off Ostend and Zee
brugge.
The salvagtng boats had at one and
the same time to act as machine shop,
power house, pumping station and tug.
They worked In a singh spot, where
they were target for every German
submarine anywhere around. They
showed q herotsm beyond praise.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-06-03
Progressed by Slow Stages

Thirty years ago the men of Hart
shay, a hamlet Of Derbyshire, England,
were accustomed to meet at a bridge
on the edge of the town. where they
would read the papers and discuss
events. This was all right in summer
time, but in the winter it was differ
ent and they would occasionally ad-
journ to a sheltered spot under the
bridge, From this they moved into 6
vacated pigsty and later annexed an
other pigsty. This rude building was
improved by their own efforts until it
was a fairly comfortable place. From
this humble origin there is now a
rather pretentious library, with the
best papers and magazines and
stock Of good books.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-06-03
Projected Aerial NeWspaper,

The last word in journalism is the
Aerial Mail, daily newspaper, which
is edited, printed and published from
an airplane in flight. The Daily Mail,
which Is sponsoring 1t, says it will con-
tain the latest British and continental
news, political, financial and general,
received both at the moment the air.
plane takes off" and while it is flying,
the news being sent by wireless. A
special printing plant has been In
stalled and newspapers will be distrib-
uted by means Of parachutes dropping
the editions into the towns the air
plane flies over.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-06-03
HINDU IDEA OF "SEvEN SEAS"
Writer in Boston Herald Shows That
Expression Is Older Than the
English Language.

The question as to the origin and
meaning of the term 1.-THE Seven Seas"
having been raised in this column,
am surprised, says a writer in the
Boston Herald that as yet no one has
called attention to the fact that the
expression is far older than the Eng
fish language, antedating even the
science Of geography as we under
stand 1t. In prehistoric Hindu thought
our world consists as to it's solid parts
of seven concenTic, continental Dvi-
pas, whose names are Jambu, Plaksha,
SalmaH, Kusa, Krauncha, Saka and
Pushkara. According to the sacred
Yishnu Purana: They are surrounded
seTerally by seven great seas-the sea
of salt water Nayana), of sugar-cane
juice (Ikshu), of wine [Sura), Of clari-
fed butter (Sarpis), or curds (Dadhi),
Of milk Dugdha), and Of fresh water
(Jala). Jambu-dvipa is the center Of
all these, and in the copies Of this is
the golden mountain Meru." Jambu
is the dyipa occupied by human be-
ings. Meru the indescribably glorious
north polar mountain by which the
portal to the heaven or heavens is at
tainable.
In oriental literature, therefore, the
expression 1.-THE seven seas" has no ref
erence to the bodies of water named
seas by our geographers, but is an in
teresting survival Of the geocenutc
world view which we Of the western
nations have lost but which all ortho-
dox Brahmins and Buddhists still hold
sacred and true. Its recent appear
ance in occidental literature is doubt
less more due to Kipling than to any
other writer.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-06-03
WEAK, NERVOUS,
ALL RUNDOWN
Missouri Lady Suffered Until She
Tried Cardm.-Says "Result
Was Surprising. Got Along
Fine, Became Normal
and Healthy.

Springfield Mo.-"My back was so
weak l could hardly stand up, and I
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. II
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 Cardui
:. that l was improving. The result
was surprising. I felt like different
person.
Later I suffered from weakness
and weak back, and felt all rundown.
l did not rest we'll at night, was so
nervous and cross. My husband said
he would get me some Cardui, which
he did, It strengthened me My
doctor said I got along fine i was in
good healthy condition. I cannot
say tso much for it.
Thousands of women have suffered
as Mrs. Williams describes, until they
found RELIEF from the use Of Cardui.
Since it has helped SO many, you
should not hesitate to try Cardui if
troubled with womanly ailments.
For sale everywhere ESD
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-06-03
Brown Coal.

Germany expects brown coal to make
her rich again. The beds of this newly
discovered fuel are only q few feet
below the surface of the ground, SO
that the material can be taken out
with dredges No shafts will be re-
quired; no timbering, no costly ma
chinery, and no explosives. OF course
brown coal" is only coal in the max
ing, with about one-third the heating
value of bttuminous. 1t contains much
less carbon than the latter, more ash,
and a good deal Of water.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-06-03
Woodstock, Virginia, Friday, June g. 1921
The Daughter of the Stars

Shenandoah Is an Indian word, sig
nifying "Daughter of the Stars. ~
The mountains in Virginia
Are blue and smooth and high,
And down the rolling valley
The Shenandoah goes by
The sparkling Daughter of the
With lovellght in her eye.
AS l rode down from Markham
About the dusk of day
slant sun dropped to westward,
And very far away
Old Stony Man stood sharp and
A bOve remote LuraY.
And sweeping into eddies
Ard rapids sharp and strong,
The little river gurgled
In her ceaseless dash along
The buoyant Daughter Of the Stars
With laughter in her song.
The gray old homes were silent
And dignified among
The mighty towering beech trees
And giant elms that sprung
To dizzy heights and crusted age
When my grandsire was young.
And yet the little river
Skipped on to find the sea,
All unimpressed and cheerful
And 1.-the and young and free,
The CAV young Daughter OF the
Stars
She's always young to me
GARRETT LAIDLA " ESKEW.
From New York Evening Post,
A pril II, 1921.