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Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-02-11
DRAWN WITH MASTER HAND
Notable Contribution to Eng
Ish Literature.

No wonder that Walter Scott who,
having shown the world in the Min
strelsy and the Lay that he was ed
1tor and poet, and being himself a
novel reader, should be utterly disSat
aSled with the quality Of the existing
supply. The French Revolution, dis
tinguished by its leveling principle and
action. had ended in substituting a
feudal empire for an et'ete monarchy;
and even when Napoleon was redivid-
ing Europe into kingdoms and princi-
palities for his family and his follow
ers, there had sprung up-Or rather
revlved-a deep devotion to the chiv-
airy which had done 50 much in the
past, and whose traditions had in
grated grace into history and breathed
reality into song.
10 this feeling. this principle, Scott
had ninistered in his poems: and now,
acknowledged head OF the romantic
school, he resolved 10 extend is FL
It's beyond the ballad to ,..t narrative
poem and use prose as the more suit
able medium. He strove to deline2te
the past as it seemed in the eyes of
men who were dubious Of the present
and afraid of the future-nOble. state
~ glittering and gay, with the pulse Of
lie ever beating TO heroic measures.
His view of feudaliSm in ''The Tails
man" "Ivanhoe" and The Fair Maid
of Perth" was not the caricature a
few preceding authors had drawn, but
portrait-faithful, if idealized.-
Robert Shelton Mackenzie.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-02-11
CARRY OWN WOOD TO SCHOOL
French Children Study Their Lessons
In Cold Buildings With Shell.
Torn Holes.

Children Of Laon, In the devastated
AfSne district. have to take their own
wood to school Instead of swinging
long merrily, as American children
10. with their books under their arms,
ach thin little yOungster staggerS
dong under an armful of wood, she'll
battered tree trunks or bits of tim
er from trench and dugout. It is the
My method Of keeping warm In the
ieSoiate SchOOlroomS.
Under the conditions prevailing T..
schools In northern France, Lincoln'e
persevering studies by the light OF a
big log fire cease to be remarkable.
Inc back room Of q cafe, the cold IN
terror of a village church with the
"ind whiStling through apertures In
the walls made by shells, or perhaps
the one remaining room Of the former
schoolhouse are the places where the
French children are studying without
DOCKS paper or pencils through the
long, cold, dark winters of northern
France.
For blackboards the bare wallis ara
used. Charcoal or bits of chalk from
the white cliffs of the country INNS,
serve as pencils. A few of the more
fortunate children have bits Of slate
from some shattered roof upon which
they painfully execute their lazsous-
Stars and Stripes.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-02-11
DEAL JUSTLY WITH CHILDREN
Almost Every Country Now Has
Courts to Handle Cases of Juve-
nile Delinquency.

The example set by the United
states In establishing juvenile courts
mas been followed by all the princi-
pal countries of Europe. Spain, the
ast to fall In line, has adopted the
modern viewpoint that delinquent chill
dren should not be treated as crimi-
nails, but rather as victims of adverse
conditions and surroundings. In work
ing out the details of the law Spanish
authorities have followed Americas
experience, according to information
received by the childrens bureau of
the United States department of
labor.
Under the Spanish law the children's
judge Is not necessarily member of
the bench. He is assisted by two ad-
vlsory members appointed by the COM
mission for the protection of children.
Privacy is guarded very closely in the
Spanish juvenile courts; no one ex-
cept probation officers is allowed in
the court unless by special permission,
and the press Is forbidden to publish
any information about cases of Juvenile
delinquents.
Since Chicago established the first
Juvenile court in 1853, similar courts
have been established in England,
France, Belgium, Holland. Denmark,
Switzerland, Italy, Germany, Russia.
Austria and Hungary, -
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-02-11
SPIDER REALLY HAS BRAINS
Is Possessed of Degree Of Intelligence
That Has Been Recognized by
Scientists.

Spiders are commonly spoken Of as
insects, but they aren't. They belong
to a very different order of animals,
being "arachnids."
They get this name, by the way.
from a NEUROLOGICAL maiden named
Arachne, who was so proud of her
weaving that she challenged Minerva
TO a trial of skill. The goddess ac-
cepted the challenge, but finding her
self in danger of defeat. lost her TEN
per struck her presumptuous rival and
turned her into a spider.
The spider is incomparahly more
Intelligent than any insect. and its
cIeverness as a maker of nets obtain
ed for it a well-varranted admiration.
1t is the female that does this work,
the male being only q fraction of her
Size and If no account except for con
t;uujr@ the species.
y spider has what may he called a
recognizable BRAIN But So for the
aatter Of that has caterpillar,
though less wen developed The merry
Nus system OFT latter is 4 mere string
vith knots va .y.Hp stuff (4angIia) at
intervals along it,
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-02-11
WHALE IS CHAMPION JUMPER
Mammal Easily Holds All Records
When 1t Comes to Question Of
High Leaplnu.

If you were asked the question:
"What animal can jump the highest?"
you would in all likelihood, guess
wrong. 1t Is the whalel
Oh, yes, the whale is mammal, not
a fish, and he can jump out Of the wa
ter to a height Of Is feet with the
greatest ease. This Is about twice as
high as the tiger, who can manage
about 121a feet to 10 feet. A dog has
been known to clear 10 feet, and the
horse follows next with Z feet S1s
inches.
Mans record high jump was made
in 1914 by a Californian, who reached
6 feet 5-16 inches. In 1913, the ire
mendous height of 8 feet 5A inches
was attained for the standing high
jump, though in 1892 q man reached
6 feet, with weights, at this jump.
AS regards the long jump, without
weights, the record, "a feet 1874
inches, vas made in 1901, and it has
now stood for nearly twenty years.
The longest jump backwards, with
weights, is u feet II inches, and the
holder Of this record also holds that
of the standing long jump, without
weights, with u feet ~ inches.
OF animals one might expect the
kangaroo to hold the record but he
can only manage IS feet-ten less than
man-though, talking Of long jumps,
how about the grasshopper? He can
jump 200 times his own length.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-02-11
MIXED HUM0R AND TRAGEDY
Writer Tells of Relieving Touch in the
Midst of Scenes of Revolt In
ireland.

There is no country in the world ike
Ireland. Even its serious attempts at
revolution have q humorous side. Just
as there is a touch of sadness ID the
widest Irish merrinent, there is bit
OF good humor in the midst of its most
tragic earnestneSs. Miss Dorothea
"onyers, in her Sporting "reminiscences.
tells an incident OF one of the Sim
Fein uprsings:
The barrier on the Wellesly bridge
was most imposing. and 1 remember
rushing down to see it and upSetting q
neal stack Of hayonets. but no ons
minded. Al irate old lady III an ass
cart was trying to pass out just as l
2ot there. Wheeled traffic had to SO
round by another bridge,
Young man" she hailed the sen
Try. young man, let NE pass, II ye
Place"
The sentry explain matters pleas
autly. Go round be Thomond
bridge"
no. young man. Young man, let he
pass. Young man, have three young
pigs hungry at home and the male in
the car. VIII We call an ofticer?'
After a prolonged wait she lost her
temper, backed the cart into a sentry
box and drove off declaring shed
have the law on the military
Youths Companion.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-02-11
Historic Estate on Market

The Stoke Park estate. once the
home of the Penns. has been placed
on the market On this property is q
monument put up by John Penn in
memory Of the poet Gray On three
sides are quotations from the Elegy,
on the fourth is an inscription saying
that the stone was erected in 1899
among the scenery celebrated by the
great Lyric and Elesiac Poet" and that
he lies unnoticed in the adjoining
.'hurchyard under the tombstone on
which he piousIy and pathetically re-
corded the interment Of his aunt and
lamented mother" The hope is ex-
pressed that the property will not fall
into hands that will permit this monu-
ment, (which in a sense has become
historic, TO fan into ruin" London
Times.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-02-11
LIE and Death a Unity.

Life Ia state which follows upon
Heath. Death is a state which pre-
irjes life Which of US understands
the laws that govern their succession?
The life of man is the resultant Of
forces. The aggregation of these forces
is life; their dispersion, death. II,
then. life and death are but consecu-
tive states of existence, what cause
FOR sorrow have I?
Ard so It is that all things are but
phases of unity. What men delight
In is the spiritual essence of life. What
they loathe is the material corruption
of death. But this state of corrup-
ton gives place to that state of spir-
ituality and that state Of spirituality
gives place in turn to this state OF
Therefore we may say
that all in the universe is comprised
in unity; and therefore the inspired
among us have adopted unity as their
criter:on.-H. A. Giles, in Translated
Gems From Chinese Literature
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-02-11
SAVAGE TRIBE ON TIBUR0N
s4White cannibais" Said to Infest Pa.
cfIe Island Believed to Be
Rich In Pitchblende.

Tiburon island, in the Pacific, four
miles off the Mexican coast, is inhab
tied by a tribe of white cannibals"
who are said to be descendants of the
Dutch. Swedish and German prisoners
who escaped from Mexican prisons
several centuries ago. YaQui Indians,
who live on the mainland call Tiburon
the "Island of Death" for the reason
that any person who lands on 1t is
shot by poisoned darts and then eaten
by natives says an exchange.
In addition to poisoned arrows used
by the natives the cannibals also use
an ancient blunderbuSs in attacking
their victims They are supposed to
number from 500 to 1000 persons. OF
16 persons known to have visited the
island III The last few years, in parties
of two and three, only nine are said
70 have returned alive. the others fall
ing victims of the flaxen-haired, blue
eyed "white Indians" as the Mexican
people call them.
Tiburon is snid to have rich depos-
its of pitchblende, from which radium
is extracted.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-02-11
Believed Victims Of indiana

Three skeletons, believed to be those
Of early American settlers were I'M
earthed at Kefnehunkport, Me-, BY
workmen leveling some land near an
old fort erected during the war Of
1912. Two apparently were victims of
Indian massacres or wars Embedded
In the skull Of one Of the skeletons
was an Indian arrow. The tip Of the
skull Of the second was clipped of
cleanly, as If done by q tomahawk
held in well-trained hand. The third
skeleton was that Of a man seven feet
tall. It is believed that the bodies
were buried in an old cemetery on this
spot, and that the graves were Gov
cred over by earth thrown up whes
tAs haEt excavations Meeo bslna 0AkA
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-02-11
GAUDY COSTUME HIS F0IBLE
Marshal Murat, Napoleon's Famous
Cavalry Leader, Seemingly Had
Craze for "Flne Feathers"

Marshal Murat was the dandy
among Napoleon's generals. One Paris
tailor said that in some years he had
made as much as 100000 francs worth
of suits, overcoats and uniforms for
Murat. He liked to invent new and
fantastic uniforms he strutted about
In q suit of sky-hlue overalls covered
all over with gold spangles. and he
decorated his busby with aigrettes. On
the occasion of his triumphant entry
into Warsaw when ne supposed he
would be made king of Poland. he
wore an impossible looking uniform
red leather boots tunlc of cloth Of
gold, sword belt blazing with dlo-
monds, and a great busby of fur
decked out with costly plumes. On
this occasion Napoleon losr his temper
and testify exclaimed to his general !:
Go and put on your proper uniform ;
YOU look like q clown" Put the en-
peror was not misled by Murat's love
of tinery, for 1t is recorded that he
once said Of him: You may smite ut
my dandiffed marshal hut You viii no
tice that when columns are shot down
today, Murats gaudy plume will lie
dancing in the hottest Of the fight Ler
a hero have one folly, gentlemen"
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-02-11
-.~---s Il .--.s<s- yrs esss.xs-
EASY Fol Ere Ncn aPlASAMI3
American Tourists Expsetsd - Pour
Golden Flood Through the War.
Devastated Regions.

Commenting on the American sum-
mer rush to Europe, especially to the
French battlehelds, Customs Inspector
Henri Duval said in New Orleans:
II am reminded Of q tourist anec-
dote.
"In many French provinces every
peasant raises each year for his fam
ily's use one or two enormous pigs.
Nothing of the pig is discarded-the
fat is boiled down for lard; the blood
is made into blood buildings; the hams
are cured; the chops are salted; the
feet are dried; the meat in the head
is chopped into sausage meat; even
the ears are preserved; an occasional
slice Of ear being used to enrich the
soup And the tail7 Oh, yes, they
use the tail, too. 1t Is steWed Win
vegetables and contains, they say, a
tiny morsel of delicious meat
But TO return to the anecdote. An
American. touring the north of France
one summer before the war, asked a
peasant what the people Whereabouts
lived on.
pigs, monsieur, in the winter re-
piled the peasant, and tourists in the
summer
Customs Inspector Duval laughed.
Well he said, the tales OF e1tor-
ton l hear from people now return
ing from France make me think thar
few peasants will be eating pigs ears
or pigs tails this winter-they'H be
eating trutfled chicken and drinking
champagne"
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-02-11
Catfish Made to Change Names.

Some catfish have been noslng
around in the mud Of the rivers to the
north OF Rio Janeiro for 81 years
without EnoWing their right name
They supposed their name was Stein
dacnneria." under which they had been
baptized by Carl II. Eigenmann and
Rosa Smith Eigenmann in 1883. But
= Brown Goode has given this name
to some other fish belonging to the
aristocratc gadoid family Of Macru-
cids Confusion and correspondence
ensned until Prof. David Starr Jordan
insisted that the catfish change their
namcs. Therefore their sponsors have
rebaptzed them Standardization"
and the catfish can now nose around in
the mud of the Rio JeQuinttnhonha,
the Rio Doce and the Rio Parahyba
without fearing that the piscatorial
mail intended for them may get car
ried out to sea and delivered 10 the
Aiacrurids
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-02-11
IS YOUR HEALTH
GRADUALLY SLIPPING?
Interesting Experience Of Texas Lady Who Declares That More
Women Knew About Cardui They Would Be Spared
Much Sickness and Worry

Navasota, Texas.-Mrs. w. M. Peden,
ofthis place, relates the following interest
ing account of how she recovered her
strength, having realized that she was
actually losing her health:
Health is the greatest thing in the
world, and when you feel that gradually
slipping away from you, you certainly sit
up and take notice. That is what did
some time ago when found myself in a
very nervous, rundown condition of
health. | was so tired and felt 50 lifeless
could hardly 60 at all.
81 was just no account for work. l
would get bucket Of water and would
feel so weak l would have to set it down
before | felt like could Lit ii to the shelf.
In this condition, OF course, to do even
my homework was a task almost i'm
possible to accomplish.
II was aeuoais and easily upset
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-02-11

Did you know that If you lived In
Scotland all salt cellars In the house
must be full on New Years day, else
the household will suffer want during
the year?
That Is not the only superstition
peculiar to Scotland. The country is
full Of them. For instance, the High,
land nurses believe that if an infants
feet are put in snow he will never have
colds during his life. A regular prac-
tice among the farmers used to be the
placing Of honeysuckle branches In
their COW houses on May 2 to keep
their cattle FROM being witched
A bad storm is prophesied when
cat frolics about a room. IF the cat
washes its face with its paws before
the fire. the coming day win be rainy
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-02-11

and the way he could make tnen eat
out of his hand, half an hour after
being formally introduced to them, was
q sight worth going miles to see. He
always had immense crowds at his eX
hibitions, and it seemed that his future
was assured. But one day he was
loafing around q livery stable just
because he liked the atmosphere of
the place. and an old, weary hack
horse reached out long, crooked limb,
handed him one with it. and broke his
leg.
"He had to go to q hospital for q
while. and when he came out, his oc-
cupation was gone. He was as good
horse breaker as ever, but people
wouldn't pay their hard-earned money
to see the exploits of a conQuering
hero who had been manhandled by an
old hack horse. You must admit that
there was some sardonic intelligence
back Of such a Joke as that. II the
man had been hooked by COW, or run
over by q traction engine, or chewed
up by an honest watchdog. 1t wouldn't
have hurt his renoWn and prestige.
But, no! A blamed old relic of horse
had to put him out of business.
"A long time ago, a very important
case was tried in an Irish court The
people were greatly wrought up over
it, and the courtroom was crowded.
When 1t was announced that the jury
was ready with g verdict. the judge
cd ha he
knew there was much feeling over the
case, but the hall of justice was no
place for q display of 1t, and If there
was q least sign of disturbance when
the verdict was made known. the gull
ty parties would be arrested
1.-The jury brought in its verdict. and
the people heard it in silence but just
then q whole doggone gallery, with
about q thousand people in 1t, came
crashing down, and the noise could
have been heard forty miles out at sea.
After the judges solemn warning
against disturbance, the fall of that
gallery has always seemed to me like
a painful joke
"a long time ago. I was called upon
TO address q crowd of voters on the
living issues of the day. and | framed
up a speech that would have been q
credit to any orator I swiped it from
Roscoe Conkling. and I have always
insisted that he was one of the great
est of American speakers. The house
was full of refined and cultured peo-
pie. and I was determined to make the
nit of my life. l was just getting
warmed up to my work when the
lights went out. and the hall was
plunged in black darkness. There's
nothing makes a man feel more idiotic
than to have the lights shut off at
such time. The women in the audi
ence were gigsling. and the men haw-
having. 1t seemed funny to everybody
but me.
Il thought I knew where the little
table was. that held the pitcher of ice
water, and l moved toward it and
fell over a chair and fattened my
nose against the edge of piece of
scenery. When the lights were
flashed on again, as suddenly az they
went out, the audience bchsd the
silver tongued orator on his hands and
knees. climbing slowly to his feet. and
trying to mold his nose into its origi-
nal shape.
Il never saw such 4 delirous crowf
in my life. Some of the WON .
laughed themselves into Mysteries. aI3
the fool men weren't much better
They never heard the balance OF {.
Grafton. and the last part was tue
best"
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-02-11
Sheep Driven 70 Mountains.

Wild sheep live In small fiocks in
rocky, mountainous parts where food
Is sparse Had they been possessed
Of such means OF defense as the heels
and the speed Of the horse, or the
horns and the strength Of the bison
they would probably have congregated
on the plains where food was plentf-
full. AS 1t was, their only protection
from their natural enemies, the wolves,
lay in their agility In the most mac
cessihle spots. The length of time
sheep have been domesticated is as
nothing compared with the preceding
ages when their home was In the
mountains, consequently coming under
the dominion Of man has utterly re-
versed their conditions Of life. So the
growth Of the hoof is out Of all pro-
portion to the wear on our soft pas
lures, and footrot supervenes. SINH
larry the thick coating of wool which
was absolutely necessary at the alti-
tu0es the wild sheep inhabited, has, as
faf - tie sheep itself is concerned,
es . p1isanee, and rendered it q
- - masxst1
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-02-11
uANENss PASSING Of AvssEr
New England journal Voices Regret
That Famous Apple IL Becoming
increasingly Scarce.

The russell apple seems to be In
fair way to extinction. It used to be
the commonest Of our New England
apples, but it is seldom seen nova days.
In Rhode Island the principal varie-
ties are the Baldwin and greening-
both fine apples, easy to sell and easy
to "keep," fine Of color and flavor. But
there Is room for the russell, too, and
it would be great pity If it should
continue to be neglected by 50 many
growers.
There is no other apple that has Just
the russell tang. It somehow embodies
the pungent quality of New England
life-its spice, its Juice and its humor
1t is not so snowy an apple as some
Of its crimson, green and yellow com
pehtors, and yet there is nothing hand
somer in the apple kingdom after all
than a ripe russell, brown and yellow
commingling on its smooth surface, to-
gether with faint blush of red.
Perhaps there are localities where
the russell f1ourishes as of old. but it Is
out of fashion in this neichborhood.
Let its friends arise in its behalf. and
see that it does not wholly disappear
Why not a Russell society, systemat-
ically bent on its preservation? There
have been organized movements for
less worthy causes.
Apple lovers with only small tracts
of ground might at least pledge them
selves to set out one russell tree. A
bearing apple tree is as good as money
IN the bank.-Providence Journal.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-02-11
Danger In Improper COOKING.

IN the italian experiments indlcat-
ing that much of our food Is uncooked
or at least not cooked enough to de-
stroy bacteria large joint of corned
beef that had been boiled three and
half hours showed a temperature in
the center of less than 40 degrees
Fahrenheit This is harmless to most
disease germs, including tubercle ba-
GILL, with which beef is believed to
be especially liable to be infected. A
meat pie eaten by number of people
caused two deaths and, while this ap-
peared to be well baked outside, the
middle gave evidence that it had not
been heated above 105 degrees Fab
renheft.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-02-11

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