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Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1922-10-06
ON EQUALITY WITH HUSBANDS
Filipino Women, Entering Into Matri-
mony, Become Partners inf utUre
Business Enterprises.

''When a Filipino woman marries
she goes into partnership with her
husband" said Nine. Sofia Reyes de
Neyra, wife of the Philippine commits
sioner to the United States. while
the men handle the work and en-
ployees, the women attend to the
finances, act as cashiers, pay the work
ers and oversee much of the business"
Things are made easy in many
ways for Filipino women, she asserted,
writes Louise Cattoi in the Milwau-
kee Journal. Professional oppOrtun-
tiles are as good for them as for men.
Women are already members Of the
Philippine Bar association, privilege
not open to British women,
Married women in the Philippines
hold their property in severalty. and
are guardians of their own children.
OF the property which accrueS to a
married couple, the wife is half ad
rights which cannot be taken away.
1t is not unusual for the mother of a
family to have not only household
leadership, but economic control"
Women's clubs are rapidly growing
In the islands, Nine. De Veyra said,
and pointed out that already 305
clubs and associations exist, which
have formed federation.
Nine De Teyra has four children,
"as bright healthy and happy as
eny mother could wish" as she de-
scribed them.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1922-10-06
Sing Deeds of Light Tenders.

The hardships endured by light
keepers have inspired the pens Of
some Of our best writer's. Robert
Louis Stevenson, in sketching the life
Of his grandfather, Robert Stevenson,
distinguished Scotch lighthouse en-
gineer, gives some entertaining pen
pictures Of their lot.
The first lighthousekeepe in this
country, George Worthylake, at Bos-
ton light, whose first years salary
was so pounds, was drowned with
his wife and daughter on November
3, 1718, and this incident was the in
SEPARATION for ballad, the Lighthouse
Tragedy" written by Benjamin Frank
lin, then a boy Of thirteen. In his
autobiography he tells US that his
brother induced him to print and sell
copies of this ballad on the streets
Of Boston, and that it sold wonder
fully" the event being recent and
Having made a great noise" No
copy Of this ballad seems to have been
preserved, but the author admits 1t
was "wretched stuff"
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1922-10-06
CURED MONARCH OF AVARICE
Power of Turning Everything He
Touched Into Gold Quickly PaIIed
on King Midas.

1t was because King Midas helped
a drunken companion Of Racchus to
sober up that he received the power
of turning everything into gold at his
touch. Bacchus had offered to grant
Midas anything he asked, and the
king wished this unpleasant power
upon himself, according TO Ovid.
Midas enjoyed himself immensely
at first, turning tWigs, apples, stones
and clods Of earth into gold. But the
trouble began as soon as he sat down
TO eat. The bread he touched turned
to gold and defed his teeth. The wine
flowed down his throat as liquid
gold.
According TO an embelIished YER
sion of the myth. the browning mis-
fortune wrought by Midas curse in
blessings guise was when, in the act
of caressing his little daughter, he
turned the child into a golden
statue.
Bacchus had been aware that the
gift was anything but desirable.
So, believing Midas cured of avarice,
he sent the king to wash away the
power in the fountainhead of the
River Pactolus. AS Il result of his
bath, the sands Of that river remain
golden to this day.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1922-10-06
Rescue Home Beacons p;
Of Hope

sixty-eight thousand girls, eighs
women disappeared from the streets
OF our cities last year. Six thousand
from New York alone. Where are
they?
Everywhere throughout the country
the great problem of llegitimacy is
confronting those who interest them
selves IN welfare work, but nowhere
perhaps has it been met with the
practical Christianity shown by The
salvation Army which through Its
tWenty-s7x Rescue and Maternity
Homes in the United States returns to
health, hope and sanity every year.
approximately 1000 unfortunate girls. !,
A Salvation Army Rescue Home 10
open to any girl who needs its pre-
lection and who otherwise would Be
forced along the paths to which only
heartbreak, despair and disgrace can
point. Once admitted, the past isl
closed behind her, the future thrown
open with hope and courage, while be-
sides the best Of physical care she re-
IelVes the spiritual and mental regen.
Grafton necessary If that physical care
IS to have its best effect.
Besides the best of prenatal and ma.
.ernity care, the girl receives adequate
opportunity for convalescence and as
Slstance in finding work, which in !
many cases will not separate her from !
her child, on the ground that just as
this responsibility is part OF the bless
ng so is it part Of the cure. In these
new opportunities for work the girls
history is forgotten and the future
thrown open with such hope and cour.
age that the bitterness and resent
ment brought into the Home are re- !.
placed by steady hope and courage
not only to be carried away with her
but to be transfused in her influence
among those whom she meets.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1922-10-06
ANTS MUCH LIKE FIREFLlES
Species In Brazil, Travellers Assert,
Throw Off a Small but Quite
Distinct Light.

At least two Brazilian traveers
have described an extraordinary phe-
nomenon connected with the nests OF
white ants, or termites, DR.. da Fon-
SEGA, who saw the exhibition on the
headwaters Of the Rio Verde, gives the
appearance as that Of tiny stars, af-
fording the nest the look Of a min
lature tower brilliantly Illuminated.
When the nest was struck with stick
the lights went out, only to re-appear
little by little.
Castelnau in the middle Of the last
century, beheld similar spectacle
r'near the city Of Goyaz. He says that
the lights were produced by an i'm
mense number of small phosphores-
cent larvae, which withdrew into the
galleries of the mound when an at
tempt was made to capture them.
Branner of Stanford university re-
marks that this exhibition is prob
ably confined to some particular spe-
cies, or to some special occasions or
conditions of termite life, since he has
lived and Travelled for years in Brazil
without seeing it.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1922-10-06
DRAGONS OF EAST AND WEST
Legends Regarding Them Vary Wide
iy, the Oriental Mind Regarding
Them With Reverence.

Perhaps we never stop to realize
how strange 1t is that among the saints
there is room for one to win his place
by the reputed actual saving Of a lady
from a dragon. And yet this is the
story Of Saint George of England, and
considered in no allegorical light by
the medieval church. The wealth.
boarding and slaughter-bringing drag
ons early trailed across the legends
Of Europe, bringing with them desola-
ton and forming pretexts for love afe
fairs between lorn damsels and he
roes.
The eastern mind sympathized with
the dragon and made it the emblem
Of rule. I know of only one instance
where anyone attempted to destroy
dragon, for they were usually regarded
as sacred and of incompatible power.
The West, however, true to its tenn
permanent, preferred to tell Of dragons
conquered and slain by the wit of man.
The dragon is almost the symbol or
nature in the East, and the different
ways Of meeting it seem to form an
allegory Of the oriental mystic rever-
ence of nature and the European sclen-
tif1c conquest of it-Elizabeth J. Coats
worth, In the North American Review.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1922-10-06
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NEEDS OF "YOUNG AMERICA"
European Critic ThIni<s That Youth
Of Great Republic Suffers FROM
Too Much Freedom.

George Santayana, famous philoso.
pher and writer, In an article written
especially in the Forum on "America's
Young Radicals" says:
II have made a severe effort to dis
cover as well as may from dis
lance what these rebels want. I see
what they are against-they are
against everything-b what are they
for? have not been able to discover
it. This may be due to my lack Of IN
Outstanding or to their incapaclty to
express themselves clearly, for their
style is something appalling. But per
haps this scandalous failure in express
sion, when expression is what they
yearn for and demand at all costs,
may. be symptom Of something deep
er; Of a radical mistake they have
made in the direction Of their efforts
and aspirations. They think they need
more freedom, more room, a chance to
be more spontaneous I suspect that
they have had too much freedom, too
much empty space, too much practice
in being spontaneous when there was
nothing in them to bubble out. Their
style is sign Of this; it Is not merely
that they have no mastery of the Eng
fish language as hitherto spoken, no
clear sense of the value Of words, and
no simplicity; that they are without
the vocabulary or the idiom Of cult
waited people. No, it Is not
more freedom that young America
needs in order to be happy; it needs
more discipline"
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1922-10-06
CAPTAIN SUBDUES MUTINEERS
Hooch-Crazed Crew Of Steamer Ches
ter kiWans Finds His Fist
Worse Than Hurricane.

Latest reports from the mutiny on
the shipping board tramp steamer
Chester Kiwanis while she was an
chored off Staten island early the other
morning, indicate that It was not for
assistance Capt Job Cunningham
called the harbor squad of the police
department The captain and his chief
engineer, although they were only two
against thirty-four drunken and
quarrelsome seamen, finished the Job
of quelling the mutiny IN such q work
nanlike manner that they thought 1t
a shame there were no witnesses to
the results Of their efficiency, the New
York World states.
The mixup started when some Of tie
white sailors, having smuggled aboard
quantity Of bootleg hooch, renewed a
quarrel with the eight negro members
Of the crew, who appealed to the
captain for protection. There had
been friction all the way over from
Boulogne, from which port the Chester
Kiwanis cleared and Capt. Cunning
ham was pretty we'll fed up with argu
ment
Therefore he went to the fo'clsle,
where he found the crew had bar
rcaded itself in. With one blow of
his huge fist the captain shattered
panel Of the door, driving his fore
arm clear through. At this point
sailor made a tactical error Of biting
the captains wrist. After that the
captain laid out every sailor within
reach. and he managed to reach about
all Of them Chief Engineer Michael
son Joined the fray and although he
got a couple of black eyes, he gave
better than he received, and 1t was
not long before all was quiet along the
Staten island shore.
That was the time that the captain
and the chief decided It was too bad
no one could see their handiwork.
Therefore, when one Of the crew below
started to yell they summoned the
police boat, explaining that they
feared a second outbreak"
Current opinion among the crew IL
that those two officers are not In feas
II anything.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1922-10-06
Have You Euphoria7

It takes a doctor to give a high
sounding name to well-known phe
somenon "Euphoria" means feeling
ft" It IS as much a physiological
fact as scarlet fever.
Nature makes it worth while to be
alive simply through euphor!a. The
10Y Of making a good tennis stroke,
the delight that a woodsman gets in
the open air, the artists rhapsody-ail
are due to euphoria. Why do we drink
alcohol-when we can get tor
smoke tobacco? To effect euphoria,
When lunatic thinks that he is
Napoleon and demands the homage
due an emperor, he has euphoria In
its worst form.
Too little is known about euphorta.
Since 1t can be effected by drugs and
chemicals, who knows but 1t may have
its seat in some glandHPopalz
Science Monthly.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1922-10-06
Books Centuries Old.

Some of Ensland's oldest art treas
ures, from Durham cathedral's mo-
nastic library, We're recently brought 10
London and placed ga view al the Vic
toria and Albert museum. Most OF the
work in northern English of The ear
Tier Anglo-Irish schools of I.indiSfarn-
and Durham, and the eXamr.-
of caligraphy and illumination ran
in dates from the Seventh to the -Four
teenth century. Among the manu-
scripts are two traditionally artrib-
uted in the Middle ages to the Veneer
able Bede, but this ascription is not
now accepted. There are also, sew
eral of the books given to the mon
astery by the Bishops William de st.
Carlieph G0S0-109G) and Hugh de
Pulset Pudsey) 1154-1195. Three of
the four volumes of Pudsey's Bible, as
one of the most splendid in existence,
are included in the exhibit.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1922-10-06
SMALL BIRDS FALCONS PREY
Pere9rlne, Like the Pirate He is,
Takes Toll From Weaker crea-
lures of the Air.

1t was reported recently that in the
eyre or a peregrine, a vicious bird, the
rings OF % racing pigeons were found.
The peregrine falcon often kills birds
which are unfortunate enough to cross
its path. Peewits and other birds that
frequent the coast are relentlessly pur-
sued by this hawk, and another prey
Is the golden plover, but this bird at.
fords the hawk good chase before 1t
Is caught.
The peregrine catches it's prey by
protruding its strong legs and talons
to their fullest extent when within a
few feet Of the quarry. Then for a
moment Its wings are almost closed,
and the next the prize Is seized and
carried off. L, however, the object is
too heavy to be lifted from the ground
It Ii forced along sometimes hundred
yards on the ground, and killed and
devoured on the spot. The nest Of the
Seregrine is usually placed on the face
Of some precipitous cliff, resting on q
shelf Of rock or tuft Of vegetation, and
consists a 4 mass Of sticks and conrse
GfoD & exaas and 1esnG
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1922-10-06
Popcorn Powders.

4 certain man suffered from d 80
we're case Of insomnia. Try as he
might, he couldn't get good nights
rest until at last, driven to despera.
ton, he resorted to sleeping powders.
Even these didn't give him relief That
compelled him to increase the dose
until he had reached the stage when
morphine was about to claim him for
her own However, he was prevailed
upon to visit physician whom he
begged for prescription for this dan
gerous narcotic. The physician, wise
In his generation, did not argue the
point, but pretended to readily fall in
with his patients wishes. Retiring
70 q private room, he quickly ground
some popcorn into q fine powder and
did Il up In some regulation powder
papers and handed them to the insom-s
MAC. Come weeks passed, and when
tn physician again saw his patient he
w. informed that the morphine had
done III trick and that he had slept
poncs1u1iy evefy night since he began
en1in9 IL pssderA THIS u what sug.
Cu1l0 - - hin-kleteeiai Rsvtsw.
49,
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Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1922-10-06
A Serious Matter.

81 suppose" said the cross-examin
ing lawyer, in his snappiest manner,
THAT you remember the date of your
BIRTH"
Certainly" said the witness with a
bored air. Every man remembers his
birthday"
az newly born infant has no mem
CRY. Now, sir how do you know that
!, 9 mt q day sooner or day later,
~ " EEK, or a month, or a year thar
t,e., 'Itn you have in mind?"
~ Gy-er-ahem-Ive been told
Exactly. You've been told, but you
don't know. Step down. Gentlemen Of
the Jury, this is the kind of witness
Who has testified against the unim-
peachable character of my CLIENT
Birmingham Age-Herald.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1922-10-06
MT "BARRAck" GOOD TRAP
ODD Idea Used by freshman Said to
Have Had the Merit Of
Effectiveness.

A correspondent Of the British Med
ical Journal has unearthed the follow
ing ingenious method Of dealing with
rats, which he found in Halls book,
Ireland" published in 1841:
"Mr. Russell has rat barrack' on
his premises. 1t is about IL feet long,
feet broad and feet high, with a
coping-stone on the top that projects
a couple of feet inside the wall. The
inside of the wall is full of holes that
just admit rats body, leaving the tail
outside. The whole is covered with
old boards. There are two passages
for them to come out into the yard,
where they are fed and never dis
turbed. The consequence is they never
go into his store where the bacon is.
"Once every three months he closes
the holes that communicate with the
yard. He uncovers the walls, and the
rats all run into the holes. Their tails
are hanging out. \ man goes in, takes
them one by one by the tails and
throws them into a barrel, where they
are all destroyed, to leave room for a
fresh supply"
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1922-10-06
JOB PRINTING
Executed Promptly AT The
HERALD OFFICE.
Gold in Coal.

In describing the Cambria coal field
Of Wyoming, an expert mentions the
interesting fact that gold and silver
are present in small quantities in the
coal. From the occurrence of iron
pyrite, which is distributed through
out the coal seam, 1t is suspected that
this mineral carries the precious met
ais The coke made from the coal Is
used in the smelling works, and aver
ages from one to two pennyweights of
gold per ton, which is sufficient to
compensate for a high ash content.
There has been a similar occur
renee in South Africa. The coal &C.
Cured in small seams running through
the quartzite ore, and in places was
quite rich in gold, the ash being col
ored a bright purple by the finely
divided particles of metal.-Exchange
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1922-10-06
RECALL OLD COLONIAL DAYS
Pearl Chain Of American Independence
May Be Traced Through Old
New England Atties.

Scattered here and there all throuoh
New England are attics Of more than
usual Interest. Many Of these are in.
tlmately connected with early history.
One OF them is found in the old Cod.
dington house at Quincy, Mass, known
as the Quincy mansion, and now in
the possession Of the Colonial Danes.
Here. Mary Northend writes in the
Boston Transcript, in the early days
before 1t was ren,odeled by Edmund
Quincy, group Of free thinkers gath.
cred, including WheelrigAt and Anne
Hutchinson, both Of whom were after.
ward banished on account Of their
LIBERAL views. which did not coincide
With those Of the Puritans.
In the upper story, q low, dingy At,
nc. with its secret staircase behind
the huge chimney, still remains IN.
tact. On account Of its peculiar con-
'truction It might be termed a double
attic. A trapdoor leads from one part
INTO another division through which
escape can be made to the galleries
below and thence to the ground.
John Hancock, who married Doro.
my Quincy. IL reputed to have spent
: night In the nursery across the han
from the attic. BY hiding here he
foiied the British who wero searching
tor him. ana later On uso1 tAe spcree
passagsway to escape. N doenk fAat
be was 1t ens dime IN this re- = -.
eaAn MANnA1rs A~Aa-NAa -. :. 49,
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1922-10-06
Marine Phenomenon.

Late one January the steamship
Trafalgar, when within ten miles q
Wolf rock, off the southeast coast &
England. met with remarkable ac
cident.
A report like that Of cannon was
heard, and a large fiery body with
a tail 80 or 40 feet long struck the
water 20 feet from the vessel n
was accompanied by a loud Kissing
and a column of water rose where Il
struck the sea. Immediately after
ward the ship seemed to be on FIRE,
the engine room glowing with violet
light filled with multitudes Of sparks.
The mate engaged at the wheel sui
fered violent shock through the steel
rod In his hand. The crew fled to the
deck. 1t was found that all the tom.
passes had been demagnetized. anG
the ship had much difficulty In making
her way to Falmouth. 1t was prob.
ably Z strong lightning flash which
struck the water. and the subsequent
electric phenomena were produced b
the di1persal Of the charge supplied
= - auE1aee q ~ -.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1922-10-06
Wireless Hour SIGNALS

When ship IS approaching shore
great caution is often necessary be-
cause of uncertainty as to the YES
sells precise position. 1t was some
years ago that it was first proposed
that wireless telegraphy be utilized to
send hour signals over the sea round
England to a distance of 200 or 800
miles from shore, in order that the
captains of incoming ships might thus
be enabled to rectify their chronome-
tiers to Greenwich time. The govern
ment of Canada thereupon established
system of this kind at Camperdown.
near Halifax. Every morning the
exact hour is sent out over the sea,
so that all vessels furnished with re-
celving apparatus may pick up the true
time from the air.-Washington Star.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1922-10-06

In the Middle ages the time-ball
as a means of marking the passing
hours was popular. For the con-
venience of the men and women Of
the various courts Of Europe a great
ball was dropped from the ceiling Of
the palace throne room at certain in
tervals. Today, many cities have time
balls in prominent places which drop
at noon to warn the citizens of the
time Many harbors, Montreal and
Quebec, for instance, still use the
time-ball to mark noon and other
hours.
But it remained for a little coun-
try in South America, Uruguay, to In
augurate Il really modern and eff
Gent system for sending broadcast
over the capital city, Montevldeo, the
time at exactly eight O'clock at night,
At that hour every electric light in
the city grows dim for a few seconds,
and the residents set their clocks and
watches.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1922-10-06
MOVES ALTOGETHER TOO FAST
Writer Makes Complaint About Life
That Will Be Echoed by Many
No Longer Young.

Here is another new one already
started and even on the second day we
can seem to feel the finish just ahead
Of US, F. II. Young writes in Proyi
dence Journal We shall have just
time to save up for the summer yaca-
ton and then for another period Of
scrimping preparation for Christmas
md first thing we know they will be
handing around the 1923 calendars
That is really the most alarming as
pect of life, after one gets to be about
so old. 1t is this internal and reient-
less speed Of the passing years which
steadily becomes speedier. 1t is only
youth that is able to worry about love
measuring machines, the erratic con
duct of the equator and the north pole,
the speed of the moon and the speed OF
turtles and all these contemporaneous
scientific matters.
And yet, science is just wonderful,
isn't it? In Toronto the American AS
ISOLATION for the Advancement Of Sci
ence has just received a report from
a professor at the University OF Wis
consin which reveals a new speed rec
ord. The champion racing turtle in an
event which included 1853 entrants fin
Ished the mile in three years eleven
months and nineteen days. All we can
get out Of this is the thought that wa
would like to have life move as slowly
as 1t does for turtle.