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Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1922-11-17
LEGEND MANY CENTURIES OLD
story Of the Wandering Jew" Has
Been Common to All Peoples
Since tho Crucifixion.

It is an ancient legend, that of the
Wandering Jew, and the earliest men.
ton I can find Of it is said to be an
account related by an Armenian bish-
op in 1928. 1t has been exploited by
the novelist, the playwright. the poet
and the historian, for it 10 a subject
replete with fascinating thrills.
Tales have differed az to the identity
Of the Wandering Jew. One relates
that he was Kartaphilos, a doorkeeper
in the judgment hall Of Pontius PLATE,
who. when the Man Of Sorrows was
passing through, struck him, saying,
"Go on faster, Jesus" and the replywas,
II am going, but thou shall tarry till
come again" A German legend takSs
1t up and relates that in the year 1547
the Jew appeared in Hamburg. giving
his name as Ahasuerus, saying that
he had been q shoemaker in Jerusalem
at the time Of the crucinxion. When
Jesus paused at his door to rest the
cobbler pushed Him away, bidding
Him leave, to which the reply was:
Truly I 90 away and that quickly,
but tarry thou till I come again"
And this tradition has 1t that the
condemned man, going from country
to country, speaking all languages,
wandered throughout the centuries.
Eugene Sue depicts this artisan Of
Jerusalem as pale. with the single line
Of his black brows crossing from tenn
pie to temple, ever urged by the
avenging Deity, who cries, "Go on, 70
on" but shows him as repentant and
with hope Of final rest-Frederic Has,
kin In the Chicago Daily News
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1922-11-17
HONOR GOES TO VERMONTER
Thaddeus Fairbanks of that State
Made First Weighing Machine
in the Year 1881.

The origin Oh weighing things dates
back so far that the name of the in
ventor is unknown, observes the
Brooklyn Eagle. When man reached
the stage in civilization where he
ceased to depend upon his own efforts
for his livelihood and began trading
with his fellows he was confronted
with the need of weighing things in
order to determine the actual weight
of whatever he traded in.
The trade of the world developed by
leaps and bounds over hundreds OF
years, but we did not have scales until
about 1881, when Thaddeus Fairbanks
of Vermont made and patented the
first one. Before that time weighing
of heavy loads was done by a crude
method. When weighing a load of hay
the wagon with the hay Wa8 sus-
pended on a huge steelyard, originally
fashioned during the days Of ancient
Rome Fairbanks first scale was IN
its essential principles the same at
are the scales Of today and its sue
cess quickly spread over the world.
Orders poured in from every direction,
for his scales were not only more CON
venient than the old method of hoist
ing the object to he weighed on 9
steelyard hut they were also more ac-
cutate. With the stoalyard, the actual
weight might be 2scertained within
fifty pounds whereas today, on scales
,Hln Il
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1922-11-17
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BIG TREE" WORLD W0HDEFE.
United States Government Is Keen4y
Alive to the Demand for t'reserva-
ton of the RedWoods.

Our great parks. the Yosemite. YET
towstone. Seuuoia and General Grant
must be kept under military superVi'
sion in order to preserve their natlfa'
wonders against injury from trespass
RS. OF all these miracles OF nature
he "big trees are the most ast0nlsh-
NJ. There are two species-the Sc
,uoia Somperyirens, or ordinary req
wood. and the seQuoia gigantea, Whic"
is, strictly speaking. the big tree OF
7alifornia.
These stately creatures are so III
Dressive that it seems quite fitting t.
honor them with distinguished titles
Nearly every STATE i'll the Union and
uauy of the distinguished generals oi
he Civil war have names among thcit.
The General Grant" and the Gen
raj Sheridan" are individuals of the
largest size and. with the "Grizziy
Slant" are probably the biggest OF
al trees.
Before one of the national eXposi-
lions the government ordered a sec
ton of redwood thirty feet long for
exhibition and for this it agreed to
pay $1,000 Before the lumber COM
Dany had succeeded in delivering 1t
on the cars it had cost nearly that
amount for a mountain wagon road
five miles long had to be built to get
it out and trench was dug as long
and as large as the tree itself to set
it in
The same company also furnished
| another tree for another exhibition,
which was cut in General Grant park
not Il hundred yards from the spot
where the General Grant stands i'll
all its majesty. In the same grove lies
the "Fallen Monarch" through the
burnt-out heart of which mounted
| horseman can ride with ease.
In the Yosemite is the "Wawona,' a
tree with hole burnt in its base,
through which the road runs and big
automobiles are driven without diff
Guilty; and on the Mark Twain
stump of the General Grant park
eighteen full-sized cavalry horses have
easily stood. 1t is twenty-siX feet il
diameter.-Washingto Star.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1922-11-17
ALL ABOUT RAIN
BY a Man Who Evidently Has
Studied the Subject.
Some Few Facts May Have Been over
looked, But in General 1t Will Be
Found Pretty Comprehensive.

RAIN" said the man who presides
over the fortunes of the all-night
lunch room, sis phenomenon familiar
TO all of us from our early years
Scientists tell US that rain is the mois-
ture which makes the clouds before it
is condensed into rain drops by COM
ing into contact with colder air cur
rents, and that is very interesting.
There are certain other interesting
facts connected with rain. | have
spent much time in collecting them
Rain can be confidently expected to
fall on the Fourth Of July, on the 18th
of March, on the dates of weddings,
open-air prize fights, and inaugurations
of the Presidents, when it sometimes
appears frozen and is then called
snow. 1t can be looked for with as
Surance on other occasions too nu-
merous to mention and it comes fire.
quently in defiance of all known rules.
There are certain cities in this
country which support a game called
BASEBALL he continued. I'm these
cities rain is famous principally be-
cause it produces what are known as
dOuble-headers, an arrangement much
in favor among certain admirers of the
sport.
in the days before children were
deprived of the pleasure of risking
their lives with fireN orks in celebra-
ton of the signing of the Declaration
of Independence each Fourth Of July,
rain was hailed with delight on that
and women. 1t exerted q dampening
influence on the dangers of the day,
tended to reduce the noise of the oc
casion and made it almost impossible
to set roofs on fire with skyrockets
and powder crackers
but today almost the only persons
who welcome rain are the husbands
and fathers of the land, who seek
excuses for accompanying their wives
and children to places of so-called
amusement and who, by some strange
superstition, regard a holiday as a
IL. I'd in which to rest Rain is es-
pecialIy uuWelcOme on days like the
Fourth Of July to the people whose
9o.its depend on the assembling of
thousands of patriotic celebrators in
the open air.
aside from holidays, rain is deemed
valuable stock in trade by farmers,
gardeners. the manufacturers Of rub
berS, rainc0ats and umbrellas. House
wives usually object to it. because in
all the centuries of civilization the
male members of families have never
learned the real use of the mat at the
front door with Welcome written
on it.
Rain is sometimes. but not often,
useful as an Inspiration to poets, adj
vertisement illustrators and people
with bad tempers. The last class often
wakes really eloquent when the gentle
drops fall from the clouds.
He told me- that he had just been
presented with something from over
the border that rendered him immune
to the ills attendant upon rain, called
NE a Grass materialist and went out
thinking of violets, l guess, because
he forgot to pay for his coffee. -
; Providence Journal.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1922-11-17
CHRISTMAS TfEES WILL LAST
Little Danger That in Years to Com.
the Children VIII Be De-
prived Of Joy.

Don't join any gloom group that may
be trying to form a society for the pre-
yention Of cruelty to Christmas trees
advises writer in the Kansas City
star
The forests are there to be used, and
II, as we utilize the trees, we make it
possible by replanting for our children
and our children's children to have
trees. there is no reason Tor not having
Christmas trees as well as all the lum-
ser we need.
That is the way the scientific for
ester, the man who grows trees like
the farmer grows wheat, looks at this
matter of Christmas trees.
While there is still some regrettable
ruthless cutting of spruce and fr for
the Christmas tree market in northern
states, many Christmas trees are now a
by-product Of the forests. There are
small trees in every properly managed
woodlot that must be sacrificed SC
that the others may have room tc
grow. These make fine Christmas
trees.
Christmas trees are also being
raised in nurseries. Baby spruce and
fir trees are planted by man so that
the babies and children of man car
have Christmas trees in their nurs
cries And Christmas tree /.
usually between the ages Of five anC
ten years, just about the age Of tfe
child who enjoys Christmas most. II
the future years. it is expected tha
neurly all of our Christmas trees viii
be raised by nurserymen from thu
forests
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1922-11-17
A Serious Matter.

81 suppose" said the cross-examin
ing lawyer, in his snappiest manner,
that you remember the date Of your
tirthY'
Certainly" said the witness with a
bored air. Every man remembers his
birthday"
"a newly born infant has no mem
ory. Now, sir, how do you know that
it wasn't a day sooner or day later,
or week, or month, or year than
the date you have in mind?"
"Why-er-ahem-T been told
Exactly. You've been told, but you
don't know. Step down. Gentlemen Of
the jury, this is the kind of witness
aho has testified against the unim
peachable character of my CLIENT
Birmingham Age-Herald.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1922-11-17
DON'T SWALLOW THEIR YOUNG
Popular Idea Concerning Snakes Is Not
Borne Out by the Observations
of Scientists.

Snakes don't swallow their young
The ventral scales on a female snake
are controlled by muscle just behind
the head Ordinarily they are hori-
zontal, but when the mother snake
scents danger she contracts the muscle
on the back of her neck, which lin
nlediately brings the scales to YER
teal position. This opens e slit
under the bottom jaw, and at the same
time loosens the abdominal skin, thus
forming a pouch. The younger ones
dart through the slit and into the
pouch. and this is what has led PEI
pie to think they take refuge in tile
mother snakes stomach.
II requires careful and skilled dis
section to detect the pouch, because
the skin shrinks when a snake is
killed When the poison gland is re-
moved it tightens the skin under the
neck, and the youngsters can't gel
into the pouch. In the female snake
between the pharynx and the gullet
there is peculiar, ud-like valve,
and anything passing this valve cap't
possibly return.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1922-11-17
Mortality Of Trees.

Human beings cannot compete with
trees In the matter Of longevity, bat
human beings are more fortunate than
trees up to certain ages, according to
mortality tables. A forest at maturity
contains about per cent Of all the
trees that have started life there. The
percentage of persons living from ten
% fifty is much greater In the case
Of trees. About 95 per cent Of our
tres die before they are eighty years
old, while only 81 per cent of persons
I'll die before reaching that age.
!3:lt when it comes to trees 100 years
u: age and over We have to go back
nto Biblical history to find human be-
ings who compare with them in length
Of years. Methuselah and Noah were
far ahead of the majority Of our COM
n On trees as centenarians, but no man
and no nation has lived as long as
have the sequoia trees. The sequoia
I tains an age of about 1000 years.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1922-11-17
PREVENTION IS BEST aIETAUu
Wise Old Persian Had Right idea Cor
corning Disease, Long Before
Birth Of Christ.

Five hundred years before the birth
Of Christ a wise old Persian father
advised his son, Cyrus the Great,
that the thing to do is to have ply
sicians prevent disease; in modern
language, keep two jumps ahead. So
the idea that there should be all-ti'ae
health officers to prevent disease is
not thing to be looked on as an in
novation.
More than twenty-five centuries ago,
conversation like the following took
place between Cyrus and his father:
Il have heard and seen that those
states which seek for good health
educate their physicians, and that
commanders take with them ply
sicians for the sake Of the soldiers"
SAID Cyrus. Il, too, therefore, as soon
as my present expeditions were in
trusted to me, gave my attention to
the subject and thought that | had
with me very competent physicians
To which his father replied: But
shese physicians, my son, of which
tou speakest, are like members of
torn garments, and thus, they cure
those who have fallen sick. Thy chief
anxiety should be to provide for
health, for thou oughtest to take care
to prevent the army from falling into
sickness at ALL"
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1922-11-17
Have You Euphoria2

It takes a doctor to give high
sounding name to a well-known phe
Somenon. "Euphoria" means feeling
1T" 1t is as much q physiological
fact as scarlet fever.
Nature makes it worth while to be
alive simply through eupher!a. The
10Y Of making a good tennis stroke,
the delight that a woodsman gets in
the open air. the artists rhapsody-all
are due to euphoria. Why do we drink
alcohol-when we can get it-c'
smoke tobacco? Tc e1tett euphoria.
When a lunat'c th'ctls that he ia
Napoleon and detn:nds the homage
due an emperor, he has euphoria In
its worst form.
Too little is known about euphoria
Since it can be effected by drugs and
chemicals, who knows but 1t may HAYS
its seat in some glandS-Popafu
Science Monthly.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1922-11-17
TITS Me! 'Tain't Mel
Now get this-it's good.

Now get thIS-ltS good.
Two sets of twin brothers occupy
their time il the business life of In
dianapolis. One set is Louis and An
drew Hoover, as alike as the aces on
d pair of dice. The other is William
and Charles Small, as similar az
bananas.
Lou Hoover knows Bill Small, but
he doesn't know Charles.
Charlie Small knows Andy Hoover,
but he doesn't know Lou.
The other day Lou Hoover met
Charlie Small on the street.
"Hello, Bill" said Lou.
There you are, Andy. all messed up
again. I'm Charlie not Bill
well, you haven't anything on me
I'm Lou, not Andy."-Indianapolis
News.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1922-11-17
Antiquity of Anesthetlcs.

The artificial induction of painless
ness by narcotic draughfs was ira
ditionally known in ancient times
writes DR.. Charles Balance in the
London Lancet. The Chinese were &C
quaintcd with general anestiesia thou
sands of years ago. It Is related Of
the surgeon Hoaiho In the Third cen
fury A. D. that he performed ampu-
tation. trephining and ether major OF
eratiOns by It's aid
Doctor Browne relates two cases OF
anc<theSia taken fram Persian manu-
script. The first story concprns Aris-
totle and an Indian surgeon named
Sarnah. An earwig had entered the
patients ear and attached itself to the
brain Aristotle gave the patient Il
drug so that he became unconscious
While Sarnab trephlned the skull. This
was excellent treatment It Is now
we'll known that living foreign bodies
may produce otitis and meningitis In
the second case the operation was
Caesarian section.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1922-11-17
49,
NOT AN EASY OCCUPATION
Desp-sea Diver May With Much Truth
Be Said Constantly to walk
With Death"


How does a deep-sea diver feel
when he puts on his diving suit7 Capt.
@. A. W. Monckton tells US in Some
Experiences Of a New Guinea Resi-
dent Magistrate" that the feeling Is
by no means pleasant.
The moment the face glass Is
screwed tight he says, and the air
pump begins to work, the diver feels
that he has a grievance. As he de-
cends the feeling becomes more posi-
tive until he Is in a fury Of rage
against everyone In general and usual.
ly against one person in particular.
At the bottom he spends much Of his
time wondering how soon the dress
can be taken off so that he can injure
the person against whom he has the
imaginary grievance. However. the
moment the face glass Is removed,
and the diver breathes the ordinary
air, the bad temper leaves him, and
he wonders what caused his anger.
The divers greatest danger IL that
Of being drowned when he Is on his
way to the surface. After a time, It
seems, the best Of diving dresses be-
comes leaky, and the water that dnds
its way through the seams settles
round the feet and tie legs; divers
become accustomed to having their
dresses filled with water up to the
knees and even to the thighs. How
ever, when a diver who has water In
the bottom Of his suit Is being hauled
to the surface he may Involuntary
or accidentally allow his body to be-
come horizontal, and II he does 30
the water at once rushes into his
helmet, stands him on his head and
browns him.-Youth's Companion.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1922-11-17
OF Interest to Bee KEEPERS

Keep large, long -tongued bees, adj
vises ]. H. Merrill, of the Kansas State
Agricultural college. He has found
tbat the bees with the longest tongues
and the greatest body weight bring
home the most honey. To the Amer;.
can Association of Economic Eoto.
mologists' meeting in Toronto he de.
clared it is possible to tell which col
ony of bees i'll beeyard will collec,
the most honey during a summer by
measuring the tongues, the amount OF
nectar, and obtaining the weight of
forty bees from each colony 10 the
snTing
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1922-11-17
Polished Shoes Once pecried


Polished shoes were for a long time
looked upon as sure sign of effem-
macy In men, and were often even
ridiculed, says London Answers
Therefore, "mock me all over, from
my fiat cap unto my shining Shoes"
became almost proverbial.
Shoe ornamentation Of any kind
came to us from France. 1t was OF
Frenchifed Englishman that Ben
Jnnson wrote in his famous satire:
"Would you believe that so much scarf
of France, of hat, and feather. an6
shoe, and tye. and garter. should come
hither?"
Now let us look at the other extrem.
fty. Powder for the hair was first
introduced into England early in the
Seventeenth century, and became im-
mediately the mock Of the dramatists,
and was severely censured by the
Puritans.
The fashion became very popular
about 1895, when a tax Of / guinea
per annum was levied on every per.
son who wore their hair powdered.
The hair-powder duty tor the 1rss
year was estimated q k26000o d.
z5Ae901.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1922-11-17
Do We Lauuh in Dreams2

Why do we have no sense of humOr
while we are dreaming? And why do
We take almost everything as a mat
ter of course?
In our waking moments we should
be surprised if a fat Chinese guest
were to swim like a goldfish through
the dining room where Lloyd George
is gratefully eating mud pie
brought in by a little girl whose hair
is done up in eight pigtails. and a
tailor is applying an immense tlatiron
TO the coat which its owner is wearing
while he is smoking a saXophone, and
a swarthy man is chopping up books
and cording them in the center Of the
room.
Perhaps we do laugh while we
dream, and then forget that we
laughed,-Life.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1922-11-17
Marine Phenomenon.

Late one January the steamship
Trafalgar, when within ten miles Of
Wolf rock, off the southeast coast 81
England, met with a remarkable &c
cident.
A report like that of a cannon was
heard. and large fiery body with
tail 30 or 40 feet long struck the
water 20 feet from the vessel. II
was accompanied by loud kissing,
and a column Of water rose where \
struck the sea- Immediately aftse>
ward the ship seemed to be on flro.
the engine room glowing with a violet
light filled with multitudes Of sparkA
The mate engaged at the wheel sui
fered a violent shock through the steol
rod In his hand. The crew fed to tbs
deck. It was found that all tho 49,
passes had been demagneti1ed. and
the ship had much din1culty In making
her way to Falmouth Il was p9uo
ably q strong lightning Aash wAteD
struck the water, and the suhooQUG
saectric phenomena were produced ~
the dispersal q the ekarU4 auUl
- - sas11co - - go
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1922-11-17
SLAIN BY GRIZZLY
Trapper Lost Out in Stend-Up
Fight With Forest King.
From Evidence II Seemed That An
imal Had Been Taken In Trap
but Had Broken Away.

Joseph Duret. pioneer hunter and
trapper, a man who knew all the tricks
of the game, was killed near Livings-
ton, Mont, recently by grizzly bear.
Duret owned a nice ranch in the south
ern part of Park county, Montana, near
the boundary Of the Yellowstone Ma
tional park, and he knew all the tricks
of the hunting game. was well aware
of the danger of encountering vic
ious bear and yet he appears to have
fiirted with death in trying to kill alone
a huge grizzly, and to have lost.
Duret caught the animal in one or
his game traps-a huge steel device
that fastened itself with a clamp about
the paw. He hastily returned home
for his large-bore rifle and told his
wife of his catch. Mrs. Duret never
saw him again. His failure TO return
prompted her to search the hills with
dogs in vain. Then she appealed to
the Yellowstone park rangers.
They spread out over the country
and after long search w. Hutchings,
assistant at the park buffalo corrals,
and Ranger William Dehnof found
Duret's mangled body nearly two miles
from where he had engaged In a life
and-death struggle with the beast. 1t
was a wild, desolate place not ten
miles from where Duret in 1910, was
introduced to and warmly greeted by
President Roosevelt
Pieces of hair and torn flesh, rem
nants Of the broken trap and clawed
ard chewed rifle told the story Of the
fight Duret made. Superintendent
Horace NJ Albright Of Yellowstone
park. who Investigated the old hunt
er's death, said the grizzly was
veteran brute of the park for which
hunters had covered many mile. 1t
apparently had succeeded In breaking
away from the trap after Duret fired
q shot. 1t is believed the bear broke
a chain which attached the trap to q
tree. then attacked the hunter, whose
rint had apparently jammed.
1t was apparent that Duret had
tried to defend himself by using his
rife as a club, but his fight was use
less One arm and leg were torn of
and the body was mangled. 1t is be
lieved he became unconscious, Their
revived after the bear had wearieC
OF his prey and dragged away the
chain attached to the trap. Signs in
dicated that Duret managed to craw
about two miles toward his home. The
rangers say he must have retained full
possession of his faculties, as he was
making a straight line to his rancf
when death overlook him.