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Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1922-06-02
ALL DOGS NOT COLOR BLIND
Belief That Has Long Been Held Is
Now Declared to Be Entirely
Wrong Impression.

Am eminent authority once asserted
that all dogs were color blind. He
quoted, in support Of his statement,
the case of two pug dogs who Were
unable to distinguish the difference
in color Of the plates from which they
were fed.
The color sense may be entirely
lacking in pug dogs, which are not re
nowned for their sagacity; but TO as
sumo that every other dog is color
blind la a deduction far from the
truth.
Not only can dogs be trained TO rec
ognize color. but they possess the nat
ural color sense in very high degree
They can differentiate between vari
Gus subtle shades and tones, and their
likes and dislikes are strongly derel
oped.
A fox terrier has been known TO fol-
low at a distance a perfect stranger,
solely because she was wearing
dress similar in color to that worn by
his mistress. Only upon approaching
the woman did he find his mistake.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1922-06-02

The Fushun coal mine of China Is
one of the largest open-cut mines in
TIE world The Tartars are known to
have worked the mine il the Twelfth
century.
For years the Chinese have been
urged to work the mine, but Chinese
officiaiGofn has always pointed to the
fact that the spirit Of Tai-Tsu-Kao, q
MaHchu emperor who was buried 10
miles sway in the Seventeenth century
IT ust not be disturbed. Thus for cen
turtles superstition kept over 1,00O,-
100000 tons OF coal untouched In
their efforts to open the mines, the
Japanese not only found great official
hostility to their scheme on the part
OF the Chinese officials. but even the
native coolies We're reluctant at first
to work. through their fear of the
sleeping Tai-TsU-hao, 10 miles distant
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1922-06-02
aECALL OLD COLONIAL DAYS
Pearl Chain OF American Independence
May Be Traced Through Old
New England Attics.

Scattered here and there all through
New England are attics of more than
usual interest. Many Of these are in.
flmately connected with early history.
One of them b found in the old Cod.
dington house at Quincy. Mass, knowp
US 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 remodeled by Edmund
Quincy, group Of free thinkers gath
cred, including Wheelright and Anne
Hutchinson. both of whom were after
ward hanished on account of their
LIBERAL views, which die. not coincide
With those Of the Puritans.
In the upper story, low, dingy at,
&c. with its secret staircase behind
The huge chimney, still remains in.
aact. On account Of its peculiar con-
'truction 1t might be termed a double
attic. A trapdoor leads from one part
INTO another division through which
escape can be made to the galleries
'eiow and thence to the ground.
John Hancock, who married Doro-
my Quincy, Is reputed to have spent
a night in the nursery across the hall
from the attic. By hiding here, he
toiled the British who were searching
Tor him. and later on used the secret
to escape. All doubt that
he was at one time Ia this rocun q sat
tsfac toriiy banished By his initials y.
3 " scratched On one Of IL Window
with diamond. me wuqds Tn !
Ds.e md - alsae.- aeEil - -
unR - - aUkna - r - ~
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1922-06-02
ANTS MUCH LIKE FlREFLIES
Throw Off Small bat Quite
Distinct Light.

AT least two Brazilian travellers
have described an extraordinary phe-
nomenon connected with the nests Of
white ants, or tern1tes. Dr. da ron
SEGA, who saw the exhibition on the
headwaters of the Rio Verde, gives the
appearance as that Of tiny stars, at
fording the nest the look of q min
iature tower brilliantly Illuminated.
When the nest was struck with 4 stick
the lights Went out, only to re-appear
little by little.
Casrelnau. in the middle Of the last
century beheId q similar spectacle
near the city Of Goyaz. He says that
the lights were produced by an i'm
mense number of small phoSphoTes-
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 terrlli9e life, since he has
lived and Travelled for years in Brazil
without seeing il.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1922-06-02
cor IDEA FOR WATER WHEEL
Verb Greatly Indebted to Humble
Cow and Mans Quick Percep-
ton for the Turbine.

The huge hydro-electric power de.
velopment now reaching every part
Of the world owes it's origin to d
homely incident which took place in
California many years ago, in which
an early day miner and his Gov
were the chief factors.
History and legend relate that OF,
hot day in the summer of 1850 q
typical placer miner of that period
to1led on his claim. To supply water
for washing the gold-bearing gravel
he had provided a long length of or
binary hose, and as the fall above
was considerable the water gushed
from the hose with decided force. AZ
the sun sank the COW came to the
workings to Stake her thirst, and was
in danger Of upsetting some of tie
sluices and other devices of the
placer miner. So the man turned the
hose on the COW. BY chance the water
blast struck the COW in her cup-like
nostrils. throwing her head back
sharply
The man was Lester A. Pelton, out
from Ohio on a mining venture, and
later world famous as the inventor
of the Pelton water wheel, the de
vice which forms the basis of the
great turbines which transform water
into electric energy
Pelton said many times that the
idea Of the invention came to him
when he saw the effect of the water
blast coming in contact with the cows
nose. Within an hour he was rigging
up a wagon wheel with empty cans
tied to the rim and was able to prove
the value Of what was later to be hif
great invention.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1922-06-02
DRAGONS OF EAST AND WEST
Legends Regarding Them Vary Wide.
", the Oriental Mind Regarding
Them With Reverence.

Perhaps we never stop to realize
AoW strange it is that among the saints
lhere is room for one to win HIS place
}y The r1puted actual saving OF a lady
from 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 slaughterbringing GratE-
ons early trailed across the legends
OF Europe, bringing with them desola-
ton and forming preteXts for love af-
fairs between lorn damsels and he
rOes. ~
The eastern mind AsympathiZed with
the dragon and made it the emblem
Of rule. I know of only one instance
where anyone attempted to destroy d
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 OF
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-
tiffc conquest of it.--EliZabetl- j, Coats
worth, in the North. American Review,
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1922-06-02
Keep the Baby Quiet at NIaht.

Getting W i'll the night to quiet an
uneasy bany is not the Joke that some
comic writers represent it to be. A
young husband discovered this in case
j., his fr>t-born and the means he
took to overcome the difficulty won
him Z prize in contest in new uses
Tor electricity.
The only means Of quieting this
baby. who was ailing was to move
linn up and down, gently. In the low
er part of the crib the father fastened
the motor Of a discarded electric fan.
From a small pulley on the motor he
ran a belt to a larger pulley on a
short shaft, at the other end of which
he rugged a crank. Then he extended
Il connecting rod to the center Of the
frame that supported the springs and
mattress.
The motor when started, moved
springs. mattress and baby up and
down about an inch smoothly, gently
and regularly. It proved entirely sat
isfactory to the baby, who is now
one year old. healthy and happy, and
he has never got his parents out of
bed at night since the apparatus was
installed.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1922-06-02
LUCKY WORKER GETS BUTTON
Rather Odd Way BY Which Employer
Selects Lonoshoremen for Par
ticular job He Has

The ancient game Of Button, button,
who has the button?" is played by
serious groups Of men daily along the
New York water front. A small crowd
may be seen gathered about a wagon
from which man distributes the but
tons. The men who get the buttons
win.
The man In the wagon with the
buttons. Is matter of fact, is choos-
iI- Holkmen, and finds the button
saline convenient scheme for making
his choice. The plan is commonly
used In selecting longshoremen to
work cargoes on the ships At an
early hour longshoremen hunting jobs
gather about the dock entrances. The
mn who needs workers takes his po-
Il in wagon, or perhaps on box.
-. els for workmen. The crowd
"-ue. snout him.
c".4 his position the employer can
ne slc. and figures of the men.
.on long experience he can tell at
glance which men best serve his
p,,rpose. He makes up his mind in a
moments inspection. To signal the
man and get him out of the crowd
would require time and lead to compli-
cations. He merely tlips button or
small disk to the man he has selected.
Tie man catches it and makes his way
"a u. the crowd to the dock The
-rrtoo Zane Is great saver of time.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1922-06-02
PATCHING UP KINGS STEI1o,
Serious Omission Recently Gave Brit.
ish Parliamentary Authorities
dad Fifteen Minutes"

William Goblet, who used to COM
plain of the bad grammar and the in
different English Of the kings
speeches to parliament, surely never
contemplated the omission which
marked the kings speech at the open
ing Of the recent session. The speech
itself was remarkably short-139
words all told--and it came to a sud-
den stop without the usual invocation
OF Gods blessing on the labors Of par
lament When the king had departed,
the officials were Mortified at the
omission; and hastily sent up a verbal
ADDITION to the press. Some Of the
newspapers used 1t and some did not.
Nor was this al, for when the lord
chancellor In the house Of lords and
the speaker in the house Of commons
read out the speech at the afternoon
sitting. the invocation was there, but
the words were diifersnt from those
supplied earlier in the day. The -
scEet AseaGy - n tiso C1Aann1s
- - - I
II u - -
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1922-06-02
The Cliff DweI,ers.

Clif-dWellers is the name of race
OF Indians, formerly living in the cliffs
bordering on the valleys of the Rio
Grande and Rio Colorado. Their homes
were built In the recesses of the cliffs
at height often of several hundred
feet from the ground. and at the pres
ent time seemingly inaccessible. as the
former paths that led to them nearly
all have been destroyed by the crum-
bling away Of the rocks. The dwellings
sometimes consisted Of many rooms,
and in some cases We're two, or more
stories high, hewn in the nock. with
wooden linteis in the doors and win
dows, which were probably closed
with skins or blankets. The walls were
finished with plaster Of clay. How
the Inhabitants subssted Is not known
but probably mainly by hunting and
fishing, as the soil about these locali-
ties was barren. The Pueblo Indians,
who still are found in that section
are thought to be descen dants Of the.
cliff-dwellers. They possess consider
able kill In makipg articles e pct
1W and II hka.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1922-06-02
HainboWs Shaken.

1t is usually supposed that the down.
pour of rain that sometimes follows q
flash of lightning is due to the Goa
lesence of fine drops on losing their
electrical charge, but Finnish OBJ
server concludes that the thunder Jars
the drops together. Near Nasa heavy
thunderstorm came up from the east
ate one afternoon, and. as the sun
was unclouded, brilliant double rain
bow appeared in the east for half an
hour. arching from horizon TO horizon
At each roll of thunder the rainbows
seemed to be much shaken, the wedge
being displaced and the colors blurred.
This could not be due to the lightning,
and 1t seemed that the same cause
might enlarge the raindrops and dis
turb the rainbow.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1922-06-02
mHird Of Passage y

The earliest use of the term bird
of passage" is found in eighteenth
book of the Natural History of Pliny
the Elder (23-27 A. D., where he says:
''The bird of passage known to US
as the cuckoo" and the term has since
been applied to birds which migrate
with season from a colder to a
warmer, or from a warmer to a colder
climate, divided into summer birds of
passage and winter birds Of passage.
Such birds always breed In the coun-
try to which they resort in summer,
that Is, in the colder of their homes.
The term is said to have been first
applied to sailors by Bacon who de-
clared that the uncertainty. Instability
and fluctuating state Of human life
was most aptly represented by those
sailing the ocean.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1922-06-02
First Train Tito the Ozark

When the White River branch of the
,fiSsouri -aciic railroad was built
do1.n througl. tae Ozarks, the popula-
tipn had never seen a railroad train.
re platform was crowded, and many
,omen were there with their sun
~A.3es.
The ent leer made lot of unnec-
sary sLottings with his engine and
.,.ii'I reverse lhe throttle. causing the
u els to spin around, which terrified
people Then he turned on the
valves, t'oWinG out great jets Of
ana tie Peep e almost fell over
ives to back out Of the way.
~ the engineer stuck his head
p lhe cab window and sang out:
l.. some of you ladies don't put down
,oIr parasols l don't believe l can
hanlle this critter much longer"
III three seconds every woman low
cred her pardsol, and they seemed
much relieved when the engineer got
his train in motion without further
trouble and went numbering away
down the track-Columbus (Kan.) Ad-
voCate.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1922-06-02
NOT ALL BEER AND SKITTLES
EngIishman Has Somewhat Lengthy
List of Drawbacks to Life in
the Turkish Capital.

An English business man backed me
into corner in Constantnople club,
looked at me sternly over the top of his
brandy and soda and addressed me as
follows:
"When you write about this town,
old chap, l hope you'll tell your peo-
pie what a beastly place it is, what?
A chap can't make a move, you know,
without some one asking him to have
something Look here, old chap. ~
court of law, you know, CHI; IS
ordinarily supposed to be sober H.ttr
8 o'clock at night, what? Here H.
the opposite, by Jove! A bit thick, ell,
what?
Look here, make note Of this,
what? They celebrate five Christmas
es and five New Years in this rotten
town. Oh, at least five. On my
honor, old chap! English, Armenian
Greek, Russian, Turkish, Jewish-real-
ly, old chap. 1 become fearfully in
coherent when l try to remember
what they are. BY the time the last
New Year is over one can just totter
around. Oh, absolutely, I give you
my word. And then there is the Rus
sian Easter, which is fearfully nerve
racking. 1t lasts from one to two
weeks, and one is obliged to do a fear
full amount of drinking. While it
lasts one goes up to any one and says
He is risen and kisses him three
times. It's done that way, old chap.
I give you my word, everybody does
1t. One hunts for a pretty girl and
says He is risen and kisses her three
times, and, by jove, it's considered
quite all right. Oh, quite. In way,
old chap, it beats egg rolling on lawn
all hollow. what? A bit thick, by jove,
but a bit Of all right, what?
But of course there's fearful hot
of good feeling and one must ever
lastingly be buying drink for some
one 1t cuts into ones work fearfully.
You just tell all that to the chaps at
home. and they'll see that living in
Constantinople isn't all beer and skit-
ties. by jove! What?'-Chicago Daily
News
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1922-06-02
Advised "FIyina Ships" for Mails.

More than 100 years ago when the
United States mails were being trans
ported by carriers on horseback. the
editor Of the Freeman's Journal. now
the NorriStown (Pa) Herald, sug-
gested the use Of flying ships"
In the issue of the Freeman's Jour
nal of March l, 1922, the editor wrote
1--WE would advise the postmaster
general to avail himself Of the novel
and the very ingenious flying machine,
invented by James Bennett Of Phila-
delphia, by which we conceive, the
mails would be transported with more
celebrity and their arrival at the places
of destination be much more certain
than Is the case at present"
Postoffice records show that in 1888
a wonderful feat" was performed in
carrying the mail and news dispatches,
by relays of horses every five miles,
between Washington and New York, in
Is hours.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1922-06-02
Acoustic Vases" IN Chu rcf1es.

When the Wreeaage of ancient
churches III France, destroyed by Ger
man shells i'll the World N-r. was
cleared away u number Of earthen
vessels We're found in the walls. 1t
was supposed AZ 1irst that these had
been hidl'u or accidentally lost there
but SUI ~-4uent investigation showed
that they had been delibera tely set
in place by the monkish architects to
improve the resonant qualities; of the
walls. This practice is mentioned in
ancient records, but never before have
the exact nature Of the acoustic
vases and the method of using them
been revealed. Modern architects
might well borrow the idea and use it
in a practical way in the construction
OF churches.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1922-06-02
HAD THE LAUGH ON TEACHER
lnstructress Called for Examples, ard
Tommy Was the Boy Who
Could Furnish Them.

There has never been any love lost
between Tommy and his teacher. Tom
my thinks the teacher is a severe and
occasionally unjust person, who has
never known what it is to be young,
While the teacher considers the little
chap both stupid and mischievous.
You are not attending to what
say. Thomas" said the teacher one day
il the midst OF an address to her
class
Yes, teacher, I is" said Tommy
with much earnestness.
you should never say I is" cor
rected the teacher. Il have told you
that a hundred times You know the
correct fora. There are no excep-
tons to its use. Give me two ex-
ampleS at once"
Yes. ma am." said Bc4pmy, meekly.
81 am one of the letters Of the alpha
bet I am a pronoun. Philadelphia
Ledger
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1922-06-02

II the man who measures you TO.
your next suit calls out IN. F. R. B."
to the assistant who jots down the
measurements. take care. It In a
warning that your physique Is not all
that 1t should hc-in fact a great deal
inss. 1t stands for pack forward
round back"
Its the commonest fault in t.,
physique Of our customers" explained
a tailor. Most men have fiat chest
and round back. The army straight.
ened some OF them up for a while but
they've begun slumping back again.
About one man In ten has bow legs,
the bow running from IN to 4 inches.
Practically every mans shoulders are
uneven-one higher than the other
But that's 50 common that you
wouldn't call 1t defect.
Here's another thing I've noticed.
All the athletes, the professional
strong men. have sloping shoulders.
The fellow with the straight, hsayy
shonldees whom you'd taiEe II q
An11n nllg 1GnE-1un1u
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Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1922-06-02

WANTED ALL TO UNDERSTAND
Cieerone at Holy Sepulehre at Jerss-
salem Careful! 20 impress Gospel
Facts on Visitors

Either I was particularly fortunate
or others are particularly fastidious
The guide who showed me the holy
Sepulchre in Jerusalem was not par.
ticularly noisy or profane or palpa-
bly, mercenary; he was rather moret
or less sympathetic than the same
sort Of man who might have shown
me Westminster abbey or Stratford-
| on-Avon.
He was a small, solemn, owlfsh old
l.an. so far from deserving the charge
;. not knowing the Bible, he deserved
rather a gentle remonstrance against
his assumption that nobody else knew
it. If there was anything to smile at.
In associations so sacred, 1t was the
elaborate simplicity with which he
told the first facts of the Gospel story,
as If he We're evangelizing savage
Anyhow, he did not talk like cheap
Jack at stall, but rather like teach
er in an infant school.
He made it very clear that Jesus
Christ was cruci6ed, in case anyone
should suppose he was beheaded; and
often stopped In his narrative to re-
peat that the hero Of these events
was Jesus Christ, lest we should fancy
1t was Nebuchadnezzar or IL duke OF
Wellington. I do not In tn hast mind
being amused at this, bat I have ne
reason whatever for dsubtarg tAat he
may have been ! bettae man fAan +
49, karH s~h~t y ea,nr,l6 haxuA n4wan
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1922-06-02
: 40 A NATURAL BOXER
re Taught by Their Par.
,~auire a Really High
~ Of Efficiency.

INangu!UuS are natural boxers The
Younger kangaroo is taught to de-
fe1d himself in this way as soon as
ne is old enough to hop about. Nat
u-aliSts who have watched the ami
IN their native surroundings say
my TO see the mother
.gster his first boxing
.erward the father takes
ing. and with much gentle
atience trains him TO box.
lgaroos box they back of
n and prance about very
Each one watches for an
strike, and at the same
. prevent the other
They cleverlX try to
as to get the enemy
tie slope of a hill.
blows they give with
i AN be heard far away.
Th' roo fights like a gentle
=, Il good sportsman. even
he fighting with his enemy.
strike with the fiat of the
never use against each
r arrible ripping claws.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1922-06-02
SUGAR Once a Delicacy.

We are apt to forget how short .
time it il since sugar was regarded
rs a costly delicacy, proper to be used
by the wealthy alone or as medicine.
In the early colonial days 1t sold At
about Is cents a pound. in the Loaf,
and granulated sugar was unknown.
It was with tn growth Of the custom
q drinking coffee and tea that 1t be-
came q food staple. When It was in
troduced 70 England in medieval times
It was ~ Indian SALT" rare and
precious condiment, although the art
Of boiling sugar was known In India
before the Sevsnth century, and in
Egypt much earlier. The Dutch
brought SUGAR to Manhattan, and .
New York 0axette Of 1790 carried
this altvpsnenf: public notice
= i,es ~ that Nicholas Bayard,
suf a. llew York has erected
Y. - = y - sorn n sugar
sas - - procured
-. :.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1922-06-02
"Passion Play" Result of a Vow.

The Oberammergau Passion Play"
q dramatic representation of the suf-
fe:i:.-r Of Christ, originated from a
vof, .3aGe by the Inhabitants of the
little !5avarian village in 1888, with
the hote Of staying a plague then
rt2ing. The original text probably
wos made by the monks of Ettal, but
tie Parish priests have since carefully
revised it. The music was composed
by Rochus Dedler In 1914. The play
i7 given by amateurs in purely rever-
ential spirit, and not for gain. 1t re-
Quires a cast Of about seven hundred
persons. In 1901 an $4,000 playhouse
was erected especially for the pres
entation, which is given every ten
years. The first performance was
given In 1854
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1922-06-02
Vast Sum Spent for Food.

The people of the United States
spend more than SAG, 100000 day for
food, or nearly S1,5OO,OOo, 900 month.
Nearly one-third of the money goes for
bread, potatoes, fruits, sugar and 9TH
er food of vegetable nature More
than two-thirds is spent for meat fish,
eggs, cheese and lard. The average
householder hands over to the butcher
more than one-fifth of his income. The
people of this country consume in
year two and a half billion eggs and
near ten and a half billion gallons of
milk. But a large part of the milk
goes to make 1000, 100000 pounds of
and 26O,0oO0Oo gallons of ice cream.
butter, 40O,O0O,00O pounds of cheese
Philadelphia Ledger