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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-02-21

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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-02-21

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Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1923-11-09
PASCAL'S COUNTING MACHINE
Same Principle as That Worked
Out by Frenchman.

The third centennial Of the birth Of
Blaise Pascal, zone of the Intellectual
SUBMITS of humanity" was recently
celebrated In France. Pascal was an
admirable writer, penetrating philos-
opher, and marvellous scientist. He
died at the age of thirtynine.
Pascal is said to have been the first
man who ever made counting ma
chine that would work perfectly and
accurately. 1t was then a very diff
ficult and complicated thing to count,
as the decimal monetary system had
not yet been invented.
Young Blaise undertook to keep his
fathers accounts. It was then that he
conceived the idea Of making a count
ing machine, says the Detroit News.
He worked on 1t ten years. AS there
was no gear system in those days he
was obliged to make all his pieces
himself out of blocks Of metal, filing
them to the right shape and size. He
overcame all difficulties and obtained
a simple machine which made 1t pos
sible to make very complicated cal
culations. All counting machines used
today are based on this same prin-
cipie.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1923-11-09
FATHER or LITERARY CLUBS
Chair Supposed to Have Been Throne
of Doctor johnson Is Exhibited
in London Club.

London's literary associations have
long been bound UP with London club
land. 1t goes back to the days when
the 'penny-a-liners" foregathered for
evening diversion in the taverns OF
Fleet street and about Covent Garden.
Doctor Johnson was the father Of all
literary clubs Americans today gaze
with awe upon the chair in TIE Che
shire Cheese. in Wine Office court,
Fleet street, which is supposed to
have been his throne. The fact that
there is no evidence 20 show that John
son ever visited the Cheshire Cheese
is Of not the slightest importance.
wherever it was, Dramatically he took
the chair, and as there was no club or
ganization in his day he constituted
himself president, corresponding sec
rotary, board Of directors and chair
man of the house committee When
he began to growl complaints ceased.
Perhaps, regarded strictly as man
of letters, the doctor has been some
what overrated by posterity The IA
nous dictionary, at best, was a pom
derous labor, and no one now is likely
to read for pleasure "Rasselas. Prince
of Abyssinia." But were he alive to-
day, what an ideal chairman of the
handicap committee of a golf club he
would make.-New York Herald.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1923-11-09
GUARD EXPOSED HICKEY PLOT
Loyalists Planned to End Revolution
airy War by Murder or Capture
of Leaders.

What is known as the "Hickey
plot" was conspiracy in 1776 Of
British officials and loyalists of New
York to end the Revolutionary war by
the murder or capture of it's leaders
and the seizure or destruction OF its
supplies. The heads and probable de-
visers of the plot were Governor
Tryon, who had fed from the city, but
remained on man-of-war in the har-
Dor and sent supplies of money for
bribery. ETC., and Mayor Mathews.
The scheme was to kill or seize the
patriot generals and at all events to
deliver Washington alive to Sir VIII
liam Howe, blow up the magazine and
secure the passes to the city. Two Of
Washington's guards were bought, but
third pretended to accede snG re-
vealed the plot Mathews and a dozen
others were arrested and sent to Con
necticut, Mathews carrying the may
orally flag with him. Thomas Hickey,
one of the treacherous guards, was
hanged in New York, the first military
execution in the American army.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1923-11-09
New field for The Radio

III future the modern novel
will be sent by daily installments
to the happy possessors of radio
equipments.
A new departure in serializa-
ton is the broadcasting by station
WIZ, Radio Corporation Of
America. Of William Johnston's
new mystery novel, ''The Wad-
dington Cipher" published by
Doubleday, Page ands o1npanv.
Infinitely multiplying the en-
joyment of musical performance,
public speaking aad current news
events, the newest treasures OF
literature are to be transmitted
by the mysterious aerial voice.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1923-11-09
Science Has No Limits.

Every year adds to our scientific
knowledge, yet at the end of each year
1t seems that there are no epoch
making discoveries yet to be made. A
century ago the French mineralogist,
Hauy, said electrical discoveries had
reached point where no Important
steps remained. Yet electricity was in
its infancy and Michael Faraday in
his basement room was working out
the relationship between electricity
and magnetism which led to the dyna-
mo and the radio, says the Kansas
City Star.
AS late as 1894 university cata-
logue contained the statement that fu-
ture progress In science was to be
expected only in working out prfnci-
pies already discovered. In the fol-
lowing year Roentgen discovered the
X-rays that led to radium and the
electron. 1t was thought long ago that
all the beasts of the jungle had been
discovered and named, yet the okapi
was not found until 1900. The scien-
tific discoveries of the Twentieth CEN
fury have been more numerous than
in any previous century and they have
been greater.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1923-11-09
PRAYER of the Tree.

Upon tree in Portugal traveller
read this appeal:
Ye who pass by and would raise
your hand against me, harken ere you
harm me.
l am the heat Of your hearth on
the cold winter nights.
The friendly shade screening you
from the summer sun.
And my fruits are refreshing drafts,
quenching your thirst as you journey
on.
I am the beam that holds your
house, the board of your table, the
bed you lie on, the timber that builds
your boat,
I am the handle of your hoe, your
door, the wood of your cradle and
coffin.
Ye who pass me by listen to my
prayer: Harm me not!
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1923-11-09
American Legion Conyenflnn

HtilEL iEdI AENlOEi ADnvEnLl0n
The National Convention OF
the American Legion recently
lisld at San Francisco was the
;seatest i'll the history OF the
Legion, according to Johu j,
Wicker, Jr., Virginia Depart
ment Commander.
Il have attended every National
Convention of the Legion" MIR.
Wicker declared, and this ore
was truly the best OF ALL"
There was marked improve.
ment i'll spirit. A seriousness Of
purpose was constantly in evil
dence. While everyone had a
real big time. there was an
absolute absence of rowdyism,
Just before the Convention closed,
Mayor Rolph and Chief Police
O'Brlen~ united in paying the
Legion a great tributed, both de-
claring publicly that this had
been the best Convention that
San Francisco has ever enter
tanned"
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1923-11-09
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Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1923-11-09
COPYING THE BkNE OF ART
Critic Believes That Americans Neg
lect Real Artistic Beauty
= for European.

Copying is still carried SO tar that
ornament is copied all the time instead
of being created, says Allen Tucker,
in the North American Review, and /
am told that in offices the craftsman
must show his original for everything
he does. Out Of such a system artists
dc, not come.
1t is generally Europe that is copied.
know we came from Europe, are Eu-
ropeans, but we have ourselves by
now, an accomplishment of our own,
and until recently, when there is
rather senseless copying Of the exter-
nal or colonial stuff, we never cast our
eyes on our own things. The buildings
of value we had we have been careless
of. Think of dumping that post Office
where it ruins the appearance Of cur
lovely city hall Think Of the savage
and senseless destruction of St. Johns
chapel Of Trinity parish, with its I'M
rivaled spirel
We copy the old things. We do not
seek to develop the artistic spirit that
made nearly everything it touched q
thing OF delight and beauty. I think 1t
was Mr. Lay who first pointed out what
So few realize. that the New England
town is the only town anywhere orig
inally built on plan, the only town
made with design, the only town
with feeling for form instinct in its
very bones.
We rave about Italian villages and
never see the quality of cur native
towns don't believe in the American
eagle screaming, but there is, no rea-
son why he should spend his time sit
ting on foreign eggs in. the attempt te
hatch out what are always foreign
birds, while so often the eggs thavt
proved to be nothing but china rome
what devoid of life.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1923-11-09
Bond, Arc Defeated BY p,0l0 Majority
Sweeping Endorsement of
Plan

The road bond issue submitted to the voters Of Virginia as
for financing the construction
Vign highway and feeder road system swept into oblivion
Tuesday election by majority OF auOW
big the counties
Valley registered
expected the bond forces
County gave 5O against bonds with only 295
for bonds.
The Seventh District probably the banner for registering the arg
Districts This
be around 49,
the Seventh District counties fol-
Shenandoah Rockingham
including Warren 7C0 Rappahannock @
Madison Abemae including Charlottesville 0 Page 3
per the the Shenandoah Valley ped
against bonds.
candidate for
pon Commission Byars independent Democrat the
ratio.
gni his Senatorial District by O Senator
Byrd will probably the distinction polling the largest vote
candidate for the State Senate Virginia the past %
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1923-11-09
These Watches Real Antiques,

4 watch that is 200 years old has
every right to be called an antique.
But watch that was an antique at
the time of the French revolution and
was well past the century mark when
Louis XIV was adjoining himself in
satins, silks and velvets, that watch
today is an antique in every sense of
the word. Two such watches are
owned by a man in Newark, N. j.
They are French watches and both
about $50 years old. When the Pill
grims set sail for America those time
pieces were ticking away in French
waistcoats, perhaps the pride Of some
village innkeeper Of affluence.-Ex-
change.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1923-11-09
Iris the Poor MANS Orchid.

It was the iris of which RuskiLs
wrote thatiit 4has a sword for its leaf
and lily for It's iEeart.' 1t is the iris
that Is known as the fieur-de-lis OF
France. In Greek. from whence it
came, the name means rainbow. IN
the United Skates it is often spoken of
as the poor mans orchid There are
fully 100 species in cultivation. with
varieties almost without number. The
flowers of different classes do not all
bloom at the same time, however; by
choosing different kinds it is possible
TO haveka long season.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1923-11-09
Made Maps in Ancient Days.

Map-making goes back to the esTIi-
est known time. 1t was branch of
the early picture-writing practiced by
savages. In Tahiti, for instance. the
natives were able to make fairly good
maps for the guidance of explorers
Maps with raised lines were in use III
Peru before the conquest. The Oldest
known map Is that of the Ethiopian
gold mines, dating from the time of
Sethos I, the father of Rameses II.
long before the time of Aristagoras
and his bronze tablet, on which were
inscribed the circuit of the earth and
all the seas and rivers then known.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1923-11-09
Touching foA Xmas EVIL.

There was an old custom of touch
ing for the kings evil In the 'Chron-
icles of the Kings of England" one is
told that the practice of touching for
the kings evil Ga kind of scrofuia) had
its origin in England at the time OF
Edward the Confessor. A young mar
ried woman was ordered in q dream,
one reads In a simple old Saxon story,
to go to the palace and touch the
king. Joyous health followed. 1t was
held that the cure proceeded from
hereditary virtue in the royal line,
Then, there have been sycophants In
England for long, long time.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1923-11-09
Very Heroic.

Maud-Major, is it true that once
during the war one of the enemy died
to save your life?
Maj. Bluntly--Yes.
Maud-How nobel How did 1t hap
pen?
Maj. Blunt1y-I killed him.-Pear-
sons Weekly.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1923-11-09
A REGULAR Teller.

A colored man went to cash a check
at bank operated by members Of his
own race.
man." said the teller, "you amt got
no money in dis we're bank"
"Yes, All is" insisted the other. "Ah
put ten dollahs In we're six months
ago."
'Six months ago!" echoed the teller
pityingly. Laws, cullud man, don't
you know de int'rust done ct dat up
long ago."
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1923-11-09
SEEING without Eyes.

That the blind can perceive iasA3
ard darkness Is asserted by Dr.. A.
Centonnet In Medicine (Paris). Doctor
Csntonnet tested eyeless seeing ma
chinery by bandeging bis eyes light
proof and concentrating his attention
for so hours on perception Of light
He found that he could then perceive
not merely light and darkness but
also large and shining objects.
Testing many blind persons, hs
found the same ability. He attributes
this vision without eyes to Ranvier'G
1onsory cells, which have nerve
cessation with ~ brain centeFSL
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1923-11-09
Grain Market Review
FOR week Oct, 29-NOv, 1

held fairly steady during til
week October %, November an
lclosed at practically the sam
level as for the previous week
lslightly weaker tone develope,
in the market, states the Wiz
ginia Division of Markets AM
United States Department o
Agriculture cooperating in it
weekly Grain Market Review
Continued favorable foreign crol
conditions, together with in
creased purchases of Canadian
! wheat by northwestern and east
ern mills and reported sales Of
Russian wheat to Greece, France
| and Italy all tended to weaken
the future and cash markets.
Reports of improved industrial
conditions and the efforts on the
part OF the government to i'm.
prove the financial conditions oil
western wheat growers were
Strengthening factors.
In the spring wheat markets
the better grades held fairly firm
while the lower grades sold
slowly and at somewhat wider
discounts. Flour and feed prices
declined slightly and northwest
ern mills were curtailing there
operations thereby causing
larger movement Of grain to
storage.
In the winter wheat markets
cash prices were lowered 2-3
cents per bushel. Milling de-
mand was less active for the
high protein wheat because of
the competition OF the Canadian
wheat which! took eastern and
north western mills out of the
western m4tkets. Tile movement
u market continued fairly heavy
but iaini@rs we're reported to be
s Hing slowly and holding for 81
pr iusiitl net to them. Stocks
At country points were reported
sight bu: stocks in store in public
-leva:ofs continued large.
The quality of the wheat be-
ing marked continues to be an
important marketing factor.
Reports Of inspections show that
almost half of the wheat being
received at the principal mark
cts is of poor quality, grading
No 3 and lower. The supply Of
good milling wheat is. therefore,
limited aud mills may find it
necessary to import Canadian
wheat to mix with the lower
grades of local wheat.
Corn future prices also held
fairly steady during the past
week but cash prices iii most
IN trkets made further declines.
Receipts Of old corn were light
but the movem emt Of new corn
was large although farms were
reported not to be selling freely.
Untavora bic weather III Iowa,
Illinois and parts OF Missouri re-
tarded husklug and also pre-
vented drying Of the new corn.
Considerable corn has been dam.
aged by the wet weather in the
Center West.
The receipts of new corn still
contained excessive moisture aud
prices made further declines be.
cause of tue liesitancy OH the
part of buyers III accommodating
supplies OF new corr. Sales oil
new corn containing 20 to 25 pei
ct. moisture were around 20 TO Il
cents per busliel. Some con.
gestion was reported at Cinciu.
natl as receipts of new corn were
greater than the drying capacity
OF the elevators. Heavy loss il
weight has occurred from drying
the new corn with excessiv,
moisture content.
| The oat market continued fair
llg firm and prices were practic
| ally unchanged. Demand fl. n
| Southwest was limited but goo,
amounts were worked SoutI
| from Omaha.
1 Rye market was steady 4
Minneapolis but rather dull a
kE;fmaukee
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1923-11-09

Put your savings in the Saving
Department OF the Shenandoah Val
lev Loan and Trust Co., Woodstock
Va at 3''per cent compound Interests
Amounts Of 81. 90 and upwards receiy-
ed. The only savings institution In
the county for the accumulation oil the
small savings OF laboriDg men, VIC
men, and children.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1923-11-09

The Nations child crop, no
less than the food crops, comes
mainly from American farms.
says DIR. c. ]. Calpiu. IN charge
of farm population studies for
1.-THE United States Department OF
Agriculture. OF the 10000, O0o
farm population as compared
with the same number of urban
population the number Of chill
dren under 10 wears of age on
farms is approximately 1000, 000
more than in the cities. There
are approximately 100. 00O
children under 10 years of age
on farms with $500, 900 in cities
having equivalent total popu.
latiou, Doctor Galpin points out.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1923-11-09

Invest yo=r money the percer
Certificates of the Shenandoah Vale,
Loan & Trust Co., Woodstock, Va
Security unquestioned. Interest pay
able semi-annually, and Certificate
redeemable any time after six month
on short notice.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1923-11-09
Shenandoah Herald

ADvEIrIsTEs RATES
Trapsiett sdss si.nnsnss viii las
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i sos siqn
Q snrterly and Yearly T,isnlsg &C.
vefsiselnsr-is by coasrse;-
g uniess The number OF ia.
sertionsi Is marked upon the manu.
script, advertisements will be pub
lished until forbidden and cherg.
ed accordingly
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1923-11-09
pU STTI4WS.
~ NF On GEARING,

Having decided to locate perms
naotlv IN Woodstock, can be found
or telephoned at my home on South
Main Street I am now prepared &c
answer 81 calls during the day on
night. Thorough laboratory analysis
and pbysical examination made In my
Office. Your patronage will be appre.
ciated.
Juiy 25-tf
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1923-11-09
FOR aIe

vi ~sUsl
/ Large Onyx Fountain in good cosis
dition. Will sell cheap.
Q Lots adjoining each 60 by 100 It.
Located in Koontz addition, Edinburg,
Va. Apply to
Sept. 7--if. Woodstock. Va.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1923-11-09
BUSINESS CARDS.
nR. C. C. BE[DLER,
VETERINARY


PHYSICIAN and SURGEON.
Graduate of The United States Col
lege of Veterinary Surgery has perma
nently located 10 Woodstock. Cals
answered day or night.
4-l9 lift
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1923-11-09
What She viii Be Later.

What She VIII BE Edref.
Geneva soon will be four years old
and she Is a most precocious young
ster. She overheard daddy telling
grandmother that his little girl would
soon be four years old and It would
NOT be long until she must enter
school. Geneva interrupted:
I'm too smart now.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-01-01
SHOWS HOW
To CONQUER EVIL
Rev. Jewett Compares Life to a
Continual Battle.

Branding life as "a contest between
the forces OF right and tho forces Of
wrong" Rev. L. P. Jewett Of the Nor
ris St NJ +. Church Sunday, spoke
on THE Contending Forces Of Life. "
"The two forces he said, struggle
in every mans breast for mastery. He
must decide which force will be vic
torious in his life. The evil can ont
be victorious over any mans life
without his consent.
God never permits any man to be
tempted beyond that he is able to
bear for there shall always be a way
of escape and the man who desires
to resist the devil Will have power
to do so. God is always on the side
of hight and no man can be over
powered by evil who is true to God
1T requires great resolution and
great effort to subdue ourselves. 1t is
easier to meet a multitude of out
ward foes than to conquer the enc
mics within our own hearts-pride,
hatred avarice, covetousness, lust and
seIfishness, all these are present with
unseen and they are perpetualt lead
ing us astray.
I'VE have all had a terrible con-
flict in these hearts of ours to try and
get them right. While this is true,
we have the assurance that there is a
possibility of every man overcoming
the evil and succeeding in the contest.
no matter how severe.
I'VE may gain the victory in the
battle with ourselves because there is
divine power which promises, If we
ask, to renew a. right spirit within us,
There is a promise that we shall be
created anew in Christ Jesus; that the
old things shall pass away; that we
shall be renewed in His image.
Jesus came into the world for this
very purpose to supply the moral en-
ergy which gives us the victory over
evil" Rev .TeWett said