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Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1923-03-09
NATIONS DEBT TO WHITTIER
Poets Writings Gave Valuable Assist.
ance to Large Number of Phil
anthropc Movements.

John Greenleaf Whittier, the Quaker
poet, was born on farm near Haver-
hill, Mass, in 1907, says the Detroit
News. He remained on the farm until
he was nearly nineteen years old, di-
viding his time between field work
and shoemaking. Whittier never for
got his connection with the gentle
craft in early life, nor was he ever
ashamed to own fellowship with its
humble, but worthy members. Whal
he thought of the craft itself and the
spirit of the men who have Followed
it may be learned from his lines ad
dressed to shoemasers in the Songs
Of Labor" published in 1899.
Whittier's vigorous, thrilling lines
gave assistance TO every pbila hrop'e
movement in the United States I
many years he was the Hans sachs
Ebenezer Elliott of the Lihe H~
cause of Professionalism on iue
nent, to the work Of emancip2toa g.
America, To that which the German
gave to the cause Of Professionalism on
The continent of Europe, and the Eng
hshman gave to the labors Of the an
corn law league in Great Britain
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1923-03-09
DULL AND BRILLIANT YOUTHS
srlght Boy Does Not Always Fill Ex-
pectatio,s of Friends, While
Stupid Lad Surprises.

An ex-headmaster of % years ex.
perience has confessed that he was
anything but model boy at school.
He is not exceptional. Some boys
Who have no lack of brains have not
ehe examination mind" and in some
he intelligence is too yivacious anc
original to be interested In routine
work. There are boys who are really
duh and will never be anything else,
but there are also boys vino az mere
ly unconventional and boys VINO are
apparently dull only because they are
slow.
Human beings are like plants. 1t Is
got always the tree which grows and
fruits the quickest that gives the best
crop in the end, says the London Daily
Mail. The brilliant boy does not al.
ways fulfill the expectations Of his
friends while the boy who was sup
posed to be duh occasionally surprises
everybody in after life because his
mind was of the sort which takes Q
long time to mature.
No hard-and-fast rule can be laid
down. But, as DR.. Chalmers Mitchell
has pointed out II is a general ruls
In nature that the longer the period
Of youth the greater Is the intelligence
- the adult
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1923-03-09
EXPLAINS LACK OF COURTESY
According to Writer, Various Forms
of Fear Are Responsible for
Its Absence.

The finest courtesy is that which
comes from the spontaneous NANTES
tation of good will, says a writer in
the Montreal Family Herald. Yet
often people who feel good will toward
others are not notable for courtesy.
When there is any failure in courtesy
it can almost invariably be ascribed
to fear. Perhaps the person is afraid
Of assuming too much Importance aud
of appearing egotistical and therefore
turks in the background when he
should come forward. Perhaps he
fears that some one will think he is
trying to curry favor, and therefore
he is so distantly polite as almost to
be rude. Perhaps his good will is Sc
mingled with admiration as to make
him awkward and embarrassed; the
fear of being regarded as commonplace
and unimportant as he cannot help
knowing himself to be prevents hin
from showing proper courtesy. Or, OF
the other hand. the fear that courtesy
will be assertive. overbearing or true
ulent.
Fear is the great enemy to happi
ness and accomplishment. One of the
most effective ways in which fea
works is through curbing or suppress
ing the courteous manners and action!
that, If 1t were not established In {
position of authority, would display
themselves as the natural expression
of the heart.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1923-03-09
Fireworks pevelonment.

Few industries have shown more
development within a century than
that Of making fireworks. The fire.
works makers have not only made i'm
portant contributions to the art them
selves, but have taken advantage of
many discoveries and refnements
made by others in chemistry and me-
chanics.
( The colors given to fireworks are
produced by mineral salts, copper be-
Ing made to produce green and blue !;
barium, green; sodium, yellow; cal.
cium, red, and strontium, crimson.
These salts are arranged in combina-
tion with meal gunpowder and the
recipes for star compositions, rockets,
squibs, roman candles and the like
are almost without number. Among
the "set pieces" are portraits, lettered
designs, fixed suns" fountains, -
trees, mosaic work and ships
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1923-03-09
Genuine Eeathered Plane.

The man-o'-war bird is genuine
feathered airplane. Without NOV
ing its wings seemingly for hours al
a time, it calmly floats high in air
ascending in spirals, or drifting lazils
along, directing its easy flight by
changes of the angle of its planes
so slight that any effort is not ap
parent. 1t is a distinctly tropical bird
seldom being seen farther north thar
along the coasts of Florida, the GuE
states and Southern California.
The bird is very impressive By
reason of its size and the enormous
stretch of it's long, narrow wings
measuring some seven and half feet
across. When a great flock of thou
sands soar on motionless pinions, they
appear like an aerial army of inva
sion. At close range their great
hooked bills give them rather fierce
appearance, though they have but little
to boast of in the way of talons, Their
feet being weak and clumsy, fit only
for perching.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1923-03-09
"HUNCH" WON FOR GAMBLERS
Fly's Alghting on Particular Nunosr
Surely Was Unfortunate for Monte
Carlo Casino.

Sailors have always been consid-
cred superstitious, and miners come
clase second, but neither Of them are
mere sensitive to tritiing omens than
the deep-dyed-in-t gambler.
A Monte Carlo paper tells that fly
alighted on No. 13 on the roulette table
recently at a time when the players
had suffered q persistent run of bad
luck. The superstitious gamblers ex-
changed covert glances and searched
their pockets for money with which to
stake.
In a few moments the middle
Dozen" that is to say, the numbers
IS to "a, was literally covered with
stakes. Then an elderly gambler
arose and piled napoleons round the
square on which the fly had alighteo
thus backing the numbers from II
to II.
Less confident players staked smaA
amounts on the ''transversales." The
ivory marble was sent spinning round
the roulette wheel, there was a me-
ment of suspense and then the
croupier announced the winning mum
Der, Is. But, what is far more extraor-
binary, the same number came III
three times in succession. That ~
cost the Casino 5000.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1923-03-09
Two Kinds of Thinkers.

There are two kinds of people In
the world-word people and fact
people The former deal in words and
phrases and form their judgments on
opinions and beliefs The latter
analyze questions and draw con
illusions only from the point of view
Of what they believe to be established
facts. The two types are as far apart
as the north and south poles and are
incapable of carrying on anything in
the way of intelligent argument or de-
bate, because they do not talk the
same language or think by the same
method. The word man starts with 3
desired conclusion and fashions his
facts to produce that result. The
fact man analyses his subject. seeks
to establish the truth In regard 60
facts which have a bearing on 1t and
then fearlessly draws what he be-
iieves to be honest conclusions. His
process is like the working out of 8
mathematical problem: he does aoi
know what the answer will be until
the last figure is made. He thinks for
tard. while the word man thinks
BACKWARD
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1923-03-09
Elephants on Rampage.

Stories Of how an elephant occasion.
ally upsets a circus are not uncora-
mon, but one rarely hears of an orgy
of destruction like that which oc-
CURED in the Malay peninsula. A herd
Of wild elephants attacked a railway
station, pulling down the stationmas-
ter's kitchen and bathroom. They did
the same to the clerks quarters and
then tackled the station while the Of
fee force looked on from trees. One
elephant took off an automatic weigh
ing machine as a souvenir of the raid,
but finding it heavy, threw it down On
the track. One Of the elephants
trumpeted the recall and they all went
back into the jungle excepe one who
fell in a well and had to be got out by
human aid, but was not detained.
By the time help arrived after a gen.
eral Geographic alarm the huge beasts
had entirely disappeared.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1923-03-09
Went the Whole Route.

A fussy old gentleman engaged a
footman and having instructed him In
MS duties asked him If he understood
sequences.
Il don't know, sir" replied the man
will you explain?"
why" he said, when I ask you to
lay the cloth, you are to put the
knives, forks, salt and so on, on the
table"
"Oh," replied the footman, "if that's
all, no doubt I shall please you"
His master, being i'll one morning,
ordered him to summon a nurse. He
did not return until late at night anG
on being reproached explained the de.
lay by stating that he went and found
the nurse, who was below; the Sc.
quences Of nurse, he thought, were
a chemist, doctor, a surgeon and an
undertaken; and he had asked them
81 to attend. In fact, they were wait.
ing below.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1923-03-09
Weeds.

What hidden virtue Is In thaae
dsingS that 1t Is granted them to SOW
themselves with the wind. and to
grapple the earth with this immiti.
gable stubbornness: and to flourish in
spite of obstacles, and never TO suffer
blight beneath any sun or shade, but
always TO mock their enemies with
the same wicked luxuriance? It IL
truly a mystery and also a symbol.
There is q sort of sacredness about
them. Perhaps, If we could penetrate
natures secrets, we should find what
we call weeds are more essential to
the we'll being of the world than the
most precious fruit or grain. This
may be doubted, however, for there
is an unmistakable analogy between
these wicked weeds and the bad hab-
its and sinful propensities which have
overrun the moral world; and we
may as well imagine that there Is
good in one as in the other.--Haw-
thorne,
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1923-03-09

"Black Douglas was James Doug
las, ninth and last earl of one branch
of the Douglas family in Scotland. He
was early in life engaged in schemes
against James II, and then fed to Eng
land, where he had a pension from
the crown, and was made knight of
the Garter. In 1884 he leagued him
self with the exiled duke of Albany,
and invaded Scotland, when he was
taken prisoner at Lochmaben. On
being brought before the court he
turned his back upon the king. The
compassionate King James III spared
his life on condition of his taking the
cowl He then entered the monastic
seclusion at Lindores, where he died.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1923-03-09
EnaIand,s Daylight Saving.

Daylight saving in England passes
under the term Of summer time. It
has been under consideration in the
British parliament, where new statu-
tory authority has been given. It
seems there is something of an agri-
cultural bloc in England, too. Its &C
tivities resulted in shortening the pc
Rod for early rising by three weeks at
each end. In other words, England
with its high latitude, and the conse-
quences upon the relative length Of
sunlight and darkness, will next year
begin daylight saving late In April and
end, it early in Experimentation the
Nations Business.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1923-03-09
Moorish woneo.. pull Live

The Moorish woi4ans life
very exciting or varied ana lef uu.
domestic duties tie Der to the ho
Il is only on very special occasio
that she is permitted To go out; il.-l
never 90 out al all The lower-cla=s
women are sometimes forced 20 a
tend the markets. and are not so par
ticular about eo3ering 6heir faces as the
rules of their religion ord8in. No strict
IL religious woman, however, VIII allow
any man but her husband to see her
face.
Some of the women are accom-
plished musicians and dancers, and
sing to the accompaniment of their
weird native Instruments, This is il
most cases their only form Of
amusement. Some Of them are also
experts at weaving and making tapes
try.
Moorish women are seen at their
best in the country districts, where
one sees them going to a well for
water with their earthenware pitchers
gracefully poised on their heads or
shoulders.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1923-03-09
What Made His Hen III

Mr.. Bagley of Beaconsfield makes a
hobby Of poultry keeping. He gets
pleasure out Of 1t, and occasionally q
surprise.
The other day, for instance. he
thought of one of his chickens was i'll,
and decided to kill 1t. When he
opened it up to ascertain the cause Of
the trouble, he found:
Tintacks,
Small screws.
Pieces of tin, and
Metal nuts.
The chicken, he afterward learned,
had been pecking for food in a build
er's yard London Express.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1923-03-09
superstitions Concerning opaIa.

The present-day superstitious dis
like of the opal comes from Russia
In that country the peasants consider
the opal to be possessed Of all the
powers of the evil eye. During the
revolution thousands of pounds worth
of these gems were destroyed solely
on account of this strong belief. Opals
are seldom, If ever, cut into facets
like diamonds, but are almost invari
ABLY polished into a convex surface
similar to lens. An opal is too brit
tie to risk cutting. and further curl
GUS fact about it is that cut opal
loses most of its wonderful colorine
and sparkle
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1923-03-09

The Aristeus. deep-sea prawn. has
method Of lighting that gives the an
pearance Of multitude Of smoke rings
When excited by the nearness Of an
enemy, the prawn elects respiratory wa.
ter In tiny squirts and into this stream
the luciferin Is forced from countless,
glands opening into the stream by flnel
ducts. As the chemicals combine, puffy
clouds OF luminescent particles float
IN the sea. This is the 'ssmoke screen
provided by nature.
; The species of luminous fish. called
"Photoblephron." has DINNER sys
tenn In an inside chamber and burns
continuously. When the fish wishes 10
shut on the light, be causes 9 black
pigmented curtain to slide down over
the light cells opening like an eyelid
The light organ preserves its lumines
cense even when removed and d used
oy fishermen OF the islands Of Banda, !
about 500 miles southeast Of the Rhizlp-
piness ~ bait Cor night azklnk.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1923-03-09
This Smoker Never Sick.

All pipe smokers know the desir>
ability of a tobacco mixture the smoke
Of which will not bite the tongue OF
be too hot In the mouth. Mixtures Of
his kind are what manufacturers are
always seeking.
In London (Eng.) an apparatus has
been put into use for the testing of
.moking tobacco for these qualities,
oSviating the usual method of per.
sonal trial by an expert. 1t looks like
telephone box. fastened on a wall,
including the wiring. A pipe is loaded
with tobacco and the stem inserted in
a rubber-encircled hole in the box. A
switch Is turned, the tobacco is lit,
and the electric machine in the bog
smokes the pipeful at any rate of
speed required, making a record of
the temperature and nicotine content
If the smoke.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1923-03-09
ORIGIN Of AYanl,ea

Yar.ee is cant name for Ameri-
c%as be!onging to the New England
states. During the Revolltion the
n@A4e was applied b. the British to
ali the insurgents and during the
eva war it was the common designa-
ton of the federal soldiers by tbe
Confederates In Great Britain the
term is sometimes Improperly applied
generally to natives Of the Unired
States. The most common eXplana-
ton of the term seems also the most
plausible, namely, that it is a corrupt
pronunciation of English or of French
"Anglais" formerly current among the
American Indians,
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1923-03-09
Artist Vision

II Is as though man were shown
crystal, a perfect thing, cleaning
below depths of water, far down be-
yond reach. He would dive and dive
again. driven by his great desire to
secure it, until finally, all dripping,
he brought it up. But that in the end
he could bring it, perfect thing, TO
u.s. was possible solely because he
had first seen it cleaning there.
Others might dive and dive might
work and labor with endless patience
and endless PAINS, but unless they had
6rst seen the crystal-unless they
had been given this divine gift of
seeing-this vision-they would come
up empty-handed.
The occasional so-callei genius does
not make the crystal but he alone sees
1t where it lies glea ing below depths
of water, and by his effort brings 1t to
uS.--Abbott Henderson Thayer.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1923-03-09
Settlers introduced Honey Fees.

In reality all honey bees are wild,
for they have been but little changed
by man. both in structure and in hab-
its.
1t does not seem to be generally
known that there were no honey bees
in America before they were intro
duced by the early French, English and
Spanish settlers.
The old histories contain, however,
very few dates on the spread of the
bees. The Indians called the swarms,
which escaped and settled in hollow
trees, English flies. They hated them
as precursors Of the Whites. but they
quickly learned to sat the honey
Exchange
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1923-03-09
Worst and Worse

My beau lives in the same neighbor
hood as 1 do. One evening we haG
quarrel. We usually meet at the
same corner every morning and go 10
work together, but the next morning
was too peeved to look at him stand
ing few feet from me. When the
car came l made mad rush to get
on. My foot slipped, and down went.
right in front of my beau. The hot
tears of embarrassment came, and in
my excitement it took me unusually
long to get up. When l did, finally,
and ran to get the car, 1t was gone
I'll never talk to that man as long
as I live.-Chicago Tribune.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1923-03-09
Microscope Inventor Unknown.

Although the early history of the
microscope is obscure, the first micro
scope is generally believed to have
been made by Zacharias Jansen, a
Dutchman, in 1890. The invention is
also attributed to Calico about 1910.
Microscopes with double glasses APP
peared soon after the discovery of the
law of the refraction of light, about
1924; but it was not until the inven-
ton of the acromatic lens and its ap-
plication to the microscope by Lister
and others that the instrument became
of positive value in the cause of
science. The binocular microscope was
invented by Professor Riddell in 1851.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1923-03-09
Too Deem for Him

Little Paul was turning the leaves Of
new picture book which had been
given to him. He came to two leaves
which were uncut. He tried to turn
the page, found that he could not, lift
ed up the corner of the page and
peeked under, and stopped to ponder
the situation.
Mamma" he called Mamma, come
here a minute"
"What is it, dearie?" mamma asked.
'Look here at my book" Paul point
ed, showing his mother how the leaves
were stuck together Mamma, how on
earth did they ever get the pictures put
n there?"
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1923-03-09
HOW FIRST LOCK WAS MADE
Development Of the Key Reveals an
Interesting Story of Ages Long
Passed Away.

The modern lock is a development
Of the horizontal bar placed across
the inside Of the door, This was a
good substitute for a lock when one
remained inside, and to adjust it so
that it would fall into place when the
door was closed from the outside was
comparatively simple. but to lift the
bar from the outside when one wished
to enter, was the problem. This was
accomplished by fitting hole into the
door post, through which something
designed to lift the bar was inserted.
This was the first keyhole and the
instrument used in lifting the bar
was the first key, says the Brooklyn
Daily Eagle.
The simplest idea for preventing
the bar from sliding was to bore a
hole in the top of the bar which
would also penetrate the staple on
which it rested, and drop a peg into
the hole through the staple. The I'M
locking problem could be accom-
plished by any instrument which would
lift the peg and permit the bar to
slide back. Then if series of pegs
were used, all of which had to be
lifted, unlocking would be more diff
ficult. In our modern locks, the pegs
have simply been replaced by "tum-
blers" on which the key acts in the
same way. The key originally had
wooden pegs fastened to correspond
with the DepS holding tha har in rlara
on the inside, and these pins developed
into the notches which are on our
modern keys. AS there were no
pockets In those days the other end
of the key was made into a ring and
worn on the finger. That is why the
keys Of today usually have a ring at
the snd-just relic Of the past.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1923-03-09
Nature,s wonderfu, Mecbanlsn

1t has been estimated that the pow
er developed by 100000 Niagaras in
100000 years would not equal the
energy expended by the earth in sin
gle second as it circles around the sun.
And yet, so perfect is the mechanisns
that, flying around its axis at an equa-
torial speed of more than 100000
miles an hour and around its orbit at
more than 1,10O miles minute, all the
mundane influences of which astrononl-
ers know could not change the length
of its day as much as second in
100000 years.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1923-03-09
Hoatzin Remarkable Bird.

Strange and weird as the adult
hoatzin may be 1t is the young birds
that really amaze us. For both thumb
and forefnger are armed with Sharp,
recurved claws. better developed than
IN any other known bird, and, what Is
more important. they are entirely
functional William Beebe, director of
the Tropical Research station in Brit
ISL Guiana, has done more than any
other scientist to reveal the secrets OF
the hoatzin. He has found that this
remarkable youngster uses its wing
claws to haul itself about the rough
nest in which 1t is Matched, and also
to help in climbing about among the
branches Mr.. Beebe has also de-
scribed the strange ability Of the
naked f1edgling to swim under WDtae
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1923-03-09
~ gA-!' is MEDICINE
or AZ rsenfs There Is Nothing
That VII - 1ood Results
,rt Time.

@eeA Italien or the Bermuda
onions are the cues to be eaten au
naturel, their Eavor being much more
delicate than that of the common va
rieties. But onions are really sweet
eners of the breath after the local eff
fects have passed away, as they cor
rect stomach disorders and carry off
the accumulated poisons Of the sys-
TEN. They provide blood purifier
that all may freely use, and do perfect
work in constipation troubles. As a
yermifuge the onion cannot be sur
passed and, eaten raw, viii often
check a violent cold in the head. One
small onion eaten every night before
retiring is a well-known doctors pre-
scription for numerous affections OF
the head, and is highly recommended
for sleeplessness it acts on the nerves
in a soothing way, without the inJurl-
Gus effects of the drugs so often APP
piled. The heart of an onion, heated
and placed in the ear, will often re-
lieve the agony of earache, while the
strip procured from sprinkling a
sliced onion with sugar and bakinS ia
the oven will work wonders in a
"croupy" child.