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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-09-28
COLONIAL

Chicago SAL" the picture featur
ing Milton stills and Alice Lake, Il
uill showing NJ the Colonial. II
will have It's last showing Friday
night on Saturday Gloria Swan
son is TO be seen in Beyond tho
Rocks" and The Birth of n Ma
ton" will open short engage
ment Sunday.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-09-28
STRAND

Pola NcErfs dramatic feature
The Cheat" viii leave the STRAND
Friday night. at the end OF It's sec
ond week Of showing. Starting
Saturday the feature viii be d
w. Grifnih's mueh.heraided pic
ture. The white Rose" The pic
turo Is an adaptation OF Irene Sin
Chairs well known love story. ant
il IL said to be delicately and beau
tifully told IN the picture version
Mae Marsh. Carol Dempster ant
Ivor Noycllo are the main players
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-09-28
PALACE HIP

The exciting sea story. Ven.
goance OF the Deep" which has
been thrilling audiences all week
nj the Palace Hip, Will be seen
for the last times Friday. with
the new vaudeville program start
ing Saturday, rs Divorce FailureY'
will DO tho screen feature. Leah
Baird adapted the story from u
stage play and she also plays the
leading part.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-09-28
IT'S WONDERFUL!

You've heard of the
smashing big stage sue
cess, Captain Apple
jack" a years in Lon
don, l year in New York
and now you have your
first chance to see it as a
corking picture-here at
The Liberty Saturday
m ak e an appointment
right now to take your
self to see
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-09-28
BLU EMousE

Johnny Hines romantic drama
OF the race track. 'LAtiIe Johnny
Jonea," In 20 ha offered to Blue
Mouse patrons until Friday night
only. The screen will be occupied
by Elinor Gyms latest story. six
Days" which will start showing
Saturday. Six Days" IL an origi.
nal screen story by the famous Eng
lish AuthoreSs and. like all her other
stories. u Il strong love drama.
The featured parts arc taken By
corinne Griffith and Frank Mayo.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-09-28
COLISEUM

COLISEUM
Buster Keaton'a bis comedy.
Three Ages" viii DO given It's
final showings al the Coliseum ri.
day night This feature II the bca,
that Keaton has ever made and is
run here has been highly success
fal. Tho Silent Partner" In to be
the next attraction at the Coliseum.
Leasriee Joy. Owen Moore and
Robert Edesen are featured in the
picture. which Is an appealing do
mentio drama.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-09-28

hers for The white Rose"
This Is In accordance with tho policy OF
this theatre Of giving its patrons REAL
PRODUCTIONS at the lowest possible admls
sion scale.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1923-09-21
LEGEND MANY CENTURIES OLD
story Of the Wandering Jew" Has
Been Common to All Peoples
Since the Crucifixion.

Il is an ancient legend, that Of the
Wandering Jew, and the earliest mem
tion I can find Of 1t is said to be an
account related by an Armenian bish.
op In 1928. 1t has been exploited by
the novelist, the playwrigAs, the poet
and the historian, for 1t is subject
repiete with fascinating thrills.
, Tales have differed as to the identify
Of the Wandering Jew. One relates
that he was Kartaphilos, 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 TIL
I come again." A German legend takes
1t up and relates that in the year 1547
the Jew appeared In Hamburg, giving
his name as Ahasuerus, saying that
he had been shoemaker in Jerusalem
at the time Of the crucifixion. When
Jesus paused at his door to rest the
cobbler pushed Him away, bidding
Him leave, to which the reply was:
Truly go away and that quickly,
but tarry thou till come again"
And this tradition has It 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. go
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, 1923-09-21
MUST BE FREAK OR FOSSIL
Discovery in the Nevada Mountains
Has Split the Worlds Scien
lists Into Two Camps.

A stone form exactly resembling the
Feather sole Of a shoe, was found In
the Nevada mountains. Biologists,
psychologists and other scientific meE
were astounded with the specimens
similarity to a shoe, but none would
accept II as anything but a freak of
nature. This strange fossil or freak,
was found Embedded in a mass Of Tri-
AISLE rock. which is considered by SCI
entists to be from 1O0,00o,O00 to 3o0,-
100000 years old. By those who con-
slider 1t freak rather than fossil
It has been pronounced one of the
most remarkable natural limitations Of
an artificial object ever discovered by
man.
Acknowledgements Of the fossil reveal
very clearly the holes punched in the
Role for stitching, and even the twist
OF the thread used in the welt is plainly
shown. It's warp is brought out In I'M
e1istakable prominence. In every re-
spect 1t duplicates the exact process
which takes place In wornout shoe.
These facts would seem to prove be
yond a reasonable doubt that 1t is the
fossil OF real shoe, and that It was
done by the hand Of man. The up
shot Of the matter leads to one Of
these two scientific facts: Either man
has lived on the earth three or four
times as long as has hitherto been sup
posed, or biologists are badly mistaken
in the age of the Triassic rocks In
Nevada.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1923-09-21
WROUGHT WONDERS IN STONE
Work Of Architects Of the Twelfth
Century Stand as Challenge
to the World.

The most laboriously wrought stone
carving in the world, the temple of
Cinema KeSava, at Belur, India, was
built In the Twelfth century to cele.
brate the conversion to Vishnuism of 3
Jain ruler. Ferguson says of this par
ticular temple: 'The amount OF labor
which each particular facet of this
porch displays is such as never was
bestowed on any surface of equal ex-
tent In any building in the world"
Another masterpiece of sculptured
stone, at Hullabid, India, ten miles
from Belur, is greatly ruined now. and
many of its gems have been removed
to the museum at Bangalore. When
intact 1t was the finest specimen of
Indian art In existence. This column
is one of the most marvellous exhibit
tons of human labor to be found even
In the patient East-far surpasses any
thing in Gothic art. The effects are
said to be just what the medieval
architects were aiming at, but which
they never attained so perfectly as
was done at Hullabid. Ferguson fur
Their says, placing the Hullabid temple
and the Parthenon in Athens as the
two extremes Of architecture: ut
would be possible to arrange all the
buildings Of the world between these
two extremes, as they tended toward
the severe intellectual purity of the
one or the playful, exuberant fancy OF
the other: but perfection. IL II existed.
would be somewhere near the mean"
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1923-09-21
gShklHIli IN M6lfRA ekaEasf
Followers Of Mohammed Regard Hla
Tomb as One Of Their Most
Holy Places.

Close to the mound In Mesopotaniia
that once was Nineveh, is another,
known to the Arabs as Nebi-Yunus,
atop Of which is the tomb Of Jonah.
How the followers of Mohammed came
to adopt this perfectly good Hebrew
as one of their own prophets is not
clear, but the fact remains that his
tomb has been a Moslem shrine for
upward of thousand years, observes
q. Alexander Powell In Harpers Mag
aZine.
The sarcophagus itself, covered
with priceless Persian shawls, the Of
ferings of pilgrims, stands In the GEN.
ter Of square, vaulted chamber, the
floor of which is considerably below
the level of the ground. thereby CIV
Ing the interior, which is lined with
porcelain tiles Of the lost shade Of
Persiap blue, q most refreshing cool
ness after the sun glare outside.
Depending from the dome by sill
yer chain, so that they swing directly
over the resting place Of the intrepid
Jewish seafarer, are several Swords"
of the swordfish. When asked the
aged mullah who was In charge OF
the shrine what they were, he sx-
planned, In a tone which betrayed pity
for my ignorance, that they were the
teeth Of the whale that swallowed
Jonahi
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1923-09-21
NOVELIST PROVED HIS CASE
Critics Of Dickens Spontaneous Com.
hustionP Death Proved Wron6
BY Eminent MeS1SaI Men.

It may be recalled that Charles
Dickens, the famous novelist, employs
spontaneous combustion to give force
to one Of the episodes tn his fasci-
mating story known as BLEAK House"
One Of the dark characters Of the
story is old Krook, proprietor Of q rag
and bone warehouse. He Is a grasping
drunkard, consuming great quantities
Of gin. One day two men. occupying
an upper room in the old warehouse,
smelt burning, and on going below to
investigate, found smouldering heap
Of something looking like charrsd oiled
rags. At the inquest the coroner's
jury held that old Krook came to his
end by spontaneous combustion
Some critics of Dickens challenged
this as being impossible. The account
Of BROOKS death was, therefore, bad
art and blemish on the whole story.
Dickens replied by citing similar
case that had occurred In Paris,
France, and was confirmed by a report
Of several eminent medical men who
had thoroughly Investigated the mat
ter
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1923-09-21
LINK WITH HISTORIC PAST
nspear Thrower," Relic Of Early
America, indicates Common Cul-
ture In the Country.

A "spear thrower" or Throwing
stick" found among the implements
of the prehistoric people of America
In caves in the Ozark mountains In
Missouri and Arkansas, may be an
important aid in lifting the mystery
which enshrouds the ancient cultures
of the American continents. The
throwing stick is the only article SO
far unearthed which furnishes any
connection between these people ana
others which have existed on this con-
tinent. Fhe weapon is extremely
simple, consisting of round or fiat
stick one to two inches In diameter
and about IS inches long, notched at
one end and perforated at the other.
With sometimes one, sometimes two
holes. Into these holes the prehistoric
man thrust his fingers, affixed his
short-shafted stone-headed dart to the
notched end, raised the stick over his
shoulder, and by means of a quick,
Jerking movement Of the arm hurled
the dart at enemy or game.
Close adaptations of the weapon are
found among the ruins of prehistoric
American civilization extending from
Peru far north beyond the Arctic circle.
The weapon seems to have been uni
versal to all climes of the western
hemisphere and to all periods, even
down to the present day, when 1t Is
still in use among the Eskimos of the
Arctic, and the Tarascan Indians In
the Patzcuaro lake region of Mexico.
1t furnishes a possible missing link
between the prehistoric civilization OF
the western half of the continent and
those of the extreme East.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1923-09-21
SNAKES In QUEENSLAND BUSH
Residents Set Traps for Unpleasant
intruders, and Lure Them to
Their Death.

women In Queensland" saws Mss
Puxley,, young English woman, au-
thor OF "Wanderings in the Queens
land Bush" "often set traps for
snakes which have entered houses, in
the shape of frog left hopping about
or saucer full Of poisoned milk.
Both OF these are sure draws. the
snakes being killed while resting after
the meal" She then tells the story Of
"a friend Of hers, who was standing in
the doorway of her house when a
snake, having seen a saucer of milk
Just behind her, pushed past her to
reach this dainty. She quickly closed
the door when it was halfway
through, land so broke its back. This
was one Of the deadly black snakes
OF Queensland. Another BIT of in.
formation about snakes, which Miss
Pulley gives. is the fact that because
OF the angle at which certain
snakes teeth are set it is impossible
for MIN to stop swallowing anything
once ne has really begun. So it hap
pens that two snakes, which NAV have
started out on killing in a spirit
OF camaraderie. may each begin
swallowing at one end of their prey.
but when they have reached the mid.
die there Is nothing to do except to
continue. and the snake with the
largest mouth Is forced to include His
less fortunate companion Of the
chase In his meal.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1923-09-21
China'a Sacred Mountains.

Thousands of pilgrims come every
year from all parts Of China to visit
the shrines and temples of the sacred
mountain of Human, Nan Yoh Shan,
one Of the five sacred peaks of China
Early In October more than 10000 pill
grims arrive daily. Some of the pill
grims travel from their homes on foot,
coming great distances. They kneel
and bow their heads down to the little
stools, which they carry in their hands,
every five, seven or ten steps, accord.
Ing to the vow they have made. At
one end of the stools are made sticks
Of incense, the burning Of which is part
of their worship.
In large majority of the cases the
vows have been made on behalf Of
sick mother, and the journeys are
taken as an expression Of thanksgiv-
ing in case Of recovery, or as prayer
for mercies in the other world In case
Of a fatal issue of the Illness.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1923-09-21
ALWAYS RACE OF WARRIORS
Roman Historian Paid Tribute to the
Fighting Qualities Il the Plcts
Early in History.

Picts is the name by which, for five
and half centuries-296 to 844 A. d.
the people that inhabited eastern
Scotland, from the Forth to the Pent.
land firth, were known. In certain
chronicles they are styled Picti, Pic
tones, Pictores, or Piccardaig-all
forms of the same root but sometimes
the native Gaelic name Of Cruthnig Ia
applied to. them, and their country
called Cruithen-tuath, the equivalent
of the Latin Pictasia and Old Morse
Pettland, which still survives In the
name Of the Pentland firth. In their
wars In Britain the Romans came into
collision with the Picts. One Roman
or Latin writer of that time speaks of
the Caledonians and other Picts."
which implies the inclusion Of the for
mer In the latter people. The well.
known Roman historian, Tacitus, calls
Scotland north of the Firths of Forth
and Clyde, Caledonia, and he describes
the Caledonians as a noble race of
barbarians, who fight In chariots as
well as on foot. with long swords and
short shields. and whose fair red hair
and large limbs argued a Teutonie
origin.
The Highlanders of today are OF
.ssltic origin. The prefix, mac, mean.
Eg con Of, Is from the Gaelic.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1923-09-21
LAW NOT STEvENS0N'S FORTE
Popular Writer Was an Advocate by
Profession, but Early Abandoned
the Occupation.

Robert Louis Stevenson, the famous
Scottish novelist and essayist, was an
advocate by ofession-member OF the
Scottish bar-but he never practiced
He hated the law-or at least the
practice of it-and abandoned it fo5
literature as quickly as he could. AT
enc bar in Edinburgh, Lord Shaw Of
Dunfermline (then Mr. Thomas Shaw,
advocate) had an interesting view Of
Stevenson as an advocate He writes;
ST remember seeing him, with his
very white wig and his glossy dark
hair, his complexion Of an ivory pallOr,
and his cleaning dark eyes. A few
days after Stevenson went to the bar
he had got a guinea, sent to him with
Instructions His sole duty was to
ask the judge for intimation and serv.
Ice of a petition of the party against
whom it was directed All he had to
do was to stand up at the bar and
utter three words interrogatively In
timation and serviceY But he was a
mass of nerves, and these three words
he could not utter, and he besought
his friend to go into court and make
the little motion for him. I never
heard of his earning another guinea
as an advocate"
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1923-09-21
HELD IN MUD FOR CENTURIES
Delicate Organisms Have Been Won
drousIy Preserved During the Up
building of the World.

Fragments Of colony of marine anil
mails on a slab of black rock, with
many trilobItes dark and shells of
the Sidney crab Qight), were discov-
cred by G. D. Walcott on Mount wap-
IN. These creatures lived before the
day of the fish or any other vertebrate
animal, and when land plants, and
even marine, vegetable life, were al
most unrepresented. Other animals
of the sea, however, existed In great
profusion, and here and there condi-
tons were so favorable for their burial
IN the mud and sand Of the Cambrian
sea that they were preserved un-
broken, and throughout all the proc
asses of rock-making and mountain
building escaped destruction.
IN one of these favorable places In
the Canadian Rockies the most delicate
Of organisms, like the jelly fish, have
been so exquisitely preserved that one
can hardly realize that they were
buried In the mud fifteen to twenty
million years ago, and have remained
undisturbed while several miles Of
thickness of sediment were deposited
over them, changed into rock, elevated
into mountain masses, and later eroded
into the present mountains and can.
yons.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1923-09-21
NOT AN EASY OCCUPATION
naAr-sea Diver May With Much Truth
Be Said Constantly to walk
With Death.n


How does deep-sea diver feel
when he puts on his diving suit? Capt.
@. A. W. Monckton tells US In "Soms
Experiences Of New Guinea Resi-
dent Magistrate" that the feeling Ia
by no means pleasant.
The moment the face glass IL
screwed tight, he says. and the air
pump begins to work, the diver feels
that he has grievance. AS he de-
cends the feeling becomes more posi-.
tive until he Is In fury Of rage
against everyone In general and usual
~ against one person In particular.
At the 0ottom 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 II that
Of being drowned when he Is on his
way to the surface. After a time, Il
seems, the best Of diving dresses be-
comes leaky, and the water that finds
It's way through the seams settles
round the feet and the legs; divers
become accustomed to having their
dresses filed 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 involuntarify
or accidentally allow his body to be-
come horizontal, and II he does so
the water at once PUSHES into his
helmet, stands him on his head and
browns him.-Youth's Companion.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1923-09-21
Found Nearsiehtedness a Boon.

Most persons pity sufferers Of my
opia, which Is blurring of the vision
through nearsightedness. But one VIC
time Of the afiiction, theatergoer.
says his nearsSghtedness Is distinct
advantage.
Being lover Of beauty, when 60
to the theater like to see loneliness
all about me-" he said. Now, you
know that one Of the disappointing
things you can look at is makeup at
close range. Yet we all like to sit
close enough to the stage to hear
clearly.
Through my nearsightedness the
garishness of the paint is softened and
I see only becoming glow on the
cheeks Of the players. When my
friends have told me of unbeautiful
things which they have seen upon the
stage have felt grateful that my
eyes are slightly dulled by myopia."-
New York Sun.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1923-09-21

PUT AATIQUARlAAs IN FURRY
Historic Old English Building, Long
Hidden Under improvements"
Recently Brought 10 Light

Lost for centuries, a building Of his
tofsc and civic importance was dis
severed at Hereford, England. owing
70 the collapse Of q modern chimney
In the Booth Hall hotel during repair2
The building IL an ancient, timber
built structure known a. the Booth
bail According to local antieuar4ans
a license was granted 10 1854 for the
purchase Of the site for q municipal
building. and II was aftsrward used a.
q house a6 detention FOR freeman and
bankrupts. When the chimney COZ
iapsed parts Of the roof and he eel,
mas Of upper bedrooms were brpughl
down, and some fne oak beams and
rafters were exposed Closer sxsml,
nation showed tho portions Of carved
and nodded work. 4 member Of the
Hereford wooihope club. Z local soci-
sty whose chief interest 10 the preser
vation Of ancient work Of the county,
persuaded the owners to restore the
building, and altar the partitions and
ceilings Of the old attic bedrooms had
been removed three handsome ham
marbeam principals and two tie-besn
principals were discovered, the hap-
mer-beans having carved hrackak&
with fgureheads, and the tie-heam
principals with psnsled king posts
contained beautiful traeery pamela
Ousped wfnd!brsces between the pein-
cpals decorate and strengthen n
STRUCTURE
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1923-09-21
Mirage in History.

A mirage is an optical Illusion, by
which images of distant objects are
seen often as If inverted, below the
ground or raised in the atmosphere. Il
Is frequently observed on the western
plains of Canada and the United
States. The phenomenon Is best OBJ
served in the Egyptian or other des-
erts, and the inverted images so much
resemble these made in water as to
create the illusion that lake is really
near. The mirage was known in an
Gent Jewish times. 1t is mentioned
In Isaiah 1877: "And the parched
ground shall become a pool and the
thirsty land springs Of water" The
Fata Morgana, what sailors call the
'loomings," the Flying Dutchman, the
Enchanted Island, Cape Flyaway. ETC..
are all produced by the mirage.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1923-09-21
Tammany Hall of New York.

The Tammany society of New York
was Incorporated soon after the Revo
iutionary war. Its meetings took place
In Tammany hall, so often distin
guished in the political history Of the
country. Many of the soldiers and
sages of the republic became members
of the society, for 1t was based upon
the broadcast republican principles. II
was In favor Of government by the
PEOPLE, of freedom of speech and re-
ligion and Of the liberty Of the press.
Originally established for benevolent
purposes, 1t became political as soon
as an aristocratic element was sus-
pected to be growing strong, favorable
20 a standing army and extensive navy
In time Of peace, to heavy taxes and
to alien and sedition laws, such as
were In vogue In the time of the
elder Adams. when a large party de
sired to empower the president 30 that
he could expel suspected foreigners
from the soil of the United States
says the Detroit News.