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Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1924-03-21
SLIPPED AWAY FROM ARREST
ouakers Explanation That Il Would
Have Been lnconvenient at the
Time Is Humorous.

A story dating from our Civil wal
has just been retold by Earl Russell,
grandson of Lord John Russell, the
great Victorian statesman, in his my
Life and Adventures" A Philadelphia
lawyer named Roseigarten was q
colonel in the Northern army and was
dispatched to arrest John Janney, q
Quaker, who had signed the Virginian
act of secession. He found them all
at meeting" so he just sat down
and said: Il don't want to disturb
your meeting, but I warn you that at
the end Of it, it Is my duty to arrest
John Janney." One on them arose and
said: "Will thee take Of thy hatT
no" he replied, ut is q Friends meet
ing "Yes, thy hat Is military hat"
So he took 1t of, and his sword also,
after some demur, and one Of the
Friends took them out After an hour
or so, the meeting was ever. @Now."
he said, 81 must remind you that ]
want John Janney. Pray stand up"
About twenty Of them stood up. Non.
sehSe, Ac SdIu, want Inc SoAu al
ney who signed, ETC." "Oh. that John
Janney,' they replied, why he took
out thy hat an hour ago." He added
that after the war John Janney came
and called on him to apologize for
slipping away, but said It would really
have been very inconvenient for him
to have been arrested Just then.-Sap
Francisco Argonaut.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1924-03-21
EARLY DISCOVERY OF AMERICA
Mortimer Said to Have Known Of
the Great Continent Long Before
Columbus Was Born.

It Is said by persons who have given
attention to the subject that the
Mortimer were well acquainted with
the east coast of North America nearly
500 years before the first celebrated
voyage Of Columbus. It Is said to have
been accidentally discovered by an Ice
iandic navigator, while endeavering to
make the coast Of Greenland, In the
year 1901. From that time, for about
$50 years, the intercourse Of the Tee
landic Normans with Holluland New
foundland), MARYLAND (Nova Scotia),
and vinland New Engfand). was fire.
quent and intimate. No other Euro
pean people have been so scrupulously
correct in keeping their records as the
Scandinavians, and the accounts Of
these early voyages. which have been
handed down from the period In which
they were made. are most particular
and ircumstantial-more 50, indeed,
shan those Of the Spanish Adventures
who followed Columbus.
All intercourse Of these Northmea
with America seems to have ceased
about the middle Of the Fourteenth
century. This fact Is a. extraordinary
and inexplicable as TINT, about the
same time. or soon after, they disap-
peared in like manner from the N.sst
coast Of Greenland.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1924-03-21
Color. for Mourning Vary.

The colors used as badges OF mourn
ing vary In different countries. In this
country, as In Europe, the ordinary
color for mourning Is black. In China,
as with the ancient Spartan and
Roman woman, It is white; in Turkey
It is blue or violet; In Egypt yellow |;
in Ethiopia, gray.
Some have attempted to trace the
associations which caused the adop-
ton Of the various colors to natural
causes. Thus black, which is the pri-
walton Of light, is supposed very ap-
propriately to denote the privation Of
life; yellow is the color Of leaves when
they fall and signifies that death is the
end of all human hopes.
In the East, to cut the hair was con-
sidered a sign Of bereavement; among
the Romans, on the contrary, It was
deemed a mark of sorrow to let 1t
grow.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1924-03-21
Houoiion Geysers

Two enormous geysers are spouting
100000 cubic feet Of molten lava
every hour from the Kilauea volcano.
During the past summer the crater OF
this volcano, which Is 1900 feet wide
and contains an immense lake Of liquid
FIRE, has been draining. due ia subter-
ranean disturbances, the surface OF
the lake having dropped 900 feet be-
low the rim in August. In September
the crater began to rise again at
rapid rate until it had reached within
200 feet Of the rim. The appearance
of two immense geysers spouting
molten lava high into the air and
dropping it back into the lake Is an
unsual phenomenon in the occasional
rise and fall of the liquid fire of the
Kilauea crater.-Department Of In
terror Bulletin
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1924-03-21
Thackeray Ate Fourteen
Items on Dinner Menu

Thackeray was proud Of his achieve
ments as an eater, and In Roadside
Sketches" set forth the bill Of fare of
little dinner he once enjoyed at Ant
werp: Il, green pea soup; 2. boiled sal
mon; 8, mussels; 4, crimped skate; 5.
roast meat; 9, patties; Z, melon: 8,
stewed carp with mushrooms and
onions; 9, roast turkey; 10. caulfhower
and butter; IL. fllets OF venison piques
ni.h assafoeuda sauce: 12, stewed
calls ear; Is, roast veal: ID, roast
lamb; 15, stewed cherries; 16. rice
pudding; II, Gruyere cheese and about
twenty-four cakes of different kinds"
Except s, Is and A." he declared,
II give you my word ate all written
down here, with three rolls and
score of potatoes
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1924-03-21
Drinking Toast Dates
Back to Pagan Times

Just as nutmeg, spices and so on are
still-sometimes-put into such drink
as punch" so in the olden days a
common custom was to slip a mite Of
toasted bread into glass Of ale with
the idea that the taste was thereby
improved. And so it came about that
a drink was called toast.
The custom of drinking to someone
really dates from the old pagan days
when sacrifices used to be made to
the gods. Later on an offering of wine
was made instead. its red color typi-
flying the actual blood of the real
sacrifice. Later stu men made their
offerings not to the gods but in honor
of a friend. So our ancestors would
drink a glass or toast in honor of
someone, and the person honored was
as often as not called toast for short.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1924-03-21
OLD c05ToMs sTIIL IN Use.
Certain Articles Must He Presented
10 the King Of England %
In Ancient Days.

We 1.-THE people Of England) pride
ourselves that we are governed By
constitutional sovereign and that the
old heresy of the divine right Of kings
to govern wrongly has been exploded
and Is not likely to be set up again
Yet occasionally we are reminded Of
an incident or custom which carries
us back to the days Of feudalism-
For instance, the feudal quit rent
for plot OF land in Shropshire, grant
ed to the city Of London In 1011 BY
King John. It consists Of q new
Ratchet, new billbook and two fag-
COTS These articles must be presented
to the king every year by the city cor
poration, and 1t Is a fact that the two
faggots are solemnly chopped in pieces
by the city solicitor at the law courts
in the presence Of various high OFF,
Gals. The "chips." together with
Ratchet and billbook, are handed to
the kings remembrance.
This ceremony Is preceded by an
other Of similar character. TOT nix
horseshoes and sixty-one nails are
handed to the kings representative.
They represent the rent for the plot
of ground now occupied by the law
courts. This plot was occupied at one
time by farrier, whose duty 1t was
to shoe the horses Of the knights who
fought in the tournaments held close
at hand.
King Georges feudal status II even
more marked In the Channel islands
When the sovereign visited Guernsey
some time ago the seigneurs knelt
before him.
They placed their hands between his
and recited the oath Of homage In Nor
man French. while the king, reading
from q card held by the queen, con-
firmed each seigneur in his privileges.
The holder of one fief was a woman
who, for the land she held, presented
the king with pair Of golden spuss.-
London Tit-Bits.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1924-03-21
Tests Equipment

Hisseaid that whenever a car wheel
breaks on q certain great trunk line
the fragments are taken to the COM
pauy's laboratory and carefully stud
led so that when the next order for
car wheels is made up. If structural
weakness caused the accident, 1t may
be guarded against. AL the pur-
chases by this railroad Of iron. steel.
oil, lumber or what not are tested by
the chemists 1t employs and they draw
up the requirements to which persons
who sell the road supplies must con-
form. This Is not an isolated instance.
1t illustrates the practicability Of ap-
piled science and the reliance Of acute
business men upon the expert opinion
that insures them against wasting ma
terials, time and money.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1924-03-21
RsiiS, ss'rla.uvs Nall
Line on Country EstCte

w. Cecil Gage, retired broker, OF
Fishkill, N, T., has just completed q
two-mile miniature railway system,
which he has constructed with his
own hands entirely from odds and
ends found lying about his estate.
The tracks and switches were
made from the floor beams and the
cars and locomotive from the parti-
tons of dismantled farm buildings.
Ashes from the family furnace served
as ballast for the tracks. A gasoline
motor to run the locomotive and
wheels for locomotive and cars are
the only parts Of the system that are
not homemade
Mr.. Gage began constructing his lit
tie road five years ago in order to
supply himself with an easy way
of disposing Of ashes. He has been
steadily adding to 1t since then until
now he has two miles of track, i've
passenger cars, two fiat cars, freight
car, eight switches, four crossings
equipped with warning signs, a turn
table, snowplow and half dozen
stations. At night and during severe
weather a long chicken house serves
as "roundhouse" for the protection
Of the rolling stock.
The road is used to carry farm
products, firewood and similar mate
rails about the estate as well as to
take the children of Fishkill and the
surrounding towns for joyriding. Mr..
Gage estimates his yearly mileage as
something above 10000. The tiny
cars attain speed OF. 20 miles an hour
or more on straight runs, and, al
though several thousand persons
have been carried as passengers,
there never has been an accident
Popular Science.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1924-03-21
WAtIee Burpee Co
Seed.Growers' Philadelphia
Locate Leaks

An automatic leak indicator for
ships consists Of a number Of small
cast-iron boxes screwed to the bulk
head Of each compartment and set at
predetermined distances. one above an
other. In each box there Is an cleo
trical contrivance connected With an
indicator board. either on the bridge
or In some other convenient place.
The board IS fitted with a number Of
small glow lamps OF different colors,
and Is connected with an alarm bell.
When water rises to the level Of the
lowest box 1t makes an electrical con-
tact, by which the lamp correspond
ing to the height of the buIkhead that
the box indicates is lighted and so
remains until the next box Is reached
by the water, when the second lamp
Is lighted. Meanwhile the bell rings
continuously until shut OF.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1924-03-21
R. / S. HAD WRITER'S CRAMP
Yet Robert Lewis Stevsnson's LaborI.
Gus Copying Of Manuscripts Kept
Him Alive.

All Stevenson's creative work was
done In the morning, though in those
days before typewriters an author had
an intsfuinabie amount Of writing to
do that was merely copying, and In
volved no mental effort.
The writer's Of today never have
"scrivener's cramp." which pursued r.
I. 8. ali his LIE. and which caused
him often to hold his PEN between his
second and third fingers when the iAr
dex finger was useless.
His preference was for white. ruled
foolscap paper CHOSEN because 1t ap-
proximated In his writing to a Corn
hill page Of I'VE hundred words. his
first essays had been taken By the
Cornhiil Magazine, and lis page estab-
lished for him measure Of computa-
ton. He calculated The length Of all
his work in "Cornhill pages" long after
he had ceased all connection with the
magazine itself. and indeed as long a.
he lived
l think he found rewriting a very
soothing pastime, and would not have
thanked anybody for a mechanical
shortcut; 1t was an equivalent and a
much pleasanter one for the knitting
and bead stringing that doctors now
adays so often enforce on their pa
TENTS; and it had the agreeable quail
ify that he could pause as long as he
liked over word or phrase that was
not quite to his liking. and polish end
lessly.
Those who criticize r. L. s. for his
excessive particularly are mistaken In
their Judgment. II was this rewriting
and polishing that helped to keep him
aiive.-Lloyd Osbourne In scribnexAs
Magazine.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1924-03-21
TIL We Meet Agatha

In her -Glimpses Of Authcesp MIa
Caroline Tcknor Of the same Ticknos
family that has 30 long been ASSOCIATE.
ed with publishing. tells Of many de-
lightful passages between authors and
the ancient Arm of Messrs. Ticknor &
Fields. A business correspondence
With Mark Twain must have been most
enjoyable for his publisher. One letter
sent to him closed with hope that !:
God be with you, for / cannot. Yeurs
B. 81. Ticknor.". Twain returned the
sheet. at the foot Of which hs had IN
scribed the words: Dear Tiefnor: He
didn't come. II has ben I great dis-
appointment 70 the w11ela SQmflu.
Herqa1ar. appoint ! pqEly - - -
- - - 11e
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1924-03-21
STEEL AND IRON coRRosIoN
Engineers Find No Appreeiable Differ
enee Between Metals When Used
in Steam Boilers

Iron and steel are almost equally re-
sistant to the effects of corroding in
iuences. AS far back as 1881 the en-
gineer-surveyors of Lloyds investigated
no less than LOO marine steel boil
ers In actual use and found it imposs!
bic to distinguish between them and
he iron boilers, so far as liability to
corrosion was concerned.
In 1891 81 Of the leading American
and British shipbuilders were asked
for their opinion on the subject. Seven
held steel to be more corrodible than
iron, eight held the opposite view,
eight were uncertain, and fourteen
could report no difference between the
two metals In 1921 a careful examina-
ton of SO samples of pipes from hot
water systems in New York city re-
vealed no appreciate difference be-
tween iron and steel. Last year an In
vestigation Of n samples Of wrought
iron that had seen much service
showed that the mean depth Of the
pittings was 0.094 inches, whereas the
pittings in p steel samples showed
a mean depth of 0.0093.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1924-03-21
Snakes Cannot Charm.

The principal venomous snakes In
this country are rattlesnakes, vipers,
copperheads and moccasins. veno-
nous snakes have teeth on their up
per palate, not on the upper jaw. On
each side of the upper jaw two hollow.
backward-curving fangs have poison
glands at their base, ndpressure on
the fangs causes an emission Of the
poison. The fangs are shed at regular
intervals-pushed out by incipient
fangs.
Capt Reginald Haselden, an expert
on medieval manuscripts and trainer
of snakes on the side, says snakes pos
sess no charming power. He believes.
however, that the staring idless eyes
Of snakes may autosuggestively put q
person into sort Of hynotic trance.
1t seems to have been conclusively
established that the number of rattles
on rattlesnake's tail have nothing to
do with the age of the snake.-Detroit
News.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1924-03-21
He sILEHcED THE TEMPTER
Threat Must Have Cost the Former
Missr Suffering, but He Rose
to the Occasion.

III you find yourself getting close
fisted," remarked a Pennsylvania con-
gresham, sit is time to begin to emu
late the example Of wealthy old
farmer in my state. He was noted for
years rs an old miser. but was con-
verted during protracted meeting
Shortly afterward poor man who had
been burned out and had nothing for
his family to eat, came to him for help
The farmer thought he would be liberal
and give the man a ham from his
smokehouse. On his way to get It the
tempter whispered to him:
"'Give him the smallest one you
have
He had q struggle with himself ~
to whether he should give him large
or a small ham, but finally he took
down the largest one he could find.
You are a fool the tempter wins
pered to him.
II you don't keep your darned mouth
shut the farmer snarIed at him, 4
win size him esery h1m have n the
emokehcuDa' ~--NationAi Republican
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1924-03-21
wood Has BAD Reputasion.


Elder Il Of ill-omen since Judas,
they say, hanged himself thereon, Jet
It has the virtue Of beauty In the days
Of Wild roses and hcneysuckle. Elder
iower-water Is good for compilations.
say rustic maids, and old-time farmers
claim for elderberry-wine that It b
"a pretty tidy tipple."
Though the elder-wood Is a dank,
weed-infested place. il is to the liking
Of rabbits. that always seem to abound
there.
such woods cumber the ground, but
here ana there the superstition holds
good that - cut o. bum elder Il 70
arsusa tho wrath Of the Trees dryad
~ - 80 ~ uaroG
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1924-03-21

II see We advertise for tailor" be-
gan Scot. applying to London firm.
"A ladies' tailor. This is ladies'
tailoring establishment"
II ken that"
which is a particular line, my man.
Many tailor, and good tailor, fall
tiers there. Now have you ever had
any experience at dressmaking?"
"No, but I've worked on kits
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1924-03-21
Killing Courtesy

The following is a story told by H.
J. Byron and retold by Harry Furniss.
of costermonger who thought he
would enjoy his holiday taking walk
through the West End. Yes. Mr..
Byron, I dress myself up stiff. and
goes up Regency street. was a.
lookin' at some photographs in shop
winder when a swell bloke wild tydy
on his arm gives me shove and sends
my cad clean through that ere winder.
Did cuss and swear? Did use bad
langvidge? No. / remembered were
I was. so with the blood all a-stream-
In down my face, rose my at grace
full an says, 1 beg your parding.'
That's all says. I beg your parding.'
I crushed i'm with breedin' "-Ar-
Ronaut
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1924-03-21

The quaintness of Boston's Colonial
days as it seems to us now lives and
breathes in the words Of regulation
adopted by the selectmen of 1857.
Those city fathers declared that ow-
ing to great danger arising often
times from coaches. Stays, chairs, and
other carriages, on the Lords days, as
people are going to or coming from
the several churches in this town, be
ing driven with great rapidity, and the
public worship being oftentimes much
disturbed by such carriages, it Is there
fore voted and ordered, that no coach,
slay, chair, chaise or other carriage
shall at such times be driven at a
greater rate than foot pace, on pen
atty to the master of the slave or SER
want so driving of the sum Of ten shil-
lings."-Boston Transcript
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1924-03-21

Tradition has 1t that the first turkey
was brought to England by one of Sc
bastian Cabot's chief lieutenants. This
is supported by the fact that William
Strickland. who accompanied Cabot
on several Of his voyages, adopted a
turkey rampant as his crest on being
granted arms in 1851.
Exactly how the turkey got his name
Is a mystery. Some authorities sug-
gest that the bird ehristened Itself by
constant reiteration of sound that
resembles turk turk turk"
The birds succulent meat was so
highly esteemed by Sixteenth century
churchmen, that by Archbishop Gran
mer's order, only lone dish of turkey
cocks" was permitted at feasts and
banquets.-Detroit News.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1924-03-21

Sir Harry Johnston tells of tribe
in venya, South Africa, who wander
among dense forests and game-haunt-
ed wilderness. THE tribe, the Ando-
robo, reproduces in most striking
manner the life which we may suppose
TO have been led by our far-away an
cestors in the earliest Stone Ages" he
says. ''They lead, in fact, very much the
life that the most primitive types of
man led in Great BNtain and France in
the far back days of big animals, pos
sibly before the coming of the glacial
periods.
"They live entirely by the chase.
often consuming the flesh Of birds and
beasts uncooked. Though they COM
nit considerable devastation among
the game Of the province, they are a
picturesque feature when encoun-
tered."-Detroit News.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1924-03-21
For the Radio Fan

What has radio got to do with for
eign trade? When you listen in for
news or amusement, speeding from
broadcasting stations, remember that
you could not listen in, nor broadcast
ing be, but for six imported materials
in radio instruments: mahogany from
st. Jago, South America; rubber from
Brazil or the Far East; platinum
from the Ural mountains, Russia;
glass derived from nitrates procured
in Chile and Germany; silk from
China and Japan; and mica from the
mines of India.-National Foreign
Trade Council Bulletin.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1924-03-21
Tho Metric System

The metric system is proceeding
slowly as regards its adoption in Eng
disappearing countries. One sugges-
ton which was made at a luncheon
given In New York on May 5 by the
Metric association was that the con-
duct Of international trade is at pres
ent hampered and confused by the
circumstance that the content Of the
British gallon is greater than that Of
the American gallon. The recon-
mendation was made that both gov
ernments should abandon their stand
ards and adopt in their place the liter
as the common unit Of capacity
Scientific American.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1924-03-21
His Own Opinion.

Gap Johnson Of Rumpus Ridge
leaned over his rickety fence and non
chalantly contemplated q covered
wagon which was being snafled along
the big road By yoke Of oxen.
aHowdyl" he saluted when the eQui-|
pages finally arrived In front Of his
residence. "Whur are you-p'tu l--go-
ing tor"
swell. I'll tell you" responded The
venerable man who walked beside the
oxen Il loaded up my family and one
thing and another q spell ago. aiming
to 20 to Oklahomy, as Il were. But
rye had to turn out'n the road and
stop 80 often to let automobiles, wag-
ons, ana so forth go By, and then
prob1y g&t stuck In the mud and had
. hi ofAa time Ia dragging out and
getting staxtsd ag'in, that. HI things
corsldsred. don't reckon Tn xsinx|
- s'ace-- ransas cin Sea
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1924-03-21
Netlon1l Pdrk yisissvs
Ripd Natures Wonders

Following are some Of the human
oddities Of the Yellowstone park as de-
scribed by Harry Owen Frazier In the
Saturday Evening Post.
Women in high-heeled shoes. silk
stockings and khaki breaches, hiking
among the geysers and along the
trails
Men in low shoes, palm beach trou-
sers, heavy sweaters and straw hats,
doing the same thing.
Men. women and children crowding
around the camp dining room half an
hour before mealtime for fear they
would not be the first served.
The talkative lady who was forever
wanting to change her routing 50 she
could be with new-found friends.
The man who ran to the cone Of Old
Faithful to see her spout and was
treated to q nice hot shower.
The many who put their hands into
the hot springs to see II the water was
actually hot-and found out.
The lady who asked II the springs
froze over In winter.
The roughneck who told her they
did and that once man broke through
the Ice and scalded his feet.
The schoolma'am with notebook and
pensive look who win 60 home and
write a description Of the Grand can
yon.
The man who put his collar into
the Handkerchief pool and expected 1t
to come out starched and ironed.
The man who exchanged dessert
with his neighbor at table. before the
neighbor arrived, because Of a slight
difference in cross-sectional area In
favor Of the absent one.
The lady who got close enough to a
bear to take a snapshot and then dis
covered that her camera needed reload
ing.
An obliging bear who sat upon a
stump until the nerve-racking task
was finished.
The pest who growled at the service
at the camps, but would not change to
the hotels.