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SHITEPOKE 404 SHOE-BILLED STORK several statues of the Egyptian goddess Pasht, which probably came from Luxor. Jeroboam fled to Shishak from the pur- suit of Solomon, who wished to kill him, and lived there during the lifetime of Solomon. On the death of this monarch Jeroboam quitted Egypt and contended with Rehoboam for the possession of the crown. This struggle caused the divi- sion of the kingdom of David into two states, that of Israel and Judah. In the fifth year of Rehoboam Shishak marched to Jerusalem with an army of 12,000 chariots, 60,000 cavalry, and an innu- merable number of infantry, composed of Troglodytes, Libyans, and Ethiopians. He took the city, the treasures of the temple, and all the gold bucklers which Solomon had made. The conquest of Jeru- salem is found recorded on the monuments of Karnak, on which Shishak I. is rep- resented dragging before the god Ammon three files of prisoners, inscribed with various names of places, among them Judaea, Megiddo, Ajalon, Mahanaim, and other towns taken by Shishak in his line of march. SHITEPOKE, the small green heron of North America (Butorides virescens). The plumage of its crest and upper parts is mainly glossy green; the under parts are brownish-ash, varied with white on its belly. Also called poke and fly-up-the- creek. SHITTIM WOOD, the wood of the shittah tree of the Bible, of which the tabernacle in the wilderness was princi- pally constructed, is supposed to be the Acacia seyal of the Sinaitic peninsula. It is a light but cross-grained and en- during wood, of a fine orange-brown color. SHIVELY, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, a United States Senator from Indiana, born in St. Joseph co., Ind., in 1857. He was educated at the Northern Indiana Normal School and at the University of Michigan. He graduated from the law department of the latter in 1886. He was engaged in farming, and was at various times an editor and teacher. Elected to Congress in 1884 and again in 1886, he served until 1892. In 1909 he was elected United States Senator and was re-elected in 1914. During his ser- vices as Senator, he was chairman of the Committee on Pensions and was a mem- ber of the Committee on Foreign Rela- tions. He died in 1916. SHOA, a province in the S. E. of Abys- sinia; area, about 26,000 square miles. Pop. about 2,500,000. It consists (like the rest of Abyssinia) mostly of plateaus reaching up to an elevation of 10,000 feet on the S. E. and S., overtopped by higher mountains, and intersected by numerous streams mostly tributaries of the Blue Nile. The capital is Ankober. It also contains Addis Abeba, the capital of Abyssinia. In 1889 Menelek, King of Shoa, became ruler of all Abyssinia, which in 1896 became an independent state. See Abyssinia. SHOCK, in electricity: (1) Frictional, a sensation as of a more or less painful concussion or blow attended by a sudden contraction or convulsion of the muscles produced by a discharge through them of electricity from a charged body. If a number of persons join hands, the first touching the outside coating and the last the knob of a charged Leyden jar, all will receive a nearly simultaneous shock proportioned to the strength of the charge and the number of persons whom it strikes. (2) Dynamical, the sensation produced in the same way by a current from a charged inductive coil, or from a dynamo-electric machine. Owing to the large quantity of these latter currents, fatal accidents not unfrequently occur. In pathology, a sudden and violent derange- ment of any organ or of the nervous system, and through it of the general frame, consequent on sudden injury, the sight of anything painful or terrible, or the reception of very startling news. SHODDY, old woolen or worsted fab- rics torn to pieces by a machine having spiked rollers (termed a devil), cleansed, and the fiber spun with a certain pro- portion of new wool, the yarn being after- ward woven into full bodied but flimsy fabric also known as shoddy, and made into cheap cloth, table covers, etc. SHOE, a covering or protection for the foot, usually of leather. The ancients usually wore Sandals (q. v.). The cres- cent was employed as an ornament on the shoes of Romans of exalted rank, who appear to have carried on the art of shoe making with great taste and skill. Only one instance is known of an ancient monu- ment exhibiting shoes with separate heel pieces. The custom of making shoes right and left was common in classical times. The fashion of shoes and boots, as has occurred with other articles of dress, has undergone innumerable changes. In 1914, according to the last United States census of manufactures, there were in the boot and shoe industry 1,960 establishments, employing 227,605 persons. Their com- bined capital was $97,609,000 and the value of their products was $590,028,000. The principal centers, of the industry were Lynn, Brockton, Haverhill, and Bos- ton, all in Massachusetts, and St. Louis, Mo. See Boots and Shoes. SHOE-BILLED STORK, in ornithology, Balseniceps rex, a large stork found on