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Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1900-01-12
HIGHLAND RECORDER
LOCAL NEWS.
Personal.
Brief Items of Interest to Home
Folks About Their Friends
Aud Acquaintance.

NSoUUJs
Mrs. J. c. Boggs, we learn Is
improving.
John ". Bird, Egg called to see
ns while in town Monday.
Everybody in town Monday at
the Board and telephone meetings
Mr.. G.. R. Carpenter was up
Monday
Mr.. Stephen Hiner who i has been
with the Worthington Hardware
Co. Of Stanton, for three years.
has gone to Marlinton to accept a
position.
Mr.. Sam Hise, IF Meadow Dale
was in town Tuesday.
,Messers. Ed. Kincaid and lobe
MeCHa tie Of the River were up
Tuesday.
Sheriff Ed. Arbogast returned
Saturday from taking Eli Helmlck
70 the Reform School, near Rich
mond. Helmick was convicted Oh
forgery at last court
Mr.. I'd. Matheny of Valley Cen
ter who has been very III Tor sew
eral DAYS is improving. DR.. M. b.
Campbell is his physician
DR.. F. S. Suddarth of Williams
vile. was in town Monday short
while.
Miss Ida M. Lord who spent
sometime here during the holidays,
returned home much pleased with
her visit.
Supt. of Poor, Cornelius Winner
and Supt. Of S, aad P road John
r. Byrd, and other prominent men
Of the county attended the meet
ing Of the Board Monday
M. NJ. A. Colaw and his cousin,-
Miss Sallie Propst of Franklln'
were in town Monday.
Highland Lodge, No. ITO, A. f.
and A. NJ. will meet On Friday
Jan. 18th at usual hour
Mr. James Ryder has resumed
work on Mr.. W. P. Rexrode's
house.
Mr. b E FIeisher's sickness has
developed into case of pneumonia
Ills physician reports him as dong
fairly>weil.
Mrs Reece Rodgers of Mcdowell
spent Tuesday night with her
father, Mr. L A Carichoff. MIR. Ed
dius little daughter accompanied
her.
Messrs. Arbogast and Slaven
have made valuable addition to
their livery business in the pur-
chase of team of draught horses
~
wagon &c., from Mr.. 5. }. Carson
Miss Minerva Mclaughlin OF
Valley Center has been seriously
sick for several days.
Mrs. George Koogler of Mt.
Scion is visiting her sister Mrs. I.
G. Cross.
Mr.. Pearl Propst is spouting the
drugh store.
Mr.. Geo. Gutshall's team took a
load of dressed turkeys to Hot
Springs this week for V. B. Bishop.
This is Mr.. Bishops second ship
ment to that market.
A colored lunatic attempted to
enter the hall .3Se s: Nirginia
House of Delegates and struck
Sergeant-at. Arms johnson several
blows with heavy cane.
Two election bills were introduce
ed in the House of Delegates indi-
rectly requiring an educational
qualification.
General White has repulsed the
Boer attack on the British garri.
son at Ladysmith. Natal.
General Otis reports from Ma
Mia several severe engagements In
Sonth Luzon, in one of which
Lieut.. Ward Cheney, of the Fourth
Infantry, was killed. The buboni'
plague has broken out in Manila
Always satisfied with small
profit, / will give you every adj
vantage for your cash, l.. "A
Orn dorff.
For SALE have a good sec
ond hand, two horse surry and
one horse buggy for sale.
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Lang's.

Lang's.
We have had onr say during
1890. Others have profted by it
and so have We.
For 1900 we will make it worth
your while to watch an aggressive
and progressive watch, jewelry and
silver house.
If you are not already one OF our
customers make up your mind now
to be one.
We are Opticians, too.
If you have headache, if your
eyes are causing you trouble, come
| in and let us examine them. There
will be no charge for that, and it
you need glasses they won't cost
you much.
H. L. LANG,
Graduate Opt clan
Masonic Temple, Stanton, Va
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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-08-19

boy who bore the experience easily
when forced TO undergo It himself, and,
instead of quitting the life after one
voyage-as most boys Will-remained at
sea to become an officer.
At the end of a age-uSually fin
ished within a year-an average boy
can hand (furD, reef and steer" the
last named accomplishment, however,
only applying TO fine weather; in heavy
gale, with the ship scudding before it,
an able seaman with years Of expert
ence is needed to keep the craft from
broaching to. No boy may become a
competent helmsman in less than four
years of sea-going. But, able to hand,
reef and steer" he may sign as an or
binary seaman, if he ships again, at
slight raise in pay. He is compe-
tent to assist at any work abroad ship,
but has still much TO learn before he
can call himself an liable" seaman If
he ships again with his first skipper
he remains in the boys room; and if
he is satisfied with the life, he is usual
ly promoted after three or four voy-
ages without ever having lived in the
fOrecastle. But, if he quits his captain
and signs out of a boarding house, he
goes into the fOrecaStle and takes his
chance of rising by merit alone. He will
be longer about il, hut he will be a bet
ter seaman and a better officer.
A boy who shows a desire to learn
navigation will be given facilities for
studying-in his watch belOw-and pro-
vided he owns a quadrant or seXtant
will be instructed by the captain or
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-08-19
CHINESE BOAT BUILDERS.
Turn Out Ugly Craft, With Flimsy
Material, But Seaworthy.


The main features of Chinese ship and
boast building are the light and appar,,
emily frail nature of the materials with
which vessels of every size and shape are
constructed; the clumsy form given to
MS work by the Celestial artificer, and
the marvellous ease and safety with which
craII, Doth large and small, ride out the
rougheSt weather on sea and river
rms last is no rash statement the writ
er Well remembering Witnessing. when
himself sailing the China sea in tRe teeth
OF typhCon, the total wrecking of more
than one European vessel while the
JunkS, and even small native boats within
sight, simply reefed or struck their mat
sails, and triumphantly passed with the
British ship through the Ly-ee-moon pass
INTO the sheltered harbOr of Hong Kong
The reason for all this is not far to
see. The beam of the junks is usually
broad; they sit upon the water like a fiat
Moorish arch. Their sterns are round.
and by. consequence, resistive of any ten
dency TO take abaek'
A peculiar and noticeable thing about
them is the Brobdieegnagian EYE" which
glareS out from each side of the brow
This is an ancient superstition.
me ships bamboo planks, if such a
term be allowed, are in many parts put
together with vegetable rope-naiIs l be
heve being used only in the hull proper
Right aft large cabin is appropriated
10 religious purposes. Here is enthroned
the image of the god of waters, before
which the aromatic joss stick is forever
burning. The Chinese sailor is nothing
If not a slave to his faith in omens. and
all and Sundry the supernatural beliefs
of his countrymen.
He is, when he likes, fairly good Iand
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CHINESE JUNK ON THE HoN RIv ER.

on board ship. but. being by nature and
educadve example a coward he more
often than not seeks to save his skin at
the expense of his duty. There is very
little difference in form and fitment be
tween the war junk and the commercial
variety.
The weapons are not of the same de-
scription as are those Of the sw Euro
pean-buiit steam warships Possessed bv.
the Chinese government. OF a long obso-
iete pattern, they are not very formid-
able except to themselves China has
not assimiated western ideas with the
eagerness and rapidly of the japanese
at any rate in the matter of naval prog
reSS, whatever she may have done of Iafe
as We are told, in the acquisition and
mighty laying-up of advanced tvpes of
land armament.
Prinitlveness is still writ large upon
her marine, warlike and domestic and al
though the present widespread revolution
may tend to bring about a certain, Gil
bertian 'topsy-turvydomE' the Chinaman
may perhaps accomplish that upside
down" which IN his normal position he
has for centuries failed to appreciate and
even attempt
The Yang-tse-Kiang river boats. the
quaint 'samDan," seen by the new ar
rival rocking on the gentle swell in Hong
Kong bay; the barbaric gOrgeOusness of
the mandarin's barge-each and all are
dear to the native soul and will be i'm
proved away only when improvement can
no longer be resisted. That John China
man can learn much of his western
brother in this connection is, of course
beyond question or argument, but that
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-08-19

may seem to you that this method
is better than the cart, especially If
you have good mules. If your mules,
however, are frisky either the one or
the other is liable at any moment TO
iump out from under his burden and
disappear across a grain field wagg1ng
his tail at the passenger he has just
left. and you are compelled 10 walt
until your driver is able 70 recapture
and rehar1ess your snOrting steed. 1t
will be we'll for you if you do not come
down in anything worse than dust.
You are Just as liable TO come down
in the mud. or in one of the shallow
streams over which you must cross as
on terra firma, for fording small
streams is one of the peculiar antipa-
thies o. the Chinese pack and litter
mule.
II should be remembered that one or
the other of two conditions exist on
chinese roads. Either it is an inch or
two deep with dust or foot or more
deem with mud. The former is the
condition OF the road between Tlen
Tsin and Pekin a good part of nine
months. and the latter the larger part
nf the other three. These other three
,,,onfhs are July, August and Septem-
her AS I have indicated in our boat
t,.i,, Won NAV look out over the country
ss far as the eye can reach and you
SEQ nothing but water, unless II De
here and there a village OF mud nuts
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-08-19
THE BABY TOs1ER.
Sad Fate From Which Missionaries
Have Saved Many an Innocent.
Pittsburg Dispatch)

(PittsbuTg Dispatch)
To the initiated, the plain building
which stands a little way outside near
ly every large Chinese town is one of
the most horrible of the many tragic
sights in which that melancholy ceun-
try abounds.
This is the Baby Tower" where the
hapless female children are hurried out
of a world which has no place for them.
The system is very simple. The tower
contains one opening only, resembling
a window in shape. On the ledge of
this aperture the father deposits his
newborn infant and leaves her. The
next conner pushes the child through
to make room for his Own-by which
means each man avoids the actual
murder of his very offspring. In many
of the seaport towns great work is,
in this connection, being done by the
missionaries. A watch is kept on the
tower, and the helpless infants are re-
moved from the ledge to the creche.
and aftePward passed on to the mis-
sion schools, where they are, of course.
brought I'D as Christians.
1t is to these rescued waits that we
must look for the ultimate evangelical
ton of the country. They will be able
to carry the gospel where white mems
presence only prOvokes racial hatred.
and it is in this direction of preserving
and educating the children that the
true sphere Of mission work in China
lies
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remuneration until he learns to assirni-
late II A boy reared on plain meat
and-potatoes at first finds some diff
culJy IN getting his food down his
throat; but, once down-if he is healthy
he can digest it; for, though appar-
entity served in the most unpaIatabIe
manner Which q Sea-cOok can devise
II is still organic matter, plus a good
deal OF salt, and is amenable 70 the
chemical action and reaction of H.
gastric juice. So, until he gets the sour
Wy from a preponderance of salt and
a lack OF vegetable matter in his food
ne VIII retain a Semblance of good
health And he will have no trouble in
keeping his teeth white and clean. cold
salt beef and bareback, though NOT hard
enough 10 destroy the enamel, are SUI
hclently so TO prevent the accumula.-
tSon OF tartar, and to wear of any
which has formed.
Clothes Aboard Ship.
AS boy is not favored in bad wealth
er more than others of the crew, he
aboard-the most important article
being oilskinS, SOU wester and rubber
boots. MlttenS are not allowed, eKcept
at the wheel and lookout, and are not
wanted when pulling ropes or climbing.
But dozen suits Of undercIothing and
shirts and as many pairs of socks and
trousers, all OF wooden material a.
warm sweater or monkey Jacket. and
a few light suits of dungaree, with slim
per and straw hats, is none too large
an OUTFIT for long voyage. And even
with this stock, a sailor will be lucky
If he can get through a bad gale with
out sleeping in wet clothes, or through
voyage without drawing on the can
tain'S Slop-cheSt
1t is contended by those interested in
Seamen that American bows do NOT 20
TO sea on account of the treatment Of
sailors in American shiUs. This is onIv
partly true. They go to sea in large
numbers. shipping and slowing awsv
in sloopS, SchOOnerS, briggs. banks and
ships; and there is a cadet-svsteno IN
force IN the mail steamers somewhat
similar to the English apprentice sys-
tenn which attracts a great MANY As
long as healthy and adventurous fano-
peraments are evolved in our home and
school lie, boys enough TO man every
ship afioat will be found ready to adoDt
this strenuous life But, fully two
thirds of those whose fate takes them
aboard deep water ships quit the sea
after a VOyage-nOt on account of the
danger, discomfort and necessary hard
wOrk-because of the kicks, blows and
curses given them, the epithetS applied
to them and the "driVing''-the l1nnec-
essary work for which they are kept
up in their watch below. The remain
ing third are the thick-skinned. in
lnsensate DULLES Of the boys room; and
from this class are drawn the officers
and captains or our deepawater ships.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-08-19

cart is given a rocking motion back
ward and forward similar to the mo-
ton one gets in riding a camel. The
cart iswithout springs and the wheels
are made sufficiently strong to carry
the weight if they We're without tires.
The tires are put on in sections eigh-
teen inches in length and are only to
keep the wheels from being worn out
on the ground. Add to this the fact
that the Chinese never work on the
roads,, but that a road is wherever
the carts happen to drive, and you get
some idea of the solid comfort of a
Chinese cart" The passenger is
bumped UP and down, until he wishes
his brain We're resting upon a patent
air cushion; he is bumped backward
and forward and from side to side un-
til if he is not careful his head will
be pounded into a Jelly or covered over
with scars as though it had come in
contact with John L. Somebody's
strong right arm. The only way to
sit in such a cart is to sit tailor fash
ion, in which case your feet go to sleep
and your legs become cramped. You
are compelled to arise at three O'Clock
IN the morning and travel till about
nine or ten without breakfast and then
get your breakfast in a Chinese inn
which, if you see it cooking, would
turn the stomach" of an American
pig. Your bed at night in this Chinese
inn is brick, and when you arise in the
morning after having had MOSQUITOES
buzZing about your ears all night, you
are liable to wrap in your bedding
three kinds of insects which for the
sake of my readers tastes l will not
take the liberty of naming further than
TO say than one is an acrobat, the other
goes with the bed and the third with
the beggar.
For three days you must bump over
these roads breathing in the clouds of
alkali dust which is kicked up by
your two mules or perhaps by the
mules Of a cart or two just ahead of
you, so that when you come into the
inn you are covered from head to feet
with dust in a way that would make
coal digger as compared with your
self a respectable looking guest.
Still another method of travelling by
dirt road is by mule-Htter The mule
litter is a sort of a sedan chair swung
between two mules, one before and the
other behind. If you are not in a hur-
~ and not affected by seasickness it
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-08-19
Life fDe Ships Boy
BY One Of Experience.
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compassionate within a half-point of
the course, even in the steady wind and
sea pressure of the trades
But when he can do this, he may be
permitted to steer the whole of the
four-hOur watch while the two right
full incumbents of the trick are kept
at work in the rigging. And on alter
nate days, when his watch is the one
that loses the afternoons sleep, he may
be permitted to eat his dinner and go
back to the wheel to steer until sup
per time. This is long time to keep
a growing boy standing in one spot,
forbidden to lean back against the
wheel-b0X or forward against the
wheel, with body and legs aching from
inactlon, and arms aching from fatigue;
and when he has eaten his supper and
turned into his bunk, he knows the full
meaning of the word rest and ap-
preciates to the utmost the heavenly
content of a horizontal attitude. 1t
would be a severe punishment for a
strong man-this nine-hour trick at
the wheel; it is torture to a half-deveI-
oped boy. But, should he complain
and ask for a shorter trick he will re-
ceive little sympathy; for the officer
who listens and sneers is, or was, the
exceptionally strong, hardy, muscular
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-08-19
THE MOOSE HUNTER.
How the Sport of the Maine Woods
Tries Mans Mettle.
Forest and StreamO

There is no better test Of what there
is of a man than to strip him of the
conVentiOnalitieS and accessories of
civilization and leave him 10 his own
resources in the heart of a wilderness
like that of Maine Some OF those
whom the world eSteems great and
wise would starve forthwith. while
many of those who live and die IN
known TO fame would wax and grow
fat" There is one denizen OF the
Maine woods that stands pre-eminent
to all others which claim the attention
of spOrtsmen-peT-emi in size. pre-
eminent in the uncOUth grandeur of his
gigantic bulk, pre-eminent in the time
patience. labor and skill involved in his
capture, and pre-eminent in power to
thrill the steadiest nerves and cause
the blood to flow in quick thrObbing
beats like quicksilver in the veins.
The sportsman who has not confront
ed a bull moose in his native WildS has
missed an experience which is well
worth the best year of his life. I speak
adviSedly, for I have been there I'M
agine, if you can, a huge bundle Of
muscular power, reared on great, stilt-'
like legs to a height of seven feet, with
bristling name, and eyes which CLEAN
viciOuSly from beneath broad, massive
antlerS which sway with the huge head
Gl2nL 10 ten I6GL ABOVE the SEOuuu-
Imagine yourself standing. if you
have strength to stand, in front of this
frightful apparitiOn, and only a few
yards distant, with the knowledge that
if YOU don't kill him he viii very likely
kill you. your heart thrObbing so pain
fully that your ears fairly ache with its
pulsations. the blood racing through
your veins like molten lead, the sweat
starting from every pore in your skin,
while your brain IabOrs in vain to re-
gain control of the wild tumult which
possesses you. Imagine all this, if you
can. and then multiply the sensations
which it calls uD two or three million
times. more or less, and you viii have
a result which approaches the reality
in magnitude The man who sends
every bullet straight to the mark under
such conditions as these should be eX-
cused if he brags a little about 1t after
ward He should also be excused II he
does some very foolish things when he
sees the awe-inSpiring monster collapse
under the paralyZing shocks Of the
well-directed bullets e, dropping his
rifle and trying to hug himself, at
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officers in taking observations; for
these fellows are not continuous per-
formers; they are simply survivors and
graduates in a school of brutality
which eliminates the lesser brutes, and
are subject TO occasional relapses into
good humer and generosity during
which they may be kind TO a weaker
fellow creature whom they have recent
ly maltreated; but it might prove an
unwise procedure for a boy, ordinary
or able-seaman, living in the fOrecas-
tie to appear on deck with a quadrant
to take the supoat midday. A skipper
does not deem his position more sta
bic and tenable, or discipline more per-
feet, with navigators in his crew.
A boys pay ranges from S. to SO
q month, and with this, as extra wage,
he is given board and lodging. LOdg-
ing means an empty bunk, for he must
furnish his own bedding, and he finds
the item of board an unsatisfactory
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-08-19

~. PROF. ISAAC T. HEADLAND of
Pekin University
downright, 1900 by I. T. HeadIand)
There is no eighty miles in the world
.odsv which is attracting so much at
+srtion as the eighty miles of space be-
tween lien Tsin and Pekin, and it is the
,roblem Of transportation and travel over
tbesa eighty miles that is engrossing the
.s,rarts Of Europe. America and Japan.
fIrrnibal and Napoleon crossed the Alps
t,t / doubt if that was a feat which re-
c,ired better engineering or more endur-
sTce than would be required to transport
on army from Tien Tsin to Pekin during
he months Of July and August and a part
If September. Winters cold stimulates
20 greater eXertion; summers heat only
crervates Climbing mountains in Win
- fills mems blood with fire. wadinp
.brough mud and water and miasmic
swgmuS in the heat of summer ellis mems
Llood with malaria and saps away their
iives Food can be kept for a whole army
~ the cold of the Alps, but it soon spells
On AN August day in the heat of a Chi
The trip from Tien Tsin to Pekin
der ordinary circumstances NAV be
rraIe IN three ways; first by boat, second
~ ART road. third by railroad and as We
Save made the trip In all three ways and
a. all seasons of the year. a description
n how we made 1t may not prove IN
Interesting
The Trip By Boat.
An American in Pekln who wishes to
he married must either import the United
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the months Of July and August or q
IS without boats In the second nIace
ne IS without men to drag. push row ri.
san MS boats If he had them. and in the
mira place he has cOntending army TO
encounter who could harass him on
every nand and as last resort could
strand ms boatS-if he had them-hi.-Fl
OuI not dry, in the mud and sediment of
Some unfrlendly cornfeld or malarial
swamp, and the 'Ted-cOat7 and blue
Jacket, or Tommy Atkins and Billy
Sin would be left TO eXtricate them
serves from their dilemma in disgrace
The Journey By Dirt Road.
The Chinese have a saying that Men
may travel by dirt road or by water
road, but the water road is much the
preferable" If what we have Just de-
scribed is the best method of travel in
China any one can imagine the less de-
slrable methods. However, to imagine
them a little experience is necessary.
One of the Chinese ministers in
Washington a few years ago in speak
ing of the various methods Of travel
said; Yes, your floating palaces and
Pullman cars are all right for rapid
transit, but for real solid comfort give
me a Pekin CART
The Pekin cart is like a large Sara
toga trunk on two wheels. The shafts
extend out behind a foot and a half
and form a platform on which to strap
ones baggage. AS the mule trots the