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Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1906-01-26
Scho0Ib0ys Arrested.

Newport News, Va, jan, 81
Robert Perkins, Martin D Hide and
Lawrence A Bouchare members of
the graduating class OF 1905; A S
Walden Of the clsss Of 1907 and Al.
len A Davis Il graduate of the class
OF 1905 of the locol high school,
were arrested in the principals Of
flee in the high school building on
the charge of trespass. All the
boys were baiIed on their own rec
ognizance for their appearance be-
fore Justice Brown in the police
court tomorrow morning.
Prof James E Allen, principal of
the high school. is the complainant
against the schoolboys, and be will
appear against them in court. 1t is
supposed the boys were looking for
a copy of examination questions to
be asked next week. Robert Per:
kins, one Of the boys arrested, has
been selected to deliger the valedic-
tory address for his class when it
graduated next June. He won the
highest honors in his class this SEES
sion. He, with Martin Hiden and
Lawrence Bouchard will be gradu-
ated with the class of 1906, which
completes the high school course,
one week from tomorrow.
Allen Davis was graduated from
he local high school with the class
Of 1905 last June. !
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1906-01-26

The soothing and comforting ef-
fects of DeWitt's Witch Hazel
Salve. when applied to Piles, sores,
cuts, boils, etc, subdues pain al
most instantly. The Salve draws
out the inflammation, reduces swell
ing and acts as rubefacient, thus
circulating the blood through the
diseased parts permitting or aiding
Nature to permanently remove the
trouble entirely. Sold by K H
Trimble.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1906-01-26

Tie Missouri Pacific Railway
Company.
st. Louis, Iron Mountain s. Sou
Railway Co.
Offers the following very low
one way special colonist rates from
St. Louis to California and the
Northwest; also to many points in
Old Mexico, including Mexico tity:
$4,000 to all California common
points; also to Portland, Tacoma,
Seattle and Vancouver; $3.50 to
Spokane, Umatilla and intermedi
ate points; $1,000 to Helena, Butee.
Anaconda and all intermediate
points. Five days stop-overs allow
ed at many prominent points in
California; also rate of S27.0O from
st. Louis to City of Mexico and
many other points in old Mexicn.
Tickets to be sold daily from Feb
10th to April 18th, 1906. Through
daily Pullman Tourist Sleeping
Cars will be operated between st
Louis, California and the North
west during the above period, via
Mo. pac., ID. & r. g. and So" Pac.
to San Francisco and Los Angeles;
also via No. Pac., D. & K. Il. to
Salt Lake City, thence San Pedro
Route to Los Angeles; also via
Iron Mountain. II. & P, and Sou.
Pac., the True Southern Route
Through Standard Sleeper to Mex
leo City daily, also through Tourist
S 'eepes first and third Tuesdays If
month. For descriptive liter
a IRE and detailed information, I'D
d. ass A. A. Gallaher. D.P.A.
4l9 Walnut St. Cincinnati. o.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1906-01-26
EXECUTORS notice.

All persons knowing themseive.
to be'indebted to the estate of Da.
vid Y. Rucklnan, deceased, will
p e"se come forward and settle the
same, and all persons holding
claims against said estate will pre-
sent the same, properly proven, to
myself, or to my attorney, w. H.
Landes, at Staunton, Virginia.
d. Glenn Ruckman.
Executor CT David v.
Ruckman, deceased.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1906-01-26

According to the calculations of
the Navy Department the dry-dock
Dewey is now about 2l30 miles
EAST of Cape Hatteras. and as It's
position is charted upon the map,
south by east from Hatteras and
south west from the Azores. 1t was
Commodore Hosley's intention to
call at the Azores. but the weather
did not favor, and, in consequence,
it is thought at the department
that the next land he will sight
will be Madeira. He is now stand
ing east By north and making four
knots an hour. 1t is believed here
that he is heading for Gibraltar
without regard to any intermediate
port.
The bureau Of navigation of the
Navy Department today made pub
lie a dispatch received By it Oh Sat
urdaY from Rear Admiral Dunlap.
commanding the naval station at
San Juan. Porto Rico. The dispatch
is as follows:-\
"Evans reported by wireless, 8 P
NJ, Friday, latitude 20, longitude
II. MARYLAND established commu-
nication with dock last night, GAO
miles distant. Position dock, lat
titude 1852, longitude 1929;
course east by north; speed four
knots. Caesar ard Brutus towing.
All are well. Scouting line we'll
established. Every thing is going
we'll
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1906-01-26
Sickening Shiyering fits

of Ague and Malaria. can be relieved and
cured with Electric Bitters. This Is
pure, tonic medicine; of especial ben eft
in malaria, for it exerts q true curative
influence on the di>ease, drying 1t en-.
tirely out Of the aystem. II 10 much to
be preferred to Quinine. having none Of
this drugs bad after effects F. 8 MundaY
of Henrietta. Tex, writes My brother
was very low with malarlsl fever and
iaundice. till he took Electric Bitters.
which saved his life" AK II Trimble's
drug store. price soc, guaranteed.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1906-01-26
CHARCOAL.
The Way That Used In Making 0aA.
powder II Produced.

The Way That Used In Making 0an.
powder II Produced.
Charcoal making for gunpowder IL .
much more complicated process than
the ordinary field kiln manufacture
Only certain kinds of wood are used
usually the young shoots of elder and
willow--and 1t is cut in the spring, 50
that the bark may be stripped OF. 1t is
then piled under airy. open sheds and
allowed to remain several years until
1t Is thoroughly dried When the pow
der maker Is ready for new supply of
charcoal the wood Is cut into lengths
Of three feet and placed In tight iron
retorts, under and around which a fire
roars continually. The hampers and
pipes are SO arranged that the work.
men have complete control Of the heat.
At the end of the retort hole is left
for the escape Of the infammable gas.
es resulting from the charming process.
A pipe catches them as they leave the
retort and conveys them into the fur
mace, where they take the place of
good deal Of fuel. When the flames of
the gas become deep blue color the
worklnen know that the wood is suti.
ciently charred, and the retort is cooled
down as quickly as possible. The char
coal is then left for week or more be;
fore grinding, because IL placed In tne
machine at once there Is danger vi
spontaneous combustion. The oes'
charcoal is jet black and fractures
show yelvety surfaces.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1906-01-26
DEATH SENTENCE.
GIVEN PmARES MAY For MURDER
Or SYRIAN PEDDIER LAST o.
TOBER. hurley LAME
CONFESSED AND
WAS GIVEN LIFE
SENTENCE.
The Jury.

} r Ilevener, S B Auldridge, Il
c Dickinson, Andrew Moore, } W
Sheets, G p Tyler. G P Hill,
George Waugh, E F Harper, Geo
l1efner, Lee Overholt. j W Dunlap.
After the hardest fought and
most prolonged murder trial in the
history of Pocahontas county. the
jury yesterday brought in verdict
of guilty of murder in the first de
gree against Phares MAY charged
with the murder of Sine Slyman,
Syrian peddler. MAY was sentenced
by Judge Bennett to be hanged at
the penitentiary on Friday, Nav Is
between the hours of 6 A NJ and 6 P
NJ. Burley Lamb pleaded guilty
and was sentenced to life imprison.
ment
Senator N & Mcneil was employ
ed as counsel by Nav and Andrew
Price was appointed by the court to
assist him. The prosecuting attor.
new was assisted by II S Tucker. !
Every inch of ground was contest
ed Nv the attorneys for the defense
for continuance Of the case yet at |
every point they were frustrated |
and the case came up for trial We'd
nesday morning
LAMBS CONFESSION.
Live where hat is off; mother
dead; am Is years old; have worked
for May and lived with him for
three months. Peddler STAYED mt
Helmick's about 100 Yards above
May S; | took my shotgun and May
borrowed Mathew Helmick's gun
and three blue shells. We left be-
fore the peddler and on the Hill, half
mile away May said he needed mon
ey and we would kill peddler; and
there was no law in Pocahontas,
and that the d-n peddlers ought {
all be killed, he told me where to
wait; he went to W A Mullenax's; {
| waited till in the evening when G
May came and said peddler was /
coming; he traded guns saying my
gun sometimes snapped; then he t
showed me where to hide below the u
road and he went back above road J.
10 steps; he said he would kill me if =.
didn't kill peddler. saw peddler h
coming and shot him; then | got b
scared and ran across above the II
road and up the old log road where +
waited. May cut off packs and
put them over the road and pulled p
he pedder down the log road. He t
came to me soon and hid the checks II
n log; he gave me S14 and | saw q q
lim with a FIVE dollar bill torn and =
pasted with what looked like il
tamps; he threw the she'll out of O
gun here; it was IL gauge, blue %
oaded with No 6 shot. We went "
m across to Mays and hid watch
nd other things at root of chest
tut tree Told Douglas Mcneil Or
bout it on train below Durbin. he f.
alked TO me and said | had as well ca
r better tell it. sa
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1906-01-26
Stock Food SWindIe

The Raleigh Progressive Farmer
sounds a note of warming to the
farmers Of the South about what it
calls the stock food swindle. II
says that one of the most outrage.
Gus frauds now being perpetrated
upon the American farmer is that
of prepared stock foods-common
meal, bran. etc. with a little cheap
sulphur, salt, EPSON salts, pepper.
saItpeter, etc, added to change thu
taste and the mixture hardly NOR
valuable than ordinary ship stuff
put up in flaming packages. advel-
tised in big illustrated ads in farm
papers, and sold to gullible farmers
at from $3.50 to $1,000 a ton" The
Progressive Farmer says further,
that some time ago, the chief Sou
thern contributor of one of the
farm papers most largely oirculat.
ed in North Carolina and adjoining
States, wrote an exposure of the
whole miserable fraud and sent it
to his paper. "The reply came
back; The Blank Stock Food Com
panv pays us $4,000 a year for ad
vertising, and we would lose it if
we were to print your letter. Please
don't insist" 1t is quite proper
that while the patent medicine
nostrums are getting a drubbing,
the stock food humbugs should be
exposed and this The Progressive
Farmers proposes to do. If the
frauds are Of the nature complain.
ID of, we hope the exposure will be
'f nature AS to protect farmers
against them.-Charlotte Chronl-
lie. -,
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1906-01-26

Mems and boys suits and over
coats are now ready for your inspec-
ton. We also have large line of
lumberman's furnishings. Prices
are night. E b WhiteIaw & Co.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1906-01-26
WOMAN CAME FIRST.
EskimO Tradition as to the Origin o
the Human Family

| EskimO Tradition as to the Origin Of
the Human Family.
The arctic Eskimos have their tradi.
ton Of the origin Of man, much the
same as the Caucasian, and their tales
of the prowess in battle, their sagas
relating the past glories Of what is
now an almost extinct race are as
thrilling as some Of those that tell Of
the wondrous deeds of Odin and Thor
or of those Grecian ancients whose
deeds are yet preserved in prose and
poetry.
According to Eskimo tradition, the
first man was made not from the dust
Of the earth, but from piece Of chew.
ing gum, for be 1t known that the In.
dian is the original gum chewer az
well as tobacco smoker But woman
was first. The first woman was lying
one day on her couch Of furs chewing
gum. Growing weary, she took It from
her mouth and fashioned It into the
form of man. Tired then. she fell
asleep, to find upon her awakening
that the breath Of life had been breath
ed into the figure Of gum Of which she
had been the architect and, 10, man
was there! And 30 the world began
to be peopled.
1t is related as fact that high upon
a mountain to the north and east Of
Point Hope are the skeletons Of three
OOmiaks, or boats, in good condition.
They have been well preserved during
10000 years or more by climatic con.
dit0ns and may have been the original
Noah's arks. They at one time In all
probability rested upon the beach.-St
Louis Globe Democrat.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1906-01-26
Two sides 10 it'

Keeker-It costs Sc much more 10 iive
now than it used to- Nokeek-lt ought
TO- It's worth more to live now tnah II
nsed to be-Chicago Tribune.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1906-01-26
Guaranteed Cure For Piles

Itching, blind, bleeding. protruding
Piles, Druggist are authorized to re.
fund your money if Pazo Ointment fails
to cure in 6 to IA days. SOC.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1906-01-26

Quilts, comforts and blankets
that will last and keep you warm
St @ Simmons
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1906-01-26

The use of envelopes was scarcely
known until after penny postage was
introduced.
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Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1906-08-09
nd by giving evidence of the char

and by giving evidence of the char
acter and quality of his goods, and
he will gain the confidence of the
consumer. There is no class that it
more behoves to contend against the
adulteration of food, drink and medi-
cines, and against fraudulent repre-
sentations about them, and to expose
the tricks and devices by which the
public is cheated and injured, wheth-
er in health or in substance, than
honorable men engaged in the busi-
ness Of providing these supplies for
the community. What all should
strive to promote is a competition in
honest and legitimate methods Of
business, which shall command con-
fldence, give value to truthful
labels and genuine trademarks, and
make the names of manufacturing
and trading concerns honorable and
respected. We have had too much
rivalry in deception and fraud, and it
is becoming Improbable as well as
disreputable.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1906-08-09
Jumbo, Weight $500 Pounds.

Jumbo, owned by Andrew G. Wes-
sci, of Brookyille, Ind, which is said
to be the largest steer in the worm,
weighs $500 pounds, stands 1SA
hands high, measures eleven feet
around the girth and seventeen feet
two inches from the tip of the nose
to the tip of the tail. He is a full
blooded Shorthorn, is just past the
four-year-old mark, and is still grow
ing taller and gaining in weight.
The steer is so gentle that 1t is often
ridden by Mr.. Vessels little son.
During the last two years Jumbo
has been taken to a few fairs in
Ohio and Indiana, and has attracted
the attention of many people. He
was raised by P. Ewell, of Franklin
County, Springfield Township.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1906-08-09
Tried in the Fire.

The words of wisdom which Mrs.
Hall from time to time let fall for
the enlightenment of her children
were always treasured and often re-
peated. "You don't want to get the
wrong notion about what makes a
room homelike to man." she said
to her Oldest daughter, who was soon
to be married.
Somebody once gave me a story
to read, when your father and I
were just engaged, that told how a
young woman that married an old
bachelor kept leaving a glove or a
little piece of sewing or a handker-
chief on his desk, so that when e,.e
came home at night and saw it there
he had a sudden glow at his heart,
thinking that his lonely days were
forever gone.
II thought it was lovely idea, and
| tried it. I'd leave my crocheting
on your fathers WI ting-table, or
drop my gloves carele ly on his par
ticular bookshelf, and all such
things. He always brought them to
me, and he never said anything; but
he wasn't a great talker, and l felt
sure his heart was glowing just like
the mans in the story.
Il thought so for as much as three
months. Then one day he came
bringing home that great brass bound
box that stands or top Of my old bu-
reau-you know the one | mean?
Well, he came bringing that, and he
collected a glove from his shelf, and
a handkerchief from in among his
pipes, and my crochet pattern from
the writing-table, and he brought
them all to me-
Now here's a box he said, that
ought to be big enough to keep all
your little extras in,'--he said it
pleasantly, but real firm, ,--'and you
see if having one place for all Of
them won't help you to remember
where they are
"All the time / thought his heart
was glowing he was just bearing with
me-that was all.
IF you want to give a feminine,
homelike touch to Edmund's be-
longings you lay out his clean clothes
and put in his cuff links, if you're
sure you've got the right ones, and
warm his slippers, if he wears slip
pers; but If were in your place I
shouldn't leave so much as spool
of thread around with the idea Of
putting his heart in a glow"
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1906-08-09
KHYBER PASS THE KEY.
This National Doorway Through Him.
alayas Was Used by Alexander.

The Khyber Pass is strategically
one of the most important points in
all Asia, and round it has ragged many
great battle, for with it under con-
troll an army has at it's feet the great
and fertile plains which have made
the Pearl of the East, the peninsula
of India, famous in song and story.
The pass itself begins ten miles
west of Peshawur, one of the most
important of the British military sta
tions in India, and 1t extends thirty
three miles northwest to the plain of
Jelalabad. 1t is the only route be-
tween the Punjab and Afghanistan
available for a large army with heavy
guns, though there are other passes
which mic,It be forced by an enter
prising enemy travelling in light Or
der.
1t is toward the Khyber that the
eyes Of those Russian officers who so
much envy the British the possession
of India are always turned, and by it
a. the great invasions of India since
the time of Alexander the Great have
taken place. AleXander's Macedonian
army marched between it's cliffs,
which tower above the pass to a
height of 5000 feet.
Coming 10 more recent times, the
pass was the scene of the appalling
disaster of 1912, when the Afghans
~; ich
endeavorinS to retreat from Kabul to
India. In the late seventies our long
negotiations with the Amir of Af-
ghanistan largely centred around the
control of the pass, which ultimately
was ceded to Great Britain.
The Khyber again became place
of tragic Importance in the period
that followed the disaster to General
Burrows at Maiwand, when half the
British force fell, and the garrison at
Kandahar was invested. With insult
flcient troops the Khyber had to be
held, Kabul kept in occupation and
Kandahar relieved.
Roberts was the man to do it.
Handing over Kabul to stout old Sir
Donald Stewart, Roberts formed his
flying column. Cutting himself on
from his base, he vanished from the
ken of the civilized world. He and
his devoted men had trying ordeal
among the mountains-an ordeal few
armies would have borne, until, ap-
pearing suddenly at Kandahar three
weeks later, they relieved the town.
Meanwhile Kabul AMI the Khyber
were held, and the situation was
saved
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1906-08-09
A NEW YORK SKYSCRAPER.
More Persons Ride OH Its Elevators
Than on TrolIcys of a Small City.

Wherever the fame of the New
vague idea of the enormous capacity
of these colossal structures must have
been formed, but it is not improbable
that few persons living right in the
metropolis have ever made careful
study OF the activities of these COM
mercial centres. Perhaps there are
those who would laugh to scorn the
statement that single building in
New York Is entered daily by $4,000
persons, or as many as the entire pop
ulation of Harrisburg, Pa, or other
similar cities of the United States like
Houston, Texas; Akron, Ohio; Lin
coin, Neb.. and more than there are
persons in cities of the size of Mont
gomery, Ala. Wherever such state
ment may be discredited, 1t is nee
essary only to point out the fact that
an accurate count was made one day
by r. T. H. Bacon, superintendent OF
the Park Row Syndicate Building,
one OF the most conspicuous of the
New York skyscrapers, of every per-
son who entered the elevators of
that edifce. 1t was simple matter
to station guards at every entrance
to the building and give each person
entering ticket, which ticket was
taken up by the elevator drivers. AT
the close Of the day these tickets
were counted, and it. was found that
something more than $4,000 persons
had ridden on the elevators that day.
This is said to exceed the number OF
fares collected by the entire street
car system Of Nashville, Tenn. in a
single day, this information coming
from a former superintendent of the
trolley service Of that city, who was
subsequently employed as one of the
agents of the Park Row skyscraper.
-Remsen Crawford, in Success Mag
RZine.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1906-08-09

Coffee was discovered in 1885 by
dervish named Hadii Omar, a ma
tive of the town of MOcha-hence the
familiar name.
Hadji Omar. lost in an Arabian
desert, was dying of hunger, when he
discovered some small round berries.
On trying to eat them he found, to
his disgust, that they were extremely
bitter
Then he tried roasting them, and
finally steeped few thus roasted in
water. Naturally, this was coffee,
and, though of the worst description.
so agreeable did Hadji Omar find it
that as soon as he could make his
way back to his native town he in
troduced his new drink to the wise
men of the city, says Home Chat.
So we'll pleased were they with 1t
tha, The dervish was made a saint
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1906-08-09
A Thing of Beauty is a-DFain!

At a dinner of the Sanitary Inspec-
tors association at Holborn restau-
rant, Sir Wyke Bayliss confessed that
art and sanitation seemed far apart.
Would you compare art" some
would say, with drain running
down a street," "Yet one Of the
loveliest things In the world was a
drain (laughter) when 1t was con-
secrated by art in the form of gar
goyle on the roof of cathedral. The
two were not so far apart. Art was
the science of beauty; sanitation was
tho science of health; and what were
beauty and health if they were not
the same thing?"-London Tele-
graph.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1906-08-09
Shack Immune in San Francisco.

One of the remarkable incidents
of the great fire of San Francisco
was the immunity from damage OF
an old wooden shack owned by a
paint company at the corner of Main
and Harrison streets. The RAM
shackle, half-century-old building
stands unharmed, little island in a
sea of desolation. 1t reeks with oil
and is filled with highly infammable
materials. Near to it a great pile or
coal caught fire and burned for near
ly week. The officials of the COM
pany felt SO certain that the place
had fallen victim to the devouring
flames that they did not even at
tempt to visit it until two weeks or
so after the confagration, and then
it was mere curiosity to see what the
ruins looked like that led them there.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1906-08-09
CHAPTER XVII.

AT THE WINDSOR HOTEL, NEW YORK.
On certain Sunday in the month Of
October the good steamship Campana
was made fast to her berth at the
quay In New York City, and the de.
lighted passengers hastily abandoning
the floating palace which had 30 quick,
ly and luxuriously transported them
from the old to the new world, hur.
ried hither and thihcr, greeting the
friends who awaited them, inquiring
after luggage, or halling hackney car
riages. One passenger, however, quick.
" made his way through the eager
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1906-08-09

and least Of all at the present moment.
When had completed my account OF
my mission to England he paused III
front of me (for during my recital he
had not once ceased to pace the room,.
and throwing away the end Of his