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Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1907-07-07
The Samian Letter.

The letter Y Is called the Samian let
ter. 1t is so called because its Greek
original was referred to by Pythagoras,
the philosopher Of Samos, to illustrate
how deviation from the straight path
Of virtue becomes constantly wider as
the lines are extended. The poet Pope
refers to this idea in the lines:
When reason, doubtful. like the Samian
letter,
Points him two ways. the narrower the
better.
-Housekeeper.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1907-07-07
A WONDERFUL HAPPENING

Port Byron, N. Y. has witnessed
one of the most remarkable cases of
healing ever recorded. Amos F.
King, of that place, says, "Buck
lens Arnica Salve cured a sore on
my leg with which | had suffered
over SO years. | am now 85."
Guaranteed to cure all sores, by K
H Trimble, druggist. 75c.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1907-07-07
On the Rack.

The expression putting witness
on the rack" has an ancient origin.
The courts had an unpleasant way OF
putting refractory or unsatisfactory
witness on the rack, which was an
open wooden frame, upon which was
laid the victim. Ills wrists and ankles
were tied to two rollers at opposite
ends of the frame. The rollers were
then moved with levers until the ten
sion caused the body to rise level with
the frame, and then questions were
addressed to the witness. II he still
proved silent or If his memory needed
refreshing, the rollers were moved
slowly until the wretchs bones started
from the sockets.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1907-07-07
A MEMORABLE DAY.

One Of the days we remember
with pleasure, as we'll as with pro.
ft'to our health, is the one on
which we became acquainted with
DIR. Kings New Life Pills, tbs
painless purifiers that cure head
ache and billiousness. and keep the
bowels right. 25c at K. H Trim.
ble's drug store.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1907-07-07
No Apology Needed.

II hope our running the graphophone
last night didn't annoy you,". said the
renter Of the third floor fat.
."WhatT responded the new renter OF
the fourth floor fat, producing an ear
trumpet.
IT say it's fine morning. beloved
the other into the trumpet.-Chicago
Tribune.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1907-07-07

when they enter theatre, wo-
men ought to check their hats, and
men their thirst suggests the Chi
cago News. In addition It might
be good idea for both of them to
check their flow of conversation.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1907-07-07
His Bluff.

Waterman discovering a burglar In
the act Of opening bank safe)-Hold
on! What are you doing there? Bur-
glar-Don't make such a row, old man.
I want to see If my deposit is all right.
Nobody can trust his bankers now
adays.-London Express.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1907-07-07
Aar Daar Friend.

Clara-I wish could believe what
he says, but Maud-What does he
say7 Clara-Why. he says he loves
me, and he has known me only two
days. Maud-Well, perhaps that's the
reason.-Philadelphia Inquirer.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1907-07-07
A Portrait of Wordsworth.

One Of Charles Lambs friends SAID
to him that he had never seen Words
worth.
you've seen an old horse
haven't your asked Charles Lamb.
Eyes, suppose So"
"Then you've seen Wordsworth. -
Pail Mall Gazette.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1907-07-07

A Washington, Pa. man dropped
dead upon hearing that he had IN
herited fortune. Perhaps, after
all, it is we'll that so few Of us get
news Of that kind.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1907-07-07
Loving Acquitted

O'clock this evening Judge William
G. Loving was acquitted OF the
charge of numbering Theodore
Estes after the jury had been out
three-quarters of an hour.
The scene at the close Of one OF
the most memorable trials in Vir-
GINA was almost beyond descrip-
ton. After five and half hours
Of argument during the day and a
wealy wait of nearly an hour for
the Jury to return, when anxiety
and the strain of the long day had
made the crowded room tense, a
knocking for silence was heard,
and the noise of talking and shift.
ing by the nervous audience was
instantly hushed. The crowded
aisle opened up and the jury filed
in.
AS THE JURY FILED IN So
Almost pleadingly the faces of.
Mrs. Loving and the prisoner were
turned toward them as they took,
their seats. The roll was called
it took and intermidable time-amd
the verdict was handed to the clerk
amid an intense Stiffness The.
Judge was leaning over from the
rail and aGmonished the crowd to.
abstain from any manifestation of
approval or disapproval. Then in
a low voice, but heard in every
part of the packed room, the clerk
read:
"We find the accused not gull.
ty." :,
Instantly shouts went up and
people piled over one another to
congratulate the man who now
could stand among them as free as
any of them. Hands reached out, !
over the shoulders of the attorneys
who had made so brilliant a de-
Tense, to grasp the hands of Judge.
Loving and his wife,who had push
ed back her veil and stood with
radiant face by her husband.
The judge did not try to keep or
der, for it was no use, but finally
it was observed that he was speak
to the jury. The crowd again be-
came silent, and in a few words,
Judge Barksdale thanked the u.
rors for their attendance upon
court at great sacrifice. He deciar-
ed that he believed the verdict was
in accordance with the conseien |
tious views of the jury.
WILL NOT SUE LOVING.
The statement in the press this
morning that Sheriff Estes, as ex.
ecutor Of Theodore Estes, has an!
nounced his intention of entering
civil suit against Judge Loving
has been declared TO be utterly
without foundation, by Mr.. Estes
himself and by Mr. John Swanson.
There has been some talk of such
proceeding in the same way as
many other proceeding have been
discussed by the friends of the
Estes and BY people of Houston, as1
abstract possibilities. but there isl
no other foundation for it. r
Mr.. John P. Swanson, a brotherl
in-law Of Theodore |. Estes, the
young man shot and killed by
Judge Loving, said:
"The statement in the press to:
day that Mr.. NJ K Estes would
qualify as administrator Of Theo-
dore Estes, deceased, and enter suit
against Judge Loving, is mistake.
Mr.. Estes or the family have never
or contemplated suit
against Judge Loving, as was told
to-day. We had hoped that the
court would admit the evidence Of
the commonwealth as offered by
Mr.. Harmon. which would have
Theodore Estes Of the
charge of assault, and have estab-
lished that nc assault was commit
ed and that no indignitY Was offer.
cred Miss Loving. III
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1907-07-07

The safest way Of not being very
miserable is not to expect to be very
happy.-Schopenhauer.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1907-07-07

O.. o. COOPER, NJ. D., General surgery
R. B. MILLER, NJ. D., General Medicine
C. L. PENCE, N. Dr.. House, surgeon
C. w. ALBERT, M.D.,Eye, Ear, Nose;
:.s: Throat
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1907-07-07
liz You NEED A

Monument,
Headstone or Marker,
get my prices. I will save you money. If
you need an Iron Fence, / furnish the
best for the money. Yours to serye,.
81, F. SLAvEK,j
Monterey, Va.
Agent, for The Clifton Forge
Marble Works. -
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-11-15
THE NEW PENSION BILL.

The new bill to create retired list
on half or three-quarter pay Tor vol
unteer officers who served creditably
at least one year during the civil war,
will be before congress this winter.
The bill provides that the name OF
each surviving officer of volunteers
NAV be entered on a roll to be- known
as the volunteer retired list, provided
that each lone so entered shall have
served not less than one year in the
field with troops between April 10,
1861. and July Is. 1865; shall have
been honorably discharged; shall not
belong to the regular army: or, if not
in the service in the field for year,
must furnish evidence of discharge
from service because of wounds re-
ceived in battle.
IT is provided that each applicant
shall be entered as Of the highest rank
held by him while serving in the vol
unteer army and that he receive one
half pay at the age Of 66 years ana
three-fourths pay at the age OF 70
wears, according to his actual rank,
which pay shall be the same as that
received by retired officers of like rank
in the regular army, provided that
the retired pay Of no officer shall ex-
coed the full pay Of captain of the
cavalry of the; regular army.
Every person who becomes bene-
ficiary of this act will be required to
relinquish any pension which he may
now enjoy. The largest sum that will
be paid to any one man under this
regulation is $4,000 a year.
1t is estimated that the law, II
passed at once, will affect 10000 vet
eran officers. These will be, most Of
them, below the rank of colonel. OF the
131 major generals of volunteers who
served during the war, and who would
be affected by the proposed measure,
only two are living, and Of the 549
.brigadier generals who thus served,
only tWenty-eight survive.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-11-15
The Railroads and Coal Dealers.
editorial in The Chicago Black Diamond>

coal, thus relieving the dealer Of the
necessity to carry enormous stocks.
Unfortunately coal profits in all lines
are exceptionally small. The biggest
item in the cost of coal to the con-
sumer is the railroad charge, especial
" in those districts which are remote
from the mines. The operator, oper-
ating on this small margin Of profit,
car not afford now to increase his SELL
ing force. He is having hard enough
work as 1t is to keep his head above
water and pay the interest upon his
bonds and anything like reasonable
dividend upon his stocks. One of the
biggest things with which he has to
contend is the cost Of his selling force.
If he should have to increase this.
provided the railroads eliminate the
JCbber, his dividends would be a thing
III the past and even his bond interest
would be in Jeopardy.
The position of the retail coal dealer
is identical with that of the operator.
His margin of profit is small and he
can not afford to go to any unnecessary
expense in keeping on hand a larger
supply than he is now carrying, es-
pecially since this coal is a mod
ity that deteriorates in value when
heing stored AS means of distribute
ing the coal from tie mines to the re-
tail dealer. and thus saving enormous
amounts of money to the operator and
the retailer, the jobber has a legitimate
existence. The railroads. by the arbi-
trary ruling that no reconSignment OF
cars will be permitted except under
such conditions as the railroads them
selves lay down. threaten to eliminate
the jobber from the field. If the re-
consignment charge in Iowa and Me-
hraska becomes effective the railroads
in other territories will duplicate this
movement and if this reconsignment
charge becomes general the day for the
johber nears it's end.
On that day the enormous increase
In the expenses will be foisted upon
the coal operator and the retail dealer.
They can not afford, Of course, to bear
this increased burden themselves, and
will have to assess it upon the con-
s,umer. Any such action as this would
very naturally work against the popu-
larity of the coal dealer and would
place him in most embarrassing po-
sition before the entire community.
There is only one thing which the coal
trade in general now can do to stop
the, encroachments of this thing in
b. siness and that is to go before the
interstate commerce commission and
present the affair in its proper odious
light to that organization and demand
that the government shall compel the
railroads to be content with the rate
already in their tariffs, the charge in
reality covering the expense Of re-
censigning which they seek now to
make the basis of a special charge
upon the pretext that some additional
service is being performed.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-11-15
MR.. G0MPERs NEW REMEDY.

Mr. Gompers. of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor, has made IL discov
cry and offers a new remedy for panics
and hard times. He said, speaking Of
panics, in a recent speech:
When shrinkage of inflated values
transpfred, its general influence upon
industry was almost Immediately to
affect the real values of production,
which in turn We're forced upon the
toilers in the form of reductions Of
wages, bringing in their wake an in
dustrial crisis and panic" ard added:
IF all labor will unfalteringly adhere
to the determination to resist any and
all reductions in wages, we shall NOT
not only avoid the misery, poverty and
calamity Of the past but we shall
teach financiers, employers and econo-
mists in general new philosophy of
life and industry, the magnificent and
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-11-15
Iowa Newspapers
NNRpdaaEaaa,ms;,axtMNspg,aMa
PERKINS ON SALOONS.
Cherokee Times.)

The Sioux City Journal by implica-
ton says that Governor Cummins
should lead a movement for law en-
forcement especially as relating to
prchibitory laws. In the course of it's
editorial the Journal comedies that the
governor did recommend charging the
executive powers over county attor-
neys and sheriffs that they might be
compelled to do their duty or be re-
moved and that he directed the atten-
ton Of the last legislature to the in
adequate enforcement of the law re-
lating to the sale of Intoxicating
liquors but as the governor didn't I'M
deItake to interfere with the legisla
tive functions, the Journal therefore
concludes that lit may be doubted
whether the present chief executive is
possessed of earnest desire to be
charged with the responsibility"
Now if Uncle George had become
governor, the Sioux City environment,
how vigorously he would now be lead
in,, public sentiment for where he says
is so much needed: 'Invigorating and
healthful public sentiment, and con-
viction is rooted that the executive
power of the state, of which so much
has been boastfully declared concern
ing other matters, ought to be of free
mouth and had on the side OF law
and order and the good name of the
stnte.''
There can be no doubt but that
Uncle George makes daily pilgrinages
to the Haddock memorial and absorbs
great chunks of inspiration for law
enforcement and departs full of mill
tant spirit of the murdered advocate
for law enforcement. That is why for
the past quarter of a century the Jour
nal has been just teeming with senti-
ment for the enforcement Of prohibit
tory laws not alone in Sioux City but
in the whole state. OF course this Ian
guage of Governor Cummins to the
state legislature is insincere for Uncle
George says so.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-11-15
MR.. BRYAN STARTS SOMETHING.

| Mr. Bryan has concluded that he Will
be a candidate if his party demands
it. He will not seek the nomination
! but will be around where it can find
| him without too much trouble. Ii he
lis nominated the campaign he says
must be an appeal to the public con-
science and he gives warning in ms
published statement that his will be a
fight against instead of with the cor
porations that desire and seek special
favor from political parties 10 him
the outlook is uncertain. The repuo-
licans he says, must nominate either
a reformer, a standpatter or one whose
position on public questions IS uh-
known" 1t is not hard to see between
the lines Mr. Bryan's hope that
standpatter or straddler may be
named, and that he may then be Sc
lected in opposition.
Mr.. Bryan has touched upon the VI
tai point in the next campaign When
he says that appeal to the public con-
science will be the dominant factor in
deciding the result. The candidate
the record he has made ana the
company he keeps, will decide thou
sands of votes from both parties. 1t is
likely that the best man and the one
in whom the common voter has most
confidence will win. 1t is certain that
the party that shall nominate strad-
dler or one with corporation affilia-
lions will lose.
Now that Mr.. Bryan has decided to
carry for the third time the standard
of the democracy in a presidential
campaign, with whom shall he be
opposed? With Fairbanks, Shaw,
Cannon, Taft, Roosevelt? Can Taft be
nominated? Could Fairbanks, Shaw or
Cannon beat Bryan before the people
on an appeal to the public conscience?
Could Mr. Roosevelt beat Bryan on APP
peal to the public conscience Now
that the opposition candidate has pref
.ty definitely pointed himself and his
platform out, it is time for republican
preference to be settling down and
crystallizing about some one or an
other.
Mr.. Bryans defniteness and the in
definiteness of the president according
to rumors that float back from Wash
ington offer very tempting food for
lively speculation Mr.. Bryan sshas
started something.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-11-15

Under ordinary circumstances The
Black Diamond, as national coal
trade paper, can recognize no distinc-
ton between any of it's patrons. 1t e:S-
lists to point out affairs of interest and
of benefit to the mine operator to the
jobber and to the dealer with equal
consideration. Were any question to
arise which would be an issue be-
tween any one of these classes 1t
would naturally be the province of this
paper to treat the matter without any
bias and merely from an analytical
standpoint.
At the present juncture situation is
confronting the jobber which, while
apparently peculiar to that branch of
the coal trade. bears down with equal
force on all of the elements in the en-
tire coal trade. The railroads in Iowa
and Nebraska have endeavored to as
sess reconsignment charge. They
have taken their cue from the rail-
roads which center in Chicago and are
endeavoring to apply a local rule in
Chicago to a wide territory beyond.
Such movements spread with remark
able rapidity and if no objection is
raised in the two states in question I'M
doubtedly the same measure will be-
come effective turnout the United
States sooner or later.
We are not in existence to take up
railroad questions and combat the ac-
tions Of the railroad companies gener-
ally, but where an action of rail
road company treads so hard on the
toes of the entire coal trade and thru
them upon the toes of the public, the
time has come for taking cognizance
of this railroad action and showing it's
influence upon the coal dealers and the
public.
If the reconsignment charge We're to
be placed in operation beyond doubt
it would eliminate from the field Of &C
tivity great many of the jobbing con-
Germs and especially the smaller ones
striving to get foothold in the bust
ness world. Were there no particular
field for the jobbers they would not
have existed this long. If the time
ever comes when the jobber is not
needed the trade will eliminate him
without very much ceremony. But UNI
til the arrival of that time he should
be permitted to carry on his business
altho his methods may not be pleas
ing to the lordly transportation com
panies. We assert that the time has
not vet arrived for dissolving these
jobbing companies and we assert that
the time is not now and never will be
when the railroads of the country will
be called upon to tell the jobber that
he must pick up and get out.
Just now the jobber is absolutely in
dispensable both to the coal operator
and the dealer. To the former he
takes the place Of an elaborate selling
force.4 TO the latter he provides an in-.
termediary who can always supply
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-11-15

Lets begin to call it the recent
financial furry" suggests the Daven-
port Democrat
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-11-15
humane influences of which will live

humane influences of which will live
for all time
Mr. Go1npers is absolutely on safe
ground when he assumes that We're
wages and production and the prices
of commodities to be kept up panics
would lose their force and hard times
come again no more. That has al
ways been the main difficulty. Labor
under our present system is a COM
modify subject to the laws of supply
and demand. and to be marketed to
imperatively set the price of labor as
it can the price of eggs, but 1t can
not sell imperatively. 1t is a tickle
market. Men must work il they would
eat and the question of how much they
shall receive for their service is a
matter of contract to whichN there are
too parties. Wages will stay up like
all other commodities, until the supply
exceeds the demand. Then those who
have it for sale will cut prices.
Mr.. Gomper's plan should commend
itself to those farmers whose october
SIS hogs are worth on the November
market about $4. If the farmer should
"unfalteringly resist" the drop in
prices, would his hogs bring the 81
per hundred weight that brought joy
to his heart and opulence to his bank
account a few weeks ago? Or would
he keep his hogs?
To talk of unfaltering resistance to
natural laws and world forces. is plain
bosh OF course labor will offer all the
resistance to lower prices that it may.
So will every other class that has
something to sell and wants all it can
get. That is a common instinct of
preservation that Mr.. Gompers is not
the first to discover, but when condi-
lions force men to conform to them
there is no such thing as unfaltering
resistance and on one knows it better
than Mr.. Gompers.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-11-15

"1'he only solution Of the liquor
problem, however, is national legisla-
ton, and the removal of all taxes"
declares the Mt. Vernon Record. IF
the taxes We're removed from the sale
Of liquor today the advocates Of sa-
Icons would be lessened about third
The critics of the primary law are
no; winning many supporters for their
View of that measure by their claim
that it will cost the state s250,000 to
pay for the primary next June" OBJ
serves the I4eMars Sentinel. The gen.
eral opinion seems to be that it will
nc cheap at that price If it rids the
stare of only few Of the evils of the
caucus system and its friends and
noring 1t will result in the elimination
of many of the Objectionable features
If The old plan of making nominations.
us practical operation will probably
silence most of it's critics.
Noting that the courts are to be
asked to answer the question What
is whisky?" the Sioux City Journal
says: IF the prohibitionists can have
their way that question will have to
give way to the question, Where Is
whisky?"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-11-15
He Got the Job.

The Countess of Warwick during her
recent American tour, criticized Amer
lean finance at a dinner at New York.
81 think" said the beautiful social
list. chat many of your financiers
would rather be tremendously rich
than tremendously honest. To my mind
it is bad thing to put wealth before
honor, before kindness, before upright
ness. Surely-it was to one of your
very worst, and richest, financiers that
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-11-15
A Lawyers Luck.

A North Carolina lawyer says that
when Judge Buxton of that state made
his first appearance at the bar as a
young lawyer, he was given charge,
by the states solicitor, of the prose-
cution of a man charged with some
n'isdemeanor.
1t soon appeared that there was no
evidence against the man, but Buxton
clio his best, and was astonished when
the jury brought in verdict of
guilty
After the trial one of the jurors
tapped the young attorney on the
shoulder. Buxton" said he, 1--WE
didn't think the Teller was guilty, but
at the same time we didn't like to dis
courage young lawyer by acquitting
Him."