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Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1909-10-08
Davis and ElkinS College,
EIkinS, w. Va,

opens Wednesday, September
18th. Three departments. The
Sub-Freshman, preparing for
college in the shortest possible
time; the Commercial, offering
a good business training with
particular attention to stenog-
raphy, typewriting, and book
keeping; the College, offering
courses that lead to degrees in
Arts and Science. Non-co-edu-
cational. Tuition $4,000 per-
annum. Board $500 per week.
For further information apply
to the Registrar.
SPLITS.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1909-10-08

Property has It's duties as well as Its
rights.-Drummond.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1909-10-08

M. E. CHURCH, SOUTH, CRABBoT-
TOM CIRCUIT.
lst Sunday, Central Church, ii
a. M, Union Chapel, 3 p. m.
End Sunday, New Church 1920
am; Central Church, 8 p. m.
Ord Sunday, Union Chapel, II q.
m; Central Church, 8 p. m.
4th Sunday, Central Church, IL
a. M; New Church, 3 p. m.
THOMAS COOPER.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1909-10-08
REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF

REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF
HIGHLAND, at Monterey in the State
of Virginia, at the close of business, Sept
1, 1909.
RESOURCES.
Loans and Discounts 1O6, 480 81
Overdrafts, unsecured 1887 AZ
Z ) Bonds 10 secure cir. 5000 90
Premiums on L ) Bond sos rs
Furniture and Fixtures $3.50 90
Due from National Banks 1l,7S5 80
Due from State and Private Blk
and Bankers, Trust Co, etc IA 81
Due from app'd Re agts 5,04S IA
Checks and other cash items 800 81
Notes o&other Nat Bank 20 90
Fractional paper currency,
nickels and cents 60 70
Lawful money reserve In bk.viz
Specie $500 30
Lega, tender notes 1920 1920 30
Red'n fund with U S Treas
per CT of circulation 1850 oc
Due from U ) Treas 500 90
Total sl76, 4s6 SO
III n DlL 1tLC
Capital stock paid in $4,000 90
Surplus fund 5000 90
Undivided profits, less amount
paid for int. exp'es and taxes 4,529 70
Nat Blk notes outstanding $4,000 90
Due to Trust Co and Sav'g Blk 1000 90
Individual dep'ts subject to ok. GS,0l1 65
Time certificates Of deposit 4o,972 80
Cashiers checks outstanding 10 CD
Total $176,426 Sc
State of Virginia,
County Of Highland, So;
|, j. a. Jones, cashier, of the above.
named bank, do solemnly swear that the
above statement is true to the best Of my
knowledge and belief
A Jones, Cashier
COrrect-Attest:
j. A. Whitelaw,
Clifton MathenY, Directors
Andrew l. Jones
Subscribed and sworn TO before me this
10 day of Sept. 1909,
Lenore B. Matheny. Notary Public
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1909-10-08
HIGHLAND M. E. CHURCH.

HIGHLAND NJ u. OHUNCH.
lst Sunday, Union Chapel, II a.
M, Crabbottom, 3p. m.
2 nd Sunday, Wesley Chapel, ii
a. M, Vanderpool, 3 p. m.
3rd Sunday, Asburry Chapel, ii
a. M, Thorny Bottom, 3 p. m.
18th Sunday, Green Hill, ii a.
m, Fairview, 3 p. m.
J. l.. DoTsON, P. c.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1909-10-08

THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF
HIGHLAND, at Monterey in the State
of Virginia, at the close of business, Sept
1. 1909.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1909-08-12
"MAKEs BETTER RAILROADS.
Western Writer Pays Tribute TO
Railroad Magnate as 5ulder-Up
Of the Country.

Mr.. Edward H. Hartman is on
trip to Europe. Ordinarily there
would need be nothing added to this
announcement beyond an exhortation
to Emperor William to chain down his
railroads and to other monarchs to
put their crowns and other valuables
in the safe at night. But Mr.. Harri-
man is going of on a pleasure trip,
and so many mean things have been
said about him that 1t will not hurt
any to change the tune a moment
while he is out of the country and
not able to take any advantage of
the lapse from the cold attitude of Sc.
verify that is usually used in men.
tioning the name OF Hartman.
OF all the great railroad men de-
veloped in this generation, E. II. Har-
riman is easily the biggest and the
best, says writer in the Hutchinson
(Kan) Daily News. The head of a
railroad company, under the rules OF
the game, must work for his stock
holders, whether 1t is for the advan-
tage of politicians, shippers or con-
sumers 1t is his job to do the best
he can for the interests entrusted to
his care. Hartman is not only a
financier, but he is builder and an
operator. Lucky is the town, city
or community that has a Hartman
road. He insists on good roadbed,
level track, safe track and the con-
venience and comfort of the traveller
and the shipper. The Hartman roads
are noted as the best in the coun-
try. When Hartman gets hold Of
one'horse or played-out track and
right of way he proceeds to put 1t in
first class condition. He does not
raise the rates of fares, although he
doubtless charges "a plenty" but he
insists that enough of the funds go
into real Improvements to make a
railroad. And that is where he stands
ahead of good many others and why
Harrimanism is not such bad thing
as some people have been led to think.
He makes better railroads, and there
is more need for improvement that
way than there is in some others
which are being discussed. So far
as we can see, he believes in giving
every interest along his road fair
deal.
He is public benefactor from that
standpoint. He uses his power fairly.
He is a great man, and as good or
better than the ordinary citizen who
looks upon him as the personiication
of the money power, seeking whom
1t may devour. He is strong man
in the financial world, but that should
not be against him, when the finan-
cial world is the object which most
of us want to reach He is good
American and he spends his money
ON American railroads, not ON foreign
titles, race horses, old editions or
other bad habits If he is not per-
fect-and we don't think he is-he is
no exception to the rule and is worthy
of the praise of his fellow citizens for
the good he does and has done.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1909-08-12

once in person to the pope. He re-.
fused and continued to preach his be-
liefs. He declared the Bible should
be free to all men to read and inter
pref as they chose, and that its pre-
cepts should not be doled out to them.
The controversy waxed holly. Luth-
er ever gaining new adherents. At
last, in 1920, the pope communicated
him and ordered his books publicly
burned. Luther retorted by burning
the writ of accumulation Mean,
time all Germany was rent asunder
over the quarrel, and the emperor,
Charles ", thought best to interfere.
He summonded Luther to appear be-
fore him at the city of Worms In the
presence of the diet (council) to an
swer charges of heresy. Knowing
emperor promised him a safe conduct.
Yet the accused mans friends, know.
ing how uncertain was the promise of
a sovereign, urged him not to put his
head in the lions mouth by obeying
the command Luther replied: Even
If there were as many devils in
Worms as there are chimneys on the
houses would go!"
And he went. Fearlessly he con
fronted the terrible emperor, hurting
defiance at him, expoura:ng his doc
trines and refusing to retract. His
Enters the Lions frie d hurried
Mouth. him away just in
time to escape the imperial wrath
and forced him to stay in hiding for
year. He spent his retirement in
beginning translation of the Bible
into German, SO that even the poorest
might read it. His is the Bible in use
in Germany to-day. The emperor pro
claimed him an outlaw threatening dire
penalties to all who should befriend
him. Nevertheless, Luther went fear
lessly abroad and preached through
out Germany denouncing corruption
and begging men to lead better lives.
But his later years were embittered
by religious quarrels among his own
followers and by perils and dlscour
agements of every kind. In 1916, al
the age of SO. he died, soon after writ
ing to a friend the ensuing letter
which showed how thoroughly he had
paid the price of misery which is the
lot of all progress-makers:
81 am old, worn out, weary. MY
spirit is broken. am blind of one
eye. long for little rest and quiet
Yet as much work remains to be done
as ever. am SO weary OF the world
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1909-08-12
Romances Of Progress
PROGRESS MAKERs-Who played with LIGHTNING.

Queen Elizabeth and her cour Gers
we're duly amazed by certain miracu-
lous tricks performed by the curt
physician, Or. William Gilbert, tho Ugh
many Of the graver or more supersti-
tious mobiles declared his feats worth
Ter of conjurer or sorcerer than
dignified medical man. Gilbert bal
anced light steel needle on pivot.
Then he rubbed amber against some
rough surface and placed 1t near the
needle. The bit of steel promptly
swung toward the amber, impelled by
force no one could understand.
Other substances-diamo sap,
phires, opals and amethysts, for in
stance-attracted the needle when
rubbed even as did the amber, while
emeralds. coral and jasper did not.
Gilbert had studied the phenome-
non and had discovered that some
unknown force which he called mag
netism. was generated in certain sub
stances by friction.
Gilbert may Justly be termed the ia
Their of electricity. He 1t was who
first called sciences attention to this
subtle power, and strove to solve its
mysteries. In reward he was regarded
as quack and magician
Robert Boyle, an Englishman, who
lived few years later, added 30 Gill
berts information the discovery
that amber would attract hanging
needle even after the effects OF the
friction had worn of Also, that both
heat and friction added to the power
of magnetic attraction Otto Won
Guericke, German, who lived during
the same period OF the seventeenth
century, went a step further and
found that by mounting a ball of sui
e.. e,,, phur on revolv-
Ss ing axis and rub
Light. pn.S -. sAy
sound of a sort could be produced.
This was the first rude forecast OF the
present electric light" To 1t an Eng.
lisbman named Hawksbee in 1905 con-
tributed the discovery that light could
be produced by placing mercury in an
exhausted receiver and forcing COM
mon air through it. Light rays were
given off by the globules of mercury
this displaced.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1909-08-12

But It was Stephen Gray who, in
1929, made experiments In electricity
which paved the way for the teie
graph. He found that certain bodies
had the power to convey electricity
from one object to another, and that
others had not. In other words. that
some substances were conductors"
and some were non-conductors.
Experiments were baked by the diff.
ficulty in storing enough electricity
for any such purpose. To get around
this Prof. Muschenbroeck. in 1745, de-
vised at Leyden, Holland, an inven-
ton which reyolutionized electrical
study. Knowing how quickly electrici-
ty becomes dissipated in open air, he
hit on means Of storage" by sur
rounding 1t with non-conductor.
Placing water in glass phial, he
charged this water with electricity
and bottled It, AS his assistant was
withdrawing the wire with which he
had electrified the water he received
a shock that knocked him down.
Benjamin Franklin, improving on
experiments of DR.. Watson, estab
.u lished the exis.
a"N tence of positive
ming. 49, no,oa .nd
demonstrated that all the phenomena
and effects produced by electricity is
duplicated in thunder and lightning.
He was the first to prove this and to
draw electricity down from the clouds.
He performed this latter feat by send
ing up during thunderstorm, in June,
1852, silk kite with an iron point on
its summit. This he attached to q
long cord at whose other end silk
ribbon was tied. At the juncture of
ribbon and string hung key. BY
rapping this key with his knuckles he
produced a series of sparks-proving
his theory true.
All these men merely played with
electricity, each adding something to
his predecessors knowledge of the
subject. To them it was but scien-
tific toy. Yet none mad devised d
means for Harvesting this wonderful
force and to make it do the world
work. That browning feat was re-
served for a later generation of men.
(Copyrighted)
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1909-08-12

so you don't think Mars would re-
ply, even II we did send slgnals?"
81 am almost convinced that there
would be no response" answered Prof.
Thinktum, adjusting his glasses.
Then you don't believe that Mars
is inhabited?"
con the contrary, think 1t ex.
tremely probable that life similar to
our own exists on the sister planet"
But you don't give those people
credit for intelligence equal to ours?"
yes. am inclined to credit them
with even greater intelligence than
we display There are many indica-
tions that they have civilization old.
er than oura, in which case they
should have 90 much sense to fool
away their time on any such imprac-
teal proposition ts
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1909-08-12
MARTIN LUTHER - The Peasant
Who Conquered an Emperor

Two men were riding through a
German forest. One OF them was
John Tetzel, monk, who had been
sent by Pope Leo x. to peddle ''Indul-
gencesp through Germany The other
was stranger Tetzel had met on the
road few hours before. The monk
was explaining to him how to pay for
rebuilding st. Peters cathedral in
Rome the pope was selling at graded
rates tickets or parchments which abb
solved the purchaser from guilt for
his various s. These parchments
were known as "Indulgences."
81 wish to commit robbery" OBJ
served the stranger. "Will you sell
me an indulgence, and for what
price?"
The sale was quickly made. At its
conclusion the stranger proceeded to
overpower Tetzel and rob him of
every valuable he possessed. Then he
rode away safe and happy in the
knowledge that his sin was forgiven
in advance.
Religion had during the fifteenth
century become far degraded from
the pure principles of the Catholic
church Of to-day and from the original
holy precepts of
ooo ,oe OF that church. The
eorruP''o"' evils chronicled in
this article have no reference to true
Catholicism, but to its abuses by UNI
scrupulous men in the Dark Ages
Luther, shortly before this affair of
Tetzeps, had gone on pious pilgrim
age to Rome. What he saw there had
horrified him and set him to thinking
Then came the public sale of indul-
gences. This was the last straw.
When Tetzel came to Wittenberg
Luther shocked and amazed the whole
world by mailing on the door Of the
church where the monk was to preach
a paper which declared the following
truths;
That such indulgences as Tetzel
sold were worse than useless; that
God alone can forgive sin and no NOR
tai has the power 10 peddle divine
pardon; that true repentance alone
can wash away guilt; that indulgences
were money-making schemes. and that
no one can buy his way into the king
dom of heaven.
Europe was aghast at such new,
strange theories The plain people
read them and began to think for
themselves When once People be-
gin to think, Tyranny's course is run
The mobiles. too, espoused the peas
.1,t.
hear mere of them. But the clergy
were furious. Luther was charged
with heresy and ordered to report at
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1909-08-12
LAUGHTER a Series Of Harks.

Laughing is barking, say the sci.
entists The neck and head are
thrown back while series of short
banks are emitted from the throat.
However musical the barks may be,
they are banks. The laugh begins
with a sudden and violent contraction
of the muscles of the chest and abb
domen. But instead of opening to let
the air pass out of the lungs, the vocal
cords approach each other and hold it
back But they are not strong enough
to exercise such opposition for more
than an instant, and the air, which is
under pressure, promptly escapes. AS
1t does so 1t makes the vocal cords vi
brate producing the bark.
This obstruction and liberation of
the air expelled from the lungs repeats
itself again and again at intervals of
quarter of second. There are thus
in hearty laugh four banks a second,
and if continued, they go on at that
rate as long as the air reserve in the
lungs holds out. The empty lungs
must then fill themselves, and this in.
terval is marked by a quick gasp for
breath, after which the banks are re-
newed. The barks occur in series
with gasps for breath at intervals.
When laughter is violent. the entire
body participates. The upper part OF
the trunk bends and straightens itself
alternately or sways to right and left.
The feet stamp on the floor, while the
hands are pressed upon the loins to
moderate the painful spasm
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1909-08-12

the Incas were suffered to go to de-
cay by their Spanish conquerors. In
some spots the waters are still left
to flow In their silent subterraneous
channels, whose windings and whose
sources have been alike UNEMPLOYED.
Others, though partially dilapidated
and closed up with rubbish, still be-
tray their course. Such remains are
found in the Valley of Nasca, where
the ancient water courses of the In
cas-, measuring four or five feet in
depth by three in width, and formed
of large blocks of uncemented ma
sonry, are conducted from an I'M
known source.
Coming to the northern continent,
we find again marvellous evidences of
reclamation work. The Aztecs had a
most complete and well-arranged sys.
tenn of Irrigation They used water
from the mountain streams and had
a knowledge Of dixie building; they
surrounded their fields with hedges
of stone, and directed canals through
them. They showed also good judg-
ment in the management of their
ground. When it was exhausted it
was permitted to fallow, and its ex-
IRENE dryness was relieved by canals
with which the land was irrigated.
Around the City of Mexico the dis
trict was checkered with patches of
Indian corn and plantations Of cacao
which required constant irrigation.
But what is Latin America doing
to-day to solve this great problem
which is attracting the attention of
the entire world? Surely it is max
ing great strides in this as in all
other directions, Some of the re-
publics are so fortunately situated
that the problem of irrigation Is not
yet necessary one, because their
areas are well blessed with abundant
streams and sufficient rainfall. For
the present their needs are fully met
by the natural water supply Of the
cultivated fields. The questions of
great, costly irrigating schemes have
not come Immediately before them.
The rapid progress these countries
are making, however, and the steady
Increase in population. will undoubt-
eddy necessitate the same considera-
ton of tlfs problem which we are to-
day giving 1t in the United States.
The great majority of our sister ma
lions are reaching practical solutions
of the demands of the agriculturists.
Other countries, like Uruguay and
Paraguay, are so well watered that
there has been no great call for arti
fetal irrigation In the mountain
countries, however, the rainfall may
be great, but the valleys sometimes
need water during the dry season.,
fand consequently the problem of ir
rigation becomes practical one.
In Ecuador, the minister of the In
terror and public works is very active
in encouraging all plans for the ex
tension of modern agricultural meth.
DDS wherever applicable. The water
supply OF the cities. at present vital
problem, is receiving particular atten
ton, but hand in hand with this goes
the use of water for irrigation pur
poses, and careful study is given to
the latter as we'll as to the former
Near Quito new drain and irrigation
pipes have been laid at considerable
expense, and in the province OF "El
ORC" noticeable progress has been
made on the rivers Caluburo. Buenar
vista and Pital. &
BY doing too much for their chill.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1909-08-12


The remarkable achievements of
our sister American republics in IT.
rigation and reclamation demonstrate
forcibly the Importance and progress
of these nations. Their far-reaching
work. both past and present, in this
line of material development Of their
vast areas and limitless resources as
tonishes the average man and is little
appreciated throughout the United
States.
What they have done, are doing
and intend to do rival the most am
bilious schemes of this country and
make us admire their enterprise and
energy. If the irrigation expert of
the United States were to visit and
inspect the principal reclamation
works between Mexico on the north
and Argentina on the far south, he
would return not only with new and
valuable impressions which would be
helpful in extending the work here
but with an enthusiasm for the posi-
bilities of our Latin American neigh
bors that would do much to foster
closer relations of commerce and
comfy. said John Barrett, director of
the International Bureau OF the Amer
lean Republics. in an address before
the National Irrigation congress at
Albuquerque, N. M.
Irrigation in Latin America is no
new problem. In fact. there are to
be found to-day evidences OF great
irrigating canals and systems built
by the Aztecs of Mexico and the In
cas- of Peru long before the Spanish
conquest and even the discovery of
America A few facts illustrative of
what they had accomplished in the
line of Irrigation before Europe in
vaded the New World may be of inter
est. The student of the problem of
irrigation will find abundant material
In Mexico, Peru and the Argentine
Republic to prove the beneficial work
done by these early peoples.
Let us look for moment at Peru.
The Incas, the Peruvian aborigines,
we're thorough agriculturists, and, al
though much of the country along the
seacoast suffered from want of water,
as little or no rain fell there, many
places were capable of being re-
claimed, and indeed needed only to
be properly irrigated to be suscep-
tible of extraordinary production. To
these spots water was conveyed by
means of canals and subterraneous
aqueducts, executed on noble scale
They consisted of large slabs of free
stone nicely fitted together without
cement and discharged volume Of
water sufficient, by means of latent
ducts or sluices, to moisten the
lands in the lower level through
which they passed.
Some OF these aqueducts were OF
great length. One, that traversed the
district of Condesuvo, measured be-
tween four and five hundred miles
They were brought from some ele-
waited lake or natural reservoir In the
heart of the mountains and were fed
at intervals by other basins which
lay In their route along the slope of
the Sierras. In this descent pas
sage was sometimes to be opened
through rocks without the aid of
iron tools). impracticable mountains
were to be turned, rivers and marshes
to be crossed; in short. the same
obstacles were to be encountered as
in the construction of their mighty
roads Near Caxamarca a tunnel is
still visible which they excavated in
the mountains to give an outlet to
the waters Of lake.
Most OF these beneficent works Of
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1909-08-12

BY doing too much for their chill
dren parents make themselves inca
Dable of doing much for themselves.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1909-01-05

Estimated cost of
operating h e
schools for bal
ance of session
1908 1909. -.
Teachers.
Transfer drivers.
Supt. Salary......
General Expense.
Deducting amt. OF
Revenue .........
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1909-01-05

Estimated a m t.
needed to COM
plete session -.
II Bonds & Int. due
1-i5-'10 S74O0.O0
and for tais obi
cation the special
tax of 1909 amt'ing
to about $500. 90
will more than
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1909-01-05

The Board then elected DIR. F. r.
Tolson permanent president and APP
proved Mr.. Boyle's bill for s241. 60. !
Messrs VIM. Freshweter, E. l..
Wright and w. j. Avery candidates
for superintendent we're each heard
IS to their respective claims, in order