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The National tribune., 1910-01-27

This has been a phenomenally cold
Winter all over the Northern Hemis-
phere, but ii is gratifying to see how
little Florida has suffered. A letter
from st. Cloud, dated Jan. 22d, says
that the day before was the coolest
day known there for years. The ther-
mometer fell to 90 degrees and thin
ice formed with a nipping offender
vegetables. Contrast this with the
bowling storms from New York to
Montana.
The National tribune., 1910-01-27
THE BURDEN ON THE STATES.

We have received the following ad-
! ajtorzl reports as to the extent to
which the various States are eking out
ltle National Government pension sys-
! tenn. by allowances to the veterans
/ ana their widows to enable them to
live IN tolerable comfort.
/ TIE states Poard of Charities and
I Reform. of Wyoming writes: THE Sol
tdl..a Home operated in this State is To-
icatef at the postoffice known as the
Soidiars' Home. in Johnson County.
/ During he year ended Sept 80, 1908,
Iw = rn is the last report published, there
twcre in Lhe home so inmates. The re-
tHurt does not make a distinction be-
tween those admitted as veterans CT
/ the civil war and those of the Span
( ish war At that time there were not
ILaUTe than two, perhaps, who were 9TH
/ an vii war veterans or their
widows and orphans. The total cost of
maintain uG tn home for the year was
#S1S.J@5.5e This expense will be the
/ total expense of that character incur
| red by The State thruout that period"
! L B. Fellows State Auditor of New
! Hampshire. writes: This State makes
mo aUDra rapriation. Counties and towns
render needed assistance. The amount
! for the whole State cannot be aScar-
tanned"
| Deputy Auditor William D. Hawley.
of Massachusetts,, writes: II have to
isay that we have appropriated this year
the sum of $S66,900, which is disbursed
! by cities and towns and reimbursed by
| the State. and 1 would like to add that
since the opening of the civil war the
| Commonwealth of Massachusetts, has
paid for State aid to soldiers and sailors,
! To- yrsY1 svitr CnlI
/ Homes, the sum of $34,776.62S.15. # ey
/ have paid out for bounties $17,S72,-
404.82. They borrowed the money to
lpay these bounties, and the interest on
I the money borrowed amounts to $12,-
705,290.35. The expenses of the Com
missioner Of State AId to examine ard
approve the payment of State aid dur
| ing this time amounts to S27S,934.1 .18.
The expenses of the Pension Agent to
date amounts to $S5,S75.44, making
grand total that Massachusetts has re-
imhursed in consequence of this war
Ito soldiers and sailors and expenses in
connection Herewith up to Dec. 1, 1909,
| $65,719,13 2.94."
James NJ Nation. Auditor of State of
| Kansas, writes: The annual appro-
| priation to the State Soldiers Home and
the Mother Bickerdyke Home totals
$12S,0SO."
| The State Auditor of Maine writes:
Editor National Tribune: Below is a
statement of the amount of money that
| this State annually approprates, and
most of which it disburses for the re-
/ lief of veterans OF the civil war and
their widows and orphans. We give
this by appropriation titles, which is in
every instance explanatory of the ma
! ture of the expenditure:
Military pensions ............ $4,000
Aid of soldiers in Aroostook
War Observation-Disclosures. 1900
Soldiers pensions ........... $500
Salary Pension Clerk ........ 1,400
Salary stenographer to Pension
Clerk GA
Burial expenses of soldiers and
uailnrc
The National tribune., 1910-01-27


The freedom Of late years from the
grasshopper scourge in Kansas is eX-
planned by the fact that the great short
grass prairie extending thru Nebraska
to the Dakotas, Wyoming, Montana and
the Canadian country is now under
more or less cultivation. This prairie
formerly swarmed with grasshoppers,
which would take advantage of breeze
from the north to travel south. The
country has rapidly settled up and birds
and poultry devour immense numbers
Of the hoppers as soon as they are born,
and even eat the eggs before they are
hatched; consequently there are not
enough of them left to make a scourge.
The butchers can plead an alibi on
high prices of pork. The figure is
something that can be raised anywhere
and by anybody. but with corn at $.67
in Chicago cheap pork is out Of the
question. Eggs do not seem to offer
much relief for the deep situation
This weeks Bulletin of the wholesale
prices of eggs in New York shows fresh
country eggs ranging from $.S9 to $50
a dozen, with refrigerator eggs bring
ing as high as from S.25 to SIS. The
moral of this would seem to be to &c
into the poultry business and get big
prices for eggs and from SIS TO $50 a
pound for chicken.
The National tribune., 1910-01-27

At a regular meeting of A. J. Smith
Post, Department of Oregon, an earnest
protest was made against the erection
of the Lee statue in the Capitol at
Washington, and a memorial was sent
to the Senators ard Representatives
from oregon to vote against the accept
ance of the statue.
The National tribune., 1910-01-27
VIRGINIA'S CLlIAy.

The. reign of economy III the Nation
al Administration does not faze N.r-
piuia for a moment. She is preparing
to make q demand upon the United
States Treasury for $12.0o0.00o for
lands which she claims to have ceded to
form Ohio, Indiana, Illino'a. Michigan,
Wisconsin and part of Minnesota. Her
claim is based on the conquest of Col.
George Rogers Clark, VINO in 117S
made an arduous campaign attended
with the utmost hardshlpS and the
greatest daring to gain possession of
1.-The illinois Country" He walked all
the way from Harrodsburg. Ky, to
Williamsburg, Va, where ne succeeded
in winning over Gov. Patrick Henry
to his scheme and was appointed a
Lieutenant-Colonel. He raised a force
of volunteers who marched nom Vir-
ginia to Louisville, Ky, from which
place he marched to Indiana and Ill
French villages of Cahokia and Vim
cennes. The English commander at
Detroit recaptured Vincennes, and then
Clark, starting out anew, at the head
of 40 men, marched in the depth of
Winter to Vincennes, where he COM
PEELED the Englishmen to surrender.
Clark built old Fort Jefferson on the
left bank of the Mississippi just below
the mouth of the Ohio to hold what
he had conquered, and for the rest of
the Revolution he was engaged in all
most constant struggles with the Brit
ish and Indians and was generally sue
Icessful. He totally defeated the Shaw
nees, but was defeated by the Wabash
Indians. lie was a man of wonderful
breadth of view. and planned to drive
the Spaniardst from the lower Missis-
sippi and open the whole valley to the
Americans In spite of his eminent
services he was allowed to die in pow
erty, ualtho the Virginia Legislature
granted him II tract of 8.049 acres,
with 10000 more being given to his
officers and men. The impression is
that Virginia., like the rest of the
original States, settled all her claims
against the United States by accepting
the Virginia Military Reservation in
Ohio for her Revolutionary soldiers.
Connecticut and some other States also
settled at the same time and in the
same way by taking grants in Ohio for
their veterans of the war.
The protests of the health reformers
in England have been successful in
doing away with the old practice of
kissing the Bible in courts of justice.
Now the witness is required to hold a
Testament (the Old Testament in the
The National tribune., 1910-01-27
The Lee Statue.

J. Fl. Crowder Bethany, Ill. sends
the hot protest of his Post against The
Lee statue in the Capitol, ana says why
should we not also have Forrest, the
murderer, and WirZ, he iniIuman Keep
er of Andersonville, in the Capitol?
The National tribune., 1910-01-27

The protests of the health reformers
in England have been successful in
kissing the Bible in courts of justice
Now the witness is required to hold a
Testament (the Old Testament in the
case of Jewish witnesses) in his right
hand above his head and repeat the
following oath:
II swear by Almighty God that the
evidence l will give shall be the truth,
the whole truth, and nothing but the
truth"
The National tribune., 1910-01-27

James NJ. Nation. Auditor of State of
Kansas, writes: The annual appro-
priation to the State Soldiers Home and
the Mother Bickerdyke Home totals
$12S,0SO."
The National tribune., 1910-01-27

Entered at Washington, D. C, Post once
as second-class matter.
The National tribune., 1910-01-27

L. 3. Fellows, State Auditor of New
Hampshire. writes: This State makes
mo appropriation. Counties and towns
render needed assistance. The amount
for the whole State cannot De ascar-
Itaiaed"
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1910-12-02
A Tale of "Tippinq."

To tip or not to tip the person who
but does his or her duty Is question
recalling an incident set down In Wal
poles "reminiscences Of how king once
unwillingly encouraged the custom.
"This Is strange country" comment
ed George l. 1.-The first morning after
my arrival at st. James looked out
of the window and saw park with
walls. canal ETC.. which they told me
were mine. The next day Lord Chef
wynd. the ranger Of my park. sent me
a brace Sf carp out Of my canal. and
] was told that | must give guineas
to Lord Chetwynds servant for bring
ing me my own carp out Of my own
canal In my own park"
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1910-12-02
NONRESIDENT Notice

VIRGINIA.:
In the Gle rk's office of the circuit
court of Highland county, at Rules, the
18th day of NOy., 1910
Susie Bolkin and Arlie BOtkin
VS..
J Riley Crummett, Robert Cru mmett,
Silas Crummelt. Cameron Crummett,
and Louis Crummett and B. Crummett,
widow of Eli Crummett, deceased.
In Cbancery
The object of this suit is to perfect the
assignment of dover to the widow of
Eli Crnmmett deceased, in lands owned
10y him il Highland county, virginia, and
t, partition the residue among the chill
dren; and il partition cannot be made
conveniently, to have the residue of said
land sold under orders of the court.
And it appearing by affidavit filed &C.
cording 10 law, that the said defendants,
Robt Crummett and Siss Crunmett are
non residents of this state, it is there.
fore ordered that they appear within 10
days after due publication of this order,
in The clerks office of our said circuit
court. and do what is necessary to pro-
tecL their interests
T ste:
V II Matheny, Clerk
Jones & Son p.Q.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1910-12-02
ALLIGATORS' NESTS.
They Resemble Haystacks and Are
Natural incubators.

Natural Incubators.
IAN alligators' nest is an interesting
thing" said Alligator Joe. wild ALL
gators build their nests on the bank or
a river or in marshy places. They are
made Of mud, saw grass and leaves
and mold. They are sort OF natural
incubators, for the eggs. which are
laid from thirty-ive to eighty In
nest at one time. are Matched out by
the steam which comes up through the
mud as much as by the sun. Around
the nest pile of grass Is laid, some
times as high as six feet. and from a
distance resembles stack Of hay.
The mother gator has her den near
by. She makes it by burrowing into
a bank Of soft mud. and sometimes 1t
Is seventy feet or more inland. The
only way to get her out OF den like
that is to take a long steel rod and
thrust 1t down the tunnel, which Is al
ways slanting. When the gator feels
the prodding she will come out to see
what the trouble is.
1T takes alligator eggs two months
and six days to hatch. When the little
ones come ont the mother calls them
together by noise which is something
between Il cluck and grunt. and they
all scramble down from the nest to her
den. If 1t is on the edge Of river
the den Is filed with minnows. AS the
mother enters the den she swishes her
tail around with terrific force, killing
the smallest fish. and when they foat
the little alligators nab them up.
"a mother alligator will sometimes
have four or five dens. and she takes
her brood from one to another, repeat
Ing the swishing process in each one
until the young ones have had full
meal."-Harriet Quimby In Leslie's.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1910-12-02
BOARDING IN A CUBAN HOME
You Must Not Mention Money, but You
Pay All the Same.


In Cuba. where money Is not talked
Of. where no one is valued according
to his money, the need of 1t is never
lessless the sword hanging over every
home. Money-the lack OF 1t Is evil
dent everywhere, but the word is new
or mentioned. writes Kate Jordan III
the New Idea Womans Magazine.
"Be sure you do not speak OF mon
ey." the Cuban friend who had intro
duced us had said. From her cousins
brother-in-luw | know the sonora ex'
nects SIS q week for each OF you. Put
this in an envelope with her full name
on it, which you know means not only
her husbands name. but all OF her
own family names, which ! will give
you, and leave 1t where she Will hnd
II II will disappear. but. said our
Cuban friend proudly and sternly' II
will never be mentioned
TO eat ones three meals under the
summer sky guve holiday flavor TO
what becomes habit Our table was
set un0er pain Ou ouC Va 'hS 6"'
leries. Gu: first taste OF the ICED or
anges Of Cuba was moment to be re-
membered. They are peeled whole
and so close that even the juicy pods
are cut into a little. A fork is stuck
into each orange. and. resting In u bowl
of ice packed all night. they are In
the morning little globes of iced liquid
sweetness. They are eaten while held
up on the fork. on the pulp. the skele-
ton of the orange being left impaled
ON 1t.
The Havana bousekeeper believes In
having the cook. with the gravity OF a
prime minister, deposit the food on
the table. because to her point of view
what Is meant to be hot should be
as hot as cayenne and what Is meant
to be cold of polar iciness.
After the cooks triumphal bearing In
of fish other servants are on hand to
give minor service.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1910-12-02
AN EXPERT BO0KMAKER.
One In Havana That Puzzled Chicago
Betting Man.

DcttIu9
"If YOU want to see expert boOkmak-
ers you should 90 to Havana. re-
marked Chicago man. "They GER
tainly have their business down fine.
/ went to a cockfight In one OF the
suburbs Of Havana on a Sunday.
Nearly everybody In that part Or the
town had turned out.
with two friends ] got seats close
TO the pit had never seen COCK
fight, and was interested. Al the
edges OF the pit several natives were
standing. facing the audience and yell
ing and waving their hands. asked
one of my friends. who had been In
Havana q short time. what they were
doing. He said they were taking bets.
Sure enough. the spectators were
shouting back at them. announcing
their favorites and placing their bets.
But the DoOkmakers were not using
even a pencil. One of them. am
sure. must have taken fifty bets.
~ wanted to get In on the game. so
l decided to bet So on black game
cock that looked good to me. | hand
ed over my money. but didn't get a
ticket. felt sure ! should never again
see my money even II had picked the
winner. Well. the main was fought.
and my bird won. I watched the book
maker as he went among the crowd
handing money here and there. When
he came to me he handed over $40. I
was surprised. but he didn't notice It..
as he was too busy cleaning up his
slate. Finally discovered through a
spectator near by who could speak
English little that my bird had been
q four to one shot
"How that Rookie ever kept all those
bets IN his mind is more than | can
understand. Washington Post.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1910-12-02
CAUGHT THE ColNER.
An Accident Spoiled an ingenious,
Counterfeit Passing Scheme.

Counterfeit Passing Scheme.
A case which shows the ingenuity
used in passing counterfeit coin is tho
following: A tailor. who also was a
very successful coiner, had a little
daughter who was some ten years old.
She was being taught to play the ylo'
lin, and twice week she went to have
q music lesson ut Il house about mile
distant. Once week the innocent
little thing carried besides her violin
case and violin a package cunningly
secreted In the false bottom Of the vio-
lin case, which contained some twenty
or more pieces Of counterfeit coin.
The music master, rogue who was
In the know. found no difficulty In alb
stracting the package unnoticed by the
child and in his turn passed 1t on to a
woman fence" who again gave II to
q male friend, who delivered II safely
to the "utterer." woman again. at n
street corner, the package being this
time concealed in the false bottom Of
a canary cage. Thus II passed through
six hands. and besides the man him
self only the music master knew who
manufactured the coin.
The tailor was caught by an acct
dent. His little girl let the violin case
fall in the street, the bottom of the
case was smashed. and all the coins.
done up in tissue paper. fell into the
street. The child, much mystified.
opened one of the little packages. and
the glitter caught policeman's eye.
This mishap led to the instant arrest
of the tailor. who confessed. hoping
for light sentence, hope which was
not realized. Among the coiner'S
stock in trade were discovered two
works on chemistry, fourteen molds.
two batteries. plaster of paris. two la
dies, a melting pot. crucibles and a
quantity of Observation-Disclosures Tele-
graph.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1910-12-02
AN ALL AROUND ORDEAL.
When Papa Was Getting Ready to A."
tend a Banquet.


Papa was going TO banquet. It
was unusual for him to attend ean-
luets-so unusual. in fact. that the
children had boosted Of 1t for week
to all who would hear.
Now II was the night Of the BAN
quet. and papa was getting ready, and
the once quiet and orderly house was
much upset.
run on out" said mamma, land don't
bother your father while he's dress
Ing" Papa was shaving and at the
same time committing a speech to
memory in case he should've called
upon for something impromptu.
The tiny trickles of blood down his
chin showed where the speech was
getting the better part Of his atten-
ton. On the bed lay clean white
shirt. and across a chair hung papa's
dress clothes. He hadn't worn the
dress clothes for two years and was
considerably stouter now.
After awhile the children, crouch
Ing interestedly at the door, heard en-
pertaining things.
"Confound the shirt" howled papa.
81 know | washed my hands, but the
neckbands all dirty" Mammals voice
scotched him.
Through the keyhole the children
saw papa struggle into his coat. The
stiff shirt rose almost to his ears, and
a high collar nearly sawed them OF.
"Doggone itp' walled papa. "The
sleeves Of this coat are a mile too
short"
Then his shoes hurt him; he couldn't
get his tie fixed right; his handker-
chief was hopelessly massing. and final
ly he stood miserably In the middle OF
the floor.
His face was red. the perspiration
poured down his nose. his thin hair
stood I'D, and he was about the most
uncomfortable looking person the chill
dren had ever seen.
NOW. them said mamma. with a
sigh. you're fixed. You have no idea,
dear, how nice you look"
"Oh. yes" papa snarled. 81 look nice,
don't think" Then he found his hat
and light coat and stalked stif1y and
urcomfortably out. The children, hid
Ing behind the stair railing, saw him
depart.
Gee" said the little boy, when I
get big l won't go to any dinners.
They can bring mine"
you'll have to-" said his sister wise
IL. MEN always have to go to din
ners. But they dress up funny, don't
they T-Galveston News.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1910-12-02
A Puzzle.

"That Is a puzzle" said a novelist
at dinner In New York. Yes. that
Is as much Il puzzle as Mrs. Malaprop's
definition Of naiyete.
Mrs. MalaprOp and n gentleman
were discussing Il beautiful young lady
poet. The gentleman said:
"'What regard as the most con.
spicuous thing about her Is her nal
vete.'
Yes said Mrs. Malaprop: i won
der what made her get such a tight
one. - Washington Star.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1910-12-02
A Strailht Tin.

Say growled the first hobo. why
didn't yer 80 ter dat big house an git
a handOutT'
"Why. ! started ter" replied the 9th
err. but minister lo0kin' guy gimme
q tip not ter He seq: Turn from yer
present path. Ye're goin ter de dogs
philadelphia Press.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1910-12-02
THE ADVANTAGE OF A STOCK SHOW.

ln[ ADFANIAuL UT A DUN DnVW.
While on my rounds at a local
fair last week I overheard the re-
mark of young farmer as we were
passing line of stock:
II have got some stock that
would beat thatv'
Another word or two, and then
this drifted to my ear:
II believe I'll bring some next
year."
The inspiration of another mans
success had fired this young mans
heart to do better than he ever had
before and win for himself some of
LIES blue ribbons. 1t did me good
to hear this, and / set down long
chalk mark to the credit of the fair
as an institution for the upbuilding
of better farming.
All over the country there is
splendid stock that never finds its
way to the public eye. The neigh
bors may know something about
this stock. The owner himself may
be reasonably proud Of it; but as
for the great world outside, such
stock might just as we'll not exist.
What is needed IS to bring this
stock out and let men know what
is being done to make the world
better.
1t is a fact that some inferior
stock gets to the exhibition pens of
all our fairs. At the very fair of
which l am speaking, l saw more
than one herd that nobody would
call very fine. Many of the indi-
viduals were thin in flesh and in
other ways decidedly below par;
and yet, l have no doubt that in
the eyes of the farmer and his boys
who brought that stock to the fair
these animals looked good, and
they knew more about what they
were able to do than any one else
possibly could. So that even tho
these farmer folks did not take
home with them any of the prizes,
they did learn more about stock,
the stock that is at the front today,
than they knew few days before;
and, best of all, they carried back
a determination to show some bet
ter stock in the future. That of
itself was worth while.
For, let us be fair about this. 1t
is not the blue ribbon we win that
counts for most, although we may
fairly feel some degree of pride
when we see that tied to stock we
have raised. The best of it is that
we have awakened to the posibili-
ties of something beyond what we
have done. If a man gets abso-
lutely nothing more out OF the fairs
than that, he has not spent his time
for nothing.
1t is the same way with sheep.
There are many pens of sheep at
our fairs that are absolutely infer
Tor. We wonder why the owner
ever thought it worth while to bring
them. That is not the best way to
look at it. How do we know what
ambition there may be back of
there exhibits? Some boy may
have done his best to get these
sheep up ready for the fair. He
may have labored long with father
to get permission to take them
down and show them off. That lad
might be right in the making and
this may be the turning point of
his life. So let them come, the
good, the bad and the indifferent.
1t is a most encouraging thing when
a man has anything, even if it be
only bushel of potatoes or a few
pumpkins, that seems good enough
to him for the people of his section
to look at.
Success wins. That success may
not be very great now, but fan it
little and the spark will grow.
EDGAR L. VINCENT.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1910-12-02
Toms Memory,

"Before went away told Tom Just
what wanted him to do about the
house from day to day, and to make 1t
doubly sure talked my orders into
our photograph so he could play the
record each night and so remember"
"And did he then forgetr'
~ found everything In the house
about ruined. He said be couldn't bear
to play the photograph In my absence:
1t reminded him so Of me and made
him lonely."-Boston Herald.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1910-12-02
Not So Far Wrono,

"Have you written all the invitations
to my party. mammaY' queried little
Eva.
"Yes. dear" answered her mother.
"They are all written and mailed"
And how soon will the receptions
and receptions begin to come IMP
Chicago News.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1910-12-02
a SinoIe Execution.

"Do you think memory for dates
helps a man?'
Sometimes" replied Farmer Corn
tassel "Rut not when he IL selling
spring chickens Washington Star.