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Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1911-03-31
Canvasbacks on the Vino,

If you have any doubt as to the
swiftness Of the canvasback on the
wing where business calls just fire at
the leader in a string some time when
you have the chance. Duck shot when
propelled by the proper quantity Of
powder travels pretty quickly itself.
but If your charge brings down any
member Of that string Of ducks at all
1t will be the fifth or sixth bird back of
the leader, and I'll bet farm on 1t.
"1f you would have chance Of drop
ping the leader you will have to aim
not less than ten feet ahead of him
Then be will more than likely run
plump against. your shot When be
drops 1t will be quarter Of mile or
80 farther on, for he cant stop short
of that distance even after he Is dead"
New York Sun.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1911-03-31

Fully nine out of every ten cases
of rheumatism is simply rheuma-
tism of the muscles due to cold or
damp, or chronic rheumatism,
neither of which require anyintern-
al treatment. All that is needed to
afford relief is the free application
of Chamberlain's Liniment. Give
it a trial. You are certain to be
pleased with the quick relief which
it affords. Sold by DR.. K. H. Trim
BILE.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1911-03-31
NATURAL SONG.

The singing a few nights ago OF
Miss Booker demonstrated anew the
power of natural song, and its SUI
periority over the artificial tremolo
style, which ruins good voices,
makes them fiat and untrue, and
disappoints eager audiences. There
has never yet been found anything
to supplant in Interpretation of The
natural voice, as it was used by the
old queens of song, Patti Gerster
and others. So many who have
promising voices rum them by try
ing to affect the artificial mode of
singing. We are at loss to under
stand whence they &c this fad, as it
is repudiated by all the great teach
ers of singing, who beg their pupils
to give the natural voice full play.
If those who affect this mode Of
singing could hear themselves as
others hear them, they would eschew
such practices, and give us the
smoothly flowing mellow voice with
which nature has endowed TEEN.
Let us hope for natures voice and
natures way of singing, in which
melody and harmony are not mar
red by artifciality. = S Jun to n
Leader.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1911-03-31

In Camden N. j., a shocking
thing happened the other day.
A little boy, IA years of age, COM
mitted suicide in Jail by hanging
himself. He had been committed
to Jail for "tampering' with a gas
meter in his brothers home, and.
driven to despair, the little fellow
killed himself. To lock child of
that age in jail amid adult criminal
for such an offence is dreadful and
cannot be defended upon any prln-
ciple. 1t is the surest way to i'll
crease the crop of criminals, and to
prevent just such crimes against
humanity as this juvenile or child
ren's courts are being established
in many cities.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1911-03-31
A PROTEST.
Editor Recorder:

Editor Recorder:
| understand that the Board OF
Supervisors will, at their next meet
ing decide as to whether the present
contractors on the turnpike are to
receive the balance of pay that
would be due them under the con-
tract made between them and the
Board had the requirements been
met. AS citizen and taxpayer
| want to call attention to some of
the important provisions of the
specifications in order to refresh
the memory CT the Board and the
Superintendent before they pass on
the matter: 1st-The water brakes
are to be graded eight feet each
way. (This would make the water
brake Is feet wide.) Is there one
such on the entire road?
End The contractors are to go
over the road once a month and
keep rock to the size of a hen egg
out of same.
l will not refer to any clauses of
the agreement. Surely these are
sufficient. Put the contractors
themselves on oath and ask them if
these two provisions have been
complied with. Ask any of the
host of teamsters, mail carriers or
resident citizens.
This is not a war against the con-
tractor. 1t is an effort to get public
money properly applied, to get
recognition for speci ications that
have been wisely and carefully
drafted.
1t is no place or time for senti-
mental ideas or feeling. A man may
need money eyer so much, but if
be hasn't earned it he is not emit
tied to it. Scores of honest citi-
zens will testify that these impor-
tant features of the specifications
have been totally ignored. What
will the Board do? Surely it will
ook to the county's interest.
Citizen
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1911-03-31
GIRLS JUMP FROM
TENTH STORY WINDOW

New York, March 25.-One hun
dred and fifty souls n;ne-tenths of
them girls from the East Side-were
crushed to death on the pavement
smothered by smokes or shriveled
to a crisp this afternoon in the worst
fire New York has known since the
steamship General Slocum was
burned to the waters edge in 1914.
The victims were employed by the
Triangle Waist Company, on the
eighth, ninth, and tenth floors of a
ten-story loft building at % Wash
ington place, on the western fringe
of the down town wholesale cloth
ing, fur and millinery district. The
partners of the firm, Isaac Harris
and Max Blanck, escaped from the
Office on the tenth floor carrying
over a roof Blanck's two daughters
and a governess. There was not
an outside fire escape on the build
ing.
How the fire started will perhaps
never be known. A corner on the
eighth floor was its point of origin
and, the three upper floors only were
swept. On the 9th floor so bodies
were found. Sixty-three or more
persons were crushed to death by
jumping and more than 80 clogged
the elevator shafts. The loss to
property will not exceed 100, 600.
People in the streets were alarm
ed by the whiz of something rush
ing through the air before them:
there was a horrible crash on the
pavement, and a body flattened on
the rocks. People on the Other
side of the street shaded their eyes
against the setting sun and saw the
windows of the three upper floor;
of the building black with CIR
crowding to the stills. There were
no fire escapes. Don't jump
Don't jump!' yelled the crowd
But the girls had no alternative
The pressure OF the maddened nun
dreds behind them and the urging
of their own fears were too strong
They began to fall to the sldeWall
in terrible rain of flesh and blood
Four alarms were rung within tilf
teen minutes. Before the engine
could respond, before the nets coul'
be stretched, or the ladders raised
five girls had fallen from the Ugh
and ninth floors so heavily tina
they broke through the glass an
iron roofs of the subcellars crashe'
through the very streets into tn
vaults below. In an hour the hr
was out; in half an hour it ha
done it's worst; probably the deaf
list was full in twenty minutes.
Seven hundred hands, 500 OF then
women, were employed by the shirt
waist company. They sat in row
at their whirring machines, tn
tables before them piled with films
cloth, the floors Uttered with lint
the air itself full of flying, inhamms
BILE dust. The first rush of fam
was almost an explosion. Opperat
ors died in their chairs, their lung
scared bv inhaling fame.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1911-03-31
a Get Beautiful Quick Scheme,

"If you have hurry call to be beau
tiful without the time to work up to
the permanent affair."" said Mildred
Holland. here's your chance. First
wash your face with warm water and
almond meal Make a sort of paste Of
those things and wash of with warm
water and dry lightly. Then apply
your skin food lest there be any reac-
ton from the drastic treatment to fol-
low. Now take piece Of lemon and
rub 1t over the face till the skin
smarts. Rinse again, this time with
water that is gradually brought down
from cool to cold. You are then ready
for the final ceremony. Hold a good
sized piece of ice In towel and iron
your face with 1t. Then look in the
glass. This has been found an abso-
lutely reliable recipe before asking for
the coveted new bonnet."-New York
World.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1911-03-31

ATTENTIoN-Any one wishing
Frost Proof Cabbage Plants, guar
anteed to mature from 4 to 6 weeks
earlier than any other, kindly send
order to the undersigned. You can
set them out the last Of March and
need not be afraid of freezing them
to hurt. They have been tried in
Highland and the cold snaps didn't
faze the plants. Send SOC before
1st March and let me order 100 for
you, with other orders. We will
notify you when the plants come.
Respectfully,
81. B. Slaven,
-. Monterey, Va.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1911-03-31
His Striking Feature.

He was butler at the British embas-
sy, and be was very English. He was
at the telephone, and the society editor
OF Washington newspaper was ask
lug him about a distinguished English
man who had just arrived as guest
at the embassy.
"Tell me-" said the editor, what he
looks like. Give me some striking fea-
ture by which / may recognize him"
Well replied the butler in awe
and admiration, "'e as most hintel-
ligeut face."-New York Tribune.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1911-03-31
PUBLIC SALE

At our place at Vanderpool, Va,
four miles south of Monterey, we
will on WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5,
1911, offer for sale at public auc-
ton the following personal proper
ty, to-wit:: Is head horses, | pair
gray percheron mares, weigh about
1900 lbs. each, with foal; pair
iron gray percheron mares, weigh
1900 lbs. each and with foal; one
saddle mare with foal; l bay saddle
horse; one percheron horse colt,
broke to work; ! mare colt, broke
to work; 4 two year old colts, three
draft and one saddle colt; 3 year
ling draft colts; s two-year-old cat
tie, 3 steers and 5 spayed heifers;
5 yearling hereford calves, 4 good
mich COWS; 7 head good ewes; 3
pure bred polan china sows, will
have pigs in April and May; l pure
bred polan china boar; 2 shoats; l
Brown wagon; l farm wagon; 2
buggies; l buggy pole; l Johnson
mower; 1 McCormic rake; 2 big
plows; 2 single shovel plows; l cul-
tivator; ! interest in spring tooth
harrow; l pair bobsleds; l log sled;
2 log chains; hauling chain; hoes,
forks etc.; four pair couplers; 2
pair crotch grabs; 1 grab skipper;
l grab maui; l knot maui; 2 cant
hooks; l post hole digger; 2 cross
cut saws; hand saw; augers, bra
ces, and bits; l pair of spreaders; |
set double trees; cutting box; l
grind stone; l vaccinating outfit;
l dehorning saw; l iron boiler; one
80 gal. copper kettle; l cider mil !;
l U. S. automatic wire stretcher;
l thrible block and rope; 2set of
lumberman's harness, | set most
new; s halters and a lot of horse
blankets; l set double buggy har-
ness;T1 set single buggy harness;
collars, pads, ETC.; 100 bu. wheat;
a lot of corn; rs bu. oats; 4 stacks
of hay; corn shelter; l grain cradle;
80 chicken; 4 turkeys; 2 stand of
bees and 2 extra hives; l Columbia
phonograph and 10 records; home
rifle; l shot gun; l % target rife,
2 doz. steel traps; 2 cook stoves; 3
heating stoves; l majestic washing
machine; l cylinder churn; / ice
cream freezer; 1000 pounds bacon;
IS bu. potatoes; 2 telephones; l
share of stock in Vanderpool tele-
phone line; 2 parlor suits, good as
new; 4 bedsteads and springs. 2
wardrobes, and many other things
too tedious to mention.
$4,000 feet of lumber, mostly all
picked lumber, including pine, pop
lar and oak.
TERMS: All sums amounting
to SIS or less cash will be required,
and all sums amounting to more
than SIS, the purchaser will be re-
CURED to execute his negotiable
note, with two approved endorsers,
payable in ten months with interest
from date, at either the First Ma
tional or Citizen Bank of Highland.
SWADLEY BROS.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1911-03-31
No 154.

Farm on Spring Hill road, three
miles from Stanton, containing
157 acres, more or less. Splendid
outbuildings, large bank barn COX
Sc, water in barn yard, silo, about
20 acres set out in orchard, 10 acres
in timber. The Spring Hill road
is now being Macadamized, making
the farm a very desirable one.
Price SIG, 800, part cash, balance
to suit purchaser.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1911-03-31

We desire through the Highland
Recorder to return our sincere
thanks to the many friends who so
kindly ministered to our father and
mother during the week of their
suffering, and for the many tokens
of sympathy and respect shown us
in the death and burial of our
mother. We assure each their
kindness shall never be forgotten.
J. II. Pruitt,
Mrs. Rate Jordan,
H. A. Armstrong,
-. . Martha A. Corbett.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1911-03-31
] D Burns, R @ Helms, Tobias McClintic
j. D. BURNS & CO.,
UNDERWRITERS
BOLAR, VA

We are prepared to fill your Or
ders on short notice. Our line of
caskets will run In prices from $40
to $50, and small caskets from S.
to S.. We aim to please our Gus
toners in every instant. Send your
order to us and we will insure salts
faction. Phone in house on Bath
line and if you are on the Highland
line call Tobias McClintic,
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1911-03-31
Notice

As we have dissolved partner
ship in all business, we kindly ask
those who are indebted to us please
arrange to settle in the next 30
days, after that time all unpaid &C
counts will be placed in all officers
hands for collection.
Respectfully,
Swadley Bros.
Va.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1911-03-31

Health of body, hind and spirit
is its source. Here are a few rules
for gaining and keeping health. Be
clean, be busy, be kind, patient,
be just, be steadfast. Most bodily
sickness is due to excessive eating,
to want of bodily exercise, to want
of cleanliness, to want of freish air
by day and night, to selfishness, to
vanity, to laziness, to hateful
thoughts, to self-indulgence in a
hundred forms. That is far truer
of men than of women. Most of
the bodily ailments of women are
due to self-sacri6ce and self-neglect.
Daily tasks compel most men to
form ha bits of some regularity. A
necessary routine walls them in.
The work Of the home is too seldom
systematized. The mother allows
herfelf to be enslaved. Her body,
mind and spirit pay the penalty OF
sickness and premature decay. Hap
ipiness is not in getting what we de-
; sire nearly so much as it is being
what we ought to be
clean, strong, generous, friendly
individuals, finding it more bless
ed to give than 20 receive. Elk
! change. ..
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1911-03-31
No 149.

Farm containing 1875 acres more
or less situated 7 miles south of
staunton on public road in good
neighborhood, close to school and
church, Z room frame house brick
nogged in good condition, 20 acres
in timber, orchard of about 100
trees, running water in every field
and spring at house. This land
laws we'll and crops we'll and can be
bought for S. 800, part cash.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1911-03-31

Chamberlain's Stomach and Liv-
er Tablets invariably bring relief to
women suffering from chronic con-
stipation, headache, biliousness,
dizziness, sallowness of the skin and
dyspepsia. Sold by DR.. K. Il.
Trimble.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1911-03-31
Attention

As fruit tree inspector for High
land county, all purchasers OF
fruit trees for spring delivery are
requested to let me know the time
and place when the delivery is to
be made, that the trees may be
examined. Respectfully,
X. C. Hevener,
.> Inspector.
HightoWn, Va. '--
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1911-03-31
Ono Suggestion.

"Any suggestions as to the music for
the dinner tonight"
"Well. play something loud with the
soup course, You understandW-Wash
ington Herald.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1911-03-31
Hightown, Va.

What a team Luther Burbank
and Louis Brandeis would make If
ever they decided to collaborate in
running a big farm!-Chicago Tri'
bune.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1911-03-31
E RESPONSIVENESS

THE RESPONSIVENESS
OF LOUISIANA
For the writer to say that Louis
lana is land of sunshine, happy
ness, and prosperity, which is tell
ing the truth in part, but not all,
would be putting the fact of the
matter very mildly; and to say that
of half the States of the Union
through which he has travelled, he
is most favorably impressed with
this State, does not stand without
ample foundation.
Louisiana is Enthusiastically one of
the garden spots of the world: the
land of cotton, sugar, and cone
syrup, and of almost perpetual sum
shine. If it is not a land of wonders
and natural curiosities, it is GER
tainly a land of wonderful and al
most incredible possibilities. Ifshe
has no majestic mountains piercing
skyward, she undoubtedly has the
highest pinnacle of natural resources
and boundless wealth. She stands
upon the apex of natural resources.
So fertile is her soil that. with
the semi-tropical climate, the
growth is most luxuriant. Her
wealth, too, is not confined to a
single industry, enterprise, or
occupation infinite it is, and wide
ly diversified. Neither is the source
of her wealth limited to the soil;
for vast, and practically untouched,
is her store of marble, salt, and
other minerals, while her timber
supply stands almost without equal.
Moreover, the value of herproducts
is much enhanced by her unexcell-
ed geographic position which
renders her shipping facilities I'M
surpassed.
The climate is not only especial
ly suited to the cultivation of the
crops upon which more or less of
the whole world feeds, but it is in
deed most agreeable one for the
habitation Of man, and also one in
which stock can be raised most
successfully and at much profit.
But her glory is yet in it's infancy.
Largely is she yet undeveloped, and
now a foreshadow of the great
possibilities from the natural re-
sources which she holds upon her
noble bosom, and astounding will
be her leap upward to the impor-
tant place to which she will rise in
the majesty of her might, and will
rank as one of the leading States in
this great Nation.
r g Hansel
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1911-03-31

Intellect annuls fate. So far as
man thinks, he Ia free.-Emersons
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1911-03-31
Golf Versus MOTORING.

The difference between learning golf
and motoring Is that in golf at first you
hit nothing. but In motoring every.
ahing.-Puck.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1911-03-31
sunny LOUISIANA"

Marcn 10, II.
Editor Recorder,
Having, for two years, been To-
Gated in this land of fair
Louisiana, and, during the time,
not failing to avail myself of the
opportunity of studying her condi-
tons, it might not be entirely with
out int crest to the readers of the
Recorder to read a brief report, or
sketch by one of "Old Highlands"
product.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1911-12-11

AilCliSdH ldIlClCu iIINCpCllNCllCC
of labor grew bigger.
The State street department
stores, which wisely supplied
paid advertising to fill the space
formerly dedicated to labor and
spasmodic exposures of alleged
child slavery by these same de-
partment stores, got their
moneys worth in press silence;
and unintentionally did organ
lied labor alreal service,
Hearst's first set-to with or
ganized labor was due to the
Hearst Home stake mines at
Lead, South Dakota, declaring a
lockout and rafting the mine. Of
course the Boston battle with lit
tie newsies is ancient history: and
so are many other squabbles that
this peerless friend of the COM
mon herd has had with the So
called trades union mob.
The reading public has been in
formed of Hearst's Chicago adj
vertising gains, which it is claim
ed puts out of the running every
other rival for business patron
age; but the more interesting
story of how some, if not most,
of these gains were effected, still
remains to some an unsolved
mystery.
The political lamp of Hearst is
kept trimmed, well-flled and ever
burning, through the civic purity
campaign of his various publica-
tions that guarantee a cure to af-
flicted communities that will
-
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1911-12-11
His Malady.

Mr.. Neutrality-suspicious. kill
ed po' Brudder Yarp?
Mr.. Pango-De doctah said he
had torpedo liver, and I 'spect
it done 'sploded.-Puck.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1911-12-11

VI SouAN(d ldOOi 10 lAiS II J-OuI VI
a new scheme of civic improve
ment. Who knows?
Taken as a whole, Hearst pro-
fessed friendship for the people
and especially that portion of the
people represented by organized
labor has a string to it, so long !
and twisted that to follow it to its
end would bring on a severe at
tack of the blind staggers.
Manhood is a word that can be
said to mean both much and lit :
tie, and any man, especially
newspaper publisher who desires
to measure up to the highest and
noblest significance of the term,
can't afford to play hide and seek
with the truth or make a joke of
honesty, honor and integrity.
A real man worthy of the title
wont respond to friendly inter
est shown by the Judas Icariot
type of ingratitude, nor will he
reward unselhshiservice in his be-
half with the Z studied insolence
of a snob Money, political per-
ferment nor any form of self in
terest will ever to his satisfaction
change wrong into right, or war
rant the betrayal of faith and
confidence his own pledges Great
ed. And if he does these things,
even though newspaper pub
Usher, can he still pose before an
enlightened public as a real man
pure wool and yard wide?
Not on your life.
-o-o-
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-01
BIG CROWDS AT NORTON.
Exhibits Will Come from There to Fair
at Topeka,

Norton, Kan. Sept. Large
crowds are attending the Norton coun-
ty fair Visitors are here from as far
west as Atwood and Goodland, and
east as far as Smith Center, Beloit,
Kirwin and many other points. Elm
wood park where the fair grounds,
race track and baseball diamond are
located, is one of the prettiest natural
parks in the northwest part of the
state. The management of the fair
association has worked with great
the weather and attendance have been
all the fair management could ask for.
The president and secretary of the
association. B. V. Wheeler and Frank
Garrity have worked for months for
its success. They promise also that
they will be on hand to the state fair
at Topeka.
Looking through the vegetable and
fruit departments one is surprised to
see 50 large displays.
There are several exhibits of corn
which don't look as If they had seen
any drouth.
The State Agricultural college has
an extensive display of the several de-
Hartments of taht institution.
In the stock exhibits w. B. Roe. A.
c. Foley and George King have herds
of registered Shorthorn cattle; J. w.
Leeper has several pens Of Poland
China hogs. one only II months old
weighing 755 pounds Another. three
years old, weighs 500 pounds. Mr..
Leeper will exhibit his hogs at the Ne
them to the state fair at Topeka. He
farms more than 200 acres, and has
from rs to 100 head of hogs at all
times