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The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1911-10-19
Some shakespeare Statistics.

A Shakespearean enthusiast with a
turn for statistics has discovered that
the plays contain 1860 lines and
S14,7SO yords. Hamlet is the long
est play, with 1880 lnies, and the
Comedy of Errors" the shortest,
with 1,777 lines. Altogether the plays
contain 1927 characters, of which 157
are females. The longest part is that
Of Hamlet. The part with the longest
word in it is that of Costard in Loves
Labor Lost" who tells Moth hat he
is no so long by the head as honori-
Observation-Disclosures"
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1911-10-19

or as long as the weather is warm,
yeast is added to hasten fermentation,
old vinegar and mother" used as a
starter, good vinegar may be made in
six months.
But. If the barrels are stored in a
cool cellar and no attention paid to
them, it will take from a year M a
half to two years to produce mer-
charitable vinegar.
The vinegar making may be hast.
ened by the addition in the last stages
OF making OF water sweetened with
molasses, preferably sorghum.
When the vinegar is made, the bar.
rels should be filed if not quite full
and the bung driven in.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1911-10-19
Fiuhtinu EoreTs,

Scientists have discovered a proven
tive for borers and protection against
rodents. Borers, mice and rabbits
have caused the loss of millions Of
dollars to fruit growers in this coun-
try in recent years.
The remedy is very ~simple-apply
a fairly thick mixture of pure white
lead and pure raw linseed oil to the
trunk of the tree.
The idea of painting trees with
white lead and linseed oil originated
with Professor Atwood of the Virgin
la state experiment station, who rec
commended it to keep mice and rab-
bits from gnawing the %succulent bark
of the young fruit trees.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1911-10-19

tism. My limbs and feet were terri
bly, swollen and so iniamed | could
not walk for days. After doctors had
failed to help me. ! began using Doan's
Kidney Pills. Three boxes cured me
so completely that l have not had the
slightest trouble since"
when Your Back Is Lame, Re-
member the Name-DOAN'S." soc a
box at all stores. Foster-Milburn Co.,
Buffalo, n. Y.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1911-10-19
Terrible Suffering
Eczema All over eaby's Body.

'"When my baby was four months old
his face broke out with eczema and at
sixteen months of age his face, hands and
arms were in a dreadful state. The
eczema spread all over his body. We had
to put a mask or cloth over his face and
tie up his hands. Finally we gave him
he was entirely cured. Today he is q
healthy boy" Mrs. Inez Lewis, Barring.
Maine.
Hoods S~arsaparilla cures blood diseases
and builds up the system.
Get it today in usual liquid form or
chocolated tablets called Sarsatabs.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1911-10-19

The little slug. half snail and half
worm. which consumes the leaves OF
cherry and pear, and sometimes apple
trees. leaving but the skeleton frame
work of the leaves, can be easily killed
by spraying the infected trees with
commercial arsenate of lead al the
rate of az pounds to so gallons of
water. If Il is more convenient to
use paris green, about five ounces
should be used to the same quantity
or water, a little freshly slaked lime
hejng stirred in to prevent a possible
burning OF the foliage.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1911-10-19
Basket Holding Device.

when hung on the usual double wire
hook. To obviate this diff the de-
vice illustrated herewith has been
found effective, says the Orange judd
Farmer. Both ends of a stout manila
cord c. any convenient length are fast
ened to q hook. The cord is then
passed around the basket handle and
the hook thrown over a limb and
caught around the now vertical cord,
as shown. The hook, while secure,
can be instantly released, either from
the limb or the basket, and yet it will
stay put" as long as desired.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1911-10-19
The Wire Tie, After Being Passed
Around the Bag and the Loops
Placed over the Hooks, Is Twisted
by Pulling Out the Sliding Handle.

around the neck OF the bag, these
loops are placed over the two hooks
at the end Of the tool. The sliding
handle is then pulled, this action re-
volving the central rod bearing the
hooks and twisting the ends Of the
wire together. Due to the formation
of the loops at the end of the wire,
which are left separated when the ty-
ing is completed, the latter is easily
UNFINISHED when the bag is to be
opened.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1911-10-19
DEVICE FOR HOLDING BASKET
Apples and Pears, Because II Will
Stay Where Placed.

For the picking OF fruits. especially
apples and pears, many devices have
been used, and new ones are tried
every year. Doubtless the pivot han
died half-bushel basket is the most
popular receptacle for fruit picked
among the branches on the inside Of
the tree. One diff Guilty with the bas-
ket is that il is awkward to handle
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1911-10-19
When tho World Was Made.

When .Lottie returned from her first
visit to Sunday school she was asked
what she had learned.
God made the world in six days.
and was arrested on the seventh day."
was her version of the lesson impart-
ed.-Lippincott's.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1911-10-19
SETTING Out Small Fruits.

Apples, pears, hardy grapes. black
berries, currants, g~ooseberries and pot
grown strawberries may be Set out
with perfect success in the fall during
the last weeks Of october and the first
weeks of November. according to the
climate.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1911-10-19

tons. II you sus-
pect your kidneys,
begin using Doan's
Kidney Pills at
once.
Z. r. Wilson,
Emmettsburg, To-
wa, says: Il was
completely laid up
with kidney COM
plant and inham-
matory rheuma-
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1911-10-19
IMPLEMENT FOR BAG-TYlNG
Specially Constructed Tool Shown in
Illustration Will Be Found
Handy In Closing Sacks.

The operation of closing bags with
a wire tie by means of a specially
constructed tool is shown in the &C
companying illustrations, says the
Popular Mechanics. The wire tie is
iooped at both ends. and, when passed
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1911-10-19
ARE YOUR KIDNEYS WEAKf

There are two ways to tell II you
have weak kidneys. The first Is
through pains in the back. The Sec
ond by examining the kidney secre-
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1911-10-19

What do you think would be a
good motto for the motorists"
Wrecks to the ~reckless!"
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1911-10-19

Whenever you have a pain think Of
Hamlins Wizard Oil. For Headache.
Toothache. Earache, Stomach ache, and
many other painful ailments there is moth
ing better.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1911-10-19

Some men never succeed IN putting
their best foot forward because they
are unable TO decide which one it is.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1911-10-19

II takes an optimist TO rejoice in
the fact that after a woman tires OF
his kisses he can eat all the onions
he wants.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1911-10-19
Glad 10 Get Aid of Her.

Did she get her divorce?"
"Oh, yes, but she was terribly dis
appointed in a way. You know he
didn't contest it."
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1911-10-19

DR.. Pierce's Pellets, small, sugar-coated,
easy to take as candy, regulate and invigor-
ate stomach, liver and bowels. Do not grippe.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1911-10-19

Mrs. Wtnslow's Soothing Syrup for Children
t~eething, softens the gums, reduces infamma.
ton, allays pain, cures wind collie, 25c a bottle.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1911-10-19

1t pays to be honest-at least 1t pays
your employer.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1911-10-19
BEAUTIFUL POST CARDS FREE

Send &c stamp for five samples of my very choic-
est Gold Embossed Birthday, Flower and Motto
Post Cards; beautiful colors and loveliest designs.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1911-10-19

A man can { KICK II mis- monument
is a put-up job.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1911-02-10
SHORT.PAID LETTERS.

The postofice department is adj
vised that many letters mailed IN
the United States, addressed to for
eign countries, and which are sub
iect to our Postal Union postal rate,
are prepaid only two cents, the
senders of the letters being under
the impression, it is presumed, that
our two-cent domestic postage rate
is applied to said letters.
The only foreign countries to
which the two-cent letter rate APP
plies is Canada, Cuba, Mexico,
Newfoundland, the Canal zone, the
Republic of Panama, Germany by
direct steamers only, England,
Scotland, Wales and Ireland, and
the city of Shanghai, China. 10 all
other countries the rate is five
cents for the first ounce or fraction
thereof, and three cents for each
additional ounce or fraction there
of, which must be fully prepaid tor
the letters become liable on dellv-
erv to a charge equal to double the
amount of the deficient postage.
For instance, a single rate letter
prepaid only two cents would be
subject on delivery to an addition
al postrge charge of SIX cents.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1911-02-10
PocahOntas Items.
(TIMES)

Mr.. and Mrs. E. M. Arbogast
and little daughter, Virginia, will
go to Florida this. week for a stay
of several months.
Miss Maude Jackson, daughter of
W. K. Jackson, of Cass, has gone
to the Hinton Hospital for treat
ment for appendicitis.
Messrs. Arbogast and Sullenber-
ger have opened their drug store,
which will 60 under the name of
the Greenbrier Drug Company.
To stamp out the promiscuous
use of cocaine throughout the state
and particularly where there is no
license and more particularly in the
woods of the state is the purpose of
House Bill 149 introduced by Del
egate Mclaughlin, of Pocahontas
county. So many of those EN-
ployed in the lumber camps have
become addicted to the use of the
drug through the ease with which
it can be obtained, that the bill
seeks to have drastic measures
adopted to stop the practice ofsell-
ing George. '-Exponent.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1911-02-10
roo MUCH WATER.

There Ia no Irrigation enterprise thas
IL worth copper unless water -
available for Irrigation purposes Nv
those intervals during the summer
months when it Is needed, ana yet
there are many owners OF tracts Ill
sections where ditch water has peen
abundant who have been severe SUI
ferers financially for the very simple
reason that they have had az thelr
disposal and used too much wafer. III
fact, tracts which have had too little
water and where economy has been
matter of necessity have proved lne
most successful from the standpoint
Of crop production. In many OF the
arid sections of the mountain anu IA
cific coast states, where irrigation en-
terprises have been developed, sglous
trouble has resulted on lower NVeis
from rising of underground waters,
trouble that goes hand in hand WIN
that due to the presence OF alkails'
which are dissolved and brought to the
surface in such quantities as TO retaro
or stop plant growth. While the term
alkali Is generally used to refer 10
any salts in the soil-usually SODIUM
sulphate, sodium chloride and sodium
carbonate-the last only is an alkaline
salt. Unless the natural drainage Is
such as to carry off this accumulation
of underground water or an artlnclal
system is provided to do so such land
IS bound to become so wet or SO aka
line as to be useless. The cure, and
the only permanent cure, fer alkall
trouble lies in the installment Of a
drainage system which will cause
downward and lateral movement OF
the soil water. While this may be eff
fected In part by the open ditch system,
the underground tile system, with main
leads and laterals at intervals to prop
erly handle the flow, has proved most
effective. The alkali trouble may be
postponed sometimes by q sparse use
of water and very thorough cultlVa-
ton. but these will not prove an effec-
tive cure Inasmuch as one ranch may
be flooded with water coming through
the subsoil from a higher level, 1t IS
imperative that the drainage PROPOSE
ton should be viewed as well as ham
died as a cooperative and community
enterprise. 1t is advisable not to 10
cate in a section where the troubles
referred to are likely to develop, but
If one is already located and such trou-
bles develop subirrigation offers the
only practical solution.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1911-02-10
PLAGUE HORRORS IN CHINA INCREASE

Hardin, Manchuria, Feb. s.
Nearly six thousand bodies of VIC
TINS of the plague have been burn
ed or buried on the outskirts of
Hardin. Of these 4,S00 were from
the Chinese town, and thousand
from the Russian quarter. Sixteen
stacks of collins and seven pits fill
ed with bodies and oiled logs blaz-
ed outside the town yesterday.
The mortality among the doctors
and hospital attendants is high,
considering the means taken for
their protection. The sanitary au-
thorities hope soon to test serum
of their own manufacture from the
Manchurian bacilli. as the foreign
importations have proved ineffec-
tive.
The happenings in Europe in the
seventeenth century when the
"Black Death" swept through are
being repeated here. At first the
Chinese defed medical officers and
kept their sick and dead hidden in
order to conduct the ancient funer-
al rites. Now it is brother against
brother, father against son. Strick-
en- ones are forced into the streets
to starve or freeze or perish from
the plague. Passers by avoid them,
but sometimes those engaged in
sanitary work, masked and band
aged, reach them before they die
and cart them to the pest house or
their bodies to the funeral pires.
Not infrequently an outcast is to
be seen kneeling and making his
last obeisance before the grave of
an ancestor in sight of pile of
bodies on which his is soon to lie.
Odessa, Russia, Feb. Sit is re-
ported that the plague has appear
ed in Transatlantic, in the western
part of Amur Province, in East
Siberia.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1911-02-10
BOY in TROUBLE.

K. C. Jones, of Bolar, Bath coun-
tv. was arrested by Sheriff Sizer in
this city and lodged in jail on Mon
day on a charge of raising check
which had been paid to him by con-
tractor Mr.. W. R. Mann, and at
tempting to haye it cashed at the
Citizens National Bank. The check
was for $500 and had been raised
to $4,000.
The cashier of the Bank suspect
ed that the check had been raised
when it was presented for payment
and asked the young man to call a
little later, and in the mean time
made an investigation and found
his suspicious we're correct. When
Jones came back Sheriff Slzer ar
rested him.
When arrested he claimed some
other name, but letters found in
his possession bore the name Of K.
C. Jones and he admitted later that
that was his name.
A preliminary hearing was held
before Justice Cushing on Wednes-
day, and he was sent on to the
grand jury.
= The young man claims that he is
not yet II years of age.-Covlng-
ton Sentinel.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1911-02-10
TRUE BlLLSACAlNST RIXtl.

The Corporation Court, Judge
Barley presiding, convened at 10
o'clock Saturday morning. After
the members of the grand jury,
which last week were adjourned till
Friday, had answered to their
names they retired.
At 1O:45 o'clock the jury return
ed to the court room and in answer
to the usual question of the clerk if
they had any indictments to pre-
sent, handed in eight indictments
against c. J. Rixey, president of
the Virginia Safe Deposit and Trust
Corporation. They are as follows:
Commonwealth VS.. C. ]. Rixey,
grand larceny, q true bill. The in
dietment sets forth that saidC. j.
Rixey did on the 10th day of June,
1910. in the city of Alexandria,
feloniously steal, take and carry
away fifty thousand dollars of the
money and United States currency
of the Virginia Safe Deposit and
Trust Corporation against the peace
and dignity of the Commonwealth
of Virginia.
Also three indictments charging
said G. J. Rixey with felony in
"making entries kept in bank with
intent in so doing to conceal the
true state of such accounts to de-
fraud said bank and to enable and
assist a person to obtain money to
which he was not entitled"
Also four indictments charging
said C. J. Rixey with felony in
"feloniously, knowingly and falsely
making to the State Corporation
Commission false statements con-
corning the financial condition of a
bank"
The other presentment made last
week that Mr.. Rixey had deliber-
ately made false statement to
State Commissioner of Insurance
, Button was not returned by the
jury as a true bill.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1911-02-10
Public Sale of Valuable Real
Estate aud Personal Property
IN BATH COUNTY.

l will offer for sale at public auc-
ton to the highest bidder, on We'd
nesday, the 18th of March, 1911 !,
my farm of about $40 acres, on the
Cowpasture river, all under fence.
$50 acres we'll timbered, balance
cleared, which is excellent farming
and grazing land, has good outlet
to mountains. Said farm is bound
ed on the north by the famous Fort
Lewis Farm, IL miles from Mill
boro depot and Warm Springs, out
let to Millboro by two roads, situat-
ed on R. F. D. mail route. This
place has frst-class brick and frame
dwelling of 8 rooms, and all nee
essary outbuildings, known as the
old Francisco farm.
Immediately following sale of
aboye farm, | will also sell all of
my personal property, namely:
horses, colts (yearlings and two
year olds), cattle, sheep, hogs, two
fine mich COWS, farming nipple
ments Of all kinds, wagons, buggles,
harness eight and heavy), house
hold and kitchen furniture etc.
All land buyers are especially in
vited to come, and I will be glad
to show the property at any time
before day of sale. ] H Francisco,
Route l. McClung, Va.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1911-02-10
THING TO CONSIDER.

Highland undoubtedly possesses
as good location and soil for
fruit raising as any of her neighbour
ing counties, and yet we cannot
boast of a single commercial Or
chard. There are number OF per-
sons who must do without fruit the
wear round because they have no
suitable land, and are unable to buy
the different fruits and berries be-
cause no one to raise them for the
market.
There is more money to be made
in the fruit and berry business
than in any other form of agrlcu3l-
ture, provided it is intelllgent,ly
handled. Let an expert IN the
fruit business locate place for a
commercial orchard and instruct
YOU how to handle the orchardtrom
the time the ground is brokon un-
til your crop is sold.
Let rs form a stock company
and not only make money for our
selves but also have it so every
one can get fruit every year: This
can be done if your orchard spr,op-
erlv located-above the frost line
and in the true fruit belt. :,
Augusta county sold her fruit
crops for thousands of dollars last
year. Rockingham marketed over
100000 bushels in 1910. Hanp-
shire county, W. Va, grew l'ooo
car loads, and Berkley county, IN
the same State, sold her 1910 crop
for more than half a million dollars.
What has Highland done? Let us
get together and do something IN IN
the fruit line. Other people, with
no better facilities than we have
here in our own county, are max
ing thousands Of dollars, and there
is no reason why we should not DO
the same.
ONE Who Is INTERESTED.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1911-02-10

That the dislike on the part of some
pupils to attending school is a very
real and not whimsical matter was
shown not long ago In two instances
which were reported in the public press
the one, boy who hung himself in
the barn rather than go to school; the
other, girl who took poison rather
than endure the ordeal 1t may have
been that due to enforced absence in
earlier years or slowness of mental
operations they were far behind other
scholars Of equal age and suffered con-
tinuous humiliation when forced to
measure up with them in the class
room. In any event, the incidents cited
show very conclusively that there are
not infrequently cases when it is the
part of wisdom in both parents and
teachers to acquiesce in a pupils de-
sire to quit school and take up work at
home or elsewhere.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1911-02-10
Scours In Horses.

Give couple of bran mashes and the
following morning before feeding give
one pint of raw linseed oil; gradually
return to ordinary food and night and
morning add Il powder of sulphate Of
iron, One-half dram; sulphate of copper,
one-half dram; hicarbonate of soda,
one-half ounce; ginger and gentian.
two drains EACH
1t is said that thousand colonies Of
bees are called into service annually
in the cucumber greenhouses Of Mas
sachusetts to carry the fertilizing pol
len from blossom to blossom.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1911-02-10
The Thrice-a-Week Edition OF
the New York World.

The great political campaigns are
now at hand, and you want the
/" >eWs accurately and promptly. The
World long since established rec
ord for impartiality, and anybody
can afford its Thrice-a-Week edition,
which comes every other dayin the
week, except Sunday. 1t will be
of particular value to you now.
The Thrice-a-Week World also
abounds in other strong features,
serial stories, humor, markets, car
ICONS; in fact, everything that is to
be found in frst-class daily.
The Thrice-a-Week World'sregu-
lar subscription price is only S1.O0
per year, and this pays for 1856 pa
pers. We offer this unequalled
newspaper and the HIGHLAND Re-
coRDER together for one year for
$1.70.
The regular subscription price of
the two papers is $500
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1911-02-10
Commissioners Sale of Land

Pursuant to a decree of the Cir
cult Court of Highland county,
rendered at the November term,
1910 in the cause therein pending
styled J. Morgan Armstrong &c. Us.
George E. Wooddell &C., | will on
Saturday, March 4, 1911
offer for sale at public auction on
the premises that certain parcel of
land lying on the waters of the Bull
Pasture River in Highland county
containing 106 acres more or less,
and being the same land on which
William E. Wooddell lately resided.
This land is we'll watered, affords
good blue grass, and is adapted to
farming or grazing. This is an OPP
portunity to buy good home at a
reasonable cost.
Terms:-Costs of suit and sale
cash, and the residue payable in
three equal annual installments for
which the purchaser will be requir-
ed to give bonds with approved
personal security bearing date on
the day of sale, bearing interest
therefrom, and waving the home
stead exemption.
Edwin B. Jones, Spell Conn.
l, W. H. Matheny, Clerk of the
Circuit Court of Highland county,
hereby certify that the bond re-
quired of the commissioner by the
above mentioned decree, has been
duly executed.
w, II. Matheny, Clerk.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1911-02-10
The Art of Buttern,akina.

Good butternsak!ng Ia fine art
that many farmers have not learned.
There Is no reason that butter made
on the farm should not bring better
prices in competition with creamery
butter. Country butter, when improp-
erly made and poorly handled, must be
left with the grocer and take its
chance with a crowded market. Good,
clean, firm, highly favored butter al
ways finds ready sale at a good
price. Thousands of dollars are lost
every year in poor butter.