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The Washington times., 1914-01-24
Old Pipes and DryadS

q EVERAL generations Of children
have listened with interest,
- mingled with awe to the legend
Of "Old Pipes and the Dryads," which
IS being repeated this afternoon at the
House of Play by Miss Mildred Ander-
son who first tells the story to the chill
dren, and then asks them to act it ac-
COrding to their own idea.
Tine story opens with Old Pipes coming
up the hill carrying the bag of gold
81 h'ch the. villagers pay him every
month for piping the cattle home at
evening time. But he has grown very
Old and feeble, SO that his piping is
Tillagers have, unknown TO Old Pipes,
hired a little boy and a girl TO do his
work. When the old man learns this
ne is much distressed, and feels himself
no longer entitled 10 the bag of gold,
and decides to return II. On his way
back to the village, to do this, he hears
a knocking IN a tree, and discovers that
me Dryad inside is asking to get out.
when she is released she tells Old Pipes
she will grant him a wish, and as he
very tired, he asks her to carry the
gold back TO the village for him. She
agrees TO do this, and kisses him as she
leaves hiIn.
As old Pipes sadly turns to climb the
nil, ne finds himself feeling younger.
Then he remembers that a Dryad's kiss
is said 10 take ten years from a NOR
Ials life.
Next evening he pipes again, and now
inc cattle heat and answer his piping
Just as they used to do.
On the opposite hill, however, lives
the Echo Dwarf. who has been idle
since Old Pipes has been so feeble and
no piping has come across the valley
for the Dwarf to answer. And the Echo
Dwarf hates work and loves idleness
So he decides TO punish the person vino
mas made Old Pipes strong again. When
ne finds II was the DTyad. he schemes
20 shut her up In the tree again. but
Old Pipes catches the Dwarf himself
and imprisons him in the tree, to let
him think over his naughtiness
All this time Old Pipes has been try
ing to persuade his old mother to let
the Dryad kiss her. to make her young
er but the old mother is afraid and has
-efused. One day, however. the Dryad
iinds Old Pipes and his mother both
asleep outside their cottage door. So
she kisses the old mother twice and Old
Pipes once, making them both twenty
years younger than they were when
Pipes opened the tree for her. She also
lays the bag of gold at their feet. for
she had not taken that to the village.
after all But now IL is growing cold
and wintry, and time for her to 20 back
comfortable all winter. So. having
shown her gratitude to Old Pipes and
having made the Echo Dwarf prom sc
- behave, the Dryad asks Old Pipes
20 let him out of the tree and put Ia"
in. giving her q promise TO come and
release her again when spring shall
come. J. NJ.
The Washington times., 1914-01-24
One on Mark Twain.

EARK TWAIN brought o.: Joan
M OF Arc" ANONYMOUSLY. The
WI book was one II his failures,
Int he was proud Of II. Iiefore he
Acknowledged Ite authorship he some
times nshed for compliments aEout il.
One evening At dinner Mark Twain said
carelcssIy 20 : Senator:
Are you a novel reader
Yes. great novel reader WAS the
reply.
Il don't suppose you're following that
anCryTn Gus new serial Joan Of Arc?' .
Indeed J am, through every iTst"Il-
mont"
..WlHt 10 yoa think Il d: IS i :DoG?'
That's hlrdiy = fair question ~ .'.li
me-" the Senator replied the kn,w the
real author). You see, 1 wrote Joan
of Arc myself"
The Washington times., 1914-01-24
A Child Hero of Finance.

delivery boy brOugh- Il package
" up to the house one day, not long
n before last Christmas. We bought
a great many things from his
store. and mother knew him by sight
She opened the door to pay him and
suddenly ] heard her speak.
why, Johnnie" she said, now ter
ribIy tired you look
II am tired" answered the boy SIM
ply. "I haven't slept for ages! Last
night | didn't get home till after :; and
then-well. YOU don't know wnere / hVe
but it's a pretty rough place, and had
81 900 in my pocket. 1t belonged to the
store. and I was responsible, for | had
collected it. 1 sat up all night. but
had to drink black coffee to Keep
awake"
The Washington times., 1914-01-24

furnish valuable lesson to those who
are prone to accept the judgment of
others rather, than form the habit of
thinking and drawing their own con-
clusions.
Peter was a light heavyweight, ana
not a strong man, but he was 4 terribly
bard hitter. They coined the word
''waIIop" to describe the kind of blows
he struck. When Maher hit man
fairly with his fist he rarely foWId il
necessary to hunt for club 80 finish
him.
In 1892 there were two pairs of
heavyweights at the top of the heap.
First there were Sullivan and Corbett
at the top OF the heap, who were match
ed to fight for the championship. At
ter them came Maher and Fitzsimmons
who were also matched to fight. As
both Sullivan and COrbett had an
nounced that they would retire after
their fight, it seemed that the cham
pionship would devolve upon the win
ner of the Maher- -Fitzsimmons fight.
Wise" fight students said that
AIaher's wallop would prove no match
for the Cornishian's all-around sighting
ability. Possibly Fitz was inclined 20
think so himself. In the early rounds
he fought in his usual leisurely. m
The Washington times., 1914-01-24
Looked Suspicious.

>SS* va Va; S sss5. :5 :s :;::. s:* 5s:
u had been made upon him during
the campaign.
My accuser," he said, reminds me
of Hi DoOlittle. Hi was the champion
liar of his native village.
"One dav Hi was arrested and
brought before the local justice for
chicken stealing. He pleaded guilty.
Yes. jedge. yer honor he said. 4
plead guilty on the advice of my law
yer
But the IoceI justice rubbed the chin
dubiously.
''I dunnO-Tm afraid ne atammcred
! guesS-wall, Hiram. | guess I'll have
to have more evidence before | sentence
We"
The Washington times., 1914-01-24
Better than calomel, oil or
salts for liver, bowels
and stomach.

Mother. daddy and the children can
always keep feeling fine by taking this
delicious fruit laxative as occasion de-
nands. Nothing else cleauscs the stom-
.lch, Ike" and bowels 50 thoroughly
vi hou. gripping.
You take "a BttIe at night, and In the
morn NJ all the foul, cOnstipated waste.
sour bile and fermenting food, delayed
in the bowels, gently moves out Of the
The Washington times., 1914-01-24

n ECIPE for plaE-aecord'ns to
Eugene Walter:
i y One large room.
One outfit of furniture and ore cN-
ceptionally swift stenograrher.
Lock the coor and commence by plac-
ing the furniture as it should be place
upon the stage.
Then begin to act.
Assume all the characters you intend
to 'have in your play, and impersonate
each of them in turn.
Have your stenograbher take down
the dialogue as YOU assume first one
character and then another.
At the end of an hour or two Your
first act is done. Ring down the curtain
ana, If the stenoSrapher hasn't tainted,
begin on the second act.
In a day or two your play is done. All
it then needs is a little pruning here
ard there. copying. enclosing in an en-
velope, affixing several stamps thereto,
and sending IT away TO a producer.
This. Mr.. Walter declares, is the way
THE Trail of the Lonesome Pine was
written. One day of labor by two pco-
pie. the playwright and bis stenograph-
oe the Cumberland mountains. in whicn
Charlotte Walker will be seen here in
Washington next week She has the
part of June. that primitive heroine OF
the lonesome mountain trail, whose
homely philosophy and perfect faith is
eXemplified in some of the quaint
speeches which the playwright has put
into her mouth. Some of these are
worth recording. Here is one of them:
June's Philosophy Is
Primitive But Convincing.
She says: Sometimes when a storms
going through the hills over thar-and
the sun is jest goin' down over thar
tother side of the Gap-an' all them
mountains is jest blue an gold an a
hundred different colors, an the wind
comes sighin' up through this tree
right from below thar. whar folks is
/ Jest materially shunt out OF that cabin
from Pap an Dave an l comes hyeh
to the lonesome pine with them books.
You know. Jack an Jill and Teter
Simon an l jest set an look at them
shadows chasin' each other an spell
them books out time an time aEaIn
while the old tree goes 'J-u-n-e, J-u-n-e,'
The Washington times., 1914-01-24
HOW 10 WRITE A TREE PLAY
By JULIA NURDOCK.

! an l knows my dead sisters right hyeh
| loollin' over my shoulder an tellin' Inc,
] reckon, / better git right smart out q
hyeh an .larn some other books. cause
larnin' is the way folks git away from
themselves"
June. the heroine of the play whom
Miss Walker impersonates was n true
girl of the mountains, and in the play
the actress has copied her Just as she
existed. and still exists, for that ma ter
among the mountain women. Her plain
little homespun dress is gathered into
round waist, innocent of Fl or line.
Her hair is ''roached'-that is, comDed
back straight And like all mountain
women folk, June is alert, quiet. uncon-
scious, aHS, therefore, unembarrassed, 4
pre-emlnently well-bred Cove-ite' s
daughter. Her dignity. like that Of her
''pap's' is unassailable.
Her Religion Founded
On Natural Laws.
Her religion is that of the eagle who
scars aloft over the serrated crags that
mark the horizon Of her world. In
spite of the circuit rider. with his
preachment of a hell. and never of a
heaven, she learns the story Of the Cru
ciiiXion from the small fairy stones
found in the shape of crosses in the
hills. she has been taught by her pap"
to consider the heavenly Orbs as ami
mate beings, and who sees in every
animal friend and in every tree and
stone the eternal endowment of life. IN
fact, the difference between superstition
and sound sense of June is, about the
same as that which Bishop WarbuTton
defined between orthodoxy and hetcro-
doXy. Orthodoxy is my doxy; hetero-
doXy is another mans doXy." Although
Edmund Burke says that superstition
is the religion of feeble minds. a very
ordinary person may be allowed TO sug-
gest that it would be difficult some
times to prove whose is the feeble mind.
and certainly conviction would be sell
dom secured by admission of guilt
The superstition of June and her peo-
pie is of three kinds: useful, vicious,
and innocuous-for instance, such as
built the pyramids. such a. burnt the
witches at the stake, and such as sug-
gests to a person the desirability OF
seeing the new moon over his right
shoulder. June. however. has the super
stitiOn of the PharaOhs, for she builds
as high as her lonesome pine, a ladder
Of faith in her daily communing with
her sisters spirit. which she believes
dwells in the tree.
The Washington times., 1914-01-24
Bad Advice That Cost a Cham
DiOnSl1iD
pionship
By TONY BIDDLE.
Millionaire Athlete and Society Man.

n championship world They
have lost than that by deal Thousands
ruined body and soul every day by bad counsel
life not lived particularly high edyng
heavyweight boxing championship the highest thing
The Washington times., 1914-01-24

The Columbia University Glee and
Mandolin Club, of New York, will give
their annual concerto and dance on
February 3, at $50 O'Clock. SiXty-iYe
meE travel with the combined clubs.
Their recent performances in New
York, Brooklyn and Boston were most
Creditable performances
The Washington times., 1914-01-24

. ECIPE for plaE-accordins to
Eugene Walter:
Y Ono largo room
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1914-08-14
Horticultural.
& |Nf0VzS VS.
PLUM CULTURE NOT DIFFICULT
They Are the Hardest of Stone Fruits
and the Most ProfitabIe-Also
Most Remunerative.

Plums are the hardest Of stone
fruits, and the crop is one of the
most remunerative, in at all favorable
seasons, from market gardens and cul
tivated orchards. In private estab-
lishments the fruits Of all the best
varieties are much valued and less
highly favored ones prove invaluable
for cooking and preserving. The crop
is, therefore, one of the most I'M
| portant, both for market and for pri-
yate consumption.
Plum trees succeed in any fairly
good, loamy soil, provided the sub
soil is opened and properly drained
The ground should be we'll trenched
previous to planting, although the
roots of plums are naturally disposed
nearer to the surface than those of
apples or pears. In very rich soil
the growths usually made are too Wig
orous to become we'll ripened; in that
which Is moderately light yet suf-
ficiently moist, the trees succeed and
produce the best favored fruits. Re-
specting flavor, however, much de-
ponds on the amount Of sunshine and
light available.
In market gardens where plums are
extensively grown, they are sometimes
! planted in lines, and the intervening
| spaces are occupied with gooseberries
| and currants. Standards and half
| standards are generally favored, but
| dwarf and bush trees are also eX
tensively planted in market as we!
as in private gardens. All the fine.
dessert sorts should, if possible, be
favored with wall spaces in private
gardens, as their fruits are invariably
Of so much Importance, and the crop
! is more certsin with the protection
of wall than when the trees are fully
exposed. 4 temporary covering, while
the blossoms are open, may also D.
| readily applied should frost or III
| favorable weather prevail In a soutf
! ern slope the fruits attain their high
est flavor.
The manner of planting the tree Is
similar to that recommended for the
apple and the pear. Mulching in case
of dry weather is advantageous to re-
Gently transp,anted trees In general
and should be particularly attended to
| in the case of the plum, for If the
root fail to supply enough of sap to
the tree in dry weather, cumming
is sure to ensue; the more uniform
the supply Of the sap the more
| healthy will be the tree. The supply
Of sap cannot be uniform unless the
( moisture of the soil about the roots
is steadily maintained, and the best
means of doing this is by mulching
| The usual mode of propagating cult
waited varieties is by budding and
grating. Some sorts reproduce them
selves nearly true from seeds, as, fc'
instance, the green gage; but SEED
lings generally vary more or less from
the original, and it is therefore best
not to depend on this mode of propa
cation, beyond the raising of seed
lings as stocks for peaches, etc.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1914-08-14
,sa..s "a .. ss ssssssseeeeees
NeEHssVEs.
CASE OF B:TTY ROSS
BY JULIA COUGH.

Young Gilmore tore the program
into bits and cast them into the
CRATE. -.'
why did you do that?' asked Ruth.
Il always keep my programs to re-
mind me Of good times"
Il don't require a program to re-
mind me of good time with you,
Ruth" declared young Gilmore, and
l find it wise to destroy all-wen, all
documents in evidences"
why, what do you mean, Billy"
II mean that there's no use in agi-
tating my sisters any more than is
unavoidable. If they should happen
to discover an afternoon concert pro-
gram in my room they would ask at
once: Who is the GIRL? They knew
very we'll that music alone wouldn't
call me forth on a Sunday after
noon"
Nonsense! They know you love
music"
Yes, they do; but they suspect me
of loving-well, something else even
more"
Ruth made an effort to look su-
premely bored and succeeded so well
that Young Gilmore settled into an al
most sullen silence.
Your sisters take a good deal OF
interest in you, don't they" asked
Ruth casually after few minutes.
Interest! That's putting it mildly.
They are fairly ignited with curiosity
about my affairs. I never leave
the house on an evening but one
or both of them ask me where I'm
going and whom I'm going with. l
sometimes marvel at their persistency
in the face of what might be called
inglorious defeat, for / never give
them the least satisfaction"
II think that's perfectly horrid OF
you. l should expect you to tell me
something about your affairs If you
were my brother"
81 don't aspire to that honor. There
is another position that l prefer TO-
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1914-08-14

be. with bulgarian trimmings, inskau
the girls II they were absolutely eass
about the Bulgarian trimmings, and
when they declared that they were !
thought moment and then said be-
lieved it must have been Betty Ross.
They both exclaimed that I was per-
fectly silly"
"And so you were," agreed Ruth as
she gazed at the gay Bulgarian collar
and cuffs Of the new spring jacket she
had thrown off when they came in
from the concert. 81 don't see, Billy,
why you don't tell them the truth
IF you'd let me know where stand
with Betty Ross, I'd be only too glad
to tell Them" declared young Gilmore,
fervently. Its up to you"
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1914-08-14

h'Naat Nv guu tell soup sisteFs
when they ask you whom you've been
With?"
+ II invariably tell them Betty Ross"
81 should think they'd hate you"
"On the contrary, they appear to
like me pretty well. In fact, l modest
ly believe I'm rather more likable
than you seem to think
Silly"
you telephoned my house this
morning, didn't your"
Eyes, I wished to tell you that we
ought to start early for the concert.
How did you know it was To-
my sister Rose said that the Betty
Ross with the sweet voice had asked
for me, so, of course, I knew it was
you. Besides, there aren't many girls
who have me on their telephone call
ing list"
WELL" pouted Ruth, II don't phone
you very often-never unless It's
something really important"
Il know you don't-hardly once in
blue moon. But, just the same, my
sisters have learned your voice. They
know your writing, too" Gilmore
chuckled. Grace says it's good
thing I'm an architect or wouldn't
able to decipher your Gothic hand"
Il don't puzzle you very frequently
with specimens Of my chirography."
Not half often enough. wish you'd
try me with a nice little Yes I
venture to say that l could read 1t
without half trying"
"Silly!"
do you know, I believe you and my
sisters would agree perfectly"
What makes you think 500"
Because, like you, they're always
calling me silly"
Pooh"
well, last evening, for instance,
when l got home to dinner Rose and
Grace asked me in an excited duet,
Whom were you walking with on
Michigan avenue today? / inquired
how they knew 1 was walking with
anybody, and they said that cousin
of ours-who takes remarkable in
terest in me, too-had telephoned
them that she had seen me walking
with a girl at noon. My companion
was described to them as wearing a
blue silk ratine. whatever. that may
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1914-08-14
Law In the Moods.

And the Maine shooting accidents
continue. New York and Wisconsin
boast of the efficiency Of their han
ding of the situation in hunting sea
sons, and Maine may be forced with
them to adopt more stringent rules OF
conduct for the careless sportsman
New York hunters are fined heavily
for shooting a deer with horns less
than specified length. Wisconsin is
satisfied with her terrible blood
CODE" whereby the hunter Is instruct
ed to shoot down any man shooting
at him.-Kennebec Journal.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1914-08-14
Che Favored the Queen,

Two sisters while visiting Ireland
in Victoria's time got into conversa-
ton one day with tenant of their
hostess. One Of the girls, who was
quite stout, asked the old woman If
she would have known them for Sis
tiers.
Well" was the answer, we look
alike, but yer sisters slender, while
you, miss-well, you favor the Quane."
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1914-08-14
HANDY LITTLE SPRAY PUMP
Operated by Bellows That Fasten te
SoIes of Feet of Man Carrying 1t
Is Easily Arranged.

An ingenious spraying apparatus
has been patented by Nebraska man
A reservoir containing the spraying
mixture Is carried on the operators
back by straps that go over his shoul.
ders. A pipe leading from one end Of
the reservoir has a nozzle on its free
end. Two other pipes lead down from
the tank to foot pieces, in which the
operator stands. These foot pieces
have bellows attachments that go un.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1914-08-14

der the soies Of the feet. AS the user
walks about these bellows are kept
continually at work pumping air into
the tank and driving the spray out.
Of course it would not do if the man
could not walk without operating the
spray so the foot pieces are made to
permit of his stepping into them or
out of them without having to remove
or fasten them by hand.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1914-08-14
C. P. NOLAN Farmer, Evansville,
Patrick. County, Is Opposed to

u. I. NOLAN r aTlllef, E.lalIls WIG,
Patrick. County, Is Opposed to
Prohibition for These Reasons:
"That the interest of the people
in different parts of the State is SO
diversified that each locality should
be allowed to control its own local
affairs; that Statewide prohibition
would be forcible Imperialism and
contrary to the principles of the
American people, and would be
detrimental to the State mentally,
morally and financially; that; it
would substitute blockade distlll
cries in the place of licensed dis
tilleries, blind tigers for decent sa-
looms, increase the burden of taxa
ton, cause money to be spent out
side of the State that would other
wise be kept in the State; that the
use of intoxicating liquors can only
be controlled orreduced by moral
persuasion and not by stalwartism.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1914-08-14
Hand and Power Spraying,

Hand spraying is more expensive
than power spraying, the cost varies
much in different cases, depending on
the efficiency of labor convenience and
other essentials; and much depends
on the apparatus used. The pump
should have capacity to maintain high
pressure, and the nozzle must throw q
fine spray. The requirements are the
same for every kind of spraying.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1914-08-14
Hard to Decide.

What are you bordering about
Marie?"
My husband and myself are divid
ing the furniture pending divorce"
"Well?"
IF you were |, would you rather
have an ice box and six dining room
chairs than an old-style piano with a
Clipped leg?"
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1914-08-14

reStleSSly. bltIef
thoughts had oc-
cupied him.
Leaning against
the bare stone
that walled him in
his prison, the
condemned insur.
recto stood look.
ing with longing
eyes through the
n a FRO W, iro d
barred window at
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1914-08-14
The Barlow Cash Supply Co
Ba rtow, w. va.

would like to supply you with your
feed, -four, sugar, nails, wire fence,
grass seed, fertilizer etc. We buy
these goods in car loads and being
on the railroad can save you money.
Also carry a full line of general
merchandise, See us and save
money. adv
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1914-08-14
Leading Citizens VIII Vote To
Retain Local Se|f-GOvernn1ent
Business and Professional Men State for Pubca
ton their Reason for Opposing Statewide Prohibition
Lack of Space Permits Publication of only
few of the Hundreds of Letters from
Every County in the State

He. DETHILLS, Well-Known
Attorney, Tappahannock, Essex
County, Opposes Prohibition
Because:
"Becaue I am a Democrat in
politics and principle and believe
thlt Local Self Government in such
matters as the liquor traffic is the
only fair way to deal with the
problem. l consider that the peo-
pie of Essex have no more right to
say that Richmond shall not issue
license than the people of Rich
mond have to say that the people
of Essex county shall issue license
to sell liquor"
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1914-08-14

T. ]. TAYLOR, Physician, Ken
bridge. Lunenburg County, Says:
THAT over one-half of the coun-
ties in Virginia draw more money
out of the treasury of the State
than they pay in. What is to be-
come of the deficit?
II am not willing to be taxed to
make it up. and extra taxation is
the only means by which it can le
made up. The States which have
already abolished Local Option for
Statewide prohibition. finding that
prohibition does not prohibit,
would be glad to return to Local
Option. Alabama was one of those
that returned to Local Option"