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Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1914-06-19
AS TO THE GREATEST GIFT
One Woman's Idea That 1t Is Self
compIacency Seems to Be Worthy
of Attention.

Not long ago at little gathering
Of women several young mothers were
discussing which of all the fairy gifts
that the fates have to offer they would
choose for their children If choice
were possible.
One young mother declared she
would ask that her child have some
great talent; another desired most oil
all that her child should be gifted
with G. self-sacrificing nature; third
member of the group wanted her child
to be possessed of natural high spir
it's 80 that joy would come readily
into it's life at every opportunity.
Then another woman, one whose
face was marked with the signs of
life lived amidst the swirling eddies
of big emotions, made her little
speech.
II would ask above all things thai
the child know the happiness of calm,
she declared; that it be born one oil
the serene ones who go. through life
softly and sweetly, knowing neither
torture nor the wild joys that meal
endless pain"
A trig little woman with a humor
GUS, bright face added the last con
tribution to the discussion.
THE right thing to be born with,
she declared, with a twinkle, rs per
feet self-complacency. What you all
really want is to see your child happy
through all it's life and the one tfine
which keeps men and women happy
Is a good far share of self-compla
cency. When you have that and II
stays with you then nothing can make
you altogether hate the universe. Oh
I know it doesn't sound noble nor ex
allied, nor nearly as interesting as
the things you've wanted, but it does
mean an awful lot of comfort and
freedom from annoyance and regret
Just to know that you are about as
perfect as anyone and more nearly
perfect than most, never to imagine
that you aren't good looking nor to
go through agonies because you are
stupid or badly dressed. Yes. all
things considered, I would select com
placency as the best gift of the gods.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1914-06-19

In the little story with the above
title Josiah Aliens wife open name of
Marietta Holley) tells Josiah that:
ut wuz the law and it's working pard-
ner the saloon, that caused young
Tom Nugent, while crazy with drink,
to kill his honored father, Judge MI
gent" In an agony of remorse Tom
drowned himself in the lake near the
home of his happy boyhood.
In the following excerpt Samantha
and Josiah thus discuss the license
law:
Gould woman make a more I'M
reasonable, inconsistent law than
this? If you pay dog tax your dog
Is protected by law; if your sheep
gifts killed by wolves or any other
destroyer you have a right to kill
that destroyer at sight, and the law
pays you for your loss. But duz the
law that protects your dog and your
sheep protect your boy? No! 1t pro-
tects the wolves that destroys the boy,
and worse than that it helps the wolves
to destroy him, makes it possible and
profitable, and worse yet, it goes into
partnership with the wolves, and takes
part of the blood money. Can the law
that protects sheep and dogs pay the
mother for the loss of her boy after
It has destroyed him? You told me
Toms father wuz in favor of license :"
YES" SEE Josiah. HE felt that it
wuz for the advantage of the city, and
a help TO bizness, and Deacon Bobbett
and have felt so and voted for it,
and most of the smartest of us male
lawmakers have"
Agin l groaned and sithed, and Josiah
didn't like it, and seq: You needn't
groan over that, Samantha. l tell you
you must do the best you can with
what you've got to do with. You can't
stop liquor from bein' sold and you ID
better let it be drinked openly pro-
tected by law than to sneak it into
the back doors and take 1t on the
sly; folks will have 1t, you can't stop
1t, 1t has always been So"
THE first man born into the world
murdered, and there has always been
murderers, but that don't make it
right to license it. Or make it lawful
to sell the stuff that made a good boy
like Tom Nugent into fiend capable
of committing such a crime as this,
and the thousands and thousands OF
crimes equally black and monstrous
that are committed by this cause all
over our broad land every day. You
admit that it wuz liquor that did it.,
If Tom hadn't gone into that saloon
and drank himself crazy drunk this
turrible thing wouldn't have hap
pened."
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1914-06-19
QUEEN ELEONORE Of BULGARIA WILL
VISIT i, s, ON INVESTIGATING TOUR
Europes "Roya Nurse Who Watched by the Cots of Wounded
Soldiers at the Front the RussoJapanese and Balkan Wars
viii Study Economic Conditions and Problems in This
Countrv-WII Arrive in May.

like Queen Eleonore's coming to him
direct from the hospitals, from cots Of
agony, with the very breath Of death
about her garments. For weeks after
she returned to Sofia from nursing in
Adrianople the king refused to see
her. So profound Is Ferdinand's dis
like for and fear Of sickness that he
puts his family and entire household
into quarantine for the slightest In
disposition. The absurdity of some of
the kings guarantees has made the
quarantine idea a joke among the
courtiers at the palace. 1t has beer
whispered that, while it Is true that
Ferdinand breads sickness, he has or
dered some Of the guarantees as a
method Of taking a recess from family
disputes.
The husband Of Europe's royal
nurse controlled his adherence of
his wife ministrations for some time
during the Balkan war, but the Fer
dinand patience finally ended. In adj
dition to her nursing and Red Cross
direction, Eleonore had supervised the
management of the hospital depart.
ment, inspected supplies as they went
to the front, and organized relief for
the families of soldiers who were
killed or disabled.
At last Ferdinand prohibited her do
ing any more nursing or superintend-
ing, and gave orders that none of the
latest collection of clothing and other
equipment which she had gathered fc
sick soldiers should be sent to the
field. Goods which had been contrib
uted by civilian patriots were sold at
auction, and much of the clothing
went to the secondhand stores. 1t is
stated that the queen wept when the
messenger sent by the Balkan relief
committee told her the news.
She has been characterized as lone
! CT the most admirable women In Eu,
rope" She is plain woman, with sim
pie tastes, not fond of pomp. She likes
to do straightforward work in a
Straightforward way. She has always
been intent on expending her energies
accomplishing good for her husbands
subjects. She is a competent execu'
tive. II she we're an American she
might be a w. C.. T. U. leader, or a
settlement organizer and worker, or
the head of a great hospital.
And the mate of this woman OF the
simple virtues has been described as a
monarch of the middle ages. Ferdi-
| nand Is clever, crafty, cruel, con-
scienceless, conceited, selfish, migrate,
full, somewhat effeminate in his hab'
its, able and INSCRIPTIONS as a politi,
cal manipulation, successful as ruler
1t has been written: Ferdinand OF
Bulgaria has probably broken more
oaths and promises than any one else
in the public eye" He likes the cere
monial and brilliance Of kingship; he
Is grandiose and overbearing; the
sound of 'Your Majesty" Is grateful
| to his ear.
Again, in the contrast Of the pair
Eleonore is Protestant, while Ferdi
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1914-06-19
WAS NOT A GOSSIP
By HAROLD CARTER.

$50 you're thinking Of building
here" said the postmistress, leaning
out through the wicket. well, you'll
find Glen Cove a nice little town for
such as minds their own business.
That is to say, it used to be nice, be-
fore the summer people came. Now
It's hive of gossip-fairly makes me
tired.
81 don't see why those summer peo-
ple who build houses here can't mind
their own business, but it just seems
as though they can't. They're always
talking about us and poking fun at our
ways, and what are they themselves!
Take old Mr.. Hodges, for instance. He
has that big white house on the hill'
and they say he's worth ten millions
all of it stolen in dishonest business
deals. Then there's Mrs. Jetley, down
by the shore. They say her husband
married her at the point of a pistol.
don't know; l hope it isn't true.
"As l was saying, Glen Cove used
to be a nice little town before the sum-
mer people came along and began
building here. Now there's that Mrs.
Alfred Perkins. Her husband made his
fortune in oil. When they built here
I started to be friendly with them, not
knowing that they were as bad as the
rest. Young Tom Perkins seemed kind
of sweet on Milly Watts, the daughter
of our expressman. They used to stroll
along the shore together. l used to
hire Milly sometimes to clean up for
me; the Wattses didn't have so much
money in those days, when the sum-
mer people were only just beginning
to settle here.
"Well, of course everybody in Glen
Cove wondered what there could be
between Tom Perkins and Milly. 1t
stands to reason a rich mans son isn't
meaning very much when he goes
round with a poor girl like Milly.
Folks used to talk about it, as they
will, you know, but I'm no gossip and
nobody ever heard me say an unkind
word about anybody.
"When fall came, the Perkinses de-
parted for New York, taking Tom with
them. After that Milly sort of pindled.
| Tom Perkins used to write to her every
| day or two, and I didn't like handing
her those letters. 1t seemed to me 1t
was my duty to tear 'em up, only the
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1914-06-19
REVENUE VERSUS WELFARE

ANY revenue which Is derived by
any government from sources which
tend to degenerate and degrade any
portion Of the people is bad. Every
source of information, medical, socio-
logical and economical, tends to prove
that the consumption of liquor is dan
gerous and that 1t depreciates the
physical vitality Of the consumer, his
mental capacity and his economic eff
fciency. This being true, 1t follows
that our governmental revenue from
the liquor traffic should be cut off,
Prof. Franklin Hickborn Of the Uni
versity of California.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1914-06-19
ABSTINENCE IN BRITISH ARMY.

The latest reports Of the Royal
Army Temperance association give a
membership of 66,3S4-40,209 in India
and 26,175 at home and in the colon
les. Colonel Seely,, the British secre-
tary of war, says: "The health Of the
army has so improved, mainly owing
to the spread of temperance, that they
have been able, without extra cost, to
add 5000 soldiers to the available
forces of the country"
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1914-06-19

last great wars-the Russo-Japanese
and the Balkan conflicts.
An intensely practical woman, the
queen is now planning to come to this
country for two most practical pur-
poses. She wishes to study American
methods of handling economic and so
cial problems, and to do what is pos
sible to Offset prejudices which may
exist in the American mind against
Bulgaria because of the stories of cru
elites practised during the Balkan
war by the victory-fushed Bulgars.
Bulgaria is now in process of re-
construction; important adjustments
are necessary in many directions be-
cause of the changes wrought by the
war. Further, tens Of thousands of
destitute Bulgarians have swept into
their native land from the other Bal
kan states, in which they refuse to
live, and these people must be abb
sorbed by the everyday life Of the
nation. By the study Of what Amer
lea has done, both in handling the
hordes of the cities and in pioneering
on the frontiers of the West, Eleonore
hopes to get lessons for Bulgarian
use.
Details of the trip are being now
arranged at Sofia. 1t is likely that
the queen will have a considerable
suite with her and will be attended by
some of the younger veterans Of the
war as aids-de-camp.
Queen Eleonore, who Is now fifty
four, won her first widespread fame as
q nurse in the war Of Russia against
Japan. She was decorated on the field
for her services with General Kuro-
patkin's division of the Russian army.
At that time she was an obscure Ger
man princess, not then being married.
She went to the front in charge Of a
Red Cross train equipped by the Grand
Duchess Vladimir Of Russia, and on
the crimsoned plains Of Manchuria
worked with splint and bandage. She
was under fire several times, and
proved herself to be courageous, eff
cient as an executive, and to have an
excellent knowledge of nursing.
In the Balkan war she again gained
the laurel. Having married Ferdinand
in 1908, when she was forty-eight and
he forty-seven, she took an active part
In caring for the wounded soldiers of
her husbands army.
Eleonore has won her public repu-
tation, and considerable one 1t is, al
most wholly through her activities as
nurse and director of Red Cross
movements. Ferdinand detests nurses,
fears fever, loathes the smell of an
aesthetics and antiseptics, and has an
aversion for a hospital equaling that
for Turk.
Ferdinand, something of an aes-
thete, loves flowers, is possessed by a
passion for their perfume. He con-
stantly has masses of blooms In his
rooms, on his dining table. He likes
to run his long, white hands through
their petals, inhaling the fragrance.
So famous is Ferdinand's flower fond.
ness that biographers always describe
= those long, white hands caressing the
blossoms, whatever else they fail to
portray.
King Ferdinand, accordingly, did not
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1914-06-19

New York.-Queen Eleonore OF bui
earia, who will visit the United states
in May for a six-weeks stay, bears TWO
titles which cannot be found after ner
name in the Almanach de Gotha, ana
which have no place in heraldry. The
royal nurse" and the German f!or-
ence Nightingale" are titles wnich
Eleonore has added by deed to those
which are hers by birth.
Both as a spinster, when she was
Eleonore Caroline Gasparine Louise.
princess of a younger branch OF the
house of Reuss, hereditary princess Oh
a small German state, and as the
czarina of the Bulgars, Americas fu'
ture guest has made herself known
and admired by her work among SICK
and wounded soldiers in the worlds
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1914-06-19

governments mighty hard to deal with
if they catch you interfering with the
mails. But naturally felt my respon'
sibility.
'I put 1t fairly to the girl one day.
'Milly,' said, folks are saying that
there's more between you and Tom
Perkins than you've been giving out.
1t amt right to keep Glen Cove In the
dark, and you'd Best say what you
have to-
"She just looked at me and laid
down her broom and walked out of my
house without word. She never came
back. She had the most impudent look
| on her face-just as though l hadn't
been minding my own business.
cpl admit that hurt me some, after
the interest I'd taken In her. Til :
Wattses didn't like her any too we'll,
| for Watts second wife was her STEP
/ mother, and Watts was a good deal
| under her thumb. So after I'd voiced
my suspicious about our town she
didn't have much of place to turn
to-just skunk along the street holding
her head high out Of bravado.
THAT couldn't last, and along about
Christmas time she disappeared. /
reckon Glen Cove was mighty glad to
be rid of the baggage. You see, we're
a moral and God-fearing folk up here,
and if there's one thing we can't toll
crate, next to immortality, it's deceit
fulness.
Summer came around and the sum.
mer folks came back to their houses.
Tom Greeley, who has charge of the
Perkins house, got to work cleaning
up. Some of US had expressed doubts
whether the Perkinses would come
back, but they did, as brazen as ever.
had been having talk with old man
Watts, and as soon as Mr.. and Mrs.
Perkins arrived-which they did in a
sneaking sort of way, by automobile,
after dark when nobody could see
them-I went in to have frank talk
with them, as good neighbor should.
"'Good morning, Miss Pray says
Mrs. Perkins. in her brisk way. We're
glad to see you again. And what's
the gossip of Glen Cover
"'I'm not in the habit of carrying
gossip, Mrs. Perkins, l answers, lit
tie miffed by her words, but l guess
there's going to be a surprise ahead
of you and Mr.. Perkins, and especially
your son Tom, who, l take it, won't
show his face around here this sum-
mer.'
40, yes, indeed, Mr.. Thomas is here
in this house at this moment answers
Mrs. Perkins. Wouldn't you like to
see him.
"'No, 1 thank YOU answered.
What have to say might as we'll be
said now. Mr. Watts is going to sue
you for the. loss of his daughter
Flows that?' asks Mr.. Perkins,
looking up from his newspaper. What's
the charge, Miss Pray?
az couldn't put 1t into English, be-.
ing a lady,'xI replied witheringly, but
it's concerned with your son and his
daughter. There isn't any doubt in
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1914-06-19
Always Lead to
Better Health

Serious sickness starts in disorders
of the stomach, liver and kidneys.
The best corrective and preventive
is DR. Kings New Life Pills. They
Purify the Blood Prevent Con-
situation, keep Liver, Kidneys and
Bowels in healthy condition, Give
YOU better health by Kidding the
system of fermenting and .gassy
foods. Effective and mild 25c., at
YOUR Druggist. Bucklen's Arnlca
Salve for All Hurts. adv
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1914-06-19
IN KANSAS.

According to the figures for 1918
made public by the Kansas state board
of control, alcohol was the cause of in
sanity in only IL of the 655 patients
at the two state hospitals for the in
sane. This means a percentage of 2.3
due to alcohol. In 1899 the percentage
was Sc; in 1911, ga. In New York
31.4 per cent. of the insane patients
in the state hospitals are there as q
result of using alcohol In Massa-
chusetts the latest statistics available
show 30.6 per cent. IS u.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1914-06-19
CONDUCTORS WANTED.

A man, getting excited at temper
ance meeting, called out: why does
not the Almighty send his lightning
and blot out all the rum holes?'
Quick was the reply from another in
the audience: THE Almighty has the
lightning all right-what he wants Is
conductors"
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1914-06-19
O. j. CAM PBELT.
LOCAL DENTIST
MONTEREY, VA.
Office in Masonic Temple

By the administration of Son.
noforn., teeth are extracted abso-
lutely without pain safer than
chlorCform, ether or nitrous oxzld'
and its administration is not fol-
lowed by any of the accompany
ing disagreeable effects Of cocaine,
eucaine or any of the nurnerol s
ocal anaesthetics.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1914-06-19

TOAST IN WATER.
At a recent meeting of the New
York Advertising Mems league, 200
Of them present, health 70 President
Wilcon was drunk in wat.r
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1914-06-19

DR.. Miles Anti Pain Pills relieve pain
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1914-06-19
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WHO WAS TO BLAME2

Conducted by the National Woman's
Christian Temperance Union.)
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1914-05-21

The public school at Estacado, con
Quoted BY Prof Holmes, superintend
ea,t, and Misses Page and Joiner, as
sissants. closed its lai3'i4 session
Friday night OF last week with an en-
aertainmeni to large and apprecla
tive audience. The session. we learn
ed, has been successful and harmo
nious one and Is one among the best
schools In Crosby county.
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1914-05-21

The san Benito Commercial Club
has created marketing dcpasiment
IN It's organization and will endeavor
10 sell the truck output OF the lower
Rio Gande valley direct from pro
ducers 20 consumers. The co-opera.
ton OF large number OF clubs in
the state. The secretary OF every
Texas commercial organization viii
solicit orders direct from consumers
or dealers In their respective iocali-
ties. and the orders will be forward
ed % the san Benlto Commercial
club which will turn them over TO
the producers to be filled. The com
mercial organizatioons will make no
charge for the services rendered.
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1914-05-21

Agents OF the United States DE
pariment OF Agriculture have com.
plcted their estimates Of the 1914
wheat crop OF Texas. after a care-
fu study OF the wheat belt OF this
state. The 1914 yield is estimated
al i5.GOpo 900 bushels, which is aP
proximatcly 100000 bushels more
than last wears crop. II the final
figures come up 20 this estimate u
will De The largest production Ia Tex
AS since 1908. when the yield was
~ $50. 900 bushels Only 3 per cent
OF the Texas acreage has been aban-
doned on account OF crop failure and
l.0S2 900 acres remain 10 be harvest
ed. The Texas crop on May was
90 per cent normal. or - per cent
above the AVERAGE condition ON the
same date last year The average
price per bushes paid 10 farmers On
MAY WIS CSC. or 3 cents above
same date last year.
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1914-05-21
DON'T WAIT UNTIL THE FALL

We are of the opinion that II YOU
are expecting 10 attend school YOU
cannot give a reasonable excuse for
postponing entering untn fall We
can present sufficient prof. to,yqnn-
vince YOU that the earl,cr YOU Var,
in to obtaylasa-grngrcal glIation
the better Z ~ "a lsr ~ We
have nov alwsst ~ large anfattend.
ance in tbsn@laper as In nj winter.
We offer evory indueemeu, In sum.
mer that we IT, in the ~ier our
past rccord,fhow that sttients at.
tending Sol in June. Jul, and Au.
gust fN,e a. good progress AZ those
attending any other three months In
the wear This II due 10 the fact
that our school rooms are cool and
pleasant aud that our teachers put
forth the same energy In the sum.
mer months a. IN the winter. lie
Who enters nov will finish In time
for a good position during the busy
fall season. We will set the post
ton for YOU We will start YOU into
1915 vita more money. and a prac
teal education besides y has been
our life work. solving just such prob
lens as yours. and qualifying young
inca and women 10 earn three dol.
lars where they could not have earn
ed one
Write us by return mail tel us
connleHt.aiy what o. hindoring you
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1914-05-21
A WORD or WARNING

My late husband. Mr. G. G. Han
sard. was a member o. the W.. o. W.
Camp. No. 53S. Ardmore, Okla. but
owing TO circumstances he became
suspended short time before his
death, leaving me with four little
helpless children. the eldest girl of
.. | tried to get along without calling
on anyone for help, but found |
could not, / had 20 tell my helpless
condition or surve.. .aI--haye often
gone cold ana hungry rather Tran beg
50 We fully realize how much help
we would have had II Mr.. HafHard 3
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1914-05-21

W n. shaw and family returned
Monday night on the greatly belated
train from the south. Mr. Shaw "a.
tended the firemen'a Convention at
Victoria, while Mrs. shaw and little
son visited relatives in Brownwo1d.
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1914-05-21
NoTicE-Auro TRAVELLERS

An parties are hereby potfed that
the auto lroad across our places. Eve.
o and Al miles sluthwt 81 lof Lubbock.
has been closed and any person tray.
cling this road viii be prosecuted for
trespass. toltpl
NJ G.. McCRUMMEN.
> r. CrDOwREY,
S. W JARVIS.
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1914-05-21

from entering before fall We have
now over $50 IN daily Attendance.
Tyler Commercial College. Tyler.
Texas.
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1914-05-21

TIHlnN Tow, INNN7.
The Lubbock Camp publishes the
above Rs timely warning e. delin-
puent members. Claude Peak ia the
new Clerk OF the Woodmen Camp
here. and those wishing TO pay their
dues will find Him at the postofiice
f6It
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1914-05-21

We can make ysun} LIST the big.
GEsT" First MONDAY, II we try
Will YOu help9 (i6.lO
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1914-05-21

Mr. and Mrs. b. r. Moore and two
sons. Jesse and Frank went today 10
Lubbock TO visit Mrs Moores broth