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Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-03-17
MAKES DEFENSE OF RAeTiME
Writer Points Out How 1t May BE EA.
ceedingly Useful to Those Who
Are Mentally Depressed.

The elects of music upon the health
well known ever since David harped
to Saul but hitherto lily understood
are being looked into more deeply by
the physicians who formed the Nation
al Society of Musical Therapeutics.
mo matter to what extent music may
restore a person to the normal says
the New York Medical Journal, there
can be no question that it may help
other influences to incline the person
from the normal. There are many
compositions, notably among those by
Chopin, which are the outcome of more
or less melancholy moods, and while
they are beautiful and harmless to the
healthy, when made a steady diet and
source of selfconsolation by those SUI
fering from depression from mental or
bodily causes their effect is undoubt-
eddy pernlcious, just as too exclusive
diet of olives or meringues would de-
press the general bodily condition and
mental atmosphere of a person so in
dulging a sickly appetite"
On the other hand, ragtime music,
being in no wise serious" is the re-
verse of depressing. "The African
jingles of the present day create an
emotional atmosphere of restlessness
and excitement which is typically
American, and which is opposed to
health only so far as our national rest
lessness and lack of poise tend to make
us people whose national disease is
nervous exhaustion
Roughly speaking, lively music, such
as ragtime, is likely to rouse depressed
persons from their melancholy; sad
and pathetic music will soothe the eX-
citable and hypernervous.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-03-17
Division of Races.

The division Of the earth's popula-
zion according to race is as follows:
[ndo-Germanic or Aryan race (white)
occupying Europe, America, Persia,
India and Austria, about 775,0OO,O05;
Monaghan or Turanian yellow aid
brown, living in Asia, about 6S2,o0),-
900, Semitic (white), living in Asia,
Arabia, etc., about IS 100000; negro
and Bantu (black), found in Africa,
about 15O,O0O,000; Malay and Polyre-
sian (brown), inhablting Australia,
about 35,OOO,0OO; American Indian
(red), found in North and South
America, number, including half
breeds, about 25,000,00O.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-03-17
FALLEN FROM HIGH ESTATE
Church Edifices in Britain That Have
for Many Years Been Utilized
for Raser Purposes.

American visitors always make a
point of visiting St. Bartholomew
hot the hospital, but the church
one of the very few that escaped the
great fire, remarks London Answers.
ct probably few know that for a
long Period it fell into such shocking
repair that the north transept was
used as blacksmith's shop.
A building in Skegness probably
takes the cake for transformations
akin to this notable one. 1t was origi-
nally Wesleyan chapel, but subse-
quently was, as the poet says, Every
thing by turns, and nothing long"
In rapid sequence it was 4 concert
hall, restaurant, gymnasium, a
Salvation Army barracks, an auction
mart. public hall, and a school. Last
ly, as far as our information goes,
it became political club.
Glasgow holds the record for these
transmogritications. The old Wynd
church is now a leather warehouse;
West Campbell was lately lard ware
house, but may now be housing mar
garine; Cathedral Street church re-
sounds to the making of boxes and
packing cases; st. Andrews is the re-
sort of the remnants hunter; Stock
well street is an emporium for sugar,
sea and other groceries; while even
the offices Of the North British rail.
way were once a church.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-03-17
When Nations Decay.

Disease, moral and physical, is main
ly the handiwork of a mans perversity
or folly. The symptoms of national
decay are many and easily diagnosed.
A nation is on the downward grade
when large portion Of it's population
is unwilling to defend or incapable Of
defending what, not without reason,
we call the motherland against eX-
ternal attack.
Another symptom is seen when it is
unable or unwilling to provide by Its
own exertions for it's own immediate
wants or to save from the earning of
it's industry sufliciency to meet the
exigencies and disabilities OF Old age.
Another Indication is seen when 1t
is unable or unwilling to indulge in
recreation except vicariously, and re-
CARDS sport as pastime to be I'M
dertaken by others paid for the pur
pose for the amusement of onlookers.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-03-17
TOM mARsHALL's READY WIT
Kentucky Orator Hard 60 Corner, al
Frankfort Belle Found Out to Her
Great Discomfort.

Tom Marshall of Kentucky, who
fiourished as an orator and wit in the
last century, was a gallant gentleman
who, opportunity offering, distributed
his osculatory activities without re-
gard to age, race or previous condl-
tion of seryitude. On Christmas eve he
met IN the hall the pretty octoroon
slave maid of Miss Breckenridge, So
ciety leader and belle. Tom kissed
her and she was so responsive and
he so liberal that he expressed his
appreciation by giving her what he
supposed was a $40 gold piece. In
fact it was gold medal that had
been presented to him by the cltl-
zens of Frankfort, KY, for some serV-
ices rendered to that burg. The girl
tried to change it, when the store
keeper, supposing it to be stolen, I'M
pounded it and gave it to her MIS-
tress. The girl being called to &C
count admitted that it was Christ
mas gift from Mr. Marshall and con-
fessed that the hall was dark and that
Tom kissed her before she could help
it.
Miss breckenridge determined to
give Mr.. Marshall lesson in good
manners, so that evening at brilliant
social function she assembled half
dozen Louisiana bellies about her and
calling Tom to the group, handed him
the medal and said: "Mr. Marshall,
here is something you parted with in.
the dark. 1t is restored to you in the
light" Tom replied promptly III
was dark, sure enough, but believe me,
Miss Breckenridge, if had known II
was YOU wouldn't have given you
cent"
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-03-17
Its Real Meaninu.

A train which left a southern city
soon after the news of the Willard
Johnson fight had been received made
it's first stop at a little town chiefly
inhabited by negroes. A group OF
them sat near the little station, shoot
ing craps. They asked eagerly for
news of the battle, and On learning the
result from the conductor mournful
murmur of disappointment arose. One;
only seemed Indifferent, and inpatient
ly started to resume the game. His
neighbor waxed indignant.
"Ain't yo' got no heart, niggah," he
demanded. What TO- an yo SO indif-
trent? Don't yo' realize de netanor-
phosis dat am befallen our race. Don't
yo' know what it means?"
Deed All do know what it means,
deed All do know. 1t dun mean, mig
gah, de return OBJ crap shootin' as de
national game"
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-03-17
Races of the World.

The Slavs are one of the chief divi-
sions of the Aryan race. They are di-
vided, as a race, into two leading fam
lilies, the eastern and western Slavs.
The eastern Slavs comprise the Rus
slams Great Britains, Little Rus
slams and White Russians); Bulgar-
lans, Serbo-Croats, including the Ser
bians and Montenegrins; and SloVenes
III Carinthia, Carniola, and part OF
:Styria. The western Slav family is
divided into the Poles, in Russia, Aus
tria and Prussia, and the Kassubes;
the Czechs, or Bohemians, and the
Moravians, with the Slovaks in Hun
gary; and the Lusatian Wends or
Sarbs IN Saxony and Prussia. The
theory is that their original home was
IN Volhynia and White Russia.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-03-17
Parole Is Recommended.

Indeterminate sentences and the pa
role system for prisoners are recon-
mended in the annual report OF the
District of Columbia board of chart
ties. The short-sentence system is
deplored on the ground that in most
cases of commitments of ten, fifteen or
thirty days no substantial reformation
can be accomplished. Under the rec
commended system prisoners would be
sentenced to a maximum of two years,
subject to parole on record of good
conduct at any time before the expi-
ration of the maximum term.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-03-17
MUST ALWAYS GO FORWARD
Economic Progress Is So Ordered That
the Wheels Cannot Be Turned
Backward.

eve still act as if the moral law
were indeed the order solely of divine
commandment which mankind, by it's
anxious effort, must be schooled I'M
willingly to obey. We fear that the
sanctity of the home is threatened by
divorce, by suffrage, by polygamy, Dy
woman in industry, or by the new
dances; and we crusade oratorically to
protect it from destruction, although
we must know that if the sanctity of
the home depended on such protection
it would long ago have gone the way
of the sanctity of the temple of Ephe-
sus. We are distressed by license IN
our books and our theaters, and we or
ganize extra censorships and frantic
societies for the suppression of vice.
as if vice and license had not always
fought losing battle against civiliza-
ton, being opposed by the economic
laws that have made our morality
what it IS. We seem to know that by
helping to better the economic condi-
tions we can better the moral condi-
tons of life, but we forget that we
cannot greatly help by scolding. We
hope that we can assist the sanctity Of
the home by not retarding the eco
nomic progress that has made possible
the sanctity of the average home, but
we forget that mankind can no more
return to it's ancient immoralities than
it's culture can return to its ancient
barbarism. From Current Com
ment" in the Century.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-03-17
Buried by Lantern Liqht.

By the light of lanterns the body of
Annie M. Scott of Phoenixville was
inferred at Grove Methodist Episcopal
cemetery, West Whiteland, after
trip of ten miles, which had consumed
two days.
BY night the procession had reached
Kimberton, five miles from the start
ing. point, where the trip was aban-
doned and resumed in the morning,
but it required until late the second
evening to reach the cemetery, the
road leading for the main part through
fields because heavy snowdrifts closed
the highways.-West Chester, Pa, Dis
patch to Philadelphia Inquirer.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-03-17
ALWAYS ON BRINK or DEATH
Workers In High Explosives Realize
What May &c tn: Fes1:t Of Mo-
mcnts CareIessness.

Explosives are solids aich, under
certain conditions, suddenly change
into heated gas occupying many times
the original space CT the solids. Ordi
nary gunpowder, vixen fired, turns
into gas, of which the volume 10 4,ooU
times as great as that Of the powder
No wonder the bullet in front Of it
leaves the muzzle Of the rifle in
hurry.
Today there are scores, even hun
dreds, Of different sorts of explosives
known to science. Some, such as lyd-
dite, require a very considerable shock
to explode them. Others, such as nj
troglycerin, are fearfully dangerous to
handle, for a few extra degrees OF
warmth or a very slight jar is SUI
ticient to turn them instantly into gas,
Of the latter type there is nothing
quite so unstable as iodide of nitro
gen. 1t has to be made in alcohol.
When allowed to dry it appears as
brown powder, and so unstable is this
powder that tCuth with a feather
will set it Off The experiment has
been tried of leaving few grams
upon a table mixed with lew grams
of sugar. The first blucbottle that
flew on the table and began TO crawl
among the grains caused an explosion.
The mere Earring Of the air by
loud shout or leavy footstep is sur
fcient to detonate iodide Of nitrogen,
and it need hardly be added that no
one in his senses would attempt to
make this terrible stuff. To do so in
any quantity would be equivalent to
committing suicide.
Nitroglycerin is not so dangerous as
this iodide, but at q temperature OF
only 100 dcg"ceG-that is, very little
more than the warmth of the human
body-it begins to decompose.
Tons of nitroglycerin are turned out
every day, for it is the explosive from
which guncotton is made. But all the
mixing watts are a1tificially cooled by
coils of cCld-Water pipes.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-03-17
,InboIder of SPONTANEOUS Life Dead.

The death of DR.. Henry Charlton
Bastian removes the last member Of
the great scientific school which num-
bered among it's associates Pasteur
and Darwin and Huxley says the
London Times.
Doctor Bastian was one Of the fight
ing men of science; he knew no COM
promise, he sought no discharge. All
his life he did battle for ideas which
were unacceptable and which, in spite
Of his labors, never achieved accept
ance
These ideas may be stated short
ly as the conception Of life as form
of energy which is capable of aris-
ing spontaneously. Doctor Bastian de-
MED the theory that life arises always
from other life-the theory Of Pasteur
and his disciples; he claimed that he
had proved conclusively that life could
arise of itself from inorganic mate
rial
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-03-17
Typewritinu While Asleep.

when l first began typewriting and
stenography," stenographer was tell
ing girl beginner, Il found myself
taking stenographic notes in my head.
I've dreamed many time of picking
out letters and lines of letters on the
typewriter. Next typewriter began
following me in my waking moments.
When somebody talked to me or |
heard someone talking l found myself
taking 1t down on typewriter in my
brain as | might on a real typewriter
from dictation. And when l found
myself far behind, why, / stopped
right there and made a fresh start
on the talk from that moment. And
in the same way l would take stem
ographic notes in my BRAIN" "That
is just my experience, too" said the
beginner. Hard work, this learning
to be a typewriter and stenographer,
but there's fun in it; though shall be
glad when it gets through following
me in my waking hours and haunting
me in my Dreams"
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-03-17

GO TRAVELLING IN LAG00NS
Whole Community INDUCES in Pas,
time of Fishing in South Pacific
Islands.

The natives of Barotonga, one OF the
islands in the South Pacific ocean,
have a singular method OF catching
fish in which the whole community
takes part, according to the New York
Evening Journal. On the shore OF
the island there are many long, mar
row lagoons, each lying between
beach and an outer reef of coral, that
usually swarm with fish. The natives
choose one OF these stretches OF shall"
low water for the fish drive, and close
all breaks in the reef by laying nets
across them or building up rough bar
riers with pieces Of coral.
When they have done that, 600 or
700 men. women and children wade
into one end of the lagoon carrying
little plated fiber bags filled with utu
nut. In most places the water IS
about three feet deep and nowhere
more than four feet; so the natives
march slowly up the lagoon, trailing
behind them the bags Of utu nut. AS
this substance is wet it forms Pc
culiar narcotic, which it dlfuses
through the water. The process is
called poisoning the lagoon.
Half an hour is allowed for the
poison" TO spread, and at the end OF
that time all the fish are under the
influence of the drug and are swim
ming about in confused and aimless
manner. The natives, armed with
long-pronged spears, form line that
reaches from side to side Of the Ia
COON, and drive the intoxicated fish
before them. When the fish are al!
collected at the farther end Of the
lagoon the natives begin to cry. Eli
hu-hu-u-u" and the barbed spears fly
in all directions. The natives are
very dexterous with the spears and
the fish are SO sluggish, owing TO the
effects Of the utu nut, that very few
of them escape.
Many of the poisoned fish seek
the shelter of the coral reef and hide
in the crevices, and so some Of the na-
tives fish" the reef. They put On
glass goggles and sink beneath the wa
ter, where they remain submerged for
one or two minutes. They feel about
among the coral for the listless fish,
which they get with short thrusting
spear. These methodical fishermen
usually make the biggest catches, but
the merry men" in the open water
enjoy the best sport.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-03-17
Worth While,

Have you ever had vice commits
sion in this town. asked the visitor
We've never had one here" an
swered the old resident. Il fear this
isn't progressive community
But maybe you have never needed
anything of the sort
81 don't know about that, but there
are always so msny curious persons
glad to serve on vice commission
without any pay that it's decidedly
the cheapest form Of municipal adj
yertisirg l know Of.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-03-17
CLEANING Garments.

In cleaning a whole garment it is
a good plan first to brush well, and,
second, to mark each spot with white
thread before putting into the gaso-
line bath. Then the spots can be
found and given special attention
without much searching. The best
way of removing the dirt after using
gasoline, as advised in the Handbook
of Cleaning. by Sarah j. Macleod, is
to pour the gasoline back INTO the jug
through piece of litter paper, oh
tainable at any drug store. Case.
line should be kept tightly corked, i'll
stone jugs, and preferably out or tn.
house.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-03-17
Meant in Kindness.

A policeman had told two old vag-
abonds sitting in the park to move
on, and as l followed them along the
street one of them said:
"Jim, l think he means US kindly"
eyes, I think he does, too"
"He knows that we'd be apt to sit
there until we got a chill and then
pneumonia and death might follow"
That's it,
whereas, if he tells us to move on
we keep our blood circulating, avoid
all danger, and are spared to our
friends and the world"
That's correct"
(Which is very kindly Of him in
deed, jim; and if it so happens that
we meet him again, We'll impress it
on his mind that we know how to feel
grateful, even if we bean't heightened
nor !"-Baltimor American.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-03-17
GuniesS Hunter,

The gunless hunting championship
is confidently claimed by the Beverly
Dispatch for A. A. Forrest, the promi-
nent nimrod of Beverly, who, strollinr
afield the other day, dispatched two
plump and subsequently succulent rab-
bits by hurting apples at them, and a
thiri by the Observation-Disclosures
sharp-stick method. Mr.. Forrest, who
has sort of primal sense of humor,
afterward stated in his pithy way that
he never yet had heard Of nimrod's
lntimely demise through climbing
fence. with an unloaded apple or sharp
stick in his hand.-Ohio State Journal.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-03-17
Sumerians.

The Sumerians were members OF
one of the primitive races of Baby
lonia. They are believed to have been
of non.Semitic origin and to nave been
the dominant race at the earliest time
OF which there are any records. 1t
was to them that the Assyrians
ascribed the origin of Chaldean clgili-
cation and writing. Another name Tor
the race is Accadians. The Accadian
language was non-Semitlc and possibly
Ural-AItalc. 1t was spoken previously
to the better known Semitic dialect
of the cunelform inscriptions Tho
Sumerian seems to be kindred ala-
Iect and to nave Deen in use at the
same time in Bapyionlar
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-03-17
EXTENDING Charity.

Shut not thy purse strings against
painted distress. Act charity some
times. When a poor creature tout
wardly and vlsibIy such) comes be-
fore thee, do not stay to inquire
whether the seven small children, 1t
in whose name he implores thy assist
ance, nave veritable existence. Rake
not into the bowels of unwelcome
truth to save a halfpenny. It is good
to believe MIN. II he be not all he pre-
tendeth, give, and under personate
rather OF a family think (if thou pleas
est that thou hast relieved an lndi'
gent Dachelor.--Charles Lamb.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-03-17
Mortality Measures lnteIlinence

Sir Arthur Newshoime, eminent
English physician, said that infant
mortality is the most sensitive index
we nave OF social welfare. IF Dables
were we'll born and well cared Tor,
their mortality would be negligible,
The infant death rate measures the
intelligence. health, and right living
OF fathers and mothers, the standards
of morals and sanitation OF communi.
ties and governments, the efficiency
of ply sicians. nurses, Meath officers,
and educators.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-03-17
"The Good News From Client"

"The Good News From Client"
The exploit described by Browning
in his poem. How They Brought the
Good News From Client to AK is a
purely imaginary one. Archdeacon
Farrar tells of a conversation he once
had with Browning, in which the lat
ter related the circumstances under
which he wrote the poem. Il asked
him." says Canon Farrar, about the
steed which brought Good News From
Ghent, and whether the incident had
any historic basis; for told him that
a friend Of mine had taken very con
siderable trouble TO search various
histories and discover whether it was
true or not. No. he said, the whole
poem was purely imaginary. | had
had long voyage in sailing vessel
Il think it was from Messina to Ma
ples), and, being rather tired of the
monotony, thought of a good horse
of mine, and how much l should enjoy
a ride. As | could not ride in reality,
I thought that l would enjoy ride in
imagination' and he then and there
wrote that most popular of his lyrics"
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-03-17
Walnut Oil,

4. In France the cheap walnuts are
used for their oil, and LOO pounds OF
walnuts average about eighteen
pounds of Oil. Walnut Oil is used IN
France more than olive oil, but is not
manufactured at all IN the United
States.
Walnuts as rood ara composed as
follows: Black walnuts, refuse al
per cent, water per cent, protein
~ per cent, rat IA 8 per cent, car
bohydrates so per cent and ASH 5 per
cent.
english walnuts are composed Of
refuse oS.1 per cent, water l per cent,
orotem o.9 per cent, rat 26.6 per cent,
carbohydrates 5.S per cent and ash
10 per cent.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-03-17
.,,'s.
military Necessities.

Thereiiare five things that a SOL
der should never be wltfout-his
gun, his cartridges, his knapsack. "a
tions for four days and mis- pioneer
tools. The knapsack should be re-
duceu to the smallest possible weight
and size, ana contain only shirt, a
pair or shoes. collar, a handkerchief
and a nlDt OF steel This is not much,
but he should never part from them,
FOL when once iosl they cannot DE
recovered. Napoleon.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-03-17
Aanlyine Human Standards.

The coyote was on trial for cow
ardice. Il admit l am coward at
heart" said the defendant to the jury,
but you must remember that my cry
has struck terror to the hearts OF
more tenderfeet than the cries Of all
your brave animals. Therefore, &C
cording to the human doctrine of Get
ting Results, am the bravest animal
in the world"
The other animals were so much i'm.
pressed with the coyotes line of rea,
soning that, instead of executing him.
they established him at the head OF
a correspondence school in blufing.-
Judge.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-03-17
Notice

Any one desiring 10 sell any ki"d of
ropertv at public auctinn may receive
.iv SCR, ices on application. will cry
my sales y hch may he trusted Inc at
os rabIe charge and guarantee hat [
Ill sell the prcpertt II as high "A price as
nyune else can obtain !nri', re'pect-
Nv s,''i"i' he patronage Of the people
of Highland.
CLYDE HE2OLD
Mill Gap, Va.