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Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-05-19

Buy Prince Albert every
where tobacco is sold in
toppy red bags, Sc; tidyred
tins, Zoe; handson1e pound
and half-pound tin hunai-
dors-and-that corking fine
pound crystal glass hun,i-
dor with sponge-m oistencr
top that keeps the tobacco
in such cleper tyim-allOoYs!
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-05-19
Prevent Ecu-Eatinu Habit.

The egg-eating habit is usually pre-
vented by the use of trap nests. Prac'
tically, the hen is a machine for ma
king eggs and flesh from raw mate
rial.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-05-19

Notice

Any one desiring TO sell any kird of
property at public auction may receive
my services on application. | will cry
any sales which may he trusted lc me at
reasonable charges and guarantee that |
will sell the property al as high price az
anyone else can obtain for il, e>pect-
fully solicit the patronage of Tie people
of Highland.
CLYDE HEROLD
Mill Gap. Va.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-05-19
the nutiou-zt joy sEaohe

has flavor delightful You never tasted the
And strange, either.
The sun., 1916-12-13
Lowell Gets Even with whistler.

Lowell, Massachusetts,. has decided
to break with JAMES ABBOTT MCNEIL
WHISTLER. 1t will not name it's pub
lie park after him. lie repudiated
Lowell as his birthplace and his name
and memory rlay take care OF them
selves SO far rs the city fathers OF
Lowell are concerned.
1t Is quite well established that
WHISTLER never once referred to dear
old Lowell" lie insisted that an art
list had n right to choose his birthplace
nnd he would not choose Lowell. In
biographical sketches to which he con
tributed he omitted all mention Of his
birthplace: but encyclopaedia biogra-
piers assigned him to Lowell and
added another detail of his life, thut
was equally irritating In his later
years. the date, July 10, 1884.
Had he lived he might have said
something on the subject ana found
an Interesting matter Of controversy
In the attitude of Lowell. II he knew
the gentle art Of making enemies he
was also versed In the five art Of
conducting II controversy. In proof
Of this was his passage with Sir WILL
IAN EDEN. whose wlfe's portrait he
painted aud refused to deliver; MIR.
FREDERICK I.EYLAND, whose portrait
he painted as n devil with hoofs and
horns; and RusKIN. against whom he
brought suit for denouncing his noe
turnes rs ~ pot of paint flung in the
public face"
lie had Il keen wit, n sharp tongue,
a bitter humOr, and n knack OF saying
things that the whole world enjoyed
repeating. Could that le the reason
that Lowell waited thirteen years az
ter his death to Gvenge itselfI
But is the joke on Lowell or on
WHISTLER?
The sun., 1916-12-13
"A Grand Chief Conductor. Must
Know Everything.

Mr.. AUSTIN Bruce GARRETsOE.
grand chief conductor Of the Order Of
Railway Conductors. tells the men,
bers of the Economic Club that 1t
would w be possible ia this country
to terminate II strike by the method
u@'d in France = 1910. There BRAND
mobillZed the strikers as soldiers and
set them to work running the trains
they had abandoned. They could not
quit again without facing court-mar-
tial as deserters.
II anything like this were attempted
here the. men would refuse to obey,
evcn Ia the extent of revolution, says
Mr.. GARRETsoN.
As we have not universal military
service II parallel would not be possible
In this country. But while Mr.. GAR.
RETsON Is 40 boldly prOclaiming what
the railway men would do under every
conceivable set OF circumstances he
might explain just what they would
do In the contingency Of Government
ownership and operation of the roads.
Would the me then surrender their
right to strike or their Jobs?
The sun., 1916-12-13
The Mayors Veto.

The Mayor. vetoing the action Of the
Board Of Aldermen In cutting items
out Of the budget, Is pleasingly blunt.
His conclusion that the boards action
was not the product Of genuine con-
viction, but a laundering attempt OF
a partisan majority to make political
capital out Of the appearance Of econ
omy," Is the plainly wOrded statement
Of what Is evident to most citizens.
The reductions made by the Alder
men were. us Mr.. Mitchell says, "un-
important in mount and chiefly sig
nificant in that they seemed designed
to furnish obstruction to the efficient
performance Of city business"
New York needs economy. but not
sham economy put forward for politi-
cal purposes.
The sun., 1916-12-13

while the Jews and the Italians rose
to $4,000. The Irish rush begun in
1S47 was ended.
What Mr.. CROKER might have won
dered at was the hold which the Irish
have kept on the district leadershlps
Of Tammany Hall. In the last ten
years. despite the great advance Of
the Jews in political life, they have
gained only three leaderships. What
is more remarkable, the Italians have
not gained any Mt oil. OF the thirty,
one leaders ip New York county there
are four of Jewish, one Of German
md twenty.six Of Irish extraction.
In The Bronx list Of leaders there Is
no dilution at alt.
Although the leaders Of Celtic blood
have held jealousy to their leader
ships. they have recognized the rising
races in nominations for Office. The
BOwery district. which once sent a
SULLIVAN or IN OLIVER to the Assem-
bly,, now sends a BARRA. A HAGAN
names a KATE. Il COGGEY dominates a
GOLDBERG. The German Is remem-
bered also: AHEARN's Assemblyman
Is ScHiMMkL, CURRy's Is SrRAuB. On
the upper East Side, where once the
Hon. jim FRAwLEY was leader and
Senator too, a Jew now Is leader, an
Italian Senator; but that is an ex-
CeptiOnal a The men who rule
Fourteenth street are MURPHY, FO-
LEY and MCAvoY.
The Irish are pretty lively" yet,
as Mr.. CROKER may suspect. They
are rs good us ever, ever II they do
not seem to be 81 frequent. 1t Is
quite possible that Tammany Hall Is
not as attractive to them as it was
In the days Of KELLY AMI the early
days Of CROKER. The old Boss prob
ably was thinking Of the duy when.
In n city Of 27O.OOO voters, GILROY
got n majority Of 5000.
The sun., 1916-12-13

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir: Your
editorial article Cuba and the Amer
lean Tourist"'in THE SUN OF December
3 causes me to marvel how the two
most salient of the many errors In Mrs.
Mary Roberts R%inehart's article could
have escaped attention. one is her as
surancc hat she found the Cuban ma
tional renitentiary "full Of political pris-
oners" the other, h a II is not possible
to purchase a permanent resting place
for the dead In Havana. 1t would be
equally absurd for a foreign visitor to
New York to assert that Sing Sing
prison was full of political prisoners and
that II was impossible to obtain title to
a grave in Greenwood. The price OF
a grave In perpetulty In the great Colon
Cemetery IL exactly S35. but this is
OF no moment compared with the state
ment OF the character OF the population
of he national penitentiary. There Is
not a single political prisoner In Cuba
to-day. nor have there been any since
the end Of the Spanish domination. now
nearly twenty years ago. with the ex-
ccption OF the brief detention OF a few
conspirators against President Palma in
1906. and the arrests OF n number ~
negroes during the so-called black re-
bellion about Ave years ago, This amax-
ing allegation Of Mrs. Rinehart's CON
veys the %imputation that Cuba Is In the
same class with such ''cOnv ulsive" re-
publics rs Mexico and Nicaragua. than
which nothing could be further from
the truth nor more calculated to excite
the INDIGNATION OF Cubans and all
The sun., 1916-12-13
SOME BISMARCK MAXIMS.
Taken From the Iron ChancellOr's
Parliamentary Speeches.

From The srN Of February 10. H7t
When pushed To extremes ! prefer my
shirt to my coat.-January %. 1864.
4 question OF right can he settled
only with the bayonet In our European
Quarrels.-January 20. 1864.
Parties and castles are mutable. They
perish, and new one arise.-January
%. 1864.
The Kings OF Prussia rave never
been prominently the Kings of the
rich.-February Is. 1865
Whoever makes the most promises is
apt to carry the election.-June I. 1865.
All classes do a little smuggling.
especially the women.-June /. 1865.
a great country cannot be governed
by partisans.-January Is. 1864
Put Germany into the saddle and you
will ind that she knows how to ride
March II. 1867.
Governments are like women-the
youngest please the most.-Deccmber .,
1868.
1t is not possible to hasten the ripen-
ing OF The fruit by holding IA lamp
underneath.-April l6. 1869.
Capitalization is tyranny. more or
less.-April l6. 1869.
Whoever carries the money bag is
the peoples mastcr.-April 20, 1863.
Every country knows that peace and
security rest in the sword.-May 90. 1869.
Liberty Is "a. luxury which not every
one can afford.-May 20, 1869.
People are a great deal more lavish
when they pay out OF a comnon
treasury than when they pay out OF
their own pockets.-June 2. 1871.
The sun., 1916-12-13
1.-THE Irishmen That Used to Be-"

An Irishman OF English ancestry,
returning to his adopted New York,
lnments the absence Of the Irish
Americans of twenty years ago. Says
RICHARD CROKER:
What comes home to me strongest Of
all is the disappearance Of the sturdy
Irishmen that used to be the backbone
of the Hall. There were 10000 OF them
in my day who voted solidly and en-
Enthusiastically. who fought and worked
as one man, and a pretty lively man. let
me tell you! Where nave those Irish
men gomez
Some OF them, not possessing Mr..
CROKER's secret Of eternal youth.
have passed on. The limOusines of
others purr beside curbs in Manhat-
tan or The Bronx. Long Island and
New Jersey could tell that some, like
the Boss himself, returned to the care
of arabic lands. Some, old as the
philosopher of Glencairn, toll on con-
tently, whatever their lot.
Mr.. CRoKER's memory for figures
Is good. In 1880, when he was Cham
berlain and Boss. the Irish born popu.
lntiOn of the city was 10000, and
considering the sons of Irish immi-
grants there must have been ut least
10000 active men Of Irish birth or
blood who followed the flag OF Tam
many Hall. At that period the Ger
man and the Irish lOOmed above all
other immigrants. That year there
were only $1,000 persons Of Russian
birth in New York. Twenty years
later the numbers of these had In.
creased tenfold. The story Of italian
immigration Is the san,e, with the in
fiux not quite as large.
The numbers OF the Irish born New
Workers grow less and less. In 1914
there were almost as many Irish born
persons here us. the total OF Russian
Jews and Italians. In the ten years
that followed the ranks OF the irish
born thinned from 275,OOO to 252,O0O,
The sun., 1916-12-13

mortality from the bites Of mad dogs.
Reports Of the Pasteur Institute Of
Paris, published last August, are 30
reassuring that a wide publicity may
serve to difuse confidence and save
many lives. During the year 1915
ga persons were treated. with only
one death. Six thousand persons have
been subjected to the Pasteur inOcula-
ton during the past ten years. Of
whom only eleven died, whereas be-
fore the establishment Of the institute
In 1885 nearly 1000 deaths from
rabies had occurred.
Some Of the failures in obtaining
similar favorable results in the insti-
tutions which operate under the desig-
nation Of Pasteur institutes all over
the world IRE probably due to imper-
feet technique and disregard Of the
minute details 70 insistently urged by
the famous discoverer. It behOOve>
the public authorities to subject these
institutions to licenses, after due in
vestlgation Of the facilities maintained
by them and Of the scientific capacity
Of those who minister to the sick.
Only by this method may the successes
Of the parent institution in Paris be
equalled elsewhere.
The prevention Of development OF
rabies In persons exposed to the virus
was the last achievement Of PAsTEUR.
Its sensational nature has brought 1t
pOignantly to the attention OF
the public than those more silent
though not less effective methods
worked out by his scientific mind for
the prevention Of s%uppuration and
other complications Of wounds. which
are to-day rendering most wonderful
service to suffering humanity on the
battlefelds Of Europe. Even these he
ncfcent results, though impressive on
account Of their terrible Significance,
pale In import before the less obtru-
sive but enormous saving Of human
life and promoting Of human health
which have been brought about by his
discovery of milk infection and his
method of destroying 1t.
The world will not be permitted to
forget its great benefactOr, since the
process by which this infection is
made harmless bears his name.
The sun., 1916-12-13
A SUBWAY SUGGESTION.
Use Both Express Tracks In tn,
Same Direction in Rash Hours.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir: I
read with interest your editorial article
commenting upon the fact that a great
many people use the subway who might
avail themselves of the travelling privi-
leges of the elevated railroads.
I sincerely hope your article will. TO
some slight degree at least. Affect these
people and so help reduce the number
using the subway.
Each morning while standing on the
platform Of the Seventy-second street
station OF the subway awaiting my
morning football rus and later my sar-
dine accommodations, I notice that the
uptown express trains are only partly
fun. each car apparently containing not
more than twenty or thirty people.
Would 1t not he possible for the sub
way to use both express tracks for
downtown trains in the morning. say
from 5 until 80. repeating this same
operation by using both express tracks
for uptown trains In the afternoon. say
from $50 to 6 80?
This would practically cut the crowd
using the downtown express trains in
half. giving fairly decent accommoda-
tions to hundreds OF thousands OF people
and mountaineering only a few hundred
who use express trains going in the
opposite direction.
There might Of course arise some diff
cultles at the subway terminals. but
with IA little effort IN the part Of the
executives OF this roa Il seems to me
this part of the problem could readily be
solved.
The sun., 1916-12-13
Cuba's Olympian Aspirations.

Havana wants to entertain the ath.
letes Of the world in the Olympic
games Of 1920. and il Is said that
Baron PIERRE DE- CoUBERTIN. prime
mover In the establishment OF the
modern quadrennial meetings and
present head Of the International
Olympic Committee, Is f%avorNbly in
clined toward the Cuban ambition.
But the committee will not meet agnin
until the war II over.
There will OF course be no Olympic
games this year. The meetings have
been held ut Athens in 1896: Paris.
1900; st. Louis, 1904; London. 1905,
and Stockholm. 1912. In "all event.
scoring European nations have always
excelled. In track and field scoring
this country, which has made no at
tempt at hOnOrs in the gymnastic and
similar contests, has been uniformly
victorious. 1t Is greatly to be desired
that when the series Is resumed the
United States shall be represented
powerfully nll the way through the
programme.
In the present state Of Europe ath-
letics Is not II highly considered part
of the business of life. Many, prob
ably n large majority, of the best
athletes of England and the Cont
nent took up arms. and not II few
have fallen n been wounded. Not
o o after the return Of peace will the
survivors he eager for the battles of
the athletic field. When active inter-
est in sports Is restored there will he
few Of the old familiar m on the
entry list from the other side of the
Atlantic Ocean.
The Cubans nre looking ahead. 1t
is impossible to reproach them for
their foresight, The peoples will re,
turn to their normal interests and co.
equations; and 1t will be, when the
next Olympics occur. fairly time for
the Western Hemisphere to supply
again the place OF meeting. Cub,
means, plainly enough, to enjoy tho
advantage OF priority In establishing u
claim President MENOCAL has already
appointed Il citizens committee to
push the project ana plan for the pro,
vision Of a suitable stadium.
But Cuba may expect earnest oppO.
sition. The United States will not
permit the honor to 90 by default,
and 1t will be surprising IL South
America does not put In n strongly
supported claim.
The sun., 1916-12-13
PACKING FOR EXPORT.
Reiterated Warnings From American
Consuls 10 American Merchants.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir. Amer
icaAi Corsuls spend many hours in pre-
pairing reports OF trade conditions in
their several districts for the use and
benefit OF manufacturers in his coun>
try. In many instances this information.
otherwise unavailable. results in the
opening OF new markets for American
supplies. The demand for these goods
would be greater. however. II exporters
would heed the Consuls' warnings as to
the manner in which stuff is to be
packed for Export.
Some months ago a Chinese firm
threatened to discontinue the importa-
ton OF wares from this country II they
were not packed more securely.
From Nicaragua the complaint
that the tin cases In which our goods
are contained are too frail and that
pasteboard cartons are not practical for
shipping purposes.
a report from Japan says that steel
bars imported from the United States
were found to be cracked and marked
in delivery. The japanese Government
recently condemned 1000 cases of Amer
lean dynamite because ii did not con
form to the Abel heat test. Benzol which
was imported was OF an Inferior quality.
These are only a few OF many warn
ings that our Consuls send home. In
these times. when the country has the
opportunity to become the chief supplier
of the worlds needs. his question OF
better packing becomes of paramount
importance to every American exporter,
Let American packing cases become OBJ
jects of pride in every country tina has
am. import business.
COMMERCE REPORT.
NEW YORK. December II.
The sun., 1916-12-13
AN UNPAID
Too Shy 10 Ask for Her Money, sht
Il Reduced to Despair.

To rur ENRON mr. Tur s,,S-shr. 7
x,sb soms IN. cou,a ,nsorn, m. ~,hv
.oms smn,ov.r. An mi nav ,h.,r dor.s.
tic hs,p. 7 am almost drIv.r ,o ae,na,r
I have xorked for sour month. ana not
a cent have 7 nam 7 hav. "a .,nnort
an o,d father ~,h II . cr,ro,e and nav
I. xoman u,ho ,ooh. aft.r him I.t.,v
T had "a draw s7s from INV I,,t,s .av,nS.
in thu HANK IA nav the rant 81 In coal
for the w,p,.r ana Inv .orr. r.rr,
clothinr for father Now Chr,.tms. h.
com,nS ana 7 m.d. 1. ,,,ea,. thrs.
months a,n An ~,v. sao ~ ,hs church
7 heIop. IN NJ .r,n,ov.r no. r,.rtv
NJ mopsv. hut ali hov. i. an cant.
Som. NAV .av T ,ho,,,s o.t ,or Oh.
mop.v IN, 4, !. Are, ~, h.ra ,or ~.
IN ao tho, a. ~ 90. ,o,a IN a, a..
IN NV hest friend. mono. WIN mr.. W..
the doyr..,,c. not n.,a .v.rv s.,,ra.v
nigb, iike .,r,, who ,vort T., .ho,.
store. and oaac.., 7 am arr. manv :.
~,ri would .,.v ,orr.r In . n,ao. 4, =, .
snv.,ono wer. h.raad N h.r .v.r, ,,..L
o,a. -..,..I A. p.-..- -. -.
The sun., 1916-12-13
THE COST OF O
Quotation Of Low Average Wholesale
Prices Is Called Misleading.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir. The
letter by Mr.. Warren on the Price OF
Shoes is misleading to the public. or
the thirteen concerns quoted by Mr..
Warren half OF them manufacture 2
large part of low priced children's SHOES
averaging 81, sl.o5 and $3.50 and up
at Wholesale. which lines are consid-
cred to be cheap grades and nave con-
siderable to do with the average cost
Of SEA.
Thus the average person who does
not know shoes will have the impress
sion that the shoes which they bui'
should not cost the retailer more than
s2i4 a pair, and that the difference be.
tween s2.44 and the retail price OF pos
sibly 81 to S. Is profit,
There Is 40 question in regard To The
authenticity of the statement that the
average wholesale price is $2.44, but the
average person who reads the article
will not understand hat this average
price includes from the cheapest child's
shoe to the medium priced black wom-
ems and mems shoes. which when fig
ured together will produce a low aver
age cost.
! have just been to Boston and the
leather condition Is very serious. II il
not a question now OF high prices. but
the problem is whether the WHOLESALER
Wilt get shoes to supply the retailers
wants for the spring season.
There il a scarcity OF certain leath-
crs. for instance black Wei kid. This
kind OF stock two years ago was a drug
on the market and could have been
The sun., 1916-12-13
ARE THE SCHOOLS CLEAN?
A Parent Who Believes the Rooms
Are Not Properly Cared For.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir: As
the Board OF Education makes an ex-
animation at certain intervals of all
pupils, their cleanliness In particular.
and In such cases where a child has had
any illness an examination is made OF
said child before IL is allowed to return
to school, would it not be well II the
same close scrutiny were given to the
cleanliness Of the schoolroom, especially
the seats and desks, which this child
occupies?
have a little girl attending the pub
lie chools who was never III one day
until attending these schools. For the
last year it has been very noticeable how
dusty and soiled her dress and under
wear are OH Monday afternoons, 'as
though she had worn them all week
rather than a day. Can't something he
done to protect the children? believe
this Is partly the cause Of sickness.
A MOTHER.
NEW York, December O.,
The sun., 1916-12-13
THE SCISSOR LEGS.


To the r:p'ron OF THE suN-s"; ID.
W. A." describes him exactly, and Just
at this time OF crowded street and sub
way cars he has become intolerable,
Fortunately the man opposite is usu-
ally a gentleman. or what would happen
when the two interlocked their long
legs, forming a hurdle all would have
to jump in passing through the car?
There is an easy way to close up tho
man who spreads, but the selfish cross
legged hog is more difficult.
ANOTHER SUFFERER.
New YORK, December IL.
The sun., 1916-12-13
THE G MAN r
Catalogue Of His Woes and His
Opinion Of City Housewives.

To THE EDITOR OF THE suN-sir: II
It be true that men who gathered to.
gether great quantities Of eggs last sum
mer are now attempting to force the
public to pay an %exorbitant price fol-
their wares. then I have nothing to urge
against a boycott whose purpose 10 to
Illustrate the cold storage plotters. II
however. the %boycotters are proposing
to force down the price Of fresh eggs
then I al only state that they are un-
aware Of existing conditions and that
their activities II successful will result
merely In driving all poultrymen out OF
business.
The seemingly high price Of fresh eggs
Ii due to a number Of causes, Of which
the following may be especially noted
The cost Of labor. of material and OF
poultry food. the stubborn insistence Of
the hen that she must have a well
earned vacation annually. n finally,
the ignorance and incfficiency Of the
average city h~ousekeeper.
To-day I am paying my farm help
practically double the wages that they
received two years & The lumber
which went into hen houses constructed
nm mv r,aco ,a.t .,r,r.r cors,.ted n,
Tho ch.,ns,, .~c,I,., ihat 7 A AIRED ice for
IN. nurno.e We, ,h. hu,,d,nS co,, ron.
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