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Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-05-25
Wants Education to Be Practical

Thomas w. Churchill. former presi.
dent of the New York board of educa-
ton, said in a recent address that he
was opposed to any education that
harked back to cultural past" or
allowed it's weather vane to be blown
by the breezes from antiquity" "This
old cultural stuff is not going to help
any mothers son make a living" he
said. 81 am not in sympathy with the
views Of college professors intrenched
in the marble halls of colleges endowed
by some rich benefactor. Until re-
Gently they have paid too much at
tention to the white shirt front and
ignored the overalls, and they found
their graduates starved to death. Gull
ture is a good thing, but it can be
picked up in spare moments where the
need may be. I admire your pretty
vase, but my youngster needs soup
plate. The man who stands on the cor
ner and spouts Latin may get repu-
tation for being erudite, but he won't
bring much of salary home to his
wife on Saturday night"
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-05-25
liver DIDN'T ACT
DIGESTION WAS BAD
Says IS year Old Kentucky Lady, Who Tells How She Was Relieved
After Few Doses Of BackDraught -

Meadorsville, Ky.-Mrs. Cynthia
Higginbotham, of this town, says: "At
my age. which is IS, the liver does
not act so we'll as when young. A few
years ago, my stomach was all out OF
fix. I was constipated, my liver
didn't act. My digestion was bad, and
it took so little to upset me. Ny ap.
petite was gone. I was very weak y.
I decided I would give Black
Draught thorough trial as I knew it
was highly recommended for this
trouble. I began taking it. I felt
better after a few doses. My appetite
improved and I became stronger. My
bowels acted naturally and the least
trouble was soon righted with a few,
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-05-25
Copyright. 1915, by the Mcclure Newspa
per Syndicate.)
OPENING A BANK ACCOUNT.

The days Of the teapot depository
for money have passed, or are rapidly
passing away, and the provincial
stocking is no longer considered sert
ously.
Comparatively few financiers OF
business men carry more than a few
dollars in their pocketbooks or at
home, and they seldom, if ever, pay q
bill except by bank check.
The millionaire and the man OF eX
tensive business do not often see OF
handle more than a few hundred dol
lars in bills year.
Comparatively few wholesale bust
ness houses carry i'll their money
drawers or safes more than hundred
dollars at a time, except on pay days.
National banks and trust companies
have become the repositories for cash.
and practically all of the business of
the world, today, is done by check and
draft.
Bills have little circulation except
for small transactions or in the re-
tail stores and for pay rolls. Even in
the last named case many employees
receive their weekly or monthly wages
or salary by check.
Even when national banks and trust
companies fail, the depositors seldom
suffer any loss, because they are pre-
ferred creditors.
All banks of deposit are subject to
examination by the United States gov.
eminent or their state governments,
and most Of them are conservative,
few of them taking speculative
chances in the investment of their
money. At any rate, money deposited
in a national bank or trust company
is far safer than that carried on the
person or in the bureau drawer.
Nearly all the national banks and
trust companies pay from ~ to 2
per cent interest on daily balances OF
sums from 5000 to $500.
l should advise every young man
and every young woman in business
to open an account in some national
bank or trust company. If you have
any doubts as to the standing of the
bank, ask the advice OF two or three
leading merchants, who are likely to
know the reputation of all financial
institutions within their city or town.
The advantages of carrying a de-
post subject to check are:
Vo,,r roopov 10 Safo
2. It gives you ready money with.
out the danger Of loss.
8. You can pay your bills by check,
which is the better way, as the check
in itself is a receipt.
4. It assists in establishing your
credit.
5. Acquaintance with bank officials
is always advantageous. They are the
most acceptable Of references.
Savings bank deposits are not sub.
ject to check, and cannot be used for
the payment of bills. Some savings
banks require notice of withdrawal,
although the majority of banks waive
this right.
The savings bank is for the laying
away of money, while the national
bank and trust company should be
used as a convenience.
Most national banks and trust COM
panies will open an account for a
sum as low as s2OG or $500, and some
will accept even 500.
Many a man is known by his bank.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-05-25
To Whom 1t May Concern:

e. A. Bradshaw and to whom it
may concern: Notice is here given
that G. A. Dickson, in accordance
with an act of the General Assem-
bly,, of Virginia, approved March
4th, 1912, entitled IAN Act to au-
thorize the ascertainment and desig-
nation of the boundary line of real
estate, has filed his petition. And
the said c. A. Bradshaw being a
non resident is notified to appear
here on the first day of the July
term 1917, of Highland Circuit
Court to make such defense, to the
said petition as he may be advised.
Teste: W. Fl. Matheny
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-05-25
doses of Black-D raught."

Seventy years of successful use has
made Thedford's Black-Draught a
standard, household remedy. Every
member, of every family, at times,
need the help that Black-Draught can
give in cleansing the system and re.
lieying the troubles that come from
constipation, indigestion, lazy liver,
etc. You cannot keep well unless your
stomach, liver and bowels are in good
working order. Keep them that. way.
Try Black-Draught. 1t acts promptly,
gently and in a natural way. If you
feel sluggish, take a dose tonight.
You will feel fresh tomorrow. Price
CSC. a package-one cent a dose
All druggists. J. So
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-05-25
His Double Loss.

A story Of the battle of Jutland is
told by a chaplain of the grand fleet.
In ship which was in the thick of ac-
ton and was well hammered by the
enemy, many poor fellows lost the
number of their mess and many more
were sadly wounded. Among these
latter was a sailor, one Of whose legs
was so much shattered and lacerated
by a splinter Of shell that there was
nothing else to do but amputate 1t
above the knee.
The wounded man was practically
unconscious from loss of blood, so the
surgeons were not able to tell him Of
their intentions Of operating. Some
time later he recovered consciousness
and found himself comfortably tucked
up, with the stump dressed and ban
daged. When he learned what had
happened he broke into an agonized
cry-no, not for the Gripping he had
undergone; his cry was:
"Where's my leg? For 'evin's sake,
find my leg, somebody! It's got all my
money in the stocking"
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-05-25
Reciprocity.

whenever I hear anyone speak
birthday presents am reminded Of an
incident that occurred in my immediate
family" said Manager Douglas of the
Jefferson. "Some months ago my daugh'
ter's husband bought an automobile
principally for her use, and she thor
oughly enjoyed it. His birthday came
around shortly after and his wife told
him she had not forgotten him, and
said: I have surprise for you. ]
have bought you most gorgeous auto
mobile laprobe.' He looked at the aS.
ticle few seconds, then said, This is
surprise, and when your birthday
comes around I am going to surprise
you And he did. He bought her an
automobile tire."-Birmingham (Ala.)
s"es U orcl1
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-05-25
The Commonwealth of Va.

To the Sheriff of Highland Coun.
ty, greeting:
We cammand you that you sum-
mon Highland Lumber Company,
incorporated and Lincoln Trust
Co., Trustee, to appear at the
Clerks office of our Circuit Court,
for Highland Co., at the courthouse
on, the third Monday in June 1917,
to answer bill in chancery exhlb-
tied against them in the said court
by James w Leach and unless
they shall answer the said bill with
in the time prescribed by law, the
court vii! take same for col fessed,
and decree accordingly; and this
they shall in no wise omit, under
the penalty of 1901
! And have then and there this
writ.
Witness, W. H. Matheny, Clerk
of our said Court, at the court
house, 9Th day of May 1917 in the
l41st year of the Commonwealth.
6-11-4t W. H. Matheny, Clerk
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-05-25
zone by One"

Little Mollie was seated at the tea
table with q plate Of cakes opposite
her. She was waiting impatiently for
The meal to commence, and ventured
20 touch one of the cakes with her fore
finger.
"You must eat that cake now, Mol
lie!" said her mother, severely. "No-
body will want 1t after you have
touched it,"
Mollie looked the cake and placed
it on her plate. A few minutes later
she said, plaintively:
"Oh. mummie, I've touched another
one"
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-05-25
COLD FRAMES VERY POPULAR
Being Used More Extensively In Varl.
GUS Parts of Country Than For.
merIy-Use Fine Soil.

Frames are used much more largely
in all parts of the country than few
years ago, Notwithstanding the fact
that greenhouse construction has been
more active. A great many gardeners
have realized that it pays to grow some
vegetables under by 6-foot sash. This
makes it q good business proposition.
and when frames are used on a large
scale too much care cannot be exer-
cised in the preparation of the soil.
1t should be fine, fairly level and con-
tain liberal amounts Of sand and hui
mus. If to be used in the summer the
cross-bar hoes or horse cultivators can
be used without difficulty, running
from end to end Of the long frames.
The sash should fit snugly on the side
boards, so that as little cold as pos
sible will be admitted under the sash.
Lettuce and radish are especially de-
sirable for frame culture.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-05-25
Commissioner Sale
of Valuable Land

By virtue of authority vested in
me as commissioner in the Chan
Gerry cause of Mary 6. Swadley
Guardian vs. Helen Swadley ct ais,
by. a decree entereditherein by the
circuit court of Highland County
at the last April term thereof,
will, on Saturday End. day of Jnne
1917, offer for sale at pubic auc-
ton at tt e front door of the court
house of said County that valuable
tract of land at Vanderpool, Va,
of which William T Swadley died
seized, consisting of rs acres, more
or less, on which there is SPLEEN
did brick dwelling house recently
built and all necessary outbuilding
in go d condition. This is beau
tiful situation for home, very
short distance from church and
school and the farm is in fine state
of cultivation and has plenty of
water and fire wood on it. In fact
this is one of the best homes in
this country.
Terms: Enough cash on day of
sale to pay the costs of suit and
sale and the balance in three equal
annual payments for which the
purchaser shall execute his three
bonds dated on the day of sale,
waving the homestead exemption,
bearing interest from date, with
personal security to be approved
by the commissioner and falling
due III one, two and three years
respectively from date and TIE
title to be retained as ultimate
security until all the purchase
price is paid and a conveyance
directed by the court.
Andrew L.. Jones, Com'r.
thereby certify that the bond
required by the above mentioned
decree has been executed.
w. Fl. Matheny, Clerk.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-05-25
SILVER Is TAKEN
Guests Cost Big Hotels Fortunes
H. Every Year.
Managers Of New York Hostelries
Declare They Must Replace Hun
dreds of Thousands of Dollars
Worth of Valuables.

Are people who live in hotels less
honest than those who stick to their
own home and Preside? The stewards
of the big New York hotels, who eaeh
year spend hundreds of thousands OF
dollars replacing missing silVerwaFe
and furnishings, say they are.
The ravages of souvenir-huntlng
guests as well as college boys ana
girls with a fad for collecting hotel
silver, together with the wear and tear
of the regular routine business COSTS
each large hotel between S6OO,OO0 ana
100000 a year. The hotel managers
hold their guests responsible for the
loss of silyerware stolen by employees,
saying the servants just initiate the
guests.
In addition to the losses through
souvenir-hunters thousands upon tnou-
sands of dollars worth of small table
ware. oyster forks, butter plates
spoons and bread-spreaders are over
looked and thrown away. The hotel
is carefully examined before
It leaves the hotel and an average or
half q barrel of ware is recovered
each day. But in spite Of all precau-
tons good deal is thrown away.
The next most costly item OF eX-
pense is in the china and glassware.
1t costs one hotel more than SlOo,oOo
a year to keep itself in these two items
of tableware.
The linen item in one of the Fifth
avenue hotels cost $4,000 when the
hotel opened last year. Since that
time more than $4,000 has been used
to replenish the supply. All of this
linen comes from the north of Ire
land. The war has made it increasing
" difficult to get the right quality be-
cause most of the best flax in the
world came from Belgium.
In the same hotel $4,000 was spent
for candle and lamp shades before the
hotel was opened. In the past year
$1,000 has been spent for new stock.
AS the shades range in price from 81
to $40 it is easy to see where the
money goes.
A small detail in the annual budget
Of a hotel is matches. In spite of the
fact that electricity is used exclusive
", 10000 boxes are needed each
month.
And soap! Last year one hotel used
2S,420 cakes of soap.
A monster new hotel is being erect
ed in New York and the purchasing
agent has been very busy laying in
supplies. AS sample of his pur-
chases the following may be men
toned: 100000 pieces of silver in one
day, costing $243,000; $4,000 sheets
and pillow cases; 10000 towels for
rooms and $4,000 for the restaurant
department. He is going to buy thou
sands of beds, chairs, desks, hatracks,
bookcases and other furnishings be-
fore he is finished, and in addition he
is in the market for baby carriages,
toothpicks, cooks caps, bath mats,
safes and about ten dozen other things.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-05-25
The Strategy of BIinkers.

Blinkers was not a beauty, either In
face or figure. All his pals wondered,
therefore, what he would appear as at
the Funnyboys' fancy dress ball. The
night arrived. Hamlet leaned sadly
against the wall, while William the
Conqueror threw bitter glances at
crowd at the other end of the room.
"What no, Bill" cried Oliver Crom-
we'll, arriving late; feeling seedy, old
man."
1--WE all are" growled Bill the First.
''Bunkers has done US in the eye after
ALL"
"Blinkers! How?"
"He's come as a bargain marked
down to S4.9S," croaked the conqueror,
land every blessed girl in the place Is
fighting to get near him."
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-05-25
IN NEW HEBRIDES WILDS
Tastes of the Natives Are Very Grad
uaIIy Being Weaned From
Humans to Pigs.

Many of the natives Of these islands
are employed upon the plantations OF
the white men, but TIE majority live
the lives of primitive beings in the
Jungle, where the chiefs rule with rods
of iron for the most part. To have
killed a man, no matter in what way,
is a great honor, and gives the right
to wear special plume of white and
black feathers.
It is in the recruiting Of workers
for the plantations that many abuses
arise, London Tit-Bits says. lntoxl-
eating liquor plays part in this
traffic, and. where fair means fail
in the securing of hands, foul methods
are introduced, and fragrant kidnap-
ing is by no means uncommon.
Describing one worker on the plan
tations named Bourbaki, DR.. Speiser
explains that, before the native en-
listed, he had been a professional muir
derer and provider Of human flesh to
his chief.
HE was one of the few natives
writes the doctor, who openly ad-
mitted his liking for human flesh. A
year ago, when visiting his village, he
had been inconsolable, because he had
come a day late for cannibal feast!"
And on these islands, only few
days sail from Sydney, there are pyg-
my races. Volcanoes there are, and
wonderful lagoons. Forest covered
mountains and green plateaus may be
seen, and there are beach villages
whose inhabitants spend greater
part of their time actually in the sea.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-05-25
CUSTOMS IN WEST INDIES
Theodore Roosevelt Writes Entertain.
; .ingIy of Life "Where the Steady
= Trade-WiI1ds Blow"

: Whenythe ship, was eoaled the work
iers were sometimes men, sometimes
strappfng women as strong as the men,
who chartered and sang as they toiled,
while their white teeth flashed In their
dark faces. Queer fishing craft, some
times with russell sails, danced over
the foaming combers which broke the
azure of the deep. Rows of tall. slen-
der-stemmed palms stood back of the
shining beaches, their fronded tops
threshing endlessly in the trade-wind.
On the edge of the blue ocean, at the
foot of brilliant green mountains, half
hidden in the tropic vegetation, stood
little towns, clusters of low white or
red houses. After nightfall the town
gallants sat at small tables on the side
walks outside the taverns or under the
trees in the open squares. Powerful,
finely built black women and 1.-THE,
comely brown women strobe along the
paths and highroads, erect and supple,
all their burdens, great or small, poised
on their heads. Sometimes these bur-
dens were extraordinary because OF
their bulk or weight, at other times
they were comic because it seemed in.
credible that such small or peculiar OBJ
! jects should not be carried in the
hand: once, for instance, we saw a
woman carrying on her head soil
tary white shoe, and another time, OF
all things, a single egg.
In all the islands legal AMI political
determinations based on color have
been done away. In some the social
determinations are giving way. In
others sharp social lines are drawn
not only between white and colored-'
as all shades of cross-blood are called
but between colored and black. The
whites everywhere composed most OF
the upper class, although it also in
cluded many of the colored; the col
ored folk made up most Of the middle
class, and just as they extended into
the class above them so their class
was entered by the blacks below them;
and the bulk of the laborers, in the
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-05-25
Two Panama coaIinu Plants.

The two great coaling plants of the
Panama canal-one at Cristobal and
the other at Balboa-which together
have total emergency storage capac-
ity of 10000 tons, have been completed,
according to the Philadelphia Record.
That at Cristobal, the Atlantic
terminus, is the larger and it is ex-
pected that most of the coaling will be
done there. The plant there has been
In commercial operation for several
months. The completion at this time
of these coaling plants of the Atlantic
terminal Of the canal Is considered
highly important.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-05-25
Wanted the Usual Reward.

Ethel had been singing songs in a
kindergarten entertainment, and after
each rendition she had received hearty
applause. The next evening her moth
er had company, and she asked Ethel
if she would bot sing one of her songs
for the guest. Ethel complied with the
request, and when she had finished the
woman thanked her and complimented
her on her voice. But Ethel was IN
satisfied. IF you likes it," she COM
planned, 'why don't you clap?"
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-05-25
HOLDING DOWN WIRE FENCES
Instead of Using Stakes Iowa Man Al.
taches Stone Which Is Sunk Into
the Ground.

A railroad company has paid Frank
Justice of Polk county, Iowa, more
than $3.50 damages for hogs killed on
its tracks. The wire fence was staked
down time and again, but the hogs
continued to root it up and crawl I'M
der it. The stakes driven to hold 1t
down would not stick for any length
of time, says Wallace's Farmer. Mr..
Justice told the claim agent that II
he would follow his advice in hold
ing down the fence, that the railroad
company would be saved future DAM
ages. The advice was followed, and
since that time no hogs have got I'M
der the fence.
Instead of a stake to hold down the
wire, Mr.. Justice uses stone, which
is sunk into the ground. A wire Is
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-05-25
Not All Varieties Edible.

"Some people who know say that
there are many cheap and nutritious
foods which are neglected. For exam
pie, there is nutrition in all kinds Of
nuts"
But we can't eat all kinds of nuts,
my dear. Even to reduce the high
cost of living, we can't be cannibals."
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-05-25
Holding Down Fence.

wrapped around the bottom strand OF
the fence, and then around the stone.
Instead of a stone, a concrete block,
an old piece Of iron, or any other
heavy weight may be used. Mr.. JUS
itice says this device will hold down a
fence till the wire rusts in two. While
lit takes more time to wrap wire
around q stone and attach 1t to the
bottom wire of the fence, and then
bury the stone in the ground, it is per-
lmanent.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-05-25
When Postage Cost $40 an Ounce.

San Francisco has had an interesting
history. The first settlement dates
from 1776. The United States flag was
raised over the town in 1916. Two
years later the city had an estimated
population of 10000, caused by the in
rush of fortune seekers. The first reg
ular overland mail communication with
the East was established by pony ex-
press in 1860, the charge for postage
being SIS for half an ounce.-Popular
Science Monthly
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-05-25
Woman Heads German Department.

According to the Berlin correspond
ent of the Frankfurter Zeitung, a wom-
an has now been put in charge Of a
department in the war bureau of the
Prussian ministry of war-a depart
ment which will control the auxiliary
service" Of women. The appointment
has been given to DR.. Marie Elizabeth
Luders, and her department will estab-
lish connections with all the great
womens organizations in Germany.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-05-25

towns and especially in the country
were blacks, although many were
browns.-From "Where the Steady
Trade-Winds Blow" by Theodore
Roosevelt, in the February Scribner.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-05-25
Regrets.

For all we know, the gaudy butter
fly may have moments in which 1t re-
grets the fine times it had as cater
piilar.-Puck.