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Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-06-22
"HE GOT OFF MIGHTY LIGHT"
This Was Opinion of Frightened
coIored Man Regarding culprit
Just Strung UP by Mob.

Representative Thomas Helm OF
Alabama is noted as the best story
teller of negro dialect in the house.
He told the story to friends in the
New Willard hotel.
"When / was young practlclng
lawyer in Alabama I had lot to do
with colored men, many Of whom were
nv clients. One time colored man
in my district committed a crime, and
the community took it upon itself to
punish the offender. There was only
one punishment fitting the crime-that
was hanging. The guilty man was
taken out in the early morning and
hanged to a tree. Their job complet-
ed, the executioners started home.
They had proceeded only a short dis
lance from the place where the body
dangled when they met an old colored
fellow astride a mule, with a sack OF
oats swung over his shoulders. The
black man saw the crowd approaching
and he turned ashen, for instinctiVely
he knew what they had been about.
The leader of the gang rode up, and
in a gruff voice declared:
"sYou know US and we know you. II
you say anything about this affair, the
same fate awaits you
"'Deed, boss, I amt gwine T. say
nothin'. I thinks he got off mighty
light, m'se'f.'"
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-06-22
WEDNESDAY,.

London has been subjected to an
other air raid, the fourth since the
Germans substituted airplanes for
Zepne'ines. British aviators and anti
aircraft guns attacked the raiders. The
early announcement of the raid gave
the casualties as heavy.
Paris announces the sinking of the
French liner Sequana, from whom 100
men were lost out of $50 passengers
Among those on board were numbers
of Senegalese rifles. Another vessel
reported sunk is the Leyland liner
Anglican, which left Boston for Liver
pool with a general cargo on May 80.
In the field of military operations
the greatest activity continues to be
shown by the British. General Pill
mer's troops, APPARENTLY engagedp in
making good their advance, scored on
a two.mile front east and northeast
Of Messines, when the village of Gas
pard was occupied.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-06-22
Stop, Read and Think.
Are YOU a Rheumatic?

Are you a Rheumatic?
Do you know that you are eating
things every day that is wrecking your
nervous system and poisoning every
vital organ in your body? Are your
muscles sore and stiff? Are you lame
and stiff in your back and joints? Are
you having all kinds of neuralgia
pains? Do you get up as tired in the
morning as when you went to bed?.
If so, you should not neglect to get
MACRo-SAL rheumatism Remedy at
one and get rid of these serious symp7
toms. With each bottle there is a
special diet list for all rheumatic peo-
pie, which is worth many hundreds OF
dollars to your. MACRo-SAL is guar
anteed to give results. If no benefit
received from the medicine after direc-
tons are strictly followed your money
will be cheerfully refunded.
Ask your dealer for Macro-Sal,
90 postpaid. Dealers supplied by
S. B. Wallace & Co., Marlinton, W..
Va.
- For sale by Highland Mercantile
Co., Monterey, Va. adv
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-06-22
PUBLIC SALE OF LAND

On Wednesday the goth day of June
1917, will offer for sale at public auc-
ton in front of the court house IN
Monterey, Va, that certain tract OF
land containing 81 IA acres more or
less, situated in Highland county, on
the east side of Jackson'S River adj
Joining the lands of JuniuS Gardner,
Clinton Gutshall, Monterey Stock
Farm and others, and being made OF
the tract of 401-2 acres conveyed to me
from Clinton Gutshall and wife by
deed of record in the clerks office OF
said county, and of the tract A. q
acres conveyed to me from Harry Full
ton by deed of record in said office.
Terms: One half the purchase
money cash on day of sale, and the re-
mainder to be paid in two equal install
nientS in six and twelve months with
interest. lien to be retained in the
deed to secure the deferred payments.
Persons desiring information, or
wishing to see land may apply to l. d.
Gutshall, Vanderpool, Va
Berlin Gutshall
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-06-22
Statement By The
Secretary Of War

The cavalry, engineers, coast
artillery, signal corps and quarter
master corps of the Regular Army
have already been brought to war
strength.
$4,000 recruits are needed to
complete the new regiments of in
fantry and field artillery.
$4,000 additional recruits are
desired at the earliest practicable
date to fill vacancies in order that
the war strength of 100000 men
may be maintained.
Facilities are in readiness toi
placing these 10000 men under
proper training.
Any delay in obtaining this mum
her will cause the loss of valuable
time.
lis the earnest desire of the
War Department that 10000 single
men between the ages of Is and 40
who have no dependents and who
are not engaged in professions,
business, or trades vitality necessary
to the prose cution of the war, be
enlisted in the Regular Army before
4 he >39th of June, 1917.
Newton D. Baker
Secretary of War.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-06-22
Valuable Land For Sale

We offer for sale privately all our
lands known as the Jacob N. Hull
lands living about one mile east of
Vanderpool, consisting of $50 acres
more or less. About $50 acres of
this land is cleared and we'll suited
for grazing and farming purposes
and the balance has on it valuable
timber. All of the land has plenty
of water on it and the cleared land
has on it good orchard, two
dwelling houses and all necessary
outhuildings.
This is very desirable land and
we will sell it at a reasonable price
and on terms to suit thepurchaser.
For further information as to
price and terms etc. apply to the
undersigned at Vanderpool and
Monterey, Va.
Mrs. Jacob N. Hull
Morton Hull
Hubert Hull
Andrew L. Jones, Atty.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-06-22
THURSDAY.

London announces a German retreat
on front OF approximately two miles
IN the area southwest If Warneton,
Belgium.
After wiping out the Messines-Wyt'
schaete salient in the attack last week,
General Plumer continued attacking
the Germans froms time to time east
of Messines. He aimed additional
ground there. Farther south the Brit
ish also exerted pressure upon General
Won Arnim's lines.
Having lost the last of the command
ing artillery and observation positions
in this region when the Messines ridge
fell, the Germans are apparently find
ing the pressure at some points be-
yond their ability to meet.
General Sir Douglas Haig announces
that the British are following the Ger
mans closely and are moving forward
east of Ploegsteert wood and in the
neighborhocd of Gaspart village.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-06-22
4 GENERAL SURVEY OF
The WAR
MONDAY.

The Wiping out of the German sail
ent at Messines appears, in the eight
Of later developments, to be merely
tie prelude of projected battle OF a
far mightier description. The British
have resumed trench raids over front
reaching from north of Ypres to as far
south as Epehy, a distance of about
seventy miles as the crow flies, but
FIR more than that along the torturous
windings Of the battle front.
Berlin's official bulletin points fur
tier to the probability that the British
are preparing for new attacks on the
Belgian front A considerable in.
crease in the artillery activity is re-
ported there.
In the meantime there are indica'
tons that General Sarrail is preparing
tn resume the offensive in Macedonia
the Bulgarian official announcement
reporting a great increas2 in the VIC
lence of the allied artillery fire On this
front.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-06-22
War Reduces Insanity.

War as a palliative Of insanity is a
theory unfamiliar to most people, but
we have no reason to doubt the conclu-
sions of Doctor Oswald Of Glasgow
Lunatic asylum on the matter, says the
London Globe. One phase Of the SUBJ
iect is instructive and significant. This
is .'the removal of the powerful effect
of poverty on the mind, and its replace
ment by the higher standard Of living
and remunerative employment" Pow
erty and unemployment are thus by
medical testimony fore fertile causes
of insanity than war. This Is lesson
TO be borne in mind when the war is
over.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-06-22
Public Sale

On the 30th day of June, 1917.
l will offer for sale my entire Stock
of Blacksmith Tools and material.
also my shop and lot located on
south Mill street. Lot 25x723,
shop 23x4S, 2 stories, one 2 speed
drill, one 400 Champion blower, l
anvil, l vice, l set little giant
screw plates, l tire bender, l hot
tire 'shrinker, 4 kegs horse shoes,
about $50 lbs toe calks, 25 lbs
horse nails, some rod iron, 2
Ford springs, 8 buggy springs, 2
bed loops, some tools and lay steel,
some bolts and blank nuts, and a
number of,other things too tedious
to mention. ton of stone coal ,
one acetvolene welder, new with l
100 foot acetyolene tank.
Terms cash
All parties owing me will pay on
or before the day of sale or | will
sue Immediately after sale.
E. K. Samples
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-06-22
MYSTERY OF EEL EXPLAINED
Science Extracts Tale of It's Birth in
the Cold, Silent Depths of the
Midccean.

"Throughout the ages, wherever men
have speared or trapped that hard
dying, slippery eater of carrion, the
eel, it has formed the nucleus Of much
superstitious lore. Until few decades
ago even men of science admitted that
the eel embodied one of natures most
puzzling mysteries, because they had
been utterly unable to discover when
or where or how it mated and multi
piled. Today the mystery is solved,
and In it's place we have another mys-
terry. For such are the strange elu-
sive ways of life that her one reason
for permitting us to extend our knoWl-
edge seems to be desire to reveal still
more clearly the immensely of our ig-
norance, writes Edwin Bjorkman in
the Century Magazine.
eff on your map of the North Allan
tic you draw a triangle connecting the
Farce islands, the Azores and Bermu'
da with one another, the sides Of 1t will
pass through the principal breeding
grounds of the common eel. 1t Is born
far down in those silent, cold and bit
ter midsea deeps, where the pressure
is like that of hundreds Of steel safes
on top of one another; where dwell
some of the most monstrous and some
of the most exquisite organisms known
to man, and where the only light ever
seen is a pale phosphorescence that
flashes from some shadowy hunter or
some equally shadowy prey. =.
aFor half a century American, 1tal'
ian and Danish men of science have
been at work coaxing this wonderful
tale from the reluctant lips OF life,
taking down a letter or word at a
time, and reconstructing every passage
a score of times before they dared to
grant it final acceptance. Even now
the tale is not complete, but one needs
have no fear; it will be finished some
day-up to a certain point"
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-06-22
DR.. Frederic jacobson says, IS per
cent. of women need Phosphates
to give them Strong, Heal
thy. rounded figure and ID
avoid Nervous break
down. Thousands of
women grow strong
in Natures way.
in Natures way.
"Consider the Lilies of the Field,
How They Grow"

Theof life the lily is but few weeks
or months. The life of man is "three
score years and ten" But to live
ones life in it's fullness, women like
the lily, must be nourished by those
same vital elements which nature pro-
vides for nourishing every living thing
and these include the valuable phos-
phate so often lacking in the usual
food we eat today. Argo-PhOsphate
is rich in these wonderful elements.
1t contains them in concentrated tablet
form which is easy to take and quickly
assimulated and absorbed into the
system, and from youth to old age,
builds and -rebuildS body and brain in
beautiful harmony with Natures per-
feet plan. "That's why" Argo-Phos-
phate makes good flesh and muscles.
SPECIAL notice.: Argo-Phos-
phate contains the Natural phosphates
which thousand of physicians are pre-
scribing daily to build up thin, pale,
colorleSs women to give them rosy
scheeks, red lips, and beautiful COM
pleXian. Many cases have been re-
ported where women have increased
their weight from Is to rs pounds
with few weeks treatmet, and any
women who desires a we'll rounded
and developed form, should secure
from her druggist, this new drug which
is inexpensive and is dispensed by
any reliable druggist with or without
a doctors prescription. If your drug
gistwill not supply you, send $l.OO to
the Argo Laboratories, 10 Forsyth st.
Atlanta, Ca, and they will send you a
two weeks treatment by return mail.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-06-22
TUESDAY,.

Another American vessel, the armed
oil steams.ip Petrolite, has fallen vic
tim to 2 German submarine. Twenty
men have been landed. Two of the
Sims BEATS are missing. There were
thirty-eight in the Petrolite's crew, in
Guiding ten Americans when she left
New York on April 80 for Italian ports
There is again lu1l on the Franco
Ealgian front. The British. after cap
turing an additional mile of trenches
wes' Of Warneton, in the Belgian sec
to-, where their recent important ad
vance was scored confined themselves
to raiding operations.
The italian advance begun Sunday
In the Treptino was not pushed fur
Their. The Rome bulletin says that ad
we're atmospheric conditions interior
ed with the operations.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-06-22
PREDICTED TIMES OF DEATH
University of Pennsylvania Provost
Forecast Month and Year Of His
Demise Two Years In Advance.

heard a regular army officer who
saw much of General Funston in the
Philippines say half dozen years
ago that the general was a fatalist
to this extent-he expected to die
the death of a civilian and never be
killed in action, says a newspaper
writer.
The most peculiar prediction about
ones own death that I have heard
concerned DR.. William Pepper, pro-
vost Of the University of Pennsyl-
vanta. Frederick Fraley, who lived
to be nearly a century old and who
as a young man transacted business
with Stephen Girard and Nicholas Bid
die, and entertained Daniel Webster,
related the incident.
A couple of years before Peppers
death Mr.. Fraley asked the famous
doctor to perform some service in
connection with the American Philo-
sophical society.
"Can't do it," replied Doctor Pepper,
because I expect to die before then"
He then specified the month and
year in which he expected his life to
end.
"But," added the doctor after
pause, "you will live until Septem-
Der, 1901"
Both men died in the month and
year predicted by Doctor Pepper.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-06-22
Commissioners Office
Monterey. Va. June s,

Monterey, Va, June s, 1917
J. Lunsford IL Sons for etc.
VS..
A. J. Williams Administrator, ct ais.
All parties interested in the above
styled cause, now pending in the Cir
cult Court of Highland County, TAKE
NOTICE, that pursuant to decree
entered in said cause, at the April
Term, 1917, shall, at my office in
Monterey, Va, on June %. 1917, pro
coed to state, settle and adjurt the fol-
lowing accountr:
FIRST: An account of the transac-
tions of P. Fl: Williams, Admr. Of \.
J. Williams, deceased.
SECOND: An account of the real
estate of which the said Al. Williams,
died seized
THIRD: An account of the liens
against said estate, including the bal
ance of general debt if any after APP
plication of the personal estate by the
said administrator.
JOHN M. COLAW,
Commissioner in ChaEccry
E. B. Jones, D. q. C-l-2l
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-06-22
Curing BY Electric Shocks.

From time to time news has come OF
a new electrical treatment in use IN
the French army by which men, appar-
emily hopeless cripples, have been
cured by giving them very powerful
shocks Of electricity. The details OF
this treatment came out in a recent
military trial. So painful are the
shocks used in the cure that many OF
the soldiers refused to submit to the
treatment, preferring to remain Grip
pied. At the trial of these men 1t de-
veloped that the new treatment is be-
ing used in cases Of psychic shock,
where the chief injury is to the nerv-
GUS system or to the will power. Men
may be partially paralyzed from such
purely nervous shocks, and in such
cases the new treatment has restored
the use of the affected limbs. Its ac-
ceptance has now been made compul-
sorry in some of the military hospitals,
commission of physicians having
vouched for it's harmlessness, in spite
Of it's unpleasant nature. -
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-06-22
FRIDAY.

The British campaign in Belgium
gives signs of developing into one OF
the most important of the war. The
Germans find it difficult to resist the
constant pressure, and are being push
ed back.
Friday brings the announcement
from Londan of another advace in this
area. The British attacked in the re-
gion south and east of Messines and
on both sides of the Ypres-Comines
canal, gaining all their objectives,
they say.
Signs Of a probable further retreat
of the Germans are not wanting. Cor
respondents have reported the with
draval Of the German big guns in
the area east and southeast of Mes
sines to the extreme limit of their
range. The British artillery come
mand Of tire situation seems to be
almost wholly responsible for this
Welding tendency. The British big
guns secured their advantage when
Messines ridge, the only commanding
eminence in the region. was stermed
at the opening of the offensive.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-06-22
Much in Little

The national floral emblem OF
rance is the Aeur-de-lis; of Eng
Ind, the rose.
An English inventor has patented
net for recovering golf balls that
nay be driven upon water.
There are still more than 5000
heres within the metropolitan area
bf London used as farm land.
The banner of the Virgin Mary,
borne by Joan of Arc in her cam
paigns in defense of the Dauphin,
was the first white flag in French
history.
Fearing a riot at the regular
town caucus of Jamestown, R. L.,
II of the towns prettiest girls were
putin front seats, and there WASH
boot or cat call.
With the lions, tigers and other
members of the cat tribe, the
night finds them at their llvelest
and they sleep most between the
midday meal and supper time.
1t has been ordered by the
Seattle City Council that hereafter
members of orchestras and the
audience must stand when The
Star spangle Banner is being played
or sung.
Sun glasses have been invented
for baseball players so hinged to a
cap that touch will drop them
into position for man to see a
ball coming toward him while look
ing directly at the sun.
For 81 centuries the shadoo, a
type of sweep used by the Egyp-
tians for raising water, has been in
common use. Indeed, it is thought
by some TO have been an ancient
device even $500 years before
Christ.
Cold storage is not the only
solution of the egg problem Early
Matched pullets of the American
breeds that begin to lay in the fall
is one that promises to make good.
In order to "change the dates" on
hens an incubator will probably be
needed.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-06-22
Woman Landscape Gardener Succeeds

Miss Mabel Keyes Babcock, for four
years in charge Of the department of
horticulture and landscape architec-
ture at Wellesley college, has been
chosen to design the great formal gar
den which is to be feature Of the
new residence Of the president Of the
Massachusetts Institute Of Technology
at Boston, and which is to be an i'm
pressive detail of the magnificent new
installation of that institution. Miss
Babcock is one of the most distin-
guished landscape gardeners of her sex
in the country, and she has done no.
table work in landscape effects for the
Wellesley grounds, for several great
estates in Chicago and also in greater
Boston.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-06-22
Catarrh Cannot Be Cured

with LOCAL. APPLICATIONS, as they
cannot reach the seat of the disease. Ca
tarrh is blood or constitutional disease.
and in order TO cure it you must take in
ternal remedies. Halls Catarrh Cure is
taken internally, and acts directly upon
the blood and mucous surface. Hairs
Catarrh Cure is not quacl1 medicine. 1t
was prescribed by one of the best ply
scans in this country for years and Is
a regular prescription. 1t is composed or
the best tonics known. combined with the
best blood. purifiers, acting directly on the
mucous surfaces. The perfect combina-
ton of the two ingredients is what pro-
duces such wonderful results in curing
catarrh. Send for testimonials, free.
T. J. CHENEY & CO., Props. Toledo, 0.
Sold by Druggists. price 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-06-22
81 ANURIGs"
THE NEWEST
DISCOVERY in CHEMISTRY

This is a recent discovery OF Doctor
Pierce, who is head of the Invalids'
Hotel and Surgical Institute at Buffalo,
Ny. Experiments at Doctor Pierce's
Hospital for several years proved that
there is no other eliminator of uric acid
that can be compared to it. For those
easily recognized symptoms of lntam-
nation as backache, scaldlng urine
and FREQUENT urination, as well as sedl-
ment in the urine, or if uric acid in the
blood has caused rheumatism, it IS
simply wonderful how surely Anurlc !"
acts. The best of results are always
obtained in cases of acute rheumatism
in the joints, in gravel and govt, ana
invariably the pains and stiffness which
SO frequently and persistently accom-
pany the disease rapidly disappear. -,
Go to your nearest drug store and
simply ask for 50-cent package OF
uAnuric,D manufactured by DR.. Pierce,
or even write Doctor Pierce for a free
sample. If you suspect kidney or blad-
der trouble, send him sample OF your
water and describe symptoms. Doctor
Pierce's chemist will examine it, then
DR.. Pierce will report to you, without
fee or charge.
NOTE: French scientists affirm that
uAnuric" is thirty seven times more
active than lithia in eliminating uric
acid. and is harmless but reliable
chemical compound that may be safely
given to children, but should be used
only by grown-ups who actually wish to
restore their kidneys to perfect health,
by conscientiously using one box or
more in extreme cases-as "Anurlc"
THANKS to Doctor Pierce's achievement
is by far the most perfect kidney and
bladder corrector obtainable.
DR.. Pierce's Pellets are the original
little Liver Pills. One little Pellet for
n ,aratiro-throo for q cath artic
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-06-22
Notice

Bids will be received by the Clerk OF
Stonewall School Board until noon
June 80, 1917, for furnishing wood for
the school term of l9ll-lS. Wood TO
be put on ground, seasoned and right
lenght. Mcdowell and Doe Hill by
the cord, other schools for the term.
BY order of the Bord.
6-l-3t S. C. Eagle, Clerk.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-06-22
SATURDAY.,

Heavy Fighting is in progress In
Belgium, France and along the Aus
tro-Italian front, with the entente
forces on the aggressive.
Rome reports consider1b'e achieve
ment by Alpine troops in the capture
of a strong American position at Cor
no Cavento. in the eastern Trentlno
at an altitude of more than 10000 feet
Two field guns and several smaller
runs were taken from the Austrians
Attacks on Italian positions in Other
sectors were reDulsed.
The British attacked again in the
Bullecourt region on the Arras front
end olong the ARA Cambria road, az
cording to indications in the Berlin
sGicial statement. The repulse o.
British attacks in Belgium and on IT,
1 rtois front is claimed.