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Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-12-07

! There seems to be one very signiti.
cant point about the whole thing. Al
though the French war office reports
him officially missing, there is no au-
thentic news of his death. There is 4
curious custom in the chiValry Of the
air. Upon an aviator's death the enc
my reports with a wreath and writ
ten condolation weighted and dropped
to earth over the hero's comrades
Thus far, as regards Guynemer, the
custom seems to have been neglected
by the Germans. The odds seem to be
that the noble airlAan has met his
death, but in view of the circumstan-
ccs the case will rank with that Of
Lord Kitchener, whom, many persons
believe, is even now prisoner among
the Germans.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-12-07

Future Naa, MsA aies ase not WaFsh
tho sBaea they occupy and should al,
ther be given to somebody who can
use them or sold for whatever they
will bring.
For convenience, as well as for clean
illness, any piece of furniture should be
thoroughly clean when put away. II
it is not, stains and odors and dust
will go deeper and deeper into it until
in many cases articles become useless
even while stored away awaiting the
time when they will be needed.
A woman who has hobby of keep
ing all the frills and furbelows of her
.girlhood has shocked some of her
friends by dragging from trunks and
closets for their inspection laces, gowns
ior linens which were put away with
Eout removing stains or in soiled con.
tdition. After being kept for years in
this way the articles lost whatever
beauty they originally possessed.
A careful housekeeper hit upon a
fclever idea to rid her house of all ar
iticles which did not justify their posi-.
!tion in her house either because of
their usefulness or their beauty. She
removed to the Storeroom all articles
of whose value she was doubtful. She
allowed them to remain in this store
room for a month, at the end of which
time she was able to determine wheth-
er any of them justified being rein
stated in her home. She was surprised
that so few of them were found worth
retaining. Some such idea can be car
ried ont to advantage by almost every
housekeeper.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-12-07
PLAY SPELL is NECESSITY
Why All Work and No Play Makes
Jack a Dull Boy.

Gall work and no play makes Jack
q dull boy" is an old saying which has
lived because Of its truth. 1t is quite
as true of the older boy as of the
younger. Everyone needs recreation,
a play spell. Neither mind nor body
can be kept constantly under tension
without exacting heavy penalty, says
writer in the Milwaukee Journal.
The vacation is needed and pays in
renewed vigor Of body and mind.
Keeping the spirit of play, one keeps
from growing old too quickly. Many
trifing annoyance can be turned
away with merry heart that has
readiness to see the amusing side Of g,
thing, if one is in good enough health
and spirits to see the funny side. a
happy, cheerful temper promotes good
health, and good health promotes q
happy, cheerful temper. Do not be
forever afraid of seeming foolish when
you play. 1t is good for you to relax,
to be inconsequential, to let a spirit
of play run riot for a time. Being
always on ones dignity takes from the
genial spirit and ages one too early.
Being in merry spirit help you do your
work easier. A task is lighter for the
hearts being light.
The more serious your occupation,
the heavier your cares, the more you
need play spell. However great you
may be, however important your occu-
patton, forget them both for time.
Let yourself Loose from the tension Of
cares and become a child in spirit.
You will live longer and do better
work for it.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-12-07
Monqoose as Cat Understudy.

Islands in the tropical or semi-trop.
zeal seas furnish ideal conditions for
rats, and in many instances they have
increased until they have become in.
tolerable pests, threatening the total
ruin of the inhabitants. On one sugar
cane plantation-in Puerto Rico $4,000
rats were killed in less than six
months.
In Jamaica an effort was made to
suppress them by introducing the mon
goose, which resulted in the establish.
ment of a second pest. In the Ha-
waiian Islands the introduction Of the
mongoose caused the rats to take ref
uge in-the tree-tops, where many of
them have nests and have arboreal
habits, like squirrels. Wherever pres
ent on these islands the mongoose has
rendered it exceedingly difficult to
raise domestic fowls of any kind
National Geographic Magazine.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-12-07
oatme,ai Soup.

Take three-fourt!is of cupfuI OF
leftover cooked oatineal, one Medium
sized onion, tablespo onful of butter,
a fourth of a teaspoonful of celery
seed, one-half a bay leaf, stwo cupfuls
of water or stock, two cupfuls of milk,
salt and pepper to taste. Cook the on
ion in the butter until soft. Add the
bay leaf, celery seed, oatmeal and milk
and water. Boil up and strain, season
with salt and pepper and serve or hot
hnttered toast. e,A
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-12-07
CEREAL aoffos.

Mix together two quarts Of bran, one
quart Of underground cornmeal and
one cupful of molasses until 1t resem.
bles moist brown sugar. Turn the mix
ture into two large dripping pans and
brown slowly in the oven, stirring of
ten. When done it will be a rich seal
brown color. Store in fruit jars. Use
two tablespoonfuls to cupful and a
half of water and boil 20 minutes. This
is especially good for the children who
think they must indulge in coffee when
the grown-ups have it.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-12-07

NOW COMMON WORDS
ho w ARE MISUSED.

% 49, ~ ~1-b| ~ h13-Os
. No sOlecisms are more fire.
e auent than those which consist
z in the common misuse Of shall" :
!. and "will." A person who has
q not been trained to make the
& proper distinction between
!: "shall" and will" Should" and
I: would" never can be sure of
! using them correctly, but he will
!: make few mistakes If he fixes
!. firmly in his mind that / Tor WEI
: shall, you will, he (or they) will,
: express simple futurity and that
!: l Tor WEI will, you shall, he Tor ,
!. they) shall, imply volition on the
! part of the speaker. Some .
: writer's hold that "shalP' was
|: the originil form. of the future
!. and that whenever courtesy per-
J. mits. "shalP is to be preferred to
! "wilL" But at all events, the
doctrine of courtesy furnishes
!: rough and ready rule for choice
!. between the two.
!. SHOULD" and awould" follow
the same rules as "shalP' ana :
! "will," but they have, in addl-
: ton, certain meanings peculiar
:, ly their own. SHOULD" is some
: times used in it's original sense
as sought" as in you Should
: not do that" sometimes in
!. conditional sense, as in SHOULD
: you ask me- about that" and .
after "lest," as in "He fled lest :
: he should be imprisoned.
: would" is sometimes used to :
signify habitual action, as IN
!: "The squire would sometimes fall
: asleep in the most pathetic part
of the sermon"
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-12-07
Pecan Macaroons.

Grind cupful of pecan meats and
eight soda crackers through the meat
chopper, using the fine knife. Beat
the whites of two eggs, add a cupful
of sugar, tablespoonful of cocoa, a
teaspoonful of vanilla, then the ground
nuts and crackers. Bake in a mod
crate oven 20 minutes. Coconut could
be used in place of the pecans If pre-
ferred.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-12-07
uNW7 GRUBSTANE BE-
1Ao w CAME FORTUNE.

Probably the largest fortune
that ever came from a very
, small grubstake was that at,
Tombstone mines, when Richard
) Grid got about 100000 from
grubstake of a few hundred dol
, lars and some scientific work.
In 1873, Grid, who had been vain
ly seeking riches in mines for a
dozen years in South America,
and all over the Pacific coast,
went down to southwestern Ari-
IONA. The Apaches were raid
, ing and numbering at that time,
J and the territory was deserted
by white settlers. Grid was told
that he would get a tombstone
: rather than fortune there.
: Hence the name Tombstone for
5 the mines.
! He found no trace of pay ore
where he expected it, and was
about to come back to southern
California.
One morning he fell in with
other prospectors, the Scheffelin
: brothers. They said they be-
: Iieved they had found rich ore,
but they wanted to have it as
! sayed before they would risk
their lives in that Apache coun-
: try digging for something that
: would not pay them. Grid was
: an assayer. He agreed to do
the assaying at Tuscon for the
: brothers free and to give sew
eral hundred dollars worth of
: food and clothing for third in
: terest in the mines, providing
: the assay proved what he be-
lieved it would be. That was in
: May, 1879. Mr.. Grid sold his
! third interest in the Tombstone
mines in the following October,
after the memorable stampede
there of 10000 miners from all
parts Of the Union, for S2,l40,-
600.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-12-07
NEW BREED OF LEGHoRN

Ohio Fancler Expects Big Things OF
New Chicken.
By crossing a black leghorn with q
white leghorn nine years ago, Paul q.
Gibbs Of Canton, o., is well along on
his plan to produce new breed OF
egg-laying chicken, a breed which he
believes eventually will outstrip all 9th
ers. In ten years, he says, the fowl
will be as well developed as perfect
new strain.
The chicken he is developing Is
cslled the barred leghorn, the feath-
ers being black and white, and barred
as is the bareback. 1t resembles
the leghorn in height and weight
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-12-07
ALASKA PLACERS MAY CLOSE
High Cost of Labor and Supplies
Leaves No Profits.

Alaska's placer mines, when they
close down for the winter, will not re-
open until after the war unless oper-
-ating expenses are reduced.
F. s. Hammill, a mining man from
the Circle City district, who is on his
way East to confer with fnanciers on
the situation, said placer mining in
Alaska at present promised no profit.
Shortage of labor, increased cost Of
all supplies, and the eight-hour labor
law were given as causes. He did not
think the quartz mines would suffer
as do the placers, since they operate
throughout the year.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-12-07
HOW
To Keep a House Clear
OF Useless Things

wv WIEN a piece of furniture be-
"a "a 7 comes worn or broken or~for
" " any reason unfit for use, the
housekeeper should deter
mine at once whether it is worth re
pairing and keeping for further use. II
is the same with old clothing, discard
ed draperies and other accumulations
If they have not sufficient value to be
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-12-07

Jesus Christ. But
since he did not
diSown it it be-
comes for that
reason very pre-
cious to every
soul who has come
to believe on him.
~ The friend
ship of Jesus for
sinners, who trust
in him, is marked
by absolute disin-
terestedness. 1t is
meant by this
that 1t does not
depend upon any
thing in US. Solo
mon says that
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-12-07
9St Relish.

Take quart of chopped, cooked
beets, two cupsuE of sugar, a quart OF
chopped cabbage, cupful of 'horserad-
ish and a cupful of chopped celery.
Cover with cold vinegar and seal. This
will keep all wintE and makes a, very
good relish.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-12-07
Notice

The Rosrd of Supervisors q
.jigFllapd county and w. P 3
Loebri9 ge ere hereby notified not
TO ttespass on me in building the
road from W. L. Crummett to the
routhall el,fpel by throwing r'scEs
il my fields or putting any thing in
river uatk They nite keeA
md limiirr a sf tiie
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-12-07

This is the very latest photograph OF
DR.. Alexis Carrel, who is so busy these
days at the Rockefeller War Demon.
stration hospital that he seldom allows
photographer a few minutes of his
time in which to snap him. Doctor
Carrel is at present engaged in teach.
ing United States army doctors the
latest methods of dressing wounds on
the battlefield.
Doctor Carrel is well fitted for this
task of instruction for, besides being
pre-eminent in surgical work before
the war, ne has served his native land,
France, in a war hospital on the west
ern front.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-12-07
Mothers Cook Book.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.;

It's a gay nd world if you're great,
And m an old world If you're small;
It's a word full of hate
For the foolish who prate
Of the us. essness Of it all.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-12-07
Corn Patties.

Take a half-cupful of corn, three
cupfuls of chopped ham, one beaten
egg and dash of pepper. Form into
cakes and fry brown on both sides.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-12-07
~Twilight sleep" Has Competitor.

Twilight Sleep" it is said, will be
superseded by the use of nitrous oxid-
oxygen gas to make childbirth pain
less. The latter gas, the new use of
which was discovered by DIR. Carl
Henry Davis, in Rush Medical college,
Is practically harmless, while twilight
Sleep is regarded by American doctors
as being extremely dangerous to the
patient.
Nitrous gas, according to Doctor Da-
Wis, deadens all pain, but allows free
dom of thought and action. "A patient
under its Influence can follow instruc-
tons, and it need be inhaled only in
small quantities and at infrequent In
tervals to be successful.
6tborroW is cheaper to sui,
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-12-07
Celery on Toast.

Celery with cheese in. cream sauce
served on toast makes a nutritious and
apnetizing dish.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-12-07
Passenger Service

passenger OGTVIC6
After the fist of July ! will run
my passenger car between Monte
rey and Barlow Durliu, etc. Will
give first class service. Kindly let
me know a few days in advance of
trip. Rates reasonable.
Respectfully,
w. M. Niner, Nor terey, Va.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-12-07
Divine
Friendship
BY REV. JAMES M. GRAY, DID,.
Dean Of Moody Bible Institute,
Chicago

TExT-Behold a friend of publicans and
sinners Matthew 11:19.
This was q name given derlsively by
pharisees to our Lord and Saviour,
The Pulaskian., 1917-11-02

riously circumvented in some cases and put out of business in others. They are not complaining and buyers and manufacturers are being taxed to the marrow. The farmer is offered price never before offered and he is guaranteed against loss in case peace is declared before next year.
 Cotton May Be Regulated.
 When 1 was Tn Washington i'll July and talked with Mr. Hoover, he talk ed somewhat about regulating the prices of cotton and cotton goods. He said that we must furnish the work ing man with food at reasonable prices. I agreed with him on this, b,.t also suggested to him that the first year of the war increased the proffts O the Northern and Western grain far mer 100 per cent, but neserly ruined the South, and that cotton, which cost between nine and h cents pound to produce. sold from five to seven cents pound. suggested that if the price of cotton must be regulated, more year to sell on an unrestricted market This idea seemed to appeal to MT. Hoover. I believe the food administration intends not to regulate tie price of cotton and cottonseed products except for products derived from cotton seed this year, but 1 would not be surprised to. see the price of cotton and cotton products li- censed and regulated next year. At present the cotton mills are maiking better than 50 per cent and l believe that the food administration will reg
The Pulaskian., 1917-11-02

the state, to be distributed by them to the chairmen of the County Coun- cils of Defense where the counties are organized, or to others who have agreed to handle the campaign The following letter Is sent the clerks:
 Your county has families, and l am sending you -- Pledge Cards. If this amount is not sufficient. write me and will send you more. If for any reason the county chairman of the Council of Defense fails to call for these cards, want you to please see that they are properly distributed over your county and that some be sent to every public school in your county. Please do not fail to do this.
 We are sending you Home Cards for the kitchen They are to be given out with the Pledge Cards; that is. when you send out the Pledge Cards, send the proportion of Home Cards.
 When we have received all the signed Pledge Cards from your county we will send you Window Membership Cards for distribution to those who have signed a Pledge Card. We will also send you a written copy, giving names and postoffice address of each person who signed a Pledge Card, and by that you will know who to give the Window Membership Cards"
The Pulaskian., 1917-11-02
FEARS HIGH
 COTTON PRICES
W. N. ADAMS OF ARkOELPHiA MILLING. COMPANY ARGUES STILL THAT WHEAT IS THE
 COUNTRY SALVATION.

w. N. Adams. of the Philadelphia Milling Company, who has been ap- pointed member of the committee to formulate plans under which corn mil lers are to be licensed in the United States, who is shipping thousands of barrels of four to the Allies, and also sending grits to the. boys in the trenches, is solicitous less the high price of cotton cut down the prospec- tive wheat acreage.
 MT. Adams expresses himself on the question as follows:
 Since the recent advance in prices of cotton, we have noticed quite lag ging of interest in wheat raising. This is condition that should not exist. Some farmers say that they are dis appointed with the price of wheat and or that reason are not increasing the acreage Gs they had intenoed. They seem to overlook the fact that the krain dealer. the commisaAon men, the millers and others have been se-
The Pulaskian., 1917-11-02

card in our National Cleanup Pledge Card Campaign in Arkansas. My moth CT appreciates this as an honor confer red upon her. She endured many of the privations of the Civil War, and knows how necessary 1t is for us to conserve, not to waste, especially dur ing crisis like this. She has been a resident of Arkansas for sixty years. am her oldest son, and product Of the Civil War, born in Arkansas in 18C0."
 The campaign is started with the signatures of ten prominent women of the State, as follows:
 Mrs. Malvina Williams of Womble.
 Mrs. Charles H. Brough, wife of the governor.
 Mrs. Lloyd England. wife Of Adju- tant General England.
 Mrs. Jo Frauenthal of Conway, di- rector of the Women's Committee.
 Mrs. John Ike Moore of Helena. president of the State Federation.
 Mrs. J. k. Gibbons of Bauxite
 Mrs. J. C. Futrall, wife of the prcst- dent of the University.
 Mrs. E. W. Torreyson, wife of the president of the State Normal.
 Mrs. J. E. Dickinson of Little Rock.
 Mrs. W. H. Arnold of Texarkana-
The Pulaskian., 1917-11-02
ARKANSAS WOMEN MAY DO
 THEIR BIT IN CAMPAIGN
Federal Food Administrator Williams Urges Them to Sign Pledge
 Cards.
To the Women of Arkansas:

To the Women of Arkansas:
 If the women of Arkansas fail to sign the pledge cards, it will be my fault in not giving them an opportu nifty to do so, or else that l failed to explain to them the real objects and purposes of the pledge. If they under stand what it means to themselves towns. counties, States, and to the n1- tional government, as well as their boys who are on their way to the trenches, and are looking back as they go, saying to wife, mother or sister. Wont you sign that pledge card and agree to feed me while I am in the trenches?" I doubt if there is mother in the State that whould refuse if they understood it. Furthermore, they will be willing to endure many hardships to avail themselves of the glorious op- portunity.
 Mr. Hoover Is trusting me with this campaign, and it is my solemn duty to conduct it in a way that will rebound to the credit of my people, and 1 ap- peal to them to do their duty.
 l am sending the cards to each coun- ty clerk of every county in the State in order that all the people will have a chance of drawing cards from him to sign and distribute.
 The chairman of the County Council of Defense. both divisions, men and women. are expected to supervise the distribution of the pledge cards. but clerk is requested to see to it that the women of his county have an opportu- nifty to sign these cards.
 HAMP WILLIAMS.
 Federal Food Administrator
 for Arkansas
The Pulaskian., 1917-11-02
MOST pERNrcIous PRIESTHOOD.

A Logan county woman, Writing to Food Administrator Williams, says the pernicious falsehood is still in circufa- tion In some sections that "the gov ernment will confiscate all canned stuff and ship to France" The government autS critics have adopted all known means of branding this as an enemy report calculated to cause discontent. Rewards have even been offered for those who wilfully circulate the re- port. It is too ridiculous to merit . moments notice by intelligent people.
 WHAT THE STATES PLEDGE.
 Delaware has accepted 45.000 fam flies as it's goal for food pledges Tho total is brought up to 1z,60O, 263, with Pennsylvania. Missouri and the Dir trict Of Columbia to hear from xhfs. $ the minimum number the campaign directors are pledged to enroll
The Pulaskian., 1917-11-02
TEN WOMEN ARE FIRST TO
 SIGN THE PLEDGE CARDS
Mother of Food Administrator Williams Given Honor of Signing the
 First Card.

Hamp Williams, Federal Food Ad- ministrator for Arkansas, started his campaign for the signing of the Food Pledge Card by driving fifty miles last Saturday, to Womble. Montgomery county. to enable his mother to sign the first card. The story is told in the following telegram to the Food Administrator in Washington:
 T have driven fifty miles into the rurss districts to give my widowed mother. who is 77 years of age, an oDportunity to sign the first pledge
The Pulaskian., 1917-11-02

u1ettS luSSe plOllS cuu put luelu OAl d reasonable basis, just as they have done with the four mills.
 Should Increase Wheat Acreage.
 If this is done and with the enor- nous shortage of labor, it is going to be more profitable to raise wheat than cotton,- We are not in favor of re- ducing materially the cotton acreage, but we do believe that the wheat acre. age in Arkansas should be increased 100 per cent. The farmers can raise wheat and where raising wheat costs Jess than raising cotton, the farmer is "a stacker if he does not raise wheat when he knows that his country must have it.
 "This week I returned from a trip to Washington and all along the way in Ohio, Illinois and Indiana I noticed that farmers were shocking their corn and putting this years corn fields in to wheat. Arkansas farmers can shock their corn and put this years corn fields into wheat and they can put this years cotton fields into wheat because wheat can be sown in Arkansas month or six weeks later than in the Northern states. Some of the best wheat we ever raised was sown between the fifteenth and twen- tieth of November. It is a fact that the United States and Canada haven't raised enough wheat this year and un- less wheat acreage is increased and unless people substitute corn meal and other food products for flour. flour and wheat will run out in less than two re