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Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-01-10
Old YaIenciennes.

"The town of lace" wrote William
Of Orange to the Estates on the 18th
Of April. 1877, lis lost to us. We are
very sorry to be obliged to tell your
high mightinesses that it has not pleas
ed God to bless on this occasion the
arms Of the state under our guidance"
But lace is no longer made in Valen-
ciennes, the capital Of an arrondisse-
ment in the department Of the Nord
and a fortress Of the second class. But
it is nevertheless quaint town, with
sufficient seventeenth century houses
to give it q medieval appearance. The
handsome Hotel de Vile is also largely
seventeenth century work, and before
the war contained large collection of
tapestries and of paintings, especially
of the Flemish school. The city also
possessed an academy Of sculpture and
painting, a museum Of natural his
tory, q lycee and an arsenal.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-01-10
OLDEST OF EARTH's CITIES
Damascus Has Seen the Rise and Fall
of Races Which Are Mere Shad-.
oWs in History.

What times and changes such
place as Damascus has seen, what
waves of peoples, what rise and fall
of kings, what increase and collapse
of greatness, what Kaleidoscope his
tory What the autochthonous popula-
>tion Of the place was is a point prob
ably past historic decision. The ear
Hest records find in control q race In
definitely related to the Mesopotami-
ans. Then the march of races and
peoples begins, and the, rise and fall
of conquerors. Hittites, Amorites,
Suit, Khabiri, Jews, Assyrians, Gin.
merians, Egyptians, Armenians, Arabs,
Persians, Macedonians, Parthians, Ro-
mans, Seleucids, the Omayyads, the
Abbassides, Mongols, Tartars, modern
Egyptians, Ottomans, and the English,
have swept through this oldest dwell
ling place of gregarious humanity, and
still it fourishes, to this day as popu-
lous as such places as Kansas City or
Denver or Indianapolis, Louisville, st.
Paul, or Rochester, and relatively far
more important.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-01-10
Considerate in Death.

When Sir Ralph Abercromby was
MORALLY wounded IN the battle Of
Aboukir he was carried on 6 litter
on board the Foudroyant. To ease his
pain a soldiers blanket was placed I'M
der his head. He asked what it was.
IL. "It's only soldiers blanket" he
was told.
"Whose blanket is it?" he persisted,
raising himself. ,-
"Only one of the mems"
IT want to know the name of the
man whose blanket this is" the dying
commander insisted.
ut is Duncan Roy's of the Forty
second, Sir Ralph" said his attendant
at last.
"Then see that Duncan Roy gets his
blanket this night" commanded the
brave man, who did not forget even in
his last agonies the comfort and well
fare of his men.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-01-10
sAvAaEs USED POISON GAS"
ingredients Were Different, but OBJ
ject Was the Same as That Sought
By the Germans.

AS is we'll known, the Germans In
the great war were anticipated by
some savage tribes in the use of poi
Sonous gas for war purposes. Nature
quotes authorities to show that tribes
like the Tupinamba and Guaranis OF
-the Brazil littoral and on the Rio
Parana used poisonous gases in at
lacking fortified villages. Men went
in front of the attacking party, each
holding a pan with embers in one
hand and ground red pepper in the
other. When the wind was against
the Spaniards they Sprinkled the pep
per on the emberS. This was also
done in attacks on the Spaniards in
Venezuela. In the same way pepper
was largely used in exercising de-
mons and evil spirits. The. use OF
this pepper, known as Ali, would soon
be discovered by these Indians, who
cultivated the plant extensively. 1t
was only necessary for some one to
upset basin of Ali into the fire and
a hut would soon be cleared of its oc-
cupants. The use of the smoke In
warfare would be a natural develop
ment.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-01-10
APES SUFFER IN CAPTIVITY
GoriIIas, Taken From Their Native
Haunts, Speedily Die From Pure
Lack of Companionship.

"Any sympathy that soft-hearted
person has for captive gorillas Is not
misplaced" says Miss Ellen Velvin in
"From Jungle to Zoo"
"Many gorillas have been captives,
but in spite of the greatest care few
have lived more than comparatively
short time. There seems to be no par
ticular ailment from which they suf-
fer-nothing except intense home or
heart sickness. They grieve them
selves to death.
Cali the anthropoid or manlike
apes, such as gorillas, orang-outangs
and chimpanzees, are extremely SEN
sitive to surroundings and environ
ments. In order to keep these big
apes in good health it is absolutely
necessary to give them plenty of COM
pany, either Of their own kind or Of
men-anything, in fact, to relieve the
tedium Of captivity, which they I'M
doubtedly feel. When a chimpanzee
gets a new companion he goes into
the widest state Of excitement; he
thumps the floor and walls, scampers
round his cage, and screams with de-
light"
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-01-10
"Oh, Hannah !"

One of our Indian" names loses
some Of its flavor of romance under the
Investigation of VIII G. Steel, gazet-
tep., in Steel Points. He says that the
musical name of Ne-wan-nah, in Clat-
sop county, Oregon, was derived from
the circumstances that pioneer Of the
place who employed several men also
had daughter named Hannah.
One of the men presented her with
a hat, which she did not appreciate,
and his fellow workers made sport of
him by calling to one another in his
presence, ooh, Hannah" The term,
Mr.. Steel finds, finally became attach
ed to the stream as O'Hannah, subse-
quently becoming Newannah. The
word is also said to be Indian for wa
terfall," but probably this is only CO.
incidence, for Mr.. Steel gives full ere
dence to the "Oh, Hannah" version.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-01-10
TaIIow Dips in Denmark.

Denmark has a lighting problem SO
serious that the Danish government re-
Gently purchased 400 tons of talloW
from which to make candles, Com
mercial Agent Normal Anderson re-
ports from Copenhagen.
"There is a scarcity of kerosene also,
and electricity is, of course, not avail
able to the isolated farmhouse. says
Mr.. Anderson, who quotes from the
Tidsskrift for Industri, which, in dis
cussing the possibilities of acetylene
and alcohol illumination, states:
"Acetylene may now legally be used
and may be included in fire insurance
risks. AS result the manufacture
of acetylene lamps has flourlshed great
ly and at the end of the year $50
types had been put on the MARKET
Exchange.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-01-10
TOO MUCH WASTED ENERGY
Writer Has Right Idea in Pointing
Out Folly of the Present-Day
Hustle and Bustle.

The world is always In a hubbub;.
people rushing here and there IN
what appears to be a futile fashion.
Why do we not conserve our energies,
save our time and strength for big
things? What does the hustle and
hustle amount to, when we do sit
down and rest and think? Nothing!
because we could have done what we
did without that tense nervousness
which so. many of us think we must
assume, to make others think we have
important business on hand. If we
only knew how much more force,
strength and ability lies behind
calm exterior our aim would be to
assume that pose until it became our
rightful inheritance.
"Out of silence comes thy strength"
1t brings wonderful results, results
that show us how oaC power is IN
creasing. Try to be calm for a few
days and watch the issue. You will
marvel at your strength. be astonished
at your success.
Be silent, patiently listen, and wait
for the strength that is bestowed on
all. 1t is like the ruby in value, a
priceless treasure--a life force, in
other words, which makes geniuses OF
men and women.
Begin tomorrow. Go slow but sure,
knowing you are doing the right thing.
Put aside all nervousness and hurry.
You will be amazed at the results ;
people will come to you because that
force being magnetic will draw all
good things in your direction. Some
may say, 81 cannot do this. There is
too much to be done in short time"
We need not go to the other extreme
and become snails; but by striking the
happy medium" our success will
come, perhaps slowly at first, but
surely, observation-disclosures.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-01-10
-.--i
in THEIR LAST LONG SLEEP
beautiful Spot In Which Have Been
Laid American Soldiers Who
Died In l.iberty's Cause.

On the wooded slope of steep hill
that rises high over a great bend IN
the River Seine lies little plot or
earth that is as much America as is
the national cemetery at Arlington or
the hallowed ground of Gettysburg. Ii
is q quiet and peaceful spot, for al
though Paris is near-the slender PIN
nacle of the Eiffel tower is in plain
view over the >trees-the city Is sepa'
rated from the American cemetery at
Surnesnes by the green eNpanse or
the Bots de Boulogne. The heart or
the city that Is the heart of the world
is not five miles away; you would
think it at least fifty. 1t Is spot far
removed from war, and yet there are
enough Of the accoutrcments of war
about it to remind the visitor that the
700 graves here are the graves OF SOL
diprs-mostly Of soldiers who died OF
their wounds on the journey in from
the front or at one of the hospitals in
or near the capital. Further up the
slope frown the rampartS of the tort
of Mount Valerien, one in the chain
of defenses that surround Paris. Dur
Ing hostilities planes flew from field to
field, the drone of, their motors never
so clear as in this quiet countryside
And more warlike still, an occasional
cannon shot echoed from a testing
ground in the neighborhood. The lit
tie cemetery itself, with its we'll
aligned rows CT white wooden crosses
will some day be as green and fair
Gods acre as any in France. 1t Is
becoming so as fast as the loving
hands of the living can convert it into
one. Even lii these fresh fall days.
the graves are all abloom, and hardy
shrubs add a touch of somber beauty
to the little corners and round points
Stars and Stripes, Paris.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-01-10
Worlds Greatest Troopship.

One of the devoted women who nave
not spared themselves at the emer-
gency aid rooms told this story among
the flying needles the other day TO
her co-workers. A letter from the
front has brought the intelligence:
A pompous German major had fallen
into the hands of our valorous Penn
sylvania troops, and after they had
questioned him, he ventured to ask
them for information.
"How many men have you on this
side of the water?" he inquired.
1.-TWO Million" answered q young
lieutenant.
GLOW did you get them over? was
the incredulous query of the Hun.
zone boat brought them all over"
was the answer.
The German stared. "How sof
What boat was that?"
I The American gave the German
searching look. 1.-THE Lusitania," he
answered, Observation-Disclosures Lead
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-01-10
aEcoRD PRICE FOR SPEECH
chauncey Depew Tells Of Occasion
When Few Spoken WordS Were
Worth Much Money.

In commenting upon the death of
Mrs, Russell Sage, Chauncey NJ. De
pew, who knew Mrs. Sage for 40 years
and was an intimate associate of her
husband for a>4onger period, told how
he made a $4,000 speech at her sug-
geStion.
Mr.. Depew stated that although Mr..
Sage accumulated vast fortune he
rarely gave away any money, adding
that the reason for this was the con-
tidence which he reposed in the judy
ment of his wife as an able and eX-
perienced philanthropist. He said that
years ago lie received letter from
Mrs. Sage inviting him to make an
address at the Emma Willard school,
at Troy, N. Y, upon the occasion OF
the donation by Mr.. Sage to the school
of a large sum of money for use in
erecting building. This was the
school of which Mrs. Sage was a grad
uate.
81 replied" said Mr.. Depew, that
| was so overwhelmed with engage
mcnts to speak that it would be I'M
possible for me to accept the invita-
ton. In answer l received by special
messenger note from Mrs. Sage
saying: Russell is going to give
$4,000. He will not give one cent
unless you make the speech. This Is
Russell's first excursion into this field.
Don't you think he ought to be err
couraged%
"My immediate reply was: I will
make that speech
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-01-10
Neutrality That Counts.

Companionship, business co-opera-
ton and home discipline and happi-
ness depend upon neutrality that
knows when to refrain, withhold, SUBJ
NIT and even to submerge ones ideas
and personality for the sake Of let
ting otherwise drab, uninteresting peo-
pie or subjects come out in the clear
light.
But let us not permit our neutrality
to make us so Indifferent and inatten-
tive to faults or errors of irdiscretion
that we cannot voice some protest
helpful to delinquent warning factions,
whether it be in the home or In the,
larger WorfaaIsly world.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-01-10
CROSSED BREEDS OF DUCKS
'Rurbanked" Type, In Louisiana, Will
Not Migrate, as Is Customary
With the Species.

Stanley Clisby Arthur, ornithologist
of the conservation commission OF
Louisiana, is authority for the state
ment that the state "Burbanked" the
wild duck, the cross of which "set,"
and they produced duck that will
remain in the state the year round.
Louisiana is visited by the green
head mallard, which leaves in the
spring for the North. Also by another
species known as the summer mallard,
or Florida duck, which spends Its
summer in Louisiana and winters In
Mexico and Central America. 1t leaves
Louisiana on the approach of cold
weather.
The experiment Of crossing the
greenhead mallard, the winter visitor.
with. the summer mallard, or Florida
duck, the summer visitor, was con-
Quoted by NJ. L. Alexander, conserva-
ton commissioner, and Edward A. Nc.
Ilhenny at Avery island, state pre-.
serve.
Species of the two ducks were
trapped, mated and the eggs proved
fertile. The experiment proved sue
cess. The "Burbanked" ducks have
been termed the Louisiana mai
lard" The Louisiana mallard" has
produced its own young, and Mr.. Ar
thur says the cross has "set."
Hundreds of these Louisiana mai
lards" were released on Marsh island,
wild life sanctuary, so that they
might perpetuate themselves.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-01-10
SMALL SUMS WORTH SAVING
How Amounts That Seem Insignificant
Pile Up Into Figures That Are
Impressive.

A great French banker was once
asked the secret Of French thrift, and
he replied, compound interest" just
as constant waste, even In nttle
things, may change ones life from sue
cess to failure, so the steady saving OF
money will eventually bring independ-
ence, if not actual wealth.
Let us analyze the statements mace
by the Frenchman.
There are very few people who can
not, without any inconvenience what
ever, lay aside 10 cents day. With
in ten years ones daily savings OF TINS
insignificant amount will amount TO
1855, in addition to SS0.96 compound
interest, making a total of S445.3o TO
show for ones saving just 10 cents
day for ten years.
By saving Is cents day for ten
years, with interest compounded at Z
per cent, one will have the comfort
able sum of $66S.1S; 20 cents a day
will net $S9099. Save so cents day
for ten years and you will have 81
22773. A dollar day will give you
total of 81, 455.74 for the ten-year Pc
riod. All these figures are based on
the savings being put out at 4 per
cent compound interest.
Look back over the last ten years
of your life today. Be honest with
Yourself! Look facts squarely In the
face! Could you not have saved OF
cents day, or a quarter day, or pos
sibly dollar a day?
1t might have pinched you, now ano
then, to do so; it might have meant
the surrender of a few good times, &
few luxuries or eXtravagances. But Il
would have meant a substantial sun
for you-something that would ado
UNNECESSARILY to your poise, peace OF
mind and self-confidcnce.-S. w
Straus in Thrift Magazine.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-01-10
PEOPLE IN EARTH'S INTERIOR?
Man of Science Believed There Were,
and Sought Funds to Make
r an Investigation.

On November 49, 1899, one of the
most peculiar petitions ever presented
to congress was brought before that
body Of lawmakers, which was none
other than request from John Cleves
Symmes, asking that aid be given him
to make voyage to the interior of
the globe, which he believed to be in
habitable. He was permitted to lee
ture before Union college, at which he
expounded his theory, which, however,
was met with universal ridicule.
Notwithstanding which he was great
ly respected as man. He held that
all planetary bodies, including the
earth, are composed of concentric
spheres, open at their poles. In one
of his memoirs he thus illustrates his
conception: with dividers describe
plane of matter of loose texture, and
in the center add very small circle;
draw line through the center. 1t is
evident that either half of the inner
circle, being almost equally surround
ed by~matter, must be very little gray
itated centerwise, so being suspended,
only rotary motion is needed to
throw it cOmpactly toward the outer
circle. This being admitted 1t follows
that half way from the outlet to the
inner side of this circle Of matter thus
thrown out, a like rarity, suspension
or balance Of gravity should prevail,
and hence disposition to concentric
circles; therefore it follows that sue
cessive similar subdivisions should ex-
list, gradually lessening in force and
quantity. BY applying this principle
to the earth I find the necessity of
hollow concentric Spheres"
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-01-10
The "Wind-Month"

November was styled by the ancient
Saxons as wind-month, from the gales
which are so prevalent at this season
of the year, and which made them
beach their boats and cease almost en-
tirely from maritime operations. 1t
bore also the name of the bloody
month, from the circumstance Of its
being customary to slaughter great
numbers Of cattle, to be sailed for the
winter. November is the eleventh
month of the year, although its name
would indicate that it was the ninth
month. This is accounted for by the
change from the old calendar, which
began in Maren and not in January,
as our present calendar does.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-01-10
Friendship.

There must be in friendship some
thing to distinguish it from a compan-
ion and countryman, from school
fellow or gossip, from a sweetheart
or fellow traveller. Friendship may
look in at any one Of these doors, but
1t stays not anywhere till it comes to
be the best thing in the world; and
when we consider that one man is not
better than another, neither toward
God nor toward man, but by doing
better and Drawer things we shall also
see that which is most benehcent is
also most excellent; and therefore
those friendships must needs be most
perfect where the friends can be most
useful.-Jeremy Taylor.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-01-10
Gigantic Punch Bowl.

The largest punch bowl ever used
was at party given at Alicant by Ad-
miral Edward Russell in 1894, when q
marble fountain was converted for the
occasion into a punch bowl. The in
gradients used in brewing the punch
included four hogsheads of brandy,
one pipe" Of Malaga wine, 20 gallons
Of lime juice, $500 lemons, 1900
pounds of white sugar, five pounds of
grated nutmeg, 300 toasted biscuits and
eight hogsheads of water. A boy in q
boat filled the cups Of the 5000 per-
sons who partook Of the contents OF
the mighty punch bowl.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-01-10
Star Time Most Reliable.

The official "time man" at the naval
observatory at Washington, lying on
his back with his eye to telescope
and his finger on~a recording button,
checks up "Old Sol'' by certain fixed
star-for the sun is not quite punctual.
In fact, Sol is about four minutes be-
hind time except on just four occasions
during the year; and so many allow.
ances have to be made for his vagaries
that an imaginary sun Is used by the
government astronomer, on which to
base his horoscopical calculations.
1t may be interposed that the
earth's elliptic orbit and it's varying
rate of speed in its travels, says the
Waterman of America, helps to give
the sun, as timekeeper, bad rec
ord, but the fact remains that sidereal,
or star time, is much more reliable
than sun time.
Windsor Castle.
Windsor castle is near the town Of
Windsor, in Berkshire, England, %
miles from London. Windsor is one
Of the most ancient towns in England,
dating from the early middle ages.
The castle was erected by William the
Conqueror. 1t was originally the site
Of Roman settlement and has figured
in English history in many pictur-
esque and tragic ways. Many Of the
kings of England are buried beneath
the royal chapel at Windsor, including
King Edward VII, who was buried
there in May, 1910 The castle, sur
rounded by spacious and magnificent
grounds, has been the chief residence
of English sovereigns for many cen.
turtles.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-01-10
Ynerite. New Poison Gas.

J. Bandaline and ]. de Poliakoff
bulletin de TAcademie de Medicine)
call the readers attention to the eff
cheney Of hot air in the treatment Of
burns caused by yperite, gas used
by the Germans in their offensive Of
March, 1918. These burns, even when
very small, cause extremely sharp pain
and sleeplessness. A number of cases
were rapidly healed by hot air after
various treatments had failed.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-01-10
Oh. Bow!

The war department recently invited
bids for the following to supply 125
regiments: Seventeen thousand five
hundred sets of boxing gloves, 1000
baseball bats, 21,100 baseballs, $4,000
balls, 5000 rugby footballs,
1000 soccer footballs, $50 volley balls
and 1850 medicine balls.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-01-10
TWO Sizes Too Large.

Bix-You lost your head completely
al the banquet last night.
DiHThat accounts for 1t. This
head rye got on this morning doesn't
seem to be mine, certainly Boston
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-01-10
Morse Inventor of the TELEGRAPH:

who could make 1t.
Morse inventor of the Telegraph
Samuel T. B. Morse, inventor Of the
electric telegraph, was literary man
and an artist before he became one Of
the worlds greatest inventors. He
was graduate Of Yale college and
had qualifications for authorship that
would have won success IT, he had
turned his attention in that direction.
Then he took up art and studied under
the great Benjamin West, in England,
and painted portraits for a few years
and was the first president Of the
Academy of Design In New York. But
he did not develop his true mission
until he took up electricity and I'M
vented the telegraph.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-01-10
Banter.

He-I wish I had married girl who
could save money.
She-I wish I had married a man
who could make 1t.