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The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1919-04-30

The Grand Jury for the April
terms of the Circuit Court completed
it's deliberations this morning and
was discharged, being in session
practically only two working days.
During that time it examined sixty
! five witnesses, considered twenty
seven cases and found twenty true
bills. The report to the Court fol-
lows:
To the Honorable Judges Of the Cir
cult Court For Dorchester Conn
ty, Maryland:
The Grand Inquest of the State OF
! Maryland, in and for the body of
Dorchester county, in session assem-
bled, this 30th day of April. 1919,beg
your Honorable Body:
We have been in session three
days, have examined sixtyiive wit
| nesses, considered twenty-seven ca
ses, and have found twenty true
bills.
We have visited the County Jail
and Court House, through commit
tees, and the result of their investi-
cation with their recommendation
will be found in their reports, which
accompany and are made a part OF
this report
Our attention having been called
to several minor violations of the
law, particularly with respect to the
sale Of various kinds of merchandise
On the Sabbath Day, we recommend
that these practices be Immediately
stopped, and that, in the future, the
laws for the observance of the Sab
bath be rigidly enforced.
We also call attention to the mat
ter of the taking out of Traders Ii
censes; we notice that in many cases
the amount of stocks reported appear
ridiculously small, and, as the date
for the issuing of licenses is near,We
would warn all merchants. and 9TH
ers engaged in business pursuitsthat
require licenses, to give a Hair esti-
mate of the amount of stock carried
during the principal season as re-
quired by the oath which is admins
tered when the license is issued.
Respectfully submitted,
JOS. w. BROOKS, Foreman.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1919-04-30

ESTRAY-1 Fox hound, white, with
black spots, female. l beagle hound,
white, with brown spots Reward if
returned to Herman Andrews. or for
any information of their wherea bouts.
A. 2n-4
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1919-04-30
GRAN1DORY COMP
YDRK IN THREE THREE DAYS

7krted Work Monday, About bond
4 And Finished Deliberations This3
Morning.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-09-19
SHOWS sAGACITY OF THE RAT
Method by Which Rodents Steal Eggs
Is Admirable in the lneenu-
ity Displayed.

A careful student Of the rodent
tribe writes: "No single point better
illustrates the sagacity Of the rat than
the way in which 1t eats an egg. II
bites through the shell and chips off
small fragments as neatly as squir-
rel opens nut, consumes the en-
tire contents without spilling a drop
and then sits up and licks itself clean
like a cat. Rats will steal the eggs
from under a setting hen. Their
method of handling eggs Is also char
acteristic. An egg is as large for
rat as Il barrel is for man, and
much more fragile. Yet there is evil
dence of the fact that they pass eggs
along from one to another, although
not probably, as has often been re-
ported, by forming long lines, like
bucket brigade. The operation is nat
urally a difficult one to observe, but
apparently it takes two rats to each
egg. One holds the egg in its paws,
passes 1t Oh to the other, and then
runs ahead to take it once more in its
turn. The same device seems to
be employed to carry an egg. down
stairs, the one that has the egg passing
1t to a companion standing on the
step below"
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-09-19
SHARPEN YOUR WITS ON THIS
Many Will Find Time Limit of Three
Seconds Altogether Too Great
Handicap.

These are the days when the eff
cheney expert is inviting us to prove
that we measure up to the average in
human intelligence by answering GER
tain complicated questions in given
number of seconds. Here is one you
can try on yourself when nobody is
around. Time yourself, and when you
have solved it go and try it on some
body else, not forgetting to remind
him that you did ii in three seconds
and that three seconds is the time
limit. ~
Outline a square on paper and then
divide it into ten triangles each Of
which is equal to- one ninth of the
total sum or area represented, by the
other nine triangies.
Three seconds is the limit, so go to-
it. Of course, if you are timing your
self, you need not >be TOO particular.
A few seconds or minutes over will
not make much difference beyond, in
few isolated cases, confirming or shat
tering ones own private opinion Of
oneself. -sJt
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-09-19
Endurance.

Though a nation may be bought and
sold, deceived or betrayed, oppressed
or beggared; and in every other sense
tindone, all is not lost If q sense Of
national honor survives the general
ruin. Even an individual cannot be
crushed by events or overwhelmed by
adversely IT, in the wreck and ruin of
his fortune, the character of the man
remains unblemished. That force Is
elastic, and, with the hefp of resolu-
tion,4 will raise him again out of any
depth of calamity. But if the injured
sufferer, whether 1t be great or
little community, number of individ-
uals or single person, be content TO
submit in silence, and to endure with
out resentment-if no complaints shall
be uttered, no murmur shall be heard,
deploratum est-there. must be some
thing celestial in the spirit that rises
from that descent.-Junius.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-09-19
GAVE IDEA TO INVENTORS
Timothy Aden's Typesetting Machine
First of the Kind to Be Placed
on the Market.

Timothy Alden was born In Barn.
stable, Mass, 96 years ago. He was
the first man to invent typesetting
machine. In his boyhood Timothy was
apprenticed to printer. He was
born inventor, and almost from his
first day in the printing office he be-
gan to think of plans for improving
the various processes connected with
the typographical art. He invented
several machines connected with
printing before he turned his attention
TO the mechanical setting Of type.
After several years OF study he pro-
duced his first model Of typesetting
machine in 1916. This machine con-
sisted of horizontal rotating wheel
with type cells on its circumference
making receivers rotate with it to pick
out the type at the proper places. This
appliance was ingenious, but it effect
ed no Improvement over hand compo-
sition. Timothy Alden died in Boston
in 1858, and his, brother, Henry, later
made several improvements in the ma
chine. Timothy Alden's machine had
the merit of setting others to thinking
about the same problem, with the re-
suit that hand composition is rapidly
becoming a thing of the past.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-09-19
TOOK LIBERTY WITH FACTS
Author Of "Ths Luck Of Eden Hall"
Admitted That He Drew on
His Imagination.

The author Of the poem, "Ihe Luck
of Eden Hail." was Johann Ludwig
INLAND, German poet Of the first
half of the nineteenth century, who
first put that romantic legend into
verse and later it was dressed in Eng
lish rhyme by Longfellow. AS the
story goes, the young lord Of the
manor during night Of drunken rev.
elry, demanded the drinking glass
called "the luck of Eden Hail." The
butler heard the words with pain,'
but brought the goblet which the tipsy
nobleman smashed. Instantly flames
cracked the ceiling and the persons
surrounding the festal board became
dust. The straightforward American =
poet explains at the heading of his
translation that in spite of the tragic
ending of the poem the glass is still In
existence, and so it IS today. 1t is six
inches high, Of pale green glass, ex-
quisitely enumeled in blue and white.
Practical folk say that 1t probably
came originally from Spain, where 1t
was used as chalice in communion
service, but the original story goes
that it was left. at ST. Cuthbert's well
by q company of fairies.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-09-19
PICTURE THAT WOULD LIVE
Study for Painter Suggested in incl
dent in the Early Life OF
z' Daniel Webster.

When Daniel Webster was eight
years old he saw in country shop
a cotton handkerchief with something
printed ON both sides Of 1t. He gave
his whole stock Of boarded pennies to
secure 1t and absorbed its. contents
that night with his keen dark eyes, on
his fathers kitchen floor, by the light
of the roaring chimney fire. What
painter will be the first to make that
scene perpetual in our country's his
tory and art? 1t was the Constitution
of the United States, just then in the
dawn of its beneticent power under
the lead of President Washington, that
the New Hampshire lad was then
stamping on his memory. He told the
story himself in 1850, and archly said:
81 have known more or less of that
document ever since" Forty
years from that winter came the great
Hayne debate. But ] would travel
farther to see masters picture Of the
lad, reading the Constitution In the
rude home on the edge Of the north
ern wilderness, than to see Healey's
great painting of the orator in the SEN
atorial struggle against the theory and
passions of secession; as / would go
farther to see a picture of the springs
of the Amazon, far up under the cold
white stlinters of the Andes, than the
most adequate representation of the
imperial rivers tropical course
Thomas. Starr King.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-09-19
Slaves in Abyssinia.

The inhabitants of The Gemira
country in Abyssinia are pagans. They
appear to believe In a divinity inhabit-
ing the .Sky-nOt to. be identified with
the Wah of the Galla-and also in
secondary genii dwelling on the earth.
Slavery is not officially recognized, but
it exists in fact, though with some ex-
tenuation in form. The slave is not
free to change his MASTER; he is put
in chains if suspected Of an intention
of escaping; he is beaten if he does
not work or march at the will Of his
master, and he receives no pay. On
the other hand, if he can be present
ed" he cannot be openly sold, and
must be designated gabare C.subject')
not baria ("slave"). Even these diff
ferences disappear in distant p:oy-
inces like Gsmirh, and in times of dis
order. Those who will not submit live
as fugitives In the forests,
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-09-19
"OId kinu Cole"

The first reference to. "Old King
Cole" the "nferry old soul" of the ia.
nous nursery rhyme, was made In a
book written by DR.. William King, who
was born in 1888. 1t Is probable that
the song was composed in the seven
teenth century, although some inestf-
gators think it much older. Halliwell
Identifies the merry monarch with
Cole or Coel, semi-mythical king of
Britain who is supposed to have
reigned in the third century. The Scots
also have an "Old King COul," said
to have lived in the fifth century.
Freeman and other historians say
King Cole ruled Britain in the sixth
century. There are many who assert
that the reference to the pipe indicates
that Old King Cole lived at period
after Raleigh had introduced tobacco
into Europe, but this does not neces-
sariIy follow, as pipe might mean a
musical instrument.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-09-19
silly Idea Rebuked.

The late Count de LesSeps never
seemed to lose sight of the educa-
ton of his children. even In the
smallest detail. One morning at
breakfast beautiful Dresden tea
cup was broken.
!" cried the countess, "a disas-
ter! Two more of that set will now
be broken. 1t always HAPPENS so."
"Are you so sup@rStitious," asked
the count, "as rca' TO believe that
two more will be brokcn?'
81 know it."
"Then let us get 1t off our minds"
And taking two Of the cups by the
handles he dashed them together.
The anger and diSmay of the count.
ess proved conclusively that she had
not seriously believed, the superstition.
1t also lOosed any hold the absurd idea
may have had on the minds of the
children.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-09-19
FOUR FINGERS ARE UNFRAMED
Hands of the Average Man Crippled,
as Demonstrated by the Their:
apy Expert.

st suppose you regard yourself as
a whole man." demanded one of the
vocational therapy experts at the War
rem Reed general hospital in Washing
ton, writes Samuel Hopkins Adams in
the Red Cross Magazine. ..zs
Looking myself over hastilysto make
sure that l had not lost nnsfhing in
the surgical ward, replied that l
could count the usual number of arms,
legs, and other appurtenanceS.
Gall right" said the expert, "bui
you're sort of a cripple at that. You're
atrophied."
"If I am, I've never discovered It," |
assured him. 80
"Of course not. People never do
until they're shown. You haven't got
anything like the full use of more than
four fingers and two thumbs out of a
total Of ten. The normal man-the
man who believes himself normal, |
9mean-never has. Can you light a
safety match with one hand?"
He handed me the box and the
match. After the second abortive at
tempt the match fell on the floor and
the box fell on the match.
"That's elementary, that stunt" re-
marked the instructor "Our one-arms
can do that before they get out of bed.
You see, your two smaller fingers are
really cripples. Now we teach our fell
lows to do the work with those fingers
that you have to use another hand for.
That's the whole physical principle OF
our training in its simplest form
substitution"
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-09-19
No Chloroform Nausea.

Chloroform administered through
tube is said to dispense with the nau-
sea which is almost invariably en-
conntered otherwise. The new prac-
tice was inaugurated by French prac-
titioner, Doctor Guisez. The nausea
is caused by a part of the chloro-
form vapors being absorbed by the
esophagus and the stomach. Doctor
Guisez introduced the chloroform va
pors directly into the windpipe. The
tube method already has been en-
ployed in several hundred cases, and
with great success. 1t is particularly
useful for operations to be performed
on the head and neck.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-09-19
Idea for Feminine Apparel.

Professor Cimician noted certain
substances that have the permanent
quality of developing intense bril-
liancy of color when brought near the
light and fading away to dullness
again as the light decreases. He
urged research with view to obtain
ing an increased number of these
bodies and their possible application
to textile fabrics. AS a true Italian,
despite his Armenian name, he imag-
ined a, beautiful woman enrobed in
such. stuffs, entering a brilliantly light
ed room and growing more resplendent
as she approaches.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-09-19
"ANTfQUES" FROM NEW YORK
Example of How the Tourist Is Vie.
timized When He Makes Pur-
chases in Foreign Cities.

Some years before the war a resi-.
dent of New York voyaged to Venice
Among his fellow passengers at sea
was travelling salesman, whom he
got to know quite well. What the
New York man liked about the sales
man was that he did not "talk shop"
He had not even told his steamship
acquaintance what manner of goods
he handled. d, s
The day after they arrived in Venice
the salesman went out on business, his
steamship companion sightseeing.
Among other places the latter visited
was fascinating antiquarian shop.
Prices were steep, but what Of that?
He wanted something to take back
to show "the folks at home" that he
had really been in Venice. Finally he
settled on a bit of Venetian glass,
square of gold-embroidered Venetian
cut velvet in tarnished gilt frame,
and a silver-handled dagger engraved
with the arms of one of the doges. In
the evening at the hotel he displayed
them, not without feeling Of pride,
to the travelling salesman.
my friend" said the latter, you've
been very decent to me, and now I'll
do you a good turn, Say, but your
buying those things is feather In my
cap! We make 'em in New York, and
I'm over here selling 'em.. I'll take
'em around tomorrow to the place
you bought 'em and get your money
back for you."-New York Herald.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-09-19
All About EqQs.

In hens egg only one-fifth Of the
substance is nutritious. One-ninth Is
refuse, and Sthe greater portion, about
two-thirds, is water.
Judged by the amount of nutriment,
goOse's egg is the most valuable;
next in order-ale ducks, guinea fowls,
hens, turkeys. -. :
Eggs contain large quantity Of
sulphur, which IS purifying to the
blood and good for the complexion.
To get the best egg you must feed
your fowl on grain.
And to cook 1t in the most digestible
way you must not boil the water. Heat
the water to $50 degrees and leave
the egg in 1t for ten minutes. You will
then digest every morsel. But if YOU
boil It for three minutes no less than
One-twelfth of 1t will fail to be d.
gested.-Short Stories. -.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-09-19
Twas Ever Thus,

Mr.. Smith, hearing music and sing
Ing at his neighbor's house, decided
he would drop in and see how they
were.
Mr.. Jones welcomed him and uSh-
cred him into the parlor/ where his
daughter was playing the piano and
his son singing. Mr.. Smith begged
them to continue. They consented.
The first song they selected was
Mother" They sang this very feel
ingly and then father Joined in on the
chorus. This was followed by Moth
er Machree" and others of like senti-
ment on songs about mother-how
true they were, how dear and how
they loved to sing them.
y Then, as Mrs. Jones hadn't appeared
yet, Mr.. Smith inquired about her
state of health.
"Oh," said Mr.. Jones, "she's well
enough. She's in the kitchen doing the
dishes, but after she has finished. and
has taken in the wood she'll jon us"
Judge.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-09-19
,NTFRFY HIGHLAND COUNTY VA FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 49, 1919
HIGHLAND COUNTY DIRECTORY.
County and District officers:

County and District Officers:
Henry w. Holt, Judge of Circuit
Court, Staunton, Va.
Terms of Court-4th Tuesday in
April, I'd Tuesday July, I'd Tuesday
October.
Edwin B. Jones, Commonwealth At
torney, Monterey, Va.
w. H. Matheny, Clerk, Monterey, Va.
Hubert Smith, Sheriff, Hightown, Va.
Willis Gibson, Treasurer, Vanderpool
Va.
J. H. Pruitt, Commissioner OF
Revenue, Monterey, Va.
I. L. Beverage, Co. Surveyor, Monte
rey, Va.
Walter Muilenax, Supt. of Poor, Crab
bottom, Va.
R. E. Mauzy, supt. Of Schools, High
town, Va.
Blue Grass District
J. w. Hevener, Supervisor (Cbrm.)
Hightown, Va.
J. C. Herold, Overseer of Poor, High
town, Va.
]. F. Colav, Constable, Crabbottom.
Va.
D. O. Bird, Justice, Valley Center, Va.
E. D. Swecker, Justice, Monterey, ,Rt1
G. D. Dudley, Justice, Hightown, Va.
Monterey District.
4. ]. Terry, Supervisor, Trimble, Va.
D. Z. Samples, Constable, Monterey
Arthur Hevener, Overseer of Poor,
Monterey, Va.
J. II. Samples, Justice, Monterey, Va.
[. D. Gutshall, Justice, ,Vanderpooi,
Va.
J. H. Burns, Justice, Bolar, Va.
Stonewall District.
+. H. Armstrong, Supervisor, Mellow
ell, Va.
J. w. Simmons, Constable, Headwa-
ters, Va.
Chap. Pitsenberger, oyerseer Of Poor
Doe HILL, Va.
L. M. Pope, Justice, Doe Hill, Va.
G.. A. Propst, Justice, Mcdowell.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-09-19
Gasoline to Be Mined.

The latest estimates of the United
States geological survey show that If
gasoline continues to be used up at
the present rate, all the petroleum
fields now In use will be exhausted be-
fore 1850. Where, then, will the fu-
ture supply Of gasoline come from?
Billions of dollars are involved in the
question. The probable answer Is that
mined" gasoline will be used.
Colorado, Utah and other Western
and middle Western states contain ex-
tensive oil-bearing deposits of bitumin-
Gus shale.. Crude oil can be extracted
from them and this can be distilled
further to obtain gasoline.
1t Is estimate ed that enough gasoline
could be produced in this way to equal
many times the amount obtained from
all present-day fields.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-09-19
LUCK AND CHANGE OF LIFE
Abundant Reasons Why Fighting Men
Develop Hlgh Degree Of Fatal.
istic Reasoning.

AS ! tour the military hospitals,
says writer in a London paper, /
hear strange stories from the ward
sisters, from matrOn herself, and from
men Of all grades In the serried rows
Of beds. Poor M brayed all the
terrOrs of war - wounded at Mons,
and gaSsed at La Bassee-only to be
lgnominiouSly killed by an omnibus In
the city street at home! Whole fam
lilies of sons lie buried in France. But
know q case In which four sons and
a son-in-law Joined up In August, 1914,
and went clean through the whole stu
pendous drama, without one of the five
getting SO much as scratch! know
heroic major, who had the maddest
escapes from shot and shell, and was
killed at last by falling branch Of
q tree whilst at home on leave.
I know chaplain V. G. who all but
broke his neck on fight of stone
steps at Saighton Towers, where he
was Countess GrosvenOr's guest. /
know war correspondent, of many
fierce campaigns, who met his death
after all in a London air raid. And
talked with the sole survivor of
ship, who turned out to be the only
member Of the crew who couldn't
swim! How shall we explain these
They made fatalists OF our
men and one day In the hospital,
came upon lad who was reading the
AIoslem Koran. He held up the page
to me, and pointed to the verse: mo
hap chanceth, but the same was writ
ten in the Book of DEGREES"
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-09-19
Theory and Practice.

81 trust, Brother Johnson" said the
presiding elder, that you are endeav--
oring, as far as possible to bring up
your children by the rWe of Kindness
requesting rather than commanding,
and explaining to them carefully why
they should obey your injunctions"
"That's powerful gaudy in the'ry,
parson," returned Gap Johnson Of
Rumpus Ridge, "but in actual practice
knocking 'em down with a neckyoke
now and then is about the. only way to
fetch results. I could just about as
quick get 'em to mind me by argying
with 'em as I could make turtle gig
gle by tickling his lid with a>feather.
Kansas City Star.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-09-19
Steann-Heated Nathan.

While Nat Goodwin was appearing
in Nathan Hale" the popular actor
had opportunities not only to Illus
trate his well-known ability as a
comedian, but also to demonstrate his
less known power as a tragedian.
When the hero was about to be
hanged, there was period of abso-
lutte silence on the stage. Or rather
there should have been, for one night
the steam heaters became unmanage-
able and created such hideous racket
that the audience began to litter, and
the scene was ruined.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-09-19
A MuddIed Mouiik.

Mr.. Tower3 former American ambas-
sadOr to Russia. told this story of a
typical mouiik entering a railroad sta
tfon and inQuiring when certain
train would leave. Hereceived the in
formation and departed.
A little later, however, he was hack
again, asking the same question.
"Why," exclaimed the agent, 81 told
you that only minute ago"
"You did truly" the moujik ar
swered, 'but 1t isn't myself that wants
to know this time. it's my mate out
side."-Boston Transcript.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-09-19
Burns, Justice, Bolar, Va.
Stonewall District.
NOTICE

All phone lines entering the Mon
terey Switch Board must be fixed up
at once as they are causing trouble
in the said Board. If lines are not
looked after will have to discontinue
services until they are fixed. All
treasurers must send in switch Board
fees, we must have0the money.
]. H. SAMPLES, Gen. Mgr.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-09-19
Saw a Resemblance.

Little Andrew was playing in the
yard, in which there is n coop for his
pigeons. All pigeons were inside with
the exception of Ole which was walk
ing up and down in front of the door.
Andrew ran up TO his mother in great
excitement and said:
Mamma, is that one a collector"
WEereat his mother asked him why.
Then Andrew said:
"Well, he CAN'T get In"