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Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-10-01
Fine Tune VIII Live.

Probably the majority of church
goers will agree with the vicar of Well
ingborough In his refusal to allow the
church bells of his parish to ring out
'"'TYpperary" In honor. of the great
peace, for in these matters one must
of course draw the line somewhere.
Yet, when the vicar asks: 1T
Tipperary,' why not Tommy Make
Room for Uncle?" the analogy Is not
very apt. Both songs. it is true, are
not-well.' classical, music. But the
glorious associations Of "Tipperary"
have raised 1t far above. such criticism /;
and though the famous tune may never
reach the height of church belfry,
1t Is. nevertheless likely to so down
to posterity rs the immortal "Alar-
se!llaise" of the Old Contemptibles.-
London ChrOuicle..
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-10-01
Copyright, 1920, by james Morgan.)
JOHN ADAMS AND ABBY

A SCHOOLGIRL complained that
L Z American history was so Uttered
I'D with Adamses" that she couldn't
tell one from the other. Yet this most
distinguished family in our national
biography lived in America one hun
dred and fifty years before it broke
into fame.
When the engagement was an
nounced Of John Adams of Bralntree,
Mass, to the daughter of Parson
Smith of the adjoining town Of Wey-
mouth, people were shocked that AbbE~
should marry SO beneath her station.
Was she not a Quincy and Norton?
And John, the son Of small farmer,
was put down to fourteenth place
among his twenty-four classmates,
when Harvard catalogues were made
up according to social rank. After
that he taught school in Worcester to
get enough money to study law, and
the strictast of the Pusitans looked
on lawyers as ungodly.
Father-in-Law Smith was game, and
tradition says that he preached down
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-10-01
VIII Not Let Women Pay.

K. q. men are hopelessly old-fash-
ioned. The $3.50 idea, that is, that a
girl pay for half the treats, which was
started recently in an eastern univcr-
sity, did not appeal to them when it
was discussed the other day..
A woman may work and by her eff
cheney earn as much as a man, but If
she pay for one-half the. treats she
takes away the divine right of man,
opinion had 1t. 49,
Pride was not the only thing that in
fluenced them. A man must shoulder
responsibility through life so. 1t is we'll
for him to start early. The idea Of
protection of women extends even to
paying for The sundaes she consumes.
1t was the general opinion that if
girls would realize that the resources
of most men are not unlimited, there
would not be any occasion for thinking
about this matter.-Summer Session
KanSan.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-10-01

his gossip!ng parishioners from this
well-choscn text: John came neither
eating bread nor drinking wine, and
We say he hath devil"
Although she never went to school,
this parsons daughter was by long
odds the clcverest in the entire line OF
our presidents wives, her published
letters fol:ning a delightfully."- human
document in our too often unhuman
history. When John joined the fathers
of the republic in the great work OF
setting I'D the most masculine govern
ment the world ever saw, this mother
of the republic had to stay home to
rock the cradle, cook and patch for
four little Adamses and to tend the
farm. Milking and churning, knitting
and darning, teaching and praying,
toiling and saving, she supported the
family, inspired her husband in his
progress to the presidency, and reared
a son to follow in the fathers foot
steps. To Abigail Adams alone be-
longs the glory of having been the wife
Of one president and the mother Of
another.
In the war, it fell to Adams to do
picket duty in Europe. Congress sent
himsto France with thoughtful warm
ing to put in the bottom Of his dis
patch bag plenty Of lead or stone or
other weighty substance to sink his
papers. For his own neck no protec-
ton was proposed in event of the
British capturing signer of the rebel
manifesto Of July A.: 17T6. Neverthe-
less, he took with him on the perilouS
trip his ten-year-old, son, John Quincy.
On the next voyage. he carried not
only John Quincy, but also his second
son, and they were shipwrecked off the
coast of Spain.
After five long, anxious years of sep
aratioli from husband and children, the
mother herself sailed to Europe, and
the pioneer American woman to ap-
Dcar at the Court of ST. James was
Abigail, the fdrmerette Of Braintree.
Her presentation costume, according
to her own description, was white Lutte
string covered with white crepe, fes-
tooned with lilac ribbon and mock
point lace, over hoop Of enormous
extent, and with a narrow train three
yards long; also ruflle cuffs, treble
lace ruf1les and dress cap, with long
lace lappets and two white plumes."
"You will be stared at a great deal"
the Duke of Dorset kindly warned the
Adamses. On the contrary, every back
in the court circle was turned upon
the Yankee rebels and Queen Charlotte
received Abigail with contempt and
scorn."
A man can defend himself always,
as AbigaiPs husband did right man.
fully when It fell to him to be the first
independent American to stand before
the throne of England. George Ii
venturing TO infer from his supposed
dislike of France, preference for
England, his one-time subject frankly
corrected the king: Il must avow to
your majesty that [ have no attach
ment but to my own country"
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-10-01
REVERE MEMORY OF MACEO
Neuro Patriot Said to Hold the Chief
Place in the Hearts of Cuban
Masses.

Graves In the cemetery of Santiago
de Cuba are family affairs, built of
cement and six or eight '"storles" deep,
so that the coffins are set one above
the other, as their time comes, in
perfect chronological order, writes
Harry A. Franck in the Century.
Over the top, commonly a bare
three or four feet above the grass Is
laid huge stone slab, preferably OF
marble, with immense brass or nickel
rings at each corner by which to lift
1t, and space on its top for a poetic
epitaph to each succeeding occupant.
AS in all Spanish countries, the
tombs of all but the wealthiest in
mates are rented for term of years,
at the end of which time, If the de-
scendants fail to renew. the contract,
the bodies are tossed into a common
graveyard, to make room for those of
greener memory.
Marti, the Cuban "Father of Lib
erty," is buried here, and Estrada
Palma, promoted from humble peda-
gogue in an American school to first
president of Cuba. But neither holds
the chief place in the heart of the
Cuban masses. That is reserved for
Maceo, the negro general killed just
before the dawn of independence dur
Ing .foolhardy scouting expedition In
the woods of Cachual, In company
with bare. half-dozen soldiers.
Cuban Memorial Day. Is observed
throughout the island with much
spouting of poetry, and laying on of
flowers, on December Z, the anniver-
sary of Maceo's death at the hands OF
the Standards,
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-10-01
Porcelain Money.

A new element may be introduced
into the field of numismatics by the
proposal to issue porcelain money
throughout Germany. With this pur-
pose in view, Nielsen porcelain fac
tory has already manufactured speci-
mems Of coins ranging from 10 pfennig
to S mark pieces. How successful the
new proposal will be remains to be
seen. Its@adoptlon would mark an in
teresting breach with the traditional
use of gold, silver, and bronze; and
the well-known formulae, A, AR and
AE, Of the catalogues would have to be
supplemented. Apart from the occa-
sional employment of electrum, bill
lon, brass, and potin, iron in the Pelo-
ponnesus,and glass for coin weights
In Arabia, the three established metals,
in their varying forms, have rarely
been challenged. s.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-10-01
jefferson in 1775.

pride and display of the old families
who formed the viceregal court at Will
liamsburg.
To support the large family of his
mother on their too small farm Jeffer-
son turned to the law. In seven years
tIt the bar he doubled his estate and
his slaves to 400. Buying
the little mountain at whose feet he
was born, he built upon its summit
from plans of his own drawing, with
bricks of his own making and with
wood of his own cutting, the noblest
house in all Virginia.. There at Mon
ticello he made his home ever after.
Jefferson's law practice continued
RAPIDLY to grow until it amounted to
$4,000 year. when he abandoned it
forever to prosecute George III in the
great and general court Of mankind.
He had heard the first call CT the Rev
olution while a law student in Will
lialnsburg. It's clarion had heen ring
ing in his ears ever since he stood, an
eager looker-on, in the door of the
house of bursesscs. lie saw Washing
ton in mis- seat and he saw his own
friend, Patrick Henry, fddling Vir.
ginian like himself, holding the floor
amid cries of treason as he invited the
king to profit by the example Of Gaze
sar, who had his Brutus. and Charles
I, who had his Cromwell. . ...
The sword, the tongue and TIE pen
of American freedom were well met
that memorable. day. After the pen
had waited twelve years for its turn
to speak Jefferson sat in the congress
at Philadelphia. The squire of Monti-
cello was q silent member, as silent
as the squire of Mount Vernon. Op-
portunity and duty went straight to
those two speechless congressman as
the needle leaps to a loadstone.-,.
After serving as governor of Vir-
ginia and member of congress Jeffer-
son was sent as minister to the court
of France. "You. replace Doctor Frank
lin" the Count Vergennes said to him
on his arrival in Paris. az succeed
him." the new envoy happily replied
mo one can replace Doctor F'ranklin:''
Six weeks and*a Gay after he had
seen that old France. Of the Bourbons
crash beneath the walls of the Bastille
Jefferson left, Paris to become our first
secretary of state. Taking his seat at
the right of Washington he was face
to face across the cabinet table with
Alexander Hamilton, the secretary OF
the treasury.
BY nature and training the two
were MS opposite in their political opin,
lions as. in their chairs, and they found
themselves, as Jefferson said, "pitted
like fighting eoelss' AS they fought
and the feathers flew a great crowd
collected behind each to urge On its
fa'Vorite in that cooking main over
Which Washington had the unhappi-
ness TO preside Quickly all the people
IN the land took .oEe side OF the other
and formed themselves into the two
anoliticai parties which with changing
names, and changing disputes have di'
! Tided the country 10 this day.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-10-01
VOL. AZ
HIGHLAND COUNTY DIRECTORY,
countv and District Cficcrs:

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.
Andrew L. Jones, Commonwealth At
torney, Monterey, Va.
W. II. Matheny, Clerk, Monterey, Va.
W. N. Bird, Sheriff, Monterey, Va.
H. M. Slaven, Treasurer, Monterey,
Va.
]. w. E. Lockridge, Commissioner of
Revenue, Monterey. Va.
1. l.. leverage. Co, Surveyor, Monte
rey, Va.
Waiter Mullcnax, Supt. of Poor, Crab
bottcm, Va.
&. E. Many, srpt. cS Schools. High
town. "a.
John NJ. Colaw, Commissioner of
accounts, Monterey. Va.
Eiue GTaSS G1SLf1ct
J.. W. Hevener, Supervisor tCbria.)
IIightown, Va.
ce ]. Winner, Overseer of Poor, Crab
bottom, Va.
Ben H. Colaw, Constable. Crabbottom
Va.
D. o. Bird. Justice, Valley Center, Va.
E. d. Swecker, Justice, Monterey, Rt1
NJ. X. Simmons, Justice, Crabtottonl.
Monterey District. @
4. J. Terry, Supervisor, Tricable. Va.
Arthur Hevener, Overseer Of foor.
Monterey, Va.
j. Fl. Samples, Justice, Monterey, Va.
Il. D. Cptshall, Justice, Vanderpo'',
Va.
i. RI. Burns. Justice, Bolar, Va.
stonewall District.
J. II. Armstrong, Supervisor. McDow-
ell, Va.
i. w. Simmons, Constable, Headwa-
ters. Va.
Robert Shumate, Justice, Mcdow-
Elurty Armstrong, Overseer of Poor,
Doe Hill. Va.
ell. Va.
G. A. Propst. Justice, Mcdowell.
L. NJ Pope, Justice, D2e Hill, Va.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-10-01

"Anuric'' (anti-uric-acid). This
can be obtained at almost any drug
store, in tablet form.
When your kidneys get sluggish
and clog, you suffer from back,
ache, sick-headache, dizzy spells,
OF twinges and pains Of lurbago,
rheumatism Or gout; or. sleep is
disturbed two Or three times a
night, get DR.. Pierce's Anuric, it
will put new life into your kidneys
and your entire system. Send DR..
Pierce's Invalids' Hotel, Buffalo,
N. Y, ten cents for trial package.
HUNTINGTON, W. VA. IT I will say
that the Anuric Tablets are the best
! ever tried; they relieve any form of
kidney trouble quicker than any medi-
cineI have ever used. I tool, about
one third of the bottle and was greatly
benefited. My daughter and son-in-
law also were suffering with pain in
back SO that they could hardly sleep.
] gave them the rest and they were
entirely relieved. Anuric must be q
very efficient remedy as one package
helped three persons.",- Mas. ED
De Foe, 1914 Fourth Avenue.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-10-01
Modern Tanning Inferior.

Commenting on an article by Robert
G. Skerrett on the tanning of leather,
the Scientific American says: "The
modern art of tanning falls short of
the standards set in days gone by. 1t
used to take two years to convert
green hide into marketable leather;
the modern tanner thinks that he is
doing well if he devotes five months
to the process. No chemical process
has been developed of speeding up the
process without detracting from the
quality Of the product"
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-10-01
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Happy on His Way.

In one of the indianapolis schools
recently the teacher announced to her
pupils that they. would, study China
during the afternoons land told the.
children to bring various products of
tile country. Very exeitedly a little
chap rushed into Tie. grocery store and
stold the grocer to giyeS-hlm a -nfckel's
worth of sassafras. as-he waste study
China at school, and the grocer told.
him she must have said Indiana, but
he gave him Gnnpowder and Imperial
mixed, instead Of the good old Hoosier
product. aud sent him, happily on his
way. =
'Mention this paper In answering adv.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-10-01
Seals Migrate. Early.

The protective measure adopted by
the government for the benefit of the
seals in American waters has been en-
tirelys successful, as indicated by the
great number of animals seen to be
migrating to the Arctic seas. The
migration was three weeks earlier
than usual, and an unusually large
number of animals were noted on their
way TO the north.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-10-01
A One-Funnel Cunarder.

Z, The new Cunarder Scythia, accord
ing to an English, newspaper, is to
have only one funnel, for all her 90
600 tons. Time. was when a liners
standing was in direct ratio with the
number Of her tunnels. -Four tunnels
indicated Al rank. One famous
steamship was, it is said. equipped
with unnecessary fourth funnel
simply for appearances sake. But
now, it seems, the tunnels are to go.
for only one. is really necessary
From the Outlook.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-10-01
New, .Scrap Started:

Wife (on rainy holiday)-John, let's
go somewhere. I've been shut up In
the house att day. .......
. Hhb-You mean shut in, my dear.
You can't truthfully:say you were shut
up.-Boston Transcript. -. - /
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-10-01
THOMAS JEFFERSON as much as
4 Abraham Lincoln,
s.: Was nursed at the breast
w 40 hA g.
Of the uneXhausted West.

Of the unexhausted West.
At the time of his birth beneath one
of it's foothills the Blue Ridge Of Vir-
ginia Was the American frontier. The
farm on which he was born had been
cleared. in the wild forest by his pio-
neer father when the smoke Of a
neighbor's chimney hardly could be
seen from his cabin door.
When he rode east, with his darling
fiddle under his arm, to be student
ut William and Mary college, the tall,
slender, sandy-haired, snub-nosed,
freckled-faced seventeen-year-old boy
of the frontierslnan never had seen
mansion, a church Or village OF
twenty houses, and he looked with
strangers eyes upon the baronlal
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-10-01
overworking d Proverb.

"Father;" said the small boy, what
Is Il profteer?" '
"a protiteer my son. is a man who
runs across the proverb, Make hay
while the sun shines and overWorks
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-10-01
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINLa

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINLu
Head Of Public School System Of Va.
DEPARTMENT REPRESENTED
College. Graduate, Law, Medicine,
Engineering
to deserving students. ) 600 covers
all costs ~ Virginia students in the
Academic Department. Sind for cat
alogCe. ..-
HOWARD WINsi IN. Registrar
University, Va.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-10-01

due to an
over er-abund-I
ance of that
poison called
uric acid.
The kidneys
are not able
to get rid of
it. Such con-
ditions you
can readily
overcome,
and prolong
life by taking
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-10-01
HOTEL CUNNINGHAM.
Monterev, Va.

: Hot and cold water Baths, Electric
Lights, nice large. rooms. Good ta-
Bile meals soc. Lodging soc. r.
Breakfast to s. o'clock, Dinner
IL to 2, Supper to s. Meals served
between times 75c.
Mrs. w. A. CUNNINGHAM, Prop'ss
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-10-01
Reduced Overhead Expense.

The Red Cross invariably Is the first
nought of II community visited by ca
-iamity. With this In mind, II was de-
ermlned by the Executive Committee
II preparing the budget Of l9B-20 to
have q fixed reserve fund from which
TO draw In these Instances. ...-
For assistance, to soldiers. sailors
and marines In hospitals and In camps
this year $1,000, 900 has been set aside.
-Four million two hundred thousand
dollars has been appropriated for Inn
provement Of health and prevention
of disease throughout the United
States during the current twelve
months. The Red Gross Is co-operat.
ing fully with the United States Health
Service in this work and through Its
Junior Red Cross Is doing much to
spread among children the principles
of sanitation. An appropriation of ST..
900 900 has been made for developing
the peace time program Of the Red
Cross by service to Its chapters In all
regions.
The appropriation OF s4S,20Q,0OO is
exclusive Of the local expenditures Of
the 5000 or more chapters.
Administration EXPENSES this year
will he $l.S00.000 Last year they
were $2.3o0.O00 ...-..l: -.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-10-01
oH. DEAR! nv BACK! tx

Merciful Heavens, how my back
hurts in the morning!" It's all
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-10-01

2.35 will get The Recorder and The
Thrice-a-Week World a whole year. Let
us haye your order. No better combi-
nation for presidential year. If you ale
6oing away for the summer have tie
Recorder set to your address. -
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-10-01
MAKING WAR ON
DISEASE MENACE
American Red Cross Announces
Budget Of s4S,20O,oo0
For Current Year.
NEW DISASTER RELIEF PLAN
Continuance Of Heavy Work Abroad
Deemed Necessary to Protect
United States-$21 100000
Less Than Last Year.

A program of relief and service to-
ward which appropriations of S4S,.
100000 have been made has been out
lined for the American Red Cross for
the fiscal year, July l. 1920, to July !,
1921, according to official announce
ment by national headquarters Of the
organization at Washington. The fig
ures for 192O-21 are $21 100000 below
those of 1e19-2O. In which 500, 100000
was spent. "
Important among the Items Of the
budget for the present year Is the ap-
preparation of So, 100000 for relief In
foreign lands, which includes l,OOO.-
900 In purchased supplies on hand and
not distributed.
Must Protect United States.
This will enable the American Red
Cross to continue It's humanitarian eft.
fort to aid stricken peoples to re-estab-
lsh themselves, to fight the disease cpl
denies which threaten many countries
and to efface largely the, remaining
traces of the blight left by the World
War. 1t is regarded as social as well
as physical sanitation on large scale
that will have a direct bearing on fu-
ture conditions In America. t.s
Central Europe, the chief sufferer
from the conflict. today Is facing on.
other winter of famine, pestllence and
ruin. Typhus decreased much during
the summer months where last winter
1t had Its greatest stronghold, but ply
slelans who investigated the situation
at the behest Of the League Of Red
Cross Societies have. given their un-
qualified opinion that this coming VIM
ter will see recurrence on an un'
precedented scale. The Red Cross
feels 1t must continue preventive meas
ures abroad to keep this and other
deadly maladies from the United
States.
Millions for. Work at Home.
When the disease was sweeping Cen
lral Europe last winter the American
Red Cross, with the aid Of the govern
ments OF afflicted nations. undertook the
fight against 1t. Hospitals were estab-
lshed wherever possible and food and
clothing were distribute ed to the un-
dernourlshed populations. who by rea-
son of their undernourishment were
Easy prey to the ep!demics. Where
,lisorganlzation contributed last year
10 the great inroads made by the dis
ease, by virtue Of its knowledge OF the
disease and the presence Of well es-
tablished hospital centers, the ameri-
ran Red Cross this year:will undertake
he work with new confidence.
Including The total of $1l 100000 In
supplies left from the last fiscal year.
the $31 100000 is s2l. 100000 less than
he expenditures for l910-20. +,
Appropriations, for domestic activi.
es total S16.700O00. ~. v H..
The largest Item OF this home"
,udget is $7,SOO,O0o for civilian relief
work.. This includes service and, as
;Istance for families of soldiers. sail-
ars and marines, and work Incidental
% disaster. OF the total appropria-
ion for civilian relief, S5,0000OO Is
held In reserve. for the carrying out OF
,rtnaI disaster relief