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Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-11-05
NOW WAREHOUSES; ON WATER
Japanese Said to Have Evolved
Scheme That Is Ingenious and
/ Profitable as Well.

The time may probably come when
the land is. overcrowded and people
begin to live on water. Then we shall
be building floating skyscrapers and
aquatic paris At any rate, congenlal
Japanese have already launched a
scheme which in the opinion Of the
projectors hits many birds by one
stone. The scheme is the creation OF
what is called floating warehouses.
During the war Japan built many
good-szed wooden ships to cid in the
Transportation OF the allies goods.
After the war these ships were els
missed from the service, and since
then lay idle III llarbors unable to or
tain cargoes due to postwar slumps in
shipping.
Taking advantage of this circum-
stance, a group of men organized
concern called the Marine Warehouse
company, With capital of 10O00,0OO
ven; bought the wooden ships and
started floating warehouse business.
The company is now engaged in es-
tablishing eight floating warehouses or
1000 tons each in the harbor Of Kobe.
The ships are to he attended by three
launches of. 1000 tons capacity each.
The aquatic warehouses, being exempt
ed from extortionate rent and taxes,
and largely free from the danger OF
fire, in addition to many peculiar adj
vantagns consequential TO their nova
BILE character shall. he able, II is
claimed. to carry on the business at n
much lower rate with greater facility,
providing formidable enemy, IN the
future. of their terrestrial COUSINS
East and West News.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-11-05
Cor,..,n.:;tib!e's Many Uses.

IF the rar:ncr cant make the old
horse 20 on straw and corncobs per-
hapS he can run his car, his tractor
and his stationary engine with gas
made frc!n them. That's the problem
the department. If agriculture is strus-
Cling with. says the Nations Business
Already its eXperimenterS have run an
automohil" with HE new comhustibie
and used it for lighting and cooking.
IF the results Of these tests warrant
further Investigation the experiments
will be extended TO the problem of
n!ant egu"r3rnt for producing the gas
on q scale sufficient to allow the farm
er to sur,;ly LIGHT and heat for his
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-11-05
Ph;,ippine Coal.

Signs of Industrial expansion In the
Philippine islands are seen in the re-
cent formation of n company which
is developing the rebu coal mines as
well as those in Mindanao. 1t is ex-
pecte;l that within a comparatively
short time the output of these two
islands VII; he sufficient to supply
The needs Of the whole archipelago as
regards good steam coal. The Min
danao product. which comes from
what is known as The S:lSbugueI coal
field. is asserted on the one hand to
he superior to any other Philippine
Goa! or any coal imported into the
islands, while on the other fhand II Is
said to be liable to deteriorate If hot
used promptly.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-11-05
CLIFTON FORGE + MARBLE
AND GRANITE WORKS
-sT7s
For SALE

Under authority Of court decree ]
am offering for sal, privately the fol-
lowing portions Of the w T. Alex
Under farm lying about a mile and a
half south Of Mcdowell in l1ighlant
C unity on both SID rs of the Bull Pas
tur,. River; First -526.T0 acres on
TIC east side Of The river extending
~ lie top of the mountain, and cont
pyi"ing a most yaluati. grazing tract.
ac;es of bottom land
ly.r:; on the Yves. side Of, the river.
being excellent farming land. For
further information apply to the UNI
dersigned at his Office Oil Masonic
Staunton, Virginia.
RUDOLPH BUMGARDNER,
Commissioner
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-11-05
Jamaican Women Given Vote.

Under new law the women OF
Jamaica, British West Indies. are TO
have a vote in the elections for the
parochial boards and the legislature.
Every woman Is entitled to vote If
she is twenty. five years Of age or more,
can read and write and is Of British
nationality, but she-must have also GER
tain salary or property qualifications.
The salary designated is IS q year. or
she must pay FLO In rent or f. rates
on house, lands or personal property.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-11-05
Franklin Medal to sir Charles Parsons.

The Franklin medal has been award
ell to Sir Charles Parsons '"in recogni-
ton of his epoch-making success In
the development and the construction
Of the steam turbine which has revo-
lutionized the art of steam engineer
ing, particularly in regard to the pro-
pulsion of mercantile and naval YES
sells, and the driving Of electrical gen.
orators" Not many people know OF
the courageous struggle Of Sir Charles
In the early days Of his invention. and
that he separated from his original
partners owing to their becoming too
discouraged to "carry on" Engineer
ing, In speaking Of the award. says:
1.-THE work of Sir Charles Parsons mas
halved the cost of producing electric
power and reduced in still greater pro
portion .the capital cost Of engineer
Ing NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. American.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-11-05

sionse, rover FgF stationary engines
and possibly for his tractor from
small individual outfit. If a suitable
unit can be constructed it seems likely
that the straw gas may have certain
economic value in the sections of the
country where the raw material from
which the gas is made is now con-
sidered as waste and burned or left
tO rot
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-11-05
HOTEL CUNNINGHAM
Monterey, Va.

Hot and cold water Baths, Electric
Lights, nice large rooms. Good ia
bio meals soc. Lodging soc.
Breakfast to 8 o'clock, Dinner
IL to 2, Supper c to 8. Meals served
between times 75o.
Mrs. w. "A. CUNNINGHAM. Prop'ss
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-11-05
An Utilization.

"Do you intend to vote at the COM
ing electionT
"Yes," replied MISS Cayenne. And
| shall wear my handsomest ccstumee
Having secured the right to vote
every wsman should feel 1t her patri-
otto duty to make It fashionable to
do So"
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-11-05
Now Is the
Time to Do It

There never was a better time for
the erection of that monument for
your family lot than now. We have
never before had so large a line Of
handsome Marble G Granite Monuln.
mcntes.
Mr. H. T. Slaven represents Us
and he will be pleased to take youl
order or give you any information
vou desire. .-..-.
T., CLIFTON FORGE / MARBLE
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-11-05
British Ship Gets Record.

The Empress of Britain. the first
transatlantic oil-burning vessel to pass
UP the st. Lawrence. arrived re-
Gently at Quebec from Liverpool. In five
duys and twenty-five hours, breaking
all previous records between those
ports. Ii was her maiden trip as an
oil-burner and she clipped six hours
from her best prevlou; time. The FIX
pense OF reconditionlng her as AN oil
burner equaled the cost OF her original
construction. y -
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-11-05
LUMBER

We will now take orders for al
kinds of lumber-will have special
orders cut, all sizes and kinds.
w. E. GUN G Co.
ct Monterey, Va.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-11-05
THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA

THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA
Edwin A. Alderman, President
The Training Grounds of All the
People.
Department represented: The College
Graduate Studies, Education, Engin
erings Law, Medicine, The Summer
Quarter. Also Degree Courses in Fine
Arts, Architecture, Business and Com
laerce. Tuition in Academic Depart
ments free to Virginians. All expen-
ses reduced to minimum. Loan
funds available for men and women
Address TIE REGISTRAR Un1ver-
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-11-05
NOTICE

Nj persons knowing themselves
indebted to the late firm anu :. L.
fIuilcnax x Co., will please make
satisfactory settlement OF their ac-,
counts with me at once.
Respectfully,
e. d. SWEGI[EP, J. u.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-11-05
Dental Notice

Dental Notice
I will be at Williamsville. Va,
Tuesday, Oct. &c to practice dentistry
and remain 10. days or two weeks
? DIR. I. C. WAGNER
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-07-09

ID UT for the smiles of his bloom
~ Ing Dolly, Madlson's administra-
ton would be a desert without an
oasis, over whose dreary expanse the
weary biographer would wander
athirst for human anecdotes. Her
bubbling spirits relieved the austerity
of Jeffersonian simplicity and won
her popularity that has been eqnaled,
If at all, among the mistresses of the
White House, only by Mrs. Cleveland.
Unless Grant must be excepted,
Madison is the only president who
found the presidency an anticlimax
to his career. One Of the really great
law-givers of the nation, he was
without executive force.
With a weak cabinet, this gentle,
sweet tempered, peace loving scholar
found himself adrift on the turbid
sea of the great NapoIeonic wars.
Perhaps it was no longer possible to
keep us out of the war when at last the
United States was the only neutral
left in the civilized world.
After 20 years of kicking and cuff
ing from both sides in the European
conflict, bullied by England and lied
to by Napoleon. the country was sore
all over when the>"warhawks'' of con-
gress, under the youthful Henry Clay,
seized the tiller of the ship of state
from Madison's irresolute hand and
recklessly pointed the vessel straight
into the teeth of the storm. The sea-
board East was more for peace and at
that time the military section was the
new West, where the Tennesseans and
Kentuckians, Indianians and Ohioans
were Justify shouting "0n to Canada !"
Overborne by their rash counsels, Mad
ison consented, as he said, to throw
forward the flag Of the country, sure
that the people would press onward
and defend it,"
Without competent civilian military
leaders, without financial credit, with
out war equipment, the people could
not press onward, as any history of
the dismal WIZ of 1912 will tell you.
Even the capital was left undefend-
ed, and Madison, "in a little round
hat with big cockade," ran about in
helpless bewilderment as the British
marched upon Washington.
With the invaders entering at one
side of the defenseless town, the
president fled at the other. As he
turned he saw the flames shooting up
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-07-09
SHIP BOARD HEAD
WARNS FOREIGNERS
MUST NOT ATTEMPT TO INTER
FERE WITH OUR MERCHANT
MARINE DEVELOPMENT.
Declares Board Is Determined &c
Build UP an American Merchant
Marine Despite Threats and
Propaganda by Interests.

Washington. Warning foreign in
terests not to attempt to interfere
with the development of the Ameri.
can merchant marine, Chairman Ben.
son of the shipping board, declared
Thursday that the board was deter.
mined to build up an American mer.
chant marine as contemplated by the
Jones shipping act, despite threats
and propaganda by such interests to
defeat the law.
1.-THE United States" said Admiral
Benson, ''is In earnest in its efforts to
place within the ownership by United
States citizens, the control of at least
a part of its traffic in imports and
exports. If 1t should be any possible
means be held that the departments
as will insure their being able to pro-
tect American interests in such con.
troll, additional authority will be asked
by the administration and will un.
doubtedly be granted by congress.
Foreign carriers and those in the
United States interested more in the
foreign than American institutions
will do well to let sleeping dogs lie"
Admiral Benson's warning was
sounded in a talk to representatives
of Pacific coast chambers of COM
merce and trade bodies and American
railway representatives which have
been disturbed by threats to divert
trade to points on the Pacific coast
because of the section of the merchant
marine act permitting a preferential
rate over foreign carriers within the
United States on merchandise moving
in export and import in American YES
sells.
Such threat, the chairman said,
sis futile and idle"
IF such a threat is sincere and the
attempt is made to so divert the bust
ness" Admiral Benson continued,
the shipping board will allocate
American ships to move the business.
The shipping board and the interstate
commerce commission will follow this
action by other steps which would
further protect the interests of the
United States against such foreign eff
forts to defeat the purpose of the
merchant marine act.
Nothing could more surely bring
about the enforcement of this section
OF the law than adoption by foreign
carriers of their threat to divert BUSH
ness from American ports.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-07-09

Naturally thin and fraiI his zeal for
study nearly wrecked his health while
a student at Princeton college, where
for months at a time he slept only
three hours out of the "a. United
for military duty when the Revolution
came, he went to the Virginia legisla-
ture instead. Yet this seemingly
broken-down young man was destined
to be the longest lived of all the presi-
dents, with the single exception of
John Adams.
When candidate for reelection to
the legislature, Madison revolted
against the old Virginia custom of
setting up the drinks. His morality
was mistaken for stinginess and the
thirsty voters fiocked to the capa-
cious barrel of his opponent, who was
elected. The defeated candidate had
to wait a dozen years for his first
chance to distinguish himself Still
no time was lost, for, while he was
waiting, he diligently prepared to meet
opportunity when it should come and
made close study of all governments,
ancient and modern.
If Madison had not been crossed and
blessed in love, posterity might not
catch him on his human side at all
and only yawn over this prosy, serious,
studlous, cool-tempered unaggressive,
weakened, little great man. He was
already mature bachelor of thirty
two and a member of the Continental
congress, when a sixteen-y ear-old girl
In his Philadelphia boarding house
was the first to touch soft spot in
his heart. A young clergyman who
hung and sighed over her harpischord
cut him out, and he was painfully
awakened from his first dream of love
by letter Of dismissal.
Madison wss past forty, and we'll
into his Indian summer, when he be-
came involved in still another board
ing house romance at PHILADELPHIA.
Only. instead of a lady boarder, he
fell in love this time with a land
lady's daughter, Dolly Payne Todd,
who was only twenty-six, had lost her
husband and was living with her moth
or, who received into her house a
few gentlemen boarders." Among them
was Senator Aaron Burr of New York.
Madison himself was staying at an
other house, where he and two
other future presidents, Jefferson and
Monroe, were living three in room.
There the fame of the pretty young
Quakeress travelled to him, and he
asked Burnley were at Princeton
together-to take him to see her. The
match famed up in the flash of an
eye. and Dolly and her boy were
borne away 70 Montpelier, where she
proved her tactfulness and kindness
by dwelling in peace under the same
roof with her mother-in-law thirty-five
years.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-07-09

A S JAMES MADISON made great
4 n name for himself before entering
the presidency and added nothing to it
while in the White House, it must be
that he was good deal of a man but
not much Of a president.
Like all the more famous Virgin
ians, Madison was not of the highest
aristocracy, but the son of plain,
well-to-do farmer in an outlying coun-
ty. His early life was passed at Mont
pelier, the farm which his grandfather
had wrested from the Indians; from
1t he drew his, only private income
and at last he was buried in it's soil.
He was dependent on his father until
he was fifty, when the latter died and
the place became his own, with 100
slaves, who continued always to ad-
dress him simply as Master Jimmy
Standing only five feet six inches
and one-quarter inches, he was, with
Grant the smallest of our presidents.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-07-09

behind him, he fled faster and farther
While the British commander was
blowing out candles on his dinner ta-
BILE that he might feast in the light
of the burning White House, its fugi-
tive master was hiding in a forest.
After an absence of three days, a
heavy hearted, shattered, houseless
president returned to view the
charred walls of his official residence
and of the capitol. At every turn he
was greeted by ugly mutterings of the
general disposition to make him the
scapegoat for all the national short
comings in a war that had been thrust
upon him. But with victory at New
Orleans and the return Of peace, the
voice of the Pathfinder was drowned
in the hum of sudden prosperity. And
in the closing days of his admins
tration Madison was cheered by many
assurances that his eountrymen were
not forgetful of the 40 years that he
had served them in pure devotion.
Like John Adams, he emerged from
his retirement to sit in the canstitu-
tional convention of his state,
where the aged statesman closed his
active public life. as he had opened
it, with a sentiment of humanity for
the slaves.
tcopyrighs 1890. by james MorEanl
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-07-09
Fine Sport.

"Where did you go this afternoonr
asked Mr.. Dubwaite as he slipped his
coffee.
downtown" said Mrs. Dubwaite.
swell, did you enjoy yourself"
1T certainly did. met Mrs. Calder
and had a perfectly lovely time talk
ing to her as If l hadn't heard that
she and Mr.. Calder had separated."--
Birmingham Age-Herald.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-07-09
HUNS WANT GREATER ARMY.
viii Insist Upon Army of 100000 and
Restitution of Territory.

Paris. - Konstantine Fehrenback,
German chancellor, will insist at the
spa conference upon the maintenance
or a German army of 100000 men,
restitution of territories now occupied
by allied troops and deduction of the
cost Of allied occupation from the
amount of reparation due, according
TO Berlin dispatch to the Petit Par
islen. 1t is said he will oppose French
ana Polish claims to coal mines in
upper Stlesia and will urge an inter
national loan.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-07-09
FATAL sHooTiNe IN IDAHO.
oNorce Case Leads to Tragedy in the
Gem State.

Boise, Idaho.--J. c. Opie, aged %,
VI Meridian, was fatally shot by Ar
nur Pressly at Barber late Wednesday
",sht' He was rushed to the st. AL
pnohsus hospital, where he died a
snort time after his arrival. PreSsly
Is IN the Ada county Jail pending i'm
vestigation.
A short time ago opie married the
alVorced wife of Pressely and family
troubles are said to have caused the
tragedy.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-07-09

Anthony Hope,
known outside the
world of books ns
Sir Anthony Hope
III a W kkns, was
born I'm London,
Feb. 0, 1893, the
son of a clergy
man. He married
a n A m e rIca a
woman. 1t Ia to
be hoped he may
have many more
children of the
brain to follow
I'm the footsteps
of 1.-THE Prisoner
of Zendao and
"Fhe Dolly DIa-
logues."
He was edu-
Gated Mt MarI-
borough, and at
BaIliOI College,
Oxford, where he
took hOnOrs In
NeffeFa md V0a
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-07-09
A FUGITIVE PRESIDENT

1eo9-James Madison, Inaucu-
rated President, aged fifty
seven. ..-
1s12--(June 19) War de-
clared.
1af4-(Aua. 24-27) In flight
from the British. (Dcc.
2a) treaty of peace.
1e77-Madison retired from
Presidency.
1826-Reetor in University Of
Virginia.
1829-in constitutional con-
Vention.
1s36-(June 29) died, aged
eighty-hve.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-07-09
Freeh RehelIlon n chlna.

=, Nohuon.-Civil war has broken out
~ me province Of Human. in south
=" Shina, said Central News dis
~, r%.'I from Shanghai, The southern
~ s"''SSe republicans have occupied Yo-
SLOW Government officials have fed.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-07-09
Americans Attacked by Bandits.

"aShington.-So Some Americans were
"Do"ru the Mexican armored train
""I'h was attacked in chihuahua
Gently by small number of bandits,
t ~. state department was advised by
e'e American consul at Chihuahua.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-07-09
IRISH PARLIAMENT IN SESSION


Meets in Secret and Issues Number
of DEGREES.
Dublin.-It' is, announced that the
lFlSh parliampt do so in secret ses-
S'oh tuesday M. A. Wednesday and
That DEGREES werr AEssed authorizing
the establishment courts of justice
and equity and cotS. of criminal jur-
tsdiction. A aatig 2 land commits
sion was appointed Int Another decree
provides for the projection Of persons
occupying land against vexatious
claims.
II was announc4d that the million
dollar intermediary loan had been
oVersubscribed hySS25o,0O0 when the
loan closed. II
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-07-09
FIVE MINUTE CHATS ABOUT
OUR PRESIDENTS
By JAMES MORGAN
JAMES MADISON

lI51, March 16--James Madi.
son born at Port Con-
way, Va.
1T72-Graduated at Princeton.
H76--ln Virginia legislature.
1905, 17s5-s--In Continental
congress.
17e7--In constitutional conven-
ton.
1789-97--ln congress.
1794-Married Dorothy Todd
Payne.
fso1-e-Secretary of state.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-07-09

president of the Oxford Union, which
means that he was already a man of
mark In his undergraduate days. BY
way of a profession he became a bar
rister of the Middle Temple I'm 1877.
But IL the pursuit Of the law interferes
with the production of a thrilling tale,
may he never have a case to prepare.
His first book was ''The Prisoner
Of Zenda," which has probably re-
nnined his best known one. 1t had
L large hearing when turned to the
stage, and the public demanded a
sequel, which came in "Rupert of
Hentzau." After Zenda quickly fol-
owed '"The Dolly Dialogues" which,
BY their easy and debOnaire grace, in
sVitabIy suggest Lawrence Sterne. His
books have been numerous, as "The
Kings Mirror and Christian of BIent,"
and he has written plays as well, as
SThe Adventure of Lady Ursula" A
souch of sureness and precision lend
distinction to his prose; he has an
unusual power of interesting his read
srs In his persOnaEes and their dolnSs.