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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-11-23

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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-11-23

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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-11-23

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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-11-23

Bangor saect-sc cars are sesng equip
pes with csmErezssd cir mechanism
tn- operating the See-srrzpsrsL This
deEfce holds ma scrapers dpwa - the
rails. instead Of de7endtnx upon tae
weight Of tie sg-aprr or pressure By
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-11-23
nswer Telephone Your Help Wanted" Ad Now
Servant Question Has An Answer.
More Than Ever

m these times Augusta folks read and use Jour
nal classified ads. In these columns You VIII find
listed every day the wants and the offers of re-
liable people who have learned that the thrifty
way TO buy and 70 sell is the Journal Want Ad
Way.
Telephone your ad for tomorrowis Journal
Gail lbs and ask for Journal Want AID TakeT
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-11-23

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the unszuzIie-a volume Of ursn-
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-11-23
View Yark Stock Market
Corrected Daily by
MAINE BROKERAGE COMPANY

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Torresp onfenIS af
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Members u New York and Boston
Stock Exchange
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-11-23

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Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-08-27
RED CROSS RELIEF 7 ,
IN CENTRAL EUROPE

But for timely assistance Of the
American Red Cross during the last
wear, a large proportion of the 10000
600 population Of the Balkan States
might have starved or persisted from
disease or exposure. Six million dol
lars worth Of food, clothing and medi-
ca, supplies have been sent to the Bal
kans--Roumania, Bulgaria, Albania,
montenegro, Serbia, Bosnia and Greece
since the beginning of Red Cross re-
lief operations in Central Europe,
while millions of dollars worth of food
alone has been sent to the needy in
these states.
The money expended by the Red
Cross in this stricken portion Of Gu
rope has been used to set up hospitals,
orphanages, -dispensaries, mobile medi-
cal units and to help in the general re-
construction of devastated areas Amer
iican tractors and other farming imple-
sments have been sent TO the agricul-
tural regions where aid has been CIV
en- in blowing the land.
= By the last of this year probably
all American Red Cross agencies adj
ministering relief in Central Europe
will have withdrawn. BY that time, 1t
is believed, the people will have ap-
preached a normal state Of living and
will be able through their own agencies
which the Red Cross has helped set
up to provide for themselves.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-08-27
Lucky Even to Get That.

1.-THE president of the stone bank
was kidnapped by a robber," relates the
landlord of Petunia tavern. He was
in his own yard, in his shirt sleeves,
moving the lawn, when the villain
driv' up in q snorting car and COMPEL
ed him, at the pint of pistol to get
In, and then went roaring off With him
in a southeasterly direction. The sup
position was that the scoundrer expect
ed to hold him for ransom. Just at
dusk last night the bank president
came back in the car, He was Wear
ing a vest andJa pensive smile, and
also pants and coat. In pocket OF
the coat was a pistol, and there was
a bundle of clothes in the bottom OF
the car. When asked about the fate
of the bandit he sorter yawned and
said he presumed likely. the villain
found a barrel observation-disclosures
City Star. ..'-
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-08-27

ton, latterly Cass and Houston, Doug
las and Davis, Case and Wade, Sew
ard and Sumner in the senate, dis
tinction and leadership passed from
the White House to the capitol. It
was an ignoble period in our politics
when both parties were lodging the
irrepressib1e issue Of slavery, and the
smaller the candidate for president
the better chance he had to dodge the
question. auCts .a..- 4.a;,.s ..r, j..
In the teeth of a piercing northwest
wind, the old farmer president-elect,
bareheaded and disdaining the protec-
ton of an overcoat, rode horseback to
the capitol. After addressing a great
crowd that shivered in its shawls and
furs, he insisted, though half-frozen,
on remounting his horse and leading
the inaugural parade. = "'*sa..'
No sooner was the first Wing presi-
dent in the chair than the claims of
factions and the cIamor for patronage
assailed him. Clay had declined
cabinet honors- labors---in the
confident expectation of playing the
easier and more powerful role of the
power behind the throne. The i'm
perious manner of the Great Com
moner wounding the presidential
pride, he was requested to make his
calls at the White House as infre-
quent and inconspicuous as he con-
veniently could. Thereupon his total
absence became embarrassingly con-
The one clear mandate of the cleo
tion of 1910 was to turn out the Demo
Gratis and give the jobs to the Wings.
Straightway a hungry horde fell
upon Harrison and literally devoured
him. In O month to a day he was dead
of pneumonia, the first president to
die in office throughout the more than
so years Of its existence &e'o''tf
This briefest of administrations IS
pathetic little story of simple,
lonely old man, lured from his arm
to be the sport Of politics. -uling in
body and .harried in mind, he was
without the care and companionship
of his good wife, Anna Symmes Har-
rison, daughter of a New Jersey colo
mel in the Revolution who became
one of the pioneer soldiers Of Ohio.
Broken by the hard toll of frontier
household and sorrowing for the loss
of eight of her ten children, this wife
of one president and grandmother OF
another, still was ma king ready to
take up her duties as mistress of the
White House when the news of her
husbands death came. to her. ~e&
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-08-27

a THOUGH William Henry Ear
IN rlson was elected to the presi-
dency as the log-cabin candidate, In
the first of our frenzied, parading cam
paigns, he was born to one Of "the
first families Of Virginia." in: a manor
house on the banks of the aristocratic
James. AS a son of Benjamin Har-
rison, signer Of the Declaration, with
the blood of Pocahontas in his veins,
and as a descendant Of Cromwellian.
colonel who signed the death warrant
Of king, no president has had
longer more historic lineage. 81 tttty}
In ability William Henry Harrison
fell below the standard of his prede-
cessors. He was elected not because
he was great statesman or a great
soldier, but because he was thoroughly
representative of the new West, which
was flattered to see in the White House
for the first time man created In its
own Image. ","' '''' .'.' ~ +#.
At Harrlson's Inauguration the
presidency entered an eclipse and
was held for 20 years by secondary
characters, who reigned, but did not
rule. With men. of the eminence OF
Clay and Webster, Calhoun and Ben
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-08-27
FORCED REMOVAL OF EDICT
Eondoners in Rlotous Mood When
Monarch Threatened to Close
~! .:s... citys Coffee Houses. y. d .I...

All England was up in riotous de-
Tense of the right to pursue happiness
and coffee when, in 1875, Charles trfeG
to close the coffee-houses as "the great
resort of idle and disaffected persons"
hot beds Of political intrigue. SO loud
were the protests against the prohibi-
ton that the king was forced to re-
woke his proclamation. To save his
dignity, he said that "out of his prince
ly consideration and royal compassion
all and every retailer of the liquor
aforesaid shall be allowed to keep OPP
en- until the four and twentieth day OF
June next" The arid date came and
went-and the lid didn't go on. The
London coffee houses still fiourlshed,
champions Of free speech when the
press was controlled and parliament
unreliable. .a...,..s.s -.c,i H.. j, I ~,...
has Of all the literary and political
meeting places, the most Influential
was one popularized by the patronage
of the poet Dryden. Literary aspir-
ants of the day paid dearly mere
ly for the privilege Of entering the
room the great man usually occu-
pied. There it was that Pepys saw
him, center of an admiring throng,
having Every witty and pleasant dis
course" Dryden's chair always was
placed by the fire. in the winter and
on the balcony in summer.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-08-27
* ln::Ce-a-Week ,hGlt10n OF ~
The New York World
IN.1919 and 1920

Practically a daily at the price of a
weekly. No other newspaper in the
wcrid gives so much at so low price
Eho forces are already lining up
for ,hv Presidential campaign of 1920.
The Thrice -a-Week World which is
the greatest example of tabloid jour-
nalisn in America will give you all
the news of it.. It will keep you as
Thoroughly informed as daily at
avc o. six times the price. Besides,
The Lcws from Europe for long
line IT, come will be of oVerwhelm-
irg interest, and we are deeply and
yitaiiy concerned in it. The Thrice
a-Week World will furnish you en-
accurate and comprehensive report of
everything that happens. ~ ~
The Thrice-A-Week Worlds regu-.
lar subscription price is only $1.O0'
per year.; and this pays for 1876 pa
pers. We offer y this, unequalleo
newspaper and The HIGHLAND RE-
CORDER together for one year for
1885. 80 -
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-08-27
HAD GENIUS FOR lNVeRTloR
Man Who Began Life as a\Prairie
Sheep Herder Made Most Re-
j ksS7gzmaskable Record.

:. 1t is probable thatFWalter Turner
was the worlds most prolific inventor.
Starting life as a shepherd on q
prairie sheep ranch in the far West
he knew nothing Of tie mechanics 0ff
railway engineering; sOne day, how
ever, while tending his sheep On. the
prairie in the neighb0rhood OF asraiE
way, Turner came to where the ruins
of a train were scattared,: and auong
the fragments he picked upAas a curl
osity vital part of the Westinghouse
brake. This he was allowed to carr!
away. During. his lonely life on the
prairie he would ponder over the
mechanism of This brake. His chance,
came when, yingzfailed- as a 5 ss.,lle
farmer, he gotta job as a wheel tap Pels
on the railway, Misunderstanding pro-
noted to the engine shops. A series
of inventions, improving brakes pat
ented by the company, led to his fur
Their advancement Mr. Westinghouse,
who took him. into his works, finally
made him the head of the engineering
department. Westinghouse patented
two hundred inventions, but the shep-
herd from the prairies patented four
hundred. Westinghouse made an air
brake that would control fifty railway
carriages; Turner improved it till il
would control hundred. When ne
died it was said that the value OF the
shepherds inventions to the Worlc
was over thirty-fve million dollars II
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-08-27
NEXT JOB IS WHAT COUNTS
Good Thing to Forget What One Has
Done, and Look Forward to
Something Else.

James J. Hill, who possessed phe-
nomenal memory, said it is easy to
remember things you are interested
in. $50 l@-a r-.s
What to do, therefore, is to discern
what things are useful, what things
one ought to be interested in, and
then forget the others. {
That sounds easy, but it isn't easy,
as we all know. However, if we try,
we may accomplish something. If we
don't, we won't.
y Let's see, therefore, what: are some
of the things we ought to forget.
First, and most important of all, for
get that brilliant record you made at
school or that wonderful sale you
made which caused all the boys to
talk, or that remarkable piece of work
you did which won your raise of pay
and promotion.
Forget the big things you did yes
terday or last year.
Forget all about the time you
topped the list and were made fuss
over.
Forget that you are lin your own
eyes) a wonder, a world beaten.
Water that has gone over the mill
wheel can grind no more corn.
Forget what you have already done
and address all your mind and
strength and talent to the Lext job
Forbes Magazine New York;.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-08-27
Tying the Knot.

The performance of the marriage
ceremony is, often spoken Of as "ty-
ing the knot. The expression may
be of comparatively recent origin, a
figurative phrase referring to the. fact
that the contracting parties are united
or bound together in wedlock. Quite
MS reasonable a supposition is that
it has come down from the ancient
Babylonians. ''.--''.'. .,.
At any rate it was the custom in
old Babylonia for the priest who off
ciated at the wedding to take thread
from the garment of the bride and
one from garment of the groom.
He would then knot the two together!
and present them to the bride, SYM
boil Of the matrimonial tie joining her
and her husband. ;a .a- ,I.:.. -.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-08-27
When Thunder Roars.

When caught in a thunderstorm,
don't rush for any shelter.
Remember that any tail, Isolated OBJ
ject, such rs tree or 81 flagstaff, or
even a tall building, is liable to at
tract lightning, and for that reason
should be avoided.
If trees are chosen as shelters dur
ing storm, select a group in prefer
ence to one standing by itself, and
avoid the highest.
Never run to escape the rain, as q
flash is likely TO he diverted to the Vi
cinfty of he air thus set in rapid
motion.
In a house, keep away from open
windows-it is best to shut them
and firepa@es. -.
1t is safer to be soaked by the rain
than dry under an umbrellas wet
clothes will be chosen by the light
ming in preference to the wcarer, and
the wearer in preference to his dry
clothes. '... ..'
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-08-27
HAD TO HAVE AN ARGUMENT
Old Yankee Was Sick to- Death Of At.
mosphere of Peacefulness Which
y. = IT Surrounded Him. f4.

~ i F. 4
An old Yankee. was station master,
telegraph operator, ticket agent and ltlt !,
baggageman at q small town In
Maine. ! a passenger bought ticket
to New York. Then he walked round
to the baggage room to, have his.
trunk checked, The, whiskered little
ticket agent met him in his new char
acter as 4baggageman., "Wun't check
it! he said. - +
""Why not?. That's a perfectly good
ticket. You. just sold 1t to me. The
ticket permits me to check baggage
on it." = :,
"Said 1 wouldn't check it an l
wun't check II" ~
@-"But you have to. check It. T. - =
'Don't talk big to me, young man.
I'm boss here. Said wouldn't check
it, an I wun't."!i iili,1 all ni n2t..iE
Them followed Is minutes of heated
dispute Then the distant whistle of
| the approaching train was heard. The
old man peered down the track and
| - -
then returned to the passenger.
Changed my mind" said he. I'll
check it."
"But why all this row? Why
wouldn't you check it in the first
place and save all this argument?'
Young feller," responded the rail-
road functionary, without even a
twinkle in his eye, "I'll tell you how
it's. - For a SPELL, nobuddy's been
a-comin down here like they used to.
Hang 'raound tn pustuffice drivelin'
'baout peace an politics n SIGH. Been
lonesum. 'Hain't4 had emmy. argymint
with nobuddy in three months, an
b'gum! wuz COMO hev one or
bu'st!"-New York correspondent In
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. i.'<
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-08-27
JUNIOR RED CROSS
ACTIVE IN EUROPE

Garden seeds for Polish orphans,
milk for anaemic Greek babies, car
penters' tools for CZecho-Slovakian
cripples-thcse are only few of the
gifts that young Americans are send
ing to the war-crushed children of the
Old World.
the Junior Red Cross the
boys and girls of the United States
are giving a fresh start In life to little
war orphans scattered all over Europe.
They have set up orphans homes in
France: school colonies in Belgium and
Montenegro and day schools in Al
bania.
They are sending dozens of young
Syrians, Montenegrins, and Albanians
to American colleges in Constantinople
and Beirut, and maintaining more than
q hundred orphans of French soldiers
at colleges and trade schools. In or
phanages and farm schools up and
down the peninsula of Italy there are
nearly 800 wards of American Juniors.
Last winter thousand French chill
dren from the inadequate shelters Of
the devasted regions were sent by the
Junior Red Cross to spend the cold
months in warmer parts of, France.
At the same time five thousand little
Relgians were having a hot lunch every
day at. Junior Red Cross school can
teens. =, # a, H.
American school children have al
ready raised something like million
dollars for these enterprises, and they
are still hard at work.
In China, through campaigns Of ed
ucation, the Junior RED Cross is help
ing to combat widely prevalent blind
ness and cholera. 2.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-08-27

T.
~ ACHARY. TAYLOR was the first
II army man to be president, the
second being General Grant. A dozen
presidents, from Washington to Roose-
welt, had seen war service, but only as
citizen soldiers. 'ss a. .s......
At twenty-three he entered the army
as lieutenant, and he remained in 1t
40 years, until he was .inaugurated
president. Yet he had seen only a lit
lie fighting with the Indians before his
campaign in Mexico, where he COM
manded perhaps not many more than
5000 men and fought half dozen en-
gagements, ranging from the opening
skirmish at Palo Alto to the battle Of
Buena Vista. In this last, his little
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-08-27

army of raw troops was outnumbered
four to one But he spurned Santa
Annals demand for his. surrender, and,
with a little more grape" from Cap
tain Bragg's battery, he defeated the
Mexicans. ..'
s.. The commanders in the two Mexican
campaigns, Zachary Taylor and Win
field Scott, were as unlike as their
popular nicknames would indicate
sold Rough and Ready" and "Old Fuss
and Feathers" sold Rough and
Ready" remained throughout his army
service a simple American. soldier, q
capable officer in peace and resource
full one In war. .. ..,...,.. .-.... =
Obedient always to the civil author
ity, he retained a truly American dis
like of military ceremonial and man
ners. .r
He was is plain in his private life
and with a wife as unaffected as him
self. This devoted companion made her
home with him in military stockade
and tents, sending her children as
they came along back to the care OF
relatives, but refusing to be parted
from her husband. ...~ - ..| .
Like every man who has heard the
seductive suggestion of his name for
the, presidency, Taylor was not long
In yielding to it. Revising his own
poor opinion Of his qualifications in
the light of their higher appraisal by
others, he came to regard himself as
the peoples candidate and he an
nounced that he would run as such
even if no party should nominate him.
rs The party preference Of the old SOL
dier was in doubt, with no other clue
to it except his brothers Illuminating
remark that Zachary liked Henry Clay
and American-made clothes. The
Wings nominated him without knowing
where he stood on any question and
they made no platform for him to
stand on. 1t was a merry game with
the great problems that confronted the
nation. "''.,+ '7
After they had nominated Taylor,
the Wings became fearful for time
that the joke was on them. While
they waited and no word came from
their. nominee. at Baton Rouge, they
took alarm lest he would not accept
the honor from their party. But he
had not received their letter Of notifi-
cation. For they had neglected to pre-
pay the postage on it, and "Old Rough
and Ready" was refusing to receive
all unpaid mail '-is - pf-o3
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-08-27
Weighing a Perfume.

" 1t was the Italian physicist Salvioni
who devised microbalance Of such
extreme delicacy that it clearly dem
onstrates the loss of weight of musk
by volatilization.' Thus the Invisible
perfume floating. off in the air is in
directly weighed. The essential part
of the apparatus is very thin thread
Of glass fixed at !one' end and extended
horizontally. The. microscopic objects
to be weighed are placed upon the
glass thread near its free end and the,
amount Of fleXure produced is OBJ
served with microscope magnifying
100 tliameters. A mote weighing one
thousandth of a milligram pereeptibly
bends the thread. ~, ....,. sa.-.. ~ !
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-08-27
Wonderful Balances.

It was .fhe Italian physician Sal.
tioni who. devised a n1icrobalance Of
-such extreme delicacy that IT clearly
damonstrates the Qoss of weight Of
.mnsk nv volitaiization, Thus the in
visible perfume floating Off In the ar
is indirectly weighed. Inc, essentlal
part of the apparatus is a. very thin
thread of glass. fixed at one end and
extended horizontally. The micro
scope objects toN be weighed are
{naced. on the glass thread near its
free end and the amount of flexure:
snrodneed is observed with the micro
scope magnifying 100 diameters. A
mote weighing one one-theusandth OF
a mllHgram perceptibis bept's the
thread. :.,>i q is,s-t. 1910
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-08-27
The CaIIinn OF Wild Geese,

There are certain bird notes which
strike strange chords, whose vibrations
are lost in q mist of dreams. remem-
Der a little runaway boy who stood
in a clover field in a gray twilight
and heard the Changing calls Of wild
geese shouting down from midsky.
Frightened, he ran home vast distance
at least the width of two fields. AS he
ran there seemed to come back to him
the memory of forgotten dream, if 1t
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-08-27
CATTLE ARE NOT WHAT '.s =
..-... THEY USED TO BE

Buy a shorthorn Bull and raise
beef steers and milk cows like your
father DID. '''...5.s..' -" s"Fs.
Land, feed and labor are so high
that you cannot afford to raise scrubs
The Augusta County Shorthorn
breeders Association Annual AUC-
TON SALE Of SO head--20 bulls
and 80 females be held at
STANTON, VIRGINIA, SEPTEM-
Der 3rd, 1920. For catalog, address,
/ H. E. COINER
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-08-27

s,vsss i isFs,s:e, IA MAseea he lE,S iA an:
ethar land on q chin hillside. ever.
head In the darkness passed a burst
OF triumphant music and the strong
singing of voices not of this earth.
From that day the trumpet notes Of
the wild geese bring backthEough ths
J fog of the drifting years that same
dream to him who heard them first IN
that far away, long agosclovef field.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1920-08-27
TIE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA

Edwin A. Alderman, President
I,,he Training Grounds Of All the
People; s.. .....f, a.,,. ....-.- ~.
represented: The College
Graduate Studies, Education, Engin
earing, Law, Medicine, The Summer
Quarter. Also Degree Courses in Fine
Arts, Architecture, Business and Com
1nerce. Tuition in Academic Depart
ments free to Virginians. All expen-
ses reduced to a minimum. Loan
funds available for men and women
address THE REGISTRAR Univer-
sity, Va. IS: ..-a..@ s3' ".iti... '.-