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VOL. 42 MONTEREY. HIGHLAND COUNTY, VA? FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1920 / v ; ? ? . . HIGHLAND C0U1TTY DLRECTOSY. I County and District CiEcers: Henry W. licit, Jutf.je of Circuit j Court, Staunton, Ya. Terms of Court ? 4th Tuesday in ! April, 2d Tuesday July, 2d Tuesday October. Andrew L. Jones, Commonwealth At torney, Monterey, Ya. W. H. Matheny, Clerk, Monterey, Ya. W. N. Bird, Sheriff, Monterey, Ya. H. M. Slaven, Treasurer, Monterey, Va. J. W. E. Lockridge, Commissioner of | Revenue, Monterey, Yu. I. L.. Boyeriig'o, Co. ;>ui\ ryov; iIont& rey, Ya. Walter Jini'snax, Supu of Poor, Crab bottom, Va. - ~ ?. 1". K. Mi:s:ay, Supt. of Schools, High town. Va. Jo!;n M. Colaw, Commissioner of accounts, Monterey, Vv? T-Iue Grass District J. ' W. Havener, Supervisor (Ctirm.) Higlitcwn, Va. ee J. Yvjincr, Overseer c f l'oor, Cral< < , bottom, Va. Ben IT. CVIavv-, Constable, Crabbottom Yu. v B. 0. Eird, Justice, Y alley Center, Ya. r. i.v Swvtkcr, JnsUcc, M.^JUrey.Itn M. X. Simmons, Justice, Crabbottoia, Monterey District. . A. J. Teri-y, buper v"ie.>r. TiiinMe, VV Arthur Keveoer, Overseer . of MonterVy. Ya. J. 11. Samples. Justice. Mor.iovoy. Vu I. I), OU'^H'aW. Justice. Yonder v-> * "" Va. J. II. Burns. Justice. Eolsr, Va. .. . Stonewall District. J. i?, Armstrong, Supervisor, McDow . , ell, Va, . i. \V. Simmon*, Constable, Kc?:d*a tera, Vr - Hobert ohfimate, Justice, Medow Lurty Artj.jitrong, Overseer of Poor, Doe Hifl; Va. til, Va. d. A. rr.spbtv Justice, .Mr IK) well. L it Pop. . Justice, L' ^ iiifl; V>. UinVERSITY OF VIRGJNLx Head of Public School System of Va. DEPARTMENT REPRESENTED College, Graduate, law, Medicine, Engineering to deserving students. ^ 0.00 covexs ?iJl costs, t>-< Virginia s?i;'tcnt3 "In tho Academic Department. nd for cat alogue. ? DOWARD WIN{s: '>N.-RoRisffar lj"i;iV*?rMlty. Va. When 4 WofSiH is Nervous? Wmbed Most women neglect their health, tnd for this they pay the penalty. Any woman will find that neglect does not pay. A little more atten tion to health would brighten up her life. If she asks her neighbors she finds that Dr. Pierce's Favorite Pro scription benefits- a woman's whole system. It not or.ly acts upon the troubles and weaknesses peculiar to women, but is an all-round tonic that braces the entire body, over-" coming nervousness, sleeplessness, .. headaches, disziness and a run Gown condition. All druggists. Liquid or tablets. Fkedericesbtjkg.Ya.? "After I had gene through a very eeuon? operation 1 could not regain my -health and strength. I suffer ed with pains sud aches oil ovir. 1 uiiaaiso very nerv ous. Uy mother ed vised rev taking Dr. Pierce's medi cines; I took 'Fav orite Proscription' and Golden TJcdi - ... cal Discovery alter- * nately and they soon builfc me up and seemed ;to give rac new life. ; 1 , heartily recommend these medicines to woman who", suffer with any serf, of weakness. ' '.?Mrs; Yv\ S. " Coi, 807. Charles Sireet, iOiwlOi sosae-i EOX3QE 3QE301 0 PALAIS KOYAfc; Tfte-Roiice of rashion. j e^ ? ^ % r% \:r A"cck [)!fc,te showing of fashionable v.vanm? <ippard| ? for fall and winter Wear j (bat?, Suits, ^Bre'ssesT ' j Waists, Skirts, Millinery | m - ? ."? k,.c S th) many other items that:?# to complete milady \ * s wardrobe. ..... - Tfe'3 maximum in qual ty, uUpa ifi style, moderate n p. ic *. t SEAWCH *L ff 1 $1 /l. A i-'ir*4 JL'Sc^ "caf ?-a/ ?' ik r^Jll aOT&O .. ? ,, .0 ."Some friendships are made by nature, i me by contract, some by interest and ( !. >^'ne by souls," wrote Jeremy Taylor.. '. 4j Yes, and some are made by service, f . ".S'iect your watch for service. Our judg Da nt may help you. D. L. 3WITZER. JEWELER ??- ? ??? ?-.-. > x . A^;'--vao^jSA 2.35 will get The Recorder and The Thrice- a-week World a whole year. Let us have your ofder. No better combi nation for presidential year. If you are going away for the summer have the Recorder set to your address. AS SENATORIAL COMMITTEE INVESTIGATES CAMPAIGN FUNDS GEORGE H. Wh'ITE Room C3C>, Federal building, Chicago, America's newe*' political r.reca. It is there this sena torial investigating committee asks questions of campaign irhairmen and managers about "slush" funds or campaign' dotations, none of the big partiS3 bcir.& immune. Both Chairman Will Hays '.of tha Republican national committee, and George H. White, Democratic national committee, have boen on the stand. Theso are new pictures of tbe chairmen and of the committee in session. Reading, left /to right, they are, Edge and Speocer: Ksnyop. chairman; Pomerene and Rood. WAS ABLE TO DIGEST STONES \ French Historian H?.s L^ft Descrip tion cf Man With a Stomzuh"* ' That Was Remarkable. i. Theophile Benoit, a French writer and historian, gives the following de scription of a true lithoplingus or stone-eater, whom lie encountered in the northern part of; France. "This man," states Benoit, "\vfoj answered to the name cf Brunda, not only swal lowed flints an inch and a half long, a -full inch broad and half an inch thick, hut any stones like marble which he could reduce to powder, I examined this man with all the atten tion I possibly could, finding Ills gullet very large,, his teeth., exceedingly strong, his saliva Very corrosive and' his stomach lower than usual? a fact which I Imputed to the vast number of flints which he had swallowed. "Upon interrogating one of the stone-eater's friends I .was told that Brunda had been found three years before in a northern uninhabited is land, by the erkw of a Dutch ship. 'I can juake hliir es?- raw flesh with the stones, ' said the man who was -acting j as his keeper, 'but I could geyej^lft i djice him to swallow bread.' ^e.wfll i drink water, wine and braiUly' ffftif ap pcars to l>e very fond of the latter. . He sleeps 12 hours a day, but always In a seated posture, 'with his chin rest ing on his knees, lie smokes almost all' the time that he is not asleep or eating."' RUGS USED IN ALL AGES Ancient Chroniclers Have Left Ac counts of Various Remarkable Products of the Loom. - ' ' - In all ages rugs have been used for religious purposes. Up to the present thn'e each member of the Persian.and Mohammedan family carries a smitll rug ' for prayer, r Tlie Mohammedan, by means of a small compass, places the- rug where the niche points toward Mecca, where the body of Mohammed lies. He then strips himself of all : fJUfj- jewels, combs his beard carefully, and then, .with hands outstretched on either side, he prostrates .himself pnd. with he/id on the earth,, performs' his devotions,. ?n Egypt Cleopatra had looms sot *!{) >n her pnlrtces for the Weaving . of beajltlfiiiiy designed tapestries. When ' Cleopatra wished -audio net; with Cae sar, ?he had a bale of rugs shipped via Mediterranean", i When this was opened before the Roman, empero.r, a most superb nig was unrolled, and to the Astonishment of the Court, the re nowned Egyptian queen rolled out with it. Virgil makes mention of wonderful rugs woven by women, nigs to be v spread under the thrones of kings and under the ki\ees of courtiers, and laid upon the backs of horses and in (he chariots of conquerors and general?. ? _l_ : ? ? / _ - " The Roman G^stsrtius. -Sestertius Is the Latin name for a Roman coin 'meaning half of the third,/ that Is, two and half, from "semi" meaning half and "tertlus" meaning third. When silver coinage was introduced In Rome In 2GS B, 0? with the copper as a unit, the silver sestertius was valued fit 2Vi asse?. The? standard iw retained only one-fourth of its original weight. Tlie sestertius was equiva lent fo tilt? original Ilbral.as; and. as {((?counts .had. formerly beeh made in terms of flu' llbral as, lh?y" were lidtv !nade in (ermS of the sestertii. After the /;rst . Ifiuiic war, which ended 2-11 lii V., the se.?tertius ceftSed ? to be Coined. The weight of the jfs was many times minced. In 217 B. C. the de narius was made equal to lt? asses and, li:e Sestertius to 4 asses-. With (lie reorganisation of the coinage sys tem undo-.- Augustus (P.1 B. C. to 14 A. P.) a copper sq.s'tertins of 4 asses was coined under the control of the seyn<p. This was about' 4 cents In United States money. ' A Rainy Day. A rainy day in Switzerland prits a. sudden stop to many diversions. The coachman may drive to the tavern, and then back to the stable ; but no farther. The sunburnt guide may sit at the . . . door, and welcome; and ti:e uOrttman whistle . . . at his ov. n 1 swcui ' v?* j/ui* iv' ' foot u.j i On a 1 for all that; no traveler moves, if lie i has time to stay. The rainy day gives | him time for reflection. He has leis ure now to fake cognizance of his im pressions, and make np ins account with the mountains. He remembers, too, that he has friends at home ; and writes. up the journal, ne^ected for a week or more, and letters neglected i longer j or finishes (he rough pencil* i sketch begun yesterday in the open fair, X)n the whole, lie Is not sorry i it rains? though disappointed.? llenry W. Longfellow. VIRGINIA: , ? , j In vacation, in tliG Clerk's officc of the Circuit Court of Highland County the 2nd day of August, 1920. Lillian V. Hoqk . I vs. ? " ' . A. J Hook; J. II Hook, Geo. W. Hook, T. L. I-Iook, Bessie Pearl Hopper, an 'infant, Roscoe Hopper, Bessie Brown. R. S. Ralstoir, "Wilbur Ralston, Lola Hull. Flora Nortliey, Clarence M. Ralston, Walter L. Ralston, Frank T. Ralston, Ben H. Ralston, Jacob Y. Ralston, the unknown heirs of Willie Blanche-Hopper, deceased, Ethal Hick lin, C. W Ralston, D, C. Ralston, Jr., Harry V. Ralston, Chas. G. Ralston, in his own right and as administrator of Dorthy Hook, deceased, Edith Ral ston Dimmick, Ollie Ralston, Bonnie Ralston, -Dolly Ralston Racncl Fish er, and Rebecca Cobb. ? CHANCERY ?=. The' object of this suit is.to estab Ysh the- last will of Dorothy Hook, deceased, which has beeri lost, or de stroyed by someone other than the testatrix, to prove the same and have 'it probated. | And it appearing from affidavit filed. thatrthe defendants, J. R. Hool*. Roscoe Hopper, Bessie Brown, R. S. 'Ralston, Wilbur Ralston, Lola Hull, Flora Nortliey, Clarence M. Ralston, Waltpr L. Ralston, the unknown heirs of Willie Blanche Hopper de ceased, D. C. Ralston, Jr.,. and Edith Ralston Dimmick are ? non-residents of this state, it is therefore ordered that they appear here within fifteen daps .afer due publication hereof, and do what is necessary to protect .their interests. * T&sts: < . M* %. MATHENY, Clerk E. B. Jones, p. q. VIRGINIA:" In vacation in the Clerk's office of the Circuit Court of Highland Co. the 25th day of August 1920. _ James R. Beathe j: vs> .. \In Chancery Ann Eliza. Cobb, Nannie X Ralston, Kathriine Ilock, Felix II. Bcatlie, Wm Beathe, ICatio Beathe, Gcor ? ' r;ie Frank, find the unknown heirs . of John Be?the; dee'd- arid Chas. j Beathe. i Tiro cfcj-SV cf this suit is to subject r tract oi land, on Crab Run, in High land county, containing 78 acres, and another adjoining tract containing 22 acres, belonging to the estates of James M., Joseph Ar, and John P. Beathe, and another adjoining tract containing 67 acres, belonging to the cotate of John Beathe to the pay ment of a -debt due James M Beathe by said ostaers, by a sale of said tracts of laiid and division of the balance of the proceeds of sale, if 'any, among the parties entitled thereto. And it appearing from affidavit filed that , the defendants Felix H. Beathe, Willi am Beathe, Katie Beathe, G corgi e Frank,- Chas Beathe, and th; uf/.-riowii heirs of John Beathe deYvl-x.re non-residents of this p.tate, it Is tlioreiors ordered that they appear he if;, within lo dujs aftei due publicatii ii hereof, and do what is necessi.ry t.j protect their interests. Teste: W. II. MATHENY, Clk. A. L. Jones, p. ,Q. 8-27-4t NOTICE 25 yearlings an4 2 year olds for ale cheap, and grazed to Sept. 7ts or later if so desired. Six or twelve months time to purchaser. i 4t-7-22 H. F. Alexander, McDowell, Vs.. . J Varying Opinions. Deacon Gihlrow says that if a man loves a woman well enough ,to cheer fully write a check in payment for her new suit, though he knows it j means that he will have to make his | old overcoat do another winter, it j is safe to marry her. And Mrs. Deacon Gildrow says that j If you love a man well enough to j think you would like to see the floor | of the closet littered, up with his old j shoes It will be perfectly safe to | marry him. i Proving It "Smitb Is a live wire." "I know It. He touched me this morning for twenty dollars and I | was shocked." VIRGINIA: In vacation, ill the Clerks office of the Circuit Court of Highland county the 25th day of August 1920. Anthany Young, Alexander Wright, and Fred Wright. . vs. In Chancery Hulen Wright, and Fred Wright, an Infant. The object of this suit is to parti tion the lands in Highland county of which Fred Wright, Mary M. Wright, and S. Arthur Wright died seized, if susceptible of partition, and to sub ject the same to the payment of a debt due by said Fred and S. Arthur Wright's estate, due to Anthony Young. And it appearing from affidavit filed that the Helen Wright and Fred Wright are non residents of this state, it is therefore ordered that they appear here within 15 days after due publication hereof, ancUdo what is necessary- to protect their interests. . Teste: W. H. MATIIENY, Clk. A. L. Jones, p. q. 8-27-4t o Commissioner's Sale of Land Pursuant to a decree of the circuit court of Highland county, rendered at the July term, 1920, in the cause of C. J. Richardson and others va. L. C. Gum's Admr. etc., I will on Monday, the 20th day of Sept., 1920. Offer for sale at public auction at the court house of said county that tract of laiyi of which L. Clark Gum died seized, situate on the waters of Back Creek, containing 352 acres more or less, adjoining the lands of W. E. Terry and others. | TERMS ? Oue-Uiiid of the pur chase money cash on the day of sale, and the residue to be paid in two equal instalments in six and twelve months thereafter, with interest, the purchaser to execute bonds for the deferred payments with approved per sonal security, and the title to.be re tain as ultimate opssijltr. j EDWIN ' Comr. i The commissi^, - 0i"tren the bond required. 8-2 0-4 1 W. H. MATHENY, Clk. o VIRGINIA: In the Circuit Court of Highland County, Aug. 2, 1920. John M. Propet ^ vs Petitionee? attachment W. C. Evick,Pearle Evick, A II. Jones Exol\ of Dice f]vick, dee'd and Mary B, Evick. , The object of this suit is to recover from the Defendants the turn of 115. 70, with interest thereon from the 11 th day of Nov. 1914, subject to credits for 16.75 paid Oct. 15, 3 915 and for $15.00, paid July 15, 1015, due by note, waiving the homestead exemption. And it appearing from affidavit G!- i ed that W. C. Evick and Pearie Evick are non-residents of this Stele, tlic. ! are therefore ordered to appear here j within 15 days after due publication j hereof and do whet is ncccs^ciy to; protect their int.eiej.t:s. Tests: W. H. MATIIENY, tier* Edwin B. Jones, p. o. -it $2.35 will get the Recarder ^r.d Thilce a week World a whole yem. Five Minute Chats on Our Presidents By JAMES MORGAN (Copyright, li>20, by James Morgan.) ULYSSES S. GRANT 1822? April 27, Hiram Ulysses Grant born at Point Pleas ant, 0. 1839 ? Enrolled at West Point Military academy as Ulysses Simpson Grant. 1846-8 ? In the Mcxican war. 1848 ? Aug. 22, married Julia Dent. 185<1 ? Resigned from the army. 1851 ? Colonel of Twenty-first Illi nois volunteer regiment of infantry. 1881 ? August, brigadier general. 1862 ? April, fought battle of Shi , loh. *? 1863 ? July 4, took Vickeburg. 1864 ? March, lieutenant general in command of the armies^ May, opened his campaign in the Wilderness in Vir ginia. ? . 1885? April 9, received Leo's surrender at Appomattox Court Houee. 1S69 ? March 4, inaugurated eighteenth president, aged 45. 1872 ? Grant re-elected. The Credit Mobiiior scan dal expoeed. 1376 ? February, "whisky ring" exposed. March, Belknap, secretary of war, Impeachcd. 1877? March 4, Grant retired from the presidency. :d FAILURE at tliirty-nlne, at for ty-one Grant xcaz the" most successful , soldier of his prener ation. War was his element, but he did not suspect It. On the contrary, he hated warfare, was bored by army life and never read books on the military art. In the Mex ican war he had been contented to be side-tracked from the fighting line in the quartermaster department That experience inclined him to be a con 'HEN Grant left the White House, freer! from public care for the first time in- 15 years, his uppermost wish was to visit his. daughter* Mrs. Nellie Sartoris, in England, where he wa3 surprised by the public welcome that greeted his arrival. He was "puz zled to find himself a personage," said James Russell Lowell. But his politi cal friends were quick to see in his triumphs abroad a chance to restore their own prestige at home, and they urged him on until he had completer a tour of the world, which remain: perhaps, unequaled In brilliance. A lie went his way from London t^ Tokyo, emperors and kings honorec him. Coming' liome after a thriven! absence, ha weffftly politician/? who were uling nflr i*? in a desperate adventire to regal power for the "Stalwart" faction oi the Republican party. But the unwrit ten law against a third term was vin dicated in his defeat in the Republican convention of 1SS0. Failing the White House, he was tempted by a "young'.. Napoleon of Finance" into the whirlpool of New York and to become/ 'a partner In a Wall street bank. j Into that blind r ? 1 Grant sa Second Lieutenant. tractor for supplying bread to the nrroy at tTio outbreak of the Civil war, when the politicians refused tn make him an officer, ' - The fifst tUrie Grant came In sight of the enemy in the Civil war he frank ly tells us fehat his heart jumped into his throat. "I hud not the moral courage," he said, "to halt and con sider what to do; I kept right Cm" That is the "Whole story of how Grant got to Appomattox; he kept right on. Starting without a friend at his back, and with oniy a long, un broken trail of disappointments be hind him, he never asked fop' promo tion, an assignment or a favor, yet this unambitious man rose to be general in chief. lsTo conqueror ever was higher p'oijW than Grant at Appoma and depressed, as he t?i ; i * the downfall of a valiant W<?, tiy Lee as if that foeman in war were a neighbor in trouble. When he became president It was Grant's misfortune to know no one ex cept his associates In the war. The polf-respecting among them kept away from him. T.wi the self-seekers and the camp foliowera crowded about a man who never forgot and never dis trusted a friend, not n when he came bearing n Greek gift, and Sena tor Charles Stniiac-r spoke scornfully Of the administration as} a "gift en terprise" The many scandals Of the admlnis tration were mostly traceable to the ! betrayal of Grant's childlike confi dence in unworthy friends. "Black Friday" In Wall street cast its shadow on his family circle itself. The "whisky ring" involved the president's private secretary. A mem bcr of the cabinet was impeached for squalid transactions, but by accepting his resignation Grant let him dodge the conviction. A liberal" red ion of distinguished Republicans revolted .against Grant's election to a second term, but they were mostly leaders without follow ers. The popular revolt did not come until the panic of 2 S73 had plunged tho country into six years of hard times, and a tidal wave in the elec tion of 1S74 swept the Democrats into control of the house. j venture he put what little money he jM had and most of all ills nameJB After three years he was rudel^n awakened from his dream of wealth by the "young ^Napoleon's" request that he go borrowing from William H, Vanderbilt to save the bank from crashing. He was lame from a falj on an icy street when the truth was ^ broken to him, but he limped into' the Fifth avenue palace of the multi millionaire and came out with $150,000, As he entered the bank, two days later, 'he was mot with the crushing news that the firm of Grant & Wardag had gone down in a shameful failure, J Hours afterward a clerk found tho I brokpn man still sitting at his desk I in silent despair, his head dropped V forward, his hands gripping the anna ' of his chair. ? Out of bad came good. G?snt Opf?? his "Personal Menhirs" with a fr&hli admission that he consented to write that great narrative only because he was living on borrowed money when a publisher proposed the undertaking. As he pursued his theme he was grat- a lfled to discover an unsuspected for unfolding a moving tale of his ad ventures and achievements in the field. He wrote on until he had finished a story aa Imposing In Its directness and simplicity ns his own nature. And the first sales of it brought his wife, when" he was gone, more money than all the earnings of his lifetime. One day, in the midst of his writ ing, ns he was eating a peach, he felt a stabbing pain in his throat. A deadly cancer had him in its clutch. With grim heroism, he fought it un til he had completed the two volumes of his "Memoirs," although he was re duced to the necessity of whispering his dictation in the ear of a stenog rapher. Finally he was left speech less and had to write out the closing * chapters on a pad in his lap. At the coming cf summer, he was taken up state to a cottage on Mt. Mc Gregor. There he silently welcomed* as ho^it on the piazza, the viators who 'came to see him, among them Gen eral Simon Bolivar Buckner. To that classmate at West Point and foeman at Fort Donaldson, Grant gave his last message of rejoicing that his suffer ings had united North and South in a common sympathy.