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PAGE TWO BLIND TRAVELING SALESMAN TRAVELS ALONE; NEVER MISSES TRAIN Biicd! Livitig hi a circle of eternal dark nesa, nearly aiway - alone in niedita tions. but asks sympathy from n< one. And yet he is a successful travel ing salesman, in and oif trains. iut< t&xicabs, looking after his own bag gage, calls on his prospective custo And he b?s never lost a trunk nor missed a tram. He lands an or der in nearly every cotton mill of fice be visits. That's Percy H. Howard of Hart ford Conn, who came to Chariottt yesterday called on five textile mill, placed five orders and will leave to morrow for Greensboro. He will rv turn to Charlotte next June. These facts he grave to an Ob server reporter la.-i night at thi Charlotte lintel. Mr. Howard was dreased in a snappy gray busines? suit, wore a brown fed -ra hat biact hoes and a brown sweater vest. He carrt I a cane, and he .ears a pointed beard similar to that of youi favorite physician He speaks wilt a voice that has a business ring ir :t. and he looks at one squarely whik speaking. His soft brown eyes show no trace of their blindness. "I have no trouble getting around" he said. "I travel without a com pamon. The porters on the train? the bell boys at the hotels, taxi drivers and hag&agv men are my usua assistants. If 1 expect to make mam calls xvhiie in t city requiring: th< use of street ears, la.vabs, or mud walking, I obtain the services of r messenger bov from of the tele graph companies. "1 left Hartford in February ant 1 have visited nearly every city o: importance in the southeast, iiulud ing Atlanta and Kiimin..ham. N< boy ever leads tue across the street He usually precedes me and if vc? are traversing a -sidewalk. I step be side him. "1 can man's fi iondhn-. or hostility by vibratieu The hand shake convey- To m.* omethinc 1 character, and th: confirmed n the voice -vhci. my ptrosfv* tivc <-\> sjK'aKs. i .: ? ait ; ay on an ono's sympathy i have an arti? " o <ell(a HBiiinioditj hat is usi fuloftcn and l > '?< : it o :ii ph i tls alone. For several years aftoi I iost til night and 1 have been 'dim! fot I yedts i seemed to be uttfrij aloi m a world grown. suddor.iy gloom; groping here and there in pools * darkness, brooding and beconiir moody. Then came tin- radio, lifted me out ??f mv depi - eci. found out what was happen jg. was anau. well posted. "Before ni\ eye> failed m? i \v* associated with other- in the main factoring business. We made s cei tain brand of rubber clot hi e.g. On day I woke op and learned that m business had failed?had been "wipe out completely, my partners >ui.l "Would i buy me a fiddle an park myself on a street corner Would 1 travel to some charity mst tution .' Would 1 call on my fi lend for help? Not on your life 1 de ended to become a traveling sales man And I did. I have never re gretted i expect to continue thi work for at least Id years longer, am now f>4 years old?so you see ate still young." He paused a moment. The eeporte felt that the man was listening t< some vibrations perhaps. Then Mr Howard continued: "I love the south. Wonderfu people down here?kind and courte ous. Some of my best boyhood ant middle life business friends hav< ? I?IV ? ? ituauia> mv* iiu not iike blind people But if n souther nc-r feels that way towards me. h* never iets it be known to me. it i> my ambition to some day live m thy south?and I like Charlotte mighty well." Mr. Howard said he rati traveled during much of his life. Before he lost his eyesight he had made a trip to Europe a score or more times, and had often visited South America. He knows his United States perfectly. He has a son who is in business for himself, he said.?Charlotte Observer SODOM AND GOMMORAH COVERED BY DEAD SEA fet. Louis. May 4.?Evidence of the existence of a Canaan ite civilizaftion of the early bronze age, datinn rU? ') Cki U nowf npir li ' - been found by the Xenia expedition in a tour of the Dead Sea Region of Palestine, Dr. Melvin G. Kyle, head of the party, said in a letter received here. Dr. Kyle, who is president of Xenia seminary here, declared his explorations also had tended to confirm the judgment of earlier investigators, that the two cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, which, according to Biblical accounts were destroyed by tire and brim stone, are buried beneath the dead Sea beyond the power of men to discover them. T1 t[ Pottery found in the graves open-! ed by Arab treastm hunters in the region. Dr. Kyle s letter said shows conclusively the existence of the early Canaavtite civilization. He char act*nzed it as t "piv Moabite civilization pointing out that "Lot was the father of "This is a necessary frst link in - the ev dence we desire." tfcv letter > continued, "for the Bible represents - just such a civilization as bircg here - :w * ho days of Scuiom and Gomorroh. Morever there follows just here one -h those expressive >iiv.-.r-. - in Bible - history. The destruction of t'n>- cities of the Plain put out that civilization as sdden-y and completely as one * sntnTs out a candle. Ne\ e i again is c ai'.v mention made w hint jiiven or -j implied of a civilization iv "his plain - after the L<rd destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah. This is exactly what our 1 researches have revealed. Thus, what 'I seemed only negative evidence, be * comes a positive evidence on the sub4 ject. The next civilization that ap-1 : pears is Byzantine, which ? nu*s over] ' 2,000 years later. Although suggestions have been pi made that divers be sent down into 1 the Dead sea to recover .something 1 from th?* two cities beneath its sur' face. l>r. Kyle scouts tin idea, de . nine the rushing waters of small 1 rivers have brought down n'.nivial denosits that have been filling "he bot torn of th? sea, making the work of I ;; divers exceedingly difficult, if not fm- j J possibly BUCHANAN TO BK TRiEil AGAIN! FOR MURDER OF HARSF.LL 1 Koi!Bmhaiian. \\;i i " >r.' on J two cases of murder ar.<; era1 11-1 1 quo) ?ases. and who had kipped his i bond several months ago, wa- appre-J heiuled at o? m ar Xewhail. West Va ! last week by his baindstc n- ?J. ('. 1 Greer and with the aid Deputy Sheriff Honeycutt. was brought to Bakersviile and placed in ja Tile murder cases had at the last term of court beep tin! pressed with - leave to cad thorn up wh i the de looaaTic was t-augm. Groov was on f B.nrhauan's bond .r a \vh.skey"~csua v fin ofit tho i>und <ktiiar rul had l>'- ? n trying for 1 ;u ;< a -.vhilt to lov cato hiiii. ai i as i ro\\;uu had boon ?.:V, -1, .; t",, h - appr - runs .ti, hi* was ?; urri'stfii at t ho above named place by i 'tibials thcro, and Mr. tiioor netiiied t. secured the rv. ? - ??t Mr. Honey y ' v lit" aid t < g? ! iier tho\ wont after the t) I defendant. ,f.j l'hoiv a:v fcvue bills against him y. j eharginx murder of two men, Blaisi i Harseil and Sam Buchanan and it\? ,? [ likely ho will have to slay in jaii It J until -in next term of criminal court I j in November. The liquor casts ;?g Hall's Catarrh Medicine j rid your system of Catarrh or Deatr.ess e caused by Catarrh. >' j S?U by t* for mrtt 4G> y+o*t d ! F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, Ohio d i i_j THE UNIVER6 / . _ / / A f i/e a / day\ / A F / tiai ; / < I roan f tno* I inch I Eftk qual FOR fixtu You p?y I Or 1 The \ expl \ SEE 1 \ \ r. o. b. ] Damaul HE WATAUGA DEMOCRAT?EVER' ! iiinst him will not likely amount to'if i much or at least won't worry him >>: ! wilI the alleged charge of killing a two men.?Mitchell Co Banner. i it NO TIME FOR THE PESSIMIST j The pessimist we have always with ,, t ev?. ry hand, in every age, are t] mei* who delight to drug a soapbox' v out into the street of the world and \ . cry out to all who will listen that | c, mankind i: on the highway to perdi-' ,, tion. .Sooner or late** they are run <i ,vn y trafire in which g: lesonu . fate they find complete vindication: for their theories. I.. The world today has many vexa-l : t ? is problems. but what is import i t ant to note is that it has been trou-1 v bled gravely before. And it has al- n ways coiiie out scarred but sound. E?'er since shortly after the dawn of t , things there have been reactionaries; v j and anarchists and profiteers arid f, ! greedy fellows of every type in ev-: v j pry walk of liie. Thev are forgotten i now. a: the trouble makers of today, v j will be forgotten in another century.! | Many remember long those who serve; ?, them well. Nations have been over- ,T ! thrown before and empires have ex-: f, pi red. but mankind kept on develop-! %v mc through the centuries his know- 0 I ledge and faith and power. i aj But there is no progress through 1 s? wishing. Man grows only by working. It is not enough to have faith j that we shall come out of the valley | of our discontent. We must have the I r.. :. i. . I?. * I - ! i i.urn mat inspir* - wovk a?i?i tnt* zeal i of precept that enthuses examples, j If we would live again in the. pip I nip; times ??f :> ai c and plenty we must labor fur them.?Gaston ia Gazette. LIFE (W. \ Waston.) Life is a mystery. On* comes intoi it world full ??f responsibilities that must he met, 01 otherwise vour life'sI j mission is in vain. 1 1 In babyhood vour eves sparkle and! AnnouiK On May I, i 924 we v operation a Jitney betwi tain City Tenn. I he ji C ity at / a. m. arrive at leave on return at 2 p. r City at 5:30. i A good comfortable careful and polite drive BOONE TRAIL T Madron Bros. Jr., Prop A L CAR Welcome Men of the Famih MOTOR. OB* is never more appreciated . the springtime. It? convenience and er haied by all the family?and by apeedin work, it provider mere rime for recreati ord Touring Car providea eerry motor c at the lowest price fcr which a five passe rver sold?a pnee only made pomi hie hy i ulacture, in tremendous volume, in thelai r economically operated planta in tVie au istry. iency of manufacture m accurately reflect! iiy and price of the Ford Touring Car. D MOTOR COMPANY DETROIT MIC Coup* ?HZS Tudue Sed Fonda* Sedan? $685 AH pncee f o b De can buy any model by making a ama nient arranging easy terma ior the you can buy on our^Weekly Purcha Ford dealer in your neighborhood wi am both plana in detail "HE NEAREST AUTHORIZED FORD 1 D?ar*4< >U MMm ilium f*puff-**8 i THURSDAY?BOONE. N C. listen with rays <if hope for a life ! f happiness if you will only grow up 1 - t?od intended for you to do. t. Youth comes on and the golden t lomcnts of opportunity. Yen then! j - g f to shape your destiny for good r bad. Then is the time to plan for 7 r.e future as old age will overtake j j on on toe slopes or lue r mgtiway. | c on must not put on the brakes butjnteh everything oil high by planing for a ripe old age. In young manhood is the time to rive straight to the goai of success nd crowi < d effort l>y laying aside *-ory po-- Me cent with sense for the :evitable of coming age and save r.dless woity a> you end your days hicb must come to a close with all u inanity. Be prudent and wise ami take a -son from Mother Nature and keep our energy stored up in the battery Dr the battles of life as you go along our daily way. Then and only then will you close our career with a testimony of acievement of which your posterity ill be proud t?? say "he was a real mn" and now lies at rest awaiting nr all things and shaped his destiny hile living of which all can be proud f the battle you fought for yourself nd that family history can be kept raight by the marks you have made. 5>vv I uirij^ 5|\ (to O \ |^> vI rTF^ST SF?ASfS? fe" ^ga^p?3^ AVIDSON DEPARTMENT STORE1 Boono, N. C. ; cement i nil Htrnin nnf m rlaJir r> r-'" ^ " ?en Boone and Moun tney will leave Mtn. Boone at 1 0:30, and n. and arrive at Mtn. car will be used with r. RANSFER CO. s. \ nber \ y (Kan in ijoymrnt g up the on. u cttro nger car oompiete rgrst and tomobile / d in t'n? f 1HICAN / sn ?1390 J troit / 11 dowry- / balance. / a* Plan. / 11 gladly / Forty six farm women of Mock- * ecburg. county have joined the kit-: oen hen improvement contest inaugtiriied .v that county by Miss Bertha ^ru Voffit, home agent. An oil stove and Vltil itchen cabinet will he given as prii> : making the greatest im- o irov. n" ru during the period of the out est. Cc Everyday 1 j J Lveryday problems o small?are the portion c fliniflPO inr lntroofrwo*** ??-* ?* v?v-o i v/i ill VV>Oi;ilClll bad?are offered every c cing personal ventures and all of them ought your banker for advice. We are in business to and clients to solve thei reason our officers are n ed doors, it's the reason ble visitors chairs at th< Drop in to see us anyl The Peoples Trust Cc PAN Doesn't mean ' Quarrel." It m< and quality, ai what we have plant. . We have floo in(, siding ant v * ? ? lumber, the bes windows, door Wick, lime plai rock, etc., to b< this section. It ure to show yo asd quote yoi ces. BETlER NOW A substantial is coming. Fij needs and conu Price Qualit and i irvi^Tr i riviiJLt DEAL]] WATAUGA FURNITI ky W, R. Gragg. Ge MAY 8. 192* 'ho use of fruit in the diets uc * vficiol, ?ay extension workers of Stale College of .Agriculture its like vegetables, contain those iniiner needed by the body. subscribe f or Yost >unty Paper. Voblems >f finance?large or >f every one. Oppor?some erood. some lay : means of finanmust be considered to be submitted to help our depositors r problems. It's the ot kept behind closthey have comfortaeir elbows. :ime. i Bank & )mpany ODAK FINISHING IARDY'S STUDIO LNOIR. NORTH CAROLINA -24 DO 'Pick and cans price nd that ia s at our ring, ceil1 finished it stock of s, roofing iter, sheet 5 found in is a pleasu our line u our priBUY r I advance jure your s to see us. y 5T NG JRE & LBR. CO. :neral Manager.
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