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'"I bad ft most ftubborn cough
for many fears. It deprived mo
of sleep and I grew -very thin- I
then tried Ayers Cherry Pectoral,
and wai quickly cured. ' .
R. N. Mann, FallMUla,Tena.
Sixty years of cures
and such testimony as the
above have f aught us what
AyerV Chqiry Pectoral
will do.
We know it's the great
est cough remedy ever
made. And you will say
so, too, after you try it.
There's cure in every drop.
Tkm iiiM 1 2!c, He, tl. All
Oounlt Toot doctor. If b, iT tk It.
than do M h tj. It ha tellt Jo not
to tak. It, ttaaa don't Uka It. Ha kaom.
In U with him. Wa are wllllne.
J. a 4.1 KB IX), Lowell.
Ex Uoy. AltgHd of .Illinois,
nmi h prominent figure in pol
itirs. died smldenlj a few
clays since.
Many Wonder.
Many - wonder .why it iathat
pin worms find ntoinaou worms
net into little children, or how a
tapo worm 300 leet lout; can get
jn and exidt and trraw iiinide of a
-man, aa it sornetimea happens,
They m ly well wonder, for it i&
a jrreat mystery, However, ma
ny know now by experience that
Mother's Worm Syrup wil rid one
or intestinal worniM and greatly
improve the Imalth alter 1 he
woroix are expf lied and destroy
ed. It. in absolutely a harmless
remedy to take, and as it only
o'sts 25 cents, all should try it
who suspect worms to be the
jcuuse,Qfithe,jll health.
OASTC
Bur, tb Tha Kind You to .Always Boi'tH
J. C. FLETCHER,
JL Attorney At Law,
T BOONE, N.C.
Careful attention jj;iven to
collections.
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ATTORNEY AT LAW,-
BOOSE, N. C. -
"Special attention given
to all business entrusted to
li care."tl ;
8-23, 1900.
. W. TQDD.
GEO. P. PEI.L.
TODD & PELL
ATWRSEYS AT LAW,
JEFFERSON, N. C.
Will practice regularly in the
courts of Watauga. Headquar
ters at Cqfley's Hotel during
couit. 5-4-99.
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-ATlOIMEYAl LAW,-
BOONE, N."C
Prompt attention given to
all matters of u legal nature.
C" Abstracting titles and
collection of claims a special
ty. 231900.
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Cancer Specialist,
BANNER'S ELK. N. C.
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tttodol Dyspepsia Csro
" r pigetU what you eat.
. The Good Eoadi Question for the
; Sonthei n Moonlaln Section.
Revised from a pa per read be
fore the Southern Interstate
Good Roads Convention in
Charleston ; S.'. C ; Feb. 1 st .
1902,by8.P.Kelsey.
Speaking f o r Western' N
C. and the Southern moun
tain section generally,, we
should sny that the question
of first and greatest impor
tance in all good road build
ing is location, but it seems
to have received -about the
last and least consideration.
The wretched condition of
onr country roads is destruc
live of all business and enter
prise, and nothing would do
so much to improve tbecoun
try and add to the comfort'
of living, as the betterment
uf our roadways.
.Of course the Macadam
road is too expensive, and we
must for a time depend upon
the earth-made road "Of
such material as around, the
workman's hands had readi
est found." An expei ience of
27 years devoted largely to
the location, buildingaud im
provement of countrj roads
in the Carolina mountains,
the examination of m ore
than a thousand miles of
prospective road lines and
t he surveying of some hun
dreds of miles, a considerable
portion; of which has been
built and in use for several
years, lias given us some
knowledge of the conditions
and possibilities of mountain
road-making that may be in
terestingand perhaps useful
to such as are trying to get
better loads.
Most of "ourpreseut roads
got their location by acci
dent. The woods trail be
tween the settler's houses, or
the easiest way to get t h p
fli st 'wagon through, as fol
lowed and finally became the
public road. Some attempts
have been made to improve
the location j generally by ju
ries appointed without re
gard to knowledge of 'road
making, and whose principal
effort would be-to avoid any
supposed damage to land
owners and local interest.
suit the convenience of each
farm and building and save
expense in the first working
out of the road.
As a onseqiience of this
slip shod practice our roadB
are, with few exceptions, so
badly misplaced that time
and money nie hopelessly wan
ted trying to make good
roads on present locations.
Grades on the main thor
oughfares are froml0iol5
percent, and often heavier.
They run along the creek and
river bottoms so near the wa
ter that they are often wash
ed away by floods, and in ma
ClerV'i Wise Suggestion.
"J have lately been much trouli
led withjdyfpepsia belching and
sour stomach," writes M. S.
Mead, leading pharmacist at At
tleboro. Mass I could eat hard
ly anything withouteufferirigsev
eral hours. My clerk suggested
1 try Kodol Dyspepsia cure which
I did with most happy, results. I
have had no more, trouble and
when one can go to eating mince
pie, cheese, candy and nuts a(t?r
such a time, their digestion must
be pretty good. I endorse Kndol
Dysyepsia cure heartily.'" You
don t nave to diet. Eat alt the
good foofl you want bnt don't
overload the stomach. Kodol
Dyspepsia cure digesrs tlie (ood.
T. J. CofiVy and Bro.
ny ; places they even follow
the bed of the stream f o r
long distances. Crossings are
so m a de t h a t w i t h e ver v hea
V rainfall, ih water follows
the road and washes it away.
They run needlessly oyer hills
where with littleif any length
enlng of the line, they. might
run nround.5 Where any con
siderable difference of eleva
tion must be overcome, the
road is often located so. that
the liill must climbed tw . .;
or three times before reaching
the top and once or twice to
get from top to' bottom.
Such roads, at best, are only
passable for light loads . and
slow driving. They served
the purposes of the pioneer
settlers but have outlived
their uefulnes and ure as
poorly suited to present re
quireinfnts of travel and
transportation as the old
hand loom and spinning
wheel to the requirements of
manufacturing. The loss to
the country amounts to mill
ions of dollars a year. We
fail to get immigration and
our young men and women
go west or seek the cities.
With scenery and climate un
surpassed, we get but a frac
tion of the tourist's travel
that should naturally seek
these mountains, making bus
iness for the railroads and
maiketsfor the produce of
the country.
Of course everybody can
see that we needuetter roads
but there are so many dilfi
t ulties to lie overcome that
good roads seem a loug ways
off. S'irne oi the mountain
towns a re1 improving their
streets and adjacent roads,
and private corporation
and individuals have built
some fai'ly good roads that
should serve as object les
sons. Such work has tdiown
that the main road lines can
be located generally on 1 to
3 per cent, grades with 5 to
6 maximum, and a general
increase in distance of 25 to
50 per cent, oyer a straight
line. For example, two places
10 miles apart in direct line
would require 12 to 15 milts
of road, which is little if any
more than the usual distMice
by the old up and d o w n
road 3. No grades heavier
than a 6 per cent nhould t
allowed on the main lines and
rarely over 4 or 5 per cent,
will be found necessary.
On short roads and con
necting lines for local use,
heavier grades may be used
up to 10 percent., and that
HAVING A RUN ON CHAMBER
lain's COTJOH REMEDY.
Between the hours of eleven
o'clock a. m., and closing
time at night on Jan. 25th,
1901. A. F. Clark, driuririsr.
Glade Springs. Va.. sold 12
b o 1 1 1 e s of Chamberlains
Cough Remedy. He sav's: "I
neverhHiidled a medicine that
sold better or gave better sat
isfactioti to iiiv customers."
This Remedy has been in sen
eral ute in Virginia for many
years, a nd the people there
are well acquainted with its
excellent qualities. Many of
tnem have testified to the re
markable cures it. has effect
ed. When you need a good, re
liable mediciue for a couorh or
cold or ntta-k of the grip,
uxe Chamberlains Cough rem
edyandyou are certain to
be more than bleased with
the quick cuieit affords.' For
sale by Blackburn.
should be the limit for any
public road; Oil! work has al
so shown (that ; mountain
roads may be so located and
built thut they will be reas
onably safe from damage by
floods and washouts. They
can be kept in repair at much
less expense than the badly
placed roads and with prop
er care may usually be in
good condition tor travel at
least nine months in .the
year, ami in fair passable con
dition at all times. Gravel
a nd rock a re generally found
con venien t for i in pro v i ngjany
soft places, aud intelligent
use of such material will , in
sure a permanent betterment
d the road.
Fa irly good giaded earth
roads can be. made 1 2 feet
wide almost anywhere in the
Southern mountains with
wooden bridges and culveits
avross allsireums and ra
vines, for $300 to $000 per
utile. A 16 foot road will cost
nearly twice as much. Where
land is cleared and little blas
ting or bridging, the road
may be bui!t much cheaper,
rhe 12 foot, road with con
venient turn outs isqnite sat
istactory until travel becomes
too heavy for the single
track, when itca:i be widen
ed with little loss ol original
work, and better surfacing
can be done when needed. A
team will haul over such a
road two or three times as
much as it will over the ordi
nary up and down roads with
equally good road bed in less
time aud with less wear and
tear on the team and team
ster. Once the road is right
ly located it can be used with
some pleasure and profit even
if cheaply constructed, and
as the wants of travel require
it may, without loss of vvork
already none, be improved
even up to the best go od
roads standard. If wrongly
located it is a heavy tax on
travel costly to keep in re
pair and correction of I oca
tion beomes difficult, because
of building connecting roads,
land lines and other changes
and improvementsjnade to
fit the old location. So where
improvements are attempt
ed, continued unsuccessful ef
forts are made to put t he old
bad roads in good con lit ion
and to make good r o a d s
whf re no ronds ever should
have been and good roads
never can b?.
Wiih careful, intelligent
location well graded roads,
such as W9 have desciibed,
can be had almost anywhere
that roads may be needed,
through the mountains and
foot hills of the Southern Ad
palachians, providing howev
er, that local interests ana
laud owners shall not be al-
The Last Heard of It.
"My little boy took the croup
one night nd soon grew so bad
you could hear him breathe all
over the house." savs F. D. Rey
nolds, Manvfield, Ohio. "We feaV
ed he would die, but a few doses
of One Minute Cough Cure qniek
ly relieved him and he went, to
sleep. That's the last we heard of
the croup, Now, isn't a cough
cure like that valuable? "One
Minute cough cure is absolutely
sate and acts immediately. For
coughs, colds, croup, grip, bron
chiMs and all other throat and
lung troubles it isn rei tain cure.
Very pleasant to take. The lit
tie ones like it. T. J. Coffey and
Bro.
lowed to dictate the location
and spoil the read for ,theni-
selyes and everybody " else.
To illustrate the practica
bility of such roads, we give
the following examples:
First, The Yonnhlosse road
from Linyille to Blowing
Rock. This road runs along
the Blue Ridge and around
the south face of the Grand
father mountain, which has
an abrupt elevatfon of 4,000
feet from the valley of John's
River. It is steep, rough and
rocky, with many streams
and ravines, all of which are
bridged. The road bed is of
earth and ro-k, mostly 12
feet wide, was worked by la
boi hird at 75 cts. per day,
and 18 miles "of new road
cost $12,000. Thegrades run
from level to 5 ppr cent., and
a very little 6 per cent. It
has been built and in use 9
to 10 j;ears, and though it
has been a time of heavy
storm and floods there has
not been a slide or washout
to delay travel for one min
ute, and it is kept in repair.
at little expense.
Second, The Boone & Blow
ing Rock Turnpike, from
Boone to Blowing Rock, 10
miles of new road. This line
follows the Middle Fork of
New River through thick
woods most of the way, wich
steep hill sides, considerable
rock blasting and six cross
ings of the stream, all bridg
es, and the road built 15 feet
wide on contract for $4,500.
The maximum grade is 3
per cent. The road has been
in use 8 years sublect.to hea
vy travel, and is kept, in fair
conditioned being improv
ed at small expense. The Su
perintendant lately informed
me that there had been but
one washout since the road
was built, thut was a bridge
placed by the contractor too
nar the water.
Third, We have surveyed a
road line from North Wilkes
boro, 1000 feet above sea lev
el, to the top of the Blue
Ridge 30 miles westward and
3,000 feet elevation, with 3
percent, maximum grade. A
12 foot road might be built
on this line with streams all
bridged tor about $300. per
mile.
Fourth, We have surveyed
a line from Linville to t h e
highest peak of the Grandfa
ther, rho highest, ruggedet.t
mountain in the whole Blue
Ridge range, with 5 percent,
maximum grade. It runs un
der, a-ouiid, ever rock cliffs,
but is not a difficult line to
build, and a well made 12
foot roud should not coat o
vcr $800 to $1,000 per mile.
"These examples are given
as types of the various, con
ditions to be met with in
Southern mountain road ma
king and showing what may
strikes a Rich Find.
"I was troubled for years with
chronic indigestion and nervous
debility." writes F. J. Green, of
Lancaster, N. II "No reme ly
helped me until I began using E
lectric Bitters, which did memore
good than all the ii.tdicine I had
ever used. They have also kept
my wife, in excellent heAlth lor
years. She says Electrie Hitters
are just splendid tor female trou
bles, that they ars a grand tonic
and invigorator lor weak, run
down women. No othar medicine
can tnkeits. place in onrfamily."
Try tbem. Only 50o. Satisfaction
guaranteed by Blackburn.
be nwoinplished. The work
)n these roads has been done
by private corporations. The
efforts that have been made'
for improvement of the pub
lic roar's have generally pro
ven very unsatisfactory. Jijv.
en where careful snrveys' nre
made, juries are usually sent
over the line end make such,
changes as the lund-ownerd
and local interests ask for,
or as may upper to cheapen
the opening of the road. Then
overseers, whose onlyappa-r
rent wisdom consists in know
ing better than the spirit lor
el which way the water will
run, are instructed to open
the roadjand albs-ed toinake
snehjfnrther chnns as their
fancy may suggest. The inter
est of everybody is sacrificed
to the local convenience of
nriybody.nnd finally th road
Is little improvement .over
the old way and only serves
to discourage and convince
people that good roads can'.fc
be made and maintained in
the mountains.
"And so far it seems there
has been no general, practi
cal, conversion to the Gospel
of Good Roads, and we are
are not so much in need of
Good Roads trains as John
the Baptist to prepare the
way for thegreater prophets
and apostles of good roads
who shall come after to con
template the good work'"
A PRINTER SURPRISED.
' I never was so much surpns
ed in my life, as I was with
the result of Chamberlain's
Pain Balm," says Henry T.
Cook, pressman of the Ashe
yille (N. C.) Gazette. 4-f con
traded 9 sevpre case of iheu
matism early last winter by
getting my leet wet. 1 tried
several things for it without
benefit. One day while look
ing over the Gazette f notic
ed that Pain Balm was posi
tivelv guaranteed to core
rheumatism, so bought a bot
tie of it and before using two
thirds of it my rheumatism
hud taken its fight and I
have not had a rheumatic
pain since.' For sale by Black
burn.
Dr, Clontz, the Runcombe
county physician, who is char
ged with the seduction of an
insane girl, has surrendered.
His bond was reduced frorp
$10,000 to $2,500, which he
gave. The doctor says the
charges against him are at
tempts to blackmail.
The Eminent Kidney
and Bladder Specialist.
Tae DUccrerer of 8wam-Koot at Wtrk la
' His Laboratory. ' ,
There Is a disease prevailing In thla
country most dangerous because so decep
tive. Many sudden deaths art caused by
it heart disease, pneumonia, heart failure
or apoplexy are often the result of kidney
disease. If kidney troublo is allowed to ad
vance the kidney-poisoned blood will attack
tha vital organs, or the kidneys themselves
break down and waste away cell by celL
Then the richness of the blood the albumen
leaks out and the sufferer has Bright'
Disease, the worst form of kidney trouble.
Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root the new dis
covery Is the true specific for kidney, bladder
and urinary troubles. It has cured thousands
of apparently hopeless cases, after all other
efforts have failed. At druggists In fifty-cent
and dollar sizes. A sample bottle sent free)
by mall, also a book telling about Swamp
Root and its wonderful cures. Address
Dr. Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y. and
mention this paper. ;
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