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BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, N. C, THURSDAY JANUARY 21, 1904.
NC. 45.
Hair Splits
Aara ItibVluu
for thirtVMan. It la elevaal Iap
hair dressing tad for keeping the
hair fram anllnina at th "
J. A. CnMoeafekier, Grantfprk, 111.
Hair-splitting splits
friendships. If the hair
splitting is done on your
ownlicad.it loses friends
for you, for every hair of
your head is a friend.
AycrY Hair Vigor in
advance will prevent the
splitting.- If the splitting
nas begun, it will stop it.
MM. " -- ... . .
It yew drwtat eannot imply joe,
was u on aoiur tM w win epi
yo a bottk, Ba Mr ud rln U mm
I four MarMtaznmioffiea. Address,
One trouble about the self
made man I the unalterable
. conviction in bis mind that
- hp made a complete job of it
anjjthat there is no room for
mproveuienr.-?Ei.
OAS
ersU 11 YiillrtUtiitbrX
PROFESSIONAL.
Todd & Ballon.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
. JEFFERSON, N. C. .
Will practice in all the couats
$pecjal attention given to col
ecbioft. . , 1-6-4.
P. A. JLINNEY,
-ATTORNEY AT LAW,-
B00NE, N. C.
Will practice in the court
& chin and surrounding coun
lies. Promut attention giv
jen to the collection of claims
una an other Dusiness of a le
gal nature. 6 12 .
EDMUND JONES,
LAWYER
f-LENOIR, N. O
Will Practice Regularly in
the Courts of Watauga,
J. C. FLETCHER,
Attorney At Law,
BOONE, N. C-
Careful attention given to
collections.
EFLOVILL,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
-B00NE, N. C
"Special attention Riven
to all business entrusted toj
h!s care.61 - - : ;
8-23, 1900.
L S. COFFEY,
AT70RSEY AJ LAW,-
BOONE, N.C.
Prompt attention given to
1 all matters of a legal nature.
t3r Abstracting titles and
collection of claims a special-
3-23-1900.
Dr. J. M. HOGSHEAD,
Cancer Specialist,
BANNER'S ELK. N. C
ho Knite No 'Burning Out.
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TBE CKIIIOriOT USUBIHU.
Rev, T. De Witt Talmage, D. D,
"Let him appoint officer over the
land, and take up the fifth part of
the land of Egypt in the seven
plentious jears. Gen. xli 34.
These are the wor is of Jo
seph, the President of the 8nt
life insurance company the
word ever aaw. Pbsroah bad
a dream that distracted him.
He thought he stood on th
banks of the river Nile, and
saw coming up the ri.ver sev
en fat, sleek, glossy cows and
they began to browse in the
thick grass. Nothing fright
ml about that. But after
them coming up out. of the
same river, he saw seven cows
that were gaunt and starved
and the worst looking cows
that had ever been seen in the
land, and in the ferocity of
hunger tbey devoured their
seven fat predecessors. Pha
raob, the King, sent for Jo
seph to decipher these mid
night hieroglyphics. Jo
seph made short work of it,
and intimated that the seven
fat cows that came out of the
river were seven years with
plenty to eat; the seven ema
ciated cows that followed
them were seven years with
nothing to eat, "Now," said
Joseph, "let us take one fifth
of the corn crop of the seven
prosperous years, and keep
it as a provision for the stv
en years in which there shall
be no corn crop;"
The King took the council,
and appointed Joseph, be
cause of his Integrity and pub
lie spin ted ness, as the presi
dent of the undertaking. The
farmers paid onflfthol their
income as a premium. In all
the towns and cities of t b e
land there were branch hous
es. 1 bis great Egyptian lire
insurance company bad mill
ions of dollars as assets. Af
ter a while the dark days
came, and the whole nation
would have starved bad it
not been tor the provisions
they had made lor the future.
But now these suffering fam
ilies had nothing to do but
go up and collecttheamount
of their life policies. The Bi
ble puts it in a short phrase:
"In all the land of Egypt
there was bread." I say this
was the first life insurance
company.
It was divinely organized.
1$ bad io it all the advan
tages of the" whole life plan."
of the "Tontine plan." of the
"Endowment plan," and all
the other good plans. We
are told that the Rev. Dr An
nate, of Lincolnshire, Eng.,
originated the first life insur
ance company in 1698. No;
it is as old as the corn cribs
of Egypt, and Qo himself
was the author and origina
tor. If this were not so I would
not take your time and mine
SAVED FTOM TERRIBLE DVJATH.
The family of Mrs. M. L, Bobbitt
f Bargetown, Tenn., saw her dy
ing and were powerless to save her.
The most skilfall physicians and
every rejjiedv used, failed, while con
sumption was slowly but surely ta
king her life. In this terrible hour
Dr. King's New Discovery for Coo
sumption turned despair into joy.
The first bottle brought immediate
relief and its continued use complete
ly cured her. It's the most certain
cure in the world for all throat and
lung troubles. Guaranteed bottles
50c. and f 1. Trial bottles free at
J B Blackburn's
in a.iSahbath discussion of
this subject; I feel that it is a
theme vital, religious and in
finite report--the morals of
life and fire insurant. It seems
ro me that it h time for the
pulpit to speak out.' .
But what does the Bible
sav in regard to this subject?
If the Bible favors the in
stitution. I will favor it; if
the Bible denounces it, I will
denounce it. In ' addition to
the forecast of Joseph in the
text, I call your attention to
Paul's comparison. Here is
one man who, through neg
lect, fails to support his fam
ily while he lives, or after he
dies. Here is another, man
who abhors the Scriptures
and rejects God. Which of
these men is the worse? Well,
you say the latter. Paul says
that the man who neglects
to care for his household is
more obnoxious than a man
who rejects the Scriptures.
"He that proyideth not f o r
his own. and especially those
of his own household, is
worse than an infidel'
Life insurance companies
help most of us to provide for
our families after we are
gone. But if we have the mon
ey to pay the premiums and
do not pay the premiums we
have no right, to expect mer
cy at the hand of God in the
judgment. We are worse than
Tom Paine, worse than Vol
taire, worse than Sbaftsbury.
The Bible declares it; we are
worse thin Infidels. After the
ceitificute of death has been
made out, and the thirty or
sixty dnys buve passed, and
the officers of a life insurance
company comes into the be
reft household and pays
down the hard cash on nn in
surance policy, that officer of
the company is performing
a positively religious rite, ac
cording to the Apostle James
who says: "True religion and
undeflled before God and the
Father is this: to visit the
fatherless and the widow in
their affliction," and so on.
When men think of their
death they are apt to think
of it only in connection with
their spiritual welfare, and
and not of the devastation
in the household which will
come because of their imigra
tion from it. It is meanly
selfiib for you to be absorb
ed in the heaven to which you
are going that you forget
what is to heeotoe of jour
wife and children after you
go. You can go out of this
world not Jeaving them adol
lar, and yet die happy if you
could not provide for them.
You can trust tbera in the
bands of the God who owos
all the harvest and the herds
and the flocks, but jf you
could pay the premium on
a poli-y, and neglected them.
. JUST ONE MINUTE.
One Minute Cough Cure gives re
lief in one minute, because it kills
the microbe.which tickles the mu
cus membrane, causing the cough,
and at the same time clears the
phlegm, org ws the innamation and
heals and soothes the affected parts.
One Minute Cough Cure strength
ens the longs, wards off pneumonia,
and is harmless and and npyer fail
ing cure in all curable cases of
coughs, colds and croup. One Min
ute Cough Cure is pleauint to take,
harmless and good alike to young
and old. $old by M. B. BJackborn.
it is a m?an thing (or yon to
go up to heaven while tbey
go to the poor house.
You. at death, move into a
mansion, river front, and
they move into two rooms
on the fourth floor of a tene
ment bouse in a back street.
W hen tbey are out at the el
bows and knees, the thought
of your splendid robe iti hea
ven will not keep them warm.
The minister may preach a
splendid sermon over your
ieroain8, and the quartette
may sing like (our angels in
the organ loft but your death
will he a swindle. You had
the means to provide for the
comfort of your household
when you left it, and you
wickedly neglected it.
"Oh," says some one, "I
have more faith than you; I
believe that when I go out of
this world the Lord will take
care of my family." Yes, He
will provide for them, ,'jo to
Black well's Island, go though
all the poor houses of the
country, and I will show you
how often God provides tor
the neglected children of neg
lectful parents. That is, He
provides for them through
public charity. As for myself,
I would rather have the Lord
provide for my tatoily in a
private home, and through
mv own industry, and pater
nal and conjugal faithfulness.
"Hut," says some man, "I
mean in the next ten or twen
ty years to make a great for
tune, and so I shall leave my
family, when I go out of this
world, very comfortable."
How do you knoft you are
going to live ten or tweuty
years?N If we could look up
the walk of the future we
would see it crossed by pneu
monia and pleurisies and
consumptions, and colliding
railroad trains, and runaway
horses, and breaking bridg
es, and funeral profession-.
Are you so certain tbat you
are going to live ten or twen
ty years that you can war
rant your household any
comfort after you go away
from them? Besides that, the
vast msjority of men die
poor. v
Two only out of a hundred
succeed in business. Are you
very certain that you are go
ing to be one of the two?
There are men who die sol
vent who are insolvent be
fore tbeyget under the ground
or before the estate is set
tled. How soon the auction
eer's mallet can knock the
life out of an estate? A man
thinks the property worth
fifteen thousand dollars; un
der a forced sale it brings
set en thousand dollars. The
business man takes advan
tage of the crisis, and he com
pels the widow of his deceas
ed partner to sell out to him
at a ruinous price, or lose all.
V Or the administra
tor is ordered by the Surro-
A VEST CLOkX CALL.
"I stuck to my engine, although
every joint ached and every nerve
was racfted withpain"writes L.VV.
Bellamy a locomotive fireman of
Burlington Iowa. ''I was weak and
pale without any appetite and all
run down As I w about to give
up I got a bottle of Electric Fitters
and after taking it I felt as well as I
ever did in my life." Weak sickly
run down people always gain new
life strength and vigcr from their use
Trv them. Satisfaction guaranteed
ty-M . nijijjburn.
gate to wind up the whole if
fr. The estate was suppos
ed, nt the man's death,. to be
worth twenty thousand dol
lars; but after the indebted
ness has been met, and the
bills of the doctor and under
taker and the tombstone cut
ter have been paid, there is
nothing left.
That means that the chil
dren must come home from
school and go to work. That
means the complete hardship
of the wife turned out with
nothing but a needle to fight
the great buttlesof the world.
Tear down the lambrequins,
close the piano, rip up the Ax
minister, sell out the ward
robe, and let the mother take
a child in ench hand and
trudge out into the desert
of the world. A life insurune
would have hindered that
The utter indifference of
many peapleon this import
ant snbject accounts lor ranch
of the crime and pauperism
of this day.
Who are these children
aweepingthe crossings with
broken broken broom, and
begging of jou a penny as
you go by? Who are these
lost souls gliding under the
gas light in thin shawl? Ah.
they are the victims of want.
and, in many of the cases the j
forecast of purentsaud grand
parents might have prevent
ed it. God only knows how
they struggle to do right?
They preyed until the tears
frozs 011 their cheeks; they
sewed on the sack untd the
breaking of the day, but they
could not get enough money
to pay the rent; they could
not get enough money to
decently clothe themselves;
und one day, in that wretch
ed hotn, tbe angel of purity
and the angel of crime fought
a great fight between theemp
tj bread tray and the flreless
hearth, and the black-winged
bngel shrieked, "Aha, I
have won the day."
Says some man: "I believe
what you say; it is right and
Christian, add 1 mean some
time to attend to this mat
ter." My friend, you are go
ing to lose the comfort of
your household in the same
waj the sinner loses beayen
by procrastination. I see
all around me the destitute
and suffering families of pa
rents who meant some day
to attend to this Christian
duty. During the process of
adjournment the man gets
his feet wet, then comes the
chill and the delirium, and
the doleful shake of tbe doc
tor's head and the obsequies.
If there is anything more pit
iable than a woman, delicate
ly brought up, and on her
marriage day, by an indulg
ent father, given to a man
to whom she is tbe chief joy
and pride of life until the mo
ment of bis death, und then
that same womun going out
with helpless children at her
back ro struggle for bread in
a world where brawny nius
cle and rugged soul are ne-en
sary-Isay, if there be any
tbing ranie pitiakle than
that, I don't know what it
is, and yet thre hip good
women who ure indifferent in
regard to their husband's du
ty in this respect, and there'
are those positively hostjle
rm though alifeinsurancesub
jet-ted a man to Home fatali
ty. There is in this city , to
day a very poor woman keep
ing a Binull ennrfy shop who
vehemently opposed the in
soVance of her husband's life,
and when application had
been made she frustrated it.
She would never have a docu
ment in the house that im- '
plied it was poseible for her
husband ?ver to die. Oneday
in the quick revolution of ma .
chinery, his life was in-tant-
ly dashed ont.
What is the sequnl? She is,
with annoying tug, making
the half of a miserable living.
Her two children have been
taken nway from her, in or
der that they may be cloth
ed and uehooled, and her life
is to tie prolonged hardship.
Oh, man, before f or tj -eight
hours have Biassed away, ap- -pear
at the desk of some of
our great life insurace com
panies, have the stethscope
o( the physician put to your
heart and lung, and by the
sealofome honest compa-;
ny decree that your children "
shall not be subjected to, the
humiliation of financial strtig
gle in the dark dn v of your
demise.
TrvforBealth
222 South Pacrin St,
Chicago, Iu.., Oct. 7, 1908.
Eight mon tin aco I waa aa HI
that I waa compelled to lis 01 sit
Aown nearly ail the time. Mr
stomach waa so weak and apses
that I could keep nethinir oa H
and I vomited frequently. I
could not urinate without great
pain and I couched so much that
my throat sua bag were ray
and sore. The doctors pro
nounced it Bright' disease and
others said it was conu caption.
It mattered little to me what
they called it and I had no de
sire to live. A sister riaited me
from St. Louis and askod me if
I had ever tried Wine of Cardai.
I told h:r I had not and she
bought a bottle. I believe that
it tared my life. I believe many
women could sere much fufftr
ing if they but knew of its Talue.
Don't you want freedom from
pain? Take Wine of Cardai
and make one supreme effort to
be well. Tou do not need to be
a weak, helpless sufferer. Tear
can have a woman's health and
don woman's work in life. Why
not sec ire a bottle of Wine of
Cardul from year druggist today
Women as Well as Met?
Are Made Miserable by
Kidney Trouble.
Kidney trouble preys upon the mind, tfls
couragea and lessens ambition; beauty, vigor
ana cosanuiness soon
disappear when the ktd
neva are Out at nrAm
or diseased.
Kidney trouble baa
become so prevalent
that It la not uncommon
for a child ta aa hnm .
afllctad with weak kid
neys. If tbe child urliw
mlMm Im ft((M If lli.
urine scalds the flesh or If, when the child
reaches an age when it should be able to
control the naaaava. It Is vt tfMtA aiK
bed-wetting, depend upon It, the cause of
the difficulty Is kidney trouble, and the first
step should be towards the treatment of
these Important organa. This unpleasant
trouble is due to a diseased condition of the
kidneys and bladder and not to a habit aa
most people suppose.
Women aa well as men are mads mh
arable with kidney and bladder trouble,
and both need the same great remedy.
The mild and the Immediate effect of
Swamp-Root Is soon r sallied. It la sold
ty druggists, in fifty
cent and one dollar 1
sizes. You may have a
sample bottle by mail
free, also nam (.hint tall.
ari"'-
ing all about It. including many of th
thousands of testimonial letters received
from sufferers cured. In writing Dr. Kumar
it Co.. Binghamton, N. bo aura and
nvmUon thla paper.