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ML mm ( . " XT i VOL. 5 VIII. BOONE, WATAUGA. COUNTY N, C THURSDAY FEBRUARY 21. 1907. ND 42. PROrBSStOSAL.- IvD.IME, ATTORNEY AT LAW, V BANNER ELK, N. C. 19" Will practice in the courts of Watauga, Mitchell and adjoining counties. . .;.. . 7 VH Todd&BaUou. ATTORNEYS AT LAW. '. v JEFFERSON, N. C. Will practice in all, the couuts ffV, Special attention given to real .estate law an1 collections. M5-'O0- J. E HODGES, Veterinary Surgeon, SANDS, N. - Aa. 6. ly. F. A. LINNEY, ATTQUNKY AT LAW, j ; BOONE, N. C. Will practice in the courts- of the, 18th Judicial District in all matters of a civil nature. EDMUND JONES, LAWYER -LEN()1U,N.C- Will Practice Regularly in the Courts of Watauga,, . U '06. , .J.C. FLETCHER, :, Attorney At Law, ---B00NE, N. C.- "' Careful attention given to collections. ,EF. LOVILL ATTORNEY AT LAW, - -BOOA'K .. r l"SpHal attention Riven to All buuiueHS entrusted to hta care.-! 1 1 04. ' K A.-Holsclaw, ATTORNEY AT LAW Mountain City, Tennessee. Will practice In all the courts of Tennessee. State and Federal. Special attention Riven. to col lections nnd all other matters of a legal nature. Office northeast of court house. Oct. 11, 1906, ly. v M.MADUO.V, D. h. S. BALJS. t-:- I am now located here for t h t Eractice of Dentist! y, and am ma ing Bridge and Crown work, the most intricate work known to the " profession, a specialty. BQrMy work i all done under a positive guarantee no satisfaction, ino pay. Nothing hut the best mate rial used in the execution of any of .my work. , E.S.G0FFEY, -ATWlMEl AT LAW, . . COONE, Jf, C.--7 Prompt attention given to all mot tern of a legal rmture. tar Abstracting titles and eolfcotion ot claims sjmiah 1-1'07. -ATTORNEY AT LAW, Lenoir, If C. , ' Practices iiutbe courts nl , Caldwell; IVatHUga, Mitchell, , Ashe find, other eurroruiding ' conritiea. ..v.; -' y .' - Prompt attention jriren to ' nil legal matters entrusted to Jus care. WASHINGTON LETTER. Fran Oir Regnlai Corretpondent. Ao appeal has been made to President Roosevelt by the Socie ty of Friends of Philadelphia for the establishment of a permanent arbitration congress with the con sent and co-operation of the oth er nations of the world. This plan is not so visionary and emotion al as a good many of the peace plana put forward by internation al arbitration exponents. It ognizes the excellent work that has already been done, by t h e Hague tribunal and does not pro pose to supplant that institu tion but rather to supplement its work by creating an interna tional congress fromwhich would eminate a code of international law. International law as now un derstood is a' somewhat hazy system. It is based entirely upon precedent and is interpreted va riously according as suits the con venience of nations dealing with it. The plan submitted to the President provides for an inter national congress to meet at sta ted intervals with duly accredit ed representatives from the vari ous adhering governments and empowers this congress to work out a fixed and definite interna tional code which could be ap plied in praetice before the Hague tribu nal whenever occasion arose. President Rooseveit has express ed himself as heartily in favor of the plan and has already laid the papers in the case before Secreta Root with a request that he sound the various foreign govern ments on the subject and if pos sible formulate a treaty which it would be agreable for all of them to sign. Speaking of treaties the extra session discussion has now as sumed the phase where it is defi nitely announced in a good ma ny papers that an extra session will be called after the 4th of March at which the Japanese school question with its resulting Japanese Streaty, the Santo J)o mingo treaty and currency re form may all be calmly and leis urely discussed and disposed .of without fuss or hurry. How cor rect this forecast will prove can be told better after the 4th of March. It is quite certain that there can be no serious attempt to consider tne Santo Domingo treaty at the present session. The Japanese situation is in such a shape that the President and the" State Department probably would rather have Congress out of the way while the details were being settled. Treaties, of course, are always discussed in executive session and equally, of course, the reports of these discussions are printed in the next issue of the newspapers to the inconven ience of the State Department and the pleasure of Buch senators as have anything to gain by mud dying the waters of diplomacy. TLe exchange between this gov ernment and that of Japan are now in such shape that a treaty can very probably be framed that will meet the ideas of both gov ernments and eventually get through the Senate. But it will take several weeks more of delib eration and negotiation before this solution is definitely reached. ' Without even a division the House this week passed a bill modifying the denatured alcohol act in such a way as is thought will make it more to the adyan tage of the farmers. It is a little remarkable that with all the fuss made in anticipation of the passage of the free alcohol bill nothing at all should have come of it up to date. It is predicted that the Act would be the most j beneficent q iece of legislation ev !r passed for the opressed and down trodden farmer, and that it would enable him to use up all the surplus farm supplies even to the weeds in the fence corners for making denatured alcohol from which he could obtain heat, light and power. But since the free alcohol bill has passed it has been utterly nullified by the plans for its. enforcement worked out by the Bureau of Internal Reve nue. The Bureau has made such regulations governing the pro dution of such 'alcohol as effect ually prevents any but the al ready established distillers from taking advantage of the law. The amended act provides for centrally located bonding and denaturing warehouses where the farmer can deliver his alco hol and get the benefit of govern ment of supervision free of tax. It was stated when this amended bill was passed that there were but three interest against it. The whisky trust, the wood alcohol manufacturers and the Standard Oil Company. Whether the new law will prove any more benefit to the farmer than the old one can only be proved by experi ence. Postmaster General Cortelyou has been working on a new scheme in connection with the dead let ter office (that is greatly expedit ing the work of that division of the Post Office Department and ought to result in giving a much more prompt and .effective ser vice than has ever been given to the public by the . Department before. Instead of holding letters in the dead letter office for months at a time as has here tofore been the practice," a large force of clerks has been put at work opening and inspecting misdirected mail as soon as it reaches the office. All of the let ters which can be returned to the senders are immediately forward ed and the aggregate value of this mail is shown from the fact that from-16000 to f 10,000 a month is thus restored to small transmitters in the inspected let ters. Lagt mpnth 80 per cent of the mail which1 was returnable was sent back under the new system and in a little while it will be possible for all of the mail having the address of the sender inside to be returned as soon as it reaches the dead ' letter offi ce. Senator Beveridge has express ed himself very forcibly over the report of the Judiciary Committee of the House which returned his anti-child labor bill to the House Appropriation Committee decid ed that it was impossible for the federal government to interfere with the internal affairs of t h e various states by prohibiting the products of child labor from en tering interstate Commerce. Sen ator Beveridge says that the action of the Committee -was a mere subterfuge and aimed to prevent the bill from ever coming to a vote and relieve the members of Congress from the necessity of placing themselves on record in opposition to the measure. . A Western Wonder. There's a hill at Bowie, Texas, that's twice as big as last year. This wonder wW. L. Hill, who from ': a weight of 9" pound has grown to over 180. He sayi: suffered with a terrible cough, and doctors gave me up to die of consumption. I was reduced 1090 pounds, when I began taking Dr. King's ew Dis covery for consumption, Coughs and Colds, rnd now, after taking I J bottles, 1 have more than doub led in weight and am completely curvd." Only sure Cough and cold cure. Guaranteed by nil druggists. 50 ctsyihd tt Tna,nottle free. MiBsionary And do you know nothing.whatever ot religion? Cannibal Wll, we got a tante of it whim -the last missionary was here Cleveland Leader. Indian Oaia Botji in If umbers and in rrosparlty. A Washington dispatch con tains the following surprising in formation: Recent statistics show that the number of Indians in the United States have increased in the past few years instead of decreasing and that they are in an exceeding lj' prosperous condition. It has never been definitely de termined just what was the great est number of Indians in America when they were unmolested. Some authorities say that the number could not have exceeded 1000,000 others assert that it could not have been more than 800,000, and still others contend that there never was more than 500, 000. At the present time there are 284,000 of the red race in the U. S. There are Indians in 18 states and 3 Territories exclusive of the Indian Territory. Nearly all the tribes are west of the Mis sissippi, in fact, most of them an? beyond the Missouri. There are 150 reservations in all In the northwestern part of New York there are about 5,000 decendents of the great warrior tribes living on 8 reservations. To-day there are 159,000 Indi- ans who wear citizens' dress in whole or in part, and 70,000 who can read and speak English. There are 22,000 Indian families living in cojnfortable modem dwellings. When the government first began supplying the Indians with horses it often proved a difficult matter to keep the old warriors in them. They would take possession in the best faith but the love , of the ' wild would soon prove so insistent that they would stable their horses in Uncle Sam's nice little houses and go back to their tepees. But when an Indian once gets installed in a house, he dosn't like to have any change made in it. No .mat ter how large the family may grow or how much money gener ous Uncle Sam may give him, he insists upon remaining in his original one-story shanty. TIih Cherokee, who tracked De soto's footsteps for many weary f weary days while he was march ing throngh the Southern forests and swamps, and who later wel comed Oitlethorp to Georgia, nrp the most advanced in civilization and the most enger for educa tion, spending f 200 000 a yeai on their schools and colleges. The Ctiicknsaws have five colle ges with 400 students, maintain ed at a yearly cost ct $47,000. They also have thirteen district schools costing $16,000. The Choctaws have 150 school", in some of which the highest branch es are taught. TheSeininoles, one 01 the smallest tripes, have two schools. Thp Creeks have 10 col leges and 65 common schools with" u total attendance of 2,500. The Indians make a sti ong re ligious showing; They have 390 church ' buildings, and a total membership ol 40 000. Father Negahnqnet is said to be I he on ly living full blooded Indian who is a Roman Catholic priest. He studied in Rome and pn his . re turn to this country said massin the big Catholic church in Oma ha. This was the first mass ever sal i by a lull-blooded Indian priest on American soil. He is now working among the people ol bis own race in Oklahoma, and Indian territory. Charles Curtis will enter t h e United Stales Senate March 4, ax a Senator from Kansas, and will be the first representative of the American Indian in that body. Nfr Curtis is not ol pure Indian lineage, but his mother lelonged to the Kaw tribe. Hrf and his five children hayereceived allotments ol Shawnee county land iu setrl- 'JWytpl what Uncle Sam' thj.nks he ow('to the race. Mr. Curtis has aire idy served 14 years in th House. Adam Monroe Byrd, a repre sentatiye ft 0111 Mississippi, is al so nl Indian blood. The foremost Indian in public lile to-day isQuo nad Parker, ChM of the Coman che and a political power in the new State of Okluhma. Chief Parker is a democrat and there are mai-y who say he will come to the Senate Irotu the ntwly ul'- nntted commonwealth. Wke Counsel From the South. f want, to give some valuable d f vice'to those ho Miffer with lame ! hack and kidney trouble,' says J. 11. Bbinkenchiii. f Beck. Tenn. 'I ' lu,,., ,.rnl.w ..... uhtolute certain. have proert to an ahsoiute cirr.un. tythat lilectric Bitters will po. lively cure this distressing condi tion. The first bottle gave me great relief nnd after taking a few more bottles, I w completely cured; so completely that it became a pleasure to recommend this pleat remedy." Sold under guarantee by all drug gist. Price 50. Tsrs or the Rich. For some time there has been a market! tendency among the very rich to grow respectable, causing honest alarm in many quarters; Husbanps are begin ning to live regularly with their wives aud deprecating their own condition to the' advantage of the poor. The very rich are doing more reputable things every day and getting on our nerves by their efforts at morality. If this keeps up, what is to be the end? We look to the very rich to furnish us with bod examples. . If they are all going to be decent and cultivate the virtues, we shail begin to envy them, thus adding another meusure to our, discon tent. One of the safeguards of the very rich has been that of dissi pation and selfishness, and pro miscuous extravagance, they have weakened their energies and the production of their own kind has been strictly limited by thei r unstraightened circumstances. If they are being temptied ' to lead simple lives, however, and get the idea that money isn't every thing, they will begin to multiply and some precautionary measure may be necessary to keep them within reason. Every very rich person ought to have at heartthe good of his fellow men; and be foolish and fast enough to be held in con tempt by those who respect them selves. The main purpose of his ! life is to do enough things that are. not worth while, in order that the majority may learn not to follow his example. Let the very rich beware there fore, and not attempt to become too good; otherwise their only resource of usefulness will be o ver. Ex. Cured of Lung Trouble, M It is now eleven years nince 1 had a narrow escape from consump tion,' wriie C. O. Floyd, a lead ing biiainess man in Kertthuw, S. C. 'I had run down in weight to 1 25 pounds, and coughing was constant both by day and by niuht. Finally I began taking Dr. King's New Diimifrv lilwl rnnlinnp.l thit fnt a. bout six months, when my cough . ,.' .-i and lung trouble were entirely gone ami I was restored to mv normal weignt, 170 pounds. ' Thousands ol persons arc-healed every vear. Gua, r. ,,, . . ' , antecd by all druggists. 50c and $1 . T. : -1 1. . . 1 ... iiiui uuiiica itcc. . The wife of a farmer had a sis ter Ctdne Irom Chicago to make a visit. One day the threshers came -i..t i . j j . tneWorKBlone Ulia Sent tier SIB- - 111..:. "" '.."" ""ir seve n threshers filed in to supier' that night they lound a sand- U lch tied Hl'li rllihon nun nliicL- en croquflt te, one cheese hall the ijt of a marble and a button hole bogoct at each plate -r-Kx. ; uin rueguesr luwisiea on aoinK,.-t., Soldbydrng. Does Not Color Hair Ayer's Hair Vigor, is now made from our new Improved formula, does not stain or color the hair even to the slightest degree. Gray hair, white hair, blonde, hair Is not made a shade darker. But It certainly does stop falling hair. No question about that. Dntt not change thi color of the hair. A JormuU with h kMte Show It to 7ru doctor , yers Aril him kboat It, tkn ce m k mt nacec WB ocneve 11 win iup crcrr ; falling hair unlesl there Is aoma very un,,sl!. comrlicatlon. sometnlne ireatlv affecting the general health. Then you should contult your physician. Also ask him about tho new Ayer's Hair Vigor. Kd by th J. 0. Ay Co., LcwtU, IUl. . ' '' Mr. John W. '.'Cam pbell came home and spent Saturday and Sunday in our city. He is looking well and as jolly as ever. He is lo luted in Egypt and In the lam ber business Says he is prepar. ing some Egypt lumber to .build him a 4en room cottage in Hick ory on Mulberry street. Think of it I House out ol lumber from. Egypt Hickory Mercury. Wawtll eoBvfaM yen that jon can "Inoraaao foot yloldi par oi" and you wo at hare to keep It te oret, either. Bead what Maura. Wherrr It Bon, of the Itarnoua Trult Farm, Durect, Mlat., wrltei "from two aorea of strawberries. on wblob 1,000 pounds of -Virginia -Carolina Ftrt&txSTS per aor profit 01 per aere wore need, we cleared a i Per acre mora thaa the her 11 it tor OI 70.W which had on'y 600 poundaof this oreaor airawDemes fertilizer. Thut double the qnan- wtroi mcBa rerouieraon eaon aoiw of aoy crop, and mora thaa doubly "lnoreaae your yleldrper acre." B SnarUll "Jf Ylrflnla-Oar. ' Vlrtlnla-Carallaa Caeailaal C. Richmond, Va. Atlanta, Oa, -Norfolk, va. Savannah. Oa. ' Durham, N. 0. Montgomery, Ala, Charleston, 8.0, Mempnla, Terns Baltimore, Md. Bhrereport, La. "That new roomer paid two thousand dollars for that violin he practices on.' "I wish he'd trade it for a ten-dollar violin he could play. "Detroit Free Press, Thousands HaTO Kfdnej , Trouble and hn Suspect . ft , How To Mod Out, . Till a bottle or common glass with yonr . water and let it stand tweuty-four nonrs; a&cuuurniOTKir tlingindicateae unhealthy con dition of the kid-; nr.) a; u it stains your linen it is evidence of kll ' ncy trouble ; too frequent deaira to paas itorpaia in the tick if also convincing proof that the kidneys and bladder txs out of order. ., What To Do. -The is comfort in the knowledge often expressed, that Dr.; Kilmer's ; Swaino-Root, the great t fulfill every wish in curing rhenmatlsm, inia thc ck( kidneys,4iver, bladder and every part of the nrinary passage. it corrects mammy. t " n' l-JBTn".! effects following nae of Jiquor, win or overcomes that unpleasant as . . . j 1. Ar... - icessiiyor ocing coinpciicu w ww during the dav, and to get up many times during the night. The mild ana the extraordinary effect of Swamp-Root ia soon realised. It stands the highest for iu wonderful cures of the Most di treiKin'r taaea. II VOU nc If yon need a medicine giaUiufiftventanaone-ooiiar-se. ' Yoomavhavea sample bottle and book that tells all about it, bothsentfree &ft7i& linmtnn. K.A'. When Hoa(l writing, mention this paper ana aonT make any miauke, bot remember the name, Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, ant the address, Binghamton, N Y. la ;i.;,.. : I
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