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A 'v 4 VOL. XVIII. PROFESSIONAL. jr.1. t . nitrn "' r' Al AJ .LAW, BANNER ELK, N. C. jJQTVVill practice jh the court ftf Watauga, Mitchell and adjoining counties. . 7 6. 04 Todd & Ballou. ATTORNEYS AT LAW. JEFFERSON, N. C. : ' Will practice in all the cou-ita- Special attention givm to r?n estate law anJ collections. 6-15-'06 J. E. HODGES, Veterinary Surgeon, -SANDS, N. (;. Auc 6. ly , F. A. LINNEY, ATTORN Ky AT LAW,- BOONE, N. C.- ' Will practice in the courts of the 13th Judicial District in all : matters of a civil nature. 6-11-1906. EDMUND JONES, LAWYER ' -LKN01U..N. (- Will Practice Regularly in the Courts of r) atavga, 6.1 '06. .- J. C. FLETCHER, Attorney At Law, BOONE, N.C. Careful attention given t collections. EPLOVILL ATTORNEY AT LAW MONb, N. C.- - Special attention given $ to all business entrusted to h.'scare."a A, A. Holsclaw, ATTORNEY AT LAW Mountain City, Tennessee. . i Will practice in all the courts of Teimewsee, State and Federal. -Special attention jrivHi to col lections and all other matters of a lfgnl nature. Office north east of court bouse. , Oct. 11, 1906, ly. & Sl.MADRUN, D, b. S. - BAL.tf, X t.. -. ' 1 am now located here for the practice of Dentistiy, and am ma. kin; Bridge and Crown work, W most intricate work known to the profession, a specialty. . ; tSFlly work is all done under positive guarantee no satisfaction, no pay. Nothing but the best mate rial used, in the execution of any. of ' my work. E.S.G0FFEY, i-ATlOMEi Al LAW, COONE, N. n;- Prompt .attention given to all matters of a legal nature. Abstracting titles .find collection ofclaima.fi finecial 1-1 '07. W.ED0WEB, -ATTORNEY AT LAW- . , Lenoir, N. C. ; - Practicpsin the rourtfl of Crtldwell, Vatnnrrn; MitchHl, Ahe and other surroundinj vconnties. ; .. , Prompt attention civen tn !l lexal matters entrusted to care, . . BOONE. ''.WASHINGTON LElTBI. r A n I.- I m m ; Indications accumulate that.i8ter to the Netherlands, Briar, this country is going to have a Gen. Geo. B. Davis, Rear Admiral fclfeM. Chas. Sperry, and William I. Bun -jv- -I , V.,. island has not cleared the situa uimiiii u u 11 ir. infill iviti Tnommni tion so much as it might. It will' be at least a year before the is land can be handed over to the natives, and it is generally fear ed that yhen it is there will be only a brief interlude before there is more revolutionary trouble and the intervention and the in tervention of the United States will again be called for to pro tect American 'property interests. This country .has hundreds of millions of dollars invested in the island, and even this is not a s much as the combined interests of the other foreign governments. The experience of .the American ad interem government has been that the Cubans are easy enough to eovera. but that thev will not 1 w .v , govern themselves. It is a case of too many .of .them who are cut out for reporters and insist on be ing editors. This government has been besought by England, Ger many, and France not to let go of the island now under Ameri can control, the general fear be ing the island if left to itself, will develop into another Hayti un der negro domination. Forefen governments cannot as a rule un derstand that the United States was sincere in its announcement that it did not want the island originally and was not going r to fight Spain for the sake of ac quiring if. Preparations are be ing made for taking? a new cen sus preparatory to another elec tion, but it will be six or eight months before that is completed. Then there will be another six months before the elections are held and the new government is set mnning. Then there will be considerable time required f, o r the evacuation and most obser vers do not ffive the natives more than a year and a, half after that to foment another revolution. If the United States is forced to go back again and take charge of affairs, it is a serious question whether . it may not decide to stay permanently, if not annex ing the island, at least ikeeDiner such a strict hand on affairs that it will virtually amount to an nexation. It looks now as though the fight in Central. America might end 'in a tolerablv bermanent tor the most of the warring states down there. There have been a number of conferences of South American diplomat at the State Department m the past two weeks and it is believed that they will be able to get Honduras Sal vador and Nicaragua together on the basis of a permanent peace and cement, an agreement in . vir tue of which there will be quiet and internal development in the little republics aong the isthmus and to the sonthwarB for some time to come. me to come. This government stands to all ' it properly, can forthe peace of the world, and an indication of this was given this week by the announcement of the peace indi cates to the Hague made from the State Department. The par- ty will sail from this country for Antwerp about the middle of May and will include two more membere'than was originally in tended. The scope of this con ference has been enlarged, too, and will tcke- another and more imDOrtant auestions than would have been considered had it met last summer as was intended The deleea-tes .'aa ' anmuncM..U:i ...d are Josepn tnoate. -. former. Am- bassador to' the Court of St. James, Gen. Horace Torter, for m e r "Ambassador, to France. WATAUGA COUNTY, N, C, THURSDAY APKIL 23 1907. I Judge U. M. Rose, president of I AnIrAnoniit T)s. innMAinn channan, first minister of the United States to the Republic of Panama.. . " One of the most remarkable pseudo, international incidents on record for a long time was brought to a close this week by the departure for New York of Mrs. Ida Von Claussen, who came all the way from Sweden to see President Roosevelt about what she declared was a slight put on her by Minister Gravosof Sweden. Mrs. Von Claussen was never heard of except by a limited cir cle of friends till the present in cident arose. She was rich, very beautiful, and elegantly dressed While in Sweden she, wanted to be presented at court, but for some reason, the official one was lack of proper credentials, she was not presented by our Minis ter. She was very much incensed at what she termed this slight, and came all the way to Wash ington from Sweden to present her case personally to the Presi dent. She took quarters at the most expensive hotel in town and prepared to lay siege to t h e WhiteHouse in her latest Parision gown. But right in the ante room, her personally conducted epibassy bogged down to the hubs and stopped. The Presi dent was busy, ver5T; the Secre tary to, the President was also busy Jexcessively. The secretary to the secretary was busier still, and the . most that Mrs. Von I Claussen could do was to send in a card by a messenger and be told that there was no use in coming back, and the whole of the White House staff would be too busy to see her at any time ohe stayed m Washington three days and tried to get a conimis ssion in lunacy appointed to inquire into her own sanity. But the President declined to take any of her demands serious ly and she left town , this week, vowing that she was going to Germany and renounce her A merican citizenship. How. the Kaiser will make out with this fascinating but imperious sub ject is a question; Those interested in the"person ality and doings of the great and near-great, will be pleased 1 0 learn that Secretary Taft, may be-Republican-nominee for the Presidency, has succeeded in tak ing 100 pounds off his weighe in the past year. He has put him self under the care of a noted phy sician, taken to a strict diet, cut out sweets, beer and as much of other liquids as he can, and rides horseback !as much as possible; tha t is to say, as much an possi ble for the horse. The Secretary says he can afford to keep only two saddle horses of the Per chron breed and two horses don't go very far with him yet. But he j" j ' ,uu.iC ; is in the Auction he has already accomnlishpd. and ron. already accomplished, and con tided Jo a friend the other day that he really "did not weigh much more than a grand piano.' .Torture By Svges. ''Speaking of ihe torture, to which Rome of the savage tribes m the Philippines Hubject their . captives, reminds me of the Inte nse Huffering I endured f r three months from in flammation of the jdne,M .sav M. Sherman, of Cunning Me. .Nothing r!ped ne.nn. I 'jie. El ,nc ntfr, thru, h n whh .comph - t. t- c' -w ln L'r-n' ., . , . ' ": and ,r, rfrtw.:-v weak a- d im rvua t., robust iva'M Guarintted bw all drugists 50Cenv - ; . . Good Roads aud Jjoial Mail. Our attention has been direct- ea to a cupping, :taken from the Rural Free Delivery News, on good roads and rural mail. which must be of interest. The clipping is as follows. . - "It is announced that the gov. eminent will look more carefully to the enforcement of its rule regulating the roads.over which rural free delivery is established, T h e present requirement is: 'Roads traversed shall be kept in good condition and unobstruct ed by gates: there must be no un- 1 ; 1 M onugea creeKS or streams not ""uo.".u BUUBUn, ineiTO8 organized and while the! year., in many cases the resi- uC11 uug Vl ut,uBei luuicD iii e made improvements that enable them to obtain rural delivery service, but sometimes the efforts to keep up the roads are relaxed. But the government has decided that unless the roads traveled by the carriers are properly main tained the service will be . with drawn. The Postofflce DeDart- 1 - mentnow calls on the carriers tor report s on the roads, and will 6top the service where the high ways in question are bad. "The 35,973 rural delivery car riers now employed cover 863, 363 miles daily, and it is unrea sonable to expect them to con tend with neglected roads, or to work for communities lackiiwr the enterprise to keep their com mon highways m decent shape. wherever a rout is discontinued J the inhabitants themselves will be to blame for it, for if alive" to their own interest and their du ty to the public thev would give their .roads vigorous and con stant attention. . The idea that a route once authorized is necessa rely permanent is a mistake. Ad vice on the best road methods is supplied by the Agricultural De partment, and a neighborhood that loees its rural delivery must itself bear the discredit for so unpleasant and humilitating anevent." .. Persons living along rural mail routs should readjthe abovo and i profit by the suggestion given for tneir significance cannot de de nied. It is, as observed above, a blind error to fancy that because a certain rural rout has been estab lished, it's permanency is guarau teed, unless all requirements are fulfilled We hear of too many routes being discontinued at dif ferent places, where the patrons failed to come up to the require ments ,of the government, for that. Therefore, it is important that every condition imposed by the government be complied with. Ho community can now afford to be robbed of its rural mail ser vice, nor will any one be if the re quirements are fulfilled: The rural free delivery has pass ed that stage where it is a mere convenience, a pleasant thing to enjoy. It is now looked upon as a necessity. By means of it the country; the remotest rural vi cinities, have been brought with in finger touch with the cities. A thousand advantages are deriv ed that were once denied t h e country folk. It is an education within itself. As a result of it, citizens of the country are as well, if not better, posted on the affairs of-the world at large than those of the city. ! They get the news when it is news and the value of this is in estimable. But, no argument is longer hec ! i essary in this infftter. It is only i necessary to repeat that there is I a duty devolving on every per-' C 1- son on-the many routes, to see: to it that these routes are marie r-- ....v., OAOTOTIIA. . 1M UndYM Haw Always 0 OBItUAaTi . Sister Susan A. Presnell. the subject of this sketch, . was the; daughter of John and Susan1 Gragg, and twin sister of Caro-j line Gragg, who still survives her. ' She wa born June H, 1837, 1 and died Feb. 12, 1907, aged 69 years, 7 month and 28 days. ! She was married to Brother W. ! W. Presnell March 17, 1861, and was the mother of 11 children. four of whom had gone on to the ' better land. I She professed faith in Christ and joined the Brushy Fori; Bap tist church in 1859, soon after it 1 r va,u aiA lUUfj OUU11 Oil meetings were held in the old . school house near where J. F. Wilson now lives, and during the many years of her Christian til grimage did she greatly honor that profession, walking upright ly before the world in the foot steps of the Savior she loved and served. She was always faithful, when in health, to attend the church, and was deeply interest ed in its work and welfare. She was always faithful to reprove and rebuke sin and was often ad monishing sinners to turn from their evil ways tv the Savior o sinners, ana during the m any years of her Christian life, so ful 01 trouoies ana trials and vexa tions, and so much suffering did that hope in Christsustain her; Oftenspeaking. of the blessed home just beyond, and now that Sister Presnell is gone, the church realizes its 3)fis,? Qd doubtless the lonely and bereaved husband and family keenly feel their irre parable loss of a faithful wife and kind and loving -mother, but all ourlossis not to be compared with her eternal gam. And may tnis dispensation of kind rrovi- dene be for onr eternal good. May we'all, like'Sister rresnell. try to walk very close in the foot steps of JesiH,.the Lamb of God - who tak?th u way our sins and be prepared to meet Him at His oommg. "A precious onojjfrom us h gone, A voic? v.? loved is still, A lace is vacant in our home That never can be filled." L. M. Trivett, J. W. Holsclaw, Com. Doctors are Puzzled. The remarkable recovery of Ken neth Mclver, of Nunc'eboro. Me Is the subject of much interest to the medical fraternity and a wide circle. of friends. He says of hiscase: "()w ing to severe inflammation of the throat atid congestion of the lungs. three djttors cave me un in !!. when as a last resort, I was induced ro try Dr. King's New Discovcry, and I am happy to say, it biivrd m. ife." Cures the worst coutrhs and colds, bronchitis, toncilitis-w e 11 k lungs, hoarseness and la grippe. Guaranteed by all druggists, 50 cts. and $1. Triiil bottle, free. Lookout, you little bov who is smoking cigarettes on the sly. There are number of them in Iex ington.- What do you want to be when you grow up? A stalwart healthy, healthy, vigorous, broarl shouldered man, or alittle punny no count weak minded ;dude? If you want to be a man, strong like a man, with brains in your head and muscles on .your limbs, you. just let those cigarettes alone. If you waut to be pit ied by your folks, despised by girls, and' held m contempt by your fellows, keep on smoking and end vour davs in an insnnpnwvlnm Lexinm North State, . . ii.ci .-woma. appreciates a iau- ."l-'t-" - " ufui c,.m Jexinn o mnrh i lfsir. . , -. Surh i- .,.v. me to ' hI i.o use I! ' T 35 cts V i.istep's Rockv M'. ;a or Tblets. B' kburn, (Co. Blowing Rock NO. 51. Not a dron t A 1 1. OTSklCO hot Doctors prescribe verv little. If any, alcohol these days. They prefer strong tonics and altera tives. This is all la fceepjng with modem medical science. Ij explains why Ayer's Sar saparilla is now made entirely free from alcohol. Ask vour 1 doctor. Follow his advice. Wi pubu.h our fgrmuUa Vi bsnlih nlmhol from oar medioinM consult your art voa to doctor Unless there is ditlv tenon nf ih Hnu. els, poisonous products are absorbed, causing headache, biliousness, nausea, dyspepsia. We wish you would ask your doctor about correcting yonr constipation ho tnkins Uv.liua Hn... nf liu.l. Dili. I "a . Mvawa wi nw f lit uiu bjmo . c. jrr Co., LowtU, ' Many a man hns his coffin coy tred up with flowers whose heart was breaking lor a little rosebud whilrt he wus alive. If you have imy bouquets, for Christ's sake send them in bofore the underta ker gets in the game. A dead uiaq has ub jut us much use .for flow t rs ns a side-saddle has for two) stinups." ysar Yltid fcr vera TheBE5TofeveryUiln8 and the a roatart quantities' of every growing thing can readllr-be pro duoadwIththnUhnruliiannf Vlnrlni Carolina FertlllseHL together with careful cultivation. The materialstot w uwu mey are made, eauae toem to en. rjohth land, 'and the plants to come up rapioir and more proliflo. Use op your fruits and fruit-trees i im sums, com, wneat ana L4 all trnpki RVir mt h H limo, you Tf 111 have tho largest tt (for the will "inoreaee your yield per acre") and flnost, 1 orops yon ever raided In all Tourftrmllfe. Don't buy tha luiotior s ibatltata that arfy f"i'tlllr agent may try to per iuado you to nut ou lour iund. VIRGINIa-CAROLINI CHEMICAL CO., Tt. Mrnia, la, PvUm, i. q CUclKtua,!. 0, lilunurt, Ha. iUtntaT The old original Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic. You know what you .ire faking. It is iron and quinuuf in a tasteless form. No cure, no pay joe. . - r It'tt too bud a inuucun'ttet in- tti hfsven with liis tombstone In- Miription as a pussport. ' Wcnian as Well as Men Are ffiado fcable by Kidney jwi EladQcr Troiible. Kidney trouMe preys npoii tljo mind, discoui uges and lessciisambition ; beauty, vigor aua cuecrmu jicss soon disappeaf when the kidneys are out ol order or dis eased. Kidney trouble has become so prevalent that it is not uncom mon for child to be born afflicted with child tiritintitafnnnrtpli. if Hi ui-Sia mnalA the flesh, or if, when the child reaches an age when it should be able to control the passage, it is yet afflicted with bed-wetting, depend upon it, the cause of the diffi culty is kidney trouble, and the first step should be towards the treatment of these important organs. This unpleasant 'rouble is due to a diseased condition of the kidneys and bladder and not to a liuhit as most people suppose. . Women as well as men are made miser able with kidney and bladder trouble, and both need the same grct remedy. The mild and the immediate, effect of Swamn-Poot in anon realized. Ttlsitolrl oy aruggists, in tmy cent and one-dollar 1 Size bottles. You uiay j have a sample bottle b v mail f r-e. nlso a nemmm at amalaa " j pamphlet te'.hns all about Swamp-Root, , j including many of the thousands of testi- ! .. 1 1... . e r-. niuiiiai iciiera .receiveu irom suuereri cured. In writing Dr. Kilmer & Co., BitiL'hamton. N. V.. be srire and mention A i . 11111s paper, uon t make any mistake, M. J. fbu, remember the name,, Swamp-Root, Dr,)tJ Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, and the ad. . . , , ilresj, EingUamton, N. Y., cn every -i -ari'afitftiiafcrwaatt---- r i" . LJ
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