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BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, N. C, THURSDAY "MAY 2. 1007.
NO. 52.
PROFESSIONAL.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
' BANNER ELK, N. C.
9" Will practice in the courts
of Watauga,' Mitchell and adjoining
countl.es. 7 6-'04
Todd & Ballou.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
JEFFERSON, N. C. V
Will practice in all the couata
Special attention given to real
estate law ana collections.
: 6-15-'0G
J E. HODGES,-
Veterinanr Surgeon
SANDS, N. :.
Aur. C. ly.
F. A. LINNEY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
- BOONE, N. C.
Will practice in the courts of
the 13th Judicial District in all
matters of a civil nature.
6-11-1908.,
THE APPALACHIAN
FOREST RESERVE.
EDMUND
--LAWYER
....... 'LENOIR,' N. (
Will Practice Regularly in
the Courts of. Watauga,
6-1 '06.
J. C. FLETCHER,
Attorney At Law,
- BOONE, N. C
Careful attention Riven
collections.
E.F. LOVILL
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
BOONE, N. C
KaTSpecial attention given
to all business entrusted to
his care.TSa
'V 11. '04.
A, A. Holsclsw,-
ATTORNEY AT LAW
.Mountain titv, Tennessee.
Will practice in all the courts
of lennessee. State and Federal.
Special attention sriven to col-
lections and all oMier matters of
a legal nature.
Office north' east.of court house.
Oct. 11, 1906, ly.
ft. M.MADllON, D. b. 5.
BALJ, N. (,.
I am now located here for t h e
practice of Dentistry, and am. ma.
king Bridge and Crown work, the
most intricate work known to the
profession, a specialty.
JBTMy work 8 a'l under a
positive guarantee no satisfaction,
no pay. Nothing hut the best mate,
rial used in the execution of any of
my work.
E. S. GsJFFEY
-jXTWRNEx A7 LAW,-
BOONE, N. 0.
Prompt attention riven to
all matters of a legal nature,
j Abstracting titles and
pollection of claims h special
ty. . :-. '.,.. :
I 1-1'07.
Editor Democrat:' As this bill
has created consideaable excite
ment and talk, I wish to give ex
pression to my views on the sub
ject, if you will allow me space in
yonr columns. So far as 1 have
been able to learn everybody is
much interested either for or a
gainst it. I am at a great loss to
know what seized the minds of
the greatest men whom we have
chosen to lead us and watch our
interests, that they should want
to assassinate joy ... and murder
happiness in the sanctuary of
love. If we understand the Eng
lish language, we are inclined to
believe that no man who under
stands the bill and understands
the country and understand the
people in this country, and have
a single vestige of patriotism and
love of home and native land, is
in favor of the bill in question.
The bill is a republican meas
ure, ana therefore the republi
cans feel a little backward to raise
it. Then some
of our democratic leaders have
endorsed the measure, and there
fore democrats are afraid to op
pose ix consequently mere is
JONES -jmore excitement than talk.
We are opposed to every clause
of this bill, first, last and all the
time, bnt will only call attention
to a part of Sections 1 and 3,
which reads as follows:
"That the Secretary of Agricul
ture is hereby authorized and do
rected in his discretion, to ac
quire by purchase, condemnation,
gift or otherwite, lands suited to
National forest reserve purposes.
''That when the owners of lauds
saught to be acquired for the pur
pose of this Act are unwilling to
sell the same on terms satisfac
tory to the Secretary of Agricul
ture, 'condemnation proceedings
for the acquirement of such lands
shall not be had po long as the
said owners protect and perpetu
ate the forests on said lands, un
der such legislation as may be !
prescribed by the Secretary of
Agriculture."
This is written in the English
language, so whosoever can read
let him read and be judge. Why
should the great men upon whom
fortune has smiled, who have
never traveled the thorny path
way of poverty, why, we say,
should they envy 'ur humba moun
tain homes? Why disturb us peace
ful mountaineers? Why convert
our fine fruit gardens and beauti
ful grassy slopes into a lonely for
est filled with wild animals? Why
exchange our democracy for a
military government? Why fetter
the feet of liberty, crucify hope in
our breast and leave our future
without a dawn, without a star?
Why clog the wheels of prosperi
ty and smite the house of con
tent with the rod of destruction?
What sin have we committed that
we enouid be driven from our
peaceful mountain homes which'
God has given us and willed that
they be our own like Adam and
Eve from the garden of Eden, and
the Acadians from the land of
Acadia? These hills, these moun
tains.these streams, these flowers,
these vines, this sunshine, this
air, are all sacred to us. We love
them. This is our home. Home!
The last place of retreat, the last
stand of defense, the last place
it is not fit for a decent dog.
We "would have the' world to
know that we are not savages
dwelling in huts, caves and dug
outs as has been represented to
our northern brethren by some
hellish hypocritical heretics pre
tending to raise missionary funds
to send some idiotic, howling,
slobbering hypocrite among us to
teach ii3 some damnable heresy.
world. The home of the pleasure
seeicer, as well as the pioneer.
Away up among the mountains
we find great, plains with many
springs of ice cold crystal water,
with their natural grassy surface
as sooth as a lawn, with their
blankets of daisies and violets
and touch-me-nots, and herds of
fine cattle tire seen graizing in
perfect pence. While the neigh
We would have the world to know j boring landscape makes away in
that our mountain people are re- j to a giant' forest, whose vaults
spectable people, with hearts as are tilled with the aroma of wild
open as the sky above their, flowers, the song of the birds,
to
heads; their love is as immoasur
able as the sunshine aron no them
and as pure as the 'snow that
caps our mountain peaks.
We stand upon the topm ost
peaic oi man-noou ana woman- mue ana mere is
hood the peer of anybody. Here
among the mountains, away up
near the heavens, where we can
almpst hear the rustle of the
angel's wings, where the air is so
the chatter of the souirrel. the
hunr of the bee and the music of
the streams, which are filled with
the charming mountain-trout.
Then we pass over to the other,
the old farm
house, with the old dog to greet '
us with a bark of joy, and the
meek-eyed cows mooing, at the
gate, and the vines clustering
over the door, and the roses
pure, the sun so bright, the water ! oyer t he window, through which
so clear, the flowers so sweet, is 'the sun strikes in on the baby's
a good place to raise fine men face in the cradle. Oh, content
and women. No man never has 'ment, what a jewel thou "art. Oh,
nor never will become great or (happiness, where art thou found?
good only in propotion' to the! On, strike with a hand of fire,
extent that he is free. If we arc worried musician thvharn sti-unf
Wliatof the weatbcvl
Charlotte News.
The New York Commercial, than
whom there are few better post
ed on the industrial condition
and outlook of the country at
large; gives us a little philosophy
on the results of the weather on
vegetable crops. For days news
reports have been sent out from
various communities and States
relating to the depredations
made by freezes, snows and frost
on the early crops and the agri
cultural world is growing alarm
ed. Nor is the alarm so narrowly"
confined, for the interests of ev-
erv one are involved.
So changing and unusual
has been the course of Nature
Throat
Coughs
Ask your doctor about these
throat coughs. He will tell
you how deceptive they are.
A tickling in the throat often
means serious trouble ahead.
Better explain your case care
fully to your doctor, and ask
him about your taking Ayer's
Cherry Pectoral.
A
Wt publish our formula
yers
W bnUh ftteohol
from our medicine
We urge yon to
oonsultyouf
doctor
in Av.ril tlmt. o tl, I: c- Am Company, of Lowell, Mass.
i; w w.v iney nave Deen making Ayers Pills for
not a free people now, we don't
know where to go in order to be
free. Every' bodies woods and
forests are our hunting grounds,
every bodies waters are our fish
ing streams. We have no locks
on our doors, no barb over our
windows. Our doors are ever
with Apoleo's golden hair! Fill
the vast cathedrial isles witlisym
phonies sweet and dim, deft
touchers of the organ's keys! Blow
bugler, blow, until thy silver
notes do touch and kiss "the
moon-lit waves and chann the
lovers wandering mid the vine-
open inviting whosoever will, to I clad hills! But know your sweet
come in and bud with us. It is lest strains are but discord coin-
here that the hungry is never
turned away, and the weary trav
eler can always find rest and in
the majority of canes without
money and without price. It is
in our veins that the best blood
flows, because we are freest from
other races. It is in our breast
that- the bravest hearts beats.
Brave because we have been
pared with the quietude and
happiness of a mountain home!
Free from the rustle and bustle
of the busy world; free from the
roar and smoke of the town; free
from the sickening sting of dis
appointments in business: free
from the withering touch'of the
corrupt ible hand of society; free
from the slimy kiss and keen
W,H. BOWER, ;
-ATTORNEY AT LAW
v Lenoir, N. C.
Practiena in the rnnrra nf
ma-well, Watauga, Mitchell,
'Ashe and other surrounding
.counties. ; ; ; .
I .Prompt attention Riven to
til legal matters entrusted to
pioneers for 200 years, and have dagger of ingratitude of a public
lile. Oh, rippling river of
contentment. Oh, fountain of
joy. Oh, streams of peace! We
are groaning under the yoke of a
business world; we long to shake
off the fetters of a worry life and
fly away to your sunny shores,
and bathe our weary souls in the
been educated by the stem teach
er ot nature. In time of peace we
are on the moutains clearing the
forest, or in the valley plowing
the field and watching the cattle
feed upon the slopes. In time of
war you 'find our boys on the
field of battle in defence of home
blood in their veins. In time of
peace you una our beautiful
daughters at home like the rose
that cluster about the door, giv
ing forth sweetness and perfum
ing t he ntmosphere in which they
live. Then while their loved ones
are crone m their defense, their
hearts go along to cheer them,
while they still remain at home
and battle with any obstacle
that may appear. Such is the
people of western North Carolina
and east Tennessee. '
While there is many a genius,
statesman and poet among us.
the writer 1ms recorded the tourist
has told tales, and the poet has
sung of the beauty and grandure
of Switzerland, and the luxuriant
vineyards of the sunny hills of
Spain, but they are not interest
ing to us, because we only have
to turn our eyes westward to be
hold the balsome clad mountains
towering away to the skies, with
their waterfalls and cataracts as
grand as Switzerland ever dare
to be. Ihen we turn to the eat-
and country, to the last drop of sunshine of love and peace. Why
convert these happy homes and
fine summer resorts into a den
of wolves and wild-cats?
lie who ninketh mankind hap
py is great, but he that maketh
mankind miserable is a thief and
a robber. Fine hotels are begin
ning to dot our hill-tops, rail
roads are beginning to plow their
way through the mountains, tra
ding posts are established at al
most every door, our streams are
being bridled and turned into
power, smoke stacks are puffing
forth the breath of industry and
the whistles are sendingiip shouts
of joy. The long-loufted-for devel
opment of the mountains is no'w
about to take place. Is it possi
ble that the command is about
to come, "Let him that, is on the
housetop come down and take
out his goods?" Is it possible
that the men whom we thought
were our fr-iendsthe men that we
have trusted to lead us and watch
our interests are about to turn
traitors and advance to stab us?
We don't know what the ttro-
less :'weather man" takes on a
sober look.
The Commercial soliloquizes
thus on the outlook:
"What is going to be the out
come of this cold weather? It is a
question that is asked with a
"great deal of seriousness just now
by the horticulturists and the
farmers of the country. It is the
most unseasonable April in many
years. The lapse into winter last
week, while appearantly being of
a purely transitory character,
bore destruction on its breath in
many quarters. Nor is there any
assurance that the milderatmos
phere of the present day may not
be shrouded by a nother snowfall
or a nippingfrost before the week
is done. It does notrenuire the
unfailing testimony of "theoldest
inhabitant"' to assure us that it
is allmost remarkable. Nature 'in
the ordinary course of events
had, as usual, provided for the
regular rotation of the seasons.
To all intents and purposes
Spring had come. The sap went
up in the trees, and the buds
sprouted forth. The result is that
the fruit crop of 1 007 is going to
be inexpressibly short. In some
localities there will be nothing
of it. It will be an utter failure,
Truck gardens, promotes of early
fruits and vegetables, are the
most direct and immediate suf
ferers. Their losses amoumt to
hundreds of thousands of dollars;
nor can tliev well repair them.
Transition from Winter to Sum
mer is likely to be sudden; As to
the effect of the snows and cold
on the general agricultural situ
ation of the country, that re
ma'ns to be calculated. It is not
of consequence, if the finale has
been reached; but if we are to be
the precipeiit of renewed samples
of hold-over Winter woather, the
general crops can hardly escape
over sixty years. If vou have the si eht-
est doubt- about using these pills, ask
your doctor. Do as he says, always.
:Tia ij ti J. C. Ayr Co., LowoU, ilmtj'
IncrcaseYourVelJ-yfjKT
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where friends are found, the last! ,vm-d. and behold these Moun-'-posed bill would look like after it
iue oi contentment ana love.jtains making awa.v into the hilly
its ill effects.
If you wai! t to dollam htow. f ocd
your lleldg with Vlririnla-Caroliua i'or
tilizdi. They lil "Jncrpaso ynuf
rlmilB per aorp,"im(t thuo hri.vf I'cvrn
the cost of produnUon. ovon II vuu u.,a 5
fewer W:ras nnd Iom lubor.
Vt o liove tlioncanda pf etrontr toett.
mnntolJ fmin farmer who buvs trlri!
io '.hot makua of fcnUzcra ocd uaett
are by fur thn best. They will five
vou crops that Will Dinks morn tnnnnv
for you. Huy no otUor.ovt:! If o i4
d(Mlr enclw.vors to er"fc j-pii to buy Ksl
some " cheap V brroti Just l,ocuoli r
mdvmfllta. llttlrt iN..r nmf t nn flint. 11
;J (JI course, mat would oo toll lnlrtj
:j - int. yuurG.
WRGisiA-MEninA crcsirsi to..
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Destroy the home and patriot
ism, hope, liberty and love will
stand out without anv meaning.
Home is not merely a staying
place, neither is it neceiarily a
temple; but rather the place where
contentment, peace, joy, liberty
and love dwells. These are the
regions of the Piedmont belt with
their plunging crystial streams,
furnishing water power sufficient
to run the machinery of the whole
South. . .
From the mounta ins to the sea
we find almost every conceive-
n.hln form flf nntliwi lionntv nn.1
characteristics of almost every Igrandura. From the snowy cot
home in the mountains, whether , ton fields to the vine-dad hill
to the grassy slopes, to the flow
ery plains, to the mountain peaks.
This is the health resort of t h e
it be a magnificent mansion, or
whether it be a huti'"- A hut with
contentment and love, is fit f o r
passes through the workshops of
all who might wish to add a tro
phy to its Federal diadem, but
we do know that we don't want
our liberties fettered, prosperity
crucified, nor the star of hope ex
tinguished. We simply want to
be let alone to enjoy what (lod
has given us.r Wc. want liberty,
we want freedom, we want peace!
Let us alone, let Usi alone!
"To make a happy fire-side clime
To weans and wife, .
Torture Hy Savages.
"Speaking of theforture to which
sonic of the savage tribes in the
Philippines subject their c.-iptivcs,
reminds me of the intense sn fieri nr
I endured for three months from in
flammation of the Kidneys," says
W. M. Sherman, of piHhing- Mc.
.Nothing L.elpcd ine tin t i Jtjied Elcc
trie Bitters, three botlletj of, which
completely cured me," (Ju'rca Jjiver
'complaint, dyspepsia, blood disor.
ders and miliaria, and restores the
weak and nervous to robust health.
Guaranteed by all drugi'st's. Price
50 cents,
J'lTried to their neck's in mud
in t he basin of an old reservoir
in Philadelphia, three boys had
a narrow escape froii death.
After playing near , tiifJj-eQrvoir
for several hours the., throe Iys'
thought they would jiuv.up
If a man kills liimsell lie is call
ed a suicide; if be kills a brother
lie's called a fratracide; il hekills
some one ol no kin he is a homi
cide, but if he kills his town by
sending away to buy things he
ought to buy athomehebetomes
the entire lot ol "cides" mixed ia
to one. We wonder if people who
continually buy goods away
h orn home ever think of the ten
dency of this nefarious practice,
They are helping .to kill the town
in which they live by destroying
its business nnd lowering the:
price ol its real estate and driv
ing out its population. Enough
people in this business will de
populate a town in a short time.
-ex. ;
Thousands Have Kidney - .
Trouble and Never Suspect ft
How To Find Out.
Fill a Ixrttle or common glass with yotif
water ami let it Stand tweuty-four hours ;
BeUiiiientOrgct
tlingiiiilicatesatl
unhealthy con
dition of the kid
neys; if it stains
your linen it 13
evidence of kid
ney trouble; too .
frequent desire ,
to pass it or pain
in the back i
ulso convincing proof that the kidneys "
and bladder nre out of order.
Wliat To Do.
There is comfort in the knowledge to
often expressed, that Dr. Kilmer's
Swamp-Root, the jjreat kidney remedy,
fulfills every wish 111 curing rheumatism,
pain in the back, kidneys, liver, bladder
and every part of the urinary passage.
It corrects inability to hold water
and scalding pain in passing it, or bad
ejects following use of liquor, wine or
beer, and overcomes that unpleasant ne
cessity of being compiled to go often
during the day, and to get up many
times during the night. The mild and
the extraordinary effect of Swamp-Root
It stands the highest
n 111 1 : s soon realized.
own the reservoir embarkmpnt. trewinj? cases, if you need a medicina
Although the smooth mud looked 'ou should hare lhe !icst- ,s,.ld tyln,JJ'
, . ,, ., . .. cists in fiftv-ccut andfone-dollar sizes.
sare to tneni. ttie minute tnevi vi.u. w Ramtie bottle and
hi.r;)Ti ' boolt that tells all
1111,1111 , .... , . .
IOS111K 1 lie operatives 111 a UllII bv mait; Address VrMmm
to them, the minute
sepped on the mud they
7
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wie Kfoas, wniie a temple without world.. The fruit garden of the Bk Tark, N. C.
Thatsthe true pathos and sublime t'urb3r. 08 they were going home' & Co., Eig.
. Of human life.". (from w o r.k hrard tho boy's ; writing' mention thi
JOE T.RAY, i screams ana quickly got ropes muKe a"y "v."11"' 0111 rememper n
J. - "if'-' -i ,,, , V, ; name. Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, and
.and pulled them 'Out.bx Uw address, Binghamtoo, nIy, .
a Utxaa ct Bvftmp-Root
this paper and don't
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