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' VOL. :ix: BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, N. C, THURSDAY MAY 23, 1907. NO. 3. VTYTT .Democrat 9 PROFESSIONAL ATTORNEY ATlAW, BANNER ELfi.N.C. KVWH1 practice in the courts pf Watauga, Mitcbetl and adjoining Coptic. ;6.'04 Todd & Ballou. ATTORNEYS AT LAW. JEFFERSON, N. C. ' Will practice in all tbe couits- Special attention given to real Mtnt law and collections. ' ' t6-15-'00- J. E. HODGES, Veterinary Surgeon; SANDS, N. (;.- Au.6.1y. F. A. LINNEY, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BOONE, n. c. Will practice in the courts of the 19th Judicial District in . all matters of a civil nature. .6-11-1900. EDMUND JONES, LAWYER -LENOIU.N.O W j7 Practice Regularly ,n the Court of natauga, 6.1 '06. J. C FLETCHER, Attorney At Law, BOONE, N. C Careful attention given collections. r to EPLOVILL -ATTORNEY AT LAW,--,BQOSK N. C "Special attention given to all business entrusted ' to h'scare."" 11 '04. A, A. Holsclavi ATTORNEY AT LAW Mountain City, Tennessee. Will practice In all the courts of Tennessee, State and Federal. Special attention trivMi to col lections and all oher matters of a legal nature. Office north east pf court bouse. Oct. 11, 1906, .lv. . B. tf.MADKUN, D. b. &. DALJ, X. r.. I am now located here for the , practice of Dentistry, and am ma king Bridge and Grown work, the . most intricate work known to the . profession, a specialty. t9My work is all done under positive guarantee no satisfaction no pay. Nothing but the best mate . rial used in the execution of any of .ray worn, . I S. COFFEY 'I -ATWMEl A1 LAWy- - BO0NP,N.C.- Prompt attention given to an matters of a leeal nature t3T Abstracting tit ks and tollection ot claims a, special- ir. - . . R. Ross Donnelly, . UNDERTAKER & EMBALM ER SHOUN'S,.... Tennessee. - Has Varnished and Glass White Coffins;' Black Broad -loth and White Plush Caskets; Bhck and " bite Metfllic C s k e t s Robes ; bltoes and Finlshincrs. Extrd large Coffins and Cms ; kets always on band. 'Phone or tiers given special attention. V Jl. ROS D0NN3LLY. . WASHINGTON LETTER. .From Oar ReguUi Correspondent. For a time at least, politics in Ohio have .calmed down, and there is apparently a truce in the ragged ranks of the Republican party in that State. The Presi dent and his advisors are watch ing the case closely, however, not being by any means sure wheth er it is a truce or a lasting peace between the Taft and Foraker brces. Senator Foraker was in Washington this week, buthe de clined to talk politics, and espec ially he had nothing to say as to the suspension of hostilities be tween him and Secretary Taft. It is generally accepted in .Wash ington, however, that the Ohio fight has really been .settled, that Taft will be allowed to control the State delegation to the na- tipnal convention in return for allowing Senator Foraker an un hampered re-election to the Sen ate In the mean time, there is the Hughes boom looming up on the horizon, and this is liable to cause fresh dissension in the Re publican party: Gov. Hughes is undoubtedly the choice of New ,iork Kepubiicans lor the nomi nation, and it is said that he will be officially endorsed by the state organization very shortly. This is one outcomes of the fight that hie made, but in which he was de feated at Albany for the public utility bill. Should Hughes go to the national convention with the strength of the New York delega tion behind him, he would be a serious factor in the fight. The story has been started that an effort will be made to induce him to accept the second place on the ticket. But this is not at all like ly on the face of it. The vice-president by tradition and necessity has to be a rich man, w h i c h Hughes is not, and preferably he is a nonentity, which Hughes is not, and never will be. Further he and Taft are both honest, how ever their principles may' be dif fered with by political opponents and while the Republican party might stand for one honest man on the ticket, two would be rath er crowding the limit. Commissioner, of Patents Allen has resigned, aud when he leaves the Patent Office, it w ill be like the case of the famous western orator who did not leave a wet eye nor a dry throat in his audi ence. The Patent Office service under his administration has been lamentably lax and ineffi cient. There were at one time near ly 30,000 cases piled up in the of fice awaiting -'action while the Commissioner took his customa ry three months vacation. The work of the office has fallen so far behind that it has been neces sary to add an hours work a day to the time of all the clerks, and even at that rate it will be long before the offlcev catches up. But worst of all has been the way in which the. Commissioner . has al lowed an influx of all sorts of questionable attorneys and ques tionable methods in the business before the office. The Patent of flee has control over the meth ods of the attorneys who prac tice before it, even as to their ad yertising, and it has become , the regular thing for attorneys, to make all sorts of impossible claims as to the "guaranteeing" patents, making applications and doing all sorts of service without pay, and selling patents without regard to merit. This has brought an influx of inventors with all sorts of inventions that patents could not be allowed on and which would be val ueless if al lowed. The result has been to swamp the office with unprofita ble work to the benefit of a horde pf unscrupului attorneys, an the Commissioner has done noth ing to check the evil. It is to be sincerely hoped that the next Commissioner will institute as thorough a house cleaning as is now going on in the Land Office. It is seldom that there has been such a week of gaiety in Wash ington as that just closed. The town has been full of the officers from the visiting foreign war ves sels at Jamestown, the Duke de Arbuzzi has been the center of a d o 1 e n fashionable entertain ments, aha now there haf 'been added to the round of festivities all sorts of functions for the ben efit of Gen. Kuroki, the comman der of the. Japanese army in Man churia .and -the chief strategist and foremost tactician of the Ja panese. military service. There was a brilliant reception. to the Duke de Arbruzzi at the Italian Embassy, a luncheon to Gen. Ku roki at the White House" and la ter an even more brilliant recep tion and dinner to Gen. Kuroki at the Japanese Embassy. One of the figures in most of ,the so cial functions of the week has been the Countess Grey, wife of Earl Grey, Governor General of Cana da. She has been the guest pf the British Ambassador during the week and will accompany the British party to Jamestown and to Richmond where there is to be a brilliant reception by Governor Swanson. . The Medical Congress which has occupied Washington most of this week, broke up on Friday night with a big smoker at the Arlington Hotel. There were dis tinguished medical visitors from all over the world, . several hav ing come all. the. way from Ger many especially for the meeting. One of the most important bran ches of the Congress was the Na tional Association for the - study and prevention of tuberculosis This society is only three years old, but already has branches in fifteen states and is to have eight more state societies organized this year. The virtue of its work is the way in which it is spread ing knowledge of consumption among the people and showing how the disease may be checked in jts epidemkispread and helped in the individual cases. It is not too much to say that this is . the most important medical work be ing done in the United States to. day. It is all being done without charge wherrthose benefitted are unable to pay, and the chief anx iety of the society is to spread its literature among the .people who need it and save the poor from' wasting time and money on quack medicines and , so-call eJ "cures" that never cure. Suf ferers from the disease who want to be put in touch with the Socie ty can get. . the information by writing to, the heajth officer of the nearest town that has such an official and asking to be put in communication with the near est state branch of the National Association. ' The announcement that an heir had been born to the Span ish throne , was received with great interest in official circles, and Senor Pina, the Spanish Min ister, was the recipient of as ma ny congratulations as though it had been his own baby instead of his prospective King. President Roosevelt immediately on being notified, sent by cable congratu lations to the royal parents. " A Narrow Escape, ; Q. W.Cloyd, a merchant of Plunk Mo., had a narrow escape fouryears ago, when he ran a jiimon bur into his thumb. lie says: "The d.-ctor wanted to amputate it but I would not con&en. I bought a box of Buck len's Arnica Salve and that cured the dangerous 'wound," JSC at all d ' d'2st?v V V ' :V . j K T. Ibute of Respect. Again the mysterious and un known angel of death has visited our neighborhood and claimed for his tropliy our beloved 'and highly esteemed brother, Wm. S. Greer. He was born May 7, 1853, at Trade, Tennessee, where he grew to manhood's ripe age un der the, tutorship of his father, William Greer. W. S. Greer was united in marriage to Miss Emi ly Thomas in 1873 and lived hap pily together until her death, on Feb. 17, 1902. Sept. 5, 1905, he was again united in marriage to Miss Ella Johnson, of Mountain City. In 1889 he joined the Evergreen Baptist church and lived a con sistent Christian life until he was called away April 25, 1907, by the Captain pf our high salva tion, to take as we trust, that honorable position in the realms of glory and eternal bliss. He joined the Independent Or der of Odd Fellows by initiation as a charter member, of Zionville Lodge, No. 121, Aug. 5, 1889, and from that time he lived a consistent member to the orde als of the order. He has filled a number of .the official chairs in the lodge room punctually and devotedly and was ex-treasurer at the time of his death. His rec ord was second to none. His word was his bond and his signa ture on paper rated parallel with gold. ' ' We, as a band of united broth ers, do deeply mourn the loss of the brother, who so faithfully and cheerfully discharged the ma ny duties' conferred upon him. But he fell beneath the touch of time, v As the grass before the mower's scythe To strike glad hands with angels In that eenial clime. But in thecourseof human events Under the direction of an All See ing Eye, Guided by an all wise hand He was severed from our order. He leaves a wife and four chil dred to mourn the loss of a 'kind father and husband. His many friends and relatives realize that in the death of Mr. Greer, they have lost a worthy and respected citizen. But when the summons came he was always at his post and we trust that when the dark curtain of death veiled him-from our vis ion, the pearly gates of eternal blies stood full ajar for his re ception into that home which is beyond the description of either tongue or pen. Dear children, weep not for the loss of a father, but rejoice that he has been released from all .the traubles of this life and entered his eternal reward. Done bv order of the Zionville Lodge, No. 121, I.O.O.F. Resolved, That a copy of this be sent to, the "Tomahawk", at Mountain City, Tenn., and one 'to the Democrat, at Boone, N.' ft, for publication, and one re served in the lodge room. ' Noah Jenkins, W.S. Wilson, H. E. Madron, Com. My Best Friend. Alexander Uenton. Mho lives on Rural Rout I. Fort Edward, N. Y says: "Dr King's New Discovery is my best earthly friend. It cured me of asthma six years ago. It has also performed a wonderful cure of incipient consumption for my son's wife. iThe first bottle ended t h e terrible cough', and thin accomplish ed, the other symptoms left one by one, until she was' perfectly well Dr. King's New Discovery's power over , coughs and colds is simply morvelous." No other remedy has ever equaled it . Fully guaianteed by all druggists. 50c ai'.d f I.00. Ttial bottle free. How Jndje Lone; Reconciled Two Confedeiate Teierans On Onslow county court in this State the other day, M. T. Russ, and T..J. Capps were brought be fore Judge B. F. Long on the charge of an affray. Both were Confederate veterans and neigh bors, but had a falling out and came to blows. In his charge his honor told the jury if they be lieved the evidence beyond a rea sonable doubt, or if they believ ed the evidence of the defendant, they should find their verdict guil ty, which was very promptly done by the jury. Then came the clinrtx.. The judge called both of the old men up in front of him ivifViin V10 Viav nnrl anon kino- i,ct I,., T T 1 v ; wic ucifuuauu ouiut xwumcuu old soldier, perhaps ' "Yes," said he, "I am Qi years old. I was a member of the Third North Carolina State troops du ring the civil war; I was at Chan- cellorsville: I remember the charge made on that memorable day." "My brother," said Judge Long was killed in that charge." " Yes," said the veteran, his eye kindling as he seemed to live over again the events of that terrible onslaught. "Yes, I remember the young soldier falling with the battle flag in his hands at the foot of the enemy's breastworks, which was immediately captured. I was one of the soldiers that bore the body of the wounded Stonewall Jackson off the field where he was shot down by the mistake of his own troops.'' ' Vv ere you in the war?" asked the judge of the prosecuting wit ness. The veteran stood at "at tention" and proudly replied: "I was a member of the old Eighteenth Regiment." "How old are you?" asked his honor. . "I am 77 years old," said he. Judge Long then with a voice tremulous with emotion said: "Veterans, the war is over. You 6hall not fight each other. One in this case is just as guilty as the other. Only one, however is in dicted. Turning to the defendant' Judge Long said: "I shall suspend no judgment over you. When you leave this world to join your comrades on the other side, not at my hands shall suspended judgment be on the record of this court against you.?' Then looking the veteran kindly in the eye, he continued: "Won't you veterans shake hands and be friends?" For a moment, like two old prime game cocks; they faced each otner, but only tor a mo ment; the spirit of reconciliation set in motion by the kindly words of the judge, spread over and wreathed those old battle-scarred wrinkled faces, the smile of recon ciliation, of comradship and bro therhood; in pathos, of deep si lence, and with a mighty hand grasp, those old , .battle-scarred heroes stood looking m the faces of each other, and while tears trickled down the cheeks of the immense throng that crowded the court room. ; Wonderful Eczema Cure. ''Our little boy had eczema for fiWyears,' writes N. A. Adams, Henrietta Pa. ' Two of our home doctors said the case was a hopeless his lungs being affected. We then employed other doctors, but no beni fit resulted. By chance we read a. bout Eelectric Bitters; bcuglit a bo' tie and soon noticed improve. meut. We continued this medicine niori;iiiM until several bottles were sed, when our boy was completely cured. Best of all' blood medicines and bpdy building health tonics. Guaran jjeedat all drug stores. 50c. - Without Alcohol A Strong Tonic Without Alcohol A Body Builder Without Alcohol A Blood Purifier Without Alcohol A Crest Alterative Without Alcohol A Doctor's Medicine Without Alcohol Ayer'a Sareapsrills Without Alcohol A W pubmh our toranl y tromumdloliM ' W. bulih loohol vers W nrf t T oonfuii yew doc toy 'Ayei's Pills are liver pills. Ther act directly on the liver, make more bile secreted. This Is why they are so valu able in constipation, biliousness, dys pepsia, sick-headache. Ask your doctor if he knows a better laxative pill. auai fertW. O. JLor Co., Lowell, 1 At Fort Caswell on the Cape Fear river below Wilmington, last week, Henry Hamilton, a soldier stationed at the fort, shcxt his wile three times, seriously wounding her. Hatuilton then shot and seriously wounded Cor, poral WatBon aud was himself killed by Sergeant Uberward, a brother-in-law ol his wife. The wo man died later. News. , Increase Yields Per Acre OaeorTDeBesults of llbemllr usinf oar fertili ssrs, Is to payoff a aaortgiim on the old form. Bend the fol lowing from tfeaira. W harry ft Boa, owners of the lUrnolia Cmlt farm, Durant Ulat-t "We made fMO from one aore strawberries, on which your fortlltzorg were used. Eight your ago wo bough t this place at S3) per acre. It was then considered to have been worn out twenty years before, but byliboraliyutang Vir Jlnla-Carolln Fertilizer under peas and velrot beans, we oan now grow almost any- . thing, and huvo been offered a0 per acre for the place. Wa experimented with great many brands of fertilizers, but find the highest por-oent. cheaper." Now don't you think Virginia-Carolina f ertilizers . wouiu enabio you to pay on a mortgage if you had Oner woii, uon't use any otner, VkxtaJa-CarellaaChemloalCe. globmond. Vs.' orfolfc, Va. Durham. N.CL Charleston, B. (X Baltimore, lid, Atlanta, Ga. ; , Savannah, Ga. V Montgomery, Ala .' Memphis, Tenn, Bnreveport, I A. That Michigan man who is jac- cused of having 17 wives must have been determined to have his buttons sewed on if he went to jail foa it. Washington Post, The Cause of Many Sudden Deaths There is a disease crevsilinfr in tbie country tuostdangerousbccauacsodccep. , tire, aianytuciuen deaths are caused by it heart dis ease, pneumonia, heart failure at apoplexy are oftetf the result of kid Iney disease, if kidney trouble is allowed toad vanq the kidney-poison -.1 l 1 .1 ...Ml A . tack the vitA Organs, causing catarrh of the bladder, 0r toe kidneys themselves) Vta HI U1UUU Will Ml- break down (Uid; .waste away cell by ceil. Bladder troubles 'almost alwaya result from derauemejit.of the kidneys aud a cure is obtained, quickest by a proper treatment of the kidneys. If you are feel ing badly you can uiakn no mistake by taking Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, the great kidney, liver and bladder remedy. It corrects Inability to hold urine and scalding pain in 'passing' it, and over comes that unpleasant necessity of being compelled to go often through the day, and to get up many times during tba night. The mild and the extraordinary effect of Swamp-Root is soon .realized. It stands the highest for its wonderful cures of the most distressing cases. Swamp-Root is pleasant to take and la sold by all druggists in nuy-ceut and nn1nilr aim hoMlM. Vrrtl mav lun s , sample bottle of this wonderful new die , fY.""? covery and a book tliat tells all i about it, hntli af nt frM Viv titnil r Address. T)r. 1 mer& o.i Dinghsmton, N. Y. Whes n writing mention reading tuts eeneroua 1 1 .l.:. . TVnH. mala m mistake, but remember the name, Swamp Root, Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, aud tliv address, Binghaiuton, N. V., on ever bottle -. -.- ,'.'. . - mcz 111 1111a imiici . sum . ui... nw IK II 1 fl . W TV mm 1 - ;','..' -. f
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