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XIX.
IiOONE, WATAUGA. COUNTY, N C THURSDAY JULY 4, 1907.
NO. 0.
tfkWWl Atfl$fi TV
VROVESSIOSAI.
LD.LOWB,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
BANNER ELK, Nf C.
jWill practice in the court&
A Watauga,, Mitchell and adjoining
counties. 7 6. '04
Todd & Ballou.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
JEFFERSON, N. 0.
. Will practice in. all the couits
Special attention given to real
entate law and collections.
(J-IS-'OG-
J. E- HODGES,
Veterinary Surgeon,
-SANDS, N.O.
Aua. C. ly.
,F, A. LINNEY,
-ATTORNEY. AT LAW,
BOONE, N. C.
Will practice in the. courts of
the 13th Judicial District in all
matters of a civil nature.
6-11-1906.
EDMUND JONES,
LAWYER
.. LKNOlll, N. (I'
ll ' Practice Regularly in
cbe Courts of Watauga,
6.1 .6.
Attorney At Law,
. BOONE, N. C.
Careful attention tcivon to
: !it-fti'n$.
E F LOVILL
- ATTORNEY AT LAW,
-nonsh, A'. C
ipH'ial attention given
.til business entrusted to
t s oare.!34 . ,
1-1 '04.
A, A. Holsclaw,
ATTORNEY AT LAW--
Mountmn Lityjiennessee.
Will practice in all the court h
e rr r . . . ni l
oi itMiiiPssep, mhib u no reoerni.
Special attention kivhi to col
lisions nnd nil oher matters of
a lfjral nature., -
Office north east of court house.
Oct. 11, 1906, ly. s '
(u. M. XI AD HON, D. b. S.
DALJ,S.t.
a m .
I am now located here tor the
practice of Dentisti v, and am ma
king Rridge and down work, the
most intricate work known to the
profession, a specialty.
ISSMy work is all done under
positive guarantee no satisfaction,
no pay. Nothing but the best mate.
rial used in the execution of any pi
my work. .
E.S.G0FFEY
-ATlOlMEi Al LA-
.. BOONE, N. C
Prompt attention given to
all matters of, a legal nature.
8" Abstracting titles and
collection of claims a special-
tr.
M'07.
R. Ross Donnelly
UNDERTAKER & EMiiALMER
SII0UNU-- - - lennessee,
Has Varnished and Glass White
Coffins; Black Broad, -loth and
White Plush Caskets; Black and
White Metalic C a 8 k t b Robes,
Shoes and Finiahinirs.
Extra-large ,.CofDiiB and Cim
kets always on hand.Thone or-
Idrs given special Attention;
K. ROSS DONNELLY.
Honor Our Women.
(J. W. Baily in News & Observer.)
To the Editor! I wish to callatJ
tention to what seems to me the
most obvious 'duty of the "people
of North Carolina, namely, the
building of a monument to our
Women of the Confederacy.
, )c, have our monuments to the
Soldiers of the Confederacy. We
have recognized our debt to them.
So indelibly has the charactei of
their achievements been impress
ed that a thousand years hence
they will continue to march at
the head of all the great armies of
history. Their glory shall never
fade. But we have neglected their
wives and mothers and sisters
and for no other reason than
that they were women. For. we
do all know that in valor, in de
votion, in suffering and in ser
vice they were not surpassed by
the heroic names on the battle
fields of our Lost Cause. It de
tracts nothing front but rather
adds to the record of the Confed
erate soldier to sn,y that he was
heartened for his sacrifices, main
tained in his achievements and in
spired, in his heroic warring by
the wife, the mother, the sisteror
the sweet-hea.rt who sent h i m
forth with his blessing and
throughout the deadly days of
his battles kept her heart strong
while she maintained his home
nurtured his children, 'managed
his affairs and as often as oppor
tunity was given cheered him
with her message and comforted
him with the work of her hands.
They could not have been the
brp ve men that that they were;
they could not have maintained
the war as they did; they could
not'have given themselves to the
battle with that spirit which won
for them their undying glory,
had not the Women of the Con
federacy, in complete self-efface
ment, with heroism unsurpassed
in human annals. 'chosen to bear
without, a word: save words of
cheer, all the horrors of a war
which stripped them of their pro
tectors and threw them upon
their own resources. Imagine
what that meant! The- mother
who gathered "her brood about
her at fall of night with her heart
on the battlefield; who arose with
the morning to do her own and
her husband's work; who t hrough
out the day must expect the
worst of news; who made no cry
or complaint, but sent on her
brave letters; who wrought in he
roic endeavor to maintain the
new nation; who month after
month and year afteryearendur
ed without any faltering that
the soldiers knew of is she not
worthy of the noblest of memo
rials, If the soldier fought, she
wrought; if the soldier gave him
self, she gave herself; if the soldier
suffered, she Buffered; if the sol
dier died, Bhe died a thousand
deaths. And if never shall fade
the soldier's fame on our debt to
him, neither should her fame and
our debt to her. For in truth they
are inseparable.
But there are people who say
that monuments are vain things.
So they are to vain people. But
to those who have caught the sig
niflcance of life monuments are
the worthiest works of man. Hap
py is the people who have them
to build So far the race has pro
ceeded by means of monuments
they stand as bulwarks against
all downwardtendencies whatso
ever. .
At the foot of that monument
tu our Confederate soldiers the
rising generations resolves to ac
quit itself not less worthily than
they. did. It is not then for t h e
sake of the dead or the past that
we rear these memorials. It is for
the sake of ourselves and those
who shall come after us to t h e
last generation. A monument to
the Women of the Confederacy !
will spea k a message to the pres- J
entand future daughters of the j
South more lofty, more inspiring,
more potent for all that is good
than any other thing whatsoev
er. It will go further towardpre
serving the ideals of that great
generation, further toward re
newing our civilization uall that
best in the Old South, further to
ward saving the women of amore
prosperous period from the temp
tations of luxury, further toward
bringing forth here a race which
shall be earth's chief glory, than
any other thing that 1 know of.
And to fail to build this monu
ment will be to convict ourselves
of blindness to this immensely
significant, and sublime fact.
'; But we should not forget our
duty to these women. If a monu
ment had no use save that of dis
charging in its poor measure the
debt of a people to their heroic
ouls, we should build this monu
ment to the Women of the Con
federacy. In no other way may
we repay them. In no other way
may we recognize our debt and
render our tribute to them. Our
gratitude for illustrious perfor
manccs and imperishable services
should so oppress our hearts for
utterance that we must ne.ds a
rise and express it as fitly as we
may. We. build monuments not
for the future, but in order, to
express that sense of gratitude
and reverence which we can find
no other means to so worthily
express.
To fail to build this monument
to the Women of the Confederacy
would be to convict ourselves of
indifference to the most heroic
suffering that a generation ,of
women ever endured; to convict
ourselves of want of blindness to
the value of the most inspiring
examples that were ever given to
a people; to convict ourselves of
want of gratitude and .reverence
for the noblest service ever render
ed. And since it cannot be said
that Southern men are wanting
in these great elements of man
hood, I am assured that they
will no longer postpone the dis
charge of this most obvious hon
orableduty.
We must not postpone it. These
forty years have, carried away
the large .majority of the Men and
Women of the Confederacy; and
in a short time the remnant will
follow after. Before they go the
generation that succeeds them
should rrive them this token of
the honor in which they shall be
forever held, this assurance that
their sons and daughters, for
whose inheritance they so heroi
callv suffered, are worthy o f
them.
I know it is not well to go into
details at this point, for to do so
may produce ..controversy: and
at present it is best for us all to
hold to that in which we are a
greed. But surely I risk nothing
by suggesting that this rnonu
ment should be of the noblest
type. -We should not be content ;
with a shaft and bronze figures.
The noblest theme requires the
most exalted treatment. Rich
must be the rendering of a tribute
so richly deserved. I would like
to see a costly monument of one
or several groups symbolic of the
Women of the Confederacy, in
granite and marble, so noble in
conception and execution that
the fame of it would run through
out the world. And 1 would like
to see it reared by the whole
State. It is an undertaking that
requires North Carolina her
best.
In such a work we should not
plead economy. Bnt if one should
there is an answer: North Caro
lina is able. She has built a mon
ument to the Confederate Sol
diers, thanks to these women;
she has provided a lloine and
pensions for the needy veterans,
she has provided the four months
school; she has provided for her
educational and charitable insti-
utions. All is bright ahead of
North Carolina. The days of her
poverty are passed. It would
ha ve been beautiful if in those
days she had provided a modest
memorial to her noblest daugh
ters; but it is better that she has
waited until the present t i m e(blocKaders captured were carried
when she enn .afford to rear a to Mt. Airy, where yesterday
monument that in all its features 'morning they were given a por
will speak worthy of a great peo-jliminary hearing before a United
iuVh nrmiwiation of their most
illustrious and most precious
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heritage.
The Southern Man.
Charlotte Chronicle.
"The Southern man for Presi
dent," is having another round.
Colonel Bryan having intimated
that if he is not to get nominated
he might favor a southern man.
In a discussion of the matter,
The Washington Tost seems to
think that sect ionalism is yet too
rankly in the way. "For nearly
half a century," says the Post,
"citizenship of a Southern State
hus rendered an American states
man practically ineligible to the
office of President of the United
States or Vice President as much
so as if the man were foreign
born of alien parents. Thus the
equality of citizenship is denied.
Though he had "Caesar's and
Plato's brain,", though he were
Burke and Jefferson and Lincoln
in one the mere fact that he is
of Southern birth and of South
ern residence would bar him from
preferment in the national con
vention of either party. . If Mr.
Bryan were an ill mannered man
we might interpret his discussion
of a Southern candidate as some
thing with a trace of a sneer."
The Post deplores the reign of
sectionalism and says: "It's time
for the thing to stop; but it will
not stop: The Democratic party
is not a cell-governing society. It
will do what ic is ordered to do,
T!ie South tfill enter the conveu
ti'n of 1903 nnd vote for a pre
determined t'kt. There wns a
time when the Democratic party
cot its inspiration from the
South. Jackson, Polk, Pierce and
Buchanan were all nominated up
on the dictation of the South
To the list we may add Van Bij-
ren, whovH nominattd nt the
dictation of a Southern man.
It ih hub the truth of history
that heretofore the South has
done what it has been ordered to
doin tl)6 national convention,
but there ha ye been some indica
tions in recent months that this
condition of things is not to last
for all time. True, it it follows
out the orders lor Bryan's nom
ination it vill be but a repetition
of previous (jerformances, and
will delay the day of independ
ence nnd an assertion ofswlf-
righta hut will delay it for lour
years only, for one mote expoii
nc s will he enough. One of thene
days the South will bn forced to
assert its political courage.
Remarkable Rescue,
That truth is stranger than fiction
has once more been demonstrated in
the little town of Fedora, Tenn., the
residence of C. V . Pepper. lie wi ites
"1 was in bed, entirely disabled with
hemorrhages of the lungs and throat
Doctors failed to help me, and nil
hope had fled when I began taking
Dr. King's New Discovery. Then
instant relief came. The couching
soon ceased; the bleeding diminish
ed rapidly, and in three weeks I was
able to eo to work," Guaranteed
for coughs nnd colds, 30c. and
at all Druggists. Trial Bottle free
OABTOIIIA.
Ban tlx 1M KinO Id H3tl !W3
of WufeV j-CUcuM.
The Bur Reienre Rpid in MoKes.
Winston-Salem Dispatch, 20th.
According to the report receiv
ed here this afternoon from Mb.
Airy, one or two of the block -aders
near Smithtown, Stokes
county, the settlement raided
Wednesday by revenue officers,
were shot in the battle between
the officers and blocknders. It is
learned that one of them w a s
shot through the ear. The ten
States commissioner, iney were
held to appear at the next term
of Federal Court at Greensboro,
their bonds being fixed nt $1,000
each, .in default of which they
went to jail at Dobson. They will
remain in jail there until court
meets unless in the meantiue bail
is arranged.
Tliraid was the largest and
he most successful ever made in
North Carolina. The squad of
government men was directed by
Deputy Collector J. p. S. Nor
man, of this city. He h'ad 20 as
sistants, the deputy marshal of
this city being one of the number.
As was stated in this correspon
dence yesterday mominff, 13 il
licit distilleries were captured by
the raiders. A man this after
noon from that section stated
the revenue officers fell short by
I at least 2" distilling plants of
j breaking up illegal whisky mak
ing in t h e t Smithtown settle
ment,
The first thing the officers did
upon entering the ismitntown
settlement was to a rrest a num.
ber of women and children, this
jeing done to prevent the spread
of the news of their presence in the
community.
Thirteen stills were located m
a radius oftwo miles. Asjthe band
of officers entered the thickets in
which they were located, about
00 shots were fired. About 300
gallons of whisky and 2-),000
gallons of beer were emptied.
The MugicNo. 3. v
Number three is a wonderful man
cot tor (jco. II, i'arris, ot Lcuur
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which reads: "After sneering much
wi'h liver and kidnev trouble and
v
becoming greatly discouraged by
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am a wen man to-uav. lne nisi
1 1 m tt
hottdl relieved and tliree bottles com
pleted the cure " Gunrenteed best
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ney troubles, For sale by all drug.
gist. 50c.
When in Italy a card was
brought to Mine Petti from a
man whose name hh? did no
know. When the stranger came
n he proved to bo a little old
man who was red and speechli-ss
with nervousness. Suddenly Put
ti noticed smoke coming out 0
his coat. Without saying a word
she seized a glass of wfiter and
threw it over him. The old man
had put his lighted cigar into. his
pocket whf n he entered the room
nnd so had set fire to his coat
Sir." said Mme Tatti. have
had many admirers who profess
ed themselves burning with ad
miration for me, but I have nev
er had betoie me one w ho went so
far as to set himself ou fire to
prove it." Ex .
"I have h'.'ed the walking-stick
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writes John Garrett, of North Mill
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Give the inchwonn time.and it
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The man who says he married
the wrong woman speaks for the
one who stood by her side in the
years that are gone. Did he not
marry the wrong woman? -.The
truth is it's an unspeakable trag
edy, beside which all other trage
die are comedies that mock and .
Jeer. !el.
The Cause of Many
Sudden Deaths.
There is ft disease prevailing in thii
country most dangerous because so decc'p. '
uve. JUnnysuuden
deaths orf'Taiissd
by it heart dis
ease, pneumonia,
heart failure or
ajxjplexy are often
the result of kid
ney disease. If
kidney trouble ia
allowed toadvanc(
the kidney-poisoned
liload will t-
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the bladder, or the kidneys ihcniselvea
break down and waste away cell by cell.
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