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1 t .1 ' !i VOL. :ix BOONE, V ATAUG ACCOUNT Y. N. C, rflUIlSDxVY OCTOBER 31. 1907. NO. 26. PROFESSIONAL. 1,0. LOWE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BANNER ELK, N. C. I-Will practice in the courts of Watauga, Mitchell and adjoining counties. 7 6 '04 Todd & Ballou. ATTORNEYS AT LAW. JEFFERSON, N. C. win nractice in all the couats Special attention given to real estate law eww5 J. E. HO DOES, Veterinary Surgeon, AN L)Sr N . ;. Auk- 6. ly. ' ' ' y " "EDMUND JOKES - LAWYER -LENOIll, N. (5,r- . Will Practice Regularly in the Courts of natauga, 6-1 '07. F. A. LINNEY, ATTORNEY AT. LAW, BOONE, n. c. Will Dractiee in the courts o the 13th Judicial District in all matters of a civil nature. 6-11-1906. : J. C. FLETCHER, Attorney At Law, BOONE, N O.' Carefal attention piven t collections. E F LOVILL , -ATTORNEY AT LA.W, BOONh, N. C "Special attention given to all business entrusted to his care." " 1 - 11--04. A, A. Holsclaw, ATTORNEY AT LAW Mountain City, lei neisee. Will practice in all the courts of Tennessee, State and i eaerni Special attention givwi to co! lections and all oher matters o a Upral nature. . Office north east of court house, Oct. 11, 1906, lyr WASHINGTON LETTER. t S. GOFFEY, -ATWMElAl LA IV,- BOONE, N. C. Prompt attention given to all matters of a legal nature. B0" Abstracting titles and collection ot claims a special tv. . ,; M'07. R. Ross DonneIIy UNDERTAKER & EMBALM ER SHOUN'S. Tennessee, Has Varnished and Glass White .Coffins; Bluck Broad loth and While Plush Caskets; Black and White Metalic C k e t s Robes, Shoes and Finishings. ' ' ! Extra large CofBns ami Cue kets always on hand. Phone or ders given special attention. R. ROSS DONNELLY.- NEW JEWELER'S SHOP. " III IAJ llllC 111 . WVViv June the first, 1907, prepared to doalllcinds Of watch and clock repairing on short notice. My work is all guaranteed and no work is charged for unifies satis. factory to the owner. Bring me your work and I will give you a first-class job., . Office up stairs in . Critcher brcik row. SILAS M. GREENE, Jeweler. From Oar Regalai Correspondent. There has been renewed effort i,n the last few days to dig up a Japanese war scare. This is bas ed on nothing more specific than the temper of the people on the acme coast where it is said that ;hereisan increasingly irrecon cilable anti-Japanese race feeling that is bound to break out afresh as soon as the battleship squad ron arrives in the Pacine. In con junction with this, it is said that there is being a night shift work ed in most of t he navy yards and that war material is being accu mulated as rapidly as possible. There is lust enough truth in .these statements to warrant a denial. The most of the navy yards are working a night shift to try to get up work that has lone: been in arrears. War mate rial is being rushed to the battle ships preparatory to their cruise for it is not likely to start on such a cruise.empty handed and there is not much time to get them ready. Also there is a deep anti-Japanese feeling on the 1 a cific cpast that is liable to show itself in another outbreak in the course of the next ten years. But in the Navy Department there is about as little sign of activity as could be displayed. The President, at this writing, has not returned from his hunt ing trip, the Secretary of the Na vy is out of the city on contract business, the Assist ant Secretary of the Navy is away on an unu sually late vacation and the chiefs of the Bureau of Naviga tion and the Bureau of Equip ment are both away. It would take quite a gathering of the clans to put the Department in position to do business on a very active scale. Just supposing there should be anything m the way of a war however to call forth the anility of the navy, it is a satisfaction ton to know that we have just made a record for straight shoot ingthat considerably surpasses anything done by any of t h e other navies of the world. In tar get practice off Cape Cod, the battleships have just made an averaxre of 30.7 pen cent hits un- Lder battle conditions. The tar get was the regulation navy tar get, a floating canvass frame 30 by 30 by 60 feet. The range were unknown to the gunners and va ried from 5,000,to ,9,uuu yaras, ih latter a little over four miles. All the shooting was done while steaming at ten knots an hour. TtioaA were as near service condi tions as could be arranged in time of peace and lucked only the single disconcerting element of having some other gun crew shooting back. Thegreatest nutn tior nf hits with the 10 inch and 12 inch rifles was made by the. Mnine which ran up the surpri sing string of 67 per rent. There were 50s and 47s made ny some nf flip other ships. It was estima ted that had the tai-get been the size of an opposing war ship, tne frt.itiP would have registered o- ver 100 hits in the space of eight minutes. Comparing this witn the performances of foreign na- vioa it; is wonaenui enuuwus. The average of foreign sqadrons in nimilnr nractice has never run over 25 per cent, and all ' t h & damage done by Toga's neet in the battle of the Sea of Japan was with a per centoge 01 omy fan ' - ' The average with the seconda ry battleships was not so nign, ,!, tiiesft cuns. running from 7 to 4 inches, are not supposed to be effective at such a range. There was a surprise in store for most people who knew them by the marriage of one and the engagement of another of the re tired navy veterans this week. The engagement was that of Ad miral Selfridge, of civil war fame. He is 7S and is known to every school boy as having been im mortalized in the poem "On Board the Cumberland." Admi ral Melville is 66 and has been on the retired list for threeyears. He was married to a lady he has j known for forty years. Admial Melville, is one of the most picturesque figures of the old navy and one of the origina- tors of the new navy He was for , years the chief of the bureau of steam engineering, and enjoyed: the reputation among the jack ies in his prime of being the "top notch scropper" of the whole eer vice. He is about five feet four inches high and about four feet fie inches broad withoutapy su perfluous flesh. He was chief en gineer of the ill-fated Arctic brig the Jeannette and was the hero of the fight between the Ohio and the Confederate vessel the Flori da in the harbor of Bahia in the late war. The Confederate vessel had come into the harbor and re fusing a challenge to fight, it was proposed.to ram her. It was almost a certainty that the boil er oi the Ohio would not stand the shock and Melville who was one of the engine room force said that he would go below and run the engine himself just before the collision bo that there would be onlv one man sacrificed. One of I the warrant officers vowed he should not take the risk alone and the two of them went thro' the adventure together, coming out with hardly a scratch. This is an official narrative, but there isanother story of Mel villa that is told in the ward room with even more relish and does appear on the official archives. He was on the old Marraganset when he was a lieutenant and had incurred the enmity of some of the toughest of the crew. The vessel landed in Cuba for water, and Melville went ashore with the boat's crew when the casks were filled. Four of the sailors decided U. was a good time to kill him and desert if they could get him alone for a minute, and Mel ville, getting wind of .their plan, decided to give them a good chance. As soon as they landed, he st rolled off alone up the beach, and around a bend out of sight of the boat. Three or four sail ors followed him in the bushes and met him on the beach out of sight of the boat's crew. Alter a short interval Melville strolled back, ppncahalently as he had cone-, and remarked to the boat swain that there were three of his men up the beach lying around and acting as if they were drunk, and he certainly did not see how they had managed to get the li- auor. This was all the mention that was ever made of the affair, but itestablishedthelieulenant s reputation as a man of his ha nds. The four Central American re; publics of Honduras, Nicaragua, .Guatemala and Salvadore have nntiflod the State Department of their selection of delegates to the Central American eonierence that is to be held in Washington in JNovemoer. (mow Hill Toted Wet and Whjt "The town of Snow Hill con tinues her shame. "At the election last week tha vote was forty-one for saloons and thirty-eight against saloons. But that is not nil the story the worst is yet to be told. -- "The white people heard theap peal of the women and "children, and said we will no longer toler ate the saloons in our town, the breeders of shame and iniquity. The white men voted 35 against saloons to 31 for saloons. Well donel . "But here comes the negro ea sy tool of thesaloons and over rides the will of the will of t h e sovereign white voters of the town:' They voted 10 for saloons and 3 against, making 41 wet' and 38 'dry.' ' "And so saloons will stay there to blight and curse and stay by the vote of the negro, who heed ed not the piti ml cry of injured womanhood and childhood. God biess our women, the best, the purest, the most heroic. How they have prayed and longed and hoped for the glad day, of deliver ance. "They have pleaded with their husbands and brothers to pro tect them from the foul hand of the saloon which dares to enter any home and steal away hus band and facher, son and broth er, and these stalwart Anglo-Sax ons have heard the call of their women. ' "But their will has been thwar ted, theic votes nullified, their women repelled and their wishes" ignored by the negro voters; un der the influence and control of the saloon; and against the ad vice of the better men of their race. - "Thus the saloons defeat the will of our people. In their des peration they bring the eliraina ted negro voter back as an ac tive factor to say what the mor al laws of a community shall be. "We do not care to argue this Question now only to state the cold facts as they are and let you see them for yourself and think upon them. North Carolina Bap tist. Occasional headache, belching, bad taste in the mouth lack of appe tite and slight nervousness are ym ptomsof indigestion which, when allowed to go uncared f 01, will de, velop into a case of dyspepsia that "Will take a long time to get rid of. Don't neglect your stomach. At the first indication of trouble take some thing that will help it along in its work of digestinglhe'food you eat. KchIdI for Indigestion and Dyspepsia will do this. Kodol will make your food do you good olid will ennHe you to imijov what y ou eat. Sold by . MrlKlscs, The people of North Carolna did not go through the campaign of 1898 and 190, as a result o which the mass of -ignorant ne gro voters were excluded from the polls, to permit the negro vote to be thrown as a balance of power to perpetuate the sa loon. The victory won at Snow Hill will serve to create astil stronger sentiment in the State against the saloon evil, and the day is not far distant when the people will shut up every saloon and still in the State. Independent of the quest ion of whether prohibition or saloons should prevail in a community, t he reint roduction of the negro in politics is a question of the high est importance. If they can vote to keep saloons open, they can thereafter vote in every election, and if encouraged there will soon be a return in part of the politi cal condit ions that prevailed and that required the strenuous cam paign of 1898 to redeem the a w State. If the negroes voted a gainst the saloou tlns paper would protest just as earnestly against their re-entrance to the Kollrtf Tlier fti-e trettinsr bn well. . . - .... Government is gooa. in saioon nnwer is diminishing. The state j ' f ....!- ..rl HnM rnn 4la IB go 111 (i lurnaui. wiitc wjjcii 1110 nnnr nnn this Pandora box of evils will be with us agalu f o r tvnrao evil And frreater trouble. The Snow Hill victory, by rea son of the negro vote, will help to shut up every saloon and keep therahut. Liquor is bod, but ne gro suff 1 age which means that that the saloon will control nine tenths of their votes, is worse. NeWR nnd Observer. The Credit Sjstenw Suchjagencies as Bradstreet's and Dunn's are indispensible in the commercial world. AH busi ness men where large transac tions are involved need to have commercial ratings in order that bu iness may be done on safe lines and with promptness. In large towns where people are not well known, one or the other, the retail merchants find it necessa ry for their own safety and pro tectiou, to havo agences of like nature to Bradstreet's to ascer tain and report the flancial reli ability of their customers. From our exchanges we gath er that in some towns bad debt collecting agencies have been es tablished. Their business ito collect old accounts and if debt ors fail to pay in a reasonable time, they are published much after the fashion that tax col lectors advertis delinquent, with this difference, however, that the tax gatherer advertises prop erty for sale to realize on the tax es due, whereas the collecting agency advertises the delinquent in the newspapers and on thebul letm boards, not to sen ms prop erty, for it is protected, if he has any, by the homestead law, but 'or the purpose of exposing him, it being the only penalty he can inflict. This mode of procedure iscaus ing considerable commotion in, some quarters among the unfor tunate debtors. It is a, novel plan, and it is difficult to tell how far it may reach. The man who never intends to pay will not be helped towards honesty by sucn a policy, and is notgreatly injur ed in public estimation when he is exposed. " But there are many good peo pie as honest as day light who are poor financiers and who get behind and are forever unable to catch up. They want to pay, but seem doomed to permanent bankruptcy. If a merciless credi tor presses such a well-meaning but unfortunate man to the wall and publishes him as a fiaud, he does a helpless but honest man a great injury. Some people the shabby gen teel might, through pride more than honesty, pay to save repu tation, but the elementthat has entirely lost self-respect would be more completely hardened byex' posure. This Advocate is a stern believer in debt paying. It is a part of our religion. Paul tells us to "owe no man anything, but to love one another." We would not defend a debtor who shunned the payment of a iust claim, but we should be mer ciful toward the unfortunate who would pay but can't, and noth ing could be more humiliating to an honest man than to be pub lished as a fraud. The sure plan is to keep out of debt. Live within the income, and most men can do this, if they try. Lenoir Topic. Couahs of Children Especially nlcht couchs. Nfr ture needs a little help to quiet the irritation, control tne in flammation, check the progress of the disease. Our advice Is fflve the children Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. Asa your doctor if this is his advice also. He knows best." Do as he says. A Wt publiih enrfaraalM W btaUk alcohol y from ourdllna Wo nrg o ?M to oonult yomt doctor ' - yers If vmi think consfloation is of triflint consequence, just ask. your doctor. He Will disabuse you ot mat nonon in anon order, "ijorrect 11, at oncei " no wm IV. Then ask him about AVer's Pill. A mild liver pin, an vcgeuoic. Mdc ty tat J. o. Ayr OQ.. fcowu. i MORTGAGE SALE. mt 1 1 A.. A 1 T V Ann Hint wnereHi, un me itu uaj Aug. 1907, D V.Winebargerand wile, Loula Winebarger, ol the countr ol Watauga and State of North Carolina, duly assigned to Wilhe W. Miller a certain mort gage deed executed as hereinalter described, winch assignment is recorded in the office ot the Reg ister of Deeds for Watauga coon ty on the 30th day of Hep. iwj t , in Book N'. of mortgages, page 174. Now, therefore, as assignee ot said mortgage and by yiruie of a power of sale contained in a certain mortgage deed executed ! Mottie J. ireen to ljonia Winebarger, wife of D. V. Wine barger. tin the 16th day of J one, 1907, to secure the payment of u certain pruunmirj uuw ui and interest, due and payableon the 1st day ol Oct. 1907, which mortgage is recorded in book M' ol mortgages on page 7, oh the 17th.day of June, 1907, to which relerence is nereuy mane. Now, therefore, by virtue of said assignment, and power contain ed in said mortgage, 1 will wllto the -highest bidder lor casn in hnnd. at nubhc auction at the court, house door in Boone in' Raid county and State, between the hours of 11 a. m. and 2 p. m. on the 4th day of November 1907, it being the nrst Mono ay in said month the following de- upri bed Inndn nitnnted in said emmty, in the town of Zionville, in Coye Creek townsnip, adjoin ing the lands ol Dick Gragg, W. B. Davenport, iscilinerront anu 11. S. Koten, containing ncrw, the ame beina the lands for-mer I y owned byS. S. Younce, Rev. K. v. Jonea, ana inter occupieu hv Thn. fiwer and J. L. Norris. Said lands will be Bold to satisfy said debt, interest and cost oj sale. This Oct, 2, 1907. Willie W. Miller, Asssignee. Iflt be true that a prrtty girl attracts onlv silly men, sensible men are as scarce as hens' teeth. A Humane Appeal. A humane citizen of Richmond Ind., Mr. U. D. Williams, 107 West Main St:, says: 1 appeal Jo all persons with weak lungs tu take Dr. King's NewDiscov,i,the only remedy that has helped me and ful- lv comes up to the proprietor s re- comendation." It saves more lives than all other throat and lung reme dies put together. Used as a cough and cqld cure the world oyer. Cures asthma, bronchitis, croup, whoop ing cough, quinsy, hoarsness, and phthisic, stops hemorrhages of the lurigs and builds t'.iem up. (juaran teedjiy all druggists 50c. ar.d 1 1.00. Tiial bottle free. 11 II 111 mm i MK I III KH A doctor te)ls a patient to put his tonge out nnd expect his wile to keep her tongue in. , The Cause of Many Sudden Deaths. Tfir ! a disease nrcvailingr in this country most dan fferous because so decep. live, oiany (wineo deaths are caused by it heart dis ease, pneumonia, heart failure or r apoplexy are olten tfe result of kid ney disease. II kidney trouble ia allowed to advancf . thekidnev-poison- S. ed blood will at tack the vital organa, causing catarrh ol the bladder, or tne aiaueya uiciukmcb break down and waste away cell by cell. Bladder troubles almost always result from a derangement of the kidneys and a cure is obtained quickest by a proper treatment of the kidneys. If you are feel ing badly you can make no mistake by taking Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, ths uu livr and bladder reniedv. It corrects inability to hold uriue and scalding pain in passing it, and over comes that unpleasant necessity of being compelled to go leu through the day, and to get np many times during the night. The mild and the extraordinary effect of Swamp-Root is soon realized. It Jtands the highest for its wonderful cures of the most distressing cases. fiw.mn.Bnnl ia nleaaant to take and ! sold 'by all dmggista iu fifty-cent and one-dollar size bottles. 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