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r ..' .. . - . - -......!. 1 . . . i . . . ' -i " i WATAUGA COUNTY. X. C mUUSDAY'NOVEMBEU 7.1907. NO. 27. PROFESSIONAL. L, D.LOWE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BANNER ELK, N. C. isrVVill practice in the courts of Watauga, Mitchell and adjoining counties. 7 6.'(4 Todd & Ballon, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. JEFFERSON, N. C. Will Drnctice in all the eouut i Social attention given to real estate law ani collections. 06 J. E. HODGES, Veterinary Surgeon, SANDS, N. ;. Auk. 6. ly. EDMUND JONES LAWYER LENOIK, N. (J, . Will Practice Regularly in the Courts oi natauga, 6-1 o7, F. A. L1NNEY, -ATTORNEY AT LAW,- BOONE, N. C. Will practice in the courts of the 13th J udicial District iu all matters of a civil nature. .6-11-1900. J. C. FLETCHER, Attorney At Lawr BOONE, N. C. Careful attention given tn collections. E F. LOVILL -ATTORNEY AT LAW, liQOShy N. C. lSpecial attention given to all busineKB entrusted to his care." 1-1 '01. A, A. Holsclcw, , ATTORNEY AT LAW Mountain City, lei Will practice hi all the courts of Tenuessee, State and Federal. Special attention sriveii to col WUons and all other math rs of a Ifgral nature. Office north east of court house. Oct. 11, 1900, lv - E.S.G0FFEY 'I -ATlORhEl Al LA . -BOONE, N. C. Prompt attention" given to all matters of a legal nature. Efr Abstracting titles and collection ot claims a, special tv. 1,1 '07. R. Ross Gcnne!!y. UNDERTAKER & EMBALMER SHOUN'S. Tennessee, Has Varnished and Glass White Coffins; Black Broad'lotli and White Plush Caskets; Bbick and White Metalic Caskets Robes, Shoes and Finishings, Extra large Coffins and Cas kets nlwa'ys on hand.'Phone or ders given special attention. R..ROSS DONNELLY. NEW JEWELER'S SHOP. I will be located in Boone by June the first, 1907, prepared to do all kinds of watch a-hd clock repairing on short notice. My work is all guaranteed and no work is charged for unless satis factory to the owner. Bring me your work and I will give you a .first-class job. . urace up stairs in Critcher brcik row SILAS M. GREENE, Jeweler, WASIIIXGTOX LETTER. From Our Regulni Correspondent. , The serious money panic in Wall street has called the atten tionof politicians toa thing that should have been settled at the last session of Congress. That is the reform of the currency. This is a subject that has been brou't up atalmost every session for a number of years and that last year came within a measurable distance of beingenaeld into law feince the serious panic of the past few days the need of action has been accentuated and per haps this session something defi nite will be done. Senator Elkins, just after a long talk with the President said that there would be a currency bill introduced early in the next session and while he did not say specifically that it would have the backing of the President, that is tolerably well underslood. The Senator said what is quite true, and that is that the panic was due more to business pros perity t han to business depres sion. This sounds paradoxical. but it iH true. The business of the country has been increasing for the past few years at the rate of. about 30 per cent per annum. The increase in the real money has been only about 5 per cent. and this leaves a gap of 25 per cent that has to be bridged in with credit. , When the credit of the community (which is only confidence) is shaken, then there is trouble. The 1 -resident has been accused of shaking the con fidence of the public and this may be true to the extent of hav ing pointed out some of the fi nancial crookedness that has been going on in the big corpo rations. But leaving that out of the question, the country needs or at least needs to be able to lay hand on it when it is needed in acrisis. The proposal or a more elastic currency as ramed at the last session ftCon- gress was to allow the banks that heeded it to issue addition al note circulat ion up to a large percentage of theircapital stock. This note circulation was to bo taxed ratherheavily so that when the banks had no actual need of it' they would be glad to retire it and thus escape the tax. But when real monev was wanted, as it whs in New York a few days a go, the banks would have been only too thankful to pay a n y reasonable tnx on it if they could have gotten it. The princi pal reason that no action has been taken on currency in the past has beeribat it was so ea sy to put it off But the recent sharp lesson is apt to make the legislature get busy. - There is talk now about send ing the battleship squadron to the Pacific and leaving it there indefinitely. Whether it is brought back will depend largely on Con gress and partly on the Presi dent. It is suspected that the President would not be displeas ed if the squadron were left in the Pacific and another fleet built to take its place in the Atlantic. It will cost about a million and a half to send it to the Pacific and there will be no money available to bring it back till Congress ap propriates some.- If it fails to do this, the squadron will stay where it is sent. Of course sending it home would not cost so much as building one new battleship, but then there would be agreat terap tation to fix up a fresh Atlantic squadron once the old one were out of the way and the need of it were felt. Before the squadron starts on its long journey the crews of the ships will Dave to be lary -ie cruited. It will take about 2,000 nieiilo. bring the squadron up to its full strength ond at the rate that naval recruiting is goingon now, there is a question whether this can be done in time. Itseems rather a pity thnttheyoung men of the country do not know hat a career the navy offers to them if they want to enlist and work up to the full possibilities of the service. The pay of the enlisted men in the navy is small at the start, to be sure, but it includes board and lodging and at the end of the month the enlisted man m the navy usually has more money than the man who has been working for day wages on shore Then there are various roads to extra money as signal men, gnu pointers and the lik", all of which work pay! a bonus over the regular salary. When a boy has been through au enlist ment of three years, he can work up rapidly if ho desires. With an ordinary education and applca tion, it is quite possible for him to be earning from $50 to $75 a month besides his boaid, lodg ing at the end of ten j ears ser vice, and there is always the cer tainty of a life job if he wants it and a pension at the retirement age. With the increase in the us of electricity and the necessity for high practical mechanical abili ty in many branches of the ser vice, the brighter young men are often picked out of the navy by the big corporations at good sal aries, though not as large, of course, as some of the oflicersget on quitting the service for civil life. Then there is a chance for a commission if an enlisted man wauts to work for it as there aie. a regular number open to com petition each year. Along with this question of a naval career, it is interesting to note a case that happened recent ly in thearmy. There was a yonng fellow, an enlisted man in theSig nal Service who has detailed n work ia connection with the wire less telegraphy. He had a natu ral mechanical and electrical turn and did excellent work. He was sent up to Alaska something o ver a year ago in connection with the wireless installa tion and w hile he was there he was picked up by one of the big commer cial electric, concerns and is now drawing a salary of $6,000 per year: Not very bad as a raise from an enlisted man at $13 a month and board. It may be noted too in connec tion with the army that the late Dr. James Carroll one of the com mission that discovered the mos quito theory of the transmission of yellow fever, was an enlisted man in the hospital corps before he was made a commissioned of ficer in recognition of his work He died with the rank of mtijor. His was of course an acceptional case and it may be argued that a good man is bound to raise anywhere, but it also speaks well for the possibilities open to a bright boy in the a:".::y and navy- A Humane Appeal. A humane citizen of Richmond I-ul., Mr. U. I). Williams. 107 West Main St , says; '1 appeal to .ill persons with weak lungs tv take Dr. King's NcwDiscov,,i,the only remedy that has helped me and ful ly comes up to the proprietor's re eomendation." It saves more lives than all other throat and lung reme dies put together; Used as a cough and cold cure the world oyer. Cures asthma, bronchitis, croup, whoop ing Cough,--quinsy, hoarsness, and phthisic, stops hemorrhages of the lungs and builds i..cm up. Guaran teed by all druggists 50c. ar.d 1 1. 00. Trial bottle free, Who has no money must have no wishes. Italian. Deaf To Tlie South. Zach McGhee in Charlotte Obser ver. The Secretary of the Treasury having deposited .f 25,000,000 in the bands of New York and .indi cated a willingness to deposit more in.order to establish credit rial the vaults of the United in New York and prevent the sac St ates Treasury have been open rificeof surities, certain represen- Ud up. When t lis cry comes from tatives of Southern interests the Southern farmer for more have made application to t h e money, it is not heeded because Treasury Department for depos-Mhe men who have loininated the its to be placed in Southern Treusury Depai I mrtit,"whilrthey banks in order to prevent South-1 may have been perfectly honest, ern farmers and cotton dealers U ml sincere, have justsimply not from sacrificing their cotton at understood ;t. They.nsk the Wall depressed prices. Secretary Cor-! Street bankers and brokers what telyou is still sitting on the lid in New York, but the matter has been put up to assistant Secreta ry Edwards. Acting Secretary, by Representative Burleson, oi Tex as, an d Mr. Ed wards has refused Mr. Burleson asked the Sccreta- .... f 4.1... . i. j :li i. vi me lieuMiry m uepuiMi; 1 $lU,unu,u(K)in Southern banks to be secured by warehouse re ceipts on cotton. The idea is that bankers thro' out the South have served notice upon owners of cotton in ware houses that Ihey can no longer make advances on cotton to bo held in storage. The bankers give as their reason the money strin gency, but it is understood that this is modified by the desire to force the sale of cotton in the warehouses and thus bring a flood of foreign money on the Southern market. Mr. Burleson takes the position that there is as much reason to avoid sacri fices in the salt s of cot ton as t here is in sacrifices of stocks and bonds. If the United States gov ernment i i going to deposit uion ey in Wall Street to ease the mouey stringency so that bro kers and other bonds in order to realize needed cash, this same principle should apply to the holders of cotton. Tne proposi tion he made to the Treasury De partment was that Treasury de posits should be made upon the security of warehouse, receipts at 25 per cent, of she market value, This would be perfectly safe, as it would allow a margin of 75 per cent, for any possible depre ciation in the value of the cotton 'These warehouse receipts held by the banks repreented an actu al, not a speculative value," says Mr. Burleson. "If the cotton pro ducer is forced to sell his cotton because the banks will no longer advance him the money, and for the purpose of brininging in for eign money to this country f o r the relief of the stock market, ic will mean that the crop will be sold for about $160,000,000 be low w hat it should bring and that the advantage of this forc ed sale will accrue to the foreign purchaser, and. that much inon- ey wuicn snouiu come to mis country, going into the pockets of our farmers, will be held a- broad. "A forced sale of the cotton crop at whatever sacrifice ol price would, of course, bring a large volume of money to this country, but it is poor econom ics to force the sale of a commod ity of actual value by the produ cer in order to inrense the vol ume of money immediatel availa ble to sustain the value of stocks. It is not likely that Secretary Cortelyou will grant the request of Mr. Burleson or any similar request for aid coming from the South. He does not understand that there are really any "busi ness interests" except those cen tered on Wull Street. If the banks tlytre need money, then the coun try is in a desperate fix, argue all the financiers and their friends in New York: and Mr. Cortelyou hf.s lived so much in the atmos- plirn. Of VH Street n,,d tlu.se who uie dominated by ul Stieijt interests and ideas t lint he really dors not understand how anybody else can see that the country is really one thing and Wall Street another. When Wall Street sets up a howl fot more money, vby from time unmcino- about it and get. (he reply thata few more million distributed n mong favored banks in Wall Street will so relieve the money stringency throughout the coun try that the Soul hern bu rners and the Western miners and all .. ... ... . otuers win prosper. M.i it is uoue. -D.: Witt's Carboliaed Witch Hazel Salve penetrates the pores thorough ly cleanses and h healing a 11 il stoothing. Good for piles. Sold by J. M. Hodges. Trail)? school for Has baadn. Why there is not a training school for prospective wives and liUibauds, with atttendunce lor a certain timn made compulsory? Persons are being trained for ev ery kind of.bubiuess but. that of ; marriage 1 he mo.st important ol all. It is not an easy matter fo live in relations. It needs to be taught; the requMte qualities need to be cultivated. And there should be an intelligence qualifi cation. It is more necessary in marriage than 111 yoling. Oh, marriage might be so taught as to nudvu it a very attractive con dition. As it is, it appeals to few men and women of forethought and discretion." "May this not b. because mar riage is now in a transition state evolvingtiiibulently into some thing more satisfying to higher nature?" Sara Ufked, her fine eyes lighted with a prcneinct thought ''Everything with mind in it is progressing; marriage must partake of the uplift. The note of spirituality is sounding in all ;irt, musi", painting, liter ature, even the drama " "Not in Bernard Shaw," re turned Shirley. "J laugh when I think of one ol his heroes, ca reering over Europe in an auto mobile, pursued by the girl who is bent on marrying him." 'Not iii Bernard Shaw, w h o cares less for truth than striking effects; but in Meterlink ''the dramatist of dream,' in Hnupt inann in bin 'Ascension' aud his 'lOlga' and iu Ye i's Inland of 'the Heart's Desire Iu these you see the expression ol the new spirit uality which shall lift ninrriuge from the merely physienl plane and make it sweet anil uotiie com panionship, dowered with some of the 1 dd romantic sentiment, but of h'gdier and purer quality.' Mary E. Bryan in Uncle Remus magazine for November. VnUMB'.Lw,ll if vmi have n " " ' I lirigtit'B Disease, wlncu is lue worst weak, unhealthy, tired out stomach.' form cf kidney troi:Mc. - . . t 1 , -c t , Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root is not rcc- Neither can you feci go. d 'rKvoiie-forevervl!V1(?lnitif yfmlwv- some little irregularity n eatii f ! kidm-v, liver or Madder trouble it will bo , 1.1. 1 . . 1 fvind'iiL-t tlie remedy you need. It bnj . you have caused the stomach to tret ( J SQ Jy.aynt in hoSpiul out cf order. These little stomach 1 work mid iu private practice, and baa ,, . r i- . I proved so successful in every case that a troubles are Mgns of indigestion, 1 j arranf,emcnt has been made by which may am1 vcrv often does turn! which all readers of this paper, who have 1 . , ' c 1 : . ! not already tried it, may have a sample into a very bad case of ''ysp-T','!i;"ueEelit frec by mail, also a book tell- Don't allow this to go on a single in;; more about Swamp-Root, and how to ..... ... . I firdout if you have kidney or Lluddcr trou-' day without doing something tj,jle when writing mention reading this . overcome It. Take some good re- distant like Kodol for Dvs- , , . 1 . .. r ..1 I... ki..i. Knowu (ou.y 10. .......1 "u.h, ing and all troubles arising from a 1 ,1 1 ,i;c;n It it nli-nKiiiit disoidered digestion. It is pleasant hy j , i i . nn, .tff,ifte rilif nrnmriT v. Free from t Alcohol Since May, 100$ Ayer's Sar- fisaparilla has been entirely free from alcohol. If you are la poor health, weak, pale, nerv ous, ask your doctor about tak ing this non-alcoholic tonic and ! alterative. If he has a better I medicine, take his. Get the best Juiways. This is cur advice. v 0 publish our foruula 5 W banlih uleohol f ivers irom uur moaiuiues n V.'o nr( yen to S coimu .t jronr dootor A sl-jgish liver rr.ear.s a coaled tongue, a lisd brosih, and nonstipatod bowels. The question is, " Vt?A Is the best thing toflo unc.?rr-'!Ni circumstances?" Ask your doctor i; tl.is is not a good answer: Tac l.wth-o f.ovz of Ayer's VMs." iJ bj '.to J. V. Ay or Co.. Lowoll, Mi A religion that will makc a man pay his debts, tell the truth speak well of his neighbors, and work and support his family is gopd enough to live on and die on. Anything short of this is a sham and fraud and the party who hnsit has mistaken stomach trouble for religion. Alexander Times. Rabies and children need prompt at terition when suffering from coughs aud colds. The best remedy for mothers to use is Kennedy's laxa. live l ough Syrup. It tastes as good as maple sugar, it contains no opi ates, and it is laxative and drives the colli out of the system by gently moving the bowels. Sold by J. M. llodges, . .jj 1 .. The fearless man who loves the truth and obeys duty is the man who prevails whose work endures. The State which lias 6uch men are glad to render devoted ser vice in war as in peace grows to be a great State. James Bryce. The postmaster of Gasconade, Mo., Daniel A. Hugh, "says of De Witt's Kidney and Bladder Pills "I am doing so welland improving so fast in health, that I cannot say too much for your Kidney and Blad dor Pills. 1 feel like a new man." De Witt's Kidney and Bladder Pills arc sold by J. M. Hodges. A couple of fellows, who were pretty tlfbughtly soaked with bad whiskey, got into the gutter. After floudering about for a few minutes, one ol them said; " Jim, let's go to another house, this hotel leaks." CO YOU GUT UP WITH A IAME BACK? Kidney Trouble Makes You miserable,' Ali:iost cv-rylxxly who reads tlia news- pjcr3 is sure 'to know of the wonderful cures maue uy xr, v Kilmer's Sjvoinp Root, the great kid- li ney, liver ana biau- , der remedy. 1 mu Jk tit Lllk.lU. 1111.11- leal triumph of the nincteerth century ; discovereilaftcrvcara - N.jJ of scientific research by Dr. Kimier, iiio eminent itidnev and bladder specialist, und is wonderfully successful in promptly curing lame back, tc acul, catanrn oi uic uia u.er u.u 'generous offer iu this paper and send your address to Dr. Kilmer :& Co., mguaiuwn, jSafFS - fiftv - cent and one- "S dollar size Utiles are Ho-of s p-b soid by all good druggists. Don't maka any nnstaae, mu rememuer uw name, sanip.Root;Dr.Kilmer'a Swamp-Root, a.bli-Aau nitirrtifitiitnn. IS. .. on every bottle. , ' , mm . - ! 1 1 U P i -' L C 1 ' r -i- 4 - '
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