Watauga Democrat.
Pblishcd Every Thursday.
Bismarck's Favorite Drink
The mixture of dark beer, and
champagne, which waHfor along
time Bismarck's favorite drink,
wcs the result of a mistake on
the part of a servant, who inad
vertently poured champagne in
to a atone drinkingcup thai had
already been half filled with been
The drink tickled the palate of
the great German and the ser
vant'8 error brought him a re
ward. This story una told in an
up-town dub one evening last
week, when a member called for
a ,lHt one-wall." The barkeeper
bad made "stone fences" out of
rider and whiskey, and had heard
of all kiuds of grotesque bever.
ages, but suid he had never yet
run against a "stone wall. 'When
When the dariug tippler explain
ed that Pilsner beer and Scotch
whiskey mixed in a certain waj
constituted the "wall" the Nis
inarck stoiy was told, and it was
agreed that a similar error must
have been accountable for t h e
first ' stone wall' but that the
second one should never have
been reared. ' The man with the
new drink thought differently,
and when the formidable mixture
was nlaced before him he drank
ft with evident relish. His friends
congratulated him, but thought
the drink had been misnamed
it Bhould have beenatombstoue.
Kansas City Star.
The debarrmeut o! I. N. Ebbs,
a Madison county lawyer, at
Ashevillelast week is a rare oc
currence in North Carolina. Ebbs
according to tbe evidence, bad
been convicted of fraud and had
served a term in jail. II some of
the lawyers- are to be believed,
there ia more than one attorney
n North Carolina who would
scarcely escape jail if justice was
meted out to him, and the fact
that so many of them escape is
due to the sufferance of their le
gal brethren, who are not dis
posed to prosecute them. Now,
that the ball has been started, if
all of the black sheep in the legal
profession are brought to taw it
will be a credit to an honorable
' profession and a protection to
the public. Should this be done
we might be compelled to admit
that "a 'possum dog will eat
possum" and that one man has
not been made a scapegoat be
cause he is without triends or in
fluence. Statesvilie Landmark.
A Salisbury Dispatch to the
Charlotte Chronicle says that
most of the Salisbury whiskey
dealers are preparing to 1 e a v e
Salisbury after the flrBt of Janu
ary. TheD. Arey Distilling Co.,
the largest distillers in the State,
will move their plant to s o me
' point in Virginia. Other whiskey
dealers will also go to Virginia,
while two at least will go out of
the business altogether. The city
will haye to refund $9,000 of the
license money collected for a
( whole year, when prohibition be
comes effective. The revenue de
rived by the city from the distil
Jers, rectifying business and sa
loons last year was $26,000 and
itjs estimated that the shipments
- ol whiskey by the local houses is
bringing in f 2,000,000 annually.
The sales of one big house alone
amounted to $400,000. The Sal-
isbury dealers ship to nearly ev
ery Stat in the Union.
Kennedy's Laxative Cough Syr
up is the one that children like so
well to take as it tastes nearly as
crood as maple sugar, it is different
from the others as it does not con
stipate. but on the other hand it acts
gently yet freely on the bowels and
thereby it drives the cold out of tht
system. It is sold by J. M. Hodges.
Even the man who is fond of
jolly companions draws the line
at a laughing hyena.
OAMTOIl
femtk yyTns Kln Yw Han Ahnyt BorgM
Bebool Children Orei-loaded
With Books.
A parent in Manchester, Va
observed that his child was prei-
ty well loaded to and from
school. through curiosity or for
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other reasons, weighed the books
the child had to carry and they
weighed 15 pounds. The matter
was brought to public at tent ion
through a communication to the
Richmond News-Leader, which
made the following timely com
ment: "Isn't 15 pounds of books rath
er a heavy dose for a growing
boy or girl? Isn't it possible that
in tryint to meet the various de
sires aud diversified ambitions ol
parents the school authorities
are overloading the minds, over
taxing the strength of children
and dumping into their intellec
tual systems masses of matter
which will never be digested or
assimilated or made useful? The
writer ol themanchester commu
nication sends in a list of t h e
books making up the 15 pounds.
It is a formidable one. Probably
tew grown and matured men and
wonun with trained minds and
fully developed bodies would care
to tackle it for a six mouths
course. Are we overfeeding? It is
a complicated question but one
of tremendous importance. Scot
land Neck Commonwealth.
De Witt's Kidney and Bladder
Pills are prompt and thorough and
will in a yery shoit time strengthen
the weakened kidneys and allay
troubles arising from inflammation
of the bladder. They are recom
mended everywhere. Sold byJ.M,
Hodges. ,
The woman who is ambitious to
become a society leader begins
by leading her husband around
by the nose.
Big cuts or little cuts, small scrat.
ches or bruises or big ones are heal
ed quickly by DeWitt's Witch Ha
zel Salve. It is especially good for
piles. Be sure to get De Witts. Sold
by J. M. Hodges.
After a woman been married a
few days she begins to think
how much better she could have
done.
There's probably something
doing ia the ghost-laying line
when the shades of evening begin
to fall. '
There isn't much philosophy in
a man if it doesn't get busy when
he has occasion to visit a grave
yard.
It's surprising how brave the
average man is wnentnereieo
any real danger in sight. '
CASTOR I A
For Infants and Children.
Tbe Kind You Haie Always Bough
Bean the
Signature of
Some people derive a lot of sat
isfaction from thinking that they
ar thinking.
The man who overestimates
his greatness makes a great mis
take.
Morality is always ready
monopolize the spot light.
to
True friends are neither bores
nor borrowers.
OASVO
Bewiilw Thi Kind Yon Haw Always fteagfit
Many men's goodness is due to
tbe fact that are not found out.
DeWitt's Kidney and Bladder Pills
FOR BACKACHE
Intention isn't everything, For
every fellow who does barm from
a good motive there is another
who does good from a bad one.'
Higher freight rati 'are likely
10 b fixed in the fiuurv, the New
York Journal of Commenw tella
'us. The proponed raining ol rnil
road rnts on July 1. has pr-
haps, therefore, been postponed
.. .. . a ' .a ' j 1 . 1
until niter the flection, to neip
out the Republican party. When
the railroad rate bill was pnsHed
the Republicans took all the glo
ry that was possible for the a
chievenient. President Roosevelt
in fact compromised with thone
United States Senators controll
ed by the railroads on the most
vital clnu3eol the lull, rather than
the bill should be passed by Dem
ocraticaid. That bill was sup
posed b,v the confiding to bring
about reduced rates, JNow, we
bear nothing o! rate reduction,
but a certainty in the near fu
ture of an increase. Such in Re-
ublican reform.
Bucklen's Arnica Salve Wins.
Tom Moore, of Rural Route I,
Cochran, Ga., writes: '1 had a bad
sore come on the instep of my foot
and could find nothing that would
heal it until I applied Bucklen's Ar
nica Salve. Less than half of a 25
cent box won the day for me by
fleeting a perfect cure. Sold un-
der guarantee at all druggUts.
Lots of proud men take off their
hats when they meet an ultima
tum. DeWitts little Early Risers,' the
famous little liver pills, are sold by
J. M. Hodges.
Occasionally a liar tells the
truth for the purpose of throwing
people off the track.
Stomach troubles are very com
mon in the summer time and you
should not only be very careful a-
bout what you cat just now, but
more than this, you should be care,
ful not to allow your stomach to
become disordered, and when the
stomach goes wrong take Kodol.
This is the best known preparation
that n offered to the people to-day
for dyspepsia or indigestion or any
stomach trouble. Kodol digests' al
foods. It is pleasant to take. It is
sold here by J. M. Hodges.
NOTICE. N
Having qualified as administrator
ofMattie W'ellborne, deceased, late
of Wilkes county, N. C, thi ia to
notify nil persons having claims a-
gainst the estate of said deceased,
to exhibit them to the u ndersigned
on 01 before the nth dav of June,
1909, or this notice will be plead in
bar of their recovery. All persons
indebted to sid estate will please
make immediate payment. This
June 11,1908. .
Jno. T. Wellborn, Adm'r.
Land Entry, No 2480.
State of North Carolina, Watau
ga County. Office of Entry
I nker ol said county.
J. W. Harrison locates and en
terstwo hundred acres of land
on the South Fork of New River.
in Blue Ride township. Begin
ning on a cucumber, tbe book
old line, thenee various courses
so as to include all the vacant
lnnd for complement. Entered
May 23rd, 1908.
H. J. Hardin Entry Taker.
KILL the COUCH
and CURE thi LUNGS
w Dr. King's
flow Discovery
rnn ouch3
PHICB
too si oa
1 wii QLDS trial Sottli fttt
AND ALL THROAT AND LUNG TROUBLES.
GUARANTEED SATISFAOTOBYl
0& MOaEx BEPUMDED.
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Very Serious
It ia a very serious matter to ask
for ons medicine and bv the
wrong one given you. For this
reason we urge yoo ia buying
to be careful to get the genuine
BUCTaughT
Liver Medicine
The reputation of this old, relia
ble medicine, for constipation, in
digestion and liver trouble, ia firm
ly established. It does not imitate
other mad id net, It ia better than
others, or it would not be the b
.voriM liver powder, with larger
sale than all others combined.
SOLD Uf TOWN n
"ALABAMA."
Here, is a beautiful story of the
''tiil'uu nl rVi. uniiiltrihir fiit.t.
A bund of weary Indians driv-
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en irom piaw' to pi nee, ri'Mii.y
crossed a broad river mid, net
ting up, their tepees, ecarcel
''Alahainu!" The meaning of I he
word in the Indian tongue, i.
"Here we rent." And thus, it is
suid, a Ktnte wns named,
The sequul wo know.
Where the aborigines hoped to
fiud rest and a home they found
only graves
So ol us all. '
Driven hither nnd von, we all
look toward the dav when we
hhall cross the river uf Trouble
and setting up our 1 tilgri 111 stu ves,
suy to ourselyes. "Alabamal Here
we rest'"
But the day never comes.
You Bay toyoureelf "When my
business is established 1 shall
tuke it easy. I must work now
and t-corioinizi'.", Finally the bus
iness is established Well, the
children must be educated. There
must lie toil and economy. Chil
dren are educated and married.
Well, they must be started iu
business, etc.
Or-
II the children are finally estab
linhed, there are relatives who
need assistance or there is a wor
thy cause that we must aid-
Aiid so on we go, saving, slav
ing, walking the dusty highway
oflite, bearing our burdens until
some day wedrop'tbem by the
side of an oieu grave.
Is it not better so.
We need something to live for
and work and die for Without
these things life would be iiislj
id aud commonplace.
Besides
The burden steadies the feet
aud keeps the moral backbone
erect.
When your work is done, nnd
not till then, can yon say toyo ir
soul HAiabama. ' And who that
is able to work wantstosaythat
his work is done? Rather let us
work and wait, so t hat the epi
taph that is written on tbe flat
stone over the grave of tbe sol
dier of Padue mny le written o-
ver onr grave Selected.
MORTGAGE ALE OF LAND.
Whereas, on the 7th day of Decern
ber, 1904, J. H. Latham executed
a mortgage deed to r . M. 1 nomas
and J. D. Tnomas, which is regis
tered in the office of the Register of
deeds for Watauga county in Book
L, at page 177 8. Said mortgage
being executed and delivered to the
said F. M. and J. D, Thomos to
indemnify a .id save them harmless
by reason of the endowment of
note for the said J. H. Latham to
t'ae Bank of Ashe at Jefferson. N,C.
for the sum of f 1,200, dated the 7th
day of December, 1904 and renew,
ed by the party on August the 8th
1905, And whereas default was made
by the said J. H. Latham tn the
payment of the full amount of the
said note. and. whereas, on the 7th
day of March, loots, the said M
andJ.D. Thomas was compelled
to pay, and did pay, to the said
Bank of Ashe, at Jefferson, si. v.,
the balance of said note, amounting
to the sum of six hundred and seven
tv six dollars and eighty cents
($676.80). Now, therefore, by vir.
tue of the power of sale conferred
on the undersigned, by said mort.
f we will sell at public auction
hi thf court house doer in Boone in
Watauga county, between thp hours
of 10 o clock a. m.. nnd 3 o clock p,
m. on the 6th day of July 100S the
land conveyed and described in said
mortgage to the highest bidder for
cash in hand, to satisfy the said
amount of $676,80 with interest and
cost of sale. Haiq land being ues'
crided as follows: Lying in Wat
nuga county, N. C. on the waters of
Cove Lreek, in rjove Ureek town
ship, and being the lands purchas.
ed by said J. H. Latham from the
heirs of Landrine Eggeis. deceased
and bounded as follows: Beginning
on a beech tree between said Lan
derine Eggers and Ransom Eggers
on top of the ridge by the roadside
and runs south 63NW. 30 poles to
a birch, then N. 41. W. 26 P. to
an iron wood, then S. 45 W. 2o P,
to a mahogany, then N. 700 W . 13
r. to an ironwood, then fH. 50 f . to
a stake then 8. 400 Y. 26 r. to
hickory, then W. l P. to the top of
tne ridge, then with the top ct the
ridge a N. E . course 66 P. to a water
oak Davis comer, then S
20 P. to a stake, then S. 800; E. 27
P. to a beech, then S lo E. ro Y
to a maple by the roadside, then up
hftid road 74 P. to a dog wood, then
K. 24 V. to a chestnut stump, then
S, 770 II. 73 P. to a sugar tree, then
. Ho l. to kllison s treek, then
down said creek 124 P. to a bunch
if hazel bushes, then N. 20P W4 4,
P. to the beginning, containing 136
acres, more or less. One-sixteenth
of the above described land is re
served from this sale. This May 27
1908.
F.M.Thomas,
J,D. Thomas, Mortgagees
tr3
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AVegclahk Freparalionfor As
slmOatlng iheFoodandRcgula
ting the Stomachs arslBowels of
Promotes DigedtionJCheerfur
ness and Rest.Contains neither
OptrnMorphine nor Mineral
KotXaxicotig.
JbcSmmm
A perfect Remedy forConstipa
tlon. Sour Stotnach.Diarrhoea
Worms .Convulsions .Fcverish
nrss and Loss or Sleep.
Facsimile Signature of
NEW YORK.
war copy or wrapper.
A Simple Remedy
Oardui ia a Durelv veeetable extract, a simple,
non-intoxicating remedy,
women, ot all ages, lor womaniy pains, irreguuimy,
falling feelings, nervousness, weakness, and any
other form of sickness, peculiar to females.
TARE CAS! Jf
It Will
Mrs. A. C. Beaver, of Unicoi, Route No. 1, Mar
bleton, Tenn., writes: "I suffered with bearing
down pains, feet swelled, pain in right side, headache,
pains in shoulders, nervous palpitation, and other
troubles I cannot mention, but I took Whie of Cardni
and have found it the best medicine I ever used,
for female troubles." TryCarduL
AT ALL DRUG STORES
The life ol a women whose hus
band has no bad habits must be
rather monotonous.
FOR SALE.
Ninety acres of fine grass lands,
having on it a good Darn and three
acres of fine orchard, the" trees all
bearing, (jnc splendid farm near the
town of Montezuma, containing 54
acres in timber the remainder in fine
timothy. Also a good twelve-room j
hotel, well furnished, in the town of
Montezuma two lotf, a cottage,
barn, cellar, poultry house, spring
house and fine running water, all
goes 'ogether. Come and see me at
once or you will lose a bargain.
J. C. CARPENTER.
MoDtezuma, N. C.
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