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Watauga lie oral mo VOL. XX UOOXE. WATAUGA COUNTY. X. C TIIUIISAUY JANUARY 21. loutt. NO. 3.i. J. II. ll.VHIHN. COUNCILL & HARDIN, REAL ESTATE AGENTS, Limestone, Tennessee. Write us what you want in tlie way ot farm ins lands in thi fer til country Hiid we willdoourbest to please you. D-10. SMALL F.miToltSAI.Iv One and one half miles west of Boone N. C cood location con veiiifiit to first las school For terniH mid Particulars, address G. It. LONG, Williamsburg, Butte, Mont. MUFtiSSlOMAL. NAT T. DULANEY, M. D.f -SPECIALIST -FourthSt. Bristol Tenn.-Va. Eye and Throat Diseases. Refraction for Glasses. L, D. LOWE. ATTORNEY AT .LAW, -BANNER ELK, N. C. IWi'.l practice in the courts of Watauga, Mitchell and adjoining counties. 7 6.'07 EDMUND JONES LAW YEH -LKNOIU. N. - Will Practice Regularly in the Courts of W atauga, 6-1 '08. F. A. LINNEY, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BOONE, n. c. Will practice in the courts of ,the 13th Judicial District in nil matters of a civil nature. G-l l-lOO. J. G. FLETCHER, Attorney At Law, BOONE, N. (-r- Caretul .attention jiyon to collections. W.R. LOVILL f-ATTORNEY AT LAW,- BOOSK, N. C . RfflSpecial attention given to all buHinesa entrusted to h!s care."1 7-9-"08. A, A. Holsclsw, ATTORNEY AT LAW Mountain City, Tennessee. Will practice in all the courts of Tennessee. State and Federal. Special attention given to col- lecMons and all other matters of a legal nature. Office north eastof court house. Oct. 11, 1907, ly. E. S. GflFFEY I -A T7 6f A El Al LA W,- COONE, N. C. Prompt attention given to all matters of a legal nature. tSf Abstracting titles and collection ot claims a special ty. l-l-'09. R. Ross Donnelly. UNDERTAKER &EMBALMER SHOUN'S, Tennessee, Has Varnished and Glass White Coffins; Black Broadcloth and Whit Plush Caskets; Black and White Metalic Caskets Robes, Shoes and Finishings, Extra large Coffins and Cus kets always on band. 'Phone or. ders given special attention. R. ROSS DONNELLY. WA TAUGA. Solicitor F. A. Linnney, answer ing an article that apeiired in the Industrial News of the Hih, ha written the followinsto that Mtper ami kindly furnished us a copy fur publication. Addressing himself to the editor M r. Liuuey says: 1 have noticed iu your issue of the Nth an article which con tains l he following statement: '.. L. Mast, of Cove Creek, Watauga county, has recently purchased and had delivered a now up-to-date piano which is said to be the first piano ever seeu in Watauga county." The import of the article is I hat this instrument marks the stan dard of culture of a people. It intends to convey the idea that its abs"iice here denotes a lw standard of culture and refine ment among our mountain peo ple. This is said of a county that has given to the State within the last twelve years two judges and a member of Congress the home county of George Nathaniel Folk and Major II. Bingham, two of the ablest lawyers the State has produced in hulfa century. This is said of a county in which Mo ses II. Cone delighted to spend his summer days and where, by his special request, his remains fuuud their last resting place. This county furnished soldiers to John Severe's army as he cross ed the Blue Ridge to join Ben. Cleveland, and by their cour age and valor helped gain the victory at King's Mountain. The Confederate und Federal armies both received brave recruits from this country. The good fighter is the great lover of music. There is everything about us to make us lovers of the'vibratitigchord.' Our grass-clad mountains, our clear, crystal streams, our cli mate that can't be surpassed in the world, and our forests filled with the wild flowers that leud a fragrance to the multitude of song that pours like a torrent from the throats of the sweet mountain warblers, have a 1 1 taught the mountain people to love music. And thev have but oue piano iu the county? Whr, there is not a boy born in the moutains, who wears a toe shirt and lives on rye bread ami buck wheat, cakes who can't make more mush on a "jews harp" than your informant can get out of his "high class piano " But we have onlv one piano in the coun ty? What a he! It was such a great prevarication, and I knew so well that the county was as well supplied as any of the coun ties in the sand hills, that I went down to the little rock pile that marks the place where Daniel Boone's cabin stood to see if 1 could not find a relic of a piano used by him. Your informant further says, after paying a compliment to the county in other respects, "mod ern musical instruments are com paratively unknown except in the hotels and summer homes at Blowing Rock." This statement entitles your informant to first place in Teddy's Annanias Clul , I can sit in my own home anu hear the music of at least ten "high class pianos" in the sparce ly settled town of Boone. And of all modern stringed instruments we have them in abundance. I suppose the violin is not too an tiquated to be classed with the modern musical instruments. The greatest violinists that live or have lived from time immemorial are in the mountains. Back in the olden days Col. G. N. Folk once told me that he attended a dance where one violinist performed a lone, and those who danced the minuet tripped over a puucheou floor. But, said Col. Folk, the niu- .eic furnished by that one violin was so fine' tint the dancers ' grew so ' fast and furious" that next morning he was enabled to rake up Ins beaver hat full of toe j nails knocked off on tin' punch eon floor 1 do not vouch for the truthfulness of this storv in to- to, but it is a high compliment to the genius of the mountain vi olinist. Your informant further says: "Five years ago there was not more than a dozen organs in the county. I have known in-ople to go eight or ten miles to attend an organ concert. The people wore clothes made from home made cloth and slept under blan kets woven by hand on home made looms. The men, women and children wore hosiery knit by hand around the fireside du ring the long winter evenings. Many of them wore shoes made from leather tanned at home and many people wore hats made by hand. These conditions still pre vail t3 a considetable extent." This diseribed a condition that prevailed throughout this entire country soon after the Revolu tion. It perhaps existed here ai it did everywhere. It is the book from whii-h the American people first caught their conception of indetendenee. That condition ex isted here when the ax and rifle were civilization's "high class in struments", but it no more ex ists in atauga county now than it does in Randolph or Guil ford. But your informant savs that we have no railroad. In that a lone we are behind the other counties of the State. And why have wenorailrad? We have paid our part of the tuxes that have built railroads into other parts of the State. We helped to make It possible for other citizens of our State to ride on a three and one-fourth rate per mile, with a cheap freight rate, while the citi zens of tins county must pull through the mud and cold in win ter all their produce, and their rate of travel costing them at least fifty cents per mile. Instead ot the State encouraging the rail roads to build into our count', our legislature must first give to the people whom we have alrea dy helped acheaprate. We would be well content with a five, or even a ten cent rate. But since the State has not encouraged the railroads to build new lines, by their recent legislation, they cer tainly should give this county aid, as this county has aided the other counties of the State. We are cut off from the State by the Blue Ridge, and we know more of Knoxville and Bristol than we do of Charlotte and Greensboro, and your article shows that Greensboro.knows less of us than we do ol you. There is a disposition in Cen tral and Eastern North Carolina to slander the .mountains of the State, only because they know so little of them. Watauga county has enough wuter power, unde veloped, to turn every spindle now operated in the State. She has a climate adapted to manu facturing. Had we a railroad here cottpn mills would dot our river banks and the pale coton mill girl could become "the fair damsel with ruddy cheek and ro bust form." Our mountains are the future home of the cotton mills of the South. Here we can manufacture in the Southern field with New England's climate. With a water power that laughs at the coal fields near by our side; with a citizenship that can not be surpassed in the State; with a less per ccntage of crime than Guilford county has, this is destined to be one of the great est counties ju the State. Here we nave located a school , that in four years has done more for the cause of public education than the Cr.rWity has done in half a century. IlVre each year two hundred boys und "iiN nn tniim-d for the pnblic school room and there thev become the life of the public school system. The boy educated at Chapel Hill is too bie.li for the public school. The intelligence of Prof. P.. B. Dougherty, a Watauga county boy, raised in a county that had never kvii n piano (?) saw the great need of the State nnd gave theed I'ationnl system the best idea it has entertained for three quarters of a century. You should speak well of the mountains. They are the back bone of the State with the head end this way. F. A. LINNEY, Boone, N. C, Jan. 11)01). Marked For Death "Three years ago I was marked for death. A grave yard cough was tearing my lungs to pieces. Doctors failed to help me, and hope had fled when my husband got Dr. King's New Discovery." says Mrs. A. C. Uilliams, of B.icKv." The first dose helped me and improvement kept on until I had gained 5S pounds in weight and my he-dtli was fully re. stored ." This medicine holds the world's healing record for coughs nnd colds and lung and throat dis. easis. It prevents pneumonia. Sold under guarantee at all druggists. ,"0o and $1. 00. Trial bottle free. The editor sat in his office whence all but him had fled, and he wished that everjT last dead beat, was in his grave, stone dead. His mind then wandered far away to the time when he should die, and his royal editori al should go scooting to the sky; when he'd roam the fields of par adise and sail o'i r jasper seas, and all things glorious would combine his ever' sense to please. He thought how then he'd look across the great gulf dark and drear, that'll yawn between his happy soul and those who swin dled here, and when for water they would call, and in agony they'd caper, he'd shout to them: "Just quench your thirst with the due that's on our paper." Ex. Medicine That Is Medicine, "I have suffered a good deal with malaria and stomach complaints but I have now found a remedy that keeps me well, and that remedy is Electric Bitters; a medicine that is medicine for stomach and livertrou- 1 bles, and for run down conditions." says W. C. Kiestler of Halliday' Ark Electric bitters purify and enrich the blood tone up the nerves, and impart vigor and energy to the weak, Your money will be refunded if it fai's to help you. 5oc at all druggists. The Mascot calls attention fo the bird law and says there is a lot ol complaint that it is being violated. The law provides that you can't hunt on the lands of another without permission. It also says that jf any one kills birds on any but his own lands and sells them, the party so do ing is liable to indictment. It is more than probable that some of our boys will get in the court unless they pay more attention to the law. Wilkesboao Chroni cle. Would Mortgage the Farm. A farmer on Rural Route 2, Empire, Ga.. W. A. Floyd byname says; "Bucklen's Arnica Salve cur ed the two worst sores I ever saw; one on my hand and one on my leg. ' It is worth more than its weight in gold. I would not be without it if I had to mortgage the farm to get it." Only 2c. at all druggists. A Parallel c,-. Norfolk Virginian Pilot. The Democratic doctrine is that a tariff distinctively protective is morally vicious and uusoiind Democracy denies the light of the government under guise of taxation to take toll from one class of it citizens for the pecu niary benefit of another. But the plea of t hose pn ifessed democra t s who would have Congress main high duties 011 products in which they are specially interested sup. renders both the principle and ! tlie policy involved, and seeks to justify its inconsistency in con- loning dishonest system by cimiiug us iruir.. "ii t iev sav. 'the Republicans are committed to the continuance of that noli- cy which enriches the few at the expense of the many, then we had as well range ourselves in the ranks of the preferred minority and become beneficaries of the law which discriminates against the majority." As a contenipora ry words it, ".no long as the tar ifl is protective, all special inter ests should have the same con sideration that is shown to any." A traveler was once riding through a lonely region, along a road bordered by dense thickets. At a certain point in his progress he heard cries of distress proceed ingfrom the forest. Dismounting and making his way with difficul ty through thethi-k undergrowth he finally came upon a man stri ving in vain to break the ropes which bound him to a tree, shrie king for help and the picture of woe. "What do you in this fix?" ask ed the traveler. And between sobs and groans the captive told how, while peace fully walking the highway, he had been assailed by a fierce ruf fian, borne forcibly into the depths of the wood, lashed to the trunk of,a sturdy oak and then despoiled of his watch, jewelry and pocket book and left secure ly pinioned. "Have you tried to get loose?" asked the traveler. "Are you sure you cannot move? Are the ropes still tight?" All these questions met with a pitiful affirmative after abort ive efforts of the victim to Iree him self. "Did the scoundrel get all your money?" was the next query of the Good Samaritan. "No," replied the unfortunate, "lie did not search my inside pocket and so failed to find a roll of bank notes hidden there." "Humph, humph!" soliloquized the Traveler; "Bound fast, help less; beyond the reach ot othei succor Well by Jove, I see ,no reason why i shouldn't rob you myself." The which with painstaking thoroughness he proceeded to do. A Dangerous Operation. is the removal of the appendix by a surgeon. No one who takes Dr. King's New Life Pills is ever subjected to this frightful ordeal Tiiey work quietly you don't feel them. They cure constipation head ache biliousness and malaria. 25. at all druggists. Don't kick because you have to button your wife's waist. Beglad your wile has a waistand doubly glad you have a wife to button a waist for. Some men's wives have no waist to button. Some men's w ives' waists have no buttons on to button. Some mens wives who have waists with buttons on to button dou't care a continental whether they are buttoned or not. Some men don't have any wives with waists with buttons any more than a rabbit. Lacon, Ills. Journal. Red Baud Pure Scotch Snuff j is the highest grade Snuff. When You Take Cold One way is to pay no attention to it; at least not until it de velops into pneumonia, or bronchitis, or cleurisy. An other way is to ask your doc tor about Ayer's Cherry Pec toral. If he says, " The best thine for colds." then take it. I Do as he says, anyway. A V.'s utittb our formula W b.nlfh aleohol from our mdioluM W urtro 70U t cor.iuit your dootor vers 1. Vhen the bowels are constipated, poi sonous substances are absorbed into the bloodinstead of bcingdaily removed from the bsiy a nature intended. Knowing this danger, doctors always inquire about thecond'ticn of the bowels. Ayer's Pills. M.do b th J. C. Ayer Co., Ixnr.ll, . Watch Repairing. More srood watches are ruined iuthe hands ot inexperienced work men than in anv other way. A watch U too costly an article to entrust to any one who may claim the title of Watchmaker. Durfng my manv years of busi ness 1 have always giyen the clo sest attention to the careful re pairing and ad justing of watches brought to me and have bought none other than the best mater ial. My charges are never exces sive; oul.y enough to cover the cost ot t he work; neither do un necessary work nor charge for work 1 do not execute. Don t wait until your watch reluses to run before having it cleantd, ad justed und freshly oiled. J. W. BRYAN, Graduate Wach-maker & Jeweler, TICCharlotte Observer, THE LARGEST AND BEST NEWSPAPER IN N. C. hxeiy Day in the Year 5. a Year. The Observer consists of 10 to I? pages daily and 20 to 32 pages Sun day. It handles mole news matter, local, State, national and foreign than any other Noi th Caralina news paper. THE SUNDAY OBSERVER, is unexcelled as a news medium and is also tilled with excellent matter of a miscellaneous nature. SEMI-WEEKLY OBSERVER, issues Tuesdays and Fridays, at $1. per year, is the largest paper for the money in this section. It consists of S to 10 pages, and prints all the news )f the week local, State, na tiona and fcreign. A( rcss, THE OBSERVER CO. Charlotte N. C. A man isn't necessarily bash ful because he declines to meet his obligations. Often Tbe Kidneys Are Weakened by Over-Work. Unhealthy Kidneys Make Impure Blood. It used to be considered that only urinary and bladder troubles were to be traceu to the kidneys, but now modern science proves that nearly all diseases have their beginning in the disorder of these most important organs. The kidneys filter and purify the blood that is their work. Therefore, when your kidneys are weak or out of order, you can understand how quickly your entire body is affected and how every organ seems to fail to do it duty. If you are sick or " feel badly,!' -begin taking the great kidney remedy, -)r. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, because as soon as your kidneys are well they will help all the other organs to health. A trial will convince anyone. If you are sick you can make no mis take by first doctoring your kidney. The mild and the extraordinary effect of Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, the great kidney remedy, is soon realized. It stands the highest for its wonderful cures of the most distressing cases, and is sold on its merits by all diwtiists in fifty-cent . and one-dollar sheK&SjMMi bottles. You may nave a sample bottle nomoof iwmp-Koot. by mail free, also a pamphlet telliug you how to find out if you have kidney ,or bladder trouble. Mention this paper when writing to Dr. Kilmer & Co., Bing hamton, N. Y. Don't make any mistake, but remember the name, Swamp-Root, Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, and the ad dress, Birgliaiuton, N. Y. , on every bottle. 1
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