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COUXCILL & HARDIN,
REAL ESTATE AGENTS,
Limestone, Tennessee.
Vi it us what you want in the
way ol fuiniinji Intuit in thin fer
til country ami we xvill do our best
to please vu. If-10.
mTi .i7iuTi e ) k s a u:7
()n oinl one half miles west ol
Roone N. C irood location con
venient to first class school For
tern h ii n l'n rticul urn, address
'. K. LONG, Williamsburg,
Iiutte, Mont.
ri(()l'hSSl(jAL
NAT T. DULANEY, M. D.,
-SPECIALIST -
Fourth St. Bristol Tcnn.-Va.
Eye and Throat Diseases.
Refraction for Glasses.
L, I). LOWE,
vl'TORNEY AT LAW,
HAN N Ell ELK, N. C.
MfWi'.l practice in the courts
Watauga, Mitchell and adjoining
ounties. 7 6.'(7
EDMUND JONES
LAWYER
LHXOIK. N C -
it' Practice Regularly in
,he Courts of Watauga.
5-1 oS.
F. A. LINNEY,
-ATTORNEY AT LAW,
liUONK, N. C.
Will practice in the courts of
the l.'itli . I tulicial District in all
matters of a civil nature.
G-ll 1!)8.
J. C. FLETCHER,
Attorney At Law,
BOONE, N. C.
Careful attention giiveti to
olleotions.
W. R LOVILL
- ATTORNEY AT LAW,
BUOSh, S. C.
"Special attention divert
o all business entrusted to
Vs care."tU
7-9-'08
A, A. HolsclaW,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Mountain City, Tennessee.
Will practice in all the courts
of Tennessee. State and Federal.
Special attention (riven to col
lections and all oMier matters of
a b-gal nature.
Office north east of court house.
Oct. 11, 1907, 1 v.
E. S. GdFFEY,
-ATI OKA E I A1 LAW,
tfOONE, N. C.
Prompt attention given to
!l matters of a legal nut ore.
tS Abstracting titles and
iolhction oi claims a secial
tv
1-1 '09.
R. Ross Donnelly.
UNDERTAKER & EM HALM EI!
SHOILVS. Tennessee,
Has Varnished and Glass White
Coffins; Bluck Hroad loth "and
White Plush Caskets; 131-ick and
White Metalie Caskets Robes,
Shoes and Finishings,
Extra large Coffins and Cns
kets always on hand. 'Phone or
ders given special attention.
R. ROSS DONNELLY.
HOOXE.
HENRY li. Rogers,
Charlotte New.
It is human nature's prone
ness to belittle and malign those
occupying higher stations in life!
than ourselves. Too often we are
ready with slurring and caustic
criticisms of men who have out
distanced us, for no better rea
son than we were outstripped
Rich men are and ever have lietn
the target of criticism. Many
there he who consider all pos
sessors of wealth crooks and
knaves, Criticism tempered with
a grain of charity, isfartoorare.
After nil, "there's lots of good in
the worst of us, and lots of bad
in the best of us," and we know
of no better illustration of this
time-honered quotation than the
life of Uenrv II. Rogers.
Perhaps Rogers was hard hear
ted in his business dealings. His
faults were many, without ques
tion. All iui-ii have metre or less
excess baggage of this class, and
the fact that some of them seem
oxer-laden is oftentimes because
their prominence attracts closer
attention to ttieir shortcomings.
lie his faults many orf.'xx-, it is not
of them that xve xvi-di to speak
now, for Rogers is dead.
To begin a business care t as a
vender of newsprpers and mount
to the most enviable position in
the world of high finance is an
achievement which could not be
wrought by a knave or a numb
scull. Rogers lox'ed his mother, one
of the best ear-mnrks of a ri al
man. Reset by a thousand busi
ness cares, bearing the xveight of
heavy responsibilities, a man of
affairs of such magnitude as to
demand the greater part of his
time, a man who did filings hour
ly. Rogers never became too en
amored ol business ambition,
nor too married to his material
affairs, to remember the ureal
heart l hat first taught him love.
Here is what the aged Dr. Coy
ler. long-time friend of Rogers,
said of the deceased at the funer
al ceremonies:
''I think I am most sensitive
to uncouth speech, but, I have
searched my memory in vain for
one coarse or profane xvord ever
passed his lips.
He said to me once: 'I think
the memory of my mother wait
ing for me xvhen I come home is
the sweetest memory of my life.'
I had noticed that he had absen
ted himself from services on cer
tain Sundays of each month and
I asked him once why he remain
ed axvay and he replied: 'I went
to Fair Haven to see my mother.
1 never let a month pass xvithout
visiting her.' "
Perhaps Rogers was hard and
cohl. lie xvas a winner in a hard
and cold world, and one usually
loses many of the softer and gen
tler uttributes when daily paired
for battle where the Almighty
Dollar is the goal.
His shortcomings were many
No doubt he may deserve the
bitterest excoriations for some
of his characteristic and deeds,
but somewhere in the makeup of
the great magnate there was a
spark of humanity unlike divini
ty. There xvas trood in the man,
and xve call for no further prool
than the manner in which h e
remembered her who brought
him into the world.
'I'd Rither Die, Doctor."
than have my feet cut off," said M.
L. Uingaum, of I'ineville, III., ''hut
you'll die from gangreene (whicVi
had eaten away tin toes) if you
don't,'' said all doctors. Instead, he
used Rucklen s Arnica Salve til,
w holly cured. Its cures of Eezemal
Fever Sores, Roils, Burns and Piles
astound the xvei Id. 25c. at all drug,
gists.
WATAUGA COUNTY, X. C, THUSDHAY
Important Notice a ti School-Tax
lxy.
The attention of the people of
the county, the county board of
education mid the county com
missioners are called to the fact
that the counties heretofore re
ceiving aid from the second hun
dred thous ind dollars for a four
months school term cannot here
after receive any part of the
State appropriation unless the
county commissioners on t h e
first Monday in June levy a spe
cial tax on all taxable property
and polls of the county, in addi
tion to the regular school tnx,
sufficient to raise one half of the,
additional amount needed to pro!
vide a full four months term in ;
eyerv school district; and no
county xvill receive from the sec- Idiot and Garfield, and other
ond hundred thousand dollars ( members of the kitchen and ten
for this purpose more than it ! nis cabinets. He even counseled
raises by this special tax, except
tlie counties that levy the muxi-
mum special tax of five cents on
the hundred dollars valuation
of property and liftieu cents on
the poll. The counties levying
this maximum special tax xvill
then receive from the second bun
died thousand dollars all t h e
ualaive needed tor a tun tour-
months term in every district,
even though the special tax does
not provide one half of the. am
ount needed.
The law. as amended by the
General Assembly of 11)05), re-
quires the county board of edu -
cation to submit to the countv
'commissioners on the first Mon
day in June a tarelully itemized
statement of the expenses of a
four-months school iu every
school district of thecouuty, and
a carefully itemized estimate of
the receipts from the regular
school tax of eighteen cents on
the hundred dollars valuation of
property from fines, forfeitures,
penalties, ami all other sources,
showing the deficit needed to pro
vide a full lour months term in
every school district; and the
commissioners are required to
levy a sufficient tax 011 all prop
erty and polls of the county to
provide one half ol this ieficit,
up to the maximum ol five cents
on the hundred dollars valua
tion of property and fifteen cents
on the poll, the other part ol the
deficit to be supplied out of t he
State appropriation knoxvn as
the second hundred thousand dol
lars.
The new law encourages self
help and economy, and absolute
ly guarantees a full four months
term in every school district,
xvithout any scaling, as has been
necesssary heretofore on account
of the excess of the demands o
yer the appropriation for a four
months school. This guarantees
the people of these counties a
better school and a longer term
than they have ever had before.
x e are calling attention to the
matter now, that the county
board of education andthecouu
ty commissioners may not over
look it on the first Monday in
June. The county that fails to
conform to the law and secure
the Slate appropriation by levy
ing this small necessary special
tax lor better schools and long
er terms xvill hear from the peo
ple.
A State exchange says that
Rev. Oscar Ilaxvood, pastor of
the Collegiate Church of the Cov
euunte, of New York City, was in
Raleigh a few days ago and gave
it out that he owns 1,000 acres
of laud iu Montgomery county.
on the Aberneen & Ashboro rail
way, which he is going to con
vert into a school of tanning fori
destitute boys from New York
City
He xvill not take criminal!
boys but those of good charac-1 extensively or the cattle busi
ter from his church and Sunday ness.
School. '
Heme ni Iter Kooirvct and Don't Slop
Oier.
AMirville (iuzctte-NewR.
Says the Charleston News and ,
Courier: -If President Tuft h a d
enjoxed the right kind of early
training, he would have been a
Democrat, and xve do not for a
moment believe that his evolu
tion is now complete."
Current events lend pertinence
to this remark, but our Demo
cratic friends had lst have a
care, lest they have u rude nxva
jkcning, such as they experienced
under the Roosevelt administra
tion. At one tune Mr. Roosevelt
seemed to be training with the
Democrats, and Democrats had
the run ol the White House, much
as did Messrs Lodge and 1'iu-
with Democrats regarding legis-
lative matters, and appealed to
members of that party for aid
when dealingxvith refractory Re
publicans while the rate bill xvas
under consideration. And then,
(Mie bright morning, xvhen the
blow xvas least expected, and Mr.
j Iloosevelt had used these Deuio-
crats as long as there xvas any
ii' ed for their services, he threw
them all overboard, and resum
ed business with the Senate lead
ership. The country will have lit
tle dillicultv in recalling that
former Senator Chandler, of New
1 Hampshire, told of the Roose
velt-Deinocratie pact, and got
himself made a charter member
of the Ananias club for his pains.
And so, while Democrats m ay
extract a great deal of encour-
l aiieiiient from the situation as
at preseut shaped up. they would
just as xvell make haste slowly.
One of these days Mr. Tatt will
begin to think about 15)12, and
xvhenever he does he xvill give
Democrats a jolt that will make
Mr. Roosevelt's treatment of
those buncoed Senate Democrats
look like a caress.
Words To freeze The Soul.
''Your son has consumption. His
case is hopeless." These appalling
were spoken to George E. Blevms
a le- iling merchrnt at Springfield,
N. C., by txvo expert doctors one
a lung specialist, Then was fihovvn
the wonderful power of Dr. King's
New Discovery. "After three weeks
use," writes Mr. Blexins, "he xvas
as xvell as ever. 1 would not take all
the money in the world loi what it
did for my hoy." Infallible for
coughs and colds, its the safest, sur
est cure of desperate lung diseases
on earth. 50c. and $1.00. Guarantee
satisfaction. Trial bottles free at all
druggists.
Let no boy think the clothes he
xvears, the horse he rides, the stick
he carries, the dog t lint trots af
ter him, the house he lives in or
the money he spends can make
him a gentleman. Not onoorall
of these can do it; and yet, every
boy may be a gentleman. He
may wear an old hat, cheap clo
thes, live in a poor house and
spend but little money, but by
being true, man'be honorable, by
keeping hi uself neat and respec
table, by being civil and cour
teous, and above all, by fearing
God and and keping His Com
mandments, he can be a gentle
man. Union Times.
Wilkesboro Chronicle: Mr. Jo.
Crisp, who lived near Moravian
Falls, sold his place last xveek to
Mr. Henkel, of the Ileukel Live
Stuck Co , of Lenoir, Mr. Crisp
will locate near Richmond, Ya.,
where he has bought property.
Mr. Henkel's object in buying
the property is to prepare more
JUNE 3. l0i.
Keith Priichard Captured.
I-iioir Topic 2(ite.
Sheriff Smith and Messrs. II. H. !
Liiirlc. P. P.. Hush and Kill Car.
i,i,l rant. mil kith Prirrlwir.l
at M o'clock yesterday morning
ttt his home' seven miles above
Mortimer.
Refore dny light the Sheriff
and party secreted themselves
near the house and awaited de
velopments. A few minutes be
fore the arrest, Pritchard xv a s
seen with a Winchester in his
hand going toward the house
from the barn where he had slept
during the night. As soon as he
entered the house the officers
closed iu and surprised Pritch
ard he had laid his gun doxvn
mid step ted out into the yard
when the otficers covered h i m
with their guns. Keith had a pis
tol on his person and shoxved
signs of wanting to use it, but
under the circumstances thought
it sater to noid up ins nanus,
xxhich he promptly did.
The prisoner was taken to Mor
timer yesterday, kept there last
night, brought to lxnoir this
morning on an early train, and
landed in jail for safe keeping.
It xvill be remembered that
Keith Prichard and his brother
engaged in a pitched battle xvith
W. E. Garland and Samuel
Smith some months ago near
Mortimer, resulting in the kill
ing of Honeycutt uud seriously
wounding Garlaud iu the face
and shoulder. Since that time it
is thought the Pritchards have
been lying out in the mountains
ubove Mortimer and in eastern
TennesseeKeitU confessed to the
shooting of Garland, but says
his brother killed Honeycutt.
Pritchard is about 80 years
of age and is a rough character.
A reward of $200 was offered for
his capture.
Stand liy Your Town.
.More towns die for xvant of
confidence on the part of busi
ness inenaud lack ol public spir
it, than any other cause, says a
floating editorial. When a man
in search of a home or business
lacatiou goes into a toxvn and
finds everything full of hope and
enthusiasm for the prospects of
the place and all earnestly at
work to build it up, he soon be
comes imbued xvith the samespir
it, and, as a result, he drives
doxvn stakes and goes to work
xvith the same iuterest. When
however, he goes to a town where
the people express doubt and ap
prehension for the future pros
perityof the place, moping about
and indulging iu mourntul com
plaints, he naturally feels that it
is no place for him, and at once
shakes the dust from his feet
while he pulls out with all possi
ble speed for some other place.
Consequently, try to muke a
live, enterprising town out of tin?
toxvn in which you live. When
you are working for your town
you are accomplishing all the
more for yourself. Lexington
advertiser.
Abdul Ilamid has surrendered
$3,000,000 to the new Turkish
government. The ex-sultan might
prolong his existence considera
bly by entering into an agree
meat xvith the Young Turks to
turn over each ,xear $5,000,000
of the $100,000,000 he is sup
posed to have hidden away, says
the Herald-Cou. ier.
A Philadelphia man bet that
he could drink txvo quarts of
whiskey in txvo hours, lie did,
but he is dead. A Chicago girl
bet she could waltz one hour
xvithout stopping. She did, but
she is dead. These things have
the fool-killer trouble, hoxveyer.
NO. 2.
A Hair
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If you wish a high-class hair
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mula, will greatly please you.
It keeps the hair soft and
smooth, makes it look rich and
luxuriant, prevents splitting at
the ends. And it keeps the
scalp free from dandruff.
Port nnl change Ihe tolnr nf the hair.
A
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Bhow It to your
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Aik him ftbont It.
thn do m ho mti
vers
At the same time the new Ayer'a Hair
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the growth of the hair, keeping all the
tissues of the hair and scalp in a healthy
condition. The hair stops falling, dan
druff disappears. A splendid dressing.
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Watch Repairing.
More good watches are ruined
inthe hands ol inexperienced xvork
men than in any other way. A
watch is too costly an article to
entrust to any one xvho may
claim the title of Watchmaker.
Durfng my many years of busi
ness I have alwavs giyen the clo
sest attention to the careful re-
C airing and adjusting of xvatchea
rought to me and have bought
none other than the best mater
ul. Mv charties are never exces
sive; ouly enough to cover the
cost ol the work; neither do un
necessary xvork nor charge for
work 1 do not execute. Don't
xvait until your watch reluses to
run before having it cleaned, ud
justed and freshly oiled.
J. W. BRYAN,
Graduate W atch-maker & Jeweler
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uiereiore, 11 Kinney
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