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PROFESSIONAL.
DR. OSCAR LC MOORE.
DENTIST.
I will bp nl Rloing H'H'k from
the first to the fifteenth of ach
nioutli prepared to do ull k in Im
of Dental work.
Office ?ear Watauga Hotel..
Oct. 21, 1 y.
NAT T. DULANEY, M. D.,
-SPEC I ALIST,
FoiirthSt. Bristol Tenn.-Va.
Eye and Throat Diseases.
Refraction for Glasses.
L, D.LOWE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
BANNER ELK, N. C
IS Will practice in the courts.
Watauga, Mitchell and adjoining
C luntics. 7 6-'0i
EDMUND JONES
LAW YEIi
LEXOIU. N. -
Will Practice Regularly in
the Courts of Watauga,
6.1 o3.
F. A. LINNEY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,-
BOONE, N. C.
Will practice in the courts of
the 13th Judicial District m all
matters of a civil nature.
6-11-1908.
J. C. FLETCHER,
.-. Attorney At Law,
BOONE, N. C.
.Careful Attention given to
collections.
W. R LOVILL
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
BOONL, A'. C.
BSpecial attention given
to all busiuens entrusted to
h's care."&8
7-9-'08.
f E. S. GtlFFEY
ATWlMEi A 1 LA W
. BOONE, N.C.
Prompt attention given to
all matters of a legal nature
S6F Abstracting titles and
collection oi claims a, special
tv.
l-l-'09.
R. Ross Donelly.
UNDERTAKER & EMBALM ER
S NOUN'S, Tennessee,
Has Varnished and Glass White
Coffins; Black Broadcloth and
White Plush Caskets; Black and
White Metalic Caskets Robes,
Shoes and Finishings,
Extra large Coffins and Cns
kets always on hand. 'Phone or
ders given special attention.
R. ROSS DONNELLY.
IT IS WELL WITH YOU.
If you have a watch that needs
repairing or any little job you
wish done bring or send it to me
at my office at Silverstone and I
will give you a first class job.
I also keep a nice line of grocer
ies and other goods that I will
sell you real cheap for cash or
good produce.
Thanking you for the nice pat
ronage you have given tne and
hope for a continuance of the
Biime. lam,
Yours Very Trnlv,
S. M. GREENE, Jeweler.
WASHINGTON LETTFIR.
tciil ( vrrtiipuodi'brr
Tlit Piesilent ha tli in . k
turned ti V)isiiiitrn-i and lifter
aluiel 8t;i. holding n cabinet
ineetin:: and lit k a n li at
the Ijiviiipiih" Missiounrv A mho.
cinlion, lie Iiih departed mi l in
, . V i- i i
T. ... . . . . f. .7 .
several reports. With theexcep.
tion of the Secretary of the In
terior and pihnps it is a mis.
take to make exceDtion with le
gard to him there isthcnpp. ar
ance of complete harmony be
tween the Executive and his ,-of.
ficial family," as the cabinet has
been called.
That I he coming session and
in fact the remaining days of the
administration will be strenuous
in fact as well as by inheritance
isevident from theprograin which
ttie President outlined in his
many speeches during his encir
cling tour. From the gist ot his
message to Congress will urge
egislation in some if not all of
the following subjects:
The establishment of a nati
onal bank olissuecontrollingthe
tnasury reserve, the object of
which will be to preventcurrency
stringency
The creation of a Postal Sa
vings Bank system.
A bill umendinc the Sherman
nti-trust law, restricting it s ap
plication to trade monopolies,
not to railroad combinations
Temporary suspension of the
agitation of the tariff question.
The adoption of an income tax
amendment to the Constitution,
to be resorted to however, only
in time of war or national Btresa
The subeidation of the mer
chant marine with the ulterior
object of the educat ion of a large
number of American seamen to
be available for nationnl defense.
Federul legislation governing
the issuance of injunctions and
to prohibit the boycot.
Further conservation of na
tional resources, including for
ests, mines and wutenvays.
Internal waterways improve
ments, improvingthenavigation
of only such streams as enn be
made navigable and contemp
lating an internal canal system
roughly parallel with the Atlan
tic coast line.
A Congressional Committee to
consider the subject of the dila
tory and slovenly practice in the
courts and to devise a plan for
securing more prompt and econ
omical justice in the Federal
courts, with the expectation that
the initiative by Congress may
be followed in the State lcgisla
tures to the end that the dis
graceful non-administration of
justice in this country may be
reformed.
It will be readily seen that this
legislative and administrative
program is an ntnbitious one,
but that it is urgently necessary,
every well informed Ameri"an
knows. It is, however, becoming
more and more difficult to carry
out administrative reforms. The
Congress of the United States has
grown to be a heavy and unwiel
dy body. Antagonism and inter
necine wars discomfit legislation
on the floors of both the House
and the Senate. There is less an
tagonism between the Republican
and Democratic parties on the
floors of Congress than there has
been in perhaps forty years, but
there is antagonism in the Re
publican majorities of both hous-
ies, while the personal hntreds of
some Senators, frequently sena
tors from the same states, is said
to be equalled only by the execra
tion that nuns in convents and
monks in monastaries have for
each other.
The members of the cabinet are
now busy in th leep nation f
t en - ,i : io onres
him it lia- iMfn i-m,.!i .nix.! t-iat
li-'in! n O' wit lie niii.lt- to rut
in. ii i-xp nsfv, r.e 1'iwt.ii uter an'' "" Iterate purpose to pu-h
Ge. end h --ail tin" h- i iteiids to the lit .eo-t the campaign n.
to in. ike i.i .ici:ii-Mii. nt -elf-su- gainst fraud and graft in thenis
taining The IWotfh e Depart- torn service, what doei it pro
mem Is the greatest carrier in p',!e to do in I he cim of that
th- wo: hi It is i rcMiinnMv a i hardened and insolent offender,'
m.'iiop..lv Mit the exptvs com-1
putii.s rob ii of the cream of the
earning profit and they are the
chief oppose ra of the Parcels Post
system a system long establish
ed i:i other civiliz-'d and even to
some seme-civilized countries
Since Senator Root now holds
'he plac in the Senate long oc
cupied by Senator Piatt, the
president and attorneys for the
exprss companies, it is to lehop-
el that something may be done
f.ir all the people of the United
States, in spite of the entrench
ment'' of these outrageous trusts.
The postofflce Department em
ploys tens of thousands of com
mon carriers in city and rural
deliveiy and these public carriers,
without a dollar of increase in
public expense should bring to
hundreds and thousands of homes
packages that are now delivered
by the expre.-s companies, or in
many cases not Jelivere l at all
because they cannot be reached
by the express companies.
The Secretary of the Navy has
also visions of an economic;
program and propose to urge
the d's-establishment of a num
ber of useless navy yards in New
Hampshire and Maine, at Charles
ton and on the Gulf Coast. He
will be opposed chiefly by Sena
tors Hale, Mcllenry, Flint and
perhaps Tillman The navy
yards in their states are worse
than useless. They area source
of great expense to the govern
ment. Tho battleshps of the Uni
ted States Navy cannot enter
them, they have depth only for
the admission of obsolete wood
en war cralt, but they are useful
to certain Senators nn ) mem
bers of Congress inasmuch as
they afford places and salaries
for their political henchmen. How
can these Senators and Congress
men whose political existance de
pends upon them be persuaded
to give them up?
Money Comes In Bunches
to A. A. Chisholm, of Treadwrell
N. Y. now. His reason is well worth
reading. "For a long time I suffer
ed Jrom indigestion, torpid liver,
constipation, nervousness and gen.
eral debility," he writes: "I could
not sleep, had no appetite, nor am
bition, grew weaker every day in
spite of all medical treatment, Then
used Electric Bitters Twelve bot
tles restored all my old-time health
and vigor. Now I can attend to bus
ine?s every day. It's a wonderful
medicine." Infallible for stomach,
liver, Kidneys, blood and neryes,
50c. at all druggists.
IMPOljTANT
Do you know that THE MUTUAL
1SKN EFIT Life Insuraueo To. of
Newark, N. J., writtB a contract
which is Nonforfeitable when Only
One Premium has been paid; that it i
the leading annual dividend com
puny; that it has paid policyholders
$200,000,000 since organization in
184.); that it has a spotless? record of
04 years of fair aud impartial dealing
with its thousands of policy holders;
that the Ordinary and Limited pay.
ment Life policies in this company
mature as endowment policies paya
ble to the Insured while living; that
you don't "have to die to win?''
Let me show you this company's
contract and explain its plan before
you sign an apt lioation for life insur
ance. J. A. DULLIS Spfcml Agt.
Itoone, N. C.
Worth thr Effort.
Mti-fol !It i!.. "niiritM.
Wh'li'ilie present a Immigra
tion j-t tildly ass. riiiig its grim
tliesi;gar trust
Aceoidiiig to the New York
World, through sworn testimo
ny tnkn in court in legislative
aud congressional investigations
and in other proceedings, the su
gar trust is shown to be guilty
of.
"1. Bribing political commit
teen ol both parties.
"2. Seeking to influence Uni
ted States Senators by stock tips
and othe financial transactions.
"3. Accepting rebates in vio
lation of the interstatecomnierce
law.
4r. Stealing from the United
States government through
weighing frauds.
. Conspiring to ruin inde
pendent sugar refineries.
(5. Violating persistently the
Sherman trust law.
"7. Using short weight scales.
"8. Blacklisting grocers who
handled iuden pendent sugar.
9. Importing cheapcoutract
labor.
10. Violating factory and
health laws.
"No high official wasevercrim-
inally prosecuted or convicted for
any of these o (Teases. The only
indictments ever found against
any of them were returned re
cently by a grand jury after the
trust had confessed in open court
that it had violated the Sherman
law."
II the administration will pro
ceed against the sugar trust with
the same vigor and determina
tion the public has been led to
believe it will use in the campaign
aguinst fraud nnd graft in the
customs service, it may succeed
in bringing some of the responsi
ble officials of this predatory cor
poiatiou to jubtice.
It is in time of sudden mishap or
accident that Chamberlain's Lini
ment can be relied upon to take the
plnce of the family doctor, who can
not always be found at the moment.
Then it is that Chamberlain's Lini
ment is never found wanting. In
cases of sprains, cuts, wounds and
bruises, Chamberlain's Liniment
takes out the soreness and drives a
way the pain. Sold by J. M. Hodg
es. Mr. W. II. Mast of Valle Cru
sis was in Lenoir Monday on his
way to the Methodist Conference
at Hickory. Mr. Mast says his
county, Watauga, is in flue con
dition financially; that they have
plenty of almost anything thata
man needs, that the farmers are
just through gathering the lar
gest crop of corn they have had
for several years, that it is dry
and sound; and also a very hea
vy crop of fine hay just gather
ed; plenty of tine truit. a large
crop of cabbage; the largest crop
of buckwheat that was perhaps
ever raised in the county. More
beef cattle has deen driven out of
the county this fall than for ma
ny years and plenty of good
cattle left, that everything is in
demand and at a good price
that the people all have money
and are happy. There is no bet
ter county in North Carolina than
Watauga. Lenoir News.
The pleasant purgative effect ex
perienced by all who use Chamber
lain's Stomach and Liver Tablets,
and the healthy condition of the
budy and mind which they create,
makes one feel joyful. Sold by J M
I lodges.
One Doctor Only One
No sense in running from one doctor to another! Select
the best one, then stand by him. No sense either in trying
this thing, that thing, for your cough. Carefully, deliber
ately select the best cough medicine, then take it. Stick
to it. Ask your doctor about Aycr's Cherry Pectoral for
throat and lung troubles. Sold for nearly seventy years.
No alcohol in this cough medicine. JC. Aw Co., .on. AW
ny trv lini thin. lli.it lliin-4. Kir your
o!J viable family laxative Aycr't Tills?
Editor' Lt.er to a Farmer Buy.
l'rojrreshivo Farmer.
No man ever has a big snccss
in anything, bv accident. If some
body has stuffed your head with
the idea that men xuccced in
this world by luck, you may just
put it down that somebody
doesn't know w hat he is talking
about. Whether you aregoingtu
be a farmer or a col Icire ti resi
dent you must lit yourself for
whatever you are going to be.
No matter what sort of work
you are doing, try to do it a lit
tle better than the other fellow.
Emerson says somewhere that if
a man can doanythingsupreme-
ly well, no matter if he Uve in a
wilderness, the world will makea
beaten path to the door. 1 rode
the other day to see a farmer
who lives not many miles from
where I am writing and fniin d
that the Governor of the State
had just been there to see his
corn crop, and a great number
ol other men had come miles nnd
miles to see this man's farm. And
why? Simply because he had
done more wit hnn acre than any
other man in the county.
If your brother wants to go to
town to clerk in a store and mea
sure ca'.ico as somebody else's
hired man, let him go. You stay
on the farm where you can be in
dependent, living tinder your own
vine and fig tree, and where you
can take part in all these great
movements that are going to
count for so much inhuman pro
grchs and in t he world's develop
ment tin se next fifty years.
We have had too many farmer
boys already who have inad
second rate merchants and clerks
who might have been prominent
farmers and mt n of influence in
their counties.
It is a great deal better and
more honorable to raise South
ern meat than it is to sell West
ern meat.
It is a great, deal better and
more useful to be a leader in
showing how to make more cot
ton per acie than it is to merely
measure off a certin 'number of
cotton goods w hen a buyer wauls
it,
Don't give up the independence
of farm life. In thecityshops and
stores only a small proporl ion of
the workers own their own homes
or have any chance to do work
that counts for much in these
great, progressive movements we
have been discussing. The boy
who is shut up in a factory in
the South hasonly one chance for
usefulness and independence for
twenty that you and other farm
er boys have.
Its a Top N'oich Doer.
Great deeds compel regard. 1 he
world crowns its doers. Thats why
the American people have crowned
Dr. King's New Discovery the king
of Throat and Lung remedies. Ev
ery atom is a health force. It kills
germs and colds, and lagrippe van
ishes. It heals cough.racked mem
branes and coughing stops. Sore,
inflamed bronchial tubes and lungs
are cured and hemorrhages cease.
Dr. George Moore, Black Jack, N.
C, writes: 'It cured me of lung tiou.
ble, pronounced hopeless by all doc.
tors." 50c. nd $1.00, Trial bottle
free, guaranteed by all druggists.
Most people expect a dollar's
wortu of thanks when they hand
out a 50-cetit preseut.
constipation? Why mil stick to the od
Ask your doctor if h approvti this advice.
Watch Repairing.
More good walcle-s are ,l llil;ed
hit he handiol inexpi 1 i. need h ock
men than in nnv titer way. A
watch is too cosily an 111 tit le to
entrust to any one who may
claim the title of Watchmaker.
Diiifiigmy inanv years of I. mm
ness I have always given the h
sest attention to the careful re
pairing and adjusting ol watches
brought to me and have bought
none ot her t Inn t he lu st tnaiei
nl. My charges are never exces
sive; only enough to covir the
cost, ol tie work; neither do un
necessary work nor charge lor
work I do not execute. Don't
wait until your wateh relimes to
run before having it cleamd, ad
listed and freshly oiled.
.1. W. BRYAN,
( J ra d 11 a t e W a t ch -m a ker iv .1 e w ele
Hie Charlotte Observer.
niE wARGKST AND liliS T
NEWSPAPER IN N.C.
hveiy Pay in the Year .S. .1
Year.
The Observer consists of 10 to 1?
pngesdaily anil 2o to 32 pages Sun
day. It bandies mole news matter,
local, Mate, nationnl and foreign
than any other Noith Caralina news
paper.
THE SUNDAY OBSERVER,
is unexcelled as a news medium and
is also filled 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 if the week local, State, na.
tiona and foreign.
Ac .ress,
THE OBSERVER CO.
Charlotte N. C.
A truthful man can't seenny
fun in going on a fishing trip.
Hoarseness in a child subject to
croup is a sure indication of the ap
proach of the disease. If Chamber
lain's Cough Remedy is given at
once or even after the croupy cough
has appeared, it will ptevent the at
tack. Contains no poison. Sold by
J M. Hodges.
A bride has lots ol fun shed
ding tears before starting on her
wedding tour,
Gftcn Ths Kidneys Are
Weakened by Over-Work.
Unhealthy Kidneys Make Impure Blood.
Weak nnd unhealthy kidneys are re
sponsible for much sickness ami suffering,
rt tlicretore, 11 kvtiiey
4k trouble is ucrmiUed io
7)1 continue, serious ro
fj) f,ults are most liktly
t follow. Your other
, organs may need ot-
letiiion, Din your kui
neys 1 lost, because
they tlo most nnd
should have attention
fust. Therefore, when
your kuhievs are weak or out of oriier,
you can understand how quickly your en
tire body is affected and how every organ
seems to fail to do its duty.
If you are r.iek or " feel badly," bepin
taking the rrcat kidney remedy, Dr.
Kilmer's Swamp-Root. A trial will con
vince you of its great merit.
The mild and immediate effect of
Swamp-Root, the great kidney and
bladder remedy, is soon realized. It
stands the highest because its remarkable
health restoring properties have been
proven in thousands of the most distress
ing cases. If you need a medicine you
should have the ucst.
Sold by druggists in
fifty-cent aud one-dol
lar sizes. You mav fc:K::i!
have a simple bottle fpM'M!
by mail irce, also a ;
pampmei icinng you Home ot s.,D-k
how to find out if you have kidney or
bladder trouble. Mention this paper
when writing to Dr. Kilmer & Co.,
Binghamton, N. Y. Don't mahc any mis
take, but remember Ike name, Swamp
Root, and don't let a dealer sell you
something in place of Swamp-Root if
you do you will be disappointed.
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