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IJOOXK. VA FAUGA COUNTY. TIIUHSDAY. AIMUL 20. mil.
NO. 41.
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VOL. XXII
fen Sicmj;m Taouait and C5"ATi(.a
Dr. E l MADRON.""
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Sugar Grove, North Carolina.
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ATTORNEY AT LAW,
HAN NEK ELK, N. C.
J4Vi!l practice in the courts
Watauga, Mitchell and adjoining
counties. 7 6-'io
J5DMUN1) JONES
LAWYER '
LEND 111. N. I!,
1V7 Practice Regnlurly in
the Courts oi Watauga,
6.1 'io.-
F. A. LINNEY,
ATTOHXKV AT LAW,
1JOONE, N. C.
Will practice in the courts of
the 13th Judicial District in all
matters of a civil nature.
6-11-1910.
J. C. FLETCHER,
Attorney At Law,
-BOONE, N. V.
Onroful attention given to
ollectioms.
rW. It LOVILL
-ATTORNEY AT LAW,
ROOSK A'. C".
S-Special attention given
to all business entrusted to
h's care."a
7-0-'10.
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7J00NE, N. 0.
Prompt attention given to
all matters of a legal nature.
: Abstracting titles and
collection oi claims a special
tv.
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Physicians Advise
the use of a goodlaxative, to keep the bowels open and prevent the poisons cf undigested
food from getUnginto your system.
The latest product of science is VELVO Laxative Liver Syrup, purely vegetable, gentle,
reliable and of a pleasant, aromatic taste. Velvo acts on Iheli .cr, as well' as on the
stomach and bowels, end Is of Uie greatest possible efiicacy in constipation, indigestion,
biliousness, sick headache, feverishness, colic.flatulence, etc. Try VP 1
1 lit 1 1 IVFR SYRUP
The SlMMm in Congresi. j
Vi'iiliiiiloii iix ciiil to l'ullini' re
i,SU" . re . . .1 i
I'iiLH iiilif efforts to rut iomi 1
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't.Kl).MM7tallv.Hl1av..lM.ll-!1tl,',,k!,,e,SI'n,,J',i:,- i,!'"!t!"'!
I ' ... ... ..f u ir. i Till" t . . r, . 11 t I it I
to lii; lit some exccedm-M v niter-
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()f tl)t (ov )iri; , tiK, ro",rn,
iyiMM of lli-piililii- in 1-oiitn'l.
Ki pivscntativo A. Mitrlii-I! l'a!
Itner, of 1'i-nnsv ivania, one of tlie
i D.'i.iocrHtie in-.nlM is o! tlit waxn
ni"' u,,'ans eoniniittp, who w.m
Icointiiiysioiit.-d tn wii-Ul the prna-
1 M nt" thn o v, m s',rvp,,
i w,til lmn " il shx ""
I mi,te,! re n.-pot.8i,Ie for the
(iiseoveni s. 1 1 was tli.'ir r.-t n l
; which r-sultiil in a having of
1S-(W0 111 1,,e House expense
Tlii suli-i-oaiiiiittee diseovere I
i th:l ,1,e "t;U', k to ,h(-' doo.ke.-p.
'' ' ws fitrned on a roll at a sal
ary of $1,200 a, year. She is the
13 year-old daughter of Frank
II. Lyon, chiel doorkeeper ol the
last House. Tin's place has been
abolished hi cause the committee
found that she did not work and
even her whereabouts were un
known to other employes.
'During the Spanish war,"
wrote Mr Palmer in his report,
"somebody's friend told some
body's cousin that somebody's
aunt had heard somebody say
that a plot was on foot to dyna
mite the cnpit.nl. Thirty eight
extra policemen were added. They
have remained evi r since."
Many years before the tele
plume was invented a private
telegraph wire was installed be
tween the War Department and
thff House wing. Two operators
were provided for the w ire. The
telephone came along and no
body used the telegraph a n y
longer. The operators didn't
say anything about it and it
never occurred to anybody to
ask what they did for their wa
ges. They jus.t drew their sala
ris. They got $1,400 apiece,
which seemed good to them. The
Palmer committee lvnd the out
rageous indecency to "get, next"
to their snap, and now they are
going to be compelled to learn"
the Morse code again and do re
al work.
Away back in 180.", according
to the Palmer Committee's con
clusions after in vest igatinsr the
archives, the clerk's document
room of the Hons" was abolish
ed. With it were, or were intend
ed, to go all the employes and
officials thereunto appertaining.
Hut the clerk's document room
was a good Ihing, too good to
be allowed to expire thus igno
tniniousty. It declined to be abol
ished. It went right on function
ing and drawing salaries. These
amounted to $6,200 a year, ac
cording to the Palmer report.
Nobody undertook toenforcethe
abolition act; the salaries forthe
various jobs were audited and
paid just as if there had been no
such fool law. Hut at last the
law is going to be enforced, pro
vided Congress is powerful en
ough to do it. v
Long hefore the magnificent
Library of Congress palace was
built tiie library occupied a. sec
tion of the capit d. When the new
building was opened the library
section was remodeled and cut
up into oflici s rooms for Sena
tors and Congressmen. On the
directories of the building these
rooms are always located us in
the "old libru.v space."
It seems that when the libra-
lla. V t Th F.i m. I
iirptiylort w. j
If yon h iv.-m.i V the mt.iVt'i
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country will Imiii fit von: rhe fol-j
, low my; ih a io. .ti ii'-" iii-iii in i no
Sarifoid l'xprem lliis week:
Mr. Martin Nileox, who lias U was Ids day f.,r the Kulution
jU-en en-iiaeer o i the Atlmtieiot the wocWs far-ii problem.
,1'onst Line raihv.iv, has resigned j Di n. Igini: thesis d iys, he p;,.,l
iand now has i liarge of his f uh ' up the ltft-nv.-is for the seventh,
f.'.i :arr. .". Ct'ioioii. I'liptaiu
Wilrox, in his .nore active days,
was one of the best farmers in
that section, and the way hisson
has taken hold leads his friends
and neigbors to believe that he
will prove a worthy success r.
Mr. Wilcox has goiii back to a
good farm among good people,
an lis going lo make his mirk
as a farmer. We know him Ik- is
id irood stock.
This case is not an isolat 'd one.
We have in mind several cases
vheie "wandering bovs" have
hear the call "back to the farm,"
and to the old home that has
called loudly for th"in and is still
calling, calling toothers. Strange,
how intelligent people misunder
stand things in this world. You
often hear some fellow who lives
in town or citv say something
like this: 'T wish 1 had money en
ough to move nit somewheie on
a good farm. I believe it is the
happiest life in the world:"' Then
go out in the country and you
will hear some dissatisfied man
say: "This is a hard life, and if I
had money enough I'd give it
up and move to town, where I'd
have a chance to get into some
thing. Neither of them know w li a t
they want and are talking at ran
dom just as they are living.
They are not making practical,
determined efforts to do any
thing. It takes more than money
to be successlul in town or in the
country. There are things neces
sary to coiueiitinent and liappi
n 'ss that money cannot buy. In
the world of work nnd endeavor
there is a variety of occupations
and a definite decision must be
ma le, and you must fall in love
with vour chosen field. There is
no love of earthly things l.kelnye
of the soil. Stay one hum, young
man, or, if you have left it, go
bark as soon as vou can.
Warning to railroad Men.
Look out for severe anil even dan
gerous kidney and bladder troubles
resulting from years of railroading.
Geo. E. Hell, 639 Third St., Fort
Wayne. Ind., was many years aeon
ductor on the Nickel PI'ito. He says:
Twenty years of railroading left
my kidneys in a terrihle condition.
There was a continual pain across
my back and hips and my kidneys
gave me much distress, and the ac
tion of my bladder was f rcqeent and
most painful. I got a supply of Co.
ley Kidney Pills and the firt hot
tie made a wonderful improvement
and four bottles cured me complete
ly. Since being ciued I have recom
mended Foley Kidney Pills to ma
ny of my railroad friends." M B
Blackburn
The most common cause of in
somnia is (borders of the stomach
Chamberlain'stomach and Liver
Tablets correct these disorders and
enable you to sleep. For sale by all
dealers.
ry was in this old section there
were attendants carried on the
House pay roll. When the library
moved away these attendants
didn't go along; thy belonged
to the House, not to the library.
They were -at a-loss what they
should attend, with the library
gone, hiit they snpiditly de"idi d
to al-ed to the t j.Hve-at.d l J
drawing their h.".1. ies. They havej
TJIERF.VEM'H DAI.
Vo-ir Journal.
"L i il g. t H S nl iV tin 1 III
fix i.
Tl--.-vt n ll.u fix-iiiriit wtir.1 of
f . i. f. . . ..I . 1 .
...inTi n.r "n'Mii Hi'? w rner
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i . nine much u oov
II-(Mtipl-n.. Iliis S,i:i.liys in t!,,.
, nu'ii-iaiy; oi iiarti -ss aa l msucii
jo.l.lj,
I or time Ihis farmer pros-
jierpd, but gradually wore him-
self out and dit d in mi Idle life.
As the strings oi a violin can-
not alvvay.s be put upon a strain,
'so a mm cannot forever put his
faculties on the stretch without
losing his buoyant-rand vitalitv
For, look you
Tli institution of Sunday is
more than a day set apart by
civil and religious authority. It
is a weekend vacation estab
lished by the experience of the
race for the bene lit of the rae.
Civilized man has discovered
the fact that periodical rest and
, relaxation is vital to the health
and sanity of human beings.
My Illinois fariin-r wore out his
body by his incessant demands
upon it. And he wore out his
mind by monotonous employ
in c n t, refusing relaxation or
change of occupation.
The mind is no caged creature
It craves freedom.
While his neighbors to k their
familes to church on Sunday
morning this farmer made nodif
lerence in days, driving himself
and his family to incessant labor.
For him and his there was no
change of the deadly even t-nor,
no refreshment of soul, no spirit
ual vision.
lie became like his Norman
horses and died like one of them.
Do not spoil your Sunday.
It is a part of your sacred heri
tnge nnd the oldest institution
ol civilization saveone the fam
ily. It is a holy day, not only in the
sense of being sacred as a relig
ious observance, but holy in the
old Anglo Saxon sense of holy
wholesome.
Give your soul a chance.
Let it rise one day in seven on
the wings of faith and trust ro
the spiritual hil's, whence all its
s'rength must come.
Do not spoil your Sunday.
Attack1 School Principal.
A severe attack on school princi
pal, Chas. 15 Allen, of Sylvania,
Ga., is . thus told by him. ''For
more than three years," he writes,
'1 suffered indescriliahle torture
from rheumatism, liver and stomach
trouble and diseased kidney. AH
remedies failed till I used Electric
Hitters, but four bottles of tlvs won
derful Remedy cured hecompltely.'
Such results are common. Thous.
an. Is bless them for curing stomach
trouble, female complaints kidney
disorders, billioiiMiesS, ami for new
health and v'g"1'- Try them. Only
50c at all druggist.
The talent of' success is noth
ing more thin doimr what ,vu
can do well, and doing well what
ever you do, Longfellow.
A Special Medicine for Kidney Ail
ments. Many elderly people have found
in Foley's Ki i"i i lluviih a quit
relief and permanent benefit from
kidney and badder ailments and an
noying urinary irregularities due to
advancing years. Isaac N. Ilegan,
Farmer, Mo., says; "Foleys Kid
liev Remedy effected a complete
cure in my case and I want others
to kno it." M. H. Blackburn.
Childi en Cry
ns fiaciiCR's
O f f-"5, t O 1
1 Ot! Vtu U.ar IUM
Ha'..!;.'!! Tim. n.
Stvli- isdrivbigth" women ma 1
If wn,if of tin se stylo w. f" not
po.-itively dang-mm we cou:.l '
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, o i'i iook i iit iiiifiiii'N i uiii !"r.iu!
lo I'lis-rcs 11h women of the Jnl-
da.v in tlu-ir njfli to kwp up
vvit !i tin? very iato-t. .lust iook
' at one of th- dear things coming
.down the street with a whole
' basketful of pufTs and curls and
j rats on her head. The r.ew idea
seiius to be to nrf iust as little
'on the body as posfible and just
j as much on the head ns pos.sib.e.
Possibly the idea is to cover up
the weakest sjiot, but one thing
' is sure, no matter ho.v edd the
j wind, nor how thick th Know
1 and ice, the dresses get shorter
and closer and ti.e stocking are
becoming ns thin as the etherial
blue. Hut we intended to discuss
rats and the many dangers ar
ising fioni the pnsent day rat
(rap heads. For months the bu
bonic plague has been raging in
Manchuria, u province of China.
The daily death rate has become
so great that it has been impos
sible to protect the people from
the ravages of this death-dealing
monster. Thousan ds of bod
les are piled up and burned each
dav in order to save those who
remain from the deadly disease.
Hut here is where we come into
thisstorv. Last week at Harbin
two thousand bodies were placed
in one piL and burned at one
time. Thosr1 were Chinese, but
not n single one was burned with
his cue. That had ben cut from
his or her head nnd the mass of
hair shioped to Europe to be wor
Iced up into rats and puffs for the
American women. Two thousand
bodies of the Chinese burned in
one day from the ereat plague,
yet their hair is cut from their
bodies for the beautiful Ameri--can
women to wear. Thedisease
is so dreadful in its awful work
I that the bodies cannot be bur-
ied, but must be burned to stop
the spread of th-'greatet scourge
mankind has ever known, yet the
hair is taken from the&e bodies,
bleached and sold tomakeUATS.
A Fierce Night Alarm
is the hoarse, startling cough of a
child, suddenly attacted by croup.
Often it aroused Le-vis Ch;ml lin of
Manchester, ()., it. It. No. 2 for
their four children were greatly
subject to croup. "Sometimes in
severe attacks," he wrote "we were
afraid they would die. but since we
proved what a certain remedy Dr.
Kb'gs New Discovery, is, we have
fear. We rely on it for croup and
for coughs, colds or any throat or
lung trouble." So do thousands of
others. So in a y you. Asthma,
Hay Fever, L iCiiippe, Whooping
Cough, Hemorrhages fly before it.
50c and $1,00 Trial bottle free.
Sold by all druggist. (
Let the Jury Off Ufht.
K very body 'h M ajfa i n.
By soice twist of the election
an old negro had been elected to
the oilice ol justice ol the peace
in a little backwoods district in
Tennessee. His first case happen
ed to be one in which the defend
ant asked Jor a trial by jury.
When the testimony was all in,
the lawyers waited for the judge
to give his instructions to the
jury. The new justice seemed to
beembarrassed. Finally one of the
law vers whispered to him that it
was time to charge the jury. He
webstered one hand into the
front of his coat, calhouned his
voice and said:
"Gent'm'n ob de jury, sencedis
am a putty small case, Ah'l only
cha'ge yo' a dollah V a half
apiece."
Child roarer 7
FOR FLETCHER'S
ir ty t O R A
'Little'' L'IKiBaird.
Li I lie" I'.liza I laird was the
l.nilit. r of PalinT nnJ Pacini
Baird. Her mother die! when she
Wlls very young, and I.cr unci
... . .
. riitiKiui nmi aunt Katie l.airu
took their home where she re-iiiaim-d
many years.
She lived with Home one of the
family ad her life. She wai bom
May 27, 1841, and died Feb. 2'1,
11(11, at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. T. II. Taylor, with whom
she was living. She was of sinull
statue and a trail bod r, but large
in all the virtues that make up a
beautiful christian character. If
she had possessed health and
strength equal to her energy, she
would have accomplished much
good during her stay on earth.
She was a great sufferer, hav
ing had asthma the greater part
of her life, and at tim-s it eenl
ed that she could not live, yet her
enema and industry was so great
that she would rally, an! was ev
er going around in her quiet way
helping as best she could those
with whom she lived and loved.
She read her Bible constuutiy,
and would often tell the children
Bible Ktories. She was a consist
ent member of the Methodist
church, nnd her life and charac
ter ure worthy of our emulation.
Gripp, with other complca
tions, attacked her und her frail
little body .yielded and she pass
ed from this world to the great
beyond where the weary are at
rest.
To all her relatives and friends
I woul say: Let us prepare to
meet her.
A Friend.
Valle Crucis, April 13.
Has Millions Of Fnends.
How would you like to number
your friends by millions as Buck
len's Arnica Salve does? Its as.
founding cures in the past forty
years made them. Its the best
Salve in the woild or sores, ulsers,
eczema, burns boils, scalds, cuts,
corns, soic eyes, sprains, swellings,
bruises, cold sores. Has no equal
piles. 25c at all druggists.
A Pointer To Farmers.
Just a pointer to many who
will plant corn within the next
lew weeks, this b. ing offered by
one who knows by experience
whereof he speaks. If you will
soak vour corn in coal-tar water
lor some 36 to 48 hours, or un
til the grains turn yellow, you
will have no trouble from worms,
crows moles or insects of any
kind destroying the grain after
planting. The coal-tar can be
had at the local hard ware stores.
It will pay yon, Mr. Farmer, to
try this. And be sure to make
careful note of the result, then
you will try it next year without
being reminded to ds so. It. H.
Hartley, in Lenoir Topic.
Do you know that of all the mi
nor ailments colds are by far the
most dangerous? It U not the cold
itself that you need to fear, but the
serious diseases it often leads to.
Most of these are known as germ
diseaes. Pneumonia and consump
tion are among them. Why not
take Chamberlain's Cough Remedy,
and cure your cough while you can?
For sale by all dea'ers
Praise is encouraging; it brings
out the best that is in a man,
and inspires him to do his duty
cheerfully and faithfully.
A Cold, LaGrippe, then Pneumo
nia Is too often the fatal sequence.
Foley's Honey and Tar expels the
cold, checks the lagrippe and pre
vents pneumonia It is a prompt and
I reliable cough medicine that con-l.-.t.is
n- ti.-OTvtks. It i. ai snfe f.ir
i your children as for vouisilf. .VI. iij
iV'.l.'ckburn.