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Furniture
Having purchased all the Mock
in h tainine of th Itoone Fur-
ir i e Co., 1 am prepared to sell
on anything in tnv line at a
wry reasonable figure. Dna era,
Bureaus, Chairs, Bed Steads, B -d
-? lin-.'n, Mattresses, etc. Give
a call when in need of any
lie in I he line of furniture.
"orein Watauga County
n IUii1dinr.
Rph; Ttfnliy,
JESSE F. ROBBINS.
) SESSIONAL
V'TRINARY SURGERY.
I liave beeu putting much study
on this subject; have received my
iliplnnin, a ltd ani now well equipped
for the practice of Veterl 'ary Sur
gery iu all Its branches, and am the
only one in the county. Call on or
address me at Vilas, N. C. K. F. D. 1.
ti. H. HAYES,
Veterinary 8urgeon.
5 17 11.
r. iTm, MADRON.
DENTIST.
Sugar Grove, North Carolina,
sr All work doneunderguar
nniee, and best material used,
t 13-'ll.
Dr NAT T. DULANEY.
SPECIALIST
Oil I.NTEUNAI. MKDKiNEfind
dvsenseaoftheEYK, Ear,no?e
and Tiihoat. Eyes examined
for glasses.
At. Mountain City first Mon
day in ech month.
36 Fourth St. Bristol, Tenn.
hJDMUNIJ JONES
LAW YEU
LKNOllt. N. C,-
YilI Practice Regularly in
t,itf Courts of Watauga,
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U D. IjOWB,
OR NET Y AT LAW,
BANNER ELK, N. C.
,Vi!l practice in the courts
'Vatauga, Mitchell and adjoining
tunties. 16.' to
F. A. L1NNEY,
-ATTORNEY AT LAW,
BOONE, N. C.
Will practice in the courts of
i 13th Judicial District in all
matters of a civil nature,
rj-l 1-1910.
J. C. FLETCHER,
ttorney At Law,
-.lOONE, N.C.
iji attention given to
norts.
v. K. LOVILL
inky at law,
Xb. A. c.
-.1 nttention given
..iipNN entrusted to
7-9-'10
.. S. COFFEY,
ttltiEi Al LAW,
.")NE, N. C.
ni attention given to
iters of a legal nature.
ihstracting titles and
rtion of claims a special
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MaanUia Drvelop-aeat.
I'hitrtotte Chronicle.
Vp in the region of Iienoir,
EdgemontLinvilie, Boone, and
Blowing: Rock, the air is snrrhir
gd with railroad and hotel talk.
And this time there ems to he
something behind th t ilk. The
earliest and best chance seems to
be the new railroad from Lenoir
to Boone. This road will bebnilt
under the charter granted by the
legwlature three yearn ago to
the Watauga Railroad Company
in ease the corporation to which
the company transferred the
chart.v fail to begin work by the
first of next January. The char
ter for this road was transferred
to W. II. Grandin, of Tidiout,
Penn., president of a company
that has bought a great tract of
timber Innd in Watauga and
Caldwell counties. The tract con
sists of 60,000 acres, the lump
price for whieh is $900,000. For
two months Mr. Grandin has had
a corps of attorneys engaged in
investigating the individual ti
tles to these lands. This work has
just leen completed and thet'hron
ide hears that the titles have
been found satisfactory. ' That
point being settled. Mr. Grandin
will proi-eed with the salvage of
his charter, the condinons of
which is the beginning of actual
woik by Jannry, 1912. The
route of the road has not been
definitely settled but the proba
ble route will be from Lenoir to
Patterson, thence across to Yad
kin Vallev. From there to Buffa
lo Cove, from that place through
Cook's Gap to Boone. The dis
tance by grade and windings will
be lorty miles From Cook's Gap
to Blowing Rock in but five miles.
In cane Mr. Grandin forfeits his
charter, the charter itself will not
expire, hut will revert to the o-
riginal charter tnemliers, who
are Caldwell and Watauga peo
ple. The charter carries thegu lr-
Jantee of one hundred State con-
vrets. This road eeenis to be
about the nearest thing Blowing
Rock will have, until there may
be a development of local conuec
tions.
Boone seems to be peculiarly
favored. It is reasonably sure of
another railroad that f r o m
Sparta, iu which Mr. Hugh Chat
ham and associates are interest
ed. From Boone this road willg
down Watauga river to Butler,
Tt'nn., whore it will tap tho Vir
gitiia and Southwestern
The East Tennessee and West
ein North Carolina Railroad,
whose branch runs out from
Johnson City to Crartberry, has
bought the Linville .Valley rail
road. This is a narrow-guage
line running from Cranberry to
Pineola. It will be converted into
a broad-guage road. The Caroli
na & Northwestern, whose termt
nus is at Edgemont, is figuring
on exteudinrr its line to Pineola
to connect with this road. I
done the Yonahlopsee turnpike
will be tapped within ten miles of
Blowing Rock. If Avery county
will vote,? 100 .000 in bonds, this
connecting link will be built in
short order So much lor the rail
road possibilities in thatsection.
On the turnpike road of the
Carolina & Northwestern Rail
road from Edgemont to Blowing
Rock, a gap of four miles re
mains to be completed. The
Chronicle is told that this gap,
the building of which will cost
f 12,000, will be finished by next
spring and an automobile ser
vice ol ten p.issenger cars will be
enstalled.
Foley's Kidney Pills.
Will reach your individual case if
you have any form of kidney and
bladder trouble or urinary irregu
larities. For sale by all druggists.
WUIUm J. Bryaa.
Kaltiiuore Sou.
Mr. Bryan has shown ability
by his keen insight in many pub
lic questions. His seecheeon the
tariff were among the best heard
from any public man in the days
when he was given to discussing
that question. His discussion of
other government and sociologi
cal problems have been such as
to attract the attention of men
in all countries, no that when be
trawled abroad a few years ago
he wan greeted a no other Amer
ican not having held the Presi
dential office has eyerbeen greet
ed, lie st ruck the true note in the
'hilippine question as soon an it
goj to be a question, and no
Democrat surely can say that he
was wrong ubout it. Democrats
believe that this country had no
right to force its government up
on those people, and that it
should withdraw from the islands
as soon as possible, meantime
miking it plain that such was
the intention. Mr. Bryan has pre
sented his yiews with such mark
ed ability on many other ques
tions that even when he was
wrong, as he has been all too fre
quently, he was able to convince
thousands, and among theui oth
er men of real ability, that he
was right. No mere "phrase-maker"
can maintain himself so long
in the high opinion of the world
as Mr. Bryan hus done.
lie has performed great service
to the country in teaching the
people that the public should
know liefore election what the
candidates had spent and were
about to spend; that tbe people
should choose their own candi
dates for office, unhampered by
bom dictation-r-in short, that
the people thould really rule the
country. He has taught ana
was teaching it while others were
denying that the government
had the rteht to control the
great corporations, and tnat it
wasitsdutvto do so He has
bad a great deal to do with brin
ging about the change in public
sentiment in the matter of tax
ing incomes, to the end that the
end that the men who enjoy the
swollen lortunes of the country
should be forced to pay a just
proportion of its running expens
fs. He was among the leaders of
the new thought in politics which
is sweeping over the country,
breaking the grip of t hose who
have beeu dictating elections in
their own selfish interest and en
larging the powers and b tirring
up tho interest of the masses. His
ideas are high, as shown by his
continued advocacy of clean gov.
eminent, his unconquerable be
lief iu the right ol the labors to
the enjoyment of the fruits of his
toil, and the unfaltering faith ho
exhibits in the final triumph of
popular government over theills
with which it is beset, by teach
ing the people to thing for them
selves and act for themselves,
and by educating them on nuhlic
ouestions they may think and
act intelligently.
The Sun knows that Mr. Bry
an has made serious mistakes in
certain directions, but that does
not prove that he Is lacking in
nbilitv in all. Because he has
shown a lack of equipoise in deal
ing with those who have disa
greed withhinj recently is not
sufficient reason to forget the
high character of the man, ami
the faet that, however he may
have lost the way on occasion.
his rreneral course has been to
ward the right, or toward the
right as he saw it.
Never leave home without a bot
leof Chamberlain's Colic. Cholera
and Diarrhoea Remedy. It is al
most certain to he needed and can
not be obtained when on board the
cars or steam ships. -For sale by all
dealers:
TatCanntrj Will Continue Democrat
ic I'tottol
firecuiboro Telegram.
There is little doubt that the
country will continue the Demo
crats ia power ia Congress and
next year elect a Democratic
President. The party has "made
good" at tbe extru session nf
Congress in both the House and
Senate. It has been clearly evi
denced to the country that the
Democrats stand for measures
favored by the majority ol the
country's voters and that the
party proposes to keep its prom
ises to the people. The Demo
cratic record of the extra session
is a strong platform upon which
to go before the country next
year asking that the Democrat
ic President and Democratic Con
gross be elected and the party
given an opportunity to show
thai its principles and policies
can be made effective in relieving
the country from the burden of
Republican misrule, chiefly the
gross burden of high tariff exac
tions and monopolistic domina
tion of business.
In discussing the party's rec
ord during the txtra session of
Congress an exchange sums up
in the following language, which
is a fair presentation of the case:
At the outset the Democratic
majority in the House of Repre
sentatives was confronted with
an almost insuperable obstacle
to effective public service along
thelines deemed essential to good
government by the constituen
cies behind them The oppo
sing party was in control of the
Senate anil the Executive. Con
fronted with this double veto
power as to general legislation
nfiecting matters of partisan an
tereuce, tbe House has none tbe
less made a remarkable record
of efficiency.
"The Democratic majority
first demolished the autocracy
of the Speakership and so reform
ed the rules of prof'edure as to
put the majority m control of it
self. "The next step was to pare
down the House expenditures,
despite importunity of office beg
gars, and the temptations inci
dent to the distribution of sjioils
"The next step was as unipue
a it was important. ' The al
most solid Democratic eupport
given to the Administration reci
procity agreement with Canada
was an example without prece
dent in the past history of feder
al politics. . Resisting all efforts
at amendment, as endangering
the prospect of final ratification,
the Democrats of the House ap
proved the pact as aggreed upon
sustained the prsi Jent in opposi
tion to the majority of his own
party, find seta memorable ex
umbie of patriotic disregard for
mere partisan advantage.
"Whether or not any of the
lurthenfforts of the further eff
orts of the Houe to lower tariff
rates or cut down Federal ex
penditure shall find necessary
statuary approval is unccstain.
Buttthere has been a demons
tration of what may be expected
if tbe Democratic party shall a
gain tie put in control. The. in
ducement to.a"fctiange of party
administration has leeu made
further apparent by the dis
closure of maladministration
which have followed upon com
pulsory and authoritative investigations-
"The taste of Democratic rule
afforded by the forceful, prudent
and faithful record of the House
of Renresentatives is sure to whet
the jippetite of the voters of the
count rv lor a fquare meal in
1912.'
Children Cry
FOR FLETCHER'S
CASTDRIA
Faralnr K eatiU.
Mr. J. L. Burgess, of the North
Carolina Department ol Agricul
ture, gives out tbe following to
the farmers of the State:
There are two thing absolute
ly ucessary to eucestdul farming
in North Carolina One is deep
plowing and the other is the in
corporation of soil humus or or
ganic matter from decaying veg-atation.
We have heard a great deal a-
bout deep plowing, and on soils
which have stiff, heavy sub-soils
deep plowing, and, in some cases,
eveu sub-soiling is entirely neces
sary. But we have heard all too
little about organic matter con
tent in our soils. Indeed, some
wag may Bay there is not enough
organic matter in most otour
soils to speak about anyway, but
that is jut why we should begin
to talk. Good plowing and a lib
eral amount of vegetable mould
or organic matter in our sods
constitute the twa oars by which
the agricultural boat must be
driven in North Carolina. We
have hitherto done most of our
pulling on the plowing oar and
as a result our boat has inclined
to go in a circle with the result
that the people i u the state are
shipping in tens ol millions of
dollars worth ol food supplies ev
ery year when they should besell
ing more than they buy.
We are giving out no informa
tion when wesay that nine-tenths
of our soil-! are poor and unpro
ductive. These poor soils are
'known and real of all men.
When we see a boy nowadays
with a thin. pale, anaemic face,
we are pretty apt to say that he
has the hookworm, by which we
mean that he has little red blood
in bin veins, low vitality, waning
strength and little ambition. His
life forces are becoming weaker,
he is unable to do much, we Bay,
and his ability to do is becom
ing less and less every day ana
will finally be reduced to zero un
less he is given a treatment.
Keep this in mind and go twenty
five miles in almost any direction
in North Carolina, and you will
see on every hand, fields ol red
and gray lands thrown out of
cultivation Why this abandon
ment of cultivatahle lands in
North Carolina? Examine them
and you will find a good amount
of all the necessary mineral ele
ments of plant food, but the hu
mns or organic matter content is
almost nothing. They have no
life in them and hence cannot
give life to vegetation. They are
anaemic; they haye hookworm,
if you will allow the figure, and
can do but little without a treat
ment. The vitality of these poor
lands is so low that it pays no
one tocultivate them Deep plow
ing alone will not do.
The proper treatment of all
these poor or abandoned lands,
that are well drained, is first, to
give them a heavy dose of organ
ic matter, either in the shape ol
stable manure or green manure
These are the two sources of or
ganic matter in our soil. The one
is, and always has been too lim
ited to set much score while the
other is, always has been, and al
ways will lie, the principal source
from which we must obtain hu
mus for the agricultural soils iu
North Carolina.
A Dreadful Sight.
to Mr. H. J Barnum, of Fie ville,
N. Y., was the fever sore that had
plagued bis life for years in spue
of many remedies he had tried. At
last he used Bucklen'i Amice Salve
and wrote. "It has entirely healed
with scarcely a scar left." Ilea
bums, boils, eczema, cuts, bruises
swellings, corns and piles like mag
ic. For sale by all dealers.
Waat Beaala of itlaala't Zrrl
Atlanta, Ga. Aug. The old
folks about Atlanta are begin
ning to speculate on what seri
ous portent may justly be taken
fro.n the egg laid in Hapeviile
ast week with the likeness of
Wood row Wilson engrained in
bluihh stripes into the texture ot
tbe egg's shell.
Such queer things have happen
ed before ia the history of t b
world. About fifty yeem ago ia
Brittainy a young tailor was con
victed and sentenced to death
though protesting his innocence
for the murder of his sweet
heart. Oa the day before he was
to be beheaded the jailor went to
his own back yard to get afresh
luid egg for the pooryouth's last
breakfast. Lo and behold, on tbe
pure, white shell of the egg, was
the image ol the Blessed Virgin
with tier arms outstretched as . if
in benediction. The jailor hurried
with it to the priest, the priest to
the civil authorities. It was re
garded as an omen a miracle.
The hanging was stopped, and a
week afterward the real murder
er was found.
In the ancient Roman chroni-
cfes there is still more pertinent
piece of egg-lore. It is recorded
that when Julius Caesar was yet
consul, nursing imperial dreams
stifled iu his breast, a hen at
Rome laid an egg on which ap
peared his likeness and this was
taken as a sign ot the gods that
Caesar was to rule.
If nuything of such nature can
be deducted from the picture of
Woodrow Wilson, the answer is
plain, for on the other eide of the
egg traced in iuh same queer
blue lines, is a map of the United
States.
A Great Advantage to Working
Men.
J. A, Maple, 125, S, 7th St., Steu-
benvill", 0., says; "For years I 'ttfi
fered from weak kidneys and a e
y ere bladder tiouble. : I learned.!
Foley Kidney pills and their. won
derful cures, so I began taking
them and sure enough I had as (food
results as any I heard about. My
backache left me and to one of my
business, expressman, that alone .is
a great advantage. My kidneys act
ed free and normal, and that aaveal
me a lot of misery. It is now a plea
sure to work where it used to be-
misery. Foley Kidney Pills hay
cured me and have my hifftuest
praise." For sale by all druggists.
"The more love we have la oar
hearts the more good we shall be
able to see in tbe world-"
Never leave home on a journey
without a bottle of Chamberlain a
Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoer Rem
edy at hand and take a dose on Vihe
first apppeardnce -of the disease.
For sa'.e by all dealers.
DON'T NEGLECT
YOUR WATCH 3
A WATCH is a delicate piece
cf machinery. It calls for
I.-53 attention than moat
machinery, but must be cleanad
Mid oiled occasionally tokaep
SILAS M.GREEN
Ziouville. N. C. R..F. D. 1
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