TJKT' A.
Democrat
VOL. XXIII
IIOOXE. WATAIKJ A COUNTY. THURSDAY. OCTOHEK 12 11)11.
SO 12
FOIIYS OSIKOlAXATlVE
roM Siomacm Tiouiit and Coatioi
Furniture
Hating purchase' nil lliest'xk
in tliH liuinenH of the Boone Fur
nitnre Co., I nin prepared to eel!
.von anything in ray lire nt a
very reasonable figure. Dressers,
Bureaus, Chairs, l)e Steads, lied
Springs, Mattresses, etc. (Jive
me a all when in need of any
thing in the line of furniture.
0a6Store in Wutauga County
Brnk Buildiinr.
Resctfulry,
JESSE F. ROBBINS.
PROFESSIONAL
VETERINARY SURGERY.
1 have been putting uimh etutly
on this subject; have r9,iy,.l luy
diploma, and am now writ equipietl
'for tlie practice of Veterinary Sur
pery in all ttg branches, and am the
only one i . the co.inty. Call ou or
adilit. me at Vila, . 0. R. P. D. 1.
i H. 31 AY i'S,
Veterinary Eargcoc.
6 17'!1.
Br. E. Ii. MADRON.
17. j l i. I
Sugar Grove, Xoi-.h Carolina,
teSAil work doueunrrler guar
ontee, and best innloiial used.
413-'ll.
Dr. NAT T. DVLANEY.
-ir-'PKClALiST
On l.NTKHXAL MfWlNKaud
disease ot the Kyb, I!a:i, Nov-a
and Tiikoat. Eyes examined
lor glasses.
At Mcunt Jiin City firrt Mon
day in e-cL tnontb.
36 Fourth 31. Bristol, Tenn.
EDMlAD JONES
LAW V Mi
LEXOiU, N. C!,
WW Practice PcgohirJy in
the Courts ol WaiiVja,
6-1 'ii.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
BANNER ELK, N. C.
K?Will practice in the courts
Watauga, Mitchell and adjoining
counties. 7.6.'! I
F. A. LINKEY,
-ATTORNEY AT LAW,
BOO NET, N. C,
Will practice in the courts of
the 13th Judicial District in all
matters of a civil nature.
6-11-1911.
Attorney At Law,
DO ONE, N. C.
Careful attention given to
collections.
W.ll. LUVILL
-ATTORNEY AT LAW,
BOOSE, N. C
a""Special attention siren
to all business entrusted to
his care."
- v. 7-9-'10
p r
I &
-AT70ILEY Al LA H
BOONE, N.C.
Prompt attention fir en to
ill matters of n leirnl rmture.
9T Abstracting em-
BOUHCtlVV Of clh -h CP, fH'UPJ
. 14 '1L
Thf RmTm
Ct-nrlnite Cii. oui !.
Kpcolb-ct the time Charlotte
had a raia tree? It waH in the
grove t the Kpineopnl clinpel,
npar Niuth ami Caldwell strct.
A cub reporter on the old Char
lotte Observer wrote a floe ntory
about it, one Sunday morning,
nn.1 all that day the vicinity of
the tree looked like a c u 111 n-
1 I
saw' the mUt falling from the
tree. The late Dr W. M. Robe.v
was pastor of the Tryon Street
Melhndistchureh at the time and
hiH curionity was aroused. On the
following day he visited the tree
and spread an oil cloth undet it.
The oil cloth caught a percepti
ble quantity of water. The wea
ther at the time was hot aud dry
ami the phenomenon lasted lor
seyeral weeks. The same tree is
there yet, but in all thtse suc
ceeding years, we huve not
heard ol it raitf ng. We are re
minded ol this tree by a yaru
which comes from I'eru, where it
is said, the raiu tree grows very
large, is rich ia leayea, and 's
culled by the Indans tamai-cas-pia.
It has the power of collect
ing the dampness ol the atmos
phere and condensing into a con
tinuous and copious supply of
rain. In thi dry season when the
rivers are low and the heut great
the trees power of condensing'
seems ot the highest. The water
fa'ls in abundance from the
leaves and oozes from the trunk:
The water spreads around in ver
itable rivers, part of which fil
ters into the soil and fertilizes it.
These rivers are canalized so as
to regulate the cot -se o the wa
ter. It is estimated that one of
the Peruvian rain trees will on
the average yield nine gallons ol
water per day. Ii a Held of an
area of oe kilometer square,
tiiat is, 3.250 feet each way, can
be grown 10,n00 trees, nepara
ted from each other by 23 me
ters. This plantation produces
daily 385.000 liters of water. If
we allow for evaporation and in
filtration we have 135,000 liters,
or 29,08 L gallons of raiu for dis
tribution dwiiy. The rain tre can
he cuiutvated with very liitle
trouble, for it seems indifferent
us to the soil ia which it srows,
The tree increases rapidly and re
sUts both extremes ol climate. -All
of this is pronounced by
the Department of Agriculture
at Wanhingtoa a myth. Secre
tary Ilayee says the h-ngend of
the rain tree is hundreds of years
old and exint8 111 a variety of
forms. The suggestion to use
this tree as a means of irrigation
In arid climate is also very old,
and goes the rounds of the news-
naDers from time to time, An
article published in the April,
1911, numb':' of The .lourua'. of
the department of Agriculture of
Victoria, Australia indicates thn t
a 80-cal'ed rain tree is being
widely exploited and sold in Aus
trailia. It is iuund to be no more
efficacious in condensing the at
mospheric moist a re than any
other lieely growing tree. An
explanation of the common tale
of the Peruvian rain tree was
published by the eminent Eng
lish botauist, W. T. Thisteltou
Dyer, in Nature. It appears that
at times ewarms of cicades pet-
tie upon the trees and extract
their juices, which are showered
copiously upon the ground. It
was the cicades that made the
Chalote tree rain:
II ycu have, yojn;; cnild ".1 yo.i
have prrhrps noticed that disode
of the stomach are -he';- moit c.n.
mon aiioic.it. To cu i?.tiit tnti you
wilt fi:"iJ Ch.imbs'V.r.s S!-'ai:h
and L:v?' Tuhiau cXv-e' e !'. Thee
a:e,eay aiJ ; 'eas.i it ta t.d.e, ai l
mild and genie m effect. For kale
bv !1 dtalt'iK.
Doh'I Die On Thir-1.
Inspii-wl by ubrillrml bum I mil
victory, snatched from apparent
dt fent in the eleventh hour, by
the Detroit Tigers," The De
troit News wrote an editorial
which has been printed in circu
lar form and sent all over the
country. Why? It contained a
moral that loomed large and
dear. It taught that partial suc
cess nceom pi is h nothing; that a
man who "reaches third base"
and "dies" he would have been
better off il he had never started;
that the fellow who wins life's
battle is not the "dopey one"
who stays up all uight and gets
up blear-eyed iu the late hours of
the morning.
The hero of the incident relat
ed is George Moriarty who, in
stead of "dying on Jthird,' with
two men out, beat the ball from
the pitcher's hani.to the catch-
eis. Uut read ior yourself the
mo.al presented, then ruminate.
"Ail the world's a buseball dia
mond. You aie one of the play
ers, i'ernaiis you have reached
first by your own efforts. It may
be that the sacrifices of your pa
rents o.- friends have enabled you
to reach second. Then ou some
one's 'long fly' into the business
world a -fly' that was not '-ong
enough to prevent him jjoing
out or sonw om-'s fluke 011 tiie
rules of simple molality a 11 d
square dealing, you have advan
ced to third. The opposition a
gaiuht you at third iu stronger
than at either iirst or second. At
third you are to be reckoned
wit ii. Your opponeuts converge
an their uttentio'ton you. Pitch
ers and catchers, ooachers aud
opposing Jans, are watching to
tip off you: plans and frustrate
them. From third you become
either a splendid success or a dis-
mul failure.
Don't die on thirdl
"What are you doing Jto win,
the score that life is ready to
mark up against your name?
Third base has no laurels upon
wuich you tan rest. What are
you doing ou Jthird? Are you
waiting for some one to bat you
in ? Suppose he misses; his miss is
yours, 100. If you place a'l your
dependence on some one else, his
failure spells- yours. What ire
you doing on third? Waiting for
something to turn up? Dou't
nothing turns up but the thu.iibs
of the thousands of men w h o
watch you may turn down, and
make you a permanent failure.
Moriarity wouldn't have scored
had he waited, for Mullen didn't
hit the ball and that run was
absolutely necessary to save the
game. The run was gained in an
unmensurable fraction ol time,
but the difference between suc
cess and iailu.-e is very, very ol
leu measured in seconds.
"Dou't die oa ili'.rdl" E.t,
Foi2y' KiJ'.ifc Pi'ii.
SiV jjIv juii the higreJiinl needed
U build u;. strengthen and restore
ills r.a'.ural actio.i of the kid:ieys
and bladder. Specialty pie-
pared f o Y backache, headache
heaJaehe, nervousness, rheuma
iism and all kidney, bladder, and
It;-! iai V 'f re-' U-il. itivS. Sold l)V H-
Mar' agood man is in such
haale to . let ih e worid know
whore he stands on the tariff,
reciprotity, and the election of
Senators, that bis patient wife
can not' fiad out where he stands
on the important domestic ques
tions of water in the house and
anew carpet for the parldr.
Save the country, brethern; that
s rght; bu.' djn't for ,et to save
the wife, for- oft'-r all wiinX is the
country to you when you h;:e
lost a good lieJpmute? Farm
'.Journal.
A Double Crop ip-rimeit.
We had a field of rather IlgVt
gr.ixelly land, mostly bottom
n iid oid ewk IkhI, the soil was
lather thin for a goo "corn crop.
We wouhl exjx-ct in an ordina-
ry season 25 or 30 bushtls from
it, or even less. e prepared the
laud as we mould for corn, using
!l moderate amount of stable
manure, about fiyeor six loads
(two horse) mixed with about
a hall ton of ground phosphate
rock, raw, spread on with a ma
nure spreader before plowing." Af
ter thoroughly diskin-r and liar
rowing we planted the field 3 1-2
loot rows, alternating a row of
corn witu a row of mammoth
foy bean, using two single coin
ilauters running side by side,
one containing com the other
beans.
0ving to excessive wet weatu-
es :u the spring the spring (he
crop was very much neglected, it
being impossible io cultivate ic
prroperly. We ran over it once
with a spring-tooth weedei, once
with double shovels, and once
with iourteen tooth, one horse
cultivator. This was all the at-
ent'o j the crop luid until harv-
estuv;, except to chop some
weeds with h dad hoes when the
field was tuo wet to ork with
;iorse power. The corn and beans
we."e .-e;'.iiy foi harvest tit the
JflUl ; tiaie.
In the ce iter of :'ao field we
cut one :o of co,,,t by hand.
then a ni :,.ver weL "a and cut
the two rows of bea .s next to
the corn. This mde a road for
the coru binder, as tue-binder
went up aud dow.i the field .i
mower followed, taking the next
row of beans. When the entire
field was cut we ahoked the corn
in iarge shocks, raked tue bear.s
with the horse rako and stacked
them on the tacks. These rucks
were made with four poles, about
2 iueln's in diameter at the butt,
8 feet long, a staple 1 inch trom
the top with a peice of halms
wire running t hrough them held
them together. A maple 13 inch
from t he ground with a wire loop
2 inches loaif Kustaine-J four
snin der sticks aboui Gfefeiienti
to hold the beans ou each come;
the following arou.id a.sd around
uuul the stack is co-nplete at the
toi. The cro'p waa the best, we
raised last year, having thick,
uniio. at medium tal.s and two
to tli.ee good ears to etich. The
beans were the largest I have ev-
erseen of th's vari'?:y, standing 3
to 5 feefc high. , We realiStd fully
55 busshels ot fine corn hu J mo e
than a totr-of very fiaeut hay piu-
acre and at '.east tea very large
shocks of corn fodder.which was
shredded later making a large
q u a n i ty ol v cry fl :ie fee-1 .A ! ifH
M. V.'ordej, i:i lluleigu (N. C.)
Proj;ressiye FaiMier.
Avet .i Ai. i Traced .
Timely advxe ven M "-. C. Wil
Irughoy, ol' Mvi.a.io, Wis., pre
vented a il.euiKii tl.tgedy ami sav
ed two lives. Doctors had said her
f.ighuul cO'J,h was a "consump
tion" CJtisjii ami could dj little to
help her. Al'ler many remedies had
failed, her aunt urged her to lake
Dr. K.ng's New- D'scoyery. "I
.uvc bee: u-'. i far sotic i .ne, '
he w o e, ''.t.id t.je awful coaf;
la-. altcosl on?. L:dso ,ae.l av
ht-.e iK.y niiM t.ik"' w. h .1 severe
br inch. al .'.-oabie.'' Tuis oialchltv
mt'd'ci ?e hus .10 equa. jr;hoi
a ul '.u :g '. jii ile. I'llce 5oe a.id f 1.
Ga.i -.1 itted by a 1 d.u: 3.-. T.la:
bottle rrc-.
Evenifamun fighis but one
duel he has a second,
Children Cry
FOR FLETCHER'S
CASTORIA
Ta a FultKu' Fr etd.
N . w Yi ri. '.VorM.
When I wake he comes to greet
me. With 1; wagging tail he
meets me when I'm coming home
at twilight from the business of
the da'. Though I'm weary,
cross ami dowdy, he is ready
with his "Howdy!" und his eyes
are full of welcome and his tail
jutd thumps aay. If I'm ugly
grouchy, snappy, it disturbs bis
manner happy' yet' he sort of
tries to cheer me as a comrade
ought to do, while I'm bright
and smiihig ac i:i caoine ways
beguiling, he's the gladest. gav
est doggie that a man could
wish to v:ew.
If 1 calied to him to follow, he
would trail o'er hill a.id hollow:
he would never pause or leave
me while be had strength t o
crawl; he would slick through
fight and frolic me: ry days or
melancholic asking only to be
with me in my fotune or my mil.
Yes, though shame and degrad
ation made me shu.iued by ail
c-eat ion, through the valleys o;
the shadow and the paths where
terrors dwell, with a lovi that
does not alter, with a tr;:st that
cannot tauer, .ie wou..i 10 ' ow
me unflagging, thongL my lotd
way lei through hell!
Dog o iuine, vou're 81 y 03
breeding, but unless. I'm poor ac
reading th-;x',:: love rn:' lo.ith
undyi.ig in xhose brown and
gentleeyes, and although youre
far from ;.teii ., Lhats no uiu&'e
io call for pity yoa've a World
cl canine wisdom for a tellow
of your size 80 I love you 'cause
you're lo.vai and ."ror heart is
truly royal, with a warmth and
tender v:gor that would well befit
a king.jind bo cause yojr dumb
devotion is as measureless as
and as fervid as the ptiS8ions
that, the poets love to sing
Let the scientests aver that
youre an ordinary cur, ihnt in
your canine composition there is
not a hli:t of soul. Let 'em
prove it, word and letter, but 1
know a whole lot better, and I
tiuess y.nir name :a eatcred ua
tLs "rl. ir.r heitveu"ecro . 1'rJth
to idll, Alieu I have e.idcd 11 the
sjiacelt waa iuie.iued I snoald
spe.id upon thio planet, when in
short I've "got :ny cae," 1 ;.h!l
thiiik, goo'i dog a,sd plucky,
thatl sure am mighty lucky A
they'll lot me up m hsav?nwje:e
they've made a place To;1 yuu.
Mark Twain once usk'xl a
neighbor if he might bo!-row a
set of Irs books. The ue'ghbor
e;.bed uu..:r.:cioiis'y that he
might was welcome to .ead them
la his library but he hfld a rule
nvet' lo let bis book leave his
hoiise. Some weeks inter the
sain,, .eighbor s"iK ovet- to t-sk
fu." the loi'.a ot Ma k Twaii's
hiw.i mower. "Ce.tai dy.;' su d
Mark, ' but since I mnke it a rule
never to let it leave mv lawn you
will be obliged to use it there."
America u Issue,
Is ,!ee V..r'd G-owir.g Better?
M;';iy things p;ove that it is. Tr.e
way thousand are trying t0 help
others : nroo'. Amo 11 the 11 is
Kr-: W. W. Goa'v, of Pit; He'd.
N. H. Fl.i t-rg g-jod -er'tn t.t
Ui Ivc.r'c IVri.c s. s'le .10 w atl-
l. ue i.;mi. "! o" vi'i.r- I w .uer-
wl .ih sloliacii a.d kid rev
I rr.hr w.'tcs. "E.erv .r.e.lic' ic I
ur-e't f.'.i c l t il I to .. . Ele-M
Bit e , Cut till-g:ca' re.r.eo y help.
ed me vv. "dem 1 y." Thty'.i help
a iv w-inan. T rc' :e .re bkt '.o .ic
aid li -ei' kid "ey a 'd I've vernly
llat' m.i.ic. Tiv C:cw..Y-aM bee.
50c. at a. I t'ui ,;, t .
FOIEYlSKlDHEYPilXS
roil Bcen hieNC4Nfiu.ipii
ffiikbon Boy Altrmpts To Kill
Cln:"tic Pievelte of Wi'kebor.i
came very near tiidi jj hie Ii V.
The To'don'tig was taken f.om
the North ilkelKiro Advance.
"Had you hej d thn. "D-ck"
Prevette shot hlin elf List ilghi?
This question wpm asked by
nearly every man on the streetn
yesterday morning. And is car-
led with it at a note of Iit or.
eH l ue-
The young mn, wli is uni-
ver-nllv liljsd, mad. a desperate
atte rji to end h's life, a iid come
ve: y near making a buccem of it.
For spvera.1 days lie hi'd beea
0.1 at spree a:;d it is supposed
t hat despondency was I he cause
of the ratdi deed, though at this
a nli ig :.e has rol iutimal d to
even his closest .rioad- just why
he took this U?p.
Sjiiday .light he was in Wilkes
bo o a.id when he left for North
Wilkesbo o rsked Ilevenue Officer
St. well Webster for his pistol,
sta ling t .at the boys who accom
piiiiled hliii L-.e not ready to go
.jouie. Wcbsier crtipliaJ with
tie : etjuett iid thought no more
of the maaer, as there was noti
big in the marine o the you ijf
luun to c er te siisp.-io i
Whe;' i.e reached Cenlral Ho
tel, w'ihm he boards, be talked
to a lady n sbort while and theu
we.U to his room. Jufc baio-e
12 o'clock the report ol a pistol
rang out. Pretty soon groaia
were heard L hia room. When
Mr. Joe Penuel, a gnt of the
hote!, tried vo open the door,
found it lucked. About this
time Mr. J. C. Pteiar appea ed ou
the sce.ie aud they forced the
door, but as neither had matches
with which to make a light, time
was loai ia securing them. When
they finally lighted up, the young
man was found lying ou the bed
withering iu his ow.: blood and
the pistol was iu the middle of
i tie room.
foitin-il ntjl wmi. unmmnnuH
aud Di,j. Ilo.clitn.i aud Duncan
erpo :deii. Til? pistol had been
!...; id c.b over ;.Li3 hear.'. Hud
tad oat !u deuvcirxi ic would
uiJ2 jie-.i-rtruted the Le;:rt, but
it .struck u rib weat throug the
iiiij '' a,: J came out at the leic
ide- 't'lij weapon urd was a
32-20 Special.
iucl.ci..e taai es tJ0.1fide.1cc.
s F-j.cy j Ilo.iey u:id Tar Com
Kuti.sas Ave., Co'.umous. Kansas.
w.'.le?.: "t ar a ::umler o' cars eny
chlii.e l ha ye bee: sut j';l :ocough
a.iJ c.A. I aa.d Foier H Jt.ey
.1 Tr Cii pja ar.d :'0and ihat
cu.tJ .he r tjiiir .; a..d coidi, so I
ke.i i: '..i the hoti-.e !! the time.
Refuse oii'.i.'.Luies, S01J by all
NOTICE.
Not'tt. C troli jii, y-.,e.ior court.
Count v ilo'o.e tho cierk.
Jtmiri-. V. jle.'iei!, t.uununtrfttor .-i
li. W. Walker i)ett. vs S. F. Wait
er . ttHi, 1 ..'.me, 1. .1. AaiKer Auer
Knrn, Saliirt OH)'o9, Mariiret Wattn,
Lncrettin Welbor.'!, (heirs at law of
Ilaehael Walker Dec.!.) Xelin An
drews Jane Trliitett. W. W. Walker,
U K W inker anil Idali Wa.ker (heirs
at lw o' (ieo Walker, Ject!) Ettift
V'al!ter Arrftte Lou Waiter and Luini
Waike -TJo.veru tieii-s ut lw of Wil-
liau ValUr deed bad Carmiu, car.
vv hthol intt li-abei walker tia..-
t tir 'V C'ii -uiia-? Yalk"r ttecd bv
r i.-ct :!vintt K irc.ei
liti
. a.. 'atv .11. W,Ta ,e' OCu
! iie .i It'' '1 li.'.r: ey :..; 9
in .lit-t: ..' r:..f; t!0 1 .11 ."tl t;o
t.-..'i e.:.' I't'. tti i liovo btu. b.s.-i -j
a e- e d l.i .!ii Ko'ie:.' xr ewi ti W .
ti.:,!! eudii.. t)e;'ot iiK elet-:'; otu
t-id of '.heis.e'W M Jv R W '5l"l
er.- 'Meu'-.a jt vV!tu.v:-.Oiaeiaa-
'.'S t,i ? a.i no o :eti ai ;i nt
i e...rV. . ', a..j i i. tie:,.!',
t'. t 'i i v'iio-; i.t i veil t-: ;.?'..'o;
ijoot irjerej' ;ly o.eL-ei':l..il m r i
po " loo n f.'.v'o! c ...t se fu? . ii
lie '...h tie e.'tl .ii vr i ta.e r:oiiw
I.'.). '!. s-'.e S ieq.i; ed .0 m we tiie
cmrt htm x "u il'viee, S. 0. behove
i 'i' o c -jf r. " e i tr eo t ol
W ,,i.r . . o: lie 7 tie ' o' Xoveu'jer
1 i 0110 oe'i c :n et .'.-..e
til" C lUllliu'iili aild Xtli't.;) t: .lu
)i.: v.. IU" t "re t'i " ..;T v 'i erjn.'y
- v'le on "fo't 'ie -e io.' i',i.-lsl
Pi tUope1ili(.!i T!)ls Gent. It 1311.
W.D. ForthmaU. S. C.
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