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rr & vn N 11 11 vi vvi ; a (Ob (D VOL.XXII1 1SOOXE. WATAUGA COUNTY, TIIUKSDA MARCH 7 1912. NO. 32 W Furniture Having purchased all the stock in 1ht business of the Iioone Fur niture Co., 1 am prepared to sell you anything in my line at a very reasonable figure. Dowers, Hureaus, Chairs, Red Steads, IVtl Springs, Mattresses, etc. Give me a call when in need of any thing in the line of furniture. KaTStorein Watauga County Bank Building. Kesiectfuisy, , JESSE F. ROBBINS. PROFESSIONAL E, S. COFFEY, ATWIMEi Al LA IV, BOONE, N. C. Prompt attention given to all matters of a legal nature. SST Abstracting titles and collection ot claims a special tv. l-l-'ll. VETERINARY SURGERY. I have been putting much study on this subject; have received my diploma, and am now well equipped for the practice of Veteri ary Sur gery in all its branches, aud aiu the only one in the county. Call on or address me at Vilas, C. R. F. D. 1. 0. H. HAYKS, Veterinary Surgeon. 5 17-11. Dr. E M, MADRON, - DENTIST. -Sugar Grove, North Carolina, BsTAU work done under guar antee, and best material used. 4.13-'ll. Dr. NAT T. DULANEY. - SPECIALIST -On Intkunal Meuk'INE and diseasesof the Eye, Eak, nope and Throat. Eyes examined for glasses. S6 Fourth St. Bristol, Tenn. EDMUND JONES LA YEll -LENOIR. N. C,- Will Practice Regularly in the Courts of Watauga, 6-1 'it. L. D. ATTORNEY AT LAW, BANNER ELK, N. C WrWill practice in the courts Watauga, Mitchell and adjoining Counties. 7-6-' n F. A. LINNEY, ATTORNEY AT LAW,- BOONE, N. C. Will practice in the courts of the 13th Judicial District in al matters of a civil nature. 6-11-1911. J. C. FLETCHER, Attorney At Law, BOONE, N. C. Careful ntteution given to collections. E. F. Lovill. W. R. Lovill. Lovill & Lovill Attorneys At Law -BOONE, N. C Special attention given to all business entrusted to their care. .. .. .. .. 7-9-'l0. One Branch of Old Family. j Anhevllle timet te-Newn. From a letter written by He- dent E, Baird, Jan. 28, 18:8, iroiu SugarGrovepoHtoftlce, Wa tauga county, to a "Nameless Frieud" ot Lapland, no Mar shal, N. C, and supposed to have been ex-Senator Z. tt. Vunee, the following interesting facts are gathered: John Haird and abrothercnme over from Scotland in the Calle donia and settled in the Jerseys. The brother's career is not fur ther mentioned, but John Baird married Mary Bedent. She gave birth to seven children, the first of whom was named Bedent Baird the second William, the third Samuel, the. fourth Aba iiah, the fifth Borzill, the sixth Jobathun, and the seventh Ezekial Baird. Fzekinl married Susannah Blod get and came with his wife to North Curolina about the close of the Revolutionary war. The writer ol the letter; a son of that marriage, was 88 years of age in 1838, which would place his birth In 1770, but he does not state whether he was born in North Carolina, or before his parents' removed here. It would seem that his father had marrn.u be fore his coming to this state, siuce it is stated that his wife's a I her had been killed in the de file near Fort Duqnense, under Jraddock, as there were not ma ny soldiers from North Carolina in that ill-lated expedition. Samuel Baird married Susan nah Rogers, Borzilla's wile was a Bullman, but the writer did not remember the names of the wives )f the others. It appears that the first I'e- d "lit Baird, uncle of the writer, after the death of his first wife, moyed after a second marriage, to the German Flats in Canada, where he is lost sight of. But li3 eft a son, Bedent, who took part under Sir Arthur Wellesley in the reduction of the Mogul Empire, commanded a battallion in the lust battle and saved the lives of the roval Mogul family after the death of Tippo Selle, the em peror, and found among his ef. lects the great diamond, the Kooh-i-noor. now among the crown jewels of Great Britain. He refers to Robert Tears' His tory of India and China as proof of this statement regarding Gen eral Bedent Baird, who, it seems, was married three time and 'rear ed threenumerous famines, which must have made a right smart sprinkling of Bairds somewhere in British America, not to men tion the writer's grandfather's brother, who had come over m the Caledouia with him t r o m Scotland, and his issue or the is sue of my five uncles who helped to settle five or six of the southwestern states. Just what the relationship is between these. Watauga Bairds a large nnd influential family and the Buncombe Bairds may be established from the forego- in"' facts. It is a curious fact but in keeping with the writer's statement, that Bedend Baird lived in the Jeiseys, that Dr. Gil bertTenuent has seen the dia n-ram of an old church m Mam mouth county, New Jersey, show ing the pews, one r,f which was held by Zebulon and another oy Da vid' Baird m 1750. The church wan then called the irechok but is now known as theTeunent . . T..1... Il;,,l ,,l,iai(l UIBM)WinnlCKr church, out uie o'-uu ... in 1083, agea i o yea. , ".. April, 1755, aged .bou 00 years, tie marreuMa.yx.a, . KiS-i she having been rescued from a wrecked vessel, itm.iip - posed that tmr chUd were iuu". "r ..uiiPrt "History of the Old Tennent Church," com piled by Rev. Frank Symmes, 15 pastor, Crunbury, N. J., George W. Burrow, printer. Bedent E. Baird's letter follow: Watauga Count v. N. C. January 28, 1858 Dear Eriend, 1 am not a little perplexed to know how to answer a nameless friend. Some few week ago on the reception of a newspajier, I saw a marginal note from some person unknown to me claiming relation, purporting to reside at a postoffice, also unknown to me by the name of I upland, nnd failing to name the county I am at a loss for a proper address; but fondly reeollecting the many collateral branches of our family 1 have no hesitancy in believing nnd -Acknowledging that we are all the same breed of dogs. In reply to your inquiry I can give you a tolerably correct his tory of the Bedpnts, at least two of them, namely: my Uncle Bed ent and myself, th first Bedent Baird thnt was ever on the face of the earth Two of the Bairds came over from Scotland in the Caledonia and settled in the Jerseys as I I am told and one of them, my grandpa (John Baird) married i woman by the name of Mary Jedent and, to perpetuate the name, they caned their nrst cnua m . a I'll Bedent Baird. After that she brought them six sons in succes ion. My father the seventh was Szekiel nnd wa educated for a doctor, bnt apprenticed to the trade ot tailor. My other five uncles thut enrne n between, as well as I can recol- ect, were V illiani, Samuel, Aha- diah, Borzilla and Jonathan. The first Bedent was one of the individuals who belonged to the Small company, called the ' Jer sey Blues," and alittlebetore the opening of revolution, was eus jected of being one of the seven teen who, in Indian gurb, with a large number ol Indians, went aboard Hie teasbips and threw )er board a part of the tea and made a tea riot L lie next tiling I heard of this my uncle Bedent, was in the death of his first wife. He boou afterwards married the second time and noved to a place called the Ger man Flats" in Canada, where we lost sight of the old man. It may not be amiss to men tion one of his sons, who at the close of the war, went with the Marquis of Hastings, Sir Authur Wellesley. and his brother to the reduction of the Mogul empire. This Sir Arthur is the man that the English think is the greatest man God ever made nnd I think so, too, for he was the man that captured the greatest human butcher that ever lived Napoleon Bonapart e, at the bat tie of Waterloo. But to return to my cousin s Mstorv. who went in concert with Sir Authur Governor Gen eral of India-and served many years in his strvice.and was com m u nd ing general of a battallion that fought the last battle in which Tippo Salle, the last of the Mogul empero.-s, was killed. The latter was shot through with three musket balls, and while in the agonies of death, a soldier went to take off his sword belt and he wounded with his dagger . t u .,1 liia fiiaa n.'irl h!fnv his ir".-t, ana , , fa ,-Q -zed amonff the dead, and a monument , Avna.v nf kimm ha ve been interred. toe suavity uuuciwuie.. cousin and friend, General Baird the royal family was saved alive (see Robert Tear's History of India and China) and also through him the Koh-i-noor (big diamond) now in the erystal pal ace, among the crown Jewels of of the Queen Victoria that has made so much noise in the news papers, was found among the crown jewels of the emperor Tip por Salle after the battle was over. I am also told that this, ray uncle and first Bedent Baird. was married three times and reared three numerous families which must have made a right smart sprinkling ol Baird somewhere in Brittish America, not to men tion grandpa's (John Baird) brothers and his issue, and also the issue of my five uncles, who helped to break the forest and settle five or six of the southwest eru states. It would be somewhat unintpr- esting to you or I would try to give names ot the connections ol ancestors. Uncle Samuel married Susannah Rogers. Luele Brazil- la's wile was a Bullman; the oth er two I have forgotten. My fa ther, Ezekial B lird, married Su sannah Blodgett, my mother, whose father was killed in volun teer fighting under George Wash ington, then a colonist in the old French war, under General Brad lock, at a narrow defile near Fort Dnquesne, where Braddock wns mortally wounded and his army totally defeated and their bones left to whiten the hills of the Monongahcla, for man years without interment. It appears that Braddock mortal wound was a blessing in disguise, aud the cause that saved the rem nant of the army alive Washing ton, his general consorr, men sounded a retreat aud brought off the regulars and what f e w rangers were left a melancholy retreat and the field of battle left to the mercy of the victor. It appears, at the commence- i t meat, that the rrencn-incnans had no idea of anything more than a skirfnish; but, fighting under a shelter and the British army completely expossd to ey- ery fin was cut down and Brad dock fell and then saw his army retreat; Instead of pursuit they fell to plundering the camps and Washington brought off the rem nant by mirculous and providen tial aid, that to this day looks like one of the wonders of the world and very dissimilar to Ar nold's plot and the execution of Major Andre. While these things that excite the wonder of mankind are going on, mv father, Ezekiel Baird moy ed to North Carolina and I am left in my eighty-eighth (88) year to write you with trembling hand a short letter tor lurtuer acquaintance. BEDENT BAIRD. Please address me SugarGrove l 0., N. C. To the P. M. at Lapland, Bun combe C. A. Glossner, 24 Ontario, St., Rochester N. Y., has recovered from a long agJ severe attack of kidney trouble, his cure being due to Foley's Kidney Pills. After de tat'iug his case, ' I am sorry I did not learn earlier of Foley's Kidney Pills. In a few day's time my back ache completely left me and I felt grealy improved. My kidneys be came stronger, dizy spells left me and I was no longer annoyed at niffht I fepl 100 per cent better since using Foley's Kidney Pills.' For sale by all dealers. You can say goodbye to constipa tion with a clear conscience if you " c pitarnhpiimns Tablets. Manv aye been permanently cured by: their use, r or sale by all uealers. The Horns And The Mrhool. Imperfectly frank, they do not Charlotte Olmerver: know how and as they pay di Brother Edwaid Bok has rectly or inductly for the in struck a responsive chord in the struction of their children they heart of many a loud parent in rein 1 against the custom of re these parts by the protest he has quiring them to do the work of made in The Indies Home Jour- the teachers. nal against the present practice of sending the school children home to study their lemons, j Last night two devoted fathers called on the Observer with a re- quest it print what Brother Bok says on the subject for the con- sideration of parents and the ad monition of teachers as follows: "If every parent of a school child who brings lessons home to le studied would put his or her foot down upon the practice and send the child back to school the next day with the lesssns un done, and with a polite but firm explanation to the teacher one of the mostsalutnry impressions would be made upon our mod. em school system; mat me whole system of home study is wrong admits of no question. The teachers who insist upon it know it, but they are power less to act. Nothing would please them better than for the parents to act, but only the ab solute prohibition of the prac at the hands of the parents can! make any impression. No prac tice ever instiuted leads so surely to deception. Where there are two or three boys or girls they get together and work their prob lems each working a few and then combine results Iustead of getting one hundred per cent of the work each child gets about twenty-five per cent but next day he is credited with a perfect grade. Where the parents take annul in the problems the result is ev en more disastrous. Every par ent knows that he or she is some times staggtred at the problems the child brings home. A boy in the seventh grade not long ago took home seventy problems to be worked and handed iu the next morning. It took the com bined efforts of thrt boy and three adults to accomplish the task. The next day the boy had a per fect grade. Where the boy must workout his own problems the result is even more unfortunate His mind is not fresh and his vi tality is low, and whatever he gets out of his lessons if he real ly gets anything is got at the expense of mental yigor and loss of sleep. "Home studv under any con ditions, defeat the yery end it is designed to bring out and it should be absolutly forbidden bv parents. Then it will be abol ished: the school curriculum will, be changed and our children will j be the gainers both mentally ami physically. But the conviction must first be sure, and then the stand must be firm and reso- luto. We do not think anything need be added to that- It is awfully hard on parents to requir? thpra to help their children with their lessons, .ana particularly since things have changed so much Bince they went to school them selves. The idea that a boy in the Seventh Grad, or any grade I should be required to work seven j ty problems in one day is pre-! posterous, and to send him home with the expectation that his father and mother should work hem out for him is postively eru. el. The parents have practical problems to work out every day or they would not send their chil dren to school at all, and they feel that when they have fed and I clothed and provided sleeping places for their,children they i should not tie e:erted to lo sums" the teaclie.s have gr.-.n uie ennurtu. iu uian.) rarra, v TUE FAKCELS POST, ureeuMmro Newi. The news was sent out trom Washington vesterdav afternoon ... tl.t i.,... .. ,njttee on ruIeH woulJ a , the , t , to tbe unoronriation bill, wnich provide.! for a gener al panels post, giving the oppon 14 ents of that measure no chance to mak a point of order to the effect that it is new legislation bill; and that they will apply the gag rule cutting off all debate and. will refuse to consider any substitutes or hear any discus siou. ft is almost past belief that uny sucli course has been agreed upon. It spei.is altogether un wise, undemocratic and unjust. It is not a question ot whether one agrees with parcels post or not, but it is a call for a square deal. All legitimate interests ef fected should he given the fullest opportunity to be heard. Liber ty loving people must cry out against all attempts to gag those who have a right to be heard. Every measure passed by Con gress should be forced to stani or fall by its own merit, and not be talked on as riders to meosur es concerning w h 1 c h there is little or no controversy, in or der to drag them through by the popularity of th latter. Fair minded people favor asquare deal. Many .suffers from rheumatism have been surprised and delighted with the prompt relief afforded by applying Chamberlain's Liniment Not one case of rheumatism in ten requiies any internal treatment whatever whayer. This liniment is foi sale by ail dealers. The bankets will meet June 2(i 28 at Moorehead City. i CURED A BAD Or A VIM. Mr. B. H. lv;y, Marion, N.C., writes : i " My liorsc bud .ircry tnd crse rf and nothing dirt ai'.y g.Hod until ltriidym r Must.'int; Liniment. 1 ruMied the i.iViU 1'iviincntlv will! the limnti'nt and soon saw p.n till jruvcmi'nt. jtum i.k' did this three or four P j toree A'fls cmopltUU ure if pirpcrly tiicd " K K UMS'.enl"'l tim.'S a day nnd my In cured. U is sure to cur FOR HORNET STINGS. E RSr. S. J. Hudion, Ncwbcm. N.C. w.-ile: 'I have used Mexican jUnsinnf Lint-. tnentfor diflVrent ni'mcnti uud haw ftn.t.tl J. it tin excellent liniment. At one t'uie my I marewns badly stun; hyhorneis but j..nr I liniment qnieklv cured her. I have reeniu i mended it to others hundreds ol times." g 25c 50c $ l a bottle at Drug & Gcn'l Store. H i LfUtJ CURES SWINNEY. Mr. R. S. Sheltoa, Hill, N.C, witei i ' I used Mexican Mu5tanr Liniment ou a very valuable horse for swtnuey and it cured" it. I always keep it iu my stable and thinkitthe best liniment for rubs and Riills" It contains no alcobnl and so cannot sting in cases of open wounds or burns. Suotiies ana coojs ac once, just irj ic For BURNS and BRUISES. Mr. W. V. Clifton, Raleigh, N. C writes: ' T keen a bottle of Mexican Mustang T :n;mi'nt in mv house eontinunllv for t;en- cral use. It is the finest thine; in the world for Cuts, Burns and Bruises." 25c. 50c. $1 a bottle at Drue Gen'.' 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