VOL. XXV
WOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, TIIUKSDAY, M)V. 20, 1913
NO. 13.
A MoOeri Sisjphns.
Kihtok Democrat: In the Sur
rey of Ot 11. I'jn. pnsrp 4S,
there is a picture drawn by Her
brt Joliimon, coDjriphti-d ly
The I-if Publisbinji Company.
hidi 1 w'inb every person in our
State could Hep. It is the old sto
ry ot Sisrplni", rolling up th" hill
gjj-pfit t'on In this picture tli
it. mo an enormous bag of mon
pv, nd across the fa of it is
written dividends. Sisiaphus is a
i. i ..:ii:.... i
man "j im "piij'uiiis i-b,
and across Ins back is marked
Child Lulior." .
As I looked At this nictine nnd
tii.. i) ooke l at it aain, it began
to row upon m. It came to me
that we had in our modern life,
a'tnost an exact repetition of
thw ancient legeno. In our own
Stat" r is little boys and cirla
t t!i int. tiil th strength of ei-
t ;er mn or women who day by
dav sft 'h- ir shnlderiand strain
t fir mu :les- m mder to roll up
t bill this 2eat hair of dii
d :1s. I tMnlc thr it wool I he
im ro:'"- to have these children
thai exrt thnir strength aHin9t
1 1 -itone on the" incline, even if
the ah-iuM .ft thpirshar- of the
dividen. 1- at the top, but they
do not S1 rain the rms, leas nnd
b ek h vevr much they may,
nh h v can hi fr is bare
i-l-ith"' in I little f od. a though
it tnv- Uie strain th back
anl wrakeniuir of the mu-cles
and flip (1.-st ruction of that wluh
, ..tt - i t niD-r lv lv in child-
Ihf w.y is l ne Somehow, as
I l.i.ik"' a th ho.v Ntraininjr
hims If t- roll his load. I wanted
to see hnu jump aside and let the
ST ir -HtoiiMjo rolling down the
hi I. On of the joys of a boy ;e
t roll r fk-i down'hills. It t the
! Hi ie nin and women to
push the loat up the hill, and in
no '-aBe should the chiuirpn b'
-t io strain their young mus
cles aijai'ist the load which nrN
and women whouM curry. I can
not believe that it is a pood
Staie in which young children
mint thus strain themselves, nor
can 1 belive thHt it is the bet
buniness in which young children
are tbu called upon to contrib
ute bo much in rolling the stone
Let us suppose that a farmer
ebouid set his children from the
age of 12, and in some case
younger, pushing a heavily lond
ed wagon up a steep hill, that he
should get them at the job at (5
o'clock in the morning; that he
should keep them pushing until
12 o'clock; that be should let
them have au hour to get dinner,
that he should stun them again
at 1 o'clock; that be should keep
them pushing, boys and girls, un
til 6 o'clock; that he should keep
pushing them through thp spring,
summer, lall nnd winter, and
ytar. What kind ol taudmg do
. you think the farmer would have
in his own community, ami what
esteem would be be held in by his
own neighbors? iNothiuh.ltbiuk.
And yet, men and women of
North Carolina, this is exuctlv
what is being done in certain
classes of business in our State.
Childhood at work. Children ae
wage-earners and young boys
am., girls us toilers, and vet we
ay that our St.ite is moving a
long well.
It is not moving along well.
No farmer, who would do what I
have suggested abore would be
considered as doing well, or as
being a high type of man. The
same rule should applv in the
manufacturing industry of our
coanfry. as common sense ap
plies to our farmeis. There is no
Heed to work thes0 children in
North Carolina and it oujiht to
be stopped,
W. H.SWIFT
Greensboro, N. U.
STATE AND GENERAL NEWS.
The overalls in which Govern
or Craig worked the roads on
the 5th and Gib, were a present
from the Hickory Overall Facto.
A buHinrss block is being built
in Salisbury on the site of a num
b-r of, small houses in the "Red
Liuht" district.
( Jo vertior Craig has appointed
Michael Schenck, of Henderson
county, bolicitor of the Eigh
teenth Judicial District to suc
ceed A. Hall Johnson resigned;
Mrs. Nellie Wakefield, of New
Haven, Conn., is to be hanged
March 4, unlens her sentence is
commuted. She killed her hus
band last June for allege! cruel-
A lumber barge from Jackson
ville, Florida, to New York, was
dHshed ashore on Cape Lokout
Beach, near Beaufort, during the
evere storm a fewdnyseince, but
fortunately her crew was saved.
One of the three story brick
buildings of the Leonard Medi
cal School of the Shaw Universi
ty for negroes at Raleigh, was
damaged to the extent of $4,060
by fire, but the loss was covered
by insurance.
Mr. T. 11. Vanderford, of Salis
bury, succeeds Revenue Agent R.
B. Sams, and has taken charge
ol the office. He is, of course, in
charge fcf the district composed
of North and South Carolina,
and headquarters maybe moved
from Asbeville to Salisbury. .
William F. McCombs, of New
York, Chairman of the Democrat
ic National Committee, and Miss
Dorathy Williams, daughter of
UofTand Mrs. John It. Williams,
of Washington, D. C, were mar
ried on the 8th, in a Roman
Catholic church in London.
Mis Clara Query, ol Charlotte,
a nurse in the Maryland Hospital
in Baltimore, entered an eleva
tor in the building and tried to
operate it. She pulled the wrong
rope, the elevator shot up and
she was crushed and her neck
broken.
Fire which is suppostd to have
originated from an X-ray ma
chine in a nest of electrical wires,
broke out in the administration
buildinc of the University ol
North Carolina on the night of
the 8th, damaging the building
onsiderablv.
Miss Jessie Wilson's wedding
cake was baked in New York on
the lit ti. Ic weighs 135 pounds,
and is two and a half feet tall. It
cost $500. There are 2,000 white
boxes tied with satin ribbon in
which the cake will be distribu
ted, the boxes being small en
ough to go under pillows to be
dreamed upon.
A pendant made up of one Ca
nary diamond weighing six and
oue-half carats, surrounded by
eighty-five smaller diamonds ar
ranged in pear shape and attach
ed to a chain in which smaller
diamonds are set, will be the gift
of the House of Representatives
to Miss Jesie Wilson when she is
mnrned -on the 25th inst. Its
cost was more than $2,000,
The Times-Mercury, published
in Hickory, with Mr. J. F. Click
as editor, has been sold to the
Messrs. Flagler, and the paper,
wbich has been republican, will
hereafter be independent, and the
new owners contemplate making
it a semi-weekly in the near fu
ture. Mr. Click will probably re
suine the publication of the 'Nut
Shell." which was suspended sev
eral years ago. He has been with
the Mercury practically all the
Mmn ninCP it, W&S established 22
yeas ago.
Hbi ti Obsinrt Tlanksrvinj.
Lenoir Topic. J
When the rorld was younger
and times were harder, people
had better appreciation of the
trood things that came to them,
frogress, modem invention, and
better enligbtment along oertaio
lines have increased the number
of bright days and nhortened
those of suffering but good times
in the old days were net taken
so much as a matter of fact and
and people at certain times made
it a practice to render thanks for
tbegood things that came their
way. Then it was no mere per
functory observance. Thanks
giving was a term that had real
significance.
The day is almost here which
the almanac tells us is the time
for observance of the annual proc
lamation calling for a day of
thanbskiying. As is U3ual. cer
tain grimes, certain annual hunt
ing parties, and certain other
plans for pleasure, not to omit
th hapless turkey have been long
looked torward to in keen anti
cipation by tens of thousands of
us in connection with that date
but how many will remember the
real significance of the institu
tion o f thanksgiving? How
many of us hae preserved the
original spirit that prompts the
observance and how many ol us
are preparing to make real ex
pression of thanks on Thanks
giving day? ;.
The usual pleasures are n itur
al results ol a year of prosperity,
but this is not all. Every man
who has prospered and is con
scientious in bis intentions to
properly observe the occassion
can't well do so without express
ion ol sympathy for the unfortu
nate and the numberless needy.
These classes are found under
many circumstances and, this
year of all years, when prosperity
has been almost rampant, tbey
ought to receive a much increas
ed material support. The or
phanages of the state, these in
stitutions that exist for the sole
object of fathering the homeless
children, that fit them for the
higher duties of life, ought to find
as tender spots in the hearts of
the prosperous public as any
cause. It is good to contem
plate how many children are sent
out in life from them well equip
ped to meet the exigences, but it
is sad to contemplate how many
of them might have been dere
licts if tbey had not been well
cared for and sheltered in their
more tender years.
No cause is more appealing and
it is to be hoped that more peo-
pie will mingle a little ol the spir
it of giving with the spirit of
thanksgiving and make Thanks
giving worthy of its name.
The Family Cough Medicine
In everv home there should be a
hottle of Dr. King's New Discovery,
ready for immediate use when any
member of the tamtly contracts a
cold or cough. Prompt use will stop
the spread of sickness. S. A. Still,
of Mason, Mich., writes; My wnole
family depends upon Dr. King s
New Discovery as tne nest cougn
medicine in the world, i wc 50c
bottles cured me of pneumonia '
Thousands of other families have
bren equally benefitted and depend
entirely upon Dr. King's New Dis.
coverv to cure their coughs, colds,
throat and lungtroables. Every dose
helps. Price ;oc. ano" $1. All drug
H. E. Bucklen & Co., Phila
delphia or St. Leuis.
Much disaster was wrought by
the fearful blizzard last week
Especially did the Great Lakes
suffer. It is probable, say the ciis
patches, that it will never be
known how many sailors 1 o s
their lives. Cleveland, Ohio, los
many millions in property, while
the loss in Pennsalyania, Mary
land, and many other States is
terrible.
Fine Watacei Cattle. j
Mr. . K. Shipley, of Valle Cru-1
cie, paxsed through town lastlhouse on last Friday night by
Friday with a beautiful bunch of the colored children of the pub-
"top" tw-yiur fleers, tnkiigjli school in Boone, was mo-t
them to bin brother's farm on Icndiinble in every respect, and
New River, where they will Ik? fed
during the winter. Mr. Shipley is
currying over" IJOtdeers, the
average weight of Htiich is 770
pouuds, and he tells the i'. iuo-
crat that the herd is made up of
the very best cattle he could buy,
and is of the opinion that this is
the choice bunch to be found in
Watauga or udjoiuing counties.
Mr. Shipley has a thirty-ton silo
which he filled this vear from a
ittle more than four acres of
corn, and says next year he will
build another with a capacity of
00 tons, giving him lo0 tonsol
nselege upon which he will feed
through thewiuter, on his own
arm, 150 head of steers. He bus
found that it takes an acre of
New River meadow to winter a
steer, while a ton'of ensilage and
a bag of cotton seed meal will
bring one through in better con-
ition than tte hay from an acre
of ground. From his hilo he cai
feed six head per acre, with the
cottou meel udded, and have the
benefit of the manure for the
next crop. Of course the better
he yield of corn per acre, the
more cattle it will feed Mr. Ship-
y's silo now full of corn that av
eraged about 80 bushels to the
acriTAU of his cotton seed meal
is shipped to Elk Park, and ic
hauled by wagons to his farm.
Be has made a study of th? cat-
le business, and is making mon
y as a result.
Let Us Hope So.
Jonobnl Times.
Better clothing, and cheaper
too, is the joylul prospect
for Americans j'us a direct and
early result of the new tariff law,
More real, tangible reductions of
the "high cost of liying" as a re-
suit of tariff legislation will be
effected by the reduced duties on
clotes and wearing apparel of all
kinds than any other commodi
ty. Many Republicans, as well as
Democrats, concede that cloth-
ng will be both better and cheap
er because of tariff nlashing. It
is estimated that the actual sa-
viug will be as much as f GO a
year to the average lamily 01 n ve
persons- Retail prices ou wearing
apparel however, can hardly be
expected to drop before next
spring, although wholesalers and
retailers may decide to 'unload
present stocks at'burgain prices'
in some instances, in anticipa
tion of the inevitable.
"If you have a grievance or a
groucli as to the wording of an
article appearing in this paper
dou't take it to "the devil for an
adjustment or an airing. But we
line near remarking that you
could 'go to the deyil with it if
that would suic vou better than
taking hall the pains that we do
to iret things straight. Some
have remarked that editor (like
lawyers) are liars. We caim to
tell the truth as we understand
it, but it would not be good poli
cy for us to tell the whole truth
at all times, any more thun the
minister does iu Ins luneral bit-
ruous, in which case there would
probably soon be empty pulpits
and editorial chairs in plenty.
Eczema and Itching Cured.
The soothing, healihg medication
in Dr. Hobson's Eczema Ointment
nrnctrates everv tinv pore of the
skin, clears it of all impurities
stous itching instantly. Dr, Ilob
son's Eczema Ointment is guaran
teed to speedily heal eczema, rash
es( ringworm, tetter and other un
sightly eruptions. Eczema Oint
ment is a doctor's prescr.ption, not
an experiment. All drugsiats or hy
mail 50c. i'feiffer Chemtcal Co.
Philadelphia and M. Louis.
Tki Colon! Concert
The roncer given at the c urt
rvflected much credit upon both
pupils and teacher.
Rev. J. Baxter, who has work
id mi arduously for the spiritual
uplift of bis people here during
the conference year just closing,
has the school in charge, and
all who attended the concert are
now convinced that their mental
training has not been neglected
by their devoted pastor and tea
cher. The minister, before the
opening of the concert, made a
very timely talk, rather apolo
getic in its trend for the efforts
of his pupils that were to follow,
and the Rey. W. C. Jones, pastor
olthe Boone circuit, M. E. Church
South, Dronounced the invoca
tion, after which the programme
of the eveuing was taken up.
The songs, recitations dia
logues, declamations, etc,, were
fine, all of which brought forth
rouud after round of applause
from the appreciative audience.
Oue gentleman who is a compe
tent jude, was beard to say
that the rendition of "Old Black
Joe" was the finest he had ever
heard, aud he bad heard it olten:
An admittenee fee of 15 cents
was charged, and the proceeds,
amounting to $16.00, will beep
plied to repairs on their church
building, and they are very
thankful to the white people foi
their patronage.
At the close ol the exercises
Prof. Roy M. Brown made avery
timely little talk in which he con
gratulated both teacher and pu
pils for their splendid efforts, all
of which met with the hearty ap
proval of all present.
Mr W. S.' Gunsalus, a farmer
liying near Fleming, Pa., says he
has nsed Chamberlain'sColic, Choi,
era and Diarrhoea Remedy in his
family for fourteen years, and that
he has found, it to be an excellent
remedy, and takes pleasure in rec
ommending it. For sale by all deal
ers. NOTICE.
North Carolina, Watauga county. In
the Superior Court before the
Clerk. In tho matter of 8 J Price;
A A Perry. Adiu. of Riley Eifgers
deed., -and Annie Eggew, widow,
vs.
VV M Eggrs, Polly Eggers, wife Of
Joel Etrgers, G W Eggers, Lucinda
Storie, wife oflLee Storie, Nancy Will
iams. wife of David Williams, Auge
line Ward, wife of Ward, Sa
rah Loyd. and the following miner
heirs of Rebecca Hodges, deed., viz:
Robert Hodges. Jacob Hodges, Chas:
Hodges. Lafayette Hodges aud ecia
Hodges, heirs at law of Riley Eggers,
deceased
The defendants above named, via.
Nancv Williams. David Williams, An
ieline Ward and Sarah Loyd will take
notice that a summons in ine aoove
eutitled action agatiiKt the defend
Hiits on the 11th day of Oct., 118, by
W D Farthiuir. Clurk of the Superior
court ot Wataujra county, requiring
nid defendants to appear at the onlce
of the Clerk of tho Superior Court of
Watauga county on the 3rd day or
Dep.. 1U1H. and the Hiierin. Ei. ,. log
gers, hns returned the same eudorsed
us to Nancv Williams, David Will
iaius, Augelme Ward ana aaran uoya
'not to be found iu the Watauga
county" and affidavit haying been
made hv A A i'erry, aaminisiraior ot
Riley Bggers, deceased, one of th e
olaintiffs in thisaotion, that said de
fendents cannot after due diligence,
hi? found within the State of JNorth
Carolina, and it further appearing
that said defendants are proper par
ties to said action being entitled
Price and others vs W M Eggers and
others, wherein a petition is filed
nrnv inur for t he sale of certain real es
tate belonging to the said Riley Eg
gers, at the time of his death, for par
titiou and 'o make assets to pay the
debts of the deceased. We therefore
the defendants above named, viz
Nancv Williams, Dayid Williams
Anireline Ward and Sarah Loyd, will
take notice that they are required to
be ami appear at the office of the
Clerk of the Superior conn tor wa
tauga co at his office in the court
house in the towu 01 noone, it. u, on
the 12th day of December 1913, when
and where the petitions will be heard
and answer or demur to the complaint
of petitions, aud let the said defend
auts take notice that upon their fail
ure to appear, answer or demur as
duty are required to do, the relief de
uianded, and asked in said petition
will be eranted. This Hth day of
Nov. 1913,
W, D. FARTHING-, C. 8. 0.
One of the mot common ad
mend that hard working people are
afllictcd with is Ijme back. Apply
Chamberlain's Liniment twice a
day and massage the part thorou
ghly at each application and you
will get quick rolief. For sale by
all dealers.
PROFESSIONAL,
T. E. Bingham,
Lawyer
BOONE, N.c
W Prompt attention given to
all matters of a legal nature
Collections a specialty.
Office with Solicitor F. A. Lin
ney 1-29, ly. pd.
T. A. Lovk, James C.Cusk.
LOVE & CLINE,
Attorneys-at-Law -NEWLAND,
- - N.C.
Will practice regularly la the coun
tieaof Avery and all adjoining couu
ties.
The collection of claims a specialty.
2 27.'13 1 j r.
VETERINARY SURGERY.
I bare been putting much study
on this subject; have received my
diploma, and am now well equipped
for the practice of Veterinary Sur
ery in all its branches, aud am the
only one In the county, all on or
address me at Vilas, N. . R. F. D. 1.
G. H. HAYES,
Veterinary Surgeon.
V17-'ll.
Dr. . m. MADRON.
- DENTIST.
Sugar Grove, North Carolina,
&"At work done under guar
an tee, and best material used.
4-13-'ll.
E. S. COFFEY
-AT70RAEY Al LA V,
BOONE, N. C.
Prompt attention given to
all matters of a legal nature.
Abstracting titles and
wuection ot claims a special
er.
l-l-'ll.
Dr. Nat. T. Dulaney
SPECIALIST
KTK, EAR; NOBE, THROAT AND CHEST
BYES EXAMINED FOR
GLASSES
FOURTH STREET
Eristol, Tenn.-Va.
EDMUND JONES
LAWYER
-LENOIU, N.'C,
Will Practice Regularly in
the Courts of Watauga,
6-1 'it.
L, I). U)m,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
BANNER ELK, N.C.
WWill practice in the courts
Watauga, Mitchell and adjoining
counties.
7.6.'
11
F. A. LINNEY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
BOONE, n. c.
Will practice in the courts of
the 13th Judicial District in all
matters of a civil nature.
6-11-1911.
E. F. Loviil. W. R. Lovlll
Lovill &: Loviil
-Attorneys At Law
-BOONE, N. C
Special attention given to
all business entrusted to
their care. .. .. .. .'.