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VOL. XXV HOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, THURSDAY, Feb. 12, 1914. NO. 29. Tfce Cesintrj School. News and Obterver Prof. Chnrle II. I'tley. former ly of Wake county but now su perintendent of the graded scIkm.i1 Qt Webster, in Jackson county, writes for the Jackson county Journal an article on "TheCoun- try Schools" that deserves to le widely read: Even one who has given the subject any thought has noticed that the great men in thecitvure usually those who come from the count rv. It is also true that the rugged characters who go to the city and find conditions there plastic under the touch of their personality generally leave chil dren who are by no means of the calibre of their father, indicating that the city is not the place to develop the sterner virtues. So for the sake-of the city in which the country boy is to play such an important part thecoun try boy needs good educational facilities. But Prof. Utley makes the plea for better educational facilities for" the country boy, to the end that he may do more for the country. He would have the educated country boy stay at home instead of rushing off to the city. Prof.4Utley finds in the efficient country school the solution of the problem of the' drift: to' the city. He well says that the effi ciency of the country" school in the future will largely determine the joy of living in the country. This is recognizing an essential fact in connection with the prob lem of keeping country boys in the country.. Living in the coun try must be made more pleasant than it has i een heretofore. Answering the question as to how the country school will do what he says he can do. Frof. Utley says the country school " must teach the natives how to live and how to get a living. It is well known that homes in the country are not as attractive as they might be and that the com forts of life are not as plentifully provided in the rural districts as they a re in the city. The well equipped country school will meet those nedsfrom two directions. It will spread the refining influences which tend to make for happiness in the home and it will produce the efficiency which transmutes itself htto he wealth which makes the comforts of life possible. i'The future," says Prof. Utley, "holds out many flattering promises to the intelligent, progressiveyoung people who are educated along the lines of industrial science." Therejftno" doubt at all about the strategic part which the coun try school will hold in the solu tion of the.proMembf supporting the teeming millions of the land. Greater production is clearly seen to be one of the crying needs of the day. The country school, teaching among other things the branches, that will tend to enthu siasm and success in farming, can accomplish wonders towards bringing lagging supply within reach of hurrying demand. - FEEL MISERABLE? Out of sorts, depressed, pain in the back,Electric Bitters renews your health andstrength. A guar anteed liver and kidney remedy, Money back if not satisfied. It completely cured Robert Madson of West Burlington, Iowa, who suffered from verulent liver trou ble for eight months. After four doctors had given him up he took Electric Bitters and is now a well man. Get a bottle today; it will do the same for you. Keep in the house for all liver and kidney com Slaints. Perfectly safe and depen able. Its results will surprise you. 50c. and $1. II. E. Bucklen & Co., Philadelphia or St. Louis. Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S C ASTORIA Jude Pritchard Speaks. Durham. X, C, Dipate?i. J udgv Jeter C. Pi itchnrd today registered his protest against the tango and the turkey trot and tin slit skirt in the fifth of a se ries of meetings for men being held nt the Baptist church. Judge Pritchard was heard bv over 1,- 0M) men. and manv ainens and nods of the head greeted what he had to say about the present-day fashion of the feminine part of the North Carolina population. 'The Conservation of Manhood' was the subject on which Judge Pritchard spoke, and he outlined a numberof ways in which the fathers and mothers of the State could conserve the manhood of the rising generation. The distin guished jurist spoke with a seri ousness characteristic of all of his discussions of moral issues. He talked in a conversational tone, but none of the addresses that have been delivered in Dur ham have been listened to more attentively. His speech was filled with illus trations of the results of the" fail ure of parents to give their chil dren the proper home training. All of these illustrations earme from the observation of the spea ker while he was oh the bench, in the5enate and in his present position- Tlie proper home training was the first means advocated for the conservation of the bovs and girls 6f the State, and the second was prohibitive and repressive laws. In the first case Judge Pritch ard said that he knew of many in stances in which the fathers left the whole training oi he children to the mothers. That this was bad was shown from the fact that there are always times in the life of boys and girls- when the strong arm of the fathers authority is needed. That the prohibition law was not an interference of the person al liberty of any man, but an ef fort to take the temptations a way from the people, the young people of the State, was the po sition taken by Judge Pritchard on the whiskey question. He re called some of the scenes froin the early history of Madison County, and said that while he was prac ticing law in that section of the country he defended 57 murder's. The dockets of the county were crovded"Avith murder cases. ' He told of the fight made against whiskey in that county, and fi nally wound up with the -present dav conditions of Madison. ' The duty of the South in the en foreemerit of these laws was stress ed. The duty rests heavier on the South than on any other sec tion of the country because of the fact that the South is the most American part of the country, and hence on her depends the pre servation of the American Insti tute. A WINTER COUGH. :. A stubborn, annoying, depress ing cough hangs on, racks the body, weakens the liibgs, $nd of ten leads to serious results. The first dose of Dr. King's New Dis covery gives relief. Henry D. San ders, of Cavendish, Vt., was threa tened with consumption after having pneumonia. He writes: "Dr. King's New Discovery ought to be in every family: it is cer- tainlv the best of all medicines for cousrhs, colds or lung trouble. Good for children's coughs, Mon ey back if not satisfied. Price 50c. and f 1. At all druggists. H. E. Bucklen & Co. Philadelphia or St. Louis. A fashion journal says: " Wo' men all over the land are calling for more pockets. They should have them, for they have drawn upon the men's pockets for their necessities long enough.' ' STATE AND GENERAL NEWS. The burning of a Menin laun dry at Durham entailed a loss of 10,o00. Henry M. Pindell, of Illinois, who was recently appointed Am bassador to Russia and the ap pointment confirmed, has declin ed to accept. We learn from an exchange that there are now about !(( students in all departments of the University and that all an North Carolinians save VJ. ' Mr. M. M. Culp, of Mooivsville, who for 30 years was an inmate of the State Hospital in Morgan ton, died suddenly a few days a go at the age of 75 years. He en tered the institution from Ral eigh when It firstopened. We are sorry to learn from the Advocate of the serious illness of the children of Rev. J. II. Given at Leicester. Mr. Green has many friends here, where his mother resides. Recent earth quake shocks at Mendoza, Argentina, caused a panic, for in 1 NO 1 Mendoza was overthrown by an earth quake. It is about 00 miles distant from the volcano of Aconcagua. The Howie gold mines near Waxhaw is producing a satisfac tory amount of gold and the plant is to be improved at a cost of about 1250,000, says the Lex ington Dispatch. Statistics tell us that during the six months which ended Dec. 31st, the American people drank 70,000,000 gallons of whiskey and smoked 4.090.300,000 cigars and 8,711,000,000 cigarette. The Methodist church in Troy7 N. C, was recently destroyed by fi re. It caught from an old school building, in which the graded school was being taught, the new school buildingnotyet being com pleted. The New York Homeopathic Medical College has received a gift of $25,000 for research work in cancer, from Lambert Suydam who for years has been much in terested in scientific investigation along this line. "A flying race" is to be pulled off next year during the Panama Exposition in San Francisco, and $300,000 hvprizes are to be off ered. It is to be a race of flying machines around the world and the trip is' expected to require 90 davs. , '.':'" The dot rhitoryypf the Elhanan orphanage near Marion was de-troyed-by fire, on the first. It was a two-story frame building and the fire is suppoced to have star ted from a stove flue or lain). The loss is from $8,000 to $10, 000. ' A consignment of animal speci mens from the South American jungles, has been received in New York from Col. Roosevelt, who for some time has been on a trip in South America of the nature of the one he took through Afri ca. With only his night clothes on, a man who in lucid moments, says that his name is Gillis and that he came from North Caroli na, was found wandering in Ma son county, West Ya,, and plac ed in an insane asylum at Hunt ington, in that State. Mrs. Kluttz, wife of Mr. White head Kluttz, Secretary of the Ca nadian Boundary Commission died on the 3rd m a Salisbury hospital. She would not have been married three years until April 2. She was a daughter of Rev. J. A; Linn, a prominent Durham minister, ana was herself a devo ted member of the Lutheran church. She leaves a little daugh ter less than two years old. Mrs. A. K. Pease died in Ashe- villi' on the 2sth. ult, at the age jof !1 year. She was a native of (New Yolk and mine to thisState wmiii after the Civil War. She was the founder of the Normal and Industrial Cullegi in A-he-ville where many a poor girl has been educated. Prof. C. C. Wright, Superinten dent of Public Instructions in the county of Wilkes, and who now represents the 7th Congressional district on the State Board o! Agriculture, is a candidate foi Commissioner of Agriculture to nueeeed the Hon. W. A. Graham, of Lincoln, The Monroe Journal with it issue of the 3rd, completed it twentieth year, and during all these years it has never missed an isue. neither has it evei in any way changed hands. It i one of the State's strongest and most interesting papers, and wi hope it continued "prosperity and many more years of usefulness. Augustus Koopinan. paintei and etcher, died in Trance on the 31st ult., after an illnes of sever al months due to paralysis. Mr. Koopman was born in Chaiiottt N. C in 1S09. and left this state in boyhood. lie was in the city of his birth last year, the first time in 30 vears lie was a verv celebrated artist. From the Times-Mercury we ham that in West Hickory there is a young man 18 years old w ho is afflicted with fits as a result oi the excessive use of cigarettes. He had several fits in church recent ly and it is said that when he has one, two or three men are re quired to hold him. He will prob ably, be taken to the hospital in Morganton for treatment. P. P. Claxton. Commissioner the United States Bureau of Edu cation approves a plan by which he says, two million children might be enlisted in vocational work. He says the practice of closing public schools in Slimmer is "primitive and preposterous," and tliat the most 'important problem of the day is tokeepcity boys from the three months con tamination in the streets." Convict Killed. Wilkes Patriot. Ernest McKae, a colored con vict who-was a member of the squad now at work on the W. & Y. R. It. R. on Elk creek in this countv, was crushed and instant ly killed last Monday afternoon about 3:30 o'clock bv an immense rock weighing several tons, which was loosened a few minutes be fore by a blast that was made in the rock cut in which the con victs were working,- and which hung to the blufi overhead until the convicts returned to their work after the blast was made. One of the guards noticed that the rock was loose and about to fall and gave the alarm. The un fortunate victim of the accident was unable to get out of the way of the rock and it fell squarely up on him, grinding his bones and flesh to a pulp on the rocks un derneath him. The body was in terred on the railroad right-of-way near the convict camp. This is the first serious accident that has befallen any of the con victs, every precaution having been taken to safeguard them, and the death of this poor fellow- is deeply deplored by the guards and railroad officials and employ ees alike. CASTOR I A For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature Cars Tt Bethlebea. A five line press dispatch car- lies ihe announcement tnnt ni French company of capitalists has secured from the Turkish government the right to con struct an electric railway from Jerusalem to Bethlehem, and in one year from now, it is stated cars will be in ojieration between the points named. Here we have another illustra tion of the relentless march of civ ilization. Along the beaten track which camels and donkeys tra versed nearly t wo t housand years ago this modem electric car w ill glide on rails of steel, and the flash of the trolly pole will be seen at the site whereon the stai of Bethlehem announced the birth of man's Redeemer. While one would not deplore fie triumph of man's inventive s vill, nor seek to iniede the pro gress of civilization, he must feel i tinge of regret that scenes so stored as these connected with the mystery of man's redemption aiust be ruthlessly invaded bv the modem money-maker. The raucous cry of "this car for Beth lehem!'' will be heard above the prayers of the devout faithful who walk along the roads which the Savior trod. There will be no sacrilege of ourse in the advent of street of street cars to Bethlehem; we ite the new order of things only to show that modernism knows io place that is Facred. It is a heartless destroyer of traditions and it stops not at sentiment. Could the shepherds who follow. d the star to Bethlehem come back again to the scenes of then pilgrimage they would see much whereat to marvol. Could King David see again the hills about liis birthplace he would not know them. But however modernized it may become, Bethlehem will always be Bethlehem to the Christian world. The hum of electric flyers cannot drive into oblivion the in- lescribable roll of music which the shepherds heard when they aught the first angelic note in the song of the world's redemp tion. And even when the smoke modern industry shall obscure the sky of the Holy Land, it w ill not blot out from the worshiping :yes of the faithful the blue vault overarching the plains of Bethle hem and the Judean hills, once resplendent with the star of the Nativity. Thin lines of steel may thread the paths made holy, but there will still remain that celes tial highway flungbv an Invisible Hand when the dream of waiting nations was accomplished.-Ashe-ville Citizen. HoRnmi.E Blotches of Eczemh Quickly cured by Dr. llobson's Eczema Ointment, C. P.Caldwell, of New Orleans, states: "My doc tor advised me to try Dr. Hob- son's Eczema Salve. I used three boxes of Omtmen and t h r ee cakes of Dr. llobson's Derma-Ze- ma soap. Today 1 have not a soot anvwhere on my body and van any x am tuicu, iv m v. the same lor you. it s sootnm healing, antiseptic action will rid you of all skin humors, black heads, pimples, Eczema blotches, red unsightly sores, ana leaves voiirckin clean and healthy. Get a box today. Guaranteed. All druggists 50c. or by mail. Pieiffer Chemical Co., Philadelphia orSt. Louis. J. Fletcher John H. Bingham Fletcher & Bingham. ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BOONE, NORTH CAKO. Will practice iu the courts of Wa tauga and adjoining counties. Care fnl and prompt attention given to all matters entrusted tons, It 20. 13. PROFESSIONAL. j ZZ : vr. m. i i,iuiT, Treat lit-ate ol tin Eye, Ear Nose and Throat BRISTOL TKX.V, 1 13 '14 ly, T. E. Bingham, Lawyer B00XE, s.C "Promptattention given to U marters of a legal nature Collections a specialty. Office with Solicitor F. A. Lin- Q.y 1-29. ly. pd. T.'A. Lovk. JamksC.Ci.ixk LOVE & CLINE, Attorneys-at-Laiv NEW LAND, - -N.C. Will practice regularly in the coun ties of Avery and all adjoining coun ties. The'eollectiou of claims a specialty. 2 27.'13 1 yr. VETERINARY SURGERY. I have been putting much study n this subject; have received my liploma, and am now well equipped 'or the practice of Veterinary Sur. jery iu all Its branches, and am the nly one in the county, all on or iddress me at Vilas, N. . R. F. D. 1. G. H. HAYES, Veterinary Surgeon. S-n-'ll. Dr. . M. WAURUN, - DENTIST. -) Sugar Grove, North Carolina, aar AH work done under guar aatee, and best material used. L13-'ll. E. S. COFFEY. -ATlOIMEl Al LAW, BOONE, N. C. Prompt attention given to ill matters of a legal nature. &B Abstracting titles and onection ol claims a special -F. 1-1 '11. Dr. Nat. T. Dulaney - SPECIALIST - 1 YE, EAR; NOSK, THROAT AND CHKST ETKS EXAMINED FOR GLASSES FOURTH STREET Eristol, Tenn.-Va. EDMUND JONES LAWYER LENOIH, N. C,- Will Practice Regularly in the Courts of Wateuga, 5-1 'ii, L, D. LOWE, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Banner Elk, N. C. Practice in the courts of Avery and surrounding counties. Care ful attention given to all matters of a legal nature. 7-6-12. F. A. LINNEY, -ATTOUNEY 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. Lovill. W. R. Lovill Lovill & Lovill -Attorneys At Law -BOONE, N. C. Special attention given to all business entrusted to their care. .. .. .. ,
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