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VOL. XXV UOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, THURSDAY, JUNK 4 1911. NO. 43. i h J i i 1 VISIT TO THE BOLT LAKDS. Kmtdr Pf.motrat: A oin of my Wataupi fin-iuls may I interested in my rwwttripto the Holy Land, and the Orient, and may care to know what places am' ;jountries I vwited. I am en closing this letter stating the game. Our party first landed at Fue ual Maderia, w hich is noted for its natural beauty. We visited the old Cathedral that Columbus was married in, and the Metho disd mission, and other places of minor interest. From there we went to Cadiz and Seville, Spain, where we saw much of the Moor ish architecture, and many of Murillow's noted painting.. We saw the tomb of Columbus and the great jewelry made of the met al that the early explorers carried from America. Next we visited the fortification of Gibraltar, and from there we went to what was once the home of the Pirates, Al geire, Africa. These were all places of note and historical interest, but not to be compared with the places we were to visit, next. Athens with its Acropolis surrounded by Mars Hill, Xynx, Socrates' prison, Stadium, and the temples to Ju piter and Theus. all in full view is truly a thriiling and an inspir ing place. Constantinople, with its many mosques, and the Con Btantinechurch.St. Sophina, with the Temple, the Museum, the Bos phorus, the filthy streets and dir ty people, and the fact that they have starved their dogs to death, all combined, gives interesting things to see and think about. Next we concentrated our-attention on the noted and inspir ing country of Palestine. Here we saw too many things to be gin to tell about, but I shall speak of them briefly and pass on to Egypt. We landed at Haifa and went to Jerusalem by the way of Nazareth, Gallilee, and Samaria, from Jerusalem we drove to Jor dan, Jerico and the Dead Sea. We visited such places as, Caper naum, Bethsada, Mt.. of Beati tudes, CanaMt of transfiguration, Mt. Tabor, Little Hermon, Valley of Esdrallon, Samaria, Shecham, Mt. Ephriam, Betel, Bethlehem, Mt. of Olives and Calvery, We took the train fron Jerusalem to Joppa, and from there we went to Cario, where we saw the Pyramyds, Sphinx, Obelisk and in the Museum we saw the mummies of the Pharaoes, that ruled at the time of Moses, and many other ancient Egyptian relics. After this our cruise turned westward, landing next at Naples, where we went through the Nat ional Museum, the Aquarium, and the great Cathedral. Then we started for the world renoun ed city, Rome, where we found ourselves in the midst of such places as St. Pauls and St. Peters Cathedrals, the greatest in the world, the Vatican, the Forum, the Coloseum, the Catacumbs, the Appiani Way, and the many other places of less interest which help to make it a wonderful and charming city. We went from Rome to Pompeii and from there to our boat; at Naples. Ournext and last stop was at Villilanche, where we took a n automobile ride on the foot-hills of the Alps, by way of Nice and Monte Carlo. After this grand drive, our atten tion turned homeward. Up to this t ime the weather had been beauti ful and the sea calm, but from this time on they were to be re versed; great storms and waves did not fail to afford excitement, and break up the monotory, Yet it all added to the richness of our experience. Now as I have stated in a rug ged and poorly organized manner the major facts concerning my trip, yet I have told but Jittfo A firtautt Aecitfeit Two miku from Itooiw, on th Bonn and Blowing tax-It turn pike, are two bridges. They have bet n iu great nd of repair for sometime. Their condition was mentioned at the meeting of the stockholders on the 25th of May in Boone. This was the meeting at which the stockhnlders decided to pay a 7 per cent dividend aud then borrow enough money tore pair these bridges and put the turnpike in fine condition. It is a pity the latter had not been at tended to in advanve of the first. For, by the merest chance, a hor rible accident was narrowly aver ted last Thursday morning, when one of two wagons csossing one of these bridges broke through and fell to the creek be low, greatly damaging the freight it carried and injuring one of the mules rather severely. It had scarcely been an uour since a heavy automobile passed over the same unsafe structure. How it escaped is a m iracle. The driv er of the wagon which fell, saved himself from great bodily harm by jumping. If he had fallen in to the creek and the heavily load ed wagon had fallen on him, he might have been killed or serious ly injured. The wagon which fol lowed had entered on the same bridge, but the driver managed to pull it back so far that it did not go down. The driver of the first wagon, which fell, was Don bowles while his brother drove the second wagon. It may seem strange that this should be called a fortunate acci dent; but is it not so? . Suppose that bridge had stood till an au tomobile loaded with women and children crossed it, and had fal len with its precious freight! Suppose the second and higher bridge had fallen under similar circumstances. It is higher than the one that fell, and those falling with it would inevitably have been bably injured if not killed. Suppose again, this had happen ed at the height of the summer season. What would the cost bave been to the turnpike com pany in diminished tolls? What would it have cost Boone in de m unshed visitors? As it is, the damage will be considerable, It might have been enormous later on. Now the turnpike company has time to strengthen every bridge and culvert from here to Blowing Rock, before the fhe summer traf fic begins. And if the, company, with this warning before it, neg lects to do its duty, the divi dends of many years will be wip ed out if the case ever comes be fore a Watauga county jury. Dividends are all right when earn ed. They are never earned till the turnpike is placed in a safe and practical condition. The President of the turnpike company has promptly taken over the damaged freight and will decide on and pay all other damages at once. Uinldren dry FOR FLETCHER'S r.ASTORI A about it, as it would take a book to do so, furthermore words can not express the thrilling inspira tion that one gains from such travel, neither can they express the amount of mental food gain ed tor the intellect to feed upon in the future. This little write up I am send ing, hoping that you may find it worth printing. I am such a poor writer that I hesitate to attempt anything of the kind, but as I had made this trip I felt that it would hardly be right that I not make some statement of it in my home paper. Yours Truly, B. II, Harm an. STATE AXO CEXEtAl REIS. m- The caruil toll will be acted on this wkf Dry weather and forest fire are reported about LiovilleFulw. W. O. Bradley, republican sen ator from Kentucky died on the 23rd of Mar. Vera Cruz has been thoroughly cleansed by the U S. army, un der Gen. Fred Funston. Last week and and this week are given over to college com mencements generally. The President ha9 appointed three cammiasionera to build the Alaska railroad. Congressman Wbb was appoin ted chairman of the Judiciary committee of Congress May 27th. Great Britian has finally decid ed not to take part in the Panama-Pacific Exposition at San Francisco next year. The Irish home rulejpassed par liment last week by a majority of 77. It now goes to the house of lords. Mr Asquith, premier, prom ised several amendments. Mr. W. B. Matheson, president of the Bank of Alexander, celebrat ed his 75th birthday last Satur day, he may celebrate many more natal days. Taylorsville Scout. The Salem Female college con ferred an honorary diploma upon Mrs. Stonewall Jackson, a destin- guished alumna of that noted in stitution. The English suffragetts insult ed King George last week, ruined many fine works of art and tried to .destroy the .water works at Glascotf . All because Mrs. Pank hurst was again arrsted. N. B. Broughton, of Edwards and Broughton Printing Co., Raleigh, ditd at Philadelphiahos pital on the 26th, after having undergone an operation. Messrs. Duncan and Moorehead were appointed a committee at a conference of the Republicans and Progressives at Greensboro on the 2Gth of May, to try to recon cile the two factions in this State. The question of amalgamating the various sects of the Presby terian church, will not prbably be considered by the Southen Presbytarians in this general as sembly at Kansas Crty. Col. Roosevelt visited the Smithsonian Institute, inspected the stuffed animals he had killed in Africa, took dinner with friends, called on the President and con ferred with the Progressives in Washington on the 2(5th of May. The committee of the Chamber of comrarce of the U. S., on stat istics, reports that the general prospect for a large yield of fruit of all kinds, with the possidle ex ception of peaches, has not been equaled in ten years, with the ex ception of 1912. Miss Emma Lehman, for fifty years a teacher in the Salem Fe- male college at Winston-Salem, presented by the alumnae with a hansome loving-cup filled with gold coin, and a magnificently bound memorial volume contain ing letters from contrbutors. Last issue of The Topic carried the pleasing announcement that the First Nat ional Bank of Lenoir would be open for business in a few days. This issue gives the de finite information that the bank has opened under the most auspi cious circumstances. The confi dence which the public has mani fested in the bank under new man agement is very gratifying, and the feeling of security which now prevails will mean mucJi to the business interests of the commu nity as a whole. Lenoirj Topic. PaiNTUSS PAXAGIIFHS. Tiiu t swat Vm. tit-t out your riy-trapi. There are no fogs iu Bmih Subscribe for the Democrat. There will soon be no tiks in Boone.' Watch Boone grow and the other town blow. Plenty of white horses, but no red-headed girls in Boone. O Miss Mary, quite contrary not 'ludeif at Mrs. Edward Bun combe, however. We are having our drv time the navy's is coming July the first. Those Hottentot kraaal fences are still standing or. rather, they are still falling down. No excuse seems be better than a poor one, in the estimation of Mrs. Edward.s chapter. According to Charles S. Mellen the late J.1 P. Morgan was in the same class with Robin Hood each the greatest financier of his day. Huerta will discover what the fun in General Funston's name stands forifthefun ever really be gins, and there won't be any fun in it either. Funny, isn't. Charles S. Mellen was probably one of the men to" whom the late J. P. Morgan would have loaned a million dollars on his charac ter alone. Morgan thought he knew Mellen, and he did. The present fashion reveals al most too much of the female from devine for modesty, but not for matrimony, think its most brazen votaries. ; Bon is French for good; Boon is Engiish for gooder, and Boone is North Carolina for thegoodest littlo town. in the mountains. "No blackmail for Columbia" is Teddy's first note of peace on his return from the River of Doubt. Well, in view of certain Big Stick proceedings, Columbia probably considers him an excel lent judge of blackmail himself. The Psalmist might will have stood at sunrise in June on the highest peak of the Grandfather mountain the oldest land in the world when he sang: "Lift up your heads, 0 ye gates, and be ye lifted up, ye everlostingdoors, that the King of Glory come in!" One of these days, believer, one of these days, we are going to pine for our lofty mountain pines so "dewy dark", the de struction of which we now view with such complacency. The split and divided skirts are all right in their place on a man's leer, ah, lower extremi ties. If the new-fangled cheese-mak ers succeed in putting the limber ger oder into our mountain form- age ,we shall have to get mufflers for our olfactories as well as ourautos. The New Haven railroad was peculiarly a New England enter prisebuilt and managed by New England methods and New England men Mellen and Mor gan. Yet, these people send men down here to "write us up" and proclaim that civilization has stood still for more than hun dred years in these North Caro lina mountains! If "beautvunadornd's adorned the most," there is no need of dress- reform, the present female fashions filling the bill perfectly. Mrs. Edward Buncombe's chapter of silence as to why it re- fuses to include a picture of the Boone cabin monument in the forthcoming history of Wertern North Carolina, will become a volume if it continues much lon ger. mEWKlDNEYPlIIS Fob BaCK&CHC KtOMWH0BLDOM Prsence of mind in loving is apt to indicate absence of heart The ten negro voters who rust their ballot h in the democratic primary at Ahvillefor i. S. Key nold. in his rix- for the demo crat ie iioiniiiatioii as congress man from the luth ditrit t, had their trouble for their pains, their votes having been excluded by the convention of Buncome coun ty. Resolutions condeming the voting of negroes and republicans iu deimtcratk- primaries were adopted. Coi'uhed For Three Years. "I am a lover of your godsend to humanity and science. Your medicine. Dr. King's New Discov ery, cured my cough of three yr. standing." says Jennie Flemming of New Dover," Ohio. Have you an annoving cough? Is it stub born and won't vield to treat ment? Get a 50c bottle of Dr. King's New Diseoverv today. What it did for Jennie Flemming it will do for you, no matter how stubborn or chronic a cough may be. It stops a cough and stops throat ana lung trouble. Relief or money back. 50c and 1.00 at your druggist. Bucklen's Arnica Salve for pirn pies. After being in session for 18 days, the general conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, South, ad?ounied sine die May 23rd. There will be no change in the name of the church. It was resolved to raise $ 105,00 an nually for education, and that all money due Vauderbilt University theoligical degartment to June 30. 1914. be paid. Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S CASTOR! A ' m tm There's always room at the top and always a crowd at the bot tom. Executors Notice. Having qualified as Executors of Levi Morpliew, deceased, all peraone having claims against said estate are hereby notified to present them duly authenticated wlthlu 13 months from the date hereof or this notice will be pleaded in bar of thoir recovery, and all persons due the said estate are hereby requested to make immediate payment. This May 26 1914. C A. Grubb, J. M. Morphew, Executors. Lumber for Sale! We now have our steam saw mill located about one mile above Winkler's mill, andean fill bills on short notice. Lum ber delivered if wanted. W. L. HAYNES & BRO. NOTICE. All persons indebted to me either note or account will please come for ward at once and make settlement as I am bound to collect. Heed this notice and save trouble, March 23, 1914 Ji. L. MAST. 8 25, 2 iu JOHNSON COUNTY FARM FOR SALE. This farm Is located 1 i miles south nftha nrnanornm little tOWD of But ler, Teun., which has ths best eduoa tional facilities of any town of Its site Id East Tennessee Two 9 months and school property to the value of $30,000 in ithe town; several up to date stores, a good bank and other business enterprises. This farm contains about 160 acres -80 acres of river bottom, 15 acres of the uplaud practically level, and the remainder can be cultivated with ma chinery. All of this farm is in a good state of cultivation and will produce from 40 ' o 60 bushels of corn per acre aud other crops iu proportion. About 19J unroll nlunrfwl. A llfiW tWO StOrV frame dwelling house with six large nvima' tn stnrv front Diazzas and long buck porch; smoke house, wash house, two large narus, two mree room tenat houses, nearly new; fine f- otnna Vlfpr ill V&rd With COD crete spring house. Every field is well watered, the fana having seven good spriugs on it and no wet laud from them at all. This is one of tne most beautiful homes iu in this'coun trtr in.l run hu hlllltfllt til IS SUIUUier for 10 000. For further particulars write or can on II. M. WAGNER. Butler, Tennessee, PROFESSIONAL. J .!. Fletrusr John H. Biugbaa Fletcher & Bingham, ATTORNEY; AT LAW. BOONE, NORTH CARO. Will practice in the courts of Wi taiga and adjoining counties. Car fnl and prompt attention given to all matters entrusted tons. It IU. 11 Dr. G. M. Peavler, Treats Diseases of the Eye, Ear Hose and Throat BRISTOL TENN., 1 15-141y, T. E. Bingham, Lawyer BOONE n.c W Prompt attention .eiven to U mart era of a legal nature Collections a specialt. Office with Solicitor F. A. Lin- ney 1-29 ly. pd. T. A. Lot, James C. Clisk LOVE & CLINE, Attorney s-at-Law NEWLAND, - - N.C. Will practice regularly in the ooun ties of Avery and all., adjoining coun ties. Tbe.'ollectlon of claims a specialty. 8-27.'13 1 yr. VETERINARY SURGERY. "I Lave been putting much study jn this subject; have received my liploma, and am now well equipped for the practice of Veterinary Sur ery in all Its branches, and am the only dm In th aoaaty. , all on, or tddress me at Vilas, N. . R. F. D.l . i. H. HAYES, Veterinary Surgeon. J-n-'ll. E, S. COFFEY, -ATlORAEf A7 LAW,- BOONE, N. C. Prompt attention given to all matters of a legal nature. tit" Abstracting titles and nonaction of claims a special ll-'ll. Dr. Nat. T. Dulaney SPECIALIST (IK, EAR; NOSE, THROAT AND CHEST KTES EXAMINED FOR GLASSES FOURTH STREET Bristol, Tenn.-Va. EDMUND JONES LAW YER LENOIR, N. C,- Will Practice Regularly in the Courts of Watuga, 6-1 Mi. L,jD. LOWE, ATTORNEYAT LAW. Banner Elk, N. C. Practice in the courta of Avery and surrounding counties. Care ful attention given to all matters of a legal nature. 7-6-12. F. A. LIN NEY, -ATTORNEY AT LAW,- BOONE, N. C. Will practice in the courts of the 13th Judicial District in all matters of a civil nature. 5-11-1911. E. F. Lovill. W. R. Lovlll Lovill & Lovill -Attorneys At Law -BOONE, N. C Special attention given to all business entrusted to their care, , . , .
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