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ROOSEVELT'S DESCRIPTION OF
MONKEY LAND
*4A remote but exceptionally important
bit of railroad building is, the
proposed extension of the Kenya Col
eny link into Uganda, which will link
Bombasa with the Nile/* says a bulletin
from the Washington, L>. C.
headou&rtevs of the National Geo
graphic Society.
"Pushing' the line 75 miles beyond !
its present terminus at Turbo will
open to coastal tiaveiers one of the
most diverse regions of the world,
from a geographic and scenic standpoint.
"The existing railroad gives ample:
prenr-t- of wbat lies beyond. When,
he entered Africa for his famous
Jion hunt the late Theodore Roosevelt
rode over this stretch on a locomotive
cowcatcher and when he
gave hts first lectun? before the National
Geogra?>hic Society after his'
^return he said: I really doubt if
there is a railroad trip irj the world
a< well worth taking as that up to
the little Ifritish East African capital.
. in . .,
x 11:. !erminv; i *r.- -;
tetti plated extension at Jinja. the
passenger syme day aiII emerge to .
view two of the world's notable natural
features- Victoria Nyenza. u
the south, and in the northern background
the criant Mount Elgon with J
its crater ten miles across and its
jagged rim rising o L4.00?? feel.
"Jinja :> located on the marvclouslv
beautiful gulf through which
the waters pour from the might\
lake over Ripen falls and enter upon '
the cawaded i d -wining course of j
the Victoria
"These are only two ot Uganda's
physical aspects wire* rfipgc from ;
snow capped mountains, some veiled
/n heavy mists, to and areas where
rain has rot fallen for periods of
two years.
"lr. the Uif* Va! y > . urioii:
people who are guiltlcs- . T eIotbes
bat exiremelv pair, -akirg <>: 'h
hair. Ti is most Ulnw<imahTjl for a
Suk wom;i' ? nave any ha. 01 ma
head. The men. how vn iet their
hair grow arul upon t father's deatl
his hair *is divalvd among his sons.
Each sou w;-;j\ e - hi into a > rt f
receptacle i?t win he place- his
snuff box .oroanu i. aid other valuable
trinkets.
"Sir Harry Johnson tells of another
tribe, tb Xhdoroho, who wander
among dense forests and gamehaunted
wildernesses. He says these
ing manner the lif- which we may
Andorohn reproduce u a most sinksuppose
to have been led by our faraway
ancestors in the earliest Stone
Ages- They lead in fact very much
the life that the most primitive types
of man lead in Great Britain and
Prance in the far back lays -l big
animals, possibly bet'on the coming
of the glacial periods.
"They live entirely by the chase,
often consuming the flesh of birds,
and beasts uncooked. Though they
corn mitt considerable devastations
nmnpf* rh?' frame I. be province
they are a picturesque feature when
. encountered.
"Joseph Thomson, founder of
British East Africa, which now is
Kenya, is famous for i:?.v : having
tired at a native. He first penetrated
Masai-land where the reality approaches
Kipling's fantastic lines.
"This is a sorrowful story.
Told when the twilight failAnd
the monkeys walk together,
Holding each others taiis."
"Sir Harry Johnson's Matsai-land
picture follows:
"Their towns are surrounded by
belts of tall trees, mainly Acacias,
. *rme u: wmcn may oe considerably
over a hundred feet in height, with
green boughs and trunks and everpresent
flaky films of pinnated foliage.
In the rainy time of the year
these trees are loaded with tiny golden
balls of flowers, like tassels of
floss silk, which exhale a most delicious
perfume of honey. In the
plains between the villages Grevy's
zebra and a few aryx antelopes
scamper about, whil?* golden and
black jackals hunt for small prey in
broad daylight with a constant whimpering.
"Enormous babboons .it in the
branches of the huge trees ready to
rifle the native crops at the icast
lack of vigilance on the part of the
boy guardians. Large herds of cattle
and troops of Isabella colored
donkeys, with bro^d black shoulder
stripes, go out in the morning tc
graze, and return through a faint
cloud of dust, which is turned golden
by the setting sun in the mellow
evening1, tne caxxie lowing and occasionally
fighting, the asses kicking,
plunging and biting one another,"
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NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS
Lenoir News-Topic. _
It may be just as well to say a
word in defense of this much maligned.
and as we think, much beslandered
"resolve."* It has always
been the habit to speak of it as being
in the class of those unexecuted intentions
with which, using a milder
word than is usuallv emDioved. the
nether world is said to he paved.
Some of these resolutions made on
the first of the year, it will be perhaps
admitted, have beer- kept to the
letter, and we submit that in such a
ease 'he "day of the year" as the
French call January first, should
have due credit. A promise or resolution.
made upon that day and lived
up to, is jo lit a* much entitled to the
meed of praise aa I hough made upon
another day.
It is true that this slighting regard
for the New Year resolution mayhave
originated in the obsolete habits
of a bygone era. It is comm ?n knowledge
that humanity "* *roT;V tV ? cer
tain dilatoriness and inclination to
postpone disagreeable duties to that
day that never comes, the manar.a"
of 'he Spanish. In the pleiocene. age
?We believe it. was chat age?theio
were men who in order to gam time,
ou 1 pui off the \ . i oay which their
10..1T u n.ito wives and perhaps
nth- friends were wishing on then,
to January I. a day certain but further
away than "manar.a" which
means tomorrow. During ' his interval
they felt themselves free to indulge
the habit which they proposed
to resolve aw.iy on January 1, upon
ui Jay they brawly "'swore off**
fr> oi he habit. oui : too many instaru-"
resinned ir - n the second day
of the ew year. These phoney resolutions
we:- i\\ t:." tion of
any wel! d< fined :?:? . its u o uo or
not to do hi-> thing, and the o: y weak
virtue they possessed was the vagnt
hope or wish ? :' w??ak th?ii|
in might abi? ' diser-*a' vie him
elf from a ieioo- hai-d that gripw|<!
: hint a< an octoi' . . Kv? t. n -uch instances
a -mah j>? : raagi ?but a
very small on??of the resolution-:
| v,i'o kept. The great :noderalu e
| - . broken New Yea' rr-se. ore- un!
her this particular read i-au e<i them
i to : regarded not only with suspii
e. ?n hut with di sheik i.
hi all seriousness it out duty to
! make ;? daily survey of our lives in
order ;. > detect any doiiuquences,
I eirhet of "mission or co'nmi
which we should resolve to amend,
but upon such a notable anniversary
as the beginning <?i a New i ca'
should we pay strict regard to this
matter. It is all the more necessary
to make .frequent surveys of this
ktnd because it is in human nature
to always take the 'dine of least re
y.-Unc/ ir. progress of lift- iAij
Ics-- ^tainofl against il by somi
i power outside of that nature. As the
poets a'J >ing. easy is the road down
I ward, away front what our hight't
{ nature, if given a chance, would 1
us to. n
We should sureiy pay as much ?e
ethical and spiritual condition a;
| business dues to its material prog
' ^
A satisfactory handful of
dollar s that the wise man present
lc? thf cashier of a
i SAVINGS BANK
within the leaves of hit bank book
Because he's sure of seeing it agaii
1 plus four per cent interest; becaus
he knows he's preparing for the sun
, set of bis life, and because it mean
I precious independence for him thee
j If spendthrifts could but once tast
I the joy of the rnoney-saver on hi
way to the bank with a handful o
saved dollars! A bank as courenien
in methods and hours as the
i ?.
Bank of Blowing Rock
Bl?wtmC Ro=t N. C.
1 i
ft OR. ALFRED W. DULA
| r BYE SPBCKI.OT
dfftHQW0 SEE BETTER
JHSC SEE DULA
17 Yw ' Experience
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IMMTW BLOCK, LENOIR. N. CJ
I .1/ TOO tot It ffo.u DCT.A. If. All Right I
* htm. WATCH BARER KIR DATES. *
rHt: WATAUGA DEMOCRAT?E VI
rcss. No business, big: cr little, can
I stand without frequent periodical
| inventories and surveys of T.he re la
tior?sh?p between profit and loss. The '
ofttner these >urvew are made, within
bounds, the greater chance of success,
if the conductor of business
>s best. As a matter of fact
many business houses do or car. mak
this survey every day and at cloy;
of business can show a balance sheet
, indicating the state of the business.
Business does this for one purpose
| -?to see that profits arc on the right
side and that losses are minimized,
in other words to insure the making
of money. The intellectual, aesthetic,
vthicc: and spiritual qualities in man
are subject to many more dangers
than the making of money, ana even
the making of money, unless carefully
watched, may have a delete-'
. rrous effect upon thcr growth.
Therefore it i? meet and piolw oit
I entering upon a new year to strike
i a balance and see if we arc acting
[ up to the standard set by a whole;
some, fuil-rounded, healthy human]
nature.
Tom Tarheel -ays that flow "?s the!
time for self-inquiry, In what way
was fni.ure made 02: the farm last
j year and how can 1' be remedied
this season?
Twenty carloads of lime and five ]
lime spreader.- were Purchased by
Wake < ounty farmer- to help with
their soil improvement next year reports
county agent J. ' . Anderson.
Ten farmers in Lincoln county ..re'
getting chicks ready foi the oa:ly|
maikei Some have taken off their'
Jfir:-i hatch and 1 ho incubators are'
now bu-y agnir. From twelve to fcf
! leer. thousand eggs wiii he -el from
row to th?- first ??f April to supply
eai< hit k< ns to hotels, report?
. :i t Morrison.
For 'j - v twenty y; ars th?- North ;
." 1; 11. ; - -? g * ?r ...
net e>. : L'OO " ;i - nave be .
made of th< different v . gties and
resit it.- -how ha; two three .11c
j (jajions. The. yiv the oaf- *0 b?
ted for mo * * : -fit w r. cot?, r
-.11 Dr. VV inters ?? the 1H vision :
Ag;' v-my.
11,000 WOMEN
uiooiun iu itm
mioomu in i qlj
Travelers Aid Societies Deciare
Over 900 Giris Have
Not Been Found.
New rorti.?More than lUOW f.r-t
anii women were retried ralss.ng
' j daring 1V?2 t?jr police headiuar:**ra *a
1
/or iifonomicc
jSgjg
SUPERIOR MODE!
$59
s
? We can furnish yc
t rolet line on easy mor:
We refer you to
Chevrolet owners in 1
of them in use for n
, without one cent for i
The Booi
WALTER JC
ERY THURSDAY?BOONE. N. C.
33 Amtrkan elites. and approximate
Ij puu of them had not been located
by December 3L
These figures were gathered by the
National Aseoriation vf Travelers Aid
.Societies of this city in an effort to
estiiuata the number and types of persons
who drop out of sight each year.
uepons n-om m cities, me association
said, rave a total of 31.638 men.
vtniien and children who disappeared,
about 2,54.H) of whom were not found.
Seeking for people who disappear
Is u part of Travelers Aid service
trhlcb protects Inexperienced travelers
from harm by giving advice and belp
at rai!r<v?d stations and steamship
piers, according to John R. Shillady.
general director of the National association.
Work? in 160 Cities.
"Travelers Aid workers In 10O cities
helped more than 2.000,000 persons
last year.** he said. -Raring thousands
Of Kir Is frr.w being lured off by designing
individuals in crowded stations.
TIi? service helped all travelers,
from tutors Information seekers to
those in dire emergency."
Police reports show that In New
Tor!. i-:fr * AAA clrlo atid wo-non Vdrt>
reported missinc !n 1022, l.GT?2 of
whom were cirls nnder twnty-oQfc
yen rs. Chienco recorded l.f?40; TjOS
AnyeU s. 1.020: Philadelphia, 1,000:
St. Loui* h::-. 70S; San Francisco. 471,
and Detroit. 311. About '*'1 per cen*
of the mlfsing were finally located?
dead or nlive?but the record? show
that many had undertime experiences
worse than death.
T.arge *r these Retires are. they rep
recon* only :p out one-htil? of the act
ur! number of those who actually
dropped ??ut ef siirht at some titr.e
during the year. in the opinion of
Cap: John IT. Aver?, chief of the hit
reau of mi-* nz persons. New York
city.
Fail tc Report Disappearances.
"P(i.| le often fall to report d,sappea
rlnp members of their family to
nc because they mistakenly fear we
will brtni* publicity upon them, when
that T< the*last thine we want to do,**
said CV pt 1 n Avers in n statement to
the National association.
"Many also drop nut of ?!cht who
l ave no ore sufficiently interested to
make . In otir beat hidirment.
w ' -c?5 rt fair to double nctnal fi?:res.
n .* :!r.it a total of 4 *P2 women
and il- ? vew- York . -:t\. .?f whom
" *-! ft-rfi ? ,>r tnort? r?- rrnrs nt
ac?? If r' rnt'o f d!si?pnpnrHT'-f
v; '- c? "J for the \ fitted
a? "ip'ips ?' New T?rk ritv thon wr
?\-r ?r-'v? by nn arithnn*'?r*0 com
" tbo total f.?r r>:*? T'nff.w1
*?* -'< ! ! will appr'^liiiat'1 Wl.mv
? " - trfc. prr * iMy disappear an
r." 1 v
'* must he un<ior*toof
*- *-r.q. ar?- n ?t permanent d{?ap
- 1-T.n at a vary larco ?pni
? :ed *<>r Onr r*> r<5 for lasi
#-r- wuc (1A ppr rpnt found.*'
STOCKHOLDERS MEETING
\ -*.i cMhoIdt.-:^ f the Brush
*. h??vt r :i : !> arc urged t
<*r. annual meeting o
Jar i '-i ill the above name
| ohee-c- .actory. at 2 p. m.
J. H. HAYES, Prwddei
IJ AS. H BINGHAM Secy
I It anspci't
gjfeig/
L TOURING CAR
0.00
>u anything in the Chev
ithly payments,
any one of over thirty
Watauga County?some
early eighteen months
repairs.
ie Garage
)HNSON, Mgr.
I
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A Striking Va
Considering the improved i
| I appearance o) the new
I Ford Touring Car. one
would naturally expect a ,
proportionate advance in
price.
Larger scale production,
however, has made it posi
sihle to incorporate in this
new type touring car a .
aumlvr ol decided improvemetiis
without inThii
Car can be obtamed thrmcgh t
I J. B. TAYLOR, f
TRi?Cl?
"Our Faxnil
?
"T WILL WRITH you in regard'
X to Black-Draught liver medicine,
as 1 have been using it
more than 18 years," says a letter
from Mr. S. F. Mintz, of R. F. D. 2,
Leland, N. C. "I keep it in my
home ail the time, for it is mostly
our family medicine. When we
begin to feel feverish or sluggish,
with trouble from the liver or
stomach, we take a dose of
'Thed ford's Black-Draught and the
trouble is soon over. I mostly buy
a dollar package at a time, and it
has saved me msay a bill."
Thcdtocd's Black-Draught is a
Ttwd
J BLAOK-l
j H A Purely Vegetal
i
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A Faitl
F
I
A Bank Account
It never deserts i
deserts it.
When everything
him the man with
still has a faithful
Stand back of yo
NOW and it will
THEN.
The PeopI
Trust
BOON
JANUARY 10, 1924.
<$ar J
295=
r-i " 1 ;
, I
. , ?:t' .
lue??at *295
creasing its cost to the
purchaser.
A comparison extending 11 j
over a long period of years R \ k
will reveal the Let that j ?
the present price is actually
the lowest a? which
the iive-p ts&enger open I *?
car has ever been sold.
The Ford Touring Car
stands today, as it always
has, a most re ma rkiible lt|
value in the motorcar field. ,
Ac Ford ffrrklr Purchasr Plan | .
i
5oone, N. C.
WiC |j
TXACTOM
y Medicine" n ,
I purely vegetable remedy, acting on HLi
j the liver, stomach and bowels. It ffj
is made trom selected herbs and ntB
roots, and contains no calomel or ST J
other mineral drugs. MM
It has been found ot great value, >* |j
in indigestion, stomach trouble, Art
sick headache, constipation, and SP?K
laay liver, helping to relieve the
symptoms caused by these
troubles, and to put the digestive
system into proper working order. MM
Oct a package of Black-Drmuglit 1
liver medicine trom your druggist MM
or dealer, today. Be sure to get jb_ j
the genuine?Thtdford'a. HPS
lord's Eg
in aiiAiiv EJ
IK AII o il I P ?
tie Liver Medicine
? ? JjPjf'
SPJrrTriyf^ai
iful
"R8END
is a faithful friend ^
a man until a man
; else goes back on
money in this bank
friend.
ur bank account
stand back of you
es Eankfe i
Company
IE. N. C.