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V V For HacKett 6 Carhart Men's and Boy's Clothing Go to " 18 Patt on Avenue " I ' lM ' They are absolutely all wool, hand tail ored garments. There is no better Boy's Clothing made. -c ' I ji il III f ? - -v.: ; "' TOE SPARKLING WA TA VGA by Bin wtvrz. I spent so much time the other day blowing my own horn, throwing oft on the Intelligent compositor mid wiling Into the phrase-makers that I had no space left to say much ahout the Un ville country or its environment. However, that's all rlKht. Shcp. Duk Ker has Immortal ined both in his peer less book, known far and wide, and railed "The Balsam Groves of the Grand Father Mountain." 1 have no apologies to make, however, for when a man gets n chance to argue his own rase, to silence the other side, and to decide all the disputed points in hi own favor and doesn-t do it. he is more or less of a man that 1 am now or ever wish to he. However, Home more, even Shep Dugtter couldn't say all that ought to be said about this matchless scenery, and so 1 plead with the unintelligent editors and proprietors of this journal of civiliza tion to have my say too. I have had it hinted to me that if I would only do what I set out to do and really talk about the scenery and the country in stead of myself my diatribes would be more welcome; However guess I better not ride that horse to death before 1 get started. Standing In Unville gap one feels exactly as if one were astride the roof-tree of the world. Of course we all know just how that feels, having .stridden It so often. I said that Ik the way "one" feels, though which or what one, 1 am too discreet to' say. I am simply trying to be grammatical. The grammarians, you know. Insist that "one" should he used as a sort of impersonal or double personal pro noun, upplving to neither or to either sex ainl both fenders and every mood and tense of maid or man, in the nni- I verse. n thitiK I know about "one" nid that one is Me. 1 felt that way when 1 stood in that gup. . 1 felt high up. And I was high up. too. No de nying that fact. Just think of being in a gap of the I'.lue Kldge 41110 feet above the "blistered billows of the tropic seas." I hate like the very mis chief to put them "blistered billows" in quotation marks; but 1 know If I The PALIAS ROYAL 5 & 7 South Main St Ladies, we are go ing to pay you for reading this "Ad" Every woman who reads this ad and then cuts it out and brings it to our store can have any suit in the store at 10 Per Cent Discount ' If yon get n $15 suit, you gSAVE $1.50 If you get a $20 suit, you SAVE $2.00 I - 4 -X- , i v. 'V Tf yon get a $25 suit, you SAVE $2.50 Wo make this unusual offer in order to 'test the value of Tiew.spaer ndvertising. "We 'know "that an ojortunity to save from $l.f0 to $2.50 will look good, to any woman who reads this "ad" and we aro willing to piny out the neeeHa ry amount tct learn he value of newspaper advertising. Millinery Bargains for Sat urday, Oct.' 21st. Best assort ment in the city. I " " don't I'M' be found out, sure and ex posed.. .That's what hurts- not bains "ketehed." but beinB "told on." How ever, now that I think of it. I am going to take the "blistered billows" riaht out of them quotation marks a?Hin. For the true quotation Is "blis tered rlpplee." Ho "blistered billows" belongs to me, and, belnir alliterative, is a vast improvement on blistered ripples. Well, being in l.inville sap is "sor ter" like being at the North or South pole you eatinot go in any direction from there without going somewhere else. It Is really an improvement on the North pole, at least; for Com mander Peary said he couldn't get any further north than where he was when be got there, but you can get much I u rt her north from Unville gap If you really wish to. And, too, the North pole is on a level with the Atlantic, tin- Pacific, the Indian and all the other oceans In the world, for PenTy let down his lead there and lost it. Hut Unville gap Is over 4000 feet above the Atlantic, and I don't know how many feet above the Pai'lll" ocean, which distance I don't believe has ever been "medjured." I venture the startling scientille prediction that when the South pole Is finally reached It will be discovered that It has one vast and far reaching advantage over tile Nurth pole, and that is that it will be possible for even Commander Peary to go a little further north of It if he should try bard enough. Mark the prediction, and remember the author when the time comes. Well, again, to return to the summit of the next above foregoing and im mediately preceedlng paragraph, n the lawyers say when they do not wish to give the other fellow n single chance to quibble over an immaterial point. I never have been able to see why the I'nited States mint at Chr- otte or Philadelphia does not coin that 'sorter" Into one good, solid and substantial word and make It current as a genuine legal tender In the open marts of literature. If Congressman ilMdger realised Its orphaned and counterfeit condition I know he would immediately starts out on its joitrnel to the Mississippi and the Ciulf of Mexico without bug or baggage of uny description whatever. This fork is named after Jesse Boone, a brnthet of the immortal Daniel, been use he used to live on Its banks or one of them I forgot which... Westward Is McCanless' gap I used to know n mighty pretty girl by that Mime McCanless. not gap but she went i IT and got "married and that set tled all her beauty for me. After passing through McCanless gap you come to Banner's Elk, one of the most romantic little valleys in the world, surrounded as It is by the highest and the bluest mountains in the state, among them 'being the Iteech. the Sugar and Hanging Rock. Hev. Dr. It. V. Campbell of this city has a sum mer home there, and it is the resort of many other visitors during the heated term. The Southern Presbyte rian church supports a line school whose intlucnce in felt for miles and miles around. There Is one good hotel devoted to the entertainment of sum mer visitors and another which cares for commercial travelers and the traveling public generallc. .Maple syrup, made from the sugar maples which cover the mountain known ns Sugar mountain, and buckwheat cakes, are eaten here till the summer through, and they nre delicious. There are two of the largest and best stocked stores here of any place I know of; whereas 35 years ago one log store house half filled with goods more than sufficed for the wants of all the people living; there then. In the Sugar moiinhiin old people still point out tile spot which tradi tion designates ns th$ camping place of a man who hid out there during the Revolutionary war to escape serv ing against the British. He was a Tory. His name even Is still remem bered there, though 1 have forgotten it. Here, too, near the old Lewis Ban ner mill, is what geologists call a pud ding stone of roc k. It la a conglomer ate composed of a multitude of round ed, whitish Mint-like rocks, the size of rtna'a l',mt amhnrlili.il In n ,.h.,eitl ,i t n have It stamped as a coin of the realm jcolorwl mttteriB, ow almost as hard al the stones it contains. They are or of the republic, nt least. But to get away from "Well," and "However," standing in Unville gap you reslly nre In medlas res. Or course. If I thought those Latin words really meant anything so common place as "In the middle of things" I "ijcl not have made use of them In this chaste and re lined and sublimated discourse on subliminal subjects. Rut, being there In Unville gap it is easy to go down hill In almost any direction except that of the great ilrand Father mountain which still carries on a lonely existence several miles away from the Grand Mother mountain, from which he seems to have obtained a divorce some years before our courts of Justice were es tnhlishec! In North Carolina. The Unville river rises In this gap and flows east of the Blue nidge, while Roone's Fork bC the Watauga river rises only a few feei further west and Honestly Now V fj,,, t Do You Want That rythmic, bounding health that fits one for '. Success .if.'--. - . and furnishes tlie energy to "go .after it!" ' Then try a , course of projter feeding. , A good start in to liegin with Grape-Nuts t j - t i-. nad cream the food which builds up Nerves and Brain in Nature ' own way with out .which tliere is no per fect' hcalth-no perma nent success, . , "There'i a Reason" : ... for . Grape-Nuts t Postnm Cereal Company, I,(d Battle Creek; Mich. just such rocks or stones as nre seen in branches and creeks, worn smooth by the water. It is a solid mass of some twenty or thirty feet In width, as I recall It, and of unknown thic k- ness. Some ctf it was sent to the Phil adelphia centennial as a curiosity. Crossing Mow cr y mountain you come to Valle CTucis on the lovely Watauga river; so called because Bishop Ives saw in the valley the re semblance to a cross where two c reeks. (lowing from opposite directions, en ter the Watauga river at light angles. It was here, years before the civil war that he established a sort of brother hood or theological seminary it be ing a disputed matter as to which he was seeking to establish here. It was abandoned during the war; but the Episcopalians have since restorted It to f.ir more than its former glory and usefulness, two magnificent buildings crowning the slope of s hillside and overlooking a lovely vulley. Here this denomination maintains a mis sion church and sc hool, and the good both have accomplished already Is In calculable. This Is probably the most heautl ful valley In the mountains of North Carolina. It was here in these broad bottom lands that lledent Kalrd, who built the first house la Ashevllle, set tied, and left a large and Influential family. 1 Eight or ten miles from Valle Crusls. according to the road you travel, la Boone, the highest court house town east of the Rocky Moun tains, being 1322 feet above the sea. Two good hotels are here, and the Appalachian school, consisting of sev. end large and attractive buildings, where many hundreds of young peo ple are educated during the regular terms, and where teachers are trained during the summer. It Is supported by the state and does excellent ser vice to this section. In a field hear one or tne dormitories, tn a ience cor tier, "Squire Bryan, a kinsman of Wil liam Jennings Brysn and one of whose relatives was married by Daniel Iloone, will point out to you the foun dations of the chimney of the cabin Iloone used to occupy when here on hunting trips from Hoi man's Ford, Here, too, Is the Watauga Democrat whose circulation goes Into almost every home in that part of the state. and a lovely little girl who used to pet lovely horse and make me wish i had four legs myself. Her name Is Ima and she can set type with the best. i Watauga Is one of the richest cumin In the montitains. ' It rati the pest apples and cattle to be found out of J lay wood. It is distinctively grass country. The homes are the best In the state. The people are the best educated and most advanced of any I know anywhere. They are hos pitable and well Informed. They think they need a railroad, hut know better. By the time a railroad gos through there, with h trumps and Its deadliest, Watsotia will lose half Us charm for hie unci many others who know when they are well off. Four miles from Boone is Three Forks Baptist church, the ob'est in this section. It celebrated its ccn tennary many years ago. Three churches have been built there, each larger than the former, and each well filled with devout worshipers every Sunday. Its singing class was the best I heard while I was on that trip, and I think took the prize that fall. Four miles further east is Cook's gap. formerly called Boone's gap, and through which Daniel passed on his way from Holman's ford to Cumber land gap many years ago. The old Indian trail he followed is still dis tinct and does not look unlike an old cart road. A few miles south of this place 1 took dinner with an old geii tlemhn and his wife. They live alone now, after the death of their line young son who, a few short years ago, achieved distinction in the I'nl versity of North Carolina both as a student and as a baseball player, lie contracted typhoid fever on chic of bis trips with his ball team and came home only to' die. The old father and I caught a mess of line trout from a small creek Mowing through his ineadow, In a few moments. He said the creek had no name. His name was John Story, and 1 told him to call the creek Story's Kquily, but he did not see the point. That afternoon, late, I limped into Blowing Hock, a nourishing village more than a mile in length, ami ex tending along the main road from the top of the Blue I'.idge. When I tlrst visited this place, .17 years ago, a Mr. Morris and a Mr. Estes were the only residents. Now there nre four or live fine hotels1, many magnificent resi dences, and a country estate rivaling Hiltmore in magnificence that of the ConeS. From Blowing Rock go out two mails that are world-famous the result, largely, of the splendid faith of one small scrap of a man by the name of S. If. Kclsey. He had no money and little, physical strength. ie was a stranger in a strange land.! Vet his fullh literally overcame moun tains. For he built roads and towns where no roads and no towns had been before, and he called the atten tion of the world to a section of coun try that is unsurpassed in the world for the magnificence of Its scenery and the healthf illness of Its atmos phere. (If course he did not do it all, "lie had helpers and friends. But he was the pioneer. He had built Highlands in Macon county, and then with Mr. Havenel, the father of our townsman. S. P. Ravenel, esq., he went to Wa tauga, and In co-operutlon with a Sir. McKae of the eastern part of the state founded Linville City, dammed back Unville lake, built the turnpike from Blowing Rock to Boone and from Blowing Rock around the base of Grandfather mountain to Linville City. . He also did much to have a road built from Elk Park by Valle Critcls. Watauga has more and bet ter roads than Mecklenburg, when the character of the country is con sidered. But It Is in the Yonahlossle road that Kelsey will live longest. It I? almost level and runs along the top of the Illue Ridge for miles until It comes to the foot of the Grandfather, when it literally digs a foothold and keeps along Just as though It were not performing wonders. It passes near Kelsey postofflce, named In honor of the builder of this splendid highway. Unville City to a mile or two from Pinola or Saganaw, a lumber village at the end of a narrow guage rail road running up from Elk Park. It has a Tine hotel, school, churches and monuments to their hieninry linvlng ; been erected there by. the ; United Slates government last summer a year ago. Then 1 am g"ln:,' to Shull's .Mills, where 1 nm going to spend a month and live on buckwheat cakes and niaplo syrup. MOW IS THE Tim to ict-ifCl luxd HEATER We offer Cclc's Hillflmil Hot ntr.lt touting J..vi' with c.iitVh ilicjr nr.- the t-"t muilc. YiSI ,le MOl'Mt cimtr.il ...pr lh Br nl oil tlmm llitw tlie erwl d"" Wt irny incl jmi don't tasrr to fclinile a Or la tl.c nmriiliir kUIi "Hit mm. This trslr frint llwitcT is grcnvlio: ir in hir faior Trlr ilicr )Mir. We m-"-i "'' ear sales mi iti'i iliHi jear. Conw now sml ruakt ycier kIph Ic.ti. v silt h'l'ci j.ur l.-mc-r ready fur you vtcen ym r.-1-h it put Ift-tS). Iltick Pin Scores. Til. in. lit win: liri: sn res :ti the duck pill ;,i Hie V. M. C. A. Inst ourna- niglit niiihy nice private resiliences. On Its lake boats nnd rafts Hunt and from its waters anglers draw many line rain how trout. The Grandfather moun tain towers over It. while around In every direction other mountains rise ramie upon range until they fade away in the mtsty distance, i ne am tude of Linville City Is 3X20 higher than Highlands. Montezuma is a Mne little town in a gap of the Blue Ridge. It used t be called Bull Stomp, or sonic such name. Near the head of this stream are two large stone masses, one of which is r feet high, called the chimneys. They project above the si.le of the mountain In a most strik ing manner, and I was surprised to lincl that they had never been pho tographed. They nre the largest sing!, stones In North Carolina, not even excepting the High Bocks op the right bank of the- Little Tennessee river below Itushncll. It was in this section and under the Hanging rock above ShuU's Mills that many rcil. ii. I prisoners who had c-s.-;ip..l from Salisbury bid ami found friends in several union sympathizers among the natives. Kirk, too, passed along here when he went on his raid fr.un Kli.a bethton, Tcnn., to Moruaoton and re leased the inmates of a conscript camp six miles east of that town in lxi:4. A little buttle was f. night on bis return at a place called the Wind ing Stair, but little evidence now re mains of the tight. Col. Wnlgbtsill Avery, a brother of Judge A. C, Averv of Morganl'.n. was killed here in attempting to capture this bold cavalryman on Ills return from his daring raid into the very heart of the Southern Confederacy. A few miles south is Devil's Hat a curious rock formation on t.inger 4 uke moiin-iWln assaulting ' Ydfitmasfeh Tv"." T: ,a,n- : Kernan on Tuesday night, was taken But let ns return to l.inville gap. 'from Marshal Collier fiere yesterday Instead of going west this time let ! by a mob of about V.D men and lynch us go down Boone's Fork. We shall j eel. soon some to Foscoe, near which. The mob first secured Collier, taking I. Mi'., H111 sfc. 1 cm;, hhi -S'.m: J M J ; Swayiie, .',..i.re, 74, NS. H'J i;!i. t.ii 2 I '.19 nil..: Jackson, Miller. 92, 107 St, 99, S7 275; 2:.; lioness, 78, For sore throat, swollen tonsils, pimples on the tongue, gargle the throat or rinse the mouth with DAR BY'S PIJOI'IIYIACTIC FLUID dilut ed In a little water. It will quickly restore normal conditions. Bathe the -skin with It to reduce swellings, cure insert bites or stings, wash out ragged wounds, old sores or barbed wire cuts. It disinfects the wound and heals the flesh. Price CO cents per bottle. Bold by all dmgglsls. Mob Lynches Negro Brnkcmsn. Manchester. On.. Oct. 20.-t-Jerr' lovebice, a negro brakeman, charged En BILIOUS HEADACHE Gently nut thoroughly cleanse Your l.lver, Stomach and Rowels and , Vow Feel Great by Morning. Tou're bilious, you have a throbbing sensation In your head, had taste In your mouth, your eyes burn, your skin Is yellow, with dark rings under your eyes; your lips are parched. No wonder you feel ugly, mean and 111 tempered. Sour system Is full of bile not property passed olT, and what you need Is a cleaning up Inside. Don't continue being a bilious nuisance to yourself and those who love you, and don t resort to harsh physics that Irrl tate and Injure, Remember that rvery disorder of the stomach, liver and In testines ran be quickly cured by morn Ing with gentle, thorough Cases re Is they work while you sleep. A 10-cent box from your druggist will keep you and the entire family feeling good for months. Children love to take Cnsen rets, tiers use they taste good an I never gripe or sicken. Jesse Boone used to live and where u soldier of the war of 1S12 and an other of the Mexican war are burled, his keys and money from him, after whlc.i they Went to the Jail for the negro. FOR HEARTBURN &?f!flJ,A,etito.,d wviwuiuuv J Vies clcaal - SIMMONS RED Z LIVER REGULATOR . c (THE POWDER FORM) j ; . . It sweetens the stomach and purines the bowefc. It is a fine tonic for a torpid liver. Helps digestion, makes you feel bright, vigorous and cheerful. Sold by Dealers. Price. Large Package, 31.00. Aik for tie rtratnt irlrti Ike Rrt T. ew rt tobrt. If m rami rtl It. Irak .Rllliid k br mail soip4. SimiBoa, Ij,rr RrrMt b put p alw La li mul Imm e wii hHm k. Price UW ver bonk. Look tor Utt god Z UbeL umim ra tuff Ufltc Van pfdcf 1. B. ZE1MN & CO., rroprletors. St. Leals. Mtssaort Purest and Best Rumford Baking Pmvder 97 Sample 3uits on Sale THURSDAY, FRIDAY -AND SATURDAY AT LIBERAL DISCOUNT Thin offering is one of the lient of tl.o soason nn.1 in elude fine haud-tailored garments for women, nfiBsea and small women at prices wlii.-h will apinntl to all . Come early and get first choice. Peerless-Fashion Co, 51 Patton Ave.
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