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MADISON COUNTY RECORD,
7 Established June 28, 1901.
FRENCH BROAD NEWS,
; Established May 16, 1907.
Consolidated : : Not. 2nd, 1911.
Through which you reach the
people of Madison County. y
Advertising Rates on Application.
THE ONLY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN MADISON COUNTY.
MARSHALL, MADISON COUNTY, N, C., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20th, 1914.
NO. 8
VOL. XVI
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Why Not Get
A Guarantee?
Every Article of Merit that is
. Sold These Days is Guaran
teed Np Guarantee Often
Means Poor Quality.
There is very little excuse for
' any person to claim that he has
been "stung" on a purchase.
Fifty years ago the buyer had to
look Out, but today it is unusual
. to find a merchant who. will not
, return the money for any article
that: has proved ' unsatisfactory.
An excellent example of this
'.kind of fair dealing is shown by
" the " clean-cut guarantee that
Marshall Pharmacy give on
Dodson's Liver Tone.
These people tell us that any
person who pays 50c. for a bottle
, of Dodson's Liver Tone and does
not find it a gentle and most
pleasant liver tonic, harmless,
but a sure reliever of constipa
tion and a perfect substitute for
calomel, cap get his money back
just as quick as they can get it
out of the money drawer.
Dodson's Liver Tone has prac
tically taken the place of calomel.
It is absolutely harmless, sure in
its action and causes no restric
tion of habit or diet. No wonder
the drug people are glad to guar
antee it, while other remedies
that imitate the claims of , Dod
son's Liver Tone are not guaran
teed at all.
A Word o f Advice to Grade
Crossings
Everybody who is interested in
the success of grade crossings
will be glad to know that the
number of people they killed dur
ing 1913 was more than double
. what it was hi 1912. The actual
figures are, according to a report
of the National Highways Society,
fifteen for 1912 and thirty-eight
, for 1913. , ,
This argues well for the future
of grade' crossings. Assuming
that none of them is" abolished
by the state which does not
seem probable-rand ; assuming
that tiie number of people who
cross constantly , increases, this
present year ought to ; see much
good killing work done. Merely
because this is so, however, does
"not mean that grade crossing
should get careless. - It behooves
' each one of them to be on its
metal, and keep up the good
work. Life. , i ,
Colds, Constipation' and headache
are three common afflictions and re
llevlnjr the constipation helps the cold
and stops the headache. Use Foley,
. 1 4.1
Cathartic xaniets Because mej
' very prompt and throujfhly cleansing,
with absolutely no unpleasant efiects
A whole bottle full for25 cents. I. E.
Burnett, Mars Hill, N. C.
Fifth Sunday
Meeting;
rrhfl Fifth Sunday meeting of
' the Marshall District of the
French Broad Baptist Associa
tion will be held with the Mar
' ,Waii Hnntist Church on Sunday
March 29, 1914. , Each Church
in said District is earnestly re
quested to send delegates to v said
meeting. The full program will
be published later. . '
S. M. DAVIS, . Chairman.
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' OED. '
SERUMS.
Once upon a time, not so very
long ago, a boy was born, and
they named 'him Willie. This
boy's mother did not nurse hfm,
but he was put on. the bottle.
Fortunately, a learned scientist
had discovered bow to pastuerize
milk, so that the boy did pretty
well on cow's milk.
When this boy was two years
old he had whooping cough.
Fortunately, Professor Bordet,
of Brussels, had discovered that
serum from : a cat would cure
whooping cough, and some ca:
serum was injected into Willie.
Soon after Willie got about
again he was taken with measles
Fortunately. Dr. John P. Ander
son, of Washington, had discov
ered that serum frOm a monkey
would cure measles. So they
pumped monkey serum into the
boy, and the measles didn't kill
him.
One day Willie was playing
with his pet' terrier, when the
dog scratched him. So his folks,
drnadincr hvdronhobia in its
worst form, rushed him down to
New Jersey, where - there is a
great institute in honor of the
late Professor Pasteur, who,
fortunately, discovered that
serum from a dog was a . fine
thing for rabies. They pumped
dog serum into little Willie for
two months;
Willie pulled through nicely,
but on the way home rode in - a
Pullman sleeper in which a
smallpox case was discovered-
Fortunately. Dr. Jener had dis
covered that serum from a cow
w ould cure smallpox, and so, on
getting home, they pricked some
cow serum into Willie's arm.
Well Willie lived along until
he was ten years old, when . one
night his folks were sent into a
panic by discovering that he had
black diphtheria. Fortunately,
a noted German physician had
discovered' that serum from a
horse would cure diphtheria, if
anything would, and so they
gave Willie some horse serum.
Willie was taken with a mysteri
ous malady. None of the doc
tors could tell definitely what it
was. At last, as Willie was very
low, a very learned scientist from
a great eastern .institute visited
him and pronounced it general
debility." "But. cheer up, my
man," said the scientist, "I have
a serum from " ;
'"No more meanagerie in mine,"
sighed Willie. ''Life has been
but one blamed serum after anot
ner." Whereupon Willie died,
m uch. to the regret of the scien
tist,' who felt sure that he was
about to enrich medical science
with a great discovery, since , he
was about to try serum from a
hen and an alligator on ''general
delibility."
We don't know that there's
any moral to this story. But
there's a whole lot of truth to it,
any ho w.-rJ3o on Post. ?
A Winter Cough .
A stubborn, annoying, . depressing
cough hangs on,, racks the , body,
weaken-the lungs, and often leads to
3erious results.'. The first dose of Pr.
King's New Discovery' gives relief.
Henry D. Sanders, of Cavendish, Vt.,
was threatened, with consumption,
after having pnenmonia. He writes:
'Dr. King's New Discovery ought to
be in every family; it Is oertainly the
best of all medicines for coughs, colds
or lung trouble." - Good for children's
coughs. Money back if not satisfid.
Price 60c. and Sl.00. At all Drug
gists. H. E, Bucklen & Co.,-Philadelphia
or St Iulst v .
Patterson at the
National Anti-
Saloon League
The following sketch will give
our readers an idea of the ability,
eloquence, earnestness and pow
er of Ex-Governor Patterson of
Tennessee. Formerly he was a
"booze fighter" and the champ
ion of the liquor- cause in that
state. Now, since he was con
victed of sin and converted unto
righteouspess he is probably the
most powerful advocate of tem
perance and prohibition in the
entire country and doubtless the
most able, of the many able men,
in the service of the National
Anti-Saloon League. ,"
Governor Patterson s own
story of his change-of heart mov
ed many to tears as he told it at
the Columbus National conven
tion of the Anti-Saloon league,
while ."the building rang with
cries of Amen: uiory oe so
God!' 'Halleujah.' The governor
first related a few simple facts
about his life:
"I grew up in the city of Mem
phis, where saloons wer9 numer:
ous, and regarded as just and
permanent institutions. I can
not remember to have ever heard
of any movement to close them
or recall any speech or newspap-.
er article attacking them. I be
came a lawyer,, was elected
prosecuting attorney of the dis
trict, and durinemy incumbencyr
saloons were open and licensed
under the law, and were without
restriction as to number. I was
afterward sent to congress where
I served six years. At this time
liquor was openly sold in the re
staurants of both wings of the
capitol. The convenience and
comfort with which intoxicating
drinks could be obtained often
interfered with my own attend
ance, that of other members and
distracted alletttion - from the
duties of our representation."
Upon becoming a candidate for
governor, he continued, "I took
a position on the liquor question
in the first speech I made from
which I never deviated through
out my official areer." As gov-
ernor
I prepared a careful message
and sent it to the legislature set
ting forth my views and express
ing the opinion thai; prohibition
as a" governmental' policy was
fundamentally wrong. I thought
that such a law ' would result in
multiplying the evils of the li
quor traffic instead of correcting
them and holding tnem in cnecir.
This message.. ..has been cir
culated as campaign material,
published in liquor journals and
in books, and used as arguments
bv those who were contesting the
advance of the prohibition senti
ment."
"My life has had deep sorrows.
My soul has been tossed on the
waves of angry seas. I;j have
seen the trail of liquor every
where. Going through life 1
have seen it drag down many of
the associates of my boyhood,
blasting- their hopes and consign
ing them to untimely graves. I
have seen . its. forked lightening
strike m.v first-born, the child of
my young manhood, and I have
borne with him the suffering and
tried to help him inbis brave but
sometimes melancholy .struggle
for redemption. At last I have
felt its foul and stealthly blow
as it turned upon me its deadly
and shaming wrath upon me
who had pleaded before the peo
ple for its very existence.
"All this I knew and felt with
out a revelation . of the deep
pathos, and the meaning of it all
I needed help, for I was groping
and my feet were stumbling in
the dark. Deep in humiliation,
tortured and condemned in my
own esteem, I thought of the oft-
repeated phrases about the pow
er of the human will to resist
tempation and I found them as
unsubstantial as the fabric of a
divam.
"When logic failed and reason
gave no answer I cast aside all
pride of opinion, a.11 though of
what the world might say or
think, and went to the throne of
Almighty God. Ther, on bend
ed knees.'. I asked for light and
(strength . and they came. The
curtains of the night parted and
and the way was clear. I arose
a changed man. An invisible
hand has led me on to where the
vision is unobscured. From a
critic of others I looked within.
From an accuser I became a ser
vant in my own house to set it
in order. v From a vague believ
er the guidance of devine power,
I have become a convert to its
infinite truth. From an unhappy
and dissatisfied man, out of tune
with the harmony of life and re
ligion, I have become happy and
content, firmly anchored in faith
and ready ; to testify from my
own experience to the miracul
ous power of God to cleanse the
souls of men." '
I Then the ex-governor " paid
his respects to the institution he
had- once so-ably defended? v ,l
The saloon stands a convicted
felon, and must receive the sen
tence of the law, It must go
never to return and, with the
going of the saloons, liquor it
self should go. (
"I favor prohibition in any
form that will either reduce or
destroy the liquor traffic. I fav
or it personal-wide, town-wide,
state-wide, nation-wide, and
world-wide.''
No Civil Court
Judge Justice has notified the
members of the Marshall Bar
that it will be impossible for him
to hold the second week of the
March term of Court.
As the.entire" first week will be
consumed in the trial of criminal
cases, no Civil cases will be tried
at' this Term.
NOTICE.
North Carolina
Madison County )
Hester Williams
7' 77-7 ;y-'y&::-..;;y ::.,;':
Henry Williams
The defendant above namend will
take notice that an action entitled as
above has been commenced in the
Superior Court of Madison County to
obtain a di voroe, and the said defend
ant will further take notice that he is
required to appear at the term of the
Superior Court of said County to be
held on the 1st day of June 1914, at
the Court House in Marshall,' North
Carolina, and answer or demur to the
complaint in said action, or the plain,
till will apply to the Court for the re
lief demanded in said camplalnt .7
This tho 16, day of Feb. 1914. , .
' N. B. McDEVITT,
v- Clerk' Superior Court
Safe For Babies, Effective For Grown Ups
That,s Foley's Honey and Tar Com-
puund, It has the confidence of your
druggist, who knows it will give you
satisfaction. W. W.Nessmith, States-
boro, Ga., says; "I have used Foley's
Honey and Tar Compound in my fami
ly and have sold it in my store and it
never fails to cure." Refuse a 'ubsti
tute. Dr. I. E. Burnett, Mars Hill,
N. C. ,
Farm-Land Banks
Mr. Roosevelt in his introduc
tion to the report of the Ccmmis
sion on Country Life, which be
had appointed while President,
stated afresh an important fact
and truth: "We were founded
as a nation of farmers, and in
spite of the great growth of our
industrial life it still remains true
that our whole system rests up
on the farm, that the welfare of
tho whole community depends
npon the welfare of the farmer.
The strengthening of country
life is the strengthening of the
whole nation." .
If this fact is true then there
must be done something to make
farming something to be follow
ed for itself and become a pro
fession as well as a mere money
making affair and to do this it is
necessary that the farmer may
have every , advantage that the
industrial man has. We have
talked a great deal about scienti
fic farming and the papers and
books tell the farmer that he
ought to use modern methods
and bring his land up to the con
dition to pay and get every
thing out of the land that it can
give. We have counsel about
the right fertilizer and the rota
tion of crops but it remains to us
to tell the smaller farmer how
he is going to get the wherewith
all to do all this. The many
farmers would be glad to do
every thing that scientific farm
ing demands, if they had enough
fbo-3tart om-""
The farmer must have ' some
thing to develop his land with.
The time is coming when it will
not be so easy to supply the de
mand for food stuffs and every
thing will rise in price and we
must discover the means to ena
ble the tiller of the soil to do in
tensive farming and to do this he
must begin to improve his .land.
The large owner (not the far
mer) may have the money to im
prove his land but he will not
do it as long as the 'renter can
pay the .rent and pour money in
to his coffers. But the renter
will have to discover some way
to keep an increasing his crops
because as the land increases in
value the owner will demand
higher and higher rent,
Senator Fletcher of Florida
was the chairman of,! a commit
tee that visited Europe and stud
ied the way those countries help
the farmer and he has placed a
bill before the congress that
looks to the aid of the farmer.
There two plans according to
this bill, One has joint stock
banks and co operative banks.
The chief distinguishing feature
of the co-operative bank is that
its patrons share in its profits ac
cording to the business they ; do
with the bank. The; profits of
the bank are apportioned first to
the stockholders the rate of di
vidend being equal to; the pre
vailing rate of interest in the
community (but if no; case ex
ceeding the legal rate of Interest
in the state:) and second to the
patrons of the bank.
The main purpose of-the bank
is to provide ' the farmer with
money for the dovolopment of
his farm properties. It will loan
money for any of three purposes:
To complete the purchase of a
farm; to improve and equip the
farm; and to pay off the mort
gage on . the farm. The loans
are to be made for not more than
35 years at a rate of interest
exactly one per cent higher than
the rate at which the bank can
get the money in the money
market; secured by a first mort
gage on the farm property: with
a compulsory provision for the
repayment of the principal of the
loaning annual or semi annual .
installments. Loans are to be
made only in the state in which
is situated the bank.
The money for the loans is to
be obtained in three ways; from -its
capital and accumulated sur
plus, from deposits, including
deposits of Postal savings banks,
of which the farm bank may be
made a depository, and from the
sale of national land bank bonds
These bonds are to be secured by
the mortgages given by the farm
ers as security for the loans to
them.
The farm-land bank will make
the credit of" the farmer more
available by bringing him into
touch with the money market as
he never could come into touch
with it unassisted. It will
strengthen his credit by combin
ing with that of the other land
owners of his neighborhood-for
the underlying security of a ser
ies of land bank bonds will natu
rally comprise a group of mort.
gages on many different proper
ties. It will insure to him a low
er rote of interest than he will
likely be able to obtain any
where else for the bank can only
charge one per cent more than
the bonds sell ' lor, and bonda
based on such excellent security
ought to be salable at a decided
ly lower rate of interest than Is
necessary ' for the usual farm
mortgage. v
The United States has been far :
behind the countries of Europe in
farm credits and it is time that
we awake to the need of the
hour and come to the front in
this as we have in other things.
The platforms of the three
great parties called for some
thing along this line. We or of
the opinion that farm land bank,
on the Fletcher plan, or some
modification of it, should speedi
ly become a part of our national
banking system.
W. E. F.
Practical Education
The advantage and theneces- V
sity of the education of the peo
ple, universally, is well under
stood by all Americans of today.
But in the progress of . the cen
turies it has slowly dawned upon
the mind of our educational lead
ers that the most useful and
needful training is that which
combines both the theory and 1
practical sides of the education of
the youth. Its a splendid thing . .
for a bOy to understand geograp
hy, arithmetic and spelling etc.,
and for the girls to understand
grammar and other Y subjects
taught in the public schools. But
its a great deal better to be
taught the practical use of these '
things and to be able to use them
every day. Two boys study agri
culture as taught ; in the public
schools. Oue learns - all the
theory theirin taught,; and for
gets everything he learned when
he raises' his "patch'' of corn.
He makes 25 bushel! pf corn to
the acre. The other boys follows
the instructions of the subject
taught and carefully selects his
seed corn, carefully prep ires the
lata, then plants and cultivates
his corn, always remembering
the way he was taught in his
agriculture to do the different '
things in making his corn. He
gathers 75 bushels from an acre.
His education is worth three '
times as much as that of his
companion. The first boy has
'only theory, the second boy com
bines theory with practice.