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Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1903-07-09
Deca dencs Of Lying.
Chicago Tribune.

Chicago Tribune.
The magazines have given
us articles on the decadence
OF everything in nature and
art-wit the exception OF ly
ing.
1t use.l to be that lying
was q fine art. The man who
could lie jndiciousIy and prop
erly was entitled tp a high
seat at the feast AMI the EN-
comiums of his fellow.men.
In the good old times it
was recognized that to lie re-
quiz ed tact and discretion, to
say nothing OF ccnsidera
bile intelligence and n sturdy
m ,mory. The man W h o
could start out with one in
Fteresting liz and then r0ntin.
ue through a sequence oflies,
each of which supported and
lent vprislmiIitude to the in
trodurtOry lie was given the
credit it deserved. Bnt to-
day, how has the lie fallen;
how has the fib faded.
Where do we get our lies?
The butcherboy tells US how
he forgot to bring the roast;
the grocerboy answers he had
to wait until the farmer
brought the fresh eggs; the
paperhanger comes around
two days after he was to be
gin work and puts up a weak
fabrication concerning i'll
ness; the iceman tells US flim.
sy things about meltage and
leakage milkman gives US
blowhole statements about
pasturization and pasturiz-
ing; the office boy continues
to lose grandmothers during
the baseball season; the cook
tries to make US believe that
we eat ali the sugar and 80
it goes.
How paltry, how cheap,
how artificial the lies are
nowadays!
Lying ia no longer a fl n G
art. 1t has become a trade.
Is it any wonder the peo.
pie show a lack of interest in
the truth.
Formerly it had the charm
of contrast.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1903-07-09
NIGHT WAS HER TORTURE.

81 would cough nearly all night
long" writes Mrs. Charles Apple.
gate; of Alexandria, Inpiana, "and
could hardly get any sleep. | had
consumption so bad that if | walked
a block | would cough fritefully
and spit blood. but when all other
medicine had failed, three 81 bottles
of DR.. Kings New Disco, cry whol
ly cured me and | gained 5e
pounds" 1t is absolutely guaran.
beed to cure coughs, colds, la grip.
bronchitis and all throat and lung
troubles Price Soc. and ST.. Trial
bottles free at Blackburn's.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1903-07-09

GA - ToHIA.
Bears The 1lhs Kind You Have klwas DcEH
''sAi'are /~ WpTtR<
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1903-07-09
Buy and Try a Box Tonight.

While you think of it, 60 buy and
try box of Cascarets Candy Ca.
thartic, ideal laxative, tonight. You'll
never regret it. Genuine tablets
stamped c. c. c. Never sold in
bulk, All druggists, Ioc,
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1903-07-09

In making up his peusion
list for Spanish var veterans
Commissioner Ware should
not overlook those heroic
volunteers who took the
postofIicp payroll by storm.
Washington Post.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1903-07-09

Honesty is undoubtedly
the best policy, nut a good
manv men somehow fail to
keep their premiums paid up.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1903-07-09

cures made BY Or.
KIlmer's S Swamp-Root.
the great kidney, liver
and bladder remedy.
1t is the great medl
caltrIumph Of the nine
teenth century; dis
covered after years OF
scientific research by
Or. Kilmer, the emf
nent kidney and blad-
der Specialist and is
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1903-07-09

A number Fof members of
the. party IN Washington
have approved the action of
: he Iowa democrats in de.
nouncing the Kansas City
national platform.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1903-07-09
Wild Horses in North Carolina.
St. Louis Republic.

St. LOUIS NcPuDllC.
No more historical as we'll
as interesting and curious
territory in the United States
than the long sand banks
which mark the eastern boun
dary af North Carolina.
They form a vast breakwa
ter, within which are t h e
"sounds" through which the
Government now proposes to
provide an inland waterway
which will end the terrors OF
Cape Hatteras.
On that put Of the banks
ful ther to the southwark Of
Cape Hatteras there are lit
tie ponies, the only wild hors
ses east of the Mississippi
river.
The ponies have more than
three centuries of history be~
hind them.
They date back to t h e
time OF the knightly Sir Wal
ter Raleigh and the d lay 8
when the Moores OF Barbary
were a power.
The part of the banks in
question is known as Shack
eltord Banks, taking its name
from the chief owner.
Beginning at Ocracoke In
let this stretch of sand reach
es to Bogue Inlet, termina,
ting at Shackelf0rd's Point,
in front of the town Of Beau.
tort.
Sharkpltord's Banks is al
most forty miles long, low ly
ing, with here and t b ere
dunes or sand hills rising to
a height of. say, forty feet,
tree covered.
The trees loaded with vines
and in this mass of nearly
subtropical vegetation, much
of it evergreen, are the Span
ish bayonet, prickly pear or
small cactus. and the fan OF
scrub palmetto. hf.
On Shackelford's Banks a.
lone the little ponies are
found in their wild state-no
where else.
There are said to be about
twelve hundred Of them on
the banks.
Inquiry made of residents
as to whether the number OF
ponies had decreased during
the last fifty years, brought
the response that it bad, and
that until about 1850 the po
MES had increase.
The ponies weigh about
500 pounds and their height
is about 13 20 ID hands
that is Az to Ak feet.
Their life Is mainly on the
banks though in very stormy
weather they swim over to
the mainland, a distance oil
from two to five miles.
Their food is marsh grass,
leaves OF sorubby trees a n d
shrubs and berries, particu-
larly the berries OF the holly
The woods usually gi
them good shelter, and hence
} it is seldom that they seek
the shelter of the mainland.
They live to quite an age.
but the average is about 22
years.
Some reach the age Of 40.
When they want water they
bore holes in the sand in low
places and secure plenty oI
il.
These ponies have owners.
! The "banks" are owned by
: various persons. largely by
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1903-07-09
colts are driven at times and

BRANDED.
A colt following a branded
mare is considered the prop.
erty of the owner of the mare
and he holds it.
In cases where t h ere are
colts that do not follow the
mares, the "penners," that il
the men who own and make
the pens-take them.
Such is the unwritten law.
The ponies are driven out
OF the scrub by drivers or
herdprs, and this is a matter
of no small difficulty, as the
scrub is often so thick as to
be a Jungle, threaded by thou
sands of narrow paths thro'
the shining sand.
The wind and salt keep
down much of the vegetation
80 that there may be seen
hickory trees not over three
feet in heighth, yet loaded
with nuts, and horse chest~
nut trees equally dwarfed.
The colts are covered with
hair several inches in length,
natures protection against
the weather.
This looks like felt.
1t falls off in large flakes.
Most OF the colts are OF a
faded brown color, bnt some
are black. These ponies are
known in all parts OF t h c
State as "banker" ponies.
They do not appear to be
sold much outside of North
Carolina. as people in other
States do not know anything
about them.
They cross we'll with hors-
es.
When taken up country
and fed upon corn, hay and
Ca ts they fiji out and darken
color somewhat.
Their instinct is femarka-
BILE. They know by means ol
it the way to get to the main
land or islands with the min.
imum amount of swimming.
The writer has eeen them
wade great distances with
out getting out OF their
depth. taking various turns
and changes of direction to
conform to the shoals, yet
they are fearless swimmers.
Though an inlet only a.
bout two miles in width sepa
rates ShackelfOrd's Banks
from Bogue banks, the ponies
never go on the latter banks
nor do they cross the Craco-
ca Inlet.
The ancestors of these bar
dy and valuable little horses
were the Rarbary horses that
Sir Walter Raleigh sent over
with his colonists to Roam.
oak Island. Sir Walter Raj
eigh's colOnists. when the re-
lief from England was SO long
delayed in reaching them
went with the Indians to the
Mainland, but must have left
the ponies.
The Indians were unused
to horses.
The Indians were the Hat
erasks, who gave their name
TO the dreaded cape.
These sturdy little ponies
are therefore a part of the re
nance that hangs about this
quaint part Of North Carroll
ma.
There are persons VINO hold
that Raleigh's eoloDists first
landed at Shackelford's, anc
later went to the Island O
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1903-07-09
DO YOU GET UP
WITH A LAME BACK ?
Kidney Trouble Makes You Miserable.

Almos, everybody who reads the news
papers Is sure TO know OF the wonderful
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-09
5000
BI5.OO
Mems Pants
At Biz Reductions.

AI DIB 1NCuuCtIUASs Nn nE Give youchoice of all broken NZ,JJ lines of trousers that sold at $4 N1HE Give you choice of all broken OJ.TJ lines of trousers that sold at $5 NA nC Gives you choice of all broken O4, JJ lines of trousers that sold at
 S6.OO, zoo and $500.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-09
ChiIdren's Wash Suits
Ht Just a Fraction of Their Worth.

HI JuSJ IT dOBIUII UT IIIbII HUI bIl' 1Oo Gives you choice of Wash and jOG Play Suits that sold at 75c c0o Gives you choice of Wash Suits OJU that sold at $1. O.
 0no Gives you choice of Wash Suits OJG that sold at $1.25 and $150. Nt n0 Gives you choice of Wash Suits 0l.ZJ that sold at $2- O0
 Ntcc Gives you choice of Wash Suits OIsOJ that sold at $2. 50 and $500. on AZ Gives you choice of Wash Suits 0Zs4J that sold at $3.50 and $400.> N1 m Gives you choice of all our finest 0j.UU Wash Suits, worth s and $6.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-09
Men s Shoes
At Biz Reductions.

Choice of all broken slzes of s5 and S6 OXFORDS, plain or ESs 2fsS9' MzRS. 1ipsASr. STACY AD S3.65
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-24
BY USE OF DRUGS.
Lawyer Prevented from Expos
ing Secrets of a Patent.

New York Sept. 24.-Kept a prisoner
in factory in this city for month
and stupefied by drugs so that he could
make no effort to escape, TO prevent
him from exposing the secrets of a
patent process for cleaning furs, is the
remarkable story told by Ernest c.
Webb. a LAWYER. when he was rescued
by policeman who was armed with
warra mt sworn out by Mrs. Webb
charging her husband with abandon
ment. The wife's charge was ruse to
get into the factory as several previous
attempts had failed.
According to Webb's statement, he
was induced about a month ago to go
to the place and has since been unable
to leave It. He was locked in a back
room on an upper floor. where his
meals were brought and considerable
quantities of whisky. which he declares
contained drugs. The police found
Webb lying on roll of blankets along
side some machinery which was not in
use. re was in a disheveled condition
and had every appearance of having
been under the influence of drugs.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-24
ARE MAD AT MRS. BALL.
Spanish War Veterans Annul Her
Lodges Charter.

Washington, Sept. 24.-The national
council Of the Auxiliary of the Spanish
War Veterans, at a meeting here, has
decided to cancel the charter of the dis
trict auxiliary of which Mrs. Isabel
Worrell Ball, of Kansas. is a prom
inent member. for failing to answer the
charges preferred against it.
Mrs. Flora A. Lewis. president of the
national auxiliary. in reply to a state
ment of Mrs. Ball. that she was fur
nished with no official copy of the
charges. says that the charges came
before her on September l, and that the
council held a meeting on the 9TH day
of that month. at which Mrs. Ball was
suspended from the presidency of the
district auxiliary until these charges
were Investigated. Mrs. Lewis declares
that the suspension notice was mailed
to Mrs. Ball. who was in Larned, Kan,
at the time Mrs. Ball wrote to the ma
states, asking that a copy of the
charges be forwarded to her at that
address. A copy was at once mailed to
her there. and one to her address in
this city On September Is, Mrs. Lewis
says, Mrs. Ball wired denying the
charges, specifically and generally.
Mrs. Lewis holds. therefore. that Mrs.
Ball must have received a copy of the
charges.
Until Mrs. Ball submits reply to
the national council to the charges. no
action will be taken by that body upon
them. II is claimed by the national
council that Mrs. Ball formulated and
promulgated certain papers in a local
auxiliary greatly injurious to the or
ganization.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-24
RUSSIA ISSUES NOTE.
Explains Position of Powers in
Macedonia.

ST. Petersburg, Sept. 24.-The Russian
government has issued an official note
reiterating that the attitude of the pow
ers in regard to the Austro- Russian re-
form scheme for Macedonia is un-
changed and that, consequently neither
Turkey nor Bulgaria can expect support
from any quarter in the event or open
or secret resistance to that scheme.
The government after pointing out
that the suggested reforms were at the
outset attended with good results, con-
tinues:
These. however, did not satisfy the
Macedonian committees which have
sprung up in the Slav states. The prob
ability which had become apparent that
the Christian population would calm
down under the influence of reforms de-
prived these committees of all favorable
ground for the realization of their revo-
lutionary plans. While proclaiming that
their object was the protection OF their
coreligionists against Turkish oppres-
sion. these committees in reality seek
to attain their selfish aim of modifying
the administrative system in the prov
ince so as to convert 1t into bulgarian
Macedonia, to the detriment of the
rights and privileges of the other Chris
tian peoples, whose interest is equally
dear to orthodox Russia. AS the lead
ers found no support among the nom
Bulgarian element i'll Macedonia they
exerted themselves to raise general
insurrection by cruel outrageS and ter
rorism in order to hinder the introduc-
ton of the projected reforms. Unhap-
PLY in spite of the precautions of the
Sofia government the Macedonia agita-
ton spread considerably in Bulgaria
itself finding support among those who
mistakenly reckoned the outbreak thus
caused would compel Russia to alter her
programme and proclaim herself the
champion of the unrealizable plans OF
the leaders of the revolution.
This fatal conception against which
Russia gave incessant warnings has
brought upon the Christians In the
Turkish villayets grievous oppression
which will only end when the incurslon
of insurgents from Bulgaria and the
revolutionary activity Of the committees
cease Not until then can the fmme-
diate applica ton of reforms needed by
the population and by which they Will
be protected from Turkish atrocities be
insisted upon the most energetic en-
deavors having failed to bride the
fanaticisms of the Mussulmans.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-24
BOYS ARE LET OUT.
Justices of the Peace Can't
Send to Reform School.

The supreme court today granted a
writ of habeas corpus which was ap-
piled for several weeks ago to secure
the release of three boys from the re-
Bestwell, Elmer l. Stokes and W'r-
field J4av. of Sabetiaa Some time ago
they broke into depot at Sabetha and
stole some beer. They were arrested.
taken hot ore a Justice of the peace and
convicted and the justice committed
them to the reform school,
A writ of habeas corpus was imme-
diately asked for in the supreme coui t
on the ground that a Justice of TIE
peace has no power to commit to the
reform 81 hool. The supreme court up-
holds this contention. It rules that the
commits ent must be issued by a court
of record
While a justice may try such cases
and find the defendants guilty, the
court holds that in order to get them
committed showing must be made in
a probate or district court. where Zee
ords are kept and a seal is used. ard
such court can issue the com nit
ment. Otherwise any of the hundreds
of justices in the state might railroad
boy to the reform school. the commit
ments would be issued under no seal,
and it might be extremely difficult to
md out what proceeding had been ha d
il it was necessary to do So
A peculiar feature of this. ease is that
the bows are not NOV 3tn the reforTn
school. They were paroled a shcrt
time ago and allowed to go home
The three boys range only from II to
IL years old. and it is alleged that they
were railrOaded to the Reform school
before their parents knew what was go
ing on The prosecution in the case
urged that the mere fact that they stole
beer and drank it showed that they were
bad boys, but the other side urged Tex
tenuating circumstances Sabetha is
said to be one of those towns where the
prohibitory law is violated by LIQUOR
houses shipping wet goods to the rail-
road agent and allowing him to deliver
it to anybody calling for the same, c.
o. D. The sort of thing is said to have
been very fragrant in Sabetha, and the
boys finally came to consider that the
principal thing was to get the beer, and
it was about as honest to get it one way
as another, so they stole it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-24
BABY EVERY 5 MINUTES
School District in New York
Shows Lively Growth.

New York. Sept 24.-There is con-
sternatiOn among the members of the
board of education over the assertion
in a report of Commissioner of Educa-
ton Haupt for the Sixth school dis
trict. that the average rate of increase
in the number of babies in Manhattan
has grown from five to eleven an hour.
or to one baby about every five min
utes.
These figures were furnished by DR..
Haupt as the result of an investigation
which the board of education is carry
ing on to find out what preparation 1t
must make to provide room which the
babies of the present will need as the
puuils of a few years hence.
DR.. Haupt states that he also finds
that the death rate for children is fall
ing from one-third to One-tenth. owing
10 measures for protecting babies from
impure milk and unsanitary arrange
ments.. He believes that in the main
the increase is caused by the tremen-
dous immigration to New York city.
DR.. Haunt asserts that babies are
born at the rate of one every four min
utes in the neighborhOod of Houston
street. and about one a month in the
Murray Hill residence section. These
two quarters arr extremes of the social
divisions.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-24
OTHER DIPPING DEVICES.
Those Now Used for Cattle Are Not
in Favor

Denver, Sept. 24.-The annual conven-
ton of the Interstate Association of
Live Stock and Sanitary boards, which
has Just closed its sessions in this city,
elected the following officers: President,
DR.. J. c. Norton, Tucson, Ariz.; vice
president, ]. w Moore. San Antonio
Tex: secretary treasurer, w. w. Smith.
The next convention will be held in ST.
Louis during the live stock show at the
fair.
Resolutions were adopted recommend
ing that quarantine lines for the ensu-
ing year remain as they are now, eX
cept in the case of four or five counties
in Oklahoma: the cremation of the
bodies of all animals that die from dis
ease; requesting the government to
adopt other dipping devices than those
now officially recognized. A resolution
was also adopted asking for a modifica-
ton of the construction placed by Spec
ial Agent Hickox of Salt Lake upon the
order of the bureau of animal industry
concerning the shipment of cattle from
districts infected by scabies so as to
allow the free movement of healthy
cattle without federal inspection.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-24
NO RAISE IN COAL.
Price in LeavenwOrth Will Be
Kept Within Reason.

Leavenworth, Kan. Sept. 24.-It is not
probable that there will be raise in
the price Of coal here. 1t is alleged that
coal mined here is sold cheaper IN some
of the neighboring cities than here. The
price is now $685. a ton. The mines here
are running with a big force, but more
miners can find employment. Nearly
half the miners in Leavenworth are ne
groes. They belong to the union and
there is no race division. Many miners
are coming here owing to high pay.
More than fifty new men went to work
in one day recently.
A the last session of the legislature
the law was changed so that the prison
officials and guards at the Kansas peni-
tentiary are furnished 100 bushels of
coal free. This is enough to carry the
average family through the winter
months Heretofore even the prison
guards living at Lansing were forced to
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-24
Mr.. LONG IMPROVES.
His Physical Condition Pleases
His Friends.

Word comes from Wichita to Senator
Longs friends in Topeka that he is i'm
proving in physical health and vigor, but
that he is still far from being a well man.
He is now taking a treatment in Wichita
which is similar to the treatment admins
tered at Battle Creek Mich.
Although some of his friends believe
that he ought not to do so, Senator Long
is determined to return to Washington
this fall and take up his work in con-
gress. He intends to leave for Washing
ton about October IS
Mr.. Long has cancelled all his dates to
make speeches in Kansas this fall. Be-
fore he went to Colorado he expected his
trip to do him a great deal of good and
that he would be able to travel during
the month of October, and he made sew
eral promises contingent upon his health
improving. When the Colorado trip failed
to do him any good he found it impossi-
BILE 10 make any speeches without making
all his dates
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-24
GOV. BAILEY'S WORK.
VIII Lay the Corner Stone for
Normal at Fort Hays.

Hays, Kan, Sept. 24.-On Thursday,
October l, the corner stone of the new
building for the Western Branch State
Normal school will be laid.
The old settlers hold their annual
picnic on that date. and it promises to
be one of the biggest days in the his
tory of the west
Governor Bailey will be present and
deliver an address. He will also Off
ciate at the ceremonies of the corner
stone laying.
The west is very enthusiastic over the
normal school which is located here and
they will be present in large numbers to
witness this great event.
The picnic will be on the new campus.
Among the numberless attractions will
be big football game between the
Manhattan Agricultural college and the
State Normal. The famous Hays Mil
itary band, under the directions of Prof.
p. ]. Patterson. will also add much to
the days amusements.