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Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1909-07-01

charlotte News
The Atlanta Journal tells OF a
remarkable fete in roadbuilding,
accomplished by Mr.. Tufts at
Pinehurst, in his enthusiasm to
have the New York to Atlanta
capital-to-capital route chosen.
Zone OF the most notable Incl.
dents in the good roads move.
ment set on foot by the Atlanta
Journal and the New York Her
aid was accomplished by Mr.. Leo
nard Tufts, proprietor OF a g.
000-acre tract OF land. and a
group OF resort hotels in, and a.
round Pipehurst, N. c., who hir.
ed 200 men and 100 teams athis
own expense, for the special pur-
pose OF extending q stretch OF
road over which the scout cars
would pass.
"The road, as far as it extend
ed, was already equal to the ia.
nous macadam turnpike Of the
Shenandoah Valley, and when
Mr.. TUFTS learned that the scouts
would pass that way he adver-
tised for the men and teams nee
essary to extend the road still
further.
E'It was one OF the most gigan-
tic undertakings in the history
of North Carolina, which has al
ready taken a leading position
in this good roads work. and as
q consequence more than two
miles Of good road were built in
four days and q half.
: Catching the inspiration OF
Mr.. Tufts example, the farmers
suspended work and the saw mills
shut down IN order to give every
available employe an oppol tuni.
ty to work on the roads before
the scouts came along.
After the wearisome stretches
Of bad roads, made worse by the
rains, it was q grateful reliet to
come into such an excellent high.
way, and if the hecapital-to. capital
'oute is not selected as the off.
:ial route it will not be the fault
II the people of North Carolina
n the section through which the
'couts have just passed.
III Is incidents like this which
the Judgment of t he
Journal and the Herald in estab.
ishing the good roads and relia-
'ility contest. The practical
ruits OF it are being made mani
est all the way between Atlanta
md New York and by the time
he great contest is pulled off the
ighways between Broadway aud
Whitehall will be the peer OF any
Dads in the United States"
This should incite our people
o action. There is a good possi-
ility Cf getting Charlotte in the
ther line proposed, and again
he News urges special efforts to-
bis end. ss
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1909-07-01

bladder remedy, be
cause of its remark.
able health restoring
properties. Swamp.
Root fulflls almost
every wish in over-
coming rheumatism.
pain In the back, kid
ileys, liver, bladder
and every part Of the
urinary passage. IL
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1909-07-01

Even the man who cuts the
lawn thinks the way be does it is
proof he understood public af-
fairs.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1909-07-01

Awidow has learned better than
to trust q man, but she has also
learned how to bear disappoint-
mept.
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Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1909-07-01
TIE Kxaot fasts Absst Heck n orr

4 atfe
TIE Kxaot faets Abest Heck Wera
Dlssase.
4 Progressive Earmer.
The iar-reaching importanc'
of Dr.. Charles w. Stiles's dIscov
cry Of the hook-worm disease /.
now universally recognized. ia
the South it is q matter Of su
prema significance. and It Is gra,
flying to see that the press Of oul
educational leaders are now nc
less thoroughly aroused to III
timportance than our physicians
themselves.
There is indeed great hope for
our Southern country in this dis.
covery. For generations we have
had Q class Of people Vi the best
stock that theworld knows, "the
purest Anglo Saxon blood in A.
merica," .as We have proudly
claimed, and yetstrangely mark
ed and by such inertia and un-
progressiveness as to excite the
comment OF all travellers and stu
dents of society. Travellers from
other sections observing them
have always explained the trou.
bic upon either one OF the other
OF two theories. both alike hurt
full and discreditsble to the
South. The first theory has been
that these people are hopelessly
degenerate, and the second has
been that the climate OF t h e
South was hopelessly unhealthy.
DR.. Stiles's discovery 8 b o. " 9
that neither one ofthese assump-
tiQns is correct. The trouble is
not the fault either of our eli.
mate in itself or Of degencracy in
the character Of the people. The
trouble is a physical one caused
by q parasite probably brought
over from Africa by the negroes,
and which can live only in a
warm climate.
If the discovery stopped here,
little good would have been ac-
complished, but the good news
goes further. 1t is not onlyseasy
and cheap to cure q person at
tackled by hook-worm disease,
but it is possible to stamp out
the trouble entirely-iust as we
are exterlninating the. cattle tick
in the South, and thereby exter-
minating Texas fever, the hook
worm, like the tick, being a par
asite which can live only in a
warm climate, but which science
has at last found q cheap, prac-
tical and easy way OF combat
ing.
There is nothing .discreditable
about having hoYk-worm disease
The parasite exists in the soil |
and any person going barefoot
ed may become infected. Chill.
dren oi all classes are likely there
lore to develop the trouble, end
whetevera q boy or girl becomes
sallow faced, colorless and list
ess, especially if there has been
, case of ground Itch" hook
worm disease is probable, and
i
the simple treatment advised
nay not only restore health but
nay actually save life. Thous.
,nds and thousands OF children
n the South have undoubtedly
lied who might have been saved
DR.. Stiles's discovery had been
made a hundred years ago. A
North Carolina country doctor
the other day that Of
20 pale persons treated by him,
IA had hook-worm disease. |,
We mention these things pow| !
imply as preliminary to saying !.
hat DR.. Stiles, whose investiga-
ions have given him national
nd even International fame, has !
The Progressive Farm
+ what ls perhaps the first com.
lete and authoritative state : :
,ent he has ever printed as to
be symptoms, treatment q nd
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1909-07-01

A young man seldom begins to
rise in the world until after he set
ties down.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1909-07-01


Sinnsas Has Grown n Sssats.
Lexington Dispatch.
Red Buck, writing to the Char
lotts Observer from w ashiugtol
has the following: Senators Sin
mons, Of North Carolina, ant
DollIver. Of Iowa, have gottsr
more legitimate and wholesome
4 advertising out Of the tariff de-
bate in the Senate than any 9th
or two men there. Whether right
! or wrong in their respective po
sitions they have convinced those
who are keeping track Of tn {
i Payne-Aldrich bill, that they are
alert, able, informed and couta.
geous.
! On the one eide Of the cha ber
Simmons has led the fight for a
square deal for his section Of the
country and it's people in on at.
mosphere Of protective schedule,
and on the other Doliyer h a 9
proved himself q champion flgh-
ter for rights that he claims for
his constituents. The two men
represent on entirely different
citizenry, which exists under to-
tally different conditions. Sim
mons and Doliver, each laboring
ing in different fields, have made
themselves known and felt in the
greatest deliberate legislative
body in this country. This one
and all must admit, whether they
agree with their views and votes
or not.
Ten years ago, when Senator
Simmons drove out the Republi-
cans and Populists united under
One banner for peIf and pie, the
average North Carolinian who
did not know him dismissed him
dismissed him a. a political WIRE
puller and nimcompoop, unfit tor
anything else than to manage a
red-shirt campaign against SOU
thern Republicans and their al.
lies, which were composed Of a
horde of illiterate negroes a nd
several thousand carping popu-
lists, but today he is seen in a
different light. His colleagues
point to him as one OF the most
formidable men in Congress. His
everlasting Industry, his ever
ready pugnacity, his never fail
ing courage, physical as we'll as
moral, and bis genius for orr an
ization haye caused him to be
ranked with the best. Keen in.
sight, daring courage and COM
bativeness are his greatest as
sets. He convinces the onlooker
that he has conviction and pluck.
Standing in the open, every day
IN the week, he is ready to be
The tense does not ap.
peal to him, nor will he take ref.
uge on it in time of distress.
There used 10 be, and l believe
there is yet, something in tn Q
Tar Heel blood that makes a
man admire the fellow who fights
Tor what he thinks is, right and
does not retreat under fire. In /,
The campaigns. OF 1898 and 1900
When a real general was needed, +,
Simmons was in the saddle, to {
which be had been elevated by
'ry ing democrats. At that time
many called him a buffer but
lis bitterest enemy would not |
'pply that term to him now. He 4
8 anything but q buffer. The 4
Ighting spirit lie in bis bones.
Newspaper men who did not {
now that his name was on the I
lot Of senator's have become in =
crested in Mr.. Simmons and i
he says is sidered q
ood copy. The brilliant Bailey
ompels attention, and 60 does :
be rugged, original Tillman, q
nd now and everlnore, the
ghting Simmons. q
s Could NOT He Reffer
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Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1909-07-01
coUNClr4L. J, b. HARDIN
G o 0UNCILL e HARDIN,
M REAL ESTATE AGENTS,
Llinsssto,,s, Ten,ssssss.
Write Us what you want In the
sway o. farming lands in this fer
II country and we will do our best
70 please you. ii2s 9-10.

8 SMALL FARMFFOR SALE.
One and one hall miles west Of
Boone N. C.eood location con.
] sehient to first class school For
terms and Particulars, address
g. R. LONG, williamsburg,
Butte, Mont.
i PROFESSIONAL.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1909-07-01
Do You Get Up
With a Lame Backf
Kidney Trouble Makes You Miserable.

Almost everyone knows Of DR.. Kilmer'a
Swamp Root, the great kidney, liver and
Arizona republican., 1909-09-11
FUNERAL PREPARATIONS

Arden, N. Y, Sept. 10.-Arrange- ments for the funeral of F.. H. Harri- man on Sunday were completed to- day. First the family and then the simple folks of the valley and hillside. who for twenty years regarded him as their friend and benefactor. will pay their tributes of respect. The days ceremonies will end with a burial service and interment, which will be attended only by relatives and per sonal friends. The family services will be held at the Arden house at 10 o'clock Sunday morning and holy com munion will be celebrated at II o'clock in St. Johns Episcopal church. Arden. The burial service will take place at St. Johns at, 3 D. m. Interment will follow in the Hartman private burial ground. a stones throw from the church. Music will be furnished at the main service by the choir of Grace church. New York.
 Judging by the preparations in the neighborhood, it is evident that half the population of the village will att tend the public service. Carriages all ready are being held at exorbitant rates for use on Sunday. Seventy men toiled on the Arden hillside in the pouring rain all day today preparing for the funeral of their late employer Six were blasting a grave from the solid rock of the private grave yard near the church. others were smooth ing the three miles of road over which the body will be carried to its last resting place. All afternoon the still ness of the green hillside was broken by the noise of explosions.
 Until the death certificate is filed there is no way of ascertaining the verdict of Dr. Lyle. A Vienna dis patch. declaring Dr. Struempel diag- nosed Harriman's complaint as cancer. was shown to Dr. McGuiness tonight at his rectory. T never heard cancer
Arizona republican., 1909-09-11
His Policies VIII Be zea|oHIy Pursued by His Former
 Business Associates
An Almost Settled Conviction That Cancer Caused Mag nates Death, Though There Was No Autopsy Arrangements for the Funeral Tomorrow s
 Preparations for Sepulture

mentioned by any member of the family" said the clergyman. q don't know whether or not Dr. Struempel acquainted Hartman with his diag- nosis of cancer" Dr. McGuiness in- sisted that up to the day before Harri- man died his most intimate friends believed he might get well.
 Judge Lovett explained today his policy of silence. He said: "Harri- mans life was so interwoven With Wall street financial affairs that any change in his condition would have affected the financial world. thought it advisable not to run the danger of an eruption and so said nothing abolt his condition Any statement one way or the other would have bee misunder- stood" Partly from Judge Lovett and partly from Charles T. Ford. superintendent of the estate. it was learned today that the extensive work on the estate planned by Hartman will be carried out according to his wishes.
Arizona republican., 1909-09-11
THE RISING PRICES

New York. Sept. 10.-The annals New York stock exchange shows no parallel for the action of the market today following the death of Harri- man. There have been instances where due preparation in anticipation of the death of an important capitalist has | absorbed the shock so far as to min imize it's bad effects, while. in other cases demoraliZation. has followed, as on the sudden death of the late Ex- Governor Flower in the midst of his conduct of violent speculation, but for today's excited up-shoot of prices there is no parallel.
 Some principal reasons are not ob- scure. although observers yesterday who predicted the rise in prices today are frankly regarded as extremeists The principal agents in the violent ad- vance and the acutest sufferers un- doubtedly are those who have pre- stunned to sell stocks short on. the as- sumption that holders of Hartman properties would rush them to sale at a sacrifice on account of his death This class even made sales when they saw a buoyant rise at the opening market. ShOrtsellers were convinced before the first hour that the resist ance was too strong to overcome Their precipitate rush to buy stocks had much to do with the rocket-like flight of the later movement in Union Pacific.
 The discontinue of the bears in Union Pacific was materially in- creased by the announcement of Kuhn Loeb. the recognized bankers of the Union Pacific. that they with the na- tional city bank and other leading interests, were in unison in Union Pacific affairs. The announcement was accepted as assurance that if any breach was ever threatened the differ ences had been healed.
 An advance in the price of steel bars brought United States Steel to a new record price. The market maintained it's aggressive strength up to the end. Gains of to over points were quite general and Union Pacific ended the day IF 1-2 points higher than last night. Bonds are strong Total sales par value s7.033.OOO United States bonds unchanged.
Arizona republican., 1909-09-11
PHENOMENAL
 BULL MARKET
Railroad Magnate's Death
 Shoots Up Prices
UNION PACIFIC GAINS F l2

New York, Sept. 10.-Wall streets response to Harriman's death was a buoyantly strong market, in which securities made sensational gains and held them to the end. The volume of business is enormous, being over a million and half of shares. To this amount Union Pacific common and Southern Pacific alone contributed over one-third.
 The day resulted in a complete route of short interest. Even before the opening it was evident from the tone of American securities in London that there was strongest support for the coming oitial prices in New York. Union Pacific and Southern Pacific trading posts were the center of at traction and the enormous buying soon caused a hurried scramble to cover. Considerable attention was paid to persistent rumors that Morgan & Co. were buying heavily of Union Pacific and that arrangements for talk ing a member of the Morgan firm into the Union executive committe was all ready completed. No official state ment was issued by Hartman off, cials relative to the futurA policy of the properties. but banking interests announced that Harriman's plans for constructing and development would go steadily forward. Meetings of the Union and Southern Pacific directors will probably be held Monday It is believed that something more than ex- pressions of regret will then engage the boards attention
Arizona republican., 1909-09-11
HlRYs "sT0Rr' BRINGS NEWSPAPERS TO COURT N. Y. TIMES LOSES CASE. Paris Papers Dissusted Over Polar
 Controversy.
N. Y. TIMES LOSES CASE.

New York, Sept. 10.-Judge Hand in the United States circuit court settled novel controversy today bearing on Peary's discovery of the pole, in favor of the New York Sun and the New York World, defendants in proceeding brought by the New York Times. Yesterday the Times obtained a temporary injunction re- straining the Sun and the World from printing any of Peary's cabled accounts of his discovery. The court held today the Times copyright was not legally holeprOof,
 The Sun and World on Thursday obtained by way of London yer batim account of Peary's brief resume of his discovery. A copy of Peary's contract which was submitted to the court set forth that the explorer re- ceived 5000 from the Times to be considered as loan. which was to be repaid out of the proceeds of the Times syndicate accounts of the dis covery. Failing to reach the pole, he was to refund the full amount.
Arizona republican., 1909-09-11
THE PARIS RECITAL.

Paris, Sept. 10.-The first install- ment of Peary's recital of the expe- dition to the pole was published in a special edition of the Matin today and had an enormous sale. In other newspapers it was handled with care. There is noticeable a disposition to criticism. This perhaps due to the fact that Peary's reflections upon Cook are considered ungenerous. The Temps is especially caustic and ex- presses the opinion that the first part of Peary's recital is. really favorable to Cook It says Peary's story is Ob- scure and even inconsistent
 Figaro says: Nothing is more painful than the spectacle of this quarrel on the threshold of glory. It will embarrass the sympathy which naturally goes out to these two men Returning to civilization they en- counter jealousy, envy. calumny, ig- noble pickering and hatred of suc- cess. They become the prey of par Tor explorers and savants who raise objections where they risked their lives. Their affirmations will be dis cussed and weighed by societies and savants with a keen desire to find them wrong and convict them of falsehood'' t
 LIllustration prints a full page pie ture of Dr. Cook entitled Hero or Imposter?"
Arizona republican., 1909-09-11
THE PERSONAL SIDE.
Sympathetic and Charitable Nature of
 the Dead Millionaire.

Arden, Sept. 10.-J. S. Murray. one of the pallbearers and superintendent of the stock exchange farm. received orders today to withdraw all the Har- riman entries from the coming trot- ting meeting at Syracuse. However. since Mary Hartman. who many be- iieve will take her fathers place in charge of the property in Orange county, is extremely fond of horses. it is not likely the stables will be abandoned. Reports that Mrs Harri- man was in a state of collapse were denied by MT Ford. He said she and all other members of the family are bearing their grief well.
 An appreciation of Harriman's life that reflects the prevailing sentiment was expressed tonight by Dr. Me Guinness. his pastor "The Keynote of Harriman's character was his domestic simplicity" He said, He never lost his contact with life don't know. of course, how he was in his office but in his personal relations he was the most accessible man one could imagine. If any work man on the place who wanted to see Mir Harri- man. had only to speak the word
 
 In his charities he was unOstentious and modest Whenever possible he kept his name covered and he never conceived charity as the act of singing check payable to some impersonal organization He put his thought and himself as well as his money. into his gifts. His human sympathies were quick and wide recall that when the wife of one of the laborers was seriously ill he called me five times on the telephone during his business hours. and his leisure. to inquire about her Again when the nurse with whom the children had grown up. left the family to enter service elsewhere. she expressed a wish before she died that she might be buried in Arden. Hartman had the body brought here and sat in the front of the church when the services were held.
Arizona republican., 1909-09-11
HONOR OF DEAD

Omaha Sept. i0.-For five minutes during the funeral of F.. H. Hartman the entire Union Pacific system will be at a standstill in honor of the dead chief. Vice-president Mohler has or dered every branch of the service to suspend business for that length of time and that the local headquarters be closed all day Saturday. Every railroad building of consequence along the seven thousand miles of railroad has been decorated with mourning.
 San Francisco. Sept. 1O.-Sixty sec onds of absolute inactivity throughout the vast Haarriman system will ex- press respect to the memory of the dead chief, held when the body is laid at rest at Arden Sunday. From 12: 30 to I2:31 Pacific coast time not a wheel will turn on the railroads he controlled and not a telegraph instru- ment will click.
Arizona republican., 1909-09-11

New York. Sept. 10-Two beliefs concerning the death of Hartman were accepted as facts today. The first is that his great organization will not be disturbed; the second, that he was the victim of cancer. That the financial world had thoroughly dis counted his death and dissipated all fears of a panic was attested by one of the most remarkable scenes in the history of the New York exchange. There, instead of a downward move ment, a sensational and spectacular advance occurred. while in London and Berlin railroad and industrial stocks showed unusual strength.
 Kuhn Loeb and the National City bank will continue to act as the chief financial agents of the Hartman lines, but just who will assume the head of his vast affairs is a matter of speculation. It is generally under stood that Jacob H. Schiff and Judge R. S. Lovett will divide the running Of the complex organization built by Hartman. while others who will bear a part of the burden are Kruttschnitt. director of maintenance and operation of the Hartman lines; Frederick D, Underwood. president of the Erie; John c. Stubbs, traffic manager of the Hartman lines: l.. F. Loree. presi- dent of the Delaware & Hudson;- William F. Herrin of San Francisco. and William Hood. chief engineer of the Southern Pacific Tributes to Hartman were expressed by men of note all over the world today. The Hartman offices will remain closed until Monday. On that day a meet ing of the. directors of the Union Pa cific and Southern Pacific will likely be held.