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Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1909-01-14

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Marked For Death

"Three years ago | was marked for
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who had waited since early NOR
ming tor admi,tance. Whfn at
last the doors were closed the
line Of disappointed ones who
were turned away were more
than q block in length. This con.
cluded the largest and the last
oiahe Presidents New Years ~
|ception during Q seven years ad.
ministratioh He entertained q
large number at luncheon and
again in ths evening welcomed q
number Ct his personal frienda
and officials at dinner, managing
sometime in the interim betveen
luncheon and dinner to get in a
sharp ride on horseback through
the park.
The earthquake horror 10 .1ta-
ly which has stirred the sympa.
thy cf the civilized world is being
discussed everywhere at the Cap
ital and substantial aid is being
extended to the sufferers in that
stricken region. The Navy De.
partment has assumed authori.
ty for sending out the Christ.
mas ship which was to meet our
feet in the Red Sea, and the Red
Cross Society with its headquar-
ters here has sent $4,000. The
President has made a contribu-
tion from his own purse. and the
citizens OF the Capital responded
literally to a public plea made
bv the Italian Ambassador for
relief funds. Never in history has
there been euch a holocaust and
the America people, probably
the most lavish in their charity
Of any nation on the globe have
had their finest altruism stirred
to practical action by thereports
from the illstarred quarter. Nine
ty thousand dollars have been
cabled from New York and, this is
but the beginning of generosity.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1909-01-14

DOONJ
WASHIN GTON LETTER.
Regular Correxpo pondence.
New Years day at the Nation
a Capital this year was marked
BY the usual festivities and q lne
braciDg temperature with sun.
shine coontributed to making Of
the gayest oi al the days Of the
year.
The President, to whom it
means about fifteen hours hard
work, held bis usual reception,
and as this will be, the last oppor
tunity for the ordinary citizen to
shake hands with Mr.. Roosevelt
in the White House the number
ho-stood in line to be received
this year Was unusually large.
Even two hours before time the
line had begun to form at t b Q
White House gates and by one
o'clock, when the public .recep-
tion began, it extended for sever
al blocks. 1t was the average
good humored crowd that gath
cred though and during the wea-
ry, cold hours which it waited
patiently to be admitted q n d
showed by the Chiei Executive,
there was no sign of disturbance
or discomfort. The President
seemed in high spirits and tho it
required remarkable unfailing
good humor and tact to d 9 O
with this yearly throng he seem.
ed on this occasion to be sup
piled with an added amount OF
enthusiasm and the heartiness
with which he grasped the hand
OF each visitor made it inpossi.
bic to believe that he was not az
he said "dee--lightei" to greet
each and every one Of them.
There we're many excurslonists
from other cities and towns who
had come for the purpose of ta-
king this, their last opportunity,
to shake his hand. At eleven o..
clock the President and Mrs,
Roosevelt and their debutante
daughter joined the receiving
party in the Blue Room and the
Cabinet officials and Foreign Di-
plomats, Army aud Navy Off
GERS and q sprinkling ofSenatora
and Representatives. were vel
coined. There. were several inter.
esting figures among the Diplo-
matte corps, and when Baron
Mayer des Planchea, the italian
Ambassador, came forward the
President retained his hand while
he expressed his heartfelt sym.
pathy for the King and Queen ol
Italy in the terrible disaster in
their country. The Baron in re.
ply thanked the President for the
generous action Of the govern
mcnt in sending a supply ship to
the stricken district.
At last years reception Baron
Van Sternberg, the German Am.
bassador, was dean oi the corps
and led the brilliant procession
Of diplomats. His place was ta-
ken this year by bis successor,
Count Bernstorff who is the la
test edition to the corps was the
last to greet the President, and
his wife, an attractive American
woman, made. her first entrance
in the White House. Another in
teresting figure was that of the
Chinese envoy, Prince Tang Shao
Vi who came here a few weeks a.
go with a large suite to present
the thanks Of the Chinese Gov.
erpment tor the return .ot t b Q
Surplus Boxer indemnity fund
and incidentally it is said to make
an effort to effect q treaty be-
tween the two countries. He is a
big, handsome Chinaman OF dis
tinguished mann ers and most
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Ragelo tbs Iest Olty.
Baltimore Sun. J

baltimore Sun.
Reggio, called Reggie di Gala
bria, was the capital Of the PROV
ince Of the SANS name. II was
an archiepiscopal sea and had q
population Of $4,000 inhabi-
| tants. s
ltwas one Of the oldest settle
ments in Italy, and in antiquity
lite name was Rhegium. It was
originally q Europeanc colony and
was peopled in 723 B. c., by iug-
tive Messeniaps. It rose to
great prosperity in the old days,
but suffered from war, and 8S7
B c. was captured BY Dionysius
], OF Syracuse, and destroyed.
1t was again captured in 27O
by the Romans and itunderwent
many yiclssitudes Of conquest in
the m iddle oges. Totila, the
Goth, captured it in $40 A. D.,
the Caracens did likewise in 918,
the Pisans In 1905 Robert G uis-
card in in 1000 and the Turks in
1852. and again in 1897.
After the great earthquake in
1888, the town was most entir-
ely rebuilt, and it presented q
more modern aspect than some
Of the other towns, and had wide
streets which were studied with
numerous handsome villas. 1t
had a beautiful cathedral which
dated from tho seventeenth CEN
tury, and it possessed numerous
other handsome buildings, am
ong them the Capella del Sacre-
mento, highly decorated with col
ored marble; the Stradadelle Cas-.
erme, and adjacent. to it the Civ
ic Museum, which contained q
fine collection Of cottas, lamps,
statutes and vases including q
few very antique speciments with
curious ornamentation.
Above the cathedral and back
OF it stood the CASTILLO. In the
piazza adjoining the railway sta
ton there was q fine statue Of
Garibaldi. Another handsome
square was the Piazza Vittoria
Emanuele. where the band often
played and which was embellish-
led with the statue OF Italia.
'TheStraia Reggie Campi which
ran along the heights behind the
town, was considered a flneprom
enade, and it gave. one Of the e.
nest views OF The environs and Of
the Sicillian coast to be obtain.
ed anywhere.
Reggie was distant from Mes.
sina about SIX and a quarter
miles. Probably it's most beauti-
full feature to the tourist lay back
of the town where the forest call
ed Aspromonte rose in imposing
fashion. 1t was there in the vi
cinity Of Reggie that Gorabaldi
was wounded and taken prisoner
by the italian troops under Pal
lavini on August 20, 1852. The
ascent oi this forest slope took
about nine hours, and when the
summit was gained, especially in
moonlight, q commanding view
OF the sea, the islands and Sicily
OF unparalleled beauty was OBJ
tanned.
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The Charlotte Observer.
THEsLARGEST AND BEST
NEWSPAPER IN N. G.
Every Day in the Year IS. q
Year.

The Observer consists of 10 to II
pages daily aud 20 to 81 pages Sun
day. It handles mole news matter,
local, State, national and foreign
than any other North Caralina news
paper.
THE SUNDAY OBSERVER.
is unexcelled as a news medium aud
is also filled with excellent matter
of a miscellaneous nature.
SEMI-WEEKLY OBSERVER,
issues Tuesdays and Fridays, at ST.
per year, is the largest paper for the
money in this section. 1t consists Of
8 to 10 pages. and prints all the
news # the week-local, State, M
tiona and foreign.
Az ress, h
THE OBSERVER co.
Charlotte N. G.
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When the surgeon goes after
inside information he gets It.
Thousands Have kidnsy
Trouble lld Never Suspect Il

Fill bottle or common glass with your
water and let II stand tweiity-four hours |;
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oNolmenIo q ST.
tlingi gindicatesan
unhealthy cou-
ditioii Of the Kid
neys: II Il staiiaa
your linen Il u
evidence Of kid
ney trouble TOO
frequent desits
to pass Il Of pain
in the back u
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1909-01-14

SMALL FARM FOR SALE. I
One aud one hall miles west iol
Boone N. G. good location con.
venient to frst Glaze school For
tarms and Particulars, address
!. =. LONG, Williamsburg,
Butte, Mont.
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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-05-28
Lion
Hunting
i'm the
MolopO
Country
By Percy SeIOuS

Wherever guns are made and sold
and game is hunted for the sake of
the sport of it the name of Selous
IS familiar. The stories of his
achievements circle the globe and
tens of thousands of lesser hunters
feel honored to have hunted Nth
him on occasion or to haze crossed
has track or followed his trail. A
confirmed nOmad, q soldier Of the
chase by irresistible prediction, he
has spent his life hunting, trapping
and traveling, sometimes IN the Ca
madam moods, sometimes IN the for
,ests of the andes, sometimes in the
passes of the Central Asian noun
tains, sometimes IN the northern ice,
sometimes IN the african jungle,
and the story of his hunting cape
riences is romance of fact and ad-
venture. 4 member of this famous
family Of hunters is accompanying
Theodore Roosevelt into the jungles
of East Africa.
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case, and her rich, tawny skin was
sufficient temptation for me; so l
aimed at her throat, which presents
much easier and safer mark than that
of the lion, with it's matted and tan
gled name, sufficient at times to offer
considerable impeachment to bullet.
She must have raised her head as I
fired, for my ball passed harmlessly
by; fortunately, too, for me, missing
the youngster Immediately behind her,
or a pretty hullabaloo might have
been the result. All the same, was
in no enviable position, with my car
bine empty, in close proximity to these
three cats. followed the old adage
of keeping my eye intently fixed on
that of the lioness; whether that had
anything to do with her refraining
from charging will not pretend to
say, but she did remain still whilst l
mechanically reloaded and as me-
chanically brought up my weapon.
Taking more careful aim this time, I
potted her right in her white cravat,
sending her in somersault over the
young ones to their no little astonish.
ment, and, what with the roaring of
the lioness and the row made by the
cubs, there was quite Bedlam. Then,
appearing to realize their danger, they
suddenly vanished into cover again,
rather to my relief. My lioness strug-
gled so violently that it was difficult
to finish her off, but at last she gave
me chance to put her out of her
misery by bullet through her brain.
AS soon as she lay still 1 seated my
self upon her and waited for the reap
pearance of the cubs, but, although l
stayed until the sun had got very low,
never saw anything more of either
of them. l therefore whipped off her
hide, and rolling it up returned to the
lion, and served him likewise, getting
through with the job before dusk The
hyenas could now worry at the car.
casses, though 1 hoped 1 might find
the skulls in the morning. Making
my two skins into bundle, though
an unwieldy one, carried it all right
back to the wagon.
By permission of Longmans, Green &
Co., New York.
Copyright, 1909, by Benz. B. Hampton.)
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sight of lion, so l started off myself
and tramped about until 1 was pretty
well exhausted, without finding any
further indications of "Isilouan" Much
disguised, returned to camp, pleased
that l had not decided to inspan and
trek farther, without satisfying my
self that l had not passed lion by;
for meant moving as soon as ever the
moon was old enough to guide us at
all. That evening 1 whiled away the
time while daylight lasted in cleaning
the skull of the lioness and entering
up my diary for the last week or so.
My clothing also sadly needed patch
ing up after the wait-a-bit thorns of the
day before. Then 1 turned in early
and was soon in the realm of dream
land, to be awakened by the unmistak-
able roar of lion.
l had been right after all, but only
felt half pleased at being disturbed.
There was nothing for it but to mount
guard again, and another broken
nights rest was the consequence. Still
the animals did not seem to approach
any nearer By the sound they were
evidently close by the water. AS soon
.as the morning snack was over l set
the boys to work to get everything in
readiness for inspanning, and started
off once again, this time keeping close
along the bank of the river as the most
likely way of coming across the spoor
of the lion. 1 still thought it prudent
to rest my horse, as when we got far
Their out into the veldt should find it
much more difficult to dispense with
him than where then was, with pretty
well of cover. A couple of miles down
the river l found where the lions had
been drinking. There were several of
them-three, anyway, as l could dis
tinguish from the pug marks-two full
grown ones and cub. or cubs.
This discovery caused me to reflect
q, DIT as to the wisdom Of proceeding
single-handed. However, / must either
give up the idea of the hunt altogether,
or tackle them myself; for 1 had no
confidence in the boys at such work,
and 1 would much rather be without
them than with them. Yet felt it was
a risky undertaking and recollections
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little kloof which interviewed between
us before he could reach me, though 1
did not anticipate this, walked on
towards him, till 1 got to my side OF
the ravine, about thirty PAGES from
him. He now seemed as if he had
thought that he had permitted me to
encroach far enough on to his domain,
and raised himself on his forequarters,
the tip of his tail twitchiug in man.
ner which I knew meant mischief
should I wound him. If he moved
away 1 might not get better chance,
though l wished the distance had been
less; but on such occasions as these it
does not do to hesitate long, so I took
aim at his shoulder, which presented a
fair mark, and as I fired he fell over
with roar which was answered some
little way off, doubtless by his mate.
l speedily got another cartridge in,
and, as he lay writing, ran down the
bank and up towards him. He re-
covered little as got nearer, cover
ing him all the while, and made a
futile attempt to charge me. AS he
did so, gave him another shot in the
chest, dropping him, though he was
up again directly and glazing at me
viciously. Again his roars were an
swered, but l could see no signs of
any other lions: in fact, 1 dared not
take my eyes more than an instant
off the one 1 had in hand. still kept
moving steadily up to him, and, hav-
ing got as near as l thought advis-
able, just as he seemed about to make
another effort to come at me, l got a
third bullet into him, this time catch
ing him right in the ear and finishing
him. He was a fully-grown young
male, with pretty fair name, but
nothing like so fine as others I have
met with. l measured him by STEP
ping, after l had stretched him out,
and his length, from snout end to tip
of tail, was a little over ten feet.
had no time then to see farther to
him, but set about searching for the
other lions, which were still in the
underbrush adjoining. But though
I beat almost every yard. as thought,
of cover, could not come across
them, they lay so close. Had they
crossed the open, l could not very
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-05-28
SHE DID 1T.
Not a Petrified Leo,

In one of the leading cities of the
middle west a high church dignitary
is obsessed with the monomania that
one of his legs is gradually becoming
petrified. To test it's condition he
pinches it at frequent intervals. At
dinner party Of men and women he
made the usual test after the soup and
became greatly excited to find that he
felt no sensation from most vigor-
GUS pinch. 1T has come, it has
comet" he cried in alarm; cat last
my leg is completely petrified!" The
matron sitting next to him whispered
hoarsely: Excuse me; it is not pet
rified and it is not yours!"-New York
Press
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scarcely q possible chance to get all
four into the boat safely, so, hauling
up the stone and rope which held me,
l quietly started padding for the
shore, 100 yards off, with alternate
strokes of the oars. Strange tt say,
l reached the low, shelving shore with
out single fish escaping, and, slip
ping out Of the boat, drew the whole
string ashore in triumph.
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GOT FOUR FISH ON ONE CAST

1t is something after all to be the;
hero of a record, even if it does not
mean much, and perhaps the success
full landing of four fish on one cast is
not unworthy of being rescued from
oblivion, says writer in the Field.
1t happened with me here on the
Shannon some few years ago, in the
last or very nearly the last of my sea-
sons with the wet fly, and is the more
remarkable as l have not fished with
four f1ses on my cast half dozen
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times in my life. 1 was fishing from
boat anchored at the tail of the
strong broken water of the weir, and
rose and hooked what l saw was a
trout of about half a pound.
Presently, as l was playing him, his
motions seemed to become most err
ratio; he would pull heavily down and
then instantly there would bo slack,
or a movement downstream would be-
come a movement up with a sudden
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ness quite bewildering, and for a few
minutes / could make neither head
nor tail of the action that was going
on below. At last, on the line coming
closer, l saw there was good-sized
perch on the highest dropper, AMI
presently saw second perch on tho
lower, while a moment later I was
astonished to see that my trout was
also still on the point, with a smaller
trout on the dropper next him.
None of the fish was large, of
course, though tie perch next me was
quite pound; but I saw there was
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of previous encounter in which had
been knocked senseless by lion in a
If had only had a dog should not
have thought anything Of it, but my
doubts were speedily dismissed and 1
stepped briskly forward. A lion dies
a lot easier than grizzly bear or
jaguar, as l had proved, and even
deer with bullet through it's heart
will go farther before it succumbs. OF
the tiger l cannot speak, but the
leopard and the jaguar, as also the
puma. or mountain lion, partake more
of the "cat" tenacity of life than does
the lion of South Africa.
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On the Track of a lionesS,

UT Tie Track OF a IlOneSS.
The brush was so thick that it was
next to impossible to get through it,
and therefore, as it was clear around,
and there was no fear of making con-
flagration, set fire to it as the best
apparent means of ousting our game
Telling Bob, my Kafir driver, to keep
close behind me, went a little fur
Their round the cover and was just in
time to see lioness break away, but
SO far off that did not fire, preferring
to let her go, in hopes of getting a
more favorable chance for a shot. By
this time the blaze had got so powerful
that we, too, were glad to get away
from it.
The lioness made straight for an
other bit of brush, whittier we went
after her, and, though the thorns were
quite thick enough, decided to follow
her in. My boy did not relish accom-
panying me, nor could l exactly blame
him; for, though fair hunter and a
brave enough lad in ordinary, he did
not like lions, his father having been
killed and his brother badly mauled by
one 1t was rather difficult keeping
her spoor but after some trouble and
considerable wear and tear, l espied
her lying on a bare spot, watching me
intent]y. Her head was resting be-
tween her paws and, as quickly as pos
sible, . fired between her eyes, and
could have sworn l planted the bullet
there. for she was not above thirty
PAGES from me. Turning to take my
spare carbine from Bob, found that
he bad vanished. But the lioness never
stirred, and was hurriedly reloading
when she suddenly jumped up and
dashed further into the thicket.
Unparliamentary language relieves
the feelings, if nothing more; so, after
having mathematical poor Bob. 1 once
more plunged after the lioness, won
dering how our next meeting would
come off, There was plenty of blood,
just where her head had lain, and also
enough to guide me easily on the
tracks she had taken. Indeed, before
/ was aware of it, was almost on top
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: HAD had very little sleep
all night, owing to the
prowling around and roar
ing of lions, attracted by
the offal of a giraffe
which l had shot the pre-
vious afternoon, and had
had dragged bodily up to
the wagon. The night was,
however, so dark that l
could not get a view, and,
although | once thought ]