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Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1910-09-08
give to each child the right to

rh OOse n star that shall be ms,
and | direct that the child's Ia
tier shall tell him the name OF il,
in order that the child may al
ways remember the name OF that
star after he has learned and
forgotten astronomy.
Item--I devise to boys jointly
all the useful idle fields and com.
mons where ball may be played,
and all snow.clad hills where one
may coast, and all streams and
ponds where one may skate to
haye and to hold the salne for
the period of their boyhood. And
all meadows, with the ClOyer
blooms, and the butterflies here
OF; and all woods, with their APP
purtanances of squirrels and
whirring birds and echoes and
strange noises; and all distant
places which may he visited, to-
gethcr with the adventures there
found, | do give to said boys to
he theirs. And | give to said
boys each his own place at the
fireside at night, with all pic
lures that may lie seen in the
burning wood or coal to enjoy
without let or hinderance a n d
without any incumbrance OF
cares.
Item-To lovers devise their
imaginary world, with whatever
they may reed. as the stars OF
the sky. the red, red roses by the
wall, the snow OF the hawthorn,
the sweet strains of music, or
aught else they may desire to
figure to eachother the lasting
ness and beauty of their love.
Item-To young men jointly,
being joined in a brave, m a d
crowd, | devise and beqneath all
boisterous, inspiring sports of
rivalry. | give to them the dis
dain of weakness and und aunt
ed confidence IN their ow n
strength. Though they are rude
and rough l lave to them alone
the power OF making lasting
friendships and possessing com
panlone; and to them exclusive
| ly | give. all merry songs aud
brave choruses to sing, wit h
smooth voices to troll them
forth.
ltem-And to those who are
no longer children or youths or
lovers, ! leave Memory, and |
leave to them he volumes OF the
poems OF Shakespeare, and Of
other poets, if there are Others,
to the end that they may live
the old days over again freely
and fully, without tithe or dimi'
mutton: and TO those who are no
longer children or youths or lov.
ers, leave, too, the knowledge
OF what Il rare, rare world it is
Charles Lounsbury.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1910-09-08
Why Abuse Ytur Watch

You dc, not run your buggy. sewing
machine or other machinery till it
squs axis and grinds and cuts itself to
pieces. You clean and oil it often. You
should be as careful with your watch
1t small and cannot squeak loud
when 1t is dry and needs oiiing. You
may not know il till the watch il
completely ruined and stops. Bring
your watch to me win show you
and explain the exact condition.
Take proper care of your watch and
1t will Last You a life time. Consult
me on watch Diseases.
q Yours Very Truly,
IS. M. GREENE, Jeweler.
I zionville, N C.RFD 1.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1910-09-08
They Have a Definite Purpose.

Foley's Kidney Pills give quick
relief in cases of kidney and Bladder
ailments. Mrs. Rose CHASER Terra
Haute. Ind, tells the result in her
case: "After suffering for IN n Y
years from a serious case of kidney
trouble and spending much money
for so-called cures, | found Foley
Kidney Pills the only medicine that
gave me permanent cure. l am
again able to be up and attend to
my work. l shall never hesitare to
recommend them." NJ. B. Black
burn.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1910-09-08
For Quick Relief from Hay Feyer

Asthma and summer bronchitis
take Foleys Honey and Tar. 1t
q lickly relieves the discomfort and
suffering and the annoying symp-
toms disappear. 1t sooths and heals
the inhamed air passages of I h e
head, throat and bronchial tubes. 1t
contains no opiate or harmful drug.
Refuse substitutes. NJ. B. Black
burn.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1910-09-08
From Sickness to Good Health.

So says Mrs. Chas. Lyon, Peoria
III. III found in your Foley Kidney
Pills prompt and speedy cure for
backache and kidney trouble which
bothered me for many months.
am now enjoying excellent healtl
which | owe to Foley Kidney Pills
NJ. B. Blackburn.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1910-09-08
Foley
Kidney
Pills
What They VIII Do for You

What They viii Do for You
They will cure your backache,
strengthen your kidneys, cor.
rect urinary irregularities, build
up the worn out tissues, and
eliminate the excess uric acid
that causes rheumatism. Pre-.
vent Bright's Disease and Dia.
bates, and restore health and
strength. Refuse substitutes,
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1910-09-08
Foley's Kidney Pills.

Tonic in quality add action, quick
in results. For backache. headache,
dizziness, nervousness, urinary irreg
ularities and rheumatism. NJ. B.
Blackburn.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1910-09-08

The Creditor-Will you pay
this bill now, or never?
The Debtor-Mighty nice OF
you to give me my choice, old
scout. Ichoose never.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1910-09-08
THE LAST WILL.
by William Fisher, Esq. |
Vest Publishing Cos Docket,

|
West Publishing Co.'S Docket,
He was stronger and cleverer,
no doubt, than other men, and
in many broad lines of business
he had grown rich, until his
wealth exceeded exaggeration.
Ono morning, in his Office, he d.
recteJ a request to his confden
tial lawyer to come to him in the
afternoon. lie intended to have
his will drawn. A will is a SOL
emn matter, even with men whose
life is gwen up to business, and
who are by habit Mindful OF the
future. After giving this direc-
tion he took up no bother matter,
but sat at his desk alone and in
silence.
1t was a day when summer was
first new. The pale leaves upon
the trees were starting forth mp
on the unbending branches. The
grass in the park had a fresh
ness in it's green like the fresh
ness of he blue Of the sky and of
The yellow of the sun-a fresh
ness to make one wish that life
might renew it's youth. The clear
breazes from the south wanton-
ed about, and then were still, as
if 10th to go finally away.
Half idly, half thoughtfnlly
the rich man wrote upon t h e
white paper before him, begin
ming what he wrote with capital
letters, such as he had not made
/ since, as a boy at school he had
taken pride in his skill with the
pen.
In the Name of God, Amen. |,
Charles Lounsbury, being oi
sound and hisposing mind and
memory do now make and pub
lish this my Last Will and Tes.
lament, in order, as justly as |
may, distribute my interests in
the world damong succeeding men.
And first, the part of my utter
ests which is known among men
and Recognized in the s eep-
bound volumes OF the law as my
property, being inconsi1erahle
and ofnone account, | mike no
account OF in this my will. My
right to life, it being but "A life es-
tate, is not at my disposal. but,
these things excepted, all else in
the world | now proceed to de.
wise and begueath. :,
Item-And fist, give to good
Fathers and Mothers but in
trust for their children, nevertbe.
less, all good little words of
praise and all quaint pet names,
and | charge said parents TO use
them Justly but generously as
the needs OF their children shall
required.
Item-I leave to children ex
rlusively, but only for the life OF
their childhood, all and every,
the dandelions of the fields and
the daisies thereof, with the right
to play among them freely, ac-
cording to the custom OF chill
dren, warning them at the same
time against the thistes. And !
devise to children the yellow
shores of creeks and the golden
sands beneath the waters there
OF, with the dragon flies ( h Il t
Iskim the surface of said water,
and the odors of the willows that
dip into the said waters, and the
WHITE clouds that float over the
giant trees.
And | leave the children h e
long, long days to be merry in,
in a thousand ways, and the
Night and the Moon and the
train of the Milky Way to won-
der at, but subject, nevertheless,
hereinafter given to lovers; and
They Have a Definite Purpose.
Foley's Kidney Pills give quick
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1910-09-08
THE CONFEDERATE.

Charlotte News.
We pity that heart that did
not swell and that soul that was
not uplif'ed yesterday when the
matchless warriors of the South
and the great South.builders
gathered once more in annual re-
union and lived again the stir
ring times OF on age of heroism
that may possibly be equalled
some time but which shall never
be surpassed as long as t h g
world stands.
Living or dead, all honor and
glory to the Confederate soldier,
gray.garbed cavalier OF the Stars
and Bars, who for the love OF
home and friends and the pljnci-
pies of the fathers, performed un-
paralellpd fcats of valor, while
all the world wondered; and who,
when he had done all and more
than a man could, returned and
faced a land of ruins with unsha-
ken faith and courage, with cour-
age, if it is possible, even greater
than he had displayed on the
battlefield, and set to work to
rebuild homes and systems and
commonwealths, and to cleanse
the land of beasts of prey.
We speak OF the private sol
der, of the man behind the mus
ket, OF The man who shook the
hills OF Fredericksburg AID hurled
himself against the heights OF
Gettysburg with nothing in his
mlnd but Love and Duty.
Let never a jot or title OF the
story OF a Southern private sol
dier he lost in this amazing era
of industrial expansion and de.
velopment which is blossoming,
when the minds OF younger gen.
erations will he filed with schemes
to make the South what she was
destined ro be by God Almighty
the pleasantest and richest and
the gran lest laud on the globe.
Let it be forever remembered
but that tor the Confederate SOL
der turned citizen and cOrstruc.
tive statesman after the war was
over, there could not be t h Z
peace and happiness and the de-
velopment, the riches, and the
white mans civilization and in.
stitutiOns with which Dixie is
most abundantly ble -sed today.
He made it all possible. 1t
took fifty years for the south to
find herself, but the task h q $
been accomplished, and rs a
youngerySouth turns to newer
days let it take with it the pic
tn e Of a,raggnl soldier with his
back toward home; 1T it take
with it the picture of that soldier
turned citizen patiently building
up again the homeland he had
ble'l fora picture as heroic as
the world has ever seen or ever
will see.
And don't let us confne o ur
worship OF the rapidly vanishing
soldier to reunion days. Let, 8 do
something more than make such
occasions pleasant for him. Ii
had been charged that we hayr
no use ior the soldier except on
these occasions and at elections
1t is a lie ont of the whole cloth,
! for the South has done about as
well as she could by the Confed-
crate, but today there is not a
single Southern State that can
not quadruple its efforts to keep
the clouds away from the sun as
| i, sets for the last time for each
one OF the men who freely gave
their best years to the cause OF
the storm Graded nation that
fell.
From Sickness to Good Health.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1910-09-08
A Righteous Judgment About to Be
Deliye yd.

Monroe Journal.
Not since 1896 has there heen
such deep-seated political activ,
ity throughout the country as
at present. Then the country was
I'm the thrOes of hard times and
business depression of an un-
precedentpd nature, and the on
ly concern of people was how to
remedy the situation and GET
the country once more on s
feet. Today, following a decade
Of prosperity, the public mind is
in Il state of revolution and IN
diSnant protest against the idea
Of moral peryersiOn that has
been found tn exist in our public
and private life. The situation i.
thus summed up by the New
York World:
"The size ut the Democratic
victory victory that will be an
nounced on the morning of No.
vember 9th next will be stagger
ing. 1t will include All oyerwhel
ming majority in the House o
Representatives and a gain O
many Uniteil States Senator's
Ohio, the Presidents own State
will be lost to the Republicans
New York, the State of the ex
President, will be- sweeping Dem
ecratic. Mnjorities will be Sc
large that people will tire ofcom
putting them.
Not through Democratic vir
tues aud abilities but in spltepr0
Democratic hlunders and weak
nesses are those things to com
about; not because there are
more Democrats than Replbli,
cans but because there are more
American progressives t b a /
stand-patters; not as a rebuk'
to. this man OF, that man in par
ticnlar, but as q condemnation
OF many men; not as a rejection
of one policy but al a repudia-
tion of many policies; not as al
evidence OF momentary indigna
tion bat as voicing the demand
of a great and free people o
light, for truth, Tor iustire, TO
economy, for peace!
"What are these bitter Repnb
liran quarrels but attempts il
advance to escape the judgmen
which all know is at hand? Their
is a mad rush for safety. Respon
sible men are posing as irrespon
sibles Old offenders nasquerad
as innocents, Sacrifices are offer
ed up in tho hope that the popu
lar wrath. may be appeased
Thsre is talk even OF a thir(
term in the White House for th
vociferous and lawless person
under whom Cannon and AL
drich and Payne and Sherman
and Dalzell got their strangl
grip on party and country.
"In spite OF all this there vii
be no mistake about that which
is to take place in November. |
is 10 be more Il Republican de-
feat than a Democratic victory
more a popular uprising agains
plutocracy and privilege than {
party revival; more u matured
verdict on Roosevpltism h a ,
upon Republicanism; more a re
buke to Taft as proxy than o
TAFT as President; more ofan ex
preston of hope in Democrac,
than of faith in Democracy.
'Turn on the lightW
The journal is not one Of those
who are silly enough to think
much lasting good can come
from a mere change in parties
When the people turn over th,
government to few politicians
and the men back of them who
want to use the government tol
their own ends, we will always
have bad government, no mat
ter which party it happens TO be
I,,uoo ,t, tto Wx>utl .,r,,, I, !,
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1910-09-08
PR o FE S ST ON AL
DIR. OSCAR L. MOORE.
DENTIST.

will beat Blowing Rock from
the first to the fifteenth of each
month prepared to do all kinds
OF Dental work.
Office Near Watauga Hotel.
Oct. 81, 1y.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1910-09-08
R, Ross Done!Iy.

UNDERTAK ER & EMBAI.M ER
SHOUN'S, ---- Tennessee,
Has Vanished aud Glass White
Cotfins; Black Broadrloth and
White Plush Caskets; Black and
! White Metallic Ca S K e 8 Robes,
Shoes and Finishings,
/ Extra large Coffins and Cas-
kcts always on hand. Phone or
lers given special attention.
5i9 r. ROSS DONNELLY.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1910-09-08

A business mans leisure is sim
ply the time he doesn't know
what to do with.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1910-09-08

Friendship improves happiness
and abates misery, by the >doub-
ling OF our joy and the dividing
OF our grit ia. Cicero.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1910-09-08

The first badly seldom demon
strats that two's company,
three's q crowd.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1910-09-08

therefore, if kidney
trouble is permitted to
continue, serious re-
suits are most likely
to follow. Your other
organs may need at
tention, but your kid
neys most, because
they do most and
should have attention
first. Therefore, when
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1910-09-08

No woman is q heroine in tbt
eyes OF her hired girl.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1910-09-08
Often The Kidneys Are
Weakened BY Over Work.
Unhealthy Kidneys Make Impure Blood.

Weak and unhealthy kidneys are re-
sponsible for much sickness and suffering,
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1910-09-08

your kidneys are weak or out of order,
you can understand how quickly your en-
tire body is affected and low every organ
seems to fail to do its duty.
II you are sick or feel badly" begin
taking the great kidney remedy, DR..
Kilmer's Swamp-Root. A trial will con-
vince you of its great merit.
The mild and immediate effect OF
Swamp-Root, the great kidney and
bladder remedy, is soon realized. It
stands the highest because its remarkable
health restoring properties have been
proven in thousands Of the most distress
ing cases. If you need medicine you
should have the best.
Sold by druggists in AFNEl2afS
ffty-cent and one-dol- :.1nsssss.sss3D9s
lar sizes. You may s:.: sss:::::::5
have a sample bottle
by mail free, also
pamphlet telling you Hsns q Ssssp Rssl
how to find out If you have kidney OF
bladder trouble. Mention this paper
when writing to DR.. Kilmer & Co.,
Binghanton, N. Y. Don't make any mis-
take, but remember the name, Swamp
Root. and don't let . dealer sell ,you
something in place Of Swamp -Roet e
you d. you wi1l be disappointa.
The sun., 1910-02-25
rRIAL JUDGE TBREATENED.
BLACK Hand Letter" Camc while Sicsiian
Bandits We're nc the Tsar.

Judge George w. Ray 81 the Unite d
States District Court. who presided at
the trial OF Ignazio Lupo and his gang
Of Sicilian counterfeiters and sent them
to prison for terms ranging from thirty
to fifteen years, received while the trial
was on what purported TO he a Black
Hand letter written in Italian and saying
in rough translation; If the prisoners
are not liberated you will die like dog
We have killed better men than you or
Smith or Flynn"
Smith is Abel l. Smith, the Assistant
United States District Attorney who
prosecuted Flynn is Capt. Willism j,
Flynn OF the local Federal secret service
who arrested the Sicilians
The text of the letter was reinforced
with sketches in ink OF a heart pierced
with a dagger and drops of blood falling
from the wound. Two revolvers were
drawn pointed at the bleeding heart and
a black hand was drawn conspicuous'y.
The letter was posted in this city.
The District Attorneys Office was ret
icent about the affair yesterday. but 1t
was admitted that the letter had been
received by Judge Ray and had been
turned over to Walter = Mayer, Post
Office inADector
The sun., 1910-02-25
TAFT NAMES R0YBOOD CRUM.
Judge Hsw ard a.. H0IILsIer Appointed 60
Place on the Federal Bench.

CINCINNATI Feb. 74.--Howard C, Hoi-
lister. former Judge Of the Common Pleas
bench OF Hamilton county and boyhood
friend Of President Taft, was HsnisSi
by him to-day to succeed on the United
States District Court bench the late
Judge Albert Thompson.
This is the third appointment the Presi-
dent has made in Cincinnati, and in
each he has ignored the George B Cox
organization.
Republican independents OF Cincinnati
and has been active in nearly every mu-
nicipal campaign against the dominant
organization He was one OF the or
ganizers OF the Roosevelt Club Of Inde-
pendent Republicans.
Judge Hollister broke with the or
ganization after he left the bench
The other independent appointments
made by Taft are those of John War
rington Judge Of the United States Cir
cult Court OF Appeals. and of Frederick
G. Hicks. university professor. whom
Mr. Taft made census supervisor for this
district
Judge HolIister and Mr. Taft wePe
boys together in Mount Auburn, and At
a dinner given to the President on the
day after his election Hollister recalled
many pranks they had played They
attended the old -Mean4 Auburn school
together. and were taught by the same
teacher. Miss Horsley. who 10 still Nv
ing They enrolled 1T Woodward High
School the same year but Holbster
left to 20 to a preparatory school In the
East The boys met again at Yale. and
were graduated together They returned
to Cincinnati on the same train after
their graduation. and in the following
fall became students at the Cincinnati
law School They were classmates dur
ing the four years there. and went To
Columbus and took the bar examination
together.
After that they returned to Cincinnati
but opened separate Offices. MI. Taft
soon entered public life as United States
revenue collector. and remained in pub
lie life ever afterward Hollister prac-
tised law, and in 1897 became Judge ol
the Common Pleas Court.
The sun., 1910-02-25
WOMAN KAD sULLY ARRESTED
tie Agrees 20 Pay on Mrs. sa, ages Judg-
meRt In InstAIDIents


It came out yesterday that Daniel }.
Sully. who has been sought by the Sheriff
with body execution since last summer,
was arrested on February 10, when he came
here from Washington to testify in the
suit brought against his wife by Tifany's.
The execution was obtained by Walter l..
Ronnell. counsel for Mrs Grace w. Savage.
wife OF DR.. Thomas F. Savage OF ISL West
llSth street. The lawyer pointed out Sully
to Deputy Sheriff Cook in the rotunda of
the Astor House
Mrs. Savage. who was a friend Of Mrs.
Sully, gave the cotton broker SIS. 900 20
invest for her before he was forced TO the
wall in the cotton corner. and he gave her
$4,000 worth of stock in the soap concern
he organized after his failure. When the
soap bubble burst also Mrs Sava ge sued
declaring that she had never told Sully
to buy soap stock. She said she had
been saving the money to educate her
daughter.
Justice O'Gormsn. who heard the suit
directed a verdict fox sl7.ssO for Mrs
Savage, saying that while Mrs. Savage
been lost in cotton speculation she did
have claim when it was lost in soap
without her authorization.
After his arrest Sully was taken to Mr..
Bonnel's Office. where he promised to
pay $500 in cash on the judgment and 500
a month. The plaintiff agreed to these
terms on condition that Mrs. Sully " ould
be responsible for the payments so long
as her husband lived. Mrs Sully con-
sented to this arrangement.
The sun., 1910-02-25
LIGHTNING HITS DEATHBED

woman Patient and Man at Her side
KILLED and Another BADLY Injured.
TOWNSVILLE. La. Feb. 24.-Mrs. Glenn
snt Gray and Henry Crooks were In
stantly killed and John Ogden was badly
injured by a bolt OF lightning at the home
Of Mrs, Gray yesterday.
Mrs. Gray was dying and Crooks and
Ogden had taken q light to her bedside
to see II she was still alive. just as they
bent over her a vivid fash OF lightning
killed Mrs. Gray and Crooks and shocked
Ogden 50 badly that he 10 in a precarious
condition.
The sun., 1910-02-25
CATCHES AUTO SPEEDERS.
This Device Takes the Number and he-
cords the Time and Elapsed Distance

BosroN, Feb. 2l.-The Photographic
speed recorder or automatic automobile
detecter for catching scorchers has
been officially upheld by the courts,
II is now expected that this instrument,
the invention OF two professors in the
Massachusetts, Institute OF Technology
will succeed the auto trap.
By a decision OF the Supreme Court
the exceptions filed by W. 8. Buxton oil
Allston. convicted through one OF these
devices Of overspeeding, are overruled
Buxton was fined for overspeeding In
one OF the Boston parkways and appealed
on the ground that evidence based on
the work OF n photo speed recorder
should not be admitted.
The photo speed recorder is a COM
bined stopwatch and camera which
photographs a speeding auto and the
hands Of the watch at the same time
The mechanism consists OF q small
cameralike box which is pointed at a
speeding auto from the rear A lever
is pushed in the box. The photo speed
recorder takes two photographs OF the
retreatina auto on the same camera
plate, showing the cars license number
the two impressions being taken about one
second apart. By an arrangement the
hands OF a stopwatch within the camera
are photographed at the same time.
The difference in position OF the hands
shows the time elapsed between the two
photos and the difference in sire OF the
auto pictures shows the difference in
range, caused by the distance the auto
has travelled. A simple mathematical
calculation shows how far the car has
travelled in the elapsed time. From
this it Ia easy tn work out the speed Of
the car in miles an hour.