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Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1910-07-14
A P0etlcal Sentence.
Bedford Bulletin,

Bedford Bulletin,
Bury the croaker out in the
wood in a beautiful hole in the
ground where the woodpecker
pecks and the bumble-bee buns
and the straddle bug straddle
around He is no good to the
city push--too impractical, stin.
gy and dead, but he wants the
whole earth, and all OF it's crust
and the stars that shine over
head. Then hustle him off 10
bumble.bee's roost and bury him
deep in the ground; he's of no
use here, get him out of the way,
and make room for the man that
is sound.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1910-07-14

I Miss Job, of Queenstown, Tas-
mania, is said to be the only
woman who ever sat within the
bar at a Wesleyan Methodist
conference. When she first took
her seat one minister protested
that the conference was compos-
ed oRlxofs ministers and layn,en
and that they had no power to
admit the best lady in the land.
All Others, including the presi.
dent of the conference, took the
position that women were includ.
ed as laymen and Miss, Job re-
tanned her seat within the bar
New York Sun.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1910-07-14

Teething children have m IRE .r
less dlarrhoea, which can be con-
trolled by giving Chamberlain's
Collie, Cholera and Dlarrhoea Rem.
edy. All that is necessary is to
give the prescribed dose after each
operation of the bowels more than
natural and then castor oil to cleanse
the system. 1t is safe and sure
Sold ny all druggists.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1910-07-14
BANK STATEMENT.

Following is the report of the
condition Of the Watalga County
Bank at Boone. N. G., in the State
of Nortii Carolina, at the close Of
business June 80. 1910,
RgsOCRCks.
Loans and discounts $69,9e7.ls
over uraits secured 47.3s.
Over drafts unsecured 243.62.
Banking house l'Sls.oo.
Furniture and fixtures o2s.oo
Due from banks and BAN
kels i5.S54.s4.
Gold coin, i,e27, 60.
Silver coin, incluaing ali
minor coin currency I,Iso.S7,
Natioha al bank notes and =
other U. S. notes $4,000
-
Total. .......,,..,..,,,,.,..!." 1889
LIABILITIES
Capital stock $II goo. 90
Surplus fluid, s:3So;oo
Undivided profits, less cur.
rent expenses and tax paid S74.3o
Time certificates ofdepos. 35.7aS.9o
Deposits subject to check 4o,o45.6o
Cashiet's ck's outstanding 345.oS
Total ............",.'..",l.. $o2,IT3.S3.
State of North Carolina, Watauga
county, ss: l, g. P. HaRan,an,
Cashier of the above named bunk
10 solemnly swuar the above
statement is true to the best of my
knowledge and belief.
G. P Hagamap, Cashier
Correct-Attest: n. L. Mast,'W,
c. Cofey, J. II. Mast, Directors.
Subscribed and sworn to before
ME, this 9Th day Of July, t9to.
W. r. Gragg; Kepister of Deeds
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1910-07-14
Why AbuseY Your Watch

You do not run your buggy, sewing
machine or other machinery till 1t
squeaks and grinds and cuts itself to
pieces. You clean and oil 1t often. You
should be as careful with your watch
1t Is small and cannot squeak loud
when II Is dry and needs oiling. You
may not know 1t till the watch IL
completely ruined and stotp. Bring
your watch to me wiz hsw you
and explain the exact condition.
Take proper care Of your watch and
IT will last you life time. Consult
me on watch Diseases.
Yours Very Truly,
s. NJ. GREENE, Jeweler.
ljqpyille, N C.RFD
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1910-07-14
j. l.. HARRELL,
Bristol, Tenn.--Va
When the stomach fails to per.

When the stomach fails to per.
form Its functions, the bowels be.
come deranged, the liver and the
kidneys congested causing numer.
GUS diseases. The stomach and liv.
er must be restored to healthy
condition and Chamberlain's Stom.
ach and Liver Tablets can be de.
pended upon to do 1t. Easy to take
end most effective. Sold by all
druggists.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1910-07-14
Some Past Events,
Chester Is. CO. Lantern.

%heeGSf W. W. AdHCcTn.
The month OF July is one
which has seen many historical
events take place in the history
OF our country, and probably
more events have transpired in
THIS month in by gone years
which are today written ON his
tory's pages than any other OF
the twelve months on our calen-
dar.
The first and most important,
ol course, is the Declaration OF
Independence which was issued
on July 4th 1776. This marked
the day on which the American
colonies cast oil their allegiance
to the British crown and formed
O new nation, whose corner stone
is individual liberty with equal
rights to all and special privileges
to none. But every one who has
lived and died in America is fa-
miliar with the history of the
events surrounding and follow.
ing the signing OF the Declara-
ton OF Independence.
Another date still green in the
memory OF the South is the Ord
of July 1868, on the day which
Pickett inade that memorable
charge at Gettysburg. 1t was
the third and final days fight
around Gettysburg. Following
a fierce artillery duel. $1,000
men, the flower of Lees army
under the command of General
Pickett. moved forward to the
charge Of Cemetery Ridge, the
key to the. Federal position
Could that be taken the victory
would have been Lees. As the
Is, 900 men moved forward in
close rank, silent and with grim
determined faces, q silent tribure
TO such brave and daring passed
along the ranks of the Federals
lying entrenched behind the
mountain ridges. The hot July
sun beat down in Hits fierceuess
az the columns formed in line
and moved on. And that charge
has gone down In history as one
of the greatest on record. The
daIiug soldiers of the South
charged straight into the enc.
my's cannon. They were moved
down like grain but they would
close their ranks and move on.
And practically the entire com
mand yielded their bones on that
battlefield before the fight was
over.
The destruction of the Span.
ish feet off Santiago de Cuba on
July Bird 1898, practically de.
cided the war with spain and
gave America possession Cuba
shortly afterwards.
These are just three OF the i'm.
portant events which haye oc.
CURED in July in past years and
helped to make Americas histo-
.ry what it is.
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Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1910-07-14
A Frigttful Wreck

of train, automobile ol buggy may
cause cuts, bruises, abrasions,
sprains or wcunds that demand
Bucklen's Arnica Salve-ear'h'.
greatest healer. Quick relief and
prompt cure results. For burns
boils, sores Of all kinds, eczema.
chapped hands and lips, soie eyes
or corn., its supreme. Surest pile
cure. a5e at all druggists,
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1910-07-14
Work IL Hours a Day.

The busiest little things ever
made are DR.. Kings New Life
Pills y a sugar. coated globule Of
health. that changes weakness into
strength, languor into energy, brain
fag into mental power; curing Con
stipation, Headache, Chills, Dys
pepsia, Malaria. zscat all drug
lgists.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1910-07-14
A MONSTER FLAG.
II Floats Above London When Paflias
meht ID Sitting.

Il Floats Above London When Parllas
ment is sitting.
Probably few who see the un.
ion jack flying over the Victoria
tower at Westminster when
Parliament is sitting realize that
the flag which hutters 80 high
above the inhabitants OF Lon.
don is ohp of the most remark
able pieces OF bunting in the
world.
Small .as it seeins to the up.
turned gave more than 45O feet
beneath it, this floating emblem
is no enormous that it's out=
spread bunting would completely
hide from view a couple OF subuf.
ban villas. tits sixty feet long
and forty.five-so capacious, In
fact, that 5000 persons could
find standing room on it. The
mast from whose dizzy summit
1t futters is as tall as the Duke
Of York's column, rises from a
base little less exalted than the
cross of st, Pauls cathedral and
weighs sixteen TONS.
To reach the loot of this towi
ering mast one must climb 35C
feet up the dark interior of the
Victoria tower. On entering the
tower through the low iron door
at It's foot and gazing upward
one sees far above a blue light
apparently no larger than q
mans hand, which marks the
summit Of the tower, and to this
opening the only m'ans Of access
is by means Of a fragile, spiral
staircase which winds around the
dark walls, clinging to them as il
for support.
AS we climb round and round
this frail "Jacob's ladder" We
pass story after story, each init
self a comihodious house of six
teen rooms, until painting and
perspiring, we pass the eleventh
of these stories and emerge CRATE
fully into the open air.
Arrived at the summit, mort
marveIs await us. We find that
the parapet, which from the
bridge far below looks but a tiny
speck of stone, Is actually thrice
the height of the average man
The crowns which aIorn the four
tnrrets are FIVE feet across anC
weigh a ton apiece. The lions
which guard the corners are levi
athans, towering twenty feet
high, and the roof oil the tower
we gasp to learn, would turn the
scales at 400 tons.
But perhaps the greatest won
der of all az we stand OH this dlZ
~ emm ence is the far stretching
view OF the worlds capital, dwar
ed to the dimensions OF a toy
metropolis, along whose narrow
ribbons of streets men crawl as
ants and the largest vehicles are
slow moving points OF black.
London Tit.Bits.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1910-07-14
R. Ross DoneI|y.
UNDERTAKEN & EMBAI.MET

UNDERTAKEN & EMBAI.MER
SHOUN'S, ..-- Tennessee,
Has Vanished and Glass White
Cofins; Black BroadclOth and
White Plush Caskets; Black and
White Metallic G a $ K e g Robes,
Shoes and Finishings.
Extra large Cofins and Cas-
kets always on hand. Phone or
ders given special attention.
X. ROSS DONNELLY.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1910-07-14

vigor and cheerful
ness soon disappear
when tile kidneys are
out Of order or dis.
eased.
Kidney trouble has
become SO prevalent
that 1t is not uncom-
tflon for O child TO be
born afflicted with
Weak kidueys. Iftlie
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1910-07-14
That's Iti

Theodore Roosevelt has return.
ed to bis country amid the ac-
claim and welcome of all these
free people. Thousands OF men
of every class, OF every calling
and OF every creed stood anxious
ly and joyously ut the piers iii
New York to shout the welcome
home" He cafne not as a con-
quering would-be conuuering he
no, but as a great, big-hearted
patriot, eager to receive his be-
loved countrymen once again iii
bis strong, protecting arms. He
come as the embodiment OF
"Peace on earth, good will to.
ward men, ''-Tazewell Republic
can.
That's it-that's itI Only there
we're no blazing star hung in the
Heavens to guide people to him,
and no angel chorus sent down
to sing glad hosannas to the Al.
mighty. But that merely an
oversight, Of course, showing
that somebody is not as strictly
on to his job as he should be. AS
soon as the Colonel rests up d
bit and gets down to business he
will dismiss the offender
Another strange thing is that
there are a lot of people who do
not seem to realize how graat
and glorious a thing it is to
have a Colonel who will take his
countrymen in his strong, pro.
tecting arms, where nothing can
molest them or harm them or
make them afraid. No other nas
ton is peculiarly blessed-no
other nation has such a Colonel.
Yet he had been back less than a
fortnight when his power and
authority were rashly defipd, and
that in his own State OF New
York. He saw that the. New York
Legislature was only human and
was about err, and he stopped
to show it what it's duty was
And the legislature spurned his
advice and went exactly CONTRA
ry to his wishes, while the world
looked on and trembled.
Suppose, now, that the Colonel
should take his strong, protect
ing arths from about us? Sup
pose that he should Withdraw his
foot from these shores and leave
us to our fate?
Fortunately, he is not that
kind of a Colonel. He will not
forsake all of his people because
u few Of them are disposed to be
rebellious and to wander off af-
ter strange gods. But these lat :
ter are in bad, and sooner or lat.
er they will feel the weight of the
Colonel's wrath Every dog of
an infidel in the New York legis-
lature who knew his will and did
it not shall be cast into outer
darkness. Bristol Herald Couri.
er.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1910-07-14
Furniture & Cofins.

At our store you will find the
most up.to-date line OF Furni
ture, Dressers, Sideboards, Bed
steads, Tables, etc, eyer shown
in the county. We also curry u
full line of Coff'ins and Caskets in
mahogany, gloss-white, white
and black plush and plushette.
OF all sizes. Coll and see ourline.
Best attention given to phone
orders. Yours to please.
Boone Furniture Store,
Cat Moretz Old Stand
DR.. BELLS ANTl.PAiN
For Internal and External Pains.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1910-07-14
PROF Z S $40 Ma /
DIR. OSCAR L. MOORE.
DENTIST

! will be at Blowing Rock iron,
the first to the fifteenth of each
month prepared to do all kindt
OF Dental work.
Office Near WdtaAgd Hotel.
Oct. 81, l y.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1910-07-14
The Dog And The Sheep.
charlotte chronile.

charlotte chronile.
For twenty years or more, the
sheep industry in North Carolina
has appealed in vain to the Leg
lslature for a dog law, but no
Legislature has ever yet had the
backbone to even discuss a dog
law, much less pass one Conse-
quently, sheep raising in North
Carolina is a dead industry,
whereas, it could be made one of
the most profitable of all indus.
tries IN the State. 1t appears
that Georgia has d law taxing
dogs 81, but the Legislature
yielding to popular clamor is
about to repeal this law. Noting
this fact, The Richmond Times.
Dlspatch: I'VE are not surprised;
we are not surprised at anything
a Georgia Legislature will do.
Last year there were 245,OOO
sheep in the State OF Georgia, or
a fraction more than four sheen
to every square mile OF territory
in that great commonwealth
We have not the statistics at
hand, but we venture to say that
there are a hundred dogs to ev.
cry square mile, with the result
that sheep growing is almost OF
the forgotten industries IN that
State. as it is in so may Of The
Southern States. But the rights
Of the people must and shall be
preserved, land in Georgia, we
have no doubt that the yellow
dog will prevail" The dog is
one Of the greatest forces known
In Southern politics. Why this
Is so, we do not attempt to Say,
but it is certainly a fact.
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Votes For Women.
Golfers Weekly.
The acute symptoms of that
extraordinary uprising of WON:
en- which drove England into
taking woman's suffrage serious.
ly seem, for the moment at least
to have subsided. Our own sym.
pathetic movement-never SO
real as in England for the simple
reason that the restrictions, eco.
nomical and intellectual, which
hem In American women arr
much less real than those that
effect th7ir English sisters seems
similarly less audible. That WON.
en- will some day vote appears
fairly inevitable. Democracy can
scarcely attain its full growth
until woman's talent for conver.
sation and the broader house.
keeping shall be added to a mans
capacity for initiative and alb
stract thought. As against the
jibes of the merely prejudired ig-
norat, we have naturally inclined
to support the suffrage side
Once the discussion leaves the
solid ground of the right of free
speech, OF assembly, and so on,
where Mrs. Pankhurst and hel
coworkers were ingenious enough
TO keep it, it so often falls into q
slough ofemotionalism and loose
thinking, that even those who
sympathize with the Gepera
movement, find Themselves ,eom.
PEELED to reply. The question i.
not one OF right or Of sentiment
but OF practi bility, and, reduced
to its lowest terms, comes tc
this: Whether, in the most eco
nonical division Offunctions and
labor between the sexes, the
work of choosing the govern
mental representatives can bes'
be performed (for the good O.
the race as a whole) by both sex
es or only by the men. The fina
answer must be given by the
race as q whole and will depend
chiefly on the ultimate decision
of women as tn what thew them
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1910-07-14
Women as We'll as Men Gro Made Miserable
BY Kidney and Bladder Trouble.

Kidney trouble preys upon the mind,
discourages and lessons nsambition; beauty,
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1910-07-14

child urinates too often, ifthe urine scalds
the flesh, or if, when the child reaches an
age when it should be able to control the
passage, it is yet afflicted with bed-wet.
ting, depend upon it, the cause of the diff.
Guilty is kidney trouble, and the first
step should be towards the treatment Of
these important organs. This unpleasant
trouble Is due to a diseased condition OF
the kidneys and bladder and not to q
habit as most people suppose.
Women as we'll as men are made miser.
able with kidney and bladder trouble,
and both need the same great remedy.
The mild and the immediate effect Of
Swamp.Root is soon realized. 1t Isl sold
by druggists, in fifty a>.
cent and one-dollar AEExE6aI
size bottles. You may ::::;;ls:s |::.Sk::..::
have a sample bottle ::::.:s:.:::::::3
by mail free, also q +!
pamphlet telling all - y
about Swamp-Root, Hon. d ss.peHss.
including many of the thousands Of testi-
monial letters received from sufferers
who found Swanp-Root to be Just the
remedy needed. In writing DR.. Kilmet
& Co., Binghamton, N. Y, be sure and
mention this paper. Don't make any
mistake, but remember the name, DR..
Kilncr's Swamp Root, and the address,
Binghainton, N. Y, on every bottle. s
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-08-31

Bob Edgren of the New York
Evening World again has stirred up
the story that there was some
thing doing" in the Jeffries-Johnson
affair.
THE faxed stories about Jeffries,
published after the fight" he says,
ARE somewhat amusing to those
who knew the inside facts. Jim
Corbett, for instance, tells how JEFF
fries sat up in window all night
before the scrap, shivering in his
nightie and worrying himself sick
about his coming defeat That is
rank nonsense, like all the rest of
the inventions.
"Jeffries, did not sit up in his win
dow. He slept 10 hours, and in the
morning they had to wake him.
There was reason for that
and perhaps Corbett knows what it
was But he doesn't tell it in his
monologue.
"Corbett gets off some other SEN,
timental slush about Farmer Burns,
and how the Farmer, realizing that
Jeffries had broken down., stood
sobbing at Jeffries' side in his
dressing room before the fight.
Farmer Burns was the man in
Jeffries' camp. When Corbett was
lying in bed in the morning or sit
ting around playing pinochle, or
playing handball, Farmer Burns
was up before daylight and out on
the road with Jeffries. l never saw
Corbett on the road with Jsffries.
That was real work. Burns was
with Jeffries, faithfully, morning,
noon and night. He ran every mile
that Jeffries ran and even at night
he was often prowling around JEFF
fries quarters like a faithful watch
dog, to see that nothing disturbed
the champions sleep.
Some of these days few hither-
to unpublished details concerning
the defeat Of Jeffries and the "a
hours that preceded it will be in
every paper in America. They will
make good reading, too"
Edgren may have something un-
der his hat, but he is dead wrong
when he denies that Jeff was not
awake a great portion OF the night
preceding the battle. Mrs. Jeffries
herself is authority for the state
ment that her burly husband paced
the floor until far past midnight and
that he stopped occasionally to emit
a grOan.
Il don't believe Corbett knows
any more about Jeffries' collapse
than l do" said Sam Berger today
when informed OF Edgren's story.
"If Edgren's story is intended to
cast a reflection on Corbett, then 1t
Is entirely unjustified.
For the two nights preceding the
fight Corbett did not stay out at tine
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-08-31
\ DIAMOND 4
, C L I N T S !

Johnson-Jeffries fight films de.
clared legal by New York attorney
general. Little more velvet for the
picture makers.
II there's anything in the record
line Mel Sheppard can't break, the
amateur sport loving public would
like to have 1t discovered.
England refuses to cough up
$4,000 expense to send a team of
tennis sharks to Australia for the
Davis trophy. because English can
didates aren't strong enough to win.
New Orleans holds hope for the
bangtails, With 80 day running
meet.
II Ed Geers doesn't lead winning
drivers with The Harvester, The
Able and Dude Archdale, some
folks will be disappointed.
Former Quarterback Wasmun6 of
Michigan will coach Texas univer-
sity this fall.
The most costly item In the up.
keep of motor cars is tires. Since
July l their cost has Jumped 2b per
cent Theoretically, tires viii rum
$500 miles. but the majority of them
don't come within 5000 miles of the
theory.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-08-31
RINGING DOWN RACE CUR
TAIN IN BLAZE OF GLORY

SARATOKGA, N. Y, Aug. 81
With the running of the great futur
ity race today, which probably will
ring down the final curtain on rae
ing in New York, Saratoga has, for
day, assumed it's old time racing
glory. Crowds of people attracted
by the turf classic have thronged to
the city in anticipation of the great
event. Everywhere people are dis
cussing the race and the chances of
the various entries.
For the first time since the first
futurity was won in 1883 two horses
will go to the barrier equal favor
ties. Hildreth's Novelty and Whit
ney Bashti are dividing the honor.
Thirteen other horses will face
the starter for the race. which car
ries purse Of more than So, 900
for the winner and nearly $4,000
more for the other contestants.
The new anti-betting laws passed
at the last regular session of the
New York legislature goes into ef-
feet September l.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-08-31

Aphonse they attempted
a a 40 II
smallpox the fence
which
officially yesterday
directly blameab to him.
Indians would
katxbero hadn't blown the
platter
could knock In winning
lies.
Jess Baker started and got rather roughly for HE five
allowed hits Nexe similar
condeseended
few sailors From this time on wa. br:ahss race ssan. time
could finish the before dark h out BY tow minutes
the hundred that stayed to the finish Of
eunds Just In time to the whore the would have set
there hadn't been clouds In the smoke
Sporting Editor Cornell for he could neither CATCH
hsavs HIT except to when he forgot himself Ne
caught about the middle Of the
rounds Of applause from the generous fans
indians daintiy
with Neefootsd ~ Of them left
Ercksons Enoes couldn't bring them
respectively with three with and
with the NINTH and just tally
reached
atmosphere the underhanders wild
managed to connect
Yssterdays scores look like this: r. n. e.
Spokane ..........o % 1o1o-5 8
Vancouver .............1 o20 oooo2-7 10 2
r. ". E.
Seattle 500 90 - II ~
Tacoma ............o o o 600 o - II 5
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-08-31
NEW STARS MAY
GET CHANCE TO
TWINKLE NOW
nv United Press Leased WIre)

MILWAUKEE. Aug. 31-That
many of the country's football stars
must unlearn what they already
know of the game and acquire addi-
tional knowledge because of the
new football rules was the state
ment today of Coach Juneau of Mar
quette university. Other experts
concur with this belief, saying that
under the new rules it is probable
many stars will go into eclipse,
while the beginners, unhampered by
the older football science, will have
a chance to shine.