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Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1912-04-04
Lot Us Live at Home.

News aad Observer.
The records show that this is
veritabIy an age in which t h e
high cost of living is not a mere
matter oi talk, but that it is a
fact. Not alone is this realized in
the city but in the country also,
and in both there is study of
the conditions which have brou't
this about.
That the tariff il the chief sim
ner ia not to be doubted, a u d
just so long as it remains as it is
the farmer. the wage Garner and
the man OF the small salary will
find that it grinds closely when
lit touches them. The men of
large meansl do not feel it, for
there is the excess which is
theirs TO meet.
The high cost OF living, howpv-
er, is added to in many instanc-
rs hy a lack of foresight, which
if used would prove u great ad-
vantage. This is the case on
tn. farm where all the re
lance is placed on one money
crop, t'e it what it may, a II d
wdere there is no attempt what
ever to plant crops whirh could
I've used to meet the needs OF the
tarm In l4aae of such policy it
is most frequently the case that
money se,mred from one crop is
scattered in the purchase 0f ma.
ny things which could easily be
raised on the farm.
The CataWba County News q
short time ago had this to say
"Baled straw has beel haul
e,l into town tili y week by
the four.horse load. Our farmers
are making more roughness ol
this sort than they used to, and
numbers of them are shipping it
TO other points Every bale ra's
; I'd here keeps out n bale from th'
West" That is a fine thing whlc'
he farmers OF Catawba county
are doing, and they will not a,
lone keep out bales Of hay from
the West, but they will also bay'
e more money in their pockets lie
r cause OF their action.
g Now, there are many things
3 which can I've rnisel in North Cal
t olina on the farms to which lit
J. tie attention is given, and just 81
t long as this continues to bt tn
case aud money is sent needless
II ly off the farms. will there b
n hard conditions to meet. what
" We nee,l IN North Carolina is tt
q raise more hay, more corn, an
g more of many other things t.
d which now there is but little al
,f tpntiOn pail. When we are abl
h IN this Stale to live at home the
!. we will he in a better condltio
t to meet low prices for the none
il crop. and more able to meet til
o bills which come from the hig
'r cost OF living.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1912-04-04
The Government Will Live"

The Government will Live"
Ashville Citizeu. |
Every four years, and it is far
too often, the American people
are told by self.appointed saviors
that the country is bound tpr
perditlon; that the government
is about TO disintergrate an d
that the nation as IA whole is 60:
lug to the 'demnitiOn bowwoSs.
This has been going on quad
rennially since the governmental
Washington was founded, but
"the government at Washington
still liyes.' The most curious
part of our make.upis that the
maj 'rity OF us take The preach
mpnts Of Oltire.seeEers and bread
winners as gospel truth. and We
treMble for the future OF ourcoun
try which is dependent upon the
election of this or that man, az
cor,ling to ones political belief,
to thu presidential chair.
The game of politics, toa large
extent, is one on which individu-
als whu like it anil are interested
therein STAKE their hope of fu-
ture profit. The "patriotism'
with which we note on the part
OF some of our local is'endS, for
ms anre. is always the effect of
some cause. Thus some there are
who have lostguo1, fatj IBIS, and
who sigh to emerge from rural
ob-curity to return to the silk
stockinged field of diplomatic
servire. Others there are who
wait patiently, or would be viii.
ling to wait patiently if given q
chance for thu crumbs hat might
fall from the ducal tables. And
40 on. down the line it goes ev-
erybody wanting something, ev
erybody with IN axe to grind.
The business conditions of this
Icountry, therefore, are periodl
cally disturbed aud sonetilne'
blighted in order that this o'
that "!'arty" and its thousands
of dependents might b. given {
turn at the trough. Funny, ISM
it. when you come to think of it
You almost believe yourself tina
unless your iavo'ite eandida'
J is elected you might as we'll gt
: and jump in the liver. Yon hav
been thinking this ever since yo'
heard your father talking pol
les, hut the old ship of stat
has kept plowing on, guided ev
er by a Divine han], utterly OF
Iivlous to the cavi ling ut h
crew down in the hold. Yet tn
harbor was always ahead, wa
: always reached in safety, wit
l all lights fore and aft shinin
brightly and with a full head I
steam.
I So don't get excited over notI
. ing. You may safely count q
u one tact, viz: that il you are or
u of the few millions who m u
|
= earn their bread by the sweat
their brows. you will keep Q
> sweating just the same for S
i much per day or per week asyt
Il have always done. True, If yt
'r are fortunate enough to he
IL with the successful crowd OF pi
'e hunters you may temporari
'e roam in pastures green, but
the longrun will come back vii
- the same old hole III our purse
III The "Child's Welfare" mo-
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1912-04-04
FOLEYSKIDNEYPIIS
Fo~ BAesAe~s k,eMsw Ass e.Asoss
Furniture


Having purchased all the stock
in the business OF the Boone Fur.
niture Co., l am prepared 10 sell
you anything in my line at a
very reasonable figure. Dressers,
Bureaus, Chairs, Bed Stpads, Bed
Springs, Mattresses, etc. Give
Inc a call when in need of any
thing in the line of furniture.
D@ Store in WatauSa County
Bank Building.
Respectfully,
JESSE F. ROBBINS.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1912-04-04

It's the easiest thing in the
world to bring up children in,the
way they should go-ii you hav.
pnt any.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1912-04-04
The Lesson Of the Hlllvile Tragedy.

The Lesson Of the Hlllvile Tragedy. |
Lexington Dispatch. :.
the Richmond News.Laader OF
Thursday afternoon carried q
striking cartoon ON the first page,
Under The hpading "The Reward
OF Duty" rays OF light from "lm
mo. tai memory through clouds
and gloom fell on a judges desk,
Illuminating a human skull pier
ced by bullet, q re Oliver and n
massive book, the Majesty of
the Law" the latter stained
with blood.
The picture il misleading aud
untrue. The HIllsyille tragedy
was not "The reward of Duty
but the direct result of the tail.
ure Of the courts OF Carroll cOun.
ty to perform their duty. Judge
Massie and those who FELL with
him went to their deaths ! ke
men. Perhaps no part Of the
COW ~ardly record OF the courts of
Virginia may be attributed to
them, and we hope not, hut the
fact remains that. for any
years the Allen. ruled the noun
tains and there was no officer OF
the court hold enough to bring
them to Justice, In Carroll coun.
ty lawlessness has held sway f,r
II generation cr more and the aw
ful tragedy at Hillsville a lew
days ago was the natural and in
evitablp result of the cringlng,
cowardly attitude Of the courts.
! 1t has come out in the press
dispatches during the last lew
days that one h,ave man, elect
I'd to the Office OF sheriff in Car
roll county, Il ter u clash with
the Allen gang, threw up his job,
giving as his reason therefor that
the courts OF Carroll county al
forded their officers no protrc-
ton whatever UntilSheriff Webb
i, took charge there VAS no officer
, of thu law bold enough TO arrest
d member Of the Allen gang and
for many years they operated
; their blocka lie stills, settled nei
ghborhoods fends with their ri
{ lies and tprrorlzed the en- tir,
3 county. With none to hinder o
, modest, it is not at all s'rang
p that, the Aliens and their allie
, came to tpel a proud contpmp
: for the courts and that tins con
p tempt led to the shooting tha
e Istartled the nation.
}. Carroll county is not alone il
e her shame. There is more t h a
e one county in Virginia where la
q lessness rules and there are not
h few North Carolina countie
y where men violate the law An
If escape punishment Disregard c
the law may not lead TO sue
!. tragic scpn-s OF death and blood
n shed in Davidson county. but i
'e will ad to something serious
t it is not checked, According t
# reports q man who shot anOlhe
n main in the back OF he head
O "self defence" on the streets
~ Lexington a little more than
~ year ago, and who escaped pu'
in isment by a ylaring and horrib
). miscarriage OF justice. has alre
" dy added another victim to h
in string, and so it goes. fit re
n noised abroad that Davids'
}. county winks at crime and thu
any man with the price necess
,e ry to hire the right lawyer,
IN lawyers, can c ,mm't crime ar
e. 90 unpnnished, we stand in n ia
nd way to be classed with Core
nd county.
cd Niaeteen. Miles Second
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1912-04-04
PLACE THETAx WHERE BIGHT


PLACE THETAx WHERE BIGHT.
Monroe journal.
Is it just that the men who
own 30 per cent OF the wealth of
the United STATES should shoul-
der but 10 per cent OF the burden
of taxation for running the gov.
ernnnpnt.?
The Democratic House OF Rep.
resentatlves belieyes that it is
not, and hence the passage OF
the excess-incOmn tax bill which
levies u tax Of l yer cent on in
comes in excess OF So, 900 a year.
This does not mean that all
people bavjng more than s. 900
must pay a tax on the excess Of
that sum. 1t means that those
who have an annual "income' or
"nrott" of more than 5000
must pay the l per cent on the
excess OF $4,000. 1t will lie nee.
cessary Tor a man to draw a,hig.
her salary than $4,000 year,
or to have a capitalized sum OF
ahou 100000 before he is call
ell upon t" pay l per cent tax ON
that portion in excess OF $4,000
This is class legislation, the
s'andpatters and ,protectionists
cay. They were never heard to
complain, however, of the exis'
ftingclaes legislation which per-
mits the burden of federal taxa
tion to fall entirely on the shoul-
ders of tn, masses, taxing the a
vpraye man, woman. aud child in
every stitch of clothing they wear
and everything else they must
have in ordrr Jo live. while per-
uniting all forms OF wealth t. 60
untaX-d.
The masses OF the people pro-
duce the wealth, and l'y legisla'
tive advantage lew got posses
sion nf it, and now tl'rse few 90
|iects to the transfer Of wealth o
,ven the amount OF revenue, deri
we'd from the taxation of sugar
: but one of the 500 things on
which tariff is levied. Il h y
] would prefer that the govern
,npnt continues to tax sugar i'll
stead Of wealth, because they "a
, no more sugar than The recti"'
hand or the .mill.work'r. a n
'- therefore under the. present sys
tenn of taxation they are com
pelle,i-to pay no greater tax t.
the federal government than doe
tLe nOOrest man. These fact.
may read strange, but they ar
facts. aud will not he contradlc
ted.
The United States is spracticall
the only one Of the great nation
today that raises practically a
y its revenue by taxing the peopl
according tu their needs an
practically according to the
poverty and allows wealth to =
untaxed, So tar as the raising
money to build battlrships, mai
tain the army, and run the 60
ernment are concerned.
The government now ra's'
= 1914, 100000 annually by pl'
'g cling an import dutyon tariff {
/. the things the people eat, wear'
= use. Banks, railroads. aud stea
ship lines pay nothing to Une
Sam because they do not cou
through the customs houses.
80. Ii a iscalsystpm which rpquir
=, a millionaire to pay no more II
to the federal government tn
the section hand or the mill wo
ker is fair and just, there is
need oI reform; but if such a sy
TEN is unjust, the exlse-incol
tax is a move in the right dire
tion to remedy it.
10 J,C. Glossner. "a Ontario, 5
Rochester N. V, has recover
from long and severe attack
- kidney trouble, his cure being c
ih' 49, Fx,l,,J, K,,l,a,, D,lls fter
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1912-04-04

The opal is the only gen which
has not been successiull, coun-
terielted.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1912-04-04
PROF SSI O N A L
VETERINARY SURGERY.

4 have been putting much study
on this subject; have received my
diploma, and am now we'll equipped
for the practice Of Veteri airy Sur.
gerry In all its branches, and AIN the
only one in the county. Call on or
address me at Villas, N. G. K. F. d. l.
G. H. HAYES,
Veterinary Surgeon.
Still.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-13

//EN obedience to your Injunction to
take account of stock, have been
reviewing the story OF my domestic
and social life and setting the facts
of the present fairly before me. I
have the best husband In the world and
three dear. dutiful children. We are not
rich. but we have never had the misery Of
hearing so much as en echo OF the wolf ;
long howl >; my home Is coy and tasteful
ito my eyes,. and I have good neighbors.
Add to these good health and you will say
ought to be satisfied and thankful I am
as a general principle. Do you know what
mean? And don't laugh at me when I
make a clean breast Of my worry.
am naturally nethodical and-if do
Hay it-neat and orderly. But my house has
never been kept should like to have It.
It is my bounden duty to see that my
Johns money is not wasted and that our
property is taken proper care of. am
arm believer in the duty Of judicious econ
omy of materials and time, and I try to
practice the adase: What Is worth doing
at ali is worth doing we'll Moreover, l
hold myself responsible to my husband and
my conscience to see that what is done by
another undero my direction should be as
well done as If the doer were myself And I
can't make servants do It'll
There It Is all out! I worry day and
night, over the consciousness that am not
the housekeeper and manager that I would
he Won't you tell me how to do better?
read dozen years ago that you had over
your desk the motto: SOMETHING
MUST BE CROWDED QUIT Is that true?
And-excuse my plainness of speech-but is
It ever right to crowd out what you know
ought to be done, and done weu2 My maids
are reasonably good That Is, they ars
neat. honest, respectful. and Industrious.
But they do not do my work and take care
of things as I would were in their places.
won't bore you with particulars. You
have been in the domestic harness long
enough to MI in the picture for yourself.
IF only I did not care! John says tte
worrying is more expensive than the losses
we sustain through the shortcomings Of
servants
Again, please forgive me! have no
mother or intimate elderly friend to whom
I can go for advice. You see, was the prin-
cfpaI of girls school before my marriage,
and accustomed to systematic methods of
work It frets and depresses me that
cannot carry the principles then learned
and practiced into my present life.
DIsHEARrENED HoUsEAoTHER-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-13
MARION HARLAND'S HELPING HAN

GINGER ALE.-Make precisely as d.
rected in the last recipe, but substitute
ground ginger (half a pound for the lem
ons 1t must be strained through cheese
cloth before bottling. This will keep good
for two months.
Both of these beverages have been
made and drunk in our family for three
years and hold a high place in our esteem.
SOPHIE NJ L.
I wish you had explained what the -four is
supposed to do in a lively beverage
Does it act as a vehicle to hold the other
ingredients together? And does IL not i'm
part the unmistakable flavor of raw -four
to the drink? Write again and let US know
how these things may be.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-13
IN Eve for Dit"

It is right and seemIy that we should
keep our homes and our belongings clean
The processes of cleansing that which 9TH
ers have soiled; meDding that which is torn
or worn. and setting to rights that which
has been thrown out of place-must have
been designed by our All Wise and Alto
gether Kind Heavenly Father for our best
good or we should not be compelled to
spend one-half of our lives in cleaning up
and Strengthening out An eye for dirt d"
is essential to excellent housewifery. Diff
rerent degrees of perception difrerent1ate
the notable and the negligent manager
Perhaps you may have heard the time
worn anecdote of the priggish bachelor
who laid a broom across the path along
which three girls he knew were to come
down to the orchard where he awaited
them? The first jumped over the broom
kittenishly. the second stumbled over it and
kicked it petulantly aside; the girl who
came last espied it where It lay. picked II
up and set 1t. brush end up, against the
porch wall He married her. because. as
he told her on her wedding trip, he
" wanted neither fly away nor sloven."
I always know when she has been this
way" a cook in an American family was
overheard to say to a fellow servant " She
sets all the brooms with the brush end up"
The hous emother's action passed with the
amused maids as " clear business" It was
but one of the thousand unuttered protests
which the owner of house and home is con-
tinually making against violation of law
and order. One sufferer relates painfully
that she has had one chambermaid for
twenty years. and in all that time has
never seen her leave broom standing with
the right end up.
Yet that servant must have had many sat
tsfactory qualities, or she would not have
held her place for a score of years.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-13
An Ultra Modem Home.

There are homes of which we hear some
times and read often where the machinery
moves in perfect order from Monday morn
ing until Sunday night; in which the mis-
tress is ever placid and never raises her
voice above the refined pitch OF perfect
self-controI; where the servants are deft
cutiful, and devoted where the creak of
hotbox - never offends the ear of the
guest Be they apocry phal or true. these
pictures make your heart like water and
your courage as pulp.
Solomon says sagely of comparison OF the
former days with these: You do not
inquire wisely concerning these things"
What have you to do with stored house
holds. with tales oral or printed. of the
exemplary and next-to-impossible " shes ="
to whom the lines have fallen In smooth and
sunny places?
read yesterday a four column report In
a Sunday paper of wondrous woman who
keeps no servants-whereas she formerly
kept full stan-dwells In a twenty room
house which she cleans from roof to cellar
daily leaving not a grain OF dust upon
polished floors and oriental rugs. She runs
a laundry that is a marvel Of artistic taste;
does all her own cooking; looks after her
children; receives calls by the half hundred
per diem. and is gracious to all. She is a
model In health and beauty, perfectly
groomed at all hours. and has hours OF
leisure upon her hands every day.
Her establishment is run by ELEc-
TRICFTY.
Shall I. wasting In despair
ningle salt tears with yours because the
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IMPORTANT NOTICE

ID E CA USE of fhe enormous
II number Of letters sent TO the
department must ask cor
fributors TO limit their cousEtu1icu-
fions to 100 words, except IN cases of
formulas or recipes which requfre
greater space I want all my cor
respondents to have a showing IN the
Corner, and if my request IN this
respect IS complied with it viii be
possible TO print many more letters.
Attention is called TO the fact that
Marion HorIond cannot receive money
for patterns, as she has no connection
with any department that sells them.
Morton Harldnd.
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AppEicqtion Often Needed.

It is true that have Kept the motto you
quote above my desk for more than dozen
years and had numberless occasions Tor
the application of IT. About the same time
with the adoption OF the 1egend-taken from
Mrs Whftney's d" Leslie soldthwa1te's Sum-
paer u wrote an articIe-for myself, pr
mariIy. and secondly Cor my sister house
pives-enfitled :" The Art of Winking. I
dragged It from the corner OF a drawer after
reading your letter and reread It, Since
eannct put It bodily into your hands viii
extract bits from it as go on
Some day I shall write upon women s lack
OF the sense OF proportion Your John has
what you have not IN this direction He
proves this by saying that your worry is
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more expensive than your losses through
the lax habits OF your employees. You say
that you are an Indifferent housekeeper. I
have heard scores OF " omen say the same
sometimes with truth-usually without
The really Indifferent housewife is the last
to suspect her fault. One of the most slat-
ternly women 1 ever knew objected to using
white china because :. it showed dirtl =
Ny mother, to whom the remark was made.
answered quietly, - If the dirt Is there
want to see and get rio of it
To which Mrs. Free and Easy re5oined,
What the eye doesn't see the heart
doesn't feel"
That is. believe. an Irish proverb. 1t
sounds like one!
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body and falls 50 lamentabIy short OF what
you would have It that you are sick Of it
sick of yourself and, most of all. OF the
shambling perfunctoriness of those whom
you pay to do 1t properly. You treat them
well so you reason. and pay them well
In return they slight and cheat and grunn-
BILE at your conscientious endeavorB to
make a home worthy OF the name
This is your present state of mind.
Whether or not 1t becomes habitual and
yourself a chronic grumbler depends upon
your ability to weigh values. To revert
to our assertion of a while ago, you must
cultivate a just sense of proportion II
you determine to do the best you can. COM
patble with health of body and of mind.
to order your house alright, supplementfng
deficiencies when this may be done with
out waste Of precious forces, and when the
" something that must be crowded out - IN
pushed into the backgr0und-to let it go,
as If it had not been-you will prove your
self a stronger and a wiser woman than IL
you had courted wrinkles. gray hairs, and
premature seniHty by refusing to wink at
petty shortcomings and to be tolerant OF
what cannot be altered to suit yourself
Don't compare your housekeeping with
that of your neighbours. There is a crook
in every lot In some that are all right to
the casual eye the crooks are zigzags, with
corners that abrade sensibiIities into can
And. having done all, stand fast to the
resolve to make the best of that which
nobody's best can remedy. Be patient with
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-13

she reconcfIed It to her conscience to speak
a cool deliberate de.
She stared in honest wonderment: "a It
wasn't lie would hurt my neighbor!
That would be bearing false witness. I
broke no commandment IN saying that
didn't know the glass was broken until you
showed 1t to me OF course, IL 7 had guessed
that you saw me knock 1t over with my
elbow I should have spoken differently"
She had been three years in my employ
and knew that never scolded any one for
an accident She remained with me until
her marriage, i've years after supplying me
with this key to the ethics of herself. still
think acted wisely In retaining her Some
thing must be crowded out OF our demands
and expectations of those whose stan dards
are unlike our own.
Yet-carrying the question home-is It q
moro heanous sin for your maid to deny
having broken a goblet accidentally than
for your next door neighbor to plead g
prior engagement as the reason for not ac-
cepting an invitation to a party which she
- knows would bore her to extincdon?"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-13
Lille Lesson IN living.

Another woman complains OF an other
wise exemplary maid that she cannot be
depended upon to tell the truth when lie
will suit her convenience better. cant
depend upon her in other matters when /
know her to be false in one respect"
had my lesson in this matter OF lying
when was forty years younger than now,
when I am cautiondng you to overlook &C.
casional sins Of this sort. detected a
trusted maid in lie told to shield herself
from censure. She was exceptionally in
telligent, and asked her. point blank. how