davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1913-11-06
accomplishments Of iratricidal
hatred and blind ianaticism

oDPilSHWents OJ Ifdtrlci0at
hatred and blind ianaticism.
II, however, We have preserved
some of the homelier virtues 81
the day Of Daniel Boone, as | BE-.
lieve We have. We may yet take
courage. For We still .holp"
(iorhelp, but pronounced 'hope')
one another as 10 Macbeth's
time; and the professions Of di-
vinity, law and physic "are each
oi them over crowded With prac.
tioners, and filled with multi.
tudes Of ingenius gentlemen that
starve one another" as in the
day OF Addison and The Specta.
tor. Aud We are also right
smart atearsd" (uot afraid) that
we may offend the old.fashioned
God OF the Bible-the God OF
Daniel Boone and Of Abraham.
lsaac and Jocob; though We stiN
put very little faith IN the God of
Jonathan Edwards, Henry Ward
Beacher and OF Robert G. Inger.
soil.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1913-11-06
THE TRlIL Of DAldEI BOOM.


| ~ ~ UoWu8u UUvUU UD0uvu ~ UVvuU
n. c. OetoIsr q, 1913.
Concluded from last week.
THERE'S no school girl who hai
not heard OF Rebecca Bryan and
Daniel Boone's courtship ol that
coy maiden, and all of them
have q warm spot 10 their heart
oi hearts Tor the girl whose love.
|lyr eyes, catching the glow oi
young Daniels torch at night.
when dre-hnntinR for deer. lured
him with their loye.light until,
afterward, he had no real exist
ence when, not within the circle
of their splenior and enchant-
ment. For, like the young Loeb.
invar. Boone was neither "a lag.
gard in love nor q bastard 10
war;" { Here it is written that /
must take another drink OF wa
tor, and remark noncha halantly,
as it were,-if any one knows how
that is, for l am sure | DON'T
Zeb Vance used to say: "You
can't run a windmill on water.
But I am the exception t b a t
proves the rule; for I suier from
what il known IN the oratorical
fraternity al "dry mouth" Now,
this little bit of "stage business
is simply a fash of spontaneous
humor (notice that I sounded
the aspirate) as wholly unpre-
meditated on my part as it was
on Gov. Vance's when be arrang,
ed in my presence for the late
James G. Glbbes to pour him a
glass OF water during bic lecture
on THE Jews" IN Columbia, and
thus give him an opportunity
to get of the above misleading
wlticism. But l had to get offmy
own little shindig unaided, as !
didn't dare to 90 into cahoots
with anyone for fear Capt, Low.
i'll, who preceded me, might find
it out and get 1t off in advance,
who is that rara avis the great
grandson with four Revolution.
ary grand sires.)
From DR.. Archibald Hender-
sons Life and Times of Rich.
ard Henderson," his great ancss.
tor, which was published last
Spring in the Charlotte Observer,
we learn that Richard Henderson
formed q land and colonization
company alter hearing Of Boone's
explorations in the Holston
country in 1764. In 1859 Hen.
dersons company, employed
Boone, to spy out these western
lands for them; but on Boone's
return two years later, Hender.
son was ''embroiled in the exclt.
ing issues of the Regulation y
and could not then carry out bis
plans. Boone, however, would
not wait. and on Sept. Is, l773,
started for Kentucky from Hol'
mans Ford, with 18 men, be
sides women and children: bu,
seven Of bis party, including one
OF his sons, having been killed BY
the Indians on the way, and th'
remainder having refused to pro
coed, Boone returned with biz
family to the Yadhin. In March
1775. however, Henderson & Co
obtained from the Cherokees q
Sycamore Shoals, for $50, 900,
grant Of their claim TO the land
between the Ohio and Tennessee
rivers-the Six Nations OF th'
North having sold their clam
to the same territory to the Brit
ish at Fort Stanwix, now Rome
y. Y, in 1853. This purchas
was IN direct violation of t b
Kings proclamation oil 176S
} forbidding the purchase of Indi
an lands by individuals.
Henderson employed Boone au'
thirty Others to 60 forward fror
Sycamore Shoals to cut out
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1913-11-06

Lre6Cy VI OCtCUduWtX,D DlV Uu6'
of Sycamore Shoals also, al
Boone knew they would. DR.. Hen
derson lnfers from the failure o!
Boone's independent expedition
Of 1778 that the latter was def
Gent in leadership and executive
ability. But Roosevelt and most
other historians recognize 10
Boone the real leader Of the ex'
petition, land attribute to bis
skill and prowess the ultimate
success oi the settlement OF Ken.
tucky and the West. 1t IL pleas.
ant, however, to know t b q t
Boone was not a mere wanderer
In the wilderness. searching Tor
game and hides, while his wife
and children remained behind to
make the crop, but was paid for
his eervices; and DR.. Henderson
wishes bis name associated with
that fact. $50 much for the brass
tacks. Nov for the sky.rockets
and fireworks. 1t is customary
to wait till dark for these; but l
am going to send up mine in
broad day light. So look out for
the sticks.
"Crowns OF roses fade. while
crowns Of thorns endure. Colva.
ries and crucidxions take deepest
hold upon humanity. The tri-
umphs Of Might are transient:
they pass and art forgotten. The
suferines Of the Right are craven
deepest on the chronicles OF ma.
tiOns,"
How applicable are these words
to this occasion and to Daniel
Boone, in whose honor We have
met today; for he too had his
Calvary aud his cruci6xion, and
wore q crown Of thorns as pierc.
ing and 40 poignant as that
which encircled the brow OF the
Gallilean King two thousand
years ego. Fol. his life was one
Of almost constant peril, while be
suffered from poverty, cold aud
every hardship. He was 10 r
months separated from his wife,
bis children and bis home, and
for q long time was a captive
among savage and cruel Indians.
He was tried for treason to the
American cause, deprived of the
title OF bis Kentucky lands, and
left homeless and penniless in a
vast and unpeopled wilderness
OF mountain, plain and stream.
Thus. the darkness OF bis cru.
cidxion lasted not only "from
the sixth to the ninth hour" of
one day, but until, silently, sad
ly aud proudly, be, aQuaker and
Protestant, sought beyond the
Missislppi's tawuy food the home
which had been denied him in
democratic Virginia, and became
u citizen and subject to the King
Of Catholic Spain,
Forgotten for the time being
had been bis daring explorations
Of Kentucky's dark and bloody
ground" forgotten his match
less services in blazing out with
bis cleaning axe the first rude
pathway that was so soon to he
come the great and romantic
Wilderness Road, oyer which
thousands of homeless men and
women were to follow the lumi
nous footprints of this mocca
sined lictor Of CT urch and School
from bis abandoed cabin on the
Yadkin to the glorious portals
iiar Missouri's sunkissed plains
But for all this, Daniel Boone
knew that the day. ofhis vindica
ton would surely dawn, and tina
with an effulQence and splendo'
; sufficiently dazzling to magnif.
, bis own proportions INTO heroi
outlines, and to dwarfinto insig
niacance the pigmy figures OF BIZ
detractors and despoilers.
} Aud right nobly has bis proph
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1913-11-06
BANK STATEMENT.

Following is a report of the con.
dition of the bank Of Blowing Rock
It Blowing Rock in the state of
North Carolina. at the close of busi.
ness Oct. H.. 1913:
RESOURCES:
Loans and discounts a. a7S71.
OVe'o'aits unsecured $500.
Banking house 1000 90
Furniture and fixtures lao 10
Due from b'ks and b'krs,17. 3os'as.
Gold coin IaAa 60
Cash items 20 90
Silver coin. including all mi.
nor coin currency 412.o2
National bank notes and
other U. 5. notes 10000.
'a'.".:.'..........."."...".59,552 s.
LIABILITIES
Capital stock $l1 7so 90
surplus Iund 500 90
Undivided profits, less current
expenses and taxes paid l,ol6.So
Time certificates ofdeposi' r4,776.36
Deposits subject to check 31,soS.o6
Cashiers c'ks outstanding .46.
FotaI...."................... $so,552.sS
State of North Carolina, Watauga
county, SIS: l, G. NJ. Sudderth,
Cashier of the above named bank
do solemnly swear that the above
statement is true to the best of nv
knowledge end belief
Z. M. SUDDERTH, Cashier.
Correct-Attest: W. L. Holshous.
er, W. G. Lentz, ]. A. Lentz, Di.
.rec'ors.
Subscribed an1 sworn to before
me this 29th day of Oct. 1913.
j. H. GREEN, j. P,
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1913-11-06

any land, and be that barren
beautiless and bleak, and it be
comes lovely in it's consecrat 4
c,ronet Of sorrow"
:Wc have also learned that
"God moves in q mysterious..way
His W onders> to PERFORM" ard
that His ways are past finding
out" For we have seen sSher-
mans sixty.mile, wide swath soi
blazing homes and topping chin.
neys, from Atlanta to GoldsbOr-
ough, become the garden spot oi
the Union, with thousands offac.
tories in direct competition with
New England. We haye also seen
the ballot that was placed In the
hands of Hottentots and Sene-
yambiaus solely for the degreda.
tion and humiliation CT their
former masters, turn into q fla.
ming sword OF rebuke and retail.
alton to those who maliciOusly
bestowed it, and the party which
enfranchised them rent assunder
over negro convention represen.
tation. We have seen the quon.
dam friends of these unoffending
negroes, whose race had never
attained as high a degree Of civ
ilization since the days OF Ham
as it did under Southern slavery,
desert and abandon them to the
very late the abolitionlsts were
warned would ovcrtake them II
emancipated without previous
preparation Tor a state of sell.
government. But, best and least
expected OF all, We have 9 Q Q q
those very masters emancipated
from their ante.b .bellum slavery to
their former slaves, and forging
ahead togreater wealth and pros
perity and independence than
could have been attained if they
had succeeded in their battle for
disunion. We haye seen too the
apologists fot the atrocities Of
Sherman's unopposed army dai.
Iy driven to desperation iorexcu.
ses to justify what Whitelaw Reid
once called his "most barberous
march," while they impotently
await the inevitable hour when
the bronze Fame they have crea T..
ted to guide him to the valhalIa
OF the gods OF war, shall crown
him with the same laurels she has
already placed upon the fore
heads OF Aleric and Alva, OF Til.
ly and Guise.
But, with our faces in our
hands and our hands in the dust,
we must confess that we wouder
il civllation has really advanced
in those regions where vice is
commercialized; where merchan.
disc is made of the bodies and
souls of women and children;
where recent revelations concern.
ing thhe corruption of political,
insurance, railroad, police, GUS
tom.house and white.slave trans.
gressions still smell to high
heaven. If 40, then God pity the
victims of such q civilization
Equally incomprehensibIe to vi
fis 1.-THE sweet reasonableness" o
protecting American labor from
competition with the pauper la
Dor OF Europe, while under th'
pretence OF affording an asylum
for the oppressed of all nations
Europe is ransacked for the mos
dependent and impoverished O
those very paupers to compet
in our own homes with our owl
flesh and blood. Neither are "
sufficiently advanced to explain
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1913-11-06

Fol lowing is the report of the
condition of the Wata.ga County
Bank at Boone. N. g., in the State
Of Nort'i Carolina, at the close of
business Oct. a.. 1913.
RESOURCES.
Loans and discounts $l6I,71s.7o.
Overdraf,s, $I,477.2s
Banking house 2,o47.oo
Furniture and fixtures l,o6s.zs.
Due from banks and ban.
ke1s 49,739.5o
I ASH items 5o5.oo.
Gold coin, 2,sal.oo.
Silver coin, including all
minor coin currency I,43o.o7
National bank notes and
other u. S. notes 1.aSo 90.
Total. al........................ $sar.7oo.6s.
LIABILITIES
Capital stock SIC, 700. 90
Surplus fluid, 1o,o2o. 90.
Undivided profits. less Cur
rent expenses and tax paid 3,64o.o3
Time certificates of depos. 81 .S76.57
Deposits subjectto to check 96,87I,So.
Cashiers c'ks. outstanding I, ,673.I3.
Total. al....................... sssl 79o.6s
State of North Carolina, Watauga
county, SIS: ], 6. P. Hagaman,
Cashier of the above named hank,
do solemnly swear the abov,
statement is.Jsue to the best of my
knowledge and belief.
6. P, Hagaman, Cashier
Correct-Attest: N. l.. Mast, w.
@. Coffey, ]. W. Horton. Direct
ors,
Subscribed and sworn to before
me, this 3rd day OF Noy., 1913.
W. D. Farth;ng. G. S. q.
Some mems natural bept seems
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1913-11-06
Total....".................. 22I 79O.6 .67
State of North Carolina. Watauya

Sume mems natural bent seems
o be broke.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1913-11-06
BANK STATEMENT.

Following is the report of the
condition of the Wata.ga County
Bank at Boone, N. g., in the State
of Nortii Carolina, at the close of
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-10-05
DIAMOND RING WAS LIFTED
BY A NEGRO GIRL

Valdosta, Ca, Oct. 4.-(SpeciaD-A
negro girl about IL years old, who
went to the residence of DR.. Freeman
searching for work yesterday, found
three handsome rings on a screen
frame on the rear porch, where they
had been placed by Mrs. Freeman,
who had just stepped across the
street to a neighboring house when
the girl came there looking for WORK.
The girl picked out one of the rings
which was an heirloom in the family
of Mrs. Freeman and which contained
a handsome stone setting, with twelve
diamonds around it, but she decided
to leave the other rings where they
were.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-10-05
NEW YORK MAYOR SAYS
GIANTS WILL MOP UP
BE Sends a Note Over to Mayor Blan.
kenburg Inviting the Latter to
Be His Guest.

New York, Oct 4.-Mayor Kline to-
day wrote to Mayor Rudolph Blank
enburg, of Philadelphia:
my Dear Mayor: On Tuesday next,
October Z, the Giants are going 10
wips up the Polo grounds with the So
called Athletics of your city. 1t vii
give me great pleasure to have you
present on that occasion as my guest.
Please let me know as early as pos
sible if you can come and if so where
can meet you not later than
o'clock, to go to the ball ground With
very high regard. Very truly yours,
"A. L. KLINE, Mayor"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-10-05
THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPALS OF GOOD
FARMING
FARMING

sending the roots down /, 2, 3, or
feet, as the case may be, thus airing
and enriching the subsoil without
bringing it to the surface.
In the Farmers Cooperative De-
monstration Work the Importance of
deep and thoroughly prepared seed
bed, like a garden, has been most
widely demonstrated. Thousands OF
tests have been made each year by
exact and painstaking farmers to an
extent that leaves no possible room
for doubt as to the great value of a
deep and thoroughly prepared seed
bed.
Concretely stated, deep, thorough
ly pulverized seed bed filled with hui
mus has the following advantages:
% 1t provides more food, because
it increases chemical action and null
tiples bacterial life in a larger body
of soil.
(2) 1t stores more moisture and 1t
loses its moisture less rapidly on ac-
count of its cooler lower strata and
the presence of more humus.
go 1t increases the number and
| length of roots that a plant will throw
out.
ca 1t allows plants to root deep 3r
and find permanent moisture.
60 1t largely obviates the necessity
of terracing, because it holds -
much water in suspension that heavy
rainfalls will go to the bottom and
be held by the drier earth above until
they can be absorbed by the subsoil
CD Humus enables the soil to store
more moisture, increases its temporal
ture, makes it more porous, furnish 5
plant food, stimulates chemical action
and fosters bacterial life.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-10-05
TALK NO. 2.
The Americas Booster
HE MUST BE AN APOSTLE or SUNSHINE SEVEN DAYS IN
wEEK-HE MUST BE ON THE JOB OVERLOOKING WITH
BOOSTER ORATORY.

(By E. H. Hyman, General Secret
airy Macon Chamber of Commerce.
The Booster is jolly fellow, who is
arrayed in full Booster armor and
goes forth to battle for his home city.
1t should be the duty of the Booster
to cry long and loud the praises of
Americas. Every business and prJ-
Booster if he cares to. Each day N
the week he should try and wear The
Booster smile that won't come off. He
should carry with him through his
walk during the week, one, long, con-
tinuous ray of Sunshine and Happi-
ness.
He should try to make every stran-
ger that comes to his good city feel
that his people are anxious to well
come all new corners. 1t is a pretty
good plan to go around the hotels and
see who's here. Give them the Glad
Hand. Talk about the good points of
your city and don't be scared to do so.
The Boosters Theme should ever be
about Americas and her adornments-
a foundation upon which any man
might erect a structure of blistful
The Americas Booster
should be in the convincing business
for fair. Don't lose your temper in
convincing a man that Americas is
the best city of its size in Georgia and
in the best county in the state-Sum-
ter but by apt and we'll turned phras-
es, impress upon your subject the
absolute superiority of what you
claim for Americas.
The Americas Booster strifes thai
happy medium between mocl-modesty
and braggadocio; then tactfully he
draws the oratorical cory and the
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-10-05
Kills Self on Husbands Grave.

Frederick, Md, Oct. AFTER send
ing her little son for water to brighten
the flowers on her husbands grave
Mrs. Rose Joy, of near Jefferson, this
county, scrubbed a farewell note to
her children and took three ounces of
laudanum. Her little son returned
about Is minutes later and found his
mother unconscious on the grave OF
his father, who had died about three
months ago.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-10-05
NEGRO is A JUROR
IN 4 ST. LOUIS COURT

st. Louis, Oct. Al. c. Jeffries, a
negro of Rollo, Mo, was accepted as R
juror in a case in the United States
district court here in which four
youths are charged with passing coun-
terfeit coin. He is the first negro in
fifteen years to be juror in federl
court in st. Louis. 1t long has been
the custom of the jury commissioners
to place only names of white men ON
the jury list. Jeffries was summoned
for jury duty before it was known u
court attaches that he was a negro.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-10-05

The following matter is taken from
a circular on Fall Breaking and the
Preparation of the Seed Bed issued
September 16, 1918, by the Farmers
Cooperative Demonstration Work Of
the Bureau of Plant Industry:
Upon the inauguration of the Farm
ers Cooperative Demonstration Work
in the Southern States it was found
necessary to outline some of the fun
damental principles of good farming
and to insist that the tillers of the
soil should become familiar with
them and practice them as first step
in the betterment of farm life. These
principles follow:
% Prepare deep and thoroughly
pulverized seed bed, we'll drained ;
break in the fall to a depth of s. 10,
or ~ inches, according to the soil.
with implements that will not bring too
much of the subsoil to the surface.
(The foregoing depths should be
reached gradually if the field is
broken with an ordinary turning pillow
If disk pillow is used, it is safe u
break to the above depths at once)
(2) Use seed of the best, intelli-
gently selected and carefully stored
(3) In cultivated crops give the
rows and the plants in the rows a
space suited to the plant, the SOIL and
the climate.
az Use intensive tillage during
the growing period of the CT tops.
60 Secure high content of hui
mus in the soil by the use of legumus
barn yard manure, and farm refuse.
60 Carry out a systematic crop
rotation with winter cover crop on
southern farms.
CD Accomplish more work in day
by using more horsepower and better
implements.
80 Increase the farm stock to the
extent of utilizing all the coarse food
and idle lands of the farm.
(9). Produce all the food required
for the men and animals Z on the
farm.
Q0) Keep an account of each farm
product, in order to know from which
the gain or loss arises.
Natures plan of improving soils ID
to use cover crop of weeds, grass,
shrubs, or trees and to subsoil by
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-10-05

sparkling liquid BOOSTER sciences
flow forth to delight and impress all
within ear shot.
Always you will find that the real
genuine Booster has for his Trade
Mark the Get Together Spirit. He
will at all times work for his city s
good not for a moment stopping to
think whether he will gain anything
by the operation or not How unset
fish is this? But let me tell you
that a BOOSTER of the real sort mu It
be unselfish. He goes on and on all
through life dealing the same kind Of
praise, flowing with milk and honey
There is a city not so far away from
here, in another state, that if you We're
to pay a visit there and stand around
on the street corners and growl about
this and that and complain of it's pub
lie utilities and the like, they would
tell you to pack your trunk and move
on, for all are satisfied citizens that
live within her portals. Some city
this. You'll hear more about it if you
come to the Get-TO-Gether Meeting
Tuesday Night. Boys we are going
t. whoop her up that night. Don't
miss il. You wouldn't take a dollar
for being there and it's free. Think of
6 big time and it free. That's BOOST
ING AMERICUS. Coming amt you?
Course you are. You are iterested in
knowing how to make Americas
grow. Ask Secretary Gardner about
the big time we are going to have.
Here's to the Americas Booster,
May his life be a triumphal tour;
His grit he shall never lose,
May his Booster talk enthuse
And grow better with each passing
hour
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-10-05
SHERIFF PLEADS FOR
LIFE OF A NEGRO

Harriston, Miss, Oct 4-Sheriff T
B. Hammett and five friends today
saved the life of William Bouie, a
young negro who threatened to emu
late the deeds of the Jones boys in
causing riots Sunday. A mob threaten
ed to lynch Bouie but the sheriff
pleaded for legal course. Hammett
succeeded his son, as sheriff. who was
killed by the Jones boys Sunday.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-10-05

All subscriptions payable in ad
'!nRce.
Advertising rates promptly furnish
ea upon application.
Memorial Resolutions, Resolutions
&! Respect, Obituary Notices, etc,
other than those which the paper may
Geem proper to publish as news mat
ter, will be charged for at the rate of
cents per line
AID advertising copy requiring two
GeluaAs OF space or less should be In
xhe business once not later than noon
81 day prior to date of issue in order
TO insure it's prompt insertion. All
copy for space of more than two col
YsD1ns should be submitted not later
Than 6 O'clock of the day, two days
prior to date Of issue.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-10-05
Maxims of Ciyialized Warfare

A soft-noised bullet turneth away
wrath.
Let me collect the debts Of nation,
ard l care not for its treaties.
Millions for defense, but-well, any.
way, millions for defense.
Every war-cloud has a silver lining
for the gunmaker
One murder does not make battle.
Peace is silver, but armed peace is
golden.
He arms deadliest who arms last.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-10-05
Child is Burned TO Death,

Wichita, Kas. Oct. Awhile play
ing with matches in the yard at her
home here the clothing of Dorothy Da-
Wis, years old, became ignited and
the child was burned to death.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-10-05

There's an old Welsh proverb HE
who kisses and kisses well, He who
lfsses and does not tell, Often kisses
again" 1t might be changed to run,
"iIe who boosts and boosts well, He
who boosts and boosts like--every
citizen of Americas should, often gets
boosts for himself
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-10-05

Now is the time TO have your bank
book balanced provided you're lucky
enough to have one) and see just how
much they have let you overdraw.