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Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1915-04-08

The effectiveness OF the steel
submarine traps which have been
put down to guard British rivers
and hagbors has been shown by
the fact that tive German sub
marines have been caught in the
Firth of Forth. In addition a
third has been sunk off the coast
OF Haddingtonshire and a fourth
was rammed last Wednesday, dis
.abled, captured and towed to
Leith where the crew. was taken
prisoners.
Z. No description Of these nets can
be given and no information Of
their effec tlveness has been allow
ed to 60 forth by cable, but at
this date, since King George him
self has inspected one of the cap
tured submarines and it Is talked
about freely no harm can come
from letting the world know OF it.
The first OF the submarines, one
of the very large type, was caught
in the net Of: the Firth of Forth
which held it at the bottom until
it was found by inspectors. En-.
gineers. and divers with great
dedges went to work and, sue.
ceeded in lifting the machine and
towing it to a dock.
When the matches were finally
opened an investigation showed
twenty-nine dead German sailors
and their officer. In addition
there were four Scotch fishermen.
Today the names of these men
stand very high in their native
land. .... .;
1t was apparent that the sub
marine, bound on O voyage OF
destruction up the Firth came
upon the men fishing. She took
them prisoners and ordered them
to steer their craft safely up tc
a point where they could accom-
plish their mission.
1t has been asked: "Did the
fishermen, knowing of the traps
the huge steel nets stretched herr
and there deliberately steer the
submarine into one OF them?
They were caught and they died
London Dispatch to N. Y. Sun
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1915-04-08

silently through each breast was
the same. Can Poland surviveP
Gratitude to Russia? 10 it the
death agony or isit but the birth
pangs? Today who knowsf I
only know the presentand unless
that present is saved the future
is lost.
"This is why'1 have come, no
longer to charm the ear, but to
beg for my countrymen. Ispsak
not OF art but human life, and It
is this that I plead for. The
promise OF Grand Duke Nicholas
that Poland shall be q Nation
once again went straight to the
very heart Of every one of our
25, 100000 fellow country
That one promise has been sutfl'
cient to change the whole men
tality of the nation and fill theil
souls with new hope. 1t has
cleared up any doubt that might
have existed in the >minds.of tn,
Poles in Austria and Prussia al
to what it is that the Allies IN
fighting for, namely, the princi
! pies Of nationality for which w
have suffered, ah, how manycen
! turies!"
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1915-04-08
Vast Pile Of Money

While the country under a new
tariff law and the banking insti.
tutions under a Democratic bank.
ing and currency law, it has re-
mained for the National City
Bank in New York to pile up the
highest amount of deposits in its
history. One day this week it
passed the $300,0O0,0O0 mark
for the first time. When one
bank in a city Of big banks can
accumulate three hundred mil
lions of dollars in the regular
course of business, it would look
lie il there is anything the mat
ter with the country it is too
much prosperity. Increase in
commercial business is the simple
reason given for this tremendous
record. As a further indication
of prosperity, it is stated that
the reserve OF this one bank is
about $143, 100000 or approx.
mately Al IL per cent, although
only IS per centis required. This
is an indication OF the abundance
of money at the present time in
New York.-Charlotte Observer.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1915-04-08

The Clutch dare" is a new one
to most OF US and it was new to
Judge Carter until the lady told
him; and seeing that he is a man
who doesn't; take a dare, he
didn't. 1t goes without saying
that the "Dutch dare" will be
very popular among the men who
dare, especially if the lady in tht
case is good looking. But the
thing is loaded. Better bewar
of the dutch dare. ."-Statesvill,
Landmark.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1915-04-08

On a new cash drawer an cleo
trio bell rings until it ,is closed
and locked and, once opened BY
pressing a combination OF butt
tons, it can not be reopensd 4
partly shut.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1915-04-08

IuU 6oluv u W SSeSU~
In 1910 there were 700, 1851 cat.
tie in North Carolina, an increase
OF 76, 800, or II per cent, during
the census period. Mr.. DE. Ea-
gle, OF the Iredell County Club at
the State University, has figured
the increase and decrease OF cat
tie county by county, during the
10 years from 1900 to 1910. !
,Fifty-ave counties, headed by
Caldwell with a 62 per cent in.
crease, made gains in cattle be-
yond the average for the State.
at-large-12 per cent. :.
Fourteen made gains in cattle,
but fell behind the State average
increase.
Twenty-Five counties suffered
losses in cattle, ranging from
tn, ee.tenths OF one per cent in
Transylvania to 81 per cent In
Wilson county.
The number OF cattle In North
Carolina per l 900 acres of area
in 1910 was %. Allbut three Of
the counties that decreased in
cattle during the last census pc.
riod had fewer cattle than the
State.at- large; 16 had fewer than
20 and five OF them fewer than 10
cattle per 1000 acres. In these
five counties in 1910 were ! ,543,.
600 uncultivated acres of land.
Here is wilderness range area,
mild winters and abundant wa
ter. But strange to say, the cat
tie decreases in these counties
ranged from IA percent in Robe.
son to 50 per cent in Wilson
county.
Iredell and CASTOR counties
rank twenty.first in grain during
the census period, their gain be.
ing 27 per cent. Ashe is second
with a gain OF 4s per cent; surry
seventh with a gain Of 35 pei
cent; Wilkes and Allegheny
twelfth with a gain of S2per cent
each; Davie twenty.third with q
gain of 25 per cent; Catawba
) twenty-fifth witha gain OF % pei
cent; Mecklenburg thirtieth with
a gain OF 20 per cent; Watauga
thirty-fifth with a gain OF 10 pei
cent; Cabarrus thirty eighth witt
a gain OF 1S per cent; Yadkin fif'
ty-ffth with a gain of 13 pei
cent; Rowan fifty.ninth with &
gain Of II per cent; Alexande1
and Burke sixty.second with
gain of 10 per cent each.
> There are no decreases in coun
tips in this part OF the State ex
cept in Randolph and Montgo,n
ery,5 and 3per cent respectively
9 All the decreases OF consequence
are in the counties farther cas-
= or farther west..-Landmark.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1915-04-08

An individual life raft invented
in Germany is provided with q
compass in front and an inter.
mittent light, operated by a mo.
tor, which, like the light, Is sup.
piled by a storage battery, in the
relr. ."s
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1915-04-08

Tho stsrist STRAIT Il
What a wealth 9t classic myth
and ancient legend lies behind the
pomp and wreck Of history that
the shores Of the. Hellespont or
the Dardanelles, have Witnessed.
WHY'S it called the. .".Helles-
pont'? Because ''pontus" means
a sea, and because the Greeks
named this particular sea for
Helle, the goddess who fell into
it's waters while She was riding
through the:air above them on
the ram. OF the Golden Fleece,
Trough the same:s :straitat q later
time sailed Jason and the Argo.
nauts, in search of the Golden
Fleece. 4. :. :.
Why "the DArdanelles''2 In
honor Of; Dardanum, q city that
Greek. colonistsl founded on the
strait not far from ancient Ilium,
the Troy.ofc classic history. Ilium!
The walled city OF Priam, the de.
scendant Of Dardanus, that the
Greeks captured. by craft after
the ten years. siege Of which Ho.
mer sang. = y S.,: .'
The plains where Agamemnon
led his. Argiye hosts echoed last
month to the thunder OF guns on
the British battleship Agamem-
non. Near by towers Mount Ida,
where Aphrodite won the golden
apple, the prize Of beauty that
led to the wars and woes of 1lium;
and where the gods gathered to
watch the embattfsd Greeks and
Troians. =
Farther along stood Abydos
and :Sestos, facing each other on
the mile wide strait that Lean
der swan once too often to meet
his sweetheart Hero, who found
his body ON the shore. Thither,
in 335 B. c., Alexander the Great
led the Greeks who sought more
worlds to conquer; and there, a
century and a half before, Xerxes
had crossed on the famous bridge
of boats, with his Persian mil.
lions-a force that, a year later,
went struggling back in over.
whelming disaster. There also,
in 1855, the Turkish torrent
poured across into Europe.
"The sea! The seal" cried the
Greeks who, under Xenophonl
had retreated from Persia, and
who at last had reached the
"Pontus Euxinus," the ''hospita.
BILE sea, 'as the Greeks euphemis
tically called the Black Sea.
Not less gra teful is the sight 0
J the Sea of Marrnora to the Eng
lish and the French asthsy leave
the demolished forts OF the Oar
danelles behind them.
: Companion.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1915-04-08
VETERINARY SURGERY.

q have been putting much study
on this subject; have received my
diploma, and am now we'll equipped
for the practice Of Veterinary Sar.
gerry In all its branches, and am the
only one in the county. all on or
address me at Villas, n. r. F. D.1.
g. H. HAYES, '
Veterinary Surgeon.
Still.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1915-04-08
Poles Made 70 XIII peIss

don Dispatch to the New York
Sun.
"Is it the death agony or only
the birth pangs?is the question
which every Pole throughout the
world is asking himself as TRACE
dy follows tragedy in the long
lnartyrdom OF our beloved Ma
ton You have only heard the
details OF Belgium, but | tell you
they are as nothing compared
with what has happened in Pc.
land.
"The scene of operationsin Po.
land is seven times larger than
that OF Belgium, and she has
had to endure seven times the
torture. Remember, the battle
OF Europe is being fought in
the east, not in the west, and
while the tide OF battle has reach
ed a sort of ebb along tn trench
es about the frontiers of Alsace
and Flanders, the great waves
roll backward and forward from
Germany to Russia and break
always on Poland. .Ourc"untry,
in factj5 is just as Belgium was
called-the cockpit OF Europe
and. it may now be called the
battlefield OF the world, if not OF
civilization.
"It is only perhaps we Poles
who have known 10 it's utmost
deptlis,ahat this war has really
meant. 1t is not only that there
are 10000, 900 human beings On
the verge of starvation, nay, ac-
tually perishing; there is worse
than that. Remember that both
Belgium and Poland ore still un-
der the yoke. The Russians, it
is true, occupy some Is, 900 miles
OF our country, but this is really
nothing, for the Germans occupy
flve.sixths ofit, ,and the de>Olation
passes all comprehension.
'"As to actual battles, l can
hardly speak Of them. 1t is tor
ture evento thinkof them. Only
consider! Our one Nation is di-
vided, as it were, into three Sec
tions, which are thrust each
against the Others to work out
their own destruction. 1t ispar.
ricide! 1t is fratricide, nay. sui
eide! Compulsory suicide! That
il what it is.
"Listen to what it means to US
all: was told by a gentleman
from Austria that an army doc
tor, a Pole by birth, who wal
deputed to 60 over the battle
fields and verify Identification
marks on the dead bodies, fonnd
among the $4,000 dead hardl.
any but Polish names. He looked
IN vain for any others, and in th'
end went mad with horror at tn
thoughtof it.
"Another story that came II
me the other day told OF anoth'
case OF the tragedy OF Polant
which ia almost too terrible TO
the human mind to contain. Tn
incident took place during
charge. Both armies had bee
ordered to attack and the Poles
as usual, were placed in the iron
lines. AS they met in the shoe
they recognized. One poor fe
low as he was struck through b
q bayonet, cried out in his teat
agony, "Jesu Maria! l have tiv
children!" "Jesu Maria!"-tt
words went straightto the brai
of his conqueor as o dagger I
the heart and killed his reason
Somewhere among the mao
houses OF Europe there is a lun'
tic. He. is not violent but
never laughs: He only wande
/. about with the words OF his d
ing victim: "Ah, Jesu Maria!
have fve children! Jesu Maria
"Again, .ii Tile fierce battle
Galicia during an interval.wh
had been agreed upon by bo'
\. sides as q moimehtary armlsti
M 1,s.A,.,A i. -lIs1
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1915-04-08
Silas M. Greene.
JEWELER
A.nrr ~ n

MABEL, N. y.
All kinds Of Irepair work
done under q positive guar.
antee. When in need Of any
thing in my line give me q
call and get honest work at
honest prices.
WATCH RpAIRING A SPECIALIZE
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1915-04-08
-Ey,lsslIsrs Campaign i Pla,dslpli,

-EyalssIsts esnp,lgl b PlA,dslplia |
The biggest single day in the
biggest revival the country has
ever known was Billy Sundays
farewell to Ph iladelphia.
Four times Sunday the evan
gelist preached to audiences that
overdowed the Tabernacle, some
&C, 900 being the days total.
Fonr times be called for converts
and reaped a total Of 1858 for,
the day. This isnumberepresentst
the actual number who. signed
converts cards, though it repre-
sents only a.portion of-thosewho
came down and shook his hand.
The number OF converts for the
II weeks Of the campaign tc tails
4l72A. Solar as results go, the
country has never seen anything
like it. 1t not only beats Billy
Sundays record, but that of ev.
cry modern evangelist.
So much for the figures. The
tabernacle forgot them Sunday.
The workers forgot to count in
the whirl and hubdud OF the fare.
wells, the ovations and greetings
that these 000persons heaped
upon the little revivalist who ar.
rived here some 80 daysa ago.
Four audiences went wild at
his arst appearance and four au.
diences stubbornly refused to
leave the tabernacle until the
evangelist himself left the plat
form. Eleven weeks had wound
him around their hearts until the
hearts blsd when he was torn
away. =. = - ~. j..
] Men and women pulled down
signs from the tabernacle posts
and carried them away. They
scooped up big handfuls OF saw
dust from the shadow of the pull
pit, filled their pockets and their
handkerchiefs with it and carried
, it home. They took the tin pans
which have gathered the taber-
nacle offerings; they tore the
bunting and flags from about the
rostrum, the flowers from the
pulpit. They carried away ev.
erything loose that could serve
; as a memento OF the campaign.
Sunday night, while l 800 mell
, in the choir sang God Be With
You Till We Meet Again" 1000
ushers, doorkeepers, policemen.
Arernen and others who have
worked in the Tabernacle day
. and night since January Sd, filed
past tho evangelist like trailhit
! ters and gripped his hand unit
: it was swollen and xnotted al
. theioints. '~
. At the four services they pilec
J some $4,000 into the collection
pans, thinking it was their fina
gift to Billy Sunday. The com
4 mittee had announced that tn
q days Offering would 60. to hin
= personally but the revivalis
j. would not have it so. !;
!. ""Every cent you give today,
. be said, "goes to the epoorof Phil
adelphia." And so the commit
: tee acquiesced.
. Before he left the city, however
u the committee turned over to tn
- evangelist a adraftfor$51 1876 g.
. the result Of the free-will offerin
(which Philadelphia gave to Bill
y Sunday. 1t is, the largest offel
y ingEhe hasreceived in any city.
There came Sunday night t
g bid him farewell representative
% Of 400 churches OF the city and
X Krpreseatative of, the city itself t
II thank him. The Rev. DR.. Geore
80 H. Buckley, vice-chairman Of IL
=.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-12-20

leanings. Of this we have the most
conclusive evidence.
William Lloyd Garrison. the great
anti-slavery advocate, was an ouL-
dore Parker. Professor LOmbrOsO, the
great Italian scientist, and NictOrien
Sardou, author and dramatist were
devoted spiritualists.
Professor William James, Of Harvard
unworthy. was convinced Of a direct
intercourse between the worlds visible
and invisible.
Sir Alfred r Wallace was for forty
years a pronounced spirituallst.
Sir William CroOkes, Sir Oliver Lodge
both occupying the distinguished pos
tion as president of the British -Associ-
alton Of Scientists, were pronounced
spiritualistS
All of these people seem to me quite
as respectable as the evangelist who
declares them all to be in league with
the devil Such a remark as rhe evan
gel1sI made Is an evidence OF Ignorance
and a narrow mind, and an imperfectly
developed intellect.
A score Of friends could be named BY
me who are in every way the superior
OF the evangelist. and whose lives are
devoted to helpfulness and good works.
yet who are avowed spiritualists-
I have all my life been conscious OF
receiving help and guidance from in
visible friends on other planes OF ex-
istence, and on a few occasions have
received direct messages from the be-
yOnd- This would debar me, according
to the evangelist, from shaking his
hand And yet life seems TO me worth
living
I do not believe in the frequent con-
sultatiOn OF professional mediums
believe those who make a profession
Of mediumship endanger their. own
peace Of mind. and interfere with
divine ordinances
But I believe we Are surrounded by
clouds OF Witnesses and that each
one OF US has spiritual helpers and
guides who are ready TO give US light
aend power and strength to develop the
GOd-like qualities in our own souls II
we keep ourselves in tune with the
Infinite" we shall understand their
messages.
Swedenborg. a great statesman. a
great scholar. a great scientist, gave
up all earthly honors and the friend
ship OF the orthodox world after he
came into speech with the inyisibles.
who were visible 70 him. He walked
and talked with hosts OF spiritual
beings, and his works on these sub
jects have been the inspiration and the
salvation OF thousands OF struggling
souls.-COpyright 1915. Star COMPANY
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-12-20
Lesson For Discouraged In Lives of
Great Men q 81 o. WHEELER RE EN- wilcox

4 n evangelist, who has been prom
n inent during the last year in try
- - ing to teach people what he be-
neves to be the religion Of Christ, said
in the presence Of a large audience not
long ago that he would as soon shake
hands with the devil as with spiritu-
alist. He then proceeded to apply
every opprobrious epithet in his vo-
cabulary to every one who believed in
the possibility Of communication win
the spirits of those in the realms be-
yond.
Every one who believed this possible,
he declared. was in league with the
devil. OF course any man who makes
such assertions is not preaching the
religion of Christ Jesus conVersed
with Moses and Elias on the Mount Of
TRANSPORTATION, and communicated
with clouds Of witnesses" The list
of great souls who have lived on eartn
as declared spiritualists is as long as
il is brilliant
Zoroaster, Isaiah and the prophet
Daniel, Pythagoras, Socrates and Plato
were spiritualists. Irenius, Origen and
Cyprian and Lord Gauranga, the proph-
ct of Nadia in India (born 14S5 A d.
were all spiritualists. The latter's
spiritual gifts were so marvellous that
he was considered a god by a multi
tude. Shrines and temples were dedi-
Gated to his honor and glery. Angels
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-12-20

and spirits were his daily companions.
Socrates Had Guiding Spirit.
Socrates had his attending spirit
guide, to whose voice Of wisdom he
continually listened. Christ was at
tended by a legion Of angels. Con
stantine, though not a saint saw a
flaming cross in the heavens bearing
the inscription, by this conquer"
TorquantO Tasso frequently heard the
voices Of spiritual beings. Louis XVI.
saw and addressed a female clothed in
a spotless white robe just before his
execution.
George Fox, the good Quaker. had
visions and was blessed with healing
aend other spiritual gifts The Weslsys
heard strange footsteps and weird.
mysterious sounds in their home at
triebutable only to spiritual causes.
SaVonarola, Bruno, BOehman and Roger
Bacon were spiritualists, possessed Of
mediumistic powers. Baron Sweden
born conversed consciously with angels
and spirits during tWenty-seven years
OF his eventful life.
Those religious bodies in America
known as Shakers had from their very
initiation of Mother Ann Lee. the
spiritual gifts and signs promised to
believers in the New Testament
Kant, in his dream of the Ghost
Seer" stated his firm belief in the
constant communications with the
spirituaI world Ruslxfu believed in
the present converse with those peo-
ping the unseen realms OF being.
Abraham Lincoln had spiritualistic
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-12-20

tightly. and you cannot make the pris-
on so close but what love Will find a
way to escape from il.
woman demands that a man shall
always dance attendance on her. that
he shall have no other society but hers,
and be blind to all other women. Cd
a man abrogates TO himself the right
TO quarantine the woman from all other
masculine companionship except his
own, MISREPRESENTATION they know it.
love has fled in terror
1t is because We make of matrirhony
a prison that love so seldom survives
domesticity. For the average wife,
marriage is nothing but respectable
slavery She may be well taken care
Of, but she has no life OF her own
no financial or personal liberty. And
she grants her husband as little free
dom as he gives her. She keeps him
tied 20 her apron strings as tightly as
she can
That is what makes married life so
DUH, and so full Of temptations. for
it is the thing that we are forbidden
10 do that we want most to do. No
one with a drop OF sporting blood ever
sees a wall without yearning to climb
over il.
This being the case. the wise hus-
band and wife build no fences and lock
no doors, for they know that the law
Of love is the law of eontraries. and
that those who hold it with tn light
est touch really are those who grapple
II TO them with hooks Of steel.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-12-20
The Girl Who Flirts
lirfax Shows the Danger in This Silly Practice.
BY BEATRICE FAIRFAN.

HoN'T flirt, Don't risk chance ae-
Jquaintances, Don't encourage
what you take for admiration on
the part OF people you happen to pass
on the street. Don't ever permit
strange men TO talk to you, or even TO
imagine that they might If they chose
The girl who flirts lays herself open
to number of charges. That she is
undignified and lacking in mOdesty is
true enough But she may. sacrifice
dignity and modesty because she is
desperately lonely and has no better
way Of making acquaintance. But
there COULD be no worse way OF making
acquain tances-snd it means that
hardly ever viii she make friends.
Lowers Her Own Standard.
The girl who flirts gives the man
with whom she flirts what he considers
right to go on being free and easy
with her, since that is how be began
to know her. She classes herself in
with women of no dignified or even
moral standards She fairly brings
upon herself unpleasant familiarities