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Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1916-04-06
Spring Song.

Every sage this scheme indors-
es: Make your premises look neat;
cart away the old dead horses,
burn the rubbish and repeat. For
the spring should find our city
rid OF every ugly thing; it will be
a beastly pity, If we disappoint
the spring. In the spring the
world is laundered by the soft,
refreshing showers, and the clean
sing winds are squandered by
Dame Nature at all hours; but
the rainfall and the breezes can't
remove the trash and Junk which,
like decomposing cheeses fill the
air with perfume punk. Let us
hustle and abolish everything
that draws the flies; let us clean,
and paint and polish till oul
town delights the eyes. Oh,
ought to sing the lily, when old
winter ups and goes, and ought
to write some silly bladderdast
about the rose, but / make my
harpstrings rattle urging folks
to clean their lawns, cart away
dead cats and cattle, old tin can.
and demijohns. Walt Mason.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1916-04-06
Now Feels Entirely Well.

A FL Francis. Z"nlth, Kas., wri-
tes: 81 mad a severe pain in my
back and could hardly move.
took about two-thirds of a box
OF Foley Kidney Pills and now
feel entirely WE'LL" Middle.aged
and older men and women find
these safe pills relieve sleep dis
turbiDg bladder ailments. Fol
sale by NJ. b. Blackburn.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1916-04-06
Severe Cold Quickly Cured.

"On Dec. first | had a severe
cold or attack OF the grip as it
may be. and was nearly down in
bed," writes o J Metcalf, Wealth.
erly, Mo. 81 bought two bot.
ties OF fChamberlain's Cough Rem
edy and it was only a few days
until was completely restored
to health. | firmly believe that
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is
one of the very best medicines
and will know what to do when
| have another cold" ObtaiDa.
BILE everywhere.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1916-04-06
Children Cry
FOR FLETcHER'S
Q a 8 T O RIA

A honey tongue, a hear OF gall
Walton.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1916-04-06

Eugenia Campbell, later Mrs.
Shull of Watauga county, if she
is still living (aud l think she is, J
is her youngest sister, and the
only living member of the imme-
diate Col. Milton Campbell FAM
lily OF whom l have any know
ledge.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1916-04-06
The German State Of Mind.
Charleston News and Courier.


A staff correspondent of h {
New York Times writing from
Berlin sums up ''the feeling of the
average German in the street ap
proximately as follows: "He has
a strong desire for peace with
honor and the quicker the bet.
ter; a conviction that France and
Russia are practically beaten
and that but for England peace
could be made tomorrow; and a
further conviction that England
alone holds the allied coalition
against Germany together. He
also believes that England is Ger
many's real and only enemy; that
there can be no peace until Eng
land is beaten; that England can
be beaten by ruthless submarine
warfare, and that the Won Tir-
pits plans of torpedoing all ships
found in English waters is prob
ably the only way of beating
her."
Ii that is an accurate summary
OF the feeling of the German mass
es, some interesting conclusions
are possible. The beliefs outlined
are based, it will be observed, up
on the promise that France and
Russia are "practically beaten. !"
Suppose it becomes clearly evil
dent IN the near future to h e
German masses, as we'll as to the
world in general, that France and
Russia are very far from being
beaten. 1t is not possible that
from this revelation there wonld
ensue in Germany a revulsion OF
feeling certain to be attended by
highly important results?
The revelation may come soon.
France still holds Verdun and
will probably continue to hold it.
If she does, the belief that France
is practically beaten can hardly
persist. The Russian advances in
ASIA Minor and their effect upon
Turkey, together with the re-
sumption of Russian attacks on
Germany's eastern front, ought
to disabuse the German masses
before very long in regard to the
status of Russia.
The result of this enlightenment
cannot be foreseen. They Might
not tend towards an early peace:
for while Germany has probably
already reached a point where
she would be willing to accept a
compromise falling far short of
her initial aims and ambitions,
she is probably still far from the
point where she would accept
terms practically decreeing heT
death as a great power. Never
theless, if events show the Ger
man people that France and Rus
sia are not beaten aud probably
cannot be beaten, the effect in
Germany cannot but be of tre-
mendous Importance. Victory O.
YER England on the sea would
then be the last chance.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1916-04-06
VETERINARY SURGERY.

| have been putting much study
on this subject; have received my
diploma, and am now we'll equipped
for the practice of Veterinary Sur.
gerry in all its branches, and am tn
only one in the county. all on or
address me at Villas, N. R. F. d..
g. 81. HAYES,
Veterinary Surgeon.
5-17-11.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1916-04-06

'It may we'll be claimed that
the care of individual and family
health is first and most patriotic
duty of a citizen. TAFT.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1916-04-06
Lest We Forget.

IlcS VI OIL ClClCS, CSuo, WAoh ohO A1u
itor's permission publishing then
in the Watauga Democrat, the ar
ticles commemorating the lives
of some of the pioneers of the
county or those who, later on
helped develop the resources
whose descendants not only "rist
up and call them blessed" but
have taken up and are carrying
on the work laid down by these
builders of our country, these
makers of local history, an d
though your correspondent reali
zes the largeness of the task and
lays no claim to literary merit
yet does claim to be as good a
friend of the old community as
any one who has known itfor on
ly a quarter of a century and who
has lived within its borders a lit
tie less than a decade and a half.
Too frequently occurs t h a. t
when a member of the communi-
ty takes his departure therefrom,
either to pitch his tent amid COM
parative strangers to seek his
fortune among entire strangers
in the far western country, he
drops out of the life of the COM
munity in which, perhaps, he had
spent all of his younger days, the
old home a silent witness of by
gone, open-door welcome to the
passing traveller or the centre OF
community uplift and enlighten-
ment, the surrounding country
rapidly rapidly being transform
ed under the seemingly heartless
hand of progress, meanwhile the
once big man in the old commu-
nifty, dwindling down to the size
OF a little-known hero of ancient
times.
For too often is it so with our
friends and one-time Econspicu-
Gus who "pull up stakes" on
Earth's grassy plains, traverse
the "Valley of the Shadow"
"cross the River Silence" nd
"pitch their Tents on the "sweet
and blessed country, the home of
Gods elect" And surely it is not
enough to keep green the little
mound in Gods hall acre on the
hillside or to replace with fresh
ones the whitening flowers upon
that grass mound, nor yet to
erect over the spot where we laid
to rest the tired body of our
friend, a shaft Of stone and, upon
cold marble, in choice language
indelibly carve a sentiment which
''to the living would mean more
than to the dead" Rather let us,
about the fireside, talk of absent
ones as if they were upon q jour
ney, prolonged beyond a reason
able time, it is true, but a jour
ney, for all that, with eager ex-
pectation looking forward to our
joining them at some stage OF
the journey, meanwhile keeping
in mind and helping the commu-
nifty to keep in mind the f a C t
that, as the Master said at the
bedside of a friend "She is not
dead but sleepeth."
Let me close my Introductory
remarks with the beautiful little
poem, copied from a paper, the
authors name not given, the tt
tie "Before it is too Late:'
II you've a tender message
Or loving word to say,
Don't wait till you forget it,
But whisper it to-day.
We live but In the present.
The future is unknown
The morrow is mystery,
To-day is our own.
The tender words unspoken.
The letter never sent,
The !ong.forgotten message.
The wealth of love unspent.
For these some hearts are brea king
For these some loved ones wait,
80 show them that you care O r
them,
Before il is too late.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1916-04-06
PASSING OF A GOOD WOMAN.
Margaret Campbell Floyd An Appre.
Grafton.

StoAtVus
James Wilson in Statesville Land.
mark.
Few who read this communica
ton will remember her whose
name appears in the heading O
this article. She was born a lit
tie over 95 years ago, north O
Statesville, near Trinity church
and has been gone SO long from
her native community and home
people, that most of those who
knew her and were intimately as.
sociated with her during hel
young life, have passed away
and her name and face have ia
ded away from the memory oi
most of the few who still live
But she has not been entirely for.
gotten. ''The righteous shall be
in everlasting remembrance"
More than so years ago, as an
orphan boy, l lived in the home
OF her father, and it was there
that l first came to know and to
esteem her highly as a Christian
woman. The old home where she
first lived and was reared has
mOuldered into dust and vanish.
ed. Not one stone or piece OF
timber is left upon another to
mark the spot where she lived.
Only last year | rode rapidly by
the old place in an automobile
and did not know it. But the
name and faca OF this good wo-
man, and others who lived there
have not faded away. They are
fresh on the page of the tablet of
memory. lean neverforget them.
Though dead they still live and
speak to me.
Miss Margaret was one of the
daughters of the late Col. Milton
Campbell, one of the most highly
respected and honored citizens of
Iredell county, who lived about
seven miles north of Statesville
She was a bright young woman
and was educated in the best
of her day. Her fine men,
tai endowment fitted her for a
higher order of life. Later she
was married to Rev. John w.
Floyd of the North Carolina Con-
ference, and passed through the
varied experiences of a Method
ist minister's wife. In about
1858 he Travelled the Iredell cir
cult and they lived in the parson-
age at Olln. 1t was during this
year that | became Intimately ac-
and associated with
them, and to this day l feel much
indebted to them for godly in
and influence in di-
recting my younglife. Laterthey
lived at Lenoir and at Boone, in
Watauga County, where he died
July 3rd. 1885. After. his de-
parture she moved to Columbia,
Tenn, where she lived for many
years. "Her last earthly home
was in Nashville, Tenn, with the
loving care and companionship
of her son and daughter about
her, and her grave was made in
beautiful Rose Hill cemetery at
Columbia, where people loved
her through the long years that
her moving tent was pitched a.
mong them" She was born No
vember Oath, 1880, and depart
ed this life Feb. 18th, 1916, at
the age OF a little over IS years.
She lived through a long and
mompntous period both in the
Church and State. "She saw the
old order of Southern life pass
away and the new types of
thought and new phases of civil
"a tion take it's place" She had
lived a long and useful life, and
when the final call came she had
only to "draw the drapery other
couch and lie down" to sleep un-
til Christ shall come to awake
I~ &Lo ,~,o,,,,,oc of fho Doc
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-05-04
INTO A STRANGE COUNTRY
Traveller In Other Lands Must BE Pre-
pared With Open Mind TO Alb
sorb impressions.

In the Woman's Home Compan-
ion Laura Spencer Portor continues
her series of interpretations Of vari-
Gus countries. Concerning a nations
personality, Miss Portor says in part:
"TIe who would travel in other
lands must leave his own behind. He
who would judge of country and a
people must leave his own Preside
opinions, turn the key on his own
prejudices, cross whatever seas Of diff
ficulty may lie between his and an
others land. and with eager step,
whether upon roads good OF difficult.
whether upon hidden by-paths or
highways known to all, he must
travel into the very heart of the
stranger country. Thus he may come
any day upon that country's great
cities in the dawn, or chance upon
her noble events spread solemn be-
meath tfts sts.-s. - siisssi az OOiitC ~
know and love her simple village life
and humble pleasures, her fertile
plains or rugged mountains, her at
tainments and her difficulties. SO,
living among this people and sharing
the intimate life Of their homes, they
shall come to have for him a particu-
lar meaning, shall stand to him for
certain things not elsewhere to be
found in this exact kind of measure.
So shall an entire nation reveal to
him a distinct personality, even as an
individual with whom we have lived
intimately and understandingly be-
comes to us dear through the unfold
ing of that individuality and those
characteristics so wholly his own, the
like of which we shall not look upon
elsewhere or again."
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-05-04
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.

Notice is hereby given that tle Col
ored Beard of Education, of Hopkins,
vile, KY, Ned Turner, chairman
will receive bids up to IL O'Clock,
Wednesday, May 10th, for thee
ton and completion of brick school
building, on a. lot on the corner OF
First and Vine streets, in Hopkins.
vile, KY, according to plans and
specifications prepared for the same
by John I. Waller, architeeb, Hop
kinsville, Ky.
A bond will be required 30 the
amount Of the contract, guaranteeing
the delivering of the compIeted build
ing free from liens and according to
all requirements of the plans and
specifications.
Each bidder will be required to ac-
company his proposal with certified
check for $4,000, payable to Ned
Turner, chairman, which check will
be forfeited to the Colored Board OF
Education should the bidder fail to
enter into contract and make the re-
quired bond in ten days from the
time contract is awarded him.
Plans may be seen at the office Of
the architect. A limited number Of
sets of the plans and specifications
have been prepared to loan to bidder;
on the general contract and may be
had by making application to John T
Waller, architect.
Parties not known viii be required
to make deposit OF $40 which will
. Ibe returned if the set of plans anC
specifications are returned not late
than the day of opening the proposals
The Colored Board of Education
reserves the right to reject any ant
e all bids.
e JOHN T. WALLER,
. Architect.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-05-04
IS CREDITED TO CHURCHMAN
Lines That Have Been Highly Praised
Declared to Have Been Produced
in Time of Peace.

Robert Service, the Canadian
writer, who is at present engaged in
Red Cross work in France, has sent
to the Paris correspondent of an
English paper what he describes as
"the best war poem | have SEEM"
The verses, which, Mr.. Service says,
were found by French priest on the
body of an English soldier killed at
the Marine, run as follows:
They say that war is hell, the great
accurst;
The sin impossible to be forgiven;
Yet can look upon 1t at its worst,
And still see blue in heaven.
For when l note how nobly natures
form
Under the wars red rain, deem 1t
true
That he who made the earthquake
and the storm
Perchance made battles, too.
AS a matter of fact, the lines were
written in a time of profound peace,
like most good war poems, and by a
man who was an ecclesiastic, not a
soldier. Their author was Doctor
Alexanday, the late lord primate of
ireland, and they were first pub
lished in the Times some seven or
eight years ago.-Manchester Guar
dian.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-05-04
LEFT IN THE DARK.

Green-There goes a woman whom
I once considered the light of my
life.
Brown-Why, didn't you marry
her?
Green-A chap with more money
than | could show came along, and
the light went out.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-05-04

CLUB NO. 5.
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Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-05-04
QUITE so.

"Did you see how red those four
young women got when you detected
them trying to get in on a bogus
pass?"
eyes; it was a regular case of four
flushing"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-05-04
THE UNIVERSAL THEORY.

"why do you suppose Jinks is so
continually looking at his watch%
81 have a suspicion. There may
be a woman in the case"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-05-04
HUMAN uNANlMITY.

'Men are alike in all times. l dare
say when Adam first met Eve he
Thought she was good enough to eat"
"Well, wasn't she a spare ribT'
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-05-04
THE LIMIT.

"Is that orator speaking for peace
at any price?"
"Oh, no; he's fixed substantial
minimum rates"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-05-04
SOME HOPE LEFT.

els your fathers illness seriousT
81 think not. He's been in bed for
three days now and so far the doctor
hasn't suggested an operation"
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1916-06-05
AMERICAN League
Evil

sNh
Evil Is what the love OF money Is
the root Of.
The root IL the lowest part. OF
course.
There Is less unanimity Of opinion
as 10 what is the height Of evil.
IL everything else thrived as well
under opposition as evil does. this
would be- a FAR different world.
Evil - also what men do that
lives after them, II Dill Shakespeare
is To he depended on.
Somebody "a long time ago labelled
a lot OF things 'evil' and wc have
stuck - the labels pretty faithfully.
Hut most Of the things they marked
evil" should have been plaosrded
"!oolirhness
People who EXERCISE all the in.
telligonce they have 40 nothing that
rs really evil.
And they have'a fine time. with no
big heads or next mornings or other
popular brands ~ hangover.
Most % the time when we ask. is
II right wa could ret the answer
more suddenly II we said
rs II Intelligent
Many things once labelled evil are
uOt so.
W. were hrourht M 10 believe that
oard-playing Is evil, intrinsicelly.
Also dancing gee. whi2' Dancing
was the worst thing there was'
Murder was a Sunday-school exer.
else compared with H.
II plays cards when n should
be and could be doing something
helpful and necessary. II Is wrong.
So would corn-hoeing OF onion.
wedding be, II you were neglecting
something more important Tor II,
Ditto dancing
AlthougA we do believe II wrong
for anybody g. do Il ne badly as we
do
4 dancing teacher told Ms SO. once.
This isn't all we know about evil.
But It's all we're going 10 tell here.
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1916-06-05

New York. June o.. Tho metal cx-
chang" quotes lead. 500
Sp'lt'r easy. spot Fast -. Louis
delivery. 80 asked
Al London lead iGi los. spolt.-.
as.
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1916-06-05
NOTICE ron r,riLC ,rIov.

Department of the Interior United
state Land Once At santa Pc.
Sew Mexico. May %. 1915.
Notice Us ncr,ry given that Luis
Trulillu r IltHuIllu. ~ Albuquerque.
y Mex who On August .. 1903.
made Homestead Entry so. ptOAsl.
Tor lots and 3 ana IA" Swi NEL
and SEA NW =, section q, and ad-
ditioual Homestead Entry So. e2ig05
on August .. 1919, for SE. NEA .
Soc. 81 and W. NNi and NEa
NNlt Sec -, Township as. Range
Nv \ NJ Il. Meridian. ha~ nlod uu-
tIy" of intention to make ny,-ycir
proof 10 establish claim % the land
above described, before George a..
craig United states commissioner at
Albuquerque y. Mex, uu July d..
1915.
claimant anne as witnossos
Felipe Truiillu. Of Armijo. y. MsX..
George Trujillo, OF Armilo, y. McN
Pedro Montoya, of Albuquerque. y.
McN Gregoria Caudeiaria, of Albu-
.quorlur. y Alex
FRANCISCO DELGApO,
Register
T.. T., $50, l.. T., -,
Evening Iieraij Albuquerque n NJ.
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1916-06-05
N SANTA re.

cation aud special master. allowances
ana tor taxes which arc now Items 90
said premises.
The nature Of TINS action was 'I
iur'DluNur, Of a deed OF trust.
Dated Albuquerque, Sen Mckee.
MAJ 32nd. s., l. 1915.
HEN;MANN l. SNYDER.
Special Master
GEORGE = KLpck, p|llintiffs at.
tUiH'y Albuquerque, Sew Mexico.
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1916-06-05
NOTICE on SALE

II the District Court for the County
Of B~crnalllo, stat" of New Mexico
Helene Fracaroli. formerly Helene
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1916-06-05
The Markets


New YORK Juu. ,- Motor issucs,
sugars and various miscellaneous
stocks monnpoliz"d speculative att"I-
ton today with numerous new high
tugcthcr forfeited,
Free offerings of motor stocks for
pidiit followed N" initial advance
~Ith recessions OF Two to six points,
uIt not uHtl NllINs-oN"tliud pre-
i'rrrd mad been added 20 the list of
rev records rising = Gee IL, Later
another -putt "a Sp-cialtlrs carried
Nillfs- overland common to 325 and
Marin" preferred to lUoA, with
marked strength lu United Tru.t.
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