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BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, N. C THURSDAY, JUNK, IS, 1891.
NO. 4G.
PROFESSIONAL.
W. B. COUNC1LL, Jr.
Attohnf.y at La.
Boone, N. C.
W. It. COUNCILL, M. D.
Boone, X. C.
Resident Physician. Office
on King Street north of Post
Office.
E.F. LOVILL
Attorney At Law,
Boone N. C.
DR. L. C. REEVES.
Physician and Surgeon
Office at Residence.
Boone, N. C.
L. D. LOWE,
Altorney at Law
AND
NOTARY PUBLIC,
BANNER'S ELK. N. C.
J. Q. WILBAR,
DENTIST,
ELK PARK, XORTH CAROLINA.
Offers his professional services
to the people ot Mitchell,
VYatatiira and adjoining conn-
ties.BfcffWo tad mateial used
and all work guaranteed."
May 1 1 y.
J. F. Morpliew. E. S. BUclbnrn
Marlon, X. C Je eion,X.C.
MOItPIlEW & BLACKBURN
Atttorneys at Law.
Will practice in the courts
of Ashe, ntaugaana Mitcii
ell counties, also in the Fed
eral courts of the Dist.. and
Supreme Court of the State.
(olfaction ot claims solicited.
Aprl, 10.
Notice.
For sale. 900 acres of land,
on Rich Mountain, Watauga
County, on which is asbestos,
d flneland for sheen ranch.
Soles private. L. I). Lowe &
.f. T. Furgerson, Ex'trs. of
Mrs. A. V. Calloway, aeca.
Banner Elk, Noy. 1 '90..
Money to loan.
Persons wishing to boi
row money, who can secure
it by mortgage on good real
estate, can be accommodated
by applying to
J.F. Spainhour, Boone N. C
or A. J. Critcher, Horton N. C
4. 24.
NO 1 ICE.
Parties putting papers in
my hand for execution will
plei se advance the fees wi th
the papers and they will re-
cei ve prom pt attention , other
wise they will be returned
not executed for the want of
fees. D. F. Baird Shff.
MILLINERY.
-0
I would like to say to my friends
in Watauga and surrounding
counties, that I have now on hand
and am receiving every week, a
nice line of
SPRING AD SDMMFR
MILLINER I A ND NO TIOXS
When you come to Lenoir, I
Mould be pleased for you to call
and see nie. I solicit your cus
tom. Orders filled promptly by
mail. Most Reap.,
- MRS. M. N. HORTON.
Lenoir. N. C, May 21, .
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Froa ear Regular Correspondent
Once in a while you will
find nn honest and conscien
tious republican who does
not lelieve that the financial
policy of the administration
is dictated from Wall Street.
Well, per'mpn it isn't, but
npKnrances certainly give
one thnt impression. For in
stance: Secretary Foster
sends out a circular letter
notifying the holders of the
per cent bonds thnt will
mature next September that
they may be extended at 1
or 1 percent interest. As
soon as that letter is made
public he goes to New York,
where for four days he was
a guest of one of the Wall
Street money kings, and now,
he thinks that it will only be
justice to the banks which al
ready own about half of the
$ 00,000.000 of these bonds
and which will take all that
are surrendered by other par
ties, to make the interest 2
per cent, which wasthefigure
mentioned by the Wall Street
men. Doesn't that look sus
picious.
By the way. Secretary Fos
ter is innhned to indulge in
self glorification over the
fact that he can sell a govern
ment bond bearing as low
rate rf interest as 2 per cent.
He does not tell that these
bonds nrft absolutely neces
sary to the banks which pro
pose to take them to be used
as security for their circula
tion. His talk in this respect
has been on a par with his
trying to make the public be
lieve that the Treasury was
not cramped for ready cash.
and then following up his
boasts with a call for $3,000
000 from the banks in which
government funds are depos
ited.
Secretary Noble will 'find
when he returns to duty,
which will probably be this
week, a very much mixed up
condition of affairs in his de
partment. Assistant Secre"
tary Bussey has white-wash
ed a crooked chief of a divis
ion in the Pension Office, and
Assistant Secretary Chandler
is gathering facts to prove
Bussey's favoritism and the
crookedness of the aforesaid
chief, and it may end in one
or the other of the Assistant
Secretaries having to go
Chandler is an honest,
straightforward sort of
fellow, who believes thet
crookedness ought to be pun
ished no matter who are the
friends of the crook; it was
he who endorsed the papers
in the case of young Raum
"Immediate dismissal' and
he only agreed to let the dis
position of the case made by
Bussey stand, when told that
such were the orders of Secre
tary Noble.
Another trouble for Mr.
Noble will be to assist Mr
Harrison in finding another
victim to take Raum's place
at the head of the Tension
Office, as it seems to be con
ceded on all sides that the
head of Raum will soon find
its way into the baske v.
Somebody has kept a record
of the time Commissioner
Raum has been absent since
he lecnme the head of the
Pension bureau, and it shows
that during the nineteen
months he has been in office
he has been absent 210 days,
or nearly half the time. He
has him ply used the office as
ntender to his private busi
ness sch 'ines, and it is not
surprising that with such an
example More him young
Ilium should have gone
into the business of selling
appointments to office and
promotions.
The republican leaders are
badly frightened at the pros
pect of having the Knights
of Labor solidly opposed to
the republican ticket in Ohio
this year. It is said that, the
Knights of Labor through
its Executive Board, which
is making a fignt for the re
moval oi Capt. Meredith,
chief of the Bureau of En
graving and Printing, has
given Mr. Harrison its ulti
matum, and it is that Mere
dith must be removed or ev
ery Knight of Labor in the
State of Ohio will vote a-
gainst the republicans at the
coming gubernatorial elec
tion. Secretary Foster, who
isnn adept in the art of bam
boozling is relied upon by
Mr. Harrison to help him
out of the scrape in some
way, but he will find it very
difficult.
The talk about immigra
tion which republicans, par
ticularly those connected
with, or hoping to be con
nected with the administta-
tion, are now indulging in is
all for a purpose. There was
very little improvement
made in our bodge podge im
migration laws by the Billion
dollar Congress; but it pro
vided for a Commissioner of
Immigration at $4000 a
year, which Ex-Congressman
Owen, of Indiana has fallen
into, and for sending a com
mission to Europe on a de
lightful summer tour for the
avowed purpose of investi
gating the subject. Ex-Congressman
Grosvenor of Ohio,
who recently insulted the
foreigh born citizens of Wis
consin in a newspaper inter
view ami then added coward
ice to indiscretion by deny
ing the interview, which he
openly boasted of here, is a
member of this commission.
Better Times.
. It needs no argument to
prove that this means better
times for the farmer. A bush
el of wheat will buy twice as
much sugar, a thin, more
tea and coffey, a fourth more
cotton goods, woolens and
dress materials than it would
a year ago. The same is true
of rye, corn, barley, potatoes
and truck. Tobacco and cot
ton also will command good
prices in market at the close
of the year, while the demand
wiil be equal to the peanut,
rice, sugar and fruit crops of
the South. Th9 necessaries
of lifehavenot greatly chang
ed in price, except food pro
ducts, and the farmer will be
enabled to purchase what he
consumes at the old figures,
while his income will be
measurably increased New
York Herald,
Solo. N. C
.Tune 10, lJl.
Editor Democrat:
Some time since there np
leared in your pajer u com
munication from Moretz Mills
signed 'IV relative to the pro
posed compulsory school law.
I was pleased to hear theoth-
er side of the question, as we
had bad an article or two in
favor of such a law: but I
must confess to a sad disap-
pointir.t'iit after reading said
article. That considerablear
gumentcan be produced a
gainst a compulsory school
law, there seems no doubt,
but 'E' in thecommunication
above refered to 8 i g n a 1 1 y
fails to produce any reasona
ble grounds why such a law
should not be enacted. True,
he conjures up some imagin
ary reasons and uigesthem
against such a law. If the
conditions and reasons he
supposes should really exist,
then 'E' has a plain case in
his favor; but lias any one,
or docs any one suppose a
sane set of law-makers would
enact a law that would re
quire impossibilities of the
people?
The compulsory school law
that I would favor would not
be a complicated and mixed
up law that the people could
not understand, nor would I
favor a law that would make
it an indictable offensstonot
send children to school. But.
I favor a law modeled some
what after the road law. Or
something like this: Let the
school register be evidence of
the attendance and non-at
tendance of the scholars in a
district, ami then the school
committee should be requir
ed to hold ameetingat which
all who failed to comply with
the requirements of law, in
not having their children in
school, should be allowed to
give their reasons for failing
to comply with the law. If
the reasons seem to be suffi
cient in the minds of the ma-
jorityjof the committee, fur
ther action will be unnecessa
ry, but if insufficient, then it
should be their duty to re
port said delinquent to some
justice of the peace, who shall
issue his judgment against
the delinquent, and such judg
ment should be made collec
table as taxes.
Now we think that even 'E'
can see thai; where there were
barriers to prohibit the at
tendance of children upon the
schools, there would be nei
ther trouble nor expense. But
we would certainly have a
much better attendance at
our scliools, and consequent
ly a better educated people
'E', after stating his wide
experience in teaching, ob
serves that in the States of
his operation he has observ
ed this "phenomena" of the
small attendance upon the
free schools. In my experi
ence in school work, which
does not cover so m u c h
ground, scarcely taking in
two states; I did not observe
this as a phenomena, or in
any wise phenomenal (if I
may be allowed to use that
word in regard to human af
fairs.) On the contrary, 1
learned to look for this state
of affairs with morecertainty
of its fulfilment than any oth
cr part of the school work.
Now, in writing the forego
ing, I disclaim a fixed deter
mination to hold to the be
lief here set forth, but on the
contrary I am open to con
viction and hope to hear the
views of all who are opposed
to, as well as all who favor a
compulsory school law.
I waited long, hoping some
ab er jH'ii would answer E
and thus draw out. the peo
ple pro and con, in this "off"
jvar, for when a political
campaign is on, jeople will
not reason. Rut one thing is
certain, N. C. should do some
thing to relieve her of the
blasting stigma of being one
among the first states in il
literacy. Those opKised to
the compulsory law m list
give some other plan. I know
from experience thattheplan
proposed by E' will not meet
the requirements of the peo
ple. I think most of teach
ers do their duty in that re
spect, 'E' included.
Webster's Blue Back.
Telephones and POEt Offices.
Judge Walter A.Clarkehas
a very interestingletterin the
News' and Observer, on the
government ownership of tel
ephones for the use of thepos
tal service. We give below an
extract from his letter.
"Telephones, if established
by the government sas su;
gested, at every country post
office would be useful in many
ways. News of danger t o
crops from approaching
frosts e o u 1 d be promptly
sent, wonld save many use
less trips over bad roads for
freights by telephoning to the
nearest railroad station it
could be learned had not ar
rived. In cases of illness a
physician could be promptly
summoned. Witnesses in the
courts could be notified when
to come and be saved many
nays of useless attendance at
the county court house. The
expense of establishing such
a system would be small, for
posts and wire are very cheap.
Not a single employee would
be added to the government,
as every one who can talk
can use a telephone. Ifestab
lished by government a tele
phone rate of 2 cents could
be adopted and pay a profit.
There would be no decrease
in mail matter. By adopting
a "nickle-in-the-slot" device
the post masters would easi
ly keep the account of mes
sages sent.
This matt r is suggested be
cause it is in (he interest of
the people that it be looked
after before some corpora
tion takes it up who will es
tablish high rates and be in
terested in preventing legis
lation ot this kind. This has
already been done as to tele
graphs. The transmission of
messages by telegraph is as
much a governmental function
as sundry letters by railroad
and no p r i v a t e company
should have been allowed to
take charge of it. Yet it was
allowed and has been found
so profitable that no Con
gress hasyetbeen elected that
would assert the g o v e r n
ment's right and duty to fur
nish telegraphic facilities to
the people.
THE T Rn DEE ST0RX.
By WllJft 9. Killer.
For The Democrat.
The black volume appear
ing above the horizon is ap
proaching. It is riven assun
dcrat dniost everv minute
by streams of fiery fluid and
deep groans is.suefrom them.
Yonder a streak of zigzag
ightning rent the cloud and
and now-Horrible dicta, the
terrible shock of atmospheric
compression has b u r s t e d
loose the sound waves. Now
the dark electric cloud has
obscured the sky, and drops
of rain are plashing upon the
ground. Yonder! look! the:
giant oak that has braved
the tempests of centuries and
withstood the fury of thef
north winds, is shivered and
plintered from top to bot
tom, and the fragments are
strewn upon the ground by
the lightning. And from the:
same place comes a peal of
loudest thunder.
Crash! crash! goes the voice?
of the elements, while thef
rain decends in torrents that
are dashed furiously about,
with a roar strongly blended
with the thunder's crash ing.
It is now an hour since the"
storm burst. Its loud rever
berations are growing faint
as the cloud passes. At last
we see a rent in the clouds
and through it we see the'
deep blue sky. The storm is1
over and the glorious sun
shine is kissing away the rain
drops from the flowers and
grass, and dryingvegetation
and earth. The birds at once?
pour out melodies of praise?
to the All-wise Creator who
'Hears the ravens when they"
cry." Filled with their in
spiring rapture, the orchards
seem more than delighted as5
we walk about them. We'
saunter along, gazing first
at Nature's beauties, then up
on the distant storm-cloud,
which but a short time be
fore had flashed its frightful
fires above our heads and
thundered with the voice of
heaven. The contrast is so
striking and so significant f
We are now filled with joy,
and feel that no harm can
befall us; we were then in
dread lest we should instan
tly be destroyed by a stray1
thunderbolt. But it is pleas
to realize that God does not
forget his people, even when
their enemies seek to take
them by storm and flash
their darts of fiery indigna
tion and roar the heights of
their rage, nor does lie for
get to take care of t h e m
when the elements are stor
my. We are joining our
praises to God with those of
more thankful inhabitants of
earth. We know from the
terrible manifestations, this
evening, of his power that He
has not forsaken us.
. The Alleghany Star says.'
that Mr. Alex, Young, one of
our prominent citizens was
bitten by a spider about two
weeks ago and has been so
seriously ill from the effects1
that the doctors in attend'
ence gave up the case.. Na
ture did more than medical
skill, and for the last two
days he has been improving.
We have a new I)r. who
seems to be a character in
the way of treating his pa
tients. Uses only roots and
liquor and of course he will
gain favor.