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X AN V XT ; (Tin t j. VOL 5 i'i:m:ssio.'AL. w. n.corxciLL, ju. Attorxky at Lay. Boone, N. C. W. B. COtNCILL, M. I). Boone, n. c. Resident Physic inn. OHice on King St reel north ofl'ost Oilier E.F. LOYILL Attoiixky' At T aw. Boone N. C. DR. L.( REEVES Physician ami Snmnox CfTce at Residence. 11(10110, N. C. L. I). LOWE, Attorney at Law -Axn- XOTAIir PUHLIC, . BAXXERS ELK. X. C. J F.1I9RPDEV, AT10RXEY M LAW, MARION, N.C -(')- Will practice in the courts o Wr.t n v.. Ashe, Mil ehell, M oDw lt ami fill other counties in th .ri era iint riot 3rSeeial atten tion givui to the collection of claims, "VS NOTICE. of el Pvojwrty for Sale. On account of falling health of r.'vsclf end wife, I offer fr .:! my hotel property in the town o! Poone. North Carolina, nn! will v.W low tor cash nnd make term o unit the Inner, end will take pp.'il o personal property in ex chance. Anplvsoon. W. L. Pre van. X at ice. For nale. 000 acres of la ml. on Rich Mountain, Watauga County, on which in. asbestos, nnd fin? land fonsheep ranch. Sale." private. L. D. Lowe & I. T. Furgerson, Ex'trs. of Mrs. A. P. Calloway, deed. Banner Elk, Nov. 1? '90 . NOTICE. Parties putting papers in mylinnd for execution will pleise advance the fees with the pa ncrs and they will re ceive prompt attention, other wise they will he returned not executed for the want of foes. D. F. lUmn Shff. CSITF.RSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA. Instruction is offered in four peneral courses of study, six brief courses. large number of special courses, and in law, medicine a n d engineering. The Faculty includes twenty teachers. Scholarships and loan funds are available for needy young men of talent and character. The next ses sion begins Sept. 1 . For ca t alogue with full information, address President Winston, Chapel Hill, N. (J. tmk artxT pmnfiK.i or etc: men r. ICS XI. f2X".TSL'i for L.- Tfit.7 . : o. f rrahjf ?i it taken, fceiid har rriU ;n ptt.rt 'or tu.K uu AfcQVt ill , ft'.d h"W to Jcirt tbvoi. f;Ji Or iVU'DS. fi.5SH7 F. P!?il 5 CO.. HOOXE, WATAlKiA COUNTY. Tblff l't and Tbloj Prrint or th MrmorlM of n Old Man. Cor The Ilemocrut. I hardly know how closely the heart and mind of man a iif con nw ted, hut both ate susceptible, of indeliblt im pressiomi n hicli form pictures deep down in the hidden celU of memory. It seem these cells u re for mel as we grow from infancy to childhood, from childhood to y o v. t h, from youth to manhood and from manhood to old age. This winter will long be re membered as the cold winter of 1802 and X. I call ii an old-fashioned winter, like those of my childhood days. Ah! childhood diys, what a happy gladsome thought and luw it Mtirs up memories i f those happy days days full of hope, joy and ploasureand void ofoa reborrow and trou ble. The two principle pic tures formed by the impres sions of my ehidliood and yonthTuI days and stored in mai(ries' casket, reminds me of the topography of this country and the old pioneprs who first came to this meet ion in its virgin forests, watered by the tiny rivulets, spark ling creeks and flowing riv ers. The forests then were t?mii!g with all kiudsof wild animal, such an bear, deer, wolves, panthers ami many other kinds of small game, and our fore-fat hern found the native red man or Indian h?re, who was lord of all he mrvf.yed, where ere he roam ed. Such was the condition of this, our beautiful coun try, over a century ago. Ah! how little we know of the hardship and privations ot the tirst sellers of this wil derness country. They had to contend with the Indian, the wild beasts, the heavy for ests, and provide shelter and winter quarters by building loghutsjorrabins. They lived by hunting and patch-funning of a very primitive mode or system. By imagination we see the hkrdv pioneers. Nimrod like, armed capapie with flint-lock rifle, toma hawk, butcher knife.'and his indiepensible hunting d o g and attiivd in his huntei's garb"-co.)ii-Kkin cap, red Nouse, leatherbreechf.s moc casin, ete.--plod1ing his wea ry wa over the hil, across the hollows and up themoun tains; through thesnow,rain ir hail, in weather foul or fair to hunt the game ig their lairs. Thus they furnished and replenished their larders. f hen we ee t hem on horse, mule or ox, i iding on a ouck saddle, gun on shoulder, rowing the Blue Ridge into he (iloho'of Juhn's River, where tlieyjj'jy corn, fill t heir mpty'liaga then hie. awav to theii-nvHintain homes, and thus they filled their pantry with bread. Thus lived tne pioneers, or fist setlers, in th lasi quarter of the eigh teenth century. About the year 1780 or '90 a second cIjbs of emigrants came; bought lands along creaks' and rivers for, some times, a horse, cow dog or gun. My grnnd-father, Cut liss Harman, came to this section and bough'the farm on which M. L I). F. and 1). C. Harman now lire, about tne year 17H1, and cotempo rary with him were the old lan lni'irk wtlers, to wit: the Kmrers', Smith's. Councill's. Horton's. Dagger's, MneCn Hixesainl others. They saw ed their plank with n. whip saw and made their nails in th- black-smith shop. The farm products were such as corn, rye, buckwheat, Irih potatoes, cabbage, onions, pumpkins and so on. The farm tools were the hoe, mat took, axe, bull-tongue plow a'n d r ooden mould-board pbwnliar. Even when I was a boy, a common diet was milk and mush for breakfast, soup am cider fordinnerand supper. AH wore the home spun, loom-woven clothing, and we oft n saw boys from six to eight years old in long toe shirts. In those days so ciety manners and customs in neighborhoods were sim ple and unselfish; so much so that a great portion of work wasdone by workings; such as house and barn raisings, log rollings, corn shuck ings, reap ingp, etc. At thoseworkirsgs nil would come to breakfast and at night have an old fashioned social hoodownfrol ic. Neighborship then v-is tioinoneto six tnil long; that, is they would go six or eight miles tohelpeachother. The public welfart, Hebrew lite, was a common heritage which all quite willingly help ed to promote. Bot as the cycle of year roll on changes take place. Man ners and cust onischange, our moral Jl. id social rel uions change, fashion change, com merce, trade and igriv-Jnire change, and great cfmuges have taken place since I was a boy. We place in contrast the hardy yeomanry of fitty or sixty years ago with the present citizenship of this so called progressive age. See the hunter aabove describ ed, coming in with his rich trophies of wild game; see the merry farmer in his'home spun clothes, axe in hand, approach the dense forest to slay the monarch of the hills and valleys, or with ox, mule or horse to a bull-tongue or bar-shear plow, humming or whistling tome favorite love song, cheerful, ha ppy and con tented. As Shakespcar's piny says: "All's well that ends well." Manners, customs, ap parel, fashions and diet were crude and simple but all seem id satisfied. No grumbling of hard times and high tax es that are now laid upon ev erything we make, eat, drink or wear. Yes, I remember when sixty millions of dol lars of dollars run our gov ernment annually, while now it takes hundreds of millions of dollars to run the machine ry of our complicated and ex travagant government. So much fortius progressive age. Pride, vanity, ambition, and coTtou6ties seems now to be the ruling passion. Ev ery one tor self and the d I take the hindmost. In the gojd old days of long ago preachers of the (Jospel (St Paul like) said: " Woe is nieif I preach not the Gospel." X. O, THUHSDAY, Not so now, for it seems us if many of the preachers of this progressive age are seeming l.v :n.ikin tnerchandiseof the wir.rr,. I Mill in, I llf-f f" I. II price ami say to this or that church if 3 on will pay me no much 1 will preach so long for you. Some may kick at this, und if eo, be careful lest you kick againt the pricks, for such is too common to be denied.. Itdoeaseein like if one teeU inspired to preach the Gospel, lie should trust the Lord to prepare a willing people, for, 'T will make my people a willing p.?ople in the days of my power," sayeth the Lord. rih Book says "The Lord loves a cheerful giver." X w, if we be His de ciples indeed, we will cheerful ly and willingly support our preacher in a comfortable and respectable manner. The progressive man of Hr's age may say. oehold our labor-saving machinery, while the women oi yor carded, spun, wove and sewed by hand all the wearing appar el. It is now done by ma chinery, ami while the farm er of o! leu times mowed his meadow with his Dutch scythe and threshed his grain with a hi'-kory flail, we now mow the meadows with horse power and the threshing ma chine rolta out the golden grain. Yes, see ourlabor sa ving machinery, such as cook stoves, knitting, churning, was'iingand sewing machines reapers, threshers, mowers, horse-rakes, etc. Yes, very tru, we now have all kinds of labor-saving machinery, and truly this is a progres sive and fast age, somu 'h so that it produces both good and evil, and seemingly the evil predominates. By steam we plow and sail the mighty deep, stein the flowing river, and bring as it were the Pa cific and Atlantic Oceans as near neighbors. All these lo comoti ves subserve trade and commerce, and by steam and machinery aim "st everything is now made that we wear, and nearly all kinds of farm ing utensils, which is all good an J welcome enough, nd in many respects are great and wonderful blessings to our race in this fast und progres sive age. It is said that every sweet has its bitter, fn like man ner, may we not say that all gocd has its train of evils? If this progressive and invent ive age has produced much good, it has also produced much evil. The progressive man may say show us the great evils. Well, if you are not blind you can see many, very many, yes, most of the young men of to-day either too proud or too lazy to work. Whre will you find a young man now who has split and laid up a thousand rails or cleared ten acres of land? Cun't find him. But, instead, we see them aspire to some ofSce or profession. They say, I must be either a doctor, lawyer, preacher, n gent merchant, statesman, or politician any thing rath er than work while many prefer to swindle, cheat, steal rob, murder, and, above all these evils, stands the great MAHCII, J). IrtM, and oppressive evil ofmonop olists who make combines, trusts, etc. So we see if we nr not wilfully blind. that in this, our day. evil grows u pace with good. In conclusion, I will say that I am not u crank toeon demn progress, noi hii old f gy to oppos "anything new under the sun"' that helps us poor mortals along the path way of life, but I am oppos ed to the many mid great evils that grow out of, and attend this progressive age. Ohskrveh. WASHINGTON L 1 : T T ER. From our Bejjular Corresponded. " President Cleveland," said a democratic Senator who was opposed to Mr. Cleve land's nomination, and who is for that reason called by those who know no better an anti-Cleveland man, "never did a wisei thing than when he smashed precedent, which tit times biudsusall too close ly.and announced hiscabinet in advance of his inaugura tion. That must now be ev ident to even the most care less observer of things politi cal, as reflected in Congress. Th opposition which invari. ably follows the announce ment of a new cabinet has been given limotowork itself out, and the resale will be that tb new a'lmmi'd ration will start out with ih party which placed it in power m an unusually harmoniouscon rfition, and although there will be quite a number of indi vidual disappointments as the distribution of patronage proceeds, I seenothingahead that leads me to believe that this harmony will be serious ly disturbed during Mr. 'leve land's administration." This Senator declines tc allow the use of his name, because he has no desire to be accused of giving President Cleveland 'taffy," or of having his words construed into a bid for public pap. l lit; tut iin oiit'ii v. f j waiian annexation treaty i , now considered doubtful, ?k doubtful that Mr. Hariison's friends in the Senate are a fraid to have it voted upon, lest it be rejected. The dem ocrats, while not all opposed to annexation, are almoit to u man opposed to mtify ing this treaty at this time. Senator Morgan of Alabama, ii the only democratic Sena tor who has made a speech in favor of immediate annex ation, and his duties as one of the Rehring Sea arbitra tors havecalled him to Paris. It is the general belief that no vote will be taken upon the treaty at this session. In that case President Cleve land may withdraw the trea ty and direct that a new one be negotiated, if helavors an nexation, or he may send a message to the Senate recom mending the ratification of the present treaty, if itmoets his approval. If Mr. Cleve land wishes it the treaty will be acted upon by the Senate when it meets in extra ses sion to act upon his nomina tions eb A light is now on in the House, the result of which NO. 25. may be to force an early ex tra session of Congress. It is being waged by the silver men against tU Sherman bond nmendmentto the Sun dry Civil bill, which thesilrer men aiedetermined to defeat by flllibustei ingor any other means at their disposal. If they suoceed'an extra session will hae to be called. Secretary Foster admitted totke House Ways and Means committee, before which he appeared Saturday, that his recent estimates of Treasury receipt for the coining fiscal year were already proven to have been too high, and that his estimates ot expenditures were at least $3,000,000 too low, and that henow regards a deficit for the fiscal year be ginning July 1, 1891, as a certainty, unless meaDS are devised to raise additional money, either by taxation or the issue of bonds. His esti mates are, of course, based upon the present tariff laws, which it is needless to say will be considerably changed be fore July 1, 1891, unless the democratic administration and Congress undergo agrent changeof mind on thesubject, which is not probable. Mr. Harrison is now willing that bonds shall be issued to increase the gold balance in the Treasury, provided that Secretary Carlisle will apeum the responsibility by request ing Secfftar.y Foster to issue them. The bond have been engraved and en bs if sued at. a day's notice, bat there is no probability that Secre tary Carlisle wiil take any such responsibility before he becomes Secretary of the Treasury, and the making of such a suggestion by Mr. Harrison was nothing more nor less than pleading the baby act. Prominent among the bills that will remain unacted up on at the close of thesession will be the Nicaragua Canal bill. A .,raa 1tU.r' AM uu .Jim?;!',:' ;V,. v.- r .nijeb-.Mi v'e grandmother h bequeathed to her decen d.Oitu t !i se admirable rules .? conduct : One ir. Alway look at the pei non you apeak to. When you m r addressed look straight at the person who speaks to y;u. Another is Speak your words plainly; do not mut ter or mumble. V words are worth saying they are worth pronouncing distinctly and clearly. A third is Do not say dis agreeable things. If y o u have nothing pleasant to say, keep silent. A fourth is -Think three times before you speak once. Have you something to do tluit you find hard and would prefer not to do? Then lis ten to a wise old grandmoth er. Do the hard things first and got over with it. If you have done wrong go and con fess it. If your lesson is hard master it. If the garden ia to be weeded, weed it first and play afterwards. Do the thing that you do not like to do first, and then, with a clear conscience try tne lest.
Watauga Democrat (Boone, N.C.)
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