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KHXK WATAUGA COUNTY, X. C, TlilJllSDAY. SKPTEMUEK 14,
NO. 51.
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PROFESSIONAL.
U.C0UNC1LL, Jit.
Attok.v:y at La .v.
Boone, N. C.
W. U.COFNCILL. M. I).
Boone, X. C.
Resident Physician. Otfiec
on King Street north of Post
Office.
Dlt. L. C. REEVES.
Physician axij SruoEox
Office at Residence.
Boone, N. C.
L. D. LOWE,
Attorney at Law
AND
notary public,
banner's elk, x. c.
J. FJICUHIKW,
A1WRNEYA1 LAW,
VIAH10N, N.C
-(o)-
Will practice in the courts o
WHtauga.AHhe.NIitchcIl, Mellow
U hikI nil other eom ties in the
.extern lint l ift wETSp.'cinl til ten
tkmiovrn to the collection of
H.iiniH.
Dr. J. t Batlor. Ir. T. C. Bi 'kbiirn.
Tids, Teua. Zioio illi' X. C.
Butler & Blackburn,
Physicians & Surgeons,
prdilk nttrmh'd at all
June 1, '1)3.
E. F. LOV1LL. i. C FLETCHEK.
LOVILL & FLETCHER,
ATlORNbA'S AT LAW,
BOONE, N. C.
W Special attention given
to the collet ion otclaiuis.-GA
L. L. GKEKNE, fc CO.,
REAL ESTATE AG'TS.
UOONE, N. 6.
Will o-iv-wnwinl attention
to abstracts of title, the sal
of Heal Estate in W. N. C.
Those he vino: farms, timber
and mineral lands for sale,
will do well to call on sa id Co.
at Boone.
L. L. GREK & CO.
March 16, 1893.
NOTICE.
Hotel Property for Sale.
On account of failing health
of myself and wife, I offer for sale
my hotel projertv in the town ot
Boone, North Caroliuo, and will
411 low for cash and make terms
o suit the buyer, and will tske.
real or jwsonal property in ex
change. Apply soon.
W. L. Bryan.
Notice.
For Mile. 900 acres of land,
on Rich Mountain, Watauga
County, on which is asbestos,
find fine land for sheep ranch.
Rales nrivate. L D. Lowe &
I. T. Furgerson, Ex'trs. of
Mrs. A. F. Calloway, deed
Banner Elk, Nov. 1. '90..
NOTICE.
Forties putting papers in
my hand for execution will
pleise advance the fees with
the nauers and they will re-
cei ve prom pt attention , other
wise they win be returnee
not executed for the want of
tees. D. F. Baihd Shff.
feROWN'S IRON BITTERS
cures Dyspepsia, In
digos t ion & Debility.
The Change Tim it Bringing.
Italtiinore Sun.
The present ac1 sees the
play of the great forces that
ate silently altering the for
tune of individuals and na
tions throughout the civil-
izi globe. The invention
of science, stimulated by in
crcusui facilities for educa
tion ami by thelurge reward
of modern manufacturing in
dustry have vitalised the
long dormant factor of geo
graphic discovery. Colum
bus, in disclosing the popula
tions of Europe's wast conti
nents rich in soil and miner
als struck the first blow fit
the oh order of things. The
political, social and econom
ic condition of Europe has
been profoundly modified by
the results of human effort
in a new world, free from tta
ditions, burdens and necessi
ties of natiot s having long
histories. But cause and ef
fect moved slowly for three
hundred years after the dis
covery of this continent. The
wealth gained in Central and
South America early enabled
Spain to piny for a time a
larger part in European af
fairs, but not till about 1792
can the Americans be said to
have begun to unsettle Euro-
pean politics, or otherwise in
Alien ee greatly the life and
condition of the peop'e of Eu
rope. The United Stales with
irs disturbii g example of free
government, rich natural re
sources and bounding pros
perity, were, at that, time,
like other American countries
far from Europe. The bread' h
and danger of the Atlantic
discouraged emigration, and
Europe, in view of its means
of transportation, needed a
new discovery of this conti
nent. This came with the devel
opment of the modern fast
ocean steamers, the railroad,
the telegraph and the subma
nne cable. All the continents
were in effect through these
Inventions made close neigh
bors and a new age, with its
own forces, began to exhibit
its revolutionary tendencies
in every line of action. Com
petition now does its work
with rapidity, whereas fifty
years ago weeks and months
were required toconsummate
commercial transactions. Re
gionsotthe world enjoying
certain advantages havebad
these advantages swept from
them. The agriculture of Wes
tern Europe, for exam pie, has
been trade unprofitable by
the competition of American
grain and meat grown upon
a virgin soil. The cheapen
ing of transportation by rail
fias set up a competition be
tween the ngriculturalistsof
the Western a u d Eastern
States of the Union, almost
to the ruin of the latter. By
cheapening theimplementsof
agriculture, science has fur
ther increased its product,
but at the same time reduced
its price. Wheat, corn and
cotton now sell at prices that
were a few years ago thought
impossible. The same may
be said of manufacturers. Our
t a r i ff keeps many ai tides
much higher than they are
abroad, but eyen here, im
proved machinery, better pro
cesses and cheapened trans
portations have worked won
ders. .Silver, iron steel, etc..
have fallen greatly in price
owing to our increased met
allurgical wisdom.
Labor-saving machinery has
kept its promise, or more
than kept it. It has raised
wages and at the aame time
ho cheapened manufactures
that n profit is made on sales
at a fraction of the prices of
twenty years ago. The fall
of price has been still further
forced by the opening up of
new aonrces of agricultural
production. The cot ton fam
ine during our civil warcnus
ed Egypt to give increased
attention to the growth of
our staple, and its growth
has been since extended in In
dia and elsewhere. Ws no ion
ger have n monopoly of cot
ton, and our excessive pro
duction has been followed by
an almost ruinous fall of
price. The building of rail
roads in India, South Africa.
Australia, Canada and Rus
sia has added to the number
of our competitors. Our po
sition is altered. The soil of
these countries compete with
ours in the production of
grain, meat, wool and cot
ton. Russia petroleum and
Australia silver force down
t ho prices of American petro
leum and silver. In view of
these facts it is clc.tr t ha ton-
Iv by prudence in production
and a just relief from tariff
taxation can our farming in
terest maintain its former
prosperity. In proprtion as
Africa is nearer to Western
Europe than are Ameri?a,
Asia or Australia, competi
tion will, it is to ba feu red,
become intenser when the
fresh soils of Central Africa
and Madagascar begin to
pour their products upon the
world's market. The future
promises a sustained strug
gle for which we ought to pre
pare.
Why Buried With Heed te'the West.
Globe Democrat.
All Christian nations, I be
lieve, bury their dead with
the head to the west. There
is a "why" for this, just as
there is for every known cus
tom. As far as I have been
able to ascertain after on ex
haustive search of all threa
ding authorities, our present
customs in the burial modes
originated in primitive times
when the people bclieval in
corporal resurrection. They
had an idea that inasmuch
as the star that heralded
Ghrist'acoming first appeal
ed intheeast.Tudgmentday'
would be ushered in with the
Lord's appearance in the
same direction and that when
rising they would be facing
Him whose mission will be
that of sounding thedoom of
all earthly things.
It Nerer Paje.
It never pays to run in debt
for luxuries.
To cherish a fault-finding
spirit.
To sturve the soul to feed
the body.
To marry for money or so
cial position.
To do wrong with the hope
that good may come.
To rob the stomach to put
fine clotheson the back. Ex.
VOTOm doth, i pnys for th,'"S l,?' '
Peiuvcnit ow y:u Ssi'ay yu'ar Bubntion.
Tee Ta mar j Mittert.
Observer-Chronii h .
Thej seem to begetting
somewhat stirred upat Wash;
ington coiu-erning currency :
matters, and nit? considering
plans that ought to haw:
beeii adopted immediate! von
the meeting of Congress, n
month ago. We have lately
referred to the proposition to!
Kubutitute silver certificates
for small bank notes, etc.;
and h'.so to the proposition
to have State banks of issue
with circulation furnished hv
the general government.
The Baltimore s :i in addi
tion says that the first finan
cial legislation to pass th
House will probably b Mr.
Carlisle's proposed measure
to coin some of the.silver bull
ion bought under the Shr
man act. There is enough of
that silver not represent el
by notes to coin f 50,000,000.
And it is proposed to coin
that at once, and thereby in
crease the resources of the
treasury by that amount.
All of tha silver purchaved
under the Hland bill has al
ready been coined nivl the
government lias irtad about
fi.'.d. '.'). !)(); i i t hai t.!M;u--
ion. By its du!in:
the r: henna n law, it
!ias ap-
patently also gained about
$,"0,000,000, Htid ths govern
1 i
meat is now driven to thene-
jwsity of using the profit. In
deed were it not. for that part
of our current' ' which is bus
ed on silver, where would the
countiy now be?
But without going into the
silver question, it is appa
rent that the government
needs to turn quickly oneway
or another t3 saveitself from
serious embarrassment, One
thing is quite certain, no new
bonds will he issued.
A Mother' Argnment.
'"The most-to-be-regretted
act of my life,;' says alieuten
ant commander in the navy,
"was a letter which I wrote
home to my mother when a
bout seventeen years of age.
She always addressed her let
ters to me na "My dear boy.'
I felt at that time I was a
man or very near it, and
wrote saying that her con
stant addressing m e n s a
"bo " jiade me feel displeas
ed. "I received a letter fuH of
reproaches and tears. A
inong other things she said:
"You might grow to be as big
as (Joliath, nsstrongas Sam
son, and as wise us Solomon;
you might become ruler of a
nation, or emperor of many
nations, and the w orld might
revere you and fear you, but
to your devoted mother you
wou'd nppearin memory, in
your innocent, unpretentious
unselfconceited, unpampered
babyhood. In those days,
whea l washed and dressed
and kissed and worshipped
you, you were my idol. Now
adays you are becoming part
of a gross world, by contact
with it, and i cannot bow
down to you and worship
you. But if there is manhood
and maternal love transmit
ted to you, you will under
stand lint the highest com
pliment that mother love
ma pay y ",u is to ca'l you
Hiitoric Sport Shot.
dizain-Hi City Fideon.
The record of the present
se.mm in sporting at Na
Head and its unprecedented
aurces recalls the authentic
legends of shots and shoot-
ling festivals in ths Alber
marie section, which are pre
served in living memory or
handed down by reliable tra
dition. The first gun that
win ever fired in America at
birjs b a white man of the
Anglo Saxon race was fired
on Jloanok Lhnd in 1."S4
by one of th. first discover
ers. The gnu was hu arque
bus, a gun with a wheel fire
lock, the Ji)ot improved fire
arm at that period. It was
slow but sure. The first gun
ner shot into a flock of sea
gulls which he took for w hite
crows, and killed twenty ata
shot, and he considered the
shot of imporlauceonough to
wrte home to England about
it. Tha t is historical.
The nxt is vcliubh tradi
tion. In the wilder of 1 S 1 -
Jo.-ua 'rceey,
p'Oei:'. '. i;i"
our b'!:vi
" i 1
a
i'ui r-lc Sound,
oye''
a::.
id 1
d 12o
wiM
n.i
d;,i kii a I oh sin-v, hv V f ;
!: ;au: in the wii! ':;
l.u:; .vera Di-'i.i:;!u:"tl's Poir;4
laud Bail h to-avj.. The div-ks
'crowded into the hole for wa-iev
iter.
j In the tall of the same year
tyi.o, there was a wager of a
barbacue, bctwen some, citi
zens of Ederiton and the far
mers of the county of Chow
an for a competitive squirrel
hunt, the little rodents being
very numerous and destruc
tive to crops. The hunting
party consisted oLten men,
five on each side, five citizens
and five countrymen. Dr.
James Norcom, of Edenton,
was captain of the Edentoni
ans, and Joshua S. Creecy
was captain of the county par
ty. Each hunter was allowed
two guns and an attendant,
the attendant to load and
look out, who carried a no
tice whistle. The squirrels
were to be scalped and the
scalps produced as proofs.
Captain Creecy hunted in the
Drnmmond's Point woods,
below Summerset and (Ireen
lield, andat night he had
killed 118 squirrels, of which
he had bagged the scalps.
Captain Norcum killed 101
sqirrels, of which he had the
scalps. Ho hunted in t h e
"Four and Twenty Necks."
between Bluff Point and San
dy point. The killing of vheir
associates rangnl under a
hundred ea li.
The next shot within living
memory was on Boanoke Is
land in 1H23, on Bain's Point
where I mvoclf I. killed 28
seagulls.
The next sport was last win
ter, in February, when the
club men at Palmer Island
Club killed 800 ducks in one
week's shooting.
Landmark: The platform
is rational in each of its hide
pendent clauses and harmo
nious as a whole. We are not
of those who believe that it
cannot, be executed in its en
tirety. It can and
no doubt it will.
we
have
! "5.VKH fr'dn rrurwiuk . t ju. uel old c. (t
.' Jifcvrs's !ro iiitiers k. ,
Where th Xonf 1.
Charlotte ( lltwrwr.
People are clamoring for
sjthe isue of more mouey. We:
have about 40 per cent;
more money than England,
more than any other country
except France and the output
is increasing all the t i iu e.
Where is it? Tlie Observer
has recived from a friend iri
Iredell a letter under date o!
the 31 st of August which sui
tains our theory about where
it is, and although the letter
is private we take the liberty
oi using a part of it, as fol
lows: "You are entirely correct
(in your issue of this dale)
referring to the Treasury De
partment and bank paying
gold. It is simply that a
mount withdrawn from circu
lation. I could i' a me in this
vicinity s c o r e s of persons
(whom you know) who are
now every day converting
nibvr currency a n d eve ri
property into gold, soni of
whom refused to pay debts,
loan:-; or interest, f am quite
i ..vcrc'rbo:'e;suie that t here is more money
I in Iredell county to-day than
! i!
I here ti 'J e i! p
1 weal y
d-llio?;.
s'or-
th
in
for in gold
si.i
will iner-VLK.
And this is what has bo-
come of the money . In the'
cities it is in the banks and
safety deposit vaults and in
the country it is hid in stock
ings, kitchen clocks and straw
mattresses. It i of all kinds,
but in all ages the money for
hoarding has been gold when
ever any suspicion has been
cast upon the currency, and
as our friend writes, if t h e
crop surplus is paid for in
gold the stringency will in
creasethat is, he of course
means to say, unless coufi-
nenco is in the mean time re
stored.
Observer-Chronicle: Anent
the deficiency in the govern
ment revenues we observe the
suggestion that economy in
appropriations will net suf
fice to meet thedifflculty;but
that one of he three alterna
tives must be adopted. The
first of there suggested, and
it is so far the Uppermost
thought in some quarter)
that it is made to do dutyas
a general panacea for each
government ill that rises to"
the surface, is a new issue of
gold bonds. The second is an
income tax or some other
new tax, and the third is an
increase in the rate of taxa
tion. Charlotte Observer: People
who voted for Mr. Cleveland
in the face of his Cooper Un
ion letter to Ellery E. Ander
son, and of his all the time
record on the currency ques
tion, and who are now op
posed to the free coinage of
silver at a ratio of 1 6 to 1
well it would not be civil to
say that these people ought
to have their heads bored,
but they should do some
thing for quickening of t heir
understanding. Those who
feel that free silver is the on
ly thing that ivill keep the
countiy from going to the
devil should never have vo
ted for Mr. Cleveland at alb
"or he bis al! t ! whiie givon
V ii ;1 ,hrM.ood tli,;t if
UOi. tUo iiV-a uboUt. it.