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Don't
Exchange good thing for .omelhing
of In. Tln.
Don't
Give np one Insurance policy and
take .notber. Alway. remember that
an old pol icy is of far greet er iatrinsic
value than new one.
Don't
Let the premium on your policy
lapse even for a day. You can't
foresee the event, of to-morrow. It
may not be possible for you to get
another policy if the present one is
dropped.
Don't
Consider any other form of insurance
until you have thoroughly investi
gated the plan and policies of the
EQUITABLE LIFE. You will per
cetve their advantages at once.
W. J. RODDEY, Manager,
For the Carolina. Rock Hill, S. C.
PROFESSIONAL.
W. B.C0UNC1LL, Jk.
Attorn ky at Lav.
Boone, N. C.
W. B. COUNCILL, M. I).
Boone, N. C.
Resident Physician. Office
on King Street north of Post
Office.
J. H0HP1IKW,
ATIORXEY Al LAW,
MARION'. ---N.C
-(o)-
Will practice in the courts ol
Watauga, Ashe, Mitchell, McDow
ell and all other counties in the
.vesteni iistrict ..85 Special ntten
tion given to the collection ol
claims, "Wi
r. J. t Butler. Dr. T. C. Blackburn.
Trade, Tenn. Ziouvillc, S. C.
Butler & Blackburn,
Physicians & Surgeons.
e&Ca Us Attended at all
hours.&
June 193.
E. F. LOVILL. J. C. FLETCHER.
OViLL & FLETGHER,
ATlORNhYSATLAW,
BOONE, N. :.
V3 Special attention given
to lite eolletiou of claims. i8
L. L. GREENE, & CO.,
REAL ESTATE AG'TS.
ttOOXh.N.t.
Will give special attention
to abstracts of title, the sale
of Real Estate in W. N. C.
Those he vino; farms, timber
and mineral lands for sale,
will do well to call on said Co.
lit Boone.
L. L. GREES & CO.
March 16, 1893.
NOTICE. " r
Hotel Property for Sale.
On account of failing health
of myself and wife, I otfer for sale
my hotel property in the town of
Boone, North Carolina, and will
lell low for cash and make terms
to suit the buyer, and will take
real or personal property in ex
change. Apply soon.
W. L. Bryan.
NO 1 ICE.
Parties putting papers in
my hand for execution will
please advance the fees with
the papers and they will re
cei ve prom pt a ttention , other
wise they will be returned
not executed for the want of
tees. D. F. Baird Shff.
IIOOXE, WATAUGA COUNTV,
'WASHINGTON LETTER.
From oar Regular Correspondent.
Senators Jones, of Arkan
sas; Vest, of Misouri, and
Mills, of Texas, the three
good Den o'-ruts charged with
the iinortant duty of pre
paring the amendments to
(the Wi'son tariff bill whNi
jure to be committed to the
Senate Finance committee.
have proven themselves
giant and earned the grati
tude of the country, which
wants the tariff disposed of
at the earliest possible mom
ent, by completing their
work, and ns the other Dem
ocratic members of the Fi
nance con mi t tee have kept
in touch with them in their
work it is altogether prooa
blethat the amendments re
ported by them will all be
adopted by the committee
;nd that the Wilson bill will
be before the Senate before
the close of this week. This
brecks the record in commit
tee work on tariff bills and is
highly creditable to the nun
who did it, but there is an
other thingthat iseven more
creditable to them. The bill
they have reported will be
supported by every Demo
era tic Senator. The propos
ed amendments have not
!een made public, but they
are nil in one direction that
of increasing the ie venue
which the new tariff II pro
duce. , There are reasons for
the belief that among the
proposed amendments area
duty on coal, and on sugar,
both raw and refined. The
sub committee in a d e no
'h.inge in the income tax. On
one of the principal reasons
for largely increasing the
revenue features of the tariff
bill is that the Democratic
Senators are opposed to any
farther issue of bonds and
propose to place the Treas
ury in such a condition that
no more will be needed.
Hud the House not ad
journed Sa turday on account
of the sudden death of Repre
sentative Houk. of Ohio, who
nr;pped dead Friday after
noon while visiting a friend,
it is probable that Represent
ative Bland's bill for the coin
age of the seigniorage in the
Treasury would have passed
today. That it will pass
early this week is the general
expectation. There is mu-'h
talk about the bill being ve
toed by President Cleveland,
but it is admitted by those
who say they expect it to be
vetoed that their expecta
tions are not based upon any
information they haye re
ceived from the President.
There is also some talk a
bout submitting the bill to a
Democratic caucus u nd that
may yet be done; not for the
purpose ofendoising it but
fort ho purpose of so chang
ing it as to avoid the danger
of a veto.
Senator Morgan, of Ala
bama, who is chairman of
the Senate committee on
Foreign Relations, was at
the time the annexation
treaty was negotiated with
the Representatives of the
provisional government, of
Hawaii strongly in favor of
annexation, tor that rea
son it has been feared that
he might not agree with his
Democratic colleagues Sen
ators (Jray and Butler On
the snb-?omniittee which has
ben making the investiga
tion, ns to the nature of the
report to be made on the evi
dent taken by the nib com
mittee. I have just learned
from a trustworthy source
that those fears are entirely
groundless, us the three Sen
ators named are in accord
and will nil sign the majority
reftort. The investigation
is closed but the report may
rot be made tnf the Senate
until after the tariff bill is
passed,
I'he remains of the late Re
presentative Houk, wrenr.
companiel to Ohio by a
joint Congressional commit
tee composed of the f illovv
ii'g: Representatives Hare,
Springer, Bryan, Hulick, Me
Kuig, Ellis, of Oregon, and
Ritchie, and Senators Brice,
Sherman Dubios, Hunton,
Martin and Allen. Mr. Huok
was much liked and the unex
pected manner in which he
died, while apparently in the
best of health, has caused
great sorrow among his col
leagues and friends.
The House committee on
the Judiciary does not take
any stoek in either the beau
ties or benefits of woman's
suffrage, as was shown by its
prompt action in making an
unfavorable report on tne re
solution' of Representative
Bell, of Colorado, providing
for a woman's suffrage a
mendinents to the Constitu
tion. At an enthusiastic meeting
of the Democratic Congres
sional campaign committee
Senator Faulkner, of West
Virginia, was unanimously
elected chairman and Law
rence Gardner and James L.
Norris, of Washington, Sec
retary and Treasurer, re
spectively. Next week there
is to be a joint meeting of
tins committee and the exec
utive committee of the Na
tional Association of Demo
cratic Clubs, for the purpi se
of arranging the campaign
work of this year.
The House Naval commit
tee has reported Adversely
the tesolution asking for an
investigation of the granting
of speed premiums toth j con
structors of naval vessels.
The repoit "xonerutes our
nuxnl officers and holds up
to public scorn I. Hale Sy
pher, ex-Congressman und
ex-carpet-bagger of La., and
at present a lobyist (a ndsome
say something a shade or
two blacker, who, the report
sas instigated the charge
for his own purpose which it
broadly intimates was to be
bought off by the ship build
ers. Yadkin Valley News: The
man who dreams that the
Democrats of Surry county
are going to desert their par
ty at this juncture will wake
up in November and find
that he allowed himself to be
wofully deceived. They' are
not reeds, to be shaken by
every wind, but stroug and
sturdy men, loyal to their
conviction. They are intelli
gent and know the Demo
cratic party has had no more
to do with bringing hard
times on the country than it
has with causing the sun to
shine or the rain to fall.
N. C, niUKSDAY,
W1LS05 BILL 131 SENATE.
The subcommittee of the
committee on finance, con
sist of .Messrs, Jones, of Ar
kansas, Mills mil Vest.
Sinking of the bill gener
ally a Senator declared that
when the measure was report
ed to the Senate it would be
a strictly revenue bill, yield
ing satisfactory revenues for
the government under an
economical administration
of nfiairs. 'I his, he s a i d,
meant that there would be a
duty on Migar, which was in
line with the Democratic pol
icy as enunciated in the Mills
bill, and an increase in the
whiskey tax.
The bill has been practical
ly divided into five sections
or schedules A, B, C, D, and
E. In the first schedule will
be placed all articles beating
compound or c o m b i n e d
specific and ail valorem duty
and the reinainingd ities will
be all ad valorem. In sched
ule B, will be placed an artic
le bearing a duty of 40 per
cent; in schedule C. those
bearing 30 per cent; in sched
ule D. those bearing 20 per
cent; und in schedule, E those
bearing 10 per cent.
The bill when repotted will
contain no free list. Every
article mentioned in it will be
subject to a duty of some
kind and those not named in
the bill will be admitted free
of duty. The sub-committee
are going carefully through
the Wilson bill and selecting
the largely imported articles.
As these articles are picked
out they aie placed in the
schedule which, in the judge
ment of the committee, will
cause them to yield the great
est revenue.
Our point appears very
clearly as a result of the sub
commit tee's labors up to this
point, and that is that the
tur iff bill when they will pres
ent to their Democratic as
sociates on the finance com
mittee for approval will hear
very slight resemblance to
the original Wilson bill. The
reason for the extensive
changes i n contemplation
and already made, it is to be
found in the decision of the
three sub-corn mitteeiien to
be governed by the plan of
old Walker tariff act, and so
place the duties as to secure
the largest amount of reven
ue which involves, of course
reductions in some cases, in
creases perhaps in others,
and a very rest l ie tei free list,
if indeed any. Articles enter
ing largely into consumption
are permitted to enter duty
free.
Capture of a Fishing1 Froy.
A curious denizen of the
deep, captured by Landlord!
Stephen D. Barnes and his
men while fishing in the Kill
von Kull, has been on exhib
ition at Bergen Point, N. J.
Its mouth is nearly as wide
as the head, which is very
broad. Its body is narrow
compared with the head, and
tapers gradually to the tail.
It is an inhabitant of the bot
torn of the sen, where it bur
rows in the mud. It is sup
posed to entice smaller fishes
within reach of its great jaws
by means ol t Wo long and tu
seled tentacles, which it slow
ly waves to and fro. From
FEMlUAllY 22. 18D4, SO. ?
this belief the monster Is
known ni the "angler," ci
' fishing frog." San Francis
co Chronicle.
ftouae Sease l or blrls.
.New York Sun.
We all know the girl' who
writes: "I want to e rn to
the city and earn my living;
what chance have I?" She
writes us from Timbuetoo
and from the country town
where we usev to live our
selves. She can do '"most
anything, y o u know' to
em u money, from painting a
plaque to writing editorials
on the excentricies of I It -tariff,
and the town where
she was born aim brought up
in, where everybody calls her
by herfirst nauieund likes her.
where she has a sunny little
room alll to herself and a new
gown whenever she cries for
it, won't hold her any long
er. Now here is ntiunswei to
that girl that a woman wrote
who -knew what she was
talking about. There should
be y special act of Congress
passed providing that this
letter should be printed, fram
ed and hung in every coun
try school house, every vil
lage seminary, every small
city high school. The wom
an's name is Martha Everts
Holden, and the ambitious
girl of whom she writes had
written to her:
"I felt like posting an im
mediate answer and saying
'Stay w here you are.' I didn't
do it though, for I knew it
would be useless. The girl is
bound to come and come she
will. And she will drift into
n third-rate boarding house,
than which if there is any
thing meaner hit us pray.
And if she is pretty she will
have to carry herself on high
hills to u void contamination.
If she is confiding and inno
cent the fate of t'lat highly
persecuted heroine of old
fashioned romance, Clarissa
llarlowe, is before you. If she
is homely the doors of oppor
tunity are firmly closed a
gainst her. If she is smart
she will perhaps succeed in
earning enough money to
pay her board bill and have
sufficient left over to indulge
in the maddening extrava
gance of an occasional paper
of pins or ball of tape. What
if, after hard labor an 1 re
peated lailure, she does se
cure something like success?
No sooner will she do so than
up will step some d tipper
youth who will beckon h e r
over the border into the land
where troubles just begin.
She won't know how to sew
or bake or make good coffee,
for su?h arts are liable to be
overlooked when a gii I makes
a career for herself; and so
love will gallop away over
the hills like the riderl?sfc
steed and happiness will
flare like a light in a windy
night.
u0h! no, my little country
maid, stay where you are if
you have a horneand friends.
Be content with fishing for
trout in the brook rather
than cruising a stormy ocean
for whales. A great city is a
cruel place for young lives. It
tskes them as a cider press
takes juicy apples, sun-kissed
and flavored with the breath
a
of the hill ai d crushes them
into puip. There is a spoon
ful of juice to each apple, but
cider is cheap. The girl of
whose success you rend is
nine cases out of tea the girl
with a friend at court who
gives her the oppoi tur.ity to
show what, she can do. With
out such a friend the path of
the lone girl in a great city
is a briarj , uphill track."
The Flrit Queetlon in Hearen.
God nils the earth and the
heavens with grandinoth; rs.
We must some iy, u;j :..!
thank those dear old ..u!s,
writes the Rev. T. I),- Witt
Tahnage in the February La.
dies' Home Journal Surely
God will let us go up and teil
them of the results of their in
fluence. Among our first (pies
ttons in Heaven will bs where
is grandmother? They will
point her out, for we would
hardly know her even if we
had seen heroneartli,8obent
over with years once, a n d
now so straight, so dim of
eye through the blinding of
earthly tears, and nov her
eye as clear as Ilea ven, so full
of aches and pains once, nnd
now so agile with celestial
health, the wrinkles bloom
ing blooming into cara na
tion ro.ses, and her step like
the roe on the mountains.
Yes, I must see her, my grand
mother on my father's side,
Mary McCoy, descendant of
the Scotch. When I fi r s t
spoke to on audience inGlus
go, Scotland, I felt somewhat
diffident, being a stranger. I
began to tell them that my
grandmother was a Scotc'i
woman, and there went up n
shout of welcome which made
me feel as easy as I do here
sitting in my chair writing
for the Journal. You must
see those women of the early
nineteenth century and the
eighteenth century, the an
swer ot whose nrnvers is in
your welfare- today.
God blei;g all the aged wo
men up and down the land !
Morning, noon and night let
us thank God for our moth
ers and grandmothers.
CherokeeSkout: Thtrecame
into this vicinity a few weeks
since a tramp clock tinker.
He was rather shabbily dress
ed, but a genial fellow, and
went to the different houses
on the waters of Hangingdog
and wanted to repair their
elt .cks for almost a song. He
worked himselt into the good
graces of those honest, and
unsuspecting people, partook
of their hospitality, drank
buttermilk and nte s.n.et
kraut, and lived like home
folks. He had to have a lit
tle moonshine whiskey for
his health, and that was ea
sy to come at. Finally he de
parted, to the i?gret of his
newly made friends. Later on
there were four mounted men
who rode into our midst.
They had no plot, made no
inquiry, but headed toward
the illicit distilleries in a few
miles of our town. Strange it
was that these men could go
directly to the remote places
of business, but the mystery
was explained when thoclock
tinker headed the posse.
$IOne dodai pays for the
Dem ocra t one yvi r.
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