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Wise
Hen
profit ly tV t!rkr.ce cf
others. Ti i; an objtct
les-on ill V,.-: h:.tfug letter
fur these, who hesitate to in
vest in life i:vv.:M!icc.
Gi:f :rsvi;X5, ft. C, Vtsr. 2S. IstO.
Mr. W. J. HotiDKT, Itm-it !i;c, K. C:
Iw.rs'.r:- , -.r fnv.r 1 C.. 2l.t. en-
r!o'i. .i:r rt!;-y I i a h'-eri r-t.fej,
piO 1 v Vi. r-U(! I r.rMiT: r.-i r.v. i f
MH!r.U'it .i c:t ir.-. I ? m v.-r- t-ni!
!o..t.i'U nit.i tin. r !ii!ii -f inv ..im.t
,iut.t '.tiilsn Mud lit", or kImiw- me.
I ours Half, K. I'. It'll
This i:i but or. 2 Liter of
thousand.; tint cau ie:'iu.vu,
all express; as tli.- same satL
faction. Write and et r.n
explanation of the Ton tin..; '
Policy of the
Equitable Life,
a policy that insures you
against misfortune; protects
you in oM age; provides for
your family at your death.
W. J. RODDEY, Manager,
For the Crollna. Pork Hill. 5. C.
I'llOiKSSIUXAL.
W. H.-C0l;N(?lLL,.In.
Attokn'cy at La. v.
Uoone, N. C.
W. 15. COUXCILL, M. D.
Uoone, N. C.
Resident rhysicinn. O'rise
im Iviny .Street north of Post
Office.
j. V IMPIIHW,
AllOILXEYAl LAW,
MARION, N.C
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Vi'iil practice in the courts ul
Wrttaut, Ash,', Mitchell, McDow
ell ami all )t!ier counties in the
western (list i-'u t S'SSpccial atten
tion "iven to the coiicctiju ot
claini."
?. B. Councill M. I). T. C. BlaifcbuiY..
D 00 11c, C. Ziouvillo, X. C.
Council! Sc Blackton,
eCa lis attended at all
June 1, 'Oil.
E. F. LOVILL. J. C. FLKTUHEU.
lovill h mm
f
ATI ORNI'j YS A T LAW,
F.UONE, N. c.
SxS'Spcc'ml attention given
to the colletion ofekiiuLs."&&
L.L. GllEENK,&CO.,
REAL ESTATEAG'TS.
HOOXL,N. C.
Will give special attention
to ul)straets of title, the sale
of Heal Estate in W. N. V.
Those hi?vins: farms, tiniher
nnd mineial lands for saje,
will do well to cull on si1 id Co.
at Boone.
grei:. &co.
Uairh lt, la3.
NOTICE.
Hotel Property ioi Sale.
On account of failing health
of myself and wife, I otTer for tale
mj' hotel propert y in the town of
Boone, North Carolina, and will
oll low for cash and make terms
to euit the buyer, and will take
real or personal property in ex
Hiang'e. Apply soon.
W. L. Hkyan.
Parties puttiugc papers in
my hand for execution will
pfeise advance the with
the .papers and they will re
ceive prompt attention, other
wise they will be returned
not executed for the want of
tees. D. F. Baikd Suff.
LETTEU.j
Frcii cir V. -- C-jTifficeUc!.
Thei o s nothing like pje
Hhting a united front to tin
(!;., y fur convincing them
Washington
lh.it t'..:i.i'.H h m.-aiit. ""t t xi-t , but tuvrnj.'
NiiiH'jjt t.mv pict-nts a J v iit'ij nil 11 t-i-til out Id a'
.sti ii;m; cui finn;itiun t f tlii h.i.!Mi any lisiuby uribt i y
aMitiuii. J 11,-t as Hiun ii-jt'i'.v s,!tlu;n bun- t hoi r
oyvry l)eiH' iati' .S n.itor in tr ieks ui!cuv A ij to a riHi-
t(iV, n Kin an ajfruMnciit
t it'itiai:i in their K'atss cacl:
jday until Senator Harris
jtdiouM nutvt to adjourn tl:(1
j lh'.il)l:raiis saw that tin
j fiiiibus'cn.i: ji was u, un
1 1--s t tlh. weir j-n'par.'it to r
Ini iin in tlicir scats fur an hi-
ii h'nitc criuit to kt-cp it up
and tlu re was littlcprohahii -
it.v of KUfi-i ss evrn then, as
th.e silver Ilepuulieans public-
l, fxn ve nutii'e of their i.'iten-
tion to aid the Democrats jnithc.s;. chatues
keeping n ipioium and in gt t
tiu' a vote on tin; bill and
there are other Republican
.Senators who privately ex-pn-ssed
the same sentiments.
The liilibustei intr d:d hard,
hut when Sir. a tor Harris's
motion for the Semite to
meet, heinnintr to day, at
10 o'clock was made no nee;,
ative votes wore cat.
This does not, of couise,
mean that Republican oppo
sition to the bill has Oeen
withdrawn, hut. that it Ins
heen forced by the united
front of the Democrats down
to a liit invite basis and
that extended debate is no
longer expended upon minor
items in the bill. The Demo
crats have no de.-ire to stifle
debate on the really import
ant sections of the bill and
the proposed amendments,
and they expect that .1 rea
sonable amount ol time will
lie consumed when the sugar
schedule, the income tax nnd
other really important por
tions of the bill are reached,
but they do not intned that
ielnite tneicly for delay shall
play any further part in the
consideration of the bill, and
in that determination they
have every reason to believe
that they are supported by
nine-tenths of the people of
the country, regardless of
poli t ice, who want this ques
tion settled at the curliest
possible moment, in the in
terest of a resumption of
business.
The fairness of Vice-President
Stevenson in selectitg
the committee which to-day
began the investigating,
authorized by the resolution
adoptei without a dissent
ing vote by the Senate hist
week, was in marked con
trast with the action of Re
publican presiding officers of
the Senate in selecting sinn
lur committees in the past.
Although he would have been
justifiable in putting three
Democrats and two Republi
cans on the committee, he
only selected two Democrats
Gray, of Del , and Lindsay,
of Ky., allowing the Popu
lists one member Allen, of
Neb., and the Repu oilcans
two-Lodge of Mass., and
Davis of Minn.
The first work of the com
mittee will be to try to get
at all the facts connected
with the outrageous attempt
to bribe Senator Kyle, of
S. D., and Hunton, of Va., to
vote ngaihs-t the tariff bill.
I .-sen,! 1 loan UHt lofsures art'
look .! fur in tlm ruse, but
your cort :ul 'n t U nut
ovi r sanguine th;i t they wit!
pan nut; nut becau-e thv
i 'iti t f.xlt'iit t hav' tu
; iai'' legally fa.;i,ril upon
tliem.
Tin coniuiitto will nlso i r
vcuriak' tlic n u ui c r o 11 s
ihaij;ci? ouiiiK otin tic; Si.-j!a-tors
who aiiant'd the a
int r.dinciits to the tariff hill
with tlio Hutjar tiiii-t in a
jsrantilous manner, n nil
your eorresjHjiuleiit does nut
hesitate to predict hat the
foundation ot evetv one of
a ill be fuuud
the same Pu t i.-vin.iie-tiv'iiess
against tariff re
form. Rut whatever the
foundations may bo tlieeum
mi t tee proposes to get down
to them if such n thiriK is
possible. Several t 1! known
Republican newspaper men
vill tind it diLieii!t to pro
duce authority u r (bargee
they have made against Sen
ators, and it will not be sur
prising if some of them even
tually figure in court as de
fendants in ' crii.'iiii il libel
suits. The first official work
of the committee was to vote
unanimously in favor of
hearing t lie testimony in se
cret. This was not because
of any desire t'.i coni cal or
to cover up anything, but
because it was thought to be
the best way of getting to
the bottom of things. Every
word of testimony taken will
be printed and made public
at the clone of the. investiga
tion, but iu the meantime
Senator Gray will decide just
how much from day to day
be given to the newspapers.
The first big batch of dis
charges from the Govern
ment Printing office weie
mad-3 Saturday. They will
be continued until the force
is rediv'ed to Its proper num
ber; meanwhile but few ap
pointments are being made.
The House has the business
of the session so well advanc
ed that it gave itself a holi
day by adjourning over Sat
urday, something it is not in
the habit of doing. It has
worked faithfully on the ap
propriation bills ami it has
them all m such shape that
it will soon bo able to take
up and dispose of some other
important business w h i I e
waiting for the Senate to
send back Ihe tariff bill with
its amendments.
Dr. Oliyrr Wendell Holmes,
being asked recently if a
young man should smoke,
emphatically replied: "Cer
tainly not. It is liable to in
jure the sight, to render the
nerves unsteady, to enfeeble
the will and enslave the na
ture to an imperious habit
likely to stand in the way of
duty to bo performed.'" This
grand old man, who practi
ces what he teaches, knows
what he is talking about.
Life is short. Few men
live long enough to see thei"
names cut on a tombstone.
conxFXiriEMs.
The P.Iu ll.rl; o'lt of d lt-.
V.'e do nut knuw wh it our
st-ad.v-gomg old N01 tit Car
olina is coming to. We hear
some new things these days
absolutcly new, Solomon
an I all his wisdom to the
contrary notwithstanding;
on 1 we are becoming very
soli'-itons of the old original
commonwealth.
A trood brother ivas in to
see us recently; Ichad labor
ed he said, ii: tliM di-triet as
school loa'-her. merchant and
farmer "nigh on to forty
years, and been a magistiale
besides." Rnt he was a back
number now and didn't have
"anything i'o brag on but a
good conscience.'' The old
State in which 'he had lived
.si nee IH.'U) xpa
vond hhu. Tin
(tn'.'t be-
realization
-.if the fact crone about in 1 meucemonts io-.d exh;
this way; They had a pah-jure barely truec-tv-lie
school one of the four j institution, an: ;r; .
months kind up his wa v. for bovs ami -nrls !.t
am! ii- a tormer teacher 01
free schools, he sorter kept
tin eye to it. But he couldn't
keep the pace of present
method:, he couldn't eat:-h
on to what they wrrodriviug
at. IL could calculate frac
. . .
tions, percentage and par
tial payments,"' nnd wasn't
a. rusty on "qundratk-s" as
some people might think; he
had rend the "bridge chap
ter" in Ciesar till ho knew it
by heart; but nil tbirt was of
no avail now. He thought
his old books were pood
enough for his'two children ;
but they came back from
school with a whole list to he
bought, and they told him
that the teacher said his old
blue back was out of date,
his Ctesar didn't have notes,
and the arithmetic was too
hard. He let this pass,
thinking it vvns natural that
the way of learning had im
proved since his day. As the
spring came on, ho noticed
that the children were not
studying, but he though the
new fashioned learning wasn't
so hard perhaps, as that
which he had dug nnd dug
for. The whole thing came
to light the other day, how
ever, when the young colle
gian, who had been running
the school, sent him an invi
t a tion to commencement.
They never had commence
ments to speak of in his day
except at tlu University, and
he thought he would see a
bout it. The children had
been preparing for two sol
id months; they had gotten
their Ma to cut up all theold
family clothes into t'll sorts
of shapes, and they were just
wild for the time to come.
They never thought of study
ing; their whole idea was in
the great blow-off-tableau,
they called it. Tin tune
came, and as he had two
children's time and all the
family heirlooms invested m
the occasion, not to speak of
his office as a former teacher,
the old rr on went. And the
like of marching and singing
and waving of flags and rib
bons, and speaking of Fourth
of July pieces and such dress
ing he never saw in all his
"born days." Then the col
legian made a grinnnd a
bow, find "said how he hoped
all h.v! nnioved tbemsel ves
and l ow great a suen .-.s hJ "Eat nuli.n EATE OCtl r.EI?
had mad '. Th f ! r m c ' Suppose i;.-, 1 and lob
thoaght differently. II i b'byists had gune to William
chil !u a had learned ho.v to'C. Rives, John Y. Mon,
blcw-olf in exhibitions. b'M
they didn't know a fraction
when tf of saw it. They had
learned lots. Thev fo'il.li'orge M.IiaMie. John M.
make "funny" spein-h' s and
bows, and sing songs and
natch an 1 cavort, but they
knew about as much gram
iner as a jay-bird docs ubout
melody.
The old man was red in th'
five when he stopped telling
us about the blow-off." He
had Ht-nt his chil Ipmi to
school four mouths, and they
had spent half th' time
prneticin' for commerce,. men t.
Such
cl .)sei
scnoois were better
and such teat -hers
I ...
.should stay in college or join
in military company. Cum -
.'. -OiS 1
('rate deceit au i ;,i
they make young folks u.r
wnrd and biph headed and
impertinent; they often ruin
college graduates; and the
idea of an ignoramus devot
ing hah'his school's time to
a "blow-oif. "-! Re
corder. Colic? i Lcnrn!ii.
Siie was a Vnssar graduate
and didn't know a little bit
about housekeeping w hen she
married her last beau and
settled down fo " domestic
life.
Her first order at the gro
cers was a crusher, but that
good man was used to all
sorts of people and con hi in
terpret Vassar as easily as
plain English.
"1 want ten pounds of
paralyzed sugar," she said,
with a business air.
"Yes'm. Anything else?"
"Two cans of condemned
milk."
"Yes'm." II e set down
"pulverized sug," "condens
ed milk."
"Anything more, ma'am?"
-A bag of fresh salt be
sure that it is fresh."
"Y'es'm. What next?"
"A pound of desecrated
codfish."
"Yes'm." He wrote glibly,
"dessieuted cod."
"Nothing more' ma'am?
Here's some nice horseradish
just in."
"No," she said, with a sad
wabble to her flexible voice,
"if. would bo of no use, as we
don't keep a horse.'
Then the grocer sat down
on a k't of mackerel and fan
ned himself with a patent
washboard. Vassar had ta
ken the cake.
Coxej and Erowne Sentenced.
By Southern Associated Cress.
Washington. May 21. -Cox
ey Browne and Jones were
sentenced by Judge Miller 111
the Washington police court
this afternoon to twenty
days in jail for violating the
statute of the United States
prohibiting the display of
partisan banners in the Capi
tol grounds, and Coxey and
Browne were fined f 0 each
additional for trespassing on
th grass, the alternative
being another ten days in
jail. Jones was eqnitted on
t his htsr ehn c;n
i(''ofg" L. Badger. Will. an A.
Graham, Thomas Rrugg. .1.
C.Calhum, W. C. Preston,
' 11 ien, John I'.-ll, .Jefferson
Davis, Ben Hill, R o be r t
Tooms, Alex Stephen, and
other famous, able m.a be
fo do wall," w ith propositions
of bargain and corruption
offers to buy tlmir ouls for
the devil and .gr-t their sup
port for pending measures
or to advance the selfish
schemes of the bribers, what
won! 1 hae happened, think
you'1 Badger would h u v a
. .1 . ..,.. Y. . . 1 I L 1
1umi uncu uj .mi 1 i. e
I s;ouiuh-els with fierce denial.
i''';itin. Graham would havs
' h'oked nore than ever the
i.x'iiaior ana navt e isu" up
P
IJUlig-
!' ' li.Mi a !!tl Wit
ragv. w.-uld li
.'I'lng Si o. a.
'.;(!. ett
!
(..:;.! trout
pure
Th.tf Is the way I ho .ovUl
t 'aroilnhi v.: u;uM hr. veborno
themselves and perhaps their
conduct would not be differ
ent from the other noble rep
resentative men of the South.
But we live in other times,
when the punlic standard is
low and the public men do
not measure up in character
with the many pure, "simple,
great ones" of the past. The
stories of corrupt ion and bri
bery and speculation so rife
in Washington have not been
hen rtl si n ce t he d a in n i ng day s
of the Credit Mobilnr. The
very atmosphere of Washing
ton appears to be ladened
with mephetic exhalations,
that come of the moral put-
resences of the body politic.
When Col. Robert Treat
Paine, Colonel of the North
Carolina regiment that went
to Mexico, was iu the Feder
al House, some Northern ras
cal approached him while sea
ted in the House with cor
rupt proposal. Paine imme
diately arose nnd informed
the House that this fellow7,
pointing to the corrupt ras
cal, v.-na trying to bribe him.
The late Capt. Tom Rufflin
was asked why Paine did not
knock the fellow down. The
reply was: "He is peculiar,
is a great sticker for law and
order. He would not make
a scene or violate the propri
eties of the House. If the fel
low had approached him on
the street with the stone pro
posal, Paine would have kill
ed him."
When we read of the re
ports and suspicions and ac
cusations of men in Congress
we are remindei of the wis
dom of Rev. Gabe Tucker:
"For T hardly need to tell you
that we often come across
A forty dollar saddle on atweu
tv dollar horse."
?nger.
Mrs. Mary Lease, who has
been for some time, and ia
still, seriously ill vt Oianthe,
Kan., is suffering from so tin;
of the iil.j wh'udi follow in the
wake of fame. A crank wrote
her telling her she was to die
May 20 and notwithstanding
she is still alive, the incident
troubles her much. She be
lieves she will suffer a violent
death. Ex.
!pt ,oa-