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vJ.: VOL 7 BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, X. C THURSDAY JANUARY 17, 1895, NO. 11; v 0 K 0 W.L Douglas C? 8? 110 V? ItTHCIEST. VtJ 9riWbriTroRAKiNa. O. CORDOVAN, rWEKSH 4VCK4MEIAU) GAIT. K3.y FineCuIKaksaboh 3.yPOLICE,330LE3. BQYS'SCHOOLSlIOEX LADIES Oyr One MIUlM People wear the , W. L. Douglas $3 & $4 Shoes AH our ahoes are equally satisfactory fhey give the beet value for the money, hey equal custom hoea la ityle and lit. Their wearing qualltlea are unsurpassed. The price are unllorm,tainpd oa tote. Prom li to t$ laved over other makes. II your dealer caunot supply you we can. Sold by Dealers ever) where, Wanted, agent to take exclusive sale for tbis vfclnltr. Write at once. Wise rien profit by tlr" experience of others. Ti. is an object lesson in the following letter for those who hesitate to in vest in life insurance. Orkkmvii.lk, 8. C, Ann. 23, VSR. Mr. W. J. Hoddby, ltook H 111, 8. C. : Dear Kir: Your fnvorol iho 21st, en closing now policy him been received, mil I will remit premium on rweiptof settlement of old policy, lam very well planned with the rosults of my otlxr policy, nnd nuit tliunk you for your kind attention nud (avor t liumi me, Your truly, N. C. ruli. This is but one letter of thousands that can be shown, all expressing the same satis faction. Write and get an explanation of the Tontine Policy of the Equitable Life. a policy that insures you against misfortune; protects you in old age; provides for your family at your death. W. J. RODDEY, Manager, TnrtlrrnllnM. Rfck Hill. S. C. PROFESSIONAL. W. B. COUNC1LL, Jk. Attorney at La at. Boore, N. C. W. B. C0UNC1LL, M. D. Boone, N. C. Resident Physician. Office on King Street north of Post Office. j. f mm&w. A170RNEYA1 LAW, MARION, N. C (o)- Will practice in the courts of Vatauga, Ashe, Mitchi'U, McDo aud all ither eounti a in the western district JtSTSpi rial often tion given to the collection oi laim?." W. 3. Counclll M. D. T. C Blackburn. Boone, N. C. Zlonville, X. C. Councill & Blackburn, Physicians & Surgeons. Calls attended at all hours.". June 1, '93. E. F. LOVILL. J. C. FLETCHER. LOVILL & FLETCHER A TI ORNh YS A T LA W, BOONE, N. C. OS" Special attention given to the colletion ocaira.s." NOTICE. Hotel Property for Sale. On n.fnnnt of failinar health nf mvHfilf and wife. I offer for Bale my hotel property in the town of Boone, North Carolina, and will sell low for cash and make terms to suit the buyer, and will take retl or personal property in ex change. Apply soon. W. L. Bryan. FOR DYBWEPBIA, ZndUreetlon, and Stomach dtorden, tak 6 HOWS' IHO BITTER. AD dealer keen H, H per bottle. Oennlnehal Uada-maxk aad oroaeed ltd Uneaoa wrapper. von 1 WASHINGTON. LETTER From oar Heiraiar Correspondent. Democratic Hkienre briuh- tfr just now than thpy have been foi n ywir. The much talked about and much hop ed for getting together of democrats sei'ms at last to be in a fair way towards he- coming an accomplislied fact The example of Seinlor Hill in going to the White House and resuming plea Rant rela tions with President Cleve land is being followed by les ser leaders of the party in Congress. The first result of this getting together of dem ocrats will be the passage by the House of the Carlisle cur rency reform bill, which will not be delayed much, if any, beyond the present week. It was noticeable that a better and more conciliatory spirit was shown by all the speak ers at the democratic caucus held today than has been ex hibited at any similar gather ing for a long time, and con sequently democrats a re look ing forward to future party success with more confidence than the most sanguine of them have felt since the open ing of the present session of Congress. One of the most important hictors in uniting the demo crats of thellouse ins'ippoit of the Carlisle currency re form bill, was the unprinci pled fight which a clique oi Wall street bankers have been making upon Secretary Carlisle, using this bill as art excuse, because he would not dl'jw them to use him. Sec retary Carlisle is deservedly popular with democrats in ''ongress and out of Con gress, too, for that matter- ami manvofthem determin ed to stand by him and his bi . athooffh there .oe . . . 1 . things in the bill that som of them do not approve. Now that the passage of the currency bill by the House is regarded as good as accomplished, its tate in the Senate is being discussed. Few democrats are confident that it will eyen be allowed to reach a vote in the Senate, owiiitf to the short time re maining of the session, but Senator Hill, who seldom ex presses an opinion without having good reasons there for, thinks that the Senate will pass the bill' if it be a mended to provide lor the coinage ot the silver seignior age, as that would obtain votes enough from the repub Mean and populist silver Sen ators to g'it the bill through. It has been staged, although I cannot vouehj for st, that President Cleveland and Sec retary Carlisle would not ob ject to such nil amendment to the bill, and it is certain that many .democrats in both House1' and Senate would be greatly 'pleased to see the bill become a law so amended. Some of the republican leaders are indulging in a line of talk that theywill regret inside of six months. They are saying that the only trouble with the Treasury is that caused by a revenue in sufficient to meet the expend itures of the go eminent, and tint the deficit is caused by theiew tariff law. That, is jnsf the talk to" suit the dem ocrats, who know that as soon as the Treasury begins tc fralize from the duty on sugar, which is just begin ning tc come in largely, and on the income tax, which will soon be collectable, the re ceipts of the government will be in excess of the expendi tures. It will be amusing to see these republicans when confronted by their present talk a few months hence. There is much talk of the 'attempt that is expected to be made in the Senate to ren der the income tax inopera tive by dropping the appro priation lor its collection. which is in the urgency up propriation bill, which has been passed by the House; but Senator Cockivll, chair man of the Senate Appropri ation committer"., says it. i nothing but talk and that he is confident the nppropria tion will be made. Secre tary Carlisle is so confident that theappropiation will b niaoe that he is now sending income tax blanks to the in ternal revenue collectors Some of the numerous men who are always going tiff half cooked weie probably re sponsible for the rumor which was current a day or two ago and was widely tele graphed from Washington, to the effect that the admin istration had withdrawn the (btnand it had made upon Spain to ?ease discriminate ing against American Hour shipped to Cuba, uncVr pen alty of ha ing the sugar of Cuba and Porto Rico shut out of the United States. The originator of that rumor got hi.) facts exactly reversed. In stead of having wit'idraivn its demand upon the Spanish government the administra tion has reiterated it in stronger languiijze, and ac companied it with a notice that a prompt leply must be given or the President would without further warning is sue a proclamation against the sugar of Cuba and Porto Rico. It has been informally de cided by the Senate Finance committee that no tariff a- inendrnents of any sort should be taken up at this session, and the n'dministra tion is thrown upon its own resources in dealing with the retaliation and threatened reta nation of European na tions becniJse of the differen tial dutv on sugar, which everybody admits ought to be repealed. A Des Moines woman who has been troubled with fre auent colds, concluded to try an old remedy in a new way, and accordingly took a taolespoonful (four times the usual oose) of Chamberlain Cough Remedy just before going to bed. The next morning she found that her cold had almost entirely dis appeared. During the day she took a. few does of th- remedy (one teaspoonful at a time') and at nigiit again took a tablespoonful before Eoing to bed, and oa the fol M lowing morning awoke tree from all symptoms of the ::old. Since then she has, on several occasions, used this remedvinlike manner, with the same good results, and is much elated overlher dis- covery of so quick a way ofj curing a cold. lor sale by v t iiM-n If 4U il J From Sands X. C. Editor Democrat: As everything has become quiet and settled down since the election, we should all, re gardless of politics, now in terest ourselves in the natu ral advancement and pros perity of Watauga county. We see evidence on all hands of the progressive spirit of our citizens, and it only re quires a united and steady pull all together to put Wa tauga far ahead of any of her sifter counties in the line of progress. 1 venture the assertion that not another county in North Carolina has as many neat, comfortable country homes as we haye here in Watauga, according to the territory em braced. We see, too, in every neighborhood, almost, com fortable a n d commodious church and school buildings. Travel any direction you may over the county and you will find in the valleys, in the deep coves and hollows a- mong the mountains, and high up on the mountains, in the most unexpected places, neatly painted dwellings on productive and w"A manag ed, although, in many install eps. steep and rough farms. We see good bai ns mid out houses, and well-bred a n d well-cared-for stock of every kind, and plenty to eat for both man and beast We find our people truly an independent people, from the tact that we produce nearly all our necessaries and many luxuries here at home, and they areindividually, and the countv is comparatively free from dfbt or serio.is incum- berance. We also note a pronounced disposition among our coun try people, not only to make their homes comfortable but to beautify them. They tilke a pride in the anangement and appearance of theii;. homes and farms that goes to show that we have a class of citizens who aie making for themselves and theirchildren .1 r ...I I. permanent nomesirom wmcn they will not be allured in the future by any temptation whatever. Theae facts, coupled with reputation o u r mountain section has acquired as a re sort tor health and pleasure seekers, Itf'.ids uie to believe that we could do nothing that would be a longer step forward, that would more materially advance the inter ests of all our peopleand give us a greater advantage o vet other sections and attractth attention of the outsidc(world more than to constructgood public roads. I am persuad ed that this is the one neces sary move forward that, we should make at once and in earnest. We already have a good start in that direction, thanks to the efforts of some of our progressive and ener getic citizens, and fromobser vation 1 am of the opinion that owing to the geograph ical situation of the county, we can construct a system ot main roads with much less cost than any county ivlucli I ti. m ncniirtinled with which I urn acquainted. The turul divisions of the coun 114. i ty are such that two or three main leading roads reaching out in differentdirectionsand centering at Boone, in addi tion to those we already have, if judiciously laid out, would makA for Watauga a most admirable system of public roads that would di rectly benefit almost eveiy citizen within our borders, and also accommodate trav el through and from the Co. to all important points in the neighboring counties; and it is a fact that only about two bridges of any conse quence are badly needed in the whole county. Now, when the road ques tion is mentioned, everybody will say: "Oh yes, I am in fa vor of'good roads, we ought to have them," etc. The sen timent seems to be general for improvement along this line, but it does seem to me that we are slow to take de cided action on the matter. The first question that nat u rally arises is, can we make the roads what they should be under the present general road laws? 1 for one. take the position that the present law has outiived its useful ness, that it is wholely inade quate to the construction of the class of roads demanded bv t he times. It is true that if the law was strictly enfon ed. if every road hand w a s worked to the full limit al lowed, and overseers a 11 d ot her officer performed their duties in acoi dance with t he law, we would have much bet ter loads; but 1 maintain t nit it would work a great injus tice on a large part of the people. It is manifestly un just to compel one man who probably has not one hoof of stock, or a sled, or a dog to trot the road; who hasn't an acre ot 'and, and works tor wages to support himself and family, to do as much or more on the public roads us his neighbor, who owns hun dreds of acres of land that will be greatly enhanced in value by good roads, and who has his teumsund drives over them every day. 1 could point out many oth er inequalities that make the law grossly unjust and de fective, but I believe that the people of Watatga county are nenerallv in favor of a change in the method of rnak ing and keeping up the pub he roads, so 1 propose that the matter be agitated and if the legislature does no pass a general road law that will fill the bill, let us peti tion for a special act for Wa cauga county, s other coun ties liave such laws in opera tion that work admirably. I favor a law to Aork by per sonal .service and taxation too, that all hands liable to road duty be required to per form so many days (say four or six) work on the roads. That a small tax be levied and collected on poll and property to constitute a road fund. That all new roads and amendments b e first carefully surveyed and located by a competent en gineer, and the meansexpend ed in a way that will gradu ally arid permanently im prove them. Under our pies ent system a great part of the labor is literally thrown away. The roads are simply gullies that serve a? drains, t and receptacles for water and t ' oose stones from the .adja- ent lands, and the, road liands go along and; throw out the stones and they roll ; back again and then- they hrowthern out again only to roll back. They fill the nits wnh dirt and the next -rain washes it out and it must be filled again and so on and on indefinitely the work is done and the road is no better. So 1 say let us go to work and devise a plan to apply a reasonable amount' of labor and money to our public roads annually and do it in a way to gradually im prove them, . But tbis is only my ideas xpressed,so let us hear from others interested iu this ques tion. Why not discuss it and if it is favorably receiv- d, make an effort to get a new law through the legisla ture this winter. We will not have another opportun- ty for two years probably, or a change and why should we wait about it if the change is desided by the people. We might accomplish a great deal in the next two years. So if the Democrat will agree to be patient with us I would be glad to hear from others of our citizens wishing to ex press their views od the sub ject through its columns, al so let's hear from the Demo crat too. J. C HORTON. The Cream and Current Tbevfkt. Public Opinion, published at Washington. D. C, is a weekly journal d3voted to the reproduction, i n condensed form, of carefullv sehcted magazine articles rd of edi torial comment from the rep resentatives daily and weekly press of all political parties, and from all parts of the country. The readers of Public Opinion get all sides of every question. It is just the paper that the farmer and villager need for general reading.. It keeps itsreaders fully a bi east of the times and supplies their with the best thought of the day in fields of Aniericajti Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Sociology. Commerce Finance, Religion, Science, Education, Art, and New Books. Public Opir"r' vid the rural weekly puppiek... ut each other admirably. To gether they give the farmer or villager and his family more of current news, editor ial comment, and magazine 1 i tern t uie than can be had in any other way for five times their cost. The price of P ub lic Opinion has been reduced from $3.00 to $2.50 per year. We have just complet ed arrangements by which we can offer Public Opinion and The Democrat for $3.00 '.-ash per year. Mrs. Emily Thome, who resides at Toledo, Washing ton, says she has never been able to procure a taedicine for rheumAtism that relieves the pain so quickly and effec tually as Chamberlain's Pain Balui and that she has also used it for lame bat-k with great success. For sale by W. L. Brvan. .. . ' ' '
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