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Km-.' ,'-. '"'" v ft o VOL 7 BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, N. C, THUKS.DA Y ' FEBBUARY 7. 1895 NO. 14. I I yi m ii iimiai ;u (L St i 4 VV. L. DOUCLAS 69 CU"aP IS THE BEST. V VAin Via nT ro AKINt, o. cordovan; mNCH JkCNMUUU CMT. '4v3&) FineCauIJOwgarimi 3.VP0UCE.S SOLES. J tXTBA FINE . jlaiies Orar OomMUUm Popto wwr tb W. L. Douglas $3 & $4 Shoes AH our aboea art equally aatlstactory BjKCKTOK-MAia. TBy five ma M vln for th notify. . Tba y aqnal ctxxa om la tyla and fit. - vi V 1 Tfc4r VMrinf qaalltlM ar anuirpaiMd. . ?fca price ara anlfona,-atamp4ea oia. rota $i ta Ss aavad avarattrar Make. If your dealer canaot tupplr yo we can. Sold bf ., Dealers titr jr where, Wanted, agent to tike exclnsire aale for tola vicinity . Write at oneo. Docs This ii Hit You? i x The management of the 5 Equitable Life Assurance Society in the Department of j the Carolinas, wishes to se- f cure a. few Special Resident 9 Agents. Those who are fitted 9 for this work will find this ! A Rare Opportunity; It is work, however, and those S who succeed best in it possess X character, mature judgment, tact, perseverance, and the respect of their community. Think this matter over care- X fully. - There's an unusual opening for somebody. If it fits you, it will pay you. Fur- thef information on request. : W. J. Roddey, Man-, Rode Hill, S.C PROFESSIONAL. W. B. I OUNC1LL, Jr. Attorney at La. Boone, N. C. W..B. COUNCILL, M. D. Boone, N. C. Resident Physician. Office or King Street north of Post Office. j. f moRPUbn AUORNEYAl LAW, MARION, -- N.C , -(o)- Will practice, in the courts ol Vatauga, Ashe, Mitclull, MrDow and all )ther oounti in the western district l"StHrtttl atteii tion given to the colUfHon ol laitn? W. B. Counclll M. D. T. C Blackburn. Boone, 5. C. ZIonTille, 5. C. Councill & Blackburn. Physicians & Surgeons. r Calls attended at all June 1, '93. E. F. LOVILL. J. C. FLETCHER. LOVILL & FLETCHER ATWRNhYSATLAW, BOONE, N. & Special attention given to the colletion ofclaims.m&k Cbuntwrlala'a Sy and BUa Otatmaat It certain con for Chronio Bon Granulated Eya Lidt. Son Hippl, Pilea, Enema, Tetter, Bait Rheom and bcald Head, oenti per box. For aale by drcjgista. . to HOxeiTowjrmis. For putting a horn in a fine healthy con dition try Dr. Cadyt Condition Powdeia, They fame up the system, aid digestion, enre - of appetite, raliera constipation, correct ' kidney duorden and destroy yrorma, giTinc aew life to an old or over worked horaa. So tenia per packas. For talo by drnggista. FOR SYtPEPfflA. ladlfirloo. and Btomaeh dtaoriletl, takfl BROWIf IBOM BITTERa. AUdaalarikamlitlparbottla. Ganoinafcae tMKU-narfc and iroawil ladUnaaonwrappat. WASHINGTON LETTER. From our Regular Correspondent That there ta a conspiracy in existence to make mony out p? the- condition oi the Treasury iu believed by many men in both branches of Congress. Naturally mem bers j)f the admintatra tion will ne t express their be lief upop such a matter. The idei of the conspirator as understood b.v those who be lieve in their existence, is to withdraw tfold from the Treasury and hoard it until Sold can. by its HcnrHty e forced to a premium Your I'orrwsponoYnt does not un dertake to .make a positive statement tnat there is a conspiracy, but the fnctH are suh as to justify the suspic ion that there is. It is known to a certainty that the lei" tiraate demand for gold to pay debts and for purchanes in Europe could have been met with less than one half o f the gold that has been recently withdrawn from the Treasury. It is perfectly clear that more than one half of the gold withdrawn is now hoarded in the vaults of banks of safe deposit com panies. Why? It can earn nothing for its owners while thus lyhg idle, and the men who are credited with doing (he hoarding are men who always expect a profit out of all their financial transac tions. There is only one way they can make profit out of this one, and that is to lorce gold to a premium. That's why so many believe they are doing that very thing, or at least trying to do it. Can Congress do anything to head off such a . conspiracy? It unquestionably can, but will it do so? That is a qnes tiOn easier to ask thaa to answer. If there is su"h a conspiracy, it exists slply because of the belief of itn members that Congress will do nothing to prevent its opeintion being suc-essful. Piemdent Cleveland and Skj retnry Carlisle are thorough ly alert, and they will not al low gold to go to a prem ium if it lie possible under the authority vested in them by present laws to prevent, it, by issuing more bonds, and they are both satisfied that it wil' be, although they would much prefer Congres bional action. Senator Faulkner, who is chairman of the committee on Territories, ij auxious to get the bills for the admis sion of Arizona and New Mexico liefore the Senate and hopes to be able to do so in a few days. Those bills would have been passed long ago, but for the secret oppo sition of Republican Sena tors who lack the courage toopenly oppose the ad mis. fiion of those territories, but make use of all their par liamentary skill to kill the bills indirectly, by prevent ing their being acted upon. Secretary Carlisle eucceed ed in getting the House to adopt two important amend meuts to the Sundry Civil a ppropriation bill. The first restores to the Secretary of the Treasury the discretion to issue notes of such denom inations us he may deem best in place of currency pre sented for redemption. At present he is compelled to re issue potes of the same dfe nomination as those redeem ed and cancelled. Theother, which amends the law for the issue of gold certificates, provided that such certificat es nhall not be receivable for cuf toms dues after luly lst.fing the State. 1K95, and shalknot be avail able for use as n part of Na tional bank reserve fund and discontinues their further is sue. Sixteen out ot the trtenfy one votes which were cast in the Senate against the Niea rnngua Canal bMl.came from democrats, and eleven out of the thirty-one votes cast for it, thirteen democrats were paired. Opinion diffeis wide ly as to the probability of the bill passing the House. Only one thing is certain, and that is, that it cannot be brought to a vote in the House with out an order from the com mittee on Rules. It has been stated by friends of the bill that Speaker Crisp has part ly promised that an order settling a time for a vote would be reported, but ihe statement has never been confirmed by a member of the committee. Even if such an order were reported it might meet the fate of the Currency bill order be rejeeted by the House. The Canal lobby is very active. A decided administration victory was won in the Sen ate Saturday afternoon when Senator Vest's amendment to the pending Hawaiian res oiution was adopted by the Senate. The Vest a mendment expresses sympathy with all attempts to establish repub Mean institutions; reaffirms the dectrine of absolute non interferance with foreign na tions, and says: "That the administration of President Cleveland in maintaining this policy as to our foreign relations deserves theapprov ai and support of the Ameri can people." The odd fea ture ot this victory was that it. was won by the vote of Senator Pettigrew, who it will be remembered was one of the Republican Senators who voted against the Me Kinley tariff bill, he having with 23 Democrats voted for the Vest amendment, while 18 Republicans and 4 Popu lists voted against it. Had Pettigrew voted with the Re publicans there would have been a tie. The tariff receipts of the government are rapidly in creasing thus lurnishing an answer to the argument ad vanted by Republicans, that the tariff would have to be amended in order to produce more revenue, and bearing out the estimates made by Secretary Carlisle of the tar iff as a revenue-producer. Chamberlain's Cough Rem edy gives the best satisfac tion ol any cough medicine I handle, and as a sellei leads all other preparations in this market. 1 recommend it be cause it is the htst medicine I ever .handled for coughs, colds and croup. A. W. Bald ridge, MihVm'ille, III. For saleb W. L. Bryan. "D0W5 WITH TEE HACHIlfE." News and Observer. The people of North Caro- Una are an independent, self assertive people. They will not tolerate bossism or even a suspicion of it. In the last campaign, the Fusionists made capital by denouncing "the Democratic machine," and made some good people believe that it was control!- They came into power de nouncing "King Caucus" and "machine rule." They weie the bogy men they set up to frighten, the unwary, With the usual course of reformers, ''for revenue only," these Reformers" have enthroned King Caucus on a high ped estal, and made Boss Rule their fetich. At first, a caucus was call ed to decide everything. Soon the Bosses tired of the democracy of a large caucus where i t was possible for some of theii . plaus to, mis carry. What then? All legislation relating to county government and elec tion laws was ostensibly left to a committee otboth Hous ses, who are to act in concert with an outside committe of "machine" men, composed of Marion Butler, Daniel Russvll Harry Skinner, Win. A. Guth He. and Tbos. R. Purnell. "Ostensibly," we say.- Th big five will determine the whole thing, and will order the hands to carry it into ef fect. There is not a member of the Legislature who will dare to express an opinion until he hears Irom the Big Five. Never have we know sucn ser vility. such abasement, such absolute fear of expressing convictions. The attitude of the members of the Legis lature toward the machine is like that described by Maj. Chas. H. Smith of- the origi nal Bill Arp. "How are you going to vote this year?" some one asked Bill. "I don't know, sir, till lean seeCol.lohnsing. and Col. Johnsing, be don't know till he can hear from JudgcUn Jerwood. and Judge Underwood he don't know until he can git a letter from little Alex. Stephens a n d who in the devil tells little Aleck how to vote, i can't guess." Ask any man among the Fusionists what will be dons about election law, county government, the University appropiiation, or anything else, and if he tells the truth he will say: "I can't tell you till I so S. Otho Wilson, and he don't know till he can see Loge Harris, and Loge, he don't know till he can see Dan. Russell, and Dan. can't tell till he can see Marion Butler, and Butler don't know till he can get a remit tance from Richmond Pear sonand who in the devil tells Richmond Pearson (that ideal 'Plebeian,' U6 Rus sell would say) 1 can't guess." If it were not so humiliat ing, the depth of machine rule to which Fusion has brought us, would be ridicu lous and raith provoking. Tlie cry of every patriotic man must be "Down with the machine." The "oligar chy" must be suppressed if independence in thought and speech is to be left to the elec ted law-makers of the Stare. WHEN 19 DEATH REAL. , "Except where u surgical operation is- perfwrirLthe only absolute sign of death is the decomposition of the body," said a physician to a New York Suu reporter. 4,I have had cases of apparent death. in my own practice. An urgent message from the physician in charge called me one night to a young ladies' seminary in this city. As I ascended the stairs to the pa tient's room I was met by the housekeeper, who, be tween her sobs, could only say: 'It is too late, doctor; she is dead.' I went up to the room, nevertheless. There upon the bed lay a young girl of about eighteen. Her face bore the mask of death. "'I am sorry to have dis turbed you at this hour,' the doctor said; 'the heart stop ped beating about five minu tes ago.' "I bent over and listened at the chest; no respiration, no beating of the heart was to be heara. While I listen ed some one said: "I always thought she would go off in one of those attacks.' "These words were a revel- fa tionto me and I hastily threw off my coat and began artificial respiration. Little by little there was a change of expression in the face: the features relaxed, the eyes ap peared less sunken, the Uwe became flushed; the eyelids moved, and after a full hour of constant work the life of youth returned. The girl had an attack of grave hys teria. She i s now married and is the mother of three handsome children. "In another case I bad seen my patient nt 11 p. in., and after giving my instruc tions to the nurse in charge 1 had gone away. At seven o'clock the next, morning I received the n.essage, 'Fa ther passed away quietly this morning at 1:30.' This was rather unexpected. I knew that I had left the patient in danger, but did not imagine that I was seeing him for the last time. However, after a huiried breakfast I went to the house and found that the night nurse had spread n sheet over the body. In re moving it'sumething call it intuition if you will made me think that the man was not dead. Nor was he; and it was not until fire days la ter that be really died. "Who knows how many times a physician who bus attended a patient, and to whom word is brought that the sick one is dead, fills out the blank which the under taker presents him without taking the trouble to see for himself that the death i s real? That probably hap pens every day in this city; and what of the country, where the doctor often lives miles away from his patient? The thought of the torture of those who may have been buried alive, under false ap pearance of death, is bo fright ful that it fills the soul with grief. -1 do think that people are often buried alive? Yes, F do; perhaps oftener than we imagine. Life may exist without being evident; but tHpfcV&vhlence of life is not proof of death. If ever we are able to discover the mo ment when death substitutes itself certainly for life, we shall have solved a problem which has occupied the philo sophers of all times and all countries." The Bleaatnra of tne Babbit. A French chemist of great eminence has prophesied that in the future the bread food of the race everywhere will not be grown but chemically produced. Now a Norwegian prophesies that the rabbit willi)o the real sourceof meat supply for the race when the Malihusian prophesy is ful filled when the cattle fail to supply the food for the count less millions yet to, fill the earth. We get some figures from an editorial in the Phil adelpnia Record. Someone has calculated that a pair of rabbits in four years have multiplied t o 1,274,840 if all the young ones are Icept alive. ' The Record says that a fe male rabbit castsyoung ones eight times a year; if s h e cast seven at the average she bean fifty-six all told in a year. Let us say that she bears fifty per year, and esti mate each at ten pounds; she produces 500 poundsofmeat in a year. As many poor.peo pie could get the rabbit's food free of cost, they could practically get a few hundred pounds of meat for nothing. Then, too, the rabbit skins are worth soorething, when prepared. Under various names twenty million rabbit skins are exported yearly from Austria to London. Lon don alone uses every week half a million of rabbits most of which come from Belgium. Belgium earns yearly ten mill ion to twelve million dollars on rabbits, and France eigh ty million dollars." The Norman rabbit ir pro nounced the best. As to the question of meat future gen erations are safe. How very cheap it is, too. and how good is the rabbit to eat when prop erly p re pa red ..tfepst n ;er. "Perhaps you would not think ho, but a very large Proportion ot diseases in New ork comes from carlessness about catching cold," says Dr. Syrus Edson. "It is such a simple thing and so, com mon that very few people, un les it is a case of pneumonia, pay any attention to a cold. New York is one or the heal thies places on the Atlantic Coast and yet there are a trreat many case3 of catarrh and consumption which have their origin in this neglect of tha simplest precaution of ev ery day life. The most sensi ble advice is, when you have one get rid of it as soon as possible. By all means do not neglect "it." Dr. Edson does not tell you how to cure a cold but we will. Take Chamberlain's Cough Rem edy. It will relieve the lungs, aid expectoration. oen the secretions and noon fffet a permanent c u r e. Twenty five and fifty cent bottles for s;tle by W. L. Bryan. v ftrj fnJo Lih-t P,fj-h
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