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.4:.. VOL IX. BOONE, W AT AUG A COUNTY N". C, TIIUHSDAV, JUNE. 3, 1897 NO XXIII. 0 WASHINGTON LETTER From our Regular Correspondent. uThe House ol Represent a- tives presents an object les ion to the world showing how easily a supported free brllihch of a supposed popu lar irovern merit can be muz- fcled. Three fourths of the jnembers of the House would V like to vote tor the Morgan TV solution, adopted by the Senate last week, tor the rec- ognition of the belligerency of the Cubans, but they are not allowed to do so. Mr. McKinley says the adoption of that resolution by the 'House would interfere with : .Uhe mysterious Cuban policy r that he is engaged in hatch ing out, by compelling him to show his hand, ay it is a joint resolution which would have to be either signed or vetoed, and not a concurrent , resolution, like theoneadopt tl by the last Congress and i pigeon-holed by Mr. Clve- land; the sugar trust says the resolution must not be . adopted, and Czar Reed says it shall not be, andthpieyou are. The democrats kick to the full extent of their povv- er, but the republican rner.i . Miers of the House swallow -.their convictions and vot against the will of their con utituents because tne.y are afraid i:o offend Mr. McKin ley and Mr. Reed, lest they should fail to land an office or two or to get thel'ommit lee assignments they want, and the force of calling the House a legislative body goes on, like the butcheries in Cuba. There will be no tax on the breakfast of the poor, nor any additional tax upon heer, the poor man's beyer or tobacco, if the democrats can prevent ft, as a caucus ol democratic Senators titian imouslv decided t o move that the entire internal rev enue section of the amended tariff bill, now being deb.ited in the Senate, b struck out. Whether that motion is car ried .will depend upon the vote of the Populist Sena tors, it was also decided at the caucus that the demo cratic Senators would only antagonize the tariff bill to the extent of exposing its 0 enormous and unnecessary taxation, and would inter p se no objection to taking a final vote in a reasonable time. The republican Sena tors are having a regular monkey and parrot time among themselves over some 0 of the amendments to the bill. T h e explanation of Senator Aldrhh was not at all satisfactory, and there were lots of the plainest sort of talk at the republican cau ens held to-day, and although they are making a strong ef- - fort to settle t'aeir differeric en in seme way off the floor of the Senate, there is little prospect of their succeeding, nud an open fight among them is expected to be an early and interesting feature of the tariff debate. They are going to pass the bill, of course, but not until it has been much changed. The Agents of the sugar trust rtalizp that the present sugar schedule has no show at nil, and are scheming for anoth er that will bamboozle the public long enough for it to become a law. There have been numerous things show ing the hold o f the negro politicians of the South upon Boss Hanna, as a natural result of Hanna's method of securing McKinley delegates in the South, prior to the St. Louis Covention. Thelatest example was the withdrawal from the Senate of the. nom inntion of S. S. Matthews, to be Register of the Land Office at Jackson Mississip pi. Matthews is a white re publican who was strongly backed by such men as For aker, Pension Commission?! Evans, and Gnn. Powell Clay ton, but the negro member of the republican National Committee from Mississippi, Jim Hill, djdn't like the nom ination, so he went to Boss Hanna and told him it must be withdrawn, and Mr. Han na lost no time in getting Mr. McKinley to withdraw it Ironi the Senate. From all directions come authentic news of a change in sentiment since last No vember. For instance, Mr. S. W. M. Peters of W. Vn., said: "West Virginia cast its electoral vote last year for McKinlpy, but if the election were to be held over again right now, the verdict would be reversed. I am satisfied that free silver would win if the fight were to be made' over again. Of all my demo- i era tic friends who voted the republican thket last year or lor Palmer and Buckner, I doubt if there is one who would fail to cast, his ballot for Bry in if the opportunity were again (resented. The ne.;t legislature will be stiongly democratic, and a democrat will- be chosen to succeed Senator Faulkner," The interest In the succes- I A , II 1 l nor to senator uarje, oi S. C.. who died last week, is by no means confined t o South Carolina democrats. As the legislature will not meet until next January, the Governor will appoint a Sen ator to serve until an elec tion is held.' South Caroli nians in Wahhington think that Representative McLaui in's chances for becoming Snator are excellent. Topic: The recent earth quake played hnvoc on Blue Ridge in sight of Mt. Airy. A rock 21x18 feet and about eight feet thick was hurled down the mountain at Fish er's Peak, distance of pel haps five hundred feet, carry ing everything in its path. Trees two teet in diameter were cut off level with thj ground. Many other rocks of various sizes were also shaken loose. Fortunately no one was in the vicinity. AGENTS WANTED For War in Cuba b yScnorQui'sada, Cuban repreHWitativniu Washington. En doiwd by Cuban patriots. In tre nienuouH demand. A uouanzator agents. Only $1.50. IMg book, bjg commissions', bvery body Aants the only endorsed, reliable book. Outfit fre. Credit given Freight paid. Drop all trnsli and make $300 a month with War in Cubu. Address today the Nat toNAL Book Concern352 350, Dearborn 8t.,J 'hicago Putting on Style. "Daram likewise another matter which I wish to refer to dis eavenin', and dat am de weakness of de cujl'd peo ple in gineral for put tin' on style, as it is called. We hev examples of it almost ebery night in de week. Way back in December de wife of Elder Penstock giv an' 'at home.' De elder owns his hous' an' am purty well fixed, an' he kin afford .such things. I was dar as one of de guests. an' while I thought de elder was a little extravagant in de way dey served up fried eggs at fo'ty cents a dozen, 1 had no criticism to make. What pains me am what fol lered dat party. "A week later Jedge Ca biff's wife had de same kind of a circus. De jedge, as we all know, has de hardest kind o work to i;it taters and meat fur his nine ehilPen and half of 'em hev to go b'nr futall winter. His wifedidn't want to be outdun, however, an' so she had a 'crush.' She had three kinds o' cake, two sorts o' cheese and fo' kinds o' cold treat, an' de dress she hnn on neither cost less'n thirty cents a yard. Dar was a heip o' people dar, an' everybody had a good time, but de Wt guest was hardly outer de house when de jedge was around tryin' to bony five dollars to make up his mont's rent. Sine? dat time de fam'ly has libedmostly on bread an' water, an' de par lor clock has gone tede pawn shop to buy fuel. "1 doan' speak of dese things in a complainin' way but it pains me to see what lit lie sense some folks hev Puttif' on sty in an' swellin around am all right fur de folks dat hev got de cash down in der pockets, but a! wrong far de tolks w h o haven't." B r o. Gardner's Lecture Before the Lime Kiln Club. To Those In Debt. Make a full estimate of al you owe, advised isenjntnin 1 v ranklin, and ot all that is owing to you. licuuce tn Tk 1 it same to a note. As. fast, as you collect, pay over to t hose you owe. If you cannot pay renew your notes every year giving the best security you can. Go o business diligen ly and he industrious. Waste no idle moments; be very economical in all things; dis card all pride: be faitbtul in your duty to God, by regu larand hearty prayer n.orn and nighf; attend church Sunday and do unto all men as you would they should do unto you. If you are too needy in cir cutastance.-i to uive to the noor. do whatever else is in your lower cheerfully; but i you can do so help the poor and unfortunate. Pursue this coursediligent ly for seven years, and if you are not happy, comfortable and independent in your cir cumstances, come to me nn I will pay yonr debts. The Commonwealth. Boat Tobacco Spit lid Smoke Tor l ife Ana;. To quit tobacco easily and forever, be mnir nctlc. full of life, nerve and vigor, take Ko-To-Uac, the wonder worker, that makes weak men strong. All druggists, 60c or II. Cure guaran teed. Booklet and sample free.' Address Bun-Hog Ucmedy Co., Chicago or New York, J FAITH AND HOPE DEFINED BY ME. MOODY. Evange'ist D wight L. Moody writes ''hope" to his iible Class in the June La- dies' Heme Journal, nnd lu cidly and interestingly pre sents the distinction between alth and hope. "Although very closely connected faith and hope should be cleat ly distingjished. Faith has work to perform to-day; hope cheers faith on the way, and points to rewards of service. Th former conies by hearing the Apostle Paul tells us, while the latter comes by ex perience. Faith accepts the gift of promise, and hope guards the sasred treasure. Hope confidently expects the nlfillmeiit of promises in the uture. The Bible has much to say about hope, butnever does it "use the term of mean urcertaintv or doubt, it is always employed in the sense of implicit confidence in the ulfillment of the promise up on which it rests. It is a wrong use of the Scriptural term for any one to hope that he is a Christian, even as it would be absurd for me to hope that I am an Ameri can, l liar is a met. i do not hope to be something th.t I know 1 am. I may hope to be a ro.val citizen of my coun try, and in the sense of truly M'lieving that my patriotism will keep me such, I am hop- f a 1.1 ing rightiv. And tuns, wnue we know that we ure Christ ians, we may hope, through faith, to be kept from tempt ations which surround us through Him who has re deemed us from sin." Sincerity. The origin of the word "sin cerity" is profoundly inter esting and suggestive. When Rome flourished, when her fame was spread the world over, when Tiber was lined with noble palace, built of choicest marbles, men vied with each ther in the con struction o f their habita tions. Skillful sculptors were in request, and immense sums of money were paid for elab orate worKinanship. The workman, however, were then guilty of practicing de ceitful tricks. If, for example, they accident ly chipped the edges of the marble or if they discovered some conspicuous flaw, they .vould fill up the chink ind supply the delicien cy by means of prepared wax. For some time the deception would not be discovered, but wL"ii the weather tested the buildings the heat or damp would disclose the wax. At length those who had deter mined on the erection of man sions introduced a binding clause into their contracts to the effect that the whole work from the first to the last was to be sine cevi-thnt is, "without wax." Thus we obtain our word sincerity. To be sincere is to be without any attempt on our part to mislead, misrepresent, u e coive, or to impose on anoth er; to be, and appear to be, what we are; to say what we mean and what we say .-The Piesbjterian Review. OASTOniA. nhe tiailt tgutar tf A Republican Opinion of a Hepubll- can uorernor. Not to multiply instances. we can attention to some of the most flagrant. His Gov. Russell's bull- headed attempts to influence legislation, the unnecessary and senseless precipitation of the party into railroad complications, his neglect of deserving Republicans in the interest of Democrats in ap pointments to office, the in insulting way he has of treat ing all who refuse to blindly follow him, his undignified fawning upon Deinocratis lawyers, his unblushing nep otism and favoritism', nnd Inst but not least, his un grateful neglect of the color ed race, which, from the time he was muling and puking in his nurse's arms, has loyally sustained bin even to the sustension of life itself, and, after denouncing them as a tace of savages and thieves, could, out of t h e hundred thousand who voted for him, find only otif fit for a paying office, and that one an indi vidual whom he had, himself, denounced as a scoundrel Raleigh Tribune. Marrying a Man to Reform Him, "The most subtle nnd de ceitfr.l hope whi'-h ever exist ed, and one which wrecks the happiness of many a young girl's life,'' writes Evangelist Dwight L. Moody, i n the June Ladies1 Home Journal, "is the common delusion that a woman can best re form a man by marrying, him. It is a mystery to me how people can be blinded to the hundreds of cases in eyery community where tot tering home have fallen and innocent iivt-s have been wrecked, became someyoung girl has pei sisr.ed in marrying a scoundrel m the hope of saving him. I have known such a union, and I have seen hundreds of them, result in anything but sadness and disaster. Let no young girl think that she may be able to accomplish .vhata loving mother or sympathetic sis ters have been unable to do. Before there is any contract of marriage there should be convicting proof th 1 1 there lias been real and thorough regeneration." The Chilil ren of the Plain People Urope in Outer Darkness. Six hundred thousand chil dren, the flower i n which sleeps the North Carolina of twenty years hence, are with out schools of any. kind nine long, forgotten months after year. Can one b expected to write of nnything else so long as the children of the plain people aie so miserably canxl for, when the way of betterment is so possible? North Carolina does not know what she is doing. In a few towns she is sowing good seed, but throughout the length and breadth of the Slate the devil i s sowing tares; and the reaping must come. Men nnd brethren, this mattM is with us; we are re sponsible; it is our State. We must reconstruct, and build stronger and greater the temple of North Caroli na's hope, our public school system. Biblical Recorder. topi?.' the Rnieigh Trib une, the Republican paperfe cently started at Raleigh, i dead. This reminds us ot (1. political joke of reconstruc tion days. Old Maj. Stbithj of Johnson, had carried thH Republican "organ" for some time. Finally, he let it go by the board. Some one asked him why he did not keep it going. He said it wasn't worth while to publ'mb u pa per for a party that couldn't read. PROFESSIONAL. W. B. COUNC1LL, Jb. Attorney at La ni Boone, N. C; W. B. COUNC1LL, M. D. Boone, N. 0. Resident Physician. Office" on King Street north of Post Office. T. C. BLACKBURN, M. D. BobNE, N. C. Office at tin rcsidenc? oi M. It. Blackburn. 8( 'alls Promptly A 1 tended E. P. l.oViLL. J. C. FLETCUEIt LOViLL & FLETCHER ATlOUNhYSATLAWi BOONE, N. C; 6 Special attention given to tln rolletion ofclaims.&k WILLIAM R. LOVILLi ATTOUNKY AT LAW. , Suthef lands, N. 0; Practices in the State and Federal courts Du. J. M. HOGSHEAD, Cancer Specialist, BANNER'S ELK. N, Cj Ao Knife; No Burning Out; Highest reffereuces and endors-iiK-ntH of prominent pt'i'souB suc cessfully treated in Va., Tonn. and N. C. Remember that tlifcre is no time too soon to get rid ot a cancerous growth no matter how small. 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