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Watauga VOL. IX. BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, N. C, TIIUHSDAY, JUNE. 24, 1897 NO. XXVI o WASHINGTON LETTER From our Regular Correspondent. Oh yes, th Republican Sen a tors ore harmonious! so harmonious that it. has been necertsarj during the past week to hold no less than four caucuses, at every one of which there was red hot talk against allowing the trusts to dictate their wishes as to the schedule of the tar iff bill in which they nre in terested, and about other things which are being cram ed down the throats of Re publican Senators against their own wishes and against the wishes of their constitu ents. It came out at one of these caucuses that Mr. Mc Kinlev has a treaty for the annexation of Hawaii, ready to send to the Senate, as soon as the tariff is oul ot the way. The statement was made to stop the fight that was being made for the abrogation of the recipro city treaty with Hawaii. The repoi t of the Commit tee on contingent expenses, against Senator Tillman's res olutionfor an investigation of the charges. that Senators had been speculating in sug ar stock since the tariff bill had ben under considera tionattracted very little at tention , beca use i t w a s k n o w n that it would be against the resolution ever since the Re publicon caucus decided an investigation to be iradvis able, ine repcrt armies a- gninstthe investigation be cause other investigations have been barren of results, which is about equivalent to saying that one or two crim inals having failed to be con victed, it is useless to bring any more to trial. Senator Tillman has been dioppmg Pints of sensational informa tion in his possession on this subject, and there is a rumor that he will make some charges in a public speech that will make an investiga tion absolutely necessary. The minority of the Senate committee on Finance wi! -have a vote on the tariff a mendment prepared by them, which provides for an inter nal revenue tax for a period of five years of 2 per cent on all exceeding the value o $3,000, excepting thope be quealhed to religious, char itable, educational, or like institutions. It would be difficult to find an easier way to add a considerable a- mount to the revenues of the country or one that wouk be Mt by the people, bu there are no cuts in it for any trusts, so the trust-boum majority of the Senate wil most likely vote it down. Nothing could ruoreelearly demonstrate' the selfishness and grab game nature "Protection" as seen by the average Republican Senator than the attempt of Senator Quay to get a good thing for two or three big concerns whhh are interested in Cuba and Nova Scotia iron ore, by onmug an amendment to the tariff bill, exempting from the duty of forty cente a ton, all iron ore imported by manufacturers for their own use. These friends of Mr. Quay are about all the manufacturers in thecountry who import iron ore for their own use. What a small figure con sistency cuts with the most prominent Republican Sena tors, was shown during the debate whicli preceded in adoption, by the aid of two populists Jones and Stew art, of Nevada,-one Demo crat -McKnery, ot La., and 29 Republicans, of theso-call ed "compromise" sugar chedule, which is said to be even more beneficial to the sugar trust than was the schedule prepared by the Re publicans of the Finance Committee. Senator Caffery who, although himself a sug ar planter, voted and spoke gainst the sugar schedule, which he declared tc be en tirely in the interests of the sugar trust, and quoted tin attacks made upon thesuar schedule of the Wilson bill by a number uf t he Rf publican supporters ol the present sugar sdwhle. These men attacked the Wilson schedule solelybecau.se they charged it gave the sugar trust too much, and now they have he nffron tery to ja m t hrough a schedule that will give the sugar trust three times as much as it secured under he Wilson schedule, or rath er the schedule of the Wilson .till, which was prepared in he Senate and was more favorable to the trust than the original Wilson schedule. fhe sharp rise in the stock of the sugar trust shows just what the Wall street speculator thought of the compromise" schedule. Senator Cannon, Mantle and I'ettigiew and ex-Senator Dubois, hav) been ap pointed a commission by the executive committee of the silver Republican party and charged with the duty of vis iting Japan and China and possibly India, for the pur pose of investigating the si I ver question in those coun tries. They will go as soon as Congress adjourns. Her Easy Method. "It must distress your wife to be so delicate." ''No; she likes it." "Likes it?" '"Yes; every litth while, you know, she thinks she isgoing to die, ami she gets a new silk govn to be buried in." Chicago Record. R. G. Dun & Co., reports some signs of revival in bus iness, we long to see it come and remain with us, but we don't'look for much improve ment soon. Of course times are obliged to change from the longstagnation. Natural consequences will torce a change in some way. A'o-To-Iiac for Fifty Ci nts. Guaranteed tobacco habit cure, rnkis tvod'i men giiou, blood pure. Wc, $1. A . tiruf- AGENTS WANTED-For Wariu Cuba by Sen or Quphu j ; i , Cuban representative in Washington. En dorsed by Cuban patriots. In tre inendouH demand. A bonanza for agents. Only $1.50. Big book, big commissions. Every body jranta the only endorsed, reliable book. Outfit fre. Credit given. Freight paid. Drop all trash and make $300 a month with War in Cuba. Address today tho Nat ioxat. Book Concekx352 350, Pearborn St., Chicago 1 Word to Yonng Men. THE VALVE OF AN EDUCATION. It has a value of its own which cannot be reckoned in dollars. Education is not merely the acquisition of knowledge, but also the training of the mind. Knowl- ecje is valuable, it is inoeea power; but the training of the mind is more valuable. The trained mind can Tie . i i i-i quire and use Knowledge. Thus education opens many doors of usefulness ton man, and usefulness leads to hap piness. "What are you going to make of yourself? i ilia question is olten asked the student. He should repiy: "I am going to make a man of myself 1" Every young man should strive after a no ble and intelligent manhood. Try first to be a good man; then seek to be an intelligent man. Tne right sort of edu cation seeks to produce, true manhood. Get it, then, and count its value far above money. NOW IS YOUR TIME. There is a time for every thing under the sun, and there is a time for getting education. Youth is the time. Educate yourself be fore you enter upon your life work. After j ou havesettled down yon will find it hard to break away from busiiiesr and euer school; and your interest in business will ob scure the value of an educa tion, Yo-.ir heart will go on k. r crying alter money. ery few begin school life after the age of twenty-one. Make a beginning now. The begin ning is the hard part. So many young men put it off from year to year. "Pro destination is the theit of time." It will steal your youth and doom yon to a life of ignorance and ineffi ciency. DNWISE ADVISERS. Some young men are for tunate in having wise advis ers, l'artnts and friends ex hort them to go to college These good advisers are r,ot all educated, but they are good and wise; they know the value of an education. Happy boy that falls into the hands ol such friends; but most young men are so fortunate. They have to run the gauntlet when they goto college. Even those that in tend to enter the professions are advised not to enter col lege. "A waste of time and money!" say the unwise ad visers; and the boys who ex pect to follow a tiusiness ca reer are called foolish if they go to college. What is ;i young fellow to do? In the nome circ.e, in uie rnum, -,- .1... . i. . . . i cle. in the social circle, anJ in the business circle. he meets uothintr but discouragment. All his fiiends give him a ihump as he passes. An old man said, not long auo, of one of our brightest boys: ' JVluit a pity he is going to college! He is one of the best farm hands in the country." Shall the boy go against the judgement of such friends? He must. In the first place, he should not ask their advice. They are not competent to advise him. Then if they volunteer thoir advice, he should pot heed it. He knows, if he is not stupid or conceited, that he needs an education. Let him go on his duty, God will help him, and his unwise advisers will commend him in theend. CHOOSE A GOOD COLLEGE. Go where you can afford to remain until you finish the course. Attend a college whose course, is thorough and whose diploma is valu able. Dr. J. l Greene. Tlie Xrsliville Exposition. Tennessee's Centennial Ex position is now fully open, and a strong tide of travel has turned in that direction. Perhaps nothing shows the progress our .Nation has made so well as a compari son of Expositions. Consid ering the advantage which the National Centennial Ex position had in respect of for eign exhibits and larger fi nancial resources, the Ten nesS'.'e Centennial Exposition is more creditable than that of the entire United States at Philadelphia in 187(5. Our States are rapidly coming to be veritable empires in them selves, as unquestionably they were designed to be in every respect save of govern ment. We are glad to know that already this exposition lias done better financially than that a1; Atlanta, and notv bids-fair to pay out. ()f the helpfulness and exped iency of an occasional expo sition ive are sure; bill when it comes to having one every year somewhere wnaredoubt ful. We feared for Tennessee: we therefore now rejoice that she is doing so well in her great undertaking. There can hardly be a more delight ful and at the same time profitable trip in store for any one than to Nashville this summer or fall. In this connection, we embrace the opportunity of reminding our readers that the Internation al Raptist Yonng People's Convention at Chattanooga. in July, will make in moreat tractiveand profitable, and convenient a ndjess expensive to visit the exposition. At Chattanooga, not to men tion the instructiveness of the trip thither, the city, Lookout Mountain, Chica mauga Rattle-field, and the Convention will repay any one for the time and money required; an 1 it willcostonly a little more to also take in Nashville and the Exposi tion. Ex. Some town between this and Wilmington has been playing a dirty trick. On i numerous occasions recently whl,M 1)JX C;m on the Caro lina Central were opened here, numbers of cuts jumped out, until that part of the town in the neighborhood of the stati )ii lias been overrun and deviled to death by them. The rut supply having prov en inadequate, the chickens are now being killed and eat en by the stray cats. These cats are evidently thesurplus gathered up and shipped off from other towns. Lincoln Journal. To Cure Constipation Forever. Take Cascurcts Cnudr Cathartic 10c or 25c 1 II C. C. C lull to cure, druggists refund uiuiicy. The Tax on Doctors. There was but one opinion at the State Medical Conven tion of the tax the fusion Legislature imposed on doc tors. The city doctors, while not belie veing in the tax de clared that they saved mon ey by it. In one city, prior to the imposition of this tax by the State, the municipal tax was twenty-five dollars. The law provides that the State privilege tax shall be in lieu of all other privilege tax. The law enables the city doctor to save money, but It bears heavily on the country doctor. As showing the burden this privilege tax imposes, in a paper read before the State Medical Convention at More head, Dr. G. T. Sikes, of Oris Horn, N. C, said: "As for the laws that demand correction the unjust special tax on pro fessional men should certain ly be repealed. The State Treasurer's report shows that for the year 189G there was collected from the doc tors, dentists and lawyers of North Carolina $18,790, which, allowirg 70 cents for a hundred dollars' worth of property, would be equal to the tav on $2,084,285, mak ing an unjust burden upon the class of men who, above all others, do more for the cause of Immunity in propor tion to their ability, than any others. "Now, roughly estimated, there is about 1,000 licensed physicians in North Carolinu who probably paid their special tax, amounting to $15,000: and allovmg nn average practice of two thou sand dollars per capita, it1 would equal the sum of three million dollars a year. Of this, allowing fifty per cent, for loss and charity practice, (which may be to liberal for our city brethren), added to the tax, sums up a grand to tal of $1,515,000 that the medical profession of North Carolina bears in excess of an honest ad valorem." Ex. -: He Was Buried Alive. As we are going to press on this issue of the Youth's Advocate, Willie Whiteside has just been taken up from his grave, which he dug him self, on D"aderick Street, in this city, and where he, after being hypnotized, was buried awl remained about one week (from Friday to Thurs day) under tho influence of hypnotism. We have been informed that the young man has tully reeoverd, and that he feels no ill effects from tho experiment. A full account of this experiment, together with t h e yountr man's picture, will be given in the next issue. Want of time prevents their appear ance in this issue, but in our next we will devote several columns to the experiment above mentioned, and to the picture of the young man and to explanations and il lustrations on the subject of; hypnotism in its different stages, furnished to us' by Prof. Williams, of this city, a professional hypnotist.and comments by others on the subject. After the readers have read this account and theexplanationR of the Pro fessor, they will be better able to draw then own con clusions on the subject of hypnotism. Conspicious loyalty to par ty seems to find very little rewnrd at the hands of the dispensers of patronage. It a man is accustomed to take his Republicanism mixed or if it is of very recent date his chances nre infinitely better tnan those of a life long Re-publican.-IIickory Press, Re publican. PROFESSIONAL. W. B. C0UNCILL, Jr. Attorneytat La y. Boone, N. C. W. B. COUNCILL, M. D. Boone, N. C. Resident Physician. Office on King Street north of Post Office. ' T.C. BLACKBURN, M. D. BOONE, N. C. Office nt the residence ol M. It. Blackburn. m-Calls Promptly Attended E. V. LOVILL. J. C. FLETCHEItJ LflViLl & FLETCHER A Tl UUNh YS A T LA IF, BOONE, N. C. tiTSpecial attention given to the colletion olclaims. WILLIAM R. LOVILL. ATTORNEY AT LAW. Sutherlands, N. C. Practices in the State and Federal courts. Dr. J. M. HOGSHEAD, Gaiisar Socialist, CANNED o r K. N. C, Ao Knito; Xo iiiuiiing Out, Highest reftereecoM aiiilernlor.s menrs of prominent pernoun suc cessfully treated in Va., Term, and N. C. Remember that there is no time too boon to get rid ot a cancerous growth no matter how small. Examination free, letters p.imwered promptly, and satisfaction guaranteed. S3 SHOErl? THE BEST. FOR A KINS, rVS s. CORDOVAN'. l RCNIH&E iAMELLta CUF. 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