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WASHINGTON LETTER.
From ear
Eegultr Correspondent.
Boss Hanna ban all the
hQjroyerfoial thrift of the very
rich men. Pie, knows the art
pf making others pay for
what he wants for himself,
and he is utilizing it in the
Oluo campaign. Although
there are no national issues
in the Ohio campaign the
epublican National Com
mittee is taking an active
:.. part in it and 's pntting- "up
money liberally to "help Han
na get that coveted election
to the Senate. To all intents
and purposes, Boss Hanna
and his man Dick, who ute
.the managers of the Repub
lican campaign in Ohio, con
trol tho Republican National
Committee and the surplus it
had left in its treasury from
I the hicr contributions to the
McKinley fund, and fears are
expressed on the pott of Re
publicans froru other states,
0vho had hoped t o finger
8omeofthat surplus in the
CongresHionaloampaign next
year, that it will all be spent
in Ohio this year, and some
of them do not hesitate to
say that Hanna ought to
use his own money in his ef-
QforU to buy his return to the
Senate. Boss Hanna is alt-o
J making the Government of
the United States assist him
to the extent of many thous
ands ot dollars, by carrying
thro'.igh the mails free, under
Congressional frank, a bulky
volume. Di-inted at the Gov-
f eminent Printing Office in
the form of theCongressional
Record aid containing
speeches and compilations
from public documents. This
volume as it first appeared,
contained extracts from
newspapers and was there
4) fore not frankable. The re--vised
edition, now being sent
out, has left out the newspa
per extracts.
A new Republican candi
date for Senator Gorman's
geat has added to Republi
can confusiou in Maryland,
q and to the growing belief in
the certainty that the legibla
ture will be carried by the
Democrats. Postmaster Gfn
eral firary is the new cam i
date, although thennriounce--ment
of his candidacy was
prematurely made. He has
got the Senatorial itch very
w bad, and had hoped by the
aid of Postmasters and oth
er followers to have had a
thoroughly organized ma
chire in every county of the
State before allowing it to
become public that he was a
candidate, but somebody
leaked, tie refuses now to
confirm, deny or in any way
disi:UR8 the matter. Heprob
ably wantstoflndouf'where
he is at" before committing
himself.
Although Attorney Gener
al McKenna was indignant
ly emphatic in declaringthnt
he did not intend to consult
with Mr. McKinley about the
opinion he is to give as to
the properconstructionto be
placed upon the clause of the
tariff imposing discriminat
ing duties, he did that very
thing. And he did not even
have the satisfaction of wait
ing until Mr. McKinley came
back to Washington to con
sult with him, but was order
ed up to Somerset, Pu
where Mr McKinley was to
talk the matter over. The
opinion is still held back,
and it will be discussed at the
Cabinet meeting which Mr.
McKinley has called. It is
probable also that the .Cabi
net will discuss the.TPiodl re
port made by -Consul Gener
al Fit Lee.who is in Wash
imztouTbn Cuban affairs. It
is understood that after this
Cabinet meeting, Mr. McKm-
ey will go away again to re
main a couple of weeks.
In the opinion of the silver
men, now in Washington, the
action of the Bank of Eng
land in decking to hold one-
fifth ol its reserve in silver,
will not prove nny direct ben
efit to silver, but they believe
it will help silver indirectly by
increasing public interest in
EurDpe in the principle of bi
metallism. They think that
h-i action on the part of the
Bank of England was taken
more to conciliate the grow
ing silver sentiment in Great
Britain than as a result of
the visit of the bimetallic
commission to England asd
its conferences wih represent
atives of the Government of
Great Britain. Some of the
silver men regard the whole
business a s nothing more
than a trick on the part of
r.he gold standard financiers
of England to make the sil
ver men there and over here
believe that they are gradu
ally coining around to bimet
allism of their own accord, in
preference to waiting until
rhey are compelled to do so.
These gentlemen are firmly
of the opinion that England
will never willinglv adopt bi
metallism, and that the only
way to get her to do so is to
force it, and the way to force
it is for the United Stutes to
adopt bimetallism independ
ently or in conjunction with
as many European Govern
ments as may desire to join
the move.
Ages of Animals.
According to some natural
ists the length of life of ani
mals is ah follows:
The rabmt lives from six
to seven years.
The Bquirrel from seven to
eight years.
The fox from fourteen to
fifteen years.
The cat from fifteen to sev
enteen years.
The dog from sixteen to
eighteen years.
The bear and wolf,eighteen
to twenty vears.
The rhinoceros from twen
ty to twenty-two years.
The horse from twenty-two
to twenty-five years.
The hen from twenty-five
to twenty-eight years.
The poi poise from twenty-
eight to thirty years.
The camel and crow one
hundred years.
The tortoise one hundred
and ten years.
The eagle one hundred and
twenty years.
The elephant four hundred
years.
The whale one thousand
years.
T Car Ooutlpatloa Forever.
Tke CwcareU Candy Cathartic lOo or (So,
II CI 0. 0. foil U euro, drugglaU refund none.
ttw Facta Ire y Day
Newton Enterprise.
New facta are Drought to
light almost every day that
prove conclusively thafcur
State is in the hnpdff 'of plun
derers and pillagers- Appro
pi ia.tioo9 were made during
tj$f ?e88i on of the last Legis
lature that can not be met.
The State is being plunged
in debt at the rate of $13-
000 every month by the pen
itentiary management. Ev-
ery lortnignt or two me
State pays out several hun
dred and sometimes thous
ands of dollars for expert
legal advice in some una void
able litigation, brought a-
bout. by unprecedented laws,
tnacted by bought, or ignor
ant law makers. It is said
that in he railroad injunc
tion case, which is fresh in
the minds of our people, that
I he Sen teem ployed three law
yers at a fee of $750.00 each
and one at a tep of $200.00
to appear in this case. These
lawyers done the work that
Hhould have been done by
the Attornev tieneral. It is
hut lair hers to say that our
so-called Attorney General is
nothing but u bump on a
log, that he is totally in
competent, and unfit to be
classed higher than a filth
rate cross road lawyer, aud
that, his opinions aie receiv
ed by lawyers as ludicroos
jokes. It is true that he is
not competent to represent
the great State of North Car
olina in any matter where
legal knowledge is consider
ed, and unless the State does
pay sjme lawyer with ability
to represent her interests
they go unrepresented. What
a pitiable plight we arr in.
Paying this bump on a log
the salary of an Attorney
General and receiving for it
the services of a fifth rate
i m i
cross road lawyer, inese
same people have created
new offices for favorite bench
men, and raised the salary of
almost eery employe in the
lifferent institutions of the
State. Nothing of great in
terest is acitated but what
thtre is a job at the back of
it. H e have heard the days
of '68 and "9 quoted on ma
ny occasions and referred lo
assomething terrible, but if
they were worse than they
are to-day it is no wonder
that Zeb Vance and his co
adjutors arose above the sit
uation and bound the mons
ter for a season. But this
same monster is at liberty
again to-day and must be
bouud. "
North Carolina is afflicted
with her shaie of religious
nostrums, as well as politi
cal, just now. The Mormons
and Faithcurists and Sancti
ficationists seem to find in
our people a more or less fer
tile soil. These things can
not be helped perhaps, but
they are none the less harm
ful for all that. Intheinevit
able reaction from these ex
treme and irrarionui views
the cause of genuine religion
necessarily suffers to a cer
tain extent, Greensboro
Telegram.
Boat Tvbaet Spit aof Raiokt Toar lift Awir.
To quit toteooo cully and forever, be nu
netle. full of life, nerre and rigor, take No-To-Bae,
the wonder-worker, that make weak men
Itroof. All druggliU,t0corll. Cure guaran
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Sterling Kerned; Co., Cnlcago or New York.
Ooldbng lftibleanee,
The Ahville Citizen sbowe
uph Intolerance of thegold
standard propaganda a lit
tle' better than it has ever
been done before in the fol
lowing short editorial; '
"It is reported that the
Bank oi England, said every
where till recently, to be the
strongest financial institu
tion in the world, will, hereaf
ter hold one-filth of its bank
note reserve in silver. It may
easily be doubted that this
report is anything more than
an attempt to provoke an
exprPHnion of opinion; but
the effect the publication has
had in some quarters bor
ders on the comic. One gold
organ, for instancp, says:
"'The announcement caus
es some uneasiness due chiefly
to the fact that the Bank of
England managpinentfor the
last few years has not enjoy
ed that unreserved confidence
which formerly made it a
synonym for financial stabil
ity. It wouil be using too
strong an expression to say
that the bank was regarded
with suspicion out it :s
true, nevertheless, that the
directors of the Bank of Eng
land do not possess a reputa
tion embodying the best fi
nancial judgement. Certain
incidents of the Bank's man
agement within three or four
years have detracted from
the respect formerly felt for
the directors and officers.'
"There you are! The Bank
of England may, only may,
show an atom of respect for
silver, but if there is but a re
port to that effect, the fact
that it stands at the head of
all similar institutions of its
kind in the world, shall not
sa ve its conductors from co
vert slander, base insinua
tion and open attempts to
discredit its management.
" IVns there ever before so
intolerant a propaganda as
that back of the gold stand
ard?"' Pou't Uss Big Words.
In promulgating your eso
teric cogitations, and in ar
ticulating your superficial
nentimentalities, amicable,
philosophical orsychological
observations, beware of pla
titudinous ponderosity. Let
your con versa tionalcommun
ications possess a clarified
conciseness, a compacted
comprehensiveness, a coales
cent consistency, and a con
catening cogepcy. Eschew
all conglomerations of flatu
lent garrulity, jejuned bobble
ment, and asinine affecta
tions. Let your extempo
raneous descanting and un
premeditated expatiation
have intelligibility nnd vera
cious vivacity without rhodo
montnde or thrasonical bom
bast. Seduousjy avoid all
polysyllabic profundity, pom
P')U8 prolixity, psittaceous
vacuity, ventriloquial vcr
bosity, and grandiloquent
vapidity. Shun double en
tentes. prurient jocosity, and
pestiferous profanity, obscu
rant and apparent. In other
words talk plainly, briefly,
naturally, sensibly, purely
and truthfully. Keep from
slang; don't put on uirs; say
what you mean: rrean what
you fcay, and don't use big
words. hx.
Ko-To-Itae for Fifty Cents.
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men mroix, biinxi ;:ro. Mc.Si. All tiruexnu.
Dollar Wheat Will Help Bl-MeUliim.
News and Observer. ,
The New York World is al
ways to the fr,ont. The rise
in the price of wheat has bo
delighted the opponents of
the freecainage of silver that
they are preaching its funer
al from every gold pulpit in
the land. The World has
done some preaching of this
kind itself, but it is too great
a newspaper to shut itself up
to the sentiment that con
trols Manhattan. Two
weeks ago it printed an ar
ticle from the pen of Hon.
Richard P. Bland, which rath
er stunned those superficial
folks who thought tempo
rary dollar wheat would kill
silver. That was the sort of
newspaper enterprise that
n.akts the World a great pa
per.
In Sunday's New York
World, there appears, writ
ten "exclusively for the
World" an article by'IIon.
William Jennings Bryan on
the same subject, which nr
tMe the Woild has happily
illustrated. It is a plain,
strong and unanswerable
statement of conditions as
they actually exist, and in
publishing Mr. Bryan's letter,
the World, truly says is
"from the unquestioned lead
er of a great party," and
that it is "a message of the
highest importance."
New York U'orld: The fact
of Mr. Bryan's undisputed
leadership of the Deinocvatn
party and of the party's ad
herence' to the Chicago plat
form cannot be blinked even
in New York.
If the Democratic conven
tions in other States had fol
lowed the example wisely set
y Senator Gorman in Mary
land in ignoring the a Dera
tion at Chicago last year, the
same course would have been
natural and easy here. But
in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Iowa,
Nebraska, and every other
State where conventions
haye been held the Demo
crats'shouted for Bryan and
16to'l. National aud State
committeemen from all quar
ters of the Union, in response
to inquiry by the World, re
affirmed their allegiance to
Bryan and his platform.
MnJ. Wihon Hot.
Mij. J. W. Wilson, of Mor
ganton, was in the city last
night on hiSjWny tc Raleigh
"just keep the nest warm."
the Maj. stated.
'Do you propose to contin
ue holding up your end of the
line against Ruascll?" a
World reporter asked Major
Wilson.
"1 will fight him to the bit
ter end," he replied. "If it is
necessary I will take the mat
ter into the courts. I ex pec
in a few days to hear that
the Governor has deposed
both S. Otho Wilson and
myself. But there will be
some difference in ordering
me out and getting me out."
Maj. Ittlson i red hot and
there is no mistaking the
fact that there'is a hot time
ahead. Salisbury World.
Evsrrbody Bays So.
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and positively on khlueys, liver and bowels,
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and biliousness. Please buy and try a bos
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The Charlotte News is in
formed that there is consid
erable talk of building an
electric railway from . Ta jv
lorsville, Alexan Jria county,
ecrosa the country to Wilkes
boro, Wilkes county. The
distance is between twenty
and twenty-five miles, and it
is estimated that the road
could be built at a compara
tively small cost.
PROFESSIONAL.
W. B. COUNC1LL, Jr.
Attorney at Lay.
Boone, N. C.
W. B. COUNCILL, M. D.
Boone, N. C.
Resident Physician. Office
on King Street north of Post
Office.
E. T. LOVlLL. J. C. FLETCHER
I.OVilL & FLETCHER
ATlOUNhYS AT LAW,
BOONE, N. C,
Special attention eiveu
to the eolletion ofclaimsr&L
T. C. Black-born, X. D., Boone, N. C.
Dr. T. J. Promt, Mast, N. C,
Blackburn & Profitt
Associated practicing physi
cians. '
fifcS-Calls promptlv attend
ed. 8-5, '97.
WILLIAM R. LOVlLL.
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Sutherlands, N. C.
Practices in the State and
Federal courts.
Dr. J. M. HOGSHEAdT
Cancer Specialist,
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