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It is dif ficult to find an intelligent peron who does riot bvlieve that the change of ministry in Spain was brought about solely for the purpose of se curing delay in replying to the proposition submitted by the United States, and if the game worked well then, there is no reason that it will not be worked. agiMn, or at any rate attempted, when Misister Woodford tries t o prop the new ministry for a reply. Spain is also trying to secure the support of the bread and butter brigade in this country by hinting at a commercial monopoly to be gr. nted us soon as peace is restored to Cuba under the new home rule scheme. These things may caHi Mr. Mi-Kin rley, but they do not catch those who know the actual situation i n Cuba. Spain will have nothing to do with the commerce of Cuba when there is a restoration of busi ness and trade on the island, because its hold upon the is land will be gone. Mr. M'i Kinley cannot change the ul . timate result in Cuba, but he can hurry up matters, if so disponed. If he allows Spain to pull the wool over h'seyes by the recall of Butcher Wej ler, and indefinite talk a bout Hor.e Rule concessions to the Cubans, which every hchoolboy in the United Stat es knows will not be accept ed, he will simply losea great opportunity t o please the people of this country, re gardless of party. He prob ably haj not forgottou how difficult it was t o prevent Congress forcing this issue last spring. It will be impos sible, if nothing has been done by the time Congress reas sembles in December. ' The single gold standard advocates composing the so called monetary conference, which has reassembled in tVashington after a recess, are, perhaps "unconsciously, doing the silver jnen a great favor by trying to force the administration into the ad vocacy of financial bill in tended to perpetuate the sin gle gold, standard on the .country, at the coming ses sion of:Cougres8. Nothing would please the silver men so well as to eee this issue forced to the front by an at tempt to jam legislation through Congress. Without the active assistance of the ndirinistration, it cannot be done. Left to himself. Mr. McKinlev would let the finan tial. question severely alone, but. with this commission ; hammering -away at hnn v from the outside and Secre tary (rage from the inside, he may give in and recom mend financial legislation in his annual "message to Con gress." If the support ofC'Qr lined be secured, anv S'rt ot a bill can bo passed by the House, but that is where it vi!l stop. The silver men command the situation in Senate, and nothing they op pose can get through that body. It is enough to cause a smile on the face of a wooden Indian to listen to the otfi Hal announcement that Mr. McKinley is going to rhioto vote, but is in doubt us to whether he will accept either of the several invitations that have" been extended to him to make a speech in the State previous totheelection when it is well known that Boss Hanna billed him weeks ago for a speech in Cincin nilti. Pagan Bob Ingersoll had influence enough with Mr. McKinley to pull down a nice plum for one of hisnephews, .ohn C. Ingersoll-in the shape of the Consulship at Copenhagen. "Fools rush in" etc. There has been- more or less com ment in Washington on the tact that Senator Foraker, of Ohio, was the only repub lican of national prominence who coujd be induced to take part in the republican mass meeting in New York, held to ratify the nomination of Ex Secretary Tracy b y Boss Piatt and Mr. McKinley. Ex President Harrison positive ly dedined, although Tracy is his personal friend and was a member o f his Cabinft; Chaun'.'ey Depew convenient ly managed to have other engagements, and Czar Keed poiitely refused to go. This means that these men are "on to" the Platt-McKinley game and are too smart to get themselves mixed up in it. Why Foraker went t o New York is one of the hard things to answer. After his shabby treatment in Ohio by Boss Hanna, he was prob ably flattered when Boss Piatt aeKed him to speak at th New York meeting and accepted the invitation off hand. "1 can't see how any fam ily lives without Chamber Iain's colic, cholera and diar rhoea remedy," says J. It. Adams, a well known drug gist, of Geneva, Ala., in a let ter inquir.ng the 'price of a dozen bottles, that he might not only have it for nseinhis own family, buf. supply it to his neighbors. The reason some people get along with out it, is because hey do not know its value, and what a vast amount of suffering it will save. Wherever it be comes known and used, it is recognized as a necessity, for it is'the only retried, that can alwa.fs bedepended upon for bowel complaints, both for children and adults. For sale by M. B. Blaekbnrn. An exchange siys n New Jersey- judge fined a m a n $27.50 for kissing n woman. The only defense the man made was that she was so pretty he could not help it, and the judge said that in view of the provocation he would not impose a heavy sentence. But "wasn't $ 27. 50 mighty high? THE COMING 8110 WER OF STARS AND BAIN OP FIRE. Baltimore Hun The astronomers look for the uext great meteoric show er on th morning of Noy. 15, 1899. They calculate that the earth will then pass a gain through the centre of an im mensi swarm of meteoroids, as they are called before com bastion. These great "Leo aide Star Showers," as they are t ailed, occur at intervals of every .33 years and one day. The great shower of 1799 occurred on Nov. 12th; that of 1833 on Nov. 13th; thatof l86G on Nov. 14th, and, consequently, a repeti tion of the next wonderful phenomea is.xpected on the morning of Nov. 15th, 1899. In the meanwhileowever. as the aggregation of meteo roids is of immense length, one end of it will encounter the earth in 1898 ard the other in 1900, making, as Prof. Lewis Swift, the distin guished astronomer, of Ito Chester, N. Y.. says, consider able showers in those years also. Not only this, but it is stated on the same author ity that many forerunners of the great shower may be ex pected t o come within the earth's atmosphere on Nov. 14th, 1897, because many of the meteoroids are always considerably in advance of the main cluster. Prof. Swift says "the thickness of the meleoroidal stream i s 100.00(fmiles, and the dur ation of the shower is equal to the time of the diagonal passage of the earth through it, usually from midnight to dawn." He adds: "Aa there is a light shower of Leonoids every November, we know that there is a vast ring formed by the comet's tail, and that the immense shoal in one portion is the product ot the exploded comet itself, through which wb pass once every thirty-three years and a day." The meteoroids aw dark bodies, and it is only when they pass into the earth's atmosphere that they are itrnited by friction an be come visible foi a few seconds. The stream makes a revolu tion around the sun in about 33 yeflrs, and by conse quence the earth passes thiongh it in a new place each year. The length of the swarm is so enormous that although a t perihelion i t moves at the rate of nearly 25 milts a second, yet it takes it two years to pass the earth, so that when its hinder parts is still with us its advancing side will hnve reached the orbits of Jupiter and Saturn. Notwithstand ing this extent, it is but a fraction of the entire orbit. Prof. Swift says: "This great, cluster will reach the earth's orbit, about June thel, 1 899, but the earth will not have arrived theie then, but will he due nearly six months la ter, when our planet will plunge int' the swarming maps, and for at least five hours we shall experience a literal rain of fire." Doat f vfcaeM Spit ud Saok Toir lift A way. Totjult tobabco easily and forever, be mag netlo. full of lift), nerr and vigor, take No-To-Bao, tin wonder-worker, that make weak men strong. All druggiats, 60c or It. Cure guaran teed Booklet and sample free. Addrcsa Sterling (icmedy Co., Chicago or New York. CUy, fteaShtit tud Skunk. Charlotte Observer. The brethren are paseing the compliments of the sea son. In an interview, Tues dav, with the Raleigh corres pondent of the Observer, Maj. Hiram L. Grant, of (loldsboro, Raid that Sena tor Butler moulds Governor R'issell like. clay; that the latter could be impeached for ''general cussed ness;" that nobody except Marshall Mott stands with him, and that he could not now get one vote in 500 that he re reived last year. In response to this the Governor says that "Grant is a Hessian who betrayed his constitu ents in orde,r to get the smiles and favors of monop olists, and he is one of the sneaks and traitors whose fx istence and safety attest to the liberality and toleration of the'decent people among whom h e lives." Solicitor Mott also takes a whirl at the mayor through the med ium of an interview in the Greensboro Telegram, 1 n which he says that Grant has heard him say that he did not endorse Russell's course, and therefore he knowingly tells what is not true; that he (Mr. Mott) iH stronger with his party in his county than ever before, can get a re-nomination for solicitor, if he wants it, prac tically without opposition, and that Hie statement that he would be nominated hy the Democrats is "startling information" to him. H e then proceeds to criticise Maj. Grant as "an old pie hunting alien," and winds up by apol ogizing f.)r taking up so much time" in talking about a striped skunk." We set these things down merely as chroniclers of the history of the times. As for our part, give us liberty or give us death. Monday Morning:. Thf rain has come, the earth i s getting soft. The farmer is hitching up his blind mule, a n d one-eyed horse and goes forth to plow. He goes a few 'rounds' nnd receives notice by the pickets that a "yaller jacket" camp is near. Round or two more and he nears the camp and the fight bgin. The enemy conies out in columns two and three deep. "Yaller jackets" fight better on a drizzly day; they don't use powder. Their javilin i s driven by a n "automatic spring," as you may V now. They will drive it to the point every timenever mUs fire The tnule usew both hind fe?t, tb horse his fore fee-, Th f a- vy don't, adiwi the kicks. Tii" man uses lan gUMir n t suitable for pray er meeting. The enemy keeps up the fight. The man can't dnv off'imr unhitch; finally he p ts !'nit and leads off and the enemy holds the field. Visitor. The latest definition of a jury is "a body of men organ (ized for the purpose of decid ing which side has thesmart est. lawyer." To Care Constipation Forever. 1 TalteCosoiiets C.inUv Cathartic lJc orSBa It C O. C. talk to cure, druggUtta refuqd owner. Mere Radical Rule. How rotten things must be when Christians are made to "cuss." ' And we're afraid they'll not stop soon, for everyday that passes demonstates m o r e e'early to the public mind the utter incompetency of the present officials to man age the affairs of our munici pal government. Our boarl of aldermen, with an excep tion or two, is almost as il literate as persons living in the Green Swamp who have yet their first nine back spell er to see, and a part of the city's most particlar busi ness is entrusted to what we might sa- a beardless youth, just barely over the maturity line, without any experience in public life whatever. This is a sample of Judge Russell's creations, an experiment which will come pretty high to our town. -Wilmington Dispatch. ALLEN'S PATENT GUN. Chapel Hill, N. C, 0?t. "Oleophas Allen (the man who walked from Waynes ville toCha pel Hill to enter school) has iuveutsd n gun that will hit accurately in the dark. If America does not want it he will give it to France. In terviews desired with men of capital. Only those who have money and mean busi ness need apply." The above is a copy or a noti'je posted on the bulletin board here. An interview with Mi. Allen found him re ticent on the subject, as ne gotiations are lending with capitalist concerning the pat ent rights. Mr. Allen has ac knowledged that he would not let his patriotism stand in the way of money getting, an( again designated France as his choice after his native land America. Rev. Dr. Kingsbury says several reputable Populists of this State have suffered a cnange of heart nnd gone over to the Democrats. It appears to us that the learn ed Doctor might get out his Galling gun and capture one of these "critters." There is some vacant space in the State Museum, and such a curiosity would beagreatat tractijn. If the Doctor will enptire a specimen, have him hermetically sealed up, mark ed "right side up with care" and Khipped t o Secretary John Nichols, it might bethe means of bringing many peo ple to the Fair next week. We've lizard of these critters before, but th'V sepinashnrd to capture as an ordinary ghost. News and Observer. Some people are beinuinr to suspect that the res unwn. , prosperity nhout of a lev weeks ago was a Yankee trick to induce mer-hants to buy heavy stocks. Time have improved ttomewhat. perhaps, but this is Jue to natural causes, as has heen explained, nnd the people continue to wait for the pro mised deluge o f prosperity that the Dingley tariff bill was to turn loose upon the country. Alleghany Star. Kdnritt tui.r Mwia tvitn liurareta. C; .uiy raurmnlr, cura conmipation forever. 10c, iSc. U C. C. C. fall, drugfriats refund money. ia V',; Judge Greene's charge to VV the grand jury is spokenJf as ths plainest ever gfvn? here. All the people -nnurvr ; staod liim from the openinHj to the close. Col. T. (Jed. -' Walton, who has been attv tendant upon the opening of court for many years, and '.' has otten been foreman oT'lik rand juries, says he never heard a better charge. Far-v$s merw' Friend. w To Tore Cou.tlpatlon forever. TaUa Pit.ifa!irt. Pnnriv PiLthnrtin. lfln a.Ma If C U. C. fall to cure. rtruKKinu refund money. PROFESSIONAL. W. B. COUNCILLOR. Attorney at La y. Boone, N. C. W. B.COUNCILL, M.dT Boone, N. C. Resident Physician. Office on King Street north of Post Office. E. F. LOV1LL. J. C. FLETCHER) LDViLl & FLETCHER ATlOllNhYSATLAW, BOONE, N. C. Special attention given to the collet ion oiclmms. T. C. Blackburn, M. D., Boone, '. C. Dr. TJ.Profltt, Mat,N. C. Blackburn & Profitt Associated practicing physi cians. BCalls promptlv attend ed. 8.V97. WILLIAM R. LOVILL. ATTORNEY AT LAW. Sutherlunds, N. C. Practices in the State and Federal courts, Dr. J. M. HOGSHEAD, Cancer Specialist, BANNER'S ELK. N. C. 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