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VOL. IX.
BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, N. C, THURSDAY, OCTOBER, 25,1897
NO. 45.
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C i ; WASHINGTON LETTER.
Froa oar Regular Correspondent.
The Platt-McKinley deal,
O first shown up in this corres-
; 'pondence, has been fully pro
' ven by the action of the ad
. V ministration, public and pri
vate, within the past few
da.vK. It was to whip nil ad-
ministration republknns ln-
x to line for Piatt's mac Tracy
q that Mr. McKinley and Sec
retary Bliss write that tfush-
fag letter in Tnuy'a favor
announce his intention to
personally take part in the
New York campaign. The
fate of other national admin
istration candidates in New
York should have warned
Mr. McKinley.
According to private let
ters received from those who
move in. diplomatic circles
in London, Mr. McKinley be
cnnie very much afraid abo'it
the time the Governor of the
Dank of England made that
silver bluff, that his own
bluff, the international bime
tallic commission, was being
8'M-ionsly taken by the Brit
ish government, and caused
it to be unofficially Intimat
ed to Lord Salisbury that
this government had no real
desire that any steps should
be takeu that were likely to
lead to international bimet
allism, as it was slowly but
surely paving the way to
make the single gold stand
ard permanent in the United
State.
Senator Gorman's manly
open letter to the publisher
of the Baltimore Sun, offer
ing to withdraw from the
leadership of the democratic
" party o Maryland, if the
Sun would show its loyalty
to the democratic party, by
honestly supporting its can
didates, and its publisher
would take the management
of the present campaign, has
been the most ahsorbing top
ic of conversation in Wash
iugton since it was published.
Inasmuch a 8 the Sun has
claimed Senator Gorman to
be the only obstruction to its
support of the nominations
of the democratic party in
Maryland, Senator Gorman's
offer has placed it where it
' must present some better ex
cuse for ignoring the offer
than it has yet done, or run
the risk of losing the confl
dence of many democrats
. Democratic sentiment in
Washington t s practically
unanimously on the side of
Senator Gorman in this con
troersy. In. that open let
ter Senator Gorman thus de
fines his attitude towards
the Civil Service Law: "I am
unaletrably oppossd, except
in judicial places, to lile ten
ure of otiire. It is incompat
ible with our free institu
tions. I believe that the
highest standard for ad mis
sion to the Civil Service
ehoulJ be honesty and cn
pacity. IV he n appointed
persons in public employ
should be free from politica
assessment, but I am una!
terably opposed to any rule
which will prevent the pjo
pie, at stated and fixed per
iods from changing theirpub
lie servants."
Is is no longer a secret that
Gen. Fitz Lee, who has been
much before the public since
he became our Consul Gener
al to Cuba, will be a candi
date for the seat now held by
Senator Martin. It is also
fully understood that Gen.
Lee will, when h e returns
from Cuba, probably early
next year, begin' a personal
canvass for the Senatorship,
which he intends ahull cover
the entire State of Viigmia,
even to its remotest corners.
The administration fully
recognizes the danger , of a
big Treasury deficit during
the next fiscal year added to
that wheh is being piled up
during the current fiscal
year, and at the last Cabinet
meeting it was determined
that the departmental esti
mates for appropriation to
be submitted to the coming
session of Congress, should
be cut down as low as possi
hie, in order to try to get the
expenditures down to the re
ceipts o f the government,
This is confirmation of the
arguments presented by
prominent democrats while
the tariff bill was before Con
gressthat the bill would
not raise sufficient revenue. -
No one in administration
circles has denied the state
ment that Attorney General
McKennais to have the va
ancy ruadeb.Y the retirement
of Justice Field from the U.
S. Supreme Court, on Decem
ber 1, although there is one
special and particular reason
why Mr. McKenna should
rever sit on the Supreme
,'ourt he is too friendly to
the big corporations, this
was known before he came to
Washington, hue additiona
proof was given by his avid
lty to ratify the bargain
made under the Chveland ad
ministration for the sale of
the Union Pacific Itailroat
to the Huntington ivoigani
zation committee, undercon
litions which particularly
shut out competition in the
bidding. An attempt is now
being, made to get Mr. Mc
kinley to interpose his au
thority inome way to stop
the sale of the Union Pacific
at least until the conditions
of the sale can be changed so
as to make them as fair to
one set of bidders as to an
other, but there seems to be
some doubt of his authority
and more of his inclination
to interfere, after Bohs Hanna
bad told the Huntington
ring that the sale sh'jul.l be
put through under the old
agreement, although thego
eminent will lose millions c
dollars by' the sale under
present conditions.
Some newspaper men are
terrible liars. In writing of a
cyclone out West one of them
said it turned a well wrong
side out, a cellarupsideoown
moved a township line, blew
all the staves out of a whis
key barrel and left nothing
but a bunghole, changed the
dnvof the week, blew the
hair off a bald headed man
blew mortgages off farms
blew all the cracks out of
fenee and took all tne tvinn
out of a "politician. Ex,
Dtat fofcaee Spit art Raokt Toar Lift Awij.
To quit tobacco aasllr and tower, be mof
netle. full of life, nem sad lgor, take No-To-Bae.thewnnder-workor,
that makes weak men
troof. All dnigsigu, Moorll. Cure guaran
teed. Booklet and sample free. AddreM
SterMnf liemedj Co. , Chicago or New York.
WHAT NEGRO RULE ME1NS.
The News and Observer in
an editorial says:
One of the most respectable
adies in Newbern had for
some time had in her employ
small c6lored girl, who
as so well tr?ated that when
she was bound out by the
clerk of the cTurt to a negro
rom the country, shedidnot
wnnt to leave her white mis-
ress. Armed with the order
ot the clerk for the custody
of the child, the negro man,
to whom the girl had been
bound, called at the home of
he white employer and de
manded that she go home
with him. Th girl secreted
herself and the lady, know
ing her aversion to going,
id rot disclose her hiding
place. Whereupon the negro
went down to Five Points
and obtained from a negro
magistrate a warrant a
gainst the lady forabdnction
of the child, an1 placed the
warrant in the hands of a ne
gro constable who served it
upon her. The lady did not
attend the trial, which was
held in a negro nut, but sent
an attorney to represent her,
waive examination and give
oond for her appearance be-
bre thesuperiorcourt. When
he lawyer appeared at the
place of trial, be found that
a negro lawyer had been em-
ployed to ptosecute the lady,
and when he offered to waive
examination and give bond
or her appearance lo th9
upper court, the negro law
yer objected, and jnsistei:
that the ladv should be
brought personally into
court. He made a violen
speech and declared that her
absence was a contempt of
court and was intended as
an expression of contempt of
court, and demanded tnat
she be attached for contempt
and be brought into court.
The negro constable, who is
a darkey of better since than
the lawyer, advised the mag
istrate thut he could accept
the bond without the defend
ant being brought into
ctfurt, and the matter was
settled in that way against
the protest of the prosecut
ing attorney.
This affair created great in
dignation among the white
people as soon as it was
known, and if the advice of
the negro lawyer to have the
lady brought into court by
the negro constable had been
taken, nothing could have
preventea a race riot. The
lady is the wife of a gentle
man well-known in the state.
The onty hope for decent
government m' North Caroli
na, not to speak ot any re
form, is votinc out the ind
ent corrupt and itfeorapete-.r
gang. The man who savs he
wants reform, and applauds
Russellism or Pritchardism
is a liar or a fool. Each of
these Republican leaders
may norv and then do a
gpod thing, but the whole
tendency of their leadership
is to tlevate bad men aud
lower the tone of public mor
als. If yon doubt this, look
at their white and negro ap-
)ointees holding state and
edernl jobs.- News and Ob
server. To Car Conitlpatloa Fontot.
Take Cuecareta Candr Cathartic. 10c or 25c.
II C. C C. fall to euro, drug glata refund money.
Edncatloi and Wares.
We find in the New York
IVorld an extremely interest.
ing, and, in this State at the
present moment, pertinent
summary of the report of the
Massachusetts Bureau o f
Statistics of Labor.
From this it appears that
tariffs have little or nothing
to do with wages. The Bu
reau found greater differences
in 'wages in like trades in this
country than between th
wages of the workers of the
United States and England
in the same occupations. In
other words, our mechanics
and laborers' incomes are
both lower and higher than
those of - men in the same
trades abroad. '
A more significant fact is
that Massachusetts work
men receive the higheu wages
paid in this country. What
is the cause of this? The
'World' says: -
"The statistics o f educa
tion undoubtedly furnish the
clue to it. They sbow that
Massachusetts gives each of
her inhabitants seven years'
schooling of two hundred
days each, while the average
for the United States is four
and three-thenths years o
two hundred days each.
"Further, while the average
wealth-producing power o
each mail, woman and child
in the United States is forty
cents a day, the" average
wealth producing power for
each man, woman and child
in Massachusetts is seventy
three cents a day-nearly
double."
The lesson seems plain. The
uneducated workman is at a
disadvantage. Illiteracy is
costly. Asheville Citizen.
Climate and Crime
The Secretary of Agricul
ture is testing, through the
meteorological bureau de
partment, t h e theory o f
French, Italian and German
scientists that the volume of
crime, notably suicide, is de
termined by atmospheric
conditions. This year the
number of suicides has been
extraordinary. The record
will surpass the statistics of
several consecutive years. In
all the large cities of the
country the suicides have ap
peared in large force. Poison
i n g, shooting, drowning,
have been the usual methods
of "shuffling off this mortal
coil," while not a few have
preferred to be pulveiized un
der the clanging wheels of
heavy railway trains. The
Secretary of Agriculture
should by all means pursue
his investigation. It will cer
t'linlv l- something gained
if we can estublish the theory
it" is working upon as solid
: f"?t, i.e., that after all, cntn
s ot violence ana an crimen
are prompted by a peculiar
ly moist condition of the at
mosphere; that a condition
of great heat and humidity
induces that Wt npual move
ment of the niolcculcH of the
brain which imp ! a hummi
being to envy, haired ani
i ii .... 1. 1.
Mittim: hikj un uiivi-iu lumn-
ness; yes, eTen munier or
self-destruction, according to
the eminent biologists t o
to whom man is but a me
chanical arrangement, a for
tuitous cuueourse ot atoms
and thought, emotion, pas
sion, but exudations of se
cretions like bile.
. i
An Odd Bridal Toar.
The story of one of the
strangest bridal tours ever
taken is told by the St. Paul
Globa.- Mr. and Mrs. Clar
ence Berry started for Alaska
immediately after their mar
riage, and have spent the
ast eighteen months in the
inhospitable region, search-
ing for gold. They were un
successful at first, but after
ward hearing of gold in the
Klondyke, they went there,
and have now returned to
St. Paul rich. Mrs. Berry
herself picked up $ 10,000
during the season. SKe is in
excellent health, weighing
twenty-two pounds more
than when she left, although
she has endured many hard
ships.
I would advise all who
contemplate going t o the
Klondyke," Mrs. Berry paid,
"to provide themselves with
the warmest clothing possi
ble. Icnrried with rat four
suits of extra heavy flannel
underclothing and stockings,
It is esntial that one's foot
wear lie near perfection as
possible. I wore heavy wool
en stockings all winter, and
my other dress was in keep
ing. 1 wQ.ild not advise any
one take the journey this fall.
There will unquestionably be
great suffering among the
miners already there, and if
a thousand more prospectors
go in theie is no telling how
great the misery will be.
Fx.
A Prompt Aniffer.
An amusing anecdote was
told me the other day by an
acquaintance o f Sol Smith
Kussell, the actor, concern
his littlo daughter.
Five year-old Alice had
been very disobedient, ant
her mamma, believing in the
efficacy of moral suasion
sent her to her chamber to
pray God to forgive her
naughtiness.
The little girl was absen
for a Jong half hour, and
when her footsteps wer
heard upon the stairs her
mother expected to see a
thorough!. penitent and
perhaps, tearful supplian
for God's mercy.
Cut Alice came blithely in
to the room, and announced
the response to her supplica
tions:
"What did Jesus say, dear?'
questioned her mother.
"W'y, hesaid,'GreatScott
Alice Kussell, I know a lot o
worse little girls than you
are," announced Alice with
gravity becoming the situa
tion.
Mrs. Russell wassilentwitb
surprise at the wit displajed
by so small a child, and she
now believes implicitly tha
the talent of the father de
scendeth unto his children.-
Ex. '
Marion Messenger:
Prof.
J. J. M'itt, of lakersville was
in :) Mwn hint week. His
i; . : : ltaker.jville now
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!
l Jill an. I ure
eXI''CtP.i (ill
the roll. Prof.
liritt stated that a few dajs
before leaving Rakensville
Sheriff Piitchard had spoken
to him of being able to walk
about town.
Ednrate Your Hnwol Willi I'a'fi'f'..
Cnnrty Cathartic, cum constipatfou forv.er.
tOo.iSc II C. C C. fall, druKplHs reluuJ tnouey.
Asheyille Citizen: ' George .
Johnson, negro, was convict-
ed of rape in the Wilmington
criminal court, and sentenced .
to be hanged. Johnson as
saulted a young colored wo
man. He was defended by
two colored lawyers, while
Solicitor Richardson, for the
State was assisted by Con
gressman Geo. 'J. White.col-
ored. The jury in the case
consisted of 11 white men
and one negro-
T Cor Coaatlpattun Vorovc.
Tak nniicareta CandT Cathartic, 100 or ISO.
If C C C. fall to cure, druggiau refund mooey.
PROFESSIONAL.
W. B. COUNCILL, Jb.
Attorney at Liy.
Boone, N. C.
W. B. COUNCILL, M. D.
Boone, N. C.
Resident Physician. Office
on King Street north of Post
Office.
E. P. LOV1LL. J. C. FLETCHERj
I.OViLl & FLETCHER
ATlOUNhYSATLAW, .
- BOONE, N. C.
8Q" Special attention aiveu
to the colletion ofcmims.
T. C, Blackburn, H. D., Boone, K. C.
Dr. T. J. Prontt, Mart, H. &
Blackburn & Profitt
Associated
practicing physi-
cians.
IS-falls promptW attend
ed. 8 5 ,'97.
WILLIAM R. LOVILL.
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Sutherlands, N. C.
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