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re If r ' t . i i f v VOL. X. BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, X. X TIlUltSDA Y, . FEBRUARY, 24, .1808. NO. 9. 0 5 0 o it WASHINGTON LETTER. . From oar EsjaUr Correspondent TheVdnge, "The occasion always prod'iees the man." like n,me other adages, some times lies. The President of the United States hart heen insulted by a Spanish 'dack guard who held tlx? commis sion of his iro eminent us Minister to the United States and onr department, of State has been held up to "the ridi cule of the world for allowing itsi'lf to be milled by Spanish shams labeled autonomy for Cuba ana negotiations for a reciprocity treaty; the insult was in writing, the author ship of which was acknowl edged by Senor De Lome, and has been published throughout the civilized world. Surely this was an "occasion," but no "man" has yet been produced. The natural. thing to be expected after De Lome acknowledged having written the published letter, was that Mr. AlcKin ley would at once send !) Lome his passports. Instead of that, he sent n request to Madrid that De Lome be re called, and before it was pre sented to the Spanish gov eminent, De Lome had re signed and his government had accepted the resignation, and now, Mr. McKinley is waiting to larn what Spain will say about it all. It hm, been proven time after time by Congress that politics cuts no figure in the solid backing always given a Pres ident who stands up firmly for any question affecting onr honor or rights, and Congress was and is still rea dy to back Mr. McKi a ley, ev en to the extent of a declara tion of war, but ho does nothing. It is now in order for Congress to make him do something, and its members are in the humor to do it. Even prominent republi cans ignore the very existence of Secretary Sherman when discussing anything rele ting to onr foreign relations. Sen ator Lodge, who takes a more cheerful view of the sit uation than many of his col leagues do, said: "Spain is evidently practicing duplic ity towards us, and the ad ministration will be forced to this conelasion if Spain docs not express regret for the ut teiances of her late Minister, and no matter what Spain may say officially, the gen eral belief will be that De Lome told the truth about the use of autonomy and re ciproeity to delude this gov eminent. L cannot prtdiet what the future will bring. I only know that i n Judge Day, we hae a Secretary who is firm, patriotic and capable, and that he will see that 1 his country does not lose caste a mong t he nations of the world by reason fof this incident." The House Judiciary Com mittee has hung up Senator Tillman's bill to permit the states to control liqnar car ried into them in original packages, and it will remain so unless some member of the Committee who voted a - gainst reporting the bill can be induced to get the matter u p again. Representative Latimer is working with thut end in view, and thinks he will s'lU'eed; The bill was passed by thp Senate some time ago and ivas intended to Hid the S. C. authorities to enforce the liquor dispen sary law, whirh was weaken- d by a U. S. Supreme Court decision. The. principal :b jection to the Tillman bill by members of the cor.iinittce who voted against reporting it was that, it ivould heastfp towards giving states the right to control interstate commerce. Not having the fear of Czar Reed before its eyes, the Sen ate ircreased the amount cat ried by the fortification Ap propriation bill from .f 4. 144,912, appropriated b y the House, to $9,052,404. Ii remains to be seen whether the Czar can compel t h e House to insist upon its orig inal bill. The addressesof the Nation al Organizations of the Dem ocrats, the people's party and the . silver republican:-., have been upproved b.v a joint caucus and will all be made public this week. Tin- key note of the addresses is co-operation by the friends of silver in the Congressional campaign. . Unless all signs fail, as they sometimes do, the treaty for the annexation of Hawaii vi II have its tat) settled this week. The Committee on Foreign Relations, acting up on the expressed doubt ' Senator Teller, one of the strongest annexationists, as to their ability' to ratify the treaty, will get a test vote in the Senate. If the vote shows that the two thirds ire for the treaty, its earlv ratifications is certain, as the opposition would not prolong the fight with cer tain defeat ahead of them; if the vote shows, as it proba bly will, that the treaty can not be ratified, it. will atonce be dropped, and a joint reso I u t i o n for annexation brought to the front. Czar Reed's latest bit of supression was to wipe Fri day and Saturday off the House calendar. Friday is private bill day in the House, and on the last Friday the House was in session, enough republican v oted wilh the democrats to pass a number of private bills, in defiance of the opposition of the Czar hnd his agents on the floor, In order to prevent a repeti tion of such tactics the Czar made tlm Ilmis'Midjonrri from last Thursday to Monday, and it. is said that he intends to do the same thing every week, in order to make sure that, no private bills are pass ed. ' The visit of the Scandana vian immigration has gone to thenorthwest. Theymak-j good citizens. The editors are in Washington nnd thy tell the Post that "in future our brethern will give the snow drifts of the Northwest the cold shoulder in favor of the fertile fields and ninny skies of the South." News and Observer. - la Care Constipation Forerer. Take Cnrcareta Candy Cathartic, Wo or 25a Ii C. C. ft fall to cure, drujKluU) refund money. THE DRUNKARD'S SERMON. It was growing late. The tide of humanity that, earlier in the evening had ebbed and flowed through the sticets of the great city had swept onward, leaving the strange and almost appalling sense o f desolation that comes when the noises of the town a r e hushed. The electric lights flared unnoted on the corners, the streer. cars pass ed at farther intervals, now and then a night workerhur lied by. his footsteps ringing out loud and clear' in the stillness. In front of a sa loon, whose lialits shone out bright and ruddy across the pavement, stood a tramp, unshorn, ragged, dirty, dis gusting. He watched with envious eyes the men passing in and out thr.iugh the swing ing doors, and then turned his eyes toward two young fellows in evening dress, who were coining down the street toward him. Tlcy had ben drinking deeply, and they stopped before the saloon door and looked rurioiixly at him. "By Jove." said one, "think of having a thirst like that find not the price of an ex tinguisher in your pocket! Heats old Tantalus all to pieces, th? Liquor, every where and not a diop to drink." He ran his hand in his pocket and proffed the tramp a dime, but before it could be accepted the other young fell o w interposed. "Say," he said, "lefs do the good Samaiitaii and set ho bo up to a good drink." The other hilariously con seated, and the trainpslouch ed into the saloon ut, the heels of the t w o gilded youths. The barkeeper set before them glasses and li quors, and, with a hand that shook the tramp poured out a brimming glass and raised it to his lijis. "Stop," cried one of the young men drunk enly; "make us a speech. It is poor liquor that docsn'i unloosen a man's tongue.'' Tie tramp hastily swalloweo down tin drink, and as the rich liquor coursed through his blood h e straightened himself a n d stood before them with a grnc? and dig nity that all his rags and dirt could not )bsjure. "Gentlemen," he said. "I look 1o night at you and at myself, and it seems to me I look upon the picture of my lost manhood. Thisbloatcd face was once as young and handsome as yours. rllis shambling figure once walk ed as proudly as yours, a man in a world of men. I. too, once had a home, and friends, and position. I had a wife as beautiful as an ar tist's dream, and I dropped the priceless pearl of her hon or and respect in the wine cup, and Cleopatra-like, saw it dissohe and quaffed it d o w n in t h e brimming draught. I had children as sweet and lovely as the flow ers of spring, and Isawlheni fade nnd die under the blight and curse of a drunken fath er. I had a home where love lit the flame upon the altar arid ministered before Pf and I put out the holy fire, and darkness and desolation reigned in its stead. I had aspirations and ambitious that soared as high as the morning star, and I brok and bruised their beautiful wings, nnd at last, strangled them that I might be tortur ed with their cries no more. To day I am n husband with out a wife, a father without a child, a tramp with no home to call his own, a man in whom every good impulse is dead. All, ail swallowed up in the maelstrom of drink." T he t ra m p cea sed spea k i ng. The glass fell from his nerve less fingers and shivered int.) a thousand fragments on thf floor. The swinging doors pushed opeji and shut to a gain, and when the little group about the bar looked up ihe tramp wasgo'ie.-.Veir Urk'.'uis Picnyvnv. Klondike a Hard Coi ntry. New York Woild. Los Angels, Cal., Feb. John Z. Harnett, formerl.v a supervisor of Ventura coun ty, went to the Klondikelast summer. He is sorry now. In a letter dated at Ronanza (iiil -h he writes to fiiends: "This is n very hard conn trv. While they have some gold here, there is a great leal said on the outside that is exaggerated and a great manv claims made for this country that I have discover ed to bo unfounded in fact. 1 would not advise any man to quit a good job and come to the Klondike. "I have investigated only in the immediate neighbor hood of this camp, in which there are probably about five hundred claims. Probably only five or 10 per cent of the whole numbfr of men who ha co been here for five years and today they have nor grub enough to carry them through the winter, and they are not 'whiskey heads,' eith er. As a matter of fact, the Alaska Commercial Trading company and the Northwest Territory Tradin f company have nearly all the best mines in the northwest. ' I have a steady job and expect to work all winter for $1 an hour. If I have mon ey enough in the spring to buy as much grub as I have on hand now. I will try my luck in tip gold fields. Rut, it will be on Uncle Sam's ter ritory. No Canadian govern merit, for me. Ir costs us $4.r duty o n our little outfit. When you make a kick the Canadians will ask: 'HVII, whv did tou pass the Ding ley" bill?" "Everything is staked out here, so there is no chance to (in any prospecting until spring. I am satisfied this is a poor place for a laboring man. Ifyon sit down and think of all the hardship.-, you can imagine you will 'have but half an idea of w hat must be endured to get to and live in this country. Will not some of the Popu lists and Silver Republicans refuse to join the pioerssiou nnd set up for themselves? No true silver man. whether Populist or Republican, will refuse to unite with theregen era ted Democracy, while the new Democracy fights the common enem,; but there will, of rouse, be straggleis, deserters, anil bride-lovers, calling themselves all sorts I of names. A Famous Mnn'a Mother. I trace to my mother's di rect influence three leading motives of her youngest son's life the love of personal lib erty, of religious freedom, and of the equality of the sex es, says Thomas Wentworth Higginson, in an Exchange, As to the more subtle and in timate influences, they ordi narily came by contact, not by preaching. She always maintained that the younger children of a large family had a much better chance for develop ment than the elder, because they had more freedom to de velop themselves. . With her elder children she always said over conscien tiousness almost bore her to the earth She felt personal ly responsible for every child ish fault. She had been rear ed in the school ot Locke, which regarded the human soul as blank paper, on which parents and teacher did all the writing. Rut her children were of strong and varied individuality, and she learned in timet.") study the temperament of each and be patient with its unfolding. Her whole formula of train ing consisted in these, three things; to retain the entire confidence of the child, to do whatever seemed wisest, and to he patient. Her trust in Providence w as absolute and controlling, as was her sense of the personality o f the Deity. Most, valuable of all her traits to her children, next to hei quality of sunshine, was probably her absolute recti tude, the elevation of her whole tone, the complete un- worldliness, so that no child of hers ever heard her refer to any standard but the highest. With all this was combined the conscientious accuracy in affairs, the ex quisite nicety in household details which belong to the best of the traditions cf New England. The Household. Col. Olds writes to the Char lotto Onserver: The Haiti more papers say that North Carolina is thegreatest State in the Union for mad dogs, to judge by the people who try madstones and go to the hospitals. T h e madstone fake is so well seated in the public, mind that it is count ed as heresy in some com munities to question its effic acy. Yet it is as great a fake as the "petrified men and women" sometimes shown Northern New York anil Ohio are the chief places for the manufacture of these "petri fications." They are made, buried, and then dug up. While Sherman was out in the air between Atlanta and the sea, rations sometimes got a littlo short, but the men were good natured a bout it. One day an officer found a soldier en ting a green peisimmon that he had pick ed up, and cried out to him: "Don't eat that, it's not good for yoa!" "I am not eatin' it because its good." was the reply; "I am tryin' to pucker up my stomach so as to fit the size of the rations Uncle Rillv Shermuu's-a-giv-in' us'-E, V'JM' 'fii.J J I .hill " hM demonttrttrd tii tboonMd timet that it I ilmo.t InfUllbl for mmn' PECULIAR WEAKNESSES, ImgnUrltle and derangement It has becomo tbe leatJiug remedy forthliclMi of trouble. It exert ft wonderfully dealing, trenfrth enlng and soothing influeuce upon . the men&tranl nr arm It cure "white" and fat. nicof thewomb. It itopi Uoodlug aud relieve (up- presaed and pnlnfol menstruation. For Change of Lifo it is the best mcdlciuo maris. It is beneficial during pregnancy, and helps to bring children into bomee btrreo (or y.uire. It im igorttca, l uiu la ei, strengthens the whole sys tem. This g; oat remedy Is offered to all BfHicI o.l women. Why wl'l any woman auuVr another minute wifb certain relief wl.b-n renrdt Wine of Cartful only cults i.M per bottle at your drug store. For adnf ce, In iwssm retjuiring tpMl Airtctinna, address. givuiQ tymptomn. tha " Laiilet' Adrinnry Department,' Th Chattanooga Medtcin Co., C'Jkw tanoogn. Tnn. Rtv.l.W SMITH. Camden, SC. ,isn: ''Mv wile used Wmo ot f.a-dui l heme lor tailing of lho womb and II etirl, cured her." PROFESSIONAL. W. B. COUNCILLOR. Attorney at La if. Boone, N. 0 W. B. COUNCILL, M. D. Boone, N. C. llesident Physician. Office on King Street north of Post Office. E F. Bingham, M. D., Amantba, T. C. Dr. 0. D. Bingham, Amnntha, N. C BPuam & Bingham. Associated I'racticiu Physi cians. BCall promptly attended a all hours. 2-17-98. E. V. LOVILL. J. C. FLETCHER E OViLL & FLETCHER ATIUUMYS AT LAW, BOONE, N. J. fii Spec in 1 attention given to the colletion ot chums." T. C, Blnckbom, M. D., Boone, N. C. Dr. T. J. ProiUt, Ydle Crucls, N. C. Blackburn & Profitt Associated practicing physi cians. CQTCalls promptlv attend ed. 8-5, '97. WILLIAM It. LOVILL. ATTORNEY AT LAW. Sutherland, N. C. Practices in the State and Federal courts. Dr. J. M. HOGSHEAD, Cancer Specialist, BANNER'S ELK. N. C. Ao Kniie; No Burning Out. IliglicHt reffereuces andendors nieiitH of prominent persons euc cesHfully treated in Vn., Tenn. and N. C. l'.einember that there is no time too soon to pet rid ol a cancerous jrrowtli no niattrr how small. Kxaminotion free, letters answered promptly, and satisfaction f;iinranteea. JOHN IT. DYER, BLACKSMITH and WHEEIRIGHT (St. Jude, N. C.) I make a specialty of repairing vuons, hacks, bupigee, etc. Wagons made to order on short notice: Nothing but the Itest material used and satisfac tion guaranteed. A trial it all I ask. - ? . v "
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