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He Couldn't Help It.
.Inle Carr just couldn't help
it! It is in him,and must
show itself. The University
needs some more money, and
of course, bis hand quickly
respondel to the impulses of
his heart mid his love.for his
Almu Mater. If there b e
those who would condemn
him nnd others of our fellow
citizens for this generosity to
finch institutions, there will
be those to pome nfter who
will bless the memory of such
'men men whose loveof their
t, fellow men nnd of their State
trioved them to make such
investments in the boys and
pf lis the future citizenship
of the old State." Ard, above
all, God will bless them
there ore no demagogues in
heaven. Morning Post.
Ft is said that in Havana
6,000 houses have been re
ceiving city water without
paying for it.
"Every morning I have a
bad taste In my mouth; my
tongue is coated; my head
aches and I often feel dizzy.
I have no appetite for breakfast
and what food I eat distresses
me. I have a heavy feeling in
my stomach. I am getting so
weak that sometimes I tremble
and my nerves are all unstrung.
I am eefllns pale and thin. I
am as tired in the morning as
at night."
What does your doctor say?
"You are suffering from Im
pure blood."
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wnai is ms remcuyr
You must not have consti
pated bowels if you expect the
Sarsaparilla to do its best work.
But Ayer's Pills euro constipa
tion. We have a book on Paleness
and Weakness which you may
have for the asking.
WrKm f our Docioru,
Perlnpt yon woald Uka to eonralt
eminent phyilelam tbout your coudl
Hon. Write u freely the particular!
- in your CM. Von will nostra prompt
jUUlCM, DB. J. 0. AVER.
. Lowell. Muli
PROFESSIONAL.
IV. B. COUNCILL, Jr.
Attorney at La r.
Boone, N. C.
W. B. COUNCILL, M. dT
Boone, N. C.
Resident Physician Office
on King Street north of Post
Office.
E. F LOViLL, J. C. FLETCHER.
I OViLL & FLETCHER.
A Tl OllNh YSATLA W,
BOONE, N. C.
t& Special attention given
to the eolletion ofclaims.t
Dr. J. M. HOGSHEAD,
Cancer Specialist,
BANNER'S ELK. N. C,
No Knite; No Burning Out.
Highest refereuces and endors-
ments of prominent persons suc
cessfully treated
in va., Tenn.
and N. C. Remember that there
Is no time too boon to get rid ol
a cancerous growth no matter
bow small. hxamwation free,
letters aqswered promptly, and
satisfaction guaranteed.
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BOONE WATAUGA COUNTY, N. C, THURSDAY, MARCH, 9, 1899.
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Prom oar Regular Correspondent
Mr. McKinley's backdown
from his army bill bluff will
go down in Congressional his
tory as the most complete
ever made by a President.
The democratic victory is
complete. The new Army
bill is practically just what
wm a offered to the adminis
tration ny Senator Coekrell,
on behalf of those Senators
who opposed a large stand
ing army it provides for
continuing the present status
of the. regular army of 62,-
000 men for two years from
next July, and enlisting 35,-
000 volunteers for the -same
period. The administration
Senators fairly fell over each
other in their anxiety to ac
cept Senator Cockrell's offer.
The next Congress, which will
be republican in both branch
es, will probably inflict a
large standing army on the
countrv, but that will not de
prive the Senators who killed
the bill, to do eoat this time,
of deserved credit.
Uur FhiliDPine policy is
bearing fruit quickly. In ad
dition to having an expen
si ve war with the Filipinos
on our hands, Dewey's dis
patch to hurry the battle
ship Oregon indicates the be
lief on his part that, there is
danger with more powerful
opponents. Just how great
this danger is can only be
guessed, because officials are
concealing what information
they have and pretending
that the dispatch from Dew
ey, which was made public by
mistake, had no meaning
Little information can be
gained from private dispatch
es from Manila as they are
all strictly censored, but it is
known that condition's are
critical, and that European
consuls there are making
some stiff claims on account
of the recent partial burning
of the town.
Mr. McKinley has been
catching it again from mem
bers of his own party in Con
gress. Senator Sewell, who
voted for ratification of the
treaty and foreyerythingelse
that has been asked for by
the administration, was so
stirred up by the progiess o
the war with the Filipinos
that he let out the fact that
he had been supporting the
McKinley policy against his
own mdgment. lie said em
phatically: "I never was in
favor of the acquisition of
the Philippines," and added
that he had begged Mr. Mc
Kinley to order Dewey away
from Manila, after he won
his victory. Mr. Sewell thinks
the Filipinos will have to be
practically exterminated be
fore we can control the Phil
ippiues. He lo thinks tha
we shall soon be at war with
Cuba, because of theadminis
tration policy.
Representative Johnson, o
Indiana, a republican, made
a long speech, nearly every
sentence of which contained
an uttack upon Mr. McKin
ley. He said of those who
attacked Alger and praised
Mr. McKinley thnt they have
"lacked the courage to lay
their ax to the root of the
evil and censure the gentle
men who, to reward him for
his political services and dis
bursements in the campaign
of '96, appointed him (Alger)
o his present position, and
had maintained him there
ever since, notwitnstanaing
lisincompetency and against
b e righteous complaints
hat haye been made against
VI a . . M
him." tie said mat Mr. Mc
kinley's recent. Boston ad
dress "was nothing more nor
ess than a carefully devised
misstatement of the issue,"
and of our Philippine policy:
I insist that the whole pol-
icy is not simply an error,
but that it is a crime, and
hat the Chief Executive of
this nation is the one who
ins precipitated upon us the
embarrassments and difficul
ties by .vhich we ire now eon
fronted." Speaking of the
laim that Mr. McKinley art
ed upon the advice of Dewey,
in demanding the Philippines,
Mr. Johnson said: 4,T h e
,'hief Executivecannot screen
himself behind the gold lare
of the hero of Manila.' He
expressed the opinion that
the real reason for Mr. Mc-
Kinley's policy was his con
essions u the seinsn capi
taliss of the country, hissur
render t o their demands.
These are the gentlemen who
furnished the money for his
nomination and election, and
who, I doubt not, hayeoledg
ed him a re-nomination and
re-election. These are the
gentlemen who are already
grasping after special privi-
liges in the Philippines, in
Cuba, and in Porto Rico. It
wa, I imagine, for their es
pecial benefit that the Presi
dent created his Advisory
Boaid to the War Depart
ment."
It iis an open secret in Wash
ingtori that Mr. McKinley
would be glad to receive Al
trer's resignation. Thestory
circulated last week that Al
ger was about to resign orig
inated in administration cir
ces. and was doubtless in
tended as a hint to Alger. It
brought out the defiant state
ment from Alger that he did
not intend to resign, of his
own accord. He is paid to
believe that Mr. McKinley is
afraid to ask for his lesigna
tion, although h e knows
that he is constantly being
advised by prominent repub
licans to do so.
When the Morgan Nicara
gua Canal bill passed the Sen
ate, there was seven votes
cast against it; when the Riv
er and Harbor bill, contain
ing an amendment providing
for the building of the Nicar
agua Cana) passed the Sen
ate, only three votes wer
cast against it-Senators Pet
tigrew, Teller and Rawlins
neither of whom are opposed
to tin Canal under what they
consider proper conditions.
Mr. McKinley has nomin
at?d Ex-Secretary Day to a
United States Circuit Cour
judgeship
The Charlotte JNews says
that Charlotte is to have a
new onera house. IL will be
owned by a stock company.
OABTORXA,
Bm Die a Tin Kind Yn m km
BlfuUit
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A CONTRAST.
Charlotte Observer.
It is quite a pleasure to con
trast the closing days of the
present Legislature with
hose of the last one indeed,
or that matter to contrast
he entire session of the pres
ent body with thnt of the
Fusionists. It is in the last
days of a Legislature, how-
ever, tnat its character is
made the more easily under
stood. Ifil has applied it
self strictly to business, has
egislnted for the best inter
ests of the State, and has
passed no vicious or oppres
sive laws, it will he running
along smoothly with a good
conscience, like the present
body is doing, rounding up
tB work systematically and
n order, the members know
ing that when their time is
up they can go home in no
ear of a frowning constitu-
ency. 1 lie present legisla
ture has been confronted
with some perplexing prob
ems and still has a few on
hand, but they have handled
them in a business-like way,
and there has been an entire
absence of the scenes of
rowdyism that characterized
the Fusion Legislature. There
has been none of the criwiin
ation and recrimination that
marked the sessions of the
Fusion body almost daily;
there have been no scandals
to nir, but plenty of Fusion
evils to correct, out of which
scandnls had grown a u d
overspread the State. Much
of the work of the Legisla
ture has, of necessity, been
in the order of repealing and
amending bad laws correct
ing the abuses which hud
been piled upon the State by
the Fusionists during their
brief icign, and this work has
been well done.
The next few days of the
Legislature will be crowded
with imnoitant events. Not
much time remains, nnd a
good deal ol work is yet to
be tiansacted, but so thor
oughly is the system of trans
acting busineHS perfected and
maintained by the present
Legislature that a greater
nortion of the measures, if
not all of them, will be at
tended t o before adjourn
ment. There is a greatdiffer
ence between an orderly and
intelligent body of men, leg
islating tor the interests o
their State, and a mob ot
nlace-huntrfrs who became
more frantic 88 each day
would go by leaving them
unprovided for. More plain
ly speaking, there is a grea
difference between a Demo
era tic Legislature and aFus
ion mob.
I have been afflicted with
rheumatism for 14 years and
nothing seemed to give any
relief. I was abletobearouna
all the time, but constantly
Buffeting. I had tried every
thing I could hear of, and a
last was told to try Chamber
lain 8 Pain Balm, which Idid
and was immediately reliev
ed and in a short time w a s
cured. I am happy to say it
has not yet returned. John
Edgar, Germantown, Calif
Sold by M. B. Blackburn.
Mr. J. F. Carter, of Salis
bury, committed suicide
Charlotte on 2oth ult., by
taking laudanum.
In God'i Good Tine.
Rocky Mount Motor.
Thetime8 are hard, the skies
are dark, but if we help one an
other and trust oneanother and
recognize the kinship of humani
ty, the burden will become light
er, and all will pull through the
deep mire of financial stringency
and embarrassment, and reach
in safety the high, smooth, solid
roadway ol ease, comfort and
prosperity. And another thought:
?rotn darkest clouds refreshing
rain doth come, and from every
ill some precious good is born.
We would never see the bright
and glittering dew drops had not
the sky wept over the shadows
of the night, and left her tears to
gl'mten like diamonds on the pe
tals of the flowers. We love to
'east our enraptured vision upon
those irridescmt glories whi.h
arch themselves across the sky
upon the darkened bosom of the
receding clouds and yet had there
been no black and and angry
storm muttering out its wrath
and its fury, those beauties would
not have been seen, for the rain
bow is,only born in the wedlock
of blackened clouds and sun
beams, and is nursed alone upon
the bosom of wrestling light and
shadow. It takes a dark audsom
ber background to reveal the
exquisite pencilling of the paint
er in all of their finest tintings, it
takes the shadows to bring out
in full oi bed splendor all ol the
gorgeous colorings ol his opulent
jye pots. Yes, shadow and dark
ness reveal to your visions the
richest and brightest glories that
are seen on earth. It take t h e
night to show us the stars which
twinkle like lamps through the
streets of heaven, and but for
the shadows we would never know
how beautifully they sparkled
there. And these hard times we
are now having will bring us a
blessing, fur as only the sick
know the blessedness of health
and yearn for the comforts not
purchased by wealth, so this de
privation and depression and
hard times will only serve to
sweeten and make more eujoya-
ble and delicious the ease and
comfort and relief which will he
sure to come in God's good time.
Tbe '57 Storm Beats the Last One,
Richmond Dispatch.
Mr. Spencer T. Hancock, of
Manchester, Ms among the
older citizens who think the
snow-storm throjgh which
we havejustpassed compares
with that of forty-two years
ago. In a letter to the dis
patch, he says: "This is a
pretty good snow. No com
parison to the snow of 1857,
or ("ox's snow, as it was gen
ernllv called. The snow of
1857 was not as long fallin
n.s the present one, but it fel
in much larger flakes.
should sny that Cox's snow
would average a foot and a
half deeper than this, and it
drifted a great deal more.
Four or five days nfter the
snow of 1857 I came to Rich
mond, twenty miles, in a
sleigh drawn by four horses.
Five friends were with me.
We were four days making
the trip. Cox's snow did not
all disappear until in April,
though it fell a month earlier
than this one. In my trip of
twenty mi'es to Richmond I
could farm a pretty good
idea of the depth of the snow
of 1857, and I know this
snow for depth does not com
pare with it. 1 was 34 years
old when the snow of 1857
fell, and have a pretty good
recollection of it. The five
friends who made the trip to
Richmond with me would, I
believe, if living, agree with
me in my comparison of the
snows, but they, though
younger than myself, have
all many years ago passed
over the river wherb there
are no snow-storms. z
NO. 10.
Dr. lliff Speaki on Koruonhnu
Atlanta Constitution.
Dr. T.C. lliff, of Suit Lake
City, one of the committee of
three appointed by the Evan
gelical churches of Utah to
file with Congress a protest
against the seating of Con
gres8tr an-elct Brigham Rob-.
erts, arrived in Atlanta yes
terday. Last night he deliv
ered at Trinity Methodist
church to a splendid audi
ence, a lecture upon Mormon
ism, and the remarkable ac
tivity that church is now dis
playing in "the missionary
field. His talk was an able
nnd effective arraignment of
polygamy.
The Mormons have 1,500
emissaries at work through
out the country at the pres
ent time, says Dr. lliff. And
it is in the south particular
ly, that they are moving en
ergetically to secure converts.
New England, however, and
the middle states, are not be
ing neg'ected.
In the spring, he sats.they
propose to double this force,
and begin a house to house
canvass. So unless the Chris
tian churches take active
Rteps to combat their propa
ganda, the entire country
will eoon be overrun. And.
it is with the view of starting
such an anti-crusade, that
he has visited Atlanta, and
other cities.
These emissaties, Di. lliff
declared lasc night, lead ma
ny good men and women as
tray by veiling the true facts
of their doctrine, and present
ing it in a really attractive
light. Having, however, liv
ed among them for twenty-
eight years, he is thoroughly
familiar with all the tenets
and traditions of the sect.
He says they are simply hor
rible, and it is his purpose to
expose them as they are.
Polygamy, he said, is being;
rapidlj restored i n Utah.
And this assertion he sup
ports with a statement, that
2,000 cases of it have recent
ly been authentically estab
lished and the county records
of the state show that 1,000
children have recently been
born of plural wives.
The Success of One Canning Factory.
Hickory Mercury.
Several years ago Mr. A.G.
Corpening, of Cora, Caldwell
county, commenced canning
tomatoes, berries, etc., on a
limited scale. He put up a
high grade of goods, which
he sold to merchants in small
lots in this section. Every
order brought larger orders;
the demand steadily increas
ed, and to-day he has a large,
nourishing industry, and is
unable to supply tbedemand
for his popular brands of
canned fruits and vegetables.
His factory has a capacity of
2,000 cans per day, and he
canstoiratoes, tomato soups
com. beans, berries, and
peaches. Mr. Corpeningbuys
large quantities of these pro
ducts from tbe neighboring
farmers, paying Rood pricea
for them. One of the farm
ers who lives near the can
nery told us recently that he
could make more money
gro wing tomatoes at 20 cents
per bushel than tobacco, corn
or any similar crop. He said
he received the last season
f?i0 per acre for his tomato
crop; which cost him $5 for
labor "and 100 pounds of
guano, and thnt. it was less,,
trouble to raise tomatoes .
than corn.
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