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. :' r ; .y.:,:; UW- A 7 V vol: BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, N. C , THURSDAY APKIL,G, 1899. NO. 14. .Thp WarTax. A tabulated , statement of the Internal Revenue Bureau shows that t be total receipts under the war tax law up to February 1. Itf99, amount ed to $62.012.' 191. Thedia tribution of the tax was hs follows: For stamps o n checks, documents and pnt ent 'medicines. $26,383,440; beer, $20,084,400; .special ta xe, $4,238,807; ciga rs a nd Hga;ettes,; $2,502,058; to bacco and snuff, $8,162,621; inheritances, $253,951; ex cise tax, $380,271. Thin in durates an annual revenue of upward o f $106,000,000 from the war tax. At the name time, as the Philadel phia Record points out, the government expendituresnre increasing at a correspond ing rate, and it will be h long time before tWrecan be anv hope of a repeal of the law. Pivoi YoirPiiise : 11 You feel the blood rushine M You feel the blood rushine II- along. but wnat kind or blood? That is the question. Is it pure blood or Impure blood? If the blood Is Impure then you are weak and languid; your appetite Is poor and your digestion is weak. You can not sleep well and the morn ing finds you unprepared for the work of the day. Your checks are pale and your com plexion Is sallow. You are troubled with pimples, boils, or some eruption of the skin. Why not purify your blood ? will do It. Take it a few days and then put your finger on your pulse again. You can feel the difference. It Is stronger and your circulation better. Send for our book on Impure Blood. If you are bilious, take Ayer's Pills. They greatly aid the Sarsaparilla, They cure constipation also. WrKm tm our Doctor: Write them Irmly all tbe partlral.n ir oue. ton t rotplT. wlthon Addru,IR. J. O. ATER. PROFESSIONAL. W. B. COIJNC1LL, Jr. Attorney at La k. -Boone, N. C. W. B. COCNCILL, M.B Boone, N. 0. Re ident Physician Office on King Street north of Post Office. E. F. LOViLL. J. C. FLETCHER. I.OViLL & FLETCHER. A Tl OllNl'j YS A T LA W, ' BOONE, N. C. tffi'Special attention giveu to the colletion ofclaimsJi Dr. J. M. HOGSHEAD, "Cancer Specialistf BANNER'S ELK. N. C fto Knile; No Darning Out. Highest references a rjrl 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 how small. Examination free, letters answered promptly, and atisfaction guaranteed. I i Promt m in T( juoweu. mug. KTXI WASHINGTON LETTER; From our Regular Correspondent V. Whewj gnch a rumpus has not.tnken place iluriri tht present administration'. us is now raging around the heud of Attorney General Griggs. It's all about a letler that Griggsjwrote about trusls, containing opinions that the remainder of the administra tion are afraid to stand tor. Some of hit fellow members of the cabinet have said a few things to Griggs, but it is understood that their "re marks will be entirely forgot ten when Mr. McKinley re turns and empties liiH vials of wrath upon him. Some of the administration hangers- on say thtft Griggs was bun coed into writing the letter by his correspondent, w li o asked for the information, stating that he was a repub lican; and that. he would not have written it had he sup posed It would have been published. Ofcouise, every body knew that the adminis tration was not unfriendly to the trusts, with Which Boss Hanna has such close business relations, but, in de ference to voters who do not share iu the profits of the trusts, it has been under stood by those who are close to the throne that an anti trust plank was to be insert ed in the next republican plat form, meaningless, of course, to head qff the democratic claim, that the repubficans are responsible for all the trusts. Mr. Griggs must have known this. Yet he wrote as follows to a conespoiv.lent unknown to him personally, concerning trusts: "Asa mat ter of fact, all of the compa nies which yourefertoasnow organizing for the purposoof securing complete or partial monopoly of different branch es of manufacture, are simi lar to the suar combination, and are not within the juris diction of the Federal Courts. If ameanable to any law they are ameanable to the laws of the respective states." But the following ts the gem of the letter: "With reference to these large combinations of capitol which are now for ming, my own judgment is that the danger is not so mush to the country at. large as it is to the people who are induced to put their money into the purchase of the stock." There is nothing in this situation to make demo crats mad, but a prominent republican, after a number of unprintable things, said: "The Attorney General hns gratuitously made the an nouncement that thegovern m ent is powerless to prevent or regulate the formation of combinations of capital to control the manufacture of the necessaries of life, and he winds up this remirkable statement with a flippant re mark about the danger of investing in truststocks. Mr. Griggs is in a fair way to be- comea second Buichard to the republican party." Senator Stewart, of Neva da, who never minces words when he ex presses an opinion, said of Col. Bryan's refusal to attend the Belmont Jeffer son banquet: "Bryan made ;he hit of h's career when he refused to; attend the Bel tnont $ 10 dinner. Not one of the crowd would ever vote the democratic ticket any how. Bryan's position brings him closer to the people. Con sorting with renegades would estrange them from him. He w ill certainly Tbe renominat ed in 19U0. The Chicairo platform will be reaffirmed, and the democracy will win." , The heavy price of Ameri can life and blood paid for our new victories over the Filipinos in the heavy fight ing of the Inst three days, in consequence of the movement of Gen. Otis against Aguinal do, adds interest of this plain talk from ' Senator Mason, who is now in Wash'ngton. "I find," said Senator Ma son, "a pronounced change of sentiment among men with whom 1 talk. Substantial business men who three months ago were red-hot for expansion, now s a y they have had enough of it. I uk them how about the prestige of their, country, and they say they care little about prestige derived from con quering such men, but the taxes resulting are what they fear.. The , idea o f calling thope Filipinos rebels as so me of our newspapers persist in doing is unjust. They have never taken the oath cf alleg iance to the U.S. They want ed independence from the start and they said so. They will always hate usand noth ing is to be gained by con quering them. Even if wedo overcome. thmi, they will turn around and poison our people, lhave just learned from the Surgeon General's office that 21 per cent of our men out there are afflicted with some loathsome dis ease, this is a oa1 begin ning for our armj . I am not a high moralist, and not so much opposed to stealing; in itself; but 1 do question the judgement of a man who steals a red-hot stove that he is in no position to carry off.. Such a thief is a fool. The attempt of the United States to steal the liberty of the Filipinos is of the same sort. I believe the American people are waking up to this question." "It is a little odd," said a promineatNew Yorker, "that none of the shrewd newspa per men have nosed out the true inwardness of the sud den friendship of Boss Piatt for Teddy Roosevelt. The guess that Plati, who has been a guest at. Teddy's Al: bany home, grooming Teddy to be a candidate against McKinley for the republican nomination for President next year, is away off; Piatt pledged the New York dele gation to McKinley in the early. days of theadministra tion,and his jollying ot Ted dy is for the purpose of pre venting his trying to inter fere with the carrying out of that pledge. Watch the re sult, and ,kou will see that this is straight." ASTOZIZA. TlM Kind Yin Kan Always Bought Bean the f : , THE TRUST LAW. : There has been a good deal of discussion regarding the new law against trusts, and some confusion has arisen, regarding the provisions. The following is the full text of the act as passed: The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Section 1. Any corpora tion orga nized under the laws of this or any other State or county for transacting or conducting any kind of Busi ness in this State or any partnership or individual or Other association of persons whatsoever who shall create, enter into, become a member oforapartv to any pool, trust, agreement, combina tion, confederation or under standing with any other cor poration, onrtnership, indi vidual or other persons to regulate or fix the price of any article of merchandise or commodity, or shall enter into, become a member of or a party to any pool, agree ment, contract, combina tion or confederation to fix or limit the amount of quan tity of any article, commod ity or merchandise to be man ufnetured, minr-d, produced or sold in this State shall he deemed and adjudged guilty of a conspiracy to defraud, and be subject, to penalties ns provided in this act. Sec. 2. It shall not be law ful for any corporation to is sue or to own trust certificat es, or for any corporation, agent, officer or employee or the directors or stockholders of any corporation to enter into anj combination, con tract or agreement with any person or persons corpora tion or corporations, or with any stockholders or director thereof, the purpose and ef fect ot which combination, contract or agreement shall be to place the management or contract of such a combi nation or the manufactured product thereof in the hands of any trustees with the in tent to limit or fix the price or lessen the production and sale of any article of com merce, use or consumption, or to prevent, restrict or di mirmn the manufacture or output of any such article, provided that nothing herein contained shall effect the present investments of char itable or educational institu tions. Sec. 3. Any corporation or company, individual, firm or association violating any of the provisions of -this act shall forfeit flOO for each day it shall continue to do so, to be recovered by an ac tion in the name of the Slate at the relation ot the Solic itor; moneys thus recovered to go into revenue of the county in which thecauseac crues. Sec. 4. Any contract, o r agreement in violation o f any provision of any preced ing sections of this act shall be absolutely void. Sec. 5. Any corporation created or organized by or under the laws of this State, which shall violate any pro vision of the preceding sec tions of this actshall thereby forfeit its corpjrute rights and franchise, and its cor porate existence shall upon proper proof being made in any court of competent juris diction in this State be by the court declared forfeited, void of n-jn-effect, and i t shall he the duty of the clerk of said court to certity the decree thereof to the secretary of State, who shall take no tice and be governed thereby us to the corporate powers of suid corporation. . Sec. 6. This act shall not apply to agricultural prod ucts while in the hands of tbe producer, nor to the lumber interests of the State; neither shall it prevent cotton or woolen mills from regulating the amount of their output or selling the same through an agent. Sec. 7. In any indictment or information for any offence niined in this act it shall be sufficient to state the pur pose and eftVcts of the trust or combination, and that, the accused was a member of, acted with, or m pursuance of it, without giving h i s name or description, or how or where it was created. Sec. 8. In proceeding un der this act it shall be suffic ient to prove that a trust combination, as herein de termined, exists, and that the defendant belonged to it or acted for or had connec tion with it, without provid ing all members belongingto it or producing or proving any article of agreement or any written instrument at all, and a preponderance of evidence shall be sufficient to authorize a verdict and judg ment for the State. Sec. 9. In all suits institut ed under this acl to forfeit charters o r corporations where a judgment or forfeit ure is obtained and thecause is not appealed k the Su preme Court, the Superior Court shall allow the Solici tor or prosecuting attorney prosecuting the suit a fee of not less than $100 nor more than $500, to be paid out of the assets of said corpora tion, provided that in case such cause is appealed to the Supreme Court and the judg ment of forfeiture affirmed the Attorney General shall be entitled to one-half of the free so allowed by the Super ior court for his service in prosecuting said case in the appellate court. Sec. 10. That this act shall not apply to any whole sale or retail merchant or jobber doing business in this State who is not a party to or interested in a trust, nor shall it apply to any fishing, trucking or canningindustry in this State; nor to any per sons, firms or incorporations engaged therein. But no per eon or firm shall be deemed to be the agent of a trust be cause of thesaleof trust man ufactured goods or products when the said person or firm buys said goods or products and sells the same as his or its own property. Sec. 11. That all laws in conflict with the provisions of this act are hereby repeal ed. See. 12. That this a c t shall be in force from and af ter its ratification. (X H. Mebane, State Super intendent of schools has is' sued the following: ;;' Tbe manuscript of tfjepub lie school law and notes there on were placed in the ttands of the printer on Match 15, but owing to the law suits, injunctions, etc., I have no assurance of a definite time' ae to having the school law published hence this letter. The superu'sor will hold his office and discharge his of ficial duties until the end of the school year, or until his successor, the county super, inten jent of school, is elect ed and qualified. The coun ty superintendent of schools will be elected by the county, board of directors on the sec ond Monday in July, The county supervisor cannot do any visiting of schools since the 7th of March because there has not existed a coun ty board of education since that date under whose super vision this work must! have been done in old r to be in accordance with law. The new county board of direct ors will allow the countyrsu per visor pay for his' services rendered in public school work siiice 7th of March. Rnch as examination of teachers, signing vouchers, etc.; such compensation as was allow ed by law bv the count boards o f fducatou. It would be well for the countv supervisor to meet with the county board of education and county boards of direct- iU J 11 1- uiB uu i iie seconu Aionaay in April and assist in everyway possible to make clear and plain matters of record ns to the public schools nndgive all the information possible, so that the school interest and work will not be injured by change of officers. The township committees will sign orders of teachers's sal ariesto finish up contracts trade with teachers for the schools now in operation. These orders to be endorsed by the county supervisor as heretofore. Original Observations. All wheels are tired thatat tempt to movo on our roads. The mantle of chnritv is woven in the loom offorbear a nee. "Time will tell," says an old adage. In this respect time id like a woman. Some people do not have to wear sprigs of evergreens to show their verdancy. Where two or three women are gathered together there gossip finds a congenial home. It is plainly evident that the great foreign powers are preparing to smash China all to pieces. Why tench a girl to speak several languages, when, as a wife, she can talk him bald headed with one? The minister whose pay for a marriage is a kiss from the bride only gets face value for his service. If you would woo the Fili pino maid, lay all sentiments aside, and wear a suit of a single belt adorned with a 'possum hide. This trust business has in deed become a grave affair, as a coffin combine has been organized, and we are to be pursued underground. We hear a great deal a bout the third party movements. We li8ve beard this move ment it is the old man com ing to see whether hisdangh tei has gone to bed. -Orange ' (Va.) Observer. v- 'li; .- .Willi
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