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.. ... ... . t. . ,.; . .... . . , ... . .. , 4 t, ...... ,V( 1- VOL. XL BOONE WATAUGA COUNTY, N. C THURSDAY, APIUL, 13, 1899. NO. 15. .4 4kj V ik 7 ? ST. A. lake Time. It is useless to fume or fret or to do as the angry house keeper who has got hold of the wrong key, and pushes, shakes and rattles it about the lock until both are bro ken and the door is still un opened. The chief secret of comfort lies iii not Buffering trifles to vex us, and in culti vating our undergrowth of small pleasures Try to re gard present vexations as you will regard them a month hence. Since-we cannot get what we like, let us like what .we can get. It is not' riches-, it is not poverty, it ishuman nature that is the trouble. The world is like a looking glass. Laugh at it and it and it laughs back; frown and it frowns back. Angry thoughts canker the mind and dipoe it to the worst, temper in the world--that of mixed malice and and re- l . enge. It is while in this JU7 . temper that most men be- come criminals. Ex. n Are you frequently hoarse? Do you have that annoying ticklina la your throat? Would you feel relieved if you could raise something? Does your cough annoy you at night, end ' do you raise more mucus in the morning? Then you should always keep 7, on hand a bottle of If you have t weak throat you cannot be too careful. You cannot begin treatment too early. Each cold makes you more liable to another, and the last one is always harder to cure than the one before It. Br. Aser's nan Pectoral Pltttci prctetis tte lugs rrcn aids. Help at Hand. ' If you fctve any complaint whatever and desire the best medical advice you can pos eibly obtain, write the doctor freely. You will receive a prompt reply. Addreaa, DR. J. C. AYER, Lowell, Mau. PROFESSIONAL. R. COUNCILL, Ju. Attorney at La s. Boone, N. C. W. B. COUNCILL. M.dT Booile, N. C. Resident Physician Office on King Street north of Post Ome. E. P. LOVILL. J. C. FLETCHER LOYiLU FLETCHER. A Tl OllNh YS AT LA W, BOONE, N. C. t&Special attention givev to the colletion ofclaims.l$l Dr. J. M. HOGSHEAD, Cancer Specialist. BANNER'S ELK. N. C AioKnite; No Burning Out Highest references and endors- ments of prominent persons suc cessfully treated in Va., Tenn. and N. C. Remember that thsre is no time too soon to tret rid o a cancerous erowth no matter how small. Examination free Jjters answered promptly, and EXl'LANATION OF AMENDMENT. Some Timely Questions A'ked and An swered. Question. If the nmend ment is adopted, will the ne Krot.be allowed to vote? Answer. Only such negroes will be allowed to vote 88 can rad and write, or such as are descended from those ne Kroes who could vote prior to the Constitution of 1835, or who havecoinefrom states where negroes could vote be fore 1567. 2 Q. Will the amendment disfranchise the uneducated whites? A. Certainly not. Under it, any white man who could vote at any time before 1807 or whose ancestois (that is, ns father giand-fathcr, great grand-father, etc.,) could vote at any time bet ore 1867 an register whether he can ead and write or not any time before 1908, and will al ways thereafter beentitledto o t e. This lets in every white man and Croatan.how ever lacking in education who has not been convicted of an infamous crime. 3. Q. Why this difference between the white man and and negro? A. Why bless your soul it is a matter of natural under standing and capacity. The white man has more sense and capacity than the negro and inherently understands the duties and responsibili ties of suffrage and citizen ship better than the negro and the Democratic party holds that the uneducated white man can be trusted to cast a more intellizent vote than an educated negro. That is what white Democrats be- leve, whether white Republi cans believe it or not. t, Q. Will white men who are registered nefoie 1UU8 have to be able to read and write to vote after that time? A. No. Every white man whoiegistersundrthegrand father clause of the amend ment before 1908, will be placed on the "permanent roll," and will lorever there after be entitled to vote, al though he may never know a letter in the books. 5. Has this amend ment been adopted and tried anywhere else? A. les. it is the law o a tr fr . . the Mate of Louisiana to day. 6. Q. How has the law worked in Louisiana? A. Splendidlv. The white people there are delighted with it. It has solved the ne gro problem there and es tabiished white supremacy permanently. 7. Q. Has any electioi been held under it in Louis iana? A. Yes. The last State and National election intha State waft-held under it. .-bW. Did the negroes in Louisiana register under it? A. Not many. 9. Q. Did the educated white? register under it? A. Yes. Both the educat ed and uneducated whites registered under the grand father clause, and wert plac ed on the permanent rol and will not have to register again m order to vote. 10. Q. Did the republi cans of Louisiana claim the aw was unconstitutional? A. Yes. They tried to fool nd scare the people there, ust qs they are doing here, D.v telling tneni oeiore the election that the amendment was unconstitutional, and hreatenpd the people with heUuited States Court, but the people paid no attention o them as they will not iiere and when the amend ment was adopted there, nothing more was heard of he cry. about the amend ment's being unconstitution al. 11. Q. You say an elec- tion has been held in Louisi ana? A. Yes. Both Stale and Jongressional elections. 12. Q. And the Republi cans did not take it into the Court? A. Why dear me, no. They knew the law was all right, and th'it it had been investi gated by the greatest law yerH in the State and pro nouneed sound and good. Why the Louisiana amend ment which i s practically the same as ours was pre pared under the direction of Judges Foster and Semmes, two of the greatest lawyers not only in Louisiana, but in the whole South. 13. Q. Has the coastitu- ionalityof the amendment been thoroughly investigat ed by our North Carolina a wyers? A. Yes. Thoroughly, fully and exhaustively, it was submitted by the Legislature to a select committee of the ablest lawyers in that body Some of these lawyers hat been study inr it for weeks and mouths before theLegis lature met. They had exam ined all the authorities and read all the bookstand thep agreed itwasconstitutionally sound. It was finally pra- pared under their direction bv George Rountree-recog- nized by t he bar and bench o the whole State as on of the soundest and Greatest law yers in the State. Finally there were about fifty lawyers many oi them the ocst in the State in the Legislature and every one of them voted for the amendment, and by that vote expressed thei opinion under oath that l was constitutional; for a member of the Legislature is under the obligation of an oath not to vote for any thing he believes to be un constitutional. 14. u. ho says the ac is unconstitutional? ."A word to the wise is su ficient" and a word from the wise should be sufficient, bu you ask, who are the wise? Those who know. The oft repeated experience of trust worthy 'persons may be ta ken for knowledge. Mr. W M. Terry says Chamberlain cough remedy gives botte satisfaction than any other in the murket. He has been in the drug business at Elk ton, Ky., for twelve years; has sold hundreds of bottles of this remedy and nearly all other cough medicine nranu factured, which "fchows con clusively that Chamberlain's is the most satisractorv to the people' and is the best. I For ale by M. B. Blackburn A. We!), Hon.JeterPritch- ard says so; but hesaid there was no negro domination in Wilmington before the elec- ion and before the revolu tion hurled them from power and drove their white allies into enforced exile. 15. C2. If Mr. Pritchard and the Republicans think the amendment is unconsti tutional, why do they trou ble themselves about it, for jerybody knows an uncon stitutional law is no law at all, and can neither help nor Hurt anyone? A. They are merely play ing politics. I hey hope by misrepresentation to fool the people and get back into power. They have not yet earned thn t they can not fool all the people all the time. 16. Q. Will the amend ment be adopted? A. Yes. By nn overwhelm ing majority. 1 he white peo le are determined to, make white supremacy permanent in North Carolina. THE NEff MOTIVE POWER. Chicago Record. The most extra ordinary exhibit ever given in Wash ington was witnessed at the Arlington Hotel last night iy the scientific circle of this city, members of the Cabinet, Supreme Court, diplomatic corps and other public men. it was given under the au spices of the National Geo graphical society, presided over by Prof. Bell, the ir. vent or of the telephone and fur nished an opportunity for Chas. E.Tripler.ofNewYork to show tor the first tune in public the new motive power which he has discovered ant calls liquid air. A descrip tion of this remarkable fltii and its uses appears in Mc Clure's Magazine for March and a moreelaborateaccouni will be given in the April Cen tury. Briefly and simply stated Mr. Tripler takes 800 gallons of ordinary air drawn from any window and bycompres Hon and cold reduces it into one gallon of a liquid tha looks like glycerine and re tains its form at a tempera ture of 312 below zero, As i warms it expands into vapor and then into air, just aswa ter is expanded into steam by heat. By controlling the expansion, Mr. Tripler pro P')ses to furnish a new motive power for the use of transpor tation companies on sea am on land, for factories, fiirna ces, and for every 'Other pur pose tor which steam am electricity are now used. Th expansive force is equal to 2,000 pounds a square inch and without an exhaust pipe the pressure is so great tha there is no material of siitfic ient strength to restrain it In other words, a pint, or a quart, or a gallon of this li quid will burst any vessel i which it may be confined un less there is nn opportunity for its gradual escape. .... . - Liquid air is manutaecured b y apparatus which Mr Tripler has invented. The first gallon or two is made by the use of coal or any oth er ordinary fuel, just as ice i m t is made in a raciory, nut J thereafter he is able to repro uce ten gallons of the fluid y the expenditure of two. A ailway locomotive o r a steamship will therefore ere te its own power from the air as it passes along its way, nd a factory engineer will simply turn the key of a yen ilation pipe, start his ma chine and manufacture fuel as he needs it. Mr. Tripler insists that this energy can e used with no more difficul and at a cost 70 per cent ess than steam, and, having mastered the secret of its production, he now proposes to apply it to practical uses. Mr. Tripler brought six gal ons of liquid air with him rom New Y(Jik, and in the presence oi five or six nun dred persons performed the experiments that are describ ed in McClure's Magazine. le dipped the stuff out of iis can with a ordinary tin dipper, just as a milkman would dip milk., Hedropped a potato into it, lifted it out in two or three minutes and hrew it on the floor, where t broke into a thousand lit ;le crystals. He took n rub her ball, immersed it in the iquid and then broke it as if t was glass. He dropped a tiece of beefsteak, and in a "moment it was broken into ittle fragments that looked ike petrified wood. He im nersed a tumbler of alcohol, and in a tew minutes it was rozen into a block of ice. He filled a pasteboard box with mercury, which, when im mersed in the liquid, air be came as hard as steel, and he used it as a hammer to drive nails into the table. He in serted copper. tin, iron and strips of steel in the liquid air, and they crumbled like piecrust. He demonstrated the expansive power of the liquid in a similar manner, and altogether performed ex periments that were notonly novel but amazing. Recent heavy rains have convened H. H. Pitcher, pres ident of the Bank of Liver more, into a believer in the efficacy o f prayer. During the long droughtanumhtrof ministers came into the bank and Mr. Pitcher told them if they would secure four inches of rain in Liyermore Valley by prayer he would pay the debts of their cburcheB. The ministers held a prayermeet ing for rain and a deluge came, the rainfall being over eight inches. v hen thn mm isters .called on Mr. Pitcher to redeem his promise he de clared that he thought they all belonged to one institu tion. They want him toclear off the debts of half a dozen churches, but he thinks he ouirht to be let off with a "400 debt on the nearest church t o the bank. han Francisco Dispatch, 25th. Rheumatism Cured; My wife has used Chamber lain's Pain Balm for rheuma tism witu great relief, and I can recommend it as a splen did liniment for rheumatism and other household use for which we have found it valu able. W. J. Cuyler, Red Cm, N. Y. Mr. Cuyler is one of the leading merchants of this vil lage and one of the most prominent men in this virin itv. W. G. Phippin, Editor Red Creek Herald. For sale by M. B. Blackburn. Things a Mother Should Sot Do. She should not forget that if she treats her boy as a gen tleman, she will do much to wards making him a gentle man. She should not treat her . boy t o perpetual frowns, scoldings and fault-findings. 'Sugar attracts more flies , than ' vinegar." Love wins her boy to a noble manhood. She should neverbesobusy or hard-pressed for time that she cannot listen to him. If he lives to be a rran he will nil too soon leave her. She should make the most ofhim while she has him. She should encourage out door exercise or sports, and she should not forget to train him with proper regard for his personal appearance. She should never allow him to form such habits as com ing to the table in his shirt sleeves, neglecting his nails or teeth or carrying soiled handkerchiefs about with him. She should never nag him, or forget that he is a creature of reason, not an animal that requires to be driyen. She should not try to break her boy's will, but be thank ful that he is manly enough to have a mind of his own and devote herself to train ing it in the noblest uses. She should not fail to instil in him a distaste for all that is vulgar. Household. Husbands Who Can be Managed are Worthless. An editor once asked me to write him an article on" How to Manage a Husband." I answered that I couldn't first, because I had never tried to manage a husband; sec ond, because I didn't believe in managing husbahds, and last, because a husband who could be managed would be a poor kind of creature whom it would be scarcely worth while to waste thought upon. There is no better principle for both husband and wifeto adopt in adjusting themsel ves to the new relation than that of trying to do each by the other what men are ac customed to call the "square thing." Many a woman un- derstands "managing" ahus managing' t-mnd better lhan she does doing the square thing by him, and many a man under stands and practices doing the square thing by other, men who would be affronted if be were to be told that, judged by his own business standard, he habitually dealt unfairly with his own wife. Helen Waterson Moody, in Ladies Home Journal. General Utis telegraphs that he has bought all the gun boats in the Philippine Is lands, of Spain thirteen in number. About half are in serviceable condition. Pay ment will be made from the public fund at Manila. Thepe gunboats will be of great ad vantage in cruising among the islands and ascending rivers. Recorder. PASTOR I A For Infanti and Children. The Kind You Hare Always Bought 6ear the Signature of I it .srVfZZT !t. - -f.. lm.it iiif-niFi - "" " ' ' 1 "
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