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Watauga .Democrat t :" " .i ' . - vol.; xi. WASHINGTON LETTER. From oaf Regular Correspondent It is daily becoming plain er to close observers that Mr. McKinley ami This advisers do not regard tiext year's campaign as a republican walk-over. They are diligent ly studying ways and means forcoralling electoral votes that they consider doubtful.' The trip that Mr. McKinley isnow arranging to make next summer to the Pacific coast is one of the ways deci ded upon. They do not ex pect to be able to carry Dela wire, Maryland or Kentucky again, but they hope for Ne braska and Kansas, both of which states are likely to be visited on Mr. McKinley's western trip, They are also beginning to realize that somesortofa hluff against trusts must be made. Repre sentative Laniis, of Indiana, has come to Washington es pecially to urge upon the ad ministration the necessity of doing something to convince the voters of the middle west that the administration is antagonistic to the trusts. Mr. Landis has done some very plain talking about the danger of the republican par ty and it is evident that he has frightened some of the administration men. Attorney General Griggs, doubtless acting under or ders from Mr. McKinley, has made a play to shift the re sponsibility for his recent queer letter about trusts from the shoulders of the ad ministration, by proceeding aeainst the Chesapeak and Ohio Association, generally known as the soft coal trust, under the Sherman antitrust law. The suit was instituted in Cincinnatti and will be di rected by the Solicitor Gen eral of the United States, the public will watch the prosecu tion of this case closely, ow ing to the Attorney General having so recently stated, in writing, that the trusts could not be reached by Fed eral laws. Evidently Admiral Dewey isn't one ot those who believe the end of the Philippine trouble to be in sight. Of course he is too diplomatic to discuss such a question where his opinion was likely to get out, when he cabled the Navy Department to send him six months engineering supplies for his fleet, oyery employee of that department knew that it was just as tbo' he bad cabled that it would not, in his opinion, be safe to materially reduce the pres ent , strength of the fleet at Manilla for some time to come. The latest Philippine news seems to justify the opinion of those who believe that the fighting over there is liable to go on for an indefinite time. Gen. Law ton has star ted on a campaign with a picked force,-with the inten tion of trying to run d o w n the Filipinos. Democrats are not the on ly ones who regard the Phil ippines as an undesirublepos session. RepresentativeSteele of Indiana, a staunch sup BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, N. porter of theadministration, who passed through Wash ington a day or two ago, said to Ihem: "So far as I am concerned, I would like t o trade the Philippines f o r a yellow dog, and then kill the dog, if there were nothing else involved but the posses sion of the islands." In naming one of the new battleships Georgia, altho' no petition had been sent from that state while they had been sent from a dozen other states, Mr. McKinley is said to have been actuated solely by a desire to show his appreciation of the courtesy with which he was treated during his recent visit to that state. This is creditable a like to the President and the people of Georgia. The other nameschosenwere, for batte-ships-Pennsylvania and New Jersey; for armored cruisers West Virginia, Nebraska and California; for ordinary cruis ers, Denver, Des Moines, (hat tanooga, Galveston, Taco ma and Cleveland. After taking several days to consider the matter, the Military Court of Inquiry has wisely decided to admit asev idence the reports submitted to General Miles on the beef issued by 147 officers who were in Cuba and Porto Rico. Just to give an idea of thena ture of these reports, the fol lowing phrases, all from dif ferent officer's reports, are quoted: "A miserable apolo gy for food." "No more un palatable food conld be is sued." "An unsuitable ar ticle of food." "A distinct failure." "It is nauseating." "Prefer going without meat to eating it." "Was soft, wa tery, insipid and unsatisfae tory to the rnen.""Wasstrin gy, tough and unpalatable.'' "Tastless, and the men would not eat it." "Caused a great deal of sickness and as a ra tion was afailure." "Wasun fit for use, and many of the men said it had been doped." "Was not fit to beissued." 'Was utterly unfit asjanartic le of diet." "Hungry men left it on theground." "The sight of it was enough to turn the stomach." "Was not fit for consumption." "Was open ly condemned by the men and generally thrown away.' "Was just as bad as possible short of being rotten." It produced disordered s t o ra- achs." There was a whole lot more of the same sort, but this will do for a sample. Mr. McKinley has accepted an invitation to attend the Confederate encampment to be held June 7th and 8th at Fall's Church, Va., under the auspices of the Daughters of the Cnnfederacy, and prom ised to deliver an address. Rheumatism Cored. My wife has used Chamber Iain's Pain Halm forrheuma tism with great relief, and I cao recommend it as a splen did liniment for rhpnmnHum - r ' - V V J and other household use for which we have found it valu able. W. J. Cuyler, Red Creek, N. Y. Mr. Cuyler is one of the leading merchants of this vil lage and one of the most prominent men in this vicin ity. W. G. Phippin, Editor Red Creek Herald. For sale by M. B. Blackburn. Different Treatment ef Cabin aid Filipino. News and Observer. The ODuonenta of thenolfcv of the administration in the PluliDDiiie Question believe tha t if the FiliDinoshad been assured that they would be given their independence, the recent war there would have been avoided. Theconditions in Cuba were riper for war than in the Phil ippine islands, and the Cu bans were restrained from conflict because of assurance thut they should have a gov ernment of their own when the American armv could be safely withdrawn. That gave satisfaction and secured peace. I here never was nnv occa sion for our having an army of occupation in the Philip pines, lithe President had not departed from his origi nal instructions to the Paris Commissioner, the r e c e nt bloody scenes aud worse carpet-bag government scand als would have been averted. In the evil moment he listen ed to bad advice and instruc ted theCommissionerstopay twenty million dollars for the islands. When that treatv was ratified, there still re mained an honorable course if we desired to do justice. We might have told the iiuppi nos that as soon as quiet was restored they would be per mitted to establish a govern ment of their own, of course ussuming the debt we h a d contracted in paying Spain to abandon its already lost claim of sovereignty. Such an assurance would have been approved by the Araeri can people, would not have violated the spirit of the Mon roe doctrine and would have been in accord with our tra ditional spirit of avoiding "entangling alliances." Instead of pursuing that policy, we told the Filipinos in our proclamation: 1 he supremacy of the Urn ted States must and will be enforced throughout every parr, oi tne arcnipelago, and those who resist itcanaccom plish no end other than their on rum." Those people had been figh ting for months for the right to govern themselves, and had almost won the victory, when Dewey appeared upon the scene. Was it natural for them to submit without a struggle after welcoming Dew ay as an ally of all men strut; glimrfor liberty, when told by us that they could not haye their independence, and if they did not submit to the supremacy of the U. S., such failnre would result in their "own ruin?" We rru8t remember that the Filipinos are far better educated and fitted for civili zation than the Cubans. Yet we promise Cuba that it shall be independent and tell the residents of the Philippine is lands that they must surren der their hope of "govern ment by the consent of the governed." Why do we say that the Filipinos are better fitted than the Cubans f o r self-government? In an offi cial report to the administra tiou duted Aug. 29th, Admi ral Dewey wrote: "In a telegram sent to the department June 23rd I ex pressed the opinion that these people (the Filipinos) are far superior in their intel ligence, aud more capable of sell-government than the na tires of Cuba, and I am fa miliar with both races. Fur ther intercourse with them has confirmed me in this o- pmion." When the facts are all known and theyjwill be all known wnen the soldiers return to Manilla there will be such indignation over the war up on the Filipinos as to cause C, THURSDAY, APRIL, 20, 1899. the Administration to orav for the rocks and hills to fall upon it to hide it from the wiath of the people. ' It is an unholy, an unrigh teous, an undemocratic war. Hympatly.and Succor. It is reported of Abraham Lincoln that during the war he frequently visited the hos pitalsand addressed cheer ing words to the wounded warriors. On one occasion he found a young fellow whose legs had been amputated, and was sinking fast. "Is Ihere anything I can do for you?" asked Lincoln. "You might write a letter to mother,' was the faint reply. The President wrote at the youth's dicta tion, "My dear mother, I have been shot bud, but am bearing up; I tried to do ray duty. They tell me I cannot recover, God bless you and father, kiss Mary and John for me.' At the end came these words as a postcript: "This letter was written by Abraham Lincoln." When the boy perused the epistle, and saw those added words, he looked with astonished gaze at the visitor and ask ed: "Are you the president?" "Yes, was the quiet answer; "now you know that, is there anything else I can do for you?" Feebly the lad said, i guess you might hold my hand," and see me through." So sitting down at the bed side, the tall, gaunt man, with a heart as tender as a woman's, held the soldier's hand through the live-long night till it grew rigid and cold in death. With us is it not delietful truth that Christ the greatest of all kings, in our afflictions is af flicted and that be can "be touched with the feeling of our infirmities." When! the sorrows of!ifeo'erwhelms us, when the cradle is empty, or the home desolate, when the mind is distraught, or t h e heart bursting with grief, we may go tell Je6us. In every red-hot furnace of pain, and bending tenderly over every dyingcouch stands one whose form is like the Son of God. Rev. E. G. Gange. Newton Enterprise: At the beginning of the campaign last year some of the county papers laid down the rule that they would not support any county candidate whodid not show h i s appreciation of their support by becoming a subscriber. Other papers intimated that men had been elected to office who not only declined to subscribe for their county papers but even sent to foreign cheap john print ing offices for the little job printing they had done, or at least wrote lor the prices in order to beat down the home office. It is in order now for the papers to begin reporting their experiences with the men they kept their ink flow ingandthe presses rattling forlaet fall. A Buddhist temple, with twenty-two acres of land, has been presented hy a Chinese viliage to the Ningpo Metho dist mission. It is said to be the first instance of the kind in the history of Christian missions. Advocate. A Comedy of the Woolsack. Chicago Record, There was a comical scone in the House of Lords not long ago when it became nec essary for the Lord High Chancellor, the Earl of nals bury, haing been advanced in the peerage, to introduce himself to himself and wel come himself to the House of Lords. On the day appoint ed for the proceedings the Marquis of Salisbury then as nowPrime Minister arose and announced that HerGra cioas Majesty, the Queen had been pleased to confer an earldom upon Lord Halbury. His Lordehip, who is a nerv ous little man, and reminded one of General Wheeler, climb ed down from the woolsack, and fled from the chamber in a most undignified manner, clutching in his grasp a scar let velvet bag, which held the great seal of the empire. A few minutes later he reap peared, having doffed the Lord Chancellor's robes and arrayed himself in the Earl's robes of scarlet Tnnd ermine. He was escorted by the black rod and the king of arms as usual, and by two friends. When the procession reached the woolsack they paused, and bowed reverently to the empty chair. Then it passed on and Lord Halsbury hum bly knelt before the empty throne and placed upon the seat his patent earldom. He was then formally escorted by his sponsors to the Earl's bench where, according to the ritual, he arose and made three bows to the va cant woolsack and rthreej to the vacant throne. At this stage of the proceedings the new peer should have been met by the Lord Chancellor and offered a'welcome to the House, but it may be taken for granted that Lord Hals bury shook hands;with him self most heartPy, and gave himself a welcome quite as cordial as he bad ever given to his colleagues, because the earldom had been very much wished for and long 'in com ing. The other peers crowd ed around to congratulate him, but he freed himself from them as rapidly as pos sible, retired for five minutes and then resumed his seat up on the woolsack as if noth ing bad happened. He Haw a Reflection of Uod. Scotch writer tells of an ex perience with an old Scotch farmer: "One day in the early spring I was walking along the side of a mountain in Syke, when I came to a hut in which lived an old man I bad known a great many years. I saw the old man with head bowed and his bonnet in his hand, and 1 cameupand said to him after a bit: "I did hot speak to you, Sandy, because I thought you might be at your pray ers." "Well, not exactly that,', said the old man. 'but I'l tell you what I was doing. Ev ery morning for forty years I have taken -off my bonnet here to the beauty of t h e world. OABTOniA. BMntU f ll Kind Yw Haw Atways BoagM NO. 16. A sad record in criminolo gy hthe fact that in fifteen .years Russia has sent 624, 000 persons to Siberia. The record is relieved o f some thing of its sadness, however, by t h e consideration that many of these exiles were not criminals really but only ad judged so by the harsh Rus sian political system. The gloom of the experience was somewhat mitigated too by the devotion of the friends of the exiles, fully 100,000 rela tives of prisoners having gone voluntarily into banish ment, that they might share with their loved ones the per ils and privations of a life in dreary Siberia. The story of Russian Vdeapotisrais a tale of numerous and, varied chapters, involyinsr alike many horrors and many her oisms. NVCYMU MClSffif U Perhaps yoa have hit" the if I grippe or a bard cold. Yea If may be recording from malaria or a slow fever; or possibly some of the chil dren are Just getting over the measles or whooping cough. Are you recovering as f sst ' ss you should? Has not your old trouble left your blood full of impurities? And isn't this the reason you keep so poorly? Don't delay recovery longer but' It will remove fllUmmni- ties from your blood. It la also a tonic of Immense value. Give nature a little help at this time. Aid her bv removing all the products of disease from your blood. If your bowels are not Just right, Ayes Pills will make them so. Send for - cur book on Diet in Consti pation. -....v'tf Wrltmt M of inma of th mottn!MHpfiyl- i etam In the Cniud Btatei. Wrltt '. I freely and raoetT t promt rtptr, . I MtlmU m.L "V... PROFESSIONAL. W. B. COUNC1LL, Jr. Attorney at Lay. Boone, N. C. 1 W. B. COUNCILL, M. D. Boone, N. C. Resident Physician Office on King Street north of Post Office. B. F. LOVILL. J. C. FLETCHER. I.OViLL & FLETCHER. A Tl OllNh YS AT LA W, BOONE, N. C. IfiS" Special a ttention aiven to the colletion ofclaim8.&k n V M Dr. J. M. HOGSHEAD, Cancer Specialist, BANNER'S ELK. N. C, Ao Knite No Burning Out. Highebt refereuces aud endorr merits of prominent persons suc cessfully treated in Va., Teen, and N. C. Pemeuiber that there is no time too boon to get rid ol a eincerous frrowth no matter how Huiall. Examination free, letters answered promptly, and attraction guaranteed.
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