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.7 77V" " ' f '- . 1 ' "C-.i! V"V i"-'-(.,M.J ',"i.VlUi VOL. XL BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, N. C, TnUllSDAY, APRIL, 27, 1899. NO. 17. f !: v.v ..;!.! V. ,"7'";' -TV , . - . . . ... 7 ; 1 : i" . I ' u ' ' ' ' " ' 'JA .i it". jr T., "The orders were to let no insurgent live, mid off would go the whole side of his head, tr he would full with a. wound "hrousth his abdomen large enough to drop a po to to throuirh," are' the closing wordw of an account of n en gagement written by a Vol iinteer from the Philippines. The pity of i:; that our men .are in a position that re quire such orders and such butchery. Why are they there. There it no reason in patriot ism or justice why the coun try should shoot unoffending Fijipinos. It is r. scheme of ' MftKinley that is prompted by war s -glory or by poli ticsor both, News and Ob server. ' Ey-Tren8jirer.T. B. Byers of Cleveland county, suicided at his home near Slielbv on last Wednesday. Mr. Byers was a good man and apopu lar officer. Many persons have their good day and their bad day. Others are about half sick all the time. They have headache, backache, aod are restless and nervous. Food does not taste good, and the digestion is poor; the skin is dry and sallow and disfigured with pimples or eruptions; sleep brings no rest and w rk Is a burden. That is the causof all this? Impure blood. And the remedy? It clefts out the channels through which.' poisons are carried from the bodylWhen all Impurities are removed from the blood nature takes right hold, and completes the cure. If there is constipation, take AVer's Pills. They awaken the drowsy action of the liver; they cure biliousness. Wrtim to our CoofSA We hv the excliulv rvliwt of lome of the moat eminent yliTittfuu In the United stMei. Write trealy ell the partloulari In your eue. You will re. eoire t prompt replt, without rot. BU'IIW) J, 1 I. It. . Tnll ' VKOVEmOSAh. tt B. UOUNCILL, Jji. ' Attorney. at Lay. Boone, N. C. W. B. COUNCTLL, M. D Boone, N. C. . ? Resident Physician Office on King Street north of Post Office. E. F. LOViLL. J. C. FLETCHER. IMU FLETCHER. ATWliNkYS AT LAW, BOONE, N. C. f" Special attention given to the eolletwn ofclnims. Dr. J. M. HOGSHEAD, ' Cancer Specialist, EANNER'S ELK.. N. C Ao Kniie; No Burning Out: Highest references' md enrlorr- 'ments of prominent persons sue cessfully treated in Va., Tern and N. C. Remember thot tliere is no time too soon to get rid ol a cancerous growthno matter bow small. Examination free, letters answered promptly, and ; ; atisfaction guaranteed. ; fjylij liJi.t.n.J IJ'Wii; iiHJ,i.lJiipinl .i JF'iyMPir fax Booker T. Wnshlngton'g Advioe. Charlotte Observer. ' , Booker T. Washington, the nero orator, educator and student of nosological nondi tions, rivch his people in N. 0. edm Rood advice. Aletter from him is attracting -at. ten tion far and wide. It is writ ten from Tusketfee, Alabama, to Va prominent colored man in North rit)lina,":who ask ed "what should lie done to allay the present conflict be tween the races.'' referi'inges peoially to this State, ' Prof. Washington said: 'I have been asking myself lately some rather serious questions, and I want to put one or two of thera to you. Is there any reason whjT the negroes in the South should continue to opppsetl.e South em while man and his poli tics? Is not this the source of nearly all our troubles? Un consciously we seem to have gotten the idea into our blood ami bones that we are only acting m a manly way when we oppose Southern white men with our votes. "In. some way, by some method, we must bring the race to the point where it will cease to feel that the on ly way for it to succeed is to oppose everything suggested or put forth by'the Southern white men. "This I consider one of our real probablems. 1 helieve that there are thousands of white Democrats in North Carolina who are 50 iter cent better friends to the negro than Governor Russell, and I see no necessity in continu ing to follow Governor .Rus sell, who has no power to pro tect, or, if he has tlm power, does not exercise it, rather than these other vbite men, who can protect us if we cease to continually and forever oppose them." This is good urlvice, but it will not be heeded.; The Sou thern white manandtheSou thern white woman ha ve been just; as kindly disposed to the negro race since 1 h e emancipation of the race as during the slavery regime. The Southern Democrats have given the negroes em ployment, paid them wages, gone his bail when he got in to court, been solicitous, as to his temporal and spiritu al welfare, but when it came to politics the negro wa on the other side. The rare has always voted the Republican ticket en masse. The negro has lull? paid the debt of gratitude he owed that, par ty for his freedom. He has been used by it as a cats paw to i pull political chestnuts from the ashes. In the South the negro has done the vo ting and the white Republi can rara nds comparative ly speaking has held the of fices. We are making no com plaint of this. Wearemaking no effort to change the state of affairs. We are simply sta ting theconditions. And thus it will always be, until tt h e race as a whole, for whom Booker Washington is so ad mirably and strenuously la boring, catches up with him- and he is at least tweentu- lies in the lead. Bean the - inowno.u tL. V1.J m Always Bought XI. A DELITEKAN'CE Off XORKOXISX At the meeting of Concord Presbytery in Concord Rey'r J. Rumple. D. D., Rev. W. R. McLelland and Revv J. M. Wharey, D. D.wha were appointed n committee to frame resolutions on Moi m onism, reported thefollowing whioh. will be read in all the churches: "The committee appointed to consider and repoit on certain; papeis referred to them upon the subject of Mormonism. respectfully re port that quite a number of subjects are embraced in these papers, especially, "First. That. Mormonism teaches that polygamy or celestial marriage is a doc trine of their society and that it. is the duty of good Morm ons to 'live their religion,' (that is practice plural mur- riage); that such marriages have been contracted since the admission of Utah into the Union, contrary to tlHr covenant as a condition of their statehood, and 'espec ially that Congressman-elect B. H. Roberts is an avowed practical polygamist, and that he was elected for the purpose of testing the con stitutionality of the Uuited States laws on the subject. "Second. It is f-.irther sta red that the Mormon Church has now about 2,000 miss ionaries in many States of the Union endeavoring to make converts to their soul destroying system. "These papers make n re quet that, petitions be pre pared and presented to our respective Congressmen, ask ing them to co-operate in ex pelling the Mormon polyga- mist from the United States Congress and to take the necessary steps for the dis franehisement of all polyga mists in resdect to all mat ters concerning the Federal government. "These matters, your com mittee think, are oi very grave importance and de serve pur sei ions and careful attention. Your committee are aware that 'Synods and councils are to handle or con clude nothing but that whteh is ecclesiastical, and arc not to interrnedd'e with civil af fairs, which concern the Com mon wealth, unless by way of humble petition in cises ex traordinary,; at the same time jt is the d'.it.K of Presby teries to condemn erroneDs opinions,' which injure the purity or pence of the Church and to ordain whatsoever pertains to the spiritual wel fare of the churches under their care. In view of these facts: First. The Presbytery would solemnly enjoin . upon its ministers to instruct the people concerning the danger ous attitude of the Mormon combination against the sat red rights of the family, and especially against the given rights of woman. 3jd , "Second. We would respect fully urge all of our people to inform themselves and their families concerningtheohjet cf these so called elders, who creep into houses, diffuse er ror and pervert the minds of our people irom the truth of the Gospel, . . "Third. 1 hat, our citizens be urged to remember that it is not only their privilege, but their solemu duty, by their votes, and by advise and petition, to guard the iberty of our people against the encroachment of evil-dis posed persons and combina tions who would sap the very foundations of morality and destroy the purity of the family. "Fourth. That rhe emergen cy btiore us now is oi:e of thosH extraordinary civil -af-faiis, which not only justify the interference of our relig ions Deople but imperatively demands that they should express their wishes to their representatives in the next Congress of t he United States "Fifth. That we recommend that our people prayerfully consider the dangers that threaten the very foundation of society, and that thej cir culate petitions nnd secure signatures thereto against Mormon aggressivness, in order that our Representa tives in Congiess may be con strained to take such action as will be effective in guard ing the rights of the family and in fostering and protec ting public morality." How to Kill ft Town. Just let your subscription go. It's only a small sum the publisher doesn't need it. If he asks for it get as hop ping mad as you can and tell him to stop the paper you never read it anyhow. Go home and borrow your neigh bor's. Wheu the advertising or job man comes tell him you don't need to advertise everybody knowsyou;that you will try to get along with out pointed stationery it's too expensive; that business is slack and you must econo mize. Never drop in to see the editor unless youwarta corn pliiuentary notice or a leng thy obituary for a .beloved relative. Never recommend the paper to anybody; when you speak of it sav, "Yes, we have a little sheet, but it don't amount to much." Keep it up a year or two and yon will have a deadnewspa per, a daad set of merchants, and a dend town. A Watermelon Philanthropist. A pilanthropir: gentleman of Dublin, Ga , hasjust made an announcement which will doubtless call down on him the blessings of the colored people of that vicinity at least. His hobby seems to be cheap watermelons, to take the place of the, fruit and blackberry crops destroyed by the many freezes of the past winter. He says he has twenty acres of good land near the town that hewilldo nate to any industrious per son or persons who will culti vate it in melons; that he will furnish the land the necessa ry fertilizers nnd mule and plow free of cost to the culti vator, under the single con sideration or condition that he will keep the1 market sup plied with fine melons at 1 cent apw-'e. He wants every body to have an abundance of good, cheap Mlons.Bal timoreSun. The Citizen says that 19 persons, 14 of them adults and recent converts to the Catholic faith, were confirm ed by Bishop Haid in the Catholic church at Asheville The Wilkes Bond Gate. Wilkesboro C ironHe. The expected came to pass at Greensboro last week. Judge Purnell, in the bond case, announced his innde-up opinion in favor of the bond holders and against the peo ple of the county. He made the temporary restrainingor der permanent and decided the bonds valid, just as Rail road Attorney Price stated a month ago, would be dime. Kerr Craig, of Salisbury, was appointed receiver of the rail road raoniej. An appeal was taken to the U. S. Court of Appeals at Richmond. From there it will go to the United States Supreme Court again. Charles Price represented the railroad arid bondhold ers, and Judge Avery and T. B. Finley represented thepeo pie. We understand' that our friend Thos. B. Finley made the speech of his life. He 'elo quently defended the popleof Wilkes from the gratuitous and wholesale charge of "re putation and dishonesty. He clearly showed by facts that if there was "repudiation" in the matter, the railroad was tht "repndiator"in that it had repudiated its con tract to give thecounty $100 000 worth -f stock for $100. 000 of subscription. This contract on the part, of the railroad has never been com plied with; the county has no stock whatever. Mr. Finley's speech was a good one. The case wus very warmly fought, and was rather live ly. The answer filed by the county authoritiescontained some reference to Ex-Sh?riff Call's collusion with the rail road in the matter. At the lastjnoment, Mr. Call thro' his attorney Mr. Barber, put in an answer against the county and charged frauib collusion and so forth on the oart of the commissioners and others of the county, stating that thecommission ers wished to squander rail road moneys on hand so as to defraud the railroad. Mr. L.C.Jennings, county com missioner, who was present, filed an answer to Mr. Call's charges, den.ving them very vigorously. Mr. Call's an swer was not filed with the regular papers in the case hut was laid on the Judges desk and sprung in the case without the knowlege of the county representatives. It made things lively for a while. Charlotte Observer: A year ago last Monday Consul Gen eral Lee left for Cuba. On the day following Piesident Mc Kinley asked authority to in tervene in Cuba. Congress passed the intervention reso lution on April 19. On t h e 20ih the ultimatum was sent to Spain; 21st, Spain sent passports to Minister Wood ford, 22nd, proclamation of Cuban blockade; first prize captured by the Nashville; 23rd. the President, called for 125,000 volunteers; 24th, state of war declared to have existed since the 21st; 27th. Admiral Sampson bombard ed Ma'ntanzas. - E v a ngel is t W . P. Fi fe is repotted to be seriously ill at Eldorado, Ark. where he went recently to couduct a meet ing. Mrs. Fife left Thomas-.' ville a few nights ago lor, the 'A REBUKE. John'Hiivnes was famous for his his pithy sayings. At '" one time he oyer heard h i a daughter tnd some young friends criticising certain neighbors moresexerely than wae pleasing to him, where upon he proceeded to reia them a lecture on the sinful ness of scandal. "But, father," remonstra ted his daughter, "we must say something." "If you can do nothing het ter," retorted Mr. Hnynea dryly, "get a pumpkin and roll it about. That will be at least innocent diversion." Not long afterwards a con ference of ministers met at his house. During theeyening . an earnest discussion on cer tain points of doctrinearo8e, and from the lofty pitch of some of the voices it seemed as though some of the dispu tants at least were in danger of losing their temper, At that' juncture Mr. Hayne's daughter quietly entered the room, bearing a huge pump kin. She put it down in front . of her father and said: 'There lather, roll it about, roll it about." Mr. Haynes wascall cd upon for an explanation and good humor was restor ed. About ten million feet of Maine birchwood will be sent to England and Scotland this year for spools. The wood is cut in small logs in winter, sawed at mills near the forest in spring and piled up for seasoning until warm weather, ahout the middle of June. Then the bars are bundled and sent to Bangor by rail, where they a re loaded generally into steamships for the European market. This has been one of the most im portant industries in North ern and Eastern Maine, and its expected revival is wel comed by ull classes from woods laborers to shipping merchants. In the fruitbox trade also a revival is expect ed this year. There are now bound to Maine ports, with cargoes oi salt from Sicily, five Italian barks, and prob ably all these will get early cargoes ot fruit boxes in Bangor for Italian ports. Exchange. Practical Philanthropy. San Francisco Wave. A young Philadelphian went to a millionaire friend and asked pecuniary aid to start him .in business. "Do you drink?" asked the million airs. "Once in a while." Stop itl Stopitl Stop itforayear and then come aud see me." The young man broke off the habit at once, and at the end of the year came to see the millionaire again. "Do you smoke asked the successful man. ' Now and then." "Stop itf Stop it for a year, then come and see me again." The young man stopped smoking but he did not go back again. "He'd have told me," hesaid "that now that I have stop ped drinking and smoking I must have saved enough to start myself in business, and I have." Miss Helen Gould has re ceived an alburr containing the autographs of morethan 4,000 sailors and soldiers in the vegular and volunteer branchetf'of the service in re-. coemption of her snrv to . 77;.7:a,, .7,, :mi line" i 1 ' 7 '. 1,
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