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'V v 0 4 J.-, ijl. VOL. XL BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, N. C THURSDAY, MAY,25,1809. SO. 21. )(BTrirT) (TD(RTf)tL qttavcs So the falling of the hair tells of the approach of age and declining power. No matter how barren the tree nor how leafless it may seem, you confidently expect leaves again. And why? Because there is life at the roots. k So you need not worry about 3 p the falling of your hair, the 3 threatened departure of youth 3 ana oeaury. Ana wnyr Because if there is a spark of ' rS life remaining in the roots of 1 the hair If will arouse it into healthy activ ity. The hair ceases to come out: it begins to grow: and the glory of your youth Is restored to you. we have a book on the Hair and its Diseases. It is free. 9 Th Sn Affrfo Fro. If yon do not obtain all the benefit you expected from the use of the Vigor, writ the doctor ibont It ITobeDly there 1 lome dlfflonitT with your (ren eral lyttem which may be eiully remoTed. Addreni. DE. i. V. AVER, Lowell, Hut. e PROFESSIONAL. B. COUNCILL, Jk. Attorney at La at. Boone, N. C. W. B.COUNCILL, M.dT Boone, N. 0. Resident Physician Office on King Street north of Post Office. F. L0V1LL. J. C. FLETCHER. I.OViLL & FLETCHER. A Tl OUNh YS AT LA W, BOONE, n. c. OSS' Special atten tion g i veu to the colletion olclaims. Dr. J, M. HOGSHEAD, Cancer Specialist, BANNER'S ELK. N. C No Knite; No limning Out. Highest references and eudors merits of prominent persons sua cesafully treated in Va., Term. and N. C. Remember that there is no time too soon to get rid o a cancerous growth no matter how small. Examination free. letters answered, promptly, and atisfaction guaranteed. NOTICE. By virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain mortgage deed executed to me on Uct. znu 1 891, by G. W. Claweon and wife Alice Uiawson, and duly register ed in book c, page 420, in the pub lie records of Wataug county, to secure the payment ot floy.UO with interest and cost, I wil sell to the highest bidder for cash at the court house door in Boone on Monday, June the 5th thefo lowing described tract of land to-wil: Twenty acres more or less lying on the wateis ol Pine Run creek, this county beginning on a white oak, running south 40 pole to the road, thence a south cast coarse with said road 90 poles to a white oak, M. j. AlciNeal s cor ner, thence a north west course with McNeil's line 40 poles to Mc mil s corner, then west bO poles to the beginning. Sale will be made between the hour 6 ot 10, a m., and 2, p. in. This May 3, '99. A. J. Moretz, Mortgagee: DROPSY: ' CD KID with vegetable lUniediea, Hftraeortd many thoaiaad earn called hooeleaa. In tern . Hjt t leaet two-thlrd of all rm ptonn rerooy d. Testimonial! and TIB UTS treatment free. PI. M M. (till SQJS, Box K, Atlanta, Oa, Give of filer 0 lit V! WASHINGTON LETTER. From our Regular Correspondent The adrainiRtration hasn't dealt honestly with the coun ry in regard to the volun eers in the Philippine. It has given one thing about bringing home these men who have been worked and fought 80cjntinuou6ly that rranv of them are now unfit for du ty, when it knew that anoth er thing was to be done. It tins told the country that Gen. Otis has been ordered to geud the volunteers home as fast as transportation could be secured lor them. when Otis had really been in structed to keep the volun- eers as long as he needpd hem and could make them . appear to stay willingly. This has been suspected for some time, but when two transports left Manila for San Francisco last week with only sick and wounded men aboard, and two more with no soldiers aboard, it became a certainty, it is now pri vately acknowledged by mem hers of the administration that it had, from the first, ken the intention of Otis to keep the volunteers until the Filipinos suirendeied, and the bluff about bringingthem home as fast as vessels could be made available was ... 1 thrown nut because it was thought that the surrender would occur before there would be an opportunity to send them home. A govern ment of the people can neyer add to its strength or popu larity by deceiving the people. Every such deception is an impugnment of the patriot ism of the people. The disappointment felt in administration circles over the failure of the. expected surrender of Aguinaldo to materialize is so acute that it cannot bo hidden, and offi cials who bave been so glib for several weeks past, in pre dieting the speedy finish of Aguinaldo can not now be coaxed to talk about the probabilities over there at all. Mr. McKinley still holds to his policy of rewarding the Bold democrats for making him president. The first Cen sus plum given to Uhio was the appointment of General Americu8 V. Ric, by direct order of Mr, McKinley, to be purchasing agent of the Cen sus Bureau. Hon. E. L. Russell, Presi dent of the Mobile & Ohio Railroad, who is visiting Washington, thinks that the chances for the promotion of Hon. John M. Allen ( 'Pri vate John Allen, of Tupelo") from the House to the Sen ate are excellent, and he has circulated among the people of Mississippi sufficiently to be well posted. He said: 'The people of this state appieei uting Mr. Allen's merit and long and useful careei in the House, mean to promote him, and in doing sowillbon or themselves." Admiral Schley has accept ed an invitation from ex-Sen ator Manderson, to pay him a visit at his Nebraka home and will leave for the West at once. He will probably take Advantage of the opporS tunity. while in that section, to visit a number of other Western points, to which he has cordially beeu invited. If the idea of a popularsub scription to buy a Washing ton home for Admiral Dewey 16 as well received an over the country as it has been in Washington, enough money is likely to be subscribed to buy him a whole town, in stead of a single house. Dew ey has notified the Navy De partment that he will leaye Manila in a few days, and will get to the U. S. in al out four months, which indicates his intention to make the homeward voyage in a very leisurely manner, as the "trip could easily be made inside of two months. His friends sav that the Admiral wishes to give himself a chance to get good and strong and the cool weather of fall to arrive before he tackles tbe ova tions which he knows awaits him in this country. Dewey is a lona-headed chop. Ex - Representative Halt- man. of Mont., who voluntu rily retired from Congress at theclose of the last session,! is in Washington. He says the wish was father to the story that the silver republi cans of this section were not friendly to there-nomination of Col. Bryan, and that Col. Bryan has taken exactly the right position towards those who bolted the Chicago Con vention; that the silver re publicans who bolted McKin- ley's nomination and plat form, and supported Bryan, would have just as much right to attempt to dictate to the republicans as the gold democrats have to dic ta te to the democra ts. Con- tinuine: he said: "I would as soon think of going to Mark Hanna for information as to democratic faith and demo cratic principles, as to Peiry Belmont. They are both sup porters of the sameinterests, advocate the same financial policy, and brother oppo nents of the pronucing and wage-earning classes of the United States." Mr. Hart- man thinks that if the elec tion was this j ear, instead of next there wouldbe no doubt of the tickets being headed by Bryan and McKinley again ond expects they will be any way. Speaking of tbe next year's democratic platform, he said: " The three most promiuent features or t n e platform, in my judgment, will be, first, its declaration onthe money question, which will include there-affirmation of tbe t-bicago platform, a declaration for independent bimetallism, against the re tirement of the greenbacks, against the interest-bearing bonds and against transfer ring to the banks the right to issue or control the issu of paper money; second, a strong declaration against trusts, and third, anti impe rialism.'- CASTOR I A Tot Infants and Children. The Kind Yea Hate Always Bought Bean the Signature of 44 SI? Lost Mine of the Lake. The romance of lost mines is uot confined to the Rocky Mountain region, whence most of the stories of their re-discoveries come. Thous ands of years before the lost mines of that country were first nnearthed, before Colum bus, before history, almost before tradition, even brown brown skinned miners delved in to copper and silver lodes around Lake Superior, and the results of their work are to-day Jound scattered from the Mississippi Valley to the Alleghanies, and from the lakes to the Gulf of Mexico w a a hJvery little wbiio copper knives and ornaments and silver utensils are dug up at various place within thsf boundaries, and so different are thev from what can be fashioned to day or from what the Indians of recpnt pnstcan make that itiseasy to trace their orign. Thecop per has a temper like steel, can be sharpened, and rings like a tuning fork. All the efforts of modern mettalnr gists fail to make sucn cop per impbments, for the tern pering of copper is a lost art. It was a barbarism higher than the savagery of tbe red Indian that followed the veins of ore along the surface or tunnelled cautiously under the overburden of rocks, and then smelted and tempered the metal, making imple ments, ornaments, cooking utensils and the like, and then carried these utensils thousands of miles to the south, to the land of the Az tecs and the Mexicans. The ancient diggings of these peo pie are pre eminently the lost mines of the Western conti nent. And there are lost mines o a more recent date all over northwestern Michigan and northeastern Minnesota They were opened at various times after the advent of the French into the lake country when the first discovery o copper was made by a Jesuii priest about 1050. there are others of the middle of this century, from whose glit tering possibilities the hos tiles drove the finders, whose deaths soon sealed all exact knowlege of the locations and left nothing but vivid and probably quiet imagin ative campflre stories Ex Many old soldiers now fee the effects of the hard service they endured during tbe war Mr. Geo. S.Anderson, of Ross ville. York county, Penn. who saw the hardest kind of ser vice at the front, is now fre quently troubled with rheu matism. "I had a Hevere at tack lately," be says, "and procured a bottle of Cbam- berlaiVs Pain Balm. It did so much good that I wouk like to know what you would charge me for one dozen hot ties. Mr. Anderson wanted it both for his own use am to supply his friends a n neighbors, as every family should have a bottle of it in their home, not only for rheu matism, but lame back, cuts sprains, swellings bruisesunc burns, for which it isunequa ed. b or sale by druggists. At a meeting of the medi cal fraternity in Baltirrore a few days ago it was stated that the use of antitoxin in the treatment of dyptberia had reduced tbe mortality from 46 to 5 per cent. Tbe Walled Country. j " " """" China abounds in walls, 'walled country, walled cities walled villages, walled pal aces and temples wall after wall, and wall within wall. But the greatest of all is the great wall of China, built 213 years before our era, of great slabs of well hewn stones, laid n regular courses some 20 feet high and then topped out with large hird burned biick, the ramparts high and hick and castellated for the use of arms. It was built to keep out the war like Tartars 25 feet high and 40 feet thick, 1,200 miles long, with room on top for six horses to be ridden abreast. For 1,400 years it kept those liordes at bay, in the main, and is just as good and firm and strong as when put in )lace. How one feels while standing on this vast work scrutinizing its old masonry its queer old cannon andam- bitous sweep along themoun tain crest. In speechless awe we strolled or sat and gazed m in silent wonder, iweive hundred miles of this gigan tic work, built on the rugged craggy mountain tops, vaul ting over gorges, spanning wild streams, netting the river archways with huge, hard bars of copper, with double gates, and swinging doors and bars set thick with iron armor a wonder of the world, before which the old time classic seven wonders, all gone nowr save the great pyramids, were toys. An en gineer some years ago gave it as his opinion tbatthecost of this wall, figuring laborat the same rat9, would more than eaual that of all the 100,000 miles of railroad in the United States. A Needy Neero. Some t ime ago a relief com nuttee was organized in a Southern city to take care of a large number ot colored people who were in need. An old negro who had formerly been employed by a member of the committee saw a great opportunity confrontinghim and soueht to take advan tage cf it by writing this let ter: "Mars Mill deer Fiend, I is tol' dat dey gwine 'roun striblitin' goods to the po.' Mars Bill, you well knows dat I de po'es' cullud pusson dis side er Freedom. So fur, so good. Now I wants you to use you 'flnence to get me some what deys triblitin. I wants one bar'l er self-risin' flour; two hams, en a side er meat; one bar'l pearl grits, (git de right bran', Marso Bill); two gallons of maple surrup; one sack er salt; six pounds er coffee; a dollar's wuth er bugar, en Marse Bill, e hit don't go 'g' in de con science, eroout a quart er co'n licker, so's de ol' man can get his dram. N. Y. Ad vocate. Nineteen colored men left Winston last week forGalves ton', Texas, to take servicein the regular army. Two oth eiswho intenned to depart were arrested-one being un der bond for appearance at court and the other having failed to pay a fine, says the Landmark. ThU Stake Had a Head at Eaok End Monroe Jonrnal. This is a snake story right, but unlike most snake sto ries, this is a true one, for a reputable man, Mr. A. M. Hargett. of Faulk vicinity, vouches for it. Mr. Hargett's son was plowing a few days ago and upturned a small green snake, which, to his utter surprise, had two heads one on each end. The head at tbe tail end of his snake ship was a little bit smaller than the other one, but just as perfect, with eyes, mouth and all. And what's more, both heads had tongues and were "licking them out." If any body can beat this it's time for them to come for ward. There is no State in t h e South, says the Wilmington Messenger, whose wa ter pow ers have attracted more at tention than those in North Carolina. In seeking for the causes that have gi en such an impetus to the building of cotton mills in the State, in the number of which she now leads all tbe other States North and South, this will be found the principal one, and yet we have not begun to touch the power-furnishing capacity of our streams. There is power enough in the Yadkin alone to turn all the spindles in the United States. And that is but one of many streams that present practi cally unlimited power. There is not a stream large or small that flows from the Blue Ridge Southward that is not a water power, and sev eral of them of unlimited ca pacity. There is enough of it in the Piedmont belt, if it would be utilized, to drive all the machinery in the United States. The January meeting of the Biological Society in Wash ington was devoted to t n great Dismal Swamp, and the fact was brought o n that, at present, the area f the swamp is slowly sinking, arid Lake Drummond in its centre, is growing larger. Similar changes have occurr ed in the past, periods of ele vation and subsidence gradu ally succeeding each other. The average elevation above sea level is so slight t h a natural drainage is insuffi cient to remove the rainfall. The swamp is a kind of fron tier station, where Northern and Southern plants meet many Northern species hav ing their Southern limits here, and several Southern types their most northerly abiding place. It contains many birds and mammals which show distinct charac teristics. Ex. Salisbury Sun: Five Mor mon elders passed through this morning going to labor in the eastern part of t h e State. They have been at tending the Chattanooga con ference. Four of the number were fresh from Utah and I daho; the fifth has been in this State for some time. He tells us that there are about 60 elders at work in North Cxr lim. ' ' ' .' i!
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