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... -i. ... .. . ........ v.., . . . .. ., . .." , ..........-'" ............. .. . . , -.. ' . -X' , i X I. fs . : rr" : 1 ' 1 . . ' "r A Tavlorsville eorresnond- ent to the StntesviKe Mascot Bays; A meeting of the eiti Zens and tax payers with the - mayor and lown commission era Monday night votd to employ u irfnyor and pay him 50.00 per year and a policemaiT at $150 pr year, . and combine with the duties of .policeman that of strtet and sanitary work, making it his duty to carry with him ; besides his gun and billy, a wheelbarrow; Bhovel and pick so that when he was not.af iter violators or the ordinance he could be working on the streets, If a man cannot be found inside th corporate, limits that is willing to take ,this job one will have to oe ordered. So if any oneshould be looking for a job they should coine or send their ap plication at once to the may or or clerk of board of tow n commissioners. If you are young you nat urally appear so. If you are old, why ap pear so? Keep young inwardly; we will look after the out wardly. You need not worry longer about those little streaks of gray; advance agents of age. will surely restore color to gray hair: and It will also give your nair all the wealth and gloss of early life. Do not allow the fallineof Myour hair to threaten you be annoyed with dandruff. We will send you our book on the Hair and Scalp, free upon request. Wi-Hm to thm ftoofe. If yon do uot obtain nil tbe'tone flu you ipeted from tli na of tiio Vlyof, write tho doctor about It Probably there U iotne dlBlcultr with your mnerftl ptem whlon my be aully rumored. MUWl vn, i. V. AVER. Lowell, Mu, PROFESSIONAL. H B. OOUNCILL, Jk. Attorney at La y. Boone, N. C. W. B. COUNCILL, M. D. Boone, N. 0. Resident Physician Office on King Street north of Post Office. F. IOVILL. J. 0. FLETCHEK. LOViLL & FLETCHER. ATlUUNhYSATLAW, BOONE, N. J. tSSpecia attention gi vpu to the colletion ofclaims: Dr. J. M. HOGSHEAD, Cancer Specialist, BANNER'S ELK. N. C Ao Knife; No Burning Out. Highestr references aud endors- nieuis or pronnnenD persons suc cessfully treated in Va., Teiin. and N. C. Remember that tliere is no 1imo too soon to i?et nu ol a ca'.iceroua prowthno matter how small.', hxammation tree, lettere answered promptly, and ... atinfoctton fzuarauteea. iROPSYi rCUUDwitb Btl.lp BemediM. HsTecnrtd raeny thonsnnd cmie onlled hooalMM. In tea kL. testlnionlnle itfid TEH DATS treetmmt free. D. H. H. CKSIK'S I0IS, Buz 1L, lUutn,Oi. t leant two-third of All urmDtome remoT- A lVvlorsvi e eorresnond- WASfTTNOTOM T.RTTRR Plf I H'llili flgcrs From oar Regular Correspondent After holding it back for many months, Mr. McKinley has iHsued 1m much ; adver tised order modifying th civ il service rules. It doesn't ap pear to please anybody over much. It excepts a a total of somewhere in the neighbor hood of four thousand pla ces from the operation of the civil service rule, but as most of these places are already filled by republicans, it will make comparatively little new patronage for the repub lican leaders. It doesn't touch the Government Printing of fice, which so many republi cans have been trying so hard to get thrown open to them. So far as the party workers are concerned, the order is likely to do more harm than good to the re publican party. Representative "Dalzell, o Pennsylvania, who stands a bout as much show as Payne the New York anti-Platt can didate, dropped into AVash ington a dav or two ago and announced that he was a can didate for Speaker. He could not control three votes in the Pennsylvania delegation, counting his own. to save his neck. . Bingham is the dum my candidate of the Pennsyl vania delegation, nnd will re main such until Quay decides who shall get the votes. No surprise was caused in Washington by Senator Piatt's flat-footed declara tion that McKinley and Ho bart would be re nominated. So far as McKinley in con cerned, Piatt has been mort gaged since early in the pres ent administration; his en dorsement of Hobart means that if he ever had any idea of helping to get Roosevelt second place on the ticket, it has been abandoned, b u t: whether because he wasn't pleased with Roosvelt or whether the latter was hot pleased with the idea of sec ond place, is a matter of con jecture, but thevformer is more likely to be true. The declaration of Senator Pen rose, who is Boss Quay's man and mouthpiecein favor of .McKinly's re-nomination is nothing more than a bid for administration help for Quay in, his contest to gel get his seat in the Senate. This was doubtless pleasing to Mr. McKinley, whether he means to help Quay or not, as he found Quav decidedly "uppish" towards the admin istration while he was in the Senate. The administration was very particular to have the widest circulation given to the report oi the Beef Court of inquiry, but it is now dis covered that all the $200, 000 set aside to pay for the Inquiry has been used up, and has ordered work stop ped on the printingof the tes timony, upon which the re port was supposed to be baa ed, after it had all been put in type. It has all al"ong been contended by many that Jhe administration never intend ed totnakethcteetimonypub lie, and this action mokes it look as though that conven tion was correct. Secretary Alger has Deen putting his foot in it 'again. Several da vs ago he caused the order to be Issued by the War Department, instrucr iug the Military authorities in Cuba to give clearances to Cuban vessels under the Cu ban flag, and at the same time stating tlmt the vessels flying the Cuban flag would not be under American pro tection. As there is no Cuban government, there can be no recognized Cuban flag: hence the older strikes the average man as ludicrous. Somebody called Mr. McKinley 's atten tion to the order and he di rected that it be referred to the Attorney General for an opinion. This opinion, it is expected, will knock the or dr out. It might answer for Cuban vessels to go from one Cuban port to another, un der such a clearance, but in any port outside of Cuba, the masters of such vessels would be at anybody's mer- cj; they would have no Con sul to appeal to in case of un just treatment of any sort, and no standing in any court of Admirality. Alger sspecial ty appears to oe doing the wrong thine. The Dewey home fund is not growing as fast as it might. It did not reach the .?5,000 mark until today, Unless it gets a move on, it will not be biu enotmh to buv a Washington house by the time Dewey gets Home. I was seriously afflicted with acoughforseveral.vears and last fall had a more se vere cough than ever before. I have used many remedies without receiving much re lief, and being recommended to trv a bottle of Chamber Iain's Cough Remedy, by a friend, who, knowing me to be a poor widow, gave it to me, I tried it, nnd with the nlost gratifying results. The first bottle relieved me very much and the second bottle has absolutely pared me. I have not had as go-)d health for twenty jears. Respectful ly, Mrs. Mary A. Heard, Clare mont. Ark. Sold by M. B. Biackbuni. Shelby Star: The whipping post is not gone forever! It. is possible that it will become necessary to restore this time honored institution, the a bo lition of which caused a 1 1 criminals to rejoice, nnd to again enforce obedience to law by the method that some of our modem apostles ofciv ihzation would have us be lieve is barbarous. This sen timent is not confined to 'Mi- literate NorlhCarolina either for the great enlightened state of New York is agita ting the restoration of t h e whipping post for wife-beat ets, and the Asheville Citizen truly eays that "it will stop crimes as well as this one, and should be adopted. A good whippinghumnnely but soundly administered, will stop petty stealing more ef fectually than all the chain gangs ever provided." No, the whipping post is n o t gone for good. Mr. P. Kitcham. of Pike City, Cal. sa.vs: ,4D u r i n g my brother's late illness with sciatic rheumatism, Chamber Iain's Pain Balm was the on ly remedy that gave him any relief." Many others have testified to the prompt relief from pain which this lini ment affords. For sale by M. B. Blackburn. The Veterans of the Sixties! Itinerant in Christina Advocate. It became the writer's good fortune to attend nt Charles ton tho annual reunion of the men who follTfwed Lee, and the object of this writing is not to give a description but only a few observations of the magnificent parade of thesrf heroic wearers of t h e gray. The soul is dead to pa triotism and all that belongs to valor, which can look up on these gray-haired veter ans without the profoundest emotions, for the observer saw in those men who march id up the streets of battle- scarred Charleston, the repre sen tn ti ves of the noblest band of patriots that ever answer ed their country's call, and no braver heroes ever charged h o stile lints or followed knightly plumes than those sons of Dixie. The marks of time are up on tbe old Coufederates. These men were young when, bidding farewell to dear ones and the comforts of home, they marched away to suffer the hardships of camp and to brave the dangers ot battle, but the more than thirty years has told heavily upon them. But there need be no surprise in this. Remember what was endured during those four terrible yeaisof war. Bear in mind how, un der the gloom of defat, these men returned to homes once bright mo' prosperous, but now broken and prostrate. The ashe heap was all that remained of their possessions, and their shiines had been converted into sepulchers with the cry on every side, "for the touch of a vanquish ed hand and the sound of a voice that is still." Amid this desolation the soldier, now a peaceful citizen, began a new battle with poverty, and long has he struggled to build again his wasted land. Do not forget these things, and there is no occasion for wonder when we look upon tho white hair and wrinkled faces and stooping forms of these noble men. But here comes the march ing columns over which are unfolded the old, tattered, bullet-torn battle flugs! And as division after division, and company aftercompany pass ed, hats and handkerchiefs are wildly waved, while the tens of thousands w h i c h crowd stre3t and porch and window, 6hout and cheer the grizzled veterans. Where was there ever gathered such an interesting and picturesque company? Among them is the old bugler sounding mar tial notes upon th'e brass in strument that had often urg ed his comrades into battle. Over the belgion blocks a blind drutQtner kept step to the tap of the old drum he had carried through the bloody campaigns. Hundreds of sleeves are empty, f o r I" those strong arms have long since mingled with the dust of Virginia or await the res urrection on other fields. The old cripple with crutch nnd staff managed somehow to keep up with his fellow-soldiers. The father was there ih his sons, boys uot yet in thejr teens, but old enough to don the gray, marched by his side seemingly proud that their father had followed Lee and Jackson. Some of these men wore the rags of poverty, not a few carried tho scars of bat tle, ami youth had passed in to age, but theie was still the martial spirit as in days of yore. Unquenched were the fires that burned our storm swept Gettysburg; or that blazed upon tho altars of their patriotic, yet weary hearts, when they formed the thin but strong lines around Richmond and Petersburg which withstood so long the gathering hordes that Grant hurled against them. But these heroes of the. 'lost cause' are rapidlv passing a way. Every year thins their renks. May they be kept in high esteem, who by deeds of valor won a renown wide as the world and as lasting as the records of our nation. The legacy which they leave should he held as our richest heritage, and the lives of these patriots should be en shrined in every heart. All honor to the veterans of the sixties! Presidents Come Entlicr High. Boston Journal. Presidents "come high, but we have got to have theuu" It costs us $11 4,865 a year for a Chief Executive. His salary is IO.OOO and 'found', as oui western neigh bors 'say. The President's finding is rather comprehen sive, covering about every possible requirement of a fain ily. His private secretary, the cleik, doorkeepers, messen gers, and steward, and three other servants cost us $33.- 805 a year. Then theie is a contingent fund of $8,000 a year that the President may use according to his discre tion. In furniture and repairs to the White House the sum of $16,000 more, to be used by the discretion of the Presi dent, is provided by the na tion, and isalwaysexpended. For fuel alone $3,000 is al lowed, and for necessary re pairs to the greenhouse there is $4,000. Altogether the Presidential "finding" annually amounts to4he snug sum of $64,865, nearly $15,000 a v ear more than his salary. The two ag gregate $114,865. This is an imposing aggregate, but it is small when compared w i t h other Presidents. The Pres1 dent of the French republic receives a salary of $120,000 a year, $32,480 lor contin gent purposes, and a hand some house, rent free. So we get our President rather cheaply. It is a pinctically settled fact that Asheville will soon have an ostrich farm to add to her large and vared list ol attractions and industries. A Y. Pearson, who was at one time n resident of Asheville, he having recovered;' h i s health at the myah sanita Hum, and who has oft l a t e years conducted an, ostrich farm in California, will estab lish a branch farm near this city. -Gazette. OABTOIIIA. , ins vm ion f Ttc Kind You haa Aiwayg Bought Dewey and the Ladies. Lcslie'e Weekly. Admiral Dewey, not like Napoleon, a woman hater, al though many naval officer's wivss are almost convinced to the contrary. The admi ral does not hesitate to sav that he believes the- presence" of a woman interferes with a man's efficiency as an offi cer in war time. Many offi cers wives a soon us thev became convinced that their husbands would remain an indefinite period at Manila, lost; no timejin hurrying over to join them, nnd some 'tis said, even though their hus- ' bands cabled 'No' to their pe titions. The admiral did not look with favor upon their afrival, for to his mind it meant impaired efficiency in some of his best officers. They came, however, aud before the outbreak of hostilities be tweeu the insurgents and A mericans dances and yacht excursions in the bay and up the Pnsig river became quite frequent, even the admiral himself giving a large ball on the Olyrapia. He however al ways maintained his posi tion, and no woman was al lowed aboard ship when she went to sea or during the sub sequent period when the fleet was in battle array around Manila bay. One young lady, engaged in newspaper work, drew heavily upon the ships' jun ior officers who fell victims to their charms. It became quite a daily practice among the officers to in turn, take her driving in the cool of the afternoon. As the principal drives of interest lay in close proximity to the firing lines the excursion was not with out the element of danger so dear to the hearts of both of ficers and ventursome wo men. The admiral looked on for some time in silence, but eventually meeting the fair charmer one day reproached her for taking such risks, thinking perhaps, m this way to stem the practice so rapid ly becoming popular among his men. The young lady promptly repled that she was not at all afraid of bullets when protected by one of Dew ey's officers. "Well" replied the admiral, "if you don't object to being killed, I have nothing to say; but I cannot spare any of my men." The young lady does not know yet whether this was a compliment or a reproach. Bad management keeps more people in bad circum stances than any one other cause. To be successful one must look ahead and plan a head so that whena favora ble opportunity presents it self he is ready to take hold of it. A little forethought will also save much expense and valuable time, A prudent and careful man will keep a bottle of Chamberlain's Colic Chol era and Diarrhoea Remedy in the house, the shiftless fellow will wait until necessity corn pels it nnd then ruin his beet horse going for a doctor and have a big doctor bill to pay besides; one pays out 25 cts. the other is out a hundred dollars nnd then wonders why. his neighbor is getting richer while he is getting poorer. For sale by M. B. Blackburn.
Watauga Democrat (Boone, N.C.)
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