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A shrewd lemark on prea-
rhing of a recent date, and
froth an American source.
. says: "There is too m u hi
preaching that is like the Ve
nusofMilo, very beautiful,
n nasno arm,, ana car,-
That i jikin in th critMam
nfasnilnr nn rnM.wrpr
'-sermon:' "it may have been
good, hut there was not en-
0HFh,rtrpoon init."-6tate8
vi!le Christian Advocate.
: Here is a neat little exer
or . .
cise irr mathematics: Write
on a piece of paper the num
ber renreBentinflr vonr n&c.
multiply by two, add 8,798,
divide ny two, tnen subtract
age. and before your e y e 8
...w m...-w. . v v.. ask w.
will ha anmatW.nr rrr.ii ISftla
expected to see. .
Will V K7lllll IHIIIL JUU IliilOl
"tsreiy morning' I nave a
bad, taste In my mouth; my
tongue ii coated; my beta
aches and I often feel dizzy.
I hare no appetite for breakfast
and what food I eat distreaaee
me. 1 have a heavy feeling la
my stomach. I am getting o
weak that aomedmes 1 tremble
and my nervea are all unstrung,
l am getting pale and thin. .1
am aa tired In the morning aa
atnignt.".
What does yonr doctor sr
. . "Tou are suffering from
pure blood."
What Is his remedy?
You must not nm"coiiat.-'
pated bowels If you expect the
Sarsaparilia to do Its best work.
But Ayer's Pills cure constipa
tion. Ve have a book en Paleness
and Weakness which you may
navj tor ue aaung.
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PROFESSIONAL.
W.B. COUNCILLOR.
Attorney at La r.
Boone, N. C.
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Boone. N. 0. .
Resident Physician Office
on King Street north of Post
Ulflce. ' I
p. lovill. j. c. Fletcher.
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A 1 1 Ulirih rs A l LAn, '
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'Special attention siren
jO Tiub coiwuon oi claims.
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Cancer Specialist.
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Higliefitrefereucesand endors-
mentsof prominent persons sue-
ceesfully treated in Ya.t Term.
and N. U. ; Remember that there I
Isno time TOO SOON to get rid ol
(via
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BdpNE, WATAUGA COUNTY, N.
i WASHINGTON LETTER
our Regular Correspondent
Mr. McKinley hasgiventhe
country another exhibition
aWntogcbangeof mind
After allowing those who
talked to him during ttevera
days to cet the impression
that he was about to call for
volunteers for the Philippines
he suddenly changed his mind
and announced that the cab
inet had decided not to cal
for volunteers, but to replace
the volunteers
now in th
Philippines, with regulars
I II T11 r.. nillhiim m -Jam !.
frt a..-. T. . .,
w miioi, uauicu. 11 IB ucutiv-
ea tnar the principal factor
in Dringing about this light
ning change, was a cable
gram from Prof. Schurman
president of the Philippine
Commission, contniningafai
ry story announcing the ear
ly surrender of Aguinaldo
Similar fairy stories by the
same author were the basis
of the hope of early peace in
dulged in by the administra
tioihsome weeks ago. The
rainy season, which last
three months, is on in the
Philippines, making it irapos
Bible for Gen. Otis to worrv
Aguinald much for that time
That's why no early surren
der is at all probuhle.
Hon. A. J. Warner. Presi
dent of the Bimetallic League
is in Washington. He said o
the probable democratic plat.
form of next year: "The dem
ocratic party will stand by
the Chicago platform. The
money plank will be made as
full and as strong as if there
was no other issues. I would
be in fayor also of making a
declaration against;trusts as
if that were the only issue;
and the same with our dec
larations against imperial
ism and the (Philippine war.
Neither question can be said
to obscure or take precedence
of the other, but all com bines
to make an issue that I be
lieve the people will support.
Whatever may be the de
fects in other branches of the
government service, and
they are numerous enough,
everybody knows,' Commis
sioner I)uell, of the U.S. Pat
ent Office, is conducting that
office with more satisfaction
to inventors, patent lawyers
and everybody doing busi
ness therewith, than has been
done for a long time. He has
the business so nearly to
date that C. A. Snow & Co.,
Wnflhlrnrlnn's mnRt Biiropflfnl
Arm of patent lawyers, make
the positive announcement
that they can secure patents
for inventors in from four to
ten wpeks.
RenrPHPntntive Gordon, nf
Ohio, who is 7isiting Wash
r
ington, talks interestingly of
the political situation in his
state. He said: "Whoever
thinks the Republicans nrein
vincible in Ohio this year will
be badly fooled. There neyer
. . . .
was a l,Iue wnen lDe Vriy
was so badly split by fac-
tiotiHl HiflBPnHi'nnB r nnw
they will beat Senator Han-
na's candidate for Governor.
have no idea who will be
named as the democraticcan
didate. but we have nlenrvnf
i
good material to draw from.
Ohio i naturally republican,
but the people do not t a k e
kindly to the political bosses
and they arej-oing to show
their resentment at the polls
this year."
In Austria, a process for
making nn artificial cotton
out of the fibre of the fir tree
has been discovered, and re
ported to the State Depart
ment by the United States
Consul at Reichenberg. He
quotes a description of the
process, concluding as fol
lows: "Artificial cotton can
be produced so cheaply that
the genuine article can hard
ly compete with it, and one
eannot say that it is a sham,
for it is composed, exactly as
the natural cotton, of pure
cellulose." The Consul says
himself: "In a country such
as this, where forests of fii
trees abound and are made
perecneel; by constant re
planting as the large trees
are cut down, and where all
the cotton used in the numer
ous factories must be brought
8rom fur India and the Uni
ted States, such a device
should be profitable." This
is decidedly interesting: but
it need not alarm cotton
growers until it is known to
have been put into practical
use. It may be like the chem
ical proceBS by which real di
amonds can be made, which
work all right, but the made
diamond co&ts more than the
natural diamond of the same
size sells for. which renders
the process useless to the
commercial world.
The friends of Representa
tive Sherman, of New York,
are claiming that he was bun
coed by the Henderson-Sher
man Speakership combine, in
to which he entered a 6hort
time ago, and there appears
o be foundation tor the
claim. The combine has al
ready made Henderson the
only Western candidate for
Speaker, and given him an
apparent walk-over for the
Speakership. It is intimated
that it was formed to do that
very thing, and that the ad
ministration was a party to
it, having decided that Sher
man's friendship tor Reed and
Reed's influence over him,
made him undesirable Speak
erehip Umber. They may, of
course, be a slip .in the pro
gram, but it is the general
impression in Washington
that Henderson already has
be Speakershipclincbed.and
and predictions are freelv
mad6 that Sherman will find
ic aavisaoi3to witndraw in
Henderson's fayor, long be-
ore Congress meets, in order
o get Payne's place at the
bead of the Ways ana Means
Committee, which carries
with it the floor leadership of
he party. The withdrawal of
Hopkins in favor of Hender
son is believed to have beon
the work of JoeCannon. who
wanrs ms oia place at ids
a e ' t . .
head of the Committee on Ap
propria tion, and has proha
bly been promised it, though
some eay that Uopkinn is af
ter the Ways and Means Com
mittee for himself.
" Two yonng men of Bartow,
Florida, who have been raising
celery for thrae years, ciaim that
they can make a net profit of
2,50O an acre.s
C, THURSDAY, JUNE 15, 1899.
His Pertit Questiou.
"fl'm yesl" ejaculated t h
Old Codger sarcastically sur
veying ' his callow nephew
who bad recently graduated
from the village academy
"You have come forth from
school with a real stylish
lookin' diplomer clinched in
your hand, and several long
and impressive words etickin
out of your mouth. You have
graduated, all right enough
but have yon learned any
thing? You are educated con
a a a .
siaeraoiy, nut nave you got
any sense?
v i. . . . . .
iou nave a sniattenn' o
Latin and n smear ot Greek
but'do you know where you
arent? )Tou know a little trig
enometry and a few loga1
rithms and a little about the
ologies and so on and so on
and so forth, but do y o u
know anything at all about
things? You are acquainted
with words, but do jou know
men? Can you write a letter
that the other fellow c a ii
read every word of and thor
oughly uneerstand what you
are trying to get at? Can you
fill out a bank check proper
i
iy: ana, incidentally, nave
you got the most remote idea
how to fill up a bank ac
count so's the aforesaid check
will gain you anything better
than the horse-laugh when
you present it to the hawk
eyed man behind the count
er?
"Have you got it impress
ed upon you thut it never
hurt a man to wilt his collar
by gittin' a little honest
sweat on it and that the
long green in your pocket
book is a heap sight better
than long hair on your head?
Have you found out how to
write an ordinary promisory
note so that it won't reach
out in a day or hour that
you wot not and skin your fl
nanciai pelt on over your
head? Can vou accurately
measure lumber and your fel
low men? In short, briefly,
and to the point, have tou
really learned anything but
empty forms words andphra
ses? I know jou have a bul
gin' brow on you, but so has
a common, everyday snap
pin' turtle, only his is on his
back, and I have more than
once known a graduate who
had less sense under his but-
gin brow tbauasnappin'tur
tie has under his'n. In this
day and age there are too
many promiein' and too few
payin' young men. There are
too many comin' young men
what we suffer and yearn
for is the got-here-already
kind of tnen. You are educa
ted, but have you got -aw,
well, never mind! I guess you
will get along all right, any
how; people say jou take af
ter me." Tom P. Morgan in
puck.
An excharige very truth
fully says that our expecta
tions, our ideas, our hopes,
and intentions in beginning
lil are generally all too low.
Many and many a one is on
ly indifferently successful in
living a strong lifebecanseat
the start the standard of
what one ought to be, and
the belief In what one may
be, were set too low. -Ex.
BatritU
Tna Klad Yot Hm Alwiya Bagnt
Bigaatan
E.
f
A very striking and force
ful essay under this title was
that of Miss Susie Baker Sao
dere, of Pitt county, read by
her at the Greensboro Nor
mal commencement. Judge
Clarke in his address noticed
it, as well as some other es
says, strongly eudorsing her
sentiments and added:
"We are building upagtea
manufacturing interest in
C. We welcome the new era
We are glad to hear the busy
hum of the factories upon
thousand hill sides. They are
giving employment to tbon
sands ol :,our people who
would otherwise be out of
employment and are furnish
ing markets for the produce
of our farmers. But like ma
ny young lady friends, I have
been pained in walking amid
the long lines of whirring ma
chinery to see the pale faces
of children 12, 10, 8 years o
age, and even less, chained
to toil for 12 hours a dav
with their wistful eyes look
ing out through the narrow
casements towards the sun
light which shines not f o
them and stamped upon their
poor pitiful countenances
have seen theyearning which
God had placed theie, for the
fresh air, the green grass and
running brooks; and I have
wondered if the mothers and
sisters of this land possessed
the right of suffrage, whether
they also would cast their
ballots without pity or would
they not say to those who
sought their support fo
seats in the legislature: 'Sirs
ye shall see to it that they
let tnese little prisoners go
i . . a
free. Jfe shall see to it t h a t
some brief breathing space
shall be set between the era
die and their assumption of
the weary work of life; that
there may abide with them
or a few fleeting years the
rosy radiance, of that lot
Eden which lineera onlv in
he hearts of little children."
News "and Observer.
A New York dispatch of the
1st sa ys: Sam T. Jack willed
his wife to his brother, Jas.
C. Jack. The last testament
of the actor and theatrical
manager, proprietor of sever
al theatres, "Creole" and oth
er burlesque companies, who
died April 27 last, was filed
or probate to-day in the of
flee of the surrogate. It con
tains this remarkable provis
ion:
"Lt is my wish, first a njj
oremost, that my brother,
Janes, and my wife, Emma,
shall become husband and
wife."
James C. Jack was asked if
he would accept the bequest
of his brother, but he would
make no statement.
Mr. P. Kitcham, of Pike
L'ity, Cal. says: "During
my brother s late illness with
sciatic rheumatism, Chamber
sin's Pain Balm was the oh
remedy that gave him any
relief." Many others have
testified to the prompt relipf
from pain which this lini
ment afford?. 'For sale by M.
B. Blackburn. .
While her husband wa& serv
ing a long sentence as embezzler
of f 47,000 from the Salem Mass.
Saviog Bank. of which he was
teller, Mrs. Clarence Murphv com
mitted Buicide at San Francisco,
California.
NO. 24.
Without Shaflinff ar Zvariea.
From Fenimore Cooper and
other authorities we have
gained the impression that
the Indian is a stolid, severe
individual, with no sense of
the white man's humor, but
one red brother showed him
self quite a civilized Joker the
other day in the U. S. court.
He was on the stand in a hot
ly contested case, and Attor
ney D. R. Baily, of Sioux
Fulls, was after him in the
moit approved fashion of
cross examination. Finally,
after apparently frightening
the Indian with the awful
consequences which w o u I d
follow the slurhtest devia
tion from the truth, Mr. Bai
ly took his most potentons
tone and solemn manner and
demande:d
"Now, sir, I want you to
tell me the exact truth, with
out any shuffling or evasion.
I want you to look me square
in the eye and tell me how
you get your living, sir."
The Indian boked straight
at Mr. Bailey, and said with
that imperturable air famil
iar to all acquainted with
the red men, simply said.
"Eat."
The courtroom roared, and
even Judge Carland erailed,
and Mr. Bailey let the wit
ness go. St. Paul Pioneer
Press.
Charlotte Observer: Mr. 0.
F. Asbury, who came in last
evening from Spartanburg,
S. C, was telling of the pecu
liar death of Jane Shipp, a
colored woman of that place.
Friday she climbed up in a
cherry tree to get some cher
ries. A woman who lived with
her went out in the yard to
call Jane, and saw her hang
ing head down out of the
tree. She was alarmed, and
called a policeman who was
passing. He went to the wo
man and found that she was
dead. She was hanging ov
tier foot with ber head down.
nearly touching the ground.
She had either died and fall
en, or died from the effects of
the fall.
I was seriously afflicted
with a cough for several vears
and last fall had a more se
vere cough than ever before.
have used many remedies
without receiving much re
ief, aud being recommended
to try a bottle of Chamber
ain's Cough Remedy, by a
riend, who, knowing me to
be a poor widow, gave it to
me, I tried it, and with the
most gratifying results. The
first bottle relieved me very
much and the eecond bottle
has absolutely cured me. I
haye not had as good health
or twenty years. Respectful
Mrs. Mary A. Beard, Clare.
mont, Ark. Sold by M. B.
Blackburn. -
Raleigh Post: Government
experts haye figured it out
to a mathematical demon
stration, that the population
of these United States wfll be
41 thousand million a thou
sand years hence, or 11,000
persons to the sqnre mile.
The rapid increas? of Ju-
panese immigration to Ha
waii causes apprehension" in
Washington. Twelve thou
sand Japanese haye gone to
he islands since they were
nnexptf to th V S.