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UOOXE.; -TTATAOGA COUNTY. X. Cm THURSDAY, FEB- 21, 1901.
m a.
to !. i l.'wi iiMiuijjrH
it t hat lie; fiticrnl. . ,
Slow!
grow t h b
of hair
c o m e 8
from lack
of hair
food. The
hair has
no life.
It is starved. It keeps
coming out, gets
thinner .and thinner,
bald spots appear,
then actual baldness.
The only good hair
food
the roots, stons
starvation, and the
hair grows thick and
lone. It cures dan- 4
drufF also. Keep a
4
bottle of it on your
dressing table.
It always restores
color to faded or gray
hair. Mind, we say
"always."
f(.00abettl. AiHriigrUtt.
- " I hard found yom ' Hair Vigor
to b tlia bctt remedy t lure eter
tried for tlx hair. My' hair was
falllnr out Terr bad, to I thought
1 would try a bottle of tt. 1 had
naed enljr one bottle, and my hair
topped falling out. and It to now
real thick and long.''
1 Julj9B, U9B.
HA MOT J. MOUHTCASTL1.
Yonken.T.
Be will wnd roa hit booSc oa The
Hair and Scalp. Aik htm any oue
tlon you with about your hair. Xoa
will MoelT a prompt an(wer tree.
Addreta,
Lowell, kaaa.
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. ritOFESSJOyAL.
J. C. FLETCHER,
, Attornsy At Law,
BOONE, N. C.
Cnteful attention given to
collections.
EFLOVILL,
-ATTORNEY AT LAW,-
BOOSE, N. C.-
WSpedial ajtention given
O to all business entrusted to
hit care."8
8-23. 1900.
J. W. TODD.
GEO. P. PELL.
TODD & PELL,
a tjorneys at law,
( Jefferson, n. c.
Will practice regularly in the
courts of Watauga. Headquar
ter at Coftey's HoteL-d u r i n g
court. 5-4-99.
E. S. COFFEY,
ATWllhEY AT. LAW,
O BOONE, N.C.
Prompt attention given to
all matters of ajegal nature.
t& Abstracting titles and
collection of claims a special
ty. '" '
-23-1900.
Dr. J. M. HOGSHEAD, .
Cancer Specialist,
BANNER'S ELK. N. C
So Kniie; N6 Dinning Out.
Highest rafereuces and endora.
ments of prominent persons uc
cessfully treated in Va., Tenn.
and N. C. Remember that there
is no time too soon to gepntNxl
Q a cancerous growth no matter
how small. Examination free,
. letters answered nrnmntlf n.nd
satisfaction LUMrantccd.
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AV ASH 1 M J TON LETTER.
Pi cm our Regular C6rretpndect
B.v etnnding, ttgther in
tliHiropiMtKitinn to the Ship
SnMcly bill, tlie demo MtK;
nr.d populist Senators have
oned t h rcpn hi icans to
rhange their taVticM. They
Irpgna to fight last week by
blustering and bragging n
bout how easy they would
tire out the opposition by
night sessions. After ho'd
ing two night sessions, at
neither of which a republieun
quorum was maintained,
they abandoned the night
sessions, and now seeking to
cajole the opposition into
agreeing to set a time lor
roting on the bill. While it
is impossible to say with any
degrpe of certainty what the
tesult of this rhange of tar.
tics will be, Senator Jones,
who isthe leading opposi
tion, says the bill will not be
voted upon at this session,
and thit if the republicans
are determined to pass it,
they must do so at an extra
session of the next Congress.
Mr. McKinley is pulling for
an extra" sewion, provided,
of course, that a valid excuse
can be put forwitd for call
ing one, and the republican
Uaders in the Sena tea re pull
ing to avoid an extra session,
by leaving no valid excuse
for one. An amendment has
already been offered to the
army appropriation bill, by
Senator Spooner, giving Mr.
AcKinley authority to es
tablish a mil government in
the Philippines, and -on is
now being prepared setting
forth the conditions that
Cuba must com pi v with " to
get the United States ttoops
withdrawn.
Representative Lentz, ol
Ohio, President of the Jeffer
sin, Jackson and Lincoln
League, recently organized
with headquarters at Colum
bus, Ohio, was in charge of
the Congressional party
which left Washington today,
to attend the big banquet to
be given at Columbus, bj'the
new league, Tuesday evening.
The -party included Senators
Pettigrew and Kenney ex
Senator Towne, Senator-elect
Cammack, Representatives
De-Armond, of Mo , King, of
Utah, Clayton, of Alabama,
all of the democratic mem
bers of the Ohio Congression
al delegation, ifon, George
Fred Williams, of Mass., and
other democrats of promi
nence. Three of Mr. McKinley 's
nominations to be Brigadier
Generals, Wood, Bell and
Grant may be held up per
manently. All tbe other nom
mations for Generals, includ
ing that of Miles, tobeLeiut.
Gen., have been favorably re
ported to the Senate and will
at once be confirmed, but the
Committee on Military Af
fa4rs, after several members
had expressed the opinion
that these three offlers had
not seen sufficient service to
entitle" them to promotion
over many older and more
experieni'ed officers; decided
to delay action upon the
nominations, uotil a further
investigation could be made
of , their military records.
Wood was' promoted over
moie than ttv hundred of
fiivrs and Bell over more
than one thousand, while
Fred. Grant;- although he is
now serving in the Philip
pines as a Brigadier General
of Volunteers, is regarded a
practically a civilian.
Representative Richardson
the democratic leader of the
House, has received in a n, y
compliments on his victory
in the Ways and Mean Com
mittee, in securing the adop
tion of a resolution by that
committee, in lavor of-a re
port to the House, against
concurring in the S'nate a
mjndments to the bill reduc
ing war taxes, and asking a
conference thereon, after a
majority of the republican
members of the committee
had decided to simply tonon
concur without asking a ci n
ference. The republicans of
the committee were divided,
and Mrr Richardson quickly
took advantage of theopDOr
tnnity and scoVenl a demo
cratic victory." There is a re
publican scheme to kill this
bill.
Senator Bacon tells an a
musing and interesting sto
ry of the methods of legisla
tion in the Mexican Congress
methods which the republi
cans have to an extenc al
ready intioduced in one
branch of ourCongiess. Spea
king of his visit to the lower
Housa of the Mexican Con
gress, Senator Bacon said:
"I went there day alter day
and nevtit saw a member rise
and address the chair. Bill
after bill was passed without
a vote in the negative and
without a word ofdipcussion.
I became very .much interest
ed in this state of affairs, and
not beingable to speak Span
ish, I enquired of a gentle
man at the door who spoke
English, to explain the situa
tion to me. 'Oh," he replied,
"there is no need for any de
bate. These bills are sent to
us by the President and he
tells us that he wants, them
passed. When he lets us
know that he is in favor of
the bills, we are all in favor
of them, too." A proposi
tion to make Cuba pay the
expenses incurred by this
country during the war with
Spain, has been put forward
by Representative Levy, of
New York, but probably
with more dee ire to fuddle
the situation than to serious
ly push the Idea of trying to
make Cuba pay our, war ex
penses. The administration receiv
ed a broadside from its own
ranks, when the Representa
tive Brown, , of Ohio, a repub
lican, made a vigorous at
tack upon the present Phil
ippine policy, and offered a
resolution declaring that "it
is the pur jiose of the United
States in retaining posses
sion of the Philippine islands
to aid theirinhabitants when
they submit to theauthority
of the United States in estab
lishing a capable and stable
free government, and when
this purpose shall be fully
accomplished, the United
States under such reserva
tions and conditions as may
ho wise and jnst. will relin
guislr sovereignty in those
islands." Incidentally Mr.
Brown referred to the idea
held by some of breaking our
pledge given to Cuba as the
"climax of greed and the doc
trirte of freebooters and pi
mtea." v '
EDUCATION.
Times Democrat.
In an editorial, referring to
education, binong o t h e r
things, the Wilmington Mes
senger says:
"Education isn good, pleas
ant, useful, enj ivable thing
to possess, but it never yet
made a sinner righteous, a
liar a truth-lover, a bad man
a saint, a rogue a man. ol
honot. It does not deal with
the heart, the soul, but with
the mind. The Messengerfa
voYs good education, ond a
plenty of it, but it never hns
nor never will regenerate a
soul and fit it for heaven. It
does not make a rogue un
honest man, or a time-server
a man of ptinviple."
If our esteemed contempo
rary is correct, it seems a
waste of time and money to
educate our children. Ifedu
cation deals with the mind
on'y, una neglect the heart
and soul, it is not education.
It is simply learning. .
Education covers a broad
er field. It comprises two
distinct features and is 'not
education unless both of
them are considered. We
have always understood that
education implied, not so
mu h the communication of
knowledge as the discipline
of the intellect, the establish
ment of the principles, and
the regulation ol the heart.
If it does not engender a
love for truth, honesty and
righteousness it has failed of
its purpose.
Learning, especially a little
learning, that has been deriv
ed alone from the text books
and has not been tempered
by the kindred touch of hu
man sympathy and .yearning
souls, may not add to life,
honor and honesty? truth
loving and right-living.
But the man who is educat
ed, heart soul and mind, is
the best development of God's
creation, and it is such edu
cation as this, that thecoun
try needs.
An education that only
appires to put a belter coat
upon a man's back, and fit a
woman lor a better social
position is not an education.
But an education that dis
ciplines human hearts, devel
ops the Godly instincts offel
lowship and intelligent sym
pathy; establishes a knowl
edge of the rights of others
and makes mankind careful
of those rights, is the kind of
education we want to give
the children of North Caro
lina. At best, the school life of a
child is only the beginning of
the reading of the great book
of Life, and the chief aim of
teachers ought to be to in
still in the child-mind, how
to begin the reading a rich t.
If we had our way we would
have p'aced upon the black
board every school in -the
State, certain portions of
Raskin's 'Sesame and Lillies'
and hnye it read to the whole
school each morniDg.
When our nducators are
morn thoroughly impressed
with the necessities of the
heart and soul, ae well asthe
mind, then we will have an
education that educates.
The lea tiers of though t ha ve
tomr since recognized thi
truth and the tyvat educat
ors are working along that
line, evidently believing that
an education, of the right
kind, can regenerate a soul,
and make men honorable.
There will, however, always
be time-servers, end frequent
ly arly training, or a lank of
it, is the cause of it.
Tht Hewi froaJEionnllt
Grajson, - Davenort and
Dotson, better known as the
Buckeye Lumber Co., of Zi
onville, has put in a new en
gine and is cutting lurnberon
full time.
Matrimony seems to becon
tagious. It broke out on low
er Cove Creek and reached
Mabel on the 3rd inst. Two
of of G. W. Loft ranee's girls
were joined in matrimony on
that date Miss Nancy to a
Mr. Lowrance, from Idaho,
and Miss Addie to Mr. Tilley
Lethcoe, of Beaver Dams. G.
W. L. is not kicking e ry
badly, but says he wants the
rest of the Idahoites to stay
at home,.especially those who
are hunting wives. Mr. Low
rance will return to his home
in Idaho with his accomp
lished bride the 1st of March.
Mr. Walter Roten, of Trade
Tenn., and Miss Jennie Pot
te, of Zionville, N. C, bad
the preacher to talk a little
busiuess to them recently.
C. C. Musgrave, of Tennes
see, has bought property in
Zionville, and will move on it
soon..
Zionvilli has an oak tree
that its growth shows it to
be over three hundred years
old. It is seven leet in diame
ter at the base and measures
to cut over 5,700 feet of lum
her.
J. C. Jones.
La Grippe Onlcklj Cared.
1 In the winter of 1898 and
1899 I was taken down with
a severe attack ot what is
known as La Grippe." says
E. L. Hewitt, a prominent
druggist of Winfield.III. 'The
only medicine 1 used rvastwo
b o 1 1 1 e s of Chamberlain's
Cough Bemedy. It broke up
the cold and stopped the
coughing like magic, and I
have never since been troub
led with grippe." Chamber
lain's Cough Remedy can al
ways be depended upon to
break up a severe cola and
ward off any threatened at
tack of pneumonia. It is plea
sant to take too which makes
it the most desirableand one
of the most popular prepara
tions in use for these ail
ments. For sale by Black
burn. Gentlemen ot the Legisla
ture, how about thedog tax?
Give it to the yappers. Put a
tax of one dollar on pointers,
setters and dogs of blue
blood, give it to hounds at
the rate of two dollars, lay it
on to the tune of three dol
lars on barking curs of indit
ferent color and make the
"yaller dorg" get off t Ji e
hemisphere. Topic.
Had to Conquer or Die.
'I was just about gone.' writes
Mrs. Rosa Rchardson, of Laurel
Springs, N. C. "1 had consump
tion so bid that the best doctors
said I could not live more than a
month, but 1 began -to use Dr.
King's New Discovery and was
wholly cured by seven bottles
and am now sound and well."
It's an universal life-saver in con
sumption, pneumonia, la grippe
and bronchitis; infaliblefor asth
ma, ooiiirhs. colds, hav fever.
croup or whooping cough. Guar- i
anteed bottles 50c aud I . Trial
bottles free at Blackburn's."
Father Ctmj oi tte LefwUtare '
Elizabeth City Economist.
Our old friend London'i ca
parlous whiskers hafenoton '
duly taxed the fertility of his "
editorial libel bill until he can
see its head . sticking oat of '
the legislative rubbish heap
and snapping its eye. with
joy. London is old and bat
given the brotherhood t b e
privihge of in ing cuss words
with impunity.
Mecklenburg is a great
county. It was first to shake
off the British lion, and now
it takes the lead in the North
Carolina Hons in declaring
its independence of dogs. Kip
ling or some other wild poet
says: .
"He who kicks my dog
Has got me to kick."
We've got no dog. Our dog
"kicked the bucket" last
year. So Sid Alexander may
kick my dog in North Caroli
na with no f jar of a counter
kick from us. Kick on, Sid
A., We'll never say "hold on,
enough," for we won't be in
against a 'down dog.'
A bill has been introduced
in the House to prevent hun
ting on the lauds of another
without a written permission
and Senator Morton, who
surely never went coon hunt
ing, wants to amend tbe bill
by making it apply only to
"coon and 'possum"bunters.
Now, we protest. We protest
as one who once wore the
presidential honor of a 'Coon
and Possum Club We ap
peal to Tom Riddick and all
the other X'sof the ven
erable club to stand around
Morton with clinched fists,
and when Morton kicks our
coon let him know he's got
us all to kick. And we guess
he'll sneak off with his tail
twixt his legs luce a coon dog
that got bit by a coon . in a
death grapple.
Workiar Oyertlaie.
Eight hour laws are ignored by
those tireless little workers Dr.
King's New Lite Fills. Millions
are always at work day and night
curing indigestion, biliousness,
constipation, sick head ache and
all stomach, liver and bowel
troubles. Easy, pleasant, safe,
sure. Only 25c. at Blackburn's.
Franklin Press: It is said
that Judge Shaw's rule is to
fine every person convicted
of carrying a pistol $15 and
costs, to be paid before court
adjourns, or go to the chain
gang. The Eminent Kidney
and Bladder Specialist
n DUeoYtrtr t twamy-Ieet at Wert la
EU Libera tety.
There Is a disease prmlttnf; In thla '
country most dangerous becauta so decep
tive. Many sudden deaths are caused by
It heart disease, pneumonia, heart failure '
or apoplexy are often the result of kidney
disease. If kidney trouble Is allowed to ad
vance the kidney-poisoned blood will attack
the vital orians, or the kidneys themselves
break down and waste avsy cell by cell.
Then the richness of the blood the albums
leaks out and the sufferer baa Bright'!
Disease, the worst form of kidney trouble. "
Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root the new dla
eovery U the true specific for kidney, bladder
and urtasry troublesjLbas cured thousands ;
of apparently hopeless eases, after all other .
efforts have failed. At drarftos to fifty-cent -and
dollar sizes. A sample bottle sent free
by mall, also a book telling about Swamp ;
Root and its wonderful cures. . Addma
Dr. Kilmer & Co., Blnrhsmton, N. Y. and
snentlon this paper.
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