Tired Out
" I was very po6rly and could
hardly get tbout the bouse. I was
tired out all the time. Then I tried
Ayer's Sarsaparilla, and it only
took two bottles to make me feel
perfectly well." Mri. N. S.Swln.
ney, Princeton, Mo.
Tired, when you go to
bed, tired when you. get
up, tired all the time.
Why? Your blood is im-
?ure, that's the reason,
ou are living on (he
border line of nerve ex
haustion. : Take Ayer's
Sarsaparilla ana be
quickly cured. Kuu .
Aik onr 4potor what ho think, of Ayor'o
fciroaporllla. Ho know, nil onniittlit. gnud
old fninlty medlrtno. Vuliow Ui advlco and
wo wm oo Mtmned.
'. i.il. ATM TO , LOW0I1, MOO. .
Wilmington Star: It is said
that it was Senator Hanna
who induced President Roose
yelt to call off Alice's trip to
attend the Edward corona
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Ttion. lie uumpeo: on nim a
itaek of 500 letters, received
from Western IVpubliedns ad
tvismg against it, and that
settled it.
t ,
, Maujr Wonder.
Man? wonder why it is that
pin worms and stomach worms
get into little 'children, or Low a
tape worm 800 leet long can fret
in nud exist and graw inside of a
umau, as it sometimes Happens,
They m ly well wonder, for it ie
a great luyaterj, However, ma
ny know .now by experience that
pother's Worm Syrup wilrid one
oi intestinal worms and greatly
improve the health after the
worms are expelled and destroy
ed, fit i absolutely a harmless
feniexfjito take, and as it only
;Costs 25 cents, all should try it
who suspect worms to bo the
cause of their ill health.
ROFESSIONA L.
J. C. FLETCHER,
Attorney At Law,
BOONE, N. C.
Careful attention Riven to
collections.
r EFLOVILL,
; ATTORNEY AT LAW,-
l' BOONE, N. 0.
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to all business entrusted to
b!care.8
I'" 8-23, 1900.
df ;
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p AT'WRXErS AT LAW,
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is. Will practice regularly in the
,eourts of Watauga. Ileadquar-
fteis at CofiVy'fl Hotel during
court. , 5-4-99.
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!:L-ATlORbET Al LAWt-
OONE, N. C.
f Prompt attention given to
all matters of u legal nature.
ST Abstracting titles -and
collection of daima & special
8-231900.
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Cancer Specialist,
BANNER'S ELK. N. C
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nrominent persons tmc-
ofi,iiw t.ri.tjrl in Va.. TWin
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WASHINGTON LETTER.
Frcm onr Etf nlar Com .-ponilpclt.
; On Friday the Senate pass
ed the' lull for the protection
of the' President by a vote of
52 to 15,with 21" Senators
not voting, ; The grounds on
which 0 number ofdemocrat
ic Sena tors opposed the bill
are interestingly set forth in
tbefollowing statement tuade
to your Yorrspotident by Sen
n tor Bacon, of Georgia.
Existing circumstances nat
urally predisposed theSenate
to enact a law so severe and
so' Orast ic.us to completely
obviate such another attack
upon our government, and if
such could have been framed,
not objectionable in some
very important particulars,
it would have bad ruy heart i
est support; but so general
and so possible of misappli
cation are certain sections of
this bill that 1 was com pell
eq, to oppose tuern as capa
i
ble of perverting justice and
furnishing great possibilities
of political persecution.
"Witnout. dwelling upon
the Constitutional right of
Congress to extend what, in
my judgment, is the law of
treason, there are serious ob
jections in certain sections of
h e measure. They pro
vide that any person who
shall investigate, advise or
counsel the killing of the
President', or of any of the
heads of the departments by
spokon or by written or by
printed wortl shall be pun-
ishea by imprison men t riot
exceeding twenty years.' In
addition to the secretaries,
the law includes the sover
eigns and chief magistrates
of foreign countries wh') may
be upon United States soil.
iny one who will study that
portion of the U. 8. history
whi ?h deals with the old sedi
tion law enacted m 1808 and
the prosecutions conducted
thereunder will appreciate
the extent to which theabpve
provisions may be used to
cnrtail thelibertyof theprehs
he freedom of speech and im
peril the liberty of every indi
vidual citizen. No crime need
be committed to render this
law applicable. The a I lega
tion of an enemy made under
oath can place 4n prison for
twenty years any citizen
who, in partisan speech or in
private conversation, may
have arraigned the conduct
of any of the above named
officials. With such a law on
the statute books no editor
dare charge the Executive, or
any member of his cabinet.
with malfeasance least some
some misguided individual
claim that the chnrres in
stigated him to kill the offen
ding official. My whispered
statement to a colleague that
strikes a Rich Find.
"I was troubled for years with
chronic indigestion and nervous
debility." writes F. J. Green, of
Lancaster, N. H "No remely
helped me until I began using E
lectric Bitters,.whichdidmemore
good than all the medicine I had
ever used. They have also kept
my wile, in excellent health tor
years, one says niecine iiucrs
r- i v - a - i a
are just splendid lor lemale trou
, bles, that they ars a graud tonic
and invigorator. tor weak, run
down women. No othar medicine
rail iniir im jiutt- iu nii kiimii..
Trythem. Only 50c. Batislaction
guaranteed by 13lackburn.
the Secretary of the Treasu
ry, for .instance, is improper
ly administered his office, o
ver beard by uri enemy, may
found the basis of twenty
years imprisonment on the
same ground. Just such in
stances occurred under the
old sedition law and are lia
ble to occur again under this
law. '.
"On still another ground.
among others, I opposed this
law. It has been our boast
that, in this free country, all
citizen are equal before thn
law. Can this be saia when we
have singled out a class the
President, the Secretary of
State and all the other Secre
taries -to assault whom is
made a crime punishable by
death, while a similar assault
on the Governor of tt Stat
or on anybody else, is pun
ishable by imprisonment? It
we are to so make'one class
why not more? Why not
have included the judiciary,
secators and representatives
and so on and make it pun
ishable witn death to assault
anj of them, while to as
sault any other people in the
United Statutes merits only
imprisonment? Such a .dis
tinction is contrary to every
tenet of liberty and equality,
contrary to every tradition
of American freedom and, the
fever which uttends existing
circumstances have subsided
will be condemned by every
American citizen. Aside from
the fundamental objections
t o thej uequ, a 1 1 ty, of d i f f e re n t
people before the law which
this bill establishes, a gravo
objection i that under this
law an innocent man is lia
ble to be convicted. It is all
right to make it easy to con
vict an anarchist, but it is
nil right to make it easy to
convict an anarchist, but it
is all wiontr to make it easy
to convict an innocent man
for some harmless or thought
less word spoken by him.
Whether this bill becomes a
law or not, the man who
kills the President will be exe
en ted, but that will nut bring
the President back to life
The important thing to do is
to drive the anarchists out
of the country and prevent
the killing of Presidents."
The promoters of the.Crum
packer movement do not de
ny that their intention is to
curtail the congregational
representation of c e r t a i n
Southern states and, if they
attempt anj definite move
in that direction they will be
strenuously resisted by the
democrats. Representative
Richardson, the democratic
leader, assures me that t h e
democrats will avail them
selves of every parliamenta
ry tactic to prevent so grave
The La at Heard of I.
"My little boy took the croup
one night nnd noon grew so bad
you could hear him breathe all
over the bouse." says F. D. Rey
nolds, Mansfleld, Ohio. ''We fear
ed he would die, but a few doses
of One Minute Cough Cure quick
ly relieved him and he .went to
sleep. That's the last we heard of
the croup, isow, isn t a cougn
cure like that valuable? "Oue
Minute cough cure is absolutely
gate and acts immediately. For
courhs. coldrt, croup, grip, brou
chPis and all other throat and
lung trouble it is a certain cure.
Very pleasant to ta'ke.- The lit
tie ones like it. T. J. Coffey and t
pro.
an injustice ana every nemo
era t inv Congress will stand
by, hira. W hatever rauy k
the result, in so far as t h e
republicans ar concerned,
the attempt gives every
promise of uniting the demo
cratic party and it is freely
predicted that northern re
publicans will repudiate the
attempt on the part of their
lepresentatives, to tuke a
step which must result in in
tense sectional animosity. It
is well known that the form
er President disapproved of
this movement and the lead
ers of the House shared his
disapproval, but weie forced
to give their consent with a
yiew of ovei shadowing the
constantly growing s e n t i
ment in Congress, and all o
ver the country, in favor of
tariff revision.
The much vaunted htirmo
ny eminating from the ratifl
cation of the Waygnnd Means
policy in regard to Cuba,' at
the conference of the republi
can members held recently
is not materializing, to the
satisfaction of the republi:
can leaders. The Michigan del
egation have resolved to con
test the policy ou the floor of
the house. The Massachu
setts republicans are prepar
ing to make an onslaught on
the committee's hides und
General Wood has come to
Washington to protest to the
President that the pioposed
reduction of twenty per cent
of the Dingley' tariff rates on
Cuban imports will accom
plish nothing. The President
still looks to the Senate to
so amend the measure ns to
make it .practical and the
representatives are constant
ly threatening to revolt un
less thep are given solemn
pledges that the Senate will
not change any bill they may
pass, in any particular.
Clerk's Wise Suggestion.
"I have lately been much trouh
led with dyspepsia, belching una
Hour stomach," writes M. S.
Mead, leading pharmacist at At
tleboro, Muss ' I could eat hard
ly anything withoutsufferiugsev
e'ral hours. My clerk suggested
I try Kodol Dyspepsiacure which
did with most happy results. I
have had no more trouble and
when one can go to eating mince
pie, cheese, candy and nuts after
hucIi a time, their digestion must
be pretty good. I endorse Kodol
Dvsveps'ia cure heartily." You
don't have to diet. Eat all ths
good food you want but don't
overload the fttomach. Kodol
Dyspepsia cure digests the lood
T. J. Coffey and Bro.
Durham Herald: Those of
the brethren who have been
receiving wood on subscrip
tion should not forget that
this is the seosou for turnip
greens.
Nlg-ht Was Her Terror.
'I would cough nearly all night
long" writes Mrs. Charfes Apple
gate, ol Alexndria, lnd , "uDd
could hardlv get any sleep. I
hnd consuniption no bad that if
I hud walked a block I would
have coughed frightfully and
spit blood, but when all other
medicines had failed, hree $1,00
bottles of Dr. King's New Discov
ery wholly cured me and I guiu
ed'58 pounds." It's absolutely
guaranteed to cure coughs, colds
la grippe, bronchitis aud all
throat and lung troubles. Price
50c. and $1. Trial bottles free at
Blackburn's. .
If the people realized what
they paid in taxes they would
exercise u far closer upervis
ion of the expenditures.
4 Pea Picture of Wilcox. '
H. E. C. Bryan, writing to
the CharlotteObsPi ver. gives
the following description of
James RjIcox, who was con
victed for the murder of Nell
Cropsy ut Elizabeth City last
week: ." : ; V ;".-.
James Wilcox, the defend
ant, is a unique and mysteri
ous character I do not be
lieve his like is met with of
ten in a lifetime. He is runty
looking, cold blooded and
sell composed. From day to
day he has sat there without
showing any signs of emo
tion whatever. He has ap
peared to be supremely bored
with tho slow progress of the
law. He is the only man thnt
I ever saw who could sit for
several hours at a time and
look at nothing, tie gazes
with apparent satisfaction in
to space. He svems to take
no interest in the people a
round him. ft is said that the
joy of his former days came
from catching and playing
with snakes and collecting
bird eggs.
The shape ot his head is
half square and half -round.
There is a prominent knot be
hind. W ilcox must be a de
generate, a man of low order
of intellect and low ideals
He has a vicious disposition
and a quick temper, all of
which show very plainly in
his face.
As he left the court house
for the jail at dinner time to
day in charge of Deputy Sher
iff Reid, I took note of h i
carriage and behavior.. He
tripped along witn the elas
tic step of an athlete. He wore
a navy blue cap and appear
ed neat, He was in no way
fettered. Going down the
steps he threw hi right arm
around the officer's neck and
whispered something in his
ear. He carried the remains
of a lemon he had sucked in
the court house. Soon after
leaving the rear end -of the
building he threw his shoul
ders back and tossed the lem
on hull like a school boy
would have a base ball at re
coss. He walked briskly like
a light hearted lad. When the
nry retired this afternoon to
decide. hiskfate, he refused to
kiss his sister, whooff ;red her
lips. He sent her on by
wave of the hand. However,
no tamper was displayed. He
did it to exclude any possi
bilit.v oi sensational emo-
tron.
Working 21 Honrs a Day.
There's no rest for those tire
less little workers Pr. King's
New Lite Pills. Millions are al
ways busy, curing torpid liyer
iaundice. billiousness, fever and
ague. Tuey uauisli sick neaaacne
drive out malaria. Never gripe
or sickeu. Small, taste nice, work
wonders. Trv them 2o cents
at Blackburn's.
NOTICE.
At a sale of real estate made
tor t ixes by W. H. Caluway. ex
Sheriff of Watauga county on Ju
ly 1, 1901, at the court house
door in Boone. I purchhased a
tract of land listed in the name
of.Morphew andMcirpbew for
the taxes lor the .vetrN 1900 and
1901 in Elk township of 100 a
creg. The time or redemption will
expire on July 1st. 1902, and
unless redemption is inadjas the
luw directs, I shall tnke a deed
for the same Thin March 2Gth.
1902. . .
James Mobi'Hgw,'
a KM.,. t
Dr Hobbo-8pornaoPiiiicareii owner iu. m-
lolroo. Add. BWrliiijKijuuHljl.CJucoof Ji. f.
; , Old Tinea In Tenaesw" ; :
Probably few people know
that the original name of the
State of Tennessee" was Frank
lin or that in J788 the sala,-'
ries of the officrs of this com.
inon wealth w ere paid in
pelts, but the following Js a
copy of the law;
'Be it enacted by the Gen-
eral Assembly of the State of
Franklin, and it is hereby Zen,
acted, by authority of the
same, that from and after-
the first day; of 'm January
1788, the salaries of the Com
monwculth be as follows, to-
wit:
"His Excel lency the Gov
ernor, per.annum 100 deer
skins.
"His Honor the Chief Jus-
tice, 500jdeerskins.
"The secretaryto his Ex;
cellenc the Governor, 500
raccoonskins.
"County clerk, 300 beaver-
skins.
"Cletk of the House of Com
mons, 200. raccoon-skins.
"Justice's fee for serving
a warrant. 1 mink-skin.
"Member of the Assembly,
per diem, 3 raccoon. ekins."
At that time the State of
Franklin extended to the
east bank of the Mississippi
Riyer and on the west bank
was that great unknown for
est region of Louisiana. It
was then a "terra incognita"
save a lew canoe landings
and Italian' trading posts.
It was known as the Dis
trict of Louisiana; in 1805.
was made the Territory of
Louisiana.
The State ol.Franklin, which
became Tennessee in 177G,
was almost as little known.
The now great city vt Mem
phis was a mere trading post
and was not laid out as a vil
lage until 1820.
Pelts were us plentiful in
those days as (pennies, and
much better distributed lor
purposes of barter and 'tcur
rency. The pioneers wereper
haps ns happy and well con
tented us the average citizen
now. Arkansas Gazette.
Kodol Dyspepsia Curo
Digests what you oat
According to Bishop Pot
ter, but.38,re8i(Jents of Fifth
Avenue, New York,.votedj at
thelat,t election. And these
people complain that thejnu
chine runs politics.
i ' i. i o .
Thousands Have Kidney Trouble
and Don't Know it.
Row To Find Out.
Fill a bottle or common glass with your
water and let it stand twenty-four hours; a
sediment or set
tling indicates an
unhealthy condi
tion of the kid
neys; If it stains
your linen it Is
evidence of kid
ney trouble; too
frequent desire to
pass it or pain In
the back is also
convincing proof that the kidneys and blad
der are out of order.
What to Do.
There Is comfort in the knowledge so
often expressed, that Dr. Kilmer's Swamp "
Root, the great kidney remedy fulfills every
wish In curing rheumatism, pain in tho
back, kidneys, liver, bladder and every part
of the urinary passage. It corrects inability
to hold water and scalding pain In passing
it, or bad effects following use of liquor
wine or beer, and overcomes that unpleasant
necessity of being compelled to go often
during the day, and to get up many timet'
during tho night. The mild and the extra
ordinary effect of Swamp-Root Is soon
realized. It stands the highest for its won
derful cures of the most distressing cases.
If you need a medicine you should have tho'
best. Sold by druggists In 50c and $1. sizes.
You may have a sample bottle of this
wonderful discovery
and a book that tclls7(Xvc'i
more about It, both sent 531
absolutely free by mail,2jSssa
address Dr. Kilmer tt Homo of Bvomp-itoot '
Co.. Hlnphamton- N. Y. Whan wrttinr m03- .
tion reading this generous offer in this pape1'
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