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v.: ' J VOL XV. BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, N. C THURSDAY APRIL 9. 1903. NC. 6. Weak? ' I suffered terribly and waa ex tremeljr weak for 12 yeara. The doctors said my blood vat all turning to water. At last I tried Ayer'a Sarsaparilla, and was toon feeling all right again." Mr. J. W. Flala, Hadlyme, Ct. No matter how long you have been ill, nor how poorly you may be today, Ayer s Sarsaparilla is the best medicine you can take for purifying and en riching the blood. Don't doubt it, put your whole trust in it, throw away everything else. flMaMtt. AH4ntfWi. Ask year doctor what b thinks at Ayr StraapaHUa. H knowtallboatthisRno4 old family me4tc1na. Follow bltadflo sod WO will k wtiaflod. J. C. ATM. CO., Lowell, Hut. A Care for Lumbago. W. C. WillianiHon.of Amherst Va., says: "For more than a vear I suffered from lum bago. I finally tried Cham beilain'M Pain Balm and it gives me entire lelief, which ail others remedies had failed to do." Sold bj M. R Black burn. PROFESSIONAL. F. A. LINNEY, ATTORNEY AT LAW, . - BOONE, N. C. " nYrW&QUn. the courts of this and urround,rrTg'A',r? ties. '"' Prompt attention gi? en to the collection of claims and all other business of a le gal nature. 6 12 , EDMUND JONES, LA YER -LENOIR, N. C Will Practice Regularly in the Courts of Watauga, 10-25 1 t. J. C. FLETCHER, Attorney At Law, BOONE, N. 0. Careful attention given to collections. E-F. LOVILL, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BOONE, N. C. "Special attention given to all business entrusted to his care.19 8-23, 1900. S. W. TODD. GEO. P. PELL, TODD & PELL A TIORNEYS AT LAW, JEFFERSON, N. C. Will practice regularly in the courts of Watauga. Headquar tets at Coffey's Hotel during court. 5-4-99. . E. S. COFFEY, A Tl ORNET A 1 LA W, BOONE, N. C. Prompt attention given to all matters of a legal nature. WST Abstracting titles and collection of claims a special ty. 523-1900. Dr. J. M. HOGSHEAD, Gancr Specialist, BANNER'S ELK. N. C fro Knife; No Burning Out. Highest references and endors mentfi of nrorrrinenfc nernons sue Mfvifiill v treated in Va.. Tetin. and N. U. Kemetnber tnat there is no time too soon to get rid ol a cancerous growth no matter Jiow small. Examination free, letters answered promptly, and satisfaction guaranteed. WASHINGTON LETTER. From our Beg vlar Coireipondeut. Senator Morgan has made an emphatic and clear cut statement of his political con victions and views with re gard to the approaching national campaign. The two principal planks of Mr. Mor gan's platform provide for the payment cl the national debt and the levying of uni form tariff and tnxs in t h e insular possessions of the li nked States with those of this country. The Senator of course favors absolute free trade betweeu the insular pos sessions and this rountry. He would, moreover, eneoui age Cuba to adopt free trade and to welcome annexation to this country. The Senator says: "There are certain car dinal tenets of democrnej which form a creed and what democrats should do in buil ding up a platform is to bear those tenets in mind and re state them and treat the tern porary issues of the day in conformity with their cieed. We are not men who follow leaders. Like members of a church, we do not follow the pastor in all things, but the dpcJxtasu" The Senator says he has no objectidn fdaiff -i didate who bolted the plat form in past years, provided he stands squarely o n the plattorm to be adopted. The silver and Philippine issues he relegates to the past.saj-s they stand on a par with the policy of forcing out of the union those states which, be fore the war, refused to tore go slavery, in a word they are dead issues. He s a y s: "They dealt not with princi ples but with temporary and irritatinc questions." Asked his opinion with re gard to the next democratic candidate Mr. Morgan refus ed to express a choice, fie said: "1 do not care if it be a northern or a southern rran, provided he be a good man. I would a little rather he be a northern man, howeer, for then he would be subject ed to less ridicule and criti cism," In reply to the suggea tion that the bolters did not show much evidence of repen tence, Mr. Morgan said: "If the candidate stood on the platform I would build, it would be all right. I would do as they do when they ex amine a man for the army, inquire into his qualifications not Lis previous history or career. Senator Dubois, of Idaho, has determined upon a ticket which he believes would prove successful. It is Alton B. Par ker, of New York, and Benja min F. Shiyeley, of Indiana. "These two men represent pivotal states, New York and Indiana," said Mr. Dubois. "With their nameat the head of the ticket I feel confident we would carry the country. In order that the democrats may win next yeor we must carry Buch states as New York in the east and Indiana in the middle west. We could gain nothing by the nomina tion of Richard Olney, for in stance, for it is not likely he could earry his own state. Judge Parker and JudgeShiv eley are high grade men who would win the respect and the support of the voters." Asked what influence Mr. Bryan would have in the con vention, Mr. Dubois said: "Mr. Bryan must prove afac tor in the situation because of his personality, his worth, and because be has twice com manded the unanimous sup port of his party. While some of the issues which he represents are no longer oc cupying attention, it cannot be gainsaid that Mr. Bryan's great - personality must be considered, Here he a candi date he would probably be nominated, but I am in a po sition to say that he will not be a candidate." Referring to the issues Mr. Dubois said: "I think the democrats will advocate a reduction of the tariff, a remoddeling of the system. The present law is unjust. No man'wbo is post ed controverts the fact that many of our products are be ing sold abroad for less than they sell in this country. We should not reduce the duties toomuch because weare un der great expense and much of the custom receipts is nee ded to defray current expen ses, but there should be a re- Therein every evidence that those republicans whoexpett "a revision of the tariff by its friends" are doomed to disappointment. Promises to that effect which have been made by Congressmen have been made to secure votes and not to be kept. Senator Warren, of Wyommg, said receutly: "The western coun try is strong for protection. We are opposed to insiduous attacks upon the Dingley tar iff under the Dinglev tarifiun der the guise of reciprocity. There will be no revision of the tariff bjtbe republicans. The republican voters would be first to condemn such a movement. We regard there ciprocitv treaties as estab lishing dangerous precedents and would be glad to see them all fail " Evidences have cropped out in the Navy Department, of serious friction between the President and his Secretary of the Navy. On several occa sions the Secretary has been compelled by the President to act in entire opposition to his own judgment, notably in the case of the awarding of recent contracts for ar moured ciuisers. Mr. Moody favored awarding the con tracts for both vessels to the Cramps of Philadelphia but the President insisted that one vessel should be built by a New York ship building company and thiH wan accor dingly done. The President is now earnestly advocating a general staff for the navv. Bimilar to the general staff recently authorized by Con gress for the army. Mr. Moo dy does not approve of t h e measure, which would mate rially curtail the importance of the position of Secretary of the navy, but the Presi dent is insistent and Mr. Moo dy, so far as can be learned is following out his instruc tions. What is regarded in Wash inglon as an outgrowth of Sena tor Uanna'sex slave pen sion bill and thepublicitygiv en to the fact that it cannot pass, has just occurred in Cleveland and is the occasion of serious annoyance to prom inent republican politicians. The Equal Right Association composed of negroes, and some three hundred thous and .Jrorig, has adopted a set of resolutions appealing to the heads of foreign na tions to interfere to save them from being murdered bv Americans. The closing sentence of the appeal reads: "For God's sake intervene to save us, the AfrosAmerican men, women and children, be fore we are all murdered by those so called prejudicial whites of America. We plead, wo beg you to save us all." This appeal is addressed to all the crowned heads of Eu rope and Asia. Ridiculous as it is on its face, there is some fear that it may do serious mischief in the "black belt" where it will doubtless be us ed to stir up trouble. It is written by the same negro. C.'JW. Hines, who pre dicted war and bloodshed in the South, a short time ago, at a meeting in Washington, iRemarka61e Care of Croup, have a few words to say regarding Chamberliain's Cough Remedy. It saved my little boy s life and I teel that I cannot praise it enough. I bought a bottle of from A. E. Steere of Goodwin, S. V , and when I got home with it the poor baby could hardly breathe. I gave the medicine as directed every ten minutes until he "threw up" and then I thought sure he was going to choke to death. He had to pull the phlegm out of his mouth in great long strings. I am positive that if I had not got that bottle of cough medicine, my b:y would not he on earth today. Joel Demont, Inwood. Iowa. For sale by M. B. Blackburn. An old bachelor says that the most, prolific source of a woman's worries is her ina bility to think of something to worry about "Some time ago my daugh ter caught a severe cold. She complained of pains in her chest and had a bad cough I gave her Chamberlain's Cough Remedy according to directions and in two days she was well and able to go to schcol. I have used this remedy in my family for the past seven years and have never known it to faiP&a.vs James Prendergast, merch ant, Annato Bay. Jamaica, West India Island. The pains in the chest indicated an ap proaching attack of oneumonia. which in this in stance w a 8 undoubtedly warded, ofl by Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. It counteract anv tendency of a cold to ward pneumonia. Sold by M. B. Blackburn. When a woman has noth mg else to do she rips up something useful and makes something ornamental. LOST HIS NERVE. Those who climb mountains fre quently fin! the dizzy depths too much for thern and loae their nerve. Such is also the experience of those who neglect their stomach or bow els. Self preservation demands Dr. Ring's New Life Pills, They are gentle but thorongh Only 25c. at M. B. Blackburn's. Home Roflfctinai of '01d Bob" Editor Democi at: I was glad to see that the State appropriation for t h e public schools has at last been sent to thevariouscoun ties. Now I suppose our hard worked and very efficient corps of teachers ran at least draw paitof their salaries for last term. Some, I under stand, have not received any thing for their services yet. Now I don't believe any man or woman should take up school teunhing any more than preaching simply as a means of making money, but 1 do beliere that they, like others who have a living to make by their efforts, should have their pay. Yes I am glad that their money has at last come. Now let's talk awhile about that Literary Fund of$200, 000 made available by the last Legislature to be loaned to the counties which need it forJthe purpose of erecting suitable school houses. Each 1 ounty Board can borrow of the State Board by giving good scuritjr, mon ey for the erection or repair of district school houses to be paid back in ten years, one tenth of t he amount each vear.at fa?."W,cent. inter est. Then as theomntn comes in each year thafTtf still available for the same purpose for other counties, which makes the fund almost endless and will in the course of a few years give to the en tire countrv districts of the State splendid school houses of the same pattern, as the State Supt, furnishes plans for each house alike from one t.o eight rooms these plans are subject to approval of Co. Boards. To say that this fund for the purpose named is a blessing to the children of North Carolina is certain ly not saying too much. Why only last var there was onft county in which twenty white schools had to be closed bes fore the term was out for the reason that the houses were too dilapidated and open to admit of comfort. Thanks to the tax-pavers of Watauga, ours is not quite that bad, but this writer whose busi ness takes him away from home some times, knows ol and has seen within the last six months schools going on in houses in which yon would be afraid to stay ten min utes duriug our ordinary wind storms, houses in which rain and snow easily found their way. Why I know of one bouse with four windows and in those four only two panes of glass, the remain ing sash being entirely va cant with no window blind or 6hutter whatever and no hearth laid in chimney place, but still in that hovel of logs school was carried on until nearly Christ mas of last year to my certaiu knowledge. Can you wonder at the ayer age attendance of our public schools under such circum stances? Yes, sir, there are G25 districts in this State without any houses at all, and 484 white districts that still have log houses, all of which goes to show what grand thing this loan fund is for the welfare of oar chftV dren. ' Another law passed by oar last legislature that V think was a good one, prohibit! school committeemen from expending more than 20 per cent., or one fifth, of their school money in one year on their school houses. This is say a good law tcauseit does not allow all of the mon. ey to be spent on houses in-. any one year, tlw by deprk ving the children of school for that year. I tell you, sir,, that 1908 is too close upon; us to lose one term of school or one week of one term, Where the legislature, in the opinion of many, made a se rious mistake was in not corn pel ling oy statute the attend nnceof the children on the public schools, ltraadeedoca tlon compulsory to suffrage, now what we wrtnt nrd must have, is education. We of N. C. should be getting very tir ed ol staying at the bottom of the educational ladder; it is humiliating but neyerthe less true. Let us take a look at some figures from census of 1900. only two years ago, and things have not changed very much since then: Massachusetts and Con necticut had longest school terms, being 189 days, and 1 North Carolina bad theshor- test: itfasrrAVRglls had lar geHt a verge attendance tions omitted) North Caroli na had smallest, being, onl 36. The average amount aiH nuallj contributed by each adult male in North Caroli na to the support of school through local taxation is od ly six mills, little more than one-half cent, while in Mass a chusetts it is f 16.2G. These figures hurt us and we have determined that when the next census rolls around thtj shall be materially changed. The great trouble will be feet ting the children into the school houses, and keeping them there during the tern whether it be fodder polling, hay making or bean-picking time. Yes, our average at tendance is small but there are other states whose atten dance are small too; for Ins stance the intelligent State of Connecticut has a dail ar j erage attendance in o n e - tenth of her schools of less than eight. Wisconsin haa 1,000 schools with an aver age of less than ten. Iowa re ports 2.500 districts of less than 10 average and over 9,000 of less than 20, out of a total of 13,000 dietrkts. it Now these are highly intelli- gent and thickly populated 4 f) states. But their nonnttend r aDce does not justify oars. ; and we sincfrely deplore it .. and believe the time is near . at hand when our p u b 1 1 0 schools will be taught in'. ;, good houses by competent' teachers with full classes. No teacher can do his best witbr only a dozen pupils no mat ter what his knowledge is or his ability to impart. Send him a houHefnll and see his he roic effortsl How man? days did your children miss school T last' term, reader? u ULD&PH. x OASTOniA, BwitU Tho Kind Ym Hate town t?l 7
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