VOL XV.
BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, X. C, THUUSDAY, FERBUARY- 25, 1904.
NO- 60.
1
Colds
I bad a terrible cold and could
hardly breathe. 1 then tried Ayer'a
Cherry Pectoral, and it gave me im
mediate relief.' ,
W. C Layton, Sidell, III.
JHow will your cough
be tonight? worse, prob
ably. For It's first a cold,
then a cough, then bron
chitis or pneumonia, and
at last. consumption.
Coughs always tend
downward. Stop this
downward tendency by
taking Ayer's Cherry Pec
toral. ThrM lizM i tic, Sfc.,"SI. c.Alt anrotata.
Oonnlt ro"' doctor. If b Hn taka It,
thn louhi nfi. If ha tail you not
to tain It, than don't Uka It. Ra knows.
Laara it wiU him. W ara w1lllnt
J. C. Af KB CO.. Low.U, Matt.
.', Censure Hnderitiidi ji never
hurt anybody. ".If false, they
cannot hurt you unions yoti.
-, are wanting in manly- crmr-
neter; if true, they show a
tii an his weak poititH and
forewarn him agaiust failure
and trouble.
.,: - . :
todcl Dyspepsia Cure
Digest What yb Mb
FROrESSJONAL.
Todd & Ballou.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
JEFFERSON, N. C.
;' "Will practice in all the couats
. -Special attention givtn to col
ection, .1-6-4.
,.F. A. LINNEY,
, ATTORNEY AT LAW,-
BOONE, N. C.
Will practice in the courts
, of thin and surroundingcoun
'ties. Prompt attention giv
.en to the collection of claims
and all other business of a le
gal nature. 612 '04.
EDMUND JONES,
LAWYER
LENOIR, N.
Will Practice Regularly in
the Courts of Watauga,
6-l.'o3,
J. C. FLETCHER,
v Attorney At Law,
.BOONE, N. C.-r
Careful attention, given to
collections. '
EFLOVILL,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,-
BOOSE, N. C -
BQTSpeeial attention Riven
to all business entrusted to
h!scare."8
' M-'O..
E. S. COFFEY,
-ATWRSEYA1LAW,-
COONE, N. C.
Prompt attention given to
all rontters of a legal nature.
tVST Abstracting titles ariil
collection of claims a special
ty. ..' .
1-1 '04.
Da. J; M. HOGSHEAD,
Cancer Specialist,
BANNER'S ELK. N. C
ho Knite; No Burning Out.
Highest references and endow
ments of prominent persons sue
. cessfullv treated in Va., Term.
" and N C. Remember tha t there
is no time too soon tp get rid ol
a cancerous growth no matter
' how rffaal tExamination free.
kftterr rtnewren promptly, ana
satisfaction uiarantew.
WASHINGTON- LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondent.
The administration unia
tors have decided to vote nol
idly to THtily the Panama
treaty and take the Tonne
qnenct'8. These are problem
atieal, but thosp who have
mHde a profound study of
the hostile condition at the
luthmusdo not believe that
a lock canal between the o
ceans can be built th-rein
twenty: rive years over the
Culebra anl in the face oil lie
uncontrollable torrent of the
Cringles. It is universally u
greed that a sea lever canal
would be worth four timean
much and take ihreetimeea
long to finish Engineer of
high repute fay that the
earth offers no pipVedent tor
this lock canal; that no sdtni
lar, stupendous engineering
work has ever been u nder ta
ken, and they decline to pre
diet when "cr how.it can be
done, or what cost, or wheth
er it ran be denent all. ''Pan
nma! Panama! Build it in a
year hurrah!" may possibly
elect Rooseyelt, but it will
leave, the Republican partv
bnkrnpt before 1908 with" a
whole lot of broken promises
on its hands But Southern
Democrats have been wait
ing a good while, and their
impatience has drawn some
of the weaker ones into the
ranks of the ratifiers
The Panama discussion .in
the Senate goes on languidly
towards the finish. Carmaek,
Tenn , made one of his ring
ing, stinging speeches this
week that caused Republi
cans to wriggle in their seats
or to seek the restaurants or
to find refuge in the cloak
room, He said there were
some outrages that even Mr.
Roosevelt dare -not -perpetrate
because he is a candi
date for the presidency, that
circumstances pin res a limit
upon the lawlessness of the
administration.''
For the last three days the
House has bepn debating the
Senate amendment to lend
$4rG00,00O to the St. Louis
Fair Commii tee in addition
to 'the .$5,000,000 already
given out right. The proposi
tion was advocated by Mess
rs Cochran, Cowherd, De At
mond, Champ Clark and Van
diver, of Missouri, and Hem
enway, Ind., chairman of ap
propriations, among the a
blest men in Congress. In op
position were Messrs. Payne,
Grosven, Dalzel and Gillett.
Mass.. who said they were tir
ed'oflhese rails upon the
Treasury by men who would
first obtain an appropria
tion by pledging themselves
to ask no more, and then in
a few months come back and
hoi tip their platter again on
the ground that they had
SAVED FTOM TERH1BLE DRATH.
The family of Mrg. M.L,Bobbitt
f Bargetown, Term., saw her dy
ing and were powerless to save her.
The most skitfull physicians and
every remedy used, fiihd, whilecon
sumption was 'slowly but surely ta.
king her life. In this terrible hour
Dr. King's New Discovery for Con
gumption turned despair into joy.
The first bottle brought immediate
relief and its continued use complete
ly cured her. It's the most certain
cure in the world for all throat and
lung troubles. Guaranteed bottles
50c. and $ I. Trial bottles free at
M TJ . Btokburn' . ",.
beMi given something and
therefore must have more.
The lobby was crowded with
ejcciterl visitors from the
Mound .City. On Thursday
the measute passed "t r i -nmphantlv'"
n lobbyist re
marked, itjssoeqsy to be
tif'nevoletit and "im'Jie spir
ired" ith other peoples inon
ey. s
"Hon. I! I). Wahott,T)irec
top of the United States Geo
logi"Hl Survey" pev-r tires of
novllips.' Hp has appointed
Mr. 'Kunz to be m 4 Radium
Commissioner" to Hip World
Fair in St. Louis- -walarv
0001 'Now fetch on theey
p-'rts. Who is irking to be So
linni Com m!ssionei? and X
rav- Commissioner, and Trilo
biteComnvisKionp, and Liquid
Air Commissioner, and Con
trealed Snhshine Commission
er.. nnl Weather Breeding
Commissioner, and Aero
plane Co nj mission"!? Hur
rah for science with a big.
big S! We cannot have too
much SHence, especially Sci
ence that bard-woking peo
pip pay for and nobody un
derstands. Spnator Hoar has a compi
lation from the goverment's
rpcords. showing that war
and warfarp havp cost this
nation onp thousand million
ilo'lars inseypn vears about
$2 per head, or $10 a family
each year. Il our taies were
direct, instead of indirect,
and the tax-gatherer went
from iloor to door and soltci
ted t9n dollars at every home
how long would th terrible
waste go on?
vThe" World's Fair Indus
try" isgalloping. hotfooted
The St', Louis outfit has got
ten million dollars from the
Federal treasury and Port
land Ore., Jamestown, Va.,
Wheeling. W. Va., and t h p
Mayflower Pilgrims want as
much more. It looks as if
they would get it too. We
are much jtiven to acclama
tions of. joy and multitudi
nous fireworks and the cele
brants find Uncle Sam easy.
General JohnC. Black, corn
mander of the G. A. It., and
the nf w president of the civil
service commission is rapidly
convalescing at the Garfield
Hospital". Your correspond
ent called on him yesteiday;
found him setting up in an
easy chair and saluted him
as the much talked 01 Demo
cratic candidate for Presi
dent. "O, no," he earnestly
exclaimed, "General Sickle's
mention of my name was ;n
ly iin amiable and lovely
compliment rising from the
veteran's warm heart. We
are old political friends and
army comrades, and hp natu
rally enough said a friendly
and pleasant thing. That's
nil there was of it." There is
n rising 'tide of comment in
the lobbies hi favor of a peace
army for the Democratic can
WHAT'S IN A NAHl?
Everything is in the name wlien it
conies to Witch Hazel Silve. E. C.
DeWitt & Co., of Chicago, discov.
ered some yean ago how to make
a salve from Witch Hazel that is
a specific for piles. For blind, blee
ding, itching and protruding piles,
eczema; cuts, burn brumes and all
skin diseases Dp Witt's Salve has no
equal. This has given rise to numer
ous worthless counterfeiters, Ask
for De Witt's the genuine. Sold bv
M. R. Bhrkhnrn. :
did ate.
oovunor O.lell. of N. Y.
is opposed to the good roads
measure suggested for that
state. He doesn't mind spen
ding a hundred million dol
lars on the Erie canal, which
is of very slight -benefit to
anybody, but when.it comes
to helping the farmers b tter
th'ir roads, he puts his foot
down.
Brevities: Pension Conunis
sionei Ware wants authority
to retire three per cent of his
clerks annually.
A uood manv old fallows
sleep at their desks but don't
wish to retire.
Mr. Rooseyelt has 78,000
post .offices as a political
.'barrel'1 to stirt his cam
paign with.
Senator Elkins, of West
Viririnia, says the p o p I e
want thp canal and don't
care how they get It.
Car conductors-here have
been caught embezzling.
The Quartermaster Gener:
al of the army has just found
$3,000,000 of old . uniforms
that were lost !
If the prospprity of the
country is reflected in the in
crpasp of postal receipts $12
000.000. over last year, is the
loss of moral tone reflected
in the increase of, the postal
frauls?
Lincoln's birthday was cel
ebrated here by a few persons
in a , tn it.ifeeblp and per
funetory nanner. He is now
generally considered a back
number..
A VEST-POCKET DOCTOR.
Never in the way, no trouble to
carry, easy to take, pleasant and nev
er failing in results are De Witt's
Little Early Risers, A vial of these
little pills in the vest-pocket is a cer
tain guarantee againat headache,
hillionsness, torpid liver and all the
ills . resulting from constipation.
They tone and strengthen theljver,
For sale bv M. I). Blackburn.
The Durham Herald ob
serves: .If what is being said now
had been said a few years a
go, Mr. Hunna might, per
hups, have died a happy
man.
Thisrpfersto the eulogies
pronounced on Senator Han
na since his death. There is
no doubt that Senator Han
na is a very much maligned
and misrepresented man. He
was, up to a very recent pori
od, pictured as the embodi
ment of almost everything
bad. Within the past few
years th publiu came to
know him and appreciate
him as a good man, 111 many
respects an exemplary man.
But as is usual in such cases,
since be is dead there h a s
ppen much fulsome praise of
him, much slopping over.
The excess of praise has bepn
almost as bad as the pxceps
of abuse of htm in years past.
Statesville Landmark.
JUST ONE MINUTE.
One Minute Cough Cure gives re
lief in one minute, because it kills
the microbe.whith tickles the mu
cus membrane, canning the cough
and at the same time clears t he
phlegm, draws the irflamatron and
heals and soothes the affected parts.
One Minute Cough Cure strength
ens the lungs, wards off pneumonia,
and is harmless and and never fail
ing cure in all curable cates fo
coughs, colds and croup. One Min
ute Cough Cure is pleasant to take,
harmlcs unt god alike tt young
and old. Rcld bv M. 0. Black'v.rn.
- The Size of Uussia't Army.
No one outside the Rus
sian war office knows the te
tual number of tr ops the
Czar has in Manchuria orj
within reach of if. The Ru-j
sian army in point of mim-j
ber is the:' largest in the.
world. aily9()0.()00yoiing!
men .reach their majority j
each year, and each is bound j
by law to spend five years in ;
the army. If all were taken!
Uh'.y would make an army!
too large even for Russia, soj
only 219 000 go to the col
ors with the army or the
hVet. nrM theiesl go to the
reserve. The lowest peace
strength of the Russian mili
tary establishment, there
fore, numbers mor than 1,
000,000 men with 42 000 of
fleers. In- war time practi
cally all these young men
join the colors, swelling the
army to the (stupendous fig
ures of 4,500.000 men and
75,000 officers, for w h o m
there are provided 500,000
horses. Men who are in a po
stiion to guess shrewdly s-iy
there are more than 300U)0
Russian soldiers in Ma neb 11
ria or near it now. The num
ber that can be put in the
field there is limited only ny
the will of the government.
Everybody's Magazine,
A VEUT CLOlK CALL.
4'I stuck to my engine, although
every joint ached iind every nerve
was 'ravik'.-d with pain" writes C, W
Bellamy a locomotive firemai 'of
Burlington Iowa. "I wan weak and
pale without any appetite and all
run dowu As I was about to give
up I got a bottle of Electric Bitters
and after taking it I felt as well as I
ever did in my lift1." Weak sickly
run down people always gain new
life strength and vigcrfrom theiruse
Trv them. Satisfaction guaranteed
bv M. B. Blackburn.
The total electoral vote of
all the states under the npw
apportionment will be four
hundred and seventy-six, an
increase of twenty-nine over
1900. The votes necessary to
a choice of President are two
hundred and thirty-nine. The
states that have gained are:
.Atkansas, one; California
ne; Colorado and Connecti
cut, one; Florida one; 1 1
nois, three; Louisiana, one;
Massachusetts, one; Minneso
ta, two; Mississippi, one; Mis
souri. one; New Jersey, two;
New York, three; North Caro
lina, onp; Pennsylvania, two;
Texas, three; Washington,
one; M'est Virginia one; Wis
consin, one. Ex. .
1 WONDERFUL NeHVE.
Is displayed by many a man endu
ring pain9 of accidental cutH wounds
bruises burns scalps sore feet or stiff
joints. But there's no need for it.
Bucklen s Arnica Salve will kill the
pain and cure the trouble. It's the
be' salve on earth for piles too 2uc
at M.B Rlackburn.s
The Philadelphia Record
says that the threat is made
that William J. Ibyan would
cut loose from the Democrat
ic party and become the can
didateof the Populistssliou'd !
Grover Cleveland be nomina
ted at St. -Louis.
DOMESTIC TltOUBLES.
It is exceptional to fii.d a familv '
wner there are nodomrstic ruptures!
11 1 ..1 - u.i ,1
orcanoiiaiiy oui uics-mu utiwimni ,
bv having Dr. King's W- Life Pill j
around. Much trouble thev savo '
bv thrtir ercat work in stomach and mP18 N""9 V .m , nmtt s-ij-1
" 6, , , . . , free, ai30 pamphlet telling you how to find
Liver troubles. Thev not only re-. ouHf yeu hlv, MMy or MuMot trouble,
lieve vou but cure. 25c at M. B, 1 Mention this paper when writlpg Dr. Kilmef
Blackburn' fc Co., Blnghamton, N. Y, - .
n n
"I was troubled with tton
aoh trouble. Thadford'i Blo.
bruucht did ma mors (nod
la ods weak than all the doo
tor' maJIclna I took In a,
year." MRS. BAEAH B.
EHiariELD.EUattnUto.Iad.
Thedford's Black Draught
quickly invigorates the ac
tion of the stomach uid
cares even chronic cases of
indigestion. f you will
take a small dose of Thed
ford's Black Draught ooca-,
sionally you will keep your
stomach and liver in per
fect coudition.
THEDFORD'5
BLACK-DRAIM
More sickness it caused by '
constipation than by any
other disease. Thedford's
iack-Dranght not only re
lie constipation but cures
diarrhoea and dysentery and
keeps the bowels regular.
All drunriaU tell
3S-coot package!.
"Thedford's Black
Draught is the beat medi- .
cine to regulate the bowela
I have ever used." MRS.
A. M. QKANT, Sneads
Ferry, N. C.
OnSTiPATIOI
Hon. C. B. Watson has
be. 11 at Hot Spring, Ark.,
foi rheumatism, and T b ?
Winston Sentinel says helm.
arrived at home, looking
well; that he haslost twenty
five pounds of flesh and ban
quit smoking. Hishome folks
may get used to this in time,
but to his other friends and
acquittances he will never
look natural without a cigar
in his mouth, cocked at an
angle of forty-five degrees'.
Chuilotte Observer.
FARM FOR SALE,
Sixty or seventy acres of well
watered und wejl-lnying lands,
lying 7 miles from Boone on the
Jefferson road. Fine ' orchard of
apples, peaches aud cherries; al
so double cribs, good stable and
smoke house, the dwelling vwas
burned. The iarm is a bargain at
the price $800 as it contains
about 20 or 25 ecres of fine bot
tom land. Purties intereuted will
call on It. L. Moretz, as he lives
near the place, or write to me at
Sixain's X Roads, Tenn,, aud I
will meet thftn there.
ALEXANDER CROWDER.
A woman always accept
her pastors advice with
sweet grace when he happens
to call when she is pressed in
her best cloth"8. "
Over -Work Weakens
Your Kidneys.
Unhealthy Kidneys Make Impure Mood
V
All the blood In your body passes through
your kidneys once every three minutes.
1 ne Kioneys are your
blood purifiers, they fll '
ter out the waste or
Impurities In the blood.
If they are sick or out
of order, they fall to do
their work.
Fains. achesandrhetK
matism come from ex
cess of .uric acid In tha -blood,
due to neelected
kidney trouble.
Kidney trouble causes quick or unsteady
heart beats, and makes one feel as 'hough
they had heart trouble, because the heart is
over-working In pumping thick, kidney
poisoned blood through veins and arteries.
It used to be considered that only urinary
troubles were to be traced to the kidneys,
but now modern science proves that nearly
all constitutional diseases have their begin
ning In kidney trouble.
If you are sick you can make do mistake
by first doctor Is. your kidneys. The 'mild
and tho extraordinary effect of Dr. Kilmer'-'
t Swamp-Hoot, the great kidney remedy ut
oon realized. It stands the highest' for Its
wonuenui cures or me moat ousueasing cases
and is sold on its merits
by all druggists In fifty-.
cent and one-dollar tiz-1
es. You may have a
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