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BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, N. C, THURSDAY APRIL 21, 1904.
NO. 6.
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Bronchitis
"I have kept Ayers Cherry Pec
toral In my house tor a great many
yean. It ia the beat medicine in
the world for coughs and colda."
J. C. Williams, Attica, N. Y.
All serious lung
troubles begin with a
tickling in the throat.
You can stop this at first
in a single night with
Ayer's Cherry Pectoral.
Use it also for bronchitis,
consumption, hard colds,
and for coughs of all kinds.
TWu tUm I ZJc, He, fl. AHarantabh .
Oowalt fnmr doctor. It h mti tak it,
tbea m h mj. If tn tolu Jam Bot
to tok it, tbra dun'! Uk lb He kwnra.
Ln U wtth him. W r willing.
I I " . U. AIM VOL. MWU, UN.
PROFESSIONAL.
Todd & Ballon.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
JEFFERSON, N. C.
Will practice in all the cou.it a-
Special attention given to col
tion, 1-6-4.-
F, A. LINNEY,
ATTORNEY" AT LAW,-
BOONE, N. C.
Will practice in the courts
of chin and surrounding coun
lies. Prompt attention giv
n to the collection of claims
and .all other business of a If
jral nature. 612 '04.
EDMUND JONES,
LATJ YER
-LENOIR, N. C
Will Practice Regularly in
the Courts of JYata uga,
61. '03,
J. C. FLETCHER,
Attorn; At Law,
BOQNE.N.C.
Careful attention given' to
collections.
E. F. LOVILLr
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
V -BOOSE, N. C-
Special attention Riven
to all business entrusted to
hkcare.Tl
11 '04.
E. S. COFFEY
If
-ATWRSE7A1 LAW,-
BOONE, N. C.
Prompt attention given to
all matters of a legal nature.
tar Abstracting titles and
collection of ' claims a special
ty. 1-1 '04.
3 W.ILBOWKB,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
'j. Lenoir, H. C.
Practices in the courts of
VCaldwell, Watantra, Mitchell,
Ashe and other surrounding
counties.
Prompt attention given to
till legal mat tere en trusted to
Ins care.
Da. J. M. HOGSHEAD
Cancer Specialist,
.BANNER'S ELK. N C
Ao Knife; No Burning 4 'at.
: Digheet refereuces and eudors
ruents of proniinert perwous sue
eessfully treated In 'Va.. Twin.
,'. ,and N. C. Remember tha t then
. is no time too soon to get rid ol
a cancerous growth no- matter
: hour small. Examination free,
"letters answered promptly, and
"fUtitfactiPfl jaaranteea.
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Froa our Kef Blar Cor r. pendent.
Lptinlatioii i n CongivM
proceeds slutTKifhl.v auain,
but it is probable that b.v
May I there tna be effrcted
n round-up of "those cattle"
at the President faoethusly
chIIh the law-makers a; the
other end of th Avenue. Th
Senate eterday indnked it
self in sixteen ferenteulrKieH
f the late SnHtor Mark
Hannn, at leant I w of thfin,
deli voted by men who were
tiot ou ejieakinu terms will)
him for many months. Sen
ntor Foraker's frink sp-h
Wbsonthe lenlurs eilif ol
impropriety. Yet it was an
oivasion of deep sincerity
and even of real emotion. ann
suggested the upoNtri'phe ci
Shakespeare; '"0 miRht.v Cae
sari Dost thou lie so low? Are
all thy conquests, glories,
triumphs, spoils, shrunk to
this little measure?"
The reverberation of stump
speeches for the campaign in
Senate and House has been
succeeded by much quiet coin,-
ment on Ueveianu letter
endorsing Judge Parker.
Some think it was inodpor
tune and premature; other,
that it will tend to unify a
discordant and dissevered
party, Perhaps thedominant
conclusion is that it will make
no particular difference: that,
as Judge Parker has heen
Mr. Bryan's personal friend
and voted for bim. iu 1896,
and 1900, and as he is Mr.
(jorman.s second choice; ami
as Tammany is not really
hostily, the aencial effect of
the letter ill uot be harm
ful.
It has been arranged that
the transfer ol the Panama
caual property to the Umteu
States sbill take placeatour
empasHV in Paris ou April
25th, if the stockholders
agree. A formal appeal will
be made against the recent
decision of the preach rourt
in favor o' thesulnof thecoti
cessions and property to
American, butthuisdeclared
"dilatory" and the high con
tracting parties willgouheuri
The members of the canal
commission bad an "ovation'
and luncheon at Panama on
the Oth and were welcomed
by President Amador. Mean
time gold has gone down
and prices up in Panama,
and a strike is announced,
fully equipped with resolut
ion, demands, walking dele
gates, and liojcitls of Uncle
Sam's outfit of excavation.
Tie labor trgatiizutions
here and their represent a lives
from other parts ot the
country have lieen thrown in
to a condition of iuexting
uithablernge bv what they
call the duplicity and b.v pro-
ARK TOT A DYSPEPTIC?
If yon are a dyspeptic you owe it to
yourself and your friendu to gei
well. Dyspepsia Hiinn the dtspep
tic' iriinii necausc hittdiacaH "our
hi dwpoiuiiit ui well as hiti atom
iich.'KuJol Uvspepsia Lure will not
enly cure dyspepsia, r.Jigeston and
tour stomach, out ihib pt latable, re
constructive to..1'': digestant strength
ens th? whole digestivj nppa'atus,
and swittens Tie 1 i as well a the
tom;ich. 'Vhen voutake Klol Dys
peosia ore the t ynu eu is en
joted It in di."-''l.a.-ii;.i a ! J
its nutrent properties ap;rpriar-u
by the blood tissues. Health is the
result. Sold by M. B. Blackburn..
Ii-iiuv i J thu rtpiinftii-un nnrtv
in relation to labor legislate
ion. Mr. Gompersissoanirrv
that uncontrollable emotion
dams the flow of bis talk.
For ten years now a Repub
lican Congress has promised
to pass an eight hour law
and antMnjiHiction law, for
the protection of the media n
icsaud other manual laborers
tf the land. But every year
on tha close approach of
adjournment they have
switt hed the industrial train
off the track. This week the
track hos been turned again,
the committee on Labor in
the H )use has held a god
many meetings this winter,
has heard a host of witnesses
who came here from all parts
of the country at their own
ex pens ', and has made
voluminous and vociferous
that now CougreBS would
pass the law which laboring
men require. Congressman
v'iardiner.Rep , of New Jersey,
authoritative! repeated
this solemn pledge only last
week, put this week the Re
publicans of the committed
have concluded not to puss or
report any bill "this time"
and have referred the whole
question to Cortelyou of the
Department of Commerceatid
Labor, to report in the dim
future. The Federation of
Labor, the Knights of Labor,
and alt other associotions of
labor, until and nonunion,
declare tbat they have been
misled, deceived, defranded,
hocus-pocused, and, in short,
lied to very deiberately and
systematically, and they are
correspondingly resentful,
outraged, and dhuusiel.
Ex-Senator Charles A.
Towne, of Michigan Min
nesota and New York, is
consideradly talked of in the
dark horse category of Dem
ocratic candidates. He was
a member of the Senate three
weeks and made one notable
speeches which attracted
much attention, against the
subjugation of the Filipinos.
At the conclusion of his
sheeeh while receiving con
gratulations Senator Depew
sidled up to him and took
himjb thehanlj.Mr. Towne'
sdid Senator Depew, with ap
propriate condescension "I
congreatulate you, eir! You
delivery was fine, your diet
ion elegant, you t eroration
nuperb, and your argument.1
Senator Towne iustantly
replied, "Mr. Depew, 1 am
deli nh ted to know tbat you
approve of the only features
of it you 'auldcoinpredend."
The witty r 'tort is still plena
antlv repeated at the Cap
itol. Easter Monday was ogg
i oiling day in this city a
holiday peculiar to Wash
ingt.in. Early in the morning
thosands of children deaded
for the white House, armed
with r ttkets of boiled egg
GOOD FOR CHlLDRBN.
The pleasant to take and harmless
(jue Minute Cough Cure gives im
mediate relief in all cases of Cough
roup and LaGrippe because it does
not pass immediately into the atom
ach but takes effect right at the seat
of the trouble. It draws out the in
flammation heals aud soothes and
cures permnneii:lv by enabling the
lungs to contribute litcgivitig and
lifesu!aini'j oxvgen to the Mood
tissue One Mi'iute Cotig'i
ia pleasant to txke nnd it m pwi
like for v'i w M .J ),; b,
M, D. BUwyff ...
of flamboyant colors, oil
teady for the great game. It
consists in flinging the eggs
uphill and down and then
gathering again as many
as' possibly. Before sunset
the White House lawn was
a eight to behold. covered
with paper, brokfn victuafs.
eggs, and eggsheels, and
everything that could dese
crate it. A street cleanhing
brigade has been busy ever
since trying to clean it up
and restore the lawn to its
normal colot. Loads of stuff
have been cared off. It is to
b" hoped that this imbecile
game will not become. cou
tagious.
Tbe lawn festival of the
Countess, kCassini, daughter
of the Russian ambassador,
lor the benfit of the Czar's
Red Cross Society, will begin
on the 27th... Doctor Mary
walker is lecturing here on
consumption. On the 1st
Senator Depew tried to pick
up a pocket. book Lear the
Capitol. He says it was nailed
down just like tbe Vander
bilts. The Supreme Court
has not yet decided the case
of Turner, ordered deported
as an anarchist. Col. Edward,
"Chief of tbe Insular Bureau"
has gone to St. Louis to
pose the Philipine exhibit.
Postmaster General Payne
has gone to Old Point Com
tort to reruperate. Senator
Burton is here again but will
not resume bis seat in Con
gress next week. Then
what? Secretary Moody dec
lares that the president has
always paid the entire ex
penses of the yachts he and
his family have used who did
be pay? .
the Best family alve
DeWitt's Witch tlazel gives in
stunt relief from tf urns, cures Cuts,
Bruises, gores. Eczema, Tetter and
all abrasions of the skin. In buying
W itch Hazel Salve it is only neces-
sarv to see that you get the genuine
DeWitt's and a care is certain. There
are many cheap counterfeits on the
market, all of which are worthless,
and quite few arcdangerous, while
DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve is per
fectly harmless and cures. Sold by
M. B. Bbckburn.
The administration iscnre-
ful to have the United States
mints break all gold coinage
records before the presidential
election.
a cure fob headache
Any man. woman or child suffer
ing from head-ache, biliousness or
a dull, drowsy feeling should take
ode or two of DeWitt's Little- Early
Risers night and marning. These
famous little pills are atamous be
cause thev are a tonic as well as a
pill. While they cleanse the system
thev strengthen and repubild it by
ineir ionic enect upon tne uve anu
bowels. Sold by M. B. Blackburn.
A Lesson for Wives.
Nothing under heaven cuts
the grit irom under a man
quicker than does discord
and unhappmess iu his home.
Sm men but tbey are rare
ex.eptions areRtrong enough
to be some thing in spite of
home troubles. The m a u
whose wife makes an nnplens
ant home for him knows a
good deal abont hell long be
fore be dies. And ou theother
band a man whose wife
makes a pleasant -home for
him is thrice armed and pan
oplied for lile's batiks mid
haren will not seem Strang
to him. Monro Enqnirei.
OAQTOIIIA.
tmitH Ta Kia Yea Haw Ahrayi BaotjL
Tracing the Leaks.
Washington Capital
"I have stopped talking
to you fellows about tbe
plAns of this department."
bluntly declared Secretary
Sbaw to a newspaper friend
theother day. Ml know, of
course that I can trust you
but 1 have learned not to
talk. to anybody when f am
maturingan important move
ment. Now take this last re
funding operation. Why man
I said nothing to anybody
about that andj'still news
of it leaked out before I was
ready for it,"
"How did it get out?" ask
ed the newspaper man.
The keen, gray eyes of tbe
Secretary of the Treasury
twinkled. He sciewed up bis
face until it looked like a fun
ny mask.
"That's what I'd like to
know," he said. "Do yon
know," he went on to say.
"since I coma to think it
over I do remember that I
wrote one letter about it.'
"To whom?" insisted the
inquisitorial journalist.
"To the President, sir, to
tbe President sir," exclaimed
Mr. Sbaw, "but I clean tor-
got to tell him not to say
uothtng about it."
Facts aboat BsSsuu
Two and one half timrs as
large as tbe United States
and Alaska.
30,000 miles of coast line;
half of it ice-bound.
36,000 miles of railroad,
of it owned by the; govern
ment. The United States has 53
times as many miles of tele
graph, and send 15 times as
much mail.
The United States has 23
limes as many factories.
One twentieth as mu-'h coal
produced, and one sixth as
much iron us in the United
States.
Total exports, 320,000,
000.
Next to the United States
asa grain produciug country.
Populations G6 per cent,
Pole 7 percent, Finns 5 per
cent. Tnrco Tartars. 9 per
cent.and Jews 3 per cent.
Average laborer gt one
fourth as tnuMi wjges as in
the United States.
Only 90 daily papers. Tbe
World's Work.
President Roosevelt is try
ing to bereulconservative(!)
because be does not regard
this as his own administra
tion but as the Ailing out ol
that of bis predecessor. AH
he asks is a free rein in bis
own administration. Then
something is going to drop
OASTOXIXA.
FARM FOR SALE,
Sixty or seventy acres ol well
watered and well-laying lands,
lying 7 miles from Boune on the
Jefferson road. Fine orchard of
apples, peaches aud cuerriee.; al
so double cribs, good stable and
smt.ke I) nine, the dwelling was
burner!. The lann is a bargain at
the price $800 as it contains
about 20 or 25 acres of tine bot
tan land. Parties intern ted will
C ill on R. U Moretz, as he live
noar the place, or write to me at
S'mun's X Roads, Tenn,, and I
will meet thtni there.
, AL ZANDER CROWDER ,
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tlMwttfcSMtm. ItltrtMffBU
Mm I takV'-MM. CAftOUM
kuamN. PmsmKis. W. VaV
Mt II
If your liver don MtaetNf
many go toyoor draraist aa
Black-Driuwht and take Am
four a DackaM f iMdlora
toaifht
ht This gTSat family
nsdieiM frses tht eonatlpatM
bowels, stirs up ths torpid lira
s up tbs torpid Itvtr
a Withy sscrstlM
and m
of bila.
Thedford's Black -Dnofkt
will cleanse tha bawtla of im
parl tits an rtrmftkaa tbs kid
sera. A torpid liver krrisss
colda, bilioojMss, chills sad
fever and alt maaasr of tick
aeea and contagion. Weak kid
neys result ia BriBtt's diaeaaa
which claims as many victims
as eonaumptioa. A 25-eni
BrauiSii
of Thedford's Black-
sugkt sbonM always M kapt
ia tha botue.
' -I m ndfWPs BhMfe
Draaaat t ttrm M4klav H
mimimU h4 Umm4 aothlaf St asaal
THEDFO0'3
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Mixed Sehoali law Inatioafd.
Mr Scott, resuming, bad .
read the laws of New York
signed by Mr. Cleveland,
while governor, providii
for mixed schools O'tl&cgt
Mr. Cleveland had denied
this, he said it was easy for ,
a man to forget a matter ot
twenty years ago. He was
willing to concede that tbt
expresident had forgotton
abont the law. He also refer- -red
to the denials' of Mr. '
Cleveland of oharges by .
Thomas Watson, of Georgia
that the ex-president bid
nominated a negro, Charles
H. Taylor, as minister tc a
South American republic, be
eausein 1893 Mr. Cleveland
hah nominated Taylor to
Roliyia. If tha democrats
did not wish tomakean issue
of the negro question, why
did they initiate discussion
of it? He did not undertand
why .some gentleman shonld
hold up tbe bugaboo of negro,
domination. "Are you really
afraid?" be inquired of tbe
democratic side, "or are yon
only pretending to be afraid?
Will they tell us that bot for
this cry the south would still
be the solid south?
Glory is the deification of
egotism.
The Eminent Kidney
and Bladder Specialist
las Mactvcrar af Iwaaia-SsM at Wark to
lis batratarr. ' '
There la a diaeaaa prevailing la this
country moat dangeroua baeauaa aa decep
tive. Many sudden deaths ara caused try
It heart diaeaaa. pneumonia, heart failure
or apoplexy ara often tha result of kidney
disease. If kidney trouble la allowed to ad
vance tha kidney-poisoned blood will attack
the vital orpins, or tha kidneya themeelvee
break down and .waste away cell by calk '
Then the richness of tha bloodthe albumaa
leaks out and the sufferer haa BrirhJ'a .
Dlseasa, the worst form of kidney trouble.
Dr. Kllmer'a Swamp-Root tha new dta
covery ia the true specif io for kidney. Madder .
and urinary troubles. It has cured thoaaaads . ;
af apparently hopeless cases, after all ether
efforts have failed. At druftUH la fifty-cent
and dollar sizes. A sample bottle seat froa
by mail, also a book telling about Swamp :
Root and its wonderful cures. Address '
Dr. Kilmer & Co.. BlnfhamtOQ, N. T. sad .
Bantioa this paper.
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