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VOL. XIV. WAYNESVILLE N. CL FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 1902. No. 28, G. H. Smathers. B. II. Kirkpatrick" FROM WASHINGTON. Smathers & Kirkpatrick, ATTORNEYS AND OOUNSVJJ030 AT LAW, WAYNESVILLE, N. 0. Will practice in. the courts of Western North Carolina, State and Federal, and the Supreme court at Raleigh. Office in McIntosh Block. Interesting Gossip from the tioiTs Capital, Na- W, T. Crawford. W. J. Hannah Qrawford & Hannah, Attorneys and Counsellors-al-law, Waynesyille, N. G. OFFICES IN LEGAL BLO IK. Practice in the State and Federal ourts and the Supreme Court of the tale. COLLECTIONS A SPECIALTY. T. L. GREEN : Attorn ey - at-Law, WAYNESVILLE, N. C. Cilice in McIntosh building, opposite Court House. W. L. NORWOOD. Norwood & V. D. NORWOOD. Norwood, (From Our Regular Correspondent.) On Friday the Senate passed a bill for the protection of the President by a vote of 52 to 15 with 24 Senators not voting. The grounds on which a number of democratic Senators opposed this bill are interest ugly set forth in the following statement made to your correspondent by Senator Bacon, of Georgia. “Existing circumstances naturally pre disposed the Senate to enact a law so severe and so drastic as to completely obvi ate such another attack upon our govern ment, and if such could have been framed, not objecti oual e in some very ini porta nt parriculais, it would have had my heartiest .support: but so general and so possible of misapplication are certain sections of this bill that I was compelled to oppose them as capable of perverting justice and fur nishing great possibilities of political persecution. “Without dwelling upon the constitu tional right of Congress to extend what, in my, judgment, is the law of treason, there are serious objections in certain sections of the measure. They provide that ‘any per son who shall instigate, advise or counsel must result in intense sectional animosity. It is well known that the former President disapproved of this movement and the leaders of the House shared bis disapproval, but were forced to give their consent with a view of overshadowing the constantly growing sentiment in Congress, and all over the country, in favor of tariff revision. j The much vaunted harmony emanating i from the ratification of the Ways and Means policy in regard to Cuoa at the conference of the republic-ill members held on last Tuesday evening, is not material- i izing to the satisfaction of the republican I leaders. The Michigan delegation Lave , resolved to contest the policy on the floor of i the House. The Massachusetts republi- j cans are preparing to make an onslaught I on the committee’s hides and General j Wood has come to Washington to protest I to the President, that the proposed reduction j W ESTERN NORTH UABOLIN A Gleaned From Exchanges and OtherwiM^ A. P. Wibar had she misfor tune to lose .me hundred and ten dollars somewhere on the streets last Saturday.- Marshall Record. the rector, Rev. R. R. Swope. Mr. Wainwright was well known in this county and could count a number of our promi nent citizens among his person al friends. Nearly eighteen The Finest Cake Attorneys WAYNESVILLE. Make a specialty of - - - - N. 0. investigating titles, making abstracts, ami conveyancing. Refer by permission to the Bank of IFaynesviHe, G. vY. Williams & Bros, and C. H. Ray. Office upstairs in Bank Building. ^T B & H. R. FERGUSON Attorneys - at- Law, WAYNESVILLE. N. C 9. 6. FERGUSON. e. s. rEBSueoN, jb. G. S. FERGUSON & SON. ATTOBNEYS-AT LAW. Practice in the State and Federal courts, and the Supreme Court of the State. Prompt attention given to all business in- trusted to them. Office in McIntosh block, Waynesville. T. M. MOODY. S. O. WELCH. M ° QDY & WELCH Attorneys-at- Law. WAYNESVILLE, N. C. T’-actice in the courts of the 12th Judicial* jistrict, the Federal Court at Asheville, and the Supreme court of the State. Prompt attention to all business entrusted to them. B. M. HENRY, Attorney-at-Raw, Wiil practice in the courts of Western North Carolina State and Federal. Will make special proceedings and conveyancing a specialty. Prompt attention will be given to all business intrusted to his care. Office in McIntosh building, opposite Court House. c. H. McDowell, DENTIST, Waynesville, N. C. Office oyer Dostoffiee. May be found at night at Windsor Hotel. (Formeriy Beeves’ House.) 16 years experience of continuous practice. Graduate of Dental Depart ment of University of Md. DR. J. H. ISMATHERS, WAYNESVILLE, N. C. Office^opposite Bank, Main street. May be found in the next room to office at night. Office hours 9 to 12 a. m. 2 to 5 p. IP. BENITEAU AND WILLIAMSON Successors to W. C. GADDY, BARBER, 3 New Chairs and 3 white Barbers are awaitiny you. Positively no consumptives shaved in this shop. WANTED,. Hickory. Dogwood and Persimmon Logs. Southern Hardwood Co., Charleston, S. C. uftwenty per cent- u ■ Dingtey. tariff rates on Cuban imports will accomplish nothing, The President still looks to the Senate to so amend the measure as to make it practical and the Representatives are constantly threatening to revolt unless they are given solemn pledges that the Senate will not change any bill they may pass, in any particular. The Vice of Nagging Clouds the happiness of the home, but a nagging woman often needs help. She may the killing of the President; of any of the i he so nervous and run-down in health that trines annoy her. she is melancholy heads of the departments ‘by spoken or by ( written or printed words shall be punished j excitable, troubled with loss of appetite, by imprisonment not exceeding twenty 1 headache, sleeplessness, constipation or years.’ In addition to the secretaries, the law includes the sovereigns and chief magis trates of foreign countries who may be upon United States soil. Any one who will study that portion of the history of the United States which deals with the old sedition law enacted in 1798 and the prose cutions conducted thereunder, will ap preciate the extent to which the above provisions may bo used to curtail the liberty of the piess, the freedom of speech and imperil the liberty of every individual citizen. No crime need be committed to render this law applicable. 'The allegation of an enemy made under oath can place in prison for twenty years any citizen who, in partizan 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 misguided individual claim that the charges instigated him to kill the offending official. My whispered statement to a colleague, that the Secretary of the Treasury, for instance, is improperly administering his office, overheard by an enemy, may fount: the basis of twenty years imprisonment on the same ground. Just such instances occurred under the old sedition law and are liable 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 citizens, were equal before the law. Can this be said when we have singled out a class—the President, the Secretary of State and all the other secretaries—to assault whom is made a crime punishable with death, while a similar assault on the governor of a state c: on anybody e 1 se, is punished only by imprisonment? And if we are to so make one class, why not more? ^ by not have included the judiciary, senators and repre sentatives and so on and make it punisha ble with death to assault any of them, wb : ’e to assault any other people in the United States merits only imprisonment ? Such a distinction is contrary to every tenet of liberty and equality, contrary to every fainting and dizzy spells, she needs Electric Bitters, the most wonderful remedy for ailing women. Thousands of sufferers from female troubles, nervous troubles, backache and weak kidneys have used it, and be come healthy and happy. Try it. Only 50c. Grove & Underwood guarantee sa ls- faction, Mrs. Vol Tipton, mother of Sidney Tipton, died ar her home near Leonard Wednesday morn ing after a brief illness.— Sheriff Ramsey and W. D. Redmon have just completed a yery years ago he came here and settled at Bowman’s Bluff, where he resided until last year. He then decided to leave that place and presented his attract ive property there as an uncon ditional gift to the Episcopal church. He was a man of ex tensive travel and wide ex perience. He was born in Is made with Royal Bak ing Powder. Always light, sweet, pure ^ wholesome. commodious stable in the rear; England and served as a rnis- M the court house on the site! sionary in Labrador and after- M the one recent!} burned— Marshall Enterprise, Tomatoes from, the Biltmore farms have made their appear- ance upon the market. ■The Diamond Blacking Company” Lave rented the building on South Main street, formerly occupied by the Park Medicine Company, for the purpose of establishing a blacking manu facturing plant.—Asheville Reg ister. wards in the Hawaiian Islands, He was seventy two years old at the time of his death. Hia wife, the sister of Bishop Willis of Honolulu, one son, I Eric K. Wainwright, and sever al married daughters survive him.—Hendersonville Times. Can any Good Thing Come out thousand waif children live like rats in the of Nazareth'.”' I have read your copy of “Child) Wives at School,” taken from the Advance cf New Jersey—-and your comments And will you permit an outsider from a distant state—Alabama, who has found rest and health in your beautiful mountains of North Carolina, to 1611 some of the things which she has found, and also to give a few facts waste box^s and barrels on the wharves of the Metropolis, and subsist on the garbage of the city and on the rotten fruit cart off by the stands. Do they know what a “set table” is? A returned shoe buyer told me as he stood on the pier looking at the shipping in New York he counted thirty- five of these homeless out-cast waifs run out from underneath the sleepers .of the pier tradition of American freedom and, the fever which attends existing ciicumstances having subsided, will be condemned by every thoughtful American citizen. Aside from the fundamental objection to the in equality of A fferent people before the law which this bill establishes, a grave objection is that under this law an innocent man is liable to be convicted. It is all right co make it easy to convict an anarchist, but it is all wrong to make it easy to convict an innocent man for some harmless or thought- less words spoken by him. Whether bill becomes a law or not. the man kills a President will be executed, but will not bring the President The important thing to do is anarchists cut of the country the killing of Presidents.” back to this who that life. to drive the and prevent Last Monday the Senate passed the s hip subsidy bill although six prominent repub licans voted against the measure, On the same day the House Committee on Rules voted to report to the House the Crum packer resolution providing for the ap. pomtment of a committee to the question of congressional tion as compared with the voters. On Friday the House River and Harbor bill carrying priation of $60,688,267. On Senate passed the war revenue amending the bill as passed by only to the extent of leaving i nyestigate repretenta- aumber of passed the an appro- Friday the repeal bill, the Bouse the tax on /bucket shops.” Saturday there was no session of the Senate and the House de voted its attention to the private calendar. The promoters of the Crumpacker move ment do not deny that their intention is to curtail the con gressional representation of certain Southern States and, if they attempt any definite move in that direction, they will be strenuously resisted by the demo crats. Representative Richardson," the democratic leader, assures me that the dem ocrats will avail themselves of every par liamentary tactic to prevent so grave an injustice and every democrat in Congress will stand by him. Whatever may be the result, in so far as the republicans are concerned, the attempt gives every prom ise of uniting the democratic party and it is freely predicted that northern republicans will repudiate the attempt, on the part of their representatives, to take a step which Wedding Bells At Wkite Oak. On last Sunday evening, March 16th, at about 7 o’clock, in the presence of a large and appreciative crowd, Mr. Ulysses Ferguson, of Fines Greek, and Miss Flora Clark, one of our most accomplished young ladies, were united in the bonds of matrimony at the home of the bride’s parents, at this place. The ceremony was performed by Rev. Mr. Newell, of lower Fines Creek. The attendants were Riley Boyd, of Jonathan, with Miss Dovie Clark, sister of the bride; Ebid Davis, of Lronduff. with Miss Ferguson, a sister of the groom; Lonzo Green, of Fines Creek, with Miss Lizzie Wil liams, of Palm; Charles Teague, of White Oak, with Miss Parelee Allison, of Jonathan. After congratulations were extended, they marched into the dining room where they found a beautiful and delicious supper prepared for the occasion, which was enjoyed by all. The re mainder of the evening was spent in pleasant conversation, and was an occasion to be long remembered by all who were present. On the following morning the happy couple, with a few friends, left for their home on Fines Creek, where they no doubt received a hearty welcome from the groom’s parents. May they live a Jong and use ful life and find much sunshine and happiness along the path way of life, is the wish of A Friend. Attorneys O. V. F. Blythe and H. S. Anderson hays formed a; partnership. The cold stor age building next to the Bank of Hendersonville has been pur chased by J. W. Bail y who is having it moved on to his own property. George P. Liver- etts has sold his livery stable to J. H. Wyatt and has bought Newman & Go’s, stock of goods in the store under the Times office.—Hendersonville Times. Would Smash The Club. If members of the “Hay Fever Associa tion” would use Dr. King’s New Discovery for Consumption, the club would go to pieces, for it always cures this malady,— and Asthma, the kind that baffles the doctors—it wholly drives from the system. Thousands oi once-hopeless sufferers from Consumption, Pneumonia, Bronchitis owe their lives and health to it. It conquers Grip, saves little cries from Croup and Whooping Cough and is positively guaran teed for all Throat and Lung troubles. 50c, $1.00. Trial bottles free at Grove & Un derwood’s. Where Is Powell’s Branch ? Me. Editor—There is a small branch on our farm u The Pines”, known as Powell’s Branch, “Talkin’ - Frank L. Stanton Bout Weather.” “Well, weather, sir in Constitution , talkin’ I hain’t seen winter like this sence the felled.” “Sakes alive! Hiram' claimed the old lady. ’bout nary stars ex- ‘You must be, a-losin’ of yer fergit- tulness! Has you done lost sight er the winter when Sis Williams was a-talkin’ to the preacher alter meetin’, an’ fell ter laughin’ an’ her jaws friz whilst her mouth was wide open, an’ didn’t thaw tell her ol’ man come home b’illin’ full, an’ she lit in to abusin’ of him, an’ broke his head an’ two jugs with a light’ ard knot, an’ throwed hot water on the dog kaze he took the old man’s part, and then put the old man to bed and made him drink red pepper tea tell he thought he’d run agin’ the here after, and sent fer the preacher to come an’ pray fer him? I axes you onct ag’in, Hiram, has yer fergitiulness fergot that winter ? “Yes,” replied the old man, in a bewildered sort of way, “I had clean lost track of it. But I won’t fergit it no more.” which register conditions in the North that 1 b 7 the P olice and he “^^ ei J hta » r > 3 are more deplorable than any in. the South? I m the number - Ha5 the Mastrial School at Asheville found any such “condition in these mountains as can outweigh that con dition of girls in the North? or has it en- Yet like Mrs. Jelliby whose zeal for th^e on the “coast of Africa” made sad havoc of neglect in her own household, so do our Northern brethren skip conditions Perry Gantt, who lived on Mr. W. A. Costner’s dace, was killed last Thursday by a fall ing tree. Fire broke out Tuesday morning at 1 o’clock in the C. & N. W. depot, which was destroyed completely. Be sides a complete lose ot every thing in the depot, there was 100 Lalco of ootica, bMoncring to various cotton mills nearby, destroyed. The loss is estima ted at $15,000 partly covered by insurance.—Lincolnton Journal. Up to last Friday night 367 tax payors of Macon county had not paid their poll tax. These are about equally divided be tween democrats and republi cans, and they belong to all the townships. Mrs. Eli Myers died last Monday morning and was buried at the Baptist church yesterday. Her death occurred fiye months to a day after that of her husband. Mrs. Ruth Owenby died Sunday night at the age of 72 years, and was buried Monday evening at the Baptist church here, the funeral services being conducted by Rev, J. R. Pendergrass She was a sister of the late Robt. K. Wallace and formerly resided in Clay county.—Franklin Press. A Company of 25 persons left here Tuesday night for Canton, Ohio. Tom Fortune, while driving a wagon near town Tuesday accidentally caught his foot over a stump and broke his leg. Seventy-five addi tional convicts passed through Marion Saturday on their way to the railroad works in Mitchell. Gates, one of the Emma post- office burglars, was in the gang. Mrs. Mary Elliott, wife of Mr, C. D. Elliott, died suddenly at her home in town on Mon day last, leaving ten children besides a number of other rela tives to mourn her lose. The workmen are tearing the old court house to pieces. When finished, as it soon will be, but few, if any, familiar features will remain. The large columns will be retained. That’s all. In appearance the building will be new, hardly recognizable. To the old citizen there is some thing pathetic in parting with the cld court house. It was built just after McDowell county was established—about the year 1844.—Marion News. which is exclusively our own property—called for in the old deeds. It empties into ’Possum. Greek, which flows through our place and thence east of Waynes viile, in a northerly direction to Richland Greek. Mr. J. M. Tate was one of the commission ers who divided the lands of J. A. B. Fitzgerald among the heirs and he is evidently the cause of an error which makes no material difference to others, but may sometime cause trouble in establishing lines and roads on our farm. I notice that Mr. j Tate and his son-in-law R, Q. McCracken have both recently published notices in which they miscalled “Possum Greek”, giving it the name ot our litte “Powell's Branch.” Mus J. M. Fitzgerald. Waynesville, N. C. March 22rU, 1902. Rev. Richard Wainwright died Monday at Biltmore. He had been very ill tor some time; an operation was performed last week, but it was of no avail. The funeral services were conducted Wednesday af ternoon at All Souls’ church by Can’t Keep It Secret. The splendid work of Dr. King’s amid the foreign degraded population in their own midst to seek a remedy—evils which it seems they can find in the South only! It is a fatal impossibility, in human nature, to find the beam in one’s own eye, and a vivid peculiarity to spy the mote in another’s eye! Where ever human life is, there exists poverty, sin, crime and igno rance. yet in the North’s opinion alt such conditions are south of Mason an 1 Dixon’s line! Now here are some points: 1. The article begins; “Early marriages are customary among the mountaineers of North Carolina, and when the husbands are killed in the numerous feud wars, or disap pear to escape revenue officers, th, young wives, as a rule, are entered on the roll of the Industrial School at Asheville.” Liquor “traffic” to escape revenue officers is a deplorable regime, but liquor traffic endorsed by our laws arc still more so. A paper lies before me which states that “prohibition” exists in the mountains—not the towns! of Buncombe, Yancey and Madison counties, and one pioneer preacher broke up an illicit distillery, that is in the South! Across from that page is the state ment concerning one “barroom” in the North;” “Going into one barroom were counted on a Sabbath evening, 450 men and in two hours 480 more entered until they stood sis deep around the gambling tables.” “Feuds and murders” exist every where. Was not the life of the honored President of the Republic taken, in the very heart of all of the accumulated splendors of our American civilization? So, are “feuds and murder.-/’ to be found only in the mountains? And are not widows of early marriages less to be regretted than the flagrant widowhood of divorce at the North? 2, Tae article further says “Few oi these mountain girls, when they corne to the school have ever seen a looking glass or a clothes brush, or even the most necessary articles of housekeeping implements.” To offset this there was a test put to a child’s grade ot the public school in Boston and out of three hundred, seventy countered fifteen thousand mountains who have never table.” 5, Again: “Most of them down stairs for the first few from these seen a ‘’set go up and weeks with all the awkwardness of people under going a novel sensation.” Is an up stairs an essential to life? Abraham, Isaac and Jacob dwelt in tents and raised flocks. The Master was horn in a manger, and some of our greatest men have come from log cabins. Hopper, the sifted artist of waif-life has given many heart-piercing sketches of wan children up-stairs in the great cities. One especially is a little child peering upward through the chimney at the speck of blue sky and rejoicing that . was summer so she could see it. And ’those heart does not ache as the eleva ted railroad whirls past windows and reveals the poverty arid privacy ot up stairs along their tracks? The oldest houses in this county have up-stairs, and ail the old churches ha^ up stairs galleries. Some "f the sweetest calls of my life have been into the North Carolina mountain homes, where I have found bibles, pictures, and above all kindli ness. My eyes ha ve been opened in many ways to the difference in city emphasis, how much vades even city’s busy and country emphasis, and more heart sympathy per- mountain homes than in the engrossments. Atu! when New Life Pills is daily coming to light. No such grand remedy for Liver and B >wel troubles was ever known before. Thousands bless them for curing Constipation, Sick Head ache, Biliousness, Jaundice and Indigestion. Try them. 25c at Grove & Underwood’s drug store. Don’t Worry. Selected. If you want to get well or to keep well, don’t worry. If you want to be happy and to make others happy, don’t worry. If you want to be plump and fresh, don’t worry. If you w mt things to go right with you and yours, don’t worry. If you wish to be a helpmate to your husband, don’t worry. If you wish to be a loving and loved mother, don’t worry. If you want a good apptite, don’t worry. If you want to sleep well, don’t worry. W orry is the curse of American women. Instead of taking the blessings that a kind Father provides, and being happy and content, all are passed over and they worry for what they have not. ‘ Don’t cross the bridge until you come to it” is a max im that D well far all to bear in mind. Li trouble and future are them to the anxieties of the concerned, leave future “As thy days, so shall thy strength be.” How to Cure the Grip. Tie fain quietly at Lome and take Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy as direct ed and a quick recovery is sure to fol low. That remedy counteracts any tendency of the grip to result in pneu monia, which is really the only serious danger. Among the tens of thousands who have used it for the grip, not one case has ever beeu reported that did not recover. 1 Pharmacy. sale by Waynesville five did not know their left their right, only thirty-five had live chicken, and only a few a goat or cow! In a paper just hand from ever seen a live sheep, last week we wish to really up-lift people the surest failure com 3s in emphasizing their ignorance to strangers and parading their short coinings to public contempt, The divine Teacher came out of Nazareth, and maybe some of these da^s our Northern critics will wake up to the tact that He has followers in the South who are indigeneous to the soil, and that their own self-praised work is not the only work for humanity’s sake existing—in the South., - Lida B. Robertson. Garden Creek. was an amusing incident which occurred ; in New England recently of children who had naver seen a kid, interpreting the brothers dipping Joseph’s coat in “the blood cf a little child” which they had killed, construing the slang of “kid” into that of child. Thus we see that environ ment controls sucl. things. The city folk who come to the mountains are just as ignorant about nature as the mountain girls are about manufactured wares. Ttiess things which are familiar to us we ridicule because another is unfamiliar w ; th them, without knowing what ignorance we, ourselves, are betraying in other matters. 3. Again the article says: “They have never held a pen in their fingers or taken hold of a book.” Only of late years have railroais plowed j their furrows through mountain to moun- 1 Lockjaw From Cobwebs, Cobwebs put on a cit lately gave a woman lockjaw. Millions know that the best thing to put on a cut is Bucklen’s Arnica Sake, the infallible healer of Wounds, Ulcers, Sores, Skin Eruptions, Burns, Scalds and Piles, It cures or no pay. Only 25c. at G ove & Under Ivon 1's drug store. Wood’s Seeds. Cow Peas The Famous Forage Crop and. Soil Improvers* WE ARE HEADQUARTERS for these and all Southern specialties,, including Sola Beans, V civet Beans, Peazi or Cat-tail Milted Teosinte Bermuda Grass, Ensilage Corn, Spanish Pea nuts,.Chufas, Sorghums, etc. Write for prices, and our interesting Catalogue giving full information about these crops. ’ T» W. WOOD & SONS, - Richmonds V&» tain, cove to and o i into the outer world. And white many of the feminine folk may net have held book or pen in their hands, here is what they have dine; heroi cally helped the men till the ground, have helped to raise flax, then have spin nd woven their own family clothing materjil ; and not only sewed on the fa any buttons but made them first, and then sewed them on. There have been -shown to me a tine piece of taffeta silk woven by ajbri id's own fingers, and a fine linen suit of men's clothes which the wife wove and the bus- I band woie into the field, to work—a suit I which only dudes cm now afford to wear! | I have passed a house of mud daubed logs ! which contains no housekeeping imple ments of convenience vet out of which the wife and mother went forth into the field to raise bread and out oi that house she has sent sons and daughters of noble achievment and worthy citizenship. Show ing that looking glasses and clothes brushes arc almost indespansible conveniences, but are not requisites to sterling manhood or industrious, pure womanhood. 4. Agrin it says; “A table set for a meal is as wonderful an object as a two story house.” If the writer of the article in the Advance will read that fink “Darkest New York,” wince is a volume of tabulated facts given and vouched for by Mr. Burnes, who was chief of the detective force in the city, there is found this statement: “Fifteen YOM EYES You have hu one pair of EYES. The bist spectacles p op^rD tittle I ar n-- too g- o tor io- n Yo 1 ake nn chr ces .with us. We il the 1 scientifically, accurately. McKEtE^TheJOptician 54 Patton Awe, opp. P. 0. As uni la, N.O, This signature is on ovety boa of the genuine Laxative Brome-Quinine .ableta - k.9 remedy that €?ure« » e«Jki fat «™e day
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