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Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1892-12-01
Fearful Self Imposed Torture.

ATLANTA, Ca, Nov. 21.-A
strange story. Of a young
mans awful self punishment
to elicit pity while begging on
the streets was brought out
at the police station here to-
day. Friday morning Wal
ter Norton was arrested for
begging. He was perfectly
sound in body and mind with
the exception OF a purple
swelling OH the wrist. 1t was
ascertained that Morton had
been applying some powerful
acid, (which hadsinade an ug-
ly sore. Although he undou-
btedly suffered great agony,
Mortonsn e v. e rsScunplained
and .ssilnply exhibited his
burnt arm to solicit aims.
Saturday Mortou's arm was
in a terribleacondition The
.ittle flesh that was left or
the wrist was pulrid and
dropping off. This morning
he was released by the police
and sent to a hospital. Am
putation will be necessary to
save his life.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1892-12-01
Two Carlos From Kansas.

TOPEKA, Nov. IL. -Sena.
tor PETER and Jerry Simp.
Ison must now divide i.
lar curiosity with Charles : ii
tis and Col. w. a. Harris,
two Of the new peoples par.
|ty congressman from Kansas,
Charles Curtis il q quarter
b:ood Indian and Mr.. Hafrii
is an ex-cOnied derate colonel
from Virgins M
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1892-12-01

ored man--Jackson. "No,"
replied the dreamer, ''he was
a white man, tall and slight
er than Sullivan. The cham
pion could not hit him and
at the end of the fight he cri-
ed..'
And so it came about
New York Herald.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1892-12-01

Never Moved. but lived in 4 Counties.
The Ashvilfe ciUizen. in re-
ferring to the fact that Maj.
W. H. Bryson, oi .Johnson
county, has voted at every
presidential election since 1S.
20, and at theelection on the
|8th, at the age OF 81, was i,s-
sisted to the polls and voted
the straight Democratic tick
let, says ofhim:
Maj, Brysor b uilt his
home ON the Tuckaseegee riy
err, near the mouth OF t'ullo-
Iwhee, when thatterritory was
embraced in Buncombecoun-
|ty. Afterwards it fell into
Haywood county. later in
Macon and now in Jackson.
maj. Bryson reared six
teen children, gave them all
q good education, and as
|they married gave each Of
them q farm. He was on the
first grand jury that eversat
in Macorcounty, and " q y
forelnan d 81 the tirstgrand jn-
Iry IN Jacksens
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1892-12-01
Notice.

For sale. 900 acres OF land,
on Rich Mountain, Watauga
County, on which is asbestos,
and fine land forshaep ranch.
Sales private. +. D. Lowe 4
]. T. Furgerson, Ex'trs. oi
Mrs. A. P. Galloway, deed.
Banner Elk, Nov. IL 90.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1892-12-01
MOlNE.

Parties putting papers ill
nv hand for execution will
please advance the fees with
the papers and they will re-
ceive prompt attention, other
wise they will be returned
not executed for the want u
fees. D. r. BAIRD Sniff.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1892-12-01
Two Of His Visions Fulfilled.

Two Of His Visions Fulfilled.
| Mr., p. H. McNamee, mana
ger of the Berkley Heights,
IN. J.) Land Comyanyand Il
heavy stockholdet in the Liv
ingston Silver Mining Com
pany, of Custer county, Col,
has been dreaming Dreams
that are remarkable in the
nature of their prophetic ac-
cnracy. He lives at Berkley
Heights, but comes to this
city every day and to his Of
flee at SIS Broadway. He is
a republican OF the most ar
dent type.
He told me yesterday that
early in OCTOBER he began to
feel a mental depression such
as he had experienced in '84
after Mr.. Cleveland had been
elected. He had a most viv-
i'd dream during the night of
October the 4th, in which
there was a vision Of the day
after election, with the demo-
cratic hosts wildly cheering
over the triumphant election
OF Mr.. Cleveland.
| He did not think much of
the dream at the time, but
| when the same vision was re-
produced on the following
might he was more than sur
|prised. He became really
frightened. He spoke OF the
dream to several friends. and
business associates and be-
gan to believe that t IN e un-
welcome dreams would be re-
allied.
To his consternation t h e
dream was repeated OH the
following night. This con-
WINGED Mr.. McNamee that his
thrice repeated dream would
come true. Though thefriends
ef his own political fait h
laughed at him he assured
] them that Cleveland would
sweep the country.
Then there appeared to him
on tine night OF October IA,
q most curious vision, in
which it appeared thar Mr..
lCIevcIand would not enter
the White House as presi-
dent that his death from ap
.|poplexy would occur before
the day OF inauguration.
This last dream has filed
Mr.. McNamee with a vague
fear Of ita fulfillment and the
foreboding is with him con-
stantly. he prays, he said,
that it will not be fulfilled,
but breads that it will be.
This dream was quite as viv-
Hid as wore those that came
true.
. Many other Of Mr.. McNa-
mee's previous dreams have
been verified. After Sullivan
! Knocked out" Kilrain Mr.,
I McNamee drea med that the
} next man who met him IN tht
-lring would wrest thechamp pi
onsnip from the Boston boy.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1892-12-01
NOTICE.
Hotel Property for Sale.

On account Of failing health
Of myself and wife, l offer for sale
my hotel property in the town Of Of
Boone, North Carolina, and will
sell low for cash and make terms
O suit the buyer, and will take
real or personal property in ex-
change. Apply soon.
w. L. BRYAN.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1892-12-01

predicts that before the close
OfCleveland's administration
it will take $3.50, 600, 900 a
year to pay the pensions
more than all the other ex-
penses OF the country added
together. 1t is scarcely to
be wondered at that the old
idea, champioied by N e.
House some years ago by
Hon. Wm. R. Morrison, OIL
linois, VI raising the money
to pay pensions by imposing
an income tax, should be re-
vived at thus time. Ii PEN
sion expenditures are to keep
growing some extraordinary
method of raising the money
will certainly have to b. re-
sorted to.
There is SO much rivalry a.
IN nong Washington demo-
Gratis to be- members oi the
citizens committee which will
make the arrangement for
the most largely attended in
auguration the country has
ever had that it has resulted
in a more or less bitter wran-
gle for it's control, hetween
the National committeeman
fol the District Of Columbia,
who took the matter in his
own HANDS and forwarded the
name OF gentlemen to be mem
bers of the committee to chair
man Harrity for bis appro-
val, and the central demo
cratic committee, which be-
lieves that it should have se-
lected the inaugural commit
tee. Full de tails OF the
claims OF both siies have been
forwarded to chairman Har.
rity and HE decisions will be
cheerfully accepted by all par
ties.
Teddy" Roosevelt, t h Q
president OF one OF the great
est American humbugs. the
Civil ServiceCommission,h has
forgotten all about the nu-
merous prosecutions he was
going to make for violation
Of the law by various individ-
uals, in soliciting campaign
contributions fro IN federal
employees, previous to t h 9
election, and is now lying a.
wake n x h is TO study up
schemes to keep democrats
out Of the patronage to which
they should be entitled after
the fourth OF March next, by
extending the Civil Service to
branches of the Government
to which II never would have
been extended had Harrison
been reelected. Mr.. Harri-
son has SO lar refused to en-
dorse this scheme to keep re-
publicans in office under a
democratic administration BY
issuing the necessary order
to carry it into effect, but he
may be worried into it yet.
The people Of this country
have voted against perpetual
office holding. and q demo
cratic Congress might take a
motion to let thisold hnmbug
die for the want Of an appro-
priation. The tears would
be few, and they wouldn'o be
from democratic eyes.
Two Carlos From Kansas.
TOPEKA, Nov. IL. -Sena.
Itor PETER and Jerry Simp.
son must now divide u.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1892-12-01
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondent.

ueICdJ III cuCu q manly Wuy
that he has won the respect
and admiration of even the
stannchest democra ts. The
members of the cabinet have
had little to say. although it
was we'll known that more
than one of them might 1--we
said some very interesting
things had they been so dis
posed. This being the sitna-
tion, n sensation was Great
ed in high republican circles
when jovial Secretary Rusk
opened his ammunition box
and fred a red.hot sh vt at
the head of the man who has
been privately charged by
Mr., Harrison's close person
al frienls with having exert
ed his powerful influence in
the republican party to lessen
the vote for Mr.. Harrison.
Although Secretary Rusk call
ed no name he made it as
plnin IN though he had spo-
ken through the most power
ful trumpet ever made, that
IN his opinion James Blaine,
the ex head VI the Harrison
cabinet. was the traitor up.
[on whose head the wrath of
the republican party should
be poured.
1t is learned from trustwor
thy sources that Mr.. Harri-
son was averse to- such a
statement being made by any
member of his cabinet, not
because he believed itnntrue.
but becanse he thought it un
dignified and unnecessary;
but Secretary Rusk who had
it in for Blaine, whom he once
admired so much that he ma,
ed his son after him. ever
since last summer when he.
(Bleine) tried to deprive him
of the credit for restoring the
European privileges of the
American hog, and later to
use him to defeat Mr.. Harri-
sons denomination: in his
own language: "Tried t o
make a traitor Of me" He
might have held in until he
was ont OF Office. but for his
accidental discovery of indis-
putable evidence that Blaine
had much to do with the loss
Of his own state, which he
worked go hard to keep in
the republican column. That
settled il; he had to have his
say, and it was in pretty
close accord with whatmany
members Of his party think
without saying.
The question Of pensions
is one OF the most important
that the coming administra-
ton and Congress will have
to deal with; it directly al
fects every man, woman and
child in the United States. II
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1892-12-01
Revenue Not Robbery.

Lne election OF CleVpiAnQ Is
not expected to- make any
body rich. The sun will not
shine any brighter, the birds
will notsingany sweeter than
they have sung or than the
sun has shone IL n d e r any
other honest and patriotic
president.
The president has nothing
to do with the industries of
the country. He and the
members of congress should
not meddle any more with
the industries Of the people,
than wit h their religions.
They cannot advance any in
dustry or make any man rich
BY law withoutiniuring some
other industry or some other
man. They have no right or
authority to do either. Men
and industries will go and
come as they should and did
go anil come on their merits.
Cleveland and Congress will
do this however. They will
demand that any Frick who
comes begging for a tariff to
"protect the American work
ing,nen" in the steelindustry,
shall give so m e guarantee
that he will notre turn to
Homestead, fortify it, employ
Pinkertons in expectation of
bloodslled and then reduce
the wages Of the very men he
lyingly proposed to legislate
for.
II the Fricks procure any
bill from the next congress,
ifHrover Cleveland signs any
bill granting them Il bounty,
that bill will grant a bounty
to the workingmen also. If
Frick appears before a demo-
cratic committee to represent
that his industry NJ eed S a
bounty to make itprosper he
will have to show his balance
sheet 80 that the people of
the Union fro m Texas to
Maine, from Delaware to Ore
gon may knowjust what pro-
portion he needs and what
the working men get and pre-
cisely what we all shall have
to pay. If his profits are so
enormous that he dare not
tell what they ARE: and if the
men are getting ordinary wa
ges, subject to the same laws
Of supply and demand to
which wages in any othel
occupation are subject, then
Mr.. Frick will have to so in
to some other business or 90
to the poorhoussa as he threa-
tens to do.
But congress and C.eve-
land will do this; they will
legislate 40 that i days la
Dor will buy a days worthoi
Carne9ie's or Frick's goods.
They will legislate 10 that
any burdens Of taxation, eli
ther great or small upon the
people will put money into
the public treasury not into
the pockets Of private pers-
ons, corporations or trusts.
In q few years this honest,
Equitable and wholesome pol
icy Of tariff for revenue not
robbery will restore the nor.
NAL balance Of trade, will
stimulate commerce and usll.
Ter the country into on era d
Iprosperity like that which
lsucceeded the famous Walker
tariff ID 1916, when nerch'
II a 4 -
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1892-12-01
]. Q. WILBAR,
DENTIST,

ELK PARK, NORTH CAROLINA.
Offers his professional services
to the people of Mitchell,
Watauga and adjoining coun,
ties. E No bad mateial used
and all work guaranteed ~
May 1 l y.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1892-12-01
J.F. MoRPnEW,
a ATTORNEY Al Law,
MARION, ON,---------.----N. N.
To-

-(o)-
Will practice in the courts oi
Watauga, Ashe, Mitchell, Mellow
III and all other counties in the
western district. ~ Special atten
ton given to the collection OF
claims. "a
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-11-24
KendaII's SPAWN Cure.

LITTLE ROCK. Ark, Aug. &c. 20.
DR. B. J. KENDALL Co.:
fjents-Tt is with the greatest satisfaction thatI
inform Won that have cured the follow ng diseases
Sweeney. shoulder Joint L4ameness, stine
Joint I,ameness, Sh0e.Bcil, IIameners IN
Fore Foot, / am working on Htp-J 0tnt
Iamepess and will cure that all with kendalls s
SPAWN Cure It is the best Liniment for man or
beast have ever used. Irecommend1t IL 10 an morse
owners Horses that have work on are valuable;
but without your Liniment would be worthless I
have friends who used It for sprafns ana
Bruises and cured them. They say II Is the best
they ever used Yours truly. E. O. g. WELLS.
Price 81 per bottle, or sir bottles for
80. All druggists haze it or can grtff
Tor vou, or 1t UiIL be sent to any od-
dress on receipt fprice by the proPrie-
DR.. 3. ]. KENDALL CO.,
Enosburgh Falls, Vermont.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-11-24
Wealth Does Not Bring Happiness.


Senator Stanford is the reputed pos.
sessor of s30,O00,O0O. BY his own esti-
mate it will be trebled in three years.
He has made it all, and life is approach
ing the end of its activity. He was
asked this question, Does wealth give
happiness?"
NO" he answered with promptness,
shaking his head slowly.
Happiness, after the ordinary COM
forts of life are possessed, does not be-
long to any post, rank or condition.
Great wealth involves immense care. 1t
is care that kills. 1t is care that put me
in my condition. If wealth is intelli-
gently used, there may come a certain
happiness from its bestowal."
Then why this incessant rush after
wealth."
Bread and butter is the first essential
oflife; that is, the first necessary stimulus
to labor Then men work hard that
they may enjoy the surplus fruits of la
Dor. With our standards of living and
the products of civilization little does
not satisfy as sufficient surplus. The
natives of Panama, who can count but
ten, will labor hard to reach that goal
of requirements, but that accomplish
ment satisfies"
why are successful Americans sell
dom satisfied unless increasing wealth
already great"
Activity has become habit. They
are accustomed to living faster than any
where else in the world. Many men, too,
are not yet educated to enjoy anything
but the struggle itself. That education,
though, will come in time. New York
World
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-11-24
The ,Ianufactnre of Wire.

The manufacture of wire as now car
ried out may be briefly and conclsely
stated, and consists in alternating or re-
duction in section thin rods of the metal
under manipulation by drawing them
cold through holes in a draw plate, usu-
ally made of hard steel. The wire draw
er's bench is furnished with horizontal
cylinder, driven by steam or other power,
on which the wire is wound after leav-
ing the draw plate The holes in the
draw plate are arranged in decreasing
diameters, and fine wire may require
some twenty or thirty drawings ere it is
reduced TO the size desired.
Much friction is generated in the pro-
cess, Notwithstanding the use of lubri-
cants, and "annealing" is necessary TO
counteract the brittleness produced in
the wire. Where great accuracy is re-
quisite the wire is drawn through rubies
or other hard stones in the draw plate.
The speed of the drawing cylinder is in
creased as the diameter of the wire di-
minishes.
Much confusion has existed in regard
to the gauges of wires, no fewer than
tifty-tive different gauges being men,
toned by recent writer, of which forty
five were for measuring and determining
the size of wire as made and sold within
the United Kingdom. The Whitworth
gauge, introduced in 1857 by Sir Joseph
Whitworth, and the Birmingham wire
gauge (B. W. g. have been extensively
employed. In 1884 an imperial standard
wire gauge became law, and consti-
tutes the legal gauge of this country. 1t
ranges from half an inch to one-thou-
sandth of an inch in diameter.-Cham-
bers' Journal.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-11-24
Fertile Alaska

The nature of the whole land in
Alaska can be roughly divided into three
conditions: Snow and ice fields bury the
coast range and choke up every hollow;
to the immediate north the valleys
are rocky and barren, but the vast in
terror beyond is richly clothed in luxuri-
ant vegetation. Scientific authorities
theoretically mapped out giant ice fields
as spreading over the entire land from
the Fairweather and Mount st. Elias
ranges north almost to the valley of the
Yukon.
Colossal heights mantled in never
melting SHOWS tower thousands of feet
in the air, but within the shadow of
these mighty uplands, in the sheltered
hollows beneath, lie immense valleys
carpeted in richest grasses and gracefully
tinted with wild flowers. Here in the
summer genial cline is found, where
strawberries and other wild fruits ripen
in luxuriance, where there are AZ
months of summer and ~ of winter.
In June and July the sun is lost below
the horizon only for few hours, and
the temperature, though chilly at night,
has an average of 65 degs. in the day
time.-E. J. Glave in Century.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-11-24
RashfnIness and Its Causes.

The first chief cause of bashfulness
consists in a mans attention being di-
rected to himself. The man who is
quite at ease in his ice-bashfulnesS
is most often an attribute of the male
sex-becomes self conscious in the draw
ing room and very shy. Although Ca
pable of joining in the conversation, his
witty remark is forestalled because he
is too slow in giving utterance to it or
too timid to hear his own voice. The
ordinary action of his brain is inhibited
by his self consciousness. The second
cause is emotion. The extreme bash
fulness of many men when they are in
love is proverbial, and the surprisingly
few married men who suffer from bash
fulness is noteworthy.
These causes are, however, usually in
sufficient to produce bashfulness, but
there must be some further necessary
condition. Many conditions predispose
to it-e. e., highly nervous tempera-
ment, deficient moral courage, with
which is associated lack of self assertion.
These may be regarded as constitutional
causes.
Another predisposing cause is defect
i've education. The general education
may have been neglected, or the want
of opportunities of acquiring self conf
dence in society may have been expert
enced.-CasselIs.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-11-24
1t Must Be Well Seasoned.

The young couple had been married
and among those congratulating them
was an effusive sort of woman, who
liked to hear herself talk.
81 do not" she said. taking hand Of
each in hers, "hope for you unalloyed
happiness. for that is not given to any
mortal; nor do l ask for you the greatest
worldly prosperity, for that often hard
ems the heart: but l do desire for you
that the love which has sprung up ii
your young hearts shall be ever fresh
and green
A crusty old bachelor had been listen,
ing, and at this point he growled to his
neighbor:
''Listen to that woman, will you? By
jove, if there is anything in this world
that is undesirable, unreliable, unac.
commodating, unhappy, unstable, unde.
cided and unimproved, it is green love
Bahr' and he walked away.-Detroit
Free Press.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-11-24
The Great Tulip Mania.

Soon after the introduction of the tulip
into western Europe boards of trade
(providing they had such things in those
days. made tulip bulbs a basis of the
widest financial schemes ever known.
engendering a speculative fever which
went down into history as the tulip
mania or tulip craze" The staid Hol-
landers allowed their "little dixie locked
land" to become the center of this curious
species of speculative frenzy, and for
three ars-16A-7-the recklessness
of the dealers and the disastrous results
of the s'mania" can only be compared
with the South Sea Bubble" When
the 'craze" was at its height some va
rieties of the bulbs sold for ten, twenty
and even 100 or 500 times their weight
in gold.
A single bulb of the Semper Augustus,
mot much exceeding the bigness of an
onion sette," was sold on the market for
1900 horins. But this was not all. The
gentleman who purchased it did so with
the mistaken idea that it was the only
known bulb of the kind in existence, but
no sooner did he register purchase than
another, "larger somewhat, but not big, !"
was announced, and the poor victim was
compelled to pay 1900 forins for it or
see it go to another. This he did and
became the owner of two of the highest
priced botanical specimens ever pur-
chased Louis Republic.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-11-24
Cleanliness as a Luxury.

Many rich persons, who give aims but
never time nor personal investigation to
the subject, say, AT least poor people
can keep themselves and their houses
clean" They do not know that cleanli-
ness demands money and time. With
out soap it is impossible to wash towels
or sheets or even faces and han,is in
this griny city, and hot water is a
Injury if you have to save every scrap
of coal or wood. l have seen fan;Ilies,
naturally inclined to cleanliness, 70 very
dirty indeed for want of hot waite:
soap and ambition. Ambition expen-
sive, too, and costs as much as many
tangible items to keep up. can i'm
agine perfect apathy as to smUdges and
CRIME if did not own a tovel.-Chi-
capO Post
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-11-24
Gilmore's Baton.

When Gilmore was in Minneapolis
during the exposition in 1888 the music
of his band was transferred to a phono
graph, and he afterward heard it.
"That is wonderful, grandr' exclaimed
Gilmore. Its all there but my little
stick and the tap tap of the alto horns
heel"
The little stick" was his baton. II
was made of whitewood, and he always
carried it when at the head of his band.
81 have dozen or more batons," said
the popular leader one day, but none
of them compares with this little stick.
l can tap on the edge of my music stand
with this, and it will not spoil it. My
other batons would be ruined, SO keep
them locked up"
During his continental tour he was
presented with magnifciently decorated
batons in every country. Some of them
were diamond tipped, and all were gold
trimmed.-New York Advertiser.