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Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1897-09-02
Treatment Of Typhoid Fever.
,or. Fayetteville Observer.

Carolina University Maga-
zine for December, 1858, is
nm extract from q Revolul-
tiary Journal of Hugh Nc
Donald. | send you II few
sentences TO show that the
modern treatment Oftyphoid
fever was discovered by him
in 1776.
Gas sickness was prevail
ing in the regiment we NOV
ed out of town ii. e., Will
mington) about eight miles
to a place called Jumping
Gully, where we encamped
until about the middle of
October a n d were drilled
twice u day. In this camp |
was taken sick and was ig.
norant of everything that
passed for five weeks. One
evening, the brigade being on
parade, | lelt a great desire
for home and thought | saw
everything at my father's
house before my eyes. | got
out Of my tent and went a.
way some distance to a fresh
running branch. The water
from falling over a large pop
lar root, had made a deep
hole below, and, getting into
the hole, | laid my head on
the root, which | believe was
the sweetest bed | ever lay
in. The water was SO cool
to my parched body, that |
lay there until ten o'clock the
next day, before they found
me, when George Dudley, SER
geant OF our company, hav-
ing crossed within two feet
OF my head without seeing
me, a WIN. Carroll, who was
in company with Dudley, dis
covered me, and exclaimed,
by -- here he is. turned to
be an otter. He IL under the
water Dudley took me ont
Of the water and carried me
to camp. When the dortor
came to see me. he said the
water had cooled my fever
andthat would recover. l did
recover and recui.ed very
fast every day after my i'm.
mersion. In addition to the
advantage of my immersion,
my good friend, Milton, the
fife player, hired a gig in viii.
mington, and took lne out o1
camp, to the house of one
Bluiort, who has a bridge a.
cross North East river, a.
bout ten miles from vii
mington, where, from their
kind attention and good wa.
ter and the salnbrity of the
air, | soon recovered my for
mer strength and Joined the
brigade sooner than could
have been expected"
Mcdonald belonged to the
Sixth Regiment of North Cal
olina Continental troops, of
which at first Alexander Lii
lington was Colonel, and af
terwards Gideon Lamb. The
first sugeOn was VIM. McClut
but on the Sth OF June, 177G
Robert Wilson was rommis
stoned, SO | contend that
Private Hugh Mcdonald anC
DR.. Robert Wilson was were
the first discoverers of the
cool water treatment fol
typhoid fever, which from thu
description was evidently
McDonald's disease. Your.
truly,
KEMP P. BATTLE.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1897-09-02
xr. Graves ON the Negro Problem.

Nr, Graves on the Negro Problem.
News and Observer.
MI John Temple Graves
and ex-licyernor Bullock
have been engaged in a news
paper controversy in the At
Ianta Journal, growing out
.of the declaration of Graves
that, the negro question has
recentlysnore than ever be-
fore become the line of politi-
cafdiyision in the South and
must continue in the iace OF
,NcKinley's policy. This SEN
tencefr0m Mr.. Graves reply
is fine:
"Ebelieve that the great
majonty OF this people know
and will record the Judgment
that the Dlngley tariff act,
however much it may free the
throats OF the fortunate for
a jubilant song, will press the
f.'crown of thorns more close
:ly upon the brow of the la
boreraad producer. And for
height that is breaking up
on the long desolate fields of
agriculture l know, and the
Ex-Governor knows, t h a t. it
comes straight and d irect t
from the Lord God Almighty
who, melting the sunshine in
to our haryests with the ten
der rain, has kissed from the
soil "a prosperous increase
that the republican part v
could never have e7oked-
yea, though 1t cried aloud to
its Daal of protection, or
bawled necessarily to t h e
Ashtaroth of trusts. -
lin discussing the raceques.
tion, North and South, Mr..
Graves gives an incident that
shows that even the leading
at,olitionists are unwilling to
accept the negro as their e.
quail:
''In Boston, at Harvard
College, when a young negro,
we'll dressed, well hammered
and we'll prepared came to
natri.uiate, the committee
of the faculty having the mat
trr in charge, and after a Gus
tom which prevails with new
students in that institution,
pla eel the young Afro Amer
lean for a few weeks under
the guidance and observa'
tion and chaperonage OF
young George Wendell, t h G
sisters son of Wendall Phil.
lips. to help his ealllerstages
of college lite, and to make
easy his opening career. The
next day. young Wendell hot
with Indignation, demanded
of the committee "why they
had placed that negro in as
.sociation with him.
"Beca use" said the C % m
/. mittee, "we thought it t h
proper AMI the only thing to
do. We thought in view OF
your birth and tradition in
. view Of the great life and
great work OF your great I'M
Gle, you would ne glad of the
privilege OF doing anything
to befriend a representative
of this unfortunate race
snow let VA understand
each other," said Wendell
lyon know'I am willing al
any time to do my part fol
these people. | am willing
you know. to make a 'cOntr
butiOn?' But l can't let this
fellow touch me. 1t make;
my flesh crawl
"And this speech, mark yor
Governor, comes not from 6
defendant of Calhoun, or Bot
Toombs, or the Cavaliers, but
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1897-09-02
Butte. g W ork.
News and Observer.

| DutkC. D VVhhs
News and Observer.
The Populist party is res
ponsib'e for the state of af-
fairs. But for their co.opera
ton with the negroes the
present reign of terror, de.
bauchery and lawle5sness
would not curse the State.
We state this az a fact, not
by way of denunciation Of
those Populists who have
been instruments in this un-
doing of virtue and honesty
without realizing it. There
are Populists who never in
tended to give Jim Young
and his allies tho control Of
the blind institutions of n.
C.; who never proposed to
give negroes a voice in t h e
management of white schools
and who never joined the Pop
uhst partNto restore the 49,
6S rule in the eastern cOun-
ties; who never dreamed that
ex ,COnfederates would b. tur
mel out to starve so that i'm
pudent negroes should live in
luxury.
And yet these men have liv
) ed to see these disgraceful
things and worse, come a
nout by virtue of the manip.
ulation of their votes. They
have elevated to office m q n
who have sold ont to t h e
gold bugs, to the Southern
railway, to the trusts, an d
to everything else that h II d
the money to pay for them.
They earnestly advocated q
reduction of salaries to a
> point that would he in keep
/ ing with the reduction in the
prices of agricultural prod.
ucts. Not a salary in the whole
state has been reduced. They
, urged a doing away with any
unnecessary Offices. The men
, they voted for have multipli.
ed Offices. They denounced ex
> travigance. The expenses oI
r the State and county govern
, ments are greater than ever
in the history of the State
| since The carpet-bag rule oI
7 1S6S-'69. For the first time
: since 1S6S-'69 the State
g treasury is bankrupt and tn,
, State cannot pay its us
P Claims. They sought to make
: u judiciary in which no par
I ty should have the predom-
2 nance. They have given the
. negro party control OF oul
: Supreme and Superior courts
But why go on? We might
r fill columns to show how cru
. ely the honest men who Join
3 ed the Populist party h av {
: been deceived aud how a |
e their wishes have been trod
l den under foot. To crown the
whole, their votes were cast
e to elect a gold,bug to the u
r nited States Senate, and they
T are, in all the eastern coun
: ties, in common with t h e !
: white neighbors OF all parties
e al the mercy of the ignoran,
g negroes and their base allies
+ Lincoln j ournal: The skep
t tics are now saying that the
j | - E. n
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1897-09-02
DR.. J. NJ. HOGSHEAD,
Cancer Specialist,
BANNERS ELK. N. {.

No KNIFE; No Burning Out.
Highest references andrndors.
ments OF prominent persons sue
cessfully treated in Va, Tenn.
and n. G. Remember that there
isno time TOO SOON to get rid Of
a cancerous growth-nO matter
how small. Examination free.
letters answered promptly, and
satisfaction guaranteed.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1897-09-02

Educate Your Bowels With Cascarets.
Candy Catlariic, cr-e CONSTIPATION fore; err
10c, 25c. II G. c. C. fail, druggists refund mouey.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-03-02
THAT BRADLEY-MARTIN BALL

The rich say that you can't legislate
money into peoples, pockets; they
must work for it. This is doubtless
just as true as a great many other
things the ~plutocrats tell us. But if
there was no way to legislate money
into peoples pockets-Rnd out of peo-
pies pockets-too, for that matter,
Mrs. Bradley Martin might never have
owned a hyphenated name and Ger
teinly her ball would have been a tame
affair. As it was, the ball cost $685.
900, a sum much larger than any per.
son can accumulate in an honest way
in a lifetime. But we presume that
Mrs. Bradley Martins husband could
furnish the cost for several more
functions" of the kind and not be
strapped" The ball was pulled off
at the Hotel Waldorf and the guests
wore j9welry said to be worth $40, OOO,-
900. We conclude that most of the
guests have, at son g time or other,
been victims of legislation.
The streets around the hotel were
closed up by the police, the hirelings of
plutocracy, and even guests of the
hotel could not get to the building
Thousands of people in New York and
all over the country are out of work,
out Of money, and the frail bits of
dust, the 400" spend enough on one
ball to make hundreds fairly well off
True worthy people were paid for pre-
pairing the magnificent decorations,
which would have dazzled the eyes of
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-03-02

have not an organization of the Farm
ers' Alliance in existence.
We also cali upon each of the Adj
Alliances now upon the roll OF our
books in this State to have it's officers
and members meet together at their
usual meeting place in the past and
discues the question of joining the T. A.
81 U. National organization, re-organ-
ize your Alliance, elect your officers,
and send in the action of your Alliance
on this matter to this Office at once,
and arrangements will be made to have
our organizers go into every locality
end initiate the members into our
great society.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-03-02

The following practical Illustration
of the advantages of public ownership
is taken from the Roanoke, Va, Times,
reproduced by the Richmond State:
1.-The gas works in Richmond are
owned and operated by the city. The
city furnishes gas to its ciUizsDs at one
dollar per thousand feet and from the
proceeds thus derived turns into the
city treasury fifty thousand dollars I.
nually after lighting all of the public
buildings of Richmond and many of
the streets and outlying DISTRICTS. The
people Of Richmond did not know what
a good thing they had until a syndicate
recently proposed to lease the works
from the city and pay an annual rental
Of SAC, 600. When all the facts as to
the value of the gas plant as a revenue
producer became known the 81 ndIcate's
proposition vas aejected. II a private
corporation owned the Richmond gas
plant the people Of that city would be
paying neal two dollars per Thousand
feet for gas, and in addition to the loss
of the fifty thousand dollars of profit
would be footing a bill of about fifty
thousand dollars annually for public
lights. Yet there are phIlanthropistS
CD who tell US il is not good for a city
to own its own gas and water supply"
This being true, would it not be well
for every city and town to own it's own
lighting and water plantsG Then,
again. why not let the national govern.
ment own and operate the railroad
and telegraph lines9 1t is all coming.
No stopping it.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-03-02

FOR A FARMaRS' TARIFF.

The great majority of the people of
the United States r engaged in agri
cultural pursuits The farming COM
munities are now lowest in the scale of
hard times. Their woes are at the
bottom of the general depression, and
a plan of REGENERATION that does not
consider them first will be built on q
foundation of sand. They are not look
ing for tariff treatment; but if that is
to be the only meal of cure offered,
can we not have a farmers tarif4 Anv
other sort is sure to be a failure, and
to work injury to the farmer and every
body else, except those who do not get
their money by earning it. -Cincinnati
Enquirer.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-03-02
AN r CORRECTED.

Railroad Gem missioner S. 0. Wilson
informs us that an injustice was done
him in the minority report on the bill
(H~auser'e) to reduce fare and freight
rates, etc, published in this paper last
week and referred to editorially.
Commissioner 8 o Wilson states
that he and Commissioner J. W. Viii
son did go before the committee that
had charge of the bill 10y rfquest) and
gave their views, but claims that they
took opposite sides on the question.
S. o. Wilson favored nearly all of the
bill he says, but did not favor the re-
duction of passenger fares to 2 and II
cents per mile as he believed the reduc-
ton too great, and that it vas unfair
to make fares the same on trunk lines
and branch roads. He favored a re-
duction of rates, but wanted a differ
ence made in favor of the weak lines.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-03-02
A DANGRRoUs PROPOSITION.

II ought to be plain 10 all reading,
observing people that we are approach.
ing a dangerous financial precipice.
The demcnetIzation OF silver and the
perpetual contraction of the currency
have been mere stepping stones up to
the heights of greed ana folly, over
which we are bound TO go unless we
Tetrace steps.
The Bankers associations for several
years have advocated, as the next best
thing &c follow tne characterization of
silver, the retirement Of the Treasury
notes and getting the government out
OF the banking business" Cleveland
and Secretary Carslisle have boldly
endorsed the proposition and now
comes Secretary Gage, himself a bank
er, clamoring for the retirement of the
Treasury notes and a scheme 10 get the
government ''out of the banking bust
ness" He began it in tw~enty-four
hours after he was rendered the posi-
ton by President Mckinley. Strange
to say many people endorse the plan,
as the vote last year shows. We take
it for granted that the voters did this
ignorantiy, blindIy, for not one in ten
thousand could ever hope TO profit by
such a scheme, but would be sufferers
instead.
Now we will take it for granted that
our bankers are no worse and no bet
ter than the average citizen in any
other ~avocation, though it is natural
that their hearts should grow caliOus
while they are handling large sums Of
money daily. and that the desire for
| gain would make everything else sec
ondary. But grant that they are as
| good as other people. Would it be
wise to allow a few hundred mer
chants, farmers, lawyers, doctors,
manufacturers or editors to absolutely
control the money, the life blood of
business, in a big country like thisF
lent it dangerous3
That is exactly what they have
started out to do. Their plans have
been carefully, shrewdly made. Moth
ing will or can prevent the corsuma-
ton except a thor oUgh awakening and
then an aggressive stand and fight by
all the people. Party lines are no bar
rier to the plans Of the bankers, for
they can control the weak and corrupt
in all parties. They fatten upon igno-
rance and prejudice, both of which are
SO prevalent. Under pretence of Civ
ing relief to the country they demone
tied silver. The same tactics, the
same arguments will be employed to
get the government out Of the bank
ing business" It is wrong, apparently,
| to cry out against classes, but the
people ought to kuvw that these
so called remedies to re- establish pros
perity" are simply shrewd schemes to
enable the bankers to get entire con-
troll of the money and the issue of
money. The man who advocates such
a plan, unless he is a banker, acting
from selfish motives, ought to employ
a fox to guard his chicken coop, for
exactly the same principle is involved.
One means the destruction of the Re-
public, the other means the death Of
your chickens.
@ llck and decisive measures should
be adopted to avert the pending dIsas-
ter. Let the people regardless of party
or ~avocation get together and resolv g
that the bankers shall no longer rule.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-03-02

1t was Tumored on the streets that
Abel, Of Johnston, voted against ell
amendments offered by Senator Butler
Friday, but after he found that the bill
could be passed without his vote he
changed and had his vote recorded the
way. We can't think Mr.. Abel
would do guch a thing. He can use
these columns to explain OF deny.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-03-02

ne writes some spring FoeLFy
B-"HeIlo! M. Editor"
R-"HelloI Major. Did you succeed
n lobbying through your charter for
| The Raleigh Tribune Railway e.
B-No, I haint got it ter my noshun
Wit exackly. They wanted ter mekei it
fer ninety. nine years, an I amt goil'
ter favor that, fer it went be dom
business that long. I'm wurkin' on
another skeme now that will beat the
band. I'm q p~aternalist frum ew8y
back. I'm in favor ov the State ownjn'
an opperatin' its own Legislature here,
after. Looks sorter like purity nigh
half ov this legislature il owned an
operated by the corporashuns. 1 be,
lieve that liz Unconstitutional an con.
trary ter law an order. I'm tired OV
SIGH business. ny opinion il that the
legislature kin be run cheaper an do
better service if it is owned by the
State, in other wurds, the people oY
the State. Tie folks hev ter obey the
law or take the consequences. l wenIer
see the corporasbuns an the tTusts put
on the same footin'. We've bin tryin'
fer a guide while ter git rid ov these
fellers whut go Ground an sweat
blood fer the downtrodden people an
shed tears az big az wtlnuts durin'
campaines an cum ter Raleigh an go
the other way. But it seems that we've
struck a whole litter ov 'em this time.
It must be stopped if Judge Lynch has
ter be called on ter hold a session or
two ov court. I'm not much ov a
poat, but this il how it looks ter me:
The legislator blooms once in two years,
Flowers bloom eve y spring;
In CamDanes he sheds many tears
AT Raleigh he serves the COrpOrashUn king,
The moment the per diem stops
He straighUwav home doth go;
Though he laughs he Rktps an he hops.
He is not as pure as the beautiful snow.
Yours fer a change. GudebYe.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-03-02
z oF Taz e

CREAM OF Taa PRESS
Hard Hits, Bold Sayings and Patriotic
Paragraphs From Reform Papers.
There are hosts of people in New
England who would be glad to trade
off their confidence for something more
tangible. American Enterprise.
The wave of prosperity, brought
about by a Democratic administration,
will end March 4, but the country has
been promised another wave by the
Republicans.-Missouri World,
One thing can be said in favor of
Judge Lynch: He doesn't make long
speeches and get drunk at banquets
and insult d~efenseless women like some
other jldges.-Albany Herald.
"The will of the people" may be the
highest law" but is of little n
quence since the corporation owned
courts usually declare it "%unconstitu-
tional. ,'-Tulare VBIley Citizen.
It should not be forgotten that GER
tain prominent fusion Populists were
just as anxious to fuse with the Demo
cracy in the palmy days of Grover
Cleveland as they are now.-Missouri
World.
AS an evidence of the political revo
luton that is in progress forty five new
faces have been elected to the United
States Senate since March 4. 1893. This
is something before unknown.-Brock-
ton Diamond.
That jingle of sound money that
McKinley's election was going to bring
don't jingle worth a cent in these parts.
What has become of it9 We are tired
of waiting; wish you would hurry it
up.-Cleburne Herald.
The Figaro, of Paris, France, says
that a man in that city has managed
for the past four months to live on four
cents a day. If the financial conditions
do not change soon in this country,
that limit will be common here-SOuth-
ern Mercury.
W. a. Plnkerton, head of the Pink
erton detective agency, declared in ST.
Louis the other day that the great in
crease of crime lis by men made des-
perate by their wants, by the lack of
labor to supply the ordinary necessi-
ties of life.."-Progressive Home.
Nearly every man who voted for Nc
Kinley has said he would like to have
an Office. There is one exception, a
Kentuckian who lost his voice yelling
for him during the campaign, but he
has made signs to indicate his willing
ness to take one.-Pomeroy, Ohio,
Democrat.
1t is said that in Machias, Maine, a
dozen eggs can be exchanged for a bar
rel of apples, while in Dallas, Texas,
the exchange value is half a dozen ap-
pies for a dozen of eggs. The profits
in making the exchange go into the
pockets of railway corporations.-
Chicago Express.
1t is reported that the Prince OF
Wales has spent $50, 600. 900 in 80
years and has nothing to show for it.
Mark Hanna can beat that all hollow.
He was only five months spending SO,
0OO, 900, but he has a president and
congress to show for his money
American Enterprise.
The Advocate does not know what
would happep~to seventeen PopuIist
members of the Legislature Of Kansas
if they had by their 1T elected 6
gold standard Republican to the Sen,
ate, as that number of PopuIists un
necessarily did in North Carolina, but
we incline to the opinion that they
would have been impressed with the
idea that a change of residence on their
part would be Observation-Disclosures Ad
vOcate.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-03-02
PEOPLE WILL NOT SUBMIT TOT

The proposed amendments to the
election law are not right. The plan
to place the appointment of poll hold
ers in the hands of three supervisors, "
who. in ali probability will be a Popu-
list bolter, a goldbug Republican and
goldbug Democrat, three of a kind,
taking the whole machinery out OF the
bands of the three parties, is an out
rageous proceeding. The Payne cleo
ton law and the construction Of it by
Democratic election tyrants was bad
enough, but as compared to this new
machine about to be thrust upon US,
vas a mild effair. By this new method
the voice of the people at the ballot
box would simply be the wishes of the
three ''~supervisors." The people of
North Carolina are not ready for a
yoke Of that kind. The party, the
combination of parties that attempts
to lasso the people Of North Carolina
in such a manner will find that it has
undertaken too much.
The schemes to take the government
of towns and cities out of the hands of
the citizens of said municipalities are
second only to supervisor" plans. The
Governor Of North Carolina should not
have the power to dictate the munich.
pal affairs of any town or city. That
power should be invested in the ciLi
z9ns Of said towns and cities. Neither
should the Clerk of the Superior Court
or any other State OF county officer
have such power. tt is contrary to the
principles of a Republican form Of gov.
ernment-
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-03-02
ONLY PER CENT. TO THE STATE
AND 20 PER CENT. TO THE
SOUTHERN"

The net receipts of the "Southern"
Railroad in North Carolina, as returned
by them for last year, was 81, 345 600
one million three hundred and forty.
five thousand dollars. This sum Is 20
per cent on the actual value of their
property over and above the enormous
salaries they pay their general" eff
cers. The Senate has refused to MAKE
them pay nor than z per cent for tho
lease of the North Carolina Railroad.
Cannot the legislature now have some
mercy on the people and cut down pes
senger n dfreight rates so that the peO'
pie shall pay the railroads less thanh
per cent a year (besides their $50, GOV
salariee) to be carried out of the State
to Rothschilds and Pierpont Morganr