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Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1898-04-28

Washington, D. g., April
1t was stated at the War De-
partment this afternoon that
only the National Guard will
be- given opportunity to vol
unteer q t this time. The
President will reserve the
right to appoint all staff and
field officers, while the Gov
ernors ofStates will designate
regimental officers, as was
done in 1861. 1t has been
practically decided that the
first call shall be for eighty
thousand men.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1898-04-28
Spain? What's fighting

Spain? What's fighting
with Spain? There isn't e.
nough of IA fight in it to make
an American inventor enthus-
iastic. It's mere child's play,
because the Spaniards can't
fight. They can't shoot. If
they had a lot OF English
gunners on their warships we
might have IA little some
thing to look after.
Spain? Why, when t h e
shooting began they'd all
go crazy. They wouldn't
know what they were dong
III bet ten cents they'd shoot
each other and think they
were killing Americans all the
time.
We ought to wallow Spain
without an effort. | don't
know what we're waiting for
except the Spaniar1s are moi
fit to fight with. Nobody
wants to play chess with {
fool. SPAN? Easy, easy
New York World.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1898-04-28

The Biblical Recorder says,
when their dpliverance shall
be achieved. as it surely will
be, the Cubans wlllremember
that when Spain had exhaust
ed every resourse to hold
them subject to her, she CALI
ed in the Pope of Rome to
mediate with the United Sta
tes, and that he readily be-
came the agent of the Span
ish will. This in due season
will mean much in that Sec
ond struggle for a greater de
liverance which ustspeedily
follow the national independ-
ence of Cuba, the strugglefoT
deliverance from bondage OF
Rome and her priests.
This proffered mediation OF
the Pope shows forth very
plainly the nature OF Roman
Catholicism. n he Roman
Catholic Church scruples not
to seek to assert her tempor-
al, that is her political pow
er, a I every opportunity,
Suppose a Roman Catholic
had been President, and the
Pope had offered to mediate
it would hay been equal tc
a demand, yea more, in a de-
vout Roman Catholics eyes
not short of a cUmmunica
ton OF the will of God. Sup
pose Roman Catholics hac
that control of this country
which they have sought sc
industriously and so insidi
ously to gain; the mediation
of the Pope would have re
main the victim of oppres
sion, and Spain would hav'
gone on with her diabollca
J measures and bland promis
, es.
This country cannot be to-
watchful of t b q encroach
ments of Roman Catholic
ism.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1898-04-28
Two War ROmances.

CINCINNATI Enquirer.
Two gentleman, eurh the
head Of great organizations
and exUfficers of the late war,
were sitting in II dining car
on the way to Washington.
Shortly before reaching Mays
vile one oi the twain said:
"Well do | remember this sec
ton of the country. because
| passed through here with
our command in the rebel
lion and went to Somerset,
KY, where we remained for
quite awhile. And by the
way, there was quite a little
romance connected with our
stay in that city. | met there
a very loyal young lady, one
who was unusually interest
ed in the Union army. We
had a great many talks and
pleasant sessions. In fact, |
became deeply infatuated
her, but she was too much
wedde1 to her family [ o
think of anything else"
At this time the elder OF
the two who had been recl,
ing his experience noticed
that his companion eyed hin
with considerable interest.
"You say Somerset?'
Yes, sir" replied the stor
ter OF the two, "lt was Some'
set"
Thereupon t h e younger
asked a few questions AS tt
the name and description .
the young lady. and suddel
ly stated, 81, too, had Il rt
nance there. Our command
followed yours, and | me
this loyal young lady an
passed through the same d
grees as you did and met tn
And then and there tn
t W o grayhaired Official
agreed on their return to tn
? city to pay a visit TO Some
! set and call upon the lady
still single, who had playe
/, such a prominent part j
e their early life, although bot
4 had been intimate for man
4 years without knowingof til
;. bond uniting each other.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1898-04-28
Concord Standard, If NOrtl

Concord Standards, If North
Carolina has reared a son
more fatal to peace, good
will, her GOOD name and tran
quill prosperity IN The State
since the checkered days ol
her colonial history, with the
one exception OF W. W. HoI.
den, than this man Butler,
we know not of it.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1898-04-28

"Brldget you've broken as
much china this month as
your wages amount to. Now,
how can We prevent this oc-
curance again?"
II don't know, mum, unless
yez raises me wages. Tit
Bits.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1898-04-28
Everybody Saws So,

Cascarets Candy Catl,artic, the most won
derful medical discovery Of the age, pleas
ant and refreshing to the taste, oct gently
and positively on kidneys, liver and bowels,
cure headache, fever, habitual constitution
and biliousness. Please buy and try box
of z. c.. C. to-day; 10, -, 30 cents. Sold and
guaranteed TO cl-e by all druggists.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1898-04-28
War in the Party.
Charlotte News.

The Republican Executive
Committee for this Congress-
ional distirt met at MaxtOn
Tuesday. A convention, to
nominate a candidate for
Congress, was called to meet
at Rockingham, Nay 24Ih.
1t is understood that Col.
Oliver II. Dockery will be a
candidate on a platform that
is expected to carry the Re-
publicans and many Popu-
lists. Claude Dockery is also
a candidate, but will with
draw in case his father can
be nominated.
DR.. R. NJ. Norment, Rus,
se,l's president of the North
Carolina railroad. is to op-
pose Dockery for the Repu5-
Iican nomination and while
ostensibly the candidate of
the straight.out gold-stand-
ard Republican. he is really
the candidate of Governor
Russell and Russell will use
him as a stick to break the
heads Of his enemies, the
Dockerys.
The Wadesboro Messenger
Ihtelligencer says: AT a
mass meeting Of Robeson
county Republicans, held at
Lumberton a few days ago
DR.. r. M. Norment, of Lum'
berton, was unanimously en-
dorsed for Congress. On tht
surface this action ON tht
part of Robeson Republicans
does not seem to amount tC
much, but when ii is probet
to the bottom it will prob
ably be found to mark th'
beginning of a bitter war be
tween Governor Russell anC
) the Dorkery influence in tn
Sixth Congressional district
1t is we'll known that Rnssel
hates the Dockerys wors
than he does the devil, an
since the John Evans episode
. in which the Governor plai
: ly showed, by allowing tn
, negro to hang, that he di
p not believe the affidavit file
v by young Oliver Dockery
| they (the Dockerys) retur
D the hatred with compoun
interest"
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1898-04-28
JOHN ~. DYER,
BLACKSMITH and WHEFLRIGHT
(ST. JUDE, N. C.)

Imake a speciality of repairing
wagons, hacks, buggies, etc.
s~ Wagons made to order on
short notice: Nothing but t b Q
best material used and satistac-
ton guaranteed. A trial il all [
ask.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1898-04-28
FUNCTIONS OF FIGHTING SHIPS.

The torpedo boat is used
to destroy war vessels, par
ticularly battleships, and tor
pe1o boat destroyers are
made to destroy the torpedo
boats, as .heir ma me signifies.
Torpedo boats are small ves-
sells fitted with powerful en-
gines that driye them through
the water at q high rate OF
speed. They are highly con-
structed and carry small
arms in addition, to their tor
pe>loes. The torpedo boat
destroyers are larger than
the torpedo boats, and in
their construction, as IN the
smaller boats, everything is
sacrificed SO that their pow
erful engines will be able to
send them through the water
at a great rate of speed for II
short distance. Their nrma-
ment IS sufficiently powerful
to disable or destroy the tor
pedo boats when they come
I'D with them. Torpedo boat
destroyers carry no tOrpe-
does. Their efficiency de.
pends on their speed and
their guns.
Battleslips are fighting
ships. and they are classified
according to theirarmament.
A battleship is used for bonn
harding forts, and for doing
heavy fighting work a gun
boat il IA small battleship,
and after Il battleship has
partly demolished II fort the
gunhoats, on account Of Their
light draught, run in close tC
finish the work or protect
the other vessels OF the feet
while marines are belnglard
ed. Cruisers are "Ommerct
destroyers, or, in other words
ltgalized pirates. They dc
not carry as heavy guns al
battleships do, and they
have speed enough to over
take trade ships of the enemy
Topedo boats attack bi'
ships usually at night. WheI
these destructive boats ar
being speeded t. h ey bur.
themselves in the water, an,
almost all that can be see
of them is a streak of loan
They are painted Il color tina
is not distinguishable on tn
water, and the most perfec
range, finders will not distlr
guish them sufficiently fC
the guns of the big ships t
be trained on them. The
approach a war ship hea
on, thus presenting as sma
mark as possible, and tax
a zigzag course. When wit
in striking distance, which
about 600yards, they launc
their torppdoes and get ava.
In the daytime they stea
along under the protectic
OF a hattleship, keeping Il
battleshiD between them ar
the enemy, and when a fav'
able opportunity arrives da
out aud make their attac
They are SO lightly constru
ed that if the boat they q
tack can hit them, the tori
do boats are ruined. At mig
time the big vessels keep th'
seachlights at work to d
cover tho torpedo boats, Al
thus to protect themselves
"Brldget you've broken
L oh;oo fh;c noprh
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-02-11


lin ~ also a wooden tug past repSiri"s'
after an active service OF thir'y-o"e
years.
A bill is pending In Congress 10 ""-
thorize the building Of eight new cut
ters seven OF which, II Is proposed Shail
take the places OF the above WINCH u
is conceded, ought to be condemned inc
eighth is wanted for service on 'ne
Columbia river, and would have TO We %
special construction. a different Dill CANS
FOR a ninth cutter. for the Yukon river
The necessity for building all OF these
vessels Is recognized, but where the ne
oossarv funds are to come from Is. con-
sidering the si5o.cocoO pension burden
and the Mckinley deficit. question. IL
the fraudulent features and the out
RACES of the pension system were
eliminated from that system, we could
easily manage the Dingley deficit for the
nresent. and build the nine cutters, and
would have enough money left over from
one years pension saving alone to in
dulge in a few more ilrst-class battle
ships
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-02-11
Content.
CHarper's Magazine.)

(HarpeIS MdSdZlne.)
When behold how some pursue
Fame. that is cares embodiment.
or fortune, whose false face looks true
A humble home, with sweet content,
Is all | ask for me and YOU.
A humble home. where pigeons COO.
Whose path leads under breezy lines
OF frosty-berried cedars 20
A gate, one mass OF trumpet vines
Is all l ask for me and you.
A garden. which, all summer through,
The roses old make redolent,
And morning glories. gay of hue,
And tansy, with its homely scent,
Is all / ask for me and you.
An orchard, that the pppins strew,
From whose bruised gold the juices
spring;
A vineyard. where the grapes hang blue,
Wne-big and ripe for vintaging,
Is all i ask for me and you.
A lane that leads to some far view
OF forest. and Of fallow-land.
Each with a bee in its hot hand,
Is all ask for me and you.
At morn, a pathway deep with dew,
And birds TO vary time and tune;
At eve a sunset avenue,
And whipporwills that haunt the moon,
Is all | ask for me and you.
Dear heart, with wants so small and few,
And faith. that's better far than gold;
A lowly friend, a child or two
To care for ri when we are old,
Is all L ask for me and you.
MADISON CAWEI\
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-02-11
There Are Others.
Baltimore News.N

iDdlllUlbIt NtNSt
Maryland and Virginia are not the only
States that have a fishery feud New
Jersey and Delaware are at intermittent
war over sturgeon fishing in the Della
ware river New Jersey claims the right
to take sturgeon on the south shore Of
the State of Delaware. and the Blue Hens
chickens have warned the Jerseymen
away. The ire of the latter being aroused
they lately threatened to whip the
whole of Delaware but the authorities
stepped in. and a temporary peace" has
been patched up. 1t appears that the
question involved is the right of COM
mon fishery in the Delaware. a question
of the same character as has caused so
much. trouble i'm the Pocomoke between
Maryland and Virginia. The New Jersey
Legislature will probably pass a law de-
nyng DelawareanS access to the Jersey
shore for fishing purposes. After the
Somerset and St. Mary's oystermen quiet
down. Maryland might send her oyster
navy to the aid of Delaware.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-02-11

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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-02-11
ZOIa's Personality.
CNew York Tribune.)


This is how lola is described by Stuart
Henry in "Hours With Famous Paris
ians": A businessman; no emotion, no
ideals. no imagination, no poetry, I'm his
personal Intercourse. He does not try
to win or entertain you. He takes no
personal interest in you, and does not
expect you to take any personal interest
IN him. He talks frankly and freely
about everything, but in secular way.
lie makes life seem TO you merely a
commercial career. Fiction for him Is
editions of 10000 francs a year. His
magisterial and magnificent panoramas
OF descriptions, unequalled for their kind,
are all measured off in his mind as so
many rods OF printed matter at so much
a rod. No personal magnetism. no SEN
timent, no perfume, no rose colors. Life
has been for him a blunt, rude, british
thing. lie has conquered merely because
he has worked harder than any one else.
With him, naturalistic literature succeeds
only by the sweat OF the brow. What
lOins OF strength neverthelessl What
Titanic capacities TO achieved He towers
over all his Partisan contemporaries. as
Victor Hugo lowered over his epoch.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-02-11

the law were digcoverable. II would be
quite easy for some member OF the house
hold to run through the house and shut
off the offending faucet. Here are some
illustrative examples selected at random
in this city. where test meters have been
put on trial
Eight small two-story frame dwellings,
occupied by good class OF white tenants,
6 occupants per house. Total supply per
day per capita, q gallons; waste, gall
Ions: use. q gallons
Forty-one small two-story brick dwell
ings In Chester Court, occupied by negro
tenants, 5.5 occupants per house. Total
supply per day per- capita, before inspec-
tion. 11 gallons.
Three-story modern brick dwelling in
ar street. Condition of fixtures good. with
the exception OF one tap leaking slightly
from defective washer amount supplied
before repair OF leak. 81 gallons per capita
per diem; after repair, 80 gallons
Dwelling In Massachusetts avenue.
occupants. fixtures. in good condition.
Total supply per capita per diem, % gal
Ions
Washington City orphan Asylum, 14S oc-
cupants, some leaking fixtures. Total sup
ply. per capita. per diem, before inspec-
ton, 1858 gallons; after inspection IFS gal
Ions
Catholic University 200 occupants: mo-
dern buildings. Total supply per capita
per diem. o. gallons.
The cost of water-meters. set in place, Is
about $50 each. which would mean an
outlay of nearly a million dollars to equip
this district. The House Committee has
decided TO bring this about gradually by
applying the surplus revenue from the
water service to that object. This year II
will provide meters for about one-twelfth
OF the city. Naturally, the high-ser-
vice sections, where the water is render
ed more expensive by the necessity Of
pumping, will be supplied first. The cut
ting off of wasteful consumption will also
diminish the area for which. under pres
ent conditions, a special high service Is
deemed necessary. Capitol Hill, for in
stance. is clamoring for a high service,
because I'm frosty weather the consumers
along the seven miles of mains between
the distributing reservoir and the hill
let so much water run to prevent outdoor
pipes from freezing that Capitol Hill is
left dry. This outdoor plumbing, the
meter system will revoutionize, besides
preparing the way for more healthful and
necessarily more expensive water. The
experience Of Washington i'm this partlcu-
lar may be of value elsewhere.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-02-11

The completed statistics recently pub
lished for last seasons football games
reveal that eight players lost their lives,
seventeen were injured for life, and 2S6
MANNED in various ways. The Whining
ton IN. c. Messenger, on these figures.
says:
For the sake of suffering humanity
we are sincerely thankful that but a
trifing eight were killed. 1t might have
been 800. We are thankful, also, that but
seventeen were injured for life, a mere
bagatelle when you think of what it
might have been. 1t might have been,
you see, loo. Then there were but 2S6
manned. when 1t might have been 1850.
SO the damage was small, and the game
is not as dangerous as it looks"
Truly the Messengers remarks are
comforting. There is nothing like look
ing on the brighter side of things in this
world.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-02-11

The famous lion carved from the rock
at Lucerne by Thorwaldsen in honor of
the defence of the Swiss Guards at the
Tuileries in 1892, and which is an object
of deep interest to all tourists visiting
Switzerland, is slowly crumbling away.
Some years ago a committee of experts
made a careful examination Of the monu-
ment which had begun to show signs
of decay, owing to the action of the
water, which constantly filters, through
the rock behind. A few superficial re-
pairs were made, but now Thorwaldsen's
work is threatened with complete de-
struction, the stone being gradually worn
away.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-02-11
Our REVENUE CuTTERs.

Tais statement was recently made as
20 The condition Of seven Of our revenue
cutters: The Seward is an old wooden
side-whecler, practically worn out, un-
seaworthy. and not worth extensive re-
PATS. The McIane, which served as
gunboat in the civil war. cost originally
1880 while on her repairs the sum Of
slis.e75 has been expended. and she IS of
obsolete type. The Colfax is a side
wheeler Of iron, wood-sheathed, twenty
SIX years old. and not worth large re-
pair outlay. The Boutwell,. owing TO bad
design, Is not now, and never was. a
Sesworthy vessel. The Washington ana
tne Chandler arc small wooden tugs. ac-
CURED from the navy la 1866 The Ham.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-02-11
OPENING THE DOORS.

II is pointed out that. all other
considerations aside. the annexation OF
Hawaii would be Throwing open the
counts in departure from policy as in
other things. The consummation Of the
Hawaiian job would render all the more
easy the accomplishment of the designs
of American adventures in the South
and Central American States. IL would
give an immense impulse TO the policy Of
territorial acquisition. we should soon
have bobbing up in Nicaragua, Honduras,
Costa Rica, and gradually further south
annexation movements, ostensibly for the
purpose of protecting American interests,
but really in the interests of private COM
binations of capital.
SO far the policy Of the United States
regarding this matter has been eminently
wise, conservative, and safe. To re-
cede from that policy-unless such step
was necessitated by serious menace 10
our rights and institutions-would be the
height of folly. No one can truthfully
assert that such a menace confronts
us now. As the case stands at present,
foreign Powers recognize that they have
no excuse for infringing upon the Monroe
doctrine. Nothing proves this more con-
clusively than the history of the Vene-
zueIa affair, not only as it relates TO
Great Britains course in that compiled
ton. but as developing the views of other
foreign Powers on the issue.
1t is grave question, however,
whether the annexation of Hawaii would
not change these conditions. Even if
the act failed in itself TO strain our rela-
lions with foreign Powers, it would en-
courage Adventures to precipitate COM
plications that might invite menace. We
have always maintained that no foreign
Power should be permitted to take pos
session of the Hawaiian Islands, and we
are equally insistent in the contention
that we should maintain at all hazards
the integrity of the Monroe doctrine in
its true bearing upon the South American
and Central American States. But for
this government to play into the hands
of jobbers and risk getting into trouble
when no principle was involved would
be crime against the nation.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-02-11

In connection with the fight in Ger
many on American products. some
amusing things have developed The
Stadt Anzeiger, of Cologne, contains
notice from the Mayor of that city that
American hams are painted with boracic
acid to preserve them. THE meat" says
the notice, twas strongly impregnated
with boracic acid and crystals of borax
had formed on the bone" The Mayor,
therefore, informed the public that
'boracic acid is a poison liable to injure
the health of human beings" Hence
hams preserved with boracic acid must
not be kept or sold. Mr.. Barnes, our
Consul at Cologne. however, reports TO
the State Department that in Germany
hams are cured with 80 per cent, OF
boracic acid, 30 per cent. of nitrate OF
potash, and 30 per cent of common salt.
It is evident says the Journal Of Com
merce. that German officials regard
boracic acid az harmless when in combi-
nation with the flesh of German pigs,
while in combination with American pork
it is highly deleterious.
THAT conclusion seems inevitable. but
it should be remembered that the boracic
acid that goes from this country to Ger
many in combination with pork has a
Dingley bug in it.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-02-11
New York Weekly)

First Successful Businessman: | had
only a common-school education, but /
found II sufficient. You, | believe. were
a college graduate?
Second Successful Business Man: Yes:
graduated with high honors. 600.
First Successful Business-Man: Now.
tell me truly. Did you ever find any prac-
tical use for what you learned at college
Second Successful Businessman: I'm
yes. One night. when burglars got into
my house, i scared them off with u col
lege yell
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-02-11
Content.
washington Starr

YES" said the man who knows so
much that he makes people uncOmforta-
BILE, "that's very profound suggestion.
But it isn't original with that author
Plato said it thousands of years ago."
well" replied the easy-going friend, II
am much obliged 10 this author, just the
same. You see, Plato's dead and even
If he weren't, l probably wouldn't have a
chance to meet him. And if 1 did
meet him, I wouldn't understand what
no said :"