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The Burke County news. [volume] (Morganton, N.C.) 1899-1901, 1899-05-05
courage and Strength
in Times of Danger -

Read the warning between
the lines. What that warn-
mej is of the danger from
accumulation Of badness in
the blood. caused by the
usual heavy Hving of the
Winter months. Spring Is
the clearing, cleansing time
ofhe year; the fore-unner Of
the Brightness and beauty of
glorious Sumner.
fo,IgT the principle that Nature Laws
DORM start IN At once and purify your
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UNI atism II had rheumatism for
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Hood'a Sar~ap ~ rill, hat given IN. entire re-
lief ~ 4 blood purifier il has helped nv
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The Burke County news. [volume] (Morganton, N.C.) 1899-1901, 1899-05-05
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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-21
FOREST

The subject of forestry. or the art of Gull
tivating forests. is one that has not re-
cedved much attention in Indiana. In a num-
Der of other States its Importance is better
understood and action has been taken to-
ward increasing the forest area. Nebraska.
being originally a treeless country, no ar
gument was required to convince land own
ers of the need of planting trees, and they
have willingly co-operated with the author
tiles in the work, with the result that thou
sands OF acres of young timber now diver
sify that State. In Eastern States, notably
New York, the efforts of forestry organiza-
tions have taken the form of protecting the
forest and yet remaining rather than in
planting new trees. Indiana was heavily
timbered in it's early history and the work
Of clearing the land for agricultural pur-
poses was great. 1t was in later years,
when the lumber markets opened, that the
cutting of the trees became reckless, as is
the case in all new countries. Land which
would have been better left covered was
then denuded of trees and the consequence
was shown in the drying up of streams and
the loss of protection to cultivated fields,
to say nothing of a lessening of property
values n of general picturesqueness of
scenery. There is but one way of remedying
the recklessness and lack of foresight of the
earlier settlers, and that is by taking care
of the forests that now exist and in plant
ing more trees. There has been little agi-
tation of the matter, and for that reason
there is no popular sentiment concerning it,
but not a few people have taken thought
of 1t, and the result is a bill before the
Legislature whose purpose is the encourage
ment of tree-growing. AS an inducement
to land owners it offers to all who select
any part of their land, not exceeding one
eighth of the total area Of the tract, as a
permanent forest reservation, a practical
exemption of tax upon that acreage. To be
exact, such reservation is designed to be APP
praised at 81 per acre. Provision is made for
a certain number of trees to the acre, for
a replanting when any are removed, and
for a county record of such reservations.
The measure is a step in the right direction.
1t may not become a law because the public
is not yet awake to the %desirability Of such
laws, but the time will come when their
wisdom is recognized. and if this bill does
nothing more It will call attention 10 the
matter and thu serve an educational pur-
rosa
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-21

London. 1t would be strange If London
should utilize fuel gas before its adoption
by the large cities of the United States.
When natural gas was introduced into In
~dianapolis the people who distrusted its
lasting qualities conso1ed themselves with
the thought that by the time the wells gave
out a cheap process of making artificial gas
would be devised, and that having once
enjoyed the luxury of this form of fuel they
would never be compelled to return to coal.
This cheap process has not yet made itself
known, and coal, with all it's attendant dis
comforts. is alarmingly near. in London as
well as in New York the i'll effects of
breathing this smoke-laden atmosphere have
only lately been realized, but in the former
city it is now said that no contagion has
a more destructive influence on the we'll
being and stability of mems lives than the
smoke-laden atmosphere Of London. 1t is
probable that gas is the coming fuel.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-21

TIL fact hat Democratic organizations
insist on celebrating the anniversary of the
birth Of George Washington makes it neces-
sary every year to reiterate the truth of
history that he was not a Democrat. The
principles in government which he espoused
were those which the Democratic party was
organized by Jefferson to combat. In the
best sense Of the term Washington was a
Federalist. He would have made the fed
eral government will-nigh supreme. In the
words he has left behind him there is no
note of a State greater than the Nation.
Jefferson represented that heresy, which he
dropped when he became President, but
which remain attached to his name in the
notification resolutions of 1898.
Doubtless certain Democratic orators will
dwell upon the warning of Washington in
his farewell address concerning alliances
with foreign nations and claim to
be the inheritors of his views because
they are hostile to expansion. They
are the men TO whom Aguinaldo is the
Washington of the Philippines, and by
whom the mixed races of these islands are
compared with the colonists whose leader
Washington was. They are men who have
DOT noted the progress of the Nation since
Washington was President. Then a feeble
government could only ask to be let alone,
and because Washington insisted on being
let alone he got into trouble by the intrigues
Of Jefferson's friends with the French. 1t
is probable that when Washington wrote
that warning he had Jefferson and the in
triguers who were Washington's foes in
mind.
Democrats may praise Washington in
their speeches because of their assumption
that he was hostile to expansion. The man
who urged the occupation of territory west
of the Alleghanies was not a champion Of
any narrow idea that the $4,000 square
miles embraced in the original thirteen col
onies were enough territory for the nation
which he did so much to found. Any word
of praise of Washington on the assumption
that he was an anti--expansionist must be
censure of the father of the party which
has borne the name Democratic. Jefferson
was the first great expansionist. So de-
voted was he to that theory hat he con-
fessed that he violated the Constitution
when he purchased Louisiana. Washington
and Jefferson represented opposite elements
in regard to the functions of the federal
government, and so intense were their views
that they affected their personal relations.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-21
THE WosAN's COUNCIL AND
POLYGAMY.

Before the Woman's National Council met
in Washington the public somehow got the
impression hat one of the great objects
ton of the women of the country over the
election Of a polygamist to the Congress
of the United States and to protest against
his admission to that body. There was an
impression abroad that it would meta
phorically tear Representative Roberts into
carpet rags and make such a show of in
dignant virtue that the House of Repre-
the moral sentiment of the country as ex-
pressed by the council, and would be com
PEELED to fire" Mr.. Roberts from it's midst.
Did the council take this high moral stand?
No, indeed. The committee brought in two
reports, the majority a tame and colorless
resolution to the effect that mo person
should be allowed to hold a place in any
lawmaking body who is not a law-abiding
CITIZEN the minority resolution was more
specific in that it made an allusion to the
Edmunds law, but even it did not mention
Mr.. Roberts's name. There was rather an
animated discussion over the matter, the
minority urging pointed action in so vital
q matter, but the Utah delegation impIored
with tears in their eyes that the council
would refrain from bringing the finger of
scorn upon the Mormon Church: thew
maintained that the church was sincere in
abiding by the Edmunds law, and invited the
council to study into existing conditions be-
fore taking a radical stand by which a class
of people would be condemned for some
thing of which they were not guilty. They
asserted that the agitation was political.
All this did not seem to touch upon the main
question as to whether or not Mr.. Roberts
was a polygamist, or the Importance of
women putting themselves on record against
an official recognition of polygamy, but the
Utah tears were contagious. Other delegates
Wept in sympathy and voted for the mean
ingless resolution. Briefly, the council was
either outgeneraled by the Utah delegates or
allowed expediency to triumph over right
eous measures precisely as happens in mems
legislative bodies. The Mothers Congress.
on the other hand, was much more outspok-
en- and requested the Congress of the United
States to refuse to allow Brigham H.
Roberts, of Utah, to be placed on it's roll
or to expel him from his seat. Curiously
enough, this resolution was framed by Mrs.
Parsons, a delegate from Utah, and was
prefaced with the statement that a man is
largely what his home makes him. Evident
ly Mrs. Parsons did not think there was
politics in it, and was not concerned about
the Mormon Church. But the fact remains
that the Woman's National Council, which
is supposed to represent a great ramincation
Of clubs and other romans organizations.
handled the Roberts question with gloves,
and it would puzzle any one to know
whether It really objects to polygamy or not.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-21

A Democratic member of the House is re-
ported as saying thai his associates in that
branch will vote against county and town
ship reform measures to which the plat
form Of the state convcn ion pledged his
party on the general ground that the Demo-
cratic party was defeated in the election.
That may be a pretext, but it is not a
reason. The logical conclusion of such action
ms he has proposed would be to leave a
party without ideas or principles after de-
feat at the polls. Following out such a
theory, the Democratic party, beaten in
November, 1886, upon the silver issue, is no
longer committed to that dogma, and Iemo-
craticS representatives in Congress, should
khe measure come up in any form in that
body. would be at liberty to vote against
4he silver policy to which the party was
pledged. In fact, acting upon the theory an
nounced by the Democratic member of the
House, Democratic representatives in Con-
gress would be under the same obligation
10 oppose silver bills because their party
was defeated in 1896 as are the Democratic
members of the Indiana House to oppose
measures to improve local government be-
cause their party was defeated at the polls
IN 1898. Perhaps the Democratic member
who puts forth this theory is opening an
avenue by which to escape the silver
kroubla
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-21
GAS O FUEL.

Coal smoke mixed with fog is making life
such a burden to Londoners that various in
ventors are trying to devise means for
a~meliorating the darkened condition OF the
city, and one ~well-known engineer comes
forward with the suggestion that fuel gas
be used instead of coal, the same to be gen
Grated in the coal fields Of Wales and York
shire and piped across the country. The
plan seems entirely feasible. Gas for illum-
mating purposes is furnished TO consumers
at a much lower price in Great Britain than
In this country and fuel gas can doubtless
be made at a cost that viii not be higher
than that Of coal. Tie change would come
about slowly. OF course. but when once ac-
complished It would make q new city %
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-21
AGAINST ANY


1t is quite remarkable that in all that has
been said in the Legislature no man, or at
least no man who has any regard for his
reputation for intelligence, has championed
the present systems of county and township
government. Two or three correspondents
have said something in their favor, and one
who is a township trustee declared that the
township system gave the people the cheap
est and best local government that has ever
been known. Even the most strenuous OPP
ponents of the bills passed by the Senate
declare themselves in favor Of some change
that wiz limit the responsibility of county
and township officials. So far none of them
has presented such measures, but content
themselves with organizing to defeat the
bills which have been carefully drawn after
considering the dangers and the evils Of sys-
TENS which put so little limit upon the
power of county commissioners and town
ship trustees. They have not even proposed
to take from county commissioners the
power to build courthouses and other county
buildings in spite of the opposition of tax
payers, or take from township trustees the
power to build ~schoolhouses without the
consent of those who pay for them. The
opponents of the measures passed by the
Senate do not so much as propose to place
further restrictions upon these officials in
regard to expenditures. They have no an
swer to make to those who show that these
two classes of officers are the only ones
in which the power to vote money and to
expend it is united. They talk much of
the creation Of a horde of new officers,
whose compensation is not so much as trus-
tees have wasted on a single purchase of
books, maps, pencil roasters and microbe-
killing fluids. Instead of combating the
proposition to have five or six men pass
upon the estimates of the trustee or county
commissioners they how about Indianap-
oils printing and supply houses--their most
effective allies.
Most of the opponents of the Senate re-
form bills are not sincere. They are OPP
posed to any measure which will give great
or publicity to the management of public
affairs. They are a part of the limited num-
Der who expect at some time to come into
the pickings and the wastings of the pres
ent loose methods. They are inspired by the
same spirit which led township trustees and
supply dealers in 1895 to oppose the PROPOSE
ton requiring trustees to publish quarterly
an itemized account of their expenditures.
Some of them are the same men who sent
to township trustees, just before the last
State election, in the name of the officers
of the Association of Township Trustees, a
circular appealing to them to use their in
fuence to get every vote possible for Judge
McCabe against Judge Hadley. because the
former made the majority of the Supreme
Court which gave those in Office a two
years extension over the claim of the Demo-
Gratis. So accustomed are they to mix pub
lie responsibility with personal gain that
they put a Supreme Court judge in a COM
promising position. Such men want no
change, and that class of the opponents of
the Senate bills are those who are fighting
to defeat them.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-21
Value of Lightning Rods.
Scientific American.


One of the best evidences of the value of
lightning rods up to date has been afforded
by the Washington monument. 1t is capped
by a small four-sided pyramid of alumni
ium, which metal. so cheap to-day, was
very costly at the time of the building Of
the greatest obelisk the world has ever
known The aluminium tip is connected
with the ground by four copper rods which
go down deep into the earth. On April 8,
1885, the monument was struck fiercely five
times, but it suffered no damage whatever.
On June Is OF the same year a more tre-
mendous assault was made upon the mon
ument from the heavens and the result was
a fracture of ore of the topmost stones. The
crack still remains TO show what nature can
do in the way of an electric shock. but the
slightness of the damage is evidence of
mans power to protect himself from such
attacks. The obelisk is ideally located for
attracting electrical assaults from the skies,
and yet, while many times hit It has SUI
fered only once, and that time to a trifling
extent. The statue of Liberty, New York
harbor, is protected by copper rods united
to the figure and extending through the
pedestal to copper plates buried in wet
ground beneath the foundation. Lightning
has never injured the statue IN the least.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-21

The Democratic Legislature OF North
carolina mas proposed an amendment to the
Constitution of that State which will dis
franchise nearly all of the colored voters.
Indeed, that is the avowed object of the
proposed amendment. Educational, proper
" and poll-tax qualifications are prescribed,
but in order that the poor whites may
escape Acknowledgement, citizens whose
ancestors voted prior to Jan. ], 1867, are ex-
pmpt. on that date there were no colored
voters. This is the Louisiana plan. As yet
no Aguinaldo organ has made any allusion
to ''the consent OF the governed in con-
nection with this latest instance Of whole
sale disfranchisement.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-21

board are familiar. The new system for the
employment of convicts embraced in the act
already passed is the plan OF the present
board, consequently the present members
are better qualified to carry it out than
would a board whose members would be new
to the matter. The Reformatory is some
thing or an experiment yet, and, with the
probable Improvements that will be made.
better qualified to go on than a new board
would be. For these and other reasons
which could be given it would be better to
let things stand as they are, particularly as
the Legislature viii have no time now to
consider the subject.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-21

in full at the head of his paper instead OF
having only the initials given as heretofore.
His pathetic reason is that at the present
time at least five persons with the same
surname and initials are before the public
in one capacity or another. and we have
received documents belonging to a Catholic
priest, a veterinary surgeon, a general pas
senger agent, as well as a large bill for
liquors that had been sold to a saloon keeper
and not paid promptly" The explanation
is sufficient. James 1t shall be. and nc
questions asked.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-21

er rates for the care of stock in the stock
yards Of indianapolis should not be passed
without inquiry. Such inquiry will show
that the charges at the yards in this city
are lower than in the cities with which it
completes. If there is complaint it is doubt
less based upon the fact that the prices
seem high compared with the cost of keep
ing stock on farms. There can be no COM
parlson on such a basis. Unless the Legis-
1ature can satisfy itself that the charges
are unreasonable by actual investigation it
should not pass the bill.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-21

A good bill to defeat is that which pro-
poses to make one board of four members
Cor the state prison and the R~eformatory
form School was to be placed in charge Of
che same board because it is necessary to
transfer persons in the Reform School to
che Reformatory in a few cases when, by
reason OF age. they can no longer be kept
In the former. 1t was the original plan to
pay the four trustees $1,000 each For some
reason that scheme has been ~abandoDed
and thar Of putting the other institutions
under the same board substituted. In the
prison many improvements have been be-
gun with which the members Of the present
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-21

The only important amendment to the bill
relating TO township government made by
the House was hat reducing the member
chip of the council from FIVE to three. 1t
was then passed to engrossment by a vote
of 81 to "A. Nine Republicans voted against
the bill and four Democrats for it. The
bill has to pass another test when it must
obtain ffty-one votes. There are three or
four men on the Republican side who voted
against 1t yesterday who should vote for it
on final passage. About twenty Democrats
ehould Join the four who voted for the bill.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-21

1.-The weather." said the oldest inhab-
liant, 'fs not what it used to be when I
way a boy"
For that matter commented the smart
young man, 'the weather is not what it
was seven months ago."
And the oldest inhabitant could not be
persuaded to talk for more than an hour.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-21

During the six months that Canad has
admitted goods of British manufacture at
rates of customs duties % per cent. below
those collected on American-made goods,
our sales have not fallen off, but have in
creased when compared with correspond
ing months Of last year-all of which goes
TO prove that the United States need not
sacrifice agricultural interests to promote
traffic with Canada.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-21

The report is again current that Speaker
Reed will not serve in the next Congress,
but retire and take up the practice of law
in New York. Mr.. Reed has been in Con-
g7ess eleven terms. and. in consequence. is
without any considerable means.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-21

The headline DIED Penniless' loses nine
of its pathos when one reflects that
a minute after death the victim of such sad
circumstance is just as well off as If he had
died in possession of a hundred millions.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-21

Watts-I wish l had now sooner that
a little whisky in the water pipes would
keep them from freezing, though l don't
see just how.
Lushforth-You don't. That's easy. They
would be kept running all the time by some
one or other.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-21

The Senate is in a perilous position when
Senator Caffery, of Louisiana, says he will
flibuster if an attempt is made to pass the
Nicaragua canal bill, and Senator Morgan,
pf Alabama, ~threatents to hlibuster until
is passed. The Senate needs a rule Great
ng the remedy known as the previous
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-21

The news from France is vaguely to the
effect that 'the crisis is passed" without
properly numbering, labelling or otherwise
distinguishing the crisis referred to from
the crisis of last week and the one of next.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-21
A Secret.

He-But if you ladies were allowed to
vote, I am afraid it would be the end OF
the secret ballot.
She-In one sense. no doubt. AS far as
you men are concerned, what you are vot-
ing for seems to be a secret even from your
selves.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-21

Every illustrated paper prints a portrait
of NJ. Loubet, the new President of France.
but no two of them are alike 1t seems
rather strange that the distinguished gentle
man should have furnished the American
papers with such a variety Of ikenesses.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-21

Senator Mason alphabetically remarks
that 1.-The Philippines will have their La
fayette." Perhaps Senator Mason has q
.hankering after the job. Here goes for an
other prediction: Those persons who would
rejoice in seeing Senator Mason obtain his
just dues in the way of obscurity will also
have their laugh yet"