Sylvan
Our County—Its Progress and Prosperity the First Duty of a Local Paper,
k BREESE.
BREVARD, TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY. N. C., FRIDAY, JUNE 19. 190:5.
VOL. VIII-NO. 25
®unns Rock Lodg« No. 267
F. 8r Jl. M.
Meots Pridav on or I>ofoi*€* th© full
wioon in each month, at il i>. m. Visit-
Masons are cordially invited to
meet u ith us.
sptly Wm. MaxWKLI., Sfc'j/.
Brevard Telephone Exchange.
Daily—7 a. ni. to 10 p. m.
Sunday—8 to 10 a. m.. 4 to (i p. m.
C entral Ottit^e—('oo])or lilock.
Professional Cards.
W. A. GASH,
attorney-at-law,
Rooms 7 & 8, McMinn BId'g, Brevard, N. C.
W. B. DUCKWORTH,
attorney-at-law.
Investigation of Land Titles a Specialty.
Kooins 1 and ± IMekelsinier liuildiny.
W. W. ZACHARY,
A T T O R N E Y-A T-L A W
Offices in McMinn Block, Brevard, N. C.
D. L. ENGLISH,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW.
1'. s. Court ])i’a(*tice a s]>e(*ialty.
Offices in Cooper Building, Brevard, H. C.
WELCH GALLOWAY,
ATTO RN EY-AT= L A W.
i’cactiffs in all tlu* i*ourts.
Rooms 9 and 10 McMinn Block. Brevard, N. C.
Death on Our Railroads.
Love of Money and Its Power, Negligence of Railway officers
and Improper Governmenf Control are Responsilile for the
Loss of Human Life.
For the last few yeurs in i?en
erul and tlie last few inontlis in
particuhir the number of lives
lost on the raili’oacls has been ap
palling. In any paper can be
free of the control of railroads to
establish commissions to control
the railways and see that proper
[)recautions are taken for the
safety of Imman life aud the pre-
foiind numerous accounts of rail-1 servation of property as well as
in which few or
have lost tlieir
lives as well as much property
road accidents
many ]>ersons
j. H. mm.
Doctor Dental Surgery.
Rooms 1 and 2 Cooper Bld’g, Brevard, N. C.
Miscellaneous.
T. L. SNELSCN,
Biacksmilli and Horse-slioer.
Siiop in Rear of Orr’s Livery Stable.
( niM-i.i:;!' and Wa^on !ir’’<linir.
Wlifclwrlyht work a b))Oc..Jty.
C. 0. KILPATRJCK.
CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER,;
Rocm 13, McMinn Block, Brevard, N. C.
llsiiiiKitfs ^iven on all kinds of worl. ;
in iiu‘ luiildini;’ line. '
to control the freight and passen
ger rates and tariffs. The com
missions are not perfected as yet
destroyed. While appreciating | and their ])owers are so limited
the value of railroads to any com-' that their control is not near so
munity and being opposed to; thorough as similar bodies in
ranting against corporations sim-{ other lands. So perfectly have
ply because they are sucli, still in j tlie Boards of Control been man-
the case of these numerous acci-1 aging the English railways for
dents it is but just that an effort | the last few years that the re-
fehould be made to lay the blame cords show that not a single man
on the guilty iKirties. | was killed in that country last j guilty party severely and without
The first (luestion confr<mting | year by a railroad. Those Eng-' fear or favor,
us is “Who is to blame for lhe;lis!i commissions not only con-'
fi’equency of railway accidents,” I trol the roads but they see to the
and the second is “Why are rail-| proper construction of all t!ie
way accidents more common and I cars and engines. No risk is
more fatal in the United States taken and tiie factor of safety is | and relics of the barbarous ages
withoot feeling that the chances
are against your returning home
alive and sound, for the otiicials
know that they will be held re
sponsible for accidents that can
be traced to them and when you
trace most accidents to their
prime cause you wmU tind that 90
per cent are caused by reckless
ness on the ])art of the manage
ment.
Therefore let us save the lives
of our fellow working men and
our own as well by having such
laws enacted as will punish the
guilty partie.s in a manner tliat
will effectually deter them from
being eithei’ reckless or careless.
We must not go to the extreme of
Communism or Socialism or any
other ’ism, but act within the
bond of reason and unbiased just
ice. Give all parties their just
representation but when an ac
cident is traced to the source
from whence it received its ini
tial impetus, then punish the
Mutilated Clipping.
Onr summer visitoj-s will soon
be with us. and those nuisances
than in other countries” and the: much gi*oat<M- than is usually con-
third is “By what means shall i sid(‘red necessaiy, but tlie l e-
we prevent recurrence in the fu-! suits sliow the wisdom of tiieir
tureof the accidents of the past.*’! metliod. In oi-der therefore for
Tli« ?se tiiree cjuestions and tlieir^ us to enjoy the same immunity
answers affect a largo [)ortion of4*i-om accid(*nts we will have to
our cit izens and deserve the close i secure honest and comiu^tent
attention of our readers. Tho ! Railway Commissioners and vest
tirst question as to where th*' re- them witli sufticiont authority to
sponoibility is to be placed is enforce their I'ules; givo tlieni
('asily answered by naming the the power to regulate the con
struction and o})eration of all
railroads, to tlu* smalh'st detail:
[)latte ihcuj beyond theconti’ol of
railway intluence. and we will
tlien have roads that will com-
railway ofticials. They are the
guilty men and on their h(;ads
rest the i-esponsibility for many
untimely deaths, great suffering
and much destitution. Controll
ed l\v a si>irit of greed and avar- pare with those of other coun
ice, desirous of becoming wealthy tri(\s and on which th(‘lives of the
in a short time these olticials will, employees will be safe,
take any chance to make a dollar, The third question. “H(»w shall
and the value of money over-bal- we })revent rt'currence of these
a ict.*s the value of human life, imtnerous accidents.’’ has but
one answer: The majoi'ity of ac
cidents are caused by some care
lessness. and ouj’ courts have
Wiie e a few dollars can be .<iav .'d
in inferior equii)ment, the
in-
T. L. CLARKE,
ml8"* "
J’laiH and s])ei*irK-ati<>n^ on all kinds:
1)1' IniildinH’ work. j
T. B. CRAR.Y,
CintraClor for All Kir.ds of Brick Wiak.
rfin-'ii; Work, i I’t-i)!) . -
dash aud Kon^-h ('astinL!' a Siieeiall?’.
BREVARD. N. C.
creased danger to life and limb is
not considered; money is of
n'reater value than man to them,
if the money is theirs and the
man is not.
Our railroads are now controll
ed by men who have been specu
!are still in evidence on our pnn-
jcipal streets.—Sylvan Valley
! Nkws.
I
j We are surprised tf) learn that
I the News regards summer vis-
' itors as “nuisances aud relics of
|b<irbarous ages." Here in Hen-
dej'sonville we hav(* a very high
regard for sumujer visitoi's and
want as many of them as we can
get. But possibly the ottice cat
is res])onsible for the extraordi
j nary sentence which we (luote
! from our contemporary. — Ifc)}-
i (Ivi’son ri/le
That the item quoted by the
Times appt'ared in the News, is
true, but added to it was the ex-
l)lanation. “The bai’bed were
fences ai'e what wo are refering
to.'” Mutilating this item has
given the Times scribbler an op
portunity to say omething mean
about Brevard, and that seems
to be the only obj*.‘Ct in life for tlie
average Hendersonvillain. “Pos
sibly the office cat’’ writes scpiibs
I for the Times—no human bein«'
been too lenient in the ])ast in'
i witli bi-ains could have misunder-
l')rosecuting those who were'
guilty of criminal negligenc(‘.
The mere
dollars
not seem to
loss of thousands of
in way of damages does
cause the railwav
j sto(Kl tlie item as it was pub-
i lished in our (‘olumns.
lators in the stock and b<md ofhcials to take the [)ro[)er steps
Vivisection is the painful ex-
p(‘rimentation upon living ani
mals. They are mutilated and
J. O. DERMID,
Be MMk jeweler.
Watclu's and .lewtdi'V I'oi- Fine
v''\Vai<*li Clock repairing. All
Work uuarantt'ed. \\ »‘st Main st.
A. C. NORTON,
Practical Boot and Siioemaker
Harnijss oi*k a sjx ciidty.
West Main Street near Caldwell.
When you want, your
Clock or Watcf] paired
ri^ht take them to\
JOS. F. BOREN
Satisfa.iion Guaranteed. CalVert, N. C.
markets for years and the gamb- for tlu‘ safely of their employees j when alive and in full
ling' S[)irii is predominant, or patrons. They get large Siil-
These ofticials, for Ihe certain aries,andi)requisit('s \v< rtlia ran-
daily saving of a small amount, som. The })ayitient (jf damages
will rislc tiie occasional loss of. comes out of the owner of the
large sums. In other words they | stock, so it does not affect them
will allow a road to be operated in directly. There is one way of j currents of electricity are passed
possession of their facullit'.-.
They are bruised, burned, and
their bones are brok'en; iK'rves
are laid bare a.nd connected with
an eleclric battery, from which
an unsafe manner in order to reaching them and one only, and
save money, although it is prob , that is by trying, convicting and
able that an accident will eventu- im])risoning them for their neg-
ally occur wliere the losses and ligence. When a man is made to
damag(‘s \vill be great. There- i work overtime; when unneces-
fore our tirst question is answer- sai-y risks are taken under direc-
ed and the blame for the frequen-, tion of the officials; where fast
cy of railway accidents is directly i schedules are in force over*road-
attributable to avaricious aiuL beds unable to safely bear the
heartless ofticials. ' strain, and fatal accidents occur,
The second question, “Why are it should result in a criminal
accidents more common in the j prosecution of the one in author-
United States than in other coun-! ity. Do not punish the emi>loyee
tries,” is answered as follows; | who was simply obeying oi’ders,
Until quite recently there has j but go to the fountain head and
been no proper government su-1 punish the official. Make them
pervision of railways, their con- j personally liable and subject to
struction and opei'ation. In re- j imprisonment, and you will see a
cent years an effort has been revolution in railway manage-
made in those states that are yet j ment. You can then goon a trip
over these nerves, causing prob
ably the greatest suffering of
which sentient beings are capa
ble. Numerous severc'ly i)ain-
ful experiments are often made
for trivial pur})oses. This is
done, in medical s(;hools and else
where, in the alleged “interests
of science;” but in comparison
with the terrible agony to senti
ent creatures, the “scientific re
sults” are but as a dro]> in the
bucket.
“I have been troubIc<l lor some tinu- with in-
dig(.stii)n aiKl sour stomach,'’ says Mrs. Sarah
W. Curtis, of Lee, Jla'^s , “and have been taK-
ing Chamberlain’s Stomach and Liver Tablets
which have helped me very much so that now 1
cau eat many tilings that before I could not.”
If you havi- any trouble with your stomach why
not take these Tablets and get well?
For sale by Z. W. Nichols, Bievard and O. L.
Erwin, CiicrryCeld. *
Ask your
grocer for
It is good.
I illi
Broker
Kendersonvllle, N. C.
■ V ■
The Jeweler
Fines!
Walcli ^"1
I
Silver Ware, Waiches and Clocks For Sale
Eyeglasses and Spectacles
i''vos examined ift*e and lensv
mi I
THE SIGN OF
GG09 TAILORir^lG
Here is the great Oak-
Easel now on display at
our store. It contains the
line of beautiful new spring
tailoring samples sent us by
STRAUSS BROS..Chicago
Good Tailors for 26 Years
The Oak-Easel is the
connecting link between the
tailor and the faultlessly fin
ished garments which give
you so much pleasure to
wear, h’s really a lesson
in good clothes buying to
see this great collection
of tailoring novelties.
Prices low and saLtisfac-
tlon OLbsolutely g\j&r>
anleed. Cak.ll soon.
J. R. LEDBETTER