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THE ASIIEYILLE DAILY CITIZEN MONDAY. JUNE 13, 1S9S. The Asheville Citizen BY THE CITIZEN COMPANY. Every Afternoon Except Sundays. The Semi-Weekly Citizen is Issued Tuesdays and Fridays. In advance, $1. MONDAY. JUNE 13, 1808. We trust no one will be so thought less as to mention ratio when Col IJry. an is engaged in lambasting the enemy. Washington Post. The ratio will be preserved. The Spanish will be hit 16 times where they attempt to hit once. "Rubber pouches for the Second reg. iment came today. These are squares of rubber, with an opening in the cen tre, through which the head passes.' Ponchos, gentlemen proofreaders of the press. Ponchos, a Spanish-Ameri can word meaning indolent, perhaps because the poncho is the lazy man's overcoat easily put on. A Pittsburg university has conferred the degree of LL D. on Admiral Dewey on the ground that "Pittsburg armor plate la on Dewey's vessels, and a mem ber of the faculty manufactured some of Dewey's range tinders" ! This is the explanation given, at all events, but the New York Sun says the title .was accorded because Dewey "Lambasted the Lurking Dons,"j which is more in line with the fitness of things. The monitor Monterey has not made a propitious start on her way to the Philippines. Arriving at San Diego, California, Friday, she left "aturday afternoon after taking on coal, several tons of which slipped off the deck on the way down from San Francisco. Her commander is reported to have said at San Diego that it was "about as near" to Honolulu by way of San Diego as by the direct. True, but not quite, ai?d a day or two in arriving at Manila might mean a great deal to Admiral Dewey. When the American marines landed in Ouantanamo liay Saturday they burned the first collection of houses they came upon all deserted in a lit tle village several miles from the 'town of Ouantanamo proper. This was not done, we may be sure, out of wanton ness, but largely as a sanitary precau- Hon, and it is probable that if every one of the filthy Cuban towns is razed to ashes as fast as control is obtained by our troops, there will be, in the end, a gain. In no other way can these fe ver breeding places be so effectually sweetened. Under the new order of things in store for Cuba, other and bet ter town sites will probably be selected, and the cost of rebuilding with a proper and necessary regard for sanitary pre cautions will hardly be greater than the cost of making the old towns habit able. It would seem like a calamity to burn Havana, but a large part of it might be sacrificed without actual loss in the long run. The Campaign. The plan of campaign for the free- ut'm ui vuua seems lo oe lo sella a large force of troops to Cuuiitanamu bay, in which there is plenty of room for the largest vessels. (Juantanamo, where the Hag was hoisted on Satur day, is a small town about 40 miles east of Santiago, on. the southeast coast of Cuba, and is connected by railroad with every important town and city on the island. It will be an easy matter to land troops anil supplies there, and to make it the base of future opera tions. From that point Santiago can be surrounded at the leisure of Ueneral Shafter, through co-operation with the insurgents or without them, and. grad ually drawing the lines closer, it will be only a question of time when the city must give up and the Spanish evacuate. What will become of the Spanish fleet is an interesting question. It is said that Admiral Cervera has been notified by our government that if he blows up the ships of his squadron the bill will be charged to Spain and collected In the shape of part of the war indemnity; but it is doubtful if this threat deters him from preventing five or six million dollars' worth of cruisers from falling Into our hands. With the fall of Santiago practically two-thirds of the island of Cuba comes under Cuban and American control. With the railroad that runs the length of Cuba repaired it will not be difficult to transport any number of soldiers and heavy cannon towards the western end of the island," almost regardless of the rainy season. Then the investment of Havana can begin at the pleasure of the army and navy authorities. . The campaign is proceeding on safe lines and rapidly enough. The one blunder of the war so far seems to be the failure to bombard the defenses of Havana sufficiently, from time to time, to prevent their being so greatly strengthened as reports say they have been. Tha New Policy. The l.oston Herald thinks it "is not at all sure that the end of the taxes now to be put upon the ieople will come with the end of the war. The tariff has proved to be less reliable for revenue than those who have had and are likely to have in the future the con trol of it had expected. The shortcom ing of the Dingley tariff proves this"; and it adds: "Under the new- policy the govern ment has adopted. Its normal outlay must be much greater than it has been. V are to have a great navy to main tain in any event; our army must be increased in numbers; the acquisition to the territory of the nation contem plated must add much tohe expense of the government. Our ways have part ed to an extent that compels permanent as well as much increased present tax ation." We did not know that the govern ment had adopted a new policy, but there are signs that it is drifting into a new policy without asking the peo ple the true source of all power in a republic whether they approve of the change. The President is urging the acquisition of Hawaii as a war meas ure, though it is by no means certain that such an Important move would be voted for by the people and though all attempts so far to make the people's representatives In Congress vote for It have failed. He Is urging it. too. on an argument that lacks something of frankness. In that we already have at Hawaii, or can at once secure, all that j we need for war purposes, a coaling station and a harbor. The acquisition of Hawaii is evident ly only one step. We are to annex other territory, and then the demand for a great navy and a large standing army will . follow irresistibly. Along with those luxuries will come an enor mous increase in the bonded debt and an increase in taxation to pay the in terest thereof. All this in the train of a war begun In the name of liberty and in the interest of humanity and not for the purpose of annexing territory. Of course no such immensely impor tant change from the century-old poli cy of this government should be made now unless underthe necessityof secur ing suecess in the war now being waged. L5ut there is no such necessity; Spain is comparatively a child in our hands; and it is not truly patriotic to with hold a protest against the present ad ministration entering on the spoliation of the taxpayer under the false pre tense of the necessities of war. It is urged in return for the enormous expense of acquiring and holding new territory that "as an ample offset the United States will have acquired pos sessions in the East and West Indies whose future value must be reckoned by thousands of millions of dollars." The future value will hardly pay the taxes of the present generation, but even the future generation will not find the investment paying, it could be so only through revenue exacted by the government, as Spain has exacted it and caused revolutions, and by com mercial gains to citizens of the United States. We have already printed the protest of one of the most widely circu lated organs of the farmers of the country against the acquisition of ter ritory that would bring the cheapest of coolie labor into direct competition with our agriculturists. There would not be commercial profit to individuals under control of, say, the Philippines by .his government that the same individ uals would not have there under any til, its and friendly government that wot..j throw open the islands to lair traue uy all nations; and under cir cumstances the most, favorable there couid not result to the people of this country from the acquisition of the Philippines one thousandth part of the profit that would follow the investment in, say, of good roads at home of a sum iuuI to what the possession of the Phillippints would entail in expendi tures, first and last. There have been few times in our his lory as a nation when we needed more to keep our minds fixed firmly on what our mission is as a people and on the true grandeur of a republic as an ex ample to all the earth than now. It is an hour for sane thinking. Soldiers' Complaints. Secretary of War Alger said to a New York Sun reporter Saturday: 'The army is well supplied. Yre have accomplished wonders in a short time. Of course, when you bring a great rod of men together there is likely to oe some coniusion. Troops are con stantly being changed, and this makes it apijear to people unfamiliar with the manipulation of great bodies of men that there is no system, but the con trary is true. The men are being well cared for and are apparently very well .satisfied, lou can't expect thousands f men to be placed in one big camp with all the comforts of home. The men understand this, and do not com plain." There are persons who know better whether the soldiers now in camp are well fed than does Secretary Alger. Their complaints appear in the Balti more Sun of Saturday, with names and addresses. One soldier writes from Chickamauga: "I am being starved, getting one and a lialf slices of bread, a piece of bacon no larger than a silver dollar and a cup of coffee, without milk or sugar, for a meal. 1 am all but a total wreck since I got here." Another is at Tampa: "Tampa is infinitely preferable to Chickamauga as a camping place. At Chickamauga we were illy fed, and the boys spent all their money for extras, consequently we all reached Tampa dead broke. "The morning we left we were given a breakfast oi three Cold biscuits and a cup of coffee to prepare us for a ten mile march. Why should we live upon salt meat, lowest-class bacon, all fat, and hard-tack, when the government itlons call for fresh meat daily when tbtainable? . . . That is the re- w;utl for our patriotism, treated like a lot nf cattle and not given one-half of w hat is due us. Don't talk to me about the glories of a soldier's life it is all a delusion and a snare." Another from Tampa: "We are here in a place built for mos quitoes and Lord knows what else. Sand is all we see except the bay, which is only a stone's throw from my tc-nt. Our tents are about four feet high in the centre. Often we crawl in and lay there, with our feet sticking out in iront until morning. They are called dog tents, and when Sousa wrote that beautifuf march, 'Bring Forth the Dogs of War," I don't know whether he had in mind the tent or us, but it is all the same. "When I get home I hope I will never see a pig. Our grub since we left lim lico has consisted of bacon three times a day." There are several columns of these complaints from soldiers. It is evi dently a question of who shall control the contractors, and Secretary Alger has yet to get the upper hand. PEOPLE. It was one of Mr. Gladstone's rules never to have as a member of his ministry any director in a stock com pany. According to John McDonald of the Kansas State Teachers' association. fully 600 out of the 3000 Kansas vel- unteers are teacher's. Captain R. C. Clipperton ,who is about to retire, after 17 years' service as British consul at Philadelphia, always advised English residents to become American citizens at the earliest pos sible moment. Matthew J. Herron. who has written a new constitution for Maryland, was dishonorably discharged and then d mummed out of Camp Witmer, near. tsammore, ror inciting insubordina tion. He changed his mind about go ing to war and tried to change the j minds of his company. St. Louis has distinguished herself by sending to the front what her news papers .claim to be the youngest sol diers In their respective branches of service. Henry Green, a wonderfully well developed lad of 14, is on the cruiser Montgomery. For years he was under daily athletic training The soldier boy Is Percy Moore. aged 19, who has been commissioned lieutenant in the First Missouri volunteers. AT CAMP CUBA LIBRE From the Jacksonville Citizen. The First North Carolina is now pretty well uniformed, and will soon be In as good shape as any regiment in camp. One of the most attractive features of the camp is the excellent vocal music frequently furnished by the members of the North Carolina regiment. The cooks of the First North Carolina expect to receive Buzzacott stoves to day, this being the kind used oy the regular army and issued by the gov ernment. Separate mail facilities w-ere yester day provided for the First North Caro lina, and Rev. A. A. Pruden, chaplain of the regiment, has become postmas ter. One hundred tons of hay was being delivered to the First North Carolina yesterday by the C. B. Rogers com pany. A bale is to be furnished to each man, for use upon which to sleep. It has not as yet been decided when the court martial will convene that is to try two members of the First North Carolina who are charged with deser tion, and who were brought back from Savannah on Wednesday. The Cuba Libre Review wiii make its appearance Thursday, and will be is sued daily thereafter. Private G. S. Nirdinger of Company G, Fourth Vir ginia, will be the editor, and Sergeant Bell of the same company will be bus iness manager. Mr. Nirdinger is an old newspaper man, and for nine months acted as correspondent of a New York paper in Cuba. Prowlers around the city waterworks at night will be likely to find it very unhealthy business if it shall be con tinued. Last night about 9 o'clock Pri vate O. T. Bright of the First North Carolina regiment fired on a man who was acting in a suspicious manner. The first brigade review that has been held since the encampment of the volunteer troops in this city was seen yesterday. Three thousand men filed past the brigade commander, General Burt, who was supported by his staff and by Colonel Guild and Lieutenant Sartoris, representing Gen. Lee. The display was an imposing one, and was witnessed by 2000 spectators. The First North Carolina, the First New Jersey and the Second Illinois compose the brigade, and each was commanded by its colonel. Col. Armfield of the North Carolina regiment commanded the bri gade during the review by General Burt. Our Mascot. From the Charlotte Observer. It is worth an admission fee to hear the roll call of Company M, First Wis consin. It is composed wholly of Poles. Sergeant Major Herritage is still on duty, and, so far as can be learned, his application for discharge has not yet been approved. The Asheville boys have the prize mascot. When I visited the company this morning I found First Sergeant Shine busily engaged with a billy goat. He is a very dignified William, and seems to realize his honorable position. Made 'Em Hot. From the Raleigh News and Observer. Col. Julian S. Carr left for home last night. Before going he wrote a letter to the men and officers of the First North Carolina regiment, explaining that the War department would not permit him to advance them a month a pay as he had intended to do. There was indignation among the North Carolina troops yesterday morn ing. The cause of it was a published order, purporting to come from Gen. Arnold, commanding Second division. Seventh army corps, and containing the following remarkable statements: "Numerous complaints have come to the division commander concerning depredations committed by men of the First North Carolina .... upon booths. gardens and other private property be longing to citizens of this city. Com plaints have also been made that en listed men are begging on the streets, and are consorting with disreputable characters." This aroused the fighting blood of North Carolina like a flash. Col. Arm field, always jealous of his men. and the good name of his State, at once sent a letter demanding names and particu lars upon which the charges against his regiment are based. The order places a stain upon the name ot the estate that is neitner ae served nor warranted by fact. On the other hand the statements in the order touching North Carolina are absolutely false. Had Gen. Arnold been spending his time in camp, as is his duty, he would not be parading the First North Caro lina regiment before the world as a vile lot of loafers, without first having a hearing from them or their officers. Had he been spending his time in camp he would have known that such charges and insinuations are not only absolute ly false, but that the discipline of the North Carolina camp is the best here and no more quiet, well behaved, gen tlemanly set of men can be found any where. THE GRINNING SUPER. More Intrepid by Far Than Our Ar my at Tsmpa. From the Chicago Chronicle. Misplaced sympathy often leads to results thoroughly disastrous. A sym pathetic supernumerary found this out the other evening at McVicker's. Otis Skinner as the heroic Colonel West had dashed into the mass of cowardly re treating soldiers to turn the tide of the battle of Cedar Creek. A gun exploding near him lodged a small wad of burn ing paier on his head which lay smouldering among the hyperion Skin ner locks until noticed by a super wait ing to take his part in the retreat. The astonished actor was suddenly aware that a grimy super with a demo niac glare was standing before him, pulling madly at his hair. Skinner had been expecting some outcome of the trouble in that restless mass of super numeraries for some time. He felt that the moment had arrived and that he was in for it. He proceeded to mix things up with the super and in the tussle the beautiful southern home of the EHinghams was seen to totter on its foundation. It was hard to imagine just what the outcome would have been had not a de tachment of re-inforcements come to the rescue. The beligerent Kerchival West was seized from behind at the moment when he had begun to think he would have to whip the entire army single-handed, and the burning wad was swept from his head in time to res cue him from premature baldness. To his friends who inquire now about the Shenandoah army. Mr. Skinner says that a more interpid lot of men is not to be found this side of Tampa. this is Astonishing. From Printer's Ink. That the religious papers are good media for advertising as far as they go no one will deny; but they overcharge the advertiser in proportion to the cir culation they give, in the first place. and in the second place are among the most persistent prevaricators as to their actual issues. In the matter of honest treatement of the advertiser, the pub lisher of the average daily occupies a vastly higher plane than the publisher of the average religious weekly , at tempts to stand on. Felt and Derby hats at cost. This spring's styles. Alexander & Courtney. LATEST FROM HAVANA. A School Girl's Narrativ of Condi tions in Cuba's Capital. From the New York Mail and Express. The following is the substance of a letter which was brought from Cuba to New York within the last three days, the authenticity of which is absolutely vouched for by the Mail and Express. Names are necessarily omitted, but there is no more recent and probably no more reliable account of the actual conditions existing in Havana than this naive and interesting letter gives: Havana, May 30, 1S9S. My dear c Our fisherman brought me some pa pers from New York, and what a lot of lies they contain. My father and all the other officials say that we have food here for five months, flour, codfish, beans and groceries, all brought down from New York, and sa'lted meat from Montevideo. Our fisherman said that if I gave him a letter he had a way to get it to the American fleet and see that it would be mailed to you in New Y'ork. So I thought I'd write you. I suppose the commencement at the convent will be pretty soon, and that you will go up to see the dear old place. Pa says that if you Americans had at tacked Havana when you declared war it would have surrendered in five hours, but that it is now fortified, and forti fied so that it is strong as Gibraltar. You know they built a great, big rail road upon sticks, in front of the forts, and took cars of sand and dumped them down, so that they have a mound in front of all the forts about 30 feet wide and 10 feet high. 1 went over the forti fications yesterday, and I saw 15 of those immense 12-inch guns. They say they can shoot 12 miles. We have got 00,000 troops here in Ha vana and 60,000 in the provinces, and some 40,000 volunteers. These are all veterans, and all the generals say that it would take an army of 200,000 to beat us. The coast is all supplied with tele phone and telegraph wires, so that any time your boats attempt to land we can have a big force there in a couple of hours to drive them off. Part of Cerve ra's fleet in Santiago. There is so much mystery about this: Whether-the ad miral is there or not, no one seems to know. If Pa knows he wont tell me. The rest of the fleet, some 15 vessels, are somewhere down the Antilles. Pa and Captain-General Blanco say they are going to attack your coast in about three weeks, so dear, don't go to the New England seashore this summer. I wish the war was all over, so that I could go to New York or go abroad for the summer, but we are all worried to death. If this thing keeps up two or three months longer we will all be dead, for it is very hot here and it is hard to get good things to eat. The Alfonso XII. has been turned into a hospital ship and all her guns have been taken out of her. You know she is the boat that was anchored opposite the Maine, and had in her the pneumatic torpedoes. They say a man named Ar- jona had something to do with the blowing up of the Maine, but I guess it was Weyler's orders. Pa's awful sorry they are going to attack the New Eng land coast, but he says there is noth ing else will satisfy the common people in Spain except this, and that the gov ernment in Spain will fall if they don't do it : , you can write me any time you like by sending a let ter to in Paris, who will forward it here. The whole city is divided up into sections on what they call the "Humanity Committee." They find out who are in sympathy with the Cubans or with the United States, and in case Havana is bombarded all these people are going to be thrown into Cabanas or shot. The people are such fools they think nothing is known about what they are doing. Write me, dear . Your own . FROM WILL AND NED. They are Having a Gay Time on the Training Snip. Editor of the Morganton Herald. Will and I concluded we would write you in one letter and affix our honora ble signatures to the same. Well, we are still boarding with Un cle Sam, and you would think we were more than apt to stay with him if you could see how close we are guarded. We get good eating, all except the clam chovrder, wich is made of snails, I think. On Sunday we get ice cream and pie. When we are at sea we get only "hard tack" and "horse meat." They have drilled Will and me clean out of our pants. We have to box the compass, learn to tie 20 different kinds of knots, learn to telegraph with a Hag, have to go up 200 feet high on the "Constellation" under full sail, drill with swords, shoot cannons, and do a hundred other things too numerous to mention. We took in Washington and New York and came to Newport, R. I., on one of the finest steamers in the world, the "Priscilla." We have a brass band ver here on the Island from three till six o'clock to play for us. We have a baseball ground also; go out rowing every other day. We are on the fastest boat in the 3d division. We wear white duck during the week and on Sunday the regular sailor uniform. It is a grand sight to see 500 boys drilling in "sailor suits." It will be six months before we are allowed shore liberty. During the week all boys who desire to go to church on Sunday have their names placed on a list to attend service in Newport, so Will and I had our names put down. Today we went over, we didn t know anything about ceremony, ana you would have laughed yourself to death to have seen us go through the motions. I got all mixed up. You ought to have seen the girls smile at us, but we were not allowed to speak to them. The girls are all flirts, you know. Well, I must stop. I could tell you more, but wait until I write again. Sincerely yours, WILL AND NED. A Gold Bug New? From the Raleigh News and Observer. "It is glorious news for the Republi can party, a most perieci enuui c- ment of the administration. Senator Pritchard is quoted as saying when he heard the news from Oregon. The Or egon platform said, "We are in favor of the maintenance of the gold standard; we are unqualifiedly opposed to tne free coinage of silver." The Populists who are considering fusion with Repub licans should cut this paragraph out and paste it in their hats. Hawaii. From the Greensboro Telegram. A nation with far outlying posses sions is like the "grand-daddy spider familiar to our boyhood apt to have some of its long legs chopped off. As it is the nation is absolutely invincible. One rock island five miles square m mid-ocean might easily involve us in a war that would drain us of even our vast resources. Therefore we should make haste slowly in the annexation of such or of any islands. Tha Situation. Our modern Sampsons brave and strong, And Dewey's pretty fly, sir; The Spanish fleet we've bottled up We've caught em on the Schley, sir! Spain may have met her "Waterlee" To make the matter clearer Manila's fight it was severe. The next'll be Cervera! New York Evening Sun. IN NORTH CAROLINA. Wilmington Star: The Navassa Gu ano company is making extensive addi tions to its manufacturing plant. For ty-four new ovens for burning pyrites are being put In, which, with the build ings to contain them, will cost $20,000. Concord Standard: Mrs. Mathias Smith of No. 9 township died at her home on Friday morning, j Had Mrs. Smith lived until August she would have been 102 years old. She has one daughter, Miss Polly, still living, who is 88 years old. The old lady has sev eral great-grandchildren. The Telegram says that Rufus Weaver, a Greensboro boy, has broken the record at the Southern Baptist Theological seminary at Louisville. En tering that institution two years ago he took the degree of master of the ology Thursday, the first time in its history that this feat has been accom plished. Charlotte Observer: Perhaps it ought to be, but nevertheless the Ob server is not the least sorry that Wal ter R. Henry, esq., has gotten a job. It is a very good Job, too, and he is, after all, a very good fellow. He is no more fit to be a bank examiner than a rab bit is to preach, but, let that pass. He deserved something at the hands of Senator Pritchard and we are very glad he got it. Elizabeth City Economist:- We had a friendly call on Wednesday from W. W. Ashe of Chapel Hill, eldest son of Capt. Sam Ashe of Raleigh. Mr. Ashe is engaged in forestry work at the uni versity and is an expert in that depart ment. We have lived all our life among the giants of the forest in the Alber maile country, and had thought we knew something about them, but in an hour's chat with Mr. Ashe he satisfied us that we were an ignorant and un learned man upon a subject that been furnishing us with object lessons from youth to old age. Watauga Democrat: We were shocked to hear of the death of Rev. Kitzmiller, which occurred on Monday of last week at his home -in Carter county, Tenn. Mr Kitzmiller was a Baptist preacher of great force and power. He was well known in the western counties of North Carolina and all East Tennessee, having spent 40 years of his life preaching in those sec tions. He was a man of great zeal and a very popular preacher, and was the ideal of his people in the ministry. He was 66 years old and was apparently in full health and strength. The following, says the Charlotte Observer, received diplomas at Trinity this year: Masters of arts, William K. Poole and Metus T. Dickinson; bache lors of arts, Wade H. Anderson, Joseph P. Breedlove, Benjamin F. Carpenter, Benton R. Craven, Leonidas W. Craw ford, jr., John P. Gibbons, James T. Henry, David H. Littlejohn, John C. Wooten, Jeremiah B. Needham, Wil liam E. Nicholson, James R. Poole, Robert T. Poole, Augustus J. Rosser, John A. Sharp, James T. Sanford, and Silas O. Thorne; bachelors of philoso phy, Eugene C. Ivey; bachelor of sci ence, Geo. H. Hunter. Each of the graduates received a Bible with his diploma. WE FEED THE WORLD. Our Farmers Sell Absut $800,000 Worth of Food. WASHINGTON, June 13. The pre liminary reports of May exportations which have reached the bureau of sta tistics make it apparent that agricul tural exports of the year will be in ex cess of $SOO,000,000, the total for the year being likely to reach $835,000,000. Never before have the exports of agricultural products reached the $800,000,000 line, and never but twice have they been as much as $700,000,000, in 1881 and 1892. Compared with the last fiscal year, the increase in exports will be fully $150, 000,000, and compared with the preced ing year the increase will be over $250, 000,000, while the total will be fully 50 per cent, in excess of that of the fiscal year 1895. In breadstuffs alone the exports ol the year will amount to nearly $1,000, 000 for each business day, and will be more than $100,000,000 of last year's ex ports of breadstuffs. Nearly all articles classed as breadstuffs have participated in this increase. Of wheat the value of the exports for the fiscal year of 1893 will be more than double those of the fiscal year 1897, while the increase in flour will be nearly 50 per cent and of corn nearly 50 per cent in value. May exports of corn were larger than those of any other month in the history of the country, while the total exports of corn for the year, for the first time, will pass the 200,000,000 bushels line, the total in only three preceding years having reached 100,000,000 bushels. Corn meal, oats and oat meal and rye show a striking increase, the gain in oat meal being more than 60 per cent over last year and that of oats 100 per cent, while in rye the gain is also phe nomenally large. CATTLE DRIVING. Against the Law to Drive Them This Way From East of Slue Ridge Editor The Citizen: I notice that some of our butchers in the market house are buying and driving beef cat tle from Rutherford and Polk counties and even from South Carolina into Asheville and vicinity and slaughtering them as they need them. This practice endangers every milker in Asheville as well as all other cattle. Thes men should be severely punish ed under sections 2320 and 2321 of the Code, because they know it is against the law to drive them this way from east of the Blue Ridge. The cattle over there are much cheap er, is the reason assigned. Over $2000 worth of cattle died from disease caught from one man's cattle who moved from Rutherford to Mitchell county a year or so ago. Yours GOOD COW. DEALS IN DIRT. The following deeds have been filed in Register of Deeds Beachboard's of fice: f Richmond Pearson and wife to Wm. O. Cory, lot on west side Zillicoa street $ 1100 James H. Tweed and wife to Thos. R.Tweed and others, property on Cane creek 5 W. A. Gwyn to Mary Gwyn, 2-3 interest in property corner Phillips street and French Broad avenue 500 IS j THE EDGE OF A DOLiMj fUlS doesn't lk so big as the face of it. 4 IflPjM'SSE tf the woman who buys soap for house- IFi J pX Iff leaning loses sight of economy she looks !sS. Itf-t'lflS'. Iff t her money edgewise. The woman who v Iff fSZ 19 values her money as well as her strength uses Us. Ucs&g Pcirdcr. m ffl" vb nd hM something to show for her labor beslos jfYr IT V worn feoe and a pair of rough bands. JffA IQeSyCCCli p ; X lrret package greatest eoonomy. -j rl Hf f -1 NTlH.K.FalrasukCpart . ) NSs. Chic. Bblmia Hew Tors. :'?LDi h CURRENT FUN. PROOF POSITIVE. . Quizzer What makes you think the inventor of the tandem was a woman? Guyer Man is placed in the back ground. New York World. NOT ETERNALLY. Soulful Youth (at the piano) "Do you sing 'For Ever and Ever' ?" Matter-of-Fact Maiden No; I stop for meals." London Tit-Bits. WOMAN'S WEAPONS. "Men differ," said the feminine per-' son of varied experience. Some can De conquered with tears, but wKh others it is necessary to resort to the hatpin." Cincinnati Enquirer. NO DANGER. "I would worry less about Henpeck going to war," said his fond mother, "if he could speak Spanish. It might save his life sometime." "Don't you worry about him," snap ped Mrs. Henpeck. "He'll never get neaor enough the Spaniards to talk to them." Detroit Free Press. A NOBLE DEED. Briggs Talking about patriotism. I don't see as you've done very much for your country as yet. Callipers Oh, you don't, eh? Well, I want you to understand that I've done a good deal. My wife baked a lot of pies and cakes for the soldiers, and took them out after they had been boxed up and threw them into a brush head. Cleveland Leader. The Royal is the highest grade bskiss sowsW fcaews. Actaal testa shew it goeeoee thira farther thaa say other brass, FOVDER Absolutely Pure ftOVAL BAKIN4 POWOfR CO., MEW VOftfc. THE WHITE HODSE 17 South Main Street. groceries. Just received a car load of Morristown flour. We handle the celebrated Dove brand hams. We have prices that cannot be beaten in this city. A nice lot of country butter just In today. We know this butter and It is as good as any creamery butter. We ask you to try it. 15c.Pound. A trial order will convince you. Free delivery. F. H. WHITE 'PHONE 203. loUNDS COUNTRY HAMS. These hams are Just as fine as they possiDly can be. They are right fresh; we have just gotten them in. Ask to see them when you come in. They are sweet and good, not strong or too salt. Get supplied quick, for they won't stay long at PER POUND. Those three-pound cans pears we are selling at 10 cents are going fast. Bet ter get a dozen. Our Moca and Java Coffee at 30 cents is another one of our specials that shows it is a bargain, if we can Judge by the calls we are having for it. iW. E. JOHNSON, 420 South Main St., 'Phone 52. If You Bought- From us last month we. saved you $1.00 a barrel on regular retail price. We can save you today on ..HAY.. From $1.00 to $2.00 per ton. Two cars this week. Respectfully, H.-C. JOHNSON & CO. 36 and 38 NORTH MAIN ST. 1000 MONDAY 10:00 a. m 3:30 p. m. 8:00 p. m. We will have an auction of Children's Clothes, Hats, Caps, Reefer Jackets, etc. This will be an ex ceptionally good op portunity for mothers to get a supply of clothes for their boys find at their own price. The sales will not last very long, therefore be on hand at the hours advertised. The auction will take place in our store room, No. 50 Pattou Ave., and 7 Wm Turner will be the auctioneer. Alexander & Courtney CLOTHING, SHOES, HATS AND FURNISHINQS. Drhumor Block, 50 Patton Ave. Penniman & Kelly Contractors for Water, Gas and Sewer Work. Estimates furnished. Correspondence solicited. PLUMBING and RE- rniK wukk an impor tant feature of our business. OFFICE, 2 Legal Building. 'Phone 13. Steel Beams, Girders, and all kinds off Structural Material. ASHEVILLE 5UPPLY AND FOUNDRY CO. M1DK CT (STPFrr - r- m m Tan Oxford We are offering all of our fa oo, $2 50 and $3 00 giades of Tar pointed toed Oxford Ties on B and C widths, size 2 to 4, at $1.50 Ladjes with small feet will save money by taking advantage ' this special sale. See the samples in our window. J. O. Blanton Sz Co. 39 PATTON AVENUE. Racket Store Ne ws 30 South Main Street. In going through our Concord Muck we find a great many remnants in Summer Goods Lawns, l -rcaVs. Organdies, Etc. We put the must ,,f these goods in our 5c 'ot, and wl let them go at 5c a yard. J. PA. Stone 1 -. Mcpherson & clark CONTRACTORS FOR Steam and Hot Water lieat Plumbing, Gas Fit ting, Etc. Job work of all kinds given 1 i . r : . j t attention. The best workmen emj l y 5 Correspondence for big contracts ? licited. Estimates furnished on apj li. a tlon. OFFICE & STORE ROOM NO. 45 COLLEGE STREET, TELEPHONE 133. "Hauling All orders for draylng of any kin! will have prompt and careful attention If given ub. We are prepared to haul anything, from the lightest weight to the heaviest machinery. Leave or 3cr? at office 34 Patton avenue, or phone HL J.At. LORICK & Co. ROOFING and Siding, 1 fi ' 1 mm mm w w ,1 ft t I r A t i I f 1 t 1 rl n A A K A 1 -I A n A A A a Pair.
Asheville Citizen (Asheville, N.C.)
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