FRIDAY, MAY 30, 1919 THE BREVARD NEWS, BREVy^, N. C. Have You a Home? If you do not have a Home, / :ome and let us sell you one. If you do own a Home, come and have us INSURE it. / Two of the most sensible things that you can do: secure a home and protect it. GALLOWAY MINNIS Real Estate and^nsurance Agents BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA Departments—College Preparatory, Normal, Music, Business, Do mestlc Art, Household Economics. Agriculture. All departments are directed by teachers with special training and large experience. They know their business. Influences of the Institute are alone worth the cost of tuition. Opens on September 5. T’Af.t ? ,.,.^.^-.3.., wfln4M9MiaMVRVnAvusns9Kkfi3BiwcHc^^ 1 MiiT^fniwinf^ GROCERIES IF YOU WANT THE VERY BEST IN GROCERIES AND AT THE MOST REASONABLE PRICES, COME TO SEE US. WE ARE OUT OF THE HIGH RENT SECTION, THEREFORE WE CAN SAVE YOU MONEY. R. P. Kilpatrick GROCERIES, NOTIONS AND SHOES Phone 141 Near Depot. Brevard, N* C. Brevard Lumber Ce. WE HAVE IN A CAR LOAD OF THE BEST FERTILIZER NOW- GOOD FOR ALL CROPS—GARDEN AND FIELD. WE WILL SELL THE CELEBRAT- ED COON BRAND AGAIN THIS YEAR. USE FERTILIZER ON YOUR CROPS AND THEN WATCH THEM GROW. WE HAVE A FULL ASSORT MENT OF BUILDING MATERIAL ON HAND. Brevard Lumber Company FRANK JENKINS, Manager Phone 120 Close to Depot MICHIGAN ONCE HAD SLAVES Only in 1836 Did Human Chattels come Unprofitable to Their Ownsrs In That State. Few Dctrolteis of the present gen eration know that Michigan was ono?- a slave territory, or that the city of Detroit, for a period of nearly one hundred years, included a considerable number of slaves in its population, ob- seiyves the Detroit News. The early French settlors lived largely by trad ing with the Indians. At first the;; bought furs only, but each spring tlie Indians, of Michigan would make war raids into territory south and west, and they would luring back captives whom they sometimes killed by tor ture, but later they found it more prof itable to sell them to the white settlers as slaves. Most of these Indian slaves were from the Tawnee tribe. Later nogro slave.s were bouglirt in the East, principally in the state of New York. When the British took pos session in 17(*0 tliey found quite a number of slaves, Indians and negro, and they continued the practice. The census of the district in 177.‘J showed 4G men and 39 women slaves in $. com- niujiity that numbered less thfit 300 adult white men. In 1872 there were 179 slaves in Detroit. The ordinance of 1787 forbade slavery in the North west territory, but Detroiters paid no attention to this Constitutional act. There wore enough negroes in l>etrolt in 1S07. slave and free, to enable Gov ernor Hull to organize a company of colored militia. In ISIS the assessor for Wayne coim- ty made slaves taxable propi'rty, and this proved a discouragement to slave holding. liy JS32 there were only 32 slaves left in Michigan territory, and In 1S3G the last one had Ix'cn manu- niitted. Less than 20 years later Mich igan, having found slaveholding un- proli'able, became ardently abolition ist, and Detroit was converted into a terminal of the “underground railway,” through which nniaway slaves from the South found their way to freedom in Canada. ANi»iAL HEROES IN WARFARE Some Praise Should Be Spared for the Dunr\b Brutei Who Gave Their Lives for Liberty. There was one factor for victory in lh«‘ war which we overlook in passing out tlie praise and medals. To t!ie dumb animals wlio bore much of battle’s bnnit, to the horses, mules and do;:s, gr»‘at credit is due. ratiiiit, plodding, brave, obedient creatures of faithfulness I Wondi'cns fine the steed of officer, but e(iu;tlly gnind the stun^y haulers of caisson and gun carriage! Butt of limitless jok(>s, the loner- eared, loan-legg<‘d, tul'T-tailed army mule has gloritied hinisi'lf. Endless the supply trains he tu,i:ged fagging distances, across shell sweitl si»ot.s nnd through fic'rce fire. The lied Cross dog. too, and the sledge dogs in the Alps have been canine heroes, leaping into the jav.s of death (ui missions of mercy or pulli!*," jn-eclous packsleds among mountain peaks and passes. Pei-i)e(ual pasturage would be a jfis'f rewai'd for our four-footed fighters, with freedom fn)ni further work. To Fido. allot choice O^ies to gnaw and if you’d make his home dog heaven rid the world of fleas for these, the “dogs of war.” At the ejitrance of this Paradise park or preserve, place si shaft to record for i)osterit.v a tril«?ite to the war’s 42,.‘Ul aninjal dead.—Toledo News-Bee. Forecasting Storms. By means of v.Iiat is believed to be a new scientific discovery, it is claimed that weather forecasts may be made with reasonable aceui’acy two weeks in advance. As a result of research, conducted by a former chief of the weather bu reau and a representative of the Smithsonian institution. It has been found that there are rifts in the up per clouds of the solar atnu)sphere which cause a variation iu the amount of heat radiated to the earth. It is said the investigators have discovered the period of time between the pas sage of a heat rift in the solar at- mospheit a!«] the appearance of re sulting storms on the earth. It has* been found that at times these heat rifts persist for several months and that they have produced corresponding disturbances here. GREATER THAN TITUUR KING Typewriter Used As a Pendulum. In the show window of a downtown typewi-iter concern stands an impos ing looking clock more' than six feet tall. It is iittractive, but what espe cially ii.'. ii‘-s the attention is the pen dulum. 'I'lie linb Is unlike any other in the cily, bt'ing a full sized typt> writer, one that could be set up on a desk anr development in Great Britain is engairing the m:inls of many ('xpei'ts, 5im(1 it is pi-oltable that the irtiverniivvit v.ill taUe s!:n:<‘ part in the movenient. It is proposed t(* IT'tiie gn'at mineral n'sonrces o' )!i' < nntry for production of elec- tr:.- I’ or on a huge scale, and iov flic /vation and more economic rise ,*i' ihe country’s co:d resonrce.-i Th<^ iden 5-; to divide the country ini< lar;;s .^/ea^ fo:’poiver distribution. ■ President Wilson Realited He Held Higher Position Than Hereditary Monarch of Britain. Man Is a queer critter. Apparently he loves to make him a fetish, crawl In front of it on his belly aud beat h!s forehead on the ground in abject sub mission. Sinc^ the dawn of history men have made and unmade kings as easily as a child makes mud pies. They have lifted one of their number on the throne, worshiped him, trembled at his power! kissed his feet and, tiring of him, they hani^ften killed him as the ox is slaughtered. Again and again ilioy have proved that kings are com mon clay depending for their prerog atives solely upon the acquiescence of their equals, yet the worshiping of roy al personages as though they were ap pointees of the Deity has continued to this day. The grandfather of the president of the United States was an humble sub ject of the mighty British king. The president sat at the king’s table, the elected representative of the richest, most powerful nation on earth. The president addressed the king. But he did not say “yoiu’ majesty” or “your royal highness.” Knowing that the elected head of one hundred million occupies a more exalted position than the hereditary, titular and nominal rul er of forty million, knowing the hol low' emptiness of royal pomp and trap- pi!igs, knowing the character of the cojnmon clay of which kings are made, fhe president declined by humble speech to give homage where none was due, and smashed another precedent and addressed the king as plain “sir” nnd “you.”—Sunset Magazine. MIND CONTROL WORTH WHILE Not an Easy Thing to Acquire, but Its Value Is Beyond All Computation. Jealousy is a kind of misery that could be avoided if one could forcibly remove one’s mind from a hurtful subject. Anyone who has ever been jealous knows how the minely :ind better made than any we can buy In the stores.” Italy's Present to V^ilson. A gift, a cojnblnation of beauty and rarity, is to be made to President Wil- .son by the Italian government. If re ports si)eak true, the gift consists of an antique nnd beautiful painting, which has only just, come to light. The rarity, for a newly discovered painting, even if beautiful, is not ex actly an uncommon thing in Italy, con sists in the extraordin:>ry fact that this painting was made on a piece of the sail of the caravel on which Chris topher Columbus embarked on the voy age which resulted in his discovery of Anr.erica. Nothing more appropriate could have been presented to President W'ilson; certainly no discovery of a buried bit of antiquity was ever more apropos. Rhine Whines. Apropos of the whines for mercy that keep coming out of Germany— Rhine whines, as they are called— Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, of Co- lund)ia, said the other day: “Germany reminds me of a woman who, entering h r little boy in a new school. sMid to the teacher: “ ‘Lee() acres at bushels to tht acre, was Imuled in four hours fron an cl vator at Superior, Wis., Into r lake steamer. The cargp was shipped to r.-.iiT:’’'' and ground into flour by on» of ,.ic .lig mills there in four days making flour to supply 1,000,000 peopU for a month. Catarrh for Twenty Years Mrs. M. S. Davis, 1607 Ipth Ave., N. Nashville^ Tcnn., writes; •'Afiter having been a constant sufferer from cmtarrh for more than twenty year* and after try- inp almost every remedy adver tised, and having lost ail hope, I very reluctantly began the use of Peruna about two years ago. Everybody says 1 look younger nov tbnn 1 did tvrenty yearn aigo* and I actually feel younger and better, and weigh more. I am recommending it to my neigh bors and .all with whom I come in contact.” Sdld Everyirliere MADE ME WELL U^nild or Tablet Fom When you think of Electricity, think of LOFTIS. If anything goes wrong with your lights, call LOFTIS. If you need wiring done, remember LOFTIS. If you need Electric Supplies of any kind see LOFTIS. L. C. LOFTIS, Electrician. Mm p. a THIS PICTURE TELLS ITS STORY BETTER THAN WORDS. 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