TRANSYLVANIA—“THE LAND OF WATERFALLS”—2,239 FEET ABOVE SEA LEVEL
EXPONENT OF TRAN-
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SYLVANIA COUNTY.
Brevard.
Til* Aim U FmloiMs
Siacmritj.
VOLUME XXVll
BREVARD, N. C. FRIDAY. JULY 14th, 1922.
NUMBER 28.
DERltATION OF GRASS WIDOW
Term Probably It Corruption of Grace
and Comes F^om Middle
Age Usage.
How did the term “grass widow”
;arise? The most iiopular dorivation,
according to Pearson’s Weelvly, Is,
that “grass’’ is a corruptioa of grace;
the prt)n<»unclatlon of which, in tiwi
Latin, is grahse.
In tlie ^fiddle Ages widows w«re
said to be “under God’s grace" fvr a
year after tlieir husband's deatti, at
the end of which period they niigiit
properly, if tltey wislied, remarry, and
jjo a wid<iw ia grange meant a new
widow.
About tine same ■time the wives of
the uiarrdiif^s tliat were, in excep
tional cases, anuu^led by tine church,
began t* be -spoken of as widows
of gracc, Ja the innther different sense
that th«;V owed tlieir virtual widow
hood itf» the “{jKace” or favor of the
chunr-k. So, 4 hen, a grace—pro
nounced grass—widow came ti» mean
a wi.Pe, called -a widow by courtesy.
Aij<k/Jj<*r exphination is thyt, exactl,v
as w»e Slow i*efrer to a ^fituun party in a
l)Usio«tss tnimisaction as a “man of
straw,” ^*o UH unmarried woman with
u ctVifd wiio explalntMl her condition
by »x'ntion «#»f a supi'O^^edly dead hus-
was contemptuously si»okeu
as « ‘'wi(J»»v.' of gni«s.”
2k Is .in 'f.k.is sense that the phnise
ciBfiiiioii’Iy used the coiirinenT.
wi'creas in tills ejmntry the term ^.'<1*0-
eu.v’ly memis a reul wife temi»«rariJy
livjiig ;rwky from her husband.
KNEW IHOW TO RUN HIS CAR
Rotopm«in 'Resented the Help of ti»e
7«:uck Driver, and Then
Repented.
A ‘St>i«pet car approached a btipy
*l»)wnt»»ii'n cor.ier, the
«cl;.iiging hir. g>ng. A truck (Irivcr
»tepl*efl from iin front of his mnchin-'
Itarked near'tlK? t»*ack. He waved rf-
«sKiirirr;iJy s)t the mot<»nnan and
iii('asiiT»*d wiffc his hands to sigiul
sn(ft«'i<int cle;in.nce.
Tilt- inotoriii;in resented the tnick-
niaii's role trafiic director.
jrrowlKl liis resentment to a platform
Iiasson/scr.
“il flon’t n»»ed nobody to !s>«
l»*>\v tt«) run n car. I been runuin’’ ■©r»*
!(mc enough .to know when I csia :vt
bj::”
He clanged angrily toward tbe
iiexit 'c<irner where other trucks werv*
|Kirl«<yl.
-suppose i-some fool will st’fp «Kt
^lo tell me how to run my car,” 5*e
snam»ed. He glanced contemptunusly
at I; truck w his car glided toward iSS,
IUti there w*s iw> “fool to give di-
re<iKms tl»>K 'time and, to the ver>'
gpeat astonishment and chagrin of f>*e
in<*t»irirtan wiio knew “h«*w to 'ro«
’em.’ his oar -sideswiped the triKk.—
K:miius City i^tar.
A Kind Wish.
Wfren Jean went to her litt^o tieijriv
bor'5. to visit sl;e often talked I0 Mm*
grant‘ruK»tl»er t!ie house. “I have ^
gran-dmother. too.” she would -sii'y,
“but fihe’s in heaven.”
And :she .aa»d the grandmother «f tlve
house were go-od friends until <*rie day
the jrremdiiMitclier was cr<*ss. .'Sl>e
sc(»lde<3 tl»e two little girls for Seaving
the .st-SHsen door oi)en, for walking ir
a flowfr l»ed atnd dropping cruiulirs cm
the fl«Ksr*
The two y«*ngsters sought refuge
on the poiVh. 'Grandmother «?med
to follow them ffhere a little later, to
try to oaake up. She realized the
necessity of ■doiag so, for when •slie
rea<‘he<l the door -fihe heard Jean «ay,
“Huth. I wish yw»r grandmother wa«
visitin’ n>y graiadniother today.”—In
dianapolis
A Field for Profitable Operation.
Tn the northern part of Texas one
ican ride over|and for «ix days without
■ever being out <»f sight of the candel-
mia plant—a weed freaaa which a very
high grade wax is maide. Huge for-
■fimes await the men wiio will develop
the industry of wax nta'king. As yet
only six factories are <w.orking. The
<-andK‘lilla plant grows ln»m one to
three fe»?t high, and as na«^ny as 5,(KKJ
«tems come from the sauae root. It
flourtsties In the poorest s«ll, and re
produce* itself annually- The cost of
labor is low. and the sui^ply of ma
terial in^edibly vast. Tlw wax is
made by boiling and steaming the
weed- Tlte crude wax is refine^i and
used in making candle*, phoa<<graph
records, polLshes, varnishes and even
linoleum. Ami from the fibro«« waste
a food quality of paper is turned out.
a a<^
^.1
Jack Dempsey tells a listening
world that King George and the rest
of the royal family of Great Britain
are “nice looking people.” Always
the diplomat!
When one reads of the crowds v.-hich
gathered around tlK* champion mar-
bleg shooters in that Xev/ York contest
one realizes that this I’ot a yery
«*‘r50!ls-mjnu»^U no..:.
OPAL DIGGERS OF AUSTRALIA :i^3-aiE5H5?.qEa^5a5i!5'.!S'E5ebesd^.i.-.
They Live hi Burrows, Work Hard
and Now Cant Sell Their
^ Gems.
Opal is the Australian natural gem,
but latest reports from that country
show that the diggers are experiencing
very hard times, owing to the slump
in the precious stone in the European
markets.
Coober Pedy, the home of the fa
mous South Australian black opal, Is
100 miles from anywhere, and prol)-
ably the most primitive vlliafre In the
British empire. The Australian blacks
christened it Ooober Pedy, or “white
man living In a hole,” and it well de*
serves its nanm.
Of all the rough out!back jobs in
Austmlia, -dipging for opal is about
the worst. Coober Pody lies In the
heart of the Stewart range, 170 mile:;
fnmn the warest station on the East*
West railway, and its whole population
i)etwe«R 70 and SO diggers lives un*
rtergrouwd In burrows scratched out of
the Mllside. A tfn shanty, in whick
di??gers kee.p tliek- tools, is the only
si'pi '«f life showing above ground,
Eveij- morning ithe diggers come nMft
•of theiv burrow's and set out for Jthe
opal .fti'lds, to cttS. patiently through the
rock in the hope of finding ti»e b«Ku-
tifu! black diamonds lying beneatii.
Between them they have dug caany
l^dBsands of .pounds’ wortli of opal in
the last four .years, though tiiey ’have
Avwked only a snmll area of 41 field
said to be '40 miles long. In normal
times «ipal is worth $ir>0 an ounce, but
mwv that ftiere is practi<*ally no de-
'mjrnd for ;l1ie gems the di@gier.s have
•opal, 'but no tnoney.
SHAH J£HAN’S PEARL BffOSQUE
Beautiful Temple at Agra ils Lined
With White and Blue-Veined
l\Aarble.
Aimong the most beautifTil of Shah
Jehan’s sculptured monuments is the
.pearl mosque at Agra. The entrance
gateway of red sandstone ctMitrasts
effectively with the Inferior of w’hite
and blue-veined marble, says a w’riter
in Asia. An inscription In letters of
black anarble states that this mosque
may ’he likened to a ^sifi^(‘U>v.ss. peur»,
for n^ otl'<M* ino?<iue is similarly lined
wit. iiiarMe. The Iwdian Influence
upon Mohanimedan architecture of
this yieriod is evidenced in tha lotus
petal cap decorating the domes and
In the purely Hindu llziials, legitimate
XIohanunedan mosques bearing instead
the simple si)ire vlth the star and
crescent. The foliated arches come
from a Buddhist .source, symbolizing
the M'otus-leaf shaped aura around the
body of Gautama. Th<* pointed upper
folhition Is derived froni the shape of
the leaf of the fiodhi or pipul tree,
under which Gautama attained to en*
ll{?htment and Buddhahood, ajui is
commonly used In Buddhist idolatry
to indicate the nimtms arcund the
J>ead. The master htfflders of Mogul
dayiP were chiefly Imfians from Ben-
gafl, and, since thev were artists and
artisans rather than Tf>echanical work
men. mucli of the Inspiration of the
arf'Kltecture of this period must be ac-
■credhed to them.
Our Higher Institutions of Learning the Base
of Educational System
^ By CALVIN COOLIDGE, Vice President
Out higher institutions of learning are not the
apex of our system of ecliication. They are its base.
All tlie people look up to their influence and their in- 1
spiration. They must ba inider the guidance of men
of piety and men of an open mind. They must con
tinue their indispensable service to the cause of free
dom by bringing all the people unto a knowledge of
the truth.
There must be an increasing ‘reliance upon relig
ion. It is the source of all faith. It is the evidence
of the eternal purpose, and of the true power, the
true nobility of mankind. It gives a divine sanction to the authority of
righteous grAernnient, to faithful seniee through economic relationship,
and lo the peaceful covenants of international understanding. It repre
sents the only hope of the world, the only motive by which mankind can
bear the burdens ot civilisation.
The peculiar meaning of Amsrica is faith, faith in the first place
in ail international power, faith in the second place in mankind. There
arc (Ijose doubt the stability of republican institiitions. There are
those who <qwes:ft'nn the ability of a people long to maintain a democracy.
The pnogTOss of the race does not lie merely in the intelligence, phiJos-
ophy, or the art of a few, but in their possession by the many, in tiieir
geuerai «<’cf*ptan-ce.
Anwrjra lays no claim to thp discovery of the theory of freedom of
self-gcHvrmuent. Its glory lies in the ability of its people to put those
theories into ]>r»diee, not merely the power to state them but the capacity
to li'cie up to th<a t.
iThe inalrenalile right of man to life and liberty and to be protected
in t"r»e enjoyment of the rewards of his own industry have their source in
religion. 1'he Tights of nmn as man, the dignity of the individual, find
thi'jrlT justification *11 thst source alone. Whenever its tesehings w'ere fully
atSmiitted, tlie iv^t foll(\wc(l a.< a matter of course. It was religion that
Gsane first; thvii the esiablisliment of free government.
With th?se then} <*aitie the opportunity for a general education, for-a
I'iTuadtT s(‘rvi(v by l!)e institutions of higher learning, which ushered, in
•. !ie age of s»-ieiice. resulting in the great material prosperity. These w’ere
the institutions ivhidi Americans built up and supported out of their
laitli in an etcniai purpose and out of their faith in mankind.
TP t; .j r~T.y7?5g57!SE5'E.?5S?FH5Hb c^b ^ tiScEESHS dS? d57555H5E5E
Federal Government Control of All Game and
Fish in Western States '
WAITS, /IMPERES AND VOLTS
Termi Commonly Used by tlie Elee*
trician Are Explained for
the Layman.
Th« language of the electrician Is
Greek to most people. Wliile he talks
glibly of volts and amperes and watts,
they know' only that they have to pay
an electric-light bill for so many units,
and l<?t it go at that, remarks a London
TIt-Bits W’riter.
Though electricity is not a fluid, we
can understand most of its terms by
comparing it with water flowing
through a pipe. If we turn a stream
of water onto the paddles of a water-
wheei, the work that tlie wheel will
do depends upon two things—the
amount of water delivered every sec
ond and the pressure of the stream.
We measure the first in gallons and the
second in pounds.
In the case of electricity, we meas
ure the rate at which it flows in am
peres and Its pressure In volts. The
work which it will do is found by ihul-
tiplying amperes and volts together,
which gives the answer In w’atts, or
units of energy.
The board of trade xmit is 1,000
watts, often called a kilowatt, while
the electrical equivalent of one horse
power is T46 watts.
You will find the number of watts
they require engraved on most electric
lamps, and from this you can discover
what they will cost to use. A 25-watt
lamp v>-ill use one unit of 1,000 watts
in 40 hours’ burning; and if electricity
j costs tenpence a imit, the lamp will
work out at h farthing an hour.
[ The ohm is anot’aer electrical meas-
ncgyiient which ca;i lie understood by
n comparison with water. Water flows
easily througli a large pipe, but if the
j pipe is narrow, only a small quantity
I can force its way through. What the
p’’pe is to water, the wire Is to elec
tricity. The smaller the Avire, the
\ more difiicult electricity will find it to
pass, because the fine wire resists its
flow. Tlie electrician measiires wires
hy their resistance in ohm.s.
The
hmm
(Copy for Thla Department SnpplieA 1
the American Iicsion News Service.)
PAYS TRIBUTE TO THE SOUTH.
Cspt. George Shuler Passes Com
mand of Marines in Parade to
South Carolina Officer.
Proving that the Civil war formed
a nation and that the .sons of the
Confederacy and'
the Union hold
no malice, Capt
George K. Shuler
of Lyons, N. Y„
whose forebears
wore the Unfon
blue, thought
tlmt it would be
most appropriate
that a Southern
er should take
his place as com
mander of the
marines In the
parade at tlie unveiling of the Grant
memorial. Accordingly, he selected
Cupt. Tiiomas P. Cheatham of South
Carolina, whose folk fought against
Grant in the struggle between the
states for the honor.
Shuler had a notable record with
the marines during the w’ar. He
ceived the Croix de Guerre, Navy
medal. Distinguished Service medal
and citations from Marshals Foch and
Petain, General Pershing and General,
Lejeune. /
LIGHTHOUSES MURDER BIRDS
THE SAN JACINTO DAY FLOAT
f 1
Time Called on the Mayor.
Mfifit people who nitet Mayf>r Ora
T>av;>E of Terre H'lute are impressed
iby *hi« huskine.ss. He Js proud (»f his
.•strength, and tells stories galore of
the tests to which it was put back in
<fta;j s when people ’osed stoves in-
i»tead of furnaces.
Tl»en Davis was a popular man in
his b«mie neighborhwiil. !n early
■!«prin¥: and late fall he received first
Invitations to the raising and lower
ing <*f «t»ves, even to tie one he at
tended tme morning on a day labeled
“April jSie First.” After having l)een
told a jneighbor wishtid him to
help take down a stove. Ora Davis
rushed ititere and was beginning to
take dow'n the pipe preparatory to re
moving tlw ftove, when some one hap
pened to remind him of the date.
“But I wwild have had that stove
down in a few minutes if t^iey hadn’t
called timt*,*' the laughs at the end of
the story.
By ^ G. PARVIN, Colorado State Game Commissioner,
The federal ^'overnment will gain control of all game and fish in the
■wostern states if the federal public shooting grouRd and bird refuge act
ip pa.‘isod hy iwiiieress. As set out in a resolution of the Western Asso-
^ciation of 8tak! (lame Conimi.‘;sioners, the secretary of agriculture has
exclusive and tiisoliitc; jurisdiction over the entire field covered by the
bill, with one-evcL‘j)tion.
This exception provides that the attorney generft.1 of the United
‘States shall prtss u])on the titles to properties acquired for game refuges
and public slwotiiig grounds. A special comniittee of seven will be
authorized to |wiss upon the lands and waters to be acquired.
Under this act a refuge“^ould not necessarily be a public shooting
..ground area, h«t «)n the contrary, it is reasonable to suppose that shooting
•would be entirely prohibited in the lefugcs. The $1 license fee to the
•s^overnnient will have to be paid whether one hunts in public shooting
jjjroi’jids belonging- to ths federal government or aDywhere eh;e in the state.
^The Women's Vote Will Play a Greater Part
In National Elections
Thousafld« of Feathered Migrants
Perish Yearly, Death Toll Be
ing Greatest in Fall.
Every spring lighthouses destroy
nuiny thousands of birds flying be
tween their winter homes in the Soutli
an<l tl*fir sunmier homes in the North.
Tlie death toll is greater in the fall.
Lighthouses stand every few miles
along the 3,000 miles of Atlantic coast,
but those especially destructive of
birds are tlie lights on the Fowey Rocks
Hiul Sombrero Ke> :it the south end of
Florida. This is because of the char
acter of their lights and their position.
Countle.ss birds pass each year to
and from Cuba, and these lights, at
tlie top of higti towers, are on much-
triveled, “^pigration routes.” The light
on Fowey RocIjs is a fixed white light,
which is curiously deadly to migrating
birds. A flashing liglit frightens birds
away, and a red light is avoided by
them, but a steady white light looming
up in the mist and darkness attracts
many of tlie night-traveling birds. Gen
erally they do not strike against tlie
windward side of the glass of the
light, but they fly around tn the lee
ward side and wear themselves out
fluttei'ing in the bewildering vnys.
Leoionnaires* Display Proves Prize-
winner at the Anson (Tex.) Cele
bration hield April 21..
Outside of the Lone Star state, peo
ple don’t do much celebrating on San
Jacinto day. Down in Texas, however,
the school children and everybody else
take a holiday on April 21. It is the
anniversary of the battle of San .Jacin
to, where Col. Sam Houston, w’ith 750
soldiers, put to flight 5.000 Mexicans
and took General Santa Anna and
«>ther notables of the Mexican army
captive. ^
This year, the American Legion in
all parts of ^xas took part in the cel-
«txejca«
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Logging «ti Western Hills.
In the Wesf htgging caaups are
mostly situated iin the hills and the
heavy Uiads of l«y^rs have to be hauled
out. always downhill. Often that
helys to make th<* hauling ea«y, but
sometimes the grades are so steep
that it Jiiakes it too c*asy—so ea«y that
it entails f’ifficulty. Indeed, in these
instances the term kauling is « mis
nomer. for that i:iiplies pulling the
load, and the operati<m actually con
sists in pushing againist the load in
stead of pulling it. Two and a half
miles of sim-ially constructed track
Is use«l at one Western logging camp
for transporting heavy loads on a
latge motortruck down a very steep
grade. The truck, described in Popu
lar Meclianics, in j-tx-wheeled, and has
powerful brakes on its f<mr rear
wheels. These l>rake« are controlled
exHiisively by one man. while another
takp.s care of the driving and steer
ing.
By MRS. FETER OLESEN, Dem. Candidate for U. S. Senate.
~i
The Indiana and Pennsylvania primary election
results are typical of w’hat will probably happen west
*of these states.
In my campaigning thus far in Minnesota I have
been astonished by the prairie fire spread of independ
ent political thought. It is not a matter of parties.'
Party lines are falling away. People out here aie less
tied to party strings than they have been at any time
in the last twenty years. They pride themselves on
reading both sides of a question and framing their own
conclusions. They are independent in their judg
ments. Today not only Indiana and Pennsylvania voters want a change.
Anything for a change, they say. How often have I heard this in my
trips throaaghout the state. I have found widespread dissatisfaction with
the present congress everj^vhere.
In the elections in Minnesota this fall I believe many voters will
forget partiefi and vote independently for tlie candidates they think will
honestly represent the common interests of the great majority.
The amazement of the country at the way wcmen are using their
franchise will grow. The women’s vote is going to plr.y a greater part
in the selection of go^mmental representatives with the passing of
everv year.
.. .7 I
The women found the vote a new thing two years ago. They wers
probably, in most cases, governed by the advice of men. Now they under
stand voting and they teali/.e tliat the franchise is the citizens’ badge of
sovereignty, and wlien alone in the voting booth with their conscience
and their God, they will vote right, as they have the light to see the right.
Here in !^^^nTlesota the League of Women Voters is a great help.
Men voters have no siuiilar organrzation that helps them as unselfishly
and as intelligently as does this organization. It stands for no party-
organization. though it deals with the leading political questions of the
day. It stands for v.-i;:it is lest in civic life.
A Fable of Russian Rubles.
Here is an incident of the regime of
the soviet, says the New York Trib
une. A certain inhabitant of Moscow
who had succeedefl In saving a few
rubles decided to go into business,
and so converted his fortune into 500
kilos of sugar, whicli he sold again.
The operation was so gt»od that lie
fo/ind himself in possession of sev
eral million rubles.
Again he bouglit sugar, but this time,
though his capital had become tenfold,
he could buy only 400 kilos, because
meanwhile the price of this commod
ity had considerably increased. He
sold it again, and his fortune readied
hundreds of millions of rubles. This
he once more invested in sugar, but
got barely ^>00 kilos, the sale of which,
however, considerably Increased his
fortune. Thus lie continued to buy
and sell, until one day, when he had
hundreds of millions of soviet rubles,
he could no longer buy more than one
lump of sugar. ‘ Then tit' was com
pelled to pawn it to buy a rope and a
nail with which to liang himself.
..ogionnaires' Prize Float.
ebration of Colonel Houston’s victory.
The Legionnaires’ float in the parade
at Anson took first prize for being the
best dccorateil (»f the scores that were
seen on San Jacinto day.
FOCH PRAISES AMERICAN WAY
What Our Soldiers Protect.
In comparison between the national
wealth of the I’ni'ed States and the
number of soldiers now maintained in
tlie regular army, each American sol
dier is charged with affording protec
tion and natiornl security to .?1.7o5.-
597 of the $3:i(i,(K)0.000,000 total of
the national wealtli. Likewise, eacli
soldier Is at present protecting 27>
yquare mik.s of territory of the main
land and dependencies, and giving
1^48. of the people of the country se
curity against foreign interference
with tlieir constitutional riglits. AH
this at a cost of $3 per capita of
poiiulation.
Pride of France Well Pleased With
Enthusiastic Welcomes Through
out the Country.
Marshal Foch of France, has given
('oinmandant de Mierrj', formerly
of liis staff, the task of writing the
ii:iuvssi(ms of the generalissimo on
i.is recent visit to America as the
:c St of the American Legion. Marshal ’
fich lias made it a life-long rule not
to write for publications of any sort.
In speaking of liis trip across the
American continent. Marshal Foch
said: “There was ahvays the same
entliusiasm, the same warmth, all
through the weelTs thr t I travelled, no
matter whether we v/ ;-e In the West,
the North, the Soul’ or the East. No
matter what the v >ather, thousands
of men, w'omen and children were al
ways ready with a cordial greeting.”
The Marshal paid an especially high
tribute to the “cordiality and friend
ship of the American Legi<m,” which
he said, “rendered easy the journey of
more than 20,000 kilometers in forty-
five days.”
The Permanent "7.''
"You are having a great deal to say
in affairs of government just now.”
“Of course I have,” answered
Farmer Corntossel. “I represent the
fellers that raise the food. It doesn’t
make no difference how many fancy
problems come up fur discussion, the
populace always gits arqnnd to the
one Irasic question:' ‘When do we
r.fi