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The; Daily; Gazette; pumshh) mil imm'mrn mqndafs f ASHHVTLLE. N. C THE ASHEVILXJS GAZETTE PUB-'-. LlSHING COMPANY . - I JAMLs E. NORTON, President. FEED A. JOHNSON, Secretary .y,.- ., : tfU B8CRIPTION BATES : - naUy. One Year.. $4.00 Daily, Six .Months. . ... .... Daily, Eleven .Weeks. . . .; Daily, One Month. Daily, One Week... ... v Weekly Gazette, One Year... -Weekly Gazette, Six Months. , 2.25 1.00 .40 .15 1.00 .60 tvom -reAncpi fates, are for subscriptions paid POSITIVBLY IN ADVANCE. All j t-rejn. 8u.hsrcriDtions will be charged, at the rate of 15 cents a week for -whatever, time they anay run. The Gazette 4s .delivered in Asheville, Tictoria and; Biltmore by carriers at the regular subscription rates. Witlhin these limits of teri.ory the paper may be or dered by letter, postal card or telephone, and 'the subscription price paid to the earner. TELEPHONE 202. Day and Nfglit. A POINTER No one nowadays conducts business in the old fas'hicned ways' not even in the. Drug (Business. Years ago Druggists ang very low abotft prices; to-day the best pharmacists 'buy direct from the manufiac turers, save freights and jobbers' promts, and "Bell to 'customers at OUT-!RATE' FRIOES. Such methods' are in vogue at PELHAM'JS PHARMACY, 24 PATTON ,AVE - - GOOD ROADS. New Jersey is (like North Carolina in the possesiotr of much red clay soil but there the comparison ends. More practical work Is being done In New Jersey in the direc tion of good roads than in any other state of -the union, and for that reason it flias been selected by tbe postoffice department for tbe experiment authorized by congress of free delivery sys'em In the rural dis tricts. The movement was begun in 1893 by tbe organization of a highway improve- rnemt association and the passage of a law l Z. . I imposing upon the state one-bhird of the cost of good roads coustruoted under the direction of a sta'te road commissioner. Un der this statute 238 miles of macadamized roadway has been constructed at an ex pense of $466,595 to tlae state and upward of a million dollars to the counties and the property owners. People can -now trav el upon a hard mudless highway in all junas oi weainerj it is sona ana smootn as a boulevard from Jersey City to Atlan tic City and from Piaterson to Camden. In New Jersey opposition to the old sys tem has almost entirely died out and the -applications for state assistance are so nu anrous tihat tbe appropriation will be in creased from $100,000 to $300,000 this year. eave more than Khe amount of their tax es in repairing their wagons,, harness and In horse, shoes; without considering the wear of the animals and the economy of time. The road commissioner of New Jer sey; whose tact aind abilithave done much to promote, the movement, puts a practical lesson in mathematics before the farmers. -"It cost 9 cents a bushel," he, says, "to ship wheat from Chicago to New York, a distance of 900 miles.. It costs three" cents a bushel' to haul wheat on a level road a distance of five miles and on a saindy road it would cost at. least nine cents per mile to i haul it The saving on a bushel of wheat with good roads for & disnce of five miles would be about equivalent to that of 375 miles by railroad. One mile' of good .road would make a saving equal to seventy-fivi miles of railroiad transportation. Thus ev ery imile of good roads places the producer seventy-five mlfles ! by rail v nearer to the markets. .It is estimated that the cost of hauling 700,000,000 tons of farm products to .market is $2 per ton,-or just about $1, 400,000,000. : If. is 'also estimated that a bout sixty per cent, of this last amount, or $840,000,000, Would be saved each year if farmers were able to do this hauling over '; good roads. These statements show the ' importance of' good roads. The reaf;ost-df " transportation : that (burdens our agricultu ral classes',; he says, "ds the part of It be- tween the 'farm "and t the town or railw.oy :; toad roads is one of the greatest wastes' of entrgy connected 'with - farming as , it is carried on in this country." .'',. ; f. Gen. Stone. , the (national good' roads com- mdssloner, i has .been trying to the get the people of New Jersey to" try the steel track v systn; as he argues that it will save four- fifths of thet power - now exerted to haul ' lloads overmacadiiumy. roads.-; The compul eory use of (broad tires is also (recommend . ed. Last' year the legislature passed a law -'relieving from road; tax tall persons who ' Would use tires not less than- three and a half " inches wide upon their wagon, hut It was etced by ' the governor becaute It appKtd o cities is wellas toihe country. 1 It, will be amended and passed again (this year" ' , . . AW BNG0JISH . ' VIEW l OB", AELBRiEaAN - , ri&AILJtOAOS,'' j " -" Poor's Manual :of the' Railroads of the Und ted S tates, . for 1897, published , in : Lon don," -gives ome significant facta and . fig ures. The financial ; figures . of . course are given inpounds and pence ' which makes them somewhat more difficult of i compre hension for American readers, ?ut hescqm paratlve results are plain enough: to any body. We find' that the number of pas isengers carried by British railways is. not far off from double that; which , tie United States lines return (930,967,736. to, 535,120, 756), but while in Great Britain the freight traffic (hardly equals the passenger i traffic in profit, in' tlhe United' States freight pro- duce almost -three times as much, gross in- come as do passengers , (one hundred and fifty-four millions -against y fifty-three). The net earnings in. the United 'States are not quite 30 per cent, against 44 i per cent in the United Kingdom. , j . To compare the financial returns of dif ferent sections of the United States the Manual divides the railways by groups of states. Putting aside the bonded debt the average returns per cent is as follow on capital stock: - 1. New ' England! States (Maine, . New Hampshire, Vermont V Massachusetts, 'Rhode Island a. d. and Conraiecticut) , . . . . . . .. 4 12 4 2. Middle States ('New Yolk, New Jersey, ; iPennisylvania,. Dela- ware, and Maryland): ...... .12 7 9 3. Central (Northern States (Ohio, "Michigam, v Indiana, Illinois . ' and Wisconsin) ... . . ... .... .I.f 2 '5 0 " 4. Northwestern States (Iowa, . Minnesota, Nebraska, North ' Dakota, South" 'Dakota, Wy- r oming and Montana) ... ...j. 1 3 7 5. Sou ill-Atlantic States i (Virgim'-i, Wtis-t Virginia, North Oaro'i na, South Carolina, Florida and Georgia) ......... J. 0 9 5 6. Southwestern States (Missouri, Arkansas, Texas, Colorado ' and New Mexico) i . 0 17 . 7. Gulf ' and Mississippi Val'ey States '((Alabama, Tennessee Mississippi, Kentucky and v Louisiana) ; .- L . 0 0 4 8. Pacific States (Washington, Or egon, California, Nevada, tAr- V. izona, Utah and Idaho) . ; J. r 0 0 2 Commenting on tihe above the Ltondon Spectator says, "The results of groupsi 5 to 8 are. deplorable in. tbe extreme. Of course it is quite arguable that dt pays, to contsruct railways before there is a pop ulation to use them and make; them suc cessful; and that any country which does not want to be left behind in the com petition must do it, however ! heavy the burden which the work may .impose. This is perfectly true, but unfortunately the re turns do not show the progressive increase which the argument demands, j The really ominous ' fact about the finance of the A merican railroads is that5 it shows on. tbe whole less favorably now than it did' fif teen vy cans ago." I John J. Bealm, of the New! York State Employment Bureau,', said recently that it was clfar from sta'istdcs in his possession tihat there was not half enough work for iall the wage ; earners in the state. The quarterly report of the Carpenters and Join era unions and 1,000 other labor organiza- tivDA haHth1 1ti TArr mwiritpr nt New . ' . , , . . . York, showed, he said, that fuliy sixty per cent, of their actual anem'be'rship was un employed between the months of March ; and July of last year. ' When Governor Russell is asked5 -to ap point Jim Moody criminal count Judge, ; then, will occur ..something more than a single clap of thunder and flash of light ning. Cyclone cellars will be in demand when that tdme comes. ' TOPICS OF TODAY. Both to Georgia and in Mississippi the experiment of. 'estabHishing textile schools has been inaugurated.' In the Manufactur ers' Record ts a quotation firom Governor McLauren, in which he says: "I recom mend, in addition to the regular, appropri ation for the Agricultural and Mechanical college, that you make an i appropriation for the ensuing two years uiffJclent '"to es taibHsh a textile department. We. cannot expect , to add . a textile department .on . a mammoth scale .like the textile school in Philadelphia, but the state may add a de partment of this character by the appro priation of $10,000 for the two years; from which It will be amply repaid for the out lay. Young men of the state learn the art and science of manufacturing in their own state, and the very fact of having home. men who are prepaired to manage and con duct manufacturing establishments Will en courage the'buiiMlng of 'factories and stim ulate home investments; and this,'-in turn, will; retain such young men In the state, Instead of letting 'them go abroad for em ployment." , ' , fThe latest with ref erenice to the Stanly county 'bond case d that 'there is disagree-r ; . .- . - -.v - 4- - . v ment Ibetween the - couiruty j conumdsus jners and their attorneys about the payment of the fee. The comimliisioners agreed to pay the attorneys aee of '$12,000, provided- they should win .the case. Theatcorneys claim that their fee, is now due, iwhile the com missioners claim that if suit Is" brought in the United States , court, they "ought not to pay the lawyers until; the case i shall -have 5een.disposed,of inthe court. iA contem porary remarks tthat it wouldbe a great joke on ahese lawyers If J after they had secured the repudiation of the Stanly bands the Stanly commisisoners- should - repudiate their fee. ' ' - ' , ' -a If the newspaper reports be ; true, Con iul General .Fltzhugh Lee; has received a most distin&uished tcompliimeniti ; from the adminiis-tration. It'ls glvn . out that' Gen era! Lee has carte blanche to summon war ships, to Havana; whenever he , may deem i t necessary so to. do, .without even .confer ring with the government lat . ; Washi ngtoni That the administration has vunlbouded con denoe tn 'hds discretion and: "ability and has given him fuller powers than have recently been given' to 'any repcesentatlve of the government. . General Lee fl is ,not I only , a UipivICa L, -LfUiu a, Bwviici, j and in 'every -way worthy of ;thiatrust. Richmond Times. , - ; 1 " " ' jj i r " For some inscrutable reason or other the solce of each "century . has been signalized by manifestiaMoh8 of violence and of tem porary' suspension of tbat cool .reasoning power and common sense which contribute more than anything else to keep, the human passions, especially those,: of c the masses, uajder' control. It is perhaps on that ac count that the peopieof America are called upon to witness a revival Just ait present of one of the most Illogical forms of me diaeval prejudice, namely ; anti-Semitism the only difference being that, whereas the Jews were- hounded formerly on the pre text that they were responsible for the crucifixion -of the founder- of Chrttstia-nity, the Hebrews of today are assailed by rea son of their superior business abilities, as well ; as because they have acquired a greater degree of prosperity and acquired capital to a larger' exten t than -their Chris tian fellow citizens.'; At no time" during the -present century has anttd-Semitism played so important a role inthe political and; social affairs of tthev various countries of Europe as; at . the - present, moment. Ney York Tribune. ; ;. .. Mr. (Richard H. Edmonds, editor of the Manuifaciturers' Record, in a letter to -the New York fiun speaks these words of cheer as to our future: ' "Starting without capitaj, and without experience, .the south has already practical ly monopolized the coarse cotton trade and is pushing into the finer goods with a de termination to capture that line. The world's needs are growing. Increasing weakh of the masses increases the require ments! per capita- of cotton goods. The ex tension of civilization into the dark places of the "world opens , new fields lor cotton goods. Civilization''s advance is measured by the increase in cotton consumption. 1 his increase must go on constantly, and the 9,000,000-'bale' crop must be exceeded before many years 'by crops of 10,000,000 and. then 11,000;000 and then 12,000,000, as the world's ever-increasing requirements shall demand. "With, this growth, and even more rapid ly thaa this, will the cotton , manufactur ing in teifcsts of the south develop. Whila the increase in 'the nuarlber of spindles in southern mill'si from 667,000 in 1880 to 4,- 000,000 in 1897 -was taking place, the in crease in the rest of the country was !rcm 9,986,000 to 13,000,000, the gain in the sou th being about 500 per cent, and in the whole country outside of the Eouth about 3'0 per cent. In 1880 . the south -hid one - fifteenth of the number of spindes in the countryj now it has nearly one-fourth of the number. Cotton mills are probsib' the most popular form of investment for lo.al capital in .the Carolinas and Georgii." DESERVING . tff'a place on your table are the many eas ily prepared and easily digested Cereal Foods which we carry in stock. For Breakfast dishes and light luncheons they are especially recomimended. Their nour isMng quailiuies are not to be measured by their cheapness. JENKINS BROS. Spot Cash Store. 1 45 South Main Street, 'Phone 125. The Carroll House, furnished, if taken at. once. Two other furnished houses, well located. Two small unfurnished houses. - J. II. Weaver Box 244. No. 45 Pattom avenua. V 19 North Main Mem "'' ' 'v-.lf Sm&ij&ffi $M ' PUKITY jIlRi j ja Why buy Claret Wines, of a doubtful, qualitywhen you can , p:et H0YT,S ENGADINE" pure Yines for the same prire or cnapr AiYour ph,vs1iciariiU tell you that.Hoyt's Wines are purb,- He can riot sav this for any other Clarets. ' We arf Soe A grants for Hoy t's. Wines,- r ' - ''" 4 Ballantine & Sons' Newark, JS. J.: and Porter on draughK Ball an tine's Bottled Canada Malt Ale. , -Ballantine's '.Bottled Extra India Pale Ale. Ballantine's Bbttled Brown Stout. Try them. Imported Ales andPorter. Saratoga Excelsior - Wafer on draught tbe water that made Saiatoga famous: We are" the leaders in all the most popular brands of Imported and Do mestic Whiskies and. Wines; - -:- Resnectfullv -v . - - - - - i- V tn r -; PHOJME 152. CJBree Delivery in the.&iiy andjicinitjr My Store Is a Combination' of thfe ; ;i ? ; o ; - I ': ; ' ; i 6ooPage Ledgers arid Joiirnals $i w!each 500, Page Counter Books for 50c. Hurd's Titian Papeterie 25cThree colors My lb; Paper 25crbox, Engraving of Visiting Cards and "-L ' ' Eff"Any Bbok not in stock supplied in a few days. ' ; W I51 R il FARDFIlZC Late of r oj this is just one of the many in Furniture I. 16 PATTON EMEMBEB w Williamsoii Kubbers and Dmbrellas at reasonable prices. eavy Soled Lace Boots at $3 and $4 a pair will keep your feet warm and dry. ' , OT. ID. BLTOnST" &CO. ' 39 PATTON AVENUE. Opera House Friday, Jan. 28, SECOND ANNUAL Grand Prize Cake Walk AND Plantation Presentation. PABT I. Plantation Scenes! Plantation Songs! Plantation Dances! By-jpO Southern Pickanninlesj The Old Fashioned ; Southern take Walk I Prices, 25, 35 and 50 Cents. Reserved Seats now on sale. " R. . SMITll, ;.. AiHiDiHrjirirEfir. Paragon Bldg. 'Phone 283. Mcpherson & clark DEALERS IN Stoies, Tinware and Honsd . V FnrnisMng Goods, Sanitary Plumbing, Steam and hot water fit ting, hot air furnaces, tin and slate roofing and gal vanized iron cornice. 45 College Street Telephone 1S3. Grand GUAEAETEED :b"Z" tihie: St. and 7 W. College St., Frank Useful and the Beautiful." Octayo; and Commercial sizes. Monograms; Glass and China Orna- 18 South Main St. For the Next 30 bays We will have a house full of BARGAINS. For instance, look at this Corduroy Couch with full spring edge for Six Dol lars and a Half. And bargains that we will offer and Carpets. Go. AVENUE. WE CARRY A LARGE STOCK OF $xx$xS $X$X8X$X$ It costs but a tew cents to adver tise in the People's Column of the Gazette, and il you advertise any thing any'body The returns are sure to he large. If you have. Rooms to . Rent, a House to Let or to Sell, or if ' you desire a boarding place, or rooms, or a house to suit your fancy, try a "Want" in the Gazette. Situation 'wanted, Half Price. $x$$x$x$ 3xkS$ BOOKS From th'e smallest Mem. to the 1000 Pae, Full Bound. Demy Ledger. Journals, Days, Cash. Every description of binding. We will sell 'any kind of a blank' book , at a very close margin Merthants would do well to ex amine bur stock before making their selections. MOSi&AFS BOOKSTORE. - STIES Asheville, N. C. Blarik i O'Dohhell, : PROPRIETOR? , Slot ?News. 30 South Main Street. ,v We.ave a lot 0f Good,; Medium and Fine Quilts that most likely -you will need during February and March. Please remember this, jr. m. TOMisa Any one wanting to get J M Lorick to do hauling will please call at 34 Patton Ave., the old stand, No change ex cept the phone, which is 141. M. LORICK 34 PATTON AVE! Wine! Wine! At 50 Cents Per Gallon In lots of five or more gallons. ADDRESS THE PAC0LET GKAPE JUICE CO. SOUVENIR SKETCHES SOUVENII SKETCHES (to Water Color.) Local Scenery and Character Studies. Room 83, Temple Court, Patton Avenue. The New- EUREKA Camera, a genuine Kodak, made by the Eastman company. It holds . six glass plates, 3 by 3 inches in size. It has a fine lens, takes splendid picture and those sold are delighting th purchasers. - - B. H. COSBY, The Reliable Jeweler, 27 PATTON AVENUH. Walter S. Cushman, (Successor to Cameron & Cushman.) Real Estate Broker, 17 Paragon Building. Corner of Patton avehiue and Haywood St. ALL. KINDS OF REAL ESTATE TO SELL AND TO RENT. FURNIfeHED HOUSES. SPIRITUALISM. Prof. Maurice, Trance and Healing Medium gives a free consultation to til who de sire a reading. I answer'sealed messages while in a dead trance. Tells your nam. Names of friends or enemies. Unites ch separated, causes happy and speedy mar riages witn the one you love. Tells what business you are best fitted for. Art you unlucky? Come and have it changed, be come happy and prosDerous. If sick, de spondent, or. in"- trouble. I can and will help you,; Begin the new year right by consulting PROFESSOR MAURICE. Re member you-.pay nothing unless I give full satisfaction, Hours 40 a.m to 8 p. m. THE ALDINE, 53 College St Sundays by "appointment. ; ECONOMY in taking Hood's Sar 8apanlla, because -lOO doses one dollar? is peculiar to and true only of the One True BLOOD Purifier. THE CHEAPEST Irk For Sale Through AXIVCOAL DEALERS AND Eactet' $4 ALL GROCEBZ STORES - t, . - . - , , "r. , ; - which have a 'phone.
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