VHKY’RB numbering the* people to
day, counting the visitors “Just
for curiosity” and everybody fcs
interested in the census being made by
the board of trade. As people discuss
the tiling and conjecture how many
people there are here who do not live
here, you Will 'hear some interesting
figures. Said one of Asheville's best
Known physicians: —.
“So-and-so said lie believed there
Wen I'Ht.iHl'l people III l"rt|i. I told llitll
lie was making himself ridiculous. I
don’t believe tiler*1 an* any more visi
tor> tiian lioine-f'dks- I tiiink about
half-and-half would be the proper es
timate!" As there are -*m>h) permanent
reside tils- count '< m. uo.ooo-— it follows,
according t«* tins doi tor. that the num
ber of visitors is L'o.uoti or thereabouts.
The average iriuh who prides hitnself
Upon his eons* rvatism will tell you that
he'Ji 'is* mighty glad if there are
lint guesses of 10,00b ire plentiful. Many
are guessing 7..”»0O, some conscious that
tile wish bears a good deal of relation
ship to the guess.
IN making tlie census the board of
trade is not. *»f * ourse, acting from
niere c'urioslty. Tin* hoard wishes
to ascertain, for reasons having refer
ence to its future policy and activities,
just where Asheville is “at.” You will
remcnvlwr that, a few months ago, we
had mass meetings of citizens to dis
truss--the advertising—of the city-—at
which divers interesting speeches were
made. Some eloquently advocated aban
doning the tourist to Ids fate, and not
depending upon ldm at all. What we
needed, they said,’ was about 47 cotton
factories. I supple, tin- Idea is that,
wince cotton factories cost money, it
would sort of encourage us to know
there was money in tin* vicinity. Others
said the tourist had been a good friend
to us in tiie past, and were of the
opinion that tin* city would do well to
try and get all the tourists that, were
coming to it, to use a classical expros
»lon. The city did soifie newspaper ad
vertising, and it blew in a thousand dol
lars to give Rome editors a good time.
It Is In relation-to these facts that tbe
census of today may furnish valuable
and interesting data.
IF any colored person comes to you
and represents that lie is connected
with the Elks’ Pressing club, dis
trust him. There is an Elks’ club, but
It Is not a pressing club. The othwr
day a gentlemen who is boarding In
Woolsey lost u good suit of clothes
which ho confided to “The Elks’ Press
ing clutb.*’ A negro man appeared, and
asked if he was an Elk. He said he was.
and t*he negro then bespoke Ills patron
age. latter the gentleman's suspicions
were aroused, and he put the police to
work, with tiie result that the suit was
wpcedily located. It had been sold. The
representative of the Elks’ Pressing
club, however, is still at large. y
IT vvus on a Southside avenue car,
coining toward thevityc The young,
lady, who had at>,hlr of having
come in on the t ralrp and w ho sat near
the rear door o^thtrettr. was blessed
•with brown eygfi and was good to look
upon. These facts were noted by the
hero of this veracious narrative, who
stood with a friend upon the platform.
t*ald this hero, who is a well known
young business man of Asheville (his
remarks were addressed to his ioin
panion. but wen* obviously meant for
the brown-eyed young fa«ly to hear):
“Saw you ouf with' another brown
eyed girt the other day, John. Seems
like you prefer ’epi brown-eyed. Every
where 1 see you there's a pretty girl
with brown eyes. 1 like ’em myself.
-I?ver see one that was not as pretty ns
a peach?"
The girl ,s:t with eyes demurely
averted. The car buzzed on toward -the
aqua re. From time to time the yeung
man made enthusiastic remarks about
the beauty arid desirability of brown
Jihe car stopptd. and the young lady
GREAT ASTRONOMICAL EVENT
IS SOLAR ECLIPSE. AUG. 3D
Phenomena 1A" lift Will Accompany the
Event Places ot Totality.
The gnat astronomical event «f the
h ‘ ' r n ill be Hie total solar eclipse of
August :t«. The pathway of shadow
loKins at'sunri.'ie south of the Hudson
I iy. enters the Atlantic Ocean a shot"
tlistnnee north of Newfoundland.
- ... u ases aurrthtsua.4-.n.rft>attv itortheast
e -o'Algiers, and northern Tunis, passes
centrally over Assuan yn the Nile, and
ends at sunset In southeastern Arabia:
The duration of totality on the fate* of
Ijfbratlnr. in Spain, and at Assuan, le
two ami .i half, three and three-fourths
nod two and tin.fifths' mlnutt s r»
npectlvely. V! t in that short Interval
numb may-be Jettriietl wleh- reflat'd to
Ahe corona, that mysb r'.ius crqwn ot
pearly light that surrnnnds the sun
and call be seen utUy at the.time of a
total eclipse.
. There Is nothing of S[MViainterest
. ■ until tin solar disk Is mostly rovert d
*>Jr.tb.e «a»»a.aa it sUdSs- between the
®«n a".l the earth. Then ;a -peculiar.
idtv'ot coalite } :• Tjotlcetl in the fvppear.ano-*?
T ■ th* sty -which-becomes tinted v tth a
"Kfaylsh Into as it evening. The shad
ows Cast by the foliage begin to look
. nt-M-sual, for the light sbinrms through
: psewaiAR1 PisAPi’n ATtAxm—
J. D. Runyan, of Butlervtlle. o.,^k
the peculiar disappearance of his pall
tul symptoms, of Indigestion, and bll
ousnees. to Dr. King's New Life PH
He any*: “They are a perfect remed
lor dizziness, sour stomach, h-adach
oonsttpation, etc.“ Guaranteed at i
stores, price 25c.
L .. . I -- —-—.'r . 1
aroste and proceeded tp„ alight. “May I
1 assist you with your telescope.?" asked
the young man. with an ingratiating
smile and a Chesterfleldian bow; and he
I ..seised the article in question and start
ed to get off the car. Then the crusty
| looking fat drummer, who had been
; staring momljly mu the window, looked
up and «poke. His tones were unmusl
j < air not to say gruff, as he said:
“Here! Bring ’at thing b.u.k here;
It's mine. ’’
Then the tar load of people became a
car load of. broad smiles, giggles and
guffaws. The young map who had
[ conversed so eloquently of brown eyes
j relajmed into a deep, almost melan
| e-holy, silence.
, ----;- .
I Got to Face Mother Today
I‘ got to face mother today, fer a fact!
I’ got to face mother today!
And Jlst how I'll dare to, an' how she
will art.
Is more than a mortal can say!
But I' got to face her—I’ got to! and so
Here's a' old father dean at the end of
his row!
, And Pink and Wade's gone to the farm
' fer her now —
And I'm keepln'. house for ’em here—
i Their purty, new house—and—all paid
fer! —Hut how
AnTT'goin* to meet her and clear
I l’p tny aetchully heppin' ’em both to
I e-lola*?—
(’Cause Motlu-r wuz set—and wuz no
other hope!)
i
1 I don't think it’s Wade she’s so biased
agin,
Hut his bizness,-—a railroadin' man
'At runs a switch-engine, day out and
day in,
Aral's got to make hay while he can—
It's a dangersome Job, I'll admit -but
see whtit
A fine-furnished home *at ire's already
got!
And Pink—w'y, the girl wuz Jlst pinin’
away,—
So what could her old father do
When he found her, hid-like, in a loose
load of buy,
But Jlst to drive on clean into
The aidge of the city, where—singalar
thing!—
Wade switched us away to the Squire,
i Jing!
Now—a-leavin’ me here—they’ve drlv
off. with a cheer, ^
On their weddin' trip—which is to
drive
Straigt home afid tell Mother.—and toll
her back here
And surrender me, dead er alive!
So I'm waitin' liere—not so blame' over
ly gay
As I wuz.—’cause I' got to face Mother
—James Whitcomb Hiley, in The Read
er for September.
- "•$ --- r
A Toast
'H'.ev an* fighting .1 fot* that lurks un
Way down in t !i sunny south,
thunder than warriors tv etui
W iio fall ot too o nlion's mouth.
M.rn fx:» -liem-e strinding by,.
And s« it* not* with kindly ntein—
tooth for a tooth. an eye for un eye,
The dark and the light bit ween.
1 ightlng a terror formless and gi km
That lurks in each shadow’s fold
; hi king ..f all terrors rveii him.
With a eouia^e wondrous boM.
Miri e honor to tthe giants Unlay
Who W re Hi' Ulie.jU’l 1 tight
t.od shfHd ,t he rt on tin per 1 ms w y
Far out to safefv and 11 •;ht!
•'la 'if Built i him l,.a. 1< i>Fhiti.i
nooga. ' '
every stfn^U. spare among- the loaves,'
instead of forming a little circle on
the earth, makes a little orescent, an
’nuajfo> of the partly covered sun. Some
1 •*» minutes before ipiiiUty the darkness
begins to be "felt and a sense of uneasi
ness pervades the scene.1 Birds cease
their song and hasten to their rests
twittering to each other as at twilight,
grarhoppers cease their chirping, and
even the flowers have been known to
close their petals as at twilight.
At the same tlriie the a it; becomes de
cidedly chilly, and sometimes lew tip
pears. In a few moments, if the ob
server faces the western horizon, the
moon’s shadow is seen approaching
much like a mighty wave or a heavy
thunderstorhu —H advances wtHr-terri
fying swiftness, until it envelopes hint
as with a shroud. Where the shadow
falls very obliquely, as it doed when an
eclipse occurs neap sunrise or sans?t.
the advance ot the shadow along the
earth s surface may reach as great a
velocity as four or five thousand miles
tib1 hour. An observer named Korbos.
who onew had" tin opportunity for ob
servfi>g the nnrushlng shadow, from the
Supcrga at Turin, which comfnands a
magnificent view; giyes this thrilMng
account of his experience:. I perceiv
^ed.*^ he.says, ‘"in. the .southwest, a
black Shadow1 like t hift of A/term about
to break,’ which obscured*the- Alps, it;
j4Jva9 4thO. hthnr .shrtd<*w cunriirnr toward
; us. .1 confuse It was the most'terrify-.
1 ing sight-1 ever tuivv, As.always hap
l>ens in the case of sudden, silent,.unex
pected moments, the spectator con
i founds real and relative ihotion. I f -’i
almost giddy for a moment, as though
the massive ^VrrfiTTnTnfer iue' bowed"
on the side of the. coming eclipse.’’ -Col
lier’s-for August 26.
A wonderful tonic for tht? sick and
happiness by using , Hodlister’s ftocky
Mountain Tea. thla month. A bracing
family medicine. 35 cents, * Tea or
Tablets. . Dr. T. C. Smith.
STATE TOPICS
A charter ha* been i**ued for the I
Cleveland Manufacturing company, of
Cleveland, Rowan county, for the pur
po»e of making all kind* of veneer :
nhd thin timber, and also excelsior, '
capital $20,000; principal Incorporators,
J J. Kincaid and B. A. Knox.
L. P. Myers, a farmer who lives at
Flagg, III., near Chicago, has been In
Statesville several days looking after
farming lands with a view, to Inves
ting. He has contracted with D. F.
Jenkins to buy a. farm two and one
half miles east of town known as the
Allison place. The purchase price is
$-i.000. Mr. Myers expects to take charge
of the farm January 1st, and proposes
to make it a model stock farm.
Taylorsville £ out: A Mr. Andrews
of Yadkin’ Valley passed through Lu\vn
last Sunday on his way to Mr. William
'lantnn’s at Snow <’re«-k. Iredell nmniy,
for the purpose of h ving a mad store*
applied t.o heis little boy, who had beep,
lot ten by a mini dog the day previous.
Mr. Clanton has a stone whl h his
grandfather found in the heart of a
deer, almost a century , ago, that is
said to bo cure for the bite of* a dog
or any other animal that is mad.
Tuesday O. M. Minor, bookkeeper at
the Pilot (’ot ton mills, lluleigh. was
suddenly attacked by severe illness.
What is said to ha,ve b-en a mosquito
bite on the upper lip. under the nose,
t« thought to have caused the trouble, i
Ills fever was very high from the first j
nor would it yield to any treatment. 1
Sunday night he died. It Is thought that I
the wound made by the mosquito bite
was picked. Wednesday the great
swelling, which by that time had dis
figured tile fare, was lanced, blit blood
poison was doing its deadly work.
Cjreoii.whoro Record: There is a plan |
on fajU.. .to organize and operate a~car*- !
Huge and wagon factory on tho South- !
ern railway at the site recently occu- |
pled ;is the Carolina Spoke and Bend
ing works, with a eapital stock of J'.O,;-**,
Oof;. one half to be p Id up In three ;
n-onths, the balance in twelve months
thereafter. It is learned t ha t' $13.W0 in!
stock has already been assured, a prae- !
Ileal carriage manufacturer taking $*,- ■
“00 of this. When we contemplate that,
more than 3,000 vehicles are sold oh '
this market every ,year, the of j
"'hi h are manufactured north^Tml wes '
out of raw material groiyrf in North {
Carolina, the benefit of doing the work 1
here is potent to ail
There was a destructive fire at Mount j
♦Hive Monday night, which destroyed)
a whole/fiiock in the -business portion i
• »f tiu^ town. Eight buildings in all j
w>>fe completely swept away by the j
it ad flames, including a handsome new (
hotel, which was under construct! in. [
I The origin of the Are Is unknown. Tic*
loss S« ertftvated at 140.000, wlth.$32,000
Insurance. > The hunted district will
again be bid It up as soon is the debris
can be cleared away.
Ralfigh Times of the 22nd. Mr. |
Franklin Sherman, who has held
the lositlon of State Entomologist for
the I: st five years, has resigned, and
left last night for Canada, where he
has accepted a full professorship in
Ontario Agricultural "college. ‘Mr.
Sherman's departure will be univer
sally regretted not alone by the state
officials who were his associates, but
by the people of this entire city. He
was amon; the best posted and most
capable of the men who have been iden
tified \\,ith iCfty of the various depart
ments of the state.
Tf ;ou want a smooth, clear com
plexion, take H,< Ulster's Ro< ky Moun
tain Tea this month. Fright ryes and
red lips follow its use. 25 cents. Tea
or Tablets. Dr. T. C. Smith.
PROF. A. ONO
And Jiu-Jitsu Class at
Y. M. C. A. Building.
Prof. A. Ono, who has already trained
several men since his arrival here, will
continue to give Instruction in Jiu-Jitsu
art.' The place Is the local Y. M. C. A.
bui-ldlng. He will charge only $30.00 in
advance for the two months’ instruc
tion. Those who desire to take the
instruction see
MANAGER HIRANO
AT ONCE AT Y. M. C. A.
This class is already organized. Prof.
One Is at present instructing from .5
to 7 p, m.
OUR GROCERIES AND a AND l be
GOODS ARE
Town Talk
BRADLEY & DEPEW.
S4 North Main. Phone 613.
Pool & Billiard Room
5 New Tables
NO. 14 PATTON AVENUR
(Secand Floor.)
(Over Wells' Cigar 8tore.)
P. G. WHITE Prop
Phone 7b,.
PARKER’S
HAIR BALSAM
CImmm and Ix’jtHifiu* th* } or
Promote* a Iiii’li a Mt rr*
Never 1'aile to re* (ora Urey,
Hair to its Ybuthiul C' l". I
Curr* iwnlp rtisra*-, mt fni.i:..; {
Ae.rntl SI o■ A'
The Land of
Uneeda Biscuit
—The Modern,
Soda Cracker
Bounded on the
North by the Purity
of the Snows; on
the South by the
Nutritious Wealth
of the Tropics; on
the TLast by the
Healthfulness of
Scientific Baking;
on the West by the
Energizing Power
" of the Mountains.
NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY
Don't firftt
Graham Crackers
B^ler This Biscuit
Soda! Tea BIscnil
lemen Snaps
•vJ r*
(f
Special Attention
is directly to oar Wares in STERLING
SILVER, in which is contained absolute ■»
results of artistic competence, embody*
in* superior richness of effect, com
bined with an Individuality of general
excellence.
PRICES RIGHT.
THE THOMPSON-BRANNON CO.
*4
Jewelers and Silversmiths
52 PATTON AVENUE.
$
' >:
4
Siirtar (Earrnll'a g-iuittarimr.
la unusually well equipped for the care ul Chioniv. and .Nenvua Cases ud the"
rational, treatment of Drug and Alcohol Addictions.
The atmosphere la homelike. The number of patients limited.
THE HATH DEPARTMENT
Offers every form or Bath for Cure or Comfort. Trained Attendants Admin*
Inter MASSAGE and SWEDISH MOVEMENTS. Vibratory ifassage Treat
ments are given by competent opera tor.
V
HALTHENON BUILD’G. No. arf Haywood St. PHONE. 421
Announcement
THE BLUE RIDGE COAL & WOOD CO.
Will Be Ready fop Business ^
AUGUST 28th
With a large supply of the best Jellico
Coal from the celebrated Wooldridge Min#
“Full Weight, Good Quality,
and Right Prices.”
Offices, 48 Patton Ave. Phone 479.
Fresh laid eggs for Invalids. Each
egg dated when taken from the neat.
Price per dozen 22 to 25 cents.
HIRAM LINDSEY,
FEW
people are capable of judging
liquors and of telling spurious and adul
terated goods frflm the pure and gen
uine. Here’s where the Importance of
having the assistance of a skilled and
reliable dealer becomes apparent.
If you order liquors of any sort, of us
there, need be no thought on this sub
ject—the. quality will be- ^ Ho. 1. Our*
stock of wities, brandies, whiskies and
beers is thoroughly reliable.
. k
IVEY 6 WARD
"Th-s Buffalo"
--34LSojMth Main Street,__
Phone 830, * Asheville N, C
Asheville Transfer Co.
Show us your tickets, and «. (the n
your baggage with ' railroad check froji
'louse to destination
ASHEVILLE TRANSFER CO.
Hooded Agents Southern Raijlvny Co.
Offlce with .t’o-tnwn Ticker Office.
Where Is Moore’s Barber Shop? '
’■fv'e on Ah® square. In th« -
' Reed Building.
opposite* the Fountain. Hot. "Cold and
■WwwBatha-tft-oH. times. ■-*——..
E. W. MOORE, Proprietor:
E? C. Bollinger
merchant tailor.
Mentwether B’ldg. Haywood St.
T U M BIE
To W, W. Jackson’s
MADE-TO-MEASURE CLOTHING
14 PATTQX AVENUE,
(Wells> "Cigar Shop).
Great re,I action In flannel suits.
J. H. McGinnesST
PRACTICAL DYER, DRY CLEANING
AND REPAIRING.
NO. 37 SOUTH MAIN 8TREET /
Second floor. . Phone few.
S. I. BEAN & CO.
Stcne, Marble
and Granite.
^ATTOV AVRNUE
Good
M
Your stationery should be distinctive;
It should reflect the personality of your
firm ; it should create at once a favors
able Impression. Your letter head, card
or business announcement often *«>>«.
the place of’a personal represen Native
and should be selected with the “aTmf
care. You would not send out a slov
enly salesman; no more can.you afford
to, s.end out cheap stationery. -
Costs put ljttle more than lj(gh grade
printing, . We make no charge Tor d£
slgns, and after the first -cost of the
plate is deducted, the cost Is reduced
Asheville Printing £
Engraving Oik
11 Church St.
W. A. Steele, Manage