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ASHEVILLE GAZETTE-NEWS
ll is die linest ahortening on llic mirket, one with j 'rfN"3fce3K
SPOKE LAST WORDS TO BOOTH
BEFORE LINCOLN WAS KILLED
ll is die lines) shortening on die market, one with
which poor cook cannot lail. and with which the
culinary artist will establish a reputation lor any table.
Snowdrift Hogless Lard il I). S. Inspected and
Paaaed, and is sold by the leading dealers everywhere.
Avoid substitutes just as you would " bad money."
"SNOWDRIFT" fa the pionrer ol its kind. It has been
"snow-imitated" and "anow.laked" all over the country,
so be carelul to specily " SNOWDRIFT HOGLESS
LARD." the Standard American Shortening. Made l y
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THE SOUTHERN
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New Orleans
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MUD FROM TENNESSEE
INTO WATAUGA COUNTY
Work Begun About Three Weeks Ago
Intended as Coal-Field-to-Const
Short Railway Line ?
Just a few days ago, The Watauga
Democrat heard of a railroad belay;
built fr- hi Elizabeth, Term., to and
Into Watauga rounty. J. F. Da vis of
Butler. Tel. ii.. writes t.i the Democrat
that the report Is true "The work
begun two weeks ago last Monday."
ay Mr. Davis, "and they have graded
some distance already. They are pre
paring to put seven hundred pound
rails on the road, which is to tie stand
ard gauge, and it is said they propose
to use 70-to.n engines. They are keep
ing on the east side of the Doe river,
after they get a mile or two above
i Kllzabethton and turn up a stream to
the left of Hampton, and, it Is said,
propose to build the road to Banner
Klk and possibly to Boone and Cook's
Gap. or to Coffey's Cap." Mr. Davis
does not think that "a company would
ise such heavy rails and engines, or
build a standard gauge road just for
the purpose of hauling lumber."
The Charlotte Chronicle comments
as follows on this piece of news:
"IClizubethton is on the line of the
road oil the way to Montezuma, the
Linvllle City station. Two brunches
of the Southern Railway run out from
it. The town Is not over 2Ii miles
from the Watauga line, and Is near
the month of the great gorfj of the
Doe river. That this road is bein,r
built Into Watauga county Is news of
a very important nature. Its probable
route would be through Boone l"
Coffey's Gap. where the Carolina i
North Western would make connec
tion with it, making the most direct
line of all to the coal fields."
An iconoclast is a man who knocks
our pet theories into the middle of
next week.
Famous Soldier, Who Fought With Lee
and Stuart, and Surrendered at
Appomatox Found Dead.
His Lire Contained Material For Li
brary or Adventure and Romance
Once Faced Furious Mob.
Alone in his room at the old Mar
shall home, 1105 Seventeenth street
northwest, Sidney F. Marshall, the
last male descendant of one of the
oldest families in Amerb a. a friend ol
two heroes of the civil war. and one
of this city's most prominent lawyers
died early Monday morning of heart
disease, says the Washington Host.
The attac k w r unexpected, coming as
it did while .Mr. Marshall was appar
ently In perfect health. His body was
found, several hours after death, by
his only living relative. Miss F. (1.
Marshall, who is his niece.
Marshall's life contained material
for library of adventure and romance.
Known by ability unci position to the
foremost men of his time, in war and
in pence, he made friendships by the
score where others count them singly;
and kept tin in. lie was. as tar as is
known, the lust man to speak to Juhn
Wilkes Booth, the assassin of Presi
dent Lincoln lonverslng with him less
than hall an hour before Booth fired
a pistol ball into the president s brain
He was with Gen. It. E. Lee at the
surrender at Appomattox; he was near
the famous Confederate cavalry lead
er. Gen. J. R. i. Stuart, when the lat
ter was killed at Yellow Cavern, and
he wa socially known wherever the
elite of the Sot-th gathered.
Concerning bis "last word" with
Booth, he said that at g o'cloc k tin
the evening ot April 14, 1 SC3 the
evening when Lincoln, sitting In the
old Ford's Theater, on Tenth street,
was mortally wounded he and two
friends were walking down Sixth street
to National hotel. As they turned
at the Avenue they nlmost ran into
Booth, who was hurrying along with
his eyes fixed on the ground.
Laat Word With Booth.
The two men with Marshall knew
U. S. Department of Agriculture.
WEATHER BUREAU
WILLIS L. MOORE, Chief.
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Observation Ukn . nr. K-cftnty fifth node) tan time.
lBii,c ciiuiiouou hoes. p. - tlirough oolnt-of equal i ir
nMort.
IjoTHEKMn. or dotiMd Imw. iuithrouBh poinuot qusl Win.
pvrMur. they will ht1rwn only for fpJnti at. n J VXP
BTXBOUlitdioatantfttoof wustlMr Q cImt, ( pwttf
WlTi cloudj, (g)miD, anow. report mlMlttc
Arrow it with th wind Firm Afrura, ruinlnHim tinnporaturtj
third, wind -tilocity of 10 miiw (wt hour or taom
Forecast for Asheville and vlclnltv:
Partly cloudy tonight and Saturdav.
T ,-viil . v. a t y, v. a , T'1" '-owest temperature tonight will
lempevauureo about is degrees
' " . For North Carolina. Fair tonight
IC C I p I 3. I 101113 nd Saturday, with temperature below
I reeling. Moderate west winds.
Royal is the
only baking
powder made
from Royal
Qrape Cream
of Tartar
ROYAL
Bakina
Powder
Absolutely
Pure
Highest in
Leavening
Hot Breads
Llgkt Biscuits tkat melt in your moutk
are made witk
Cottolene
Lard is the most commonly used cooking fat, yet.
according to well-known authorities, not 10 of the food
cooked with lard digests naturallv unA Mcilv.
the other 90, instead of nourishing the
body, merely clogs the digestive organs
and starts stomach trouble.
Cottolene anR mire, nnrn'firnic onrl kh.
some as olive oil. and makes frvvl whi.-K onv crrr,-U
j -' i u.tij otiiiav. ii
can digest. It is more economical than lard because
it goes one-third farther.
Cottolene shortens your food; lengthens your life.
Made only by THE N. JC FAIRBANK COMPANY
. r'i':;'.:'4;v''''toJW'ijr
ituoth Intimately. They stopped him,
and in a Joruhir way commented on
his hurry, for about ten minutes the
conversation continued, and Marshall,
who took but little part in it, noted
with wonder that 1 :00th, ordinarily
the most polite ol men, showed an Im
patience that homered on lnault. Fi
nally the fun ''veil salutations were
spoken and Booth turned to go, and
us the other two siarted toward the
National Hotel Marshall, though he
know llouth but slightly, axtended his
hand, with a frleidly smile.
"Uood-hy," said he. "I hope we
haven't interrupted you."
"No one can do that," aaid Booth,
and turned away.
So far as is known that Is the last
word that Uooth spoke until Ms wild
"Sic Semper tyrannus," as he leaped
10 the stage of the theater, startled an
audler.ee, and told of a President's
death.
Marshall learned of Booths act
when he went to the Wlllard Hotel an
hour later. While he strolled through
the crowd, bent on learning the truth
of a hundred rumors, a man near him
began a torrent of abuse of the South,
and concluded by applying an unnam-
stile epithet at every southern man.
Marshall replied lo the man not be
cause of his friendship tor Booth, but
because of the grossneas of the insult.
Fares a Furious Mob.
Then with four friends he faced a
howling, furious mob In the lobby of
the 'Wlllard, and maintained a quiet
nesa that whs characteristic of him,
no matter where he waa. The mana
ge r of the hotel hurried Marshall's
friends out through a rear entrance,
and beckoned Marshall to follow.
ithmit a glance at the yelling throng
behhari hlm.Marshall deliberately turn
ed and walked toward the door. When
he reached It, boned to the proprietor.
"Thank 'you for showing me the way
out," he aald
Marshall was born at years ago In
Maryland, and of the family from
whence Chief Justice John Marshall
came. At the outbreak of the rlvll war
toe waa among those in Baltimore who
tried to Intercept the march of the
Sixth Maaaachus. tts regiment through
the city, and eoon afterward he Balled,
by way of Chesapeake Bay, in a cat
boat to Westmoreland county, where
ha enl'sted In Stuart's ootqmand.
Despite military discipline, which
both rigidly recognised, Marshall and
Stuart became close friends. They
went through th war together, until
the famous hand-to-hand aaber right
between Union ard Confederate caval
ry at Yellow Cf -irn. There Stuart
met his death and Maahall escaped.
Afterward he joined Lee's rmy, and
waa attached to the Confederate otTI
cera staff.
Kerncmnbered Old ObaMMtfat.
aWversI yoars after the war Marahall
oarm to this city and began practice
ot law. from toe first he was suc
cessful, and as the yiars wont by be
came Known ..s on of the little group
of really famous attorneys in thl city.
He married, his wife dying fifteen
years ago.
All Of his dventures, his life dur
ing the war and in the dangerous days
of reconstruction, tailed to harden
or change Marshall. To his death hi
was njlet, dignified, and extremal)
modest Many reminiscences he woulc
tc II once, and never repeat. 1 me ev
idence of what be might have told oc
curred in Baltimore when ho , and
Charles Douglas, another wcll-knowu
lawyer of this city, came upon a drun
ken, rugged man during a stroll
through the city.
Marshall spoke to the man and the
man looked up wuh a faint expression
of recognition on his race. Then Mai'
shall, without explaining, took tns
man to a clothier's, a hatter's, and a
barber's shop He left the man well
dressed, provided with money and ex
ccssively grateful, and before he said
good-by he told the man where he
might find him.
"You don't forget an old Stuar:
trooper," remarked the man. us Mar
shall and Douglas walked away.
"I should say not," said Marshall.
When they were some distance amy
he explained to Dougles that the
trooper had paved his life at the battle
of Yellow Cavern by cutting down a
Union man who was about to brain
him with a carbine butt. He never re
ferred to the incident again.
Marshall numbered Ids rrlends bj
hundreds In every southern city. Even
when he was slightly known his pres
tige and name opened society's doors
And yet he was reserved, caring littli
for society as It is."
SWAIN CONGRATULATED
BY BUNCOMBE COUNTY
Committee Says Swain Will Have to Do
Better Next Year to Hold
Championship.
The Buncombe county corn contest
committee request The Gazette-News
to convey to Swain county congratu
lations upon winning the western
North Carolina prize offered by The
Qasette-News, and to say that they
are glad such 11 prize as )50 was not
awarded for an acre crop of less than
100 busheis. They say that Mr. El
more, the Bryson City farmer who
raised 104 and a fraction bushels of
corn 011 a single acre, will have his
work cut out for him next year, as
they are laying plans to bring the
prize to old Buncombe in 1911.
"Say to Mr. Elmore," said J. 8.
Coleman, the champion corn grower
of Buncombe county for the year
1910, "that we are especially gratified
at the excellent record he has made,
when we see enrs loaded with corn
und other food products from the
west, rolling through Asheville, des
tined for the lumber camps and man
ufactorles. etc.. along the Murphy di
vision of the Southern Railway."
John D. Tabor, ex-surveyor of
Swain county, makes affidavit that he
surveyed and staked off exactly one
ac re of land for A. H. Elmore, assist
ed In the work by W. W. Beeves of
Charleston township cor committee.
H'. A. Hyde and W. N. Banks make
affidavit that they shucked, gathered
and saw the corn from this acre
weighed, and Postmaster J. V. Teague
makes affidavit that the corn, good,
sound and dry, weighed 7.322 pounds,
or 104 42-70 bushels. And Mr. El
more makes affidavit to the whole
thing. He promises to furnish to The
c.atette-News the Btory of how ho
did It.
New to Him.
The hobble skirt was being dis
cussed nt the Colony club In New Yor't
nnd Miss Elizabeth Marbury, tht fa
mous dramatic agent, said, with a
smile:
"You'd think the hobble skirt had
penetrated everywhere, but listen.
"In Camden the other afternoon n
young girl in a brown hobble skirt
nurrled with short, quick steps to a
football game. Her skirt was tight
enough in all conscience, but a narrow
black band encircling It Just below
the knees drew it still tighter.
"As the young girl tripped out Mlck
le street a coal heaver, laying down
his shovel, ran after her.
" 'Say, miss,' he said in a low, con
fidential tone, 'yer belt's slipped
down.' " Washington Post.
Ask the Old Folks'
Vnnr grandmother and grandfather know
French Market Coffee.
cv,, inn ,jr harlr it- txrns the famous coffee
at the old French Market The finales of all the
Mardi Graa Balls were not complete without a
cup of this rare old beverage.
Then this famous beverage could be had
nowhere else.
Now you may serve it daily at your own
table. For the old French Market blend is per
petuated by
The Same Unique
Hygienic Roasting Process
'There is but one French Market flavor." f (
You can get this celebrated coffee at
your grocer 3 in hermetically sealed tins.
Packed by
New Orleans Coffee Co., Ltd.
New Orleans, La.
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French MaricglCbffee
Valuable Hog.
Mr. M. D. Smith sold to Abernelhy
ft Phifer last Friday a hog that
weighed Including the lnrd he retain
ed nt home, 427 pounds. The hog was
seven venrs old and hnd been the
mother of numerous pigs, all of which
Mr. Smith sold at six weeks old nt
good prices, so that the money he re
ceived for the pork sold Friday added
Xotlce to Fat Women.
Presumably you know, Indies, that
the proper enper nowadays Is lines.
Curves are passe. You have got to
take off your fat. Thin must be done
in one of three wnys. By dieting, by
exercises, or by means of Marmora
Prescription Table t?. The two former
will keep you busy for months and
punish you pretty severely, the Matter
will cost you 76 cents nt the drug
gist's. The tablets will not make n.iy
alteration In your diet necessary, and
yet In nil probability, before you have
used up one rase, you will lie losing
from 12 to Ifi ounces of fat 11 day.
Which me thod do you like the best?
If you fancy this pleasant method
of getting off the fat. sec your drug
gist Instantly, or else write the Mar-
mola Co.. 601 Farmer Bldg., Detroit.
Mich., to send you a rase- by mall.
These cases contain so generous a
cjuantlty of tablets that treatment la
very economical. it Is. also, quite
harmless, for the tuhlets are made
exactly in accordance with the fam
ous Marniola Prescription.
to the amounts he had previously re
ceived from the sale of pigs, netted
him exactly (400, says the Lenoir
News.
If anybody can beat that record
from one sow we would be pleased to
hear from him and will gladly print
a report. As far as we know Mr.
.Smith has the record from one hog
In this pnrt of the country.
Worse than an alarm of fire at
nint Is the metallic cough of croup,
bringing dread to the household.
Careful mothers keep Foley's Honey
nnd Tar In the house and give It at
the first sign of danger. It contains
no opiates. Sold by all druggists.
Ileal Itargaln.
"I can not marry you, I have prom
ised my hand to some one else, so I
must return all your presents."
'Good gracious, whatever can I do
with them now?"
"My fiance would buy them off you
at a slight reduction." Atlanta Constitution.
Get tlx- Genuine Always.
A snbstMiite la a dangerous make
shift especially In m"dlclne. The gen
uine Foley's Honey and Tar cures
coughs nnd colds quickly and Is in a
yellow package. Accept no substi
tutes. Sold by all druggists.
When a man retires from a political
office It Is usually with the uMSistanc
of his constituents.
. 11 i 1 . ;.i";
Only One "BROMO QUININE."
That Is LAXATIVE BROMO QUI
NINE. Look for the signature of E.
W. Drove. Used the World over to
Cure a Cold In One Day. tic.
Heavy Winter Suits and
800 Pairs Pants at
Closing Out Prices
More positively closes Christmas, nnd tins is the
one golden opportunity for men mid mothers to save
money on suits for men and boys.
Half Price and a Little More
Ts all you have to pay, and with the money you save
you ean buy heavy underwear, shirts, socks, suspen
der, handkerchiefs and SHOES.
Buy Gifts for Men that they can wear.
O. E. Stoner Co.
No Forgetting.
"But, dad," pleaded the son, "she's
a nice gin. What s your objection to
my marrying? You were young your
self once."
"Don't remind me of It," aald the
father, overcome with emotion. "It
was then that I met your mother."
Cleveland Leader.
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