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Bntered at th Poatoftlc In Aahevllle
a aacond-elaa matter.
Saturday, March 16, 1912.
PI?. WILEY QUITS THE THUMC
SERVICE.
The wrong mnn left the department
of agriculture yesterday, speaking
nfter n humnn nnd fallible manner.
Secretary Wilson Is old. He has ren
dered the country high and valuable
services. Ills declining days should
be highly honored by his fellow men.
Itnt in the maze of fierce controversy
about his department his merit Is for
gotten. His mistakes and the failures
of his policy arc magnified. Every
day he hangs on makes his position
less tenable. The Infirmities of nge
seem apparent In his exercise of Judg
ment. It is clear that a hopeless con
dition of friction exists.
The conscienceless vultures that
prey upon the American people, foist-
some food and drink and medicine,
being driven to bay, are desperately
trying to save what they can of their
nnelent privileges of exploiting human
health for gain. Wiley, not Wilson,
Is the man the situation seems to re
quire. However, while divested of official
power and authority, Dr. Wiley Is still
the best equipped man for public ser
vice In his Held, and lets It be known
that he Is still in the fight. Twenty
nine years, Secretary Wilson says, Dr.
Wiley has been In the department.
That Is a long time. Yet he Is com
paratively young, and in full vigor.
He probably knows as much as one
man can know aliout the food dopers
and the quacks; 'the extent of the
harm they have done, the magnitude
of the lies by which they live, and
the extent and nature of their power
and influence. He has wrought might
ily In the cause of simple honesty.
He has performed wonders in an edu
cational way, arousing the Interest of
public and public journals; for this
people Is notoriously indifferent and
ignorant about what it eats and
drinks.
'It I announced that efforts are
now making to bring the North Car
olina Press association to Ashevllle
for Us next meeting. Thofs certain
ly a move in the right direction, pro
Ided it he home in mind that
Waynesville will claim the honor of
entertaining the press gang In 1913.
Then there will be volumes to write,"
says the Waynesville Courier. A ma
jority of the boys would probably be
glad to go to Waynesville this year,
or anywhere else in tne mountains
that Is accessible, and where they can
find comfort, including plenty of fried
chicken and biscuit.
If the Greater Western North Caro
nu association needs a rallying cry,
hat is the matter with "fried chick
en, biscuit and uncanned tomatoes?"
THE CXDEItWOOD CANDIDACY.
An entire section of today's Gazette
News is devoted to the Presidential
candidacy of Hon. Oscar W. Under
wood. There is a good deal more Un
derwood talk Just now amongst read
.era of The Gazette-News than there
has been at any previoua time, and
therefore many will be glad of this
opportunity to study a pretty full de
scription of the brilliant Democratic
floor leader, written from a friendly
viewpoint. His convictions on the
most discussed political topics are ex
actly and succinctly stated.
It is perhaps needless to say that
this matter is furnished and Its publi
cation paid for by the friends and
admirers of the stntesman who are
working to present his candidacy in
the most favorable light to their fel
low Democrats throughout the United
States. It Is a. matter which, how
ever, we are glad to have the ODDor
tunlty of presenting. It is all well
prepared, It touches things that arc
. vital, as concerning the whole body
politic.
You might be for, or against, thl or
that candidate for the high office
without being able to give a very
clear and. comprehensive summary of
the reaaona for your position. If you
will peruse carefully this Underwood
aectlon of The Gazette-News you will
. know exactly to what extent you agree
with him or differ from him In large
matters of public policy.
ss about nine persona out of ten ml
pronounce the name of the only liv.
In ' ex-President, the discoverer of
the south pole may expect to be gen
erally called out of his name for many
yeare to come. .
Within a few daya publication of
another serial atory will begin. It has
been decided to make a permanent
feature of aerial fiction, but on such
daVe aa there la an unusual pressure
of news and advertising matter an In
stallment of the story may be deferr
ed. The next atory has been chosen
for a number of characteristics, it
Is cleverly written. It Is clean. It is
crowded with action and the move
ment is dramatic. If you enjoy that
sort of reading "The Pool of Flame,"
by Louis Joseph Vance, will Afford you
great deal of pleasure; so do not
overlook the opening chapter.
In the morning St. Patrick's day.
take off their hats and look about for
some place to put the troublesome
things, pat and arrange their nat
reminds one miserable sinner of the
flurry before the curtain goes up
keep mine on!
They lack Humor.
Another Hon in the path of the re
cently arrived is the extraordinary
lack of humor that. It aeems to me,
la a part ot the westerner's make-up.
The people out-English the English
in their density, their utter Inability
to recognize the most gently, in
grattatlng little Joke. There isn't any
Joker In their pack, and life Is such
a dull game. There are plenty of
western novels with fun In them; at
the moment I recall the "Virginian'
the title tells the hero's southern
birthplace. And, In passing, I have
met the man who planned and took
part In "mixing those babies up" In
Owen Wister'a novel and he was a
southerner! I recall another excel
lent California novel, "The Winning
of Barbara Worth." The "San Felipe"
of the story Is San Diego, the "King's
Basin," Imperial valley. There is a
man in the tale with a sense of hu
morhe's from Texas. Evidently
these novelists draw from life. It has
occurred to me that the reason Cnll
fornians do from one to six moving
picture shows a night and flock to
musical comedies in droves. Is be
cause they do not know how to amuse
themselves with "Jest and youthful
Jollity." Conversation Is such a dead
level of monotony. The writer has
been asked, occasionally, to speak on
he "Mountaineers of the South," to
certain missionary societies, begin
ning with her own. I had been at
tending the missionary meetings, and
felt that there must be some hidden
cause for sorrow. I determined to
make those women laugh. I didn't
quite do it but they smiled; the na
tive wit of Mrs. Berry White, Rachel
Stewart and other real human beings
n the mountain coves near Asheville
on the unaccustomed smile, no
umorlsm8 of the speaker's. Of
course there are many charming poo-
e here from the Kuuth Kentucky
seems to lead the far east nnd mid-
e west, hut so far they haven't
leavened the heavy lump of serious
ness, evidently a western coast char
acteristic.
Mild and linlmy.
People in the arctic city of Ashe-
llle who struggled with bursting wa-
pipes through January nnd Feb-
. When our advlca la naked and ex
amination riven, wa give It honestly,
Therefore when there ara aymptoma
of eight breaking down, you had bet
ter consult ua at once, we'll exam
ine your eye and lit yon with proper
glass ea In a thoroughly adentlfio man
ner.
Our reputation assure yon of best
result attainable.
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A Letter from California.
UNDER this r'gn
there could be.
diverting than
this evening
nothing more
this, which
omes from alar to the staff and
readers of The Gazette-.N'ews:
From the golden state to the Land
of the Sky, greetings!
ly out In California there is do
frost nor snow,
nil the "booster" not the blizzards
are the only things that blow;
The sun shines every morning and
shines some more at noon.
nd only stops a-shining to accommo
date the moon;
The air is soft but sparkling like a
southern maiden's glance,
And seta your spirits soaring and
makes your pulses dance;
The grand old ocean's booming and
O, of course it's great,
But my heart somehow keeps turn
ing to the
Old
North
State!
The other nine hundred and nlncty-
ine verses of the above I find ex
press exactly the same sentiments
ith a different arrangement ot
ords. Therefore they are withheld.
is true California la great for the
comfort of the body but North Car
olina is greater to live in for the con
solation and uplift of the spirit. This
such a strange land. To the small
pointa of difference one soon gets ac-
ustomed. To have all one's money
n silver and gold Is strange at Drat.
But soon the very Infrequent paper
dollar or five dollar bill, looks like a
lost sheep, scared and lonely, and not
as if it could really "pay the price."
Five and ten dollar gold pieces weight
down one's purse, but the strong arm
the rule in California; only one
ust have a care not to pass five dol
lar gold pieces for nickels, ten dollar
pieces for quarters, or "two bits as
they always say here. To the new
comer, who goes calling, it fa a .novel-
Although Amundsen has, been a
famous man ever alnce he discovered
the Northwest Pannage, his name Is
still . pronounced wrong as often as
right, the Springfield Republican ob
serves. .'The correct pronunciation Is
with a strong stress on the first syl
lable, which la made rather long
'Ah!-moond-aen." The 'DO" Is not
quite ao close and positive as In moon.
nnd the "e" la aomewhat alighted
The last two syllables, being cluttered
up with consonants, take each about
ty to have her friends' doors openeu
by yellow-faced Japs or Chinamen
nd to the tourist It is strange to aee
the atreet gangs made up of typical
sombreroed and legglnged Mexicans.
For a. time the liquid Spanish speech
that one hears every day, mingling
with the high pitched western dialect
thut fairly shivers with slang phrases,
rouses interest, but soon that, too,
an old story, and exiled ABhe-
llleians begin to get homesick. There
a remedy: to write to all ones
friends at once, a letter to The Gazette-News,
and then wait for Indl-
lihial replies!
But the larger differences to which
it Is almost Impossible to accustom
oneself, are tn the very atmosphere
one breathes. The most Insistent Is
the sensation of unrest. Society, re
ligion, ethics, music, literature and
tho drama In California seem, from
the writer's viewpoint, as tumultu
ously restless as the great ocean, and
that is not,, from my bIx montns ex
nerlence. na Pacific aa the Atlantic,
To an old fashioned body the count
less lams vegetarianism, socialism
militant suffrugetteism, theosophy,
half dozen new religious secta all
eager to take one by the hand give
a queer feeling of d'.tqulet; aa If one
were picking oneself up, out of tne
debris of 'a sociological earthquake.
Then If one gets on the inside of any
thing ita component parta appear to
be changing, oo. I have met rres.
hvteriana who are "going Into Cathol
Iclsm," Methodists who are "going
Into aclence," and many, many for
mer orthodox folda who are ataylng
out of all established religions and
believe they are building better, new
religions of their own in tenta upon
the aonds or In luxurloua touring cars
In the church, attended by your cor
respondent, the women get up and
talk in prayer meeting, and In a
cordance with that constant spirit of
change within the last few months
an emphatic little footnote has been
added to the Sunday bulletin that
reada, "Ladles will please remov
their hats, as an act of Christian
courtesy, before the sermon," Th
congregation Is made up mostly of the
hatpin sex, and the stir all over the
the same time as the long "ah," ao
thut the rythm la much like that "fjchurch, when the minister,
"j;umon"u, or
Ically spoken,
In his
excellent" emphat-, gown, steps to tha pulpit after the
It Is a resonant, spirit-'opening ceremonies, and aaveral hu
ed name,
j m;, uy
worthy of a modern vlk-
money to be made here In real estate
if one has a little capital to begin
with, but of unskilled laborers there
are too many, over 600 unemployed In
the city, many lured thither, doubt
less, by the halcyon climate and the
reports of projected harbor Improve.
ment and work at the exposition
grounds.
It has been Interesting to read In
The Gazette-News ot the reully good
things Asheville has been having at
the Auditorium quite metropolitan;
also, the accounts of the Civic Better
ment league are eagerly read.
Progress, la marching with you; from
a comparative viewpoint, I have more
faith in the future of the greater
south than of the great southwest!
MARY C. ROBINSON.
San Diego, Cal.
How Tyrns Cobb Visits Murphy.
ruary and burned coal enough to
like a payment on n home lot in
Nni Diego, may be interested to
now thut our winter has been mild
nd balmy; the old residents Bav it
has been one of unprecedented cold!
The greater pnrt of the time a small
re is comfortable in the early morn
ings and evenings; we have burned
(4 worth of wood in a small heater
the living room, our only lire; the
windows huve never been closed,
night or day, in the sleeping rooms.
We have had six cloudy days during
the last six months and about as
many raius. The experienced any it
occasionally rains at night with such
gentle courtesy that even light sleep
ers are not aroused. Every one Is
lnmoring for rain, and hoping we
shall soon have what the old black
preacher called "a gully washer and
trash mover."
A little more ahout the climate; It
Is not In the least enervating and
there is no malaria. Everyone seems
toundingly healthy; the children
nd women are especially stalwart
nd rosy. The equable temperature
seems Ideal for the weaker sex, but
pparently lacks the strenuousness to
develop the best physical condition in
hat Walter Pritchard Eaton in the
last "Everybody's" called, "the brute
male." So far ambition and energy
are not Aead in the Asheville colony,
but older residents declare they (lnd
it almost impossible to work. They
re greatly Inclined, for the most part,
to take housekeeping, culture and so
ciety with a languid indifference, 1
speak of the women; .the men seem
to have an open eye for business, and
there is evidently plenty doing. 1 re-
ently had an Interesting conversa
tion with ont of San Diego's leading
pnysiciana; people sometimes need a
doctor and do die here, of old age
This doctor has a theory that he Bays
has never been exploited. It la his
purpose to demonstrate and develop
his idea and write a thesis upon the
subject to win some more Iettera to
rite after his M. D. from a college
in the' middle west. He believe the
vast kelp beda that lie off our Imme-1
dlate coast exude or disseminate bro
mide and Iodine, properties obtained
from kelp. This, he thlnka, makes
the very air we are privileged to
breathe, both sedative and nutritive.
Everybody sleeps here even the most
confirmed Insomniacs who come with
little hope, of wooing favor from Mor
pheus kelp bromide! Then almost
everyone increases rapidly In weight.
The really fat men and women In
Asheville could be counted on one's
fingers the thin ones In San, Diego.
But what Is the great advantage?
Nine houyi slumber here, while It may
add to one's avordupola, does not give
one aa much mental and physical
snap and agility as five In your city.
I hope I have not given away, pre-
muturely the great physician's kelp-bromlde-todine
theory; If there is any
thing in it. It certainly should be used
to advertiae San Diego aa a sanitarium
for nervous patients and those that
Kipling writes of
"Who go back with Policeman Day,
Back from the city of Sleep,"
We have, all winter, enjoyed an
abundnnce of fresh vegetables and
the delicious California frulta, brought
to our doora by our Chinaman, How
Lo. That la hia name, not the price,
though all the thinga he carries the
results of scientific Irrigation are
much cheaper than tn Ashevllle. In
contrast to our market gardener, the
laundryman la Blng HI and that la
name and price, both. The products
of the dairy and the chicken ranch
also sing high: eggs, buttar, milk and
chicken, fried and frlcassed, are for
the multi-millionaires, tn their lux
urioua auburban homes at Coronado
and Point Lome Lyman Gage, John
Vance' Cheney and their associates.
Mr. Laasiter and family of Aahe
vllle. Who arrived in Kan Diego a few
weeka ago, have gone back to Los
Angeles, being utterly unable to find
a roof to cover their heads, other than
the hotels. That tells the tale of
San Diego aa a tourist city. There
will be plenty of , apartments and
bungalow In th spring and summer
when the easterners turn backwards
In their flight This xltuation ia in
spite of an amazing amount of hulld
ing going on constantly. There I
Ty Cobb, the famous center fielder
of the Detroit, Mich., baseball teum,
was here Monday on his way to visit
his uncle, Taylor Cobb, at Ivy Log,
Oa. Ty Cobb la perhaps better known
than any young man in the United
States. Years ago, when but h kid,
he played short for Murphy In several
games and was a wonder even then.
Murphy Scout.
NOTICE OF SALE.
By virtue of the power and author
ity conferred upon the undersigned.
Allen T. Morrison, by a certain deed
in -trust executed on the 4th day of
September, 1911, and recorded In the
Register's office of r.uneomhhe coun
ty, N. C. in Deed in Trust book No.
, at page 221, to which reference is
hereby had, default having been made
In the payment of the debt secured by
said deed In trust, and request having
been made by the owner and holder
of snld debt that the undersigned do
execute the powers of sale contained
In said deed of trust, I .Allen T. Mor
rison, trustee, will, on Tuesday, the
tli day of April, 1012, at twelve
o'clock M., In front of the Court
House door In the City of Ashevllle,
liuncombe , County, North Carolina,
offer for sale at public auction, for
cash, to the highest bidder, the fol
lowing described piece and parcel of
land, situate, lying being in Buncombe
Count, North farnllna. Black Moun
tain township, adjoining the land of
THE MEN
ARE LOOKING
"With favor on tho
new
Pedestrian Shoe, 'Bannis
ter made, because it shows
at in glance the honest
quality and comfort feat
ures of its makeup. Tho
broad low English heel,
graceful lines give it the
combination of comfort
and style that men desire.
$5.50.
BrownJfliller
Shoe Co.
Leaders in Fine Footwear
47 Patton Amu
PhoM tit.
MMMMMMMWMmmmrTHti
BATTERY IJAIU BAl-
ASHEV1XLE, N, C. .
J. P. SAWYER, Pres. E. SLTJDER, Ymk
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Capital . . Vi. . ; j ... . . . . . .$100,OC8 '
Surplui and Proflti ... .... .'ioqq
TRANSACTS A GENERAL BANKING nttsrNEsa
Special attention given to collection .Four per cent Int.
on time deposit Mt
Ml
Sow Sweet Pea
Seed Now
TJreers Choicest Named Varieties,
mixed 5 cents per or., 1-4 lb. for 25
cents. . .
Brownhurst
Greenhouses
or 48 Patton Ave.
George Fortune and others, and
bounded as follows:
UEG1NMNO on a Spanish oak on
Whiteside's line near the enst side of
the Mill Cove branch nnd running
south 178 poles to a chestnut near the
top of the mountain at a cliff of rocks:
thence east 90 poles to a hickory on
a little rise near a flat rock; thence
north 178 poles to a stake on White
side's line on a ridge: thence west 90
poles to the BEGINNING, containing
100 acres more or less, said land be
ing known as the Crips tract: except
ing two acres thereof heretofore con
veyed by Thomas Patlllo to Mary
Lytle by deed of date March 20, 1895.
ALLEN T. MORRISON,
Trustee.
Phone 87
BROWN
h Ann war f.
co. : '
II
25 North Main St.
drpl wnmfn search for the wicked
llttlA hfitnfna iha KM. thamaalva. la.
the Uipublkan. Inaamuch feathery brakes and flowery meads,
JhSa k4 ai tw
nXPnCTOHANT
Cwrjt csys::y a.n: cclc
Our now goods are arriving daily. ' Vo 'invite 'inspec
tion of quality and prices.
We have just received a shipment of New Perfection
Blue Flame Oil Cooking Stoves. We can furnish this
stove with the steel ovens and glass doors. Come in and
let us explain the ninny excellent features these goods
hnve.
Brown Hardware Co.
Phone 87
25 North Main St.
MMIMIMM m4HW
Call at our store and see the
$200.00 SHETLAND PONY
"Which will be given away June 10th, to some boy or giri
under 16 years of age. '
M. HYAMS
FRESH MEATS
Phone 49-343.
GROCERIES
. MaJn A Merrimon Av.
We Buy Anything
AND
Sell Everything
S. STERNBERG & COMPANY
Depot Street.
.Phone 333
Japanese and China
Matting
Rugs
New shipment just in.
Very attractive prices.
$30.00 Brass Bed Free. Aslt
for tickets.
DONALD & DONALD
14 S. Main St. Phone 441.
FOR SALE
One of the nicest Hotels in
this country. Small, on a nice
plot of ground.
Price $30,000.
S. D. HALL
Phone 91. 32 Patton Ave.
We Have Nothing
BUT"
Satisfactory Laundry Work
to Offer You.
Phone 70
"A trial is all we ask."
Swannanoa
Laundry
We Treat Yonr Laundry -While.
Cadillacs
GUARANTEED FOH Lift .
We have also Borne m.
celled bargains In second bu
cars.
Western Carolina Auto.
Walnnt ana Lcilngtoa,
Special Values in
Go-Carts
1 Nice assortment
J. L. SMATHERS AND SON
15-17 North Main St.
E9HHHSSSSEBBBSSHIHBSEE
I NO FIT NO PAT
I HARRY S. BURROWS
I f Tailoring
I Office 1 and 1
I OVER CITIZENS BANK
Farms for Sale
Two fineat farma in North Carolina.
One 1600 acres, 600 acrea in cultiva
tion, fine dwelling houaa and tenant
houses, barns, blacksmith ahopa. Ev
erything that goea with good farm,
$26 per acre. Another farm 620 aero
houaea, barn and 400 acrea of thli
river bottom 2 1-2 miles railroad sta
tion, one hour'a ride Asheville $40.01
per acre, gee me for further panic
ulara. 4 ,
Jno. M. Campbell
Rooma 212 and 214 Legal Bulldlnr.
Phone m. , i Aahevllle, N. a
phone 1900
Phons 1900
I
Colored Wash fabrics in
Wide profusion
Our showing this Spring of colored Wfish goods is truly
wonderful. Ve li'nva' pnri0nvn1v.1t in hv'mtv irtrrpthpr fill
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the nower effects in these materials and how well we
have done so will be obvious to you when you call.
A few of the materials are mentioned below.
Solid, striped and figured voiles, just in, 27 inches wide,
for 19c yard. . . 1 ' : ,V
White Voile, with narrow dark striped border, 40
inches wide, for 35c yard.
Bordered Lawns, 40 inches wide, for 25o yard.
Linen Suitings, all colors, 28 to 48 inches wide, for S-'ic
to 90c yard.
Colored Cotton Foulard, 28 inches wide, for 35c ynrd.
Colored Voiles, 28 inches wide, for 25c yard.
Colored Embroidered Batiste, 29 inches wide, for 50c
yard. -
Colored Flaxon, 32 inches wide, for 19c yard.
Colored Tissues, 23 inches wide, for 25c and 29c yiird.
Ilolly Batiste, 28 inches wide, for 12 l-2c yard.
Vi:!::rs )aif at ths LV'&zrtj Opcntj
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