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OL. Q NO. 28. ASHEVILLE, N. C, SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE 28, 1902. PRICED CENTS - i Hew Vertical Lift (Vfower Light draft and improvement ever ALL STEEL HAM D OK aiu .1 x ' . .- - . . ' ' S ''- ' - ' " . l-to see them or write for catalogue and prices. ASHEVILLE . . - - . Step i :WHY NO S i m S KEEP COOL 1 It is an Easy Thing to Do When n. V Have Porch 13' We have a full line of C.Il kinds. Just arrived big stock of North Star and White Mountain Odorless Refrigerators. All sizes, to suit the smallest family to the larg est boarding house. m m m m m m "THE jasper L. Smathers & Son, 45 PATTON NOTICE We do a greit deal of work for people outside the city" of Ashcville; some 'of them outside the State of North Carolina. Make up a bundle of your soiled linen and express to us and v."c will return it promptly, laundreel to suit the most fastidious. - ? : J. A. NICHOLS, Proprietor. 1 " IF Are You eldy Harvest? Are you supplied .with the necessary tools and imple- 10 ments ? well, to . If irot, you 11 do come in and see our stock. H a rvesti n g Cra d Tin: srAUK - '.. . - ' ' . . ; - ON The greatest put on, a mower. HORSE DUMP RAKES. T 5 North Carolina One of Our vgj i Shades of Porch Seats gt a ret: m to ml m AVENUE. m most convenient. Ij1 - WE HAVE IT, IT'S THE BEST. for the Mowing ratent snatns, 75 uents Cradle Blades, $.6o OLD HICKORY WAGONS, GEISER THRESHING MACHINES, CHAMPION MOWERS AND RAKES. I e, $250; Hardware vHOMEI COLUMN 1 WHAT'S THE HURRY? You can talk about the glories Of a home beyond the skies; Of a clime that is suoernal, " Where the land of rapture lies. You can talk about the beauties Of a grand, eternal home; 3nt I want to murmur gently : "I have no desire to roam." 'Twill be nice to be with angels In the mystic by-and-by, Yet there is no need to hurry To a home beyond the sky. I enjoy the changing seasons Earth may frown or earth may smile; I can stand her very nicely Let me linger here awhile. 1 There are those who love to travel Over land and over sea; I am one inclined to settle When a clime looks good to me. Greener fields beyond the hilltops Lure so many far away; Where I choose to plant my wigwam I am always glad to stay. Any land where sin and sorrow Have no entry must be fine, But I waut, by way of prelude, Some of this old world in mine. Field and stream alike enchant me, And a splendor veils the hills; r Changing skies yitifd changing pictures, As the blessed Master wills. Preach the sunny Land of Promise Talk it up to all you see; Tell about the hidden glories And the wonders yet to be. I believe yet want to linger In a world I know is fair, Just to look around a little Ere I start for over there. Dodging the Blues. The supreme remedy for the blues is the removal of the cause. Only the person who is self-cen-tured, who thinks about himself chiefly, ever has the blues. No one ever finds the achievement of his ambition in life as satisfying as he had hoped. If he be dis posed to dwell on his own person ality and his own concerns con- stantly, any man may become the victim of the blue devils.. If his life has proved successful then the thought that he must surren der it after a brief few years may plunge him into a tank of melan choly. -The same way to live is to be busy' about something; to take a keen interest in concerns which do not directly minister to one's own vanity ; to find occupation and pleasure in doing things for other people. It is fatal for a man to be ever thinking about himself and about the . impression which he makes on others. To be busy -with other matters is to be as cheerful and happy as circumstances will permit -Philadelphia Record Let God Use You. That is just what He wants to do. He made you for use, and for I Gray? I I "My hair was falling out and 1 turning gray very fast. But your I Hair Vigor stopped the falling and 1 restored the natural color." Mrs. I E. Z. Benomme, Cohoes, N. Y. I It's impossible' for you I not to look old, with the I ! color of seventy years in I your hair ! Perhaps you I are seventy, and you like I i iyour gray hair! If not, i use Ayer's Hair Vigor. I In less than a month your I gray hair will have all the I dark, rich color of youth. I SI.M bottle. All dnigfhts. I If your drngrist rannot snpply you, I send us one dollar and we will express I you a bottle. Be sure and erive the name I of your nearest express ollice. Address, 1 J. C. AYER CO., Lowell, JIass. I Blades, 65 Cents -WE SELL- mm ASHEVILLE, N. C. Co His own use. You may be a star in brilliancy, but God can use you if you are. You may be a candle or but a fagot. j No matter. God can use-candles and fagots,. The true workman can use a pin, a nail or a big bolt in His work. People differ from each other, as do the pin, nail and bolt, but all are needed and the pin as much as the bolt. There are kinds of work ' in which the former would be more suitable than the Mtter, So in God's work He needs to use pins, nails, -bolts, little and large agencies, art;, God No matter which you has use for both, or He would not have sue h varieties in men ' ; , "I am glad to meet the mail who God uses. said a gentleman, on being introdu ced to Mr. Moody. That was the secret of Moody's wonderful power God used -him ? Gcd put strength into his un trained hand and unlearned brain, and the hand and bruin of Moody became such moral powers as the world has not seen the superior of in a hundred years. Let God use you. Selected. . Sickly Sentimentality. It is a duty to sympathize with criminals, but that sympathy should be expressed in a proper manner. When a man is convicted of , crime, and when the penalty provided by law is pronounced upon him, especially if his crime is a revolting one, many foolish persons write him letters and send him gifts. The effect is harmful, it leads the criminal and others of his class to think him - a hero in lie '-estimation of the public; it "tends to weaken respect tor the law and.courts of iusiice. United Presbyterian. Prayer. : When an thou prayest ratner 'i i i.i let thy heart we without, words than thy words without heart. Prayei will make a man cease from sin oi dn will entice a man to cjase from jrayer. The spirit of prayer' is nore precious than treasures, of gold and silver. Pray often;' for- prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice, to God, and a scourge to Satan.- John Bunyan. sianGor When anyone was speaking ill of another in the jresence of Pe ter the Great, he would shortly in teirupt him and say, "Well, now. but has he not a bright side ? Come, tell me, what have you nb- ticed excellent in him easy to throw mud; but ? ;It is I would rather help a man keep his coat clean." Selected. He has His plans. What if He ever holds back all through the summer-time of life some of His plants from flowering, that they may be more ready for some day of dajrs ? Never question the wis dom of His will. Sarah F. Smi ley. Much of our strength in prayer and effort is exhausted in striving to induce God to agree with us and come to our assistance. Some one asked Abraham Lincoln to appoint a day of fasting and pray er, that God might be on their side. "Don't bother about that," said the man of common sense, "God is now on the right side; yOu simply get with Him." A. 0. Dixon. Do you know a book that you are willing to put under your head-for a pillow when you lie dy ing ? Very well; that. is the best volume for you to study while liv ing. There is but one such book in the world. Joseph Cook. The contest in which the world is most interested is the struggle between ignorance and education, between darkness and light. The minds and hearts of the boys and girls in our schools and homes are so many battle fields where these opposing forces dispute for the mastery. Every individual is help ing one side or the other. There are no neutrals in the contest. Which side are you on ? . . There .would be less covetous ne'ss in the wprld if people did not overrate the things coveted. Sel fishness always puts a false value upon whatever it wants that be longs to others. ' The quality- that distinguishes the religion of Christ from other systems is that it seeks the purifi cation of the heart and to have the good acts that men do to spring from correct motives. THE APPALACH IAN RESERVE MR. DEPEW'S 1 SPEECH BEFORE SENATE IN FAVOR OF BILL. Forty-One National Forest Re scryes in the West, One of Them Paying Expenses and Yielding Revenue. Following is the speech recent ly made in the United Stales sen ate by Senator Depew, in favor of the Appalachian Reserve bill: Nature has been so prodigal in her gifts of forests to the United States that the important question of their preservation has been neglected too long. The attacks of the settlers upon the woods for clearings and a home have been indiscriminate and wasteful in the extreme. The settlers are not . to blame, nor are the lumbermen. The destruction which has been going on with such frightfully in creasing rapidity during the lst fifty years is due to a lack or that governmental supervision: in the interest of the whole people which can only come fronveducation and experience. The lumberman wishes to reajie at once upon his purchaseand, as a rule, vast for tunes are made in deforesting the land. Railroads are run into the woods, all the appliances of modern inventions and machinery are at work and this magnificent inherit ance is being squandered with a rapidity which is full of peril for the future. Intelligent conservation of the forests of a country is the highest evidence of its civilization. The eiimdte, the soil, the productive capacity of the farm, the equabil ity of the rainfall and the bene ficent low of the streams are all dependent upon the science of forestry. We have wi&ely set apart already in the west forty-one national ; forest reserves about 40.000 acres. One of them is al ready paying expenses and yieklT a slight revenue. The Appalachian forest preserv es as proposed in the pending measure is about 150 miles in length and varying breadth. It is from 400 to 600 feet above the sea. It runs through the states of Virginia, West Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Ala bama and Tennesseo. The slopes of these mountains are very steep, varying from 20 degrees at the lowest to 40 degrees. The" waters which flow from the perpetual springs, run on the one side to the Atlantic and on the other to the Gulf of Mexico. The streams from this mountain forest are the tributaries of these important rivers: The James, the Roanoke, the Catawba, the Savannah, the New Kanawha, the Tennessee, the French Bread, the Coosa, the Yad kin, the Chattahoochee, the Broad the Hiwassee, the Nolachucky, the Pigeon, the Tuckasegee, the Watauga and the Holston. The region effected by these streams is from 100 to 150 miles in width on the Atlantic side, and more than that on the other. It com prises part of the richest agricult ural country in the United States. The timber in this forest is all hard wood, and is the largest body of hard wood on the North Amer ican continent. It is a museum of forest growth, embracing, on account of its location, the wood which can be grown in temperate, semi-tropical and tropical coun tries. There are 137 varieties, making this forest one of the most interesting in the world. The deep soil has been forming for a thousand years or more, and in its interlacing of tree roots and hum us, of grass and leaves, there has been created an enormous sponge for the absorption, retention" and distribution of the rainfall. The rainfall in this region is greater than in any part of the United States except the North Pacific coast. It ranges from 60 to 100 inches a year. The down pour at one time during the past year was thirty inches. Where the forests are intact the water finds its way through-this thick and porous soil, goes into the crev ices of the rocks and into the gulches and forms springs and rivulets. Nature always benefi cent in her operation, so arranges this vast collection of the rainy season that during the rest of the year it flows out naturally epually through the rivulets into the streams and through the streams into the rivers, and waters and fertilizes half a dozen states. The result of an attack upon this fortress oreated by nature for the protection and enrichment of the people is more disastrous than the sweep of an invading army of savages over a thickly populate-.' and fertile country. They , kill, they carry off captives, they burn and they destroy, but after the war the survivors return to their homes and in a few years every vestige of the ruin has disappeared. In Its place there are again cities, vill ages and happy people. But the lumberman selects a tract of hard wood forest upon the Appalachian mountains. The trees, young audi old, big and little, surrender -pit the axe ami the saw, then thesoil is sold to the farmer, ywho finds abundant harvests inats primeval richness. For about three years he gatLers a remunerative and vitisiactoryiiftrvest, but he sees, as the enormous rainfall descends, his farm gradually disappear. At thend of three years he' can no onarer plant crops, but for two years more, if lucky he may be able to graze his stock. At the end of five years the rains and doods have ; washed clean the mountain sides, have left nothing hut the bare rocxs; have reduced his farm to a desert, and created a ruin that can never be repaired. But this is not all. That farm has gone down with the torrents, which has been formed by the cut ting off of the protecting woods, into the streams below. It has caused them to spread over the farms of the valleys wide plateaus, it has turned these peaeful waters into roaring floods, which have plowed deep and destructive gul lies through fertile fields and across grassy plains. One freshet in the Catawba river last spring occasioned wholly by the deforest ing of the mountains, swept away a million and a half dollars' worth of farm, buildings and stock. The damage done by the freshet of last year alone, in the territory fed by the streamsand rivers which came from these mountains, was estimated at over $18,000,000. This destruction cannot be re peated many years without turn ing into a desert the fairest por tion of our country. The proposition in the bill is to authorize the Secretary of Agri culture, at an expense not exceed ing 10,000,000 to purchase 4,000, 000 acres of these forests. They are held now in large tracts of from 1,000 to 5,000 acres. They are being rapidly bought up by lumber companies at from 1.50 to $2 an acre. The owners, as I am informed, would much prefer selling them to the government than to individuals or corporations. The reason is obvious. It is estimated by the department of agriculture that within five years the forests would be self-sustaining, and after that a source of in creasing revenue for all timeto come. . It is impossible for the states to undertake this work. New York, in order to protect the Hud son and Mohawk, has been pur chasing a large domain through the Adirondak forosts, which she proposes adding to every year. This is possible because the whole territory is within the limits of the state of Newj York. But in the Appalachian region one state cannot buy the forsst sources of the streams, because they are in another state. The state which has the forest cannot' be expected to go to the expense of protecting them in order to preserve the streams and agriculture and in dustries of adjoining common wealths. t Desirable Clothing at Moderate Figures;...... OF FIT SUCH AS CAN RARELY BE FOUND. Fit is almost everything the X finest of stuff not fitting becomes near ly worthless, while even second rate cloth properly cut gets our approval. Hot weather garments in large variety, Men's Furnishings, Underwear, &c. i H. Redwood & Co., Patton Avenue BRYAN IS AFTER CLEVELAND AGAIN H "FLAYS" THE HAR MONY" MEETING IN I THE COMMONER. Sys Cleveland Stabea Party . to Prevent Its Return to Paths of Victory7zQeve!andbm Means Plutocracy, SLincob-v June 23. Bryan, in the Commoner flavs the "harmony m mg at the liiuen club in was an 2s ew lork. ixa says it ovation to Cleveland. He declared there can be no ' harmony between nen like him .and tbosesvho be lieve in Democratic principlesHe refers to Cleveland's attitude and says he is not only defiant but in- Lsisted that party- success could on ly be secured by a return to his ideas, i Bryan asserts that the reorgan izes do not want harmony, but control and a return to the poli cies and practices of Cleveland's second administration. He re views this administration and says Cleveland, having debauched the party, he was offended by its ef forts to reform and gave comfort to the enemy. He adds: "Virginius killed his daughter to save her chastity. Cleveland stabbed his party to prevent its return to the paths of virtue." He closes by declaring the fight is; on between a democracy that means democracy, and Cleveland ism, which 'means plutocracy, and says every speech made by Cleve land shows the odiousness of the policies for which he stands.He says democrats have more' to fear from those, who like Hill indorse Cleveland's views, but conceal their real purpose in ambiguous language i COME BACK TO ME! Cleveland Wants to See the Democracy Restored Health. to Ex-President Grover Cleveland has set his heart on the unattain able. He is troubled with an anxious aspiration to see the Dem ocracy restored to health. To do so it must retrace its steps, cast away the false gods after which it has followed so far into the wihjU erness, and get back to its ofd haunts again. "Proved errors must be abandoned," says Mr. Cleveland, but he shows no symp tom of a disposition ' to give up his own pet heresy of freetrade, which his own administration "proved" to be the most baneful and destructive eiror that ever de luded any people. According to Mr. Cleveland's gospel of harmony "proved errors" are all in the creed of the Democracy that he does not belong to and the aban doning must all be done by Mr. Bryan and those who hold the views taught by him and empha sized in the platforms of 1896 and 1900. No other Democrat was ever so odious to the rank and file of the Democratic party as Mr. Cleveland became while he was trying to give the world an illus tration of the beauty and sound ness of Democratic theory, par ticularly the fatal fallacy of "tariff for revenue only." If harmony is to be restored to Democracy by the giving up of "proved error," it is up to Mr. Cleveland , to take the first step and cast away the false god of freetrade, for that, at A Desirable because made of such cloths as fine tailors fancy, because made up and trimmed well, and, rqost of all, be - cause THERE IS AN EXCELLENCE 7 least, has been sufficiently proved an error, false in theory and de structive in practice. But the sage pf Gray Gables does Dot pro pose to abandon an iota that he ,sver believed and so notifies - the Democratic parly. He has always been right, is right now and has so apologies to make. "I can never go to you but you must come to me," is the dictum of this apostle of harmony, this self worshiping center of' alL political wisdom. So long as Grover Cleve land assumes to point the way in which Democrats must walk, a cat fight will be the symbol of Democratic harmony. , j WANTED, Agents Both men and women, to solicit sub scriptions for The Ashe'ville Legister. One in every town- shipLiberal percentage given. Encouraging Local Indus tries.- The legislature of Mississippi has boen asked to submit for adopv tion a constitutional amendment under which counties may levy special taxes for the purposed of raising funds for the erection of cotton mills. Commenting ! on this, the Knoxville Journal and Tribune wisely says: "If the' peo ple of Mississippi and of the South want to give encouragement to local industries, the way to go about it is to levy a taxfor the organization and maintenance of industrial schools, -in which the young men may be given an ed ucation tliat will give them .en couragement to . embark in , such labor employing enterprises as the south needs. That is feasible, and seed like that sown would soon be- ; gin to respond with an abundant and a profitable harvest. 1 ; "Give the young men of the south the power to do something and they will do it. . If more and better local industries are wanted, and they are eeded, clothe' the young men with the knowledge that is power, that gives men con fidence in jthemselve8 and in their capacity to accomplish results, and we will have the local indus tries in abundance in every state and county and town in jail-this southern country. The encourage ment the legislature may give is to provide better means for the ed cation of the youth of the land; A cross mark on your paper indicates that your subscription has expired, and we politely re quest you to pay aU arrearages and renew at once. Subscribers wishing their ad dress changed must give their old address as well as new. I To Register Subscribers. We are sending out statements and polite requests for payment to all our subscribers who are in ar rears, and we hope they will promptly remit us what they . are due. We need it. It takes a' great deal of money .to run a newspaper. We are bringing our paper to. a cash basis. , We hope all wiU pay up nd renew their subscription. We are going to make our paper as good as the best. It will; be full of the best news and com ments during the coming . cam paign. So, pay up, and renew, and get your neighbor to do likewise. If you are going West write F. D. Blackman, Traveling Passenger Agent Choctow Route, No. 12; "V. 9th Street, Chattanooga, Tenn.; ;