News
Our County—Its Progress and Prosperity the First Duty of a Local Paper.
MINER &
BREVARD. TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY. N. C., FRIDAY, APRIL 8. 1904.
VnL. IX-NO. 15
Dunns Rock Lodge No. 267
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Brevard Telephone Exchange.
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Professional Cards.
W. A. GASH,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
Rooms 7 & 8, McMirn Bid's. BrcYard, H. C.
W. B. DUCKWORTH,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Investigation of Land Tiiles a Specialty.
Kooius 1 and 2. 1’iokolsiinor liuildinj?.
ZACHARY &. BREESE
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
Offices in McMinn Bloci<, Brevard, N. C.
IS IT x:rxje:?
Report that a $250,000 Cotton Mill Is To Be Built
in Transylvania County.
WELCH GALLOWAY,
ATTORNEY-AT LAW.
I’faftiefs in all the coui ts
Rooms 9 and 10 McMinn Block. Brevard, N. C.
Miscellaneous.
Dr. H. H. CARSON
Surgeon Dentist
(oviT Uaiik.
HKNl>KlvSt)N VI1-1 1-- N- C.
<iuuni..tr.Ml n. all opc-rntions fJ'.t*
c. C. KILPATRICK,
CONTRACTOR ftNO BUILDER.
Office at Barber Shop, Brevard, N. C.
I'.sliniatos ^iven on :vH kiiuls ot woi'k
in the building- liiu-.
T. L. CLARKE,
Architect and Contractor,
I’lans and s])e('ili»‘ations on all kind^
of buildinu' work.
T. B. CRAR.Y,
Contractor tor All Kintls ot Brick Work, j
(Vnient Work. I MasKTiii--. lV;bble-|
tlash and llouuh (’asiiii- a Specialty. i
BREVARD, N. C.
G. W. Summey—Carpenter
l>e>t of reconnnendations—liis work.
.lobs in or ont ol town at'C^-pted.
All work o-uarantefd.
J. O. DERMID,
The Reliable Jeweler.
Watches and .lcw<‘lry lt>r salt'. Fine
Watch and ('lo«'k lepaii-injr- All
Wo'-k liuaranteod. West Main st.
A. C. NORTON,
Practical Boot and Shoemaker
Harness Work a specialty.
West iViain Street near Caldwell.
The JEthelwold
li«-'jvard's Xew' Hotel-Modern Ap
pointments Open all the year.
The ])atr<*naye of the tra v(‘linj.«- jniblic
j^s well as summer t(*nrists i.s soli(;itetl.
Opp. Court House. Hrevard. X.C.
K-I-P-A-X-iS T<il)ules
Doctors iiiid
A good ])roscriptiou
J*' For inaiikind
The packet is oiionirli for u^.ual occasions.
M IC'family bottle («0 ccnis) contains a supply
for a year.' All drii^'Rists sell them.
The Sylvan Valley News office for
blanks of all kinds.
Last Friday the Asheville Citi
zen, Raleigh Post, Atlanta Con
stitution and other of our ex
changes contained articles an
nouncing that an iinniensecotton
mill was to be built near Brevard.
The information came from Ral
eigh thiough correspondents of
the several papers. The follow
ing item is dipped from a special
dispatch to the Atlanta Constitu
tion:
There is to be an extensive de-
velo{)ment of cotton milling and
electric power for factories in
Transylvania county, and one of
the most beautiful mountain re
gions in North Carolina. Little
River, which has five falls in a
space of a few mil^^s is to be util
ized in furnishing the powcM*. It
is now a trout stream. Nearby
are to be cottoii mills, work on
one of which is soon to begin.
So it seems tiiat some one in
R'lleigh knows more about whal
is transpiring in Hi-evard than
we do. it is true that tlx^re have
been negotiations by l^rovjird
business mtMi loolcinir to tiie lo
catlnLTol’ a cotton mill liere; it is
true tlial an option on the water-
[)o\ver of Little river has been se
cured for this enterprise; it is
irnethat a site for tiie proposetl
mill has been tentiered by Bre-
vai'd poople. and it is true that
otht'r inducements have been
held out by oui* enterprising lit
lie town, but so far as we can
U‘arn this is where the truth
Stops.
When these tenders were made
there was no company to acce})l
!i(*ni. and no charter for such a
com pony h id been ai>plied for oi-
irranlod--nor do we know that
iny such chai*ti‘r now exists.
vVo most sincerely hope that the
item may be true in every par
ticular, and that the writer of it
may hav(‘ some means of fore-
'italling us in the knowledge, ^ ut
there are sorious doubts in the
case. It would seem to us that
the interested parties would have
been notitied as soon as strangers
at Raleigh.
One thing, however, is certain.
Our })eo[)le have decided that a
fact»)ry is one of our princi{)al
needs for the p(*fma:i('nt gi-owth
and })rosperity of Brevard, and
the propositions they have made
will remain open—and some com-
[>any will accept. There is too
much enterprise among our
business men to let as small a
matter as a cottcni factory balk
ihem. It will come.
Captain Alfjenion Sartorls, Mho.se
mother was not ijuite happy with her
English husband, doubtless reasons
that it is safer for an American man to
marry a foreign woman than it is for
an American j?irl to marry a foreign
husband.
Elder Dowie of the Illinois Zion be
lieves in early marriaj?es, but he dif
fers from Elder Smith of the Utah
Zion, who believes in marrying early
and often.
It is announced that the Louisiana
Purchase exposition is now ready for
exhibits, and the formal opening will
be on time^ _
The Peril of Polygamy.
The Smoot inijuiry luis developed
Into a much broader question than the
right of lieed Smoot to a seat in the
I’nited States senate. It has ass’.uued
the diriiensions of a general investiga
tion of polygamy in the Mormoii
church and opened up the whoie *iue.<
lion of Mornionism an<l its relations
to the federal government. rublit
sentiment luis been awakeu(*d by the
disclosures mad(‘ by professed Mor
mons, and the matter is being wid(*ly
discussed by the press of the country.
The attitude of the Mormon I(*jiders
lias exasperated the American i)e;)i)le
and convinced them that, whatever
may be th«» teachings of the Mormon
church on the subject of polygamy, the
sympathy and the i>ractic(‘ of the lead
ers of the church are in support of that
pernicious d<'«trine. Whilt* I’rt'sident
Smith insists tluit ‘‘not niort* thr.n II or
4 per cent of the entire memlxTship of
the church'' havt' entered plural matri
mony, it is gen(‘rally believc'd that a
much larger iiercentag(' than this is in
violation of the laws of the land in this
regard. Tin* Salt I.ake City Ti'ibuix*
expr(‘sst‘s the belief iliat "a little over
one-thin!, or, s.iy, soinethiiig like ',]7>
per c(Mit,” of the Mornuin ;idu!is i!>
Ftah ar<‘ living in polygamy, and Sen
ator lUibois of Idalio. :i inen!' <‘r of
the K(‘iiate conimitt(M\ has introduced
t*ensus tigmes lo sliow' that about *J;P i
per cent of the adult Mormon popula
tion in Utah were living in polygamy
in ISOO. The st'uator says in ;in inter
view:
The solution of the IMormon prf.hlc^
must !)'■ made here anJ nov it the whnlc
coiintrj' will .suffer and t’.'.o foundation.*-'
of its Kovt^riiinent will l)f- we:’kt>nod. Be
fore this iieariuf^ is ccncluded t’lc- c(tuntry
will learn that the states of Utah. Id;ihi>,
Wyoming ;ind to a l irse dei^rec ('dorado
.'ind Or< :r< n are thre:;ten(>d wiih a terrible
curse likel.\- to sprf.'.ad herond the wc-st
and southwest unltj.ss it is checked.
I’resident Smith, howc'ver, thinks
that polygamy is on the wane. He
gives the following ligures of ]»olyga-
mous families, based on a churi h cen
sus :
In ISC'O. at the time of the late President
Wili'ord ^^■ocdruff’s manifesto, theie w»'re
2.4C1 such families.
In Oetf)I)er. l.MtO. it was fornd that this
number liad been re<lur-ed a;-; follows: IJy
death, T.'di: 1\'- removal.s be.'^ond the c»-n-
fints of the republic. *13: by divorce, yj;
leavin;:? at that time,
It i.s now ascertained that the original
numbir ha.s been rcduc-ed by 1,554, or f.3
per cent, leaving only 8^7 still living, and
that the great majority of tliem are of ad
vanced age.
The Deseret Evening News of Salt
I.ake ('ily, tli(‘ ollicial o.S^an of the
Mormon church, welcomes the investi
gation of its doings and says that
‘‘tlu*re is nothing in it but will endure
investi.gation or that we are unwilling
to expound and explain.” Rut it adds:
When untruths are told about plural
marriage and we attempt to show the
truth we are ac-cused i;f “teaching ptil\'g-
cimy" nn<1 are accounted a.^; criminals. On
that theory I’rc.sident Jotjei;h F. Smith is
“teaching polygamy" to United Slates
sen.ators, and we hope he will be able be
fore the inquiry is closed to set forth all
that we believe concerning that dtictrine
as well jis to make clear the fact that
there are fewer cases of polygamous mar
riage in Utah today than in many other
states of the Union.
What is meant by this last phrase
the Mormon d^ily goes on to explain
as follows:
Of course the state of society outside of
Mormondom will not be entered into in
this investigation, but it would not be
amiss for people who are holtling up their
hands in lioly horror at men'' who have
plural wives and will not cast them off in
any particular to take note of common
relations In the Christian cities of this
country that are not only imlawful, but
frequently involve the desertion and re
pudiation of women and children and con
duct that is both heartless and animal.
The Detroit Free Press believes that
polygamy is “exterminating itself."
“Time will eradicate the evil,” it re
marks, “and there is nothing to worry
about.” The Chicago Chronicle like-
wi.se thinks that tlie practice is disap
pearing, but suggests that the present
persecution is more likely “to aggra
vate the evil than to remedy it.” The
Biiffalo Express the ^Minneapolis Trib
une and a number of other papers fail
to see how all this evidence in regard,
to the polygamy of Smith, Lyman and
other Mormon leader.s can incriminate
Smoot, who is not shown to have prac
ticed, preached or advised plurality of
helpmeets.
Other papers, however, look upon
polygamy as an evil of so frightful
mien that even to associate with such
lawbreakers as these Mormon leaders
should disqualify a man to associate
with our senators. “Does not Mr.
Jsmoot’s representative relation to a
band of confes.sed outlaws disqualify
him in good conscience from member
ship in the senate?” asks the Philadel
phia Ledger, and the New Orleans
Times-Democrat and the Norfolk Vir
ginian-Pilot think it tioes. The latter
paper refers to Mormonisni ;is “a con
spiracy to commit crime,'’ and it de
clares that to seat one of its leaders
in the s(‘iiate “would be nothing less
than an infamy and a shame.”
Teaching Hoys a Trade.
Because of his humane <Iealings w’ith
3'outhful olfendei's and the interest he
has taken in criminal and truant lads.
Judge lienjamin li. Lindsey, who pre
sided over the juvenile court of Denver,
has become a recognized authority, and
for that reason an artick* by him iii
the Denvt*r News is interc'sting.
The pith of .Iudg(> Lindsey's ar.gu-
ment is that the public school sysioiu,
.uenerally siieaiiing, is not fair u> the
boy, in that it does not give a trade as
well as an education, lie says t!u;t 50
per cent of the boys he sends to the
state reform school come from the
public schools, wlu*re the lad has had
no oi)j»oi'tunity to acqiiir<‘ an occupa
tion. II** speaks of one habitual truant
wlu) wanted to h*arn to he a idumber
while si'curing an educatif)u.
Sununed up, it all amounts to a re-
afhrmation «f the old saying that Satan
<-an lind things for an idle hand to do.
’I'eacli tlu' boy a useful trade, let him
believe that h(' is acconii)lishing some
thing (hat will i»roduce r(‘sults in later
life, and the danger of developing
criminal tendencies is minimized.
The Statue of Frederick.
The :icc<‘iHanee by this .government
of the statue of Frederick the (Jreat,
the gift of the prc'sent (Jerman emper
or, h:is led to no little *riticism in vari
ous quarters, to which a rej)ly has been
ni;ide by Dr. .[allies, president of the
Norlhwt'stern university. Dr. .Tames
holds, in tlu‘ lirst i)hue, that the .gift
was a signal proof of the desire of the
kaiser to cultivate friendly relations
with the United States and that it
ought to b(* jici-epted in the spirit in
wiiich it was orieri'd. Amon.g g(*ntle-
nien tliere can hardly Itt' two o]»inions
on that ph;i.se of the (pu'stion. The em
peror gave us that which was most pre
cious in his si.Lrht. To r(‘fuse it or to
receive it grudgin.Lrly or to deny it a
.suitable resting place would be an af
front to a great fri(‘ndly nation to
which we are .Mllicd b.v ti(.*s of kinship
only less stron.g than those which bind
us to (Ireat F.ritain. There are Ameri
cans who do n;)t greatly admire Fred-
ei'ick, but, says Dr. .laiiH's, we should
h('pe that even those would have a
pk'asant word for the donor of the
statue because of the spirit which
prompted the gift.
All this may bo true, but a statue of
Coethe, of Humboldt, of Mommsen or
of Ilelmholt/. would have nu>t a hearti
er welcome from the i>eople of the
irnited States, including those of (ler-
man ori.gin. Not an objeclion would
have been heard had the emperor sent
us the statue of one of these great Ger
mans instead of that of his Avarlike
ancestor, and the expression of .good
w’ill -which he sou.ght to convey would
have been more effectually accomplish
ed.
The .governor of Ohio nii.ght get some
pointers on the way to prevent lynch
ing by conferring with the governor of
;\Iississii)pi.
The proposed legislation to prohibii
the giving away of coupons would tend
to confine the use of cigarettes to peo
ple who have the poor taste to like
them for their own sake.
LOW RATES
TO
California and the
NORTHWEST!
PACIPX
.r-
RASLWAY
Will sell daily betw^een Sept<-‘tn}x*r
loth and Novtnnber .‘{Uth. litU.J, low rale
colonist tickets to points in
Washington,
Oregon,
California,
Montana,
Idaho,
Wyoming,
Colorado,
Nevada,
Utah,
Jtrizona and
Mew Mexico,
.Short line, quick time, no bu> traii'K‘r«i, iwe
re liiiinu '•ii;ii|.,.:,,s.
For r t s. xjlnilu I's, nuips and niK ;tir»;ni i-
■ loll \\T te to
F. E. CLARK, W. T. SADriDERS,
Tiavelin;; I\.ss. A-t. (Jen. A'-ct. Uept.
A l l.A NT.A. (4A.
Spartanburg, - S. C.
SASH l{()i:(;jl aiJff
BOORS DIIKSSKH
BLINDS T/L-MP>KK
Iron work and castinj^s of everv
description. Estimates lurtii^heil
promptly on nil work.
Wm. M. JONES, Pres, and Trgas.
J. A. MULLINAX, Supt.
BREVARD
Why send your money aljr(ta(I
when you can get lower jx icts at
home for
Turned Columns
and all other turned woi lv.
Door and Window Frames
mantels and all similar niachiiie
work. Call and see me bel'ore
sending orders away.
Very truly,
Kilpatrick’s & Kincr,
J. M. KILPATllICK, Manager,
Galloway, Ouckwortli & Co.,
REAL ESTATE DEALEBS,
Rooms 3 and4, McMinn Block, Brevard, N. C,
Buy and sell all kinds of I?eal Kst;u»',
(Jolleet rents, and attend to jirop-
erty when owner is absent.
Farming and Timlier Lands a Specialty'.
Keep 3"oup eye on the Contest,