Sylvan Yalley News
Our County—Its Progress and Prosperity the First Duty of a Local Paper.
•T. J. MIXER .Mnnauei-
BREVAR]), TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY. N. C., FRIDAY. SEPTEMI5ER 8, 1005.
VOL. X-NO. 80
Dunns Rock Lodge No. 36?
M. F. Sr -A. M.
Meets Friday on or
]>eft)re the full moon
iu each inojith. at 2 ]).
in. Visiting Masons
are ct»rdially invited
to m«‘ot with us.
sptly Wm. Maxwkli.,
Transylvania Lodge No. 143,
Knights of Pythias
WASHINGTON CHAT, 'fauj sk;n i.kjmters
It wont bo ^^00(1 for Castro if
Uncle Sam tiiid.s otit that he
wants a scrap.
The dove of ]ieace was in luck
when it took Theodore Uoosevelt
for a partner.
HOWCALIFORNIAWOMEN DESTROYED
UNSIGHTLY ADVERTISEMENTS.
Gentler Se.i; of Sun llnfiiel Elottod
Out Yellow SIkoh That nefMc«^a
Ronk Vnllej- by PnlntiiiR Them
firecji—RonilNides Xo t
I hi.s own incrennity in findtn;? respite.
‘ To ho sure, the people who eugajro<l
! fhe sii^n i)aiutor to put out their signs
I fumed :iud fretted and threatened legal
j proceed in.CCS, hut tlie lan^h of Mrs.
I S(‘h?niedeil j'.’id the joj- of the Misses
I C’oilin Jind th(?
«id(*d and abetted them show no touch
of fear that the strong Ixind of the law
Brevard Water Supply.
As unsigiitly advertising sif;ns tend
to mar the »piiearanc<‘ of tlie ap-
Deleware dropped Addicks, i proaches to a town or even the tov^n
and tlie seismographs in Indiana inter<>st to know how .*i
lleiTular convention (‘V-'and Illinois recorded an earth-I
ery Tuesday ni-ht in Ma- I ^^e.-^tiojed s<mie yellow signs
- ■ ■ • «}uai\e. 1 which Avere not i)leasing to the eye.
j. 1 ’ • , . i Through aristocratic Iloss valkv, in
It may be that the“ni-h price |(v,iifornia, and streaking out on the
of leather has something' to do l roads to Xieasio, Mill Valley. Sausa-
with Mr. Rockafeller going about I Anselmo came the sign
, • , p ^ p.-iintor man Avith vellow pots of paint,
in his bare feet.
some Hall. Visiting
Knights arc cordially in-
viUHl to attend. HILARY B. BRUNOT.C. C.
Brevard Telephone Exchange.
norus:
Daily—7 a. ni. to 10 p. m.
Sunday- S to iO a. m.. 4 to ♦! p. m.
Central Ollice—McMinn iilock.
Professional Cards.
W. A. GASH,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
Rooms 7 & 8, Mcl/linn BId’g, Brevard, N. C.
W. B. DUCKWORTH,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Investigation of Land Titles a Specialty.
Kooms 1 and 2. I’iekelsinier Buildin;
ZACHARY &. BR.EESE
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
Offices in McMinn Block, Brevard, N. C.
WELCH GALLOWAY,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW.
I’ractlces in all tlie coui-ts
Rooms !• and 1(>, McMinn IJlock.
D. L. ENGLISH
LAWYER
llooms 11 and 1l2 McMinn Hlock.
iirj:vAi:i). x. r.
Miscellaiieous.
The JEthelwoLd
Brevard's New Hotel—Modern Ap-
l)ointments—Oj»en all the year.
The ])atronage of the traveling pniilic
as well as summer toucl.''ts i.^ solicited.
Op]i. Court House. Iii'evard. X.C.
f
C (yiMir own sclfctH'iii to rvory sub-
■ ''OrihiT. Only N’ coins .i vc:ir.
A FREE PATTERN
A lADIES’ MAGAZINE.
A crm; hcuiHilnl r,.ior. <! [ latrs ; l.ltrst
fA^h;oiis ; liri-NMii.ik ti - i iivtiimiifs ; fancy
work; liuiiM-li.ili! I.mis, In tuin, rtt.
sirihc to fir, '■.•rij tr f' r l.ur-t copy
L.»dy w Sc: <! f.ir tri ms.
Stvli^ih. Roliahlo, Simple. I'p-to-
date, i'.con.<niic.il A lisoiutely
Perfcci-L'iltinji 1‘apiT Palterus.
MCCALL
uaBB»'TwiTTriiMigg»Biaa''<BiuiJ^^
All Seams Allowed snrt Perferclinns show
the Basting and Sewing lines.
Only to And 15 c^nts -ror r
Ask for thrrn S«.IU in iirai’y cvcr> cilf
and town, or by luari from
THE McCALL CO..
1I3-II5-I17 West 31st St.. NEW YORK.
UNf¥ES!SET? OOHIESE
OF MEDIC!NE,SrA°-
MEDICINE-DEWTISTRY-PHflRMACY
r Modem Laboratories la charge of specialists.
J Quiz System. Superior Clinics.
I Dedside teaching in our own Hospital.
For detailed information, ■'vn'te THE PROCTOR.
The Republiciii] c()u!icil of
Cleveiaiicl, Ohio .really inightba ve
known betttM* than to have tala-ii
'"J'oni Johnson for a fool.
“A teacher born, not made.’*
is the opinion of the Portland.
Oreironian. Wrong, ‘“Necessity'*
makes them by tlie regiment.
Gov. Vardaman is cooling off a
little as he is about convinced that
Louisiana did not contrac^t the
yellow fever just to spite him.
Atlanta might make a generous
appropriation to })rovide its may
or with soft drinks, and thus
••coax” him on the water wagon.
As a holder dowti of th(ilid, the
Pi‘('sident is not to be compared
with Secretary Taft if that Wes
tern earthquake is any indication.
A Los Angeles man has been
discovered wiiose heart is on the
•‘riglit side.” His name isn’t
•'L^^gion” liowever much to our
regri't.
The “cotton statistics" exile
colony of the Agriculture T)o]iart-
ment, now in Ei;i'op(\ is reportcul
prosperous and increasing in
nu mb('rs.
Tho Chinese have pi-oniiscnl to
sto)) tlu^ boycott, “but it is eas-
iei' to stai't a bf)vcott than to stop
ono” according to the^San Fran-
{*isco examiner.
Now that Ivussia and Jaiian
have come to terms, Gov. Varda
man and the Louisiana authorities
l)iick iu yellow the si^^ns that now are
luidistinguished under their coat of
gr('en.
snys a San Uafael dispatch to the Sau
Francisco Exaniiiier. He iK'uaiihed the
fences and th<‘ rocks aud the dead
walls, and ho told, as sij;n painters do,
t)f lh(‘ marvels of corn (.‘iires, of the
jrloric's of wart eradi<-ators. of how
baby carriages nii^ht he purchased iu
hardware stores, and how nurslnj^ bot-
lU's Avere for sale at dry j^oods eni-
l»(»riums.
The work of the sijijn i>ainler was not
I)leashi" to the eye. He daubed in y(>l-
low, juid yellow never did j;o well with
;rreen. AH lJ»e countr^ hereabout,
from the bastioned glories of I'anitil-
l>ais to Avhere the tinkliiifr (‘ow ln'Ils
and the rr.stllu}' skirts go gayly up ihe
bypaths to I’astori’s, is all iu green.
There is an artistic sense in Koss
v.'slley aud the country tln'reabout.
'I'hat sense was arouf^ed against the
si^'U painter man and his ocher inva
sion. The artistic sense grumbled and
trlowerc'd and talked on the train. The
men said it was a great shame that
green n.ature should be so profaned by
tluv^e str(>aks of v«*llow, but the men
of th(‘ community had a streak of yel-
li>v,' in thems.'lves. and they <lid noth
ing but t.'ilk aud grumble on the traiu.'^.
r>ut then uj) Jir(>se the women of
Iit»ss valley, as I'oso Xarifa Axiit'n she
laid her g('kh‘n cushion down, or as u|)
rosf i1k* historic women of Marble-
ht'ad when they tarred and ft>;uhcr(Ml
and carri(‘(l in a cart old I'lood lre.-;ou,
whose hard lu>art led him to sail away
from f(‘llow s<*ann*n in distress. These
women had the same artistic* sense as
tht* men. but they hiid more courage 1 thi* maintenance
:’.nd mi»r(‘ action. They were hnl by j Rut the fact is
Mrs. J], (J. Schmied«‘]]. witJi Miss Nath-
:.li(‘ (’otiin and Miss Sara Cotiin as her
active lieutenants. These three women
c;athered around them a few (Others of
(heir se.x and tln'y cpiickly but (piietly
det<-riiiined that those yi-llow signs
.should no longer mar the beauty of
the 3Iarin laii(ls<*ape. They cared not
for the .admonition to buy corn plas
ters at Smith’s. Nothing to them was
Ihe announcement that bargains iu
kidney cures were to be h:ul at the
corner store of Jones. Their souls did
not thrill ov»*r the alluremenrs for the
[)urchase of seedless sowers and track
As a matter of interest to the
many strangei’s now within our
gig.£ries of those who | borders, as well as to the homo
i consumers of the Brevard water
will compel them to go forth and put ■ take pleasure in pub
lishing the following analysis
made by (rerald IVlcCarthy, stale
1 t 1 biologist, and forwjirdod from
Japan and Manchuria. i 1? j • 1 ri >
Now aud theu it crops out that after ' ^i^h to J. S. JjOsu^'II, Super-
all it is a case of “dog eating dog” j intendent of the lirevard Water
that is raising all the hubbub in the far 1 Com])any Aug. i’ll. To those who
east. .Japan an.l Ku.ssia were after tl>e ' seeking -good wat(‘r” there
same thing-that is to say, the inside 1 1 •
no necessity lor looking be-
track m exploiting the resourci's of 1 ^
yond Brevard to titid it. Here is
the analysis;
resourc(‘s of
China. Russia was all jiowerful in
that tield before because she controlled
the railroads and the banking fjicilities.
She claim(‘d bc'fore Ihe Avorld vh;it she
was mainlaining her far ('astern arma
ment simply to protect !u*r commercial
interests. And in spite of tJie (‘xhaust-
ing Avar, Avhich is taxing tlu> energy
and r(*souri*es of tin? Ja[»s, they :ire
'■J''em])erature. <'—Turbidity. O;
sediment, 0; cf)lo;-. O: odor, 0; i-ea-;-
tion, neutral.
('hlorides ])er .'u:'lion ])art.s, 2.7:
Nitrites •• .o;
Nitrates ■■ •• trac'.i
Alum, 0: fi-ee ainmonia. albu-
braiK'hing out into eiit(‘ri>rises Avhich ' minoid ammonia.
look to the conunercial future of Mati-
elnn-ia and incidt'ntally of China prop
er.
T iiless matters go contrary to all
prec(‘dent ^Manchuria Avill never slunij)
back into th(‘ semibarb:irism of t!ic
past. The land Avill be worked f(;r a!i
it is Avorth, and outsiders will do ihe
busint'ss and reap tlu* liarA'est. .lapan
is knoAVU to be put to it to raise mon-
I ey for her Avar clu'st, yet she embarks
in vast i-ailroad enterprise's to connect
her island realm Avith all Mancliu!-ia.
Ordt'rs have bc'en pl.'iced for I’ailv.ay
material to (‘over the import.-int poiiit'^
of tlu* country crosswise* from tlu* Yalu
on the east, to the sea on the Avest aud
leugtliAvise from Port Arthur to Har
bin. The eijuipnu iit includes :{."0 steel
l)ridg<*s, ir>(» locomotives and cars
j Contains—Alg:e. none; infusoria,
j none: organic deti ilus. none; bacl*,-
ria. common saprophytic only.
! riemarks—( Jood water.
I If people who come to the moun-
I tahis Tor a .summer outing wjiut
I good water wIiIIh hero’ I’.iH'vard is
Ithe place to tiiul it. At least this
aiKilysi.s hy the state cli(‘mist proves
that we have it.
^ l»y :i .">Iob
and beaten, in a l.ibor riot, until cov-
en>d witli sores, a Chicago street car
coJiductor applied I5uckl<'n‘.s Arnica
; .Salve, and w.is soon sonnd and well.
“1 use it in mv taTiiilv,’’ ^v^ites^:. J
I . ^ 7
Welch of Tekonsh-a, .Mich, “and find
and is out of all i>roportion for th(* use it i)erfect.’’ Siiiiply great for cut^
of tlu* feAA' singU* track lin(*s that did
tlu' bnsin(*ss of the country in the
]ir;st, iiu-luding Jiussia’s military trans
portation, Avhich Avas heavy.
Tlu* puri)ose of tlu* cont('st in Man
churia has been stat(*d by .Japan to ?)e
of the “o'len door."
sugg(*sliv(* that her
orders for niilu-ay mat(‘rial were
placed Avith tlu* utmost s(*crecy and
that tlu'y w(*re hm-ry orders. Evident- ond Sunday in Sept(‘inber
]y .lapanese interests ni-e to be the j lu'ginning at 10 a. m. All are in-
llrst Jind the b!gg(*st factor involved in
the problem Avh(*n the door is barred
open and liussla out of tlu* way.
atul burns. Only i’">c at Z. W. Nich
ols’ drug stort^.
Old Tims Singing at CGnneslee.
i'ditor Sylvan Valley News;
There will be an old time sing-
inir at Connesteo church the sec-
ought to patch up a truce and let ! ^'agons at the emporium of Brown.
, . - 1 Tlu'y even put Ix'hind them all thou.tcht
US have universal peace.
Miss Tarbeli’s Historical 3It*thod.
Jieviewing Miss hia Tarbcil's sl'.;.:y
of .lolin 1>. Iiockef(.*ller. a AAriter in the
(Jateway, Hetroit, tak(*s an unusn;;!
and a s(*ver(*]y cri.ic.-tl vi.'W of the
Avork. He saA s:
A Florida |)aper ])ubli(*ly ex-
presst's the opinion tiiat •‘there is
from which one mav infer that not
much attention is giveti to“liorse
racing” in the Editorial Sanctum.
put
of th(' m.arkt'd doAvn advantages in
lingerie and dn'ss goods offered by
Robinson.
TIu'v (h‘t(*riained that those signs
iu)thingsouncertainas baseball " blotted from the feiic(*s an.l
’ the rocks and from tlu* dead Avails.
With a line id(*a of an artistic rc'venge
tiu'y (lecliled that green should b(* the
color that sliould blot the yellow from
the landscape. And to d(*ciJe Avith
them Avas to act. They .secured pots of
gi'een paint and heavy brushes, and iu
their t(>a carts aiui tub carts they Avent
forth in tlu* gniy of the daAvn and la
bored as the Scriptural laborer.s Avorked
in tlu* viu(\A’ard.
Whenner they foimd a yelloAV sign
they d;uib(*d it OA-er Avith a coat of
green. Even the Avhite sign and tlie
ri'd sign anti the multicolor(*d sign Avere
not sj)ared. Wherever a sign could be
pulU'd doAvn it Avas carried away in
stead of being painted over. .S.t night
the Avork of defacenuMit and elimina-
■ vited to come and bring full bas
kets. Dinner will be served on
Mhe ground at the church. Fol-
I lowing is the programme:
.'Ringing at o'clock a. ni. by We-;-
ley McColl.
.Sunday School at In a, m.
Preachhig at II o'clock by I'ev. ,].
: A. .Sharpe.
Dinner at T2 in. >Iiarp.
Singing- f’rotn - to t p. ni. by We.s-
ley McCall atul others.
A special invitotion is extended
I'll t rust
The faith Avhich I’lu-le .T.ames nol)bs
had always kept in tlu‘ accuracy of ii-
lustrations in his favorite magazine
w:is sadly sh.iken iifter his visit to the
bot:nii<-al g:)rd(“ns.
When Mrs. Hobbs calUvl his atten
tion to a pictun* of a ('ut»an village in
the next issu(? of the magazine he look-
(*d at it doubtfully.
“More than likely it doesn’t look that
Avay at all.” he said. d(*jection ]>lainly
AA'ritten all oA’er his drooping ligure.
‘T nev(*r told ye about my disapp’int- 1 *h)U Avas con;plete.
ment sitting under one o’ those pa’m
trees in the gardens. Why, the pic-
tun*s in t!ie magazine g.ave such a
i shade to them Arabs undenu*ath I’d
i alwaj’s Avanted to sit under a pa’m
j tree. But I tell ye, after ti-ying it that
! blistering hot day
tliiidc of exi»*cting
FOR *
To I'OMcr advnrtivo tlu* SoiifJi’rt l.fadiiiK
C«»He);c, just :i fi'w s(‘h<>!arships are
ill '"ach st'ftion at tliaii cost.
DOV'l' DKi.AA'. WIU'J'K TOD.W.
San Anselmo arose the next morning
to lind a green bridge in place of a yel
low one. ]\lill Valley knew no more of
corn phisters or of easy aids to indif-
fer(*nt digestion. Where the dust^'
roads of Nieasio lead into the dim be-
I’d jest as soon | yond the fences Avere draped in gi-een.
a ladder to shade ! "^'h-ed .nnd bedaubed, but triumphant.
nu' as a pa’m tree, and I don’t knoAA' : Mrs. Schmiedell and the Misses (’of!in
but sooner, if ’tAvas one Avhere the , tlieir feminine coadjutors returned
riuigs AV(*ren’t too fer apart. I wouldn’t i their homes feeling that they had
hiy luy calculations on ('uliy’s looking > h(*en res])onsible for a good deed Avell
too much like that picture if I was In i ^Iheir AA'rists ached and all the
^laria.^^ i l)enzine of all the aaoiKI Asould not
_ I cf)ax the greeu color from their goAvns,
I !)ut the sign l)v the Avavsi(^J no more
Head the Sylvan Valley News—offends the eye of the wayfarer and ho
per year in advance. 'who has corns ou his toes must use
>ti.vs TarboiT-s study of RockofoUc-r is !
the of a mo!i!-tor. hut, curiou.cly
the inonsier turns o’lt 10
Mis.s Tarbcll herself. She occupies tlic
ceiitor of the .slagc.
At iin pl.ioe in ]\tiss T.'irbon’F sttuly dots
it appr-ar that sho has . ver rro;;.! to Mr. j to the Suuday SclK^ols of C'arr's
Ko(.-k('f<-llr-r por.«onul!y for iiii'ornK.tii):'..
ovin on the j;r;i.v<st ch.arfsC-s v.iiich she
levels jy^iiinst him; that .'-h > ever tho’uc'.it
to a.^:k him wliat are the rno: of hi.-
life's Avork, In whose ncral n .■<ult.'^ she
Ih'.ds nothlnj? to praise, everythin.^ to de
cry. That Miss Tarl)e’.l lias the har.li-
laood to wrlto of a man v.-hom she doe;'
not quoto in his own dcfen.‘=P Is in itself a
refutation of her hone.sty of purpose, a
condemnation of her Avclfjht as a his- I
torian. j
The Avriter also declares that Miss i
Tarbeli's tactics in the treatment of I
her subject are those of “the sensa
tional journalist,” Avheri'as she pro
fesses to be a historian.
! Hill. Dunn's Creel:. East Fork,
i Cathey's ('reek rlocky Hdl and
' ()thers. Pj’eacUiiig at Carr s Hill
by Rev. .1. A.
X.
at o'clock })
I Sharpe.
m.
I)!rt KoikIn mill MnriC(!niii.
An illustration of th.e compar:’.tive
cost of haulfng OA'cr good roads and
b.nd roatis is funushed by ('. E. Ash-
bnrne, Jr., in the Louisville Courier-
.Totirnal. The Incident came under Ins
OAA*n oliservation. and the roads^ Avere
in ]\(Mitueky. He says: “A machine
W('ighing IS,non jioinuls (eig'it tons)
was druAvn four miles on the Brock
tiu-npike, a macadamiz('d road. H re-
('Uired four mules (4.000 pounds to a
mule) and oiu‘ and one-half hours of | J>tates
('IianilxM'laiii’s 5*aiii l>s)lni.
This is a limnient rjMiiarkable t*3r
I its great power over pain. It (jiiickly
' allays the excruciating pains of rlu u-
j matisin aiul uiake.-^ sleep anti rest
possible.
i For sale by Z. AV. Xichol.;. HreyarJ
: and O. T^. Erwin. t,’alvei*t.
i The Financial Times of London says
I “it is admitted that an enornunis «iuan-
I tity of British clotli is importe;! into
I the L’uited States, but it i.> only tlie
j Avealthy who can l>uy :i suit made of
: British cloih, Avhich costs from £9 up-
: Avard.” If all the nien in the I’uited
who pay for a suit of
time Jit n cost of 15 cents per mide per | clothes made of British cloth Avere
hour, or a total cost for four ndlcs of ! wealthy the country Avotild haA'o an
t)0 cents. After traveling four miles of | astonishingly long list of rich men, and
macadamized turnpike the route lay j jf j^ji those Avho paA* J?45 for a suit uu-
a little less than 2,000 feet (less^ than i iujprossion tLat they are get-
tAAo-tift IS o a mi e ®n a ( ir roa . o . clothes made of British cloth aud
travel this 2,000 feet it AA’as necessary I
to use ten of the best mules and seven I excellent Amei--
men, and with this force It took nine j substitute AA'ere included it woulrf
hours to complete the Journey.” be a great deal longer. |