Our County—Its Progress and Prosperity the First Duty of a Local Paper. 'T. J. MIjS'EU. Maniiu'cv BREVAED, TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY. N. C., FlflDAY. SFPTEMltEE 15. 1905. VOL. X-NO. 37 Dunns Rock'Lodge No. 267 Jl. F. -A. M. Meets Friday on or before the full moon in each month, at 2 p. m. Visitinjr Masons are cordially invited to meet with us. sptly Wm. Maxwell, Scc'</. Transylvania Lodge No. 143, Knights of Pythias Kesjrular convention ev ery Tuesthiy ni»!ht in Ma sonic Hall'. Visitin«r Knij^hts are cordially in vited to attend. HILARY B. BRUNOT,C. C. Brevard Teieptione Exchange. iiouKs: Daily—7 a. m. to ID p. m. Sunday—S to II) n. ni.. 4 to <5 p. m. Central (.)ttiee—McMinn Dlock. Professional Ccrds. W. A. GASH, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Rooms 7 & 8, McMinn BId'g, Brevard, K. G. W. B. DUCKWOKTH. ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Investigation of Land Titles a Specialty. Kooms 1 and 2, Pickelsimer Buildinjr. ZACHARY & BR.EESE ATTORN EYS-AT-LAW Offices in McMinn Blcci(, Brevard, H. C. WELCH GALLOWAY, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Practices in all the courts llooms 5) and 10, M«‘Minn lilock. D. L. ENGLISH LAWYER Koom.s 11 and 12 McMinn lilock, BllKVAIUX X. Miscellaneous. The JEthelwold I?revard's New Hotel—Modci'n Ap- ]>ointments—Open all the year. The patrona<:e of the*, travelinjr pnhlic as well as summei* tourists is solicited. Opi). Court House, Brevard. N.('. A FREE PATTERN (yoiir own KolectimO to every siib- scribiT. Only 5‘> Cfiiis a year. A LAOlfS’ MAGAZfNL A prm; be.ujtjftjl colorf*f1 platrs; latest (a<tjions ; jkini;^ tconcrnics ; fancy wi>rk ; h*»4isehol(l hint'.; h(.tion, etc. Sub* srribe tt’-iliiVf or, st-r.d tc for c<»py Latly aj^ciiis wanted. Send for terms. Styli‘=li, Reliable, SimpU*, T"p-to- date, Kc<MU»mic't 1 atul Perfeci-Fittiiiy l*ap*‘r Piiiierns. All Seams Allowed and Perforations show the Basting and Seving Lines. Only lo »nd 55 cents each—none hi>;hfr A»’k for them Sol<i in nearly every ciiy and tuwn, ort^yxnan from THE McCALL CO.. II3-II5-II7 West 3Ist St.. NEW YORK. b^MaBMBHnanMBMmMBxanaBsaaiBBSi^ !3NIVERSn'^ Q0LLE8E OF 8t^EBSeENEs«;?,1°- MEDSGIME-DEWTlSTRY-PHflRi^ACY r Modern Laboratories in charge of specialists. J Quiz System. Superior Clinics. (. Bedside teaching in our own Hospital. For detailed inform.ation, write THE PROCTOR. THE EAliMEirS LOSS. COST OF HAULING PRODUCTS OVER UNIMPROVED ROADS. To l>ottor advcrtiso tlif> SoiitJiVs l.eadin); Collejjp, just ;i few scholarship..; are Otlere<l in c*;urh scotioii at less tliaii cost. DON'T DKI.AV. WHITK TOI>\V EA-AlA.BIJSIfflSSC0LLE8E.M3C0ll.(ia Secrotnry of the >I«»rtoii on AmtM-ica’N Poor Ilii^hwitys—JIow IIo AVonl«l Itiiitrove Thom — Kxtrava- KHiiee of Dad KoailN. “I haven't a hit of doubt f.i.-it I’.-iul 3Iorton will make a good secretary of the navy.” said a Kansas (’ify man lo a ropresontjitive of the Kansas (’ity 8tar recently. “No douht lu* will he of frreat value to the f^overnnient tlu're, hut If 1 had heen presiilcnt-try t<> imairine it—I Mould have used Mr. Morton for a new cabinet pla.ce. IIo would have been at the head of t.he department of roads not railro;uls. but county road.<5, highways. That’s it; he’d be se('retarj’ of hiuhway.'!. :ind the inirpose of his departnu'nt would Ix* to b’.iild and ninintain roadways- fine, smooth highways from oni^ end of the country to tlie other. “1 was riding through Kansas with him one day when he was s<vond vice president of the Atchison, Topekji and Santa Fe railway. The train stoppcnl at a tanlc, and we watched ;i farmer trying to make t\vo lino horses drag a wagon loatl of wheat through mud that came to tlu‘ hubs. “ ‘There's a good examido of it.’ said Morttni. ‘That man h;;s prohal)ly (’.riv en live or six' miles through soft roads to bring that wheat to m;irkeJ, ;ind it is doubtful if he has considered the loss in time and money mud highways mean to him. The jtoople seem to lake bad roads as a matter of course. No man would think of thrissliing wl;o:it with a Hail nowadays, l»ut stil! ilicy use seventeenth century roads—!-o:i(h; ‘JiX> years or more bi'hind tlie rest of the farm e»iuipmont. “ ‘That farmer back there probal)Iy lives live un'ies from the shii)]>ing point, and it costs him as nnich to haid a load of wheat to the mill Jis the raihvay comriany charges to liaul it IMKI mih>s to Kansas (Mty. The time and lalior given to hauling tha.t lo::d of whe:it to mark(‘t are a direct tax on the fanner and in(i!rt‘ctiy on the consumer. (lood roads to market save money for farm ers as directly as do imi)rove(l ma chines. “ ‘My idea Is that hibor organizations and the farmers b\' working together could bring results, and rniick oih‘s. T!ie laboriiig man is inter<‘st<.Ml on the otlier side -a.s a consumer. P.esiih's, tlie workingman's i>ro(hicls are returned to the farmer, «nd there is another n(*c><l- less tax eoll(M-ted by bad roaiis. If I were' a leader of organize.I labor 1 would do what I could to have both of the gn'at political parties dechire for tli(* use of convict lal)or in road build ing a!ul denovince the inainifact\ire of sl.oes. agricultural impl(*nients, <-ooi)or- at:e and so on by j)risoners. T?uilding of highways is a public service, and it seems to me that it is the right direc tion in which to emi)Ioy ablebodied peo ple maintained at public exj»ense. “ ‘I am sure that the railroa.ds would be glad indeed lo carry stone and otlier raw nuiterial at a very low r;ite for road improvements. Material could bo prepared in the prisons, so Iceeyiing down the number of convir*ts who would have to be at woriv on the road proper. The railways appreciate Avhat goo<l roads mean to them. The llrst result would be a din'ct saving in time and money to the farmer, giving him a better chance to im])rove his land. Tlie more the soil produces the better for the railway in that territory. “ ‘The chief ohjectl!)n to farm life is tlie lack of so( iety. The t<'Ir-plione has overcome that to some extent, but any young f<‘llow on the farm v. ill tell you tl’.at a t('lephone conversation is a poor substitute for an evening drive in a buggy. The men in the country have tlic buggies and surreys and horses, but they can be used only about haif the time. Mud to the hubs I " ‘A farmer on average country roads in av(‘rage weather, rain and shine, with two horses may haul two loads of sixty bushels of wheat each in a d.vy to town, say five miles awjiy. His time and team are worth a day at least. He can get tliat much working on a railroad. Now, that means it costs him 2Vo cents a bushel to haul that 120 busliels of Avheat to market. Say he raised thirty bushels of wheat lo the acre, just to be liberal, drayage alone costs him 7i5 cents an acre. On corn it would cost him $1. That’s what you miglit call heavj’ taxes, and most of the farmers are paying it every year without realizing it. “ ‘On a good macadamized road, laid out with respect to the topography of the country, the same team could Easi ly hauL twice as much as on a mud road. That would reduce the cost of transportation by one-half-cut down the farmer’s drayage taxes from an acre to HO cents. Resides, any farm in touch with good roads would be worth ?10 an acre more than the same land on a no bottom highway.’ “It was all very simple, the Avay Morton told It,” the Kansas ('ity man continued, “and most convincing. You’d hav(‘ thought he was driving a wheat wagon <‘very day in the ye.ar. And the best of It all is that he was right.” IiiippovInK’ 01«1 Roaclft. Frequently old roads can bir improv ed at very little addCKi cost, says the American Agriculturist. Thoroughly drain by using tile and render more efUcient the open ditches along the sides. Careful artention to the road surface, keeping it pmooth and free from hollows, avIII result in very mark ed Improvement. Sand and gravel add ed to a claj' road will often make it much better, and clay added to a sand road fre(]uontly is of great l)oncfit. I'ill- ing hollows is one of the most effective methods of Imiiraving roads in a rougli CHaintrj'. The soil is e;isily dragged into the hollows, and the grade is thus ma terially reduced. FATAL TO GOOD ROADS. ' drain Is as effective both for removing the water and supporting the metaling as side drains and a telford base. Its cost is approximately 77 cents per lin eal foot of road less than construction with a telford base and two drains and cents less than the same base with a single side drain. This system of construction Is direct- ly opposite to that advocated in most of the accepted mamials on the sub ject. The old Idea has been to get the water oIT tlie roadbed just as (Hiickly as i)ossible. To accomplish this the subgrade has been crowned and rolled! and the lov.'or courses of stone are coarse and often of considerable thick ness. By the new system of construction the water remains on the roadbed and is collected by the outlet drains at fiftj' foot points, the draining not being dis turbed along each side of the road, but concentrated at a regular series of points. Bad DrainaKi* Will Kniii the ^lost Kxpen.slve lUs'hwaj'. An esso’itial feature of a good road is good drainage, and the princii)les of good drainage rom;;in the same wheth er the roads h.e constructed of earth, gravel, shells, stone or asphalt, says a writer in tl:e Kansas City Star. The lirst d('mand of good drainage is to at- t<'U(l to th.e shape of road s'irf;i»’e. This must be “crowned.” or roimd(>d U]) to ward the middle, so that there may be ' a sligiit fall from the middle to the sides, thus ('ompelling the wattM' to t!ow from the surface into the gutters THE MAIN ESSENTIAL. Drainnpro, >‘ot ThifUnes.<» of >Ietal- in^, MakcN a Good Ituad. It is instructive to observi* how stead ily the feeling is growing that drain age and not thirkness of metaling is the main es.sential in road building, says tiie Engineering Record. Howev er much we may respect the memories of IVlacadam. Telford and other great road builders who first led public au thorities toward a sensible method of construction for country highways, the fact remains that many of then* recom mendations are now known to be mis leading. Their advice was important at the time when it Vv'as given, but it i.s not in keeping M'ith the broader knowledge of tlie present time, gaiiu\l by careful examination of roads built in strict conformity Avith Avell known si)ccifications. Years ago the theory of thin roads, with a V shaped drain along the cen- ter^^ received_ favor. Thi^ V shaped The Vnlne of Good Ronds. There could be no better investment of the i)ublic funds than in road Im provement. By improving and shorten ing the road to market millions of dol lars’ worth of products that are nov/ a dead loss would be turne<l into money ajid the price of all commodities would be reduced to the consumer, giving the producer a greater profit than he is now receiving. The congestion of business during winter months would disap pear, and iieople could go to the mai‘- kets at all times. The material ad- vantacres which would follow are too numerous to mention and too great to estimate. He would be blind indeetl who could doubt the wisdom of such an investment. Rural Delivery Notes The number of pieces of mail deliver ed by the carriers in the rural districts last year was 00d,424.121, and the aver age number of ijioces per caiTier was 3..‘i(50. At the same time the carriers collected 1.33,lS:i.:i.'31 pieces of mail, an .average of ('>04 per carrier. I.,. A. Clark of ^lichigan has been a rural free delivery carrier since ISOt; and during this time has ridden an ag gregate of 20,000 miles on his bicycle alone. The i)opularity of the rural free de livery service is seen in the fact that 0.447 nmtes were established during the past year. rOT NTllY KOAD AFTFlt A STOIill. and from there discharged in turn into larger and more open channels. There is often danger, however, in making the “crown” too pronounced, in which rase the water Hows so rapidly to tl.e gutters that it cuts v.-ays into the sur- f;’.ce. Water from hillsides should never 1)0 permittCHl to flow across the road. Cul verts, tile or stone drains should be pnt- vid(Hl for that purptjse. liuLs. Avheel tracks, holes or hollows in a ro.'.dway hold water, and that which is I’.ot (‘V;\jK)!’atcd is absorbed by the material of which the road is coii- struct<‘d. In thi.s case the material loses its solidity, softc'ns and yields t • the iiiipact of tlu; horses’ feet and th(> wheels of the vehicles until tli(‘ sur face is complcti'ly d(‘stroyed and the road is readv for a new contriict. America’s “Smart bet.” la our more primitive days tlio schoolmaster was counted as the “i^martest” person in the community where he labored. Ih; could teach, of course, preach sometimes too. lie could lecture and generally couhl sing. Some of the fraternity <-ouid ]>lay. and all could Avork outdoors in r. prr.ch at farming or lumhoring. If it <-an;e to that, the schooimasicr coul',1 tlir.-i.-h tiie village bully and other ol)str*';)croiis grownups. Unless things are altogetli- er out of joint the Kvicln'r of today is relatively :is “sniart” as in the i)ast. And how the number has grov/nl Tlu're .are over three-tjuarters of n miilion nu'n and Avomen eng:igcd in various blanches of instruction in t!il.; country today in the schools alone. Th.at maiies a “smart set” Avorth con.ddering. It is as true now as it v.jis i:i the past that in the popular mind “K'acluT Avill knoAv” everj" puzzling (juestion and “teacher can do” Avhatt'ver is wortli doing. As a rule, te;ichers are not smart at money grubbing, l)Ut that is no evidence that they f;iii to get great good out of life, Avhile tlie publii* thrives on their talents. A "simpk; j life” is their lot, but they tliink nobly and act Aveil. AVith ambitions higlK'r than mere money making, they may be the su]H-riors of those Avho surpass them in material achievements. Noaa' that the land is rich, th.e standards of living and the co.?t of in-eparation for teachers higher, they shoukl not be OA'erlooked in the handing out of aAA'ards. They should not bi* pushed into the background by a smartness Avhich is simply audacitA’. ilization by the use of the AA'ireless telegrai)li. The outtit of this daring explorer is described in the Hamburg News as folloAA’s; Tiie balloon will be provided with an elcctrical motor which v%ith one charso Aviil run for 200 hours and Avhlch occupio.s a very small space. The motor Aviil bo UEc-d only when the Avind i-s wealv or A\'hen it is desired to deviate from the diroctioi) of the wind. But even Avith continual use of the motor three char.ijts will last COO hours, or twenly-five days. T.'io ba.sk-jt is In the form of a great .‘square fastened to the balloon by a mantle and not by a net. The bnFkot is al.so large enougli to permit the occupants to lie down. ai;d a ncAv arrancrement for rontrolling the gas f=r.pp!y can V>o oporfiled from the basiv<*t. The V)asket may b<- clo.sc-d at tiie toi> so that in ease of a fall into th'i sea it is buoyant. Sand is not to be u.sed as bal last, the ordinary provisions acting as such. Marsillac is provided with several in struments uiiknowu to Andre, the most important being knoAvn as the ther mogen. This instrument Avill negative the effect of cold on gas. It is the oiiin- ion of Marsillac that Andre’s balloon lost its buoyancy through the cooling and contraction of tiio gas. Tracinjf Back; a Common Sayliisr. It is a curious bit of literary exercise to take a common saying and tr<;ce it back to its origin. Take the common saying, for instance, ‘“All that glitters is not gold.” It is found in current literature e\'orywhere «nd in a dozen different forms. Hryden reiulers it, “All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.” Spenser says, “(ioid all is not that doth golden seem.” Lydgate has the same idea in the Avords, "All is not gold that outAvard sheweth l-right.’' Ch;uicer expresses it in somcAvIiat tlil- ferent phraseology. Middleton has it. “All is not gold that glisteneth,’’ anti Shakespeare says, “All th;it glistens is not gold.” (lO a little farther back, hoAA'ever, and the same exin-ession is found Is the monkish collection of proverbs, and there is no doubt if a classical scholar Avere to set to Avork with the determination to hunt the proverb doAvn, no matter Iioaa' long it took, he Avould lind it in Latin, Greek and most other ancient and dead lan guages. It is a natural outgri)AVth o^ sarcasm as apj>Iied to fictitious show .and is no doubt ;is old as the science of metal Avorking. Entrai>i»iiis;r Mtirine Monsters. On the northern co;i'-t of Norway th<> ti>h(‘rmen get a yearly harvest from l!te Avhales Avhich Siray into th.i har bors. At certain lo'-a.lities, Avhero tiu? bays are almost landlocked, lofty sta.nds are erected, sirnilar to the otter outlooks on the north I’acitic, and Avhcn a school is sighted scores of bo;its put out and, by the simph’ process of driving, lu:ndre<ls of the oil producing cetaceans are entrapi)ed. Th.e Faroe isla.nds are famous for this method of AA ualing. One of the largest ciitches ever made Avas in Hvartiord. Iceland, Avhcre eleven hundred Avere driven asliore. The blackfibh, or Avhales, come doAvn the Atlantic coasts from the north, encounter shalloAA water, then folloAV it along and are naturally led into the cul-de-sac await ing them. Here the boat;s easily sur round and drive the Avhales in. Racing Peary With a Kalloon. An adventurous Frenchman, M. Mar sillac, is to venture on an expedition into the arctic regions in a balloon. Andre's failure has not deterred Lim, and he oA’en expects to Avin success AA'here the latter fotmd death by mak ing use of the lessons of the latter’s failure. M. Marsillac intends to keep in constant communication with civ Attackod i>y a 3lob ami beaten, in a lalxu’rio t, unti! cov ered with sores, a CJiica^o street car coiuluctor a[>p!ied iiuekh'ii’s Arnica Salve, and was soon sound and well. “I use it in luy lamily,'’ writes C. J. Welch of Telvonsha, Mich, ‘-and find it perfect.’’ Siniply j;reat for cuts and burns. Only at Z. \V. Nich ols’ druj? store. Acting upon the suggestion of th*' department of commerce and l.ibor, tlie American Ex[>ort Shipping com- jiany is about to launch a lloaliiig ex position to shoAA' otf American p-rod- ucts in foreign lands. A large steam er Avith products suitably arranged Avill circle the globe and stop for dis play in the ports of the most important commercial countries Avitli a vioAV to stimulate export trade. ( liamliorlain’.K l*a;;) i>;j!i!s;. Thi.s if a liniment re'narkablo for its ffreat power over pain. It (|uickly idlay.s the excruciating? pains of rii. u- matistn and makes slee[> and r<*st possible. For sale by Z. \V, Xichole, I^revard and O. L. Erwin, Calvert.

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