Our County—Its Progress and Prosperity the First Duty of a Local Paper.
•1. J. .Maniigei-.
BREVARD, TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY, N. C., FRIDAY. SKPTEMIiER 2.'^ 1905.
VOL. X-NO. ;is
Transylvania Lodge No. 143,
Knights of Pythias
UeiTular convention ev
ery Tuesday nijiht in Ma
sonic Hall. Visiting
Knij^hts are cordially in
vited to attend. HILARY B. BRUNOT.C. C.
Brevard Telephone Exchange.
hours:
Daily—7 a. m. to 10 j). m.
Sunday—8 to 10 a. m., 4 to (> p. n».
('enti-al Oflice—McMinn Block.
Professional Cards.
W. A. GASH,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
Rooms 7 & 8, McMinn BId’g, Brevard, N. C.
W. B. DUCKWORTH,
ATTORNEY-AT LAW.
Investigation of Land Titles a Specialty.
Kooms 1 and 2, I’ickelsinier Buildinyf.
ZACHARY & BREESE
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
Offices In McMinn Block, Brevard, N. C.
The Editor's Outing.
What One Sees, Learns ann Enjop Siy Getting
from Home.
Away
WELCH CALLOWAY,
ATTORNEY-AT LAW.
Practices in all the courts
]looms 0 and 10, McMinn Block.
D. L. ENGLISH
LAWYER
lloonis 11 and ll2 McMinn lilock,
BllKVAliD. N. r.
Miscellaneous.
The JEthelwold
Brevard's New Hotel—Modern Ai)-
pointments—Open all the year.
The patronajre of the traveling- j)ublic
as well as summer toui*ists is solicited.
Opp. Court House, Brevard. X.C.
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MCCALL
fATTERNS
All Seams Allowed and Perforations show
the Bastlno and Sewing Lines.
Only JO and cents eacli—none hinh<r
Ailc for them Sold in nearly «%er> city
and town, or by min'l from
THE McCALL CO..
1I3-II5-I17 West 31st St., NFW YORK.
Entry No. 2452.
R. W. Burgess, J. A. Young A; Co. t'utcr aiifl
« laim 2.000 acivs of land, more or k*>-s, in Hoi;-
l)itt k Township, on tlie waters of White Water
river and otiiers. Hefiinning at a wiiite oak. a
corner of Gram No. 5.'4 an<i runs tlienre S s
poles to a chestntil, a corner of tiraiil No. ;
ihence W 41 i>olts to a .‘^trjkf near a mark<*(i
\\hit(‘oak ; thence S 82.5 poli-s to a stake In tlie
SHith Carolina line: tnence with said line N T1
deg K a Oi'O poles to a stake; thence N ;j;o poles
to a stHfce; thence W 7.‘>0 poles to a stjtfcc; thence
N 100 poles to stake; thfuee W 2(M j>oU;' to a stake
in the line of (iiant No. .">57; thence S with said
}ine 4(K) iK)les to its corner ; thence W -201 {)oles to
the betriniiing. Kntercd May 17. l!)().5.
Signed, H- NV HI KiiKSS,
.1. A.YOI NG.
Entry No. 2446.
state of North Carolina, Transylvania county:
• ,T. C. Wike enters and claims si.x hundred (ind
i'.trty (,<»40) acres of land iu said county, in H' g-
back township, on the watei>i of 'I'oxawity river,
begiiiniug on a fetonc, corner of the .lesse owen
tract, and run.s so as to adjoin the lanos of .lohn
Ki'her's heirs, the lands of the Toxawav Co..
and otheif!. and include vacant land. KntertHi
MarcU 2T, 190.'> This,June 14. 190">.
M. W. GALLOWAY,Kntry Taker.
I, M. NV. Galloway, Entry Taker fnrTransylva-
nia county, certify that the foregoing are true
( opiesof entries made, as will appear by refer
ence to the entry book in my office.
M.W. GALLOWAY,
lintry Taker.
Leavinjj: l^revard at 7 a. ni.
Sept. 1st. for the express pur-
]K)se of meeting a brother at the
home of his son in Petersbur^^
Va., we arrived at our destina
tion at 7 a. m. of the second.
Soon after leaving Salisbury our
train ran into a severe thunder
storm and all the way through
Virginia our journey was wet.
Arriving in Petersburg it was
still raining and from the depot
to 8olI E. Wishington street oui
street car ride and walk of three
blocks was in the rain, and we
learned that wetness had been
a prevailing condition in that sec
tion nearly all summer. Those
who feel inclined to grumblf
about Brevard weather will
please take notice that this is not
the only watery climate on earth.
t'?:tershuh(;.
This is a quaint old town of
about 1’7.0()0 inhabitants, at the
head of navigation on the Apjuv
mattox river. Like the .lames
river at Richmond the Appomat
lox is a rapid, rocky stream
above Petersburg and it has been
costing the government ab«)ut
sll.OOO annually to keep the har
bor clear of the sand and silt
washed in by the stream. The
United Stales has now under
taken to give the river a new bed
ilOO feet wide with an outlet some
i’ or o miles below the liarbor so
that the wash from the river will
not till up the harbor entranc(‘.
The contract for this river di
version has been let to the Al
lan lie Dredging Co., of which
Ch is. A. Miner is Secretary and
Treasurer. He has been in Pe
tersburg in charge of the work
nearly a year and it will take an
other year to complete it. The
government a}){)ropriation for
the work is about )?700,000, and
with the improved machinery th(>
dredging comi)any are using
there is little doubt that some
of this vast sum will remain with
the contractoi-s. The rains this
summer have delayed the work,
but at the time of our visit it was
})rogressing nicely.
Petersburg is an old town—it
was old when the revolutionary
war was in progress. We saw
dates on buildings as far back as
1785. It has one of tl:je oldest
cotton mills in the south, and
while our visit to the mill town
w’as made on Sundaj% its ad
vantages in point of comfort for
its operatives were so striking
that they claim a short notice.
Every residence in the town of
Matoaca (named for the mill) is
a comfortable cottage surround
ed by at least a quarter acre for
yard and garden. Every house
has some flowers growing in
front, and some fruit trees which
were loaded down with an im
mense crop. We saw pear trees
here, every limb propped to pre
vent breaking, and then the fruit
dragged the ground. After leav
ing behind us the barren fruit
trees in Transylvania the great
loads of fruit .all the w’ay from
Richmond to Petersburg was an
eye-op<?ner. And we ate the
most delicious, melting ])ears ev
ery day we remained in town.
Compared with the crowdtul
premises of the modern mill
town of the south this looked al
most homelike.
Wo were shown through one of
the oldest tobacco factoi'ies in
the United States—J. H. Meclin it
Son—using tin? heaviest modern
machiiK'ry and selling its entire
output in England. Not a )>ound
of its i>roduct is evoi- put <in the
nnmbor of sun spot.s and that in others
tbe variation Is inverse, vhile, :i"ain, in
other parts there seems to be no appar
ent relation at all. In fact, these deduc-
hour. We took in the trolley and
our next article will give some of
I lie things of interest seen in
Rich mtuid.
01(1 Sol as a Weather Maker.
Scionlilic incii in jrcnerul have not
been iu uccoixl witJi those students of
solar physics 'vvho profess to trace a
connection between chnnsos observed
on tlie sun’s surface ;uul the wentlier
upon this earth. The fact that one
observer asserts that sun spots favor
high teinpeniture and another declares
that they do exactly the o]>j>osite has
led
Mayor Woodward of Atlanta,
has sworn off. He will never get
drunk again, that is real drunk.
In order to liglit the beef trust
New \ork and Ne’oraska butch
ers have secured “little octo|)i”
of their ovjn.
Secretary Show might be right
in tl'iinking Uiat “now” is the
market in this country, but it
has for 4U years catered to the
English taste. We brought a
sample of its product home and
must say that we haven't a very
No mention of Petersburg
which omitted the peanut indus
try would be complete. On ev
ery hand evidences of the manu
facturing, sellin". roasting and
laymen to dismiss their claims time foi* him to ha\"e a ])residen-
tial boom if he i.s to have one at
all.
The Russian soldiers who cut
off their ‘-trigger tingers” to keep
from facing tlie .Japan»‘.‘-,(?, extend
an invitation to one and all
come and kick ’em.
The sportsman-state.sman in
Washington witli a hammerless
shotgun, is just now rejoicinir
over old Virginia’s bumper crop
of partridges.
Since he has adopted a wig and
bic3’cling, .Tolin D. Rockafe]l>*r
may drift next into the the cig
arette habit. He would look Mfty
years younger.
New (Orleans l.as learned the
lesson although it had loarned
it several times before, that ih<;
-time to tight" yellow fever is
with a smile. But Trofessor W. J. (I.
I.ofkyer, reviewing the subject in Na
ture. reeonciles these differences by ex
plaining that the earth is a large affair
find may accommo(hite two sets of
I)henomena at one and the same time.
He siiys:
T*p to the present time those who have
been atternpllnt? to explain variation.*! of
wt-ather on the supjiosition or' solar
change.s have l>C‘en looking for the effect
of sol.ir action an either Increasinj^ or
<lerre:isln^ .simultaneously the rainfall
over the Whole earth. The conseciiicnce
ha.s been that a study of a great number
of statistics has Fhown that in some re-
tions, thoujrh quite correct, h-.-e led to
the; conclusion that the solar ct,..;iection is
of a very qiiefitlonabii- character, a;; it
was conslder<>d impossible for :=uch op-
, , . . I- „ 1 T’' 1-1 posite re.'-'ults as the first two just named
exaltod opinion or the rjllgli.sh^ to have their origin In one solar cliange.
t-wto th-it would soloct sn(*)l to-, recognized exisitnce of this
laSLC lliai WOUIU seicci sucn lO barometric seesaw .^hows that the sun's
bacco for smoke timber. i action must have a dotible effect on our
atmosphere and this of an opposite na
ture. Such a result is (luite natural, and
it Is ctirlous that use ha.s not been made
of It before.
When It be considered that the amount
of air In our atmosphere Is a constant j “‘before ’ it arrive
(juantlty, a greater piling up of it on one
side of the earth must neo^ssarlly mean
;i diminution in the antipodal regions. If
t,.. .>^11: , i f'^eater heating pow*»r of the sun takes
w holesale handllllj, of this ClOj i then the .atmosphere must also be
are manifest. From the showing ' greater extent, and con.ce-
i (juently more intense upcurrents of wivrm
made by faclorie.S and dealers it | air are formed, resulting in more pro-
would tl.at tl.is is the wimle.! ‘bJ I‘he country,
s.le uiarket of the whole wo. lc! j 'X" i A won.un. tlie thirteentli child
The American lien has a right
to “cluck and cackle.’’ The past
year v.ith her eggs and her chick
ens slie produced -'^-80,000,000 of
for peanuts.
The old battlefield, fortitication
and crater which the yankees
blasted into it have gone into the
lield of commercialism, and visit
ors are charged ;">0 cents for the
[>rivilege of looking at these his
torical landmarks. If Peters
burg had the “get up’’ of an}'
modern city it would buy this
historical ground and open it as
a public })ark. It is asiiamethat
an old soldier of the sixties, no
matter on which side he fought,
cannot visit his old baltlo-tields
heated air arrives, descends and creates j tlarteentll daV of
an area of cxcv i^s pressvire. | ui
rhe month, recently died in Ar
kansas at the age of lOo. Miirht
Tlie professor furtlicr declares that
the sun’s action on certain regions is
more power I’ll! than upon others and
that the atmosphere of certain regions
is more potent as :i factor in moderat-
hig the sun’s influence in some regions
than iu others. It would seem from
(his review that the solar students are
on the right track to solve the fascinat
ing riddle of the relation between
weather vagaries and solar activity.
Corruption Not Chronic lu America.
A wTiter in the French Economi.st,
di.scussiug the relative merits of Amer
ican methods and institutions, reaches
the tirm conclusion that the United
without paynig a bonus to some | stat,.., is nos ,,rofou,..!i.v and iKiiversiU-
ly demoralized. lie says that public
corruption has always been the weak-
iK'ss of I'epublics and despotisms and
one who was in neither army but
who sees a chance to make mon
ey by charging admission.
Petersburg has one of the old
est churches on the continent,
the brick of which it was built
having been shipped from Eng
land. It is no longer used as a
place of worsliip but is kept open
for visitors. Its cemetery has
been enlarged in recent years un
til a hundred acres are now en
closed, Many of its monuments
and tombstones were there be
fore our nation was born and
some of them were broken and
battei-ed by yankee shells when
shelling the confederate position
half a mile distant. The old
Blanford church was erected in
17ii5 by the church of England.
A few streets in Petersburg
have been modernized by the
erection of up-to-date buildings,
but the impression forced upon
us was that the student of an
cient history would find here
much data of interest.
Travel from Petersburg to
Richmond, i^O miles, has been
modernized by the introduction
of electricity and a trolley car
traverses the distance every
have known something v/ould
hapi,'cii to her.
Jas. Caldwell, member of Par
liament. hcis killetl more bills in
the British House of Commons,
than any other membei-. It is a
proud distinction, and it is a pity
that every legislature in the U. S.
is not the proud prossessor of a
“Caldwell. ’’
Clieil Justice i"'^aller reccatly
sufler<Ml shabby treatment at a
L,)nd(^n hotel by being taken for
an itinerant musician. The most
loyal of the friends of our Ciieif
.Justice have long been of the
opinion thuT Air. Puller needed a
iiint to cat his hair and now li»j
has it.
li.',’ ;i 3io])
and beaten, in a Ij!b( rriot, until cov
er,*d witli ^^<)res. n Chiciigo street i-ar
coiiductfir applied Buckleii’s Arnica
Salve, and was soon sound and well.
“1 u.seit in ni.v family,” writes (i,
Welch of Tekonsha, ]ilich. “and find
it perfect.’’ Simiily great for cuts
and burns. Only I’oc at Z. W. Nich
ols’ drujr store.
The republicans who object to
depriving the negro of his vote
in Virginia and North Carolina
may point proudly to the shining
example of Philadelphia v;lier«:i
the republican machine has not
deprived “no living man” of his
ballot but for 3'ears have allowed
.‘)0,000 dead people to keep on vot
ing.
~~ j Cluiiiiberlaiir.s Pain IJalin.
Desertions from the army and navy j This a liiiiuient remarkable for
are said to be due to the monotony of j its great power over pain. It (piickly
the life in time of peace, leaving the n '
... , , 'allays the excriiciating pains of rheu-
pubhc to draw the conclusion that ,
matisiu and makes sleep and r+'st
possible.
continues:
It is not easy for these governments to
protect themselves agalnsc professionals
who look upon politics rather a.s a profit
able than an honorable carccr and know
how to flatter the sovereign, whether he
has a thousand heads or only one. It is
satisfactory, however, to see that despite
thilr cleverness in cajoling the people
the.>3e professional politicians are geueral-
l.v obliged, to w'hatever party they belong,
to give place and leave .'i nomination for
honest men whenever political office of
the first Importance Is in question. Some
presidents of the I'nited States may have
been surrounded by bad influences, but
all have been men of strict l.ntcgrity.
All that Is wanting In Americans is the
exercise of great energrj' and perseverance
if they would apply through their whole
political organism the elevated standard
of morality which they have alwaj-s ad
hered to in the choice of their chief mag
istrates.
In the main this -writer believes that
our institutions have many points of
superiority, and the old world is ad
vised to turn to the new for instruc
tion.
Our negotiations witli Russia and
(’hina over Immigrants and tariffs
^how that, while greater controversies
are being fought, our ordinary diplo
mats must continue to dip.
the conclusion that
while the American makes a very poor
holiday soldier he can be relied upon
when activities begin.
For sale by Z. \V. Nichols, }^re\ a)-J
\jnd O. L. Erwin, Calvert.