Our County—Its Progress and Prosperity the First Duty of a Local Paper.
•T. J. MINER,
BREVARD, TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY, N. C., FRIDAY. OCTOliER 27.1905.
VOL. X—1\0. 48
Transylvania Lodge No. 143,
Knights of Pythias
Our Beauf lil Sunset.
Sorrows and Joys.
Regular convention ev
ery Tuesday ni^>’ht in Ma
sonic nail'. Visitin}!
Knij^hts are coi'flially in
vited to attend. HILARY B. BRUNOT, C. C.
Brevard Telephone Exchange.
HOUKS:
Daily—7 a, m. to 10 p. m.
ISundav—8 to 10 a. m., 4 to (> p. m.
Central Ollice—McMinn lilock.
Professional Cards.
W. A. CASK.
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
Rooms 7 & 8, McMinn BId’g, Brevard, N. C.
W. B. DUCKWORTH,
ATTO RN E Y-AT-L A W.
Investigation of Land Titles a Specialty.
llooras 1 and 2. IMckelsimor Buildiny.
ZACHARY &. BREESE
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
OHices in McMinn Block, Brevard, N. C.
WELCH GALLOWAY,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW.
Practices in all the courts ,
1 looms 0 and 10, McMinn lilock.
D. L. ENGLISH
LAWYER
Jioonis 11 and 12 McMinn Block.
BllKVAllD, X. C.
Miscellaneous.
The JEthelwold
Brevard’s New Hotel—Modei-n Ap
pointments—0])en all the year.
The patronage of the travelinjr ])ublic
as well as summer tourists is solicited.
Opp. Court House. Brevard. N.C.
p
I (yoitr own selection » to «*vcrv sub-
■ soriber. Only cfiits a yrar.
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MS CALL
All Sfams Allowed and Perforations show
ttie Basting and Sewing Lines.
Only 10 and 15 cents each—none hichet
A*k for them. Sold in nearly every citjr
And town, or by man from
THE McCALL CO..
113-115-117 West 31st SU MW YORK.
5Q0QTELEGRAPHERS
'.ATEEDED
Annually, to 1111 the new positions cre
ated by railroad and telegraph com])a-
nies. We want youny: men and ladies
of <rood habits, to Learn Telegraphy
and Railroad Jlccounting. We
furnish 75 pei- cent, of the OjK;ratoi-s
and Station A<>:ents in America. Ouj-
six schools are the lar<rest exclusive
Telejj-raph schools in the World. Es
tablished 20 years and endorsed by all
leadinir railway officials.
We fixecute a $->50 )>ond to everv stwdoiit to
furnisli him oi licr a position payini: from ?40 to
per month In Static Ciist of the Kocky Moun.
tains, or from $7.5 to flOO per month in Sta'es
west of the Rookies. imnie<1iatt‘ly on jrraduation.
Students oan enter at any time—no vacations.
For full particulars reirardi'ng nny of our schmls
write direct to our exeeutive ottiw at Cincinnati,
O. Catalogue free.
THE MORSE SCHOOL OF TELEGRAPHY.
Cincinnati, Ohio.
Atlanta, Ga.
Texarcana. Tex.
Buffalo, X. Y.
T/iO«)sse, Wis.
San Francisco, Cal.
We live in cloud land. Who
could count the changes of the
day? Always a cangiiif? picture
of immovable mountains clothed
in silver mists of purple haze.
Soft amethyst lights or rosy
shades banked by blue or gray
or black. Sometimes a bold in
timidating black cloud rolls up in
stormy grandeur from behind a
sun-crowned mountain peak. We
see ilash after flash on long zig
zag lines blaze out in sudden fury
and hiss away into blackness-
Wo hear the heavy roll of distant
thunder though the sun shines in
our own neighborhood. T3ut sud-
denlj’’ the dark cloud overtakes
us, blotting out the sunshine, a
gust of rain sweeps down the
valley, there is a patter of rain
dro])s on the roof—great drops
falling in a rollicking, rolling,
rattling clatter, then a more gen
tle shower, a flash, a groan, a
clap, then a sunbeam, and the
storm-cloud with the fire and
wind and rain has sliji])ed away
over the mountain. The stornj
is over, at least our part of the
storm. The trees shake their
dripping boughs, now sparkling
with a thousand irredesc('iit
lights. Rain drops touched by
fairy fingers, become beads of
rainbow-lights, strung from
bough to bougl).
Over in the west where the
sun steals away in th(‘ night is a
mountain now of liie—or is it
a mountain of gold? The lights
chnage so (juickly. A moment be-
foi’e it was surely gold; a con
suming tire over a mountain of
snow, at least one sliort shighted
mortal said it was snow, but it
was onl}^ a white cloud floating
along with a cargo of gold.
When day performs the mar
velous rite of tui'ning into night,
liow still it always is. Even in
the busiest city there is a certain
(|uietness that marks the hour,
but hei*e it is a stillness that
thrills 3’ou with the ])ower of si-
lince—the silence which is gold
en, the silence that makes you
s[)eechless and thoughtful. You
note the changing clouds, tie
rifts of blue, deep and intense.
The red dying into pink and the
rose shading into tints soft as the
inside of a sea shell.
It slowly grows darker. A be
lated bird is flying swiftly home
ward. His mates are chirping
softly in nearby trees which rus
tle an accompaniment to their
good night lullaby.' And now we
see a star; a silver gem in a sky
of gray. All alone it glitters,
brilliant, beautiful and unattain
able. It moves in a world of its
own, immovable from its ap
pointed course. No rosy lights
can touch its solemn beauty. It
seems to be beakoning to some
thing higher than the changing
lights of gorgeous clouds—the
clouds that even liow hang rose
tinted in the distant west over
the mountains, now capped with
purple, adding to the silence of
the night, the majesty of the
evening. C. R. B.
j there were only fourteen in num-
jber, but such potatoes! Half a
I dozen of them weighed more than
Frost and Flower CirJirdtMi.**—15r<*- . i i.
I sixteen pounds. One of them
var.l a Motr,.,mlis-Sw.-ct 1*0-I ^
tatoes ;ni<l’e<»ssniii. jThey were carofiilly put away.
It was Monday morning that j but it wasn't thirty minutes be-
the hearts of the News force w’ere I fore our “devil*’ had one of the
filled with sadness when they be- largest of them roasted and the
held their once beautiful flower
garden, with its choicest flow'ers
drooping and deadened by frost.
Since early spring the garden
has furnished the rarest and
sweetest flowers for our table.
Our neighbors have been made
glad by tiicm, T.Jid they have
blushed and smiled for thous
and strangers from all o
Southland. Dainty s
hands have plucked then*; some
have found place upon th(^ bosom
of sweet women, while otl -cr have
been pinned upon the coats oi
strong men. They have blos
somed and have passed away and
nothing but the blackened and
droo[)ing vines are visible to tell
of their departed glory, but a
thousand memories linger in a
thousand hearts th;it would bi;
glad to tt'Stify of their sweetne.s.s
and tlieir br-auty.
The })Iantin^^ and care of th(_'se
llowers v.’as nothing more tlian a
labor of love, and so well have w(>
been repaid by seeing them scat,-
t(M‘ gladness and joy in our midsl
that we have res(jlved to improve
our garden year by year as lonu
as the lot I'emains without <
building. We gathered seed.'
from the choicest of our flower.^
this year, and have them labeled
I and car(‘fully i)ut away, and next
year we hojie to add to them
man\^ others that we have not
yet grown, so we shall endeavoi
to do our part in beautifying
Brevard.
While gazing upon our garden
with its llowers all gone and with
our hopes for its future brighter
than ever before, we are brought
to think of our town. Each day
brings its changes and the years
add to its greatness. Soon the
frame structures on Main street
will be torn away and steel sky
scrapers will take their places.
Our court house will be removed
and in its place a modern struc
ture with imposing columns and
a grand dome will be erected.
At the place (?) where our children
now assemble for instruction will
be erected a beautiful, well light
ed, ventilated, and convenient
school building, and within its
walls thousands of rosy cheeked
children's hearts and minds will
be developed and our homes will
be made happier and the com
monwealth stronger. Street cars
will ply our streets, electric lights
will turn darkness into day,
factories will send their smoke
to the skies, (every vacant lot
will be a llower garden,) and Bre
vard will be a metropolis in the
midst of a beautiful and fertile
land.
These and a thousand other
thoughts came crowding into our
mind as we stood in our garden,
when Mr. J. J. Shipman drove
up and handed us a sack of sweet
whole Ollice force was busily en
gaged in devouring it. We will
never forget Bro. Shipman and
his wonderful potatoes and when
the Editor returns we will be
sure to call his attention to the
gift.
We would like to give our read
ers more of our thoughts and do-
injjs and regret that time will not
permit, but if some of our readers
will now’ finish up the good work
by bringing in a real fat ’possum
to mix with our potatoes wo will
put his name in the paper, call
him a remember him
all the rest of ouT
The
New <'iir<‘ For Caiicor.
All sui tace cancers nre now known
to 1>H curable by Ilucklcn-'; Arnica
Salve. Jms. Waiters of Dullield, Va.
writes: “1 liad a cancer on my lip
for years tli.it seemed iucurable til
IJuckkMj’s Arnica Salve liealed it
and now it is perfectly well.’’ (Juar-
anteed cure for cuts and burn.^. 2-"k-
at Z. A\'. Xichols druyf store.
CONTROL OF WATERWORKS.
potatoes to be given to the Editor.
Now that the yellow fever j We informed him that the Editor
germs are overworked and rest- was out of the State on business,
ing now and then, the New Or
leans doctors say that they “have
the situation in hand.”
but that we would see that the
pot itoes were cared for. We
found upon counting them that
How a Jersey Tovrii Profited by
Matiioipal 0-«viierKlii|>.
The rei)v)rt of Charles W. Powers, sii-
perintend('ut of the water department
of I?loomfiel(l, N. .T., shows that munic
ipal ownership of waterworks is prof
itable, saj’s the Municipal .Tournal and
l^ii^ineer. Since .lauuary the depart
ment made tifty-one house connections
at an expense of $1,12;>.U2 and received
for the work Riving u profit
of For the six montlis pre
vious the water rtmts were $2(>,r>00.
which rose to i?22.000 for a correspoud-
iu^ period after the installation of wa
ter meters.
The lirst three months of the year
the tov.'n consumed 81,.'»00,uoo f^allons
of water, which was lover tlian the
amount consumed for the correspond-
iuK period in several year.-;. The sec
ond three months of the year showed a
consumption of only GS.OOO.COU salhai^,
lower than the amount of water the
town would have had to p:iy for under
contract with the local company, as
the minimum amount tliat could be
purchased w.as 7r*.{i(iO.()(K) {gallons ea<;h
quarter. This saviuK represeuts the
price of 7.000.000 gallons of water for
three months of the year.
After bating his tra]i 32 times,
Odell has at last “caught a candi
date” for Mayor of N. Y,
President Ramsey of the Wab
ash railroad, will probaljly learn
that a minority stock-ht>lder has
no more rights than a policyhol
der.
If the New Orleans i^eople real
ly want an early frost, they
should invite Vice president Fair-
bank.s. He can produce shivers
at any time.
If it were as easy to find a book
publisher as it is to tind a book
maker thei-e would be lessgauib-
ling and more prosperly among
poor writers.
Mr. Fairbanks avoids the
“limelight” with true Vice-presi-
dential persistence. He denies
that he is t(j build a theatre at
^nringtield Ohio.
The the inner workinjrs
|of the Ports*^^"’^^^^ con^M--
euceare examin:^^' thelargt,T dof.s
the part played' ilieodoie
Roosevelt appear.
Alabama has a neat surj.^^'*^
her treasury The Alabama
islature" does liot ••meet” so o;
ten as other State'.s legislature.^.
A suggestive tliought.
The recent revelations of il-e
methods of tl'.e big insurance
compan es would seem to prove
that ‘•assurance” is a better
name for them than insurance.
We might pity poor ihe
Moroccan bandit. If he had b(!en
born in New York and educated
in Wall Street his natural talents
would have made iiim a ‘‘captain
of industry. ”
All army ottlcers includini?
those who are total abstainer-^,
favor the return of the canteen,
on the simple principle that it is
better for a man to drink an adul
terated stuff at home than
drink drugged rot-gut in a bro
thel.
Judge Parker, a far off but not
unfamiliar name, is evidently
still uncomfortable over his un
proved statement of election bri
bery as is shown by his grasping
at straws unrelated evidence dis-
The Snme Old Ttiiie.
“Senator Lodsje w.as expected to prive
the keynote of the Mnssarhusetts J{e- covered twelve fnonths after the
publican campaign in his recent speech
at the Middlesex club affair.” says the
Boston Post. “He did it. pitcliiu" it for
the same old tune. The men of Massa
chusetts. he said In effect, must not
speak out loud abotit the tariff and reci
procity for fear of offending Ohio and
Penn.sylvania and possibly disturbing
Mr. Roosevelt himself.”
fact.
President Roosevelt has shown
the Southerners how keenly he
was intsrested in them ard they
showed “Ted” that he was the
“only thing.” His southern re
ceptions were the most heartily
of any he received on his differ
ent visits.
If the war of economy which
has struck the Public PrintiuLr
State of Ohio. City of Toledo, }
Lucas County
Frank J. Cheney make.5? oath that
he is senior partner of the of F* ,T.
Cheney & Co., doin" business in the
city ofToledo, county and stateafore-! Oftice in Washington will have an
said and that Raid firm will pay the | to expurgate the verbose
sum of One Hundred Dollais foi surplusage of Conofressional
each and every case of catarrah thi?t
cannot be cured by the use of Hall’s
(’at.jrrah Cure. Frank J. ('hkxev.
Sworn to before me and subscribed
in inv presence, this (5th day of De
cember, A. I). 1886. A. W. Gleason,
Notary Public.
Hall’s Catarrah Cure is taken in
ternally and acts directly on the blood , ,
and mucous surfaces of the system, j closer together than thal
Send for testimonials free. F. j.! ^^owever. Once “when they near-
Cheney & Co., Toledo, O. 8okl by | ly landed on each other in the
all Druggists, 7oc. Take Hall’s | Senate, and “once” vrhen they
speeches as printed in the Con
gressional record, the country
will be much benetited.
Senator Bailey of Tex. and Sen
ator Beveridge of Ind. were born
on the same day of the month,
but a year apart. They have
Family Pilis for constipation.
did it in maeazine fasion.