Our County—Its Progress and Prosperity the First Duty of a Local Paper, K •T. J. Manasrcr. BREVARD, TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY, N. C., FRIDAY. N0VEM15ER 17.1005. VOL. X-NO. 40 Transylvania Lodge No. 143, Knigtits of Pythias Reixulai* convention ev ery Tuesday ni^ht in Ma sonic Half. Visitinj: Knights are cordially in- V ited to attend. HILARY 8. BRUNOT, C. C. As Others See Us. Brevard Telephone Exchange. HOUKS: Daily—7 a. m. to 10 p. ni. .Sunday—8 to 10 a. ni.. 4 to p. m. Central OHice—McMinn lilock. Professional Cards. W. A. GASH. ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Rooms 7 £ 8, McMinn BId’g, Brevard, N. C. W. B, DUCKWORTH, ATTO RN EY-AT-L A W. Investigation of Land Titles a Specialty. riooms 1 and 2, I’iekelsinier Build in jr. ZACHARY 8c BREESE ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW Offices in McMinn Block, Brevard, N. C. Letter From a South Caro lina Boy. WELCH CALLOWAY. ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. b’ractices in all the courts I looms !) and 10. McMinn Block. D. U. ENGLISH LAWYER Jlooms 11 and 12 McMinn Block. BREVARD, N. C. Miscellaneous. The JEthelwold Brevard'S New Hotel—Modern Ap pointments—Open all the year. The patronaJ Sewing Lines. Only lo and 15 cents each—none higher Aik for them. Sold in nearly every ciiy and town, or by maTl frutn THE McCALL CO.. 113-115-117 West 31$t St.. NEW YORK. SQQQTEI-EGRAPHERS ':NEEBETi Annually, to fill the new ])ositions ct’o ated by railroad and tele^Taph com]);i- nies. We want younj; men and ladie^ of {rood habits, to LearnTelegraphy and Railroad Accounting. We furnish To per cent, of the ()i)ei-ator!- and Station A*ients in i\mei-ica. Out- six schools are the largest exclusive Telegraph schools in the World. Es tablished 20 years and endorsed by all leadinfr railway otticials. We pxcoute a $-^50 l>ond to every stiidont to furnish him ni her a position r.iyinir from ^40 to >60 per mojit h In State® east of the Hoi-ky .Moun- tains, or from JT.^ lo flOO l er month in stii es west of the Rockies, imuiefliati-'y on frradiiation. Students « an enter at any time—no vaeations. For full particulars resrnnliiip j*ny of our schools write dirc^ct to our executive oflice at Cincinnati, O. Catalogue free. THE MORSE SCHOOL OF TELEGRAPHY. Cincinnati, Ohio, Atlanta, Ga. Texarcana, Tex. Buir.ilo, N. Y. Iia(’ros«e, Wis. San Francisco, Cal. On Friday Oct. 1C. Cleveland Epp and George Bates started on an extended mountain trip across tlie grand old Blue Kidge, in the shadow of w hich we so peacefully live. We went up the Jones Gap road which is quite a scenery with its short curves and numer ous w’inds to climb the mountain, which seems almost impossible. It shows the great engineering skill of its promotor, Solomon Jones, who surveyed it with his natural eye and without the aid of an instrument. After crossing the mountain we came to Cedar Mountain, a neat little hamlet with beaut if n homes and a remarkable place of worshp, known as the Rocky Hill Baptist church with which the Transylvania Association was ii session. Here we stopped and .‘^ta.yed with the kind peo})le ot the community until Sunday and listened with attentiveness to the proceedings of the Associatit)i and met and heard .several of th» speakers, some of whom w(mc able and talented. Rev, Jordai of Hogback, North Carolina, whc is an aged minister and on(' who I believe, has done a great deal t( {)romote the cause and one who has been faithful to his (aHin<’ ind who has just about reapet liis earthly reward; Rev. Allison of Crab Creek, N. C.. is certainly a promising young minister and one who, I think will make a great mark in the ministerial field, and a number of others of marked distinction which time and space won't permit me to mention. Now a word of the people ano village. They are nestled aiiiojiv urreen trees; as pretty a liltl- town as you will tind anywhere, iiid distinctly a model for North Carohiia with pure air. good wa ter and good health. They have Llie quietness of the country, though the}" have long, rough roads to mark'et their acceptable [)i'oduce. The kindness and courtesy shown us during our short stay makes it still a grand ^r place. Their kindness cannot )0 excelled by any people on •arth and wdiatever may be my adventures in life 1 will recall the ()eople of that place with resjiect. gratitude and affection. On our w’ay to Brevard we came lo the Connestee falls, with one (;reek running due north and an other running west and plunging otf together into a chasm of great height. Then we came lo the French Broad valley and travel ed down its banks for some dis tance viewing its deep, blue and quiet water and crossing it at two places. Then we w’ere in s'ght of a real town and in fact a beautiful one. Leaving Brevard for home on Monday w^e came to CaBsars Head for dinner and took a lunch on the head. From there we viewed the sections of Greenville and as far as eyes could see, where the earth and sky seemed to meet in the southern horizon. While standing on the head we could count nine different towns with their smokestacks all sending up their great smoke showing that manufacturing is the prosperity of South Carolina. Now in closing comment I can say that the beautiful, green hills and mountains of North and South carolinas can not easily be excelled by any place. With their bare crags and j eaks they stand in w'onderous beauty and attract iveness. Respectfully, Geo. Bates. Marietta, S. C. Vacant I>ot Improvemeut. Owners of vacant lots in a Michigan town h.'ivc agre(Hl to Avork with the vil lage improvement society this stniimer in beaiitifyini; those unsightly spots. Flowers and vegetables will be raisoiled. IJtnvarc of* C>iiitin<‘iits for Catarrh that contain mercury, as mercuy will surely destroy the sense of'smell and completely derange the whole system when enterinjij it through the mucous surfaces. Such aticles should never be used except on prescriptions from reputable physicians, as the (Inmapce they do is ten fold to the good you can possi bly derive from them. Hall’s Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co, Toledo, O., contains no mercury and is taken internally, acting direct ly upon the blood and raucous sur faces of the system. In buying Hall’s Catarrh Cure be sure you get the gen uine. It is taken internally, and made in Toledo, Ohio by F. J. Cheney & Co. Testimonials free Sold by all Druggists. Price 7oc. per bottle. Take Hall’s Family Pills for con stipation. The Beauties of Graft. The foliov.’ing letter from a Transylvania boy way up in New York, was I’eceived at this oltico addressed to nobody and signed by nobody. It is published sim ply to show the workings of graft in that graft-ridden metropolis. —El). News. * * •K- Dear Sir: Even in the midst of a terrify ing campaign for Mayor and oth er sundry city political offices, with wheezy cart-tail orators, red tire, brass bands galore and pa rades innumerable of the tailors, paper hangers, gold beaters, brick layers, street sweepers unions, 1 managed to drop in and liave the saddle man send you live saddles. He would have sent them sooner but he only sells second hand saddles at that price, new ones costing per. Having only three second hand ones lie was in quite a quandary how to fill the order until I kind ly suggested that he take tw.o new ones and ride them around for awhile, waving a banner for Hearst and “Pure" democracy, and they then would soon have the appearance of real, genuine, second hand saddles. After some persuasion he finally con sented but took the precaution of tilling the saddles with a couple of (de luxe) editions of delegates from the walking delegates' asso ciation of Tammanites. This precaution was absolutely neces sary a.s that was the only way to get the proper number of “strings” on the .saddle. You will tind the balance due you en closed “with care” The man i^uaranteed to have all the avail able straps, strings, etc.. and sad- tlles of the size and width of “last” so in case you should re ceive any with glanders, string- halt, spavin, blind or false teeth, let me know and I will proceed forthwith to “string” the man higher uj). Yours as B 4, X. Jurors For Noyemlier Court. At the last regular meeting of the Board of County Commission ers which was held Monday, Nov. (), 1905, the following persons were drawn to serve as jurors at the next term of Superiv»r Court lor Trans^’lvania which c(^nvenes Monday Nov\ 27 1905, Judge Mc- Neal Presiding: J S Jones Jaint's Heath W O Gtirr{'n F T Whitmire Robi'rt Breese David Wilson P S Shnford J E Aiken M W IMason J D Owen W R M(‘rrell Mtinson Hamilton M H Fowler J T Gilh'sjHt^ N M Brown Fred Batson I C Tinsley W J Puette E R Bislion Thos S Bosvs oll J T Cantrell D B Handcock O L Erwin A K Orr T E Patton D C Sims J S (Tarren J B Mern‘11 O E Clayton M J O.ir Ed Aiken C A Allison E B Barton W E Hall Davis Gla/en(*r P C Surrett R W Norton C L Osborne M R Corn L W Duncan Charlie Brooks W R Wilson. Read the Sylvan Valley News— per year in advance. Minneapolis started;! “great re ligious revival” some time ago. Minneapolis never does things by halves, it is either wickedest among tho wicked, or the holies:, of the holy. Ohio and Penn.sylvaiiia wero along time making uj) their mind.s to do it, but when they did, it was not “swatting em” with a tack- hammer, it was a setting m:tuL Bettor keep it for furtlier use, for they have got to be swatted a fev/ more times }'et. William R. Hearst does not stop running for oftice just be cause the election is over, notii- ing ]jleases Willie better thciii fj, “run” even running amuck has no terrors for a runner like Billie. Go it “Bill. ” George B. Cox of Cincinnati says he will retire from Ohio pol- I itics. That is very kind of Geor- I gie after the people of Ohio pulled jthe platform from under him. [There was nothing else left foi* ; “Jawge” to do. Now that the people have risen up and demonstrated tli:it tiioy intend to do the governing tiiem- selves and not leave that job lo [)olitical bosses, there is one oth er vital step that should be tak»Mi that is rally round President Roosevelt and Lelp him pass a railway-rate law, which will re lieve us from the industrial and commercial desjiotisin, under which we are now sulTering from railway rule which holds the com merce and industries of this country at its mercy. Hon. W. ,1. Bryan, has exhorted every Dem ocrat in Congress to stand by the President in the great light he will make this winter to have Congress pass the desired law. Every Democrat as well as every patriotic Republican ought to aid in the passage of that bill. ISN’T THIS ABSflLUTL^LYTRUE? Nothing ever became no{)ular—here or in any other country—without a reason. Popular men h.’ve merit of some kind, must have, or they would not be poi)ular. They must have exceptional merit and wonderful cliar.'cer if their i)op- ularity increases with time. As with men, so with floods. So \\ ith any article that is on the mark et. It cannot increa.se its sales, it cannot be adopted as ;t standard ar tide, it cannot survive ueneratious unless it has real, inherent merit. Milli<ut it tells its own story of Lion Coti**e its(iuality— a coflee that has been the leader of all })acktioe cotfees tor more than a quarter ofacentury, that lias steadily ";rown in the aiiections of millions of American homes since its first intro duction long, long ago. Its unexcelled llavf)r, perfect puri ty and uniforni