Our County—Its Progress and Prosperity the First Duty of a Local Paper. BREVARD, TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY, N. C., FRIDAY. FEIIRIiARY !aily—7 a. in. to 10 p. ni. •Suruiay to I(» a. ni., 4 to 0 p. m. ^ 'entral (Jttiee—Mi'Minn liloi*k. Profession^ Cards. W. B. DUCKWORTH. ATTORNEY-AT LAW. Investigation of Land Titles a Specialty. Kooms ] and 2. riokelsimer Buildintr. ZACHARY &. BREESE ATTORN EYwS-AT-LAW Offices in MclVlinn Block, Brevard, N. C. Cabin John’s Bridge. One of the Suburban At^- tractions of the Nationd Capital. .strike a .s(‘inici)-cl<‘. Th^n strike ■ could jthe idea that The Stone Arch (220 feet) is the Long- est> Single Span in the World. WELCH CALLOWAY, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. f’nu-riees in all the courts ikoonis and 10, McMinn I>lock. i D. L. ENGLISH LAWYER Kooins 11 and 12 McMinn lllock, lillKVAMD. X. (’. Miscellaneous. The JEthelwold I'revard's New Hotel—Modci’n A])- ])ointraents-Open all the year. The ])ati'ona>re of the travelinyr ]>nl)lic as well as snnmier tonrists is solicited. Op}^. ('ourt House, Brevat-d. N.C. JM-P-A-X-S Ta])ule.^ Doctors find A liood })rescript ion For inaiikin*! Tlie r)-''cnr packet is enoiiirfi for usiiiil oco:i^i<»ns. ■rii«* l':iiniiy bottle (t;0 couts) voiitaiii^ ii .-ui'ply 'or a your. All sell HEAVEN REVEALED. i;y BKXJAMIN KISKE l)Al:r.KlT, pp., iiii'lie.''; I.iirire Tyjif; yi;n f'loil’. For a iimiied period tliis book is offered sf trade rates, 58 cents, \vit!i!» coiits postape for niailiup. I’nic- Knvi •oiiiiifcn • ONTENTS. Hie oiiLiin oi Au"fN.—The Ksseiiiiiil .\aturr < Heaven.—diiinicter of tlu* Atigolr.—'i»stiinoiu )f .scripture.—The iriire Way to lieu rical Tonder.ey of this Distlo'^ure n Heaven, un Keporter. The water supply of the city oi Washington is brought from th. falls about fifteen miles up th< Potomac in an eight foot tube o mason work to a i*eservoir iH)i’ts of Georgetown and west of Koc* creek with a grade that is neiii I.- nominal. From there to the til tartion plant some two mile.' north of the capitol it is carrie( in a nine foot tube of iron tha dives under the creek and unde rock and earth all the way burie, out of sight and finally up to tli. level of the head and dischiiigot in another reservoir. Abouthalf way uptothefallstli aqueducV crosses a ravine mad> possibly by the erosion of a cre»^i that heads a few miles up i. Maryland and tlows south into the Potomac. This ravine ) about three hundred feet wide and about one hundred feet deej with Vjanks so steep that was fain, assistance from th hand to gain/’ in order to mal{ the ascent or descent. * reached this by a tiollcy lin* I'roui (leorgotown after tw< street car transfers from tlu lith street line and all the wa\ i for single 5c fares without extr; lees until we reach the boundar\ hne between the District of Co lumbici and State of Maryland Th‘^n another 5c fare was collect ed from each passenger and tlu same on our return. This ravini is the end of the trolley line. Prom the car sheds and station we step down a llight of stairs and onto a steep foot bridg(? awa\ up in the tree iops. The bridge is a bea*atiful one ornamenteci with a good supply of incandes cent light burners which, with he park on the west side of the avine. are lighted at night. We cross and ascend another flight .f stairs to the park. A few rods north we ascend another flight ot stairs to the west end of the aqueduct bridge which spans the •hasm with a L’20-foot single span of masonry, the longest arch in • (• wM)rld. isow the school boy who wants to know how this span looks may take his rule and draw a vertical line in the center of his paper and measure dow^n about *20 of the equal parts which he a horizontal line across the verti cal at sucli a place rliwt it ^vill ut the segment of 110 of these equal parts ont I ri;j‘htand left of the center line ;ind you have the spring of this great arch. Then with the same center, tind radius increas<‘d by of these oqual parts strike another segment from 1 ho spriiiir of this arch on one side around to the span on tho other, parallel with the fii st segment. Then sj)ace off two foot spaces on the inside s(\g rnent and with rule on the center mark from segment to seguii'iii at each of these points and you | have a map of th face of the arch —a front el<3vati(»n. Now’ count these arch stones and you can tell how many of these are le quired in eacli face of this great bridge. These were all quarried . . , 1^,-1, -f of pilgrims to the place, but high and dressed at a gi’anite quarry j , • , i\T 1 1 I 1 " ler up they havt‘ attained the in Massachusetts and placed on a I, , ^ . \T • 1 . i lengt [i of several inches and seem seat cut in Maryland granite . 1 - 1 1 . . to be nearly coloi’K^ss. How’ thi> vvhere similar ai’c.h stones mi^ht ! jStructure cauK' i)y so classical u name I failed to learn, but of be S'-etl to convey it was a Latin in scription. meaning ••Statid Eum- nally.” ()vt*r t his arch llf)W’s t h<* water supply of the City of Washington in a tube constru(;t ed with the best of skill and ma terial, cemented in the most jx'r feet manner, but it is nr)t water tight. There is constantly :■ > • tie leakage that keeps the w’hole structure damj) and drips fi’om every joint between those stones under it. From these drips ^t.; actites are forming of crystale- limestone moi’e or less im[)nr<‘ demonstrating" that after the ti; tration plant has taken the mu out of the taw’uy coifee colocefi mixture that Hows tlirough th'- tube there vvill still be mineral imj)urities left in it. Tiiese stalacites are kept pick ed ()ff as far as they come in reao- have been cut without going be yond the length of the crane neo essary for hoistinjr them in i»lace. Hut the production of this in Massachusetts and tlie transpor- lation of them to Maryland wa> not as expensive as the cutiinji »f them from the very hai'd vlaryland granite. The remain ier of the briilge, ))anel work, ornico and tilling was of sano >ione tiiat might have been cut ear by, but I failed to learn here. The horizontal length oi these arch stones alternate from .iree to four fet‘1 making dentals or binding the structure to- ether. The cornice and hand lil are of nicely cut sand stone .nd massive in thesoutn fron learly over the spring of this ridi and some twenty ft'et below he liand rail are tablets of oin tiece each ap{)arenth’ about five >y twenty feet with carved in . ri{)tions, but being away up ii he treeto[is and they in full leaf I required great effort and j)rac ic(; to read the west one though he lett<‘rs were very plain and ibout a foot high. Read from v'arious dilTerent courses and [)o sitions we concluded that it was • “Begun in Franklin Pierce. President: Secretary of War. Finished in 1865J. A. r^incoln. President: Edwin ]\I. Stanton, Secretary of War.” The blank for the name of Pierce's secretary of war had i)e(ni filled by the name of “Jef ferson Davis’’ when placed, but when th(3 name f)f Abraham Lin coln w’as to be carried with Edwin M. Stanton's at the con clusion of this work, and with JelTerson Davis serving as pres ident of the Southern Corfeder- eracy, somebody thought that his name should not precede Lin coln’s in the same tablet. So betw'een two historic days it dis appeared. And the chiseling w’as so skillfully done that a stranger would hardly imagine that a name had ever been carved there. The other tablet truth this is “Cabin .John'' Bridge.” The tilling of ston around this aqueduct makt's ar excellent I'Oad l)ed and is finishtni fo" tliat purpose and used such for light vehicK'S, autos am wiieels, but not for commer(*e. This is a charming road thro' wild scenery, with the river in sight most of the way t>n th< south and sometimes approach ing so near as to seem 100 feei under this road, while in otlu j- I'aces it is cut throuirh rock tim bered with cedar forests, and to the north, hills rising as far ;i." the eye can i-each. \. D. MiXKii The sur|)rise is that theCastel* lanes remained married so long. Peru is again threatening Chili, but Chili is Vjecomingaccustomect to the “Peruvan bark.” The revelation increases every day how many believe in Demo cratic jjrinciples who never vote the Democi'atic ti-- t. This CasteHane business will, start the whole v.’orld to asking. ■‘Why will :ife American giil.''?'^ vl’c. Biii wiial i> tfH' user* Poultney Bigelow might ex- ilain it all by showing that ho went to at the leq .est of 'he tlirector of amusements. •'Public sy.npathy is with tho •oal miners" .'>ays a PPtSMur-:' p i per. Public svm[ia hy oic.ht to i ry beiiii!: .\iih “th-* co isuaM i s’^ KM-asioua IIV. They df) s.iy tiiat the new’ voi riir inaciiii!*- vot»*s hi\'e an Indi vidual. B..I theii W’e hav*‘at ways had a lot <-f ituiividuals th-it \-ijie iike machines. It mu t In* a source <>1 >:-.i's- aclKUi to ! !i«> n.-w’ Kiii.v I) nark, wlu> has •'.ncce»*th^ii ; ii a (i hem. Hack. Ttiis ailmeiit i.s usu.iliy c ius*>.l by rhcMMuatisru of ilie muscles not irtord reliet, bind on a piece i ll.i - lel sliirlttly dampened wilh >in '.aim and (juick reliel’i.s almost :-;urt !() Ibllow. Fur sale by Z. W. Ni -ho s. 1 uid (,). L. Kruii) (,'alvert. An unknown man killed near ,’alifornia, K3^, with .^oS.uOO on lis person, is thought to have ome from St. I^uis. Mistake* tiiey never let them get away •om St. Louis with any sum like hat. Fifteen N. Y. policemen chased 1 business man two Hiiles and -iliotathim at every jun-p mis* aking him foi- a burglar. He ealizes now’ tiiat he was safe a.q • ong as they w(mi> shooting at lim. The innoceiit bvstander is Golden Age, a new maira:/mt* ed-; - he only |)erson t‘ver hit when N. ited and published by Southern | V. policemen sb-el'orc General, thou Ooloael, !’.oI,..rt E. 1c-o„stitnt,o,.al treat,,, Lee. tlie Superintendent of the Military Academy. The Golden Age will be of ci'd interest to all Southern read- ' letters and es[)ecially as a. his torian. With this purpose in view’, about a week before his death he became a stockholder, a directoi ind the historical editor of iht tirst article, liis Uecollections ol West Point Fifty Years Ago. for tho February number of I Hall's Catarrh Ture, manufactured I by F. *T. ('heuey iS: Co., Tol(?do, Ohio, i is the only constitutional cure on ^1"-* j the market. It is tnken internally in ,, , ers. could i . , (loses tVoni 10 dropi- to a tea spoonful, subscription i>rico is jit acts directly on the blood and not be read by reason of the foli-|^^'^^ ^ at 48 | mucous surtace< of the system, age of great forest trees of syca-1 Twenty-seventh Steet, New | They ofler one Jiundred dollars lor wishes to represent a foot] more and birch in tho bottoms} an> case it tails to ture. Seiui for (say M6 of an inch). Then with ,m,d cfdar b,3th red and white <>n , The Senators and tho Roi.re. i k’'™ Cnil"Evrc“rTol«Iofoh[r' dividers set to 120 of those equal | the rock-ribbed hillsides that | sentatives at the National Capital | sold by druggists, TOc. parts and a center on the verti-i have grown since the construc-j have to be good. Link StetTens cal line, that distance below, Ition of this great bridge. But i will get’em if they don't. Take HalPs Famiiy IMlls for cod- stipation.