Our County—Its Progress and Prosperity the First Duty of a Local Paper.
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BREVARD, TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY, N. C., FRIDAY. MAY 24.1907,
VOL. XII-NO. 21
Transylvania Lodge No. 143,
Knights of Pytliias
Resrular convention ev
ery Tuesday night in Ma
sonic Hall. Visiting
Knights are cordially in-
T. W. WHITMIRE C. G.
vitedto attend.
Brevard Telephone Exchange.
hours:
Daily—7 a. m. to 10 p. m.
Sunday—8 to 10 a. nu, 4 to 6 p. m.
Central Office—McMinn Block.
ProfesMonol Ckirds.
w. B. DUCKWOR.TH.
ATTO rn ey-at-l a w .
Rooms 1 and 2, Piokelsimer Building.
N.C.
GASH A GAU..OWAY,
lawyers.
Will practice in all the courts.
Rooms 9 and 10, McMinn Block.
D. L. ENGLISH .
LAWYER
Rooms 11 and 12 McMinn Block,
BREVARD, N. C.
THOMAS A. ALLEN, Jr.,
dentist.
(Bailey Block.)
HENDERSONVILLE,
A beautiful goki crown for $4.00
of all kind at reasonable
^*A11 work guaranteed; satisfaction
or no pay.
Teeth extracted without pain.
Will be jriad to have you call and
inspect my offices, work and prices.
The Mthelwold
Brevard’s New Hotel Modern Ap
pointments—Open all the year
The patronage of the travelingr
as well as summer tourists is soHcitea.
Opp. Court House, Brevard, N»C.
Homm™.
Cor. Main and Caldwell Sts.
BREVARD, N- C.
Tlemodeled and newly furnished.
Under managenaent of experienced
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Best at reasonable rates. Write for
particulars.
K-I-P-A-N-S Tabules
Doctors find
A good prescription
For mankind
The 5-cent packet is enough tor usual occasions.
The famiiy bottle (60 cents) contains a supply
for a year. All druggists sell them.
H. G. BAILEY, C. E.
CORRECT SURVEYS MADE
Maps, Plots and Profiles
Plotted.
Only the finest adjusted instrn-
ments used. Absolute accuracy.
P. O. Brevard,IN. 0.
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{fraiiuat-es in position.
Half or caore of your rr:i
road fare paid. F.ei\ty f
good board et 82.?0to?.:.:
r.er weok. va^;»t5or.
Euter any St fcci.
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In “The Land of the Skj'.”
Kear the Bappliire Country.
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BINE OF KOI
Lack of Confidence In Your Own
Town.
HOW IT KILLS OFF BUSINESS.
Enables tho Mail Order Octopus to De-
stroy Retail Trade of Villages and
Towns—Why Home Protectton is
First Duty of Good Citizens.
Do you believe in your own town and
community? If you do, what do you do
for your own town and community ?
It may be that you have observed a
gradual falling off in business. Things
have not been going along at the lively
rate which seems to be justified by the
present general prosperity. Expert stat-
Istlctians and close observers declare
that never before has the United StatOi?
been so generally prosperous as it Is
at this moment.
How does your own home place
stack up with this declaration? Are
you and your neighbors getting your
share of the prosperity? If not
“there’s a reason,*’ as a certain adver
tiser says.
What is the reason?
A recent writer on the revival of the
local spirit as the only remedy against
the ruin of the small town and the
overgrowth of the big city presents
some pertinent opinions on this topic.
Read what Richard Hamiltou Byrd
says anent the lack of contidence found
In many communities—the lack of a
belief in your own home place:
The Mail Order Business.
“It is that lack of confidence, or, per
haps better, a lack of a knowledge of
familiar things, which has enabled the
mail order business to gain such head
way in the rural districts.
“It is a recognized fact that the re
tail business of the country village
and the kirge towns, for that matter,
is being destroyed. Year by year the
once prosperous merchants are being
forced to the wall—driven out by tho
mail order business. And this is tak
ing place in face of the fact that the
population and purchasing power of
the country districts are ever on the in
crease.
“What is the matter?
“The mail order houses are drawing
the cash retail trade from its natural
channels to the cities.
“The growth of this octopus has been
phenomenal. From a jelly-like idea,
without form, an experiment fifteen
years ago, it has grown to proportions
that threaten the extermination of the
retail country merchant.
“An idea of the vray the money of the
people Is being drawn into this mail
order trade may be had from the re
ports of some of these houses. A cer
tain mail order house of Chicago which
began with a few thousand dollars fif
teen years ago now carries a capital
stock of $5,000,000 and has arranged to
increase that stock to $40,000,000. The
monthly business amounts to $5,000,-
000, with a yearly net profit of more
than $3,000,000.
“This, mind you, is the record of but
one institution. There are dozens of
them in Chicago, little and big, and
hundreds of them in the various cities
of the United States. They are spring
ing up like mushrooms every night.
All that is necessary to start a mail or
der business Is a place to receive mail
and money enough to get out the first
batch of printing and for the first ad
vertising campaign.
•■Like the patent medicine business,
the mail order business depends on the
gullibility of the general public. Thou
sands of people every week send in
their hard earned cash to some mail
order house in payment for goods that
could have been bought cheaper at
their home store.
“Why do they do it? It is owing par
tially to the desire of the average per
son to be humbugged and partially to
the effect of persistent advertising.
The mail order house sends out its at
tractive literature to every family in
the country. In this literature, com
posed of well illustrated catalogues
and cheap magazines, known as mail
order papers, the goods are set out in
the most attractive manner. It is
tempting bait, and the fish bite.
“All of these millions come out of the
legitimate trade of the country mer
chant, the man who has Invested his
capital, built himself a home and been
active in building up the town with
the expectation tha.t he would be al
lowed to do a legitimate business in a
legitimate way. He is entitled to the
trade of his town and the country ad
jacent. He pays his taxes and contrib
utes to the support of the community.
That community owes’him a reciprocal
duty—the duty to give him the prefer
ence of trade, everything else being
equal. This Is the theory of all or
ganized civilized communities, begin
ning with the family, and going on up
through every organiz.ition to that of
the state. Home protection from for
eign robbers is the fln,t duty of eveiy
good citieen. If the V'Hage and town
life that has grown up under natural
la\\'s of trade is to be maintained, the
retail business must be preserved
against the unfair Inroads of the mall
order business. And this can be done
only by organization and education.
Let the people know the facts about
the mall order business and the offer
ings on the altar of credulity will
grow beautifully less.”
Adverti«e In Home Papers.
It quite within the range of pos
sibility that if the local mei^ants
would advertise a little more In the
local paper the local peopl# would buy
many tblugs from t«6m which they
now buy from the mall order houses.
MADE WASTE PLACES PAY.
How a Farm Girl UtiKzed Neglected
Strips of Ground.
Often some neglected spot that spoils
the appearance of a street may be
beautified at small expense and also
made to yield a good income. Here is
how Jennie Good of Rockingham coun
ty, Va., made one waste place pay,
says American Agriculturist:
In 1903 I had obtained my parents’
permission to utilize the neglected
strips of ground around the garden
fence to use and plant as I chose, the
proceeds to be my very own. A whole
sale slaughter of weo^^-- ^.rush^ briers,
etc., which were numeixHis from lack
of attention in many years, and the
reclamation of an old abandoned cor
ner, equally neglected, were the first
results obtained. Of course this re
quired a lot of hard work and a goodly
share of pluck to put in shape.
I have no correct account of what
I realized the first season, but in the
spring of4l904 I again took charge,
spading the soil moderately de6p, work
ing barnyard manure well into the
soil and smoothing down the surface
nicely. I planted early vegetables,
such as radishes, peas and lettuce.
From these little border strips one half
the distance around the kitchen gar
den fence, the other half being set to
berries and grapevines, and from the
old abandoned corner I furnished a lot
of vegetables for the home table and
sold over $16 worth besides. I wish I
could give the combined returns from
the start. The great satisfaction to
myself lies not only in having realized
so much, but in having produced so
pleasing an effect with so small an
amount of effort I shall continue my
work this year.
The School Gardeh Idea.
The -school garden idea is steadily
growing, and in many of the large
cities and towns the work has succeed
ed beyond the expectations of even the
most sanguine enthusiast, says the
Home Magazine. In 1905, 389,9^ one
cent packages of seed were sold in
Cleveland to children living in all
parts of the city, including those dis
tricts wh^e beauty is almost unknown
and yards and vacant lots are most un
attractive, and as a result running
vines soon began to cover ugly fences
and outhouses, common flowers as well
as shrubs beautified the yards, and
potted plants decorated porch.es and
balconies. In one small city the work
began with stereopticon lectures, to
which the children sold tickets. The
proceeds were spent for flower seeds,
plants and hardy bulbs, which were
given to the childnen with the under
standing that the flower show would
be in the fall. The entire town be
came interested in flower culture, and
the 5,000 aster beds became one of the
sigjits to sliow strangers, while the ex
hibits -enlisted the interest and admira
tion of the surrounding country. \
Oxen as Kacers.
Attempts are being made in France
to train oxen for saddle riding, and
several races have been organizei to
test their capacity. They have been
trained not only as racers on the flat,
but also as successful jumpers. The
bridle and saddle used are almost sim
ilar in general design to those for
hunters.
■
THE HALL OF FAME.
Count Tolstoi once refused a bicycle
as a present on the grounds it was a
luxury. HIb recreations are chess and
lawn tennis. ^
President koosevelt will deliver the
principal address at the celebration of
the fiftieth anniversary of the Agricul
tural college of Michlgau in May.
Blind barristers are rare. One has
been recently admitted in Sydney. Ne
ville Gilbert McWilliam is his name,
and he took tlie degrees of B. A. and
B. L. with special distinction.
Nicholas Hatheway of Fall River,
Mass., who died lately, spent considera
ble time In trying to prevent the news
papers from spelling the second sylla-
of his ‘surname with an “a,” but was
mainly unsuccessful.
Thomas A. Edison remembered his
native town of Milan, Conn., by pre
senting it with a set of apparatus for
the physical laboratory of the village
high school as a New Year’s gift. The
inventor made the apparatus himself.
A St. Louis millionaire, F. S. Luding-
ton, will gratify a personal whim by
spending $40,00Q to see in St. Louis a
reproduction of the Campanile at Ven
ice. The tower is to be 200 feet high
and will be situated between the Audi
torium and the chapel of the Second
Baptist church.
Henry White, the retired American
ambassador of Italy, has presented
Queen Helena a complete collection of
United States postage stamps, sent to
her by the postmaster general at Wash
ington, with the approval of President
Roosevelt She expressed a desire to
have this collection.
Edward Wolfenden and Thomas
Bleakeley have not single
session of the Baptist Snnday school
at Upland, Pa., in twenty-four years.
Thomas K. Draper has been present
at every ses..lon for the last twenty
years, and Elias Eves and William
Taylor have attended every Sunday for
ten years.
William Pryor Letchworth has do
nated to the state of New York
his superb estate, upon which he has
spent about $500,000, located at Por
tage, N. Y., to be in care of the Amer
ican Scenic and Historic Preservation
society. The property includes about
1,000 acres and embraces the three fa
mous Portage falls as well as the can
yon of the upper Genesee river.
MODES OF THE MOMENT.
Coats fashioned of strips of insertion
will be a feature of the new styles.
Much as we cling to the short skirt,
it is positively decreed to be unsuita
ble for any except the typical tailored
street suit
For spring costumes of thin materials
will be generally • made up with laces
dyed to match and with passemente
ries, embroideries and other garnitures
of self shades.
Spring will find many silk street
suits in evidence, with taffeta again to
the fore. Here the cutaway/and di-
rectoire coats will figure conspicuous
ly, not only as parts of suit costumes,
but as separate garments.
The very latest material for dressy
wear, and especially for evening frocks,
is liberty messaline, which comes in a
wide range of colors and tones and
has the advantage of being durable as
well as attractive.—New York Post.
EDITORIAL FLINGS.
A prefect of police in Russia is apt to
come home most any night with the
corners rounded off.—Chicago I^ews.
At this season of the year it seems
perfectly easy to keep the garden ab
solutely free from growing weeds next
summer.—Somerville Journal.
The “deadly parallel” has been well
known for a long time, but Governor
Swettenham’s “jocular parallel” is a
most astonishing wild fowl.—New York
American.
Russia accuses Japan of “inexacti
tudes” in her diplomatic utterances.
The swelling on Russians face must be
going down some if she is beginning to
talk like that again.—Washington Post
The hole which Governor Swetten*
ham makes when he retires from
American affairs will be like that left
when a needle* is picked out of the
ocean.
It’s too bad to see people who go
from day to day suflTdring from
physical weakness when Hollister’s
Rocky Mountain Tea would make
them well. The greatest tonic
known. 35 cents. Tea or Tablets.—
Brevard Drug Co.
The nobles of the Mystic Shrine
took Fairbanks across the hot
sands, but it is one best bet that
the sands -were considerably
cooled after the human iceburg
had wended his way.
My Best Friend.
Alexander Benton, who lives on
Rural Route 1, Fort Edward, N. y.,
says; Dr. King’^s New Discovery ig
my best earthly friend. It cured
me of asthma six years ago. It has
also performed a wonderful cure of
incipient consumption for my son^s
wife. The first bottle ended the ter
rible cough, and this accomplished,
the other symptons left one by one,
until she was perfectly well. Dr.
King’s New Discovery’s power over
coughs and colds is simply marve
lous. ’ No other remedy has evjgr
equalled it. Fully guaranteed by
T. B. Allison Druggist. 50c and
$1. Trial bottle free.
No Newspaper correspondent
has yet been killed for desecrat
ing the sacred moonlight of the
White House social conferences.
How’s This?
We offer One Hundred Dollar’s
Reward for any case of Catarrh that
cannot be cured by Hall’s Catarrh
Cure. F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O.
We, the undersigned^ have known
F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years,
and belive him perfectly honorable
m all business transactions, and
financially able to carry out any obli
gations made by his firm.
Walding, Kin nan & Marvin,
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O.
Hall’s Catarrh (Jure is taken inter
nally, acting directly upon the blood
and mucous surfaces of the system.
Testimonials sent free. Price, 75c
per bottle. Sold by all druggists.
Take Hall’s Family Pilis for con
stipation.
A young American, heiress
says she has been forced to go to
Europe to escape the fortune
hunters. It is probably that she
will get caught there by one who
didn’t have the money to get over
to this side.
Wanted—50 Meu and Women.
The Brevard Drug Company, the
enterprisins: druggists, are advertis
ing today for fifty men and women
to take advantage of the special half-
price oflTor they are making on Dr.
Howard’s celebrated specific for the
cure of constipation and dyspepsia,
and get a fifty-cent package af half
price, 25 cents.
8o positive are they of the re
markable power of this specific to
cure these diseases, as well as sick
headaches and liver troubles, that
they agree to refund the money to
any customer whom this medicine
does not quickly relieve and cure.
With Dr. Howard’s specific at
hand, you can eat what you want
and have no fear of ill consequences.
It strengthens the stomach, gives
perfect digestion, regulates the bow
els, creates an appetite, and makes
life worth the living.
This is an unusual opportunity to
obtain 60 doses of the best medicine
ever made for half its regular price,
with the personal guarantee of a
well known firm to refuHd the money
if it does not give satisfaction.
The Brevard Drug Company has
been able to secure only a limited
supply of the specific, so great is the
demand, and you should not delay
taking advantage of the liberal offer
they are making this week.
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