j Our County—Its Progress and Prospefitp the First Duty of a Local Paper.
J. J. Manager.
BREVARD, TEANSYLVANIA COUNTY. N. C.. FRIDAY. MAY 31.1907
VOL. XII-NO. 22
Transylvania Lodge No. 143,
Knights of Pythias
Regular convention ev
ery Tuesday night in Ma
sonic Hall. Visiting
Knights are cordially in-
vited to attend. T. W. WHITBIRE C. C.
Bremd Telephone Exchange.
hours:
Daily—7 a. m. to 10 p. m.
Sunday—8 to 10 a. m., 4 to 6 p. m.
Central Office—McMinn Block.
Profesdonal Cords.
w. B. DUCKWORTH.
ATTO R N E Y-AT-L A W.
Rooms 1 and 2, Pickelslmer Building.
gash et CALLOWAY,
lawyers.
Will practice in all the courts.
Rooms 9 and 10, McMinn Block.
N. C.
D. L. ENGLISH
LAWYER
Rooms 11 and 12 McMinn Block,
BREVARD, N. C.
THllwTliiSjri
dentist.
(Bailey Block.)
HENDERSONVILLE,
A beautiful gold crown for $4.00
of all kind at reasonable
work guaranteed; satisfaction
or no pay.
Teeth extracted without pain.
Will be glad 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 traveling public
as well as summer tourists is solicited.
Opp. Court House, Brevard, N.C.
hoteTtoard.
Cor. Main and Caldwell Sts.
BREVARD, N- C.
Remodeled and newly furnished.
Under maoagemeiit of experienced
hotel caterer. Centrallocation, wide
verandas, livery connected. The
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 lor *
The famiiy bottle (60 cents) contains a supply
for a year. All druggists sell them.
H. G. BAILEY, G. E.
CORRECT SURVEYS MADE
Maps, Plots and Profiles
Plotted.
Only the finest adjusted instrn-
ments used. Absolute acenracy.
P. O. Brevard, N. C.
In “The Land o£ the Sky.”
I'tear the SappMre Couutxy.
Oldest in the Burt-
ness. Shorthand,
ting, Pe n m a 11 a h i P,
EuKlish courses. If'X)
crrbdaates iu positloiis.
Half or more o£ year rail
road fare >
Kood board at f2.fK. k) 53.5»,-
per wef:k. No v.-ktv tior.a
Enter any tljne.
coureo by lOiil If 3
for it.
Fri’.nll'tf.’.
FINE mi
How a Denv(sr Company Mad9
Theirs a Beauty Spot.
LAWN GRADED AND PLANTED.
Grounds Surrounding the Building
Made Attractive With Flowers and
Vines—Most Unique Decorativc Fea
tures Are Flower S nds.
Make the fire statiou in yoiir town
a beauty spot, however humble it iziny
be. It can be done by any fire compa
ny with a little trouble and at a com
paratively small expense. Both the fire
house and grounds can be made at
tractive, not only to the home folk, but
to visitors as well. The good work of
a Denver fire cc«npany in this line is
described as follows by the Denver
News:
There Is probably no finer example
in Denver of what patience, hard work
and a sincere love of the beautiful will
do in the way of beautifying one’s sur
roundings than that to be seen at the
Clayton street fire station. The build
ing is new and attractive, being built
of gray brick, and Captain John D.*
Wilmot, together with his men, set
about making the gi’ounds equally at
tractive as soon as they took posses
sion of the station in the spring of 1905.
The city was called on for grass seed.
OJfB OP THB SIX FliOWER STANDS.
which was furnished, and after that
the men at the station did the rest.
The expenditure of $12 by the city for
the seed represents the total outlay for
the magnificent grounds surroimding
the station building.
Under Captain Wilmot the firemen
graded and planted the lawn and
watched it so carefully that there is
perhaps not a better one in the city. In
front of the building they planted a
flower bed, in the form of a Maltese
cross. It is filled with foliage plants of
many hues, and in the center there is
a small century plant. Along the front
wall there is a row of gladioluses and
tuberoses, solicited and received from
the horticultural department at Wash
ington. On the south side of the lot is
a hedge of sweet peas, and on the same
side a large bed of pansies, the gift of
the Park Floral company, and another
bed of geraniums.
The most extraordinary and unique
features of the decorations are the
flower stands devised by the men. For
one of these an inverted section of a
tree trunk, with the spreading limbs
serving for support, w’as used. On top
of this an oblong box was placed, cov
ered with decorative work made from
small twigs. There are six of these
boxes in various patterns, and each
one represents an endless amount of
work and patience. The material nec
essary for their construction was all
gathered in the alleys and vacant lots
of the neighborhood. The completed
boxes, filled with dozens of varieties
of plants and trailing vines, are really
works of art, a single one containing
geraniums of many types, bluebells,
wandering jews, pinks, nasturtiums
and small poppies.
In addition to these there are other
stands which are, if anything could be,
even more strange in their origin. In
the alleys near the station the firemen
found two kitchen water tanks that
had been deserted by their owners.
Strips were cut out of their sides and
rustic supports placed beneath them.
They were filled with earth and fiowers
planted inside. They have quite lost
their homely identity and serve as
very attractive fiower boxes, with long
gtrands of delicate vines trailing from
their sides. Withal ttiere is much for
the men at the station to be proud o£,
for ordinarily a fire station is not a
thing of beauty, but in this case the
men have toiled to such good purpose
that tl^ere is not a private lawn in
Denver where more taste is shown in
the decorations or greater success ob
tained in the horticultural work.
Effect of Electrio^ W*w®s on Trees.
A considerable amdu^it of damage to
street trees is found to be due to wires
in causing abrasions, destruction of
limbs, burning, etC;, which necessitate
injudicious pruning, says the Los An
geles Times. The greatest amount of
damage is the local burnings caused
by the electrical current and the high
er the electro motive force the more
injury is likely to occur. There ap
pears to be little or no leakage from
wires during the dry weather, but in
wet weather, when a film of water is
formed on the bark, there is a consid
erable transfer of electric current. No
authentic cases have been observed
where the alternating current snch as
Is used for electric lighting has killed
trees, although cases ure recorded
whore the direct current* used in oper
ating street railways has destroyed
large trees.
PLAYS
AN?
PLAYERS.
Emma Janvier has signed with the
Shuberts to appear in .“The Orchid."
As soon as Katie Barry’s contracts
with Keith & Proctor expire in the
spring she will leave on a year's trip
around the world.
Ernest Stallard, an English actor, for
six years with E. S. Willard, has been
engaged to appear with Henrietta
Crosman in “All-of-a-Sudden Peggy.”
Reeves Smith has sailed for London,
taking with him Brady’s production of
“The Redskin,” to be offered in Eng
land under the title of “The Last of Hi«
Race.”
The famous dramatist, Vlctorien Sar-
dou, has been nominated for the grand
cross of the Legion of Honor. His son-
in-law, also a W’^11 known playwright,
has been decorated with the cross of
chevalier of the Legion of Honor.
A creditable “bit” is that done in
“Caught In the Rain” by Jane Laurel,
an Ethel Barrymoreish young woman
who rarely speaks. The agony this girl
causes Mr. Collier during a five minute
chat is one of the best things in the
piece.
Mme. Nazimova, now appearing as
Nora in “xV Doll’s House” in New York,
has eclipsed her performance as Hedda
Gabler. Beautiful, graceful, possessing
intellect and acting ability of the high
est order, she is hailed as greater than
Bernhardt, more realistic than Duse.
SHORT STORIES.
In Chile all mining land belongs to
the state.
The nearest approach to perpetual
motion is a church clock at Brussels,
which is wound by sun heat expansion.
White pine timbers 100 feet long and
tweuty-stx inches square are being
shipped from the state of Washington
to Barre, Vt. These timbers occupy
three fiat cars.
The Kosciusko statue to be erected
opposite the White House in 'Washing
ton represents the famous Pole as an
engineer with a map in one hand and
a glass in the other.
A floating target has been construct
ed by the government for practice ofiC
Sandy Hook. It is made of heavy
steel plates, weighing ninety tons, and
It closely resembles a section of a bat
tleship.
Shipments of apples from the United
•States to Brazil via Europe have ar
rived in good condition. The direct
American ships to Brazil are old
freighters which cannot carry cold
storage freight.
New Gold Coins.
President Roosevelt's artistic sensi
bilities have been offended by the de
signs on the gold coins now in u&e,
and he has requested a New York art-^
ist to prepare new on^s. According to
law the designs cannot be changed
oftener than once In twenty-five years.
The law also provides that each coin
shall bear the emblem of liberty, the
year of coinage and the words “E
Plurlbus Unum.” The present gold
cMns have been in use almost fifty'
years.-“San Francisco Argonaut.
Some lucky people who put their
saved pennies into copper stocks thirty
ywars ago are taking out dollars now in
dividends.
EDITORIAL FLINGS.
Dr. Felix Adler says that the desire
for wealth is a form of insanity. It
follows, then, that the only sane peo
ple are in the lunatic asylums.—Roch
ester Post-Express.
At $5,000 a year it would require 200
years to accumulate $1,000,000. Mem
bers of congress may now become mil
lionaires in 133 years if they save their
money.—Kansas City Star.
“The Herald will attempt no defense
of the split infinitive,” says the Bos
ton HeraUL But what is to become
of the split Infinitive if Boston passes
it up?—Washington Herald.
A Broadway merchant testified the
other day that his wife is boss, and
there is this difference betw^een him
and those who laugh at him: He has
the courage to admit it.—New York
Herald.
GERMAN GLEANINGS.
In north Germany 220,000 pounds
weight of amber is dug yearly. .
Appendicitis has made such steady
progress iu (Jermany from year to year
that medical societies have taken it
up for special extended study.
.rrl^iaissla is said to favor a tax or im
post on ships passing up and down
German rivers. The object of the
measure would be to increase the price
of imported grain, thus favoring the
emph’e’s farmers.
In Germany 3 women are employed
as chimney sweeps, 7 as gunsmiths, 19
as brass and bell founders, 147 as cop
persmiths, 379 as farriers and nailers,
d09 as masons, 8 as stonecutters, 2,000
in marble, stoce and slate* quarries. In
all 5,500,000 women earn their living
in trades and professions.
MODES OF THE MOMENT.
Silk gowns for both daytime and
erenrrrg wenr are to be very fashion*
able.
Plain bruRsels net veils, witii' lace
borders spotted with chenille dots, are
said to be the successors to the net veil
with the narrow plaited ruffle.'
The circular cloak is prophesied for
future evening wraps. Already they
are assuming shawl-like lines, and even
kimono sleeves will not do if larger
sleeves underneath on ' the evening
gowns are to come into vogue.
Robe dresses in lawns, mousselines
and chiffon are features of spring fash
ions. Most of these have floral or con
ventional designs over them, while the
border near the edge usually introduces
a new but harmonizing color in its
rather oriental execution.
FACTS FROM FRANCE.
The first omnibuses which ran In
Paris, in 1662, charged a fare of 5 sous.
The French law treats a frog as a
fish and declares all fishing for it by
night to be poaching.
The new French twelve inch gun Is
claimed to have the greatest penetra
tive power of any gun yet made. It
pierces at the muzzle fifty-four inches
of wrought iron or ten and a half
inches of Kmpp steel at three and a
half miles.
London Theater Cleaners.
The housemaids, or, in theatrical' lan-
gruage, the cleaners of a theater, if an
average w-ere taken of London the
aters, would number a dozen. Every
day the whole of the auditorium has
to be swept and dusted, and the ac
tors’ dressing rooms cleaned and made
ready for their occupation at night.
The work is under the superintend
ence of a housekeeper, who gets a sal
ary of at least £3 a week, while each
cleaner gets about £1. There are many
ladies’ maids to each theater who are
known as dressers. To each dressing
room there is at least one, and the pay
is the same throughout the whole com
pany—2 shillings for each perform
ance, exclusive of the tips.—London
Leader.
The British government deliberately
intrusts the “conquered” Boers with
the government of the country, even
over the heads of a British majority of
voters. The foremost leaders of the
Boers in the war against Great Britain
are made the heads of the colonial
government, and these Boers are not
only taking 6aths of allegiance to the
British crown, but are openly pro
fessing for it a devotion and an ardor
of loyalty which could scarcely be sur
passed b” a colony of purest British
blood.
If Miss Mabelle Gilman isn’t a
blushing bride, a good many
people will think she ought to
blush.
The Sultan of Morocco is said
to be very chummy with his den
tist, but what could be more nat
ural since the man undoubtedly
has a pull?
My Best Friend.
Alexander Benton, who lives on
Rural Route 1, Fort Edward, N. Y.,
says: Dr. Kinp:’s New Discovery ts
my best earthly friend. It cured
me of asthma six yenrs 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
cous:hs and colds is simply marve
lous.’* No other remedy has ever
equalled it. Fully guaranteed by
T. B. Allison Druggist. 50c and
$1. Trial bottle free.
Gov. Hughes, of New York,
wants to use for a while the
office he has, before he tries to
run down another.
How’s This?
We ojBTer One Hundred Dollar^s
Reward for any case of Catarrh that
cannot be cured by HalPs Catarrh
Cure. F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, 0.
We, the undersigned, have known
F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years,
and belivo him perfectly honorable
in ^all business transactions, and
financially able to carry out any obli
gations made by his firm.
Walding, Kinnan & Marvin,
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O.
Hall’s Catarrh Cure 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.
With the score tied in the ninfh,
two men out and the base's full, a
player has a splendid chance to
win for himself the title of “unde
sirable citizen” by striking out.
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—ajH
Challenge from Brevard Drug Co.
The Brevard Drug Co. are seeking
the worst case of dyspepsia or con
stipation in Brevard or vicinity to
test Dr. Howard’s new specific for
the cure of those diseases.
So confident are they that this re
markable medicine will eflect a last
ing cure in a shoT-t time that they
offer to refund the money should it
not be successful.
In order to secure the quickest pos
sible introduction they will sell a
regular fifty cent package of this
medicine at half price, 25 cents.
This specific of Dr. Howard’s will
,cure sick headache, dizzy feelings,
constipation, dyspepsia and all forms
of malaria and liver trouble. It does
not simply give relief for a time; it
makes permanent and complete
cures.
It will regulate the bowels, tone
up the whole Intestinal tract, give
you an appetite, make food taste
good and digest well and increase
vigor. Joy and happiness will take
the plact> of that “don’t care whether
I live or die” feeling.
Tak^ advantage of the Brevard
Drug Co.’s challenge and secure a
bottle of Dr. Howard’s specific at half
price, with their personal guarantee
to refund your money if it does not
help you*
There is no need of suffering with
constipation, dyspepsia or liver dis- ■
ease when you can get sixty doses of
a scientific medicine for their cure
like Dr. Howard^s specific for th«
small sum of 25 cents, my 81 jn 14