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Our County—Its Progress and Prosperity the First Duty of a Local Paper.
J. J. MIH^EE, Manager.
BREVARD, TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY. N. C., FRIDAY. JUNE 7,1907
VOL. XII-NO. ‘3
Transylvania Lodge No. 143,
Knight sof Pythias
Res:ular convention ev-
ery Tuesday night in Ma
sonic Hall. Visiting
Knights are cordially in
vited to attend. T. W. WHITMIRE C. C.
Brevard Telephone Exciiange.
hours:
Dally—7 a. m. to 10 p. m.
Sunday—8 to 10 a. m., 4 to 6 p. m.
Central Office—McMinn Block.
Profes^oivcd Cards.
W. B. DUCKWORTH,
ATTO RN EY-AT-LAW .
Rooms 1 and 2, Pickelsimer Building.
GASH A GALLOWAY,
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, - - N. C.
A beautiful gold crown for $4.00
and up. , I
Plates of all kind at reasonable
^ All work guaranteed; satisfaction
or no pay.
Teeth extracted without pain.
Will be glad to have you call and
inspect my offices, work and pi ices.
The JEthelwold
Brevard’s New Hotel—Modern Ap
pointments—Open all the year
The patronage of the traveling public
as well as summer tourists id solicited.
Opp. Court House, Brevard, N.C.
nml^AP.
Cor. Main and Caldwell Sts.
BREVARD, N* 0.
Ttemodeled and newly furnished.
Under management of experienced
hotel caterer. Central location, wide
verandas, livery connected. T^e
Best at reasonable rates. Write lor
particulars.
K-I-P-A-N-S Tabules
Doctors find
A good prescription
For mankind
The 5-cent packet is enough lor usual occasions.
The family bottle (60 cents) contains a supply
for a year. All druggists sell them.
H. G. BAILEY, C. E.
CORRECT SURVEYS MADE
Maps, Plots and Profiles
Plotted.
Only tlie finest adjusted instm-
ments used. Absolute accuracy.
P. O. Brevard, N. C.
Oldest In the state. Eurf-
ness. Shorthand, Typewri
ting, Pe n m a n w U i p, aim
English cour8SS._ l&OO
graduates in position^
Ua.lt or mure of yo«r rail
road fare
(rood board at 8—50tof?.M>
per week. No varations.
Enter any time. Spocial
course by mail if you aak
— for it.
In “The Land of the Sky.” ^//
Kear the Sapphire Country.
principal.
H. 0.
Why a
Beats a
^^Tronble with most
fellers/’ says Uncle Si
Simlins, ^^is that their
backbone is mostly all
wishbone.’’
Uncle Si’s sage sar
casm applies to people in
every toAvn. Some of us
in this towTi might study
it with profit.
You wish you could
succeed in business. You
wish you could do as well
as your neighbor who
does succeed. You are
overworking your wish
bone. Give your wishbone a rest. It’s tired,
>$l 4t l$> »|« >$l »|« >t« >$■ >|» »|« ^ *X* ^'t*
YOUR BACKBONE NEEDS EXERCISE. ITS
BACKBONE THAT DOES THINGS—NOT WiSH-
BONE, STRENGTHEN YOUR BACKBONE AND GO
J UP AGAINST COMPETITION.
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fiM Piji 4* *4“ '4‘ ^ ^ ^ 4* "4* ^ ^ ^ 'V ” ^
Marshall Field had competition, but his backbone gave
him the nerve to advertise big in newspapers when adver
tising was not known to be such a ITecessity of Business
Life as it is now universally recognized. John Wana-
maker had the same sort of backbone.
I
Their backbone backed up their wishbone.
Backbone builds business by booming business.
Business is boosted by backbone.
And the backbone of business is newspaper adver
tising.
CO¥RT CARDS
AND CUPID.
By COLIN S. COLLINS.
Copyright, 1907, by M. M. Cunninpham.
“Jack o’ Spades," Culbert called him
that first morning he had gone to work
in the Buckley building. Protests to
the effect that his name was John Sy-
monds were of no avail. His name
was Jack, and he -was as black as the
ace of spades, so the name clung.
At first he was angrj% but one could
not remain angi’y long with Kingsland
Culbert, and in the end Jack wound up
by paying him a hero worship that at
times threatened to cost the man his
position; for with Culbert in the ele
vator it ran express to the next to the
top floor, no matter what the other
passengers might threaten.
But Jack had gained the position
through having saved Buckley’s little
girl from a runaway accident, and he
merely smiled tolerantly at the com
plaints and suggested that perhaps the
elevator had become unmanageable.
Until Edith McQueen came, Culbert
had reigned alone, but after that he
was relegated to second place, the only
instance wherein, according to Ben
Hodgman, the queen outranked both
king and jack in the pack.
Miss McQueen was employed by
BCodgman & Pettit, whose office was
on the tliird floor, and it was Culbert’s
habit to ^op off at their offices on his |
way out to lunch and pick up the girl.
He had obtained the position for her,
and it was understood that they w^ere
engaged, though no golden band an
nounced that fact.
Then there came the day when Jack
noticed that Miss McQueen had been
crying 'when she came in. Culbert did
not arrive imtil late and hisi face was
drawn and very white. He did not
even smile when he nodded to Jack.
When he went out to lunch, he stayed
twice as long as usual, and when he
did return it seemed to Jack that he
had had more than the one cocktail he
usually allowed himself.
Miss McQueen did not go out to
lunch at all, and when her employers
had ridden down to lunch together.
Jack slipped into the office to ask if
he-'eould bring her in something. There
he found her with her head upon her
arms. Her eyes glistened with t-ears
as she raised her face at the sound of
his entrance.
“Don’t you want a cup o’ tea. Miss
Queenie?” he pleaded. “It’s sho’ good
for the headache.”
She shook her head with a wan little
smile and Jack slipped out again. That
night the car passed Culbert’s floor
twice before it stopped for him. A king
had been deposed.
But he was reinstated again because
of his evident suffering. After that
first day he did not repeat the cocktaiJ
episode; indeed, he seemed oblivious to
lunch time and never by any chance
used the elevator when Miss McQueen
might happen to be going out or in.
Jack pondered the situation, but there
was only one conclusion possible in his
limited experience. There had been a
quarrel and both were too proud to
speak first.
It grieved him because they were
good friends of his, these two, and
their quarrel hurt him as much as it
seemed to hurt them. More than once
he was tempted to speak to one or the
other and tell how the other suffered,
but a certain delicacy held him back,
and he could only miserably wait the
turn of events.
Then came Jack’s scare. It was a
dull afternoon, and he let the elevator
drop slowly down. At the ground floor
he threw open the door to look up at
a huge policeman; not Charlie, who had
the beat and who sometimes came in to
get warm, but another man, a stranger.
Though he had never had direct deal
ings with the police. Jack was afraid
of them. To him they were not guard
ians of the peace. They were men
who arrested people. When the bij?
man demanded to know which office
Miss McQueen was in, refreshing his
memory as to the name from a for
midable looking document. Jack’s heart
sank.
“I want to see her about a st61en
watch,” he added, and Jack’s misery
was complete. The little chatelaine
she had worn had been replaced lately
by a more elaborate affair of gold with
a long chain. It must be this one that
was wanted.
There w’as only one thing to be done.
Hadn’t Mr. Culbert got the janitor
out of jail that time he had trouble
with his wife? Jack ran the car up
to the sixth floor and with a vague “To
the left” shut the door and dropped
down to the third.
He burst in upon Miss McQueen with
a face gray with horror and excite
ment. She rose uncertainly at his cal'^
End came into the hall.
He fairly dragged her into the car
and shot up to the top floor. Through
the lattice guard he could see the offi
cer descending the stairs. Some one
had told him where the girl worked,
and he was going after her.
Panting with fear, he stopped at the
seventh floor and pushed Miss Mc
Queen into Culbert’s office, closing and
locking the door after him. Culbert
looked up wearily from the desk.
‘•What’s the matter, Jack?” he de
manded, with a formal bow to the
girl.
“Dar’s a policeman after her,” he ex
plained. “She done stole a watch, and
he’s after her.”
“What are j’^ou talking about?” Cul
bert cried. “Miss McQueen a thief.
Impossible.”
“He done say he want to see her
about a watch that was stole,” insisted
Jack. “Ah done hear him.”
“A policeman wishes to see me?”
asked the girl. “About a watch?”
Jack nodded. “I think I can explain,”
the went on, turning to Culbert
“When—w'hen it happened I stopped
wearing your watch and used mother's.
I left yours on the bureau, and when I
came home it was gone. I made a
complaint to the police, and I suppose
they have caught the thief and wish
me to identify my property.”
“But what have I to do with it?”,he
asked.
“I don’t know,” she replied. “Jack
just came after me, his face livid with
fear. I supposed that something ter
rible had happened, that perhaps”—
“I was in trouble,” Culb<^‘t suggest
ed, supplying the break. “I have been
templed to, but it seemed cov»'ardIy to
kill myself. What I cannot understand
is Jack’s chain of reasoning.”
“Ain’t lawyers for to keep people
frum goin’ to jail?” the boy demanded.
“And ain’t you the bes’ lawyer?”
“You cannot expect me to answer
‘no’ to that,” laughed Culbert.
“Dat’s it,” explained Jack. “I brung
her up here to save her.”
The two threw back their heads and
laughed, and in that laugh the misun
derstandings were forgotten. Culbert
tucked her under his arm in the old
familiar way and unlocked the door.
“I guess I’ll go down with you and
see the officer,” he said. “It looks im
portant to have your attorney.”
He threw open the door, and Jack
slipped out. There was a soft but sig
nificant sound that brought a grin to
Jack’s face, and then the two followed
him Into the car.
The big policeman grinned at Jack
in most friendly fashion when the In
terview concluded, and he stepped into
the car. On the up trip Culbert slip
ped a bill into his hand.
“There’s a piece of wedding cake
goes with this,” he said, “but that
comes a little later. This is a time, my
b.oy, when the Jack of Spades captured
the Queen of Hearts and the King of
Idiots.”
“Yessir,” assented Jack, wondering
what it all meant He knew about the
wedding cakes and ten dollar bills.
The rest was Greek, but satisfactory
because his king and queen were
pleased.
CONCERT TOUR.
The Oxford Orphan Asylum Sing
ing Class of 1907 will start upon its
eastern trip the first of May. The
second or western tour will, probably
begin the last of July, after several
weeks interval of rest by the Class
at the institution in Oxford.
The excellence of the«e entertain
ments is known to the people of
North Carolina,
The work of our orphans’ homes
appeals both to the heart and to the
judgment. It merits our sympathy
and support. Interest in this cause
is already great and is growing.
The patronage accorded these con
certs each year has been increasing.
They have been a true success and we
bespeak for them even enlarged suc
cess this season.
It is easy to understand from
this season why .Tennysom’s
Quen of the May died of con-
samption contracted in playing
the part only one time.
Ciiance for Syitan Valley News Readers.
In order to test the Sylvan Valley
News greit circulation and its supe
rior advestlsing value, we have made
arrangements with Brevard Drug
Co., the popular druggist, to offer
one of liis best selling medicines at
half-price to anyone who will cut out
the following coupon and present it
at his store:
COUPON.
This coupon entitles the holder to one 50:;
pai-kape of Dr. Howard’s specific for tiie
cure of constipation and dyspepsia at half-
price, 35(*. I \Nill refund the money to any
dit!saiisified customer.
BREVARD DRUG CO.
TWENTY-FIVE CENTS.
Dr. Howard’s specific- for the cure
of constipation and dyspepsia is not
an unknown remedy. It has made
many remarkable cures right here in
Brevard and so positive is Brevard
Drug Co, of its great superiority in
curing dyspepsia, constipation, sick
headache and liver tfoublea that it
will, in addition to selling it at half-
price, refund the money to anyone
whom it does not cure.
If you cannot call at his store, cut
out the coupon and mail it with 25
cents, and a 50 cent box of the spe
cific will be sent you by mailj charges
paid. Do not put it off. “Oae to
day is worth two tomorrow.jn 7-21
A Southern paper announces
that the President will next at
tack the dynamite trust. This
ought to cause a big blow out.
Having found out where he
stands. Senator Foraker refuses
lo sit down and keep quiet.
Deafness Cannot be Cured
by local applications, as they cannot
reach the diseased portion of the
ear. There is only one way to cure
deafness, and that is by constitution
al remedies. Deafness is caused by
an inflamed condition of the mucous
lining of the Eustachian Tube. When
this tube is inflamed you have a
rumbling sound or imperfect hear
ing, and when it is entirely closed.
Deafness is the result, and unless the
inflamation can be taken out and
this tube restored to its normal con
dition, hearing will be destroyed
forever. Nine cases out of ten- are
Caused by Catarrh, which is nothing
but an inflamed condition of the
mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars
for any case of Deafness (caused by
catarrh) that cannot be cured by
HalPs Cattarh Cure. Send for circu
lars, free. F. J. Cheney & Co.,
Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Take HalPs Family Pills for con
stipation.
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