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Our County—Its Progress and Prosperity the First Duty of a Local Paper.
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J. J. MII^EE, Manager.
BREVARD, TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY. N. C., FRIDAY. JUNE 21.1907
VOL. XII-NO. 25
Transylvania Lodge No. 143,
Knights of Pythias
Reirular c onvention ev-
ery Tuesday night in Ma
sonic Hall. Visiting
Knights are cordially in
vited to attend. T. W. WHITMIRE C. C.
Brevard 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.
Professional Cards.
W. B. DUCKWORTH.
ATTO R N E Y-AT-L A W.
Rooms 1 and 2, Pickelsimer Building.
GASH GALLOWAY,
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.
THOMAS A. ALLEN, Jr.,
DENTIST.
(Bailey Block.)
HENDERSONVILLE,
A beautiful gold crown for $4.00
and up.
Plates of all kind at reasonable
prices.
Ail 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 JEthelwold
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.
HOTEL BREVARD.
Cor. Main and Caldwell Sts.
BREVARD, N- C.
Remodeled and newly furnished.
Under management of experienced
hotel caterer. Central location, wide
verandas, livery connected. The
Best at reasonable rates. Write for
particulars.
R-I-P-A-N-S Tabules
Doctors find
A good prescription
For mankind
The 5-cent packet is enough ior 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 the finest adjusted instru
ments used. Absolute accuracy.
P. O. Brevard, N. C.
Oldest In the State^ Busi
ness, Shorthand,
ting, Pe n m a n 8 h 1 p,
English courses. 1800
graduates in positions
Half or more ofyour roll-
rnad fare paid. Plenty of
boart at ®2.60 to 83.60
Mr week. No vacations,
^nter any time. Special
ceurse by maU
for it.
If you do, of course
you want to see the town
grow. You want to see
the storekeepers prosper,
and the banks bulge with
deposits, and the towns-
people wearing glad
clothes, and the farmers
falling over each other to
conic in and buy new hay
rakes and patent plows.
Of course you do. Be
cause, likewise of course,
when things are that way
you get your share of the
general prosperity.
But what are you doing to contribute to the
general prosperity? Are you patronizing home
industries in preference to outside industries?
Do you buy your clothes and groceries and gar
den tools and so forth here at home?
Well, you admit, you do send away for a good many
things you happen to see advertised. Aha! And are they
advertised in this paper? Ko, indeed—in the mail order
journals and catalogues. Quite true. And you would just
as soon buy them here if they ^vere advertised by the local
merchants, wouldn’t you ? Why, yes.
Well, now, there’s a neat hint to some of our local store
keepers and dealers who perhaps haven’t discovered why
they are losing a lot of home trade which they ought to
keep.
It’s a wise business man that knows his
own opportunities.
In “The Land of the Sky.’*
Hmr the SappWjre Country.
principal.
K. 0*
Subjective Cigars.
When a man smokes a cheap cigar
instead of an expensive or moderate
priced one it is not always because he
may have his pocketbook to consider,”
said a New York physician as he re
cited the following Instance in proof:
“An old friend of mine, a former col
lege professor, who resides in the city,
smokes the vilest cigars made. He is
the best tempered old fellow you ever
saw, and splendid company—if it
weren’t for his cigars. He swears the
bran^l he smokes are as good as Ha
vanas. Once he said to me, ‘My friend,
believe me, the cigar is what we call
subjective, and not objective. That is
to say, it is what we think it is, and
not what it seems to other people to
be. So, you see, my cigars, that cost
me only $1 a hundred, are as good as
you would call the best and pay maybe
?20 a hundred for.’
“It is a great advantage, no doubt,
to a man w’hen he loolcs on all things
like a philosopher. I told my professor
friend that his cigars might be sub
jective, for all I knew, but that they
were fearful, and I should like it if he
would smoke a cigar that w^as more
objective. But he only smiled. The
old fellow is so chock full of philoso
phy that he simply cannot see any
thing as other people see it.”—New
York Times.
“He Loved the Children.”
Thackeray’s words were satirical, and
he himself was called a cynic, but the
author of “Love Affairs of Some Fa
mous Men” shows what sort of a heart
beat In the satirist’s breast by quoting
front the letter of one to whom the fol
lowing incident happened:
“In the week following his death
there appeared some genial memorial
lines in the pages of Punch. Walking
down the then unsavory thoroughfare
known as Bedfordbury, my «ye caught
the open page of the popular periodical,
and I stayed to read the graceful trib
ute to the dead moralist. Turning
away at length, a poorly dressed man
in working garb said to me:
“ ‘I* knew that man, sir.’
“ ‘You knew Thackeray?’ I asked.
“ ‘Yes, sir. I keep that little baker’s
shop yonder,’ pointing to the opposite
side of the street, ‘and many's the time
Thackeray would come and buy a
pound or two of cake of me. I cut it
into slices for him, and then, distribut
ing it among the crowd of hungry chil
dren, he would walk away and hide in
that court over there, that he might
have the pleasure of seeing their eni03'-
nient. He didn’t <know I knev/ him,
but I did. People used to call him a
cynic, sir, but it w’asn’t true. He loved
the children, sir, and no man is a cynic
who does that.* ”
The wealthy men who have so liber
ally endowed colleges cannot be ex
pected to read all the commencement
essays to see whether they are getting
returns on their money.
At last w^e understand the numerous
plots against the czar’s life. His im
perial majesty, it seems, has the vicious
habit of singing sentimental songs to
his friends.
King Edward VII. is to have a real
castle in Spain. He is one of the very
few men who ever realized on such an
investment. ’
MONEY.
Norway even now uses corn for cur
rency.
Absolutely pure gold is twenty-four
carats fine.
Sheep and oxen among the old Ro
mans took the place of money.
In India cakes of tea pass as curren
cy, and in China pieces of silk.
In some districts of New Guinea fe^
male slaves form the standard of value.
Seashells were the earliest forms of
money, the skins of animals coming
next as a substitute.
It is an interesting fact that the Jap
anese coins in the matter of fineness
are superior to all others.
The Icelandic and Irish lavrs yet
have traces of the use of cattle for
money. Many Teutonic fines were paid
^n cattle.
Ill the-days of 1849 of California the
ounce of pure gold ($1G.50) formed the
common medium of exchange. Another
interesting form of money was a lump
of gold, called a slug, equaling just $50.
Home Trade Hints.
The home trader is the home builder.
The man who trades at home knows
a good trade when he sees it.
W'hen you trade at home instead of
by mail order you save both postage
and prestige.
Lots of women refuse to take mail
orders, but they are so fond of sending
mail orders that they risk their cash
that way.
Some women sweep disdainfully by
bargains in the home stores and send
to the big city just because they like to
get mail.
In my opinion the man or woman
wlio trots around to the postoffice to
mail money to the big city mail order
houses and then trots around to a
neighbor’s and complains that this
town is no good is neither a philoso
pher nor a patriot.
How to Attract Home Trade.
Some merchants and other business
men complain because 'the people do
not patronize home industries.
This newspaper is a home industry.
Most of these complainers do not
patronize this paper.
Now, this paper has advertising
space for sale.
You, Mr. Merchant, have goods for
sale.
Suppose a man or woman wants a
certain thing, finds it advertised in a
mail order catalogue and does not find
it advertised in the paper, what will
the man or woman do? Why, send to
the mail order house, of course.
By persistent and intelligent adver
tising you are sure to attract and keep
much of the trade that now goes off
by mail to the city.
Did it ever occur to you?
If the weather man w'ants to get
himself talked about let him trot out a
variety of weather that we haven't
had this year.
That inch added to the stature of
West Point cadets will shut out the
Napolebns, the Phil Sheridans and the
Joe Wheelers from the United States
army of the future unless they climb
tlie back stairs.
. Habits of Monkeys.
In their wild state monkeys live in
the woods, on the trees, and feed on
fruits, leaves and insects. They live
together in companies and never go
alone when they wish to rob an or
chard or find their food. It seems as
if they laid regular plans, for part of
them stand to watch the approach of
enemies and part enter the field. They
form a straight line, reaching from
those within to some place beyond
which is a retreat for them. When
they are all arranged in due order
those In the orchard near the trees
throw the fruit to those outside as fast
as they can gather it. These pass it
over to those nearest to them till the
fruit is all nicely lodged in their hut
or retreat. If 'the one who acts as
sentinel perceives any one coming, he
makes a loud noise, and they all run
away. Yet even then they will take
some fruit under each of their arms or
forepaws and also in their mouths.
They are mischievous animals and an
noy travelers exceedingly by throwing
stones and sticks at them, and they
will frequently follow them for some
distance when they are passing through
the woods by leaping from tree to tree.
They are capable of forming strong at
tachments even with other animals,
and Ithey exhibit mildness, affection
apd docility.
Chance for Syl«an Valley News Readers.
In order to test the Sylvan Valley
News great circulation and its supe
rior advestlsing value, we have made
arrangements with Brevard Drug
Co., the popular drug:gist, to offer
one of his best selling medicines at
half-price to anyone who will cut out
the following coupon and present it
at his store:
COUPOX.
This coupon entitles the holder to one i
pac kage of Dr. Howard’s specific for the
cure of constipation anti dy^i cps^ia at half-
price, 25.'^, I will refund the money to any
dissatisfied ca&tonier.
BREVARD DRUG CO.
TWENTY-FIVE CENTS.
Dr. Howard’s specific for the cure
of constipation and dyspepsia is not
an unknown reunedy. 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 troublecj 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 mail, charges
paid. Do not put it off. “One to
day is worth two tomorrow.’' jn 7-21
The next edition of “Wild Ani
mals I have known” by Ernest
Seaton Thompson, will doubtless
include the President.
Judge Harmon announces that
he is a Democrat without quali
fication. Judge Harmon is a
favorite in the betting as to who
is Col. Watterson’s dark horse.
Croker says he will not enter
Irsh politics again. This is per
haps another way of saying he
means to stay out of Tamman^^’s
ranks.
Mr. Bryan is a firm believer in
the idea of “one' term for every
man.” And no more.
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-
\1 remedies. Deafness is caused by
an inflamed condition of the mucous
lining oftheEustachian 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
Hairs Cattarh Cure. Send for circu
lars, free. h\ J. Chexey A Co.,
Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Take HalPs Family Pills for con^
stipation.
WEEK END^ R, RATES.
Brevard to Asheville and return
$1.65. Effective June 1st. continu
ing to and including Sept. 1st, tick
ets will he sold for all trains Satur
day and Sunday morning only,
good returning until Monday fol
lowing date of sale. Summer
tourist tickets now on sale and
continuing to Sept. 30th, $2.30 to
Asheville and return. $1.10 to
Hendersonville and return.
For additional rates and informa
tion apply to
J. H. WOOD. 0. P. A. E. W. CARTE5, T. A.
Asheville, N. C. Brevard, N. C.*