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News
Our County—Its Progress and Prosperity the First Duty op a Local Paper.
j. J. MINER, Manager.
BREVARD, TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY. N. C. FRIDAY. DECEMBER 6.1907
VOL. 5II-N0. 49
TRANSYLVANIA LQD6E
No. 143, K. of P.
Meets Tuesday ev^ening> i
8.30., Castje Hall, Pra- j
ternity building. !
A hearty welcome for i
visitors at all times. :
R. L. GASH, C. C.
Bremd Telephone Exchange.
hours: 3
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. DUCKWOR.TH,
ATTO R N EY-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.
D. L. ENGLISH
LAWYER
Rooms 11 and 12 McMinn Block,
BREVARD, N. C
I
THOMAS A. ALLEN, Jr.,
DENTIST.
(Bailey Bloc'’.)
HENDERSONVILLE.
N. C.
A beautiful gold crown f6r $4.00
and up.
Plates of all kind at reasonable
prices.
All work guaranteed; satisfaction
or JO pay.
Teeth extracted without pain.
Will be ^lavi to have you call and
inspect nay otiices, work and prices
The JEthelwold
Brevard’s New Hotel—Modern Ai>
pointments—Open all the year
The patronao-e of the travelin{j publi*
as well as summer tourists is solicited
Opp. Court House. Brevard, N.C.
R-I-P-A-]S'-S Tabules
Doctors find
A good prescription
For mankind
The.5-cent packet is enongh tor n^ual occasions.
The family bottle ^60 <‘e‘ t«) coiitiiins a supply
for a vear. All (frugprists sell them.
H. G. BAILEY, G.
CORRECT SURVEYS IPME
Maps, Plots and Profiles
Plotted.
Onlv the finest ndiitstrn-
ments used. ^-irac^
P. O. c
I Write at once and learn why we secure best
I positions, and best salaries for our graduates.
Eugene Anderson . Pres. ^
Oldest in the State. Bus!-
ness, Shorthand, Typewri
ting, Penmansh Ip,and
English courses. 1800
grrailuates in positlong.
Half or more of your rail
road fare paid. I’leiity of
good board at 82.'30 to 83.50
per weok. No vacations,
i’.nter any time. Special
course by mail if you ask
for it.
“She Certainly Will
Appreciate It;
She Certainly Will.”
Have you read “The Southern Malden’s Reply?” It
is a touching little love poem by Mr. Charles Fredericic
Stansbury, now going the rounds. Linder the magnolias
the youth is telling his love in language hot as lava from
Vesuvius. He speaks thoughts that breathe in words
that burn to the extent of about thirty lines of verse.
''And this is what the maiden said~>
^ Her words were choice and few:
M certainly do appreciate it;
I certainly do.’”
One of the things that women certainly do appreciate
—they certainly do—is
a full page advertise
ment of bargains in a
store near enough for
them to visit. In the big
cities such pages ap
pear daily. Why? Be
cause the merchants
know that the women
appreciate it. They cer
tainly do know it.
All women are very
appreciative in the mat
ter of shopping bar
gains. They are so ap
preciative that they
make mental note of the
things they want, as ad
vertised, and make a
bee line for the store
that keeps those things
on hand and lets them
know about it.
If the merchants in
the smaller cities and
towns—this one, for in
stance—would do more of this kind of advertising, the
women certainly would appreciate it; they certainly
would.
AND THE MERCHANTS CERTAINLY WOULD BE BENE
FITED; THEY CERTAINLY WOULD.
Value of Good Roads and Cost
of Poor Ones.
WHAT THE FARMER LOSES.
la “The Land of the Sky.”
Kear the Sapphire Country,
rriiici.ia;.
ASUEYILLE, 1.'. C.
No Tax So Great as Unimproved
Highways, Which Drive People to
the City, Wear Out the Horses and
Decrease Value of Property.
In an address on tbe improvement
of country highways at a good roads
convention a speaker said: j
The improvement of country roads is
chiefly an economical question, relat
ing principally to the waste of effort
in hauling over bad roads, the saving
in money, time and energy in hauling
over good ones, the initial cost of im
proving roads and the difference in the
cost of maintaining good and bad ^
ones. j
' A good road economizes time and
force in transportation between the
farms and the market, reduces wear
on horses, harness and vehicles, in-
crejlses the value of real estate con
tiguous to the roads and brings prices
for farm products, because they can
be marketed at less expense. Rural
homes are sought after along good
roads. W^gon highways are the great
est arteries of commerce. Civilization
is judged by the condition of the roads.
No tax is as great on the taxpayer as
bad roads. A bad road is a heavy tax
on those who use it, and the worse the
road the heavier the tax. Bad roads
cause a decay of agriculture. They
impose the greatest of all burdens on
the farmer. The roads cause people
to gather in the cities. Bad roads
wear out the horses very rapidly, thus
detracting very largely from the prof
its of the farm.
Tlie man with the Iioe—the farmer—
wants good roads so that he may bring
his produce to market and his fr.mily
(V?
i
mud and over the stones. He finds
that tbe value of bis property is in
creased. and he can haul two—yes,
three—times greater load in less time
to' market and that he is richer and
better because of tbe good road which
connects his property with the neigh
boring town.
This cost of hauling is a heavy tax
on the farmers, much of which could
be saved. The amount paid out which
could be avoided by good roads is ab-
soli.tely lost. The farmers are unable
to recover it in any way. It Is a part
of their expense which they must de
duct from the gross returns on the sale
of their products, and the only way
that it can be avoided is by the con
struction of roads that would enable
farmers to haul heavier loads in less
time.
* Narrow tires and mud roads should
speedily be sent hand in hand, as it
were, “glimmering through the dream
of things that were.”
ROAD PHILOSOPHY.
THE COSTLY KOAD.
and himself to the neighboring town
with less expenditure of time, wear
and tear and trouble. In sections of
the country where the farmer has good
roads he would not lose them for more
than their cost and go back to the old
system of having to haul through the
Observations by Horatio Earle, Mich*
igari's Highway Commissioner.
State Highway Commissioner Hora
tio Earle of Michigan has issued the
following good roads philosophy, say?
the Motor News:
“Why don’t farmers keep farrow
cows? Because farrow cows eat as
much as new milk cows and give only
about one-half as much milk.
“What are new milk cows? Devel
oped farrow cows. -
*‘If farrow cows can be developed
Into new milk cows, why not go
ahead with the development and de
velop nev/ milk cows with udders
twice as large as common nevv" milk
cows have? Because nothing would
be gained if it were possible to do it,
because the udder is not the producer
of the milk, but simply the receptacle
in which the milk is deposited, which
is produced by the developed cow.
“In order to get more milk the wV>lo
cow must be developed.
“A county with poor roads in the
country and poor .streets in the villages
and cities reminds me of a farrow cow.
“A county with good roads in the
country and good streets in the vil
lages reminds me of a fully developed
new milk cow.
“If it is impossible to get the whole
country under the county road law,
then adopt the good roads district sys
tem, which is the county road law on
a small scale, permitting certain town
ships. villages and cities to operate
under the county .road system without
taking in the whole county.
“The villages and cities then help
to build the leading roads into the mar
ket centers, and these roads develop
the country districts, which in turn
lodge more milk and more regularit.v
In the village and city udders.
“Yet there are men that cannot see
that this is a benefit to either. 1 know
a supervisor that did all he could to de
feat the good roads district system
which was combining two cities and
four townships into a good ronds dis
trict, and his township would pay in
82 cents when one of the cities would
pay in $11.50, and under tlie system his
township would get back its 82 cents
and one-fourth of the Sll.CiO to build
roads in his township, yet he couldn't
see that it would l>e a benetit to his
township. Such a niau v.oiildn’t bii.v
gold dollars if he were offered ’em for
25 cents apiece on account of the ex
pense.’’
Roads For Automobilists.
It appears to have occurred to many
that separate roads for automobiles to
travel over is the solution of the great
problem caused by reckless motorists.
The question is one which is now re
ceiving a good deal of attention, and
numerous projects for the establish
ment of motor speedways have been
projected or talked about, says Good
Roads Magazine. The emperor of Ger
many, who is an enthusiastic automo-
bilist, has taken up the question and
as an experiment is having two roads
built through his estates. These road
ways are twenty-three miles long and
thirty-six feet broad and are construct
ed with cement. They are used ex9lu-
Sive^ by automobiles and are intended
as an experiment. The success or fail
ure of this experiment will be noted
with much interest in the United
States.
How to Snve 3Ioney.
T. B. Allison the popular druggist,
is selling Dr. Howard’s celebrated
specific for the cure of dyspepsia and
constipation. In addition to selling
a fifty cent bottle, containinsr a
DQonthVs treatment of sixty doses^^
tbr25‘cents, he gives his personal
guarantee with every bottle he sells
to refund the money if it does not
give satisfaction.
This unusual offer has brought
hundreds of customers to his store in
the last few weeks, yet out of the
many bottles of Dr. Howard’s spe
cific he has sold, but one customer
has asked to have his money return
ed. This was done without any
questions, although T. B. Allison
does not think the remedy could
have been given a fair trial.
Doctor’s bills can be saved by the
use of Dr. Howad’s specific for the
cure of dyspepsia and constipation,
and by taking advantage of this spe
cial half price introductory offer, our
readers can save half the regular*
price of the specific.
Do not let this opportunity pass to
obtain a standard fifty cent remedy
at half price» Remember that
Oniggist T. B. Allison will refund
your money if Dr. Howard’s sp^ific
does not cure. Dec. 6 and 20.
A Christmas Gift.
The Deeps Are Dumb.
The greatest golfers seldom talk
about their golf any more than the
greatest cricketers talk, about their
cricket. It is the enthusiastic duffer
who enjoys conversing about “his
game.”—London Truth.
Nobody is too young, nobody too
old, to enjoy reading The Youth’s
Companion. For that reason it
makes one of the most appropriate
Christmas gifts—one of the few
whose actual worth far outweighs
the cost. Welcome as the paper
may be to the casual reader on the
train, at the office, in the public
liljrary, it is, after all, the paper of
the home. The regularity and fre
quency of its visits, the cordial
sincerity of its tone, make for it
soon the place of a familiar friend
in the house. Like a good friend,
too, it stands always for those traits
and qualities which are typified in
the ideal home, and are the sources
of a nation’s health and true pros
perity. Is there another Christ
mas present costing so little that
equals it?
On receipt of 81.75, the yearly
subscription price, the publishers
send to tbe new subscriber all the
remaining issues of The Companion
for 1907 and the Four-Leaf Hang
ing Calendar for 1908 in full color.
Fuirillustrated Announcement of
the new volume for 1908 will bo
sent with sample copies of the pa
per to any address free.
The Youth's Companion,
144 Berkerley St., Boston, Mass.
Here’s Good Advice.
O. S. Woolever, one of the best
known merchants of LeRaysville, N.
Y., say: “If you are ever troubled
with piles, apply Bucklen’s Arnica
Salve. It cured me of them for
good 20 years ago.” Cures every
sore, wound, burn or abrasion. 25e
at T. B. Allison’s drug store.
H:*w’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, 0,
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-
ge(tions 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 Tili.s for con
stipation.