FRIDAYk MARCH 24, 1922. THE BREVARD NEWS, BREVAR NORTH CAROLINA CORNWALL UNO OF FAIRIES I^Mple of That EngliBh County Firmly Beiievo in Existence of the ^Littie People.** A Cornish handbook recently pub lished mentions that there are five distinct varieties of fairies in Corn wall and enumerates them as follows: The **Small People,” who were sup posed to be the pre-Christian inhab itants; these are gradually fading away. The “Sprlggans,” attached to calms, cromlechs and other ancient monu ments, with which it was unlucky to meddle. The “Piskies,” full of mischief and finding great joy in leading mortals astray. The “Buccas,” spirits of the mines, associated in local legend with men from the East, doomed to work under ground until the Resurrection. The “Brownies,” kindly and good, the spirits of the household, ever ready to do what they could to assist man kind. There are numerous legends of the adventures of mortals with these fairies and only a few years a«o men returning from Redruth, Truro. Penz ance and some other market town would turn their coats inside out be fore venturing to cross the wild moors Jot downs, in order to guard against ' being led away by the IMskles. Once a miner, working in one of the levels, heard his name called dis tinctly. He was afraid to follow the voice and went on with his work. His name was called again and this time more vehemently. The miner threw down his hammer and went t«> Investi gate. Almost immediately n mass of rook fell on the spot where he had toeen working. The warning had saved his life. The Buccas or Knockers were so feared at one time that people who had to pass a disused mine after dark took special precautions to prevent their presence being known. Variation In Opinion. One woman was telling another about a birthday gift she had just given her husband, and how she had saved for weeks from her house money to get It. The other woman was shocked: “Why, Nellie, how could you! I wouldn’t dream of giving my hnshan^ a present out of his own niorn'y I I earned every cent for his Christmas gift, made kimonos and dressing sacks for some friends. And a man, who was near enough to overhear, said to his companion: “If I had a wife like that. I’d frame lier.” “I wouldn’t want her at any price. She’s too good to be true. My old sirl cheats me out of every cent she can lay her hands on. I’m used to it. It’s one of the rules of the rtng. Wouldn’t want her to be different.” Which seems to show the variety of opinions—undoubtedly a wise disi)en- sation of nature, since life would l)e somewhat monotonous If all of us were made in the same mold—like candles. —\Vashingt<^n Star. New Ideas for the State. It Is reported that a play entitled. “The Island of Monkey-s,” in wliich the players are all to be dressed in the gtiise of various sorts of apes, is shortly to be prwluced in Milan. Italy. In view of Rostand’s successful diani- atization of the dwellei*s of a. bani- yard. one will wait until after the pre miere to say that it can’t be done. Then there was the operetta “Wood land.” in which all the characters were birds. David Belasco’s press dei>art- ment for some time nourished a rumor that the producer liad In preparatioii a drama in which all the characters were insects. This manager secured very nearly as much publicity for this odd notion as William Gilette did for his persistently reported intention to piny Unnilet. Dramatic editors in many cities devoted many colniiiTis to argument that the ideal imp?rsonator of Sherlock Holmes would not make an even passable prince of Denmark. —r’liristlnn Science Monitor. NATIONAL PARKS Thero are 17 national -parks In the United States. Hawaii, area 56 square miles, con- ^ins three volcanoes und a lake of blazing iaya. Glacier, Montana, area 1,534 square miles, has 250 glacier-fed lakes and GO small glaciers. Mt. McKinley, Alaska, area 1,408,- ttOO acre.s, contains' the loftiest moun tain summit in America, 20,300 feet above sea level. Rocky Mountain, Colorado, area 358 square miles, contains mountain peaks that reach to an altitude of 11,000 to 14,250 feet. Platt (near Sulphur) in Oklahoma, area one and one-half squace miles, contains sulphur and five other medici nal spslngs. Hot Springs, Ark., area one and one-half square miles, con tains 46 hot springs. Mesa Verde, area 77 square miles, in Colorado, preserves the ruins of th® cliff dwellers, and Casa Grande Ruin, Arizona, area three-fourths of a square mile, contains prehistoric Indian ruins. Wind Cave, South Dakota, area 161-3 square miles, contains one of the largest natural caverns. Sully’s Hill, North Dakota, Is a wooded, hilly, tract with an arerf of six and one- fourth miles, on Devil’s lake. EVERYDAY HOKUM “Below cost.” “Absolutely free.” “Easy payments.’* “As good as new.” “Fresh every day." “Hand-laundered." “Painless dentistry.” “Slightly used cars.** “Today’s weather " “Cheaper than paying rent.** “We’d love to hear you sing.** “Five minutes to the car line.** “Two can live cheaper than one." “We'd love to have you call again.” “I was too yonng to remember that.’* “We’ve got something just as good.” “When in a hurry use the tele phone.” “Three treatments make you beau tiful.” “Tickets bought of speculators not accepted.”—Chicago Herald Examiner. NORMAL CROP YliAR IN SIGHT i*ractically normal crop cocdition.i the world over are reported by tlie United States Department of Agricul- tur«. Argentina's wheat harvesting l9 making progress. The yield is ^f good quality but the area planted was ap proximately 1,000,000 acres less than for the preceding year. With European demand somewhat lighter, as a result of Increasing home production and a tendency to curtail imports, even so large a reduction In the case of Argtft- tina, which exports heavily, does not appear to be out of the ordinary. Aus tralia, on the other hand, will have a harvest approximately equaling that of 1920-’21. Germany’s winter crops are showing some deterioration and France also reports a recession from earlier estimates, while Himgary and several neighboring states indicate favorable conditions. India and Egj^pt probably will grow more rice tliis year than last. In the United States, winter wheat is generally in good shape throughout eastern and northern states, while the situation In the South west is less promising. Canada antici pates a satisfactory crop. There Is Nd'Nation That Cannot Teach Us Something About Farming By FRANK 0. LOWDEN, Former Governor of Illinois. One hundred and seven persona were killed in the Alps last year, mostly by falls, Reading these figures, one can un derstand why so many primitive peo ples feared the higher mountains, and looke\v and .slash on the way to the train. Imt they can’t afford to be seen in any thing hut low, French heeled pumps in town. It isn’t being done. They bring in the pumps in a handl)ag with out tlii'ir mothers knowing ir—I bet —and as soon as they take off their hats an*.! coats off go the iiigh shoes and on go the slippers. Tliey Lave the glory of walking out at noon Mtith them on and then tliey return to rho high shoes at 5 o’clock.—New York Sun. Chinamen are appearing in Paris, where they seek work as domestic servants. Cobalt, one of the rarest minerals. Is chiefly used In coloring glass and porcelain. Unexecuted orders for telephone instruments, etc.. it is stated, now number 200,000 In England. li. the year ending June 30 last. Great Britain built 594 vessels, United States 430 and Japan 105. Motor cars placed in a new cradle- liUe device may be turned over at any angle for Inspection and repair. Mail-carrying aeroplanes In this country are now fitted with asbestos containers to protect the letteriS from fUv. From eight seed potatoes Mr. H. Niei, of Lidlington, Bedfordshire, Kng., has grown 590 pounds of pota toes in one year, it is said. It is not a little remarkable that the old-time ^lississippi steamboat which figured in the career of Mark Twain should still endure on the river which it has helped to make famous. Though few and far between, these oddly- fashioned wooden boats, with »heir tall, narrow funnels and their end-on gangwaj's wlilch cjin be elevated like drawbridges, still “shoot the shoals,” carrying the observer back In fancy to the days when their roistering crews caused the tall stacks to spout fire as they raced the boats for all they wore worth against one another. Bui ije wlio would catch a glimp.se tiie ancient river craft must needs hurry. It will soon be a thing of the past. A new type of boat is being put on the river by the United States gov- j ernnient in order to re-establish naviga- i tion to and from the Gulf of Mexico. An international authority declares that of all earth’s races the American woman wears her clothes best. She may not necessarily have the best clothes, but wears them well and smartly. She keeps herself clean and neat and knows how to put the chic in chicken. This is a bit of a sur prise, as most Americans themselves thought the French girls had a clever and modish way about them that could make a gingham gown look like georgette, says the Los Angeles Times. But the American woman no longer looks to Paris for her designs. She Is able to dross with taste on her own account. The Russian foreign minister says that communism failed because foreign hostility compelled the soviet govern ment to go on alone, but maybe the hostility of the peasants, who consti tute close to 90 per cent of the Rus sian population, had something to do with It. The life of a window washer who fell three stories w’as saved because he fell upon several bags of peanuts, but others desiring to try It are re minded that it is almost impossible for one to get enough peanuts. BRIEFLY STATED I • Question of Jurisdicticn. .Tudge Solon Carter, of Superior court, rec('!>tly was called on to hear the divorce case of George vs. Martha Washington. When the corilmtants r niatriinonial ^edom arrlve^l tliey ’ere coior<‘d folks. .Tu(I:;e ^’!!!‘t(‘r. with his fine sc>?ise of humor gi: ir - I ai the complaint. f;iniled at tlif r for the plaintifi' and said: “Gooj irc •> “rsus Martlia \Va ' > ton. I don't p this court '-e jurisdif Sihonldn’t th.^ ' glnii- *=’■ G' • h’liifton lo<-' ( jm’ 'i.« hi'ad n e.'vc V.ien a man is a little mellow he tliinks he is ripe for anything. Some people are criticized be- cau;u' they won’t talk and some l)e'5iu.se they'^vlll. Manya man invests In a gold l)rick under the Impression that it is a golden opportunity. A woman wouldn’t mind being poor so much if all her acquaint ances were just a little poorer. Tlie population of soviet Russia has decreased ] 8,000,000 since the war be gan. according to a Red census, but it is probable that some of the falling off may be due to causes other than lieu bullets and starvation. Blood-cur ' the composer should '■.is art. * inrl perfection are re necessary ar« 'liar is said to be than it is on the w’ill have to use ‘ tilings that come . ■ - Ft <1 'Hit back on the :»re-w’ar price. all 1 ;)a; hH«ia The farmer believes in the value of what he pro duces and knows that it is indispensable to ^he world if civilization is to go on. When he ^ees that the total value of an unusually large crop is less in the markets of the world than the value of a small crop, he knows that something is wrong in our methods of distribution. He does not need to be familiar with higher mathe matics to feel sure that 12,000,000 bales of cotton ought to be worth more than 6,000,000 bales; for each of the 12,000,000 bales will be genuinely serviceable sooner of later in clothing the world. We know that no commodity will be long produced below the cost of production, and therefore it ought never be necessary to market any farm commodity below such cost; for if that commodity can be stored and held, the world will have to pay the cost some day. These problems have been met and solved, in a large measure, in Holland and Denmark and among the fruit growers of California, by the organization of farmer% co-operative societies. These societies do not attempt arbitrarily to fix prices. They do study the probable demand and attempt to adjust production to meet that demand. Instead of throwing the entire season’s crop upon the market within a few short weeks, they provide for orderly marketing of their products Tlie tendency of this is to stabilize the market. And stabilizing the mar ket of any product is in the end best for the consumer and the producer. It is never a good thing for anyone when any useful commodity ip sold for less than the cost, for under the inexorable laws of economics cur tailed i)roduction will follow until prices abnormally high are the result. Any commodity that is produced profitably year after year will in a long series of years be produced more cheaply than where there are violent fluctuations. While in every other industry we are abreast of the most advanced nations—in commercc, in manufacture, in banking and merchandising— there is not a nation in the world that cannot teach America something about farming. Papering a house in Russia is not expensive. One can buy 110,000 paper rubles for $1. SUBSCRIBE VARD NEWS. FOR THE BRE- France w'ants some American plays, America has some that it would be glad to export. Indications are that the next naval fashion will be collapsible ships witb demountable guns. The Princeton professor who says wealth Is a disease hasn’t the nerve to prophesy an epidemic. Cheer up! A doctor says we are going to live a hundred years. That plumber will be back yet. LITTLE RIVER RIPPLES Quite a number of our people are suffering from severe colds. We hope for them a speedy recovery. Rev. Carl Blsrthe is conducting a revival meeting at Holly Springs. Clyde Hamilton and Homer Orr made a business trip to Greenville, S. C. Monday. Miss Sue Smith visited friends at Blantyre Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Jerry L. Orr spent ' ' ■■. the week-end with Mrs. J. L. Pickel- simer. Walter Nicholson has purchased a new Overland car. Mrs. C. Gardiner made a business trip to Hendersonville Saturday. Misses Annah an'd Julia Merrill spent Sunday with Mrs. L. M. Hart at “The Pines.” Robert L. Merrill and Miss Myra Pickelsimer attended the singing con. vention at Boyleston Sunday. They reported a nice time. Wilson McCall is visiting relatives in Greenville, S. C. Mis0 Lula McCall has returned from visiting friends at Henderson ville. Homer Orr and Miss Salome Boyd visited Misses Zella and Hazel Brown at Brevard Sunday. D. H. Pickelsimer and wife visited relatives at Blantyre Sunday. Lee Kilpatrick has ^purchased a new Ford. Lena McCall was a visitor at Mrs. Kilpatricks, Sunday. Mr. Eugene George has accepted a position at Brevard. Miss Flora Merrill of Henderson* /ille is visiting her mother, Mrs. W. F. Merrill. Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Beddingrfield recently vi^aited Mrs. Rachel Merrill. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Mackey were Bre vard visitors last Friday. Avery McCrary and Randall Scott .vere Brevard visitors Saturday. Joseph Heath and Virgil McCrary made a business trip to Henderson ville Monday. Bom to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Mc Crary—a son, Frank, Jr. Mis-3es Ruth and Sophia McCall visited Mrs. Couch Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Merrill are visit ing relatives at Greenville, S. C. Mr. R. M. Hawkins and family vis ited relatives at Asheville Sunday. Miss Salome Boyd visited friends at Asheville Tuesday.. Mr. George H. Boyd of Canton, N. C. visited his father 6. M. Boyd on Monday. Mr. Harold liart was a visitor at Mr. Hamiltons, Sunday. F. C. Hamilton of Brevard, visit^id his parents Sunday. Misses Nadine and Nellie Nichol son went to Hendersonville Tuesday. John and Virgil Merrill made a business trip to Hendersonville Fri day. C. C. Orr is spending the week in Brevard. Geraldine McCal] is visiting irela- tives in Hendersonville. “DIMPLES.” EVERYDAY you read something similar to this in the newspapers ‘‘Besides losing his home by fire, a large amount of money and valuable papers were destroyed by the ravages of the flame. It seems that he kept all of his money and papers in an old trunk, hidden away in the house. It was a disastrous loss to the ' ner, as the contents of the trunk were more valuable than the house.” Guard against being a similar victim as these unfortunate people. It is dangerous to keep a large amoimt of money at home. Money at home is an open invitation to rob bers. 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