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VOL. XVII V MARSHALL, MADISON COUNTY, N. C., FRIDAY, APRIL 2nd, 1915 NO 13.
MADISON COUNTY.
Established ly the legislature ses
Ion 1850-51. v
Population, 20,132. 4 '
County seat, Marshall.
1656 feet above sea level
New and modern court home,' cost
13 ,',000.00.
New and modern jail, cost 115,000
New county home, cost $10,000.00,
County Officer.
JIon.J. E. Ltneback, Senator, 35tli
Di .trlct, Elk Park
. ' Hon. Plato Ebbs, Representative
n t Sorlntrs. N. C.
W. A. West. Clerk o Superior
Cc art Marshall. ,
Oanev Ramsey, Sheriff, Marshall
, James Smart, Register of Deeds
Marshall.
O. F. Runnlon, Treasurer, Marshall
K.O . R. F. D. No. 4.
A. T. Chandley, Surveyor, Marshall
N. O
lr. J. H. Balrd, Coroner, Mars Hill
N. C. ; '
W. J. Balding, Janitor, Marshall
Dr. C.N. Sprinkle, County Physi
cal, Marshall.
' Garfield Davis. Supt. county home
Marshall. ' .
, Courts ss Follows:
September 1st, 1915 (2) November
10 h, 1815. (2) .
March 2nd. 1915, (2). June 1st, 191
2. Rent- 7th. 1915. 2). 1
J. Ed. Swain, Solicitor, Ashevllle
N.C. : 1915, Fall Terra-Judge Frank
Carter; Ashevllle. ': '
1 914, Spring Term-Judge M. H
Justice. Rutherfordton, N. O.
Kali Term Judge E. B. Cline, of
Hlskory, N. C. -
County eiminsslonsrs
V. L. George, chairman. Mars Hll
J. E. Rector, member, Marshall, It.
V. !). No. 1. Anderson. Silver, mem
be', Marshall,, N. Route 8
J. Coleman Itainey..tty., Marshall.
I ,'SBelton, Present, Marshall. :
fluy Vl Roberts, ,; ' V
j (eo. W. Wild,-X : Big P ne. N. C.
; . W. Brown, ' , Hot Springs, '"
J S. Brown,
. F. Sprinkle,
Mars Hill,, N. C
. ' - Board of Education
J isper Ebbs, Chairman,. Spring
Cr ek.' N. C. . John Robert Sams,
me n. Mars Hill, N. C W R Sams,
men. Marshall. '.; Prof. R. G. Anders,
Superintendent of Schools, Marshall.
Bo ird meets first Monday In January.
Aj: ril, July, and October each year.
' School ndCOIIgt. .
Mars Hill College, Prof. R. ' L.
Moore, President. FallJTerm begins
August 17th, 1913, and Spring Term
bet ins January 2nd 1914.
pring Creek High School; Prof.
M. E. Pleasants, Principal, - Spring
Cr -ek. 8 mos school, opens Aug. 1st
I adlson Seminary High .- School,
Pr if. G. C. Brown, principal. 7 mos.
school. ; '. : 'N :':'v 'v"V;
Bell Institute, .Margaret E. . Grlf
M , principal Walnut, N. C.' s .
Marshall Academy, Prof. S. Roland
Wi Hams, principal 8 mos. school.
C pens August 31, . ' -- ' : '
Notary Futlo.
j c.' Ramsey, Marshall, Term" ex
plr s Jauuary 6th, 1916.
. J-ispcr Ebbs, Spring Creek, n, o.
Term expires, January 6th 1915. .
J H Hunter, Marshall, Route 3.
Teim expires April 1st; 1915,
J W Nelson, Marshall Term ex
sin s May 11,1915
. 1 B Ebbs, Hot Springs Term ex
pires February 4th 1915. v"
C ralg Ramsey Revere. . Term ex
plr s March 19, 1915,
K. W. Anderson, Taint Fork;
Tei m expires AJay W, 1915. . v
"V. T. v Davis, Hot Springs, term
- expires January 22nd 1915. 1
; f .eve-Rice, Marshall. ,Term ex
pire Dec. 19th. 1915. ; v ' I
TenlW. Gahagan, Stackhouse, Nl
C. Term expires Dec. 20, 1915. ..
j. F, Tilson, Marshall, Route 2.
Term expires Nov. 14thl915. V S V
C. J. Ebbs, MarshalU Term ex
! plris April 25th, 1915.
P. M. Harshburger, Stackhouse.
. Term expires January 16th, 1916s
D.'P. Miles, Barnard. Term expires
;l'Dember, 23, 1916. "
' B. Ramsey,' Marsaall. Term
exj ires Oct. 4th 1915.
.3, A. Wallin, Big Laurel. Term
expires Aug. '8tli, 1916. -'"
: C. C. Brown, Blul: Term expiry j
Jat uary 9lhi VfYI. . V
g Trr nan iuvea ms couuvry
weu enough to talk for it
Football has all the tactics of war
and a few of Its casualties.
War has caused a scarcity of blue
Ink, but red tape Is sUll plentiful.
A dove of peace Will come home to
roost, If you will Just give It time.' ;
It's a mighty poor atrocity that
doesn't get by the censor these days.
It takes much cash to take on the
latter styles In hats and automobiles.
Consider the oyster. He never talks,
and yet he is in demand at every ban
quet. '
The reason people quarrel at peace
meetings la because they are sot
angels. ' v
Th wni form an .nnll.i. tnr IhH
Austrians to put In a pinch hitter at
rrtemysl.
It Is always a general's privilege to
describe a retreat as merely a strate
gical move.
The more exciting the war news Is,
the more certain It Is to be contra
dieted next day.
A woman's Idea of economy Is to
have an automobile so she won't wear
out so many shoes.
Some women's Idea of cheering up
Is to read something poetry pre
ferredthat Is sobby.
Have you forwarded your ten-thou-
sand-dollar treasury notes I The gov
ernment has called them in.
An Ohio man proposed to trade his
daughter for six city lots. She seemed
to be dirt cheap, as It were.
The conservative pedestrian looks
with a wary eye on an automobile,
even when it is Btanding still. ' ,
Paris reports that the-German, cav
alry has received a check, but strand
ed American tourists are still waiting.
One great drawback to football Is
that they can't employ those deep
trenches used by foreign combatants.
Those entering wedges seem to have
all , the effectiveness of a country
greenhorn's attempt to split a gum
log. , . .. . . v..'-.'.,-.-'; f"r-
There has been Christmas ship talk
enough to fill several ships with hot
air, but the presents come hard and
slow. . , , '.
Before any more rivers are used
for battle purposes something ought
to be done toward giving them easier
names. . -',
It is an 111 wind, etc. The most
famous man dressmaker of Paris Is
on the firing line, fighting for his
country.
Fathers of families of girls go in
strong for cotton clothing for women.
They Join "Wear Cotton," clubs as
readily as ducks take to ponds.
The effect is sometimes the same
on the man who calls , it "getting
spliced" and the man who calls it "en
tering the holy state of matrimony."
The American lady refugee who lost
her Pomeranian en route is of the
opinion that these accounts of inhu
man atrocities naven't been half
played up.
Women are urged . to waap Ilnnn
dresses to encourage the flax Indus
try of the United States. Now the
camp of fashion, will be divided be
twftfin the llnenltea and the cottnnlfnn
with an occasional Independent revolt
of the silkltes. 'V : . , , '- . ;
RlnoM there In obleRttnn tn nnnmnl
nunishment in the Schools: whv not
nunlsh the little culprits by maklne
them - spell the names of some of
those modern battlefields? The only
drawback is the inability of the
teachers to pronounce them,' of
course. ' ' v -
ButtlnK into the controversy
pylng gifted writers for eastern news
papers, as 10 wnemer actresses shed
real tears', the Cleveland Plain Dealer
niipirpfitH that the debaters nevnr hm
seen a leading lady when an under
study taking her place for the eve
ning had scored a success in the part
If the ruling that a borrowed auto
mobile kept longer than th-v time
agreed on brings the borrower within
the clutches of the law is applied to
other articles, a series of Jails will
Uave to be erected for the borrowers
( book and umbrellas, for no sue
building, howevbr large, ebuld L.
ihdia aU. . " i. -
Conserving Our
(From an address by Hon. William Jennings Bryan before the
. North Carolina Conference for Social Service.)
"About nine years ago we had a great conference at
the White House. Experts told us that the coal mines
would be exhausted; that the timber was being cut; that
the soil was being robbed, and ever since that time we have
been talking about be iog conservative. But now we know
that it is not the coal minelb iroa ore, the timber and
the soil that are our greatest asset, but it is the manhood
of the country that we can conserve but which we are neg
. lecting. If we can conserve the people's health, every
thing that tends to eliminate disease is worthy of considera
tion. ''' '
''We have made great headway in preventing diseases.
About sixteen years ngo, with our soldiers in the Spanish
American War, where T got ray brief acquaintance with
military life,-1 rerneuiber how typhoid fever visited the
soldiers and played havoc. ' Within less time than sixteen
years we have discovered the remedy for typhoid fever, or
rather a means of preventing it, and today there is not a
single case of typhoid feveV in the American army. You
remember our soldiers spent awhife at Vera Cruz last sum
mer. If they had spent it - there sixteen years ago, no
doubt hundreds would have died. But now we have learn;
ed how to prevent it. r ' '-i . :.
"We have stopped the spread of yellow fever untit now
the death rate of the Americans employed on the Isthmus
of Panama is lower than in any city in the United States.
Of course, the American employees there are of the ago
that are in less danger. To make all allowances, there has
been a tremendous improvement in sanitary conditions. It
is proper that this Society should devote itself to sanitary
I
USA.
The Passing of the
Fortress
New York Tribune. ,
This war has sounded the knell
of the big ' fortress. It has ex
ploded the tradition already
weakened in the Franco-Prussian
and Russo Japanese wai's that
elaborately fortified "base; area
great military asset." Instead ot
giving security to armies put on
the defensive," they have proved
to be merely traps for " the garri
sons imprisoned in them. Cutoff
from the support of mobile arm
ies, they , must inevitably , yield
either, to bombardment or to the
slower process of survation. ;
In this war the fortress has had
little chance . against investing
forces. Liege, Namur, Munberge
and Antwerp were' overwhelmed
by the fire of the heavy Austrian
and German howitzers. The de
tached forts of the hew girdle
system of defense offer sed tar
gets to gunsl hidden many miles
away. They are .pounded into
submission, once the rnnge is
obtained, without being able to
make an effective reply. Where
no big siege guns are available,
as was the case with the Russians
before Przemysl, the unwieldly
garrison is easily contain ;d and
eventually starved out.
The Aiistro-Hungarian General
Staff made a great blunder when
it did not order the evacuation of
Przemysl after the first siege was
raised in October. The garrison
and stores were of more value
than the fortress was.
If vou check up the number of bot
tles used you will find Foley's Iloney
nd'Tar in greater demand than any
other cough medicine. It Is safe,
prompt and effective for colds, croup,
hoarssnese, bronchial cougns tnroat.
trouble and lagrippe, It cont alns no
opiates and is the preferred cough
medicine for children. Dr. I. E. Bur
nett, Mars cm, JT. C. .
Greatest Asset.
Hugh L. Scott
Pacificator.
It is agreeable to find that it
has occured to . a good many
newspapers as it has to this paper
that General Hugh L. Scott, the
man who conquered the Piute re
calcitrants by kindness would be
a useful man in Europe where
everybody has for months been
seeing red and where calmness
and reasonableness seem to be
qualities that no one in authority
possesses.
Of course the General's task
was infinitesimally small by com
parison with what would have
been the undertaking of the man
or men who might have encom
passed the work of preventing
the outbreak of hostilities in
Europe.' But usually the quali
ties which , bring success in a
small enterprise are the same as
those which achieve it in a wider
Geld and General Scott has the
qualities needed to quell rising
trouble.'
Here is the way the Philadelp
hia Record views the same mat
ter: ."
"If the chancelleries of Europe
contained more men like General
Hugh L. Scott, combining a wise
diplomacy with an expert milli
tary knowledge, they might have
avoided the present wicked and
needless war. T u e General's
tactful handling of some recalci
trant Plutes may not seem a large
matter, but it showed that knowl
edge of human nature, that abili
ty to look at a question from the
standpoint of an' opponent as well
as from your own, that .constitut
es true vision and real statesmanship,'-
It is not difficult to ima
gine that if Count Berchtold; had
approached Servia on ' the ques
tion of. avenging the Serajevo
murders in the same spirit that
General Scott showed in dealing
with the Indians Uie mat :rrf'
haVe'LUi'dt1
ing nearly all of Europe into war
But the Count wanted to inflict a
humiliating punishment upon
Servia, not to deal justly with
her. In the obscurity of bis re
tirement he probably realizes now
that his brand of statesmanship
was not exactly the one best suit
ed to the occasion.
There is this additional thought
however. You cannot produce a
Hugh L. Scott without the envi
ronment. In an atmosphere of
monarchy and imperialism men
of the broad, democratic type are
not reared. Perhaps the great
war had to come as a means of
bringing in Europe the conditions
that make possible the producing
of men of tolerance, breadth and
exalted statesmanship.
Austria is just the sort of coun
try to produce a Berchtold and
the United States is the sort of
land where you would expect to
find the Hugh L. Scotts and the
Woodrow Wilsons.
Make Good Work Possible
You cannot do good work while
your bowels are sluggLh or your liver
torpid, Wm. O. E. Bleke, Mgr., Scott
Hotel, Hancock. Mich., says "I gave
Foley Cathartic Tablets a thorongh
trial, and find them a mild but safe
cathartic." Foley Cathartic Tablets
never gripe or cause nausea. They
do away with that drowsy, dull, tired
feeling and are wholesome, cleansing
and healthful. Most satisfactory for
stout persons. Dr. 1 E. Burnstt, Mars
Hill, N. c,
Some speeches are just screeches.
riiTh-HUlubniariBls- prevlnr tV
seu Digger tnan toe dreadnaugbt
Love in a cottage should never slam
the door. .
Even the best man. at a wedding
Is none too good.
"Probable showers" meant some-
iiiiug iu iNotms ume.
This war -is seemingly , Just - one
cathedral after another.'
The worst thing about most of the
war news Is that it isn't so. '
And they ought to put a double war
tax on phonograph records.
Which is the lareer nuisance the
rich loafer or the tramp loafer T
If only a war censor would make a
full confession tell all he knows.
, ..... uuibuu Days Bieey iv a uaui
That man talks like an alarm clock.
f i i - i..vti
The cnnlr Hrnnnsil a nla nan lut
night and it pronounced Przemysl
perfectly.
The big tree by the side of the road
never looks disturbed after the auto
has hit it 1
And the saddest message that was
ever sent is this: "You're behind
with the rent" "
Old John Barleycorn ia renorted
among those seriously injured in Rus
sia by the war.
The island of Yap may be a quiet
bit of land, but it sounds like a place
that's full of noise.
One can still order Spanish ome
let in a restaurant without starting
an International riot
The cautious man when asked "How
do you pronounce Przemysl T" if like
ly to reply, "I don't"
Cutting off the imports of dyestuffs
may cause some people's hair to show
gray mighty suddenly. , :
The per capita circulation of money
In this country is $37, but merely from
a statistical point of view.
Not long ago neonle were coins' to
Europe for their health. Now thej
are leaving for the same reason, .i
a man that knocketh a homl run is
greater than one that taketh a city.
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. A New Yorker has lnventof a nnrV.
'tit hnrinf!-fMi lm r... M J tn
- -..w...v..ii, VUI .WW U1VU iU UP '
try it ha friend wlrt a t i ic
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The Old
i Office Towel
New York, state printer " will
mourn the passing of the old tow
ei, as decreed by the legislature
of the state, as much as the pro
fessional jokesmiths who for
years have found it an endless
source of profit. After an assoc
iation of 46 years with this piece.
of printshop "furniture," the edi
tor of the Chronicle, Morris, N.
Y., pays his tribute la a recent
issue as follows:
j "A law going into effect March
I forbidding the use in any .office
or factory in New York state of
the 'common towel' and substitut
ing therefor a paper towel or a
clean cloth, one for every seperate
person using such an article,
strikes the death knell of the
printing office towel.
"Thus passes the reign of the
printer's towel as the leading
feature of space-writing jokers
on phunny phacts and phancies
anent the country printing office.
This useful article, while not only
being a century -old standing.
joke, has long held a prominent
position in every , well-regulated
printing office as a necessity; al
ways handy, standing in a corner,
lying on a shelf, or double-joint-'
ed ,
Hanging like a flail
On a rusty nail;
never in danger of being soiled '
nnxroi- .m.-afilidfl ..aljam a ,t K nt mi-mat. ft
always ready to wipe your hands '
on or baste over thehead of an ia
vading irate reader; or for nse as
a crape piece on the front door
on days of natal mourning.
"Old friend, farewell! Never
again will you fall off the. nail
and break in two at the second '
joint; no more can you except in
memory, supply material for
nr nimir niiir'f. ini?p- Tin mnra f-M ri
on r Smart Alec visitor point to
yoii and ask, 'When did you wash
that towel last?' Never again .
shall wo hear your dry and
cherry rustle in the morning as
you swing stiff and gaunt against
the wall after a long, night of
rest and recuperation. Never
again! Never again You must
succumb, vamose, get out, disap- .
pear, fade and vanish away , be- ,
fore the onward march of pater
nal government, which, having
invaded ' our business sanctum
some time ago, now passes on to.
the wash -trough and has spied-
you on tiiu way, my uiu uiacit
friend; and, lo, you . have fallen -
under its ban; and so, exitl
' "Someone, later on, with more 1
facile pep , a happier vein and a
keener wit may ... speak . of , yonr ;
long and useful life and yonr! de-
parture therefrom with butter efv'"
feet than can this writer; butrfew '
with longer acquaintance or clos
er fellowship as an incentive' can
lay a chaplet on thy stiff dead
form.
"Thou hast held thy sway
Ppr many a day,
In the corner beside the trough;
Covered with stain
That by might and main
Soap and water could never
get
off
A The printer's fingersr-
,. Thus memory lingers, ,
And the parting,: like thee,
tough!"
is.
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