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New-York tribune., 1905-01-29

know it amt the usual thing for couples to
Gel brate their silver weddin when only one of EN-
has been married that long but for my part couldn't
see why I should be cheated out of havin' silver
weddin just because Puffer hadn't had the privilege
OF be1n my husband but seventeen years. I'd really
been married twenty-five years. an that all there
was to 1t, and Mrs Puer ended all further argument
by peculiar outward motion of her hands as if she
was brushing away papable object retarding
the progress of her story, which l eager to
hear to have idea of delaying the telling of it by
futile argument
'Evrything went off well if there hadn't taken
two husbands to make up the mans twenty-five years
of it." she added. "Only l couldn't help thinkin'
how Peters would of enjoyed it. AS l saw he was
alus one of the socable kind, an Puffer amt He
feels sOCiabe enough toward folks but he's considerable
deef an amt in society ways. Fact is | think
he in agny all the time the folks was comm up
an maxim their congratulations, an I'd Jess as soon
try to shake hands with punp-handle with man
like Puffer.
Then he hated bein' rugged up sootable to the
occasion, an | had all | could do to make him wear
the white-cotton gloves Peters was both married an
laid out in I've KEEP 'em all these years, along with
Peterss weddin vest which fit Puer as well as if it
had been made for him. 1t come across me all of a
sudden that Peters was, way, havin part in the
affair seem that Puffer had on his gloves an vest
an l had the dress I'd wore when l was married
to both of em. I've been pore I've lived three
days a time salt an potaters an I've pawned
about evrything had on earth but my weddn dress
an I've hung to that through thick an thin. It's
dove-coored tafity silk trimmed in whitesik fringe
an true-over knots of white-satin ribbon You see
| worked in a mill five years before l married
an l had real nice weddin outfit an I've KEEP my
weddin' dress about good as it the day l was
married in it the first time. 1t dreadful tight
for me- an l had to lace awfully to git into it. but
everybody said it looked real nice.
"Of course l amt serciety leader nor nothin O.
that sort; but washin out among the best families as
l have an hepin' at all sorts of serciety functions
an keepin my an eyes open has made me know
what's what about entertainn', an reckon some O
the folks in tennyment a good deal s'prised
at the way carried that silver weddn through-havin
bell to stand under an ushers fetch the folks up
New-York tribune., 1905-01-29

when Joel died
Of the kick of
a drafted mule.
Amt l ever told
you about that?
Well, 1t amt no
kind of a story
to mix up with
an account Of a
silver weddin'.
II tell you about
II on some more
awspicous occa-
sion,' as the pa
pers would say"
" Why, Mrs.
Puffer," 1 said,
| should never
have supposed
that youhad been
married for thir-
ty-three years.
Really, you ap-
pear very young
10 nave Dctn mar
ried even twenty
five years, " which
was true.
She turned from
her laundry-tub.
wiped her per-
spring brow with
the back of one
sudsy hand and
New-York tribune., 1905-01-29
B y HI O ris w a 81 e

was about to dlsengage herself from a bright-pink
corset preparatory 10 donning that which she called
her "worlan' rig" A purple cotton-velvet basque
and ii111sy and badly soiled greensk skirt with
trayed hounoe OF black velvet lay on a stool in the
Laundry. On hook hung huge, red, straw hat with
BOWS and bands OF dIngy-black Grape This, came to
know later, was symbol of "half-mourning" in
memory Of half-sister of Mrs. Puffer's
didn't feel no call to go to the expense of full
New-York tribune., 1905-01-29

an 1nterduCe EN-, an
me sayin' Pleased to
meet you as perlite
as one O the Four
Hundred themselves.
Some o the guests
who amt 'sociated
with the big bugs as
l have was plumb TUX
back by it all, an
l could see they didn't
know what to do or
say. Old Mis- Simps
said she hoped we'd
have many more
marriages when she
come up to congrat-
ulate us. l felt like
tellin' her l thought
I'd had my full sheer;
but of course she
didn't mean it. An
other thing she done
was just KILN. | come
this new wrinkle of
havin' my SANDWICHES
rolled an tied with a
little baby ribbon
silver-gray ribbon it
was. Pore old Mis-
Simps never seen
nothin' O the sort be-
fore, an she didn't
know jest what to do
she did,"
Did you ever? My
Then, KNOWN as |
New-York tribune., 1905-01-29

with it; an what you reckon she
I'm sure l do not know"
"She eat the ribbon an all! D
daughter Susy saw her do it. II
did what was what, had a finger-t
after the refreshments, an then it Y
ley showed that she want up OF
Continued on page
New-York tribune., 1905-01-29

N a little late glttin'
here because of missin'
the car. The tail end Of
il disappeared just as I
got TO the corner. Amt
that just the way it al
ways Is with them tor
menun Iectrics? Your
girl in the kitchen told
me TO come right down
an start IN on the washin'
an you'd be down soon to
tel me about It; but a
person that 5 about lived
IN the wash-tub for the
past twenty years, as a
body might say, don't
New-York tribune., 1905-01-29

III u I--aN l-I-slsICl, IN
one that l hadn't seen for more
than twenty years explained Mrs.
Puffer soon after her nimble tongue
began TO run. This was the moment l
entered the laundry, when she greeted
me as II / was an old friend.
Why, good-morning, Mrs. Henly,"
she said, offering me a pudgy red hand
bearing evidence Of much honest toll.
New-York tribune., 1905-01-29

five, don't they? You seer"
Before | could recover from the sur
New-York tribune., 1905-01-29

MY acquaintance with Mrs. 7. Hiram
IVl Puffer began one Monday morn
ing IN my laundry At the mo-
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1905-10-26
The Revival Continues.

Rev. Geo. &. Gates, the noted Louis
vile evangelist, is doing some very eff
fective preaching at the Baptist church.
The interest his powerful efforts have
created has reached all classes of citi-
zenship in the town and the effect is
electrifying. Many of the older offend
ers of the Divine statutes have acknowl-
edged their errors and forsaken sinful
ways to follow the lowly Nazarene,
while a large number of our young peo-
pie have responded to the call.a
Services will continue during the week
beginning at 10 a. m. and 1880 p. m.
Members of various church organiza-
lions in the city are cooperating with
Pastor Love and Evangelist Gates. The
attendance is gratifying and the H.
terest increases. Mr.. Gates Is a power
in the pulpit and seems to be Ieaping a
rich reward in the salvation of souls.
The Word has certainly not returned
unto him void since his arrival in Hen
Jacksonville.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1905-10-26
Last Hope Vanished.

When leading physicians said that W.
M. Smithart, of Perkiu, Ia, h ad incurabl
c y umption, his last hope vanished; but
DIR. Kings New Discovery for Consump-
ton. Coughs and Colds, kept him out Of his
grave. He says: f'This great specific
completely cured me, and saved my life.
Since then, I have used it for over 10
years, and consider it a marvellous throat
and ung cure" Strictly scientific cure for
Coughs, Sore Threats or Colds; sure pre-
~yentiye of Pneumonia. Guaranteed, Soc
$l.OO bottles at The Justus Pharmacy
Trial bottle free.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1905-10-26
$50 For The Best Horse.

Capt. J. w, Wofford, Sec retary-Treas
urer, Western North Carolina Fair,
Hendersonville, N. G.
Dear Sir:-It affords pleasure to
notify you that the Directors of the
Asheville Horse Show Association
tender the Western North Carolina
Fair Association a cash premium of $780,
90 to be awarded for the best all-round
horse entered. When specially judge
as such at your Fair Oct. 1921, 1905
said horse to be entered by the owner,
in Il class at the Asheville Horse Show
of 1905, when the premium will be
delivered whether the horse is a winner
or not.
Wishing you every success in the
coming Fair. Very truly yours,
w. F. RANDOLPH,
Oct. %. 1905. Sc cy
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1905-10-26
Surprise Wedding.

Cupid moves in various ways 10 &C
complish his purposes. IL is the ole
story of ::'outwltting papa is often ex
emplided during these latter days just
as the young PEOPLE used to do when
our papas and we're young
and handsome.
Hendersonville people were surprised
Monday morning to hear of the elope.
ment >of little Miss Lizzie Israel, the
sixteen-year-old daughter of Mr.. J. P.
Israel, and Mr.. Thomas Grimes aged
twenty-five, who skipped across the
State line into South Carolina to the
home of Rev. w. 2. Southern, in Green
vile county, and were pronounced by
him, husband and wife," The bride
was yet in short dresses, but that did
not deter her. She had made up her
mind to go and that settled it. She
went 'for a walk'' Sunday afternoon
and did not return that night. Inquiry
revealed the fact that a team and
driver had been secured by Mr.. Crime
for Basin Springs, S. g., and that set
tied it, but this information was OBJ
tanned too late for decisive action in an
attempt to overtake them.
On Monday the happy children re-
turned to the home of the groom's
parents in West Hendersonville. "Long
dresses" are being prepared for Mrs.
Grimes and their friends join in con-
CALCULATIONS. She is a beautiful 'rlittIe
girl' and possesses many charms for a
child of her age. Is accomplished ard
Industrious. Long may she live in the
enjoyment of the new life.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1905-10-26
Trinity Park School.


s9S3GGe<
A frst-class preparatory school
Certificates of graduation accept
ed for entrance to leading South
ern colleges
BEST EQUIPPED PREPARA-
TORY SCHOOL IN THE SOUTH.
Faculty of ten officers and teach
ers. Campus of seventy-ive acres.
Library containing thirty thous-
and volumes. equipped gymna-
SUM. High standards and modern
methods of instructions. Frequent
lectures by prominent lecturers.
Expenses exceedingly moderate.
f. Seven years of phenomenal sue
cess.
For catalogue and other lnfor-
nation, address,
j. A. BIvINs, aeadmaster,
DURHAM, N. c..
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1905-10-26
Temperance Convention.

Editor Hustler: Following is the
programme to be rendered at the
County Temperance Convention" to
be held at the court house Saturday,
Oct. 2Sth, at 2 O'Clock p. NJ:
1st "Will a county convention be
productive of good result Rev. D. M.
Litaker and Rev. J. L. Brookshire.
End "Our greatest needs aud how to
meet them."-Rev. G. S. Jones and w.
A. Smith, Esq.
3rd 1.-The Temperance outlook u
Rev. A. r.. Love, Rev. r. B. Grinnan
and Prof. Luther Anderson.
Temperance address, by Col. S. v.
Pickens. r. G. MACE,
Etowah, N. G.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1905-10-26
Rugby Notes.

We are all glad to hear that Pre-
Pow II has recovered from his ton
porary illness.
Mrs. L. S. Fender has returned from
a pleasant trip to Asheville, where she
has been visiting her s~isLtr, Mrs
Charles Nichols.
We all enjoyed the hop at the elegant
home of Miss Hattie Maxwell, tu5 re-
gret that there was a disagreement be-
tween 100 of the young men.
Miss Mary Lane left Tuesday last for
Memphis Tenn, where she will make
her home with her cousin, Mrs. J. D.
Miller.
The box supper at Lanes Chapel was
greatly enjoyed by the young folks.
The Rugby girls certainly know how to
make good things, and we boys know
how to appreciate them.
Rugby is on a boom so far as bridges
are concerned. An iron bridge is being
built over the French Broad at Kings
bridge, and we have a new bridge oyer
the branch at the foot of Summey hill
not before we needed 1t, however.
j. Henry Lane, ESQ.,, has gone to New
berry S. c., on business, accompanied
by his sister, Miss Tom.
We are all very much interested in
the fair. Rugby. must wake up. We
hind. SCRUGGs.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1905-10-26
Preferred Locals.
Have you been 70 Thornton's?
0stermoor Mattresses at

SHEPHERDS.
For SALE-Horses. mules and cattl.
for cash or on time. See TwYFoRD
When you can't get it fixed else wi err.
take it to Thornton.
For SALE Or RENT.-Large house,
extensive grounds, mndrer convenience
furnished. Also 1 piano, l large ice
cream churn, ! large meat cutter. Ad-
dress Box 1913, Hendersonville N. c.
LETTUCE! LETTUcE!-How do you
nave such fine lettuce? Simply because
we know how to grow it. 2 1-2 cts. per
bunch. For Sale by ]. N. Youngblood.
Phone 43 near Southern depot. 26e at.
For RENT:-A nice Groom cottage
with electric lights, water works and
all modern improvements. One of the
incest locations IN the city. For
particulars call at this office. If.
For SALE.-16 berkshsre pigs at 49,
per pair six weeks old.
J.. p. fletcher, Fletcher, NC.
Mace sells the New Era and Jul
movement screw back and bevel case
watch for $500.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1905-10-26

The Original Leaxativ Con- = Syn" !,
Kennedy's Laxatl We Honey and Far. |
expels all cold from the system by acting
as a cathartic on the bowels. 1t relieves
the feverish conditions of the throat, draws
out the inflammation, cures the cough aid
Strengthens the mucous membraces of the
lungs and bronchial tubes. Kennedy's
Laxative Honey and Tar is Q certain, safe,
prompt aud harmless cure for colds, Group
nd whoeplng cough. Sold by F, Y. Hq
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1905-10-26

To draw the fire put of a burn, heal q Gu
without leaving a scar, or to cure boils
sores, letter, eczema and all skin and scalp
diseases, use DeWitt's Witch Hazal Salve'
Appetite for piles. Get the genuine. Sold
by F. V. Hunter
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1905-10-26

You may be just as skeptical and psssim
istic as you please Kodnl will digest what
you eat whether you eat or not. You can
put your food in a 10 wi, pour a little Kodol
Dyspepsia Cure on it and it will digest it
the same as 1t will in your stomach. 1t
can't help but cure Indigestion and Dys
pepsia. 1t is curing hundreds and thous-
ands-Some had faith aud some didn't
Sold Ivy +. V. Hunter
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1905-10-26

We are all glad to hear that Pre-
Pow II has recovered from his to "a
porary illness.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1905-10-26
Schools May Suspend.

The public school teachers of the
county are authorized to suspend their
school on the 9th inst. on account OF
Educational Day at the Western North
Carolina Fair, provided they obtain the
assent of their school committeeman to
such suspension.
j. d. DERMID, Med. RAY,
Chm'n BID Ed. Secretary.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1905-10-26

1t is impossible to have a clear head, IN
ACTIVE BRAIN. a vigorous constitution or q
strong body when the digestion is weak or
when the stomach is put of order, Kodol
Dyspepsia Cure will put the stomach and
digestive organs in good condition and i'm.
pre- We the general condition. Sold by F
"A au or.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1905-10-26

often ends in a said accident. To heal ac-
cidental injuries, use Buc kssais Arnica
Salve. ga deep would in nw fuot. from
an accident, writes Iheod ere rfatkuele, of
DolumDus' w. caused Me great pain
Physicians were helpless lp,.t Hz1oklen's
ArHica Salve quickly hea n&1;ttp s~Sr,ootbes
aud heals burns like mag .:25c,lst ,Jussas
Pharmacy.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-09-01
INCIDENT OF A SEA FIGHT.
Captain of Chinese Warship Drowned
by His Dog, Ferocious
Brute.

This strange incident of a great
naval battle is told by Commander
McGiffin of one of the Chinese war
ships in the battle of the Yalu, between
the Chinese and Japanese fleets in 1894
says the Chicago Daily News "Aboutth
time the Chin Yuen boldly, if some
what foolhardily, bore down on the
Japanese squadron's line. Just what
happened no one seems to know, but
apparently she was struck below the
water line by heavy shell-either a
ten-inch or 13-inch. Be that as it
may, she took heavy list, and thus
fatally injured, her commander, Tang
Shi Chen, most courageous, albeit a
most obstinate officer, resolved at least
to avenge himself and charged one of
the largest of the enemy's ships, in
tending to ram.
"a hurricane of projectiles from both
heavy and machine guns swept down
upon his ship. The list became more
pronounced, and just before getting
home to his intended victim his ship
rolled over and then plunged, bows
first, into the depths. She righted her
self as she sunk, her screws whirling
in the air, and carrying down all hands,
including her chief engineer, Mr.. Pur-
Wis, shut up in the engine room. Seven
of her crew chung to one of the circu-
lar life buoys kept on the bridge and
were drifted by the tide toward the
coast, where they were rescued by a
junk.
Stories told by these men vary SC
much as to be unreliable, but all agree
on one incident: Capt. Tang had a
large dog of most vicious temper, I'M
ruly at times even with his master.
After the ship sunk, Capt. Tang, who
could not swim, managed to get an oar
or some small piece of wood. This
would have been enough to support
him had not his dog swum to him,
and, climbing on him, forced him to re-
lease his grasp. Thus he miserably
drowned and the brute shared his
fate-perhaps the only case on record
OF man being drowned by his dog. /"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-09-01

| fused, | would set a slow match on
every oil vessel, and have the crews
get in skiffs and pull for the opposite
shore, and when the oil got on fire
and rolled up all over Gibraltar, and
burned every living thing, l would
throw water from the fire department
boat on the rock, and she would split
open and roll all over the prairie, and
then l would bury the cremated dead
out on the desert, and seek other
worlds to conquer, like Alexander the
Great. But don't be afraid. / won't
do it unless they make me mad, but
you watch my smoke if they peck on
your little Hennery too much, when he
grows up.
But l haven't any kick coming about
Gibraltar, cause they treated dad and
an ensign to show us all through the
fortress. Now don't get an ensign
mixed up with unique, such as showed
us through the Turkish harem. An
English ensign is just as different
from a Turkish unique as you can
imagine. Every man to his place.
You couldn't teach Turkish unique
how to show visitors around an Eng
lish fortress, and an English ensign in
Turkish harem would bring on "a
worlds war, they are so different.
Well, we went through tunnels in the
rock, and up and down elevators, and
all was light as day from electric lights,
and we saw ammunition enough to
sink all the ships in the world, if it
could be exploded in the right place,
and they have provisions enough
stored in the holes in the rock to- keep
an army for 40 years, if they didn't get
ptomaine poison from eating canned
stuff
1t was all revelation to dad, and
when we got all through, and got out
into the sunlight, we breathed free, and
when dad got his second wind he broke
up the English officers by taking out a
pencil and piece of paper, and asked
them what they would take for the
rock and it's contents, and move out and
let the American flag float over it.
Well, say, they were hot, and they
told dad to go plum to, but dad wouldn't
do it. He said America didn't want
the old stone quarry, anyway, and if
it did, it could come and take it.
guess they would have had dad arrested
for treason. only when we got out into
the town there was the whole British
Atlantic squadron lined up, with men
up in the rigging like monkeys, and
every vessel was firing salute, as s
yacht came steaming by.
Dad thought war had surely broke
out, or that some rich American owned
the yacht, but it turned out to be Queen
Alexandria and party of tourists, and
when the bank played God Save the
Queen" dad got up on his hind legs
and sang so loud you would think he
would split hisself, and a fellow went
up and threw his arms around dad, and
began to weep, and the tears came into
dads eyes, and another fellow pinched
dads watch, and the celebration closed
with everybody getting drunk, and
the queen sailed away.
Say, we are going to Spain on the
next boat, and you watch the papers.
We will probably be hung. for taking
Cuba and the Philippines. Yours,
HENNERY.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-09-01
GOLF IN SPHlNx'S SHADOW
Clubs in the Land of the Pharaohs
Have Many Difficulties to
Contend With.

mot only in Egypt, but all over the
old world, the English are always the
leaders in SPORTS" writes an Egyptian
traveller ''It is so afloat and ashore. In
Egypt the English visitors get up polo
matches, tennis, croquet, golf and bridge
tournaments, fancy dress balls, smok-
ing concerts and organize gymEhanas.
Those who know the difficulties of keep
ing up a golf club in a green and we'll
watered country, where there are per-
manent residents to pay the dues,
can readily conjecture what must
must be the difficulties, in a dry
and desert country, where the
only permanent residents are Arabs
and donkeys and where the golf play
ers come only three months in year.
Yet there are not few golf clubs in the
land of the Pharaohs.
There are many humorous things
connected with golf in Egypt. There
are what might be called extra-hazard-
Gus hazards; for example, at one links,
in Upper Egypt, the golf course wound
it's desert way past an oasis on which
was luxuriant field of clover. A SHE'D
ball was extremely apt to hide itself in
this clover. The following new rule was
made by the Arabs: Nobody in boots or
shoes could enter the oasis limits to
search for balls; only barefooted peo-
pie otherwise Arabs) were allowed to
enter. Every day we found large pop
ulation of Arabs around the oasis wait
ing for golf balls to go to grass. Some
times, i fear, they were assisted there.
II required much backsheesh to get
them out.
"At last there were so many lost balls
that an investigation was made by the
greens committee. An old woman was
discovered hiding near the clover haz-
ard When you made a fine long ap-
proach the old lady grabbed the golf
ball and took to her heels. She regard
ed the balls as her legitimate spoil and
offered them freely for sale to the
original owners at cut prices. 1t took
an enormous amount of time and labor
to convince her that she must give up
her practice"