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The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1905-02-16
Irish Potatoes in the South.

DR.. S.. A. Knapp, of Lake Charles,
La, special agent of the United States
Department of Agriculture for Louis
ian and Texas, is a most practical
man. n of large experience in nearly
all branches of agriculture. He re-
Gently gave a talk upon Irish potato
culture, in which he suggested "strong,
sandy loam" as the best land for pota-
toes. Where this is not obtainable,
chocolate or black land will answer if
thoroughly drained. After being fiat
broken "about two inches deeper than
usual" the doctor recommends har-
rowing every twenty days until plant
ing time. Preparatory to planting, the
land should be bedded into two and a
half foot rows, just as Mr.. Porter does.
"Split the bed with a small plow,' he
said, land plant the potatoes twelve
inches apart in the furrow." He rec
ommends cutting the potatoes into
three pieces, and placing the cut side
down. Have a man follow with a
hoe" he continued, land cover potatoes
with one inch of soil. Distribute even.
~ on this 600 pounds per acre of a
~ vi fO-lu uS VI COlIOu
seed meal andOne-third acid phosphate,
Put one inch more of soil upon the fer
tilizer. It is not advisable to plant po-
tatoes as deep as most people plant.
because it takes too long to come I'D,
thus hindering early maturity. The
potato, when planted, should never be
below the drainage furrow. If it is it
will rot.
"Barnyard manure, we'll pulverized,
will give good results. 1t is a good
plan to plant cotton between the rows
before the potatoes are dug. thus easily
raising two crops upon the same
ground in one year.
In this case, however. the rows
should be five instead of three n q
half feet apart, SO as to give space for
cultivating the cotton while the pota-
toes are maturing"
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1905-02-16
The SERPENT of Drink.

Whenever the serpent of strong drink
coils itself around a man he is sure to
90, if he does not stop short, face about
and let it alone.
About seventeen years ago I had the
pleasure Of hearing George w. Balm, of
Kentucky, lecture, and it changed the
course of my life. 1 saw if I ever had
a home 1 must cut out the drink. So I
did to save a little money. I thank
my lucky star for a warning i'll time.
So I you, my brother, stop before
it is too late. I read an account of a
young man some years ago who went
from England to the jungleS of Africa
with an exploring party, and while
there caught a young boa contractor,
and for amusement he used to spend
his spare time teaching his snake to do
many wonderful tricks. One was to
coil itself about his feet Inc around his
body, and as it grew to full size it
reached above his head and would
curve over and kiss his face, and at a
signal would drop to the ground. So,
when he returned, he used to give eX-
hibitions and became very popular and
made money, and with that formed the
habit Of drinking. One night he was
to give an exhibition i'll Manchester.
The scene was set in an African jun
gle. A traveller came in view from one
side of the stage and stopped and lis
tened and stood spellbound. Then a
rustic was heard as Of the steaithy
moving Of some heavy object. Pres
emily there appeared the head of a
great snake with eyes like balls of fire,
and it crept softly to the man and
wound itself about him, up and over,
and brought it's head in line with his
face. The man gave the signal, but
the serpent had him entirely in it's
power, and with one tightening of it's
body crushed the life out of it's victim.
This illustrates the drink habit as
we'll as anything 1 ever heard of. SO I
would say'to you that have never
started, don't begin, and to those that
have begun. stop before it is too'late.-
Frank c. Cooper, in Michigan Chris
tan Advocate.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1905-02-16
VESSEL FOUNDERS AT SEA
The Furness Liner Damara Goes on
Rocks Near Halifax. N. S.
Sinks in Few Minutes, But Two BOatlOadS
of Crew and Passengers Get OFF in
= Safety and Reach the Shore.

Halifax, N. S. - The FurnesS Line
office here was advised of the arrival
at Point Pleasant of the missing boat
from the steamer Damara, which ran
on the rocks at MusQuodobolt, thirty
miles east of here, early the previous
morning. The BOAT contained Capt.
Gorst and four passengers, and ten of
the crew. They suffered little ill eff
fects from their experience. The
steamer carried thirty-four persons in
all. The first officer and eighteen men
landed at Pleasant Point the afternoon
before after q terrific struggle with
wind and sea.
Word was received from Capt. Harri.
son, marine superintendent of the Fur
ness Line Office, who left at midnight
on a tug for the scene of the wreck,
that the steamer had sunk in ten faith
oms of water.
The first officer, III. j. Nuttall, who
sent the first news to this city by
telephone, said that it vas 2.30 a. m.
when the steamer struck on the lodges.
The weather was thick, with a heavy
snowstorm in progress and a gale
blowing off the shore. The steamer
passed entirely over the lodges, and
tore a large hole in her bottom. AS
soon as she cleared the reefs the
pumps were sounded, and it was found
that she was making water fast. The
pumps were kept going, and it was
hoped that the ship would make some
point Of land where the crew could
beach her with safety. This was
found impossible, however, as the
water gained so fast that the pumps
could not keep the steamer free. The
water rose rapidly, and the fires were
eXtinguished, so orders were at nee
given to launch the lifeboatS.
Nuttall, with eighteen of the crew,
went of in the first boat, and soon
afterwards the second boat was put
over the side. The captain, four pass
engers and the remainder of the crew
(ten men), entered the boat and pulled
off q short distance from the Damara.
When they left the steamer there was
fourteen feet of water in the hold. and
she was dipped heavily by the bow.
Nuttall said that it was daylight when
they started for the land, and q short
time afterward. a snow Squall, thick
or than any of the preceding Ones, shut
out their view Of the captains boat.
After that they did not catch n glimpse
of the liner, which was then on the
verge of laundering. When the wealth
er cleared slightly, the steamer was
not in sight.
Nuttall said that the men in his boat
were so exhausted from cold and hun
ger that they would have been
able to make the land had not the peo-
pie Of Pleasant Point come to their as
sistance and dragged their boat ashore.
They were cared for by residents of
the settlement, who showed them
every attention. Two of the engineers
were in the boat which made the land.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1905-02-16
White Holland TURKEYS

During the past few years this breed
Of turkeys has won many admirers,
who claim for them superiority oVer
all the others.
They are large and vigorous, easily
bred to uniform color and shape, and
possess in a large degree all the good
qualities necessary in first-class fowls
for the market.
They are pure white. and when
dressed present a most inviting appear
ance. They are active and splendid
.foragers, and their young grow rapidly.
They enjoy the liberty OF the fields.
but are more prompt in returning home
at night than others, and are seldom
the victim of wild animals that so
often destroy whole broods of even the
half-grown turkeys. They are destined
to become popular with those who rear
them.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1905-02-16
THE GREAT DESTROYER
SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT
THE VICE OF INTEMPERANcE.

What That silver-TOngued Orator, the
Apostle of the New South, Henry w.
Grady of Georgia, Thought of the Rum
DemOn-A Catalogue of Its Horrors.
Tonight it enters the humble home
to strike the roses from a woman's
cheek, and tomorrow it challenges this
Republic in the hall of Congress.
To-day it strikes a crust from the
lips of a starving child, and tomorrow
levies tribute from the Government it.
self.
There is no cottage humble enough
to escape it, no place strong enough to
shut it out.
1t defes the law when it cannot
coerce suffrage.
1t is flexible to cajole, but merciless
in victory.
1t is the moral enemy of peace and
order, the despoiler of men and terror
of women, the cloud that shadows the
face of children, the demon that has
dug more graves and sent more souls
unshrived to judgment than all the pes
tilences that have wasted life since
God sent the plague to Egypt, and all
the wars since Joshua stood beyond
Jericho.
It comes to ruin, and it shall profit
mainly by the ruin Of your sons and
mine.
It comes to mislead human souls and
to crush human hearts under it's ramb-
ling wheels.
1t comes to bring gray-haired moth
ers down to shame and sorrow to their
graves.
1t comes to change the wife's love
into despair and her pride into shame.
It comes to still the laughter on the
lips Of little children.
It comes to stife the music of the
home and fill it with silence and DESC
lation.
1t comes to ruin your body and mind.
to wreck your home, and it knows it
must measure its prosperity by the
swiftness and certainty with which it
wrecks this world.-Dial of Progress.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1905-02-16
Selecting Breeding Stock.

Much depends on the selection we
make OF those fowls which we intend
to keep in the breeding yard next sea-
son, and after the season has passed
we will be able to locate the mistakes
we nave made and perhaps be better
able to act more wisely in the future.
IT we are breeding fancy poultry we
are doubtless trying to reach high
points of perfection in different Sec
lions of the fowls; trying, as it were,
to eliminate certain faults which ex-
ist, without in any way changing the
meritorious points already possessed.
But how is this to be done?
Certainly not by indiscriminate
breeding-by selecting fowls at random
without first considering every ma
terial point-the parents for several
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1905-02-16
Always q Depressant.

The conclusion that all authorities
agree on is that alcohol is always a
depressant and anaesthetic. So far,
these anaesthetic effects are found to
appear very soon after spirits are used,
and to follow a certain uniformity of
progress depending on the conditions
and dose. These facts are being rap
idly increased and confirmed by both
clinical and laboratory observations.
Ch%loroform, sulphuric ether, choral
and other wellkrown anaesthetics all
exhibit, in an extreme degree, the
physiological action of alcohol.
From a pathological point of view al
cohol is shown to be one of the most in
sidious and destructive of tissue poi
sons, and its use is followed by certain
cell and tissue degenerations hat are
uniform in their progress and growth.
The theory of a tonic and stimulant
value or a force producer or conserver
cannot be sustained by any facts that
are unquestioned.-T. D. Crothers, MD.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1905-02-16
Trade Progresses.

Trade progresses steadily, all specu-
Iative excuses having been avoided
thus far. and the numerous negotia-
tons now pending indicate that the
maximum Of activity is yet to come.
Some irregularity in reports for the
first month were undoubtedly due to
exceptionally severe weather. The
weakness Of cotton also had a tendency
to check operations at the South.
Taken as a whole, however, results for
January were very much better than
In the same month last year, particu-
}arly IS to failures, which we're $4,000
600 smaller in amount Of defaulted in
.debtedHess.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1905-02-16
Fresh Beef For Farmers.

We have known of a club Of this
kind being carried on quite success
fully at the North. We see no reason
why Florida farmers might not do the
the same. 1t would not be necessary
for each member of the club to own
q herd of cattle. Arrangements could
be made beforehand for those members
who did not wv any animal that was
suitable for the purpose, to buy at a
fair price from those who own plenty.
AS a rule farmers do not live con-
venient enough 20 butchers and meat
markets to enable them to have fresh
beef and mutton constantly as town
people have. In Canada they seem to
have organized in some sections, at
least, to overcome this Inconvenience.
The Consul at Collingwood, Canada,
explains how they do this. He says
that clubs are organized among the
farmers in groups and neighborhoods
and cooperate to supply themselves
with fresh meat. The ring, or club, is
usually composed of sixteen, twenty,
or t~wenty-four persons, although some
times as many as forty are enrolled.
Each member agrees to supply one
beef animal during the summer, and
in order to give plenty OF time for
preparation the members draw lots the
previous winter to determine the order
in which they shall contribute animals.
After drawing members may exchange
numbers if they find it mutually ad-
vantageous. Two small families may
combine for one share.
Wherever it has been tried this sys-
TEN has given excellent results, as is
shown by the fact that it is difficult to
gain admission to the rings, as there
is no inclination to drop out. The
farmers wives and daughters are par
ticularly well pleased. as the abund-
ance Of fresh meat at their command
simplities the question Of providing
suitable meals. Then the farmers get
their beef at actual cost, paying no
more for the best cuts than they would
for the cheapest they could buy at
retail. Under the Operation.o of the beef
ring each family gets it's portion within
a few hours after killing, so that there
is little difficulty in keeping the meat
fresh for nearly a week. The usual
method is to use the steak and roast
first and put the boiling piece into
brine or a refrigerator until needed
Florida Agriculturist.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1905-02-16

health to do so in January, 1899, and
it was reported at the time that the
people of Norway and Sweden wished
him to abdicate. The King reassumed
power in January, 1901, after visiting
England and France.
King Oscar was born January 81,
1929. Crown Prince Gustaf was born
June 16, 1858, and was married in
1881 to Princess Victoria Of Baden.
They have three SONS.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1905-02-16
Rape Gives Satisfaction.

Rape is comparatively a new plant
in the Southern States, but where it
has been tested it has given entire sat
isfaction. 1t is a nutritious forage
plant, which closely resembles Swede
turnip, can be easily grown on any
average soil, and is especially adapted
to lands that are about half fine sand.
1t makes excellent feed. for sheep, hogs
and cattle. 1t will withstand hot
weather, and we have known it to
keep a herd of fifty hogs in Tennessee
in good condition when all other green
crops had about burned out
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1905-02-16
Best Use OF

It will certainly pay, then, to grow
cowpeas for fertilizer, but why not
first obtain the feeding value and stih
retain se~venty-five per cent. of the
fertilizer value in the manure? Be-
cause we have found a good thing is
no reason why we should not get all
out Of it possible. If the fertilizer
value Of q ton of cowpea hay is $40,
and seventy-five per cent, or $3.50, of
that is obtained in the manure after
the hay is fed, it is clear that if we
had the live stock to consume it, this
ton of feed would only cost us twenty
five per cent. of it's fertilizer value, or
$3.50. y
What is cowpea hay worth as a feed?
We may, possibly, best answer this
question by comparing it with wheat
bran with which we are all familiar.
For producing milk, L and one
fourth pounds Of peavine hay have
been found equal to one pound Of
wheat bran. Can we afford to pillow
such a valuable food as this directly
into the soil in order to save twenty
five per cent. Of it's fertilizer value?
If the great need of our soils is vege-
table matter, which is certainly true
and this vegetable matter has a double
value-fertilizer and food-then it is
apparent that we can only get these"
two values through the feeding of our
crops to live stock before putting them
into the soil to supply the deficiency
of humus.-Tait Butler, State Veterin-
arian, North Carolina Department Of
Agriculture, Raleigh.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1905-02-16
Notes.

Germany is paying $3.50, 1000, 900 a
year for beer and other alcoholic slim
uiants.
"More than 600 persons are killed
weekly in this State by drink" said the
Rev. William n. Yates, in an address
recently delivered before fhe w. C. T.
U. in Philadelphia.
A visitor to the notorious Subway
Tavern reports that he saw there four
minors of fifteen years, or less, served
with liquors. This is the "sanctifed
saloon" which was dedicated with
prayer and doxol ICY.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1905-02-16
GAMERS HOLD CONVENTION.
Meet in Columbus, Ohio, to Develop
Business Interests.

Columbus, O.-The creation Of 4 bus
iness. involving a capital employing
over $500, co., 600, was the keynote in
the address Of Myron 7. Herrick, Gov
ernor of Ohio. at the opening session of
the National Gamers Association,
which held its business meetings at the
Western Hotel in this city. Governor
Herrick welcomed the delegates Of the
convention assembled in the auditor
ium of the hotel, responding to an in
PRODUCTION by Willard G. Rouse,
chairman Of the joint meetings Of tbs
four associations represented, namely:
western Canned Goods, Atlantic States
Packers, Machinery and Supplies and
National Canned Goods and Dried
Fruit Brokers' Association.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1905-02-16
No Pure Beer.

A former brewer, says the Philadel-
phia North American, called on Charles
l.. Brown, counsel for the Dairy and
Feed Commission, recently, and ex
planned to him the present methods of
manufacturing beer. He said that
nearly all beers brewed in this country
nowadays contain s~ulphites of lime, as
a cleanser" tartaric acid, s~aiicylic
acid, acrollic acid and kelrum MEDIA
sulphite, as preservatives; juniper her,
ries, as an antidote for the s~alicylic
acid; glucose Us a Sweetener; citric
acid, as a flavor; benzoic acid, as anti
septic, and fannie acid as a "~bleacher."
There has been virtually no pure lager
beer brewed in the United States for
o than a decade" he said; mot
since the organization of the Chicago
and New York Academies, which are
organizations of brewers"
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1905-02-16
News of the Day.

The fifty-eighth report of the COM
missioner of lunacy, issued September
Z, 1904, shows that in England and
Wales on January 1 last, 1919 per-
sons were certified as insane, being
1926 in excess of the number on the
same day in 1903. This increase. is
comparable with that of 1921 in 1902,
2,769 in 1901, and 1888 in 1900, the
average annual increase in the 10
years ended DECEMBER 81, 1903, be-
ing 2,513.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1905-02-16
Odds and Ends.

L. B. Harris, of Lyndonville, VT. says
that he has noted an interesting fact
in regard to sheep. He has just I'M
ported some sheep from England and
the steamer had a rough passage. Al
though passengers horses and cattle
alike were terribly frightened by the
heavy rolling and pitching Of the Dig
ship, the sheep paid, no attention
whatever and contentedly chewed their
cud through all the tossing.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1905-02-16
A
New Title For Luke E. Wright, Head
of Philippine Government.

Washington, D. C.-General Luke e.
Wright.of Tennessee, is the first Amer
lean citizen to bear the title Of Gov
ernor General in the Philippines. the
Philippine bill signed by the Presi-
dent, authorizing the change of the
title he now holds, Civil Governor of
the Philippines. Secretary Taft sent
the following cable dispatch TO the
new Governor General:
81 salute and congratulate the first
American Governor General Of the
Philippine Islands, and wish for him
the same success which has attended
his administration as Civil Governor"
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1905-02-16
KING OSCAR UNABLE TO GOVERN
Again Turns Over Authority to Crown
Prince, on Account of Illness.

Stockholm, Sweden. King Oscar,
who is seventy-six years old, is indis-
posed and unable to transact State
business. At a session of the Coun-
ell of State he handed yer the reins
Of government to Crown Prince Gustaf
until further notice.
This is not the first time that King
Oscar has entrusted the Crown Prince
Of Sweden and Norway with the gov
eminent. He was compelled by i'll
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1905-02-16
Wheat Exnorts Fall Off.

According to the Department Of Agri-
culture the exports of wheat from the
United States for the eleven months
ending November 80, 1904, amounted
to 1928, 703 bushels, as compared
with 6S,O17 1853 bushels for the CORE.
spending months a year ago..
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1905-02-16
Navy Refuses. Armor Contract.

The Navy Department refused a con
tract for eight thousand tons of armor
plate to the Midvale Steel Company,
and gave it to the Carnegie and Beth
lehem companies. Z
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1905-02-16
Boy Kills Little Sister.

Playing with a rife, tw~elve-year-
Did Alfred Burk, Of Tawas City, Mich,
killed his ten-year-old sister and seri-
ously wounded a f~our-year-old play.
mate.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1905-02-16
Cold Hammers Trade

Widespread cold weather hampers
trade in nearly all lines, thus retarding,
but not entirely checking, the opening
of spring Distribution.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1905-02-16
She Wife and Self

Despordent over business reverses,
o. n. Howe, a prominent coal dealer,
fatally shot his wife and killed him
self at Akron, Ohio.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1905-02-16
Goal Slim Cnntnred-

The Jananese have captured the
British steamship Fastry, bound for
VladiYostok with coal.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1905-02-16
Belgian Miners to Strike.

~The Belgian Miners Congress de-
%cidad by a large majority to begin a
general strike.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1905-02-16
Russian Mobiles Petition Car.

Mobiles OF st. Petersburg petitioned
the Car for representative govern
: ncuE
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1905-02-16
More Strikers Killed.

Twenty strikers were killed by troops
at KaIisZ, Russian Poland, and one at
LODI.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1905-02-16

Situation in PolaQd Worse.
The situation in Poland and the Cau-
casus grows staafiiy worse. Scores Of
strikers were shot by troops.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1905-06-23

there by asserting that the next rush
will not be in there.
In conclusion we are lucky to he
alive at this age and date and live in
Neyada.D