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The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-09-20
RAMS HORN BLASTS

lME Y are
eternity losers.
Heaven is the
int te r Of
eaarth.
A live meeting
needs little lead
ing.
Best criticism
Of the Bible would
be to give us a
better one.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-09-20
Oriuin Of ~"RIackmaiL-v

An authority on the derivation Of
words says that ~"blackmail" as used
by Coke and Blackstone had an inno-
cent significance meaning simply rent
paid in labor or produce instead Of
in money, rent paid in white money"
(~silver) being known as white mail"
The word mail" meaning rent, comes
from the Anglo Saxon "mael," a Dor
ton or possibly from the old French
''maille," a haIfpenny. In the days
before ENGLAND and Scotland were
united the freebocters used to make
frequent raids on the farmers living
along the border and the money paid
to secure immunity from these. raids
came to be known as "blackmail.'
Once established in that sense it is
easy to e how the world came to be
used to designate money paid to Sc
cure Immunity from a raid on ones
cputticn.-The Suburbanite.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-09-20
BREVITIES.

Cans is the greatest fighter, big or
little, that ever put on boxing gloves.
The Corinthian "socker' football
team defeated Newark by a score of
Z to L.
Lieutenant Dillon with a score OF
313 won the national individual rifle
match at Sea Girt.
The Vim, an American yacht, won
the Roosevelt Cup in international
contest with Germany.
l.. l.. Whitman's six cylinder car
made a record of ffty-seven hours
from Chicago to New York.
Messrs. Reginald C. and Alfred G..
Vanderbilt's horses won champion
honors at the Newport show.
Cochato won the $13,5OO Hartford
Futurity for three-year-old trotters
at the Grand Circuit meeting.
The infantry team of the United
States army won the national team
trophy on ranges at Sea Girt. N. ].
Battling Nelson had to be beaten,
or pr~izefighting would have degener-
ated to brute force and goatlikeA but
ting.
Audubon Boy paced a mile in In.
SO s. the aid or a wind
shield at the New York State Fair at
Syracuse.
The principals committee On high
school athletics in Chicago voted
without a dissenting voice against
offering a football championship pen
nant this fall.
Fling Axworthy (2.15A) is the
fastest fOEr-year-old colt of the sea-
SON.. He is a NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
product and a descendant of the ia
nous Beautiful Bells (2.29h) family
on his dams side.
BeaIs C. Wright, of New York, won
the Tri-State open tennis champion
ship in Cincinnati, and in so doing
! carried off the far famed Governors
bowl. He has won the championship
| three times in succession.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-09-20
FEMININE NEWS NOTES..

Free Russia, when it comes, will
owe much to the Russian women
Mrs. William Astor, who had been
threatened with pneumonia, was re-
ported better.
The number of women students at
the universities of Germany this
semester is 1885.
Mrs. Clarence H. Mackay won her
point to have corporal punishment
restricted in the Roslyn O.. ID
schools.
Miss Mary Philbrook, of Newark,
N. j., the first woman lawyer to prac-
tice in Virginia, has won c case in
the United States Court.
Governor Vardeman, of MISSISSIPPI
pi, has appointed Miss Henrietta
Mitchell, of Jackson, to be his aide
de-camp on his military staff, with
the rank of colonel.
DR.. Harriet S. French, for more
than fifty years president Of the Phil
adelphia Branch of the Women's
Christian Temperance Union, died of
paralysis. She was eighty-two years
old.
More than one hundred girls of
high prominent families in Korea
have just been taken to the Korean
imperial palace to select from among
them a consort for the Crown Prince
of Korea.
Three out Of every fifteen shops in
the West End of London are owned
by men or women. in society, who
either keep them Under assumed
names or have a large financial in
terest in them.
'
Mrs. Florine A. Albright, now of
New York City, whose family lived
in Louisiana, was awarded a claim
for property destroyed in the Civil
War. She expects to u the~Govern-
ment for the value of 200 slaves.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-09-20
ASK the Missus."

John Burns, the English radical
and reformer and a prominent mem
Der of King Edwards Cabinet, was,
during an CT ctIon meeting, interrogat-
ed by a sturdy voter who wanted to
know just what John Burns, the
Cabinet Minister, at high pay did with
the enormous increase of wages over
the workman's modest wage. The
new Cabinet officer was equal to the
secession
How do you spend it, John?" "a:
ed the elector.
"Ask the missus,' said the honest,
4~self-reliant John, and the crowd roar
ed out its applause. No room there
for the microbe of divorce to get
foot hold; no focus for the stegmlya
of distrust and incompatibi1ity.
~Ask the missus" is a whole IL
brary Of martial wisdom. If q mans
wife knows where his money goes,
it is, in one thousand, minus one
case, spent for the best interests of
the household. The man that can
9ook his hyot1er squarely in the face
and say, ASK the missus,'' is no
spendrift, NO bogus highrroller, no
gambler, no cheat. ASK the missus,"
and. her happy, hopeful, trustful,
contented lace will be answer enough
of the faith she holds in the maH
who trusts and loves her.
ASK the missus' would put di-
yorce lawyers cut of business. ASK
the missus," would wipe d~fvorce-giV-
ing South Dakota off the map. ASK
the missus' would keep the worth
less foreign noElernan eff the Ameri-
can grass. ASK the Eissus'' would
build homes such only as tle found
ers oS the nation knew.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-09-20
THE NATIONAL GAME.

Overall and Walsh are the only
bachelors on Chicago's payroll NOW.
1t is announced that Patsy Dono-
van will again manage Brooklyn next
season.
Jake Weimer wants to be the best
batting pitcher in the National
League.
After winning fifteen straight
games the New York Americans were
defeated by Boston.
The Lynn, New England League
= Club, has released outfielder DonO-
van, late of Oswego.
The Toronto Club has signed out
felders Medensaul and George Ban
non, late of Montreal.
A lot of Walter Clarkson's. old col
1ege friends think that he is good
enough for any league.
The Chicago National League nine.
by defeating P~ittsburg. won its one
hundredth victory OF the season.
Jimmy Collins is practicing with
his Boston American team, but a
limp still keeps him out of the game
The work of the pitcher Mordecai
Browne, of the Chicago Nationals
viii SIduu OuI III LAS AISlOIy vi NV
When Flynn, of the Holy Cross
College, joins the Boston team there
will be five college players On tie
team.
A triple Play unassisted was &c
complished by First Baseman MHfFh"
of the Manchester Club, of the NJ"
England League, in a game WIN
New Bedford.
Jack Kileoyle and Charles Sewers:
owners of the Cleveland EhseDaI'
!! Club, announce that they will pre-
sent $4,000 to their players II they
win the pennant.
When catcher Kings work for lAe
/ Chicago Nationals is considered IRON
all points of view it will be seen ~
approximate in hrilliancy and eIect
iveness that done by noted, perform
ers of two decades ago.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-09-20

which [ cannot shirk. The third ar
ticle of that treaty explicitly con,
fers upon the United States the right
to interfere fofAthe maintenance in
Cuba of a government adequate for
the protection Of life, property and
individual liberty.
The treaty comforting this right is
the supreme law of the land, and
furnishes me with the right and the
means of fulfilling the obligation that
| am under to protect American In
t~erests.
The information at hand shows
that the social bonds throughout the
island have been so relaxed that life:
property and individual liberty are no
longer safe. I have received anthem
tic information of injury to and des-
truction of American property. 1t IS,
in my Judgment, imperative for the
sake of Cuba that there shall be all
immediate cessation Of hositilities and
some arrangement which will secure
the permanent pacifcation Of the is
land.
l am sending TO Havana the Secre-
larry Of War, Mr.. Taft, and the AS
slstant Secretary of State, Mr. Ba-
:oE, as the special representatives of
TINS Government who will render
sucll aid" as is possible toward these
ends." L had hoped that Mr. Root,
the Secretary of State, could have
stopped in Havana on his return from
South America, but the seeming i'm
rlinance of the crisis forbids further
delay. m.., -maE..t, '...a
Though you 1 desire in this way to
communicate with The Cuban Govern
rlent and with the Cuban people, and
accordingly | am sen2ing you a copy
of this letter, to be presented to Pres
ident Palma, and have also directed
its Immediate publication.
Sincerely yours,
THEODORE ROOSEVELT,
Senior Don GOnzalo de Queseda
.tta"n the Cuban Minister.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-09-20
Strength in Sorrow.


e. re woul1n ot nave to strive 50 FOL courage if what we vaguely call
Ill things" were more evenly distributed among Is. for n 20 ones
lot would then seem to him a n evil one If we were all hump.
- backed, or lame, or blind; if every husband we're unfanhful and
E9@ every snls a e1oss:H v vsrs ali poor and n . @an had more
60 than another; if nobodys sn died in his early strength. and
noDody Was loved while We sat negleced-then who of usw would
Ano what sorrows n Affections We're? We would take each of them for
1t is because W see our estated differing from that Of II fellow that we
are tempted to comparisons, and it is in the making If these omparisons that
a sense of or sorrows, like the knowledge Of o~ Affections, is first horn
else h was richer? or thato ur Sol va unsuccessful unless he son of some
body else were making a great mark in the world? Would III little children
be unhappy with only n dress, had they not seen other children With two?
1t comes to this: When W e begin to make comparisons e begin IN sE
fer This may seem to be a hard saying, but it is a tre one-Haroers "a
Ear
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-09-20
Nc Need for Nerve Medicine

A country. doctor. after writing a
prescription Ter a patient told him
the druggist would probably charge
him sixty cents for filing it. The
patient asked the physician to lend
him the money. The latter scratched
cut part Of the prescription and hand
ed it back with ten cents, remarking:
You al have that filled for a
dime. What ! have scratched rcut
was for your observation-disclosures
Star
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-09-20

If there Is any basis for the re-
ports from Ecuador, suggests the
Pittsburg Despatch, that there was at
one time a possibility of the United
States beins asked to buy the Gala
pages Islar0s for So, 900, 900 and that
the overthrow of President Garcia
closed he incident there will be a
general feeling that here at least was
one revelation that did good"
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-09-20

Men Of America, take the cue from
John Burns. Make it possible to say
to every inquirer as to where the
money goes, ASK the miss1s."-
Louisville Herald.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-09-20
~ ~ ~
Why Socialism Fails.
= BY Tom w atSOn.

matter how much there may be in the Tomorrow OF oocAAISh'
in its Today. when it shall be inaugurated as a system, all Things
must be owned collectively, and that means that the nlgn III
low come to a common level; the good and the BAD Tar e'Nn'
the idle and the industrious share ard share alike; the .nnteIa'e
and the learned, the capable and the incompetent the 1901 au
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-09-20

The newspaper is the watrhn1aT u u
the community, ever on qua
against every corm of evil 4 u :5o
ger, and it should be tag proper F'"o
of every newspaper man, adEaoa' "or
the Kansas City Journal that re
sustain the high responsibilities he %
sumeS.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-09-20

It is never hard to hold the people
If you are really helping them.
Some men will not believe they are
saved from drowning until they feel
dry.
You cannot warm your heart on the
Bible and refuse its light on your
way.
It's no use a mans praying for a
clean heart if ~he will not wash his
face.
They who love God for His gifts
never know how much His love can
give.
You cannot warm your hands at
the devils fire without warping your
heart.
We need never measure our love
until it surpasses the unreasonable
love
There is a good deal of difference
between belief in Satan and trust In
the Savior.
They who love like their Lord do
not need to worry over the logic of
their creed.
The robe of righteousness cannot
be won by giving away an old vest
now and then,
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-09-20

&&49GSD and the learned, the capable and the incompetent, tne pOL anu
.s5ara# the wise nan the virgin and the troll, the negro II III Wiz VIZ
all come to the Universal Brotherhood pot and ladle out an quar- polln7
erful of Otage
In the nam o. Heaven! What a sordid, sckening deadlevel: What an
enforced equaizng of III men and all women, in worldly hereG 70 neVerm made
two grains of sand, WI leaves of he forest W birds Of the air. W fish II
the sea W beasts Of The field, exactly equal
Only in apohtlca sense car IN On even dream OF VIZ men being equal
Tor ar eyes, III conmonEeEse tell IS that such a thing is equality in
strength, capacity, character, or IN the elements NJ achievements Of manhood
has n exitence among men
Socialism proceeds thu idea that equality is there, or can De put
there; n thu Effort to prove hat the idea is correct has been made time and
aga n again. 1t was nt only among the AlcieItS; nj it has been tried in
America.
Failure, dismal failure. has been the result of every experiment. Why?
Because Human Nature is radically eternany different from what the Socialist
assume it to be.
If all we're equal, an all were good, Socialism would b NECESSARY oven
from the standpoint of the Socialist
Give IL absolute equality and universal goodness, mi We don't nnd any.
thing tut a little time to reach an equal distribution of wealth and Al era of
Peace IL Earth n Good Will to Men-Watsons Magazine.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1906-02-22

How are the merchants of the
Northwest going to meet the unscrup-
ulous warfare now being waged
upon them by the catalogue houses?
He must advertise more extensively
in his home papers and by circulars
to his patrons. He must take up the
mail order proposition in systematic
way and prepare and carry out a
strong line of publicity. 1t Is all very
well for the country merchant to say
that every one knows him and will
trade with him anyway, but the known
facts do not carry out this statement.
The catalogue houses flood the rural
sections with their immense cata-
logues listing thousands of articles Of
merchandise with their prices plainly
given. The price is an inducement,
even though it may be higher than the
same article can be bought of the
home merchant, because when a price
| is given the patron naturally thinks
it is low price. Supplements of the
big catalogues are issued at intervals,
alleged to contain rare bargains, and
| these are helped out with circulars
and other bargain announcements ar
| irving every few days at the patron S
| house. AS opposed to all this clever
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1906-02-22
MERCHANTS MUST ADVERTISE

advertising the patron sees, most OF
the time, stereotyped ads in his home
papers telling him that John Jones
sells merchandise" That's about all
he gets out of two-thirds Of the ads
published in country newspapers.
This may seem harsh criticism, but
it is we'll meant. Stir things up. You
may not have to use any more space
in your local papers, but make that
space say something. Dig into your
stock and advertise things that you
never thought of advertising before.
And give the prices. Keep all the big
retail mail order house catalogues on
hand. You will find it easy enough to
get them. Compare your selling prices
with those in the catalogues aid nine
times out of ten you will find that you
can beat them at your regular prices
when you figure In the cost of freight
to the mail order patron. Therefore
advertise and give prices. If you
have an association or understanding
there can be no objection to giving
prices, and il you haven't an associa-
ton or understanding get one just as
soon as you can, because that is OF
the utmost Importance in fighting the
mail order evil.-St Paul Trade Jour
nal
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1906-02-22
ENGINE CREW DIDN'T KNOW.
Wreck Occurs and Three Cars Are
Left Behind.

Wreck Occurs and Three Cars Are
Left Behind.
A freight train on the Milwaukee
line between Aberdeen and Linton
N. D., had a peculiar accident that
caused the train crew no end of an
noyance. Four miles west of Aber-
deem the journal of wheat car, the
third car from the rear, broke and
let the trucks down on the track.
The wheat car was derailed and the
coupling with the car in front discon-
nected. The air brake system was
unframed, and the engineer and fire.
men knew nothing of the accident
until they pulled into Aberdeen and
discovered the conductor, brakeman,
caboose and two other cars We're miss
ing. A special was sent to the scene
of the accident, and the passengers
on the passenger train, which was be-
hind the wrecked freight, taken Oh
and brought to town. 1t required
several hours work to clear the track.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1906-02-22

Mrs. Washington after this-a low,
narrow roof room, very cold in win
ter, for there was no way of heating
it, and hot when the summer sun beat
upon it. Through its single dormer
window, however, she could look out
upon her husbands tomb, and there
she remained until the silver cord
which bound her to life was loosed
and she went to join him in his long
sleep by the river.
A negro sentinel guards the graves.
who tells you, in the vernacular of the
race, how the key which locks the
vault behind them, and in which forty
of their kindred are buried, has been
sunk in the Potomac.
Not" he adds, where it can be
dragged for, but deep, where it will
never more be found" Grace De-
Winnie Bostwick. in Los Angeles
Times.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1906-02-22

hour as veraciously now as then;
while on the wall to the right of it
hangs the portrait of Washington
which Rembrandt Peale painted with
such feyerish energy, and which was
donated to the association by his
heirs. A chair brought over in the
Mayfower stands beneath the picture,
Washington knelt at Christ Church.
Alexandria, and another used by Mel
lie Gusts.
Other objects to which the atten-
ton is directed are a model of the
Bastile made of the stone of which
the prison was composed, and pre-
scented by Lafayette; a British flag
captured by Washington and donated
by General Grant. with many relics OF
equal interest. The end of the build
ing opposite the banquet hall is occu-
pied by the library, with it's valuable
collection of books and souvenirs It
is in the rooms which these apart
ments flank. however, ranged on
either side of broad hall, that one is
brought most closely in touch with
the family life at Mount Vernon
Nellie Custis' music room, in which
the generals flute lies upon the harp
sichord which he presented her on the
occasion of her marriage, recalls one
of the most delightful relations of his
life-his connection with his beautiful
adopted daughter. Here she beguiled
him with the songs which he loved or
played the Accomplishments to his mu-
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1906-02-22

tives each state assumes the care Of a
room, and the responsibility Of fitting
1t up with furniture, of which it was
despoiled at the sale of the late
owner; or, failing this, of substituting
articles possessing historic interest
and belonging to the period. One of
the most successful of these attempts
Is to be found in the Minnesota, or
spinning-room, vocal in the days OF
yore with the music of wheel and
loom and the measured stroke of the
fax brake, while above the rythmical
whirr might have been heard the mis-
tress' voice, giving direction to the
swarthy artisans who spun and wove
most of the clothing worn by the 300
slaves belonging to the estate. The
articles in this room. which were col
lected by Perley Poore and treasured
by him at his home, we're purchased
BY the association from his widow
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1906-02-22
TRADE AT HONE
A Profitable Lesson Taught a Patron OF Gaia
logue Houses by Home Mer-
chants.

Column after column has been writ
ten about the bad deals people make
by trading with catalogue houses in
place of trading with their home mer
chants, but it seems almost necessary
for man to get beat before he takes
a tumble to himself as the saying is,
and begins to do all his trading at
home where he can see the goods.
We can quote an example which
happened in this city by which one
man at least was convinced of the ad-
visibility Of trading at home.
He had been faithful student of
the catalogues of the Eastern mail or
der houses. He was interested in a
certain thing and had studied so much
catalogue literature on it that he could
talk about merits of the article he
wanted for certain purpose. Which
made the merchant, who made This
| line a speciality, open his eyes. In
fact he knew so much about it that
when he went into local store and
told the merchant just exactly what
J, articles he wanted, the latter knew he
had studied the catalogue and was
ready for him.
The customer described large
number Of articles which he desired tc
purchase and each one was laid on
the counter. When he had them all
in pile before him he said: 81 will
give you $76.50 for them. l can buy
them from mail order house for that
| Will you take it,"
The merchant took his pencil ant
| figured for moment, put on a trou
bled look and told the man that, con
sidering the amount of trading his
family did at the store, he would dc
so. The purchaser was more thar
pleased.
"I'll pay for these next month"; HI
said. But the merchant wasn't quite
as easy. He replied: eff you hat
bought these from the mail orde
house at that price you would hav,
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1906-02-22
GET MUCH QUAKER CAPITAL.
Black Hills Resources Attract Penn
SylvanianS


sylvanans.
Hundreds Of thousands Of dollars
invested by Pennsylvania capital in
the Black Hills country of South Da-
kota are bringing in already good re-
turns, ana will ere long pay even
greater rewards. 1t was in the year
1896 that w. w. Jamison of the Coal
and Coke Company OF Greensburg, Pa,
stopped in the Black Hills for a visit
with his old college mate, w. S. Ell
der, attorney at law, of Deadwood
Mr.. Jamison became interested in
some mining enterprises with Mr.. Ell
der, and from that time Pennsylvania
capital has flowed Hillsward. Prince
ton men are largely numbered among
those who have invested in Western
enterprises, and many have already
followed their money to the Black
Hills.
A Black Hills savings bank, located
in Deadwood, is financed largely by
Pennsylvania men. The Lead-Dead
wood Gas Light company is operated
by tn esame interests, and furnishes
gas for lighting and heating purposes
to the towns of both Deadwoods ant
Lead. 1t owns large plant situated
Just outside the corporate limits O
Deadwood.