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The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-06-21
THE STOPPING OF THE CLOCK.

Surprising falls the instantaneous calm,
The sudden silence In my chamber small;
i, starting. lift my head In half alarm
The clock has stopped-that's all.
The clock has stopped, Yet why have ]
so found
An instant feeling almost like dismav?
Why note its silence sooner than its sound!
For it has licked all day.
So many lives beside my own go on,
: And such companionship unheeded keep;
Companionsbip scarce recognized till gone,
And lost in sudden leep.
And so the blessings Heaven daily grants
Are in their very commences forgot;
We little heed what answereth our wants,
Until it answers not.
A ~strangeness falIeth on familiar ways,
As if some pulse were gene beyond re-
CALI
Something ~unthought of linked with all
our days
Some clock has s~topped-that's all.
George H. Coomer, in Youths Com
panion.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-06-21

great mental depression. I was unable to at
Tend tony house work, and life became a bur-
den to me. Twas confined for days to my bed,
LOST my appetite, my courage and all hope.
u could not bear to think of an operation,
and In my distress / tried every remedy which
L thought would be of any use to me, and
reading OF the value of Lydia E. Pirkhams
| Vegetable Compound to sick women decided
to give it a trial ] felt so discouraged that /
had little hope Of recovery, and when I began
to feel better, after thu second week, thought
1t only meant temporary relief; but to my
great surprise I found that I kept gaining,
while the tunor eSsened in size.
The Compound continued to build up my
general health and the tumor seemed to be
absorbed, until, In seven months, the tRmor
was entirely gone and I a well woman. I am
50 thankful for my Fecovery that l ask you
to publish my letter In newspapers, so other
women may know OF the wonderful curative
powers of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound"
When women are troubled with irreg-
uIsr or painful periods, weakness. dis
placement or liberation of the female
organs, that beariRg-down feeling, in
fammation, backache, fatulence, gen.
eraI debility, indigestion or nervous
pr~ostration, they should remember
there is one tried and true remedy.
Lydia e. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound at once emoxes such troubles.
No other medicine IN the world has
received such widespread and unquali-
fed endorsement. No other medicine
has such a record of cures of female
ills.
Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick women
to write her for advice. She is daughter
in-law of Lydia E. Pinkham and for
twenty-five years under her direction
and since her decease has been
advising sick women free of charge.
She has guided thousands to health.
Address, Lynn, Mass,
Remember hat it is Lydia e. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound that is cur
ingwomen, anddon'tallowanydrugg
to sell you anything else in it's place.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-06-21
when Zen Get Wise

The larger part of the great fortunes
II this country have been accumu-
atetd after their amassers have passed
10. In fact, the first 40 years of a
mans life are the preparatory years,
the years of training and discipline. A
large part of this time he is laying the
foundation-just getting ready to rear
the superstructure. Many of us STUN
ole around many years before we get
into the right place, and then. for adj
ditionaI years, we make many mis-
takes. Most men do not get wise I'M
til they nave passed 40. They may
get knowledge before this. but not
much wisdom. Wisdom is a ripeuing
process. It takes time. Success Maya
zine.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-06-21
HOW ,T1s suNG N Rosro-

Every one labors except our Dict
guished progenitor.
Ee reposes in a recumbent positio,
within our residence through ~
day, ~s
His pedal extremities idling upon fl.
bronze of tae steam radiator
Serenely engaged in extracting neb,,
Gus atmosphere from a Tobacco
receptacle of mundane matter
Our material mentor receives soi,oa
linen for the purpose of cIeansins
it,
And in this connection l should IN.
clude flial Ann.
Indeed, everybody is engaged in soma
variety of occupation IN our do
nestle habitat
EOcluding, as primarily suggested.
our distinguished progenitor.
-R. o. Man In Springfield RepubM.
can.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-06-21
MNLIONDOLLARFIR
The City of Baltimore Is Again
Visited By Flames
Thu SHIPPING SUFFERS HEAVILY
confagration Proves the Most Seri-
Gus Since the Great Fire of 1904.
Entire Water Front Being Threat
ened for a Time and Three Sa.lCrs
Perishing.

Baltimore, Specialize fire that
occurred at an early hour Wednes.
day morning on the water front wa.
the greatest since the eonfagration
OF 1904, involving a property loss OF
about $1,000, 900 and the sacrifice of
three lives.
For a time the entire harbor front
was threatened with destruction on
the north side, the flames being with
difficulty kept within the confines of
the wharf of the Merchants e. Min
ers' Transportation Company, and
on the south side a stubborn battle
being fought to prevent a wholesale
destruction of property by fire
spreading from the steamship Essex
and six barges, which were burned.
Three members of the crew of the
Essex persisted and two are missing.
1t is believed that the missing men
were burned to death or jumped
board and were drowned. Known
dead are:
Edward Atkinson, cabin assistant.
John Costello, second steward.
Manuel Odello, fireman.
Five other men were rescued with
difficulty by the tug Mary, two of
them narrowly escaping death from
the flames or drowning, as they were
forced to make flying leaps to the
rescuing vessel from the deck of the
Essex as the former boat pulled away
from the burning steamer.
On the south side of the harbor
the packing house of the Moore &
Company was damaged and
the steamer Minnie Wheeler, of the
Baltimore, Chesapeake & Atlantic
Steamboat Company, and a cotton
she'd of the Merchants & Miners
transportation Company we're par
TALLY destroyed. They caught fire
from the barges and the Essex when
.hey foated across the harbor after
being cut loose from their mornings.
The steamer Essex arrived in port
several nights ago and was half I'M
oaded. She was lying alongside the
south end of the wharf, and before
Hord could be passed she caught fire
md was towed out into the harbor.
burning fie1cely.
Six scows and barges that were
llso lying alongside the wharf we're
at ono and were soon COM
destroyed. A number of
hem were lowed out into midstream
o as to prevent them from setting
ire to adjoining property.
The bargcs and scows were loaded
Nth cotton End rosin, and tire flames
LACED ffereely, the heat from them
cling intense.
The Essex, which was vaDued art
100000, IS a total wreck, as Is the
argo on board valued ~at$150,000.
The damage to the Savannah pier
{ the Merchants & Miners Trans
ortation Company amounted to- $780,
600.
The six barges belonging to- the
anne company, loaded with cotton
md rosin, we're, with their cargoeS,
at about 100000.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-06-21
II Blown Up Near Roanoke.

Roanoke, Va, Special.-While try
ing to remove the tamping from a
hole In a rock where the dynamite
had been placed to go off, an explo-
sion occurred at the Bear-Wallaee
construction camp on the Tidewater
Railroad fifteen miles west Of Roam
oke, blowing up IL Roumanians. Two
men were killed outright and two
more died just after reaching a hos
pital at Radford, Va. Two others
are in a precarious condition, one suf-
fering with > badly fractured skull
and the other with ruptufed intes-
tines.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-06-21
DiscRIMINATES AGAINST HENS,
IOwa's Legislature Proposes a tandart
Weight For Eggs.

IOwa's Legislature Proposes On Standard
Weight For EGGS.
There are a good many ideas coming
out Of Iowa just now, and most OF
them are at least food for reflection.
For instance, Iowa does not send
DRINKS to Jail, but to asylums, where
they are treated. The Governor Of
Iowa is not only a renegade protection
list, but is now calling Senator Elkins
hard m The letters passing be-
tween these two worthy gentlemen are
a joy to the public, even if regulations
suffer.
The new Iowa idea, however, has
far more reaching consequences. A
law has been introduced into the Legis-
lature requiring a dozen eggs to weigh
twenty-four ounces, under pains and
penalties therefore provided. This
makes socialism look Like a conscien-
tious principle by comparison. How.
we ask, is amy law to be enforced sub
jectively on the hen2 Must the hen
laying eggs less than two unces each
be reduced to dressed poultry by man
date of the law. Is it possible to edu-
cate the tireless hen up to a standard
of weights and measures? Is ii fair to
place all hens on the same basis?
Must the Cochin-china escape from no
virtue Of her own but size, while the
industrious bantam is made to suffer?
We protest that this is carrying the
law too far.
Last year there were raised in this
country more than 12,OO0,O 900, 900 g
The value Of eggs and poultry exceeded
that of all the gold and silver and
iron dug up from the bowels Of the
United States. That was a magnificent
showing for the hen, and her moral
qualities seem equal to her Industry.
When warm weather set in, did the
hen take advantage of what is com.
monty accorded others, a vacation? Did
she collectively say when winter came,
we are not expected to work at this
season and we will not, w though
it be propitious? Not at all. The hen
kept steadily at business, with the re-
suit that eggs have lever been so
cheap In winter time, and the public
has Toasted on them.
Under such circumstances, an effort
to impose upon the hen by raising the
standard Of the size of her product is
not only immoral, but it is injudicious.
II the hen is pressed too far she may
go or strike and lay no eggs at all.
Then what will become of the Iowa
Legislature? We think the solons Of
the Gopher State had better confine
their efforts to making two cornstalks
grow where there is now one, rather
than undertaking to tamper with the
prerogative Of the hen to lay eggs &C
cording to the dictates of her own con.
science.-Philadelphia Inquirer.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-06-21
100000 Fire in New York.

New York, Special.-Property val
ued at more than a half million dol
lars was destroyed, nearly a score of
firemen injured, none fatally, and
many persons forced to flee from
their homes In scanty attire by fire
in the block bounded by Berger ana
Brook and One Hundred
Forty-seventh and One Hundred For.
t~y-eighth streets, the Bronx, early
Tuesday,
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-06-21

was q a lot. "E00I! there's nOthina
OF any value in the bag. He's got the
stone in a belt round his waist. Turn
him owe and well soon relieve him of
it. Got it? That's good. Now tie his
hands and feet"
While this was being done Hamilton
coolly surveyed me, a sneer ON his lips.
You're a nice man to carry vaiua-
bles." he said. 81 guess you're curious
to know how / got wind OF the affair.
You may not know that from the dis
used room over our Office it is possible
to hear all that goes on in the govern
or's sanctum. / happened TO be there
this afternoon. and / overheard a>cer-
tain interesting conversation. Well,
ta-ta! Bear my distinguished regards
to old Gilroy. Tell him I'm sorry I
cannot present them in person. You'll
be able to explain why"
His observations were cut short by
the sound of approaching footsteps. A
whispered conversation took place
among my captors, after which they
took to their heels.
Very soon a man of the artisan class,
attracted by my cries, was bending
over me. ~unloosening my hands. This
occupied some time, and when I was
freed the robbers had got clear away.
Disgrace. humiliation and ruin stared
me in the face. My heart was like
lead. ~@--t~~
In my sore trouble my thoughts flew
to Mary, and I felt that I must tell her
first of my misfortune. / retraced my
steps to her abode, not thinking how
late the hour a When 1 was ush.
cred into her presence 1 sank into a
chair and buried my face in my hands.
"I've lost it's = cried. MARY. 1 have
been robbed. The precious diamond
has been stolen; do you hear-stolenw
impossible" she cried.
"Yes, it's only too true" I said,
hoarsely. Three men waylaid me as
1 was going from here. They knocked
me down and took my belt. I don't
know That 1 shall do, Mary"
She fell en- her knees and cIasped
my hands. ~~---
Tom" she said, 'the diamond
wasn't in the belt"
What can you mean:" I asked in
bewilderment.
"Why, just this" she replied. "You
remember me having the diamond in
my hand and admiring it so? Well,
precisely at that moment something
me urged me TO take the stone
IN jest. I couldn't resist the impulse,
but now 1 know it was a special inter-
Of providence. l had been sew
-ng, you know, and my silver thimble
on my finger, which happened to
about the size of the diamond. It
the easiest thing in the world for
to wrap it in the ~washIeather.
o remember having compli-
me on my skill at sleight Of
How shall l describe my feelings. /
ried my utmost to express my thank
to Mary, but she put her hand
IN my mouth.
BE sure no one robs you a second
said my fiancee, with a FERRY
augh.
1 took good care that no one did. or
curse, when 1 returned from New
FORK I made Mary a present of q new
himble.-New York News.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-06-21
Kentucky Law Upheld.

Frankfor, KY, Specialize Ken
lucky Court of Appeals upheld the
constitutionality of the State law of
1904 prohibiting co-education of the
races in the schools Of the Common
wealth. The court says the new law
does not violate the bill of rights or
the fourteenth amendment Of the
Federal constitution. The case wall
go on appeal to the higher court.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-06-21
Shot Father for Burglar.

Asheville, NJ C-,Special.-Sam Lipe,
of Biltmore, was shot through the
right thigh by his son, Edward Lipe,
Saturday night shortly after IL
O'Clock and seriously injured. The
father was taken for a burglar by
the son and, by virtue of this mis-
take, came near losing his life. Ths
wound will not prove fatal.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-06-21

A paper is to be read at the Oxford
Conference on the decaying influenced
Of the professional theologian-
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-06-21
INTERESTING LETTER
WRITTEN BYAHOTABLEWOMAN
Mrs. Sarah Kellogg Of Denver, Color
Bearer OF the Women's Relief Corps,
Sends Thanks to Mrs. Pinkham.

The following
letter written
by Mrs. Kellogg,
of 1923 Lincoln
Ave-, d e nver,
Col, to Mrs. Pink
ham,Lynn. Mass:
Dear Mrs. Pinkham:
For five years l
was troubled with a
,tuaor, which kept
growing,c causing me
intense gon and
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-06-21
PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD co.
General Offices, Brevard, North
: p, Carolina.
WINTER

Effective Monday, October 8, 1905.
No: 3 Eastern Standard Time No. z
Daily STATIONS Daily
p. M. P. NJ.
1925 Lv S. Ry. Asheville S. BY 1 Ills
$50 So, Ry. Biltmore So. Ry II 10
Hender-
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-06-21

Flag Station.
Parlor Car daily between Lake Tox-
Aaway and Asheville.
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THE f20,O60 DIAMOND
BY Henry c. MacIaurin.

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The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1906-10-05
Kansas Editor Turns Down
Campaign Fund.

Kansas has at leas, one republic
can editor who is a democrat. He
has positive convictions on tariff and
is not afraid to express himself. he
lives at Concordia and edits the En-
pire. From il We quote;
eve recently have completed
building a house at a cost OF some.
thing over $4,000, and for every foot
Of lumber, every pane Of glass. ev-
cry sack Of cement, every pound Of
nails, and, in fact, for nearly every
BIZ Of material that went into Il We
made a good, liberal contribution
through the trusts that control them.
and we guess We have done our
share. Il may be treason for a re-
publican newspaper to talk this way,
but facts are facts, and II sort OF
relieves our conscience TO tell the
truth about the trusts once in
while. Wen Just let the several TO
which We have had to pay unwilling
tribute IN the last year pay our dollar
for Us. We needit and they don't ."
This points a moral 20 all Of US.
Every voter in the past year Who
has bought a suit OF clothes, a pair
OF shoes, a luxury or a necessity.
has paid tribute 10 the mother OF all
trusts-our protective tariff. BY il,
trusts have been created, developed
and sustained, under the sheltering
fold OF the republican party. The
dollar contribution" is a vretched
farce. Il is irony persom6ed.
Every voter in the country has paid
Il over and over again in the prices
the protective tariff Vrung from him.
The tariff barons are the ones 10 tap |
Tor contributions, and the republican
campaign managers well know the |
same. Il has taken a Kansas re-
publican editor to tell the republican
the truth, and II fourteen million
voters had an equal degree Of cour-
age, they would serve notice on that
party in the same way. and prove
their sincerity on election day. by
returning to congress a safe majority
in favor Of tariff revision-wall
Street Summary.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1906-10-05
Obituary

Again the death angel has visited
our community and claimed for It's
victim the light Of the home Of Mr..
and Mrs J d. Baldridge and bore
away on us snowy pinions little
Bessie. Her spirit has flown 10 meet
its Lord. She had been sick but
short while until her suffering ceased
and the Lord saw fl TO gather
another lamb into His fold. She was
twenty months Of age, and az she
neared the age OF two short years.
she was called away TO blossom in
the bright beyond where the reaper
called Death can never enter. She
was the only child Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Baldridge and their idol and Joy.
She was taken severely III Sat
Sept. 22nd and ere the Mondays
sun pose TO shed lis bright rays on
that placid form, her little spirit had
been borne 70 the land where il is
one bright summer always. The
wind means, the autumn song
birds sing, but alas il awakens not
her slumber. She was placed in the
baggage coach Monday night and
taken to the old family cemetery
near Martin Tenn. Sad hearts
awaited little Bessie. The COM
munity joins the broken hearted
parents in .ihe sad bereavement.
One who loved her.
ELI.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1906-10-05
= 9E17l, End 9Ei1Iis"

There can be no pleasure in the
work which makes man his own
inferior.
Love is never apropos. A love
talk is always apropos Of nothing
but love.
Give whimsy fair field and out
Law none Of our illusions. delusions,
and hsresies, and 10. you have the
tolsration Of toleranoe-the millen-
ium OF mind.
Civilization is a poor sort of make
shift. ye, ! suppose We should be
thankful that people are tame even
il they are no, very humane.
Our work vi ich takes so much OF
us and should be the best expression
Of US. is actually Of our real lives a
thing apan--a concession 20 the
body.
Life in a civilized state begins
with the sensation that there are
100 cents in a dollar.
We seek the society Of those who
faticr us and We like the battery.
but we despise the aai,erer.
Don't 90 back to the places
endeared 10 you by childhood. for
then you lose your illusions and
gam only new pain.
Heartiness effects more than
humility IL the affairs Of life.
A great many men. and women,
too. mistake stupidity Tor common
sense.
So many people have opinions
without having convictions.
We all profess TO think well Of
humanity, because ne like TO be
we'll thought Of.
-UEciE FuLLER.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1906-10-05

Following is a list Of those Who
have contributed 10 the editors hap
piness during the month Of September
BY bringing Us subscription money.
May they live long and bring Us
more next year;
Lee Aivill. Alex Barnes, Mrs.
Mcclure, W. A. Brown, Harry Eli
son, Mrs. NJ. J. Faris, Edwin Fuqua.
Mrs. A. Amberg, Floyd NaYlOr.
W. II. Beard. Jane Allen. A.
Nichols. N. Roberts. B. G. Hale.
L. r. Brown. Mrs. NJ. King, Bill
Barnes. d. ID. Davis. Il. J. Coum.
II Holcombe. I. Shut, J.. W. Morris.
Hickman; I. d. Yabrough. Hath
away, Tenn. John Rankin. L b.
Smith. Crutchfeld: r. B Goalder.
Avenue. Ark. M. P. Chambers,
Jordan; II. L. Hendrix, Denver.
Col n. c. Beckman. Cape Girar-
deau. Mo. S. L. Isbel. St. Louis I:
S. I. Sganheld. Mabel; L. P. Head.
Eddyville; w. NJ. Shaw. State Line.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1906-10-05
Judge Bugg Would Not Let
Them Serve.

The hfty men who we're summon
ed to Clinton. Hickman county.
from Graves county. from which 10
select a Jury in the murder case Of
Cheat Hodge charged with the muir
der Of Pink Head, few years ago,
we're dismissed without examination
and returned to their homes. The
so men reached Clinton at ? 80
O'Clock in the morning. Il was
raining aud very dark, but by acct
den, Hon. Joe Bennett, who happen
ed 10 be an attorney in the case had
a lantern and escorted the men 10
the court house. Il is said because
Of this courtesy by an attorney in
ierested in the case. Judge sugg re-
fused 10 allow any Of the men TO sit
as jurymen on the case. Another
ysnire Of so men was ordered sum-
moned from Graves county in the
same case. The cost 70 Hickman
county for the men summoned and
not allowed 10 serve will be about
$500 The Hodge Head case has
become celebrated in this part Of the
state aud great trouble is being ex-
perienced in getting a iury AZ all.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1906-10-05

A rooted lake exists in Siberia
near Obdorsk. This lake is nine
miles vide and seventeen miles long.
Its roof, a natural one, is made OF
salt. Biologists say thai long ago
a great part Of the water Of the lake
OF Obdorsk must have suddenly
evaPorated, leaving huge salt
crystals ahoat on the surface
These crystals in time oaked 10.
geiher. Thus the water was entire.
~ covered over with them as though
frozen The lake IN 1878 dropped
three feet. Il found an under.
ground outlet into the Obi river. bu,
the salt crust was so thick upon il
that II retained It's own level. Not
dropping at all, 1t formed a roof Of
salt three feet high over the whole
body Of water.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1906-10-05

We had a letter this week from
our old friend, L. P. Head. who is
now representative from McCracken
County to the Kentucky Legislature
He also holds the position Of Chief
Clerk Of the Kentucky Branch Pen
iientiary at Eddyville. He says he
Is doing we'll, is a candidate for re-
election and Of course thinks he will
be reelected. We are glad to learn
that he is so we'll pleased with his
prospects and hope he will succeed
in climbing higher. lie asks us TO re-
memember him 10 his Hickman
friends.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1906-10-05
Official Report of Railroad
Casualties for 1905.

Daring the year ending June 80.
1905, according 20 a siaiemen, just
issued by the Interstate Commerce
Commission. an average Of twenty
sir persons we're killed a day and
2Ss injured a day on railroads In
the United States. The total num-
Der killed during the year vas S.7O3
while the injured numbered 50 COS.
The greatest casualties we're
amcng the railroad employees, as
follows Killed. 1901; injured.
66,s53.
The number Of passengers killed
vas S57. and injured lO.4S7.
In the preceding year. AL pas
sengers we're killed and OH in
iured. The total number Of per-
sons other than employees and pas
sengers killed was s.sSS. injured
s,7ls. These figures include the
casualties to persons trespassing. OF
whom 1905 we're killed and s,2si
injured.
In 1905 one passenger vas killed
for ,37S,s56 carried, and one in.
iured for every 7O.6Ss carried. For
1904 the figures show that .622. 267.
we're carried for one killed, and Is. -
525 passengers we're carried for one
injured.