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The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-05-31
HAD TO BE IMPRESSED

I should like to know what more 1
could have DONE"
"Well, now, it's like this" said the
farmer, with a half-apologetic air.
Sometimes there's a number OF ord
ers on that book, and Ranny might
happen to forget one of 'em, so what
folks most generally do is fust to
write their names in the book, and
then speak to Ranny about it when
he's up on the trip before the n they
want to go on. And then they ask
Lemu1, the postmaster to kind of re-
mind Ranny when he stops for the
mail. And then we always deem it
wise to be all ready to start in time
enough SOS We can walk down to the
crossroads and head Ranny off, just
for fear it might slip his mind, allow
ing time to go back for a trunk in
| case there's one to, be lugged."-
Youths Companion.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-05-31
TRUST GOT RIVALS MESSAGES
Interstate Inquiry Expected to Involve
Telegraph Company.

Interstate Inquiry Expected to Involve
Telegraph Company.
Cleveland. Ohio.-The evidence which
the secret agents of the Government
have unearthed is said to show, among
other things. that through an arrange
with one of the large telegraph
companies the Standard Oil Company
is said to receive information egard
ing every matter, business. political
and social. which can in II way al
feet it's business interests.
By alleged arrangement with one OF
the telegraph companies, it is stated
that messages which are sent by the
telegraph company and which are OF
interest to Standard, are repeated I'M
mediately over the wires of the pipe
line company and thus to the Standard
Oil general offices in New York.
In this way the Standard ON Com
pany is enabled to obtain daily lnfor'
nation of the business of their compel
itorS.
All of this information, gathered
daily from all parts of this country ant
by cable from all foreign countries. il
sent to the general offices of the Stand
ard. at No. % Broadway, New York
and there discussed.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-05-31

Acadia College, Wolfville, n. 8,
had as it's president for many yeas
a very able New England divine, the
Rev. A. w. Sawyer who was not
given to much smiling OF joking On
occasion. oweye he knew how to
nress wit and even areas into his
service with great effect, and he was
very popular with his students
when the large female seminary
building erected near the college was
nearing completion, the financial com
mittee, of which DR.. Sawyer was a
member, if not chairman, was charged
in stentorian tones by a minister
fluent ir speech, but without college
training, with being guilty OF
of darkness that needed to be IN
covered. o
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-05-31
FEMININE NEWS N0TEe,


Mrs. Jefferson Davis family is noI
confident of her complete recovery.
Mrs. Louisa y. Billiard has gire|
the Harvard Medical School $4,000 i
establish a chair of neuroDathology.
Anna Winters. aged seventeen. saved
her fve-year-old brothers life in New
York by Selling a mad dog by thI
throat and s~trangling it.
Mrs. Howard Gould made 4 balloon
ascension from Wandsworth. England
in company with Lord Royston. Pro-
lessor Huntingdon and Others.
The Barnard College girls invited
Miss Ida Tarbell to talk to them. au1
the Welles College alumnae made td
their guestof honor at a luncheon.
The resignation of Miss Mary n
!; Byrd from the faculty of Smith COies]
| because that institution has ACCEPTED
tainted money" has been accepted.
Irish women now vote for all Officers
except the members of Parliament.
The Lord Mayor of Dublin is memOet
Of the Irish Woman's Suffrage soe&N
Mrs. Hanna has decided to SELL la
lmere, the beautiful country hone
The late Senator Hanna, neal CNe
land. She will live in New YORK VIII
her son
There IS now in q refuge for til
aged in Madrid Il woman who ma
probably claim to be the Oldest Mel
hereof her sex in the world. She Vi
born at Granada in 1871. Her name
Maria Nietoy Santos.
After a lively debate the Genef
lCouncil of the Reformed EplSc9p
Church, at Philadelphia. has refHs
70 seat three women delegates u
presented their credentials. 1t v
deemed inadvisable to establish aF
cedent. 2
Miss NJ. A. Knitting. superinten1ltt
Of nurses at Johns Hopkins HoSpi
will accept a position at the Ieacle
lCoIlege, Columbia University. N
York. where she will i~naugurate a
partment to train women 10 ID
charge of institutions.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-05-31

IT was in 1858 that the first regular
stage coach began running
h two capitals, London and Edln'
burgh. It ran once a fortnight and the
fare was ga, which would be a good
deal more tina 500 to-day. The time
taken to the journey is not accurately
known, but between York and London
If was four days. This lavish system
Of communication was not, however,
kept up, as in 1863 the coach ran be-
tween London and Edinburgh once a
month only, taking a fortnight, II the
weather was favorable, to the journey.
I'm 1854 a heroic effort was made to
improve the London and Edinburgh
coach. The Edinburgh Courant for
that year contained the following ad-
vertisement:
"The Edinburgh stage coach. for the
better accommodation of passengers,
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-05-31

-s,k With Plato through the stored
re Gcademus; climb Horeb's mystic
u;4h ISTeeTs leader; with Salathiel rove
The Changing world. and the swift cen
turtles count.
ron would bid me to a narrow han
IT, A. near YOU boast this day the all IN al!
tho mighty music of the spheres.
l. = chorus of the worlds that grandly
sing
Inc caean TO the universal king.
vo., fancy I would find 1t great delight
TO hear your pretty DIVA sing to-hlsh''
Look where Antares blazes, duly TedI tba
The Scorpions splendid star-ln the
southwestern sky;
BY many worlds like this his flames arr
Behold a mighty solar system die!
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-05-31
THE LABOR R

Milan and it's Worlds Fair are par.
alyZed by a workmen's strike.
The Alien Labor bill was rejected on
second reading in the British House Of
Lords.
The brickyards at Coeymans. n. u.
resumed work with a full complement.
of men.
The signing of the scale brought 300
miners back to work in the mines OF
Belmont County. Ohio.
Paris coach builders have decided
to continue the strike and employers
are equally determined rot to yield.
President John Mitchell, of the Mine
Workers of America, has refused a
$4,000 position on the staff OF 4 New
York real estate concern,
4 mercantile establishment in Peo-
ria, ILL.,. has voluntarily II the hours
of work of lis clerks. The store will
open at s and close ut 40.
Owing 10 sudden dizziness on the
Peru division of The Wabash seventeen
locomotive hremen have been dls-
charged and eight engineers put bacK
to firing engines.
-Four thousand workmen are en-
p!oyed in the manufacture OF straw
| braids and hats at Florence. Italy. and
| $4,000 women and children devote theii
SPARE time TO bralling and pieatIng.
Labor unions in San Francisco have
used every means 10 further the relief
work in that city. While the regular
schedule OF wages and hours have beer
maintained, all overtime pay las beer
suspended
The Louisville Federation of Labor
is preparing to take an active part II
the coming Congressional campaign IL
the Fifth Kentucky District. in pur
suance of the policy advocated by
Samuel Gompefs.
A bank organized and conducted b!
creanized labor was opened. with $500.
600 capital. at Chicago. While Labor
leaders will be IN actual control thu
executive authority will be vested il
men with banking experience.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-05-31
THE MODERN BLACKSMITH

village blacksmith in a prosperous
town is as fine as that of the banker
In a great many instances he a a
good store of books; there are nne
pictures on his walls. The earnings
from his trade are invested in shops
that are equipped with every q
annliance and in many other ways
his general prosperity is made plain
to the world.
Men in the country now are more
particular about having fine horses
on their farms and naturally more
| careful about the way they are shod-
There has been almost as much I'M
provement in fitting a shoe on the
foot of a horse as there has been In
the work of a dentist in repairing the
human teeth.
And all this change despite d IN
vasion of the equine field by the auto
mobilet
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-05-31
THE ONE NEEDFVL THING

This charge of misappropriation OF
funds was made at the Baptist con-
yention for the maritime provinces,
held at Truro, n. S. The speaker re-
sumed his seat, and for a little there
was a painful silence. Then the COM
paratively slender form of DR.. Saw
yer was seen to rise and move slowly
and quietly out to the front Of the
platform.
The dry old doctor brought down
the house by looking up over his
glasses and quietly remarking: "The
good brother thinks there are some
awful works of darkness that need
to be uncovered. About the only
thing l know of that needs to be un-
covered is a gold mine"
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-05-31
HATS DOOMED
New York's Game Commissioners
to Prosecute Users of PIuMage.
Wages War on MiIIiners and De-
voices of Fashion Who Sell
and Wear Aisrettes.

Albany, n. Y.-Milliners, manufac-
turers of millinery, and followers ots
fashion will risk prosecution il there
be a continuance of the sale and wear
ing of ~aig1ettes-
Commissioner Whipple, of the State
Forest. Fish and CANT Department,
served notice through the press to tie.
millinp.S of the State, retail and
wholesale. that his department intends
10 use every legitimate means to en-
force the law prohibiting the possess
ion or sale OF the bodies or feathers
of wild birds. whether taken III TINS
State or elsewhere. Realizing the op-
position which will undoubtedly meet
his efforts to rob woman of her mos
popular hat trimming. he says TINS
department., being intrusted with the
protection of bird life. IS deslreus o.
obtaining results without working any
hardship to the public and the trade.
The penalty for each Violation o,
the law is a $50 fine. and an additional
S25 for each bird or part Thereon 500,
offered for sale. CT possessed. Com
missioner Whipple's notice follows:
al Respectfully call attention to our
State law COhSI1hS NhO
sale, for the purpose Of Dress or orna
ment, of the bodies or feathers OF
wild birds, whethe- taken in this Com
monvealth or elsewhere. This law
= covers the skins aud feathers. or parts
thereof. especially of in~sectiverous
birds. herons ~(aigrettes). gulls. SONG
birds. terms, etc.. whenever and wher
ever taken. 1t is respectfully suggest
ed that you can best observe the spirit
and letter of the law by removing
from sale all such feathe-s and return
jng Them to the wholesalers, End, fur
Their, by refusing to buy or sell sucf
feathers. aigrettes, etc" 2
The Audubon Society ha for SOM
time waged wal on the use of aigrette'
made up from the plumage of the her
on and osprey. It is a fact that TIT
destruction of heron has been wide
spread of recent years as n dictate'
of fashion called for the m-nufactur'
of thousands of these millinery or
naments.
Commissioner Wnipple says the Law
has been sustained by the Court of Ap
peals in the Sill case. which involve
the use of game birds out OF til
closed season.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-05-31
NATIONAL GAME.

George Stone. of st. Louis. mas OV1
singing the ball hard.
Pitcher Witherup. of Boston s15n1
six feet high and weighs $50 pouh"S
All Orth has been pitching reIlaI1
bly, fine ball for the HighianueiS
late.
The New York Club has transfer
outfeider Eddie Hahn to the OA'4
Club.
President Ebbetts. of Brooklyn, y
believes there should be leglslati'"
more batting.
Congalton has replaced JACKS"
the Cleveland outfield. Jackson |
not beenshitting.
In view of Frank SchulteS 81
| work there is no regret in Ch!casO =
| Sebring's detection IA
Both Laioie and Wagner nave ,%
off in batting this season. VINO W"
| the new king of swat?
Walsh. of Chicago. is the only p1~
who has ever held Cleveland uO"'
one hit in a nine-inning game.
The Cleveland boys are not 10
of that bunting as they were
the practice trip i'll the South. "A,
Five Chicago Nationals are c %
over 300. They are Chance D.
Steinfeldt, king and ReulDacn' n
Fred Parent has improved I IDsf y
ing twenty-five per cent. over i SsIl.
son. playing speedy, up-to-date
The poor hitting catchefS
American League r KittreuSrpc
Guire, Buelow, Spencer and fO" LII
In the game at st. Louis Nay
Thinker. of the Chicagos. stoS
while the pitcher was delNeiN
ball. i'd
If young Clarkson keeps c ;1I apj
NAV some day 1cquire the MI brotb
fectiveness of his famous
John. 1T
The three SIS are doing g[T ,ise 4
for Chicago. Sheckard. scauf6s4
Slagle make a fine trio Oh
and hitters.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-05-31
PERKINS NOT GUILTY.

No Crime Committed in Giving In
surance Money to Campaign Funds.
New York City.-GeOrge w. Per
kins. former vice-president of the New
York Life Insurance Company, was dis
charged from custody by an unanl-
NOUS decision of the Appellate Divls-
ion of the Supreme Court to the Ell
feet that contributions TO political cam
paign funds by life insurance COM
nanies did not constitute larceny.
Mr.. Perkins paid $4,000 to the Ma
tional Republican campaign fund at
the request of President John A. Nc
Call. and later was reimbursed from
funds of the company. The charge
of larceny was made and Mr.. Perkins
was arrested.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-05-31

The driver of the Oaktown stage
was a person of much amiabil1ty ana
a large fund of %anecdote, but MS
memor was by no means OF the best
The inhabitants of his native town
made many excuses for him, d sum
aer visitors found his failing a par
ticularly trying one.
teThat man should be complained OF
and should lose his position as ex-
press agent and mail carrier!" sal
one e~xasperated man who had been
Obliged to remain in OaktoWn over
another night, owing to Ranny Peets
forgetting to ca1 for him.
-sWell, now, I guess you didn't I'M
uress it on Ranny that he was TO
take We" said an Oaktown man
f. moved to mild remonstrance.
Impress it on him!" echoed the
summer visitor. ct wrote my name
on his order book in the p~ostot1ce
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-05-31
Al OF THE MIMI

o creature of an hour anG a day
You ask me to q fireworks display"
In this, my star-ship through the vastly
deep
OF space, I make the mighty cycle Of
the sun,
A million miles in one brief hour I sweep,
And scarcely is the race of worlds be-
gun!
Must I, then, marvel at the snail-like
1t which your engines crawl the worlds
small face?
Peace. peace, o fool! Go on Jou petty
way,
Nor chatter of what your life's moment
brings;
I have to do With aeons-nor may stay,
Urges my business with eternal things.
Enjoy your little hour; laugh and weep,
Then-crawl into your narrow grave, and
st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-05-31
NEWSY GLEANINGS.

H-t+5t4.Hf a e 81 sf--reEfsEa -f =Gat1 80
The public debt increased $2,'S9-SOo
during the month of April.
Across Atlantic trips are expected to
be shortened to four days by 1910. g.
The So.iety for Ethical Culture re-
ports assets of more than $1.00O.O0O.
France imported 100000 worth OF
spples from Canada last summer II
fall. ls
The latest census gives the popuia-
tion of London and the suburbs at
5,5S1,402. M .a
Gifts of $4,000 and S125.o00 from
unnamed donors to Union theological
Seminary were announced.
Twenty-four thousand elementary
school teachers in Ohio last year aver
aged but seventy-two cents a day.
The last batch of Russian prisoners
returning from Japan arrived at Odes-
ga recently, making a total of 6i.0Vo.
Trade between the United States and
British Austr tlasia in 1903 aggregated
s3S. 900, 900 and will be larger this year.
Commerce of the United States with
Argentina aggregates over $40,OGu.ooU
per annum, and is growing very rap
idly.
Zion City's eightY-foot watch tower,
fbe first structure built by Dowie, has
been torn down aud made into side
walks. ae3s Fs@
Several Japanese. WHO recently ar
lived at v~ladivostok. have been arrest
ed near the batteries and the forts as
spies.
According to the United States Geo
logical Survey the production OF an
thracite in 1905 Amounted TO S'S'9 To-
tons, valued at $141.SI9.OO0. sse .
In payment of Il share of he FrencI
rnoiIation claims. now 100 years old, s
". Curtis, of Chicago, has just re
reived a check for lightweight cents.
Representative. aGoulden. of 4 Nev
York. told the House Judiciary o
mittee that Senate SEATS at y
z, have been repor, 81 as worth $oo.uV
year.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-05-31
PASS FREE ALCOHOL BILL.

Senators Make But One Slight Change
in House Measure.
Washington, D. Cite Free Alco-
hol bill, relieving denatured alcohol
from an Internal Revenue tax, was
passed by the Senate, substantially as
reported from the Committee on FL
nance. The only amendment made
in the Senate was one providing that
decentralization shall be done upon
the application of any registered dis
tillery IN denaturalizing bonded ware
houses especially designated for that
purpose solely.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-05-31

BLACKSMITHS
in country towns
I'm or posi-
tons In allotted
nowadays. Since
the times OF which
early poets wrote
the business OF
the horseshoer has
broadened out to
such an extent
that he is recog-
nized as running
a shop second in
importance to nc
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-05-31
REBATE GIvERS GUILTY.

Jury Convicted Broker G.. L. Thomas
and Clerk-Out Thirty Minutes.
Kansas City.-George L. Thomas, a
freight broker. of New York, and L.
r. Taggart. a clerk employed by
Thomas. were found guilty by a jury
in the United States District Court OF
conspiracy with shippers to give re-
bates. The jury considered the case
only thirty minutes.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-05-31
Rate Bill in Conference.

The Rate bill was sent to conference
by the House, Washington, D. c., after
Mr.. Cooper. of Wisconsin. had openly
charged Chairman Hepburn with con-
spring to cut out the express company
amendment.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-05-31
other in town.

other in town.
In thousands of instances the
blacksmith yields an influence in the
town council; frequently he is the
a 1t is a common thing to hnd
him an alderman, and in some in
stances at least, the residence OF d
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-05-31
Drastic Meat inspection.

The Senate, Washington, D. c..
passed a drastic Meat Inspection bill,
insuring pure meats for home as well
as foreign consumption.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-05-31
Oil Trusts Private Telegraph

The Standard Oil hearing in Cleve-
land disclosed that the trust has an
extensive telegraph system, leased or
owned. and does not depend on the
regular telegraph service.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-05-31
Telephone Company Climbs Down.

The New York Telephone Company.
in a letter from it's Vice-President to
the Mayor, offered to reduce it's rates.
invited an inspection of It's accounts by
the city and even suggested paying for
its franchises.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-05-31

Roosevelt Said to Favor Taft.
Many public men in Washington. D.
c., think President Roosevelt aims to.
nave Secretary Taft nominated to sue
coed him in the White House.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-05-31
Valuable Cape Cod Cottage Burned.

The Cape Cod CMass.j summer hone
of Roland c.. Nickersop, of New York,
was destroyed 10y fire, and Mr.. Nicker-
son., who was in the house. ill with
an attack OF heart disease, was awak-
ened and carried out safely. The
Nickerson home was one OF the finest
on Cape Cod. and, with its furnish
ings, paintings and bric-a-brac, vas
said to be worth nearly 100000.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-05-31

One of the features OF O -
nople is tie great numDei ora
rnat roam its street. me and
common property of the city
ssIuabIe as ScavenSers-
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-05-31
"a cheaner Wav.

Old Kelly-Do We tnink men should
be chloroformed at sixty, Norah?
Mrs. Kelly-Phat, wild chloroform
so expensive! Phat's tn matter wild
an ax!-New York Press.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-05-31

Deep Snow IN Colorado.
San Miguel County, in Colorado. is
covered with eighteen inches OF snow.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-20
WHO ABDUCTED
PET MONKEY?
BOYLE HEIGHTS HAS A REAL
SIMIAN MYSTERY
Owner Seeks Aid Of Law and Gets a
Little Encouragement From the
City Prosecutor-Stolen Pet Is
LovabIe

Seeking to recover his beloved
monkey. which he claimed was stolen.
Francois Save of Boyle Heights sought
the aid of City Prosecutor Beebe yes
terday.
Mr.. Beebe stroked his chin refiectivelv
and remarked that there was no monkev
business about the law.
Save poured forth a tale OF the ab-
Quoted monkey.
"Ah, but little Fiji is such a NET NJ
mine" explained Francois. "He was
such pet and just as loVable as a
child. suspect man who lives in a
tent. l heard Fiti chatter, but when /
went inside the tent there was no
monkey.
"Now. can you not restore my monkey
to me?"
City Prosecutor Beebe could find M
law that applied to stolen monkeys, but
said that he would see what could be
done.
A policeman fresh from a quiz on the
duties OF a patrolman suggested that
habeas corpus or possibly mandamus
would lie, but the suggestion was
frowned upon by the astute prosecutor.
you come back here Monday" he
said kindly to Francois who sat twist
ing about i'm his chair. ''and we will see
what can be done.
IF there is any way to reach the alb
ductor of your monkey. he shall be
prosecuted to the full extent OF the
monkey law"
And Francois went away comforted.
His pet may be restored to him in
due time
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-20
TRIES SUICIDE
IN JAIL CELL
VIM. MORSE, JR., AGAIN KEEPS
ATTENDANTS BUSY
Hurs Himself at the Bars After Lock.
Ing Two Nurses in Room at
Clara Barton Hos
pitaI

William M. Morse, jr., who became
violently insane at the Clara Barton
hospital Friday and was taken to the
city Jail, endeavored to kill himself
early yesterday by beating his brains
out on the steel bars of his cell.
With desperate fury, Morse hurled
himself time after time at the bars
and blood flowed in streams from his
head.
Several Jail attendants succeeded
with difficulty in overpowering the
maniac and strapped him down in a
cot in the receiving hospital. Later in
the day he was taken to the county
hospital.
Morse is a mining engineer with an
office in the o. T. Johnson building.
He was taking treatment at the
Clara Barton hospital and went sud-
denly violently insane and imagined
that two men were pursuing him to
take his life.
He locked two of the women nurses
in room and was standing guard
over the terrified women when two
officers from the central station ar
rived. Morse was taken to the city
jail and locked up in CELL
Worry over financial troubles is said
to have caused his present mental con-
dition.