davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-03-07
Resolution on 1907 Cotton Acreage.

The following resolution was pass
ed by the great convention of tho
Southern Cotton Association held
In Birmingham.
"In view of the fact that a great
many farmers have adopted the in
tensive system of farming, increaS-
ing the yield per acre and new terri
tory each year IS being planted in
cotton that heretofore has not grown
cotton, thereby increasing the pro-
duction, therefore in order to main
tain satisfactory and remunerative
prices, we urge and recommend a
full reduction of 10 per cent Of cot
ton acreage for the year 1907"
"We further recommend that the
acreage so reduced be planted In
food crops"
"We are sure that unless the
farmers unitedly reduce their acre
age of cotton that they will be con-
fronted at the end of fthe season
with equally bad, if not worse condi-
tions than they we're in 1904, when
cotton went down to 6 cents per
pound.
Respectfully submitted@ by the
Committee OF acreage"
F. G. Hudson, Chairman.
W. S. Pharr, Secretary.
The executive committee Of North
Carolina Division of the Southern
Cotton Association earnestly solicit
the aid of every farmer, merchant,
banker and all men of the state, who
are interested in maintaining a fair
price for cotton, to use their infu-
ence to reduce the. acreage for 1907
full 10 per cent from the acreage
planted in 1906.
We also call for help in our effort
to produce on every farm in the state
sufficient food and feed crops for
the needs of man and beast on our
farms. Respectfully,
G. G.. Moore, Pres.
N. C. Div. C. S A
Executive Committee:
A. J. McKinnon,
TT. w. Broom,
j. III. Currie.
Charlotte, N. c., Feb. LIST, 1907.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-03-07
"People Are After
the PlundererS."
By DIR. Washington Originator
of h e"Tainted Money Crusade.

OF the Wanted Money!" Crusade.
HE American people have been singularly slow to realize the
enormous injustice they suffer in their business and Industrial
systems. They waited until the managers Of the great insurance
COMPARES themselves exposed the rottenness of those concerns.
The great magnates in al. these plundering corporations have
- G--S t. al i uiSh To cau ton
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-03-07

~stitute.
Aycock said there was necessity
for an increase of the salary Of State
officers and knowing there was great
inequality in the salaries received by
several of them, he had begun early
in the session to prepare a bill to
equaIize salaries. He thought the
State ought to increase the bond of
the State treasurer. He could not Sc
why the secretary of State should
receive $1,000 more than the Cover
nor. He mentioned many other In
eaualities. He said the State was
not paying to its officers what they
ought to receive.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-03-07
West Virginia Problem.

A knotty legal question has come
be the surface in Webster county. One
man stole another mans skunk. It
was a wild animal which was priv
iieged to roam where it pleased, and
it recognized no owner, lord or mas
ter. But i'm the course of its peram-
b~ulations it entered upon the land of
a man named Ziccafoose, who set up
a claim to the, visitor because IL was
on h4s land, and when a predatory
htNineer came down like a wolf
on Gle fold and carried away the dead
carcass OF the animal Mr.. Z~iccafooSe
sci no a claim that 1t was his prop
esty. was it?-MorgaRtown Chron.
lAc4
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-03-07

80 protested that there was nothing in the charges aganst them
s. &c most Of the men in Sing Sing today. 1 wish to call atten-
ton o the fact that the arraignments of these predatory business indus
trial concerns is not made by nsauona newspapers, nor eve by magazine
writers. 1t has been done by judicial investigation and determination. Cor
poraion aer corporation and their managers have been indicted and con-
vcteG.
warranted attacks. Think know the temper of the masses of the American
people, ait 1 know they have no dea of tearing down n industry that has
been built U D by honest effort and legal enterprise. There. are some, Of course5
Wo are anxious to rush to socialism, u he overwhelming majority believe
that if " e can pHt al enc to the rebate mcnste IN the railroad business, il
w can prevent municipal pubicService orporadonS from rObbing the citizens
aner they have given them franchises worth millions for nothing, and if we
can eliminate he terrible -njushces of the robber tariff, " shall be able to
secure something of what cur President means b. a square deal to every nal
But the people are after he pFundeing corporatons-hose built up by
fraud, injustice n corruption. They have awakened to this terrible business
at last an they AVE found a commander in their President. His Attorney
General n the whole Federal force are at their assistance There is going to
be something OF a wreck, and those WhO d. OF tito be caught in it would
better stand from under Some innocent me will be caught tin it,, ut that
is inevitable in the rghting OF wrongs of long continuance And W are al
% some extent guilty in the mattes-gulty of sitting silent SO long while
these gigantic il justices were perpetrated. It is IN odt trick of the industrial
plundcTers to put themselves alongside those business enterprises tina are hon
esuy AMI fairly conducted.
There is danger that many will. fall into the mistake of believing that all
business methods arr immoral and that competition is essentially bad, and
Aonegt business lei " ii 10 themselves CT to the country to show that this
is not true They car do it better and more effectively than any others.
tries be abolished. If this is not granted them they my ask Tor something
goo when they get IT.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-03-07
Enraged Farmer Kills Two Per.
sons.

Bloomington, ILL.,, Special-Thom-
as Baldwin, a rich farmer and form
er merchant or Colfax, H., shot and
killed Charles Kennedy and wife,
and Mrs. Sim Eisman, and daughter
Cora. Baldwin was arrested. Bald
win, who is 6S years old and a wild
over, is under bond charged with
criminal assault on Cora Eisman,
who is but ii years Of age.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-03-07
The Nation Too Ready
10 Rush. Into Debt
ByJustice David J. Brewer.

~ DdVIuJ :. 6LSVVCI.
z@-AE are building u a big navy, e are the fourth naval power.
IL Wv T. In all our cities We vie in ostentaton We buy libraries by the
n W II cubic yard and ar galleries by the job lot We wan % have
1 the biggest and finest yachts, the most gorgeous private castles
fSESElH What does this all signify?
G&A&J We are toe often ready o rush into debt for o improve
men which shall be of Immediate benefit TO ourselves, forgetting
nat thu future viii have its burdens for future generations l believe that
each generation should pay its w debts. 81
I am N who believes in George Washington. know that there are manY
il subscribe to He growing tendency to- betle the wisdom Of the father of
his country and who say that although Washingons words of wisdom might
have been ali right fer the day in which he lived the first President could
never be the man to direct the larger and newer life OF today. What Washing
ton said about paying debts owe a hundred years ago is sound principle today.
1 do not rejoice in a great national debt 1 do MOI like to see M great cities
baEketed with mortgages. This is the secret OF the present day extravagance
in expenditure: Easy come, easy (. =.
Contrast the little red schoolhouse where we older used to go to
school with the great buildings to which our cities o point with pride IS be-
ing model scheoThOuses. II these sdaoofhouses In all of the magnificent pub
lie bald Es that are being erected we're paid for at the time they were built
then they would b. indexes Cd the prosperity c the people who built them. but
if they arr not paid for tLn they represent peculauon with the future.
know how eager most cities re to give municipal bonds in aid Of railway
projects The bonds are given VITA an eye to the future and under the belief
that to become a railway centre will greatly assist the prosperity of the town
But too many times these expectations fail of realization AS the records of
bonds and too otter the cities feel that they have achieve distinction in
has sunk to the level of legal Qubbhng and it Is not too muoh to san tha the
Wholesale Issue of bonds by municipalities has not only endangered the future
but lowered the present moral code
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-03-07
By Garrett r. Serviss.


-aHE modern oEdfpus appears to be the Rev. DR.. John W. Phillips
8 Baptist minister OF Binehamton N. Y, and a gentleman Known
for his studies n BgyptoIogy. He believes that ne las
- the riddle OF the Sphinx, not the Sphinx OF III Famous
kMENNNNh tragedy whose account vas settled by King OEdlpus'
SASg Sphinx that travellers go 20 zee on the ban O the Me
the Pyramid. He AYERS that this gigantic, mysterious
unknown origin older than the oldest pyramid carved OUT VI soU
half buried for Il, counted centuries in Egyptian sands, is an emOondm
original belief Of the Inhabitants of Egypt tin the n an Oy
hovah Of the Hebrews.
It DIR. Phillips can establish the soundness OF his theory, as
to dc IN detail, he will create a considerable sensation. n All -
because of the curious ideas that have long foated through mems ~
corning nt only the Sphinx but its great ndghDor, the Pyfam UrC
There never ave been lacking mel OF inteugence ao que oe ~ IN hA
planet Piazf SmHh, formerly Astronomer Royal fr Scotland pupMNslSsa1tna
voFuminous book en- Our Inheritance n the Great PYRAMID, WhereHA ne e e..
taneit IS the result Of most elaborate investigations n supme . uAe
the Pyramid of Cheops as erected IS a srt of embodiment OF tGe [SEe $3.50
of the Bible, and connected it with that strange character Of me Oe 1 le 70
mnt. Meicbizedeh. It is a mos entertaining Ior people "o In ny -.
buB-themselVest in mysteries, and it created a consderan 1oIo"m Nl 10
author. But the scientific historians have always maintained uat O T ph~
mid vas only a oUassal tomb. while some astronomers, like Norman Lockyer
and Richard A. Proctor, have worked out a theory that was us6 To- an
observatory before it became a tomb. Certain remarkable perfecuons IN ue
orientaHon of the encrmou structure, and in the strange. cnamDeIs
and passages that are contained in the heart of the vast mass OF masonry songt
have always puzzled these Who ave studied it. It seemed difcu 10 ACCOUNT
for such extreme rains having been taken by the builders II the were ony
constructing a tomb. Il.
The Sphinx, regarded as being older than the Pyramfd,s shows the sam
remarkable characteristics in the perfect finish that "a given % It. All
travellers speak of its wonderful face, which, though worn n mutnated Dy
time, by winddriven sand and by fanatcal attempts to destroy 1t, Still retains
a singular expression of thoughtfulness and dignity which mpresse all De-
holders.
turtles their immense size as well as their antiquity are Sc imposing that any
nW theory concerning them is sure of commanding attention. o the Rev.
Dr. Phillips cal confidently count upon al audience when he gets ready %
unfold in fun4hs discovery OF the secret Of the SPhiax-NeW York American
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-01-04
"TELEscoPEDo LINGERIE.

Now that fashion commands a slen-
der waist and a slender hip, the linger-
les have turned their attention to the
~fashioning of garments that shall re-
ducc the seeming bulk of the figure to
a mere silhouette. ~Slenderness is
claimed to be the secret of the present
acceptation of beauty; and SO every eff
fort is bent upon producing Just the
required degree of slimness in dress
and appearance. Long and slender
lines characterize the best examples OF
h current mode; and anything that
may possibly interfere With this slend-
derEess of the waist and the gentle
slope of tEe hip is anathema to the
:sastidious m
Although the great faiseurs de la
mode invariably take the tall and slen-
der girl as the model upon which to
make n try their best aspirations a.
comfort it is that the lingeries have
given special attention to the needs Of
tho stout sisterhood.
'Te'escoped lingerie" was the way
mat one witty woman referred to her
possessions in this line, when proudly
dist laying some recent acquisitions i'm
Paris. Where formerly three garments.
each With q band Plus some shirrings
at the waist line, were necessary TO
correct and comfortable dressing. those
are nowaday %cleverly "telescoped' into
one piece; and that is deftly fashioned
With a minimum of bulk at waist ana
lips. and yet delightfully."- fluffy and
bcuifant. once the danger line-the
curve of the hip-is passed.
Perhaps the best of all these novel
Innovations is the three-in-one gar
ment. This clever little device COM
bines in II piece a ~cache-corset, pam
talon and jupon-the latter of the short,
knee length variety. The corset cover
may be of the loose French variety or
the more closely scanned and fitted pat
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-01-04
WHITE HOLLAND TURKEYS.

The White Holland turkey is a ma
tive Of Holland, or said to be. ALI 9TH
lean viii turkeys. The Bronze original
stock was found In Mexico in large
numbers. The Black turkey is also a
native Of America, and so are the Mar
%ragansett, which are black, marked
with steel gray. The Buff and Slate
turkeys are of American origin, prob
ably bred from the original Bronze and
should weigh thirty-six pounds; hen.
twenty pounds. Narragansett cock.
thirty pounds; hen, eighteen pounds.
The White Holland cock, twenty-six
pounds: hen. sixteen pounds. All 9TH
er cocks, twenty-seven pounds; hens.
the Bronze is the largest variety, while
the White Holland is the smallest. In
choosing which breed one is to raise it
would be we'll to have in mind the re-
quire-nents OF your own particular mar
ket. If catering to a private trade at
holiday time, or many are wanted for
home consumption, the smaller or me-
dunn sized breeds are perhaps best.
1t takes a pretty good sized crowd to
a thirty-six pound turkey, While an
eighteen or twenty-pound bird is about
light for family gatherings. The above
weights are standard weights and do
not mean birds fat enough for market.
~ bird just right for show purposes
could be made to weigh from six to
ten pounds more if gotten real fat, as
they should be for market. There is
quite a bit Of profit in raising q later
hatch OF turkeys for this private home
trade, making them weigh all the way
from ten to twenty-five pounds, then
shipping the larger, heavier birds to the
city for marketing. But whatever your
market, make your turkeys fat. Fat is
the cheapest turkey meat you can pro-
duce, and a fat bird is as superior to
q lean one in the eating as one can
imagine. Get up a reputation
for always producing a quality
OF fat tender turkey meat in
any size carcass demanded and
you are in a fair way to get the profits
from. your turkeys. A bunch of late
make nice frys all winter for the family
and If you have worked up a nice pri-
vate trade In your town may be dis
posed Of for private family use at a
good price.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-01-04
The COST OF E

Ii is a good thing for some of us that
Wa don't all have the same tastes.
What would some of us do If we be
lievea with Miss Giulia p. Morosini, Of
New York. that 5000, 900 q year, is barely
enough for Il Fashionable woman's
clothes.
Miss Morosini is considered the best
dressed woman in New York, and chile
her chief delight is taken in her mag
niticent gowns she still has time Tor
faNorite charities.
"A we'll dressed woman should have
mi says. Some of mine cost as high
as $4,000 each, while only a few are
under $1,000, Sc that, as you can see.
is about the closest estimate L could
possibly make"
Besides gowns are house dresses,
shoes, stockings and all the little ac-
cesSories that always mount up so high.
Miss Morosini buys about fifty pairs
OF shoes a year, each pair costing about
500. She never wears IL mended stock
ing. nor a pair of gloves II second time.
Her handkerchiefs cost from 50 to SO
Il piece.
For lingerie, that always provides u
ready excuse for spending money. Miss
Morosini pays about $4,000 a year and
she doesn't even attempt TO estimate
the number or cost of her hats.
II am constantly receiving letters
from people criticising me for my reck-
less expenditure of money" she says.
.put cannot see where l am doing
wrong by following out my
in the matter of clothes any more than
are other people in following their own
particular fads. l keep my money in
circulation this way and ] am sure that
is h everyone recommends. Hun
dreds of people are kept in employment
by my e~Xtravagances in dress"
Miss MOrOSini believes that IL iS ayprv
Woman's duty to dress as beautifully
as she car on her income.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-01-04
RAMBLING COLTS.
Establish Your Mastery While tho An
imal Is Young.

Establish Yeur Mastery While tho An
imal Is Young.
SO much has been said about the
breaking or colts that IT hardly seems
as II there is anything else 10 say. but
the Importance OF the subject is full
Justification for II repetition of what
may have been said. What is a horse
worth unless he has good manner and
is under full subjection3 Without these
he should be put TO such use as VIII
not require them in any great meas
ure. but surely he should not be used
except by the best horsemen. Some
men can handle almost any horse. but
there are others who will have trouble
with the best. Such a man should be
careful to get only the kind that Is we'll
broken and has good and let
the other fellow that thinks he can
handle any of them have the bad ones
at what they are worth, and we can
nearly always find someone who VIII
take the chances.
If you feel as If you cannot break a
horse or a colt. DO not try 1t. for he
will discover your fears very quickly.
If you have any reason to fear o
cannot master the colt, better get help
or sell him unbroken before taking The
chances Of spelling him n thus max
ing so much harder to conquer. n
ideal way is to begin with the little
fellow while yet weak II establish
your mastery. Keep at it until he ia
old enough to hitch, NJ the breaking
will be easy. Establish h kind Of
e that will keep him from violating
your commands or disregarding our
authority, but not the kind OF fright
that will cause him to flee at sight of
you and make 1t necessary to corner
him in order to halter him. I have seen
men in charge of a bunch of colts who
wera q n brutal tn tho liffla fa11nuS that
a comfortable box stall and plenty Of
good feed would not induce them to
run h gauntlet" of passing their
keeper to get in out Of a violent WIN
ter storm. And 1t was my fortune to
have the same colts to break when the
of that kim OF treatment, do you think
they ever forgot it? No. Fear was so
thoroughly imbedded in their natures
that they never forgot it. 1t might not
be out Of place to state that that farm
had to incur the extra expense Of driv-
ing them from one to three years be-
fore they We're safe to sell, n a num-
Der Of them were never safe, which
was principally on account of the bru-
tai treatment they had received the
first two years OF their existence.
While I am always sorry to see any
kind Of animal abused, 1T Is true I have
had q few colts to break that had come
to hat point where it seemed that
only a good sound whipping would re-
duce them to subsection. Kindness and
coaxing might have accomplished the
work in time, but men do not like to
pay the trainer for coaxing and pet
ting their colts into submission whe
it seems like an endless job. Whether
a horse is biddable and easily broken
or shows a disposition to be headstrong
and mean, he must be brought under
subsection by some method before he
can be considered safe.-H. C. Peters
Before Ohio Institute.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-01-04

\ $50 fssa~tsss wsnaaa Ma.ssa,s.
Anagt. ts.aa Gaalna

A@ssf ssNse -. Gt.jua
ttNfAa At Mast s5st ~ me tEftaas
2l. a3saf thls slii.e s.ety Ss.l tr-k+n.
,a tWf the stttle siu= ts.t IA L.,
20 se 0p tf.ftstsnss t,as a,spe q stop ia.
sa sft tef H,ate 0NaefsatNv ss
tsfa $500 Ht4H. tlte tt1eftnv ~ het egi.
Lata WHt 4.ieDt q. plan titst uituy "a
la'A tA.utt bt Eili Zee a,iVo, at- thNt
IT, a1ius 'ti 5if,s ai,pnS4anslsly
tt=AH H}tta Nefr irltHufeft aprtroft
= Hpat .Ai uUpsfstnst sgguT,s All haIf
tttt 4 stNets WOULD ur eslua sci tgalu
10etr Ngf ttse and S-fHsa Eiuus Mutll
telsH tb tte te1ls III The odd as no
teiStta tplay "a the kiusdotn or chit
eisli The san fttaelaeo Wopnttl Ia
tends tlis Year 10 give him atl credit
Tor }h- sitts She has 10 o1er at iht,
tirtatnts1s season In This scheme. sht,
elnlngs. There are many advantage. Al
thc luystie destinations OF 81. NAltu-
tines day viii bc combined with the
good cheer OF the holidays and the real
spirit OF Christ Ike giving VIII be main
tGtpej once more.
OF course much of the obligatory Civ
ing wonll be done away with. The ex.
change system that has become such II
menace to christmas IN the last ten
years would be abandoned entirely,
and people would give because they
wanted To and merely for the pleasure
w NhN i'r iiiSNEstp vi tIlCS ltll II
TO be their duty. There would be no
unnecessary drain on the pocketbooks
and men and women would not have to
ecoEomize half the year to pay for the
eNtraNagances of gifts that they could
not really afford. There would be no
disappointment, either. Many n girl
would be allowed to believe that the
gift she priced the most was from her
hearts choice. rather thar from the
lover whom she scorned. and she would
never have to suffer from the hulniliat-
ing knowledge that she had been me-
elected or forgotten.
The striving To Guido each other in
the selection of costly gifts would be
given up II expensive presents would
not be chosen for the rich because they
might scorn ~tritles.
IN the whole the new plan would
prove a boon to all mankind and pro-
mote a good cheer untinged with dis
az pointnent or regret.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-01-04

The first thing that one wants to get
out OF his head. IL he is contemplating
setting out an orchard. is that 1t will
not require any attention. To be sure.
the home orchard Is not put upon a
commercial basis, as Is the large one.
but 1t Will need care for several years.
One thing is certain: IL one is unable
to make a small orchard pay he had
better cav a large one alone. TO
make the farm home orchard worth
having, you will have to be wide
awake, always on the alert for insect
pests to trees and fruit, and know what
to do to combat them. The varieties of
fruit should be jud~lciously selected.