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The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-04-25
Mail Robber Captured.

Wilmington, Specialize mystery
concerning the disappearance of a
package containing $4,000 in curren-
cy, in transit by mail from the Allan
tic National Bank, of this city to the
Chemical National Bank, of New
York, was cleared up by the arrest
at the instance of postofice inspec-
tors of Edward A. Nelson. q years
of age. employed in the railway mail
service. The confession and arrest
of young Nelson was accomplished by
Col. S. T. Hooton, chief of the post
Office inspection service at Baltimore;
Postoffice Inspector VIM. j. Maxwell,
Of Baltimore, and District Inspector
S. III. Buck. Nelson had recently C.
signed from the service to engage in
the confectionery business on one of
the most prominent corners in the city
and accompanied by his wife, to whom
he was married Is months ago, and
by his mother, he had gone to New
York. The robbery was accomplished
by Nelson by Sitting the mail pouch
that contained the package and he
had hidden most of the money under
his dwelling. Bond was given in the
sum Of 100000, his wife and mother
raising that amount on property they
owned. All the money was rccovar-
ed.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-04-25
Mans Dependence
on Women
Rv Marie Core1Ii.

$50 m mind, the very desire for a vote o the part OF AN
IAN al ope confession of weakness-a proof lat she las "s.
ground. and is not sureo of herself For if she is real woman
AAL1 il she has the natural heritage of her sex, which Is the mySU"
tMSSNM power to persuade, enthral and subjugate man-sne Ia NV
ESS&Sy need to com down from her throne n mingle In any OF Mss
political trays, inasmuch a. she is already the very haU @NU
front Of government -u-.%
Lee those who will laugh at IT sheer down the statement; the fact remains
tn a nan is seldom anything more than a wOman's representative. NC nmLs
in either business or pleasure, al ever quite shake II tn nnuence Vi U ~
woman with whom he is most privately n intimately onnecVu" wv 49,
bad she coIos his life. 1t is always a case o. cherchez la femme. seer seer
and yu will find. Behind a sloveny workman there is generally a sluuNh
wife. Behind the obstinate III stupid man, behind the dmorous n time,
serving man, behind the nasty politician who insults his Prime Minister, wiz
be found, in heir seVeraF turns, ne mmonpla "oMdH' We
woman, and thu disappointed, egcisuca1. vain woman. .
Man is what woman makes him. She bears him and rears him. me II
his sovereign and supreme ruler. From the first breath he draws, me-, anu
she alone, possesses him. When he is bornh e ato nee displays MAJ Idcuous
and tickle disposition which is S o often significant OF his future deYefopmenm
and woman has to carry him up and down n her arms, taking nonsense "
him, or, IS it is called, 0baby language" She knows she has to begin lat
way because he would not understand sense.
But who is to blame for this erroneous impression o widely preValenI
among men? Why, the women themselves, Of course. % ony DeCduSe
they show the most cruel and acrimonious spite and jealousy when OF
their sex becomes distinguished in art Or letters. but because they are M
first to start unknd reports about her and against her-agaI1st her Iook
her dress, her manner and even her reputation. There is nc length to W1lcn
wonens tongues will not III when downing other women more brilliant
than themselves. They allow men o see this paltry display Of their 1nteror
character every day, and naturally the men draw their " conclusions. ne
youngest schooboy is too often compelled TO notice and inWardly comment
upon his mothers love of teatabe scandal IT his sisters bilious envy OF some
other preier cir.
If such are the early impressions made by the conduct OF his W women
relatives O n a Youths mind, he will. most unquestonaby, when he grows
to manhood, retain the n "fxt idea Of womans generally inherent foolish
ness while the talk of "womens interests" will only move him to a skepdca
smile
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-04-25
NORTH CAROLINA AFFAIRS
Items of Interest from Many
Parts of the State
MINOR MATTERS OF STATE NEWS
Happenings of More or Less Import
ance Told in ParaSraphs-The Cot
ton Markets.
-Four Burned to Death.

Caroleen, Special.-At IL O'Clock
Wednesday night a large two-story
dwelling house at Henrietta caught
fire from the closet below, and before
the family or neighbors awoke to
make the discovery the flames had adj
vanced too far to save the building
or any of its contents. The most
dreadful feature of the disaster was
the loss of two little children sleeping
up stairs who were burned to death
and their bodies can scarcely be rec
onized. Two sons of Mrs. McDade,
who occupied the house, were so seri-
ously burned by their efforts to make
their escape that it is not thought that
they can live. Also old Mr.. McDaGe
was badly burned and may not recov-
er. Details would pronounce this the
saddest calamity in the history of the
town. The two young men of the Me
Dade family died from the horrible
burns received. The young men were
Is and 20 years Of age respectively,
and nearly gave their lives to save
from the flames the two little children
aged 4 and 6. Mrs. McDade may yet
die as a fifth victim.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-04-25
Planning Mill Burned.

Charlotte, Special.-A fire which
for a time threatened to sweep a large
portion of the residence section be-
ginning near the center of the city.
started in the planning mill of Asbury
& Finger at six O'Clock Saturday even
ing. The flames were famed by a
high wind and only the timely work
of the fremen saved perhaps several
bundled houses from destruction
The mill and large lumber yards are a
total loss, The plant represented q
bout ten thousand dollars. The bic
building Of the Armour Packing Com.
pany was barely saved. Albert II
Lentz, of Mt. Holly, while working
near the engine at his brick yard, was
fatally scalded Saturday morning.
Steam and hot water from. A. burst
pipe we're hurled over his body while
he lay inside a walled UP space undel
the water tank. The body of the I'M
fortunate man was almost cooked il
hot water and steam. His life is des-
paired of.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-04-25
Capital Stock SIS, 900.

Charlotte, Specialize directors
Of the Mechanics Perpetual Building
and Loan Association are planning to
secure an amendment to their charter
authorizing an increase OF capital
from $4,000 to $5,OO0,8 600. The
association now has outstanding more
than 10000 shares of stock, which
represents a capital of $1,9OO,0 900.
Hence the need of an amendment
CHAPTER. At a meeting of the direc-
tors one night last week, $4,000 of
loans were approved. Within the
next two weeks more than 100000
will be distributed in loans. Never
before was the association in a more
prosperous condition. Its business Is
steadily growing and the future is
big with promise. The Mechanics;
Perpetual Building and Loan Asso-
citation ranks all other associations If
its kind in the South and is one OF the
very largest III the land.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-04-25
Will Move to StatesYilIe.

Asheville, Special = Preparations
are making at the internal revenue
Offices for the formal transfer of the
Office to Statesville. Collector Brown
has selected Monday, April % as the
probable date for moving the office
and, if that day is finally definitely
decided upon, the several Offices n
the Federal building now coupled by
Collector Brown and his force of dep
uties and clerks will be vacated by
the middle of the week of April %.
1t is probable that little time will be
lost in removing the Office. It is
practically certain that all the pres
ent employees of the Office, with the
exception of c. B. Moore, will accom-
pany Collector Brown to Statesville.
Mr.. Moore has been named as the
stamp deputy for Asheville and he
will consequently stay. There is
much packing in progress in the rev.
enue department and these prepara-
tons will continue until all records
are collected and made ready fo1
transfer.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-04-25
Cotton Mill for Hendersonyille.

A special from Spartanburg, S.. c.,
to the Charlotte Observer of Friday
says: A number of representative
business men of Hendersonville, N. C.
spent Thursday in the city inspecting
the Dayton Cotton Mill, of which a.
B. Calvert is president, with the view
of erecting a cotton mill in Hender-
sonville similar to the Drayton Mill.
A company is being organized in Hen
d%ersonvillle with a capital stock of
100000. The majority of the stock
1t is said, has been taken by the peo-
pie of Hen%dersonville, while the re-
malnder will be raised outside.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-04-25
TAR HEEL CROP BULLETIN
Conditions for the Past Week as Re-
ported by the Department.

pO46S0 DS VIC 0SP~sWS0"
The weather and Crop Bureau of
the Department of Agriculture issues
the following bulletin of conditions
for the week ending Monday, April
18th.
The weather was generally partly
cloudy to cloudy during the first half
of the week, and clear the latter
half. The temperature averaged
much below normal, varying from z
degrees below normal on the coast to
II degrees in the western district.
The minimum temperature fell near
ly to the freezing point every day IL
the central district, while In the west
ern district temperatures below freez-
ing were frequent. Frost from light
to killing occurred all over the State
nearly every morning, ice formed in
many places, and considerable damage
was done In every district. The hign-
est temperature was II degrees on
the 18th in Robson county, and the
lowest was D degrees on the 18th in
Haywood county. The rainfall for
the State averaging about one-half
inch below normal, being heaviest in
the eastern district and lightest u
the western district. Snow furries
were reported in all districts.-A. H,
Thiessen, Section Director.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-04-25
Tom Walker Hanged.

Fayetteville, Special.-Tom Walk.
er, the negro who murdered Chief q
Police Chanson and Officer Lockamy
and wounded Officer Buckingham
was hanged in the county Jail. Fol-
an hour previous to noon, the time
set for the execution, and before the
official witnesses were admitted tc
the Jail, services were held with tie
condemned man in the hospital ward
where Walker has been confined since
his attempt at self-destruction. There
were five ministers with him, besides
The keepers and newspaper men.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-04-25
Municipal Elections.

Charlotte, Special.-In the primary
held here Tuesday, Mayor McNinch
vas unanimously re-nominated, hav-
ing no opposition. For aldermen and
school commissioners the candidates
of the Business Mems Municipal
League were all elected over the can
didates of the Citizens Democratic
League. Good order and good feeling
characterized the contest.
Salisbury, Special.-In Tuesdays
municipal primary Mayor Boydhn was
re-nominated by a majority of 100.
The fight here has been rather bitter.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-04-25
Nav Be Fatally Injured.

Winston-Salem, Special. While
working on the gable at the residences
of Mr.. A. F.. Messick In Salem, Mr..
Paul Miller, a young carpenter. fell
from the scaffold, a distance Of Is
feet, and sustained injuries that may
prove fatal. He fell backwards and
his back is badly injured; besides.
he may be internally injured. The
physicians are unable to saw whether
or not he is internally hurt, but they
fear that he is
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-04-25
Items of State News.

The report of the inspector general
Of the National Guard of this State,
Col. Struggled, to Governor Glenn
will be a surprise perhaps to FIVE com
psnies, as he recommends the dis
sandment of that number for general
.nefficiency, failure to care for o
erty, etc Of course, there are plenty
II applicants on the waiting lists and
my vacancies are ready to be filed.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-04-25
Studying Labor Conditions.

Wlnston-Salem, SPECIALIZE. ID.
A. Tompkins, of Charlotte and Mrs.
). Ellen Foster, of Washington, the
special commissioner for the Depart
ment of Justice, appointed by Presi-
dent Roosevelt to make a report on
labor conditions Of women and chill
dren through the country, spent a
while in the city enroute to Wilkes
county, where Mrs. Foster will study
the conditions in the rural sections.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-04-25
The Gift Of Tongues.

Raefor5, Special.-A woman minis
ter from Wilmington is here holding
a holiness meeting. She processes %
speak the Unknown Tongue and
since the meeting has been in progress
several of the followers have been
blessed with the same gift. They claim
that they themselves don't know of
what they speak but there is an inter-
prefer who can tell them.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-04-25

veins a dali red. The former is
changed with oxygen, the latter with
carbonic acid. How can Bill tell a
vein from an artery? Tell him that
veins, when pressed, do not fill from
above; because blood in the veins is
always seeking the heart. This sim
pie fact is worth knowing in case of
an accident.-New York Press.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-04-25
Past a Hundred

G~reenville, Special.-Louise NJ.
Gowan, the Oldest colored man herr
died Friday night. He was known
to be more than a hundred years old
and claimed that the records sbowaJ
that he was 116. He was a good man
and was esteemed by both White and
colored people. He was a mininster
In the Primitive Baptist church and
preached as long as his strength wouq
permit him to meet his appointments
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-04-25

The State board of education H.,
$1S,735 to II counties for buiId;n1
new schoolhouses, the follwing ba;ns
the principal loans Wake $3.50. GaS
ton, $500; Forysth, $500; CprS
tuck, $1,100; Mecklenburg, s55a,
Richmonh, $500; Randolph, $2.OO,'
Burke, $1,000. ~
A charter is granted to the BanL
of Creswell, with an authorized can;
tai of $4,000. This is the ninth bapE-
chartered so far this year. The i,
crease in the banking business n
North Carolina has certainly been ~
markable during the past two yean
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-04-25
First State High School.

Raleigh, Special.-The State board
of education is preparing the rules
and regulations for the government
of the rural of country high schools
which are to receive State aid under
the new law. Wake county gets the
first of these, the county board having
purchased it. This school is at Cary
and was bought from the trustees ut
a merely nominal figure. The public
school there is to be merged into it
and this will give a faculty of about
seven. Students will GO to it from
schools all over the country.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-04-25
The Blood.

Bet Bill a million he doesn't know
the color Of his own blood. It can
not be blue-yet Bill may be one of
the blue-blooded aristocracy. Ask
him if his blood is all n color
and bet him a million. Then explain
that it. isn't. The blood in the ar
teries is a bright red; that in the
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-04-25
Nav Be q Lynching.

Greensboro, Special.-Special Oil
Ger W. F. Tomason Of Davidson
county arrived here at midnight
bringing with him Cornelius Cant, a
negro of that county, charged with
an attempt at rape on Mrs. Swice-
good, wife Of one of the best known
farmers of the county.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-04-25
Lost In Breakers.

Wilmington, Specially. c. Lyn-
ley, Of Powder Springs, Ga, and
Lloyd Andrews, of Seven Springs, n.
c.. both young men employed here
several months as industrial insur-
ance solicitors, are believed to have
been swept out to sea and drowned n
a fifteen foot launch which was found
stranded on the beach near Middle
Sound, twelve miles below Whining
ton. With a party of friends they
were at the sound for an oyster roast
and rowed out in the sound to gun for
marsh hens. They were seen to APP
proach the inlet by their companions
on shore and are believed to have
been caught in the strong current and
carried out where their boat was cap
sized by the breakers. The body Of
neither has been found though most
diligent search has been made.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-04-25
FARM IMMIGRANTS WELCOME
Planters Nay Bring Agriculturists TO
United States by Entering Into
Agreement to Make Them Share
Partners.

Agreement to Make Them Share
Partners.
Washington, Specialize depart
ment of commerce and labor has made
q decision that laborers can be
brought in from foreign countries Il
they are to be share tenants, such az
are commonly engaged throughout the
Southern States. Hon. Leroy Percy
of Greenville, Miss, made the sug-
restion to the department and it was
adopted.
Heretofore the department. of COM
merce and labor has made no distlnc-
ton between wage workers brought to
The United States and agriculturists
coming over from foreign countries.
Under the terms of the agreement
proposed by Nj. Percy and approved
by the department of commerce and
labor, planters can bring %agricultur-
lists to the United States by entering
in to an agreement giving the imni-
grant opportunity through an option
to become a share partner with his
employer. This d~fferentiates him
from the wage workers who has been
brought over by factory operators and
against whom the labor contract law
was passed.
Mr.. Percy submitted his form of
agreement to Commissioner Of Immi-
grafton Sargent, who i'll turn submit
ted it to the solicitor for the depart
pent of commerce and labor. Both
officials pronounced it eminently
worthy and acceptable from every
standpoint. Commissioner Sargent
said that in the South Carolina case
the ruling of the department was a3
verse to the mill owners because the
proof showed that they had brought
labor from foreign countries with d
view to LOWERING WAGES.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-04-25

WITHIN his Republic VIII b e lhOu grades Or cuTVes IHJ
lT will be laid with 1OOpound steel rails, upon broken&tone road
40 beds, well drained, with steel ties laid in asphalt
kNTR&TH The motive power will be electricity developed by water
S2SS0 power or gravity. They will be lighted by the sam power,
and the cars and depots will also be heated from the same
source.
There will be no dust ito annoy passengers IT to oil tn inside Of pas
senge cars or to injure the boxes n aXes Oft the trucks
Cars of 5Oton capacity, made of steel, will be used. They will have at
least two tracks and sdings so arranged at stations shat passengers and
freight an b. loaded and unoaded without interfering with the continuous
Upon such a railway freight can b. carried for a average of rs cents
and operation.
Upon UGH a railway a locomotive cal haul $500 tons of merchandise in
fifty cars forty miles an hour, without injury to the roadbed or rolling stock.
The cost of motive power will be trivial as compared with the cost of
steam power. 1t is the grades and curves upon defective road0eds
that destroy the rails and rolling stock. An airline railway without
grade "a be quilt from Brunswick, Ga, to San Diego, Cal, that
will moi exceed 21OO miles in length. Upon that railway a passenger
train car cross the continent in thrtyfve hours N a fast freight in fifty
hours.
With a line Of steamers upon the Atlantic sailing from Brunswick to
Europe with coaIng stations at Bermuda and the Azores, merchandise can
be carried from the Pacific at San Diego or % Angeles to Southampton in
nine days or less. Cotton car be hauled rom Texas to Sal Diego attn nominal
cost With a line of steamers sailing from New York to, Brunswick, frIit
from California ear be delivered in New York in five days at oneffth Of the
charge low demanded by rail-
Such a railway car be built in five years and will become the highway OF
the nations across this continent"
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81 81 ~
The Mott Famous
Street in the World
By Edward s. Martin

in New York there are a all times somewhere between
fifty and a hundred thousand people, a large proportion of whom
NJ go to the theatre in the evening. 1t is this enormous money
@A spending crowd that has caused the theatre district in New York
E2$@&Es to become a wordfanous curiosity in eectdcals street inumina-
ton. All day long this prt of Broadway is a crowded and busy
district, FULL Of shops M restaurants, an a great thoroughfare of
a great city but at eight O'Clock Of IN evening in the theatre season it is de.
lIged with a crowd which quickly disappears and is lost for three hours when
it surges Out again., n ills the Streets, tn sauran n lobster palaces
the carriages, the motorcars, the cabs, the Subway; the Elevated stations, and
the sTeetcars. A part Of this crow goes home Immediately when the thea
tresR let out; part of it dsperses to various hotels and restaurants OF Fifth ave.
ne II the rosstoWn streets, and part of it cings to Broadway and eats and
drinks in the light of its radiance. Wherever this uptown theatre crowd
pauses, there the lights are bright and the streets are lively unit after mid
night 1t is to catch the eyes OF this evening crowd tina. the theatre section
of Broadway has been $ bejewened with all manner of electrical contivance.
Advertisement is the motive. The result is somewhat binding mi If ia
undoubtedly interesting, and, sofened by due distance, it sms the Imagination
and becomes ven beautful-Harpers. "
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"Babiec"
BY Mark Twain.

(INHE Babies! Now, that's something like! We haven't ALL had the
fortune Ito be ladies. We haven't all beer generals or poets,o r
statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we
- stand c common ground, for we've all been babies. If you gen
uMGNWMn uemen will think fol a moment, if you will go back fifty O a
SASh hundred years to you early married life and recontempate your
#s first baby, you will remember that he amounted to a good deal
nd even something over.
If the baby proposed to take a walk ath lis usual hour, hafpast w in the
morning, didn't on rise u p promptly n remark hat hat vas the very thing
you were about to propose yourself? Oh, % wereu under goo discipline! And
a. yu went futterng j and own the con in your undres uniform, you not
only pratled undgnifed baby talk, but eve tuned VI our martial voice and
tried to sing Rock a by baby in the rec top!"
like the idea that a baby doesn't amount to anything. Why n baby
is just a house and a front yard full by itself One baby can furnish more
enterprsng, irrepressble. brfmful of lawless activities; and do what you
n baby. AS long as you are in your right mind, don't you ever pray for
twins. Twins amount to a permanent riot; and there isn't an real difference
between tripIGs and instruction.
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A Transportation
Millennium

By Francis 1 ay1andG Glen.