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The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1909-03-25
Shortest Bill on Record.

Washington, Special-Representa.
tive Godfrey, of Missouri, has just
introduced what is probably the
shortest bill so far presented durin,
the present session, yet ifqenacted in
to law it would attract more attention
than the Sherman Antitrust law
After the enacting clause the entire
bill is as follows:
That from and after the passage
Of this act all corporations shall pay
a license tax of l Ito of 1 per cent
on their capital.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1909-03-25
Girls Whipped in Lieu of Fines.

Atlanta, Ga, Special.-Two girls,
one of whom had been married but
had left her husband, were chastised
at the local police barracks Monday
morning in the presence of the police
matron by their mothers, following a
declaration by the city recorded that
a mother had the right to "whip;'
her daughter until she ''was 81 years
of age" This course was agreed up
in lieu of a fine.
THE INCONSISTENT PESsIMISr.
Life is a farce" he said,
Shook gloomily his head
And eyed the floor.
For years I've thought that way
Life is a farce, I say,
And nothing more"
I'm that case,'' quoth his chum,
"Why must you act so glum1
Consistent be.
Life is a farce, you claim,
Then why regard the same
AS tragedy"
Louisville Courier-JournaL.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1909-03-25
Furniture Shippers Must Pack Their
Wares.

Mobile, Ala, Specialize South
ern classification committee adjourn
ed to meet in Atlantic City in July.
The committee devoted most of its
time to correcting errors in the pack
ing of freight, with a view to decreas-
ing the number of claims for dam
ages. It was ordered also that fibre
boxes must be made waterproof.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1909-03-25
OFF For Africa.

New York, Specialize steamer
Hamburg dropped her mooring lines
from Hoboken, N. j., pier Tuesday,
and the long-heralded East African
expedition led by Theodore Roosevelt
has begun. The former President
has intimated that he did not wish
official notice of his departure to be
taken by the municipal government
of Hoboken, but the occasion was
bound to attract as many well-wish-
ers as the shores of the North river
in that vicinity and available sea
craft could accommodate and the
"send-of" was n to be remember
ed.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1909-03-25
Items of General Interest.

Small pox is said to be raging in
Guatemala and Mexico is making
rlgid quarantine against it.
The latest prospects in the East are
for peace. The Servian government
'%acceding to Austria s propositions.
A case was handed down from the
higher courts of Georgia recently, to
the effect that for a man to call a
Georgian a liar meant a fight and is
t be construed as an assault.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1909-03-25
ARGUMENTS BEGUN IN LYENS MURDER TRIAL JESUP, GA

Jesup, Ga, Special.-Arguments
were begun Friday in the trial of
former Sheriff W. B. Lyons and his
son, Archie, charged with the murder
of Fleming Smith. The court room
was crowded with spectators until a
late hour Friday night, when court
adjourned until 9 O'Clock Friday
morning. The ex-sheriff made his
first statement Friday. On the wit
ness stand he said that he and Archie
had been asked by Smith whether
they wished to make any purchases in
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1909-03-25
ECLARE ALCOHOL Is BEING ELIMINATED,

Washington, Special. - Alcohol
practically has no therapeutic uses,
judging from the discussion at the
semi-annual meeting here Thursday
of the American Society for the
Study of Alcohol and Other Drug
Narcotics. Some of the medical
scientists contended that alcohol has
no therapeutic uses; others that on
the whole it has few such uses, while
another declared that alcohol grad
ually is being eliminated as a drug.
Papers were read by Drs. Henry O.
Marcy, Of Boston, honorary presi-
dent of the society, entitled, ga
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1909-03-25

Medical Study of the Temperance
Movement in the South;" Howard A.
Kelly, of Baltimore, on "The Alec.
holic Problem in Everyday Life"
7. D. Crothers, of Hartford, Conn.,
on "The Future Of the AlcohoR
Problem;" and ". B. Parks, Of At
lanta, Ga, on "The Effects of Al
cohol on Temperament as it Relates
to Race and Nationality" The
nights session developed much IN
terest among the scientists as ind'
eating the necessity for laws relat'
ing to the car and protection q IN
ebriates.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1909-03-25

$50 bales. Sea island bales included
are 93,s48 for 1908 and $685. fr
1907.
The crop by States, in running
bales, including linters, follows:
Alabama, 1,355,339 bales; ArkXl-
sas, 1,O18,7 O8 bales; Florida, 1,411
bales; Georgia, 2,O22,828 bales; Kan
sas, Kentucky and New Mexico in
Guiding linters, of establishments in
Illinois and Virginia) 5,O54; Louis.
lana, 48l,694 bales; Mississippi, l.
665,695 bales; Missouri, $4,000 bales;
North Carolina, 699,5O7 bales; Okla.
homa, 7O3,S62 bales; South Carolina,
1,239,260 bales; Tennessee, 34S,5S2
bales; Texas, 3,719,189 bales; Viz
ginia, 1908 bales.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1909-03-25
An Impression,

The President had just ordered some
pobnailed shoes. 9
I was under the impression" said
the Senator from the far West, that
he already wore that kind"
Thinking himself unobserved, he gin.
gerly touched certain bruises.-PhiIa,
delphia Ledger.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1909-03-25

France has %three-ffths of an acre
of forest to each ~inhabitant. That
country imports annually $4,000, 900
worth of wood. State forests there
yield annually $1.75 an acre, and cost
95 cents annually.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1909-03-25

the drug store where Smith was
work; that they had said no ana Wa:
leaving when Smith asked: "sneia en-
did you come to see me to-niSItiH
Lyons testified that he replied.
and at the same instant t1rneG
see Smith levelling a shotgun az . IGf
that he and Archie dropped TO lar bor.
knees, and he struck up the Gun aid
rel just as Smith fired. Then ~
Lyons, he and Archie advance %
wards Smith, firing and attemP'LnS
get past Smith.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1909-03-25

Elkins, W. Va, special.-Joseph
Brown, said to have been an ex-con-
vict, who Thursday evening shot and
seriously wounded Chief of Police
Scott White, at Whitmere, near here,
was taken from Jail by a crowd of
men at 1:30 Friday morning and
lynched. Brown was hanged upon d
telegraph pole. Thursday evening
White, who is a son of Wayor Wash
ington White, of Whitemere, remon-
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1909-03-25
Rebuffed.

Fraternal Insurance Agent-Mad-
am, does your husband belong to the
Ready Workers?
Mrs. Chisel (slamming the door,
No. and he isn't one of the readily
worked either.-From Judge.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1909-03-25

Washington. SpeciaL-In its emend-
ed form the House took Thursday for
consideration the bill providing for
the taking of the next census. The
bill was passed at the last session,
but was vetoed by the President be-
cause of his objections to the pro-
visions which took away from the
Civil Service Commission the power
of appointment of the clerks. An
amendment by Mr.. Sterling (Ills.)
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1909-03-25

strated with Brown for using often
sive language. Brown drew a reVo'
yer and shot White and then took 10
the mountains. He was followed oy
a posses of citizens, captured anu
placed in Jail. Early Friday it seen,
ed that the whole town was arousea
and Brown was quietly taken out o.
the Jail and hanged. Chief Of PolsS
White, it is believed, will recover
Brown is said to have served SEVERN
Terms Of imnricnnmnnt
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1909-03-25

was agreed to providing that the ap-
pointments shall be made in con-
formity with the law Of apportioD'
ment among the States under the
civil service act. In order to prevent
the spread of tuberculosis among
government clerks, an amendment by
Mr.. Bennett IN. W was agreed to,
requiring that each census applicant
furnish with his or her application
a certificate of good health.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1909-03-25
Modest,

New Arrival Cat Boston hoteI.)-
Can I have a private bath?
Clerk hope SO, sir.--Puck. ~
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1909-03-25
II UOrd to Parents
By Theodore Roosevelt

- Y ideal of a boy is n who will grow up and be able to
support himself and a wife and children. -
A To be fit tt be an American citizen, he has rot II nre-
X. serve his sefTespect and conduct himself 81 as to wrong
no one. Fathers need the most preaching. FREQUENTLY tbe
sBst4 mothers who have had hard lives take the unwise course In
G attempting to benefit their daughters and sons by ringing
NS&0AH them u p free from hardk knocks Next 10 hardness OF heart
&@D the next least desirable quality is softness If hear and
the noUnero o. father should lot try to bring up their child in that wav Won
don't get the right stuff out Of those children for the next val Dr. Vol DOM
gt decent citizens when there isn't any al Bring them u to work co
that they shall recognize al obstacle is lot something to b. sbirked bnt
to be overcome.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1909-03-25
:. The BerLiner ..
Unpleasant Qualities on the Surface,
Admirable Ones BeLoU.
Bv Robert HaUen Jchauffer

O~N~N~N~ ~Vt~~A+~O
& HEN I speak of the BerHner 1 do not mean the hlgnest
I stratum of Berlin society; for the gentleman and the gentl"
-. woman are fairly constant types the world over. L mean
1 the person whom the young clerk, fresh from the provinces
| Nv sets about initiating; the person whose origin is recognized
the moment he enters any European cafe; the person III
1-l whom the stranger to Berlin has exclusive dealings.
The Berhner tnchnes to military standards IN appear
ance and character, very much as official Berlin does. A
smooth, determined chin, a daunting glance, a right noble pose, a rapid stride,
are III the mode. An upmrned mustache has recently been d rtguem' M m
notices with joy that even the bronze mermen on the Heydt bridge possess
the imperial "stringbeard."
One Of the Berlners most trying characteristics is his superiority II q
has known the latest joke at least 10 years. Dc not try to tel him anything
Or to strike from him the least spark Of enthusiasm, TO news is n news
to him; he was born lase. His eleventh commandment is, Let lot thysen
be blurred" his life motto, Nil admirari" In conversation he insdnctvey in
terrupts each fresh subject to deliver the last word upon it, and to argue
with him is to insult him. There is something cutting in his speech. Per-
haps Votaies influence O. the great Frederick, the critic king started this
dreadful habit, which seems to grow with Indulgence. 1t is a curious coin
cidence that the first performance of Goethes Faust" should have been
given in Schloss Monbijou, the home of the Hohenzonern museum, for it
would almost seem as though the BerHners had modelled their daily speech
after the causic, sneering, telling style of the engaging villain in that drama.
They have little humor, but much wit of the barbed, barracks variety. And
their target is the universe.
Because their unpleasant qualities are on the surface and their admir-
able ones are below, the Berlners do a grave injustice to the rest of Ger
many. Many foreigners go first to the capital are repealed by the people
they first meet, and hasten on to France or Italy with the idea that all
Germans have corrosive tongues and manners Of a drill sergeant. Whereas
there is no wider difference in temperament between the people of Naples
and those of Warsaw than between the citizens of Munich and the citizens Of
Berhn-TheC Century.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1909-03-25

agree with her,, but let Is pretend that we want to be practical, though Of
course we really don't.
Would this homeloying lady Cwho seems to have plenty Of to
stay at home ON mind telling u what she would have us do with h five
million working women already have on III hands, mea III going
to have when we have decided they have gone far enough?
Those whose savings seen to make the venture safe nigh be put tn
bed and strapped down if they can't be made to behave other "a The
hundreds of thousands Of women whose husbands cannot support them might
be killed of in SOL humane manner. The women who have parents to zun
port could be disposed of in the same practical fashion. And the bachelor
maids" with n one but themselves to support and NJ account nohow-a pen
he application of chloroform and all would be over, with n M the worse
Only the widow is left, and she-but she can usually dispose of herself and
we forego advice. 81
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1909-03-25
~N~~arDr
LDhdf Shall LDe DO Nth
5000, 600 UOmen?
BY amused Teacher

HEN President Woodrow Wilson in his talk before the
Southern society generalized on the logical nature of won.
ems minds he evidently was not acquainted with the ar.
guments of, the president of the National society for the
Civic Education against woman suffrage.
In deporing the entrance of women into the industries
she thinks the time has come when we must consider, and
consider seriously, whether this movement has not gone far
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-11-20
PLANT NUT-BEARING TREES
Experience Shows That They Bring Good Money
Returns Annually and They Enhance the
Value of the Land

Land planted in this way will bring
good grass and can be used as pasture
which is good for the trees after they
are large enough to not be injured
by the stock.
l know one farmer who has about
fifty acres of shellbarks which were
left where nature planted them. All
other timber was removed and the
land turned to pasture. The trees now
are about fifteen years old. have fine
round tops and bring large crop of
nuts each year.
The owner of the land says he gets
larger returns from the fifty acres then
from any like number of acres on his
1900 acre farm. Since removing the
scrub timber. there has been no ex-
pense. No cultivation was required
and he has the grass and nuts for hog
pasture in fall and winter. 1t also
makes plenty of shade for all kinds of
stock during the summer.
He is now planting more of his low
land to pecan and shellbark trees and
next year expects to commence ship
ping nuts to the city market. The
price last year in the home town was
$500 per bushel.
When one of his trees dies he re-
moves 1T for wood and replaces it as
soon as possible. In this way the
grove is kept up in fine shape and adds
much to the beauty and value of the
farm as well as bringing pleasure and
profit to the owner
1t Is true the small farm cannot spare
much ground for this kind of tree
| planting, but most farms have some
creek bank or piece of waste land that
| should be planted in nut bearing trees.
Unlike any other crop, when they
once begin bearing they no longer re-
quire M care and will continue i'm
proving for Mny years.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-11-20
FALL SOWING OF WHEAT

While 1t is customary in Indiana. as
rule, to have wheat sown by Sept. 25,
we found by the past years experience
that 1t is not always best to follow
any fixed rules or customs. Some of
the best wheat produced in the state
this year was sown as late as the third
week of last November. Henry Roth
Grabill, Ind, having sown his wheat
Just before the ground froze up last
November. This wheat, to his sur
prise and that of his neighbors, pro-
duced good yield at harvest time. On
this ground 200 pounds of fertilizer
was used to the acre. Should we have
dry weather in the fall, it is of the ut
most Importance that the ground
should be well cultivated and rolled so
as to hold all the moisture that is pos
slble and prevent evaporation. The re-
suits of last falls seeding demonstrated
the wisdom of this policy The later
the sowing the greater the Importance
OF the application of commercial fer
tiltzer in large quantities. In addition
to this, farmers should thoroughly re-
clean every bushel of wheat before
sowing. An extra heavy blast should
be given on the tanning mill, opening
the entire ar duct on the same. In
TINS manner as much as 10 to Is per
cent of the grains will be blown out
and the wheat which is left for seeding
will be larger berries and possess much
higher terminating powers than the
light or defective grains which have
been blown out. If farmers will fol-
low this policy on all seed which is
soWn every year it will result in
heavier yields and a better system.
Every pound of manure should be
saved and hauled out upon the ground
before it has leached out on the side
Of the hill in the barnyard and before
it has lost from SO to rs per cent of
it's fertilizing properties.-C. S. Bash.
Fort Wayne, Ind.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-11-20
HOW TO TAKE A HORSES PULSE

The pulse is due to an automatic
expansion and relaxation in the wall
OF an elastic tube--the artery-caused
by the jets of blood pumped into those
vessels by means of a force pump
the heart
Each stroke of the heart is equal to
one pulsation-viz., a rising and falling
of the arterial WALL In health the
average number of pulse beats per
minute is about thirty six to forty. The
larger the horse the slower or fewer
the number of beats per minute.
A very good place to take the pulse
is at the underside of the jaw. BY
rolling the tips of the fingers about a
little they can be brought on to the
blood vessel.
Don't press too firmly nor yet too
lightly. The animal must be kept still
and quiet, In point of Importance the
"chara cter" of the pulse must be the
best guide. That is to say, the blood
vessel may impress us as feeling hard
soft, full, quick, small, wiry regular or
irregular.
These are niceties which require
practice before they can be fully APP
preciated. In disease, pleurisy-the
pulse will be found beating about
eighty times per minute depending
upon the stage of the disease) hard,
why and irregular.
In pulmonary apoplexy it may be
beating 100 times per minute.
When properly taken it forms val
liable means of assistance in ascertain
| ling the nature and progress of dis
ease.-W R. Gilbert.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-11-20
GASOLINE ENGINE FOR DAIRY
Its Use Is Recommended Be-
cause of Its Convenience
and Economy
By WILLIAM H. uNnERwooD.


person operating dairy of !if-
teen cows or more should have two
gasoline engines. / have two engines
power and one two horsepower.
Tho seven horsepower is used for
grinding feed and the two horsepower
for separating, washing, churning and
pumping water.
once used sweep mill for grinding,
but 1t was unsatisfactory, because just
at the time work was slack so we might
grind seventy-five or a hundred bushels
Of feed ahead it would be sure to rain
or snow SO we could not work out of
doors.
But with the engine under cover we
can grind at times when we can't do
anything else. With the old horse
power machines. the track was usually
worn in deep bitches which made It
difficult to carry grain in and out.
The horses would not make the cir
cult many times before they would get
to Sinking and the longer we ground
the slower it went.
A seven horsepower engine Is plenty
large enough to run two-hole shelter
and feed mill at the same time, but 1t
| is a little light to crush cobs unless
set pretty coarse.
My engine will crush from eighteen
to twenty bushels an hour, and con-
sumo about one-half gallon gasoline
per hour under full load.
/ have never tested it to see how
many bushels shelled corn it would
grind, but from the way it crowds
through / would think forty bushels
/ would not be an extravagant estimate.
i This engine could be put to other
uses as well as grinding, but I have
never used it for anything else The
small engine is used daily at pres
ent.
Z. The dairy is producing fifty gallons
Of milk daily and this is separated with
Il this little engine. 1t is set at 300 revo.
i lutions, is fitted with six-inch pull
4 ley, drives large pulley on the line
4 shaft fifteen inches in diameter.
H The separator pulley on the line
shaft is six inches and large wooden
pulley on the separator fourteen inches
In diameter.
This set of pulleys runs the sepa
rator at fifty-fiye revolutions. In or
der TO figure out the velocity you de-
sire machine to run 1t is necessary
, to have a speed indicator
First, ascertain the speed of the en-
CINE. Then, If you do not wish to
change it's speed you will have to use
pulleys which will increase or dimin-
is, the speed of your machine as you
wish.
rms can be figured out by finding
now far given point on the circum-
ference of the engine pulley will travel
IN minute and from this basis ascer-
tain the sizes of the wheels needed
along the line by dividing the length OF
their circumference into the distance
travelled by given point on the pre-
) ceding wheel.
81 This division is necessary except the
: pulleys on the line shaft where they
. all make an equal number of reyolu
: lions, whether large or small.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-11-20
Rearing Calves Successfully

About this time the feeding of a small
quantity of roots and silage begins,
and the calves are given all the hay
they will eat Milk is fed until the
calves are six months old, sometimes
longer They have access to fresh
water at all times.
The calves are fed in stanchions like
the illustration. These stanchions are
very convenient and are easily con-
structed.
When the calves are turned out to
pasture and begin to eat grass freely,
they are fed less milk, grain. ETC..
though, as previously stated, milk is
fed more or less until the calves are at
least months old.
The owner cautions against breeding
heifers too soon. He says that heifers
should not bring calves under % or rs
months of age, and 80 months is better.
Make winter cows of as many Of them
as possible; enough will go over till
spring anyway to give needed cows at
other seasons.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-11-20
A FEW FALL DUTIES
A Number of Important Things Which Must BE
Done This Fall If You Are to Permit No
Losses Next Year

These can always be disposed of at
cost; or perhaps handsome profit,
and the breeder who does this always
wins out in the end with the best
grade of stock
The time and money spent in visiting
other breeders is one of the best in
vestments one can make.
The knowledge gained in this way
will be of great value in making your
selections, as one breeder seldom visits
another without gaining some infor-
nation
If, after culling out the poorer ones,
you have few animals for sale, let
others know what you have.
Many farmers have first class ami
mails, but buyers do not know it, sim
ply because they never said anything
about it,
If you have something good, say so,
and let others know it. Get all out of
your stock that is possible.
There are people who will paw what
is right for your best stock and it is
the extra price that adds to the profit
of your farm.
II you raise better stock than others,
because you find it more profitable. GO
little farther and get the most out
of what you have.
Now is the time others are looking
Tor breeding animals, and if you have
some good ones they will be very easily
disposed Of
Now is the time to see that all the
crops are well covered. Are there any
leaks in the roof? If so. mend them
SO there will be no spoiled spots OF
feed.
1t Is well to go around the pasture
renee and see if there are any place:
where little pigs can get out wher
they are turned into the stalk field
Take lot of straw from that OLE
straw stack to the barn for bedding; i
will improve the manure wonderfully
which is SO valuable to the land.