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The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1909-02-04
TWO MORE JURORS ACCEPTED.
Nine Men Are Now In the Jury Box
to Hear the Cooper Trial-Fourth
Ueniro Ia Ordered

Nine Men Are Now in the Jury Box
to Hear the Cooper Trial-Fourth
Venire is Ordered.
Nashville, Tenn, Specialize
ninth day Of the trial of Duncan B.
Cooper, Robin Cooper and John D.
Sharp, for the murder of former SEN
.ator Edward ". Carmack closed With
two additions having been~made~ tie
the jury, which now numbers 9.
The two recent acquisitions are Gus
Knipfer and P. O.. Beirman.
Up to Friday Night, 1,165 tales
men have been examined in an effort
to get the II men. Of those who
qualified the State challenged ID, the
defense challenged % and the court
sHmmarily excused two after they had
been declared satisfactory to both
sides.
It is conceded that the action of
the State in charging two talisment
with perjury has greatly reduced the
chances of getting a jury at once.
Many of those summoned say they
may have expressed an opinion at the
time the murder occurred, and for
fear of an indictment, they disquali-
fy themselves.
After hearing testimony in the case
of Juror Whitworth, whose health is
said to be such that his life would be
endangered by the confinement incl
>dent to the trial of the ease, Judge
Hart was disposed to excuse him at
once, but the State asked that a de-
cision be withheld until the next pam
ell was exhausted.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1909-02-04
Children al Heart Rot Bad.

Judge Willard Il. olmsted, who, as a Judge of the Court
OF Special. Sessions. New York, has handled countless cases
coming before the Chndren's, Court, says: t
yFf"Children essentially are not bad. n
But they present a serious problem to the community.
The. answer to the problem OF the child brought before
the Court Is the educating of its parents. ~H
Foreigners predominant in the Juvenile cases, but this
Goes not mean the American boy is so much better than the
others. Hts. go
New York is overwhelmingly a foreign city, and it would
be strange if the greater number of cases were not furnished
by this element. .e-k~- -i 9
If We could get the immigrants to scatter on coming to
America, instead of colonizing, we would be taking a giant
stride.
Colonies shut out advancement and retard the physical,
mental and moral progress of the child.
Some children are very materially helped by a sound whin-
ping, though l do not advocate it in all cases. ~
w are working under the disadvantage of not being able
TO commit a certain class of youthful offenders, because the
religious institution where it is held they should be sent al
ready is filed.
The House of Refuge IS a model reformatory, and no bow
sen nere is n danger OF coming out with a criminal bent.
onment."
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1909-02-04
LED Tie MAN HE TRIED 10 LIBERATE

Lenoir, ~special.-Mortimer, a town
in Caldwell county, in the Harper's
Creek neighborhood, was the scene
of a shooting scrape Friday. The
participants in the battle were Depu-
ties Sam Smith and Zeke Garland and
Dolph and Keith Pritchard. The
trouble arose over the arrest q W.
W. Honeycutt, for whom the officers
had a capias for retailing. The
prisoner told the officers to go with
him up the mountain to see the
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1909-02-04

Pritchards, and he would fix up his
bond. HoneYrutt's wife went with
them, the woman going ahead Of the
officers. One of the Pritchard's re-
turned with the woman, and the other
went out in the woods, and demanded
Of the officers: "fTurn Honeycutt
loose or I will kill both of you" and
began to fire. He aimed to kill Dep
.uty Garland, and shot Honeycutt
through the heart, killing him instant
.ly. The second shot took effect ID
lGarlandss face.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1909-02-04

lision was placed on. the Florida.
The owners Of the Florida also fled
a libel suit and a petition for a limi-
tation of liability to $224,000 against
the Florida. Later the Florida's
owners applied for and obtained an
order from Judge Adams in the Unit
ed States circuit court staying all
suits for damages against the steam
ship Florida on the ground that their
petition for limitation of liability
had been filed ahead Of the $4,000
600 libel suit of the Oceanic Steam
ship Navigation company.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1909-02-04
FOREIGN News.

Mrs. Garry Nation met a hostile
reception at Canterbury Music Hall,
London, on last Monday night and
was egged.
There is a quarrel again between
Peru and Chile. The difficulty came
to general notice when the Peruvian
government a few months ago re-
fused to permit Chile to place a
tablet on the monument erected by
Peru to the memory of her soldiers
who lost their lives in the war of
1879.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1909-02-04

struggling bravely to overcome II.
results at a devastating war. I felt
that they needed such help as the De.
partment could give them, and I have
lent willing a to their appeals,
1t is very gratifying to me to see thu
cordial spirit of appreciation mani.
Tested by the people of the South
for the work the Department is try.
ing to do"
Under Professor W. j. Spillmap.
Of the Bureau of Plant Industry, who
has charge Of the acknowledgement
Investigations in the South, much has
been done to encourage better sys.
TENS Of farm management, looking
to the restoration of fertility, the
bringing back of humus into the soil,
and~the ~suggestisns%of improved 70.
tations.
"0ne Of the most important meth
DDS adopted in fighting the cotton
boil weevil'' said Professor Spillman
sis the Investigation Of crops
and the introduction of new crops.
Since the farmers have begun to rea.
lize that the weevil will in a few
years spread over the entire cotton
belt, they have become interested in
other crops as they never were be-
fore. In many sections truck growing
has developed amazingly. This is es.
pecially the case along the seaboard,
and, along the principal lines of rail.
way connecting the South with tbs
large industrial centres of the North.
In other sections farmers have turn
ed their attention to the production
of hay. While not enough hay is
grown in the South to supply the de.
mand, the quantity Of the homegrown
product has increased to a remarkable
degree since the Department Of Agri-
culture began its propaganda for d.
versifed. agriculture in the South as
a means of fighting the boil weevil. In
some sections, especially in Alabama
and Mississippi, alfalfa has become
an important crop. Last spring one
small town in Mississippi sold over
$4,000 worth of alfalfa seed. Five
years ago there was hardly IN acre
Lof this crop in that vicinity.
Stock Raising.
"Many~other, crops formerly grown
in small acreages only have beer
sown on an increasingly large scale
for the past Few years.This is espeA
cially true of corn, COW peas, and
beans. The cow pea crop especially
has become vastly o important
than formerly. This crop is used both
for hay and as a seed crop, for which
there has been a steady demand at
good prices.
"Southern farmers also are turning
their attention to stock raising. Cat
tie have not been much raised in the
South, both because forage crops
were not extensively grown and be
cause of the presence of the tick
which spreads the dreaded Southern
cattle fever. The government, both
State and national, is now making an
effOxt to eradicate this tick, with
every promise of success. This will
permit of the development of an i'm
portant new industry in the South
which is affected by the boil wee
vii.
A"Apparently it will only be a short
time bofre the South will adjust its
agricultural industries to the changed
conditions brought about by the ad-
vent of the boil weevil, and viii be
even more prosperous than it was
when cotton was king At the same
time, owing to improved methods Of
culture, and increased acreage, the
cotton crop will probably be even
greater than it is now"
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1909-02-04
Bulgaria Complains of Turkeys At
titude.

Sofia, By Cable.-The Bulgarian
government has delivered a note to
the representatives of the powers,
complaining of the irreconcilable and
uncompromising attitude of Turkey
and declaring that the Porte must be
responsible for the consequences. The
note does not solicit the Intervention
Of the powers but draws their atten-
ton to the tension of the situation.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1909-02-04
.SOQTH'S Diversified CROPS
Wonderful Advancement in Agriculture
in the Last Twelve Years

Washington, Special.-In no sec
ton of. the country, probably has
there been more wonderful advance
ment in agriculture within the past
ten or twelve years than in the South.
The belief is expressed by officials
Of the Department of Agriculture
that the Southland is bound to take
that place in agricultural develop
ment she merits.
A spirit Of re-awakening is coming
over the Southern farmer. The agri-
cultural progress. in the South has
been marked by a material prosperity
such as, perhaps, has never before
been enjoyed by the farming element
of that part of the country. The f.
nancial condition Of the Southern
planter began to take an upward
tendency about 1897, since which
time the situation has steadily inn
proved. The production of cotton
that great staple crop Of the South
increased SO per cent, from 1896 to
1908, and the value Of the crop 133
per ct. The Southern farmer, long
debt-ridden, has to a marked degree
been again placed on his feet as it
were by the increased prices he has
received from his cotton crop of late
years. As a natural consequence he
is devoting more time and attention
to building himself a better home, to
the education of his children and, he
is in fact, deriving more Of the COM
forts of life than ever before.
Work of the Department.
The agricultural progress of the
South really dates back to a few
years age when the Agricultural De-
partment inaugurated an educational
campaign for a Investigation in the
crops. The application of practical
scientific methods to Southern agi-
culture in the opinion Of Secretary
Wilson has done more to uplift
land than any other factor.
Officials Of the Department of Agn-.
culture believe that the advent of the
weevil was in reality a sort of bless
ing to the South. While it was dis
astrious in its effect upon that great
staple crop, it at the same time made
the farmer realize that he must not
devote all of his land to cotton, but
must depend to a considerable extent
upon other crops. The South was
qaick to absorb the scientific knowl-
edge so freely given by the Federal
government and is rapidly recovering
from past mistakes. Secretary VIII
son is a great believer in the doctrine
that the foundation of this nations
prosperity is an enlightened agricul-
ture
Secretary Wilson Pleased.
"I am happy to have an opportun-
ity to express through The Associat-
ed Press" said Secretary Wilson
"the Agricultural Department s
good will toward the South and its
desire to foster III every way the ag-
ricultural prosperity of that great
and favored region. I have always
taken a great interest in the agri-
culture of the South, not only be-
cause of its extremely interesting
possibilities, but because 1 have felt
a keen sympathy with a people
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1909-02-04
European Powers Keeping Peace Be-
tween Turkey and Bulgaria.

Paris, Special.-An official note
issued here sets forth that the
powers Of Europe are earnestly con-
tinuing their efforts to prevent an
outbreak of hostilities between Tur-
key and Bulgaria, an outcome threat
ened by the recent notifications by
both countries concerned.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1909-02-04
The Household Budget.

He-"I wonder if we can get along
all right"
She-"Certainly. We can buy the
auto with the money father left me
and you will surely make enough to
pay for running it, don't you Think"
Puck.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1909-02-04
New Parts.

The Customer-"When I bought a
a from you a few weeks G you
said you would be willing to supply a
new part if I broke anything"
The Motor Agent-"Certainly, sir.
What can I have the pleasure of pro-
viding you with?"
The Customer want a pair Of
new ankles, a floating rib, a left eye,
three yards of cutiele, a box of assort-
ed finger nails. four molars and a
unny-bone.'-Piek-Me-Up.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1909-02-04
LUMBER SHIPPERS ARE REFUNDED
$500 BY The RAILROADS INVOLVED

Washington, Speciality far the
largest specific allowance of repara-
ton ever ordered by the Interstate
Thursday, when that body approved
a settlement agreement of $165,OO0
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1909-02-04
The Bright Side,

Achilles was bemoaning his vulner-
able heel.
"It isn't as bad as though your
Christmas stocking had a hole in it,"
they assured him.
Herewith he cheered up. - New
York Sun.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1909-02-04
Grounds For Complaint.

"Any complaints, co~rporal?" said
the colonel, making one morning q
personal inspection. s.-
eyes, sir. Taste that, SIR" said the
corporal promptly.
The colonel put the liquid to his
lips.
Why" he said. "that's the best
soup Fever tasted"
"Yes, sir" said the corporal, land
Argonaut. !,
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1909-02-04
On the Safe Side.

Visitor-"Well, son, what will you
be when you grow up?"
Tommy Jagged ninel-"A soldier"
Visitor-But you will be in dam
ger Of getting killed."
Tommy-"Who'll kill me?"
Visitor-"Why, the enemy"
Tommy-"'Then I'll be the enemy"
Catholic News.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1909-02-04
2EcT WIRELEss ToWER Az WASHINGTON

Washington, Special.-The Navy
Department opened bids for locating
a wireless tower at Washington for
communicating with ships at sea. The
specifications require that the tower
or station shall be capable of trans
hitting messages at all times and at
all seasons to a radius Of 5000 miles
in any navigable direction from Wash
ington. The messages are not to be
interrupted by atmospheric distur-
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1909-02-04
Youthful Ingenuity.

81 want another box of pills I got
for mother. yesterday
did your mother say they ere
good?"
"No-but they just fit my airgun."
-Fliegende Blaetter.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1909-02-04
DISTINGUISHED,

Bacon-''Did you eve notice how
d~isinterested he seems to look when
he's talking to himself?"
Egbert-"Oh, yes;~ he's probably
giving himself some advice. "-Yon.
kers Statesman.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1909-02-04
Timely Supplies.

"'Peahs ter me, Br'er Simpson, yo'
am doin' a pow'ful lot OBJ joobilatin'
oveh one po', measly COON"
"'Tain't only dat, Br'er Johnsing!
All done got a .fo'-days' job TO mex
week"
Dat explani1es hit"
"Sho! Now All kin t'row up dc
job.'-Judge.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1909-02-04
Pointed.

First Drummer-"My firm made
half a million in 1907"
Second Drummer-"My firm made
more than ten millions"
you must have a very profitable
line?"
"Pins. Puck,
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1909-02-04
Natural Cause,

Little Wiltie-"Pop, why do they
call political jobs plums?"
Wise Father-"Because, my son,
it's generally a grating process
which produces them"
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1909-02-04
Her Reward.

Professor Ito his aged cook
"You have now beentwenty-1ve years
in my service, Regina. AS a reward
for your fidelity 1 have determined to
name the bug 1 recently discovered
after you."-Fliegende Blaetter.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1909-02-04

Dances or interference by neighbor-
ing stations. At the same time the
department asked for bids for two
sets Of apparatus to be installed on
naval vessels to be capable Of trans
hitting and receiving messages at all
times, seasons and latitudes, to and
from a distance of 1000 miles, and
to receive messages from the Wash
ington station at a distance Of 5000
miles at all times.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1909-02-04
So Are You.

"Tne professor says my bathing
suit is rather exiguous."
els that a compliment"
81 don't know. I'm going after
the dictionary now" Kansas City
Journal.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1909-02-04
The Way.

Blobbs-"The sparrow is a nuis-
ance. 1 wonder how it would be pos
sible to exterminate him."
Slobbs-"Make him fashionable for
women's hats" = Philadelphia Rec.
ord.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1909-02-04

in satisfaction of the claims on &C
count of unreasonable rates on lum-
Der shipped from Southern mills, in
volving about 125 cases and IL diff
ferent railroads of the South. These
are said to be about one-third Of
claims to the same kind pending be-
fore the commission.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1909-02-04
Bobby's Amenities,

"Bobby, did you give a piece Of
your cake to little Sam Green2"
"Yessum, but 1 punched his face
Observation-Disclosures Age-Herald.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1909-02-04
W;tb fbe Fanny


In olden times Pan piped his lay,
But in these days of triolets,
I fear he's thrown Ais pipe away
And substituted cigarettes.
Life,
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1909-02-04
,SAs:s%

Parchment paper is made by dip
ping ordinary unsized paper for five
or six seconds in dilute sulphuric
acid, and then washing.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1909-02-04
ManfuI.

When q man neglects aduty, he
says: II was too busy" but usually
he was too lazy.-Atchison Globe.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1909-02-04
The Best Messenger.

Silicus-"T never send a man on a
FOOLS Grand"
Cynicus-"No; it's a better plan to
so Observation-Disclosures Record.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1909-02-04

How to burn smoke, avoid sparks
and eliminate, combustible matter are
requisites of railway locomotive
builders in Holland. All railway To-
corhotives before acceptance must be
provided especially with a continuance
for burning smoke and preventing
sparks emission.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1909-02-04

French interest in Professor Ben
rings researches for the treatment
of tuberculosis has drawn from him
a new statement on the subject, from
which it appears that the investiga-
ton of his preventive system Of i'm
munising against the disease mas TAX
en- a decisive step forward. Until a
few weeks ago, says the London
Globe, the professors system has
been confined to animals, and the di-
rector of the Pasteur Institute at
Lille claims to have succeeded in i'm
munising goats by ear of it. BEN
ring himself now announces that he
has taken the defnitive step, from
which he had previously shrunk, of
inocculating a number of persons at
different times, and is now watching
developments.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1909-02-04
blindness

First U. s. senatorN"wEat. is. a
blind partisan?"
Second U. 8. Senator-"One who
doesn't know the color of money
Life.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1909-02-04

A caterpillar, according to a scien-
tist, eats 5000 times it's weight each
month.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1909-02-04

The pollution of streams by factory
waste is being shown by the inVesti-
cations of the United States Geologt-
cal Survey to be unjustifed. The
experiments proved that the sewage
can be purified at moderate cost, and
that the valuable materials recovered
may make good this expense, while
in some cases there should be a good
profit, as in the recovery of wool fat
and potash from wool securing liQ-
uor.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1909-02-04

Monsieur Lippmann, who is widely
known for his many experiments in
color photography, hopes so far to
improve his new process that 1t will
not be necessary, as at present, to
view the developed plates through
a special apparatus in order to cause
the colors to appear.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1909-02-04

One hundred thousand gallons OF
water sterilized by electrically gener-
ated ozone are used daily by the
Pittsburg Homeopathic Hospital. Dry
air is passed through the ozonizers
and the ozone produced is miKed with
the water by NEAR of aspirators.
Three ~ozonizers are used for steriliz-
ing water, while two provide ozone
used for sterilizing instruments and
bandages.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1909-02-04

Provisional Governor Magoon Is
corts General Gomez to the Palace
For the Inauguration Ceremonies
and Then Sails From the Island on
the New Maine-Cuban Gunboat
Sees the Americans Safely OFF.
The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-08-07
n IT nm
STATISTICAL HISTORY OF "THE
MERRY WIDOW

Reduced to statistical form. the his
tory OF 'Thc Merry Widow" Is told in
figures that would be incredible were
they not vouched for by lmpeccable au-
thority Not oven the Gilbert and Sui
livan operettas. which became such n
craze a brief generation ago. approx
mato the record of Lehar's world
sweeping opera comique.
The first performances was given In
Vienna Dec. 80. 1905. at tho histori-,
Thea re an der Wien. Sinc+ then prcs
ontatlons have been made IN 422 Ger
man cities. 135 English cities and 15i
American cities. with additional pro-
ductions In no less than q other coun-
tries and translation into l3 languages.
a careful estimate gives the total
number OF performances to date as
$1,000, with every prospect that the
number VIII be doubled. triplcd or
quadruplcd before tho work is taken
from the regular list
In English the first presentation was
made at Daly's theater. London. on
June s. 1907. Up TO April 1 of this
The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-08-07
Wagner and Mathcwson.

Recently the writer was asked which
is tho moro valuable baseball player
Hans Wagner of Pittsburg or Christy
Mathewson of New York? 1t is diff
cult 10 answer. for both men are prac
tically Indispensable TO their rcspec-
tive teams It Is almost 4 cinch that
neither club would trade its great
player FOR the other on the face Of
1t, Wagner would have the call. for a
great player who is in the game every
day would seem TO be of more use TO
his club than pitcher, no matter how
strong, who necessarily Is not IN the
lineup for n good many games. Wag-
ner has held the Pirates up in the
race for many years. So sensational Is
bis work. especially with the bat. day
by day that II Is 4 common saying
around tho circuit that Hans Wagner.
assisted TO a slight extent by a few
other Buccaneers. defeated our boys at
the yard this afternoon" This is an eX-
aGSeratlon In most cases, but 1t shows
what big factor the Flying Dutohman
is In the winning OF games by the
Pittsburg club. Stll. tho writer be-
lievcs Mathewson Is tho moro valuable
Of tho two Without Wagner the
Pittsburgs would continue 10 win
majority OF their games. for they have
a great ball club in all departments.
But take Mathewson away from tho
Giants and McGraw's men would be
down In the second division in a short
time. with little prospect of getting
out Last year Matty won thirty seven
games for the Giants out OF forty