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But that ant all. Evvery thing is high. You step into one of these moddern calf-ays. You figger that you can get pretty good handout for quarter. But when you amble in and a chockerlate cullered Duke" in a spike coat and three buttoned vest gives you bow that would do credit to a cannydate for the post of ambassador to the cort of St. James, and pulls back your chair with an in- sinuating waive of his hand at the score card, you can feel a $10 will liam in your pocket take fit of St. Vitus dance, and gasp for change of seen, and it usually gets it, unless you have cast iron nerve enuff to escape. You look ovver the program and observe that the cheapest thing on there is an oyster eclaire with one oyster in it which you can purchase for the astonishing cheep prise of 40 cents. You toy with your watch
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a crosheyed shawl, and two dollar
 Sunday hat decorated with sum reel classy artifishal roses, and you would
 without hestitasion pronounce here a pippin. But now the cost to fully harness up one of our moddern James, makes the reserve fund of a First Nashional Bank seem a deffisite. Her hat must be decked off with os- trich blooms and feethers from the burd of Paradise, and they certainly cum high. Also she has jeweled hat pins stuck thro' in varius phases that exsite your curiosity and wunder and you speckulate on how she dun it, like you do when you see tall slim man in tites swaller a sword. Then she has lot of store bought hair. The moddern Switch of com- is sum expensive, whether it be "ienuine human hair" or horses tail. I don't see how sum clerks get along.
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w has been out nome, where Ho offered to the factions of the G. Q. r. tbe olive branch. He returns with d story of failure. When taking the lraiii for Washington he said;
 .J am not a candidate for reelection in any sense of the term. That Is ma'- fer that rests entirely with the people or Illinois. My party is badly split up be- cause of the antagonism of certain can- dldates. I can be of no use to 1t here, however.
 He frankly stated that he could not longer bear the financial strain involved in keeping house in Washington, and must give up one or the other or bust, he affirmed.
 This fine old man is no Cato, neither is he a Cicero-certainly he is no Croes- us. and manifesty he is not and never was an Adonis But he is a sound man and prefers to be honest rather than to be rich. Except Isaac Stephenson, who Is five months his senior, Senator Cullom is the oldest man in the public council S2 this month He that would rather be Nicias than Aristides-and Nicias had a better record than Uncle Stephenson- would sooner be Stephenson than Cullo;n, though Culom is far short of Arlstides as a public character.
 Cullom was a member of Congress 4O years ago. when Lee yet held Grant at bay in front of Richmond. He was the personal friend as well as the faithful fol- lower of Abraham Lincoln, his fellow townsman and near nefghbor. Both were
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\ Y the irreverent called "Plyms," by
 \ themselves preferably known as Brethren or Believers" or

H the irreverent called "Plyms," by N themselves preferably known as 0 Brethren or Believers" or "Christians," and generally on the Eu- iopean continent as Darbyites," here is a group of fervent souls who, in spite of much obscurity have had and still have a very notable influence
 l set down a few biographical dates, . in which the less generally Roman name has as good a right as any other:
 Edward Bouverie Pusey, born 1S00.
 John Henry Newman, born 1901.
 Francis William Newman. born 1SO5.
 Frederick Denison Maurice, born 1S05.
 Henry Edward Manning, born 1907.
 John Nelson Darby, born 1860.
 Pusoy was the very front of the Ox- ford Movement, which had for it's object the true Catholicisng of the Church of England. Cardinal Newman (John : Ienry) was the charming preacher of the movement, and his brother, Francis, its rationalistic and merciless critic. have put down Maurice in the list because he was neither the high church doctrnaire nor the contemptuous radical, but a would be peacemaker and singularly searching analyst of current forms of faith, constant lv attempting the return to fundamental ideas. Manning goes with Newman, an English churchman, whose conception of the inherent authority of the church led hiii in middle life to Rome. Newman sur rendering in 1s45, and Manning in 1857. Manning became Catholic archbishop of Westminster on the death of Cardinal W'Seman in 1865. Kebb ought to be in my li. |, the poet of "The Christian Year ;, toin in 1,92 and dying before the furious b,asts of the Oxford Movement had ceased to blow, namely in 1866. But have dared 10 put among these sons of the mighty Ioiln Nelson Darby. because he was hard ly less mighty and not at all less schol- ally than the keenest or tine mightest of them all. He has right to the cIassi- foation especially. because he was the only thorough-going Protestant who did not care about the name Protestant and had found a sure and permanent po- sition, as he supposed, far above the black clouds and tempests of ecclesiastic- al strife. He deserves the position I have implied because not even Pusey returned to the study of the scriptures will. more painstakins care of detail thsn
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of country justices, the pleas of lawyers and many other clements are vididly pre- sented and invariably with such a smack of real humor by Judge Baldwin that the interest is unsuspended from the outset to the close.
 While there is much of the creative in the work to lend freshness and humor to the many scenes, still the book is prac- tioal history of a most remarkable period which extended from 1883 to 1S40 The work is unique in the originality of it's grasp of conditions, the raciness of DOT t,aiture and in the description of the va ri1us transactions. Though at bottom veritable history, the work is throughout garbed in incomparable humor that may be read at any period with merriment.
 In the same semi-serious vein in which Irving wrote his Knickerbocker History of New York. but with much richer tang of humor, Baldwin records the doings of those rosy days which were anon merged
 into gloom, and it Is difficult to decide in which phase of the situation one finds more real fun. He enters into no discus
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THE PLYMOUTH BRETHREN-By George Eaves, D. D.

did Darby. In sense he may be ue scribed as the ultra English and the ui- tra-Protestant, thinker and leader, re- fusing to be classified, insistent on his inalienable right to stand quite alone or to found a new school, new denom- i.,a ton, new confession, if loyalty to the truth required it.
 And if further Justification were need ed we must remember that the popular theology of today has been very largely
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land, so that Darby, the young law stu dent was merely reflecting his environ
 ments At that time the Church of Eng land in Ireland was fabuously known as ''the Church of Ireland,'' though all the Catholics and all the Presbyterians were
 witnesses to it's meager and unrepresent- ative following. But the keen air of CO., clesiastical debate which was blowing in
 England not unnaturally drove Darby to
 examine the proprietyI of church estab-
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K | more genuine compliment can be
 M paid a book than to have the \ name of the author so associated with it that at the mention of the work the name of the writer is at once sug- gested. This is true of that once noted work, "Flush Times in Alabama and Mis- sissippi." So widely was the book for years read, and so popular was it because of it's reflection of period of southwest ern history that to mention the work was to call in immediate connection with it the name of the author--J G. Baldwin.
 On it's appearance the work was greeted with popular applause and was highly prized for its genuine merit. While the production of such work with it's unique and sparkling wit is worthy of the pen of any one, the fame of Judge Baldwin does not repose on it alone, for he was both statesman and jurist. and rendered valuable service to Alabama.
 Beginning life under disadvantages be- cause of meager education, Judge Bald
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spiritual life on what came to be called Low-church doctrine This means a gen. uine evangelical point of view, fear of sacramentalism as of the essence of Ro-. mish power, and generally pronounced reverence for the Scriptures and for those puritanical elements which were preserved in "the Church of England as by law es- tablished." The evangelical attitude. it may be said, has always been the charac- teristic of the Anglican church in Ire
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shaped by the influence of the Plymouth brethren, and that the practical results of their work have become a great spir- itual heritage I suppose, for instance, that every young man who has ever been touched by the Bible class work of the Young Mems Christian association has thereby acquired definite impress of Darby's teachings. Unquestionably also whatever hearth today in all Protestant- ism believes in prayer and practices the
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faith obtains a large part of that faith from the example and success of George Muller of Bristol, liberalized follower of Earby
 Darby was Londoner by birth but a graduate of Dublin university. He was therefore far enough from the storm cen- ter of theological debate to escape the reaction towards High Anglicanism, and surrounded as he was by the Catholicism of Ireland, he almost inevitably based his
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K XISTUR notwithstanding M has got to be d didding in this l county about this high prise of living, or high cost of living, or whatever it is. Its getting So that nuthing short of millionair has enny cinch on three squares ger day, and he has to be ekonomical. The average citizen who draws down a stippend of hundred and fifty bucks per munth, simply can't keep abrest of the times. Just how the feller who gets one and half bones per day cums out, we can't figger but its a pipe he hasn't got enny oughter- mobile, and that he wares his straw hat as late as December. It used to be that a mans wife could go to church looking as cute as could be with fancy lot of ginghams on and
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VYYY WASHINGTON, November H. N/ (SpeciaD. Uncle Shelby Cullom
 w has been out home, where he
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CONTINUED ON PAGE sol
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-06-22
Georgia Deacon Clears
Church With Gnn.

Savannah, Ga, June 18.-A mad
scramble for windows and doors
interrupted the sitting of a jury
OF elders at the Clifton Baptist
church, 5 miles from here today.
when Deacon Joseph Smalls, Jr..
who was on trial for card playing
drew a revolver and covered the
jury and audience while he forced
them to listen to his defending ar
gument.
The hearing was going along
smoothly but applause shook the
building every time a point was
made against the defendant. Just
before the jury began the consid-
GRAFTON of their verdict, Smalls
arose and said he was determined
to give his = Of the case. When
he drew his revolver, he quickIy
cleared the house of all except
the sacred conference members.
Flourishing his pistol, he waxed
eloquent and before he knew it.
two of his hearers jumped behind
him and pinioned his arms, while
others came to disarm him. AT
this point, Smalls' mother en-
tered the church armed with 2
butcher knife and promised to
make more trouble, but she sonr
was omitted. Police were called
from Savannah and Smalls was
to the station. The elders
continued their session ad Smal]e
das deposed as deacon.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-06-22
The New Panama Bonds Greatly
OYer-Suhscrihed

Washington, June 17.-Such
estimates of the bids for the gov
eminent 3 per cent 5000, 900
Panama loan as are available to-
night, indicate that the loan has
been three times over-subscribed
and that the average price of the
new bonds will run a little over
102,50 The ban afre bids receiv-
ed will total about $4,000 900.
OF this amount $2,3O0,OOO was
subscribed at 8 per cent or more ;
$32O00,000 at over 1920; $81.
100000 at between 10I,50 and
1926 and $50,O0O,OOO at 102 and
under.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-06-22
Wouldn't You Inmnq
John Barker, the town mars

John Barker, the town marshal
f Jacksonville, Kan, AYERS that
e overheard the following con-
z~ersation between two little girls
vho are not yet old enough to 60
o school: What makes a horse
ect naughty when he sees an au-
to-" one asked. "It's this way
replied the other. Horses is
used to seem other horses pullin'
rigs, and they don't know what
to thing of 'em goin' along with
ut a horse. / guess if you was
to see a pair of pants walkin'
down the street without a man in
'em, you'd be scared, too.!"-NewI
ork Tribune.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-06-22
Woman Dies on New York Stree
of Starvation

New York, June 17.-For the
second time within forty-eighf
hours, a woman collapsed TO-DAY
Of starvation in the streets. of
New York. This time the vic
tim died. She said she was Rose
Dasso. aged 81, homeless and
friendless. She had slept j.
doorways and parks for a wear.
she told a policeman who knelt
eyer her just before life became
extinct.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-06-22
TRY FERRo-cEMENT ROADS.
Experiments With This Substance
in France Have Been Highly
Successful.

Experiments With This Substance
in France Have Been Highly
Successful.
"Ferro-cement" roads are be-
ing experimental with in France.
The substance is made of cemeI;
mixed with straw. To make &
slab or block of ferro-cement,
mass of ~iron-strow is placed /.
the mold, and there ispoured over
it cement sufficiently fluid to pene
trate into all the i~nterstices o.
the iron and completely cover it.
When the whole has set, the core
or iron thus intimately incorporat-
ed gives to the block a great re-
slstance to breakage and to trac-
ton, at the same time furnishing
elasticity to compression which
enables 1T to stand superficial
shocks. A brick of ferro-eement
l 3-5 inches thick has supported
during crushing tests, a pressure
OF about IS tons to the square
inch. In breakage tests, the re-
sistance was quadruple that OF
cement. Resistance t.
wear was no less remarkable.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-06-22
MAINE M TO LIGHT

Interesting Discoveries Made by
Explorers Who Are Raising the
Old Battleship.
Havana, June 18.-As the re-
mains of the battleship Maine
gradually rises above the level of
the waters within the cofferdam
interesting discoveries are made.
The explorers last night and this
morning recovered plates and
other chinaware In the officers
quarters. AL were IN a good
state of preservation. An Off
GERS dress sword was found be-
hind the forward portside door
leading from the oficers's quar-
ters to the spar deck. The infer
ence is that some officer hasten
ing to the deck and buckling on
his sword as he ran, was compell-
ID to abandon it and escape in
the rush of water over the spar
deck.
A curious indication of the
slight force Of the explosion felt
in the aftcrpath of the ship, was
an electric light bulb hanging in
act from the roof of the super
tructure.
Exploration of the interior
continues to be interrupted by
masses of mud and rubbish.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-06-22
The R. F. D. and the Advertiser.

| Atlanta Constitution.
In one of his recent attractive
talks on advertising In The Con
stitution William G. Freeman
asks, CT wonder if the national
advertiser has ever given any con-
sideration to the effect that rural
free delivery has had in increas
ing the value the daily newspaper
as a general advertising medium
for their business?"
1t is to be doubted if, many o.
the advertisers, in this section at
least, have analysed the connecz
ton between cause and effect IL
publicity as closely as has Mr..
Freeman. But to his comment
connection rural free delivery
which the daily paper, we would
add an amendment extending the
trade-stimulating influence to the
weekly and the tri-weekly news
paper.
Rural free delivery has ines
timably expanded the field in
which the large or small adver
tiser may look for business with
the expectation Of business. 1t
has, practically, brought the coun-.
try districts to his store doors, in
that injects ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
which is all advertising is, into
the uttemost corners of the rural
districts.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-06-22
DUTY RESTING ON FARMER.
Soil. Which Yields Substance to
Mankind, Should Be Gonserv-
ed and Not impoverished.


ed and Not impoverished.
There is one duty that rests
upon the farmer, and that is, he
should protect the soil. That
which yielGs the means of sub
~sistence to mandkind should be
conserved and not improyerish-
ed, as unfortunately is true to a
large extent. Nature is generous,
and should we prove ungraceful
Not only all existence depends
upon the soil, but tie life of fu-
ture generations as well Tie law
by heavy penalty, prevents our
taking anything which belongs to
another, without his consent, If
living. Shall we rob our children
and our children's children by
taking the substance from the
soil, leaving to them a legacy OF
impoverished land
1T has been argued that the far
mer will never organize and work
in harmony. / believe he will.
Our school system is getting away
from the dead languages to liv-
ing problems. Reason is assert
ing it self over matters of author
ity. Education will In the future
b ethe useful. Farming is a
science, and the day will come
when a knowledge OF the soil and
it's products will command more
respect than a knowledge of
Greek and Latin, and a skull full
Of classical learning, memorized
from the ancient order, writes
Frank A. Collins in the Crosse
beck (Texas) Journal. The
march of science is exact, COM
handing. 1t is being applied to
the soil. 1t will bring about or
ganization, not ruled by pre-
JUDGE
The newspaper is the great edu-
Gator, for it cannot be muzzled.
A college professor may be com
PEELED to write a text book to the
end that special interests be car
ed for, but the press subjects it.
self to no authority, and yields
a free lance.
| do not advocate the idea that
there should be warfare between.
the country and the town. Thou
sands of people in the town are
working in harmony with coun-
try people, and the country peo-
pie with them, and both gain adj
vantage.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-06-22

ZHaEH#M
step precipitated him between the
two cars, doubling up his body
and causing him to roll twelve or
fifteen feet In front of the moving
cars before it finally ran over his
left arm.
A surprise wedding of interest
occurred at the Battery Park
hotel Saturday night, when Miss
Helen Yates, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. P. Yates Of Greensboro, be-
the bride of Mr. Roy B.
Wagner, son of Capt. A. Wagner
of Asheville. The ceremony was
performed by Rev. Dr.. w. M.
Vines, pastor of the First Baptist
church, in the drawing room of
the Battery Park in the presence
of a few intimate friends of the
contracting couple.
Four convicts were killed, II
seriously injured and IA con-
victs and 8 guards slightly injur-
ed Sunday in the collapse of a
bull pen near WaterviHe, N. c.,
in the heart of the Smokes,
where two railroad companies
are engaged in a war for the mo-
nopoly Of the only remaining
mountain pass to the east. The
convicts were all negroes, the
property of the State of North
Carolina, and were being worked
in connection with the construc-
ton work of the Transeontinent-
al Railroad.
Dependency caused by the
death Sunday morning of his
fance at the Fowle hospital in
Washington, N. c., after a very
short illness from appendicitis,
drove Charles Kicks, the eldest
son of Sheriff George E. Kicks of
that town and county, to attempt
self-destruction about 4 o'clock
Sunday afternoon. The rash act
was committed in young Kicks
room at the home of his parents
and a razor was the means used,
a deep cash being cut in his
throat.
R. F. D. men are already be-
ginning to look forward to the
meeting of the State Rural Let
ter Carriers Association, which
is to be held in Winston-Salem
July 3 and 4. 1t is expected that
there will be not less than 125
delegates in attendance. Fourth
Assistant Postmaster General P.
v. McGraw of Washington IS
expected to be present. Senator
L. S. Overman will deliver an adj
dress on the afternoon of July
f.. Al feature also will be the
singing of the choir composed of
r. F. D. men. Tt will be recalled
that this meeting was held re-
Gently in Charlotte, at which
time a large number of retail
mail carriers were in attendance.
The biggest financial deal in1
the history Of Hickory took place
last week when the Piedmont
Wagon Works changed hands in
deal involving more than $780,
100000. The deal was engineered
by Mr.. j. A. Martin of that city
and he and his associates were1
the purchasers.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-06-22
LAFoLLETTE WILL RUN
Insurgent Leader To Oppose Taft
for denomination.

for denomination.
Washington, June 17.-Senatcr
Robert M. LaFallette of Wiscon
sin will be in the race for the Re
publican nomination for President
This fact became known here
today following considerable spe-
culation al to whether the Repub.
lican progressive in the Senate
would support Mr.. LaFollette in
his plans for tariff revision and
IN his campaign for the presi-
dency.
1t may be stated on the highest
authority that Senator LaFollette
is to challenge the political fate
and make the plunge. His formal
statement of his intentions will
appear later in the month.