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The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-12-07
Ribbons Are offered for the Following

Are Offered for the Following
Barred Plymouth Rocks.
White Plymouth Rocks.
Buff Plymouth, Rocks.
Partridge Plymouth Rocks.
Silver Wyandottes.
Buff Wyandottes.
Columbian Wyandottes.
White Wyandottes.
Partridge Wyandottes.
Y Buff Orpingtons.
White Orpingtons.
Black Orpingtons.
s. G, Rhode Island Reds.
r. G. Rhode Island Reds.
Light Brahmas, Black Langshans.
Dark Brahmas, Partridge Cochins.
Anconas, s. G. Brown Lekhorns.
s. G. White Leghorns, Bun Leghorns
r. C. White Leghorns, R. G. Brown,
Leghorns, s. c. Black Minorcas. S. C.
White Minorcas. r. G. Black Minorcas.
Silver SpangIed Hamburg, all Game
chickens, all kinds Bantams, all kinds
Turkeys, all kinds Ducks and Geese,
all thoroughbred Chickens
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-12-07
Bakers Art Gallery.

Bakers Art Gallery.
For best acknowledgements, value
soc, by s. Maxwell & Co.
For best bantam cock, any breed One
fourth bag self-raising flour, by
Pace & Garren.
For best pair Bantams-Book, value
$3.50, by Whitakers Book Store.
For best and largest display-Ona box
Climax cigars, by Climax Barber
Shop. Value of cigars $3.50.
For best cock, the best cockerel, any
breed-Three boxes of Pratt's Poul-
try food for each class, by Hunters
Pharmacy.
For best pullet and best pen, any
breed-Two packages of Interna-
tional Poultry Food, for each class
by w. H. Justus.
For neatest appearing coop-Yea ears
subscription to The Times, by Times
Printing Co.
For best hen-Years subscription to
The French Broad Hustler, by The
French Broad Hustler Co.
For best game chicken-one Blue
Grass Food Chopper, by the Farm
ers Hardware & Supply Co.
For best pen of chickens, any breed,
pair of Endicott-Johnson shoes, by
T. B. Carson.
For best pen Game, any breed-One
years subscription to French Broad
Hustler.
Ribbons to be Awarded by the AssOci-
alton.
A blue ribbon for the best pen.
A red ribbon for second best pen.
A white ribbon for third best pen.
A blue, red and white ribbon for the
first, second and third best pairs.
A blue, red and white ribbon for the
first, second and third best singles.
cock or cockerel, pullet or hen.
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STYLES Of type. Thomas Nelson Pace.
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MIS- CHAMP Clark Is chairman Of the
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B. A. HAGOoI

shipp & Ewbank. Attorneys.
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WADE WHITEsIDEs
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-12-07
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The Washington bee., 1911-08-12
Elephant ThFenodjss.

The natives Of certain portions Of
south central Africa, says the Duchess
OF AOsta in Harper's Weekly, look on
the death Of an elephant as an event.
They attach an almost religious aspect
TO ii. "As soon as the animal stalked
is stretched out on the ground the
hunters climb upon the huge, still
warm body and there perform a dance,
gesttculattng and shaking their guns,
accompanied by a sort of utany, In
which they extoI the animal and his
qualities, his strength, his size, his
cunning; then they praise the skill Of
the hunter, his prompt eye, his accu-
rate shot. And this song is Just muir
INJURED, as If they were afraid that If
they raised their voices they would
attract the curse of the spirit which
has just left the animal and is still
floating round him"
The Washington bee., 1911-08-12
ADAMS PEAK.
a Shrine Visited by Thousands and
Sacred to Three Conflicting
Religious Sects.

Throughout Asia holy places" are
almost as numerous as leaves on a
tree. but in Ceylon is a mountain which
enjoys the unique distinction of being
a very holy place to the deyOtees Of
three absolutely distinct and conflict
ing religious sects. This is Adams
Peak. or Samantha.
According TO the Mohammedan be-
lief, Adam, after the fall, was taken
by an angel to the top of Samantha,
and a panorama of all the ills that
through sin should afflict mankind was
spread out before him. His fOOr left
IN impression on the solid rock. and
his tears formed the lake from which
pilgrims still drink. The Buddhists
contend that it was not Adam, but
Buddha himself that made the foot
print in the rock, that being the last
spot where he touched the earth be-
fore ascending tc heaven. while the
Brahmins have still another legend.
All, however. Brahmins. Mohamme-
dams and Chinese, agree that Samantha
is a very holy place, and to perform
pilgrimage to the spot is to the Budd-
hist what a visit to Mecca is to a Mo
hammedan. In mixed crowds the wor-
shippers come, each plying the ignO-
rance of the other who is so far from
the "true way"
It requires no little faith and some
imagination to trace in the depression
in the rock the likeness Of a human
footprint. 1t is 574 feet long by 21a
feet wide, on the top of huge bowl
der. The natives. however, insist that
it is the footprint Of Adam.-Emmett
Campbell Hall in Cincinnati CONNER
cial Tribune.
The Washington bee., 1911-08-12
One Consolation.

During the time he acted as United
States consul in Glasgow Bret Harte
occasionally INDUCED in a days sport
with the gun, and it was during one Of
his shooting excursions that the hu-
mcrist met with an accident which
might have disfigured him for the re-
mainder of his life. his face being
badly cut through the recOil of an
overloaded gun. Fortunately the doc
tors skill prevented him from being
permanently marked.
Writing about the occurrence to his
friend, T. Edgar Pemberton, who
quotes the letter in his Tribute to
Bret Harte." the novelist concludes his
letter by telling of an amusing effort
which was made to console him on ac-
count of the accident.
"When the surgeon was stitching me
together" he wrote. the son of the
house. a boy of twelve. came timidly
to the door Of my room.
Tel Mr.. Bret Harte it's all right
he said. He killed the hare"
The Washington bee., 1911-08-12
A Blow Arrested,

An organist who on the eve of a fes-
tival was taken suddenly i'll secured
a deputy to take his place The depu-
ty, on the authority Of St James
Budget, was q gentleman who played
a very full organ, playing full chords
where his principal played only single
notes, and consequently using a much
larger quantity of wind
When about three parts through with
the "Hallelujah Chorus the wind sud
denly gave out. Going round to the
back of the organ to ascertain the rea-
son, the deputy found the blower in
the act of putting on his coat prepara-
tory to going home.
''What do you mean by such behav-
iOr?" the deputy angrily expostulated.
Look here, SIR" the blower returned
with warmth, ''if you think I don't
know 'ow many puffs it takes to blow
the 'Allelujah Chorus you make
big mistaken
The Washington bee., 1911-08-12
Definition of True Humnr-

The sense Of humor is the Saving
sense" principally because it saves us
from ourselves. The person who can
not laugh at himself now and then is
to be pitied. Moreover, the person
who cannot take good naturedly the
occasional bantering of others is in
the same class of disagreeables. A
well directed shaft of raiIlery will
often find the vulnerable point in our
armOr of self complacency and show
us where our self satisfaction is all
wrong. True humOr. however, must
Spring as much from the heart as from
the head. It's essence must be truth
and friendliness, not contempt. There
never was a good joke yet that told
lie or besmirched a reputation. HumOr
which carries with it a sting TO wound
the sensitiveness or deIicacy of one
who does not deserve to suffer is not
true humor.-San Francisco Chronicle.
The Washington bee., 1911-08-12
PrnfessinnaI Instinnt

"Romeo and Juliet" with the origi-
nal company, had reached its crucial
moment
Juliet was staggering about the
stage, regarding her afflicted lover.
''Oh, cruel poisonY she walled.
She raised her lover for a moment
In her arms.
A wildly excited medical student In
the gallery sprang to his feet.
keep him up, Juliet-keep him up!''
he believed. 'I'1l run out and fetch
the stomach pumpP
The Washington bee., 1911-08-12
ODDLY EXPRESSED.
Queer Ways In Which Ideas Are
Sometimes Put Into Words.

Queer Ways In Which Ideas Are
Sometimes Put Into Words.
Curious ways Of expressing ideas In
English may be expected from foreign
ers, as, for instance, when the French
man, who made a call in the country
and was about to be introduced to the
family, said: "Ah, ze ladies! Zen
would before, if you please, wish to
purify mine lands and to sweep mine
hair"
A Scotch publican was complaining
of his servant maid He said that
she could never be found when want
ed. she'll gang oot o. the house."
he said, twenty times for once she'll
come in."
A cOuntryman went to a menagerie
to examine the wild beasts. Several
gentlemen expressed the opinion that
the Orang outang was lower order Of
the human species. Hodge did not
like this idea and, stTiding up to the
gentleman. expressed his contempt for
it in these words: pooh! He's no
more of the human species than l be-"
Mamma, is that a spoiled childP'
asked a little boy on seeing a negro
baby for the first time.
A shop exhibits a card warning ev-
erybOdy against INSCRIPTIONS persons
"whO infringe our title to deceive the
public" The shOpman does not quite
say what he means any more than
the proprietor of an eating house near
the dock, on the door of which may be
read the following announcement con-
Veying fearful intelligence to the gal
liant tars who frequent this port:
Sailors vitaIs cooked here. e."-PhfIa-
delphia North American.
The Washington bee., 1911-08-12
PICKING HUSBANDS.
man Marriage Market, Where
Men Wait to Be Purchased.

The men in Germany do not marry.
They are married. They are more or
less passive articles Of sale, which
stand in rows in the matrimonial shop
window with their price labeled In
large letters in their buttonhole, wait
ing patiently for a purchaser. They
are perfectly willing, even eager, vic
tins. They want to be bought, but
their position does not allow them to
grasp the initiative, and they are
thankful when at last some one comes
along and declares herself capable and
willing to pay the price
The girl and her mother, with their
purse in hama, pass the articles in re-
view and choose out the one which
best suits their means and fancy.
Il shall marry an officer" one girl
told me some time ago with the easy
confidence Of a person about to order
a new dress, and, 10 and behold, be
fore the year was out she was walking
proudly on the arm of dragoOn lieu
tenant! 1 even knew of three women
who sWOre 10 each other that they l
would marry only geniuses, and here
also they had their Will One married /
a great painter. one a poet and anOtherl
a famous diplOmatist. That they were
all three peculiarly unhappy is not q
witness against the system, but a
proof that geLiuses may occasionally
be very uncomfortable partners. In
this case the purchasers were rich and
popular and could therefore make their
choice. Others of lesser means would
have had to content themselves with
an officer, cavalry or infantry, accord
ing to the "dOt," or lawyer, or a doc
tor, or a merchant, and so on down
the scaIe.-Miss Wylie's MY German
Year" ?
The Washington bee., 1911-08-12
FUN IN THE HOME.
srina to 1t Bright Pictures and Pleas.
ant Thoughts and Bar Out
Business Worries.

Whatever your lot in life, keep Joy
with you. says Orison SWEET Marden
ID Success Magazine 1t is a great
healer. Sorrow, worry, jealousy. envy,
pad temper, create friction and grind
away the delicate human machinery
so that the brain loses its cunning.
Half the misery in the world would
be avoided if the people would make
a business of having plenty of fun at
home instead of running everywhere
else in search of it,
Now For Rest and Fun" "No
Business Troubles Allowed Here"
Ihese are good home building notices.
When you have had a perplexing
day, when thiEgs have gone wrong
with you and you go home at night
exhausted. discouraged, blue, instead
or making your home miserable by
going over your troubles and trials
just bury them. Instead of dragging
them home and making yourself and
your family unhappy with them and
spelling the whole evening, just lock
everything that is diSag greeable in your
Office.
Just resolve that your home shall be
a place for bright pictures and pleas
ant memories, kindly feelings toward
everybody and 'a corking good time"
generally. If you do this you will be
surprised TO see how your vocation or
business wrinkles will be ironed out
in the morning and how the crooked
things will be Strengthened.
The Washington bee., 1911-08-12
THE BIG DIPPER.
1t Is the Hour Hand of the Woodman's
Celestial Clock.

1t Is the Hour Hand of the Woodman's
Celestial Clock.
The pole star is really the most i'm
portant Of the stars in our sky, It
marks the north at all times. It alone
Is fixed in the heavens. All the other
stars seem to swing around it once in
twenty-fOur hours.
But the pole star of Polaris is not a
very bright one, and it would be hard
to identify but for the help Of the so
called pointers in the big Dipper," or
Great Bear" The outer rim of the
dipper points nearly to Polaris at
distance equal to three times the space
that separates the two stars of the
dippers outer side. Various Indians
called the pole star the Home Star"
and the "Star That Never Moves" and
the dipper they call the Broken Back"
The Great Bear" is also to be remem-
bered as the pointers for another rea-
son. 1t is the hour hand Of the wood
mans clock. It goes once around the
north star In about twenty-four hours.
the reverse way of the hands Of a
watch-that is, it goes the same way
as the Sun-and for the same reason
that It is the earth that is going and
leaving them behind.-COuntrY Life
In America.
The Washington bee., 1911-08-12
Helped the Thief.

"a simple, honest Scotch farmer had
taken a sack of meal to dispose of in
Aberdeen castle market" says Mrs
Mayo in her "RecollectiOns of Fifty
Years" ~'.It was in the days when
people were hanged for any petty
theft, and an execution was in prog
reSs, the culprit being a sheep stealer
The worthy countryman stood aghast
when a stranger hustled up with the
question:
What's a-dOP
GA hanging said the other, awed,
for stealing a sheep
'Eh, what won't folks risk for
gearn cried the stranger. VIII ye
just give me a hand up with this
sack?
THE farmer promptly complied. 1t
was only afterward that he discov-
cred he had helped a thief to make on
with the sack of meal he had brought
TO sellr
The Washington bee., 1911-08-12
THE COTTON GIN.
Whitney Got the Idea From the Work
of an Old Negro.

Whitney Got the Idea From the Work
of an Old Negro.
Eli Whitney, the inventor Of the cot
ton gin, got the germ of his great idea
from seeing through the interstices Of
a hut an old negro work a hand saw
among the freshly picked cotton stored
within.
The teeth OF the saw tore the lint
from the seed easily and quickly, and
young Whitney (he was barely thir-
teen at the time) realized at once that
a machine working a number of simi-
lar saws simultaneously would revolu-
tionize the cotton growing industry.
He said nothing to anybody, but set
to work building models and expert
menting. His difficulties were enOr-
nous, for he not only had to make his
own wheels, cOgs. ETC., but he had also
first to forge his own tools and even
to manufacture the paint wherewith
to color his many plans and drawings.
But he succeeded in the end, and,
though the outbreak OF war and other
hindrances prevented the invention
from being actually placed upon the
market until many years afterward,
the first complete cotton gin ever con-
structed was built from those very
models and plans and with scarcely a
single alteration.
The Washington bee., 1911-08-12
Force of an Oil Well.

Oil has been elected from the Baku
wells with such force and accompanied
with so much sand that steel blocks
twelve inches thick placed over the
mouth of the well to defect the flow
were perforated in a few hours and
had to be replaced. The casing with
which the wells were lined was often
torn to shreds and eventually cOllaps-
ed, and hundreds of thousands of tons
of sand which accumulated in the vi
cinity necessitated the s@-vices of large
bodies of workmen.-LondOnM Mail.
The Washington bee., 1911-08-12
The Sprinqbok.

A popularity of that most beautiful
Of South African antelopes the spring
box is that it always leaps over human
tracks. 1t is at once exceedingly shy
and marvelously active, and the rea-
son for this strange antic is its in
tense suspicion Of any possible enc
mics, among whom it has come to rec
Ognize man as the most dangerous. 1t
is not only with human tracks that the
Springbok goes through this perform
ance, for it does the same with the
tracks Of lions or even when it gets
wind Of a lion. The leap is exceeding
ly graceful, and the animal covers from
twelve to fifteen feet at each bound.
1t drops on all four feet at once and
Immediately rises again. making clear
spring without any run. Its usual gait
when not pursued is a light springy
tTOt. The springbOk usually travels
with its nose to the ground. as if con-
stantly on the lookout for the scent Of
enewies.
The Washington bee., 1911-08-12
A MoIe'S Nest.

Among common animals few have
been less studied in their life history
than the mole. Mr.. Lionel E. Adams
says that under the fortress" which
the mole constructs above the surface
of the ground will always be found a
series of tunnels running out beneath
the adjacent field. A curious feature
almost invariably found is a peFpen-
dicular run penetrating about a foot
below the bottom of the nest and then
turning upward to meet another run.
A mole is never found in his nest, al
though it may yet be warm from his
body when opened. Guided by smell
and hearing, a mole frequently locates
the nest Oe a partridge or pheasant
above his run and, penetrating it from
below, eats the eggs. The adult mole
is practically blind, but there are en-
bryOnic indications that the power OF
sight in the race has deteriorated.
The Washington bee., 1911-08-12
NOISE OF THUNDER.
Professor Trowbridgs Declares That Il
is Due to Heating eF Gases Along
the Line of Electric Discharge.

To Professor Trowbridge we owe an
experiment to explain the noise OF
thunder. 1t has usually been thought
that the noise is caused by the clos
Ing up Of the vacuum created by the
passage Of lightning, the air rushing
in from all sides with clap, but the
intensity Of the noise is rather dis
prOpOTtiOnate, and it is now supposed
that the thunder is due to the intense
heating Of the gases, especially the
gas of water vapOr along the line Of
the electric discharge, and the cOnse-
Quent conversion Of suspended mOis-
ture into steam at enormous pressure.
In this way the crackle with which
a peal of thunder sometimes begins
might be regarded as the sound Of
steam explosions on a small scale.
caused by induetive discharges before
the main fash. The rumble would be
the overlapping steam explosions, and
the final clap, which soundest loudest,
would be the steam explosion nearest
to the auditor. In the case of rum
bling thunder the lightning is passing
from cloud to cloud. When the fash
passes from the earth to the clouds
the clap is lOudest at the beginning.
Professor TrOwbridge gave sub
stance to these suppositions by caus-
ing electric flashes to pass from point
to point through terminals clothed in
soaked cotton wool, and he succeeded
in magnifying the crack Of the elec-
tric spark to terrifying extent.-Lon-
don Graphic.
The Washington bee., 1911-08-12
Artificial Flowers.

1t was in Italy that a demand for
artificial flowers first arose. This was
due primarily to a caprice of fashion
which demanded that during festivals
blossoms in and out of their seasons
should he worn and also to the fact
that their color and freshness were
stable Later on, in the middle ages.
the artificial so far superseded the
natural that both men and women
decked their heads with imitation
flowers of cambric, paper, glass and
metal.
The Washington bee., 1911-08-12

methods employed in helping the Ne
gro people of the United States, with
view of deciding to what extent
Tuskegee and Hampton methods may
be applied to conditions in these coun-
tries, as well as to conditions in AT
RIGA
1t is hoped that numbers of people
representing the different govern
ments interested in Africa and the
West Indies, as well as representa-
tives from the United States and the
countries of South America, will de-
eide to attend this conference. Es-
pecially is it urged that missionary
and other workers in these various
countries be present and take an act
i've part in the deliberations of the
conference.
1t is desirable, in any case, to have
any suggestions as to what might be
done to make the work of the con-
ference more helpful to all concerned
The names of persons who would like
to be present, with whom you are ac-
quainted, will be appreciated, and
through you they are invited to be
present and take part in the delibera-
tions of the conference.
Those who come to Tuskegee prop
erly accredited will be welcomed and
entertained as guests of the institu-
ton, and will be under no expense
during their stay here.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON.
Principal, Tuskegee Normal and In
dustrial Institute, Tuskegee Insti-
tute, Alabama.
The Washington bee., 1911-08-12
How Parchment Came to Be Used.

When the literary jealousy of the
Egyptians caused them to stop the sup
ply Of papyrus, the king Of Pergamos,
city in Asia Minor, introduced the
use Of sheepskin in a form called,
from the place Of its invention, perga-
mona, whence our word parchment is
believed to be derived. VeIlum, a finer
article, made from calfskin, was also
used. Many of the books done on vel
lum in the middle ages were tran
scribed by monks, and often it took
years to complete a single copy.
The Washington bee., 1911-08-12
A Japanesa PacuIiarity.

When a Japanese servant is rebuk-
ed or scOlded," says a traveller, 'he
must smile like a Cheshire cat. The
etiquette in smiles is very misleading
at first I often used TO think that
Tah, my Eksha boy meant to be i'm
pertinent when he insisted on smiling
when was angry at him. But when
he told me Of the death Of his little
child with burst of laughter 1 knew
that this was only one Of the curious
details OF etiquette in this topsy turYy
land"
The Washington bee., 1911-08-12
NLhsre the Trouble Was.

Some mis'bul sinner took an ruined
on wild de collection hat las meetin
day" said Brother Dickey, "an' I well
knows dat eff dar wus no sich place e.
he'll de good Lawd would make one
Tor dat sinner"
''Was there much money in the hat:
No, sub; day warn't so much ez =
brass button IN It."
Then why are you so mad about IT.
Hit wuC my hat" ne said.-Atlanta
Constitution.