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Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-06-02

Sturdy Suits for Sturdy Boys
made Of good, hard wearing quality
materials, in several styles and all
the regular sizes from 6 to 10. We
have priced them from
ACC up to 1925. and $2.9S.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-07-13
II He Only Had time.

The boy in town could learn at
school and take a good stand among
his schoolmates if he had time, but he
has to smoke cigarettes and play base
ball and do too many things.
The town girl could do well at
school if she had time, but she must
read the trashy novels and go to so
many parties and shows, that they
hold her back in her books.
County boys and girls could get an
education, but they have to work
every day to pay debts, many OF which
ought never to have been made, or
to pay for land which the family does
not need.
The young man in the county could
go to college and equip himself for
life if he had time, but feels that he
must go at once to farming, or of to
a store or into some other business.
He goes without an education and is
handicapped all his life.
The young lady in the county could
go to college if she had time, but
while she is only 16 years old she has
an offer of marriage and thinks it will
probably be her last chance during
life, and gives up education to get
married.
The farmer could succeed if he had
time, but he must take up merchan-
dising or running a grain thresher
or a saw mill to keep away from his
farm.
The merchant could make money if
he had time to devote to his business,
but he turns it over to clerks and
runs a farm or a saw mill or some
thing else.
The doctor could make money at
his profession, but he feels that he
must go into other business to make
money faster and thereby loses out
at both.
The lawyer could make money if
he had time, but he must go into poll
tics or something elese to keep him
from succeeding.
Young people could add much to
the happiness of the home if they had
time, but there are so many places
to go to they cannot devote time to
such things.
The church member could do good
work in his church if he had time,
put he is too busy with his W affairs
to devote his efforts to his church.
The old a could enjoy life and
get some of the fruits of his labors if
he had time, but he must delve from
day to day to add to what he already
has, laying up money for people who
will not thank him for it.
The old woman could get around a
little and enjoy life more, but she
feels like she has no time. She must
stay right at home all the while and
look after things there.-EX.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-07-13
Picked Up.

Do parents ever think what they
are allowing their children to be
taught through the eye and ear by
the F'Funny" paper and the moving
picture show? A child some time ago
was caught stealing from a neighbor.
When asked why he did it, said he
saw it lone in a moving picture show.
A boy forged the name of his en-
ployer and said afterwards he first
got the impression of such a thing in
a moving picture show. A servant
girl stole the Jewels of her employer.
When asked why she did it, said she
got the suggestion in a moving pic
ture show.
Do you ever think of what your
children are learning by their sur
roundings? There is n old story of
father and mother who had three
bright boys. When the oldest was
about grown he wanted to join the
navy and could not be satisfied until
he had joined the navy. When the
second came on it was the same
When the third came on it was the
same. The fond parents were horri-
fed and called in the minister to ad-
wise with them. When told of the sit
uatiOn the minister asked to be taken
to the boys room. In the room he
saw the picture of a great man-of-
war hanging on the wall, where the
boys could look on it the last thing at
night and the first thing in the morn
ing. Pointing to the picture, There"
said the minister, "is the explanation
of the way your boys have gone"
eva Of the surroundings of your
children.
New York, July mo less than
sixty-three million barrels of beer
we're sold in the United States during
the twelve months ending June 80.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-07-13
EXPLOSION FROM WITHIN

No Outside Agency Could Have Been
Responsible For the Destruction OF
the BattIeship Maine, According to
the Report of Gen. w. HI. Bfxby.
Washington, July THE loss OF
the battleship Maine was caused by
the explosion of her three magazines.
No such effect as that produced up
on the vessel could have been caus-
ed by an explosion from without.
Such is the opinion of Gen. William
H. Bixby, chief of engineers, U. S. A.
who has returned from a personal in
spection of the work of raising the
Maine.
General Bixby says that a portion
of the deck I'VE the magazines was
blown upward and backward and
that there r numerous conditions
which prove this. No explosion from
the outside, says the general, could
have caused the same result. What
the primary cause of the explosion
was" said General Bixby tonight,
never will be learned"
General Bixby does not believe that
the Navy Department will find the
bodies of sailors and officers on the
Main. He says that they are prob
ably buried 200 feet or nor from the
wreck in the mud.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-07-13
PATROLMAN MCCONNELL DIES,
FFFFT OF PISTOL WOTND

Patrolman Edwin G. Mcconnell, of
AsheYille, who was shot last week
while in the act of ~arresting John
Huff, a negro desperate, died in the
hospital there Friday night after how
ering between life and death for LEI
ly a week. Mr.. Mcconnell made a des-
perate fight for life but the wound was
too serious. The tolling of 1885," this
| being the age of the deceased, ON the
fire bells of Asheville was the means
of informing the citizens that another
brave officer had met death in the dis
charge of his duty. The deceased is
survived by a wife and two small chill
dren. His death will be mourned by
a large number OF people because of
his genial, whole-souled personality.
His popularity was not limited to his
associates on the police force but en-
braced a wide circle of friends.
The wanton murder of such a man
as this in the discharge of his duty
can not be too strongly condemned
and if the murderer is ever caught he
will not doubt receive the full penalty
of the law which he so richly de-
serves.
The murderer has not been appre-
hended, though rewards a~ggregating
nearly $500 have been offered. So
strong is the feeling in AsheVille
against the murderer that private sub
scriptions to aid in effecting his cap
ture have been started. A ready re-
Spouse has been met with and it
money can serve the purpose then
John Huff will not long remain at
large, a menac to the people of the
State.
So far the fugitive has shown re-
markable cunning in eluding the Off
GERS of the law, but he will have need
to be more wary still, if he is to final
ly escape because the death of his
victim will prove to be a greater slim
ulous to those now prosecuting the
search. May he meet with speedy
capture, a short trial, and soon go to
that warmer place from whence no
fiend of his type ever escapes.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-07-13
The Swiss Railway Well PatrOnized.

The Swiss Incline Railway at Lau-
rel Park is being well patronized
these days-abOut two hundred peo-
pie, on an average, make the trip
daily.
The station is at the terminus of
the street railway in Laurel Park and
the clever piece of engineering work
is of general interest to the crowds
daily visiting "the most beautiful ma
tural park in America" One feature
of the Swiss Incline that appeals to
most everyone is it's absolute safety.
The cable that actually pulls the a
to the summit of Echo Mountain is
tested to $4,000 pounds, dead weight.
This is equal to ten times the strain
it is yer subject to. AS a matter of
fact the cable could pull both the
dummies, and all the street cars to
the top of the mountain. Then there
is a safety cable, tested to 10000
pounds dead weight, and another test
ed to 5000 pounds. The engine that
pulls the cal is on a concrete base
sunk Is feet into the solid rock, and
could no more be pulled out of posi-
ton than the mountain itself.
The tower on the top of the noun
tain is $500 feet above sea level, and
through the four-foot glass there
may be seen Mount Mitchell, Kanuga
and Highland Lakes, Saluda and other
points. 1t is a magnificent picture of
broken country circled by mountain
peaks whose cloud topped SUBMITS
are lost in the sky. Were the absol-
ute safety of the railway and the won
derful view to be obtained at it's
terminus more generally known there
would be hundreds, where nov scores,
patronize the Swiss Incline Rail-
way.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-07-13
THE TRANSCONTINENTAL RAIL.
ROAD.

~ EEHE+ EE
With eleven million of French cap
ital, it is said, DacKlng tnem,. the
1ranscontinental railroad, or q APP
~paIachian I~nterurban Railway, mas ac
Iually started work In henderson
county.
At F'ruitland is the camp Of the first
surveying corps actually surveying
the route of the railroad IN this coun-
ty. They have been statlonea Lnere dur
ing part OF the last Week III are
gradually working towards Fletcher
1t is said there is also a constructor
gang at wolk in RuLne.I 10 aLon coun-
W, no far behind the surveyors.
The line, it is sad, Will come up
through Bat Cave to Fruitland,
around Byers Mountain, through
Terry's Gap to Fletcher. This is VIZ
tuaIly a water course and oner no
obstacles to it's construction.
1t will re remembered that the
stocks, assets and liabilities of the
Appalachian I~nterurban Railway, or
ganized here several years ago with
with Mr.. W. A. Smith as president,
was recently purchased by this new
company, said to be backed by eleven
millions of French money. They re-
Gently secured about sixty conyicts
from the State of North Carolina, now
at work in Haywood county. There IS
said to be another construction camp
located in Rutherford county, whose
men are not very far behind the en-
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-07-13
The Charleston-Ashevile Highway.

Interest in the Zone Day Highway
to be constructed from Charleston to
Asheville via Hendersonville is grow
ing every day. At a meeting of the
officers of the various Good Road AS
sOciations of South Carolina Thurs
day in Columbia there was expressed
some doubt as to whether the route
would come by Columbia unless there
was some improvements made in a
certain section of Lexington county.
Instructions and circular letters
have been placed in the hands of all
the prominent advocates along the
proposed routes as to the exact loca-
lions and day of construction of this
great highway of over 800 miles into
the heart of the mountains of Western
North Carolina.
H~endersonvile will receive untold
benefit from this great highway and
farmers and citizens of this county
will lend aid in every way to perfect
one Of the greatest mountain high
ways in this part of the country.
With the completion of the route
hundreds of automobiles and vehicles
OF every description will Tourney up
into the mountains during the summer
months.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-07-13
The National Cleansinp H,a

The reports of the daily press
would lead the reader to think that
r~ascality abounds in high places; and
that there is no honesty and truth
left in the world. The situation, how
ever, is not desperate as long as what
is happening is in the line of exposure
of ~rascality and punishment of ras-
cality. The country would be in Ian
ger really if rascaIity were left I'M
exposed and rescals unpublished; if
the public, knowing of corruption,
should c~omplacently put up with it;
if the law officers kept their eyes
shut and congress failed to investi-
gate, and if the courts serilely bowed
before wealth and refused to inffict
punishment in accordance with the
spirit of the laws.
We are passing through an era of
cleansing; of publication or setting
the house in oder; and, of course,
there are many disgraceful specta-
Giles brought to public attention. This
is unavoidable, but it is a curative
process, and we learn to endure it
until the end aimed at is attained.
What these numerous ~investiga-
TONS, trials, exposures, etc., go to
show is that, first, our system has
offered encouragement to indulgence
In greed. That must be changed.
second, that human nature is likely,
II u~nrestra1ned, to go to extraordin-
airy lengths when influenced by greed.
That teaches that we must put the
curb upon the men who use the hook
and the crook to accumulate great
riches, and whose path is sterwed
with ruin, despair and death.
The close study now given to this
subject will surely be productive of
good results. The proceedings are
most salutary. They give promise Of
better things. The republic will be
stronger when corporate wealth
learns the lesson and confines. iestlf
legitimate fields and when the peo-
pie have demonstrated their power to
protect themselves from evil combi-
no matter how large; no
matter how shrewdly formed or how
.ngeniously managed.-Mobfle ReEis-t
]
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-07-13
Solid Carload Of Shoes.

Perhaps for the first time in the
history of Hendersonville has a mer-
chant received at one time a solid car
load of shoes. M. M. Shepherd one Of
the best shoe men in Western North
Carolina has received a solid car load
of shoes and is offering the people of
this city and county the best bargains
to be had anywhere.
The famous Hamilton and Brown
brands have made for themselves a
reputation all over the United States
and it is safe to say that they have a
good reputation in the county. Mr..
Shepherd has this season devoted al
most his entire stock to this one great
company. However he also carried in
his mamomth stock many other styles
and varieties.
Mr.. Shepherd will shortly begin an
extensive advertising campaign in the
French Broad Hustler.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-07-13
Taft Entertains Several Senator's.

Washington, July 8.-The yacht
Mayfower, having on board Presi-
dent Taft, Senators Bacon, Brown,
Foster, Overman, Penrose, Root and
Taylor, whom he is entertaining on
a weekend yachting cruise from
Philadelphia to Washington, tonight
is proceeding slowly down the At
lantic coast of northeastern Virginia.
Wireless messages state that mem
bers of the party all are well and
that good weather is being expe-
rienced, making the cruise an enjoy
able one. The May1ower passed out
the Delaware capes at 2:23 D. m.
and headed southwark. She would
reach the Virginia capes early Sum
1av morning but may cruise farther
beyond before entering Chesapeake
bay, or she may 60 into Hampton
Roads for a brief visit at Old Point
Comfort tomorrow. The Mayhower
is expected to start up the Chesapeake
late in the afternoon or early even
ing, reaching Warrington Monday
fofe0ooL
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-07-13
Fortune Hunters. on Job Quite Early

Pittsburg, July IA few minutes
after it became known today that
Frederick Prayer had been found dead
in bed at his home in High street,
North Side, neighbors rushed to the
house and began ransacking for SILL
600 alleged to be hidden somewhere
about the premises. 1t took a squad
of police to clear the house of fortune
hunters and save the building from be-
ing wrecked.
Prayer succumbed during the night
to the heat. Three weeks ago his sis
ter, Mrs. Emma Strana, committed
suicide, while a few months ago John
Strana met a violent death in a mill.
The three deaths wiped out the Stra-
na-Prager family and neighbors en-
deavored to get the rumored fortune.
The police will make a thorough
search some time today.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-07-13
Clearing Ways for Reciprocity.

Washington, July 10-A lively clear
ing of the ways TO rthe eventual pass
age of the unamended Canadian reef
procity bill by the voting down of the
Cummings and Simmons amendments
to the measure and continued discus
sion and action on other provisions in
connection with the bill will keep thr:
seate busy all this week, While the
house, which will meet Wednesday
and quickly adjourn until Saturday,
will be active through its committees.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-07-13
kANUGA LAKE NEWS

Kanuga Club opened July 1st with
a larger attendance than usual, in
GLIDING guests from cities in North
Carolina, South Carolina, GeoIgi ii
Louisiana, New Jersey and Ohio, and
with reservations from practically
every Southern State not included : Il
the above. Many of the early arriv-
ais are cottagers, being mostly those
who now look upon Kanuga as their
summer home. AS usual children are
numerous and within a few days Miss
Mary Catherine will begin her kin
dergarten nature work for the pleas
ure and instruction of the little folks.
The celebrated Coburn Players will
give two performances at the Club on
July Is. With it's superb surround
ings of virgin forest and we'll kept
lawns sloping to the edge of the glis-
tening lake, Kanuga is admirably
adapted to the open air performances
of Shakesperian plays given by this
famous organization.
Miss Marion Oskamp, the graduate
dietition who is in charge of the chill
dren's dining room has arrived and is
enthusiastic about both the equip
ment and opportunity at Kanuga.
The members of the Club are con-
graduating themselves over the fact
that the Kanuga equipment now COM.
pares favorably with that of any coun-
try and the remark is often made
that the low cost of living at the Club,
IS perhaps, without parallel in the
United States. OF course this is made
possible by the cooperative plan and
almost perfect organization under
which it is conducted. Waste is prac-
tically eliminated.
Kanuga Road, the delightful thigh
way Of the hills" connecting Hender-
sonV1lle and Kanuga Club, which, with
its branches to points of interest on
hanuga estate, a scientifically built
sand-clay road of about twelve miles,
IS a source of great pleasure to Hen
Jacksonville visitors and hundreds of
them drive and motor over the road
daily.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-07-13
Britain win War No More with D. |

Washington, D. c., July 8.-Within
a week or ten days at the latest, the
signatures of the Secretary of State,
Ph1lander G. Knox, and the British
Ambassador James Bryce, will be
placed on the teaty between the Uni
ted States and Great Britain, which
VIII provide for the arbitration of all
quest1ons, including e matters of
vital importance and national honor.
Inc signing of the treaty will bring
to an end the notable negotiations be-
gun at the 1ntance Of President Taft
q Ambassador Bryce early this year
IRA viii make what many believe to be
re greatest step toward international
Deace v e taken.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-07-13
Plans for Carnegie Library.

Messrs. Brownlow Jackson, w. c..
Rector and M. c., Toms, the Hender-
zeonville Carnegie Library trustees, are
o in correspondence with different
architects of the country relative to
plans for the building.
AS soon as suitable plans have been
accepted by the trustees, they will be
submitted to the Home Trust Corn
pany, New York, and when approved
ny it, bids for its construction will be
Immediately advertised for.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-07-13
The "Laka City Leaene.v

The Lake City League is now being
organized and the, schedule for the
season swill be announced shortly
Highland Lake, Kanuga Lake, Laurel
Park and Hendersonville teams will
compose the League. There is an
abundance of first class base ball ma
terial among the visitors and perma-
nent residents of the four places and
the four teams will be very equally
balanced, it is said.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-07-13
Musn,t Fish In Town.

Fishing is good right here in Hen
Jacksonville, but for goodness sake
don't let the cops catch you at it!
The county commissioners have
stocked the basin of the court house
fountain with perch and mountain
trout and catfsh-and generally
there's a crowd around it interested
in watching the sportive antics of the
little fellows.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-07-13
r. F. D. Carriers Get s4.OOO.OOO

Washington, July 1O.-The 10000
odd rural free delivery carriers in the
United States are to receive salary in
crease as a result of an order issued
Saturday by Postmaster General
Hitchcock. The order provides for
the disbursement during the current
fiscal year of $4,000, 900, which will
mean an increase of $500 aver the
present salary of $500 for all carriers
on standard routes, with proporrIonate
increases on :he shorter rout IS.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-07-13
Kills Wife and Self.

Farley, Ala, July 7.-While officers
were approaching to arrest him on a
trial charge, Roy Horris, a farmer %
years old, today s1ot his wife sever
times, killing her. He then turned
his pistol on himself, putting two bull
lets into his body, dying instantly.
The couple had been separated for
some time and Norris had called on
his wife, at her fathers home, in an
effort to effect a reconciliation.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-07-13
gineers at Fruitland.

The proposed route Of the road as
outlined above cuts out Henderson
vile entirely. This town however
will undoubtedly connect with the line.
at some cor ~auient point, assuring to
Hendersonville all the benefits Of an
other railroad.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-07-13
Neeress Assaults Lady And Is Jaile,

NegresS Lady And Is Jailed.
Salisbury, N. c., July 1O.-Charg-
ed with a serious assault upon Mrs.
r R. Davis. a well known Rowan wo-
man. Eta Pettus, colored. was 1odg-
ed in the Salisbury Jail today. Yes
terday the colored woman went to
the home Of Mrs. Davis to pick ber-
ries and when asked to leave the pre-
misses assaulted Mrs. Davis with a
club, inficting serious injuries.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-07-13

Mr.. O. II. Miller, OF New York ana
MI. H.. B. Faulkner Of Charlotte. Who
7 spending the summer In Ashe-
vile, are the guests OF Mr.. and Mra
w. - Scott for q few days.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-07-13

There will be an important meeting
e Knights Of Pythias to night. All
Naaghts please take notice.